The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-12-12

The Wick sburg Herald tells of a
negro with heels on each end Of his
feet.
\ Quebec man has received an order
from Paris, France, to make million
pairs of shoes.
For the year so far there has been
886 railroad accidents, 162 people kill
ed and 685 wounded.
There are more than 1000 900 acres
of land 10 the United States devoted to
the culture of grape vine.
1t is said there are about 10000
telephones now in use in this country,
and about 800 in England.
Five and half millions of dollars
are spent every year by the Russian
government on military schools.
New Orleans is considering thor
ough system to sewerage, which will
cost, according to the plans, 81 800,
600.
The sixty FIVE thousand dogs of St.
Petersburg bring to the city treasury
$1,000 per year, 81 being the tax
upon. .each dog.e -
It Is estimated that there a@J rn Cffc
United States over four hundred thous-
and railway cars of all kinds and six
teen thousand engines.
4 firm of cattle dealers at Belle
vile, Ont, has orders for ? 1000 beef
cattle for the English market, to be
delivered before Christmas.i
The Bank of California holds a gold
brick whose weight is within a fraction
of 400 ounces or over 100 pounds.
1t is valued at s28, ,064, or $40 OF pei
ounce.
The largest yield Of wheat ever re
corded was on James l.. Rays farm, in
Lewis aud Clark counties, Montana,
this season, Que acre yielding 102
bushels.
Within the past twelvemonth, $40,
600, 900 has been extracted from the
mines at Leadgille, and the yield to
day is estimated at about $500, 00G
per month.
Corn is cheaper in Iowa this fall
than in any other place on the globe
selling at eighteen and twenty cents at
the depot, and ten and fifteen cents al
places distant from the railroads.
Judge Craddock, of Frankfort, first
applied TO Gen. Grant the sobriquet oil
the Man on Horseback, " which has
followed him in his trip around the
world, aud will cling to him forever.
Probably the longest-h aired woman
in the State, lives q Cam pbeil county
Her name is Miss Matilda Ogden; anC
when she is standing, her hair reaches
to the ground aud trails twenty inches
The Regulators in the mountains ot
Kentucky, IN the absence Of proper
action By the constituted authorities
have set up the whipping post. The
maximum l. forty lashes. 1t is saiC
to work we'll
The number of Jewish iuhabitant
of Jerusalem since the beginning o
q >
800 to l3, 600. The jews have bough
up almost every old house that ha
become vacant, aud have built a gTea
many new ones.
An account Of the marriage of tn
King of Spain to the Archduches
Maria Christina goes into all the de
tails The nuptial couch is described
+ 1t cost $4,000 francs. And yet it ma,
be questioned whether the royal coupl
will sleep any sounder on it than the
would ou a SO bedstead.
The largest orchard in the world i
said to be that of Robert MeKinstry
at Fl udsoD, New York. He has "a, 90
apple trees, LOO pear, 1000 cherry
500 peach, 200 plum, 200 crab, go
vines, 5000 currant, and 200 chestnut
The orchard is intersected by over ST
miles of roads, aud is bounded by
continued row of apple trees, set te
feet apart four and a half miles
His apple crop last year was 5000
barrels.
! The longest case of litigation o
record has just closed lu Hungary
where the supreme court has given
decision on a suir that begun in 176S
which has since passed through ever
possible phase of litigation. Th
original action was to eject the wrong
full possessor of large family estat
and after III years of trial, the righ
ful owners have gained their right
A large part of the estate, howeve
has gone to the lawyers.
4 woman calling herself the Quee
Of cure is doing an enormous businet
in the Southwest, particularly anon
the negroes, She rides in disregarde
circus chariot, wearing velvet an
sprangIes, and accompanied by ban
of music. She has the reputatio
among the creduous of possessin
miraculous powers of healing, and mu
titudes flock orouud her wherever sh
, goes. She makes no charge for h
services, but sells vast quantities of
liniment to which she ascribes marve
Gus curative qualities.
grLsA Hatred OF the Wren.
! "The poor wren, the most dimiu
: tive of birds" is pursued by far mo