The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-08-02
oURRENT PARAGRAPHs.
Southern News.


The only medical college for negroes
il in Nashville. It has an ample en-
doWpnent.
The state engineers of Louisiana are
examining the Ievees Of the Mississippi
the entirelength of the state.
1t is suggested that monument be
erected over the grave of Admiral
Semmes at Mobile Fft3
4 Congressman Culberson, of Texas,
says the lands granted the Texas-Pacifc
railroad are worth 81 an acre.
The poor farmers of the mountain dis
trlcts of South Carolina have concluded
they must make moonshine whisky or
( starEe.
's1 The Tampa Tribune desires prospect
ors in Florida to remember that in area
of square miles Florida is the largest
state east of the Mississippi river.
The Camden Light artillery of South
Carolina saluted the fourth of July with
a cannon which had been used in the
revolutionary war.
IL c. Fisk, ~ltness before the Louis-
ana investigating committee, remarked:
:" / done Only hold mp de band when dey
swore ne, but didn't kiss de book fur
sure<i
James E. Jones, ,colored. of Lagrange,
Texas, has been hung for the murder of
another colored man in 1875. Just be,
fore he was swung off he said he was "a
stranger to the crowd, but with Christ
f,s q, al cs N Al ,,tsA s.z,l<.aa,,la ssae 4ba
Chsriesson News and G 3urier: There
will be no safe or judicious emigration
from the south until the exodus shall be
put in charge of persons who have some
business knowledge and experience as
well as honesty, and who will not mix
import trade and the emigration business
with making money and saving souls.
Up to this the exodus has been profitable
and advantageous to the officers of the
association. The emigrants loss is their
gain.
The Charleston News and Courier says
of the return Of the Azor, the ship that
carried over the Liberian emierants:
Her arrival here is anxieusly awaited by
two hundred fifty emigrants, one hun
dred and ninety-seven of whom are
adults, and despite the terrors of the
experimental trip, these poor people,
who have lived here for the last two
months, no one knows how, sre ready
and willing at the shortest notice to join
their comrades in the unknown promised
land.
Columbus (Ga.) Sun: In Georgia
there were during the past six months
eighty-eight failures, with liabilities
amounting to 81, ,52S, ,562, against fifty
six failures, Liabilities SOB, ,696, during
the first six months of 1877: In the
second quarter of 1878 there were in
Georgia thirty-seven failures, with liza
bilities of S863,772. Alabama counts
twenty-five failures in the past six
months. against thirLy-tbree in the cor
responding months OF 1877. In this re-
spect Alabama makes a finer showing
tuau III u u6E SISTER etSGeS. Inc H.
crease in the United States is twenty
five per cent. on 1877.
Kate Southern is gratifed Having
heard her keepers villifed, she writes as
, follows TO the Savannah News Being
convict. / might expect the cold embrace
of rattling chains, striped clothes, hard
labor, coarse diet, and even the lash ;
but not so is my case. am put to light |
work, cutting and making convict
clothes; not ironed as others, not draped
in convict stripes; have good and whole
some diet, such as my keepers have upon
the family table; no threats of the lash;
no cooking for convicts, and no such
thing as regretting had not been hung.
Please, for the cake of humiliated and
unfortunate woman, correct the reports
in circulation, 50 unjust to my dear
keepers, and receive the thanks of one SO
injured andsso disgrsced.