The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-11-10
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Reilly, in my solid senses, wills this
house to my husband. House and lot
all belonging 10, and furniture" 1t
was written on the back Of receipted
bill for groceries.
"A large satchel was picked up in
Central park last week by one Of the
patrolmen, who shook it 20 see what it
contained. He found out, for straight
way a baby began to cry. Whipping
out his knife he cut the satchel opcn,
and found in it pretty little girl baby.
1t was taken care Of
There is a disagreement among the
San Francisco physicians over the men
tai condition of TIN late James Lick for
a considerable timS before his death,
some of them holding that he was in
sane and Others that his peculiaritiesoi Of
behavior were only evidence Of eccen-
tricity.
A personal advertisement in Gin
cinnati paper says: "a young blonde
widow would like to correspond witha
middleaced coal merchant" Evidently
for the purpose Of making q coalition.
I.s.ts~. las,s. .l.is,d Of -cogl does she Dreier
Eyidenly not anthracite, Tor she wisnes
marriage bit-u-men.
After reading Sitting Bulls modest
application to the agency for more am
munition. we can't but reflect what q
splendid Iightning-rod agent or sewing
machine canvasser had been lost to
America by the failure to catch hin!
when young. and thus bring him up un-
der the genial influences OF our modern
civilization.
The returns Of the Metropolitan po
lice at the Guildball court, London,
shows that in 1875, six hundred and
sevcnty-six persons were aPprehended
! for cruelty to animals and five hundred
and sixty-four were summoned out 'i
which eight hundred and thirty-eight
were convicted. London has the lsaa
vet in the above business.
.Ex- Queen Isabella has already be-
gun to stir up the strife in Spain. a
Dispute between her and the ministry
about a few thousand pounds said by the
former to be due from the nation to her
has brought contempt and ridicale on
all concerned. The dignity and canaor
of the king under these trying circum-
stance have gained him fresh honors.
Not long ago the bonesofa mastodon
were found in Washington Territory, the
skull bone Of which alone weighed 500
pounds. and contained when found
quantity Of gold and siver quartz. Tho
tusks were twenty feet in length and the
leg stood twenty feet high. They are
said to be the largest fossil remains ever
discovered.
Captain Williams, Of the New York
police force, is in trouble again. He sent
his men out the other night to arrest
night walkers, and all but two that they
brought in were respectable working
girls; nevertheless, they were kept IN
the station house all night and put into
court in the morning. There is to be
vacancy in his precinct.
Whitelaw Reid, of the New York
Tribune, who was afflicted, early in the
sup,mer, by the painful death Of iayoT, 7;
fte neice and ward, has now been called
upon 10 bury his only sister She died
last week at White River Junction, Yer
mont, where she has been sinking with
consumption. Mr.. Reid's venerable
mother. neice and nephew, are his
only remaining relatives.
There was a sad accident at Hoboken
the other night a young mother, Mrs.
! Stanton. who had lost her child, was
watching by the body and was worn out
with grief and sleeplessness. Some time
during the night she threw herself across
the inanimate body and cried herself
to sleep. a gust Of wind blew her clothes
against one of the wax tapers at the foot
Of the coffin, and she was horribly burned.
There are faint hopes of her recovery.
Fragments Of glazed pottery are
found throughout the ruins of Babylo-
MIA In 1879 specimens OF these wares
were brought from there by the Able
Beauchamp, which, when analyzed, were
found to contain neither oxides Of lead
nor tin, but instead are alkaline silicate
with alumnia, colOred with metallic OK
ides. Tie earliest example Of Assyrian
| enamelled ware, which has recently been
analyzed, shows that with base of sill
cate Of soda and oxide Of tin the Opaque
white was produced. Oxide OF lead has
been found in small quantities in the
blue glaze tiles from Babylonia. At
Waska numerous cofiins or sarcophagis
of peculiar form were discovered piled
one upon another. TO the heighth of forty
five feet, which were made of terra Gotta
and finished with. a silicious glaze OF
blush green color.
A teacher in an Auburn school re-
Gently beat one of her pupils over the
head with ferule till blood burst from
his nose. when the poor child escaped
from her grasp and ran home but sank
exhausted upon the doorstep, where his
mother found him in an almost dying
condition. Hemorrhage occurred once
or twice afterward, and at one time fears
were entertained that he would not re-
cover. 1t seems that the little fel
low asked the teacher questions without
permission, which was against the rules
of the school, and when rePrimandec
, laughed, which provoked her and sh'
beat him in the manner described. i
= would be interesting to know what thu
punishment is in such school for rea
Y offense.
. Ar old farmer in New York state
. whose woods were nearly dePopulated o
. squirrels by hunters, and who wa
: stirred to the depth Of his good old sou
. thereat, procured number Of squire.
: and had them stuffed. Then he iastene'
: them to trees in high though conspicuou
positious and sat afar off and grimes
= with demoniac joy, at the fragments Q
- emphatic conversation and bullets whicl
. were hurled and shot at those squirrei'
n Crowds gathered and bets were made an' y
n money and patience lost before the sv'n
- die was discovered. Thereafter not
: hunter could be found who kns'
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