The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-11

AT Reading, Pa, Mrs. Washington
Keller, who had tasted forty eight days,
died on the Sd.
THREE deaths from cholera were report
ed at Marseilles on the 81.
THE Chicago lines were selling tickets
on the Sd to the seaboard at reduced rates.
Lowest to New York, $l4
THERE were seventy three fresh cases of
cholera and thirty-two deaths at Naples on
the 81.
OK the Sd the Southern Association Of
Railway and Steamship Freight Men held
a secret meeting at Louisville, KY.
The Berlin Socialists have nominated
six candidates for the electoral campaign.
THE wool-growers of Ohio met at Column
bus on the Sd. and passed resolutions in
favor of the restoration Of the tariff of
1867.
IN Italy cholera is spreading rapidly.
In the twenty four hours ended the even:
ing of the Sd, there were 234 new cases,
and I35 deaths.
RECENT Investigations show that a
great deal of Government land in the
West has been fraudulen5ly taken possess
sion of.
IT is said Admiral Courbet is taking
circuitous route with his fleet in order to
mislead the Chinese.
Ok the Sd the Cincinnati Exposition was
formally opened. Among those who de-
livered addresses was Senator George III.
Pendleton.
REPORTS from the gold coast, Western
Africa, are to the effect that France has
annexed Porto Novo, and Germany Little
Popo.
THE Prussian Minister at the Vatican
has been instructed to offer final terms
for settlement of differences betweon the
Pope and the Russian Government.
THE people of the CamerOons country,
Africa, viii protest against the annexa-
tion of that district to the German pos
sessions, as they prefer British protec-
tion.
THE engineers report upon the i'm
prOvement of rivers and harbors In Oregon
and Washington Territory for the past
year shows the amount available for the
current year, $4,000, and the amount
asked for next year i, ,92S,0 900.
News has been received at Halifax, N.
s., from the expedition steamer Neptune.
She was at Ford's Harbor, thirty -four miles
from Main, Labrador, July so. Report
says all hands we'll, and seven stations
have been established.
A RUSSIAN corvette seized the American
schooner Sophia Johnson, at Behring's
Island, Behring Sea, for illicitly selling
rum to natives.
On the 4 h the Free Thinkers held Con-
vention at Cassadoga, N. Y.
A PANIC prevails throughout Italy by
reason of the cholera.
THE Lehigh Valley Railroad, main line,
sank three feet at Shenandoah, Pa, on the
4th.
On the 4th an unsuccessful attempt was
made to rescue political prisoners at War
saw, Russia.
AN attempt is being made to enforce the
Prohibition law at Dubuque, la.
NEARLY 200 Americans are attending the
Evangelical Alliance meeting at COpen-
hagen, Denmark.
district of Ohio will abandon the mines
unless the strikers agree to take the rates
offered.
Ii is said the Chinese have cut a mill
tary road through the French cemetery at
Canton, destroying the mausoleum and
rifing tombs.
On the 4th the Minnesota Elevator Com
pany, owning from thirty to forty eleva-
tors on the Milwaukee s. st. Paul Road,
made an assignments
THE annual session of the American
Association for the Advancement of Sci
ence opened at Philadelphia, Pa, on the
4lh, with an address OF welcome by Gov
ernor Pattison.
DAVE FITZGERALD, of Toronto, Ont,
and Jim McHugh, of Glasgow, Scotland,
fought for 81 900 side with hard gloves
at Rockaway Beach, Long Island, on the
4th, the match lasting over three hours,
and resulting in draw.
AT Lynchburg, Va, the colored people
are highly excited over scandal in which
the pastor of a Methodist Church is in
volved. A member of the flock tried to
kill him with an axe.
DURING August the losses BY fire aggre-
gated SO, 800, ,000, exceeding any previous
known fire record of that month, and
making total of $74, 900, coo as destruction
wrought by fire this year so far, and
about Sl1, 600, 900 in excess of the same
eight months of 1888.