The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-08-23

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vestigate cholera in Egypt reached Alex
andria on the 10th.
Two working telegraph OPERATOR
were severely mauled by strikers in Gin
ciunati, o., on the 10th. The Secretary OF
the Cincinnati Brotherhood had gone to
work in the Baltimore & Ohio Office. In
New York 125 operators were still needed
to equip all the offices.
Mrs. l.. L. TwITCHELL, formerly
president of the Working Women's Asso'
citation in San Francisco, was among the
witnesses examined on the 10th by the
Senate Committee in session at New York
to investigate the subject of strikes.
A FUND is to be started in Dublin to
supplement the government fund for emf
grafton in Ireland.
JOHN REDMOND representative OF
the Irish National League in Australia.
says he expects to be able to send to Ire
land fl 900 every two weeks.
The dry spell seems to have been
broken by needed rains in many parts Of
the country.
WILLIAM WIEHE, of Pittsburgh, Pa,
was elected President of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron and Steel Workers,
which closed its session at Pittsburgh on
the 10th.
IT was stated at the Treasury Depart
ment at Washington recently that by rea-
son of the vigorous action of the Govern
ment in prosecuting opium smugglers on
the Pacific coast, duties collected at San
Francisco on opium the last fiscal year were
more than $7,O0O,OOO in excess of collections
from that source the previous year.
EIGHT out Of nineteen prisoners con-
fined in the Jail at Council Bluffs, Iowa,
made their escape recently by cutting a
hole through the floor, but four of them
were soon recaptured.
A MAN named Perrault died at Que
bee, Ont, the other day of Canadian
cholera.
Two thousand Bedouins recently
attacked the Sanitarium at Sinkal, Egypt
and were repulsed with a loss of 160 killed.
The soldiers defending the place lost seven
men. Five civilians were killed.
THE Crown Prince of Austria opened
the Electrical Exhibition at Vienna on the
10th in the presencepf thousands of people
J. w. MACKEY has been elected 9
director of the Postal Telegraph Company
Work will commence at once on an exten
| sion Of the lines. The capital stock has
been increased to So, ,OO0, 900.
! SAMUEL B. EDMONsTON, of St. Louis
/ Mo-, who claims, with others, an interes
in a large portion of land embraced with
in the limits of Washington City, includ
/ ing South Washington and much of wha
are now the Capitol grounds, offers to com
/ promise on a basis of $5,OOO,OOO for al
/ property involved.
On account of the antagOnism be
| tween the Louisiana State Board of Health
and the Sanitary Council of the Mississippi
| Valley, DR.. Stanhope Jones, son of the Pres
! ident of the former body, horsewhipped DR.
! G.. Devson, President of the latter associa
/ ton, in the lobby of the New Orleans post
| office the other afternoon.
On the arrival in st. Paul, Mimi, tn,
| other day, of the steamer Mary Morton from
st. Louis, Chener Strong, defaulting Treas
urer of Butler County, Kans., and a Mis-
/ Martha HinstOn, who eloped with him, ,wer
arrested and lodged in Jail.
THE Georgia House of Representa-
tives has voted 100000 for new capitol
TIE Madrid newspapers declare tina
French spectators raised $50, 900 francs fo
the purpose of cOrrupting the Spanisl
army and bringing about the recent up
rising. 1t is alleged that some scattere,
bands are still causing alarm in the Nortl
of Spain.