The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-09-03
MISCELLANEOUS


TIE Kermaudec islands in the South
Pacific have been taken possession of in
the name of the British crown.
a CALL comes from Victoria, Tex, to the
people of the country for relief for destitu-
tion caused by the recent storm.
RECENT advices from Adelaide, Austria
La, state that the wheat crop in South
Australia will yield, according to the lat
est estimates, an average of seven bushels
to the acre. There have been copious
rains throughout the wheat-grOwing re-
gion, and the rain continues.
RUssIA's efforts, it is said, arc directed
toward localilizing the Bulgarian affair,
but will un Ter no circumstance permi5
Alexander 10 return to the throne.
RECENT events in Bulgaria seem to have
created NOR excitement in Eastern Rou-
melia than any place else.
THE Governor Of Indiana positively de-
olined 10 interfere with the execution of
Bates, the wife-murderer, sentenced to be
hanged on the 9th.
OK the 25th the international pol match
Ietween the Hurliuham (English) and
Westchester (American) clubs came Off at
Newport, r. l., before n largo crowd of
spectators. Tho Englishmen won easily
AMI rapidly by ten goals to four. Perry
Belmont, Of the Americans, subsequently
dined both clubs.
THE German y merican Journalists As
s0ciatiOn meeting in New York came to
an end on the 23th. Their next meeting
will be held in some Western city. Among
| tho officers elected were the following
vice-presideuts: A. II. Sierel, Wiscou-
sin; Thomas KirchhoT, California; c.
Won Henfelden, Illinois; Dr. z. Prae-
torius, Missouri; L. Essenecke, Ohio.
es-s W. Is x1.,-a
| pauy Of milwaukee, assigned for the ben
/ eft Of its creditors. Assets, S125,0)0; lie
/ bfities unknown. Numerous attachments
( recently executed were the immediate
/ cause of the failure. About one hundred
/ men are thrown out of work.
HOLLAND has increased the duty on for
/ cign raw sugar.
/ AN emigration bureau is TO be opener
\ by the English Government in October.
THE lougshoremen of New orlz threatei
\ to strike il the striking boatman's demands
are not met ON or before Tuesday the Slst.
THE English committee appointed to in
vestigate Pasteur's hydrOphobia cure re-
/ port favorably.
THIRTY men convicted of participating
/ in the Belfast riots were, on the 26-h, SEN
/ fenced to vGyious terms of imprisonment.
/ SEVERAL. hundred Englshmen are
| thrown out OF employment bE tho burning
/ Of extensive shops OF the Great Northern
railway at Boston, Lincolnshire.
] \ COUNCIL OF regency has been formed
| in Bulgaria.
! IT is positively stated that Prince Alex
/ ander on hearing of the result of the 10y
1 aIist movement resolved to return TO Bull
/ garia. He was expected to arrive at Rust
/ chuck on the 27th, whence an army would
4 conduct him in triumph to Sofia.
! WHrN tho King Of Servia heard of the
/ events in sofia he said: at is the greatest
/ piece Of infamy ever perpetrated in Eu-
rope. II knew where Alexander was, 1
would sacrifice all possess to afford him
/ assistance"
SEVERAL vessels from tha Georges and
from the Grand banks arrived at Glouces-
ter, Mass, on the 26th, aud reported that
on August 23 they encountered a gale of
Ereat energy. Tho ale is reported 70
have been the worst that has sw cps over
the banks for years, and it is feared that
much damage was done aud many lives
lost.
TIE Halifax Sugar Refinery Company,
Of Halifax, Nova Scotia, is in financial
troubIe