The Hickman courier., 1878-07-12
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.


Pensacola is shipping lumber to Chi
cago.
The bonded debt of New Orleans Is
SIS, 1857, ,1SO.
Louisiana viii pay the July interest
on her consolidated bonds
The Dallas Commercial is informed
that Texas immigration is falling of.
The whipping-post Is one of the Issues
in the Dallas county. Texas, elections
The rewards offered for Sam Bass, the
Texas trsiu robber, dead or alive, amount
to 1000.
Eddie Lawhorn, of Mckinney. Texas,
aged ten years, has been arrested for
stealing and endeavoring to sell horse.
The liquor dealers of New Orleans will
fight the Mofett-register all the way to
the Supreme Court.
Gov. Hampton, of South Carolina,
boldly announces that he is in favor OF
paying every dollar of the state debt.
There are more than $500, 900 acres of
cotton lands in Texas, which, if cultivat-
ed, would yield larger crop than that
produced in the whole United States at
the present time. Texas now raises one
fifth of the whole crop, and more than
any other State in the Union.
The Supreme court of Louisiana the
other day opened with the same formal
ity prescribed by fthe chief justice last
year and then used for the frst time.
Atthe usual hour the sheriff and clerks
attended the judges at their lodgings,
and all walked thence in procession to the
courthouse. The lawyers rose as the
Judges entered, and each bowed to each
other.
Bolton (Texss) Journal: The court of
appeals having affirmed the verdict and
sentence of John Wesley Hardin, he will
go to the state penitentiary for twenty
five years. Judge White, who rendered
the final decision, expressed a degree of
surprise that he had not been sentenced
to death in the district court. He said
that justice had not been meted out to
him; if it had he would have been hung.
Hardin is yet q young man, and may
possibly get chance to make his escape
and resume his career. His term of inn
prisonment will end in 1908, and he will
then be fifty-seven years old.
A negro, who has just returned from
Liberis, tells the Aberdeen (Miss.)
Examiner his impression of the country. |
He says: The climate is very unhealthy,
especially for Americans. Fevers are |
very frequent and fatal. If you get |
sick, the native doctors give you brush |
tea, which kills eight out OF every ten
Americans. The country is full of in
sects, the most troublesome being a bug
resembling large ant, and travels very
rapidly, called the racer. They go into
houses at night after q rain and give
person no rest, their bite being both
poisonous and painful.
Houston, Texas. special to the st
Louis Globe-Democrat: Sam Bass is
again back in his old haunts in Denton
county. Three of his brother robbers,
Underwood, Collins and Carter, are re-
ported to have left their leader in dis
gust, principally, it is thought, because
Sans money has given out. Jessie Peak,
Captain of the Rangers, has arrived
back in Dallas and says in the recent
fight with the Bass gang, in Wise county,
the robber johnson was the only one that
showed anything like courage. In the
fght both sides were mounted, and when
the firing was at its height one of Peaks I
men dismounted and laid down fiat on
his back on the ground, then raising his
knees he made of them rest for his rife {
n the English style. Taking deliberate {
aim at the bandit johnson, who was
seated on his horse, the rs1ger fred and ,
proved himself a cr@ck shot, johnson
altering a faint -Aclamation, and throw I
ing ND his lands, from which his gun a
ell tpaoled out of the saddle and {
his length in the shadows of {
ne hill. The balance of the robbers I
scaped. =