The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-05-26
LOCAL NEWS.
~ Queensware at SHAw's,
The Nashville has come and


10 cents per hundred.
The bigger man gets the more he
seems to feel lust like boy"
VR. Special attention to Hardware
shelf goods at SHAw's.
A w. Lindsay attended the Sena.
torial Convention at Fulton, Tuesday
Satan is said to be the father of lies
and matrimony the mother of excuses,
The State Board OF Health has or.
dercd y stop put to negro excursions, 10
prevent the spread Of small pox.
Bernard Davis, son of Mr.. Cato Da-
Wis, died, az his fathers home, Wood
land Mills, "Wednesday last, of typhoid
fever.
Capt. Mann, chief engineer OF the
NJ. d o. Railroad. died, suddenly, of
heart disease, on the train, near Corinth
last W eek.
Hollis Kirk, young man who was
assisting in tiriug the salutes to the
Nashville. Sunday evening, had his
face badly powderburnt, but not serious
".
rssya Try a barrel OF Erin Lime and
Star Cement from LEDFoRD 81 ROGERS.
None better.
Tomorrow is Decoration and Child.
rens' Day at Mt. Zion church, near Jor-
dan. A special program has been ar
ranged for the occasion. Every body in
vited.
Mrs. Frances +. Beauchamp, of
Lexington, President of the State I'm
ion, w. 9. Z. o.. will deliver n free
lecture ut City Hall tonight. Every
body invited.
--Irby Meadows, of Mckenzie, was
killed by train at that place. He
tried To board freight train tor short
ride, and missing his footing, fell be.
meath the wheels.
An attempt Is being made by the
city council of Belleville, KY, TO stop
the practice of swearing. No such
proposition has yet been made by any
member of the city council of Hickman.
The Clinton Democrat says that the
smallpox scare at that place has entirely
subsidized. No new cases reported, and
those persons heretofore reported as be.
ing afflicted with the dread disease are
over with it.
Twelve cases of smallpox have de.
veloped at Martin, Tenn, only two be.
ing negroes. Ii is a violent type of the
disease, and several of the patients are
very low. The surrounding towns are
instituting rigid quarantine.
Fulton has dog law. Owners of
dogs have been notified TO procure tag
fee so cents from the city clerk by
June LIST. Those failing TO comply with
the law are subject to hne of 3 for
each day they fail to observe same.
Mr.. Geo. Cross, a prominent saw
mill man, OF Barfield, Ark. and well
known in this section. died in Memphis,
Friday of last week. The remains were
buried at the home of his mother, Mrs.
Saline Cross, near Woodland Mills.
An unknown man was found one
day last week near Water Valley, un-
concious, with a terrible cash in his
head. An engineer picked him up and
carried him to Fulton. Ii is supposed
that he was pushed. or fell from train.
An old bachelor printer says: Wo-
man that is born of woman is small
type and hard to set she is long line
and easy to pi she is not hard to lock
mp, but 1t takes a great deal of make
ready for her to make good impression
There are balky people as We'll as
horses. If they cannot do as they like,
they will pull back and thus make a lot
of hard work for themselves. Some
ma Cd s.x D t.g.t
everybody else are warped in their man
ners, actions and general expressions.
Ed. Hughes, who was arrested at
Fulton recently for beating his board
bill at several places, is wanted at Mil
burn for passing "a bogus check ON a
merchant at that place. He procured
horse and buggy from livery man at
Arlington and has not been heard of
since, neither has the horse and buggy.
u. @. @. q.
AT Fulton man named Perry, who
is said TO have made remarks about
southern women, was given a write mp
i'll the Leader. The next day he called
at the Office and asked for a retraction
from the editor. The request was re.
fused aud personal encounter follow.
ed in which the editor, Mott Ayers,
came out victorious.
"A real, healthy, universal desire
for good public roads will be more po-
tent than any reasonable legislative en-
actment IN the improvement of our
roads. The law may have some imper.
fections, but the great trouble is we pnt
our hopes in the law when we should
know that after all it's our work and
money that must make our roads.
1t Is published that the Mississippi
River Commission has made an allot-
inent to extend the Levee from Birds
Point down the river in cooperation
with local levee company. How will
such levee effect the Kentucky side Of
the river? Some years since when con-
ditions were reversed, orr neighbors
entered protests through their congress
men.
Mr. r. s. Murphy shot at Sheriff
Jno. Stubblefield Friday last, in Full
ton, but missed him. Murphy was ar
rested and held III $500 bond. The
shooting occurred on the Tennessee
side. On this occasion Murphy dared
Stubblefield 10 come on the Tennessee
side, Stubblefield started, when Muir
ply told him to draw his gun, and fired.
Stubblefield was not armed. There has
been i'll feeling between the two for
some time past.