The Hickman courier., 1871-10-07

n
ed twenty four miles to visit circus in
Kansas.
A rolling pin. with which loving
wife had Knocked her husband down
seven times, came in as evidence in an
Indiana trial.
As the autumn elections approach the
usual announcements are made from the
various navy yards of work becoming
quite brisk"
TIE last circus advertising dodge is
that of company at Pawliug, ~ Y,
robbing every citizen in the town. As if
that was anything new.
After mourning the death of his wife
for six months, a man at.Shelby Depot,
Tenn. has married bis mother-in- law.
aged sixty He is forty years old.
A Newly elected Texian constable
boasted that he could ''clean out every
iphabitant, and began on one McCabe,
who forthwith killed him.
The latest mode of announcing birth
is to call it cutting of coupon from
marriage bonds
The stone over Thomas Jefferson's
grave is ruin, relic hunters having
/ chipped into it until the very shape OF
the obeisk has been destroyed.
1t is reported that pine lands in Wis
eonsin, to the value OF 100000, belong
/ ing to the Government, were lately
bought UP by one or two wealthy cor
porations for so, 900.
Twenty five miles an hour is shown by
signal service observations to be the
average velocity OF a storm; when it has
twice that velocity it becomes tornado.
A householderin Florida, in filing up
his census schedule, under the heading
where born, described one of his chill
dren as "born in the parlor," aud the
other 'up stairs" A strict return.
Two white men we're lately met while
walking on railroad in Virginia by nine
colored men, all armed, who, to make
sure of getting all the valuables of the
two men, made them strip, and took
their clothes, money and all.
The Portland and Oxford (Me) Rail
road Company will change the gauge OF
their road from five feet six inches to
three feet. This is the first adoption
Of the narrow gauge plan in New Eng
land
a man in GAINESVILLE. Ohio, who has
buriedthree wives, has their photogra
in a group, within which his own is the
center figure, and underneath is the
touching inscription, "the Lord Will pro
vide"
\ citizen of Montreal has been sen
fenced to pay six dollars and costs, or 20
to jail for thirty days, for refusing to tel
the census enumerator the ages of his
unmarried daughters. The girls advised
the old gentleman to 90 to Jail.
A dreadful punishment for cruelty to
dumb brutes is reported in Buffalo A
little boy tried to shoot cat which had
taken refuge under a bed. He did n
kill the cat, but he set fire to the bed and
burned his fathers house down.
\ MOST iudicious aud commendable
course has been inaugurated by the edi-
tor Of the Mount Sterling HeralH He
charges 81 line for publishing orisiua
poetry.
SANrA FE Is the oldest town in tn,
J United States but one, which Is St. Au
gustiue, Florida. If any one has Gu
rio,ity to see how a town looked NOR
than century ago. he has only TO visi
Santa Fe aud he will have a pretty clea
conception OF things as they appeared
at that early day in the settlement o
this continent.
A COUNTRY editor recently serve
) this to his readers IF anything vii
revive sinners hopes aud give him
realizing sense Of the fact that he NIGH
BE- saved, it is to gaze into the starr
loyeliness of a pair of black eyes, an
hear an eighteen year~old female mur
mur the words: Il love you" Th
next superintendent of a lunatic asylur
| came along and scooped him in.-Men'
phiS AUa}aHche.