The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-07-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

H J. Jewett has been elected pres
ident of Erie. vice Watson, resigned.
San Francisco has donated S29, 900 TO
the Louisiana sufferers
McGrath, the owner of Tom Bowl
ing, fears the horse will never be able to ap-
pear on the track again.
Marshall Jewell has left st. Peters
burg, and il en- route for Washington to as
sumo the duties of postmaster general.
Vice-President Wilson says he has so
much improved In health that il. congress were
to assemble tomorrow he would be prepared
to resume his position as presiding officer Of
the senate.
George Smith, who erected for the
late Professor Morse the first line of telegraph
poles in this country, between Ss----5son
and Baltimore, in 1874, died at his residence
in NewfieId, Maine, few days ago. ~
The attorney general has dire the
United States attorney for the weste district
of New York to take an appeal in case of
the New York Central and Hudso tiver rail
road company against United St0es Internal
Revenue Collector Briley.
The question of legal separation OF
Mr. and Mrs. Tilton is now in the hands of
Mr. n. B. MARI, formerly judge Of the court
of appeals. Judge MARI is the stepfather Of
Mrs Tilton, and has been her husbands IN
innate friend for many years.
The effect OF the reduction of the
rates on package envelopes, from ten to eight
cents. is shown in the increase of sales. There
we're 1873, ,s15, 500 stamped envelopes sold by
the postoffice department through the post
masters. an increase over the preceding year
OF about 100000.
The superintendent of the mounted
recruiting service is ordered to forward 100
the same place for assignment 70 TIE hFffssn
cavalry; also 80 recruits to Fort Dodge, Kan
sas to the sixth cavalry.
Treasurer Spinner has threatened to
tender his resignation in case his views regard
ing the management of the bureau under his
charge are not approved by those higher in
authority Gen. Spinner's Dissatisfaction
grows out of a conflict between himself and
other prominent officers of the treasury with
reference to the appointment Of clerks in his
own bureau.
The suspension of the freedman's saw
ings institution, which retains saving OF money
of industrious colored persons, is the chief
subject of conversation among them. Three
| deaths nave reSuiteu indirectly lEOu LnS Sus-
pension, the victims being women who went
| into wild state of imbecility and collapse at
the loss of their savings.
The hand ball match foI ne thou
sand dollars and the CHAMPIONSHIP Nc Amer
lea, between James O'Brien and Aes Far
ron, of Chicago, and James Dunn smes
Casey, of Brooklyn, took place last week, and
resulted in favor of Brooklyn by~a score Of
81 to IA. Chicago had the game IN pown
hands until Farron became exhausted by
heat
The examination of the young men
who received permits to report for admission
into the naval academy as cadet engineers
takes place ON the 15th 18th and 18th of Sep
tember instead of any time between the 18th
and 2fst, as heretofore. This viii be a com
petitial examination. The recent act OF con-
| gress permits the appointment of twenty-five
cadet engineers annually.
One of the ladies employed as count
er in the national bank redemption division
| of the treasury department has discovered
among the notes sent for redemption one of
the counterfeit $500 bills, originally discovered
at the treasury about year ago. It WAS so
/ perfect that several of the most experienced
clerks in the treasury Office thought it genu-
| inc, but upon reference to the engraving and
| printing division it was pronounced counter
felt.