The Hickman courier., 1874-05-16
SOUTH.


benefit of the Louisiana sufferers.
The oat crop in southern Georgia has
been cut short half by bad weather, rust and
insects.
The number of negroes that have
recently been murdered in Georgia by persons
OF their own race is surprising, if not alarm
ing.
The new copper mines in Randolph
county Alabama, are said to be turning out
four tons of ore per day, worth from to II
cents per pornd.
The graves of the confederate dead
in Elmwood cemetery, Memphis will be deco
rated next Saturday. General George W.
Gordon deliveries the Grafton.
Jno. d. Stevenson. nephew of Gov.
Brown, was shot and killed by named
John W. Carter, about eleven miles east of
Athens, Ala, on the 9th inst.
DIR. Jesse Boring, of Troup county,
Georgia, has been awarded so, 900 as dam
ages resulting from accident on the West
ern railroad, whereby his leg was broken
The part of the Selma, Rome and
Dalton railroad which lies in Georgia, will be
sold before the courthouse door in Rome, on
the second Tuesday in July, to the highest
bidder
Peter O. Cox has recovered verdict
for s35, 900 damages before at Louisville jury
for the loss OF a leg, on the Louisville and
Nashville railroad. road wiz apply fora
new trial.
A curious fact in South Carolina econ
omics has just come to light. Twenty-seven
convicts have been parioned out of the pen
itentiary because the state was too poor to pro-
vide for their support.
There is to be a convention of cotton
exchanges at Augusta, Ca on the 3Oth of
June, to consider the feasibility of improv-
ing the facilities for obtaining information
about the cotton market and the crop.
Reports from New Orleans say all
the crevasses on Pla4uemine closed. The
sJaEI6 Sc repair and of repIantng rice has COM
Snerced The sugar corr, on tIre Inundated |
plaoesNas not been enrrrefy oesrroS~a
9. A. Haynes, negro mail agent at
Wilmington, Delaware, and brother of the
negro secretary OF state for South Carolina,
has been sentenced by the United States district
court to four years in the penitentiary for
robbing the mails.
An appeal is published for the urgent
relief of sufferers by floods in the south.
1t states that over $4,000 people have been
driven from their homes and are now without
food or shelter, and that to furnish these pro-
visions alone viii cost S25. 600 day.
The southern Baptist convention is in
session at Jefferson, Texas. About 5000 dele
gates are present. JNmes P. Boyce, D. D., of
Louisville. presides. Drs. Burrows, of Rich
moDd; Jones, of Nashville; Crane, of Texas,
and Devotio, of Georgia, vice presidents.
The police of Atlanta have had trou-
bic with the Federal troops stationed there.
In the melee that occurred last week one
soldier was killed, and it was feared that
regular pitched battle would occur. 1t is
thought, however, that the difficulty is ended.
The copper excitement, which was
recently inaugurated in Carrolton, Ga, still
continues with unabated excitement. Sew
eral wagons of ore passed through the town
last week on their way to the station. The
newly discovered mine is twenty-eight miles
from the county line
The legislature of North Carolina has
passed an act which provides that any person
who manufactures, sells or deals in spirituous
liquors as drink, of any name or kind
tanning foreign properties or ingredients pois-
onous to the system, shall be punished with
five years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
Thomas Earles was arrested q few
days ago, at DeKalb, Mississippi, by John P.
Gilner, on the charge of having murdered
Daniel Thomas, in Cannon county, Tennessee,
in 1874 He has been turned over to the
sheriff OF Cannon county, and a reward of
$500, offered by the governor for Earles' ar
rest, has been paid to Gilmer.
A petition has been fled in the
i United States court for the involuntary bank
ruptcy of Franklin Moss, Jr, governor of
/. South Carolina, and an injunction granted re-
straining the sheriff OF Richland county from
seizing and selling his effects until the fur
ther order Of the court The debts OF the
governor in excess OF assets are currently
stated at over a250, 900.
The consolidation of tho st. Louis.
Iron Mountain and Cairo and Fulton railroads
has been fully effected. and q new board of
directors elected. The road will hereafter be
known as the st. Louis, Iron Mountain and
eouthern railroad. Arrangements have been
made to run trains through from st. Louis to
Austin, Texas, via. the International road of
Texas from Texarkans.
Further particulars in regard to the
killing of Capt. @. W. Edwards, at Bledsoe's
landing. Arkansas, ON Friday, show that it was
deliberate assassination. DIR. Allen having
aeked him to issue the attachment. Edwards
declined. as no longer magistrate. Allen then
attempted to bribe him to do So Edwards
ordered him out of his house, and turned to
enter hiswife's room, when Dr. Allen leveled
shotgun, and crying out ''here's luck" ois-
charged it, killing Edwards instantly. Allen
escaped He was formly in the snake chow