The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-01-31

Trade, which met in Washington on the
23d, will ask Congress to pass the Lowell
bankruptcy bill, the Interstate commerce
bill and various amendments to the ship
ping laws, and to establish a bureau of
commerce.
On the 23d young Mutt was declared
sane and was set at liberty.
VIOLENT tempests have recently
swept over Great Britain, doing mgch dam
age.
SINCE 1889 the Government has spent
S1Oj, 797 ,401 on rivers and harbors.
Il the indianapolis Jail smallpox is
epidemic, fifteen cases having developed
UP to the 23d.
The First National Bank of Lead
vile, Col, is reported TO have made very
bad failure.
as soon as the storm moderates n
diver viii be set at work searching the
wreck of the City of Columbus.
THE snow blockade in Canada IS so
complete that provisions can not be sent
into some of the timber districts.
On the 23d the Pennsylvania Express
Company of Baltimore, Md, filed certifi-
cate of Incorporation; capital, S10,OOO,OOO.
A TEST case has been made to deter
III ne ILl5 AlBLG VI ItJSlItidSb0Ao W 4CCS OA
monev-order business done by clerks.
IT is announced that China will insist
on the fuIfIlment of treaty stipulations,
and England has agreed to protect her
Chusan dependencies.
The Underwriters of Chicago will
contest the right of the city to collect two
per cent. tax on the net premium receipts
of foreign companies doing business in the
city.
SIX arrests have been made by the
Chicago police of persons charged with
completely in the death of Amelia Olsen,
the young girl found murdered in the
suburbs. One is a rejected suitOr.
THE conference of American Bishops,
Cardinal Simeoni declares, was an honor
to the church and their country. No con-
ference ever exhibited more serenity and
unanimity.
On the 23d George A. Wheeler was
executed at San Francisco, Cal, for the
murder of his sister-in-law in 1899,
On the Path the De Long escort left
Moscow for st. Petersburg.
The steamer Germanic reached Ire
land under sail on the 2lth.
A FORMAL demand has been made on
Turkey by Russia for the payment of 952O,-
OcO indemnity still due.
IT is again reported at Khartoum that
a part OF Hicks Pasha's army is encamped
near Lake Rohad.
FURTHER riotOus demonstrations Oc-
Cured on the oath at Alliance, o., by the
unpaid Italian railroad hands.
THE conduct of the British Ministry
| in abandoning the Soudan is declared by
! Sir Samuel Baker to be a national humilia-
! tion.
DAKOTA farmers will shortly hold a
/ convention to consider their grievances
against railroads and elevators.
The Pittsburgh manufacturers are
| said to be making overtures to the glass
/ blowers, Nho have been on strike six
months.
A SUIT for damages against a Lieu
/ tenant in the navy has been decided in ia
vor of two men who were injured in care
less target practice at the Boston Navy
Yard.
THE bill for the eXtirPation of dis
eases among cattle will be reported to Con
gress with a proviso for an appropriation
of $3.50, 900, States being required to con
tribute a sum equal to that apportioned
them.
THE Government Commissioners OF
the Union Pacific Railroad, in their report
express the hope that all the Missouri Riv'
er lines will subscribe to the tripartite
agreement. 1t sets forth that the Novem
Der surplus was greater than that of No
vember, 1882, and that the history of the
road justifies the policy Of liberal land
grants. A plan is suggested to extinguisf
the debt by semi-annual payments of 6
| fixed sum.
THE Coroner's jury in the case of Mr.
and Mrs. Bonecker, murdered recently
near st. Louis, Mo, returned a verdict OF
the oath that deceased came to their death;
at the hands of some person or persons un
known. The authorities have a clue
though slight, which it is thought may lead
to the capture of the murderer.