The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-28

THE Cholera Commission from Ger
many which has been investigating in
4 Egypt and India seems to have traced the
I cholera germ to its lair. They find it in
\ the water and also in the corpses OF victims
I to the disease.
/ o. the 20th . convention OF general
Ebaggage agents. assembled in St. Louis,
i No, to consult over matters pertaining to
I their calling, QGte a number of delegates
! were present.
/ TIE twenty fourth annual St. Louis
Fair viii be held Monday, October to Sat
/ urday October IL, inclusive. The appro-
/ priatiOu for premiums in the different de
/ partnents aggregates 10000.
ArPROHIBIToRY bill was passed by
/ the Iowa Senate on the Goth by a vote of 3J
4 to IL. The biA defines Intoxicating liquors
I to mean ''alcohol, ale, wine, beer, spirit
uous, vinous and maIt' No person shall
\ Manufacture or keep for sale as a beverage
1 any Of the above liquors.
THE rcinforcements of British troops
/ to relieve Tokar, in the Soudan, will be
! 1850 strong.
! SACHEM, an American horse, former
/ ly owned by LoriI ard, won hurdle race
/ in England on the 2oth.
! The Austrian Consul at KhartOum
/ has forwarded to El Mahdi e., 900 ransom
/ for Catholic missionaries held as prisoners.
/ ALI the French war material destined
/ for use in the campaign in Tonquin is ex-
( pected to be on the ground by the end of
/ the present month.
A DENIAL is published in the Official
+ gazette at Berlin that the OchiItree resoIu-
\ tiOns have been returned. The Reichstag
I does not meet till March 6.
On the 2Cth officers surrounded a
/ band of highway robbers who have for
! some time terrorized the mountain region
OF Fayette County, Pa, and fatally shot
/ one; the others escaped.
OK the goth, in the British House of
! Commons, speaking on the ParnelI amend
ment censuring the government policy in
ireland, John O'Connor Power criticised the
/ course of ParneH and the National party
and opposed the amendment as insufficient
and ill-advised.
EXCHANGE of mail between Mexico
and the United3States is suspended indef-
nitcly, owing to the controversy between
the Post-ofice Departments of the two gov
ernments reletive to the payment of the
carrier between Laredo and New Laredo.
The sum in dispute is S162.
~ Not4L Luxe NliNs OItI, bilS new
Council, elected under the Edmunds law,
qualified on the night of the 18th. While
spresumcd to be a1nouagamous body, there
appears no doubt but it will act in accord
| ance to the mandates of the Mormon
/ Church. James Sharp, the new Mayor.
made 5sSpeech in which he indicated such
a course.
On the 21st terrific hurricane swept
\ st. GEORGES Channel.
TIE Treasury Department has called
/ Io,00O, 900 three per cents. to mature on
May 1.
On the Dist q thousand feet of snow
sheds collapsed at Emigrant Gap, Cal, on
the Central Pacific Railway.
BOATS with relief parties continue to
| ply the Ohio River, and the need for them
! is as great as ever.
+ Ok the DIST the Ohio River was fall
ing at Evansville, Ind, and the flood was
believed to have done its worst
THE Chinese have a serious revolt on
hand to distract their attention from Ton
quiH.
IN the Dominion Parliament a bill
| granting the Canadian Pacific Railway
nearly S3C,OO0,0o0 has passed the lower
/ house.
An official denial is made by the Post
master-G General of the report that a British
spy had BEEN allowed to tamper with
/ American mails.
THE unconditional gift by the British
/ Government of the Arctic steamer Alert
for the Greedy relief expedition is very
( graceful acknowledgment of the courtesy
shown by the United States in the recovery
and return Of the British ship Resolute.
WHILE making excavations on the
ESaRta Cruz hacienda, near Morlia, Mexico,
''the worknen discovered number of idols
made Of black stone, some finely finished,
and ornamental articles of pottery and the
remains Of several human beings.
/ A CORN famine exists on the Peninsu-
la Of YucataD on account of the Iavages of
I locusts.