The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-06-08
LATEST NEWS.
sOuTH AND WEHr-

Osyka, Miss, is going to build a cotton
factory, and so is Port Gibson.
The corn crop of Arkansas last year
was about eighty million bushels, while the
wheat produced amounted to sixteen mil
lion bushels.
The Alabama supreme court has de-
cided that the Act of March z, 1876, provid-
ing for impeaching certain officers, is uncon-
stitutional.
The New Orleans Pirayune says there
were twenty-nine negroes killed in WiIkin-
son county, Miss, during the recent distur-
benees there.
The first sack of Texas flour, shipped
from Dallas to Galveston, sold at auction for
$3O5. 1t was purchased by the Brazil coffee
importers They will send It to Dom Pedro,
Emperor of Brasil,
The new San Francisco directory shows
the population OF that city to be two hun
dred and seventy-twO thousand three hun
dred and forty-fve, which is a gain of forty
two thousand during the past year.
A grand jury at Atlanta Ga, found a
true bill against the late state treasurer
Jones, for illegally Withholding money from
the state to the amount of $I1O274. Jones
was arrested and required to give bond for
$4,000.
At Galveston, on the 29rd, fire de
strOyed the SOuthwick building "a threestory
brick), corner OF Strand aud Twenty-fourth
streets, and two wooden buildings adjoining.
The loss is estimated at one hundred thou
sand dollars; partially covered by insur-
Rnce.
The Piedmont factory, on the Saluda
river in South Carolina, has just been COM
pleted, and is now in smooth running order,
making cloth equal in texture to the Gran
iteville factory. One hundred hands are
employed, and the annual consumption of
/ the raw material will be about four thousand
bales of cotton.
The house that Mississippi built on the
centennial grounds is composed of every
variety of wood that grows in that brave old
| state-ffty-six in number. Forty-two kinds
will be used in the finish on the inside. Mr.
G. Berglund left McComb City on the 8th
instant to suPerintend the erection of the
headquarter building for the centennial
board of the state of Mississippi.
A large meeting of citizens interested
in rice and sugar planting in Louisiana, was
held at the chamber of commerce, in New
Orleans, last week, in opposition to the Ha
waiian treaty. Hon. VIM. NJ. BurwelI, Lieu
tenant-Governor C. C. Antoine, J John c. Potts
and Tobias Gibson were appointed com
mittee to proceed to Washington and urge
the defeat of the Hawaiian treaty.
Hon. Thomas L. Jones, of Kentucky
has introduced bill in the house to charter
a railroad frem Charleston, S. C., to Chicago
The proposed road passes through the mid
die of Kentucky. The bill provides that the
government is to guarantee the bonds of the
company, payable in fifty years, to the
amount of $4,000 per mile, the principle
and interest lat per oent.) payable in gold
The bill will not come up for passage unit
the next session of congress.
The Port Eads correspondent of the
New Orleans Times thinks there is no rea
son now why sailing ships as well as steamer
should not make use of the jetties, and says
Captain Fauria, of the Keyser, examined
the channel few days ago, and was s.
pleased with the results that he has decidet
to use the jetties hereafter. He deserve
great credit for his pluck and energy, an
has shown his confidence in the success Q
the jetties by deciding to have this ship G
through here"