The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-06-11
MTSCETTANEOUS.

Two Canadian cruisers have been sent
to Newfoundland to watch American fish
ermen. and see that the poor natives do
not acquire any Yankee lucre by selling
bait or supplies.
yellow fever is said to be epidemic on
the Isthmus of Panama.
THE Ottawa (Ont.) Free Press claims to
have been informed by the Master of an
Orange lodge in the Western Ontario dis
trict that over thirty thousand stand of
firearms have been sent to Ulster by anti
Home-Rule sympathizers.
AN address expressing confidence in
Gladstone's Irish policy has been signed
by one hundred non conformist ministers
of Derby and Nottingham.
A ST. LOUIS correspondent of the Lon
don Times says the statement that twenty
or even ten million Americans are ready
to back the Irish in the Home Rule fight is
a slander upon the American people.
HALIFAX IN. s. advices of the Sd
stated that forty thousand British troops
had been ordered to rendezvous there.
Why they are ne del there is unknown.
DUBLIN police surprised two parties of
unarmed Orangemen which were drilling
near Armagh and Portadown on the Sd.
The Orangemen made no attempt to con-
ceal their actions, which they believed to
be lawful The police took the names of
all who were engaged in drilling.
A NUMBER of ladies have been arrested
at Laconia, n. H, charged with stealing
Memorial Day offerings. from the Union
cemetery. Other arrests viii follow.
THE strike of the jOurneymen bakers at
Buffalo, N. Y, still continues, but fears Of
a famine have been dispelled by the action
of the bosses, who have united and are
baking bread in one or two of the largest
bakeries.
Two THOUSAND women and children oc-
cupied the Rock Island tracks at Cum
Minis nail mill, near Chicago, on the 4th,
and refused to get out of the way of the
engine, thus preventing the moving of
cars loaded by non-union men.
THE International Copyright bill was
read q third time in the British House of
Commons on the 4th.
AT the meeting of the NationoI Stove
makers Association at Cleveland, o., on
the 4th, the prices of stoves were advanc-
cd seven and half per cent. When the
convention adjourned the members were
Immediately called to order and formed
tbs Stove Founders National Defense As
sociation.
AT Venice on the 4th, there were re-
ported twenty-five new cases of cholera
and twenty -one deaths. Two cases were
reported at Florence.
RESOLUTIONS favoring home rule for
Scotland were adopted by the Highland
Reform League at Glasgow on the 4th.
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the seven days
ended the 4th, numbered for the United
States 100 and for Canada %, or total of
IS9, as compared with a total of Isl the
preceding like period. More than One-half
of the casualties are reporie from the
Western and Pacific States.
THE attorneys in the Pan-E Electric case
at Columbus, O., have decided to ask
Judge Jackson to hear their case this
term, and have sent for Joseph T. Melon
aid and other counsel. The court win in
sist on the case coming up in the regular
order.
THE total imports of dry goods at New
York during the past week were valued at
81, ,2S7, ,OS4, and the amount thrown on the
market at 81, ,2Ss, ,942.
THE Secretary of the Navy says that the
vessels of the North Atlantic squadron
have BEEN under orders for several days
to prepare for sea. They viii 90 easterly
as usual, and report for orders at Portland,
Me. They viii visit the fisheries under
instructions from the Department, and it
is hoped viii help to allay, rather than in
crease, the existing antagonisns.
STATISTICS show an increase of exports
OF textile fabrics, hardware and ma
chinery from Germany,