The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

THE German Government will not allow
the Bulgarian loan to be issued in Ger
many, because Bulgaria has no recognized
government.
THE victims of the cholera epidemic last
,all in Presque Isle County, Mich, are
said to have lost complete control Of their
legs, and but few can hobble around on
srutches.
EMPEROR WILLIAM will visit England in
June.
OK the 27th, Count Herbert Bismarck
and his brother William were made,
respectively, Lieutenant Colonel and Ma
ior in the German army.
THE River Seine continues TO rise, and
is flooding Paris and adjacent territory.
C. d. HUSTON, the Burlington engineer
who shot and killed Ed Hall, a striking
switchman, in Creston, Ia, last fall, dur
ing the great ''Q' strike, was acquitted on
the 26th.
As Mr.. W. H. WHITE, secretary Of the
American Legation at London, ap-
preached the Queen during Her Majesty's
drawing-room on the Goth, a portion of
her head-dress, including the diminudve
crown which she wore, fell to the floor.
The incident is considered as bad omen
by the superstitious.
1T is predicted in Berlin that the open
ing of the spring will witness the most
gigantic combination of workingmen's
strikes that Germany has seen in many
years.
THE German missionaries held captive
in Zanzibar were liberated on the 27th-
The collections of internal revenue for
the frst seven months of the fiscal year
ending ia uuary 30, 1889, aggregated S74,-
262, ,596, an increase of s., ,661, ,26i as COM
pared with the collections for the oorre~
spending period Of last year.
GREAT excitement was caused at Pots
7 dam, Prussia, on the 27th, by the suicide
of Lieutenant Won Breokenheim, an aris-
/ tO6raticyoung officer OF the German army.
THE Berlin Post congratulates Russia
/ upon having found market for her Sc
surities in France. 1t says that the gov
ernment desires German investors to get
/ good prices for their Russian stocks and
| then invest in German securities.
OK the 27th, Surgeon General Hamilton
/ Of the Marine Hospital Service returned
to Washington, after spending several
months in Chicago.
BEVERLY +. COLE, OF Salem, n. Y,
chief of the Miners division, General
Land ONCE, wns attacked with epilepsy
while going down a stairway in the In
terror Department building at Washing
/ ton. on the 26th, and fell forward frac-
turing his skull. He died on the 27th.
1T was reported, on the 18th, that the
victims Of the St George (Ont.1 rail-
I road accident were doing as well as could
be expected, though one or two additional
deaths were looked for.
COLONEL Z. G. MCCLURE, Of South Caro-
lima, appointment clerk Of the Post-o ONCE
I Department., died suddenly of heart dis
ease at his residence in Washington on
the 2sth.
THE extensive brick works of Dehaynin
I near Marchiennes au Pont, Belgium, were
I burned. on the 27th. The flames spread
to ten reservoirs Of tar, each containing
4 100000 gallons, all of which, with a mum
Der OF barges in the river, were consumed
Two LITTLE sons of John COttle, Of Rich
/ lands, n. c., were frozen to death during
a recent cold spell
A DISPATCH from Burmoh announces
that the RangOon- Mandalay railway has
been opened
PATENTS have been issued TO the State
of Oregon for IS, ,s4S acres OF land undel
the swamp land grant.
THE Duke Of Sutherland, whose wife
died in England since his arrival il
| America in November last, has obtained
license 10 marry Mrs Blair, mem Der o
his travelling party.
FATHER KENNEDY was released from
1 Cork Jail. on the 2Sth, the term for whicl
he was sentenced having expired.
FATHER CLARK, parish priest OF Avoca
ireland, was arrested, on the 2Sth, uE>de
the Crimes oct aud viii undergo siz
weeks Imprisonment in Wexford Jail.
EloHTEEN THOUSAND Russian troops ar
gags se& on the Afghan fr0ntier.