The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-09-23
Interesting Eteaas.


The Yorktown Centennial celebration
comes off Oct. II.
Tomatoes have been selling at SO ne,
bushel in Lexington.
Henderson will soon have telepbons
connection with Greensboro.
Cincinnati has two thousand saloons
according to the directory for 1881.
Jay Gould now controls one half tbs
railroad mileage in the United States.
The number of knights of Honor lodge.
in Kentucky is los, with membership Of
1924.
The Clinton Democrat reports tina,
W heat straw is being used for provender
something rarely done.
The corn and tobacco crops in Kentucky
are reported by Commissioners Bowman
as very much better than was expected
and quite full IN some localities.
If everybody had what honestly belongs
to them some people now rich would be
poor, while many an INDECENT person.
whose daily toll barely enables him to exc
out an existence, would be ia the enjoy
ment of q competence.
A Mormon Elder just mp from Georria
reports that there are so missionaries in
that State, and that they are making
many converts. The Georgia Legislature
is already struggling with statute for
the suppression of these chaps.
A shrewd farm hand brought, for $50
The big meteor. which fell in Emmett
county, Iowa, last year. and was laus he'd
at for what was considers TO be his idioey
lie has now sold it 10 the British museum
for six thousand five hundred dollars.
The Henderson Ne,os says: The Whole
State Press is alive for immigration. II
the people viii take the same interesi IN
the matter that the papers do, the 6oad
acres of untitled land Of the State VIII
soon become producing farms and pros
perity will then be within every one s
reach.
A newspaper agent being toltby an
old lady that il was no use to s'pserlee
for the paper, as Mother Shiptou said the
world was coming to an end tbs year.
said: ssBut won't you want TO read an ac-
count of the whole affair as soeuas 1t i
over2" THAT I viii, answeredthe Ola
/ lady and she subscribed.
The Citizens Of Owonsboro hav formed
a company whose object is 10 indiee eni'
grafton TO the city aud Daviess county
! rs soon as matters are ARRANGED com
mittee viii be detailed TO solicitsubscrip-
,ions. The money subscribed vii De used
to advertise the city aud count, AMI ar
/ ticles, which are now being prepares
| descriptive CT both, viii heprinted ~
New York IA several languages, ano
+. freely distributed in foreign 0untries-
It win nor be long until The United
/ States viii be the yealihiest pation OF
{ the globe. She now stands third IN tbs
/ list, and good third nj that. Engianl
comes fret with capital Of 1900 mil
lions Of dollars; France seconi with -,
/ 600 millions followed closelyoy the Uni
ted States with 81 600 milIi0ni. The an
/ nual increase Of nationai weiith in Ger
many is 5000 GOO, 030 in England S2Z5i
4 coo 000. in France S375 00o4e0, while il
the United Stares it reaches the enomou.
figure Of 1926, 00o,0
The honor OF being the iourcs Of thi
/ Mississippi has IN turn been claimed 10
several little lakes, but the ltasca 70
several years past has been considere'
the true source Of that mighty river
Now il seems there is O new claimani
/ Captain Glazier, who has been on an x
/ ploring expedition with snail party il
canoes, conducted by an Iedian gaide
claims 10 have discovered the real SQUIRE
Of the Mississippi in beautiful liiH
lake Of sparkling water three quarters Q
g mile above Lake ltasea, with which
is connected By rapid stream.