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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14
For the Hickman Courie
Debating Societies,

What is the matter with our energetic
young men? A few years ago we could
have debating society kept up just as
loug as we wished to attend, but it seems
that something has gone wrong, for if
there is a good society of the kind 10
the county l don't know where it is ;
if 1 did certainly would be found hunt
ing the way to it some time, for do
think that young men can gain more
good information in that way than almost
any other. l see that some of the young
men about Hickman are ia favor of an
organization of this kind while others
think it would be of no use-that moth
iog but religious organization of some
sort will do. [ think this is one of their
old fogy notions aud hope they will soon
come out OF it. Don't understand me
to speak disrespectfulIy of any kind of
religious societies, but | think that the
youths around Hickman or any where
else, would soon see the great benefits
arise from meeting about one night in
every week and debating good questions,
reading essays, &c. Let US all try it
awhile and see. From friend to
LITERARY SOCIETIES.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14
The Destruction of ChicagO.

The Destruction of Chicago
The great city of Chicago is now |
smoulderiDg heap of ruins. This 'tgar
den city" of the West has been visited
| By one of the most destructive confagra
tons known in the history of the world
The stately business palaces, togethel
with the abodes of wealth and luxury
az we'll as the hords of the poor, have
been wrapped in one fame of ruin
Three ffhs of the entire city is destroy
ed, and the loss in property is estimated
at one hundred and fifty millions, to say
nothing of he loss of life, business pros
poets, etc. The fire commenced about
half past u Saturday night, and was not
finally arrested until about l O'Clock
Monday evening It burnt a distance Of
ave miles, and it is said consumed over
ten thousand houses-embracing the
entire business portion of the city
From one hundred and fifty to two huns
dred thousand people are left houseless,
and homeless, and during the fire many
found fiery graves. The scene and re-
suits must have been terrible. The great
cities of the nation, St Louis, Cineiu
nati, New York, Philadelphia, Boston,
etc, ETC., are nobly giving to the destitute
and ruined city. The immense losses
will stagger if it does not utterly break
many Of the great insurance corporations
of the land.
1t is impossible now to give even an
approximately correct statement of loss
es, but faint idea may be formed when
it is stated that every bank in the CRY
except two small saving establishments,
one on 23d street in the south division,
aud one on Randolph in the west are
destroyed, all the wholesale stores and
all the large retail establishments, the
post office, court house, chamber Of com
meree, every hotel in the south division
except the Michigan Avenue hotel which
standing on the extreme southern limit
of the fire escaped though badly scorch
ed, every newspaper office, the Tribune
building having finally suecumbed !
every theatre, six of the largest elevators,
the immense depots of the Michigan
Southern aud Illinois Central Railroads
both passenger and freight depots of
the latter; more than a score of churches;
and much of the shipping in the river is
destroyed.
Men who were millionaires are nearly
penniless. But more terrible than all
is the awful certainty that many human
beings have found fiery graves. How
many, no one can tell. Perhaps no one
can ever tell but some are known to
have persisted, and there is heart-sick-
ening fear that the victims of the fiery
monster may be counted by scores.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14

THE sentence in the case of Major
Hodge, the defaultiug paymaster, is that
he be cashiered, forfeit all pay and al
lowanees that may be due him at the
date of the pronunciation of the sentence,
be imprisoned at hard labor for term
of ten years, 10 such peuitentiary as the
proper authorities shall direct, and
thereafter be further imprisoned in such
penitentiary until he shall refund to the
United States the amount of the embez
element; aud. also, that the crime, rame
and place OF abode aud punishment OF
the accused shall be published in the
papers OF Washington. This sen
tence has been approved by the Presi
dent, with the exception of the re-im
ptisonmeut after the first ten years. The
poo ensisry ~ AlhsaS has been desig-
uated as the place Of his conhneaier,.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14

LAST Saturday night Mr.. Thomas
Reeves, Tobacco Inspector in Paducah.
attended church near his residenceiD the
country, and, as usual. hitehed his horse
near the church During the service,
some daring horse thief mounted his
horse and rode him off As soon as the
loss was discovered, Mr.. Reeves soD aud
several other young men mounted their
horses and started in pursuit of the thief.
They got on his trail, which they kept
until they found the horse, which the
rascal had traded off They then follow
ed on until they freed the thief 10 Mis-
souri,, where they captured him. On
Wednesday night last he was safely
lodged in Jail, and the following day was
tried, and held for his appearance at the
next term of our Circuit Court This
affair was brought to prompt and rapid
termination, and the young men engaged
in it deserve a great deal of credit Tor
their action-PadUcah KentuckiaH.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14

AN important political movement is
on foot at Nashville, Tenn, looking to
the organization of reunion and reform
association. The address is sigued by
Democrats and Republicans aud Con-
servatiyes, embracing the leading men
of these parties. While differing in
opinion as to which of the two great
parties of the country is best fitted to
carry out and fulfill the ends for which
the Government was instituted, they
unite ID an earnest appeal to all the in
intelligent and progressive men of the
country to divest themselves of sectional
aud party animosities and to associate
themselves together for the purpose of
intoxicating an intenser and loftier patriot
ism.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14

THE woods are on FIRE on both sides of
the Q & W Railway. the greater part
of the way between Antwerp and New
Haven. Ohio, covering an area of four or
FIVE miles, and about the distance be
tween Atwerp and Cecil, burning down
timber both green and dry, burning hun
dreds of cords of wood and miles of fen
ces AT Woodburn, October I'd, three
houses were destroyed, and the steam
mill was only saved by the breaking of
several burrows of land around it, Trains
have had to stop while the heated rails
were removed and new ones put on.
Cornfelds and meadows have been en-
tirely destroyed. The probable loss is
about So. 000 or $4,000. The smoke is
so dense as to make sesing and breathing
very difficult The FIRE is still raging
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14

GENERAL GRANTS speech Batavia
Clement county. to his old friends and
ueighbors, was quite Ciceronian. 1t was
taken down verbatinl by gentleman
present at the meeting. Said the Presi-
dent:
Ladies and gentlemen and fellow
citizens: It is impossible for me to make
an appropriate response for this NANTES
tation of your Kindness" Then turning
to the children present, about forty 10
number, be said IL could not stand on
my feet Tthen trembling and make a
speech / might sit down behind desk
and have some friend dictate a speech.
but even then l could not stand on my
feet aud read it to you"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14
THE duty on coffee has been reduced

THE duty on coffee has been reduced
two cents per pound the past year, yet
the price remains the same. The Wash
ington Republican ascribes this to the
fac. that the crop has been a failure this
year in nearly all the great coffee grow
ing districts. Is it not rather to be as
cribed to the large amount of the native
bean now used in manufacturing what
is called the extract of coffee? Or per
haps it may be owing to rise in the
price of chickory, barley, beans, or some
other cheap adulterating agent, to the
flavor of which cogee drinkers in this
country have become SO accustomed
that they prefer the spurious to the pure
Mocha or Java.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14
Democratic victory In Texas

There can be little doubt that, not
withdrawing tbs extreme measures taker
by the Radical Governor to control the
Congressional election in Texas, the Dem
ocrats have swept the State and elected
all four o. the members of Congress.
The following is the only news which
has reached us, and coming from Radi-
cal sources the Democratic majorities
which 1t comedies in every district win
be largely increased by the official re-
turns: =
GALvEsros, Oct 10-Net majoritie'
as far as heard from: LIST District, eigh,
counties. Rerndon. Democrat, majority
of 1,507 I'd District, Conner, Demo
crat. re-elected9by about $4,000. Sc
District, fifteen counties, Giddings. Dem
ocrat, 622 4th District. twenty min,
counties, Hancock, Democrat, 1910.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14
Great Fires.

The burning of the City of New YorI
occurred December is, 1885. This fir,
was unparalleled fer its destruction OF
this continent, until the great Chicago
fire. The loss by the coufagration wal
$4,000. coo, and $50 os the most costly
building of the city were laid in ruins
THE PIrTsBURe FIRE,
occurred on the 10th of April, 1s45
Twelve hundred houses we're destroyed
estimated at value of $4,000 600.
THE PORTLAND FIRE,
occurred 9th of July, 1866. Tho loss
estimated at sio.eOG.o0o.
The Columbia. s. c., and Atlanta,
Ga. we're proportionateIy as destructive.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14

THE Grand Duke Alexis Is coming
4 grand duke has two legs, two arms, a
chin, whiskers, a mouth, nose, two eyes,
aud two ears. He is therefore, man.
because in addition to all these features
be has reason. 1t is necessary to be thus
minute in speaking of him because there
is great tendency in this democratic
country to fall down and worship men
of titles. Let the Russian prince be
right royalty treated, as we would treat
a grand duke Of the guild of letters, OF
any other famous parsonage. 1t is not
necessary to call him "Highness" at
every breath; and it is we'll to bear in
mind that a title is much less to a grand
duke than it is to his valet.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14

THE contrast between the Radical and
Democratic State Conventions OF New
York is worth nothing The Radical
Convention was packed with roughs aud
policemen, by the Grant wing, who as
sailed the Greeley delegates. and dis
graced the meeting by terrible row.
The Democrats settled their differences
before the Convention began, and every
thing moved off quietly, no rOughs or
policemen being present.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14
TUE Secretary of War, in bis last anual

report. page 81 says:
sSince the commencement of the pre-
sent fiscal year there has been realized
from sales Of surplus arms and ordinance
to citizens of the United States the sum
So 500. 000,''
We suppose these are the arms that
went into the hands of the French to
shoot Germans. The Washington Patriot
asks: will our German Republicans
please make note of it I? There are two
questions relating to this transaction
which the country would like to have
answered: First, how much the French
Government paid for these arms more
than we received? and second, what has
become of the SIS ,60O,O00?"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14

TIE Governors of Michigan, Missouri
and New Jersey have issued proclama-
tons appealing to the citizens of their
States to assist Chicago, and the Gov
ernor Of Illinois has convened the Leg
iSlature of that State to take proper &C
ton in reference to the great calamity.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14

SEVENTY deaths from cholera occurred
in Consfan tipople on Saturday last, and
there scenes to be much reason to fear
that the epidemic will rapidly spread
The weather has been very hot at Con
stantinopIe. aud the supply of wafer has
consequently run short, Business at the
arsenal, where a large number of labor
ers were employed, has already been sus-
pended in consequence of the outbreak
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14

A LOYAL sheriff in one of the North
Carolina counties was missing few days
since, aud the Radicals began to make a
great noise over the circumstance, but as
soon as it was ascertained that about
$4,000 of the peoples money had gone
with him they quietly-let him go.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14
a CALIFORNIA; eccentric named job

a CALIFoRNIAN eccentric named John
Russell has lived for a number of years
near the mouth of the Sacramento river
without kinsfolk or neighbors. He says
he is fascinated by the beauty of the see
merry thereabouts. He cultivates bees,
follows trapping, and makes considerable
money by sending honey and skins to the
San Francisco market He is known in
the Golden State as the lone man of
Twitchell's Island.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14
CoNNEcTIoUr Temperapee Ref

CONNECTICUT Temperance Reformers
are threatening to initiate the tactics OF
their brethren in some parts of Ohio in
forming a third and distinct organiza
ton, with an almost certain prospect,
according to the New York Tribune. OF
turning the State into the hands of the
Democrats
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Missouri.

ST. LOUIS, Oct. ia dispatch from
Jefferson City states that Governor
Brown has issued a proclamation calling
out the militia of Dunklin and Stoddard
counties, for the suppression of the Ku-
Klux. Captain Wood, of the Adjutant
generals Office, has gone down to enroll
the militia.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14
J. W. POWELL W.. POWELL
Powell & Brother
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
G ES CD g Ne BR "a .
W. D. POWELL
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
Dealers in all Kinds of

-
COUNTRY PRODUCE AND LIVE SrocK.
r9-Also, Stock Pens Kept for Droues
A FTER several years absence from the
N Grocery and Commission Business in
Hickman, we again offer orr services TO our
friends and the public in the same line of
business aud ask a renewal of their patron
age so literally bestowed upon us in years
past. We feel ourselves fully responsible
for our transactions and hope to give salts
faction IN all of our dealings. We pur-
chased our goods in various wholesale mar
kets for cash at their very lowest cash value,
hence we Halter ourselves that we can sell
as low as the lowest. We especially call
attention 10 our friends who buy to sell
again to come and see us We feel conf
dent that we can make it to their interest
to buy their small bills at least of us. We
will make liherable advances on Produce in
store to be shipped to our account either in
cash or goods lge will also barter with
our friends for all kinds of Produce or live
Stock. ju23.
ssrTERMS CASH OR ITS EQUIV
ALENT. -gss
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14

As President Grant has been trying
for the premium in the cattle ring at the
st. Louis fair, why don't Moxa Nor
ton enter the Agricultural Implements,
list2 As a sulky rake he would be bard
to bsat.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14
An Organization exists-the rami

AN organization exists-the ramifca-
tons OF which are said to be very exten
sive-for the annexation of the Mexican
republic, by peaceable means if possible,
by forcing if necessary. Many well
known ex Confederate officers, soldiers
and politicians, aud some who served
with the Federal forces. are identified
with the scheme The promoters calcu
late on beng able to accomplish their
desires by peaceable meaus in about FIVE
years.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14
brigham Young Appears for
Trial.

There are lively times in Utah. The
Forty First Congress passed an act max
ing poIigamy a penal ofense, and Judge
Mexican, United States territorial judge,
backed by United States troops, propo
SEES to enforce it. He has tackled the
bell wether of the flock, has placed
Brigham Young under arrest, and pro-
poses to try him under the law. The
Mormons yield to superior force, but are
very abusive of the United States for
this interference with their domestic
concerns.
SALT LAKE. Oct. 9, p m.-Brigham
Young, accompanied by number OF
elders, appeared at court this afternoon
and was held to bail in five thousand dol
lars 10 answer. IL passed through the
crowd from his carriage up stairs to the
court room alone Many hats were re
moved aud other expressions of respect
shown, but no shouts or noisy demon
stration. His appearance before Judge
Mexican was quiet and digni6ed, but he
seemed evidently very feeble. The off
GERS of the court showed him all kind
ness, providing a large easy chair and
keeping the crowd at distance.
The counsel of Brigham first put in
plea of abatement which was oyerruled
The next movement was to quash the in
dietment on the ground OF the iudict
ment enumeratiug sixteen separate char
ges in alleging that he lasciyiously co
habited with sixteen different women.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14

WORK is being pushed forward with
great energy by the contractors on the
Louisville. New Albany and st. Louis
Air Line Railroad.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14

We have received the prospectus of q
new paper, (RadicaD to be started soon
at Paducah, and to be called the Paducah
journal. Il is to be run by stock
senrspy.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14
Blu c K YE
Mower & Reaper.

NFR. Mp. HARNESS, the only author
wi iced agent at Hickman, KY.
This is the most durable and lightest
draft machine made II is warranted TO
cut. if properly managed, ten 20 twelve
acres per day, either grain or grass. The
manufacturers put them to the agent at
Hickman on such terms as will enable him
20 sell as cheap as can he purchased else
where. The machine will be taken back, or
the money paid for il refunded, if tried ac-
cording to the warranty in printed circular,
and fails.
These machines are on exhibition at the
hardware store of N. P. Harness.
maylS
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BEECH WOOD SEMINARY


f &AAS4@ASeStsAg 80 ~ W n
HNHE PRINCIPALS, J. IT, ROULHAC AND
Jno. W Cowgirl, would respectfully
announce to the public that the second
sion of their School will commence on MON
DAY, September An. 1871. The School now
organized is designed to be permanent in
stitution at this place. The building already
( erected is ample for the accommodate IN q
one hundred pupils, and it is the purpose Of
! the Principals 10 construct suitable addi-
tons, with all modern improvements IN
desks, fixtures, &c, sufficient for 100 achol-
| lars, with music room convenient for those
who desire musical Instructions This de-
partment will be under the charge Of Mrs.
Mary Duncan. With liberal encouragement
the Principals hope sooD TO be able &c found
aregular aud permanent College with ample
accommodation for all who desire the bene-
hts OF a collegiate education in this section.
Tuition per session months or 90
reading, writing, &c..........,........ $3.50
Advanced reading, mental arithmetic
written arithmetic.. .................-.-s1s 90
English Grammar Advanced Geogra-
ply, Written Arithmetic, first les
sons in Philosophy and Compost
90
Algebra and the higher Mathematics
and Natural Sciences..............., 20 90
Ancient and Modern Languages....... % 90
Music including use Of Piano. 30 90
Contingent tax to each pupil............. ! 90
Tuition due, one-half at the commence
ment and one-half at the middle OF the ses-
sion. Pupils charged from time of en- trance
for balance Of session, and no dednction
made, except for protracted sickness.
Patrons and teachers are alike interested
in building up good and permanent stitu-
tons; and to the generous assistance Of the
people of Hickman and vicinity we most es-
peclally look for encouragement, promising
that our whole time and talents shall be de-
voted to our enterprise. = ~
-sf,s ~, J. II. ROULHAc,,..,
july22 w JNO. ". COWGlI.L-.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14

An English countess has written a
treaties on the diseass Of cats.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14

THREE DEALERS should send for Price
List No. 8. Southern sorts. Inviting
rates. ". 2. HEIKEs, Dayton, Ohio. CNur-
rsriss established 1922.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-09-11

Il oW LOST. HOW RESI0RED--Just pub
IL IIshed 0y DE. Lewis, :56 pages, TbirG Eoi-
hon, the As5.cai Gomp@OIOa aud GaI1e 10
Health. on the radical cure OF SpermatoTrb~a,
or Seminal Weakness, Involuntary Seminal
Losses, lmFetsBey, heRfai and Physical Inca
pAcity Ia pedimsnts to Marriage. etc. and the
Vensreal and syPhillitlc Malsdies, with plain
and slear directions for the speedy cure of Sec
Ondary symptoms, Gonorrhea, elects. Structures,
and all diseases Of the skin, such as seuryy,
S~eroful2, Ulcers, Boils, Blotohes sud Pinples on
tia face ard body, Consumption, Epilepsy. aad
Ftts, induced by self indulgence or sexual ex-
trSysgGncs.
The celebrated author, in this admirable treat
Use, clearly dem onstIAtes from \ forty years sue-
oessfsl practice, that the alarming consequence
OF self abuse may be radically cured, pointing
out : mode Of cure at once simple, certain, and
eiectual, by means of which every sufferer, no
matter what his condition may be, can ne effect
uslly cured, che2ply, privassly aud radically.
NJ This book should be in the hands sf ev-
cry ysuth and every man in the land.
Sent under seal, in q plain enveiop. Price 5u
cents. Address. DR.. LEWIS, MOI, Beach ST.
New York. june1s-d&wly
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-09-11

LeuoorrhOeA and all Diseases of the Mucous
Membrane Colds, Coughs, C~on.unptive ten
denotes, Skin Diseases, anc everything of 9
scrofula nature.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-09-11
Daap Argus.

NOTHING SO VERY RARE.-An American
paper mentions as an Astounding fact that
Rochester has 9 gold fsh with two tails"
II II were = tail with two gold fish we might
be startled. Meantime let us complete the
list OF other marvellous things which are
possessed BY Rochester, U. S.-a horse
with four legs, . cat with two ears, . canary
With one one beak, and-strangesi of all 9
donkey with two legs, who writes natural
pArA0ranhR
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-09-11
SPECIAL NOTICES.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Use Renne's Pain Killing
MAGIC OEE.
"lt Works like q Charm"

kEADRE-
kenna's Pain-Ntling sgio Oil cures Headache.
henne's raIn-hiliiug Magic Oh cures Toothasbe.
Renne's Psin-kiling Magic Oil cures Neuralgia.
henne Killing Magic OileuTes Cholera.
henne,s PGi1-kiihug Magic Oil cures Rheumati' IN
Renne's PSin- Killing Magic Oil cures Laueness.
Aenns'sPain Killing Magic OilcuresSkin Disease
SONS folks seem to be pEoad of telling how
lame their shoulders are"-of nay crick II the
oHck or" have got the sciatiea"-snd de-
hight in Dragging that nothing can cure me =
but when We get such awful falks' 70 use Ran
mes Pst1-Kllling Magic oil, faithfully; we
Got only cure tE-4s l@Deress ard charm away
their pains, but we actually take all that kim Of
"brAg out of them. and they frankly own up,
and say is works like 9 charm
Es- Sold by all Dru ggists, Merchants L Grocsrs
Il is put up in three sizes, and called Trial
Size, Medium Size" and Large Family Size.
bottles. VIM RENNE D SONS,
Sole ProPrietors and Manufacturers,
ie6-d6 weoWly Pittsfeld, Mass.
sold wholesale and Retail By John Beings
ton, Drug glst, Rock Island.