The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-04-11
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Natchez agitates the subject of a cot
ton factory.
There are nearly three hundred gran
ges in North Carolina
The grangers in Arkansas are RAISING
Memphis claims to be the second cot
ton market in the United States
A new telegraph line is to be put ur
direct between Mobile and Selma
The Mississippi Central railroad is
going to substitute coal for wood as fuel.
The Courier-Journal reports a $780,
600 fire at Lancaster, Garrard county, KY
The town of Darlington, South Caro-
Ina is now lighted with twenty-five street
lamps.
y There are 675 convicts in the Ken
tucky penitentiary, thirty-one of whom are
4 females.
Mayo, the defaulting treasurer of Vir-
ginia. has been adjudged lunatie, and sent
to tKelsylum.
During the past month Mobile has
had six Tres, five of which are believed to have
been incendisry.
Jackson county, Georgia, which is
high above the cotton belt" last year pro-
duced 1000 bales of cotton.
A geological survey of Texas is con-
templated, and the state geologist has drawn
up a route for the survey party
A ship-yard is to be established at
Edenton, in North Carolina, to build barges
for the northern coasting trade.
Hanrv Hill of
was shot and killed by Warren Law, of Macon
county, in the former place. last week.
About week ago three attempts
were made in one night to burn the town of
BIadon Springs, in Choctaw county, Alabama
Edward Claren, a retired New Or
leans merchant was murdered Friday night,
and his body thrown in the new basin. No
clue.
The official report of the Langley
profit of s112. .92O on an invested capital of
s4oO,O 900.
Gen. Forrest, having resigned the
presidency of the Memphis and Selma rail
road. has been succeeded in that position by
A. G.. White
The trustees of the Southern rail-
way opened 1O7 bids for the construction Of
sixtv miles of road in Tennessee from Chit
wood, south.
Crevasseson the Bayou Lafouche, two
miles below the Badeaux, fifty feet wide and
six feet deep, will probsb bly, overflow Morgan's
Texas railroad.
The San Antonio CTexas) Herald an
nounces that the population of that city is
10000 viz: 1000 Americans, 4, 600 Mexicans,
and 900 nsgroes.
The Mississippi State Lunatic Asy-
lum is crowded beyondits capacity, and hun
dred applicants for admission are on the su-
perintendent's register.
The Georgia convicts have been hired
QUIZ prices ranging from eleven dollars to
twenty dollars per annum each. This arrange
ment VIII yield the state an income OF about
!. $4,000.
The Direct Trade Union Patrons OF
Husbandry have been organized at Atlantis,
Ga. by the election of A. H. Colquitt presi
dent. and twelve directors They expect tC
control all cotton exported from Georgia
The negro exodus from Alabama anG
Georgia continues. The Montgomery Adver
tiser learns that 1900 tickets for negro emf
grants have been taken up on the roads lead
ing southwark and westward from that city.
The furnaces of the Eur eka com
pany, six miles south of Birmingham, Alabama
are turning out sixteen and half tons of su
perior iron per day, with fair prospect o
increasing the product to twenty torsper day
Atlanta, Augusta and Macon are com
peting with each other to secure the location
of a mandatory of Howe sewing machines
q @1,a 70, h.
and the factory viii give work to over thre
hundred hands.
A duel fought near Montgomery Sta
ton, Miss, on the 4th inst. between Aristide
Bienvienue and T b. Phillips, with double
bareled shot-guns loaded with single ball q
four PAGES. Bienvienue was killed at the fir
fire. shot through the brain. Phillips W No
hurt.
A colored man died in Rumsey, Ky.
few days ago, who was probably the giar
of Kentucky. His name was Loufs johnson
but more generally known as big Foote
Louis" He was seven feet high, two and
half feet across the shoulders, and his fe,
touched the tape strings at fifteen inches
The people of Memphis have contrib
utsd thirteen thousand dollars to the endoy
ment of the Vanderbilt university. In add
ton to this, Gen. N B. Forrest has transferrs
to the secretary, DIR. Young, fveethoussI
FIVE hundred dollars of the capital stock
the Selma and Memphis railroad for the ben
fit OF the university.
A dispatch from Memphis states thu
while seven men were loading barge wi
sand at Fort Pickering, at the southern boun
airy of the city, about a quarter of acre
the bluff fell upon them, burying the boa
Dave Tracy, Dud Wave and another ma
name unknown, beneath the landslide in
hundred feet of water, the other four bare
escaping Whirlpool was formed by Il
huge mass of earth Tracy leaves a Wit
He had been engaged in the sand trade f
years, and was widely known.
The Weatherford (Texas) Times say
"a man known as Henry Jones was killed
kksboro one day this week. He was aire
teeby the deputy United States marshal u
der charge of breaking open a postoffice- /
delivered up his arms upon being arreste
but afterward arted to run, when the ms
slal threw his pistol at him and hit him on {
shoulder Jones stopped and picked up &
pis.ol, and commenced firing at the marsh
and a Mr.. Strong who was with him. The t'
returned the fire, and after exchanging sever
shots, Jones was killed Jones was an 9
suned name his real name was Jeffries.- ]
left southwest Missouri not leng since 1
killing constable in Douglas county, in I'll
state He was young man, not more th
twenty-two or twenty-three years old, and
specially connected"