The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-08
SOUTH.

The strike on the Louisville and Gin
cinnati short line is over.
A fire in Gadsden, Ala, on the 22d
inst, destroyed about $50, 900 worth OF prop
erty.
The stockholders of the st. Louis and
Iron Mountain road have voted to consolidate
with the Cairo and Fulton.
The federal troops at Humboldt,
Tenn, have been ordered to Little Rock to
keep Baxter and Brooks from fighting
It is estimated that not less than
$4,000, 600 worth of cotton has passed through
Nashville since September 1.
The stockholders of the Memphis
and Charleston railroad have, by a unanimous
veto, decided to take back the road.
Five million acres of cotton, sugar
and other crop producing land in Louisiana
are said to have been submerged by the pres
ent inundation.
Uncle Frank Preston, one of the
band of pioneer hunters, which had made
Kentucky famous, died last week at his home
near Maysville, KY.
Wheat in the southern states is fine,
though it has sustained some injury by the
constant rains which have fallen recently.
Oats are damaged with rust.
A hatboatman named Eastwood was
murdered on his boat, twelve miles above New
Orleans, on bayou Lafourche, Saturday morn
ing by three negroes, who made their escape.
Among contributions for overflow suf-
ferers are: From Washington city, $1,000;
Manchester, N. H, 81, 900; Bath, Maine, 81
600. The distributing committee are working
energetcally in getting off supplies to all ac-
cessible points in the overflowed districts,
where assistance is required.
Shepherd & DeWolf, of New Orleans,
have made proposition to st. Louis mer-
chants that if sufficient freight is guaranteed
by them to justify the venture, they will put
on a line of steamships between New Orleans
and Rio JAnero, touching at all important
intermediate points. They also propose to
make advances on shipments and arrange for
an investment of the proceeds in coffee or 9TH
er products of that country if desired.
J. Keen was killed in Kentucky, above
Cairo, on the 9th, by J. Hawes. Both are
young men OF about eighteen, and have lived
neighbors for some years. The origin of the
difficulty was that Keen, on last Thursday, was
drifting down the river in a skiff, he lying
down, and Hawes, thinking the slliT without
an occupant attempted its capture, when Keen
rose up and laughed at him. Hawes vowed
vengeance, and their meeting since resulted
IN the tragedy. Hawes is under arrest.
State Senator Alexander e. Barber
and Bradford r. Davis, both colored have
brought suits against the Louisiana Jockey
Cub, each claiming FIVE thousand dollars
damages, because, as petitioners aver, said club
refused to sell them quarter badges during the
recent races on sccount of their color,
they being of African descent; that such re-
fussl and exclusion were not only in violation
of tho principles of natural justice, but also
of the rights guaranteed to them by the
constitution and statutes OF the state.
A Georgia exchange expatiates as fol-
lows on the gold outlook in that state: 'The
mines are being developed in a more systemat-
ic and energetic manner than heretofore. The
priHcipal operations are on the Chestatee riy-
or, which rises in the Appalachian mountains,
in Lumpkin county, and flows southwark to
Hall county, where it empties into the Chat
tahooches. Both these rivers traverse the
gold belt, mostly at right angles to the strata
of the gold veins, and rich deposits are found
in their beds. The Chestatee from it's mouth
to its junction with the Tesnatee has not been
worked excepting at the shoals, which Weld
largely. Two companies are now engaged in
preparations to work tho bed of the river-one
from Ohio, which is cutting a canal and tun.
neling through ridge so as to make available
three miles OF gold deposits; the other con
trolled by J. r. Bartlett, of Boston, who has
engTossed nearly ten miles of the river. 9th
er companies are preparing to operate in the
same region"