The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-02-26

THE propeller Michigan which has been
missing for several weeks, is stuck in the
ice twenty three miles from the shore off
Grand Haven, Mich.
TIE Michigan Legislature is wrestling
with the underground wire question as re-
lating to telephone and telegraph COM
pan es-
THE French residents at Shanghai have
been placed under Russian protection.
THE House Committee on Appropria.
tions have agreed to recommend further
appropriation in aid of the New Orleans
Exposition.
OFFICIALS of the Wabash at New York
say that the proposition of Mr.. Chamber
lain, of London, for a reorganization of
the company will be accepted.
AT National League meeting at Dublin
on the 18th, speakers advised the Irish
people to strike the blow for freedom
while England's hands are full.
THE relief party who went to Alta, the
Utah town visited by the terrible snow
slide, recovered twelve dead bodies, and
rescued those still living.
ADMIRAL CoURBET telegraphs that the
French attacked the Chinese squadron and
gained a complete victory. Another dis
patch says that two Chinese men-of-war
were sunk.
AN imaginary internal machine placed in
the Court house at Greensburg, Pa, on the
18th, proved to be clock-wOrks of a dane
ing toy monkey with a singed rope at
tached. 1t scared the people, though.
THE New York Socialists met on the even.
ing of the 18th to eulogize and commemO-
rate the memory of the German Anarch-
lists who were put to death for attempting
to take the life of the Emperor. Herr Most
was among the speakers.
MANY protests were filed against allow
ing the Masonic Order to participate in the
Washington Monument ceremonies, on the
ground that the Masons have no more
rights than the Hibernians or any other
order. The protests were too late, though,
for the committee to act upon.
! THE Secretary of the Interior has de-
| clined to reinstate the land entry of John
| Talbot, in the Cheyenne district, Wyo-
ming. Talbott's entry would, if allowed,
place him in possession of the land COM
| prising the entire water supply of the city
of Cheyenne.
TIE Canadian voyageurs, who took Gen.
eral WolseleY's boats up the Nile, arrived
at Queenstown, Ireland, on the 18th, OF
their way home. They embarked on tht
| steamship Hanoverian.
AT Columbus, o., two cases of trichino
sis have developed, one of which vii
prove fatal
THE Legislature of Michigan want;
Congress to pass the postal telegraph bill
On the 10Th the First Battalion of tn
Coldstream Guards left London for Sua
kim. There were many affecting scene
as they embarked.
THE formal opening of the Woman
| n .F tba (lrla
ton took place on the 18th.
THE Pennsylvania Senate on the lot
defeated the bill for whipping-posts fo
wife beaters.
Four THOUSAND Spaniards are desirou
of enIisting in the English army for tn
Soudan campaign.
THE British Parliament reOpened on tn
18th. Police allowed no one to pass tn
gates unless able to show that he had
right to enter.
A HERD of six hundred cattle were sol
at Superior City, Wis, on the 18th, to a
Englishman for $4,000. They will /
, shipped to England.
THE Russian exiles in Irkutsk, Siberi
revolted recently. They were only sui
dued after a desperate contest, in which
: number of people were killed and wounds
t At Pittsburgh, Pa, a bill has been file
] | in view of the recent explosions, asking a
= injunction to restrain natural gas comps
Q MES from bringing gas into the city.
THE British Government, since the ia
;, of KhartOum and the death of Gener
s Gordon, have deemed it eXpedient
,, change the whole plan of the Soudt
campaign.
/, AT Washington eight hundred speci
d policemen were sworn in to preserve o
d der during the ceremonies attending Il
e dedication of the Washington Monumer
d In many sections of Massachusetts, a p
5. culiar and fatal hog disease is raging. I
Al symptoms are loss of appetite, sight al
strength, death invariably resulting
N three days. Thousands of hogs are dyin
= BELGTUM's efforts to secure the creati
le of an international convention for the re
le ulatiOn of duties on sugar failed, owl
l. to the opposition of Germany.