The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-06

A NUMBER of the laadmg capitalists
of Cincinnati propose organizing a stock
company, with a capital stock Of 500, 900,
to establish huge cotton-mill, with a ca
pacity Of 1000 looms, for the manufacture
of sheetings and cotton. A meeting to or
ganize has been called.
The London Times of the 9th, COM
menting upon the celebration of Evacua-
tion Cay in New York, says: 'sThe keen
American mind is turning eagerly toward
the best the modern world can give it. The
intellectual future of such a race is not
likely to disappoint the most sanguine
prophets"
PETER JONES, coIOred boy, confined
in jail at Springfield, Tenn, was found
dead she morning of the 9th, having been
murdered by a white prisoner named
Ernest Worthington.
The Governor of Hong Kong re-.
Gently returned from trip to Pekin, where
he saw the principal ministers of the
Chinese Empire. He is of the opinion
that China is resolved to fight if forced
much further by France in the Tonquin
matter. China, he says, has 100000 trained
men available for operations against the
French.
PROF. NORDENsKJoLD is planning an
expedition to the South pole.
THE engineers struck on the Texas &
st. Louis Narrow-gauge Road on the 29th.
DISCOVERIES of silver mines in Chill
continue to occupy much of the public
attention.
A PARIS dispatch of the 29th says
Admiral Courbet has begun his advance
and secured important positions.
Mrs. MARY A. GREEN burned to
death at Louisville, KY, on the 29th, her
cloUhing having caught fire from a candle
THERE is no evidence to show the
completely of any American in the London
underground railway explosions.
SEVERAL exceedingly active volcanoes
have sprung into existence in Central
America during the present year.
Or 600 gendarmes forming the adj
vance guard OF the reinforcements TOR
Upper Egypt, 26S deserted before leaching
Suez
THERESA SrURLATA, who killed Chas.
Stiles, caller of the Chicago call-board,
was released from the Illinois Penitentiary
on the 29th
The Windsor Theatre, the largest in
New York, burned the night of the Goth,
together with two hotels embraced in the
block.
! THE strike of cigar-makers in Mon
treal, Can, has ended. 1t lasted six
months.
The business quarter of st. Paris, o.,
burned the morning of the 2Sth. Loss,
$15O,OOO.
A STRIKE of $4,000 cotton operatives
! in Lancashire is threatened.
POLICEMAN BULLARD, of Detroit,
Mich, was fatally shot while attempting
/ to arrest a thief on the 2Sth.
| CONSIDERABLE excitement is reported
among the Moslems in Algeria Over the
war news from Egypt.
BY a collision near Ashland, o., on
the 23rh a conductor was killed and engi
neer and brakeman Sc iously hurt.
A HAND-CAR with five men was struck
by train near bethesda, o., on the 10Th.
Two of the men were killed.
AT Worcester, Mass, on the 28th a
| passenger coach was derailed and went
down an embankment, rolling over twice.
/ Al large number of the passengers were
! badly hurt.
The French decree abolishing the
/ prohibition of the importation of American
pork states that if pork is carefully salted
there is no danger of trichinosis. The
municipal authorities will seize any bacon
imperfectly salted.