The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1872-12-14
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PBoE. Carl Vogt, the great Swiss
naturalist, viii soon visit the United
States.
The country seat of the late James
Gordon Bennett, at Fort Washington, is
advertised to let
Gov. English of Connecticut gives
$4,000 worth of law books to the
Library of the New Haven Bar
The Russian Grand Duke Alexis has
sent a compass, made in Russia, to
the Naval Academy at Annapolis.
HoN. E. d. Morgan has written q
letter declining to be considered a
candidate before the next Legislature,
of New York, for the United States
Senate.
S. b. BUTCHER, now Supervisor of
Internal Revenue, has been appointed
by the President Pension Agent of the
Widows Agency at New York.
JAMES Reid, the author of some good
songs, is dead, in Scotland, age 70. He
died in poverty.
TIE King of Saxony, we are in
formed by an exchange, has furnished
sseven sumptuously-printed works, most
s. translations from the italian and
Spec
name of Theirs has been given
to new kind of French biscuit-an ex-
ceedingly hard cracker, stamped with a
portrait of the French President.
TIE French journals. announce the
death oftM. Fourier de Saint-Amant,
in his seventy-third year, the best
French chess player of his day.
DIR. SAUL Underhill, a sprig of eighty
seven, was married to Mrs Wealthy
Patterson, blushing widow of eighty
one, at Warsaw, H., a few days ago.
In the Pennsylvania Constitutional
Convention several important PROPOSE
tions have been made. Most of these
are designed, apparently, to cure some
of the ills which are the legitimate out
growth of Legislative corruption in Penn
sy1vania- Biennial sessions of the
Legislature, prohibition of "deadhead-
ing State officers on railway lines, and
regulating appropriations for special
purposes may be considered as tentative
steps toward reform.
Mrs. ELKINs, aged 70, lately drove
her own team, with load of apples,
from jackson, n. H, through the Pink
ham notch of the White Mountains to
Guildhall, vt. Age ca tire
THEREs are now six distinct groups or
parties in the French Assembly: First,
the left or republican second, the re-
publican left or moderate republicans
third, the left centre or still more mod
crate. repr Alicans fourth, the centre
hight. WHO prefer Orleanism fifth, the |
riEht, who desire monarchy, pre-
fering Henry v. Count de Chambord)
sixth, the extreme right who believe |
II the extreme legitimist notions, the
whitc flag, the pope. and no dynasty
not thousand years old. The first |
section of the very extreme radicals |
numbers 20 members the left numbers |
160 and has men like Grevy in it, the
third or center left has 40 members
under the lead of Chanzy, and who were
themselves republicans of the Theirs
school the center right contains 100
members, headed by the Due de Broglio,
Due de Audranft Paschin and the Or
leans the sixth has 12O members while
go deputies sit on the extreme right,
waiting for Henry and his white flag,
under the lead of Compile de Beaure-
gard No party has majority, and NJ
Theirs exists by dealing with six parties
like juggler with six eggs on six plates
N his hand He never holds more than
NE party at time and he keeps the
spinning through the air.