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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-26
ESTABLISHED is
A ro1cE IN THE TWILIGHT.

was sitting alone towards the twilight,
With spirit troubled and vexed,
with Thoughts that We're morbid and gloomy
And faith that was sadly perplexed-
Some homely work was doing
For the child of my love and care,
Some stitches half YEARLY setting,
In the endless need Of repair.
Butm thoughts were about the ''building, "
4 he work some day to be tried,
And that only the gold and the silver,
And the precious stones should abide.
And remembering my own poor efforts,
And wretched work h-d done,
And, even when trying most truly,
The meagre success had won.
at is nothing but wood, hay and .stubble,
/ said: il viii be burned
This useless fruit of the talents
One day to be returned.
And have 50 longed to serve him,
And sometimes know have tried
But am sure when he sees sUch building
lie Will never let il abide"
Just then, as turned the garment.
That no rent should be left behind,
NY eye caught an odd little bungle
OF mendiug and patchwork combined
Ny heart grew suddenly tender,
And something blinded my eyes,
With one of these sweet intuitions,
That sometimes makes US so wise.
Dear child She wanted to help me,
/ knew twas the best she could do;
But oh, what a botch she has made tt
The gray Tnissmatehing the blue!
And yet-can you understand It
With.a tender smile and a tear,
And half compassionate yearning,
felt she had grown more dear.
Then a sweet voice broke the silencea
And the dear Lord said to me,
cart thou tenderer foT tn e little child,
Than am tender for thee
Then straightway l knew his meaning,
So full Of compassion and love,
And my faith came back 10 its refuge
Like the glad returning dove
For thought, when the master-builder
Comes down his temple TO view,
To see what rents must be mended
And what must be builded anew.
Perhsps as he looks DER the building.
He will bring my work TO the light,
And seeing the marring and bungling,
And how far IT all IS frOm right.
He will feel as felt for my darling,
And Will say, as I said flr her,
''Dear child She wanted to help me,
And love for me vas the spur.
"And, for the true love that is in it,
The work shall seem perfect as mine,
And because it was willing service,
l will crown it with plaudit divine.
And there in the deepening tSilight
l seemed TO be clasping hand,
And to feel great love coustraining me,
Stronger than any command.
Tneu knew by the thrill of sweetness,
Twas tn hand of the biessst one,
That would tenderiy guide and hold me,
Till all the labor is done.
So my Thoughts are neyermore gloomy
NY faith no longer is dim.
But my heart is strong and restful,
And mine eyes are unto him.
Mrs. Herrict IJhHsya-
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-26
a CURIOUS TOR.

A curious little scientific toy has made
its appearance in the opticians window,
and we should think, might rival in pop
ularity the old guoscope. 1t consists Of
tiny windmill enclosed in glass bulb
of about three inches diameter, which
revolves without any apparent motive
power. The secret Of the mysteryis that
the four vanes of the mill are blackened
on one side, and coated with bright-foil
on the other. The bright side reflects
the radiant heat of surrounding objects,
and the dark side absorbs it. The en-
closing bulb being partially exhausted OF
air, the difference OF temperature creates
sufficient current to cause the vanes to
move. The contrivance is called Crookes
radiometer, from an erroneous idea
which its inventor had that its motion
war due to the force of rays of light.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-26
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recent date prints the followin

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recent date prints the following
Last Sunday night, at about ten
o'clock, there was an immense number
of grasshoppers passed over and through
this town. The night was very dark
but the choppers" came butting against
the buildings, rattling against the win
dows, entering the houses at the windows
and doors, and playing han nc with the
over superstitious, for manypers9ns had
gone to bed and were ir their first sweet
sleep, as the choppers" commenced to
sattle against the glass of the windows
and Jump about rooms, making AN in
fernal small noise like unto a parcel of
baby spirits out on their first spree. 1t
was a strange experience for those who
were awake and took the pains to go out
doors and listen to the odd small noise
that filled the air, produced by the con-
cussion of their wings and the butting
of their heads against any obstacle in
their way. As far as could be judged
from the noise they made, they were in
great force, and came from the north 60
ing in q southern direction; but many
thousands came to grief in town, either
giving out through fatigue or the many
accidents of attempting to make night
trips without good pilots, as the next
morning thousands of dead and manned
we've lying about loose on
the streets, in the yards and houses
They were of the largest type of Rocky
species, some Of them measur- !
ing fully three inches in length from
q head to toe" They evidently came
across the Missouri river, which at this
place is fully three-fourths of mile /
wide and those that did not perish in
town kept on toward the land of perpet- 4
ual green.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-26
A Texans Wonderful Traces.

A Texan visiting his old home in In
diana, gathered around him some Of the
citizens and entertained them with his
experiences in the "Lone Star" state.
One incident told by him is as follows
You'd hardly believe, now, what
am going TO tell. In Texas we use raw
hide straps, or thongs, for traces, and in
wekweather they do sire. ch amazingly.
Why, often in damp weather, at home,
I've hitched up two horses and drove
down the hill from my house into the
creek bottom for a sled load of wood.
| have loaded the wood and many times
driven back home and unhitehed the
horses and the sled would not be in
sight"
"How did you get the wood home,
then?" asked an inquisitive bystander.
cob, est tied the ends of the traces
together and threw them over post,
went knocking about my work and waited
till the sun shone out. Sometimes it
would be more than two hours before
that sled load of wood would get home,
but you'd see her crawling up the hill at
last, gradually approaching as the raw
hide traces shrunk up into their proper
lengths. Yes, Texas is great country,
you bet"
THE Cherokees have over eighty COM
mon schools. The Chickasaws have four
public and about ten district schools.
The Choctaws have two public schools
and over fifty district schools. The Creeks
have three public schools and about thir-
ty district schools
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-26
CARDINAL ASroNELL1,s SUCCESSOR.

Cardinal Simeoni, wlo succeeds Car
dinal Antonelli as secretary of state to
the holy see, does not appear likely,
from his previous career, to eclipse the
fame of his predecessor. Starting in life
as tutor in the Colonna family, be was
an early friend of Plus *, whom, while
yet bishop residing in his diseese, he
kept well-informed in Roman af4fes, and
when his friend was elected pope he re-
ceived his reward in disappointment of
secretary to the Roman university.
Thence, on the recommendation of Car
dinal Patrizi, he was promoted to the
head of the Apollinare college, and sub
sequently sent to Spain on mission to
Queen Isabella On bis return he was
dominated secretary to a commission ior
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-26

OUT OF CAsH.-Tne Selma (Alabana)
Times Of Becember 9th prints this para
graph: HWhile one OF our young men
of literary pursuasion was meander.ngl
our streets last Saturday night hn wa
very much startled and seriously fright.
ened by coming in direct contact with
desperate looking negro. Our y7u4,t
friend, true to his native grit, prompt
placed pistol in the eyes OF said DEP
ado, wko in turn being duly tfrf''.
promptly stammercd out, For ,i.... oe ~
sake; boss, don't shout. Pse got 70 .'.'.'. ~.
sarch me and see. The yonns nam
sided.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-26

The lunatic who collects stamps will
kake in fresh enthusiasm over the results
Of recent sale in New York: "a five
cent (canceled) violet Bolivia stamp,
Slted 1867. was sold for eight dollars; a
n-cent blue stamp of the same nation
SIity aud date, ten dollars; fifty-cent
ae stamp, same, six dollars and fifty;
hts hundred-cent blue stamp, same,
70 dollarsand fifty,cents, a four-cent blue
amp of British Guiana, dated 1851, ten
liars; a set of confederate stamps, five
: 'arand;eig eighty-fvecen,s; an 'unsevered
pair of five-cent St. Louis stamps, the
knly pair in this condition known to the
yner, used, bit in splendid condition,
tremely rare was knocked down for
'enty dollars and fifty cents. Another
= stamp sold for eleven dollars. 1t
described as fve-cent provisional
nited States, believed to be New Or
cans The biggest price paid was fifty
vo dollars and eighty cents, for an en-
(fire set of Plimpton- envelopes, ninety
six varieties"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-26

The following is recapitulation Of
theofficial statement showing the amount
and value of the coinage executed dur-l
ing the first six months of the fscal year
ending June 80, 1876 W
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-26

THE supreme court of Ohio has eiIec-
tually broken up the barbarous practice
of railroad conductors in kicking tramps
bf their trains between stations. Under
the decision of the court a passenger,
even when he steals a ride, can only be
ut off at regular station. Where the
Door fellow who had to steal ride and
got kicked off found money enough to
take his case to the supreme court, the
&cision doesn't show
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-26

,. THEStory that a regular business was
carried. on in the manufacture of butter
from the mud Of the Thames river turns
.out to have been a fabrication. The
story was that the floating particles of
grease and fat from the sewers were col
lected, and that the transmutation of the
product into good table butter for board
ing-house use constituted systematic
and profitable industry. Inspired by
the tale, some speculative individuals
have been making experiments, and have
come to the conclusion that butter can
not be made in that way.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-26
JHE SPIRIr-lyORLD.

The following is an extract fr Up one
of Bishop Simpsons beautiful sermons :
The very grave itself is a passage into
the beautiful and the glorious. We have
laid our friends in the grave, but they
are around us. The little children that
sat upon our knee, into whose eyes we
locked with love, whose little hands
have clasped our neck, on whose cheek
we have imprinted the kiss-we can al
most feel the throbbing of their hearts
to-day. They have passed from us-but
where are they? Just beyond TIE line
of the invisible. And the fathers and
mothers who educated US, that directed
and comforted us-where are they but
just beyond the line of the invisible
The associates of our lives, that walked
along life's pathway, those with whom
we took sweet counsel, and who dropped
from our side-where are they but just
beyoNd us?--not far away--it may be
very near us, in the heaven of light and
love. Is there anything to alarm US in
the thought of the invisible? No! 1t
seems to me that sometimes, when our
heads are on the pillow, there come whis-
pers as of joy from the spirit land, which
have dropped into our hearts thoughts
of the sublime and beautiful and glo-
rious, as though some angels wing
passed over our brow, and some dear one
sat by our pillow and communed Will.
our hearts, to raise our affection towards
the other and better world
X
The invisible is not dark; it is glorious.
Sometimes the veil becomes so thin, it
seems.to me that l can almost see the
bright forms through it, and my bending
ear can almost hear the voices of those
who are singing their melodious strains
before the throne of God. Oh, there is
music all around us, though the ear of
man hear it not; there are glorious forms
al about us, though in the busy scenes
of life we recognize them not. The veil
of the future will soon be lifted, and the
invisible shall appear. And when you
and l shall jest step beyond the
vel, oh, how gloriousl We shall look
back to life and wonder why it was that
it did not flame with light, even while we
were treading the pathway here below. /
oh, that look into eternity We see the
The invisible and it gives us joy. Our |
friends are there, our beloved ones are
there, and they are not far from US.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-26

THE idea which England is endeavor-
-ings 70 impress upon herself, that Russia
( raid to go to war with Turkey, is
= the absurdest notion that the
jag year has furnished. On this side
ne water it looks as if Ssia were
buraging that idea, in oruer to in
Ease the uppishness of Turkey and
make peace impossible. 1t is apparent
that Russia has thus far caused the di-
plomacy of England to accommodate es
self TO her own ends, and she will prob
ably continue to do so
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-26
GTFING THE ORGAN GRINDER =
LIFT.

An italian organ grinder, in a side
street in London, with terribly bad in
strument was mourning pitiously his i'll
success. He had taken not penny all
day. and had not the wherewithal for a
nights lodging. Presently showily
dressed woman came along. "What's
the matter, old MANI" The Italian ar
tist told his tale. The woman was evil
IDENTIFY touched by the mans tears.
Wen soon put that right" she ex-
claimed. "Giye me your organ" When
she heard its tones she WINGED little.
you are little out of tune, friend,
she said rebukingly, but she set off play
ing. while the old man looked on bewil-
dered and crowd began to gather. The
old man stood still until the woman was
nrovoked into chiding him for not having
recourse to his hat. ''Pass it round, and
b. quick; it's money you want, isn'tit?"
The old man obeyed, aud the girl sang
to the organ until a good harvest of pen
nies had been reaped. ''Will that do
friend ?" she asked, and receiving an af-
firmative answer, resigned the instru-
ne 1t and passed rapidly away, laughing.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-26

Two important observations in regard
to the effect of prussic acid upon animal
and insect life have been made by A.
Gautier, a French chemist. Rabbits
poisoned with this acid, and apparently
dead, can be restored to life by the arti-
fetal respiration of air containing chlo-
rine. and the same now proves to be
true of insects. In each case several
minutes after apparent death had elapsed
before the restorative agent was applieS.s
These results point towards the eventual
discovery of an efectual antidote for
prussic acid poisoning in the human sub
<ect, and illustrate the Importance of not
imposing too severe restrictions upon ex-
Instrumentation on the lower animals.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-26

WITHIN a few days the first INSTALL
ment of colonists for western Massa-
chusetts, numbering twelve families,
will leave for Berks county, S. c., and
kaegin the work of building village
pout seven miles east of Morgantown.
she celonist have a refusal of $4,000
cres in body, of which 10000 is of
heavy white-pine timber.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-26

J.J. VArENTINE, superintendent of
3e bullion department of Wells &
&rgo's express, has made his annual
Rtement of the treasure product of the
kte and territories west of the Missouri
sr for the past year, which is sum
Ezed as follows: Gold, $44,32S, 600;
er, s41 $50, 700. Great care has been
n in separating the gold from the
Ger product. Nevada leads, with $40,-
1000; California, S1s.615,S00. The
Element corrects many erroneous
leories on the silver question.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-26

FLORENCE manages the business of
making New Years calls upon the "com-
mutation" principle. 1t has a society
know as the I" Societa di Capo d'Auno,"
Ehich announces just before the expira-
pn of the year that under the direction,
atronage and auspices of the children's
Aspital 1t will open its lists at certain
known shops for the benefit of those
desire to be registered. No further
blanation appears, but all Florence
ows what it means. The individual
ho desires to escape the labor of calling
bes to one of the shops, presents his
card and pays a subscription of five
krancs or more to the children's hospital,
Eing a receipt therefor. In return
erefor his name is posted for week
th the names of his fellow subscribers
the street corners, and he is con-
ered as having paid all his New Years
klls. The hospital receives in this way
out $500 every year.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-26
4 CoMrcAn NcEvE IN coURr.

An illustration of the fact that lawyers,
like the famous Silas Wcgg, do sometimes
"drep into poetry in friendly way"
was offered, says the New York Times,
in proceeding before Jud Sc Hoesen, IN
the special term of the cou of common
pleas last week. The cas- was one in
which the discharge of imprisoned
debtor was sought. The counsel were
John H. Bird, gentleman of portly
build, and Royal Crane. The latter
made long and ardent speech. AT Its
conclusion Mr.. Bird arose and in dra-
matte manner exclaimed:
although no Royal Crane am I.
This fact must plainly be;
Bird OF uncommon size
You all both hear and see"
The recital of this doggerel with Its
accompaniment of elaborate gesticulation
convuIsed the judge and the other audi
tors with laughter. Mr.. Bird waited
several minutes for the merriment to
subside before he went on to argue his
case.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-26

J The enormous cost of funerals is again
attention. in New York. A
leading undertaken of that city i3eclares
that the most economical funeral which
he can possibly have with any regard
y decency costs 5000. The funeral of
Se two actors burned in the Brooklyn
eater, at which there were ten car
ages and two very plain caskets, cost
F65, and was considered cheap ut that.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-26
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.

THE modern cookstove is approach
ing degree of perfection which wiz o.
quire competent engineer at a stated
salary to run it.
Mr.. MOUNT PLEASANT is the singular
title of the boss Tuscarora chief on the
Niagara county reservation. This honest
fellow claims. too, to have recently dis
covered some old papers which entitled
his tribe to the whole state of North
Carolina, not TO mention a trife of l.
500, 900 acres in Kansas.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-26

VOL. XII. NO 81.

larger place than the one above men
toned.
Let the women everywhere meet and
pray and use all their influence Of gospel
temperance. Let committee be set at
work to see that the law as to licenses
are strictly carried out, and, with Gods
blessing, plenty will again dwell in our
homes, and the heart of the widow and
Of many Others will "sing for Joy"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-26

ssision of an liturgy, and
Eh little pfogress@ds, made on tbs
subject in hand, it s1fficea. to procure
him the secretaryship of the RropaganoA'
an office which insures the holaer his car,
dinaps hat. In 1876 he wasAenS a second
time to Spain as Nuncio q, su,.g ar lphen-
so, and by his publication of lei.sl
from Rome which waSQnly intended ior
the royal ear, nearly Psaduced rupture
between the two courts. He had os'y
recently received his card sl's hat when
Antonelli died, and he wa ammoned 70
take his place, call hd beyed oply
out of obedience due tost<se Holy ta-
ther," as he wrote himself. He is Slu
to be a man of austerc and ascetich hala1s'
in this, too, offering a striking CONTEST
TO his predecessor.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-26

.Danbury News: Nothing lets in-
more cold than ladder. People who
own them should attend 70 them at once.
A well ladder filed in and banked up
will save one-balf In fuel used 80 f.f
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-26

the sky, and unless Mr. Rutherford is
misinformed something like it is taking
place most of the time in the heavens
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-10-18
Geography of Florida.

The geography of Florida is unique
and of special interest 1t has many
beautiful rivers and lakes Astounding in
fish of excellent quality. The surface
of the state is level, the highest emf
nence in the state is not over 200 feet,
and while some of the land Is rolling
and undulating like a western prairie,
the most of it is of dead level. The
state contains SO, 268 square miles, or
81. 931, $50 acres. 1t is in the same lati-
tude and isothermal with Southern Cali
fornia, Madeira, Egypt, Persia, Arabia,
Hindoostan, Thibet and China. The
average breadth of the peninsula is
ninety miles, and is famed by the Gulf
winds on one side and the Trade winds
on the other, and thus, with so slight a
breadth, every portion IS exposed to the
balmy, purifying influences of almost
constant oceanic winds, and from all
these geographical peculiarities has re-
suited a pleasantness and salubrity of
climate, and a power of vegetative pro-
duction SO wonderful as to be almost
ncredible.-Vo lusia Herald.