The Hickman courier., 1874-05-23

Clarksville, is held at Memphis to answer II
, the sum OF 81 600 for hanging up S. Beirman
young Hebrew passenger, to make him con
! fess to having robbed fellow passenger. and
then pat him ashore with his haads tied be
hind him
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-eiglt miles
from the county line
late New Orleans dispatch saws the
Spanish consul Don Carlos Pie, Gen. Badger.
chief of police. and detectives Harris and
Pearson gave bond in 500, ,O0O each, to appear
for trial upon the charge of the robbery suf-
| ferred by Capt R9deriquez, the grand iurv
| having found true bill against them.
The board of directors of the cotton
| exchange, in consideration Of requests from
other exchanges, have passed resolution
suggesting January 10 as the day for the as
sembling of the cotton exchange convention /
in Augusta. Ga; also, that the number of del |
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1t is said that great deal of destitu-
tion prevails in and around Chicot, Ark. on
account of the flood. The large planters are
suffering equally with the small farmers.
in the shape of chattel property
and provisions have been swept away, and un-
less aid reaches them soon there viii be sacri-
fee Of life from starvation.
Samuel Berman has sued Capt. Reese
commander of the steamer Clarks-
ville for 100000 damages for hanging him 7
up on that boat TO extort confession in re-
To
ger, with which he was charged Capt. Pritch- !
ard was not On board at the time OF the :
hanging.
a dispatch received from Helena says
that Capt. Tom Berry, formerly steamboat \
in the Memphis aud Little Rock T.
trade, but for several years past engaged in b
planting at Walnut Bend, Ark, was shot and 4
1iIled there last week by man named Marks
n a difficulty growing out of lawsuit. Marks
escaped in the skiT OF his victim.
Reports from New Orleans state that =
he towboat Tilhe c. Jewett collided with the :,
tesmship City of Houston on the night of a
lie 18th, below Point Bohemia, and sunk in W
welve feet CT water A fireman and cabin p
oy were drowned, the balance Of the crew AZ
lInging to the wreck till rescued by the 81
teamer Mary Ida. The City OF Houston pro-
eeded on her course
Further particulars in regard To the q
Hing of Capt. c. W. Edwards, at Bledsoe's ar
lnding, Arkansas, on Friday, show that 1t was a.,
deliberate assassination. DIR. Allen having 10
-ked him to issue the attachment, Edwsrds F,
eclined. as no longer magistrate. Allen then Il
tempted to bribe him to do so. Edwards "A
rdered him cut OF his house, and turned to M
l.er his wife's room. when Dr. Allen IeveIed en-
shotgun, and crying out here's luck, is ge
isrged it, killing Edwards instantly. Allen -
icaped- He was formly in the snake show I'M
lsiness.
On addressing 2 recent meeting of the at
alvesson, Texas, chamber OF commerce. Col sl
an Horne, of Kansas City said the delega- foi
on had two objects in view. One was 10 in VIC
ire if the Galveston merchants were able De
ID willing to handle the grain of their sec ten
IN the other, TO secure a proper competition
riff Of rates from the railroad lines They -
,uld eturn home satisfied we could handle -
efy erai-e1as-r1 sTc1rL7 -s,s2--t.s 49, - -.
AIR part and a united effort Will be made to 70
luce the railroads to comply. BY this means live
rams Mississippi commerce viii be built mp me r.,
lich will rival that Of the east Tho
The committee on transportation OF
e agricultural congress, in session st Allan Wi
reported resolutions in favor of water 10,
ansportation, by artificial highways aud 20
,airst the regulation of railroad traffic by an
ngress. which were adopted. The commit an
@ on the tax on tobacco recommended that ui'
e government reduce the tax to a uniform
te of twelve cents per pound and that ar Ba
,les used in the manufacture Of tobacco come er
ltv free. Adopted. Gen. Jackson was re- ov
ected president and C. W. Greene secretary stl
S. Grinnel was elected vice-president. c. hs
= Greene. secretary, resigned, and Geo T. ~
orrow. editor of the Wisconsin Farmer, was no
ected in his place The next meeting OF the a=
,ngress Will be held at Cincinnati the second he
-ednesday in September. 1915 s v-s
About daylight on the morning OF the NJ
Ith. the levee broke at Apperson's plantation, -
'posite Friar's Point. At last accounts the
evasse was one hundred and fifty yards he
ide, and the water spreading over the planta- til
ON. one Of the finest of that section. The a
evasse at 8[Iler's, on the Mississippi side is st
,w six Hundred yards wide, and the water 9s is
the streets of F.iar's Point, is three or
ct deep. Families are moving out and mer- co
lants are busily engaged in removing goods. VI
be whole country In the rear is rapidly on
ing undated Some idea NAV be formed or st
e water rushing through the crevasse, by ITS II
airing up huge cottonwood trees two and a
If feet in diameter and scattering them
rer the neighboring plantations. Steamers
nv all come through the Council Bend cut.