The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-06-16

wv IN property SelZed. dsSesSHleutS anu
suits in official bonds. Up to May lst the
cash treasury receipts from the above
were 100000. The expenses of the
treasury department operations, it is
said, have not exceeded S25, 600
THE somewhat singular announcement
srzss made ~. the San Efsncise0sTap thai.
the general fund OF the bonanza state Of
Nevada is exhausted, and the governor
even can not get his salary. 1t is charges.ei
that the managers of the consolidated
Virginia mine have refused to pay their
bullion tax, and this completely upsets
the finances of the state.
ALL residents in China know well the
term applied to the madetup or adulter-
ated tea, which, with Singular truthful-
ness, is called Gle tcaT The process
consists in taking the used and exhausted
leaves thrown away from the tea gardens
or public tea.drinking establishments,
and putting them in bags with a certain
proportion of charcoal. They are then
dried over fire, and when turned out of
the bags are found to havea black coat
ing resembling the Congou brand, which
is very popular tea in England.
THERE have beensexIk ed from New
York this year, since DIARY first, ten
million bushels of s6t, against six
million four hundred thousand at the
same time last year. The New York
Times believes that the perfection of the
system of grading grain, recently estab-
lished, supplemented by the erection of
elevators at the various terminis of the
railways, will do much to centralize the
grain Trade of the western states in that
city, and ultimately make It titlse largest
depot in the world for the stefssss IS ,,yell
as for the sale of grain.
OSCILLATION is practiced solses llat]
promiscuously in Russia. Somebody
writes: The Russian ceremony of sa-
luting every one upon Easter with the
sentence Christ is risen. and "a kiss.
was carried out7with much E,onlusby the
emperor and his court. Precisely at |
midnight, the hour being announced by |
,sNnu@p, ths(sszsr, his family and az the |
{ e|43'sRitaries, together with the chief
he army and navy, Restia a
processloh into the church adjoining the T
Winter Palace. Here, at a certain stage
pf the ceremonies, the czar gave three
kisses each to the state dignitaries, the
general, aidesde- camp and the command
ing officers OF the guard Mass was then
celebrated, and the company dispersed
PEACE is again announced in Central
America. Salvador and Guatemala, af-
ter the usually bloody encounter, have
resolved to establish permanent friendly
relations, which undoubtedly will be
very good thing for all the five republics.
as the quarrel of any two of them, usual
", involves a general serimmage. In
this instance, Guatemala has so thor
Oughly whipped Salvador that the latter
republic is now entirely at the mercy of
President BurTois, whose motive in inter-
fering with his neighbor was to continue
the weakening of the clerical party,
process which he has inaugurated in his
own country. Burrois is a man OF very
liberal and progressive ideas, and he has
accomplished much for Guatemala. As
the project for confederation of the five
republics has failed, it might be well for
Burrois to negotiate for the consolida-
tion of Guatemala and Salvador and
begin the confederation scheme in that
way. These two republics together have
an area of 200,2 square miles and
population of l, 100000.
ONE of the fine charities of New York
which is growing in popularity every
year is the flower mission, which collects
flowers from all sources and distributes
them among the sick in the hospitals and
asylums, and at their homes when they
are too poor to buy them. They are i'm
partially distributed, without regard to
party, sect or class, and often carry mes
cages of kindness and suggestions of care
and comfort and love which are more
helpful and invigorating than medicines
One excellent thing accomplished by the
mission is that it gives an opportunity
to so many charitable ladies to visit
those they can help and cheer. Last
year over thousand poor sick people
were visited by the fower-giving ladies',
who but for the flowers would have had
no excuse for visiting them. The ex-
pense of the mission has been only about
500 in six years, which is another rec
ommendation of it to public notice.
Then it gives young ladies something to
do which is calculated to initiate them
into the deep mysteries Of sorrow and
habits of practical benevolence.
Foreign Statistics.
The following imnortant and interest |