The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-05-09


inst, destroyed about $4,000 worth OF prop
erty-
The stockholders of the st. L~nanG
Iron Mountain road have voted t consolidate
with the Cairo and Fulton.
1t is estimated that not less thar
$4,000, 900 worth of cotton has passed through
Nashville since September 1.
! The stockholders of the Memphil
and Charleston railroad have, by unanimoA
vote, decided to take back the road.
Five million acres of cotton, sugar
and other crop producing land in Lousian,
re said to have been submerged by the pres
innndation.
Uncle Frank Preston. one of the
sand OF pioneer hunters which had made
Kentucky famous, died last week at his home
near Maysville, Ky-
Wheat In the southern states is fine
though it has sustained some injury by tn,
constant rains which have fallen recently
! Oats are damaged with rust.
A fasboatman named Eastwood was
murdered on his boat, twelve miles above New
kOrIeans, on bayou Lafolrche, Saturday morn
Eg by three negroes, who made their escape
North Georgia papers continue to ex-
Eress apprehensions of rust in wheat, and
ythose of southern Georgia to report rust il
oats
Both houses of the Texas Legislature
have passed a joint resolution instructing
senators and Representatives in congress to
support Col Tom Scott's Texas Pacific rail-
road bill
Hopewell cotton factory, the property
of John Thompson, situated in Ebert county,
Ca, was destroyed by fire at midnight of the
Goth inst. Loss, 500 900; insurance, SIS, 600,
in the Liverpool, London and Globe cor-pa-
nies.
Three men were drowned Monday, at
the Pearl crossing OF the Mobile and New Or
leans railroad. Superintendent Scranton says
it will take thirty days to repair the damage
by the recent food and get the road in thor
ough order.
At Boughton, on the Cairo and Full
ton railroad. one hundred miles below Little
RoeKshfteen cit zeRs foLkaEed q gang Of horse
thieves, and on Sunday got into sight with
them, and killed three and lost one of their
own men by being killed. apd had another
wounded
Among contributions for overflow suf-
ferers are: From Washington city, 1000
Manchester, n. H, 81, ,000 Bath, Maine, ST.
OeO- The distributing committee working
energetically in getting OFF supplies to all ac-
cessibIe points in the oyerflowed districts,
where assistance is required.
Shepherd & DeWolf, of New Orleans,
have made a proposition to st. Louis mer-
chants that if sufficient freight Is guaranteed
by them to justify the venture, they viii put
on line of steamships between New Orleans
and Rio Janeiro, touching at all important
intermediate points. They also propose to
make advances on shipments and arrange for
an investment of the proceeds in coffee or 9TH
: er products of that country if desired
State Senator Alexander Z. Barber
ad Bradford r. Davis, both colored, have
ought suits against the Louisiana jockey
inb, each claiming FIVE thousand dollars
damages, because, as petitioners aver said club
refused to sell them quarter badges during the
recent races on account of their color,
they being of African descent; that such re-
fusal and exclusion were not only in violation
OF the principles of natural justice, but also
of the rights. guaranteed to them by the
constitution and statutes of the state.
A Georgia exchange expatiates as fol-
flows ON the gold outlook in that state: ''The
ines being veloped in more systemat-
and energetic manner than heretofore The
nncipai operations are on the Chestatee riv-
or. which rises in the Appalachian mountains.
! in Lumpkin county, and flows southwark to
Hall county, where it empties into the Chat
tahoochee- Both these rivers traverse the
gold belt, mostly at right angles to the straA
of the gold veins, and rich deposits are found
in their beds. The Chestatee from its mouth
to it's junction with the Tesnatee has not been
worked excepting at the shoals. which yield
largely. Two companies are noH engaged in
preparations to work the bed of tszey-one
from Ohio, which is cutting canal eStun
neling through a ridge SO as to make available
three miles of gold deposits; the other con-
trolled by J. z. Bartlett, of Boston, who has
engrossed nearly ten miles of the river. 9th
er companies are preparing to operate in the
same region"