The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-04-28
LATEST NEWS.
SOUTH AN d WEST.

j. E. Kenn, prominent hotel keeper
| of Little Rock, was run over by wagon last
week and died.
A new cotton mi II will be built in
| Columbus, Ga, with six hundred looms and
I twenty thousand spindles. Its capacity will
/ be six thousand bales per year.
I Capt. Eads infSrms the jetty company
/ that the depth of water in South Pass varies
from fifteen and a half to twenty-eight feet.
The former depth is on the shoals, which will
have disappeared by the first of May.
The supreme court of Louisiana has
decided the issue of two million five hundred
thousand dollars of state bonds to the Mobile
and Chattanooga railroad to be invalid and
unconstitutional.
Gen. Mcdowell, in charge of the Uni
ted States army division Of the south. head
quarters at Louisville, has been ordered to
succeed SchOfeld, in command of the divis-
ion on the Pacific, change to occur in July
next.
According to these figures we may estimate
receipts from date to September /, 1876 at
80 ,OO5, making a total for 1876 of 516,124
bales, the largest receipts ever received at
Memphis, and placing that city next to New
Orleans as a cotton market.
G.. F. J. Moeller, of Milwaukee, an eX-
gauger, convicted of making false returns,
has been sentenced to one years imprison-
ment and a fine of 81, 800. Reynolds, recti-
fer, convicted of conspiracy, was sentenced
to six months imprison1n nent in the county
Jail and fine of s., 500.
A dispatch from San Diego says suit
has been brought against the Texas Pacific
railroad for the recovery of lands decided
from San Diego to the Colorado river COM
pany, which has failed to comply with the
conditions of the grant, The property in
voIved is stated to amount TO 5000, 900.
The receipts of cotton at Memphis for
the present year, up to and including April
II, compare very favora bly, with receipts of
former years:
Total bales last year. 1877 b............... 322 O04
To this date for 1S75...-. .......... 31O,199
Receipts from April 18th to Sept 1st,
l,SUJ
Receipts for 1876, to date 461 120
Increase over 1S7j........ .............. 150,912
The Nashville life Insurance company
and the Odd-Fellows' widows and orphans
lie insurance company have both been suS-
pended by the state insurance commissioner.
The available assets of the Nashville life
were $2S9,875; liabilities, according to the
act of 1875, $91S,76 The company pro-
poses reinsuring the policies. The available
assets of the Widow and Orphan Life, $685.
600. The liabilities are over 100000.
A San Francisco dis patch of the 18th
says the senate committee appointed to in
vestigate the Chinese Question commenced
work 10 day. Gov. low, ex-minister 10
China, stated that the Chinese guilds or eni- !
grafton societies in Hong Kong were formed |
when a demand for cheab labor arose on this |
coast They exercise almost absolute power !
over enigrants, and have an arrangement |
with the PaciEc Mail company by which the |
steamers will not take tile Cinnamon home |
who cannot show a certifca that they have !
fulfilled their contract viii these companies. |
It was resolved to open cb correspondence with !
he American minister to China concerning |
hese emigration agencies