The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-06-25
MISCELLANEOUS.


CINCINNATI protests against the new st.
Louis Merchants Exchange bridge.
LATEST returns from the Nova Scotia
elections show that the government will
have the support of between twenty eight
and thirty members out Of a House num-
bering thirty-eight.
1T is denied at Ottawa that orders re-
specting the enforcement of the fisheries
treaty have been cancelled.
on the 10th a destructive hail-storm
passed through Little Horse Greek Valley,
fifty miles north of Cheyenne, Wyo. Hail
stones enormous in size and oblong in
shape were furiously driven, fences bat
tered down and vegetation Obliterated.
Iron roofs of houses were pierced an cat
tie killed. The destruction of crops is COM
plete.
THE French minister of public instruc-
ton, has prohibited the meeting of the
Catholic. Church congress at Toulouse,
and the Archbishop Of Toulouse announces
that inasmuch as it is merely devotional
gathering it will be held despite NJ.
GOblet's orders.
TERRIBLE mortality is reported among
the British troops ut Assouan. One hun
dred and six men Of the Dorsett regiment
/ have died within the past two months.
! OF FIVE hundred invaIids on their way to
/ Cyprus, ten dropped dead from heat en-
route,
THE Canadian Pacific railway contrib
uted $1,000 in aid of the fire sufferers at
! Vancouver, b. c.
The business failures throughout the
country during the seven days ended the
| 18th, numbered for the United States IA,
! for Canada 11-total 155 against 2O9 the
/ preceding week and 1877 the week before.
/ The large decrease in the number of cas-
/ ualties is spread over all sections of the
country about evenly.
THIRTY foundrymen employed at the In
/ dianapolis Car Works struck on the 18th
| for an increase of ten per cent. in wages
and a reduction of the hours of work from
ten to eight. The terms were not agreed
to and the men were paid off and left the
shop.
TIE Wisconsin Knights of Labor have
called a State convention at Fort Howard,
to nominate full State ticket. A labor
convention had previously been called to
meet at La Crosse for the same purpose.
| The cause OF the split in the labor ranks is
not explained.
THE Milwaukee CWis.) police arrested
W. W. Trainor and T. F. Wyatt, alias
! Writtv, two notorious bunko steerers.
/ About $4,000 in ''skin" money was found
/ in their possession. AS no case could be
made against them they were discharged
! and ordered to leave the city. Their bogus
wealth was confscated.
In Difference, it is said, to the wishes Of
/ the imperial government, the Dom inion
] has cancelled the instructions regarding
the seizure of American fishing vessels.
| The Missouri Car and Foundry Com
/ panvis works at St. Louis were destroyed
/ bv fire on the night of the 18th. together
with forty cars and 10000 feet of lumber.
| The loss viii approximate S25O,0Oo; fully
Il insured.
THE public reception at the White House
| on the night Of the 18th was the largest Of
the kind ever witnessed in Washington.
| Though il was not to begin until eight
! O'Clock, before six O'Clock an immense
crowd had gathered in the vicinity of the
main doors, and when they were thrown
open, closely packed line of men, women
and children extended from the main en-
| trance TO Fifteenth street. There were
/ fully FIVE thousand persons in line, and
ten O'Clock the number had rotpercepubl
/ decreased,