The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-05-13

week, to preach at the Methodist cburc
next Sunday.
Mrs. Boyd, of Nashville. H., daugh
ter Of Mr.. W J. Turner. of the Lacled
House, accompanied by Mrs. Scott, ar
visiting the city.
Nearly all the towns along the Up
per Mississippi and Missouri have bee
treated to an Involuntary bath of ict
water this spring.
The Rev. J. w. Knott. of Memphis
Tenn., will visit Hickman The last of thi
week, and will preach at the Methods
Church Sunday morning and night, Ma,
18th.
The Dixie Oil Company. at a regu
lar meeting held in Nashville last week
positively determined to rebuild tn,
Hickman Oil Mills, and work will be com.
menced at once.
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. We Learn
that the attendance upon Ike South West
ern Kentucky Medical Association, a
Padueah, on the 18th, promises to be quit,
large, and full of interest
We direct the attention of partie.
owning teams to the advertisements of the
Hickman Lumber and Manufacturinc
Company, in this issue. Good teams can
realize from $500 to SS.5e per day.
We have received Vol. /, No. ., of
The Sunbeam, neat six column Democrat
&c paper published by y. wager, Leitcb-
field, Ky. May it ever disseminate the
rays of true Democratic principles
The Dyersburg Gazette thinks that
Dyersburg will have a railroad connection
within few weeks. The completion Of
The Paducah and Memphis railroad viii
open up one of the richest sections Of
West Tennessee.
A mail route, running from here by
The way of Fremont and Crystal to Hick-
man, Ky, has been suggested by parties
living north of here, aud a petition will
be sent to the Department. requesting
said route Troy Banner.
Ice Cream! Ice CreaIaa!!
Having purchased a new Patent Ice Cream
Freezer, am now prepared to furnish
Ice Cream, in large or small quantities,
regularly. Give mt a call.
LOUIS KAYSEG.
MEDICAL EXAMINING BOARD We
are requested to announce that there will
be called session of the Medical Exam
lining Board for the First District OF Ken
lucky, in Paduceh, on the second dag of
the Medical Convention to be held in that
city next week. commencing Nay 18th.
1t is becoming the custom out west
for newly-married people to send TO news
paper publishers, along with their mar
Tiage notice, the amount of years sub
scription. This Is a very sensible custom.
Who'll be the first to inaugurate this Gus
tom in our midst by sending s. 90 for the
COURIER
We hear much complaint Oh account
of poor "staEd of corn" this spring,
caused no doubt by picking corn for seed
that remained too long in the feld last
fall, thus having its terminating powers
injured by the unusually severe weather.
A number of farmers have plowed up and
planted anew.-Lake County Star.
The reason given by the colored man
for not going toe near the hind legs of a
famous roam mu1s was so satisfactory that
great many people adopt it as az excuse
for not doing a great many other things
+'De reason" he said, "wby L ne5bel
,proach dat roam mule from de rear is da
49, fond of my family an don't be
long to no church, nudder.'
We invite the attention of our read
ers TO our advertising columns, which
shows not only the confidence of business
men in the COURIER, but it shows enter
prise on the part Of our merchants to in
vite our readers 90 inspect their goods
We commend each one to your netice IL
the separate branch which they represent
and believe you will subserve your owl
interest by reading their notices carefully
We learn from the Lake County Sta
that on Wednesday last two men, Joe Boz
and Sam Hudson, became involved in
difficulty, in Tiptonville-the latter &C
cusing the former of stealing fish out o
net in the lake, of which charge he wa
ac1uitted-during which Hudson strucl
Box on the head with hoe inficting
wound from which he died the following
night. Hudson was arrested and place.
In Jail.
RIVER News. The river is falliDl
rapidly at Hickman, and in a day or tw
more all the "bottom" lands will be clea
of water, and ready for cultivation, re
enriched by the overflow. There is ampl
time for good crops, without further mis-
baps, aud if the bottom farmers vii
work up lively two weeks will place then
ahead of their hill neighbors. The uppe
rivers are falling, the weather fair an
clear, and the present prospects are hop
full that no further trouble will come from
the river this season