The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-10-19
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
southern News,

,z,sse in NAHDuIgy y. y.
Apples ,is are Per ssr bushel.
at Two .sssToE, of New York, sends 500
a., he Fernandira sufferers.
At the Sparta (Ga. calico hop, ba
OF turFentine soap was awarded to Mr.
A = Carmichael as the shabbiest man.
TIE sheriff of Bullock county, Ga.
ievled on thirtY;seven rattlesnakes the
other day.
The state agricultural and meehanica
college OF Texas opened the lst with 22l
students
From August Goth TO September 22i
there were forty-four deaths from yellow
Fever in Fernandina. SIX were eolored
children.
At st. Johns, Fla, 800 pound shark
was caught by tying hook to a rope and
the rope to 4 tight barrel.
NoTWITHSTANDI the severe frost Of
last winter, it Is said the orange crop of
Florida viii De larger than ever before.
Three judges of the superior court have
died IN Georgia this year-Clark, Pee
piles and Hill.
ret rattlesnakes in Jacksonville have
oeen known 10 appear in as many IS
three new suits within the same year
he'd river land that has been in cult
NaGon one hundred years, produces ears of
corn eight inches long and ten in circum.
erence.
THERE are 95S convicts in the North
Carolina penitentiary, of whom IS are
females All but 325 are working out.
The production of the Alabama and
S;orgia mills last week exceeded that OF auv
~ 1reE,S.Is week, being nearly 10000 yards
Horses are decidedly cheap at Austin,
Texas, at the present time. Good horses can
now be bought at from 500 to SIS, and 500
viii buy fine one.
General Loring, the commander of the
Egyptian army, is expected 10 meet with
his old regiment, the First Tennessee, at
Nashville, on the 10Th
COTToS buyers at Macon have struck
against the warehouse charge of twenty
i've cents for rolling out a bale of cotton
after it has been sold.
OWING TO the abundant fruit crop
and difficulty OF transportation there are
larger number of stills in operation IN
Georgia than ever before known.
The Texas jurymen who voted to
hang Bill Longley are very much afraid
that William will escape from prison
and commit twelve other murders.
GEN. TooMBs has agreed to address
the people at the Greensboro fair to be
held the last week in October "The
tribune of the people, IS in demand all
over the state.
Wilmington N. c. Star: The total
rainfall in this city during the month of
September amounted to 21.10 inches. 1t
rained eleven days during the month.
The Raleigh Observer claims to have
information that there are now in opera
ton eighty-one gold mines in North
Carolina, s9me Of which are pOerated on
very extensive sez3e.
V5cKsBURG (NIiss) Herald: There
are ;''9 e:9pvicts in this state, and the
niSoa,,+ 4silI eI 'aH1y come. What a mag
.hnCent Iorce tins -~0uId ha with which
TO build railways and fesvss vim "'''0ii
Up to the y tn ult. the totag,,s
deaths at Fernandina from yellow Iei ~. VI
have been tifty-One. Five deaths from
other diseases have been recorded since
the disease was declared epidemic
Memphis Appeal: General y. B. For
rest returned yesterday, and Is at the
residence of his brother, Colonel Jesse
Forrest. General Forrest, though weak.
Is much improved, and will rapidly recu-
perate.
savannah News: Among the victims
OF yellow fever at Fernandina we note
the names of Jacob Miller and Daniel B.
Pelot, both engineers on the Atlantic.
Gulf and West India transit companv,s |
railroad. They were worthy young men !
and leave many friends.
a NE6Po preacher in Houston county
GA, beat his little girl 10 death with a
horsewhiP because she could not find
key, and carried the body of in the /
woods and buried it. He was arrested /
in the pulpit, and will probably be hung,
as was another Georgia negro who beat !
MS child 10 death with barrel stave. /
A CIRCULAR addressed to the negroes |
of De Soto parish, La, closes thus
As the Egyptians took their journey |
rom Egypt to the land of Canaan, so we |
will take onr journey from America to /
the land of Liberia.
While Louisiana and southern Nissis-
sippi have lost from ten to fourteen DAYS I
in cotton picking from heavy rains, cen
trail Texas has been suffering for the want |
Ot rain and had a continuous cotton
picking season.
The disease at Port Royal has devel-
oped into genuine yellow fever, and Sa-
vannah has been called on for physicians,
nurses and such other aid as she can con-
veniently furnish. Augusta has estab-
lished rigid quarantine
Joel Collins, the leader Of the band of
kfghwaymen that robbed the Union Pa
citic train, and who was killed near Buff
falo station, Kansas, is the son of Albert
q. Collins, one OF the oldest and most
respectable farmers of Dallas county,
Texas
SAVANNAH News: Cbiuquepins are
now opening their bristles and chestnuts
sre getting ripe in North Georgia, and tits
A fact that some Of the counties in the
northeast portion of the state make
almost as much by the latter natural |
crop as they do by agriculture.
The venerable Judge Barnard tSiiI
died on the bench at Knoxville, Georgia.
the 18th, Of apoplexy. The Macon
Telegraph says of him: His death Is a
great loss tc the city, the county, the
circuit and The state, and will be mourn
cd far end near as public sorrow. He
was man who had won. by a long life
OF arduOus labor, one of the highest posi-
tlons III the judiciary OF the state. As
lawyer he stood very eminent.
Chattanooga Times We learned last
night from a friend, whose business re-
quires him to be frequently among the
farming communities, that there Is an
Unusual breadth of land sown in wheat
50 far this fall and that good deal of
the early sown is now mp and looking
finely.
Nashville American: While excava-
ting cellar at Hart & Hensley's pork |
packing establishment the workmen came
across densely crowded Indian grave |
yard, where whole skeletons were found,
the heads lying toward the east With |
them were found the usual earthen pot
terry. The workmen saved the skulls, !
and at last accounts were peddling them
ont for nickel apiece. Alas, poor
Yorickl
General.
The number of those who, like Mrs. /
Gen. Gilflory, go abroad, is yearly in |
creasing. This season, from New York |
alone, eighty-one thousand passengers
have sailed for Europe. Over one-foSrth |
of this number landed in England
PIGEON races are in vogue in York
state At a recent contest in which the |
birds flew from Homer, New York, to
Scranton. Pennsylvania, they averaged