The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-11-05

1HE customs committee OIL the Erencn
Chamber Of Deputies have decided in favor
of the bill raising the duty on foreign
wheat from three to five francs.
The laws Of the first session of the
Forty ninth Congress are ready for dis
tribution at the State Department. 1t is
the largest volume of laws for one session
that has ever been printed.
A CORVETTE is about to sail from Lisbon
for Mozambique to reinforce the POrtu-
guese squadron. A petty King in that re-
gion, with $4,000 natives, is in revolt. It
is sought at Lisbon to connect the revolt
with the Pondo rising.
THE result of the conference of Catholic
prelates in Baltimore is that the order of
the Knights of Labor will not be con-
demued. The entire proceedings of the
session viii be sent to Rome.
THE Hartly Reclining Chair Car Com
pany, of Chicago, has made an assign
ment.
on the Goth another SO 200, 900 three per
cent. bond call was made by the Secre-
tary of the Treasury.
A COMPANY has been formed to build a
railroad from Wichita Falls, Tex, to VIM
| field, Kas.
THE exhibition to be held at Glasgow,
Scotland, in 1888 will cover an area of
thirty acres.
| A SYNDICATE has been formed to open
and cultivate 900 acres of land in the
Yazoo delta, Mississippi.
VIENNA dispatches state that the Bull
| garian regency have refused to raise the
| state of siege in Sofia and Varna, as re-
quested by General Kaulbars.
A PUBLIC meeting of land reformers and
workingmen was announced to be held at
London on November 1, to express SYM
| pathy with the movement to elect Henry
George mayor of New York.
CoMPosIToRs in Berlin threaten a gem
eraI strike. The men contend that the
! tariff recently de cided upon is proving
unfair, and they give their employers
until January 1 to consider the matter.
The strike will involve almost every news
/ paper in Berlin.
| THE Lord Lieutenant Of Ireland, in re-
ply to a deputation of Presbyterians,
| stated that all creeds should be repre-
| sented in the governm ent service.
IT is not improbable, although it has not
| been positively determined, that no ap-
/ pointment to the Turkish mission will be
made Immediately, and perhaps the Presi-
dent will conclude to postpone a selection
until the meeting of Congress.
THE threatened lockout, which was set
/ for November 3 by all of the textile mills
/ in Philadelphia, and which would have
| affected nearly 10J, 900 employees, has been
| averted. As the result of a conference
with the manufacturers, General Master
! Workman POwderly on the Goth ordered
the strikers in Trot te's mill to resume
work pending arbitration.
! ON the 1st the oleomargarine law went
/ into effect.
On the 3lst the great Bulgarian So
] TD.s.
ander opened at Tirnova.
PREPARATIONS are in active progress for
next years elections for members of the
! German Reichstag.
| THE report of the inspectors of German
! factories recites much overwork, a bad ar
rang gement of hours and hideous sanitary
| conditions.
THE Bulgarian Government has ordered
| that the German instead of the Russian
! language shall be taught in the public
| schools.
/ THE old Missouri, Iowa & Nebraska rail-
way has been reorganized under the name
of the Keokuk & Western.
A MEETING of Socialists at Gotha, View
ing with alarm the increase OF Russian
power, recommend the German Govern
ment to be persistent in its hostility to the
| Russian policy.
TURKEY gives but little encoura agement
to France in her demands upon England
concerning Egypt.
OK the 90th Attorney Salamon, of coun-
sci for the Chicago Anarchists, appeared
before Judge Gary, armed with a stack of
law books, and asked to be heard on the
motion for new trial based on the dOcu-
ments submitted to the court a few days
since. The court peremptorily refused to
listen to a renewal of the argument.
ON the 31st the Women's Home Mission.
airy Society of the M. E. church celebrat-
ed their anniversary at Detroit, Mich,
Addresses were made by several ladies
attending the National annual meeting
Of the society regarding the work accom-.
plished and that yet to be done.