The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-01-28

alty IOllOWed, out the promise " Ahe iot-
ter is never fulfilled. Newspaper resders
may wonder at us fliDg our coiomus
With the expIsnstion OF 20 barsfsccd
hunbug; but they will better understand
our object when we tell them that these
packages are received at the eKprese
once 10 this city almost every day 10 the
week. and sometime taken out BY parties
whom We might expect to be in more
honorable business. l.a -
OF those who have received packages
of this kind we will name one X Bibee.
Columbus. KY, who paid about si6 foe
his experience; aud james q. Smith.
Milburu. Ky, who made az sss OF him
self TO the amount of S94, or over. Also
VIM. Wsldrop aud T. p. Eggner have
packages in the once awaiting delivery.
II is possible they will llresd this paper
in time 70 save their money, and 1t is 20
be hoped they will continue to read the
Dispatch until they become honest nen
and learn to avoid al similar swindles.
We might give the names Of several
other parties who have been bit in this
swindle, but the above will sufhce for
our present purpose. .L.-
A man who can be swindled by SO dis-
honest proposition. is every bit As bad
ss the swindier, and d-n sight bigger
fool fnH
Occasionally one Of these pSlSages is
misdirected, as was the case WIN one .
lew days ago addressed to w. II Wood
lev. Columbus, KY" The ouIy person
of that name in this vicinity Is lady
who. up to the time of the arrival OF the
package, knew nothing of the pretended
contents of the box. 1t Was taken pos
session Of by deputy U. s. Marshal Ben.
Price. and found to contain o block Of
wood aud waste paper as in the case OF
the balance.
Is gotten up 10 the following msnser /:
Ma s."
FARMERS UNION MARKET oRGAE1gATIos
Certificate Of Membership.
This certificate entities the bearer to
one complete -- Sewing Machiue, to
gether with one free pass on the ---
Railroad. on every 18th day Of each
month to st Louie and return. Enti-
tied to choice Of st. Louis Daily Paper
for 20 years.
~ J. r HOWELL, T. -sident.
- -----i Agent" ft1
Certificates of this character are being
sold TO ignorsnt persons at any price
that can be obtained for them--usualiy
from SIS to S25 The bIsuks are 6lled
out BY the agent" selling them One
now before Us was soldto an old lady in
the country for IS and is signed in pen
ell, u. Nealey, agent. ssar.
1t is useless for us to inform our read
ers that old lady didn't get the msehiHs.
and that the certificate" Was worth less
than so much blank paper. sea
PA No. 3. ro
Under this head We may include ell
that cIsss of shows that promise ''vslus
BILE gifts" as q catch to induce simpletora
to attend their worthless exhibitiets.f
Shows making offers Of this kind srs Let
always demorsliEing. but are never worth
the time and trouble taken in going to
see them. n1 e m ~
tte !. No. L. a.s
includes a class of travelling shsrpers
who propose TO get up some new Kind OF
double back action self adjusting direct
ory. gazetteer. iliuminsted business chart,
or some other advertising dodge. They
seldom furnish the articles promised, and
when. they. do, they are not worth as
much a. an ordinary poster would be,
and which could be Furnished in qusnti
TICS, by any local printer a. half cent
a piece or less. Ii is strange that some
merchants Who never invested cent in
their lives with their local paper, 10 hon
esf, sensible sdyertisinR- viii allow esch
Of these sharpers to rheedle them out
of s5 or $40 for which they get nothing.
No 8.
In this class we may mention those
abbreviated school teachers who teach
..short methods Of arithmetic," "short-
hand in an hour "Grsmmar 10 Ave les
sous. =" ~French in one week. &c. &c.
They generally -tesch" some ample
rules that any country pedaisogue ought
to understand Within the past year we
have come across several Of those short
methodists." who could not spell the
commonest words 10 the langusfe, nor
write sentence Of dosen words cor
recsly. to save their souls from perdition.
Bat the list grows long and tedious, 60
we drop the subject for the present, with
the intention Of reverting to Il again 1t
40 early day. We will then eudeavo. to
give our readers =. few practical sugees-
tions on show to avoid being sold for
your greenness."
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