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The south and west in Con-
Hreef.

There is a movement on foot for the
to meet in ConventiaP at ST Louis this
fall, to consider questions affecting the
material interests of their sections
The policy of New England and New
York is forcing the South and West to
co operate for their own common good
The Eastern States coutrol federal
legislation in the face Of an opposing
majority in the South aud Wet.
This is intended to be movement
outside and independent of New Eng
land and New York. which are be,
coming to be regarded by the South
anEd West as antagouistic TO their in
terests. 1t Is not expected that any
legislation will be devised by Con-
gress which will meet the demands OF
those parts of the country on these
Questions, and they propose to make
ample preparation for the next session
Of Congress 1t is held by these genA
ilemen that neither New England nor
New York has any interest in them,
unless it be to loan Them capital, fer
which as they allege, they demand
high rate of interest. To use their
own phrase, they propose to devise
means to take care Of themselves. In
this movement Republicans and Demo
Gratis are. alike united, aud it is not
improbable that before the close of
the present session call will be issued
for the meeting of this convention.
1t is intended to have an effect upon
the political canvass next fall. and will
meet sometime before the November
elections The movement is m i'm
portrait one and the wonder is that it
has been so long delayed Federal
legislation has been controlled by the
Eastern States for the past fifty yeqrs
to the great damage OF the West and
South, which have been oppressed and
ptuuaerea though they have the power
to relieve themselves.
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Clerk of tho Fulton County Court.

BSs.This is as fine land as any in Full
ton county, and beautifully situated, be-
ing near the town of Hickman. and on
the line of the Nashville & North Western
Railroad. The land is finely timbered, and
is most excellent site for Saw Mill. All
around and about it land is sold ~ from
$50 to $50 per acre, and this is fne as
the best, and better situated than the aver
age
nA- The timber win moro than pay nm
enterprising man the price asked for the
land.
All letters to the undersigned, at HE'S
man viii he promptly answered.
sa- There are about 1850 aeres in the
body; but it hoped to form company
aud cut it into smaller tracts, say 100
ncrcs each, if desired by purchasers. For
further in formation,
VALUABLE LAND For SALE.-The editor
of the COURIER is authorized to sell, un-
condi,ionaIIy, valuable body of land,
near Hickmnn-adioin the farm OF
Joshua Dodds, Esq. This land will be
sold at a reduced price, and on long time
if desired-a lien being retained on the
land for purchase money.
There are several cleariugs and i'm
prevemcnts inaugurated.
TERN q
One :hird cash, and the balance in one,
two aud three years notes to bear six per
cent. interest, aud hen on land TO be re
tanned for the purchase money.
Addrsss,G
6ro- WARREs,
Hickman, ~
or, Col. Oscar FrKsrR.
wocdvilie. ny
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Two dogs, bothstrangers-you see
it would be so unequal if one of them
was an entire stranger aud the other
sdi old familiar acquaintance-hsth
Strangers, met at tie corner of Marx ct
and Valley streets yesterday, aud made
preparations for var But the black
dogs tail had been sandpapered off
close to the end ofthe back bone, and
then vanished, and when that warrior
tried to express lis emotions 10 the
usual canine style he wagged himself
so energetically from his eek and back
that it carried his hind feet off the
ground, and lent hi counteuance such
an aspect of uncomfortable ferocity,
that the long tailed dog incontinently
took a walk around the block to see
If it was raining. We never under
stood before why lighting dogs were
curtailed Burlington Ha,ckeye.
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au,c.,n Piem,Ies.
Remarkable Rae Found at The Court
Of King phoA Eats q Baby
Erery Doy.


Chicago fribpne.J
There have ever been traditions of
strancely-formed tribes of human be-
ings dwelling 10 Central Africa. That
unkuowD region has been peopied
bg fancy and fable with tailed men,
hideous hybrides, human and halt
bestial, dwarfs and giants. IFaVeIers
who have plunged into it have had
.heir stories Of discovery met with
cool incredulity. 1t was years bSapre
Du Chaillu could convince people That
the gorilla was rot myth. w hen
the animals exisence was definitely
established, it was thought by many to
account for the stories of men with
tails. \ truer explanations OF DR..
Schweinfeurth the German Living
stone This intrepid traveller spent the
three years from 1868 to 1871 in the
heart Of Africa. One Of the tribes he
reached was the Bopgo. All its male
members wear an animals tuil fastened
by string tied round the middle, of
the body. This explains the fable Of
the tailed men as fully as man on
hose-back cxplairs the myth of the
CeDtaurs. The most curious of DIR.
Schweiufuerths discoveries was yet to
come. Throughout his long journey
he had heard of pigmies that lived
near the equator They were never
over three feet tai. said his Nubian
servants, and the wore boards that
reached to ti5Eg asnec4 They were
Skilled -.iefir - .-----r-ir,f, r,1r~
der the animal! Mud killed them with
stabs from below They were in great
/ demand as court buttons. The ex-
plorer put little faithin these stories
I thinkiOg that seeing was better than
/ hearing. Finally he saw. At the
/ court Of capnibal king, who ate a
baby daily, he found several pigmics
/ They were very shy, and kept out OF
( his way for several days. At length
his servants caught one. Il looked
up. surprised at the shouting" says the
! traveller, aud there, sure enough, was
( the strange, little creature, perched
pom Mohammed's right shoulder nerv-
ouslY hugging his head, and casting
/ chances Of alarm in every direction
/ The wee man was soon pacded. He
was the chief of quite large settle
meut near by. DR. Schweinfuerth af-
forward measured number of these
I dwarfs. Tho taIlest, fullgrown men
we're not over fonr feet ten inches.
They said that great tribes of S.heir
Fellows lived just north of the equator.
1 They are amiable. affectionate, aud in
/ telligent. DR.. Schweiuiuerth considers
them to be closely allied to the Bush
men OF South Africa He bought one
of them, Neswue, for dog, but kept
him only eighteen months. At that
time he died of over eating-surely
a very civilized way of shutting of
the mortal coil, for did not the first
/ gentleman IN Europe TO whom Sir
( Walter Scott played funky, die from
+ the same cause? Neswues fate is
less TO be regretted, inasmuch as two
I Of his kindred arc now Gu route for
Italy They are to be placed in charge
of the chronological Society at Flor
enco
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y popular clergyman of Buffalo re-
turned from an extended Journey few
days since, and Just as he alighted
from the cars aud was receiving the
congratulations of crowd of delight
ed Parishoners So ss,sasrassembled to
greet him, an inebriated individual
followed in bis wake, seized him by
the hand, and exclaimed : well, good
bye, old pard, I'm going further, and
shall keep up the same old drunk for
awhile yet, but you're pretty we'll So
bered up, and you had better keep so.
| 'spect, as drinkin's rough when a
fellows round home. But you know
how to 60 on gsllus spree and have
rum time just az good al any psrd |
ever had, and you has my respect.
Day day, old buster Before the ~
topiehed Clergyman could gather his
wandering wits the bail fellow was off,
leaving a terrible SCANDAL for the de
lectaiiou of the gossips of Buffalo, and
a prospective candidate for the lunatlc
asylum.
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HENRY Bergh, be New York Phil
anthropist, advocates the organization
of Society for 1.-the Prevention of
Cruelty to Childrn, aud as reason
for the advocacy Of the movement, de-
clares that there re almost countless
little human being in The great city
of New York thatlre habitually treat-
ed with as much cuelty as are the in
ferior animals. and that is saying all
that can be urged unless he supple
ments the fact thai this savage treat
meat tends to ex'hguish nearly every
qulai'y, except tie outward form of
humanity, and substitutes therefor the
instincts Of the viii beast, which reoct
again on ourselves, and thus continually
torment society.
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= At funeral. They have the same
Feet of grating incongruity as the
,und of coarse voice breaking the
ayicmn silence of night.-G. Eliot.
Louisiana and Missouri have just
H<sed laws for the prevention OF cruel
y TO animals. Twenty seven States
nd Territories have now these hu-
ulaue laws upon their statute books.
1t is so much easier to keep up the
'srtilfty of land already rich. than it
: to restore that which has been ruu
own, that it becomes US to be watch
al and adopt all praetiesble means to
.eep it fertile.
Snif1es passed Us 10 hurry yestcr
lay, looking for u man A few min
ties later he caule back with his nose
u his hand, and the suppos;tiou is that
hat man WAS just waiting tor some
,as to snd him.
A ma in Providence, on the oc
.lsion of the death of an iutant daugh
or. entered miiliuers store and
.ked If they kept black tripe to hang
, door bells. II they did, hs wapted
nree yards.
A Georgia negro, who bet $40 that
General Washington cotbnauded the
9cderals at Bull Run, handed The
nuney over with the remark Well
8 we're hist'ry business is all mixed
p anyway 7
4 Scripture Lesson from Punch
Precepior-'Now, eau any OF you tell
ne anything remarkable iH the life of
qo,esp Bny-'Yes, sir; he was the
ally man who broke all the command
ments st once
GENERAL Leslie Combs, the veneer
~bie octogeDarian youth of the Blue
Grass region Of Kentucky. was recent
" faed one cent and costs III the
Recorders Court. at Lexington. fol-
>srikiDg negro woman.
Irsseible old Conductor. why
iidu't you wake me a. | asked you
Here | am, miles beyond my station
flonductor-f did try, str, eut aN \
could get out of you was, al right
Maria; get the children their break
last. aud Ill be down in minute.
Tvs Press REvSIeN The Hop
kinsville Consersatirc says The
Kentucky State Press Convention. TO
Ie held this year at Henderson, comes
It on the 20th inst and We leoru great
preparations nre being made by the
-itizens to make the occasion Que uf
.he most pleasant reunions of the
PRESS YET held III The State"
Jrsr LIKE EN- -rke planters in
Arkau-as above Napoleon report thai
,lle negroes who have bees driven from
,hcir homes by the overA3T. refuse all
...fers OF empluymeu! by those desiring
20 hire them. saying DE Government :
ywine to furnish u wild rashnns. aud
= longs AS dat Is de case We does not
wiss, any work Sah-by Golly !
yoA bel
1t was discovered that the stranger
shu committed suicide Oh the Thonip
Sau Dean. near Paducah. the other day /.
sss Joshua Stratus. whose home was
Milford, Kent county. Del. aud that
lie was travelling tor the house "f VAIN
Wliisemap * Co. dealers Ia cigars aud
Pines. No 2IU Market Street, Phiia
,leiphia. Letters wese io,sad on his
persuo sro,1s his wiie aud daughter.
A lady 10 the cosstry WAS unwise
enough to fl sui her boy OF Eve With
telling tackle. Soon she heard shout
IRON the barncyard. AID found one Of
her very bestAAens bad swallowed the
hook aud Was fat w,udlug up the liuo
III her crop or cour-e she was great
w troubled hat all the comfort -be 20,
itum the ,oupg fisherman nss THE /.
Don't Aur,y. mother sue,y she'll
s;cp shcn she got. to the PvIe.
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In the address Of the Bishops 10 the
General Conference now IN session at
Louisville, they coudtmn dancing as a
great and demerslizing evil, aud de
maui a more rigid enforcement of the
old Methodist law against it. Some
are iucliued TO think that it is the in
creased indulgence of late years in
what are known as the round dances,
that has led TO re general outcry
daueiog. The frinds OF the old fash-
toned styles Of dnciug-the stately
minnet, rfe cotilloi, the qnadrille, the
reel, aud the bresksown--take the same
view.
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CHILLs AND FErER

The proprietor OF THE celebrated medi.
cine justly claims for IL superiority over
all remedies ever offered TO the public foe
the safe, certain, speedy, and permanent
cure Of Ague and Fever, or Cbflls and
Fever, whether Of short OF long STANDING.
lie refers to the entire Western and so,.th
western country TO bear him testimony
to the truth Of the assertion. that in no
case whatever will il fail 10 cure, II the
directions are strictly followed and car
ried out. In great many cases a single
dose has been sufficient for cure, SD
whole families have been cured by a single
bottle, with perfect restoration of the
general health. It's, however, prudent.
aud in every case more certain 10 cure, IL
its use IS continued in smaller doses Tor =
checked, more especially in diff suit and
long standing cases. Usually, this mcfi-
cine will not require any aid 10 keep the
bowels in good order should the patient,
however, require cathartie medicine
after having taken three or four doses
the Tonic, a single dose of BULLS WIG
ETABLE FAMILY PILLS will 10 sufk client
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RBlfnd Dan" Louisville begear,
who stood on the street corners fos
eighteen years. asking the passiag
crowd to pity the blind, died last
week, and instead of reputed fortune
of s25, 900, Ma estate wac found TO be
worth only about $4,000. Part of this
was two cottages, for which nc received
forty dollars a moath.
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TIE Paiucdh Toj,sc,o Plant make
one positive assertion that Colonel 7
Pickett will be The Republican can
diiaie for Congress in The First District,
aud speaks Of him in very coupli-
mSatary terms. The Tobacco Plant
says that Colonel Pickett expects to be
elected, and ruuS with that view.
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A. S. ANDERSON

IrFHAT OLD SADDLER. Red hot FOR
Il business. FARMERS Support your
home mechsuica. ] keep constantly on
hand Saddlos, Harpess. Brides, Hames
aud Cbains. and in fsst everything that
farmer wants in my hue. Cheap fog
cash, OF approved paper on sbert time.
ba- Cash paid ton uid.s aud Fur.
maxi
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Ms SryaouS is prominently spokea
OF ss the next Democratic Governor
OF New York There is not more
%orlhy man 10 the State. 1t elected
honesty would be tue rulo instead OF
tbs exception IN the Standardization OF
tia Affairs Of that Stats.
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IMpERE4LAsn Nv EARNEST.
Gran, sure tor . THIRD rer.s,

Mr. Wafterson. the editor OF the
Louisville CoHricr Journal is in
Washington, taking notes Of the Pc
lilical situation, and writes back to his
paper, 1T is now believed in Wash
ington, soberly and by the coolest
headed men, that Grant means a third
term. and that he does not recon with
out his hosts" aud the writer adds to
this his opinion that the President is
even cherishing more imperial de
sires.
The Suggestion Of "third term, -
and even that Grant cherished impe-
rial ambitions, have been from time to
time limited at by the PreSs, but has
always been regarded as an overdrawn
picture, but Mr.. Waterson gives it
Il more serious view
He rays:
1T is now believed in Washington,
soberly and by the coolest headed men.
that Grant means third term, and he
does not recon without his host.
confess that [ think he has even more
shan that in his minds eye. When look
back into origin. course and tenor of his
administration, how he played with par
ties before he became President and how
he played with the politicians since; when,
bsNildered and awe-struek, gaze upon
thlocomposition of the Cabinet; when con-
sioered the cool way lac disposed Of Mor-
ton and the cool way he would dispose Of
" ashburue; when | see his equipage roll
ing through the streets in a defiant, regal
style, unused 90 the simplicity of 8 re-
publican court, and know that his pri-
vate habits are equally defiant, aud
mindful of these things, when | remem =
Der that nobody is shocked or alarmed.
can work out 40 other result as the natur-
al, the iuevitahle purpose of his mind
ana heart than that sort OF personal gov
ernmeu' to which Prince Louis Napoleon
addressed himself after his elevation 10
the Chief Magistracy OF the French Re
public.
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THERE has been some -kirmishiue
and fighting in Arkansas this past
week between the opposing Governor
forces. The odds are now decidedly
/, Bsxter's favor The Legislature is
in session, aud will pronounce FOR
Baxter
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GERMANY and France are both arm
ing aud increasing their military forces
preparing tor another trial of strength,
which the statesmen Of both countries
seem to regard certainty at NO very
distant day.
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The General Baptist As Jcia'iun viii
meet in Frankfort, Thursday. May 81
A dinner at Delmnnica's. New York
recently cost $1,000 for the single item
d flowers.
The Pope has received Ester gifts
valued ut SIS. 900 from serving maid
III Great Britain.
Archbishop Baylry. At the latter part
Of this month. will make business
trip to the West.
Squire Grant dropped dead with
,poplexv while blowing his field neal
May6eld, last week.
Minister Bancroft i coming home,
aud has purchased the house OF Sena
tor Harlan in " Washington.
General Joe Lane. who ran for Vice
President in IS60. still living ia Ore
:.on, has joined the Catholic Church.
The Berlin Mus has authority 70
.nnouuce Hon Geo Bancroft early
retirement from the diplomatic service.
Breckenridge county has candidate
'or County Clerk. subject to CONVEX
iiou Of Good Tenlplars und Grangers
I, IS rumored that Mr. Boutwell,
illness. even If it spare his life. vii
probably permanently inca pacitate hin
-or active work.
The Southwestern Kentucky Medi-
al Association meets 10 Paducah IN
OCULAR semi annual session, on Tues
lay, May Goth.
A di.ciple Of Brigham last week led
three bluShing brides to the sltar nj
ne time in Sat Lake City. Surely
ne world progresses.
Butler has been sick He is now
owever over il aud there is no pos
bile prospect of getting rid OF him
through this fundamentally.
Nearly all the State Legislatures that
are in session are engaged in creating
sew taxes, or have just created them
.nd Congress is embarking 10 the same
BUSINESS.
We learn that although General
l;yeekinridge is free from immediate
danger it is feared that his lungs have
-astained very serious if not perma
ne0t injury.
(which of the FIJI Islands are YOU
from 2 asked a visitor Of one OF Bar
sum's cannibuls, the other day. Tip
-erary. bedad.5 was the reply OF the
:avenous anthropophagiuian.
Passengers to the Pacific BY rail, {
Nv DAYS seo, breakiasted on the Sier
rs with twenty feet of snow around
lem. and next day passed through
richards of peach trees in bloom.
The Paducah T05acco FLINT says n
.,smor has been in circulation for the
-,st few days that Col Thos j Pickett,
= that city. was Republican candidate
r. Couuress IN the First District.
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lHE spirit Of communism in France
is far from dead 1t is reported that
the leaders are organizing fus another
effort att supremacy. Poor France
seems ever to be the field of civil war
and biooished
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Rivers, one Of the most learned. eloquent.
aud popular Ministers Of the Metho-Iiss
Episcopal Church, and who IL 81 present
stationed at broadway Church, Louisville,
Ky:
LOUISVILLE, Ky, Oct. g, 1899.
Or. John Bull Dear SIR: Many tbanks
10 you for the medicine you have 40 kind
~ given me. have been n great suaere-
for years, and had the advise Of vArIou.
physicians. Some pronounced my spine,
some my lungs, and some INV heart 20 bA
the seat of my disease. have been burnt.
blistered and cupped until had LecoRs
disbeArsened. Several very eminent ply
sicians who examined my spine Informed
nae that was threatened with pAralysip
or appoplexy any day, and that nothing
but seton would relieve me. bad
perfect horror Of that, and WAS hesitAtint
about having one inserted when yoa
kindly sent me your SarsRparilla which
Immediately begun 10 take three times .
day. had suffered terribly with n moe.
acute pain in the right ride OF my heRd
especially when | would read or wriis
for any length Of time, and on rising -,
my feet would be perfectly blind foc
several minutes, aN would have TO hold
TO something 10 preAnt falling.
/ am most happy 10 in form you that The
pain in my head is entirely relieved J
suffer but seldom with my spine and then
not 80 acuteiy. Ny appetite is good In
deed for the first time in my life enjoy
my dinner more than any meal during
the day.
You kindly sent nc four BOTTLES again
last night, aud began again this morn.
ing, and | hope TO he entirely relieved
Please accept my heartfelt thanks and
beet wishes.
Very truly your most grateful friend.
" b. {. RIVkRs
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4 UNIQUE VrKpICr I'VE are uu-
derscrbe darkies, bein' u kuTnets Jnray
s-tf disgust to sit on de body OBJ de gig
ger Sumbo, now dead and gone before
US; have been sittin' or de said Niger
sioreside; did on de night oh de fur
teeu;h Oh November come TO deaf by
falling from de bridge ober dc riber
into the said riber, whar we fnd he
was subsecomely drowned, aud after
ward washed on de riber side. where
we ''spose he was frose TO deaf.
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jonl7tf

COUNTRY RESIDENCE FOR SALE
l will sell my home place. Glendale. ono
and 4 half miles from Hickman, on the
Troy road. The dwelling is n two story
building, four rooms above and below with
out buildings. The principal part of the
land is cleared and under fence, and has
upon upon il near 500 fruit trees-and its
proximity Hicks man makes IL n .lesir-
able place for fruiter and garden. For
terms apply to MRS. c, ID. FOWLKS; or
JNO. A. WILSON,
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THERE Is one Republican in Con
gress- purlnan, Of Florida-honest
enough to asknowIedge he is thief.
He advocated the appropriation OF
$4,000 to pablish the laws Of the
United States in two newspaper III
each State upon the ground that II
was necessary to have this sum TO ala
in sustaining Republican newspapers.
This is simply stealing tina, much OF
the peoples money Tor pait'sas pur-
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BULLS WORM OESTHOYE..

Extract Of "a Letter from Gcorcfa
VIbLGNow, wAtKFE CouSrT, oa.,p
June %, 1906.
Dr. John Bull Dear SIR. Lave re-.
Gently given your Worm destroyer several
trials, aud find IL wonderfully effcacious
II has not failed in a single instances 50
have the wished for effect. | am doing a
pretty large country practice, and have
daily Use forsouie article Of the kind.
am, sir, respectfully,
JULES p. CLEMENT, Nd
Z. $50 unqualified aud numerous are
the testimonials IN favor OF nv Worm De .
strcycr that newspaper space is entirely
too small 70 tell its Inerits.
II is nm infallible remedy for Worms
Try il and be convinced. See my journaf
for more feIl description.
JOHN BULL.