The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-09-28
Mosquito time about ended.


Kentucky "whO wouldn't go to Congress
WANTED-A thousand cash sub
scribers 60 the Hickman COURIER, by
January /. 1878.
Any one having lost sum of mon
ey, the past week, on Clinton street, can
get information at this office.
The fashionable hop of the week
will be given at Milisrs Garden, Friday
night.
Many persons are offering premium
20 rheumatism and consumption by foo
ishly putting off the grateful FIRE.
the BUSINESS REVIVAL We
have each day to chronicle anew the en-
couraging reports from tradesmen of all
classes.-[ Philadelphia Press.
I Tie new bridge across Bayou de
CHEN, just completed, is pronounced the
best and most substantial bridge ever
built in West Kentucky or Tennessee.
The Paducah Fair, We learn, sold the
privilege for Fortune Wheels for $500
The Fulton Fair declines to permit auy
character of gambling.
The South West Kentucky Medical
Association, is to-holJ its annual session
IN Hickman, in November. They will
probably be rendered a banquet, by the
city.
As this is most bountiful year of
hog and homiuy, we would suggest to our
young people to marry-they can live fat
and saucy for at least one year. Pitch in
boys, and get y"a gal Of your ewu.
Dan Rice's Circus failed to reach
Hickman Monday. lie was detained at
Mound City by the uen-completion of his
boat. Score 500 act saving to this com
mnnity.
The General Synod of that Branch
of the Presbyterian church known a.
"Seceders," has been in session at the
little town OF Troy. Tenn The assembly
embraced the whole United States.
Frank Leslie, the great publisher
has failed. Some cue has said that every
failure is a step to success Some conn
try papers trying to initiate the Hickman
COURIER can take encouragement.
Newspapers like for their sub>cri
beers to become candidates for office, for
the terror of printers ink generally
makes them pay up. We fear we have
some who never will be candidates!
great many have asked that Mr.
n bert Kuykendall, be publicly commend
.itkrough the COURIER, for the excellent
improvements made on the State road.
We award him the blue ribbon in the road
surveyors ring.
T&e town of Hickman was named
for Eldy-the wife of g. ". l.. Mari,
whose maiden name was Hickman, and
not for tue General of that name. This
accounts for the excellent morals and
elevated tastes of our peop'e.
Persons attending the Fair should
remember that the Hickman Ladies Aid
Society have room fitted up, at which
are offered numerous articles for sale
their own manufacture. The proceeds,
we learn, are to be appropriated to the
kOOFf tue cunning 'At~t'
Wake Stoner, confined in the Jail
for the killing of S;oner Davis, his
nephew, at Clinton, is in critical co9di-
ton, and without change for the better
may not live many days. His ailments
are caused by morphine eating.
TIE yield of corn in this county
IL ,r,.r,,r;I;no countrv will he inn
mense. Our magnificent soil has been
encouraged by good culture and splendid
seasons. Those who have not good crops
must hunt up some new excuses.
The Obion Presbytery of the Cum
berland Presbyterian Church, which com
prIses the counties of the Purchase, con
we've at Palma, Marshall county, October
18th. The West Tennessee Synod of the
same church meets at MayfeId. Oct 18th.
} The display of articles in the room
Of the Ladies Aid Society, such as sacks,
tidys, notices, pincushions, cOrnucopias,
etc, for sale for the benefit of the poor,
ere truly beautiful. Friends attending
the Fair should give them cali.
Sow all the wheat you eau this fall.
and put it in we'll. Fallow deep, SOW
good and sound wheat, and you will not
roget IT, But just pat it iu roughly, aud
use trifing, inferior wheat for seed, and
you will be sorry next year that you sow
ell any at all.
There are two lady candidates for
Librarian in this State, Mrs. Bush, the
present incumbent and Mrs. Gen. Roger
Hanson "Old father Grimes, OF Padu
pcah, is candidate against them Grimes
may be a good man, but hurra for Mrs
Gen. Hanson at venture.
Silent aud alone, weary and heavy
laden. we often see fellow-traveler
plodding along the journey of life. feeble,
desolate and unhappy, longing for the
quiet of some secluded spot wherein to
lie down and rest, or bask in the sunshine,
or revel in the luxuries of some pleasant
home. If you see such an one tell him to
subscribe for the Hickman COURIER, get
married, buy little farm and settle down
in Fulton county, and all will be we'll.
The Combs Springs, near Hickman,
l.