The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-04-19
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern News.

Southern News.
Austin, Texas, has three ice factories
Governor Hampton is sixty years old
Fifteen ife-saying stations will b,
erected on the coast Of North Carolina.
The population of Texas is estimated
at 100000.
Texas lynchers are economical. They
recently hung two men on the same
rope.
The customs receipts of New Orleans
have decreased more than four millions
since 1871.
The assets of the Howard association
OF Memphis, are Sal, ,2SS.56, with nc
Liabilities.
Mobile has been steadily reducing the
expenses other municipal government for
six years. Her debt is over two millions.
In 1866 Jacksonville, Florida, had q
population of 800; it is now city OF
1900 population.
The compromise debt of South Caro-
lima is now about $4,000, 600, omitting
nearly 100000, which will go before
the courts.
The employees of The Atlantis, Ga,
Rolling Mills have struck, and the mill
Isstopped Is They demand their back pay
and number nearly four hundred.
Thomas r. Addy, wellbnown young
man OF Augusta, committed suicide the
1st instant by shooting bimself in the
head lie left note assuring nis friends
of his sanity, and stating he had found
himself unable 10 pay his debts
.-s-1ess f,iIs Z =. = s:'Ae cateFF 1aazsast
making fheir annual appearance in this
state, as well as in Mississippi and
Arkansas they are becoming national
pest, or nuisance, and are about TO destroy
the green leaves now breaking forth.
A contract has been entered into be-
tween ex-Gov. Brown and the State OF
Georgia. The former has agreed to pay
the latter 100000 in yearly installments
of s25, 600 for the use of the convicts FOR
twenty years from April, 1879.
Savannah News: The spring of 1873
win be hereafter known in the chronicles
of Georgia as % the spring in which the
woods were burnt" 1t is declared that
theTe never has been known a season
when there was such a general burning
OF the woods rs has taken place during
March. The weather for the past fifteen
or twenty days has been very dry, and
fires have spread rapidly.
Jacksonville correspondence Of the
Savannah News: Captain Eads' report
is awaited with great interest. Should
it be as favorable as is anticipated, and
the requisite appropriation can be
obtained, a new era will open upon.this
section of our country. An immense
impetus would at once be given to the
cultivation of early fruits and vegetables,
and the noble forces of the river region
would speedily be brought into requisi-
Jion. The amount required of the
general government weuld rapidly be
repaid by the increased demand for the
public lands, and the entire state would |
take a tremendous stride on the road to |
progress and prosperity
Chattanooga Times Middle Georgia /
farmers are busy planting cotton. A large !
acreage is being put in with the hope of (
getting more nearly square with the I
world than they did last year. This is
the identical plan of Lhe last thirteen
years and 10 improvement has been
Giscernible. A prospective big crop is
mortgaged to obtain fertilizers and the
end of the year finds them with depleted
energy, empty pockets and several hum
dred dollars to be carried over to the
succeeding years account. These long
years of adverse cotton planting should
be enough for them without the single
addition of another.
Norfolk, Virginian: Mr.. John Roberts,
the weslthiest man in Chowan county,
North Carolina, worth over 5000,
committed suicide, on Sunday last, by
shooting himself through the head. He
had been suffering from dependency for
some time, consequent upon the small
success of his extensive fisheries on the
Albemarle suund, and on Sunday after
noon walked down to the beach, where
he found that his seines had been carried
away by the storm and were lost. Re-
turning home, he went into his effice
and shot himself as stated.
Dallas Commercial: The compile
tion of the Texas Pacific will not only
add an immense population to Texas,
and thus increase her congressional repre-
sentation and consequence in the
college, but it will give two
new states to the union, namely, New
Mexico and Arizona. These beautiful
territories, abounding in resources of soil
and mineral wealth, will at once fill up
with a population sufficient to entitle
them TO admission to the sisterhood OF
states. The south viii thus gain four
United States senators and several men,
bers of congress.
New Orleans Times: Texas beef
always inferior to the last degree, is just
now worse than ever because the cattle
have been starving through the latter
part of the winter on dead grass. While
the country is rapidly settling up, and
the ranges correspondingly decreasing,
the number of cattle to subsist upon
them is rapidly increasing. The habit
has been never to feed the stock any
corn or hay whatever, to help them
through the winter between the perish
ing of the old grass and the coming OF
the new. Those that can not tide over
the crisis on dead grass are allowed to
die.