The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-06-19
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The Montgomery Advertiser says the
wheat crop in Alabama viii be. much larger
than for many years past.
A murderer was lynched in Harrison
county KY, below Cincinnati, a few nights
since, his clothes soaked in oaI oil and the
body burned.
Tom Norris, who murdered and rob-
bed iatboatman about month ago, was ta-
ken from Winnsboro, La, jail, Saturday night,
by thirty disguised men, and hung.
The Macon Telegraph reports that
the corn crop in Georgia is doing well. Cotton
is still small, and at least one-third less planted
than last year. full crop, therefore, is i'm
possible.
A special from Sardis, Miss, says
negro named Nose Gregory becoming incen7
sed at his wife, attempted to shoot her and
shot his daughter, Emma aged 13, and killed
her. On being arrested he admitted the kills
ing, saying he tried to kill his wife, and would
kill her yet.
Aspecial from Rockport, Texas, says
it has been ascertained that the murderers of
Swift and wife were two Iexicans. Mrs.
Swift was stabbed il nineteen places, her
throat cut to tie neckbone, and shot in the
face. Mr.. Swift was equally butchered, ex-
eept that he was not shot.
The New Orleans cotton exchange
has adopted revised rules looking to a refor-
nation in the handling OF cotton, the object
being to prevent the peculiarities which have
heretofore generally resulted in reducing the
weight of each passing bale and adding TO-
600 6ales annually to the city crop.
The Charleston Courier says that dur
ing last week more than two thousand pieces
of real estate in the city of Charleston have
been forfeited to the state, for the non-pay-
ment of state taxes. The owners of the prop
erty were unable to pay the taxes, and the
property was offered for sale without finding
bidders
Judge Graham of Charleston, S. O.,
has decided that The action of Gov. Moses, as
charged in the indictment for larceny was Of
fetal action, and if it was crime it was COM
mitted by him as governor, and ordered the in-
dictment, as to Francis 7. Moses, Jr, to be
quashed, and the case as to him stricken from
the docket.
A special from Pine Bluff, Ark, states
that as Gen. King White was riding on one OF
the main streets in buggy he was fired upon,
by a man named Derry and slightly wounded.
Gen. White returned the fire. wounding Derry
badly. Ten or twelve shots were fired. The
dispatch says Derry is Brooks man and an
employe on Senator Clayton's place
The executive committee of the
Clarksville, Tenn, tobacco district council have
adopted resolutions recommending to the
council the appointment of a competent chem
list, whose duty it shall be to analyzo the fer
tilIzers now being sold in the district, and sug-
gesting that each subordinate grange inquire
into the expediency of securing the passage of
"no fence law"
DR.. Ely Mcclellan, assistant surgeon
of the United States army, has been detailed
to carry out the pro visions of joint resolu-
ton of congress, directing the secretary of
war to detail a medical officer to investigate
and report upon the epidemic Of cholera of
1873, under the direction of the surgeon gem
eral of the army. He is now on a visit to the
southern states in the prosecution of the duty
assigned him, and has arrived in Nashville
with view Of obtaining complete record of
all cases OF the disease which occurred in that
city during last year.
Gov. kellogg has sent the following
message to Gen, Belknap, secretary of war:
The relief committee report that the suffer-
ing from the overflow remains unabated in At
chatalaya, Lafourohe and Ouachita valleys,
though there Is some abatement on the banks
OF the Mississippi. The committee are issuing
fully forty thousand rations daily, and in some
districts are compelled to restrict their relief
u women and children, even where work is
not a'tainable for the able bodied II the
general government would order the issuance
OF twenty thousand daily rations from the
hrst appropriation, it would avert much suf-
fering.
AT the recent meeting of the cotton
exchange convention at Augusta, Ca, Mr..
Frondht, OF Memphis, read a preamble. reso-
luton and argument adopted by tho Memphis
Gotten exchange. The paper is very lengthy.
and covers the whole subject OF cotton pro-
duction and consumption. It recommends
that the convention petition congress to make
annual appropriations sufficient 10 furnish ac-
curate information in reference to the COTTON
crop the appropriation to be placed with the
department of agriculture and the signal m
reau, and 20 be used specially for the purpose
OF obtaining information as to the acreage
usually used in planting cotton, the number of
laborers employed, the average of annual
production in each state, the condition OF the
crop from the time of planting to the final
gathering, and providing for the publication OF
more accurate reports. 1t also provides for
establishing signal stations from North Caro-
lima to Texas, to be used in the charge of COM
petent officers whose duty it shall be to report