The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1873-01-04
News of the Week.
EAST.

before the United States District Court at /
next session in Albany on the Sd Tuesday
January.
AT meeting of the colored citizens
Boston, resolutions were passed calling on Il
American people to urge the Administration
extend all legal aid to the patriots of Cuba
their struggle for freedom.
-Barnums Museum was DESTROYED bv fir
last week, and all the animals burnt to deaf
with the exception of two elephants and
camel The cries of the poor creatures al
said to have been most piteous. The loss su.
tanned was immense.
Thomas Farrell, the Keeper in Ward
Island Lunatic Asylum, held in two indict
ments for homicide Of patients under hi
charge, was suffered to go on his own re
cognizsnce, the principal witness against hin
having died
simmons. the murderer of Duryea. ba
been removed from Park Hospital to an un
known place Of safety by the police. owing a.
is stated, to the fact that the police became
aware Of the formation of Vigilance Com.
mittee of some forty men, who intended
taking Simmons from the hospital and hang
ng him.
The Bark Kadosh, of Boston, from Mannila
went ashore at Point AlIerton. between the
ad Hs td hs ssaIs d il g@sstins @ ashore capsized
Eight of the crew were saved.
&Woodhull and Claain haye. resumed III
publication OF their Weekly
The Vermont Legislature has passed an
act, furnishing with fine any person who
points firearms at another in sport If anv
injury results. the facetious sportsman is liable
TO imprisonment for two years
The ship Peruvian, from Singapore for
Boston, struck the bar OF Cape Cod, during the
storm and went to pieces. The crew were all
drowned. The vessel was owned by VIM. F.
Weld d Co., of Boston. The vessel and cargo
were insured for 500, ,0O0 mostly in Boston
Companies.
In the Stokes case last week the prisoner
told his story of the shooting. He admitted
having shot Fisk, but did not intend to Kill
him, and the shooting, moreover, was nj self
defence, Fisk having drawn pistol to shoot
him He had been, he said in constant fear
of personal violence from the emissaries of
Fisk Stokes contradicted the evidence of
Parker, and stated that he never called Fisk
olack-maller nor threatened to shoot him.
The members from the South, who are
elected TO the Forty-second Congress, are in
dustriously at work to make Horace MAYNARD
OF Tennessee, Speaker of the House. They
are very anxious to form a combination with |
the Pennsylvania delegation, and the induce |
ment held out is that in case Maynard is elect |
ed, Judge Kelly will be made Chairman of the |
ways and Means Committee, and the old
members from Pennsylvania, who are re- /
elected, win have other important chairman
'hips An effort is also being made to capturs
he Indiana delegation, the consideration be-
ng that General Coburn, of the INDIANAPOLIS
district, is to be made Chairman of the An
ropriation Committee. Speaker Blaine. who
MI, of course, be a candidate for reelection
as thus far made effort, nor has his
nends, because they are confident of his re-
lection without much opposition.
--Ihe American Geographical Society have
Adertaken to collect Tor the Vienna Inter
auonal Exposition maps, photographs seen
~, geographical and other reports and infor-
latlon, which may best represent the true
ondltlon of the country, and to make the col
ction and export articles at their own ex-
ense.
The latest estimate in London of BowIes I
rothers' liabilities is one million two hun =
red thousand dollars; assets noninaIly two
nndred and forty fiasasaIaeI dollar. I,,t really
ext 20 nothing II Is confirmed that 5osepfi-
e Mansfield lost heavily; also the wife of
ather Hyacinthe. 1
The Memphis Bank, J. J. Murphy, Presi-
,nt, suspended last week. Liabilities $40, ,O0o '
Five negro women were shot during the 9
eristmas festivities at Memphis, two fatally ;
their husbands, and the others by colored
imirers.
OUT WEST.
Ned Buntline, who, with Buffalo Bill and
exas Jack, is playing sensational drama at !
le Grand Opera House, St. Louis has been
rrested on capias issued at the instance of
7 Prosecuting Attorney Normile for alleged !
1mplicity in a riot which occurred in the
outhern art of the city in 1882. After ex-
mination, Buntline was released on $500
onds on each of two indictments found against
i'm twenty years ago The proceedings are
sgarded as a farce.
"A dispatch from Philadelphia states that
perations in the coal regions will stop on the
st of January. The suspension is caused by
be non-acceptance of the basis proposed by
be Anthracite Board of Trade. 1t is general
thought that there will be q long suspension.
AT Visalia California, noted desperate,
ames MeCray, shot and killed Charles Allen.
Ie WAS arrested by the officers, and was found
rmed to the teeth. A vigilance committee
Ias organized at once, and McCray taken
rom the Jail and hung under bridge near
he prison.
"A terrible snow slide occurred at Little
Utah, last week. An avalanche
90 fee. wide and II feet deep came down,
rossing the stage road, carrying away from 8
o 10 teams and teamsters, taking them 500
eet across Cottonwood creek. Three teams
ers haze been shoveled out alive but badly
ruised. Four more are known to be buried
nd not rescued, and it is thought impossible
o find them before spring. All the teams in
he line of the avalanche were swept away.
The names o. the men are not yet ascertained
eight mules were dug out some dead, some
Nth legs broken and others severely bruised.
several we're afterwards shot. No delays on
he Pacific road rs yet
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
General sickIes reports that Spain is
rrevocably pledged to emancipation in Porto
Rico.
-Berne-The Diplomatic relations between
he Swiss Government and the Vatican are
'roken OF. Papal legation at Lucerne viii
'robabIy be abolished, the Charge de Affaires
md attaches having been recalled
Thirty persons were lost on the steamship
iermany. Twelve were passengers But one
vas American.
-Matamoras - The excitement over the
lection Of the Municipal officers IN this city
as not vet subsidized Some of Cortinas
men had an encounter with troop of the
wenty-second battalion The result was one