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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-09-21
PerSOnRIIfIes.

Brigham Young was the largest de-
positor but two in the Bank of England.
Charles Reade is digging his grave with
his teeth ! He has passion for hot cake
hot cake for breakfast, for dinrer ana
for tea, and very sweet cake at that
Alvin Adams, who died at Boston last
Saturday, had vision of the immense
proportions which the package-carrying
business might be made to assume and
he started it for that express purpose.
S. S. Burdett, formerly United States
commissioner 10 the general land office,
and who mysteriously disappeared some
sixteen months ago, now turns up in
Sedalia, Mo. His mind is clouded, and
he can give no account of himself.
Irene A. V. House. who murdered her
husband, has been released from the New
Jersey state lunatic asylum, completely
restored. 1t is a remarkable fact in pa.
thology that murderers are cured of in
sanity quicker than any other class.
Lord Palmerston once said, in speaking
OF the Turks: What energy can be ex-
acted of a people who have no heels to
their shoes ?'' Well, it doesn't make so
much difference, since they seem to suffer
no inconvenience, and do not manifest
any inclination to show their heelsl
Brigham Young's death was induced
by an imprudent meal one hot day, and
might, perhaps, have been avoided if he
hadn't practised the doctrine be preached
of the uselessness of physicians and the
efficacy of the laying on of hands, till the
Gentle doctors who were called found
him to be past all help.
The death is announced of Mr.. Theirs.
first president of the French republic.
For half century he has been famous
as statesman, historian, orator and
journalist. In personal appearance he
was small, stout, and with q face slightly
resembling that of parrot, and wore
unusually large spectacles, He was the
leading republican of France.
The Cincinnati Enquirer thus gives
Minister Comfy its parting benedicfion
General Comfy is off at last to the
Cannibal Isles. Watt him gently. sweet
south wind, to the mellifiuously named
Honelula, lovely metropolis on the mid
Pacific. Deal gently with him. waves
OF ocean; smile gayly on him, stars of
night; speed him kindly, favoring gales.
70 hls haven in the west. Then, no
Seneschal, fetch royal breech-cIout for
the new minister when he shall arrive
therer' 'A'e
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scientInc and Industr,.

Twelve hundred manufacturers in
/ Connecticut are not paying expenses.
Among the patents recently issued are
several to Mr.. Holly, of waterwork fame
/ for his system for warming a city by
steam, supplied as gas and water are
/ now, through a series of mains.
A beautiful marble has been found in
! California on the line of the newly built
/ Southern Pacific railroad. 1t is of snowy
I color, and exquisitely threaded with
amber-colored veins. Italian experts
have pronounced it equal to the finest
marbles known.
A recent discovery of mica has been
made, but from its location it is doubt
full if the bed will ever be success
fully worked, although the district
abounds in every facility for mining,
manufacture and transportation. The
vein was found by workmen digging a
sewer seventeen feet under Carey street,
Baltimore. The mineral is said to be
rich, pure and transparent
Besides being valuable asan instrument
of warfare, the torpedo promises to be of
great service in clearing away sunken
obstacles in frequented channels A
sunken steamer, which has seriously i'm
peded navigation of the river Humber.
in England, for twelve months past, has
recently been most efiectually removed
by sinking and exploding torpedo
amidst the wreck.
A san Francisco photographer Ia;
taken a photograph of the celebrated
horse, Occident, when he was trG1,ting at
a sped of thirty-six feet per second, or &
mile in two minutes and twenty-sever
seconds. The image of the horse was
impressed upon the paper in less time
than the one thousandth part ola second
The spokes of the sulky attached TO Oc'
cident were taken separately, so that
they can be counted. This is certainly 4
wonderful triumph in photographing.
A mineral has been found in Kern
county, Cal which Is puzziing the geolo-
gists, no one knowing what to call it,
1t Is Opaque in color, tin white lustre,
metallic Eliminated; soft yields to the
finger nail leaves streak the color of
amalgam on the back of looking glasses
it Is unchanged by heat which reduces
a Hungarian crucible; is perfectly insol-
luble in nitric or muriatic acids or any
of their combinations, and has a specific
gravity about equal to that of mispickel.
The latest statistics of theAyages of the
European laborer are as follows for all
sorts OF factory operatives: Antwerp
tmen) SIPS year; Prussia generally
women and mem, from Slip to 1915
per week for overseers Austria, best
hands So per week, ordinary 1915; Ber-
lin, from $1.S7 to So per week; France,
splnners 80 cents and weavers 73 cents
a day. Wages in Great Britain are
somewhat higher. In all countries the
condition of mechanics is little or no bet
ter than that of operatives in factories,
while that Of the farm laborer is most de-
plorable and hopeless.
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considered as an open defiance to presi
dent Hayes. This course is understood
to be taken at the instance n Senator
Conkling.
The Anti-Hayes executive committe
of Ohio have just issued an address 70
the republican party of that state.
AT a meeting of the democracy at Col
umbus, Ohio, August %, Gen. ThOma:
Ewing and Hon. George II. Pendleton
make speeches.
STATE conventions of the republican
party in New York and New Jersey have
been called-the former at Rochester,
September 20, and the latter at Trenton,
September %.
The workingmen of PENNSYLVANIA will put
a state ticket in the field, a convention
for that purpose having been determined
upon. 1t will be held at Philadelphia OF
Harrisburg Sept. 10.
THE Pennsylvania Republican associ.
alton at Washington has been dissolved,
owing to the presidents recent order pro
hibitiDg persons holding federal 0ifices
from participating in political meetings
or contests.
A San Francisco associated press lis-
patch-Ayriter announced that the iatesl
returns indicate that the demo
Gratis have elected ten senator's apd fifty
seven assemblymen. The republicans
elect ten senators and twenty-thEse as
semblymen. Including the senators
holding over. the democrats Will have
thirty eight majority on joint ballot"
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ROMANTIC,
But very. Very SH,s-A Bco"'ii"t Girl
Charged with Adultery bN Her
Father Dies Under the OpC1at'on
which Proves Her EnuOccnce.

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\ aIagnifcent wheat Harvest.

The winter wheat crop of the north
west harvested and saved several weeks
ago---is the largest produced in this
country for many years The spring
wheat crop is also fine, and an unprece-
dented yield is counted on. The total
wheat crop of last year was 2S0,0OO,OOO
bushels. This year il is estimated at
325, 1000, 600 bushels. The average export
for five years has been 81 10000 bushels
per annum. The largest amount ever
exported was 100000 bushels. 1t is
expected that 100000 600 of this years
crop will be sent abroad. An increased
foreign demand is anticipated, owing 70
the disturbed condition of affairs along
the Danube and adjacent countries, from
whence heavy shipments have been made
in former years Previous TO 1872, Rus
STA shipped almost as much wheat as the
United States, but last year the supply
was only one-third as great as that Of this
country, and her proportion this year is
likely TO be much less. The northwest
ern wheat crop has been unusually boun-
tiful this year The estimated yield,
carefully compiled from trustworthy
statistics, made up at Chicago, viii sum
ND as follows for four states
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Castles in Literature.

Say, mister" said a small boy te
one of the assistants at the public
library, /" 1 can't find the books l want
to git into these here catalogs. |
wish you Sind i'm for me-" What
work do you wish to draw ;" patiently
inquired the official. "Well, hev yeI
got 'Mulligan, the Masher;' or the Cory
Galoot of the Galtees ?" The man shook
his head. Well, I'd like Red Handed
Ralph, the Ranger ofthe Roaring Rialto -
" We don't keep any of that kind o.
trash, my boy" "Wot sort of library
is this, any way ?" reterted the gamin
"Why, its just like everything else il
this country-run for the rich, an the
poor workingman gets no show at all !''-
Boston Traveller.
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VOL. XIII. NO. SO.

who became a distinguished man; -erv-
ing his country at different times rs "a
senator in congress and as governor Of his
native STAG.
Had George been ashamed ofhis lowly
work his embarrassment would have
overwhelmed HIM, and lac would have
had neither good manners nor wit; but
he was a kind hearted and selfpossessei
boy, and hence Mr. Duties good works
were not wasted ON him. Goodness If
heart is the fountain whence the best
manners flow. he kind, not "seem 20
be-" Let no one Guido you in good lee
hsvior Not i'm crying sycophancy, but
true, manly, Christian department.
Show myself q man--not a boor Self
respect viii enable Us 20 respect Others,
and the intercourse viii be free, kind,
cheerful and refining
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The Evening Time.

Together we walked in the evening time,
Above as the sky spread golden and clear
And he bent mis- head and looked 10 my eyes
As il he held me Of all most dear
q it was sweet IN the evening time!
And our pathway went through fields OF wheat,
Narrow that path and rough the way,
But he was here. and the birds sang true
And the stars came out lu the twilight gray
O IL was sweet in the evening time
softly he spoke Of the days long past,
softly OF blessed days 20 be
Clese TO his arm and closer prest-
The corn field path was Eden 10 me-
o. il was sweet in the evening time!
Graver the light grew and grayer still,
The rocks fitted home through the purple shade
The nghtingsles sang where the thOrns stood high
As walked with MIN 10 the Woodland glade.
o il was sweet In the evening time
And the latest gle rs of daylight died
NJ hand In his EMBODIED lay;
We swept the dew from the wheat passed,
For narrower, narrower, wound the way
o. IL was sweet in the evening umel
He looked in the depth Of my eyes and said,
sorrow and gladness viii come for Us, sweet
But together wen walk through the fields of life
Close We walked through the fields Of wheat
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-09-21
Women Voting in Utah.

The liberal ladies of Utah will remem-
her that they are called upon to bestir
themselves tomorrow equally with their
Mormon sisters, who support this blight
inc theocracy with servile and unintelli-
cent votes They must not let domestic
cares keep them away from the polls.
Carriages will be sent TO every precinct,
and 'ew minutes service is no great
oblation to make the cause of progress
and reform. The Mormon sisters are
drilled into voting as the bishop directs
them (obey,counseland ask no ouestions).
Our sisters who enjoy liberty of action
will certainly not be willing to stand still
aud lend no aid to their struggling
brothers.-iSan Lake Tribune.
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he'll from under the Gospel, aggravated
q 1y their apprehension OF the Saints
q aypiness in Heaven"
Bishop O'Connell, of California, has
announced to his diocese that, according
e Instructions received from Rome, no
SAlnOhc can participate in round
uAnees " under pain OF mortal sin.
One of Bishop Coxe's ." monitions," in
ms excellent thoughts on the service, Is
TINS; =" Prepare for divine service in
9r closet, not at your toilet" - 1t Is
= sign otill-breeding, rs well as offriyolty,
y dress deliberately for church" a sim
pie, unnoticeable costume Is what a
CHRISTIAN taste demands for wearing TO
cnurch.
The Rev. DR.. De Haas, who has been
Y. > consul at Jerusalem for seven or
eight years, says that the Roman Catho-
lles propose TO make Jerusalem the
seat Eot the papacy, and that
L. from that quarter that
The settlement of Palestine is 10 be
looked or. Commissioners have been
appointed to negotiate for the territory +;
engineers have surveyed a railroad from
lesusalem to Jaffa money Is being col
= ted for the erection of magnificent
which the wealth of the Vatican is to be
transferred. There the successor of Pious
TX. 5 to be installed, and the City of
the GrasR King" is to be the future head
of the Pontifical See. This is interesting,
whether true or not.
The Rev. George Il. Kramer was a
Methodist and had charge of the Asbury
church in Wilmington, Del. He is now
preaching in a tent, and has organized a
new church which he calls Sc The Church
of the Believers His new notions are
to the effect " that the soul is only the
breath of the body, and at death returns
to God who gave it, loses its personality,
and becomes absorbed in the divinity
At the resurrection of the body God
will breath into its new soul, Christ will
reign on earth with his saints, and the
resurrected wicked wi , be cast into hell
not 10 suffer forever, but to be destroyed
as quickly as possible, or, in other words,
to be annihilated." The " Church OF
the Believer-'' Is not attracting many
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No Revival for English Manu-.
features.

Our English files are down to
the eighteenth instant. Trade and
manufactures had not experienced
as vet the hoped-for revival. Textiles,
according to the Manchester Examiner,
were virtually little worse -
Food prospects in India and Chine were
deemed as themselves sufficient to inspire
caution, apart from the more immediate
effect of over-supplied markets. Heavy
goods, however were selling freely on
Turkish account, and there was also a
fair demand for the South American
markets. The coal and iron trades con-
tinue as "blue" as heretofore. Through
out south Wales trouble about wages con
tinues, and in the north part of England
business was pretty much at a standstill.
An endeavor is being made to arrange a
sliding scale between the Cleveland
miners and the mine owners, to regulate
the wages question by the selling prices
of material. The condition of affairs in
Sheffield is thus described: "The gen
eral depression which has so long hung
over this district continues without re-
lief. For iron there is almost no de-
mand, and the slight improvement in the
Australian orders for steel is very poor
set-off against the loss in other markets.
Many of the collieries are idle, and but
for the export trade, nearly all the pits
in tho district would have to be set
down. In the cutlery trade, however, it
may be said that marked improvement
is seen. From Australia large orders
have been received, and there is also
fair trade doring with the continent
Except France) and America. The
American houses are sending large con-
siguments of spring knives, which, on
account of their superior quality as
Sheffield make, find a ready sale. ~
y p,,JIsy;,
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Religious

Fisk university, at Nashville, Tenn,
has projected training school for Afri-
can missionaries.
samuel Moody wss a New England
revlvalist over hundred years ago. He
wrote book called $ The Doleful State
OF Damned, especially such as to go to
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Political.

THuRLow TWEED has A;itten letter
to the New York Tribune advocating
the reorganization of silver.
The fact that A. B. Cornell naval
efhcer presided at the meeting of the
republican state central committee in
New York, of which he is sIrpesident. Il
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A teacher after reading to her schol-
airs q story of generous child, asked
them what generosity was. One little
boy raised his hand and said, Il know;
it's giving to others what you don't want
yourself"
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PetroIeam for Bald Heads.

The British consul at Nicolalef. Rus
STA, is said to have discovered that petro-
leum is the greatest of all hair invigora-
tors. In report to his government he
says that servant formerly in his en-
ploy vas prematurely bald. The ser
want was engaged to trim the lamps, and
had habit OF wiping his petroleum be
smeared hands in.his scantv locks. Three
months of this lamp trimming and dirty
habit procured for him much finer head
of black, glossy hair than he possessed
before his badness. The consul tried
the remedy on two Spaniards who had
become suddenly bald, and met with the
same wonderful success. He then sug-
gested his petroleum cure to the owners
ofsome black cattle which had become
bald, and to the possessors of horses
which had lost their names and tails.
The remedy not only prevented the
spread of the disease from which the ami
mails suffered, but also effected a quick
and radical cure. The petroleum, he
says, should be of the most refined Ameri-
can quality. II is to be rubbed in Wig
orously and quickly with the palm of
the hand, and applied at intervals of
three days, six or seven times in all, ex-
cept in the case of horses that have tails
and names, when more applications may
be requisite. The experiment will not
be wholly new one in this country. It
was remarked, however, that majority
of the people who went into the oil re-
gions when petroleum speculations were
at the highest, came out bald headed and
with a tired appearance. On the other
hand, a well known and popular unguent
for the hair is asserted to be one of the
new petroleum products.
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Total. 100000 Gi,OOOO00 100000
These figures are made mainly from re-
ports and estimates of the national ag-
ricultural bureau, and are as near correct
as possible. They show that the four
states named will have 100000 more
bushels of wheat TO sell than they had
last wear. it is also stated that the ag-
gregate wheat crops OF Michigan, Indi-
ana, ol6D. Kentucky and Tennessee viii
exceed the aggregate Of last year by
probably $4,000 900 20 10000, 600 bush
els and that the crop in California will
fall probably l2,OO0,O00 bushels short OF
last year.
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GRAVE AND GAY
..Doun the Roaa,l

a lusty tramp, one summer'c day
The IN was glazing neroely down
Irudg a on along tie dusty Wav
That ~ toward tie nearest Town
NO iuendly tree its welcome shade
Aihwut his weary pathway cast
30 babbllng brook JED ieapei and played
Along the roadside rs be passed.
q" Us there no shady spot" he cried.
AZ hand o. % one who by him strode.
"1h yes the other one replied
"A little further down the road
Ah well We all are tramps AZ best;
We staEger with Hes daily load,
Vet ol We Elod end hope fof rest
"a ifiia farther dusn the road D."
--Baliun's MONTHLY.
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\ Remarl1able Petrifaction.

The Portland Oregenian contains this
unbelievable story Judge e. c. Bro
naugh has attached to his watch chain a
little amulet or charm, which aside from
its peculiar history, is very pretty itself
It Is nothing more or less than petrified
rosebud. Doing the rebellion, q nephew
of Judge Bronaugh, while in one of the
southern states, wrote home to his mother
and inclosed in the letter a rosebud
The letter arrived safely at its destina
ton, and, having been perused, was laid
aside with the rosebud in a drawer, where
it remained eight or nine months
When the drawer was again overhauled
and the letter again brought to light,
the rosebud it contained was discovered
to be petrifed. The judges aunt re-
Gently sent the stone to him at this place.
and he placed 1t in the hands of ieweler
for the purpose OF having it fitted to car
~ on his watch chain. The petrifcation
is so very hard that while trying to drill
"A hole in it too or three tools were broken
before the object was accomplished.
1t is perfect rosebud, and so well pre-
served that the finest fibres are too be
seen. What peculiarities of air, earth
or water could have changed the tender
rosebud into hard, almost diamond-like
substance in the short space of nine
months is to us mystery.
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One of the Pennsylvania strikers
wrote to Dio Lewis, asking him how man
with a wife and five children could live
on II cents day. after pasing for clothes
and house rent. The exds perated doctor
replied that ne was not skilled in epicu-
ran arts, and wanted to know if there
was any law in Pennsylvania compelling
a man TO spend his entire income in glut-
tony Worcester Press.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1877-01-04
LOCAL MISCELLANY.

Catarrh cured-See DR.. Hartley.
Stoves for rent at Buffers, corner Fifth and K
streets northwest.
Ask for the Hebe de Refine cigarettes; they
are the best Of all.
Left-off clothing, watches. pistols, &c, bought
at Herzog's, sl5 street. Orders attended to.
Best prices paid for cast-of clothing at Justh's
old stand, No. ols ID street northwest. Orders
attended to.
All kinds Of trunks made to order, repaired and
covered at McMurray's, sos Pennsylvania avenue,
Market SPACE.
|. Special meeting of the Washington City Hiber-
MAN Benevolent Society, No. l. See advertise
man. IN another column.
Dr. J. v. Mansfield, of New York, the cele-
brated medium. can he found for few days at
s25 Ninth street northwes'.
DR.. Ruttley, who has the highest possible in
dorsement. is giving free treatment at 81 Ninth
street northwest, from a. IN. to IL m.
DR.. Dixon says the Lift Cure is the most
physiological remedy yet discovered by the wit
Of man. Parlors, SIS Pennsylvania avenue.
The German American Savings Bank, corner
OF Seventh and streets, pays interest on depos-
its. Safe-deposit boxes for rent.
III. Squier & Co., bankers, l4l6 Pennsylvania
payable pay Special On on
credited.
A carload of fine Western New York cider. 20
to 40 gallon casks; also, a lot Of Vermont boiled
cider; Just received at Spicer's butter store,
southwest corner Of Ninth and Z streets. Prices
low.
We call attention to the advertisement in
another column of Smith, Birge Co., 10l4 Penn
sylvania avenue. Their facilities for steam and
warm-air heating, manufacturing as they do
those of any other house In this community.
H. E. Ofhey & Co.'s exchange and deposit banks
northeast corner of Fifteenth and streets, deals
in all classes Of Government securities and in
District of Columbia and all frstrate investment
bonds and stocks; also in American coin and
foreign money Demand drafts on Europe In any
mint RaGf rofn oil Ia uadf 0r tt.,
provement bonds. Orders promptly filled for the
new United States ~ per cent. bonds.