The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-10-23
SOUTH.

The yellow fever is about over with at
Pensacola. a-4 mo
There are now in Louisiana twenty.
eight companies of regular troops.
Eighteen hundred and sixty-three i'm
migrants arrived at the port of Galveston dur
ing September.
Geo. P. Gaylor was wayIaid and shot
in the back near Amite. AIissisaippI, recently.
Assassin unknown.
Mrs. Cox, of Hutohins, Texas, COM
mitted suicide with strychnine few weeks
after her wedding.
Within the last few weeks over sixty
mules have been stolen from plantations be-
tween Austin and Hernando Mississippi.
The resignation of Richard w. Bus
teed, United States Judge of Alabama, has
been received and accepted by the president.
His successor has not been named.
At Newcastle, Henry county, Ken
tucky' Saturday evening last, difficulty was
sprung between Mr. Thomas Buford, brother
OF Gen. Buford and Mr.. Polk, sheriff of the
county, which ended by the former receiving
two shots from pistol in the hands of the
latter. The first shot took effect in the left
breast and ranged to the right shoulder blade
and the second took effect in the left hand
The wounds were not of q dangerous char
actsr.
A train loaded with five companies of
the 18th infantry, on their way from the west
ern department to New Orleans ran off the
track between Trenton and Dyer, on the Mo-
bile & Ohio ra lroad. The accident was caused
by the breaking Of tlange on one OF the on
gine wheels. The fireman, John Jordan, was
instantly killed and the engineer was badly
bruised Two of the soldiers, VIM. McLingsey
aud I. Farman, were killed, and four wounded,
two it is supposed fatally.
Heavy frosts fell on the 18th, through
out Kentucky and northern Tennessee, over
tie great tobacco region. Well informed men
from the country say great damage has been
done the growing crop estimating that from
one-haf to three-quarters of the entire crop
has been killed. sp' cials to the Courier Jour
nal corroborate accounts of great damage all
along the Nashville road. The market has
been excited in consequence, the advance
prices ranging from = to 1c per pound.
A dispatch from Fort Worth, Texas,
says Gen. Mackenzie, after repelling two at
taels by the Indians on the 26th and 9th of
September, marched all night of the 27th and
surprised at sunrise the following morning, a
few camps OF Cheyennes and allies situated
. in canyon Sitro Blarce, on Jute river. The
troops destroyed over one hundred lodges
and their entire outfit and captured 1 424
horses and mules of which ], ,O4S were at once
killed. The bodies of four Indians were
bright in. Our loss was one soldier slightly
wounded Gen. Mackenzie is in pursuit with
thirty days supplies.
A Brownsville special says the organ
ization of bandits, to invade Texas has been
partially suspended, on account of high wa
ter on this side, and the almost impassable
condition Of the country. Information has
been received from undoubted sources that the
plan of operations is TO strike detachment
of troops stationed to prevent the crossing of
stolen cattle, and then tt murder and rob
generally. Gen. Oortinas heads the move
ment. People on this side are organizing to
defend themselves. The military are in posses
sion of the facts and aIe on the alert Mounted
men arc held ready to move at short notice
A border war has never been so imminent
The condition of the cotton crop is
Indicated by the following state of averages
dedueed from the October returns of tine de-
partment of agriculture. The crop OF Yir-
ginia is too small to influence perceptibly in
the general result. North Carolina S5, de-
cline of two per cent during September
South Carolina 50, decline of four per cent
Georgia 80, an Improvement of three per cent
Florida 81, an Improvement of four per cent
Alabama 70, decline of six per cent. Misss-
sippi "a, no change. Louisiana 60, no change.
Texas 20, an increase OF five per cent Ar
kansas 55, an increase OF eight per cent
Tennessee 90, an increase of four per cent
The above averages refer to only the condition
OF the crops on the list OF October, including
its state OF development, vitality and health
fulness. This is but one element in the cal
culation Of the yield in quantity, which has
not yet been completed.