The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-10-05

BLIssFIELD, Mich, has been excited
by the discovery of some gold dust in an ex.
cavation.
WELLINGTON & Bros, wholesale
dry goods. Boston, Mass. have suspended
Liabilities, about 500. 900.
A DISPATCH from Tunis saws band
OF marauders attacked party of sixty horse
men belonging TO the French topographica
expedition, near Kairwan, the other day
The French commander was killed and sew
en- Of his men disabled. The brigands los
thirty killed and fifty wounded.
THE German Government is cOnsid
ering project for canal to connect the
North Sea with the Baltic.
An earthquake caused considerable
uneasiness in st. Louis, No, Sept. 27. The
shock was felt at many other places.
ADVICEs from Panama are to the eff
feet that insurgents seized Greytown, auC
an American vessel in port. The crew sub
sequently recaptured the vessel and citizeni
hanged two of the insurgent leaders.
A FLEET of steamboats,, decked will
flags and filed with people, passed up and
down the Ohio, at Cincinnati, the other day
The fleet consisted of three squadrons, each
under a commander. The vessels moved il
order at 100 yards interval between the boat
and $50 yards between the squadrons. Boil
shores were linedwith spectators. Salute'
were given by all the other steamers, al
we'll as by manufacturing establishment
along the line. The demonstration was
tribute by the steamboat men to the Indus
trial Exposition.
A COLoRED miser of Philadelphia
known as Rev. Joshua Provine Bond Eddy
died in a filthy hut, leaving 100000 to
brother. He was born in Virginia, in The
last century, Travelled circuit in New Jer
sey, married daughter of Bishop Allen, ,ant
turned against humanity on learning OF hel
infdelity.
DONIPHAN, another star-route juror
has made affidavit that he was offered brib
! by one Shaw, representing himself as acting
! for Col. George Bliss, to acquit ex Senator
Dorsey.
TWELVE thousand dollars worth Of
diamonds were stolen from a showcase il
| the Cincinnati Exposition, Sept. %.
II. S. FROST and G. p. Frye, highly
respectable young men, have been commit
ting a series OF burglaries in Troy, N. Y.
one having fallen so low as to rob the resi-
dence Of his pastor.
SMITHS hosiery factory at Balbrig-
gan, Ireland, employing three hundred per
sons, has been destroyed by fire.
PASTOR MCCLENIHEI3I of the United
Presbyterian Church at Avondale, Ohio, wa;
assaulted by Robert Hood, one of the elders
the other day, and brutally beaten with ;
club on account Of i'll feeling growing out 0
a church trial.
The Secretary of the Interior has de
,af1 to
of agricultural land in Northern Dakota
embracing about 100000 acres. The trac
once formed part OF the great Sioux Reser
walton, but was purchased by the Govern
ment from that tribe. Portions have beer
occupied by the Turtle Mountain Indians,
rowing band of Chippewas. These Indians
presented claim urging their right to oc
cupaney, and Secretary Schurz withdrew
the lands from settlement pending consid
Grafton Of the claim. Secretary Teller nov
decides the claims of the Chippewas invalid
MCCAMMON, Assistant Attorney
General Of the Interior Department, has ne
gotiated an agreement with the FlatheaC
Indians of Northwestern Montana to allow
the Northern Pacific Company to build theil
road through the reservation, a distance o
fifty three miles. The Indians at first fixeC
upon one million dollars as the price of tn
I
strip of land, two hundred feet wide, acros
the reservation, but finally accepted $23, ,OOt
$4,000 for the land and $1,000 as compen
sation for the destruction of buildings anC
crops on the line of the proposed roadway
FIVE desperate men who recently
robbed the express Office at Greenville
Pennsylvania, and were jailed at Mercer
m ade their escape by gagging and binding
everybody in authority and locking ifteel
other prisoners in their cells.
AN American horse, Lorillard's Aran
"a, won the Great Eastern Railway handical
at Newmarket by six lengths.
ENGINEER MELVILLE has given Sec
retary Chandler a detailed account of tn,
finding of the bodies of De Long and party
Minister Hunt telegraphs that Glider anC
Wilson, OF the Jeanette, have arrived at St
Petersburg.