The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-01-08

CONTRIBUTIONS are being solicited to aid
those dependent for support upon the
miners entombed in the Nanticoke (Pa.)
coal shaft.
A RELIGIOUS sect at Palmyra, Wis, are
on the point of starvation in their belief
that they will obtain "power" by fasting.
EFFORTS are being made to issue a loan
of $175, 100000 in London, to provide China
with armam ents and railways
THE presents received during many years
have been converted by the Pope into
money and presented to the College of the
Propaganda.
THE proclamation announcing the an.
nexaticn of Burmah to the British Empire
has reached Rang oon.
BISHOP HANNINGToN, engaged in mis-.
sionary services in Central Africa, has
been seized by King Mombasa, and will
probably be put to death.
IT is intimated that the British Govern
ment will oppose the revival of the bill for
the construction of a tunnel under the
English Channel, between England and
France.
In the Riverside (Pa.) Penitentiary there
are $50 idle convicts, the contracts in tho
iron, cigar and broom departments having
expired. The convicts employed in these
departments win remain idle uny1 they
can be placed at rug making or other in
dustries the State may see fit to establish.
On the 1st meeting of leading mer-
chants of Boston was held to take action
relative to alleged naturalization of inn
ported goods by customs officers at New
York, by which importers at Boston and
elsewhere are placed at a disadvantage,
and committee was appointed to aid the
special committee of the United States
Senate in its coming investigation into the
subject.
EMPEROR WILLIAM of Germany has con-
ferred upon Cardinal G. Jacobini the dec
grafton of the Black Eagle, and upon Mon
signors Galinberti and Moceni, of the
Pope's Official household, the decoration OF
the Red Eagle, in recognition of their VAL
liable services in connection with the set
tlement of the Carolines dispute.
= DURING the present month the commits
sions of over 100 Presidential Postmasters
win expire.
Ontario.
On the I'd the 200 Eastern cigarmakers
who are to take the places of Chinaman
arrived at San Francisco.
THE Dominion Parliament has been pro-
rogued until February 18th.
In the vicinity OF Spring Grove, Mimi,
large number of persons are said to be af.
6icted with leprosy.
On the ID the Newark IN. J.) children
who were treated in Paris by NJ. Pasteur
sailed for home.
A GERMAN family of Eve persons living
near Pittsburgh, Pa, are suffering from
trichinosis from eating uncooked salt pork.
AN old scheme has been revived in
France to connect Marseilles with the River
Rhone by a canal.
LARGE numbers of Jews are going to
England from Germany, Russia and Rou-
mania.
AT the coal miners convention held at
West Elizabeth, Pa, on the I'd it was de.
cided by a two-thirds vote to return to
work at the operators terms.
ENGLISH and American companies are
said to have secured extensive contracts
for steel rails with China.
A CONVENTION of steel manufacturers
will be held at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 7th
to consider the advisabiIity of advancing
prices.
THE American Pasteur Institute has been
Incorporated at New Y ork, with the object
of introducing Pasteur's system of inocula-
tion for hydrophobia in this country.
WREcKAGE from the missing schooner
Orphan Boy has drifted ashore at Grand
Point Sable Station, and all hope has been
abandoned.
IN the recent light with the British near
Koshey, in the Soudan, the Arabs lost 600
men.
MORE trouble has broken out among the
naval cadets at Annapolis, Md, and
court martial is probable.
NUMEROUS West Virginia farmers have
been swindled recently by accepting
worthless checks from itinerant dealers in
pay for stock.
FREDERICK FIsHEL, of New York, who
stole $4,000 from his employers, went to
Canada, was captured, taken back and is
now lodged in prison for it,
IN London report is current that a
number of Mahdist fanatics entered the
town of Suakim, and that number of En-
glish were killed or wounded in the fight
that followed.