The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-05-20


Reports from all the principal TIA.
centers indicate season of general nrs. e
perity.
The Tennessee Press Association n,
bold its next meeting at Chattspoona
June 6.
The delivery of single letter bv ,ha
"star route" system in some cases cos,s
from $500 to $500. S0''S
reign of terror exists in the cbo.,o
Nation, /. T., and the whites are ass;n
for their lives. BlOodshed is hourIv ar
pected.
Several thousand emigrants have GONE
into the South this spring, and have Seen
warmly welcomed.
The U. s. Supreme Court has d.e;5sd
that life insurance companies must paw
the policies of suicides.
The peach crop seems to have spFsred
far more from the winter in the Soutbsrn
than in the Northern States.
The preliminary survey for the St.
Louis and Texas narrow guage rsilroad is
now in progress in Mississippi county,
No.
decided in substance that 40 Stat. has q
right TO impose q tax on the eounercial
men known as drummers.
The announcement comes from Frank
fort that Gov. Black burn has expsssed
determination to refuse hereafter. rp re-
missions in behalf Of whiskey We va
The activity in real estate i tOpoke
OF New York outstrips anYtbt-U. else,
PAID are higher than they h. w.
in the past. No.
Oregon is credited with the
pedient to regulate the retailing tri-
uous liquors. No man is allowed fTdrinl
at bar without taking out License,
which costs S..
Capt. Boyton, the swimmer Who he's
recently arrived in Baltimore from his
Gillian captivity, is making arrange
ments for q swim down the Mississippi
from ST. Anthony's Falls.
A bill has been favorably reported IN
the Massachusetts Legislators prsseribing
Imprisonment for life as q punishment
for murder, whenever the con vic.ng jury
so recommends unanimously.
Another railroad company has been
organized to build road fron Clncin-
natl to Louisville and Paducah through
the southern counties of Illinonto Cairo
The road will be of narrow guTe.
The statement that went the rounds OF
the press lately to the effect thhthe Pope
had received letter from the Nihiiists
eondemning him 10 death was nere'y an
April fool canard published in Florence
The Ballard county-scat REVIVAL case,
before the McCracken County Common
| Pleas Court, was last week decided in ia
vor of Wickliffe. An appeal "" prayed
| and granted, and the case willgo to the
highest court.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals re-
cognizes a Puritan Sabbath, in so far as
10 decide that the publication d q legal or
| official notice in Sunday newspaper IS
no publication at all. 1t is unlawful, and
Their efore doesn't count.
| Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, ofEew York,
who subscribed literally in connection
| with the creation of the National Board OF
/ Health for the prevention of epidenics in
| Southern cities, has had a public square
/ named after her in New Orleans.
| The scheme OF a worlds fair at New
/ York is dead. So dead that no life can be
I infused into it, even by galvanic battery.
/ The money already subscribed will be re
/ turned to the donors. This not the
/ fret thing Gen. Grant has helped 10 kill.
In the International Electrie Exhibition
| to be held at Paris in July next, one OF
| the several curiositIes will be a model
house of the future. fitted UP with every
! electric Continuance. nmcng other ad.
vsntagss will be that Of doing away with
/ Ere insurance.
The death of Gen. Joe Lane, the Mexi-
| can war veteran, leaves only two other
| Mexican General heroes slive-General
/ Harvey, of Pass Christian, Miss, and
/ Gen. Robert Patterson, of Philadelphia.
/ The former is eightyone and the latter
ninety years of age.
1t seems that the increased death rate i.
not shown in Ne~ York alone, but holds
| good throughout the entire country as q
whole. Where the cause is not in the
nature OF an epidemic, it is result Of
| hltb-the thing really which produces
| many of the epidemics.