The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-01-21
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY
WEST AND SOUTH.

| bONeIuOI IOTIeT, OF 1eQneSSee, mas Of
fered FIVE hundred dollars each, and the les
sees of the Penitentiary one hundred dollars
each, for the recapture of Edward H. John
son, the express robber, and Bill Smith The
governor has also. offered one hundred dol
lars reward, and the lessees one hundred dol
laIs, for the re-apprehension of Jack Pryor,
the murderer. 1t is not improbable that the
express company will add five hundred dol
lars to the reward for johnson, swelling the
amount for him to one thousand dollars. -
A dispatch from Bayou Sara reports
the sinking of the steamboat Belle Yazoo in
twelve feet of water, twelve miles above that
place. No lives lost. 1t is believed that the
boat can be raised. The cargo insisted of
405 bales of cotton and $500 sacks of cotton
seed.
City Administrator Brown, of New
Orleans, reports the city debt to be over S21,
100000. An effort viii soon be made to com.
promise with bondhOlders, at sixty cents on
the dollar. The city is issuing new consoli-
dated bonds at this rate in lieu of outstand-
ing obligations. The Police Board have
agreed to a reduction Cf their apportionment
from $4,000 to $4OO,OOO for public pur-
poses. The City Administrators are endeav-
oring to effect reduction of the assessment
for school purposes.
Cotton receipts in Memphis thus far,
this season, 293, ,914 bales to same date, last
season, 219,5 bales.
Mrs. johnson, widow of the late ex-
President is reported to be seriously i'll.
Very extensive preparations for the
celebration OF Mardi Gras are being made in
Memphis.
Alexander T. Mitchell, Milwaukee's
railroad magnate, is said to be worth S1O,-
OOO, 900.
Ohio has liquor law which makes
liquor-sellers and the owners of real estate
occupied by saloons, responsible for all dam
ages that may result to drunkards or their
families, from the sale of liquor such
premises. A bill has now been offered in the
legislature of that State to apply the same
principle to gambling houses. I'd
The annual report of the Fish Com
mission of Virginia, under its new organiza-
ton, for 1875, has just been published. The
commission is now composed of Mr.. A.
Moseley, of Richmond, DIR. W. B. Robertson,
of Lynchburg, and Professor NJ. c. Ellsey,
of Blacksburg, who have been extremely ac-
tive in the discharge of their duties, although
with very limited appropriation at their
command. The report is very ereditable to
them, and shows a comprehension of the
problem to be solved in regard to the pro-
lection and multiplication of food fishes in
Virginia. As might have been expected, the
shad and the striped aud black bass received
special attention their part. Much also
has been done in regard 70 the introduction
of the California salmon that fish of the
future. They obtained large number Of
eggs from the United States Fish Commission
for which they established two Matching
houses, one at Blacksburg college and the
other at the Virginia Military Institute, and
they propose to have others hereafter at the
University of Charlottesville and at the
Hampden school, at Hampden, whenever
their funds will permit. The young fish will
probably be soon introduced into their new
quarters III appropriate streams in Virginia.
The Commissioners also did what they could
toward propagating the shad, although the
season was unfavorable for the fullest meas
ure of success.
\ factory for the manufacture of
new explosive, said to be ten times more
powerful than giant powder, is to be started
at Virginia City, Nevada.
The storehouse of Walter Caldwell, in
Argenta opposite Little Rock, was burned
Saturday night by the explosion of coal
i
insured for seventeen hundred dollars in the
insurance agency of J. T., Trezevant-
Advices from Kansas City state that
Harvey county has brought suit against
ex-county treasurer Munger for ten thousand
dollars, the amount in which he is alleged to
be defaulter.
Bill Smith, a notorious criminal and
desperate, escaped from the penitentiary at
Nashville Sunday night. He had served
only two of his twenty-six Yeas sentence.
The semi-annual report of the Michi-
gan central railroad for the half year ending
January LIST shows the total receipts to be 49,
373,21S, and the operating expenses nearly
s2,3S3,s76.
A telegram from Fort Sully states that
a party of miners have found supply depot
near old st. Pierre, on the Missouri river,
and are constantly in communication with
camps on the Black Hills They claim TO
have found a new route by which the hills
are reached in one hundred miles travel
over easy road. Their messengers make the
trip in two days.
New Orleans owes or is charged with a
municipal debt of more than 5000, 600
The city's default on interest last year was
81, 295,O57; its deficit on appropriations for
interest this year, 81 ,242 800; on appropria-
tions for schools and police, 1886 220, max
ing total deficit for 1878 and 1876 of ST.
693,777. The delinquent taxes uncolleoted
for the last six years amount to s., ,352, 1856.
A dispatch from San Diego SAYS that
Colonel MINI, with the Sonora state troops,
attacked the main body of the Yagra In
dians at Pittshalla, on the third of Decem-
ber, and routed them with loss of about
two hundred killed and wounded. The
Mexican loss was twenty wounded.
The health experience of New Orleans,
according to the last report, proves, on
the data of the last eight years, the entire
feasibility of conining yellow fever to the
places where it first appears by strict disin-
fection. The total mortality from ordinary
diseases is much greater among the eolored
than among the white population of the city
nearly double.
The internal revenue agent superin-
tending the government sales OF lands in
South Carolina, for the non-payment Of di-
rect taxes, reports that the town property in
Beaufort, South Carolina, belonging to the
government, was sold, December 30th, for
$500, considered fair price. IA sales at
Hilton Head ana Sea Island were to be com
menced Immediately.
There are excellent prospects for fast
mail service between Louisville and New
Orleans.
1t is said to be fact that convicts in
the Ohio penitentiarv have, during an un-