The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-07-17

THE Secretary of the Interior has con-
sented to suspend the sale OF lands within
the grant in what is known as the Gulf
and Ship Island case of Louisiana, as set
tiers have compiled with requirements Of
the department..
IT is asserted by the Spanish Minister at
Washington that the reports afoat of the
proposed sale or transfer of Cuba by the
Spanish Government are untruthful and
absurd.
A BATTALION of French marines from
Tonquin has landed in Madagascar.
The Baltimore g. Ohio Company has
purchased the Pittsburgh, Cleveland g.
Toledo Road.
EFFORTS are being made by the window
glass workers to unite the European Asso-
citation with the American.
The coal miners of Plum Creek and
Sandy Greek, Pennsylvania, deci led to
demand three cents per bushel for mining.
FRANCE and Portugal are reported as
having concluded q secret treaty against
China.
AT Palu, Austria, man was arrested
on the 9th charged with being implicated
in plot against the Emperor.
THERE were five deaths from cholera at
Toulon between a. m. and p. N. on the
9th, and fourteen deaths at Narseilles be-
tween noon and midnight.
AN advance payment of 1888, ,333 has
been made by the Secretary of the Treas
ury to the President of the Worlds Expo
sition at New Orleans.
On the 95h the National Colored Press
Association in session at Richmond, Va,
issued an address to the country, congrat-
ulating the cOlored race on its progress.
In the City of Mexico the Government
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tee met and determined that they should
receive stated sums from individual mer-
chants instead of the stamp taxes.
THE Seventh Infantry, stationed at FIT.
Lewis, will attend to the settlement of the
difficulties announced between the whites
and Southern Ute Indians in Eastern
Utah.
On the 10th two cases of cholera were re-
ported in Pennsylvania.
The rumor that Russell Sage is about to
retire from business is denied by Cyrus
w. Field.
TWENTY SIX deaths from cholera were
reported at Marseilles on the 10Th.
AT Cleveland, ,on the 10th, Maud s. trotted
a mile in 2:12't while exercising.
ON the 10Th the Supreme Temple of the
United States Patriarchal Circle met at
Columbus, o., with two thousand members
present.
In Dublin a fund is being raised to pay
the expenses of e litor O'Brien in the re-
cent libel suit.
AT its session in Boston on the 10th the
National Association Of Commercial Trav-
elers elected Thomas A. Young President,
aud 1. r. Trask, of St. Louis, Mo-, Vice
Pres dent.
THE Canadians defeated the American
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by score of 6 to /.
ON the 10th the German Bundesrath ad-
iourned, but will soon be reconvened to
consider cholera matters.
ADMIRAL COURBET telegraphed to Paris
on the 10th that he had occupied town on
the Chinese coast.
AT Shoe Sing Flu, China, a rebellion
against the Tartar dynasty has broken
out, and rebels are in possession of the
city.
TIE cotton report of the Agricultural
! Department shows that the general aver
age condition of the cotton crop is one
point higher than when the last report was
made. The corn and wheat reports are
also favorable.
w. r. MCGILL, late President of the
Cincinnati & Eastern Road, is now said
to have committed suicide, instead of ac-
| cidentally falling from the door of the
baggage car. He is said to have raised
money fraudulently and was embarrassed.
The British Parliament will soon be
prorOgued, but will meet again in October,
when it is thought franchise bill will be
prepared that will prove moro acceptable
| TO the House Of Lords.
THE San Francisco CaU processes to
| have information that China has collected
money from Chinese in the United States
amounting to $500, 900 to aid in making wal
on France, aud that the conflict will soon
| commence; also that Germany and Chine
/ have an understanding with each other.
In the House of Commons on the 10th the
! Chief Secretary of Ireland announced that
persons recently charged with crimes il
| Dublin would be prosecuted; whereupoT
the Parnellites created confusion by plying
/ questions.