The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1888-12-07
He HICKMAN COURIER.
HICKMAN, KY,
The second session of the
10Th Congress met Monday. 1t
will expire March 4. 1850.

VIII expire MaIch y, ioot'
BELvA LOCKWOOD received two
voiea ia Kentucky, one Of whicl
was Ia Anderson and tie OtheI
in Fnyet,e county.
Mrs. CLEVELAND has invited
Mrs.. Gen. Harrison to spend d
week or two this winter ut the
White House as her guest.
The Chicago anarchists are on
in circplar printed in red iuk It
which they threaten Mood ant
war if they are longer deprived o
their rights.
SENATOR BECK will not he abl,
to take his seat in the Senate. bu
his friends hone that he will re
same his official labors soon aftel
the holidays.
THE Hon. Carl SEIZURE is report
from London as having accepted
the agency ia New York of tn,
Hamburg American STEAMSHIP
Navigation Company.
Mr.. RANDALL will go to Wash
irg,on mt once, though his healtl
will not permit him to take hi:
seat in the House, except for {
brief period at time.
The Washington correspondent
the C0nrier-Journal thinks thai
Hon. j. Proctor Knott can have
m appointment as Civil Service
Commissioner if he wants il.
TIE Presidential Electors fol
Kentucky will meet in the Capito
building at Frankfort on the sec
ond Monday in January to cast
the vote o. the State for Presi
dent and Vice President.
SENATOR QUAY's son says his
father won but two bets on the
election. One was a silk hat which
he couldn't wear, and the other
was box of cigars, which the
other fellows around headquar.
tiers smoked for him.
In is reported that after the
visit of ex-senator Sewell, of New
Jersey, to Gen. Harrison he wrote
to friend as follows: "Tell the
boys that the old fellows will have
10 30 to the rear. Harrison wants
young timber for the Cabinet, and
We have no chance"
Mr.. WHITING, one of the two
Democrats elected to the next
House from Michigan, says that
the war was fought over again
during the campaign. SO high
was the old war feeling that be
was attacked for wearing IA suit of
gray clothing.
AT Sardinia, in the calm and
peaceful State of Ohio, Mrs. An
nie Jester aud her grown daugh-
ter were taken from their home
on Thanksgiving night by band
of White Caps aud brutally whip.
ped. We occasionally shoot man
ON our side Of the river, but we
never whip our women.
TIE Democratic Eiect0r fol
whom the highest number of votes
WAS cast in Kentucky was John
w. LOckett, of the Second dis
trict, who received lS3,S00. L. II. !
Roberts. Republican candidate for
Elector in the same district, re- 1
oeived 155,13i, thus making the
exact Democratic majority for the 7.
Presidential ticket 2S,G66.
GEN. HARRISON in answer to a |
Southern editor on his policy to. /
ward the South uses the following |
encouraging language: "When /
the surprise and the disappont. /
ment which some of your people I
have felt over the result have I
passed away. and they give some
calm thought to the situation, | |
think they will be as mach sur.
pfised as | aul that they should, /
III thought or speech. impnte to /
ne uniriehdliness toward the |
South
PRESIDENT ELECT HARRISON
says he has big ears and very
little month-in other words. he
is listening while others are talk.
ing. He says, further, that he is
looking about him carefully. aud /
does not propose to offer, promise
or appoint any man to Office for
some time to come, and will not |
follow the course OF some Presi- /
dents, who have gwen away in al. /
vance more offices than were al 4
their actual disposal. These are
sad words for the hungry brigade. |
THERE has been considerable |
excitement near Smithland, Ky, |
over the discovery of what is said /
10 he VEN Of silver ore. While
boring for natural gas on a farm
the drill struck the supposed ore
at a depth Of between $50 aud 800
feet. State Senator Kendall, who
Is one of the stockholders in the 4
enterprise, has taken specimens
of the ore for analysis. The ex.
is,ence Of silver IN Livingston
county has been claimed for half
n century, and several mines have
been worked on the Cumberland
river, but the ore was not rich
enough TO he profitable. lis said.
however, that the specimens re. q
emily taken ont Indicate a profit. 5
bio vein. 4