The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

A DISPATCH from Hong Kong of the
18th says a French expedition of 5000 men,
with flotilla OF gunboats and steamlaunch-
es, started several days ago from Hanoi for
Sontay. The troops landed seven miles
from the town and encamped without meet
ing the enemy or firing a shot. The assault
upon Sontay was expected December -.
The enemy's force is estimated at 10000
men.
The iron moulders at Pittsburgh,
Pa, it is thought, viii accept the ten per
cent. reduction of wages announced to take
place January 1.
ON the 18th the Mayor of New Lare
do, Mexico, was arrested or completely in
the recent train robbery in Mexico.
n the Russian Diet a bill to tax in
comes on personal property was introduced
on the 18th.
From July to December Is postal
service was placed on 5000 miles of new
railroad
On the 18th, in the Emma Bond case
at Hnlsboro, ILL.,, the prosecution an
nounced their evidence was all.
In Bennett & Co mills, Pittsburgh,
Pa, fifteen hundred workmen accepted a
reduction of ten per cent. on wages on the
18th.
THE failure Of the conference of glass
manufacturers and their employees at Pitts
burgh, Pa, is announced, and the struggle
is now to be settled by endurance.
AT Toledo, O., the United States
/ Court on the 18th decided that the property
/ of Brown, Bonnell & Co., of Youngstown,
Y Ohio, who assigned last year, should be
held for the benefit of all creditors alike.
A DETAIL of nineteen officers on duty
at the Artillery School at Fortress Monroe
Va, has been ordered to proceed to Wash.
| ington, Wilmington, Frankford Arsenal
and the Mitbale Iron and Steel Works, neal
Philadelphia, for the purpose of examining
operations of construction for manufacture
of special Importance to artillery.
TIE Congressional Commission ap-
pointed to investigate the railway mail
4 service to recommend a more complete sys
| TEN of gauging the rates of pay for carry
/ ing the mails on railroad routes, has com
4 pleted its report, which will be transmitted
to Congress by the Postmaster-G General
| TIE manufacturers of North and
Northeast Laucanshire (Eng) have adopt
ed short time to help the manufacturers of
| Blackburn and elsewhere, whose operatives
\ are OF a strike.
/ IRISH refugees in Paris severely con-
/ denim the execution of O'Donneu and
/ threaten revenge.
A COMPANY of $50 English artillery
men have gone to Egypt.
On the 18th Frederick j. Kelley, who
escaped from the Columbus (O.) Peniten.
tiary, where he was serving a twenty
years. sentence for arson, in 1876 was
placed behind the bars again, having been
recaptured at Cincinnati.
I,I- q,
plea of guilty Of wife murder at Plymouth
Mass, and was sentenced to Imprisonment
for life.
THE sixteen-year-oldb boy, George Orr,
who murdered the old blind man Irimble
at Paola, Kas., few days ago, was cap
/ tured on the 18th at Columbus, Kas., where
/ lie had hired out to work on a corn-sheller.
! He confesses his crime.
/ THE Goodwillie Wyman Company,
Boston and New York dealers in printing
presses and paper-cutting machines, art
/ embarrassed. 1t is stated a receiver viii
be appointed Liabilities $4,000.
MANUEL BIsNERIOs was captured on
the 18th at a ranch below Matamoras, Mex
leo, on suspicion of having been implicated
in the murder of Sylvester Garcia, who wa:
recently hung or tortured near that place
IN Hamilton County, Tex, a rich
gold mine is said to have been discovered
On the 18th teacher falling in II
in one of the New York public school
caused a panic among the pupils.
THE Pilot Commissioners of New
/ York have decided that vessels must stoI
when receiving or discharging pilots.
fine of S25 is imposed when this rule is vio
lated, or, when pilot causes unnecessary
. delay.
ORDERS have been issued by the Ad
jutant-General of Texas to the Rangers t.
use extraordinary measures to arrest Mex
lean train robbers, who have been crossing
and recrossing the Rio Grande to avoid ar
rest. With this authority, it is expected
the Rangers viii make the capture.