The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-03-15
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern News.

that city and Cedar Keys.
They are taking steps in Macon to-
ward the erection of confederate monu-
ment.
A North Carolina mother killed heI
child the other day by throwing it at its
father.
The agricultural population of Georgia
Is 900,0 souls, and the number of acres
in cultivation is trifle over 100000.
Three colered men graduated at the
Meharrv medical school of the central
Tennessee college, and were invested with
the decree of doctor of medicine.
The exhibitions given by the Tennes-
see poultry association, in Nashville,
were attended by over FIVE thousand
persons.
The Liberian exodus association of
South Carolina reports that one hundred
thousand colored persons have signifed
q desire to emigrate to Liberia.
The report of the adiutant general of
Texas shows that there are over four
thousand fugitiyes from the justice of
the Lone Star state, and forty counties
20 hear from
The supreme court of Tennessee has
rendered the important decision that a
trustee of stock of goods fer the pay
meut OF debts is not liable to pay mer-
chants tax.
Memphis Appeal: The active working
sgrepgss IA Tennessee now nnnbcr sec.
Membership sanglag Be - - -
twelye and hfteen thousand. -Four years
ago the oranges numbered 1,107, with
membership of about thirty thousand.
of the entire number of oranges organ
lied, one hundred never held a second
meeting. Prominent grangefs say that
The order is now in much better working
order than heretofore, with the prospect
OF more effectively carrying out its orig
inal object, the cultivation of social in
tereourse and the education of the farm.
ing ciass.
The Atlanta Constitution says of the
yellow fever convention recently held in
Jacksonville, Florida. This convention
was held none too soon. The proximity
OF our south Atlantic coast to Havana
renders precautionary measures ex-
tremely important. There is no doubt
of the fact that all the epidemics which
have prevailed south of Norfolk since
the war can be traced direct TO Havans.
The germ of disease In each instance
came from that city, and the want Of
proper sanitary precautions did the rest.
The action OF the Jacksonville convention
should arouse tie authorities of every
town on the coast below Norfolk to a full
appreciation of the situation.
New Orleans Democrats New IOrleans
has no reason to be ashamed of the busi>
ness she did last year. In cotton receipts
we are IS0,023 bales ahead to date
although the total receipts at all the
ports are still behind those of 1877. From
Red river we have received sc, 1872 bales
more than last year from the Ouachita,
52,4l7 more; from the Arkansas river,
51,O27 more, and from Mobile, 81, 1927
more, while our cotton seed receipts are
almost double those of 1877. Nearly 20 |
per cent. OF the cotton receipts of Mobile |
had been shipped to New Orleans. 1t is I
not IN cotton, however, but in grain, that
New Orleans makes the best showing.
The increase OF grain receipts is unprece-
dented. These have sprung from 327,-
900 bushels of corn last year TO 2,S3O,64I
bushels; wheat from 93,725 to 53O,O74
bushels, and oats, rye and other cereals
In proportion. Even insugar and mol&s-
ses, although last year a crop was a fail
ure, we are fairly ahead of the receipts
last year at this time.
New Orleans Picayune: A letter
from Louisianian now residing in Mas.
sachusetts, to friend in New Orleans,
says that Franklin w. Smith, and other
Boston capitalists who have resolved that
they will plant colonies of farmers and
mechanics on lands purchased by the
company in the western and southern
states, giving the colonists long time
co pay for their lands, are carrying out
their plans practically. They intend to
plant their first colony in Kansas, and
probably their second colony in east
Tennessee or west Carolina These cap
italists have concluded, after a complete
nguiry into the cause of the hard times
that affiict the country, that the rich
men of the country, in selfdefense, and
for the safety of the nation, must take up
the industrial and land question as OF
more Importance than silver bills or party
politics. They hold that if capital will
help fill up the idle lands of the country
with the industrious but landless poor,
times will improve in proportion as the
are provided with lands.
The Mississippi legislature has enact
ed law regulating cotton shipments on
railroads. The following is the section
specifying the rates to be charged: That
any railroad company, or assignee, pur-
chasers or managers thereof, doing bust
ness in this state, or which may hereafter
do business in this state, shall not be au-
thorized to receive more than one dollar
per bale for each bale of cotton trans
dollar and fifty cents for each bale of
cotton transported one huDdrsd and fifty
miles or less; two dellars for each bale
Of cotton transported more than one
hundred and fifty and less than two huns
dred miles; two dollars and fifty cents
for each bale of cotton transported more
than two hundred and less than two hun {
ired and fifty miles; three dollars for ,
each bale of cotton transported more than !
two hundred and fifty and less than three 5
hundred miles; three dollars and fifty ,
cents for each bale of cotton transported !
more than three hundred and less than s
three hundred and fifty miles; provided, :
that this applies to cotton shipped from q
any point within this state, the distance !
herein contemplated being the distance $
rom the point of shipment to the desti- 3
nation as expressed and required by the +
'hipper. Such companies may charge @
ess prices than prescribed in this section Q