The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-02-12

THE Chamber Of Commerce of Manches-
ter, Eng, learns that Portugal has annexed
both banks Of the Congo River.
A SENSATIONAL report was published at
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the Sd, about the So
cialists of that city and alleged plans to
blow up factories and murder capitalists.
In leading editorial, the PaU Mall Ga
zette advocates a political alliance between
Great Britain and the United States.
SOME excitement was caused in London
on the Sd over report that friends of
Cunningha m, the dynamiter, were trying
to release him.
AT Dublin the Nationalists are circulat-
ing the report that Mrs. Dudley was in tho
employ of the British Government.
DURING 1884 the gross earnings of the
Missouri Pacific Railroad were S., ,752, 900;
of the Iron Mountain, $7,522,00
ITALIAN spectators are.said to be MAX
ing large land purchases along the north
ern coast of Africa
1T is thought in Paris that PortugaPs ac-
tion in the Congo country will lead to an
imbroglio.
The monthly sales of leaf tobacco at
Lynchburg, Va, were double in January
what they were during the same month in
1884.
BIsMARCK's organ in Berlin urges that
an Anglo German squadron be at once
sent to the Congo country to vindicate the
neutrality laws.
THE alleged dynamiter, Cunningh am,
has been identified as the man seen in the
vicinity of each of the recent underground
railway explosions in London immediate
ly after their occurrence.
THE well-known Irishman and Fenian,
Thos O'Brien, who was imprisoned by
the British, says that every friend of Ire
land will regret the shooting of Rosa for
the reason that it tended to make a hero
and martyr out of blatherskite who had
nothing to do with the London explosions.
THE First Battalion of the Royal Irish
Regiment won General Wolseley's prize of
f100 for making the quickest passage from
Howas to Debbeh.
On the night of the 4th London police
man found a supposed dynamite machine,
with lighted fuse attached, lying near
st. Johns Church, Pimlico. He put out
the fire in the fuse, immersed the ap-
paratus in water and took it to the Police
Sta ion.
TURKEY wants the Italian Government
to explain the presence of its fleet in the
Red Sea, and hopes Italy will do nothing
to interfere with the amicable relations OF
the two countries.
SEARCH is bel ng made by the English
police for five men who arrived together
| at Londonderry, from America, the early
part of last month, and are believed to be
! connected with the recent dynamite out
RACES.
GREAT BRITAIN win send at once large
reinfOrcements to Egypt.
THE attendance at the Worlds Fair al
Nov he .
THE news of the fall of Khartoum had a
most depressing effect in London.
FIVE HUNDRED employees of a Pitts.
burgh (Pa.) rolling mill, struck on the 9th
against a reduction of ten per cent il
wages.
IT is said that the French will abandon
the blockade of Formosa and blockade
Canton River instead.
THE Paris Figaro says there will soon be
a conference of eleven dynamiters in thai
city, and that seven of them will be from
America.
THE London Times is not able to account
for Russia's advance in Afghanistan un-
less it means hostility to that country and
England.
THE entire edition of a Liberal paper at
/ Berlin was seized by the government on
the 9TH, on account of the radical tone OF
/ the Hamburg correspondence.
| IT is estimated that the Mahdi had 60 900
men around Khartoum, and also stated
that 1000 of General Gordon's troops de-
serted him and joined the rebels.
| THE French Chamber of Deputies on the
9TH refused the urgency on Tony7 Revil-
/ Ions motion for 100000 francs for dis
| trib utiOn among the towns of France
/ owing to the dearth of employment. The
motion was referred to committee.
! A CANADIAN detective relates how ht
| learned the password of the New York
! dynamiters, and his experience at some
of the meetings he attended. He claims
to know all their plans for operation il
! Canada.
/ The annual meeting of the National
Stove Manufacturers Association in Chi
| cago was concluded on the 5th. Itwas re
solved to make prices for the current year
/ the same as during 1884