The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-09-07

laying commenced on the New Madrid and
Little River railroad at New Madrid
Circuit Court convened at Clinton
Monday, and will have session of sew
eral weeks.
Mr.. Hal c. Jamison, of this place,
is to take professorship in the Nashville
Commercial College.
The Nashville Railroad will brin=
any and every thing for exhibition at our
County Fair, for half price. Passengers
ct reduced rates, etc.
A citizen of this county, who favors
taxation to keep up the public roads,
says that taxation is the badge of civil
lization." There are others hereabouts
who want some of that badge torn off.
There are no aggravated political
question before our people now, and hence
we are left to the local hum-drum of
every -day life. Wait till some offices be-
come vacant, and the very ground will
swell with "momentous issues!
Thos MeMahau, of Hickman, grows
pears, averaging lbs each They are
the Duchess DeAngehue. Who can beat
them
y bobtail cat in Hickman always
has bobtaii kittens. This statement is
vouched for by tightly respectable citi-
zen.
Mr.. Reed, of Tennessee. live and
active mill man, has bought the Howell
saw mill and residence, and has assumed
charge.
Hon Ed Grassland by request OF
citizens, addressed the people of Hick-
man county, 1T Clinton, Monday, on ma
SNonal politics. His speech was well re-
ceived by the people, and abouuded in
facts OF Important interest. 1t would be
well if we had more of such speeches
throughout the country.
We notice more fue stock arriving
an the county. VIM. Ale1ander. Sr., a.
II. Scarce, aud Jno r. McGehee, our Invest
farmers, have been in upper Kentucky,
purchasing, and an instaIlment reached
Hickman, Thursday, on the Golden Rule.
They Will probably be on exhibition at
she Fair.
The cotton trade at Hickman, this
i.l and winter, can not be as large as
former seasons. It is not being raised.
Those who would be in trade must prepare
a. handle grain, grass and tobacco. Oar
farmers will never again take to cotton,
ezeept another war raises prices.
y negro man, named Felix Wylie,
was tried before Judge Montgomery,
Tue sdav. and sentenced to twelve months
in The county Jail and hard labor on pub
lie roads. This Is according to the law,
bat the people are growing tired Of such
law. This IittIe freak of Felix will cost
the people of Fulton county near $500,
when fesr stripes might answer better
purpose
Industry Is beginning to win plenty
again. True, there are burdens on the
country. but the greatest burden of all, is
the vast number of men around every
little station, village, town, or city, and
throughout the country, who day by day
lounge idly around. complaining that
there is mo trade There never viii be
II such men
The people are not always right. I
II we wanted an Office, we should per-
haps swear they we're. Bat, there are ia
every county, two-thirds of the popuia-
ton i,ft out by the people, almost every
one of whom, feels himself wronged, and
the people mistaken Now, then, if the
"would be's~ are placed on side, and
she people on the other, what chance has
man eff respectable intelligence?
The positive announcement that the
distinguished Kentucky orator and states
nan. the Hon J Proctor Knott, will speak
q. Of the Fair Grounds near Hickman, on
Wednesday the 26th day of this month,
will attract an immense crowd. Not
kentuekians alone, but Tennesseans and
Aissourians, feel common pride in his
fame, and will give him q rousing we'll
come
Some of the Hickman mer char Is
now East, write back encouragingly as
to the general low prices of goods. The
apprehension is that these gentlemen may
ge; carried away with the subject and
eTeibuy themselves as everything is sc
cheap. They should remember that pri
ees will eorrespondingiy drop elsewhere
If prices keep On tumbling, it would ap
pear that the day is fast approachin
when man can support family on moth
ing.
New MILLINERY SToRE-Mrs j
Entler is now opening and receiving
full stock of new aud fashionable millin
nv goods, at the Hubbard store, Clint
street, and would be pleased to 3
friends, patrons, and the public genera
w. Her stock is perhaps the most attra
tive ever brought to Hickman, and
fully up to the latest styles and fashion
The ladies can feast their eyes on sol
most beautiful goods if they will call, a
note the delightful changes and imprOy
ments The newest fashions are alwa
the most beautiful, but this is special
true of the opening fall and winter 81
SON Call early before stock is Gull
over Remember Hubbard block, Clint
street.
We have a correspondent signi
himself independent Democrat" VIII
real name we know not, bnt he is evide
~ man of thought and experience, {
can ask the plague-est takedest questi
of any man in ten counties. For instaI
he wants to know ''lf certain de
- cratic leader of this District has mad
consistent record since the war ~ We
swer, no; aud if he had exhibited s
contrariness, he ought to have been hu
The times have changed and forced
10 change with them.
A MAN LosT-A Mr. Geo.
Ter, a young man, who has been resi-,
in Madrid Bend, this county, for 81
time, and who has been subject to fit
good many years, wandered from
home, about the middle Of August,
nothing has been heard of him since.
mind had become effected and his fri