The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-09-22
SOUTHERN NEWS.


ARKANSAS has a nominal Indebtedness Q
$19,OOO,000.
A SPANISH yessel brought yellow fever 4
Saw nnah.
OUTDOOR religious meetings are beinI
held in Columbus, Ga.
THE first new crop of Carolina rice has al
ready reached New York.
THE cultivation of tobacco in Arkansas il
receiving attention.
THERE is some complaint of grasshopper'
| IN cast Tennessee.
TEXAS boasts of having nine railroads in
| process of construction.
THE employers have yielded TO The de
mands OF the striking New Orleans coopers.
NUMBERS of Georgia negroes who emf
grated west are on their way back TO the.r
old homes
ALI. the cities and towns around Savannah
are quarantined to prevent the spread OF
yellow fever.
YE drummer, book agent, lightning-rod
peddler and insurance agent fndeth business
dull in the south.
BISHOP MARVIN, of the Methodist church
south, is about 70 sail for China and Japan to
zlook after the missionary work
- -ses'sas. eeiofee;. under sesttss.ce-
ot aeath, escaped from the Newman 1rSa +
jail on Wednesday last.
n.
nessee has been reelected vice-president Of
the Texas Pacific railroad.
A BOILER exploded at Marietta. Ga. Tees.
DAY, killing two negroes and wounding an
other so that he died
IT is estimated that at least II 900 people
nave left Savannah since the breaking ont of
the panic.
GEN. PENNYPACKER has been ordered To
the department Of the gulf, and will make
headquarters at Mt Vernon, near Mobile
INDICATIONS ofsilver have been discovered
fifty feet under ground by company opera.
ting near Marysyille, Tenn.
WILD horse bearing the dead BODY of a |
man securely strapped to his back, dashed |
into Waco, Texas, few days ago.
THEY are changing things in the soutb |
A hrm IN Tennessee, few days ago shipped |
a thousand bags OF corn TO Illinois.
IT is generally believed that southern girls
at me various watering places this season |
dress very plainly, and are not demonstra.
tive in any way.
Mrs. CLEMENTS, OF Atlanta, reproved her
hlred girl for washing potatoes in the wash
tob, and the hired girl reproved Mrs. Glenn
ents by setting fire to the house.
FLORIDA man made $4,000 this wear bv
getting three hundred bushels of cucumbers
INTO the New York market before the season
at which they are generally offered.
THE Hon. Alexander II. Stephens has so
Tar recovered his health that he is ablO to an
pear IN public, and is announced to make
some speeches for Tilden and Hendricks.
AN old citizen who has resided IN South
amerIca, says that the young ladies of New
Irenada, have beautiful compilations from
eating alligator steaks.
WHENEVER anything of sufficient weight
alls IN the south il is sure TO kill a colonel
'ra general. bucket dropped in Macon,
IA, well, without malice pretense. and
lilled general Hangabook.
VIM. GOUGHER. living in Gibson county.
.ennesse, drank sixteen glasses of cider at
ne sitting, and then the friends who fol-
owed Williams remains TO their last resting
lace siehed-er deep sigh.
A NEGRO was found dead in well in Bibb
ounty, Ga, few days ago, and the editor
I the local paper advances the plausible
heory that he either fell in or was thrown
A SOUTH CAROLINA murderer, at his exe-
uuon the other day, confessed that he
lllec his victim for money, but found on |
i'm only fifteen cents, which he divided
18th a confederate.
THREE HUNDRED COOL cooks and five
70 siJ ~ 4 H22ialisb Serveate
loyment was guaranteed them r
REV. Mr. ENGLAND, his step-son and
aughter were murdered in their house on
benton creek, Montague county, Texas, on
aturdav last Mrs England was also shot
nd mortally wounded.