The Hickman courier., 1877-12-14
All sorts.

him now.
Madrid paper stetes tl.at a titles
}saz-aE thai city is ssel leS.sing Pic .oSSAphI
= Of TIE Prettfest women she can find, Il
be sent to the Paris exhibition of Is7:
as specimens Of Spanish beanty.
The following silver pieces were coineG
at the mint during November: Trade
dollars, 400, coo; half dollars, S37, 600
quarter dollars, 722, 400; dimes, 10000
total number of pieces, 2,096, 400; value
$I,Ob 500. No gold metal was coined
special to the New Orleans Time,
says that the Red river steamer Lotu:
No. wss burned at Waterloo. Nc lives
were lost. There were seventeen hun.
drsd bales of cotton ON board. The boat
was scuttled and sunk The cargo il
probably total loss.
Barring Bros, who have turned their
attention to the New Orleans grain trade
will make a good thing of it. They can
lay down grain in Liverpool for cents
per bushel less than via New York
which alone IS big item when the trans
actions amount to hundreds of thousands
OF bushels, and may reach into the mil
lions as soon rs the advantages of New
Orleans are understood by the CONNER
cial world at large.
Experiments in driving by electricity
nave 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
trio current. A sudden shock, which
the driver can administer at discretion.
will, it is said, arrest the most furious
runaway.
The public debt statement for Novem-
Der shows a decrease of 81, ,323, ,634 and
the following balance IN the treasury
currency, SS,Sl6,396; special fund fo1
the redemption of fractional currency.
$9,9O6,O02; special deposit of legal ten,
ders for the redemption of certificates of
deposit, Sss6, ,055, 900; coin, $I33, ,97O, PA,
including coin certificates of disposit
. $S6, ,C55, 600; coin, S133, $40, pa, includ-
ing coin certificates, $32. .391 400; out
standing legal tenders, 1851, ,340, ,2S8: a.
mount due military establishments 81
100000.
There are some seven hundred carpet
znaking establishments in the United
states, which, in prosperous times. fur
slIsh employment to between 80, 600 and
100000 operatives, men, women and
children The amount of money invested
IN the business is $4,000, 600, which
includes buildings and machinery, while
S4,7O0,0O0 is expended yearly for wages
The annual production is valued at
$4,000, 600 to $24, 900 ,000 Philadel-
pllia represents three-iourths of the bust
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
Leechburg are running full time at fifty
cents per ton, and the men have all they
can do. The employees at the several
oollieries at Pittston, which resumed
at an advance of ten per cent, have been
notified of reduction of wages of this
Smount. 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 new colliery near
Ashlsnd in few weeks.
A bottle was found in the creek uear
Kingston, Ga. near the scene of a recent
murder, bearing the following inscrip-
tiOn: "The man who was murdered at
Kingston was from Spartanburg district,
:. Q. His bloed 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 a 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 fire, apparently about the size of
child'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 circling, eddying smoke, the mystic
letters an. l. F." 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 at
the head of the list. The state tax there
is l41 mills. The other states come in
the following order South Carolina, 10
mills; Arkansas, 10 mills Git is proposed
to reduce it TO mills); Tennessee, 10
mills; Alabama, q mills; California,
$40 mills Florida, mills; Kansas,
81 mills; Texas, Oregon and Georgia,
mills; Maine, 80 mills Ohio, 8 15 mills
New Jersey, 3 mills; Illinois, 4 mills
New York, q mills Michigan, "A mills;
New Hampshire, 2 mills; Maryland, l
7-10 mills; Connecticut, II mills
Massachusetts, / mill. There is no state
tax at all in Pennsylvania.
Captain J. Julius Guthrie, of the
United States life-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 a son of DR.. j.
w. Guthrie. He entered the United
States navy as midshipman in 1882. He
served all through the Mexican war.
He was promoted twice for gallantry in
1853 commanded the naval forces that
attacked the barrier forts on Canton
river, in China, which he captured.
Later he commanded the United Staces'
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 he captured the SLAYER
Nightingale, which was safely brought |
to New York harbor. The following
year, when his native state seeded, he |
resigned bis commission and entered the |
confederate service, remaining in it 10 |
the end ef the war, commanding tie |
battery New Orleans and the steamer |
Chattahoochie. After the war he lived |
in retirement at Portsmouth, Virgins, |
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.