The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-29

The legislature of Arkansas has ap-
pointed committees looking toward the i'm
peachment of those state officers who sup
ported the pretensions Of Mr.. Brooks, and
the governor has modified the conditions OF
martial law so far as to permit the execution
Of civil arrests.
Samuel Berman has sued Capt. Reese
Pritchard, commander of the steamer Clarks-
vile, for $4,000 damages for hanging him
| up on that boat to extcft Z confession in re-
gard to stealing jewelry from a fellow-passen-
ger with which he was charged. Capt. Pritch-
ard was not On board at the time OF the
hanging.
The mayor Of New Orleans, in a letter
to gentlemen in Washington, says unless
| the resources for relief be increased to one
/ million dollars many families must perish by
| famine. Even that sum viii not more than
suffice to save the lives of the inundated till
| the flood subsidies and the oyerfowed lands
| are again tillable
A dispatch received from Helena says
that Capt. Tom Berry, formerly a steamboat
| commander in the Memphis and Little Rock
trade, but for several years past engaged in
planting at Walnut Bend, Ark, was shot and
killed there last week by a Inan named Marks
in a difficulty growing out of a lawsuit. Marks
escaped in the skiff of his victim
1t is said that great deal of destitu-
ton prevails in and around Chicot, Ark, on
account of the flood. The large planters are
suffering equally with the small farmers.
Everything in the shape of chattel property
and provisions have been swept away, and un-
less aid reaches them soon there will be sacri-
flee of life from starvation.
A fatal affray occurred at Cherry
Greek, Pontotoc county, Miss, last Thursday.
The parties engaged were VIM. Garner, Sim
Mccoy, Sam Reeder, Mccoy, Sr., Mark Miriam
and Geo. Mccoy. Firearms were freely used
and VIM. Garner was shot and Miriam was shot
three times, each wound, however. proving to
be slight. VIM. Mccoy, Sr, had his arm
broken, and Sim Mccoy was slightly bruised
All the combatants had before this terrible
affair been friendly toward each other, and in
fact were all related. No other cause is as
signed for the unfortunate and deadly COLI
sion than that the parties were drunk at the
time.
On addressing q recent meeting of the
Galveston, Texas, chamber of commerce, Col.
Van Horne, OF Kansas City, said the delega-
ton had two objects in view. One was to in
quire if the Galveston merchants were able
and willing to handle the grain of their sec
ton; the other, to secure proper competition
tariff of rates from the railroad lines They
would return home satisfied we could handle
their grain, and would report to their board of
trade that the merchants of Galveston will do
their part, and united effort will be made to
induce the railroads to comply. By this means
trans-Mississippi commerce will be built up
which will rival that of the east.
Hon. Frank Morey, of New Orleans,
asks by telegraph from Washington, when is it
estimated the present supply of food or funds
will be exhausted at the present rate of dis
tribution. Gov. Kellogg replies: The relief
committee for Louisiana receive from the
government eight thousand raticns daily and
distribute from thirty to forty thousand. The
funds from private contributions will be ex-
hausted in fifteen days. Every effort is being
made by sending cotton seed, corn and rice to
the flowed districts to afford relief in the
shape of work and to discourage idleness
but the necessities for help will last much
longer than the present resources.
The committee on transportation of
the agricultural congress, in session at Allan
ia, reported resolutions in favor of water
transportation, by artificial highways, aud
against the regulation of railroad traffic by
congress-, which were adopted. The commit
tee on the tax on tobacco recommended that
the government reduce the tax to a uniform
rate of twelve cents per pound, and that
ticles used in the manufacture of tobacco come
duty free. Adopted Gen. Jackson was re-
elected president and C. W. Greene secretary.
J. s. Grinnel was elected yice-president. G.
W. Greene, secretary, resigned, and Geo. E.
Morrow, editor of the Wisconsin Farmer, was
elected in his place. The next meeting of the
congress will be held at Cincinnati the second
Wednesday in September, 1875.
A Denver, Texas, dispatch says the
wheat crop of this region is now out of dan
ger, and will be the largest ever raised in
northern Texas. New wheat will be in market
here by the LIST of June. A large breadth of
land is planted in cotton, and looks finely.
Business is reviving all through Texas, and all
the railroads are crowded with immigrants,
while the prairie roads are lined with people
in wagons seeking new homes. The Texas
and Atlantic refrigerator company has added
various improvements to it's slaughtering
here, and is now killing one hundred beeves
daily and will soon slaughter five hundred.
It owns one hundred cars, built to transport
fresh beef to st. Louis, Chicago, New York,
and Baltimore, and will send a train-load daily
to these cities during the season.