The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-05-08
a BAND of insurgents in cuba has been

a BAND OF insurgents IN CUBA mas Deen
defeated and twelve men captured.
ABBOTT, the Watertown bank cashier,
has been held to bail in the sum of $4,000.
DURING 1888 the increase of the sale of
public lands over the preceding year was
as follows: Number Of entries, IS, ,S81; acre
age, 10,92S, ,927; cash received, 50, 81, ,430.
TIE transactions on the New York stock
board on the 30th reached 900 shares.
On the Both S. F. DonnelIy, a reporter
for the New York SUM- died Of injuries re-
ceived at a fire.
IN the South African diamond mines the
police killed several persons in suppress
ing the recent labor riots.
The Mexican Central Railroad directors
left Chicago on the Both to attend the for
NAL opening of their line.
THE manufacturers of galvanized iron
are forming a National Association to CON
troll prices and production.
RECENT advices from Berber are to the
effect tha. the town Is surrounded, the gar.
rison demoralized and retreat impossible.
on the Both a colored convention met at
Louisville. Ky, and appointed delegates
TO the National CoIored Convention at
Richmond
IT is reported that the oldest bank in
Mexico closed its doors on the Goth, the
Government having made a peremptory
demand upon it for sum of money be-
yond its immediate cash assets.
On the Union Pacific Railroad salaries
have been reduced from ten to fifteen per
cent. All officers and employees, except
engineers and tiremen are included.
A NUMBER of dynamite cartridges were
found on the 30th in the Parliament build
ings al Toronto, Ont. They were provided
with fuses in readiness for the match.
on the 1st another dvnamiter was arrest
ed near Birmingham, Eng.
THE eamship Thetis, flagship of the
I Greedy expedition, sailed from New York
on the 1st.
ENGLAND's proposal for a conference on
/ Egyptian affairs has been accepted by
/ France.
| THE British Government WI introduce a
/ bin creating Minister .or Scotland.
1 THE Toronto tOnt.) dynamite scare is
/ thought to be the result of practical joke.
| TIE telegraph wires and a railroad
/ bridge were destroyed by insurgents at
( Corona, Spain, on the 1st.
THE employees of the Union Pacific Rail
road threaten a strike if the proposed re-
duction OF wages is enforced.
On the 1st tre Pennsylvania Railroad
declared its seni-annual dividend OF four
per cent.
THE blizzard which swept through the
Yellowstone Valley April % and 30 was
very destructive To stock, in some herds
amounting to a loss of ten per cent.
TIE public debt on the 1st, less cash in
the Treasury, was SI,4Gl,03J ,733; decrease
during April, -, ,231,O75; decrease since
June 80, 1881, SS,, ,UG4, ,752.
/ For April the coinage of the mints was
! a, $40, ,IOI, of which S2,3J0,0O) were standard
dollars.
1 OK the 1st the Treasury purchased 3)0,-
/ 600 ounces of silver for delivery at the va
/ rious mntS.
I ARRANGEMENTS have been made by the
I United States Treasurer to forward frac-
/ tional silver coin to any part OF the coun-
try in sums of 500, or any multiple there
/ Of, at the expense of the Government
4 For several days extensive forest fires
i have been raging along the Erie Railroad
/ in Mexican and Cameron Counties, Penn.
I sylvania.
A REDUCTION in the output of New En-
! gland mills has been iuaugurated by the
Lowell companies, who now shut down
Saturdays, beginning on the 81. OF the
. S,O0O,l o. cotton spindles in the New En-
gland States, from 3,0O),00O to 100000
have agreed to reduce production.
\ GOLD excitement has broken out in
. Kaladar Township, for5y miles from
I Kingston, Canada.
THE Chinese Ambassador at Berlin left
that clty for Paris to negotiate with Prime
| Minister Ferry.
I EXTENSIVE frauds are reported by the
Interior Department in the methods of ac
quiring title to public lands by certain for
. eigu corporations.
COMPLAINTS are made by the Spanish
4 Government that the French authorities
are not sufficiently vigilant in the super
| vision of insurgents on the frontier.
CIRCULARS are to be sent out by the Sen
ate Committee on Patents to persons prom
inently Interested in patented articles, ask
ing information as to needed legislation.
THE consideration of the river and har
Dor bill in committee is about concluded
] The amount recommended viii be between
SD --Ml- O 10 aud NIE 600 600