The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-04-05

lectOr OF customs at Halifax, N. S., to IS
sue licenses 90 American fishermen until
the end Of this year.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has donated $3.50 to
the new City Hospital at Baltimore, Nd,
which viii be used to furnish room to
be named in his honor.
IT is stated upon reliable authority that
the French Government will almost inn
mediately establish "a military fort at
Dunkirk, on the English Channel
KAISER WILLIAM has ordered that the
inaugural of the late Emperor Fredouck's
mausoleum at Potsdam be celebrated on
the 18th of next October, Frederick's
birthday.
IT was reported, on the Goth, that the
position of Consul General at Liverpool
had been given to Thomas Sherman, Of
Maine. 1t is one of the best offices in the
consular service.
BY the recent election in Melbourne,
Australia, siNty-fve government sup
porters and thrtytwo members of the
Opposition were returned to the Victoria
Legislative Assembly.
TIE father of Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Rev. Lyman Beecher, passed the closing
years Of his life with cloud resting over
his mind. His symptoms we're very SIM
liar to those which now affect Mrs. Stowe.
THE council OF San Reno, Italy, will
shortly erect two marble pillars in mem
ory Of the late Emperor Frederick, in
front of the villa Zirio, at San Reno,
where the lumeuted ruler lay i'll 80 long.
Nuz1rA has scored great success in
Moscow, Russia, as Herlina in Don Glo-
vianni." Scenes Of indoscribable en-
thusiasm attended the performances, and
the prima donna was the sensation OF the
hour.
CHAs. b. SMITH, Republican candidate
for Congress in the P1rkorsburg CIV. Val
district, has served notice of "a contest on
j. NJ. Jackson, who holds the Governors
certificate. Smith makes out a strong
case.
II. NJ. FLAGLEH's yacht Oneida arrived
at Charleston, S. c., from New York, on
the 25th. with her flag at half-mast. Mr..
Flagler's married daughter, Mrs. +. II.
Bennett, Of New York, died during the
voyage.
THE knitting mill of Thomas & Pettin-
gill, at Amsterdam, n Y, suspended
payment, ou tho 2Oth, pending meeting
Of the creditors Of the firm. Over one
hundred hands were thrown out OF en-
ployment.
THE Cologne Gazette, commenting on
the Samoan question, says that owing to
the attitude OF America it is natural that
Germany should seek n full agreement
with England before the Samoan confer
enCc meets.
QUEEN VICTORIA expressed great sore
row that owing to the bad roads she was
unable, during her stay at san Sebastian,
TO visit the graves of the British soldiers
who fell in Wellingtou's successful Siege
Of the fortress in 1919.
In the British House Of Commons, ON
the 2Gth, a-resolutiou was adopted that the
government should ascertain whether the
European Powers wore willing TO meet in
conference to discuss measures for the
suppression of the slave trade.
THE Car and Czariua, with many NOM
bors OF the Imperial family and a large
number of government officials and Dip
lomats, attended the funeral of Count
Paul SchOuvalon, the late Russian Ann
bassodor to Germany, on the 2oth'
THE President has appointed Judge
Wilson, of Arkansas; j. IL. Otis, of I'LL
nois, and ex-Governor Robinson, oI
Massachusetts, commissioners to as
sess the value of the oklahoma lands
which will revert to The United states.
Jouv FIELD. member of the notion
firm of Young, Smith, Field & Co., ha.
been asked hv Pos tmaster- er-Geucral Wana
maker 20 accept tho position of pOstmos
ter of PniDdcluhia. Mr.. Field was
member OF thN Committee OF One Hun
dred.
THE Navy-Yard Commission, on the
Goth, visitcd tho Mount Vernon Reserva
tiou ncar Mobile, Ala, and examined TIN
Mobile river as to it's suitability for
navy-yard site. A reception was give
the commission by the Athelstone Gu
in the evening.
A DISPATCH from Vienna, ON the 26tt
saws: The rivers i'm Hungary are rapid
rising and great damage is threatened
The town of Szadeuz is entirely unde
wutar, aud 10 is feared the recent disas
trous experience of this unfortunate plac
viii be repeated.
NJ. GE1sENnoRr, tho son Of the Swis
Consul at Cannes, France, was touu
murdered near the railroad track ,
Monte Carlo, Italy. His valise, which wa
lying near by. had been rihed. He ho
recently won large sums of money at tn
Casino gambling tables.
AN agent. with force Of emergenC
men, evictcd twelve families from the
holdings at CIougorcy, Ireland, ON tt
Goth, and subsequently burned all but on
of the twelve buildings. The house spare
was reserved 60 furnish quarters for Il
police aiding the evictors.
THE arrangements tor transporting II
Russian army Go amy quarter of the cour
try, in the event of war, have been con
pleted. The entire country has bee
dfyidSa into specified districts, with OF
GERS designated to control the miitaI
movements i'm each district.
THE pilot-boat webb, which reachC
New York from Southern waters, on a
Goth, reported that when fourteen mill
OIL Fenwick Li-ht-ship She picked up
life boat which bore the name Of the Cor
serva The boat was slightly damage
but her lines were intact. This is q
third life boat picked up i'm the same J.
cality.
AMONG the nominations made by Il
President ou the 27th were the following
Robert T. Lincoln. Minister 20 Englou,
EF75rat Walstrad. Minister 10 German
Allen Thorn lyke Rec, Minister to Bu
sio. Patrick vau, Minister to Chi
Thomas Ryan, ot Kansas, Minister
Mexico; John Hicks, of Wisconsin, Mi
lister 60 Peru.
THE American ship Reaper, which L
san Fraucisco rccaatiy for sydney n.
w. carried -0ul1 bu-uel- of wheat ~
was ths ...r,i aambor of large shl
ments uaic. vtl a ma .- % the Britt
colonies .Is ytr rs .p.F tht 1"mA
caused uy uo aruallalluIy oi Auatrall
crops.