The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-04-06
LATEST NEWS.
SOUTH AND WEST

wv n AND
A hundred pounds of -four costs S28
in the Black Hills
Cucumbers are selling at one dollar
apiece in San Francisco.
The Ohio democratic state convention
will be held at Cincinnati, May 18th.
John Connolly has been convicted at
Holly Springs, Miss, of the murder of the
Jew peddler, Marcus Lewis
The state conservative committee of
Virginia has changed the day of holding the
state convention to May 31st.
The rush of Black Killers is undimin-
ished. Trains are over crowded daily with
them, Ell route for Cheyenne.
Lee Bennett, son of DR.. Bennett, OF
Fort Smith, Ark, shot and killed a man
named Chrendeitcher, on the 2Oth
A vein of amethyst has been found
near Monticello, Ga. Some of the stones are
very large and sell for 500 a pound.
Mississippi farmers say that they viii
hereafter make their own smoked meat and
not give cotton for bacon to western smoke
houses.
It is reported, on the authority of
Vice-Presdent Bond, that trains on the Texas
Pacific railroad will by the Ist of June be
running to Fort Worth.
A fire at Jackson, Louisiana, lastweek,
destroyed the greater portion of the business
part of the town. Loss estimated at fifty to
seventy thousand dollars. Insurance only
eight thousand dollars.
Treasurer Flanders, at New Orleans,
has received 100000 in silver coin, half
dollars and dimes, sent from San Francisco
by order of Secretary Bristow. 1t is expected
a million will he sent to that point.
Throughout Louisiana at present Il re-
markable curiosity is visible. Onmany orange
trees are to be seen fruit of last years growth,
which is most deliciously sweet; partly grown
green oranges, from blossoms of early winter,
and fresh blooms, which have now appeared
at the proper period.
The southern freight war is ended, and
rates, says the Baltimore American, have
been advanced from thirty-ive cents to one
dollar and fOrty-fve cents hundred for first
class freights and from twenty-five cents to
fifty cents for sixth class. The new schedule
went into effect on the 18th instant. The
war lasted seven weeks, and the Central, the
Atlantic coast line and the Virginia and Ten
nessee Air Line were the chief cOmbatants
General Merritt, just returned from
his cavalry command in the Black Hills, has
been interviewed, and says, in brief, that the
gold excitement is an awful delusOn; that
more people are there already than could
find remUnerative digging under any circum-
stances that beyond Laramie the adventur-
erS, being on an Indian reservation, have no
protection; that produce IS high and ham
dreds will be very likely to starve to death
this very spring; that the snow is still deep
on the ground and the streams frozen over
with ice so thick that they will not thaw till
June; that going to the Black Hills at all is
a preposterOns folly, and that the working
up of the excitement in order to tempt peO-
pie who have failed in cities to 90 into it as
a forIorn hope is can infamous traffic"
General Merritt says he met as many return
ing as going-miserable, hungry, disap-
pointed creatures.
p By the recent storm at New Orleans
six coal barges were wrecked and sunk at the
foot of ST. Joseph street. The loss is esti-
mated at SIS, 1000. \ barge of slaves also
went to pieces. Loss, $1,000. Capt. Reid, of
the steamship st. Louis, reports encOuntering
in mid-ocean, March 9th the bark Chatham,
from Wilmington, n. c., with 3,2l2 barrels of
resin for Rotterdam, in a helpless condition.
On the 22d of February a storm carried away
the sails and washed everything on deck
overheard, including charts and provisions.
The captain and two men were also washed
overheard. The men on board the bark de-
termned to abandon her Capt. Reid put a
prize crew on board the Chatham, supplied
sails, charts, provisions, etc, and ordered
them to proceed to Liverpool. The bark,
except from loss Of sails, was but little dam
aged.