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The Hickman courier., 1872-10-19
GOLDEN WORDS.

LET EVIL words die as sOon as
they're spoken.
A JoYLEss life is worse to bear than
one of active grief Faber.
LABOR itself is the Providence of
the modern world John Weiss.
DISCRETION has large and extended
views, and, like a well formed eye,
commands a whole horizon.
JEALOUS men are ever displaying
to YOU the strength of their belief,
while judicious men are showing you
the grounds of it.
A BRAVE man thinks no one his
superior who does him an injury
for he has it then in his power to
make himself superior TO the other
by forgiving it.
Ii YOU wish success in life, make
perseverance your bosom friend, ex-
perience your wise counsellor, eau
ton your elder brother, and hope
your guardian genius.
OFTEN from our weaknesses our
strongest principles of conduct are
born and from the acorn, which a
breeze has waited, springs the oak
which defes the storm.
If A MAN talks of his misfortunes,
there is something in them that is
not disagreeable to him for where
there is nothing but pure misery
there never is any recourse to the
mention of it DR.. johnson.
MES's LIVES should be like the day,
more beautiful In the evening or
like the summer, aglow with promise
and, like the autumn, rich With the
golden sheaves, where good words
and deeds have ripened on the field
Do NOT lean upon others. 1t sci
dom paws. Energetic men do no
care to aid a man who never tries t.
help himself. IL is absurd for an,
man to call himself unfortunate wht
has done nothing but to depend upoI
others, when he might have cut on
q way to honor and fortune for him
self.
CONSEQUENCES are Implying. Gu
deeds carry their terrible consequen
ces, quite apart from any huctua
tions that went before-consequen
ces that are hardly ever confined t.
ourselves. Aud it is best to fix ou
minds on that certainty, instead Q
considering what may be the ele
ments of excuse for u.s. (Georg
Eliot.
Ir Is not so hard as people SUP
/ pose to be faithful to ones engage
ment's. The engagement which
to be kept keeps you in it's turn.
cuts hesitation 10 the quick, and PIC
tects the will with all the power {
a promulgated decree.
STRANGELY do some people. talk {
''getting over" a great sorrow; ovel
leaping it, passing it by, thrustin
/ into oblivion. Not so. No one eve
does that-at least, no nature whic
} can be touched by the feeling {
, grief at all. The only way is to paI
through the ocean of affiiction so
emnly, slowly, with humility an
, faith, as the Israelites passed throue
! the sea. Then its very waves of mi
/. cry will divide and become to us
wall on the right side and on IL
= left, until the gulf narrows and ma
] rows before our eyes, and we Ian
safe on the opposite shore.
The Hickman courier., 1872-10-19

THE following is said to be the
copy of a will left by a Capuenln
monk, who was well known tor his
deeds of charity in the Faubourg
st. Jacques, Paris; "I bequeath
first, to the Able Michaud, my bre-
Wary, because he does not know his
own; secondly, to M. Jules Favre,
my frock, to hide his shame ; third
", to NJ. GAN mbetta, my cord, which
will prove useful one day round his
neck fourthly, to M. Thiers, his own
work, that he may read it over
again; and, filthy, to France, my
wallet, because she may shortly have
occasion for one to collect aims
The foregoing composed the entire
worldly possessions of the deceased.
The Hickman courier., 1872-10-19
Railway reform.

A curious instance of the tnge
of opinion once on certain ,ca'
questions is presented by t re"
York Post of late date. Tb Jour
nal contains an elaborately pr ared
editorial which virtually e orses
the system now being advoc - Dy
certain parties in England, iiic1
the State is to have exclusis l.roi ~,
of the railroads of the countr. "a = ne
New York Post was founded, pc
heve, by William Legget, one = 1he
most strenuous opponents any
government Interference ,en u
naneial or commercial affairs the
country. His successor, Mrg Dry
ant, has advocated similar pIiEp pies
for nearly half a century Y hxl
too, feels compelled, in view lhe
monopolies which are opp nDg
the people, to go back on hi 2Is
and virtually Advocate as. -
govcT1fnIeTrt 'irfterferenre GO
most pronounced Federalist of Mr.
Leggett's day would have considered
wild and visionary.
The Post contends that whether
all that is put forward in favor of
the plan OF government contro. be
warranted or not, there can be no
doubt that the necessity for cheap
transit is great. The solution of
the question, as proposed in Eng
lund, is that the railways, like the
postoffice, should be managed as a
national institution, on the same
plan which IN pOstof1ice economy
has been found successful and salts
factory. At present in Great BIZ
tain the railways are particularly
carriers of parcels under two pounds
of weight at a single rate for al dis
tances. 1t is proposed that, com
mencing on their own account,
when they leave off on government
account, the railways should carry
parcels up to 1000 pounds, and
also the freight, tonnage and pas
sengers on the same plan as adopt
ed by the post office. There IS no
magic in two pounds and it is urg-
ed there is no good ground for sup
posing the plan would not be sue
cessful, and satisfactory applied TO
weights above two pounds, as it
proved to be applied to weights un-
der that amount.
The Post gives the following tab
ulation in reference to countries,
and to some of our own States. 1t
shows, at a glance, what a com para
lively low rate of fare and freight
for all distances, like the postage
rate, woulk suffice to raise a revenue
equal to that accruing from the pre-
sent mileage rates
The Hickman courier., 1872-10-19
FAR WEST POINTS.

CARS have reached Elgin, Iowa.
NEARLY $l,2OO,O00 are invested in
herds in Colorado.
Iowa had thirteen camp meetings
in full blast last week.
C,noAoo eonfessss to only 10000
habitual drunkards.
OATS are selling in the Fort Scott
market at 129 cents per bushel.
GREAT Bend on the Arkansas Riv-
er has begun to ship Texas cattle.
HUMBOLDT, Kansas, has opened n
telegraphic money order Office.
WASHINGTON Territory IS assessed
at 100000 more than last year.
Santa Clara Valley, Cal, will pro-
duce an immense hop crop this sea-
son.
MINNESOTA comes to the front with
100000 bushels of wheat this
year.
CALwoRNIA is shipping considera-
BILE wheat to England by way OF Pan
ANA.
THE absence of frost will give the
West the greatest corn crop ever
raised.
Ex. SENATOR Revels devotes himself
to education topics in Mississippi,
eschewing politics.
In Salt Lake the Gentiles have or
ganized Vigilance Committee, which
has assumed a formidable character.
SHIRLEY and Brown, the land pi-
rates, continue TO outrage the people
of Washington Territory and British
Columbia.
A PARTY Of engineers has been fitted
out to locate the Utah, Idaho and
Montana Railroad between Corinne
and Helena.
WOMEN are scarce in Northwest
Kansas. Four men to one women
is the proportion, with an active de-
mand for the latter.
PRoF. Davidson has selected Pol
lard's Peak, near Summit Station, on
the California and Nevada line, as
the site of the great National ObServ-
/ atory.
Two com panies of regular United
States troops passed through Mil
waukee last week, for duty in Mime
sofa, along the line of the Northern
Pacific Railroad.
BRIGHAM Young is said to have a
disorder Of his heart. No wonder,
considering the number of times he
has given it to different ladies.
EIGHT miles of the Montana Ex-
tension Of Colorado Central road
have been laid, and two engines have
been received, which will materially
hasten track-laying.
THE Kansas Central Railroad was
opened last week to Holton, ffty-six
miles from Leavenworth, and by No
vember it is expected the road viii
be finished to Netawka.
The Atchisen, Topeka, and Santa
Fe road will fill a special shelf at the
coming State Fair, to exhibit the
products of the Western part of the
State, and the Arkansas Valley.
The engineering party dispatched
from the City Of Mexico, via San
Luis, by Generals Roseorans and
Palmer have arrived at Mazatlan.
They report the people everywhere
favorable to the enterprise.
MIR. ". r. Middleton, Of Cohey-
Vile. Kansas, has cotton stalks grow
ing on his farm six feet high. He
has about four hundred pounds e
gather, and thinks the soil there Wiil
produce from 1,200 to 1000 pounds
{ per acre.
The grading on the Denver ana
? Rio Grande Railroad is progressing
I rapidly Eight contractors are 3.
! work at different points wltn l-.e
{ forces. At Beaver Greek the ns~'.
) est rock cut yet made in Coiorno'
: now being blasted
The Hickman courier., 1872-10-19
Little at First. Mighty at Last.

A traveller o'er dusty road,
Strewed acorns on the lee;
And one took root and sprouted up
And grew into tree,
Love sought its shade 1T eventide,
To breathe its early vows,
And age was pleased at heat of noon
To rest beneath its boughs.
The dormouse loved its dangling twigs,
The birds sweet music pour;
It stood a glory in its place
a blessing eveEmore.
a little spring had lost It's way
Amid the grass and fern;
A passing stranger scOoped a well
Where weary men might turn
He walled it in, and hung with care
A ladle at the brink
He thought not of the deed he did.
Butjudged that toll might drink
He passed again, aud 10! the well
BY summer never dried.
ItRd cooled ten thousand parchiug tongue
And saved life beside.
]. .A,dreamer dreamed random thoEglii
---1sSgss old. and yet twas new;
A simple fancy OF the brain,
But strong in being true
1t fell upon genial mind.
And o. the thought became
Alamp of light. a beacon ray,
y safely guiding flame,
The thought was small, its issue great
A watch fire on the hill,
II sends its radiance far adOwn,
And cheers the valley still.
A nameIess man amid the crowd
That that thronged The busy mart
Let fall the words of hope and love
A whisper on the tumult thrown,
Naught bat passing breath
it raised brother from the dust,
0 oak. o founti o words OF love!
thought at random cast!
We were but little at the first,
But mighty at the last.
The Hickman courier., 1872-10-19

A MAN was complaining because
his wife was recently taken with
the oil fever. She had a piece of
lanG of her own in West Virginia
where oil had been found, and nofh-
ing would do but she must organize
company and go to boring. So
she bored him to go for a long time,
bus he wouldn't; so she went her
self. I told the man he would be
justified in suing for divorce. "On
what grounds ?" asked the man,
Right there, on her oil grounds.
+" mean what plea could I offer =
"Why, that she left here bread and
bored"
The Hickman courier., 1872-10-19

FIRST school boy: "You're the
new boy. amt you? Look here do
collect STAN ps ?"
Second Ditto (reassured) Yes.
First boy: "rhen there's one.for
you p
comes down heavily en his toes.
cuts OFF,
The Hickman courier., 1872-10-19

SAID a graduate of Williams, af.
ter having driven a two-horse team
over the plains from Milwaukee to
San Francisco, and dug for two
Yeas in the various diggings, carry
ing his pick and shovel on his
shoulder from place TO place, and
almost always with poor success
says he, as he trudged along one
day, "dead broke" wet, weary. and
way worn "There is DESTINY
that shapes our ends rough, hew
them as we will"
The Hickman courier., 1872-10-19

LII YOU wish to do good. do good +;
if you wish to assist people, assist
people. The only way to learn to
do thing is to do it, and that inn
plies before you learn to do right
you will do wrong-you will make
blunders, you viii have failures-but
perseyere, and In the end YOU will
learn your lesson, and many other
lessons by the way.
The Hickman courier., 1872-10-19

MULrrrUDEs, in their haste to get
rich, are ruined every year. The
men who do things maturely, slow
", deliberately, are the men who Of
tenest succeed in life. Peoble who are
habitually in hurry generally have
to do things twice over
The Hickman courier., 1872-10-19

KIND WORDS are the no+5 no.5
earth's existence use tne1
pecially around the n5e.'I A. e.I'
They IRE jewels beyo2.9,
are powerful TO hsN
heart and to make 'n'
spirit glad.
The Hickman courier., 1872-10-19
OUR LITTLE FOLKS.

WOULD You take the last cent a
person has for glass of soda water?
asked a Kankakee youth. "Yes, !"
responded the unthinkiDg proprie-
tor; whereupon the hopeful pulled
out the cent and got drink.
A LITTLE girl was tenderly nursing
her sick doll the other day, and on
her mothers asking what allied it
she repliei, "It's got the Alabama
claims very bad.
A YOUTH entered into bookstore
and asked, "What kind of pens do
you sell her mister ?' All kinds,
you young rsscal," answered one OF
the clerks. "Do you?' said the lit
tie chap, "then give me ten cents
worth of pig pens.
"WHAT are you drawing, Anna p
Use making your pictur'." So the
gentleman sat very still. and she
worked away very earnestly for a
while. Then she stopped, coml AIRED
her work with the original, and
shook her little head. =" | don t like
it much" she said. liant "a great
deal like you, I dess I'll put a tai
to it and call it dog"
The Hickman courier., 1872-10-19
Beauty

Not on the earth
Hath Beauty bloom, hath Beauty power;
This is alone its natal hour
The chamber ofits birth
Here the germ dwells,
And prone TO silence and to night
1t bursts to love and life and light,
As daisies in our dells.
But not on earth
Hath Beauty growth beyond the flower
The life that In a day or hour
Goes to another birth;
And all we see
OF beauty Is a glimmer bright
Is but the promise of a night
The glory yet 10 be.
When IN the skies,
The spirit doth unfold and find
Lies hopes grown perfect TO the mind,
For Beauty then 1t sighs;
And Beauty there
Compares with Beauty here below
4 mornings golden skies aglow
With murkiest clouds compare.
The forms we love
And cherish for each faIaltless llne,i
.sst shadazsu6n ehnS
That We IHeaT above.
SO let us live
In love of nature, not of art,
That each may thus with reverent heart
Fit homage have to give
The Hickman courier., 1872-10-19

An Iowa clergyman has four boys,
and the youngest is named Doxolo-
gy, because he was the last OF the
'hims.'
The Hickman courier., 1872-10-19

Ono claims to have clipped four
million pounds more of wool this
year than last. And the Greeleyites
have not yet been shorn.
The Hickman courier., 1872-10-19

NATURE. breaches cheerlulness IN
her saddest mood she covers even
forgotten graves with flowers.
The Hickman courier., 1872-10-19

In love of nature. not of art,
That each may thus with reyerent heart
Fit homage have to give.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-07-12
The Next LEGISLATURE.

The next Legislature will be one OF
the most important ever convened in
this State. Questions of vital impor-
lance to the future of our people will
be disposed of, and measures OF
grave interest acted upon. 1t be-
hooves our people to be on the alert
and send none but honest, faithful
End reliable men to the Legislature.
Rings and cliques will be wide
awake, and let the people be on the
look out. Let them send no man to
tie Legislature who could be manip-
ulated, hoodwinked, Influenced or
bought by railroad rings, bond-hold-
ers' rings or any other corrupt and
uuprincipled clique. Our people
cannot be too cautious on the SUBJ
ject in which they are SO deeply in
,orested and in which the good of The
public and the honor of the State is
involved. Let them support no man
who is not above the shadow of sus-
picion of being controlled by such
influences.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-07-12

The Memphis Appeal, Brownsville
Bee, States and other leading jour-
mails in West Tennessee, are urging
the claims of Hon. BEN j. LEA as a
candidate for Congress for the State
at Large. Aside from Col. LEA's
pre-eminent ability, they claim West
Tennessee is entitled to the candi :
date Col. LEA is one of the ablest
men in that division of the State, and
should he be put forward as the STAN
dard-bearer of the party, will make
q brilliant canvass, and represent
with distinguished ability the "Vol-
unter State" in the council halls of
the nation.
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CHERIFF SALE.

By virtue ola venditioni exponas to me d.
rected from the Circuit Court of Maury coun-
ty in case Of p. H. Southall, ex'r., vs.. John r.
Evans. Jesse E. Evans, Lee Bullock stsyor, /
will sell to the highest bidder for cash at the
Court House door in the town of Columbia, on
the second. Monday, the 18th day of August
next, all the interest that Jesse E. Evans has
in to tract of land situated in the State of
Tennessee, Maury county, 2lst civil district,
Evans lived on at the tune of his death; boun-
ded by the lands of Mrs. T s. Stratton, Isaac
G. Voorhees, heirs, Frank Evans, J. o. Beas-
ley, Thomas A. Leftwlch's heirs and others,
containing $50 acres, more or less. and sold
as the property of Jesse E. Evans. to pay debt
and cost. SIMS LATTA, ShH.
July IL, 1872. By B.A. Nichols, d. e.
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CHERIFF SALE.

By virtue of a venditioni exponss to me di-
rected from the Circuit Court of Maury coun-
ty, in the case of A. s. Goodwin and j ames
johnson, Administrators of Norvell johnson,
deceased VS.. w. H. Moore, James,,M. Moore,
r. T. Moore, Robert Baker, and H. H. Baker,
stayor, will sell to the highest bidder for
cash, at the Court House door in the town of
Columbia, on the second Monday, the 18th
day of August next, parcel or tract of land
in Tennessee. Maury county, Tennessee, dis
trict No. 1, on Dog Greek, near Kinderhook,
bounded by the lands of Potts, Stephen Oak.
ley, Neddes Dawson, George Russell, by esti-
nation one hundred and sixteen acres. more
or less. Sold as the property of W. d. Moore,
decd, to pay debt and cost.
SIMS LATTA, Shift
July -, 1872. By B. A. Nichols, D. Shift.
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.HERIFF SALE.

By virtue of venditIoni exponas to me d.
rected from the Circuit Court of Maury county
in the case of w. o Gordon Co., VS.. W. T.
Erwin, Blenan Erwin stayor, I will sell for
cash, to the highest bidder at the Court House
door in the town of Columbia, on the second
Monday the 18th day of August next, the fol-
lowing described tract of land, In the State of
Tennessee, Maury county, 18th district; bound
ed on the east by H. Fields, south by s. Erwin,
west by ]. l.. Williams, and on the north by the
lands of Frank Craig, containing l37 acres,
more orless. Also, one other tract in the 18th
civil strict, bounded OF the east by Frank
Craig. on the south bv Capt. Kinzer, on the
west by Dodso,, on the north bv s. Erwin,
supposed Ocontain 20 acres more or less. The
above land sold as the land Of w. T. Erwin
and Blenon Erwin, to pay debt and cost.
SINS LATTA, Sheriff.
July IL, 1877. By B. A. Nichols, d. s.
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The proceedings of the Convention
show that upon the vote on the adop-
ton of the Platform, which was the
same as the Cincinnati Platform-the
second Magma Charter of our Rights,
"a division occurred in the Tennes-
see Delegation. We hope to see the
vote given and the names published
that the people may know who,
among those entrusted as their rep
resentatives, in the great hour of trial,
proved recreant to the trusts reposed
in them.
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The Question Scttled...Greeley
and Brown nominated at
Eka ItimOre.

The Democratic Convention which
met at Baltimore on the 9th inst, rat
flied what the people had long since
done, and with great unanimity NOM
mated HORACE GREELEY for Presi-
dent and GRAFT Brown for Vice
President. The Convention was one
OF Che largest and most respectable
that has ever assembled in this coun-
try. That illustrious statesman and
incorruptible patriot, IIon.J. r. Doc
LITTLE, was selected as the President
of the Convention. The resolutions
adopted were such as every anti
Grant man in the nation, can and
must heartily endorse and approve.
The action of this Convention
virtually settles the question as TO
who will be our next President. If
there was any doubt before, there
can be none now of the certainty of
Mr.. GaEELEY's triumphant election
in November by perhaps the largest
popular vote ever east in Presiden-
tiai contest. All that was necessary
at any time 10 insure GRANTS over
whelming defeat was to bring for
ward man upon whom the opposi-
ton to his weak, imbecile and corrupt
administration, could unite. That
has now been done. The pure and
patriotic Democracy, purged of its
worse than worthless branches, have
wheeled into line" and will support
GREELEY and Brown with unanim-
ity and enthusiasm worthy the proud
est DAYS of her former triunphs
Tie thousands of honest and pat
rio,ic Republicans at the North and
Throughout the mighty Northwest,
who love liberty more than they do
party, and who cherish for the Con-
stitution of our fathersa respect and
generation far above all other con-
siderations, together with the Con-
sentative Democracy of the nation,
will. on the first Tuesday in Novem-
Der. march forward with the earth
quake tread of VIcroRr, to a glori-
Gus Triumph!
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-07-12

The following named gentlemen
compose the Democratic Executive
Committee for the sixth congress
iOnal district : w. B. Gordon, of
Maury John L. House, of William
son; Thos. c. Morris, of Dickson !;
James McCallum, of Giles; w. L.
Nixon, of Lawrence; j. A. Talley, of
Wayne; A. G. Cooper, of Lewis Lev.
McCallum, of Hickman.
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]. B. Scott and wife ct al, VS.. w. L. Hen
derson ct al.
It appearing from the petition of petition
erS filed in this cause that w. l.. Henderson
is nonresident of the State of Tennessee,
and q resident Of the State of Missouri, so
upon him; it is therefore ordered that publi-
cation be made in the Columbia Herald, a
newspaper published in the city OF Column
bia, for four consecutive weeks, requiring
the said w. l.. Henderson to be and appear
before the County Court of Maury county
on the first Monday in August next, then
and there to plead, answer or demur to the
petition of petitioners, or the same win be
taken for confessed as to him, and set for
hearing ex parte. Witness Jno. NJ. Hickey,
Clerk and Commissioner of said Court, this
juSS-4t. Clerk and Com'r.
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T AND SALE,

By virtue of decree of the County Court of
Maury county, at the December teri: 1871, in
the cause of Andrew ]. harris, ct al We. Thorn
as d. Harris ct al. viii! proceed to sell to the
highest bidder on Saturday the 21st day of
September. 1879, upon the premises in fhe 18th
civil district of said cou,ty. three valuable
tr acts Of land; one containing IFS acres, one
Containing 90 acres, and one containing about
one hundred acres, being the lands formerly
ow ned by Richard Hanis, deceased, and lying
on the east fork of Leatherwood creek. Said
rstely. Terms of sale I$400 in cash and the
balance on a credit of one and two years, notes
with approved security required of the pur-
chaser and a lien retained for payment of pur-
chase money. JOHN N. HICKEY,
July 5, 1872. Clerk and Commissioner.
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Mr.. BoRsT, of Virginia, stated in
the st. Louis Convention, that the
Festiniog marrow guage) railroad in
Wales, carried in 1870 ten thousand
tons of freight and eight thousand
passengers per mile, and in 1871 paid
a dividend of fifty per cent. This
enormous amount of work was done
without a single accident. What
other road has done as we'll? Does
this look as if such roads were not
safe, and could only do small BUSH
ness?.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-07-12

THE whole tendency Of the Gree
lev movement is to break down the
northern war party, which ought 70
have died out long ago, but which
the Grand Army of the Republican
organization whose object is topper.
petuate animosiiy, and to be used as
an engine Of orpression-has cher
ished and kept alive. As a kaleido-
scopic view is frequently improved
by changing the instrument around,
so political parties often advance their
interests by changing front and max
ing flank movements. The annihila-
ton of the old war party at the
North would mark Q bright and
hopeful era in American politics.