The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-03-31
Local Items.
April 9 is Easter.

Geo. w. Balm, Ksntuckys gifte,
temperance orator, is lccturing in the cit,
of Louisville.
Miss LOWE Landrum, returned wednes
day, from lengthy visit to Memphis.
After the LIST of April, the mail rout,
from Hickman to Dyersburg, will termi
nate at Obion Station.
Henry Wsd.worth Longfellow, tn,
poet, died, Friday, March %, at his home
Cambridge. Mass.
J. Gran. Parker is a candidate for Cir
cult Court Clerk Of weakIey County,
Tenn
The residence Of Mr.. j D. Arnett,
Tiptsnviils, was destroyed BY are, on the
Goth. No Insurance..
A stroll over Hickman will aston
fish you as to the large number OF smaller
Improvements now in progress. Every
carpenter in the village ia busy.
Mr.. B. H. Freeman, announces IN
the Fulton papers, that he has formed a
limited partnership with Capt. c. L. Ran>
die, OF Hickman.
Mr.. Newt ]. Bushart, has taken charge
OF the Planters House. The public can
promise themselves good square meal and
gentlemanly treatment, if they will give
him call
Mr.. John Davis, left Wednesday,
for Brinkly, Ark, where he takes . PEST
zion a. clerk. He is a steady, business
young man, and has a good future.
Mr.. A. A. Selkirk, of the house Of
]. H. Plsut, leaves Sunday, for St Louis,
and otssr cities in the interest OF the
Square Deal house.
You've gentleman, go and look
st the handsome and stylish line of
Hats, at H. BUCHANAN'S.
Mrs. Addie Joues and Miss Ella
Harding returned from business and
pleasure trip to st. Louis, Thursday.
tn. ladies are respectfully invited to call
and see the new styles, sc.
The receding floods has left on
many farms rich soil sediment which
will well repay Ger the loss of lenses.
Other farms have been greatly damaged by
sand
The cars commenced running into
Dysrsburg On the 21st. The citizens
turned out in procession, and with brass
band, speeches, &c, welcomed the iron
horse.
These who failed to attend the Sun.
day school review at the Methodist church,
Friday night missed q fine musical and
Intellectual sntsrtainmsnt, so our special
reporter reports.
Our bottom farmers" have com>
menced fencing in earnest, and a MAORI
ty Of them are hopeful of good crops
Those best served will be those who 20 to
work quickest and hardest, which is the
only way to ofiet the existing misfOr.
tunes.
The Burlington, Iowa, Relief Com
mittee autographed that they have raised
between $500 and $1,000 for the relief OF
flood sufferers, and ask the Hickman Com
mite if they need any part of it.
Some persons in Hickman have
opened corrsspondence with sec'y Of War
Lincoln, relative to sbtsinins seed corn
for the overflow farmers Of this section,
aud will probably know definitely in =
few days
The West Tennessee papers dsnounos
as a.fraad, one DIR. Fuller, Of Lake county,
Tenn, Fuller collected 500 at Union
City and amounts At other places for the
food sufferers, got drunk, and spent the
money. He now languishss in Jail
AT the solicitation Of the orders oc
cupy ing Odd Fellows Hall, the Hickman
Minstrels, will repeat their performsnce
some night, in the near future, for the
benefit Of said Orders. The performances
will be given in Odd Fellows Hall, and
due notice given of the time.
III. BUCHANAN is now opening
the finest and best line of Gents
Youths, and Boys clothing, ever
brought to Hickman, and at price;
that will astonish all who will ex-
anime them. We promise better
goods. nicer made, and much cheap
er than have been paid heretofore
Cabbage and Tomato Plants.
Mr. Thos. r. McMahan announces that
he has a fine lot of Cabbage and Tomat
Plants. now ready.
The Kentucky Senate has passed . bill
submitting to . vste OF the people at tn
election in August, whether they will allo'
the manufacture of whiskey, &c., in thi
State. Ills understood that the Hous
will pass the bill. IL it applied to tn
United States it might carry; bat apply
ing only to Kentucky, and ne rsstri'
ton upon it's sale or importation, it wi
fail.
The Mississippi was on stand &
Hickman Thursday and Wednesday. TIL
big rise in the Ohio and Cumberlan
which commenced above on the 21st, an
about which great fears were felt, h,
fully reached here, aud only brought Il
river to stand for two days. All u
upper rivers are now falling, and aft
to-day the decline will commence bsaut
fully here and co ntinue for sometime.
TnE cultivation of cotton on the farm
contiguous to Hickman, pays; and tn
fact has been repeatedly proven. Ever
farmer should at least have few acres
cotton; and this specially true of tn
class of farmers who have labor in the
own families which can not be so VI
utilized in other crops. The women al
children can do the larger part in &C
ton crop this year. Because Of the ia
that so large a percentage of the colt