The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1886-10-15

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Miscellaneous Items
THE Diamond Axle Grease Company,
near the Southern Exposition, Louisville,
burned the other evening 1t was the
property of the Chess Carley Company.
Charles Bradeos, of the Number Sevens
stepped into a mass of melted rosin. and
will be disabled for life A fire engine
struck buggy in which rode Joseph Pierr-
man and wife. They were thrown to the
curling. and Mrs. Pierrman was perhaps
fatally hurt.
THE reunion Of the Third Ohio Infantry
on the battlefield near Perryville was a
grand success on the Sth. About 300 sur
vIvors Of this historic battle, which took
place twenty -four years ago, were present.
Representatives from Pennsylvania, In
diana and Kentucky regiments were nu-
merous, although Ohio men outnumbered
them A fine dinner was spread by the
hosPitabie people of Perryville, and in the
afternoon appropriate addresses were de-
livered.
CHARLES RoYsE, on trial at Carlisle for
7 killing Henry Tanner, colored, was found
not guilty
Al Carlisle John Dolin, freight con-
ductOr. was knocked from his train, near
here, the other morning, by bridge and
killed.
A SEw post-office has been established at
/ Licksburg, Magoflin County, with Ben F.
SayIer as postmaster,
/ IT is rumored that another victim of the
/ Spearsville tragedy has been found. The
! body Of white man was discovered near
/ the Oddfellows' Hall. His body had been
! concealed in corn-shock, where it was
/ found by field hands. n could not be
| identified.
TIE farmers living along the river road
/ near Louisville, complain that they are
/ suffering very much from the depredations
! Of river thieves. Nearly every night a
/ corn-crib or barn is broken open and its
contents stolen. Their losses have been
/ heavy.
/ JoHS BAcHv.y, who owns dairy on
J Barrett avenue, Louisville, was driving the
! COWS into the yard the other day, where
I lhtN were 10 Bt tllihEO, WItu one rushed
! aRgrily toward him with its head lowered
! Bachman started for the fence, which was
/ about twenty-five feet distant just as he
( reached it the Infatuated animal struck
/ him, the horns penetrating his back. The
| animal then rstreated a short distance and
| stood glaring at him. Mr. Bachman re-
/ tanned his presence of mind and climbing
| the fence staggered home. At the threshold
he fell unconscious from the loss of blood
| Il is thought he viii die.
THOMAS CLARK and George Howard were
arrested in Newport charged with burglar
izing the post-office at Sulphur of s5a
worth of postage stamps aud postal cards.
MARY CLAUsER, of Newport, found q
| railroad torpedo on the track and hit il
| with a stone. One thumb gone and proba-
! bly, her eyesight
FRANKFORT is proud of her water-works
and relies on plugs 20 squelch her fires
DUEL at Vanceburg between DIR. W. Fl
| Campbell and G. c. Gaines, weapons 30
! caliber revolvers. Gaines wounded but
will recover. An old fsud.
SARAH LAUREL, an old fortune teller VIII,
lives in the Wet Woods, near Louisville, i,
| a snaks-Charmer. She had three iarg,
| black snakes in her house as pets, and while
| fondling them on a table the other morn
ing she engaged in a war with the entir,
outfit One reptile wrapped itself around
her neck, and, in attempting to cut il will
a knife, wounded herself badly. The ser
pent was about 10 choke the old lady t.
death, when a laborer near her saw he
81 1r-rglinrr an1 70 her
became so excited in the fight that she lie
PROSTATE, and may die She is very old
and has lived alone for years.
The diamond fields in Kentucky, so con
fidently predicted by II. Carvill Lewis, tn
well-known American Geologist and Min
eralogist, in paper read before the British
Science Association in London last month
have not yet been discovered, but tn
search for them has been going Of
quietly ever since the announce
ment of Prof Lewis conclusions
Prof Lewis said that be had seen in Ken
lucky toe same geologic conditions tina
surrounded the diamond beds at Kimber
! ley in South Africa, where for the pas
seventeen years almost fabulous discover
I les have been made and many millions c
) dollars worth of diamonds have bee
found annually. Prof. Lewis is we'll know
to scientists and biologists in this country
, The following are the dates when til
commissions of certain Presidential pos
masters will expire: Ashland, Februar
10. 1887; Bardstown, January 20, 1857; CyI
thiana, December 20, 1886; Elizabethtowr
March /, 1887 Glasgow, February q, 1851
Mt. Sterling, March l, 1887; Nicholasvill'
February q, 1857; Richmond, February
I 1887; Russellville, December. l3, 1886.
CHRISTIAN COUNTY, the heaviest tobacc
/, growing county in the State, reports this
the crop has been little injured by the fros
, and will be the largest and finest raised fc
: years.
JAMES SHoFNER was shot and killed b
Sherman Bugg, at Henderson. The dea
man provoked the quarrel.
THos. ". FIELD, business manager of tn
District Telegraph Company at Louisville
is missing. Accounts all right and dome
tic relations happy.
Az Eminence, John Campbell, colore
was accidentally shot in his left arm
VIM. Williams, jr., while the. latter Wa
cleaning a revolver.
IT is now charged that the assassinatio
of Colonel Hawkins, of Mercer Count,
was due to the fact that he would hav
given important discriminating testimon
in murder trial The suspected parti<
, have been arrested