The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1893-09-08
THE Sherman bill is doomed.

THE Sherman bill ia doomed.
THE Democratic Congress is
now preparing the Tariff Reform
bill.
THR Charleston, s c., cyclone
canght the insurance c0mpanies
for 81 ,OOO,O last week.
FIX SENATOR INGALLS,, Of Kan.
sss. will bs u candidate for Gov.
ernOr next year as q stepping
atone to his old Senatorial posi-.
ton IN 1897.
ESQ. DICK WRIGHT, Of the
Wingo neighborhood, Graves
county, is to be the Third Party
Candidate for state Senator
against X. 7. Tyler. This Wright
is wrong this time, and is doomed
to defeat.
THERE will be no strike on
the l.. & n. At the Conference
Saturday the employers agreed
to accept the ten per cent. cut for
ninety days, at the end of that
time another Conference to he
held. IL business justifies il the
road agrees to restore the old wa.
ges after Dec. |.
The people Of the State, says
the HopkiDsville New Era, would
sc. far more return for the money
expended in keeping the nvic, 9
If they we're put to work on the
public highways than they will
from the proposed plans OF max.
ing chairs within the penitentiary
walls. BY working them on the
public roads they would no. be
brought into competition with
honest labor. IL this plan was
adopted Kentucky could in a few
years, haveas good roads as any
State 10 the Union.
TIE State of North Carolina
has for many years been paying a
pension 10 its disabled Confed-
crate soldiers. The amount in
each case is small. compared to
that drawn by Federal soldiers
from the general Government for
similar disabilities, but still Ii is
q source Of relief In very many
cases. The State Auditor says
that the pension fund this year
will be u little over 800 600.
There is a Soldiers Home. at
Raleigh, supported partly by pub.
lie subscriptions, where q number
of totally disabled Confederate
veterans are cared for.
The race Of settlers into the
Cherokee country on Saturday,
Sept, IL, at high noon, promises
TO be more novel and exciting
than the famous Oklahoma vas. !
ion i've years ago. At that time .
the army Of homes,eaders was
mounted altogether on horse back
each man carrying y rifle and one
or two revOlvers, but in the ap.
preaching Cherokee charge
number of invaders will be mount.
ed on bicycles, aud will carry their
rifles swung across their shout.
ders, with lunch baskets pendant
beneath, after the style Of cart.
ridge boxes. The cicyclists claim
that they will stand good show
in the race.
SPEAKER CRISP conclusively
demonstrated that he 10 able to
cope with Tom Reed In debate.
His speech Tuesday 10 answer to
the criticism Of the gentleman
from Maine was q master piece.
lie literally wiped M the earth
with his opponent and the argu.
ments were so crushing that Reed
could not come back at all, but /
had to whine about the Speaker
leaving his chair to take part Ia
debate on the floor. Mr. Crisp has
done by his speech what no other
Democrat has been equal to,
whipped Tom Reed, and even
those Democrats who two years
ago did everything to belittls him
are forced to applaud HE great
effort aud acknowledge bun a
leader.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Lex.
ingtOn Transcript has been hunt.
ing up the kentuckians who are
now ia Congress, and gives the fol.
10 wing az the result or his resear.
ches. The Vice President, five
Senators and nine Representatives
from other States and Terrific.
ries are native Kentuckians. The
Senators are Call, OF Florida; Cul.
len and Palmer, Of Illinois; Vest,
of Missouri, aud Mills, Of Texas.
The Representatives are Breckin.
ridge, of Arkansas; Black, Of Geor.
gia: Hatch, Bland aud Clark, of
Missouri; Jackson, OF Ohio: Nc.
Millen OF Tennessee; Cooper Of
Texas, aud Smith. of Arizona. or
this number one Senator, Palmer,
Of Illinois, aud Representative
Black. Hatch and Johnson were
born In Scott county, this being
The only county in the State that |
has more than one member
from other States. OF Kentucky's
delegation every member. except |
Senator Lindsay, Ia y native Of the |
State. OF the native Kentucky |
members Of the present Congress |
VI are Democrats, except Sen.
TOR CniIom, Of Illinois, and Sllas
) dams of this State,