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| WH~1 w uAb 10 t1C tal0s
of the sickl conventionalities of life
the big house, the well calved footman
the stately carriage, the frequent dinner
party, the aristocratic society-contrast-
ed with Dora and the joys of her COM
pany. 1t is all Dora. The world might
be the moon for the matter of that, SO
little would he envy its treasures when
he has Dora. And then Dora's child
ishnessl how sweet to have oysters serv-
ed in the shell unopened; how droll and
how delicious to hear that she has order
ed large joint of roast beef for the two
of them to dine on, when, so great is
| their love for each other and so small is
their appetite, an exaggerated lark or
sparrow would have done as we'll. He
would feign to be angry with her for the
sake of seeing her cry. There is such a
sense of babyhood, of dependence, of
love, of delicious and easily extinguish-
ed misery suggested by Dora's tearsl
Yes, our friend will do great things when
he is married; lead life of perpetual
love; find his Dora ever seated at his
feet, ever anon turning her big, sweet
eyes from the stocking that she is mend
ing to his own manly and radiant face.
But six weeks after? Let him be on
a limited income; which means fifteen,
twenty, or even thirty dollars week.
He would be glad to have his pictured
luxuries, but he can't afford them. His
Dora knows nothing of housekeeping;
and he finds her ignorance costing nuch
more than he can make. She cries little
too often, and he derives no rapture from
her tears. There is no taking work and
sitting at his feet. His wife grows ca
PRECIOUS. One day she wants this; and
another day she wants that. He refuses
and In his heart wishes her at the devil,
or some other place for the. ssme being:
press-3lis desire aIo1d, Dora 6ursts into
tears, stamps her feet, declares that she
will die, that his conduct is brutal, that
he hates her and her family, and that she
would not hear one word against them.
Then the husband goes to business leav-
ing his wife in tears, and himself hurt
and angry; for he now knows this wife
of his, who promised so often to love and
sacrifice the whole world for him, would
quarrel at whim. Her relations ad-
wise her not to allow herself to be tramp
led upon; that it is in the nature of all
men to be tyrants; and preachers her a
sermon on the way of teaching her hus-
band to treat her with more respect than
if she was dog. OF course, when the
husband comes home, he grows angry al
his reception, and so on through life
time. This is after marriage.-SunddJ
Times.
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! would not be unpleasant tcy@RsJDut u
necessity is imperative. Her death ii
sudden and mysterious. Smooth anG
fair as all things look, they must be in
vestigated. Healthy people can not re-
tire well and happy, and wake up in the
other world without cause. 1t is the
duty of these examinations to find thai
cause"
Arthur shuddered again.
Il do not like to think of it. | do not
consent or approve Of it. But l will put
no obstacle in your way"
Further than that, l shall list up
on your presence"
Arthur looked up horrifed. In mo-
ment, when he met the doctors glance,
he comprehended that there were sus-
picions of foul play in his mind, and that
they pointed to him. So he sank back
in his chair, and said, coldly, Very
well, sir" and the doctor went out. He
came back with another physician. Ar
thur went up stairs with them. The
door was closed and locked, and the work
began.
Arthur put his arm under the cold
head, and turned his face away as the
white chest was barred and opened then,
in n second, he looked back, caught a
glimpse of the uncovered heart, beating
slowly and feebly, yet unmistakably-
looked down at the face, to meet the eyes
of his lost love wide open, and fixed on
him, while her face was convulsed with
look of more than mortal agony. Then
he looked at the pale~AaEi6ed faces of
the two physicians. .bN9bgeking, "She
was living, and yar ~. gdrdered> >herl'
fell heavily 70. .x 81
the stove outsl = 5$SnSdoor, as she
supposed, had eSsa'fhe door of a
little dining rooIE where the doctors
found it on looking .asieE semething to
their iabors with the knife. The fumes
of the burning charcoal, instead of kill
ing her, had only thrown her into a
trance, owing to the lateness of the hoar
of retiring; aud though to all appear
ances dead, she would, probably, have
awakened in the course of few hours.
The mistake of the over-suspicious
physician, so fatal TO those two noble
Young lives, was hushed up by the par
ties, and the victim of science was laid
in her untimely grave without any sus-
picion of the real cause of her death.
Arthur Rice was taken up insensible
from the floor, and for many months
lowered between life and death. he
rose from his bed, shattered in constitu-
ton, broken in heart, and hopeless in
mind. Through all his life, the recol-
lection of the tragic fate of the woman
be had loved, chung to him, an uhmen-
toned horror. With the unreasonins
ferceness of broken intellect, he hated
the two unfortunate physicians, whose re-
grets at their sad mistake were lifelong
With Mary Brace, the best part ol
Arthur Rice's life died out, and the bril-
liant destiny once open to his eirdeayors
was unsought-the brilliant hopes OF his
numerous friends never fulfilled
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threatening Letters.

The Cincinnati Commercial publishes
the following letters as having been re-
ceived by its correspondent from Gen.
Forrest, to whom they were addressed.
They were handed over as specimens Of
many of like character, and the Com
mercial suggests as the inference that
there are Northern Ku-Kluxs:"
CHICAGO August 26, 1868
General Forrest leak out for you and
all the smart men in the south are goin
to be pisoned
Just before the election for i heard a
man say he works in drugstore say
that every preacher all over the south
has got lots of pison and are going for to
give it to the colored folks for to pison
all the rich and smart southern men just
before the election.
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~ mere on Monday next. Two of
the three Judges having resigned, viz:
Messrs. Milligan and Harrison, Judge
Smith, of the Western Division, alone
remains to constitute the court. The
Governor claims the right, under the
laws and the amended Constitution, to
appoint special Judge in case of death
or resignation, and in pursuance of this
right and authority he has appointed the
Hon. Horace Maynard to assist in hold
ing the Court here for the month of Sep
tember and October. .&4Ehe rebel papers
are manifesting quite deep concern for
the holding Of the courts by qualified
men. When we can no longer find men
of integrity and ability in our own ranks
to appoint to these high judicial posi-
tions, we will call upon the rebels to
furnish substitutes. Judges of the Su-
preme Court should be able, impartial,
aed patriotic men, rising above mere par
ty politics in their decisions, but they
should be men who viii stand by the
State Government and sustain the late
important decisions of their predecessors.
And when we appoint a man to seat
on the Supreme Bench we must under
stand him to fill this bill.
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After Marriage.

We remember many years ago witness
ing play in which Henry Placide took
a part, and being very much impressed
with the fine old comedians emphatic
delivery of "Six weeks before / married
my wife, sir, 1 could have eaten her; six
weeks after / was sorry | didn't" We
take this to be about as true and typical
a Joke as was ever perpetrated on or of
the stage. We should say there are on
an average about ten men out of every
hundred to whom experience has not in;
parted the capacity to thoroughly en-
into and appreciate Iaordi7
significance of Ass
ten are happy,
enough to possess The < -
nubial craving suggestsSBby Placidz
lament. Some may object to this nur1
ber as being too liberal; and really Il
one were to deduct ten from every hun
dred men, there would be left larger
number of contented married men thar
the world could possibly show. So We
split the difference and call the number
Of happy men, in every hundred married
men, five.
The time between the first falling il
love with girl aud the marrying her i
not an Elyseum on earth to man, al
though Tom More, with the inconsisten
enthusiasm of a poetic thinker, calls it
"A ioy beyond all that the minstrel has told
Still. if it has its unpleasantness, 1t ha
also its pleasures. A man may live
hundred years without ever experiencin!
such a moment of delight as when, will
his arm encircling Serephina's waist
she timidly answers in reply to his equal,
timid question, whether she will MARI,
him. ssYes.n Of course we all kno,
that there are some men who propos
| without the least intention of being ac
cepted, and who, if they are accepted
leave the country. But thisis tribe wit
j which we have nothing to do Nor ca
they be properly be said to enter into
consideration of love making in its pur
est and most emotional form. There ar
some very happy hours passed during a
engagement and some very unhappy hour
too. But you would not have the law
compensation to suspend its operation
merely because you happen to be en-
gagedl A man when he is in love gen
orally feels very poetical. There are mo
ments when he is sensible of the capaci
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THERE are few people who have not
been occasionally puzzled whether to
write ei or ie in the words that so repre-
sent the sound of longe. A very simple
rule, says sehoolNzeter, removes all
difficulty. When the dipthong follows
C, it is always ei-ceiling, conceive, ETC.;
when it follows any other letter it is al
ways ie-grief, friend, niece, etc.
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THE TAX ON a PECK OF Conn
MEAL.-The Gallipolis (Ohio) Dispatch
in answer to the cbaSge that, because a
man is poor he can not be taxed, thus
shows how even peck of meal, pur-
chased by poor man to aid in feeding
his family of little children, is taxed to
aid in paying the interest on the untax-
ed bonds. Says the Dispatch The
corn from which that peck of meal was
made was raised on taxed land, plowed
by taxed plow, drawn by taxed horses,
S6nhed with taxed gear. It was hoed
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es. Until recently " * sdrope the
flowing tresses of the poorer classes were
laid under tribute to adorn and beautify
their wealthy sisters. Many a poor girl
sold her growing glory to buy meal.
This source of supply seems to be ex-
hausted, however, and dealers in human
hair have resorted to more doubtful
means to meet the demand. In the hos
pitals of Europe the hair of corpses is
cut off and sold to the dealer who retails
it at home or exports it to this country
for the benefit of our bellies.
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Cows that hold up milk, Mr.. John
son says, can be cured if they will drink
sour milk. After drinking, and as they
begin to lick the pail, they will give
down the milk freely. He has tried il
with cows that would give about two
thirds the proper quantity, retaining tho
other portion. Then he gives them the
milk to drink, and waits until they begin
to lick the pail when he has no trouble in
obtaining the remainder.-Nea1 Yorh
Tribune.
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A VEGETABLE PHENoHENoN.-In
the garden ofsCapt. David Z. Moore,
Lexington, Va.,r there is growing on a
grape vine fully developed apple. On
one side of the apple is an appearance
of what might have been grape bloom.
The interesting lusus natura is, SO far
as we know, without precedent, and of
course it has attracted marked attention
and caused no little speculation in the
circle learned in such matters about
Lexington, whose community, says the
Richmond Whig, compares advantage
ously with any other in the SnznaEhs
prevailing opinion is thatan q
falling accidentally upon gra
became incorporated with it
'duced the result-but, if so
singular that such an accident Bdd
Heceiirred befarp2 And If so doeSB1f
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ate, cut with taxed knife, and
lastly, eaten by pretty heavily taxed
man.
If it were not for the taxes you could
buy bushel of meal for what that peck
cost you. Besides, it is not on that
alone that you are taxed, but on every
thing you have to buy. A pound of su-
gar costs only threel or four cents, but
you have to pay forty, and if it costs you
three hundred dollaSaA year to support
your family you may safely say one-half
of this is tax. Now, is it any wonder
that times are hard and that you find it
difficult to live?
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NEVER chase your hat when it blows
off in gale of wind; just stand still and
you will presently see half dozen peo-
pie in pursuit of it. When one has cap
tured it walk leisurely toward him, re-
ceive it with grateful acknowledgement,
and place it on your head. He will in
variably act as if you had done him ia
Yor. Try it.
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JEROME

1CHfCAGO August 20.
General, Two years ago was in Jail
in cincinnati and l got acquainted with
a very hanson young white girl 18 years
old and / paid IL dollars and a half.
for that was the finde that she was inde.
me and her has ben liveing together ever
cince IN chicago but yesterday she went
of with 2 preachers went to the house
WHARF she had gone and she and the two
prechers and the lfiys, ladys and 6
prechers said she was going south to tech
school and she got RELIGION and was not
goin to live girl life any more.
And when knew that she was going
for to leave me wanted her to give me
back the goald watch and chain and all
the things that gave her. she would
not give them up so broke open the
trunk. it was fild chockful of pison, and
i am shoure by what i hear WHISPERED
among the colard folks that plenty pisor
is sent south to all the school teacher:
and prechers to give the colard folks SC
that they can murder all the southern
white folks Gen Forrest know il to b
so. Tare or burn this up when you
read it.
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e1ed, as it is much colder in the
mountains farther west.
The Red Skins are rather scarce about
here. l saw about four hundred of the
Sneeness crossing North Plat River
They we're having war dance, and were
painted like Jacobs cattle, "ring, streak
ed and striped" and as for noise and
ugliness Pandora could not come up to
them. They were on the war path to
meet the Cheyennes. 1t is true they COM
NIT some depredations, but not half as
many as represented in the newspapers.
In fact the white Indians are worse than
the Red Skins as many murders and
robberies are committed and layed to the
them when there is not one within one
hundred miles of the place. They scalp
their victims to make it look like the In
dians had done it. They caught four of
these fellows and their scalps are dang
ling on telegraph pole, suspended by a
small piece of him.
The Railroad will be completed to
Green River this fall. This is about
nine hundred miles west Omaha, where
it will stop for the winter.
The Mormons are emigrating in large
bodies to the land of promise. l saw
about two thousand land here at one
time, all singing " l am bound for the
land of Canaan" While some of Brig
hams prophets eyes we're gazing with
admiration on the Ian Ms of the flock, and
contemplating the fiS time they would
have sporting On the "sweet fields OF
Eden, on Salt Lake Shore, they imme-
diately embarked for their home. Old
Brigham sent 375 sx-wagons five hun
4 miles to msat the sainted ones.
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SCENE in a printing Office, which ad-
vertised for girls to set type. Enter
young woman-aDo you want to employ
any one to print, sir? I saw your ad-
vertisement." s'Can you set up well,
ma'am?" Young lady bushes, says she
hasn't had beau yet, but expects that
she could if necessary.
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! Bible Terms.

was DOG AiuOo.
Sabbath days journey was about an
English mile.
Ezekiel's reed was IL feet nearly.
A cubit is % inches nearly.
A hands breadth is equal to three and
fye-eights inches. n
A fingers breadth is equal to one
inch.
A shekel of silver was about so cents
A shekel of gold was about So 90.
A talent of silver was S516 32.
A talent of gold wat S13, 800.
A piece of silver or penny was thir-
teen cents.
A farthing was three cents.
A gerah was one cent.
A mite was one and half cents.
A homer contains rs gallons and five
pints.
A nepha or bath contains seven gal
Ions and five pints.
A bin was one gallon and two pints.
A frkin was seven pints.
A cab was three pints.
A dog was one pint.
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"T say, Bill, Jim's got took up for
stealing a horse" Sarved him right,
why didn't he buy one, and not pay for
like any other gentleman"
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The BANKRUPT LAw.-At the last
session of Congress, an act amendatory
to the general bankrupt law was pass
ed, extending all the provisions of the
law to January 1, 1869.
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There are forty-five thousand white
men, legal voters in Missouri, disfran-
chised through Radical laws and infa-
nous test oaths. Even General Blair
|kas.fpund himself unable to vote under
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NO. 40.

ty of being able to produce very tole-
rable epic poem. Incipient love, indeed,
has habit of lisping in numbers, as you
can see any day by tGrning to the re-
cords of divorce cases, or by glancing
over the letters read in cases of breaches
of promise. 1t is this kind of inspira-
ton that makes an engaged man so
hopeful.
The poetic temperament is generally
sanguine. A lover builds up the most
singular hopes in tle future, He bright
ems the horizon of his life with the rosy
lines of the future into which he is about
to enter. He cannot conceive such an
emotion as disappointment. He pictures
to himself his "little wife e"-big or small
a woman in the eyes of the man she is
going to marry is always 'little"-tak-
ing her work and sitting at his feet whilst
he reads or writes, or smokes, or chats
with her. There is present to his
- II
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A BACHELOR sea Captain, who was re-
marking one day that he wanted good
chief officer, was promptly informed by
GERung lady present hat she had no
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AN Ohio editor asks: "What can be
more captivating than to see beautiful
woman, say about four feet eleven inchsII
high, eleven feet four inches in diapc51| n
and thirty-four fessaf1sssizcun:s
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Notices Of the above.character will be in
serted free of charge. Obituaries and trib-
utes of respect inserted at 81 90 per square.
s6s- Advertisements IN Local Column II
for four lines or less and 20 cents for each
additional line.
sR- Voluntary communications, contain
ing interesting news, solicited from any
quarter. News letters from western hen-
Iucky and Tennessee especially desired.
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31press; Oval q Z Co, Agsss.
"a. Bartoldus Eharles Oswald.
Marble Works.
caRamage.
FIGURING Mills.
robinson, S,
j. 81. Davis.
Insurance Agent.
Samuel Landrum.
Livery Stable.
VIM. B. Plummer.
Matchmaker and Jetcelry.
John D. Walker, A. Plaut.
Boot anG Shoe Shop.
George Wehman, Casper Sohm & Co.,
Julius Frenz.
Hotels.
Planters Hotel, by Parks & Co., on
Clinton street; City Hotel, by Mrs. N
Dillon.
NASHVILLE DLRECTORY
Ewing & Co., wholesale grocers and
commission merchants; Paul, Tavel 4
Haner, booksellers, stationers, bookbind.
ders, and job printers; FL. A. Huntington
dealer in fine custom made clothing and
gentlemen's furnishing goods. Hotels
st. Cloud, Stacey House, Mansion House
Nicholson House.
MEMPHIS DIRE TORY
Jones Bros, Cartmell & Drury, cotton
factors and commission merchants.
EVANSVILLE.
Gardner, Noel & Co., forwarding and
commission.
City Oflcers.
Adyor.-Sam'l. Landrum.
City .ndge.-J. II, Davis.
Cie-E-J. HI. Morehead.
MarshaI.-Pat Cunningham.
County Omcers.
County Jadge.-B. II. Walker.
Connfy Aftorney.-H. A. Tyler.
Circuit Court Clerk-J ohm g. Gard
ner; Tapp. Bynum, Deputy.
Coanty Court Cterk.--Jno. A. Wilson
iSheriF.-R. Z. Millet; Office in w
r. Walkers drug store.
Deputy Sheriff.. s. Chapman.
Csroaer.-Thad. w. Thomas.
.Jailor.-G. w. Stubblefeld.
Observation-Disclosures No. I, Z. G
Kimbro, Jacob Bushart. Constable
George Morris. District No. 2, Owel
Miles, and Alfred Naylor. Constable
VIM. II. Roper. District No. 8. ]. W
Mays and John Boyer. Constable
George M. Wilbourn. District No. 4
j. N. Hawkins and r. Cross. Con
stable--L. Everett.
Coaaty Assessor.--Wm. Hubbard.
US. Assessor.-T. G. Buck.
u. S. Reu. Collector-H. G. Catleti
Judgcs.-Court of Common Pleas
Ed Grossland. . Circuit Court-E.
Bullock. 80
Consmonpealth's Attorney. Tice.
Register in Baakruptcy.-Charles
Marshal.
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Hickman Directory.

Aaorneys at Laso.
Il. o. Goalder, Randle & Tyler, A.
d. Kingman, B. r. Walker, John A
LauderdaIe, John W. Cowgirl, T. b.
Logan, Oscar Turner, J. G.. Smith, Troy,
Tenn.
Physicians.
Drs. Gourley & Corbett, Carter Blan-
ton, II. c. Catlett, A. A. Faris.
Dry Goods.
=. Amberg, VIM. B. Benny, Wolf &
Plaut, j. II. Davis, j. S. Hubbard.
DrR Stores.
G. A. Holcombe, w. r. Walker.
Wholesale Grocers.
Millet & Roulhac, V. A. McCutchen,
II. c. Bailey, G. Ledwidge.
Saloons.
John Heinze, john Whiting, John
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THE BANKRUPT LAW EXTENDED
nce for the Unfortunate.

.rce for the Unfortunate.
AIT Of the Bankrupt Act has
said exxded to FIRST OF JANUARY,
are 1fe prcngish 70 avail themselves Of
sa1s DO. had better call at once.
<Se1 as r. Hith all the necessary
enise . dischargs as
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For the Hickman Courier.
FROM DAKOTA TERRITORY.
LAURIE, Dakota, 1868.

LAURIE, Dakota, 1905
Mr.. EDITOR When left Kentucky
| thought l would go to the paradise of
the world, Omaha, but ike many others,
l was mistaken. This is a country of
storms, wind, hail. and rain, and as for
thunder, it can beat the world. This
city (Laurie) is surrounded by the Black
Hills, the first range of the Rocky Noun
tains, three hundred and fifty miles west
of Omaha, on the Union and Pacific
railroad. On the summit of these dark
and frowning mountains snow is always
visible, and the trees are small pines,
which the land spectators call timber. y
Indeed, there is more timber on one acre
of Kentucky botts land than you can
see for three bundled miles out here !;
and, as for the land, 1 believe it would
be impossible to raise any thing on it but
prarier dogs and Indians. The plains
Eve but poor supply of grass. Some
nSsskS that cattle can live on
nv opinion, the cat