The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-02-26
MIsCELLANEOUs.

The House Committee on War Claims has
decided to report adversely upon SO South
ern war claims, for amounts ranging from
Sc, ,OO0to 900.
The severest storm of the season occurred
throughout New York and along the Atlantic
coast on the night of the I'd. Snow-drifts
10 feet deep in places are reported, and
the wind blew a hurricane. A brakeman on
the Hudson River Railway and a newsbOy
on New Jersey road were blown from their
trains and killed. The damage to shipping
was enormous,
The New York. Herald has opened an
Irish relief fund and headed it with the
handsome sum of 800, 200. The Herald
says: "Returns by counties from ireland
show that 312, $40 persons are slowly starv-
ing, and the outlook forthe coming month
is gloomier than prediction has.yet. painted.
Local efforts are becoming feeble. People
look to the world for succor." ----
The report Of three deaths from starvation
in County Louth, ireland, is contradicted.
The British Parliament was opened on the
9TH. There was a royal procession to the Par
lament House. The Queens speech was read
by Lord Cairns. In reference to the distress
in Ireland, the speech says the Government
"have called upon authorities charged with
ample preparations for the distribution of
food and fuel, should such a step become
necessary, and they have also stimu-
lated the employment of labor by
advances on terms more liberal than
those prescribed by the existing law......
A proposal will be submitted to you for pro-
viding funds required for these exceptional
advances on security of property admins
tered by Church Temporalities Commission
ers."
The body of Miss Dolly Hartman, daugh-
ter Of a prominent resident of Pittsburg,
Pa, was cremated at the lie Moyne Crema-
tory, Washington, Pa, on the 7th. Miss
Hartman requested that this disposition be
made of her remains.
The Denver Tribune says that a formidable
secret organization is being perfected there
for the purpose of driving the Indians out
of Colorado. t 4s-~
The House Committee on Indian Affairs
have agreed upon the terms of bill to pro-
vide for the punishment of crimes upon the
Indian reservations. 1t provides that the
laws of the States and Territories in which
are located the Indian reservations, relating
to the crimes of murder, manslaughteT,
arson, rape, burglary and robbery, shall
be deemed and taken to be law,
and in force within such reservations, and
United States District and Territorial Courts
within and for the respective districts and
Territories in which the reservations may be
located shall have original jurisdiction over
all such offenses which may be committed
within such reservations. In respect to all
that portion of the Indian Territory
not. set apart and occupied by
Cherokee, Creek, ChOctaw, Chicka-
saw and Seminole Indian tribes,
the provisions of the laws of the State Of
Kansas relating to the crimes mentioned
shall be deemed and taken to be law and in
force therein, and the United States District
Court for the Western District of Kansas. at
Fort Scott, shall have exclusive original
Jurisdiction over all such Offenses arising in
said portion of the Indian Territory. -ss-
Sir Stafford Northcote, in the House Of
Commons, denied that the Government had
been dilatory in its efforts TO prevent a
famine in Ireland. He detailed the relief
measures taken, and expressed confidence
that they would be found sufficient.
Jack and SoweTwick, who accompanied
Gen. Adams from Washington to Los PinOs,
have gone to Grand River to endeavor to
effect the surrender of the prisoners de-
manded. Orders have been sent out by
Chief Sapovancy for all the different bands
to rendezvous near the Agency, and a grand
pow-wow is anticipated. Douglass has not
been to the Agency since he made his de-
mand for rations on the 18th ult. and was
refused.