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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-06-30
clint Raudue aIubs.

There is a movement on foot in this
county, to organize Clint Randle DEM
ocratie club, to be composed of Demo
Gratis determined to enter his name for
Congress and to vote for him at the
polls, regardless of the consequences,
or whether Randle consents or Objects
Two years ago a dozen or so of our
citizens cast their votes for him in this
way. and some of these assert their in
tennon to keep on doing so until some
one enters the 6eld exactly acceptable
to them This fine the feeling assumes
larger proportions, aud if encouraged
will take considerable number Of
votes from the present candidates.
The movement opens up al impor
tant question in the expression Of pub
tic sentiment Il has mas grown into
established custom for candidates to
seek office, aud 10 use all the mod
ern appliances TO influence votes for
theuoselves, so much so that the old
political axiom Of ''Let the Office seek
the man. is numbered among the %
solete ideas Of the bygoues. Caadi-
dates, sometimes. through presumptios,
assumption. cosceit, impudeass. 80
49, 1880 one az free1 ,1s.,e M
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-16
THE OLD COUPLE.

II stands in sunny meadow.
The house so mossy and brown,
With its cumbrous old stono chimney,
And tho gray roof sloping down.
The trees fold their green arms around it,
The trees century old;
And the winds 60 chanting through
them,
And the sunbeams drop their gold.
The cowslips spring in the marshes,
And the roses bloom on the hill;
And beside the brook in the pastures,
The herds 60 feeding at Will.
The children have gone and left them;
They sit in the sun alone;
And the old wlfe's ears are failing,
And she harks to the well-known tune
That won her heart in girlhood,
That has soothed her in many care,
And praises her heart for her brightness
Her old face used to wear.
She thinks again of her bridal
How, dressed in her robe of white,
She stood by her gay young lover
In the mornings rosy light.
Oh the morning is rosy as ever,
But the rose from her cheek has fled,
And the sunshine still is golden,
But it falls on silvered head.
And the girlhood dreams, once vanish
ed,
Come back in her winter time,
Till her feeble pulses tremble
With the thrill of spring-time prime.
And look forth from the window,
She thinks how the trees have grown
Since, clad in her bridal witness,
She crossed the old door stone.
Though dimmed her eyes bright azure,
And dimmed her hairs young gold,
The love in her girldhood plighted
Has never grown dim or old.
They sat in their place in sunshine,
Till the day was almost done;
And then, at its close, an angel
Stole over the threshold stone.
lie folded their hands together
He touched their eyelids with balm;
And their last breath floated upward,
Like the close of solemn psalm.
Like bridal pair they traversed
The unseen mystic road
That leads to the beautiful city,
"Whose builder and maker is God.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-16

Judge John It. Harris, the present
efficient representatives from the Tenth
Friday last by the conservatives of his
district. Charles T. O'Ferrall, of Rock
ingham; James Bumgardner, Jr', OF
Augusta; S. V, Southall, of Albemarle,
and r. r.. w. Duke, of Albemarle, were
in nomination against him in the con-
vention, all OF whom, however, with
drew, when the name of Judge j. w:
Robertson, of Albemarle, was presented
and the candidates being then reduced
to the two judges, Judge Harris was
nominated on the first ballot. The
Judges denomination, which, like that
of all the conservative nominations i'll
Virginia, is equivalent to an election,
will be received with appreciation by
his party throughout the State.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-16

The will of Henry Raine, a London
brewer reveals a new sort of benevo-
lence. Before his death he established
an asylum where forty girls are trained
for domestic service. On arriving at
the age of twenty one any girl who has
been educated in the asylum and can
show that she has behaved well may
become a candidate for marriage por-
ton of $500, for which six girls are al
lowed to draw twice each year, the lst
of May and the 9TH of November. The
portion drawn in May is given after a
wedding, OH the 5th of November, mon
ey is given in like manner on May-day.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-16
COMMUNICATED.
SERMON ON THE HALF-SHELL.
By DEACON DIoGESEs.
AVARICE.

AVARICE.
No more thus brooding DER you heap,
With avarice painful vigils keep;
Still uLenjoyed the present store,
Still endless sighs are breathed for
more.
Brethren More welcome that the
first cheering rays through the storm
clouds; more priced than Gods great
gift of the life sustaining air we breathe
or that diyinely impregnated essence,
the immortal soul, is dollar by the
avaricious man. He is a maelstrom in
the current of mans social and business
relations, and every dollar coming with
in his reach is as greedily taken into
the vortex aud as certainly lost to the
world, as is the i'll fated ship that goes
down at sea. His heart is the shrine of
lucre, erected on the graves of human
virtues. The cry of the helpless, the
voice of reason and the precepts OF
christianity, fall UNDECIDED on his deaden-
ed ears, while the jingle ola dollar is
the sweetest symphony and thrills with
delight the withered chords Of his
dwarfed and witted soul. Like a beast
of prey, he hovers around his species 10
sacrifice them, and denied himself of
proper bodily sustenance and necessarles
in his greedy race for gold.
My brethren, of all the rotten crafts
gliding down the rutfed stream of time,
his is the most piratical craft of all. He
will board every vessel in his power,
and extort a ransom from every indi-
vidual, and his miserable soul decreases
as his Golfers enlarge. A dollar is the
sheet anchor of his hopes and desires,
and in the pursuit Of wealth, wrapped
in the impenetrable folds of seltishness,
this worshiper at the shrine of the
almighty dollar wears his useless life
away.
In the beginning of life the dollar
was his nursery cry, in liies conflict the
dollar is his battle cry. He grasps a
greenback with such greedy tenaclty
that the portrait of George Washing
ton grows red, and Christopher Colum-
bus on the other side, is sorely inter
upted in his geographical discoveries
and thinks America rather tight place
to 1--we in.
My brethren, the everhowing stream
Of time that bears on its bosom the
frail barks of all manking, can never be
stayed in its ever onward course to the
great ocean of the hereafter, and this
grasping, sordid, avaricious, character,
in his pirate hull, will be wrecked amid
sea, and Death, the unsympathetic old
chap, will bait his hook of retribution
with a silver dime and angle his Gallons
soul from his miserable body and flip IT
into eternity on three cent piece.
Let US sing brethren.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-16

Mrs. Sturgis, the mother of Lieut.
Stursis, who was killed it the Custer
massacre and who was her only son,
has become insane from grief.
Gen. VIM. Richardson, adjutant gen
eral of Virginia, died on Friday, aged
81 wears. lie was son of Maj. Gen.
Richardson, an officer of the revolu-
tionary war, and filled many places Of
honor ard trust under the State.
The Savannah papers insist that the
yellow fever prevalent there is OF a mild
type. The health officer of the city
announces there have been 256 cases
and 40 deaths since August 81.
A water spout struck tire line of the
Virginia Midland Railroad Sunday
morning north of Lynchburg. destroyed
a culyert and leaving a gap ninety feet
wide and fifty feet deep, iIto which
freight train plunged, killing the engl-
neer and brakeman.
There are two hundred kinds of relig-
ion in this excessively pious old world,
and yet man often has to get up at
three o clock in the morning and travel
all day to find christian. And then
he isn't always sure when he gets him.
1t is now announced that Governor
Allen of Ohio, is for Peter Cooper,
aud would have taken the place on The
ticket held by Cary, if his health had
admitted.
1t is reported that the democratic
nomination for Governor of Massachu-
sets has been offered to Charles Francis
Adams, and that he has decided to
accept it.
A1colored minister, wishias to notify
his congregation that Al anday after
noon 1850 aealer, and iscontinued
said s1!Ssxays OH hand. ioc.s snere
fs.3, 1876. AFTERNOON
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-16
EXTRACTS FROM VARIOUS LETTERS.

81 had no appetite; lIolloway's Pills
gave me a hearty one.
"YOur Pills are Marvellous
81 send for another box, and keep them
i'm the house"
"Dr. Holloway has cured my headache
that was chronic"
II gave one of your Pills 10 my babe for
cholera morbuS. The dear little thing got
well in day"
MY nausea of morning is now cured"
Your box of llolloway's Ointmen.
cured me of noises in the head. rubbed
some of your Ointment behind the ears,
and the noise has left.
''Scnd me two boxes, want one for a
poor family"
Il enclose 4 dollar, your price is %
cents, butthe medicine TO Inc is worth
dollar"
''Scnd me five boxes of your Pills
"Ict me have three boxes of yOu Pills
BY return mail, for ChillS and Fever"
have over 200 such Testimonials as
these, but want of space cOmpels lie 10
conclude.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-16
TO MY PATRONS.

HAVING determined to make a change
ii i'm my business on April LIST, my books
will then be closed and ready for settle
ment. Those indebted to me will please
call and settle by cash or otherwise.
Having tried both the cash and credit
systems and believing the former to be
the best for all concerned, Oh and after
April lst, l will sell for CASH or take i'll
exchange COUNTRY PRODUCE. l in
tend in the future to buy for the lowest
cash prices and sell accordingly. \ por.
ton of my present stock will be sold Al
AND BELOW COST.
Returning thanks for past patronage and
hoping to merit your future favors, am,
most respectfully, yours
W.T., LEMEN.
April l, 1876. II
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-16

The scales for weighing bullion a.
the Carson, Nevada, mint are so nicely
adjusted as to tell the difference between
the weight OF black hair and that of a
gray hair from the same head. They
sometimes fall through. An effort was
made the other day to make them tell
the difference between the weight of the
honesty of an Indian agent and the
weight of the dishonesty OF convicted
horsethief, but they couldn't do it,
somehow.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-16

TlLDENs INrENDED.-A gentleman
from Alabama was in the city yesterday,
and he stated it was well-founded report
that Governor Tilden was soon to be
married to a wealthy Alabama widow
(Mrs. Todd) who is now visiting Bos.
ton. 1t is said that this information
has been in the possession of small
circle of the lady's friends in Alabama
for some time, but has never been hint
ed to the public The lady OF the
Governors choice is represented as
woman fully worthy of his companion
ship. She is descended from family
that has been one of the proudest in her
native State since its formation. Their
great estate, though much diminished
by the abolition of slavery, is still 50
large that the former elegant style OF
life is yet maintained. Beautiful, brilli-
ant, accomplished, We can imagine that
this daughter of Alabama is the reaiza-
ton of an ideal which seems to have
wasted sixty years in coming -Aila"t0
Times.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-16

An AGED BRIDAL PAIR-YoUNGEsr
OF GRooMsMEN AND BRIDEsMAIDs.-On
Thursday evening an unusually interes-
ting marriage ceremony took place at
the residence of Mr. Daniel l.. Sawyer,
in Haverhill, Massachusetts,, the Rev.
4. A. Williams officiating. The bride
groom was Eben III. Little, Esq, SO
years old, a native of Hampstead, n.
H., successful Boston merchant. The
bride was Miss Jerusha Palmer, "a
years old, wealthy maiden lady, for
merly residing on Beacon Street, Bos-
ton, but lately of Somerville. The
groomsman was Master Anson Aver,
II years old, and the bridesmaid Nellie
NJ Sawyer, Miss of l3. The we'd
ding party consisted of about thirty
persons, relatives and friends. The
parties TO the union are hale and hearty,
with no abatement OF natural fervor
save that which attends advancing
years Mr. Little has been married
once before, and several years ago pass
ed the period of his golden wedding.
To the bride the relations were new.
The romance of the affair is that Mr.
Little, 'longing for kindred spirit,
and yearning for heart that could
commune with his own, made proposals
to Miss Palmer several months ago,
which were then not looked upon with
favor. Within The past ten days, how
ever, an answer was received reversing
the former decision and asserting TO
the proposed union.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-16
HERR 4 ENTLER

WISH to inform their friends and the
w public that they have removed their
store into the room formerly occupied by
Mr. Chase, where they can be found ut all
hours with full stock of Fresh Groceries,
Notions and Confectionery. Having more
room and better Accommodations, we are
prepared TO trade with the farmers for
their Produce, ut the highest market
prices. Call in TO see us. No trouble to
show goods.
HERR & ENTLER.
Aug 26 1876. TT
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-16

AS a long funeral procession was
vending its way last Saturday TO the
Cemetery near Daveupar, Iowa, the
driver of the fifth carriage gave a hay
stack by the road cut with his whip
and struck a hornets nest Hundreds
of hornets swa-med out of the stack.
and attacked drivers, mourners and
horses. Horses reared and broke into
rur; women welded fans and parasols
and shrieked internationally; men swung
their handkerchiefs and swore consist
emily. Indeed, the corpse was the only
party that kept his te,uper and bore
in mind the solcmnity 4 the occasion.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-16

Az IMMENSE FARM The Dalrymple
farm, al Casselton, Dakota Territory,
numbers 10000 acres, 1900 Of which
were sown to wheat this season. Har-
vesting vas done in week, with the
aid of nine self-binders, twelve men fol-
lowing each machine, aud shocking the
wheat as fast as it was cut. The entire
coet OF breaking, sowing, reaping, thrash
ing and marketing is estimated at 50
per acre, and as the yield averages
seventeen bushels per acre, the profit
will reach $1,000. Next year 5000
acres will be sown to wheat. One hun
dred teams are employed during the
''breaking" season, the furrows being
turned six miles long.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-16

NEWSPAPERS AT THE CENrENNIAL.-
The specia, correspondent of the Lon
don Times says it would be difficult to
find an apter way of illustration Of the
big way in which the Americans do
things than that furnished by the Cen
tennial Newspaper Building" in the
Exhibition grounds. Here you may
see any one, or, if you like, all OF the
S,l29 newspapers published regularly
in the United States, and see them, one
and all for nothing! You are not only
permitted as a favor to see them, but
invited, nay pressed, to confer the favor
of entering the building and calling for
what paper you like. 1t is about as
cool and agreeable place-quite apart
from its literary attractions-as q visl-
tor to the Exhibition could wish to be
offered chair in. He may at first
wonder how, among 5000 papers, among
them such mighty sheets as the New
York Herald, he is to get at the small,
loved print of his home, thousands OF
miles away, it may be, over the Rocky
Mountains. But the management is so
simple that, by consulting the cata-
logue,or even without the aid of the cat
alogue, any one can at once tind what
ever paper he wants. They are pigeon
hoIed on shelves in the alphabetical or
der of their States or Territories and
their towns, the names of which are
clearly labeled on the shelves. The
proprietors of the Centennial Newspa-
per Building are advertising agents, the
largest in all America-Messrs. Geo.
=. Rowell & Co., of New York. Their
enterprise will cost altog ether about
100000, or $4,000, including the build
ing and the expense of running" it for
six months. The 5000 and odd news
papers are declared, by the same au-
thority, to exceed "the combined issues
Of all the other nations of the earth.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-16
MARK THESE FACTS {!
,r,,r TESTIMONY OF THE WHOLE
'h WORLD.
HoLLowAY's PILLS.

eF- Let the Suffering and diseased read
the following.
t5g- Let ali who have been givenup by
Doctors, and spoken of as incurable, read
the following.
eX5- Let all who can believe facts, and
can have faith in evidence, read the fol-
lowing.
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That
on this, the Twentieth day of June, in the
year of Our Lord, One Thousand Eight
Hundred and SiXty-SiX, personally came
Joseph Haydock TO me rs such, and being
duly sworn disposed as follows: THAT he
is the sole general agent ofthe United
States and dependencies thereof for prep
arations or medicine known rs DR.. Hello
WAYS Pills and Ointment, and that the
following certificates are verbatim copies
TO the best of his knowledge and belief.
JAMES SMEITRE,
r. a Notary Public,
If Wall StScet, New York.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-16

The Baltimore Gazette says that the
ticket-collectors on the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad will not be abolished but
only reduced in numbers from forty 10
nineteen. The system has been re-
vised, and in the future the collectors
will be employed as follows: Seven he
tween Baltimore and Relay station ;
one on the limited express between the
former place and Washington four be-
tween Washington and Point Rocks,
aud the remainder between Cumber-
land and Keyser, Rowlesburg and Graf
tor, and east from the western termini
at Parkersburg and Wheeling. When
this system was first introduced the
monthly salary was S45 per month, but
was increased about three months since
TO 255.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-16

The following is an interesting case of
man employed in an Iron Foundry, who,
pouring melted iron into flask that WAC
damp and wet, caused an explosion. The
melted iron was thrown around and on
him in a perfect shower, and he was
burned dreadfully. The following ccrtiti-
cate was gives to me, about eight weeks
after the accident:
New YORK, Jan. IL, 1866.
NV name is Jacob Hardy; am an Iron
Founder. | was badly burnt by hot iron
i'm November last; my burns healed, but
had a running sore on my leg that would
not heal. tried IIallOway's Ointment and
it cured me in Il few weeks. This is all
true and anybody can see me at JackSon's
Iron Works. ID Avenue.
J.IIARDY, Il9 GOcrch Street.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-16
Hnx CT FArLKsER's PosrrIoN.-

Hon. G. J. FAuLKNERs POSITION
In our paper of last week, we extracted
from a correspondent from Phillppl
statement as made by Mr.. Faulkner in
his speech there on the Sd inst. upon
the subject of taxation of U. S. bonds.
We are informed by Mr.. Faulkner that
the correspondent wholly misunderstood
his views and position. He says he
said nothing in his speech for or against
the taxabilty of those bonds by Con
gress, as he considered that question
finally settled by the act Of 1870, when
they were made exempt from the pay
ment of all taxes, whether by the feder
al or state government, or municipal
corporations. The only aspect in which
he treated that question was to show
the injustice OF exempting, eight years
after their issue, from federal farafioa,
$4,000, 100000, or one eighth of the
whole property of the country, when
the entire exportable surplus of the
labor of 4O,OOO,OOO of people in this
country falls short by Sl22, 100000 of
paying the taxes annually imposed upon
the people. He says he contended that
there was nothing in the original con-
tract between the bondholder and the
government which exempted those
bonds from federal taxation. He ad-
mitted that the constitution of the
United States forbade their taxation by
state, county or municipal authorities.
He says he brought forward that fact
in connection with many others to show
that this country had been run by the
republican party for the last eight years
wholly in the interests of the bond
holder, and against the interests of the
great masses of the people Martins
burg Indepen dent.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-16

MARRIED AND CRAZED IN A WEEK.-
One OF the saddest records we have ever
made in these columns, says the Marion
(Cal) Journal, is the following; About
two weeks since gentleman from this
county, who is one of our most prom
inent business men, was united in mar
riage with a charming and accomplish
ed young lady from one of the cities of
the bay. The couple went to San Jose
10 spend few days of that usually
blsstul period, the first Of married life.
Their union took place on Sunday, and
very early the next Thursday morning
the bridegroom was awakened by hear
ing his young bride engaged in prayers.
Suddenly her praying was changed to
singing, and this was followed by loud
laughter, until the horrible fear took
hold of the gentleman mind that his
beloved wife had lost her reason.
Thinking that change and the quiet
of country home would be beneficial,
the couple started at once for home.
The lady's malady grew steadily worse
on the journey, andno benefit was derlv-
ed at their new home, and few days
since it was necessary to take her back
to her parental associations, in the hope
that a mothers care would prove the
panacea The spectacle as the party
passed down the road was one of the
saddest and most pitiable that could be
imagined. The bride of week had
become ravlng maniac, wild and vio-
lent, requiring the strength of several
to hold her. Her husbands grief was
terrible beyond expression.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-16
Keep it Before the People.

THAT Zcll's Ammoniated Bone Super
- - Phosphate is the old reliable standard
Phosphate, and isjustly placed in the lead
ol Standard Phosphates, excelled by none
IN It's beneficial effects upon the crops ,fre-
fuehtiy more than doubling its yield,
,sem It's being satisfactory results uge,Y,,
ane crops just harvested. We anticipate
eNy demand for it this fall, and request
;mefs ; TO hand in their orders earlyi to
Insure Insure Their being filed in time. FAR
nsHs 1a1sed iuil strength and in good drifting
order, for sale by
Aug. 10, 1876. If
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-16

A society has recersly tssa formed
in St Louis 70 support hosp'lsl
for reforming and re1tegie = health
Of mind and body II - 40
ars addicted to dri11
" II r.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-16
FOR CUTANEOUS DISORDERS,

And all eruptions ofthe skin, this Oint-
mcnt is most invaluable. Ii does not heal
externally alone, but pcnetrates with the
most searching effects to the very root of
Il n,.il