The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-09-21
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern Items.

Under the new constitution no man
can vote in Georgia VINO has not paif his
taxes.
Georgia will vote on the adoption of
the new constitution the first Monday in
December.
Twenty-Five prisoners escaped from the
La Grange (Tex.) Jail. One was recap
tured and one was killed.
More than thousand dogs have been
killed in Galveston during the recent
deg destroying campaign.
Shreveport during the year just ended
received 10l 1898 bales of cotton, against
1O4, ,O495 the year previous.
The Calvert Texan wants the 5000
convicts in the Texas penitentiary or
ganized into a military corps.
Eighteen mules and four horses per-
ished in a fire at Mcpherson barracks,
near Atlanta, Ga., on the ID.
Fernandina (Fla.) Express "a
number of our citizens, panic-stricken by
the false report that there was yellow
fever in our midst, fled the city on
Thurday by the train. F"
Selma Ala Times: Wehear reports
of the cotton worms, but its to late for
them to do any material damage. Cot
ton is reported to be opening more rapid
ly than ever before known.
The Shreveport Times says that in
Fayette county, Texas, the farmers who
used poison will make good crops. but
where it was not applied the worms have
played havoc with the cotton.
a committee appointed by a general
meeting of the miners near Knoxville
waited on the fifty guards of the convicts
at VOL k in one of the mines and advised
them TO quit and go home. The advice
Has not acted on.
The Texas International railroad
SeaAes land IN bodies of twenty-five sec
Mons or over for one and half cents per
acre each year, ard gives a term of ten
years. Large tracts are being taken in
this way for grazing purposes.
1t is estimated that there are $4,000
Bohemians in Texas. These people are
mostly settled in Fayette, Colorado, Le-
vacca. Austin, Washington, Burleson,
Bastrop and Brazos counties They
make excellent and thrifty citizens.
The health officer at Savannah. Geor-
gIa, received a dispatch from the health
officer at Fernandina, Florida, annouuc-
ing the existence of yellow fever in the
latter city, and that all vessels and rail
way trains leaving there are quarantined.
The Livingston. La, courthouse cleo
tion resulted in favor of the centre OF the
parish as the proper location for the
parish seat. There were three candidates.
Port Vincet, Springfield and the centre.
There seems to be considerable ill-feeling
in the matter.
Buck Gibson and Richard Burchett
were sufOcated in a we'll near Sneedville,
Tennessee, Monday. Two young men
who brought the bodies out were so af-
fected by the foul air that they are not
expected to live, as IS also Mrs Burchett,
who leaned over the well.
Controller Goldsmith publishes in the
Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution a long list of
wild lands in various counties that have
not been given in for taxes for the years
1875 and 1876. He gives notice that
these lands will be advertised for sale by
the sheritfs of the counties in which they
are located, and sold, unless the owners
previously pay the taxes.
Galveston Citizep: The annual re-
port of the Texas Pacific railway shows
that foul hundred and eighty miles of
track have been completed-one hundred
and ten during the past year. Receipts
were $2,3Sl, $40, and profits S318, ga.
The passenger revenue increased 25.S per
cent. One hundred thousand more tons
of freight were hauled than during the
previous year.