The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-06-13
General Items.

Teace now TelSns 10 Mexico.
The Southern Hotel at ST. Louis is
to be rebuilt.
Queen Victoria il now a great grand
mother.
Bismarck eats eleven hard boiled
eggs at meal.
We have still 1876 tribes of Indians
left 10 this country.
Ohio expended 81 995. .125 on her
public schools last year.
TIE Gubernatorial pot is beginning
10 boil 6ercely in Ohio.
The cotton worm is reported very
destructive in Tennessee.
VIM. Lloyd Garrison, the noted abb
olitionist, died last week.
Senator Beck says Congress will not
adjourn before July lst
Judge Packer left 50 $50, 900 to pub
lie educational institutions.
The new Constitution of California
will go into effect July 4th.
-Four watches were found, rec emily,
10 the stomach Of Florida alligator.
Every speech delivered in Congress
costs the country about s8,000.-
lex.
The Governor of Texas has called
a special session of the Legislature for
June 10Th.
The owners of the Cincinnati En.
quiro- recently refused 100000 for
that paper.
Corn is selling for FIVE dollars bar
rel in North Carolina and four dollars
in Alabama.
Five hundred Lexington negroes
have their homes advertised for nom
payment of taxes.
The Piedmont Virginian says that
section DOW bas the best fruit crop it
has had for ten years.
Graves county has 5,708 males over
twenty Que years of age. Out of the
number 425 are colored.
OF the %, 900 -four mills now in ths
United States, moro than half are 10.
Gated west of the Ohio river.
Ripe peaches have made their ap-
pearance in the Galveston, Texas, mar
kct, and retail at IS per bushel.
The annual reunion of the veterans
Of the war of 1872 will be held in
Paris on Wednesday, June Is.
The upper house of the Illinois
Legislature has passed law making
the marriage of first cousins void.
The Delaware and Maryland peach
growers say their crop will be too large
for profit this year, as it was in 1875.
Compressed air is now employed,
successfully, in Paris to propel street
cars aud to operate the large church
organs.
The Courier j ournal says: In the
South since the war over 100000
negroes have joined the Methodist
church.
The expectation of American cheese
has Increased during the last quarter
of century from l 900, 900 to 60,000,-
900 pounds.
The United States is the greatest
raisin consuming country IN the world,
and uses annually more than the whole
of Europe.
The cattle movement toward the
principal markets Of the United States
is now three times as great as it was
6fteen years ago.
Courier-J ournal: A Mississippi
/ 81 nter will be one of a thousand to
/ give $50 year to send Southern me-
groes to Massachusetts,.
The first barrel Of new wheat -four
received in New York, this season, was
presented on Exchange. May 10th. 1t
came from Americus, Ga.
The Southern Planter says that the
leaves of mulIin scattered among the
corn in the crib will efectuslly pre-
serve il from the ravages of rats.
Mr.. Baird, the agricultural statis>
tician, estimates the capital of English
lapdlords at 81 900 600. 900, and of
English tenants at $4,000, ,000. 600.
A valuable cow at Trenton, KY,
aud o promising St. Louis colt, died
lately. poisoned. as their owners be-
iieve, by eating leaves OF oleander.
One after another the savings banks
have been collapsing. until but few
are left. They seem to be sdpings
banks only for those who run the con-
Germ.
MANY counterfeit trade dollars are
| in circulation. They are we'll made
and have a clear ring when strock, but
can be detected by their inferior
weight.
i Reckless expenditures by the city
authorities of Henderson, KY, have
: run the city debt up to such enormous
|; figures that it is openly proposed to
repudiats it.