The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-06


result of the girls injuries.
TIE Maryland Republican State Con-
trail committee, on the 2Sth, appointed
October 1 for the holding Of the State
convention at Westminster.
THOUSANDS OF tailors in Loudon who
have been victims of the sweating system
are rebeling against it and organizing a
strike for payment at first hands.
THE drivers Of The London mail carts
made q demand on the post-offce au-
thoriles in a body, on the 27th, for an
increase Of pay which was promptly
granted
one THOUSAND tons OF mutton rotted on
ships lying at the docks in London in
consequence Of the -laborers' strike,
il being impossible to procure men to
unload it.
REPRESENTATIVE OWEN who was at
Deer Park on the 26th, reports the Presi-
dent as saying that there will be an extra
session Of Congress called to meet on the
goth OF October.
THE Vienna police have uuearthed a
secret Socialist society extending all over
the province Of Galicia, with members
among wealthy citizens in largo num-
Der of the principal towns.
GENERAL BoULANGEn will stand for
election to the French Chamber of Depu-
ties in Montemarte. Among the Bou-
langist candidates who will stand for
election is General Thiebaudt
NJ. BLowITz, Paris correspondent of
the London Times, telegraphs to his
paper that he is confident General BOu-
LANCER Will return to France before the
elections which take place next month.
GENERAL RUSSELL A. ALGER, of Mich
igan, was chosen Commauder-inC Chief
of the Grand Army of the Republic for
the ensuing year at the National en-
campment in Milwaukee, Wis, on the
2Sth.
THE Department of State, was, on the
2sth, advised by a telegram from the
Consul of the United States at Colon that
the steamer Adirondack had left that
port for the United States with yellow fe =
yer on board.
THE State Department. was Informed. on
the 29th that the Government Of Para
quay had accepted the invitation of the
United States to attend the International
Congress, aud that a delegate would soon
be appointed.
SENIOR PACHECo has again accepted the
portfolio of Minister of Finance of the
Argentine Republic, and Senior Zebalios
has become Minister of Foreign Affairs,
vice Dr.. Costa, who has been transferred
to the Ministry Of the Interior.
Mr.. WAsHBURNE, the American Minis
ter to Switzerland, has formally protested
to the Swiss Government against the
wrongful arrest of four American tour
lists at Berne recently. Heavy damages
are claimed by the injured parties.
THE II. c. Frick Coke Company of
Pittsburgh, Pa, has purchased the entire
plants and interests of the y. NJ. Schoou
maker Coke Company, comprising 1,096
ovens, together with a large acreage of
coal lands. The price paid is not stated.
THE steamer City of New York, which
left New York for Liverpool on the 2Ist
passing Sandy Hook at 6:30 p. IN. passed
Brow Head, Ireland, at $40 p. IN. on the
21th. Allowing for difference of time, the
passage was made in six days and five
minutes.
THE naw naval vessel Baltimore was
examined, on the 27th, by "A board of en-
gIneers and other naval experts, who ex-
pressed satisfaction at her cons tructiOu,
and it was announced that she would
probably be ready for an official trial trip
by September ..
II. Y. WARNER, the head Of the large
Rochester, ~ Y, has agreed to sell the
business to a British syndicate for Gl,-
coo, 600. Tho guarantee money has been
put up. Mr.. Warner viii remain at the
head Of the establishment
OVER three thousand negroes have re-
moved from the Carolinas to Arkansas,
and are to be followed by eight thousand
more negroes and four hundred white
families The exodus is being arranged
by Passenger Agent Williams, of the
Memphis & Charleston railroad.
MINING ENGINEER A. p. MEM ventured
alone into the submerged mine of the
Con solidated Coal Company thirteen
miles from Cumberland, Nd, whore all
others refused TO enter, on the 30th, and
rescued and brought safely out of theiI
living tomb forty-four imprisoned miners
and a boy.
EMPERoR WILLIAM in an interview, on
the 29th, with a member Of the Provincial
Council said that existing laws for the
protection Of laborers in Prussia wer,
deplorably insufficient to protect then
against the iuordlnats greed of their en-
ployers. Reform, he said, was highly
necessary.
THE first bale Of cotton Of the season
forwarded 60 New York City by the
r
was sold at auction, on the goth, in from
of the Cotton Exchange. Messrs. VIII.
lam s. Black a. Co. purchased il at ter
and quarter cents a pound. The cottoI
is Of inferior quality.
THE official trial of the pneumatic dyua'
mite guns of the cruiser Nesuvius, which
was to take place on the 27th, did not CONF
off. owing to the discovery of a defective
auxiliary valve, which will uecessitate
delay Of probably two weeks until it car
be sent to the New England firm whicl
constructed it for repairs.
THE manifesto issued by the Londol
strikers committee, on the S0th, is signe'
by all the labor organizations Of tina
ri ~. including the Stevedores'. Sailors
and Fircmeu's unions, numbering 81
thousand men. The accession OF thes
unions is most important. IL the doc
comranies refuse 70 accede 10 the term
demanded, grave complications mus
ensue.
THE village of Kheinzorek, on the Rus
sien frontier, was visited by terribl
sarthouake, on the 26th, which destroye
Tie larger part OF the town. Great is
spres Ouenel in the earth, aud in mauy
cases the villagers were swallowed mp b.
dozens. So far 129 people are known Z
have been LSried alive in this way