The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-04-16

NATTovAT, convention of manufacture
ing confectioners met at Philadelphia, Pa,
on the sth.
In Yorkshire, England, forty thousand
coal miners are on a strike.
GERMAN holders of Russian stocks are
becoming scared and are unloading.
A GRAND durbar was held on the 7th
at RawaI-Pindi in honor Of the Ameer Of
Afghanistan, and was a great success.
In official circles at Berlin it is thought
that Russia intends in any event to go to
war with England.
FRANCE will not cease sending out re-
Inducements to China until final treaty
of peace shall have been signed.
On the Sth a committee of the Grand
Army of the Republic called to ask the
President to keep old soldiers in the serv-
ice of the Government.
In some of the streets of Montreal snow
was nearly five feet deep on the Sth, and
a hard rain was adding to the uncomfort-
able situation.
TIE Porte has issued an official circular
denouncing the Mahdi as an imposter and
a robber chief of the worst kind.
THE Chicago builders, who took the con-
tract to erect the new State-house for
Texas, will forfeit the amount named in
the bond rather than go ahead with the
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THE Dominion troops in the Northwest
ern Territory are suffering from the cold.
The mercury fell on the Sth from so above
to 20 deg. below zero.
THE police found an Internal machine on
the Sth in the NetIey military hospital al
Portsmouth, Eng. The authorities had
been previously warned to look out for an
explosion.
ACCORDING to the Salt Lake Tribune q
leading Mormon Bishop has declared thai
the priesthood has concluded that it would
be cheaper to buy a Statehood for Utal
than to endur @ the annoyance polyga
mists are now being subjected to by the
enforcement of the laws. Among the laity
this is now considered to be the plan of tn
Mormon campaign.
The Guards and the Australian contin
gent, which left Suakim on the 9th 70
Handou, with orders to build zereba a
that point, reached tn cir destination prac
ticaIly unmolested.
TIE Farmers Bank of Norfolk, Va.
made an assignment on the 9th.
IT is thought in London that war wit
Russia is inONitable.
THERE was war panic on the Chicag
! Board of Trade on the 9th, occasioned b
the news from Afghanistan.
THE Oshkosh (Wis.) carriage work
were seized for debt on the 9th.
THE Washington Monument was struc
, by lightning three times on the 9th.
damage.
The New York wheat market was fever
ish and excited on the 9th over the wa
news.
AN Ohio association of trotting hors
breeders was organized at Cleveland.
The Russian Government is giving OF
ders for gunboats to Swedish builders.
> The British Cabinet held meeting c
the 9th to discuss the war news from th
, Afghan country.
ENGLAND, it is stated, will send Il, ,0C
: reinforcements to the Afghan frontier
once, and the first army reserves will
called out.
: ADvICEs received at st. Petersburg sta
= the Russians attacked the Afghans {
> March 3Jth, the battle resulting in 10
of $40 to the latter. The Russian loss r
= ported much lighter; but there is not mu'
dependence to be placed in Russian di
% patches.
The bill requiring wages of employees
be paid in money, and not trade, pass
the Illinois House of Representative
= the 9th.
= THE imports at London during Mar
decreased e., ,353, 1893, compared wi
March of last year, and the exports d
creased e1, 772,503, compared with Mar
. of 1884.
MosT of the owners Of collieries in Ell
- gland and Wales have cancelled all Orde
n for coal to be shipped to Russia, at t
risk of being sued for breach oil contra
THERE is a growing impression in Was
ington that somebody outside the city
d New York will be appointed Collector
le Customs for the port of New York.
n THE Treasury Department on the
purchased 4OO, 900 ounces of silver for {
ID livery at the New Orleans and Philad
s. phia mints.
be THE Supreme Court of Michigan h as
at cided the law providing for antemor5t
wills to be imperative aud unconstitutio
> nj. This law allowed the will to be pl
" hated before the death of testator.