The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-15
LATEST NEWS.
sOUTH AND WEST

Inc w nlUe OulpnuI DALI IOT Ju0 DtucH6
of the Lee monument fund netted 1850.
The net earnings of the Nashville and
Chattanooga railroad the past year were
S755, 1880.
The estimate of the cotton crop for
1876 places the crop at 100000 to 4,55o,OOO
ba'es, against 3,827, 900 for 1875.
Country produce and provisions of all
kinds are cheaper in Arkansas than they
have been in many years.
1t is estimated that the Texas cotton
crop will be 100000 bales, and will be at
least 5000 bales in excess of last year.
A Savannah telegram says: Yellow
fever here is not epidemic. There have been
only sixty nine cases during the season and
ten deaths.
The government receiver of Hot
Springs collects $4,000 per month from the
people who improve the property, and re
mits the money to Washington.
Eight citizens of Augusta, Ga, have
been arrested on a charge of completely in
mobbing the negro ravisher, Williams, Satur-
day night.
| Gov. Porter has offered a reward Of
| $500 for the capture of the negro who out
ragged Miss Marion McCauley near Nashville
Sunday
Texas has more females in charge of
post offices than any other state in the south.
| We mention this to give some enterprising
journalist a chance to say something about
the arrival and departure of the males.
A negro boy hid himself in a store in
Wilmington, N. c., the other night for the
purpose of robBing, but went to sleep and
was aroused the next morning by being
kicked out of the door.
The liquor dealers association of Fort
Smith, Ark, has issued a circular calling up
| on the liquor dealers throughout the state to
unite in electing legislators who will reduce
the license and the license fees attached TO
the liquor business.
Gus johnson shot and killed the ferry
man at the Coosa ferry, Rome, Ga, the other
day, because he wouldn't "hurry up" The
report of the gun caused horse to throw
and fatally injure daughter Of Hon. C. P.
Morton, who was riding by at the time.
Macon, Ga, expects to receive during
the coming season 10000 bales of cotton,
against 81, 900 this. The new crop is coming in
a few bales each day. Columbus expects to
| receive 5000 bales, against $1,000 this year.
Picking about the latter city is progressing
| rapidly, especially o--the low rich lands.
An Omaha dispatch says a heavy
| northwest wind since Saturday has carried
off nearly all the grasshOppers. 1t is impos-
sible as yet to state what the damage done
by them will mount to, but it is thought it
will not amount to as much as was pre-
dicted.
A colony of Switzers, composed of
twenty-five persons, located in Grundy coun-
ty, Tenn, few days ago. Several French
colonies are expected to arrive in the same
locality shortly. They all intend engaging
in the cultivation of grapes and the manu-
facture of WINE.
The Lake Superior copper mines, after
passing through all the phases of a specula-
tive existence, during which plethcric for
tunes were lost an won through the sudden
mutations of the stock market, have finally
settled down to work, and to earn, if posi-
BILE, dividend for their stockholders.
The dreadful third crop of worms has
appeared in Mississippi, Alabama and Louis
lana. The Vicksburg Herald believes the
damage the pests will do the cotton will
amount to a considerable percentage of the
crop. They are at work in the richest lands
of the cotton belt, and are destroying vast
acres each day.
There are ninety-four banks in Cali
fornia, with $S6, ,497 900 capital, $lr7 5O3, 700
deposits and SIS, ,l41 5000 cash. The Nevada
bank owned by Flood, O'Brien & Co., of the
Big Bonanza, has the largest business, and
the bank presided over by ex-senator Lath
am stands next, Ralston's old bank of Cali
fornia holding the third place.
Mrs. Mary B. Hindman, the widow o
Gen. Thos. c. Hindman, who was assassinat-
ed a number of years ago by Haywood
Grant, a negro who was recently hanged in
Georgia, died at her resipence in Helena,
Ark, last week. Mrs. II. in her young days
was considered the belle of the Mississippi
valley.
Recruiting is to begin at once in Texas
tor the cavalry service at all the posts in
Texas. An office for that purpose will be
opened in San Antonio in a few Gays, and all
able-bOdied men who sigh for an active life,
scalping Indians, destroying rations, etc,
will have an opportunity granted them.
The companies are to be filed up to the
standard of one hundred men.
Capt. Richard King is the king of the
Texas cattle kings. He has $4,000 acres un-
| der fence near Corpus Christi, is fencing in
| 60 900 more, and has besides 100000 acres in
| the same tract. Last April he sold to Kan
sas dealer 26,OOO head of horned cattle, and
to make sure of the delivery added 5000 to
the drove; and still had $4,000 head, besides
25 900 head of sheep and thousands of horses
and mules.
The most soulless monopoly this coun-
try has ever suffered under is the Norfolk,
Va, "Oystermen's Association" Why, they
actually met the other day and resolved, with
big r." that "nO member of the associa-
tion should sell good merchantable oysters
| for less than twenty-five cents per busheI'-
that, too, when corn can be bought at the
same price!
A courier just in, left Gen. Crook on
! on the goth at the mouth of Powder river.
Gen. Terry's supply train was expected in
out next morning on the trail leading toward
Little Powder river, about ten days old, esti-
mated at about ten thousand ponies with In
dians, and the camp fires showed seven dis
tinct bands. The wagon train reached old
fort Reno yesterday and camped, expecting
the command back about the 5th.
Although the crops of all kinds of ce-
reals promise to be bounteous, Insuring low
range OF values, yet, taking Ginto considera-
ION the low price of all, or neally all, the
necessaries ef lfe, the exchangeable value to
the producer will, a rule, be as great as
heretofore. bushel of wheat at ninety
cents will buy as many yards of calico at sev-
en- and half per yard as it would three
years ago with wheat at $1.50, and calico at
twelve and half cents. The profit to each
producer may be less, but the exchangeable