The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-01-21

good crop year, the next harvest will be
the most bountiful one gathered in this
country for half n century.
DON'T ASK FOR CREDIT after this
date, as l am determined to SELL FOR
CASH and sell the cheaper Parties ow
ing me viii please come forward and set
tle up. Thankful for past fsvors l solicit
q continuance of the same.
jal4 r. NJ. NETHENY.
On Saturday night. last, after the
regular operator had retired, some dis
patches, dated Hickman, Ky, surrepti-
tiOusly found their way to Nashville
whether some one stole in the Office here.
or seat them from some other Office on the
line, is the mystery. 1t will fall hard up.
on the guilty party, if he can be detected.
Mr. Clarence C. Todd, clerk at VIM
Herou's, is in Union City, having his eyes
treated. Clarence brought this on him
self by being too fond of looking at the
female Columbus Times.
If the young ladies Of Columbus are so
ugly as to give the young men the sore
eyes, we would advise the boys to come
down and take a lock at our girls, and we
will guarantee a sure cure.
The terrible weather has blocked
trade in every department. No produce
being brought TO market because of the
roads, no trade with the merchants be-
yond absolute necessities, the manufac-
turing establishments running irregular
iy, and the Hickman Courier out of any
locals or matters of special interest The
past two months we've been merely sub
sisting-hoping to commence living be-
fore great while-preferring to'bear the
ills we have rather than fly to the others
that we kRev not Of
TIE LIvELIEsT HOUSE IN HEX
Nss.-It is refreshing this cold, slippery,
disagreaSie weather, to see one pushing
his business with energy and enterprise.
This you can see at Buckner's new family
grocery. The house is chuck full Of new
and fresh goods, and sales are lively. Al
though new house, the business doiRg
Indicates large custom, aud it at once
takes leading position among our best
grocery houses. An inspection of their
stock shows everything usually kept in
such houses, and good variety of goods
not usually kept in this mar ket. They
can defy competition in the quality and
prices OF Sugars, Cofees, Flour, Meal,
Aolasses, Potatoes, and all substantiSls.
Besides you will find a splendid variety
Of Canned Goods, Mince Meats, Cranbe T.
ries, Prunes, Dates, Figs, Nuts, Candies,
Oysters, Sardiaes, Raisens, Currants,
Teas, Extracts, Cigars, Sc, &c, too nu
merous to mention. Mr. Bucfn er is pu sh
ing his business with energy and enter
prise, aud you can see on entering the
house that it is q real pleasure to clerk:
to show you goods, whether you buy Of
not. This polite attention to custom ers
together with good goods and reasonable
prices, is building ap good trade. They
are succeeding, and we congratula to
them Give them a call and see if wha
is here said is not exactly true
MooNsuINERs IN HICKMAN Nos
Of our readers have, doubtless, heard 0
"Moonshiners," and have a vague idea o
the character Of beings they are supposed
10 be, but few, we dare say, have eve
seen or confronted IA live moon sinner
To the average newspaper readers mind
the "Moonshiner" is an ignorant, dsper
ate, daredevil character, skulking i
caves and dens in day light, aud prowl
ing through the country of nights, spC
cially commissioned to murder Unite
States revenue officials, and otherwise d.
fly the laws of the Federal Government
As q matter Of fact, the "Moonshiner' /
msn-shaped and size as other men
sometimes ign GRANT and sometimes deu
eddy sharp, sometimes brave and SOM
times not so much 80. His offending col
sists in making and selling cheap whIsk,
and generally very bad whisky. This
is enabled to do, because he cheats Il
Government out of its tax on whisky, an
OF course he can undersell the iegitima
manufacturer who pays Uncle Sans heaV
charges on each gallon.
II seems very reliably ascertained no
that the moonshiners are, and have bee
for some time, operating in and abo'
Hickman. 1t appears that on last Frida
night, between IL aud u o'clock, a SOUS
of these mosnshiners run into Hickma
with wagon load Of Illicit whisky, pro
ably arriving earlier than was their won
The moonshiners, while in a house ira
ing, left one barrel in a wagon on t
streets. Some of the hoys of the tow
scented the situation, and with funne
and buckets, readily obtained, soon emp
led the barrel of its contents, claiming
COED and loyal citizens it was their rig
and duty to seize and appropriate the
Iicit stuff The moonshiners rsturne
but we're, perhaps, content to get avs
with their empty barrel, wagon and teal
We suppose the BUSINESS has been ca
ried on for some time hereabouts, but
what extent we have no information.
may prove very profitable for awhile, b
we suspect, by and by, Uncle Sam viii 2
on the trail, and then several thnusal
dollar fines and from ten to twenty yea
in the penitentisry will divest it of son
of its present destinations and profits.