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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-12
The Weather of By-gone Ages.

The late Mr.. Babbage, of calculating
machine fame, had a singular faculty of
suggesting to knowledge. We
are told by one who knew him well that
it seemed possible to him to obtain an
exact record of the succession of hot
and cold years for long periods in by
gone ages. His plan was as follows :
Among the stumps of trees in some
ancient forests he proposed to select one
in which both the number and the size
of the rings that have been annually
produced were clearly marked. He
would write down the succession of hot
and cool summers so marked in this
tree, assuming that the larger the ring
in each case, the hotter has been the
summer. He then proposed to examine
| other trees of about the same date, until
he found some which recorded a series
of hot and cold season, exactly similar
to that which he had already noted
down, and until the series extended far
enough for him to be sure that the re-
semblance was not accidental, but that
he had before him a natural register OF
the same seasons which had been re-
corded in the first tree. As some OF
these trees would be somewhat older
than the first tree, while others would
have survived it, he considered that ii
would be possible, so to say, to piece
out the information obtained from one
tree by e of the others and that.
after examining a great number OF trees.
his record of warm and cold seasons
might be extended at both ends almos'
indafnitaly.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-12
WHEN A DREAM COMES TRUE.
BY CARL

Il JAM
I hold your hand in mine, my darling, darling;
I look within your eyes;
l ask you idle questions, only caring
To hear your low replies.
And all the while the glimmer of a wonder
A moon-lit rack of cloud
Fits DER my silent heaven of ioy, while under
It's stars my soul is bowed.
I think how oft the future will require it
"AE, how then did it seem ~
Tomorrow and tomorrow will desire it
Vainly as any dream. re
What is it more? In dreams the eyes are holden
They know not near from far;
I wake with outspread arms, a shadow folding
And such life's visions are.
1t is but touch and sight a little palmer,
A voice that telling, hides;
I doubt, 80 heart, art thou so much a gamer?
For something still divides"
O fire of God, o living, winged creature
That in this clay doth rise,
How canst thou warm to thy divine nature
These lips and hands and eyes?
Too eager quest, that hastest to their meeting,
Hoping desire to fill,
Thou standest half abashed, in tenderest greeting,
Yet finding welcome chill.
With stinted bread the lifelong hunger staying
With fasting visions blessed,
With longing that makes life perpetual praying,
A stranger her confessed.
If yet, o dearest heart, the world grows dearer,
Because tits sweet to stand
CWhile that which never has enough cries, Nearer)
One moment hand to hand,
What will it be when every barrier breaking
Lets heart to heart come through?
Will heaven leave one corner for an aching
When the long dream comes true?
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-12
Driving Snipe,

Among our own hunters was a trapper
named Shop Medary-a lively, royster-
ing mountaineer, who liked nothing bet
ter than to get a joke upon any unfortu-
nate "pilgrim" or "tender-foot" who
was verdant enough to confde in his
stories of mountain life.
"What a night!'' said Shep, as the
moon rose broad and clear what q
glorious night for drivin' snipel"
Here was something new. Two of our
young men were eager to learn all about
the mystery.
"Driving snipe! what's that, Shep?
Tell us about it."
"Did we never hear?" replied Shep,
with a face expressive of wonder at their
ignorance. "Why, it's as old as the
mountains, I guess; we always choose
such weather as this for drivin' snipe.
The snipe are fat now and they drive
better, and they're better eatin', too. I
tell you a breakfast of snipe, broiled on
the buffalo chips, is not bad to take is
it, Dick?"
Beaver Dick, who had just arrived in
camp, thus appealed to, growled an as
sent to the proposition contained in
Shops question; and the boys, more
anxious than ever, pressed Shop for an
explanation.
"Maybe," said of them, "maybe
we can drive the snipe tonight and get
a mess for breakfast; what have we got
to do, Shep?"
"Oh, well," responded Shop, eff
you're so plaguey ignorant, I'm afeared
you won't do. Howsomever, you can
try. You boys get a couple of them
gunny-sacks and candles, and we'll go
out and start EN- up"
Elated with the idea Of having a mess
) of snipe for breakfast, the two young
; men, under Shops direction, each
equipped with a gunny-sack and candle,
) followed him out upon the plain, half a
| mile from camp, accompanied by some
? half dozen members of our party. The
, spot was chosen because of its proximity
to a marsh, which was supposed to be
: filed with snipe. In reality it was the
swarming-place for mosquitoes.
"Now," said Shep, ~stationing the
: boys about ten feet apart, "open you
y sacks, be sure and keep the mouths Of
0 'em wide open, and after we leave yor
light YOU candles and hold 'em vel
e into the sack, so that the snipe can see
and the rest of us will drive 'em up
e 1t may take a little spell to get 'en
started, but if you wait patiently they'll
e come"
J. With this assurance the snipe-driver
# left them and returned Immediately t.
1t camp.
d GIVE got a couple of green 'uns GU
h there" said he, with a sly wink. "They'l
IS wait some time for the snipe to come ur
1t 1 reckon"
4, The boys followed directions-th
ze sacks we're held wide open, the candle
r kept in place. There they stood, tn
Of easy prey of the r~emorseless mosquitoe:
if An hour passed away, and yet from th
n ridge above the camp the light of th
Of candles could be seen across the plan
Id Shep now stole quietly out of CAM
~ and, making a long circuit, came up b,
70 hind the victims, and, raising a wa
whoop, fired his pistol in the air.
The boys dropped their sacks al
started on a tw~o-forty pace for cam,
G. coming in amid the laughter and shou
of their companions. -"Ascentof Mou
We Hayden" by r. p. Lanatord,
at ,Scribner.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-12
APACHE PETE.

Thar Amt no trusting an lnJun;
Hes d eatawampous cuss,
And when he's a doing of suthin' bad,
He's a wishing twas suthin' wuss.
And he'll lie and steal, and he'll
You out OF your very eyes,
And he takes his tod in a way that I,
As a Christian, do despise.
The most ongrateful, thankless wretch
That ever a teller seei
Favors is lost on the likes OF him,
So he never gets none from me.
There was little Pete, a 'Pache boy,
Which we had around the camp,
Down in Arizone, in 69.
And I've knowed that sneaking scamp,
When the boys was a havin' a little fun
And shooting, it might be, free,
To mosey behind a rock or stump, =;
Or shin hisself up a tree,
Till a Greaser chap, which was full of sin,
Drawed a bead on the yaller brat,
And Pete never felt the want OF specs
To read with, arter that.
They was little shot, and we seooped 'em out
= with our knives from the critters eyes,
Which never squirms a derned DIT,
Nor cusses, nor grins, nor cries.
But he takes a stick, in a blindish way,
And meanders outen the camp,
And strikes g trail for his cussed tribe,
Which we'd corraled in the swamp.
But he didn't forget us, that reptile snake!
was woke in the dead of night
By the bosses a rairin', and waltzln' round,
And cavortin' mad with fright.
Which it were a stampede, and the cattle broke,
With a painted, yelling mob
Awhooping like devils, and that thar Pete
A bossin' the little job.
They stamped the critters; nary a hoof
Nor ha'r was left behind,
And Pete elevated the Greaser's ha'r
Which was kinder goin' it blind.
Wal. thar warn't no jestiss out on the plains,
For the sojirs wouldt help,
And you don't go Injun-fghting on foot
If you happen to vally your skelp.
But it shows how the ornery varmints act
If YOU happen to cross their track;
They Just lays for you, and they fetches you
The minnit you turn yer back.
Satisfaction? Wal, no, I wouldn't say
As you'd feel you had much cause
To be satisfied, in a case like this,
BY killing a few old squaws.
Thet's why I'm riled when 1 hear 'em say
Tibet an Injun souls as white
As a Christian gentleman's like mine,
In God A'mighty's sight.
For put it far to a larned man,
As invited me to drink,
Rum is my tap and 1 SEE to him,
HI'd like to know what you think"
And he studied a bit in a jubous way,
And he didn't seem to take,
Which his language were, "'Tain't much of a 81
Tween a bar and a rattlesnake." -GTGpha
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-12

The BEEcHER SoANDAL.-A New York
letter says that the war against Henry
Ward Beecher, on the charge of his
improper conduct with women, contin-
ues, 70 the great injury of his paper, the
Christian Union, the circulation of
which has fallen off wonderfully within
the last few weeks. His friends urge
him to openly denounee the statements
as. false, and, in all probability, he VIII
do so before many days, although he is
himself opposed to such a course.
Theo. Tilton, and Bowen, editor of the
Independent, are solely responsible for
the ISLANDERS, and, as Bowen sits In
Beecher's church, the feeling against
him runs high.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-12
SOUTHERN RAILROAD PROSPERITY

SOUTHERN RAILROAD PROSPERITY "A
gratifying evidence of Southern prosper
ity is furnished in the recent report of
the directors of the Mobile and Ohio
railroad. The close of the war left it a
wreck and bankrupt. 1t now shows a
revenue of 81, 022, 2S5 for the year just
passed, the total earnings having been
nearly So, 900, GOO. This is the great
cotton road Of the south the figures,
therefore, show an increase of the staple
business and trade Of that section, and
promise well for the future.-Boston
Globe.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-12
Weighing the Evidence.

A short time since a worthy magis-
trate of New Orleans had a rather diff
cult question to Ndecide, in the solution
of which he struck out a path hitherto
unknown in jurisprudence. 1t seems
that twelve negroes appeared before
him, each one of whom wor positively
that himself and the other eleven had
done a certain amount OF work on a
steamboat, and was entitled thereby to
wages. It was a steady streak-each Of
the dozen swearing precisely the same.
On the other side appeared the mate OF
the boat and eleven deck hands, who all
swore directly and point blank to an OPP
posite state of facts to that testified to
by the twelve plaintiffs. Here the evil
dence closed, leaving the judge to make
up his mind.
His Honor scratched his head, looked
wise, pondered a few moments, and then
said: "The law makes it the duty OF
the court, when in doubt, to weigh the
evidence. I shall proceed to dc so IL
this case. You," turning to n of the
suing darkies, take your crowd ovel
to Nj. IS Ga grocery store in the
vicinity, and have them weighed, ano
bring me a certificate of their weigh
from the clerk. And you," turning tx
the mate, "do the same with yoursel
and witnesses. This court must max,
up a Judgment somehow"
The mandate of the court wa obeyed
the contestants appeared with their re
spectiye certificates, the mates part
outweighing the other by nine pounds
which was sufficient to turn the scale
of justice, for judgment was given 70
the boat.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-12

THERE are rumors of difficulties, po-
litical and otherwise, in the way of the
Duke of Edinburgh's marriage with the
daughter of the Emperor of Russia.
They say that there are high personages
at court strongly opposed to it, and that
hints have come from " cousins" in Ber-
lin that it might perhaps be as well even
if it did not take place. They say fur
Their that the Duke of Edinburgh will
have his own way, let everybody else do
or say what everybody else pleases.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-12

The seat in the astronomical section
Of the French Academy, made vacantby
the death of NJ. Delaunay, has been
filed by the election Of NJ. Loewy. The
opposing candidates were Wolf, Ste
phan, and Tisseraud.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-12

vi GllO l. VI Wiz $3.50 SOHS0
Der, Cole had invited the officers of the
Michigan to a supper-party. Every
thing was prepared for them, the wine
was drugged, and when by this means
thew had been rendered helpless, a sig
nal VS. to notify Beall that all was
ready for his attack. But n the mean
time suspicion had grown into certainty,
and, at the very moment of success, Cole
was arrested by order of the commander
of the Michigan, the signal was never
given. and Beall, ON board of the Par
sons, strained his eyes In vain toward
Sandusky and Johnson's Island, cruis-
ing ND and down outside the bay, now
talking with his prisoner, the Captain,
and now urging his men to dare all and
make the attack alone. But the men, a
disorderly rabble, gathered together in
Canada. refused to enter the bay /; and
at last. disappointed and disheartened.
Beall gave the signal to turn the boat,
and abandoned the attempt. BacA went
|. the Parsons, with her pirate crew, past
Kelley's Island, where the alarmed in
i habitants were burying their valuables,
? and looking for the flames of burning
Sandusky: past Middle Bass, where the
t unfortunate passengers, watching on the
l beach shortly after midnight, saw he
: fly by. the fire pouring out of her smoke
! stacks. and "making for the Detroi
: river like a scared pickerel." The Cap
q tain and those of the crew who had beel
t retained to manage the boat were pu
. ashore upon an uninhabited island, AM
;. after reaching the Canadian shore an
f scuttling the steamer, the pirates dis
landed, and Beall, the master spirit
g was left to brood over a failure whic
e had the additional bitterness Of possibl
+; success.
The Hickman courier., 1873-02-01
The Law Governing the Sale Of
Ardent Spirits.

The Law Governing the Sale Of
Ardent Spirits.
From the Good Templars Advocate.
All laws ought to be based upon
principle, and that principle ought to
be consistent with justice, and with
moral aud social duties. The laws
governing the sale of ardent spirits are
founded upon opposite aud conflicting
principles. One section authorizing
the sale of it, another prohibits re-
covery of the bar bill The first sec
ton proceeds upon the principle that
it is right and proper to sell it; the last
that it is wrong and improper. Ger
tainly, if it is right to sell it, 1t is right
to recover The account of the sale.
One man is allowed to sell it; another
is forbidden. One man may buy it;
another canpot, if bis relatives forbid
1t may be sold to Que of a certain age;
but to those under that age it is forbid
den. Restrictions govern it on every
hand, and all must pay heavy license
to carry it on.
The sale of ardent spirits is either
right or wrong. If right, then all per-
sons should be permitted to sell it iu-
Discriminatory. No special privileges
should be granted to few, to
do what all have right to do; and
no man should be required to pay
for the liberty of doing what he has
a lawful right to do-no more for one
legitimate business than another. If.
it is wrong, then no man should be
licensed to do wrong, aud the body
who grants such license is dangerous
to the interests of people whose in
stitutious draw their life blood from
the fountains of justice and purity.
If the Legislature can sell the privi
lege of doing wrong in one instance,
why not in another? And if this prin-
ciple is polite, why not go back to the
superstitions of the 10th century, and
taking the tariff dues of the Popish
government, where every species of
crime and absolution were offered TO
purchasers; so adopt them as to sell
the privilege of murder, robbery, poi
son, aud the reducing of family to
beggary. :
The honest law-maker is governed
By the following rules in dispensing
privileges: Anything moral and po
iltically right may be granted; any
thing morally and politically wrong
mast not be granted Is the sale OF
ardent spirits morally and politically
right or wrong? Its tendency to in
crease crime answers, a. IS nsoroHy
,,ropo. its tendency to DESTROY health
happiness, property and life, answers
in thunder tones, IL is politicaus
,orong. This every honest mind will
admit, and the present adherence mex
cusable. 1t is bowing of the neck
to the worst Of servitude; a yielding
of judgement to the tyraDt of custom
one which, if not remedied, will un-
dermine the foundations of moral Jus.
tice and political economy; one that
will curse the country, and then laugh
at its ruin. Coon TEMpLaR.
The Hickman courier., 1873-02-01
For the Hickman Courier.
Practical and Striking
TT.ITJSTR ATI0N
OF THE BENEFITS OF
LIFE INSU RAN CID.
HIcKMAN, K, Dc. l2, ls72.

HICKMAN, KY, Dec. y, 1872.
To Samuel Landrum, Esq District
Agent Mutual Benefit Life Ynsur
ance Company, Of -Ne,o Ark, Neao
Jersey:
SIR:-Allow me, through this letter, to
acknowledge the payment this day made
me by you of TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS
in full of policy No. GA, $50 upon the Life
of my deceased husband, Geo. Z. Cald-
well, late of this county. My husband,
during the war, resided in Missouri. and
at its close having lost in manner near
ly all his property, returned TO this coun-
try, and rented land IN Obion county, for
three years He then came 70 Fulton
the larger part OF -the money and mort
gaging the farm to secure its payment.
On the 18th of January, 1870, he was in
duced by you to apply for, and obtained
in the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Com
pany, New Ark, New Jersey, policy No.
81, 500, on his life, for Two Thousand Dol
lars, at 9 semi annual premium of S42 %,
so in case of his death, could be proviI-
ed with the means to save a HOME for my
self and children. lie died in August last, +,
having lived to pay only five semi annual
payments to tho Company.
desire to return to the Mutual Bene-
AZ, my sincere thanks for the prompt pay
ment of this loss, AMI also to yourself for
your kindness in making up the necessary
papers in proof of loss, free of any ex-
pense to me. Respectfully,
dli3m MARGARET A. Caldwell.
The Hickman courier., 1873-02-01

GRATUIToUs ADvERTIsING-The
avsiisbie space Of newspaper, says
the Clarksvills Chronicle, i to the
printer what the mer6bants stock, the
carpenters tools, the lawyers learning,
the farmers land are them-to earn u
living We can no better afford to fiji
our space with gratuitous puts than
the above mentioned can sell, work,
or advertise for nothing. Every line
has its value, and advertisements are
the life blood of our business. There,
fore, when the business public want
anything said concerning their pur-
suits, they should, at the same time,
expect to pay what it is worth. Ii
this policy was understood and prac-
ticed, printers would not be such poor
devils as they are necessarily made by
giving so much of their time and labor
for the benefit OF others.
The Hickman courier., 1873-02-01
Pay As Yon Gn-Wa have a r,

PAY AS You Cove have a very
large sum in the aggregate, owing in
small amounts to US, in this county.
The want of it may cramp our business
and, We would say to our subscribers
that if they will come forward, and
square up, that we will be greatly OBJ
liged to them. The amount owing
from each one isso email, that we can't
we'll afford to call on them by means of
collector, and yet the whole is not
inconsiderable. The greater majority
of our subscribers have a pretty good
idea of what they are owing, and if
they will put that nPOunt in letter
and send US by mail, or otherwise, it
will bo pretty apt to reach US. If they
are not in condition to balance up 10
full, let each one send US something
upon account and it will be placed to
his credit upon our books. Printers
dues are scattered all over the country
and We appeal to our subscribers to
aid us in getting them together.
The Hickman courier., 1873-02-01

A GIGAHTfe ENTERPRIsE.-The
building of the Mississippi Levee from
Hickman to the highlands ofTeuuessee,
and the consequence reclamation of
about two hundred thousand acres of
rich bottom" lands in Kentucky and
Tennessee, furnishes field for gigan-
tic speculation, to parties having the
capital to handle it. Whether the
enormous increased value of these lands
will be reaped by the present land
owners, by small spectators. or by
capitalists massing the whole in one
big sweep, is question of the future.
There is chance for sweep OF one
round million in the transaction to
parties ha,ing the capital and nerve to
venture. The bulk of these lands
could now be bought for from 81 to 50
per acre, while the character of the
soil, and the price of adjoining high
lands, warrant as a certainty that these
lands when reclaimed, would command
READILY from $40 to $50 per acre.
Capitalists who would by one hundred
thousand acres at 81, could safely de-
pend on making the same lands average
him $40, or one million dollars for the
investment.
1t is probably best these great in
creased valuations should result to our
home people. to men of small means,
and not millionaire capitalists. Hence
the interest of our home people sus
tanning a home corporation, which
makes each land owner or subsc Iiber a
stockholder, SO that the great increases
of valuation will be equally distribu-
ted. The field, however, is too rich,
too promising, to remain unoccupied,
and il our citizens remain Indifferent,
and forfeit the opportunity, foreign,
capitalists will gulp it all down. This,
levee is bound to be built in time
those laud owners who refuse to sub
scribe now will fually End it profitable
to sell to spectators at present figures,
who will afterwards consolidate their
interests aud build the levee. These
men may delay the work for several
years, but the levee will finally be
built.
The Hickman courier., 1873-02-01
SPECIAL NOTICES.

CHEMISTRY is furnishing us new agents
for fuel, force, food, and many other i'm
Ports from which commerce was driven
during the hot months, by their terrible
fevers, arc visited all the year with i'm
punity now. Many localities in the South
and West, kept tenantless by their dele
populations under the protection of Ayers
Ague Cure. Their affecting chills and
fever are so effectually cured by this rene
dy, that the disease no longer turns emil
grafton aside. or destroys the settler if he
ventures upon its infected Districts
Eazeffe Ind Md
The Hickman courier., 1873-02-01
THEDyersbuR Gazette publishes

TIE DyersbuK Gazette publishes a
letter from John 7. Scott. of New
Madrid, who is president of the St.
Louis and Memphis Iron Mountain
Branch Railroad. proposing TO bring
said railroad to the Mississippi river at
some point near Tiptonville, with the
view of meeting an extension of the
Nashville and Northwestern from Hick
man at that point; and Slso pro-
posed railroad from Tiptonville to
Dyersburg and Jackson, Tenn.
The Hickman courier., 1873-02-01

Col. Thomas c. Jones, county clesk
Of this county. has been spoken OF in
connection with the clerkship of the
Court OF Appeals. 1t is needless to
say to those who know him here, SO
favorably and we'll. that he possesses
every qualification for the distinguish
ed post. His acquaintance throughout
Southern Kentucky is very extensive
and which allied to this pluck would
render him 3 popular and formidable
Ocersboro Monitor.
The Hickman courier., 1873-02-01

THERE are those OF our city mana
gers discussing the idea of making the
chairman of the street committee and
the street commissioner one and the
same office. The rule has been to give
this position to the marshal. in order
that the salaries from both sources
might Justify his services. The duties
as street commissioners necessarily with
draw him at times from tae active dis
charge of his duties us marshal, but If
deprived of it the marshalship won't
psy. let the old rule continue.