The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-04-25
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- The discovery of india rubber trees
~ On sllsa st. Esl-ss, ESQ.,
Columbus, Ga, is certain she Will
receive over sc. 600 bales of cotton this season.
St-'Louis wants a shipyard, direct
trade with Brazil, and line OF steamships
from Charleston to Bremen.
L. W. Morefield, assistant postmaster
at birmingham, Alabama, is reported to be a
defaulter to the amount of 81. 700.
The South Carolina, Alabama and
Georgia press is zealously advocating all pro-
per means looking towards the announcement
of immigration.
A reward of $500 has been offered by
Gov. Brown for the apprehension of John 7,
Anderson, for the murder Of John r. Breck-
inridge, at Lebanon, Tenn.
The effort among Louisville, XIV.
eolored people to celebrate the fifteenth
amendment, resulted in a sort OF general
melee, and the procession was failure.
W. r. Abbott, a prominent LAWYER of
Louisville KY, was shot on TUESDAY last and
It Is supposed nortalIy wounded. by Jno. r
Green, member of the firm OF Morton. Gait
& Co., bankers
The towboat Jay Richards capsized
twenty-five miles below New Orleans. by Belle
ChasSe crevasse, and sunk in about eighty
feet Of water The captain. engineer and one
Iaborer swan ashore. Thirteen Iaborers-
twelve coiored and one white-were drowned
Sult has been brought against Gep.
n IL. Forrest, late president of the Memphis |
and Selma railroad and his securities, to re-
cover hundred thousand dollars. app-onri- /
ated to be expended within Shelby county.
tennessee, which, it is claimed. was expended |
IN Alississlppiin the construction Of said road.
In Boyle county, Ky, a few davs I
since, Frank Daughtery was shot and proba-
bly, fatally wounded by his son, Jno Daught-
cry, a young man twenty years old. The 1uar-
rel was about Young Daughtory's attentions to
q woman IN the vicinity which his father dis
Joseph SyOoton, highly respectable
young man, was stabbed and killed near Holly
springs, Miss, Saturday, by George Var
borough Marlborough was arrested and placed
under Sooo1 bond Whitney Dabney was stab
ned andkilied the same day at New Albany.
Mss by unknown person.
a special from Helena, Ark, saws
IRE Monday night destroyed the grocery store
OF W. Q. 4 L. Moore, Seelig's dry-goods store
IT,, -, W H9sIahsoh is ti',v-aro - -
AIoores were insured for So, 600 Seelig. ST.
O0e, in New Orleans, Philadelphia, and New
port, Ky.
A negro named Ed. Shields was con-
victed in Spencer county, KY, few days
since, of rape OF white woman, and SEN
fenced to twenty years in the state prison.
While the sheriff and posse was bringing the
prisoner to the Louisville jail, band of about
forty men took Shields out of their hands and
hanged him TO a cross-beam Of bridge near
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ing.
The petition of citizens of the two
parishes of Louisiana, Caddo and De Soto
asking to be annexed to Texas, has recently
been presented to the Texas legislature, Mr.
Galloway, the gentleman who bore the peti-
tion frsm Shreveport, making an exhaustive |
argument in favor OF the measure, by permis-
sion of the house. The legislature faYors the
annexation Of these parishes, conditioned that
Louisiana relinquishes them to Texas without
compensation, this state undertaking to see
that the citizens Of the ceded territory pay a
proper proportion Of the Louisiana state debt
Mayor Kramor, of Little Rock, has
telegraphed to Attorney-GeneraI Williams for
aid in preserving the peace of that city in view
Of the present extraordinary condition of az
fairs, and has been answered tia. the officer
commanding the United States troops at Lit
tie Rock has been instructed to prevent ood-
shed. The attorney general in his reply asks
if the people of Arkansas have not patriotism
enough to allow the question as to who shall
hold the state offices to be settled peaceably
and lawfully, and not bring upon their state
the disgrace and ruin of civil war.
Gov. Kellogg, of La, has addressed
a circular to all the police juries in the river
parishes, saying the exigencies are beyond all
provided means TO control the threatened
overflow and advising them to go to work,
bnid up and protect the levees in their respec-
tive parishes, promising to recommend the
next legislature to reimburse the parishes for
the money expended. The state authorities
have also advanced to the levee company
which, by the acts of the Legislature creating
it, is monopoly Of levee building in Louisi-
ana, thirty thousand dollars in advance of the
collections on this years levee tax to help
them to meet the emergency.