The Hickman courier., 1877-11-23
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
south.

The Virginia State ia received and
expended about $4,000.
On last Thursday Savannah received
e,074 bales of cotton.
There were shipped from Tampa the
last week in October 1900 oranges.
The Liberian movement is creating
great excitment among the negroes about
Shreveport.
Texas now has over thousand con-
victs, and the fall courts are trying to
double the noble band.
A strong movement has been inaugu-
rated IN North and South Carolina in
favor of the whipping post.
An admission fee of twenty-five cents
to see the Lee monument models is swell
ing the funds of the society.
A fire broke out Friday at the Texas
cotton press, in Galveston, where there
were stored 1000 bales of cotton. About
GOO bales were more or less injured; loss
$40, 600.
The legislature of Tennessee passed a
bill relieving butchers and huxters from
the payment of licenses, but the supreme
court at Knoxville has declared the act
unconstitutional.
A sixteen-year-old girl shot and killed
Samuel G.. Henry in Columbia, S. c., for
attempting to violate her person. Henry
was twenty-five old years and married.
The girl was held in 81 900 to answer.
A Chicago physician and six consump-
tive patients have gone TO Mt. Airy, Ga,
as a health resort.
Vicksburg Herald Common laberers
are now earning in this state and Louis
Inana from $59 to $75 per month, yet we
are constantly hearing of starvation
and strikes IL the north. La5orers come
south.
Charleston and Savannah both use
pennies. The working people like them,
and even the small dealers find that they
do not diminish the amount of their
sales The cent has just been introduced
in st. Louis. We hope it is moving this
way.-Atiantd Constitution.
A North Carolina court agreed to let
tlfteen-year-old boy off from the peniten-
tiary 1t his father would give him a good
lashing. When the old man got through
the boy was sorry he did not take the
striped breeches instead of the striped
back
Nashville American: There will be
meeting OF merchants at the exchange
Il
pany for the purpose of carrying on
direct trade with the Spanish main.
eventually extending business to the
large South American cities
Raleigh News: Gov. Vance, in his
Weldon address, alluded to 4 number of
agricultural fairs that were held annu-
ally in the state in times past, and that
are now detunct, and gave his opinion
very decidedly as to what killed them,
namely '' horse racing, three card monte
and prize candy y
Vicksburg Herald: We will venture
to assert that the cotton crop has been
injured by continuous bad weather, since
the first OF September, at least thirty
per cent. If we DO not nave favorable
weather during this aud next month it
will be injured much more. We learn
that the seed is already sprouting in the
bOlls from excessive moisture.
Columbus (Ga,) Enquirer: Thirty
years ago Mr.. King, the cattle million
alre of Texas, was pilot on one of our
river steamers. Many men on the Chat
tahoOche river remember him well Az
the beginning of the Mexican war hd'
hoated with the tide to the Rio Grande.
poor ! any Of the rest. He now owns a
farm on that stream consisting of160, 900
acres, all fenced, and %, geo horses, 30
600 cows, $4,000 sheep and 10000 mules.
Charlottesville (Va) Chronicle: A
farmer living near Charlottesville in
forms US of the curious operations of
those industrious little insects, the ants,
in one of his fields. A few weeks ago he
sowed timothy seed on the field with his
wheat. The wheat has come up nicely,
but examination shows that the grass !
seed has been carefully gathered by the |
ants and deposited in piles at the front /
entrances to their subterranean abodes, |
with view to plentiful supply of food I
during the winter. All over the field |
are these little mounds of timothy seed, /
and great deal of it has been carried |
across the public road and deposited in
an adjoining field.