The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-01-10

On the 1st the National debt less cash
in Treasury was s., ,49s, ,O4l, 723. The actual
reduction for December was S11, ,743, 1897.
For the third time VIM. McHugh,
the Cincinnati wife-murderer, has been
convicted of murder in the first degree.
SUIT has been brought by man whose
eye was put out by cinder falling from
the Manhattan Elevated Railway for S5O,-
600 damages.
An election will be held i,I Massachu-
setts on the 18th for Congressman, to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation OF
Governor Robinson.
THE Court of Appeals of St. Louis,
Mo-, declines to interfere to save Kate
Douglas from hanging. Tho judgment in
the case of Conrad Rose, however, is re-
versed and a new trial ordered.
OK the I'd the Sullivan combination
became cmbroiled in a free fight at Denver,
Col. Sullivan was run ont of a hotel by the
proprietor, who fIourished a revolver. One
policeman was knocked out and all the slug
gers were finally jailed.
In his report the SECRETARY of the
the American Iron and Steel Association
says shrinkage for the year in prices was
four dollars on No. 1 anthracite pig-iron,
three dollars on gray forge pig-iron and
five dollars on steel rails. 1t is thought the
bottom has been reached.
TIE surrender of the last band of
Apaches from Sonora is said to have had
an excellent effect on the mining interests
Of Arizona and New Mexico. a feeling of
greater security prevails and capital is be-
ing freely invested.
Two more torpedo boats have been
ordered by the Chinese Government from
Germany.
TIE earnings of the Denver & Rio
Grande Read for the PAST year show an in
crease Of II ,O3S,00O.
FROM one to three deaths daily from
cholera still occur in Cairo, Egypt.
The fire losses for the United States
in the year past aggrega ed S1O3,Oo), ,OOl
TIE New Jersey wife and child muir
derer, Martin, was hanged On the Sd at
Newark.
On the Sd five moro victims of the
Toronto railroad disaster died, making
twenty-eight in all.
IT is said the ROthschilds are negO-
tating for the purchase of tho French Gov
ernment railways.
THE Democratic Editorial Association
of Indiana held its annual meeting at Indi-
annapolis on the Sd.
The delegate convention of Pennsyl-
vania coal miners commenced its session at
Pittsburgh on the 81 for purposes of organ
ization.
IT is reported that Baker Pasha is
trying to open line of retreat for the gar
rison of Khartoum, and that FL Mahdi is
gaining ground.
CURRIEN, the Alsatian who wanted
to shoot the French Prime Minister Ferry,
has been sentenced to three months i'm
prisOnmCnt.
Ir is estimated by the Director of the
Mint that etween five and six million trade
dollars are in the hands of the people at
4 large.
The nail-workers throughout the
country are trying to arrange it so that
| hereafter the mills can be kept going in
winter and shut down in hot weather.
/ In Canada measures are being taken
/ to induce the Canadian Pacific Road to
make Halifax, N. s., its winter port in
stead of Portland, Me.
! For 1888 the gross earnings of the
I Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain Rail
ways was S1710i,4it; net earnings ST9)2,-
/ @4l; net profits after payment of fixed
/ charges, S4,2l3, ,7O3.
THE appropriation bills have been as
/ signed by Congressman Randall to sub,
| committees for preparation. An effort will
/ be made to report all the bills before the
/ 1st of May.
ONLY three out of 10 English Lib
/ eral members of Parliament whose opinions
have been obtained are opposed to giving
Ireland the same rights and privileges as
| enjoyed by England.
On the Sd, at a meeting at the Grand
! Hotel, San Francisco, Cal, to make ar.
rangements for holding a Worlds Fair il
that city in 1887, it was resolved to provide
a guarantee fund of a million dollars; when
obtained to petition Congress and the State
Legislature for appropriations. The feel
ing was strongly in favor of carrying the
project through. The meeting represented
! tbroe bundrad million dollars