The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-01-18
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern News.


Ten inches of snow fell, at Wythvill,
Va, Sunday.
Members of the Mississippi Legislature
receive $500 per annum.
Gen. Longstreet has leased the Pied
mont house at Gainesville, Ga.
The Atlanta Constitution is alarmed
at the increase of morphine eating il
Georgia and Alabama.
Col. Gustave Cook is writing a histor,
of Terry's Texas rangers, the proceeds O
which viii be used in erecting a monu
ment to the regiments dead.
Nashville American: Mrs. Hannah ]
Davis, of Allegan Michigan, recently
willed to the Baptist institute, of Nash
vile, the sum of $4,000. The will ha:
just been admitted to probate.
Austin (Tex.) Gazette: A piece Of
bull neck beet and a cup of slosh made
from old wool hats, parched and ground
together with a piece of alum toughened
bread, cost in Austin restaurants the
modest sum of thirty cents.
The Warrenton (Va.) Solid South sug-
gests that history of the famous black
horse cavalry be prepared, and states
that an ex-federal officer who is new in
that city, says he would rather read the
history OF that body of gentlemen alone,
han that of the entire cavalry.
Charlotte IN. O. Observer: Last
night a party of fifteen persons, from the
region of country around Laurinburg
and from the Pee Dee section of South
Carolina, came into the city and bought
tickets for Texas. The total number of
persons who have bought emigration
tickets from the agent is about one hun
dred and seventy-five.
The Dallas (Texas) Herald publishes
an account of the defalcation of Chas.
ExtrOmer, the book-keeper of Ogden &
Woih, OF that city, of a large sum which
that.-f -fiEssa shsd .aut thorized him 10 invest in
Is&eaange. kfetromer eoElecsed several
bills due thsffirm and attempted to slope
to st. Louis but his plan was frustrated.
The Aberdeen (Miss) Examiner re-
ports serious encounter at that place
between Mason NJ. Cummings and Frank
Rogers, in which Cummings received
slight pistol wounds in the hand and
wrist, and Major S. A. Jones, of the Ex-
aminer, who interfered to prevent blood
shed, got bullet wound in the arm. and
cudgel blow, both of which had been
aimed at Cummings.
Count Dassi, president of the Italian
commission to the centennial, writes to
q banker in Austin that he proposes to
divert the Italian immigration now going
to South America to Texas, and will
start line of steamers between Genoa
and Galveston to bring over immigrants
and take back cotton.
The Knoxville (Tenn) Chronicle gives
the particulars of the murder of Joseph
Martin, near Fullen's depot, on the 2Sth
ult., while seated at his fireside between
his two daughters, by a negro named
Howell, who fired through the window
at his victim. Howell was arrested and
placed in the Greenville Jail.
Nashville American: During the wear
1877, within the city limits, 751 persons
died, of which 3S2 were white and 800
colored. In these limits the total pop
ulatiOn is 27,0S5; white, Is, SOB colored, |
9,562. Hence the total death rate was
27-7 per 900 per annum; that of the /
white people 2l.S2; that of the colored /
people $3.50.
Dallas (Tex.) Commercial The sheriff
OF Washington county has been sued for
O,OOO damages, for false imprisonment
by negro who was arrested by a man
who had been deputy on a charge of
being au escaped convict from Hunts
vile, which he was not The sheriff re-
ceved MIN in his Jail without the proper
papers. An interesting question will
have to be decided by the courts.
Charlotte (N. c. Observer: The old
custom of driving hogs from Tennessee.
and other southwestern states
IN droves TO southern markets is again
oming into vogue. A party came into
,he city recently with a hundred and
ifty, which would average about two
lundrcd and fifty pounds apiece. They
nave been driven from east Tennessee,
lnd travelled at the rate of eight miles
lay. The owner proposes to drive them
mo aiSoFtth Carolina, and possibly to
Charleston.
Charleston Is. c. News and Courier
The repeal of the lien law and the enact
nent of the usury law will render it
more than ever difficult for small farmers i
% continue their operations. These ,
measures, however, were loudly called
or, and experience alone will satisfy the
people of their unwisdom. The disheart- /
.ning feature OF the debates in the legis- i
ature is the apparent willingness of the ,
members to carry out blindly the wishes
# their constituents, even when they
AN see that harm is likely to come of it. !
New Orleans Times: Sexton, the bill I
iardist, has been badly beaten, and that, I
90, by chap who doesn't begin to know {
Is much about billiards as the champion. :
1t may be mentioned, however, that the
winner played the game on the sly, and
scored the winning run when he slipped {
nto Sexton's room on St Charles street,
asst Tuesday, during Sexton's absence,
snatched the champions overcoat and
whole outfit. Although the detectives
have been dodging alter the thief couple
Of days, they have thus failed to lay
hold of him, and as he is not likely to
return the property of his own volition,
Master William will have to chalk the
score down to profit and loss, and make
it up by winning the first prize in the
tournament.