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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-08-11
The Two Flags
Alhanv Arrns.

The democratic party is marching un-
der the starry banner of reconciled re-
pubIic fraternal and free.
The republican party marches under
the BANNER of the bloody shirt.
There is no question as to which flag
is preferred by the people of this restored
republic. re They have had enough of
core. of misrepresentation, of angry and
fnmuItuous conflict. They demand
neace and order, prosperity and law.
The bloody shirt is the ensign of the
brigand. The desperadoes who carry it
have robbed the south of many millions
Of dollars, and the republic of millions
more. And by their plots and censpira-
cies. they have set the rabble of the south
ouarreling with each other; and then
used the fire tbe neythern sne heart art into
Ip,terpetuating their power to plunder the
Governor Tilden viii preserve law
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THE OLD MAN IN THE wo,.
CHURCH
by JoHs ". YATES.

| Well, wife, I've found the model church 4 No.
/ shipped there to-onyi
Il made me think Of good old times before my hair
The nieetfn' house was fixed up more than they
But then ieIt when went in, II wasn't built ior
| show.
The ,rton didn't seat roe away back by the doori
He knew that was old and deaf, as wen as old and
| He must TSt- have been a christian, for he Led
The long ioG aisle Of that crowded church to find q
place and pew.
wish you'd heard that singin'i 1t had the OLD n"e
The preseher said With trumpst voice, "Lt all the
The tune p'S was % Coronation and the music upward
Inl thought heard the angels striking all their
harps Of gold
Ny deafness seemed TO melt away my spirit caught
Joined my feeble trembling voice with that melO-
And sang 1' as in my youthful days, "Le1 angels
Bring forth the royal dIadem, and crown him
Lord Of all"
1 tell you, wife, IL did me good to sing that hymn
felt like some wrecked mariner who gets glimpse
I almost wanted to lay down this weather-beaten
And anchor in tho blessed port forever from the
storm.
The preachin ? Well, 1 can't just tell all tho
preacher raid -
know it wasn't written (; l know i wasn't read,
He hadn't time 10 read A. for the hghtnin oi n~
Went flashing long from pew to pew, nor passed a
sinner bv.
The wasn't aowery twas simple gospel
1t fitted poor old men Ike me It htted hopeful
Twas fuI Of consultations for weary hearts that
Twas full Of Invitations TO Christ, and not to
creed.
The preacher made the sins hideous In Gentiies and
golden sentence down in the finest
And-though can SEQ very wel-I saw the fall
ing tear
That told me that hell was foReWays of and
heaven very near.
How swift the golden moments fed, within that
holy place;
How brightly beamed the light Of heaven, from
every happy face
Again / longed for that sweet time, when friend
shall meet with friend,
Where congregations no'eg break up, and Sabbaths
have no end"
I hope TO meet that ninister-that congregation
In that dear home beyond the stars that shines
from heavens blue.
doubt not II remember, beyond lfe's evening
The happy hour Of worship in that model church
to-day.
Dear wife. the fight will soon be iought-the victory
be won;
The shinin goal is just ahead the race is nearly
Der the river We are nearn' they throngin' to
the shore
TO shout our safe arrival where the weary weep no
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PRENTICE MELEoRD writes from the
centennial: "There are many famous
chairs, arm-chairs, chairs fag-bottomed,
board bottomed, cane bottemed and
leather-bottomed. Washington has sat
in most of them. Judging from the IN
dications in Independence hall, wash,
ington was a persevering setter as wen
as a retriever of his country's fortunes
He must have had great talent Tor SIT
ting. The suspicion will develop ltsel
here that the father of his country never
saw chair but that he desired 70 O.. mo
nopolize it. He said to himself: 'lnere
is another chair; let us confer inmor-
tality upon it and the family who own ,l
it, Then he sat down. This made one
of the first families Apparently, an
these fret families have sent their cilails
to independence hall. They stano III
lieu of patents of nobility"
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eRANr,s pANGERous coNprrros.
Washington Special to the Boston Post.

Washington Special TO the Boston Post.
President Grants condition is a source
of constant anxiety to the leading re-
publicans here. The announcement in
the household organ that he is laid up
with neuralgia headache has grown
more and more frequent as the weeks
have rolled along, and all the while it
has been the town talk that each one
meant that he was recovering from the
effects of too much liquor. The accusa-
tion is undenied that his acts of last
week was done under the influence of
liquor. Toward the close of the week
he is reported to nave become unman-
ageable, and finally got so bad that one
day, when well known lady called upon
him, he seized her by both shoulders and
shook her violently. At last Mr.. Fish
went to him and persuaded him to 90 out
to Deer park to spend Sunday. Fish is
the only member of the cabinet who has
any influence over him. For his opinions
Grant has the highest respec5, and be-
lieving, as he does, that Fish has never
tried to manage him, he will generally
do what Fish requests, and always gives
great weight to his opinions.
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GRANT As h WIRE-PULLER.
Traist6rD HIS Guns on The Helpless South
4 Reform Programme.

Traisii,1O HIS Guns on H,e Helpless South
4 Reform Programme.
Washington special to the Baltimore Gazette.
The desperate straits into which the
administration and the leaders of the
republican party have been brought was
confessed to-day by the president to T.
Morris Chester, a colored lawyer from
Louisiana, who had an interview with
Grant, in companay with the secretary
of war. The president admitted that
North and South Carolina and Louisiana
were the only southern states which he
hoped to carry at the next election, and
if there was any doubt about Louisiana
the administration would promptly aid
the party in that state to insure success.
This implied liberal supply of troops,
a generous donation from the campaign
fund and measures that would strengthen
the supporters of Hayes and Wheeler
throughout the state. In this connection
it can be stated that another part of the
party is that if the democrats carry
Mississippi it is certain that the United
States senate will not count the vote.
This was predicted by Jere Harralson,
the colored congressman from Alabama,
in speech made by him at Selma on the
18th instant, and he added-"I have
talked with senators and l know what |
say" Harralson is a member of the
republican national executive committee
in place of Spencer, and Harralson has
right to say that he knows whereof he
speaks in regard to the proposed attitude
of the senate ON the electoral vote of
Mississippi.
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A Republicans Opinion of TiIden-The
Man for the Emergency.
Cincinnati Commercial

The following letter. to friend in this
city, is from Mr.. Parke Goodwin, known
SO long and so well as the editor of the
New York Evening Post. This letter, as
will be seen, was written some time be-
fore the meetings of either the republican
or democratic conventions:
"MAY 9th 1876.
GAS for politics, would like to see
the republicans nominate Bristow but
my preferences are most decidedly for
Tilden. / have known him all my life.
and / know him to be honest to the core,
singularly conscientious in all he does
of great disinterestedness, and, as
statesman, head and shoulders before any
man now prominent. He is the most
profound, sound and clear in his political
economy of any man Iknow-completelv
grounded in principles, sure of bis every
step, extremely judicious, and without
conceits, prejudices or weaknesses. Ii
he were president at this moment, in less
than three months we should see our
finances on their best feet, taxation re.
duced half, and the currency in a sure
way to recovery, by gentle and almost
imperceptible means. What is more, W.
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" "Hunlbug.S

The call of Messrs. John A. Dix, James
a. Garfield, and others, for a union
veterans convention, to be held at In
dianapolis on September 20, shows how
utterly the radicals depend upon the
war record" for success in November
As they have nothing else to offer the
people they are trying to do the best
they can with the threadbare argument in
effect that the democratic party, if sue
cessful, proposes to establish an inquisi-
tion for the torture of "crippled union
soldiers" and viii call out numberless
bloodhounds to hunt down the more act
i've participants in the late war on the
federal side. Says the address to the
veterans: " 1t is the same old fight
ags agsin, srrSs the Sa@s BaEIg aDd t 1s 9,, 9p
of the contest depends the question
whether history shall vindicate you or
your opponents-whether you or they
were fighting on the right side" 1t is
somewhat remarkable that the republ-
cans have never vet been able to arrive
at any unanimous decision upon this
important subject. Some years ago they
told us that the union was saved and
peace was restored by the republican
party {" always Tj1hf') in all our bor-
ders. Such was the assertion of the re-
publican national committee in 1872.
Such was the assertion Of Mr.. Wheeler
in his letter of acceptance. a large
of the leaders, however, insist
that the rebellion is still in full blast,
that the confederates are active, that the
union must be saved" Now they tell
us that the issue of the present presi- |
Dental contest will decide the point. |
Chairman Zach Chandler should give |
some further information on this curious |
subject -COurier-.J0u'nQl.
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TBE hot weather has an unexpected
effect on the prices of wheat, which have
fallen nearly fourteen per cent. One
reason assigned for this depreciation is
that most of the wheat crop last year
was harvested in wet weather and is Sc
riously damaged by the intense heat of
the last few weeks. According to the
Graphic, New York has nearly 1900, 900
bushels of wheat on hand, about 1, ,OOO,-
900 of it is afoat in the harbor; and
while there is no foreign demand
to speak of, and no chance for shipment
owing to scarcity of ocean freight-room,
the wheat aaoat is in danger Chicago
is suffering severely from this deprecia-
tion, and now scolds New York for not
ahving made suitable provision for the
storing and handling of grain.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-08-11

THE estate of Edwin Booth, the actor,
which has been in bankruptcy for two
years and half, has just been settled
up, the assignee, Mr.. John II. Platt, hav-
ing presented his final report. All the
claims were bought by a friend of Mr..
Booth, and thus he gets virtual dis
charge, although he has not formally ap-
piled for one. A dividend of five and a
fourth per cent. has been paid. His stage
property was sold for three thousand
dollars; library and private theatrical
wardrobe, one thousand five hundred
dollars; paintings, one thousand three
hundred and fifty dollars. The unse-
cured claims filed amount to two hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars.
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The Race Troubles ln south Carolina.


We have failed to observe that the
recent Indian massacres have inspired
any such red rage Of patriotic fury either
in congress or the mOuth-piece of Grant
Hayes. The party organs which are
inflaming their turbid columns with
unread battle pieces detailing the South
Carolina enormitics, have been neither
hot nor indignant that the lack of ample
resources at the frontier brought about
the slaughter of Custer and his three
hundred. Are we to understand that
the lives of a dozen or a million thieving
negroes, trained by Moses and Whipper
in robbery, pillage, and rapine, are more
precious to the nation than those of Gus
ter and his slaughtered companions?
Plainly this is the obvious inference,
since the men in congress who speak for
the party declare, and the organs who
reflect the party sentiments so re-echo.
The negro has rights which in every
well-governed southern state the law re-
spects. South Carolina which is as con-
frmedly a republican state as Maine, is
the only southern commonwealth under
any danger of disturbance. By natural
inference, the republican method must
be held responsible for the situation
OF course sensible men see at once the
motive, and divine at once the machin-
cry by which these disturbances are
brought about. The carpet-bag system
is wavering to its long-merited end. To
prop it up for another season desperate
means are needed, lVhat means .llsfe
effective than the embittering of the
negroes and the firing of the northern |
heart Hence, you may expect from |
this until November vicarious sacrifice |
of Senegambian martyrs, whose names |
go up as an offering to propitiate the |
gods of Pillage and raPine.
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A FRENCH PHYaCIAN-A weaitIy
resident, say sthe New York WorIa' sad1s salIS
i'll and the doctor is called in. he leels
the invalid's pulse, examines his iu.lgs .ts
and writes a prescription. IN ',e he
drawing-room as he is going OUT n1
meets the invalid's wife. Doctor, 10Y J,
is he?" Madam, very i'll, inaeeu. aG
Heavensl Of what disease?" cai2 u
latina" "Scarlatina? At his aes
How do you know it?" " By his nAnus nus
The fever has broken out on them anu any.
they are all red" "But, doctor, lney J,
always are!" " always are? How o,,
"Oh, it is dye" "Dye? Then your
husband is a dyer? ?" AT your ser =.
vice" "Why did you not tell me - AZ
first?"
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McGeacbv. of the New York Sem

McGeachy, of the New York Sentry,
thinks women don't want the ballot un-
less it is cut and trimmed with knife
plaitings. He attempted to engage a
couple or New York bellies in political
discussion the other day, and in less than
thirty minutes he knew more about
coiffures and fichus, and pelonaises and
twilled debeges, and gold grenadines and
brocaded silks and .percales, and Eliza
bethan belts, and black velvet dog collars
and striped baptiste and POULAND, silks
in armure, and Mexican design, and
gros grain fouces, than Worth, of Paris
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We ought never to be afraid to re
peat an ancient truth when we feel that
we can make it more striking by neater
turn, or bring it alongside another truth
which may make it clearer, and thereby
accumulate evidence. 1t belongs to the
inventive faculty to see clearly the rela-
tive state of things, and to be able to
place them in connection, but the dis
coveries of ages gone by belong less to
their first authors than to those who
make them practically useful to the world.
- VduUendrQues.
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KING GEORGE, of Greece is melan-
choly specimen of monarch. Here he
is junketing about Europe and accepting
garters from Queen Victoria, when his
country is on the verge of a revolution and
a terrific war is raging just north of 1t.
1t is reported that he is coming to the
United States in month or two to ex-
bihit bip,saIf
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What has become of the Hayes
clubs? We thought they were going to
organize all 50 fast with the taking name
sf "scalpersl" Didn't the name take so
well after all? Was it little too signi-
ficant? Sitting Bull is a scalper :"
the curbstone spectators are "scalpers; y
Grant is "scalper," and the republican
party has "scalped" the nation. 1t il
emphatically the " "scalpers'" party.
Organize your "scalpers' clubs" You
struck the Keynote when you struck
that name. You are no longer republi
cans, but scalpers."
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JOHN G.. WHITTIER is bachelor.
His poetry is not so good as 1t would De
if he were more domestic; but he ism, I
always on the ragged edge lest his
darling child shall elope with an average
Young man, and he doesn't have to run
about for half the night to find out when
ofthe station houses young Whittier lsln
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abiding liberty, viii maintain orderly
progress, with Jacksonian frmness. At
the same time he will clean out the pes
tiferous brood of public plunderers who
have stolen the people poor.
Hold high aloft the flag of the free !:
push forward the standard of the aveng-
er of thieves
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SCRUPLEs OF CoNsCIENCE.-Here is a
little bit from the London World that
might proftably have been "sent to
= le.ssss'1'II-7 in. John Leech's day: A l.av
s-iEer seveD-sze..-.-~zsls-EOya % new
church, where it is the polite custom to
keep a supply of prayer books in the
porch, for the use of such members as
may have forgotten those not seldom for
gotten accessories. When seated in her
pew the lady told the little fellow to go
and fetch her prayer book. In min
ute the wee chap returned, with very
red face, but without the book. Why
did you come back without it, dear?
Perhaps they were all gomez" ooh, no
mamma dear, there were plenty, but they
were all common prayer books, and l
didn't like to bring you a common book,
mamma dear?"
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PoLYGAMY TO BE soUE1Cn1zD.
Baltimore sun.

The constitutiOnality of polygamy is
about to be settled forever by test case
of considerable importance which is soon
to come before the supreme court of the
United States. George Reynolds, Of
Salt Lake City, was convicted in the dis
trict court of the crime of having a plu-
rality of wives, and sentenced to fine
and imprisonment. The case was then
reviewed by the supreme court of Utah,
which confirmed the sentence, where
upon an appeal was taken to the supreme
court of the United States There can
be no doubt that the decision will be
against polygamy as a crime against
the state rs well as a crime under all
canon or church laws and cognate rules
of polity. In 1870 the attention of con-
gress was called to the developement of
Mormonism, and that body declared the
practice Of polygamy to be an offense
punishable at common law. The legal
prohibition has, however, not yet been
in the Mormon territory. The
decision of the supreme court
of the United State will, it is hoped, lead
the way to the extinction of this foul
blot upon the national character and civ
ilization of our country.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-08-11

AN English critic says that a FIeITI fni-
mans politeness is no doubt IN par bnt
fillment of well apprehended ruies' re. 10.
most of it springs directly from -S;vaI
spectful interest in strangers, SUI. su,,os
perhaps, of that sentiment OF ress.St;l .S;cl
for an unfamiliar human presence nn ,;.
was striking Characteristic OF ans,5 cn-o. NJ
ty, and which appears to have moss0 En-
pletely disappeared among modern -
| qlish speaking nations.
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THE WEEK PAST.

The great centennial blast-that at
Hell Gate New York-will take place
earIv in September. Everything Is
ready but the placing in the borlngs OF
the fifty thousand pounds OF explosives
required to blow down the roof and the
pillars and walls of the mines.
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YOUNG FOLKS.
sLYIHANNAH.
RY SARAH D. CLARK.


a ,riId robIn,s song blew o'er the cool grasses =
She sang out full blithely, 4" Now listen 70 me-!
Come ont Of the garden, all lads and all lasies,
Away from the damp of that old apple Eee -
IJp sprang young Bobby, hid in the tall gssses
& That robins mischief, and sly as canF
Here is her home, with her own lads and Esies'
Right up in that nest in the old apple tTs'
Then Hannah, the robin, flew all ia futrr
1Now don't touch the eggs, Master-RoDy' Il
pray;
lust wait for the hatching-a secret ute
There'II be four little birds in three woSs anu
day!'
Every WE'LL" said gay Bobby, the blek-eyed
orm willing to wait three weeks and aay;
But then, Mistress Hannah, you'll han your
Pm always on time, so mind what you 81
Well - Bobby was true. On that day and 20 other,
He climbed up to the nes, his young obins to
see;
But the four little rogues, with sly Hanph their
mother,
Had all flown away from the old apple zee!
- lPifsAtCdke.
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/. SH0RT SERMON.

BY ALICE CARY.
Children who read my lay,
This mud | have to saw:
Each day saIld every dav.
Do what is right
Right ths IS In great and small:
Then, fiss<gh the sky shall fall
Su1, InoossaAa \, stars, and all,
You snAll have light.
This furthbr I would saw.
BE you tempted as You NAV.
Each day, knd every day.
Speak, fwhat is true.
True thinss IN great and small.
Then, though the sky should fall,
Sun, maoBs and stars, and all,
Heaven would show through.
Figs, as sbn see and know.
Do not outof thistles grow
And though the blossoms blow
Whilcen the tree,
Grapes pcycr, never yet
On the hlibs of thOrns were set;
SO, if you good would get,
Good You must be.
Life's journey through and through,
Speaking what is just and true,
Doing what Is right TO do
Unto sae and all
When ron work, and when you play,
Each day, sIia every day;
Then pFhce saali gild your way,
rhOp Z: Inc sky should fall.
=
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shout that company of men made the air
ring, when they saw the child that had
been lost and was found. Likewise l
say unto you, there is joy in the presence
of the angels of God, over one sinner that
repenteth ~
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ALITTLE four-in-hand is dangerous
thing. A swell dragsman in New York
ran his trap against stone and poured
his passengers into the mud. They were
all found, but SONS of them had ribs and
limbs smashed UP some. 1t has
taken some starch out of the polo aris-
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Hold your horse sir9,, said a 10,

"HoId your horse, sir ?" said a red
haired boy to a man who drove up in
front of house. "No," replied the
man, "I have boy here;" and he took
weight from the cart and p ened it to
the steed. "I meant, no him up"
screamed the disappointed youth as he
ran of.
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81 Amt wotin' dis year, boss" said a
venerable Savannah darkey to gentle
man from whom he had solicited ten
cents, 'jes' ter get de ole niger a dram;"
amt wotin' dis year, cause L see
dey gwine to take de comman' fun Gin
er'l Grant. amt foolin' wild politics no
how. De mo- / voted de mo- money |
los in dat freedman bank. Dey wuz jes
a milkin me righterlong." Why didn't
you make a fuss about it ?" queried the
gentleman Lor', boss! Wat de reezin
de pullet don't cackle wen de nigger
come long an liF him often de roos' ?''
The gentlemen couldn't face the conun-
drum.
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j. Q. Adams made one entry in his
diary which will be endorsed by every
amateur granger: "I make two remarks:
ne, that the selfplanted seeds thrive
most vigorously; the other, that the
plants which most cherish are the
most apt 10 disappoint me and die"
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The ratio of illiteracy to the total
population of Massachusetts, is larger
than in any other New England state,
being rather over one in every twenty.
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1t is indeed an i'll wind that blows
nobody any good. The excitement of
the presidential campaign keeps people
from thinking they've got the hydrOpho-
bia and gives the poor dogs a rest.
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-. Topic: Geographical discussion.
Principal-"W it colder OF warmer q
hundred years ago than at PRESENT."
Pupil (honestly)-"I really don't recol-