The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-29

be the next Governor.
Letters have been sent from Mecca, ap-
pealing for general revolt of Mahom
edaus against Christian rule.
Roberts and anti roberts meetings are
being held all over Texas because Of the
Governor thanksgiving letter.
The merchants Of Baltimore have de-
termined to have Il grand Mardi Gras sz-
hibition III that city next October
"Menschenfruend" thinks thai chang
ing hell into hades. does not alter the at
mosphere or temperature Of the place in
the least.
The railroads from New York TO Yves
tern cities are cutting passenger rates,
and u person can now so to Chicago FROM
New York for $40.
The Government has sent out to learn
how much gold and silver is used in year
for making jewelry and for other manu-
featuring purposes.
Il is understood that ex-Gov. p. H.
leslie, of Barren, Will be q candidate TO
Gil out the expired three years or Judge
Lewis term as Circuit Judge.
One day last week ninteen Mormon
missionaries with $50 con verts landed in
New York. The converts were from Nor
way, Sweden and the British Isles.
IL. b. Levels, the colored e1-United
States senator, has been chosen Presiding
Elder of the jackson district by the white
Methodist Conference of Mississippi.
The kilograms state that the Nihilists
are holding Congress at st. Petersburg
under the very nose of the Gar, aud ,hat
he cannot discover their place Of meeting.
Alexander Stephens is now seventy
wears old. He has been thirteen times
elected as representative to the Congress
Of the United States and once as a Senator.
Hon. A. S. Berry, Democratic candidate
for the Senate in Campbell county, ad-
vocates substituting Tue ballot for Uipa voee
voting IN eutucky.-Lexingto Tran
script.
When the President was shot and his
death was imminent certain parties IA the
East started to raise a fund Of $3.50, 900
Tor Mrs Garfield The fund has reached
$4,000
Five hundred deaths have occurred in
Cincinnati from the effect of the late sx-
cessive heat. TLree-fourtbs Of these says
the Gazette are traceable to the intemper-
ate use Of liquor.
The railroads at last reports were sell
ing tickets from New York TO Chicago at
Sl2, and the scalpiug othces at 80 Gin
cinnati, g; Buffalo, 50, Cleveland, 500,
and St. Louis, Sl4.5O.
The grand and petit jqries Of the Nc
Cracker Circuit Court have requested the
Representative from that county, in the
next Legislature TO have the pay Of jurors
increased s. per day.
There is no superstition about Missis-
sippi. They hang criminals there on
Monday as well as Friday. Pennsylvania
/ has also changed the day of execution by
! adopting Thursday instead of Friday.
/ John Motfat married widow at Buna
/ Vista. Georgia, and on the day after the
wedding undertook 10 whip his stepson.
The bride seized her husband and held
him fast, while the boy killed him with a
knife.
Mr.. Conklng tells an interviewer that
lie is done with politics forever, and II
begins TO look much as though his affair.
had taken that turn. lie positively re-
fuses TO be either President or Associate
Justice.
There is promise of bountifnl harvests
in Europe. If such proves TO be the case
there viii be no demand for American
grain, and what goes abroad will meet with
great competition, and probably sell at
reduced prices.
European crop reports in brief; In
1 Hungary the yield of wheat viii be much
larger than last year. In Russia the yield
will he excellent. Ia France the wheat
promise is 10 good that it is believed there
will be no need TO import.
The country may now be considered
safe; at least that portion of it known IA
the Western frontier, for that long ex-
. peeted event, the surrender OF Sitting
Bull, has actually transpired, if the tele-
graph has OF told another lie
A circular from Mr. C. s. whittemore,
/ Secretary, Warner Observatory, Roches-
ter. n Y, says the newest new comet is
I In the constellation Auriga AMI Is appsr-
entity coming directly toward the earth.
1t can readily be seen with good opera
glass.
/ Two Kentucky couvicts who were at
1 work on the Big Sandy railroad, under
/ Miller, Henry * Co, contractors, made
their escape last Monday. Considering
! the large force of them at work outside of
/ the prison the escapes have been very few
thus far.
a burglar entered the house OF a Widow
Hurt, near Indianapolis, Ind, made her
/ give up what money she had, and then
I demanded her pistol She got it and
turned upon MIN and fred twice one ball
! going through his head and killing him
/ almost instantly.
Capt Thos G. Poore, of Hickman coun-
ty, announced himself candidate for
/ Clerk of the Court of Appeals, on Mon
day at the court house. Tue captain is z
veteran in the clerk ship line, and has the
reputation Of being not only a finished
gentleman but accomplished clerk
Glasgow Times.
The President when warned by
good friend as TO the danger of at
tempt upon mis- life, answered: Il must
come and go 9s usual, and | cannot sur
round myself with a body guard Aud
again, he said: "If the good of this coun-
try, the interests of pure government ant
Of The people against one man power de-
mand the sacrifice of my life L think
am ready"
The London Times says at is littlc
better than mocksry to think of doin e
honor to such n man Penn by the gro
tesqus proposal to disturb his remains
The thing is happily impossible, as tbs
trustees of the burial place state that they
are not certain of the exact spot where
the remains are inferred But even if i
| were possible it would surely be instant
ly forbidden by the instructive and ire
sistible sentiment of two great nations.
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