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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-03-09
TRUTHS AND IRIFLES.
AruRsKD-DowS PACE.

IheIe's turned down-page. as some writer says
In every human life
A hidden story Of happier days,
OF peace amid the strife.
A folded Leaf that the world knows not
love dream rudely crushed -
The sight of foe that Is not forg0S'N
AlthO' the voice be hHshef
The far distant sounds Of llarp's soft tstrines.-
III. Ter 7ssQe may be ~ of sich things
Cfthings thatonc we're idf'
= ssss'sss.5sa lsass in s.ssh liie. and rli
But the end was sad Of The dream Siyine
IL better rests untold.
There is a thirty thousand dollar
tomb in Greenwood. A stone mason
made it. In the outskirts a pauper les
under a rose bush. God made it.-Da,l-
bury Neics.
John Chinaman says that it is more
sensible to take an opium dream than to
spend a months wages in singing,
whooping and treating everybody in
the house" Johns sense Of conyiyal
chivalry lacks cultivation.
The German word for life insurance
company is lebensversicherungsgeselis-
chan. 1t has the great advantage that
while the agent is rronouncing it, the
victim is fairly warned, and has an OPP
portunity TO climb over the back fence
and hide under the barn,
When a man without cash or credit,
says the Oil City Derrick, attempts to
leave a hotel, and lowers his valise out
of back window by means of a rope, it
makes charity seem cold TO hear the
voice of the landlord yelling out: "All
right. Pve got the yalise; let 90 the
rope"
Hard was he up,
And. in the hardness Of his upness,
81 le ham.
Down on him swodied,
Aud swoOping. up him scooped
The minions Oi the law.
He had been in the habit Of making
very frequent calls on very agreeable
lady of his acquaintance, and, on enter
ing her parlor one evening, he said,
DWELL, Miss Sims. here am again, you
see, as regular as the fever and ague."
"Oh, no" said she, very demurely,
that comes only every other day"
A school boy was asked by his teach
er to give an example of earnestness.
He looked bothered for a moment, but
his face frightened the dew drops
glistening on the ayes of the rose in
early morning, as b delivered himself Of
the following haPps thought: 4" When
you see a boy enga I'd on n mince pie
till his nose touchef he middle plum and
his ears droop on the outer crusts, you
may know he's got it.
GUIzOr:-" Man is formed for So
ciety. Isolated and solitary, his reason
would remain perfectly undeveloped.
Against the total defeat of his destina-
tion for rational deyelopement God has
provided by the domestic relations. Yet
without a further extension of the social
ties man would still remain compara-
lively rude and uncultivated-never
emerging from barbarism."
Brother Moody has got his ideas OF
heaven and gives th,m: If you were 10
take an unregeperate man off the streets
of Boston tonight and put him on the
crystal pavements OF heaven, he wouldn't
want TO stay there. If you could take
drunkard and put him under the shadow
Of the tree of life, we would say, cit is
hell for me-" Heaven is a prepared
place for prepared people
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-03-09

FIVE years each is what Brooklyn
udge lately sid to brace of young fel-
lows who snatched handkerchief from
the open side-pocket d Brooklyn
young woman.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-03-09
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.

Twenty-Five hundred and ninety-one
arrels of -four were shipped from Rich
mond, Virginia, to Brazil recently
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-03-09

Mr.. Woodruff, of Indianapolis, an
nounces that he has secured the required
number of applications for his excursion
around the world. His scheme is 10 take
sixty persons at $4,000 each. He Is to
furnish the vessel. provisions, etc, and
conduct the excursion for four years.
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sELF-REcoMPENsEp.

Love Ine not best, o tender heart and true
am not good or sieat enough De
Gods ultimate and perfect gift 10 thee
Yet thine am, thus sealed through and through,
And / will love thee in way half new
To this poor world where love is seldom Tree
Not with love which thou must share with me.
But as the mnisfcTing argeis do.
Love me not best for ann not thy mate,
Yet I am all rich with the Lesser laiu;
Thou canst not give roe, dear. gift 20 small
Oh, never be IL said thut love was vain
What II Il hath not when itself is all
THE new S75O,0OO Boston church is
heated in a novel way. The entire base
ment has been taken for chamber for
warming and distributing the air, which
is done by FIVE immense stoves, the con-
sumption of which is7about ton of
coal day. The air in the basement, as
fast as it is warmed, rises through nearly
three hundred opening, scattered about
the floor of the auditorium, and nearly
concealed under the ends of the pews.
"Are those genuine sausaess?'' asked
he of the butcher. va" said the
butcher, "dey ish genuine" " Made Of
dog and cat, and all that - " Neinl
Nein! dey ish notp Indignantly replied
the butcher, 81 makes no dogs and cats
meat in my sausage" We'll, then"
said the man, walking off, 81 don't want
them: I'm after the genuine article"
The butcher was annoyed at losing the
customer. and gazing wistfully after him,
reproachfully muttered: va, ya-it u
sometimes better uf toldt de truth"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-03-09

THE Boston Globe states that Messrs.
Moody and Sankey receive no pay for
their revival services in that city. Mr.
Moody and family are guests of Mr.
Henry F. Durant, converted lawyer of
large means, residing at the Highlands,
and Mr.. Sankey IS entersined by the
hotel Brunswick free of cost. The
necessities of the revivalists in other
respects are, it is said, supplied by
generous friends in Chicago. In regard
to the tabernacle expenses, these figures
are given Cost of THE tabernacle, S50,-
900 running expenses for four months,
$25,000; making the total amount of
money expended $4,000. TO pay this
sum it is estimated that from all sources,
including the 'free-wsl Offering" there
have been received S35, 900, thus leaving
a deficit of $4,000.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-03-09

DR.. ERASMUS WATSON, an eminent
London physician, has taken on himself
the charges of conveying the obelisk
known as Cleopatra's needle from Alex
andria to London. He has made the
necessary arrangement with Mr.. Dickson,
a well known civil engineer, at an esti-
mated cost of $5O,0O0 The obelisk will
be surrounded with water tight and air
tight casing of boiler plates, will have a
wooden keel and an iron deck and will
be towed through the Mediterranean by
a powerful steamer.
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RCsSI4 1ND THr DARDIN'ELLEs.

Let Us now consider the fea.Tul pre-
ponderance which Russia would gain by
the possession of these straits, including
of course that halt of European Turkey
bordering upon them. We have seen
that the shores of the Black sea furnish
every facility for the construction of a
navy of any required strength, and its
waters afford ample space for its train
ing. With these approaches in her grasp,
Russia might in ten years construct and
discipline her feet there perfectly safe
from molestation by the navies Of Eu-
rope Fleets built and equipped at Sc
bastopol, Kherson, and Nicolaief could
sweep through the DardaIelles, closed to
all except themselves, enter the Archi-
pelago and the Mediterranean, and domi-
nate over their shores and over the com
merce of every nation which has to use
these waters as a highway In case of
its happening at any time to find itself
overmatched, the Russian fleet could re-
pass the gates of the Dardanelles, and be
as safe from pursuit as an army would be
if sheltered behind the rocks of Gibraltar
Great Britain would be first and most
Immediately menaced by this, for a
strong military and naval power estab-
lished on the Bosphorus would hold in
command the shortest way of communi-
cation with her possessions in India
The car would hold in control the route
by way of the Suez canal, or. at best,
Great Britain could keep it open only
by maintaining a vastly superior fleet
in the Mediterranean, and it would be
difficult for her to maintain there a fleet
which would not be practically over
matched by one which Russia could
easily keep up in the Black sea and the
sea of Marmora. The days are past when
a Hood or a Nelson might safely risk a
battle if the odds against him were much
less than two to one. a British admiral
must henceforth make his count upon
meeting skill and seamanship equal to
his own, and whatever advantage he
gains must be gained by sheer prepon-
derance of force.
If Great Britain is to retain her In
dian empire, collision there between
her and Russia is foregone conclusion.
An empire which, under a succession of
sovereigns of very different character,
has steadily pressed its march of con-
quest through the deserts of Turkestan,
will not be likely to look without longing
eyes u pom the fertile valley of the Indus;
and here Russia would have fearful
advantage in position. The Suez route
practically closed as it would be in the
event of war, Britain could only reach
India by the long voyage around the
cape of Good Hope, while Russia would
have broad highways for the march of
her troops to the banks of the Indus,
whence she could menace the whole
peninsula of Hindoostan.-Gd GALAXY for
March.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-03-09

THE Scientific American, in an article
on "The blue deception, does not at
tempt to conceal its contempt for gen
eral Pleasonton's theories of electricity.
The blue glass manual refers to Seune-
bler's researches, which 90 Go show that
the blue and violet rays are the most
active in determining the decomposition
of carbonic acid in plants. This state
ment, the Scientific American says, has
been totally disproved by DIR. Bezold,
and the superior efficacy of the yellow
ray in decomposing carbonic acid has
been shown by Pro. J. w. Draper, Vogel.
Pieffer, Selim and Placentim. General
Pleasonton's assupsRtion that violet rays
have magnetizin2 power on steel is also
traversed. The conclusion of the critic
is this: ''The violet glass acts purely as
shade for decreasing the intensity OF
solar light, and in this simple fact lies
the sole virtue (if any there be) of the
glass"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-03-09

II recent holiday lecture at the
royal institution, Prof. Tyndall, speak
ing of the painless death by electricity,
remarked that Franklin was Svice struck
senseless by the shock. He afterwards
sent the discharge of two large jars
through six robust men who fell to the
ground and got up again without know
ing what had happened, neither hearing
nor feeling the discharge; and Priestly,
too, who made many valuable contribu-
tions to electricity, received the charge
of two jars, but did not find il painful.
Pro. Tyndall said this experience agreed
with his own, that, in the theater of the
royal institution, and in the presence of
an audience, he once received the dis
charge of battery of fifteen Leyden jars.
Unlike Franklin's men, he did not fall,
but, like them, he felt nothing he was
simply extinguished for sensible in
terval. This may be regarded as an
experimental proof that people killed by
lightning suffer no pain. Now, the
measured velocisy of electricity is many
thousand times greater than the measured
velocity of sensation in the nerves.
Hence the electrical conclusion reaches
the center of life, without any possible
announcement by the eye or ear or
sense Of feeling. There is abundant
evidence that death by rife ball travers-
ing the brain is for the same reason en-
tirely without consciousness or pain. A
rife ball, however, is tortoise compared
With the electric fash.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-03-09

The Universalists of Boston, not
having been invited to take part in the
Moody and Sankey meetings, have re-
solved as follows: We hail with thank
fulness the advent of larger ideas and a
better spirit than formerly distinguished
the revival movements of the so called
evangelical churches, giving tokep that
the time is not far away when they will
know no reason why they should not in
vite Universahsts TO join in a work in
which both alike are constrained by the
love of Christ"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-03-09
"JAcK LIVINGSTON. I"

"MY BEST DAM" wrote Jack Living
ston, later on, "do you remember Whit
tiers sweetest woman ever Fate, per-
verse, denied household mate % who
kept Sc long her genial mood and simple
faith of maidenhoodF Well, here she
is, and her sister too. The first time our
excellent buffalo of doctor helped me
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-03-09

THE pope has become very much al
tered. His feet do not carry him any
longer. His face, formerly fresh, and of
jovial expression, is now shrunk and of
listless aspect. He rarely leaves his
bedroom, and receives visitors there,
between FIVE and seven in the afternoon,
more reclining than sitting in an arm
chair. He has a large table before him
on which a few candles only are placed
between them there stands crucifx
His memery is failing him very much in
matters of quite recent occurrence,
though he remembers well the things of
a long time past. Many doubt whether
he will complete his S5th year.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-03-09

THE Rev. DIR. Wills, of Washington,
says of the dying Alex. Stephens: "He
is entirely willing to live or die, just as
God may determine. He trusts he may
be spared to see the country relieved from
its present trou NRs, and the reign of
peace and prosperity re-estabIished, and
then he would gSdly go home to his
eternal rest He has no fear of death,
nd speaks in glowing language of the
life to come. He IS a firm believer in
the doctrines of christianity, and con-
sistent member of the Presbyterian
church"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-03-09

DURING the commune in Paris a
banker named Jecker disappeared sud
denly, and was never heard of after
wards. The manner of his death was
never known until few days ago, when
Rocheford's paper, Droits de ? Domme,
gave report of the execution, evidently
prepared by an eyewitness Jecker was
taken TO the plaster-beds of the Barriere
des Amandiers between Pere-la- Chaise
and Montmartre, ard shot by a squad of
communists. He died brayely. His
body was thrown into ditch. He was
great Swiss banker; the friend and ally
of Maximillian in Mexico, and an all
powerful man during the regime of the
Napoleors.
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ACCORDING to the New York Express
lent does not require you to borrow
long face, nor lend loaf of bread to a
hungry fellow, but to give j. if he needs
it; nor to borrow i'll manners and temper;
nor to keep from Others what you can
spare yourself; nor to pray without
ceasing nor TO vail yourself because you
are not handsome; nor to dye your hair
black when gray is the natural and be-
coming color; nor to be hungry to-day
that you may be glutton tomorrow
nor to borrow of yeur neighbor when
you have got money of your own, and
but this will do for the first day of lent.
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"JAcK LIv1NgsroN.' p

Tho Warld's wrack we'll share OF,
The warstle and the care OF:
WI her I'll blthely bear II,
And thisS my l-t divine
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-06
TO CORRESPONDENTS.

All communications intended for
publication must be accompanied by the
name of the writer, not for publication,
but as a guaranty of good faith. AL
communications written on both sides
of the paper or unaccompanied by the
writer's anne will be thro,cn into the
,rdste basket.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1877.


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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-01-10

Have had a talk with Gravlin about
White had talk with him about
the court at Woodstock he said he
ought not to have hardness against
White, but White had been to court
and testified against him; October |
went to Gr1ylin's house Graylin
said, 'Dunston, never had anything
against you, only that you did not
kill White when you had trouble with
him.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-01-10

timents. This practice, however nee
essary it may have been deemed as a
war measure, was not calculated to
engender respect for the sacredness OF
a seal.
In the very large number OF per-
sons employed in handling letters it is
easy to believe there must be many
quite unworthy of the confidence re-
posed in them. Besides, in most
country offices the safeguards which
the letter of the law requires should
be thrown around mail matter are dis
regarded.
We are decidedly of opinion, found
ed on ample evidence, that the public
mails are far from beng an absolute
" safe medium for the transmission OF
confidential Communications n. Y.
Sun, Dec. 26th.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-01-10
Memorial of Business Men.

The memorial Of the merchants ana
capitalists Of this city to Congress, re-
specting the political situation, Is
carefully drawn up; but the intent OF
its language is plain. The RepubIl-
can leaders have insisted that the
President of the Senate alone was EN-
powered 10 count the electoral votes
but the mcmoralists, instead OF lndors-
ING this claim, express great satlstac-
ton with the appointment Of count
tees ':to consider the proper mode Of
counting" them. They Furthermore
express their desire, not that the arm!
and navy may be used in tie intereS
of Hayes, but that ''this complicated
question may be settled in 4 spirit o
moderation and cancellations" i'll ac
cordance With the will OF the grea
mass Of the American people. Ihe'
again, at the close OF the memorial
the signers pray Congress to 'reilev
the country from its present uncel
tainty and apprehensions by Il promp
determination of the mode in whlc
the pending momentous issue shall b
decided"
Such an appeal for the adoption {
proper mode for counting the e'e(
toral votes is one which Congress ca
not fail to heed, All we want is
secure fairness, and to prevent trlcI
cry and fraud. IN. Y. Sun.
The business men of Phlladelph
have also petitioned Congress I'll
people everywhere are petltlonlng'
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-01-10
Opening letters.

Quite a stir has been occasloneo by
a remark of Mr.. Hewitt, RepreSen-
tatlve from this city, on the floor OF
Congress, that his letters had been
opened in the New York Post Office
in some quarters a good deal Of indlg-
nation has been manifested, on ac-
count of the high character OF Mr.
James, our present Postmaster 10
all that has been said in praise OF Mr..
James we give our full assent. He Is
without reproach and above susplc
ion although he retains in his Office
Que as ungodly scamp aspollutes the
face of Earth. And we have, indeed,
nothing to say, either way, as to the
correctness of Mr.. IIewitts particular
accusation. We have not any knowl
edge Of oar own on that subject
But that hundreds and thousands O.
letters passing through the mails ar'
opened, read, resealcd, and delivered
we entertain no manner OF dou0t
This offence is practised in many vii
lage offices. This is a fact OF which
the most indubitable proof has repeat
edly been obtained. To such an ex
tent Is it carried, and so well is
known, that inventors have long beeI
engaged in devising an envelope whlc'
should be secure against opening with
out being torn.
We have the word ofa former Post
master-General OF the United State
that during the war hundreds of thou'
ands of letters were opened IN IN
search for the expression OF rebel sci
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-01-10
Stick to a Legitimate business.

Well directed energy and enterprises
are the life Of American progress; but
if there is one lesson taught more PLAIN.
ly than others by the great failures OF
late it is that safety lies in sticking to
legitimate business. No man-man-
ufac,urer, trader, or banker,-has any
moral right to be energetic and enter
prlsing as to take from his Legitimate
business the capital which it requires
to meet any emergency.
Apologies are sometimes made, tor
firms who have failed, by recurring to
the important experiments they have
aided, and the unpumbeied fields Of
enterprise where they have freely scat
tered their money. We are told that
individual losses sustained by those
failures will be as nothing compared
with the benefits conferred on the COM
munity by their liberality in contribut-
ing to every public work. There is
little force in such reasoning. A mans
relations to creditor are vastly differ
ent from his relations to what is called
the public. The demands ofthe one
are definite, the claims of the other
are just what the ambition of the man
may make them.
The histories of the honorable sue
cessful business men unite to eXalt
the importance of sticking to a legiti-
mate business, and it is smost instruct
i've to see that, IN the greater portion
of the failures. the real cause of disas-
ter was the branching out. beyond at
legitimate business, in the taking hold
ofthis and that tempting offer, and, for
the sake of some great gain, venturlng
where they did not know the ground,
and could not know the pittall.
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7 {: .

The Republican lie te'egraphed
over the country, and now being pub
lished in little country papers, that
the Democrats Of Florida and South
Carolina had conceded these States
to Hayes, is fully up to the rascality
of Grant, Zach Chandler, and the lie
turning Boards. The Democrats
concede no such thing
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-01-10

There are few people who have
not noticed how penitent a man feels
of sin after being caught at it.