The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-10-16

ON the sth the Episcopal Congress 40
Detroit, Mich, discussed the Cathedral
System in America"
THE Pittsburgh stove moulders' strike,
which lasted nine months, has been de-
clared off. Manufacturers will take the
men back as individuals, but not as men,
bers of the Union
AT last accounts the bombardment of
Tamsiu by the French fleet was in prog
ress. The Chinese are said to be strongly
intrenched.
On the 8.h one hundred and ninety
seven fresh cases of cholera were re-
ported in Italy, and ninety-seven deaths.
A CASE under the civil rights law was
decided against a cOlored man at Wash
ington by Judge Smell. The suit grew out
of the refusal to sell the coIored man a
supper ticket on Potomac River steamer.
BRITISH imports decreased EOS, 900 dur
ing September as compared with the cor
responding months of last year. Exports
increased $4,000 in the same period.
THE convention OF Fair and Exposition
managers, which met in st. Louis, Mo-,
recently, appointed a committee to recon-
mend a suitable location for Worlds Ex-
position to be held in 1892. The committee
thus appointed have selected s.. Louis as
the most central and best suited, and will
report that fact to the general committee
December Sd.
IT Is intimated that the Baltimore &
Ohio Railway people will retaliate on ac-
count of the action taken by the PennsyI-
vania Road in reference to the track facil-
tiles between Baltimore and New York.
The former line has it in its power to stir
up great deal of trouble.
AT Salt Lake, Utah. the purged Grand
Jury obtained by Judge Seane returned
six indictments en- the S5h, making twenty
one in ten days.
THE quarterly settlement with the Iowa
S ate Treasurer shows balance of funds
on hand of $19), ,257.12.
THE New York Supreme Court, general
term, handed down unanimous opinion
on the Ssh declaring unconstitutional the
bill passed by the Legislature forbidding
the manufacture of cigars in tenements.
THE Reading (Pa.) Cotton Mills have
been ordered to shut down for one month,
owing o Over-prOduction and slow sales.
The mills have been working on an agree
ment with Eastern mills. The mills en-
plOy $50 hands.
On the 9th the new Japanese Minister
arrived at Washington.
In the recent engagement in Tonquin
the Chinese lost ], 900 men, aud 500 more on
the retreat.
A PARTY of Orangemen tore down the
gates of a convent at Harbor Grace, N. F.,
on the 9th.
The Oliver iron mills at Pitts burgh, Pa.
concluded not to cut down wages, and
work has been resumed.
ACCORDING to the Director of the Mint
the amount of gold and silver coin in the
United States is 1915, 900, 900, of which
| S55S, 900 are in gold.
THE British Cabinet has decided to take
steps to stop the encroachments of the
Beers in West Africa.
In Italy, during twenty-four hours
ended the evening of the 9th, 145 fresh
cases of cholera were reported anc
seventy-seven deaths.
AT KIEFF, Russia, the University has
been closed, and 168 students arrested fol
being Nihilists-
THE soldiers in the Cuban army have re
ceived no pay for six months, and the
forces are badly demoralized.
A MEETING of the stockholders of the
| Ohio & Mississippi Railway Company was
held in Cincinnati on the oh. The Balti
more & Ohio people defeated the New
York and English parties who sought tC
| take control from the former.
| WHAT has been supposed to be chicken.
/ pox, prevailing in the vicinity of Brook
| ings, D. T., has been pronounced by com
/ petent physicians to be genuine small-p pox
/ and the disease is spreading rapidly
| through the country. 1t is supposed tC
| have been introduced by emigrants. Vi
/ to the 9th four persons had died.
| IT is said that over 1000 persons have
! bnen killed by the explosions of mine:
| around Khartoum under direction of Gen
/ eral Gordon.
ASHANGHAI dispatch says the French
| fleet in Chinese waters is short of supplies
| and it is feared the neglect of the com
missaria at may hamper its operations.
THE Fair of the S.. Louis (Mo.) Agri
| cultural and Mechanical Association was
/ attended on the OH by 1l5, 900 persons, anC
/ the Great Exposition was visited by tens
/ of thousands during the day and evening
/ The crowd in the city was one of tht
| largest on record.