The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-10-04
HISCELLAEEOUS.

nASCELAANEGUS-
Massachusetts has the largest state
debt-S33, $50, ,464-of all the states Vir-
ginia and North Carolina follow close after.
There are one hundred and thirteen
oil wells in Warren county, Pennsylvania,
whose daily production is six hundred and
ifty-seven barrels.
On the 18th instant six hundred and
forty Cinnamon, including several families,
left San Francisco by steamer on their re-
turn to the FlOwery Land
Harold Power, announced as an unri-
vailed singer of drawing-roOm buffO songs,
has arrived in New ork from England. He
is the son of Tyrone Power, the famous Irish
comedian.
The treasury department has decided
that hereafter in case Of a revocation of a
pilots license by local board of steamboat
inspectors, they must state the length of time
for which the revocation shall obtain.
The Cincinnati Commercials Wash
ington special says Tom Scott is to resign
the presidency of the Texas Pacific railroad
company, and be succeeded by Ex-Governor
Brown, of Tennessee.
John S. Morton, who has Just con-
fessed that he made an Overissue of Phila-
delphia street railway stock to the amount
of nearly a million of dollars, is a great
grandson of John Morton, one OF the signers
of the Declaration of Independence.
The transient or floating population
of New York city on any one day is esti-
mated as follows. Immigrants, temporarily
staying in the city, 5000; seamen and boat
men, 5000; visitors at hotels, 10000 visitors
at boarding houses, 10000. Total, $4,000.
Chicago is trying the plan of ''still"
alarms for fires. The chief of the fire de-
partment has allowed no bell-ringing since
the recent riots, and the plan works well.
Great crowds at fires are prevented, and
better work is done by the unhindered
hremen.
The state department of agriculture
of Illinois, on the basis of returns of the
corn crop received from the various counties
of the state, estimates that S,9O5, All acres
were planted with corn this year, and that
the total yield of that staple will be at least
272, 766, ,121 bushels, which, at forty cents per
bushel, is worth over $109, 100000.
To settle upon a compromise in the
will case, in which Miss Mary Danser, the
gamblers daughter, left 100000 to Charita-
BILE institutions, cost $2S, 600 for counsel fees.
The various societies still get enoungh to
pay them for making the contest, which
promised to run in the courts for years had
not all parties yielded to propositions for
peace and a settlement.
Mr.. John w. Keely, of 'Keely Motor"
! fame has been induced by some remarks in
a recent number of the Scientific American
derOgatery to his ''mOtOT," to invite an in
vestigatiOn of the machine under the aus
pices of the New York Herald. That paper
| has accepted the invitation and named a
competent engineer name withheld at
| presently to prosecute the investigation at
an early day.
Over one thousand American exhib-
| itOrs have applied for space in the Paris
| exposition of 1873. AS the Duke de Cazes
has recently decided that all applications
coming through the agency Of the United
! States legation will be received and acted
/ upon, the door is open for Americans to
/ compete with other nations of the world
| without the appointment and provision for
/ a commission on the part OF our government. (.
While we, in the United States, have
reason to congratulate ourselves over our
! excellent crops, the Scottish farmers are
! down in the dumps. Their hay crop has
! been almost lost, and by reason Ofthe weather
| their growth OF grain is far from successful
| this year. In south and middle England the
| farmers though not badly unsuccessful, have
no great reason to be proud of their haryests,
Ia Ireland, though crops have not turned
out so badly as in Scotland, vet in some dis.
| tricts they have greatly suffered.
The Sioux and Arrapahoe Indian
delegation had an interview with the presi
| dent agreeable to the appointment made
| Thursday. The Indians were given to IN
derstand that they were expected to remain
on their reservations and become self-sup
porting. The object of the visit of this dele
CATION is to protest against removal to the
Missouri river, the present reservation being
in northwestern Nebraska. The government
has assigned these Indians to the Missouri
to save the expense of transporting supplies
! several hundred miles overland. The Ogal
| laIla Sioux, of whom Red Cloud is chief
express a preference for the Tongue rive
| country, while the upper Brules, of whom
Spotted Tail is the chief, desires a NOR,
southern region of territory, bordering OF
the White river. The Arapahoe delegati, !
desire to be united with the Snake Indian
or Shoshones as they are usually termed
The ShOshones, with the Red Cloud al.
? Spotted Tail Indians, under the supe.
vision of the Protestant EpispOcal church
{ | DIR. Irwin was their agent for manv years bu
! is now transferred to the Red Cloud agency
, General Crook favOrs the preference of tn
Arapahoes. as does DR.. Irwin. The Dresi
objectng to their transfer north of the Blacl
= hills.
= A press dispatch from Portland say
the steamer California had just arrived fror
Sitka. Chaplain Collins, of the Unite
/ ! States army, a passenger, brings informatio
Y of a deplOrable state of affairs at Sitka sine
:, | the withdrawal of the troops from ths
> place. There is now no protection eithe
! for life or property. There is not the sen
;. blance of law, either civil, military or nava
e and no power whatever to restrain the Law
! less elements. AT present there are Nc
n | more than fifteen white residents at Sitk,
n besides their wives and children. and TO OF
pose this number are several hundred Ii
4 dians. Since the departure of the soldier
- the Indians have become very bold an
y impudent; get drunk and swagger a5oT
, town day and night, and have no respe,
:, whateverfOr the rights of the white resident
= They informed Chaplain Collins that the
were IN hourly fear Of their lives and prol
erty, and that they intended to abandon Ii
e l country as soon as possible. The collectS
u % customs at that port is powerless, and b
le authority utterly disregarded. Already Il
{ Indians have begun to pluHder the Cover
u ment buildings, g rrying away doors an
Il windows, tearing down and burning for fu
The stockade about the deserted garrise
ie auI there Is no authority 10 interfere al
j. prevent the demolition. Sitka Jack, Il
Id leading Indian chief ia that territory, h.
le notified a number Of northern tribes to con
ia down to SitSa, where they viii hold gran
IN powvow about the l~t Of October. Amol
the settlers the meeting Of the Indians "