The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-11-24
CURRENT PARAGRAPHs.

CURRENT P4RAGRAP
ESGLASD has lately been the scene of
numerous meteoric showers of interest
ing proportions
NEARLY 1000 pieces of old pottery
have. been received at the Peabody
museum Of Yale college. They were
dug up in Missouri, and are supposed to
be between 800 and 1900 years of age.
THERE is published in Berlin the Jour
nal of Cooks andsIousemaids, in which
housekeepers who lock up their butter
and sugar and inhict other indignities
upon their servants are held up to pub
lie obloquy By name. 4 large number
of tho subscribers of the psPer have
bound themselves not 10 enter the ser
vice of any woman wIo has been thus
dvertised three times within the year.
THE United States government has en-
tered suit against Gen o. .. Howard to
recover SI79, 600, as q defaulter respect
ing funds entrusted to him in connection
with the Freedmen's bureau and Howard
university. They ordinary assumpsit
suits, and the money i alleged TO have
been received by Gen. Howard for the
use of the United States, and not to have
been paid over Ger. Howard asserts
he has afiIll defense
GSE of the many characters Of san I
Francisco i Jack the Grabber."
Jack moors his boat close to ships dis
charging cargo At the wharves His /
boat contains hooks and grapples espee-
tally devised for bringing up substances /
from tie bottom. axesseI be dis Z
<l . l1rssssss ia.sssss tsstt ssh al
1eeAs Jumps that drop into the water,
while in transitu from the ship to the I
wharf. II an angler drops his pocket
book in the water Jack Is the man to .
End it for him. He is said to make good (
living.
A MASS OF 90,O00,0O tons of pure,
solid, compact rock salt, located on an
island one hundred and eighty-fve feet
high, which rises from a miserable sea T
marsh on the route from Brasher to New
Iberia, up the river Teche, louisiana, IS /
one of the wonders of the world How I
this island containing over three hun /
dred acres Of excellent land. ever came +
into existence in such locality Is a mat +
ter of conjecture. Vegetation is prolific, I
and the scenery Is beautiful and varied. /
Here is an immense bed of pure rock-salt, /
whose extent is as yet only estimated, .
and scientific men are puzzled
THE Jacksonville (Fla) Union says
I" The brightness OF the lamps in the light
houses of our coasts frequently produces F
great destruction among the birds. As .
they fly along the beach in the gloom Of
evening, or seek the shelter Of the land
when the ocean breeze blows too strong
for their comfort or pleasure, they are
dazzled by the brilliancy OF the lights in
the towers. and frequently fly blindly
against the glass ofthe building, crushing
and breaking their bones, and often kill
ing them instantly. On Wednesday even
ing vast numbers flew against the tower
of AIaryport and were killed, or 50 badly
bruised that they crawled away to die.
It is said one Of the light-keepers swept
off in the morning ixhundred dead birds
from the top of the towers, and that many
others we're scattered on the ground at
its foot"
THE famous mare Flora Temple is now
thirty-one years Of age. Wesaw her last
Monday in her comfortable box at Mr.
Welch's, at Chestnut Hill. She begins
to show the ravage OF age, and we fear
that she win hardly survive the coming
winter She Is Of course well attended
to. fed with nice mashes and led TO !
take the air on sun-shiny days. But :
she grows feeble and sometimes falls
down. What a vast difference in form g,
there Is between what she IS now and =
what she was twenty years ago, when
John c. Perrin and his brother, George
E. Perrin, who now manages the United
States hotel at Hartford, Conn, owned
md trained her. One look at good old
Flora in her present estate viii convince
anybody of the folly and absurity of =,
taking the dimensions Of horses long past
their prime, for the purposes Of forming
from them. " J.
Sportsman.
\ PRIVATE letter from Berlin re-