The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1886-10-22
Miscellaneous Items

botts, colofed, quarreled, when the Tor
mer whipped out revolver and shot the
latter in the abdomen, inficting a mortal
wound. Leavisy was jailed
The trial of Shade Chapman for the muir
der of Dave James, in Martin County, in
1854, closed at Inez the other day. the jury
sentencing Chapman to the penitentiary
for life. He has been conveyed to Frank
fort.
HARD wind-storm prevailed throughout
the State the other morning, but no special
damage is reported. The wind started
freight car froma siding near the old de-
pot, Louisville. Ii ran onto the main
track and was run into by south-bound
Louisville and Nashville freight, causing a
wreck. Two unknown tramps stealing q
ride on the cowcatcher were killed.
Miss Lulu SMITH, young lady who had
been engaged in teaching school in Meade
County, drowned herself in pond. No
csuse is assigned for the act
CHAs. RAMSEY was convicted at Mays
Tille Of shooting and wounding VIM. Ben.
| nett, and given one year in the peniten-
| tiary.
THE roof of the Christian Church at Dan
vile was blown off by high wind, the other
morning, and carried IS yards from the
building
PROHIBITION was adopted in Simpson
County, the other day, by a majority OF 30
votes.
In the United States Court, in Louisville.
Robert f. Lee, of Knox County, was ac-
quilted of the charge of ''moonshining. 'the
principal witness against him being Stone
wall Jackson.
JAsPERV. YATES and Maud S. Ward an
clipping couple from Upton, crossed the
river a few days ago, and were married in
Jacksonville, Ind The brides parents OBJ
jected to young Jasper and forbid bis at
teDtions to their daughter The young
couple decided to elope, and the young
man drove up in front of his sweetheart's
residence in a huckster's wagon, in the
rear of which was large chicken-coop.
While Jasper proceeded to interview the
Old gentleman with a view TO securing the
daughters hand in marriage, the latter
slipped out to the wagon and climbed into
the chicken-coop. When the old man re-
fused, the young lover said: "Al right,
didn't want her, anyhow and drove
away. III u sUtTI NBlle tlH GIFTS att
sence was discovered, and an ex-
citing chase took place, in which
the whole neighborhood took part. Pistol
balls whistled through the covered buck
ster's wagon, but only had the effect to
accelerate the speed of the foam-covered
steeds. Reaching the depot at Nolan, thu
train coming in, they abandoned the
wagon and fagged-out horses and boarded
the cars. The pursuers reached the plat
form just as the train got under Roadway,
but the expectant groom explained mat
tiers to the conductor, and no amount OF
signals had the effect of stopping the
train.
HUGH EDWARDS, JEFF Jarrett and Bud
Croutcher are in the Mt. Vernon Jail
charged with the murder of Elias Searcy.
The theory of tie prosecution is that
Searcy, having first been made drunk, was
poisoned for the purpose of securing thirty
dollars which he had upon his person.
TIE Kentucky Grand Lodge of the hide
pendent Order of Good Templars CON-
pleted its work a few days ago, and adj
journed TO meet in Louisville on the second
Tuesday in October, 1857. r. s. Easton, OF
Spottsville, was elected and installed a
Grand Chief Templar and Alex. Lusk, Of
Gum Sulphur, Grand Counselor.
AT Eminence, the case of the Common
wealth against Harry Scott, colored, who
blistered his two-year-old child with fire
and then dashed it to death with a whip,
has been tried. The jury returned Q ver-
dict of guilty and ten years imprisonment
in the penitentiary.
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one of the largest tobacco houses in South
Kentucky, made general assignment for
the benefit Of their creditors the other day.
The failure is a rather bad one, the nominal
assets not reaching the liabilities by more
than one third.
THE juries in the Henry Circuit Court
sitting at New Castle few days ago, had
a good deal of fun with the boys who went
from Louisville to that county last March
to witness the Warren-Barnes prize-ight.
The fun was ladled out to them at from so
to $50 EACH, with added trimmings in the
shape of costs.
j. A. HOFFMAN and Charles Workman,
jr., have been appointed storekeepers in
the Second district.
COLONEL JAMES NJ. DUNCAN, of Louis
vile, has been appointed to a position in
the folding department Of the House OF
Representatives.
JoHs W. DENHAN, of Pulaski County,
has been appointed storekeepe r gauSer in
the Eighth district.
The other day John Cramer, a farm hand
employed by Frank Meyers, nine miles
south of Louisville, went into the pasture
to salt the cattle. Unfortunately he wore
a red shirt. A bull saw him and made .
rush Cramer tried to get over a fence.
but was too late. The enrsged bull gored
him through the heart and bowels and
stamped him into a shapeless mass. He
was found dead two hours later with the
bull standing guard over him.
JESSIE BLACKBOARD shot Anderson Clay
burn at Keene. He was jailed at Nicholas.
vile.
TIE tops Of tho old brick piers used in
holding up the cables on the old suspension
bridge across the Licking between Newport
and Covington were being torn down few
days ago, to give place Ton the foot passen-
ger ways on the new iron truss bridge. now
approaching completion. The mortar and
cement had become so hard that it was i'm
possible to remove the bricks with chisel,
and dynamite had to be used.
Al Fox, while drunk and on the railroad
track, was run over and killed By Q pas-
ssnger train near NannipStori Bis hssa
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