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The Hickman courier., 1877-05-25
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The almost total cessation of immigra-
ton which is reported by those who know
can be partially explained by the stagna-
ton of business; but an important fea-
ture of it can be traced to the neglect of
states and the nation TO devise induce
ments for foreign agriculturists. At the
present time, when life and property
promise to be of uncertain value in
Europe, America should be receiving
ship loads of small farmers. The indus
tries, economy and thrift of these people
are sorely needed, as additional wealth
and income would result to the state
itself by the occupancy of lands which
at present yield only prairie and forest
fires, ague and rattlesnakes. 1t is not
enough that such desirable persons
should be offered homesteads that are too
far from markets to be available or too
poor to have been attractive to profes-
sional land-grabbers. The experience
of the general land Office is that even
native Americans are slow to avail them
selves of the homestead law. What,
then, can be expected of foreigners? 1t
would be to the interest eff every state
to make special reservations of land for
would-be settlers from abroad, decreasing
the quantity if necessary to make up for
the special value and advantages of the
land. Further inducements might with
profit be extended but this much, at
least, is practicable everywhere, and
would not be only inexpensive, but prof.
table.-N. y Herald.
The Hickman courier., 1877-05-25
The Russian Camnaign.

In all the attacks on Turkey the Rus
sian armies have been obliged to cross
the Danube near its mouth, where they
were certain to meet with the worst
obstacles. The reasons why Russia had
to cross just there are, first, to be found
in the fact that the points favorable for
crossing the upper Danube were covered
by the Turkish forts; then, too, in the
thanking position of the Dobrudia, in re-
gard to an eventual Russian advance into
Wallachia; and, finally, in the fact that
the shortest line of operations from
southern Russia to Constantinople is
had by the delta of the Danube through
Bobrudja and along the cost to the Bos-
phOrus. In the years 1928 and 1854 the
Russian Danube fOtilla and the Russian
feet of the Black sea rendered valuable
services TO the field operations of that
army. In all the wars the attacks maue
by the Russian army have finally been
brought TO a stop by the groups of fortif-
cations of Narna, Silistria, Schumla and
Rustchuk. 1t was only after they were
silenced, and Scliumla was deprived of its
defenders by the battle at kulewtscha.
that ii was possible for the Russians IN
/ 1929 to cross the Balkans. Comparing
the present condition of things with the
campaigns of the past, we arrive at GER
tain conclusions for the ensuing
campaign. These points ior cross,
| ing the Danube being covered to-
/ day, as well as previously, by
/ fortifications of Widin, Nicopoli,
Listova, Rustchuk and Silistria. the Rus
| slams will be compelled to cross the Dan
ube in the region of its mouth, and enter
Bulgaria by Debrudia. In the present
II i ..l
the Danube hotilla and the fleet of the
Black sea, which in former campaigns
rendered valuable service, facilitating
the operations of the army in their ag-
gressive movements, as well as trans
porting commissary supplies for the
troops As to the commissariat and
supplies generally, that loss will be fully
atOned for by the fact that the railroads
in Roumania are connected with those
in Russia. The supplies and enforce
ments accordingly may be conveyed
from Klschenef by rail via Jassy, partly
near Galatz and partly near Giurgeva,
to the Danube. In case of an aggressive
movement of the Turks against ROu.
mania. the railroad lines TO Galatz, Buch-
Arrest, Kraiowa and Turn SEVERN would
render great services in defending the
Danube line, so as speedily to concen-
trate troops at the point menaced. The
railroad line between Bucharest and Gil
urgewa, connected on the right bank OF
the Danube by that of Rustchuk to
Varna, when engaged in aggressive move
ments on the right bank of the Danube,
the Russian army could likewise make
use of that road as far as Schumla and
Varna to supply all their wants, more
especially for the transportation of large
siege batteries. But they could only
then make Use Of it if Rustchuk were
occupied by the Russians. Accordingly
Rustchuk gains considerable importance
in the approaching war, whence We are
made to understand the great solicitude
manifested by the Turks in the compile
ton of the Notifications there.
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CnInradn's Wonders.

Verify we lords of creation are but
piguies, standing here in the shade OF
Cathedral rock, whose spire towers nearer
the skies than that OF any church in
christendom. Itisa magnificent monolith
of bright red triassic. and one of the
grandest specimens of that brilliantly
colored rock rendering the Garden OF
the Gods 50 wonderfully fascinating to
scientists and tourists alike. Whatever
may have been the agents which in time
past have wrought out all these remark
able forms, it is plain that they have
acted in former times with far more in
tensity than at present. Famous scien-
fists once believed that the great uplift
of the mountain ranges was 2 unit in its
action-that is, the change in the position
of all groups were brought about by the
same cause and at the same time. and
that in short, the elevation of all the
sedimentary strata along the base of the
mountains was a comparatively modern
event. Careful study of the formation
of the Cathedral rock, and other like
specimens of massive SandstOnes OF
Triassic origin, weathered into the fan
tastic shapes that gave to it the name of
the Garden of th' Gods, has almost, if
not quite, completely revolutionized the
theories Of the past. Now the evidence
from the texture of these red beds and
their position on the underlying granite
rocks is overwh- lmingly conclusive that
this range OF mountains once formed a
vast shore line, upon the base OF which
the sediments of the red beds were de-
posted Rocky JiountaiH Tourist.
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SUTTEE.

When the Prince of Wales was in
India, enc of his most elaborate enter
tainers was Sir jung Bahadoor, the
Prince of Nepaul. This gentleman has
Just died, and three of his widows have
revived the ancient practice of suttee by
burning themselves with his remains on
funeral pyre. In those parts of India
governed directly by Englishmen suttee
has been completely suppressed, but
Nepaul is one of the semi-independent
states where the ancient code in many
respects holds sway. Sir Jung died while
at his devotions, and his wives resolved
to seek the slightest consolation. They
piled the pyre with sandal wood, the
first lady took the head of the corpse be-
tween her knees and the others sat
around it, while the chief mourner
lighted the pile. This custom is said to
take its rise from a mistranslation of the
scored Verdas, but it must be a pretty
old one, for the first historic instance of
it precedes the Christian era by three
centuries. 1t was supported by the
Brahmins as an easy way of settling
questions of dover. The present recur-
renee of it is so shocking to the British
people that it is likely to prove the oc-
casion of more supervision of states like
Nepaul.
The Hickman courier., 1877-05-25
Ring Sickness.

This is not dissimilar from sea sick
ness it requires long experience in a
ring to overcome the nausea consequent
upon going round and round in one di-
rection. One of the most difficult things
for a circus rider to overcome is this
sickness. Clowns and ringmasters suffer
from it greatly, at first, from merely see
ing the horses go round and round but
even after years of experience, ring
master (whose principal business in the
ring is to keep the horses up to certain
gait, and not merely to give cues to the
clown, if horse balks or gets behind
time, and he is obliged to keep close
upon him, is very likely to suffer from g
pronounced q of sickness at the stomach
after he leaves the Scientific
american. 80
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CLOCKS TO BE sUPEBcEDED.


The idea of utilizing electricity as a
means of maintaining uniformity and reg
ularity between public clocks has been
put in practice for some time, but the diff
Guilty is that the system is not automatic /;
that is to say, some second agency is re-
quired in order to apply the information
brought by telegraph to the correction of
the clock An Austrian engineer, Herr
Maysbofer, has hit upon the expedient
of pneumatic tubes which are laid down
along the streets, and can be branched
off in any direction. By means of the
force thus employed the hands of the va
rious clocks can be moved forward at in
tervals of minute or half-minute, in ac-
cordance with the time indicated by the
standard time pieces in the observatory,
SO that exact uniformity can be main
tanned without difficulty in the time
shown on any number of dials. In this
way the necessity for separating time
measuring apparatus for each dial lie obvi-
sted, and by a simple continuance, some
what similar to that which sets pneu-
matte bells" ringing, the hands will sim
ply be urged forward at definite short in.
ervals.
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the popular character of the war would
enable the government to dispense with
any large garrisons in the interior cf the
empire, and a couple of divisions at War
saw would suffice just now to keep Po-
land in .order. A couple OF divisions
with their headquarters at St. Peters
burg would be enough to watch the iron
tier in the northwest, and two divisions
would be needed ID coyerO1essa aud
protect the coasts of the Black sea.
These deductions being made, there
would remain available, for the army o'
operation, thirty-fve divisions OF infantry,
twenty-four battallions of rifles, forty
two regiments of cavalry, twenty req
ments of Cossacks, and ,144 batteries
with l,SS4 guns, giving total of upward
$50, 900 men foroperating on the Danube
while III, 500 would still be availableior
the war in Asia.
The Hickman courier., 1877-05-25
HOE4RT PIsHA as 4 BLoCKADE
RUNNER.

The exploit of Admiral Hobart Pasha,
of the Turkish navy, in passing down the
Danube under the very guns of the Rus
sian batteries at Galatz, as described in
the recent London dispatches, recalls to
memory the career of this adventurous
| man as blockade runner in America
during the war of the rebellion. Can
tain George Forsyth, of Charleston.
formerly an officer in the confederate
navy, and at present visiting this city,
gave to Tribune reporter on Wednes-
day evening the following particulars Of
the Admiral, then Commandant, Hobart's
experience in this country. At the out
break of the war a number of wealthy
merchants of England formed an assOci-
alton, the object of which was to assist
the southern cause. Commandant Ho-
bsrt and several other officers in the Eng.
lish navy were enlisted in the cause and
sent to the southern states, where their
services were eagerly accepted. Hobart
landed at Charleston in the summer or
fall of 1861, and was at once assigned to
naval duties. He soon developed taste
for daring adventure, and attracted at
tention by his success in capturing sew
eral small union vessels and greatly
damaging others. In the following spring
ne was placed in charge of blockade
runner on the Atlantic coast, where he
did valuable work for the confederates.
He was soon after recalled to the gulf
and for nearly year was on the staff of
the admiral commanding at Pensacola
The numerous successful attacks upon
the union feet and the daring blockade
running in the vicinity are credited in
the main to his planning and bold exc
,ution. In 1868 he was again put in |
command of several blockade runners,
md then began the series of exploits
which created admiration for the skill |
md bravery displayed in their execution.
t Is estimated that Hobart was engaged
q no less than twenty such undertaking.,
IL of which were exceedingly annoying
nd in many instances disastrous to the
nlon cause. Hobart was about forty
ears of age when he arrived in this
ountry He was-a heavy-built man, of
ark complexion, and was noted for his
npsrious bearing and the ardoE with j
hich he prosecuted every undertaking. (
le went to England in the spring of '
500, on account, it is said, of difficulty l
ith the officers of the confederate gov |
nment.--M Y. Tribune
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suPERSTIrION.

4 panacea, or cure-all," !" is one of the
myths of the age of superstition. DR.. X. V.
Pierce does not recommend any one or even
his whole list of standard remedies as adj
equate to cure every disease. For severe
lingering coughs, bronchial, throat. and
chronic lung diseases, he believes his Golden
Medical Discovery is unsurpassed, but it will
not cure you if your lungs are half wasted by
consumption. The Discovery not only ex-
ercises potent influence over pulmonary
affections, by reason of its pectoral proper
ties, but possesses also the most valuable al
teratiye or blood-cleansing properties, and is
therefore a sovereign remedy in blood end
skin affections. But while it will cure scrof-
ulous and other ulcers sores, blotchesi
pimples and eruptions, it viii not cure can
Ger. nor does its manufacturer claim any
such merit for it as is done by proprietors Of
other blood-cleansing medicines, who dis
honestly try to deceive the afflicted into the
belief that their preparations will accom-
plsh impossibilities. By reason of its rea
intrinsic merit it has a sale surprising that Of
any other blood and cough medicine.
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A Primitive Piute Funeral.

An old Piutt Indian departed fol
the happy hulting-ground, by way
of old age Ad general debility,
from the camp Oh the hill back OF the
city hall last night. 1t is not the custom
with the Piutes 70 bury their dead, and
in this instance they merely carried the
corpse a few rodsfrom the camp and de,
posted it on the ground. City Marshal
Brennan, learning this morning that the
corpse was living on the hillside, COM
manded Capt. sam to have 1t properly,
buried. Sam isan intelligent native and
made no objections TO complying with
the marshal's orders; but five other In
dians standing by, whom he asked to as
sist in the burial positively refused to
have ANYTHING 10 do with it. Upon this
the officer threatened that unless
tbey proceeded TO bury the dead Indian
forthwith, he would arrest them and
have them fined $4,000, 900 each. This
threat had the desired effect on the In
dians, and the funeral commenced: They
wrapped the corpse in robe of rabbit
skins and tied it up with ropes, making
q bundle in the shape of ball: This
they dragged over the hIl to an old shaft,
INTO which they dumped it without cere-
nony. In renly TO question as to the
,ause of the Indians death, a dusky
maiden who was an interested spectator
1t the funeral. replied " Heaptoo dam
(Nsg.) ReVeitte;
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4 PUBLIC CH4RITY TURNED To
PRIVATJ; PROFIT.

Many years age the government OF
Nova Scotia assumed the project of plac-
ing a number of sheep or swine on Sable
island to avert the danger of starvation
to which the seafareIs escaping from
wrecks had been exposed. But these
animals could not subsist on the only
shrub which thrives on the sands of the
otherwise barren island An old French
doctor suggested a trial of the tough and
shaggy little horse known as Canadian
ponies, and forthwith a detachment of
them was forwarded in the gov
eminent steamer to Sable island. The
unfastidious ponies took kindly to
the solitary shrub, made the island their
home and became wild in time. Recent
exports from the island show that the
ponies are becoming almost extinct,
owing to the frequent capturing of large
numbers of them for use on Anticosti
island, and for sale among settlers in the
interior of Newfoundland and distant
hamlets of Nova Scotia Toronto Globe
The Hickman courier., 1877-05-25
THE TURKISH ARMY 4sys.

According to telegraphic dispatches
from Constantinople, the strategic move
ment of the Turkish army in Asia is
said to have been begun, and it NAV he
concluded IN the course of the week al
though the army there has to contend
with great local difficulties. The gene
raj staff OF the army will now pitch their
headquarters. in the fort of Kars. while
the general commissariat, as before. will
stay at Erzerum. The Turkish army in
Asia, as well as in Europe, prefers ia
wait the approach of the enemy, instead
OF going to meet him, their fortified
places there, as well as here, being better
calculated for the defensive than the
aggressive. Besides, the great lack OF
beasts of draft and burden, now felt nv
that army. will not allow it to advance
into the enemy's country in large and
regular columns, but will induce it 70
stay quietly behind the Notifications.
On the other hand, the IRREGULAR
cavalry, now having pitched their camn
well entrenched in the southern mart n
the fort of Kars, upon the outbreak of
hostliities will at once be ordered ~
march into the enemy's country To carry
on kind of irregular warfare. Bnt
those irregular horsemen. comnosad Of
some Kurd and Arabic tribes arc
ignorant of the European tactics of wa,
though well fitted for skirmishino
Suen irregular warfare is peculiariy
adapted to afford agreeable emplovment
70 those savage tribes accustomed TO No.
MADE life. Their chief work in the enc.
mys country will be to exact contr;br
t'ons in the way of cattle, provisions and
money, and at the same time eut off en-
plies ON their way to the enemy Hop
ever, the Irregular calvary is est;na.as
to De but LOOO strong, 1000 Of whom
are Kurds, and the rest Arabs y-.' T.
esgTe''s Journal. VTesana.
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AoBIL1zISG THE RUss14y<evv

A mobilization in Russia is q matte. :.
no small difficulty, on account Of tbe ~ y
tent and scanty population of the terr;
tory, the scarcity of communicates 80, :,
the precautions which require to he t.,La.. ,u
against the population in POLAND -
other provinces The country ;ndead :;
divided into certain number of ,oo-,... -
ing districts, but as the corps belona;--
to these districts are generally ouartsraJs as
elsewhere, when the order for mob;l;Ss
tioD goes forth there is ohasser-cro;ss.
OF men and horses all over the emn;ra
as regards the artillery, It's mobilization
requires supplement of 40, 900 borsss
opder the most favorable circumstancss
the mobilization OF the Russian a,mr
cannot be effected znder from five n a.
weeks. AS regards the army that Rusz;.
can bring into the field against Turkey
after securing her frontiers in Europe and
Asia, it is requisite to bear in mind that
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THE JEWS or EUROPE.
heir Strength and Power ia Times of
Isc0ce aud TTaP.

their Stre,tgth and PoVer in Times Of
Peace aud HaT.
The London Examiner last week an
Dounced that a Berlin firm of publishers
Intended issuing next winter work en-
titled The Political Influence of the
Jewish Race in Europe Our cotemPo-
nry observes that, leaving out of con-
sideration the power of Lord Beaeons-
field (Disraeli) in English, and of Nj
Gambetta in French politics, and the
growing Hebraic dominance in Russia,
particularly in cities like Odessa. Ger
many itself would hardly have been the
Germany of to-day but for the exertions
with pen and tongue of such liberal poll
ticiaus as Jacoby, Sonneman, and, above
all. Edward Lasker, the natural leader
Of the national liberals" This is a very
poor summary of the political influence
OF the Jews in Europe, especially the
production of NJ Gambetta as an ex-
ample of their Influence in French poll
ties. There are many more Jewish poll
ticians in France of much greater impOr-
tance, prominent among them are MN.
Cremieux and Jules Simon. Austria
has been entirely forgotten by our cotem-
porary. Notwithstanding that the revolu-
ton which necessitated the fight of
Metternich was organized and led by
Jews, and that among the most popular
L a, orI1 or
such Jewish statesmen as Hirsch and
Kuranda. Then, again, the Italian as
sembly contains several Jewish members,
whose opinions are Of great weight, and
the city of Rome itself the stronghold
of that power which, throughout long
aces. attempted the determination of the
/ Tews-numbers among its legislative rep
resentatives q Jew born and partly reared
in the Roman Ghetto. While we are on
thissubiect, we cannot helpremembering
f the enormous political power welded by
the Jews throughout the medium OF the
continental press. In Germany and Aus
tria the majority OF papers belong to
Jews, and the most brilliant journalists
are children of Israel; and then-tinis
eorondt oDus-where in the Examiner
short summary is any mention of the in
auence of the Rothschilds The politi-
cal power of this family can hardly be
estimated. 1t reminds us of an anecdote
told of the wife, of old Meyer Anselm
Rothschild, which Is sufficient to illus
trate it. To her dying day she lived in
the Ghetto of her forefathers in Frank
fort, aud attained such an age that she
saw her sons rise to the position of the
greatest financiers in the world. She
never renounced her old gossips, and one
day, in 1880, one of her friends came ..to
her crying, and told her that her son
was ordered to join the military, and
might be killed in the impending war.
''Be comforted," answered Madame
Rothschild in the homely patois of her
district, "I will tell my sons not to give
/ the princes money, and then they viii not
be able to go to war. r."--Londoa Public
Tsq1,s-
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THE combination of more than one
action in a sewing machine or agricultural
implement increases its value, and we do not
wonder al the enlarging demand for HOME
STOMACH BITTERs, with its splendid com
bination OF medicinal virtues. Prepared by
the Home Bitters Co., st. Louis, Mo.
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MILHoFr,s ToNIc a So, suEE a

WILHoFT's Tonic IA SAFE, SURE AND
SCIENTIFIC CUEEi-The unprecedented sale
of this world renowned medicine proves in
contestibly that no remedy has superseded
the use of this reliable Tonic. No spleen has
been found so hard as not to yield to its soft
ening influence, and no liver hypertro.
phied as not to five up its IOng-retaiEed bill
ious secretions, and no Chill or Fever has yet
refuse d TO fall into line. c. Il. FINLAY &
Co, Proprietors, New Orleans.
FOR SALE by ALL DRUGGISTS.
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The Re.t Recuperant

OF failing energy, that to which the tagged.
out man Of business, the brain-fatigued
author, The tired advocate or the weary artl'
san can resort with the greatest cei tainty that
it will revive his Overwrought powers, IS
Hostetter's Stomach BItters, most genial
tonic cordial, as well as a benign remedy foI
disorders of the stomach, liver, bowels, and
urinary organs, and a me ins OF eradicatiDg
and preventing intermittent and remittent
fevers. 1t not only enriches the blood aud
creates a new fund of energy in the system
but il has the effect Of expellng impurities
from the life current which beget disease
The Injurious influence of abrupt transitions
of temperature, of an unwhoiesome climate
and injurious diet, are counteracted by IT.
and it prom tes digestion, appetite and sound
repose. Give it a trial and be convinced.
The Hickman courier., 1877-05-25

AFTER an experience OF over twenty
FIVE wears. many leading ph ysicians acknow-
edge that the Graefenberg MarshGiPs Uterine
Caitolicoa is the only known certain remedy
FOR diseases to which women are subject. Ihe
Graefenberg TegetaJie Pills, the most popular
remedy of the day for billiousness, headache
liver complaint and diseases OF digestion
Sold by ali druggists. Send Tor almanacs'
Graefenberg Co, New York.
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DURANG's RHEUMATIC REMEDY has been
before the public three years, and has never
failed in a single case of rheumatism, no
matter how aggravated the case. Write TO
anv person in Washington city, where it is
manufactured, and you will learn that this is
true in every respect. 1t is taken internally.
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worth thousands to those

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