The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-20

THE total estimated yield of the potato
crop this year win exceed 1900 600 bush
els.
1T is said that some of the best corn
raised this year comes from what was
S-rmerly known as the great American
desert, in the vicinity of the hundredth
meridian.
THE French army in Tonquin is said to
be in perilous position. Skirmishes are
constantly occurring.
THERE were forty-three deaths from
cholera in Paris during the twenty -four
hours ended the evening of the 18th. Two
deaths in Toulon and several fresh cases
reported.
on the United States coasts there are
722 lighthouses, and there are 1,O19 NOV
able river lights in operation.
THE Dominion Government has declined
to aid Canadians in making exhibits at the
New Orleans Exposition.
THE report of the French Minister of
Agriculture on the harvest returns for the
year shows the following yield: Wheat,
III, ,141 s45 hectolitres, against 1O3. 753 426 in
1888. Rye, 25,4S7, 600 hectolitres, against
"a, ,S42, ,652 in 1888.
A DEFICIENCY estimate has been issued
by the British Government with reference
W lAAC CDob VI tAAG MIG GA pGulbiOus ne
army win require E1 100000 more than was
previously estimated, the navy G324, 900.
For the Bechuana expedition the Govern
ment estimates that E675, 900 will be re-
quired by the army, and G5O,OOO by the
navy.
On the 18th the corporation of the city
of Limerick, by an overwhelming ma jority,
refused to pay any attention to the second
writ for extra police tax. They also passed
a resolution denOuncing the Government
for the appointment of George Bolton as
Crown Solicitor of Ireland.
THE British War Office has ordered the
formation of an irregular mounted force of
five hundred men, for ITice in Bechuana-
| land, South Africa.
On the 18th an earthquake shock was
felt in New Hampshire.
FIFTY EIGHT deaths were reported from
cholera in Paris during the twenty four
hours ended the evening of the 18th.
In the year 1885 the charters of 731 Ma
tional banks with an aggregate capital of
over $3.50, 100000 will expire.
! THE Government of Switzerlnd has pro-
hibited railway cars from Paris crossing
the frontier on account of the cholera.
! On the 18th the British House of Com
mons passed the deficiency bill appropriate
/
/ Nile expedition.
THE Governor of Montana reports the
population of that Territory as having in
creased 1900 during the past year.
AT Buenos Ayres, in South America, an
/ other case of cholera had occurred.
! Strictest quarantine is being observed at
that port against all vessels coming from
/ France
AT its session at Chicago on the 18th, the
! American Racing Association ordered that
hereafter no book-maker be allowed to
start or enter horse.
] On the 18th the second annual conven-
tion of American Stockmen met at Chi
cago.
THE announcement is made by the Brit
ish Consulate at New York that an Interna
| tional Inventions Exhibition will be held at
London in 1885. 1t promises to be an
event of great interest.
! THE Secretary of the Treasury on the 18th
| received a petition from a number Oi
prominent physicians asking him to see
that old rags coming from foreign coun-
tries are thoroughly disinfected be-
fore being received at United States
ports.
l. ON the night of the 18th Governor st.
John and c. M. Stone editor of the Johns
bury CaIedoRian, and candidate for Cover.
] nOI on inc lAlNleAlStlSt6ub bACh6G, were uuL1S
in effigy from a telegraph pole at st
Johnsbury, vt.
THE Mudir of Dongola in late dispatch
states that one of Ell Mahdi's chief ieuten.
ants is marching against DOngola with 12,-
600 men, and another with 1900 men i!
advancing on the Kabbabish tribe.
On the 18th the Treasury Department
! purchased 10000 ounces of silver for de
livery at the New Orleans and Philadel
phia mints.
On the 18th Governor Cleveland trans
mitted to the New York State Board o.
| Health communication from the Nation
al Board of Health on the subject of chOl
era. Immediately on its receipt the Stat,
Board of Health apprised the local health
officers that the rapid advance of the chOl'
era in Europe threatens an invasion in this
country, and asking the establishment anC
/ enforcement of quarantine,