The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-21

OK the 18th all the treasury officials in
Madrid were imprisoned pending an in
quiry into the robbery Of $4,000 from
the Spanish Governments deposit bank
IN that city.
ON the 18th q meeting Of the Senate
committee on education and labor was
held to listen to arguments by delegates
to the Sabbath convention, being held in
Washington, on the Sunday Observance
bill pending in the committee.
THE Supreme Court Of Rhode Island has
decided that bicycle is a vehicle.
on the 18th the Austrian Reichsrath
passed the Military bill by an almost
unanimous vote.
OK the 18th official notice was sent to
the passenger agents of all railroads in
the West and Northwest that, at the ex-
piration of ten days, passenger rates will
be restored to the former basis.
THE New York World says that repre-
sentative Catholics of New y Ork City dis
credit the recent cable dispatch stating
that the Pope, in refusing to bless certain
medals intended for distribution in Ire
land, said that the people of ireland
| 'seemed to prefer the gospel of Dillon
and O'Orien to the Gospel of Jesus
Christ"
A MOVEMENT has begun in West Vir-
ginia to change the name of the State, and
the subject will be brought up before the
! coming session Of the Legislature. Kama
/ wha, the name Of a West Virginia river,
has been suggested as the new name of the
/ State.
A BILL has been introduced in the South
| Carolina Legislature to reduce the pension
TO South Carolina ex-Confederate soldiers
/ from five dollars a month to thirty dollars
| a year.
A SEARCH of the cells and persons of
/ the prisoners in the Tennessee State prison
at Nashville, few days ago, revealed q
whole arsenal of small arms and other
| appliances, which it is believed, would
/ soon have been used against the guards in
| a general break for liberty.
| IT Is announced that Persia has waived
| her objections to the appointment of a
Russian Consul at Meshed, and the Car
! viii send a Consul there at once.
THE news has been received that new
Extraordinary Congress has been con-
voked at Lima, Peru, for January 1, 1889,
to consider and arrange the external debt
Of the country and to consider also a
| modification which will be proposed by
the Minister of Hacienda respecting the
internal debt.
On the 18th the American Protestant
Episcopal Church of the Holy Ghost at
Nice, France, was consecrated by Bishop
Lyman. Two hundred and fifty Amer
! leans and Englishmen attended the serv-
ices.
THE statement is made that Dakota is
| surpassed by only four States Of the Union
in the number of students attending agri-
cultural colleges.
THE Dakota Farmers Alliance, recently
| in session at jamestown. passed a resOlu-
| ton recommending the adoption of law
/ prohibiting the manufacture and sale Of
/ intoxicating liquors in the Territory. They
] also recommended the adoption of the
/ ATG lfav tom Of
/ IT is reported that gross frauds in the
/ count of the vote for mayor of San Fran
cisco, at the recent election, are being un-
| earthed by the recount demanded by the
defeated anti-C Chinese candidate.
UPto the 18th five applicants had already
| appeared for appointment as Judge of the
| Federal Court for the district of Florida,
made vacant by the death of Judge
! Thomas Settle, less than two weeks ago.
A DISPATCH from Sydney, N. S. w, says
| that copious and much-needed rains have
fallen in the colonies of Victoria and New
South Wales.
On the 14th the French Government in
| trOduced q bill in the Chamber of DepU-
ties providing for a postponement fol
three months of the payment of the Pana-
ma Canal COmpany's liabilities, including
interest and the redemption of bonds.
IT is reported that the Vermillion &
| Grand Marais Iron Company, with a cap
ital OF S5,OO0,O00, has been organized at
Duluth. MINI. 1t is said to be q consoli.
dation OF the interests Of a large number
of owners of ironNands on the VermiIlion
and Mesaba range, and Will control from
1900 to $1,000 acres.
OK the 18th the famous stallion Volun-
teer, the sire of st. Julien and other noted
trotters, died at the Walnut Grove farm,
in Orange County, n. Y. He was thirty.
four years of age.
/ y CALL has been issued by the Comp
troler of the Currency for reports of the
condition Of National banks at the CLOSE
of business on December u.
THE Radicals and Liberals scored q
great victory, the PrOgressiOnists being
totally defeated, in the primary election
which has Just been held Throughout