The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-08-23
{. OURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
southern News.

nv AGO. le1ds, uas IOuE iCc c-taceOiAcs.
The Georgia railroad has declared
semi annual dividend of s125, 900.
Charleston. S. c., will compromise its
debt, the bondholders being willing.
The average wages of.ge0d farm hands
In southwest Georgia are 50 month.
Judge Roberts, the Democratic raomi-
nee for governor of Texas, is 72 wears
old.
While cotton mills IN the eSt are
closing, those in the south are full of
work.
The New Orleans Times asks the city
council to put 500 men at work cleaning
the city.
The last words of Sam Bas o, the Texas
rebber: Everything is winding around
ike bubble"
The Vicksburg quarantipAis is SO rigidly
enforced that some of the hotels have
closed their doors.
A seizure of cigars at the New Orleans
customhouse is SID to mean good smok-
ing for the offers
The city of Galveston being heavily
in debt the people sre signing for an
abolition of the city government.
The governor of Louisiana has just
signed tho death warrants of four men,
thersn4rzerersL of Narcisse Arieux.
ne Mobile Register thinks the only
:, = 10 aes6ssp p the natural resources OF
Aiahanda Is zhre- g Il Nediupa of nar-
rov-g.uge railroads.
The-znayor of New Orleans has directer
the chief Of police TO suppress an an
necessary noises during the prevalence of
yellow fever, such as BELLS on ice-cream
carts, scissors grinding, peddlers, organ
grinders. etc.
The Minnesota colony at Sherwood,
Alabama, is growing rapidly. a dirt
road, two and half miles in length, has
been constructed from the valley to the
top OF the mountain. A wood factory
and hub and a spoke.making establish
ment are soon to be started there.
Troy (Ala.) Messenger: We are in
formed that the forest mast this year
will be unusually heavy, and tie hogs
ara anticipating a good tiRs. Last
Monday we saw on six little twigs, about
eight inches long, that Sranched of
from the end of a small znnb OF red.
oak, one hundred and tsso healthy acorns
San Antonio Herald From ofici al
information received in this city erter.
day it is learned that the Me <icars
living along the opposits bank Of the
Rio Grsnde are purchasing all The ar.,x
and ammunition for sale on p,sa a;dA st
the river Bands of MeXicens, .s,a aevsrr-
where armiDg and drilling ffls otn,,,st
activity prevails, and T. .ve,.sss are frooIr
made that any attem' 4 e.n me mart .
United States tro' ,ps tn rurs,,e bo,a.
thieves ana Is <6ecs across the Rio
UrShoe VIII . met with a bloody re-
sistsnce. he MexioAns are evidently
IN earne' & this time.
"S .ret's "reminiscences of public men
III Alabama says OF the nominee for
g,overnor of Texas: Dram NJ. Roberts,
of st. Clair county, was graduate of
the University of Alabama, and early
admitted to the bar. He served in the
house in 1850, his only session, during
which he was modest and unp'etendiDg,
though his talents were manifest In /
few years he removed to Texas, where I
tAe was elected judge OF the supreme /
court. He was president of the secession /
convention in 1861, and in 1865 was
elected a senator TO the United States
congress but never took his seat. owing
TO the rigor of the reconstruction a cts
He is native OF Alsbama, and his
record has reflected honor, not only on
himself, but on the state which gave
him birth.
DIR. Heard, of Galveston, has been insl !
vestigatiDg the yellow fever at New or ,
Aeans, and reports it to be of the most ,
singular and malignant type Ee says |
1he symptoms of the disease are most '
unusual, the fever period being much i
shorter than heretofore, and unaeeom- 4;
panied by many OF the accepted charac- ;
teristics of the disease. Yellow fever 9
: eretofore has usually manifested great | /
pains in head, back and legs of the af- q
Acted. These pains do not accompany
The present type, but every patient
whom DR.. H. had an opportunity of +
complained of violent pains 7
an the stomach, and nowhere else. There +
Is also an absence OF the usual flush: the q
fever range extremely low, amounting :
to an adanamic fever; rapid sinking sets
in quickly, and hemorrhage and black :
vomit follow in very snort space of =
time The most infallible test OF the :
disease IS an extraordinary deposit OF al +
lumen in the Urine.