The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-08-28
nIIsCEILANEOua.

IN the Fourth Pool mining district OF
Pennsylvania the situation remained un-
changed up to the 18th. The men were at
work and the "missionaries" were trying
to induce them TO quit.
FRENCH naval officers absent on fur
Tough have been ordered to their posts, in
anticipation of war with China,
OK Long Island, ". Y, on the 18 h, a
savage dOg-fght took place between jim,
an English canine, and Brindle, a Phila-
delphia dog. The Philadelphia beast
killed the British fighter after a two hours
combat.
On the 18th the mare frankie, with a
record of 1923 eul valued at 5000, crop
ped dead while being driven a Oyster
Bay, Long Island.
QUARANTINE has been raised at Key
West, Fla.
THE international sprinters' tournament
at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 1S,h, was at
tended by upward of 5000 people.
1t was announced on the 18th that the
Western Union Telegt aph Company had
cut the rate on messages between the st,
Louis and Chicago Merchant Exchanges to
five cents for a message of ten words.
ACCORDING 10 French Government Off.
cials the reason for the higher duty which
it has been proposed to put upon imported
cattle is the existing depression in agricul-
tural interests. 1t IS deemed to be a sa-
cred duty to assist the farmers, and it is
earnestly hoped shat the bill will pass.
THERE were nine deaths from cholera in
the twenty -fours ended at 8 p. m. on the
| I9h.
IN the Northwest and Manitoba heavy
rains were reported.
The estimated supply of wheat is 1924,
600 bushels; corn, 4, ,43S, 900.
On the 10 h the trial of the Dublin
scandal cases was commenced. The jury
in the French insanity case failed to agrea.
IT is found that the deficiency in the
! Wall Street Bank amounts 20 S4S5, 473.
OK the 10Th eighty tramps took posses
sion of the town of Casselton, Dakota, and
had things their own way for time. Four
Of them were arrested.
| SHIPPERS are perfeCting arrangements
| to send Montana cattle to Montreal via the
! Canadian Pacific Line.
AT Central, Iowa, an epidemic was re-
! ported raging on the 19sh which was
thought to be cholera. Physicians say it
| is gray fiux.
On the Gosh the Northwestern Lumber
mems Association met at Chicago.
ADvICEs from Shanghai indicate thas
there is no prospect of settlem mt OF the
faculties between France and China, and
W at W III pluAAdBtN be utCldEeu nY OHlua.
THE Legislature of Virginia is in doubt
as to whether any election law is in force
in that State, owing to the manner in
which the Malone people made laws when
! they had temporary power.
A FATAL case of supposed Asiatic cholera
reported to the Coroner at Birmingham
Eng, on the 18th, created a great deal of
excitement. Medical opinion, however.
was pretty evenly divided, many eminent
physicians contending that cholera NOR
bus and not Asiatic cholera caused the
mans death.
The French officers who were arrested at
Coblentz, Germany, few days ago while
sketching fortifications, have been re-
leased, the authorities having become con-
vinced that they were not spies. and that
their purpose in making the sketches was
an innocent one.
On the 19eh the joint committee of the
two Houses of the Virginia Legislature re-
ported a bill recommending the re-enact-
ment of the old election law with the word
"freeholders" left out. This, it is believed,
will remove all objections to its constitu
tionality.
AT Worthing, England, Salvation
Army riot occurred on the 20th. The mill
tary had to be called out.
IN its financial article on the 19sh, the
London Standard says that all the we'll
known facts are so dead against Erie that
English investors must absolutely refuse
to invest their money in it. Mr.. King, it
says, comes from very bad school Of rail
way management.
The Pope is said to be Mortified at the
results Of the divorce law recently put ia
force in France. 1t is understood that he
will protest 70 the French Government
against the measure
STEADY and subs .antial progress is be-
ing made by the American Missionary So
! ciety IN Asia Minor.
THE rebels in Egvps throw the bodies of
their slain enemies IN the NilT with their
hands tied behind them,