The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-04-29

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George Warren. Editor.
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THERE will be twenty two contested
seats in tie next House of Represent
atives.
a Company of $40 100000 Capital
has been organized in France to buy
American cattle.
PREDICrIoNs are made at Washing
ton hat GarfeId's Cabinet will not
bold together many months.
Tue Memphis Avalanche has ur>
shaken faith 10 the narrow gauge rail-
way from Cairo 10 Texarkana.
The vicksburg Herald 10 ft Of
enthusiasm about cotton exeIaims:
"Lst US plant for fifteen million bales.
THE Mezicans are not altogether
fascinated with General Grant and his
railroad projects. They evinenfly fear
the Greeks"
AN interesting Injunction case is
pending in Paducah to restrain the
city from the collection Of license
for private vehicles IN the city.
THE Secretary Of the Treasury has
issued an order that no more nickies
be coined This handy little cola has
fulfilled its mission and will be DO
more.
YELLOW FEVER and small pox both
prevail at Santiago de Cuba and Cape
Haytiep, Hayti. Havana is free from
yellow fever, but small pox Is counting
many victims.
NASHVILLE is in extacy on She pros,
pect Of having President Garfield and
Gen. Hancock to attend their exposi-
tiou next month Each Of the gentle
men promised to take the invitation
under adyisement.
GEN JosEPH LANE, ex Governor
Of Oregon. ex United States Senator,
aud a candidate for Vice President on
the ticket with Gen. John c. Breckin-
ridge, died at Portland, Oregon, ou
Wednesday Of last eek.
THERE are now five treaties and two
hundred aud sixty five nominations
awaiting action by the senate, yet the
senate persis;enuy refuses o give these
importaut matters the slightest con
sidera,iou. Tie party in power must
answer for this expense and delay.
THIS promises to be ga year Of strikes.
There is . general demand for rise
in wages among the working classes Of
81. Louis as well as Cincinnati. The
New York tailors, blaeksmi,hs, wheel
wrights, bakers and carpenters have
held meetings looking to the same end.
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The Tennessee deb, trouble, we
fear, is not permanently settled. A
large majority of the Tennesseans We
come IN contact with are bitterly OPP
posed TO the 100 settlement, and talk
like the ncxt Legislature will undo it
Il will be the issue 10 the next election
THE iatest returns state that 5000
persons were killed and 10000 injured
by the recent earthquakes 10 Chios.
The locality which suffered the most
is Neyita, where 200 we're Killed
The violent shock which occurred on
Monday caused the the surface Of the
ground to subside metre Grea.
numbers of the inhab itants are emf
grating.
ADVICEs from Bagdad state that the
ravages of the plague are terrible,
though DOT extending beyond the
sanitary Gordon. Four thousand in
habitan,s have quilted Nedjed and en-.
eamped 10 salubrious localities. Ned
jed and Djuhara were burned on the
Slh inst The disease has become
more virulent, the afflicted dying in
ten hours after being attacked.
Co
BENJAMIN DIsRAELI, Earl of Bea,
aonsaeld, the great English statesman
and author, died last week. lie was
one of the most remarkable men Of his
age, aud leaves no one IN England his
intellectual superior. His father was
Jew, and his beginning in life did not
give promise of his wonderful future
he was twice Prime Minister of Great
Britain, and welded more power a
one tine than any man 10 the world.
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q. E Bowman, ia his Monthly
Report Of the Bureau Of Agriculture
gives most gloomy and discouraging
account of the condition of all kinds o.