The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-09-29
SOUTHERN NEWS.


Toni ScoTT and party are in Tex look
ing after their railroad interest.
JUDGE CoLPUITT, of Georgia, has an or
ehard from which he expects to gather 5000
bushels of apples this season.
a RoBBER undertook to capture a Sher-
man (Iexas) stage the other day, but the
stage turned out and captured him.
"BoDY-sNATCHERs" have been after Hal
larry Page, the Virginia fire-fiend, and the
indications are that they got him.
FLORIDA has heard of the chills, and is
making sirup of her watermelons. Twelve
gallons OF water make one of strip.
NOTWITHSTANDING the usual flying ru-
mors, Savannah is, so far, the only southern
city that has had a case of yellow fever.
THE United States sued ex-marshsl Brit
ton, at Fort Smith, Ark, for S49, 000 and the
jury brought in a verdict of $4,000 in favor
of Britton.
p Hon. EPHRAIM G. PEYTON, ex-chief JUS
tice OF the supreme court of Mississippi, died
at Jackson last week, aged seventy-four. lie
was born in Shelby county, Kentucky.
WESLEY GREENLEA, convicted of the
murder of a colored man and brother, Is sen
fenced to be hanged at Meridian, Miss, the
9th of October.
DRUMMERS without license are arrested
in Alabama and held in the sum of $500 to
answer. At least, that's the way they did
one at Scale the other day.
TUE Richmond Enquirer has suspended.
1t was one OF the oldest papers in the state.
Thomas Jefferson once declared il the best
paper in America. Pecuniary troubles
caused ITS collapse.
RICHMOND (Va.l Dispatch: 4 petition is
being circulated among the military compa-
MES in this city praying the governor to ap-
point Gen. Joseph L. Johnston adjutant gen
eral of the state.
GEN. MCCAws says yellow fever never
spreads in the pine woods, and eases aiken
there lose their contagiOusness. From this
he argues that resin is the best of all yellow
fever disinfectantS.
CAPT. DEARING claims to have taken
ninety bushels of medium-sized muilet and
five sharks in one haul, at Mayport, Fla, re-
Gently, and the Union says the statement Is
no doubt correct
! SINCE the cylone at Galveston IN Septem-
Der last the whole island is being covered
[ with the finest quality of Bermuda grass
/ As the sand hills on the beach form they
will become matted with the grass, and
/ thereby become permanent sea walls
! APPEAL: The business outlook for Mem
/ phIs was never better and merchants were
/ never so much encouraged as they are no"
under the impressions which reach then
/ from all quarters that the worst is over, and
/ the evil days have passed away forever.
! JOHN FNUTCH. the great coon-killer o
/ Madison county, Tennessee, now in his SIX
/ tv-ninth year SAYS, "from roasting-ear time t.
/ roasting-ear time" he has killed, with tht
/ aid of two dogs, two hundred and sixty-nin'
coons His neighbors pays the tax on hi
dogs.
FX-GOv. HENRY \. WISE died at his resi-
dence in Richmond, Virginia, on the 18th, a
/ twelve o'clock, after an illness of SOM
months, during which he suffered excruciat
/ inc pain retaining, however, to the last, In
powers of mind in all the clearness OF IN
ripest days IN public.
\ NUMBER of importers of Cuba sugar
/ who receive their cargoes ut New Orleans
/ claim that they are entitled To enter thei
/ sugar free of duty, and have paid the Gus
[ toms dues under protest, since the passag
/ by congress of the act to regulate imports
under the reciprocity treaty with the sand
/ wich Islands
ALEX. CoKEE, n Texas herder, was run
! ming cattle recently when his horse fell, an'
/ the long lariat that hangs at the saddle-bOv
! became entangled around the herder's LEG
1 The horse rose quickly and ran, dragging
/ Coker across the plains, but had proceedet
/ but little way when COker managed T.
/ draw his pistol and shoot the animal dead
/ SUNDAY morning Thomas Davis, an Irish
| man, and Mary Suard, who lived with him
| were found dead in swamp near Macon
! Ga, with their threats cut from ear to ear
/ The woman'acted as a spy upon thieves VIII
/ brought their plumber to the swamps, AM
/ they are supposed to have murdered tn
/ couple 'Swamp Molly" as the woman wa
called, followed the army TO Georgia from
! New York, where she is said TO have rcspec
table relatives