The Hickman courier., 1871-02-11

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| THE State debt of South Carolina is
81, 100000
AN orphan girl in Virginia has just
smoked herself to death at the age OF
100.
A Leavenworth paper announces the
marriage of a young lady named Sierra
Nevada Latta."
A VERY full stomach in horse al
ways crowds his lungs SO that he cannot
go fast.
THE new hammer in the Bessemer
steel works at Harrisburg, Pa, weighs
35 600 pounds, and cost $4,000.
The Second Regiment of Prussian
Landwehr, composed almost entirely Of
married men, left over 5000 children at
home.
Sr. Patrick is needed in India. For
the year 1869. in one Presidency alone,
IL 4l6 people died from snake bite.
EVERY moderate drinker could abandon
the Intoxicating cup, if he would, every
inebriate would If he could.
A Sr. Joseph wife shot her husband
the other night for deceiving her. he
promised to buy her a muf, and didn't
AN Ohio woman has sued her husband
for divorce because he refused TO believe
in the damnation of unborn infants.
"MILLERIsM" is almost a forgotten
notion. It has "gone up although
mono of it's adherents have.
THE we'll known Mountain House, in
the Hume of the White Mountains, has
been destroyed by fire. It was erected
in 1849.
THE Albany 4rgus says that the late
Thad. Stevens was unmarried, but had
eleven illegitimate children, many OF
them mulatto.
KANSAS will pay its outstanding debt.
amounting to S239, 600. during the cur
rent month, and will still have a large
balance in the treasury.
THE Primitive Baptists of Georgia are
forbidden to avail themselves of the
bankrupt or homestead laws, under pen
atty of ex communication.
A LADY 10 Fond du Lac slipped Cd
the ice, and broke her leg. and the FIRST
remark she made after the accident, was
Il wonder if Harry viii marry me now "
THEY have on exhibition in Berlin "a
stone maiden," said to be a petri6ed
young lady. who was buried alive by the
Inquisition in Spain many hundred years
ago.
In the year 1870 the United States
exported over one million gallons OF
petroleum, its value exceeding that oi
the -four exports, and but little less than
that of the wheat.
Mr.. Carver, doing the honors of the
table, said to one of his guests. fashion
ably dressed girl of the period, II see
that you have plenty of breast, Miss, bu
do have little more dressing
THERE are more than $4,000 Pos
Offices in the United States, but only
little over one thousand are OF the classe
requiring appointments from the Presi
dent. The others are appointed by tn
i Postmaster General.
4 JOHN You've, a young man in Port
land, saw lady across the way shakius
some apple parings out of napkin, ana
mistook it for a handkerchief signal
| He called, and was kicked down stairs.
A New YORK chemist after years O
labor, now announces that he has dis
covered that raw potato will cure all de
sire for strong drink, two or three gooc
sized potatoes per day for two week:
being enough to dc the business.
| A speaker at recent Sunday Schoo
Convention at Vincennes. Indiana, relat
ed how a cruel parent forbade his daugh
ter to go to church, and how he took every
bit OF her clothing and locked it up in {
trunk; bnt she went, nevertheless.
LEAvEswoRTH is said to boast of
/ man who is so tall that his likeness can
not be got into one picture. A loca
artist has painted his head and shoulders
and announces that he will be "contiu
ued next week"
NEVER trust a secret with a Marie,
man who loves-his wife. Tor he will tel
her, aud she will tell her Aunt Hannah
and Aunt Hannah will impart it to tn
parson. aud then the whole female sis
terhood will be treated to it in broke
doses for the next six months.
i An unfortunate New Haven youi
, was recently SO convinced that he ha
/ swallowed dis two artificial teeth, plat
and all, that he suffered horrors in In
agination and a severe pain in his ston
ach. He afterward found the teeth
. his vest pocket.
A CHICAGO boy. being asked if h
had q mother, said he dida't know,
he hadn't been home since morning, an
when he left his father and mother We
quarreIing, with the odds in favor OF b
father, as he had the hatchet IN his han,
ri A physician in Beaver Dam. Wis, vi
arrested for whipping his wife. aud vs.
required to enter IN 10 bonds to keep ii
/ peace. On his return he tore down b
sign aud swore he wonld not practice
II any tswn where the authorities kne
4 better than he what was good for h
n wife.
IT To prevent bees from sticking the
d noses into neighbors' stores, kitchen
n etc., put some thin syrup (msde oi wat,
and common brown sugar. into fra
% can. aud lay piece of coarse cloth oy,
the mouth. SO thur bu: small quantit
. of the syrup can soak through, Han
it up, cloth side downward, near Il
apiary. and the bees will not loaf arour
ie grocery stores Observer and Reporte
A FARMER having lost several shee
6nally charged the loss upon ueighbo
= and wrsngle ensuing, it was left
!, three disinterested friends of both pa
q ties to determine the matter. The farr
er being unable to prove the charge. Il