The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-06-20
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Rains in Georgia have been general
and the crops are report ed as fine.
Canton, Missouri, burned last week.
Loss about $50, 600, insured for s1s,O coo.
The Montgomery Advertiser says the
wheat crop in Alabama Will be much larger
than for many years past.
murderer was lynched in Harrison
county. KY, below Cincinnati, few nights
since, his clothes soaked in oaI oil and the
body burned
Tom Norris, VINO murdered and rob-
bed hatbOatman about a month ago. was ta-
ken fiom Winusboro La, jail, Saturday night.
by thirty disguised men and hung.
The Macon Telegraph reports that
the corn crop in Georgia Is doing well. Cotton
Is still small and at least one-third less planted
than 10. year. A full crop, therefore. Is i'm
Ed.& &cas alias Scott, a negro, was ar
rested near Shreveport La, for compIicitv in
the Elliot murder. While being conducted to
town he was taken from his captors and hung
by vigilants, beng the third person hung by
them for this murder.
Miss Sallie Smith, about seventeen
years Of age, student Of the female school
at Oakland, Ky, was fatally burned last week
during the school exhibition exercises She
was standing on the stage near coal oil lamp
which exploded and at once enveloped her in
flames.
A special from Sardis, Miss, says a
negro named Nose Gregory becoming incen
sed at his Wsfe. ATTEMPTED TO shoot her and
shot his daughter, Ernrna, aged 1S--aud killed
her. On being arrested he admitted the kill
ing. saying he tried TO kill his wife, and would
kill her yet.
A special from Rockport, Texas, says
it has been aseertained that the mEfderers of
Swift and wife were two Me1leans. Mrs
Swift was stabbed il Nineteen places, her
ttroa. cut TO the ueckbede, and shot IN the
fa.e 7Tr s9ift was equally butchered, ex-
cept that he was nc 7iot-
Judge Grab4m of Charleston, S. c.,
H. 1aci5a5 t,at lac action of Gov. Moses. as
,t,ar,ad in <he Indictment for larceny, was Of
fciaI -. and if it was a crime it was com
,,;,+ him az governor. and order ed the in
49, as to Francis T. Noses, Jr., to be
,1ashed, and the case as to him stricken from
the docket.
special from Pine Bluff, Ark, states
that as Gen. King White was riding on one of
the main streets in a buggy lie was fred upon.
by oman named Derry, and slightly wounded
Csn. White returned the fire. wounding Derry
5adiy. Ten or twelve shots were fired The
dispatch says Derry is Brooks man and al
employe on Senator Clayton's place.
A thousand pounds of nitro-glycerine
in the government magazines. four miles
above Shreveport, La, exploded on the 18th
with terrific force The conclusion was so
great that the whole population rushed into
the streets, the houses shaking, windows
breaking, etc. No one was in the vicinity Of
the magazine at the time, and no lives we're
lost.
The executive committee Of the
Clarksville, Tenn, tobacco district council have
adopted resolutions recommending to the
council the appointment Of competent chem
list, whose duty it shall be to analyzo the fer
tillzers now being sold in the district, and sug-
gesting that each subordinate grange inquire
into the expediency Of securing the passage of
:" no fence law"
The jury in the Grant parish, La,
case, have brought in verdict Crinkshank.
Hadnot and Erwin are declared guilty of con-
spiIacy, but recommended 10 tie mercy of the
court; or the other charges they are declared
not guilty. The remainder of the accused are
acquitted. All the prisoners were again locked
up, to be tried on other indictments similar to
those upon which they have just been tried
The penalty for conspiracy is not over s5, ,OOC
fine, or ten years imprisonment. or both
DR.. Ely Mcclellan, assistant surgeon
of the United States army, has been detailed
to carry out the provisions of joint resolu
ton of congress, directing the secretary Of
war to detail medical officer to investigate
and report upon the epidemic of cholera Of
1873, under the direction of the surgeon gem
eral of the army. He is now on visit to the
southern states in the prosecution of the duty
assigned him, and has arrived in Nashville
with view of obtaining a complee record of
all cases of the disease which occurred in that
city during last year.
AT the recent meeting of the cotton
exchange convention at Augusta, Ga, Mr..
Proudfit, of Memphis, read preamble, reso-
lution and argument adopted by the Memphis
Gotten exchange. The paper is very lengthy,
and covers the whole subject of cotton pro-
duction and consumption. It recommend.
that the convention petition congress to make
annual appropriations sufficient to furnish ac
curate information IN reference to the cottor
crop, the appropriation to be placed with the
department of agriculture and the signal ru
reau, aud to be used specially for the purpose
of obtaining information as to the acreagt
usually used in planting cotton, the number o
labcrers employed, the average of annua
production in each state, the condition OF the
crop from the time of planting to the fina
gathering, and providing for the publication o
more accurate reports. 1t also provides 70
establishing signal stations from North Caro-
lima to Texas, to be used in the charge of com
petent officers, whose duty it shall be to repor
the rainfall and telegraph every Friday to tn,
secretary Of the nearest cotton exchange. al
the Information to be consolidated by the New
Orr exchange and distributed to the vari
GUS kanges throughout the country.
FOR EIGN.
The yellow fever prevails in Havana