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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-10-19
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The Presbyterians announce that there
were fifty conversions at their camp
meetings in Texas.
The American Baptist Home Mission
society announces its intention 70 open 3
new school at Natchez, Miss, for the
education of colored preachers and
teachers.
There are 3z3 churches in Rome, of
which 365 are Catholic; fourteen Protes-
tant, and four Jewish. There Is one
Protestant church to every 10000 OF the
population.
There are in the United States and
Canada, 500 Young Mems Christian as
sociations, with a membership Of 100, 600
and owning property TO the extent Of
S25, ,000, 900.
The belief that babJism ought to be
administered by immersion, with the face
eIh negroes and in Raleigh, recently,
tltty-one negroes chose that mode.
In no part of the country has the
Protestant Episcopal church advapced
more radidly than in New York state.
In 1875 there were but five clergymen in
this State now there are 716 in the five
dioceses, with 76,644 communicauts.
Two Seventh-Day Babtists were re-
Gently fined five dollars each in q town
in central Pennsylvania for working ON
Sunday. They refused to pay, and were
sent to Jail for four days. They claim
that the state law of 1874 is unconstitu-
tional, and that it is opposed to any sab
bath at all, since II aboiishes the sabbath
of Scripture and ordains a new oue,
which is really no Sabbath.
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How London Theatre, Look.

There is something quite amazing to
an American in a London theatre, in all
their essential respects. What is popu-
larly termed the "pit'-that Is, the
parquette or floor, nearest estage-otfers
the best opportunity for seeing and
hearing, and yet Is not more than half
or quarter as expensive as the first tier
or gallery just above it. The first gallery
Is the most expensive and fashionable
portion Of the house. No woman is al
lowed to wear "a hat or bonnet in the
balcony. Above Is another gallery less
expensive, and where It hat may be worn.
The galleries decrease in price until the
one next TO the roof Is reached, which
Is for the populace. Here shirtsleeyes,
lunches, bottled beer and pandemonium
generally prevail without limit WHAT
Is so very singular to an American Is
the contrast between the lower gallery
and the pit which spreads out in front
OF it. Ia the former nearly every body
is in fall dress; while, in the latter. the
independent Briton of the male per
suasion Is Just As liable rs not 10 sit all
through the performance without re-
moving his hat-especially if it be silk
one and quite new and shiny, and gener-
ally of a kind which he fancies- is liable to
attract attention. 1t is no uncommon
thing TO see one of these gentlemen, be-
tween the acts rise i'm his -eat. turn. face
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land hieabousslsindeed exceeding fertile
and pduc.iFe.
Amen. burial places, the sites II old
village traess of open-air workshops
for ii rnanufacture of implements o.
Jasper quatz ebert and green and
soap eHe. refuse piles and abandoned
fishins sresoas are by no means inirequent
alonseoth banksof the Savannah river
for may niles. Upon the advent OF
the Fsrepan the circumjacent valley
was fdnd slearsa and in cultivation by
the red nlb, who here had fxed abOdes
and seH associated in considerable
numbers. The southern tribes in the
,ixtesntlcentary subsisted largely upon
maize, bans, pumpkins and melons.
These thg planted, tended and harvested
regularly OF their agricultural labors
at The avn Of the historic period We
hayetYg accounts
So elsass aae the proportions OF thi'
.ryc,.,s ,-..ssA ~ g-e gsrSuaded j
place Of retrv.s-,- 'eIeystion for chieftai
lodge OF mound of observation. 1t az
pears entirely probable that it was
temple mound, built for sun worship
and that it forms one of a well ascel
tained series of similar structures sti
extant within the limits of the souther
states.-AuQUsfG { Ga. } Chronicle.
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moment, and, keeping his eye firmly
fixed upon that of the huge beast, dealt
il 8 terrific blow with his rawhide over
the face. With a fierce snarl the in
furiated lion bounded forward CaGch-
ing one of his open jaws in either hand,
the powerful man held the brute off for
a desperate moment by main strength.
An electric thrill of horror ran through
the crowd which surrounded the cage in
an instant. The beasts in the other dens
shrieked and roared in chorus. 1t is in
a moment like this that the real heroic
element asserts itself Without turning
his head in the least, the brave man
firmly whispered, pass me small boy"
One was instantly secured and crowded
through the bars With one supeI-
human effort the trainer thrust the boy
into the hot, closing jaws, and then
bounded lightly aside A snarl, few
again 70 nIs- prey ,ritl .lH.s- a, tt,-,v,sa
gone. The door snapped behind him
and gasping saved :" he tainted in the
arms ot the cheering concourse.
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a Lion-Tamer's Feat.

san Francisco Post; Perhaps the
most magnificent act of heroism ever
performed in this vicinity was witnessed
during the performance of a circus at
Reno on Saturday last. The lion-tamer
was giving an exhibition of his control
over the ferocious brutes under his
charge, when suddenly he was observed
to turn pale and tremble. The largest
lion Of the ak in the cage had displayed
unusual sullenness and anger, and now
refused to obey his master. With glar-
ing ewes it crouched in the corner, and
evidently meditated a spring. The
trainer recovered his selfpossession in g
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down hill, around fssures that you can
not jump, and over those that you can.
Down many of these we saw molten
Lava, and out Of many that look cooled
we drew our alpen-stooks ablaze Wher
breakfast-tiuN% came we hunted up a
good, hot crack and cooked our breakfas'
IN 1t. We boiled eggs and made tea
coffee over volcanic fires. The natives,
when they are near the volcano, always
roast their meats in steam cracks
We trudged back to Hilo, laden with
specimens. and well satisfied with our
nights work.
The great flow. moved on slowly for
about week longer 1t tumbled over
one more precipice, filed up the basin at
it, foot, and then stopped for ever-stop-
ped within six miles of our beautiful
homes, and Just a. we were making up
our minds that it would destroy Hilo,
and that We must ifts7 ingnpz, uuen rne
light was so bright that it seemed rs
though everything was on fire; and days
of anxiety as word came of the lava's
steady advance
But it stopped, and this flow now
forms a protection to Hilo, for another
stream OF lava could not go over it, but
would be turned aside by it.-Christioa
Ue,ELy
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ESTABLISHED 1859

oneratian. The ball Is made of gilded
| wire weiobing about thirty-five pounds
! three feet and six inches in diameter and
| falls abouU TWENTY-FIVE feet. The time
| ofthe falling is recorded by electricity
in the main operators room by the most
] accurate of instruments. The object OF
this is to give the public at large, and
| particularly the seamen in port, an oppor-
tunity TO get the correct standard OF
time.
THE Chinese government Is making
strenuous efforts to put down the ever
increasing vice OF opium smoking IN the
Flowery Kingdom An imperial edict
has been issued partially prohibiting the
use of the narcotic. The evil is to be
gradually weeded out. At present all
shops are shut up excepting those on the
main thorOughfares, and these have
their privileges greatly restricted. After
three years the complete prohibition will
take place. Fears of an uprising prevent
the attempt to shut up the shops at
once.
AT the close of the present congress,
in 1879, Jwenty-four senators viii go out,
81 OF Whom eighteen are republicans and
Guiding the late Senator BOgy, whose
place will be filled by a democrat
spencer (rep.), Alabama; Dorsey (reP),
Arkansas; Sargent (rep.), California
Chaffee (rep.), Colorado; Barnum
(dem.). Connecticut Conover (repG
Florida: Gordon (dem.), Georgia
Oglesby (rep.), Illinois; Morton (reP.l,
Indiana Allison (rep., Iowa ingalls,
(rep.), Kansas M'Creery (dem.) Ken
tucky; Dennis (dem.) Maryland; BOgy
(dem }, Missouri; Jones (rep.), Nevada;
Wadleigh (rep.), New Hampshire;
Conkling (rep.), New York; Merrimon
(dem. North Carolina; Mathews (rep.),
Ohio; Mitchell (rep.), Oregon Came
ron (rep.), Pennsylvania; Patterson
(rep.), South Carolina MorreN (rep.).
Vermont; Howe (rep.), Wisconsin.
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\ Remedy For Divorces.
Marry in your own religion.

Marry in your own religion
Never both be angry at once.
Never taunt with past mistake,
Let kiss be the prelude of a rebuke.
Never allow a request to be repeated.
Let self-abnegation be the habit Of
both.
\ good wife is the greatest earthly
blessing.
q Forgot" is never an acceptable
excuse.
If you must oriticise, let # pc done
lovingly.
Make a marriage matter of moral
judgment.
Marry into a family which you have
long known.
Never make q remark at the expense
of the other
Never talk at one another, either alone
or in company.
Give your warmest sympathies for
each others trials.
If one is angry, let the other part the
lips only for kiss.
Neglect the whole world beside, rather
than one another.
Never speak loud to one another uh-
less the house is on fire.
Let each strive to yield oftenest 70 the
wishes eff the other.
Always leave home with loving words,
for they may be the last.
n III nd far
ament from your own.
Never deceive, for the heart, once
misled, can never trust wholly again.
It is the mother who moulds the
character and fixes the destiny OF the
child. q
Never find fault unless it is perfectly
certain fault has been committed.
Do not herald the sacrifices you make
to each others tastes, habits or pre-
| ferences.
Let all your mutual accommodations
be spontaneous, whole-souled and free as
air.
The very felicity is in the mutuaa
cultivation of usefulness.
Consult one another in all that comes
within the experience, observation or
sphere of the other.
A hesitating or grum yielding TO the
wishes of the other always CRATES upon
loving heart.
Never reflect on past action which
was done with good motive, and with
the best Judgment at the time.
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Peculiarities of Russian Horses,

Here in Bulgaria the Russian horses
appear to stand the privations and hard
work better than do their fellows from
Roumania sand Bulgaria. I know a
number of correspondents who have lost
numerous Roumanian horses Just by a
DIT OF hard riding necessary to get piece
of news to the frontier. Forbes has kill
ed several horses. But a good Russian
steed hangs on to lite bravely. These
little sinewy horses are faithful beyond
description; but they have terrible tenn
pers. They yell like jemous they
watch a good chance to bite the strangers
knee as he passes by on horseback, and
when they succeed in doing it they snort
their malicious satisfaction. A good
Russian wagon-horse would not sleep
well unless he had kicking and biting
match with some neighbor quadruped at
least two or three times daily. His
temper carries him up all the steep hills
triumphantly he gnashes his teeth with
rage, and bounds along as if be would ex-
terminate the hill while the Roumanian
horse stops short, and with discouraged
and broken hearted air will accept all
the poundings showered upon him, but
will not move a step until another
animal is hitched in TO help him.
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Personalities.

The young Napoleon styles himself
Napoleon ~.
Alexander H. Stephens kicks the-eam
at n1nety-eight pounds.
The salary of Marshal MacMahou is
| S180.0O0 as president of the French Re
public.
J. o Smith. late commissioner of in
/ ternal affairs, has been appointed consul
general to Canada.
The widow of the confederate cavalry
leader, general J. E. B. Stuart Is a
teacher in the Staunton Seminary for
girls.
Rev. DR.. Taylor says the unlicensed
grogsheps of New York, If placed in a
row, would fill one side of street twenty
miles long.
Governor Wade Hampton has a rosy
and genial face, pleasant blue eyes, iron
gray whiskers, portly figure and full
and agreeable voice.
Professor Schneider, the leader OF the
marine band of Washington, will resign
and 20 to London. The band viii be
dissolved because of the order reducing
it from ftty-two to thirty men, and cut
ting down the pay
Near Avon, Mo, is a Miss Evans, who
is a curiosity. She is only ten years old,
but Is, probably, the largest girl of her
age in the world. Her height j about
five feet, and she weighs one bundled and
forty eight pounds Her features are
even and pretty, and her manner Is lively.
One would take her to be about eighteen.
She can do more work, uOtwithstaI ding
her supersbundance of flesh, than most
girls st twice her age.
Professor Swing commends the south
ern Methodist Conference, which has
had the courage to suggest that pulpit
orators should avoid "a frequeut drink
ing of water during sermons, and should
"not finger the leaves of the Bible, nor
pound the desk while preaching" and
that the congregation should ''wear coats
to church and walk in softly-not ike
mules on bridge"
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Dry Wines.

4 distinguished English gentleman is
quoted as having said, IF any man says
he likes dry champagne, he lies" We
are half inclined to re-echo this apo
thegm. but prefer on the whole, to take
more charitable view of the question, and
to believe that one may accustom his
palate to tolerate, and coax himself TO
think he likes this nauseous drench, just
a he may come TO be fond Of tartar
emetic. or any other nasty drug. The
taste for dry wines Is n purely artificial
perversion of the natural sense got up
by wine dealers and ProPagated by fash
ION. 4 dry wine in commerce is a wine
80 sour that it will not keep unless forti-
fed by double dose of alcohol--a cir
cumstauce which, perhaps, recommends
it to loverye5f strong potations-and
hence il is that the clarets Of to-day
contain twice A. much proof spirit as
that drunk by some of us in our youth
and by the fathers of many more. The
new diseases of the grape, and the vastly
increased consumption of table wines,
have created a demand which the ripe
and healthy grapes of Europe cannot
supply. Accordingly, fruit which would
have been rejected thirty years ago, as
immatured or diseased, is now subjected
to the press without scruple, and the acid
and corrosive juice obtained from it is
doubIy branded and recommended to
purchasers as dry wine. But however
the palate may be cheated, the stomach
is too good 4 chemist to be thus imposed
upon, and people who habitually imbibe
this caustic fluid will find in the long run
that they have put an enemy into their
mouths-if not to steal their brains, at
east to ruin their digestion.
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ALost Opportunity.

The following touching little incident
actuallv occurred: One day Bridget
came TO her mistress in great distress OF
mind ooh man." says she, my
fathers dying, jist. It's hreathin' his
last he Is. in New York, and no money
70 nav for the last sacrament and the
mss.es fer his soul. Could you lind me
twenty dollars, mem, on me wages, to
END before the bresth's out of his body,
noor ould man T' The money was kindly
furnished and sent forthwith. A week
afterward the lady came into the kitchen,
and there was Bridget crying as II her
heart would break. Great tears streaned
down her cheeks, and great sobs shook
her honest shoulders. Why, Bridget,
what in the world is the matter?" said
the mistress. "Oh, mem, would
believe it? That ould divil - -.
all. ! sint the txigaId crater e.0 I.
6ns - @os betthsr, and aow '.,S q 4. /.
, .ssn'c ~ s0p money and git .' dr"1. I. be IIys
take a, ,'aTy.hI snT vorrahi A. S long Il Sor dyin
on, : ,n wOs,~r Osusr be so we'll a1sa =
agin"
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Foreign Items

An English scientific paper tells US
that torped0es are beginning to lose their
prestige, and already it is said that a
mechanic employed in the Chatham
dockyard has invented a screen or shield
for protecting the whole bottom of a
ship. The shield is ofsufficienr substance
to resist any torpedo, can be raised or
lowered in five minutes, and slows away
snugly on the topsides of an ironelad.
The latest reports about the potato
crop in England are the worst OF ali. Ac-
cording TO the London Garden the result
is "total destruction" For twenty
years there has been no attack of disease
'' so swift, so general, and so complete.
Large plots of potatoes, sound and
healthy to-day, are converted into masses
of rotten stems and putrid tubers to.
morrow" The crops looked very -four
ishing five weeks ago but the almost
incessant rains have been destructive.
Nothing but a severe drought can save
potatoes enough for seed. The prospect
is gloomy in the extreme.
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Georgia Antiquities.

Near the close of a spring day in
1876 Mr. William Bertram, who, at
the request Of DR.. Fothergiil, of Lon
don, had been for some time studying
the flora of Carolina, Georgia and Flor
ida, forded the Broad river, just above its
confluence with the Savannah, and be
came the guest of the commanding Of
fcer at Fort James Bertram made
an excursion up the Savannah river
"to inspect some remarkable Indian
monuments" four or five miles above
the fort. OF them he writes as fol-
lows: These wonderful labors of the
ancients stand in a level plain very
near the bank of the river, now twen-
ty or thirty yards from it. They con-
sist of conical mounds of earth and
four square terraces, etc. The great
mound is in the form of cone, about
forty or fifty feet high, and the cir
cumference of its base two or three
hundred yards, entirely composed OF
the loamy, rich earth Of the low
grounds; the top or apex Is tat; a
spiral path or track leading from the
ground up to the top is still visible,
where nov grows a large, beautiful
spreading red cedar lJuneripus Amer
icana); there appear four inches ex
cavated out of the sides of the hill, al
different heights from the base, fronting
| the four cardinal points; these inches o.
sentry boxes are entered into from the
winding path, and seem TO have beeI
meant for resting places lookouts. Tn
circumjaoent grounds sIe cleared ant
planted with Indian corn At present, AM
| think the proprietor of these lands
who accompanied US To this place, sai'
that the mound itself yielded abov
one hundred bushels in one season, Th
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General.

The number of those who, like Mrs.
Gen. Gilfory, go abroad, is yearly in
creasing. This season, from New York
alone, eighty-one thousand passengers
have sailed for Europe. Over one-foSrth
of this number landed in England.
PIGEON races are in vogue in York
state At recent contest in which the
birds flew from Homer, New York, to
Scranton. Pennsylvania, they averaged
a mile minute, which is considered fast
flying. Sixty-eight miles an hour was
made some years ago, and this is said to
be the fastest fight on record.
YE who wish to view Mars moons.
prepare to see them now. Not ten tele-
scopes IN the world can show them, and
by the end of October they will disappear
from the range of the Washington retrac-
Tor, the largest telescope of the kind vet
mounted. They will be again visible.
ior lew weeks, in the autumn Of 1879
and next time in 1892.
FRgGAL as badgers. industrious a.
bees, they undersell every labor markat
they enter, and outdo every civ;I;zed
artisan at his own trade. Any one who
sees japanese carpenter at work, with
his toes for a vice and his thighs and
stomach for q bench has seen tools well
used and goods equal 70 European turced
OFT. They will, in fact, become formid-
able rivals OF all kinds OF western
actures. Birmingham Post
NEW YORK is proud In the possession
If It's new time ball, which is at last in
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wars, taking from h. piece of
fine gold Of his own p-.uct, and in a
melodramatic speech Vesenting it TO
the emperor to repair hn exhausted IL
nances, and to fit out ! new army for
conquest. The piece" o gold, however,
unless it had the power a self-reduplica-
tion indefinitely, no m&ter how pure,
could not have been worth enough TO fit
out corporaTs guard, or gen TO purchase
a single dinner for the imperial house
hold
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II YOU do not want to be robbed OF
your good name, do not have it painted
on your umbrella
Ignorance simple helpless ignorance,
Is not to be imputed 2. fault; but
very often men are wihuily Ignorant.
1t i the admirer Of himself and not
the admirer Of virtue who thinks himself
superior Of others.
Let grown person cry with hall the
strength, volume and frequency OF a babe
and he would kill himself in y hours
who can explain this appalling mystery
Wherever there il much TO offend,
there is much to pardon and when there
ris anything TO pardon, be assured there
is something TO love.
White lies says the New York
Herald. roll themselves into coooons'
and next year they come out handsome
. a,,5sgq5S uwiHgy old whopPers."
bayonet-thrustI Ia1bat5 ny poor Turk,
You don't appear to object" Turk
at is the first time in eight days that
anything hss gone into my stomach"
A Frenchman engaged in studying
the English language declares that, mas
much as a number of cows are called
cattle. why 2 number OF cats are not
! called cowtle i thing be can't under
/ stanG.
..Garrulous men are commonly con
ceited. and they Will be found with
very few exceptions) to be superficial az
well. They who are in hurry TO tell
what they DO know, will be equally in
clined, from the Impulse Of prevailing
habits, to tell what they do not know.
Dandies to make great sh,W,
Wear coats stutS with pods and pufing;
Add this is surely apfopos.
For what's goose without the stufhns
what better reason can vcl guess
Why men poor ant Did hes thinner
But thOus "a Is HJw ivr diuutr drers
'lil naGsht Is lelt 20 dress tor dinner.
A Philadelphia dancing master Is
said to be about introducing new dance
| expressly for fat people. All the per-
formers have TO do is to sit and kick.
Chief Joseph may his tribe decrease
| 4 woke one lght from dream Of peacot
| And saw Gen Howard nisetg miles wesf'
Ana said, '' Poor man, lets give him ret
-GropAie.
A man recently wrote TO the officials
Of the Boston, Concord and Montreal
railroad " for q chance to run on the
road" He was told be could run on
the road " as much as he liked if he
would only keep out OF the way Of the
trains.
.Aleanness and conceit are frequently
combined in the same character; for he
who, to obtain transit applause, can be
Indifferent 10 truth, and bis own dignity,
will be as little scrnpulous about them
if, subserviency, he can improve his con-
ditian In the world.
The failure OF the mind in old age Ia
often less the result of natural decay
of disease Ambition has ceased TO
operate: contentment brings Incidence
Incidence decay Of mental power, ennui,
aad -oa,etis.,.,-- sieetla--. Alea- have besss
known to die, literally speaking, OF dis
ease induced by intellectual vacancy
! Sir BenjQHiH Brodie.