The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-05-10
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern News.

Jackscnviile. Fla, is taking vigorous
sanitary precautions.
q recent traveller in Normandy men,
Eions having frequently seen aged women
at work in the grain fields,
While out hunting near Knoxville
Tennessee, recently pack of hounds
attacked a flock of sheep and killed
twenty-three.
The supreme court of Alabama has
decided that doctor may be summoned
as a witness, and be made 10 give q
medical opinion without compensation.
Sixteen hundred dollars reward is of.
Tered in Georgia for the apprehension OF
DIR. Z. q. Palmer the assassin of Col.
salisbury, editor of the Columbus Sun.
The Nashville American holds that
Tennessee receives more new people by
immigration than it loses by immigra-
tion, aud that the state is the gamer in
n pecuuiary point of view.
Richmond Whig 1t is now alleged
that Charlotte Harris, the negro woman
who was recently hung by mob in
Rockingham ccunty, upon suspicion OF
having instig 4te1 toe burning of Mr.. H.
r. Sipe's ba-.', was innocent after all,
the boy, Jim AIbegast, who is said to
have st it on fire. having been Just tried
and acquitted.
Oxford On. CO. Torchlight: While
Rbtinson's show was being ferried over
the Roanoke river on \the 5th inst. the
sksss eli pii.aa.s hecamA sslensly mad,
and tcre up a garden feqce, scattering
rails in every direction. ANittle negroe
boy attempted to drive him into the
ferry boat, whereupon the elephant
caught him in his trunk and s&uee zed
him Dearly to death. He breatbed a
few seconds and then expired.
Interesting tax figures from the Mem,
phis Avalanche: 1t is worth while for
men ambitious for public honors to
remember that the present debt OF Ten
Dessee is $50 TO every man woman and
child in the state. To pay the debt OF
the city of Memphis it will be nece sssry
for every man. woman and child to con
tribute Sl20. To pay the federal debt
will take Sal more from every child,
woman and man in the union. The
totsl assessment is $16L
Savannah News: Three young Indian
braves, the only ones left at St. Angus
tine, Fla, when those lately confined in
she fort there were taken North, visited
jacksonville en- Thursday last. They
attracted a great deal of curiosity, at
which they were much annoyed. One
Of them noticing a gaping crowd OF
coIored men and brethren watching and
following them, turned around in con-
siderable disgust and said, Here,
niggeTs, don't follow Us"
Charleston Courier: Upon the course
Of the two hundred who sail in the Azor
TO day. upon the nature of their reception
in Liberia, and upon the character o.
their new home, its drawbacks and its
disadvantages, depend, in large measure
the future movement of the millions vine
watch and waitin the south. Its, there
fore, of supreme consequence that the
plain, unyarnished truth shall be knowR,
and that, dark or bright, the tale of the
African exodus shall be faithfully told.
Houston Tex Telegram: The woods
of North Texas are full of detectives.
scouts, rangers, ancient and modern war
riors, doughty heroes and militia beating
up the train robbers, VIM are doubtless
the most active among them. Denton !
county has been thoroughly explored,
bramble, bush, crsg and plain, and in.
efectually. A Pinkerton lieutenant,
with a squad Msjor Jones, of the |
Texas rangers, with many leaders oflecal |
note, are on theground, scouting, prying,
theOrizing and investigating every rumor |
and breath of evidence they can get hold |
of. They have made no arrests yet, for /
the reason they have obtained nothing
upon which TO warrant one.
The San Antonio Express says that W. I
Hurley, E.q., agent of the Merchants
Trading company, of Liverpool, has Just
arrived in that city for the purpose of
completing arrangements to ship Texas
cattle and sheep to England. Vessels
are to be built which will carry one
thousand head of cattle and the same
number of sheep, to be furnished with
corn mills, hay cutters and good water
supply. As cattle Just taken from grass I
will moi bear long shipment, the COM
pany viii establish feeding Ianche
somewhere in Western Texas, where /
they will be fed on corn and chopped /
feed until their flesh has gained sufficient |
solidity to bear shipment. The cattle |
will be sent by rail to Galveston, and |
thence by steamer TO Barrow, England, |
where the company has large slaughter
houses.