The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-11-09

In New York City library, reading
room, industrial classes and other suit
able means for the mental and moral i'm
prOvement Of the working girls, together
with day nursery for the care of infants
of the poor Of the city, is soon to be
erected.
On the 31st articles of incorporation
were placed on record by the National
Jockey Club of W ashingtOn.
2HE Cologne (Germau) Gazette asserts
that the nobility of the Caucasus medi-
tate an emeute against Russia upon the
first opportunity, and that the official ac-
counts Of the Cars late reception by the
mobiles are untrue.
1T is reported from Paris that American
residents there are indignant over the al
legged intention of the State Department
at Washington to recognize the right of
foreign courts to administer the property
of Americans dying abroad according to
the law Of country in which the death Oc-
ours.
IT is reported that Foreign Jews en-
gagged in farming in Poland, have been or
dered to quit the country within month.
THE State Department has been ad-
vised of the accession of the Grand Duchy
of Luxembourg to the International Red
Cross Association.
The defendants claim that the evidence
given by the police reporters witnesses
for the Times) before the ParneI Com
mission was decidedly favorable to the
Parnellites.
BETWEEN Octob er and November 1
7,4S2 persons were carried up in the eIe-
vator of Washington monument and
2. 35i walked up, making a total of 9,S36
who ascended the shaft.
DURING the month of October the total
coinage executed at the mints was 9, O03,-
$50 pieces, representing value of s., 81, =
$50. OF these pieces, 1873, $50 were gold,
representing s.. OSS, $50; 3. 500, 600 were sill
yer, Of the value of So, 250 900, and 8, $40, =
| 600 were minor coins, Of the value of S83, =
700.
IT is announced that the operations of
the Council General of Alsace- Lorraine
viii be conducted hereafter in the Ger
man language.
AT Birmingham, England, in the muni-
cipal elections, on the 1st, nine wards re-
| turned seven UniOnists and two Glad =
stonians. The elections we're contested
on po litical party lines.
THE first section of the Trans African
railway from St Paul de Loanda to Am
baca has been inaugurated.
THE harbor of ST. Petersburg was re-
ported d frozen on the I'd, closing naviga-
ton.
GERMAN newspapers are questioning the
import of the Czar's recent visit to Sevas-
canoe of a former visit to SevastopOl,
when, upon the Cars return to the cap
| ital, war was declared upon Turkey.
ON the 31st the schooner Mystic, which
was supposed to have been lost with her
entire crew passed Eagle Harbor, Mich,
| all safe.
/ AN Irish attorney at Denver Col, says
lie has received information from ondon
/ that a commission will soon be sent to
. Aul1a ri "a fO taE Ia fRe in al
| and London Times case.
| THE decrease in net earnings of the
/ Union Pacific railroad for September
/ caused considerable surprise in financial
| circles.
/ On the Cd the steam whaler Brasher ar
| rived at San Francisco from the Arctic
! ocean, bringing information that the thir-
| teen whalers which we're caught in the
| ice-pack in September had been extri-
/ Gated, and were safely on their way to the
/ whaling rendezvous.
! For the month OF October the sales of
leaf tobacco in the Danville (Va-) mar
lzet amounted to ,123S43 pounds.
On the ID the Brotherhood Of LocomO =
tive Engineers, in session at Richmond,
Va, adopted proposition approaching
| labor federation. No member of one
brotherhood shall take the place of a
! member of another brotherhood in case
of a strike.
The forthcoming report of the Post
MASTER General will show that in spite of
the re cent reduction in letter. postage,
the service is rapidly getting back to a
/ self -sus tanning basis
On the 1st a riot, in which several per-
sons were severely injured, occurred at
Middleton, County Cork, Ireland. be-
! tween the police and a mob who rescued
| a man under arrest.
On the night of the 1st, during torch
light procession in the City of Belgrade,
Servia, stones were thrown at the win
dows of the Austrian Legation, some of
/ which were broken.
HERBERT L. CRITCHETT, of Daniels &
Critchett, real estate and auctioneers of
| Boston, has disappeared, leaving a large
deficit, amounting to S25. 600. Mr.. Dam
/ iels, senior member of the firm, thinks
his personal loss viii be $40, 900.