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The Hickman courier., 1872-04-13
west Tennessee.

The shocking murder Of Mrs. Carrie
Clinton by her husband still causes great
excitement in Memphis. Clinton served
in the Federal army during the war and
afterward on the METROPOLITAN Police
force. The crime was bloody aud ficndish
in the extreme.
Hundreds of petitions are presented
by land owners iu Shelby County to the
County Court for the reduction Of taxes
assessed aud collected. Land assessed
fifteen dollars, per acre can be sold for
ffty-two dollars, yet the owners grumble
about the assessment. The County
Court seems determined to sustain the
assessors hereafter.
Several fashionable marriages" are
announced to oome off in Memphis dur
ing the next ten days.
Shelby County is asked to subscribe
only 81, 100000 toward the construction
Of various railroads.
The latest matrimonial dodge in Mem
3 ':+4lll 3 !! |! = ] e : : lIG
ried, last month, 55.192 more passen-
gers than in March, 1871.
GENERAL T. H. Bell is announced as
a candidate for Congress from the Eighth
(Tenn) District, composed of the coun-
ties Of Gibson, Madison, Haywood. Lou
derdale, DYER, Lake, Obion and Weekly.
The Hickman courier., 1872-04-13
County Crossland.'

From the Columbus Dispatch.
Col. Ed. Grassland has shown his ap-
probation of Hickman county, by be
slowing upon it a very decided, but
somewhat unique compliment, in the
naming of his last bern son, as explain
ed in the following letter from him to
Judge W F. Boon:
The Hickman courier., 1872-04-13

Announcing Candidates.
For State officers SlO W
For County " W
For Municipal officers 90
Marriages and Deaths.
Notices of the above character will be in
serted free of charge. Obituaries and trib
utes of respect inserted at 81 co per square
Eay% Advertisements IN Local Column 81
for four lines or less and 20 cents Tor each
additional line.
EsSg- Voluntary communications, contain
ing interesting news, solicited from any
quarter. News letters from Western Ken
tucSy and Tennessee especially desired
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-26
q. o. 8,

beipa 4 resolution as follows:
hereafter contract, to be authority
inc n .s. 10 S or The =
YorE, shall be made BY the bead of any depart
e @ s or ~ s a .aRs o
the Or % 's
founded previous compliance, in every particular with
ne y as
public notices duly Advertised ~ to the lowest bidder
as G the or
aa 40 e D,ss w
very % a section
The resolution having been read the President offered the
regulate contracts for paving repay.
Ing s sn aaa OF par ~ & -
York do hereby ordafn:
Of the Common Council for paving repaying any street.
or pacs or any part Thereof in the city Of New
vove the expenditure Of the sum OF 600 more
mcn or other auhorsed be founded
an 3, ii oil II, w che
sealed Ss , r. as to public
paScy opening Of lie proposals: fur.
patented or special pavement: sh.a entertainer
sss; a: ss,ss:
d. sssspsa 0sTgS,.'cn purpose: when
s Oh: s
ne question Of aSs with
Qualities for public use.
SEo Every for paving any street. avenue or
place or part thereof having been paved any
aten, special pavement In addition 70 tine requirements
Of petition for the same by majority OF the property
MAYOR Of the resolution ordinance authorizing
Sss Of sse Laws o. 1870. sh&h also Be foun sed
o ions Il h sns Of s
s.s s Sc ss
Gu Of the proposed patent or special Expe-
neu trials Of different pavemens al certain city points
understood as embraced within the foregoing prov
oi0na.
Whsch accepted.
Alderman oNoyER moved that the further confederation
Of The orensnoe be postponed until the next meeting
Which carried.
On OF the PRESIDENT the Board then adjourned
And the CHAIRMAN pro tenn. announced that Hoard
stood adjourned until Monday NEXT 10th inst at three
o'clock p. N. JOSEPH SHANNON, ClerK
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-26
ALEX. MARTIN.
SOL. MEHRBACH,
THOMAS (NlMAN.

Committee salaries and uflces.
Alderman CONAN that the resgnatioDs OF John j.
Fitzgerald and Thomas II. Sullivan, Commissioners OF
Deeds, be accepted.
Which carried.
No objeeon being made the question then taken on
adopting the resolutions submitted By the committee cob
ecttvely.
And they adopted by the following vote
Anrma tve-Ihe President. Aldermen Conan, Con0vers
falconcr, FITZGERALD, isey, Joyce, Martin, HcLsren,
vance, Van Schaick and wlder--l2.
Inc Committee on sneH Pavementa, 70 whom was 70
errcd the annese petition Of the knckerb0cker Toe Com
pany asking permission gutter sones
sn pave with belgian pavement in front Of their properly,
~ Ih'eeDh avenue, between twentieth and Twc.y hrst
% ~ nner orn expense and under the direction OF tho
Sgmnasloner or Public Works, respectfully report
Tnat they have appncat)D aud are Of opin
on tne prayer OF the petitioners should be granted tho
WIZ ,"e petitioner. should not be granted the required
pefmIssoh IN they contemplate making
under No mmedi "a supervision, subject 10 the direc
non o. me department HAVING co.nixance jurisdcr
0On over mat ciaas work. Tue following
there ore rc.pee' u.y offered FOR your adoption
kenolved 1ba permission be aud tho
knickebo;ker Ice Company 70 the curb gutter
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-08
Coffee from Mnhffe.

The Memphis appeal says Memphis and
Mobile were very unnaturaIIy separated.
Commercial laws and necessities that
should mite them have been constantly
violated. Memphis is the nearest aud most
cheaplY accessible point from which Mo
bile may be supplied with productions of
the Northwest, and very certainly Mobile
IS the proper gateway leading to Cuba.
brazil and Mexico. Mobile is nearer Mem
phis than New Orleans, and, as shown nv
rates Of charges on coffee given in another
place, the Memphis and Charleston ana
Mobile and Ohio roads have defined rates
of freight charges promotiye of tile interests
OF the two cities, and of the interchange Of
Cuban, Mexican and South American for
Northwestern products. Atrates of freight
between Memphis and Mobile now fixed
upon coffee tGwenty cents per hundrcd}
there Is no possibility Of competition with
Mobile.
Vessels OF light draft, such as conduct
the Cuban and South American trade, can
readily pass the bar at the mouth Of Mobile
Bay. and there are no extraordinary
charges Of Gghterage or towage as at New
Orleans, and there is no reason why the
whole valley of the Mississippi may not
derive its supplies, especially OF Rio coffee,
trom Mobile. In any event one OF the
strongest mercantile firms of the South has
undertaken in Mobile the task of supplying
Ne Nv Whoie West with Cuban sugar, with
y, est indian fruits and Rio coffee through
me yuo pot1 OF Mobile. The saving is in freight
narges OF not less than 1000 miles by sea and
IurtheE to Memphis of the difference Of the
[ [! q transportation Of goods from New
lofA 70 O., Menphis and from Mobile to Mem
pms Inc two savings constitute an enor-
1t may do some OF our merchants good to
read the foregoing from the Mobile Z..5upe.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-08
The New York ErilNRe saws:

If the horrible story which reaches us
from Colorado turns out to be true, it will
furnish another terrible proof of the utter
failure OF the Indian policy of the admins
tration. The chief Little Raven, who is
the wagon train OF Fort Lyon, and to have
shared in the murder Of the drivers, is one
of the savages who were so lately petted
and filed with mixed metaphors bv their
Great Father at Washington, Amid all
the horror Of the story there is one incident
which casts grotesque' light. over the
whoie-the government escort was nine
mules behind the wagons, and came up in
time to see the victorious savages disappear
over a hilltop with shouts Of triumph and
deIisiOn.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-08
A KANSAS HORROR.
Man Locked Up in Cell with Lunatic
is kiIIed.
From the Leavenworth Times

From the Leayenworth Times
| Yesterday we published an account of the
! arrest and imprisonment of lunatic indi7
| vldual who had Embossed the ferry boat
| from her mornings and taken charge of
! the craft BY order of City Jailer Miller
| the insane man, whose name is Peter Helm
! nth Sheath, was placed in what is called the
| drunken cell of the calaboose About one
| o'clock yesterday morning Albert G.. Win
! ters was found on the sidewalk al the cor
ner Of Fifth and Miami streets and taken
from thence to the calabO0Se by two officers
and placed in the drunken cell along with
| the insane man. Before daylight the crazy
man killed Mr. Winters. He imagined that
| Winters. was demon, who was trying to
kill him. The statement of the lunatic to our
reporter, and to the jury, was i'll substance
that Winters came in and tread on his toes
and threatened to whip him, and thereupon
he 'struck him with his fist knocked him
down and jumped on him until he was dead
The examination of the body showed that
Winters left side was crushed, and all the
ribs but one were broken. After crushing
down his victim the lunatiC got all the
blankets in the cell and packed them close
ly about Winters head, and stood on t.
blankets till every sign of life was extincBs
Mr.. Winters resided in LeaYenworth for ten
years. He was an industrious citizen, and
never before appeared at the calaboose as
an offender: indeed, there is no positive
evidence that he was intoxicated when the
officers found him. The horrible death
scene in the calaboose can be better mag
ined than described. Words are inadequate
to portray the intense mental anxiety and
physical suffering of the death.
The lunatic is large, strong and robust
men, and the very thought of the helpless
prisoner i'll his crazy clutches recalls to
mind the traditions of the vampire and his
victim. One OF the saddest features of the
whole affair was the grief of Winters loving
wife when she learned of the terrible death, |
Alarmed at her husbands absence, she |
sought the shop of Chivers, where he
worked, early yesterday morning to gain
information Of 4is whereabouts. Mr.. joyce |
was in the shop at the. time, and having
just heard of the DEATH and not knowing |
who the lady was told her that the man
she was inquiring for was dead and his
body in the calaboOse The shrieks of |
despair that followed were heart piercing.
In company with her child she visited
police headquarters and at the sight Of the
corpse of her husband she was seized with
violent paroxysms Of grief. She caressed
the lifeless form with kisses, and could
hardly be persuaded to leave the place.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-08
GENERAL NATuRE-No. ~

An act to provide for the issue Of bonds in
lieu of destroyed or defaced bonds Of the
United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives. of the United States Of
America in Congress assembled, That
Whenever it shall appear to the Secretary
OF the Treasury, by clear and unequiyOcal
proof, that any Understanding bond OF the
United States has, without bad faith upon
the part of the owner, been DESTROYED.
wholly or in part, or so defaced as to i'm
pair its value to the holder, and which
bond shall be identified by number and de-
scriptiOn, the Secretary of the Treasury
shall, under such regulations and with such
restrictions as.tO time and retention for Sc
cuuty or otherwise DIS he may prescribe, is
sue duplicate of such bond, having the
SEINE time to. run, bearing like interest az
the bond SO proved to have been destroyed
or detaced, and so marked as to show the
original number of the bond DESTROYED and
the date thereof; provided, that where such
destroyed or defaced bonds shall appear to
have been of such a class or series as has
been or may before such application, be
called in for redemption, instead of issuing
duplicates thereof they shall be paid, with
such interest only as would have been pad
II presented in accordance with such call.
SEC. :. That the owner of such DESTROYED
or detaced bond shall surrender the same.
or so much thereof as may remain, and
shall file in the treasury bond N penal
sum double the amount of said DESTROYED
or dofaced bond, and the interest which
would accrue thereon until the principal
thereof is due and payable, with two good
and sufficient sureties, residents of the
United .l States, to be approved BY the Score
OF the Treasury, with condition TO iudarn-
nifty and sayeGharmless the United States
from any claim upon the said destroyed or
jefaced bond
a p|ppvad TyTpn 1S-0
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-08
Life at a French Watering Place.
From NJ. D. Conway's letter in the CT

From NJ. D. Conway's letter in the Gin
cinnati Commercial we clip the following:
The amount of toll a young and pretty
girl at Trouville undergoes each day is
something astonishing. Very likely she is
up at six O'clock in the morning, and with
her bathing-dress on, bare-tooted, she is
running over the sands, joining a few scores
OF other girls and young gentlemen in dig
ging for equities in the sand. That done,
she bathes for half hour. Then she goes
to her dSjeU2er, a kind of morning dinner.
Next she walks on the sands; then she
drives out over the country; then she
dresses for dinner; then she passes an hour
at dinner; next she promenades the sands
again; then she puts ON evening dress and
goes to the S0iOlI, where she dances perpet-
ually until midnight, if it be ball even
ing. The ball evenings are Thursdays and
Sundays. Sunday is the great evening for
dancing; on that day the young girl will
probably dance until after day.
The gaming in the salon has at length
become quite as public as that of Uomburg,
and Wiesbaden. At the public table the
game is ecarte. a list of players is made
out before hand, and whenever one of these
is defeated, he rises from the table and his
place is taken by the next on the list A
tunctlOnary invites the crowd in the room
to lay their stakes and the bank notes are
handed up freely from every part of the
room. Each player has an appointed coun-
selor at his side. The losers are not SO
quiet and phlegmatic as at the German
baths, but the murmurs, c0mplai@ts, and
''sacres are sufficiently loud to convince
one that, in this public gaming business,
this country invites worse. aftiiction than
would be that general swarm Of yipers
which NJ, TOuSsennel expects some day to
oyefrun France.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-08
GENERAL NATURE-No. 50.

An act supplemental to an act entitled An
act for the apportionment OF Representa-
tives to Congress among the several States
according to the ninth census"
Be it enacted by the Senate and House OF
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress- assembled, That from
and after the third day of March, eighteen
hundred and seventy three, the following
States shall be entitled to one Representa-
tive each in the Congress Of the United
States in addition to the number appor-
toned to such States by the act entitled
.'An act for the apportionment OF Represen-
tatives to Congress among the several
States according to the ninth census, APP
proved February second, eighteen hundred
and seventy-two, to wit: New Hampshire,
Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana,
Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama and Florida,
and be elected by separate districts, as in
said act directed; provided, That in the
election of representatives to the Forty
third Congress only, in any State which by
this law is given an increased number of
Representatives the additional Represen-
tative allowed to such State may be elected
by the State at large, unless the Legislature
of said State shall otherwise provide before
the time fixed by law for the election of
Representatives therein.
Approved May 80, 1872
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-08
GENERAL NATrRE-No. qG.l

An act to prescribe the time for holding the
election for electors Of President and
Vice Presidentin the State of Louisiana
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
OF Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That in
sentatives to the Folty-third Congress, and
the appointment of electors of President
and Vice President for said State, shall be
on the first Monday of November, in the
year eighteen hundred and seventy-two,
but thereafter such elections and appoint
ment shall be on the day designated by law
for the other States
ApprOYed June L 1872
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-08
OFFICIAL.
laws of the United States Passed at the
Second Session of the FOrty-Firsf
Congress.

LRNTS OF the OuIGSd SEutcS Il @N~ 1AS
Second Session of the FOrty-Firsf
Congress.
GENERAL NATURE-No. 90
An act for the relief of Albert w. Gray
Be it enacted by the Senate and House OF
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That AL
bert w. Gray, Of Middleton, in the State OF
Vermont, have leave to make d new APP
plication 10 the Commissioner Of Patents
for the extension of letters patent granted
to him for an improvement in horse-powers,
on the ninth day of September, eighteen
hundred and ftty-six, and atterward re-
issued on the first day of July, eighteen
hundred and sixty-two; and that the said
Commissioner of Patents be authorized 10
consider and determine said application IN
the same manner and with the same effect
as if 1t were an original application tqg such
extension, duly filed within fhe time re-
quired by law, and no application therefor
had heretofore been made; provided, that,
in case such extension shall be granted, all
persons who, between the date of the ex-
piration of the original patent and the date
Of such extension, have constructed, or
caused to be constructed, or used such i'm
provement in horse powers, shall be at
liberty, during said extended term, to use,
and vend to others to use, said improve
ment in horse powers so constructed or used.
Approved May %, 1872.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-08

A newspaper letter from Lancaster, Penn
syIyania, touches as follows on some facts
about Thaddeus Stevens: "Thaddeus
Stevens, whose energies were ever bent to
the cause of popular education, sleeps his
last sleep in the shadow Of a common
schoolhouse, On Decoration Day last year
some difficulty was experienced IN finding
his unmarked grave. The cemetery in which
he rests is q small private one known as
Schreiner's cemetery. In his will, written
although he made no provision for the care
of his own grave, he set apart an ample
sum of money to be devoted to planting
flowers about his mothers grave each
spring. Last-fall his house, in which he had
his office, was sold at public sale by his ex-
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-08
GENERAL NATURE-No 95.l
An act relating to the creation of new lane
districts


Be it enacted by the Senate and House
G1 hepre$enTalTes OF Inc J4ted T Sta5es OF
after in case of the division of existing land
districts 10y the erection of new ones, or by
a change Of boundaries by tie President Of
the United States, all business in such
original districts shall be entertained and
transacted, without prejudice or change,
until the offices in the new districts shall be
be PPsHo3 b e?c tine 4n&sr
SEC. 2. That all sales or disposals Of the
public lands heretofore regularly made at
any land office after the said lands have
been made part of another district by any
act of Congress, or by any act of the Pres
ident are herby confirmed, provided the
same are free from conflict with prior valid
rights.
Approved May 81, 1872.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-08
The St. Louis Democrat saws,

Three stalks d, cotton, badly worDI-ea+ar
from Henry Bernd's plantation, at Good.
rich Landing, North Louisiana. were eE.
hibited on Change yesterday. We are in
formed that the rayages Of the worm in this
locality have been distressing, One planter,
who felt confident a month ago that he
his crop on the basis Of 500 bales Another
planter, who expected short time ago that
his hands would be fully employed in pick
ing his crop until next March, says now the
worms have destroyed so much that the
n.lcLo.n2 Will al 30 GloI8 beIo58 els close OF
@t5aemUeq
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-08

During our late war there was a young
man in the army who did not Join OF his
own free will. He was drafted He was
not brave young man-quite the other
wise. One day, during a bloody battle, our
young friend showed such a remarkable
large white feather that his captain was
obliged to threaten him with his pistol in
order to keep him from running away alto
gether.' Then the youth began to cry.
you ought to be ashamed of yourself"
said the captain; you're no better than a
bered our hero, an a gal baby at that"
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-08
GENERAL NAruRE-No. Gil

An act fixing the rank of professors OF
mathematics in the United States navy.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
ninth section Of the naval appropriation
bill, approved March third, eighteen hun
drcd and seyenty-one, be amended by in
sorting, after the clause relating to the
chaplains, the following clause:
There shall be three professors of mathe-
MATES, who shall have the relative rank Of
captain; four that of commander: and five
that Of lieutenant commander or lieutenant.
Approved May 81, 1872.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-08

a F5a00ea3, ke3tucEv, judge has made
himself notorious by ordering women, con-
Yicted OF disorder or drunkenness. to be
put in the chain gang, side BIZ side with
masculine criminals, and set to work in the
streets 1t is claimed that this piece of
y brutality has been Of service in soaring Of
tenders into righteousness. Very likely it
VIII act IN that way for little while, but it
VIII soon get TO be an Old story, and the
women thus exposed to public scorn will
sink to lower depths of degradation. This
policy Of frightening criminals is a yaia
one. The unimaginable terrors of he'll. az
depicted in the orthodox creeds, have
proved pDwerless to eyangelize even nom
lnally Christian nations
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-08
Apparatus for Watering Streets.

A new system of watering streets has
been subjected to various and successful
experimental tests in London. In oAe of
these trials one and half inch lead pipes
were laid along close to each curbstone,
these subordinate pipes beng supplied
from mains. At intervals of about two
feet apart the pipes are drilled with holes
of from a sixteenth to a thirty second of an
inch, in groups of three, each of which is
pierced at different angle. These aper-
lures from the pipes command the complete
road, which i'll this case was of the width
Of about nineteen yards. The water was
of course, supplied under pressure. with a
head of about one hundred feet, and it was
found that shower of quarter of mile
in length could be commanded with one
and one-half inch pipe. In another expert
ment with this system, central pipe was
used in the middle of the road, which threw
jets toward the curbstones. The pipes are
protected by shields, and provision is made
for the surface water being sent past the
sides of the pipe to the bottom, where it
finds q passage. The pipe is, of course
upon the crown of the road, and IS pro
tected by an asphalt covering
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-08

A we'll known diamond peddIer of New
York, named O'Grady, was exhibiting a set
of diamond studs to some politicians in the
neighborhood Of the City Hall few DAYS
ago. AS the price was $4,000, he did not
find purchaser and thought he rut them
back in his pocket They fell upon the
ground and were subsequently picked up
by two boys, who took them to iewe1er
and sold them for s.. In the mean
time. O'Grady, discovering his loss.
offered reward of $500 dollars for them.
The jeweer sold them to gentleman in
New York, and they have not as yet been
rpcnVnrnd-