The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-06-20

a married.
Nearly every paper in the Stat.
t favors the call for constitutions
' convention.
Thore have been 38 deaths in the
kentucky Pouitcptiary since the ars.
OF last January.
a friend speaks of railroad tra;,
mat was slow as woman getting out
OF church.-lRockland Courier.
When may young ladies' be said 10
be economical? When they resort to
tight lacing to prevent waist fulness.
During aperiod Of nearly tive GEN.
turleS the hrst born Of the House Of
Austria has been Rirl-ourious fao..
The date of General Grants land.
ing at San Francisco has been again
fixed Il is now, and until further
notice, July 20.
Old BID AiIon declines in to
most en- phatic mapner the ho,o,o ~
the GrsouUacK nOmlDauvu g.
eruor OF Ohio.
Reports from Kansas and Southern
Illinois arc to tho effect tha, the vh.ot
is heading out in some places on s;x
or eight inch stalk, promisiusa NIGER
able yield.
The steamship between New York
and Europe are crowded every trip.
They are turning away passengers,
50 unusual is the summer travel toward
Europe.
w. II: Vanderbilt's income is
one thousand dollars au hour, which
is as much money as some of US re
ceive in q whole day.-lSyr-cnA~
/ N. y Courier.
A newspaper correspondent having
completed a tour of H,OOO m"eS -,
eight months. and being sogne"ha' '..'
vas advised by London pny7'''AO ~
try "a change OF air
branching Of the Kentucky peniten =
tiary, and urges the location OF tho
branch in Lyon county, on the banks
of the Cum berland river.
The Memphis Appeal says that tho
southern press was never 50 thorough
lly united as II is in its determination
to sustain officials 10 euforcing tho law
against carrying concealed weapons.
In pork packing during the past
yoar. the net or dressed weight of hogs
was thus divided: Four sixtbs meat
one sixth lard, one sixth shrin kage 10
curing aud rendering.
Georgia exempts from tsxaticn, for
ten years. all capital invested IN the
manufacture Of cotton. whether N
buildings for mill purposes. machinery
or land purchased for the uses OF th'
manufacturer.
, Probably Thomas a. Scott receives
he largest salary Of any man in thi'
! country. He Is now president o
seven railroads. under the control o.
] the Pennsylvania Central, which pa
him abou; 100000 year.
Queen Victoria opposes wcsrict
!, banged hair. Sensible Vic, if sh'
sncceeds 10 stopping this great outrag'
on the hair as speedily as she conquer
ed the Zulus, she will confer grea
blessing on mankind generally.
t Cease your oroaking about hard
times aud nothing to do. Go to work
"where there is will there is way.
= The trouble with most people is, tha
d they have no will, while wsys OF use
fulness are opened up to them O.
every hand.
= The average salary Of Methods
ministers IN fourteen Southern con
ferences is said TO be S572, aud III
? average amount paid s43S In North
orn coofcronces the average is $40
;, aud the deficiency in payments a9oS
. twelve per cent.
to Texas planters seem TO think q
er negro exodus will greatly raise Ia
ht price of cotton, aud with this impro'
iy sion upon them havo planted laree e.
- in cotton La some instances iarE
Y, fields of whoat which wers poor hss
N been plowed up ard pa. down in cotso'
. "a hairpip," says the Binghamtc
&c Republican, "is Very useful article
woman. It serves tho purpose
~ y toothpick, button hook and hair-fa
!. ,ener but all this is DO excuse Il
- having one 10 your vest pocket whe
vour wife don't know whero 1t com'
,al from.
.se There are 2,o0o, 900 bee hives
Id tho United States. Every hive yiel'
os. on an average a little oEer TWEEN
n mounds of honey. The average pri'
ii at which honey is sold is % cents p
we nonpd. So that, after paying the
nj own board. our bees present as ~i'h
er revenue of over IS 500 Goo Or recc
ast II another way-they make Gle
.es Gift of one pound of pure honey
ng eyerv man. woman and child in {
q vast domain of the United States.
Ia ~ A Michigan journalist declared
80 his paper that certain editor n
isS soveu tees. The slsudered man thel
,"o upon relieved his mind in "leade'
= denouneing the statement as unw'
cu ':u ranted. and it's author as devoid
Nv truth and a scouudrel TO boot. 1
'''' offendiug gentleman replied that
on. never wished it to be understood q
saw all the seven toes were upon one 10
;ss. and the victim of the sell was tn
ougbly laughed ~.