The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-09-01
SOUTHERN NEWS.

WHITE river, Ark, has received oooOo
young shad. -.
THERE are only two pOorhouses III .ILe 0'a'e
Of Georgia. saws the Macon Telegraph.
TEXAS now has nine railroads in process
Of construction.
JOE Cox, prompted by jealousy, snot ana
killed Charles Franklin in Macon, u oisia'
last Monday. Both cOlored.
ANDREW JoHNsON's son was detealeu lor
the legislature in the Green county (lehhJ
primary election last week.
THE Richmond and Manchester, Va, mills
shipped to Brazilian markets last week ~
93l barrels of flour, valued at $50, loo.
THE newly elected trustee for Willii I1
son county, Tenn, has no arms at an, ne
lost both arms at the battle OF Fort Douel-
son, when quite boy.
The Georgia state agricultural society
offers premium of $500 for preventive OF
cure Of hog cholera, and $500 for ehlckeh
cholera to be recommended by trial oil not
less than thirty members.
THE Texas legislature sits and sits with
the mercury at one hundred degrees IN
the shade and the newspaper men hlling the
air with a sulphurous smoke-but then they
get s. per dteW.
THERE are at this time 1850 convicts
boarding at the Tennessee penitentiary: vi
these six hundred and twenty are hired OUT
in various portions of the state, four hundred
and thirty are hammering away within the
walls OF the prison.
\ CONVICT in the Mississippi penitentiary
writes a very interesting letter to the
Natchez Democrat, in which he says:
There is at the present time a total of six
hundred cOnvicts; five hundred and thirty
nine of these are male negrOe sixteen are
/ coored women, and fOrtv-five are white
men four hundred and eighty-six are EN-
/ ployed outside The walls and the remaining
| sixteen are employed in different capacities
! inside.
/ VIcKsBURG Miss Tribune: We regret
to hear that the genuine cotton worm
/ has made its appearance in large numbers in
/ the counties of Washington and Issaquena,
/ in Mississippi, aud in the parish of Madison,
/ in Louisiana. The showery, cloudy weather
/ we have been having for some days Is very
favorable for the operations OF the cotton
/ caterpillar and we fear that the ravages Of
4 that great enemy of the cotton crop will be
oil a very serious character.
BRITISH explorers are at work in Chat
ham county, y. G., prospecting for copper,
gold and silver ore. An agent of the princi-
/ pals says that there is more gold in North
| Carolina than in California; that the mines
| are deeper, and richer ut great depth; that
| FIVE or six square miles in Montgomery
| county can produce gold enough TO pay the
national debt, and that all the mines will
pay 80 Ton. fliteeh Hlllilohs OF capita!
are backing the enterprise. \ smelling furn-
ace costing 100000 viii be built, and six
hundred skilled operatives viii be brought
from England.
ON Monday evening says the Americus
Ga.) Republican, Mr. Volt Oliver took
in hand the task of Kidding DIR. j. w Bar
lows mill-pond OF a hideous monster in the
shape of an alligator, that has been a source
of ann 'yance and fright to all who have FIRE.
quented the pond during the year past. II
had been repeatedly wounded by parties
fishing, and in many instances has caused
his antagonist to take water" by showing
a belligerent spirit, but up to Monday last
ali efforts to capture his carcass proved fu
tile. The water in the pond being very low
bis alligatorship labored under quite a dis
advantage in the melee, hence his destruc
ton He measured ten and one half feet in
length and weighed two hundred and forty
pounds