The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-24

For February the Union Pacific Railroad
earnings show a decrease of $l25, ,255 gros.
and S31S,S19 net. The gTosa earnings fol
February were S1,5l7,69s, against 81 ,673, %;
last year; the net earnings were S346, ,76'
last year.
On the night of the 18th two Thousand
people attended a musical festival in New
| York given under the auspices of societJ
for the preservafi ion of the Irish language
On the 18th about sixty Mormon mission
aries to Europe left Salt Lake City, Utah
for their various fields of labor.
THE committee investigating the Police
! Department of New York in it's prelimin
ary report recommends that the Depart
ment be included in the bill to reform the
Civil Service in cities of the State, now or
passage through the Legislature.
THE Washington monument is to be com.
pleted November /.
THE reported bank defalcation at New.
ton, Ia, amounts to $4,000.
The authorities of Cuba are arming la
borers on public roads.
! The Straits of Mackinaw are open for
navigation though still full Of broken ice.
AT Newcastle, Pa, employees of four fur
naces have struck for an advance in wages.
On the 18th the steamship Faraday sailed
/ for Nova Scotia with 1,10O miles of the
/ Bennett-Mackey cable.
On the 10Th nine thousand employees of
! the st. Paul Road attended the funeral of
their Assistant General Superintendent
A CONTEST is to be made over the will of
/ the late Mrs. V. G. Stone, of Boston, which
/ gives S250,0O0 to charitable institutions.
! TEN THOUSAND colored men were in line
on the 10Th, at the celebration of the eman.
/ cipatiOn anniversary in Washington
| CONSIDERABLE excitemen5 prevails at
] Shelby, Mich, over recent discoveries of
/ gold in that vicinity in paying quantities.
| 1t is found on bedrock, at a depth of eighty
| feet.
| THE bill to prohibit the issue Of Treasury
notes Of less than IS and to provide for the
| issue of one, two and three dollar silver
certificates will be reported favorably to
Congress.
On the 10Th in bogus butter prosecution
in st. Louis, Mo-, before Judge Noonan,
testimony was given to the effect that deal
ers could obtain manufactured butter with
any desired percentage of foreign fat in it
and that the transactions in the imitation
are on an enormous scale.
THE ArkwTight Club of cotton manu-
facturers at a meeting in Boston on the
18th, resolved to reduce working hours in
May and June ten per cent.
THE Troy IN. " Moldeps' Union has ac-
cepted a reduction of twenty per cent,
and all the fOundries will start up at once,
after d ad-Iock of two months.
ON the 10th the Queen of Tahati arrived
in New Y ork, Ell route for home.
DAMAGING freshets are reported from
Maine. Booms and bridges have been
washed away, and many mills have been
compelled to stop.
On the 10Th the fourteenth annual meet
ing of the Women's Board of Foreign Mis-
sions of the Presbyterian Church began
its sessions in New York.
THE people of Manitoba are threatening
secession in good earnest.
A POOLING plan is under consideration by
the National Flint and Lime Glass Associa-
tion.
A CASE of cholera resulting fatally was
reported on the IL as having occurred on
a British troop-ship in the Suez Canal.
MExICOis trying to effect loan of 2O,-
100000 with the Franco Egyptian Bank.
THE coal companies in the anthracite re-
giOn have decided to restrict production
during the year.
THE California wheat crop it is estimated
will be sixty per cent. greater than last
year.
A GORDON has been formed by the United
states navy around Key west to prevent
the sailing of any more filibusters.
AT Braddock, Pa, on the 18th, serious
riot occurred between Hungarian and Pol
ish rolling-mill hands. Citizens turned out
and quelled the riot
On the 18th the Senate Committee on
Commerce indorsed the Presidents recon-
mendation for dismissal of the Key West
Collector on account of sympathy with the
Cuban insurgents.
NAVAL officers may carry pretty high
hand over the men on Arctic expeditions,
but the sailors take vigorous revenge when
they get before a Congressional committee.
CONTINUED activity prevails among the
Fenian agents in Paris, who are said to re-
ceive considerable supplies of money from
America. The English police claim to
have made substantial discoveries