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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-08-01
COTTON MANUFACTURE.
The Other side of the Picture Words of
Fneourage cement for the South.

The Othes Side of the Picture Words of
Encouragement for the South.
To induce parties in Georgia to erect
cotton mills, n southern writer the other
day compiled table of dividends de-
clared by some Of the eastern cotton
and wooden mills in 1873 This table
showed that 26 ont of AZ companies di-
vided from 10 to % per cent. each. In
order that the south may not be too en-
yious on account Of these enormous
profits the Boston JodrDal undertakes
to picture what it calls the other side
of the history of manufacturing in that
section. the losses and sacrifices oc-
curing during the history of these
mills before those profits were found.
Some of those mentioned as making
such dividends IL 1919, we are reminded
lost their whole capital at other times,
and had TO organize anew. The stock
o others, aid in at 81, 900 a share,
sold at $50 III 1s57. The Chicopee had
its capital cut down in 1860 from 500,
300 to S2l0, 600 by impairments and
SO on through the list. Still, these un-
pleasant "reminiscences nsasl not dis
courage men from eI1tyssyyg-fses -ts.a-Sa6k,zs
manufacture, for there are ups aud
downs, lights and shades in all busi-
ness, and the success of the mills at
Augusta, Ga, and other places in the
cotton country, shows clearly that with
economical management it is very prof
table to operate such manufactures in
the south, where all expenses of trans
pCrtation of the raw material is saved.
The results of the Augusta cotton
factory enterprise are such as to en-
courage the southern people to further
Efforts IN manufacturing. The depend
ence of the south on the north for man
ufRctured products was shown striking
" during the war, when, with cotton III
abundance, the wealthiest citizens were
obliged to purchase at enormous gold
prices clothing brought over in block
aie runners, while the poorer classes
were the roughest of homespun. Since
the war several praiseworthy efforts have
been made by southern capitalists "a
render Their section independent. Th Z
most successful of those enterprises isN
the Angus a cotton factory, started soon
after the war Only sixty thousand
dollars we're ever paid in, and the COM
pany has paid out in dividends 81, ,O68,-
coo, has property worth 81 200 coo, -.
S265, $40. During the fiscal year just
ended the company has expended $780,,
900 Cor new machinery and for the en-
largement and improvement of the
buildings. Yet Georgia only consumes
25. coo. bales of cotton in her mills,
about one-twentieth part OF her own
crop, while most of the other southern
states are without cotton mills, and
have to send their whole crop elsewhere
to be manufactured.-N York San.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-08-01
A Novel Way to Prevent drunkenness.

In Sweden a peculiar plan has been
adopted by the friends of temperance
for preventing the evils resulting from
an excessive use Of intoxicating liquors.
The authorities of GotteL burg in 1865,
began a movement which afterward ex-
tended throughout the kingdom, and is
said TO have been attended with the
most beneficial results. IT was based
on two ideas, first, no single individual
out to be permitted to derive any gain
from the sale of spirits and second,
that spirits ought not to be drank with
out the accompanying consumption of
solid food. The method adopted to
carry out these views is this: An in
corporated company in each town, con-
sisting of the most respected members
of the community, takes the entire re-
tail liquor traffic under its supervisiO4>,
selling at costssafter deddcting a margin
for leakage and breakage. The persons
put in charge of the places where
liquor is sold are paid salaries by the
company. The expenses paid includ-
ing the current rate of interest for the
capital invested, all profits are paid into
the town treasury. OF course where
liquor is sold at cost no profits can
accrue from that trade; but each public
house is allowed to sell at profit food,
tobacco and unintoxicating drinks, and
what is an important part of the plan,
every place where liquor is sold is
bound to supply wholesome cooked
food at all times during business hours.
The result of this system has been a
great decrease in drunkenness. It may
seem singular that making drinks cheap
should lead temperance, but the secret
of the business is very simple. In the
first place habitual drinkers. of small
means being able to satisfy their crav-
ings for liquor very cheaply, are, there
fore, enabled to buy nOurishing food
without depriving themselves of alco-
holic stimulants, which to them is the
first necessity, the food being always
ready at hand. And, in the second
place, as the traffic is not conducted foI
gain there is no temptation to sell i'm
pure, poisonus liquors which excite q
! desire for excessive indulgence, and at
the same time ruin the digestive organs
and destroy the appetite for natural
! food.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-08-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
EAST.

Four steamers of the White Star line
Fill hereafter leave Philadelphia for Liy-
rpool, instead OF sailing from New York
The mayor of Philadelphia has is
ued a proclamation Offering reward Of
s2O, 600 for the capture Of the abductors of the
hid, Charley Brewster Ross. and the re-
torasson OF the child.
The strike among the glass-blowers
Pittsburg, Pa, which has continued about
year is now at an end and the various man
factories are resuming business. The strike
as caused by pypposed reduction of wages
astern establishments being able to manu-
aeture glass cheaper than here. The men
re now willing to resume work at reduction
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-08-01
The Cotton Prospect.

The committee on information and
statistics of the Memphis cotton ex-
change have made a report derived
from 81 responses from West Tennes-
see, 80 from North Mississippi, 81 from
Arkansas. north of the Arkansas river,
Is, as follows OF 266 responses, 108
report favorable weather since the 18th
ult. /; 157, too dry; 1 too wet; III re-
port more favorable weather to date
than the corresponding date last year.
Two and three-fourths per cent. of the
crop planted has been abandoned from
drouth and overflow. Forty-two per
cent. of the crop was planted early. OF
the early planting, 40 report better
stands than last year; 50, not SO good.
OF the late planting, 165 report 1T bet
ter 100, not so good. OF the early,
206 report the crop well formed. and
boiled of the late planting, $50 report
favorarsy. On labor, 166 report labor
working we'll 100 only moderately
WELL OF early planting, 141 report a
better conditioned crop than last year
81, as well 80 not SO good. OF late
planting 102 say better rs as we'll 9O
not so good. The responses TO the gen.
eral condition indicate 1t has been bet
ter cultivated than for years, but su :
fering from continued drouth antici-
pating danger from frost upon tire late
crops with slight indications of rust and
blight. Twenty-nine per cent. OF the
crops planted did not come up before
June 1. Nineteen and three-quartel
per cent. was planted after the 20 OF
May.
Eighty-six report good corn crops
S8 fair and 80 inferior. One hundre 9
and ffty-one report good wheat crops q
moderte to poor 81 good. OF the @ @oa
crop 176 saw moderate poor. The
grass is generally poor owing to drouth
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-08-01
PLlGnTEp. a. D.1sz4.
' Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one"

NELLIE, l07Ujfstr.
Hess my hearth You're come 1t last.
Awful glad 20 see you, deart
Thought you'd died or sometbinF, Belle
Such an age since yOn'ye BEEN herei
NY eng cement? Gracious. les.
RumOr's bit The mark this time.
And the victim Ctarley GRAY,
know him, dont you2 Wen, he's prime.
Such mustacEiosi Speneid stylci
Then he's not so horrid fast
Naltzes like a serGph, too,
Has some fortuue-best aud last.
Love hi,u? Nonsense. DON'T be " soft 80
Pretty much as love now goes;
Hes devoted, and in time
III get used TO him, I s pose.
First love? Humbug. Don't talk stun!
Bella Brown, don't be fool,
Next yOui rave Of flames and darts.
Like a chit at bosrding-school
DON'T be " mified, " I talked just so
some two years back. Fact, my dear
Bat two seasons kilI romance,
Leave ones views of life quite clear.
Why If VIII Latrcbe had asked
When he lefl, two years ago.
u have thrown mp all and gone
Out 20 Kansas, do you knuW2
Fancy me a settlers wifei
h est escape, dear, was It not >
Yes, its hardly in my line
To enact " Love in Cot"
Meil,-s-oH see. I'd had my swing,
BaDu eugagGe at,se1sfEt 71f fetl. zz7s7s1z--
Got to stop some time, Of course,
SO It don't much matter when.
Aun1e hates old maids, and thinks
Every girl sho Id marry young
On that theme my whole life long
I have heard the changes rung
So, fl0 belle what could do?
Charley wants stylish wife,
Wen suit well enough, no fear,
When We settle down for life.
Bat for love-stufi See my ringi
Lovely, isn't it2 Solitaire.
Nearly made Maude Hinton turn
Green with envy aud despair,
Hers aint half so nice, you see,-
Did write you, Belle, about
How she tried for Charley, til
sailed ia and cut her out2
Now she's taken Jack Mcbride,
I believe it's all from pique-
Threw him over once You know
Hates me so she'll scarcely speak.
o yes Grace Church, Brown, and that,
Pa WON'T mind expense az last,
I'll De of his hands for good;
Cost foi tune two years past.
nv truusseau shall Out-do hIaudc's,
I've carte blanche from Pa, you know,
Mean to have my dress from Worth
Won't she just be rariHg though?
Alice Williams, en- ScFibHer's.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-08-01

ONE Mellen Cross, who mysteriously
disappeared from a Maine lunatic
asylum, and on whose alleged skeleton
a local coroner held an entirely salts
factory inquest, has turned up as an
ere, ,Nitic resident OF Deer Island, in
Bosom harbor, and the provoked coro-
ner aforesaid observes that no one but
a mailman would go off and leave his
skeleton behind him.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-08-01

and caparisoned. Let him carry a ban
ner and have an American flag in his
hat. Let him also have drawn sword
with which to keep off the small boys
and yellow dogs, and thus the last man
IN the procession Will cease to be the
most wretched object in existence.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-08-01
Don't Criticise.

Whatever you do, dou't set up for
critic. We don't mean a newspaper
one, but in private life, in the domestic
circle, in society. It viii not 90 any one
any good, and it will do you harm-if
you mind being called disagreeable. If
you don't like any ones nose, or object
to any ones chin, don't put your feel
ings into words. III any ones manner
don't please you, remember your own.
People are not all made TO suit one
taste, recollect that. Take things as vnu
find them, unless you can alter them.
Even dinner, after Is swallowed,
cannot be made any better. Continual
fault-fnding, continual criticism of con-
duct of this one and the speech of that
one, the dress of the other, and the
opinions of S'other, viii make home the
unhappiest place under the SUI
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-08-01

preserving few thin locks, at least, Of
natures fairest gifts. In that proyiJ ce,
D9wever, where the custom is for WON
Hh to wear hideous, close fitting caps,
klair which would be the glory of Amer
fican ladies' IS useless, and it is there
that the hair-merchant reaps his richest
harvest" "
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-08-01
Moral culture is the True End of Life.

Men ask, What have you got? What
do you know What can YOU do I?
God asks, What are You ? On the ans
wer to that question hangs our des-
tiny. Then all things, all incidents,
al gettings, all losses of this life,
should be measured 10y their outcome,
the resultant effect on our character.
A possession is good If it makes rs gen
erOus, if, in the use of it, we develop
all those right faculties that pertain to
its handling. But fnot, woe to the day
on which the wiDdfalI came Whether
it shall prove to US a godsend, or 3
curse, depends entirely upon our use Of
it. 4 loss may be a good if through
its means we develop these graces that
come from the patient endurance of
life's hard aud heavy things. In either
case we are not to estimate them by
what they are in themselves. This is
but a superficial, and thus false view
70 take. What they make OF US is what
determines their value. One of the
first times / ever preached without
notes, a friend said TO e g. cone disa
vantage is, that you haven't got the SER
mon, now it is preached" 'Yes," I
said, "but I've gottha practice of going
NANAAe w ~ u bSttLu4oN AAAtA-ANo a LIZ
collection of leaves and flowers, and
grasses. When done, the fire takes il. %
But the best part--the drill and prac-
tice aud knowledge acquired in making
the colleetion-these are left, and they
are worth more than dozen collee-
tions. The practice and study of col
lecting makes evena betanist. But one
might own the collection forever and
know nothing about it. a painter by
long years of work becomes skilled in
eye, and finger, and Judgment and i'm
agination. At the age of so he sells
all his pictures tosome one rich enough
to buy them. Hehas left only eye and
finger, and Judgment, and imagination,
and the skill of al these. But these
are as much superior to one of his pict-
ures as God is t, the earth he has
made. =, an utist But the man
who fills y ki;a his paintings
ma, he - 2 - =. -. - -. = ssc9mes
produces 1ti or VII 4 said for it. it.
You can buy piosX<. -at you can't
buy genius and sk5.-@ : j. Savage.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-08-01
FoREIcN.

Manuel Calvo telegraphs.from Spain
that troops viii be sent to Cuba to fill up her
original place
A carlist magazine exploded last week
at Quaza Thirty mon were killed and large
number wounded
The catholic bishop of Posen receives
fifteen months imprisonment for violating the
ecclesiastical laws Of Germany.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-08-01

A KALAMAZOO judge went to neigh
boring town to see a man, and tele-
graphed back to his wife, Have found
Garland; won't be home in week y
When the dispatch reached her it read,
:" Have found girl, and won't be home
IN week" Here let us draw vail,
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-08-01

A RETURNING enigrant wagon passed
through Cedar Falls, Iowa, last week,
bearing the expressive and euphonious
label, "D-n the grasshoppers.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-08-01

They can't agree in Denver how long
the blade of bowie-knife should be, SO
that you see all communities have a
skeleton in the closet, and no town can
expect to be perfectly happy,
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-08-01

'' The twentieth year is well nigh past
Since first our sky was overcast:
All would that this might be the last
NJ Nary -
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-08-01

Columbus, o., reports much valuable
roperty destroyed by the storm of last week.
It is estimated that not less than forty
ersons were killed by lightning in Minnesota
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-09-11
Fall BOnnets.

FALL bonnets are large, with faring
fronts, not coronets, but with the front
of the bonnet turned upward and out
ward. There are both stiff and soft
crowns in these combinations of velvet
and gros-grain. The new shapes come
sufficiently far forward and extend back
ward, being made with reference to the
new low couture that has very little on
top of the head and long loose loop be-
hind, called the Catogan loop, tied up be-
hind in the way horses tails are often
seen! There is still much face trimming
in the way of ruches of tulle or lisse and
twists of ribbon. Outside trimmings are
massed in the front and down the middle
of the crown. Partisan ladies wear COM
pact bonnets without any drapery, but
some imported bonnets have ribbon
streamers behind and wide strings
of silk. More colored bonnets are
brought out than usual, as the white chip
bonnets of summer will be abandoned
early in September, and ladies will want
a colored hat before putting on the black
velvet of midwinter. The refined choice
lies among such colors as seal-skin brown
with reddish cast, dark steel, dark gray,
and marine blue. Experienced milliners
have little faith in any new shades this
season.
Flowers are massed in clusters in the
front, and have branches passing down
the middle of the crown. Roses prevail,
as they always do. The dark red Japan
csc rose, with its fluted petals, is the nov
city; there are also many pale pink roses
and dark crimson ones, though but very
few tea-roses. Those colOred japanese
leaves which florists now cultivate in odd
gray shades, and dark reddish-maroon
tints, are the fashionable wreaths and
half-wreaths for face trimming.
Birds, above everything else, are used
on stylish Partisan hats. The whole bird,
with even it's feet perfect, is perched on
the side of the hat, or appears to be
flying down it's front. Black birds, with
red-tipped wings and red breast, are evil
IDENTIFY most popular. The taxidermist's
aid has been called in to designate the
startling, the lophophore, and the maroon
tanager, which are found among fash
ionable millinery. There are also many
humming- birds; some with sapphire,
some with emerald, and others with
topaz Threats. Two tiny "hummers, !"
with their long bills and spread wings,
nestle in the diadem wreaths of gray
leaves. Sometimes half dozen sharp,
slender wings are stuck IN a single
wreath-HaTper's BasGr.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-09-11
The GrasshOpper Scientifically
Treated.

The grasshopper is an orthopterous
insect of the GryIIats 0uzgar5s species, de-
scendant of the great grasshopper known
in England as the 05rid6ssSnaus. We be-
leve we hazard nothing in saying that
the "subiect of our sketch" is everything
that it's horrid appellation indicates-a
bug with so much Greek and Latin in it's
name cannot be anything but horrid.
And yet we are told that the G4yZJus 0uI-
garus is mere plaything in comparison
with it's great English ancestor, 05rSd5ssS-
mus. The latter can destroy an eighty
acre field while the former is getting up
an appetite.
We had intended presenting in this
issue life-size photograph or grassotype
of GryzELs, but upon reflection we have
concluded that it would be useless eX-
pense, as most of our readers are already
familiar with his general cast of counte-
nance It will be noticed that this
grass-ating or grass eating individual has
four joints to each foot-a sort of leg
quartet-each joint being as long
as Theodore Tilton's hair. Conse-
quently, when he assemblies in joint
convention, every precinct is sure to be
represented. No proxies are allowed,
unless he comes himself
Although his wings are transparent, we
have never heard anybody accuse him of
being "t0o thin" When his wings are
opened out for business they take up as
much room as a wOman's hat at theater
but when not in active use they are
folded longitudinally like a japanese fan
GryZILs possesses very fine head, the
features being about as expressive as a
Chinese nut-cracker; his nose is of the
aquiline order, with an independent
respiratory apparatus, which is used as a
sort of weather barometer. His teeth
are well developed and very sharp; each
grasshopper carries bottle of SOZodOnt
in his side pocket, and owing to their
excellent preservation he is rarely called
upon to secede from one of his molars
his jaws know nothing of the joys of
tOothache, and there isn't G1yllus in
Kansas or a 0Gr6d6ss6mus in England that
can look a dentist square in the face
without blushing
These insect-cannibals are very regu-
lar in their habits, only eating one meal
day, commencing at four o'clock a. m
and continuing until the same hour on
the following morning. Their principal
article of diet is Ar9ltenat7te1z1 ane7a@ceataoa,
which in vulgar parlance means grass
If the grass crop happens to be little
short they can easily accommodate
themselves to the situation by eating
corn, and when they tackle a field of
growing maize the owner also grows
amazed, and demands the appointment
of a receiver in bankruptcy.
The above are some of the peculiarities
of the grasshoppers as seen on a farm,
where they can be studied with much
prolific everybody except the farmer.
In the city, where the grasshoppers have
pre-empted the front yards, and amuse
themselves by turning handspring, run
ming foot-races and playing croquet, the
scene is entirely different, and the
GryElatses and young 05r5d6ss5naatsses show
to much better advantage.-I0pet0
(K01n) Commonwealth.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-09-11
The Cow and Her Food.

IT was once supposed that the material
for nourishing the various parts of the
animal body and supplying it's varied re-
quirements was elaborated in the body
of the animal out of whatever food con-
sumed; that in feeding animals, for in
stance, it was only necessary to supply
them with such food as they could di-
gest and the vital functions would mold
it into any shape or condition to suit the
purposes of life; that the body was a
chemical laboratory in which fat or mus
Gle, nerve or bone could be formed out
of any digestible food. This theory was
followed by another that all the material
which enters into the composition of the
body must be ready formed and in con-
ditiOn suitable for assimilation before it
is eaten; and that all the animal has to
do in digesting it's food is to separate the
several elements of food from the innu-
tritious parts and form each other and
appropriate them; that, in short, the ami
NAL is only machine for separating and
depositing the elements of nutrition con-
tanned in the food consumed. Neither
of these theories is wholly false nor
wholly true. 1t is true that food must
contain certain elements ready formed
or it cannot serve the purpose of life };
and it is also true, to limited extent,
that one kind may be converted into an
other and varied in its use.
The supporters of respiration, gum,
starch, sugar and fat, may change forms,
but all those forms must end in fat or be
burned in respiration. They can never
form flesh or bone. They contain no
nitrogen to make flesh of, and no rain
eral for bone The albuminoids, albu-
men, fbrid, casein and gluten may
change forms under the influence of the
vital force, but they alone can build up
the flesh and tissues of the body. They
are not, however, confined to this pur-
pose. They can, by parting with oxy-
gen, support respiration or furnish fat.
The extent to which albuminoids are
thus convertible is limited, but that they
may serve to build up flesh and support
respiration also is well known. The
farmers COW, like all other animals, is
part chemist and part machine, and in
feeding her to derive a revenue her
double capacity should be kept in view.
When considered as chemist it is i'm