The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-17

On the 9sh troops were called out to sup
press the riot at Kidderminster, England.
TIE supplementary JeaGnette investiga-
tiOn continues to bring ont testimony show
ing a scandal0us state of strife and wrang-
ling among the members of the expedition.
On the 9th a special Grand Jury made up
of prominent business men was impanelled
at Cincinnati to investigate the riot and it's
causes.
A TRUCE has been arranged between Chilli
and Bolivia. Chilli will hang on to the Bo-
livian territory occupied by her troops and
trade between the two countries will be
free.
DISPATCHES from Khartoum, under the
date of March 80, showed GOrdon's position
to be extremely critical and his troops mu-
tinous. He had repelled several advances
Of the rebels.
A RESOLUTION has been adopted by a sub
committee of the House judiciary Com
mittee for a constitutional amendment de-
claring that Congress shall not have power
to declare anything but gold and silver le-
gaI-tender, except in case of rebellion or
invasion.
AT its meeting on the 9th the Pennsyl-
vania Democratic Convention declared for
tariff for revenue, abolition of the internal
revenue system, restriction of contract i'm
portatfon of pauper labor, legislative regu-
lation of corporations and economy i'll ex-
penditures. A resolution indOrsing Ran
dali for President was adopted.
AT the opening Of the Senate on the 9th,
the Chaplain prayed to just one solitary
member beside the Speaker.
The Governor of Washington Territory
has commute1 to Imprisonment for life the
sentence of death to have been executed
upon E. NJ. Gronini, Swiss, on the 10th.
There were grave doubts as to his sanity.
On the 95h, Baltimore, Nd, had the heav-
lest fall of snow of the winter. In portions
of Pennsylvania railway travel was Sc
riously impeded.
The increased valuation of raiIro4
property in Iowa over 1883, Is about ST.
10000.
On the 9sh entrances to the Pocahontas
mine were opened and fans were to be put
in operation and an effort made to secure
the remains of the dead miners.
THE Court authorities at indianapolis,
Ind, are taking cOgnizance of recent
events in Cincinnati, and are purging the
jury business of many abuses that have
crept in.
PRosPECTORs have discovered another
geyser basin in the Upper Yellowstone
Valley.
ENGLAND is to have beet sugar factory
with capacity of 1900 tons.
IN France the striking colliers have de-
manded that their wages be paid during
the time lost by the strike.
AFFAIRS in Cuba are verging on anarchy,
owing to the heavy taxation and reduced
prices Of sugar products.
THE Legislature of Nova Scotia has ex-
tended the franchise in the municipal cleo
tions to unmarried women
THE forces under Aguero, the filibuster,
have compelled several bodies of Cuban
troops to retire, and there is great excite
ment in Havana.
y DUTCH feet is blockading the Achenese
coast to compel the release of the ships
crew captured some time ago.
RETURNS of the Department of Agricul-
ture indicate that the winter wheat area
this year Will exceed that of 1899 by 2,OOO,-
900 acres.
THE employees of the Toledo, Cincinnati
& St. Louis Road, with the exception of
conductors and engineers, have struck be-
cause Of unpaid wages.
THE Governments of France, Italy, Ger
many, England and the United States,
have demanded large sums from Hayti for
damages sustained by their citizens during
the riots.
THE Usage Indian delegation now in
Washington have persuaded the Secretary
of the Interior to recommend that their
tribe be excepted from the bill to allot In
dian lands in severalty.
OK the 10.h the Senate in executive ses-
sion, passed a resolution authorizing the
President to recognize the International
Association as the ruling power in the
Congo region.
On the evening of the 9th, two brothers
in-law at Niagara Falls went over to Goat
Island and thence below to Luna Island.
One has been found shot through the head,
and the other is supposed to have jumped
in the river and went over the falls.
SMALLPOX is reported as epidemic in
Ballard County, KY.
On the 9th three hundred and eighteen
Mormon emigran5s left Liverpool on the
steamship Nevada.