The Hickman courier., 1872-09-28
News of the Week.
At Home.


Edward Tompkins has given the
California State University $50, ,OO0
worth ofland to endow an Agassiz pro-
fessorship of Oriental languages and
literature.
Regulations for the redemption of ad-
hesive stamps, for which the owners
may have no further use on account of
the rereal of the stamp taxes upon
most Instruments mentioned in Sched-
ule b, are about to be issued by the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
The journeymen carpenters of Chica-
go have formally notified their en-
ployers that their wages must be 81
per day, or they will suspend work.
Mr. James Gordon Bennett pro-
poses to honor the memory of his
father by cree ing a 500, ,00o monument
to his memory in Greenwood Gene
terry.
The steamer Merrill, which burned
at Warsaw, H.. was valued at So, 900,
and insured in Cincinnati ffices for
$4,000. ur
In sinking a shaft for coal at Chaplin,
Morgan county, ILL.,, when a depth of
100 feet was reached, vein of lead was
struck.
The contract, has been let for
the completion Of the foundation and
basement walls of the now LindelI Ho-
tel in St. Louis, 10 be finished in seven
ty days. The hotel will be push /
ed vigorously, and the entire structure
completed in two years.
The Annual Fair of the Illinois State |
Agricultural Society, was the most /
successful that has been held under I
that Society's auspices for many years. /
The aggregate receipts We're in the /
Deighborho0d of 5000
The Grand Lodge /. o. o. +. of the |
United States is now IN session at
Baltimore.
An iron gchurch for the town of
Ancon. Peru, was shipped from New
York last week The entire expense is
100 OOO0.
The farmers of Minnesota will
have not less than 100000 bushels of
surplus wheat to put in the market.
y
ertsou, in Louisville, he made con-
fession of falsehood, but denied any
other criminal acts. The case goes
over to the next Presbytery
Orneli and Seymour, two lunatics.
died few days ago at Wards Island
Lunatic Asylum, New York. An in
vestigation proves that their deaths
were caused by the brutal treatment of
a man named FarrelS, who had charge
Of their ward
Matilda Herop has been refused
by the court at San Francisco.
The fishing schooner White Eagle,
of Gloucester, Massachusetts,, is given
up as lost on the Grand Banks, with
her entire crew.
The rate3of taxation for State pur-
poses this year will be seven and a half
mills on the dollar, a reduction
Of one and one half mills from that
of last year
Forester, the alle1ged murderer of
Il nj Nathan, has been dischs rged,
tie Ii uict Attorney advising the dis
of the case, as he had not
sufficient evidence to prove the guilt of
ihe prisoner.
Asnow storm is reported along the
Union and Pacific Railroad, at Chey-
snne and.westward.
According to the monthly report of
the Agricultural Department, the cotton
crop OF the present year promises a
Eery small increase over that of last
year.
The torpedo boat launched at the
New York navy-yary three weeks ago
sunk after the officers had
been making experiments. Three me-
chanics We're on board. After two
hours work the boat was raised and
he men found alive, the compressed
iir within with which the vessel is
iupplied1 not being exhausted. Naval
Delane has condemned
he vessel.
Helena, Montana, reports that
party of Sioux dashed into the Crow
Agency on the 21st, killing DeForrest
md two Crow squaws, ard run of the
stock.
A Washington dispatch says it has
lot yet been decided when to audit the !
accounts of private claims growing out
)f the depredatioDs of the rebel cruisers
The New York defaulter Johnson,
who stole near 100000 of the money
If the United States, has gone 10 Eu-
,ope, leaving his wife ill and destitute.
The Oil Well City Association,
organized to decrease the production of
;oal oil, at a meeting at Oil CITY, re- |
;eived report stating that many OF
he largest wells had stopped, and in a
few weeks but four viii be in operation
The following official telegram has
been received at the War Department
Capt. Kellogg, who left Colonel 6
command on August "a, has
arrived at Chicago. The expeditionl I
las been TO the mouth of Powder
River, making only general exami-
ration in going out. On their return,
hey were making an instrumental
and had located thirty-fo
miles coming east from Powder River,
md were so working eastward at the
i
ound very practicable route for the
part of it being entirely new
o the white men. They were
threatened with the Indians, and had :
ome slight skirmishes but no one was !
iurt. ,
Abroad
The bark City of Hamilton, from
London for Philadelphia, is reported to
nave put into Ryde, Isle of Wight, in ::
of mutiny among the
rev. .
Fifty children. in charge of Miss !
Rye, sailed from Liverpool for Quebec ,
n the steamship Samaritan Homes
lave been secured for them in Canada.
A letter purporting to be written by
Don Carlos to the Pope is circulating |
a Paris. 1t promises the speedy re-
Iewal of the Carlist insurrection in {