The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-11-22

A BOAT and several trunks and chests
drifted ashore at Port Maitland, N. S.,
on the 18th. No bodies were found, but
it is feared that vessel has gone to
pieces and that all Of the crew have been
lost.
IT is said in sporting circles that the
price paid by Mr.. Robert Bonner for
Senator Stanford's great three-year-old
SunOl was $4,000.
SENATOR EvABTs and family sailed
from London for New York on the 18th.
The Senator's health has greatly i'm
proved, and his eyesight is much strong
er than when he left New York.
THE British ship-builders are placed
in a serious position by the rise in the
price of iron and steel. A further ad-
vance is feared, and if it takes place
many firms will lose money on the con-
tracts now under way.
THE annual convention Of the knights
of Labor opened at Atlanta, Ga, on the
18th.
THE Blue Book which has just been
issued by the British Government
proves that Greece, early in the month
of August, was preparing to send an ex-
peditiOn to Crete, but was restrained
from doing so by the Powers.
NJ. FLOQUET was, on the 18th, elected
provisional president of the French
Chamber of Deputies, and NM. Perier
and Deville vice-presdents.
THE National Grange Patrons of Hus-
bandry convened in Sacramento, Cal,
on the 18th, delegates being present
from nearly all the States of the Union.
IT is estimated that the Egyptian cot
ton crop this year will yield over 9,0OO,-
900 bales.
THE Guatemalan Minister says that
the draft of a protocol for the federal
union of Guatemala, San Salvador, Hon
duras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica has
been already signed, but requires ratifi-
cation by the congresses of the five
countries.
II. II. MILLER, a son of Emily Hunt
ington Miller, the authoress, has alb
seconded from Omaha, Neb., leaving
debts due the members of Trinity Church
in Kountze Place, amounting to about
81, 900.
BY the caving in Of pit in a coal
mine at Ratibor, Prussian Silesia, on
the 18th, twenty miners were buried.
There is no hope of saving any Of them.
THE first invoice of 1000 hogsheads of
sugar 1OE OpE0ChO1 1nlldQbl puld Su5 tE
refinery was received on the 18th.
OF 15S persons arrested for taking
part in the Boulangist demonstration in
Paris, on the 18th, ninety-eight were
discharged. The noted Anarchist,
Gonda, is among those still in custody.
THE suit of George Rice, the Marietta
(O.) refner, against the Standard Oil
trustees to compel the issuance to Rice
of six shares of Standard Oil Trust stock
now standing in the name of j. B. Nal
laby, was begun in the Supreme Court
of the City of New York on the 18th.
THE Lager-beer Brewers Association
of New York City, on the 18th, sub
scribed S446, 900 to the Worlds Fair
guarantee fund of that city.
The trial of sixty-ave persons charged
with swindling Austrian and Hungarian
emigrants en- route to America, was be-
gun at Wadowice, Austrian Poland, on
the 14th.
MIR. HENRY NEVILLE GLADSTONE, son
of Rt. Hon. VIM. E. Gladstone, will
shortly be married to Miss Rendel,
daughter Of Mr.. Stuart Rendel, member
of Parliament for MontgOmeryshire,
Wales.
IT is thought that the result of the
late election in Iowa will eventuate in
the elimination of the temperance ques-
tion from politics.
| THE new Government cruiser Balti-
more started from Philadelphia on her
second official trial trip on the 18th.