The Hickman courier., 1873-06-28
News of the Week.
EAST.

Tho n. Y. board Of health is providing
against the anticipated visit Of cholera from the
south The streets, sewers, alleys and cellars
are being disi1fected. The residents of the
latter unhealthy places are being compelled to
hunt higher places Of abode, and the owners
OF tenement houses occupied by the poorer
Glasses are ordered to abate the existing nui-
sances and take precautions against the oc-
eurrence of others
Prof Hardness, of the national observ-
atory. has gone to New York and Boston to
examine into the progress and charact er
or the work on the instruments now preparing
at an expense OF fifty thousand dollars, by
authority Of congress, to observe the transit
OF Venus The ehronometers and transit in
struments are making in New York. and the
Photographic apparatus in Boston.
The president has pardoned the Rev John
k zell Baptist minister of South Carolina,
who was eonvisted of kukuxism and sent to
Albany penitentiary by Judge Bond.
Nine thousand immigrants arrived at New
York during the past week, making 141, $50
sinee january 1.
"A New York paper says that at the present
time there are between 7, 900 and 9, 900 children
who have been kidnapped from Italy and are
held in slavery in the large cities of the Uni
ted States, New York being the great central
e1atrepot These children are brought here |
and sold daily, at private auction, at prices |
ranging from 800 to s400 for boys, and from |
300 to $500 for girls. Where the girls are /
exceptionally pretty the prices rule higher.
Two little girls who together play their violins
in Wall street are said to have been bought bv
their present owner for q, 800. Since the 1st
OF April last S17 OF these children have arrived
in New York
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sssaaz.<asasseka. <<zeu ON them ana made . rAase
of S75.O0O in New York, the other day, and
has gone where it viii do him the most good.
The Philadeiphians discovered the chea. too
late. Horton has been living in Lancaster.
Pa, for the last ak or eight years, excepting
the brief periods he has lived in New York.
Judge Ingraham in supreme court has
granted an absolute divorce in the case of
Paaine Lucca against her husband Baron Won
Rhode. with leave to the former to marry again
Plaintiff was also awarded the custody of their
child No counsel appeared for the Baron
Plaintiffs complaint set forth that she was
married in Berlin, November 1865; that her
husband subsequentlyIed rrohigate life and
squandered her earnings.
j. E. Yandusen, of Boynton, n. J.. who
has been missing for some eight months, has
turned up again. He writes from Rotterdam,
on the Hague He states that he left his
home in Brooklyn for days cunning. While
ducking Five Island his boat was cap
sized and his companion drowned. Clinging
to the bottom of the upset boat, he drifted
out to sea, and on the following morning,
when almost exhausted, he picked up by /
q Swedish bark. bound for Buenos Ayres. :
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British bark. bound from the Pacific for F
Rotterdam and all consenting, young Vandu- ?
sen was transferred and carried to Rotterdam, a
from which place he proposed TO sail immed y
stely TO meet his wife and chilSRAp in Broo
yn, who have mourned for him lead Tor
eral months.
WEST.
"A dispatch to the secretary ~ H1z