The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-07
nIISCELLANEOuS.


IN Boston a committee was appointed
ON the 2Sth, having one lady among its
members, to arrange for the establishment
of crematOry.
.ON the 3Oth the Mississippi Valley
Dairy and Creamery Association met at
the Polytechnic Institute in st. Louis, Mo
On the Doth hundred thousand peo-
pie turned out on the streets of Berlin in a
snow-suorm to witness the obsequies of
Herr Lasker.
A PRODUCE EXCHANGE was organ
lied by the Louisville Board of Trade on
the 29th
On TIE 29th the American Lumber
Company of Toronto, Ont, failed; Iiabili-
ties, 81 100000
The ribbon weavers at Paterson, n.
j., on strike, refuse to accept the mauurac-
turers' terms.
THE next annual meeting of the So
/ ciety of the Army of one Potomac Will be
4 held in New York, June II. General Horace
/ Porter will be the orator and John Savage
I the poet of the occasion.
The police of Cleveland, O., have ar
rested fifteen men charged with completely
in a recent series of burElaries.
A BUSINESS firm in Livingstone,
I MOuJ.y mas leNlt'l Oh property Oh tllb ell
lowstone Park Improvement Company for
/ debt.
THE Court of Appeals of New York
has decided unconstitutional the law pro-
/ hibiting the manufacture of cigars in teue-
meuts.
THE long strike of the window glass
/ workers is at an end.
A NUMBER of arrests have recently
! of plots TO poison the Gar.
4 A RECENT loan made by the Roths-
childs to the Khedive is held to indicate
/ that England intends TO take care Of Egypt.
A REFUGEE from Fl Obcid reports
that he saw the Europeans of Hicks Pasha' 5
command lying dead on the battle field.
/ Major Won Scckendorf was stabbed to
death in the hospital.
A BILL declaring void any contract
for sale of stocks made by a party no5 ac-
/ tually in possession Of the same, has been
introduced in the New York Legislature.
OK the evening of the Doth a wrestling
match, collar and elbow, for the champions
ship, $500 a side and the proceeds came of
| i'm Detroit, Mich, in the presence of nearly
1000 spectators, between James Durfur
and Colonel J. H. Mclaughlin. The match
! was won BY Mclaughlin after an exciting
and squa-ely contested series of bouts.
PATRICK Conroy, of New York, who
murdered Peter keenan, while on duty as
policeman, is to be hanged February $,
The death watch has been placed over
| him.
OK the 29th the Merchants Telegraph
and Cable Company filed articles of iuclr-
poration in New York. The capital stock
is SI3,0O0,O00, with power to increase "a
] $4,000. 900.
II the Pittsburgh pa district all the
foundries but one are shut down.
The attorneys for Frank James have
applied for change of venue in the Blue
. Cut case.
ACCORDING to agreement the West
ern nail mills were to have resumed work
/ February IL, but the Association talks OF
extending the period of idleness.
DURING the recent storm one hundred
thousand trees were uprooJed on the estate
of the Marquis of Ausa, near Ayr, Scot
land.
Ok the afternoon of the 3Oth the ice
gorge in the Mississippi River at St. Louis
began TO move. 1t did not 60 far, however,
but did considerable damage to boats tied
up and lett others in position to be further
damaged when the move continues,