The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-01-11
MIsCELLANEOUs.

A BLOCK of land in New York which
was bought at auction ten years ago for
$4,000 was recently mortgaged for SS91,
900.
THE Western Nail Association, at a
meeting held at Pittsburg, Pa, the other
day, after long discussion, unanimously de-
cided to shut down all factories from Janu-
airy - to February 10. This action was
taken in view OF the unsatisfactory condition
OF the trade.
AT Washington Miss Josephine G.
Meeker, daughter of the late n. c. AIeeker,
who was tortured and killed by Ute Indians
in the massacre of 1879, died the other
morning OF pneumonia. Miss Meeker was
a clerk in the Office OF the Secretary Of the
Interior. She and her mother were for some
time prisoners in the hands OF the Ute In
dians after the massacre Of 1879.
The Indian Bureau having received
information from Cherokee County, Indian
Territory, that white men were erecting
] buildings and fencing off pastures in the
Cherokee Outlet" Commissioner Price
recently addressed letter to Agent Tufts
at Muskogee to warn the white herders to
remove with their stock from the reserva-
/ tion.
A SHOCK of earthquake was felt in
! Halifax, N. s., the other night lasting
| twenty to thirty seconds.
RECENTLY a fatal disease, believed to
! be a brain trouble, broke out among the
| horses at OskaIOoss, iowa. The attack
usually caused death in from twelve to
thirty hours.
THE receipts of the United States
patent Office for the year were S1,OOO,OOO.
IT was said recently that cholera was
devastating cities and villages in the interi-
or OF KurantienR provinces, China.
| ROsE GOLIGHTLY, young lady
nineteen years of age, skated into a narrow
| open channel made by party OF ice cutters
on the Susquohanna River, near Wilkes
| barre, Pa, few days ago and was drowned.
WITHIN twenty-four hours from the
| time OF filing her bill in Chicago, recently,
Marie Louise Dillon secured a divorce from
John Dillon for desertion and habitual
drunkenness.
THE Governor of Wisconsin was
1 called upon to appoint all the officers for
/ Waukesha County except sheriff, the other
! day, those elected having failed to file bonds.
AT Madison, Neb., the other day, two
\ seven -year-old boys named Tyrel were
playing with a Winchester rife. when the
/ weapon was discharged, striking one OF
/ them in the forehead and completely shat
| tering his skull. At Worcester, Mass. Nell
\ son Raymond, sixteen years Of age, while
\ playing with revolver, killed his brother
Joseph, aged ten.
FRANCIS CARvILI. & Son, merchants
( and ship-owners, London and Liverpool,
| Eug., failed recently. Liabilities, $500. OOO
! THE coinage at the mint in Philadel-
4 phia, Pa, during 1882 aggregated SO, ,967, ,29O
Y pieces, valued at S4S,309, ,395. The amount
| included double eagles go, eagles ., ,324,4SO
haIf-eagles 2,I5t, 800. S. pieces ,540, quarter
/ eagles 4,O40, dollars 500.
/ W. c. ANDERSON, the young tele-
Y graph operator at Lschute, Cana, who re-
\ Gently fell heir to $3.50, 600 by the death OF
| his uncle in Scotland, was few days ago
/ notified OF bequest OF another 100000 by
! the deceas e OF another uncle.
A BANQUET, ex-senator Bruce pre-
I siding, was given at Washington, the night
Y OF the 1st, in honor Of Frederick Douglass
and the anniversary OF the emancipation
proclamation. A number Of prominent col
ored citizens attended.
/ L. II. DUDLEY & Co., brokers in
/ canned goods, New York City, made an as
/ signment a few days ago. Liabilities said to
+ be from 500, 600 to 5000, 600
The Common Council of Vienna,
Austria recently approved the scheme for
4 the cmbankmcnt Of the Danube, costing I6, =
. OOo. 900 tlorius.
/ Miss ELIZABETH LAMBERT, of Cam
bridge, Mass, who was 5edridden for years,
recently claimed to have been perfectly
. healed 10y prayer,
IN a recent article on mercantile fail
urcs for 1882 commercial paper says that
the business disasters for last year num-
bered 1914, against >, ,929 In 1881, sud 4. so
\ IN 1880, being an increase in 1892 Of ,645
I over the year previous.
THE floods in Germany were causing
great damage on the 81. At Dusseldorf the
/ Market Square was flooded. Seventy houses
I had fallen at Badenheim, and at ReNheim,
/ Morsch and Oppaw two hundred and forty
had fallen. AT Vienna, Austria, the danger
was serious, and preparations were being
made TO sound the alarm bells. The dykes
] showed signs OF yielding.