The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-03-02
MISCELLANEOUS.

In a recent report to Congress the
Secretary of the Interior says there are no
lands in Indian Territory open to settlement
or entry, the tracts to which the Govern
ment holds title being reserved by treaty
stipulations. A proposition that the Grim
inal laws of the United States be extended
over their lands has been made to the Indian
delegations now in Washington, and will
evidently meet their approval
RUSSIAN Jews in a village near Kichi-
nef were attacked by peasants, ten Of the
former being nearly beaten to death. A
Vienna correspondent asserts that in seven
important towns no less than $50 persons
were outraged by Jew-baiters. At Odessa,
petroleum was poured on a Hebrews head
and set on fire.
CoLORED jubilee singers were denied
admission to every hotel in Washington, a
few days ago, and until after midnight did
not find place to sleep.
A LOCOMOTIVE boiler exploded in the
Wabash roundhOuse at La Fayette, Ind. :,
on the 20th. The concussion blew out the
walls and the roof crashed down on the
shapeess ruins. The roundhouse and eX
ploded engine were totally demolished. Fif-
teen locomotives were hurled in the ruins.
The disaster created intense excitement.
men would have been caught. AS it was
seven men were buried under the wreck, of
whom three were unhurt, three slightly and
Michael Kunnuff dangerously wounded.
A WRECK occurred on the Lake Shore
& Michigan Southern Road, near Warren 5
Station, Ind, on the 20th, caused by a train
running into another section ahead of it.
The caboose was telescoped, the engine dis
manlled, and ID. @. johnson, a brakeman,
seriously injured.
THE rainfall at St. Louis during the
recent storm was over six inches. There
were ten landslides on the Missouri Pacific
Road, and an Iron Mountain freight train
was caught at Cliff Cave. Alton, Indianap-
oils, and Burlington tracks were submerged
near Mitchell. The ferry docks at St.
Charles were sweptaway, as also the tenn
porary trusses of the bridge. The whole
country about Alton was flooded, cutting off
railway communication and doing incalcula-
BILE damage. Dispatches from north, south,
east, and west represent rivers on the ram
page and threatening a general washout
THE bill for the admission of Dakota
as State provides that five per cent. OF the
proceeds of the public lands remaining un-
sold at the time Of admission shall form a
common school fund and gives ninety Sec
tions for an agricultural college.
RAILROAD and telegraphic commun-
ication in the Northwest has been inter-
rupted by heavy show-storms.
THE Mystic Krew of COmus, of New
Orleans, celebrated their twenty fifth ami
versary on the 21st by a pageant Of twenty
cars representing the religions Of the world.
The Krew's entertainment concluded with
a grand ball and tableaux at the Opera
house.
A COMMITTEE appointed by ex-Con-
federate soldiers residing in Cincinnati and
vicinity called on Mrs. Garfield, at Cleveland,
on Washington's Birthday, bearing a
memorial tribute TO James A Garfield, in
the form OF eulogistic and sympathetic reso-
buttons engrossed on parchment and framed
in vari i-colored Tennessee marble, highly
polished, cut from a single block, two
feet square, with the United States coat-of-
arms in Mexican onyx inlaid at each corner.
Major c. A. Wilhers, formerly Adjutant-
General of Gen. j. II. Morgan's staff, said;
.sIt is with mingled feelings Of qualification
and regret that have the honor, madam, OF
presenting to you this memorial Of the ex-