The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-11-29


has offered to make a seaport of Rome
at a cost of S25, 900, 900. The offer is be-
ing considered.
Two HUNDRED whales have lately been
captured in the vicinity of the Orkney
Isles, from which locality it had been
feared whales were disappearing.
Ex-EMPERoB Dom PEDRO receives
from the new Brazilian republic
S2,5OO, 600 in cash, and provision for the
rest of his life in the form of an annual
pension of $3.50, 600.
THE latest news from Stanley direct
indicates that the great explorer and
party arrived at Mpwapwa in the terri
tory of the German East African pro
tectOrate. All were well.
ADMIRAL JOHN q. WALKER and his
Squadron, comprising the new ships Chi
cago, Boston, Atlanta and Yorktown,
sailed from New York, on the 18th, en-
route for the European station.
PROF. NJ. II. KELLOGG, one Of the
pest and oldest educators in the State
of Georgia, died at Atlanta on the 1st
He was the founder and president of
College Temple, at Newman, Ga.
THE Knights of Labor, in covention at
Atlanta, Ca, on the goth, passed a resO-
tuition asking that days of National cleo
tions be made legal holidays, with
penalty for employers violating the law.
THE celebrated London brewing es-
tablishment of Guinness & Sons has do
mated the sum of 600, 600 for the pur-
pose of erecting dwellings for the labor
ing poor of London, and ESQ, 900 for a
like purpose in Dublin.
MoN. SATALII the Papal delegate,
who arrived in Montreal, Can, on tke
10th, confirmed the statement made. by
Archbishop Fabre that Rome would not
raise the ban against the Free Masons
and other secret societies.
The new flag of the United States of
Brazil, which takes the place~Of the i'm
periaI emblem, with it's crown and cOf-
fee leaf, is composed of green and gold
stripes, with a blue field, on which are
emblazoned nineteen stars.
GOVERNOR FLEMING of Florida, on the
18th, forwarded to Secretary Blaine the
report of the Key West Board of Trade,
charging the Spanish Consul at Key
West with fomenting the prolonged
strike of cigar-makers at that place
THE North German Gazette, comment
ing on the success of the issue of Italian
railway bonds, says that no less than
1000, 600 marks of the bonds were ap-
piled for in the German and Dutch mar
kets, notwithstanding the fact that
money was dear.
THREE dynamite cartridges were ex-
ploded under the Alcazar Theater at
Hurley, Wis, on the night of the 18th.
Fortunately the explosive was so placed
that the building was but slightly dam
aged, and no one in the audience Of four
hundred was killed.
THE Mormon Endowment-House oath
investigation was continued at Salt
Lake City on the Goth. Editor Penrosa
of the Deseret News renewed his refusal
to answer how many wives he had, and
was taken to the penitentiary to remain
until purged of contempt.
SECRETARY TRACY, Secretary Noble,
and several members of the naval com.
mitteo of the Senate and House went to
New York to witness the departure OF
the European squadron on the 18th.
The party went down the bay on the
United States steamer Dolphin.
THERE are over a hundred cases OF
diphtheria in Lancaster, o. All the
public schools and Sunday-schoOls have
been ordered closed by the Board OF
Health, and every house is quarantined
where the disease exists. About twenty
children and several adults had died.
A NUMBER of prominent Mormon'
have arrived at the new Mormon settle'
ment at Lees Creek, Alberta, n. w. T.,
not far from the international boundary
line, tho object of their visit being tc
ascertain what measure of success is at
tending the settlement, with a view tC
an early movement of another body OF
colonists if the outlook is favorable.
THE Tory and Liberal newspapers oi
London are actively agitating the ques
tion of imperial federation, and agree
upon all the principal points involved
in the main issue. Both express con
fidence that the scheme will be realized
and neither doubts that the result will
be to cement still stronger together tht
NAAANtA0 VA As'AOAAo NNAAt IA oAAAt9 NAAN
empire.
LAWRENCE & Brown, Of the Ma
hanoy Plane (Pa.) colliery, made ire
mendous hit, on the 10Th, in striking
new mammoth vein of anthracite coal
said to be 600 feet thick and to contain
millions of tons. 1t win go on recorC
as the greatest accidental. find" of pur,
coal ever known. Tho vein was strucl
while making drift 440 feet unde
ground
THE centennial celebration of tn,
ratification by North Carolina of tn,
Federal Constitution began at Fayette
Vile, n. c., on the Goth. Governo
Fowle made a stirring and patrioti
speech, in which he paid a GLOWING
tributeto the Constitution as an immor
tal instrument, the work of pure pa
triots and sagacious statesmen, and b
far the best model OF civil goNernmen
which human virtue and wisdom Ia
ever devised.
TIM reception by capitalists and 9th
ers of London OF the projected Firth o
Clvde canal TO connect the ..tlanti
ocean with the North Sea Is very graft