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The Hickman courier., 1879-11-07
The True Position.

off the Democrats party are wise,
and especially the Southern wing of
it, they certainly caa not fail to see
what appears to US 10 be not only a
golden opportunity, but a patriotic du
ty, to settle finally aud forever the
most annoying and troublesome of all
questions in American politics, viz:
the negro question. La our opinion,
not only the party 8: good, but that of
the country, will be greatly promoted
by encouraging the negro exodus by
all fair and reasonable means. Now,
while tie eyes of the whole of Europe
are turned to our shores, let US eucour-
age the colored men to move to States
where they can avaia themselves of all
the rights and benefits to be derived
from Republican rule, and supply their
places in the Southern States with ca
pable and intelligent foreigners, who,
by the way, have neVer been in very
great favor with tho Republican party
Then each section tgill be better suited
with the character Of its labor; aud we
assure our Democratic friends that
however much they NAV cry peace
there will be no peace just, so long AZ
the colored people remain South oil
Mason and Dixon's line.
The Republicans have cluug with
desperation to the negro vote and tc
the policy of promoting a spirit of en-
nifty between the white aud black ra
ces in the South, caring not how many
Southern whites and blacks were kill.
ed, so that they we're able to keep the
outrage mill grinding for the purpose
of keeping themselves in Office.
I'VE repeat the true policy Of the
Democratic party il to encourage 'he
negro vote to go North, and to supply
/ his place with white labor from foreign
| countries. With the settlement OF thi,
question sectionalism in politics would
disappear, and the party could ther
take by the throat the rapidly growing
monster of Federalism, which will Ger
tainly strangle the life out of the Re
public if not arrested 10 time"
The Hickman courier., 1879-11-07

and the cheapest. Let the public be
come convinced of this fact, and these
schools will be established. If we have
not the nerve and ability to lead in
these matters, we shall see our places
filed by teachers who have. A few
moments reflection will convince any
man that private primary schools are
much more costly than public schools.
That Fulton county already pays
enough money to private schools to
establish much better system than
We have, if it was used in a united ef
fort to build up the public school sys-
tenn. | say little ref ection will show
anyone that all the children in the
country could be educated under a
perfect working system for less money
than one third can possibly be educst
ed under our present plan. The great
effort made by the people to sustain
private schools proves that they are
interested in educational matters
What we lack is uoanimity of action.
Let teachers go to work energetically,
determine to be leaders and not mere
followers, aud we may expect to ac-
complish something.
The Hickman courier., 1879-11-07
Influence of Greenbacks.

He looked like a man who might
have had fifteen cents last fall, but who
had used the last of it weeks ago.
When he sat down in the restaurant
the walters paid no heed TO him, and
he raped several times before a color
ed man slid that way.
81 want fried oysters" said the man,
as he looked over the bill of fare.
"Dey is jist out, fried oysters is, y
replied the waiter.
bring me a chicken, then"
"Dere isn't a chicken 10 de place. ="
Got any venisOn ?" inquired the
man.
mot an inch, sah.'
"Auy ham and eggs ?"
s'No, sah.''
"See here" said the man, getting
vexed, 81 want a square meal. I've
got the ducats right here, and 1 can
pay for my dinner and buy your old
cookshop besides"
He lifted big roll of greenbacks
out of his pocket, shook it at the dar
key and continued
"Have you chicken?"
"Yes, sab, l guess so, sab; 1 have
de biggist kind O. belief dat since We
commenced to talk chicken has blown
into de kettle an being cooked. And
now about dat venison and dose fried
oysters-dey has also arrived"
The Hickman courier., 1879-11-07
TIlden Not Available.

Week by week-yes, day by day
IL Is being shown that Samuel j. Til
den has not the strength in the South
that is indispensable to the standard
oearer of the Democracy in 1880.
There are many reasons against Mr..
Iilden's nomination, reasons that have
taken such powerful hold upon men
that even party fealty will not be strong
enough TO shake them off.
The reasons can be briefly summed
up. The suspicion that rests upon
Mr Tilden concerning the manner 10
" nlch he conducted his canvass for the
Presidency in 1876, whether it be
SANDER or not, has made the country
Irrespective of party, doubtful of him
Even if he be DETAINED, he has DOT yet
been SHOWN to be such an injured man
that he can be revered as martyr
Then, the suit against him for his IN
cone tax, his quarrel with Cyrus w.
tled about the elevated railroad stock,
aud his increasing reputation for a
kind of shrewdness that would not be
becoming to a President of the United
Staes, do not need to be strengthened
s&he general opinion that he is man
ofcold heart to make him too uncer
tain aud consequently too unpopular TO
be tbs choice of any party.
Besides. there are those who com
plan that he was too vascillating at a
time when he might have been Presi
dent and however impulsive they
may be in condemning him for staying
on tie side of peace. they will be nc
less iupulsive in casting their votes al
the next election.
The idea that he is badly treated
man, and should at last receive his re
ward il 1880. will arouse as faint en-
thusian and will bring as poor re
turn a. the Ohio Idea There Is
but latle seutimentalism 10 politics
aud beaten man, il matters not how
he may have been beaten, is not avail
able as a candidate for any great Of
fee
Let Mr.. Tilden and Mr.. TiIden'
frields give up this personal struggle
let hem stop nominating men to rep
resent Mr.. TiIdcn; let them work fol
a c.use, not for a man.
The Democracy must strive not fo
persons, but for principles 10 thi'
wsy alone can the people gain tn,
greatest good.-Richmoud (Va.) State
The Hickman courier., 1879-11-07
nro,xnedIin Barley.

While vessel was being loaded
with barley at a wharf at Bowmanville,
Ont, on October 9Th, some boys went
up to the third st5ry of the elevator
and amused themselves by jumping
into the pin, from which the grain was
running by means of spout down to
the ground floor. One boy about,
eleven years of age, named Terry,
jumped into the shollow formed over
the hole of the spout, and being una
BILE to climb out vas drawn under the
grain aud smotheted. Attempts were
made to rescue him, but this was founu
to be impossible, land several hundred
bushels had to b$ run out on the floor
before he could be reached, taking
about two hours and a half. The pin
is about twenty FIVE feet deep, and the
boy was about ten feet under the grsiin
and standing upright when found
Life was quite extinct.
The Hickman courier., 1879-11-07
A Brave Indian.

An Indian known as 'Peaving Tom
hat a hand to hand encounter with a
lotof bears one day last week on the
mountain above Bucks ranch, which
mrst have been a terrible battle. He
was hunting in the locality spoken Of
ard found "bear wallow" in little
valley, and suddenly came upon five
bars. He says that he shot one, kill
ing it, when another attacked him.
His only dependence was IN his butch-
er knife, and with this he managed to
Kill the second one. About this time
another one attacked him, and the
conflict must have been fearful Part
of the Indians scalp p was torn from his
head, his face badly Iacerated aud his
arm. side and one thigh fairly 'eaten
ip." No bones we're broken, however,
AID he managed to stagger and crawl
to the road, where he was found and
t&en to Bucks ranch. Mr.. Wagner
dessed his wounds, and at last ac
cunts he was improving and in fair
my to recover. He says he would
hive been killed but that he kept his
fee down most of the time and let the
bars bite at his back. A party went
oat to the scene of the fight and found
tie three bears dead and the Indian s
knife sticking in one of them. He
must have been "game to the back
bone" aud deserves the title of the
eboss bear hunter. - Nevada City
| Herald
The Hickman courier., 1879-11-07
1 Can't Sing that Hymn Vow,

A Methodist minister when preach
ing on his circuit was accustomed to
opening his meetings by singing the
hymn beginning with the words: "Not
one foot of land do l possess One
day wealthy aRd benevolent member
of his congregation, having decided to
make him present, gave him a deed
to forty acres of land, which the old
gentleman accepted. At his next meet
ing he began singing his favorite
hymn, "Not one foot of land do I pos
sess." AT this point be stopped aud
remarked TO his congregation, mo,
can't sing that hymn now" He then
gave out another hymn. and services
proceeded. The next day he went to
the gentleman who had given him the
lard and told him that he must take
back his gift, as be would rather sing
his hymn than own the land. To>day
the city of indianapolis stands on
those forty acres.
The Hickman courier., 1879-11-07
Selma { (Ala.) Argus.

The people of the South have paid
their debts, and are accumulTing
money. The individual deposits in he
Bank of Alabama are larger to day
than at any time siHce the close of the
war in 1865 The prosperity of the
South contributes to the prosperity of
the nation The South has money to
spend, and Northern manufacturers
and merchants are following and sup
porting the political leaders whose
gospel is one of hate to the South, and
whose stock in trade is defamation OF
the people of the South The city OF
Cincinnati has spent 100000 to
build a railroad to the South, aud its
Republican papers are filled day after
day with malignant falsehoods about
the Southern people-thus inviting
commercial association with bulldozers
and assassins! The Commercial and
the Gazette annually cost the business
men of Cincinnati as much as 1t ha:
cost to build the railroad to Chatta
nooga.
The Hickman courier., 1879-11-07
wheat and the Fly.
Lexington Press.

Where wheat, $50 forward as to have
commenced jointing, has been attacked
by the fly, and ib beginning to show
its effects by dfooping and wilting'
then there is no. hope except in re-
planting. But qt any stage short OF
this, close grazing will stop the rava>
ges of the insect: and the winter rains
destroy the eggs entirely. Farmers
having sheep will do well to turn them
in on their wheat at once. They eat
it close to the ground without pulling
it up by the roots, thus cutting out
both fly and eggs, without injury to
the growing grain. Those in any
doubt about the ravages of the ny
should depend Upon close grazing Tor
the saving of the crop. In seven ca,
ses out of ten il will prove an efectua'
cure.
The Hickman courier., 1879-11-07
Remarkable Escape OF One Of
Clusters Packers.

john Laeiarr, a tail, fine looking
Young Frenchman, with hair perfectly
white, which strangely contrasts with
face so young, was pointed out to an
Independent reported on yesterday.
He is employed on Chas. d. Hard's
ranch, a few miles from town. al
though his hair is white, he is only
twenty fve years old, is compactly
built, and stands about six feet high
He left Fort Lincoln 10 1875 as pack
er for Clusters little band which rode
to their death that bright summers
day on the Little Big Horn. When
the fight began. the pack train was
three miles distant, and was attacked
by the Indiaas. The packers were
seven in number aud Immediately
scattered Only one escaped Ohm
Laefarr The instant after the attack
the horse which he rode was shot dead.
Another horse without saddle or bride,
stood close by, aud Laefarr noosed a
rode, placed it in the horses mouth,
jumped upon his back and started at
full gallop The firing and yelling
were ceasless Laefsrr had only rode
lew yards when he was shot through
the neck; a bullet plowed his cheek
and the Indians we're fast closing iD
and heading him off Another bullet
struck him in The thigh. He killed
the nearest Indian, but it was 20 time
to linger, for he was headed of on both
sides, aud deep, yawning precipice,
twenty feet wide was before him. The
desperate boy headed for the chasm.
preferriug death there to death at the
hands of the Indians Urging the
horse to his highest speed, he made
the fearful gap, but the noble horse
fell dead few yards from the preci
pice. riddled with bullets John crawl
ed from under him. and as he started
to run was shot in the body. Half a
mile distant was belt of tim Der, whose
friendly shelter he was seeking Bare
footed. weak and faint from loss oil
blood, and the bullets raining after
him the boy kept on with all the
speed he could over the prickIy pears
aud sharp pointed stones. The Idiaus
stopped on the other side of the preci-
pice, and the boy succeeded in making
the timber. Here he laid three day:
without food or water, and very weak
from the loss of blood. The fourth
morning he got up and attempted tc
walk but only walked fifteen or twenty
feet, when he fell down exhausted
Three Crow Indians saw him as he fel!
made signs and started toward him
but he did not know a Crow from I
Sioux and emptied his revolver a
them. The Crows finally come up
aud took him to Reno's command
Arriving their the boys tolG him hi
hair was white, but be did not believe
them until mirror was procured and
he was appalled, to find his hair, which
five days before was as black as a ra
ven's wing, was now white as snow
He was taken on a steam boat to For
Lincoln, where he remained fiv
months in the hospital, and finally re
covering, drifted to Mont&na.-Helen
| (Montana) Independent.
The Hickman courier., 1879-11-07

There has never been a period in the
history of this country when suicide
was more prevalent than it has been
during the past few years. Time was
when such an act was a sensation and
nine days wonder, now il seems to
be taken as a matter of course. and
dismissed with a paragraph. The
causes that are leading to the spread
of the too prevalent crime. might af-
ford study for humanitarians. 1t is
time for public opinion to bestir itself,
and see if they cannot be rooted out
Public opinion, which can make the
memory of suicide disgraceful. can
do much if it will only make itself
felt.
The Hickman courier., 1879-11-07
GOVERNOR BLACKBUKN.
what EHe says About EEIs Par
dOnS.

About nothing has the Governor
been so much bothered as about par
doning criminals. He opened his
mind pretty freely upon that subject.
The newspaper criticism upon his par
dons have done him great injustice,
he says: One would suppose, from
what the newspapers say that we went
TO the penitentiary and selected the
worst convicts and those thakhad long
est time TO serve as the objects of his Ex-
ecutiVe clemency. Nearly all those
[ have pardoned," said the Governor,
except twenty, were either sick, incu-
rably disabled or children. Of the re-
mainder, the majority of them had
served within brief period of their
full term in the State Prison, and
were pardoned more to restore them to
citizenship than anything else. "As
to children" he said, II wont permit
them to 90 into the peuitentiary for
stealing cheese aud crackers or some
equally trivial offense. l don't care
who sends them or from what court or
distriea. .tbey-oeme. If-they are sent
for life, then they may go in, but II
they are sent only for a short time to
be allowed to return to society after
having graduated in crime under the
instructions of the worst criminals in
that hot bed of crime, the peniten-
tiary, and lead criminal lives, terror
to society | won't permit them to 90
in The State has no right to add tC
the criminal class in that way. Il
isn't just and isn't human If ms
plan is not satisfactory, let the peoples
representatives find some other better
and more civilized plan, if not for The
reformation, then for the puni-hment
of childred guilty of small offeuses
If the courts continue to send them
shall stop them on the threshold of the
prison"
The Hickman courier., 1879-11-07
wild Pigeons.

Sportsmen are waking up to the fact
that the indiscriminate and wholesale
slaughter of pigeons is rapidly thin
ming out the species. Sporting papers
are full of complaints about the man
ner in which netters and trappers cap-
ture and kill the birds at their nest
ings in Michigan and elsewhere. 1t is
suggested that law be passed by all
States in which the pigeon brings forth
its young, prohibiting the killing or
trapping Of the birds for three years.
1t is claimed that this would give the
birds for three years. 1t is claimed
that this would give the iocks a chance
to recsperate to such an extent that
similar laws would not have to be pass
ed for years afterward. As a substi
tute for the pigeon during the years
that pigeon~destrOying is barred, the
marsh blackbird is suggested. This
bird Is very abundant on the Calumet,
Kaukakee and Illinois rivers. 1t Is
claimed that they are great corn and
grain destroyers, aud that they could
easily be spared. To show the way in
which sportsmen themselves massacre
pigeons. 1900 birds have recently
been Gagged for slaughter at Peoria.
The Illinois State Sportman' Asso-
citation is holding its great annual
shoot there this week.-Chicago Jour
nal
The Hickman courier., 1879-11-07
CurIous Document.

A report of the grand jury OF Floyd
county, gives au account in an un-
couth aud very unsatisfactory way of
one of the most gigantic frauds ever
perpetrated upon a people. A party
of officers conspire to deiraud the
State by going through all the formal
process of law, at great expense, for
the killing of one Cash Hall, that
turns out to have been a mountain cur
by that name. But let the document
speak for itself. Here it is:
STATE OF FlOyd
Criminal Court Special Term, Febru-
arg, 1679.-The grand jury returned
into court the following report which
is as follows:
To the Hon H. Z. Ste,oart, Judge of
the Floyd Criminal Court: The
grand jury would respectfully report
that, after session of fifteen days, we
have examined l25 witnesses and
made sixty-five Indictments We have
been engaged 10 the examination of a
new field which bas been unknown to
former grand jurors in this county.
We learn at the last term of this
court there were allowed about 81 900
in claims on the State Treasury, and
at the spring term there was also an
unreasonable amo unit of claims allow
ed, AS your Honor will remember,
at an early day of this term you made
an order directing each Justice of the
Peace in the county to bring in his
records, so that we might investigate
and ascertain whether or not he kept
a true record of proceedings in behalf
of the Commonwealth tried before him.
After your Honor called our attention
to the frauds, we got hold of some oi
their records. Those connected with
the frauds of which we are about to
speak, are justices and constables liv
ing on Lett Beaver, Middle creek and
Mud creek. We find that it is custom
among some of the justices and consta
bles to set on foot certain prosecution:
for felonies IN order to manufacture
claims against the State. Their mode
is about as follows: An officer viii
get two men to engage in a friendly
fight. in which stone or some weapon
will be used. so as to make a scratch
causing a slight flow of blood, or ;
wound The party doing the injury
is then hired to go out of the county
but on the way he leaves word where
the officer may fnd him. The Office
then goes with guard or two, gener
ally two, aud makes the arrest, and get
pay for transporting the prisoner from
one county to another, and general,
consumes some days on the trip. w
learn that there was prosecution Sc
on foot for killing Cash Hall. The
proceedings consumed good deal o
expense to the State.
1t was developed that the lament
ed Cash Hall was certain dog tha
had been killed in the neighborhood
The officers who, we learn, have bee
engaged in this fraud, are Garlan
Adams, Constable; Fondy Hamilton
Constable; j. w. Osborne, Justice c
the Peace; VIM Isaacs, Justice; job
Stumbo, Constable; w. w. Morgan
Justice; Alex. Hamilton, Justice
Pres. Condle, Constable; VIM. Isaac
Jr., Constable, and James johnson
Deputy Sheriff.
We find the jail and Clerks Office i
| oood nonditioa and uall kant
The Hickman courier., 1879-11-07

1t is current bard who sings, Il
sat alone with the conscious" Two
to one, puts in the Albany Journal,
he never had less fun in his born days
Scotch Presbyterian minister: Don't
you know that it's wicked to catch fish
on the Sabbath" Small boy (not
having had bite all the morning.
"Who's catchin' fsh?'
Friend to scientific authority: Doc
tor how is a man to tell a mushroom
from a toadstool? Scientific authority
BY eating it. IF you live, it is a
mushroom; if you die, it is toadstool.
johnny says his mother makes
great cry If his sister goes out without
her shade hat. She don't want her to
get freckled; but she doesn't seem to
care bit how much his father tans
him.
An exchange has an article on How
to Run a Newspaper" This should
be read only by editors, as every other
person in the world knows just how a
newspaper ought to be sun.-Oil City
Derrick.
A lawyer once said to a countrynan
in smock frock, who was undergoing
his examination in the witness box:
You. in a smockfrock, how much are
you paid for telling untruths?" LESS
than you are" was the reply, "or you
would be in smock-frock, too"
The Hickman courier., 1879-11-07

The Boston Herald says it's CORES
pondents in Massachusetts, report that
it is very hard to find an intelligent
Butler man who really believes that
General Butler has even chance oil
getting elected to the Goyernorship.
The Hickman courier., 1879-11-07
Mark Tvvatn.s Hotel.

Having lately opened hashery, |
send you these my rules aud regula-
tions:
This house will be considered strict
ly iutemperate. None but the brave
deserve the fare Persons owing bills
for board will be bored for bills. All
boarders who does not wish to pay in
advance are requested to advance and
pay. Boarders are expected to wait
Oh colored cooks for meals. Sheets
will be nightly changed once in six
mouths, or more if necessary. Double
boarders can have two beds with room
in it, or two rooms with bed in it, as
they choose. Boarders are requested
to pull off their boots. if they can
conveniently do so. Beds with or
without bugs All moneys and other
valuables are to be left in the care of
the proprietor This is to be insisted
on. as he will be responsible for no
other losses. Inside matter will not
be furnished editors under any con
sideration. Relatives coming to make
six months visit will be welcomed
but when they bring half their house
hold furniture, virtue will cease to be
forbearance. Single men with theil
families will not be boarded. Beds
with or without board. Dreams viii
be charged for by the dozen. Night
mares will be furnished to snoring
boarders, and the proprietor will in N
wise be responsible for the broker
tympanum of other ears"
The Hickman courier., 1879-11-07

"No pushee, no shovee, no pulie,
allie samee go like helle,'' was the Chi
uaman's first exclamation upon seeing
an automatic steam elevator.
The Hickman courier., 1879-11-07

This fraud was so glaring that it
could not possibly escape judicial in
vestigation, and Gov. ackburn, who
says this dog case cost the State of
Kentucky a considerable amount of
money, is determined that the officers
engaged in the robbery shall be dealt
with according to law But it is i'm
possible for the Auditor to know when
claims are fraudulent where they come
indorsed by the Judge of the court
who allows the claims and otherwise
strictly in accordance with the forms
of law.