The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-06

A DENIAL was made on the Both of the
report that the window-glass factories of
Pittsburgh, Pa, would suspend in jan
uary.
AT the recent Berlin elections the Pro-
gressists were badly disappointed.
ADMIRAL CoURBET's forces in Chinese
waters have been attacked with cholera.
IN many portions of Nebraska a water
famine is threatened on account of the
long continued drought.
1T is reported that yellow fever has
again broken out on the west coast of Mex
leo.
THE Association for the Advancement of
Women began a three days session of its
twelfth annual congress in Baltimore, Md,
on the 29th.
OSHKOSH, Wis, celebrated on the Doth
the complication of a system of water
works within her limits.
The Commission appointed by Congress
to inquire into the South American trade
was in session at Baltimore, Nd, on the
18th. The opinion was expressed that the
surest way to secure South American busi
ness was to subsidize steamship lines, as
England does.
SERIOUS distress has been occasioned
among the operatives by the shutting down
of the mills at Lewiston, Me.
The capacity of the Russian oil fields of
Bakoo, on the Caspian Sea, is estimated at
46,0O0,00O tons of crude oil annually. One
well is reported as producing 5000 barrels
a day.
GOVERNOR BUM reports the funded debt
of Idaho as 500, POS, and the Territory as
now having a population of $4,000. The
output of mineral wealth during the last
fiscal year was about 100000.
DETROIT, Mich, has been selected as the
place for the North American Bee keepers
Association to hold its next annual meeting.
The United States and Great Britain are
engaged in negotiations with view to es-
tablishing improved commercial relations
between America and the British West In
dia colonies.
THE mileage of the Grand Trunk Rail
way has increased from ], 200 to 2,40O miles
within year.
On the 3Oth one thousand Chinese left
| San Francisco for their native country,
taking 5000 in coin with them.
AN agitation is in progress in Paris
against the high price of bread. Bakers
refused to make reduction.
THE assertion is made by LIE Temps, one
of the leading journals of Paris, that
England is preparing to annex the whole
coast of the Red Sea to Egypt.
AT Angus, Ia, the coal miners struck on
the 30th for an advance of one-half cent a
bushel.
THE total number of visitors to the
Health Exposition at London, which
closed the evening of the 50th, was 4, ,167,-
| 6S1.
In Philadelphia, Pa, Mrs. Johanna Nc
Cord, at one time in aff1uent circumstances,
literally starved to death recently.
On the evening of the 29th Linden Cook,
for over half century identified with the
manufacturing interests of Fall River,
Mass, fell dead on the door step of his
residence in that city. He was seventy
three years of age.
On the 30th the American Oriental So
ciety held its annual meeting at Baltimore,
Md, Prof. W. D. Whitney, of New Haven,
Conn.,, presiding.
AT its annual session at Columbus the
Ohio State Dental Association concluded
to disband ON account of internal dissen-
sion.
OK the Both the Executive Committee OF
the Southwestern Railway Association de-
cided that the Missouri Pacific was not tc
/ be recognized as Chicago Road since it is
! no longer in the Wabash combination.
| THE students of Kings College at Hall
/ fax, N. S., have rebelled and demand the
retirement of the President and several
/ professors.
! The Paris TeIegrapbeNr is authority foI
the statement that Ferry has accepted En-
! glands offer to mediate between France
and Germany.
! CHOLERA is reported to have appeared
/ in the Lower Seine region of France, and
| Italy has established quarantine against
all ports from Dieppe to Cherbourg.
1T is announced that Commissioner
| General Morehead, now in Canada, in the
/ interest of the Worlds Exposition at New
/ Orleans, has received official advices thai
| Parliament, with only two dissenting
votes, appropriates 5000 for the Dominion
exhibit at the New Orleans Exposition.
On the Both the German cOTvSttes Bis
marck, Gneisenan, Olga and Ariadnt
sailed for West Africa. The Bismarck is
I tho fIau-sbir 0fstba souadrOn