The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-10-01

DURING the past few years 1900 trees
have been planted IN the streets of Berlin,
and this means Of beautifying the city is
being carried on wherever possible.
THE law taxing oleomargarine takes
effect November 1, and the internal rev.
enue officials are perfecting the details nf
the regulations for its enforcement.
NEARLY three hundred mechanics will
be discharged from the Washington Navy
Yard on October 1, as a result of the re.
cent order of Secretary Whitney turning
over the entire yard to the Ordnance Bu-
reau.
THE new steel cruiser Atlanta in her re-
cent trip on Long Island Sound attained
a speed of fourteen knots an hour. Her
machinery worked well.
NUMEROUS employees have been DIR opped
from the roll of the Government printing
Office at Washington, and it is expected
that many mere will follow in a very
short time.
THE Atlantic seaboard ship builders are
boycotting the Government and refuse to
make bids for the construction of new ves-
sells, owing to the alleged shabby manner
in which John Roach has been treated.
On the 26th earthquake shocks were felt
at Constantinople and Smyrna.
A NEWSPAPER published at Hull, En-
gland, claims to have received a letter
stating that the Fenians intend to burn
that town.
THE International Range Association of
Colorado have issued an address urging
that precautions be taken to prevent the
introduction of pleuro- pneumonia.
HIGH diplomatic authority is respon-
sible for the statement that Austrian and
German influence is being exerted to ac-
complish the transfer of the Sultan of Tur-
key to Egypt and the obliteration of the
Ottoman Empire in Europe.
A STONE building has been discovered
eight feet below the surface at Kaukanna,
Wis, which from it's appearance and
workman ship is thought to have been
built centuries ago.
THE Indian commissioners who have
| been arranging treaties with the Northern
Minnesota Indians report the Indians to
be in a deplorable condition, owing to the
whisky traffic which has been carried on
| among them by white men.
IT appears to be a settled fact that the
National banks will have to replace their
three per cent. bonds which have been
called with fours or four-an a-half per
cents.
1T is predicted at the Treasury Depart
ment that there will be a cessation of cir
culation of silver dollars when the small
denomination silver certificates come into
use.
THE General Grand Chapter, Royal
Arch Masons, met in Wash ington on the
| 2Sth.
IT is expected that the new steel cruiser
Boston will be ready to go into commis-
sion in two or three weeks. The Chicago
will be finished about February l mex.
TURKISH agents abroad intimate that
the peace of Europe is endangered by the
present temper of the English and Aus
trian cabinets against Russia.
TIE Turkish War Department contem-
plates equipping and drilling 10000 Kurd-
ish horsemen in the same manner that
Russian Cossacks are equipped and
drilled.
Two earthquake shocks were felt at
Smithville, N. O., one on the night of the
Goth and one on the morning of the 27th
There was no damage done.
DELEGATES from District Assembly 40,
Knights of Labor, have engaged board
with colored families at Richmond, Va,
during the session of the general assem-
bly,, because the hotels refused 10 receive
one Of their members who is colored,
STEPS are being taken at Ottawa, Ont,
to secure the prosecution of the parties
who sent out the bogus reports regarding
the alleged new fishery treaty. The offense
is indictable in Canada.
The twelfth annual session of the Ma
tional Wholesale Druggists Association
convened at Minneapolis, Mimi, on the
9th.
THE Bureau of Agriculture at Washing
ton is actively engaged in devising and
putting in operation measures looking to
the extirpation of pleuro- pneumonia.
AN agent of Ismail Pasha, with an
armed force, seized the ex-Khedive's pail
ace at Cairo, on the 9th, hut withdrew at
the instance of the Russian Consul.
NEGOTIATIONS for a cessation of the in
ternal strife in Bulgaria are going on be-
tween the president of the regency and
the leader of the Russian party.