The Hickman courier., 1869-04-24
ra;fortaI Items.

Gen. Jubal Early has gone to Lex'ng
ton, Va, on visit to Gen. Lee
Gold has been discovered in overton /.
county, Tenn. r.,
Mike McCoolo and Tom Allen, noted noted /
pueilisls. have agreed to fight Tor oiooo
a side the match to come oil IN apou' I
six weeks, and only twenty persons 70 DC ,
present. il
The Chaplain of the United States
Senate has, in public prayer lpsirG'teu
Providence to fight sn the side oi .he
Cuban insurgents, and to conduct III as
appointed Office seekers to their MONIES
in safety.
For the past sixty years such thing
nc nroseIvtism has been unknown among
the OuaLcrs. Lately, however, their so
ciety is rapidly increasing Broad nTiuls
and shad bellies are becoming as thick
upon Northern streets as bugs IN August
Causc-G General Grant handing over 'iie
Indian Commission to their care.
The President has banished Congress
man Ashley to Montana "a Governor OF
that Territory. and Church Howe to
Wyoming. as Marshal of the same. We
have DO objection to this il the settlers
ont there can stand it, but we don want
to see these worthless coming back upon
us in the form of Representatives Oh
| Senators in Congress.
1t is almost incredible that in the
Massachusetts Lsgislaslarf 6eS Sii eass sss
offered, providing that any clergyman
/ furnishing fermented wine at saere-
mental communion table shall be deem
ed guilty Of keeping Il public bar The
Boston Herald reports this fact.
A cousin of Mrs. Grant has come to
grief at the hands Of the Senate. The
President nominated him to very i'm
portaut Office, Marshal of New York ;
/ but the Seua;e finding he had a bank
ruptcy case pending in which his debts
we're put down at $3.50, ,574, and his as
sets nothing, rejected the nomination.
Gipsies were observed in Germany in
1914, and by 1927 had appeared in
) Switzerland, Italy, Spain and France !;
they reached Great Britain in 1900 and
America shortly after its first settlement.
All the Gypsy dialects are essentially one
and the same language, and their mother
tongue is the IIindostanee of our day,
: in which most of their important words
are found unchanged.
, 1t is reported iu Columbus that young
Eggleston, recently appointed postmas-
ter, desires that his predecessor shall re
main and run the machine for him-he
e feeling incompetent to do so himself
= The Columbus Sentinel hopes that Mr.
! Dillahunty will do no such thing. Gen
Grant SAYS that the best way to have OBJ
. noxious laws changed, is to enforce them
7 rigidly, so that pubaic opinion viii de-
6 maud their repeal. The same principle
+ the Sentinel thinks, should apply to ap
d pointments.
e The Frog said to have been found in Z
Tennessee cave, and to have weighed %
lbs, and measured three feet in height
when squatting, came TO an untimely enc
D a few days since.f a visitor called him ;
r lazY-sooking radical, whereupos sae froG
80 80 Aa6d commenced swelling, anC
liens-A slling lnFifAit it burst with suci
ril iurn'7 oise that the united sound o
5Tr--ss rs salary cannon would not half equa
, 5tsss..sas
E e. directed Ss.s'ss.s s;-- io,..
we're Cav fayor o. ssesS5=e .,,.. liss, 81.
srer esr ~ tn, the sasneI - s-e gIssa il
p ies : araount posed of sulphur
- the city. - sha proportioIA on
also tshtiere9naf 70 twenty o. the p1atter
showingulli become as shaIp>ss--iiss,tsround
ty cad viii only require to be finished o.
s. tie hone. The length of immersion
: must be augmented, we are told, accord
% ing to the fiaeness Of the edge required
but nothing Is said about the averag
> time required At any rate, it is an ex
at pertinent any one can try.
* Breckenridge says he is can extino
4 Volcano As figure of speech ii vii
le do, but we advise his enemies not to pu
d too much dependence on it. They ha'
,e better keep away from the Crater
i mouth.
a. THE Forty First Congress will re
,e assemble Monday, December 7th. Thi
\ will be termed its second session.
THERE are 100000 Protestants il
France.
e SPEED S. Fry has been appointc,
to Supervisor of Internal Revenue in thi
.e State, in place of d. S. Goodloe
5, A PAssrNeER-cAR for the Erie Rail
to road, to cost $4,000, is building in Jer
=. sey City. 1t will be, it is said, the larg
!. est, cestliest, and perhaps the most ele
CANT car in the world.
e, As there are no officers in Vicksburg
> authorized to solemnize the rites of mat
% rimony, persons inclined that way, hay,
Il TO cross into Louisiana.
. IT has been thought strange that tn,
dinner to which man is not invited is tn,
y one that sits hardest upon his stomach
; IT is expected that on the first of Ma,
! the Treasury will hold about hundrel
. million dollars in specie There an,
I eightytwo millions now on hand anC
i the customs for the month are estimated
y at nearly eighteen millions Twenty
{ eight millions of coin interest comes due
{ on the lst proximo.
!. THE latest proposition for the solution
d of the Indian problem is the appoint
;, ment of Peace Commissioner by the
It President composed of Quakers, civilized
Indians and French Catholic mission
aries. Il is agreed that the indians
: would ropose the utmost confidence il
t the promises of such commission, and
\ that :, Ia sfinf, poaca oanld H.. r,a,l;T a.