The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-10-12
> AcJRRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Soufhern items, /,

Religious reyiyals are IN progress al
over North Carolina.
Merriwether county, Ga, has ffty-tw'
registered brandy stills in operation.
Augusta, Ca, received l .15S bales o
cotton the past week.
Eighty thousand cattle are TO be ship
ped in one lot from Taylor, Texas,
- The Galveston Jail contains nine mer
s charged with murder
- s The farmers of Georgia will realiz;
nearly two millions of dollars from theil
peach crop this year, sold in a dried state
Savannah has contributed in two day,
= over 81 200 in cash to fever-stricken Fer
nandina-
The complete tax returns show an in
crease in the valuation OF property IL
Georgia of S12l, isl.
3 Dallas, Texas, now has in operation {
huge steam sausage mandatory. That,
the best dog-lsw yet.
Andrew Nickels dropped a pistol on the
railroad track at Abingdon, Va, and wa,
shot through the heart.
Gen. Forrest and his son.in-law have
eight hundred acres OF cotton and four
hundred acres OF corn just below Mem
phis.
Yellow fever is prevailing in Havana,
and all vessels from that port to New
Orleans are rigidly quarantained by the
latter city.
General Hill has entered upon the dis
charge of his duties as president of the
Arkansas industrial university under the
most Sattering auspices.
isaac Tinney, jr, aged fifteen, died
recently near Laurensville, :. c., from
hydrophobia, the result of dogs bite
---ixlf fiatad sixty days since. sss
a fourteen-acre field near George.
town, ). c., has produced nine hundred
and ninety-fotlr bushels of rice. being an
average OF seventy-One bushels to the
. acre.
A young lady of Valdosta, Ga, went
horseback riding with a pistol in her
pocket and accidentally shot herself.
1he wound is not dangerous
Ine New Orleans Picayune says the
storm Sunday lasted thirty-six hours in
Point Coupee parish, and destroyed one
half or two-thirds OF the cotton.
Avalanche Specie resumption is prac-
tically accomplished in Memphis. The
Memphis banks declined yesterday TO pav
g premium for gold in small pieces sent
from the interior to the city. Green.
a..
offered and accepted.
The Dahlonega (Ga.j Signal is enthu.
slsstlc over the gold region round about
that place and saws: We believe our
gold fields are as rich rs those of Cali
fornis. The more our veins are worked
and developed the richer they become
the greater the yield of gold.
The New Orleans Democrat reports
iolfa a1rra - >
OF the cane: As in asvast majority o
cases, the notably heavy Yields of smear
are made IN our state from cane that has
fallen over or been blown down in Sep
tember or October, it seems reasonable "a
suppose that the yield OF the cane below
tne city, or anywhere in the sugar dis
trIct, viii not be decreased this year b.
the storm.
General Forrest writes from Bailey
Springs, September -, to a friend in
Atlanta / have been lying - ON nv
back fora month, unable to getup with
out help. ] ieel now that / am lust
passing out of q most terrible case of
sickness, which has lasted me about
twelve months. Ny disease has been
Inflammation of the stomach and bowels
l am too weak TO walk about without
help-only weighing one hundred and
twenty pounds. Ny symptoms now are !
all gone, and the doctor thinks / will soon /
recover.
Nicksburg Herald: A correspondent /
5ntorms Us that duel took place south 1
OF the line between Louisiana and AfisSis-
sipPi, on the New Orleans, st. Louis and
chicago railroad, between Dr. Albert
Lower, OF Hot Springs, Ark, and I'd. B.
Mcclellan, Of New Orleans. Mcclellan
Efrr. rafr &
Abe affair arose from some trihing dis
pute, and both gentlemen were strangers.
not having met more than halt an hour
before the challange was passed After
the fight both parties went north on the
first train.
The Eagle and Phoenix mills at Colum-
bus, Ga, have paid tour dividends aggre-
eating eight per cent. this year. The
capital stock OF these mills is 81 .250. .00O.
ard the third mil Just b Ing completed
At cost of 5000, 000, Is included in prop
erty, without increase Of stocA These
mills have the advantage of y water
power sufficient to run twenty mills. and
particularly the last built one) have the
best machinery obtainable in Europe or
America. The manufacture OF all kinds
OF plaids, jeans, tickings, blankets, ropes.
etc, bat no prints. There are no print
mills in the south.
4 Florida correspondent of the Savan-
nah News says of tie Seminole Indians.
\ square drink of tire-Water Is the indis-
Pen7a6ie preliminary OF every barter.
SMOKED deerskins constitute the principal
articles brought into the settlements.
They sell these one at a time, never +
deylatiiig from this practice by dis ,
Iesing of them bv the dozen or bundle.
no 49, L.
arTayed in iringed leggils. A
yaudy shawl, Of gIaring colors, is wrap
ped, turban-like, around their heads.
They use small ponies, and when accom-.
panied by their squaws the women are I
always pedestrians. Breech- -l0aders are
rs yet unknown and the old-fashioned.
long stocked rifles constitute their {
weapons.
The Atlanta, Ga, Constitution prints {
an interesting interview with a member z
oi the Swiss colony which settled in
cumberland Mountain, Tenn, in 1873. :
ihis colony, which consists of one hun I
dred and fifteen families, making a com r
Pany or about seven hundred persons,
purchased Jo, o,OO0 acres of mountain land
NJ ore dollar per acre, and nov, although
only lew years have elapsed, each head of
q family owns q comfortable home. sur
rounded by an orchard, garden, and dec
orated with a profusion OF mountain
flowers; there Is large store that is
for the colony, members of
which get goods from it at wholesale
cost, the colony has its own school,
charch. doctors, etc, and the mem bers
their own candidates to govern the dis
iricts IN which they live. The colonists +
already have dairies and cheese factories
in successful operation, and all their pro- {
ducts find ready sale and command fancy ]
prices. They have splendid herds OF
cattle,and their barns are built carefully :
as their houses. There is a colony of l
Swiss near Greenville, s. c., about as '
large as the Tennessee colony, and it is {
Prospeling finely.
General Notes.
lie Nerrier, the astronomer, who died {
in PARIS yesterday, was the original dis
pverer OF the planet Neptune.
William B, Astor has just launched a /