The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-08-07
on the 8oth Dempsey defeated FulIjanes

On the 30th Dempsey defeated Fulljalnes
at New York in q twenty-five round battle.
AT Bradford, Pa, on the 30sh, striking
glass-workers gouged the eyes out of q
on-uniOn workman while he was at work.
AFFAIRS at Foo Chow, China, bear a
strained aspect, and it looks like war,
though one high in authority claims peace
will be maintained.
A DOUBLE affiiction rests upon Russia.
A mild form of cholera has appeared at
st. Petersburg and other places, and at
Pieskoff the Siberian plague is spreading.
In Chicago a campaign has been opened
up against the Specialist" doctors, and
thirteen have been indicted upon a charge
of practicing medicine without license.
THE Surgeon General has ordered that
steps be taken at once to prevent the in
PRODUCTION of yellow fever to this country
from Sonora, Mexico, where it is spread.
ing.
AT London on the 3Oth, meeting pre-
sided over by John Morley, characterized,
in a resolution. the habitual disregard of
the House of Lords to the will of the Ma
tion as factious and unpatriotic.
TwENTY-FoUR deaths from cholera oc-
Cured at Marseilles and eight at Aries
during the twenty-four hours ended at 8
o. m. on the Both. The record of cholera
cases III the HOSp plbdl al 4Ou4Ou WdSs
Admissions, seventy -four; discharged,
eleven; deaths, four; under treatment
1877.
The Catholic Total Abstinence Union of
America will hold it's fourteenth annual
convention in Chicago August 9Th and 7th,
and it promises to be an important gath
ering. Over 200 delegates will be in at
tendance.
THE bricklayers' strike in New|Yor has
been practically successful, there being on
the 3)th only 1S4 of the Union men out.
Two large jobs have been taken from boss
masons and placed III the hands of the
general good committee for completion.
On the 30th the Westinghouse Air Brake
Company, of Pittsburgh, Pa, notified two
hundred and fifteen of their employees that
their services would not be required longer
than August I'd. The Wholesale discharge
! is attributed to dullness of trade.
| On the 3Otb the Michigan Car Works, of
Detroit, Mich, very large concern, an
nounced that they would shut down Au-
| gust ID, on account of slackness in orders.
They will start again whenever a business
revival warrants.
Two mills of the Lewiston (Me.) cor
poration have shut down until september
1, on account of over production. They en-
ploy 800 hands.
AN organized effort was made to take
the murderer, Rollins from the Albemarle
Jail at Charleston, Va, but the citizens
and military being warned, prevented the
proposed lynching.
| A GERMAN Socialists secret conclave at
Chemnitz was broken up by the police on
the 31st. Liebknecht, who presided, got
orders to leave town Immediately.
! IT is estimated that the cholera has
caused a decrease of eight per cent. in
/ tourist traffic from England to the Conti-
nent. Scotland gets the tourists now.
IT is said the Vatican will recall it's dele
gate from Buenos Ayres if the Argentine
| Government dismisses Father Clara for
his letter against American schoolmis-
! tresses.
For the fiscal year just closed the total
value of exports was S740,513 so, falling
off of $50, ,325, ,s42 compared with the pre-
vious year. The imports of merchandise
were valued at $667, ia ,563, a falling off of
! $55, ,466,351.
/ AT Marseilles a prejudice has arisen
among the lower classes against the physi-
clans, there being an opinion that the
! doctors help cholera to rid the town of
| surplus inhabitants.
| THE decrease of the public debt for July
\ is estimated at about s., 100000.
| ON the 0lSG the treasury department
purchased 100000 ounces of silver for de-
/ livery at the New Orleans and Philadel-
| phia Mints.
| AT Shanghai, on the 51st, it was reported
| that France and China had made treaty
| of peace, China to pay France an in
demnity of 100000 taeIs, about $780,
| OO1
ADvICEs from Mozambique state that
| the British bark Sarah Hobart was de-
| tanned there and her cargo seized, on the
| pretense of violated customs regulations.
/ The people were indignant at the arbitrary
! proceedings.
/ a MODEST donor, who hides his name,
/ presented the English Wesleyan Confer
ence with a theological library of 10000
volumes. The membership of the Wesleyan
/ body was increased during the past year
/ Inv 2 600