The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-09-23

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to-day.
Officers in Republican Connecticut ex-
cIude negroes from camp meetings.
The great tidal wave is to wash us all
off the earth on the 9Th of next month.
The wheat crop in Great Britain is
disastrousiy deficient.
The negro women have been playing
Ku-kux in Giles county, Tennessee.
Three men, names unknown, were
killed near Bloomfield, Missouri, by a
party of disguised men, few days since.
Savannah and Charleston are getting
. TO be almoS4 as heavy exporters of cotton
to Europe as Mobile and New Orleans.
At Grand Capital Removal Meet
ing . in st. Louis Saturday night, all
the speakers thought there was no place
like St. Louis for the national capital.
A ghost in California is stealing heavy
weights of iron. 1t is probably the
spirit of protection" of which Mr.
Greeley speaks so often.-N. \. HoTtd.
In view of the extraordinary health of
New Orleans the past summer, the pa
pers of that city are eulogizing their
sanitary regulations.
& conscientious Memphis horse-thief
owners stable, when he learned what
4 4 Il
Brick Pomerey's second lecture in
S,n Francisco was 80 slimly attended
that the . audience was dismissed and
their money returned.
Hogs arc dying Of cholera in Granger
county, Tenn, to such an extent that
the people will scarcely be able to put
up supply Of bacon this year
The Queen Of the Belgians received.
this year, the golden rose which the
Pope sends annually to a Catholic prin-
cess.
Salt sprinkled upon the carpet before
sweeping will make it look bright aud
clean This IS great preventive
against moths.
II. y -
N "a aass -A-s'S a, 49,
than forty years. We hope she may last
forty years longer. She IS credit to
the cause.
Compulsory education IS the next card
the Radicals are to play. They declare
that it won them California, and has been
found potent invariably in every State
election where il has been tried.
There is JOY for the juveniles in the
news that the peanut crop at the South
is abundant. Tennessee will furnish an
enormous quantity-more than enough
to balance any failure in Carolina.
a man in Pittsburg, who washes bug
gies and attends horses for living, has
received news of the death of his brother
in Australia, leaving him sole heir to
81 ,250, 900 in gold. Merchants here
have raised money TO send him to Aus
traia to establish his claim.
The recent great speech of Mr.. Groes-
beck is having much influence in Ken
lucky, and it does seem that the major
ity OF the democratic party in this state
will harmonic with the national dem
ocracy if it should adopt the new de-
parture.
1t is a little amusing to see the mild
ness with which many radical papers re
fer TO the enormous populations in New
\ ork. This tenderness comes from the
fact that each Democratic rascal has a
radical rascal to match him.
a GREAT tidal wave, fifty feet high, it
has been predicted in the Southern States,
on the night of October the 9Th, or the
morning of the 9th, sweep over the coasts
of the western continents.
COLORADO chronicles the most remark
able achievement yet accomplished in
narrow gauge" railway enterprise. al
though only three and q half miles of
track are laid, trains are said to run thir-
ty miles an hour over it.
A young girl of thirteen, daughter of
a veteran land millionaire in the West,
has just been presented by her father
with gift of Z 900 acres of land. She !
is going to make dairy farm of it,
stocking it with FIVE hundred COWS.
The Springfield (NIass.) Republican
tells ora woman in that city who does
washing for two cents :. piece, - and
derives an average income therefrom OF
Sl20 a month. Last month she washed
6,957 PIECES, aud received S13914. Her
husband meanwhile tolls on for s12 per
week, less than one-half what she earns.
The Pope authoritatiyely contradicts
the statement recently published that
Cardinal Bonaparte was the bearer of
letter from the Emperor Napoleon adj
dressed to his Holiness. Ny commune
cation, either Of clerical or political
nature has been received at the vatican
from the ex Emperor.
A Paris dispatch says: The immediate
evacuation of six more departments is
probable, in consideration of France pro-
longing the period Of free entry Of man
ufactured goods and fabrics fom Alsace
aud Lorraine into France The Ger
man occupation of the northern and
eastern frontiers will be continued two
years.
At Paducah, last Saturday morning
before daylight, the residence of DR. !
Richardson, on the corner of Oak and |
Clay streets, was fred by an incendiary,
but was discovered and extinguished be-
fore any material damage was done. Ar
thur Voolfolk was placed under arrest
on suspicion of having been the author
of the deed.