The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1872-12-21
News of the Week.
DO WV E4ST.

-Blakesley, who recently attempted Il
wreck an express train near Windsor, Connec
ticut, has been sentenced to the penitentiar,
fer two years.
The stockholders of the Tribune say nc
e1er whatever has been made to Schuyler
Colfax to assume the control of the Tribune
and that there is no disposition to change its
nanagement-at least, for the present
New York-Judge Fancher decides thai
the raising Of the Court Justices salaries from
$4,000 to $40 600 by the Mayor and Municipal
Council was legal.-It now appears that the
Erie Railway Company has occupied whole
block of city property on Duane and Washing
ton streets without paying rent since 1S6s-
John i. Dix has resigned Erie Director
Oakley Hall denies the slightest connection ed
itorially either past, present, or prospective,
with the aId-ControIler Green cuts
down the estimates for the Police Depart
ment S259 600, and those of the street cleaning
@25l6, 6,0O0.-Nooman, charged with forgery
IN Ireland, has been identified by one of the
lrish onstabulary.--Edward E. Hendricks,
eurSstone broker. is TO be tried ON charge
o. selling $4,000 worth of the bonds stolen
rom the Middleboro tAlass.) Bank.-A t.
Stewart denies the intention to erect buiidine,
Tor the accommodation Of young men of the
working classes.
The Harvard College Relief Fund. at Bos-
ton, now amounts to $4,000
John GafTenv, for tie murder of Patrick
Fay has been sentenced to be hung at Buffa-
To- FEBRUARY 9. next.
The Postal Department arrested five men
last week charged with having stolen, since
October, about a thousand mai bags from the
post-ofice in New York.
-Thos. Danham was arrested in New York
while attempting to negotiate bond OF the
State OF Mississippi, which had been raised
from six dollars to six hundred dollars. Dun
ham had ON his person bonds representing for
.ty thousand dollars, all of which he admitted
were altered.
The proprietors of the Fifth Aveneu Ho-
tel publish card, saying that they will bear
all the costs Of the funeral of the victims of
the late fire, and viii reimburse the relatives
of the girls for the expenses they incurred.
New York-At meeting of the Methodist
Preachers Association, a-paper was read tax
lug the ground that scientists in turning their
attention to spiritual affairs we're invading
provinces with which they had nothing to do.
The Mutual Life Insurance Company has
abandoned for the present its plan of reduced
premiums, which caused such a eommotion in
insurance circles-lIrs ThOs Smith. of
Virginia, was detained on board the steamship
California. until divested BY thecustom officers
OF a skirt lined with silks, satins, jeweIry and
silyerware."A Sunday paper states that the
murder CT Maud Merrill by her uncle. Robert
p Bleakley, was caused by her refusal to con-
tinue to pay him share of her earnings. and
that he was her real seducer--The Italian
Society held meeting last week at which the
home Government was fiereely denounced for
its conduct relative to the immigration of so
many of the poor to this country. The Italian
Consul here was also assailed for falling to
make satisfactory explanation of the causes of
the exodus. Il decided to memorabilia
Congress in opposition to what the meeting
designated this infamous white slave trade
The pewholders of the old South Church.
Boston, have decided to lease the building for
post-ofiee.
Edwin Forrest. the tragedian, fell dead
last week, while dressing, at his residence
north Broad street. Philadelphia His servants
repaired to his room before 10 o'clock. as it
was later than his usual hour for coming down.
They found him lying on the bed apparently
suffering from apoplexy. Mr. Forrest had
been exercising with dumb bells and had evil
IDENTITY nearly completed dressing. having been
adjusting his neck tie when overpowered He
died in about half an hour after being discov
ered He leaves no immediate relatives his
only sister having died several years since.
OUT WEST.
The Phoenix Touring mills of Kansas City,
owned by W. D. Oldham, and valued at $50,
O00 were burned day or two ago.
The latest adviees from Prescott, Arizona.
say that Gen. Crook is prosecuting the cam
paign vigorously against the hostile Apaches
in the northern part of the territory. Five ex-
petitions are operating in the mountains east
of the river Verdi. Gen. Crook was last
heard from east of the Mongallen mountains.
As the result Of the campaign, over one hun
dred Apsches have been slain and many wound
ed Their stores of provisions at several
points were destroyed. His policy is to follow
the Indians constantly and hunt them down in
every direction.
-Four hundred and seventy one horses died
from the epizootic in Cincinnati during the
last four weeks.
DIR. John W. King, # Coyington, Kentuc-
Ky, accused of malpractice causing the death
of Florence Ritter has been acquitted and
fully exonerated by the civil courts in Coving-
ton.
Thomas sanderson, deputy postmaster of
Springfield, Ohio, charged with robbing money
order letters of $4,000, waived examination be-
fore United States Commissioner. and was
held to answer III $1,000
-Erben Porter. residing two miles east Col
umbia, Ohio, murdered his two little children.
aged one ard three years, with hatchet. with
which he had been cracking hickory nuts.
Porter left Immediately after committing the
10 1Y.aI I
fessed de crime. but without giving any rea-
son.
The new II. Z. church at Tideoute, Pa, was
almost entirely destroyed by fire last week
Loss $4,000; no insurance.
The horse disease is still spreading and as
Stunning more serious type at st. Louis many
cases having become quite malignant in char
scter.
The unprecedented fine weatherfor the sea-
son renders mining propects in Utah
never more promising. More ore is coming in
than before
Mum & Scott the elevator firm recently
expelled from the Chicago Board of Trade for
fraudulent practices, have been indicted by
the Grand Jury for swindling.
N. e. Hagans, Judge of the Superior Court
Of Cincinnati, has rendered his resignation of
that office.
AT Peoria, H., last week, the jury found
Benay Manulta, charged with killing his wife
at Chillicothe. H.. few weeks since, guilty OF
murderin the first degree, andfixed his punish
ment at death by hanging.
The Portland (Oregon) Herald says that
the loss to Oregon City by the burning of the
woolen mills at that place was comparatively
as great as the losses Of Chicago or Boston in
their great fires. 1t foots up about 1925, ,000
with an insurance of S100, 900,
FOREIGN LNTELLIGENCE.
-London-Intelligence has reached this
city that the ship Franklin, which sailed from
Hamburg several days ago, for San Francisco
with large number of emigrants on board
stranded on the coast of Vlieland, an island Of
the Netherlands in the North Sea. and went tC
piecss. Eighty persons are known to have
perished
-Paris-A manifesto signed by Gambetta
Cremieux Louis Blanc, and eighty-six mem
hers of The Fxfrarna and Moderate Left, i