The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-10-08
A STOCK company proposes to complese

A STOCK company proposes to complete
the old st. Louis g. Western railroad.
THE Congo Free State has refused
railway concession to a firm of English
men because they were too exacting.
THE London Times says England has
reason to be satisfied with the statements
made by the Austrian Premier.
A GENERAL impression prevails al
Washington that the authorities are dis
satisfied with the terms made by General
Miles with Geronimo.
THE total coinage executed at the mints
of the United States during September
was s. ,O7O, ,O55.5O, of which s., 2,s10, 100 was
in standard silver dollars.
THE extension Of the special delivery
system of the Post-Of1ce Department to
all post-offices and to all classes of matter
went into effect on the 1st.
LAND offices have been established at
Chadwin and Sidney, Neb. The land Of
fee at Bayfield,, Wis. has been removed
to Ashland.
A GREAT lockout of packing house en-
ployes is threatened at the Union Stock
Yards, Chicago, in order to settle the
Eight-Ho questions
TIE Roman Catholic clergy in Canada
have been forbidden by Cardinal Tasch-
ereau from taking any part or exercising
any influence over their parishioners dur
ing the coming elections.
THE effect in Bulgaria of Premier Tisza's
speech, it is thought, viii be to encourage
the government to resist Russia.
A COMMITTEE of the Union Veterans
Union called upon the Public Printer on
the 1st, in behalf of their comrades who
had been discharged from the Govern
ment printing office. Mr.. Benedict as
sured them that the Union soldiers in his
office eed not fear discharge if competent
and attentive to duty.
The total coin and bullion in the Treas
ury September 80 was $242, sos, ,O1S, as com
pared with 1925, ,430, 635 on the 31st of the
previous month. The net gold in the
Treasury; after deducting gold certifi-
Gates in Treasury, cash and in circulation
September 80, was S157917, ,21O, as COM
pared with S157, 732, ,288 on the 31st of the
previous month.
A LETTER published in the San Francisco
Bulletin under date of Rodick, Alaska,
September 16 says: "a volcanic peak of
PabloH mountain, three hundred miles
southwest on the Alaska peninsula, is in
eruption. Slight falls of volcanic dust
resembling emery powder have been OBJ
served.5
THE Corcoran Gallery of Art at Wash
J
the "Hunter's Home" by Knauss, of Ber-
lin. The size of the picture is 1-2 by41-2
feet and the price paid was $4,000. 1t is
now on exhibition at the Academy in Ber-
lin and will be on exhibition at the Cor
coran galley after November u.
On the morning of the I'd seventeen boys
escaped from the Reform school at Waus
kesha, Wis. They gained egress by means
of a key made out of comb by an eleven=
year-old boy
THE second annual report of the National
Bureau of Labor, now in course of prepar-
alton, will be a much more comprehensive
document than the report laid before Com
gress last winter.
On the I'd violent earthquake shocks were
felt throughout Thuringia and other parts
of Central Germany.
SATURDAY, the ID, was designated as
Irish day at the St Louis Exposition, and
Gilmore's band programmes w ere made to
fiji the day. The result was the largest
and most enthusiastic attendance since
the opening
THE sec ond season of the American
Opera Company viii begin at the Acr d.
emy of Music, Philadelphia, on November
10, and will close in June of next year in
San Francisco.
on the 3D. a band of salvationists were
arrested at Wilkesbarre, Pa, and were
committed to jail on charge of disorderly
conduct.
On the Sd the corner r-stone of the new
St. Paul Roman Catholic Church was laid
at Washington, d. O., by Cardinal Glib
bons.
THE Cameron -Lonsdale scandal at New
Y Yorz is believed to be an advertis ing
dodge to which De Bensaude, the injured
husband" !" is a illing party.
THE Governor of Minnesota has issued a
PROCLAMATION establishing quarantine
against Illinois cattle during the cOntinu-
ance of the epidemic in that State.
THE American Academy of Medicine
will hold its annual meeting in Pittsburgh,
Pa, October - and IS. About two hum
dred delegates from all parts of the coun-
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