The Hickman courier., 1874-03-07
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: The senate has at last confirmed the
nomination OF Sam. Bard postmaster at
Atlanta
Mrs Jno. L. Davis, of Fayette coun-
~, Ky., while laboring under arrangement
rom too free use Of opiates, shot herself
Epugh the breast.
-. store of Joseph Fried, near
tation, ON the Memphis aud Louis
road, was burned by incendiary
Z Loss, $4,000
cellor Walker, of the second
conrt. has made perpetual injunc-
sing the Memphis and Paducah
rom collecting the 100000 voted by
sehe saloon keepers of Jefferson City,
Mo, have been notified by a committee of
ladies that if they do not close their saloons
by Wednesday, they will be visited aud prayed
for IN Ohio style.
The damage to the Mississippi Gen.
trail railroad, by the frsshet more serious
than first reported About four hundred feet
of embankment at Tallahatchee river were
swept away. The bridge also damaged
A fire in Petersburg, Va, burned
! several buildings including the warehouse OF
Jno. Arlington & Sons, containing five hum
dred bales OF cotton, nearly all Of which was
nprned or badly damaged Loss heavy, but
4ly covered by insurance
he New Orleans chamber of COM
urge the speedy opening OF the Missis-
- work OF national importance to the
bpi valley, and favor canal rather
u 5etties, as better adapted both for COM
Ece and military purposes
little Rock, Ark, last week, Tom
sred, shot and killed Jack Colors in
he Methodist church, lust as the
alton was di missed Four shots were
8G The streets filed with Geople a.
the time, but nobody hit except Colcis.
A Dry Tortugas dispatch states that
steamer just arrived from Havana reports
excitement in that city owing to the alleged
departure from Baltimore of the steamer Ed
gar Stuart on a fillibustering expedition, and
that the Spanish naval officers had determined
10 sink her with all on board IL found near
the Cuban coast.
A special from Jackson, Miss, says
thee of Dickinson against Brown, involving
the question of marriage between white man
- -7--s.e=sd woman, decided in the SUI
prone cou-t In favor of the colored children,
who are suing heirs of their deceased
father. large amount of property is In
volved. The case came up from Coahams
county, and has excited much interest.
A dispatch from Massreck Depot
North Carolina, says the shooting OF Steve
Lowery, the last of the Schuffietown outlaws
causes great rejoicing in Robinson county
and that large numbers of people iocked into
Lumberton where the body lay. Lowery whe1
shot carried rife, three pistols and knife
Tho rewards offered for his body &hount t.
) Thousand dollars, al OF which will b,
- the three young men vho did th'
patch from Louisville, Kentucky
htes that the stern-uheel steamers Belfast
>nging to the Belfast transportation com
(came unmaneagable while ascendin,
the drift wood interfering with tn.
hg Of the rudder, and struck hiddel
ruction, breaking in the hull just foremos
be boilers. She was run On q neighborinl
- and rapidly settled, sliding on the bar jus
before going down. The officers and crev
escaped, one roustabout only being injured b.
falling spar. All the books, papers an,
rnoney were saved. The Belfast had 500 ton
OF pig iron, 200 tons of ship stun and 10
tols of miscellaneous freight ON board.
The New Orleans Picayune says tha
the arrival at New Orleans Of four barge
with 1900 bushels Of anthracite coal, said {,
DO Of quality equal to that Of Pennsylvania
from mines on the Arkansas river, near Spa
dras Is an event of much importance to on
- oommerce- 1t Is said that this coal can b,
nd down at New Orleans for five dollars PEI
TI,ich is less than half the usual pric.
rscite in this market II, after full
this Arkansas coal should b,
"a 10 or anywhere approaching il
Pennsylvania anthracite, New Or
become an unrivaled coaline depo
suit shippiHg Pensscols has beer
aving largely upon the coal fields o