The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-01-10

amount of 100000, e. ii. korbe, clerk for
Sperry & Burnes of New York, is reported
as having absconded.
MISCELLANEOUS.
AN insurgent force who recently at
tackled an Egyptian force near Berber was
repulsed with a heavy loss.
IT is said the recent murder of Lieu
tenant Colonel Suderbin of the Russian
gendarmerie was the work Of Nihilists.
IN recent communication the Navy
Yard Commission gives the country warn
ing of the dangers of foreign great guns.
IT is said the International Health
Exhibition is to be to London in 1884 what
the Fisheries Exhibition was in 1888.
AN increase of appropriations for
salaries to the amount of $4,000 is asked
by Bureau officers at Washington.
The supply Of gum arabic is cut off
by the rebellion in the Soudan, and the
candy market is affected thereby.
The missing White Star steamer
Celtic was spoken on the 22d by the steamer
Geliert. She had broken a shaft and was
proceeding under sail.
The official investigation of Ameri-
can pork in French ports, it is suspected,
will be so managed as to amount to vir-
tual prohibition of importation.
The arrival of the Swedish brig Natal,
from Boston, at Brisbane, Queensland,
with a mutinous crew on board is reported.
Several lives were lost in the effort to up
hold the Captains authority.
THE Government of Egypt is declared
a complete failure.
The Chinese are again reported to
have withdrawn from Bac Ninb.
Oh the 29th the New York banks held
SG, S,95O in excess of legal requirements.
OK the evening of the Doth the West
ern nail-mills all closed for six weeks,
leaving 5000 men out of work.
The Brooklyn bridge up to the close
Of November, bad furnished passage to
4,25O,0OO foot passengers and 1852, 300 car
passengers. The amount of tolls collected
for teams was the same as for foot passen-
gers, $4,000.
THE flour trade of New York pro-
poses to recognize only the inspection of
the Produce Exchange of that city.
ADvICEs from Rome intimate that
another American Cardinal will bo ap-
pointed at the close of the coming council
at Rome.
For the six months ended the 3lst
the internal revenue receipts were S6l, 1885,
| POI.
PROCEEDINGS have been begun to
anuul the charter of the Eclectic Medical
/ College of New York for illegal issue of
diplomas.
FoR December the public debt reduc-
| tiou is estimated at SI2,oOO,OOo.
| In the twelve months ended Novcm-
! ber 30, as compared with the year prcccd-
| ing, imports fell off IS, $4,000, and exports
! increased SGO, O,4IS,0S).
The Secretary of the Interior has or
dered an inquiry as to the truth of allega-
tions of fraud in the location of a large
Spanish grant patented to Pedro Armenia
rio in New Mexico.
IN the first six months of the present
| fiscal year Treasury receipts fell off about
! S2S, $4,000.
WILLINGNESS is expressed by China
| to make material concessions if the French
will keep their hands off Bac Mini.
| For 1888 the failures reported num-
! bered Q, ,1S9, against 6,73S in 1882. One per
4 son failed for every ninety-four engaged in
/ business.
A NOTORIOUS express rObbcr, known
! as "Big Kelly" has been captured near Co
4 lumbus, Ohio.
In the City of New York there were
4 33,9S2 deaths during 1888, and 2S,9S2 births.
In his confession, Palmer. the mulat-
to who with William Berner murdered
Kirk at Cumminsville, o., says he and
Berner agreed to do the killing for pur-
poses Of robbery and the one who struck
| the first blow was o have fifty dollars the
/ more money.
New Years Day was celebrated by
the Frisco Road by opening its extension
line into st. Louis, Mo.
IN New York n society has been or
ganized for the preservation of historical
documents relating to Revolutionary times.
OK the 3Oth a Jesuit missionary in
Vienna, Austria, who denounced the i'm
mortality of workingmen and Socialism
generally, was assailed with stones in the
pulpit.
The Military Committee of the House
will report favorably the Fitz John Porter
bill which passed the Senate at the last ses-
sion.
The Spanish Minister of War favors
universal suffrage, except that soldiers
should never be allowed to vote, for reasons
Of discipline.
THE Patriarch of the Greek Church
insists upon resigning unless Turkey up
holds the privileges of the Church. The
A NOTABLE feature of the French
Prime Minister Ferry's proposed Constitu.
tional revision is abolition of the office OF
life Senator.
SERIOUS rioting occurred between
Irish Nationalists and Orangemen, at Dro,
more, County Down, ireland, on the 1st.
. Troops have been sent to preserve order.
THE committee appointed to prepare
an improved plan for carrying mails by
rail, has sent its report to Congress.
On the ID the Bond trial closed at
Hmsboro, H., resulting in the acquittal OF
the accused - Montgomery, Pettus and
[ Clement.
TRAINS were reported blocked by
snow on the ID in Eastern Canada.
A NUMBER of fCincinnati boot and shoe
firms have declared the Board of Arbitra.
tion, which for some time past has been
settling difficulties between employers and
employees, a failure.
The flood in the Ohio River had close
" approached the danger line on the 2d.
In France revolutionary uprising is
I apprehended in the Southern provinces.
DURING the past year the railway
foreclosures covered eighteen roads with
1854 miles OF track.
THREE of the Southern Pacific train
robbers are in custody. One has confessed.
THERE is an accumulation of evi-
dence TO show that old man Griffths, of
Salem, o., was shot by his own son and the
BODY robbed.