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IN INCIDENT or GEN. MeCL ELL4N'S
NILE TRIP.


As an instance of the dread inspired
b. the authorities, l will mention a cir
cumstance that occurred to US. Between
Gebel el Tayy and NIinieh We were sail
ing rapidly, witha strong north wind
that made the river very rough, when
Achmet called me to the deck The
river in front was covered with native
vessels, and some four or FIVE hundred
yards ahead was group floating down
the river, standing on and clinging to
something just below the surface. As
some native boats were close to these
people, and heading toward them, we
did not doubt that they would relieve
them, when, to our surprise and horror,
they passed on without an effort to aid
them, and the poor wretches f1Oated past,
shrieking and imploring help. OF
course, we at once let 60 the sheet, and
sent our sandal after the drowning men.
Our sandal and that of the "Zarifa" sue
ceeded in rescuing all, after they had
1oated down about mile further, and
we soon had them on board. There
were thirteen, of various colors and con-
ditions-among them woman. They
| had been three hours in the water, and
were nearly dead with cold and fright
From all that we could learn, more than
that number perished before we saw
them. Some of them were merchants
en- route to Cairo to make purchases, and,
| in their alarm, had thrown away con-
siderable sums of money. Our sailors
were very prompt in saving them, and.
when we bad them on board, were as
kind as possible in giving them food,
| drying their clothes, etc. Scores of ma
tive boats must have passed close bv
them without an attempt at rescue.
Soon after they were safely on our boat,
| Achmet told me that the crew were
anxious that l should shield them from
any harm for their good action. Nat.
urallv, / was astonished, when it al
length appeared that the cause of ap
prehenson was the same that had pre-
vented the native boats from rendering
assistance. 1t was thel.fear that, had any
perished, all who took part in the de.
Iiverance would be thrown into prison a.
witnesses; and once get man into pris.
on. no matter for what cause, his chance:
of egress are faint indeed. The fear ot
the authorities is so great, that these
naturally kind hearted men will see &
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BUssIA'S TREACHERY.

A German paper points out the strik-
ing similarity between the assurances OF
the Russian government in the present
crisis and those it gave one hundred and
ten wears ago, at the very time when
negotiating secretly with Prussia for the
partition of Poland. Empress Cath
crime then declared as Car Alexander
does now, that she was only asking
guarantees, because she was anxious
0for the maintenance of general peace" +"
adding: 81 will never make any claim
to the territory of Poland. l will even
secure its integrity if any other power
sheuld attack it." Socn after the Rus
slams entered Poland, the czarina de-
clared it was only for the purpose OF
preve nting disturbances which might be
caused by concessions to malcontents.
The spoilation and partition followed
nevertheless.
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fellow-2reature die rather than incur the
risk of saving him. 1t appeared that the
woman had been to Minieh to visit her
son, mere lad, who was in prison. Her
story was, that the shiek of her village
had given him some order which he had
forgotten to execute, whereupon, as the
readiest method of improving his memory
for the future, the sheik choked him
until he fell senseless. Therefore, his
numerous brothers and sisters thinking
him dead, ,howled as 0rientals only can
so, by way of teaching the family not to
make fuss about trilies, the sheik sent
the boy TO prison for two months. When
the governor of Minieh called in the
evening, and expressed his thanks for
the rescue of the people, 1 asked the
favor of the boys release, provided the
mot hers s,stsrss ,,ss-s - y esss .lny lsg
was released, and was Informed that
his sentence If two months imprison.
ment had been for feigning death!
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According to information recently OBJ
tained from native sources by Consul
Robertson, of Canton, opium, which
originally came from abroad, had towards
the close of the Ming dynasty, A. ID.
1914, the name of va Fujung, or A-ju-
yung. At that time it was not known
that the drug could be used for smoking
purposes; its properties were cooling and
astringent, and it was used for diarrhGa
and fevers, but with what admixture Is
not known. Subsequently it was made
into paste and smoked, with an astrin-
gent and antifebrile effect But 1t Is
stated that it is relaxing and reduces the
system. At first the only sort was Patna,
followed afterwards by Malwa, then Be-
mares. and finally Persian, all imported
from abroad Tradition describes Per
sian as hot and acid, and liable to cause
dvsentery; it is all sent to the province
of Kwangsi, as the chilly climate there
is said to permit of its use. When China
first begun to cultivate the poppy it was
called " Yung-su-hwa tine Jar-snapeu
flower or capsule), and when the juice
was distracted it was called white smoke
or white tobacco. Chinese opium is not
so rich to the palate as Patna, but 1t Is
barely more than two-thirds Of the price
of foreign opium. Opium is now very
commonly cultivated in China, and al
the evidence obtainable is to the effect
that the native production is increasing
and the foreign drug becoming more
luxury for epicures and men OF taste
Consul Robertson says that Patna L
chiefly consumed in Canton and Shang
hal, Malwa on the north river OF Canton
Benares in the four lower procedures o
Canton. Yuman white circulates every
where. London Times.
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ESTABLISHED
Il LAZY LAY.

hg for the world, with its bothers and woFne-
us DAYS OF distraction, and nights Of regrel
It's cities of commerce, where everyone hurries
some to get into, and some out Of, debt
Close up the town-hOuse with bar and with 90
lock,
Leave me to bask meath q zenith Of blue,
onheeding old Time with his scythe and his pre-
So long as I've freedom and nothing to dc
Not on the Continent; there you haye mounhinl
That call for exertion and strainfng of neTe
Not by the famous old classical fountains
Could the calm tenor of living preserve;
For there you meet some one 50 leaTnedly alknE
OF things he has read Of and men that .
That, to make your escape, you must strugglea 4
Not at ali in accordance with nothing todo.
Not in the covert. nor yet in the stubblsses
MID rattle OF guns and mia camor of birds
must further escape from the region of troifbfa
Of keen emulation and feverish words
can hnd no enjoyment I'm steadily whipping
stream where the fish are much wiser thai
Where stiH run the risk of a show'r or A dippino
Which are both inconsistent with nothing 10 az
recall fternoons in bygoRe September
~. Inc Inc happiest days OF my lazy old life
men en- pieasant companion-but now I rensn be,
u, i3a 1ai pleasant companion is somebody's lsifa
~ -. - sue leaXt sfaafa hsF -
Was roofSd belief had nothing to do.
m as far from my point as I was at beginning.
And ] only request folks to leave me alone;
haven't now energy even for SHINING,
But l never waste breath in the making OF
moan.
is all in ourselves that we're Joyous or blighted
You'll find the old dramatist's dictum is tZee;
} I'll rest in the shade with cigarette ligk.ed,
And the blissful reflection, Tve netbiag 10 DO.
-''' ''"-
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DANIEL wEnsrnR,s CREED.


A fortnight before his death Daniel
Webster dictated the following inscrip-
ton, which may now be read on his
monument:
Lord, believe; help thou mine unblieL"
Philosophical
Argument, especially
that draw from the vast
ness Of the Universe, in CON-
parison with the apparent insignih-
cance Of this globe, has sometimes
shaken my reason for the faith which is IN
me; but my heart has always assured and re-
assured me that the gospel Of Jesus Christ
must be divine reality. The sermon
on the Mount can not be merely
human production. This beiief
enters into the very depths
OF my conscience. The
whole history OF
man proves IL.
DANIEL WEBSTER
The above was, in brief, Mr.. Websters
confession of faith or testimony IN iAv0i
of christianity.
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hold as many apples as he could carry.
The matter hasn't been laid before the
school-board yet, but the exhausted
school-ma'a am declares that the next
time she will learn how much of a crop
of apples boy has about him before she
issues any orders BmLinqtoa HaaokeYe.
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The editor of a Philadelphi

Inc EDITOR OF PhlIadeIphia paper
vent to convention and left a new silk
hat, worth seven dollars, hanging on the
rack in the cloak-roor1, and when he
came out to go home he found it had
gone, and an old, greasy, ragged, sun
burned old rag of hat, with a chalk
scrawl on the brim, "please ex."
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-19

There are now in operation in the
United States no less than eight hun
dred paper mills, which are valued at
fortv millions of dollars, capital invested,
with a total production of seventy mil
lions Of dollars. The mills usually en-
plov 10000 people, whose earnings are
footed mn at ten millions of dollars an
nually.
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VOL. XII. NO 30.
THE DUEL OF THE DAY.
An Apparently Impartial sfa,eu.,,,
the Causes that Lea tor,

the Causes that LED 10 H.
A friend of all parties Concerned ,,r
nishes the following version of the fact
1t was during the summer of ISz5 tbot
Mr. Bennett began to paw marked o+tar' &c
ton to Miss May. She had the SCOT ~
honor on the box of his coach she v,os a..
the honored guest on board his vacbt
The ensuing winter they were seen much
together, out driving, at the tbeator -,
receptions, at dinner parties ~ ~ ,,e
opera, and soon it was rumsred tbat ,I'n'. 'ro
were engaged to be married The ,notci
was regarded as a brilliant one, by the
yound lady's friends especially, as the
,ouhg people seemed devoted to each
EheI' Inc friends of Mr.. Bennett and
Us llitlstrlous father were equally pleased.
ros s1sh some VINO were aware that the,
80 ss'3 t's'ssAe; g dpeiasDent, and bad
sBesn several times engagec, f1ad rircfr
fears II was promised, however, that
Mr.. Bennett was really most devoted to
MIssMay, who is a very charming young
lady, and they hoped for the best. II
was nmored that date in May had been
fixed for the nuptials. Suddenly, as
these events always occur. and just as
he had 50 often done before, the prospec-
tive groom went off on one of bis unfor-
tunak sprees, and the preparations for
the Wedding we're promptly suspended
The spree over, and the unfortunate
man once more in the full possession of
his really splendid faculties, was the
picture of remorse. His fGnce wrote Of !
fering to release him. He wrote, frankly
acknowledging that he did not think
himself worthy of her, saying that once
married her influence over him would be
all powerful. OF course she relented. =
After last summers season Of polo at
Jerome park Mr.. Bennett went to New
port and started the game there. His
betrothed, her brother and other mem-
bers of the family were his honored
guests throughdnt the season at New
port. With the return to town in the
autumn caRe rumors of the arrival from I
PFiss0f tl9FRading trOusseau on which
tkd Gust Eyficials were said 10 have
deinandef TO the amount oi@D, 900.
The IHkziN|s were to be private.
: sOyton there gathered in the May
4nanf ID but seleet circle of rela-
kiya Ends, and There was fair
yoW arFayed in her spotless
WhEU &ere-was the clergyman to
nhsik IN one, but there was no
brid - mother letter ami another
foSgI| The indignant father
wouMl INT .Nply on condition that
the gro1E shox make a marriage set
groom objected, that the
laws of te made sWflicient prOvis-
Zen. II lscofizslt was finally
given to ~ tieN1 mother date,
and a weddia = z fenfinent was
decided on. <.4. 4l.e day
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A COMPARISON. "A gentleman = .he
ing in house not remarkable ~
generosity of its fare. ..t found
The lady, thinking heir que. With a
the repast rather slender sAss'
little grimace: a.v;no you very
"In truth, sir, We are Offering '01
poor cheer" during the
"Oh, not at all, madame u no1tent
siege we would have been wen 49,
with such dinner"
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Washington and Andre.

The English historian, Chalmers, stated
that Washington ordered the gallows, on
wL6aNaj. Andre was hung in l7sO, to
= zs@< = = l55iifl nf tho s,fssr's,s-t This
~froused the ire of the Annerf-
cans 20 flourished in theearly part of
the century. ssNo one was angi ier than
John Pintard, and hedid everything that
could be done to correct the mistake.
One day, sitting iR.hi@ofkce, a venera-
BILE parsonage scsfed on him: and as
usual the conversation turned on Andre.
'What ?'' said Pintard, edo you know
anything about that execution g'
II do, for l was one of the guards who
kept watch on him while in prison, and
who marched alongside him to the place
Of"
"Well, what did you do? Tell me" ex-
claimed Pintard.
eve took him from the house where
he was kept, ard marched along the road
until we turned into a lane, when
Andre shrank back, and with shudder
said 1t that to beP The gallows
could be seen, and was seen by Andre
for the first time from the turn in the
lane"
"Of course Chalmers lied" said Pint
ard. Everybody knsws that Washing.
ion did no tanswer Andres letter asking
that he nigh be shot, and now every
body knows that Andre was not in sight
of the building of his ga lows"
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I I'll try to save him." cried a voice
Ae knew-Dick's voiee-and then she
aw him fighting his way through the
sames, and the last glimpse of his face
! aowed how brave he was, in the wild
Fmpest of fire and smoke. She held
ier breath, pale and still, and waited,
While her heart kept saying over
Dear Dick, oh, God, save him !" in a
PayeTful kind of way.
She knew then that the lover who was
RISING his life so nobly was more to her
than the lover he was risking his life
for could ever be.
saddenly she caught sight of Richard S
iaeeat the window of Leverson's room
lie had Leverson in his arms, for the
master had tainted. He fasteAsd the un.
Ieonseious man to rope, and let him
down just as the flames burst out of the
gs13ow below him, wrapping the whole
SSk me.. :. ll.s.aazssss
a groan went through the crowd. He
had saved a life and lost his own.
" Dick, Diekp' rang out woman's
voice, wild, sharp and shrill with pain,
"try to save yourself for my sake"
He heard, and leaned far out of the
window, in a wild desire to save his life
for the sake of the woman he loved.
he saw the wire of one of the lightning
rods not foot away from the window.
Lois had called him, and he would make
a wild, desperate, almost hopeless effort to
save himself
He leaned out and grasped the rod, and
swung himself over the window sill, and
slipped down, down.
The rod blistered his hands but he
clung TO it. The flames biIlowed up
around him, and broke over him, but he
held his breath and slipped down, down!
And the last he remembered, he was
slipping down, and the thought had got
into his brain that he was always going
down, down, down.
The first thing he remembered after
that, woman's face was bending over
him, and wOman's tears were dropping /
on his face, and a woman's kiss was on /
his lips, and woman's voice was saying
"Oh, Dick, poor, noble, brave, dear
Dickl" in broken way, and heopened
his eyes to see Lois above him, and he
thought it must be heaven, and whis-
oered &"
q Is it yes, Lois?"
And she answered eyes" with a great
.hanhculness in her eyes and voice.
They told him he was hero.
And LeversOn came and took his poor
in his, and told him he had
aved his life, and that he would do
'reat things for him to prove his graft
ude.
And he did.
And Los : satisfied with her choice
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"A tourist describes the sale of snails
in the town of Tivoia, near Rome, as a
source of much profit to the peasants OF
that district. The favor is pronounced
delicious, moreso than scollops or oysters.
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In every family that is much of a
family there is favorite child, which
does pretty mnch as it pleases, and gets
the bulk of all the goodies; but over in
Europe the affectionate parent rather
overdoes herself The foreign items tell
OF French mother who has strangled
three of her children that the fourth
might have full marriage portion.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-19

The modern cookstove is approach
ing degree of perfection which will re-
quire competent engineer at stated
salary to run it.
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CURRENr PARAGRAPHs.

The broom packing at Vallejo, Cali
fornia, is busy filling orders for Aus
tralia.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-19

THE oldest member of the United
States senate is Simon Cameron, of
Pennsylvania, who first took his seat in
1915. His service, however; has been
rather fitful, and amounts altogether TO
only seventeen years; while Mr.. Ham
lin, of Maine, whose first entry upon
senatorial life was in 1S4S, has seen
twenty-one years of work upon the floor,
and four years additional in the chair as
vice president. Mr.. Anthony, of Rhode
Island, comes next, having entered the
senate in 1859, and had a continuous ser
vice of almost seventeen years. Messrs.
Lot NJ. Morrill,, now secretary of the
treasury Sherman, of Ohio, and Howe,
of Wisconsin, entered the senate together
III 1861.
EX-SENATOR NYE, whose death in a
lunatic asylum is recorded, was, in his
palmy days, one of the brightest and
most genial of public men. The good
things said and the clever retorts made
by him in the senate and elsewhere
would fill large volume. He began
his career in New York. As a delegate
to the Chicago convention he was a
warm supporter and advocate of Mr.
Seward nomination. From Mr.. Lincoln
he received the appointment of governor
of Nevada, and when that territory be-
came a state he was elected one of its
senators, and was subsequently reelected
to serve ultil 1873. His health then
began to decline in manner which fore
shadewed the lamentable death which
has Just been his fate.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-19

louisville bankruptcy statistics for
the past year; Unsecured liabilities of
city petitioners, s1,72O,0 600; Unsecured
liabilities of county petitioners, in which
citizens were represented, S570, 900;
claims of non-residents represented in
city petitioners, s72O, 900, of which $780,
600 were Unsecured debts; total value of
real estate secured by petitioners during |
the year SS50,OOO, and total personal |
property $500, 900.
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PEOPLE who are afraid of an Eruption
of Chinese cheap labor. will learn with
alarm that the latest $ss- pop
uIatioR of the celestial empire is 405,-
100000. About half the inhabitants of
Asia are under Chinese rule. Japan, too,
has 33,2e9,014 people, considerable
share of whom are just now engaged in J
making articles Of beauty and elegance
for us, so that Japanese wares have grown
as familiar in our shops as the products
of Lowell and Manchester.
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Col. GORDON, the governor of Equa-
torial Egypt, who has been exploring
the upper Nile for the last five years,
has decided to continue his explorations
in consequence of an important discovery
made by one of his officers, IMr. Gressi.
1t has been found thad the lola rapids
formed an effectual barrier to the naviga-
tion of the upper Nile, rendering it nee
essary to convey everything across
mountainous region one hundred and
fifty miles long, west of Duffie. Gessi,
however. at the last moment, discovered
large branch of the river two hundred
yards wide, with good current, diverg-
ing from the White Nile, one hundred
miles south of Dufle. Col. Gordon
deems it ofgreat Importance to ascertain
the course of this branch of the Nile, it
being stated by the natives that it runs
in an unobstructed stream into the Nile
again, and, if so, water communication
may be established between lake Albert
Nyanza and Khartoum.
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THERE isin Washington some talk of
increasing the value of gold coinage to
what it was before the last reduction. so
:- as to rake the coinage rates between
gold and silver five and half. This will
restore both the gold and silver dollars of
our fathers. There are intimations of a |
report from the silver commission favor
ing such an increase in the weight of the
gold coins.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-19

OF women in the Washington depart
ment, letter in the Pittsburg Chronicle
says: Allowing that their qualifications
are on par with those of the other sex,
the association in a business capacity is
no benefit TO either, if for no other reason
than that when the. two sexes are brought
in 10 business association there is certain
to ensue an amount of Irritation, idleness,
nonsense, ,sand more and worse, the head
ofa bureau is bewitched by some irresis-
tible feminine solicitor for place, which
she gets. A whole school of ladies' make
themselves attractive to an appointment
clerk, or a head of "a division, with a view
TO their permanency to being employed
IN pleasant room, and to having nice
work Public officers and subordinates
are made fools of, women are scandalized
by the familiar contact that is the in
evitable result of the present system, and
the demoralization is not limited to the
departments, but it extends to the rep
resentative power that demands en-
ployment"
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CRATE AND GAY.
CHARITY.

molds over the dciert his frackloss way.
" mere the terrible sands no shade have known
~, 20 SOUND oi lie save The caniel's moan
neArs az last, through the mercy of Allah 10 al.
From his tent door NJ evening the Redonin'e raii.
lihoerey htou aTf rboss nsef - mat
IN ne ad1le ~ Col, me Compassionate
Aad AcrcifA One, Jor Mee / pau"
F%or % giits IN his name of food and rest
! ne tents OF lslam Of God are blest
=, = ,,I hyu Mho hast faith IN the Christ above
Shau the Koran teach thee the law Of love p
~ ~ CHRISTIAN open thy heart and door
Niy eas. Amd ~ west q The wandering poor g.
hnei er me-" su 'ch0se mad is g5eaf "
IN ne NUM- ~ fhrisf, fhc Cos,Jiaasio,,af
Ind Meyc,fa one. .for fsee sraH
--.tDhu H. HHfuier
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OF the fifteen thousand men who are
wearing away their dreary lives in the
mines of the Schuylkill coal region, ten
thousand at least are unmarried, and five
thousand live in miners boarding houses.
They call them all men, these gnomes,
but many of them are boys. Not less
than five thousand are boys, little fell
lows, who in any other community would
be in school, but who here are kept day
after day in filthy, black kennels, muffled
up in old coats and scarfs to shut the
cold out, till all the young life is worn
out of them, and they are dwarfed little
men before the first signs of beard
break through the black crust on their
faces Philadelphia TINES.