The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-10-18
Muhktar Pasha telegraDhs the
ssISCELLANEOUH.

The st. Louis artesian well has reached
a depth of $500 feet.
There are nine men accused of murder
in the jail at Galveston, Texas.
BOstOn's income from liquor licenses
this year will amount to S25O,OOO.
They succeeded in excluding liquor
from the Lexington, Kentucky, fair.
1t will cost $617, 1893 to improve the
Mississippi river from the Des,, ,,MOines Rapids
to ST. Paul.
One of the most interesting objects
destroyed in the patent office fire was Whit
ney's cotton gin, the invention of which
built up the cotton trade of the south.
So much grain has accumulated at
Kingston, Ontario, that Canadian vessels can
not be found in sufficient numbers to for
ward it to Montreal, and permission has been
asked from the government to allow Ameri-
can craft to get fOrwarders out OF their en-
barrassment of riches.
Henry Meigs, whose death in Peru
has been announced, had an extraordinary
career as business man. He startled Cali
fOrnia many years ago by falling in San
Francisco for more than million, and was
compelled to leave to escape the clutches of
the law. He went to Peru, and obtained
contracts to improve the streets in the CITY
of Lima, and also began railroad building
Meigs pushed railroads wherever they
could be pushed in Peru; completed four at
a cost of 500, 600, 600, and at the time of his
death had three more on hand. One of
these was designed to unite the headwaters
of the Amazon with the Pacific ocean. 1t
was his intention to construct this road To
the Cerre de PascO silver mines, understood
to be the richest on the globe, and the value
of whose ore he estimated at S60OO 900 OOO
A portion of the road has been finished. It
is said that Meigs paid his California debt
several years ago.
The following despatch from Genera
Miles, dated Oct. Sd, has been received bv
General Terry: General This command
moved rapidly to Snake creek, striking the
fresh trail of the hostile Nez Percss coming
out of the Bear Paw mountains at O'clock
September 80, met and surprised the cann-
and at o'clock captured the larger part Of
their herd, about 500 horses, mules and
ponies. the engagement was quite severe
and the enclosed is q list of our killed and
wounded. The Indians lost killed. in.
Guiding Looking Glass and Joseph's brother
and three other chiefs, and 40 wounded
Joseph gave me his solemn pledge Yesterday
that he would surrender, but did not, and
they are evidently waiting for aid from other
Indians. They say that the Sioux are coming
to their aid. They are closely invested in
some deep ravines and kept under fire To
take them by assault would cost many lives.
] may wear them out and compel them 10
give up. They fight with more desperation
than any Indians have ever met, / believe
there are many escaped villains IN the viii
lage who expect to be hung when caught 1
believe there is a combination between this
camp and Sitting Bull, and have used every
effort TO prevent junction, l am expecting
the companies with StuTgis and will then en-
deavor to send the Second cavalry companies
to Benton. presume you do not wish them
withdrawn when surrounding the Nez Perces
camp. l intend to send my wounded to the