The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-09-06

IT was reported on the 29th that the
Emperor of Abyssinia, having heard that
King Menelek of Shoa intended to send an
embassy to France to solicit French pro-
tectorate over Shoa, had declared war
against King Menelek and the Abyssinian
army had already invaded Shoa.
THERE were thirteen deaths from
cholera in Alexandria on the 3Oth.
RECENTLY a stage was upset IN the
streets of Aguasco Calientes, Mexico, when
robbers gathered and plundered it of all
small articles that could be easily made
way with.
A MAN recently arrived at Guaymas
Mexico from the Lower California gold
diggings with a nugget of gold weighing
nearly eight pounds.
ABOUT 100 returning Knights, com.
prising parts of the Michigan, PennsyI.
vania and other Communicates, visited
Salt Lake City on the 3Oth.
THERE were three new cases of yel-
low fever at Pensacola on the Both, a serv-
ant in DR.. Ovens family, Freddie Owens
and hospital attendant. There was one
death.
One HUNDRED Canadian cattle sus-
spected of being diseased were killed on ar
rival at Liverpool on the Both.
PARNELL recently said he hoped that
the migration scheme would render it un.
necessary for Ireland again to ask aid from
abroad.
IT was asserted before the Under
writer's Convention that under the regula
tions required electric lighting is safer than
kerosene.
The express train on the Philadelphia
& Atlantic Road was ditched on the Both
| at Pleasantville, Pa, and some thirty pas
sengers badly injured.
MISS CATHARINE CONNELLY has been
arrested in County Limerick, Ireland,
charged as being implicated with her two
brothers in a murder conspiracy.
In an address before the Chamber of
Commerce of Greenock, Scotland, Hon.
Alex. Mckenzie said he thought Canada
would soon return to Free-Trade and that
the idea of separation from England was
absurd.
The French will lay cable from
Saigon to Hanoi. Harmand, the French
Civil Commissioner in Tonquin, has been
decorated with the Cross of the Legion OF
Honor for his services in the negotiations.
The members of the late Board of
Fire Commissioners of Baltimore have been
indicted for maIfeasance in office.
THE conductor of an excursion train
put a boy off while under way near Scran-
ton, Pa, on the both, causing his instant
death under the wheels.
THE United States steamer Tallapoo-
/ sa, with Secretary Chandler and family on
board, left Bangor, Ne, for New York on
| the 3Oth.
SYLVESTER F. FULLER, the runaway
cashier of the Second National Bank Of
| jefferson, o., and H. L. st. John, his as
| sistant, were arrested on the 30th tbs
charge of stealing $4,000 of the banks
money.
THE proposed Slade-NIitchell prize
| fight has been declared off, neither of the
| principals caring to risk the chances of a
sojourn in the Penitentiary, which stared
! them in the face at every turn.
A NEW YORK policeman named Mau-
rice Mcnamara was arrested on the Both,
/ charged with clubbing a man to death the
/ evening previous.
THERE were twelve vessels quarantin.
ed at Ship Island, from which nineteen
cases of yellow fever had been taken, on the
/ 3Oth.
NEW volcanoes by the score had sud
denly appeared in Java.
THE Freethinlzers' Convention opened
at Boston ON the 30th.