The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-05-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
THE threatened cigar-makers' strike
| for an advance of wages at Albany, N. Y,
resulted in the discharge of all the strikers
on the Both ult., the manufacturers refus-
ing to grant the increase. At Wheeling, w.
/ Va, the manufacturers acceded to the de-
mands of the men. AT Chicago, ILL.,, nearly
all the manufacturers advanced wages.
Twelve manufacturers at Philadelphia
granted the advance. One factory granted
an advance in New York. At st. Paul,
Mimi, the men got an advance. A party
of Hungarians abandoned the Reading,
(Pa.) Iron Works, where they had been EN-
ployed some time at low wages.
A BRITISH chaplain has asked aid to
place in order the neglected graves of many
eminent men buried in the strangers cem-
etery at Leghorn, Italy.
JAMES j. MADDEN, in the lace de-
partment of the house of Nuser s. Brothers,
New York City, has been arrested, charged
with stealing $4,000 worth of goods. Re-
ceivers of the goods were also arrested.
TIE Canadian Minister of Customs
has filed an answer in the seizure case of
Paine and Voltaire's works. He alleged
! the importation was illegal as the publica-
tions are of an immoral and Indecent char
acter.
The internal revenue receipts for
March, 1888, were 81, ,425, ,121 greater than in
March last year.
RECENT advices from Vera Cruz,
Mex, state thatyellow feverhas broken out
in that place. There had been several cases
of black vomit
"A BANK sneak snatched $1,000 from
a man in the Toledo (O.) National Bank
few days ago, but was caught and the mon
ey recovered.
AN attachment was served against
f. NJ Rockwell, manufacturer of wooIlen
goods at Leominster, Mass, a few days
ago. Liabilities were reported at $40 900;
assets S1S0,0OO.
HAMBURG Germany importers say
that the issue of a New York trade pam
phlet is mainly responsible for the German
prohibition of American pork imports.
The committee appointed to examine
the books, accounts and money in the
United States Treasury completed their la
bors on the 1st, the only discrepancy dis
covered being an excess of three cents in
favor of the retiring officer.
FITZHARRIS was acquitted on his trial
as principal in the Phoenix Park murder at
Dublin, Ireland, on the 1st. He will be
tried for conspiracy.
y MAN ubAhtNt AFAllN AlCAlg NtlO W SiS
caught with four pounds of nitro-glycerine
in his possession at Leicester, Eng, has
been remanded for trial.
The Ohio Supreme Court has refused
to grant a motion for petition in error in
the case of J. D. Watson, convicted Of brib-
ing members of the Legislature. The de-
cision Of the Court to Imprisonment will be
carried out.
TIE first commencement exercises of
the Baltimore (Md.) Woman's Medical Col
Iegc took +lace on the Ist inst.
STEPS are to be taken by English
capitalists TO construct another canal across
the isthmus of Suez.
THE coinage executed at the various
United States Mints during April was
S7,SII 900, of which s., $50, 600 was in stand
ard silver dollars
TIE schedule in the assignment of
Isaac Sippui, the New York merchant re-
Gently arrested ON a charge Of swindling,
shows the Liabilities at S236,575; actual as
sets, S1t,76S.
THE Grand jury at Harrodsburg,
KY, has returned an Indictment for muir
der against Hon. Phil B. Thompson for kill
ing Walter Davis.
The movement of stock had begun
in the Indian Territory on the 2d, and the
prospect was that the drive would be large
" i'm excess of that of last year.
THERE have been one hundred and
thirty-two National Banks opened within
the six months ended on the ID, with a
capital OF SlI,a3S.O0o.
THE Executive Committee of the Ma
tionaI Board of Health has ordered that i'm 1
spcction service on the Mississippi be open
ed Immediately.
DICKEY BROTHERS. San Francisco, /
the largest ship-builders on the Pacific
coast, have failed, with liabilities of $780, .
600.
THE railroad coal strike in PennSyl- /
vauia which began on the 1st is reported to !.
include all the mines but two.
The International Exhibition at Am
sterdam, Germany, was opened on the I'd /
inst, by the King.
IT is said the Ohio crops have suS- /
tanned more damage than those of any other /
winter wheat State.
LABOR strikes were inaugurated in /
various parts of the United States on the +
Ist, the most noteworthy being that of the .
railroad coal miners of the "Pan-Handle'' /
district of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Six /
thousand miners have quit work rather .
than submit TO the proposed reduction of "
wages. In numerous instances cigar l.
makers who had been refused an advance /
of II per thousand have struck work. At /
Lynn. Mass, there was a general strike Of /,
shoemakers. u