The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-05-11

and two wounded, while the savages left
fifteen dead on the field, including a son
Of Loco, and seventy five horses were cap
tured. Tupper then joined Col. Forsyth's
command.
A DISPATCH from Santa Fe, n. Mex,
says a column OF Mexican troops under Col.
Garcia routed the Indians on the ID. Col.
Forsyth went in pursuit and killed seventy
eight OF them, taking thirty three prisoners.
THREE masked men broke into the
house OF Mrs.J. Stump, near Greensburg, Pa,
on the 1st. Mrs. Stump and her daughters
were bound and gagged; one was strung up
to the rafters in order to extort information
as to where their money was secreted, and
another was brutally beaten, but all refused
TO give the information. The burglars got
about $500 and escaped.
ELLEN Corr, and old woman who
lived in a shantv near the water tower in
Cleveland, o., was found dead in bed the
other afternoon, her body horribly mutilat-
ed by rats. The ears were partially eaten
off, the side OF one hand had been nibbled
to the bone, the eyelds were entirely gone,
and the flesh had been devoured from the
forehead by the vOracious vermin, leaving a
spectacle siekening in its ghastliness. The
coroner decided upon epilepsy as the cause
of death.
AN attache of weekly journal in
New Orleans was called to account by the
son of Attorney General Egan for an abu-
sive article, few days ago. Shots were ex-
changed in st. Bernard Parish, without ef-
feet.
WHILE Hugh Rapp, a well-known
gambler, was purchasing a ticket in the
Union Depot at Leadvile, Colo, May 3,
Ella Harvey to whom he had once paid
much attention, slipped quietly up to the
window and threw bottle of vitriol in his
| face, making her escape in carriage wait
ing at the door. The unfortunate Rapp,
who was a fine-loOking fellow, suffered the
I most eXcrutiating torture before relief could
! reach him, and it is not unlikely he will pass
! the rest of his days with one OF his eye-sock-
! cts empty and other disfiguring marks about
his face. He fears the woman and says he
| will not prosecute her.
! A SUBCOMMITTEE of the House of
| Representatives, after investigating the
| question of lapsed land grants, decides that
the charters Of the Northern Pacific and
the Atlantic & Pacific Railways are nom
! forfeitabe.
THE white outlaws of Arizona are
commanded by Presidential proclamation
| to disperse, after which regular troops viii
be used to quiet the cowboy.
AN emigrant train on the Santa Fe
Road, while side-trscked at Glorieta, n.
| Mex, the other day, was raided by three
! desperadoes, who secured from the passen-
] gers about 5000 in money and goods. The
leader of the gang was formerly night
watchman at Lamy.
As the result of a vote taken by sixty
one presbyteries, instrumental music will be
introduced into the United Presbyterian
Church Of North America. The ballot stood
GIG to COG.
MAJOR EVANS telegraphs to General
| Crook a rumOr that the Bannocks and
Snakes had broken out at Fort Washakte,
| Wyo., and that arms had been issued to set
tiers by the military. These bands number
over two thousand, and are brave and cum
ming.
| In the Italian Chamber of Deputies,
recently, Blanca said Europe had no reason
to fear invasion by the products Of America.
| The question Of disbanding the huge armies,
and giving back to agriculture and manu-
features the forces penned up in barracks,
would be the next one to consider.
THE Garfield monument committee
proposes to open subscription lists on Dec
oration Day in every city and town through
/ out the country.
THE exodus of Jews from all parts OF
| Russia has commenced, bringing about
great confusion in the foreign corn trade
which was almost exclusively in their hands
THREE old books which arrived in
New York from Europe by mail few days
ago were found to have been neatly hol-
lowed out and filed with diamonds an6
jewelry valued at So, 800. The package was
addressed to a leading jewelerof Cincinnati,
but found its way to the Custom-house.
S. j. BROWN, a shoe merchant al
| Findlay, o., recently started for Fort De-
fance to enter into business with the post.
trader. In New Mexico he lost his reason,
and was found wandering about Las Vegas
with 4 draft in his pocket for 81 900.