The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-08-14
SOUTH.

Atlanta ladies propose to organize a
female industrial school.
Ebert county, Ga, has produced
about 81, 600 bushels OF wheat this year.
The village of Montgomery, KY, was
almost entirely destroyed by fire last week
Loss, S2I, 900; very little insurance.
"A diamond rattlesnake was killed
near PiIatka, Fla, recently. It was ten feet
long and had eighteen rattles.
The caterpillar has made its appear
ance in several cotton fields of Levy and
Aachua counties, Fla. Rust has also appeared,
and the prospects are not so good as they
were two weeks ago.
Alright occurred at small village in
Clark county. KY, on election day, in which
two white man were killed and two negroes
mortally wounded, and fifteen negroes were
more or less severely wounded.
Mob of whites and negroes hung
negro named Munro Divers al Warrenbarg,
Mo-, last week, charged with ravishing
white child six years old, belonging to re-
spectacle citizen of wsrrenburg.
J. Newton Temple, United States dis
trict attorney for the western district OF Ar
kansas, and John A. Minnis, attorney for the
northern district of Alabama, have rendered
their resignatiens, which have been accepted.
The public library of Kentucky has
just purchased for s25, 1000 the splendid col
lection of minerals and fossils of the late
Prof Troost, of Tennessee, probably the
most extensive and valuable of the kind in
the country.
The caterpillar is reported to have APP
peared in Barbour and Henry counties, Ala
bama, and it is thought they will destroy the
cotton by the 30th of August. There are SINH
lar reports from Dale county
The transfer and sale of the east Ten
nessee iron and coal company to A. L. Max
wei. John J. McKennon, Ed NJ. Grant, and
Messrs- Duncan, sherman, & Co., OF New
York city. for $3.50, 900, was perfected few
days since. This transfer covers all the cap
ital stock Of the company, and also their min
eral lands. etc.
The superintendent Of the New Or
leans mint is making arrangements to recon-
mence operations, but owing to the smaIIness
L the congressional appropriation they will
pr .Lss present be confined 20 assayiny only.
10 business has been performed at that mint
since June 26, 1861, when the confederates
took the property.
The steam tow-boat Samuel Roberts
blew up last week in the Guyandatte. W. Va,
shoals, Ohio river. Dudly Holland, watch
man, was killed, Samuel Fitch was dangerously
SCALED Dave Williamson, pilot, was seriously
hurt. Capt. Dewolf, clerk, HeaIy DeWolf.
mate. Charles Anderson first engineer. Jacob
Hunker.. steward, J. W. Thompson, second
cook, and George Conine were all injured,
not dangerously.
The steamer Henry Ames with full
cargo from st. Louis for New Orleans, struck
snag last week near Waterproof, and sank in
twenty-five feet of water. Only three lives
are known TO have been lost. The Ames had
about 1900 tons Of assorted merchandise.
Thsvaine Of the boat and cargo is estimated
at s130, ,0O0- The boat was owned and insured
In 81. Louis- aF-tsf
Near Carlisle, Nicholas county, KY,
last week, one Hamilton, while attending the
Methodist church, being ofended at some
thing said, stood up on a bench. and -four
ished pistol. Thomas Shaw, one of the
trustees succeeded in pacifying him. and coax
ing him ont of doors When outside Shaw
told him the penalty of the law for his offense.
whsreupon Hamilton shot Shaw through the
heart Tae congregation came out, seized the
murderer and sent him to Carlisle. whence.
from fear Of lynehing, he was sent to Lex
ington. hs esiFsl at4
Madame Fertinmyre, q midwife, re-
siding ct No. 1917 Morgan street, st. Louis,
was arrested last week. It is stated she has
practieeN abortion several years; that NUM-
Der Of infants have been eremated by her
endt dthat Several highly respectable persons
are involved in the matter. Nine Fortin-
meyer male confession to the general effect
that she had been in the business two years,
and 'hes produced several hundred abortionH,
ana1mphcstes quite number OF highly re-
spectacle people OF the city. 1t had been
her custom 70 burn AL premature births on