The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-03-18

MISCELLANEOUS.
A Bismarck dispatch of the oath says that
the worst snow-storm ever known in the
Northwest ragged there for two days. Since
February 1st there had been a succession of
storms, causing an almost total suspension
of travel.
A large tenant-right meeting held near
Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland, on
the 25th, was attacked by three thousand
Orangemen armed with bludgeons, who
stormed the platform and dispersed the
meeting. Twenty tenant-righters were Sc
riously injured. The Orange party consid-
cred the meeting to be of seditiOus charac-
ter.
The President has approved the joint res-
olution authorizing the Secretary of the
Navy to transport contributions for the re-
lief of the suffering poor in Ireland.
Chief Douglas, the ringleader of the Ute
Indians in the late Meeker massacre, has
been brought to Fort Leavenworth by Gen.
Adams and turned over to the military au-
thorities to be held for trial.
The Car has appointed a Commission
| of Supreme CONTROL with Gen. MelikOff as
Chief The Imperial ukase, defining the
powers of the Commission, declares that
" the head of the Commission shall have di-
rect control over all political trials held
throughout the Empire. All local authori-
ties are placed under the jurisdiction of the
| head of the Commission, and all the en-
| pIoyees in the various departments are
| bound to afford him their entire cO-Opera-
! ton. The head of the Commission is at
! liberty to adopt any means which may ap-
pear to him desirable for the protection of
| order in the Empire, and the orders he may
| issue are to be unconditiOnaliy Obeyed."
! Gen. Melikoff has issued proclamation, in
which, after referring to the indignation felt
| in Russia and throughout Europe at the at
| tempts on the life of the Emperor, he de-
! clares the Government is compelled to adopt
effectuaI measures for the suppression OF
the evils threatening social order. He will
not hesitate to take the most stringent meas
ures for the punishment of criminals, while
! endeavoring on the other hand to tranquiizC
and protect the welI-intentioned part OF
society. He hopes for the cooperation o1
all honest men, and begs the population tC
await the future with calmness, and to dis
| regard malicious and frivolous rumors.
ApprehensiOns of serious disturbances il
| San Francisco are reported, on account o.
the demands of unemployed labOrers anC
others for the discharge of Chinese wOTkmer
by corporation managers, in compliance with
the law recently passed. \ number Of com
panies refuse to comply with the law unit
its cOnstitutionality has been passed
upon by the United States Courts. Th
Board of Health has declared the entire dis
trict known as Chinatown q nuisance, ant
ordered the removal of the occupants to tn
outskirts of the city. A seeming dilatOri
ness in carrying this order into execution
has added to the clamOr of the wOTkingmen
A citizens vigilance committee has beel
formed, in order to suppress any violen
outbreak that may endanger the peace o
the city.
new and dangerous counterfeit has re
Gently been put in circulation in Chicago, an
! probably elsewhere. It is a $40 legal-tende
note, dated 1875, check letter c, signed job
Allison, Register, and Jno. c. New. Treas
urer; is rather dark in appearance, an
printed on heavy paper. The fiber which ap
pears in genuine bills is initiated by engrave
lines, and the counterfeit may readily be de
tected by scratching these lines with pin
when the fiber will not appear.
According to the latest news receive
by cable, the alliance between Peru an
Bolivia has been broken off.
, Vera Sassulitch, the famous feminine Nj
hilist agent, who on the 9TH of February
= ! 1873, attempted the assassination of Gen
Trepoff, Prefect of st. Petersburg, has bee
re-arrested at the residence of her friends i
st. Petersburg.
The United States ship Constellation, no
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, will be surveye
and put into commission at once for til
! transportation of supplies to Ireland, in az
cOrdance with the recent act of Congress.
In conformity with the recent procIams
i tiOn Of the President in reference to IL
= threatened invasion of the Indian TerritoI
: by wOuld-be settlers, two companies
troops have been ordered to rendezvous
/ Caldwell, Sumner County, and two comp;
nies at Coffeyville, Montgomery Count
Kansas, to put forcible stop, if necessar
to the movement across the Kansas bOrde
The United States steamer Marion recen
,, ly arrived at Montevideo from Rio, wi
II several cases of yellow fever aboard. Lieu
Wallis and boy had died of the diseas'
the others were convalescent.
le CONGRESSIONAL.
id FEB. 24.-Senate-A number OF petitio
7r were presented asking a reduction OF duty