The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-04-24
SOUTH.


The Memphis and Savannah railroad
has 1000 tons of iron to lay sixteen miles ad-
ditional of that road.
A gold mine of unusual richness has
been discovered on the land of Mr.. Harnes,
near Salisbury N. @.
st. Louis wants a shipyard, direct
trade with Brazil, and line of steamships
from Charleston to Bremen
Z. w. Morefield, assistant postmaster
at Birmingham, Alabama, is reported to be
defaulter to the amount of 81, 700.
The South Carolina, Alabama and
Georgia press is zealously advocating all pro- |
per means looking towards the encouragement
of immigration.
The Bonnet Care crevasse above New
Orleans is reported hundred and twenty-five |
feet wide with fifteen feet of water pouring |
through like miIl-race. 1t can be heard for
miles.
In Boyle county, KY, a few days
since, Frank Daughtery was shot and proba-
bly, fatally wounded by his son, Jno Daught-
cry, young man twenty years old. The quar-
rel was about young Daughtery's attentions to
woman in the vicinity which his father dis
approved
Joseph Wooten, a highly respectable
young man, was stabbed and killed near Holly
Springs Miss, Saturday, by George Var
borough. Marlborough was arrested and placed
under $4,000 bond. Whitney Dabney was stab.
bed audlilled the same day at New ALBANY.
Miss, by unknown person
special from Helena, Ark. saws q
fire Monday night destroyed the grocery store
of W. @. & L. Moore, Seeligs dry-goods store.
G.. w. Hoilabagh, tinware, John Kane. sad
diery. The loss is not ascertained. The
Moores were insured for S34 900; SeeHg. s11.-
0Oe, in New Orleans, Philadelphia, and New
port, Ky.
A negro named Ed. Shields was con-
victed in Spencer county, Ky.. a few davs
since, of rape of white woman. and sen
fenced to twenty years in the state prison
While the sheriff and posse was bringing the
prisoner to the Louisville jail, band of abopt
forty men took Shields out of their hands and
hanged him to a cross-beam of a bridge naar
by, where the body was discovered next morn
ing.
Mayor Kramor, Of Little Rock. has
telegraphed to Attorney-GeneraI Williams for
aid in preserving the peace of that eitv in view
OF the present extraordinary condition of ,f-
fairs, and has been answered that the officer
commanding the United States troops at Tit
tie Rock has been instructed to prevent blood
shed. The attorney-general in his reply asks
If the people of Arkansas have not patriotism
enough to allow the question as to who shall
hold the state Offices to be settled peacesblv
and lawfully, and not bring upon their state
the disgrace and ruin Of civil war.
Gov. Kellogg, of La, has addressed
circular to all the police juries in the river
parishes saying the exigencies are bevond all
provided means to control the Threatened
overflow and advising them to go to work
build up and protect the levees in theirre resnac.
tive parishes, promising to recommend the
next Legislature to reimburse the parishes for
the money expended. The state authorities
have also advanced to the levee oompanv
WINCH by the acts OF the legislature creating
IT, Is monopoly of levee building in Louisi-
ana, thirty thousand dollars in advance of the
collections on this years leyee tax to help
them to meet the emergency.
A crevasse three hundred feet wide
is reported at MeOuIloms, two miles below
Baton Rouge, on the left bank. The state en-
gineer who was dispatched to the mouth of
Bayou Plaquemine to cut the dyke which keeps
the waters out of said bayou, has returned
without executing his mission The citizens
OF Iberville parish and the town of Plaoue-
mine in public meeting protested against
cutting the dyke, and resolved to prevent it
by force. They have detail Of armed men
guarding the levee. 1t is now positively as
serted by those best informed that the orep-
ing OF Bayou Piaquemine wouI overflow tho
town of Plaquemine and the greater portion
OF 1berville parish. Hence the opposition.
A dispatch from st. Louis saws. The
proposition to establish direct trade l,a,-rao,,
the Mississippi Valley States and Brazil Inv
putting on line of steamships from New Or
leans to Rio Janeiro, is attracting great deal
of attention here. A speech recentlv nla5a
before the board of trade, by Col. Sam. q
Reed, of New Orleans, IN which he fully ex
planned the project, and gave an elaborate ac-
count of the benefits and profits which must
inevitably result sherefrom, is published. and
was the subject of general comment and an.
proyal on change to-day. All classes OF bu-
siness men heartily endorse the scheme. and
the press speaks most favorably of it. A Joint
committee Of the board of trade apd mer-
chants exchange, who have been examining
the matter for some days past, VIII report aI,-
provingly tomorrow, and there is no doubt
the enterprise viii receive aid from the mer-
chants of this city.
@ ENE ERAL.