The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-21


in the zHoosier flour mill at Indianapolis,
Ind, was caught on shaft andvTas torn
to pieces.
MISCELLANEOUS.
IN Boston on the 9Th the National
Committee Of the Sonsof Veterans voted
to hold the National Convention in New
York, February -. Departments of the
order-hsve been formed in Nebraska and
Illinois and applications made for provi-
sonal l-departments in Indiana and Iowa.
TIE value of the steamer Nottinghin,
recently lost at sea, was S400,O 600, besides
cargo worth $4,000.
SERIOUS resistance has been encoun-
tered by the Anglo-French Commission
engaged in fixing the boundaries in West
Africa, from the natives. French troops
were landed for protection.
TIE abolition Of the prison contract
system will be recommended by joint
committee o. the Ohio Legislature.
THE Austrian Reichsrath is in danger
Of dissolution, unless it re-enacts the anti
socialist law. s-
SEVERE snow storms and destructive
gales prevailed in the north of England
and Scotland on the 18th.
AT Aldershot, England, a circular
was Ittll On Llle ltJLlr SldLlI9 Lldb uOli-GOItl
missi, n d officers might volunteer for serv-
ice in the Egyptian army for a period of
two years. Many volunteered at once.
TIE steamship Republic, which ar
rived in New York on the nth, brought
Hugh Wallace from County Cavan, Ire
land. He is forty-fve years old, half blind
and totally destitute. He made affidavit
that he was an inmate of a county work
house for twenty-nine years, and until six
years ago. Then he was imprisoned for six
years for killing man. On his release three
weeks ago he was told tlrat could not
go to the work house. ,sas he wished, but that
he must 90 to the United States. He re-
ceived a free passageand ten shillings from
a Government officer named Dooley. He
will be- sent bnck to ireland.
On the 18th portions of Asiatic Tur-
were shaken by another earthquake.
THE City Council of Toledo, o., has
voted $1,000 per aunum for a manual train
ing school.
IN England the pressure for more
direct interference in the affairs of Egypt
increases.
AT Muraysyillo. Pa, the gas-well
rioters have been indicted for murder and
felonious assault,
OK the 18th the Virginia Legislature
passed a law redistricting the state as to
Congressional districts.
THE agent of the Louisiana lottery in
| Chicago has been constrained to discon-
tinue the sale of tickets. -
In the House Of Lords on the 18th the
Marquis Of fSaIisbury's resolution of censure
on the British Governments Egyptian
policy was debated, and in the Commons a
similar motion was discussed.
AN appeal has been issued by the SUI
preme Lodge Knights of Honor to lodges
of the order throughout the country to con
tribute in aid Of the flood sufferers. g..
LATEST advices from the Soudan rela-
tive to the fall of Sinkat state that Tewfk
Bey, preferring death to surrender, spiked
the guns, blew up the Notifications aud
made a sortie. His COZ men were ali mas
sacred. The rebels then entered Sinkat
and slaughtered all the inhabitants with the
exception Of the Cadi and thirty women.
= ARR AryGEMENTsi have been made by
the Memphis & Little Rock Railroad Com
pany for a line of steamers between Mem
phis and Madison, Ark, in anticipationAof
inundated tracks.
A BILL has been adopted by the
French Chamber of Deputies to suppress
seditious demonstrations.
THE French Bishops have been sum
moned to.Rome by the Pope to confer upon.
measureslto revive the. Cathoffc spirit in
France.
On the 18th the Ohio River contin-
ued rising. At Jeffersonvjile, Ind, nearly
/ 6,000 people are driven from their homes.
At Cincinnati the water reached seventy
| feet eight and hclf inches. On 'Change
/ no business was done except to receive
subscriptions and organize relief meas
ures. At Newport, Ky, large number of
| houses were washed away. Numerous
accidents by drowning are reported
| Within twenty-five miles of Gallipolis,
/ o., 5000 people win have to be fed
by charity for two weeks. The amount of
suffering is altogether without parallel aud
viii be fearfully increased now that the
weather has turned cold. At Portsmouth,
/ o., over 600 buildings are destroyed, but
the water has begun falling at that point
and the worst is past. Army officers have
been detailed to attend 20 distributing the
government relief appropriation
REPRESENTATIVE in Congress from
Texas are reported to have sent inCorma-
tiou to San Antonio that the Secretary Of
the Interior has ordered the cattle trail
opened throagh the Icdian Territory.
A BOARD OF Trade has been organ
lied at Evansville, Ind.
Ok the 18th the Ohio Legislature ap-
propriated 100000 for relief of the over
flowed towns.
TnE gross receipts of the performance
for the benefit of the O 10 food sufferers,
at which Patti and Gerster appeared in
| Chicago on the 18th, were over 5000.
THE Proteus board of inquiry, in its
report, censures General Hazen for long
list OF shortcomings.
MEXICO has appropriated 100000
/ for its exhibit at the New Orleans Cotton
! Centennial Exposition.
7 TEE manufacturers and workingmen
| of Pittsburgh, Pa, viii send joint delega-
! tion to Washington to oppose the Morrison
/ tariff revision bill.
| Ar Niagara Falls. on the 18th, three
| boys We're arrested on train for theft.
| They had three revolvers, a Life OF the
| Tat,as Rows and a lot of stoleu Ynonavr