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The Hickman courier., 1877-11-30
Miraculous Escape from Death.


one of the most miraculous escapes
from death on record occurred the other
day at Painesville, Ohio, while Henry
Riuch, mason, was in The act Of ex-
aniniug well owned by stephen Mat
thews. it seems Rauch went down into
the we'll at halipast Z o'clock in the
morning. When he had descended to
the bottom and after having stepped out
of the bucket and at the moment he gave
the signal to the laborers above TO let
down MS tools the walls just above him
commenced TO cave in, and in a moment
the whole wall fifty feet deep fell upon
him in "a confused mass of stones and
sand. He gave one agonizing scream,
which fell upon the cars Of several per
sons who viii never forget il TO their
dying day, and all was silence. The
alarm was at dice given, and Frepara-
tious were made for exhpming the dead
man, no one having thought that he
would I've found alive. The citizens
worked faithfully from O'Clock in the
morning until . o'clock the next morn
ing, Just eighteen hours from the time
he was imbedded, and, unexpectedly to
the several hundred people who had
gathered around the well, he was discov-
cred alive and, with the exception Of a
cut on his head, apparently as well as
anybody When found a large Stone
J., Is L. eknrYII.ar ursI far
upon the back of his neck. He had hold
of the rope above his head, the lower end
crossing his face very near his nose.
Otherwise his body was free. When
taken out he insisted on waiting 10 his
home. nearly mile distant, but he was
finally prevailed upon to ride. He tainted
as son as he entered the house. Upon
being interrogated SIS to his feelings,
he said as soon as he found out his con-
dition he commenced praying. lie says
he could distinctly hear the men on top,
fifty feet above, removing the curbstones,
ana he distinguished voices, but could
not tell what was said. After the digging
had continued a long time it suddenly
stopped for a while, and he thought the
men had abandoned their work and he
commenced praying. again. He says he
kept up continual yell, bat his voice
was not heard until within three feet of
the diggers, although he heard them
plainly all the time. 1t is supposed by
some that air followed the rope down TO
where Rauch was confined. The doctors
think the stones being mixed with the
sand which is porous, gave air enough to
live upon. Others think that oxygen
coming from the bottom of the we'll saved
Rauch's life. All in all the case has no
narallal
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ABOUT THE FAIR SEX.


Both husbands and wives would be
loved faithfully aud perfectly by their
other halves If they were only worth it.
\ shsrt time before he died, Senator
Morton aid OF his wife In all these
years q Sickness she has never fsiled me
once.
Lucy Stone says that the two great
powers aog arrayed against woman suf-
frage are free whisky and the ignorant,
bigoted, priest-ridden masses.
The Ifincess Won Bismark il q very
plain ssman, with & sensible face,
anxiom aud worried in It's expression"
Her onE daughter is as homely as a girl
can wei be, and perhaps that is what
worriesshe mother.
Chad Sumner was dry old stick
among women. Story says Of him
OF alsthe men I ever knew at his age,
he fths least susceptible to the charms
sOf ssn Men he liked best, and with
= lssseys7d 10 talk
- Halow Pen, according TO the st.
Louis RepublicaL half a dozen bellies OF
that city tried theold fashioned expert
ment of walking aound the square in
perfect silence, with mouth full of wa
ter, in order to hear he names of Their
future husbands pr0ounced. They
tried it several times, but, with one sin
gle exception, couldn't KEEP from talking
that long. This young laly heroically
held her tongue all the wa. around the
square, and lust a she toucPd the home
corner she heard somebOd. exclaim
"By George !" She is looking now for {
Young man whose name is GeGge.
Some medical students in ne of the
colleges Of Cincinnati, dissectng fe
male subject few days ago, found wha
is called in doctors parlance "corse
liver" When tight lacing has beer
practiced through several years, a per
mauent dent or hollow is produced il
the liver which may be seen very Painl.
after the woman Is dead, and her live
dissected out. This kind of liver occur
50 frequently in women that physician
have given it the name Of corset liver.
In the subject mentioned the hollow j
the liver was large enough for the wris
Of grown man to be laid in it. Youn
ladies' who don't want their livers pu
into the newspapers and made an awfu
example of after they are dead, had bet
ter take warning.
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Foreign Intelligence.

The Russian government has ordered
forty more locomotives from Philadel-
pnia.
Mr.. Gladstone, in emulation of Horace
Greeley, has been photographed in his
shirt-sleeves, sitting among the chips OF q
fallen tree.
Bavaria have been discovered in the eX'
cavatiOns now proceeding under the eX-
church of the convent of the Augustine
at Munich. The emperor vas buried
after embalmment, and now turns up as q
irst-class mummy.
The Hungarian minister of Worship
has Just announced his decision that
henceforward the marriage, with Jew
eSs, of a Christian converted to the Jew
ish persuasion will be held as null and
void. This declaration has caused uni
versal discomfort in the Jewish commu-
nifty.
The city authorities of Leipsic, in Ger
many, have imposed fine of not less than
five nor more than ten marks upon ary
woman who may wear trailing dresses ia
the streets. The police have orders to
arrest them, and their names are to be
published each week in the local pagers
The New York Worlds special cores
/ pondent in the city of Mexico. says the
/ sentiment of the people IS in favor Of a
/ war with the United States. The World
concludes that Senator Maxey was right
/ in his inference that Secretary Evarts is
desirous Of negotiating q new treaty with
| Mexico, but thinks it impossible under
existing circumstances.
The beatifcation of Joan of Arc. which
has been for some time applied for bv
Bishop Dupanloup of Orleans, has been
refused at the vatican. The committee
on ritual cogld not discover in the merits
or deeds of Joan sufficient motive for
beatifying her, and, moreover, had no
documentary proofs of her chastity.
Strasbourg cathedral is now undergoino
a complete reparation. A great deal more
has been added than was knocked down
in the FTanco-Prussian war. The statnes
of the emperors are given prominent po-
sitions without much regard as to the
probability of their ever having stood be-
fore in the place now assigned then.
A well-informed correspondent writes
the London Times from Paris: sJn nv
opinion, civil war is only a question Of
weeks-perhaps days. President MecNFs-
hon is entirely In the hands of the Bona.
partists and clericals. These know the
marshaps resignation would destroy their
last hope OF governing France Bnt for
fear of Germany and Italy, the govern.
nent would long ago have resorted to
! force"
/ The Housekeepers' union of Berlin or
/ ganized by Frau Morganstern, now ~, m
bers four thousand members, who do ali
their buying on the cooperative 1lsn
4 The clerks in the grocery are all ei,li' and
women, and the sales are made a. .,sT
The union began with two hundred ,rer,. ,s,,,.
bers, who paid two dollars apiece - s',e', can.
ital. The members pay besides one dollar
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Fearful Record.

A French sta .istician has been COM
putting the number of human beings
killed in the war during the present
century. He has selected for his esti>
mates the wars of the French empire
from 1901 to 1915; the Spanish wars of
1909 to 1910; our war of 1872; the Greek
war of 1922; the civil wars of Spain
since 1923; the Russo~Turkish war OF
1928; the French invasion OF Algiers
the Franco-Belgic war against Holland
the Polish irsurrectiens; the war be-
tween Mehemet Ali and the Sultan, and
of the Swiss Sonderbund our war with
Mexico; the revolutions Of 1913; the
war between Italy and Austria; the
Cfimean war; the Indian mutiny; the
French expedition to Syria; the Franco
Italian war of 1859; our civil war; the
Danish war; the Psraguayan war; the
French invasion of Mexico; the Austr6'
Prussian war of 1866; the Cuban insur'
rection; the Frsnco>German war Of
1870; and the present Russo-Turkish
war, and be finds that 200,000,OOO o.
men have been the victims OF these
struggles of this enlightened nineteenth
cenfurv
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CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern News.

Memphis is rapidly funding her debt
st sixty cents on the dollar.
The Atlanta constitution says the yards
are full of Kentucky mules.
Cairo has a temperance reform club
numbering five hundred members who
wear the red ribbon.
Sixty-fve families from Pennsylvania
and New jersey have emigrated to
Navarro county, Texas, and Purchased
1000 acree of land.
The Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, within the state of Mississippi,
has about $4,000 communicates, more
than 200 itinerant preachers, and about
the same number of lCcal.
One of the newest, end a very profit
able industry; that OF putting up canned
guavas, il in progress at Manatee, Fla.
1t is stated that they are far superior TO
the peach, and fully equal to th best
preserved pineapple.
General RansOm's purpose to have in
serted $15 600 in the deficiency bill TO
stock southern rivers with fish Is emf
nently wise and proper. The small
amount even VIII confer substantial
benefits upon the southern people.
The shooting tournament at Nashville
closed last week. The most successful
prize winners during the week were Abe
Kleinman and +. T. Martin, of Chicago :;
Aerriman, of Memphis; and Pritchett,
OF Nashville, who won the stSte cham
pionshiP.
Capt. PSatt, with 4 force of Indians,
hiss beeR%barching the Seminole mounds
near ST. Augustine. and procured about
two bushels of skulls snd bones, together
with some ten stone hatchets, sharpened
and shaped one flint arrow head, and a
varied selection of pieces Of pottery, some
quite unique, were dug up.
The pennies keeping coming. Bu
few days ago it WAS announced that the
sub-tTe8zury ct st. Louis would hence
forth pay out pennies IN making change,
and it would supply pennies to those
needing them IN business, and then came
the statement that the peunies had
proved popular and called for in small
sums. This was less than s week ago.
On yesterday inquiry developed the
tact tna- the sub-treasury had been
called upon 10 pay out in pennies no
less than 5000 already. The amount,
too, Is increasing day by day.-.St Louis
ReDu5liodn
New Orleans Democrat: A review of
the state tax OF the eastern, awestern
and southern states shows that Louisiana
stands at the head of the list The state
TAX in our state, 144 mills, is, eerhaps,
the largest paid 10 the union; the other
states come in the following order
south Carolina, 10 mills; Arkansas, 10
mills Git IS proposed to reduce it to
mills; Tennesse, 10 mills; Alabama, u
milisl; CAlifornis, 7 8 20 mills; Florida,
mills; Kansas. % mills; Texas, mills: +
Oregon, mills; Georgia, ; mills
Maine; mills; Ohio. 8 - mills; New /
Jersey, 2 mii.s; Illinois, . 10 mills; (
New Yoik, ,! mills Michigan. -
mills; New Hampshire mills; Mary
land | 40 mills Connecticut, mills. f.
and Massachusetts,, 1 mill. There is no /
state tsx at all in Pennsylvania
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The Earth Cure.

Levi Parsons, who has been helpless
invalid for the past four or five years,
his lower extremities from the small of
his back being totally paraIyzed has for
some time had enough faith in tie home
" but excellent Indian remedy of burial
in the earth, TO try it for his case. On
Sunday last he was taken to Roswell
Harts farm, where there is field of
blue clay, and hole three feet deep dug,
in which be was laid and covered nearly
to the armpits in the earth and allowed
to remain about three hours. From
this one trial very decided improve
ment is perceptible. HIS feet and ankles
were covered with thick incrustation
of dead skin. This has peeled of, and
leaves the feet looking more life ike.
Blood in the veins appears thinner and
flows much quicker, and he has turned
himself alone on his couch twice since,
a thing he has not done since his confne-
.snent. The result appears 50 beneficial
that he will follow it up.-DetreI Free
Press.
The Hickman courier., 1877-11-30
Terrible Effects of Tattooing.

DR.. F. F. Maury of Philadelphia has
been in Reading making an examination
of twenty-seven persons suffering from
the effects of tattoing made upon their
persons by u tramp, He stated that the
cases were those of constitutional syphi-
lis, in the very worst forms ofthe disease,
and as TAR as be could ascertain there
were over one hundred of such cases in
Reading. The disease is of such char
acter as will spread, and is liable to be
communicated to every person who has
occasion even 20 use the same vessel to
drink from. Nearly all the patiants we're
tattooed on their arms. The poisoned saliva
mixed with the ink entered and poisoned
the blood and affected the entire system.
From the tattooed spot the poison ex
tended up to the arm pits, thence to the
back of the neck, thence to the mouth,
eyes, ears aud scalp, and finally to the
body AMI genital organ. DIR. Maury ex-
amined a girl about fifteen years of age,
daughter of saloon keeper. She was
persuaded by the tramp to allow her arm
to be tattooed. Now she is suffering with
one of the worst cases of constitutional
syphilis, and is affected throughout Der
entire system. In company with d..
Kuhn, physician at the prison, Drs
Maury and Marshal visited the Jail and
found two serious cases. At another
place u man was found with his eyes IN
terrible condition smother had lost BIS
hair, another's mouth was in such 3
fearful condition as to entirely preclude
the possibility of eating other patients
had great Jumps back of their necks. snd
swollen glands, together with blotchea OF
their arms and faces.
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awful to De faced with dignity or CAIN,
ifit were actually realized at all
Or finally, As know Is true far oftener
than we fancy, IA it that three-score years
and ten have queLched the passionate
desire for life with which at first we step
ped upon the scene? We are tired, some
of US, with unending and Improbable
toll we are satiated, others of Us, with
such ample pleasures as earth can yield
US; we have had enough OF amhi-
tion. allie in ia suoceecs and its
failures the oys and blessings o. human
affection on which, whatever their c1lses
and vicis.i;udes, no righteous or truthful
man ]iil cast p slur, axe yet so blended
with pains which pa:.ake of their in
tensity the appetite for life. IN short, is
gone, the frame is worn and tie faculties
exhausted and possibly, this Is the key
to the phenomenon we are examining
age cannot, from the very law of its
Hature, conceive itself endowed with the
bpapdiRs energies of youth, ard withasss
tlas gor both of-exeEsiea -
renewed existence can offer no inspiring
charms. Oar being upon earth has
been enriched by vivid interests and
precious Joys, and we are deeply grateful
for the gilt, but We are wearieI with our
life and feel scarcely qualified 10 enter
on the claims, even though balanced by
the felicitie- and glories Of another. 1t
may be the fatigue which comes with
age-fatigue Of the fancy as well as Of the
frame; but, somehow, what we yearn for
most instinctively at las. Is rest, and the
peace which we can imagine The easiest
because we know it best. is that Of sleep.
-1G. R. Gray IN the Nineteenth Century.
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Future Life and Fear of Death.

It must be conceded thst The doctrine
Of a future life is by no means a. uuiver-
sally difused As i, IS the habit loosely to
assert. II is not always disc0verable
among primitive and savage races. 1t
existed among pagan nations in form go
vague and hay as TO be describable
rather as "A dream than a religious faith
II can scarcely be determined whether
the Chinese. whose cultivation Is perhaps
the most ancient existing in the world,
can be ranked among distinct believers :;
while the conception of Nirvana, which
prevails in the meditative minds oFother
orientals, Is more a sort Of conscious non
existence than a future life. With the
Jews, moreover, ~ is well knQZu, the
belief was not indigenous, but imported,
and by no means an early importation.
But what Is not so generally recognized
is that, even among ourselves in these
davs the conviction Of thOugh nature
varies curiously in strength and in fea-
tures at different periods of life. In
youth, when all our sentiments are most
yivacious and dogmatic, most of Us not
only cling TO it as an intellectual creed,
but are accustomed to say and feel that
without it as 4 solace and a hope to
rest upon, this world would be stripped
of its deepest destinations. 1t is from
minds of this age, whose vigor is unim-
paired. and whose relish for the Joys OF
earth is expansive, that the most glowing
delineations of heaven usually proceed
and on whom the thirst OF felicity and
knowledge which can be slaked at no
earthly fountains has the most exciting
power. Then comes the busy turmoil OF
our mad career, when the present curtains
off the future from our thoughts, and
when a renewed existence in a different
| scene is recalled to our fancy chiefly in
| crises of Bereavement. And, finally, ii is
not the case that in our fading years
when something of the languor and
/ p!acidity of age is creeping over us, just
when futurity Is coming consciously and
RAPIDLY more near, and when one might
II
naturally expect it to occupy US more
incessantly, and with more anxious and
searching glances-we think of it less
frequently, believe in it less co5fdently,
desire it less eagerly than in cur youth ?
Such at least has been my observation and
exper' eace, especially among the more re-
fective ard inquiripg order of men. The
| life OF the hour absorbs US most COM
pleteIv as the hours grow fewer and less
/ full; the pleasures, the exemptions, the
modest interests, the afternoon peace,
the gentle affections Of the present scene
obscure the future from cur view, and
render, curiously enough, even less inter
esting than the past. To day, which
may be our last, engrosses us far more than
tomorrow, which may be our forever
And the grave into which We are just
stepping down troubles US far less thar
in our youth, when a half century lay
between us and it. What is the expla,
nation of this strange PHENOMENON Il
il a merciful dspensatioa arranged by
the ruler Of our life to soften and to eas,
j crisis which would be too grand A.,
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A Great Charity.

Thomas Betton bequethed to the
ironmongers' company Of England, over
$50 years ago, his entire estate, with
provision that one-half Of the proceeds
should be applied to the redemption of
British slaves in Turkey and Algeria,
and one-fourth toward the assistance OF
poor Church OF England schools within
London and its suburbs. Long ago
there ceased to be any English slaves to
redeem Gom the Turks; the courts
therefore, permitted the slave money all al'o
to be used in the aid of schools. Inc
magnitude of the sum accumulated
during $50 years can best be appreciated
by the statement that 1900 schools arc
now aided from Bottoms charity
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a Thanksgiving Story.

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hastily.
Mary" said the man softly. ro-e to
himself than the child. 81 wish IT. hadn't
been that"
Why, there's lots of AIarrs. said
the child.
50 Yes, I know it, be said. 81 had "a
little Nary last Thanksgiving. IL
don't Ike to see any. one named Mary in
trouble"
ain't crying" said the child. smil-
ing, " because Pm in trouble. bu, cause
I'm 20 cold. 7 ought 10 have trouble.
Granny says"
" Ought to have trouble. hev,1 said
the man, stopping his horse, and drawing
from under the bufalo-robe a can Of hot
coffee. q" That hasn't been of the stove
more than five minutes, he said, as he
filed q little lin cup and handed i, 20
her. Take that, and drink to your
Granny
at is very nice, she said, when she
had drank it all. She did not say, I have
tasted nothing before 10 day. Why
should she, when there had been so many
days like this il her short life
The man replaced the can, pulled the
robe up even with her chin, and told the
horseeo get up" and go along :" then
he whistled awhile; then he said. .,It i
mighty cold, I hope it will keen sol"
90 don'tl'' exclaimed The child.
''cos it makes turkeys cost go much
poor folks can't have gnv.0
Don't you care ANYTHING for me %,
cried the man, patheticaIlv 3" here's NV
wagon full of turkeys"
didn't know Won were q turkey
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churches and fifteen sunday-schools in

churches and fifteen Sunday-schools il
Utah.
IF the Northern and Southern Presby
terisn churches were united, the sun
total of members would De GO, 1874. In
+ 1861, when they parted, the total mum.
/ Der OF members in the united body was
I 300,814.
Archbishop Purcell, Of Cincinnati, SAYS
/ that the negro children in the south
might, and should be, gathered into the
Roman Catholic church. He recommends
/ the establishment OF H0man Catholic
schools for them.
The London branch Of the Mormon
church has 20 branches. with 1874 elders.
A priests, 81 teachers, 81 deacons. and
S9l lay members. The reports from this
country touching aiiairs in Utah have
greatly retarded the movements of the
Mormon missionaries IN foreign lands
The Cinnamon in san Francisco have
their religious trial-thaJ OF the Rev
/ Swang Bung, for heTesy. He chsracte--
/ lied his neighbors' Joss IS q hOrse-thieL
This excited the leaders OF the abused
congregation, and, amid loud explosions
Of fire-crackers and bombs, the Rev.
Swang Bung has been suspended -fhoDa
the ministry.
The Roman Catholic hierarchy to be
re-established in Scotland by the pope,
viii, it is anticipated, consist OF an
archbishop and five bishops. The arch
bishop OF st. Andrews viii have his resi-
dence III Edinburgh, the sUifragan sees
will be Aberdeen, LismOre, Glasgow and
Moray. The Catholic population oil
Scstland IS about one-tenth Of the whole
The general Assembly of the Presbyts
rian church, South hiss squareiy con
demned all kinds of dancing. One of the 1
resolutions says: 20 Some forms of this
amusement are more mischieveus than /
others, the round dance than the square 1
the public ball than the private party |
out none of them are good, but are ell /
evil and should be di=countenanced,a and /
we ahectiOnately urge all our Christian
parents not 10 send their children 70
dancing schools, where they acquire
fondness and an aptitude .or the danger
Gus amusement"
The latest religious wrinkle IN Toronto
Is the holding OF full-dTess PRAYER
meetings.' They take place twice
week at the houses of the We althier mem
bers OF st. James church. The guests
come in full evening costume. For
about an hour the parlors are vocal with
prayer and praise, after which cake and
conversation are introduced. The meet
ings are said 10 be exceedingly gente9.
The Rev. Mr. Rainstord, who was last
summer conspicuous At the Tying gospel
tent IN this city, Is credited with being
the originator OF this novel style 0i
religious service.