The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-12-20
s0UHERN NEWsI ITEMS.


New Orleans has a debt of se0,000,-
900, and the Mayor favors selling IT fifty per
cent.
The Democratic Congressional msjOr
tiles in South Carolina range from u ,sol to
1886.
A large force is at work gfading the
Texas and Pacific from Fort WO'th to Wea-
therford.
The first ship of direct linz between
Charleston and Europe is now loading IN
Charleston harbor.
North Carolina has in two years IN
creased the number of her live stock SoO,'
600, ana their value $4,500,00o
Fifty-two thousand one hundred and
seyenty-one oranges were shlPed from
Tampa, Florida, from NoveAoer 0th TO NO
vember 18th.
Representatives of one hundred fam
lilies at Lynn. Mass, propose establishing a
cooperative boot and shoe iaetory some>
where in Texas.
Fifteen tramps arrested IN Atlanta had
goods and chatsels TO the amount OF one
doIras-srs mic lzeIa ara y zar,aris That
and nothing more
The receipts of the Akbama Treasury
for the last fiscal year erssgl6,s65 "a; dis
bun sements, $615, 5,345, of ffleh $5S, $40 90
were for feeding State prisoners.
The Columbus Enquire footsup thirty
cotton gin houses destroyee in Georgia this
season. The greater porticl are thought TO
have been caused by incenaaneS
A bill to enforce the constitutional
proyision against giving sway or selling
iiouor within two miles OF the polls on any
election passed the lowe house of the
Georgia Legislature by vote of102 yeas to
80 nays.
Frank jackson and Henry Underwood, ,
the surviving members of The San Bass band
of Texas railroad robbers, are said to have
gone to Dakota, where they VII probably
ioin the Comanehes, with whom Jackson
once lived.
Tangier Island, Va, with a population
of over 500, strange TO say, mas neither a
hotel, restaurant, oyster house, nilor, milli-
ner, dressmaker, shoemaker, drug store, bar
her shop, postoffice, m9rlSet Constable, or
Justice OF the Peace.
Characteristic Texas item; Major At
wood, of the United States Army stationed
at San Antonio, was married N st tLOuis this
week to the daughter. of Richard King, the
seattle king" of the West The brides
father presented the groom With 10000 head
of cattle.
Speaking of dull times, wicked Mo-
bile man saws that few weeks ago stran-
ger arrived there and bought a bale Of
cotton, and a pleasant rumor was at once
started that the cotton buyer had arrived,
but it only proved to be Chicago man with
the ear>ache.
The Eagle aud Phenix cotton mills, of
Columbus, Ga, have sent 10 Mrs. FELTON, two
dress patterns of their own manulaeture-
one of them, after it is made up, TO be worn
on the day DIR. FELTON, takes his seat as a
member of the Forty-sixth Congress. The
patterns are very handsome.
The School Commissions of Georgia
pledges himself, should dog and liquor tax
be passed by the General Assembly, to sus-
tain in every school subsdistriet ofihe State
absolutely free schools for both he white
and colored races for terms vsryhg from
FIVE to eight months in the yeT.
George Hurston and Joseph Fulton
were two chivalric young persons O Salem,
North Carolina who quarreled, me- in the
twilight of last Friday and shotst eeh other
in the manner of "the CODE" Futon was
taken home to bis mother dead, and durstOn
took to the road as fugitive murdrer.
has been discoyeTePad that Il p q
the buggy with his wife near sU Ger, ). G.,
was accidentally struck by a ball fred at q
hawk by little boy. The rifle used was a
dred Yards from the road where the minister
was killed.
Colonel Leath and Robert Brinkley
began business in life as partners IN Mem
phis forty years ago, and, as lawyers and
merchants, laid up a fortune each. On
Thursday the latter died at Iuka, Miss, and
the remains of the former were brought
home from New York and buried in Mem
phis Friday.
The Tribune thus sums up the ship
nent of cattle from Tampa, Fla, to Cuba :
Shipped from Tampa during the year, mp to
this time, 5,O24 head; worth here, Sl0,3S6.
From Manatee, 29SS; worth here, S4l ,S52.
Making the aggregate for both Tampa and
Manatee. both places being in Tampa Bay,
of $1I2.16S.
The report of the Assessors upon the
educational advantages of the inhabitants
of forty-three of the ffty-eight parishes IN
Louisiana is rather discouraging. It shows
that there are SO, 600 voters in all, OF whom
SO. 600 know nothing of reading and writing.
OF these uneducated ones 10000 are whites
and $1,000 colored.
Nashville American The political
complexion of the new Legislature by OH
cial count is: Senate-DemOcrats, - Re
publicans, 8 National Greenbaekers, B.
House-Democrats, 50; Republicans, IA;
bslIot-Democrats, "A; Republicans, IL
National GreenDackers, g.
Out of one hundred glass balls tossed
in the air by Texas Jack in Augusta last
Friday afternoon, DR.. Carver broke with
his rifle ninety-three- After this isat four,
teen of Augusta's crack shots made trisl
of their skill. They were to shoot at ten
balls each for cup offered by the Doctor
The prize was won by Mr.. J. ID; Rocks, who
succeeded in breaking one ball The other
$50 shots all missed the mark.
Griffin (Ga.) News: 1t is q remarkable
coincidence in the history of Georgia, thai
for quite a period of time the number oi
inmates in the Lunatic asylum and the
Penitentiary has been about the same. Pre-
vious to the war, say up to 1860, the number
of inmates in the two institutions vas fro
one hundred and fifty to two bundled, al
whites, the accessions and discharges iron
each being about the same for a period o
ten or fifteen years previous TO tnat date
Since the war the doors of both institution
have been thrown opeE for the benefit o
the colored race, and the number Of inmate
has increased to upwards of a thousand II
number. While the accessioBs are largel.
colored, there has been visible increasl
among the whites.