The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-11-19

A YEAR ago Harrison Loper married
Cora Brown, aged thirteen years. He died
on the 1Osh in the village of Shrub Oak,
Westchester County, 7. Y. The widow.
who stin wears short clothes, has a two
months baby.
GENERAL FAIRCHILD, Commander-Ia-
Chief of the Grand Army of the Republis,
viii visit Nashville, Tenn, arriving Mon>
day, December 6, spending two days. His
visit, it is intended, will be made a 81 and
affair.
TIE Baltimore & Ohio Express Co n
panY has succeeded in perfectng ar
rangements for a through line frcm New
York to New Orleans. The company will
begin on December !, running on theif
new line.
GREAT alarm ex fists at Madrid, owing
to reports of a threatened outbreak
against the government.
AFTER filling their New York and Brook
lyn engagements the Cameron Lonsd dale
opera troupe will return to England.
RAIN amounting almost to a deluge fell
in France for four days ending the 18th,
causing great damage to property.
IN the first half of this month the Gov
ernment revenues aggregated 81, ,3G5, ,573.
The expenditures during the same period,
including $4,000 pension payments, were
S7,O56,OG3, being s., 500, ,5G8 less than the
receipts.
AS token of tie victory his forces had
won an Afghan General, sent to subdue
the Ghilzai rebels, sent ten carloads of
their heads to Cabul.
THE Farmers Alliance of Chicago
adopted n platform favOring a union Of
farmers with labor organizations, to amel.
iOrate all evils expressing both classes il
common.
EIGHT HUNDRED pounds of oleomargar.
inc were seized at Davenport, Ia, on the
18th, by The United States authorities,
the stamp law not having been complied
with.
THE equestrian statue of Washington,
destined for the city of Philadelphia, has
just been finished at Berlin. 1t will be
shipped in December.
On the 18th shock of earthquake was
experienced In the province of Beirs, Por-
tugal. Much alarm was felt in Lisbon in
consequence.
DURING the seven days ended the 18th
there were 23l failures in the United
States and Canada, as compared with n
total of 1s6 for the preceding like period.
The re cent Frisco express rol berry con-
tinues to puzzle the detectives, n0twi IL
that they will soon have the culprits.
THE Treasury Department has com.
menced the issue of the new two-dollar
silver certificates.
A COLLAPSED Dublin tradesman explains
that his bankruptcy is due to his being
! bovcOtted by the National League.
OFFICIAL figures show that the army of
the United States now consists of ., I02 Of
ticers and 23, ,94j enlisted men.
On the 18Th a Cincinnati saloon keeper
was fined fifty dollars for selling liquors
between the hours of midnight and six
O'Clock a. m.
ON the 13 n the indianapolis, Peru g.
Chicago railroad was sold under decree OF
forecl osure for 81 SOC 900. The bondhold-
ers were the purchasers.
THE entertainment at San Francisco on
the night of the 18Th for the benefit Of the
Charleston sufferers netted about $500.
OFFICIAL returns indicate that the Ger
man merchant fleet is composed of 4, ,135
vessels, having a registered tonnage Of
] ,232, 40 tons, and crews to the number OF
IS, ,931 men.
THE tobacco tax llected by the Gov.
eminent the past year was 81 ,9O7 1862.
ED. CORRIGAN's famous mare, Lizzie
Dwyer, died of pneumonia at Lexington,
I
A BILL for the conversion Of the Belgian
National debt will lie introduced in the
next parliament
A CONVENTION Of lator representatives
| is called to meet in Columbus, O, Decom-
Der s, to organize a trades congress.
A PROPOSAL is pending in the French
! Chamber of Deputies to grant pension
of 1,O10 francs to widows of men who died
! in Tonquin.
IN the Chicago Trades Ass emily meet
ing on the 14th, the radical element had
the upper hand, and action was taken
which was virtually a snub to Mr.. Pow
! DERBY.
PROF. Riley reports that by the diff
fusion process OF sugar-making about
twice the amount of sugar is obtained
from Louisiana cane as by The old sys.
! tenn.