The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-03-27
NTIsCELLANEOus.

A RUMOR is current in England that
the Government will bring about disso-
luton of Parliament in order to test public
opinion on the Egyptian question.
PLACARDs are posted in County Cork,
Ireland, announcing that civil war will
break out in March.
IL Paris an Afghan chief is publish
ing an anti English paper to be circulated
in Moslem countries.
In Russia the commercial exchanges
have petitioned the Government for heavy
duty on manufactured iron.
For last week the clearing house
transactions show falling off OF twenty
per cent. as compared with the correspond
ing week last yea.
LAST year the net earnings of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee g. st. Paul Road showed
an increase of 81, ,6s1, 1872 over those of the
year before.
On the 18th train of thirty-one cars
loaded with corn contributed Tor the flood
Wichita, Kan.
The recently arrested Spanish con
spirators had formed plo0 to seize the
King and Ministers.
On the 10th further evidence showing
the general sale of oleomargaline for butter
was given before the New York Senate
Health Committee.
A REVENUE cutter has intercepted
a ship-Ioad of refugees, bound from Cuba
to Maine, on account of representations by
the Spanish authorities that the escaping
persons. mostly women and children, are
bandits.
ON the 18th the flagship Hartford, of
the Pacific squadron, Rear Admiral Hughes,
commanding, arrived at San Francisco
from Honolulu.
A BILL has been introduced in the
House to prohibit the importation and sale
of opium.
On the 18th the British steamship
General Roberts reached New York with
her bows broken and the forward compart-
ments full of water in consequence of a col
lision with ice fields.
A NUMBER of congressman indicated
their nationality on the 18th by wearing
| green emblems.
THE bill incorporating the Orange so
cieties has been rejected by the Canadian
Parliament.
CREvAssES still continue to cause
trouble along the Lower Mississippi
THE Western passenger agents he'd
their annual meeting on the Ism at Cincin-
natl.
THE French contemplate occupying
Chinese territory to enforce the payment
of a war indemnity.
On the 18th the prosecution closed
in the Carpenter murder case at Peters
burg. Ill.
1T is declared by experts that the cat
tie disease near Wapello, Ia, is foot rot,
and not foot and mouth disease.
OK the 18th one of n series of grave
yard insurance prosecutions, instituted at
Fall River. Mass, resulted in conviction.
On the steamer Nurnberg, on arrival
at BaltimOre, Md, ON the 18th, Christian
Lemke was arrested charged with burg
larry, robbery and forgery at Akron, o.
An officer started for Akron with him on
the 18th.
AN important clew is said to have
been discovered to the perpetrator of the
murder OF Phoebe Paullin in New Jersey
last winter.
INSTRUCTIONS have been issued to
General Millot to advance and occupy
whatever territory may be necessary to Sc
cure the French holdings in Tonquin.
THE hotels at Warsaw, Russia, are
compelled 70 furnish the police lists of ali
strangers arriving. The action is taken on
account of Nihilist plots.
PORTLAND, Ore, will secure Eastern
mails twenty-five hours earlier by the new
last mail service than formerly.
IT is officially declared that ireland is
free from foot and mouth disease.