The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-01-11
Miscellaneous.

1t is reported that petroleum of good
quality has been discovered about one
hundred miles south of Deadwood, in the
Black Hills.
The Railroad Gazette thinks the year
ending July last was, the centennial not
withstanding, the worst for railroad
interests since the war.
Switzerland has passed a law prohibit
ing children under the age OF fourteen
from being employed in manufactures
after the first of next May.
A cloth made from the down of birds
is coming greatly into favor in Paris. 1t
is waterproof, and estimated te be five
times lighter and three times warmer
than wool.
Mortar does not reach its usual firm
ness when dried in the heat OF summer,
and one of the best authorities commends
the custom of the masons OF northern
Italy, who, in constructions OF mportance,
water the masonry during the summer
months to prevent its drying too rapidly.
The managers OF the Washington mon
ument fund publish a statement to show
that about $40, 900 raised by contribu-
tors was received by the society, and that
about $3.50, 900 was expended to put the
very pertinent query IS: Who has stolen
'-she money raised by voluntary sUbscrip-
ions in nearly every city in the union ?
The two large business houses in Salt /
Lake City, receiving two hundred letters
daily, have not bought $5 worth of
stamps from the Salt Lake City postoffice
for two years, but they have stamps con-
stantiv for sale; and one offered to furnish
he al Iot-e asta
worth. A mormon from southern Utah /
coming into Salt Lake recently, bought
new furniture for his entire house, and (
paid for it ii postage stamps.
Eighteen thousand men are now en-
gagged in the express business. Express /
companies cover 60, 600 miles of railroad /
and it is estimated that their messengers /
daily travel 100000 miles. Three thou /
sand FIVE hundred horses are employed. I
and over 5000 officers are required TO 1
transact their business in, and an amount /
OF capital invested not less than $50, ,000,- /
900.
The experiments that have been going /
ON for the past year in making glass from /
Stag have been concluded, and a glass (
suitable for BEETLES is now being made on 4
a commercial scale. The Stag is taken 4
hot from a blast furnace in ladle and I
poured into Sieman's furnace carbon 1
ate of soda and silica are then added in 4
various proportions, according to the 1
quality OF glass to be produced. A large /
manufacturing plant viii soon be in /
operation in this line of glass-making.
On Saturday the Illinois supreme
court decided a case in which the hus-
band of the appellee was run over and
killed by the cars while drunk. The
appellee brought an action against the
saloon-keeper who sold to him the liquor
and against the appellant who is the
owner of the building in which the saloon
was situated, and she secured the judg-
ment for 81. 500. An appeal was taken
and the appellate court affirmed that of
the court below and sustained the con-
stitutionally of the law. This is the first
time that case of this kind, brought
under the provisions of the Illinois liquor
law, has been sustained in the high
courts.
Lieutenant Walter Walton, assistant
inspector of life-saving service on the
North Carolina coast, makes his report
IL relation to the loss of the Huron,
showing that one Evan O'Neill, fisher
man at Nag's Head, discovered the
Huron coming on shore at halt-past one
o'clock on the morning of the disaster.
She drifted and pounded along the out
ter edge of the bar, and finally struck
broadside on. He heard shouts and
screams go up from the stranded vessel.
and saw rockets go up, followed by burn
ing signals from end to end. So that
even light rigging and men could be
plainly seen. A boat on the starboard
side, full of men, disappeared when the
foremast fell. The shouting and scream
ing continued and in about an hour and a
quarter after he first discovered the ship
the signaling ceased, ,Iiand all was darkness
ONeill went home, ate his breakfast,
and cid not return to the wreck until
after sunrise. He knew where the keeper
of the hfe-saying station lived, only two
and one half miles distant had a good
boat, free wind to go and return inside
of Roanok island, and yet he remained
silent and Indifferent for three hours.
Their eport concludes: " 1t is shocking
to report that out of ninety-one bodies
found, about twelve of whom were
officers, not a single trinket, such as
would be deemed relic by the relatives
of the dead, was found on the bodies.
Watches and chains, money, and even
fnger-rings. had been stripped off by
those who first found the bodies as they
washed up. Good evidence is found in
the case of Lieutenant Simons, whose
third and fourth fingers of the left hand
had been scratched and gouged by the
body-robbers in their haste to secure their
ill-gotten booty"