The Hickman courier., 1876-07-28

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of the aurora borealis.
THE house has passed bill apPro-
priating $500, 900 for the construction of
two military posts or depots in the Sioux
country. in accordance with the recon-
mendation of generals Sheridan, Terry
and Custer.
THEY know how to value talent as
well as beauty in New South Wales.
Mrs. Scott-Siddons, who is playing an
engagement there, writes: "A very
remarkably handsome Fiji Islander took
a great admiration for me, and wanted
to buy me of my present lord and master.
He was willing to give six punches OF
bananas"
WHAT do you think of an unbroken
furrow six miles longl That's what you
can see any day by going to Elm river,
where Messrs. Dalrymple and Grandin
are breaking prairie. The teams start in |
the morning and make one round across |
an entire township and back Twelve |
miles) before dinner, and the same in |
the afternoon-twenty-fo miles travel |
for each team every day. All for wheat
ext year.-Fargo (Cal) Tim 5.
A MILITARY coat made by the late
president johnson, while he. was work |
ing at his trade as a tailor, has been
5 presented to the historical society OF {
Tennessee. 1t is in good state of pres
ervation, and it is said to show excellent |
cEiII foofa o1I
Mr.. johnson became governor of Ten |
nessee, he commissioned as circuit Judge |
the customer for whom the coat was |
made
SEVEN Chinhe officers have arrived at
Berlin-a caPtain and six lieutenants
with credentials from their govern
ment, and request to the government
ot Germany to allow them to serve for a
time in the Prussian army, as some
japanese officers were allowed to do
some time ago, for the purpose of
acquainting themselves with the German
military system. The German Emperor
has acceded to the request.
A COLORADO village lately had its first
bananas. A young fellow wanted to
know if "they growed on that stick"
Another asked if they were not beans
and John Chinaman said they must have
grown at the south, as such big beans
could not grow at the north A hotel
clerk, when told they were good to eat,
laughed incredulously. Another bought
one just to see bystander eat it, and
then trembled with fear lest he had been
the cause of poisoning a fellow being.
WHEN Mr.. Richard Henry Lee began
to read the declaration of independence
in Philadelphia, last Tuesday. Dom Pedro
took from his pocket well-worn PAM
lhlet which proved to be a fac simile of
the manuscript of the declaration, and
remarked to the gentlemen near him,
g have had this for thirty years" He
followed the text, sentence by sentence,
as Mr.. Lee read; and there was no
heartier response TO any patriotic senti-
ment during the day than that given by
the Brazilian monarch.
A GREAT social event in Virginia CITY. +
Nevada, was the opening of the "Tbe
Silver Palace" drinking and gambling
saloon. The local newspapers devote d
whole columns to descriptions of the n
goigeousness of the establishment and 7
the brilliancy of the opening. Private
invitations were issued says the Chron- =
icle, &c to several hundred prominent cit
izenS, requesting them to be present with
their lady friends. The invitation was !
generally accepted. Only those who had !
been asked were admitted, and many II
the best people in town took advantage 9
o. the courtesy of the proprietors The !
ladies seemed to find an especial delight )
in entering upon what after that night )
would be to them forbidden ground, and
wandered around by scores.''
In the house on the 10th a resolution +
was adopted calling for information in re- v
gard TO the objects of the military expedi- t
tion OF General Terry, Crook and Gibbon t
against the northwestern Indians. Inc c
nectiOn with the resolution was submit d
ted the following statement, showing the r
distribution of United States troops: :
There are at present in the army 26, ,790 I
troops, located as follows: 4216 belonging {
to detachments at West Point, 1886 {
located in the territories, 371S in Texas,
1884 in the other southern states, while ,
in the field operating against the Indians
there are under General Terry only 123,
and under General Creok only 1870.
making in all 2913. The remaining
1000 are located in the northern cities
and forts.
GoLwoOD, a village of two hundred 1
people, on the Bombay and Baroda rail
way, in India, has been the scene of one
of the most frightfuI outbreaks of cholera
ever known. Over half the population
died in three days. The disease appeared
at noon on the 4th, and before daybreak
next morning there had been fifty-seven
deaths On the Sth all the survivors
fled, but were refused admission by the
adjacent villages. The disease displayed
extreme virulence, some cases proving
fatal in twenty minutes There is no
resident doctor in the village, and med
ical help was some time in arriving.
Gross neglect of sanitary measures is the
apparent cause. Cholera appears to be
unusually prevalent this year, outbreaks
being reported from various parts of
India, none, however, approaching that
of Golwood in violence.
The Methodist Episcopal General
Conference has voted to have a new
hymn book, snd appointed committee
of fifteen to be divided into three
sections of five each. to go over the |
whole work, with instructions not to |
make any changes, either by omitting
old hymns or admitting new ones, with
out three-fifths vote. This matter of |
hymn books has become a very important
interest of literature and finance, as well