The Hickman courier., 1872-09-21
News Of the Week.
At Home.

A few cases of small pox have ap-
peared in Southern Utah.
Gen. Cowan and his Indian delega-
ton have reached Washington.
The New York Senate has adjourn
ed until November Goth, not 10th as
enormously reported.
The efforts of the coal oil men to de-
crease production have failed.
Maurice DAILY won $4,000 billiard
match in New York over John Deery
of Chicago, Daily scoring 600 to Deery's
406 in SO innings each.
The Cincinnati Exposition draws
10000 visitors per day.
White, Brown & Co.. Boston dry
goods importers, are sued by the United
States for defrauding the custom house
of 800 600.
Fifteen thousand eight hundred and
eighty pounds of crude bullion from
the Stockton mines, and a ton of pure
silver bullion from the Phoebe mines. at
Salt Lake, were received last week.
Failures in Baltimore and New York
gate between three and four million
dollars. The suspended firms are prin-
cipalIy engaged in the wholesale gro-
Gerry business.
DR.. Schoeppe, recently acquitted at
Carlisle, Pa, of the murder of Miss
Steinnecke, has filed caveat to the
will of deceased. The Doctor lays
Olo 10, fafn tyafe ytof
said will, which was admitted to pro-
bate early in 1869.
One of the men sum moned for a ju-
ror in the Fair trial, now pending in
San Francisco, ststed to the Courtt That
ne had been approsched by q person
who offered him 81 900, if he would
secure place on the jury and vote for
the acquittal of the accused. The ac-
cused party is under arrest to answer to
the charge of contempt.
The Texas cattle fever is prevailing
5 to a considerable extent in Mclean
county, Illinois. Forty mileh cows
have died from the disease in Lexiug-
ton within two weeks, and many more
are sick. Every case has proved fatal,
the animals living from two to six
days.
Justice Henry Hogeboom, of the
New Jersey State Supreme Court, and
an eminent jurist, died at Hudson, n.
J., aged sixtY-four.
In East Cambridge, Mass, during
quarrel between James Cavanaugh
and his sister, Bridget Talbot, he beat
the latter so brutally that she died du-
ring the night
9Dispatches from Victoria report mat
tiers in Alaska in a very unsatisfactory
condition. The only place where there
is anything like government in Alaska
is in the immediate vicinity of Sitka.
Outside, life aud property are at the
mercy of the Indians.
A New York dispatch says: Col
Whiteley received iva rmation o: the
discovery of an unuscsilIy large coun-
terfeiting plot in st. Louis, the princi-
pals in which could not well be appre-
hended, and that the plate would be
sent North to be finished. The coun-
terfeiting material was seized at the Of
flee of Westcott's Express Company in
Brooklyn. 1t was packed in box and
addressed to B. Still, who had been
afraid to take it from the office. Two
plates for fifty-dollar bank-notes were
fUlnd, together with about $4,000
worth OF counterfeit notes, which were
pronounced the first of the kind ever
issued.
The sundown railroaf air line from
New York to Council Bluffs. that was
projected several years ago, is now be-
ing built rapidly. A large force is now
at work grading the roA from Tlfin,
Ohio, to Fort Wayne. The grading
from Rochester to Rensselaer,, Indiana,
is also under contract, and work has
been commenced 1t is expected that
abe road will be ready for the iron from
Rochester to Rensselaer, about the 1st
of January. When completed this will
be the shortest route between New
York and Omaha.
The War Department has received a
dispatch from Gen. Sheridan, dated
Duluth, Mimi, September s, saying
that Col. Baker, after reaching the
mountains of the Yellowstone Valley,
was Obliged to come back, on account
OF the surveying Engineers deciding to
go no further for fear of Indians, and
therefore the expedition Is a failure.
The President has issued procIama-
tion abolish all duties on imports from
Japan in japanese vessels. The rule
TO hold good so long as Japan imposes
no duties on imports from the United
States.