The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-11-12

1T is estimated that the receipts from
oleomargarine licenses and stamps
throughout the country will aggregate
s., SOC, 900 annually.
A VIENNA dispatch of the ID stated that
twelve Russian men-of-war had left Se-
bastopol.
OK the ID Whitehead torpedo, charged
with ninety three pounds of gun cotton,
was lashed alon gside the British ironclad
Resistance off Portsmouth, England,
where it was exploded. The spectators,
who expected to see the Resistance scat,
tered broadcast, were somewhat surprised
to find that her powers of resistan ce weEs
not perceptibly impaired.
On the Sd the Vermont House of Repre-
sentatives passed bill granting suffrag 9
to women by a vote of 135 to 81.
REPoRTs from collectors of intern al
revenue in various parts of the country
indicate that the number Of licenses isssIed
and stamps sold to oleomargarine de8 lers
so far is greatly in excess of expectat5 ons,
and the total amount of imitation bEztter
placed upon the market nearly double the
amount that had been estimated as pos
sible.
FIVE HUNDRED miners struck for an ad-
vance of wages at Mt. Carmel, P;l., OH the
4th.
a MEETING Oh LQ6 american OUuuaH
School Union began at Cedar Rapids, Ia,
on the 4th.
On the 81 delegation of French farm
ers waited on President Grevy and Pre-
mier De Freycinet and urged the neces-
sity of a duty of five francs on imported
corn.
A NEW question is raised in the oleo-
margarine seizures, as to what shall be
done with the stuff
CRIME is said to have decreased in Ker-
ry, Ireland, owing to a reduction Of rents
and General Buffers system of watching
suspects.
THE strike and lockout in the Augusta
(Ga.) factories involving three thousand
hands has been terminated.
THE sloop yacht Atlantic, buSlt at a cost
of 5000 to compete for the Queens cup,
has been sold for 81, 500.
A NEW trans Atlantic steamship line be-
tween Newport News and Liverpool, En-
gland, has teen established.
THE London Standard says the great
lesson of the Leeds conference is that
where the Liberal party stood last session
there it still stands, on the unalterable
basis of an independents parliament for
Ireland.
In the National Horse show at New
York, the first prize for trotting stations
was awarded to King Coss ack, owned by
the Cation stock farm, Chicago.
THE Fiftieth Congress will be purely
white Congress, for the first time in twen-
ty years, Small, of South Carolina, and
O'Hara, of North Carolina, having failed
of election.
DISPATCHES from Cabul say that the
Chill zais recently surprised and annihil.,
ated a regiment of Duranis, who were
going TO Cabul, near Mukhur. The Chill
zai insurrection is spreading.
A STATE of siege has BEEN proclaimed
at Phillippopolis, the capital of Eastern
Roumelia, for the purpose of suppressing
the bands of brigands who are infesting
the environs of the city.
THE schooner NJ. Walker sank off Chez
boygan, Mich, on the 5th.
THERE were III failures in the Omitted
States during the seven days ended the
9th.
EARTHQUAKE shocks were felt through
out the Carolinas and Georgia on the 9th.
HARVARD college found alton was COM
memorated by an appropriate eele bration
on the 9th.
SPANISH exports for October show an
increase of s., 900, 900 over the same month
last year.
THE Italian Ministry have directed that
the great coll lection of musical works
which formed part of the municipal
library in Rome shall be transferred to
the Academia di Santa Cecilia. This
collection has been described as the rich
est of its kind in the world, and the cata-
logue of musical works which it contains
as the most complete in existence.
AN officer of the Victoria (Australia)
Mining Department reports that a paying
gold reef has been discovered near Enoch's
Point, in the Woods Point District,
Queensland. Fine specimens have been
obtained.
A DISPATCH from New Zealand says
that news has been received from Samoa
stating that perfect cordiality exists at
Alpa between the respective consulates,
The recent visit of British commissioners
was of a confidential ch ara cter.