The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-12-11
SOUTH.

,z Southwestern Georgia is overrun by
agents seeking negro 1aborers, to work in the
cotton fields OF Arkansas and 9th er sections
The steamboat Sabine, from Shreve-
port for New Orleans, with cargo of cotton
and a lot OF sugar struck snag at Creole
Bend, last week. and sunk in twenty feet wa
ter. The boat viii probably prove a total loss.
The cotton viii be saved in damaged condi-
tion. The boat was valued at $4,000, and
insured in New Orleans. companies.
A special to the Courier. Journal says
that three negroes were taken from Jail by a
band Of masked men at MorganfisId, Ky,
Tuesday night, and hanged to trees, near
town. Uniontown, in the same county. was
visited by destructive fire some weeks since,
and these negroes had been arrested and
charged with starting the con5agration. They
afterwards confessed the crime giving as an
excuse that the proprietor Of the distillery
in which it was started had turned the mother
Of one Of the negroes out of one of the
houses in which she was living. The "regu-
lators" were mounted and are thought to have
come from Uniontown.
The Memphis cotton exchange crop
report for November gives the following sum-
mary, derived from 1O7 responses from West
Tennessee, North Mississippi, and Arkansas,
north OF Arkansas river: sixty-fcur report
damaged by frost forty three no damage
The average damage by frost is three and one
half per cent. The average decrease in acre
age is one and one-half per cent, Due exer-
tions have been and are being made to save
the crop. The average closing picking season
last year vas January IL This year it will
close about December 7. The crop lie being
marketed unprecedentedly fast. The corn
crop OF this district ia about thirty-two per
cent short of the average OF the past two
seasons. The aggregate of responses does
not indicate any change in the morale OF
laborers. The prospect is that the entire crop
will be saved in better condition than ever
known. The committee are OF opinion that
the decrease Of the cotton crop in this district
from last year, viii be about thirty-five per
cent.
The executive committee of the Mis-
souri state Grange, which has been in session
At St. Louis, adjourned last week after the
transaction Of considerable business apper-
tanning to the order. They also adopted Sc
Eies OF resolutions approving the, efforts now
being made by the citizens Of St Louis to
open direct trade between ths Mississippi
from New Orlesns and Arkansas, the farmers
of the valley states to aid in supporting the
enterprise. They recommend the farmers of
Missouri and the other valley states to make
every effort to induce shipments down the
Mississippi river, instead Of by rail TO the east,
and assert It is The policy and imperative duty
Of the farmers to patronize western and
southern railroads In pueference TO feeding
eastern roads and capitalists, They also re-
commend to tho oranges Of the valley states
TO adopt resolutions requesting their represen-
tatiVes and senator's in congress to give such
support as they can. to Capt. JAS. b. Eads
jetty plan for the Immediate Improvement Of
the mouth OF the Mississippi river.
In the cheap transportation convention
now la session at Richmond, va, a bin pre-
pared bvl Gen. DuR Greene, Of Georgia, pro
viding for the Inauguration of scheme OF
internal improvements to- be sustained by .
system OF banking connected Herewith, was
presented sRd. referred. NJ. B. Lloyd, of nli-
nois, presented his views as to the construe-
tion OF adouble track trunk rsilway by the
government, to. secure competition in Il Z
transportation of freights. Glen. Forbsl OF
Georgia, presented q resolution looking TO the
establishment and maintenance OF commercial
intercourse between the states of the union,
TO revive the qeommerce of the nation. The
committee on resolutions presented report
based upon resolution of Col. Johnson, of
North Carolina, in which they declare in favor
OF asking the government to aid in the con-
struetion OF the Southern Pacific railroad, AID
OF the great water lines, such aid to convey
TO the government the right to control the
rates OF transportation over such lines, with a
proviso that the government guarantees asked
shall be so guarded as to protect the national
treasury from loss. Four members Of ths
committee presented a protest against the
adoption Of the report, aud against asking
the government to aid in the construction OF
railrosds.
FOREIGN.
A Kingston, Jamaica, letter puts the
damage % that island BY the typhoon OF Nov
let, at s350.0 .000.