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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-28
Revision of the Statutes-A Con-
VentIOn of the Legal Profess
sion.

At meeting of the members of the
bar, in attendance at the circuit court, at
Fl Hardiusburg. Breckinridge county, on
Friday, the 18th day of October, 1871,
the following gentlemen were presest /:
Martin H. Cofer, circuit Judge; Baker
Boyd, Commonwealth Attorney Jepe
W. Kincheloe, n. McC. Mercer, David
r. Murray, Geo. w. Williams, Eli II.
Brown, VIM. n Sweeney, j. A. Muir
ray, John B. Bruuer, Robert Y. Bush,
John G. Walker, John G. Babbage,
Milton Board. James G.. Haswell, Geo.
w. Jolly, Robert II. Bowmer, and
Thomas w. Board.
Hon. John G. Walker was called to
the chair, and George w. Jolly, Esq,
was appointed secretary. After a state
ment of the object of the meeting by
the chairman, the following preamble
and resolutions were adopted unani-
'-'o ~ ifS.ss..s4s, Under the provisions OF
an act of the last Legislature of Ken
tucky, a commission was authorized to
revise the Statutes of Kentucky, and
said commission will probably organize
and enter upon their duties during the
coming winter; and whereas, it is impor-
tant alike to the public as well as to the
legal profession that the result of the
experience and suggestions of the MEM
bers of the bar throughout the State
shall be laid before said commission, and
that an interchange of sentiments take
place on other subjects; therefore, be it
ResolUed, First, that we recommend
to the members of the bar and bench
throughout the State of Kentucky that
they meet in convention in the city of
Louisville on the 10th day of Decem-
Der, 1871.
That among the matters which will
properly claim the attention of said con-
vention are:
First-The propriety of branching the
Appellate Court of this State so that its
sessions shall be held in each of the APP
pellate districts.
Second-The organization of an in
termediate Appellate Court, so as to di
minish the number of records to be pass
ed upon by the present court.
Third-The recommendation Of a sys-
tenn of equity practice which will give
more promptitude and efficiency to the
aNhiAhiotA ohAOA VI JNS1iSO III Jul SOAA - u
equity.
Fourth-The recommendation of a
revision of our laws of evil
dence
Fifth-The recommendation to his
Excellency the Governor of Kentucky
of suitable persons to revise the statutes
of Kentucky.
Sixth-Such other matters as may
come before said convention in further
ance of sound and uniform admins
tration of law
Eli H. Brown, Esq, offered the fol
lowing resolutions, which were adopted
RESOLVED, That we request the mem
bers of the bar throughout the State to
indicate by communications through the
the holding of the convention suggested,
at the time indicated by the meeting.
"Resolved, That all papers through
out the State be requested to publish
the proceedings of this meeting"
The meeting then adjourned.
JOHN G. WALKER, Chairman.
GEO. w. Jolly, Secretary.
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THE year between July, 1870, and
July, 1871, is almost without parallel,
calculating all the events it has seen.
In so few months an Empire of Germany
has been constructed out Of a sovereign
house which had not even an existence
when the Germanic nation was already
ancient France, conquered, dismember-
ed and dragged down by numberless
misfortunes, has been driven to begin its
history over again. On another side, at
the moment, that for the first time for
ages since the institution of the ponti-
6cate a Pope passes the limits of the
years of Peter" having reigned more
than twenty five years, Prince of little
Piedmont assumes, at Rome a crown
never before worn, thus. consecrating
Italian liberty, henceforth established in
the very capital, by taking possession of
the Eternal City. There have been times
when an event such as one OF these would
have suficed to shake the world.
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The Handof providence. A.

The Chicago Dtmocrat, which comes
to US fresh from the smoulderiog ruins
of that hapless city, in commenting up
on the rude calamity that has recently
visited her people, says:
again we ask ourself, why this visi-
tation? Is it for the sins of all, or have
few sinned. like David, and all are
punished2 Were there not tenrighteous
men in all the city, for whose sake God
could have spared the helpless little ones
that never sinned? OF individual sins
we do not speak, but of the sias of the
city as a whole. And now to oar rulers
10 particular, and the reading public in
general, we have a duty to perform.
Did our city sin when it rejOiced at
the destruction and sorrow caused by the
march of Sherman's army to the sea {?
l. it sin that our city grew Suddenly
rich from the spoils aud speculaions IN
carrying on the fratrieidal war-a war
against our own brothers? ? Isit sin
that Chicago has led the van in the cru
sade against the just rights of thirteen
States of this Union? Even nov as we
write, the wEite tents of the soldiers are
visible from our window, sent here to
protect US against ourselves, and in our
more solemn convictions the visitation of
providence seems intimately connected
with the sin of corruption and perjury
in our rulers They have again and
again perjured themselves, made unholy
alliances with harlots, gamblers and
thi,eexes., for the sole purpose Of retainlPF-
Again, is it sin in the sight of
heaven that our ministers have been
serving the politician instead Of Him
who was crucifed on Calvary Is it sin
that the Most High has been made the
abode of those wearing gold, diamonds
and fine raiment, in place of that hum-
bic unadornment becoming to the follow
ers of the humble Nazarine. Was it a
sin that on the 6th of October, 1871,
2 900 saloons in defiance of the laws of
God and the State, were open and dealing
out the poison that kills both body and
soul? What, 0 what was our sin, that
justly deserved such terrible punishment?
In what have we, as a people, sinned,
that our punishment in kind, should be
above all others which have gone before
u.s."
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A Revolution In Japan.

A revolution as important in its results
as almost anything that belorgs to this
period, is borne in the reported abroga
ton of the priucely order es D-s'-s+-
In Japan Dy The Emperor. Under the
lead of Satsums, the Daimois, or princes,
have assailed the throne and been in a
state of perpetual revolt for at least two
years. Possessing domains not unlike
those welded by Warwick, the King
maker, Northum berland, and other great
houses of earlier England, maintaining
independent armies, and being indepen-
dent of the crown, and often openly in
autagonism with it; prejudiced by birth
aud interest against any reforms, since
these would lessen their privileges-the
Damios have been the great obstruc-
tionists to the spread of Western civili-
zation in the empire. 1t is true, as in
the case of Satsuma, that some among
them have sent their most ingenious
youths to be educated in this country ard
in Europe, and have betrayed their ex-
penses, and have introduced modern arms
and arts. But all they have done, or
attempted, has been in order to rivet
their own powers more securely; to de-
fend their caste against the encroach-
ments of the Mikado on one hand and
the people on the other. 1t argues eth
er extreme danger or singular progress on
the part of the former and no less won
derful improvement among the people
that such step as this should have been
debated. For hundreds Of years the
princely estate has been strengthening its
hold on the country, and while its aboli-
ton will be an eventful gain, the gain
can not be won without prolonged blood
shed. Satsuma at all events is prepared
for the trial.
And while so occupied Japan has to
meet the sudden seizure and occupation
of the Saghalien island by Russia. The
island has about the same area as Penn
sylvania, 44.500 square miles, and the
southern half has long been sort of
japanese dependency, the residue, be
longing to Russia The Russian desire
for the whole grows out of the fact that
the island, though thinly populated,
poor, and chiefly dependent upon 6she
ries, borders the coast of the Amoor,
from which it is separated by the mar
row channel of Tartary. But Russia
has been determined to have the whole,
since she wrested the northern portion
from China.
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THE HICKMAN COURIER
SATURDAY, .: OCT. %, ISL
IT is definitely settled that Jefferson
Davis will reside in Baltimore, as Presl'
dent of an insurance company.
The Immediate Future Of
BFeadSlufES


The following extract from a9NeW
York journal, written after the occur
renee of the fire in Chicago, is signih-
cant and should be yidely spread:
Meanwhile the North west is in an
anomalous condition. A large surplus
was left over from the crop of 1870, aud
the higher prices that have ruled here
this Autumn have stimulated the farmers
to rush their grain upon this city in a
perfect avalanche, our receipts thus far
exceeding those of any year of the past
decade. Every available railroad car
sras1 weeks past, and loaded almost to
breaking; some of the loads being fifty
per cent greater than the regulation
quantity of twenty thousand pounds.
The quantity of grain is increasing on
our hands at the rate of three quarters
of a million bushels per week, AMI our
are already so nearlg full
that the proprietors are refusing TO re-
,eiye grain from canal boats, stating that
hey are under contra% to receivelll that
comes in by rail, and they have No room
,ven for that
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Showing that, of the school fund OF
the State. the Purchase receives the sum
of S59.256 20. If from this we deduct
the net revenue paid into the Treasury,
as shown above, Sl6,1 81 it will be
seen that the State actually pays to the
counties III the Purchase the sum OF
S41 .OS7 % more than is collected by
taxation. Every county except Me-
Cracker has returned to ii more money
as school fund than is paid into the
Treasury. Now, this does not look to
US like holding on to the "Purchase" to
wiring taxes from its long suffering peo-
pie; and an exhibition of these figures
shows that the complaint, if any, should
come from the other side, from those
who pay rather than receive th4Sounty.
On the scp-e of political vas04ge, the
charge is quite as groundless. 1t is a
common thing 20 hear complaints that
the Western part of the State does not
get its share of honors; bui if traced to
its real cause, it will be found to spring
quite as much from local jealousies as
from any other reason. Whenever a
man of caliber is put forth by anything
like unanimity, he rarely fails to obtain
to which he may aspire. Ger
tainly the Purchase cannot with reason
complain Take few instances. There
are th;Yty nine counties in the appellate
district in which the Purchase lies
Judge Williams, from the county of
Graves, was succeeded by Judge Lind
say, from the county of Fulton. The
Purchase was certainly not left out in
the cold in this case. There are fourteen
counties in the First Congressional Dis
trict. Pray when did not efthe Pur-
chase" have the representative, save when
II. C.. Burnett and Sam Casey were mem
bers? Was the Purchase overlooked
when J. c. Noble was elected Public
Binder; and atain, when the saTact Office
vas given to John Martin, jr? ahSwhen
he Senate came last winter to elect a
Sneaker upon Governor Leslie's acces-
,ion to the gubernatorial Office did it not
honor the Purchase with the choice?
We mention these matters to put an
md if possible, to this kind of complaint,
which the friends of the Purchase in this
lection of the State, of whom we have
.lways numbered ourselves. regret to see
,ut forward 1t is true that, owing to
he distance at which that portion of the
State is from the central parts, there is
lot that close interchange of social rela
ions which would be desirable. But
very day we are being brought closer
ogether, AMI when the Paducah and
Siizabethtown railroad shall place us in
communication with the country west of
he Tennessee, the relations of our peo-
lie will be more intimate, and the ar
.umeut for separation proportionably
Teakened.
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BULBS SARSAPARILLA.
ST.. LOUIS. April 80.

ST. LOUIS, April 80.
DIR. JoHN BULL-Dear Sir knowing the
efficiency of your Sarsaparilla, and the heal
ing and beneficial qualities il possesses, l
send you the following statement of my case:
was wounded about two years ago-was
taken prisoner and confined for sixteen
months. Being meyed so often, my wounds
have not healed yet. l have not sat up a
mement since L was wounded. / am shot
through the hips. My general health is
impaired, and 1 need something to assist
nature. have more faith in your Sarsa-
parilla than in any thing else. wish that
that is genuine Please express me half a
dozen bottles, and oblige
CAPT. C. P. JOHNSON,
P. S.-Mr. johnson was the SON of skill
ful surgeon. His mother recommended to
her friends. and for many years used my
SarsaParilla with perfect success. In Scrof-
uia and Fever-sores Mrs. Johnson states
thatthe cures effected were almost miracu-
lous. Read my Journal for extended in
formation and advice in your case. My
Journal contains certificates of eminent
persons, ministers and medical men-men
who are known here in this community for
integrity and veracity. have recently
received most remarkable certificate from
an eminent gentleman of Louisville
JOHN BULL.
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Graceful Compliments TO an Es-
tfmabie Lady.
From the New York World

Mrs. D. t. Patterson, wife of ex>Sena-
tor Patterson, of Tennessee, daughter OF
ex President johnson, the amiable and
accomplished lady who presided over the
affairs of the White House during her
fathers administration, took the first pre-
MUM for the best butter at the recent
Bradley County Fair in Tennesse. No
lady, since the days of Martha Wash
ington, has officiated as the first lady at
the drawing-roou receptions at she Presi-
dental mansion with more becoming
grace and dignity, or was ever more re-
spected for her social qualities and great
worth than Mrs. Patterson.
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TIE adulteration of food is frightful
and growing evil, and it is pleasant to
see it checked in any direction. Our
-four, coffee, tea, sugar, butter and lard
are less trusted by the people every year.
Lard and lard oil, especially, are cor
rupted by the free admixture of cotton
seed oil. A paragraph in the New Or
leans journals reminds US of this: assert
ing that the cotton seed oil presses have
been compelled to stop. the large "hog
crop" of the last year having brought
the price of lard oil so low that cotton
seed oil is no longer in demand to adul-
terate it. Until the price of genuine
lard oil goes up again, consumers may
hope TO obtain it pure.
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gen. BreckinrIdge I'm Nashville.


Gen. John c. Breckenridge is now
visiting Nashville, and on last Saturday
night, was the recipient of serenade
from the citizens of the Rock City:
Gen. Battle introduced him as follows:
sGentlemen, allow me to introduce to you
Gen. John C. Breckenridge, of Ken
tucky, First in war, first in peace, and
first in the hearts of his eountrymen.' -
/ (Cheers.)
Gen. Breckenridge said: My friends,
no one can be more sensible than myself
that / am indebted for the high compli-
ment which has just been paid me by
my friend here, to she fact that we are
old friends, to this partiality, and not to
my merits. In obedience, my friends,
to your request, l present myself to you,
but only for the purpose of expressing
my sincere and very graceful thanks for
this proof of your regard. [ take it to
be significant simply of your respect and
good will, accompanied, perhaps, here
and there with deeper and warmer
feeling in the breast of some old comrade.
(Cheers } | do not 60 about seeking
these things. On the other hand, | am
very far from affecting Indifference to
them, and in casting up the sum of life's
griefs and pleasures, | shall place this
occasion in the scale against many of a
very opposite character which it has
been my fortune to encounter. You do
not expect me to say anything more. l
do not now make speeches, and if it were
my habit to do so perhaps if l were to
talk an hour in the circumstances that
surround me personally, l could say
nothing that would be more useful than
to express the hope that we are all busy
doing somethiug-tS. express the hope
that we all feel that an idle, whining, re-
pining man demands neither the respect
of God, men or women. | shall eon~
clude by saying to those with whom l
used to associate in the late struggle in
this coutry, so many of whom have been
around me to day, | receive your wei
come with heart felt satisfaction, and |
return in full measure all the affection
ate friendship you have extended towards |
me. In love for you, and grateful re-
collection of the scenes in which we have /
been associated,- l remain the same man /
[ was in past years. (Cheers) And /
now my friends, beg you, to allow me
% bid you good night. l do it with the
'ineerest good wish for each and all Of
you, and if | were authorized to do SO, |
would like to invoke blessing on this
,ity, which is associated with few sor
'ows, and with very great many of the
most delightful reeollections of my life.
.Cheers.)
Gen. Breckenridge retired, and the
'and played up Her bright smile haunts
ne still" after which the crowd dis
,ersed. J.
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The Sons OF Ex-Governor NeIII
5. Brown after Col. PrOsser.

From the Nashville Union and American,
Oct. Is.
In the Tennessee Tribune of Monday
morning there appeared an editorial in
which, among other things. ex-Gov.
Neill S. Brown was charged with utter
ing wilful falsehood in his speech in
Producing Senator Schurz at the capitol.
The facts of the subsequent difficulties,
as we are Informed, are that a son of ex-
Gov. Brown made inquiry at the Office of
the Tribune Monday afternoon for the
author Of the article, for the purpose of
resenting the insult to his father, and was
Informed that it would be furnished yes
terday morning. Before dinner yester-
day it was authoritatively stated that
Colonel Prosser, Postmaster, was the
author of the offensive article. Neill s.
Brown, Jr., seeing Col. Prosser come up
Cherry street from the direction of the
postofice, and 60 into the Office of Mr..
Classic, attorney, Mr. Brown followed
into the Office, and accosted Col. Prosser
by asking him if be was the author of
the article. Col. Prosser said he was,
Brown then denounced him in the sever
est language, which was not resented.
Third persons interviewed, and Col. Pros
ser returned to the po:toffice.
A short time after this Col. Prosser
was standing at the corner of Cherry and
Deaderick conversing with Judge Carey,
when j. Trimble Brown another son Of
u @ Ga~~.~%. R-c~~, "PPro~sheo ntm
and asked him If he was the author of
the editorial in the Tribune Upon Col.
Prosser answering in the affirmative,
young Mr.. Brown struck him a severe
blow with stick, telling him or nearly
so in Deadrick street. Col. Prosser re-
tired into Ryan's cigar store, and from
thence to the postofice. We also hear
of friends of the parties intervening,
and pistols being drawn or attempted to
be drawn, but our information in this re-
spect is too conflicting to warrant us in
making a statement.
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RIOoded Cattle.

Amongst the many objects of interest
at our Fair last week none attracted so
much attention or admiration as the herd
of blooded cattle owned and exhibited
by DR.. G. S. Miles, of Kentucky. The
herd consisted of eight head all Of pure
blood, the Doctor having the pedigree of
all of them. Our Society awarded pre-
miums to this stock over all other en-
tries. Our farmers should by all means
avail themselves of this opportunity to
purchase, as the Doctor is not asking
extortionate prices.-7renton Gazette.
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In a communication to the German
town Telegraph, Mr.. Josiah Clark, of
Manchester, New Hampshire, says:
"Sorrel is not, as is generally supposed,
the result of our soil, but the reverse.
Observing years ago that sorrel was
more abundant on sweet than sour soil, L
hauled apple pumace on piece where
nothing but sorrel grew, and narrowed it
and put grass seed in. The result was,
sorrel disappeared and grass came in its
stead. Any thing that tends to sour
with fertile matter added, will work
cure just as alkali rectifes the acidity Of
the stomach. The sour waste of brewe-
ries, coarse, wet, sour litter, vinegar or
anything that is sour. worked into the
surface Of the soil will tend to eradicate
sorrel.
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BULLS WORM DESTROYER.

Extract Of a Letter from Georgia.
VILLASow, WALKER COUNTY, Ga,
June 90, 1866.
DR.. John BulL-Dedr Sir; have recently
given your Worm Destroyer several trials,
and find it wonderfully eficacious. 1t has
not failed in a single instance to have the
wished for effect. I am doing n pretty
large country practice, and have daily use
for some article of the kini.
am, sir, respectfully.
JULIUS P. CLEMENT, NJ. d.
P $50 unqualified and numerous are
the testimonials in favor eff my Worm De-
stroyer that newspaper space is entirely too
small to tell its merits.
1t is an infallible remedy for Worms. Try
il and be convinced. See my journal for n
more full description. JOHN BULL.
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THE Grand Duke Alexis, son of the
Emperor of Russia, whose arrival in this
country is looked for daily, is not as has
been stated in some quarters, the heir
apparent of the Russian throne. He is
third son, and his eldest brother, who
married the Princess Dagmar, of Den
mark. has an heir, which makes his pros
pect of being Emperor of Russia very
slim. Under law of Russia, the heir
apparent to the throne is forbidden to
leave the empire.
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to Upset VictOrIa's
Throne.

NEW YORK, Oct. ia correspon-
dent writes from London that an alliance
has been effected between certain mem
bers of the peerage and representatives
of the working classes, the object of
which is to overthrow the present system
of government. The Commune princi-
pie perVades the platform.
The same writer hints that the Queens
condition is such that she may die at
any moment
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81. Louis Bids for tine Next Ma
tiOnaI Democratic COnVcn-
lion.

ST. Louis, Oct. 19.-The Missouri
State Democratic Committee met to-day
to consider the subject of calling State
Convention to elect delegates to the Ma
tional Convention, and elect new State
Committee to which meeting the Liberal
State Committee individually and col
lectively, are invited for consultation
..Psp .l-- p-ope-ea e~u IT. --~------is.--
adopted resolution soliciting the Ma
tiOnal Executive Committee to call the
National Convention at St. Louis.
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The Fiery Monster.in Kentucky.

CINCINNATI, Oct. 21.-It is reported
here this morning that immense districts
of woodland in Campbell County, Ken
tucky, are on fire. The flames are
spreading with fearful rapidity. There
is much excitement in alexandria, which
is said to be threatened. Alexandria is
thirteen miles from Newport.