The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-06-16
LATEST NEWS.
SOUTH AND WEST.

T. II. Russell, who murdered Charles
Faun in Yazoo City, Miss, has been sen
fenced to states prison for life.
The president has nominated G. w
Griffin, of Kentucky, consul at Apia, Friend
Iy and Navigator islands.
Judge Beattie has been elected judge
of the fifteenth judicial district of Louisiana
by thGdemocrats.
The congressional committee to inves-
tigate crooked whisky affairs in New Or.
leans, commenced its sitting in that city last
week.
Ice-making by the use of aqua ammo
MIA has been commenced at Nashville and
Chattanooga, Tenn. By the apparatus five
tons a day can be made.
Minneapolis is now the largest city in
Minnesota by five thousand inhabitants
"a recent census showing actual pOpula-
| ton at thirty-eight thousand five hundred.
Efforts are being made in Michigan to
secure the repeal of the liquor tax law. Its
I friends say that as restrictive measure it
has already proved superior to the old pro-
hibitiOn law.
a valuable plumbago mine has been
located in Ebert county, Ga. A thorough
analysis of the ore from the mine bY-New
York experts discovers that it is worth from
$50 to $50 per ton.
Alio Gonzales, who has rancho west
of San Antonio, Texas, some distance, with
nine men, followed party of thirty Mexican
thieves to within forty miles of Eagle Pass,
and had fight with them last week, the
fight lasting seven hour. Gonzales and four
of his men were killed, the other four escap-
ing, and five of the thieves bit the dust.
Every section of Texas has been visited
by fine rains within the past two weeks, and
crop prospects, which were good before, are
vastly improved. In BastroP county the Adj
vertiser estimates the rain as adding a half
million of dollars to the finances of citizens.
1t also says that from present prospects corn
will open at about thirty to thirty-fve cents
a bushel.
At no time since the Laramie treaty
of go has the Indian attitude toward the
frontier seemed more threatening, or the
Sioux spirit and action more disastrous and
parslyzing to every interest of these great
central northwestern territories than at the
present hour. 1t appears we can never have
a grand peace council withOutits everlasting
follower, an Indian war. Wyoming, Nebras-
ka, and DekOta are now experiencing only
in mere intensified degree, what has
marked their history since the massacre of
old Fort Phil Kearny. The same elements
are moving the northern tribes that created
the strifes of half a dozen years ago. Raw
ages which, after the big talk of last fall,
were confined to the enterprising pioneers
and and adventurous miners of the Black
Hills, have been diffused like a spring flood,
that has come welLuigh submerging the hopes
and future of the territories east of the
mountains. The '75-ers can no longer claim
the special right to the outrages of these In
dians. There is not a rancherO from the old
Boseman trail to the Missouri, and from the
Yellowstone south 10 the railroad, that is safe |
from Sioux attack and annihilation. The !
anxiety is now at fever heat. As far down |
as nhe Chugwater, q delightful valley mid |
way between this post and Cheyenne, the |
ranchmen are preparing to give the Indians |
a reception.