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Middletown transcript., 1873-03-08
Srlrtt Storp.
From ths Bci-Air .kai, and h,,iiiqeneer.
The two Kentucky Heroines.
A Tale Of the ozark aud Bioody Ground.


During the early settlement of Ken
lucky n scene occurred in the Dark and
Bloody Ground" that stamped the name
Of lady and her servant girl, with the
name of hcroincs. MIR. David Hickman
removed from eastern Virginia into the
then new State Of Kentucky. He bought
a. house and parcel Of ground from one Of
the first settlers, which was situated ON
the Kentucky River, at a place now call
ed " Hickman's Bridge, about sixteen
miles from Lexington The Doctor was
high-toncd Southern gentleman, an able
physician, aad was highly esteemed by
all who knew him. He was Of q roman
tic temperament. and his new homo an
swercd his every wish. His little farm
was on a beautiful plnteau formed by q
bend in the river. which here winds its
tortuous course between high perpendicu-
lar limestone rocks. Those grand line
stone cliffs, the beautiful placid river, the
gigantic forest trees, the profusion Of
Wild flowers Of every hue. and the rich
abundance Of luxurious pastures all COM
bined to make the place modern Eden.
The Doctor, by his social and urbsue
manners soon made himself very popular
in bis now home. md he soon obtained an
extensive aud rcmuncrative practice. His
family consisted Of his wife, two children,
6ns boys Of six and eight years an Irish
servant girl named Betty Malone, and an
athletic negro slave named Jim.
Mrs. Laura Hickman was lady Of re-
fnement and education. She belonged
to one Of the first families of the Old Do.
minion. She was kind. loving and aGsc-
tionste. and was possessed Of large share
Of true bravery. Always calm and col.
lected in time Of danger, yet she had the
will and ability ia act in cases of smer-
gency. Betty was handsome Irish girl
Of about twenty summers. She idolised
the Doctor and his family, and would have
exposed her own life to save any member
Of her masters household She. like her
mistress. bad. the art VI being calm in case
Of danger. She had complete control Of
her passions. but woe to the man that At
tempted to iDjurc her or any Of her friends.
Jim res . remarkably large negro. He
was as active rs q wild cat and had the |
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A remarkable nnecdote was recently
told by the Hartford Courant Of a railway
conductor who received n 81. 900 green
back from passenger as fare. promising
to return the change. When the conduct
or went to fulfill bis promise the man de-
uicd having given him the note No cluo
to the strange mans identity has ever been
discovered, but the Chicago Tribune has
evidently struck the right trail II says /:
Recent developments indicate that the
mans name must have been NcstitS5is
with the conductor was very
slight; and his method OF bestowing green
backs upon strangers 20 extraordinary
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TINS OR Tmar'-A small paper, i.
seems. may use the largest Of words. The
Boston--, which is supposed to be print
ed especially for the benefit Of little. mo nth.
ed ladies, says: 1T is not nsedful that We
advert to the growth, whether exogenous
or cndogcnous, OF the city Of our home and
hope" OF course no other place can
grow in such truly scientific way whs.h-
cr rxog or endog.
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$tlett poetrp.
Tit for Tat.
on rnx coerxrTs rrslsaRp.


Ellen was fair, and knew II too;
A. other village bsautiss do, aH
Those mirrors never lie,
Secure OF any swain she chose,
She smiled on hnif-a-doxen bcaus,
And reckless Of another $ woes
She cheated these and TAINTED those,
For how could any one suppose,
A clown 10 take her eve.
Bat whispers through the village ran
That Edgar was the happy man
The maid designed TO bless,
For whcresoevcr moved the fair
The youth was like her shadow there,
Aud rumor boldly matched the pair,
For village folks will guess.
Edgar loved, but still delayed
To make confession TO the maid
SO bashfui was the youth,
But left the fame In secret burn
Certain Of meeting return,
When from his lips, the fair should learn
ofhcally the truth.
Al length one morn to taste the air
The youth aud maid In Il onc-horse chair
A long excursion took;
Edgar had Dervcd bis bsshful heart
The swce, confession to impari,
For u, suspense had caused n smart
lie could no longer brook.
He drove nor Stacked once his reins
Till llcmpsicad's wide extended plains
Seemed joined 10 sky above;
No house, no shrub, no tree was near
The wide and dreary waste 10 cheer,
Or soul within ten miles to hear,
And sill poor Edgar's silly fear
Forbade 10 speak OF love.
Al length, one desperate effort broke
The h,shiul spell, and Edgar spoke
With most persuasive tone,
Rccountcd past attentions o or,
Then by all that's lovely swore
Tha, he would love furcvermore
II she would be his own.
The maid in silence heard his prayer,
Then with mos, provoking air
She Uttered In his face
why sir, II is time for you TO know
A lively girl mus, have beau r
Just like u reticule, Tor show,
And at her nod to come and go,
Ba, he must know his place.
Your penetration must he dull
10 let thought within your skull
or natrimony dwell
Your wife, ha ha upon my word
The though, Is laughably absurd
AS any Thug ! ever heard,
never drcami uf such q thing.
The lover sudden dropt his rein,
Now on the centre OF The plain,
The l!uch pin out he cried
lie pleased one moment 10 alipht
TIL | do set the matters right
That we may safely ride.
He said, and handed out the fair,
Then laughing cracked his whip in air,
Adieu, my dear leave you there
In solitude 20 roam
Whn, mcan you sir, the maiden cried,
Did you invite the out 10 ride
To leave me here wiihou, "A guide,
Nay stop and take me home.
Take you home. exclaimed the beau,
Indeed should like to know
How such hopeless wish could grow
Or In your bosom spring
Take Ellen home, npon my word
The thought is aughsbly absurd
As anything ever heard,
never dreamt OF such thing.
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Words are but the indices Of tho senti.
mcnts embtaced in tho volume Of the soul
Ths ersstsst volubiiity At ustsfsncs ssa u
no. give but small portion Of the treas /.
ure that is in the vast storehouse Of The
mind.
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The man who can't be happy unie,s his
mcthcr-in-law lives in tho same house
with him. isn't . rssidsnt Of New York,
says an exchange. He lives IN Jersey
City Hc says shes tho only woman
who can tackle his wife successfully.
They take up so much tins jawiug each
other tha, he has q peaceful time.
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BE wise. Prefer the person bcfbrs
money, virtue before beauty. the mind BE-.
fore the body; then hast thou in = vise.
= friend !. . companion. Who will bssr an
equal share IN Ill Thy tolls and sfiiic.ions.
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REYNOLDS & CO.,
No 10, Exchange Building,
vii N GTON. ID q l. Az A n 4.

Csnveysnccrs, Survc, ors Real Estate Agents,
Collectors Of Accounts Bills, &c.
Houses and Lands rented, and rents collected /;
Loans negotiated; Titles examined Deeds
Bonds, Mortgages, and other Legal papers care
fully drawn, aud supervised by counsel pcrma-
nently retained. Correspondence solicited
Reference furnished.
REYNOLDS 4 CO.,
No. ~, ExcnASGg BriLDiSG,
Jan ll-6mos Wilmington, Del.
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Plat alschood-Lyiug on your back.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-07-30
THE PRESIDENTS SALARY.

| Much abuse is just now being heaped
upon the President for not refusing to ac-
cept the increase Of salary voted him by the
last Congress. 1t seems to us that the pa
pers making use ofthis matter to prejudice
the people against President Grant mistake
very much the temper ofAmerlcans on this
subject There are several things to be
considered in connection with the increase
of his salary which are worthy of atten-
ton, and as we have had very little to say
on the subject, we propose now to suggest
them.
In the first place II was very evidently
the purpose of the trainers of the Consti-
tuition to provide liberal salary for the
Chief Executive of the nation. They
fixed the salary then at twenty-five thou
sand dollars. That sum has remained I'M
changed ever since. 1t was then, and up
to the war continued to be, liberal sal
airy. All things considered, twenty-five
thousand dollars in 1910 was little more to
President than fifty thousand in 1873.
The cost of living has greatly increased in
Washington in the past fifty years. The
salary of the President of the United
States about equals the money allowed for
Napolean's stables, or for the horses of the
NLdI VI INuSSld
AS to the veto of the salary bill, there is
this to say in behalf of Gen. Grant. The
Constitution makes Congress the sole
judges of the compensation to be voted its
members. 1t was intended that they
should regulate this pay according to their
surroundings. Their right to fix their sal
aries is at the end or at the beginning of a
Congress, just as seems to them best. The
salary bill fixed the pay of Senators and
Representatives as well as the President
To have vetoed that law would have
been blow at the independence
and judgment of Congress which
q President would be slow to give. Con-
gress is responsible to the people, not to the
President, for the amount of salary they
vote themselves, and the President could
well afford to remand the question to the
people.
There was no increase to date back in
the Presidents case. The Constitution
forbids that and the law did not attempt
it. The question, so far as the President
is concerned, is purely whetheran increase
to fifty thousand dollars was Just. We
have always favored paying liberal sala-
ries to public servants, and then holding
them to a strict account for their time and
labOlS.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-07-30
political HARANoUEs OUT OF PLACE

We can not imagine why colleges and
universiles in the South. SO often select
politicians to deliver addresses on COM
mencement occasions, nor why these poll
ticians invariably deliver political har-
rangues on these occasions. If the prime
object OF these O insttutisnsE be to
keep alive the spirit which
brought the rebellion about; if it is
thought the hearts of the Southern youth
should be kept fired with sympathy for a
lost cause, then the proper course is pur-
sued, and we understand what they are
about. But what is to be gained by this?
Have the young men of the South no
higher mission to perform, than to go
through the silly form of war against
Northern people, because the negroes
have been set free?
We have just seen a long address, deliv-
cred by Gen. Thomas L. Clingman before
the literary societies of Davidson College,
n. c., which is of the nature above alluded
to- 1t is lengthy and well delivered, but
it would, in our Judgment, have been
much more appropriate as political stump
speech.
He labored to show that the war was not
such q bad thing after all, and that the
Southern people did right in going into it,.
AS a politician, appealing to the sympa
thies and prejudices of popular audience,
for the purpose of bolslering up parti-
san theory, it would have been eX-
cusable, probably. but we can not see
how be is justified in delivering such a
harangue to a lot of young men, who are
preparing themselves for lives of honor to
themselves and to their country. .H
In marked contrast with these foolish
efforts, was the late admirable impromptu
address of Hon. Horace Maynard
to the graduating class of the East
Tennessee University. With nothing
of partisan politics, it was full of good add
vice to young men, which, if acted upon
by all, would make such a change in a few
years as would be perceived by all felt by
ALL and be source of pride and gratitica-
ton to all. We are proud of the
fact, that in this community, public
opinion would not allow political
harangue on such an occasion. If it were
attempted by any man, he would be hiss
ed, and would incur the Indignation of
men of all parties. In our University, we
want to educate young men for usefulness
in whatever sphere they may move, and
are willing for them to entertain whatsO-
ever political opinions tiiey Choose with
out seeking to influence them by eT.pdTtG
statements or discussions from professional
politicians
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-07-30
THE Mopoc CHIEFS.

one year ago, an international peace
tribunal was sitting at Geneva, to pass up
on the principles to control the final settle
ment between America and England, rel
alive to the Alabama claims. 1t was an
august tribunal, before which appeared a:
counsel the highest legal talent of two
great powers. It's deliberations were
watched with great interest by the
civilized world. It's decision has
been put upon the record of the worlds
events as the decree of the first grand peace
tribunal of this century.
There is a trial progressing to-day at
Fort klamath Of a far different character,
yet one of sufficient significance to merit
some attention at the hands of American
readers. 1t is not an international
tribunal though the defendant on trial is
the representative of race that within the
last half century possessed and controlled a
territory out of which might he taken
fifty states of the size of England. The
representative of that mighty race
stands to-day as defendant before mil
itary commission, organized by the Re-
DuDllC llldl has bGti NltdlGu uIOil bilO
hunting grounds of his ancestors. With
out that recognition as the head of nation
which the numbers and power of his faith
ers once entitled MIN to, he pleads his own
cause in a speech full of Indian pathos and
eloquence. Losing sight for the time be-
ing of the brutality of his assassination of
the lameuted Candy, one cannot fail to feel
sympathy for the chief of tribe driven
inch by inch from happy and rich hunt
ing grounds on to the very shores of the
distant Pacific. The resolute march of
the white man westward, has rescued
from the hands of savages the fertile plains
of the rich Western States, and has left
the chiefs of his once powerful enemies
powerless in the lost forests assigned to
them for their ultimate humiliation. The
trial of Capt. Jack is picture in the clos
ing act of the life of the red man on the
Western Continent and as such deserves to
rank amongst the noted trials of history.
His defence is the same one so often heard
from Indian savages, and one in which
there is more merit than most of us are
willing to concede. 1.-THE white man adj
vised me to the course I pursued, " says the
savage chief. We do not doubt it, and we
do not hesitate to believe that white men
are the cause of most of the Indian out
breaks on the frontier. Yet it is not diff
cult to predict the fate that awaits the
Modoc Chief Without legal justification
he took the life of a noble mau, whose sole
aim was to do justice between the savage
tribe and his own government. For this
crime the Chief will lose his head, and
the little band, marching to their eternal
! hunting grounds, will be one less.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-07-30

THIS summer seems to be hard on the
newspapers. The Nashville Union and
american has cut down its size very mate
rally, and the Banner runs less matter
than in the spring. The Memphis Avo-
ld,cho shranll into smaller sheet some
time ago, The Chattanooga Times has
bill-poster type, and runs about what
would fill the local columns of the CHRON-
ICLE. f. fn ., H't .t
The weekly papers in Tennessee have
cut down in matter pretty generally. The
newspaper business is different from most
others. Advertisements may drop off and
subscribers may lessen their expenses by
stopping their paper, but the expenses of
issuing paper can not be materially less
ened. Readers are hard to please and
whether business is brisk or dull they.
want the latest news and plenty of it. AS
soon as a newspaper tries to make its ex-
penses correspond to its receipts by reduc-
ing its size or lessening the amount of
matter---for every line of reading matter
cots so much in mposition--subscriber
complain. The press of the State, one and
all, feel the hard times quicker than any
other business
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-07-30

THE Augusta Chronicle aud Sentinel re-
fers to the new State movement in agita-
ton in the Western portion of this State
and other localities, and says - the negro
pressure is the cause of this movement.
Despairing of getting relief from the des-
potism under which they are groauing in
any other manner, the whites are about to
seek it in the proposed separation
This is the first time We have heard the
reason assigned. We do not see how this will
bring the relief sought by so grave step.
Certainly Tennessee cannot be relieved
that way, for that part of the State which
seeks TO become part of the new State,
contains larger proportion of culored peo-
pie than the Other sections OF the State
The Chronicle and Sentinel iutimates thai
if the present movement il successful that
other localities will look for relief in the
same way.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-07-30

THE JonesbOro' Herald and Tribune,
one of the best weekly papers we get, says
in reference to the farmers:
Let the farmers organize; but let the
object of the organization he to promote
general education, to improve their system
of farming and advance the interest of all.
Let them leave politics entirely out of their
proceedings and give politicians generally
the go-by. If they are allowed to creep in
their baleful influence will be felt and the
usefulness Of the organization will be to a
large extent impaired"
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-07-30
NO CHANCE FOR A NEW STATE.

The Convention to consider the propri-
ETY. of organizing new State out of West
Tennessee and contiguous country, met
yesterday in Jackson. There was a great
deal of talk and many predictions of the
great results to follow such an organiza-
ton, but it will all be time wasted. We
are surprised to see so much time and
money frittered away I'M project that has
not the shadow of a chance to succeed
We feel entirely satisfied that Congress
will not even give it serious consideration
The large States of the Union are now, as
they always have been, jealous ofthe power
and influence of the small States. Rhode
Island and Delaware have as many votes
in the Senate of the United States as the
great COmmonwealths of New York and
Pennsylvania. All persons familiar with
the debates in the convention that framed
our present Constitution, and with the
history of its adoption by the various
States of the old Confederaey, know how
great an effort was required to over
come this objection of inequality urged
by the larger States. Those familiar
with the history of the formation of
West Virginia know that it required the
special efforts and all the influence of
President Lincoln to secure the consent of
Congress to that division. The project
could not now be carried through, and
there never has been Congress since the
one that consented to the new State. that
would consider it as a new proposition.
. Just after the war the old project Of max
ing a separate State out of East Ten
nessee and Western North Carolina
was revived. There were then very strong
reasons urged in behalf of the measure
-reas ons which, we trust, may never again
exist. Those reasons presented the
project in peculiarly strong light to Con-
gress. AT that time the writer had reason
to pretty thoroughly canvass the measure
in Washington, and he was surprised to
find what little encouragement it received.
Nearly every prominent, thoughtful SEN
ator and Representative very decidedly
but kindly said that it stood no possible
chance of success. As we said before,
East Tennessee then meriled and re-
ceiyed special recognition at Washington,
IL
separate State met with few well wishers.
We think, therefore, that our friends in
West Tennessee are wasting their time in
talking about a new State. The same eff
forts directed towards more fraternally
uniting the States we already have, would
deserve, as they would receive encourage
ment from every direction. Tennessee
ia 10 M, 40 a 4
more firmly together her three sections.
Talk of separation will not help i'm that
direction. If West Tennessee insists on
going, we have no objection, but at the
same time we tell her she can not tear
herself away. higher power says no.
Her most sensible course is to put her
shoulder to the wheels of the old State and
help push her forward to the high position
she ought to hold in the great sislerhood.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-07-30

Eek GOV. FooTEis writing for the WASH
ingtou Chronicle a series 0 articles. telling
what lie knows about public men. His
first article was about Lincoln and Chase
and the appointment of The latter TO the
high and honorable position Of Chief JUS
tice of our highest Court. 1t Sc ms Foote
tells good del more Ihan the facts. for ne
says Chase was appointed by President
Lincoln TO induce him Ia Withdraw from
the contest for President. The facts are chat
Mr.. Chase was not appointed until long
after Pr sident Lncolu was rr-nominated
and until after the Presidential contest of
1864 was settled. IL IL an Insult TO the
memory OF both these honored and re
VeTed dead statesman 10 say that they bar
gained over the appointment OF sucn an
Office. II Gov. F"ole has MOI more
truthful facts to give lac better give up his
writing.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-07-30

BRIGHAM EoUEG is sad. Discord mas
entered his household. The divorce law
destroys his peace. Ia his old age, when
all OF his hetrothed are expected to So
lace his declining years, his seventeenth
Wlle, taxes II lhtO her Uranium, that there
Is happiness outside Of Brigham's house
hpIu. She sues Tor a divorce in a gentle
court anu nthets, not of the Mormon elect
are 10 decide on his family relations. Bur
II MS MA succeeds in dissolving the
bonds which reduced "the twain to one
llesh," he can console himself with the
thought that there are still others left aud
" that there are just as good fish in the sea
as any that have ever been caught
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-07-30

IT is gratifying fact, that at no time in
the history of the country, has the South
been so prosperous, generally as now.
This is fact, the croaking of sore-heads to
the contrary Notwithstanding. We are
producing more than ever, and we have
advanced more in all that appertains to
civilization, in the past ten years, than in
the same period mt any epoch in
our history. And this advance
has gone on in the face of persistent
opposition from a large proportion of the
Southern people. They have fought every
thing that was calculated to build up the
country on solid, firm basis. Recently
they have seen the error of their way, and
now there is not a corporal's guard who
have the hardihood to oppose free schools,
free speech and free thought.
The South is freer to-day than ever be-
fore. Every man may boldly proclaim his
political or religious sentiments, in any To-
cality, with few exceptions. And this
has all been brought about by the admins
tration of affairs under the policy of the
Republican party,
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-07-30

A ROMAN astronomer has arrived at til
conclusion that the sun varies in size. The
startling revelations of science make any
new announcement within bounds. Hdr-
0er's Magazine for August says
1t would seem that the outer surface of
the sun-the photosphere as seen by US
is gaseous envelope in state of continu-
al and perhaps periodical change, such
that the diameter of the solar orb, as
measured by the aid of the telescope, is
least in the region of the greatest spot ac-
tivity-that is, the solar equatorial belt
does not bulge out as does that of the
earth, but on the contrary, the solar po-
lar axis is the largest diameter of that
body. The excess of the polar over the
equatorial diameter is, however, very
small quantity, and may be referred either
to tides in the photosphere or to the in
fuence of the solar spots themselves.