The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-09-26

mouth of Wolf river where it first appeared.
1t is impossible to obtain reliable data in re-
gard to the mortality, but evidently there is no
decrease in the death rate. The CITY authori-
ties to-day took the first step toward meeting
the eXigencies of the occasion, the whole street
force being put to work distributing and burn
ing coal tar in the infected quarter while the
citizens met and reOrganized the Howard as
sociatiOn, with A. D. Langstaff, president
The association viii open an Office and be pre-
pared to furnish nurses and relief to all who
apply. The exodus from the city continues,
| the physicians advising all who can to leave,
and the trains in all directions are crowded.
The widest reports are circulated throughout
the country in regard to the number dying,
but it is safe to say that since the disease ap-
peared the number of deaths from all causes
has not reached 80 in any day, and since the
fight of the terror-stricken ones there is less
excitement than during the prevalence of the
cholera.
~-Br Iwnsviile Textile Rio Grande has
overfowed it's banks for the first time since
1869. The upper country is inundated, and
there is three feet in the main plaza of the
city Camargo and an almost unbroken shee
of water from Brownsville to the gulf The
and Point Isabel railread track is washed away
for over six miles and almost the entire line
submerged and ruined. The pole of the tel
egraph companies lines to Brazos are swept
off, mails stopped and stage communication
with the interior suspended.
The statician of the department of agri-
culture, after careful revision of monthly re-
turns, gis es the following as the present sta
tus: The ecotton crop indicated in areas, is a
little over ten per cent. The condition of the
crop of September last year in Arkansas Is the
same also in Tennessee and Louisiana in
each of the other cotton states the worms have
been more abundant. yet their ravages have
not been disastrous or sweeping but in few
cases. The season has been remarkable for
its rainfall tending to further depreciation
of the crop, otherwise the conditions Will be
quite as favorable. Fertilizers have stimu-
lated the growth, and the labor has been stea-
der and more reliable. The averages are as
follows: Virginia 90, North Carolina 95,
South Carolina 85, Georgia 90, Florida IS, Ala
bama S2 Mississippi 85, Louisiana so, Texas
90, Arkansas SO, Tennessee 90, Missouri 90.
In September, 1872, the average was Vir-
ginia 81, North Carolina 10l, South Carolina
95 Georgia &c. Florida 92, Alabama 88, Mis-
sssippi 80, Louisiana Sc, Texas SO, Arkansas
78, Tennessee 90. The cotton fields in North
Carolina generally make fine show of Wig
orous and fruitful plants, exceptions resulting |
MOI e from falling of forms and bolls in con- |
sequence of a too abundant rainfall, than |
from the presence of worms. In South Caro- |
inia similar damage from excessive moisture /
and the catapilIer occurs.
"A Virginia hanging cost 1858 80.
English farmers are settling in Walker
county, Ala.
A Wilmington man has the knife and strap
which belonged to the late Henry Berry Low
rey.
"A Washington special says the congress
men of the Mississippi and Missouri river val
eys have, it is understood, very general
agreed to unite their efforts to secure appro-
Driations for st. Phillip canal at the outlet of
The Mississippi river. 1t is expected that $12,
DOO, 900 will be necessary to make ship canal,
which will enable ocean vessles of the greatest
burden to reach New Orleans without being
by bars. It is claimed that, with
the completion of this canal, ocean-going
ships during four months of, the year, can
proceed as far north Cairo. Some of the
western members state that the people of the
Mississippi valley seek a solution of the
question mainly in that direc-
ton.
The seconds in the Richmond duel are
still under bond of $4,000 each, the surviving
duellist McCarty not being well enough for
trial, although improving.
The yellow fever cases on the Pawnee in
Key West harbor, are improving. The sick
ness has not attacked the town or other YES
sells.