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

A NEW bill to prevent the sale Of
oleomargarine as butter has been passed
by the New York Legislature.
OK the Goth troops were caIed out
to quell riot caused by striking iron-work-
ers at Pestb.
A GANBLING-HOUsE was raided in
Paris on the s6th and twenty-six ladies
were caught playing baccarat.
The Pennsylvania Railroad officers
have promised liberal cooperation with
Southern railroads next year in assisting
transportation to and from the Worlds
Exposition at New Orleans.
On the 26th the ice broke up at st.
Paul, Mimi, leaving the river clear for TIE
first time in many years at that date.
ADDITIONAL reports of damage to
life and property by the recent tornadoes
continue to come in from Ohio, Kentucky
and South Carolina.
On the 2Cti a dam connected with
the water works oE Newport, r. L, gave
way, and the water swept over Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe's estate, causing considerable
damage.
Oh the 26th, among the resolutions
adopted by the Inventors Convention at
Cincinnati, was one declaring that the
Patent Office should be made department
with Cabinet officer in charge.
REPORTS of numerous murders of
Christians by Moslems and of Moslems by
Christians come from various parts of
Crete.
ADvICEs from Tonquin state that a
Prince of the royal family of AMMAN has
been convicted Of promoting the massacre
of Christians and has been hanged.
On the 2Gth the President sent a mes
sage to Congress recommending appropri-
ations for the reconstruction of the navy.
THE authorities have re 'eased the sis
ter of Degareff, leader of the party which
/ assassinated Colonel Sudeikin, the Russian
Chief of Police, who was arrested some
days agO.
On the 27th Montreal was reported as
| expecting a flood.
| For eight months of the fiscal year
/ Internal revenue receipts fell off $ls,45 =
| 2GO.
A DESTRUCTIVE stO~m OF wind swept
/ over Denver, Col, on the 27th, blowing at
the rate OF fifty to sixtv-five miles an hour.
/ Many houses were unroofed and other dam
/ age done.
On the 27th in the ice breakup at
/ Bath, Me, fumes, lumber and mills were
badly damaged.
EFFORTS are in progress to reopen
communication with Upper Egypt by way
of the Nile.
ON the morning of the 27th the first
through train from the City OF Mexico ar
rived at Kansas City, No.
/ THE German Reichstag is pushing
right ahead with the bill appropriating
I9,0O0, 900 marks for torpedoes.
VrYr- W-n,,,oufg Cb,.iCfiou { Ton,
Union in Canada wants temperance teAt
books introduced in the public schools.
CITIZENS Of Cincinnati have been
/ holding mass meetings to abuse the jury
! for the light verdict in the Barner murder
/ case.
THERE are urgent calls for materials
/ for repairing levees from many points in
/ Louisiana, and the situation continues
critical.
SEVERAL Senators have recently
started for a pleasure trip to Florida, leav-
ing legislation to worry along without
them.
OFFICIAL reports ma e to the Reich
stag show that IN single small town q
| persons were affected with trichnosis last
year and sixty-six died.
TELEPHONE apparatus is now so per
feet that conversation between New ork
and Boston can be carried on in a whisper.
On the 27th dynamite bomb was
discovered by the Leipsic police in a crowd.
ed building. 1t was loaded, but didn't hap.
pen to go off.
A RESOLUTION was adopted in the
| National Guard Convention at Cincinnati
on the 27th, recommending the SlOcum mi
I,tia bill now before Congress-.
! THE HOuse Committee on R9nkiOo
and Currency meditates recommending a
change in the National Banking laws SC
that direc' ors may be held accountable foI
irregularities.
The River and Harbor bill will ap-
propriate about s5,OOJ,OOO for the Mi,ss-
sippi and tributaries, and about s$G ,O0O, ,OOC
for harbors on the lakes, gulf and ocean,
1 will be appropriated about April %.