The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-19
CURRENT 1IENTTOH.

a 1here are SAID 10 be %, ,OUU unemplOye
miners in Pennsylvania.
Atlanta has received 10000 bales
cotton this season.
The new sheriff of Philadelphia give
bond for $4,000.
, Memphis IS preparing TO celebrat
Mardi Gras with unusual magnifcene,
The New York !, elevated raissesesa'. X
Good agricultural lands can be had i
Florida for 81. % per acre.
Philadelphia erected 4,187 new build
ings and altered more than 1,2OO oil,
structures during the past year
The Chickamauga, in Catoosa county
Georgia, has been frozen over for tn
rirst time in twenty years.
The citizens of Florida are taxed o.
an average two dollars and fifty cent
per capita.
There is an alarming prospect of
famine in the central part of Californi;
before spring.
The bulk of silver bullion now con
sumed in China is supplied by the Bo
nanza mines of Virginia City, Nevada
-Four penitentiary conyicts received
Christmas gifts from Governor Porter
of Tennessee, and went their way reioic
ing.
The oldest house of worship in the
United States is the large adobe mission
church at Santa Fe, New Mexico, which
was erected in 1913.
The Sixpenny Savings bank at New
York, which receives deposits of five
cents and upwards, opens about six thou
sand new accounts annually.
The farmers in Troup county, Georgia.
have sowed twenty-five per cent. more
wheat and one hundred per cent. more
fall oats than any year since the war.
The importation of tea into the United
States for the season of 1876 was So
500, PA pounds, 1903, 173 less than the
previous season.
At St. Aloysius church, Washington,
it was announced on new years morning
that hereafter the Catholic clergy of the
district would solemnize no marriage at
night.
Miss Rye continues her noble work of
charity in gathering pauper children to-
gether by the hundreds in London and
forwarding them to Canada, where good
homes in farmers families await them.
The kindergarten system has been in
troduced in the government schools for
girls i'm C'nIna.
On one day recently, fifteen vessels
cleared from the port of Key West with
cargoes of sponge.
The total value of foreign exports from
the port of Savannah on Saturday week
was five hundred thousand two hundred
and ninety-two dollars and seventy cents.
Large quantities of marble are being
shipped for building purposes, from
Knoxville, Tennessee, to San Francisco.
Artesian water has been struck in the
Foot hills of California 1t is discovery
which will make complete change in
the relative values of valley lands and
uplands.
John Gray vas frozen TO death few
days since, near Shreveport, while re-
turning home from town. 1t is some
thing unusual even for a drunken man
so freeze in that latitude.
The California raisin crop is this year
estimated at 10000 packages, 10000 OF
which will be consumed on the Pacific
coast, whilst the balance will find their
way to the eastern market.
The low price of rice this year has been
very discouraging to the Louisiana rice
planters, and many of the largest planters
on the Lafourche and the Mississippi are
preparing to go into sugar.
Governor Colquitt, of Georgia, has
had thirty-nine applications for state Ii
brarian, twelve for inspector of fertilizers,
ninety eight for solicitors-general and
twenty-four for superior court judges.
Confederate bonds sell at three and
one fourth cents on the dollar in the
London market, or about three and one
half cents higher than some western rail-
road bonds also quoted in the same
market.
Among the abundant vegetable pro-
ductions of California the olive is begin
ming to claim attention "a a profitable
crop. The manufacture of the oil costs
about 81 per gallon, and its value is 50
per gallon, being $500 to the acre.
Elder H. A. Jackson, one of the ablest
colored ministers in the south, died last
week at Natchez. He was educated in
Ohio and then removed to Washington,
where before the war he accumulated
property to the amount of $4,000.
There are ferty-fve cotton factories in
Georgia, all in active operation and pay
ing dividends, either in money or stock.
They consume about $4,000 to $4,000
bales of cotton annually, about cne-ffth
of which is manufactured in Columbus.
DIR. Eldrige, who died at EImira, New
York, few days ago, left a fortune
amounting to S3,OOO,0OO. He gave Ed
ridge park to the city, which cost $780,
600 together with 100000, the interest
of (which is to be expended to keep it in
good order.
The Minnesota state railway bends,
issued in 1858, will become due and
payable in about year. They amount
to 81, ,275, 900, which, with twenty years
interest at seven per cent, will make
the total principle and interest s., ,46o,-
OOO The people voted loan of FIVE
million, and if all the bonds had been
issued, as was originally intended, the
state would have had S12,000,000 topay.
The Cherokees have over eighty COM
mon schools. The Chickasaws have four
public and about ten district schools.
The Choctaws have two public schools
and over fifty district schools. The
Creeks have three public schools and
about thirty district schools.
Bustles are declared to be out OF
fashion. and many new dresses are made
nerfectlv fiat behind. Some few stylishly
dressed ladies still, however, cling to the
hustle, but very few new ones are sold.