The Hickman courier., 1877-12-14

In Holland an apethecary ia not per
mitted to put up an old powerful pre-
scription. What might have suited
man ak months ago may not be good fo
ara Efs,F. .sss..-sss.-s.srs-ss. :
a Madrid paperastatea that a pitlet
lady of that city IS collecting photograph.
OF the prettiest women she can find, Il
be sent to the Paris exhibition of 1875
as specimens of Spanish beauty.
The following silver pieces were coined
at the mint during November: Trade
dollars, 100000; half dollars, 837, 900
quarter dollars, 100, 400; dimes, 10000
total number of pieces, 2,096, 400; value
$I,Ol1 500. No gold metal was coined
A special 10 the New Orleans Times
says that the Red river steamer Lotus
No. was burned at Waterloo No live.
were lost. There were seventeen hun
dred bales of cotton on board. The boat
was scuttled and sunk. The cargo is
probably tetSl loss.
Barring Bros, who have turned their
attention to the New Orleans grain trade,
viii make good thing of it. They can
lay down grain in Liverpool for 6 cents
per hushel less than via New York
which alone is q big item when the trans
actions amount TO hundreds of thousands
of bushels, and may reach into the mil
lions as soon as the advantages of New
Orleans are understood by the CONNER
cial world at large.
Experiments in driving by electricity
have been made in France. An electro
magnet is placed beneath the coachman's
seat, from which one wire is carried
along the rains to the horses bit, and
another to the crupper, so that the whole
length OF the spine forms part of the cleo
tic current A sudden shock, which
the driver can administer at discretion,
will, it is said arrest the ostsurious
The public debt statement for Novem-
Der shows a decrease OF 81. .923. .634 and
the following balance in the treasury ::
Currency, $S,Sl6,3 1896; special fund for
the redemption OF fractional currency.
$9,S06, ,002; special deposit of legal ten
ders for the redemption of certificates of
deposit, $50, ,o55, ,000 coin, $133, ,970, PA,
including cein certificates of disposit.
$50, ,O55,0 900; coin, $133, ,970,214, includ-
ing coin certificates, $32. .39l 400; out
standing legal tenders, 1851, $40, ,2S8; a.
mount due military establishments S4,-
100000.
There are some seven hundred CARPET
making establishments in the United
States. which, in prosperous times, fur
nish employment to between 100, ,O00 and
100000 operatives, men, women and
children. The amount of money invested
in the business is $13,0O0,00O, which
includes buildings and machinery, while
$4,700,0O0 is expended yearly for wages.
The annual production is valued at
SO, ,000, ,000 TO $24, ,000, 900. Philadel-
phia represents three-lourths of the busi-
ness, and the other fourth is divided
between different manufacturing cities
of the eastern states, the most promi-
nently connected with carpet manufac-
turing being Hartford, Conn, and
Lowell, Mass.
Work in the Pennsylvania coal mines
is slightly improving The coal works at
LeechbuIg are running full time at fifty
cents per ton, and the men have alrthey
can do. The employees at the AveraI
collieries at Fittston, which resumed
at an advance of ten per cent, have been
notified of reduction of wages of this
amount. The miners continued work
under protest. The strike at Mahanoy
city has ended, and work resumed on the
companies conditions. All the works at
st. Clair are on now, except Eagle Hill
shaft, which was stopped on account of
bad ventilation. The Philadelphia and
Reading coal and iron company will
commence work on a new colliery near
Ashland in few weeks.
A bottle was found in the creek uear
Kingston, Ga, near the sceneot a recent
murder, bearing the following inscrip-
tion: "The man who was murdered at
Kingston was from Spartanburg district,
;. G. His blood hangs heavily on the
hands by which he fell. BY persevering
diligence they may be discovered. Go
423 steps In a north northwest course
from the clothing of the murdered man
and you will find beneath gray stone
something which may stir this up.
A Daniel must come to Judgment.
The Lynchburgh News calls for the in
depreciation of writing in the sky: On
last Wednesday, about sundown, ball
of hre, apparently about the size of
tchild's head, was seen sweeping through
the sky in a southeasterly direction,
leaving behind it a train of fire and
smoke. In addition to the train of fire
and smoke, we saw two letters formed in
the cireling, eddying smoke, the mystic
letters "M l. Who can interpret?
Who read the portent?
A writer in the New Orleans Democrat
has examined the tax-rate in various
states, and finds that Louisiana stands al
the head of the list. The state tax there
is 144 mills. The other states come in
the following order: South Carolina, 10
mills; Arkansas, 10 mills (it is proposed
to reduce it to mills); Tennessee, 10
mills; Alabama, "a mills; California,
4 $40 mills; Florida, mills; Kansas,
81 mills; Texas, Oregon and Georgia, 5
AIofv NJ -
New Jersey, 3 mills; Illinois, 2 4 mills;
New York, q mills; Michigan, q mills;
New Hampshire, mills MARYLAND, /
7-10 mills; Connecticut, III mills
Massachusetts, mill. There is no state
tax at all in Pennsylvania.
Captain J. Julius Guthrie, of the
United States Gfe-saving service, who
was lost with his men in the surf at
Kitty Hawk, while going to the rescue
of the Huron, was born in Washington,
North Carolina, and was son of DR.. J.
w. Guthrie. He entered the United
States navy as midshipman in 1882. He
served all through the Mexican war.
be was promoted twice for gallantry; in
1858 commanded the naval forces that
attacked the barrier forts on Canton
river, in China, which he captured.
Later he commanded the United STAGES
coast survey steamer Walker, lost off the
coast of New Jersey in the fall of 1859,
and in 1860 was attached to the African
squadron; whe e he captured the SLAYER
Nightingale, which was safely brought
to New York harbor. The following
year, when his native state seeded, he
resigned his commission and entered the
confederate service, remaining in it ito
the end of the war, commanding tie
battery New Orleans and the steanAr
Chattahoochie. After the war he lived
in retirement at Portsmouth, Virginia
but his disabilities having been removed
by congress, he was appointed by General
Grant to his late position. He was a
popular officer, fine scholar, polished
gentleman, and consistent Christian.