The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-08-14

AN agreement has been made by Eng
land and Holland to wipe out the Rajah of
Tenom if he still refuses to release the
crew of the steamer Nisero.
On the 9Th the Amalgamated Associa-
ton of Iron and Steel Workers, at their
meeting in Pittsburgh, Pa, indorsed John
Jarrett for Chief of the Bureau of Labor
Statistics.
DURING the past fiscal year the total ex-
ports of petroleum from the United States
aggregated in value SAT, 1882
COMPTROLLER CANNON has authorized
the First National Bank of Cheboygan,
Mich, to begin business with capital Of
1000.
On the 9th W. 7. Colley, clerk in the
Internal Revenue Bureau, was dismissed
and arrested on charges growing out of
his disposition of forty ten cent Treasury
Department stamps, called in as no longer
available for postage and given by him to
another man, who sold them to merchants
at their face value.
ORDERS have been issued from the Navy
| Department directing Rear Admiral John
/ Lee David, commanding the Asia5ic squad
ron, to take whatever precautions may he
/ necessary to protect American. citizens in
/ the event of an outbreak of hOstilities be-
] tween France and China. The dispatch
! instructs the Rear Admiral to regard as in
/ full force and to strictly carry out the in
( structions on the subject issued by the Sec
retary of the Navy when hostiiities were
/ first threatened some months ago.
! SECRETARY LINCOLN is reported to have
| decided upon the promotion of the surviv-
ors OF the Greely party. Steward Bledzr-
beck and Private Carroll, it is said, will be
made Sergeants, and Sergeants Brainard,
l nj ho A..
Lieusenants. Lieutenant Greely, it Is un-
derstood, has refused to accept the promo
tion to a Captaincy except through the or,
dnary course. He will be ordered tc
Washington about the first of November
and will be occupied for year or so with
his report
On the 7th nineteen lepers were Skipped
back to China from San Francisco.
AT Canton, China, strong war feeling
is said to prevail.
GREAT depression is complained of il
the iron industry at Pittsburgh, Pa.
On the 7th the General Christian Sunday
school Association held a session nea
Indianapolis, Ind.
THE British House of Commons was en-
gagged on the 7th in debate criticising TIA,
Governments action in the Egyptian Con
ference.
main, few miles southeast of Rome, Italy
. four earthquake shocks occurred on tn
7th.
THE Department of Agriculture esti
mates the wheat crop for this year at 4S5
+ OOO, 600 bushels.
THE Brussels firemen turned the hose o
a bowling mob in front of the chamber
wherein the Belgian Parliament was i
session on the 7th. Religious trouble wa
, feared.
+ PooL-sELLING was stopped by the La,
and Order Association at the Buffalo race
Z on the 7th.
: THE Petersburg (Va.) Grand Jury foun
. presentments against the officers of th
Planters and Mechanics Bank.
= THE examiners report with regard I
\ the New Orleans Post-office looks bad fl
p. the officials a the Crescent City.
+ AT its session at Chicago on the 7th tt
q Catholic Total Abstinence Union declare
"a in favor of legal restrictions upon II
liquor traffic.
= THERE were five deaths from cholera
n MarseilIes during the twentY-four hDul
a ending at p. m. on the 7th. Five dea5l
o occurre at Aries and six at TOulon. III
record of the hospi al at Toulon was: A
r missions, 7; discharged, 10; deaths, L; u
to der treatment, 81.
IN THE Department OF Herault is being ra
rs aged by cholera, especially the Commur
" Gigean, where there are 1000 inhab tani
le Seven persons died there during the TIVE
w ty-iour hours ended the evening of t
Z n, and eighteen cases were under tire;
lg ment.
The customs authorities of MOntre
"a made an extensive seizure of sponges il
ported from New York on the 7th and {
q. tered at undervaluation.
t. On the 7th the acting Secretary of t
j. Interior declined to grant the motion
n. behalf of homestead claimants for recC
50 sideration of the decision in the Eure
Or Springs (Ark-) case.
ar THE Treasury Department. on the
q purchased $40, 900 ounces of silver, for
ar livery at the FhIadelphla ana Ne"
tie leans mints.