The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-12-21
miscellaneous.

1t is reported that petroleum of a good
quality has been discovered about one
hundred miles south of Deadwood, in the
Black hills.
The Railroad Gazette thinks the year
ending July last was, the centennial not
withstanding, the worst for railroad
interests since the war.
Switzerland has passed law prohibit.
ing children under the age of fourteen
from being employed in manufactures
after the first OF next May.
A cloth made from the down of birds
is coming greatly into favor in Paris. 1t
Is waterproof, and estimated te be five
times lighter and three times warmer
than wool.
Mortar does not reach its usual firm
ness when dried in the heat OF summer.
and one of the best authorities commends
the custom of the masons OF northern
Italy, who, in constructions OF importance,
water the masonry during the summer
months to prevent its drying too rapidly.
The managers of the Washington mon
ument fund publish a statement to show
that about $40, 600 raised by contribu.
tors was received by the society, and that
about $3.50, 900 was expended to put the
monument in its present condition. A
very pertinent query is: Who has stolen
'-<he money raised by voluntary subscrip-
hons in nearly every city in the union ? (
The two large business houses in Salt I
Lake City, receiving two hundred letters 4
daily, have not bought 50 worth of 4
stamps from the Salt Lake City postoffiee t
for two years, but they have stamps con-
stautiv for sale; and one offered to furnish
the Salt lake postmaster with 81, 500 I
worth. A mormon from southern Utah
coming into Salt Lake recently, bought
new furniture for his entire house, and
paid for It III postage stamps.
Eighteen thousand men are now en-
gagged in the express business. Express
companies cover go, 900 miles of RAILROAD,
and it IS estimated that their messengers
daily travel 800, 900 miles. Three thou
sand five hundred horses are employed,
and over 5000 officers are required to
transact their business in, and an amount
OF capital invested not less than $50 ,00O,-
600.
The experiments that have been going
on for the past year in making glass from
Stag have been concluded, and a glass
suitable for BEETLES is now being made on
a commercial scale. The Stag is taken
hot from blast furnace in q ladle and
poured into Sieman's furnace carbon
ate OF soda and silica are then added in
various proportions, according to the
quality of glass to be produced. A large
manufacturing plant will soon be in
operation in this line of glass making.
On saturday the Illinois supreme
court decided a case in which the hus-
band of the appellee was run over and
killed by the cars while drunk. The
appellee brought an action against the
acknowledged who sold to him the liquor
and against the appellant who is the
owner OF the building in which the saloon
was situated, and she secured the iudg-
ment for g 800. An appeal was taken
and the appellate court affirmed that of
the court below and sustained the con-
additionally of the law. This is the first
time that case of this kind, brought
under the provisions of the Illinois LIQUOR
law, has been sustained in the high
courts.
Lieutenant Walter Walton, assistant
inspector of liie-saving service on the
North Carolina coast, makes his report
In relation to the loss of the Huron,
showing that one Evan O'Neill, a fisher
man at Mays Head, discovered the
Huron coming on shore at hals-past one |
O'Clock on the morning of the disaster |
one dr1t6d ana pounded along the out I
ter edge of the bar, and finally struck /
broadside ON. He heard shouts and |
screams go up from the stranded vessel.
and saw rockets go up, followed by burn |
ing signals from end to end. So that |
even light rigging and men could be /
plainly seen. A boat on the starboard /
side, full of men, disappeared when the !
foremost fell. The shouting and scream |
ing continued and in about an hour and /
quarter after he first discovered the ship |
the signaling ceased ,''and ali was darkness /
O'Neill went home, ate his breakfast, |
and Gid not return to the wreck until |
after sunrise. He knew where the keeper |
of the life-saving station lived, only two /
and one half miles distant had a good
boat, free wind to 60 and return inside !
of Roanok island, and vet he remained
silent and Indifferent for three hours.
Their eport concludes: 1t is shocking
to report that cut of ninety-one bodies
found, about twelve of whom were
officers, not single trinket, such as
would be deemed relic by the relatives
of the dead, was found on the bodies.
Watches and chains, money, and even
fnger-rings. had been stripped off BY
those who first found the bodies as they
washed up. Good evidence is found in
the case of Lieutenant Sin1ons, whose
third and fourth fingers of the left hand
had been scratched and gouged by the
body robbers in their haste to secure their
ill-gotten booty"