The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-04-09

AT BaGDle1Ord, MANITOBA, Jhe rebels are
reported to have destroyed houses of
settlers and killed several persons. The
situation daily grows more ser Gus
ADvICEs received at Paris from Hanoi
report the situation of the French army in
Tonquin as exceedingly critical
AN uproar occurred in the Illinois House
of Representatives on the 1st, caused by
the Speaker dismissing all of the en-
ployes.
THE Indian chief Big Bear, with 800
warriors has Joined Riel, the Manitoba
rebel, and the latter is now said to have
! 1000 armed men.
IN Yorkshire, England, twenty-five
thousand colliers are out on a strike
against ten per cent. reduction.
AT Odessa on the 1st, Russian officers at
a banquet drank and responded to the
toast: "The Coming War with England"
THE Pail Mall Gazette thinks that Rus
( sia's reply is an acceptance of EngIand's
/ proposals. but some other papers take a
| different view.
On the 1st the Oklahoma ''boomers"
held meeting at Arkansas City, Kas.,
and adopted resolutions. There was talk
of starting for the promised land" within
a few days.
REPORTS to the Lire Stock Indicator at
4AdJSdo A4bys 4ALOsy On Jle COnQlJlOn OF the
winter wheat crop in Kansas, Western
| Missouri and Southern Nebraska are any
/ thing but encouraging as to prospects
OK the 1st the Mexican Congress con-
vened. The Presidents message warmly
! opposes the attempt of Barrios at fore
/ ible unihcation or the Central American
republics. Strong sympathy for Salvador
4 and Nicaragua was manifested among the
members.
THE Commissioner of the Land Office
has made an order that no cases hereto
/ fore made special shall be acted upon un :
| til they have been reached in the regular
| order of examination. This order does
not include cases already approved for
! patent, and in such cases patents may
issue.
| OFFICIALS of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation emphatically pronounce false the
! reports that the organization is in dan
! ger of disintegratiOn. President Wiehe
! says the association is inherently as
strong as ever it was, and yearly becom-
ins stronger, both in membership and in
| fiuence.
| 1T is announced NJ. De Freycinet has as
sumed the task of forming a new French
ministry. 1t is stated that NJ. De Frey :
cinet will act as Mini ster of the Interior
| in the new Cabinet, and that the post of
Minister of Foreign Affairs, which had
been occupied by NJ. Jules Ferry, will be
filed by the present French Ambassador
to Germany, Baron de Courcel.
THE extra session of the United States
| Senate adjourned sine die on the 2d.
THE Cree Indians at Manitoba have put
on their war paint.
Ice gorges in the Allegheny River are
reported to be doing great damage.
THE Government has decided to send a
force of marines to Aspinwan at once.
RUSSIA is taking active steps to place
her navy on better war footing.
On the ID General Graham's army ad =
vanced to Tamai The enemy are reported
few in number and to have scattered.
THE reign of terror continues in Rowan
County, KY. 1t is the result of election
rivalry.
THE Chinese Legation at Berlin confirm
the report that China has accepted the
! peace proposals made by Ferry.
| THE Treasury Department decided that
| a Chinaman who has embraced the Chris
tian religion can not bring his wife over
/ from China.
| THE French attacked and secured occu-
4 patton of Pheng Hoo situated in the chan
mel between Formosa and the China main
land. Chinese loss, 800; French, three
killed and twelve wounded.
! On the I'd the Exchange National and
| the Franklin Savings banks of Norfolk,
| Va, and Balm Brothers, bankers, of Ports
mouth, Va, suspended.
THE entire train service of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad is to be reorganized and
| faster trains are to be put on. The time
between st. Louis and New York will be
| twenty eight hours.
! ANOTHER important meeting of railway
] managers was held at Chicago on the 2d,
| and resolutions were offered looking to the
/ holding of a convention in Philadelphia in
/ July to consider matters of transportation
| affecting both the public and the railways.
! 1t was also decided to take no business be-
/ low tariff rates until after the meeting of
/ the committee April 18th.