The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-07

On the 30th the Merchants and Me-
chanics' Bank of Leadville, Col, suspend
ed after a heavy run, leaving only one
bank open in the town.
President ARTHUR will recommend
that Congress abstain from any immediate
legislation touching the exclusion of Amer
lean meats from France and Germany.
In New York a speculative mania has
developed in tea, based upon the alleged
short crop the past season, and an advance
in the price of the article may be looked
for.
AT the Naval Academy at Annapolis,
Md, hazing is again going on, the three
upper classes asserting their time-honored
prerogative of tyrannizing over the fourth.
TIE Commissioner Of Patents in his
annual report of the operations of the Pat
ent Office for the calendar year shows an
increase of seventeen per cent. in the num-
Der of patents, trademarks and labels is
sued over the preceding year; the cash re-
ceipts increased $137, 600; excess of receipts
over expenditures, 100000; cash on hand
S2,676,47G.
ALL OF the iifty-seven bodies of the
victims of the Crested Butte mine disaster
in Colorado, have been recovered.
OK the 30th the Universal Telephone
Company filed a certificate of incorpora-
ton in New York; capital, $2,520,c0).
A NUMBER of snow slides are re-
ported from the mountains of Utah. Sew
eral houses have been swept away, but no
lives lost.
On the 3Oth Patrick O'Hara was
found guilty at Patterson, n. j., Of the
murder of Mrs. Richard FulIalove. He was
recommended to mercy.
AUSTRALIAN dispatches report great
crop prospects. South Australia is ex-
pected to export Is, 100000 bushels of wheat
and Victoria 100000.
On the 30th an employe of the Grand
Trunk abroad, indicted for causing the
| death of J. w. Perkins, at Mechanics Falls
in 1882, was found guilty and fined 81 ,0oO
On the 3Oth the Board of Trade Tele-
egraph line, from Chicago to st. Louis,
and the Pacific Mutual Telegraph line
from st. Louis to Kansas City, were pur-
chased by the Bankers and Merchants
Telegraph Company of New York. The
first named was built four years and the
latter two years ago, and both are four
wire lines.
THE debt reduction for January is es-
timated at S1I, $4,000.
Louisville, KY, and boats were getting
ready to leave for Pittsburgh.
AN issue will be made by the Brit sh
| Conservatives on the Governments Egyp
tian policy.
The Grand Jury in New York cen
sures the Excise Commissioners for failure
to enforce the law.
A BILL will shortly be introduced in
the New York Legislature to tax all liquor
! dealers S25 a month.
| On the 3lst, at Cincinnati, Patrick
! Hartnett killed his wife and chopped the
/ body to pieces in order to hide it.
! IN several districts in Austria trial by
/ Jury has been suspended and martial law
| proclaimed on account of Socialistic dis
| turbances.
A SEALING steamer has been bought
/ by the Government for the Greedy expedi
ton. She is of the age, tonnage and builc
of the lost steamer Proteus.
AT Troy, Ny, on the 31st, the police
broke up a patrol of union molders rain
taiueI at the Malleable Iron Works, where
non-union men are employed.
THE steamboat companies on the Riv
er Nile have been asked to place thei
! greatest carrying capacity at the servic,
of the military for the Khartoum cam
! paign.
TIE latest sensation in London is the
failure of 2. w. Thomas q Co., whose liza
biIities are over "A, 100000 and assets moth
ing. One of the members of the firm ha
! absCOnded.
UNITED STATES officers at Atlantic
ports are watching for the arrival of tn,
schooner 7. A. Kennedy, whose master il
said to have absconded from San Andrea
with a cargo belonging to the vessel
! owner
On the 31st three human bodie!
packed in whisky casks and shipped from
Baltimore to Chicago were seized by tht
police, and John Garrison, veterinary sur
geon, who paid express charges on them
was arrested. 1t is supposed to be a dis
secting-roOm consignment.