The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-07-02

| ffths Of full crop. The fruit prospects are
fair to good in the east, but below the average
| in the west.
The supreme court of Pennsylvania
rules that, after property-hOlder has once
| built a pavement which meets the require
ments of the law, no municipal corporation
can compel him to replace it after being worn
out. When the public use it up, the public
must rebuild it.
A new and dangerous counterfeit was
discovered at the national bank redemption
agency Of five dollar notes on the first national
bank of Canton Ills. This is evidently changed
from the plate on which the counterfeit on the
Traders national bank OF Chicago and the
first national bank of PASTOR, Ill, was printed
It IS reported that Garcia, the Span
lard who stole portion of MuriIlo's famous
picture from the cathedral of Saville, and who
was kidnapped to Cuba and subsequently sent
to Spain, was shot few weeks after his ar
rival in Madrid without trial by even drum
head cOurt-marshaI.
The board of Indian commissioners
have requested that officers of the army be
detailed to inspect the Indian supplies at Kan
sas City, Missouri; Sioux City, Iowa, and
Cheyenne. The secretary of war has directed
Lieut.. Gen. Sheridan, commanding the mill
tary division of Missouri, to detail officers to
make Investigations at those points.
Messrs. Post, Norcross and Smith,
the commissioners appointed by the secretary
Of the treasury to examine the pOstofice
building at Chicago, have made their report
to Secretary Bristow. The commissioners
condemn the foundation, and the stone used
III the building. They recommend that it be
torn down, and that the stone be abandoned.
Secretary Bristow will Immediately give orders
that all work shall be stopped, and that steps
be taken to preserve the structure in its pres
ent condition until the matter can be submit
ted to congress.
Judge Spence, assistant attorney gen
eral for the postofice department, has fur
nished an opinion TO the postmaster general
taking the ground that Postmasters are liable
on their bonds for losses of government prop
erty while in their possession. The occasion
of the decision was the loss of registered
package containing 5000 worth of stamps in
transit through the Boston postofice.- 1t Is
the first time that an opinion has been given
holding pOstmasters responsible on their bonds
for the loss of government property passing
through the postOfce.
The secretary of the navy has made
requisition for $3.50, 600 on the secretary Of the
treasury to pay the remainder OF the Farragut
prize awards This sum will be distributed
among 4,5OO persons heretofore attached to
the thirty-ive or forty vessels Of FarraguEs
fleet which made captures from the confeder-
ates. The aggregate amount derived from all
such naval captures during the late war was
,I,, Of O0O
turned over to the navy pension fund. Six
teen millions were distributed to the captors,
and the remainder was absorbed in expenses,
etc. The Farragut cases are the last to be
adjusted.
Instructions have been prepared at
the interior department for the Sioux com
mis- sion. Rev. D. S. Hineman, A. COmingO
and w H. Ashly, with J. D. Collins, secreta-
ry, are to visit the agencies of the Sioux in
terested in the negotiation, beginning at Red
Cloud, for the purpose of laying before the
Indians the wishes of the government re-
specting the desired cessiOn of the Black
Hills country and their rights in the Big
Horn Mountains, and also to invite them to a
grand council. The commissioners are en-
joined as to the necessity of great care in the
Interpretation Of their interview, so to
avoid both mistakes and any suspicion on the
part of the Indians that they are not fairly
reported. The commissioners are also re-
minded that they are appointed to represent
the Indians and their interests not less than
| those of the government. They are instructed
| to assure the Sioux Of the kindly intentions
of the president and the government towards
| them. and that the proposed negotiations
originate solely in desire for continual peace.
| The Indians are plainly to understand that
any negotiations effected by the commission
| are to be referred to the president, and by
him to congress, before it shall be binding.