The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-20

IHE petition to be presented to Parlia-
ment for the iuterdictiOn of the Brown
Sequard experiment in England is OBJ
tanning thousands of signatures.
ONE Of the fercest forest fires yet re-
ported visited the St. Regis district in
Missoula County Mont, on the 9th.
Several persons perished in the flames.
FIFTY true bills we're returned, on the
11th, by tho grand jury of Elbert County,
Ga, against negroes who engaged in a
riot in Buckerville on the Sunday pre-
vious.
AT Castle Garden, on the 18th, there
were landed 3,0S9 immigrants, among
them 154 Mormons, who proceeded at
once TO Utan. About half of them were
women.
Hoy. SAMUEL SULLIVAN Cox, OF New
York, died at his home in New York City,
on the 10Th, aged sixty-hve. He had
served many terms in Congress and was
the author Of several creditable literary
works.
Mr.. EDISON is arranging a scheme in
company with Herr Siemeus for lighting
Berlin with his electric lamps. He ex-
presses himself as delighted with the
progress achieyed in Germany in respect
20 the telephone and electric illumina-
ton.
THE servian and Bulgarian govern
ments continue the exchange OF curt
notes, each protesting against the war
like preparations Of the other. Each ex-
plains that there is nothing out of the
ordinary in its action, but neither trusts
the other.
THE latest government report concern
ing the wheat crop of France shows that
7,1GO. 600 hectares were sowu this year,
against 8, 79S 13i hectares last year. Il is
estimated that the yield will be III, AGO.,
21S hectolitres, against 9S, 740, 72S hectoH-
tres in 1888.
''THE treatment of Irish prisoners"
says Chief Secretary Balfour, els more
lenieut than that accorded to English
prisoners; and those convicted under the
Crimes act are more favored with relax
atiOus of prison discipline than any other
prisoners are"
THE entire bench of judges Of the dis
trict circuit in the department of Riga
have been arrested by order of the Rus
sian Government They are accused of
persis tently using the German language
on the bench after they had received or
ders from ST. Petersburg to use the Rus
sian only.
THE Shah of Persia has relinquished
his plan to visit Odessa before his return
home. He is greatly alarmed at his re
cent railway accident and has grown
suspicious that it was not altogether an
accident. He will on this account get
out of Russia as quickly as possible and
go direct to Persia.
SEVERAL important official changes are
about to occur in Germany. Herr Ben
ningsen is to be appointed Governor of
Hanover; Herr Miguel, mayor of Frank
fort, is to succeed Herr Scholze as
Finance Minister, and Foreign Office
Councillor Kraal will be designated to
the Colonial portfolio.
THE Western Union directors. at their
regular quarterly meeting on the 1lth,
declared q dividend for the current quar-
ter Of - per cant. The statement pre-
sented showed the quarter to have been
one OF the most prosperous in the history
of the company, the net income, after
paying fixed charges, being Sl'o4o'oOo.
JOHN TEEMER and Jake Gaudaur rowed
their race for 81, OOJ "A side over the Nc
Keesport (Pa.) course from Port Perry
10 McKecsport, a distance of four miles,
on the 18th, Gaudaur winning by a quar-
ter of milo in twenty three minutes.
Teemer interposed a doubtful claim for
foul, which deferred the declaration of
the result.
A TERRIBLE storm prevailed at Tam
pico Mexico. on the 9th and 10th. Two
hundred and fifty families found it nee
essary 10 seek shelter in the public build
ings The towns of Panic aud TampOa
were also flooded, and much property
was destroyed in the surrounding couu-
try. In the State of Sonora crops were
badly damaged.
THE disappearance OF Rev. Mr.. Bar
field, q Congregational minister, from
Walsall, England, continues to be SUBJ
iect of much speculation. Mr.. Barfield is
said to have incurred the eumity of the
Irish Invincibles by some utterances Of
his in a series of Tory political speeches
in London, and his friends fear that he
has shared the fate Of Dr. Cronin.
THE fire in the Delaware & Hudson
colliery at Olyphant, Pa, was more seri-
ous than at first supposed, aud the prob
abilities are that it will take weeks, pos
sibly months, before it can be extiu-
guished and the mine again placed in
working order. Over 1000 men and boys
are thrown out of employment and busi-
ness is partly paralyzcd in Olyphant by
their enforced idleuess.
A MOVEMENT has been started in Win
nipeg, Man, in favor of assisting the
West in any way possible to secure the
worlds Fair in 1892. The local govern
ment and Provincial Agricultural So
ciety will cooperate in sending a vast
exhibit Of cereal and root products of the
country if the fair is held in Chicago or
st. Louis, whereas il il goes to New York
no effort will be made to have any repre-
seutatiOn.
JOSEPH MATz, an Italian fruit vender
of New York City, was killed, or the 18th,
bv coming in contact with '2ive" cleo
tric-licht wire Of the United States Illu-
minatiug Company. A spectator who
attemnted to remove the body was Sc
versly shocked. Linemen arrived soon
after and cut the wire, thus hberating
the body, which presented sicSening ap-
pearance.
ALMOST simultaneously with the re-
cent atmospheric and submarine dis
turbances en- the Atlantic coast great
commotion began in Yellowstone Park.
The earth shook, great volumes Of gas
exploded, the geysers opened and all was
activity. The "Giant" and "Giantess"
belched with terrific power, as did many
others which have been dormant tor
vears. Scientists claim this outburst az
directlv connected with the seab0ard dis
turbauces.
Trbas been definitely decided that the
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