The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-06-17
New Madrid, Mo, is buoyant over rail
road expectations

Mormon missionaries PROSECUTING il
Germany are to be expelled from tht
country.
Some of the most prominent Republi-
cans in Virginia bitterly oppose alliance
/ with Malone.
Mr.. Garfield will not go to Gettysburg
to celebrate the anniversary Of that
famous battle.
President Garfield promises to he pres
ent, if possible, at the st. John'sdav cele-
bration a Louisville.
Carl Schurz, late of Ex-President HAYES
cabinet, has assumed the editorial chair
in the City of New York.
The State convention of the ROYAL Tenn.
plsrs of Temperance will be held ct
Georgetown on the DIST inst.
The negroes of West Tennessee have
again taken the Kansas fever and are
leaving by hundreds almost daily.
The Mayor of Philadelphia has issued
a proclamation, forbidding the use of fire
arms in that city on the 4th of July.
King Kalakaua has reached Calcutta,
and is now pointing to Washington. where
he will arrive about the time Congress
meets.
In Massachusetts,, persons who cannot
read the Constitution of the State in the
English language, and write their names,
are excluded from voting.
In Rhode Island, all persons who 10 not
own real estate 10 the va!ue Of Szs34, over
and above all incumbrances olt' se same,
are excluded from voting.
Ben Butler and Bob Ingerson viii de-
fend Brady, the head center of the Star
Route sWindlers. 1t is thought the trial
will commence in September.
\ special term of the New Madrid
I County Circuit Court is in session COM
mencing the 10th inst, for the purpose of
trying Myers, Brown and Mitchell.
The Car of Russia sticks close to his
self-made prison surrounded by soldiers
and police, compelling every person who
enters to submit to rigorous search.
In the United States Court at Chicago
James b. Doyle has been convicted Of
passing counterfeit U. 5. bonds and re
commended to the mercy Of the court.
At least a hundred Star Route swindlers
will be indicted, so 4 Washington tele-
/ gram says. Hayes's administration Bids
fair to make that of Grant respectable.
The heavy frosts in the New England
| States last week played the mischief with
the bean crop. In Vermont all the vege-
/ tables, garden sass, ETC., were destroyed.
The Huntington VIa9,cator says that
several families of negroes who left there
early in the spring for Kansas, have re-
turned, thoroughly Disguised with the
/ country.
a bill has been introduced in the Michi-
/ gan Legislature imposing y fine Of $1,000
/ and imprisonment for year on any per-
son publishing an account Of . murder or
hanging.
/ OF immigrants less than ten per cent OF
/ every thousand betGke themselves 70
agriculture. The remainder settle in
great cities, factory towns and mining
! districts.
! The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's first
/ audience in Nashville, Tenn, last month
/ was so slim that he refused to lecture in
that city on the following night as per
agreement.
The Legislature of Wisconsin has ap.
propriated $1,000 to enable the managers
/ of the State experiment cal farm to make
/ experiments in the production of sugar
/ from amber cane.
! Judge Edward Grassland returned from
/ Aiken, 5. c., last Monday. where he spent
/ the winter for the benefit of his hsalth
/ We are sorry to learn that his he1& is
not imprOved.-l Mayfeld Demoss an
The Kentucky couEt.. eeif-a: the t1sI !
/ Trustees of a town exclusive p m
/ grant licenses TO sell liquor, repeI tb.ht
/ local option law so far as that town is con
cerned.
The counties of Muhlenburg and Web
/ ster are both troubled over a successor tC
/ their Sheriff elect both officers having
resigned, because they were unwilling t.
collect the railroad tax. The Office now
/ goes a-beggiag Nahsonriiis Times.
The Nashville Cotton Factory has beer
organized with capital of 100000, {
/ site purchased on which TO erect factory
and the contract given out for the build
/ ing and machinery. The factory is Il
have 1000 spindles and is TO be in full
operation by October.
Tobacco is prohibited to the students
/ of Oberlin College, Girard College, AND
/ the Naval school at Annapolis. \ similar
I rule has been recommended for Wes
1 Point by the Board of visitors At Cornell
/ University nearly all the students have
voluntarily signed pledge of abstinence
The 1mcrieaa Naehnist says the State o
/ New York should establish apprentices
shops and pay a portion Of the/expense o
/ instructing young men in various trades
/ This is because trades unioRs and other
/ influences makes it extremely difficult Of
/ impossible to get boys into Shops to learr
! trades.
The Henderson Ne,csfs mistaken il
stating that Mr.. Thomas/G. -Poore is NOV
in possession Of good paying Office a
his home" There is/no doubt that h,
/ deserves to be, still he isn't Our neigh
/ Dor should correct this error. as it i
hardly fair, and may possibly work to tn,
injury of Mr.. POore.-[ Fadacah Ners.
Twenty years ago, on the 9th of las
month, the war of the rebellion actually
begun by firing on Fort Sumpter .srht
man who fired the first shot on the Union
side from Fort Sumpter died only few
day ago, and within a week the Confed
crate who fired the first at the fort ais
died-Gen. Martin ". Grey, of Soud
| Carolina"
Prof. Baird, of the United States isl
Commission, writes to Senator Beck tina
he willfll Kentucky orders for carp mex
fall. Shnd will be planted at the High
Bridge, on the Kentucky river: Munford
Vile, on Green river; Bowling Green, on
Barren river; ShepherdsviIle, on Sal
river. The distribution of the shad has
already commenced.
! I Farmers on the knobIic road tell II,
Kthat at q distance of three miles from tbe
Z, city, swarms of locusts are devastation
the trees, shrubs, and cereals for dis
lance of five or six miles in that direction
They came from Tennessee, and tits sal,
are swarmiug over the lower portion o
our State in millions, threatening de-
struction to thousands of farmers :
Henderson News.
Disraeli said in one of his novels tba
. the more brilliant aud refined social as
semblies are composed of members who
being educated By exactly the same sv ,
TEN, and with precisely the same IDEAS
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