The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-14
TnE Coinare Committee of the Houso

THE Coinage Committee Of the House
of Representatives will report bill to re-
tire the trade dollar.
DISPATCHES received from various
points on the 9th indicated that there was
reason to fear that the flood in the Ohio
River would exceed that Of last year.
Great damage had already resulted. The
Mississippi and Missouri were both rising
rapidly and some of the larger Southern
rivers were also OH boom. The prospect
for big water in the Lower Mississippi was
good.
ACCORDING to latest advices from
Egypt Baker Pasha's defeat was even more
complete than at first reported. 1t is the
old story. His Egyptian troops simply
/ did not fight at all, but lay down ard beg
/ ged for mercy from inferior forces of the
/ enemy. An attack on Suakem was appre-
/ hended. A detachment of 4O6 men under
| Tewfk Bey was cut off and slaughtered be-
tween Sinkat and the coast. TOkar and
Sinkat are hopelessly lost.
A COLLISION occurred recently be-
tween bodies of native troops in Algeria.
+ A French force was called out to restore
order.
On the 9Th the river cOal-miners of
the Pittsburgh district held convention
to decide about demanding increased
wages. -s
THE Committee on Agriculture of the
Senate has ordered favorable report on
the bill to prevent the spread of pleuro-
pneumonia.
A NUMBER of the big Texas cattle
companies have consolidated at Dallas,
forming the Continental Land and Cattle
Company, the largest in the world.
In Milwaukee, Wis, the two thir-
teen-year-old boys who attempted to rob
and murder a street car-driver have been
convicted.
The Naval appropriation bill as pre-
, pared by the Committee, is completed. Il
appropriates Il ,565, ,238 less than.last year
The commission investigating Super.
! intendent French of the railway mail serv
J ice has summoned two hundred posta
clerks toappear at indianapolis.
On the 9th the Mississippi River Con
vention held two short sessions but moth
4 ing of Importance was done owing to th'
inability of the Committee on Resolution
+ to present their report
i On the 7th the River Convention
adopted resolutions approving the work 0
! the River Commission and urging Con
0 gress to apply the same system without de
r Law to the Improvement of the Ohio, Mis-
souri, and other navigable rivers; also, de
claring that Congress in making apprOpr
e ations should ''have regard to the estat
n lishment of free water communication be
tween the valley of the great river of th
f West and tide-water of the East"
II On the 9TH the rivers were still risin
d. at many points, and the prospect wa
/ gloomy enough. A fall in the temperatur
on the night of the 9th was not sufficient
I pronounced to diminish the freshet
If rapidly.
n THE. newspapers of Paris are jOkin
le England on the results of the Egyptia
campaign.
e TIE merchants of Terre Haute, Ind
5, are organizing board of trade.
r, FRANCE will send war material fC
six CUNT oats to Tonquin.
}, THE damages by flood along the OH
a River are estimated among the millions.
Or On the zth horse-thief was foun
hanging to post near Bassett, Neb.
II AN unconfirmed report was circulate
in London on the 7th that General GOrdC
L had been captured.
h THE authorities of Long Island a
satisfied that the negro Rugg was the assa
Ill ant in all the Oys er Bay outrages.
In consequence of the high wat
ed fifteen thousand men are thrown out
ed employment in the vicinity Of Pittsburg
lB Pa.
IN London, Eng, fifty-t#o membe
at of the Park Club have been fined from FL
FL to $500 each for gambling in the club room
Ie IN the recent disastrous engageme
= near Tokar in the Soudan, the total numb
u killed was $3.50. A transport will sail i
NJ mediately from England for Suakem wi
400 marines.
ol BRITISH firms are contracting wi
nc the Chinese to construct telegraph lin
from Canton to the places occupied
he them in Tonquin.
es- THE first passenger train crossed
IRE new cantilever bridge at Niagara Falls
ne the 7th.