The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-01

GENERAL
CAPTAIN WIss8IAN, the agent of the Ger
man Government in East Africa, will also
act as Consul General at Zanzibar.
Ar st Patrick's Church. Montreal, re-
Gently, Father Dowd condemned the Cath
olic Order Of Foresters of Illinois, and
cautioned the members of his congrega-
tion to have nothing to do with the order.
TIE Earl Of Lucan has offered his ten
ants in the County Mayo, Ireland, a re-
lease from all arrears of rent if they pay
one years back rent
BERLIN students belonging to the ANTI
Jewish Association had a demonstration
on the 22d.
A MESSENGER from Khartoum says that
S5, 900 Of the Mahdi's followers left there
in December last for a final attack upon
Egypt
ADvIcEs from West Africa say that
eleven native policemen headed by a Brit
ish officer, in a conflict with a party of
war boys ab Sulyma, killed 131 of the
enemy with Maxim gun and the rest of
the party fed in dismay.
WILLIAM Ross. collector of the port OF
Halifax, n. s., has resigned because he
exceeded his authority in transmitting a
shipment of fish to Boston contrary to the
claims OF Canada
THE remains of lima di Murska, the
prima donna, have been cremated at
Gotha, Germany.
THE Spanish Government has issued
decree granting amnesty to all press and
political offenders, including the soldiers
who took part in the rising in Madrid N
1886.
A SENSATION has been created through
out Holland by pamphlet by Tindal en-
titled, ''The Netherlands in Danger" The
author condemns the country's defensive
organization on both land and sea, and
regards the S750O00O spent yearly as
wasted.
THE Czarina of Rassia is affected with a
kind of palsy which began at the Borki
railroad wreck and has been steadily
growing worse.
THE anniversary of the Polish emeute of
1868 was observed in Poland on the 23d
with numerous banqUets at which hopes
for the future freedom of Poland were ex-
pressed.
A TELEGRAM from StornOway, in the
Hebrides, on the northwest coast of Scot
land says the derelict American schooner,
| w. l. White, abandoned off Delaware bay
March IS last during the great blizzard
had gone ashore. The crew had been
rescued at the time of the blizzard and the
abandoned vessel had been drifting ever
| since.
| THE Lord Mayor of London gave ban
| ouet on the oath in honor of Mr. Phelps,
the United States Minister. There We're
250 guests, including Lord Roseberry,
Lord Salisbury, Lord Coleridge, Sir James
Ferguson and many other literary and
scientific celebrities.
THE trial of William O'Brien COM
menced at tCarrick-Q1-Suir, Ireland on the
| 24th. O'Brien made start for the door
| during the proceedings, when a riot fol-
! lowed. O'Brien's supporters carried him
| through the town in triumph. Many per-
sons were injured and a warrant was
| issued for O'Brien's arrest.
THE Pullman Palace Car Company has
absorbed the-Union Palace Car Company,
which had absorbed the Wagner Company.
The only other palace car company beside
the Pullman is the Wagner, which runs on
\ the Yanderbilt lines.
THE Norwegian bark, AIT Captain
Bach, which sailed from, Demerara Oc-
tober p, for Philadelphia with cargo Of
| sugar, has been given up as lost
| 3 A FAMILY by the name of Rudolph, con-
sisting OF six persons, have been suffocated
by gas from defective stove in Saxony.
THE correspondents of the Figaro and
Rationale of Paris have been expelled from
Germany.
DISTURBANCES were reported at Culebra
on the Panama canal following a reduc-
tion OF wages by one of the contractors.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended January q numbered
| 342, compared with 3S7 the previous week
and 269 the corresponding week of last
year.
THE principal cashier of the National
Bank Agency at Bologna, Italy. has ab-
seconded, having embszzled $3.50, 1000.
THE Canadian Government has issued
| orders to all the collectors of customs to
! suspend the Issuing of further licenses to
fishermen under the modus viyendi.
AN English missionary named Brooks
and sixteen of his followers have been
murdered near Sedani by members of
the coast tribes and natives OF Zanzibar.