The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-09-16
Interesting Efcssas.

u -A<A ~ q $50 n SlA-aSa
Memphis is building three cotton seed
oil mills.
The tax on whiskey amounts to over
fourteen millions per year.
In New Jersey the forest rains have
extias7Iished the forest fires.
Hon. Samuel J. TiIden is estimated by
New York cores ondent to be worth Sl5,-
000,0 900.
Texas taxes drummers, and the proceeds
go to the support Of the public school sys-
tenn Of the State.
Three white men and two Greek Indians
were hanged At Fort Smith, Ark. last
Friday for murder.
There are more new buildings IN course
Of erection ia Louisville at the present
time than ever known before.
During May last the knights Of Honor
OF Kentucky paid out $50, 900 TO the wives
and children of deceased Knights.
Yicksburg is q progressive city, If we
can judge by the vigorous way the news
papers are talking up improvements.
1t is proposed to start a colony in North
Carolina in which mo beer saloons, chur-
ehes, ministers or lawyers will be per-
mitted."
The Memphis Avalanche says that Dan
Rice has secured the steamer Belle Prince
and four barges and viii start river cir
Gus again.
The health of JEFF. Davis since he ar
rived in Europe has been wretched He
viii probably return to America sooner
than expected
Leading Eastern merchants in the dry
goods trade say that the season opened
earlier anu is buster than any previous
one for several years.
TIE gap in the Paducah and Memphis
railroad between Dyersburg and Trimble
Station is being completed under the new
ownership Of c. p. huntington.
It's Gne thing good health comes with
. drouth, for many people can barely af-
ford to pay the doctors for the medicine,
and as to the visits they can merely re-
turn them.
The Inhabitants of Arizona are arming
and preparing TO fight the Apaches. The
Federal Government has been applied to
for arms, and General Mcdowell has re-
eeived orders to issue 200 pieces.
The New York Herald calls for a-reduc-
tiop of the canal system Of the State to.
entire freedom from tolls in order that
New Orleans and the Mississippi river
may not divert the grain trade from, New
York.
At the Methodist Conference in London,
last week, the question Of itineraaoy was
discussed the majority of the delegates
fayoring the system. Special reference
was made to President Garfield at the de-
votional exercises.
Kentucky viii be fHlIy represented at
Yorktown. Arrangements will be made
to send large body of the State Guard.
Companies form Louisville, Lexington,
Bowling Green and MaysyilIe, aud per-
baps other points, win probably 90.
It is highly important that every f.rri-
er in this county who has an aere good
land ii fer wheat, should SOW that much
this fall. Il is 10 the interest, not only
Of e1eh individual, but of the entire coun-
try that a good fail crop of wheat be pro-
dVced next year
John Morgan, a Mormon elder from SaH
Lake city, who is President Of the South
ern Band of Mormon Missionaries. was n
ST. Louis Tuesday, en- route TO salt Lake
lie says that he has fifty missionaries at
work in the Southern States. and expects
20 see large accessiOns to the Mormon
faith.
\ company Of English capitalists are
buying zap timber lands in this country
They recently purchased 10000 acres IN
Georgia and have million or two dollars !
they ewn an The lands they viii build
railroads through them and make them
valuable.
The Star Route trials are set for this
D.
enough 10 convict The whole gang Of new
es, and that is what is expected OF the
Government Any evasion of duty. or
attempt 90 let of the rascalE, VIII 1uIure
she Republican ADMINISTRATION greatly,
and nothing can possibly be gained by
suppressing facts. !
An extensive colony from Saxony has
recently settled in Southeastern Missouri
A second colony is route They bring
their own machinery, and within a few
days after landing the co ouy had their
steam saw mill in operation cutting tim
Der for house building. There are no better
immigrants than the Saxons They are
educated, industrious, moral and thrifty.
The chief topic in Paducah is the grant
ing Of right of way into that city TO the
Chesapeake * Ohio s. Southwestern rail-
road. While there is no great opposition
to the granting of the right of way, all
but decided few, who expect 20 be re-
Enumerated in some respect, insist upon
The company pay ing tn property holders
along the route for all damages to their
property.
Guiteau is in absolute solitary confne-
meut. He sees no one save his jailers,
and they hold no conversations with him
During July and August the District At
50 Mt ra
him frequently with "a view to the elucida-
tion Of as much information as possible
about himself and his crime, but having
obtained all that was desired in this di
rectiou they have ceased their visits.
An advertise menl appeared in an East
ern newspaper a short time ago, in which
the advertiser claimed that he had dis
covered a method whereby young girls
could become the possessors of rosy cheeks
in a single night. Two girls in Muscatine
wrote for the recipe, and of course receiv-
ed replies. No. ! was advised to 90 into
heSrOom by herself, tie handkerchief
over her eyes and rub both cheeks with-a
large, rough corncobi No. was told to
do to the same thing, with the exception
that a nutmeg CRATER should DE used in
| place of the corncob.
Frankfort Yeoman: There is good
deal OF fear entertained that the coming
winter win be one of great severity.
Somebody prephesie1 as much several
years ago and other circumstances lead
to the opinion that close, tight winter
is coming. The locust trees are heavily
freighted With seed pods, and is this re-
garded one of the certain signs of ap
preaching cold. y long drOath is also
regarded premonition of much snow and
ice. with a short bread crop, and coal at
very high figure, poor people will have
hard time in hard winter.
The New Orleans Democrat sagely re
marks that when the jetties, which New
York and Cincinnati papers eritieise so