The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-25

On the 18th the New York State Liquor
Dealers Association met at Syracuse.
They had street parade.
A MARKED decrease was reported in the
number Of fresh cases of cholera at Naples
on the 18th. as well as deaths, although
the mortality was still heavy.
THE Army of the Cumberland reunion
commenced at Rochester, N. Y, on the
I7th. General Sheridan was present, and
held a reception
A FORCE of two thousand French troops
landed recently at Kapal and attacked
and defeated the Chinese, who retreated
after heavy loss.
DURING the month of August the total
value of domestic breadstuffs exported
was SIG, ,455, $50; during the same month of
1888, ls,s75, ,276.
ON the 18th two hundred Iowa saloon.
keepers held a meeting at Council Bluffs
and organized an anti-Prohibition Asso
citation.
NOTICE was posted on the 18th by the
Cambria Iron Company at Johnstown,
Pa, employing 5000 men, reducing the
wages from ten to twenty per cent, owing
to the depression of trade.
THE Order OF Cincinnatus at Cincinnati
held its second pageant on the night of the
18th, which attracted large number of
visitors to that city. The floats, twenty
five in number, represented scenes from
Shakespeare's plays.
THE New York Journal of Commerce has
reports from cloth mills showing that
owing to dullness of trade the lessening OF
production will amount to 1900, 900 yards,
or 100000 suits of mems clothing.
OF 5000 men usually employed when the
mines are in operation In the PennsyI.
vania pools, according to estimate not
more than 200 are now at work, owing tc
the strike. The strikers have ''tin-pan
BRIGADE" which has been organized to
serenade the non-union men.
1T is not pleasant pastime for a Gear
or Emperor to travel in Europe. The
route over which the Emperors returned
home from Warsaw was examined tc
guard against dynamite, and all the EN-.
ployes of the line were required to swear
allegiance before the trains moved.
For the fiscal year just closed the total
earnings of the Northern Pacific Road
were $i2,6O3,575
A NUMBER of leading Liverpool firms
are thought to be in a shaky condition
owing to the low prices of cotton, corn
provisions and sugar.
AN application was made on the 18Th
for the appointment of a receiver for the
pany.
AT Viadivostok, Russia, an American
schooner was seized recently, for having
| contraband goods on board; and an En-
glish schooner was also seized for illegal
hunting.
A CALL has been issued by the Hi
nois State Board of Agriculture for a
National Convention of those interested
| in the breeding and management of the
various classes of stock, to be held al
Chicago, November IS, 1884.
GREAT dissatisfaction is caused by tn,
new education bill in Belgium. A multi
! tude gathered in front of the royal palact
on the 18th, hooted at the King and shout
ed ''Vive la Republique."
| FROM a fugitive from DongoIa it il
learned that General Stewart had sacked
and Lu-ned Berber.
| On the is h warrant was issued at the
| Treasury Department. for $I66,666 in favo
| of the directors of the New Orleans Cot
ton Exposition, it being the second install
ment under the law loaning the Exposition
one million dollars. The first installmen
was 1888, 1888.
TEN deaths from cholera were reportet
on the 18th in the Department of tn
! Pyrennes Orie ntales, and ten at Mar
! seilles.
OFFICIALS in the State Department sa.
that the reported dispute about the Mex
can boundary line can not lead to seriou
trouble. The stones marking the bound
\ ary have been destroyed at some point
and will be replaced, and the boundary re
established without trouble or dispute.
A DISPATCH from Paris says La Repul
Iique FrGRcdtse, which has been an out
and-out free trade organ ever since it
/
views, and declares that the increasin
supply of American food in the Frenc
market is running the peasantry of France
THE officers of the steamer Kansas, q
Boston from Liverpool, reports that o
September 14th, in latitude 47.37, longitud
1885, she passed three large patches c
floating ice, and on the same day, in lat
tude 46.3 33, longitude 52.4o, she passed tw
large icebergs about 10) feet high.