The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-03-04

Hickman in the Lower House of the uext
Kentucky Legislature.
Circuit Court couvenes next onday.
and we learn the docket is much the larg-
es. for several years.
Bring your mules to Hickman next
Monday il you want to sell Tor cash
Good and liberal buyers are announced to
be here.
Mr. r. NJ Eisbett. publisher of the
obion Nees, Troy. has sold his interest,
to Mr.. Tom W. Field Mr., Brice remains
the editor.
T. d. Hayes, of Texarksna. Texas,
some years ago clerk in the house of II.
Buchanan, was visiting Hickman this
week He is well pleased with bis Texas
home.
Eli Perkins, the great humorist lee
tarer, lectures in Hickman, March, l4th
and 18th. Remember the date. Seats for
sale at Frenz's Book Store, and Cow ills
Drug Store.
Mrs NJ. f. Grattan, a teacher Of the
fine arts, is stopping at tAe PiaHters
House, this city, and we notice that some
of our exchanges speak in highly COM
plimentary terms of her work. Give her
aSall.
Bradley, the defaultipg Princeton
postmaster, UbS is also charged with
burning the post-ofice building 20 conceal
his robberies, has been locked mp in the
Paducah Jail. lie was formerly consider
ed a model young man.
Henry Auberg left for the Eastern
cities, McaSay, to buy spring goods. He
will, also. take in Washington City, and
Gsrfeld's Inauguration, to-day-that is if
Witnessing the inauguration don't con-
fict with business; but, il it does-busi-
ness is first with him.
The Mardi Gras celebrations at New
Orleans aud Memphis, we're duly cele
brated on the LIST, in q pomF and style
fully up to past years. These cities were
packed and damned with visitors from all
parts of the United States. The scenic
and industrial display exceeded former
years.
SOMETHING You'll ENJOY Per
sons visiting Hickman next week. desir-
ing nice, clean, delicious shave, hair
cut, &C., should call at ChsrIey's O. X.
Barber Shop, next door 10 Holcombe's
drug store. Shaving 10 cents. lie is one
of the cleanest, ncatest, and best BARRIERS
ever in Hickman.
The Fulton Inder, we learn. has
suspended publication. We extend the
publishers sincere sympathy in their EN-
barrassment, and trust il may prove only
temporary. Local papers, hswever, are
growing too thick to thrive, in this sec
zion. They are good-hut, like many an
other good remedy, the Body public can
be over-dosed.
The Hickman COURIER learned from
a special to tho Nashville Amsrican that
the river hank was falling in at Column
bus, Ky, aud so published. The Columbus
Times, says the in foru alton was incorrect.
May Columbus and her river front stand
rock-ribbed for thousand years; and
when VIC gst to Congress her wharf front
shall be "rock-ribbed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Younger. Of Graves
cGlnty, quarreled on last Saturday. they
agreed to separate, and each left home,
going in opp Osite directions. The wife
returned home, found rope, hitched one
end of it TO her neck aud the other to n
rafter, stood on chair, and stepped of
The husband returned and found her dead
dead, dead. Parties young and highly
connected.
Two young boys, from Union City.
were arrested here Tuesday evening, on
- telegram from the father of one of them.
The young lad had in some way got a
check for s 100 due to his father cashed
and fed with the money. Marshal Hack
EFT searched him and Sound S07 so on his
person-the boy having spent the balance
for pistol, So. They were shipped back
to Union City.
The RIvER-The Mississippi has
continued to fall at Hickman since last
saturday, though very slowly. A slight
rise in the Ohio and Mississippi held the
fall in check. Latest advices report the
Mississippi. Ohio, Tennessee, aud Cum.
berland falling, though each are very full
There is much water to come down yet
and the river here will be in a dangerou: