The Hickman courier., 1873-07-19
News Of the week.

into JOINT STOCK company 50 as 10 eFdde par
of the liability.
When walworth donned the prison uni
form at Sing Sing, he remarked: 81 hav
gained seven pounds in clothes since cam
here feel now like engaging in base bal
match" He remarked of the handcuffs whicl
linked him to Gillen, the wife-murderer
They are the starchiest cuffs ever wore"
-Philadelphia-Th mint is engaged in re
melting vast quantities of light gold coins
Since January 1, some twenty-tIlree milliol
dollars worth have been melted, and ten mil
lions more VIII be received this week Order
for the new trade dollars viii be filed in tn
Sarly part OF next week.
The total amount to be raised by taxes
this year in New York city, is slightly in excess
of S27. 600, ,0c0, OF which S16, 100000 are re-
quired for city purposes, and so, 800, 900 fol
state purposes.
VEST
The Yellow Stone expedition has beer
heard from. They have experienced no trouble
from the Indians so far.
st Louis. Golden, who has been en-
gagged with the party of Gen. Barrett in sur
veying the Cheyenne and Arraphoe Indian re-
seryatioD=. arrived here from Cheyenne agency
one hundred miles north Of Fort sia, Indian
territory. lie reports about two thirds of the
work completed; also, that the Cheyenne In
dams. after celebrating their medicine festivi-
ties, to do which they left their reservation,
had started for Antelope hills. 1t is not known
where they win turn up next, but their agent
does not seem to apprehend any trouble.
There we're s75 lodges of them. One band of
Cheyennes, under Little Robe refused to fol-
low the main bands and remained at the agen-
cy. The Arraphoes under Little Raven, Pow
der Face, yellow Bear and Big Mouth. num-
bering $50 lodges. are on their reservations
and peaeeable. 1t is said they will defend the
whites against the Cheyennes should the latter
make attack.
"A band of 200 Arizona Indians has crossed
the line and entered Chihuahua to spoil the
Mexicaus. Captain Jack and his companions
IN confinement are reported to be growing wan
and weak from their imprisonment. The
number of Modoc captives has been increased
by the surrender Of three more braves with
their women and children Lieut.. Babco0 of
the fifth cavalry who was sent in pursuit of the
murdersrs of Iieut Alny. in Arizona, over
took them in the mountains and compelled an
engagement. killed fourteen and captured six
The railroad valuation of Ohio has in
creased neatly eleven millions during the last
year The board of equalization fixed the
value of railroad property last year at $685.
3i2, 046, and this year at s79, ,213, $50.
Shipments of Texas cattle east from Wa
chita. Ellsworth, and other points in Kansas,
have commenced. There are so coo head at
WachitA, and $50, 900 head on the way to that
UCInt from Tavsz AcaoV1fuor 20, 0fsJo Il
road reports there is also a large number at
Ellsworth, and small droves elsewhere.
The question of the terminus of the
Northern Pacific railroad continues to excite
the people of Puget sound, Washington terri
tory. and Portland, Oregon. The town of
Seattle, Washington torritory, offers. by way
OF inducement, donation of land and sub
scription Of money already amounting to 81
o O,000- The town of Tacama offers the con-
troll of its entire water front and a large tract
Of land. In case Seattle does not get the ter
minus responsible party agrees to build.
equip and put in running order a branch
rom Seattle, to connect with the Northern
Pacific near Tacama by the 1st of January. at
)r for less amount than that pledged to the |
ompany by Seattle.
The travel through the Arkansas valley
cry heavy, and transactions in government
ands unusually large. New government land
,ffices are soon to be established at Hutchin-
son and Larned-
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
Upon the question made by Mr.. Orton,
president of the Western Union telegraph
the attorneY-general has decided
hat upon lines of telegraph operating under
the act of July 24th, 1866, officers and agents
Of the different departments of the govern
ment may telegraph each other upon official
at rates fixed by the postmaster-gen-
eral.'
The attorney-g general has decided that the
fifteen per cent. increase of compensation of
employees of tho senate and house of repre-
as provided for by the act of March
3, 1873, applies only to those employed during
the 42d congress, and does not apply to per-
sons whose employment in that capacity com
after the 4th of March, 1873.
= Illinois has G, $50 miles of railway service,
the largest amount of any of the United
States. Ohio is next, with 4, ,s77 miles, and
New York is third Massachusetts, has about
|. 200 miles. None of the other New England
states have as many as 1000 miles. The total
railway service of the country is SO, 514 miles,
an increase of 8 ,6O3 miles during the past year.
Under tie law which congress passed to
refund the duties on certain imported srtl3es
which actually entered into the construction
Of buildings in tho burned district in Chicago,
the treasury has paid drawback of nearly
: 25O, 600 to the importers or actual consumers
Of the articles. Thirty thousand dollars have
been paid since congress adjourned This is
very largely in excess of the estimate made at
the time the law was passed.
The secretary of the treasury has paid to
the board of public works s460. 900, one half of
the appropriation made by the last congress
FOR continuing improvements around public
grounds.
FOREIGN. INTELLIGENCE.
The permanent retirement of Bismarck
from the Prussian cabinet, as announced some
months ago, is on the eve of accomplishment
The prince has taken preparatory steps for his
withdrawal He will retain the German chan
,ellorship- Won Balen, it is reported will be
minister of foreign affairs.
1t is reported that the French government
has under consideration the question of call
ing congress of representatives of the great
powers in Paris, to discuss the terms of the
new commercial treaty.
-Paris-The second instalment of two hun
ired and fifty million francs of the last nlilard
Of the war indemnity was delivered to the
German treasury on the 5th- There now re-
mains. due to Germany but five hundred mil
ion francs, which, in accordance with the
treaty signed at Berlin on the 18th of March
ast, is to be paid by the 5th of September
next.
Salvador Cisneras has been chosen presi-
dent OF the Cuban republic, Cespedes having
resigned. The federal republicans of Cuba
have published manifesto urging the union
Of all parties. and calling on the insurgents in
the name of the captain-generaI and the re-
public to lay down their arms and enjoy the
benefits of republican government. The re-
publicans have appointed committee to go to
Madrid and represent them before the govern
mont and cortes.
"A special from the Hague to the Pail Mall
Gazette denies that any settlement Gkas
been made between the Dutch and the Achee-
nese.. In the States-GeneraI of Holland. July
I'd, the colonial minister announced that all
the supplies requisite for the equipment of the
second expedition against Atcheen have been
furnished He added that no negotiations
with the sultan Of Atcheen were pending. as
had been reported in public prints but it was
not improbable that they might be opened
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