The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1873-01-11
~ GENERAL.

All the prisoners confined in the Frank
fort, Kentucky, Jail escaped last week by cut
ting through the roof.
Hon. Horace Maynard, of Tennessee, has
had placed in his hands. for the purpose OF
presenting to the House of Representatives, a
memorial, numerously signed by officers and
soldiers of the Army of the Cumberland. ask
ing Congress to appropriate $4,000 towards
the erection of equestrian statue to the
memory of the late Maj. Gen. Geo. II. Thomas
The Trustees of the Public Library of
Kentucky have paid Samuel Weisiger SSs, ,457,
and secured clear title to the valuable prop
erty and splendid building ON Fourth street,
now occupied by the library. The money paid
was a portion of the proceeds of the late Gift
Concert.
The ship r. c. Winthrop from Antwerpre-
ports that when in latitude "a. 13 north, Iongi-
tude II, 10 west, the MADEIRA Islands bearing
South, half east, distant hundred miles, they
had a meteoric shower. commencing at dark
and lasting two and half hours. The first
hour, near as they could judge there were
from 900 to 200 meteors in the air constantly.
the second hour from four to six hundred, and
IN the last half hour they were gradually dis
appearing About four-ifths of the meteors
appeared ike small balls of fire moving
through the air leisurely, but others moved
with great velocity, leaving in their track a
trail of fire resembling that in the wake of an
army rocket.
The Postoffice Department will put into
practice, IN several of the large cities, a new
arrangement of having the newspaper mails
made up and labeled in the publication offices.
and sent direct to railroad depots without go
ing through Postofiices at all, thereby saving
much time The first intention was to detail a
postof6ce clerk for each newspaper Office for
thus purpose, but this has been abandoned.
and each Office viii now be permifted-to pre-
pare it's own mail
BY the 4th of March the army viii be
clothed IN the new uniform, which is very like
that of the Prussian army. The officers who
called al the White House New Years wore
tins uniform forthe firsttime 1t is very SNOWY.
and the plumes for various branches of the
service are designated by different colors
The Colonels is Of dark blue cloth. double
breasted with skirt extending from one-half
tothree-quarters of the distance below the
hip and the knee. Staff officers wear pants of
dark blue cloth. without stripe. Other officers
wear light blue pants, with stripe of similar
color 10 that of the facings of the respective
arms. except Of infantry officers where the
stripe is OF dark blue General Sherman wore
two rows of buttons on the breast Of his coat
placed IN fours. He wore epaulets. and his
piurnes consisted Of three white ostrich featb-
ers. Other Generals and staff officers wore
three black ostrich feathers, and regimental
officers wore plumes OF horse hair or cocks
feathers. Of color similar to the trimmings OF
other coats General Sherman and the eener-
al staf officers wore chapeaux. I.iof,t art;l-
lery and cavalry officers Lad black felt helmets
with gold cords and tsssels and gilt trimrniugu
Other officers dark blue cloth hats.