The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-21

1HE press. bIIOu9fOub GeEIHauY Is
poking fun at tire British policy in Egypt.
Ar Terre Haute, Ind, a Board of
Trade was organized on the 18th. Josephus
Cobbett was elected President; X. G. Har-
vey, Vice-President, and N. Warren, Treas
urer,
The American Institute Of Mining
Engineers will hold its annual meeting in
Cincinnati, beginning on the 18th, and to
continue for four days.
9 The authorities disinterred the body
of a.man named Cooper, kiIIsd recently y. in
hesFetdu basin, Utah, and his death was
found to have been caused by two shots
instead cone, as claimed by two men,
who gave themselves up as his slayer.
On tie 18th the Red Gross. Society of
st. Lqnfs, Mos collected S535 for the flood
rel EFF fund.
THE negro, Alien Moore, charged
with the murder of Preacher Hamkin at
Cote Brilliante, a suburb Of St louis, No.,
has been released
X OK tl1ew15th the Expressmen's $ Aid
Association convened IN ) Jacksonville, Fla.
Addresses of welcome were. made by Cow
ernor Bloxham, Ex-Governor Bullock and
others. The Association has ,072 members
and within two. years has paid 50, 800 to
the families of deceased members. H. B.
Plant was reFel ected President
A TOMBSTONE (Arizona) dispatch
states that legal proceedings have been set
on foot to delay the execution of the CON
victed Bisbee nurderers, but that the peo-
pie W5iII have nP delay If the authorities
do not-hang the men -asmob will.
On tho 18th, the well-known trotting
horse Comp on Boy, dropped dead in his
stable 1t Ota3)ec Canada
\ THE7 feUsl .Feached its heightin Gin
cinnatf on the l4th, the gauge showing over
seventy on afe&t. after which the water be
gan to recede. The cold weather, as antici-
pated, has caused terrible distress in the
Submerged towns all along the Ohio. Re-
lief measu have been thFoUghly organ
lied and every effort making.to effect the
NEST systematic and useful distribution of
the.funds available.
THE treaty of commerce with. Spain
takes effect March ].
THE telegraphic cable between Hal
Phong and Saigon has been completed
THE National Council of the Union
League meets in Washington March 6.
THE faculty of Harvard University
has adopted the rules OF the intercollegiate
conference. = ..
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will be among the attractions from Mexico
atthe NetUOf1eans Exposition.
Ar Davenport, la, a company has
been organized to build ano5her bridge
across the Mississippi river.
The Commissioner of the General
Land Office claims thas 214009 acres have
been patented to the Burlington & Missouri
River Company in excess of the quantity
3 4
THE stir made in Congress over the
hog products restriction is painful to the
Nord Dejttsch Zeittag, which says if hostile
Legislation IS emacted in America Germany
viii simply make reprisals by increasing
~customs Duties
AT Dubuque, Ia, Mr.. Joseph Quinn
fell into quarry thirty feet deep recently,
aud now sues that city for $1,000 damages.
= The Legislature of Wyoming was Of
GcfaIly received. at Salt Lake City, on the
14th, by the Utah authorities. At night
the visiting legislators attended a grand
ball.
0N-the 18th the seventeenth annual
convention of the Ohio Y. N. c. a. began
its sessions at Dayton.
A MEETING was held in Cooper Insti-
tute, New York, the night of the 14sh, to
approve a hill giving the Mayor absolute
power in appointing the heads of depart
ments. % There was a large attendance.
A TEXAS criminal, name ed John
/ Heath, is sentenced to be hanged in Arizo-
ma, in March, for a murder committed
while aiding bank robbery near Tomb
stone. Heath is said to have been the
leader of band in Mexico.
A CALL has been issued by Enos
Brown, of Denver, Col, Chairman of the
Colorado WOOlGrower's Association, to the
wooI-growers- of Colorado, Kansas, Ne
braska, Bbah,- Wyoming and New Mexico,
to meet in convention at Denver, March II,
for the purpose of forming State organiza-
tions and combining to prevent further re-
duction of the tariff on wool. a-z