The Hickman courier., 1872-11-23
NEKs OF THE WEEK.



ed Secretary Boutwell, that nearly
every Boston bank will pay its usual
dividend, and that nearly all the paper
held by the banks will be promptly
paid by merchants. In few cases an
extension of time will have to be
granted.
The large furniture store Of Bailey 6
Smith, Massachusetts, street, Lawrence
Kansas, has been burnt very recently
Loss about $4,000; insurance 81, COO
A special from Charleston, West
Virginia, says that the Office of the
West Virginia Journal and Ewing's
bookstore were destroyed by fire at that
place Thursday night. :
Sands Conen, employed in the
Charlestown Mass navy-yard, was
terribly burned recently, and will
probably lose his eye sight by accid en-
tally dropping zinc basket into bath
of liquid metal, which spattered in his
face.
Brigadier- General Cooke, now com
manding the Department of the LskSs,
will probably soon be retired. He
is over sixty-two years of age, and has
been in The service forty five years.
Cleveland, o. About 1880 this P.
M 9 trapese performer at Wills
Opera .I.,,srse. IN this city, named H<y
Meynard. formerly of Syracuse, y. Y,
was shot and instantly killed by
a sporting woman named Minnie Fish,
who is now in custody. She claimed
that the murder was accidental.
The. horse disease is srapidly disappear
ing in Philadelphia, aud most of the
street cars have resumed their regular
trips. A steam road wagon from the
Navy Yard made its appearance on
Chestnut street, Saturday, drawing a
truck load of cotton bales, and created
a sensation.
The General Missionary Committee
of the Methodist Episcopal Church re-
port their receipts of the past year at
S651, ,056; disbursements, $3.50, 647; in
crease of collections over those of 1871,
about s5O,0OO The peeuniary basis for
the MISSIONARY work for 1873 was made
at $500 600. One hundred and thirty
six thousar dollars was voted for for
eign missions, and $4,000 for domes-
tic
TitusviIle, Pa.-The residence of
John Watson, a mile from the city,
was recently entered, Immediately af-
ter dark, by five masxed men, who,
after binding each member of the fam
lily, compelled Mr.. Watson TO open his
safe, to which he was likewise bound
and the robbers make good their es-
cape. The unfortunate ones were not
liberated until midnight.
Pittsburg-The last of the street rail-
way lines, the Pittsburg and Ormsby,
has succumbed to the pressure caused
10y the horse influenza. The Citizens
Passenger Railway, the only road suf-
ficiently level, is running combined
dummy engine and ear.
At meeting of the st. Louis Board
of Trade, on Tuesday, a resolution was
adopted asking the City Council to
place the Fire Department on more
efficient footing by increasing the num-
ber of engines, the amount of hose, etc,
and also to consider the expediency of
the construction of Man
sard roofs in the business part of the
city.
An active crusade has been COM
menced against the 'wretched man.
sard roofs,D to which the extent of the
Boston fire has been so largely attrib-
uted. Boston herself has taDood them
in rebuilding the burnt district, and will
tear down others already in place. New
York has made the same order as to
future buildings.
The loss of life by the disaster to the
barge Forrest City, in Erie, on Thurs
day last, was five persons-the Cap
tain, three men, and female cook
being all who were on board. She
broke loose from the propeller Burling
ton during the gale, and went to pieces.
She was on her way from Bay City for
Buffalo, loaded with lumber.
New York-At a secret meeting of
the Board of Fire Underwriters, a reso
luton was adopted making the rates of
insurance conform to those of 1870,
which are understood to be an advance
on the present rates of from 10 to Is
per cent.-Charles w. Hoovey, Bos-
has been arrested in this
city, charged with obtaining, in 1870.
$4,000 worth of liquors from Cum
mings & Co., Courtland street, by false
General Shaeffer, of the New York
Fire Department, concludes, from an
inspection of the burned district in
Boston, that tue great fire was in con-
sequence of the delay of the firemen
in reaching the scene, the narrowness
of the streets, which made it impossi-
BILE to work efficiently, and the great
heat, which in the open spaces pre-
vented the firemen approaching the
burning buildings. He agrees with
with Chief Engineer Damrell, of the
Boston Fire Department, that the de-
struction of buildings by gun-powder
rather tends to spread fire than 9TH
erwise.
Along the line of the Hudson river
a terrible disease has broken out among
the poultry. Chickens are dying by
hundreds and the turkeys. geese arr
ducks in the market show signs of the
The disease appears assum-
ing the form of a destructive pestilence
among domestic fowls The poultry is
said TO be dying along the banks of the
in Pennsylvania, by
from an epidemic disease
which appears to be general.
New York-Drowsy, the new horse
disease, has made its appearance in all
the city car stable. Fifty per cent. of
the horses attacked are said to die, and
the horses affected are mainly those
worked while suffering from epizootic
are becoming alarmed as
they thought the disease was disap-
pearing.
Columbus, O.-Two men, strangers
mere, sought shelter in the boiler house
Of blast furnace this morning. One
If the men named Thomas was found
lead, having been suffocated by gas,
and the other insensible from the same
cause.
1t is reported that the Narragansett