The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-04-10
SOUTH.

Natchez agitates the subject of a cot
ton factory.
There are nearly three hundred gran
ges in North Carolina
The grangers in Arkansas are raising
money to start cotton factery.
Memphis claims to be the second cot.
ton market in the United States.
A new telegraph line is to be put up
direct between Mobile and Selma.
The Courier-J Journal reports a $780,
900 fire at Lancaster, Garrard county, Ky.
The town of Darlington, South Caro-
lima, is now lighted with twenty-five street
lamps.
There are 675 convicts in the Ken
tucky penitentiary, thirty-one of whom are
females.
Mayo, the defaulting treasurer of Vir-
ginia, has been adjudged a lunatio, and sent
to the asylum.
During the past month Mobile has
had six Hres, five of which are believed tqhave
been inceudiAry.
Jackson county, Georgia, which is
high above the ''cotton belt,p last year pro-
duced 5000 bales of cotton.
templated, and the state geologist has drawn
up route for the survey party.
A ship-yard is to be established at
Edenton, in North Carolina, to build barges
for the northern coasting trade.
Henry @. Hill, of Oglethrops, Ga,
was shot and killed by Warren Law, of Macon
county, in the former place, last week.
About a week ago three attempts
were made in one night to burn the town of
Bladon Springs, in Ohoctaw county, Alabama
Edward Claren, a retired New Or
leans merchant, was murdered Friday night
and his body thrown in the new basin. No
clue. ".
The official report of the Langley
cotton mills, of Augusta, Ga, for 1873, shows
profit of S112, ,920 on an invested capital of
$500, 900. el -.
Gen. Forrest, having resigned The
presidency of the Memphis and Selma rail
road, has been succeeded in that position by
A. G. White.
The trustees of the Southern rail-
way opened 1O7 bids for the construction of
sixty miles of road in Tennessee from Chit
wood, south.
The San Antonio CTexas) Herald an
nounces that the population OF that city is
10000, viz: 10000 Americans, 4, 900 Mexicans,
and,2, 900 negroes.
The Mississippi State Lunatic Asy-
lum is crowded beyond itscapacity, and hun
dred applicants for admission are on the su-
perintendent's register.
The Georgia convicts have been hired
out at prices ranging from eleven dollars to
twenty dollars per annum each. This arrange
ment win yield the state an income of about
$4,000.
The land owners of Texas are taking
measures to crush out the cattle owners who
own little or no land. Immense pastures are
being fenced in. and there will soon be no open
prairie for cattle.
Capt. Goad, agent of the Mississippi
valley transportation company, has returned
from the wreck of the Crescent City, and re-
ports that she can be raised when the water
fails ten feet.
The Direct Trade Union Patrons o1
Husbandry have been organized at Atlanta
Ga. by the election OF A. H. Colquitt presi
dent, and twelve directors. They expect tc
control all cotton exported from Georgia.
The negro exodus from Alabama and
Georgia continues. The Montgomery Adver.
tiser learns that IL, 600 tickets for negro emi-
grants have been taken up on the roads lead,
ing southwark and westward from that city.
A dispatch from Memphis states that
while seven men were loading barge witt
sand at Fort Pickering, at the southern bound
airy OF the city, about quarter of an acre OF
the blun fell upon them, burying the boat
Dave Tracy, bud Wave and another man
name unknown, beneath the landslide in a
hundred feet of water the other four barely
escaping. whirlpool was formed by tho
huge mass of earth. Tracy leaves a wife
He had been engaged in the sand trade fol
cars and was widely known
The steamboat Sam J.. Hale, from
Cincinnati for New Orleans, burst steam
pipe hundred and twenty-five miles above
Memphis. The following are the casualties
p. Wagner, second engineer, slightly scalded
Richard Leonard, deckhand severely sine,
died; Frank Stewart, deckhsnd, badly join
johnson. deekhand, lost overheard; Chas,
Jones, colored, fireman, killed. Capt J. /
Carter made a narrow escape but was unin
iured. The City of Yioksburg overlook tn,