The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-22

other exchanges, have passed resolution
suggesting January 10 as the day for the as,
sembling OF the cotton exchange convention
in Augusta, Ga; also, that the number of del
egates from each exchange be increased tc
FIVE.
Samuel Berman has sued Capt. Reese
| Pritchard, commander Of the steamer Clsrks-
vile, FOR 500, coo damages for hanging hin
up on that boat to extort confession in re-
gard to stealing jswslry from a feIlow-passen-
ger, with which he was charged. Capt. Pritch-
ard was not on board at the time OF the
hanging.
A dispatch received from Helena says
that Capt. Tom Berry, formerly steamboat
commander in the Memphis aud Little Rock
trade but for several years past engaged in
! planting at Walnut Bend, Ark, was shot and
killed there last week by a man named Marks
in difficulty growing out of a lawsuit. Marks
escaped in the skiR OF his victim.
Reports from New Orleans state that
the towboat Tillie C. Jewett collided with the
steamship City Of Houston on the night of
the 14th, below Point Bohemia, and sunk in
twelve feet of water A fireman and cabin
boy were drowned, the balance Of the crew
clInging to the wreck till rescued by the
steamer Mary Ida. The City of Houston pro
ceeded on her course.
Further particulars in regard to the
killing Of Capt. @. W. Edwards, at Bledsoe's
landing, Arkansas, on Friday, show that it was
q deliberate assassination. DR.. Allen having
asked him to issue the attachment, Edwards
declined, as no longer magistrate. Allen then
attempted to bribe him to do So Edwards
ordered him out of his house, and turned to
enter his wife's room, when DR.. Allen leveIed
shotgun, and crying out there's luck, -" lis
charged it, killing Edwards instantly Allen
escaped. He was forInly in the snake show
business.
On addressing a 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 leturn 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
a mississippi commerce will be built up
which viii rival that of the east.
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 ar
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 vice-president. G.
w. Greene, secretary, resigned, and Geo. z.
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.
About daylight on the morning of the
18th, the Ievse broke at Apperson's plantation,
opposite Frisr's Point. At last accounts the
crevasse was one hundred and fifty yards
wide, and the water spreading over the planta-
ton. one OF the finest OF that section. The
crevasse at AIiller's on the Mississippi side, is
now six hundred yards wide, and the water
in the streets of Fiiar's Point, is three
feet deep. Families are moving out and mer-
chants are busily engaged in removing goods.
The whole country in the rear is rapidly
being undated. Some idea may be formed of
the water rushing through the crevasse, by it's
tearing up huge cottonwood trees two and a
half feet in diameter and scattering them
over the neighbOring plantations. Steamers
now all come through the Council Bend cut.