The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-06-24

Greece.
The New York Sun has offered prize
of fifty dollars for the best explanation
OF the crookedness of riysrs.-C Every
Erening.
Mr.. Blaine and family are now on their
way to their home in Maine. The Srere-
tary viii presently visit Manhattan Beach
for a short time.
The Mexican Congress recently passed
an amendment to the Constitution pro-
hibiting Americans from becoming mem
bers of Congress.
The first car load of new heat arrived
in St. Louis from Fort Worth, Texas; on
June Q. 1t sold for $3.50 per bushel, and
was graded No. 3.
An Arkansan proposes to show up
Eureka Springs as n humbuE. II seems
TO be the general impression that he has
undertaken quite large job.
No abatement of the small pox in Louis
VILE. The City Attorney says there is
no power TO force patients to go to the
pest-house, and they won go voluntarily.
The Republican State Central Commit
tee of Georgia has passed n resolution
declaring that heneeforth il will have no
alliance with Democratic boilers or indie
peudents.
A negro boy died near Paducah, Ky, a
few days since from eating mulberries
poisoned by locusts depositing their eggs
upon them. Several others were made
very sick from the same cause.
It is said that the check given by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company in pay
ment for the Philadelphia, Wilmington
Tp.I Z Of L..
largest ever drawn in this country.
An Eastern exchange says there is quite
large community Of farm ers in Canada
who were 20 fully con WINGED that The world
would come to an end upon the 18th Of
June that they have put in no crops.
Il ia said that OF the many millions Of
dollars counted by the women in the
Treasury Mt Washington not cent il
missing. As general thing women do
not steal money they steal men S hearts.
The victory of the American horse Iro-
quois in England has been followed by
the victory of the American horse Fox
ball. at Paris. 1t was for the Grand Prize
-S300 600. Eo1hall IS n kentucky bred
horse.
A despatch from the City Of Mexico says
that General Grant will engage hotel ac-
commodatious for hi mself aud party in
September. Several hotels are charging
in the expectation Of a large American
business in the fall.
The ardent admirers OF Grant no longer
enlarge upon the mysterious greatness Of
the "Silent Man Grant has become the
Great American Talber, aud many Re-
publicans are Wishing that he would give
his tongue = little rest
FO1haII, the American horse that heat
the crack hors es of France last Saturday,
is a Kentucky animal. Iroquois and Fox
hall have taken tho blue ribbon from
ENGLAND and France, and are looking for
--V' = ~ toIns To -connnar------
Talmage has taken an "oath Of ale
glance" TO the old revision Of the New
Testament. He vows he "never will
substitute the new version for the King
James version. lie pronounoes The new
version "a literary botch."
There was no chance 10 get Demo
Graf; and Mr.. Beck. in common with n
majority Of his party, preferred The least
Objectionable of Republicans. In this re-
gard his position is impregnable, as those
who tilt at it will fad. II Courier Journal
Judge Ed. Grassland, of MAyfeld, hiss
since his return from the South, we re-
greet to learn, been confined entirely to
his home spending nearly al the time in
bed. His friends are about giving up any
hope of mis- ever getting cut again Pa
ducGh Nc1es.
Republican in Wash gton talking o
q New York Sun reporter said Of Garfield:
"He is behaving very much like crazy
man. He acts like man that
somebody has got a twist on in secret
way" Another Republican said "Some-
body or something seems 10 be killing
Garfield by inches
Common Councils throughout the coun-
try are now dealing with the question
whe Their to appropriate money for Fourth |
of July freW orks. The decision in most /
of the large cities of the East is generally /
in the negative, but in the West the pop |
ular demand for old-fashioned displays is :
too strong to be resisted.
Mr.. Hayes, ex President of the United {
States, is coming TO Europe about the end /
of next month, and, after making tour
through this country, he will proceed to
visit France and Germany. 1t is expect
ed hat Mr.. Hayes will appear in the pull
pits of Wesleyan ehapels; be is shining
light in that denomination London
Truth.
The brakemen Of the Arkansas and
Texas divisions of the St. Louis, Iron
Mountain and Southern Railway struck
Monday night for increased wages. They
we're receiving $50 a month and demand
ed 500. The officers proposed to pay by
the trip, bat The offer was refused. All
the trains, except the regular passenger
Lains, are blockaded.
The Louisville Democrat says: "Colouel
tom Buford was permitted too much lib
.rty ut the Anchorage Asylum, and Thurs
lay took advantage of it and walked to
n distance Of twelve miles.
lere he spent The day coolly calling on
lis friends and talking as if he had come
0 the city on an ordinary visit. That
light word came to have him arrested.
The officers did not discover him until
Friday morning, when he was taken back
o Anchorage. The carelessness which
permitted this eocnpe is inexcusable."
Prof. Proctor: says the earth has lost
Turing the past :, 900 years nearly one
,our and a quarter, and is now losing at
he rate OF one second in twelve weeks,
.and at this rate our day will be a lunar
month in the course of $4,000, 000, 600 I
,ears" Goodness gracious why dout
hey send the earth 10 the repair shops
md have il reGulated--a new handspring
ind fly wheels put in and the cog wheel
nut in and the cog-wheels oiled2 Or
that way. Who wants TO work
100 hours day $1,000, 100000 years
renee?
In the whole History as Medicine
80 preparation has ever performed G~eA marvellous
urcs or maintained so wide reputation, as Ayes
,mERRY PICTORIAL, which is recognized as the worlds
cmed, foF all diseases of the tkreat and lungs. It's