The Hickman courier., 1877-12-07
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Aoufhefn News.

Tramps in Hanover county, Va, are
laid across barrels and fogged. .
The whole amount of stock, $3.50, 900,
has been subscribed for ,anotheIs cotton
mill in Augusta, Ga.
A meteor 80 brilliant as to be seen in
broad daylight went streaming over
North Carolina Tuesday.
Sumpter county, Florida, will prob
ably ship one and half million oranges
the present year.
The people of North Louisiana got
five days contemplating last week the
best show they have had for month.
The sea-island cotton crop for 1867
is Ii ,623 bales, Florida producing PA.
an increase over the previous years crop
of that state of :, 2,264. bales.
The Charlotte y. O. Observer steps
up with son ten years old that has
raised one hundred and forty-nine pigs
1850 pounds of pork-S2, ,235.
The mayor of Fernandina announces
that that town is now entirely free from
yellow fever, but absentees are advised
not to return until after frost.
The Chicago colonization and agricul-
tural industry company has purchased
100000 acres of land in Cullman county.
Ala upon which to locate a colony.
Fifty or sixty converts to Mormonism
from Sand mountain, Ala, and adjacent
parts of Georgia took the train at Scots
boro, Monday, two of them for Utah and
the remainder going as colony to New
Mexico.
Knoxville Tribune; We are of opin-
ION from the most reliable information
we have been able to gather that the
acreage IN wheat the coming season will
largely exceed any crop ever raised in
east Tennessee
Little Rock Gazette: Two colored
men, who state that they represent 8 600
eoiored people in the state of Ohio, were
IN :he city Yesterday, visiting the rail
road land offices with view TO purchas-
ing for colony.
The report of the second auditor puts
Nlrginia's total debt at $41, ,220. .752 rs. I
1hts statement includes only the debt
assumed by Virginia, and, of course, does
not cove. that assigned TO West Virginia,
now, including interest, upwards OF S20,-
she shooting tournament at Nashville /.
closed last week. The most successful (
prize winners during the week were Abe (
kieinman and +. I. Martin, of Chicago;
Merriman, of Memphis; and Pritchett, /
OF Nashville, who won the state cham /
pionship.
The city of Richmond, Va, has
doubled her population since the war.
4 he sales of her factories in 1876 reached
the sum of so, 2,424, 500 Her wheat and
corn mills produced 81, ,S57 900, her forty
one tobacco factories SO. OBS, 800, her
iron works s., ,032, 7S0, and the bonds of
the corporation of Richmond are par.
The old saying that " mare is a horse
but horse is not a mare" has been put
IN legal shape by decision in the Balti-
timore criminal court. Two Young men
"ele on an indictment for the larceny of
q mare valued at one hundred dollars.
but the evidence showed that the animal
was horse and not mare, and the de.
iendants were acquitted. They were,
however, convicted of stealing wagon. ,
/. North Carolina's legal learning is wrest-
ling with the problem whether a man
can hire out to his own wife. a One Shaft,
)f Ashevllle, was sent to Jail, and as the
law allows convict labor to be let to the {
public or to individuals, Shalt was hired
)ut to his own wife and moved his quar-
.ers to his old dOmicile. The Judge
decided that the proceeding was viola
-ioh OF the spirit OF the law, and ordered
shaft to be committed as an escaped {
;onvict, but the case has been appealed I
o the supreme court.
Holly Springs Reporter: Keep your |
mart sons on the farm, farmers Missis- I
ippi and the south have labor enough /
or to-day did it possess that intelligence a
nd industry successful farming de-
nands- We have too many Of the profes- il
lonsls, too many politicians, too many a
lerehaDts, too many of all vocations e
unless they were better except intelli- l.
ent and good farmers. To build up our a
taste places and make them boom again e
rains must control the labor and direct i
he plcw.