The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1873-01-18
News Of. the Week.
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The bill Of exception in favor of Stokes
has bsen3 oompleted, and viii tsoon be argued
before Judge Boardfnan. If he will not
grshf i new trail she bin viii be g.
every one of the thirty-one Judges of the su
preme Court, Stokes is much detected,
Henry c. Bowen, of the Brooklyn Union,
threatens to bring half dozen suits against
the Tribune unless the suit against bim is
withdrawn. j It is rumored that the Times is
about to bring libel suit againt the World for
recent publication. in which the private life
OF parties connected with the Times - falsely
described. The war among newspapers grows
warmer daily, and some sangrline persops are
anticipating daels in consequence. 3 - s+eat
VIM. ]. Healy. U. s.. N, has been arrested
in Now York for defrauding the Government
of 800
Several Quarter-masters- Of the steamship
Denmark have been arrested for smuggling in
York. ffaa ioe {
boston reports Sc deaths from smallpox
the past week.
-osvego, New York, reports s1a5,OOo
fire.
The fatal deaths in New York city last
year were S2,Gf7. and increase of 5.67I over
the year previous. tar hss a
The debt of the wealthy State Of Pennsyl-
vaIiia is only S16, sci OS9.
The discovery was made in New York. last
week, that Dir Kidd twine merchant on
Murray street, had train Of fnse connecting
his premises and adjoining property, whereby
they could be set on fire. Kidi was arrested
and his office boy testified to seeing hira max
ing the fuse. Three large ware ',ouses were
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covery. heavy eenhagration eonld aye en-
xura Fss~@-~----.,s -.
: .. the upper stories and from roof tdsroof.
"A couple Of new steel steamships. built in
England, are nov at the port Of New York.
They are said to make sixteen knots an hour.
or upwards OF eighteen niles Steel has de-
cided advantages over iron, it is believed, for
shipbuilding,
"A panel of one hundred jurors has been.
summoned in the trial of Boss Tweed
The tris.l Of ex-ComptrolIer ConnolIv. of
New York, for frauds, takes place this month
at Albany.
The New York police piclseo p. in desti-
tute condition, a child that had been kidnap-
pen from the Barbadoes-
OUT WEST
session of its new building. costing $3.50, 900,
and SAID to be the best appointed printing Of
fee in the world
"A Tremendous wind-storm, accompanied
by electrical phenomena, passed over Nebras-
ka and Northern Iowa last week
-Abih has passed both houses of the Mich
igan Legislature increasing the salaries Of the
Chief Justice and each Associate Justice of
he
to $4,000 annually
General Grierson has been transferred
from the Indian country to St. Louis. where
he VIII have change Of the recruiting service.
The Pennsylvania State debt was reduced
last year two and half millions of dollars
The Circuit Judges of Michigan have
agreed on a rule that counsel for the defense
shall open their case Immediately aft ex the
plaintiff before evidence is taken on either
side.
The Governor of Minnesota infiicts on the
Legislature message longer than the
Presidents
The money clerk of the Adams Express
at Cincinnati is under arrest for embezzling !
$4,000.
Twelve soldiers of the war of 1912 gather
ed in Philadelphia last week and ceIebr tied
Jacksons victory of New Orleans
The Atlantic and Great Western Railway
have purchased the Petroleum Railroad in pro-
cess of construction BY the Pennsylvariia Rail- (
road and Sill Ct mplets it as soon as pos. bic
IN GENERAL.
"A prominent citizen of Virginia offers the
State the sum of 500, 600 annually for the ex-
elusive privilege of gathering oysters in vir-
gina Waters The revenue heretofore de
rfSeo from thiH sSArse ~ or1Ay
while the cost of'collecting is $50 1000, lsaying
the net revenue only $4,000.
An ordinance was introduced in the City /
Council of st. Louis for thd repeal of the So
cial Evil Ordinance. It was rejected almost J
unanimously. 4
Secretary Fish is reported as saying that |
the Cuban revolutionists not having gained any
more ground than they possessed three years
ago, and are not any more entitled to bolliger-
en- rights now than then He also eaid our
Government has no scheme of annexation in
sending a naval force to the Sandwich Islands.
-General James II. Carleton. who com
manded the Department of New Mexico during
the late war is dead.
Alabama has paid the interest on her
bonded bebt in full in London and New York.
California threatens 20 swamp the market
with a wheat crop Of forty million bushels.
-Beeeher advocates female suffrage and
compulsory education.
The Postmaster General, Representative
Twitchell, and the Postmaster at Boston, were
before the HOUSE Committee ON Appropriations
last week, their object being to have the pos
tai railroad car arrangements largely extended
and improved, owing to,tte increased necessi--
ties of the service. The Postmaster General
was also in consultation with the committee
on the subject of an appropriation as def
cheney for the Transportation of free mail mat
ter, the law making permanent appropriation
for that purpose having been repealed
in a recent letter from Secretary Fish Gen.
Sickles is instructed in decisive but respectful
terms, to demonstrate against the apparent
failure ofSpain to carry into effect the eu1an-
cipation act TO which she is committed. If
Spain permits her authority to be Neffectually
and practically defied in Cuba by refusal or
neglect to carry into effect the views of the
home Government, ef a humane tendency, it
is tantamount to an acknowledgment of ina
biity to control the insurreetion in Cuba
Fish says it has now lasted four years and the
attempts to suppress it are so far futile. IN
less Spain shall soon be more successful it viii
force upon this Government the consideration
of the question whether duty to itself and to
the commercial interests of its citizens may
not demand some change in the line of action
it has thus far pursued. You present the
views above set forth in way which. without
giving offence, viii leave the conviction that
we are IN earnst-
- F1REIGN ZVTEZLIGENCE.
An Aspinwall letter states that the steam
er Edgar Stuart which had received a new
crew from New York sailed for Cuba with her
large cargo of arms and ammunition for the
Revolutionists. She is under command Of
General " Aguers. Ont of some sixty of
crew, forty are recruits for the Cuban army.
The British government declines to sup
port the proposition of the Royal Geographical
society for the sending out of an Arctic expe-
dition partially at the public expense.
In the Pr11ssian Diet an intarreIlati1,r,1