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

THERE was recorded in the clerks Office
at Poughkeepsie, n. Y, on the 25th,
mortgage from the Poughzeepsie Bridge
Company to the Mercantile Trust Com.
pauv of New Y Yor1 for s. coo 900. The
mortgage covers bridge to be construct.
cd over the Hudson at Poughkeepsie and
all the real estate approaches and other
property of the company now owned and
hereafter to be acquired by it.
CLOTHING manufacturers in New York
are boycotting union cutters.
THE Lake Shore switchmen at Chicago
are threatening another strike.
BRADsTREET's weekly review states that
business is booming everywhere.
TUE Powers in their answers to the
Porte's circular on Bulgarian affairs are
remarkably non-cOmmittal.
THE Pope, in an encyclical letter to the
Bishops of Hungary, says the church alone
can cope with Socialism.
ALL Mexicans not naturalized Ameri-
can citizens, have been ordered out of Nc
CulIough County, Texas.
IN Madagascar a desperate effort is be.
ing made to pay the French indemnity
claim, and terminate French occupation.
LETTER from Admiral Ward, of the
British navy, to Superintendent Kimball
of the Live Saving Service says that the
American service shows by far the most
complete record of Iife-saving work.
DURING the seven days ended the 27th,
the business failures for the United States
and Canada numbered 201, against 1SG for
the previous like period.
TIE Treasury Department experts sent
10 count the money in the United States
sub-treasury at Philadelphia, completed
their tasks on the 2ith, and found that the
money and the accounts balanced to a
penny. The experts counted about $27,-
Geo, 600, of which $4,000, 900 was in silver.
ZANKOFF AMI Grueoff and the MetropoIi-
tan Clement, principals in forcing the
addiction Of Prince Alexander, have been
convicted by COurt-martial, the two
former being sentenced to death ana the
latter to life imprisonment.
THE Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has decided to place fine engraving of
| the treasury building upon the special 500
OleOmargaIine stamp.
IN Belfast thieves and thugs are said to
have established reign OF terror, espe-
cially in the Shank Hill district, which
has been practically deserted by the police.
On the 2Sth Larry Donovan, a pressman
/ in the New York Police Gazette Office,
4 jumped from tho center of the Brooklyn
/ bridge into the East river, and was picked
! up by friends in a boat ard found to be
uninjurej. He was arrested upon land
/ ing, and later in the day was fined ten
! dollars by Judge Duffy in the Tombs po-
/ lice court. Donovan won a wager of $500
MAR Milan, Mich, the bones Of a mas
| todIan were dug up last week. As an in
/ dication of its dimensions, two hind leg
/ bones measured ffty-four inches each.
THE lock- out of the Reading (Pa) cigar
makers, which lasted sixteen weeks, has
been declared Of, and benefits have stop
\ ped. The union men have lost the fght.
! on the 2Ssh a slight shock Of earthquake
| was felt at Wilmington, n. c. Charles
/ ton, S. c., and Augusta, Ga, also ex-
| perienced slight shocks.
/ THE English cricketers arrived in New
! York on the 2oth.
| A RUNoR is current in Washington that
/ John G. Meyers, the abscond3ug pay
masters clerk, has been murdered in
/ South America.
/ THE new letter sheet envelope is issued
under the patent OF L. H. Rogers, of New
Y ork, and not of Leo EbrIich, OF st. Louis
as was eroneously stated.
On the 29th the eclipse Of the sun came
off according to appointment, but The
/ pleasures of the occasion were somewha-
marred in the West by the inclemency O.
the weather.
on the 20th Mount Vesuvius was agaiI
in a state of eruption. The people OF Ma.
pies and Bari were fleeing to the country
or gathering in open spaces to pray. A
/ Bari priests proclaim the earthquakes
| visitation OF God.
On the 29lh two hundred Anarchists
met at Turn Hall in Cleveland, o., to de.
nOunce the action of the Chicago jury in
| convicting the bomb throwers. The police
! were not present, but the speakers KEEP
a close watch OF the outer door, evidently
/ anticipating a visit.
THE Peruvian army has been reduced t.
/ a total of $500 men-2, 400 infantry, 5O
cavalry and go artillery. In addition t,
this there is police force mounted and OF
foot, amounting to nearly 1,500 men fol
duty throughout the Republic.