The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-09-19
THE NOUTH.

Richmond Enquirer: st is generally
understood that negotiations, likely to have a
favorable result, are pending between the
Norfolk and Great Western railroad company
and the English capitalists, looking to the sale
of the company's bonds to q sufficient amount
to insure the construction of the road. An
engineer, sent over by the capitalists, will sail
from Liverpool on the goth inst, and his duty
will be to make report of the prospectus of
this road to the gentleman whom he repre-
sents." --.-.. ...-.- ....
The anniversary of the battle of North
Point, was observed in Baltimore as a holiday
The old defenders passed the day at Browns
pavilion and the militia paraded. --s
"A private dispatch to Louisville announces
the death of James A. Rice of New Orleans,
by jumping from the window of New York
hotel, while temporarily insane.
"A movemant is on foot in the southern
states to have an equestrian statue of . Stone
WALL Jackson which was begun some years
years ago. completed, and placed either at
Lexington or Richmond, in Virginia.
The United States marshal at Shreveport,
La, telegraphs to Attorney General Williams
that the local authorities on the Texas Pacific
railroad have stopped the cars by force, on
account of the fever at Shreveport, and asking
that the general government interfere to com
pei the running of trains.
New Orleans-The cotton crop pool esti-
mates ceased March /, with 43 estimates, the
highest being 3, ,977 600; the lowest, 1866, 900,
and the average 3, ,738, ,237. The winning esti-
mate was {, 3,945 784 and was made By BIr. J. B.
Priolean of Liverpool, formerly of Frazer,
Trenholm q Co.
"A new steamship line has just been estab-
Iished to run between the ports of New Orleans
and Rio de Janeiro touching at jamaica Port
Spain Trinidad, Para, Maranham, Pernambu-
co and Bahia, making the outward trip in
twenty-five days and the home passage in
twenty-three days, thus opening vast COM
merciaI trade between those ports and the
great states of the Mississippi valley.
Senator West of Louisiana received the
following dispatch from the mayor of Shreve-
port: People are panic-stricken here. All
that could, have left. The poor are.nearly all
on our hands. No money in the city treasury.
All pecuniary aid will be thankfully received.
Fever increasing
"A dispatch from Commerce, No, says the
steamer James Howard caught fire in the hull
yesterday while lying at that place. The pas
sengers and baggage were taken ashore safely
and the steamer scuttled, which was the only
hope Of saving her. No further particulars
The Howard was the largest steamer on west
ern waters, being thirty-three hundred tons
burden, owned by Capt. B. R. Pegram and J.
Fl. Chasing, St Louis, and James Howard,
Jeffersonville, Ind, and cost two years ago
$3.50, 900.
Gov Smith of Georgia recently stated
that the states of Georgia, Alabama, Florida
and South Carolina, even under the agricuI-
turaI changes of the south, do not yet raise
enough wheat for their own use within so ,OOO,
600 bushels.
The mill owners of Charleston, S. c have
determined to keep their mills closed until the
negro strikers return to work at old rates.
st. Louis-Twelve hundred dollars were
raised in a few minutes on change for the sick
and suffering people of Shreveport, La, and
committee of prominent merchants was ap
pointed to solicit subscriptions for the same
purpose. 1t is expected that handsome sum
will be raised.