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Farmers, attention!

VUsr ARRIVED, PER STEAMER,
q Choice Glover, Timothy, Orchara and
Blue Grasses, White and mixed Oats. at
bottom cash prices
fsb7-2t j. II. PLAUT s BIO.
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a pple Vinegar.
LET Us Have Peace.

DUP THE WAR in the price Of Gro
ID ceries only shows hat you can buy
the very best quality 1T the very lowest
prices, at
apps JOHN WHITING s.
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Il AIDES AND MISSES FELT SKIRTS.
Children's Wool Hose Ladies' Col
lars aud Cuffs, Blankets. Shawls, Yarn,
SC. all of which will be sold at bottom
prices at j. AMBERG ) SONS.
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EARu F<,Is RENE

INCUR MILES BELOW HICKMAN
Il ror further Information inquire Mt
h-9-u THIS OFFICE.
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ctin. nuIIuro.

"HACKMETACK, popular and fra
grant perfume. Sold by c. \. Holcombe,
Druggist, Hickman, Cy. jal7-ly
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II Jour liver troubles you buy Sim
mems Liver Medicine. in green wrapper,
st Buck i CowoILL
Prui' is generally reported killed in
Southern and Western Kentucky, but all
right in the Eastern and Northern parts
OF the State.
Don fail to read the orders from
issue. Every portion Of town is to un-
derge like Investigation.
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WE WILL SELL THE REMAINDER
w OF our Fall and Winter goods re
Rardess Of cost Call and examine be-
fore buying elsewhere No trouble to
show goods. J. AMBERG'S SONS.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-30
CURRENT NEWS.
WASHINGTON,

The Missississi River Improvement Com
mission met at Washington on the 18th and
organized with Gen. Q. A. Gilmore rs Pres
ident and Gen. Comstock Secretary pro TEN.
Committees were appointed, to submit rec
concentrations as to the best method Of OBJ
tanning and compiling statistics of trade,
commerce, etc., of the Mississippi Valley,
and such other data rs may be required for
the use of the Commission; also, to prepare
plan for the future work of the Commits
sion, aud to make such recommendations as
they may deem necessary with regard to the
Use and expenditure of the existing appro-
priation of $40, 900. st. Louis has been
selected rs permanent headquarters of the
Commission.
The President has appointed Philip o.
Wales of Maryland to he Surgeon General of
the United States Navy and Chief of the
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, vice J.
Winthrop Taylor, retired. DIR. Wales was
formerly Medical Inspector Of the Navy.
The American Ministers to Peru, Chill,
and Bolivia have been instructed to repre-
sent to their respective Governments that
the United States will be ready at any time
when requested by each of those nations
now at war TO use its good offices to bring
about peace. This step has been taken by
our Government as an evidence of its friendly
feeling toward these nations, and the inter-
est of our South American commerce.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-30
A Boy Philosopher.

A few days ago Justice of the Peace
John Weber took his little son down to
Toledo on an excursion. The lad inter-
viewed the man at the wheel and gath
cred much information relative to the
business of steamboating. Presently
his father joined him on the hurricane
deck and asked him how he was enjoy
ing himself. First-rate,'' was the en-
thusiastic reply, I'm goin' to be a
steamboatman, papa" 'All right, y
responded the Judge" ''but you'll
have to study navigation, astronomy and
divers other sciences, in order to become
IL good one'' The lad said nothing at
the time, but appeared to be revolving
the difficulties of the case in his mind.
Perhaps half an hour later he remarked,
with much gravity, "Papa, | guess
won't he Il steamboatman. I'd rather
be Justice of the Peace; you don't
have to know any thing for that. De
fy.OH Free Press.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-30
HOuse.wOrk.

If a certain man once offered an eX-
cuse for suicide to the effect that the
necessary routine of rising every morn
ing, making a toilet, and retiring ev-
erV night had rendered life tedious to
him, who can wonder that the house
keeper sometimes finds the dull details
of house-work almost tinsupportable, and
questions if they are not sapping the
sources of youth, strength, and good
spirits? Washing dishes thrice daily,
making beds and fires diurnally, dusting
perpetually, going through with the
weary round of washing, ironing, sweep
ing, and baking day, week after week,
with no variation but wet Monday or a
poor oven; planning out the meals that
there may be variety enough to stimu-
late appetite without much expense or
the waste of a farthing; add to these the
spring and fall cleaning, and we have
the programme of ordinary house-work.
1t may be presumed that it is not so
much the labor that Oppresses many
women, and inclines them to slackness
and shiftlessness, as the wearying repeti-
ton of acts i'm which they have small
interest, when they would be about
work of their own choosing, and the GER
tainty that, perform each task as faith
fully as may be, there is nothing endur-
ing in its nature; and since it must be
often repeated, why should one be so
nice in its accomplishment they may
argue how will a slight here and there
signify in a matter so immaterial? And
thus, in spite of the adage that "prac-
tice makes perfect" neglect creeps into
the practice, and mars its perfection.
Perhaps the housewife does not sweep
her room so thoroughly to-day because
the operation must be repeated to-mor-
row, nor dust so particularly, since dust,
unlike her coffee, has trick of settling
often. Why should she take unsparing
pains with food which is to be eaten up
as soon as it is out of the oven, and not
by visitors either, who would credit her
with skill? Or why be {. fussy" about
the beds that are to be tumbled
in few hours? At the same
time, what is worth doing at all,
is worth doing well, they tell
us. Why did she undertake a business
for which she had no talent, and in
which she finds nothing congenial? For
whom does she bake and brewP whose
breath does she keep in the nostrils by
! her handicraftp for whom does she seek
to make home neat and attractive? Are
not those dearest to her benefited by
her exertions, and shall irksome routine
stand in the way of their welfare and
! comfort? Does not Nature herself sci
us an example of routine and repetition
in which there is no shadow of shirk.
ing? What if she should omit such lit.
tie details as the grass, the early and
latter rains, the planetary movements
In the economy of the household every
disregarded duty or slighted task tells
its own story in the long account, as the
old geologic formations have registered
the rains of their period; and as every
household is Il fraction of the divine
economy, house-work in its homelies
phases is promoted from a menial, un
considered thing to dignity and power
|-Hdrper's Bazar.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-30
How Bessemer Learned.

1t will be of interest to the reader to
learn that, according to BesSemer's IS
statement, his knowledge of iron metal
lurgy was at that time very limited, so
that he had to get up the whole of the
subject He is now, however, of opinion
that his ignorance proved of great adj
vantage to him, as he had very little to
unlearn, and could thus approach the
subject free from the bias inseparable
from those who have followed beaten
track and vainly endeavor to get out of
the rut These words of Bessemer re-
quired, however, to be carefully consid-
cred. He does not imply that a state of
ignorance would enable him to invent,
as many schemers imagine, who put
forth crude ideas which are crushed by
practical men. He set to work to learn
the whole business thoroughly, first from
books and then in the foundries. Still
it will be seen that here was man well
on in the world, who set himself to hard
learning, while many of us think that we
can do very well without learning at all,
or without learning any more. To the
public who thus get details at first
hand, it is also of interest to know that,
having built small experimental IRON
works in st. Pancras, and begun his
preliminary trials, months rolled on, and
he spared neither labor nor money, but
made failure after failure. To the wise
man however, failure is way of learn
ing, and failures are carefully recorded,
first, because they show us the way how
to save our time by not trying the fail
ure over again; secondly, because they
show us, through narrowing the field, in
what way we must try; and thirdly, be-
cause they in themselves often suggest
some further experiment. Bessemer,
indeed, says that dnring this long time
of failure he was accommodating many
important facts which could not but
ultimately be of value to him.-London
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-30
THE YELLOW FEVER.

On the 10Th there We're 81 new eases and
four deaths from yellow fever at Memphis
The disease had extended to the locality
known as Chelsea, a portion of the city here
tofore exempt from the disease.
The case of yellow fever at Bailey Sta
tion, Tenn. has been traced directly to in
fection from some trunks taken from Mem
phis about three weeks previous to the de-
yelopment of the disease at Bailey Station.
On the Goth there were four deaths from
fever and % new cases mt Memphis.
The Mississippi State Board Of Health has
established a quarantine station at Com
merce, where downward bound boats must
land for inspection and the issuance of cer-
tihcates to passengers. \ similar station
has been established at Fort Adams, for up
ward bound boats.
Letter boxes are prominently placed in
the New-York Post -oflice, bearing the fol-
lowing inscription: Contributions receiv-
ed in this box for the orphans of yellow fever
sufferers atINIemphis.'
Houston, Texas, has declared quarantine
against Galveston, on account of the latter
city permitting the steamer Colorado, from
West India ports, TO land and take in cargo
at her wharves.
There were four deaths from fever and u
new eases ut Memphis on the 2lst.
On the 22d at Memphis there We're II
deaths from fever and ii new cases.
Two additional cases of yellow fevel
were reported at New Orleans on the 22d
sunnosed to he the result of infection from
former cases.
There were IL new cases of yellow fevel
and II deaths ,t Namnb;s on tho oad N,
| the o4tb tborn were 10 new cosos ,rd
| deaths
For tho ,vo.l, .ndin,, IrI, % ,boro y,or.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-30
Quarantine Regulations.

NASHVILLE, TENN, August 1S.-At o
called session of the Tennessee State Board
of Health, the following resolutions were
adopted for the government of Memphis, or
other infected points:
!. No person shall be permitted to enter q
town or place which is dangerously affected
with yellow lever, unless suSh person mas az
obtaining the permission OF the Superintend-
ent of Quarantine.
2. The Superintendent of Quarantine at each
place dangerously Infected shall have charge
and control, with the counsel and advice OF
this Board, of the disinfection of houses,
privies, cellars, clothing, bedding and all
other textile fabrics, baggage, mails, cars, de-
pots, sewers, drains public and private, and
Other things and places; as 1T it syfat y Ss at any
3. Local Boards of Health are expected to
have charge of and enforce general sanitation
within the limits of their respective jurisdit
ton, and give aid and support to the Supcr1n-
tendcnt of Quarantine during cpidcmics, IN
the carrying out of said rules ANA regulations
rs the State Board may from time to time
adopt.
The following rules were also adopted:
!. A house infected with yellow fever shall
be designated by n yellow flag.
=. No person shall be permitted to enter
house infected with yellow fever except phy-
sicians, clergymcn, and such nurses ana as
sistants us are necessary To care Tor the SICK.
8. No persons except physicians and cler-
gymen shall be permitted to leave an IN
fectcd house without the permission in writ
ing OF the superintendent OF me quarantine,
they having first complied with such method
of disnfcction rs may be prescribed by him.
4. Physicians and clergymen may enter and
retire from the apartments of the sick OF yel-
low fever ut ali hours, provided, however
that they shall not enter any non Injected
house, carriage, car or other public place OF
resort, until their persons and apparel have
been thoroughly disinfected:
3. Public assemblies of all kinds are pro,
hibitcd in any place dangerously injected
with yellow fever, and the Superintendent OF
Quarantine is charged with the rigid enforce
ment of this rule.
6. From the hour of p. m. until the houI
of a. M. each and all persons not engaged IN
the care of sick or in the execution ol
their duties as officers of the law shall re-
main ut their homes or their respective prem
ises, unless by permission of the Supcrintend'
ent of Quarantine.
The enforcement of this rule was left to
the discretion of the President.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-30
EAST AND SOUTHEAST.

1t is now known that the body of the late
A. T. Stewart Of New York, stolen from the
family vault soon after its interment, has
never been recovered. Within few months
past parties i'm Montreal, Canada, have made
overtures for the return of the body, through
Mr.. p. III. Jones, n well known lawyer of
New York, formerly Postmaster of that city,
the correspondence being conducted under
the presumed fictitious name Of Henry G.
Romaine, and mainly through "'personals :"
in the newspapers. The coffin-plate and n
scrap of velvet taken from the coffin were
sent rs a means Of identification sufficient to
warrant the opening Of negotiations. The
terms demanded were the payment of 20O,-
900 i'm cash upon the delivery of the body, the
transaction to take place i'm Canada. Mr..
Hilton peremptorily declined to accede to
the terms proposed, and rs the body snatch
ers refuse to make any concessions, the ne
gotiations are suspended at present.
A most destructive storm occurred along
the Atlantic coast, from North Carolina to
Maine, on the 18th. 1t was central near
Cape Hatteras, and moved i'm a northeasterly
direction. At Beaufort, n. c., the Atlantic
House, large summer hotel, was entirely
demolished, not II vestige being left. There
were $50 guests i'm the house mt the time, and
| they did not begin to leave until the waves
were literally breaking the hotel i'm pieces,
when there was a stampede, clothing and
other personal property being abandoned to
the waters. John Hughes, son OF Major
Hughes of Newberne, was drowned. The
Ocean View House, the other hotel at Beau
fort, is damaged badly, and many private
houses are ruined. At Cape Henry the gale
was so terrific that the lighthouse glasses
were blown out, the first case Of the kind on
record. At Norfolk number Of buildings
were unroofed and flooded. The tide was
the highest ever known in that locality The
New Jersey seaside resorts suffered no little
| damage. Along the entire New England
coast the wind blew hurricane. The dam
age to shipping has certainly been very great.
MANY small craft are known so have gone
down. and doubtless MANY lives were lost
| By the fall of n rotten bridge over the
Horsatonic River at Rockbridge. Mass. on
the 18th, a wagon and six occupants went
into the river. Somers BENJAMIN, aged -,
of South Egremont, was killed. Aggie
Ronald and Fanny Milard were seriously
wounded.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-30
FOREIGN.

Recent adviceS from the City of Mexico
represent a very critical condition of affairs
existing i'm. the State of Vera Cruz, where
the Spanish element is accused of instigating
disorders. the cause of their dissatisfaction,
as alleged, being the laws against smuggling.
Government troops were rapidly concentrat-
ing in Vera Cruz, to quell the incipient revo-
luton.
Judgments of the Russian Military
Tribunal against number of Nihilists have
been published. Five men are sentenced to
be hanged, one woman TO be sent to Siberia,
and % other prisoners TO 10 years penal
servitude.
The Edison Company have obtained per-
mission from the French Government to es-
tablish telephone communication between
the various quarters of Paris.
A Provisional Government has been form
ed in Hayti, with Gen. Lamotte President.
The city of Port an Prince is quiet, as also
are the southern provinces. The northern
provinces, however, are much disturbed.
The action of Lieut.. Carey, who accom-
panied the Prince Imperial on his unfortun-
ate expedition, seems likely to be vindicated,
notwithstanding the summary verdict of the
Court-martial by which he was tried. That
verdict has been set aside, and in addition
the Duke of Cambridge, Commander in
Chief of the Army, has written a
letter to Lieut.. Carey, reviewing the circum-
stances of the death of the Prince Imperial,
and concluding with the opinion that after
the surprise of the accommodating party by
the Zulus, resistance was impossible and n
retreat imperative.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-30

Some of the Chicago papers are be-
moaning the fact that the typographical
error still exists. One of them recently
wanted to say, Holy of holies," when
the type made it, '.Baby of babies, -
which was slightly ridiculous. Another
said :. Prairie-chicken citizens of Mem
phis," instead of, Panic-stricken citi.
zens. - The same paper explained that
instead of saying, Mr.. Browns great
PUG nose" il. meant to say MIR.
Browns great purpose" as the context
would show. This was about rs bad as
the New England journal that made the
clergvman's text read, sis there no
barn in Gilfordpn
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-30
GENERAL.

The Russian Government is about signing
a contract with American firms for the con-
struction of n number of cruisers, at an ag-
gregate cost of $1,000, 900 roubles (about
SIS, 900 ,000).
A new line of mail steamers is to he estab-
lished between New Orleans and New York
and British Honduras.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-30

At a legal investigation of a liquor
seizure, the Judge asked an unwilling
witness: "What was in the barrel that
you hadP" The reply was: g Well,
your Honor, it was marked whisky on
one end of the barrel and Pat Duffy
on the other end, so that | can't say
whether it was whisky or Pat Duffy was
in the barrel, being as | am ON my oath. "
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-30

The commercial statistics of Nor
folk, Va, show its importance. There
was 81, ,751 ,645 worth of truck shipped
from that port during 1873; the oyster
trade reaches the value of $3.50, 900, and
gives employment to $500 people; as
a peanut port it ranks first, and rs
point for cotton shipment third among
the cities of the Union.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-30

In the paper collar industry nearly
10, 900 girls from u to 16 years of age
are employed A skillful girl can count
and box $4,000 collars during a day of
10 hours length. Many hundreds work
in gold-leaf factories, where delicacy of
touch and close attention are indispen-
sable rather than heavy labor.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-30
A Georgia Mountain Disappearing in
Singular Manner.

News has been received of the further
sinking of the large mountain in North
Georgia which dropped into suddenly
made chasm some time since. The
mountain, known as Tugalo, is an enor-
nous one. 1t is more than two miles
about its base, and is about rs high Us
Stone Mountain. Some months ago
laundering noise was heard, us if live
" earthquake had suddenly commenced
operations. A gentleman who was 60
ing by the Tugalo Mountain looked to-
ward it, and was amazed To see fully one
third of the enormous mass break loose
from the rest and suddenly vanish into
the earth beneath, carrying with it i'm
mense trees, stones, etc. After II few
days the scene was visited, and it was
found that the ground ON which about
one third of the mountain was resting
had opened or broken through, and the
mass, thus being left without support,
tumbled into the chasm thus provided
for it. 1t apparently about filled this
chasm to II level with the ground, but
has since been sinking. No one can inn
agine the cause, and fears are entertain
ed that the rest of the mountain must
| follow. The side from which the falling
mass was torn is ragged and irregular,
no qualification having been followed in
the tearing loose. The mass has just
! let down about two feet further, and the
whole case will be investigated by COM
petent scientists, who are determined to
| probe the secret of the lost mountain.
The Mrs. Sartoris who died in Eng
/ land lately was the mother of Nellie
| Grants husband, Mrs. Edward Sartoris,
who, before her marriage, was Miss
! Adelaide Kemble, and an operatic sing
er. She retired from the stage upon be-
ing married, in 1913. Several years ago
she published book, "A Week in q
French Country House." She was i
Younger sister of Fanny Kemble Butler
the celebrated actress, reader and au
thoreSS.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-30
1T is a hard moment in life,'' is Il

cit is hard moment in life, is the
remark placed by II witty HHeroteur of
the day in the lips OF an imaginary
Frenchman, ''when one finds that love,
glory, honor, ambition, are not on the
whole worth good cigar" g Yes, is
the reply of Il cynical friend; 6 but it is
Il harder moment still when one finds
that the cigar itself is bad.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-30

Hilaire Latromouillc, French Canadian
tramp, was hanged at Albany, n. V, on
the Goth, for the murder of Catharine Duns-
bach, n farmers daughter, in April last.
The murder was committed for the sake of
robbery, the old farmers little hoard of
money, which he was reported to keep Sc
creted in his house, being the object sought.
The daughter, who was left alone in the
house, was, after short struggle, subdued
by the robber, and her throat cut from ear
to ear.
Governor Hendricks has been recreating
recently at Block Island, near New York
City, and announced to a Sun correspondent
his unalterabe determination not to again
accept second place on the Presidential
ticket.
Mrs. John Tillinghast of Utica, n. y, on
the Goth, during temporary fit Of insanity,
while recovering from an epileptic fit, pour
ed kerosene oil on the fire. The can eX-
ploded, and neighbors, rushing into the
house, found her sitting in the rocking
chair, enveloped i'm flames. She died soon
after.
The American Linen Company Of Fall
River, Mass. lose 5 159, 900 by the defalca-
ton of Paine, their third Treasurer.
An earthquake shock was experienced at
an early hour on the morning of the 21st at
Port Dalhousie and other places i'm Canada; i;
and similar shock was felt at Lockport, n.
Y, about noon of the same day.
Angelo Amfanc, otherwise known as Lar
ry O'Neil, the third of the conspirators en-
gagged in the murder of Mr.. Frye at Boston,
was arrested in New York on the odd.
Three men were killed by the explosion
of Il saw-mill boiler at Wilson, n. c. on
the 22d.
At Pottstown, Pa, on the 25th, Samuel
Lauer, member of the Town Council, was
killed, and John Hoffman Price, Will Lauer,
Haston Bell and a man named Boyer, it is
believed fatally injured, by the falling of an
arch. at the blast furnace of the Pottstown
Iron Company.
The naphtha lamp of peddler at Daniel
sonville, Conn, used to light his stand, eN-
ploded, setting the clothes OF three children
on fire. One, Walter Bowman, is dead,
and another, named Lucien, not expected
to live.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-30

Nearly 100 first-class scabinet-makers
have been hired at Boston and the vicin-
ity within the past few weeks and set to
work in the furniture shops of Chicago.