The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-01-04

IT Is reported that deserters from the
Arab camp near Suakim say that there is
a strong Arab force at Handoub, where a
large number of the dead from the field
of the late battle were taken.
MEMPHIS, st. L Ouis and New York firms
have levied attachments for 8, 800 on the
establishment of R. II. Washington 6
Co., of Greenville, Miss, dealers in fancy
dry goods.
TT is said that forty men from each pro-
vincial garrison in Servia have been suna--
moned to Belgrade to be present at the
opening of the Skuptschina.
THE Argentine Republic has joined the
international telegraphic convention.
THE new bridge over the Ohio river at
Cincinnati, built for the Chesapeake S5
Ohio railway, was opened on Christmas
day.
IT is said that the Bulgarian Govern
ment has signed a contract with the
Krupps for a million francs worth Of
shells.
IN Berlin appeals are being made for
funds to aid the sick and wounded in
Africa.
THE Bulgarian Government is negoti-
ating with the Krupps for eighty field and
| garrison batteries, to be furnished i'm
mediately.
THE Red Cloud (Neb.) National Bank
has passed into the hands of the comp
| trOler of the Currency. Assets and habiI-
! tiles unknown.
THE marines stationed at the arsenal in
/ Constantinople revolted, on the 24th, be-
| cause of arrears in their pay. A sharp
| but bloodless fight ensued, which was
| ended by the arrest of ring leaders.
| COMMANDER CONsIGNY of the Iowa de-
| partment of the Grand Army of the Re-
/ public has been looking up Union yeter-
| ans among the evicted settlers of the DeS
Moines River lands in order to aid the
needy. He finds there are few Union sol
diers among them. There is a larger
number of ex-Confederates.
THE Berlin correspondent of the Lon
don Standard says there is reason to be-
heve that the German Government will
not restrict its action in East Africa to
the land and sea blockade, but that Lieu
| tenant Wissman has been ordered to
| crush the revolt on the coast and to es-
| tablish stations so as to insure order.
THE switchmen's strike in the Union
Pacific yards at Denver, Col, so far as
the company is concerned, appears to be
near it's end. Several of the crews returned
to work on the 25th. The company was
| working about half force.
BEFORE Withdrawing entirely from Sua-
! kim the British will build strong perma-
nent forts, on which guns will be mounted
so as to sweep the plains. Black regi-
ments will be left to garrison the place.
THE Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
has postponed the dedication of its new
building from January a to January 30,
1889.
THE Comptroller Of the Currency has de-
clared a second dividend of ten per cent.
in favor of the creditors of the State Ma
tiOnal Bank of Raleigh, n. c., making in
| all thirty per cent. on claims proved,
amounting to $310, 759. The bank failed in
| March last.
A SPECIAL committee has been appoint
ed by the Charleston Is. Co. Cotton Ex-
| change to Investigate charges made in
| the Legislature and elsewhere that COM
! binations exist in that city whereby un-
derwriters and others are Systematically
defrauded. The committee began its in.
vestigation on the 9th.
On the 26th the American base ball
teams played in n game of ball at Ade-
laide, South Australia. The score was
Au-Americans, 10; Chicagos, IA.
THE Richmond (Va.) Wing announced
its suspension on the 9th. 1t was one o.
the oldest papers in South.
THE sporting goods house of G. A
Gardner, of Hastings, Neb., failed on tht
26th, with large liabilities; assets un'
known.
Ar Chamberlain, Oak, on the 27th, tht
Missouri river was still open and the
weather continued moderate.
On the 26th Sioux Falls, OAK, had its
first snOw-storm of the season.
A PROMINENT official Of the EnglisI
East African Company denies that al
agreement has been entered into by tht
company with the Arabs regarding traff,
in slTges.
On the 27th the brigantine Josefa ar.
rived at Philadelphia from Jamaica, ant
reports that on her outward trip from New
York, while discharging her cargo a
Arroyo, Porto Rico, she was seized by tn,
Spanish authorities, and held until a fin,
of $4,000 was paid, because freight to the
value of less than twenty dollars wa
/ missing from her cargo.
| PORTIONS of Iowa were visited by
| heavy snow-storm, on the Goth, in some
localities assuming the proportions of
| blizzard.