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The Hickman courier., 1876-08-25
FREE SCHOOLS.
From the Courier-.Iournal.

One of the most important measures
which have come before the forty-fourth
congress is the bill to apply the proceeds
of the sales of the public lands to the
support of free schools. The bill of the
majority of the house committee on edu
cation provides, as stated by Mr.. Walker,
of Virginia, as follows:
At the close of each fiscal year the
secretary of the interior is directed to
certify the net amount of the proceeds
of the public lands for that year to the
secretary of the treasury, who shall
within one month theI eafter apportion
the same among the several states and
territories and the District of Columbia
on the basis of population, to be applied
by the local authorities of such states,
territories, and district, III accordance
with their local laws, to the education
of all the inhabitants thereof between
the ages of five and sixteen years. For
the first five years the whole amount OF
such net proceeds Is to be thus apPor-
toned; for the succeeding five years, one
half the other half; and after ten years
the whole amount, to be invested in
United States bonds, only the interest
on which shall be thus apportioned, and
the investments thus made to remain as
a perpetual fund for the benefit OF free
education throughout our entire country.
During the first ten years the apportlon-
ments are to be made on the basis OF
| illiteracy, but forever afterward on that
of the whole population. While the bill
leaves it optional with each state to ac
cept or reject its distributive share, yet
when once accepted it must be faithfully
and honestly applied to the purposes
therein indicated, under the penalty o
forfeiting all right to any other appor
tionments until full compliance be made
with the conditions prescribed"
During the last century congress ha
appropriated one hundred and forty mil
lions of acres of land for educational pur
poses in the various states, the land bein
set apart as school land when the govern
ment survey was made and donated, a
bv the act of 1862, for the benefi
of the agricultural colleges. Their
remains of the public domain 1,154,77l
1852 acres of land, and it is obvious tina
the application of large part OF 1t to
educational purposes will be immeasul
bly, better than to squander it on railroa
corporations, which have received, sine
1852, $4,000, 900 acres, and are begin
to-day for more. The bill reported b
the committee on education is one whIc
deserves the support of every wei
wisher of the country. llliteracy bege
, idleness and crime, and the only way
The Hickman courier., 1876-08-25

fight these evils is to elevate the multi
tudes by education and make 1t apso-
lutely free. Mr.. Henderson, superln-
tendent of public instruction IN TINS
state, in recent communication to the
Courier-Journal expressed his hearty
appreciation of the bill referred to. II IL
becomes law, Kentucky will receive
unreasonable benefits from it. The APP
portionment for the 459,357 white chill
drcn of pupil age IN Kentucky Is sl.9V
per cap,d; for the SO, 1856 colored children
it is fiity-five cents. With the increased
revenue from the prosposed apportlon-
ment of the net amount of the proceeds
of the public lands, tue state apportion-
ment will be so augmented that the
many school districts which are now
either without public instruction or are,
at least, mcagerly supplied, will receive
the advantages of the more favored por-
tions of the state The interest of the
people of this country, both north and
south, IN free education, is manifested in
the following table, exhibiting the extent
of taxation for school purposes in the
Sfafsg .o.t<I 4s.~~. =. =
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nov MANY INDLANs ARE IN THIS
WAR.
Idaho Statesman.


Father MesPlie, who is well posted on
the Indian tribes, gives the following es-
innate of their numbers: He puts the
Sieux down at 10000; the Crows at 15,-
600; BIackfeet, 10000; Utes or Utahs,
a5 600: and in addition there are the
Rrule. Ogalaila, Minneconjou, Yancton-
nais Uncpapa, Tive Kettles, San Acres,
and Sontoe bands. Some of the Grows,
and some others who live around the
reservation are friendly, but many who
nretend friendship will gather arms and
anmunition for their tribes. He says
thew are in strong alliance with each
other to carry ON this war, although when
tbev have no common enemy to fight,
tbev fight each other but now they are
ur;ted against what they consider COM
MON enemy, and will turn out all their
,rarriors, and they will number at least
5o 600. AMI the father says it is likely to
- the most formidablean bloody Indian
NOR in the history of our government.
Tbey are well armed, and will fight to
.he death whenever they are cornered.
The Hickman courier., 1876-08-25

Forests IN THE ALPs.-Among the
objects exhibited at the recent geograph-
ical exposition in Paris is a series OF maps
illustrating the progress in reclothing the
slopes in the department of the Bases
Alps with a growth of wood, tins reiat-
ing especially to the basin of the torrent
of Bourget, commenced in 1859. Con-
siderable time was occupied by the
preliminary surveys, but the process OF
replanting has already begun with such
effect as to insure the protection OF tne
hamlet of Bourget, which had been
threatened with destruction by being
washed away. The influence exerteo
upon population and human existence
by deforesting or the destruction OF the
woods is shown by the fact that in ls4t
the population of one department OF the
Alps of France amounted to l5o,Oo'
persons. while in 1872 only 1S7,OO'
could be enumerated, 10000 having beer
forced to move elsewhere in consequence
of the decreasing quantity of fertile iano
The Hickman courier., 1876-08-25

The enormous importation of wheat
from the United States in attracting at
tention in England, where it is regarded
as likely TO increase rather tnan u1m1n-
ish In the course of an article on the
subject, the London Pail Mall Gazette is
anxious to know why Indian corn; which
is so largely eaten by all classes in this
country, finds no favor with Englishmen
as an article of food. 1t thinks that in
some ways corn is to be preferred to
wheat, and that people who have ac-
quired a taste for it whilst touring in
America, certainly miss it when they re-
turn home. The Gazette does not think,
however, that there is much hope of the
British working classes taking kindly to
this wholesome, nutricious and cheap
food. The mere f act of cheapness oper-
ates in some measure against it, because
there is nothing in the Englishman's
nature SO stupid as his dislike to have it
supposed that he is content with cheap
food" Corn could be sold in England
at about seventy-fiye cents a bushel--
half the price of wheat, according to the
Gazett's quotations.
The Hickman courier., 1876-08-25

These figures are given in the report of
the commissioner of education for 1874,
and the record is a good one. 1t will be
observed that the southern states are not
50 much behind the northern states, as
continually represented by jealous radi-
cal partisans, and the effect of this bill
will be to furnish the weak states with
much needed assistance, for illiterate
population of the south j., of course,
much larger than the same class in the
north, on account Of the great number
of colored people who have been without
Instruction
The Hickman courier., 1876-08-25
ESTABLISHED 1859
THE HONEST MN WHO Pay

There is one among the many,
Can you tell me where he stays
He's an old, old-fashiOned party,
Called the honest man, who paws
Ycs-the honest man who pays
Every dollar he may owe,
Keeping up the good old wavs
That so many scarcely know.
If he gives his word Of promise
iTis a bond as good as gold
II he hold post OF honor,
Not trust is ever sold.
But the honest man who pays
Every debt ne may incur,
Yielding each just reward,
And no grudging or demur.
And Pm told this rare old party
Lives-wlthin his income, won
BY the faireSt, squarest dealing
We see beneath the sun.
And the honest man who pays
Away holds ii good and right,
For the rich to help the needy
When the times are tough and tight.
The Hickman courier., 1876-08-25

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.


Bright on the banners of lily and rose
Lo the last sun of our century setsi
Wreath the black cannon that scOwlfd on our Toes
II but her friendships the Nation forgets
4 II but her friends and their welcome fOrEets!
These are around her; but where are her Toes
10, while the OF her country sets,
Peace with her gariands of lily and rose,
q shout like he war trumpet swell
Wakes the wild echoes that slumher aroused
Welconiei il quivers from Liberty's bell
N<iCouei ttftssFafis Of her tefllTte
$ HarE 4 the gray vSallls of her tefsI,te rtftiiio
Fade the far voices oeT hilsides and dell;
We'cOme still whisper the echoOs around;
Welcome still trembles on Libertv's bell.
Thrones of the Con ineutsi Isles Of the sea
Yours the garlands of peace we eutwine;
Welcome, once more TO the land Of the free,
Swallowed alike by the palm and the pine;
Softly he murmur. the palm and the pine;
' flushed is our strife, in the laudof the free,
Over your children their branches entuine,
Thrones OF the Continents isles of the sea.
The Hickman courier., 1876-08-25
CRATE IND G1K.

-" Pawnbrokers," says an exchange,
"wih advance nothing on temperance
pledge" And yet they know the longer
they keep such pledge the richer they
grow.
Gen. Sherman seems to be of the opin-
ion that if Samson had had Wendell
Phillips jaw instead Of the jaw of an ass,
he might have slain three times as many
Of his enemies.
FAMILIAR PAGES.
] counted all the sunny days and faces
Ny life had known,
And found they gathered round the fIicnily face
/ called my own.
All, can life have any joys or graces
h.t has no friends2
W hen fades the beauty Of familiar faces,
It's gladness ends.
"The blessed man that preached for
us last Sunday" said Mrs. Partington,
"served the Lord for thirty years-frst
as a circus rider, then as a locust preacher
and last as an exhauster"
D.. During the session of a county court
in the interior, witness was asked if he
was not a husbandman, when he coolly
replied, amidst the laughter Of the court,
No, sir; Use not married"
Oftentimes man ransacks the whole
house for a pin, and not being able
to find one, drops into a chair with dis
gust, and Is Immediately rewarded for
the search.
Commercial travellers smell Of tobac-
co and sometimes of rum, and are too
communicative and inquisitive TO be
agreeable companions on the rail.-Ne'0
YORK Tribune
PivVlglea ,-----ci- t.,.,.l<,,r IIis
ever, and ~ numl,cr oi- me-, NV,
,,.c-s - -rbiie their wjv.I ..,-.. "'i'ils'
w., ''''---'NL Lo9ls Reov5I,oa. -
man liar when ,ytsi.dcafion for calling
tell him that in the torrfd,igst as we'll
interruptions fancy truth meitssa--his
than tallow candle under Noltsic
fire.
A correspondent wants 10 know the
best way to preserve cherries. Around
here one way is TO climb the trees with
a shot gun at dark, and stay there TIL
morning. Another way Is to carry the
tree into the house every night at sunset.
The only sure way, however, is to eat the
cherries before they are ripe.-Aor'c'ch
Bulletin.
Animals, even of the least import
ant species, sometimes resort to shifts
and expedients To defend or support their
existence so curious as to astonish even
those observers who are most familiar
with their habits. Think of the little
gossamer spider, which, having no wings
still finds its home in the upper ar
Weaving a tiny kite Of web and flying II
aloft by unwinding a thin kite-string
from its spinneret, it finally fastens the
lower end to a twig and climbs iearlessiy
up the filament, till at last it sits lar
above the earth and catches midges opon
its floating raft in the air. This little
forager has been found sailing in the sun
nearly mile high by balloonists.
The Hickman courier., 1876-08-25

SHERMAN's OPINION OF THE RED
ATAN-Gen. sherman says the PROPOSE
tion of the agency indians thatthe cessa-
tion of the hosilities with Sitting Bull
and bis adberents shall be arranged in
the interest of permanent peace, Is alto
eetber out of the question for several
reasons The Indian tribes with which
the government is at war, are not such a
notion as to allow or establish any nego-
t;at;on of this or any other character.
No confidence can be placed in their
promises. while another potent reason
for not fayoring- the petition of peaceable
Indians at the agency is that the request
does not come from the hostile tribes OF
Indians, and there is no ground for be
lievinr the desire for peace.
The Hickman courier., 1876-08-25
MISCELLANY.

Anextensive display is made of Kerite,
new substitute for rubber from the
Island of Java. There is displayed one
coil one hundred and fifty feet OF seam
less tubing. / examined this, and it
seems as good as rubber. If so, it will
aid the general economy by antagoniz-
ing the rubber monopoly. Among the
startling exhibits in the agricultural
building is the socket of an eye of a
Mastodon. The socket is eighteen inches
in diameter. What must have been
the size of this animal can be
imagined. Another one of the ami
NAL curiosities is the Glyfodon, or
(Schisto, pleuram typus, Nodot) with a
Ihirty-six inch tail, ten feet from tip OF
nose to tip of tail. Circular shell seven
eighths ola circle, turtle-hke shell, height
five feet Under agricultural hall is a
wine cellar, three hundred feet long,
having an apartment for each wine-pro-
ducing country. The Sandwich Islands
display cloaks made from the bark of the
bread-fruit tree.
Andrew J. Aiken, president of the
American Newspaper Union, passed
through the city with his wife and two
daughters They sail on Saturday fol
Europe, and will remain abroad some.
time, Mrs Aiken intending to educate
in the finishing department, her daugh
ters, giving them the full benefit O
French and German study. Mr.. Aiker
will not leave America for the present
The Hickman courier., 1876-08-25
MORE MODERN M4RRI4GE.
DECLARATION.

Feeling that pure and spiritual love
has united our souls in a true conjugal
union, we hereby announce to the world
our companionship as lovers, asking no
bonds but the sacredness of our love,
which accords to each perfect individual
freedom, and consecrates our lives anew
TO the cause of reform and progress.
SADA BAILEY,
JOHN WILCOX.
ynELAED, N. J., July 18, 1876.
The Hickman courier., 1876-08-25


Nv home a stately dwelling IT,
| with lofty archiug doors
There is a carving on the ceiling high,
And velvet on the aoors
A rich and costly building,
Where noseless servants wait,
| And meath the escuicheon's giding
But a happier home is near II, humble cottage
And envy is sweet mistress the shadows on the
| wall.
Ny pictures the pride Of art,
And drawn by cunning hands
But The painted figures never inoNe'
Nor change the painted landsi
Before the poorest window
More gorgeous pageants glide
Within The lowliesi household
Ana ,5lo More , sss NE sTeHPs sTmbo that crowd
10 watch the shifting shadows upon the cottage
wall.
Ny stately husband never bends
To kiss me the lips;
His heart Is ia his iron safe
His thoughts are with his shiTs;
But when the twilight gathers
The little housewife listens
For sounds Of coming feet
And by the cleaning freight ] zee hgme ien
Bend down % kiss a shadow, shadow on the
wall
Ny garden paiings. broad and high,
Shut in its costly spoils.
And through the ordered paths all day
The silent gardener tolls.
Ny neighbors is a grass plot;
With hardy buttercup.
Whore chidr rs dimpled fingers
Pull dandoons up;
Where . baby's siiksn head an Day the
beams fail.
Till evening throws It's shadows upon the cottage
wall.
My petted lap-dog, aud soft,
HeEtcs upon my krcc;
Ny birds shut up their diamond eyes
That love 90 lOok for
Lonely, watch Any ncighhsr,
And watching can but weep,
To see her rock her daflings
Upon her breast ssleep
Alasi my doves are GENTLE my dog cones at my
call.
But there is no childish fhadow upon my chamber
wall.
My beauty Is the talk Of foos,
And hy the gas-light's glare,
In Elittering dress aud cleaning gems,
know that ! am fair
But there is something inircr.
Whose charm tn Ioyiuglips.
Ana there 81 some Lninr Aflftef-
4 he light OF happy eyes
30 return Triumphant queen OF the h1ihnt
hail.
To envy the sweet shadows Of the housewife ON the
wall.
Ny earthly lot B. rich and high,
And hers Is poor and low,
Yet ! would give my heritage
Her deeper joys 20 know;
For husbands that are lovcts
Are rare IN all the lands.
And hearts grow q for heaven.
Moulded by childish hands
And while go up lonely before the Judge Of all.
A eherub troop will usher the shadow on the wall.
The Hickman courier., 1876-08-25
A new clothier IN Danbury, Come

a new clothier in Danbury, Cennec
4;ont brother-inlaw of the News man,
tas exe;ted public curiosity by having a
large lar, apple painted on his sign. When
asled for an explanation he quietly in
nuired. Gift hadn't been for an apple
where would the ready-made clothing
stores be to-day?"
The Hickman courier., 1876-08-25
Ato railway station two gentlemen

Ata railway station two gentlemen
belonoinr to the district were warming
themselves in the waiting room, when
son of tbe Emerald Isle, "rather out at
o,tou. y entered the room. One of the
oantIemen characteristically humorous,
said 10 him: "Fll be after giving you
NV chair to warm yourself for six
aance . rWill you ?" was the reply.
lIu he after letting you keep it for a
.hin;nr it's 1neself that has much need
= ,,st now"
The Hickman courier., 1876-08-25

THERE is more railroad work going on
in California at this time than in any
other state in the Union.
The Hickman courier., 1876-08-25
CHEMICAL.

Glass two hundred Chemical, phar-
maceutical preparations; mineral acids
and the methods of manufacturers; sui
pburic, nitric and hydrochloric acids.
The common commercial slkalies; pot
ash; soda, and ammonia with their car
donates. Salt and its productions; salt
from deposits; native salts; salt by solar
evaporation from sea water; salt by
evaporation from water of saline springs
or wells; rock salt ground and table
salt. Bleaching powders and chloride of
lime, yeast powders, baking powders
two hundred and one.
The Hickman courier., 1876-08-25

GEN. JOE LANE, who was candidate
for vice president on the Breckenridge
ticket in 1860, is living in small frame
house on a spur of Rogue River noun
tain, in Oregon. He is eighty-three
,.ao-o old
The Hickman courier., 1876-08-25

THE Newport antiquaries have been
working away at the Old Stone mill, in
hopes of finding new theory. They
are of opinion that it was built by the
Noroe freesmasons as a masonic temple,
with the symbolic seven pillars. One of
their reasons is that the windows are in
the east, south and west, and not in the
north side at all.
The Hickman courier., 1876-08-25

y FRENCH physician makes the re-
markable statement that one-half at
least of the so-called drowned persons are
buried alive, and that they may be
brought to life by proper treatment after
Aaving been several hours under water.
His remedy is to get out the water, pour
In and inject alcoholic stimulants, and
use a whip energetically or hot irons in
bad case. His statement has been par
TALLY confirmed by the resuscitation of
a man after he had been under water in
one OF the Seine baths for more than
twenty minutes.
The Hickman courier., 1876-08-25

4 REMARKABLE and sad romance has
been developed in New York 1t will
be remembered that servant girl in
that city recently accused herself of hay
ing poisoned her employers little son.
A pest mortem examination since held
shows that the selfaccusltion IS false.
No traces of poison were discovered, but
evidence of organic disease sufficient TO
cause death was obtained. The servant
girl IS supposed to be insane, but the
mother of the child naturally believes,
and probably always will believe, that
the story is true.
The Hickman courier., 1876-08-25

A LOCOMOTIVE without furnace has
commenced running in Paris on one of
the street railways. 1t has a reservoir
of superheated water, which furnishes a
constant supply of steam for moving the
vehicle. On another line an ordinary
steam locomotive is at work. 1t is like
. gsuait onsIsibns ia SHAPE aud size, con
timing boiler The furnace is out of
sight, and fed with coke and charcoal.
The draught of the furnace is kept up by
a supply of compressed air
The Hickman courier., 1876-08-25

THE ladies have new way of wearing
their wells. They tie them on the back
OF the hat with large ornament, the
shape OF she'll, then tie them around
the neck and fasten them on the left side
The effect is odd and conspicuous. 1t
originated at the races, where one of the
fair but frail sistershood set the example
1t requires a great quantity of tulle to
carry out the effect of this eccentric, yet
contagious mode.
The Hickman courier., 1876-08-25

THERE appears to be no longer any
doubt that good portion of Chattarau
gus county, New York, is over vast sea
of oil, and needs only te be tapped in the
right places to bring forth an unlimited
supply of the rich fluid. The test well
being put down at Allegany, struck oil
just below the second sand, at depth of
eight hundred and fifteen feet, and since
pumped, it is said, about ten barrels of
oil per day. The greatest excitement
prevails in Allegany over the discovery,
and hundreds of strangers visit the place
daily.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1876-12-06
Reckless ,.nrks,rans,,iD.

the New York I'm SAYS that
two brothers named Watson
have being giving remarkable ex-
hibitions of foolhardness and skill
in Tony Pastors theater. They
are billed a, "noted western scouts
and sharpshooters,' all have tho,
look Of frontiersman. They begin
by displaying rifles, and shooting
bullets through blocks of wood, to
prove that the ammunition and mis-
siles are genuine. At tthe beginning
Of tie display Of craftsmanship
one man holds an apple in his An
gers and tho ether shoots q bah
through it from across the stage |;
and next the nan who has riske1
his fingers becomes the shooter in
repetition of the feat. Each in
turn hits the bulls eye OF a target
ten times without miss, the bulls
eye being Just above the head of
the brother who holds the apple.
A potato is placed on ones head
and shot off by the other, the potato
being split to peaces and the bullet
entering the pad in front of which.
the holder stands. This feat is re-
pested many times, the brothers
changing attitudes and holding the
rife in positions seemingly awlt-
ward enough to increase the peril.
The brothers wheel quickly and
shoot potatoes simultaneously off
Zach others heads; and, as a cul-
one holds lighted cigar
q bis mouth and the other shoots
'F the ashes, the distance being
he entire width Of the stage. The
'rother's who profess to have ac-
Iuired their skill by long practice
N the plains, use breech-loading
ifles, and handle them with won
lerful quickness. -i'rm
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1876-12-06

"And-I beg pardon-but dsd 10
turn out well I" asked the listen
ing friend. his cigar burned down
within hair-breatL Of the blond
mustache, and smotbered reckless y
with long white ash.
"Turn out well. Why, Gabrielle
and | have grown to love each
other to a degree that makes the
slightest separation unhappiness to
both. There are two babies, and
Lord love you, man, J guess it
did turn out well," end the smoll-
ing Tom tumhled the long, white
ash into gayly painted saucer at
his elbow, and murmured, some
what cynically:
"After all, it was an experiment."