The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-02-15
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern News.

AtldnLa naS only nlneIv-seVen law
yers
The Chattanooga Times says a bear
chased by dogs in the mountains near
that city would double up and roll over
the cliffs.
Twenty-Five towns in Texas are or
ganizing companies and making prepar'
stions to build the roads to connect
elrem with the trunk lines.
The Georgia Home Insurance com
pany, headquarters at Columbus, has
earned for its stockholders a dividend oi
twelve and a half per cent. for tie past
year.
A reneounter occurred at marriage
in Clark county, Ala, last Saturday, in
which the groom was fatally wounded,
and Hunter Smith, of Mobile, killed
outright
Among the shipments last year from
she port Of Wilmington, n. c., were 10
so bushels of peanuts, lO1 1872 lbs. tur-
pentine, 537 1896 bbls. resin and 50I bags
asbestos.
Peter Cooper is negotiating FOR the pur-
chase of Limestone Springs, near Spar
tanburg, S. C, where he will establish
an Institution similsr to Cooper institute
of New York.
1t is thought that Lieutenant Flipper,
the only colored graduate of West
Point, viii be appointed military instruc-
tor of the colored branch of the Texas
A. and N. College.
The cause of education seems to be
improving in Tennessee, In the State
University at oxford there are now
ssSssssy rz-vs Essznefnesi students s.ss..isast
less tran two hundred FAST year.
The supreme court of South Carolina
has declared the election of six circuit
Judges null and void, on account of the
election by the legislature being viya voce
instead of by ballot. The decision was
unexpected and startling.
The Nashville American says Graham
II Sons Clubhouse and saw-miIl, at Pine
wood, burned Thursday, with machinery,
500,o pounds OF seed cotton ard 900
bushels of wheat. Loss, so, ,OOe; no in>
suraDce
The ditching of the train by obstruc>
tions put on the track near Layergne,
Tenn, Tuesday night, resulted in the
burning to death of thirty or forty
mules, eight tons of coal and eight cars.
Total loss. $4,000.
The New iberia (La.) Sugar Bowl
says that, owing TO the wet weather, but
little plowing or cane planting has been
done, but, If the weather continues
favorable, sli viii be activity on the
plantations next week, and that, SO far
IS heard from, seed corn is everywhere
perfectly sound.
Fhe deepest water found in the Mis-
sissiPpi river, by the coast survey, is at
a short distance below the Bonnet Care
crevasse, Louisiana, where they found
forty fathoms, or two hundred and forty
feet. It Is no doubt the deepest place in
the river. At New Orleans, where it
appears so deep, there is less than half as
much.
The Rev. BENJAMIN Johnson, formerly
rector of the Episcopal church in Macon,
But for the last two years in the Reformed
Episcopal movement, first at Charleston,
:. c., and then in Atlanta for several
months past, proposes to organize in the
latter city a Reformed Episcopal church
as the result Of his missionary labors
there.
Vieksburg Herald a large number of
Iaborers are almost daily passing through
this city, on their way to the river plan
tations. The bulldozers in the lower
part of the State have created what will
prove an aching void during the coming
season, numbers of the negroes from that
section having already been engaged By
Yazoo and Sunfower river planters.
Democrat: New Orleans cotton re,
ceipts are growing more promising every
week. Although the receipts at all the
cotton ports are less than last year, New |
Orleans is ahead of 1877 by SO, 40 bales |
Our receipts from the Mississippi are
greater than last year; from Mobile we
are 27,0S9 bales ahead from Red river
Sc, 200 ahead; while the receipts from
the Arkansas liver are three times as
great as last year, and those from the 1
Oaachita nine times as great.