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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-07-25
WALL STREETS PERIL.

How the Changers Worrying the
Railroad mOnOpOIies-PrepRrfn for
Battle that VIII Make the Globe
Reel.
The railroad interest, and its specula-
tive allies, are therefore mad about the
agricultural impertinCnce of the west
ern grangers, and apprehensive about
the result of the decision just rendered
in Wisconsin.
GROUNDS OF FEAR.
The granging party is looming mp in
Wall street. 1t not only looks con-
temptible and stilted, but also formid-
able and ominous. Though foolish, vii
famous and terrible, it apparently
means busf4W. Wall street first
stares ct it, then sneers at it, then
scowls at it, then watches the stock list
with horrible feelings, and then pro-
poses to dcAanything that the devil
may require ENrder to secure pec1niary
salvation.
TURNIN THE TABLES.
The railroad and stock-speculating
operators have for a long time had the
farming or producing interest by the
throat. How do you suppose they must
feel when the tables are turned and
they wake up to find out the farming
interest is so resolutely airing to
take them by the nose.
The railroads have been able to regu.
late the price of the produce raised by
the farmers. What must be their state
of mind when they find out that the
farmers are getting ready to regulate
the receipts of the railroads.
The Wall street man, accustomed to
reduce, from time to time, the income
of the Wisconsin n-masticator, sud
denly finds that this corn-masticatol
has begun to take on airs and tall
had fst yin sssr ~
stocks and things are..to have the value
put on them in Wisconsin.
THE REELING GLOBE.
1t can't be done, without a battle
which will make the globe reel.
| THE STAKE.
Wall street has not only thousands c
millions at stake in the struggle, but II
abiding intrinsic power and its powe
of humbug are also at stake.
If the Wisconsin lawmakers, {
rather the western grangers, win tb
dav. we shall perhaps breed fewer PAL
pers and millionaires during the rest
the century than we have done With
the last few years. If Wall stre'
wins. we shall doubtless go on breed
ing millionaires and paupers quick'
than ever. -, =.
II Wisconsin ins, it will not be ii
after Wall streN has spent millions
beat it.-Ne2 York Correspondent
Cincinnati commercial.
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The Transit of Venus Expeditions.

Five of the rerties to observe the
transit of Venus have already sailed for
their destination, in the United States
steamer Swatara, which vessel left New
York on the 7th of June for the South
ern Pacific ocean. The persons in COM
mand of these five parties are Capt.
Raymond, United States army, Lieut..
Commander G. p. Ryan, United States
navy, Prof. William Harkness, Prof. @.
II. F. Peters, and Mr.. E. Smith, of the
coast survey.
The three remaining parties, I. e.,
those for Pekin, Nagasaki, and Nico-
laievsk, Will leave during the coming
month.
carefuTTy the ETa1isn 81 eifd eidtss dtss'e 5ffhfnfnzE-
done.
Should the astronomers arrive safely,
and the weather be favorable, it is safe
to predict that the results deduclble
| from the American observations alone
will be of very high value.
| Among the numerous Investigations
that have been instituted In connectlor
with the preparations for this transit we
notice one by Bakhuysen, OF Leyden
who advances reasons for believing tha'
the annoying phenomenon of the "blaci
drop" is mostly a phenomenon OF dlf
fraction, having its origin IN the tele
scope. The Photographic processes tina
the American parties propose to use
will, however, b in great part entirel,
free from any trouble on this score, a.
the commission have decided not to rely
to any great extent, on the Observation
of contacts. Harper Magazine.
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NEWS OF TIE WEEK.
EAsr.

The following is the official decision
OF the judges in the college Regetta at Sara
taga on the 18th. Columbia 1, Wesleyan 2,
Howard 8, Williams 4, Carnell 5, Dartmouth
6, Princeton and Printy doubtful, Yale 3.
There are various claims OF fouls, and the
race may have to be sailed over.
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IT is a town on railroad running out
of Detroit, and it never had a paper.
The editor found a great absence OF
sidewalks, a hotel where the patrons
helped themselves, and the only signs
of life on the main street we've lame
horse aad two children playing IN the
road. He had been recommended TO
several citizens, and after searching
around the hotel for while lie found
boy mending horse blanket in the la,
dies sitting room. "Where's Mr.. -
INQUIRED the editor, mentioning the
name of the first citizen on his list.
leone to the dog-fght." answered the
boy. "And Mr.. .-?" well, he's
down thar" "And Mr.. -?' Same
place" answered the lad. There was
one more name on the paper, and the
editor waited moment and inquired
for its owner. "Saw hi m to the dog
FIGHT" answered the boy. g See here,
b9b.'' said the irritatsd editor, can
YOU tell me if there is any resident OF
This town who didn't go do wn to tina
dog-fgh I've got important bnsi-
ness with the head men, and want t.
| find EN-" The boy shook his head in
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-07-25

EDMUND LEWIS, of Michigan, passed
from comfortable circumstances, and
large and happy family, to eternity, the
other day, through the medium OF Par1s
green, administered by himself. Peter
White, of the same state, did similarly
The question now begins to arise, which
is most destructive to the farmers,
| Paris green or potato bugs?
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THE CROWN UNwoN.
ny nARroN GREY

whose endureth to the end"
So, long ago, the word was spoken:
Hearts fail, and bowed heads earthwsrd bend
Yet who shall say the pledge is broken7
Brave eyes may read the promise still,
Though writ in lines of pain and loss
The path lies onward up the hil,
Though every milestone be cross.
Long time ago my soul and
Converse aud council held together,
When clear aud bright ysuth's morning sky
Flushed rosy in the summer weather;
=" Soul, said I, " many a pathway fair,
Waiting thy choice, before thee lies;
Think long, choose well, then proudly dare
Thine utmost might TO win the prizs."
And so we looked, my soul and I.
And many fair, false JOY refusing,
Beheld at last, serene and high,
The crown of her suprernest choosing:
And on it fixed our steadfast gaze.
While the bright Joyous wizard, Hope,
Through all these bounteous summer days,
Drew one delicious horoscope.
But summer hours fade fast away,
And that dear crown, above my winnin-.
Here in the twilight Of my day,
Clean far, as in my bright beg nning;
Aud now hopes eyes are dim aud sad,
And doubt aud grief walk close beside,
4 many q oS La stfs,ts
And yet know my soul's true good
Lies still, lies ever, there before me;
I could not turn me If I would,
Though clouds and darkness gather DER me
And though fail and though die
Far from my goal my crown unwon,
No meaner star can tempt my eye
That one has known the steadfast sun.
SO on I press III, that steep slope.
Behind whose brow that san is setting;
I walk with Faith, and not with Hope,
Despairing not and not forgetting;
But. when ths last brief breatl: is sped,
shall not grieve If this men write
a. He strOVe-he failed-and he is dead,
True afucnVg his highest liuht -
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solemn sort of way and replied Its
poor time to find the head men of the
town when old Mt. Clemmens sends her
fighting dorg own here to clean our
prize anamul 1t You'd better call
tomorrow - irOit Free Press.
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One Popularity Of Love.

At first it surprises one that loSe
should be made the principal staple of
all the best kind of fiction and per-
haps it is to be regretted that it is only
one kind of love that is chiefly depicted
in works of fiction. But the love itself
is the most remarkable thing in human
life there cannot be the slightest doubt.
For see what it will conquoE It is not
only that it prevails over Selfishness,
but it has the victory over WEAKNESS,
tiresomeness and familiarity.
When you are with a person loved,
you have no sense of being bored. This
humble and trivial circumstance is the
greatest test, the only sure abiding test
of love. With the person you do not
love you are never supremely at your
ease. You have some of the sensation
of walking upen stills.
In conversation with them, however
much you admire them, and are inter
ested in them, the horrid idea will cross
your mind of " What shall say next q
Converse with them is not perfect asso-
citation. But with those you love, the
satisfaction in their presence is not un.
like that of the relation of heavenly
bodies one to another, which in theil
silent revolutions, lose none of THEN
attractive power. The sun does not
talk to the world, but it does attract it
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4
I 'spose You looked ) all over, and cam
to the conclusion hSw it wss hest pol
icy, seeing as can'tlast foreTeE.. in m,
state. -
In truth, Della solR discover I tha
life under aunt Hity's roof-frse wal
not likely to provesa holiday Sh,
could only wheel llsrself abo6t N he,
chair, on account ofEheumatism, while
her asthma kept herKgake nights, and
when she couldn't snep she allowed nc
one else the hapPs privilege. When
Della was obliged to mt that the gro.
ceries or the Goals ws5kout, she would
wonder where undo1srFhe sun the next
were coming from -
Eve must ecek she wonld de-
clare. tits on. p from wanton
waste to thesalnze
But. after y lI7..pf searching
in all the Is9s5 s. .gowns, in
all the burs : vay ysterious
crannies cE "a she would
finely Pre- u pf Essle lesL
natures daily Az ella soon
wearied of -s1s PREFER
ing to resorsto sand the
slender bank accod had laid by
for the sunshiny 4 Eat was not to
dawn. thab she had heh ID to expect.
"We git along 7. 2 lsbetter than at
first" Aunt Hitty 4 ,arked. one day.
eff there's anythinasI do hate, it's
money dealings among blood relations. E"
Sometimes, when1sh6 season was
hard, and work s1aekened, and neces-
stiles increased, Della ventured 10 de-
mand trihe to exc things out.
Money, always money" Aunt Hitty
would reiterate. g believe you don't
think of nothing else. Anybody'd
s'pose I was made of precious metal.
I'm most sorry I sent fer yoi, you're
that unthrifty. You'd sell the teeth
out of my head, if they'd bring any
thing-you're that mercenary." But
after much tribulation, it would pres
emily occur to her that she had put a
bit of money into her best china cream
jug for a rainy day, and like the conjurer
who pulls yards of ribbon from his
mouth, she poured gold and silver from
empty cream pitchers, or she found a
bank bill forgotten between the leaves
of Baxter's ''Saint's Rest" and she
would spend half day turning over
new leaf
The one gleam OF sunshine shot
across Delia5 life was the occasional
receipt of a letter from Mrs. Car
ruthers.
I'D write more oftenel, " sheS some
times apclogized ." but somehow, when
/ git set down to it, feel like Keziah |
Kole when she found herself singing
Coronation all by herself in meeting, |
and the preacher awaiting to begin the /
long prayer. And then things don't /
sound the same when they're writ as
when they're spoke out, and the spell
Inns in the ways, and the grammar
amt allus handy, and the ink up and
blots and Paul he COMES in whilst I'm
about it, anhekhe k has. burned
]. ]. !" !" !. !.
madg Nr Is letters
more gratifyi1saE - elegant
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THE Danburv man saws 40

THE Danbury man says: "One Eng
lisA dinner in the inexperienced Ameri-
cam tomach will produce that night
II cross-eyed lions s bears, with calico
tails IL giants, with illuminated heads;
l awful dog, with twelve legs, and IA
bow-.egged ruffiaHs chased by host of
piratical caulifowers, mounted on sad
dies of beef, roasted. Any respectable
chemist will corroborate this state
ment.''
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-03-14
Pretty Sharp.

al We were on John Fowler's stage,
riding from Bridgeton to Norway.
The outside was crowded with pas
sengers, and among them was a
Young city sprig with two damsels.
in charge. In the edge of Harrison,
John pulled up at way side foun-
tain to water his horses. Not far
away, upon the opposite side of the
road was farmers cot and In a
neighboring pasture were several
cows grazing At the watering
trough was tow-headed, treckled-
faced girl of some fifteen summers.
She might have been older, but she
did not look it. She, had set her
pail under the edge of the spout and
was waiting for it to fill. The city
youth was smart and grand, and
he was inclined at times to be face
tious. He wished to entertain his
blooming companions, and the
thought Struck him that he would
innocently doit at the expense of the
tow-headed girl aforesaid. So he
addressed her:
"Say, my good girl, do you live
there?" pointing to the cottage.
ri eyes, sir" she answered, modest
ly, and with courtesy. r.a',A
JtfDoes your father live there ?" -
,p eyes, sir" a. +a! sil al tlGN18 (
''Do you have to bring all your
water from this place ?'' ~ /
"We do now, sir, in the time of
this drouth ?" i.aau: /
.sYou don't sell milk do you ?n
eyes, sir-father sells a great
deal of milk" .at.s aas .si il
"And he carries all his water from
here ?" sasssrl 7s
Certainly, SIR" her eyes opening
and lips tightening; m fi.g a..,s
''Then he can't afford to put much
in his milk" ,-..r. ..-. ...F "a IL
"Well, sir, if he does or dosen't
what's that to you ?" .....i,
'Nothing, only like my milk
Indeed, sir,'' (the freckIe. face
flaming and the great blue eyes
snapping.) "Why need you fret I
Why don't you get your milk as all
the rest of 'em do ? Our calves
never run the risk of getting water
ed milk"
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-03-14
Your Artless women.

There is a certain style of woman
who affects the most innocent SIM
pGcity on questions to which every
one past the first childhood can give
an answer; whose cue is naive ig-
norance. whose charm is her unen-
lightenment, and yet who can use
her very ignorance as a trenchant
weapon enough when she is in the
humor. She has the prettiest way
possible of putting you in the wrong,
aid contradicts you with the least
shading and the most directness of
anv woman you can meet.
Sometimes she merely makes you
appear pedantic or obscure. The
tone in which she says, "Oh! you
are too clever for poor little me to
talk to; and1 dare say you are right,
but then l am such a little goose |
do not understand you" is quite suf-
fcient to annihilate you for the eve
ming, if you chance to be one OF
those unlucky ones who are. sensitive
as to the impression they make. Size,
so simple, so untutQred, the child OF
nature, makes it plain to you that
you have gone on q wrong -+ead' )
when YOU have spoken to her as a
reasonable being of decent education,
and have assumed that she possesses
a mind and some degree of instruc-
ton. She is all heart; if you like,
she can expatiate on her dear dog, or
that darling boat race; but she can
not let YOU think that she has ever
used the eyes of her mind, or seen
ANYTHING deeper than the sef-evi-
dent superfcialties of life.
If YOU talk to her on any subject
bevond the current triyiahtIes OF the
dav.she lifts up her eyebrows and
saws, ssHow odd!" And the next per
son to whom she speaks hears that
YOU are such an extraordinary per
son and have such funny ideas! Or
she may ring the change by saying
that YOU are so dreadfully learned
she cannot understand you-and fan
CIV speaking on such dry subjects as
the sun, er the state OF Spain, or the
different physiognomies of a crowd,
to poor, silly, little her! -,
All she wants to talk about is the
opera, or the fashions, or the latest
scandal, whatever it may be; or, fail
ing a scandal, the latest amusement,
and anything to make her think and
| use her brain, though in the mildes1
way, rufies her serenity, and trans
forms you into a bore of the mrs
magnitude. -.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-03-14
Saharain the Past.

DIR. Zittel, the geologist who ac.
companies the expedition of Rolf
in its researches through the Sahara,
in the latest of his letters on the
characteristics of that desert, estab-
fishes, with great clearness, says the
Pail Mall, Gazette, and by more than
one distinct proof, the theory that it
is the dried-up basin of former
shallow sea. The fine quartz sand,
in particles never larger than the
head of a pin, which forms at once
the main feature and the danger of
its surface, is not produced by any
formation in or near it, and must
have been carried to it by some for
eign agency. The real surface of
the desert is a bare, dry, chalk plat
eau, at first examination resembling
that Of the Swabian Alps, but in re-
ality of much more recent origin.
Above it rise here and there the iso-
lated peaks called by the Arabs swift
nesses," which are of later chalk
again. The tops of these, where sew
eral are visible, are invariably in a
plane, showing that they are the
fragments of an ancient surface, the
Intervening spaces of which have
been washed away. If the question
be asked by what, there being no
ground whatever for supporting tor
rents or glacial action, the answer
can only be by the constant beating
on it of waves dissolving the softer
portions. But a more interesting
point to many geologists wiil be DIR!
Zittle's comments on the splinters of
fiints which. are produced in great
quantities around certain peaks by
the cutting process Of the alternate
slight dews and frosts which the ex-
petition has found to be common in
the winter nights in the Sahara,
These fragments lie around in profu
sion, and to a careless observer might
appear not unlike some of the ruder
flint chips of the first part of the
stone age. But DR.. Zittel, who has
made a study of helatter, took pains
to examine thouands of these natur-
al clippings of flint, and found but
single one which an experienced
eye could take TO. resemble those
which have attracted SO mpeh notice
in Europe. Hence he concludes that
the Sahara fints afford a fresh and
very strong Indirect proof of the pro,
duction Of the Others by the humalf
agencysto which scfent6 has already
assigned ther6sa ,i17 ies9Ss va --''-
D. 2 '''0'ii' ...,,y.b sf.TFsaf.s
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-03-14

. The Bay City Chronicle says of
one of its 1lEustrious citizens: Mr..
Wopples wTiis born to command
there is no doubt of it. He can no
more help giving orders whenever he
sees another man at work than wo-
man pass a mirror without trying to
catch glimpse of her back hair.
Mr.. Wopples was coming along the
street the other day where some men
were hosting some melted tar to the
top of building for the rOofers.
One man was pulling at the hosting
rope and another was holding the
bucket away from the wall by means
of a cord. The bucket had lust
passed the wide cornice when Wop-
pies came upon the scene. He com
pretended the situation at a glance
and saw that the man who was hold
ing the bucket out from the building
by the cord must slacken it so as 10
let the bucket swing over, thsTQef.-
''Let go that rope!" shouted Mr..
Wopples. The man pulling on the
hosting rope recognized the-yoiire Of,
antAori*ys-:trr8 8;1z-with a dim impress
sfon that something had burst, he
dropped his rope and ran to the mid
die of the street. The bucket came
down so as to just hit the edge Of
the cornice, which upset it and the
smoking, sticky contents descended
in black flood upon Mr. Wopples.
During the next two weeks Mrs.
Wopples devoted her leisure hours
to scraping the tar off Wopples' skin,
varying that amusementb by the de-
livery Of free lectures to Wopples
upon whatshe calls his habit of ''etar-
nally meddlin."7 asf 4 ~ '.E
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-03-14


1t is worthy of notice that the
growth of the mind is often accom-
panied by.an apparent loss of power
in particular respects; and this fact
is exceedingly important, especially
to all who desire to estimate the con-
dition of their own mind. The men
tai phenomenon called-not very
correctly-absence of mind, is often
regarded by the person experiencing
it, and still more by those who OBJ
serve it in him, as proof of falling
powers. But it often, if not general.
iy, accompanies the increase of men
tai power. Newton displayed alb
sence of mind much more frequently
and to much more marked degree
when, his powers were at their high
est, than in his youth, and not only
did instances become much less fire.
quent when he was at an advanced
age, but the opposite quality, senSi-
tiveness to small annOyanees, began
to be displayed. Even an apparent
impairment of the memory is not ne
cessarily indicitive of failing mental
powers, since it is often the result of
increased concentration of the atten-
ton on subjects specially calling for
the exercise of the highest forms of
mental analysis, comparison,
generalization and judgment. have
already noted that profound thinkers
often refrain from exercising the
memory, simply to avoid the dis
traction of their thoughts from the
main subject of their study. But
this statement may be extended into
the general remark that the most
profound students, whether of phys
ical science, mathematics, history, or
in fine, of any difficult subject of re-
search, are apt to give the memory
less exercise than shallower thinkers.
Of course the memory is exerted to
a considerable degree, even in the
mere marshaling of thought before
theories can be formed or weighed.
But the greater part of the mental
action devoted to the formation OF
discussion of theories Is only indi-
rectly dependent upon the exercise OF
memory.-POl1atLdr Science Monthly
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-03-14

"What is more exhilarating
sight" asks Vermont paper, "than
to see eighteen handsome girls slid
ing down" hill on an ox-Sled?"
"Nineteen," SAYS the experienced
editor of the Boston Post
A man was boasting that he had
been married for twenty years and
had never given his wife a cross
word. Those who know him say he
didn't dare 30.
Are blaeksmiths who make liv-
ing by forging, or carpenters, who
do little counter-ftting, any worse
than men who sell iron and steel for
a living?
It's rather remarkable that, while
several thousand feet are required
to make one rood a single foot prop
erly applied, is often sufficient to
make one civil.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-03-14
Dr-L walkers California Vim

Dr. walkers California VIM
egar Bitters are q purely Vegetable
preparation, made chiefly from the na-
tive herbs found on the lower ranges Of
the Sierra Nevada mountains Of CalifOr-
MIA, the medicinal properties of which
are extracted therefrom without the use
of Alcohol. The question is almost
daily asked, f.What is the cause Of the
unparalleled success Of VINEGAR BIT
TERs?" Our answer is, that they remove
the cause of disease, and the patient re-
covers his health. They are the great
blood purifier and a life giving principle,
a perfect Renovator and InvigoratOr
of the system. Never before in the
history of the world has a medicine been
compounded possessing the remarkable
dualities of VINEGAR BITTERs in healing the
Sick Of every disease man is heir to. They
are a gentle Purgatiye as well as Tonic,
relieving Congestion or Inflammation Of
the Liver and Visceral Organs, IN Bilious
Diseases. ----ag r-r- .-
The properties of DIR. WALKERS
VINEGAR BITTKRs are Aperient, Diaphoretic,
Carminative Nutritious, Laxative. Dlurete,
Sedative, COunter-Initant, Suderlhe, AItera-
tive, and Anti Bilious.
R. H. MCDONALD q CO..
Druggists and Gen. Agts San Francisco California,
and cor. of Washington and Charlton Sts., n. 7.
Sold by all Druggists and Dealers.