The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-08-30
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

Forth Worth, Texas, is to have water
works.
Wilmington, n. c., has ordered
south
Richmond county, Georgia, has an
other new and valuable gold mine just dis
| covered.
South Carolina has a large gang of
her convicts at work mining phOsphstes in
the Edisto river.
The question of dividing Texas into
| two states is being agitated pro and cen, by
the press of that state.
The Georgia railroad has Just con-
traeted for 1 200 tons of new steel rails, and
will add more in the uear future.
The sponging feet from Key West
netted over 800 900 for their gathering on
their first trip of the season.
The Times expresses the opinion that
the bagging manufactured in Charleston is
equal to any of the northern make.
Two of the leading Key West cigar
manufactures have commenced operations
again, employing some six hundred hands.
A negro girl, Rena Willis, being over
heated when baptized in Wilkes county, Ga,
died N few minutes after coming out Of
the water.
The Macon (Ga.) state fair has offered
$1,000 in premiums. There will be a mill
tary encsmpment, and prizes to the amount
of s., 500 have been made up for the races.
AT mill near Macon, four men called
last Wednesday, and suddenly OverpOwered
the miller, w. w. English, roped his neck,
rified his pockets, and carried off four two
bushel sacks of meal.
The Clarksville Tobacco Leaf learns
that the Government will soon have 800 or
400 hands at work on the shoals in Cumber-
land river, near Ashland City, and also on
the Dover shoals.
A colony of forty families is now be-
ing organized near Portland, Me-, and will
locate at Tampa, Fla, about Oct l. Among
the number are carpenters, blacksmiths,
farmers, professional men, etc.
Atlanta has recently added to her in
d trial enterprises an automatic evaporation
or new tangled peachsdrying machine II
already gives employment to some fifty per
sons, and gets away with 200 bushels of
peaches per day.
The Alabama industrial association,
an organic itiOn which has for its object the
discussion of questions affecting the material
interests OF the state, will meet at Birming-
ham, September 3. Every southern state
should have similar organ ;zitioD.
While Joseph Besons, at Springfield,
ILL.,. WIS ctOssiHS u uIOFS OF DlOOuSu Cdbbic
over the Trinity, near Dallas, Tex, a fine
Durham heifer was seized by two alliFstors,
dragged beneath the water and drowned.
In the stampede which followed a valuable
bull was gored to death.
San Antonio had terrible tragedy in
a variety theatre Monday night. John Lam
ham, a desperate you'll jealous of the atten-
tion shown George Drake, an actress, by
Milton SquileS, soldier of the Eighth cav
alr bnf his mis- nd hic Fival and then
tried to shoot himself, but missed, where
upon he mounted horse and fled.
Norfolk; Virginisn: The Rev. DR.
Palmer, the eminent Presbyterian divine of
New Orleans, has given a rare illustration OF
self~sacrifice. While away on his summer
vacation he learned that the yellow fever
had broken out, and he at once returned to
the city to give his personal efforts toward
mitigating the horrors of the scourge.
Columbus (Ga.) Times There arg
thirty~one dogs TO every hundred sheen in
the state, or nearly three TO one. AS these
dogs destroy 2S,625 sheep annually, worth
S73, $50, this is 9 per cent. of the value of ALI
the sheep in the 'te. Yet the annual prof.
its are 63 per cent Remove the cause of
the loss. and the profits will be - per cent.
on the capital invested. This amount wonId
in very few years be quadrupIed. when
the clear profits on the average amount as
invested in 1874, would be s., ,3726 6S7 per
annum.
A number of leading southern papers.
notably those of South Carolina, are nro,
nouucing positively against the code dueIio
and against murder committed according to
its eDactments. The Augusta Chronicle
speaking on this subject, says: People are |
actually demanding that duelsts shall he /
punished like ordinary criminals. Cavern. |
ors and solicitors and courts and iuries NAV |
suddenly unite in bringing some dueIist
mansslayer and his seconds to the scafoid |
and in having him done to death bv a vnlosr |
rope. When this is done all the chivaIrv
and romance of the code will exhaIa and I
murder will no longer be considered one ai,, of
the fine arts.
The oldest man in Georgia ia ss;d 20
be a freedman known as John Williams ,,ho
resides near Albany. A correspondentsotl - ut
the Macon telegraph writing of him seS,e.
He was engaged in hauling lumber and
other building material for the erection Of a
fort in Virginia during the war of the revo-
luton, at period two years prior 10 the
surrender of Lord Corvallis which s,,e-,t
occurred, as you will remember. on inc 10Th
OF october, l76l. As the father o. 6ve eb,I-
dren, ne reasonably claims that ne vss at
the surrender of CORVALLIS twentv.sa,,e,
yesTs old. Add this 10 the difference hs.
tween I78l and 1873, and it will show the
amazing longevity of one hundred and
twenty-four years.
Richmond Dispatch: 1t will ba re-
membered that some years since the ste,. II
New York offered s100, 900 for a canal steamer
mat could be navieated without washinz
the banks OF the Erie canal. Such orsff
exists in our midst, and has been IN ths IN.
ploy OF Messrs. Pitcher 4 Forloine ~ ssx.
era. weeks: The beat is named the PaIsyyeo.
ana is used IN bringing to the city coal tom
the pits some seventeen miles distant. Ga
the lst of August the Palermo left ~. '?ts
for Lynchburg, and made the return til -, n
one week. The boat does not wasb the