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The Hickman courier., 1876-07-28
HITTER CREAM.

1t is age generally that spoils cream.
A dairy correspondent of the Country
Gentleman gives the following explana-
tion of the matter:
The cause and cure are both well
enough known. Cream becomes bitter
bv long keeping; at three days it will
begin to tell after the fourth day it Is
unfit to be used in coffee or made into
butter, spelling both.
In summer there is little bitter milk
or cream. because the cream is churned
sooner than in winter, seldom reaching
the third day Sometimes, where there
is single COW kept, have known the
bitter to show on account of the small
quantity of cream accumulating. The
summer practice is reversed in the
winter. There being too little milk to
require frequent churning then-say
one, and sometimes two churnings a
week-we account readily for the evil
complained Of The iorepart of the
season, when milk is in greater quantity,
necessitating more frequent churning,
hear of but little complaint. 1t matters
not how good the feed is--if the tenderesi
hay and roots are added, making an
| approach TO summer feed; nor how clear
the milk is kept, the most perfect mili
il set beyond three days will be hurt
The writer ot this has filed the vessel
leaving bareley space enough for clou
to be stretched over without touching
the milk, and snug lid put on, keeping
the air out, but all to no purpose. 80
in the purest air, in all the temperatures
it is the same.
1t is age that spoils the cream; no
only does it make it bitter, but destroy
the flavor, giving it a rank, disagreeabl
taste. The sooner the cream is churne
or used after the milk has stpod forty
eight hours, the better. If there is to
little cream to chuIn. add the milk an
churn that with it to give suflicieT
body to work it. If the milk has bee
kept in pure air, and cleanliness observe
throughout, with the proper temperatur
about 60 degrees, there will be 9
absence of the bitter, rank taste, but
good quality of butter will be produce
The Hickman courier., 1876-07-28
TIE COTTON CROFIN THEHOBILE DI =
P-IRTHENT.

from returns embracing the period
from the lst of June to the lst instant:
Alabama-45 counties, 10 letters.
The weather since the lst of June Is
generally reported as having been IA
vorable. In 10 counties, however there
is complaint of too much rain, while in
) counties there has not been sufficient,
and it is needed In u counties, the
weather has been more favorable than
last year; in IS equally as favorible, and
in Is less favorable There has been no
change in acreage since last report. The
stands are good, and the plant is bloom
ing and forming well. The present con-
dition of the crop compares favorable
with the same time last year in the
general average, with the exception of
being a week to ten days later in some
sections and having had too much rain
in others. Worms are reported as
having appeared in very small numbers
in 10 counties, but no damage has been
done by them.
Missjssippi--2O counties, 90 letters.
The weather, from June 1st to the 10Th,
is reported as having been rainy with
cool nights, but warm and propitious
since the 18th, and as favorable as
during the same period last year. There
has been no change in acreage since last
report. The stands of cotton are good
and the plant is forming and blooming
well, especially on the up lands, but
some damage is reported in she bottom
lands from heavy rains. In a few
counties grasshoppers and cut worms
have appeared, but no material injury
by them is anticipated. The crop is
generally ten days later than same
time last season, and the plant smaller
but vigorous and healthy, and the
average condition equally as good as last
year.
The Hickman courier., 1876-07-28
GRAVE and GAY.

Il
Why il it that dirty pair or o..n.
protude much farther than clean one.
despiteall endeavors 10 hide them
While the average man Is fool;n.
around for half an hour, trying 10 omen,
patent-lock gate, Genius will come
along and kick the thing clean or the
hinges.
Whitehall Times a Boston
tailor has had his bill head stamped with
a picture of a forget-me-not. This is all
right as long as customers have ane-
none" Norristown Herald: "Yes
but these dandy lions are apt TO lilac
blazes."
"A traveller staying over night with
Texan farmer whose estate was miles and
miles in ex.eLt, said TO him: "You
must have begun lie very early to accu-
mulate such an estate as thisP YES"
replied the farmer, " began life when
was mere baby"
joaquin MiIler's poem of one
thousand lines says that the Oregan
river rolls
In land so far that you wonder whether
The God would know ~ should you drop dead
In land so far lhrourh the wllds and weather
That the falls wcai and flushed and red,
That the heaven and earth seem rofning together,
Seem closing together a book that is read.
Mrs. Shoddy (to shopkeeper)-
" Show me a thermometer-one of your
very best" Shopkeeper-" This, ma'am
is one Of our finest Venetian glass and
the best quicksilver" Mrs. s." Sill
ver2 That would be very nice for the
kitching, but | want one for my boodoor.
Haven't you one with guickgold p
A man recently died in Zurich, who
for thirty years MADE rremarkabiy big
fool of himself When young, he fell in
love, and then became jealous. While
in this condition he offended his sweet
heart, who, to punish him, made
him swear that ne would not speak
for twelve months. He swore; but she
died before the twelve months elapsed.
and the lover concluded t9Pemain dumb
until he rejoined her in tfe next world.
He kept his word, and for thirty years
was never heard to speak except when
he stepped on banana-peeling.
A tumulus of unusual size has lately
been opened near the Nordfiord, in Nor
way, dating apparently from the year
500. 1t was stored with all the magnih-
cent belongings Of viking chieftan. A
bowl of precious enamel, store Of amber,
"A massive belt of bronze, rank among the
most splendid trophies of the viking pc
riod which have come down TO us. There
were also some stone balls ilattened on
one side, with q dint in the center Of the
base, which some regard as marbles, fiat
tened for use on board Of ships but
others argue that they belonged rather
to a peculiar game now no longer in
vogue, and played on shore. This the
ory is supported by reference found in
the ancient sagas
The Hickman courier., 1876-07-28
TORPEDO WtRFIRE-SO FRESH
EXPERIMENTS SINEEGLIND.

From tn London Telegraph, June IS.
A series of fresh experiments, to test
the effect of torPedoes on the hull of the
Oberon, was made yesterday at Fareham
creek, the northwestern arm of Ports
mouth harbor The ship was moored at
about 400 yards from the shore in eleven
feet of water, and three charges were
fired against her. No was a Harvey
torpedo, containing &C pounds OF
gunpowder, primed with the laboratory
bolt and case, filled with gunpOwder.
and to be ignited by means of a powder
fuse to be fired electrically, and placed on
the starboard bow. The center of the
torpedo was placed % feet below the
surface, and 8 feet from the nearest point
of the vessels side. No , was
rectangular iron case, containing 80
pounds of slab gunpowder, % per cent.
of water being added, and was placed on
the port side the center of the charge
being feet distant and 81 feet below
the surface Nos was similar to the
last, the charge being, however, %
pounds of granulated gun-cotton, % per
cent Of water being added, and was
placed on the staTboard side. All three
charges were fired simultaneously by
means of dynamite machine, under the
superintendence o Capt. Heneage, royal
engineer, and assisted by Lieutenant
Rhodes, royal engineer, AMI small
party of royal engineers. The result
was loud explosion, followed by great
upheavaI of water. The Oberon swayed
lightly to and fro, and then began to
settle down astern. She was at once
grounded. and was then found To have
sunk some FIVE or six feet astern, and t.
have shipped large body o water. 1t
was not expected that the Harvey
torpedo would do any material damage
but it was found that the rivets in the
plats in its immediate vicinity had beer
started. Further aft, however, as was
anticipated, much mischief had beer
done. Water was rushing through th'
sides of the ship. and rent was dis
covered on either side, opposite Nos.
and charges The roof of woodeI
house had been lifted, heavy iron bodie
were scattered about, and the decl
started in several places. Itwas believe'
| that the greatest amount of damage ha'
, been caused by the explosion of gun
: cotton, but this will be ascertained upol
a minute examination. 1t is understoo'
that the Oberon experiments have le'
2 the committee to the conclusion tha
; large ground and buoyant mines, havin
: to be placed much too deep, and at
5 distance of thirty or forty feet below tn
D surface, are not as effective as wer
4 anticipated by some; but the smalle
t charge. in contact with vessel, an
n contained in bodies that are floating, q
: just below the surface of the water, al
: thoroughly efficient and Trustworthy
! A large number of naval officers wer
: present, including representatives {
d Frame, Germany and several otht
: countries.
The Hickman courier., 1876-07-28
NOW THE SERVICE FEELS ABOUT
CUSTER.
Remarks of a General


The truth about Custer is, that he was
a pet soldier, who had risen not above
his merit, but higher than men of equal
merit. He fought with Phil. Sheridan
and through the patronage of Sheridan
he rose, but while Sheridan liked his
valor and his dash he never trusted his
judgment. He was to Sheridan what
Murat was TO Napoleon. While Sheri-
dan is always cool, Custer was ALWAYS
afame. He was like thermometer. He
had touch of romance about him, and
when the war broke out he used to go
about dressed like one Of Byron's pirates
in the Archipelago, with waving. Mining
locks, and broad, Tapping sombrero.
Rising to high command early in life, he
lost the repose necessary to success in
high command. Why. remember when
we were chasing Lee, and had him up
against Appomatox. Custer rushed into
the rebel lines and wanted Longstreet to
surrender the whole army to him. You
see Custer imagined that if he could
frighten Longstreet into a surrender all
he would have to do would be to turn
over the whole rebel gang to Grant, but
I-ongstreet, who had wonderful sense,
quietly told the furious young man that
he did not command the army to surrer-
der it and that Lee was off to see Grant
on the same business. Then Custer must
rush into politics, and went swinging
round the circle with johnson. He
wanted to be a statesman, and, but for
Sheridan's influence with Grant, the re-
pub, cans wonld have thrown him; but
you see we all liked Custer, and did not
mind his little freaks in that way any
more than we would have minded tenn
The Hickman courier., 1876-07-28
SITTING BULL.
Antecedents and Exploits Of the Sioul
Leader


Anteceden's and Exploits Of the Siour
Leader.
To-tOnka U-ton-ka, Sitting Bull, is a
Yankton Sioux, of the upper Missouri,
and received his name from being a
fleshy, indolent youth-the Indian name
meaning, literally, big flesh" He is
now about fortyfive years old, and weighs
in the neighborhood of one hundred and
sixty-five pounds, having lost his sur
plus flesh, and now presenting fine
physique. He is regarded as mentally
the superior of Red Cloud and Spotted
Tail, but his career has not been marked
by any great feat of daring, such as is
usually required of brave before he is
advanced to a leading position.
Until within the last six years Sitting
Bull has been only n warrior, but bold
and independent one, refusing all over
lures from the whites and declaring his
firm purpose TO stan upon his rights
and treaty stipulations regardless of con
sequences. Numbers of the various bands
of the Sioux, agreeing with him in sen
timent, soon placed themselves under
his leadership, and now his forces consist
of portions of the Unkpapas, Mimi
kan-ins, Ohe-nom-pas, Blackfeet, O-gah-
la-las and Yanktonais bands, numbering
in all about one thousand three hundred
warriors. When the Indian bureau
asked congress for an appropriation last
nj to bo 20,
rations to Sitting Bulls band, the num-
Der of the band was stated at one thou
sand two hundred. In a public debate
on the bill this estimate was pronounced
exaggerated, and prominent member
denied that the band numbered over
seven hundred.
Sitting Bulls exploits since the or
ganization of his band have consisted
principally of successful defensive oper-
ations against the Rees. Mandans, As
sinnebrins, Grosventois, Crows, and the |
Blackfeet of the upper Missouri. Occa-
sional retaliatory raids have been made; |
and on several occasions whites have |
been attacked and killed for trespassing |
upon the reservation of these Indians. |
Such was the courage and ability dis |
played by Sitting Bull in all these en- |
counters, and such his success in battle |
that his followers have come to regard |
his command as absolute, his word As law. |
In all the efforts made by the govern
ment to induce the Sioux to surrender |
their little to the Black Hills reservation, |
Sitting Bull stubbornly refused to listen
to any proposition. The result was the |
government abandoned the project, and |
notified miners and others not to tres
pass upon the reservation. The notice
was disregarded, and the influx of whites
forced Sitting Bull and his band to leave
the reservation and retire to Il hunting
ground in the Little Horn, four hundred
and fifty miles northwest of the Black
Hills. Here he was attacked by General
Custer. The country mourns the result.
The Hickman courier., 1876-07-28
now JETTIES IRE MADE.
From the Washington Chronicle.

The workman empleyd by captain
Eads on the Mississippi river cities
live in huts in a caDebrake swamp, and
every rise of the tide covers the ground
with water. They also endure the bites
of the unusually big mosquitoes and the
proximity of alligators. The streets of
Port Eads, as the village is called, are
planks laid on posts. The jetties are
built of willow mating alternated by
LAYERS of stone The willows are OBJ
tanned on an island near by, the supply
being equal to the immense demand.
On the back of the island is a sloping
platform, upon which mats are made by
Iaying the willows crosswise and length
wise until the mass is thirty inches thick
strips of wood firmly bolted hold the
mat together after it is pressed
compactly. Then it is launched towards
the spot where it is to be used attached
to guide posts, and piled with stones
until it sinks. Each mat is 100 feet
long and from so to Is feet wide, ac-
cording to the place it is made to oc-
cupy in the tapering jetty.
The Hickman courier., 1876-07-28
THE SIL YER MIL 1S INNS GONE TO
TJTIc I'EJsSTDENT.

The following is the full text of the
Joint resolution Tor the issue Of silver
coin, which has passed both houses OF
congress and now goes to the president
for signature:
Resolved, that the secretary of the
treasury, under such limits and regula-
tions as will best secure a just and fair
distribution of the same through the
country. may issue the silver coin at any
time i'm the treasury To- an amount not
exceeding $4,000, 900 in exchange for
an equal amount of legal-tender notes,
and notes 80 received in exchange shall be
kept asa special fund separate and apart
| from all other money IN the treasury, and
be issued only upon the retirement and
destruction OF like sum OF fractional
currency received at the Treasury in
payment of dues of the United States,
and said fractional currency, when
substituted, shall be destroyed and held
As part of the sinking fund, as provided
in the act approved April II, 1876.
"Sec. .. That the trade dollar shall
not hereafter be a legal tender, and the
secretary of the treasury is hereby
authorized TO limit from time to time
the coinage thereof to such an amount
as he may deem sufficient TO meet the
export demand for the same.
"Sec. 8. That. in addition to the
amount of subsidiary silver coin author
lied by law to he issued in redemption
of the fractional currency, it shall be
lawful to manufacture at the several
mints, and issue through the treasury
and it's several Offices, such coin TO an
amount that, including the amount of
subsidiary silver coin and of fractional
currency outstanding, shall in the ag-
qregate not exceed at any time SJO,OOO,-
600.
esSec. 4. That the silver bullion re-
quired, for the purpose of this act shall
he purchased from time TO time at the
market rate by the secretary of the
treasury with any money iB the treasury
not otherwise appropriated, but no
purchase Of bullion shall be made under
this resolution when the market pFlce
for the same shall be such rs VIII not
admit of the coinage and issue as therein
provided without loss to the treasury
and any gain or seigniorage arising from
this coinage shall be accounted for ana
paid into the treasury, and provided
under existing laws relative 10 subsidiary
coinage, provided that the amount OF
money at any one time invested IN sucn
silver bullion, exclusive of such resulting
coin. shall not exceed 100000"
The Hickman courier., 1876-07-28
EXTRADJTFON

HHat Earl Derby ffas to Say IL, Hepgy 10
Secretary FisI.-A Ns,c TTeafy Proposed.
The correspondents on the extradition
treaty has been published. Earl Derby,
in his note, says the essential principles
of extradition, as pRcticed by England.
are that the peFsoi surrendered on an
extradition treaty an be tried ON no
onense except the gne for which he is
surrendered. This j the proper con-
struction of the traty of 1912. Her
maiesty's governmea Z thinks the act OF
1870 is important, Il without it would
maintain the sass position. The gov
era~,ent maiataiiiiis' he right OF asylum
until the criminalty, according to the
laws of England, j. hown. This applies
simply in the casepf political ofienses.
The great object inrequiring evidence
is not merely the establishing ofan oiIense
called by the name specified in treaty,
but the establishingof an ofiense of that
name according toll law of the sur
rendering country. 1t is to prevent the
surrender on a chage Of a crime of an
uncertain meaning, and the subsequent
trial on facts considered here rs estab-
fishing a political ofense, and not for the
crime for which theurrender was made.
The surrendering country must have
facts to Judge Whether the ohense Is Po-
htical. Secretary Fish's assurance that
no administration dare violate the rights
of political asylum by Obtaining the
prisoner on one chTge and trying him
for political oAens Is not sufficient, as
the attorney general cannot interfere
when an ofiense is cemnitted against the
law of one state. The act of congress Of
August y, 1913, &C 47, :. 81, shows the
construction put upon the treaty by the
United States. L0d Derby briefly re-
views the negotiations in 1871, 1872 and
1878, and says that the violation in the
case of Heilbroun vas not the act of her
maiesty's governmat, but it regretted
it. The government believes that the
United States is sctuated by sincere
desire to maintain the rights, which, in
their judgment. arr demanded by the
treaty of 1912, and they wish the same
construction put on England's motives.
The note deplores the misunderstanding
between the governments, and says that
the British government is ready to join
the United States in negotiating new
treaty
The Hickman courier., 1876-07-28
THE DREAMER.

All day the white-haired woman sits
Besides the open door. and knits;
No living thing her dim eye sees,
As busy with old memories,
she dreams her dreams Of what has been,
And knits her old time faneies in
She thinks of those who long ago
Went out across the threshold low,
How many times her listening ear
Has thought familiar footsteps n'ar,
Aud she has started up to find
A dead leaf ru. Ting in the wind.
But never as of those who lie
Beneath the wide and tender sky,
With folded hands on quiet breast,
All wrapped with peace and rest,
She thinks OF them. For her they tread
The green earth with her. None are dead
Though years have fallen like the leaves
Above the graves where summer wtaVes
Her Erass-fringe cOverlet, 10 Keep
Safe hid from US the ones asleep,
She sees them all. Not grass nor mold
Can hide the cneS she loved OF old.
She talks with them. When brOwn-wingedb bee
Make merry in the locust trees
She thinks he comes and sits with her
Whose voice was loves interpreter.
o dreamer young again to-day,
What matter if your head is gray
Sometimes she thinks that round her knee
Her children play in happy gee,
And when they tired and sleepy grow
she sings some song Of long ago,
She rocks her little ones to rest.
q dreamer knit ting all the day
Your dreams in with your stitches gray,
Yours is a happy, happy heart
haunted world from ours apart;
he years that turned your tresses tray
Has given you back your youth to-day
The Hickman courier., 1876-07-28

Mark Twain, in an account of Nc
Douglas cave and the skeleton found in
it, says:
The poor unfortunate had starved to
death. In one place near at hand. a
stalagmite had been slowly growing up
from the ground for ages, builded by the
water drip from a stalactite over head
The captive had broken off the stalag-
mite, and upon the stump had placed a
stone wherein he had scooped a shallow
hollow to catch the precious drop tn
fell once in every twenty minutes, with
the dreary regularity of clock-tick-a
desert.spoonful once in four -and-twenty
hours. That drop was aIling wnen the
pyramids were new; when Troy fell
when the foundations of Rome were laid
when Christ was crucifed when the
conouerer created the British empire;
when Columbus sailed; when the mas
sacre at Lexington was "news" 1t is
falling now it will be still falling when
all these things shall have sunk down
the afternoon Of history and the twilight
of tradition, and been swallowed up IN
the thick night ofoblivion. Has every.
thing purpose and mission? Did thi:
drop fall patiently during five thousand
years to be ready for this fitting human
insects need, and has it another import
The Hickman courier., 1876-07-28
New York Times.


The deadly effects Of the ice-water are
particularly noticeable just at present.
When an oyerheated man desires an at
tack of congestion Of the brain, there IL
no plan which he could devise which
would be better adapted to secure the
end desired than that OF drinking wafer
Of or below, the temperature OF ~
Yet this Is precisely what scores ot 90
called temperate men are continuaiiy
doing. 1t is sufficiently irrational anu
dangerous for men to drink brandy ana
whisky in hot weather, but it Is ques-
ton whether ardent spirits are really
more Immediately dangerous TO heai'n
than are the ice-cold beverages whicn
even the most earnest teetetaierS
pour into their astonished and Indignant
stomachs.
Water is undoubtedly the most wno'e
some beverage which we can use DuS
there is a vast difference between wasei
at a safe and natural temperature ana inc
;ce-water which alone satisfies the aphoi-
NAL cravings Of the American throat
Let us by all means drink water Dus is'
ms decline TO endanger our health ana oe-
grade ourselves below the level OF 1n0
beasts by drinking inordinate quan'l'ls'
ot ;ce-wster There is not single AM.
moI-except man.--which ever dream. -
,..r,;natiny wholesome water Win '0'.
The ordinary water of the hydran' .,S ~,
the faucet satisfies the thirst OF tnf W. w.
elephant and the domestic cat
fallen human nature, on 'ne s',-. -.~runt
longs for ice, and gratiiies ',s eo..rR ''..eb.
cravings at the costOt Out-agea ''0"'''
and ruined teeth.