The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-02-19
MISCELLANEOUS,

MISCELLANEOUS.
Rev. Mr.. Hayden of Connecticut who has
had two trials on ths charge of the murder
of Mary Stannard, has been released on
50, 600 bail.
In uncoYering the foundations of the obe-
lisk at Alexandria, Egypt, which is to he
transported to this country, Lieutenant
Commander GOrringe found a number of
Masonic emblems, which it is said establish
he relations of many Egyptian monuments.
DIR. Fanton, highly instructed Mason, has
carefully examined the emblems and declares
that they prove that Masonry originated with
the construction of the pyramids, or at least
at far remoter period than the cOnstruc-
ton of the foundation of the oDelisk.
A delegation of 40 cOlOred emigrants from
Monroe Parish, La. arrived at Leavenworth,
Kans., on the 9th. They were mostly old
men, women and children, and all were in
destitute condition and entirely dependent
upon charity.
The State of New Hampshire, which owns
six consolidated bonds issued by the State
of Louisiana under an act of 1874, has filed
a bill in the United States Supreme Court
against the State of Louisiana, setting forth
that the authorities of Louisiana, under the
provisions of the New Constitution, are
about to use the proceeds of taxes
levied under the law of 1874 for
the year 1879, to defray the expenses
of the State Government, instead of
devOting them to the payment of said bonds
as required by said law, and praying that
the provisions of said New Constitution af-
| fecting the payment of said bonds be de-
clared void and unconstitutional, as impair
ing the obligation of a contract. The bill al
so prays for writ of injunction to restrain
| the State officers of Louisiana from using the
proceeds of said taxes for any other purpose
| than specified by said act of 1874.
A dispatch from Geneva, Switzerland,
says that Lake Zurich is frozen over, an
event so rare that it has occurred but four
times the present century.
Richard O'GOrman, Esq, of New York,
Secretary of the Irish Relief Committee, has
received cable dispatch from Edward
Dwyer Grey, Lord Mayor of Dublin, and
Chairman of the Mansion House Re-
lief Committee, Dublin, stating that
the distress in the west of Ireland
is rapidly increasing, and is assuming ca
lamitous proportions. Mr.. O'Gorman said
that he was daily in receipt of information
from Ireland, all to the effect that the desti-
tuition in Connaught and the Northwest and
Southwest and the islands lying off these
exceeding the worst fears of the people. II
some districts the distress had almost taken
the character of a famine, and the graves
fears are entertained for spring and early
summer. a London telegram of the 30tl
saws that three deaths from starvation have
occurred in County Louth. The Pope ha
contributed 10000 francs to the relief fund
A Fort Buford dispatch says the Uncapap
and GrOs Ventre Indians have had a blood
fight, growing out of the attempted captur
by the latter of a herd of ponies stolen by tn
former tribe. Fifteen braves were killed
Great excitement prevails along the Yellow
stone on account of the fear of a general In
dian uprising.
Rev. Mr.. Cowley of New York, manage
of the shepherds Fold" has been com
mitted to Jail upon % separate indictments
charging him with i'll treatment of an
cruelty to the children placed under his care
Bail was fixed at $500 upon each indictment
A delegation of Southern Utes, under tn
charge Of Col. Page, arrived in Washingto
on the 31st.