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The Hickman courier., 1874-03-07
THE GHOST THAT jim SAW.

BY BRET HARrE.
| - why, as to that said the engineer,
Cle 1nosts ain I things we arc apt to fear.
| spirits don't fool with levers much
Ana throttle-valves don't take to such;
And as for Jim
What happened to him
was one-half fact and t'other half whin!
Running ole night on the line, he saw
no fse-as plain as the moral law
Just by the moonlit bank, and thence
came a drunken man with no more sense
Than to drop on the rail,
As Jim drove by with the midnight mail
:. Down went the patents. steam reversed.
Too late! for there came 4 sthud' JIM cursed
As A tle fireman, there IN the cab with him,
kinder stared IN the face of Jim,
And says What now =
Says Jim, what now
We Just run over a man-that's howr
" The fireman stared at Jun. They ran
back' but they never found house nor man
Nary a shadow within a mile
Jim turned pale, but he tried TO smile
Then on he tore
Ten mile or more,
Ia quicker time than he'd made afore.
:. Would you believe st the very next night
) -, . 5.ss sna5 mouse IN the moonlight whte
'ccurred, Til folks swore jim vas cracked.
hat met Jim, east, ard says, 'How's your
ghost?
Gone said jim; and more it's plain
That ghost don't trouble me again ;;
1 thought 1 shook
That ghost when took
place on the eastern line but look:
What should / meet the fret trip ont.
3ut that very house that we talked about,
md that self-same man : 'Well,' says I, L guess
is time to stop this yer fOolishness,
So crammed on steam,
When there came scream
from my fireman-1nd 1t broke my dream
you've killed somebody Says l. Not much
we been there often and thar amt no suchi
md now III prove it, Back we ran,
my skin i-but thar trUs a man
On the rail, dead,
Smashed III the head
Tow I call that meanness = That's all Jim SAID.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-07
SMALLPOX.

Smallpox, speaking non-medlcally,
takes fourteen days to incubate. Its
SYMPTOMS commence with severe weak
ness and pain in the small OF the back,
which the uususpecting victim attrlb-
utes in some way to the kidneys. The
system becomes feverish and the spirits
unusually depressed. Before the dis
ease really manifests itself, and at
point where no physician can diagnose
1.-THE symptoms being so similar to
scarlet fever, M asles and other dis
eases-the sufferer complains of f. .verish
symptoms, severe headache, insupport-
able lassitude, loss of appetite-ln
short. the unmistakable signs of an APP
preaching malady which is to shake the
system to its base, and test the powers
of vitality and strength to their utmost
tension. Then breaks out the unmls
taxable eruption which marks the fell
DESTROYER, and it is then that the friends
of the patient should either have him
removed, or at least guard the SICK
room that the contagion may be kept
within the closest limits. If there is no
hospital near, flag should at once be
hoisted to indicate to passers by that
the lintels of that door have been
brushed by the destroying angel.
Every man is liable to smallpox,
even a second time-some more than
others: and it is a we'll authenticated
fact that the mind has an immense deal
to do not only with the liability to con-
troll infection, but with the power to
withstand the shock. Fear may be
called the greatest friend, next to GER
tain habit of body, which the smallpox
has. A man has been known to catch
it by simply seeing case upon the other
side of road, which had been dis
missed from a hospital cured ; and he
has felt that peculiar shudder, which
veterans will tell you they remember tc
have experienced at the moment iron ,
which they date the reception OF the
Doison into their system.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-07
Foote'S Duels with Prentiss.

The Paris Kentuckian is reminded by
the recent wordy duel between Henry
:, Foote and Jefferson Davis, of the ae-
count VIII ch the late Sargent s. Prem
tiss gave of the causes of the two duels
between him and Foote. A friend of
Prentiss was at the point of death from
an attack of n10nid-G potu. For a
week his physicians had essayed every
known remedy to put their patient to
sleep, but In vain. Prentiss knew that
Foote had made visit to Texas. He
was hunting his sick friend, when a
consultation of the doctors was held,
and they announced that the case was
hopeless, unless the patient could be
put to sleep, but that they would ex-
haust all means known to the profes-
sion. Prentice sprang from his seat,
and said to the doctors, Dammit, give
him Foote'S book on Texas to read, and
Will insure its soporific effect" The
remark of Prentiss was too good joke
to be k pt, and it reached the ears of
Foote, who challenged, and Prentice
was too much of a southern cavalier to
decline, and they met, and Foote was
Awounded and the parties made friends.
It happened that the meeting was so
notorious that a very large collection
ness it, and among them a number of
boys, who were so anxious TO get full
I1ght, that climbed up many trees about
the grounds. When the seconds had
planted the parties, Prentiss looked
around and saw the boys in the trees,
and iestingly remarked "Boys, you
had better take care; ; FoOte shoots
mighty Wild" This remark was pub
lished in the papers, and annoyed FoOte
to such a degree that he again chal-
lenged Prentiss, who met him a second
time as a gentlemanly solace to Fc ote's
wounded spirit. At the meeting FCote
fred and missed, and Prentiss fired his
pistol in the air, and the parties were
again reconciled.
Foote's Texas dropped still-born
from the press, and it is believed il
would be hard to find copy, valuable
as it might prove as narcotic.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-07

around the TAX 81
for Ira TO come back. =
Here Mr.. Yeomans showed ap
shirt-sleeves and mixed a cocktail for
George A. Smith and Bishop Stenhouse.
After the cocktails had disappeared, he
continued :
Well, you see, in about five min
utes Ira he came back. They all be-
gan talking and laughing, ana Ira be-
gan Dragging about the game he was go
ing to shoot. Hackett stepped up to
the corner and picked up Ira's gun. He
turned her over and sighted her two or
three ii es, and then asked Ira what
kind of gun she was. Ira said that
she was pretty good shooter that he
had used her half dozen times, aud
that he didn't have any fault to find with
her. what did you pay for her. says
Hackett, still turning her ovA. We'll, ;
Ira says, she cost me a hundred and
seventy-fve dollars At this Hacke t
laughed, and began to ridicule Ira, tell l.
ing him that the gun wasn't worth a
dose of tanzy and bitters, and that a
man could buy cart load of such guns
in New York for two bits. OF course
Ira was mighty indignant. He told
Hackett that he talked like an internal
fool, and advised him to go to gun
shop and learn something about gun
before making an ass of himself
Here Mr.. Yeomans showed up his
shirt-sleeves and mixed cocktail for
Judge Hemingway, of Kansas, and
Judge Peter Clinton, of Salt Lake.
After the cocktails had disappeared, he
continued
"Well, just as Ira and Hackett got to
cussin' one another. John Scranton he
stepped up and sculled himself into the
row. OF course he took Hackett's side,
declaring the gun to be nothing more
than a pop-gun, and wondered that a
man of Ira's sporting reputation would
carry such gun. Ire was wild. He
had no suspicion that the boys were NJ
in earnest. There was jolly row. 1t
! lasted awo or three minutes. Then
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-07

Scranton asked Ir8 it the gun was
loaded. Ira said sse was. PsThen ;
said John, winking 81 the bows. T'lI bet
you basket of winekhat You can't bif
my hat on top of thai barrel.' pointino
to barrel about SoHy yards distant
At this Ira hesitata He looked at
Scranton's new beaves; and said. that 81
would be cussed shame to ruin s1icb a
hat as that. IL someone would ioIft mn
an old hat he'd take she bet. But John
Scranton insisted on Ssstting up HIS hat.
and accused Ira of trfeig to crawl out
! of it because he knevEfhere NsereAha old
hats on the premisess Tlss fisssJ ma mn
again. Put up youe oes,e f,aid.
III take pop at e fuss.s sfSst of
wine >" xfR
Here Mr.. Yeoma1s showed .1sss his
sleeves, and mixed cocktails for Bishop
Farr, of Ogden, and Col. Woolley, Of
Cheyenne They we-s large cocktails.
After they had disap seared-the cock
tails. not the bishop the colonel
he ccntinus
much as they co = mold in. Ira
he raised the gun, - good aim, and
pumped away with both barrels. The
hat jumped into the air about ten feet,
and then fell to the ground perfectly |
riddled with saot. Everybody roared |
but John Scranton and Hackett."
Here Mr.. Yeoman showed up his |
sleeves, and mixed cocktails for War |
rem Hussey and your correspondent. |
They were small ones-the cocktails, not |
the men. After they had disappeared he |
continued
50 You see, it was job put up on
Scranton and Hsckett before they came |
in. There were four charges in the gun,
and Schenck only drew out two of them. |
Scranton only said, holy smoke and
ordt red the wine"
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-07

"MAN AND APHs. Mr.. Mivart, in
his book entitled g Man and Apes" in
vestigates the question of the relation
of apes to man from an psychological and
anatomical point off view. He denies
the at present generally accepted notion
tLat the gorilla is mans pearest ally,
and shows that the orang, the gibbon
and the chiinpanzee can all claim a
nearer relationships. each on a different
ground. The recapitulation of the
many different points in which man, in
some one point, resembles the various
higher and lower apes. leads the author
to think that the laws Of affinity form
I" network . or tangled web" rather
than g ladder" from which it is onlE.
possible to infer that in the course
development there has been blood Q
tionship esta blished between the diN
ent species OF apes, after their diffeI1
tiation into distinct species. which
hardly compatible with our nolirns oI
the definition OF q species.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-07
nisease Among Workmen.

Tn n lecture by DR.. Mapother, that
distinguished authority classifies the
diseases pertaining TO the various trades
and industries under three beads
namely. those due to the entrance Of
.asrs 10 .ll-ss..s.ss., = s1
udst Id ciie 4slidgs, Ih5jse diiee H. slow
poisoning, and those which constrdineH.
positions or oyerwork in close rooms
engender. StoDe-cutters suffer frcm
lung affections by inhaling minute par-
ticles of stone, which irritate the lungs
nd excite Inflammation. The working OF
fax is also found very detrimental, Civ
ing rise. constantly to asthmatic com
plants. At paper works the tearing Of
shoddy, and the sorting aud picking Of
rags, create most sitting and hurtful
dust. The remedy recommended by
Mr.. NJ for dusty trades is, first, the rse
of a respiraton which will filter the air.
a very effectual one consisting Of wiraf
gauze covering the nose and mout1
lined with a layer of q
wool, q quarter of an inch
Other remedies are venti|
by means of McKinnel's 80
the action of steam fans, and the pe1
emptory exclusion from all labor
quiring vigorous muscular and bred
ing efforts, OF persons under Is. the on
gans up to that age not being strong
enoughto rosist i'll usage.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-07
Tie Liquor Business.

One of our correspondents sends us
detailed statement cf the amount of irf
toxicating liquors used in the Snlte q
States. He says that he has obtained
the figures from official documents, and
that he has presented them in the fol-
lowing compact form, so that even the
casual reader may see how large, both
absolutely and relatively, the traffic in
Intoxicating liquors is in this country /:
Statistics showing the amount of money spent
ia the United States for Intoxicating liquors
during the year 1870, as taken from the Of
fetal records
Imnorted and domestic distilled
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-07
GENERAL.

Nearly all the parties convicted un-
der the Kuklux act have been pardoned- 1t
is said to be the intention to pardo eeyery one
convicted under the law, who has served an
average sentence of two years. At least this
seems to have been the policy of the presi
dent thus far
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-07

NkLE. LKvAsUER, leading tragic ac-
tresYin Paris, was once playing a most
touching part in which the heroine COM
mits suicide by taking poison. At the
most pathetic passage, while she was
bidding adieu to life and making every
body in the theater sob, she suddenly
changed he1. tone, and shrieked, :" Dam
nation, what las been put in this
bowl ?" Imagine the effect of this
homely prose delivered in so energetic
a manner in the midst of stately posiryl
The actor, Beauvallet, who loved a
practical joke, had smeared the beaker
with asafetida.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-07
;WS OF THE WEEK.
EAST.

police spy reports the number OF
lew York Communists at three hundred, and
says the German and Irish organizations are
uniting with the Frenchmen- At recent
meeting the chairman said: SIT is not only
work We want 1T is also liberty and the aboli-
uon OF high salaries and monopolization. We
want the heads of some of the thieves who
are now stealing the funds of the city. We
want their hands and We shall have them. We
want to make them suffer what all are now suf-
fering There is no justice in New York city.
We will take justice in our own hands and
administer with rifles and bayonets. We have
arms already. We viii find petroleum and
use' as We did in Paris. Our German, Ameri-
can ana Irish brothers will help US and ne will
help them
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-07

1DtGIrri5c1 - our Hlusb anu Jne neeu
of active e3ergetic work to counteract
these evils, hereby pledge ourselves to
unite our laloors without regard to
power to exterminate them. Among
the various means that we believe may
be used to benefit, we recognize First
The power cf God as the disposer of
all events and the hearer of prayer.
Second-Private influence in our fami-
lies and among our friends, discounten-
ancing the making or using of domestic
wines or the use of any intoxicating
liquors in our families unless presented
by reliable or competent physician.
Thirdly using our influences as be-
comes Christian wives, mothers, or
daughters in all practicable ways for
the election of such men to our public
Offices as will justly aud faithfully ad-
minister the laws. and by aiding in
meain fund to forward the interests
of >perance movement. Fourth
II dding by and encouraging any
woman who shall prosecute the liquor
dealer for selling to her husband, son,
or relative"
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-07
ATemperance League.

The ladies of Dayton, Ohio, recently
met in session, and formed themselves
into an association to be known as the
g Wonan's Temperance Praying League
of Davton. - AfteSa debate of some
len1th. the4. adopted the following
pledge. thir3 v-aght ladies affixing their
rirnatures ee-<eto g We, the women
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-07

NARcoTIzED MEMORY. the ell
der Disraeli called tobacco 'the tomb
of love-" he may have meant that what
deadens remembrance must necessarily
have a similar effect upon tender senti-
ment. After all that has been ignor-
antly preached and written against the
tobacco habit, it appears to be generally
conceded at last that its excesses surely
impair the memory. Heavy smokers,
particularly, have this experience of it
very often, and men whose professional
duties necessitate trust worthy recollec-
ton of facts, names, dates, etc., cannot
be too temperate-with the insidious
pipe especially.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-07
Propagation of Cholera.


M. Teller, one of the most acute Of
French observers, adopts the theory OF
the propagati,cs Gf g chaesiGassss BY invisible
-. s-sns.
- Pa s Cbafles oswa.AsG ~ ;ts.Is Is'
their action being, to say the least,
doubtful and, moreover, he considers
the action of the germs unavoidably
taken in respiration as comparatively in-
nocuous, because those taken into the
lungs do not reach the intestines, and
because such as are thus swallowed, be-
ing taken as it were in small quantity
at a time, the vitality of the system is
able to resist their action, in like man.
ner as it overcomes the action of poison
taken in insignificant doses. NJ. Teller
thioks that it is by introduction of the
germ into the alimentary canal, where
they find conditions altogether favora-
BILE for their rapid multiplication and
development, that the disease is most
frequently and most fatally communi-
Gated. He cites fruit as being especi-
ally calculated, some by their downy
covering, as the apricot or the peach,
others by the grmmy or glutinous coat
ing which most of them possess, to ar
rest and retain the germs carried by the
air. Fruit should therefore be carefully
washed, or the skins removed, in the
time of epidemic cholera
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-07

Alabama FOR fuel and yet the bituminous coal
OF that section costs seven dollars per ton.
and falls far short in quality of what is de-
manded for steam navigation.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-07

A LITTLE girl asked minister, "Do
you think my(ather will 60 to heaven ?"
why, yes, smy child. Why do you
ask ?" Well, because il he don't
have his own way there, he won't stay
long, ] was thinking"
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-07

IT is now the practice of somesilk man
ufacturers to weight their silks with a
solution of lead acetate, by which means
poisous properties are impaired TO the
silks, as well as an increase In weight.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-07
THE CENTENNIAL.
Message of the President The Comm
sIoners' Report to Congress.

Message of the President The COmmis-
sioners' Report to Congress.
The president has sent the following
message to congress-;
TO the senate and house Of representa-
tiUeS.
L have the honor herewith to submit
report of the centennial commission
ers, and to add a word in the way of
recommendation. There have now been
international expositions held by three
of the great powers of Europe. 1t
seems fitting that the one hundredth
anniversary of our independence should
be marked by an event that will display
to the world the growth and progress
of the nation devoted to freedom, and
10 the pursuit of fame, fortune and
honor by the lowest citizen, as well as
the highest. \ failure in this enter
pri would be deplorable. Success can
be assured by arousing the public to
the Importance of tho. occasion. To
secure this on7, In mys1 ndgment. con-
va zF56 sa6c sssss = nstTnSsEx s9
are manifold. ft will neces-
sarily be accompanied by expenses be
yond the receipts from the exposition
itself, but they will be compensated for
by commingling of people from all sec
tions of our own country, by bringing
together people of different national
tiles, by bringing into juxtaposition for
ready examination our own and foreign |
skill and progress in manufactures, agri- |
art, science and civil station. |
The selection of a site for the exposi- |
ton seems to me appropriate from the
fact that one hundred years before the |
date fixed for the exposition, the declar-
alton of independence, which launched |
us into the galaxy of nations as an in |
dependent people, emanated from the |
same spot. We have much in varied /
climate, soil, mineral products and skill,
Of which advantage can be taken by |
other nationaeties to their profit. In
eturn, they Will bring to our shore
works of their skill and familiarize our
people with them, to the mutual advan-
age of all parties. Let us make COM
1lete success of our centennial exposi-
ion, or suppress it in its infancy and
our ine bility to give it
he international character to which our
elf-esteem aspires. q. s. GRANT.
Executive Mansion, Feb. %, 1874.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-07
WEST

pl. Robert Harlan, colored, special
CENT of the postoffce department with head
quarters at Cincinnati has been removed.
deerge b. johnson has been appointed in his
place at a salary Of S1,6OO a year and three
dollars day travelling expenses
a ire at Morris, ILL.,, last week de.
stroyed thirty-six. of Montgomery Queens
best circus horses. together with ms canvass.
wagons and much other material belonging to
his circus The origin OF the fire is unknown
but supposed incendiary, as no fire was allowed
on the ground
A dispatch from Portland. OREGON
says sne horse and cattle disease has broken
out IN Baker county, that state, spreading ex-
tensivey, and With quite fatal effects The
Pacific Mail has reduced the price of passage
from San Francisco to Yokohoma to $50 . To
Hong Kong, $500.
A dspetchz z<resns Fort Sss.1l--
1ss4te srrzf fh6 Y dkapapas InGians made rad
- on heriers, Grand river agency, the
22d inst, killing private Collins, of the 18th
infantry and stealing several horses. They
were followed in the direction of Standing
Rock by party of soldiers but the trail was
lest. The dispatch states that the In. /
dams intend to concentrate at the foot of the /
Blackstone by the first of April, preparatory |
to general upon whites during the |
summer.
A summary of the temperance move
ment in Ohio from sixty Ohio towns and VII |
x - shows eleven towns in which hquor sell
been entirely stopped, and over thirty |
from five to twenty-six places of |
iors have been closed. Work is |
LII ys going vigorously In Chilli ]
=, Ohio, and Dayton work has been be- |
II frequent visitatons daily by small |
Htss without singing and praying at
a 1t is reported that Richmond, Ii d.,
&rendered-
he special meeting of the grand di-
ln of the brotherhood OF locomotive
Gers, held at Cleveland Ohio has ad-
J0uried, after session OF four days. What
they have really done cannot be arrived at
very fully. At the close of the session Mr..
Arthur the newly-eleeted grand chief engi-
stated that there nothing he at
ESerty to give to the press. Enough has |
leaked out however to indicate that the pro-
ceedings from day to day have been of
stormy character, and also that the non-stTk-
ers were eventually in the majority, though at
the opening OF the convention the action Of |
the brotherhood toward Mr. Wilson, and the |
ousting OF that gentleman from his position
\of grand chief engineer, looked toward
radica change in the government ard
the brotherhood. 1t is understood
1hanges have been made in the rules
Zsr, and that the chief engineer
That be will enfor all rules to the
nd If strike is ordered it be by
{cton of the grand division. 1t is
tely stated that a demand will be made
9 railroad companies that have made
hon IN the wages of their engineers to
Store them to their former figures, and if
his is not complied with, a strike will be or
erred 1t was also determined that is of |
necessity arising for strike any of the
through lines, it should become general.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-07
The Observations to be Made of Venus
in Transitu.
'sH2 ;asss sss.sst Long, &

of them comp I'd and tested
Portable observatorie have been de-
signed and number spmpleted. The
stations TO be occupied are Yiadivc s.
took, in Russian Siberia Pekin, Nagas-
aki, Crozet and Kergueen islands, in
the Antarctic region; New Zealand,
Chatham island, near New Zealand, and
Hobart Town, Van Dieman's Land. In
each of these parties there will be five
persons, two being astronomers and
three photographers. The southern
parties will probably be sent out in a
naval vessel, Secretary Robson having
Authority to do this by special act of
congress. The other parties will pro-
ceed by the ordinary mail routes. The
observatory, coast survey, engineer
corps of the army, the line of the navy
and some of the colleges of the country
Will furnish the persons composing the
expedition, none of whom will leave be-
fore the end of May. Nearly all will
serve without pay, being actuated only
by the desire to advance scientific
knowledge.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-07

THE most appalling case of deafness
that we ever came across outside of an
asylum was an old lady who lives lust
across the street from the navy yard. The
other day they fred salute of twenty
one guns. The old lady was observed
to start and listen as the last gun was
fred, and then exclaim, Come in"
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-07

DARwIN's SHORTCOMINGS. The French
scientific critic, NJ. Leveque, criticises
Darwinism sharply. Crediting Mr..
Darwin with an express belief in God.
he arraigns his system for a dispropor-
ton between affirmation and proof, within
which atheism and materialism NAV
find ground for all their .sophistries. It
is in seeking the new more ardentIy
than the true that the great English
naturalistic philosopher is unphilosoph-
icll.