The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-04-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
SOUTH.

LAWNS, the Vicksburger local VIII
killed Calkin, has been acquitted.
The entire loss by the explosion c
the Crescent City viii foot up nearly thre
hundred thousand.
Gas Matlock, the Red creek murderer
has been sentenced to be hanged on the got
OF May, at Little Rock.
Jesse James, an old and prominen
citizen of Saline county, Ark, was accidentl
shot and killed on Saturday last while ou
hunting.
John Franklin. colored waiter a
the Worsham house, Memphis, was fatal
stablfg on the 2Sth, by Sam Fidnay, tn
steward. Fidnay has not yet been arrested.
The land owners of Texas are taking
measures to crush out the cattle owners VIII
:. own little or no land. Immense pastures ar
"a being fenced in and there will soon be no opel
"A prairie for cattle.
y Capt. Goad, agent of the Mississippi
valley transportation company, has returned
; from the wreck of the Crescent City. and re
:. ports that she can be raised when the watel
falls ten feet.
At Vicksburg, on the 9th, Thomas
Calkin, an ex-poIiceman, attacked ]. W. La
wins, local editor of the vicksburger, cutting
him in the neck with knife. LAWNS then
shot Calkin twice, killing him instantly.
Thomas d. Grundy, sheriff of Nc
Cracken county, Ky, has instituted suit against
the Louisville Commercial for damages of
e25,Oo The Commercial stated that Grundy
was intoxicated while taking batch OF pris-
oners to the penitentiary.
A coiored man died in Rumsey, Ky,
OF Kenfucky. His name was Louis johnson.
but more generally known as ''Big Footed
Louis" He was seven feet high, two and
half feet across the shoulders, and his feet
touched the tape strings at fifteen inches.
The people of Memphis have contrib
uted thirteen thousand dollars to the endow-
ment of the Vanderbilt university. In addi-
ton to this, Gen. n. b. Forrest has transferred
to the secretary, DIR. Young, five Thousand
five hundred dollars of the capital stock of
the Selma and Memphis railroad for the bene-
fit of the univereity-
The officers of the Belle Lee report
that the river below Napoleon is higher than
ever known. About 25 miles of the Chicot
and Pine Bluff railroad have been swept away.
No further breaks are reported. The White
country adjacent to Chcot, Arkansas, and
Bolivar, Mississippi, are under water. No
great damage is apprehended.
W. A. Simpson, gate-keeper of the
Tennessee State Grange, announces the fact
that according to the latest report. March 4th,
of theesecretary of the National Grange, there
are forty-nine oranges in East Tennessee, as
follows Bradley, - Marion 8 Blount, 1 !;
Polk, 2 Bledsoe, Roane, i Greene, t /;
Sullivan, 2; Washington, 8; Sewer, 2; Ham
blen, Hawkins. 5; Jefferson, 1 Knox,
Loudon, 8. Total, 40.
Col. Robert J. Miller, a prominent
lawyer of Vicksburg, was shot and fatally
wounded there by W. r Spears, also lawyer,
who drove up to ATiller's Office in a carriage
and sent the driver up for him. Just then
Miller came down street, and Spears called to
him. When Miller approached the carriage,
Spears fired, hitting him in the forehead. Mil
Ter FELL and Spears fired four other shots into
his body. Spears was taken to jail amid great
excitement and threats of violence.
The steamboat Sam ]. Hale, from
Cincinnati for New Orleans, burst a steam
piTe hundred and twenty-five miles above
Memphis. The following are the casualties.
p. Wagner, second engineer, slightly scalded;
Richard Leonard. deckhand, severely, since
died; Frank Stewart, deckhand, badly John
johnson, deckhaud lost overheard; Chase
Jones, colored, fireman, killed. Capt J. L.
Carter made marrow escape but was unin-
jured. The City of vicksburg overlook the
Hale floating down, and towed her to the
bank. The Hale is uninjured save the bursted
pipe.
The cause of direct trade with Eu-
rope IS at last receiving practical encourage
nent and assuming a feasible shape. The
Charleston chamber of commerce has taken
the matter in hand and inaugurated move
ment that bids fair 10 be croyned with success.
and requires only the cooperation of the inte-
rior cities to make the achievement certain.
The Charleston chamber of commerce in
prosecution of its enterprieing plan has dep
utzed a special commissioner in the person of
Mr.. J. Adger Smyth to visit the cities of the
south and west, including Augusta, Atlanta,
Chattanooga, Nashville Louisville etc, to in
duce the business men OF those cities to or
der all their foreign goods direct through
Charleston and thus afford freight that will
pav for the establishment of a line of steam
ers every two weeks.
A special from Helena, Ark, says the
tow-boat Crescent City from New Orleans for
ST. Louis, with a tow of five freight barges,
one fuel barge and trailing boat laden with
thirteen tons of sugar, blew up at the foot of
Montezuma island, ten miles below Memphis.
Every part of the boat was blown into atoms
and she sunk in three minutes. The barges
were all consumed bv fire The following is
a list of the lost: Capt James Dawson,
Mate Henry Ges-ler Pilot John A Strauder
and wife, Pilot VIM. Mundy, Watchman Dan
Mettle. cabin-boy unknown, three colored fire
man. Wounded: George Van Hainten, pilot,
leg dabcated; Patrick Bacon, second engi-
neer, bruised VIM. Dunn, second cook, scald-
ed; Peter Hall, proprietor of trading boat,
badly bruised; his family all saved. The
steamer Phil Allen arrived at the scene a few
moments after the explosion and rendered as
sistance. The Crescent City is owned by the
Mississippi Valley Transportation company.
Valued at so, 600. Jno. Ostrander and wife,
who were lost, leave six children, who are in
ST. Louis. His wife had accompanied him on
a pleasure trip