The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-12


tween 5000 and 1000 brickIayers went out
on a strike, being refused an advance of
wages from $3.50 to 81 per day. The EN-
ployers at New Haven, Conn, acceded to
the demands of the bricklayers for S3.75
day. At Milwaukee, Wis, the probabilities
were that il the cigar-nakers' demand for
an increase of 81 per 1000 was denied they
would strike May /, and it was said manu-
facturers would shut down. Twelve hum
dred journeymen painters were on strike
at Philadelphia, Pa, demanding an increase
from $3.50 to 50 per day.
The outlook for the harvest in Great
Britain is reported more favorable than it
has been at any previous time the current
year.
The cross-examination of ex-senator
Dorsey was concluded and Henry M. Vale
was called as a witness on the 4th in the
star-mail route cases at Washington.
The first through train on the Utah
4 extension of the Denver & Rio Grande
Railroad carried two hundred Mormon con-
verts to the Land Of Promise.
IT is reported that on the person of
Featherstone, an alleged American, arrest
ed in Ireland recently, We're found written
instructions from O'Douovan Rossa for the
use of certain explosives.
! Ex-POsTAIAsTER WAFFLE, of Cincin-
natl, who sued the Gazette of that city for
/ $4,000 damages for libel, has been awarded
! - by jury.
THE annual report of the President
of the Mexican Central Railway Company
/ shows a surplus over operating expenses
/ for the year of S55sO 900. The line was be-
/ ing rapidly extended and the traffic was
/ increasing steadily.
/ THE German Reichstag, which reas-
4 sembled on the 3d inst, adopted resolutions
/ of thanks for relief extended to German
! hood-sufTerers by Americans.
! The Greek Indians who recently left
/ their reservation with Chief Spiechee were
4 reported on the 4th to have gone to camp
with the COmanches and there was pros
pect that a considerable force of troops
would be needed to straighten things out.
/ POsTMAsTERs' orders for stamps and
stamped envelopes from the Post-ofice De-
/ partment on the 4th were the largest ever
received i'm a single day, being as. follows:
! Number of stamps, 2S,O00,O 900; envelopes,
/ 100000; postal-cards, 100000; aggregate,
/ S7,0OO,OO0.
/ TIE President has appointed Lieu
/ tenant-ColoneI Anderson D. Nelson, Z. S.
/ A. (retired), Deputy Governor of the Sol
/ diers' Home, vice Major Milton Cogswen,
+ deceased.
The Canadian Privy Council has
1 come to am adverse decision on the applica-
tion Of distillers of the United States for
/ the admission of whisky in bond in packages
/ of less than one hundred gallons.
A REPORT of H. Matson, Consul-Gen-
eral of the United States at Calcutta, on
the wheat production of India, places the
of
available for the European market at 40,
OOO,OO0 bushels. While the advantages pos
sessed by the United States in the matter
/ of transportation preclude present danger
! of close competition, Mr.. MatsOn says the
Indian supply is large enough to act as a
/ check upon the enhancement of prices by
/ speculation; and American farmers will
soon find the need of reducing the cost of
production, while freight charges must be
regulated in a degree by the concessions of
Indian railroads in that direction.
On the 9th inst. the Birmingham
/ (Eng.) police claimed to have discovered
and seized Fenian nitro-glycerine factory
in full blast, with an Irsh-American named
Whitehead as superintendent. Four al
. legged dynamite operators were arrested in
/ London.
The Free-pass bill, passed by the
Pennsylvania Senate on the 4th, prohibits
the issuing Of free passes by railroads to
any one except officers and employees, and
a violation subjects the offender to a fine OF
! Imprisonment.
A CABLE message announces the dis
covery Of Darrest's comet by G. D. Hars.
wig, of Strasburg Observatory. The pre-
dicted time of the discovery was about
/ April %.
LINDA GILBERT, well-known in con-
nection with her efforts for the reformation
of criminals, has applied to the Mayor OF
Brooklyn, n. V, for grant of the elevator
privileges at the Brooklyn bridge for nine
ty-nine years, the proceeds to form ''pris
/ oncrs' fund.-