The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-03-12

DEMOCRATIC members of the various
New York exchanges celebrated inaugu-
ration day enthusiastically.
THE celebrated Sixty ninth Regiment of
New York turned out 800 strong in the in
augural procession.
THE Buffalo Legion felt proud as they
marched in honor of the inaugural of one
of their citizens as President.
In Chicago, on the 4th, a meeting of
barbed wire men was held, at which it was
decided to dvance the price of barbed
wire one-eighth of a cent per pound.
Thick set wire was put at One-eighth over
cattle wire. Hog wire was placed at the
same figure.
THE Wabash Railroad has acceded to
the demands of the striking machinists in
the shops south of Chicago, and they have
resumed work
THE Governor General of Cape Colony
informed the President Of the Transvaal
and Orange Free State, that his govern
ment will not violate the independence
Of either of these States.
THE display of fireworks at Washington
! the evening of the 4th is said to have ex-
celled anything of the kind ever attempt
ed in this country.
THE jackson Democratic Club of Column
capital by having a coIored man walk in
front clad in sky-blue swallow tail coat,
! bright red pantaloons and an enormous
silver plate on his breast bearing the name
| of the organization.
THE dog-shOw at the New Orleans Ex
position was formally opened on the 9Th.
The French have commenced the capture
of rice boats in Chinese waters.
THE employees of the Wabash Road at
| Fit. Wayne, Ind, struck on the 9th against
! a reduction in wages.
| AT the Ohio College of Medical Surgery,
a woman took the gold medal of honor.
THE native population of Alexandria,
/ Egypt, are growing tired of British rule
| THE French Chamber of Deputies on the
/ 9Th passed the bill raising the duties of
| cereals.
! SEVERAL of the Oklahoma boomers ar
rived at Wichita, Kas., on the 9Th, in the
custody of officers.
THE SOudan campaign up to the end of
March will have cost England E3, $50, ,O0O
| On the 9th the Illinois Legislature had a
! stormy time over the Senatorial question.
! No election.
| AUSTRIA proposes to retaIiate against
France on account of the duties placed
! upon cereals.
| Westminster Hall, made necessary by the
/ recent dynamite explosions have cost S43,
/ 600.
! THE German press is considerably
worked up over the statements in the Lon
! don papers regarding the charges in con-
nection with the Bismarck Gladstone COM
| plications.
THE employees in the Texas Pacific and
| Missouri Pacific shops at Fort Worth,
| Tex, quit work on the 9TH. Fires in en-
| gines were killed, and freight trains side
| tracked.
THE Oklahoma boomers, 500 strong, were
reported in camp at Arkansas City, Kas.,
on the 9th, and the number rapidly in
| creasing. They expected to start on their
raid on the eth. Troops were awaiting
! their arrival.
THE Cincinnati Price Current figures
that twelve States that produced sixty
! seven per cent. of the wheat crop of 1881
now have stocks amounting to 11O,O0O,00O
| bushels, exclusive of the visible supply.
! THE Chamber of Commerce of Denver,
! Col, adopted resolutions requesting the
new Secretary of the Treasury to pay out
| the silver coin now boarded in the vaults
in order to stop the contraction of the cur
rency.
ONE of Secretary TelIer's last acts was
to issue patents for lands in Louisiana
| granted in aid of the construction of the
| New Orleans & Pacific Railroad. These
lands, embracing about 100000 acres, are
/ comprised in what is commonly known as
''the backbone grant"
THE merchants of Australia, raising
funds for their contingent, caused a feel.
| ing of emulation, and leading merchants
| are disposed, should the Government equip
a couple of good regiments, to supplement
any grant by raising a patriotic fund to
provide for the families and those whom
the chances of war may disable.
THE Union Metallic Cartridge Company
! of Bridgeport, Conn, has received an or
der from the English Government for 80,
| 0O0,0 900 cartridges, and another order from
| the Russian Government for 100000, ,0O(
| more. These orders are the largest evel
| received by any concern at one time in the
| world.