The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-05-13


can Mayor. pDoii'
Sarah Bernhard sailed for Fra. >.
on Wednesday.
Public executions have been d..
tinued in Russia. '0O"
The public debt statement sh.
decrease of $1,000, 800 during Am
The United States Supreme Con-.
decided in substance that no State - 10
right to impose a tax on the eomn 80
eial men known as drummers.
The national committee Of he
national greenback labor partv has
been called to meet at St. Louis Inc
9Th, to elect chairman In nlsoa 81
T. II. Murch.
An order of the Post. Office Darort
ment declaring that anytime inore
than the address written on the ~
of postal card will render il unnsail.
able after June LIST.
The Kentucky Court of An,s.ls
has decided that it is unconstilnt;onoI
to charge nonresident peddlers bicber
licenses or taxes than are imposed bv
the State upon its own citizens
Mexico is undergoing rapid trans
formation. To the incredible hort
space Of seven months S630O0 600
have been invested in railroad and
mining enterprises by American CAPT
talists. ray
John r. Proctor, diSeasaae
State Geological survey,-aora
bureau Of immigration has iuS
another large colony of SRissVN ho
have sensibly concluded to locate in
Kentucky rather than in tie fearful
Northwest.
A beautiful statue Of th gallant
Confederate commander, General
Stonewall Jackson, will be unveiled 10
Me;airie Cemetery, New CLEANS, on
the 10th inst, in the presore OF the
Benevolent associations of ne Armies
of Northern Virginia and Bnpessee.
The James Brothers, of bank rob.
bling notoriety, are entrencled behind
strong Qualifications near Adaryllie,
Logan county, close to the Tennessee
fine, and the officers arc 10 iotTursult
They are we'll armed, aud beng des>
perate men, will make a snrdy resis
tance.-Lexington Transcript
The impression prevails nat The
wheat crop of the United Sites will
be fully equal to an ayeJagl With
the cheaper route to the ses now af-
forded by the Mississippi, us valley
states will not suffer by cnpeti'ioD
with the world 10 supplying & is cereal
and fair price is reasonabi certain.
Now is the time to waite for the
curculois. \ few eobs laid iDder Il e
+ trees will catch oil The crculois at
night aud they may be easii caught
and destroyed a the mormg. The
1 process is so simple and eay that DC
one having fruit trees liable to be at
tackled by these pests shold fail T.
try it.
The statician Of the ericult1ra
Bureau at Washington. n receu
report, shows that the valu of land 10
Kentucky has Increased hiring th'
past year only six-.enths per cent
while South Cardinals huds hav
during the same period apprcciato
eighteen per cent, and Virginia
twelve and a half per cent
: George W. Julian writesirom Taxa
that the current stories oJ0ut IeXa
barbari-m are largely MYTHICAL II
says that the laws are as generally en-
forced and life and properly as safe a
in the other States of The Union. TIL
virtue of temperance is remarkabl
respected, and drunken man are NOR
rarely seen than 10 Indiana
The Star service scandal grows i
magnitude. The fact that Genera
Brady increased the pay on ninety
three out Of 1925 routes from s726
/ 1l9 to s. ,075 ,095, and thatihese route
were in the hands Of lavoriles has bee
conclusively established But it
only when The details are studied tha
the magnitude of the raseality is mad
clear.
How prosperously cotton factor
can be conducted 10 the South Is show
by the report of the Graniiegille Com
pany, at Augusta, Ga, which was abb
to declare u dividend Of Is per cent
although it introduced a great deal q
new machinery into the mill last yea
1t lost only ten days running tim
during the year, and this in con
/ sequence Of low water
Josh Billings very aptiy gives vote
to the practical mans idea Of an en-
thusiast, when he describes him a
zone who believes about four times a
much as be can prove, and who ca
prove about four times As much as any
body believes" II is in that one ft
part, which is provable. demonstra
BILE, and which he can make the Wort
believe, resides the force which move
the world forward. The other fou
parts are left as the stock of some fu
ture enthusiast to be used in keepn
the world agoing.