The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-05-20
Democratic Ticket.

JAMES A. DAWSON.
THxRE are annually shipped from
D1Ercr teIegra phic communication has
been established between England and
India.
THE President is ru=iicatiBg in Penn
syivauia.
The Legislature Of Wisconsin has
PASSED bill abolishing grand juries.
THE Emperor William is slightly in
disposed.
THE great batteries maintain terrific
frs upon The ra,Dparts of Paris
BoS. Horace Greeley lectures in
Greeulaw Opera house in Memphis on
the lst proximo.
CAIRO is in sputter about Law pass
ei by the City Council requiring hogs
TO Be penned up.
J. I. RoBERrs, known in New York,
Chicago, ani other cities as labor re-
fotmist. was fined, on Thursday, 800
fer Vsgraney.
TaE American COLONIZATION. Society
announces thai thousands of people of
color are pressing upon il for passage to
Liberia.
THE True Ksmtnckion says there Is
an apple tree IN Bourbon which meas
ursS thirteen feet in circumference five
feet fFOmSae ground
CAsASA Is the fourth maritime power
10 the vorld-Great Britain. Quilted
Ststes snd France alone surprising her.
Mrs Henry Wood. the English move
list. = reported to have realized not less
;hs4 100000 By the sale Of her sensa
tidal stories. which at 6r~t she could
no, indure any publisher 70 lock at.
IsIs10 there we're bur twenty seven
De nev-paPers in the Un;Fed States
OF these Pean>y lvassia had 9; New York )
Z; Maryland. 5: South Carolina. B. Or
leans Territory. ?: and the District OF
Coluu bia 1.
We learn ,hss Hon Oscar Turner's
condition IL alarming 10 his friends, re
sulting from the injury to his leg by the
fall from his buggy some three weeks
since at Bizndyilie-
Tur General Ciuseret now go active
ia RyusLing the city of Paris. was 5
RsdTcai political soiGier IN this country
during the var. serving as an aid de !
esmp 70 General Fremont.
ZEE Texas Legislature has passed a
Law compelling the attendance upon the
public schools of all children for four
months 10 the year. The attendance |
of the blacks aud whites at the same
sehools lie optionary with the local school
dirsctorsA
Al TIE Ssste conference Of the Con-
gregationzi Churches in Ne1 York and |
adjoining cities. Henry Ward Beecher
and Dr. Storrs insisted that women
should be encouraged to pray in public |
and address assemblies.
TIE Paris women whose husbands
are IN the ranks are deuouncing to the
authorities those who have secreted them
eeives at home TO shisk duty. The
wives Of the latter naturally take up the
quarrel. and the faubourg was lately the
scene of most Iudicrous hair pulling
6ght between the two factions.
Az Old DEspERADo CAUeHr.-John
Ryan. the notorious rufhan. who murder
ed Miss Sarah Owen. residing near May
ieid, KY, in 1868, and committed q mum
Der of daring robberies in Southern
kentucky about that time, was arrest |
ed 10 Arkansas few days since BY
Samuel Orr and Lewis FARMLAND, OF
Asyfsld. who started for that place with |
him on the 18th.
DrD HE?-The following is published |
in an exchange as erich joke. and it's
richness will be apparent to all upon
learning that Henry Pead is an editor of
shs lows County Herald: Upon late
eisotioneerine tour he slept at farm
house with two others in the sans bed,
aud the next moruing the lady of the
house inquired how they slept. First
rate" answered one Il slept behind
Bill slept before. and. Henry Pszd IN the
middle did he2" exclaimed tbs old
lsiy-
PaxsrDEsr GRAsr has promised that
the military shall be used IN South Caro-
Ina 10 suppress the Ku Klux. and that
exam pies shall be made Of some of the
members Of the Khan in that State. to
strike terror 70 those In other sections
A year ago everything was quiei IN South
Carolina. and would have SO continued
had not Governor Scott organized the
negro militia sni.pus arms in their hands
with view 70 defsat the Reform oandi-
date for Governor. and 10 70 elect him
self. The brutality of she negroes made
j. necessary for the whites TO organize
for Eelf-profection.s This is the cause Of
rhs troubles in that State. and they can
be suppressed only By the disuss of the
military 10 carry selections.
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