The Hickman courier., 1871-03-11
MRS. LlscoLN has gone to London to

MRS. LINCOLN has gone to London to
live.
1t is thought the Orleans princes will
be restored to their rights in France.
There will be heavy emigration from
Alsace, probably to the United States
WAsuINGToN specials intimate that
Congress will not adjourn before the
middle Of April.
THE Shelby Sentinel announces Hon.
j. Proctor Knott as its choice for Gov,
ernor.
TIE Kentucky Gazette nominates Gen.
D. C. Buell., of Muhlenburg county, for
Governor.
GEN WINFIELD HANCOCK will be
the next Democratic candidate for Presi
dent. The wind blows that way sure.
THE project of building bridge
across the Mississippi river at Memphis
is freely discussed.
The city election of Paducah last week
resulted iu the triumphant election OF
the Democratic ticket. So says the
Herald.
KENTUCKY STATISTICS. arlan
county is the largest in area in the State.
and Powell, the smallest. The average
value of land is highest in Jefferson, aud
lowest in Menifee
JUDGE Cissell, Judge Boon, aud Judge
Pryor have been arrested by the United
States Marshal, for refusing to admit ne
gro testimony.
SMALL. Pox x--Small-p pox prevails in
somewhat alarming extent in various
parts of New York. City, Brooklyn and
Hoboken.
THE Franklin Tenn Review warns
its Tennessee contemporaries against
Sheffield g. Stone, of st. Louis, as
''swindling seoundrels'
A MAN was recently informed just
before his marriage that his bride had
fallen heir to $500, 900, but be let the
ceremony go on just the same.
w. H. CARING, G.. W. G., of the or
der of Coed Templars, is announced to
visit West Kentucky in April.
represented as very Wrathy because in
organizing the House of Representatives
their friends were left out in the cold. I"
AMONG the "strange revenges" which
the whirligig of time is bringing upon
the Pope, tits reported in the Jewish
Messenger that rich jew, Mr.. Alatri, is
the most promitent candidate for Mayor
of Rome under the Italian regime.
JosHUA Davis, of Columbus, Ohio,
teveral days ago took laughing gas in or
der to have a tooth extracted. After
taking the gas he was seized with a
spasm, and subsequently died, after re-
naming unconscious for some time.
The contract for clearing out the road
way of the Cairo and Fulton railroad,
between the Mississippi and Charleston,
has been let to Colonel Ii. j. Delhi.
THE Louisiana House has granted an
appropriation of S25, 900 to the Mississip
pi River Packet Company, corporation
composed Of coloIed people, The Direc
tors of the Company have agreed to allow
white persons TO come to the first table
and enjoy all the privileges of the line
THEY have steam shovel on the Mis-
sissippi Central railroad, which takes from
the solid bank of earth loads train Of
eighteen dump cars, in thirty nine min
utes, carrying about seventy five cubic
yards of dirt.
Hon. l., S, TRIMBLE, has returned to
his home at Paducah, after four year.
service in Congress. He has been
faithful public servant for this district
but more especially for Paducah.
OH has been found upon the troubled
waters in Arkansas, and the discordantele
ments have temporarily simmered down
1t is thought, however, that the Clayton
ian conspirators still entertain hopes o
impeaching johnson out of the way, anc
re electiug Clayton.
AN VERY old man once went to th,
King of Sparta and lamented over til,
degeneracy of the times. The King re
true, for L remember that, when / was
boy, beard my father say that when h'
was boy he heard his grandfather sa,
Tue eauie luiD6.
Nor q German soldier remains il
Paris. How beautiful the example
Suppose that so considerate a policy ha,
been that of the United States after th,
war, and that instead of planting MARTA
law in the Southern States they had sub
etituted generous civil officers for MARTA
warriors.
GEN. BraxtoD Bragg has brought sui
10 the United States Circuit Court agains
parties who live in France, for possession
of his old Greenwood plantation, claim
ing $50, 900 damages for destruction o
property, and also for 5sT shares, eacl
for 800, of stock in citizens Bank Q
Louisiana.
THE Kentucky State Medical Societ
will hold its 10th annual session at Gov
iogton, Ky, beginning Tuesday the At
day of April next. The Ohio Stat
Medical Society meets at Cincinnati o
the same day, aud it will, no doubt, b
very largely attended
Hon. Jxo A. GARDNER, is the al
torney Of the Nashville and Eorthwes