The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-06-06

week Loss =zo,OoO.
Coal to the amount of 200, 900 bush
els, valued at $50, GOO, and insured for but
5000 was burned at the Etna iron works,
near Rome, Ga, the other day.
Rev. Father Charles Ferec, aged "a,
one of the Wears of the cathedral. New Or
leans was drowned last week in Lake Pen
chartrain at 4Iilneburg while bathing.
physician in Ouachita parish, La, +,
wriss to the Minden Democrat, that there are
three thousand people within the limits of his
practice who are sick and destitute and need
medicire.
Mayor Wilt, of New Orleans, has
telegraphed to the mayors of New York and
Brooklyn asking additional aid for the Louis
lana sufferers. He says that in thirty-five
days contributions in cash and provisions had
been less than SlsO,OOO and 81, coo. 900 is
needed.
a special from Decatur, Ala, says
that man named Jno. Howe, late of Morgan
county, cut the throat of niece of Tom
Terry, of Courtland with a barlow knife be-
cause she refused to mary him. He was put
in Jail, and at a late hour a mob took him out
and hung him
Mayor Wiltz, of New Orleans, has adj
Mayor Havemeyer, in which he SAYS VIII
New York come to the rescue OF our destitute
ruined, famishing people deadly famine
in Louisiana would be a national disgrace,
which the wealth Of America must prevent at
all hazards"
Last Saturday, at Frenchman's ba-
you, Mississippi county, two brothers named
Cair, went 10 the house of a planter named
Campbell, aged sixty years. and in the pres
ence of his family shot and killed him, using
shotg n and rife. They were arrested and
taken to Oseeola and committed to jail The
murder created great excitement in the
neighborhood.
Thomas Farrell, mattress maker re-
siding on Front street Memphis, was fatally
cut last week by Harvey Porter, eolored. who,
with Henry Clay, eolored got into dispute
with Farrell about the civil rights bill, aud in
the quarrel Porter drew razor across the alb
doa EN- of Farrell, letting out his intestines
Clay and Porter were arrested.
A terrible shooting affray occurred
last week at Orders landing, Just below Cat
island, while the steamer Phil Alien was living
there, between Henry Burgett and another
planter name Orders. who had married the
widow of Burgett's brother After excnang-
ing some eight or ten shots with guns. Bur
gett, after having been shot five times al
ready, was shot through the body in the re-
gion of the heart and died soon afterwards.
Hewas the fourth brother who has been killed
in combats with neighbors.
The trial of Gov. Moses for grand
larceny. which was set down for Friday at
OrangebuTg. did not take place, in conse-
quence of the absence of the accused The
solicitor for the state asked for warrant of
arrest, but the court refused it. The counsel
for Moses then moved to strike the case from
the docket, on tho ground that governor
cannot be indicted and tried for any crime.
except before an impeachment. The court re-
served decision and postponed the case until
the next court which meets in October This
is regarded as substantially triumph for
Moses
A storm resembling a cyclone, accom-
panied by hail. passed over st. Louis on the
2sth inst, doing much damage to buildings.
awnings. ETC. Several houses were unroofed
aud signs and awnings were tossed about pro-
rniscously. The greatest injury was done in
the harbor, however, where the steamer Bis
mark, Bon Accord and Belle Memphis had
their chimneys blown away The Jno. KYLE
had the aft part Of her hurricane deck and
forward guards stove in. The ferry-boat
Hickey bad her cabin and chimneys carried
away, and the Southern Belle was swept clear
from the hall up. A number of other steam
ers and several barges were more or less in
jured.