The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-03-16
LOCAL NEWS.
Garden seeds are in demand.


Some of our people planted gydens
this week.
Some people insist that the fruit
crop is all right so far.
pS-T Take your Fowl and Game
to SHAW u SHAW.
No fruit is ever killed in March in
this section, says an old inhabitant
Why is a dogs tail like the pith Of
a treeg II is further from the bark
B6r Go to II. BUcHANAN's for first
class Northern Glover Seed, free from
Buckhorn.
Every man should take his county
paper, and thereby keep posted on cur
rent events.
Don't be in too big hurry about
taking down your stove; two or three
pretty days don't make Spring
The Obion Presbytery of the Cum.
berland Presbyterian Church, was in
session at Dyersburg last week.
- Finest line Of Wall Paper Samples
in the market. Come and look at them.
At BERENDEs' Book SroRE.
The Logan brothers, who broke Jail
nc Dyersburg some three months ago,
were captured at New Madrid, Mo, last
week.
Bishop Miles. of jackson. Tennessee,
Bishopof the Colored Methodist Church,
was in the city, Sunday, and preached
to his people.
Pursuant 20 an order from Wash
ington all pensioners residing in the
South will hereafter be paid by the pen
sion agent at Knoxville, Tenn.
Sugar has .aken a tumble Of ten
cents on the hundred pounds this week.
This. coupled with the collapse Of the
-four trust and the advance in cotton, j.
a hopeful sign.
An Ohio girl ran away from home
recently because her parents wanted
her TO play the piano and now the
young men Of her acquaintance are be
moaning a lost opportunity.
People who attend TO their own
business have no time 20 attend TO any
body else's business. The meddlesome
people never succeed in anything ex-
cept in making themselves unpopular.
The infant son of DR.. and Mrs. Jas.
Baker died, Friday last at their home
IN JOnesbOro, Ark The friends and
relatives OF the bereaved family express
deep sympathy for them IN the loss of
their LATHE babe.
Hf7F- NV stock Of Floor Mating and
Oil Cloth JUS received They are all
choice selections, and | have put the
price very low ON them Come IN and
make your choice before the stock il
broken.
3-2-4t n. &. AMBERG
Easter comes on April 10Th this
year, which is unusually late. and in
fact il is IN a week OF the latest possible
date for the feast The setting OF the
dase Is by means Of the Paschal moon,
and on this account IL Is impossible FOR
il to come earlier than March 2lst or la
ter than April 18th.
Fulton Leader, 9th inst A little
son of Widow Flat, near Alexander.
was bitten this morning by a mad dog
while PLAYING on the public road, and
was taken Immediately 90 Paducah by
way of Water Valley to try the mad
stone remedy to see II it was hydro
phobia
The retail fish market of the Union
CITY Fish and Grocery Co, was totally
destroyed by fire Monday morning last
The fire Is thought TO have been of in
origin. as there had been no
hre in the building in over a week. The
COmpany's loss was not over 5000 a.
they had lately moved most Of their
goods to Obion
Fulton Leader: Mrs. Pleas Taylor
has received from Miss Alice Waters,
to China now at Shanghai.
very pretty but unique wedding invita-
ton after Chinese customs. IL il Of
Chinese characters printed in two up
right columns. on a red folder and plac-
ed in a bag like envelope Of same color
and texture
Edison s great KinetOscope and Con-
cert Co, the greatest and most famous
exhibition OF the kind before the public,
will exhibit at City Hall TO night. New
illustrated songs-"The Girl | Loved in
Sunny Tennessee" mid the Green
Fields of Virginia" and other repro
auctions from the Old Virginia Quar-
tette. Admission l5cts children 1Octs.
Reserved seats on sale az usual place.
E~ II you want
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