The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-03-26

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ther advances toward Afghan territory
provided the Afghans keep within bounds.
THE 18th was Vermont Day at the New
Orleans Exposition.
IT is said France will renew the negotia-
tions with China looking to peaceful ter
mination of their troubles.
ON the 18th distinct shock of earth
quake was felt at Contocook, N. H.
THERE came near being a free fight in
the Austrian Chamber of Rel fresentative
on the 18th.
THE Amaria tribe of Arabs are said to
be ready to desert the Mahdi at the first
favorable opportunity and join the Brit
ish.
A NUMBER of the Pennsylvania striking
miners were arrested on the 18th.
THE wheat growing sections-of Califor-
MIA are said to be suffering for the want Of
rain.
THE annual meeting of the Holstein
Cattle Breeders Association of America
began at Chicago on the 18th.
THE Arkansas Senate, on the 18th, passed
the bill to enlarge the powers and privi-
| leges of married women.
! THE Administration will give the Okla
homa question an early and thorough in
vestigation-
THE New York Board of Trade passed
/ commendatory resolutions concerning the
| Administrations civil service policy.
AT Louisville, KY, on the 18th an im-
mense crowd listened to infiammatory
speeches made by Socialists and Anarch-
lists from Chicago and New York.
La LIBERTE states that France is will
ing to abandon her claims to indemnity
| if China will execute the Tien Tsin
| treaty.
IT is stated by slave girl, in Khartoum
when the city fell, that a severe battle took
place between Gordon's troops and the
Arabs a fortnight before the capture OF
the city.
A GENERAL forward movement of Rus
sian troops is reported behind the line OF
outposts. General KamaroR is said to be
encamped opposite the Afghan outposts OF
Aktepeh.
A FORWARD movement from Suakim
was commenced by the British troops or
the 10Th, and fighting was expected any
moment.
RUSSIAN officers, at a recent council oi
war, urged an immediate advance upOr
Herat.
THE night force of the Bankers & Mer'
chants Telegraph Company at Boston
Mass, are on a strike for nack pay.
A YOUNG eloping couple from Buffalo
n. Y, en- route to st. Louis, were arrested
at Cleveland on the 18th and placed in tn,
lookup.
THE adherents of El Mahdi declare tn a
before the summer is far advanced Gen
eral Wolseley's army will be cut off fro on
Cairo.
ADvICEs from the Soudan of the 19tl
report a short engagement between tn
British and the rebels, with small losses OF
each side.
SEMI OFFICIAL reports from Paris stat
that Bismarck offered to arbitrate for tn
settlement of the dispute between Russi'
and England.
THE event of the day at the New Or
leans Exposition on the 10Th was balloon
ascension by Prof. Van Tassel, of CalifOr
MIA.
ONE of the young men who competed il
the recent six day roller skating contest il
New York has died from the infiammatio
, of the brain, cold and exhaustion, suppose
to have been the results of his exerton i
the contest.
3 DISPATCHES to the War Departmen
/ from General Hatch, at Arkansas City
say: "The Couch Colony, about 500 i
3 | number, continue in camp, and say the
! do not intend to disband. do not be
t lieve they will attempt to enter the Terri
tory"
t THE Secretary of the Navy has decline
to take action upon the report recommend
!. | ing the acceptance of the new dispatch
/, boat Dolphin until he has had an oppoT
tunity to examine the contract and all tn
details of the vessels construction.
IN the British House of Commons on th
1 18th it was stated that the regular arm
9 numbers 1S4, $50 men and the voluntec
force Dos, 900. The newspapers are please
1 with the statement.
On the 10Th the Connecticut Senate, b
a vote of Il tn ), rejected the House bi
: giving women suffrage in school district
SCHEME is being agitated by the Can
e adian Pacific Railway Company to secuT
e the land grant of the Winnipeg & South
western, to build a branch to the Turtl
Mountain country in Dakota.