The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-12-19

| Haatio Seymour will be 40 years
old us1t May.
sble of solid gold was presented
Ia Gen. Grant in Philadelphia.
TSlnvalid pension bill appropria,es
$40 900, 000-3, 900, 900 more than last
year
william aud Cornelius Vanderbilt
are % build four houses 10 New York
a, cot of 81 $50, 1000.
sssa,or Wade Hampton has received
an iRitatiOn 20 deliver an address be
fore he Grsnd Army of the Republic
o Pbtsburg.
Es Secretary Bristow, having firmly
established himself in his law practice
in New York, is row to become a per
mau.nt resident.
II,cle Sam has 200. 000. 600 acres
.7>Iand remaining, which be will sell
Is ~-sts 20 suit the fd5TT1ves from the
f'eTe,e despousms. -
Tideu. according to the New York
Herald. declares through friend that
If he is not nominated &c will dictate
the nomination; aud it will not be Hen
dricks. Thurman, Bayard. or David
Davis. or any other man who favored
the electoral commission.
Mr, Hendricks. it is said believes
she shall yet live in the White House.
Mrs Lincoln had a similar premon-
i'iou. aud used to say of her husband,
"He'- going 10 be President. or |
shouldn't have married him, for he
Int pretty, you know"
From fifteen TO twenty Eve bodies
are dissecred 10 The medical colleges at
st Louis every week, aud az the coun
y under he pauper law. only furnish
ed eight. the citizens have been seized
with q OF Investigation They want
10 know ~hsre the Others come FROM
Boston was probably the first city
IN the world where w0:Hen engaged IL
The study of me iirine, aud at he med
ical university there they now have :
Iady dem0n.trar0r IN anatomy, alsC
three other ladi-- IN the faculty, Que
~ho lectures GU disea>e~ Of women and
he other on diseases OF children.
The aa,hori,ies of Cincinnati hav,
appointed committee 10 prepare az
ordinances to provide Cor the suppre-
sion of ini-c-ut -hows aud prohihi
Sunday performance at theatres. Ont
neu, Der f thr cnuncil proposed th'
use "f j vigilance c"mml tee u th'
matter co ID no he reached by law.
Nrllie johnson, Of ST Louis, j. ;
dimiuutIvr woman who wrigh- DOLLY
6fry pounds Nevertheless being in
sultei By young man IN the street
the other day, she whipped out =
pocket kuiie aud plugged the blad:
Into hi> breast He escaped with hi.
life ouiy because The blade Was small
one
REMARKABLE FEcUNDITY - A ply
-ici.n u tni- city was called 10 attend
a woman living oear the Posey county
line. who the other day was delivered
Of twins There is nothing remarka-
bic 10 this. but the fact that these
tsin, make eight children bora of the
SAM woman 10 tweDty-two months, i:
very remarkable. She first bore
tr2ler-. III n in one year after, iriplet.
again, aud nov. at the end of ten
asn,hs from the last birth, twins
Come on with your big stories.-Ey-
hnss'le Tribune.
Col J ST00DARD JOHNSTON, Of
Ken uoky, reports Gen Robert L Lee
a say Jog just after his surrender: "A.
omy own fate. know not what is 10
store for me | believe the politician:
a' Wa hingtoB are bent on the mos
rxretns mea -urss. aud, If thoy have
hsir way. will stop at no humiliatior
they can heap on me. Ny sole reliance
/ i 10 Gen Grant. I have firth in hi.
hosor aud mis- integrity as soldier
sad do not bsiieve that he will permit
theierms OF our surrender or the pa
rola gwen the to be violated"