The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1872-01-20
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/ The Prince of Wales il is said has made
a vow to let strong drink alone.
/ A Young lady was caught up by ,
Igale in Pennsylvania, transported 46(
yards, and deposited in an apple tree.
Rev. Mr.. Watson. who had been OF
trial at Chatham, England, for the mue
der of bis wife, has been found guilty.
The father of the President, Jesse R
Grant, has resigned the Office of post
master of covington, KY.
AN ex Confederate colonel has been
elected member of the Iowa Legis
lature.
The champion temperance man lives
in Danville, Conn He has signed the
pledge eighty three times.
II is a proverb in New York that ga
s250,000 man is never hanged" and il
is said that Stokes is that sort of man.
SENATOR STEVENSON introduced a
bill in the Senate on the 18th providing
for the payment of Kentucky war claims
Forty years ago nearly the whole Of
Ohio was dense forest; now, a resolu-
ton is introduced in the Ohio Legisla-
ture to encourage the cultivation of for
ests.
BARTON and Taylor, the two remain :
ing express robbers, have been conveyed
from Union City to the Memphis Jail
for safe keeping.
LAURA Fair put $4,000 into her
mothers hands in order to keep her
physician and attorney from getting il.
Now the old lady refuses to disgorge.
a Shark caught off Charleston had
pair Of boots, a scalp, two cannon balls,
and package of Sunday School tickets
in MS stomach.
ORDERs have been received for the
Russian feet to move to Pensacola, and
! be in readiness to receive the Grand
Duke at the termination of his Southern
tour.
THE Journals Of Paris are loud in
their praise Of the people o! the United
States for having generously forwarded
contributions ofclothing and food in large
/ quantities to the suffering inhabitants at
the close Of the var.
/ The Washington Republican says
''Loyaity," before the war, had very
little hold upon the Southern nature. :
Perhaps it had, but since the war it has
had a hold upon vast amount Of Sou,h-
ern plunder.- Coltritr Jo,uaaL
The Senatorial election in Maryland
is creating some excitenent-the contest
being between Hon George Nickars,
the present Senator, au{ Governor VII
liam Pinckney Wbyte, With the chances
strongly in favor Of the latter.
Ir Is said that there /, a young girl in
Virginia who wears four bullets made
into the form of Maltese cross, which
were extracted from the bodies of her
father and brother, who were killed IL
the siege of Richmond.
\ MEAN AND DEvILsH DgED.-On
Sunday night last, some infamous, COW
ardy scouudrel entered the stable Of Mr..
Hud. Boden, who lives at Eli Grove,
Henty county, Tenn, and ripped open
the abdomen of horse, killing the poor,
innocent animal.
Two men own nearly 100000 acres
Of land ia the joaquin valley, California.
/ The traveller may ride forty Eve miles 10
lne upoa it, aud may follow a fence
around single pasture for sixty five
miles; while one other maa monopolizss
100000 acres.
DAVID r. Dickey, Of Randolph, Tip
ton county, Tenn, came to an end Mon
dsy. tie made a bet that he could eat
four bottles OF brandy peaches and drink
all the liquor. together with two tumblers
Of raw whisky He drank the whisky
and finished all the peaches, dropping
dead while holding the last peach in his
mouth. But he won the bet.
IL Illinois there is child, now
months old, weighing but two pounds.
Its length is only Z inches, and its face
about the size OF watch crystal Its
tiny arms are so slender that small
fnger-ring can be slipped on either Of
them to the shoulder This little crea-
ture is already making a noise in its part
of the world. and hundreds have called
to see it. It's parents are Of standard
size.
GRACE GREENWOOD, in her lecture on
"The Heroic in Common Life" tells the
story of the wife of a member of the
Arizona Legislature, whose house when
her husband was on his legislative duties
was attacked by Indians. She shotsix,
and the next day wrote to her husband
Dear John, the Apaches attacked the
rancho. I have won the fight. You
need not come yourself, but send some
more ammunition"
WE learn from private adviees that the
alarming illness of Archbishop Spald-
ing, of Baltimore, has assumed more
favorable form. His disease, however,
is regarded as of such a nature that it
will, in all probability, ultimately prove
fatal. IF the death of this eminent cler-
gyman and theological writer should
soon follow that of Bishop McGill,
whose decease was announced yesterday,
the loss of two such prominent divines
would be indeed a severe blow to the
Catholic church in this country our-
Ter Journal.
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