The Hickman courier., 1874-03-28
SOUTH.

Alexapder 81. Stephens IS now IN
fair way to recover his health
The exodus of the colored people
from Alabama and Georgia continues to excite
much comment.
Governor Baxter, of Arkansas, de-
clines to issue further state bonds FOR the Ar
kansas Central road.
o. H. Hart, governor of Florida,
after alingering illness, died at his residence
in Jacksonville on the 18th inst.
A Galveston News SPECIAL says fire
in Dallas on the Goth, consumed ten stores
The loss is estimated at $50, 900; fully insured.
The council of the wine and spirits
traders society Of the United States have
announced that they favored the present tenn
Perance movement.
Grant has appointed Gen. McLaws,
of Augusta, revenue collector for the first !
district of Georgia. Gen. McLaws is q demo-
crat, and was a confederate officer.
@. b. Berthuman, q noted Kentucky
desperate sHd fugitive from justice, was
shot and killed in his mountain recess few
days since by party OF officers attempting
his arrest.
The Alabama river has overfowed its
bnnks in many places, and ali the creeks aud
streams are greatly swollen. The freshet is
too early to injure planters, as very little of
the crop has been planted
Elizabeth, wifeSof VIM. Vance. far
mer, living near Georgetown, KY, cut her own
throat and the throats OF two of her children.
one aged three and the other nine years
Both children are likely to recover.
Mrs. Emma Lynch, of Atlanta, Geor-
gia, has sued the Georgia Central railroad
company for $50, 900 damages for the killing
Of her husband on the Macon and Western
road, which is operated by the Georgia Central
The officers of the steamer Phil. Al
len say the st. Francis river is rising rapidly
from the overflow in the vicinity of New Mad
rid. All the lower plantations in the vicinity
OF the mouth Of that river are under water
also those at Walnut Bend.
A special from Salisbury, n. c.,
states that the internal noises heard in Bald
Mountain resemble those heard in Mt. Etna
t sEspssn sase5oagheas aa
miles extending into the adjoining counties
these arc not,ohiyh heard, buta trembling andre
verberation OF the earth is perceptibly felt. No
signs Of fire or lava have yet been discovered
The state of West Virginia having up
to this time refused to pay her share of the
state indebtedness prior to the war, and hav-
ing declined proposition for arbitration, a
measure has been offered in the legislature at
Richmond, directing the Encouragement to
bring suit against the state of West Virginia
in the Supreme court of the United States for
one-third Of the public debt standing in the
name OF Virginia ON the 10th day OF April
1865, including interest to that date.
A special from Forrest City, Ark. i,
states that Hon. John W. Fox, judge of the
eleventh judicial circuit. mas shot with a
double-barreled shotgun, on the 21st, by r
p. Aldridge, and died from the effects OF his
wounds. The origin of the difficulty is not
definitely known, though it is thought it
grew out of some remarks to Aldridge by
Judge Fox, while the latter was on the bench.
Aldridge Is now in the custody of the sherih.
The last information from the scene
of the 5ght between the notorious Younger
brothers and the detectives, near Moneeaw
Springs, Mo-, is that the detectives engaged
we're Allen, OF Chicago, aud Beckworth, of ST.
Louis. The former is still at Roscoe NOR
tally Wounded The latter escaped. It is
further stated that James Younger was woun-
ded in the affray and his capture is expected :
also that the Younger brothers came down from
the north just after the murder OF whicher,
near Indianapolis, which leads to the belief
that they lad hand in themurder.
The following from Marion, the coun.
ty-seat -or Mcdowell county in which BaId
mountain is located, is he latest and most reli-
able information yet received Bald noun
tain, in the southwestern part of Mcdowell
county. was shaken q few days since~b by vol
canic tlroes, and some of the Inhabitants in
the Esighborhood became much excited and
alarmed However, one of the oldest citi-
zens says that the shock was not seyerer than