The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-10-17
Fresh OYSTERS |!

II sou want the finest Fresh Oysters
remember that the best place to get them
is at WARNER & MEACHAMS.
Tho Hickman wharf is pretty well
crowded with bags of cotton seed await
ing shipment. They manufacture nearly
everything out of cotton seed. Some
evea say they make first class butter-Of
the kind.
The town authorities, we learn, have
commissioned about 30 special policemen,
but we haven't the names of those COM
missioned. Since their appointment the
little nightly depredstions which were
occurring appear to have ceased.
Katie Cole, daughter of VIM. Cole,
decd, was found lying insensibe near
her home, Tuesday last. She has not
spoken since fouud, and was thought to
be dying yesterday morning. No one has
any idea of the cause of her unfortunate
afiiction.
A correspondent eff the Somerset
Citizen says poor widow in Clinton
county sold her only COW and gave nine
dollars OF the proceeds TO n fellow who
promised to marry her for that sum. The
aoney was spent on spree, aud the Ku-
klux threaten to enforce the contract.
Hickman buyers say the new corr
crop will open at about IS cents, and some
estimate 40 cents. There will be o num-
her of buyers here, and just now 1.-The
prospective market is active and rather
excited on the understanding Of large
foreign demand, aud the fact that the
local home crop will not prove as large in
yield as an :icipated.
nUR CL0AKS AND DoLMANS just
~ arrived, and being rather late, we
offer them much below their real value.
Call and examine.
oetl0 J. II. PLAUT & BRO.
The late grand jury of.the Circuit
Court indicted nearly every road survey
or In the county for not having finger
boards placed at the various cross roads
aud forks of roads, as provided for by
law. The result is, claims to the amount
Of about 500 were presented to the cour
this week, and allowed, for boards s,
erected since the finding Of the gran,
Jury.--Clinton Democrat.
We have a nice line of ladies' cloaks an,
shawls, balmorals, cotton and woolei
hose, nubias, hoods and furs, which W
will sell very low. Call and examine.
3.tf. J. AMBERG'S SONS.
a correspondent learning that ther
is a possibility of Miss Susan b. Anthem
delivering n lecture at Hickman som
time soon, suggests that her subject b
the "Mound Builders" q prehistoric pee
pie. Hickman is surrounded by mounds
supposed to have been the work of thes
people, and which have been botherin
the Archaeological and scientist for man
years. It is thought by our correspond
ent, rs well as others, that Miss Susan,
so disposed, could throw world Of ligf
upon this very interesting subject.
McCurcHEs thinks a mans best frien
is the one that will sell him the best ba
gains for the least money ju27-tf
A FORTUNE FOR THE Brave
i, J. D. Stephens, of Lawrenceburg. Ind
certify that was the holder Of u ticket
representing q club, in the Commonweali
Distribution Company, which transpirs
Sept. 80, and that our ticket 22,555 DIRE
the capital prize, sac, 1000, which W,
promptly and fully paid.
]. d. STEPHENS,
and George Lowe. Louis Garrison, Bail,
Lowe, Clint. Jones, Sam'l Dickinson, J.
wiles, +. Keifer, r. Kellaugh, Geo. Pal
grab, Peter Pfalzgrab and Z. Chance.
For further information, address.
n. II. SWIFT, Jordan Station, Ky.
Whole tickets, 81; Halves, 81; % tic
cts, $50; So tickets, 500. 2t