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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-08-14
Art in America.

The London Athen@um has a letter
from New York, which it heads "An
Americans View of American Art" It
is not over-sanguine in tone, but it is
evidently written by cultured Ameri-
can observer, and makes several excel
lent points. After much criticism of in
dividual artists, the writer says "What
America most needs is art criticism.
There is but one journal in New York
the Tribune-that makes the slightest
pretension to criticism. The cense-
quence is, that artists do not find their
proper level. What is best fails to be
appreciated, because of the absence OF
culture. Indiscriminate praise makes
one man as good as another in the eyes
of the general public, the worst pictures
find the readiest sale, and charlatans
who spread the most paint over the lar
gest canvas become famous. There are
wealthy men who pride themselves upon
their picture-galleries, few of which
are fine, but the majority do little credit
to their owners, who depend upon pic
ture-dealers or self asserting artists fol
their collections. Even patrons pos
sessed of a certain amount of taste dc
not take the amount of pains they
should to develop native talent. Con.
tent to be known as having purchased
we'll known French pictures from the
artists studios, they ignore what lieE
next them, merely because they do mo-
know enough to discover it. Hence the
necessity for criticism. Now, when al
artist hears the truth in print, he howl!
with rage, declares he is the victim o
personal malice, and straightway friends
fight bis battles in rival newspapers
The poor public reads both Sides wiring
its hands in despair, and not knowing
what to believe, valiantly sides with tn,
under dog, otherwise the artist. Sucl
Pa state of things is destructive of art
$snd cannot last much longer. The prog
- .e--A.---..;S..-.iss4sti elf ~etfrrceforsrs-Sas
.s5fection of art-museums, must creat'
sounder criticism and, when this goo'
time comes, America will not be foun'
wanting"
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Lightning and its Freaks.

The great destruction to life and
property in various parts of the country
from the effects of lightning during the
past two or three weeks, has served to
give an additional interest to the study
of the phenomenon of electricity.
Never, says the New York World, "has
there appeared to be a greater disturb
ance of the electrical equilibrium, and
certainly the freaks of the subtle fluid
were never SO inexplicable. If the re-
ports we have received are brrect,
many of the buildings which have been
struck by "thunderbolts were pro-
vided with rods, and several of the per-
sons who have been killed or MANNED by
the lightning were knocked out of
feather beds, where, in accordance with
the tradition, they had taken themselves
for safety. In the light of these facts
we have been criticised because we
held to the belief that no building had
ever been destroyed when properly pro-
tected by conducting rods. That score
of buildings provided with rods have
been struck by lightning everybody
knows, but that thousands of buildings
are at present provided with rods that
are worse than useless everybody, per-
haps, does not know. Iron and copper
are always better conductors of cleo
tricity than wood, and the fact that the
current sometimes leaves the metallic
rod and takes the wood only proves
that something has been put in the way
to obstruct it's course. A metallic rod,
to be sure protection, must be perfect
ly unbrokep one, its lower end terminal
ing in the earth in such a manner as to
allow the charge to be given off freely
and instantaneously. Probably if all
the lightning rods in the country we're
inspected, not more than one in ten
would be found in perfect order. Most
of them are put in pieces, the connect
tons being very defective. 1t takes bud
a short time for the iron to rust and
form a coating around the Joints
links, and as soon as that is dor -
rod becomes worthless, and ne,
it EendeEhd gqrtb. iass ruit ~ !!
the upper part of the rod,
where the defect occurs, is an attfa
for the lightning. If thunder Cts
passes near by, and current of elec-a
tricity descends the rod, it is suddenly
checked when it reaches the breaks and
it is then obliged to tear its way through
the side of the building. A defective
rod is apt to bling a current into
building which, but for the rod, would
have gone in another direction, and that
building which is provided with rods
suffers more if struck, than one unpro-
vided with rods"
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Gods Dealings.

have sometimes thought that the
Lord deals with his friends who are
dearest to him, as the ocean does with
its waves. Sometimes it pushes them
against the rocks, where they break in
pieces; sometimes it rolls them on the
sand, or dashes them ON the mire. And
then, in a moment, 1t retakes them into
the depth of its own bosom, where they
are absorbed with the same rapidly
with which they were first elected.
The more violently they are dashed
upon the rocks, the more quickly and
impetuously do they return to the
great center. With others he deals
more gently, There are many, far the
greater number, whom he permits to
live by consultations mingled with faith.
How few are those, how very rare, who
are driven and dashed where the Lold
pleases, till their wills are wholly de-
stroyed, and they can no longer de-
mand anything for themselves.
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The SKEPTICAL CoNvINOED.-Every
! advance in medicine, every new remedy
! has encountered an opposition, which is
| the test of truth. Galen and Jenner only
were believed when they had proved
their discoveries againstoppositioJ But
men are observing, and benefits always
make believers. No incredulity can
stand the silent argument of good re-
suits. When DIR. Walker proclaimed
that he had produced from the medicinal
herbs of California an elixir that would
regenerate the sinking system and cure
diseases not organic, the incredulous
shook their hea s. Yet his Vinegar
Bitters is now the standard restorative
of the western world. The truth could
not be resisted. Under the operation of
1.-THE new remedy, dyspeptics regained
cath aPpetite ,,a and stgTergtp, the bill
8ery distressing symptom the con-
knptive and rheumatic rapidly recov-
Cred inter mittent and remittent fevers
were broken up /; the faint of scrofula
was eradicated Who could gainsay
facts like these? Not even the faculty.
Skepticism was routed. All doubts as
to the claims of the Bitters to the first
place in the first rank of modern medi-
preparation is to-day the most popular
tonic, Alternative and blood depurent
ever advertised in America. In COM
mon with other journalists, we are free
to add our testimony to this remedy. It
is domestic medicine, and no house
hold should be without it.
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Black Gulch. He was dressed in a CO.
lonel's uniform. We knew each other
directly. Embracing me in the genu-
inc Mexican fashion he drew me into his
room to present me to his wife, more
charming than when she occupied
cabin on the prairie. We all three had
long and confidential tall Miguels
rise in life was nothing uncommon in a
country where revolutions are so fire.
uuent, but the union of these persons
was something wholly incomprehensible
to my mind. Before the steamer was
ready to sail, Colonel Aguero's leave
was countermanded, and he was ordered
to the interior, as formidable rising
had taken place. /, therefore, reluc-
family bid them good-by.
Since then have heard that Sonora
Arguero left her husband, or he left
her. and that she may be daily seen In
public on the piazza at Havana, where
she is famed for her transcendent
/ hpQu,V
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Preserving Butter.

Only a few families know how t.
keep fresh butter sweet and finely fla
vored for any length of time, whether
! they make or purchase it. Hence with
such there is a necessity of speedy con
sumption, or having to eat az inferior
article. Assuming that the cream was
good, the buttermilk properly worked
out of the new butter, and pure salt
served In this stare? Answer By ex.
Guiding the air and keeping it in cool
place. Pack new butter in sound stone
jars or crooks wet with strong brine
and be sure TO keep the brine an inch or
two over the butter to exclude atmos-
pheric air.
If the crock stands in cold spring
water, in spring house or cool cellar,
the butter will not become rancid in
several months, finely favored butter
put up in this manner sells in New York
at this time at from 60 to 70 cents a
pound.
The practice of having so much dam
aged or inferior butter is great ms
take which ought to be corrected party
by manufacturers, and partly by deal
ers and consumers In the first place,
cows should have plenty of green fresh
feed like grass, clover, green corn, COW
peas or millet, to yield sweet butter. A
steady supply of rich yellow milk is
needed.
In the south, corn forage will be our
main dependence, as we can raise it
early and late in the season by taking
pains; and il makes excellent hay when
all the nutriment in the grain is re-
tanned in the blade or stalk There are
over one thousand million pounds of
lard in the shape of pork and bacon
consumed in the United States every
year, and the tendency is to substitute
butter for this hogs grease. The COW
is better, and more economical ma
chine to extract oil from plants with
her capaeious stomach than any swine.
Hence. the rapid increase of we'll organ
lied BITTER factories and of dairy COWS.
In less than three days time the COW
enables us to transform corn shuck,
leaf and stalk into healthy human blood.
No hog can do as much,
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THE PHILADELPHIA LEDGER doesn't
write obituary poetry for children out
side of Philadelphia. Thi il the style
IN which 1t mentions the death of
small boy of Lowell " Loweil--Satur-
day. Two little boys and a pistol. Now,
only one little boy and pistol.
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customs of this people. Before ore. the he,l IN !.
PRODUCTION q absinthe, who who. ever re- saw saw 3
drunken person in the streets rec 81 narns
Now who is il that does NOT see enem IN.
Not drunkenness IN Iags aaono, us
drunkenness with goodIy apparel ana
mien of ON ght-t to be respectaDlhty.
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EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.

CHARLESTON. Mass. March 10. 1869.
Mr. II r. SrFVESs: . ~,
Preparation '(VEG ErISE) in my family FOR several
years and think that for SCrOfula or tankerou
minors or Rheumatic affections. 10 cannot be eN
called: and as "A loOd purifier ana spring med 4
cine il is the best thiLgsl have ever used; ana
have used ALMOST every thing can cheerInll!
recon mend IT to any IN need OF such meolcli5
y ours respectfully,
MRS. 4. a. DINS MORE
Russell
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The heat of summer. as well as the sudden
changes of Temperature incident to autumn,
coupled with the use OF unripe vegetables and
fruits and other unwhclesome artiele's OF food
result every season in producing much sufer-
ing from diarrhoa, dysentary, cholera morbus,
collie and other arrangements OF the stomach
and bowels. A remedy that Will promptly re-
lieve these sufferings and restore tone and
normal action to the relaxed and debilitated
almentary canal. is siirear boon to the aftiict-
ed. DIR. r. " Pierce. vi Dse Family Medicines
have acquired Worldwide reputation, by long
study and careful chemical experiments has
succeeded in extracting, by colo. process,
from smart-weed, or water pepper. That mod
est little plant seen in wet grounds by the
roadside and in neglected grounds and pasture
fields, remedial principal which. when sklllful-
ly combined with the ex 8pct of Jamaica ginger
and other pleasant modifying agents, in what
be calls his Compound Extract of Smart Weed,
forfiis a most reliable specific for al such de-
rangements and sufferings- 1t is PLEASANT and
safe to take vet powerful TO cure. Its Non-
derful efficacy is further confirmation or the
Doctors idea that God has caused 20 grow III
each climate and region, those medicinal plants
beet calculated for the cure of the diseases
that prevail in the section OF country where
those plants are found-thst :" the leaves were
for the healing of the nations, and that the
fewer far-fetched remedies we emp oy the bet
ter. if we would thoroughly investigate ard
understand those we have at home. The DOC
tors Extract Of Smart-Weed is sold by drug
gists generally
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WHAT is NEEDED.

Mr. Fl. r. STEVENS:
Dear Sir-About one year sii &c found myreli
in a feeble condition from general debility. WOE.
TIsST. was strongly recommended 10 me by irlfna
yyho had been much benefited by It's use. i pro
cured the article and after using severai bottles
was restored q health. and discontinued Us use
feel ouite con dent that there il medicine SUI
t1erfor those complaints for which ~ - -s-
peciaIly prepared. ana would checriuiy re ON
mend IL to those who feel that tEey need some
thing 10 restore them to perfect health.
Respectfullv ours. -
L. l.. PETTENGILL.
Firm Of = NJ. Petttngi & Co, 10 state ST. Boston.
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"OUT in Wisconsin horse kicked a
book agent, whereupsn the citizens
made donation party for the horse,
and he now has oats enough to last him
a full horse lifetime.
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GOOD BEEF CHEAPER THAN PooR.-
In market quotations of our western
towns, we find cattle quoted something
like this Good shipping steers, s.. 50
TO Sc so; butchers stock, 50. so to 81 so.
Now why is it that, living as western
people do, where So many cattle are
bred, they should eat so much poor
beef It Is b cause such quotations as
the above indicate that the poor beef is
cheapest. But this is not true. A we'll
fatted animal, weighing 1,400 to ], 600
lbs, of small bone and fine quality, will
give us more eatable meat for the same
money at $3.50 per hundred, than
thin, eoarse-boned old COW or steer,
weighing from 900 to ], 100 lbs, at s.. so
to $3.50 per 100. This was illustrated
not long since by an investigation made
into the management of one of our
western state prisons. 1t was charged
that the prisoners had better beef than
the people of the city. This the super
intendent did not deny, for he said his
purpose had always been to buy the
best cettle in the market and we I'M
derstand that he actually demonstrated
by the accounts and figures carefully
kept of purchases, the gross and net
weights, etc., that he saved money to
the state by the practice-LfUe Stock
Journal.
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THE estate of the late Chief Justice
Chase, when Equidated, viii amount TO
about S105, 600. The estate owes J.
Cook & Co., 20, 900, mostly advanced on
stocks, aud Mrs. Hoyt, Judge Chase
daughter, So, 600,
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FooLIsHLY spent, money paid for
ehildrens shoes not protected by SILVER
TIPS. Two weeks is about the time it takes a
ts,art sset4ve- go xefftftate fhe Ntee~s-r
shoe. SILVER TIPS the only preventative.
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An eminent German surgeon, DIR.
Kuester, has been conducting a series
of experiments concerning the action
of bullets used in modern warfare from
which he has derived several important
results. In the first place he has dis
proved the commonly accepted medieo-
legal dogma, that gunshot wounds
are more extensive in the living body
than in the dead, and that this affof DIS a
means of distinguishing whether the
injury has been inflicted during life or
after death +" the character of the
wounds being similar in living and dead
animals with all the arms tried by him,
including the ordinary muzzle-loadipg
rife, with e1nical ball, the needle-gun,
Chassepot. Msuser and Henry Martiri
cumstance that in gunshot wounds from
,fhe more powerful modern rifles the
.Aperture of entrance is small while that
OF the exit is of frightfully large di-
mansions is shown to depend not on the
melting of the missile, but on the fact
that a soft lead ball when discharged
from short distance is broken up on
entering the tissues into a multitude of
small fragments (about one-half of its
substance being thus subdivided) which
act like charge of shot, decorating the
textures in all directions. The extent
ofss.destruction is s. inverse ratio to the
distance and in direct relation with the
initial velocity of the bullet" This
mechanical subdivision only occurs in
soft lead bullets, the hard balls used
with the Henry Martini rifle (made of
an amalgam of lead and TIM indicting a
simpler wound with little shattering.
This leads DIR. Kuefter to exonerate
the French from the charge sometimes
made against them of employing ex-
ploslye bullets during the late cam
paign while he urges the Geneva con-
ventioneto use every effort to obtain an
international verdict against the horri-
bic butchery caused by the use of soft
lead missiles, which act precisely as
explosive ones would.
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VEGETINF extends its influence into every part
of the human organism. cOiufnenc ng win lt'
70 indatlon, correct diseased action and restor;
ing vital powers creating a heelthy formation aud
nurIfcatfon OF the blood driving ont diseases and
leaving nature to perform its allotted task. NEGE-
TINE is sold by ali Druggists.
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Not Quite so Fast, Mr. y ODess-An oi' 10
doctor in Philadelphia caught changing the
celebrated Mexican Mustang Linim'sDt into other
bottles. and using it as his own recipe. Honesty
is always the best policy. These medicine men like
to follow up such fellows It cured the hme horse
all the same; but it damaged TIE DotSbr's reputA-
ton. and benefited the proprietor in proportion.
We have heard of SO many REeumatis persons and
lame horses being cured by the Mustang lAnime1ii
that we advise every housekeeper, nveryman anc
planter TO invest in so CT. 81. 00 bottle against
accident Beware of counterfeits. II ~ wrapped
in steel engraving, signed &c w. "estorooht
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WATERS' C0NCERT0 ORGANS

are he most beautiful ~ yIe a Il perfect b
tone ever made. The Concerto stop Is N,
best ever placed any organ. II - pro-
dHced on extra set oT reeds. peculiarly
voiced, the fleet az fchfch - most charming {.
and SOULS stirring, unite rs Imitation ar Lie
human voice is superb. Terms fbcrGi.
WATERS Philharmonic, Yes
per 81 Orchestral ORGANS
in unique French cases, among ne best
made, and com bfne purify u vOtciDg l0ih
great volume OF tone. suitable Tor parlor,
church music hall
WATERS New Scale PIANOS
hare great power and fine sin gtng tone,
lCith aiI modern improvements, o,ad n ne
best pianos made. Tuese organs and PIT
amos are warranted FOR wears. Prices c1-
tremeIy low Tor cash, or part cash and bal
snce N monthly or quarferlp payments.
secondhand Instruments taken fn ex-
change. Agents wanted IN every county
IN he u :. aud Canada. A liberal discount
10 Teachers. MfnfsteTs, Churches Schoots, Lodges
etc. I'LL UST,RA TED CdJALOG YES Matted.
HORACE WATERS q so
ash broadway, N. " n. %. Box 35G7.
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rbe Lndie., sorosis club, of Nov York,

The Ladies', sOrOsis Club Of New York,
recently changed their discussions from Womanr
suffrage to Hair preparations and Pimpie Danish
ers They declared that where nature had not en-
dowed them with beauty, 1t was their right-yeAs
their duty-to seek it where they could. SO they al
voted that Magnolia Balm overcsme sallownessY
Rough Skin and Ringrnarks, and gave the complex
ion a most distiroue (Sorqaan) and marble-lke APP
pearance dangerous to MN, no doubD and that
Lyons Kathsiron made the hair grow thick, SOFT
turning gray. II the proprietors Of these articles
did not send the sisters an invoice, they are not
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COOP advice never comes amiss. III
thew have not got the Elmwood Collar at the
store where Won are in the habit of purchasing
your goods, tell them to get some for you at
once, and don't be put off vita any other
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The Grand RevRutiOn IN MEDICAL
TREATMENT, which was Cd nenced in lsGo, is still
in progress. Nothing carSbtop it, 70 Is founded
on the principle, now UNIVERSAL acknowledged
that physical yigor Is the most rmidabe antagon-
ist Of all human ailments, AZ experience as ahoWn
that PLANTATION BITr as a peerless inyigorant'
as wei as the best po soc safeguard against cpl
derc diseases.
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The queen of England, Though theo-
ietically head OF the (English) church
and titulary defender of the faith. is
not very good church woman. She
lets her children get married in Lent;
she gives draw ing room and state con-
certs OF, the Fridays of that holy season;
she gives her yearly ball to her ?er wants
on Good Friday Itself when IN Scot scot,
land, she goes to the Presbyterian
meeting, and seems to enjoy 1t recent,
", when wealthy neighbor OF hers at
Baimoral, private gentleman, under
took to build an Anglican chapel at his
own expense, she had word conveyed TO
him that he wonld do her favor by DIS
missing the idea. Naturally, her lon
ing subjects Of the high church persuS
SION are good deal ecandalized byah inns.
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Proving Calling Guns.

400 minute, fDm tl gdn, with
out stopping 10 clean the gun. DR..
Calling was resent, and Witnessing
this unequaled result was interested in
the discovery Of what seemed to be
almost new principle in gunnery. 1t
was found that up to the 4,0O0th round
the gun kept fouling, but that after
that point it began TO clean itself and
after the "a, 0OOth round was fred the
barrels were found to be as clean and
bright inside as they were when they
were first polls he'd
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THE process of canning Holsters at
Mount Desert is thus described 1.-THE
factory at Southwest Harbor, Mount
Desert, when running at full capacity.
put up $4,000 cans week, employing
about fifty hands. Until within short
time plenty of Holsters have been taken
about the harbor, but now smacks are
used, which cruise around and purchase
of various parties. The price paid at
this time is about 81 per hundred lbs.
pounds at time. The vessels are built
with two decks, with perforated bot
toms. so that the fish are preserved alive
and fresh IN their native element. Upon
the arrival of the smacks the Holsters
are dumped upon the wharf in big piles.
They present curious appearance, BIZ
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EVERY one knows that a coldAo

EVERY one knows that coldAor cough
ought not to be neglected, and thatbf 1t IL not
attended to in season, 1t may result fatally.
Our advice is to take care of it before 1t Is too
late, and use Dr. Wishart's Pine Tee Tar Cor
dial. which can be had of any druggist. DR..
Wishart's Worm Sugar Drops are the best rem
edv for worms ever discovered.-Com.
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Truth is Mighty, ami will Prevail"
VEGETINE
PURIFIES THE BLOOD AND RESTORES THE
HEALTH.
Seventy-one Years of Age.

Seventy-one Years OF Age
Fast MARsHFIELD. ug. =, $50
Mr.. II. r. -TEvENs:
near gir-T am seventy ore years or ace; have
Inferred NJ any yefrs With Kidney Comp aint, wea <
moss in my back aud stomach. vas induced by
friends to try your NFGETISE. and THINK u tne
hest medicine tor weakness uf the kl news ever
I1se - / have tried M my remedies fer this com
Dlafut and never found 50 much relief a. rom the
NEGhTISE. 1t Strengthens and lnNigorales tne
,vho'e system. Non OF my acquainttnce1 have
taken II aud believe II o. go3a Tor All the com
Yours truly. -