The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1890-05-02
starry PARAGRAPE;.

Mr.. CARLISLE thinks Copgsss
will not adjourn before Angus
SHERMAN wants to see Reds
tactics introduced in the Aats'
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The Clayton. Breckenridge com.
mittee is still in session at Little
Rock.
The cotton men are protesting
strongly against the Butterworth
bill now in Congress.
A SETTLEMENT Of the Chicago
carpenters strike, the men to
resume work to-day, is reported.
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KEMMLER, the murderer, has
been temporarily saved from cleo
trocution by Federal Court
habeas corpus writ.
NINETEEN hundred bills have
been introduced in the Kentucky
legislature since it begaAits SEES
sion OH January LIST.
The st. Louis Republic counts
ninety advertisements OF sheriff's
sales On most of which mortgage
companies are plaintiffs in a sin.
gle issue of county paper in
Kansas.
Two hundred colored property
owners of the Mississippi Valley,
representing Sl0,0OO,O0O of prop
erty, has petitioned Congress for
aid in building levees on the Mis-
sissippi River.
THOSE of Kentucky's delegation
who voted against apprOpriating
any money for the support of the
Civil Service Commission were
Messrs. Stone, Goodnight Nc.
Creary and Wilson.
s~s
TIE Christian eoan,y Demo.
Gratis claim that the registration
law recently passed by the Legis.
lature will enable them Ia carry
that county in the future.i They
cay that large Numbers oftllepal
negro voters are cast fhefke ever, very
year, and now that can b pre-
vented.
In his speech before the Old
Hickory Club at Little Ross, Mr..
Watterson predicted thaaCIeve-
land would be the next nominee
of the Democratic party, and that
Gov. Hill would place him in Oom.
ination. We see no reason what.
ever why Gov. Hill should be &C.
corded this distinction.
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The South is just now opening
up her vast resources of God Civ
en- wealth to the intelligence and
the enterprise of the world. The
curse of slavery has been wiped
away, and the clouds of factiOnal
hatred have disappeared, leaving
the sweet and the beautiful land
in all her native glory the wonder
OF the world and the admiration
of mankind.
THE squabbling which has be-
gun between the newspapers Of
England aud those of Germany
on the African colonization Ques.
ton indicates that the dark con.
tinent at the opening of the 'wcu.
tieth century may he the sec8e Of
as bloody strife among the nations
of Europe as the Western hemis.
phere was IN the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries.
THERE is a bill now before Con.
gress for the establishment Of an
Insurance Bureau for the protec-
ton Of public interests Ia the Dis
trict of Columbia. Hon. A. Il.
Savage, Supreme Dictator Of the
knights of Honor, thinks the bill
is aimed at the Knights of Honor
aud similar organizations aud he
writes the Hon. Asher CHruih To
oppose the passage OF the Iill.
THE wise men of Europe are
trying to make up their minds
whether the impending war will
break out next year or the year
after. II all parties are ready
perhaps this year would do as
well. 1t would relieve the agoniz.
ing suspense to precipitate the
conflict aud the public would BIO
spared months of worry at the
hands of the political prophets.
THEIR defeat in Rhode Island
puts the Republicans Ia a puzzle.
corner. They can't say it was
caused by the ballot, for that
would be confessing that they
have held the State by means of
corrupt elections. The can't say
it was the tariff, for q b would
lmpeach their high yotectiOn
theory. Aud OF course they will
not own that it was the unpopu.
larity of the administration.
The venerable and persistent
Capt. Cowden is before Congfess
again with his plan for relieving
the Mississippi OF Hood waters by
an outlet through Lake BOrgne
and nj other points. The Cincin'
natl Commercial Gazette, has long
been a convert to and adj focate
of Capt Cowden's theories, but
the engineers are unanimonsly
against him. Capt. COwden main
tains that the levees raise the bot
tom of the river, but the e1gineers
deny II, and contend that kars are
always formed below outl4s.
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