The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-06-08

GENERAL TERRY has information
from Milk River that Big Bear is making
ready to come south Of the boundary to hunts
with five hundred lodges, ana has sent word
that he will fight If an attempt be made to
drive him away.
THE Senate committee investigating
the bonded spirits bill examined 6. B. Mil
Ter, President of the Western Export Asso-
citation, and Edwin Stevens, of Cincinnati,
May 81, and relieved them from further at
tendance. The examination resulted in
placing before the committee much infor-
nation relative to the distilling interests,
but failed to show that any money had been
raised or expended by the distilllng men to
influence legislation.
MIsCREANTs defaced the soldiers
monument on the grounds of the State Nor
NAL School at MiIlersville, Pa, May 80,
bespattering it with ink and other sub
stances.
DECORATION DAY was more gener-
orally observed than ever before. James G..
Blaine and Gen. J. r. Hawey addressed
the assemblage at the Gettysberg Cemetery.
There was large gathering at the grave
of Gen. Zachary Taylor, near Louisville,
where General Elkin spoke. The process
sion of veterans and eleven militia Tegi-
ments in New York required two hours in
passing Madison Square, where President
Arthur, General Grant, Roscoe Conkling,
and Generals Hazen and ingalls, reviewed
it. The Garfield vault and casket at Cleve-
land were covered with floral offerings.
The Grand Army veterans at ashington
| attended to the graves in the Arlington
and national cemeteries. At Spring Grove
Cemetery, near Cincinnati, an oratlon was
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mounds covering eleven thousand dead he
roes at Jefferson Barracks, near St. Louis,
were strewn with flowers. Philadelphia
was handsomely decorated, and about six
thousand soldiers marched to Laurel Hill
! Cemetery. In Chicago, the grave OF every
| Union soldier was garlanded, while the
resting place of five thousand COnfeder-
ate dead at Oak Woods was marked
! by Whittier Post with a mammoth
floral cross. Young girls to the num-
Der of $50 participated in the work
of decoration at Graceland with the surviv-
ors OF the Twenty-fourth and Eighty-second
Illinois Infantry. At st. Paul the garrison
from Fort Smelling and four battalions of
militia escorted a large party of children to
the graves of the hOnored veterans. The
people OF indianapolis placed a wealth of
flowers on the mounds covering Governor
Morton, General jeff c. Davis, and General
Candy. vast number Of citizens of New
Orleans made their way to General jack
sons battle ground at Chalmette, where ev-
cry grave bore floral tributes, and where J.
II. G. Pi,kin was orator OF the day. In Bos-
| ton there were services around the monu-
ment on the Common and at Mechanics
Building. Flowers were strewn over the
graves Of Thaddeus Stevens and James
| Buchanan, at Lancaster, Pa.
! THE Joliet Iron and Steel Company
employed gang of twenty non-union men,
some of them colored, unloading iron-Or
at docks in Chicago, some days ago. At close
of work on June 1st they got on board the
| Chicago & Alton train to go home to Joliet.
| When the train stopped at the Pan Handle
crossing, five or six miles out, a gang OF
| about fifty striking iron workers surrounded
| the train. Four or five jumped upon the
| engine, and presenting revolvers at the
! heads OF the engineer and fireman prevent
/ ed them from starting again. In the mean
/ time another detachment boarded the train
and pulled out all the workmen they could
recognize, including half dozen colored
| men and one white man. The crowd out
/ side handled them numerically. Many
stones were thrown in the melee, and twen-
ty-five or thirty shots were fired, one Of
/ which took effect in the groin of Judge
! Pnlsburv, of the Illinois Appellate Court,
/ inaicting a wound which it is feared will
prove fatal. The rioters, after beating the
! negroes to their hearts contents, dispersed,
emptying the chambers of their revolyers.
| No arrests.
/ Mrs. La BAU-BERGER, a sister of
! Cornelius J. Vanderbilt, has brought suit
| to set aside his will, which left S750,O0O to
! George N. Terry, on the ground that the
! bequest was procured by fraud.
TIE bicyclists of the United States
gathered in Chicago for a reunion me other
/ day. Nearly go wheelmen went out to the
driving park and indulged in trials Of speed,
| and there was a banquet at the Grand Pa
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