The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-27

On the 18th the workmen of the BranfOrd
Lock, at Branford, Conn, 325 in number,
struck against a reduction of ten per cent.
in wages and the cutting off of one hour
from the days work.
A COUPLE of German citizens of Wheel
ing, W. Va, made bet on the election
that, no matter what the result, the one
was to wheel the other through the street.
The terms were carried out on the 18th,
and there was a great procession, and the
fun over the incident was unbounded
AT Shrewsbury, Mass, fragments of the
head of a mastodon have been unearthed.
On the 18th the Elba Iron Works at Pitts
burgh, Pa, which have been idle for some
time, resumed operations.
On the 18th fifty soldiers in the garrison
at Olmitz, Moravia, were arrested on ac-
count of being connected with a Socialistic
organization. Many seditious documents
were found in their boxes.
REINFoRCENIENTs are to be sent to the
British squadron in Chinese waters
THE Metropolitan National Bank of New
York will 60 into liquidation.
BY the shutting down of an iron mill at
Sharon, Pa, five hundred men are out of
employment.
THE New York Chamber of Commerce.
had its one hundred and sixteenth annual
banquet ON the evening of the 18th.
A FRENCH transport will sail for New
York in May next with Bartholdi's statue
OF Liberty Enlightening the World. -
THE Brandford (Conn.) Lock Works
strike ended on the 18th by the company
resembling the order reducing the wages
and working time
THE protocol Of the treaty of reciprocity
Of trade between the United States and
the Spanish West Indies was formally
signed at Madrid ON the 18th. 1t only re-
mains now for the United States to rati-
fy it.
THE Latin Monetary Union conference in
Paris has been postponed till the 18th of
January, 1885.
Forty THREE persons engaged in the re-
cent anti-Jewish riots, were sentenced to
various terms of Imprisonment at Pesth,
Hungary, ON the 18th.
GREAT excitement prevails in the city
of Mexico over the English debt question.
The crowd yelled death to Gonzales, .
the outgoing President, and were fired
upon by the soldiers. Five persons were
killed.
THE annual session of the American
Woman's Suffrage Association began in
Chicago ON the 18th.
FOURTEEN deaths from cholera were re-
ported in Paris for the twenty -four hours
ended the evening OF the 18th.
WIDESPREAD sickness is said to prevail
in New Hampshire attributable to the long
drought with which the State has been af-
licted.
THE American Humane Society began
its eighth annual convention at Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the 18th.
EIGHT cases of smallpox of a mild type
are reported 20 have occurred among the
British troops at Dongola.
In portions of Pennsylvania loathsome
disease known as 'black-leg" is said to
have broken out among young cattle.
THE Philadelphia ingram carpet weavers
were notified of proposed reduction of
wages on the 10th. Ii viii affect % 600
people. By the reduction expert weavers
win only be able TO earn twelve dollars per
week.
THE British House Of Commons rejected
the Irish compensation and Improvement
bills.
PRoF. FELIX ADLER laid the corner
stone Of the crematory temple at Green
point, L. l., on the 10th in Mount Olivet
Cemetery. A number OF bodies already
await cremation.
IT is said that Portugal proposes to
maintain her territorial rights at the
mouth of the Congo River, but win accept
the principle OF free trade on the whole
river.
THE United States supreme Court re-
fused to consider an important insurance
case appealed from the Virginia courts, ON
the ground thatit had no jurisdiction, on
account OF the peculiar points involved,
when Richmond was evacuated,