The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-10-05
GeneraI Sotes.

The Catholics have missionary force
of 1000 in Hindsostan.
Three counties of California have wo-
men school superintendents.
Thirty Chinese merchants in san
Francisco have united in an appeal 10 the
board ef education 70 have public schools
opened for the instruction of Chinese
youth.
The clerk Of the house of representa-.
tiyes states that the democratic maiori.
ty, according to the certificates now in
viii be eleven.
Gen. Gibbon teIegraPhs that Major
Walsh was at Fort Benton a few days
ago, and reported Sitting Bull was still
north of the line, in British ColuUbia,
Four convergent expeditions are now
in the field against chief Joseph, and ID
Is believed that the willy chieftain is
being 50 hemmed in that escape viii be
impossible.
According to the year book of the
Trinity church of New York, the total
amount of property held by the corpora
ton is $1,000 900; the annual revenue is
$500, ,0J0.
i selfopening envelope. with a thread
in the edge of the upper flap, by pulling
which the envelope Is quickly and neatly
opened, is the newest invention i'm sta
tionary.
Secretary Sherman received from y NeW
York, from an unknown person, s., 7, ,55l for
an error in the income returns in 1860
and 1866 and omission In 1870, and
conscience fund.
Charges of converting United states
monevs to his own use have been prefer
red against L. =. Surveyor Rollins
by Senator Booth of California. The
amount of his defalcation Is said to be
50 900.
The community of Adventists at Dan
vars, Mass, convinced that Saturday Is
the proper day To observed as the sab
Nth, have given notice that hereafter
they VIII DO no work on that day.
Gen. Crook. a veteran and successful
Indian fighter. says that the Indians are
now as well armed with breech-loaders
As the regular troops and shoot better
The terrible loss suffered by Gen. Glib
bon's command in the Big Hole battle
proves that the Nez Perces had excellent
weapons, and knew how to use them. It
IS becoming painfully evident that To is
no longer the simple child Of the forest
that he was in the days OF Cooper. 1t Is
a great pity he was ever initiated into
the mysteries Of breech-loading rifles. It
viii rot be a great while before the noble
red man viii be hauEering after irou-
clad and krupP cannon.
In the late rife-shooting at Creedmoor
the Englishmen did far better than they
ever did before. but that was not good
enough to beat the Americans. The
Englishmen scored 3, 2i2 Out of possible
total of 8, 800 points, while theAmericans
scored 3, 1874, winning by % points. The
correspondent of the Toronto Globe in
New York, in explanation of the British
defeat, says:
Sturgis writes under date of Muscle
shell, 10th, that in a fight on the 18th
and the pursuits OF the "A and 18th,
tGenty dead warriors were foued. aud he
Believes more were killed. lie estimates
their loss in wounded at sixty. His own
loss were French, Nicholson and Gresham
wounded slightly, four soldiers killed and
twelve wounded, several Scouts killed and
wounded, nine hundred horses dropped
by the hostiles up to the 10Th and had
dropped many of his horses. The COM
maui had been living four days on mules
meat.
To prevent fires in the snow.shed- on
the Central Pacific railroad, the maguates
have devised a complete fire telegraph
system with an alarm box every mile
Track-walkers patrol the road day and
night. i lofty tower has also be n
erected on a mountain 10000 feet high,
commanding with telescopes a view Of
the line from Blue Canon 20 the summit,
and from this observers will certainly
watch the road, having telegraphic com
municaticn with the fire train at Cisco,
which Is always ready to set ont for
confaeration.
4 dispatch from Cleveland, Ohio, says:
a cattle plague, thought TO be q species
OF the Texas fever, has broken out among
the cattle in the surrounding country.
Texas cattle this year are covered with
ticks Of two varieties, the bite Of which
is poisonous to the blood. Many Of the
cattle are dying daily. Several cases Of
children having been poisoned by drink
inc tie infected milk have already come
to the notice OF the city physicians. The
beef is affected by the disease. but can
be easily detected by spots. The disease
is said to be very infectious. A veterin-
ary surgeon who has treated about 40
cases says the symptoms with mich cows
are first a falling of of about half the
yield of milk, then bloody passages of
urine, and in a few hours death. He rec
Ommends as treatment, to wash the ami
nal in lotion which acts as a disiniec-
tant for the ticks and an antidote for the
poison.