The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-09-28
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern Items: p
Savannah owes 81 600, 600.


.bama remedy for snake bite.
Three rattlesnakes were sold at auction
at Charlotte. They fetched $25.
Savannah has spent IS, 500 in sewer
az since the fearful epidemic last year
There are thir;y-four fruit distillerie:
in the sixth revenue division of Georgia
the Texas School per capita this year
viii be $3.50 for each pupil, against $3.50
last year.
The Dallas Commercial estimates the
wheat crop of Texas this year at Z. 500 ,000
bushels.
Alexandria, Va, proposes to scale heI
M micipal debt one-half, and THINKS she
ca pay the other hall.
Bill Langley, the celebrated Texal
murderer, has been found guilty and sen
teaced to be hanged.
Texas papers are urging the purchase
and preservation of the Almo property
at San AntOnis, by the state
Hezekiah Bowman, of Vicksburg, is
held without bail to answer for the muir
der of his brother, 29th ult
This is the season for rival southern
cities to accuse one another OF harboring
the horrible yellow jack.
Savannah and st. Mary's, as we'll as
Jacksonville Brunswick and Dariem.
have quarintined Fernandina.
Gov. hubbard and Hon. John III Rea-
gan are mentioned as probable candidates
tor the next governor of Texas.
The yellow fever having appeared at
Fernandina, Fla, all vessels and trains
from that city viii be quarantined.
The industrial convention of Alabama.
at Blount Springs, adjourned the 9th, af,
ter largely attended and very success
full meeting.
Gen. Longstreet is now a resident of
Georgia, and an applicant for the posi-
tion of United Jtates marshal of that
state
The Wing says there is not dollar in
the state treasury of Virginia, and the
banks are not disposed to advance any
funds.
Three Tatum brq theirs, newcomers,
rented twelve acres of ground il McLen-
non county, Texas, for 50 an acre and
sold 50 600 worth Of watermelons.
The djutant-generarr reports that there
are now organized in the state OF Texas
thirty-one militia companies, Major
Jones battalion, consisting Of five COM
panies, and Lieutenant Halls command
Rev. G. T. Wilburn. of Lancaster,
Texas, has left HI. wife and gone to
Europe with Miss Eta r lwland, a music
teacher under him. He informed his
wife of his new departure" " and quoted
scripture to Justification.
Texas exchange The long continued
drOuth in the northern frontier counties /.
is causing the buffalo to die in large I.
pnun hara For rrraot Of Fra-b
are driven TO drink the alkaline water so /
abundant there, and it kills them.
Lomox B. Smith, the old Richmond .
colored barber, is dead. He shaved .
Lafayette on his second visit 70 AAerica,
and was forever happy over the Sbmpli-
ment the general paid him for his lob.
He was followed to the grave by the best
people OF the city.
Oxford IN. O. Telegraph The
family OF James L. Oakley, of this county
consists of father and three sons. The
father and three of the sons are one-eyed:
one OF the sons has but one arm, another
but one sound hand, and the other is
badly wounded in his left leg.
a New Orleans boy shot piece ofhls
mothers seal p off the other day, and the
Picayune offers this ingenious excuse for
the deed The boy who shot his mother {
has two reasons for being considered
la the first place be aimed 5
the pistol at his sister, and in the second v
,lace he did not know it was loaded" T
The Rev. F. II. Ker oot, a native Of '
Virginia, but now in charge Of church .
n Midway, KY, has been unanimously :
chosen pastor of the Eutaw Place Bsptist 7
,hurcn, to succeed the eminent and =
ETrlI Z
who for 50 many years resided and la :
)ored in Baltimore-Pe Petersburg Hlder
The new liquor law of Virginia i'm =
,oses a tax OF . cents p,r drink on
llcoholic liquors and one-half cert on :
malt Moffett's register tells the number :
II drinks sold in bar room, and to get
id of the hated machine barkeepers
,rayed an injunction against its uSe as
n infringement of patent. After a'long {
rial the Injunction was refused. r
Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser: Yes t
erday the last, with the exception of
ixteen in number, of tho federal soldiers {
vhO, since 1865, have. in large numbers +
een quartered in our state, started on r
he south and north road for the city OF
Pa. They were part of the
bird regiment Of infantry, and are on :
heir way to join their comrades, who are !
low at that place. The sixteeL who re-
main constitute all of the federal troops
n our state. $
OF the whiskey bell-punch in the Vir =
,inia saloons, adopted according 10 law 4
# the last legislature, the Richmond Il
Nhig says Z" We predict with entire
confidence that in less than three months
Ifter the bell-punch has been brought =
nto general use there will be half u
lozen INTELLIGENT liquor dealers in the Il
tate who will be in favor of abolishng d
t. And as for the taxpayers generally n
hey will cherish it as blessing" 81
The wife of farmer, residing near
recently, hearing one of her +
title children cry out, while bringing :
vater from the spring hard by, ran to its : :
Issistance. But imagine her terror at =
hiding huge rattlesnake twined around !,
he legs of the child and with sounding L
attles vainly endeavoriug to bite it. A
apid inspection showed that the Z
Jaws were distended TO the +
Utmost by the'protrudipg legs of half ;
,erged rabbit. OF course it was quickly Y
lain and the child rescued from her t
osrilious condition.-Dfdeon (Ga.) Tele-
Iraph.
A Tarboro. n. c., negro. under trial =
or larceny, made the following argument >
n his own defense: " Mister Jedge, | o
.lsre fore God I never stole nothin' in
NJ life, 'cepten pig tail at hog-killin'
ime from my ole missus, when / was a
,oy, and Mister Jedge, l shall never for (
ret my punishment. She sowed that
zig tail to my breeches behind, AN when
company would come she would make I
ne come out and shake myself so dat c
all would switch, and Mister Jedge, | g
cit so mean an got so tired OF that pig a
all dat never stole nothin' sense. OATS 4
fact" Three years in states prison.
L. S. senator Spencer, of Alabama, t
vas privately married in New York q
:ity Wednesday, to Miss May Nunez, Z
he well known actress. Spencer, not 5
icing Catholic, had to get special dis '
from the Vicar general for the e
ceremony. The marriage was secret, only
very few of the friends of the parties I
oeing present. Immediately after the
marriage they left in a special car for
Deadwood city, in the Black Hills.
spencer is a portly, ruddy-faced blonde, q
md forty-two. The bride is a dashing :
brunette, and twenty-five. Her father
vas a major in the confederate army,
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