The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-03-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

TIE Austrian Imperial Minister of War
has issued orders for the enforcement of
the study of German among all the troops.
DURING eight months ended February
IS last, the total values Of the exports of
breadsturs We're S72,5lO97S, against Sl1O,-
O,132 the same time last year.
A MOVEMENT has been organized in Rus
STA to convert to the Greek Church the
Catholic Czechs in the Austro- Hung arian
empire
On the 11th the cotton mills at Victlry,
n. Y, were shut down owing to a strike of
operatives. The mills employ about five
hundred hands, ard they all went out.
The men were refused an advance of ten
per cent to their present wages.
A COMPROMISE has been effected between
the nailers and operators at the Falcon
nail-wor1s at Niles, o., and fifteen of forty
four machines resumed on the 18th, after
an idleness Of eleven months. The feeders
were dissatisfied with the terms, and re-
fused to go to work, and the machines
started were run by the nuiiers themselves.
THE trustees of the Mount Moriah ceme-
terry at Philadelphia have presented the
Mccullough monument fund with plot
OF ground thirty feet square. They also
incur all the expense Of the masonry for
a vault and a circular drive around the
plot. The offer has been accepted by Mrs.
Mccullough aud the trustees.
THE London D0Iy NelcS estimates the
number of deaths in the Monte Carlo rail-
way disaster on the 10Th at forty, includ-
ing seven railway employees
THE wholesale druggists Of Western cities
were in session at indianapolis, Ind, on
the 18th
OK the l2th six hundred employees of the
ar
n. j., went out on a strike
OK the ilth the two hundred employees
Of Mcintosh, Hemphul Il Co., extenst i've
foundrymen at Pittsburgh, were notified
of an advance in their wages of from five
TO fifteen per cent, to take effect April -.
The action Of the firm was surprise to the
men. No demand for an increase had been
made. Il is expected that the other foun-
drymen in Pittsburgh will follow the ex-
ample.
THE powers threaten to withdraw their
representatives from Athens unless Greece
disarms.
THE anti Chinese convention at Sacra-
mento, Cal, adopted a proposition to boy
cott all W no employ or patronize Chinese.
DURING the seven days ending the 18th
the business failures numbered for the
United States 2l0, and for Canada y, a
total Of 30, against 2tI last week and 2iS
the week previous. Failures are on the
decline in every section Of the country,
especially in Eastern and Middle Ssates.
MAD dog bit twenty persons in Brad
ford, England, in January, and on the 18TH
one OF them died from hydrophohis The
others arc to be sent TO Posteur for treat
ment.
OK the 12th the education committee of
the House OF Representatives, after
sharp hight, voted TO table the Blair Edu-
cational bill. This practically kills tho
measure.
LATE Eaugoo1 advices state that I,200
rebels iutend to march on MsndaIay-
British reinroccemenss are pushing for
ward
on the 18th a deputation OF Socialists at
Amsterdam, Holland, waited on the mayor
10 urge relief measures. They We're sub
sequeutiy clubbsd hv the police.
A FAMILY OF nine at Lyon, Ind, are in
with trichinosis
On the i2th nearly eight hundred eu-
ployes Of the American Hosiery Company,
at New Britain, Conn, vent Out oaN strike
their demand for hi Cher wages having
been refused. The company'> officers re-
fused 10 meet a COMMITTEES OF the knights
OF Labor to effect settlement hy arbi.ra-
tion.
Tar committee Of the German Raichstag
TO which was rsferrsl ths spirit monopoly
bill rejected the arst two clauses, thus vir-
tually defeating the measure.
Ok tn itth Lewis. The Wisconsin "strar,-
gler,' won the catch catch -can vrest-
ling match With Etu.u Bili, ia ST. I.ouis.
winning three oat 50 live falls. he did met
haye a s. ak ., er. however.