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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-04-12

WAITS AND wnIMs.


Never marry girl who can be
caught four times day by setting steel
trap on a street corner.
-" Would you like to have some
candy, grandma? ?p Yes, my boy;
where is it p "Why, if you will buy
me ten cents worth, L will give you
half"
-" How can 1 leave thee?' he was
singing in a very tender tone. He wasn't
very popular with her parents, and it
was verging on twelve O'Clock, when the
old man came in and showed him how no
could leave her.
Bishop Clark wants to know what
makes people poor, and the New York
Commercial Advertiser names ninety
nine out of a possiE le hundred when
it replies " It's e effort to keep up
$4,000 worth c style on every $1,000
worth of income"
Lady Roseberry has bluer blood than Z
her husband; her family tree is much +,
more ancient than his. TO quote Disraeli.
her ancestors were princes in the tenn
when Lord Roseberry's ancestors were
savages in the woods. The Jews will
hold that all the advantages of the
Rothschild- Roseberry marriage are on
the Roseberry side of the house. Jewish
Times.
AT Sacramento, Cal, according to a
local newspaper, there are two animated
barometers which have proved trust.
worthy, even when the artificial instru-
mems have fAnisass enSl.ef. .nblss.us. -
catfish which is kept in a water-trough.
No matter how clear the water may be,
and before the barometers have indicated
a change, this fish always, before storm,
swims about with his head below the
water and his tail above until rain begins
to fall, when he goes out Of sight until
the weather changes. The other barom-
eter consists of two frogs under the floor
of the police Office, which have never yet
been seen by any of the officers, but
which presage a storm several hours in
advance of the barometrical indications
by a series of peculiarly discoTdant
croaks. No matter how clear and
bright the night, the police officers
prepare for a storm when the warning
comes.
"A colored man, living in New York,
having admired a colored widow living
in the next block above, but being afraid
of coming ont boldly and revealing his
passion, went to a white man of his
acquaintance the other day and requests
ed him to write the lady a letter, asking
her hand in marriage. The friend wrote,
telling the widow in few brief lines that
the size of her feet was the talk of the
neighborhood, and asking her if she
could not pare them down little. The
name of the colored man was signed, and
he was to call on her on Sunday night
for an answer. The writer of the letter
met the Niger limpiDg along the street,
and asked him what the widow said.
The man showed him a scratched nose,
a lame leg and a spot on his scalp where
q handful of wool had been violently
ierked out, and answered in solemn
tones, "She didn't say nuffin, and I
didn't stay dar MORN a minute."--
brooklyn Eagle.
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A Young Demon who "Just
Wanted to Kill Somebody"

A tragedy occurred at Oakley, Caro-
line county, Va, @hici1 equals in de-
pravity and wickedness any thing recently
known in the catalogue Of blood. -
Willie Dillard,agod. II. son ef F5usssss
billiard, wealthy farmer of Caroline
county, went to field where his fathers
faithful negro overaeer, Dick Thompson,
was engaged at work. He was on friend
ly terms with the man, and rs he passed
him in the field the usual salutations
were exchanged. youth went to
fence-corner and du with a spade hole
seven feet long and four feet wide. Then,
calling Dick to him, he said, You see
that ditch well, that is your grave"
and with these words. and before the
negro man had time to collect
his thoughts, Willie jerked up ain axe
which it seems ne had secreied in the
fence corner, and struck him on the head.
The negro attempted to defend himself.
but the boy followed up the first blow
with one across the throat with the edge
of the axe, halt severiDg the windpipe.
The unfortunate man ran about one
hundred yards and dropped exhausted.
Young billiard went straight to the house
and told his sister the rest of the family
being absent from hOme) what he had
done He was perfectly cool, and said
% Sister, you had better send out and see
Dick" The horrifed girl dispatched
servants to the field, where lay the dying
man weltering in gore. 1t is said he
cannot recover.
The murderer was arrested by a
constable, and after an examination
before a magistrate, was sent to the
criminal court. There had been no
difficulty between the prisoner and
mis- victim, and the only cause
Willie gives for the bloody deed is that
he Just wanted to kill somebody. He
told the story in substance as it is
given above, snd seemed perfectly
rational all the while. He had dug
grave not long since, but did not succeed
in finding tenant for it. Il is said that
from his early boyhood he had fond
ness which amounted to a mania for kill
ing cats, dogs and osher innocent crea-
lures.
The affair has caused a great sensa-
ton in Caroline Dick Thompson was
an old man, and was much respected by
white and black. Willie billiard is
strongly built and is well grown for his
age. He has not a bad countenance, but
on the contrary may be called hard
aODne
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The New Electric Light.

Mr.. Edward King, the correspondent
of the Boston Journal in Paris, gives an
interesting account of the illumination
three weeks age of Place de POpera in
Paris by the electrical light. He says the
effect was singularly magnificent, and:
"The intense white glow from the
electric burners directly in front Of the
STEPS leading up to the operas entrance,
and scattered at intervals across the
grand boulevard to the corner of the new
avenue leading to the Comedie Frapcaise,
made the spaces for hundreds of yards
around about as light as day. One
of the electric candles seemed to give as
much light as an hundred gas gets. Gas
looks yellow, muddy and petty beside
this grand fire, which defies darkness.
For city lighted by the new process all
the terrors of midnight would vanish.
Burglars would find their occupation
gone. The assassin would have to sell
his stilleto Vice of all kinds would
either stink away, disgusted at the small
reward which it would obtain when it
could no longer walk in darkness"
The illumination was SO splendid, that
the electric light is to be introduced in all
parts of the city. The system adopted is
that of Mr.. Jablochkof, Russian. The
Figaro newspaper lights the front of the
office, where it is produced, with the
magical candle. Mr.. King says;
''The electric candle used by Jabloch-
koff is formed of two cylindrical strips of
coal, placed one beside the other, ana
separated by peculiar isolating matter
The lower extremities of these strips of
coal are set in two brass tubes, and these
in turn are fastened into a chandelier
bracket, The strips are bound so that
they cannot fall apart. When the cur
rent is passed in the voltaic arch it springs
into life between the two extremities of
the coal strips, which burn little by little
by contact with the air. The isolating
matter heats, melts, party voltaizes and
makes the space between the coal a good
conductor-far better than it is in the
ordinary system of Lighting with the
regulator. The candle should be pro-
tected by an opaline globe, as it is in
most places where it is used in Paris.
The price of one of these candles, burn
ing an hour and a half, and giving
light equal to one hundred and thirty
gas Jets, is fifteen cents. All sizes of
candles can be furnished, and they can
be placed in almost every conceivable
position. One horse power of an ordi-
nary steam engine is required for each
separate electric light, or group of lights;
that is, force equivalent to that must
be supplied to the dynamo electric
machine"
lis already proposed to use the elec-
trical candle in festivals associated with
the great exnositiOn.
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When Jesus had come from " beyond
the Jordan to Bethany, " glad - for the
sake of his disciples that he was not
present at the death Of his friend, so that
he might wake him out of sleep in their
presence, and when he had come into
the suburbs OF the village and near to
the grave, Martha sent to the con-
templative Mary, still sitting among her
friends in the house," saying, "The
Master is come. and calleth for thee"
And at once the question arises in our
minds, Why? Why was it that Jesus
did not hasten on and raise the dead
man, and then lead him to the house,
grand surprise to the sorrowing sister?
We think that we know the reason. 1t
was not the custom of the Lord Jesus
it would not have been consonant with
the grand purpose of his mission to
earth---to do his great deeds in secret.
He must hare 2gltnessess; and when
practicable, and just so far as practicaS
bic, human agencies must cooperate
with the divine power, At all events,
the works of Jesus were not to be done in
secret, not unknown to those most in
terested in them Lazarus could not be
raised from the dead while "Mary sat
still in the house, Herald and Pres
byter.
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This is what David called the Bible.
Not a light up in the sky, like the SUM-
which shines on everybody, whether
they want it or not--but light that we
must take in our hands, and trim, and
carry with us wherever we go; light
for everyday life, and that we must be
always throwing upon the steps of that
life. We can't get enough Bible on the
Sabbath to last all the week, or enough
in the morning to last all the day No;
we must take it with u.--in our memo
ries and In cur hearts--wherever we go.
We must apply its principles to every
new emergency. We must obey its pre-
cepts at all times. Thus only can we
ever "walk in the light" and find our
path shining more and more unto the
perfect day.
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\ New Greed.

Mr.. John Ruskin has founded in Eng
land a socialistic or communistic society,
under the name OF "The Guild of st.
George" Each person on becoming q
member subscribes to the following creed :
l. l trust in the living God, Father
Almighty, Maker of heaven aud earth,
and of things and creatures visible and
invisible.
trust in the kindness of His law and
the goodness of His work.
And will strive to love Him and keep
His law and see His work while live.
3 l trust in the pobleness of human
nature, in the majesty of its faculties,
the fullness of its mercy and the Joy Of
its love.
And I will strive to love my neighbor
as myself, and, even when cannot, will
act as if did.
3. ! will labor, with such strength
and opportunity as God gives me, for my
own daily bread, and all that my hands
find to do I will do with all my might.
will not deceive any human being
for my gain or my pleasure, nor hurt or
cause to be hurt any human being for
my gain or pleasure, nor rob or cause to
be robbed any human being for my gain
or pleasure.
5. l will not kill nor hurt any living
creature needlessly nor destroy any
beautiful thing, but will strive to save
and comfort all gentle life and guard
and perfect all natural beauty upon the
earth.
6. will strive to raise my own body
and soul daily into higher powers of duty
and happiness, not in rivaiship or con-
tention with others, but for the help,
delight and honor of others, and for the
joy and peace of my own life.
Z. 1 will obey ali the laws of my coun-
Try faithfully, aud the orders OF its mon
arch and OF all persons appointed to be
in authority under its monarch, so lar as
such laws or commands are consistent
with what suppose to be the law OF
God, and when they are not or seem IN
anywise to need change l will oppose
them Loyalty and deliberately, and with
malicious, concealed or diso-deily vio-
lence.
s. And with the same faith illness and
under the limits of the same obedience
which I render to the laws of my country
and the commands of it's rulers l will
obey the laws of the society called OF ST.
George, into which / am this day
received, and the orders OF its masters
and OF all persons appointed to be IN
authority under its masters, so long as
remain companion called ofSt George
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IF ! WERE YOU.

If I were you
would not sue
For any woman's love day after day;
I'd never stand
At her command
Year in and ont in this fond foolish way.
Across my lace
I'd have the grace,
Or mOther-Wit, to pull gayer mask,
And wait To find
What was her mind,
Before I'd grOvel at her feet to ask.
All very well
For you to tell
OF that grand poet in the ol5en time
Whose fLe advice
Was so concise
in that immortal strain Of gallant rhyme.
1t does not ut
Your case bit,
lie never meant man should pray and rra Y
With such an Gir
or poor j spair
For any woman's love day after day.
II you will read,
] he verse take heed
QUIZ zee IL runs as clearly as II may,
That every man, sir,
Should take his answer
With msnly courage, be it Atka or nay.
Then cease your sighs,
No mans prize,
In any woman's sight, just let me say,
Who's not too high
To sigh and die
For any womans love dav after day.
Il -[Hsrper's Magazine.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
The con.eora'ed VIII.

he Consecra'ed VIII.
Laid on Thine altar, oh my Lord divine,
Accept my gift this day, Tor Jesus sake;
have no jewels &c adorn Thy shrine,
Nor any world-faIaed sacrifice 20 make,
But hare | bring, within my trembling hand,
This will OF mine-a thing that seeneth small,
But only Thou, dear Lord, can't understand
How, when Yield Thee this yield mine all
Hidden therein. Thy searching eye can see
Struggles of passion, visions of delight;
All that am, Or love. or faiu WOULD be-
Deep love, fond hope, on longings IEfuite.
II hath been wet with tears and dimmed with signs
Clenched in my grasp til beauty it hath none
Nov from Thy fOotstOoI, where il Yanquished lies,
The prayer ascendeth, May Thy viii be done
Take il, oh Father ere my courage fail,
And merge it so in Thine own will, that cen
II in some desperate hour my cries prevail
And Thou givst hack NV gift it may have been
SO changed, 80 purified, 50 lair have Erowp,
/ may not know OF feei II my own;
So onU with Thine. so filed with peace diyiAe,
Eut gaining bsek my viii may find Il Thine.
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Two Families Destroyed by
Lightning.

On Friday Mr.. Thomas Hale, living
near Halesboro, in Red River county.
was standing in front of his fireplace
with his little child in his arms. Sud.
denly a flash of lightning came, and he
was knocked down, and he and his little
one both fell into the fire. His wife.
who was standing near, was also stunned
at the same time, but, partially recover
ing, she dragged them out of the fire.
Her husband was dead, and her little
one, though not dead, suffering. It's
clothes were burned of, and it was
fatally hurt. On the same evening at
six o'clock, and about a mile from Mr..
Hale's, Mr.. Webster and his family were
sitting in his house in conversation. His
wife was leaning against him. Under
his chair was a cat, and still under the
foer beneath was hen with her brood.
He was struck by the lightning, and
instantly killed, as were also the cat, hen
and her brood. Mrs. Webster escaped
North Texan.
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rustic chapel. Chorused by the winds OF
heaven, they have swelled through Goa ,
own temple of the sky and stars; they
have rolled over the broad desert OF ASIA
in the mathis and vespers of ten thousand
hermits; they have run through the
deep valleys of the Alps in the sobbing
voices of the forlorn Waldenses; through
the steers and caves of the Scottish
Covenauters; through the woods ana
caves of primitive America in the heroic
hsllelujahs Of the early pilgrims
TScottish' American
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Lord Lonsdale has named one of his
race horses Tommy up Pear Tree, " and'
the aristocracy of England is splitting its
sides over his inimitable wit. If coster-
monger had named his mule " Tommy
up Pear Tree," everybody would have
said, and rightly, that the costermonger
was fool. But humer by lord is one
thing, and that by costermonger an
ofba-
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-04-12

AT one of the schools in Cornwall
England, the inspector asked the children
if they could quote any text of scripture
which forbade man having two wives.
One of the children sagely quoted in
reply the text, {" No man can serve two
nasters.''
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-04-12

The town of Liverpool expends
annually three millions and a half of
dollars in maintaining and extending Its
docks. This is more than the entire
river and harbor appropriation of the
United States.
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How women can manage to sit B

How women can manage to sit bolt
upright and not change position, look
ing neither to the right nor left, during
a sermon in church, passes the under
standing. A man will sit on picket
fence all the afternoon to see ball
match, but put him in church pew for
three quarters of an hour, and ne VIII
wabble all over the seat. 1t can be SAID
for the women that they do not wabbie.
-TElmira Advertiser.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-07-27

The Chicago TteriUr: We hear that the
farmers III many parts have been offering
80 so, and board, per day for harvester3
without being able to get the required help
at that price. The thousands of tramps
have had an opportunity to work at good
wages, and have rejected it. There never
was as good wages as that offered in this or
any other country. A dollar will buy as
much beacon, -four, potatoes, and cloth for
mems or women's wear as it ever would at
any time in the past. When food and
clothing were as low before as they are now,
which was only once, and that about the
year 1913, than q good mower and GRADER
would work for dollar and q half day.
The tramps, taking up the cant of political
demagogues, are threatening to destroy the
machinery of the farmers. 1t is time to
take decided measures with the tramp.
Vagabondage has reached the magnitude of
crime in its antagonism to the peace and
security of society, and should be so measur-
ed, and retribution dealt out to it.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-07-27

The Philadelphia Sunday Press, an in
dependent journal, that has not heretofore
manifested much sympathy with the Dem
ocracy, pays this tribute to Senator Dill
"Andrew H. Dill holds warm place in the
affections of the people of Pennsylvania,
and very deservedly. He has proven him
self not only an able Legislator, but an hon
est one, and therefore is entitled to the con-
iidence so generously reposed in him. lie
will not forfeit it. His prolonged Legisla-
tive career is.marked by nothing disreput-
able. No charge of corruption of any kind
has ever been preferred against him, for the
excellent reason that he has never given
even his most vindictive opponents chance
to impute wrong to his actions. Open and
above board in all his dealings, whether
with individuals or the public, he has com
pletely disarmed criticism, and therefore
stands before the people to-day the persona
fcation of the Jeflersonian idea of public
officials, capable and honest"
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FRAME DWELLING HOUSE,

20 by 26 feet, two stories high. with porch at
buildings, o well OF good water, u good OF Chard
Land in high state OF cultivation.
No. 2. All that certain messuage, tenement
ami piece of Land situate in the township aiOre.
s"ld, bounced and described as fol ows. to wit :
Beginning at R stone, thenCe by land of Peter
IauX, north 5jl4 degrees, east 6j.7 perchcs and
south liz degrees, east u perches. and north
S32t degrees, east A perches; thence by !and OF
A aaron SChnCll, south Is degrees, east M
perches; thence by land hate j! seems south
~ degrees, 22.5 perChGs, ana south GGA degrees,
west 81 perches; thence by lana OF Os. Dor
wart. south 67h degrees. west 16 perches ::
thence by land OF Aaron SchneI. north ~ de.
greeS, west l0G tilt perches thence Dy land of
Jacob ZelCenfuss, north q degrees, west 20 5-l0
percLUs to place of bcglnnil 3, containing 1906
acres 100 perChes more or les.
No. 3. All that certain messGagc, tenement
and piece of land situate in snld TOWNSHIP D.,
bounced and described as follows, to wit: Be.
gnuing at a corner. thence by lHnd Cf Peter
LHuX, north S3A degrees, east ll6 3 10 percheS
thence by land OF Daniel Walk, south 9'a de-
grces, west lJS perches, and south 80 degrees,
Seems aud partly by land of Aaron s,chge!l,
north II a. west 15l 7 10 perCnes to the pluce OF
beginning. containing 72 93lG0thS acres rh6To or
less. Beng the Real Estate OF Daniel Sensm-
ger and VIE, of said Fr nklin Township, Car
bon County and TO lie sold Oy the Assignee for
the benefit of creditors.
The Terms and Conditions will he made
known on the Gay OF sale, and due attendance
gyen by JOEL NEFF, Ass gnee.
p. ]. MEEHAN, Attorney.
July @. lSIS.-3w
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The Nationals in Council.

To-day friday, as we go TO press, the
National Greenbact-Labor party are hold
ing their Convention in thcCoprt House at
Mauch Chuhk. Be the result Of the deliber-
ations of this au0ast bcrly what It may, there
will, most undoubtedly, be very great dissat-
islaction among the immense ara[g Of aspir-
ants for dfice, This We infer from the fact
that majority Of the self constituted leaders
of this new party arc the sole-heods of other
parties who have been aepiring to positions,
for which they are mentally and physically
untitled, and having failed in the effort to
secure them, have joined the newhedged
scheme of the gueonbackers in the hope Of
obtaining through the vote Of the working
men offices Of trust and emolument that
both the old parties declined to entrust them
with, Like old Micawber, they wait, and
have been waiting, until they have become
bald and grey in their trouble and anxiety
of waiting, for something to "tum-up," and
this they imagine to be their "opPortuAty!"
Not one of them but has solved, at least to
his own satisfaction, the great financial prob
lem of the day, and is ready to guarantee to
every worlngman work in abundance and
grecnbacls al 3iJitua, will they only elect
him to q .geod}at Office
Among the aspirants for nominations be-
fore the convention to-day, as we learn, are:
Nathan Klotz, of Summit Hill; E. T. Nc
Donough, of Nesquehoning; W. A. Graver,
OF Lehighton; F. C. Kline, and Abe Stroh,
of Maueh Chunk; J. c. Fincher, of East
Mauch Chunk; Hugh McGarvey, Of Beaver
Meadow; E. R. Enbody, of Weatherly, and
other and lessee lights innumerable, who
fondly imagine that upon their nomination
and election to office depends the salvation
of this great and glorious country. Datlce
ct decorum est pro potria moyiy
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-07-27

The National Grcenback- Labor Conven-
ton of Ohio met, Tuesday in Columbus, and
organized with Robert shelliug, of Cleve-
land, as chairman. A ticket was nominated,
headed by Andrew Roy for Secretary of
State, and Chiffon A, White for Justice of
the Supreme Court. The resolutions adopt
ed demand greenback currency "for the
employment of labor the requirements of
business, and the payment of all interest
bearing bonds as fast as redeemable;" the
unlimited coinage of gold and silver; the
repeal of the Resumption acti graduated
income tax, the regulation of the hours OF
labor; the abolshment of the contract sys-
tenn Of prison labor, &c.
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is notICormidable, but neither is it dcspicable.
No matter what ignorance and peryersity it
represents, it has succeeded in casting 3G,-
600 votes in this State; and whatever
organization does that must be regarded and
treated as a serious political force, with future
possibilities necesstating the utmost caution
and vigilance on the part OF the more intel
ligent and conservative clements"