The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-09-05
Tie Baptist Association convcnes
at Mt. Olive Church to-day.

| Tie Baptist Association convcnes
at Mt. Olive Church to-day.
The Hickman wheat market remains
steady and unchanged, and but little com
ing in.
McCrrcHES thinks a mans best friend
! is the enc that will sell him the best bar
/ gains for the least money. ju27-tf
The gentleman who has the two
little blue buttons with the square aad
compass ought to return them TO the
proper owner, il he is square. 1t
Mr. Shields, a farmer in this cocrtv.
is raising the giant tobacco OF this sec
ton. Il measures ID feet from point
to point, and hangs ID feet 1t is pro-
nonnced good quality OF tobacco.
DR.. j. D. Leslie, the greatest hero
of last years epidemic, it is understood,
will attend our County Fair, this fall, in
company with DR.. Blackburn, the guests
of the people Of Fulton county.
Boys and girls, make your arrange
ments TO start TO school when the session
opens. It is much better FOR all parties
| that you should attend the first day Of the
session:
In the last Commonwealth Drawing,
'79, 603 drew 10000, SS,36s drew $4,000,
ST. 500 represents the So 600 Parties
wishing a full account Of the drawing, or
ficke' - and information for the next draw
IN. al 1ress RICHARD D. SWIFT, agent,
Jon DAN STATION. KY
There appears be considerable
religious awakening in this section. Re-
vivals havr been in progress for weeks
past in different feigbborhoods, and are
yet progressing in others. They had 10
accessions 10 the church at Reelfoot, and
% at Antioch, aud sue Nessful meetings
have been held Mt Sycamore Chapel Davis
Chapel, Poplar Grove, AID other churches.
Two young men from Msdr'd Bend,
named Keys and Reeves, ware arrSigned
before Esq. Jere Jones, Nednes'day,
charged with committing continuous
breach of the peace-all along tho line
from Madrid Bend to HickmAn-Apd
fined S25 each. II appears that they we're :
on big spree, ';nnd like the vsrmints }
from Bitter Greek, carorted si along the /
line. They return homo wiser, and we /
hope, better men.
The Danville, Va, paper speaks oil
a terrapin found in that vicinity marked /
on the back "JohnRie Duncan, hickman, /
KY" and INDUCES in speculation Ss to |
the travels of said terrapiu from HieS- /
man 20 Virginia. Johnnie Duncan, who I
does live in Hickman, says he marked q
tcrropin as described some three years
ago, at Hickman, and turned him loose.
II may be that il made les ~sy from here
TO Virginia, and has been three years on
the road; but as Johnnie visited paayilie,
Virginia about the same time, it is posi-
bic thst tae little fellow marked tie ter
rapin while in the old Dominion.
New HICKMAN SrEANERs-VAL-
gable HEIPs 10 BrsISEss.-We notice that
the State of Tennessee has incorporated
what is styled tee Hickman, New Madrid,
aud St. Louis Navigation Company. This
line is to be run mainly in the interSst Of
the corn trade AID in connection with the
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis rail
road line, South. This trade is immense
has been long neglected-snd last win
.ers operations only gave the RAILROAD .
small idea OF what the real trade would
be if properly cultivated. The new navi-
CATION company looks like the parties arc
At last becoming alive to this vast in ;
-erest.
Also, the Kouut1 line announce that
hey have placed the steamer Gen. D. II. .
Rucker in the trade from s.. Louis 70 I
Cairo, Hickman and New Madrid. The :
Rucker will leave st. Louis every Satur-
lay at T. m, and leave New Madrid
very Monday a.