The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-08-28

HE seventh annual session of the A. Ter
lean Bar Association began at Saratoga,
n. Y, on the 2Oth. President Cortland
Parker delivered the opening address.
IMPROVEMENT in the trade has decided
the coke producers to carry on operations
as usual in Pennsylvania
THE flag of the German Empire has been
hoisted over the territory south of Congo,
in Africa, which belongs to Hamburg
merchants.
In the Commercial AdU0cute office, New
York, the composi.ors struck on the goth
against a reduction of wages. The paper
is supporting Butler for President.
ONLY two deaths were reported from
cholera at Toulon on the 2Oth and twelve
at Marseilles.
FRANCE has reduced her indemnity de-
mand to two hundred million francs from
China, and if it is not speedily paid the
French Minister will be withdrawn from
Pekin.
A STATEMENT is pubIishel in the Breed
erS' Gazette that contagious pleuro- pneu-
monia has undoubtedly found a Judgment
among cattle herds in Illinois.
In Pennsylvania the striking miners
have determined to continue in their de e.
mands. The producers claim they can
not pay any higher wages, owing to the
On tho 20.h telegraphers who served
during the war, and those who have been
following the pursuit for twenty years,
were in session at st. Louis, Mo. The
''Old-timers" held pleasant reunion. An
excursion down the river was taken in the
evening.
THE Society of the Army of the Cumber-
land, of which Lieutenant-GeneralS Sheri-
dan is President, will hold its sixteenth
annual reunion in Rochester, N. ", Sep
tember 18th and 18th (Chickamauga
week..
The Indian Bureau is informed by Agent
Dyer of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe In
dian Agency that some of the Indians are
abusing their boys who have returned
from the Carlisle school. They do not
wish their boys to continue in the 'white
mans road"
AT its session in Chicago, the North
western Lumb 9rmen's Assoc alton decided
to recommend that all mills be shut down
for the season not later than November 1.
1t is thought the result of this will be to
reduce the product from 100000 to 4,OO0,-
O0O 1t was thought the cut of logs for
winter should be reduced forty per cent.
RECENT cool weather has greatly inn
proved the health of British troops in
Egypt
MANY portions of the country in which
drought prevailed have been benefited by
recent copious rains.
Two of the participants in the Dublin
scandals were sentenced on the 2lst to two
years in prison.
DURING the twenty four hours ended at
8 p. N. on the 21st, there were eight cholera
deaths at Marseilles, and one in the suburbs
Of Toulon.
THE Lowell (Mass.) factories will shut
down for one week during September to
reduce stock.
The flag was lowered at the French Con-
late in Pekin on the 2lst. China will re-
fuse to accede to the French demands, and
it looks like war.
On the 2lst warrants for conspiracy were
issued against all miners in camp at
Woods Run, Pa Trouble is anticipated
in making arrests. Strikers are returning
20 work in the Third Pool.
On the 21s5 the Treasury Department
purchased 415. 900 ounces of silver for de-
livery at the New Orleans and PhiIadel-
phia mints.
On the 21st an interesting question in
regard to the construction of public build.
ings was decided at the Treasury Depart
ment in effect that the Supervising Archi-
tect in preparing plans and specifications
for such buildings shall be governed en-
tirely by the amount of money aPpropri-
ated by Congress for the purpose without
regard to future expectations.
EARLY next month Assistant Land Com
missioner Harrison will go to Dakota to
examine and straighten the fraudulent
surveys made in that Territory. Persons
with whom the Government contracted
some years since to make surveys of Gov
In
plats without really having made surveys.
Numerous complications have arisen in
cOnse qUenCe.
IT is stated by VIM. NJ. Collins, of Louis
vile, KY, delegate to the late Irish Con-
ventiOn at Boston, that it was understood
by the League that Irish affairs would be
kept separate from American politics. He
denies that any bargain was made to trade
off the Irish American vote.