The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-01-31
nrISCEILANEOrs.

On the 18th the steamer Ilyrian from
Boston spoke the disabled steamer Ger
manic, 500 miles west of Fastnet, longitude
10 degrees and 34 minutes. 1t was expect
ed the Germanic would reach Queenstown
the 2Ist.
ris charged by the Citizens League
Of Chicago that the Grand Juries have been
regularly made up with a view to prevent
Indictment of saloon-keepers.
On the 2Oth Nationalist meeting
was held at Loughrea, Ireland, in defiance
of the Governments proclamation.
IT is said France will not reopen ne
gotiations with China till after her objects
in Tonquin are accomplished.
GREAT excitement was caused in Lon
don on the 2Ist by an attack by three men
on a sentry at Woolwich arsenal.
A TEN per cent. reduction in wages is
announced at Lowell, Mass, to take place
February /.
The Government has been petitiOned
by four hundred Winnebago Indians for an
allotment of lands in severalty, so as to ac-
quire the rights Of citizenship.
THE unpaid laborers of the Pitts
burgh, Youngstown q Cleveland Company
have been taking revenge by destroying
RECENT dispatches from Salt Lake
City, U. T., say that the Gear de Leon
gold excitement is on the increase, and pre-
dict great stampede in the spring to that
region.
A FORCE of only $500 demoralized
troops stand between Khartoum and Ell
Mahdi.
On the 2lst the proprietor of the Lon
don Globe was committed for trial on
charge Of libel brought by Colledge, British
Vice-Cousul at Kertch, for publishing a
Central News dispatch stating that Col
ledge was at the head of a company which
engaged pilots to wreck vessels in the
Black Sea, in order to obtain the insurance.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 22d the
jury in the case of Mutt, for the murder of
Dukes, rendered verdict of not guilty.
A DISPATCH of the 22d from Paris
said the police of that city were coutem-
plating strike.
The French advance in Tonquin will
be again delayed,
In the Aberdeen and Glasgow (Scot-
land) ship-yards the reduction of wages is
general.
On the 22d a tramp who was recently
sent to jail in indianapolis, Ind, developed
a malignant case of smallpox.
On the 22d Frenchman and Por-
! tuguese were arrested at Madrid as would
be regiCides.
PROGRESS is noted of the negotiations
/ for the restoration of the Prussian Bishops
to their former diOceSes.
THE recent expedition by the Dutch
! to rescue a shipwrecked crew from the
! Achenese pirates was n failure.
] IT is insisted by fishermen that the
steamship City of Columbus did not sir Ike
on Devils Bridge" but on a mussel-bed
! beyond il.
THE Legislature of Virginia has ap-
| pointed a committee to investigate charges
/ OF horrible atrocities in the State Prison.
The Exposition building in Chicago
| will not be torn down, the City Council
having relented and reduced the ground
/ rental.
/ DISPATCHES of the 22d stated that the
T st. Lawrence River was closed at Quebec.
Intensely cold weather prevailed in Cana
I da, and trains had been blocked at Colling-
/ wood nearly week.
! OK the 22d, in an address at Balti-
more, Rev. DR.. Goucher stated that one
third of the people of Maryland were
! Methodists.
/ A BATCH of SIX cardinals will be Gre
] ated at Rome February "A.