The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-24
nEIsCELLANEOua.

IT is predicted that the great strike Of
! Fall River (Mass.) operatives will soon
end.
THE shoe manufacturing firm of John
! Munden & Co., of Philadelphia, Pa, have
! discharged all their hands, 659 in number, in
consequence Of their refusal to accept a re
| duction in wages.
! TIE clearing house transactions last
week indicate a heavy decline ip the ag-
| gregate as compared with the correspond
/ ing week last year.
| THERE is talk in England Of disbanding
/ the Egyptian army to tighten the financial
burden, or at least to make a larger part
of the revenue available for payment of
| the debt.
TIE United States Supreme Court de-
cides, in the patent case of Hoe against
Scott, that no appeal is allowed from a
decision Of the Commissioner of Patents to
the Secretary of the Interior.
On the 14th a destructive wind and rain
storm passed over portions Of Mississippi.
Vicksburg, Grenada and West Point were
quite severely visited.
For March, 1884, the values OF exports of
domestic cattle, hogs and beef, pork and
dairy products was 50 6l0,9J5; for the same
month OF 1888, $40, 434 ,325; for three months
ended March 81, 1884, 81, 81, ,5S2, against
S3l, POS, 100 tor the corresponding period
last year; beef and pork products for the
five months ended March 81, 1884, $3S, 42l,-
Coz, against S4S,Ois,OO0 for the same time in
1888; dairy products for the eleven months
ended March 81, 1884, $l5, 1904, O43, against
S12,09S,S72 for the corresponding months of
1883.
THE long strike of the coal miners at
Auziu, France, is ended.
On the l4th unusually high stage of
water was reported in the st. Lawrence
River at Montreal. The water was up to
the doors of dwellings in many cases.
DISORDER continues to spread in Cuba.
Four newspapers in Norway have been
summoned for libeling the Crown,
On the 10Th ThOs. l.. Shields broke Jail at
Charlotte, N. c., by digging through
brick wall.
THE Missouri State Grand Lodge
Knights of Honor will hereafter hold BIZ
ennial sessions.
THE Iroquois Club of Chicago, held its
annual banquet the evening of the 18th at
the Palmer House.
THE French occupied Hong EJoa without
opposition on the 18th. The French feet
has seized Annoy to secure the indemnity.
In the Monongahela Valley coal mines
shutdown is regarded as imminent.
THE Home Department of the British
Government will undertake the prosecu-
tion of the dynamiters.
AN attack on a Protestant congregation
on the 13 h, at CarbOnnear, n. T., has been
followed by further fighting.
THE Supreme Court of Ohio has granted
leave TO file petition in error to test the
constitutionality of the Scott law.
ENGLISH and French detectives are
working together on the dynamite plots
and it is believed have secured full infor-
nation.
THE Cuban authorities exercise stric
censorship over all news sent from Hav-
ana, and dispatches are delayed in the
most aggravating manner.
THE Flood Relief Committee at Cincin-
natl is about to close its labors. II has re-
ceived SlS4, 900, and has on hand $4,000 un-
expended.
THE proposed new Russian loan of E15,
100000 for railroad construction is looked
on as a movement to consolidate the inter
nal affairs of the Empire.
THE CATHOLIC Bishops in Canada have
petitioned the Government to interfere to
prevent the Italian Government from carry
ing out its designs upon the propaganda at
Rome.
GREAT excitement exists in China over
the latest French advance. The Govern
ment is degrading and Furnishing all the
Chinese officers who are in any way re-
sponsible for the failure to oppose the in
vaders.