The Hickman courier., 1876-08-25
SOUTHERN NEWS.

| mac-grinding mill. A.
| GRAssHoPPERs now infest thirty counties
| in Georgia.
| AN unknown man was shot and killed for
stealing a watermelon in New Orleans
| Wednesday night.
| REV. @. II. WILSON. a promising yourg
Methodist minister of Abbyville, Miss, has
| been sent TO a lunatic asylum.
THE Hon. Alex. II. Stephens has gained
sufficient strength to take outdoor exercise
with the aid of crutches
THE jackson Whig and Tribune reports
| that armies of potatO-bugs are consuming the
jimson weeds of Madison county, Tenn.
THE Savannah (Ga.l News says the cater
pillar has made its appearance III the growth
OF young cotton on several of the sea Islands
along the coast.
Two negroes were killed and two white
men and negro wounded by the explosion
of boiler of steam thresher, near Augusta,
Ga, last week.
Two men-Wells and Pines-got to quar-
reling overa horse trade at Grandview, Tex
as, and, firing their guns simultaneously,
were both killed.
SELMA (Ala-) fines: There is n big scare
about the cotton worms, and the Paris green
the presence of the worms, but they have not
as yet done any serious damage.
LAKE CITY (Fla.) Reporter: Our friend
Albert Bethea killed gopher snake twenty
feet long last Tuesday. lie states il is the
longest snake he ever saw. The gopher snake
Is harmless to man, but death TO rats and
eggs.
ROBERT F. LEES Oldest son. Gen. VIM. II.
+. Lee, Is devoting his time to the skillful
cultivation of 4 farm III Fairfax county, Va
His wife, daughter of the late George w
Boiling, of Petersburg, is said to be the most
beautiful woman in Virginia.
THERE is said to be more gold in North
Carolina than in California: that the mines
are deeper and richer at the great depth
that five or six miles area in Montgomery
county would pay the national debt, and !
that all the mines will pay $25 per ton.
THE statement having been made in sew
erai Texas papers that yellow fever had made /!
its appearance in Shreveport, the Times says: I
Shreveport was never in as good sanitary |
condition as it is now, and only those of our
citizens who are always anticipating trouble |
have any apprehension of the visitation of |
yellow fever this season.
MONTGOMERY (Ala) Advertiser: Every
wagon that leaves town carries out water.
pots, which farmers are using to sprinkle the
worm destroyer on their crops. 4 vigorous
effort will be made to save the cotton, and, /
as the farmers have commenced early in the |
action, strong hopes are entertained that
they VIII be successful.
THE Thomasville Times calls attention to
what Georgia is doing for the education Of
the colored people In Thomas county. for
example, there are fifteen colored schools
that average thirty-fve pupils. The teachers
are paid from ten 10 fifty dollars a month
The number of these schools viii, within two
weeks, be increased 10 twenty, and in no
Ease has an application for such a school
been refused.
DIR. c. X. MARSHALL, OF Nicl1sbur-, de- ,
lined TO be a candidate for congress for the
A g. l., ]
openly and emphatieally opposed the clec J
ion of clergymen TO political offices. The ,
'oUth, as general policy, has observed this |
'ustom, not so much from an indispositiOn
o enlist the talents of ministers of the gospel
II public affairs, as from a fixed purpose, on {
her part, to keep aloof from the arena of !
party contests.
No more striking illustration Of the terri
Ne misgovernment of South Carolina could
%, produced than the present ptiable con-
dltOn of her insane DIR. Ensor, the super
lnte1dent of the State Insane Asylum, saws d
tue TINE has arrived when the inmates of f
that listitution must receive assistance or n
stsrve The institution is largely in debt its =
credit Is gone, and partiet who have been :
furpHhing beef, bread, milk, etc, have given
nglce mat they can no longer continue to
apply these articles unless tI,~-,, il some q
gissn them that they will be rlsiI. 4
~. ssaSsl lntendent says sickness, diseased
unai some zoos Bnt M 3k.sssti 8
somewhere, nothing can De y
btained.
IT is announced that movement has been
tarted in western Texas in favor OF forming
hat portion of the state into new common T
wealth. This action is based upon the agree
nent claimed to have been entered into Q
when the Lone Star was put upon the amer {
can fag-that whenever any part OF Texas
possessing sufficient area of territory and d
mount of population should apply for as- Y
mission to the union, and that application
vas properly indorsed by the state legisla-
ure, that the new state should be recognized. a
[ is claimed that in population and terrific q
ial expansion western Texas Is amply en-
lowed at this time, and the legislature at its
lext session Will be called upon to Indorse I
he desire of the people of that section for
eparate political acknowledgements {
nto the union.