The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-01-08
MISCELLANEOUS.


B. Secretary Schurz received a dispatch on
the 10Th from Commissioner Hatch at Los
Pinos, which says: Ouray has left for the
bands of the White River Utes to assist in
bringing in the Indians demanded. It is now
as certain that the Indians will be surren-
dered as that any arrangement can be relied
upon with the Indians"
The violators of the Sunday law in Omaha
are being arrested without fear or favor.
The last batch includes the proprietors Of
the two morning papers, besides druggists,
brewers, and a score or more of dealers in
various lines of goods.
The Chilians have achieved another victo-
ry over the allied forces of Peru and Bolivia.
On the 21st of November a battle was
fought at Dolores, near Aqua Santa, Peru,
the Chilians being attacked in an
entrenched position. The allied forces
charged three times with great
bravery, but were each time repulsed, and
the Chilian reinforcements having then come
up the allied forces were driven back and
their camp captured with 13 guns. The
losses were heavy on both sides.
The British troops in Afghanistan are evil
IDENTIFY in a most serious predicament. Gen.
Roberts, with 1000 troops, is cooped up in
the cantonments at Shirpur and all his COM
munications are cut off: The cantonments
are surrounded by high brick wall, loop
hOled, with an outer ditch, and it is claimed
can be successfully defended against any at
tacking force that the enemy may bring to
bear against them. Reinforcements from
Jellelabad and Gundamuk had been sent to
the relief of Gen. Roberts, and the result was
looked for with the greatest anxiety.
The body of young man named Charles
McCreery, son of James McCreery, a
wealthy New York merchant, was cremated
at the LeMOyne CrematOry at Washington,
Pa, on Dec. 16. Young bIcCreery died of
consumption, and this disposal of his re-
mains was made by his parents in Difference
to the oft repeated requests of their son,
who had a horror of being buried. An at
tempt was made to prevent publicity of the
facts, and it took the keen scented newspa-
per reporters several days to establish the
identity of the erematee.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat of the Goth
said there were at that date from $50 to 100
destitute eolored emigrants, bound for Kan
sas, stranded in that city, many of them yir-
tuaIly on the verge Of starvation, and what
was still worse, from 200 to 6,G00 others were
reported en- route and expected to arrive
within few days. The local COlOred Re-
lief Board is not only entirely without funds,
but is several hundred dollars in debt, and
the prospective suffering of the helpless ne
groes is somewhat appalling.
Edison told a Herald reporter on the 18th
that the advertised exhibition of his electric
light at MenlO Park on Christmas Eve would
not come off, and that he never promised it
would. He says it is all completed, however,
and that a public exhibition will doubtless
be made at an early day, probably on New
Years.
The steamboat Maggie Baker, just arrived
at Mobile from Montgomery, Ala, was
burned to the waters edge on the 20th.
Eleven hundred bales OF cotton were de-
stroyed by fire or damaged by water. Boat
and cargo fully insured.
The following dispatch was received from
Los Pinos, via Lake City, Colo, 22d: Ouray
has Just arrived from the camp of the White
River Utes, and announces to the Commits
sion that he was unable to effect surrender
of the prisoners demanded by the
Commissioners. Ouray has given the
White River Utes until the 23d inst. to de-
liver up the prisoners. This is his ulti-
matum, and if not complied with by that
time he win call for troops and assist them
in a war against Douglass and his tribe,
Ouray says the feeling is very strong against
giving up the Indians, and he is Of the
opinion that the war faction VIII prevail
/ Ouray has done all in his power to carry out
the peace policy of the Government, and
having failed, is ready to assist the War De-
| partment whenever it shall commence opera
tiOns.