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The Hickman courier., 1877-08-10
PRISONERS GONG TO SIBERII.

Thesaddest sight in Russia to a traveller
is tbe manner in which civil prisoners are
treated. 1t Is a common spectacle to see
three or four hundred poor wretches on
their way to Siberia under a military
escort; for most of them are chained to-
gether in couples, while the women and
children who have elected to share their
bread winners lot have also to submit to
be treated as criminals. Poorly clad, and
apparently half starved, the wonder is
that any of the party should ever survive
the dreadful journey. A Russian crimi-
nal condemned to exile IS sent away with
very little ceremony but when one of
the officers of the army or otner person
of note has been sentenced to banishment
for life, he is dressed in full uniform, and
led TO a scaffold in some public place. In
the presence of the crowd he is made to
kneel, while his epaulets and decorations
are torn from his coat, and his sword
broken over his head. He is declared
legally dead; his estates are confiscated,
and his wife can consider herself a widow
if she chooses. From the scafold he
starts on his journey for Siberia. His
wife and children, sisters or mother, can
follow or accompany him if they choose,
but only on condition that they share his
exile. Mr. Arnold, in his book entitled
Through Persia by Caravan, relates how,
when passing through Russia, he saw
party of prisoners embarked on board a
steamer on the river Volga. They were
positively Gagged amidships, so that every
part of the interior could be seen, just as
in the ion-houses of the geological gar
dens, with this difference-that in the
case of the prisoners there was ne over
hanging roof to prevent rain or sunshine
from pouring in upon their wretched-
ness. At the back of the cage there was
lair common to all. without distinction
of sex or age. And when all were Sc
cured, including the guiltless women and
children, fights occurred for the places
least exposed to the east wind. This is
system which must surely fade away
beneath that public opinion which is fast
becoming too strong for even autocratic
monarchs to despise; for we are told that
the emancipation of the Russian serfs has
made'a vast legal, social and material
improvement in the lower orders of the
people; and it is to the people that the
world will look for that much-needed
reform which will enable Russia, perhaps
at no distant day, to take an honorable
place among civilized nations
The Hickman courier., 1877-08-10
i FURIOUS TORNADO.

a correspondent, describing the late
tornado at Pensaukee, Wis, by wk:ch
several persons were killed, says; The
furv -0f the wind cannot be described.
'-'Ine instances will serve to give faint
idea of its power. The mills were de-
molished like houses of paper; cows
were lifted bodily, and carried through
the air Tor rods, and left to die where
they fell; immense saw logs were lifted
out the river and thrown up high and
dry on land lumber piles were scattered
like straw. The river is filed with lum-
Der and other debris, and the marsh
fairly bristles with lumber and shattered
timbers. The steamer John Spry was
stripped and gutted Houses were car
ried into the street or whirled completely
around. A man and child were blown
through the air, and dropped into the
river and drowned. 4 barn was blown
to pieces, and q horse left standing in his
stall, uniniured. \ large lumber wagon
was carried over the three story hotel
But the most singular freaks occurred in
and about the hotel Whole sides and
corners Of brick walls were torn from the
structure. and parts Of the building left
in lettering condition; articles of fur
njture were whirled from apartments
thruogh narrow halls and through distant
rooms, demolished altogether A cabi-
net organ which stood in the parlor left
no trace Of itself except a piece of the
cover. A large book Of accounts was
blown from the company store, situated
over two hundred yards distant, into one
Of the upper stories of the hotel. through
a six inch partition, and imbeded itself
in the wall. A safe in Gardiner q Co. :
store, weighing 1000 pound, was moved
q distance of eighteen feet. The tug
Pensaukee was just arriving from Ocon-
to. Mr.. Baptist, uperintendent Of the
company's affairs, was in the pilot-house.
The boat seemed to escape the wind it. |
self, though a living cloud of timber set !
tied upon the boat, inficting serious
wounds upon Mr.. Baptist He de-
scribed the /whirlwind as a spout of |
murky blackness, tinged with red, com
ing out of the skies, tapering toward the |
earth. When it touched the earth it |
seemed to burst and spread, carrying de- |
struction before it.
The Hickman courier., 1877-08-10
GRAVE md G1y


The Iowa man who invented pra..
hopper soup has concocted beautif,1
sauce Of cockToaches and kerosene oil
Don't eat em green ana sliced If you
Would Ike 10 stay around
Abstain If long you'd Ne g GU
Cumber OF the ground
Instead OF a wine list Bangor hotel
prints on It's bill Of fare, "Wo would II
we coyld."
a tramp he entered a widow'scot,
One dark, uucanny night
She ielied him with WI q Big slgsLg-shot;
Youngman, if you wake up suddenly
in the night and see a seven-foot man
standing over your bed that's not the
jimjams It's burglar.
" What's a fellow to do, doctor,
when he's in company and has nothing
to say ?" lie should say it quietly"
said the doctor.
The first step toward wealth used o
be considered the choice Of a good wife;
but nowadays wealth is the first step
toward the choice of wife.
Some men can sit on a candle box
and lay out the European campaigns,
and tell almost everything that is TO
occur in the future, except where their
next dinner is to come from Graphic.
The New York Ledger undertakes to
tell how to win a woman's love-" The
most simple and effective way, if a man
can't afford diamonds, is to take some
refreshments along and sit the other fell
low Boston Pot.
j." Suppose we pass law" said
severe father to his daughters, "that no
gid eighteen years Old, who cnn't eo~, =
GOOD mcaf shall get ~ afried hhtfl shs
learns how to do it?" "Why, then,
we'd all get married at seventeen" re-
sponded the girls in sweet chorus.
Why is it that none Of the cuts
the magnificent dining cars" on the
great railway lines represent a man
pouring a cup Of coffee down his shirt
iTout, while the lady opposite him pours
a pint Of milk into her neighbor's lap
The artists appear to miss all the thrill
ling Incidents.
Animals may think, but sometimes
they do not think very fast. 4 COW got
into a James street garden, Friday, and
it took her half an hour to make up her
mind where 20 go out A man and dog
were flooding her mind with information
all the time, toO.-ROBc Sentinel
Mr.. Budd Morton, Of New Haven
had his pocket picked OF ave thousand
dollars in sleeping car on an Indiana
railroad, the other night. Sheer, mex
cusable carelessness on the part of Mr..
Morton. We'd just like 10 see any man
pick our pocket Of five thousand dollars.
We'd take the pilfering scoundrel by the
throat and make him give Us half Of it
if we had to kill him.
."Oh, dear" said she, sweeping away
with her broom. What shall l do?
Here it is II O'Clock, and I haven't this
reom swept, the beds are not made, and
the breakfast dishes are yetto be washed.
Oh, dear, was ever woman 50 much
pressed for time as I am :" Then she sud-
denly stopped, leaned on her broom, and
listened for half an hour trying to catch
the points Of a quarrel which was going
on between a married couple in the next
door house The study Of feminine
character is a hard one.
The Hickman courier., 1877-08-10
THE PENYsYLVAYIA G4s- WELLS.

Further particulars, which will be re-
garded as surprising, have been published
concerning the Pennsylvania oil-wells.
The Delameter well, sixteen hundred ieet
deep, sends forth gas at such a vehe-
ment pressure that plumet-line weighing
sixteen hundred pounds can be pulled
out of the bore-hole by hand. The as
cending speed of gas is seventeen hun
dred feet per second the quantity
to one million cubic feet per
hour, or more than fourteen hundred
tons a day; and the heating power is
twenty-five per cent greater than that of
good bituminous coal After this ex-
planation it is easy to understand that
the well, situated in valley surrounded
by mountains, furnishes heat and light
to the whole neighborhood. From one
of its pipes, three inches in diameter, a
fame rushes, "the noise of which shakes
the hills, and is heard at distance OF
fifteen miles. For distance of fifty feet
around the earth is burnt; but farther OF
the vegetation is tropical, and enjoys
perpetual summer"
The Hickman courier., 1877-08-10
TIE COLORADO BEETLE IN Eng
LAND.

In the house of commons, on Thurs
dav. June 2S, Mr.. VI. Stewart asked the
yice-president of the council if the
attention had been called to a statement
in the Pail Mall Gazette announcing
that the Colorado beetle bad made its
appearance in Germany, and if precau-
tiens would be taken TO prevent its
intrduction into England. In reply,
cd Iandon said an, not s,IrI,ri-esi
that 1nyhonorable friend should have
addressed to me a question on this sub
iecs, owing TO the great interest felt in
it. l have to inform him that since !
saw that announcement in the papers
I hsye communicated with the foreign
Office. They at once telegraphed to
certain ports, and this afternoon, I am
sorry % say, they have received a report
confirming the statement. The telegram
says indications of these insects in the
shape OF numerous Larvae were found in
fed near Mulheim. The field was fired
VITA sawdust and petroleum. One beetle
was seen on the wing. Laughter 1t
wasa very serious matter because it was
feared the beetles might spread. Cheers ]
Upon receiving this information, the
pnyy council at once wrote to the
requesting them to instruct the
officers at the various ports to keep
lockout for the arrival of these destruc-
tive Insects. The commissioners of
customs, may state, have long been
alive 10 this subject. So sfar back As
March, 1879 they issued a circular to
heir officers to examine carefully into all
'argoes of potatoes coming from America.
md destroy by fire all particles of potato
talks, as well AS all loose soil. In
November, 1876, again the commissioners
f customs, issued an engraving Of the
insect, and we have thought fit to repub-
ish and circulate throughout the country
memorandum published last October
y the minister OF agriculture in Canada
escribing the habits of the insect, and
aowing the best means of getting rid of
!. Ifmy honorable friend would like !
opies of these papers, I shall be glad |
D lay them on the table" 2" Hear"
hearn7
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else on top the earth, aud they needn't
look any O. the rest o the gang"
no. H. lo,J7,l

else on TOP the earth, aud they needn't
look anv O. the rest o the gang"
care they dead?"
"Purty likely they are, stranger When
YOU see any more newspaper items about
any of the Benders turning up, you jes'
AK vourseIfif corpses can turn up and
walk aroundr'
s.When Won and the Others discovered
that the family had fed, what did you
do?o asked the travelsr, hoping to draw
the old mans secret.
"Sat right down and sucked our
thumbs of coursel" be chuckled "That's
what we did; but somscftheresthad more
pluck. They startedout on as plain a
trail as they wanted to foller, and before
sunrise there wasn'tany futher use Of
anybody hunting forthe Bsadersp'
''Why?'
"Why? Well, whats the use o looking
for anybody after tlEy have been shot
full o. holes and plansda | reckon that
Liit' HAL woman y tiib NJ .NiA't IL ~
religious Jest aboast- -sszylsii !gsstt Bout the.
time, also, that she-deFit Kate and her
hoss-thief of a husband piled hair aad
called each other hard names for the first
time The stranger who w.s with the
family might have been a bss-thief, a
preacher, or an angel, but l guess our
boys didn't wait to ask many Qestions"
And old Bender himself?'
81 guess he didn't git away Stranger!
I guess there are men in Kansas who
could dig up what's left O. him without
much trouble Law is god enough
in some cases, but in othe' cases it Is
bout as well to plant a fan'ly in sandy
-iIe and not have any foolDg around.'
"And that's the reason the Blenders
have not been discovered2'
'Purty much the reaso, | reckon,
though folks can keep on lokiug if they
want t9f'
The Hickman courier., 1877-08-10

yoEcan handle well, as they will only
emparrass you, and give you plenty of
trouble with no gain. Stand fast by
your money. Loan it if you can get
good security, otherwise invest it in
bonds and things OF that description.
But whatever you do, do not spend it.
Do not give it chance TO slip through
your fingers and 60 off east again, there
to be massed in few hands, and to make
the owner OF it cry out against its undue
volume and cheapness, and to take all
sorts OF measures to get its volume re-
duced.-,St Louis Repu6lica1.
The Hickman courier., 1877-08-10
KING SOLOMON AND THE ANTS.
By JOHN G. WHITTIER.

Ont from Jerusalem
The King rode with his great
War chiefs and lords of state,
And Shebass Queen with them.
Proud in The Syrian sun
In gold and purple she
The duskv Ethiop Que
Smiled on King Solomon.
Wisest OF men, he knew
The languages of all
The creatures great or small
That trod the earth or flew.
Across an ant-hill led
he Kings path, and he heard
It's small folk, and their word
lie thus interpreted
Here cones the King men greet
IS wise and good and Just,
To crush US in the dust,
Under his needless feet" ."
The great King bowed his mead.
And saw the wide surprise
OF the Queen of Sheba's ewes,
As he told her what they said.
- hlbS sne Whispered sweet
Zoo happy fate have they
Who perish in thy way
Beneath thy gracious feet 20
"Nay," Solomon replied,
al he vi and strong should seek
The welfare OF the weak"
And turned his horse aside.
HIS train. with quick alarm,
Curved with their leader round
The ant-hil's peopled mound
And left il free from harIa.
Taej jewelesl head bent low;
80 kingi" she said, " henceforth
The secret Of thy worth
AID wisdom well / know.
''HapPy must be the state
" hose ruler heeleth more
Tho muTmgrs of the poor
Than batteries Of the great -
The Hickman courier., 1877-08-10
% acrs of land near Port Rowan, where

100 acps of land near Port Rowan, where
she nov lives.
Maritime history affords no parallel to
this, requiring such physical effort, such
clear Judgment, adopting the only possi-
Bile mesns to save those people, surround
ed as they were with such desperate
.circums.ances, carrying out her plan,
when brmed, with such unfinching
COURAGE and devotion in that freezing
cold exu0sure. +. ?. DoRR.
The Hickman courier., 1877-08-10

THE grand jury of Baltimore county.
Nd, has presented two Judges Of
the county circuit court for malfea-
sance in office. The presentment was
agreed upon while four of the grand iu-
rors were absent, and it is understood
that three of those present obtained the
action. The whole thing is a campaign
dodge to help on the election of certain
members of the grand jury, who are can
didates for county offices. In reply to a
reporter, Judge Yellott said that if he
does not have these grand jurors indicted
for perjury he will be liable to indict-
ment for felony, and that he means to do
his duty. The penalty for perjury is not
less than FIVE nor mere than ten wears in
the penitentiary.
The Hickman courier., 1877-08-10

1t is no longer the fashion to send
around slice of wedding cake" They
send the recipe how 10 make It.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-06-02

have been delayed. AT last it was
sun up, and no sign of him. The
snow was still fallin', and lay white
and smooth all around the house. /
could see the sun, like a great yell
low ball, off in the east, but my
heart was full o. bitterness. sat
down and wrote letter.
SETH May be you think it is
good fun to act as you are actin,
but don't. Heaven only knows
what have suffered Waitin for you
all night, but / shan't wait any
longer. A man who will do what
you have done, just to teach a wo-
man, amt fit to live with, and /
won't live with him. / shan't go
home to fathers, so it's no use your
lookin' for me, for you won't find
me.
"'Your suffering wife,
"'CYRENA.'
81 folded that letter up and put it
where l knew he'd find it; then /
waited long time, and finally
started out.
''The snow was deeper than l
thought, and / was tired and faint for
want of food and sleep, but l was
determined not to go back.
$50 / fioundered along for miles
and miles, l didn't know or care
where, till at last heard Seth's
voice saying, close to me:
"s See here, Miss whoever
you may be, this is no day for a wo-
man to be out alone. Get into my
wagon, and as soon as I've been
home I'll take you to where you
want to CO.
81 tried to turn my head away,
but he saw my face, and then he
kissed me, and took me to the wagon
in his arms. / could not hear what
he said, could not answer his Won
dering questions; the tears and
the storm had frozen together on
my face"
Here aunt stopped talking, and l
saw tear shining on her knitting
work.
"But where had uncle been to all
that time? / ventured to ask.
Aunt breathed a deep-deep sigh
and came out of her dream.
"Oh, yes, child. He had got his
grist all ground, and was just start
ing for home, when they saw a fire
further up the river at the saw mill.
"My father had lot of logs there,
and so had Seth. 1t was a bad fire.
The mill house had one end burned
off, and the barn was burned to the
ground. They saved the stock, and
then Seth stayed to help make a
shed.
"He told boy to take his horse
and ride home, and tell me what
was goin' on, so that l needn't ex-
pect him; but of course the boy had
rather stay at the fire.
81 have sometimes thought that
the year threatened to stay away
passed while / was out in that storm.
1t broke my temper, anyway. I've
never threatened anything since
then-though Seth has never teased
me any more"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-06-02
y -
MilIet.

Millet is one of the most hu-
tritiOus grasses for feeding. The
seed is rich in nutritivequalities, and
is supposed to excel all other -four
or meal in nutratiVe elements. The
Hungarian grass contains a higher
per cent of nutriment than thecOm-
mon millet. Both these kinds of
grass are very valuable as fodder if
cut before theseed mature. The fault
commonly is that farmers let them
stand too long before cutting them,
when the seeds ripen and the nutri-
ment contained in the stems and
leaves have been greatly lessened.
Feeding too much of the very nu-
tritious seeds often prove injurious to
stock.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-06-02
FORTY WARS BEFORE TnE PUB..Eo
DIR. c. MCLANE'S
CELEBRATED
LIVER PILLS,
Hepatitis or Liver Complaint,
DYSPEPSIA AND SICK HEADACHE.
FOR THE CURE or

Symptoms of Diseased Liver.
nAIN in the right side, under the
edgeof the ribs, increases Oh pres
sure; sometimes tie pain IS inthe left
side; the patient is rarely able to lie
on the left side; sometimes the pain
is felt under the skculder-blade, and
it frequently extcrds 10 the top OF
the shoulder, and is sometimes mis-
taken for 4 rheun atism in the arm.
The stomach is affected with loss Of
appetite and sic kEeSs; the bowels in
general are CostivC, sometimes alter
native with lax; TIE head is troubled
with pain, accompanied with a dull,
heavy sensation in the back part.
There is generally considerable loss
ofmemory, accompanied with a pain
full sensation OF LAYING left undone
something which ought TO have been
done. A slight, dry cough is some
times an attendant. TIE Tatient
complains ofwcarincss ard debility;
he is easily startled, his feet are cold
or burning, and he complains of a
prickly sensation of the skin; his
spirits are lew ard although lie is
satisfied that exercise wcuid be bene-
fetal to him, yet lie can scarcely
summon up foItiiGde enough to try
it. In fact, he distruSts every rem
edy. Several Of the above symp-
toms attend the disease, but cases
have occurred where few of them eX-
listed, yet examination Of the body,
after death, las shown the LIVER to
have beer extensively derangeC.
AGUE AND FEVER.
DR.. {. McIANE's LIVER PILLS,
IN CASES or AGUE AND FEVER, when
taken with Quinine, ale productive
of the most happy results. No better
cathartic can be used, preparatory
to, or after taking Quinine. We
would advise all who are afflicted
with this disease to give them A
FAIR TRIAL.
For all Bilious arrangements, and
as a simple purgative, they are I'M
equaled.
BEWARE OF INVITATIONS.
The genuine DR.. c. M9LANE' S
LIVER Pills are never sugar coated.
Every box has red wax seal on
the lid, with the impression DR..
McLANE'S LIVER PILLS.
The genuine McLANE's LIVER
PILLS bear the signatures of c.
McLANE and FLEMING Bros. on the
wrappers.
PES Insist on your druggist or
storekeeper giving you the genuine
DR.. c. McLANE's LIVER PILLS, pre-
pared by Fleming Bros, Pittsburgh,
Pa.
Sold by all respectable druggists
and country storekeepers generally.
To those wishing to give Dr.. c. McLANE S
LIVER Pills a trial, we will mail post paid TO any
part of the United States, one box of Fills for
twenty-five cents.
FLEMING BROS, Pittsburgh. Pa
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-06-02

The Mining Record, good author
ity, says the production Of silver be-
tween 1892 and 1913, in the Ameri-
cas-, exceed that OF gold nearly
three to one, and in all the world as
two to one, while from 1913 to 1874
the ratio of production has been re-
versed and gold has taken the rela-
ton, in proportion to silver, of
slightly above two to one. The to-
tai amount of gold produced since
the discovery of this hemisphere,
all told, up to 1874, in round num-
bers, has not been greater than 8, 200
millions of dollars, and during the
last twenty-siX years barely 5000
millions of dollars, that is to say,
an annual average production of
about 200 millions of dollars.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-06-02
Work..

Theman ora woman who is engage
ed in some congenial, regular work,
will never be chroincled in theIlist of
self-destroyers, for in idleness alone
is despair. Work chases it away,
no matter how thickly the clouds
may have gathered. Nature is one
vast workshop, teeming with mil
lions of busy wOrkmen. If we fol-
low in. their footsteps, all will be
well. The beauties, the gifts, and
glOries of nature may be scattered
around us in great prOfusiOn, yet
they demand toll to reach out and
grasp them, and utilize them to our
fancieS and wants.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-06-02

Pale Peter profoundly pitied poor
Paul's patched pantaIoons.i Pat
pinched and pricked Paul purposely
and painfully. Paul, peeling pears,
peaches and peanuts, paused and,
providing prompt punishment,
pulled, pushed and pounded peevish
Pat. Presently, Peter praised and
panegyrized professional pursuits
peddlers, painters, printers, potters,
pipers, purveyors, policemen, pill
grims, probatiOners, parishioners,
priOrs, priests, pastors, parsons,
prophets, politicians and princes,
peregrinating and FORMULATING
proudly, passionately and patiently
pleasant prairies, peculiar plains,
patriarchal pastures, perpendicular
peaks and perilous precipices, pro-
noting public peace and prosperity,
preventing popular prejudices, pray
ing and pacifying, protecting person
and property, and furnishing pilfer-
ers, purloiners and profane persons /;
perfidiOus presumptions and preten-
tiOus political partisans, preparing
preposterOus petitions, precOcious
promotions and premature pam
phlets, and protracting parliament
tary proceedings, bordering and
propOunding presidential prerOga-
tives and party purposes and per-
manent peaceful policy; prudent
and plucky Packard, petty and pu-
sillanimous Pinchback, peculating
parasites, plant patriots, potent pi-
oneers, prattling pigmies, professed
perpetual party pillars, preyed and
pilfered purblind peoples prolific
purse.
A young minister whose conduct
was more apostatic than apostolic,
more vicious than virtuous, and
who instead of preaching pure Cos
pei expressed himself more after the
manner of barroom and lakewood
politicians, was severely censured
by one of his congregation. 81 am
sorry that you have taken such a
slippery and tOrtuOus course, and /
seriously fear that you are not on
the road to heaven" "Why, dear
brother, hope to find in you a
faithful companion on the opposite
route"