The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-30
NIIsCEITANEOus.

AuA6CEA<A-ANEOUSs
It Is semi officially stated that France
viii refuse to join the powers in the plan
Of coercing Greece into disarming.
THE clergy of Cleveland, o., headed by
Bishop Beden of the Episcopal Church
are preparing to boycott the Sunday Sc
cular newspapers. Confidential circu-
lars have been issued to clergymen, and
all have been urged to join the movement
and denounce Sunday papers from their
pulpits on May ?.
! INDEPENDENT coke manufacturers, op-
| Grating nearly eight hundred ovens in
/ the McCOnnellsville region in Pennsyl-
I vania, and employing 5000 men, have fol-
| lowed the example of the coke syndicate
and advanced wages from five to ten per
cent, TO take effect May /.
A LARGE number of leading business
men of New York have signed a call for a
| special meeting of the Chamber of Com
merce, with view to taking action rela-
tive to the labor disturbances now in ex-
! istence there.
THE Spanish sanitary council has au-
thorized the practice of incubation for
cholera.
| AN attempt to blow up the church of San
| Lius at Madrid, on the 23d, was partly
successful.
| THE labor investigating committee closed
! its sitting in Washington on the 23d, and
/ the members intended ~ leave for st. Louis
/ on the 27th.
A FIGHT took place in East Flanders on
the 23d between gendarmes and striking
watchmakers, in which the rioters were
I routed and several were arrested.
THE total imports of dry goods at the
port of New York during the seven days
ended the 23d were valued at s, ,369, SOS,
and tho amount thrown on the market
s., $40.
THE Municipal Council of Stry, Galacia,
has been dissolved by imperial order on
account Of culpable negligence in failing
70 provide the town with fire engines.
THE last stone in the pedestal on Bedloe's
Island, on which will stand Bartholdi's
colossal statue Liberty Enlightening the
World" was laid on the 23d. The statue
will be unveiled September 3.
A soCIALIsTIC mass-meeting of German
| wOrkingmen was held in New York on the
night of the 23d 20 denounce "the capital
lists and the police who were endeavoring
TO crush Herr Most and his workingmen.' -
1T is now understood that France viii
join the Powers in an ultimatum TO Greece,
insisting on disarmament, but viii refuse
to join in any naval demonstration intend
ed as coercion.
A SENSATION has been created in Ireland
by an offer Of the trustees of the Symes
estate to turn over the lands to the tenants
at a sum equal TO twelve years. rent.
ORDERS have been issued by the Treas
ury Department for the fitting out of the
revenue steamer Bear at San Francisco for
| a cruise to Alaska. She is to proceed as
far north as possible and to make thor
ough search for the crew of the wrecked
whaler Amethyst.
THE visible supply of wheat in the United
States and Canada, with the quantity
afloat for Europe, on the 23d amounted
70 65 COS, ,4S3 bushels, against 74,S6O,9S
bushels one year ago, and of corn 1925,
O26 bushels, against 13,S27,195 bushels last
year.
ATTACHMENTS amounting to $4,000 have
been placed on the Bennington (Vt.l mills
and the mills have shut down. This Is the
largest milling property in Vermont.
TIE total value of exports during the
twelve months ended March 81, 1886, were
G65,o00,9so, and during the preceding
twelve months, S743, 79l, ,OIS, a decrease OF
55,s34,O93. The value of the imports for
the same period were S6l4, 775, ,670, and for
the preceding twelve months, S596, ,202, $50,
an increase Of SIS5, ,70,0I5.
THERE were I94 failures in the United
States and Canada during the seven DAYS
ended the 2Sd, compared with Is2 the pre-
ceding week and 2l0 the week previous e
That