The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-09-15
yoI,rgERN NEWS.

AUSTIN is the only city IN texas D'''
aTao much rain," is the complaint oil All
tho southern cotton country
s-;aI Of Jerre Coleman, executed at
AbheviiI S. c., the other day, io1 d slle
of ancther negro IN 1873, cost so'oVo'
scroeIcRAFT, whom Miss ould na aigbt
is only twenty-five, WINE WINE s elle %
but tben he is worth SZOoVOO-
- Iv,,1I,ss. the negro ravisher OF
,,,. Isoni 1rs Anna Bridges, and who was snot
toun 81 - the Augusta, Ga, jan SUNDAY
y tiA taI =, hrother hung in the ssme lsll-
49, ~ t similar offense during the war.
D,-srxo. the late African revival IN Grimm,
O., tbree crown negroes went INTO 10 49,
and remained insensibie Tor 49,
during which time they hei'her cav
shouted nor prayed. 80
r.,-yaox fFla.1 Union Some two years
a dina contributed TO the list OF
Finr5,as curiositiesa calf with human head
:; .-eseryed in alcohol, and IS IN pos
citizen of that place. quite re-
csr,I,- another of the same family has oeeh
reg;sisred there. What next!
IvxcHBURG (Va) News: The Iunauc
asvlnm for the colored peopie IN TINS state Is
fnlI 'i,a tails have more or less colored lu-
49,; ;n,oaies-many are kept by their
fr;a,.aaat home Now we all know that pre-
- - thear emancipation there could
sious :" ~ fonnd n coIored lunatic and
~. s,rS II srss always the result OF some
disco IN nearly every case yielding readI-
~ to medical Treatment
GprrFIN fGal Press: Scarcely a week
passes that some crazy negro IS not brought
fc Griffin for confinement. twenty years
I 400 son,e idiots were found in this race, nut
I who evrr heard Of one going crazy? 1t has
/ now hecome q fearful epidemic, and the phf
/ lanth,o,,;c made TO feel for them, aud natur-
+ ally inouire the cause, that the remedy may
+ be 'fonRdand applied. II seems from the
sof those we have seen that their ma
MIA is their religion.
Mrs. CLEMENTS, of Atlanta, Georgia, re-
{ proved 4 colOred servant for some otense.
I The SirlIeft the room saturated the steps
/ Wild ke rosene, and set fire to the intiamma'
be substance. The flames had gained great
Roadway before Mrs. Clements was alarmed
! By the smell CT fire and as she attempted 10
open the door Of her chamber, the girl held
ii firmly: IL was some time before her mis-
tress was enabled TO force her way out, and
the Gre was extinguished with great diff
Guilty
AUGUSTA (Ga.l Chronicle: The corn crop
throughout the state is undoubtedly the bes
that has been grown since the war. Every
where farmers are rejoicing over an abun
dant yield, and the prospect is that city 10y
ers Of corn-dodgers and mush and milk viii
7 get meal at very moderate price. 1t i
stated on good authority that Flint rlvel
/ farmers in Crawford county are offering tC
sell corn this fall, from their cribs or fields
! at twenty-five cents per bushel.
THU oldest house in Staunton, Virginia
built in 174S, has just been taken down
The next house built there was long frame
tenement, for wears used as pOstOtfice wheI
George III. was king. When the United
states achieved a separate independence
the postmaster was Larry Tremper, who wa
appointed b. George Washington. The assist
ant postmaster was a colored man owned by
( Temper part of whose duty was 10 an
nounce the opening of the mail by the ring
ing OF large dinner bell.
CAPTAIN p. y. MURPHY, who commando,
the confederate gunboat Selma in her mem
orabc engagement with admiral Farragut, il
Mobile harbor, died in that city few day
ago. He had an attack OF appOplexy Will
bathing, and was drownsd before help coul'
reach him. Capt Muir ny was an officer o
the United States navy for many years, AM
was in command of the recciyng-ship Penn
sylvanIa at the breaking out of the war IL
was buried according to the rites held by tn
SpiTitualists, desire to that effect hayin
been frequently expressed by him before hi
death
The Richmond correspondent of the Pc
tersburg Post says TO the proposed tourna
meut Tor the benefit of the Lee monumental
Eunds II Is proposed ihat IN inns tourua
ment there shall be none of the riding a
the ring, but the test Of the success viii be il
unhorsing the knights. Each one enterin
the list is 10 wear heavy leather armOr. AM
they are 10 ride at each other a. did tn
knights of old, with the exception that stou
oak lances will be used. OF course Their
NAV be some bruises, but no one can be SER
ously hurt in the contest, and its novelty vii
attract people from all parts of the state.
FIVE Iife-saving stations have Just beer
completed on the coast of Florida. Says tn
Florida Union: The purpose to be accom-
plished by these stations is saving the live
Of ship-wrecked sailors and others, VIII
reach land in a destitute and starving eondi
ton, an | 10 this end keepers will be proyid
ed, and at all times stores of provisions
clothing and other necessaries win be KEEP
on hand for use in time OF need. Goats vii
also be furnished, although but little use cal
be made Of them in saving life, no boa
can live in the surf of the coast in storm
which sometimes happen there.
AS MISS NARY CARLY, aged -, was re
turning to her home in Nashville, Sunda
evening, she was knocked on the head wit
a rock thrown over the fence and ravishe'
by an unknown negro. She was discovers
several hours afterwards and taken to III
hospital. Her skull was crushed and
ghastly wound inflicted on her face. Tn
Banner says no crime enacted since the mys
teiious murder OF Mas. Hamlen, in tina
county several years ago, and the killing o
officer Robert T. Frazier, on the thirty-firs
day Of April, 1879 has created such an ez
element among the citizens of Nashyill
rs this one.