The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-07-25
SOUTH,

A negro and his wife were killed by
lightning in La Fourche Parish, Louisiana,
last week.
The special committee of investiga-
ton appointed to visit Arkansas, Judge Po-
land, chairman, are expected to leave Little
Rock this month.
The corn crop in southern Georgia is
about made, and the yield will be abundant.
The incessant wet weather has materially IN
jured cotton in many of the lower counties.
John B. Bruno, twelve years old,
hanged himself at his fathers house in Har
din county, KY, last week. His father had
refused to buy him new saddle.
At Berea, KY, last Monday, a man
named James Walkhean shot and fatally
wounded Miss Margaret Painter. The cause
for the murder is not known.
George Simpson, planter, residing
fifteen miles from Shreveport, Louisiana,
was murdered by negro Saturday evening.
The negro was afterward killed.
One thousand men are at work on the
Cincinnati Southern in Scott county. Ky. and
the force is increasing as rapidly as possible,
the contractors employing white Iaborers al
most exclusively.
An alligator weighing $50 pounds, and
measuring nine and a-half feet in length, was
caught near Marion courthouse, S. c., last
week 1t was shipped to the geological gar
den at Fairmount park. Philadelphia.
Two men named Burlison and Rassin,
in Prairie county. Ark, got into a difficulty on
Tuesday. in which the former was stabbed
and killed by the latter. Soon after some un-
known person shot and killed Burlison.
Co.
boy cut man in the wrist from which he
dad sans aftar. It seams the hos was selling
severing an artery.
About thirty Indians attacked J. G.
I.aving's rancho fifteen miles from Jacks
boro, Texas, last week. After severe fight
with fifteen whites, the Indians fed, taking
several horses. John Heath, white, was
killed.
A lumber train on the airline rail-
road fell through the trestle work OF the
Peachtree creek bridge. four or five miles
from Atlanta. One colored man was killed
outright and six others seriously injured The
wounded were brought to this city.
At Summit, Mississippi, on Sunday
last, incendiaries fred the rear of DIR. Moore's
old drug store and the dry goods house lately
occupied by J.y Day, burning the whole block
ironing ON IbODD bLI6et 10 bduI6i ~
Baldwin street. Loss, SIS, 800; insurance,
S31, 600.
Daniel Matheney was shot in his own
store at Harrodsburg, Ky., last week, by
James Stoughton. It is alleged that Grim
inal intimacy existed between his wife and
Matheney, which the latter admitted, and
Stoughton drew revolver and shot him, in
fiicting fatal wound. The entire Harrods-
burg bar volunteered to defend Stoughton.
Major Waltz, of New Orleans tele-
graphs that supplies from the United States
government will render further contributions
fg the relief of the overfowed unnecessary.
For donations received, the committee of re-
lief returns the most cordial thanks. re-
port of their operations will be published
about Sept 1, by direction of the general re-
lief committee.
Marks Levy, peddler, crossed over
to Crittenden county, Ark, last week, to ped
die and was seized by party of negroes who
stripped him, after capturing his pack. and
carrying him into dense wood tied him to
tree and left him there to die. He remained
there twenty-four hours, during which he was
bitten by snake. He succeeded in getting
loose but wandered in the forest two days
living upon berries, before he reached the set
tlement