The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-02-10

OK the 1st Hartley & Graf am, New
York gun manufacturers, bid off the Rem
ington armory at S152.000 at the sale by
order Of the court in Hon, n. Y.
OK the 1st Winnipeg Spring" a famous
fighting dog. who has won over one hum
dred contests, fought Madge. owned in
Minneapolis, at the latter city, and was
killed in twenty-eight minutes. Both
dogs fought at fiftv pounds and for 500
a side.
The Austrian Government, it is report
ed, has decided to ask the delegations to
vote 10000, 900 forins for the first ex-
penses of mobilization.
AT Drohmore, Ireland, sixteen youths
have been sentenced TO imprisonment for
one week with hard labor for lighting
bOnfirss to celebrate the release of Will
lam O'Brien.
AT eleven O'Clock on the morning of the
1st earthquake shocks were felt at many
points in Maine, New Hampshire and
Vermont. No damage has been reported,
but the shock was severe enough to rattle
windows and dishes.
On the 1st a vast industrial parade,
many miles long and occupying two hours
and half in passing a given point was
the carnival attraction at st. Paul, Minu.
Every important business-house in the
city was represented, many by elaborate
floats, showing goods tastefully dis
at work.
On the night Of the 1st shocks of earth
quake were felt throughout Scotland.
AT Cornwall, Ont, fifteen hundred cot
ton mill operatives are on strike against
a reduction of wages.
On the 2I two carloads of potatoes,
corn and food were sent to the Kansas
sufferers, from Pierre, Oak. The Chicago
& Northwes tern furnished free transpor-
tation.
On the night of the 2d the annual ban
quet of the Merchants and Manu-
facturers' Association of Baltimore, Md,
took place at the Hotel Rennsrt and was
attended by representative business men
to the number of two hundred.
On the ID the Supreme Court of Michi-
gan decided the Palms will case by re-
versing the decision of the court below
and sustaining the trust. The result
leaves the will intact.
A STORM of indignation has been caused
by the telegraph versions of a settlement
between the main questions affecting the
fisheries on a basis uufavorable to Cana
da in all parts of the Dominion.
CERTAIN provincial assemblies COM
| memorative of the rule of Car Alexander
| II, will be suppressed by Russia.
On the ID the San Francisco Chamber of
/ Commerce adopted the majority report of
| the committee recently appointed to con-
slider the tariff as affecting sugar inter-
tests of the Pacific coast. The report ad-
vocates that the present tariff be main
tanned.
AT Uniontown, Pa, ten prisoners es-
| capped from jail on the evening of the ID,
| by breaking through the rotten floor Of
an unused cell into the cellar, and, max
| ing hole in the wall, crawled through.
AT Louisville, KY, big combination
| to secure control of all the leaf tobacco in
the country is said to be in process of
| formation.
BYLAWS for the government Of the
organization has been formulated by the
executive committee of the SOuthwes
Texas immigration convention.
The Canadian Government, acting on
information from the British War OHice
in London, is about to inaugurate a sys-
tenn of coast defense.
DURING the seven days ended the Sd
the business failures numbered for the
United States, 247; and for Canada, 80,
or a total of 279, as compared with 81 for
the preceding like period, and 26l for the
| CORES sponding week of last year.
IN Ireland the tendency of events,
and the lack of assurance in Lord
/ SalisbuFy's remarks, makes thu outlook
rather gloomy for the land element.
! IT is estimated by an officer of the Phil
! adelphia & Reading Railroad Company
! that at least FIVE thous and Miners re-
! turned to work during last week, and said
| that there are enough mines being worked
to avoid any Inconvenience TO the COM
pany or to consumers.
On the 3D. two saw-mills at Port Blake
] ly, opposite Seattle, W. T., and the
/ largest on Puget Sound, were burned.
! The fire caught from a hOt-box,
aud the wind from the belts
caught the flames and famed the
4 blaze the whole length of the
mill almost instantly, so that tho men
barely had time to escape. The loss is
| $3.50, 900: no insurance. #.
On the Sd the arguments on the trial Of
Benjamin E. Hopkins, of the Fidelity
Bank of Cincinnati, were c INCLUDED. aud
Judge Sage delivered his charge to ths
jury, who took the case under considera-
| .ion.