The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-10-26
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of Joseph and his band of Nez Perces x
ceedingly important, especially IN ~ iA5
fuence upon the sson Indians.
The state debt of Wisconsin as iscom.
piled by the bureau of statisties at
|. Washington, is 81, ,252, ,657. The heaviest
state debt in the union is that of Massas
chusetts, which has reached the astenish-
ing sum of over $33, 100000.
A report on the geology Of fesso,
recently published by Mrs. Lyman, tne
director of the survey of Japan, estimates
that there 10000, ,000. 900 tons of work.
able coal on the island. According to
this statement, the deposit Is about esso
thirds as large as that of Great Britain
Albert Weddings hat was found be-
side pond in Wareham nsrrows, Mass,
a year ago, and in it a card on which was
written: " Mary, you have driven me
to suicide. Farewell Mary was his
wife. She wore mourning until she
learned, recently, that he was living IN
| Boston with a new wife.@
The Deakin comic opera company, now
playing in San Francisco, consists Of six
drszap-fs be ta Ilesst Of .i.,ssa
our inches high, ana a giant wins (
seven and half feet high. Commodore
Mutt and Jennie Quigley are the leading
performers, and they are sd to be tai
ented enough to please, aside from their
littleness. " Jack the Gisnt Killer "is
the piece performed.
The Cincinnati Commercial prints the
following appalling fgures< " As near a.
we can ascertain, there are in the states
of Maryland, Virginia, North and South
Carolina, and Georgia, $4,000 more fe-
males than males, in q total native pOpu-
lation of three millions, and in New Eng
land a like over-plus of 20, 600 in q native
white population of two and a half mil
lions. These facts indicate that we shall.
perhaps, by the time We write 1900, have
a two per cent. surplus of females as an
aggregate of the whole population (in
fifty millions one milliOn)."
Every one knows about Vichy's water.
but every one doesn't know about Vichy.
1t is large, flourishing place at the ex-
treme southern part of. the department
of Allier, France, and stands on the south
bank of the river Allier, a tributary of
the Loire The town is very well built,
and was immensely improved in the reign
of Napoleon III. Most of the baths are
the property of the state, and everything
has been done to make the perfect
cure" as pleasant as possible. In 1876,
8, 3,408, 900 bottles of Vichy water were ex-
ported from the town.
The Importance OF the naval engineer
nowadays is illustrated in the case of the
new barbette ship Temeraire of the Brit
ish navy, which has thirty-four engines
on board. exclusive of the powerful pis-
tons and cylinders that propel the pom
derous vessel The capacity of these
alone is equal, it is said, TO 1000 horse
power. There are also feed engines and
starting engines, steering engines and cap
stan engines, engines to pump with and
engines TO hoist with there are even en-
gines to aid in working the guns, to assist
in torpedo services, and for turning the
magnet machine that gives out the cleo
trio light.
Even if the democrats should not have
the upper hand, the senate this time is
certain to be a weak, irresolute body.
Torn, as it will be, by jarring factions,
all tending to build up democratic
strength, it will not be able to oppose
any effectual resistance to anything upon
which the democratic house may be
firmly bent For the first time in great
many years the house will come to the
front as the governing power. In the
contest with Andrew johnson it stripped
itself of many of its functions, and laid
them at the feet of the senate. Not one
of these functions has the senate ever
surrendered. But now the house is likely
to recover many of them in the very sin
gular turn which politics are taking
San Francisco Bulletin, Rep.