The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-01-25

TIE majority of the royalists have de-
oided to vote for General Boulanger in the
coming election IN Paris.
THE Temps Of Paris says that a London
firm has offered the General of the Car
thusian monks of La Grande Chartreuse
E3, ,OOO, 600 for a monopoly Of the manu-
facture and sale of the famous Chartreuse
liquor. The General of the order is dis
posed to reject the proposal.
HENRY WOLFF, the Dutch aeronaut as
cended in a balloon at Antwerp recently
accompanied by Lieutenant Daniel. The
balloon was driven out to sea and it was
feared both were drowned.
The annual boat race between Cam
bridge and Oxford Universities England,
will take place March 80.
IT is stated in st. Petersburg that Rus
STA will build three large mem Of war dur
ing the present year.
A GRAND scheme for conveying the sew
age of Paris to a tract of land in the De-
/ partment Of Seine-et-Oise, for subsequent
use as fertilizer, has been approved by
/ the French Senate.
THE Bankruptcy bill has passed the
| French Senate. The measure has espe-
| cial interest a the present time because it
enables the Panama Canal Company 10
convert the old organization into a new
| concern.
THE German Emperor has ordered the
/ dismissal Of all the French cooks employed
/ in the palace They will be replaced by
/ Germans.
/ THE ice palace at Montreal collapsed
partially on the 18th. The thermometer
was % degrees in the shade and there was
no ice on the river.
NINE. lima DI RIURsKA, the singer, died
at Munich on the 18th in extreme poverty.
| Her daughter, who was heart broken at
the loss of her mother, committed suicide
by taking poison.
RETURNS from the English County Coun-
c'l elections show majority for the Lib
! erals.
DIR. FRIEDBERG has resigned the Office of
| Prussian Minister of Justice because of the
| publication of the Geffecken Indictment
THE British steamer Amor went aground
the other day in the Chesapeake bay near
the entrance to the CraighilI channel. She
/ was bound out
HENRY WOLFE, the Dutch aerouaut who
| assembled in a balloon from Antwerp re-
Gently and was driven out to sea, was
rescued alive by a vessel two days after
| ward. His companion, Lieutenant Daniel,
was drowned before the vessel was able to
reach him.
ONE of the messengers sent from Suakim
to Khartoum early in November brings
back letter from European which says
that Lupton Bey died on May s. 1t was
reported that the equatorial provinces had
yielded to the MahdL Nothing was known
of Emin Pasha. Slatin Bey and the other
Europeans were we'll
THE British bark Siebel which left New
York June 10 last for Bangoon, Asia, has
been given up for lost. She had twenty
men.
THOUSANDS of Germans are applying
for permission to accompany Lieutenant
lVissman's expedition to East Africa, but
he proposes to take but few whites.
, The work of laying the new cable be-
tween COatzacOalcoas. Mex, and Calves
; ton, Tex, was begun on the 18th by the
steamship Faraday.
! THE Japanese Government has abolished
the export duty on drugs, woven goods
timber, cereals, spirits, beasts and fuel.
A MADRID correspondent says that the
Spanish Government is trying to set of
{ Spanish claims for damages sustained il
the war of secession in the United States
against the Mora compensation claim.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for thu
seven days ended January II, numbered
$50, compared with 3Sl the previous weel
and 314 the corresponding week Of las
! year.
= TWENTY FIVE miners were killed by al
explosion of fire-damp in the Hyde collier,
S near Manchester, Eng, recently.
THOMAS A. STEVENS, who proposes to &
into Central Africa in search of Henry NJ
= Stanley, left London for Zanzibar on tn
: 18th.
A YOUNG woman and man from Lyons
Z France, were found dead in a room at
It hotel at Monte Carlo the other day. In
!. letter to friend they said they had suf
i fered losses at the gaming tables and in
tended to commit suicide together.
IN the recent election for the Govan di
vision of Glasgow, Scotland, the Glad
J stonian candidate defeated the Unionis
: reversing the preceding election, when tn
late Mr.. Pearce was elected.
BRUSH trust has been formed whic
controls with but few exceptions the out
put of all the prisons of the country en-
= gagged in that line of goods.
The elections for the new county coun
n ellis in London recently showed a goo
! majority for the Liberals and Radicals.