The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-12-18

/ FRANCE viii put an Increased tariff
/ duty on imported cattle.
MEASLES and diphtheria are causing a
/ great many deaths in New York.
! THE Congo Conference committee has
accepted England's proposals regarding
the Niger.
AT Sharon, Pa, large iron mill re-
sumed operations on the 9th, and will run
/ during the winter.
LATEST reports state that ali negotia-
tions between France and China looking
! to a settlement are off again.
THE Monongahela Valley coal miners are
attempting to revive the strike which SO
signally failed few weeks ago.
AT Steinberg, Moravia, on the 9th, four
Anarchists were arrested, and large
amount of dynamite was found on their
premises.
THE French Government, for political
reasons, telegraphed Admiral Courbet and
! General Briere de Liste on the 9th to main
tain the defensive attitude until further or
ders.
THE Springer committee has received
from the Attorney General the correspond
ence on file in his Office relative to the en-
ployment of Deputy Marshals at the Ohio
election.
AT a meeting in New York the Directors
of the American Association of base ball
clubs suspended Tony Mullane, the con-
tract breaker, for the season of 1885, and
thereupon 0. p. Caylor offered the resigna-
tion of the Cincinnati Club, and gave no.
tice that they would apply for admission
into the National League.
On the 10th the National Association of
Health Boards met at Washington D. c.
AT Cork, Ireland, on the 10th, the police
seized a nlInbaT Of riflas and die
covered outside the city.
THE National Association of Trotting
Horse Breeders met in New York on the
10th.
AT meeting of the Western Nail Asso-
citation at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 10th, the
card rates We're reaffirmed.
On the 10th the Congo Conference dis
cussed the question of free navigation
on the Niger River. Mr.. Kasson, the
American delegate, presented neutrality
project.
THE cotton mills of Lehan, Abraham &
Co., at New Orleans, closed on the 10th on
account of the depression in trade.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, the machinery
molders have virtually accepted the fifteen
per cent. reduction ordered in wages.
THE coal miners strike in the Hooking
Valley seems practically ended, and the
old men are Offering to resume work.
THE House sub Committee on Pensions
has agreed to report appropriation of
SIC, 100000 for the next fiscal year.
On the 10th a San Francisco woman tried
to kill herself, but, failing, she put fatal
bullet into her husband. Cause, jealousy.
THE banking firm of Wilkinson Brothers,
Syracuse, n. Y, closed on the 10th, and
their affairs are in the hands of a receiver.
They were rated high, and the failure was
a surprise.
On the 10th the flint glass workers OF
Pittsburgh, Pa, struck against the twenty
per cent. reduction. Factories are running
with apprentices, who take the places of
journeymen.
AT Dayton, O., on the 10th monster
jaguar escaped from Barrett's circus. The
beast killed a great many cattle and hogs,
and the people turned out and killed it
after an exciting chase.
On the 10th the possession of the st.
Louis (Mo) Chamber of Commerce build
ing was surrNndered by the Chamber of
Commerce Association to the trustees of
the second mortgage bond-hoIders.
On the 11th an investigation of the al
legged Irregularities in the office of the
First Comptroller of the Treasury was be-
gun in Washington.
THREE of the notorious Welsh Noun
tain, or Buzzard gang of outlaws in
Pennsylvania, have been committed for
trial.
On the 11th twelve Nihilists were cap
tured in st. Petersburg, and important
documents were seized.
A sUBTERRANEAN passage leading to the
tax receivers Office was discovered at
Retchitza, Russia, on the 18th.
THE United States Supreme Court is
three years in arrears with its docket, and
relief legislation is to be pushed.
On the 11th, at the National Health Con-
ference in Washington, D. c., DR.. Camp
bell, of Richmond, Va, stated that the
death-roll among the colored population
was so large as to excite the pity and COM
miseration of the whole community. He
attributed it not to a constitutional Pc
culiarity, but to poverty.