The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-28


TROUBLES were expected on the isthmus
Of Panama owing to the financial diff
culties of the Canal Company. A French
ship of war has been ordered to Colon.
ALL parts of Australia are enthusiastic-
ally in. favor of the proposed cable from
Australia to Vancouver, British Column
ba.
IT is rumored in Berlin that the Emperor
William is meditating the wholesale re-
tirement of aged Generals, the promotion
Of Junior officers and a reorganization or
the military department
A MAIL bag containing $3.50 in cash and
several letters of money was stolen from
the railroad station at Ottawa, Ont, re-
Gently and not a clew has been found toit.
GLADSTONE left England on the 18th for
his trip to Italy. He was enthusiastically
cheered by great crowds all along the
road.
BASEBALL was played at Sydney, N. S.
w on the 18Th. The score was ALI
America, 6; Chicago, 3.
THE new B. g. o. directory, it is said,
will again commence the old aggressive
policy of the road. New extensions have
been mapped out
/ SIX farmers started to cross the river to
Montreal on the ice during the recent
| storm. They were not heard from and IL
4 was feared they broke through and per-
| ished.
| THE lovyer,house OF tie Austrian Reichs-
rath has suspended trials by jury in If
teen judicial districts under the Anarchist
| law.
THE negotiations between the Norfolk &
Western and Richmond Terminal Compa-
nies have fallen through.
THE Chittagong Hill tribes-in India have
raided the low lands and killed several
/ persons. An expedition consisting of /, 200
men has started to punish them.
SERIOUS storms were reported off the
Pacific coast on the 18th. Fears were ex-
pressed concerning several colliers from
Puget Sound.
CONSIDERABLE dissatisfaction was ex'
pressed in England at the. action of the
| Prince of Wales in securing the disband
ment of the Honorable Artillery Company
a military company formed $50 years ago
THE workmen on the Eiffel tower, whic
is being constructed as one of the feature
of the exhibition next year in Paris, hav
l gono on strike.
THE Wiener T'dqblatt says that l. 600 Aus
: trian and German subjects were expelle
1 from Warsaw one day recently. No rea
son was assigned.
THE London STANDARD thinks the receT
t change in the Baltimore & Ohio manage
j ment not conducive to honest manage
ment. Several American newspapers tax
7 the same view.
I
mas trenches investing Suakim on the pot
. and drove out the Arabs, killing 400 II
: British and Egyptian losses were six kille
Q aud about thirty wounded.
THE independence Beige, OF Brussels, al
d nouuces that President and Mrs. Clev'
Y land will visit Europe soon after the e.
% piration of Cleveland's term of Office an
e that they will remain for some time
that city.
le THE French steamship Marseilles, whiC
l. sailed from Bordeaux, November %, +
l. New Orleans direct with a full cargo
y merchandise and 36S passengers, was SCI
eraI DAYS overdue and fears for her safe
I'd were entertained.
l. A DISPATCH was received in London
5 the 21st from st. Thomas, West AfriC
es stating that Stanley and Emin Pasha h
arrived on the Aruwimi. TippoO Tib al
Z, sent word to Zanzibar that the explore
re were safe,
lg a CHEMISTS assistant named Past
Beaussier has been arrested charged wi
j. poisoning sixteen persons in Hav
IN France. 1t is supposed that his motive
m the crime was a desire to ruin his el
h, plover and obtain the business himself.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for Z
n seven DAYS ended December 20 number
ID 31f as AGAINST 3O3 the previous week a
by 800 the corresponding week OF last year
he BANDS of brigands are reported sco1
de ING Fpirus. Several villages have be
raided and the Christian inhabitants M
OF sacred. The Turkish officials are helple