The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-09-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A GREAT majority of the people of
the United States does and always will
compose the working classes. 1t fol-
lows, then, that their interests must
be carefully considered, conserved,
fostered and advanced in every proper
way. Their care must absorb large
share of American craftsmanship, and
the policy of the country always must
be, as far as is consistent with honesty
and justice to all, to provide for the
working and producing classes. A
proper conservation of their interests
will mean prosperity and beneficence
to all classes.
Up to.the 18th the relief committee
of the Colored Auxiliary association of
Jacksonville, Fla, had shipped to
Charleston, :. c., for the hurricane suf-
ferers, twelve barrels of flour, $50
pounds of bacon, ten barrels of grits
and about fifty suits of clothes.
EDWARD WAITE, of Boston, aged 10,
was drowned in the Presumscot river
at Deering, Me-, on the 4th. Mrs. Mary
Curran, quite elderly, who saw the ac-
cident, dropped dead from excitement.
THE bark Syra, Capt. Pettingan,
nine days from Tampa, Fla, arrived at
Baltimore, Md, ON the 4th, with Capt.
Thaddeus Babbidge, of Camden, Me,
and crew of the abandoned schooner
William Smith.
Four women have recently been muir
dered and mutilated in OOstburg,
small village on the island of Dads,
Netherlands. All were of the poorest
class. The murders were committed
at night, and the bodies were dissected
in the manner pursued by Jack the
Ripper. Up to the 4th no arrests had
been made.
On the 5th the Hawaiian sealing
steamer Alexander, Capt. Mclean, ar
rived at San Francisco from the Japan
sealing grounds with catch of little
over 1000 skins. Capt. Mclean denies
having been in Behring sea.
A PANIC and rush in which thirty or
forty persons were thrown down and
trampled, was caused by fire in the
the night of the 4th. Many of the vic
Tins were taken to the hospital.
AN explosion of gas occurred in one
of the mines at Shelbourne, IA miles
south of Terre Haute, Ind, on the 9th,
in which thirteen men were injured,
several of whom are in a precarious
condition.
On the d@h the great Midland rail
way of England issued an order to lay
off thirty daily passenger trains on and
after the 10th, owing to the scarcity of
fuel caused by the miners strike.
THE earl of Aberdeen sailed from Liv-
erpool for America on the 7th.
On August the village of Honton-
lri, Japan, was destroyed by fire; on
9Th HaSozakizi, containing sixty
houses. was burned, and on the 10th
the village of Ivanokami, in Tamba
province, was destroyed with loss of
sixty-four lives.
The delegates of the Pan-American
medical congress at Washington were
Cleveland at the White House on the
sth.
BARTHo1DI, the sculptor, wants to
build an American Pantheon of marble
or brass around the statue of Liberty
in New York harbor, commemorating
the deeds of brave Americans
DR. JAMES JOHNSTON, who has recent
ly returned from two years trip in
Africa, says he does not believe Emin
Pasha is dead
CHINESE pirates seized steamer off
the Chinese coast, killed eighteen per-
sous. stole $50, 900 and carried off two
American women.
GOV. MCKINLEY OF Ohio addressed
the old soldiers at Indianapolis, Ind,
on the 9th. He did not refer to poll
tics.
Or the 7th the national congress of
trades unionists, in session at Belfast,
adopted a resolution introduced by
Ben Tillett advocating bill to regu-
late the hours OF labor to eight day
In al trades and occupations.