The Hickman courier., 1878-07-05
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern News.

Tennessee has nearly seven hundred
more public schools in operation than it
had last year.
1t is now estimated that Georgia's crop
of dried peaches will amount in value
this year to 81, ,5O0,00
The New Orleans gas-light company
has won a suit against the city for over
100000.
The Texas farmers are not complaining
of hard times, as they are but little in
debt and have the finest crop prospects
known for years.
The Bnosto capitalists who have pur-
chased the North and South railroad in
Georgia, obligate themselves to complete
the road by October, 1880.
The Fish and Game Association of
Alexandria, Va, recommends the exter-
mination of the English sparrow by any
possible plan that may be suggested.
Mr.. Summers, of New Orleans, suffered
his arm to protrude four or FIVE inches
from street car window, and had it
broken by passing car. He obtained
$500 damages.
Charleston hopes to have thirty feet
of water on Charleston bar from the jet>
ties which will be built out of the Con-
gressional appropriation of 5000, 900 for
the benefit of the harbor.
Since the cotton factory and cotton
seed oil mill were started at Natchez,
every vacant house in the city has been
occupied and there is a demand for more
houses.
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of the Az0r to Liberia: The suffering of
the immigrants were intense. Tney had
not been accustomed to practice self-de-
nial. and soon exhausted the limited
daily supply of water. There was great
waste despite the efforts of the officers.
The fever spread rapidly, and before we
reached this point, which is a colonial
settlement on the west coast, belonging
to Great Britain, twenty>three or four
ill-fated emigrants had died. 1 have
never seen a ssdder sight than when
their remains were committed tn the
deep. The names of the dead will go
to you by the first mail steamer that
touches at this place.
Gen. Toombs on Communism No,
we have nothing to fear at present from
it. But If the Government be unjust
and laws oppressive, Communism may
come, and I say let it come. l would
lead il myself 10 secure justice. You
ask me if Socialism is a species of Com
munism. The former in France and
Germany has been practiced and agitat-
ed among the intellects and cultured
men of the realm Why Robespierre,
you know, was gentleman, and even
Modelling, who attempted TO kill Emper-
or William. is a scholar. Communism,
on the contrary. begins in the lower
walks, and is generally agitated among
Isborers and disafected people of the
poorer classes. They are both the out
growths of unjust systems of legislative |
and tyrannical administrations.
The Alexandria (Eirginia) Gazette I
says that correspondents in LOudoun, I
Fauquier and Rappahannock counties ,
inform us that the luxuriance of the
foliage in those counties IS such that it
looks black; that the wheat is higher
than the fences, as thick as it can well
stand, and that its golden heads, under
the influence of the breezes, wave in the
sunlight Ike sheets of fame; that
although cattle Craze on Thousand hills,
hundreds of cattle Craze on a single hill,
and focks ef sheep on every hillock that
eggs sell for sixpence dozen, and the
best OF butter for ten cents pound that
the land is flowing with milk, and would
with honey, were it time-and that
every prospect pleases, and only man is
vile.