The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

FIRsT-CLAsS passenger rates 1rom New
York to Chicago were reduced on the 10th
to S1O.5O.
ONE hundred Krupp cannon were re-
Gently sold privately by the Egyptian
Government to German firm. The
French diplomatic agent objected to their
shipment from Egypt, suspeoting that they
were destined for China.
OK the 11th the quadrenniaI convention
OF the Phi Delta Theta, Greek College fra
ternity, met in Nashville, Tenn, for four
days session.
THE Mayor of Philadelphia, Pa, sent let
ters to the various newspaper publishers in
the city on the 10th, requesting them to re-
frain from publishing bulletins relating to
the election calculated to excite the public
or give rise to disorder.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has modified Rule 10
of the Civil Service regulations, specifying
/ officers exempt from examination, so as to
include in the list disbursing officers hav-
ing the custody of money, who give bonds.
| QUARANTINE has been established by Hol-
| land against France.
| A SECTION of twenty-five miles of the
| Northern Pacific Railroad in Washington
/ Territory, extending southwardIy from
/ Tacoma to point near South Prairie, has
been accepted by the President, but he has
directed that no patents for lands lying
along this section shall issue until he gives
| specific orders to that effect.
THE question of the best means for pre-
venting the immigration of undesirable ac-
cessions to the population is agitating the
st. Georges Society of Toronto, Can.
THE Enterprise Colliery at Port Bowk-
lev, Pa, will be reopened on the nth.
OK the 10th the Spaulding Iron and Nail
works, of jefferson County, Ohio, shut
down for an indefinite period, throwing 13O
men out of employment. Cause, accumu-
lation of stock and small demand.
ON the 10th one hundred employees of the
Ontario Cloth Mills at Philadelphia, Pa,
refused TO 60 to work owing to notice of a
reduction of ten per cent. in wages. The
mills were stopped and 250 hands thrown
out of employment.
! IN portions of West Virginia affected by
the recent drought the people and live
stock are said to be affected by peculiarly
fatal hux, caused by drinking water from
the partially dried-up streams which has
become heavily impregnated with mineral
matter.
OK the 18th the Columbus & Cincinnati
Railroad viii open for business.
TmRrY-sIx deaths from cholera were re-
ported in Paris on the l1th.
On the 11th Maud S, the Queen of the
Turf, succeeded in lowering the record at
Lexington, KY, trotting n mile without
a skip i'm 2:O9 IL.
AT Dongola the British forces now num-
Der $500
In the British House Of Commons the
franchise bill passed its third reading on
the 1lth.
DURING the last fiscal year the free pos
tai delivery service handled 1,540,554, III
pieces with $3.50 carriers, at a cost OF
SS5O4, ,9O6, or 81 ,2TS,2 less than the amount
4,T77,4sD received for postage on local
matter.
OK the 11th the Grand Trunk Railway
notified its employees that a further reduc-
ton would be made of from five to eight
per cent. in wages.
AT a meeting on the 18th the Western
Nail Association reafiirmed the present
card rate.
THE Chinese gunboat Feihoo is said tc
have been captured by the French.
In Montreal, Can, diphtheria and ty-
phoid fever prevail to alarming ex-
tent.
REPoRrs received at the Department OF
Agriculture indicate a larger cotton croT
this year than last.
AT the close OF the last fiscal year the
number Of pensioners on the rolls of the
Government was S23, ,7j6; amount paid out
for pensions during the year, S56,90S, ,591i
total amount disbursed for pensions since
1861, S67s, ,346,s34.
DURING October the total value of do
mestic breadstuifs exported was S11 ,541, ,112
against 14,7a0,99i for the corresponding
month of 1883. For the ten months ended
October 3lst, S120, ,99S ,047, and S145, ,125, ,S3l
for the corresponding period Of 1885,