The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-06-04
MISCELLANEOUS,

REPORTS received from the marine sta
tion of the United States Fish Commission
at Woods Hole, Mass, announce the com
ple'e success Of the attempts recently
begun to propagate Holsters artidctally on
a practical scale.
On the 27th, at a meeting of Ulster
Protestants at Dungannon, resolutions
were adopted expressing gratitude to Mr..
Gladstone, hoping that he viii be success
full and promising him support i'll the
! event of a new election.
A RESOLUTION in favor Of the separation
of church and state was introduced in the
French Chamber of Deputies on the 27th.
THE pork-house employees Indiapnt aaO-
lis are demanding more wages.
AT the Cabinet meeting in Washington
on the 27th all the executive departments
were represented. The session lasted
about three hours and was mainly devoted
to the consideration of the Canadian
| fisheries troubles, naval affairs and the
proposition to construct a railroad through
the Indian Territory.
THE French Government has officially
/ disavowed the speech of NJ. DeContouly,
/ Minister to Portugal, congratulating the
/ King and Queen on the marriage of the
I Duke de Braganza to the Princess Amelie.
! The Governments action is believed to
]
/ Princes from France.
DRY GOODS valued at 81, ,729 ,3O5 were inn
ported into New York last week.
THE Austrian press is greatly excited
over the recent utterances at Moscow.
THE potato crop in the Kildysart dis
trict, Ireland, has been destroyed by frost
l and hail storms.
/ GREECE complains that the Turks have
| not evacuated the Greek frontier as they
| agreed to do.
FRESH and peremptory orders have been
| issued for cattlemen to get their stock out
of the Indian Territory,
AN Irish landlady has applied to the re-
lief bureau for assistance, on account Of
being unable to collect her rents.
THE fight on the St. Louis Merchants
Exchange Bridge bill at Washington has
taken the shape of efforts to prevent its
being taken up in the House.
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-ONE failures
occurred throughout the United States
and Canada during the seven days ended
the 2Sth.
Forty SEVEN hosiery manufacturers of
/ Philadelphia, employing over twelve thou
| sand hands, met on the 2Sth and organ
lied for mutual protection. The organi-
zation is the result of recent demands of
the employees.
On the 29th, while sinking an artssian
well in the heart of Denver, Col, oil was
struck at a depth of 100 feet. Great ex-
citement prevails over the find.
THE cholera epidemic continues to pre-
vail in Venice. During the twenty four
hours ended the evening of the 29th there
were thirty three new cases and thirty
one deaths.
DURING the week ended the 29th the to-
tai imports of merchandise at the port of
New York were valued at S6,995, ,43), and
of dry goods at S1,729, 305.
A SPANISH revenue cutter is reported to
have fired upon and seized three trading
boats in English waters, and in turn was
| captured by British launch.
THE Belgian Government has prohibited
the proposed Socialist demonstration at
Brussels, in consequence of a protest from
/ Bismarck.
TIE General Assembly Of the Knights Of
Labor, in session at Cleveland, o., re-
solved to petition the President FOR execu-
tive clemency in behalf of the imprisoned
Texas strikers.
! THE eruption of Mt. -Etna is suhsiding,
and the danger to contiguous villages is
| thought TO be past.
Tar congress of the Salvation Army
! opened in London on the 10Th. The ses-
sions win last a week
A QUANTITY Of arms consigned to parties
in Armagh, Ireland, have been seized by
the Belfast police.
Tbs Post-office Department has named
three rural post-of6ces in Tennessee re-
spectively, "Mikado," "Yum Yum" and
"Nanki-poo."
ON the 29th the Black Diamond Steel
Company, of Pittsburgh, Pa, voluu arily
advanced the wages of all employees ten
per cent,