The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-06-10
Democratic Ticket.

II. A. NJ. HENDERSON.
FOR ROOSTER or LAND OFFICE,
JAMES A. DAWSON.
NEW YoRK had seven sun strokes
Monday.
THE DIPLOMATS corps is returnipspto
Paris.
THE hay crop in McCracken county is
represented as very fne indeed.
President Grant will return to Wash
iugton next Monday.
Chicken cholera is prevalent in Graves
county. -
The wheat crop of Lyon county is
greatly injured by rust.
The eatterpillars have destroyed two
thirds of the orchards below the Cumber
laDd.
The Directors of the Paducah Fair
Company have decided TO have their
county fair October l1th. 18th and 18th
THE war of Republican factions 10 New
York has broken out afresb and with
greater virulenee than ever Tammany
looks on with serene composure.
A HAPPY father 10 Florida is writing
20 the papers Of bis State about his baby
which is two weeks old. nine inches in
length. weighs two pounds, and is re-
zyInsrkable for its beauty, vivacity and
Z eheerfuiuess.
INTERESTING TO PosTMAsTERs -
Salaries of postmasters throughout the
country are to be resdjusted on the basis
..pf their receipts during July and August
of this year, and the new .SSsedule of
salaries will go into effect ny l, 1872
TIE New York Herald says that fresh
combination a spectators to advance
the price of gold Is reported TO have been
G4de up in Wall Street The parties
sApiicsted are said 10 comprise some of
those who organized the gold corner"
z5Of 1869.
IETERvIEw WITH GRAST.-In speak
ing of Gen. Sherman in connection with
the Presidency. GRAFT said be and Sher-
man were warm friends. lie was not
authorized to speak for him, but he was
pretty certain that Gen Sherman would
not stand on the Democratic platform
q osss saass1a@a n NO Dsmoorar zetEE.zsseE
WAC.
Nh, PEEDLEIoE made speech at the
Columbus, Ohio. ratification meeting,
cordially adopting and iGdorsing the
platform and the ticket put forth by the
Ohio Democracy The Democrats of
that State are already unit, and the
aruccess Of their ticket may be regarded
IS almost, if not quite, certain by a
r2using majority.
IA YANKEE dead beat named Dunn is
operating in the Deighborhood of Bran
don, Mississippi. He gets up revivals
among the negroes, and then agrees to
show them the Saviour, the angels and
the martyred saints, for twenty soSe cents,
children half price-the proceeds to go
to the church. If this fellow should be
tarred and feaihered. he would doubtless
figure in the New York Tribune as the
. victim Of Ku Klux outrage.
,M TIE Cosr OF Being HAEeEp.-SAS
,fRANcIsco. June Mrs Fair is said
70 have paid her counsel and physicians
Who testified to her insanity and attend
ed her professionally. for hunting up
witnesses and other expenses of the trial
already over s20, 600. and DR. j B Task.
her principal medical attendant aud wit
psss, now sues her for 50, 900 more
an ancient proverb informs us that
''ssery dog has his day" bat careful
observer of events insist that this year
the crop of dogs ia so much more abund
sns than that of days that there will
hardly be one of the latter to go round
smong the former. He also advances
the startling doctrine that il is in sppre
hension Of not getting their dues that
come dogs are going crazy.
Tar BIC FLOOD STATrosAR -NEw
ORLEAEs, june THE water remains
stationary an inch below the highest
point reached. People continue moving
from the overEowed districts. The
President Of the Gas Light Company
states IL the water continues at its pres
snt height two days longer the Company
will be unable to supply gas.
ACCORDING to q San Francisco paper
Mrs. Laura d. Fair takes the gratess
pains with her toilet in prison. often
changes her dress three or four times q
cay. o4o paeo1o nlIu VI nor ttk4C Dc
fore her mirr,r. and, while admiring her
ssif, says: The more / see of myself.
The more I am convinced can never be
hanged Such q face and form a. mine
was never created for the gallows." She
modsstly asserts she was never 30 hand
some as she Is now.
TIE two great English speaking coun
tries are grpsning just now under
phisthors Of luore. A cable dispatch
ssys the Bank Of England has on de
posit twenty four million Eve hundred
Thousand pounds. The banks of New
York city now hold in their vaults fifteen
million dollars gold and sixty i've mil
Ion dollars legal tenders. The United
Estates Treasury holds ninety four mil
jon dollars gold.
EEAvY sUrr--s100. 900 DAMAaEs
We rrdsrstand that suit has been in.
ctitufsd 10 tbs Ballard county Court of
gounos Plsss. by several gentlemen Of
that comfy. sxaisst the MobiIszd Ohio
Railroad Compsuy. snd tx damages
laid at. 500. 900. The damages claimed
10 bscauss Of the uou fulflnsat Of con-
tract By the Mobile and Ohio load, to
eftend the road through Ballard cennty
a fhe Ohio river opposite 10 cs;ro~~
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