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The Hickman courier., 1871-03-18
stephen Aliens POcket-pIece.

SIepnem AtleE>S EOCAct~PAcSC'
In the pocket book of the Hon Ste
phen Allen. who was drowned from on
board the H Clay, was found a printed
slip, apparently cat from a newspaper, of
which the following is copy. 1t is
worthy to be putin every newspaper, aud
engraved on every young mans heart;
Make few promises.
Always speak the truth.
Keep good company or mono.
Never speak evil of any one.
Live up to your engagements.
Be just before you are generous.
Never play at any game of chance.
Drink no kind of intoxicating liquors.
Good character is above all things else.
Keep your own secrets, if you have
Never borrow if you can possibly
helpit.
Do not marry'until you are able to
support wife.
Keep yourself innocent if you would
be happy.
When you speak to person look
him IN the face.
Make no haste to be rich, if you would
prosper.
Ever live (misfortune excepted with
in your income.
Save when you are young, to spend
when you are old.
Avoid temptation, through fear you
may not withstand it.
Never run into debt unless you see a
way to get out again.
Small aud steady gains give competen
cy, with a tranquil mind
Good company and good conversation
are the sinews of virtue.
Your character can not be essentially
injured except by your own acts.
Ii any one speaks evil of you, let
your life be SO thatnone will believe him.
When you retire to bed, think over
what you have been doing during the
day.
Never be Idle; if your hands can't be
employed usefully, attend to. the culti-
walton Of your mind
Read over the above maxims, careful
ly and thoughtfully, at least once every
week.
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-18
AGRICULTURAL.


The following is the substance of a
communication made by DR.. George B.
Wood to the American Philosophical So
ciety, of which he is President:
Peach trees, after producing few
crops, not only cease bearing, but perish
bin q short time; whereas their natural
life is fifty or sixty years or more. The
cause of this defective power of growth
is owing to deficiency of potash ia the
soil; and if this alkali be supplied to the
tree, 90 that it shall reach the small trees
and be absorbed. the fruit bearing pow
er is restored. and the fruit itself. pre-
nstureIy perishing, is revived.
Believing at FIRST with most persons,
that the cause of decay lay In worms at
the root Of the peach tree. DIR. Wood put
in operation a plan which he had seen
his father perform more than fifty years
before, viz, by digging around the base
of the stem a hole four or five inches
dsep, scraping away all the worms that
could be found burrowing at the Junction
of the stem and root, and filling the hole
thus made with wood ashes from the fire,
which of course retained all their potash.
u nlb WAS uODc III tDc autuAuu VI AOO1s
and with result in the following spring
ut which he himself was astonished. The
trees appeared to have been restored to
all their early vigor aud freshness. they
put forth bright green leaves, blossomiBg
copiously. and bore crop of fruit such
as they had never borne before, many of
the branches breaking down under the
load of peaches.
DIR. Wood, in rejecting on these re
suits, noticed that several Of the peach
trees had no worms, and came to the con
elusion that we must look to an explana
ton to some other cause than the de
strnetion of few worms; and this cause
he believed to be the ashes, the potash
of which, being dissolved by the rain.
had descended along the roots to the
rootlets. and presented to them the very
food for the want of which they were dy
ing. Decaying apple trees, bearing
stinted and inedible fruit, have been re-
vivid by similar process, and with like
results
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-18
The Contents OF a ShOplifter's
Pocket.

On Wednesday afternoon a comeiy,
we'll dressed young woman entered Macy s
store on Sixth avenue, and while one of
the clerks was procuring an article for
her inspection, James Armstrong, one of
Mr. Macy's employees, saw her slip the
two bottles of wine under her dress. Mr..
Armstrong whispered to the clerk to de
tain her until be could get an officer.
Officer Matthison was soon found, and
the woman was arrested.
She had bepeatb her skirts, and fas
tened to her waist by strong cords, a can
vas pocket, about three feet and half
long and fully three feet wide. From
this bag the following articles we're pro
duced
Two bottles of wine. fifty yards of gui
pure lace, two baby 'sdresses, embroidered
and tucked, one piece of mauye velvet
trimming, two pairs of kid gloves, seven
ty FIVE pairs of children's fancy stockings,
one fancy figured glass. seventy five
yards of blue and green velvet trimming
one pair Of jet earrings, and one large
Bible.
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al counter S:ruaade.

Il must not be thought for moment
that, because of the hue and cry in favor
Of female suffrage, raised by certain
strong minded females, all the women Of
America are bent on having the ballot
Such is not the case. Indeed, among
The really cultivated and influential of
the sex there is stern and decided op-
position to the new movement, having
taken shape in a regular organization
formed to combat the influences and ar
guments of the Lucy Stones and Cady
Stantons.
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The Brownsville Bee says. Some of
the most intelligent planters of Hay
wood and Lauderdale counties have ex
pressed desire to cut up their large
bodies of land into tracts from one to two
hundred acres and sell them to small
farmers for homes. This is a move in the
right direotion-one that will win in the
end more than double the value of lands
and the pleasure of living in these un-
equalled counties.
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PLANTERS throughout the South are
engaged in working their lands prepara-
tory to putting in cotton crop, but the
amount to be placed in the ground is as
yet quite uncertain. There will be of
necessity great economy used; and the
purchase of manure and provisions has
up to this time been on very restricted
scale. The present position of prices
will test the capacity of the South to
raise cotton at low dgures.--Nashutlls
BannN.
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Made of Poor Rum. whiskey, Proof Spir-
Its, and Refuse Liquors, dcciorsd; spiesd,
andsweetened u please tao taste, ca led - on.s
tippler on to drunkenness aud ruin, but are true
Mrdicine, made from the Native Roots and
Hertsof CelfoTna free from Al q Alooholio lsS
PURIFLER and LIFE GIVING PRIN-
CIPLE, q perfect Renovafor aud 1nvigorator
and restoring the blood TO o healthy condition.
No person can take these Dittcrs, according TO
directions, and remain long unwen-
400 viii be given for an lleurable case, pro-
yiding the bones are not destroyed by mineral
poisons or other means, and tie vital organs
"1TSsr For Inaanin lam @ story -,, aud Chronic Rheu-
rnatisIa, and Qout, Dyspepsia, or Innt-
es:to1 RilSgs Rsltsass = .ss aas IPsss TPses-
Liver, Kidneys, and Bladder, those Eit-
ters have been most s..ecessir,- Sucn pls-
Is generally produced By deranSement OK Tho
Digestive Organs.
the torpid liver and bowels, which render them
of uneauailed efficacy In cleansing tho bioot OF
all impurities, and inpartinS new LIE and FiSor
Dyspepsis or indigestion, Tsadaehe.
Pain in the Shoulders, Coughs, IIs htness of tEe
shs Month. Billions Attacks, Palpitation OF the
Heart. Copious Discharges OF Urine, Fam IN
the regions OF the kidneys, and . hundred osaes
paiuful symptoms which arc ths OnspranSs OF
DyspepsIa, are cured By these Bstters.
tleaIse the Vitiated Bssol whenever yon fi1d
tts fmpurities bursting throuyA tnc Skin IN i-a-
Tles kruptions, or Sores; cleanse 1t when II Is
fot,l and your feelings viii tell you when. keep
the blood pure and the health OF the system VIII
pm, TAPE, and other WORMS, lurking in
the systern of so many thousands, are euectuauy
DESTROYED and removed.
For full directions, read carefully the circular
around each bottle, printed IN four isnSuAgos-
English, German, French, and Spanish - -
7 WAI,KER. 81 4, 81 Commerce Street, n. Z. !
Proprictor. r. Il, MCDONALD & Co,
DrlszDists and General Agents.
Gan Francfsco, Cslifornia, and 81 anoS4 Com !
ssss ES- sold By ALL DRUGGISTS AID
DKALEIiS. 4-s-.-=sss-s -----sg ~-zs
sept24 ly
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ASS live and able newspaper, as rep
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the strictest sense ofpropriety- The Louis
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1t contains large amount of original
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latest European papers and magazines.
1t furnishes a great deal of exclusive mat
ter in relation to the national resources,
the development and the local advantages
or disadvantages of places in the West,
South or Southwest.
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-18

ROMAN CATHOLIC STATISTICS The
total number of Theological seminaries of
all denominations in the United States is
said to be 90. OF these Il are Roman
Catholic, With each from 3 to Is profes-
sors, and they report nearly 1900 stu
dents, who are preparing for the priest
hood and other Offices in the church.
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Paragraphs.

The latest proposition for combating
the Mormons is to give the Mormon wo-
men the right to vote.
Arkansas points with pride to the fact
that she pays less internal revenue tax
than any other State.
The hen fever now runs in the direction
of partridge Cochins." Their eggs sell
at dollar apiece.
No man will be entitled to vote in Ten
nessee in 1872, who does not pay poll
tax for 1871.
The value of real and personal estates
in the State of Tennessee, has decreased
over S20,000,0 900 in the last decade.
TnE Temperance boys about Memphis
propose to add branch line to their
association, which will require abstinence
from the use of tobacco.
The late Mr.. Brassey, the great
English railway conductor, left behind
him fortune of e7,OOO,OOO or $50, 900,
600.
The Massachusetts, House ofRepreseu-
tatiyes has passed bin preventing in
that State the hunting of deer by hounds
or dogs.
J. PRocToR KNOTT is spoken of as a
candidate for Governor The Duluth
people think Proctor is bard knot.
There are eleven suits pending against
the corporation of Nashville outside of
the Cooper contract, amounting to about
$500
Nashville has mechanic, a Baron
the scion of one of the noblest families
of Germany, who traces his genealogv
back into the chivalrous old feudal times,
working in one of her manufactures.
GENERAL William s. Rosecrans is out
in letter favoring the building by Gov
ernment of railways, North and South,
and declares them necessary to complete
national harmony.
QUEEN Victoria is said to have a pri-
vate fortune of S17, ,000,0 If the old
lady wants to marry again, she could
probably purchase very fair article of
husband for that amount of money.
IE the State of Missouri law has just
been passed which exempts the property
of married woman from execution upon
judgement against her husband The
act is righteous one, and ought to be
in operation everywhere.
ENGLAND has thirty thousand pulpits
to population Of thirty millions, or a
pulpit to every thousand of the popu-
lstion. In the United States there is a
church for every six hundred persons of
the entire nation.
THERE are manufactured in the Uni
ted States each year over one million
five hundred thousand scythes, at cost
of about the same number of dollars
employing not far from one thousand FIVE
hundred hands.
The wife of Secretary of State Fish
can speak French. For the first time
for many years, the foreign visitors to
Washington who delight in paying the
''tinsel coin of compliment" find them
selves sailing in smooth waters
THE General Convention of the Prot
estaut Episcopal Church will convene in
Baltimore on the first Wednesday in Oc-
teber next These sessions are held tri-
cnnially, the last having convened in
New York in October, 1868.
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-18

Ir order to true happiness with even
our dearest friends We must avoid having
stock subjects of disputation. Itmostly
happens when people live much together,
fhat they come to have certain set topics,
ruod which, from frequent dispute,
'fe is such a growth of angry words,
mortified vanity. and the ike, that the
original subject Of difference becomes
standing subject for quarrel. And there
is { tendency in all lminor disputes to drift
down to Il.
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-18
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he occupied the Drug Store opposite nv re1
idence, and was successful in conduct;
the business where others had not been
equally so before him. have been favor
ably impressed with his character and "a
terprise-" WILLIAM ElGHTMAN.
firm OF Powers & Weightman, Manufaetur-
ing Chemist
Ninth and Brown streets, Philadelphia
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teber next. These sessions are held tri-
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From the Largest Manufacturing chsuissu
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THE wife of Secretary of State Fish
can speak French. For the first time
for many years, the foreign visitors to
Washington who delight in paying the
''tinsel coin of compliment" find them
selves sailing in "smooth waters
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TIE PERSIAN FAMINE.

The Bombay Gd=ette of the 4th ult. con-
tanned long letter. dated May 10 last from Mr. ManOck-
ice Lmec Attaria agent OF the Managing Committee or
the society ameiorating the condition OF Zorro
astrans Persia which he gives dreadful account
of the surings Of the population from want OF food
Among the statements he makes are the following: In
Ispahan public shops are opened for selling Gamers,
asss dogs and cats esh and yet from 70 to 10 persons
die daily. People about selling their children. The
Armenian population only live free from privatiOn, thew
being supported by their wealthy brethren IN Calcutta
and Batavia. In kassan and Kome cities where corn
formerly abounded people have been caught cutting
down children for food" IL kh0raSsan 1900 men had
been swept off through hunger and disease, and
those who survived did not hesitate 90 to use
raked-up corpses for food" In. Yezd IL Zoroas-
dying daily for want OF food yet only one be-
nevolent Parsee gentleman Mr.. NusserwaDtee Maneck
ice Petit, had up To the date of the letter, sent
rupees 1885, and on the 10th or January
1870. through the managing committee. and again 100
by telegraph the l4h OF March, 1871 Noother
contribution, the Parsee agent adds had been received
and distributed the LDToastrins az 1ezd nad
oeen taken from them by the MOhammedans 1t VIII be
recoeced that similar accounts OF the sueriDgs OF the
Persian population had reached England by telegraph
TeheIa aud that they stated 10 be gross eX
aggeratons letter from the Persian Minister Ia En
gland Sir r. Macdonald Stephenson, 10 put an end to
doubt on the subject, has sent telegram TO Mr. Allison
CHARGE Aaires at Teheran TO ask The accounts
published are true, and If the population are still suffer
Ing what would be the quic kest means OF aordlng
lief Mr. Alisons reply, which so Tar confirms the state
ment the Persian Minister is follows "1eheran
July 3l.The famine is over but provisions are very
dear"