The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-14
mIsCELLANEOUs.


the death throes when found and cutdown.
mIsCELLANEOUs.
THE proposal to ask the Rechstag to /
vote seven million marks to maintain iron
cIads, construct torpedoes and increase the |
number of sailors is occupying the atten-
tion of the German Admiralty.
TIE ship-owners' conyentionwith De
I4esseps relating to the Suez CanalShas
been officially approved by the British
Governments.
A COMPANY is forming in Germany to
buy up land in Borneo in opposition to a
British company.
ANNOUNCEMENTS OF reductions of
wages in Eastern factories continue, andin
many cases strikes are threatened.
FOR the month of January the fire
losses in the United States amounted to
Sl2, 600, 900, an amount equalled only two or
three times in a single month.
"A SETTLEMENT has been effected by
the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad with the
Yale Glee Club for injuries received in
the recent accident at Louisville.
AT Richmond, Va, a consignment of
guns and munitions of war intended for
the Haytien insurgents has been seized
and forfeited to the United States Govern
| ment.
IT is announced that the great syndi-
cate formed to control the coke output of
| Western Pennsylvania has dissolved, on
account of disagreements between the
large and small operators.
For the week ended February 2 the
issue of standard silver dollars was SS5,
996; for the corresponding week last year,
$19S,0OO.
THE Grand Jury in session at Fargo,
D. T., have found indictments against a
large number of prominent attorneys for
fraud in land office cases.
III is feared that another revolt is on
the tapis in the Spanish army.
On the 9th the Mississippi River Con
vention assembled in. Lincoln Hall, Wash
ington.
AT Lawrence, Mass, a thousand
weavers have struck against reduction.
On the 4th the crew of the wrecked
fishing schooner 5. c. Noyes were picked
up badly frozen off Newport, r. l., having
been ten hours in open boat.
LATEST news from the SOudan is that
Baker Pasha has been defeated by FL
Mahdi with a loss of six guns and more
than 1000 men.
OK the 9TH the members of the Hi
nois Press Association called on President
Arthur.
On the 9TH the board of inspectors OF
steam vessels began ADMINISTRATION an of the
City of Columbus disaster.
THE eleventh annual meeting of the
Grand Lodge A 0. U. w. began its ses
sions in Syracuse, N. Y, on the 5th. There
is now a membership of 1s,2sS. During the
past year 1922 900 were collected in assess
: ments and S296,0O0 paid in death claims.
ORDERS have only just been issued tC
the Chinese Commander-in-chief to maxi
/ detailed plans for a campaign in TOnquin
On the 5th there seemed little doub
but that there would be disastrous fioo'
: in the Ohio River. Buiness in Cincinnat
was materially interfered with by the higl
water, and railroads were cautious abou
, receiving freight.
Ir is thought the annual apprOpria
I tions for rivers and harbors this year will
: not exceed SO, ,O0). The estimates ar
$50 OOO, 900.
A CHANGE Of venue to Petersburg
: Menard County, has been granted o. A
& Carpenter, charged with the murder c
Zura Burns at Lincoln, III.
On the 5th the British Parliamen
q opened. The Queens speech claims an in
: proved condition of affairs in Ireland.
% CONGRESS has been memOrialized b,
the Western Associated Press for redu'
ton of postal rates, so that the ordinary i
sues of daily newspapers, including supple
/ ment, may be sent for cent.
OK the 9TH there was imminent dan
ger of serious damage by the ice an
y freshet at Cleveland, but the gorg
lc which for a time looked threatening we
lt broken up by tugs and drifted into LaE
I. Erie.
oI THE Finance Committee of the Senat
u has called on the Secretary of the Treasur
for information as to the effect to be e.
i pscted from the passage of the bonde
w whisky bill.
IT has been demonstrated by the cit
If electrician of Chicago that undergrouT
N telecraphvis is entirely practicable, and fort
lie miles of the municipal fire-alarm service
t. to be Immediately equipped with cabi
under the pavement.
s. IN Paris a meeting of mechanics fe
ul davs ago was informed by a speaker, wi
al had lust returned from the United State
IN that American workingmen were no bett
es off than the French and had not SO mu'
n freedom in their employments.
TO THE Navy Department has purchase
the Thetis, said TO be the stanchest whal
OF that sails from Dundee, for the Greedy I
To- lief expedition.
OK the 9th the high water stopped Il
gas works in Cincinnati, and the water W
IN still rising.
VI VI THE delegates to the Mississippi Ri
- er Convention called on the President
y the 9th.
~, FLOODED railroad tracks and was
- outs are reported in every direction.
THE great cotton factory strike
n Lancaster, England, has ended in favor
n. the operatives.
re On the 9th the Stove Manufacturer
til Association held its annual meeting
j Cleveland, Q,