The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-01-01

IHE United states Supreme Court has
affirmed the decision of the Court of Claims
in the case of the Great Falls Manufacture
ing Company General Butier's) against
the United States for damage to it's water
power by the aqueduct operations of the
Government The Great Falls Company
got $4,000 in that case. The Supreme
Court gives the Company the same
amount.
THE supply of wheat visible on the path
was IS, ,l17,000 bushels; corn, 1905, 600 BUSH
els; oats, 2,481, 900 bushels.
AT New Haven, Conn, on the 23d, sew
eral members of the Salvation Army were
arrested for parading the streets without
license.
FRANCE is understood to have rejected
EngIand's proposals with reference to the
financiUl difficulties in Egypt.
THE strike of the Monongahela River
coal miners seems to be a failure, as many
of the men refuse to quit work and others
are returning to the pits.
On the 23d the general passenger agents
of the Ohio River pool lines met at Indian
apolis, Ind, to consider diferentia1 rate
matters, but were unable to agree.
THE International Sanitary Conference
will meet in Rome in February or March
| BoULwARE, alias John RosaIine, who
broke Jail some six months ago at HamiI-
/ ton, Ia, where he was confined on a charge
of rape, was arrested at Chillicothe, o., on
the 23d.
THE Premier of the Government of Vic
toria has invited the governments of the
/ other Australian colonies to unite in a pro-
test against the seizure by Germany of
| portions of the coast and islands of New
Guinea.
| THE steamship Oregon, of the Cunard
1 line, was sighted off Crook Haven on the
/ 23d, six days and six hours after her de-
| parture from New York. This is the fast
est eastward passage ever recorded.
! A MADRID dispatch of the 23d stated
| that great storm was raging on the Pc
ninsula- Several ships and railway trains
] had been wrecked. There had been no tel
! egr. phic communication with Europe by
land wires for three days.
! ''PENNsYLvANIA DAY'' at the New Or
leans Exposition, has been set for March
10th.
REPORTS of the 25th stated that traffic
on the railroad lines in Oregon was still
blocked on account of the heavy snow.
MORTALITY among the French troops in
Tonquin is said to be increasing.
! THERE was rather a small attendance
Christmas Day at the Worlds Fair in New
! Orleans on account of a cold, drizzling
rain.
CHRISTMAS was dull in Vienna, owing to
the depression in business.
On the oath the LapOrte QndO Savings
Bank closed its doors. Liabilities, about
$4,000; assets estimated at 500, 600.
A PANIC was caused in a New Haven
Conn., museum on the 25th by drunken
man yelling "fire." No one was seriously
injured.
THE liabilities of the Bohemian Credit
Company are 23,OO0,OOO FORMS Many
small banks are involved and some are
ruined
THE lobbyists in Washington bewaiI the
fact that their occupation is about gone
and they have had no chance to make any
money this season.
On the 24th the New York stock brokers
spent the day in athletic sports, using silk
hats of the members for foot balls. Fish
| horns furnished the music.
A BOSTON lady of benevolent turn pro-
poses to give $4,000 toward fund to be
used for the care of the teeth of children
in public schools.
UPWARD of three hundred men and boys
are thrown out of employment by the
burning of the machinery and engine
rooms of colliery at Mineral Springs,
Pa.
IN commenting on the Nicaragua treaty,
the London Tunes says that England holds
! position of impregnabIe strength, and
viii protest against any policy that vio-
lates the rights covered by the Clayton
BuIwer- treaty.
ADvICEs from Sanghai state that S5, 900
Chinese troops are massed at the Pei Ho
FORT at Port Arthur, Gulf of Pc Chi Lii.
The works are mounted with heavy guns,
and the entrance to the port is guarded
with torpedOes.
On the oath Burt Seaboldt, conductor,
and H. c. OsterwaIdt, engineer of the work
train of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway
in the recent collision, were held at Salt
Lake City, Utah, at the conclusion of their
examination, in $1,000 each for criminal
negilence.