The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-01-26

By unanimous vote of the alder.
men at q special meeting, on the nth,
the notorious s.muzzein'' or 'skeuta'
lxouta" dance. arranged to have been
performed by dancers from the Midway
plaisance of the Worlds fair, was Off
cially declared immoral and banished
from Boston.
FARMERS in Porter county, Ind, ara
feeding hundreds of bushels of wheat
to cattle and hogs One farmer has fed
1900 bushels, another 500 bushels
Wheat is worth from so cents to 50
cents per 6O-pound bushel in the mar
l1ets. The farmers claim it is worth te
them IS cents q bushel to feed
The issue of Columbian stamps from
January 2. 1893. to December 81. the
period assigned 70 their distribution,
is the subject of a statement which has
been prepared by the post Office de-
partment. The aggregate number is
sued 10 postmasters was 1, 900, ,9SS, 200.
A DISASTROUS storm recently swept
over the Black sea, doing much damage
TO shipping. A Greek steamship is
missing and ten sailing vessels are re-
ported wrecked at different places.
The entire crews of two Of them went
to the bottom with the vessels. The
number of lives lost and damage is not
known.
IN a. battle with a gang of thieves
who were trying to rob the post Office
at Danville, Pa. on the morning of the
18th, Police Officer Vangilger was shot
and killed and two of the thieves
wounded. The latter escaped.
THE Prussian budget was presented
to the landtag, on the 18th, by DR..
Miguel, the finance minister. The.
revenues are estimated at 1,s79, ,449, s91,
marks, an increase of 4s, ,9S7, ,131 marks
over the preceding fiscal year. The
deficit is estimated at 100000 marks,
which is 10, 400, 900 marks in excess of
the deficit of the preceding year.
THE United States cruiser Concord is
at Shanghai. The Baltimore, the flag
ship of the China station, is at Singa-
pore. a
THE city of chihuahua, the capital
of the Mexican state of that name, was
reported, on the 10th, to have been
captured by the rebel leader Santana
Perez.
THE returns issued by the Paris board
of trade, covering the year 1898, show
that imports decreased 251, $3.50, 900
francs as compared with those of the
preceding year, and that the exports
decreased 251, ,1l6. 600 francs as COM
pared with those of 1892.
JUDeE BARRETT, of the New York
supreme court, has appointed Henry
Winthrop Gray receiver of the Thorn
son-Houston Electric Co. of New York.
The bond of the receiver has been fixed
at $50, 900.
THE Howard plate glass works at Du-
quesne, Pa, employing over 500 men,
resumed in full on the 10Th. The plant
had been idle four months. Prospects
favor steady run.
On the 10Th the French senate ap-
proved, by a vote of 132 to 81, meas
ure giving women in trade the right of
suffrage in elections for tribunals of
commerce.
GEORGE BARRETT PRESCOTT, the we'll
known electrician and author of works
on the telegraph and telephone, died in
New York, on the 18th, aged "a years.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has called for
the resignation of Mr.. Frank w. Pease,
chief of the computer's division, Office
of the supervising architect.
WILLIAM GAsToN. ex-governor of
Massachusetts,, died in Boston on the
18th.
The spread of measles in New York
city is alarming, and the sanitary au-
thorities decided, on the 10Th, to adopt
stringent measures in the hope of
checking the contagion.