The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-10-20
SOUTHERN NEWS.

| SHREVEPORT mas raised Aer quarantine
against New Orleans.
THERE are three hundred and twenty
seven white seamstresses in Richmond, Va
A WRITER in the Savannah News SAYS fe.,
has killed as many persons as fever in that
city.
THE explosion of a eoal-oil lamp caused a
s25,000 fire in New Orleans Tuesday.
EIGHTY fat hogs, belonging to Captain
VIM. Jack, of Cooke county, Tenn, recently
died With cholera.
THE records show that in the yellow fever
epidemic of 1853 their died Z, $40 whites and
only forty-three negroes
THE coastwise trade of the southern
1 steamship lines is almost broken up by the
| yellow fever panic.
ROBERT HARGRovE, a ten-year convict at
/ Raleigh, n. c., made dash for liberty Fri
day and got ball through his head.
! GEN. MARTIN, warden of the Florida pen
! itentiary, expects to make $4,000 gallons Of
his famous scuppernong wine this fall
teen death in Charleston from s' eiloW e5vels
in 1856, 206. in 1858, $50.
COLUMBUS IGa) Enquirer: We were
| told yesterday by one who Cleaned 1t from
an intimate friend of the deceased Gen.Brsgg,
that his life was insured for $4,000.
CoRPUs CHRISTI (Tex.l Times; It is
thought that the years product of wool mar
keted Mt Corpus Christi will exceed 5,OO9OOo
pounds.
DE-. HENRY SMITH, of she L. S. Marine
hospital service of New Orleans, Temporarily
in New York, has been ordered to Savannah
to assist the sufferers there.
THE sale of house near the depot in Hot
Springs for $93, which cost $500, is truthful
[ illustration of the crippled condition OF the
people of that place.
JACKSON Miss Times: We exceedingly !
regret to learn that Mr.. A. J, SieniagO, the
accomplished editor of the Grenada Senti- |
nel has become insane, and was seut u the |
lunatic asylum on yesterday.
THE farmers of Pittsylvania, Va, are sns- |
tanning heavy losses in cattle and hogs blythe |
murrain and hog cholera In ssme instances |
farmers have lost all their stock of cattle |
and hogs.
4 SPECIAL dispatch says family OF ys |
tematic murderers have been discovered at |
Montague, Texas. Seven of them, veil /
armed, are besieged by an incensed oommu-
nifty, and viii be starved out.
WEATHEFoRD, the present terminus of
the Texas Pacific road is a thriving town
population 1000; twenty-five business
houses, two Of them drug stores, one SD
dlery, four saloons and two Touring mills.
TAxIDERMIsTs are now busy stufing |
white doves, which are in large demand
for room decorations, there being a su-
perstition among some classes that they !
bring peace to the apartments where they
are hung.
GRIFFIN (Ga. News: Seven hands picked
$500 pounds of cotton the plantation Of
Mr.. w. z. Alexander, in Henry county, one
day last week-an average of four hundred
pounds. One young man named Mays
picked nearly FIVE hundred pounds.
THE Texas and Pacific railroad company
have made a call of twenty per cent upon
its stockholders, the money TO be used in *
tending the road from Fort Worth, its pres
ent western terminus, to Weatherford, some
thirty miles distant.
In answer to the question whether sny
full-bloOded negroes had died of yellow
fever, the Savannah News says: The result
of our observations and inquiries upon the
above subject is 10 the effect that the pure
bloOded negro is not a subject for yellow |
fever. Those cOlored who have died here |
mixed blood
,r-..s .sss.ysrnrn~nt property a. sss,rI.-sseE
decree of the United States court the pur- |
chaser in 1850, Mr.. F. c. Adams, not having !
complied with the terms of the sale. The |
property was bought in by the governments |
u
dwelling lots purchased by citizens Of the |
place.
SAVANNAH suffers from yellow fever as if
it were the plague. y member of q relief |
association thus describes their work: " We |
are feeding 10 900 persons and nursing about |
1900. The supplies OF provisions and money |
sent us have enabled US TO meet immediate |
wants, but we shall need all the aid you can /
give us for the next month or so, until frost, /
to keep people from absolutely rotting III /
their houses or on the streets"
ATLANTA Constitution: The oldest in /
habitant never saw SO much September cot |
ton in the streets of Atlanta as ne has seen |
this year. We viii let a few plain unerring |
figures tell the story Of our trade Receipts /
in September, 1874. 2,045 bales; September, |
1876, S,636 bales; September, 1876; II, i22. |
Gain over previous year, 2,4S6 bales. Price !
October l, 1874, 1313c; October l, 1875, III
October l, 1876, 914c.
SHERMAN (Texas) Courier: The cotton
patches of Grayson at this time resembles in
appearance very much the cotton patches of
December. The grasshOppers have robbed
the stalks of their foliage. In many in
stances doubtless this will be an advantage,
as the stalks had grown so rank and the
foliage becomes so dense that under bOlls
would rot and never mature. Again, the
leaves being gone, the cotton will be free
from trash when ginned, and viii make
prettier sample.