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The Hickman courier., 1874-03-28
A Mile in Thirty-two Seconds.

The following story of the achieve
ment in respect to q Sbeed in an ice boat
on the Hudson in the vicinity of Stats
6zsw Ser5 renia Il alz5s s<rls.
the owner OF the new ice-boat fCyc-
lone determined to take advantage Of
the favorable opportunity for trying his
yacht. The Hudson 1T this point is wide,
and at the course selected its widtA Is
one mile. Having made every prepar-
alton for the feat to be accomplished,
the reef points were shaken out of the
sails. and every stitch of canvas spread
to the gale. With two men on the wind
ward runner TO keep the boat down to
the ice, the helm was turned, the sails
6lled, and in a moment, with every inch
of canvas drawing, she was under full
headway. Like an arrow from bow
she dsrted away on the course, clouds
Of pulverized ice following in the tracks
of her runners as they hupmed over the
surface OF the river, and lTwhat see&b
b It an instant the river had been crossed
and the mile accomplished in the al
most incredible time of thirty-one sec
onds, bel G at the rate of two miles in
a minute and two seconds. Persons on
the shore compared the speed of tlH
flying racer to that OF a meteOr4lashiM
through the sky, and watched her move
ments with eager interest. The owner
afterwards put the boat through some
movements on the ice, and astonished,
as well as paralyzed, the lockers on by
sailing all the way across the river on
one runner, the force of the wind throw
ing her over on her beam ends and rails
ing the windward runner from ten to
twelve feet above the ice. Although
but few we're found willing to partake
of the amusement, all seemed disposed
to coincide in the opinion that ice yacht
ing is the most exhilaIating OF sports,
and the evolutions of which one of
these yachts is capable, the Nd sst grace
full of anything they had ever wit
,,ncrnd ,,
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THE BEAUTIFUL GATE OF SLEEP.

The Beautiful Gate of Sleep is barred
Oh, Angel within =
The panels Of pearl. with diamonds starred,
Give back no sound to my feeble knock;
have no key that viii turn the lock
How long must wait?
Oh, eyegInore and forevermore
Must stand at the Beautiful Cater
Ny garments are thin-my sandals worn
Sweet Angel within -
How piercing the blast-how sharp the thorn
The night is CHI erless the wind is wild
My bruised heart sobs like pitiful child
How long must wait ?
Oh. eyermore and f0revsrmors
Must I stand at the Beautiful Gate?
II I were queen III give my crown,
Oh. Angel within -
or famed, would lay my laurels down;
or rich, Ia yield thee my treasured gold,
For thy sweet shelter from ram and cold
How long must I wait?
Oh, evermore aud forevermore
Would pass through the Beautiful Gate
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Ef&E:

The colored men of Massachusetts,
are urging the election Of Wendell Phillips as
the successor OF Mr.. Summer.
James Sylvester, trapeze performer
at Berry's opera house, New York, while per-
forming, missed the rope and fell, striking his
head ON box, and died short time after
wards.
The New England Freedman's society
has decided to wind up it's affairs. Since
April, 1864, the society has received and ex-
pended over $3.50, 900, and has supported sew
enty teachers among the colored people OF the
south
By the breaking of the rope of a
minecar in a colliery at PheLix Park, Pa, ten
men were precipitated to the: bottom of the
shaft. Three were killed instantly, and the
remaining seven cut and bruised
The New York Central, Pennsylvania
Central and Erie railway companies have ad-
vahced the prices OF tickets to all western
points, and the old rates again rule The Bal
timore and Ohio road did not enter the con-
vention.' Il is understood there Will soon be
an increase in western freight rates on all
lines.
The steamship City of Pekin, of the
Pacific Mail steamship company, was success
fully launched At Chester, Penn, last week,
IN the presence OF very large number of
people, including congressman and represent
atiyes of the mercantile interests. The City
OF Pekin is the lg&gest vessel ever built in the
United States.
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aud that probably about $4,000, 900 has
been destroyed, and can be fairly de
Quoted from the actual circulation OF
The fractional currency, and that the
fractional Indebtedness is reduced by
that amount"
The loss on this O,O00, 900 of frac
tional currency is over 514 per cent. of
the amount issued.
But the position of the Post n CORES
pondent is not sustained by whdA Treas
user Spinner says about the old demand
legal tender notes, the entire loss Oh
which in ten years has been only about
one aud one-third per cent. The de-
struction of fractional currency is uli-
doubtedly very large, but on the legal
tenders and national bank notes, even
after making an allowance of, say
s., 600, 900 for the amount destroyed N
the Chicago and Boston fires, We should
not estimate the entire destruction OF
notes at over S25, 900, 600 or S39, 600 600
in the twelve years. - Chicago Tri6rs,e
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Postal Decision.

On the repeal of the franking priv,
Iege the postmaster general decided
,,o;obt send printed matter in scaled
packages at the rate of one cent for two
ounces. but that every such package
should bear the following certlhcate,
which should be signed by the head OF
the department or some officer deslgna-
ted by him:
no written matter.
This privilege has now, by recent
decision been extended to the senators
and representatives in congress-, and to
any officer of either house officially de-
signated by such house for the purpose;
This decision places the legislative and
executive departments on an equal
footing as to the transmission of printed
matter through the mails, and will save
much annoyance from attempts to col
lect letter postage on packages bearing
the above quoted or similar endorse
meuts by members and Senator's.
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sseIai ss q -tra.slEle. a -plQ
and the ea.tel debt funding nrer1rner,t nd

in favor Of reasonable temperance reform
legislation.
The ticket agents of the Erie rail
road have for a long time suspected tha. sys-
tenn OF fraud was practiced by conductors by
which the company was losing large sums, aud
last week four conductors OF the Delaware di-
vision and three residents of Port Jersey were
arrested and put under bonds on suspicion of
being implicated. 1t is said that the practice
has been for certain conductors TO retain with
out punching portion of the tickets collected
by them, 10 deliver them 10 persons outside,
who sold them to be used again.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-28
In Praise of Georgia.

A Georgian gives his state high praise,
and it is not far from being just. He
saws Is q wall could be raised around the
commonwealth so high as TO shut out
the rest of the world, Georgia would be
an empire IN herself. In the southern
part they can produce vast quantities of
cotton. so fine that it will sell quickly
at eighty cents a pound /; and peaches
without rot or disease, and with no fear
of frost, can be grown red ripe by the
first of June. a days journey to the
north is the finest corn and cotton
growing region in the whole south:
there, too, all vegetables thrive, and
the apple, peach, cbsrry, um, grape
and pear. The state, too, possesses
fabulous wealth in marble, iron, lime
and Coal aud that precious metal, gold,
is not absent. But hor berates the
people because ts fice not develop
their resources. might export
large quantities of sssar they might
produce wool enough 30 run many fac
tories, giving employB.fnt to thousands.
1t is urged that the v to unbounded
prosperity is to estebi q AShe small farm
system, by which the iporer owns the
land in fee; then, as France, produc-
tions will be multipl n Aen-fold, educa-
tional advantages vii De enjoyed, and
all the social privil IS secured. At
present conditions seX1 to be unfortu-
nate, for we read thasks2 recent public
address Gov. Smith Hveyed the mel
ancholy informationAYthat last year
only l, 200 immigrant& came to Georgia,
while 10000 of her fssltizens left the
state.
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ESTABLISHED 1859.

! ir 1872 We have no reliable information of
the emiton Of either FIRE or smoke. For the last
twenty days the greatest excitement has pre-
vailed in the vicinity of Bald mountain in conse-
quenee of the subterranean commissions. The
people for miles around assembled in a
vacant house and engaged in devotional exer-
cises for sixteen days and nights. Under the
ministration of Revs. George and Billy Logan,
Baptist preachers, and J. NJ. Sumley, Meth
odisi minister, about one hundred made PRO
fession OF religion. The closing scsnes of the
meeting are repre- sented as most peculiar and
wonderful
The suits brought in the q. S. cir
cult court, before Judge W. B. Woods, by J.
L. Macardy of New York, and Stern Broth-
ers, Of England, holders OF Louisiana bonds.
againt Auditor Clinton and other Louisiana
state officers, to compel the collection of
state taxes to pay the interest on tie face of
their bonds and to enjom the enforcement Of
the funding bill, has been decided. Judge
- zzs5ss - !aborats,y written opinion held
a112s.l sig"ction could issue
avt until fnsl decree, and that an Injunction
tQ eompal lthe.Ieyy-of taEerEss.-s--1sasaastes. |
not pursue an injunction IN equity, because
the mandamus is Paper legal remedy and
although the court could not issue manda-
mus until final decree, that was no reason
for interference in equity by injunction. 3
That though the court might enjoin a state
officer from doing injury to third persons un-
der an unconstitutional state law, q suit
against a state officer to enforce a contract of
the state was either a suit against the state, |
which could not be entertained, a suit |
against nominal parties without interest, !
and should be dismissed. Tho restrain |
ming order was therefore dismissed, and |
the injunction prayed for refused, with |
costs. The judge intimated that the cases |
were Of such Importance that they might |
probably be taken at once to the Supreme |
court OF the United States.
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lie debt on tie fifst day of July, 1870,
was -. .4sO. .672. .427. 81. On The 1st day
of July, 1873, 81, ,234, ,4s2. .993. 20. From
the latter sum there should be deducted
S31. 73O. GOO of certificates of deposit
issued under the act of juno 8, 1872,
there being like sum for their pay
ment on special deposit in the treasury.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-28
T,ASp SALES IN VIRGISIA. "A partyssc

LAND SALES IN VIRGISIA. partysof
northern capitalists have purchased sew
eral thousand acres of land at keysville,
Va; the price paid was S99 200. A
colony of forty families will be settled
uponi it. On Monday last. portion OF
the Ciipp land, on Bushy Ridge, IN
Jefferson county, West Va. (36 acres
was sold to Esrom Slifer at Sc. ~, and
60 acres to John Myers at S4. 70 per acre;
On Tuesday, Beall-Ai the estate OF
the late Col. L. W, Washington, in the
same county, $50 acres, was sold for
ago per acre; Col. G.. w. @. Black, of
Washington city, purchaser.
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IT is estimated that in less than
century the whole arabic land of the
United States viii be taken mp by actu-
al settlers.
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Blrds Oh The Faranon Islands.
All the fslapds are frequentsa i,,v
the favorite resort Of these. ereatur =,

All the Izlapds are. frequentsa by
nc fayorite resort Of of these Ee ere ersatiT s -.
who come here in astonishing numbers
every summer TO breed and i IS TO
this island that the eggers resort at this
season to obtain supplies OF sea-b.Td' s
eggs for the San Francisco market,
where they have a regular and large
sale.
The birds which breed upon the Far
allones are gulls. murres, shags and
sea-parrots, the lat a kind of penguin.
The eggs Of the shags and parrots are
not used, but the eggers destroy them
to make more room for the other birds.
The gull begins to lay about the mid
die of May, aud usually ten days before
the murre. The gull makes a ode nest
of brush and sea-weed upon tls rocks
the murre does not take even this much
trouble, but lays its eggs in any conyen-
lent place on the bare rocks.
The gull soon gets done, but the
murre continues to lay for about two
months. The egging season lasts,
therefore, from the 10Th or 20th of May
until the last of July. In this period
the egg company which has for eighteen
years worked this field gathered in 1872,
IL ,952 dozen eggs, and in 1873, IA, 202
dozen. These brought last year in the
market an average of twenty-six cents
per Dozen There has been, L was as
surei by the manager, no sensible de-
crease in the number of the birds
the eggs for twenty years.
Frorc fifteen to twenty men are en-
ployed during the egging season IN col
lecting and shipping the eggs. They
live on the island during that time In
rude shanties near the usual land&g
place. The work Is not amusing, Ubr
the birC seek out the le st accessible
places, ana the men must follow, climb
ing often where a goat would almost
hesitate. But this is not the worst.
The gull sits on her nest, and resists
the robber who comes for the eggs, and
he must take care not to get bitten.
The MUIR remains until her enemy is
close upon her; then she rises with a
scream which often startles a thousand
or two birds, who whirl up into the air
in a dense mass, scattering filth and gu
ano over the eggers.- Charles NOrd-
ho6, az H0rper'S Magazine.
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IT is stated that lamp chimney put
in water and allow to remain till
the water bells will II readily break.
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THE OLD STORY.

- The sails are set, and the breeze is up,
And the prov Is turned for northern sea
kiss my cheek and vow me a vow
That you viii ever bs true 10 met
a. 1 kiss you cheek. aud kiss your lips,
- Never a change this heart shalt knox.
O, but the northern nights are keen
The sailor clingz TO the frozen shrouds--
A kiss burns hot through his dream OF home.
And his heart goes south with the lying gciouds.
The maiden laughs by the garden gate,
Dreams of love are the soonest DER y
Kisse- fall on her lips and hair
And the world goes ON as II went before.
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The Public Debt.

The net ordinary receipts of the gov
ernment for the Fl. st four years OF
Grants administration were as folloGs :
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SAYINGS AND DoISGs.


:. ,la YEnT blonde. blonde i hair is k1Pwn as the
The hornet is beautifully defined to
be the red-hot child of nature.
THE spirit-world is sixty millions OF
miles from the earth, some spirits tell
us who have come back.
In China two people Of the same
name dare not marry. The Smith fam
lily would suffer in that country.
SPELL murder backward, and you
have its cause. Spell it's cause in the
same manner, and You have its effect.
WHAT is the difference between far
ner and a bottle of whisky? Ono hus-
bands the corn, and the other corns the
husbands.
MARROW GUAGE railways have now
1854 miles in operation ia this country
and Canada, and over 5000 more are
now contemplated.
WHEN she told him he was a fiat,
Jones said it was her fault, because she
would not have him round. Jones
thinks he got square on her.
A New YORK firm have in their store
a piece of lace five yards long, worth
81 200 a yard, which q man could crowd
into his watch fob or pockei-book.
A wATcHMAN who lodged in the boil
er-room of factory was asked if he
wasn't afraid of being blown up, and
answered, with a sickly smile, No; I'm
a married man.
ANDREW JACKSON was accused of bad
spelling, but John Randolph defended
him by declaring that ga man must be
a fool who could not spell a word more
ways than one"
. AND now here comes a cleaning light
through the midnight darkness. Rev.
Meekam, of Green Bay, says that II is
his belief that most of the editorial
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The net ordinary expenditures for the
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-11-20
nc Dake Of Cambridee.

The duke was a great diner-out, and
nothing gave him more pleasure than
being called upon to take the chair at
any of the annual festivals in aid of
some popular charity; but although
the toast which he had to propose was
written down for him on slip of paper,
he very frequently contriFed quite to
forget what it really was, or managed
to mix it up with some other subject In
manner which was highly entertaining
to the audience. Thus, if he happened
to preside at dinner given at Willis
rooms in aid of the Newsvenders' benev-
olent association, flushed with the juice
of the grape, the duke, rising, would
deliver himself as follows:
'LADIES AND GENTLEAIEN-It is now
my agreeable duty to propose to you
the toast of the evening. We are met
here to promote the objects of a most
useful society, one which has done. a
vast amount Of good ia this metropolis
upon highly interesting occasions, and
helped many worthy feIIow-creatures at
a period of great anxiety and peril.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are deeply
indebted to this most benevolent So
ciety. I beg, therefore, TO propose
health. prosperity, and success 30 the
Lying-in hospital"
At this juncture some friendly by
ssander would pluck the orator by the
sleeve, and remind him that it was not
the Lying in hospital the claims of
which he was there to advocate, but the
Newsvender's benevolent association.
Then the duke, taking up his parable,
would go laundering on, mixing the
two up together IN a manner highly
cOmical.
"Ahem, ladies and gentlemen, I find
I have rather exceeded my duty on this
occasion in advocating the claims of the
Lying-in hospital it is certainly an ad-
mirable institution-no better without
it we. should probably not have so many
newsveuders, and without these useful
members of society how should we get
our morning papersP I drink prosper
ity, therefore, TO the blind asylum,-I
beg pardon, mean the Newsvenders'
benevolent association,-and may they
long discharge the duties they owe to.
society, by taking care of those unfor-
Inmates who find themselves in an in
teresting condition" Immense APP
plause and laughter. 1-BeIgrGUia.
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Analysis of the Coquette.

Punch says ''The coquette is a
graduate in the science of Irritation, has
taken every degree from her alma mater
who is so good q mistress of arts that
she is no longer tutor, and is compe-
tent TO manage her own affairs without
the aid of chaprron. She is a psy-
Geological curiosity-undergoi two
changes before arriving at maturity
from the insect of the school period she
becomes the ehrysalis Of the bali
room, whence she energies from beneath
the wing of her chaperon, to hutter
forth the fuIl-grown butterfly, or CO.
quette. She has a scale of attractions
By which she measures her department
toward different Individuals. She can
at moments notice be intensely agree
able or quietly repellant. She can
smile with one side of her face upon
new conquest, and frown with the other
upon his waning rival. She knows in
stinctively the ex5 ct moment when to
commence a Irritation and having no
passion, no feeling, can adroitly break
OF an ineligible one, even If the we'd.
ding liveries have been ordered. Flat
terry is her food and caprice her rule of
conduct. She may win our astonish-
ment by her bOidness, ingenuity and
protean changes of demeanor, but not
our admiration or esteem"
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The Enmnosf Hean.

The winter IS the time to prepare the
compost heap, 20 gather the materials
and incorporate them, so that in spring
they viii be in a condition for the crops
to digest easily. It is a work which is
easy Of accomplishment if it is steadily
pursued, but unfortunately it receives
but little attention from the majority of
southern planters. There are very few
places where the materials for a large
and valuable compost heap cannot be
collected during the winter months, if
we would only take the necessary trou-
bic. The fallen leaves from the woods,
all refuse vegetable matter, creek mud
and little lime vii make an excellent
compost with stable manure, cotton
seed and all other matter which will
produce fermentation and decomposi-
ton. It is astonishing what a large
pile of fertilizing matter can be collected
IN short time if attention is given to it
every day. Wherever river mud or
muck can be had without too much
hauling, nothing is better when mixed
with Stacked lime in the proportion of a
! bushel of the latter to half a cord of
the former. The heap should be worked
over well, so as to pulverize and mix
the ingredients thoroughly, and when
warm weather commences deeomposi-
ton will take place Immediately. We
should begin now to gather the leaves,
trash and muck, and spriBkling the
heap as it grows with lime, as already
Indicated. Leave one-quarter of its
bulk of stable manure, cottOn-seed and
such other vegetable matter as can be
collected, it will become one of the
richest possible fertilizers. Ashes can
be added to such pile with great adj
vantage, and the refuse from the kitchen
and clubhouse, if thrown in to swell the
pile, will be of value, instead of, as now,
a complete waste.
We should not complain that our
lands are becoming poorer every year,
| while we neglect the means within easy
reach to sustain their fertility, We
must not grumble because we cannot
afford to buy the expensive artificial
nanures of commerce, and give this as
| an excuse why we make poor crops,
| when we allow hundreds of cords of
natural manure of the best quality to
lie ungathered and unused all around
us. One hand and an ox-team put to
work now will build up an immense
| bank of fertility before seed time, which
will in harvest add many bale of cot
ton and barrel of corn to the crop.
But now is the time to begin. Let no
consideration arrest the work. Gather
| up the leaves, clean up out of the fence
| corners, pile up the corn-stalks, haul
away the muck from the borders of the
branch, burn up the old logs and brush
now numbering the ground, and collect
the ashes, mix them all together with a
few bushels of Stacked lime, making the
pile broad and fiat on top, and early in
the spring add the stable manure and
other fermenting matter.
| The labor expended will cost very
little. The lime can be bought for q
few dollars. The result will be a per-
manent enriching of the land and large
| ly increased crops.-An7ericdY Farmer.
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Not SO Bad After All.

Mrs. s. NJ. Pollard, young milliner
of Binghampton, n. z, is in luck. Her
fathers brother and her uncle was wild,
and wandered OF to California in the
early days of the golden state, when he
was young man and his niece a little
girl. The wanderers family would have
nothing more to do with him and never
got any news from the far-off land in
which he had thrown himself away.
They thought and spoke of him as gone
to the dogs, and disgrace to the honor
orable name of Pollard. Little Miss
Pollard remembered her uncle. He had
been good and kind and gentle to her,
and she never thought he was so bad
man. When she grew little, she made
Efforts to ascertain her uncle's wherea-
bouts, and succeeded. She wrote to
him, in her little pratling way, and he
became interested in the correspon-
dence, and answered her letters regu-
larly. Thus Miss Pollard kept up a
constant communication with her uncle.
Who knows but that correspondence with
an innocent girl may have saved him,
and induced him to change his Wild
ways 81
The other day Miss Pollard received
letter from San Francisco stating that
her uncle had recently died, leaving her
sole heir to his property, consisting of
$1O5, 600 in cash and 800, 900 in houses
and lands. So Uncle Pollard was not
so bad a man after all. He was GER
tainly good enough for the paper and
postage expended in keeping up a cor
respondence with him. Little girls
should always lovingly remember their
uncles in India or California. It does
not cost much, and the investment,
without any great risk of loss, some
times pays. It did in Miss Pollard's
case. She will now buy her bonnets
and other fine fxings at the old stand,
and bless Uncle PolIard's memory as
long as she lives. .-....-.