The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-11-11

JIG meeting in Prussia. he must first OBJ
r4n permission of The aalhoIities.
Grx Forrest vas in Nashville few
isy ago and perfected a contract for
$50 eonvicts 70 work upon the Memphis
aud Selma Railroad At 81 per dry.
THE school tax was defeated in Dyer
county last Saturday by big majority
Oecasinnal defeat to good cause renders
its anal triumph more complete.
Tar Dyer-burg Progress says: Acorns
snd hickory suis are 20 plentiful thi-
wear RAT many Of or farmers who have
formerly kept them under fence now turn
ti.eir hogs out 10 fatten on The mast.
TIE orphans of Lauderdale. Miss
have realized she sum Of SIS, 900 clear
OF expenres. ia the last YEAR, by their
concerts. -'assiz $685.
C1NcINNATI is sbont to build $3.50
coo ho,el. fronting on Fourth street and
extending back 10 the wall surrounding
the building Of the Sisters Of Mercy
Tur hog market, says the Lexington
Press. has frightened little ia he last
fee days. and $50 have been paid for
fe~, 80 we are Iniarmed A cool spell
of weather viii throw the en'ire crop III
tie marker aud establish the price.
CoNGREss at it, mex, session will de
clare Chinese entitled to the right Of
franchise in this country. after a re>i-
dsnce ~ one year in any one Of the
United States This viii add over one
hundred thousand TO the voting popu
istion Of California.
WRLL-INxoRMED Americans in Paris
write hat they believe that Napoleon
will be restored TO power within year
The people sigh already for return Of
the gaudy show and extravagan~e IF roy
atty The tradesmen especially long
for the days OF the Empire.-N I Star
4 SPEAKER al the recent meeting of
the Pit'~burg Woman Suffrage A-socia
tion remarked that --man j. only an i'm
perfectly developed woman At this an
old lady who <ar in corner, Sprang to
her feet aud ia nn excited manner said
she ~hnpei to gracious he wouiden't be
developed any move then. for there were
two oiaay women in the world now
President GRANT IN his great speech
Of only Fix line~. at Vanceboro. Maine
OF two nations. said III is pleasant for NE /
70 he here twice, and that is all that the I
great man was capable Of saying, ae 1
cnfding to his own acknowledgement |
The Republicans call that ''reticeuce-
Il is stated that the woman's rights
movement has extended to Turkey, and 4
&omeA are now accorded privileges here
toinre unknown For example. vile +
whose charms are waning Is given a
choiee between b"wstrineing aud drown
ip.s.isse s.sack. This radical c9Deez-iet.
/ IesarGFd with grave apprehension o.
the conservative eien'eut.
THr New York Journal of Commerce
says fhe plucky Chicago man who order
ed Ios OF sugars and syrups in New
York just after the fire and promised 10
have his store rebuilt toy the time they
arrived has kept bis word Thursday 1
h. te'egraphed TO his friends here
ave enter new store Tomorrow made |
since the fire, and resume payment (
in full aud at maturity Such men
are The living reasons why We pin faith
on Chicago
QUEEN VICTORIA. who, : is thought
is in a precautions state of health ha>
money enough OF her own to deiray the
expenses of very handsome funeral
She j. said to have saved s15.000 0G0
from the civil list since she assembled the
throne IN addition TO this she has re
ceived SIS 600 600 at the dearh Of Prince
Albert. and the miser Neeld bequeathed
snether SIS coo 00G. all of which ehe has
laid mp for a rainy day II i estimated
tina, her fortune nov amounts to $50,
100000.
SINCE Colonel Tom Scott has been
nominated for the Presidency, some oi
the party journals have set to work to-
decide to which of them il Is that be-
he ones Some say that he i Repnl-
lican; others say that be Is Democrat
In truth. he IS neither Tom Scott il q
railroad man, aud the management OF
railroads has morning TO do with polite,
except when II becomes necessary to con
troll legislatures and in that case The
railroad man belongs 10 either party
circumstances require.
PERHAPS the most absurd invention
ever pafenfed WAS the tapeworm trap of
> western doctor The trap was little
gold csp~ule made in two parts with
teeth When the patient has been starved
long enough ia make the worm hungry |
this trap i halted. suspended by sllken
fhread and then Swallowed. When there I
wAp bite. the trap intended to 60
eff aud catch the worm IN lis teeth aud
trapsnd " orn were To behauled up BY the
thread.
n taii &C.
lady in that city who was reading to her
servants an account of the Chicago fire
The incident of the burning of the eman
ciparirn proclamation arrested the aften
ton OF one old colored woman. a slave
ell her life. who viewed the procla nation
much az the TSraelite~ did the ark Of the
covenant What dat, she said, burned
mp Yes, auuty. burned up Den
what ggine come OF us again? Il dou't
knox: may be you'll be slaves a. before "
Den dis chile gwine to die right now "
And throwing up her hands 10 di.may.
she lett the presence OF her mistress,
yisitipg dire imprecntions on the head
Of tie man what set out dat fire.
From tho Bowling Geen lKy.) Paragraph
(Depocrat.)
'sJuSt as certain as the Democratic par
IS nominaies candidate for the Presi
deucy in 1872. just so certain will that
candidate be defeated BY General Grant.
No Democrat can deplere more sin
eerely than We do the existence of thi, I
fact yet il is no less fact. and being
fact. We fail to rec the wisdom Of profess
ing to believe Il false or Of pretending 70
keep secret that Shich is known to every
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