The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-04-06
CURRENT TOPICS.

America has seventeen oleomargar-
Inc factories.
A 100000 cotton mill is to be built
at Madison, Ga.
New York has cooperative cigar
cite makers union.
Plans are in progress for an expo
sition at Charleston, 5. c.
free medical dispensary has been
opened in Chinatown. San Francisco.
Capital invested in farming in this
country is estimated at Sl6,OOO,oOo,0oO.
The Virginia Coal, Iron & Coke Co.
will soon put two more furnaces in
blast.
Ii is estimated that 1000 marriages
are daily performed throughout the
world.
Queen Victoria has had a handsome
automobile regularly attached TO her
stables.
A combination of the lime manufac
turers of the south is on the point of
completion.
Mineral production in the United
States this year will reach a value of
nearly Sl.0cO.OOO.OOO.
Contracts have been let for.thc con.
struction OF n Sl25,0OO cotton factory
at Kosciusko. Miss.
Austria-Hungary has declined "a
mediate between Great Britain aud
the South African republics.
~ a In.
dies cost the government $4,000 &
year more than their revenue.
The Beers are said to consider the
appointment of Lord Roberts greet
compliment 10 the Transvaal.
The cotton acreage of Central Ar
kansas will be decreased this season
on account of the scarcity Of labor.
Montana is said to have mined sac.
100000 worth OF copper last year.
This breaks the gold or silver record
of any state in the union.
Gov. Rollins. of New Hampshire. is
something of a mountain-climber.a and
there is no difficult peak in his state
which he has not assembled.
Meat is very dear in Havana 10 the
retail buyer. The price for beef is
about thirty-fve cents a pound, and
il is very poor beef at that
II the conductor of street car iu
Hamburg carries even one passen-
ger for whom there is no seat he is
subject to a fine of 60 cents.
Mrs. Grant. the widow Of the gen.
eral. leads very busy life. and is al
present collecting for publication Q
number of her husbands letters.
1t is estimated that the Hwangho
river of China caused loss Of he
tween 30.OOO.O0O and 4o,00O,0o0 lives
by drowning between 1851 and 1856
1t is likely that the million dollar
worth of bonds 10 be sold for the
erection of the new Mississippi state
house will all he teken N that state
The bonds will bear 4 PER cent. inter
est and are not taxable
The new Carnegie company. result
ing from the settlement of the diff
ferences between Andrew Carnegie
and Henry c. Frick, has been incor
porated. The capital stock is $780,.
900, 600. and has all been subscribed.
One of the houses i'm which Dante
Is asserted 10 have written the I'm
Terno" has Just been sold at MulazzC
In the mountains near Spezzia. The
town belonged to the Marquises Ma
laspina, who protected the poet IN
one stage of his wanderings.
In San Francisco the board OF health
has created the position of assistant
city physician, with a salary of St0'
month. and put il in the hands oi
DIR. Beatrice Hinkle. Her duties viii
be the care of sick women and chill
dren in the public institutions.
The German reichstag has just voted
an appropriation of $4,000 marks e
the government for experiments
In the cmL oyment of automobiles IL
the army. IL is highly possible that
in a short time the system will b,
tried for moving heavy pieces of ar
tillery.
Col. Hodges, of Perry county, Geor
,,ia. says the peach crop is all right
The Elbertas and one OF two Other
varieties were udndStu SlBntly' W
the recent freeze, but the damag'
done 10 the peeches is hardly enough
to relieve the trees of the iInmens,
amount of peaches they would have
President Kruger is almost n tota
abstaiuer. and at banquets where
wine is drunk he always has a glass OF
milk before him, with which he pledg
es the toast.
The Erie canal. in addition TO pay
ing cost Of construction. maintenance,
and operation, has paid over 100000,
900 Of freight money within the lin
its of the state.
There is a Negro in the city OF Al
bany, n. Y, who claims TO be eligible
20 the society of the Sons of the Rev
olution. He is professor Charles M
Van Buren,. and is . descendant Of
CrisIus Atineks.