The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-06-09

dry egg diet as an experiment.
Miss JULIA MATTHEWS, of the English
opera boufFe troupe, died at Mullanphy
hospital, St. Loais, on the 10th, of rheum-
atism and malarial fever Miss Mathews
was taken sick at Chicago in March, but
continued on. the stage, and after leaving
there sang at New Orleans, Nashville
and Memphis.
THE story comes from France of a hor-
:. ror similar TO that portrayed by Dickens
the death of man from spontaneous
combustion. The theatre of the tragedy
was one of the suburbs of Paris, Fonte-
nay-du-Bois The victim had been for
years a confirmed drunkard, consuming
on an average quart and a half of bran
dy day, and frequently he would shut
himself up alone for quite period to
indulge unmolestcd in his debauchery
Not long ago, conscious of his degrada-
ton, he resolved TO destroy himself, and.
took the preliminary steps in true French
style. On Easter Sunday he shut him
self up, and as he remained secluded
mucr longer than usual, the neighbors
broke in his door. An overpowering
smell of spirits saluted them as they en-
ssEsd tsssEoeln, 4 2 & hsaziay were found
bed lay the body of the mana cinder.
The doctors assert, that spontaneous
combustion must have taken place soon
after the drunkard lay down to die.
THE Huntsville (Ala) Advocate says
that instead of corn being shipped into
that country as has been the case ever
since the war, it is now being shipped
from it. West Tennessee makes a sim
liar report. And little corn is now
brought into North Mississippi and Ar
kansas. Cotton is low, but the farmers
are no longer wholly relying on the
northwest for hog and hominy" They
are beginning to produce the necessaries /
of life, and to realize that no community |
unable tO-feed itself can be permanently |
prosperous. Let US have more corn and /
wheat and fewer trust deeds; more hOm- /
my and less interest money for summer I
advances; more hogs and cattle and /
grasses, and fewer debts; more production
of the necessities of life and less cotton
more farming and less planting 1t no /
longer pays to plant" but good farm
ing will pay in every civil district in the
southwest. That's the sort of politics.
Memphis ACaIanche.
II December last the proprietors of /
the Baltimore Weekly San offered twelve |
hundred dollars in graded prices for six
stories. In response two hundred and /
six stories were received, and the COM
mittee to decide on the merits of each 1
have made the following awards First /
prize, five hundred dollars, TO Mrs. /
Marion Stockton, of New York. for 4
The Great Wheel :" second, two hun 1
dred and seventy-fve dollars, to Miss \
5. w. Hubbard, of Buckingham county.
Virginia, for q Two Sides ofa Question >
third, two hundred dollars, to Miss Julia
Magruder, of Winchester, Virginia, for
A Regularly Nice Girl" fourth, one
hundred dollars, to Miss Fannie NJ.
Kyle, of Albemarle county, Virginia, for
9 The Lost villa Tale of Amherst :"
fifth, seventy-ive dollars, to Mrs. Skip
with Fl. Coale, of Hartford county,
Maryland, for g \ Freak of Fortune -
sixth, fifty dollars, to Isaac y. Pearson,
of Westminster, Maryland, for % Dame
Leroy's Revenge" The names of the
writers were withheld until after the
decision.
The Z" solemn injustice " of the British
magistrates has been again illustrated,
the illustration being furnished by a son
of the late Bishop Wilberforce. As the
story is told by Mr., Conway, in letter
to the Cincinnati Commercial, two little
boys. sons of farmer, who is his neigh
Dor, were recently discovered by Wilber-
forces gamekeeper digging at rabbits
hole on his estate. The farmer went to
see the magistrate to apologize for the
offense and represent the thing as child
ish folly which ought not to be publicly
noticed. Wilberforce assented to this.
and told the farmer to send the bows to
him, which he unsuspectingly did.
Whereupon this " magistrate took
them into stable and beat them so Sc
verely that the flesh was torn off both
the boys in long strips from head to foot,
and at one time it seemed doubtful if
they would recover. The lord chancellor
has delivered a reprimand to Wilber-
force but there are some persons who
are not satisfied that reprimand is suffi-
cient in such a case, and Mr. Peter Tay-
lor Is set down for a motion in the house
OF commons, which will compel that
body to say whether this magisterial
brute is fit person to administer Justice
in England.
New YORK correspondence TO the " I
o. Pieayune, dated May 11th, reports
some pretty severe losses on cotton.
Parties who bought on a margin have
put up and up with each material decline
until many of them can do so no longer, /
and they are now being sold out-some
OF them at loss of II cents per pound. |
Thus, July deliveries, for which 144 /
cents WAS agreed to be paid, were closed |
out at 12s. OF course no one dreamed /
of such fall, and the best minds on the /
exchange have this season been at fault. |
That prices are near bottom, however |
IS pretty generally conceded; for with |
cotton but fraction over sixpence in
Liverpool and u 3-l5 cents in this |
market, it would seem to be about as
low as anyone could ask it. There is
but one explanation of this condition of |
the cotton. trade, and that is the dizziness
in our own and the manufacturing in
terests all over the world. The sterling |
exchange market-so far as the amount |
of business is eoncerned-is very similar
"a at of cotton, and where a few years
ana an innr.orfar runnld or,Inr con nno a.