The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-07-11
aEfscelIaneous Items.


IL sl3 100000 in personal property.
tits 1892 miles across the continent
from Philadelphia to San Francisco.
One hundred and eiQhty.,hree cot
ton mills have been built in the South
since the war.
A resident of Gan Francisco has
sample of silk that was spun IN China
2 600 years before Christ.
Sig ,hosand carrier pigeons are now
maintained in tho various fortified
towns in France at the public expense
A Memphis clergyman takes the
position that there ia future state for
all beasts Of the field and fowls of the
air
There are neither water nor grass
on the plains of one third of South
western aud Western Texas, and ca.
tie are starving.
Henry ". Blair, oncs a poor, friend
less boy. has been elected United
States Seuator By the legislature of
New Hampshire.
A printing office now occupies the
room where Crockett and other heroes
OF the Alamo fell in defense Of Texas
independence.
The exports of corn and wheat from
New York last week reached. in round
plumbers, 600 900 bushels, the lar
~ est ntroupt an record
Hon Thomas \ Hendricks. of In
diana. has subscribed 5000 to the fund
for relieving the indebtedness Of Arrh-
bishop Purcell, OF Cincinnati.
Hon Jas A Mckenzie has aucceed
ed in securing the passage Of his free
quinine bill" This entities him 10 the
gratitude of suffering millions.
The State is suing Lessee South of
penite ntiary for $50, 600 in the Frank
lin Circuit, Court Col South pleads
Offsets to more than that amount.
Gen. Walker, Who is to supsrintend
the United States census of 1880, es;i
mates that the population will be be
tween 46 000, 900 aud AZ, 100000.
There urs 39,258 post Ofice in the
United States The plumber Of per-
Sons employed in the postal service is
81 ASH, this exclusive OF posimasteEs.
Camels are becoming scarce in the
East, forty thousand of those beasts
employed by 'he English 10 the
Afghan war, just closed, having died
The annual tea crop of the world is
/ G8l 100000 lbs. China producing
600, 000O00 lbs. Japan 40 geo 600,
India IS, 200, 600 and Java 100000
lbs
/ Over 1000 tons, eight million
pounds of candy are manufactured in
Boston yenEiy by three large firms
Three hundred workmen are employed
/ in these manufactures.
Mayfed has quite a seusatiou--a
least il is 4 matter in which consider
able interest is taken. A negro woman
has sworn her child to prominent
young merchant of the place, who il
being tried for bastaIdy.
Spring sud Summer are very pleas
AIT seasons, with cool mornings, theil
oslmy days, their wealth of buds and
blossoms, thsir esrly fruit, vegetables
and all Of that, but one never can tel
when a man with the oder Of spring
onioDs on his breath is going TO tacl'
you and tell long story.
4 glass muf, white and curly, glass
hats for ladies, with glass feathers
glass wool, not to be distinguished
from the genuine, and quite as warm
being a non. couductor; glass carpets
cuffs. collars, wells and dresses are tbs
novelties introduced by Mr. a Prem.
gle, glass artist aud spinner, Vienna
Some colored men near Decatur
Alabama, 10 excavatius mound OF
Major Fielder's plantation, near I'm
ion Spings, Alabama, Discovered tbs
skeleton Of an IUdian warrior, buried
sitting erect on the skeleton OF horse
Large Jumps OF gold and sheets Of ism
glass, decorated relics, etc., were found
Al American writing from Spair
urges the shipment of labor saving i'm
plemsnts there. Spanish farmers pillow
with The eud of piece Of wood abou
Eve iuches thick, Os was done 10 tn,
Middle Ages; sowing and reaping ma
chimes are unknown. aud grain is no
threshed Oxen tread it out, aud it i
winnowed by womoD, who toss il int
the air 10 scatter the chat.
-Four hundred thousand persons, &C
cordiug TO The "Nailwsy World" ar
employed on the railroads in this com
try. and Eve times that many depent
upon the roads for support. It is als'
estimated that between $500, 900. 00t
aud $500 600 900 are annually paid t,
employees and TO persons who furnish
the companies with supplies of variOu
kinds.
Eminence Cons.itutionsiist, Tn
prospects for good tobacco crop il
this county is quite encouraging TIL
recent rains have offered a "splendiC
season" for planting. and our farmers
have generally avaiIed themselves o
the opportunity TO "set out" large
area in tobacco The wheat crop il
more than an average, and of superio
quality The corn is looking uuusu
ally promising. and there are few nov
who have any doub, of fair oat crop
PUBLIC SPEAKING.
By candidates for the Legislature.
Fulton COUNTY.