The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-20

Gen. Castleman having de-
clined the position of Chief Of Police of the
city Of Louisville Thos. J. Wood has beea
appointed, but has not yet accepted,
SecretaryBayard telegraph
cd the British Government protest against
the seizure Of the nets Of American fisher
men by Canadian officials on the great likes
The u. s. Senate confirmed
the nomination Of Lamar as Associate Jus.
tice of the Supreme Court, Dickinson
Postmaster General and Villas as Secretary
of the Interior
At Memphis, Tenn, Mon
day, the ground was covered with ice to the
depth of eight inches. Much suffering wss
exhibited among the poor, coal having ad.
vanced from sixty to seventyGvc cents a
barrel.
A curiosity in the shape of
double pig is the property of Thomas
Ward, farmer living near Peru, Ind. II
has two heads, four eyes, four ears, two
noses, eight legs, two tails, but only one
body, making it, in fact, very complete
double pig.
Gov. Larrabee andLieuten-
ant-Governor Hull were inauguruted at
Dcs Moiues, Iowa, Jan. 10. Gov. Larrabec,
in his inaugural address, strongly comhatted
the doctrine of free trade, and urged the
necessity of protection to American labor
and manufactures.
A commercial man named
Moses Raphael died at the London (Eng)
Hospital Saturday. A post-mortom eXami-
nation revealed the fact that the man had
been living for some time with three inches
of a penholder in his brain. a pen was
also attached to the holder.
Eate adviccs from the City
of Mexico say that President Diaz and his
Cabinet have announced that they will do
all in their power to encourage and promote
the immigration Of Americans into Lower
California, particularly into the lands of the
International Company, whose head'quar.
tiers are at Ensanada
1t now transplres that the
Forty first Kentucky Volunteer Infantry
committee, consisting Of members of the
regiment, has been appointed for the pur.
nose of ascertaining what action will be nee
essary to secure their back pay. The sur
viyng members held meeting at Coving'
ton last week.
Bishop VIM. II. Hickenloo-
per died in Salt Lake, Utah, Jan. #, aged
eighty.three. lie was the oldest Bishop in
the Mormon Church, and FOR over forty
years held the position now made vacant
! lie had two wives, and nj the time of his
death his living postcrty numbered twelve
children, thirty-six grandchildren and fifty.
two great grandchildren.
GeorgeWal kcr, late Consul
General Of the Unitod States in Paris, died
Of pneumonia at his residence in Washing.
ton, d. c. Jan, 10, in the siyty-fourth year
Of his age. In 1850 hc was appointed BY
President Hays Consul.Gcueral in Paris
aud served in that Capital until last June,
when hc rendered his resignation end re.
turned to the United states.
The schooner William Par
sons, which sailed for Georges Banks Nov.
22d with twelve men, and the schooner Pc.
ter d. Smith, which sailed Nov. 18th with a
crew Of twelve, have been given up for lost
1t is supposed they were wrecked in the
heavy gales that swept the Banks month
AGO. Many of the men had families, and
five widows and nineteen children are left.
Sunday was a severely cold
day in the Northwest At Heleua, 45',
Omaha, 500; Nebraska City, $50; Albert Lea,
ioo; Brainerd, $50; Bird Island, $50; Fari.
bault, 40; Duluth, $40; Clear Water, 40,
Hundreds Of persons were frozen to death.
The Pioneer (st. Paul. Press published one
list containing the names Of sixty-three
victims, and was receiving additional names
every hour.....A revised list published by
the Minneapolis journal, shows ninety
seven dead in Dakota, thirteen in Minnesota,
six in Iowa, seventeen in Nebraska and two
in Montana; total 1876, besidos 6lty-fye miss
ing.
The new bill to create n Ter
ritory of Oklahoma comes in with gilt.edgs
borders and roseate explanations; but II IL,
after all, the same old thing that we have
known for 70 many sessions of Congress- !,
ia q scheme 70 steal from the Indians the
garden lands Of the West, which the United
States gave to them In perpetuity. We do
not say that the theft will or ought to be
permitted. We have long been OF the Inn
preston that the Indian muss yield TO the
cruel but inevitable law Of the survival Of
the 6ttest. But. nevertheless, we ought not