The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-09-10

THE counsel for the Gov ernment in the
telephone suit are busily enga ged in pre-
pairing an answer to the demurrer filed
by the Bell Telephone Company in the
Columbus case, and their brief is practi-
cally completed. The arrangements will
begin on the Goth of September, and the
Governments case will be presented by
Messrs. Thurman, Lowery and Chandler.
THERE were 173 failures in the United
States for the seven days ended the Sd,
against 15) for the preceding like period
and 100 in 1885. Canada had p, against
26 the preceding week and II in 1885.
THE win of the late Joseph T. Temple,
of Philadelphia, probated on the Sd, be-
queaths over $200,O to public institu
tions.
THE Standard Oil Company will build
large refinery at Lima, o., where it has
struck both oil and gas. The works will
be on the line of the New York, Lake
Erie g. Western railway.
THE importation of dry goods at the
port of New York for the week ending
September ,, 1856, were HOPS packages,
valued at S2,037, ,03G, against 9,5OS pack
ages valued at $2,857,789 for the preced-
ing week.
A SENSATION was created at Charleston,
S. c., on the 4th, by shower of pebbles
in the lower part of the city. Where they
came from is an unexplained ystery.
AN agreement was reached at Whining
ton, Del, on the 3D., by which the striking
moro cco- II orkers, formerly in the employ
of w. J. McClary, will be taken back as
they are needed, at an advance of about
fifty cents per week in wages. The aver
aga advance struck for was about thirty
four per cent.
There is trouble threatened among the
Baltimore & Ohio IN ners. The difficulty
is that there is no uniformity in the wages
paid, each operat fixing a scale for him
self. Secret meetings were in progress on
the Sd, and arrangements making for
mass-c invention. They will probably in
sit on the Colum Il scale.
On the night o. The 4th another slight
earthquake was 1elt at Charleston, S. c.
The shock was also felt at Columbia, S. c.,
and at Savannah and Augusta, Ga. There
was another shock also on the night of the
9Th.
IN all the principal cities of the country
subscription lists have been opened for
funds to aid the homeless and needy suf-
ferers by the Charleston earthquake, and
the responses are generally quite liberal.
OK the 4th the one hundred and twelfth
anniversary of the meeting of the first
American Congress was celebrated by the
American Protestant Association in Read
ing, Pa.
TIE Peruvian Government has decreed
that Chinese residents may enjoy the same
rights and privileges as other colonists.
The German Compositors' Society. one
of the strongest unions in Germany, has
just secured a concess ion from the Frank
fort employers of an increase in wages
and reduction of hours of labor to ten
hours daily.
on the 18th the exhibition of South
American products will be opened in Ber-
lin, and promises to be one of great inter
est. The Argentine Republic, Chilli Bra
I'll, Venezuela, Uruguay and Bolivia wiz
be represented.
AFTER a thorough survey of the damage
done by the earthquake in Charleston it is
estimated that the damage will reach S10,-
0O0, 600. At least four out of five of all the
bull lings in the city are damaged.
The third annual ST. Louis Exposition
opens on the 8th and gives promise of
eclipsing its predecessors. The opening
will be the beginning of a forty days car
nival such as no city in the country has
ever witnessed.
On the 4th police and customs officers OF
New Laredo, Mexico, had battle with Ell
Coyotes bandits, and were defeated.
THE United S ates Geological Survey is
to IN axe a complete investigation of the
earthquake, and has issued a circular
calling for information.
THE rush of returning Americans to
London from the Continent is so great
that many are unable to obtain passage on
the regular steamers.
On the 9th three female telegraph oper-
ators, by laughing at an Italian doctor at
the Occidental Hotel, New York, created
row which finally landed the doctor in
Jail.
Two large pensions have just been grant.
ed, one to NJ. D. Richardson, of Kentucky,
the first payment in which amounts to
11,764.13; the other to Moses McFadden,
of New York, S11 ,O6476.