The Hickman courier., 1871-04-29
!. TIE peach crop of Southern Kentucky
n comparatively uninjured.

PIANO making is the third manufae-
turing interest in this country.
A Line Of packets to Shawneetown,
is the latest Paducah project.
CREvAssEs in the levees are numer-
Gus in the vicinity Of New Orleans.
EyEaY male citizen of Selma, Ala
bama, is obliged to pay So street tax.
PADucAH is getting up May day
procession three and half miles long,
In Kansas it is how the custom o
vigilance committees toehang horse
thieves hsad downwards.
The Ns.o Era says that hog cholera
is playing the deuce with the prospects
cs sChristian county bacon crop.
The Texas State Fair will be held at
Houston, May22d Horace Greeley will
deliver the address.
There is paper published in Indiana
called the Ginlet. Its enemies call it a
bore.
Tnr Cincinnati Chronicle says that a
pan died in Indiana the other day from
laughing too much.
A MoSsTRosITY in the shape of a girl
with four legs is on exhibition at Jack
aou, Tennessee.
THEY have on the Potomac large
seine boat propelled by steam. Fishing
by steam
TnE convention in Graves county on
the 17ih, to nominate candidate for
Circuit Court Clerk, failed to make a
nomination.
THE consumption of artificial flowers
of all kinds in the United States. amounts
to something over sis .000,00O worth
annually.
LIS FAxoH Gays that mosquitoes
come up to Paducah from Cairo very
drunk. but. soon get thirsty ard go back
o. take auefher suck at Cairo editors.
There are 81 900 clergymeu in the
United States who divide S42, 100000
salary among them annually. Some of
thcm ke $4,000 year others what
they Can get
Governor Leslie, while stepping from
q train IN motion, at Glasgow Junction,
on Sunday nerning shout daylight, was
thrown under the cars, and came near
being crushed to death.
THE American Onion Club. of New
Orleans, rendered formal reception to
General Sherman. Among those who
participated we're Generals LoDgstreet
and JEFF. Thompson.
WHEs .ha Ku Klux bill passed there
were seventcen Democratic Congress
absent from their seats. Such of these
eeptIeineu as have not rasonabie excuses
for their absence at that time, deserve
the ssysiest censure their constituents
can impose.
In Garrard county the value of hogs
mid for through the National Bank last
wear was s250.0OO. This does not in
oIude Various lots that were driven off or
not paid for through the bank. The
cattle raised in.Garrard last year are es
timatsd at s250,oo0.
Gov. Leslie offers reward of $500 for
the apprehension and delivery TO the
taller of Fayette county of Elijah Hal
sew and Alexander Luttreli, charged
, with the ~aurder Of Ben A Muir, on the
18th of February, 1862.
, The Clarksville (Tenn.) Chronicle
learns that in several portions of the
county the fy is playing sad havoc with
tobacco plants. and spprehensions are ex-
pressed that there will be so great a
scarcity of plants as tolessen, materially,
the proposed crop Of this season.
Grant hs called an extra session. of
the Senate, to meet on the 10th of May
None of the members will go far from
Washington; nevertheless they will draw
their mileage just as though they had
gone all the way home. Grant is an
economical administra,ion-very.
GENERAL WRIT ADAMS writes to the
vicksburg Herald. denying that there
l. any apprehension Of that city being
s.cut of and made an inland town. He
says that for more than a generation it
hss been confidently foretold by some of
our own citizens. and yet, to day the
immediate danger Of its occurrence is not
greater than it was forty years ago.
A TEMPERANCE CONVENTION OF
NATIONS The Right Worthy Grand
Lodge of Good Tsmplsrs will meet at
Baltimore. Maryland, instead of Vallejo.
California. as heretofore published. on
he fourth Tuesday in May. convening
alto IN Delegates will be present
from al the States in the Union. Canada.
Scotland and England
IT is not often, says the Nashville
Union end American. We see city May
ors in States prison, but We saw convict