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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-03-14

Tcnnessee9s Pemitem9iavy
EseneGi ofihe lessee System.

Correspondence Courier-Journ
They run the peuitentiary in Ten
nessee for all it is worth They run
it on the lessee system, which plan was
adopted in 1871 10 that year the
peuitentiary was leased for tern of
five years to Messrs Cherry o Conner
& c.. for the sum Of $50 ,000 per an
nun. That lease expired il August.
1877. Meanwhile the Governor and
certain otEer named officials had been
authorized TO re lease the institution
for a term Of five years to the highest
bidder Messrs. Cherry, O'Couner &
Co. were again awarded the contract
on the following terms: The icssees to
pay $4,000 per annum, pay Tor the
transportation. of prisoners from the
place OF conviction to the penilentiary
which item alone had cost the State
Sl5 900 before the adoption of the
present plan-pny the guards aud
clOthe and feed the prisoners. The
convicts are made to work Oh public
works aud hired out. So much for the
undertakings Of the lessees. The State
furnishes uperinteudent, 81 600 "a
Warden, 81 600; Deputy Warden, $500;
Physician, $500. and Chaplain, $500.
In short, the State now derives net
revenue Of at least $4,000, whereas.
before the lessee system was adopted
the State was at an annual outlay Of
from eighty 10 one hundred thousand
dollars
\ committee OF Investigation rs to
rings, and especially peuitentiary rings,
will report in a few days, and I am
crcdibiy informed that the result Of
their Investigations viii completely
exouerate the present lessees from any
thing OF a quesiionab character nay,
u aissesold issat the proof aa-laaad--sgill
show that they have performed all
their contracts TO the letter So you
can see how very far superior is the
Tennessee plan to the Kentucky plan
Our Solons sn0uld learn something
from the magnificent result Of Tennes-
sees experiment.
Maj Tom. O'Conner is the 0'Con-
ner mentioned as one Of the firm who
leased the penitentiary. 1 was char
ged by diverse and sundry parties that
he had by lobbying, cheated the State
out OF thousands OF dollars; and il was
further boasied that the committee
would, in the course of their iuyesti
CATIONS, discover the facts to be as
charged. Now, although the commit
tee has not yet reported (they report
Saturday., | am reliably informed that
ner Of any improper or equivoeal acts,
but their report will show him to have
been good and faithful officer This
much in justice to a gentleman who,
although unknown to your correspon-
dent. has been much maligned in his
presence. y bold operator and plucky
business man, Maj. o Conner has made
money, aud hence aroused an cnvious
spirit that creates the detractors who
who seek his ruin. j n. b.
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TEEE PEOPLEl's MONEY.
'0hae Enteressing Disclosures.
WING Pays The Fiddler.

Especial 30 Cincinnati Commerciall
There has been great deal of in
dignation expressed among members
Of The late Congress at the publication
in the dispatches of the stationery
account of the House of represent
atiyes, aud much complaint made that
Injustice. has been done Members say
that they are entitled to so much "sta-
tionery," and that it makes no differ
e5ce to the public whether they take
that stationery" in writing paper,
opera lasses, bibles, razorS or money;
and they object TO the publication OF
whst1bey consider their private ac-
counk..1 Every item that appeared in
the dsTTtches, on this subject, two
weeks or so ago, was copied exactly as
itsaxFsars on the official records of the
Clerk of the House. 1t is true that a
member can take whatever he chooses
as ''stetionery," from a tooth pick 10 a
carpet bag, aud is entitled to all that
he votes himself. This Congress has
voted Itself, for the eleven mouths that
it has been in session, three hundred
aud seventy FIVE dollars worth of sta
tionery for every member, a total Of
nearly one hundred aud ten thousand
dollars, and, it being practically i'm
possible for them to use this amount
of pens, ink and paper, they are taking
the balance in money, carpet bags and
useful and ornamental articles.
About half the members supplied
themselves with works on finance and
the currency out of the stationery ap-
and nearly all of them
secured one or more political almanacs.
Very few congressman were able to
use the stationery they had voted for
their OVID u,e, so they took the balance
in cash, the amount received by each
ranging from 81, which was the small
est, to sl23, which was the largest.
This was the balance out of the ap-
of 1925 to each member
for stationery use IN the extra session,
which began October ! ) and continued
to December 3, 1877. OF this they
were able to use but little in stationery,
and all but very few took the cold
amount in cash. Only forty two of
the Congressman received from this
stationery appropriation less than 1925
in cash, and the largest amount taken
in stationery was less than twenty
dollars.
The moral of this is that Congress-
appropriates, for its stationery, about
Eve times as much money as it needs,
and keeps up its cry of economy in
other branches of the Government.
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Dissatisfied Residents.

There are dissatisfied residents ID
all communities but ne is, or should
be, a rare Bird that falls into the fash
ion Of running down his own business
and his own community past III reason.
And yet, in plain truth, this is the
style and fashion.
Who is profitted-pecuniarily. SO
cially, morally, orsorherwise-by run
uinesdown your own business aud your
own community
Who is encouraged by it? Who is
made to feeP any better? Does it
please you to hear your neighbor en~
gage in such talk ? How much trade
does it bring to town? How many
new houses does it encourage your
neighbor to build How many neR
citizens does it locate to buy your
goods, your lots, and occupy your
houses? How much taxes does it res
iieve you of dow mang debts does
it pay for you?
If your community is low, socially
or morally, are not you and yours a
part of it?
If business is conducted wrong, are
not you, partly, censurable?
Don't encouragement help you ? If
so, why not encourage your neighbor 4?
Don't an increase of population in
crease the number of your patrons, to
buy something to eat, something to
wear, and houses 10 live in If so,
why not encourage people to locate d?
Don't mechanics aud their families
buy, eat, and wear things, aud spend
all they make right il their homes {?
If SO. why not lend them a helping
hand
If you can make more money selling
goods to mechanics families than by
selling the wares said mechanics manu-
facture, why not quit keeping that Iiue,
aud let the mechanic put up his shop
and employ his jourueymen
Don't the small dealer in anything
know that the large dealer has him at
a disadvantage, and can drive him
from the trade Aud don't the larger
dealer know that when he does it, he
is driving away the population that is
to keep him up?
Don't all this prove that the true
policy is 10 Ire, aud ~ Eee
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THE GREAT THEFT.
The Final Rennrt

Not having the space to miot the
full report of the Investigating com
mittees, in regard to the great fheft of
the Presidency, we priut the foiiowiug
review of that work from the C5arier
Journal.
sNo one can read il without being i'm.
pressed with the wisdom, nay. the neces-
sity, Of the original purpose to iuyesti-
gaie.' Those squeamish Democrats who
thought the Potter resolution imp0ttic at
the time il was introduced, mGstsee in
this admirable document-sO full 8 spe
cihc, so authenticated and so cleQr-- hat
il could not have been avoided, and that
il ought not to have been avoided.
The story of the great crime was bound
to come out. IL could not be surprised
The attempt TO conceal it would have
been only second in guilt to the crine it.
self Not merely MIR. Tilden and Mr..
Hendricks, not merely the Democratic
party, but all the people of the uiited
States, have an interest in knswing the
facts of the case, which Mr. l'SfteG and
his committee, have set forth in 3 manner
aLAoncr simPle aud telling fryS Shtid-aGd
brilliant.
The darkest page of history can hardly
surpass it. II is from first TO last chron
icle of conspiracy, usurpaiion, forgery,
perjury, force and fraud, done oy men
since rewarded by the patronage ct the
Administration under whose leaders they
directly served. Revolving as the story
Of Louisiana is. it is even exceeded by the
shameless yillainy which is recorded of
Florida.
In style the report is pcrspicuous and
plain. 1t is not a stump speech or an ex-
parte, special plea. With au earnestness
which disdains rhe toric, and direeiness
winch does not stop to call names, except
where they express or explain the facts
with most brevity, IL unfolds the varying
phases of the crime, step by step, as it
was perpetrated in Tallahassee and New
Orleans, closing with a terrible arraign-
ment-and the more terrible because it is
not clogged with epithet-of John SLer-
man, Edward F. Noyes and William Pitt
Kellogg, the responsible chiefs Of the
conspiracy The beginning and The eud
of the report are particularly note worthy;
but no one who sits down to peruse it is
likely to quit it until he has read all.
The attempt Of the Republicans 10 make
light of the business has long ceased.
Their attempt to incriminate MIR. Iilden
was a blank failure. The sole recourse
left them is to throw dirt, ana this they
win DO pleute0Usly. But there i no es-
cape for them. Erhe record Of crime,
the greatest igS1nodern annals, is made
mp, aud it<Sril not down at any man
bidding"
There is no rightfuI denying the
conclusions reached 10y the Courier
Journal, from the evidence before the
country, but Notwithstanding the mag
uilude of the crime, it is equally true
that the people are sick aud tired o.
the investigation.
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what Congress D.a DO.

The few measures of Importance
passed by the Forty-ffth Congress,
at the last session, in addition to ten
Of the twelve regular appropriation
bills, are:
The bill reducing the tax on to-
bacco to IS cents.
The bill to aid the refnnding of
the national debt, by authorizing the
issue Oh. Treasury certificates Of the
denomination Of $40.
The census bill, which goes into
operation next June.
The bill to prevent the introduc-
ton of contagious and infectious
diseases.
The bill providing for the pay
ment OF the arrears of pensions.
The legislative, executive and iu-
dicial appropriations, and the army
.bitiy- failed through the obstinacy of
the Republicans, who declined to
agree to the elimination of the stat
utes authorizing bayonet elections,
and the use of the public funds 10
run Republican interests at Federal
elections.
Among the numerous measures
which failed, but which should have
been passed, were:
The Mississippi-levee bill, and
the Mississippi-river commission
bill, both Of national Importance.
The Texas-Pacifc bill.
The bill to devote theproceeds of
the sales of the public lands TO edu-
cational purposes in the States.
The bill providing for the trans
fer OF the Indian Bureau TO the War
Department.
There were 6,826 bills introduced
IN the House during the session,
and 1886 in the Senate.
The bill to prevent the importa-
tion of infectious and contagious
diseases was passed at the very last
moment. 1t is Very good bill,
providing for the detention and dis
infection of vessels coming from in
fcctcd ports, and establishing a Bu-
reau of Health, with Director
General of Health, composed of
seven members, appointed by the
President and confirmed By the
Senate-the Surgeon General ofthe
army and the Surgcon-Gcncral Of
the navy to be members cx-ollicio.
Tbe bureau IS to make all necessary
ssaliess--z ssfsgfsrss sriTd, i rGlsI.Til lTisl6
rules, and Will supervise the marine
hospital service. 1t does not inter
fcre at all with State quarantine
but provides for the
active corporation Of the Govern
mcnt with the local authorities.
The sooner the board is organized
the better.
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Two boys were standing before
a cigar store. when one asked the
other. "Have you got three cents?"
"Yes." "Well, | have got two
give me your three cents and | will
buy Eve center" "All right" says
No 2, handing out his money. No. 1
enters the store, procures cigar.
lights it and puffs with good deal OF
satisfaction. "Come, now. give Us a
puff" says No. 20 furnished moro
than half the money" II know thai" "
SAYS the smoker, "but then I'm the
President: and you being only the
stoekhoider you can spit."
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e EIaIn WANING.

There may be 30 re appearance Of
yellow fever this year, but New Orleans
certainly invites it. The correspon-
dent Of TIE Philadelphia Times, writing
from that city, says;
ain all my experience here of nearly a
quarter of a century The streets, cutters
and general drainage of the place have
never been in such bad and disgustingly
filthy condition. Everything is calculated
to cause miasmatic yapors poisonous ex-
halations from ccsspools, garbage, decay
ing matters, and nasliness of the most
dangerous character, is laying around
loose in every quarter Of the city. As l
am one of those persons who have, from
experience, good reason to believe that
the germs of yellow fever aud pestilenee
of all kins remain in the localities where
they once appear, aud can be aroused into
activity by impregnation from virulent
importation, as well IS such filthy con
dition as now prevails, | am sure that " c
shall have another epidemic unless the
city is put into good sanitary condition
a an early day. The streets are more
disgusiingly filthy, pestiferous, malarial
and poisonous than at any time III my
recollection. As the Board of Health Is
comparatively powerless and thoroughly
incompetent TO the task of taking care OF
the public health, we need not expect
anything will be done to prevent recur-
renee of the terrible experience Of last
year.
The same condition of affiirs is re
ported as existing at Memphis, and
the fact that Memphis has forfeited
her city government tends to make the
report probable. There should be a
great allowance made for such publio
cations just now, from the fact that
they may be highly colored, SO as TO
stimulate, encourage. and shame the
citizens of those localities to double
their efforts in cleaning up.
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WHEN the test oath and the super
visors of election laws are abolished,
the Republican party dies. Hon. Os>
car Turner comes into Office just in
time to help wipe out these laws. We
believe he will do it.
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THERE is little girl in Ballard
county who has had the chills five
years, and never missed dag from the
regular time. Poor child
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Says the Paducah Ne,0s: "The way
the thing looks to Us is, that the Hon
Henry A. Tyler will bo the next Lieut.
Governor Of Kentucky.
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Frankfort Yeon,an Judge Samuel
Moore, of the Superior Court of Chi
caSo, kentuckian, blythe by, has
delivered an opinion in divorce case
in that city, which, if adhered to by
the courts, will 60 far to redeem Chi
cago from the bad reputation she has
as a place where the marriage yoke can
be shifted on slight pretcxt. He holds
that, while desertion is a valid ground
for divorce, mere separation is not, and
that a divorce cannot be granted where
there is any element of assent in the
separation. The opinion is an able
and creditable one.
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Groftrs.
w. DIESTELBRTNK,
Family Groceries.

MO space to name all articles, but no
IN trouble TO show goods.
Come and see, at the corner of Troy
and Moscow Avenue, East Hickman, KY.
jan25 ~
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The Hickman Courier does not appear
to know that a tannei or canal about
] 400 feet loR, Ill enable MS 20 pass
through i,,9, * Cumberland mountains, and
x,lantic cssD SSS ct this was knowa
and published by scientific authority more
'han forty years ago.-[ FranSssls Iee,.
a. - ;.,,,;,-.-s- y; 49,,
The. point--Tirh Us Is, not the length
of the tungz necessary to pass through
the CunfreDand mountains nor to
oppose any enterprise thus to secure
water commuuisa with the Atlantic
coast; and, much less TO raise aay
doubts as to published scientific az
thority of forty years ago But there
Is 10 end to such great enterprises, il
the public pay the expenses. There
is not a creek from Maine to Louisiana
that, under adequate Government pat
rouage, would not be made to assume
u national importance. F,r instance,
the Kentucky river, which, in political
circles, is harped of fifty times as much
as the great Mississippi, was, perhaps,
never intended by nature for any great
er purpose thar to afford the Frankfort
Fishing Club an occasional hour OF
in the spring aud summer.
to relieve their minds from the weighty
cares of State
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Poetry.
The Kings Ring,
LIE rngopoaE rI1rox.l

Once in Persia reigned king,
WHO upon his signet ring
Graved Il maxim true and wise,
Which. If held before his eyes,
Gave him counsel, at glance,
Fit for every change and chance;
solemn words, and these are they:
''Eyen-this shall pass away :"
Trains OF camels through the sand
Brought him gems from Samarcand;
Fleets Of galleys through the seas
Brought him pearls to match with these.
But he counted not as gain
I ensures of the mine or main;
"Wha, is wealth. the king would sav,
"Eyen this shall pass awayp
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Boot and Shosmakers.

Ladies' and Gents boots and she's made
10 orier, and in the latest fashion. In
visible patches put on, whcih last longer
than when sewed. All ask is a trial.
ShoF--next door to Holcombe's drug
store. feb7-'79.
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Once jayeiin pierced his shield,
Soldiers with a loud lament
Bore him bleeding to his tent,
Groaning from his tortured side,
''pain is hard 20 bear" be cried;
But with patience, day by day,
Even this shall pass away
Towering in The public square,
Twenty cubits in the air,
Rose his statue, carved in stone.
Then the king, disgnsted, unknown,
Stood before his seulptured name,
Musing meekiy, "What IS fame?
Fame is but slow decay
Even this shall pass away 7
Strucl; with palsy, scre and old,
Waiting at the Gates of Gold,
Spake he with his dying breath.
q Life is done; but what is deathf'
Then in answer to the king
Fell sunbeam on his ring,
Showing by 4 heavenly ray
Even this shall pass away = -
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In The revels Of his court,
Al ihe zenith Of his sport,
When the palms of all isi~sguests
Burned With clapping Hs3fs jests,
He, amid his figs and wine,
Crie-i,. Oh, loving friends of mine
Pleasure comes, but not to stay,
Even this shall pass away 7 y
Lady fairest ever seen
Chose he for his bride and queen,
Conche,l.uPsn the marriage bed,
Whispering TO his soul, he said Z:
Though Il bridegroom never pressed
bearer bosom TO his breast, A.
Mortal flesh must come to clay;
Even shis shall pass away
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Professional Gagtls.
Or. Il. c. Buck,

nFFERS HIS PROFESSIONAL SER
" vices 70 the citizens of Hickman and
adjoining country. Office at DR.. Catletts
old stand nov23
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1879-02-15
A COLONEL SELLERS.
[Stockton Herald. Jan. 27th.l

Deputy Sheriff Atwood arrested an
itinerant fraud that he's been operating
in this section of the State for the past
four or five years. He is man of fine
physique, stands six feet high, wears lux.
uriant side whiskers. and is quite shabby
genteel. His hair is gray but his beard
Is brown. He says his hair turned gray
in a single night. Tbs first record of
bis operations was made at Gilroy in
1875, when he represented to S. K
Thornton, OF the Glroy Tobacco Works,
that be was the advance guard of COL
ony of Kentucky tobacco growers, who
proposed to cultivate that weed. He was
then going under the name of Major
Bland of the Northern army. He "got'
Thor'..on for about $50 and came to
Stockton, where he appeared under the
name of Colonel Swan of the Conteder-
ate army. While here he associated with
Southern people and visited" one
family in the country for o week or ten
days. Happening in Stockton, Thorn
ton, saw his "Msjor Bland" and had
him arrested. He got 20 days in the
Santa Clara Jail. The next time that he
came to the surface was at French Camp;
Christmas, 1875. when he was found by
Atwood, playing pedro with the solid
men OF that suburb. He was then in the
stock raising business, and was waiting
for large band of cattle. While there
he proposed to build large hotel for his
landlord and to set his son up in the
sheep business with band of 5000 ewes.
He left without paying his board. He
was not seen again by the officers until
the McC!ory homicide occurred at Far
mington, last August. A few days after
that affair he came to Stockton, big with
u pork packing project. He had the
plans for a building with him. and in
coming out of a lumber dealing firm s
office met carpenter, whom he hired to
work on the pork-packing house and
closed the contract by borrowing IS from
the employe. The employe got his eyes
open in the course of the day and swore
out warrant for the arrest of the fraud.
He was then travelling under the name
of Geo. Wilson. He disappeared and
this afternoon Atwood got his eyes on
him again and took him in. He has
bilked half dozen people out of money,
and Is likely TO get himself in jail for
quite term.
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SUIT. LOvEGOOD AT A CANDY
PULLING.

had lstxc.p of troaSie last Christmas,
and I'll tell you how it happened:
Dekin Jones gave candy pullin', and
got stool, as they say in North Caro-
lima, and over We goes.
Sister Poll and went together, and
when we got TO Jones' the house was
chuck full.
Dog my cats if there was room to turn
around.
There was Susie Harkin-she's as big
as a skinned horse-and six other Har-
kins and Simmonses, and Peddigrews,
and the schoolmaster and his gal, besides
the old Dekin and Dizziness, and enough
little Dekins to set up half dozen
young folks in the family business.
Well. bimeby the pot began to bile.
and the fun begun. We all got our
plates ready, and the -four on our hands
to keep the candy from s!ickin' and then
We went to pullin'.
Wasn's it fun! never saw sech laf1in
and cutting up in all my horn days.
made candy bird for EN-. Simmons.
Her and me expect to trot in double
harness some Of these days. She made
candy goose for me.
Then we got to throwing candy balls
into one anothers hair, and running
from one side of the house to tother, and
ou. into the kitchen, till everything on
the place was gummed over with candy.
I got pine bench and EN-. Simmons
sot close to me.
Suze Harkin-oonfound her picture!-
throwed a candy ball sock into one of
my eyes.
I made a bulge to run after her and
heard something rip.
My stars alive; wasn't / picked! I
looked around and there was the gable
snd Of my bran new britches sticking to
that pine bench.
backed up agin the wall sorter craw.
fish Like and grinned.
''Sut.," sez sister Poll, What's the
matter2"
"Shut up!" sez I.
"Sut.," says EN-, "come away from
the wall; you'll get all over grease"
"Lst her grease" sez l, and I sol
down on washboard that was lying
across tub, feelin' worse than an ole
maid at wedding.
Purity soon l felt something hurt, anC
purity soon it hurt again.
Ice-whis-I jumped ten feet h:, ant
kicked over the tub; out hoped ole
Jones' Christmas turkey, and you ough
to sse me git.
cut for tall timber, now, and jumped
stalk e-and.rider fences and mashed dowI
brush like runaway hurrikan till 90
home. and went to bed and staid ther,
two days.
Eff old Jones barn burns down mex
Winter and I'm arrested for it, and e
anybody pears as witness agin me. II
but his doggoned head! Them's IN.
sentiments.