The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-10-26
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
southern News.


A man near Gyein has written to
man in Mason to know if he can Sc
them carload of oposums.
The beating rains nave greatly iDjure
cotton in southwest Georgia. Seed ar
sprouting from that which has fallen o
the ground.
In the Bloodworth district of Irwi
county, Ca, twenty-four deaths have OF
Cured within a radius of four mile.
mostly from typhoid fever.
A Richmond criminal who hear
VIM. III. Evarts speak at Lynchburg say
he didn't utter sentence that was shorte
than ten years.
Colonel John A. Brown, city enginee
OF Mobile, died in Wilmington, n. G.
Monday. Pe was graduate of Yves
Point, ana gallant officer of the oot
the U. 5. and G. 5. armies.
me Florida game law is said to hav
worked admirably. Deer, partridge:
wild turkeys. etc, were never more nu
merous, and northern breech- leaders cal
find plenty of work during the approach
iag winter.
The trial of the noted Texas desperado
John Wesley Hardin, for the killing &
Webb at COmanche, resulted in his con
vlction and sentence to the penitentiar,
for twenty-five years. He has taken al
appeal.
Austin Gazette: The claim that tn,
umbrella china is of indigenous growth
IN Texas, and that it was grown here, W,
think Is absurd. 1t has been grown cas-
OF the river so far back the memory O
man runneth not to the contrary.
Virginia has borrowed 100000 from
John 3. Davis, Esq, president of the
Richmond Banking and Insurance com.
pany and Planters National bank. 1t
viii De paid out 20 che F,ssIzlie sSritOois,
hlnatlc asylums, etc, while the Current
receipts are left to meet current expenses.
Austin (Texas) Gazette: Governor
Hubbard is alive to the Importance of
providing university for the blacks, and
will see to it that the project is suitably
executed. 1t must be good news for the
colored people to learn that they are som
to be furnished with these high advanta-
ges for education. We trust it may prove
great blessing to them.
New Orleans Democrat: The theft of
lint and seed cotton in Caddo has never
been equaled. Buying this sort of cotton
is contrary to the laws and statutes of
the state, and yet the practice is alto
gether unexampled. On Saturday morn
ing last Mr.. Robert Valentine stopped
on his toll bridge, on bayou Pierre, FIVE
wagons loaded with corn and cotton seed
and lint cotton, stolen from plantations
below the city of Shreveport.
Dallas Herald James Crutchfeld,
colored, while digging a well for Mr.
Thomas, came across a crawfish twenty
four feet under ground, alive and in good
condition, and he has him now in his pos
session. He saws he has followed them
forty-five feet, and this is the first time
he has succeeded in cathcing one He fol
lows the crawfish holes in searching for
water.
An appeal is made for funds for the
support of the institute at Tuscaloosa,
Ala, organized by the Southern Presby-
terian church for the education of col
Ored ministers. The appeal says We
recognize our obligation to aid in the
evangelization of the colored people in
our bounds, and in the organization and
multiplication of scriptural churches
ameng them"
Some distance southA Elba, Alabama
near the Florida line, is a mound of a
peculiar construction that attracts the
attention of travellers. 1t is the vault of
Mr.. Harrison, an eccentric character who
owned large herds of cattle near the
Florida line. While living he protested
against interwent, and gave directions as
to the disposition of his body after death,
so that a feather bed should be LAID on
the ground at this spot, and after being
dressed with care and taste, his body
should be placed upon it, and a vault OF
brick built around and over him.
NatchitOches (La.) Vindicator: One
case of hydrOphobia occurred on Mr.. NJ
Gals place in Natchitoches parish, the
subject being a horse who was bitten
about three weeks ago by dog that was
not at the time rabid, but died with hy-
drOphobia a week after. The horse was
the most savage brute / ever saw, his
paroXysm of rage never ceasing, and so
violent were his efforts to bite that he
broke his teeth out and fractured the
jaw. Several horses were bitten. and
be killed. He lacerated his shoulders
and forelegs terribly previous TO being
killed.
Nashville American Superintendent
Geddis has furnished to the Bureau OF
agriculture, statisticSs and mines the
important fact that fTSm July / to Sep
tember 81, 1875, FIVE hundred and seven
teen thousand one hundred and three
bushels of wheat were exported from
Tennessee over the Louisville and Nash
vile and Great Southern road. General
freight agent George r. Knox also states
that for the fiscal year ending June 80,
1877, there were exported over the Nash
vile, Chattanooga and st. Louis railway
S03,7 ,766 bushels. Of hIsquantity, 603,-
Il6 bushels were shipped over the Chat.
tanOoga and 2S0, $50 bushels over the
Northwestern division. The t. tai ship
ments over the Paducah division of the
Paducah and Memphis road. as furnished
by general manager n. Monsarrat, for
July /, to September 80, 1877, amounted
to 1,76l 500 bushels; and over the Mem
phis division to S5,0S0 bushels.