The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-06-16
LATEST NEWS.


L. III. Russell, who murdered Charles
Faun in Yazoo City, Miss, has been sen
fenced to states prison for life.
The president has nominated G. w.
Griffin, of Kentucky, consul at Apia, Friend
Iy and Navigator islands.
Judge Beattie has been elected judge
of the fifteenth judicial district of Louisiana,
by the democrats.
The congressional committee to inves-
tieate crooked whisky affairs in New Or
leans, commenced its sitting in that city last
week.
Ice-making by the use of aqua ammo
MIA has been commenced at Nashville and
Chattanooga, Tenn. By the apparatus five
tons a day can be made.
Minneapolis is now the largest CITY in
Minnesota by five thousand inhabitants
"a recent census showing actual popula-
tion at thirty-eight thousand five hundred.
Efforts are being made in Michigan to
secure the repeal of the liquor tax law. lS /
friends say that a restrictive measure -
has a2Teaax proved. .sgRsgis = fhsS q: 81
Inhibition law
A valuable plumbago. mine has been
located in Ebert county, Ga A thorough
analysis of the ore from the mine by New
York experts discovers that it IS worth from
$50 to sl5op ton.
AIjo Gonzales, who has rancho west
of San Antonio, Texas, some distance, with
nine men, followed a snEty of thirty Mexican
thieS~- to within :. ry miles Of Eagle Pass,
ami a36 a fight with them last week, the.
fight fisting seven hour. Gonzales and foyt-
of us men we're killed, the other four escaI,-
ing, and five II the thieves bit the dist
Every sseslon of Texas has beenvisited
by fine rains sss.sbin the naet two weeks, and
crop prospects scIrNere good before, are
vastly impraStsss29s Bastrop county the Adj
vertiser est gates the rain as adding a half
million OF deilsrs to the finances Of citizens.
1t also says & from present prospects corn
viii opertev sAgut thirty to thirty-five cents
a bushel.Ss
At no e ne since the Laramie treaty
of go has the Indian attitude toward the
frontier seemed more thgeatening, or the
Sioux spirit and action mort isastrous and
to every interest Of these great
central northwestern territories than at the
present hour. 1t appears we can never have
a grand peace council withoutits everlas
an Indian ware Ssyoming. bras
ka, and Dekota are now experiencing. only
in mere intensified degrees What has
marked their history since the massacre of
old Fert Phil Kearny. The, same elements
are moving the northen tribes that created |
The strifes of half dozen years ago. Raw
ages which, after the q big talk of last fall,
ixese conhped to the enterprising pioneers |
nd AID a xeAtnrous miners Of the Black /
Hills. have 3 tliffased Isa-e spring flood, /
hat has como EE.nigb sabnerging the hopes
md future of rSS te<ritories east of tie
FOUNTAINS. The 'T5-ess ean no longer claim
he special right to the satrages Of these In |
lians. There is not ranehero from the old /
3dSeInan trail to the Missouri, and from the
Yellowstone south to the railroad that is safe (
rom Sioux attack and annihilation. The I
Inxiety is now at feTet he2t. As far down
IS The Chugwater, delightful valley mid
lay between thIs post ana -Cf1eyerruc;- The
anchmen are preparing to give the Indians
reception.