The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-07-02
MISCELLANEOUS.


OK the 22d numerous persons were sum
marily convicted at Sligo, Ireland, of par
ticipating in the recent riots there. 9th
ers were committed for trial at the As
sizes.
THE steamer Elbe, with the excursion
party of American grocers, arrived at
Bremen on the 22d. A very hospitable re-
ception was given to them.
FIVE hundred kilos of territory have been
purchased in Vitu-Zanzibar by the Ger
man Colonial Association.
OK the 22d the new scientific building,
J costing $50, 900, presented to Smith Col
! lege, Northampton, Mass, by Alfred
| Theodore Lilly, was dedicated. Prof. j.
P. Leslie, of Philadelphia, delivered an
address on ''The Utility OF Physical
| Science in Education"
PRUSSIA proposes to found an indepen-
| dent Prussian BishOpric at Jerusalem.
A SYNDICATE of Partisan fnanciers have
| advanced 25.00O,00) francs to the Panama
! Canal Company as security for the hy-
| pothecation of the recent call.
On the'23d the st. Louis & San Francis
/ co Railroad Company filed a bond with the
! Secretary of the Interior in the amount of
/ S5OO,0O as an indemnity to the Indians
I for any loss that the latter may sustain by
the building of the road through the
/ Choctaw and Chickasaw nations.
THE International Hahnemann Associa-
tion began its sixth annual meeting at
Saratoga on the 24th.
A SPECIAL commission Of eleven mem
bers has been appointed by the French
I Chamber of Deputies to inquire into the
proposed Panama canal lottery loan"
In the Maine canvass the Knights of
/ Labor propose to address open letters to
the candidates for the office of Governor
and to all candidates for the Legislature,
demanding a decided "yes" or "no" to
/ their queries without any "glittering gem
/ civilizations"
] OK the night of the oath at a mass-meet-
] ing of the power-loom ingram carpet
weavers of Philadelphia, at which fully
| 1900 were present, it was decided to go on
\ a strike at once against the proposed re-
] duction of half cent per yard in their
wages.
THE Ninth Infantry eight companies of
which have been for several years sta
toned at Fort Russell. wy. T., has been
/ ordered TO Arizona, where General Miles
| is concentrating force to crush the In
dians. Fort Russell will be garrisoned by
/ the Seventeenth infantry, from Dakota.
By order of the Postmaster General
twenty railway mail clerks have
/ been discharged for insubordination in
conspiring to obstruct the, regulation Of
/ the service.
/ WASHINGTON CITY is hard at work try
1 inc to get the National exhibition Of 1892
! located there.
! THE business failures during the seven
/ days ended the 25th for the United States
were 13S and for Canada y, as compared
/ with 135 for the preceding like period.
AN eleven year-old girl who was bitten
/ bv a dog in April last and treated by Pas
/ teur, died a few days ago in France.
/ FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND gold bars have
/ been ordered for shipment from New York
/ to Hamburg.
THE Cigarmakers' Union of Pottsville,
I Pa, on the 25th presented a scale of prices
| to the employers involving an average ad-
I vance of one dollar per thousand, and
| stated that unless acCeded TO general
l strike would ensue on the -Sth. The en-
plovers declared "a lockout, applying to
/ every factory in this city.
THE collections of internal revenue dur
/ ing the first eleven months Of the fiscal
/ year ending june 80. 1856 amount to Sl04,-
/ iol, ,4S5, being an increase OF IS, ,402, SIS over
the receipts for the corresponding period
/ Of the previous year.
AN American citizen has obtained a
concession TO erect theater in Panama
and engages to complete it within one
/ year. It is TO ACCOMMODATES seven hundred
persons. The government exempts the
! theater from all taxation for the period Of
| six years.