The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1872-06-22
General Itema.

1T Is estimated t0dL lucTc arc OOOrDOO
German votes in the United States.
The army-worm is doing serious dam
age to the meadows and small grain near
Russellville.
ORANGES sell for dollar thousand
at Zanzibar. No wonder DR.. Living
stone likes the country.
THERE is a great rush from the United
States this spring to Europe in fact, it
is difficult to secure passages on any out
bound steamer.
IT is said that every woman appears
different to every man, and every nature
has its separate watchword, which an
swers to one and will not respond to an-
other.
TIE Washington Chronicle states
that General 'Ryan's expedition, which
recently sailed from this country for
Cuba, consisted of three vessels, ,2OO
men, and large amount OF ordnance
stores.
PERE HYAcINruE, the dissenting
Catholic priest, is engaged to be married
to the ouiy dauyhter of Count Won Edel,
Bavarian nobIeman of considerable
wealth. He made the acquaintance of
the lady in Rome.
P. D. BANKS, an Iowa man, has no
money to speak of and goes to the peni-
Tertiary for ten years fOI robbiDg the
mails. Simon Smith, of the same State,
equally guilty. and a counterfeiter be-
sides, pays 50, 400 and escapes.
A HoIlaDder arrived at Bay City.
Michigan, with bis family last Friday
noon, and by Saturday at 3 p. NJ. had
bought lot, paid for it, bought lumber,
paid for that, built house and was liv-
ing in it.
THE author of "Charles O'Malley,"
Harry Lorrequer, and many other
Wild, rollicking Irish novels, is no more
Charles James Lever died the other day
in an obscure Austrian seaport town,
aged sixty-three years.
SUDDEN DEATH-On last Wednesday
a son of Mr.. George Terrence, about
thirteen years old, died from eating an
apple that is supposed to have been
poisoned with locust eggs. He ate the
apple at 12 o'clock Tuesday and died
early Wednesday morning.-7FeHton,
(Tenn.,) Gdzette.
GREELEY GAINs.--The Syracuse
Standard, one of the ablest Of the able
Republican journals Of New York, has
come out for him strongly because he
was "the educator of the Republican
party, it staunchest champion in tho day
when to champion the cause of human
rights was neither safe nor profitable"
THE Arctic wolves hunt together in
&c thar ,naat an animal
which they have not the courage to attack
openly, they form into semi circle or
crescent, and rush down upon 1t, until
the creature, terrified by the number
of its enemies, hurries over precipice,
and is dashed to pieces, when they search
out the body and enjoy the feast.
THERE are four great varieties of the
pea nut known to dealers. The Afri-
can, which is small and black; the Geor-
pian, which is little better; the North
Carolina better still; and the large Vir-
ginia pea nut, which is best of all. The
Tennessee pea nut has three meats, bat
is i'll favored. Aout 100000 bushels
were raised in 10 the United States last
year.
A LITTLE girl in q New York asylum
quareied with another girl ana scratcneu
her face. For this she was punished and
required to learn and repeat verse
from the Bible, being allowed her own
selection. She choosed the first verse of
Psalms IA, which runs as follows:
Blessed be the Lord my strength which
teacheth my hands to war and my fn-
gers to fight"
The Elizabethtown Netcs very point
edly says: "The State Lunatic Asy-
lums are full, and even women who have
'lost their minds have become the in-
mates of county jails. The members of
the last session Of the Legislature who
for personal political ends worked against
the location Of another asylum ought to
occupy the places these poor uufortu-
mates have to take"
THERE is a general belief that the
British army chiefly consists Of Irish
men, who are not to be depended on in
the event Of revolt or rebellion in the
Emerald Isle. 1t appears by Parlia-
nentary return of the number Of men in
the British army who claim to be Eng
lish, Scotch, or Irish, respectively, dis
each regiment Of cavalry,
artillery, and infantry. that the totals
are: English, 1l7 ,761 Scotch, 15,s8a,
orI T.ssk 200