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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-02-22
The Bank or Nevada and Flood &
O'Brien.

Gold is tossed about and trucked about
az lead and copper are in New York.
Mere boys with canvas bags in their
hands go around carrying and collecting
the precious metal. Kegs of gold and
bags Of gold are thrown on cart rs if
they were kegs Of nails. In the princi-
pal jewelry stores necklaces, diamond
studded belts and sets valued at all the
way from $40 to 500, 900 are exposed to
view and are laid witain grabbing dis
lance. The Bank Of Nevada il the great
gold bank OF the city. It's vaults are
said 10 contain over 10000, 600. Trays
Of gold stand on the counter not Gagged
in and wired in as with US, but with as
little guard around the money as is
thrown around silks in dry-goods store.
Yet nothing is stolen and nobody at
temps it. The bank Is owned by Flood
q O'Brien, the great bonanza men.
Their income is fabulous-from the
mines alone said TO be $1,000, 900 a
month. They were traders in
small way, and the store is
still pointed out where they served
their customers for years. They made
friends with the miners, trusted them
for goods, loaned them a little money,
and when TIE miners had a good thing
they let Flood & O'Brien know it. They
were careful, prudent, saving men, and
always had ready cash for small ven
lures The bonanza possession was the
result Of this thrift and forecast. Flood
is about fifty years Of age. He il slightly
under size, sturdy and stocky in build.
His face is expressive Of self-possessioni
resolution and cOmmon-sensc. His fam
lily consists Of a wife, a son and a daugh-
ter The daughter is a young lady Of
progressing appearance, who puts on
no airs. Mrs. Flood is n matronly lady,
quiet and benevolent, and enjoys The
esteem Of her neighbors. She refuses 10
give large parties, because rhe would
haze to ignore her friends and acquain-
tances Of humber days The family live
cozilv in a comfortable house, which
would not be considered more than res
pectable for a well-to-do mechanic or .
moderate shopkeeper. Floods word j.
a. good az his bond anywhere. O Brieu
is an old man, full seventy. lie Il tall
with very gray hair, and slightly stOops
Flood holds the fort in the presi
dents room. and is seen by few persons
OBrien can be found outside, in the
baBking-room, a sprightly old man, ap
pareutlv looking after things. lie Il
Unmarried, but lives in pnncely style in
a mansion built by Senator Sharon. Hi
relatives keep his house.-San FraHc1sct
Cor, B0sfoH P0st.
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Senator's Lamar, Edmunds. Morrill,
and Bayard, as well as z rofessor Sumner.
have made some statements concerning
silver in European countries which are
curiously inaccurate. Iusteal of taking
up and correcting their enron Point by
point, we win cOndense some facts which
they ought to commit to memory:
i. Great Britain, mono metallic
country, has lost $4,000, coo of her gold
during the last year,
,. France, which keeps gold and silver
on equal terms, has increased her gold
stock SIS, 600, 900 during the last year.
3. GA January 10, 1873, there was
1899. 10000 coin and bullion In the
bank of France So, 2G0, 600 more than
the aggregate contained in the National
bank of England, Germany, Austria,
Belgium and the Netherlands.
(. Silver IS not " entirely demon
cited" by England and Germany, or
either Of them for Great Britain floats
not less than $50, 900, 600 of silver legal
tender to-day, and Germany has more
500. 900, 900 in silver legal tender, and
neither Of them can get rid Of it, now
ever much they try. Silver sticks to the
fingers Of the people like tar.
8. The fve-franc piece is not very
scarce in France. Ernest Seyd whose
testimony gold men will not hesitate TO
take at par, estimated in 1870 that there
were not fewer than 10000 600 in
five franc pieces in France No less than
twenty four twenty-Gfths Of all the silver
~ France Is in fye-irauc pieces.
8. Silver is q full legal tender in
France to any amount, and Mr.. Lamar
can get ten million gold dollars at the
bank of France by offering Tor them ten
million OF these five-iranc pieces, which
are worth three cents. less than the old
American dollar OF our daddies -
which gold mmopolists tell us is worth
only % cents Graphic.
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Gravity. Specific and Otherwise.

No admission fee is charged to visitors
to the bonanza mills, the only requisite
being a permit from the perintendent;
but a lady who visited the California
pan mills last Sunday, paid twenty dol
lars for the privilege, and was taught a
lesson in natural philosophy in this wise:
Mr.. Long, the foreman, was showing
three ladies and a gentleman through
the mill, and kindly explaining the func-
tions of the various settlers, pans, etc.
The quicksilver bowls standing near the
matchmaking pans attracted the atten-
ton of the visitors, and they inquired
what use the odd-looking concerns were
put to. He explained their use, but the
ladies did not seem to catch the sense Of
his remarks very readily. Tney seemed
quite puzzled. Mr.. Long repeated his
explanation, but the ladies manifested
more surprise than ever. In order to
make himself understood. Mr.. Long then
gave n practical demonstration of the
working OF the bowls, by pulling up the
stopper which checks the inflow of the
beautiful metal from the pipe connecting
with the supply tank. The bowl imme-
diately filled with quicksilver, the sur
face looking clean and bright. The par
ty could not resist the temptation of
dipping their fingers in the metal. They
withdrew them AZ clean as when they
put them in. This surprised them. Mr..
Long threw a bunch OF keys into the
bowl. They hoated. This was a pleas
ant experiment A gentleman with the
party then threw a pocket knife in the
bowl. It, also, floated. The ladies were
delighted. Mr.. Colby, the chief engineer
of the mil, having just been relieved,
came along. He threw q four bit piece
in. II floated, of course, and he took it
cut and rubbed it dry. The quicksilver
having absorbed all theimpurities on the
coin, il looked bright as FURNISHED gold.
One of the ladies said it was beautiful
and another took $20-dollar gold piece
out of her pocket book and threw it in.
Mr.. Long and Mr.. Colby saw the meve
ment, but said nothing. The specific
gravity of gold as compared with quick
silver being as seventeen is to fourteen,
the coin sank out of sight, to the utter
dismay of the ladies and the great morti-
fcation of the owner OF the $50. This
feeling did not last long, however, as Mr..
Long assured them that in a day or two
he could probably restore the lost money
in the form of amalgam, as he would
have to use the quicksilver to work the
next charge put in the pans Virginia
(Ney. J Chronicle.
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OS-REsUSPuOS II FRANCE-IETEG-
EsTING FACTS.


Mr.. Henry Carey Baird writes as fol-
lows TO the Philadelphia Times: The
lst of January, 1878, having come and
gone, and the debt due by the French
government 20 the bank OF France hav-
ing been reduced To 800, 900 900 francs,
and when the forced circulation Of notes
should cease in s0niornity with the law
on the matter kis an interesting fact
% learn from the correspondent OF the
London EcOnomia that on the 81 inst
no notice OF the legal resumption o,
specie payments hsd been issued II j.
true that tOr several years past the bank
has been paying specie to the amount Of
900 francs at a single payment, but il
has held in its OEn hands entire ana
complete control over the matter, and
all such payments are purely optional.
Now, not only has the bank not formally
and legally resumed but ii had during
the week ending Jan. 3, increased its
circulation of notes $4,000. 900, and
that circulation then stood at $500 OO0.-
coo being S5l 100000 more than il was
in September. 1875 The cremation
theory Of finance evidently does not OBJ
tain in France, where the trade, com
merce and industries of the people are
not subordinsted TO any arbitrary
fixed amount of money, but the latter j.
-nboTdinated TO the former. In a word,
the circulation OF the bank Is q purely
automatic affair, and varies from day to
day, and week to week. according to the
demands of business. This is as sensible
as it Is lust.
1t Is equally worthy Of note that the
bank held, January 3, but S4O5, 0O0, 900
in specie, against 1865, 100000 on June
%, 1877. The government and the bank
evidently see and appreciate the perils Of
resumption, while, Notwithstanding the
facts that their country is creditor with
the rest of the world, and il steadily i'm
porting specie, the bank has lost $50,-
100 600 within six months. All such
unimportant and trifing considerations
az these are, however, overlooked and
disregarded by the great statesmen at the
head OF our Affairs who fail to think or
care what kind Of a chance our poor
debtor country and its industries would
stand if our treasury resumed on paltry
800. O00, 900 specie while liable to have
foreign calls for $1,000, 600, 600 within
year if any great canvulsion should occur
in Europe. Veily do fools rush in
where angels fear to tread"
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II 900 Of their enemies in year in a
.ingle ration. Agricultural obstacles
are not 80 easily surmounted as many
suppose. AS farmers we must go back
TO the origin of things.
Not to do so is TO take a very super
fetal view of agriculture. Our advan-
tapes are large, but not without some
nrominent disadvantages. Perhaps the
Greatest difficulty we encounter is the
absence of a taste for sound agricultural
reading and a want of appreciation o.
useful knowledge. In his late message
to the legislature, Gov. Robinson, Of New
York, says the common school librarie-
of that state contain 765, $40 volumes
equal toabout 20 to each school. Agri
cultural Libraries are too little known to
common farmers in the south and west.
Thought il progressive.
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Noremedisl agent has ever been offered 70
the sick and debiliiated mt all comparable
Hosietters Stomach Bitters, in cases of re.
mltetnt aud observation-disclosures, constipation.
nervous aIlmeut-, rheumatism and disorder
involving constitutional weakness or pbysi.
cal decay. " Itiiterally works wonders The
botanic ingredients, hich its spirituot basis
holds Ia solution, act ike q charm upon the
stomach, gnd through the stomach upon the
brain, liver, bowels and nervous system.
There is nothing in H. composition that's not
saiubriOus. IL contains some Of the most DO
tent tones Of the vegetable kingdom and the
juices Of the best aperient and an.i-bilious
roots and herbs, combined with a perfectly
pure stimulating element. The Bitters are
peculiarly adapted to those engaged IN
eEhausti1g or unhealthy occupations, as by
d.. use strength j. sustained and the ability
Of the system 20 resist atmospheric aud other
influences prrildicial 70 health largely
increased
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tanning ooJs, DWalIt.es

Southern farmers who have TO deal
with unreliable labor or thievsih neigh-
bors, often imagine that their troubles
and difficulties are greater than those
endured by their class in any other part
of the world. The attention Of such Is
called 10 reliable statistics collected in
British India by the government. In
the year 1875. 81 ,89l persons were killed
by snakes and wild animals in that
country, and 48, pa head of cattle.
Over 81, 900 persons killed by inferior
animals and over $1,000 head Of the
tanners cattle killed in twelve months,
telithe reader of the existence of kind
OF warfare from year to year and from
generation TO generation, of which We
know next to nothing in the southern
states. The government of the empress
OF India pays bounty for the destruc-
ton OF the snakes aud ferocious beasts
most harmful to man, and we find the
statistics exceedingly interesting. Wolv>a
killed 1,o6l persons, and in return 2, SO
wolves were slain. Tigers killed s28
persons. The number of tigers slain is
not stated. Leopards slew 204 human
beings and of these animals 2.5l2 were
slain, the bounty being high to
lessen their number. Bears slew 81
persons and lost in the warfare. ISL
Of their number. Hyenas slew GO of our
species, and 1886 of the tribe were sIsin.
Strange to say, wild beasts commit little
havoc as compared with the loss by
snakes. In the year under notice tbes
reptiles killed II, 070 of our fellow.beinos
"a verv resuectable army.
But the war was carried into As;o nv
Che government of the new empress Of
India, which paid bounty on the sey-
eral heads of 270,ls5 poisonous snokes
killed in enc year. Did this enmitv he
tween man and the serpent begin With
our first parents ? It is curions hat
while snakes killed over 1900 &c the
biped that laughs and cries, thev c.rsed
the death of only 3,166 cattle. In the
province OF Madras leopards killed 4 3oe
cattle and only "A human beings.
We have cited facts enough 70 nrove
that the wheat and cotton growers in
British India labor under peculiar diff
culties.
it il mistake TO suppose that Ns,,re
and Providence favor man conspiepo.I,, Of
the expense OF reptiles, tiger and
wolves. While woman in her best
state adds one or two to the on.
ulation of India of her - r.
a female serpent may add 100 II II 80,
reptile race. Hence, war Of evta-n,.
nation against poisonous snake. -
5000, and, probably. $4,000 YEAR, cTds
'nese siaAes numerous enough to kill
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Az the scholar sees in the vain bat Desuu
ful rnvtbologies OF the ancients til smDouie,,
expressions Of the hungry imam SoH
blindIv gropinq after the Inn ate, 80 "a
physician sees in that popular myth o. vi
sixteenth century the fOunts n OF psiPSSs1o
health and yOuth-an expression u ths'otLs
ings of suffering humanity for remedy INA
should forever prevent the III 'ursloo,
disease, The wilds Of Europe were ransaeAe5 Gu
for this wonderful fountain, and Ponce us
Leon sought for it in the cypress swamp a az
tangled everglades Of our sunny fioiua;
Men have searched for it everywhere auu
anywhere but where il really is-in the
human body itself The blood IS the real
fountain Of perpetual health and youth;
When this source IS corrupted, the pam ~ ~
and sorrow producing effects are visible ID
many shapes The multiiariOus forms ~
which IL manifests itself would form suplsce
upon which I might write volumes. BHl as
all the varied forms Of disease which depeha
upon bad blood are cured, or best tresSea,
by such medicines as take up from TINS hulo
and eXcrete from the system the no1'u
elements, ii is not Of practical imporIahce
that ] should describe each. For instance,
medical authors describe about fifty yal}e
ties Of skin disease, but as theyaH requireior
their cure very similar treatment, 10 IS OF no
practical ility 10 know just what name to
apply 20 a certain form OF skin disease, SO
you know how best TO cure il. Then again,
] ight 90 on and describe various kinds OF
scrOfulOEs sores, fever sores white swellings,
enlarged glands, and ulcers Of varying aP
pearance might describe how virulent
poison may show itself in various forms Of
eruptions, ulcers, sore throat bouy tum0rs
etc. but as al these various appearing mani
IeEtauons Of bad blood are cured by q mi
form means, deem sucn course unness
sary- Thoroughly cleanse the blood, which
IS the great fountain Of life and good dyes
ton, fair skin, buoyant spirits, vital
strength, and soundncss OF constitution, viii
all return 70 us. For this pnrpose DR..
Pitrce's Golden Medical Discovery and Pu.
gatiye Pellets are pre-emneutly the artaes
needed They age warranted - cure tet;eT,
salt rheum, seald head, 81. Anthony's FIRE,
rose Fash or cry sipeias, ring worms, pimples
blotchee, spots, erUptions, pustules, boils
carouncles, sore eyes, rough skin, scuri
scrofulous sores aud sseIiiHgs, fever
sores, white sEcllings, tumors, old sores or
dwellings affections OF the skin, throat end
bones and ulcers Of the liver, stomach
kidneys and LUNGS
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Mari and Lime as Fertilizers.

Sand or clay was most conspicuous in
the marls used by European farmers.
Chemistry revealed the presence of lime,
iron, potash, magnesia, soda, chlorine,
phOspboric, sulphuric and carbonic acids
in many marls The fertilizing substam-
ces attracted more attention than either
sand or clay, for then value depends
mainly on the alkaline earths, alkalies
and acids present. Lime and magnesia
are called alkaline earths; potash and
soda, alkalies. ANY earth deposit
whether clay or sand predominates, that
contains a good deal of soft unctious
ime, magnesia or potash, may be con-
sidered as variety of mari.
II seems that minerals which form the
food of plants, have an attraction for
each other 30 as TO accumulate in masses.
instead Of remaining widely separated "a
in the ocean or in primitive rocks. For
instance, there is law which unites the
lime derived from hornblende and sven.
enite with potash that comes from very
different rock, namely, granite. Our
largest oaks, poplars and hickories grow
on limestone soils, where they find not
only lime, but full supply of potash, az
may be demonstrated by the strength of
their ashes in this alkali. Let one learn
how rich mari Is formed by manure,
and he will be likely TO understand
borv farftIa oo;Ia aro ,,o1a
The same law that accumuIates lime
rock in mountain masses, and iron in
little less quantities, collects salts OF soda
magnesia, potash and lime in quantities
available as manure in a concentrated
form. Thus, the phosphates found in
South Carolina are sent to England to be
used .as food for growing crops, along
with Ditrates from Chill and guano from
Peru. Mineral fertilizers should be more
studied, for they exist wherever agri.
culture is possible; and mari and lime
are proper starting points in the investi-
CATION. An East Tennessee farmer says
that it costs him only 500 TO burn 500
bushels of lime, an average OF II cents a
bushel
He applies from $50 to $50 bushels OF
Inslacked lime to the acre, and spreads
it as soon as the heaps become air-slaked.
He finds it profitable on both clay and
sandy lands. This is burning lime for
less than half the cost in New jersey.
Pennsylvania and New York. Marl il
more used in New Jersey than in any
other state. Potash mari is preferred.
The German chloride of potassium is re-
garded as the cheapest source of this
alkali, except where one has mari that
contains it near by. Lining helps soils
TO produce clover and wheat.
Mixing clay and sandy land to inn
prove the texture and constituents of
both is practice quite as old as any
written history and lining and marling
are the first steps in advance of that
primitive art. PAIRING turf and chsrring
il to obtain turf ashes and roasted clay
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SANDAL-WOOD

4 positive remedy Tor All diseases ofthe Hid1fy,
Bladder and Urinary Organs; also COCO ioi
sTOpsfcai Com plants. II never produces sies
ness, is certain and speedy in its action IL 10
lest supersedirg every other remedy. Sixty Capsules
cure IN six or eight days. No other medicine san
do this.
Reware Of gTrzifHtsOas. tor. owing 70 its gre.
success. many have been offered; some ars mos,
dangerous. causing piles. etc.
Duudas, Dick * co.'s Genuine sol OaB
sues containing Oil Of ssndalwood sold at 81 oras
stores Ask for circular or send for ons TO % @ao q
No
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In and Out Of He'll.

Once upon a time, Hosea Ballou and
LYMAN Beecher met TO compare Calvin
is.n and Universalism. Both were biole
men. and each came armed with textual
missiles. After several apostolic blows
from each, shrewdiy parried by The
other. DIR. Beecher opened to the ninth
psalm and read: "The wicked shall be
sufpcd into hell, snd all the nations that
forget God y There, sir, the wicked arc
N h, u; get them out If you can" Ho.
~ea Ba'lou, calm as summer morning
% nting to the Goth chapter OF Johns
Revelation, read: death and hell de
livered up the dead which were in them. D
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japanese Ingenuity.

A correspondent writing from Toxic
on the prospects Of trade with that
country in Amerion manufactures, says ::
During and aaer the Philadelphia
exhibition the japanese commission
bought large qumtity of agricultural
implements, and 50 anxious were the
dealers to open a tIsde with Japan that
they sold these SIMPLE articles at less
than wholesale figures. In due course
of tim the things arrived here, and the
sharpeyed mechanics went TO work to
copy them. Theyare now making cast
iron plows just IS cheaply az we can
make them in America, and at less price
than it would cost 10 deliver them here.
Harrows, cuItiyators, seed sewers and
similar simple Implements they are
copying to perfection /; they may buy
few now and then In America, but it
will be solely that they may use them
az models. With reapers, mowers and
similar intricate constructions they have
not succeeded as yet, but are confident
of doing so in time. and, in any event,
the character of the country and its
agriculture, and the low price of labor,
will prevent large demand for this sort
Of labor-saving machinery. Hoes, SHOW
els and other hand tools they have not
attempted to any great extent, and thus
far they have not been able to get the
peculiar strength and flexibility which
IS the boast of the American maker. the
Japanese laborer is 8 conservative being,
and viii not readily surrender the impIe-
may do so in time snd when he does he
will purchase onT productions, provided,
in the meanwhile, homemade article Of
equal excellence does not come to light;
There are no patent laws IN Japan, and
the inventor has no protection II the
native mechanics can succeed IN copying
what he has created. A young american
making fortnna ant of refrigerator,
the invention Of an enterprising country
man. But be f found in the first glac4
that the japanese made no use Of the
rticle he brought; and, second, they
could copy them.
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The most remarkable statement was
as Senator Beck declared. carefully
and trulh'ully prepared" The proof Is
in the official records. at viii satisfy
the country" said the senator, " and
ought to satisfy the bondholders and
their advocates, that they ought not 10
insult a suffering people whose hard
earnings have gone to enrich them by
any complaint of want of good faith 70
them In the effect we are making 10 save
the country rom bankruptcy.
One thousand million of profits, and
vet the bondholders cry for more Let
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GOLD BONANZA.
IT, Eo-tnnee Are Made!

HOW FOTLuHCb IhIO 4It'HV'
Many poor men on the Pacific coast are
made rich every year by small investments
in mines without risk.
The HERALD, published at Calais, Maine,
says, they have no doubt the shares that
can now be had at One Dollar, viii soon be
worth over S500.O0 each.
Send at once for full particulars, as the
shares are being rapidly taken. Address
Mess. Brown q Bro, Bankers,
CALAIS, MAINE.
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HIGHLY IMPoRTAET-I IL claimed
that Johnson's Anodyne Linirnent is almost
infalible in the cure of Diphtheria, Pneu-
mouia, Influenza, Bronchitis, Congestion Of
the Lungs, and hard, dry Coughs. TINS may
ell be true: we know it viii certainly
prevent d'phtheria, and that il VIII cure the
crOuB Instantly