The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-05-30
WEST.

Northampton, Mass. lost nine bridges
nearly new by the mill dam flood.
Henri Rochefort, who was a passen-
ger on the sIilado from Australia, has arrived
at San Francisco.
. A Chicago packing house was burned
last week, consuming 500 live hogs and !. .OOO,-
000 pounds of dead-loss $4,000, distributed
among 40 companies.
Forty crusading ladies were arrested
and taken before The mayor of Pi.tsburg, Pa,
last week, who dismissed them with threat
of punishment if arrested again. They sang
the long metre doxology and departed.
The city of Independence, Iowa, was
nearly destroyed by fire last week. almost the
entire business portion being in ashes Over
forty of the best business houses are gone
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Accounts from the southeastern
paris of Minnesota represent that the ground
is literally alive with young grasshoppers
which have already commenced eating vegeta-
ton. II they remain the prospects of the
crops are hopeless.
The Rev. Daniel Swing, of Chicago,
has publicly an bounced his determination to
apply to the Chicago Presbytery for letter Of
dismissal from the ministry OF the Presbyter-
ian church. He will. however, remain as pas
tor or preacher for the Fourth Presbyterian
u vhurch, III accordance with the expressed
wishes OF the elders and leading members
thereof
A Northampton, Mass, dispatch says
there are now in Mil River valley twelve
hundred destitute and homeless people to
feed and clothe, not for one day only. but
until their future Is decided upon and must
have at least hundred thousand dollars
for immediate use. The women as usual ex-
nibit more fortitude than the men, and in
stead of yielding to their sorrows put forth
praiseworthy efOr to improve their ger eraI
condition.
At a meeting of the United States
Centennial commission at Philadelphia a
financial statement was made showing the
total subscription to be 81 4O5, 200: total ex-
penses to May l, including plans and work on
grounds, S144 712; and estimate OF total cost of
buildings according to designs 5. .75O. .OOO /
The report Of the executive committee saws
" without the government aid which has been
requested It viii be impossible TO render the
celebration creditable to the nation and worthy
Of the occasion. The responsibility, there
fore, for success for the centennial exhibition /
now clearly rests with congress"
One of the most r markable sales of /
blooded stock ever held in this country took |
at Dexter Park, Chicago, last week being that 1
of the celebrated LindeIl herd Of shorthorns. |
belonging to Hon. ". G.. King. of Mime /
apOlis- Fifty-eight cows,and twenty-one bulls /
were sold, the former sggrega'iug s1O1, ,6I5. /
and the latter S25, 375. being an average of
1882 each for the bulls. Buyers were pre-
sont from every part of the United States.
from Canada, and one. Mr.. Robbins from
England who made the most notable pur-
chase Of the day, that Of the bull Duke of
Hillhurst, for which he paid "a, COO 4 large
number Of tie finest animals seld went TO
At a recent meeting of workingmen
at Columbus, Ohio, resolutions were adopted
declsringi in favor OF the substitution of al b.
tration for strikes by a law which ensures
justice both to employer and employee; favor
ing the enactment OF an equitable apprentice
law; for the enactment of a law to compel
chartered corporations to pay their employees
at least once month in full, and for law
giving mechanics aud laborers first lien on
their works recognizing in the ballot box the
great agency through which their wrongs can
be redressed, and the Gbrogation of all laws
that do not bear equally upon capital and Ia
bor; denouncing Supervising Architect Mul-
let for extending the contract of parties who
DO not observe the eight hour law, and de-
nouncing the system OF convict labor; favor
ing the establishment OF cooperative shops
and stores by the industrial classes; denounc-
ing demagogues favoring cutting lsose from
sn political workiugmen, and favoring a pro-
tective tariff which viii better protect the iron
Of this country