The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-08-01
MISCELLAN EoU s.

Bristow consents that Spinner shall
have the selecting of his own clerks
The last surviving sister of the late
E igar Allen Poe died at Washington last
week aged 6S.
There have been about one thousand
applications for ofice under the district com
me aoqregate smount due the clerks
of the late board Of public works. including
the engineer department and employees
under the superintendent of property, is
81. .2O7, 1913.
Mr.. Price NIcGrath, says that Tom
Bowling has been turned ont, and viii not run
again this year Perhaps he VIII never grace
the turf more. Slight hopes, however, are
still entertained for his recovery.
A dangerous counterfeit having ap-
peared on the i've dollar notes OF the I0aders
National bank Of Chicago, the treasu de
partraent offers one-ialf per cent premium
for the return Of the genuine five dollar notes
of that bank to the department for destruc-
ton. The attention Of bank officers Is espe-
cieIly called to the necessity Of retiring these
notes. which viii entirely prevent the e.rcula-
ton OF counterfeits.
In the case Of the Union Trust Com
panv of New York vs.. the Rock Island * St
T.or1is railway. brought in the United States
court to foreclose the nine million dollars
trust deeds against the company, and
for the appointment Of a receiver, Judge
BIodgett has dismissed the bill on the ground
that the necessary number Of bondholders
had not Joined in the request to foreclose as
to former defaults IN interest
The bids for the five per cent. funded
loan forwarded from New York, representing
those filed by foreign bankers for European
markets IS well as those for domestic hold
inN viii aggregate not less than SoO,OOO, OOO-
The large bids VIII come from syndlcates
which have been formed, the principal one
representing combination of German bank
ers. and to each of those bids viii be attached
a condition that the bidders are to have a call
on the entire remainder of the loan so that
should the secretary accept any one of the
bids. it would be to the exclusion Of all
others.
A dividend of five per cent, author
lied By the committee of creditors Of Jay
| Cooke & Co, has not yet been paid, the regis
ter having doubts as TO its binding effect upon
him. He has, however, proceeded with the
necessary calculations, so that there should
be no delay if the court ordered him to pro-
ceed. In the meantime the funds in his hands
have increased to such an amount as Will war
rant the payment of seven instead of i've per
cont. 1t is believed that he viii bring the
matter before the court when its opinion can
| be obtained, and if a proper order Is made
payment viii be proceeded with as early as
/ possible.
The lieutenant governor of Missis-
sippi has telegraphed that he has sent to the
/ president by mail a statement of affairs at
! vicksburg, which led him to apprehend dis
turbance of the peace, which, owing to the
unorganized state of the militia, he would be
unable to suppress. The mayor and post
master of Yicksburg have on the other band
telegraphed to the president protes ting
against the sending of troops to that city, as
| such an act would have the effect of increas-
! ing the excitement, as there are no indications
of an outbreak. The secretary of war, in
view of the protest of the mayor of Yicks-
burg and the postmaster at that city against
sending troops there, has countermanded his
order directing troops to proceed to that place
altil the full particulars of the whole trouble
| be received from the acting governor.