The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-12-14
BITsCELBANEOUs

by the cars.
- Al MIsCELLANEOUs.
SEVERAL thousand men employed by
the Albany On. ~ iron works, have had
their wages reduced from sixteen to twenty
five per cent.
THE recent announcement that j. s.
Danford, the hero Of the Caldwell Kan. }
Bank failure, had become insane, is denied.
Ii is claimed by the Tariff COmmis-
sion that the scheme Of duties embraced in
its report makes an average reduction Of
twenty 10 twenty five per cent, which would
benefit consumers 10 the amount OF S1O0,-
00O,00O. The abolition of all custom-house
fees and commissions, the putting Of wood
pulp, quinine, dye extracts and crude chem
icals on the free list; a specific duty Of fifty
cents ton on iron ore and of three dollars
per Thousand on cigars; reduction of two
and half cents per pound on medium
wool, of two cents on salt in bulk, and Of
ten dollars per ton on steel rails is recon-
mended. No change is made IN lumber or
cereals. -s-.s
A LETTER has been written by Arab
Pasha thanking England for the interposi-
tion I'm his behalf. -
WILLIAM CARR, son of the Secretary
Of State, cowhided J. y. Parmcnter, Of the
Troy (N. " Press, the other day. Far
menter accused young Carr Of public in
tONicatiOn, breaches Of confidence, etc.
THREE HUNDRED hands were thrown
out Of employment by the burning OF one Of
William Arrot'a twine mills at PhIadeI.
phia recently. Loss $1,000 Two fire.
men were badly injured by falling walls.
ON the 9th the transit of Venus Oc-
CURED, but was invisible at many points
owing to cloudy weather.
The death of Anthony TrollOpe, the
novelist, occurred in London, recently, at
the aSe OF six y-seven years, and Louis
Blanc, the noted political and historical
writer, died at Canues, B'ranee, on the same
day. lie was siXty-uiae wears OF age.
THE Grand Jln,y at st. Louis has eT-
operatcd John 4. Coclcrill in the matter Of
the slaughter Of Col Slayhtck.
TIE failure of Theodore We n, {
New York City, real. estate operato jr
500 600, Is announced --sa. ... -as& ,
DURING November the number Of
agrarian outrares in Trelan L was eighty :
nine. This contrasts f,vorabiy with preyi-
Gus lists.
From the Transvaal intelligence has
been received thatgthe Kaairs lad been
driven Into Chief Mapoch's cave. OIe
cave had been destroyed with d nrnlite, and
il was supposed fifty natives were killed.
Tic Commandaat aud q BOer were also
Killed. ......-.
II was claimed on the 9Th by Frank
CawLborn, OF Igalns, Tex, that he had dis-
covered a new cometznear the western bori-
zou. lie had also claimed the S25c premium
offered by Werner Of Rochester, Ny.
with a long, fiery tail. a
CHARLES FICK, under the new penal
cod OF New York, has been held to answer
-the charge Qf feloRRafsEs attempting % take
his own ife.
WAR DEPART4IENT expenditures for
the fiscal year endod June so, 1852, wero
SO, 3sg,3l9.Gf. Tae appropriation Tor the
yen 1858 is SO. G62, 420.93.
The championship of 1882 was
awarded to Chicago by the National League
OF professional baseball clubs.
BECAUSE of the extensive emigration
from the mountain districts OF Hungary to
America the Hungarian Government has
requested Austria to stop emigrants not
provided with passports.
On the 7th the canals in New York
State were closed.
THROUGHOUT the Northwest a heavy
snow-storm ragged on the night OF the 9Th.
and the following morning the thcrmumeter
rauged from three to fourteen degrees below
zero.
IN England on the 9Th a violent snow
Storm prevailed. On the Lancashire coast
the storm had not been equaled in thirty
years. There were many wrecks.
AT Cairo, Egypt, recently Mahomed
Pasua Ali Fehmy and T'uloa Pa,ha .oera
arruigncd and pleaded guilty to Tcbehion.
The prisoners were sentenced to death, but
thc sentences were commuted to exile for
life by the khediye.