The Hickman courier., 1878-08-09
OURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern News

Memphis is building a Masonic Tenn
pie at cost of $2a, 900.
I'm Virginia, when a cenvict gets
second term in the penitentiary, the
stats adds FIVE years to his sentence.
The number of deaths at st. Louis
caused directly or indirectly by heat, from
July to July 19 inclusive, was 1S4.
Sam Bass, the dead Texas train-rob-
ber, was the son of farmer in Southern
Indiana, and but twenty-five years old.
The Charleston News and Courier
calls wheat and oats the white mans
crops, the evidence of civilization and
progress.
A skeleton of an enormous animal has
been dug up in Texas. 1t is fifty-four
feet long from the root of the tail to the
Joint of the neck
A party of scientists have decided
chat the Bald mountain disturbances are
caused by the setting of the rock feunda-
tion of one of the spurs.
Two of the celebrated Lowery gang
were convicted at Bennettsville, S c.,
last week, of the murder of an Irish
peddler and sentenced to be hung Au~
gust 23d.
Samuel Mitchell, of Quitman, Ga,
has been sentenced to pay SO and costs
or thirty days in Jail, for working on
he preferred the jail, and
mere he is now.
Richmond Dispatch: The tonnage OF
vessels engaged in the foreign trade from
this port is greater than was ever known
before. There are at this time twelve
vessels discharging or loading foreign
cargoes, and the present month will ag-
gregate the largest foreign trade of any
for some years.
The new insane asylum building at
Morganton, n. c., is nine hundred feet
long and eighty feet wide; the center is
four stories high, surmounted with
vast dome; each wing is four stories high,
and the intermediate, between the GEN.
ter and the wings, three stories high.
For some time the New Orleans papers
have complained of the monopolies rails
ing the price of northern ice from S12 to
S25 per ton, but now that it jumped to
$63 they will get on their hind legs and
howl. The aggrsvsting part of it is that
the artificial homemade ice follows
along only 50 behind the imported ar
ticle.
Galveston News: B. j. Ward, just in
from the frontier, reports a fight between
twenty-five buffalo-hunters, in which
fourmen were killed and ten wounded.
The attacking was party led by Hank
Campbell, who was killed by Jack
Doughteett, the leader of the party, in
hand-to-hand encounter. The fight took
place near Staked plains.
Lyncnburg (Va.) News: Walter Pres
ton, son of Jas. w. Preston, of Abing-
don, went to his fathers farm near
Kingsport, and while there became in
volved in quarrel with the superintend-
ant of the farm, whose name is not given,
and shot him dead. after which he COM
mitted suicide by hanging Mr.. Preston
was a nephew of the late Hon. Walter
Preston.
The Lancaster (S. o. Ledger: A cor
respondent informs US of the discovery
of a sycamore tree in Sandy Ridge town
ship, Union county, n, c., near the |
Rowie mine, which measures 80 feet 5 I
inches in circumference. The first limb |
measures IL feet inches in circumfe-
renee. The tree is hollow, and has two |
doors. On the inside twelve men can
stand erect, and at the height of II feet |
there is bend eD which four men can
stand erect.
Charlotte N. C) Observer: The
quantity of manufactured tobacco now
shipped from Reidsville, Danville, Wins
ton, Durham and other tobacco centers
in this State and Virginia to the South
probably greater just now than it has
ever been, owing to the fact that the fac
tories held all they made during the dis
cussion of the change in the tobacco tax,
and as soon as this was settled for the |
year, at least, manufacturers began to |
hip as rapidly as possible.
Fort Worth Standard The name |
and fame Of Albert Sidney Johnston are
indisolubly blended with the history of |
Texas. Responding to the call of the |
8 tate of Texas, whose battles for indie
pendence he had fought, and recognizing
the fact that Texas did not lose her SOW
ereignty by the act of annexation, he re-
signed his high command and cast his
fortunes with the south. The sod of
Texas covers the remains of our hero,
and the wild prairie flowers and luxuri-
ant grass wave over his grave.
Further particulars in regard to the
death of the five-year-old daughter OF
General John G. Meem, of Shenandoah
county, Va, show that Mrs. Meem, dur
ing the absence of her husband, was out
riding In carriage with her two little
daughters, driving the team herself, when
the reins broke and the horse took fright
and ran away. Thinking she could save
the children, Mrs. Meem threw them out
of the carriage. One of the little girls
was instantly killed, and the other had
her leg broken.
Lynchburg News: Candler's noun
tain, abont ten miles south of the city,
was in a beautiful blaze yesterday, bav-
ing caught fire by accident, and just as
the flames reached the top of the noun
tain, a little cloud, barely wide enough
to cover the track of the devouring ele-
ment, poured down such torrent of
rain as to extinguish the last spark of
the fire. This, considering that the city
and the surrounding country were al
most burning up with heat, and were
dry as powder horn, is remarkable.
The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer says of
the new Eagle and Phoenix Mill: Yes
terday 20 looms were at work, and 100
will be moving to-day. The entire 800
looms and 2O, 900 spindles, purchased and
onhand for this mammoth structure, will
commence their lively rattle in few
months. Then the factory will have in
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