The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-01-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The Chinese government has decided
that it will attempt no further obstrue-
tion of the amended Geary law II is
now possible that coolies failing or re-
fusing to register can be deported from
the United States. Wemay according
ly expect to see a wholesale registra-
tlon, for it is notat all likely that many
of the Chinese will forego the privilege
of money making which this country
affords out of any sentiment of patriot
ism.
4 FRANCES swoop on the anarchists in
her domain would be more effective if
the other European nations should
take like action. All those nations are
more or less afflicted with the anarchist
pest, and all have a vital interest in
roofing 1t out Concerted action against
this evil, therefore, should be had. If
the anarchists be allowed to fit from
one country to another unmolested they
can afford to laugh at the authorities
of all of them.
THE aggregate loss on the principal
speculative stocks dealt in at the New
York stock exchange during the year
1898. is figured at over $685., 600, 600. Or
In other words, the market value of
these securities is upwards of s2S5,
900, 900 less to-day than a year ago.
Perhaps somebody ought to get up
relief committee for the poor specula-
tors and investors.
The duchess of Marlborough, for
merly Mrs. Hammersley, of New York.
has leased for twenty-one years the
Deepdene estate of Lord Hope at Dork-
ing, % miles southwest of London, the
yearly rental being 800
THE commissioner of pensions has
decided. in view of the passage of the
act of December 81, 1898, declaring
pensions to be vested right, that he
no longer has the right to withhold
the pension of Judge Long, of Michi-
gan, and has accordingly ordered that
the suspension of his pension be re-
moved.
DURING a charity carnival on the
Volga river, in Russia, on the 30th, the
ice broke and twenty-eight persons
were drowned, and it is theught that
some of the rescued will die from the
effects of the shock and exposure.
IMPORTS of specie at the port of New
York for the week ended on the 30th,
were 37,35S, of which $2s,ss was
gold and Ss.4TO silver.
On the I'd $4,000 people in addition
to the 10000 living in Leavenworth,
Kas., celebrated the formal opening of
the new steel drawbridge across the
Missouri river at that point. The pa
rade was over mile long.
EMPRESS FREDERICK, mother of En-
peror William, gave an audience, on
the Cd, to Hon. Theo. Runyon, the
American ambassador, at Berlin, and
Mrs. Runyon.
On the 2d the Roumanian senate rat
flied the Roumania-German CONNER
man reichstag.
The Standard Plate Glass Co. of
Butler, Pa, reduced the wages of all
employees 95 per cent. on the I'd.
The New York legislature met on
the I'd.
The net balance in the treasury, on
on the 2d. as shown by the public debt
statement, was 500, ,3T5, 555.
OK the I'd H. L. Marbach, of the Mar
bach Machine Co., Cleveland, O., was
arrested, charged with arson. Fire oc-
CURED in the building occupied by the
machine company at an early hour in
the morning. The police say waste
was placed about the room under drip
pans, and claim there was a deliberate
attempt by Marbach TO burn the build
ing.
Mrs. AUGUSTA SCHMIDT, indicted for
murder in the first degree, for killing
her tenant, Oscar Walton, October 90
last, was denied bail on habeas corpus
proceedings at Kolxomo. Ind, on the I'd.
She viii appeal to the supreme court.
The murderess is wealthy German
lady 4s years old and the daughter of a
baroness
THE court-martia1 at Mare Island,
Cal, in the case OF Richard Ashbridre.
passed assistant surgeon of the United
states navy, it is understood, has recon-
mended his dismissal from the service.
The charges against him were forging
the signature of the secretary of the
navy to telegraphic message.
II the case of bIcAfee and Parkers,
the two negroes under sentence to be
hanged at indianapolis, Ind, on the
5th, for the murder of Charles Eyster,
the supreme court, on the I'd, reversed
the decision of the trial court and
granted a new trial for the men.
ORLANDO j. POTTER. the mu1ti-mil-
lionaire and ex-eongressmau, died sud-
denly, on the night of the 2d, ON the
street Ia New York, from anoalexy.