The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-12
SOUTHERN NEVIS.

The cotton crop of South Carolina will
about sixteen percentum less than last
year.
Tramps are committing all sorts of
depredations on the railway trains in Ar
kansas.
A number of eolored people are emf
grating from Henry county, Tennessee, to
Illinois.
The machine-shops of the Mississippi
Central and Tennessee railway will be erected
at Jackson at an early day.
An organized band of colored cotton
hieves has been discovered at Charlotte,
North Carolina.
The sugar crop of St. Mary's parish,
Louisiana is the best since the war, and
prices have ranged better than ever.
The Florida-state fair, to be held in
February offers a premium of FIVE dollars for
the biggest alligator exhibited.
The exhibition hall and stables of the
Selma, Ala, fair association burned on the
18th. Loss about fifteen thousands dollars.
One hundred and fifty infant alligators
were killed by the cold in Palatka, Florida,
recently.
The Rock City paper mills, at Nash
Vile, were sold at chancery sale Tuesday, and
were bought by the bondholders for $4,000.
Hon F. J. Warren, of Washington,
\. c., a Judge of the supreme court, and sew
eral times presiding officer OF the senate, is
dead.
Two carloads of marble for building
purposes viii be shipped from Knoxville to
San Francisco, soon as it can be quarried
to Gil an order from that city.
The exhibition hall and stables on the
fair grounds at Selma, Alabama, were burned
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lars insured for half the amount. Incen-
diarism.
Mr. RosenbOrough, living near Sardis,
Mississippi, has been digging a most extra
ordinary well. At the depth of seyenty-five
feet large gum or walnut log was struck.
The next morning an Irishman and a negro
were sufocated in said well.
-ffeTotton crop of Louisiana is short
/ between thirty-fve and forty per cent, and
/ sixty-six per cent. of the product has already
I been marketed. The rapidity with which
the crop has been forwarded is unprece-
dented.
The Waterman employed by the First
I national bank of Dallas Texas, "set up
/ job" to rob the bank, the policeman on the
/ beat being also privy to the plot. They were
caught by detectives in the guise of fellow
/ conspiratOrs.
/ The superior court of Georgia has con-
/ fined the decision of an inferior court, Civ
/ ing the defendant one hundred dollars dam
/ ages gainst railroad that ran a train ~
station and refused to stop and take him on
upon being slgnaled to do so.
The vote of Texas is as follows The
democratic electors for the state at large re-
. ceived Iu5,olI votes; republican electors
state at large, A, 552 votes. Democratic ma
/ jOrity, 5e,065 Total vote, 9,159, against q
vote the last state election of 2o0,0Sl.
Bolixi (AIa.) Sea Coast Mirror: They
are shipping an everage twenty thousand
ouened oysters per day, besides several car
loads week. This oyster trade on our
coast is rapidly assuming vast proportions,
and in a few years viii afford employment
for thousands Of our people as well as profit
10 shippers.
DIR. T. G.. Jacobs, of Lawrenceville
Ga, blew his brains out in Atlanta Tuesday
night. He had just returned from Texas,
. where he had gone with requisition for
one Col. Jack Wallace, who had run of with
thirty-hve hundred dollars of his money, and
the failure of his mission is supposed T. have
caused him 10 take mis- own life.
Nashville Banner: B. 5. Corey and
. J. J. Stewart arrived in This city this morn
ing with thirty thousand young California
salmon, Matched al the government hatch
ing-house at Worthwhile Minnesota, and
/ which are 10 be deposited in the Alabama
/ river at Montgomery. This is but one of
state this winter.
The steamers White, Check and Hi
nois, of the well-known Cheek line, have
I been seized by the United States marshal to
satisfy claims of hbellsnts fled in the United
states district court For some time the
boats have been running under the man
agement OF Mr.. y. NJ Jones, who was acting
as trustee for the benefit OF the creditors Of
the line.-Hempbis Ledger.
Newport (Ark) News, d" On Tuesday
night last fifteen tramps, on the south-bound
through freight, broke into the ice-car
. opened beer-kegs, and helped themselves to
all the beer and other things on the train
( that they wanted. Al Walnut Ridge the con-
. ductor tried to put them of, but they drew
. their pistols on him, and virtually kept
charge of he train 10 Alicia, where they got
/ off"
Several English vessels have cleared
/ from Brunswick, Ga, direct for Liverpool,
and others are loading or are on their way
/ there The Macon telegraph saws: The
/ captains of these vessels are English sailors
/ of vast experience, who make no hesitation
/ in pronOuncing the Brunswick harbor the
most favorable one that they have navgated
/ on the American coast. Mr. Balfour, of the
/ firm OF Carey, Stride * Balfour, Liverpool,
/ is again in Macon, and will receive cOnsign-
ment of and make advances on cotton and
/ other produce consigned TO their English
/ correspondents. Messrs. Thos. Rogers & Co,
/ OF Brunswick, also represent the Liveruool
firm IL Is the intention of these gentlemen
az the opening Of the next cotton season, to
/ extend their operations by having cOntinu-
/ ods line OF vessels and steamship at least
once per month to Liverpool and the CONT
nent, and endeavor to bring direct trade TO