The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

On the oath the Kansas Legislature
adopted the conference report on general
quarantine bills, and the bill accepting the
provisions of any Federal legislation
touching diseases of cattle passed.
On the oath the Massachusetts House
of Representatives defeated the bill pro
viding that wite-beaters should be publicly
whipped.
The California Legislature met in
extra session on the 2lJh.
For the week ended March p, the
issue of standard silver dollars was $685. ,49J;
for corresponding period last year, S2lS, ,490.
OK the oath the American Exchange
in Berlin was opened with a grand dinner.
Minister Sargent was present.
UNLESS given special permiss on for
eign Jews are forbidden to stay in st.
Petersburg.
THE ba~k Antwerp, which arrived on
the path at st. John, n. B., rescued the Off
GERS and crew, forty-five in number, of the
Spanish steamer Colsans, and landed them
at st. Michael.
In China the war party demand the
immediate punishment of the Mandarins
who so easily surrendered Bac MIMI
LATEST advices from Egypt Indicate
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is in revolt. The rebels have surrendered
Khartoum, and General GordOn's position
is considered serious.
The Chinese ram Nankin has been
permitted to depart from British waters.
A LAW having been enacted in Can
ada for the inspection of Newfoundland
horrings the latter Province has retail
ated by imposing a 100 per cent. duty on
fro,
Canada.
AT Halifax, n. s., two Americans
have been indicted for having explosives
in their possession.
On the 2Cth the flood in the Upper
Missouri continued to increase alarmin1ly.
AN earthquake damaged several build
ings in San Francisco. Cal, on the 25th.
AT Salem, Mass, an exhibition was
recently made of new method of bleach
/ ing by means of paraffine soap, which, it is
/ thought, will revolutionize the bleaching
business of the world.
Another conference of New York ex-
/ Confederates and members of the Grand
/ Army Of the Republic is announced to take
/ place March 81, to further discuss means of
/ building a home for invalid ext Confederate
/ soldiers.
OK the 9th the sloop Alert, present
ed to America for the Greedy expedition,
sailed from England.
THE newspapers of Paris claim that
the London dynamite explosions were
plotted in that city and that the explosives
were sent from France.
| AN cdict has been issued by the police
| in Germany warning the people against
the danger OF eating raw pork, no matter
where the hog was raised.
THE cattle quarantine in Kansas has
been entirely removed, the disease having
no contagious features.
IN the sale of the thirty-One cars of
Kansas corn at Cincinnati for the benefit of
the flood sufferers, outside prices were real
lied.
THE rise in the Lower Mississippi has
made serious iuroads III newly constructed
Ievees, and the country is almost entirely
submerged. The City of New Orleans was,
I on the 25th, in imminent danger II any
! further rise occurred.
I THE Post Office Department is con-
templating a fast mail from Chicago to
/ New York.
THE House Committee on Lands has
completed its report on the bill declaring
forfeiture Of the Northern Pacific land
grant.
On the 25th herd of imported Jersey
cattle sold in New York brought prices
! ranging from S222 to S440 a head.
On the 25th the Devon cattle breed
ers of the United States met a Pittsburgh
Pa, and organized a National Association
THE well-known seaside resort in
Maine, Point of Pines, was sold on the 10Th
under a mortgage, and purchased for the
bondholders for SI30, ,OOO-less than half the
original cost.
On the 18th a transaction was con
summated at Colera, Ala, involving the i'll.
vestment of S1,0O0,CO) capital by a Michi
gan company in an iron furnace and sgTi,
cultural implement mandatory.
THREE HUNDRED Arabs have joined
the British, but the Sheiks stay aloof.