The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20

RECENT violent gales have caused
great damage in England and much loss of
life at sea.
AT Lyons, France, Cyvoet, an an
archist, has been sentenced to death for
completely in dynamite plots.
NOTHING has been done by Admiral
Courbet yet, but he is going to seize Bac
Mini unless China agrees to the French
proposal.
OK the 18th the American Base Ball
Association met in Cincinnati. The
championship pennant was awarded to the
Athletics.
THE preliminaries have been COM
pleted for a grand minstrel festival in
Music Hall, Cincinnati, beginning Decem-
Der 30.
APPLICATION has been made by Nor
mons to buy from the Government the old
State-house at Fillmore, Utah
A wELL-KNOwN citizen and official of
Alvin, Pa, E. c. Palmer, is mysteriously
missing
AT the Convention in Milwaukee,
called to amalgamate all Wisconsin Irish
societies four hundred delegates were in at
tendance.
ADvICEs from the Governor of Khar-
toum state that FL Mahdi is sending out ex-
peditions to subdue Darfour aud the Kaba-
bisch tribes near KhartOum.
THERE were eighteen executions
growing out of the recent Servian insur-
rection, including four priests, four mer-
chants, one school teacher and nine peas
ants.
THE firm of Peyton & Peyton, furni-
ture manufacturers of Birmingham, Eng,
have failed for 100000. J. H. Billups &
Il
! ed; liabilities E490,000.
! Ok the night of the 18th an intoxicat-
I ed man raised a cry of fire in the gallery of
] the Academy of Music, Chicago. A panic
and perhaps serious loss of life was avert
ed by the prompt action of the manager,
attaches and performers. The offender was
arrested.
OK the 18th the entire fore of printers
at work on the New York Tribune were
notified that their services were no longer
required, and they were ordered to leave the
building at once. Their places have been
| taken by men from out of town.
The French have been strongly forti-
flying their position at Hal Prong.
THERE is a deficit in the Egyptian
budget of 1888 of E3,oOo,OOO.
FIVE horse-thieves have been dis
! bOSGO VI ny NA6A4cAbCo III ~'AODA al - @AAO
ID. T., recently.
ACCORDING to the London Times the
situation of Irish affairs is very serious.
AT Fall River, Mass, arrests con-
tinue on account of the graveyard insur-
ance frauds"
A QUANTITY of arms and ammunition
were recently seized by the Dublin police
in house of a man named Dunn.
Il L. he
coal tonnage of the Philadelphia & Reading
Company was II, ,449, ,373 tons.
THE Egyptian troops, it appears, did
not desert in the late battle near Sua
KEN. More than 400 corpses have beer
counted on the field by British officers.
AT Waukesha, Wis, the agent of the
Iowa Great Eastern Mutual Life Insurance
Company has been arrested charged witt
graveyard insurance business.
OK the 18th the French Cabinet had
under consideration the advisability o
sending large reintorcements to Tonquin
but Marquis Tseng says an amicable settle
ment is stin possible.
THE Bennett-Mackey Cable Compa
ny's articles OF incorporation cover routes
[ to various countries in Europe, the Yves
Indies, Mexico, China and Japan.
OK the 18th the Kentucky distiller'
met at Lexington, KY, to arrange for re
duction of whisky production.
On the 18th Julia Reese and GeOrg'
Bolles, the colored boy, were arrested a
2 jackson, Mich, charged with completely il
the murder of the Jacob Crouch family
= near that city on November %. Theywer'
= remanded for examination on January
t They were servants in Crouch's homestead
q and had been in jail as witnesses since tn
murder.
: A CABLE dispatch of the 18th from
+ Schneyden, Holland, says the coast in tina
+ vicinity was strewn with casks of powde
= and dynamite from wrecked vessels. Fort
thousand kilogrammes of powder and 90
4 kilogrammes of dynamite were picked u
4 by the customs authorities.