The Hickman courier., 1871-02-18
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Gold mines Baye been dicoVered in
Lower Californi. q
The aerial steamer constructed by Mr.
Morrow in San Francisco has made sue
cessful trips for short distances.
The house in which Napoleon Bona
part was born at Ajacco, in 1853, is still
standing, and is one of the best in Corsica.
The drunk room" is feature of a
Louisville hotel. Transient guests over
come by Bourbon are cared for therein
till sober.
A medical journal estimates that the
people of the United Stntes pay $40,
| 600 600 yearly for physicians services
aud for medicines.
A lot of ive hundred house sparrows
has been imported into Louisiana, in
order to try them as exterminators Of
the cotton worm and caterpillar.
A large volcano has suddenly sprung
up in Mexico on the Chick uahua road,
about a hundred miles. from Vera Cruz.
No volcano has been observed before SO
! far from the sea- f5.s
A large white sea gull so far lost his
reck oning as to wander inland to Poo
toosus lake Piusfeld, Mass, where he
was captured by boy fishing, while in
the act of stealing diuner from the
boys bait pail.
During Gen. Phil Sheridan's recent
visit TO Naples, a special exhumatiou was
made for his benefit at Pompeii Gene.
rails frequently receive ovations but this
is one of the rare occasions when they
are bOnOred thus. ~
The new city of Duluth, at the head
of Lake Superior, still struggles with
some of the difficulties of savage life.
They killed gray wolf in the streets
the other day.
A sealed can of oysters carelessly left
on the embers in a stove, IN Oswego, ex
ploded with tremendous force, burst
ing the CRATE to atoms, shaking the house,
and severely ioi a1'ass . :sw Eiss Us
w on non explosive oyster
pAsr NJ. Rev Mrs. Van Cott, the Metho-
,..1evangelist, says that IN the last four
lSears she has preached 81 sermons, held
296 prayer meetings, and twenty love
feasts, and 500 persons have Joined the
Methodist church under her ministry.
The Daily naturalization. published at
Melbourne, is a wonder in the newspaper
line. Its regular issue contains thirty
two pages, each page measuring 12x1S
inches, with an additional or supplement
airy forty eight pages every Saturday
Each page is set in small type, and con-
tains we'll digested summary of news,
editorials, criticisms, &c. .~.-
A SALOON keeper at Lansing euloei-
zes a deceased Michigan legislator !:
"Gentlemen, Mr.. r, was fine man; he
used TO spend his evenings at my saloon,
and run up bill of Sl25 at my bar, aud
paid it like man. At the close of the
session be went down the street and
drank some ones poor liquor, and that
is what killed him, poor man."
THE estate of the late Sophia Smith,
of Hatfield, Mass, who bequeathed the
residue Of her property, after other be-
quests are paid, to found female col.
lege," is ingen'oried at S468. .843, Of
which amount 1925, 900 is in bank stocks.
The real value of the property, which is
constantly increasing. is now probably
H.ll balf million, of which the college
VIII get "A~.at S400. 900.
A BANKER in Albion, Iowa, after vic !
timizing his fellow citizens financially
aud absconding, concluded to return and
hear what they had to say about him..
A committee Of about three hundred of
his creditors waited on him, and were so
urgent IN their efforts to show him atten
tons OF various kinds that he was induced !
to place property to the value of S4S, 900 /
10 their hands for the purpose of liquida-
ting their claims At the last accounts
the populace still held the banker as
hostage for further disgorgements.