The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-18

The st. Louis Exposition managers ave
made arrangements with the School
Board Of the city to admit, on days set
apart the pupils of the public;schooIs at the
nominal fee of five cents each. The Expo
sition.is now in excellent running order.
For the week ended the 9th exports, ex-
elusive of specie, from the port Of New
York were Sc, ,6S3, ,2T7, against 50, ,945, 1862 the
previous week and So, 107, 1O7 for the week
ended September II, 1888. Total exports
since June / were 1922, ,143, ,409, against
s247, ,1O6, l07 for the same time last year.
On the 9th California celebrated her ad-
mission to the Union with great enthusi-
asm, especially in Sacramento and San
Francisco. The '49ers held a reception
and banquet in the evening at Sacra.
mento.
ACCORDING to a Rome paper the Pope
has prepared an encyclical upon the politi-
cal tendencies of the times.
A FORCE Of six thousand additional
Turkish troops has been ordered to Yemen,
Western Arabia, to suppress a rebellion.
THE Cincinnati Price Current has ad-
vices that the corn crop will be seventeen
per cent. greater than last year.
The convention of coal miners at Co
lumbus, o., on the 10th, decided to con-
tinue the summer rates and did not ask
for winter rates.
THE General Passenger Agents of the
various lines were in session at Indian
apolis on the 10th with view of settling
the disturbances in rates at competing
points.
On the 10th it was so warm in New York
that the street-car lines about suspended
operations, and it was said they would
stop entirely unless there was cooler
weather. Numerous sunstrokes have been
reported daily.
THE ball given at Warsaw in honor of
the Imperial party of Russia was grand
affair. The Gear, Czarnia and Grand
Dukes were saluted on their arrival.
There were 5000 roses on the supper table.
The situation at Naples grows worse
every day. and the city is thoroughly
panic stricken During the twenty -four
hours ended the evening of the 10th there
were $50 fresh cases reported and 365
deaths. King Humbert was urged to leave
the place, but he remains, doing what he
can to relieve the sufferers.
On the Goth news was received at Cairo
that the Mudir of Dongola recently at
tackled and defeated large force of rebels
in the desert under the personal command
of Ell Mahdi.
THE waters in the flooded districts of
Wisconsin have receded.
THE French authorities deny that China
has declared war.
On the 11th storms were reported along
the Atlantic coast, and the heated term
was thought to be broken.
ON the 11th the annual meeting of the
National Women's Temperance Union
began in Washington, D. G.
A PROJECT is on foot to build new rail
way line between Boston and New York,
by which the 100 miles can be travelled in
three hours and half.
THE Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Com
pany will withdraw from the recently
formed pool unless the Bankers & Mer-
chants difficulties are adjusted at once.
RAILWAY officials held a conference at
Detroit, Mich, on the 11th, and it was de-
cided to put on an extra fast train be-
tween New York, Boston and st. Louis to
run into st. Louis over the Wabash.
NOTICE was given by the Edgar Thomp-
son Steel Company, of Pittsburgh, Pa, on
the 11th, that unless their employees agreed
to accept lower wages the works would
suspend. 1t was thought the proposition
would be accepted as there are already so
many men idle that the poverty in Pitts
burgh is distressing.
1T is feared that cholera has reached
Rome, as there have been sick persons
with all the symptoms. At Manforte,
Spain, twenty deaths were recorded
up to the 11th. Spain and Switzerland
are enforcing the most rigid quarantine
regulations.
NAPLES is wrapped in cloud Of gloom,
so direful is the cholera scourge. The suf-
fering and misery among the poor is Ia
mentable in the extreme. People are dy-
ing by the hundreds daily, ami the num-
Der of new victims is increasing largely.
The King is doing all he can to alleviate
the suffering.
On the 11th public farewell was given
at Salem, Mass, to the twenty-five mis-
sionaries of the American Board who were
about departing for Turkey, Western Tur-
key, European Turkey, japan, Austria,
China and Africa.