The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-05-14


OwINe 70 the information received at
Havana that a loan has been contracted
for Cuba, Spanish gold bonds have de-
clined.
THE Bank of England's rate Of discount
has been advanced to 3 per cent
THE Spanish Government has decided to
renew negotiations for a treaty of commerce
with tie United States with view to i'm
proving the trade and revenue of Cuba.
LOUIS WAN, a notorious Canadian crimi-
nal, recently escaped from the penitentiary
ct Montreal.
THE president OF the British Sugar Re
finers' Association recently expressed his
conviction that the recent sudden activity
in English trade was only temporary, and
entirely due to the fact that the strikes in
America had Iessened competition
THE United States Consul at Smyrna has
informed the Department of State that
foreigners will not be allowed to enter the
Ottoman Empire unless supplied with
passport by a diplomatic or consular rep
resentative of the Government, the fee of
which is fixed at twenty piasters.
A GERMAN wine grower has produced an
excellent quality of wine from the yield Of
vineyard occupying large tract of land
near Cairo, and his success has stimulated
the Egyptian Government to give every
encouragement to grape culture in Lower
Egypt.
MANDALAY was captured by the Burmah
rebels on the 5th. Four thousand houses
were burned.
GLADSTONE arrived in London on the 4th
and received an ovation from the people.
BERLIN private kilograms from st. Peters
burg and Odessa give startling accounts OF
the progress made by the Nihilists. Whole
sale arrests have been made within "A week
at Alushta, Novo Tcherkask and Odessa.
So grave are the police reports that the
Gear has been advised not to DELAY his re-
turn to st. Petersburg. Orders have been
given to the Court at Livadia to hold itself
in readiness to start northward at ten
hours notice.
THE French Government is vigorously
protesting against the Vatican's appoint
ing a nUncio at Pekin as tending to inter
fere with Frances secular rights in China
IT is officially announced that cholera has
appeared in Venice and Vicenza. Several
cases and some deaths are reported in these
places daily.
THE Scottish Amicable Life Assurance
Company has ceased to lend money on
Irish land, the future tenure of which is
now in suspense.
IT was officially announced in Rome re-
Gently that the Archbishops of Baltimore.
Quebec, Rennes and Rheims would be Gre
ated Cardinals
MORMON missionaries are reported busy
in Switzerland seeking to induce girls to
emigrate to Utah.
THE officials of the French New Hebrides
Company on Espiritu Santo island in the
South Pacific have been massacred by na-
tives from Port Stanley.
THE buSinesS faiIureS duTiDO tho eavar
days ended May numbered for the United
States, 167; for Canada 25, total of 1872
as compared with total of 207 the week
previous
News has been received of the murder of
a number of Hungarian peasants by a
gang of gypsies, who afterward robbed
the persons and premises of their victims.
Two or three American fishing schooners
have appeared in the basin at Digby, N. s,
within the past day or two for the purpose
of buying bait. Another American fishing
vessel has been captured for violating the
Canadian fishing laws.
THE foreign ministers left Greece on the
9TH. The efforts to prevent Greece from
attacking Turkey had apparently failed,
and war appeared inevitable.
BY collision between the British steam
er MartelIo and the cutter Ida, off the Liz
ard Point lighthouse, England, the sailing
vessel was sunk and one person drowned.
HENRI RoCHEFoRT and NJ PartaIise
| fought a bloodless duel in Paris recently
Four shots were exchanged.
IT is officially denied that General Wolse-
ley declared that if home rule was granted
to Ireland he would resign his command
for the purpose Of leading an army in VI
ster to resist the new Irish Government.
AN Irish home rule meeting was held at
the Academy of Music, New York, on the
7th, Governor Hill presiding.
A RECENT Liverpool grain circular says
that wheat has been very steady and in
most markets rather dearer for foreign and
one shilling higher for English, while tho
cargOes off coast on passage for shipment
are firm. Wheat was dull with only small
business, and prices were generally Id low
| er. Flour was inactive and cora slow, and
urinAa darTina1