The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-06-30

BLOOD mas neen shed IN OLD times lot
smaller insult than the New York Her
aid puts upon Boston in calling it "h
town which is known in history mainly
because it puts molases into its baked
beans" Moreover the statement Is
untrue as well as insulting. The mo-
lasses is put in before the beans are baked.
MYPA CLARK GAINES, who claims to
own much of the land on which the city
of New Orleans stands, has received
much encouragement by the late ruling
of the United States supreme court, and
has gone back to New Orleans, where she
will reopen her suits for the estate which
she has been fighting for for the past half
century
THE bill recently introduced into the
British house of lords for the regulation
OF the practice of vivisection provides
that when no anasthetics are used the
experimenter must first furnish certifi-
cate that vivisection is indispensable to
the experiment, and the experiment
must be performed in a registered place,
and by person specially licensed by the
government.
EMOTIONAL INSANITY" still has its
defenders in Illinois, the latest sufferer
being Mrs. Brita Nelson, who was placed
on trial for numbering her husband. On
Z two occasions she confessed the murder
and even told the name of the "affinity''
! who suggested the deed, but the jury
s become convinced that she was emotion
asssszt-,~ene and acquitted her
akt -Ae---eese
TH-4Seirs of A. T. Stewart are rapidly /
increasing in number. The latest census
gives them at two thousand and upwards.
They may not succeed in breaking the
will, though experience shows that few
experiments of that character are hope
less; but it seems quite probable that
they will compel the executors to have
it approved again.
The Canadians are putting up the
bars against our new silver coins. At
Windsor, opposite Detroit, the merchants
have made solemn covenant not to re-
ceive it save at these rates: The three
cent silver coin at two cents; the five
cent at four cents; the ten cent at eight
cents; the twenty cent at sixteen cents
the twenty five-cent at twenty cents; the
ffty-cent at forty-cents; the dollar at
eighty cents.
The effort to solve the Chinese prob
lem by sending the surplus Celestials to
IL -sol T,Ion1c hos y1rOx-aH fail-
ure A vessel was chartered nearly
fortnight since to take FIVE hundred OF
the heather from San Francisco to
Hawaii, and four hundred and fifty sig
nified .heir willingness to go. When the
time came to sail however, only seventy
FIVE presented themselves, and the trip
has been postponed until the quota can
be filled.
CoNcERNING the tobacco tax, the well
posted Washington correspondent of the
New York Bulletin, telegraphs; "It
may be stated positively, on the author
ity of nearly every member of the ways
and means committee, that there will be
no bill presented to change the tax on
dl L4iS SSooAOii. L oldlC lAAAo ~
authoritatively in order to allay the ru
mored Generalization in the tobacco
trade brought about by some manufac-
turers who are working for change in
the tax"
NJ BoURBoUGE, of Paris, has lately
been partially successful in collecting
zspantIueQus electrical currents from the |
earth. This ANNOUNCEMENT, though in
itself of a simple character, contains sug-
gestions of possible discovery OF great
significance. 1t may be safely suggested
that until some method is devised for
securing the service of these natural cur
rents, no great advance will be made in
the adaptation of electricity to the per-
formance of mechanical labor. Hence |
all efforts in this field are to be COM
mended.
AMONG English scientific men the |
belief is gaining ground that hydrophobia
may result from the bite of a perfectly /
healthy dog. This theory would seem +
to be sustained by case which recently /
occurred in New York. Several months /
ago Mr.. Kelly was slightly bitten on /
the hand by pet dog. The wound soon
healed, and as the dog was apparently in
a perfectly normal condition no uneasi- |
ness was felt about the accident. A short |
time ago, however, Mr.. Kelly exhibited |
SYMPTOMS of hydrophobia. All efforts to |
relieve him were in vain, and after few
days of intense suffering he died.
In his speech at the literary-fund din |
ner, in London, lately, Mr.. Froude paid |
Mr.. Disraeli high compliment. He |
would not predict that in the year 5000,
men would still be reading Macaulay's |
history of England. He would not |
predict that they would be reading
" "Lothair." "But this l will say, that |
if any statesman of the age of Augustus |
or the Antonines had left us a picture of |
patrician society at Rome, drawn with |
the same skill and with the same delicate
irony with which Mr. Disraeli has de- |
scribed part of English society in |
Lothair, no relic of antiquity would |
now be deveured with more avidity and |
interest"
THE latest-and in some respects the
fishiest-fish story is from the St. Lotus
Republican. The pith of it is that a
fisherman in that neighborhood, seeing
what looked like fish "with tail at
both ends" pulled it in with gaff and
discovered that he had catfish with
buffalo fish in its mouth. which it was
trying to swallow. The Republican says:
"The catfish was found to weigh seventy
five pounds and the buffalo ten pounds.