The Hickman courier., 1871-04-22


Some of the Mississippi papers are
advocating revival Of the whipping
post.
Near StauntOn, Va, horse thief
named Hodge shot and m0rtslly wound
ed Mr. Whitlock, who was aiding in
his arrest.
Over ten thousand copies Of the New
York Tribune, il is estimated, are worn
in the paniers of Kansas ladies. As-
tonishing.
In the great chicken dispute at New
Orleans, which Terminated on Tuesday,
Kentucky won ten battles to Louisana's
four.
The new county of Houston, formed
from Stewart, Humphreys, and Dickson
counties, Tenues=ee, has just heed or
ganized and put in working order
Mr.. Robertson, of Memphis s'ghost
jar" notoriety, is reported to be getting
out book giving full history Of the
sensation, and including a great many
things not heretofore published.
Experts say that Georgia and Alabama
are richer in iron ore than any State in
the Union. Iron which costs SO per ton
for getting out in Pennsylvania can be &.
gotten out in Georgia for 81 60.
The Columbus (Miss) Democrat Gays
that Mr.. james Nj. Dyer, an old aud
prominent citizen of Lexington, Miss,
was killed few days since by being
thrown from carriage. Mr.. Dyer was
once a member. of the State Legislature,
aud was held in high esteem by the peo-
pie of Holmes county.
The Savannah Adpertiser paragraphs
the reported birth at the Jail, ia that,
city, of a male child, one-half of whose
face. drawing an exact line from the fore
head across the bridge of the nose to the
chin, is as black as the sforl1d ace Of
spades, while, strange to relate. the other
half is just as obstinately the natural
color.
The Memphis Ar0lanche says that the
receipts of the cotton crop from Septem-
Der 1st to date sum up nearly 1000, 900.
bales more thanreceived during the corr
responding period last season. and point
to crop Of fully 4 ,250 600 bales. larger. a.
than any crop but one producA duriugW
slave times. The exception was the crop
of 1859, which turned out about AGO.
900 bales. a
At late special term Of the C9urt Of
Common Pleas Tor Sumter county, South
Carolina, there were but three white men
among the twenty four jurors on the two
panels-two on jury No. /, aud one on
jury No 2. To these juries were given
the most importsnt cases, some Of which
we're so complicated as to embarrass, at
times, the bench and the bar. What a
condition Of tbiDgsl
A family of four persons. residing
Dear the Plains, in the upper part Of the
parish, diedesnddenhEsta ieEadaIe siswHss-
Of disease supposed 10 be the fatal
spotted fever. Tbesymptoms we're chiils
aud neuralgia pains, followed BY corges
tion of the brain and the appearance Of
rash, similar to that indicative of scarlet
fever The unfortunate family was named
Ligon, and had but recently moved to
this parish, either from Mississippi or
Tennessee.--BatOn Rouge Adrocgte, 7th.
The Lake City Press says: "One Of
the largest land sinks with which Flori
da has been visited occurred within q
mile of this city. 1t is suppo'<d, by
those who have seen it, to cover at least
two hundred acres. of ground. About
one hundred acres of Mr.. Peter Jerui-
gan's clearedland is now inunda9ed. The a
most remarkable feature of this new :
lake-for a lake il isis that IL is al
ready Inhabited by vast numbers of alli- :,
gators aud fish of all kinds, including
| 'muttonheads A visit to the sink will
repay curiosity"
| The New Orleans Times says 'There
never were so many drafts from the coun-
try, protested in this cisyS,as there have
been for the last month. These are
drawn upon cotton shipments from plan
ters and storekeepers, and are predicated
upon rates for cotton which have not
been realized. The decline in cotton has
produced great stringency among COM
mission merchants, IN meeting the ex-
pectations of the producers and country
! storekeepers, who have been compelled
to supply the planters and their laborers
i with the means OF subsistence"
! The Atlanta Ne,O Era, Governor Bull
locks organ. has drawn from the State
Treasury during the past year s49.l14
Sc. The Macon Telegraph remarks: ''In
round numbers, then. we may say that,
during the year 1870 the taxpayers of
Georgia contributed $4,000 to keep
alive an organ of the party Wbose only
mission and work in this State has been
the degradation and beggary Of the
aforesaid tax payers. They not only
have to submit to the presence aud pub
LEGATION of such journal, but actually
are forced ito pay for its defamation and
| insults to themselves. II this is not
roughness' We would like to know what
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