The Hickman courier., 1877-01-26
CURRENT MENTION.

This3ow at Chattanooga the 9th a
day was eighteen and half inches des
ON level.
A Pennsylvania manager is to give
Wendell Phillips 81, 900 for eight lee
lures.
Q During the month of November two
hundred and seventy two oil-wells weraS
completed in Pennsylvania.
John II. Kinnies, of Lynchburg, Es
is furnishing that city with noun ~
ice at three dollars ton.
The people of Maine anticipy
good steady sleighing until If
March next.
There were thirty three failures in
New York during December, with ag-
create liabilities OF 81 ,S7S, ,29S.
Some of the Philadelphia ice com
panies are paying onINflty cents day
to men employed in getting out ice.
Nathan ScOfeld, soldier of 1872 from
Connecticut, has recently passed his
hundredth birthday at the East Haddam
town farm.
a dividend of three and one half per
cent. for the past six months haMbeen
declared by the Southern bank of the
state of Georgia. ~
NJ. Rothschild has added plpting
press to his establishment on Monnt
Zion, Jerusalem, from which work up{
on the Holy Land has been issued:
II. Feagans, of Fort Scott, the oldest
deputy in Kansas, has been appointed
United Ses'e~s ~O1i1ooOr !" PIaco OI a
NJ. Blair, who failed to qualify.
Governor Tilden's pardon report for
the year 1876 contains list of ninety
three pardons, fifty combinations of
sentence and eight reprieves granted
during the year.
The Mark Lane Express asserts that
five hundred tons of fresh American
beef reach England weekly. This new
branch of trade has created considerable
anxiety in the English agricultural dis
tricts of Shropshire and Staffordshire
The Erie railroad company consumes
about 100000 feet of timber annually
in the construction of its cars, trucks
etc. This large amount, including about
| $500, 900 worth of black walnut a year, i.
all collected along the line of the road
In Cobb county, Ga, there are sixty
white schools with l,124 scholars anC
twenty four colored schools with six hun
dred and forty-seven scholars, making
total of LII pupils receiving the bene
fit of public education. The amount
paid is at the rate of two dollars PEE
scholar
Augusta, Georgia, pays her mayor 81,
500; clerk Isl 900 collector and treasurer
S1,SOO; assistant collector and treasurer
$1,000; chief of police, 81 900; first lieu
I tenant, $1,000; second lieutenant, 81,
/ 600; orderly sergeant seven hundred anC
eighty; four sergeants, seven hundred
andSeenty; privates, fifty dollars eacI
per month.
The Western Union telegraph com
pany, at Boston, has arranged a system
for the transmission and free delivery
/ (within the halfmile limit of message.
betH cen any officers OF the company il
! the city, including the suburbs, alsC
/ Chelsea, Cambridge and Somerville, fol
! fifteen cents for ten words.
Keely, the inventor of the motor
bearing his name, is having made, at the
Chyster steel casting works, two i'm
mense balls, the larger of which is thirty
l six inches In diameter Outside. aud
weighs $4,000 pounds. The smaller
one is eighteen inches in diameter, and
weighs $4,000 pounds 1t is supposed
they are intended for additional expert
ments with his apparatus.
Alabama oysters find a ready market
at Baltimore.
Citizens of Saybrook, H., mobbed a
man who intended 10 open drinking
saloon.
The rogues' gallery of New York con-
tains 1,l90 photographs of dangerous
criminals.
JSse Mye, of Oakland, Cal. has de-
cided tha. a poker debt is couectable at
law
There has been the heaviest snowfall
in North Carolina this winter of any
year since 1886.
Three Eucalyptus trees-.which were
planted in Charleston, 5. c., were killed
by a late frost.
The best blankets in the United States
are manufactured by the Navajo Indians
of New Mexico.
Many Of the Hebrew citizens of New
York city celebrated Christmas, not as a
religious ceremony, but as a recognition
of a general feast day.
"In Norway drunkards are compelled
to sweep the street as a penance." That's
nothing. They have to hold up lamp
posts in this country.
Tie operations of the Baltimore CLEAR
ing house for 1876 aggregated S530,000,-
600, against $579, $4,000 in 1870.