The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-03-02
CURRENT MENTION.

" Pittsburg are closed.
lie A new cotton factory for special lines
f Of goods is projected at Columbus, Ga.
,e The Glen paper collar company, OF
h Rallston Spa, is manufacturing over sc, :
4. 90 collars daily.
n Massachusetts is building an asyluIs
or the insane at~Danvers that viii cost
y upward of 81, 100000.
- Columbus, Csa., las received 81 500
tales of cotton this year, or 2l,S05 more
than the year before.
After reporter has served the Lon
don Times for forty years, he can retire
on pension.
Australia had in 1874 population of
2,2SS, 900 to an area of S,116,042 square
miles.
During the last decade the city OF
Boston has built an average of fifteen
public buildings year, and is now re-
ceiving an annual rental of $4,000.
The cotton manufactures of the world
run total of 64,089,OOO spindles and
spin 2,669,OOO,OOO pounds of cotton.
England operates 85,OOO,OOO spindles, or
more than ore-half.
A vast quality of butter has recently
been shipped TO England from this coun-
try, and it is reported that the exports
havSmore than doubled within the year.
In round numbers, 100000 pounds
were sent to foreign parts, an increase of
100000 over the export in 1873.
The commerce Of France has under
gone an important change in the relation
Of exports to imports. Compared with
the corresponding figures of 1775 they
show a larger value of imports and a
smaller of exports, the total for exports
and imports together showing a smaller
increase for the year. They were in 1875
/ G, 6,S59, $4,000 francs, ana in 1876, 6.S72,-
135, 900 francs.
4 The Methodists are about to erect
model church on Columbus avenue, Bos-
top The building will accommodate
$500 persons, and can be so arranged as
. to include the lecture-room, thus giving
accommodation to 1900 more. The
church can be emptied in three or four
minutes by means of many separate out
lets
According 10 the Kansas City Price
ICurrent the cattle driven from South
western Texas during the year was 317,-
I69S. OF this number 250, ,252 were driven
Forth 20 Kansas and TO fill Indian con-
tracts. The indications are that the
drive for 1877 viii be fully equal to that
of last year
Thestatistics of ship-building in Maine
shows that the total amount of tonnage
built in thestate in 1876 was 73, ,573 S4100
a decrease Of ,487 1I-1OO as compared
with 1875, when the total amount of
Tonnage was rs, 900 45-1O0, and decrease
of48, ,975 4O-1OO as compared with 1874, !
when the total amount Of tonnage built !
was 122, 54S 74-10O.
/ The San Francisco Bulletin gives the |
/ production of California for 1876 as sDl- |
lows: Wheat, 22,OOO, G5O centals, S40,- /
100000; wool 56,000,O0 pounds, So |
100000; wine, II 100000 gallons, S8,-
100000; hay, 1000, 900 tons, IS, ,OO0, 600; |
miscellaneous, SlO,O00O00; agricultural |
products, SIC, 200, 600; gold, $50, ,OO9, 900; |
total, $90,OOO,O0O.
The exports of Boston for 1876, not |
withstanding large decline in prices, |
show an increase of 81, 600, 900 as com.
pared with 1875, and s16, 100000 over
1874 The gain was almost wholly,r all |
but St, 700, 900, in the exports to Great
Britain but there was very large per-
centage of gain in the exports to South
American ports.
When the Car Nicholas was con-
suited as to the direction which the st.
Petersburg and Moscow railroad should
follow his majesty simply took a pencil
aud ruler and struck a straight line on
the map from the old to the new me-
tropolis of the empire; and the conse-
quenee of this infexible militarism as
applied to civil engineering is that the
majority of Russian towns are two or
three miles from the railway stations
which bears their names.
The cash system is steadily growing
in favor with nearly every class of trades
| people, and it isn't half SO hard to refuse
people credit as it used to be, while they
ddofiTt dare get mad about it nowadays
either Formerly, i lady was told she
could not have goods unless she paid for
them, she would flush up, leave the store
and not enter it again for six months at
hn &c |
over her anger in twenty-four hours, at
the most, and come back, take the goods,
and pay for them, too.
Some interesting facts are revealed in
the congressional election returns as
published in the Tribune Almanac. The
largest vote polled in any one district for
congress was in Nebraska, 52,686, and
the largest vote cast for any one con-
gresham was for Mr.. Welch of that
state, 80, 900. Mr. Throckmorton, of
Texas, had the largest majority of any
candidate, 1850. The Mormon delegate,
Mr.. Cannon, of Utah, had majority of
II. .6s3 Mr.. Buckner, of Missouri, cones
next with 1878; Mr.. Cox, of New
York, next, 1858; Mr.. Hatcher, of
Missouri, next, with 1859. The re-
publican majority in any one district
was 13,475, for Mr.. Ryan, of Kansas,
whose district, iii number of votes cast,
is second only TO Nebraska. The third
district in number of votes cast is the
sixth Michigan, which. cast 44,97l votes
for congress.
The Rev. John S. c. Abbott has had
for some time several japanese students
living in Instantly at Fair Haven, Conn.
One of them, young lady of high rank.
wrote home recently to the government
and her family for permission to Join q
Christian church. This was granted, +
and she was baptized by Mr.. Abbott.
Jewish silver shekels have lately been
found near Jerusalem, belonging to the
time of Simon Maccabeus, B. c. or -