The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-10-05
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS,
Southern Items.

Probate Judge Morrow, of Jefferson
county, Ala, has been lmpeached Tor
drunkenness.
A party of Texas rangers have captured
John Beard, desperate noted as Wesley
Hardin himself.
The chief of police of Memphis has
ordered all saloons to be closed after
twelve clock, and the arrest OF all tramps
found ON the streets after that hour.
Hot Springs doctors board the trains
before they arrive at the springs, and
drum for customers. Every person who
goes there is expected to be sick.
Gov Colquitt, in a recent speech at
Columbus, deeply deplored the loss of
independence and thrift by the farmers
since the war.
- A led Irish setter dog, that cost two
Hundred pounds in Ireland, has Just been
received by the Nashville kennel club,
To he prepared for the November field
trial.
The merchants of Pointe Coapee (La.)
have petitioned the police jury of that
parish to protect them against planters
who sell goods to their hands without
paying license.
Raleigh IN. c. News: We may look
the fruit expectation of the state viii
equal and even exceed that OF either
cotton or tobacco.
The Kemper county, Miss, grand jury
found six indictments for murder in the
Chisholm affair, involving about fifteen
persons, who will be arranged fer the
trial at the next term. in March.
The Mobile News learns from Cedar
Nlr.N Al
year is unusually large and the oyster
better than for years. The same is true
at Norfolk, Baltimore, and other notable
oyster markets.
A sword and pistol surrendered bv
Lieutenant Horace A. Crane, of the first
battalion of Georgia sharpshooters. to
Lieutenant II. Bockman, of an Ohio
company, in an engagement on the
Ogeechee during the latter part Of the
war, was recently returned to Lieutenant
Crane by the latter gentleman.
Out of the three thousand convicts OF
the state of Texas, only three hundred
and sixteen are inside of the penitentiary.
The balance are at work under contracts
made by the lessees. Nearly all the con-
victs of the state of Louisiana are at
work outside of the penitentiary under
contracts made by Capt. James, the
essee.
Mrs. E. Morgan, of Randolph county.
Ala, had some sorghum put in new
jugs, where 1t remained a considerable
time. When she went to empty the sy-
rup, imagine her astonishment to find 1t
rock candy. The candy was in Jumps
0e size of peas, but hard ana sweet like
Vie rock candy we buy. It had yellow
cast, but otherwise was clear aud good.
Wilmington, y. c.. was very much
excited the other'day by piratical craft
off that port. A revenue cutter went ont
to capture or be CAPTURED, and found
that it was the schooner Jonas Smith
owned and manned by negroes, with
cargo of ice out from Boston thirty-ire
days for Savannah. There was no onc
aboard who understood navigation, ana
there was not a single nautical instrument
on the vessel.
Natchez Democrat: ''On an acre Of pire
land at Alabama Furnace, Mr. JOSEF h
Smith raised 100 bushels Of Irish peta-
toes. Before the potatoes were dug h
planted corn between the rows, and tie
corn gives promise of at least fifty BUSH
els. The potatoes brought 81 per bushel
The corn, at fifty cents a bushel, will
bring S25; the crop from the acre realiz-
ing $125. This is equal to about three
bales of cotton"
4 female rattle-snake belonging to the
collection of Mr.. Greenleaf, OF Jackson
vile, Fla, recently gave birth to thirteen
baby rattlers. The young 'uns are about
ten or twelve inches long, and as sleek
and glossy as the original reptile who
tempted the mother of mankind Each
chap wears a horney button appended TO
his caudal extre nifty. The rattlesnake Is |
ssiviparous, and the eggs are Matched |
within the body. They coil upon and |
around their dam, who appears TO be in
PLACID condition of contentment, sur
drounde by her numerous progeny.
Mr.. Judah p. Benjamin was not born
in San Domingo, but in one OF the Brit |
ash West Indies, which crcumstanee en-
able0 him 10 obtain admissionICu the bar !
of England. His fee in the -Almaden |
quick silver case was only $2O, 900, in |
stead of $500 900, as stated He made !
large fortune, however, by his practice |
in the south bt for the va II 5 i'll |
yestments OF his professional revenues /
were improvident and unfortunate /
Sugar-planting swept off 100000, TIE |
huantepec a large amount, and a guano |
speculation the remainder of his hard |
earnings. Finally the downfall of the |
cOnfederacy drove him fugitive from
our country. In an open boat. rowed by |
a negro, he passed from Florida TO |
Nassau, where he landed with a single |
dollar in his pocket. The war had de.
stroyed every vestiee OF his property Fe |
has since attained a high position at |
the English bar. Many editorials in |
the London Times on American subjects |
are understood to be from his PEN