The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-08-03

THE story comes from Las Cruces
Lower California that gold is being found
there in excellent ore bodies.
On the 25th the Secretary C the Treas
ury accepted only $1,000 four per cent
bonds at S127K.
IT is reported tn at the object of the plot
whi ch was recently discovered at Rust
chuk, Bulgaria, was to murder Prince
Ferdinand. Two of the ringleaders,
BoyetOff and Ivanhof, were arrested on
the 25th,
OK the 2eth the Secretary of the Treas
ury accepted $4,000 ~ per cent. coupon
bonds at 127 2-5.
IT is denied by the Cologne Gazette that
the German Government intends to pro-
test against the Socialist congress which
1t is proposed to hold at Paris during the
exhibition there next year.
BALTIMORE, Nd, according to the school
census, just completed, has ITO, 731 school
children.
SUIT was begun by Nathan Myrick in
the United States Court, at st. Paul,
Mimi, on the 26th, for interest on $11, ,321,
the purchase price OF bill of goods
sold by plaintiff to the Sioux Indians,
in 1861, but which was not hQuidated until
1885.
THE Southern Railway e. Steamship
Association has resolved to renew their
present neutral agreement for the main
August /.
IN Montreal Can, for some months
past a large number of young French
Canadians have met twice a week in
large hall to drill, play cards and drink.
They profess to be forming a corps to
fight for Boulanger.
AT Brunn, Austria, the strike was
ended on the 26th, an advance having
been conceded by the masters.
da1a nf hn Voo
societies agreed to have their headquar-
ters in Berlin instead of in Munich.
On the 25th the contract for piping
natural gas eighteen miles to Peru, Ind,
was let, the work to be completed in sixty
days. Over fifty miles of pipe is neces-
sary to complete the work, and the plant
will cost more than 5000, 900. An immense
force will be employed.
On the 9th the suit in New York of the
Webster Loom Company VS.. E. S. Hig-
gins g. Co., for infringement of a patent
process of carpet weaving, which had
been pending fourteen years, was decided
in favor of the plaintiff, but only six
cent damages were awarded instead Of
$50, 900, 600.
AT Toronto, Ont, on the 26th, John
Madill, merchant of st. Mary's. Ont, was
presented with a solid silver tea service,
''for honorable and unusual conduct" in
paying his creditors a balance of ten
cents on the dollar, and to which they
were not legally entitled. At the time Of
his failure his estate paid ninety cents on
the dollar.
AT st. Ehenne, France, a thousand
miners employed in the coal mines struck,
on the 9th, and it was expected that the
strike would spread.
AN investigation of the Whisky Trust
was begun by the House committee on
manufactures on the 9th.
AT Montreal, Can, James Guest a
Wholesale wine merchant made an as
signment on the 26th. Liabilities, $780,
600; assets not stated. The loss of $780,
600 by fires during the past seven months
was the cause Of the assignment.
| On the 9th evicttons from the estate of
| Captain Vandeleur, in County Glare, Ire
| land, were again suspended, and it was
| thought that negotiations would be en-
tered into looking to a settlement OF the
remaining cases without resorting to
/ ejectment.
! AT Hong Kong, China, during the week
preceding July 2, ninety deaths from
| cholera occurred.
ON the 26th the Wisconsin Press. Asso-
/ citation arrived at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich,
| over the $500" line in a special train.
! There were $50 editors and friends. They
| were received by a committee of citizens,
| given an excursion down the st. Mary's
river, and a reception at the City Hall.
! AT SandOwn Park, England, on the 27th
the great eclipse stake of 100000 was
won by Orbit; Ossory second, and Mart
| lev third.
On the 26th, at a conference of the glass
bottle blowers and manufacturers held in
| Pittsburgh, Pa, the wage scale for the
| ensuing year was amicablY arr nged, and
the 5000 workers in the West will resume
| operations when the fires are started in
the furnaces September 1. The scale
slightly advances wages on novelties, but
otherwise it is the same as last year.
| IT is estimated that 100000 or 100, 900
dozen is the number of cans Of peaChss
that will be packed at Baltimore, Md,
| this year.
ON the 9th the Secretary of the Treas
ury accepted $500 coupon and $500 regis
tered ~ per cents at 1077<.