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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-02-01
slaughtering Buffalo in Texas.

The town of Griffin is supported by
buffalo hunters, and is their general
rendezvous in this section. The number
of hunters on the ranges this season Is
estimated at 1,500. We saw at Griffin
plat of ground of about four acres COW
cred with buffalo hides spread out to dry,
besides large quantity piled up for snip
ment. These hides are worth in this place
from one dollar to one dollar and sixty
cents each. The generally accepted idea
of the exciting chase in buffalo limiting
is not the plan pursued by the men VINO
make it a regular business. They use the
needle gun with telescope, buy the pow
der by the keg, their lead in bulk and the
shells. and make their own cartridges.
The guns in a party ef hunters are used
by only one or two men, who say they
usually kill drove of thirty or forty
buffalos on one or two acres OF ground.
As soon as one is killed the whole herd
smelling the blood, collect around the
dead body, snufing and paving up the
ground and uttering a siDgulsr noise.
The hunter continues to shoot them
down as long as he can remain concealed,
or until the last animal bites the dust. +"
The buffalo pays no attention to the
report of the gun, and fees enly at sight
or scent of his enemy. The others OF the
party then occupy themselves IN peel
ing" Some of these have become 81
skilIful they offer to bet they can skin 1
five or six year old bull in five minutes
The meat is also saved and sent to mar
ket, and commands a good price.-Gal
vest0n Net1s.
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Gold and silver.

And now it seems the Bonanza kings
are all in favor of gold as the unit OF
value. This was to have been expected.
The very rich--thOse who have a large
surplus over their indebtedness-natur
ally desire that excess to be as valuable
as possible. A million dollars in one
very scarce metal, which has been made
the legal unit, will buy more of the pro
duets of human industry than a million
dollars in a very much cheaper metal !;
the very rich, the world over, are there
fore in favor of a scarce and dear metal
az a unit of value. Then it should be
remembered that the BanODza mines pro-
duce, e,forty-ive per cent. of gold to forty
five per cent. of silver. The mining in
terests of the Rocky mountains are about
equally divided between silver and gold,
and it is to their interests TO have both
metals circulating as currency. Now
that it is officially stated that the Bo-
nanza kings are for gold, it puts an end
TO the bugaboo raised by the gold
papers that it was the great mining
magnates who were at the back
of the silver movement in this country
In truth, this agitation is in the interest
of the great producing and indebted
classes. 1t is not the very rich, but the
great bulk of the community, who wish
TO restore the silver dollar to the place it
occupied in our currency up to the time
of the commencement of the hard times
in 1878.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-02-01

God plans better than we, and some
times when seemingly defeating our
wishes IS granting US more than we ask.
We are short-sighted, and can cOmpre-
hend but narrow sphere of action in
which but few agencies combine, but
Gods purposes are for the ages and the
universal good. We are short lived and
in our little field can work but a little
while, and may sometimes feel that our
labor i in vain; but to God whose years
are endless and whose orderings are in
infinite wisdom, no good work Is in vain.
Il may be lost 70 human knowledge but
it has accomplished his purpose and lives
forever. And often in later days we see,
or they who live after Us see, that when
we were shutup to a life we did not desire,
or a course of action we did not choose,
God was working by us better than we
knew. When we are sent down into the
danths we come - tne I5Yvl Of the deep
springs OF the soul, and eur words and
deeds are felt by hearts far away from
us.
PauPs desire to visit Rome WAS graft
fed, but when brought there and the
deor of his prison closed after him, he
doubtless felt that, Tor time at least, he
was shut in from his great work. But at
no time was his work more extended or
of more real and permanent value. The
sympathy of all the disciples gathered
about him. The care of the churches
was still upon him. He still preached
the kingdom of God TO those around him,
whether as fellOw-prisoners or visitors.
But his great work was in the epistles
written to the churches at this time, in
which the gospel was made known, even
in his own age, to far wider extent than
could have been by his voice; and in
which it has been made known to an in
Vulnerable multitude in all ages follow
ing. The churches at Ephesus, Colosse
and Philippi have long since ceased TO
exist, but the epistles written to them
have been fountains of instruction and
blessing to all the generationsOf believers,
and will to the latest age be words of life
to the dead. Paul, the prisoner, was in
the fullness of his work and the height
OF his power United Presbyterian.
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ne. and frequently no minute hand is

time, and frequently no minute hand is
u ed
Breach of trust is lot viewed leniently
in France, where people are very careful
of their money. n. Guilhot, very
noted notary at Angouleme, has been
found a defaulter to the tune OF 24O,OOO,
and consequently goes to jail for ten
years.
On the first day of the Jewish new
wear most of the fifty or sixty thousand
Hebrews living at Odessa go to the sea
shore to pray and cast their last years
sins into the waves, beginning the lncom-
ing season with clean souls. Some turn
their empty pockets inside out and shake
them towards the sea others only make
a gesture as if finging something into It.
On the I'd Chachapoyas, the capital Of
Amazon, was visited by an earthquake
which demolished several houses and
damaged many more. Fortunately there
was no loss of life. The walls swinging
to and fro, the groaniDg roofs, the nose
of falling tiles, the walls cracking and
throwing out clouds of dust, combined
with the shrieks and grOans of the sgon-
lied inhabitants, made frightiul scene.
Callas also experienced a severe shock OF
tiie' 'sssssl--1s.~ ~i<s,-e but no damage was done.
The Prince 81 Wales caa aang---4-
his shingle as an attorney, should any
thing happen. He was called TO the bar
a few years ago, at his own desire and
with the usual formalities, and took the
oath prescribed on admission. He was
at the same time made a master OF the
bench, the benchers being the governing
body of the society of the middle temple.
His portrait has recently been painted,
in the bencher's silken robe, and is to be
placed in the hall of the middle temple,
London. Whether he knows anything
about law is another question.
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Inhnafrfal.

Itrequires from ZOO to 10, ,O00 artificial
eyes to supply the annual demand in
New York. Glass eyes for horses are also
IN great request.
The beet sugar works at Isleton, Cal
are said to be working night and day,
and using about seventy tons of beets in
twenty-f0ur hours.
The American public use in paper
CELLARS eight tons of paper daily, and
over eight million five hundred thousand
yards of muslin
Lynn is said to be losing its trade in
boots and shoes. which used to be almost
s. monopoly. Western manufacturers are
getting large share of the business.
Birds killed on the western prairies,
packed closely with paper in barrels and
without any freezing or other artificial
process of preservation, are sent to Eng.
land by every steamer, where they
arrive in excellent condition.
The Farwell Mich Register says
Last week the Wilkins girls shipped
from this place to Detroit /, 100 pound,
OF comb>honey encased in small glas;
boxes, this being only a portion of this
years's product, for which they received
the highest market price. They have a.
present so colonies Of bees"
An American watch company recently
shipped 200 stem-winding watches. OF
the order of the British Government, fol
the use of conductors and engineers o
one of the stats railroads of India. Thi
order was obtained by the London agency
In competition with foreign manuActur.
pFz
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Wanted a Little Excitement.

A man with more ears than brains
heard his neighbors in Atlanta, Ga, de-
scribe an internal machine, and forth
with took the hint and constructed one.
One night last week he carried his toy
to the front steps of merchants resi-
denee. and after setting it down, rang the
bell. When the portly form of the mer-
chant appeared in the doorway the Wis
itor pointed TO the box and told him that
a plot had been formed to blow up his
house. The cigar box was dropped into
A pail Of water and then opened. 1t had
lining of white pine, and was divided
into three com partments. each OF which
was packed with gunpowder and shot
and in the central one was three matches
placed 90 as to come in contact with sand
paper when the lid was raised. Th'
merchant suspected at once that the in
ventor of the machine stood before him
although his visitor pretended to hav'
overheard in an alloy the details of tn
plot. The police arrested the half-witte'
fellow, and forced him to admit that h
had made the box. Times were rathe
duh. he said, and he had thought that
little excitement might help business.
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THE HARRIET LANE.

- with an Interesting History
4 w L now tied up at the wharf
- soeVe jackson street, a three mas.
sup which attracts by the beaut =
~ s'y.nImetry ~ of its appearance. She
D'Hs Ake vessel which is able to cnt
psl way through the water with excen-
',vs'1' speed and grace, and the facts do
~ 4. s0nsfadict the seemingness. She Is
E ana heightened in build, and sup.
q ,ne idea Of about sixteen or seven-
sE'H ~ Knots an hour in a favorable wind
& vessel Is now called the Richie. and
sal''slh 1. w. Hatchinson, an able and
8 penenced officer, Is at present. and has
Dsea ,s for years, her commander. She
probably leave by the end of NEXT
re vessel has ept G history which Il
ehtWiDedwith that Of the --.--st,,,,.,,la
between the north and south. She-ws-l
Elilt In 1853, and was launched in 1859,
and the name Harriet Lane was con-
haasd upon herr This name was con-
i, ii@"9sst She SAs shs Mss Hisee af President
ter, sioe~wheel steamer, and performed
many Offices Of honor among which
may be mentioned the reception OF
the Prince of Wales. In 1862
she was captured at Galveston
in an extraordinary way. Approaching
the city, protected by seven guns, she
was attacked by two small vessels, the
Bayou City and Neptune. Neither craft
bad heavy gun On board, but rad bar.
ricades Of cotton piled high, whence they
sent the deadly rife-ball TO the doomed
crew of the Harriet Lane. She responded
with her heavy broadsides, and succeeded
in sinking the Neptune (the wreck oi
which is yet before Galveston), but she
was finally captured, all hands being
killed but three, who were badly
wounded. At Galveston, at the time
under the orders of General Magruder
was a Colonel Lee. He was a confede-
rate, but had reason to know that his
son was one of the crew of the haplesi
federal cutter. Obtaining permission u
visit the ship, he found that his son wa,
among the ill-fated three. The only
consolation, however, he had was to SEE
his son a few hours afterwards die In hi
arms. Some time aiterward, when Cap
tain Hutchinson had assumed command
of the vessel, Colonel Lee visited it anC
cried like a child because of the ememorieI
it awakened. After the capture of the
Harriet Lane the confederates used he
as blOckade-runner between Galveston
and Havana. In 1865, when she was il
Havana, the federal government claimed
her from the Spanish, and after consider
able red-tapeism she was given up
Afterward she was sold and recon
structed, her boiler being taken out an'
the wheels removed. She was thel
made sailing vessel of, and has sine
been plying in the merchant service
the old hull and much of the furnitur
of the Harriet Lane still being preserved
-NelC ORLEANS PicGVtneS
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France Armed for the Fray.

An exhaustive compilation or statistics
relating to the AIMED Strength of
France" has recently emsnated from
the intelligence branch of the quarter
master generals department at the horse
guards, and it is impossible to scan the
results of Mai. East's labOriOus investiga-
tions on the subject without being struck
at the prodigious strides made by the
French military authorities in the work
OF reorganization since the passage Of the
new law, "sur ie requirement" by the
National assembly five years ago. Never
lsince the disastrous campaign of the
First Napoleon, which closed at Water
90, has the normal rate Of expenditure
upon the army Of France approached the
amount it has now reached. The num-
erical strength of the troops at present
established on 4 peace footing exceeds by
$4,000 men what was deemed sufficient
on the same basis Immediately before
the outbreak of the war with
Germany. The French war office
has spared no pains to become
acquainted with the working of
every military system in Europe. II is
a portentous fact that, according TO the
estimate of Maj. East, Notwithstanding
her immense loss of territory, money
and population, France at this moment
possesses a total available land force,
consisting exclusively OF trained men, OF
2,473,766. This vast aggregate includes
the "active" and territorial" armies
with the reserves belonging to them re-
spectively.
Consequently a mighty force, drawn
from this armed host, under the new
regime, could be put in the field in a
comparatively short space of time. OF
course, it is only the modified plan of
recruiting introduced subsequent TO the
Franco German war that could render
possible the mobilization of force so
enormous. BY the act passed in 1872,
every Frenchman between twenty and
forty became liable TO personal military
service, without the chance Of receiving
any kind of bounty by way of compen
sation for enlistment. so stringently
are the regulations enforced in respect to
this matter that no substitution is al
lowed, and even dispensatiOns from ser
vice obtainable under certain conditions,
do not necessarily secure exemption.
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CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Popular science.

chronological specimens may be
instantly and easily killed by dropping
bit of chloroform in the insects head.
No huttering nor relaxation OF the
muscles is peIceptible.
Drawings made on the assumption that
the light falls from the left hand top
corner appear solid /; but if the light Is
made to fall from the right-hand lower
corner, the objects will appear hollow.
Two hundred and twenty street lamps
at Providence, R. l., which extend over s.
distance of nine miles, are now lighted
and extiDguished by electricity, in less
than fifteen seconds, by one man.
The souring of milk during thunder
storms is very rapidly produced
to the conversion of the oxygen into
ozone ; the ozone then forms acetic acid,
and the acetic acid causes the precipita-
ton of casein.
The Japanese make bird-lime, which
not only snares birds, but which catches
and holds animals as large as Monkeys.
Rats are easily caught by placing board
spread with this lime near their holes.
The same substance is used for medical
purposes, as a cure for wounds.
The freezing point of ether lies below
any degree of cold yet attainable, though
hoculent masses have been obtained in
impure ether by applying temperature
of thirty-one degrees centrigrade, or
about one hundred and two degrees
below the freezing point of Fahrenheit's
scale.
An important invention is announced
TO have been made by Joseph Albert, the
Munich photographer. By combining
the ordinary Photographic process with
that pertaining to q peculiar printing
have. produced images Of Qfziegey s.sasls. sI.-s
finest s.ftiies OF their natural color
For the destruction of bugs on fruit
trees, this simply and readily admins
tered remedy is recommended: Select
quiet morning, when the leaves are laden
with dew, to throw up among the
branches fine, dry coal ashes. By this
means both sides Of the leaves become
coated with ashes, and the slugs are killed
or driven off
The mode in which the Germans keep
up their valuable superiority in chem
ical manufacturers is shown IN the fact
thst one of the largest chemical works
in that country employs six regular
chemists, with salaries varying between
fifteen hundred aud twenty five hundred
dollars yearly, and also engages the SER
vices Of q celebrated chemist exclusively
for theoretical work, paying him nearly
ten thousand dollars year. Such facts
account for the industry and huitfulness
of the German chemists.
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Religious Notes.

The Southern Methodist church man
ayers are trying TO fund their debt by
issuing bonds to the amount Of $l50,00O.
a paragraph in the Baptist Weekly
states that Unitarianism and Universal
ism have no organized existence in Vir-
ginia.
The Christian World of London, says
that Presbyterianism in England, with
a few exceptions, favor revision of the
confession OF faith"
An ecclesiastical authority estimates
that in round numbers there are in En-
gland and Wales 13, 900 church benefces,
and that their annual net value is
s15, 100000
seven years ago Methodism was first
introduced into the dominions of Brig.
ham Young. Now there are six Method
ist churches and fifteen Sunday-schools
in Utah.
The Seaman's Friend society is now
sending libraries to the United State;
life-saving stations on the coast and lakes
This IS useful work, even II the book
are somewhat dull, for the time of the
men hangs so heavily on their hands thai
they are willing to read anything, nc
matter how dry. During the intervals
between disasters these men have almos
nothing to do. Eighty libraries have
thus far been sent, containing over 800
volumes.
The Germans of New Haven hav,
petitioned the board of education for
separate school, where their children
may be taught English, SO that they ma,
be able to attend the public schools.
According to the Evangelist, NOR
than 43, 900 were added last year to tn
Presbyterian church in the north. Six
teen churches received more than on
hundred members each. Four of thes
were Chicago churches.
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There were only eighty-three murder
ers hanged last year among population
of $4,000, ,000
In New England they pour water over
a tree in a skating-rink, and form very
| pretty iceberg, which Is exhibited al
| night with an electric light.
/ The Methodist ministers of Boston
'' believe that all attempts to reform the
/ theatre are uptopian and vain, and that
| they can hold no relation toward this
| school of vice but that Of stern, unrelent-
ing, Christian hostility.
The republic Of Honduras is about to
! INTRODUCES the American free school sys-
/ tenn. In its capital, Camayagus, a
| national college is to be established, and
/ q commissioner has been sent to this
/ country to obtain books and teacher
Judge Guigon suspended the licenses
of six Richmond barkeepers whose
registers for the month of October did
not show enough sales to pay tax and
license, but suspended sentence until the
supreme court could settle the matter.
For December these same barkeepers
report six times the business of October.
Standing Rock agency, on the Upper
Missouri, takes its name form a bottle
bowlder abeut two feet high and about
eighteen inches through at its base, on
the prarie two miles north of this point.
Every day it is visited by members of
the tribe, who paint it green, red or
yellow, as fancy dictates. In summer
wreathes of flowers are thrown over the
rock and in winter the upper portion is
wrapped in flannel.
The Montreal street-car conductors
laugh at the shaking OF bell-punch, and
80 the directors compel them to advertise
their dishonesty by carrying cash-bOxes
sluDg around their Decks- The passenger
places the money on the I'D OF the Or
the conductor presses a spring. and 1t falls
in. If the conductor touches the money
with his hand ne is discharged.
There are twenty-five packing houses
in Ba!timsre, employing each from 50
to $50 hands, and handling 5000, 900 Of
raw and I5,O00.0oC of canned oysters
each season. Besides there are 50stesm-
ing houses, where 25,000,000 cans are
prepared each season by 1000 men.
Nearly 1000 men are engaged in making
cans. Oyster shuckers make on an aver
erage 81. % a day, but some experts
make as much as $. a bushel Of oys-
tiers in the shell viii make ten cans, and
one firm have shucked and canned as
many as 800 bushels in day
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RELIGIOUS READING.
JeSus, place.

Jesus Place.
Far, far away o'tr the deep blue sea
Lived man who kind as kind could be.
lie loved little CHILDREN, and spread every day
a table from which none went empty away.
Poor children came in from the alley and street,
with rigs on theif backs ami no ehoss on their
Girls and boys, large and small, some naughty and
But John Folk loved them ali aud did them all
And while they were eating, he often would tell
Of ;he Lord Jesus Christ, who on earth did once
dwell;
How he loved little children-eaeh one OF them
He was Watching from Heaven with teuderest
And hOg happy aud blessed would be the ehnd's
part
Who TOald let that dear Savior come dweu in his
heart
Each day when the children assembled to eat
he taught them 70 offer this grace for their meat
5, Bless Jesas the fold fhou hast given to-day,
And come and sun With US, dear Jesus we pray"
But ones when the children had finished this
One poor little fellow stood still by his chair
FOR moment then ran 10 the closet v bore stood
The bright cups OF tin and the u alters Of wood
=" Now what Is the matter " said Folk TO the
The little one looked in g kind lace aud smiled
8. We asked the Lord Jesus just in cur grace
10 sup with Us here; but we've given him
Buf L f7qs 81 ii ie e s8ss ed i & x2gIs . e
He was hungry and tired and his supper was good
Aut feV moments alter. he heard n the door.
A knock low and timld, enc knock and DO more.
lie started to open It, hoping to meet
The Lord jesus Christ come to look for His seat
But when IL WIS op5u he 10 could
but poor little child, much poorer han he,
Hl- face b'us with hunger, his garments, 50 old.
We're dripping with IaIn, and he shivered with
cold.
" Come in " cried the boy. So tone OF delight,
'' suppose the Lord Christ could not come to-
Though Feasked Hun TO come and partake OF our
SO Hes jrst sent you down TO see US here in His
The super IsS is good, and ven each give you some,
And tell the Lord Christ We ste glad you hsve
coue"
From that time, when the children assembled to
There was always one Ilaee called "the Lord
Jesus seat
And the hest thev had was placed there each day
For one 10 was poorer and hungrler than they.
And the Lore Jesus Christ, in reply To their grace,
sent always some per on to sit IN HIS place
And sweet va the food that the Lord did provide
For the stranger He mt them 70 eat az their side
Dear friends who have read this short story, you
know,
The words that our Savior once spake when below,
II We wish for dis presence 10 hallow our bread.
We must welcome the stranger de sends In lis
stead
When We set our feasts this our motto must be-
q. A . We do 10 nav poo~ 20 hove done unto Me- "
h Interior.