The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-10-10
General News Items.

this year
They are making watermelon syrup
10 Georgia.
Lumber has advanced 40 per cent
at Chicago since August l
Some of the Texas farmers are plant
ing corn second time.
Cherokee county, N. c., has Al diff
ierent kinds OF marble.
The public schools of Chicago are
attended BY fifty thousand pupils.
The sugar crop Of Louisiaua and
Texas promises to be full one this
year.
The law requiring biennial e1ami
nations of pensioners has been re-
pealed.
Five hundred and thirteen houses
have been erected ia Lincoln, Eeb-,I
since spring.
The attendance to date at the Gin
cinnati Exposition has been over sixty
thousand.
1t is estimated that 800 900 hides
will be sent to Europe from this coun
,ry this year.
Montana has from $4,000 TO $4,000
square miles which are underlaid with
coal
The assessed valuation Of Colorado
is SEQ 900 600, while that OF Utah 10
only s2l ,0O0,00
Hop picking has commenced in
Wisconsin The yield is considered
exceptionally good
There are 900 tons of standard sill
yer dollars stored in the vaults OF the
Treasury Department.
The deepest spot in the Hudson
river is opposite West Point, where
the water is 2l6 feet deep.
Leadyille has fifteen hundred Roman
Catholic families, who are about erect
ing q cathedral
a cargo of the skins aud oil of 5000
pelican- has arrived al Corpus Christi,
Texas, from Bird Island.
There are III Presbyterian miris
ters in the Synod of North Carolina,
222 churches, aud l7747 members.
The .E'ua Fire Insurance Company
| of New York re;ires from business on
account of the impairment OF its capital
In 1877. $500 machine made doors
were shipped to England from the
United States. La 1873. $4,000 we're
sent over, and $4,000 were also sent to
Australia.
| An electric light 10 Saratoga, era
| bled persons to read a newspaper at
! Ballsiou, seven and a half miles dis
tant on a dark night a powerful
reflector was used
The expenditures for public schools
in all the states and territories amount
ed last year to $50 233 45O The
school population OF the United States
Is nearly dfteen millions.
King Mtesa. ruling near Victoria
Nyanza, Africa. has abolished slavery
throug his dominions At least
hslf million slaves were liberated
/ quite recently.
American hop growers have an en-
couraging prospect before them, as the
present crop of England is short, and
the German crop is hardly up to the
average.
Three thousand miles of additional
track will be added to the railway
reach of OR country 10 the completion
OF the improvements and extensions
pow under way.
Illinois last year manufactured S27,-
727 900 worth of agricultural impIe-
ments, which is equal to one half Of
all the farming machiHery manufactur
ed in the United States.
a peach orchard in Tallahassee,
Fla had full crop of fruit this year,
and is now in full bloom ready for
another crop, and if cold weather does
not come on too early will succeed.
Ben Butler has been nomiusted for
Governor of Massachusetts by Eve
State conventions out OF seven. The
cock eyed child of destiny has probably
made his calling aud election sure.
POstmasters are now authorized to
redeem in stamps or stamped envelope
postal cards which have been spoiled
IN printing or by any accident at the
rate of four cents for every Eve cards
The gold watch Goueral Washington
had made at Londob for widow Martha
Curtis. just before they were married,
has been added 10 the relics at Wash
ington's headquarters at Newburghr
New York.
The failure of the apple crop in New
Jersey this year mas Injured one busi'
uess seriously. Last year in the Isl
revenue district 20 stills were making
apple jack This year only twC
stills have taken out license.
3 At tho late commencement Of Woo
: ster University young Creek indiar
took the first Latin prize, gold media
for best scholarship during the senio
preparatory year and for best eXami
Q nation for entrance to the freshman
: class.
The Kansas Farmer says that
million of dollars would not pay TO
the loss iu butter aud milk in baC
!, management and lack of proper dair,
couveuiences in the State OF kansa
s alone, in single year.
Reports from industrial establish
n ment in the Eastern States show
: wonderful Improvement in business
q Works Of all kinds are running ful
N force, and the demand for goods L
e hardly equal to the supply
The architect of the capitol q
Washington has contracted for an cleo
u tric machine of great magnitude an'