The Hickman courier., 1871-09-30
GeneTaI Ilens.

General Items.
GRANTS income is something over a
million.
Knoxville, Tennessee, has deaf
and dumb school.
AN Alabama village is for sale at two
dollars an ace.
THE charity that begins at home gen
orally ends there.
Gov. Leslie is the twenty sixth Gov
eruor of Kentucky.
There are 1904 languages spoken in
the world.
A young lady of Logan county Ken
tucky, has advertised for '-sealed proPo-
sails for her hand and heart"
THE census for 1870 Georgia 1,1S4,
100 inhabitants, and Michigan I,1S4,
050-Georgia leading by just so.
A Dubuque husband cut of his wife's
hair when she was asleep, and purchased
jug Of whisky with it.
\ Savannah man was cured of rheum-
atism by the active movements he made
to get out of the way of a mad steer.
One hundred and ten years ago there
was not a single white man in Kentucky,
Ohio, Indiana or Illinois.
THE Little Rock Gazette head lines
its obituary notices "Abando.ned earth. "
What next.
The Louisville Commercial says that
several hundred irst-elass funerals would
result in great good to that city.
A Louisville lady has recovered s1O,~
600 for being dragged and injured by a
street car.
Mrs. John y Taylor was thrown
from buggy and killed, near Browns
vile, lest Wednesday evening.
THE election in Kentucky for Con
gressmen and for President will be by
ballot. An act passed the last Congress
TO that effect.
TRACK laying on the Arkansas ex-
tension of the Iron Mountain road, be-
tween DesArc and Piedmont, in Wayne
county, is progressing rapidly
THE surviving soldiers of the war Of
1912 will hold q meeting IN Lexington,
October 3, that being the anniversary Of
the battle of the Thames.
The Chicago RepuJlican of the goth
inst. comes out for Horace Greeley as
its candidate for President on the Demo
cratic ticket in 1872.
A contemporary thinks that the best
way to improve the lot of woman is to put a
good house on it and good man in the
house.
DYER COUNTY. TENN-According to
official returns made to the Secretary of
State, Dyer county has a voting popula-
ton of 2,710 whites and 629 colored,
making total Of 1888.
THE Nashville Banner says: THE
trade in dried fruit promises to be larger
this season than for many years past.
Our merchants are handling from 10000
to 10000 pounds daily"
CALIFORNIA votes again on Wednes-
day, October 4, choosing two Justices of
the Supreme Court, a Superintendent of
Public Institutions, and various local
Judges.
TIE New Orleans Times looks forward
with eompiaeency to the one hundred
feet inundation of the city with the con-
soling reflection that it will wipe out the
Republican party.
The New York Herald declares that
fo ticide or infanticide is the sin of the
age" It's frequency in the city of New
York, with the horrors attending it,
proves it is the sin of New York at least.
The Louisville Commercial hoists the
name of Grant and Harlan at the head
of its columns for President and Vice
President, and devotes nearly two col
umns of its editorial space to fulsome
eulogy Of them.
A citizen of Montreal has been SEN
fenced to pay six dollars and cost, or go
to Jail for thirty days, for refusing to
tell the census enumerator the ages Of
his unmarried daughters. The girls ad-
yised the old gentleman to go to jail.
The young men at the Wheeling
watering places have discarded white
vests. The young ladies use so much
oil on their hair that a vest is only good
for one evening on the piazza.
+ Notwithstanding the fact that Profes-
sor Agassiz some weeks ago pronounced
fraudulent a letter attributing to him
the prediction of a great tidal wave
which would sweep over the Southern
coast on the 9Th prox., and engulf all in
one common ruin, the story still finds
credence.