The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-01-01
MISCELLANEOUS.


Late advices from the City of Mexico state
that Gen. Gonzales has been arrested and is
in close confinement, charged with conspi-
racy. Ignatio Mariscale, formerly Minister
to Washington, has been designated Minister
Of Justice. The approaching Presidential
election is the cause Of much excitement,
/ free suffrage having been secured to people
who heretofore really had no share in poll
teal affairs, owing to Governmental man
a-ement Of elections. News from Northern
Mexico, via San Antonio, 9th, states that
Chihuahua has been retallen by the Federal
and State troops, Gen. Trevino in command.
The insurgents retreated, carrying off Gov.
Trias, who, it was feared, would be shot.
Severe cold weather and heavy snow falls
| are reported from England and the Conti-
nent. In France the Seine and Loire were
both frozen over on the 9th.
At Cabinet meeting, held on the 9th, the
Secretary Of the Interior was authorized to
notify Gen. Hatch to receive The Ute Indians
! engaged in the White River massacre, with
| the assurance they will be granted an i'm
partial trial outside of Colorado and New
Mexico. The prisoners, when surrendered,
viii be taken to Fort Leavenworth. Ouray
and three or four representatives. each from
the Uncompahgre, Southern and White
I
! w a. Price, colored, late Republican can
didate for District Attorney, telegraphs from
Delta, La, in response to inquiry, that the
reported cases of violence in that parish on
election day are untrue The election passed
off quietly.
A regular Dakota - blizzard - occurred
on the 10th throughout the region between
Bismarck and Duluth. The storm was so
severe that all travel was suspended and peo-
pie only venturcd out of doors upon the most
necessary eTrands. The snow was drifted
from four to five feet deep in places.
4 dispatch from CabuI,- 11th, says the
combined British forces under Generals
Massey and Macpherson made an attack upon
the Afghans and their allies, but were tenn
pOrariy beaten back, losing some guns,
which, however, were afterwards recovered
and the insurgents forced to retreat to the
heights south of Bala Hissar.
+ The village of Red Rock, near Bradford,
Pa, was almost destroyed by an oil fire
on the night Of the I1th. Three hundred
families were burned out. Assistance was
promptly forwarded from adjacent towns.
By grand charge all along the line the
British troops, on the night of the 18th, drove
the Afghans from their works and planted
the British cOlors on the heights of Bala His
sar. The fighting was hot and close and the
losses heavy on both sides. Ten British Off
GERS are among the slain. The insurgents in
the vicinity of Cabul are estimated at 1900
men, and as they are generally quite as well
armed as the British soldiery the situation is
considered very grave, especially as con-
elusive evidence of Russian intrigue is said
to have been discovered.
The colored exodus from North Carolina
to Indiana continues unabated. Over 200
negroes arrived in indianapolis on the 18th,
They were described as being hungry, half
naked, and mOneyless. They were lodged
in the colored churches, and solicitors were
sent out to collect funds and secure homes
for them.
The Interior Department, it is reported,
has recently unearthed great frauds by In
/ dian contractors in Arizona, who have been
engaged in systematically swindling the
/ Government out OF large amounts by the
! false-weighing of beef and supplying quail
: ity Of flour inferior to that required by their
contracts.
a dispatch from Leadvile, Colo, 18th,
/ says: The severest storm ever known in the
4 history of Colorado set in on the Western
/ Range yesterday noon and ragged until this
morning without cessation. All stages
and teams are snow bound, and the
loss of property and life is
7 thought to be severe. Stock frOze to death
in their tracks owing to the intense cold, the
thermometer indicating 40 deg. below zero.
/ Several teamsters and freighters are missing,
and some are known to have perished. \
St. Paul (Niss.) dispatch, same
date, says: There has been a
severe storm in the Red River country
for two days, the thermometer falling very
4 low. Reports at different points indicate p
deg. to 40 deg. below zero. \ Breckenridge
special to the Pj0Reer-T'reSs says two chill
dren Of VIM. Owens were frozen to death,
and two men, II. G. Storderk and James
Nolan, are missing, supposed to he lost in
the storm and frozen.