The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-10-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

By the suspension of work at the Pipe
mills at Allentown, Pa, S0J men are
thrown out of employment.
INFORMATION has been received by the
Marine Hospital Bureau that the paper
manufacturers are now owshipping waste pa
per from England. There is no opposi-
ton or objection to the landing on A meri-
can shores of waste paper from non-Infect-
ed ports.
In his monthly report the Chief of the
Bureau of Statitics says the value of ex-
ports of breadstufs during the month of
September aggregated SO, ,4}l, 1873. The
value of exports of breadstffs during the
past nine months amounted to $3.50, ,43o, ,5)4
On the 22d the visible supply Of wheat
was 32,595,0 600 bushels; corn, $500, 900
bushels; oats, 4, 125 900 bushels.
THE larger bottle manufacturers are ac-
cused OF cutting prices to freeze the little
concerns out of business.
On the 21st the Burlington Road knocked
the bottom out Of passenger fares, and
tickets were selling for one dollar to Mis-
souri, River points from Peoria, Ill.
THE Belgian Ministers have placed their
designations in the hands of the Prime
Minister.
OK the 22d the National Convention of
the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
met in St. Louis, Mo-, the sessions being
held in the United Presbyterian Church.
THE Chinese continue to march troops
into Tonquin, and the French Government
is apparently undecided as to what course
to pursue.
SEVERAL Of the coal mines along the
Monongahela River, in Pennsylvania, re-
sumed operations on the 22d.
AT Butler, Pa, the Phillips Oil WeIl No.
., struck a richer streak in the sand on the
21st, and was flowing at the rate of TWEEN.
ty-hve hundred barrels day.
THE report of the Lighthouse Board
relative to the recent electric light expert
ments at He'll Gate announces them per-
fecly satisfactory. They, however, be-
lieve that two additional lights will be
necessary to render navigation as safe by
night as by daylight
The cashier of the California Bank
states that the reports that that institution
is seriously injured by the failure of Ar
thur w. Bowman, capitalist, are ground
less. The latter's liabilities are S77I, ,000.
THE German and French Governments
have acceded to the proposal of Earl Gran
willie to limit the work of the Congo Con-
ference to the settlement of the Congo
question.
THERE has been scarcely any rain around
W 0ShlmgtOm Tor three nonlnSs AU Ablan-
ta, Ga, they have had no rain for two
months. Drought has been general in the
South Atlantic States.
The Erie Railway has met the cut rates
of tho West Shore Line on westward
traffic. The Lackawanna has also gone
into the fght
TIE cholera epidemic in Italy is aba
ing. During twenty -four hours ended the
2lst only ninety-s six fresh cases and thir-
ty-iive deaths were reported, which is a
marked decrease as compared with the
records OF the previous week.
THE Philadelphia, Wilmington & Balti-
more Railway Company FLED an answer
on the 2ist TO the injunction of the Balti-
more & Ohio in reference to its refusal to
carry the cars of the latter line.
AT Naples, during twenty -four hours
ended the 22d twenty-three fresh cases of
cholera were reported and only four
deaths.
The protracted drought in Virginia has
ended. Coplous rains were also reported
IN Georgia and other parts Of the South on
the 29d,