The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-01-22

THE Governor of Ohio issued orders on
the 18th for the military to pr epare to go
to the Hooking Valley when called, as Sc
rious trouble was expected.
THE principal of one of the Louisville
(Ky.) public schools recently lost 81 200 of
the shool money at faro and has gone to
join the Louisville colony in Canada.
ON the 18th the Springer investigation
committee continued the examination of
witnesses at Cincinnati in reference to the
employment of Deputy Marshals at the
October elections.
THE Pittsburgh, TT. Wayne e. Chicago
Road is running ''double header'' 1.-TWO en-
gines) freight trains in order to cut down
the force of conductors and brakemen.
The discharged men are making great
trouble.
THE House Committee on Ways and
Means has authorized a favorable report
on the bill providing for the establishment
of export tobacco manufactures.
On the 18th the Standard Oil Company
paid $4,000 for the property of the Cen
tral Refining Company, located at Ken
nedy Station, on the West Pennsylvania
Railroad, thirty miles from Pittsburgh,
Pa.
In County Limerick, Ireland, the rent
strike is gaining headway.
The English army en- route to Khartoum
thus far has conducted it's march without
opposition.
OK the 14th the annual meeting of the
Western Iron Manufacturers Protective
Alliance was held at Pittsburgh, Pa.
1t is said that many retired German o fiji
GERS have gone to China to instruct the
celestials in European tactics.
AN agreement has been reached by
France and Germany regarding the Egyp-
tian, Chinese and Congo questions.
No further rioting occurred at South
Bend, Ind, on the 14th, although the
trouble was likely to be renewed at any
moment-a sort of armed truce, as it
were.
GREAT excitement exists in Australia
over the recent German annexation of New
Guinea and adjacent islands.
AT Lynchburg, Va, four large tobacco
factories, employing over 1900 negroes,
have resumed work, and all others are pre-
pairing to start again.
On the 18th more earthquake shocks
were felt in the provinces of Spain recently
shaken up. The storms continued, and the
suffering among the people reported as ter
rible in the extreme.
THE freight yards of the Pittsburgh,
Fort Wayne & Chicago Road at Fort
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14th, which the strikers would not allow to
go out. Mail, express and passenger trains
were not molested.
A CONTRACT has been made by the Atchi-
son, Topeka s. Santa Fe Railway with the
Mexican Government which win benefit
United States trade on the west coast of
Mexico.
A RESOLUTION was adopted by the Penn
sylvania Senate on the 14th, requesting
the Congressman from that State to use
their influence to make the trade dollar
legal tender.
THE Eastern Pig-Iron Association met
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, on
the 18th.
GERMANY is reported to have rejected
the proposals of England regarding Egyp-
tian finances, and is disposed to coincide
with France.
THE Pennsylvania Road has substantial
ly refused to enter the coal combination.
THE Dublin Freemdn'S Journal has paid
$1,000 to a clergyman to stop libel suit he
had instituted. 4
AT Birmingham, Eng, a bread riot is
threatened by five thousand men who are
out of employment.
The Erie and other trunk lines have re-
duced the emigrant fare from New York
to Chicago to s..
AT Lyons, France, an Anarchist plot
was discovered on the 10th, by which
arms were to be seized and a revolution
declared.
THE Union Base Ball Association under
took to hold a meeting at Milwauk, 9, Wis.,,
on the 18th, but only two clubs were repre-
sented. 1t was decided to disband and
form new league.
PANAMA advices are to the effect that an
alarming condition of affairs prevails in
the entire Republic, and a general war is
regarded imminent. War is already under
way in Cundinamarca. BOyaca, Santander
and Magdalena.
On the 18th the extensive wire and steel
manufacturers, Oliver Bros. & Phillips, of
Pittsburgh, Pa, suspended, and asked for
an extension. The liabilities are roughly
estimated at between $4,000, 900 and 50 5,O0O,-
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