The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-06-10

Emigrants are pouring into Texas a,
the rate of thousand a day.
Scarlet fever is again prevailing :,
some portions of Ballard county.
The narrow gauge railroad is to ~,
five miles south of Charleston, Mo.
a ST. Louis capitalist proposes to ono
a large beer bOttling establishment in
Paducah-
Arrangements have been perfected for
connecting Dexter and Bloomfield, No
by telephone.
A. J. Blake will commence the publioa.
tion of Republican paper at Paducab.
in few days.
1t is a common remark in the West In
dies that Heaven made the food and the
devil made the cooks.
The act abolishing slavery in Cuba was
officially published by the Spanish Govern
-nent February l, 1850.
Immigrants are pouring into New York
in undiminished numbers. Almost ever
steamer brings several hundred.
Plans for new State Capitol building
of Texas have been accepted. The build
ing is to cost five million dollars.
The Pennsylvania Legislature has de-
cided on bringing the remains of William
Penn from England TO Philadelphia.
The Erie Canal, just opened for bus-
ness, has been closed I66 days, which is
longer than for any year since 1916.
So much tobacco is going into Padeah
that the warehouses, though very exen-
siye, are unable to accommodate the ininx.
The high school girls at Augusta, Ga,
have resolved 70 patronIze home industry
by wearing southern made ginghams at
their coming commencement.
A young gentleman advertised for a
wife through the Charleston papers and
received answers from fourteen husbands
saying that he could have theirs Obiou
News.
1t 10 announced that the Kentucky
Press Convention, which was to have
come off in June at Somerset, on the Gin
cinnad Southern Railroad, has been post
poned until fall.
The whole Republican Administrator
seems to be in conflict and in doubt, an'
the devil is SWITCH ng his forked tail fol
them as wistfully as a dog for bone
/ I Richmond Herald.
Two highway robbers attacked a Mr.
VIM Green, of Columbus, Ky, near tha
/ place, last Monday, and with cooked PTS
tolls forced him to give up his p5cketbook
which contained SIS.
I The war is over. son of the lat
I Secretary of War Stanton has lately mar
ried the daughter of Mrs. Phillips, thu
7 woman whJ Gen. Butler sent to Ship Is
I land for insulting Union soldiers in New
( Orleans.
/ Every voter in this county should cas-
/ his vote for the calling OF constitution
al convention. Our present Constitution
/ is fifty years behind the times. The ques
/ ton will be submitted at the August elec
/ tom RqdisoRriie Times.
81 say, jenkins, can you tell young
/ tender chicken from an old, tough onet
"Of course / can"
well, how?'
"By the teeth"
Chickens have no teeth
"No, but ] have.
Good morning2"
Good morning? ~ Elk.
In law case which has been tried il
New York a witness testified that lad,
really became quite sick because person
constantly said to her, Glow pale yor
look How sick you looki' It is a fac
that generally when an invalid goes from
bed chamber to the open air with tn
idea that he is not only we'll, but looks a
if he were well, dozen thOughtless PEG
pie will walk deliberately up to him an
say, "Why, what is the natter You lool
as if you ought to be in your bed
a bachelor too poor to get married, ye
too susceptible to let the girls alone, wai
riding with a lady "all of n summer
day" and accidently mems awkward
thiugs2 are ever in the way-dropPed an
arm round her waist. No objection wa
made for a while, and the arm gradually
relieved the side Os the carriage of th'
pressure upon it. But of q sudden
whether from a late recognition of the i'm
propriety of the thing, or the sight o
another beau coming, never was known
the lady started with volcanic energy
and with n flashing eye, exclaimed, "Mr
b I eau support myself" Capital" wa
the instant reply. "You are just the CIR
I have been looking for these five years
VIII you marry me?'