The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-12-04


On the 18th a new erematory. was dedi-
Gated at Lancaster, Pa. One body was in-
cinerated.
THIRTEEN deaths from cholera were re-
ported at Oran, France on the 25th.
OK the 18th the visible supply of wheat
was Al, 10000 bushels; corn, 3,522, $50 BUSH
els; oats, 5, 3,172,000 bushels
THE Bethlehem (Pa.) iron Company's
pudding mill, which has been idle since the
early part of the past summer, win resume
December 1st.
A NUMBER Of the large wooIlen mills in
Rhode Island have begun running on
quarters time in order to prevent
further over production without entire
suspension.
On account Of the prevalence of small
pox among the native forces the British
| troops are being removed from Dongola.
DURER's portrait of jerome HoIzschuIer
has been purchased by the Berlin Museum
for $685. 900.
THE stockholders Of the New York, Lake
Erie e. Western RAILROAD held their an
nual meeting ON the oath. The knife is to
| be put into salaries and new era of re-
| trenchment and economy inaugurated.
| John King was elected President.
! A LOUISVILLE (Ky.) paper on the 25th
stated that the reported scourge in Ken
lucky and West Virginia was myth,
and that Joe Mulhatton started the rumor.
AT Grand Rapids, Mich, foot of snow
was reported on the 25th, and still fall
ing. Sleighing was good.
| On the 25th the one hundred and first an
niversary of Evacuation Day was cele-
brated in New Y ork by hosting a flag over
| the old fort in Central Park at sunrise and
dinner by the veterans of 1872.
THE Pacific Mail steamship City of Toxic
arrived in San Francisco on the Goth,
bringing fifty-six cases of Chinese ex-
hibits for the New Orleans Exposition.
AT Mt. Washington, N. Y, the ther-
mometer indicated a temperature of four.
| teen degrees below zero on the 25th.
| In his annual report the Comptroller of
the Currency shows that during the year
| ended November 1st, 1884, 191 banks have
been organized, with an aggregate capital
of S16,O42, ,23O, and to which circulating
notes amounting to S., ,S66, ,24O have been is
| sued.
! FROM the inauguration of the National
banking system, February %, 1868, 3,261
/ National banks have been organized; total
number in existence November 1st, 1884,
2,671.
! THE vessels comprising the North Atlantic
/ squadron, Rear Admiral Jou ett command
/ ing, will rendezvous at New Orleans and
participate in the ceremonies attending the
opening of the Exposition. They will re-
man there until about March 1st.
The total exports of specie during the
first four months of the current fiscal year
were $11, ,S6S, ,115; total imports, $13, PAS, $50;
! excess of imports over exports, 81 $50, 235.
| On the 9th the Mexican National Band
of seventy five pieces from the City OF
] fad bvra lavs of 90
diets from Castle Chepultepec and party
of civilians, arrived in New Orleans. After
| completing its engagement in New Orleans
the band will make a tour of the United
| States.
| DURING the cholera epidemic it is esti-
mated that 100000 persons left Paris. They
| are now returning in great numbers.
THE Chinese have in their service Ger
man Admiral and other European officers
| in the Northern fleet.
j ENGLAND has resumed negotiations with
Spain for a commercial treaty with that
nation.
BY orders of Governor General Won
i Monteuffel, three anti-German newspapers
in Alsace-L Lorraine have been suppressed.
DURING the past months the value OF
| merchandise exported from the United
States was $234, 1929 imports, SOS, s,S13, :
4
SOS, ,619; excess for ten months ended Octo-
Der 31st, 36,655, ,454; for twelve months
ended same date, $S1, ,5S3, ,6SS.
On the 27th the annual district conven-
ton of the railroad and river miners met
I at Pittsburgh, Pa. -z-sH
A TEN per cent. reduction has been or
dered by Oliver Bros. & Phillips, iron and
steel manufacturers of Pittsburgh, Pa.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, 5O0persons have been
thrown out of employment by the shutting
down of one of the glass factories.
A NUMEROUS party of business men and
capitalists of New York and Philadelphia
viii visit the New Orleans Exposition in a
body.
| THANKSGIVING DAY was generally OBJ
served throughout the country, the ex-
changes, banks and business houses being
closed nearly everywhere.