The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-02-19

| THE February report of the Department
of Agriculture makes the proportion OF
/ cotton sent to market from plantations on
| February 1st 50 1-2 per cent.
! THE city of Kalamazoo, Mich, was
| practically isolated from the outside
( world by heavy snow-drifts after the re =
/ cent storms.
/ THE Italian expedition recently landed
| at Massawah has been ordered to aid En-
! glish operations in the Soudan by march,
ing into the interior. Italy has also con-
sented to occupy Cairo, Alexandria, Suez
/ and portion of Ismaila in order to en-
able the British troops in Egypt to pro-
! ceed forthwith to the frontier.
! THE new fortifcation bill agreed upon
/ by the sub -committe of the House Com
mite on Appropriations appropriates
/ 81, So, 900 against 100000 appropriated for
the current year. Two millions of the
amount appropriated is for new fortifca-
/ tions at Boston, New York, Philadelphia,
Hampton Roads and San Francisco.
! On the 11th a number of base ball men
assembled at indianapolis, Ind, to organ
ize a Western league.
! THE Civil Service Commission has trans
mitted its annual report to Congress.
A PARTY of Philadelphia merchants and
their families left on the 11th for the New
| Orleans Exposition.
! AN important seizure of dynamite was
made by the London police on the 11th.
! A COMPROMISE has been affected between
the warning Texans and Mexicans at Eagle
Pass.
! The Oklahoma boomers reiterate their.
assertion that they will start for the prom
ised land again on the 9TH of March.
THE British Cabinet approved General
/ WOlseley's plan for an early advance from
Suakim to Berber.
ACCORDING to reports of the 11th, a flesh
famine was threatened at Pittsburgh, Pa.
unless the railroads could soon run some
live stock into that city.
ALL the London papers of the 11th were
in mourning for General Gordon, except
the Standard, which alone refused to be-
! lieve him dead.
! On the morning of the 18th reports from
nearly all points in the Northwest showed
a rapid rise in the temperature, while in
| the East it was still very cold.
COMPTROLLER LAWRENCE gives it as his
| opinion that the rate of compensation tc
| be allowed telegraph companies for sserv-
! ices rendered the Government as fixed by
the Postmaster General on the 4th of Sep
| tember, 1884, shall govern the rates to be
| allowed for the entire fiscal year. begin.
ming July 1st, 1884.
| In Chicago the recent storm left the
! snow so deep that coal dealers could not
! deliver, and that caused great distress
! Street cars were blocked and it was ex.
| ceedingly difficult to get around the city
! A REPORT is current at San Francisco
/ that the Chinese Government will make
the expulsion of the Celestials from Eure-
| ka, Cal, on the 7th inst, an international
matter and claim indemnity.
| On the 10Th heavy snow storms were re-
! ported in portions of Tennessee and Ala
! bama.
A SHARP shock of earthquake was felt in
OxaCa, oae of the Mexican States, on the
! 18th.
THE Sound at New York was so full of
thick ice on the 18th, that boats could make
but few movements.
ON the 18th Richard Trenke was hanged
at Philadelphia, Pa, for the murder of
/ Mrs. Augusta Zimm last October, and DIR.
| Beach was hanged at Holidaysburg, Pa,
| for the murder of his wife.
! A VOTE in the German Bund OF
| the 18th resulted in favor of an extraditioI
| treaty between Prussia and Russia.
In the great failure case of Shaw & Bros.
of Boston, Mass, the court rendered a de-
cision on the 18th allowing a dividend OF
thirty per cent.
INTENSE feeling exists in New Zealand
owing to the statement published that
| Germany has annexed the island of Samoa
ALTHOUGH the meeting of the Western
| Nail Association at Pittsburgh, Pa, was
secret, it leaks out that the rise in prize
! was finally ratified.
On the 18th the American Protective
| Tariff Association met in New York anC
agreed to change the name to the Nationa.
Tariff League.
THE first annual ses sion of the New orE
Woman Suffrage Association was held on
the 18th, followed by a reception in the
| evening.
A SALE of sixty -one head of thorough
| bred horses took place at Lexington, KY,
on the 18th, bringing $34, ,455, an average
of about $3.50. Count Marcus, bay stall
lion seven years old, brought $4, 100.