The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-04-07
LATEST NEWS.
SOUTH AZ ID WEST.

! A hundred pounds of flour costs $2S
/ in the Black Hills.
/ Cucumbers are selling at one dollar
| apiece in San Francisco.
John Connolly hab been convicted at
Holly Springs, Miss, of the murder of the
Jew peddIer, Marcus Lewis.
The rush of Black Killers is undimin-
ished. Trains are over crowded daily with
them, en- route for Cheyenne.
Lee Bennett, son of DR.. Bennett, of
Fort Smith, Ark, shbt and killed a man
named Clarendeitcher on the Goth.
A vein of ameth yst has been found
near Monticello, Ga. Some of the stones are
very large and sell for 500 pound.
Mississippi farmer ) say that they will
hereafter make their own smoked meat and
not give cotton for bad on to western smoke
houses.
A fire at Jackson, Louisiana, last week,
destroyed the greater portion OF the business
part of the town. Lois estimated at fifty to
seventy thousand do lars. Insurance only
eight thousand dollars
Treasurer FlandeE rs, at New Orleans,
has received S3OO,OOt in silver coin, half
dollars and dimes, sert from San Francisco
by order of Secretary Bristow. 1t is expected
a million will be sent TO that point.
Additional telegrams from Fort Fet-
terman state that General Crooks victory
over Crazy Horse was a complete one, and
that many of the Indians who escaped must
starve, as all their provisions, ammunition,
etc, were destroyed.
Columbus, Ga, claims The position of
the Lowell OF the south. She is now run
ming $4,000 spindles a hd 1000 looms, besides
many iron and other Industrial enterprises
The city was destroyed in 1856, and all these
have been replaced since with southern
money.
The southern freight war is ended, and
rates, says the Balti InOre American, have
been advanced from thirty-five cents to one
dollar and fOrty-five ctnts hundred for first
class frejghts, and frO]n twenty-five cents to
fifty cents for sixth-cldsS. 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 delusion; that |
more people are there already than could |
find remunerative dig9ing under any circum-
stances; that beyond 4aramie the adventur-
crs, being on an India an reservation, have no |
protection; that produce is high and hun
dreds will be very likely to starve to death |
this yerv 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 preposterOus folly, and that the working |
up of the excitement i'm order to tempt peo- |
pie who have failed irl cities to go into it as
a fOrlern hope is an infamous traffic"
General Merritt says He met as many return |
ing as going-misef liable, hungry, disap- |
pointed creatures.
Bv the recent stbrm at New Orleans |
six coal barges were wrecked and sunk at the |
foot of st. Joseph street. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000. 4 barge of slaves also |
went to pieces. Loss SO 900. Capt Reid, of |
the steamship ST. Louis reports encOunterinC |
in mid.ocean, March Eth, the bark Chatham,
rom Wilmington, n. c., with 1922 barrels of |
resin for Rotterdam, II helpless condition.
On the 22d of Februdry storm carried away
The sails and washeH everything on deck
overheard, including charts and provisions.
The captain and two men were also washed
overheard. The mer on board the bark de-
Lermined to abandOr 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 shilS, was but little dam
lged.