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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-07-04
VOL. XIV. NO. A.
pine z.iseEn,nre.

One of the most Interesting as vel
as admirable features of present litera.
~ activity Is the cheapening of stand
ard classical works. A few years ACC
the dime nove meant vile affair
made up of unnatural faueies. murders
atrocities, terrorism, robbery and bald
eraash. 1t was the source of incou-
cieyable damage TO the young aud tho
terror Of teachers and parents. To.
day the dime novel covers the hes.
works Of VIM. Black, Dickens. Mrs.
Gaskell, Scott. Blackmorc, Mcdonald.
Farieon, Erekmann Chatrian, Spiel
hagon, jane Eyre. Disracli, aud a
score more Of tie choicest writers OF
fiction. Along side of these are half
hour-series in history, biography and
science, including the best works of
the best authors. Twenty five years
ago the most admirable set of books
for general reading was the popular
school library, published by Harper.
The plates yerss afterwards burned,
spd ae ,baN aisaoltas. arc t1sst. "a
print. And it Became the precursor
OF many more efforts to improve popu
lar Literature on a cheap basis. There
are now some half-dozcn firms that
made 1t speciality to issue cheap cG
ltIons Of all their most readable pub
iication5. For 20 cents the school
boy can secure such a treasure as
Mcleod of Dare, Shirley" BLADE
o Grass" or "Princcss of Thule ."
For the same pitiancc ofpockct money
he can indulge in Macaulay's Essays,
Lives OF Distinguished Authors.
Monographs in History, Goldsmith S
Poems, indeed, almost all the choicest
bits of spice and wisdom arc placed at
his hand. The temptation is now to
read what is valuable; whereas the bur
den OF temptation was still recently to
read what was worse than worthless
Our boys may be said to have out
grown the Prince Own and the Hang
mans Record, to say nothing Of Ned
BuDtliuc aud Sylyanus Cobb. Bad
literature is uow very bad, and good
literature is very good. The bad bidcs
ITS time With vile pictures, aud the
GOOD elbows its way !uto novels and
saloons.
This We say, il n most encouraging
fact 10 those who desire healthier
intellectual tone in social life, and
who appreciate the relation between
what is read aud what is done by the
people. Fed on Indifferent pabuIum,
the minds is not only weakened but
the average mental production, the av-
erage manliness of the nation is lower
ed.
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A New VieVv OF the Exodus.

One OF the most prominent promot
ers of the colored emigration scheme
recently said that homes had already
been secured for 10000 Southern ne.
groes 10 Indiana, large share of whom
were Republican voters, aud that 1t was
improbable that by this means the State
would be carried for tho Republican
party in the Presidential contest next
year. This is doubtless an over san>
guine view of the situation; but it
may serve as basis for working out
the problem on a wider field.
In nearly all the Northern States
the qualifications which entitle a man
to vote who has reached the age OF 2l
years, are citizenship and a residence
able the emigran;s from the South to
participate in the Presidential election
of 1880, they must take up their abode
in their new homes on or before the
first day of November next.
Ia order to make thorough work of
it, in what numbers aud 10 what States
must these colored Republican voter,
be located? 1t will be kept iu mind
/ that we are dealing only with men Who
will cast Republican ballots, aud not
with their families, if they happen to
have any. The recent elections show
that to insure to the Republican nomi.
nee for President all the Northern
States lying east of the Alleghany
Mountains, 10000 negro voters should
be settled in Pennsylvania, Is, 900 in
New Jersey, $4,000 in New York,
5000 in Connecticut, 5000 ia Massa>
chusetts and 5000 in Maine. This
makes total of 100000 for the East
ern States
On a similar basis, what would suf
fee for the Northern States lying west
of the mouutains2 Ia view Of the
results of the last three elections. it
would be hazardous to the Repubhca us
to allot less than 10000 of the neg
comers to Ohio, 20 600 to Indiana
10000 to Illinois. $4,000 to Wiseou-
sin and II, 900 10 Iowa. Here we have
total of 100000 more.
However, before entering into this
scheme for mere political purposes it
will be wise for Republicans to count
the cost. To select 10 the South these
100000 colored voters Cwe take no
account of their familiesl, aud plant
them iu those Northern States where
they can do the most good to the Re
publicans in the Presidential elee,ion
next year, will cost at the least an
average of $50 per man. This wonld
amount to the rather formidable ar
gregate of s10,00O,0O0.
In the light of these figures. tbe
sober heads in the Republican uartv
will be apt to advise the zealots who
are promoting the exodus for mere
selfish ends, to coutne the political
branch OF the experiment to the State
of 1ndiana.- n. Y. World.
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THE AGONY OF THE MOTHER
ECCeniricItieS Os the Recent
Tornado.

The storm that made such havoc 10
/ parts Of Kansas aud Missouri Friday
( the 3)th utimo, was a curious phenom~
enoB It is loosely called cyclone, tor
Dad5 and storm, but there seeIns to be
/ reason for believing some other force
than Wind was at work in it. 1t made
+ its appearance at Lees Summit, in
Jackson county, Mo, about 6 o'clock
/ in the evening, and was said to have
originated iu the form Of whirlwind
about two miles from that place. But
I this is mistake; it had passed over
! points 10 Southern Nebraska and
Northern Kansas, one hundred and
( fifty miles distant from Lees Summit,
two hours before, and when it appear
ed at the latter place the towns Of r.
wing aud Frankfort, IN Kansas, had
already been wrecked and thirty or
forty inhabitants killed by the frag-
ments of their shattered dwellings.
In the neighb hborhood of Atchison it
crossed over into Missouri and made
its presence and power felt at Barnard
aud other points in Nodaway county,
appearing there about six o'clock in
the evening, almost simultaneously
with its appearance in Jackson county
one hundred and fifty miles south.
We next hear of it in Adair county,
due east from Nodaway county, and
over one hundred miles distant. 1t
was felt in Adair county at half-past 9
o'clock at night, and is described as a
black aud waving cloud that descend-
ed from the sky touching the earth at
separate points quarter to half mile
distant from one another, and at times
rising in the air. Its greatest destruc-
ton was committed in the valleys;
here, wherever it touched the ground,
trees we're torn up by the roots and
houses were crushed like paper-boxes.
The house of Mr. John Davis, mile
from Kirksville, was torn to pieces aud
carried into the air, thirteen year old
daughter of Mr.. Davis going up in the
dark ness with the whirling fragments
and safely dropped to the earth al
point three hundred yards from the
site of the ruined dwelling. Lees
SuuAit and Bluff Springs, in Jackson
cou6E, were the only points south of
the Missouri River where the phenom-
enon appeared. There were storms of
wind and rain at other places, but the
black, waving, funeral shaped cloud
that licked the earth with such DESC
Iating effect in Kansas was not seen
south Of the river except at the two
named in Jackson county.-[St. Louis
Republican.
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The separated, Wan.


About eight o clock yesterday f,rs
noon a man whose form waz full OF
/ wrinkles und kinks and twists, crawlcd
out Of coal-shcd1 on the wharf and
began yawpiue aud rubbing his eyes
like ono who had put in L heavy night.
4 policeman Iouuged that way, gave
The man looking over aud asked,
! "Sleep in there last night
"Yaas, kinder, was the reply.
Looking for work.
+ "N-n-o, not exactly"
You'll be run i'll if you harg
around this way" remarked the officer.
The man put his hands on the top
/ Of snubbing post, laid his chin on
( his bands and after long look at Cana
Ga be turned and said
Il dunno exactly what I'm going
! to do. did live out here about eight
miles, bnt I've separated from the old
woman Yes, separated last night"
"Wha the trouble?'
"WaaN, she was my second and I
was her second, aud we never got
long any too sweet. We both of us
thiuk we know all about it, and neith.
er feels like giving il. We came in
10 see the circus
"Ah you did?"
"Aud that's where the separation
took pIace-right in front Of the sa~
cred hyenas from Japan. You know
they advertised au electric light theTo?"
Yes"
"Wcll, we'd never seen one. Whom
we got into the menagerie there stood
the elephant. Then came the cames.
Then we came to a darned old bear
Further 90 were the lions and tigers
and monkeys, but no electric light.
We walked three times around that
old tent without coming to his cage,
and | got mad. Says | to one Of the
chaps over the rope: ,Whar' 10 thuu-
der is the cage with the electric light
money bach? The feller he grinued
all over and lots of folks laffed right
ont, and my wife she few up aud said
Id made fool of myself. How
says l. why the electric light is
not an animal at all, says she, But it
has something to do with the clown.
We had big jaw right there. She
caved my hat in, and broke her par.
asol ard then l separated"
"And you won't maze up?"
snake up! Neverl She can take the
electric light and bake and eat him.
but m a man who never crawls! IN
going down to Toledo am, aud by
this time to-morrer II, DO Grunkcr'u Il
horse!"
"And you didn't sen the electric
light after all ?"
"No! 1 don't believe they had any
Maybe they thought they could work,
that ere rhinoceros off on the pnblic
by another name, but tumble in
mint. I'm an old rhiuos myself, and
my wife is another, and when l think
of how l stood there aud lot her call
me fool afore the people I'm mad
'nuf to walk clear home aud pizen her
half of the yoke of oxeu!"
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Mr.. BoLINGER, OF Maydeld here
tofore prominent Republican, aud
now an active Greenbacker, has written
letters to this county urging the or
gauizatiou OF Grseuback clubs, and
the nomination Of 4 Grcenback caudi-
date for the State Senate If the Re
publican leaders at Washington can
afford to give their money to support
a Greenbaek paper, to help divide the
Democracy, why may not Republi-
can iu this District write letters and
urge forward a candidate for the Sen
ate? Read Oscar Turner'S letter in
this issue.
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Tue Greeuback Clubs of Fulton,
Hickman and Graves counties, should
ask Hon. John Bolinger, ex Republi
can and present Greeuback leader 10
this District, to read Turner'S Hubbell
letter at one stated meeting Of each
club. 1t will prove mighty interesting
reading II the movement is being
run by leading Republicans in Ohio,
to distract aud divide Democrats, why
may not John Bolinger run il 10 This
Senatorial District
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TIE BRTnaE.

stood on The bridge at midnight,
As the elceks were striking The hour
And the moon rose Der the city,
Bahiud the dark church-tow er,
! saw her bright reflection
IN the waters under me,
/ Like golden goblet falling
And sinking into the sea.
And far in the hazy distance
I OF that lovely night in June,
The blaze OF the flaming furnace
Cleaned redder than the moon.
! Among he long, black rafters
( The wagering shadows lay,
And the current that came from the ocean
Seemed to lift and bear them away;
As, sweeping and cdiying through thea
Rose The belateI tide,
And, streaming into the moonlight,
The sea-weed ffoated wide.
And like those waters rushing
Among The Wooden piers,
food of thought came oer n,e
That filled ny eyes with tears.
How often, 0 how often,
In the days thai had gone by,
Had stood on that bridge at midnight,
And gazed on that wave aud sky
How often, how often,
had wished that the ehbing tito
Would bear me away on its bosom
Ter the ocean wild and wide
For my hear: was hot and RESTLESS,
And my life was full Of care,
And the burden laid upon mo
ss,ss1sEssassl = tllap 1 eseld lssE :
But now it has fallen from me,
It is buried in the sea-
And only The sorrow Of others
Throws its shadow over me.
Yet whenever | cross The rivcr
On its bridge with woo9cn piers,
( Like the odor OF brine from the ocean
Comes the thought Of other years.
And think how many thousands
Of carc-c -cucumbcred men,
Each bearing his burden OF sorruw.
Have crossed the bridge since then.
sec the long procession
Still passing to and fro.
The young heart hot and restless y
And the old subduod and slow
And forever aud forever,
As long the river flows,
As long as the heart has passions,
rs long as life has woes;
The moon and its broken reflection
And ito shadows shall appear,
As the symbol Of love in heaven,
And its wavsring image here.
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Tie EOois Not aiIDead.

Another Kentucky farmer, this time
of Boone county, has been duped into
signing a note for S192, in favor of the
Indianapolis Medical Association.
Barpum once said "the American
people liked to be humbugged." We
begin to think some Of them like to be
swiudled. The Boone county man re
ferred to above, as we learn from a
correspondent, has been reader of the
COMMONWEALTH which has repeated
ly warned the public against this In4
dianapolis concern.-Coyiugton Com
monwealth.
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Tue Democrats are Greenbdekers, if
you mean to prefer greenbacks to Ma
tional bank notes for a circulating
medium; they are infatioRists-if you
mean to initiate with gold or silver,
while the Republicans are fixed against
either Hence the greenbackers natur
ally capture more from the Democrats
than from the Republicans, aud hence
the Republicans naturally want the
greenback movement to be kept alive
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THAT there are honest Greenback
ers in Kentucky and in this immedi
ate ection, we know full we'll, but .that
tHHzsaaysuantas PaTty Organization
is being engineered by the DePubli
cans with the sole view of Weakening
the Democrats in certain Safes, is
fully proven by Hubbell's demand on
Oscar Turner. Read Turner's expos
ure
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The Republicans are in favor Of
honest mOney-gold and silver-but
they will let little of that honest
money pour out of their pockets to
sustain rip roaring rag money infa-
ton paper, which is splitting the Dem
oeratio strength in Ohio. Some OF our
Democrats, who have Letters 10 their
pocket from John Bolinger, should
compare them with the letter from O.
Turner, in this week COURIER.
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ed with his pistol to see if it was all
fight, and this afternoon he sent his
VIE away and killed them. He had
rather see them buried and in heaven
than see them bad. He repeatedly
saiuf | m growing old, and | can I
NIKE money to send them to school
and dress them we'll, and [ am afraid
they will be bad While he was mar
rating this story an officer came in aud
told bin one Of the children was alive.
AZ this be jumped at the grated door
Ike caged tiger, and shouted LET
me out let me 90 and kill her. | dou t
wait her in pain" When the officer
toll him that the child would soon
die he quieted down and said: ooh,
it hall right then!" He repeatedly
ASKED the bystanders if they did not
thlsk he did right. He said he would
moi have come back from the Black
Hl@.s had he not determined TO kill
ths .shildren. He
X AwANrED TO FREE HIS WIFE
49, could support herself while
Z He said that his wife
Iig%Seen obliged to lock the children
in the house and go out washing to
support th.m. He thought at first
that he would poison them, and got
the poison but he thought that would
be painfulfor them, and he did not
want 70 hut them. He said he loved
his children very much. aud could not
think of thir growing up without
schooling AID without good clothes
to wear 4 one time, when making
this statement, be stopped, and, look
ipg down to the floor, muttered, 1T
isn't right; isn't right" Tears came
nto his eyes, and he called for his
handkerchbf. This was all the emo
ton he exhibited during an interview
of an hou, When a gentleman an.
swered hin that il was not rig ht, KEN.
mler said, 20, you are rich; it would
not be riglt for you to do it"
About O'Clock Undertaken Flint
went with an assistant and cared for
the remains.
THE AGONY or TIE MOTHER
was healtrending. and it is believed
that the shock will drive her Insane.
At midnight one Of the children was
still living. but /. was thought she
would lot survive till morning. KEN
mier sa1s that. while he was working
in Connecticut 10 1867, he was sum
struck, and his head has troubled him
great deal since. This will probably
be the basis of defense on the ground
of insanity when his case comes %
trial The popular Indignation against
him isintense, aud, if opportunity Of
fers, itwould not be surprising if there
should be an attempt to lynch him; at
least this has been openly threatened
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HUBBELL, the man who interview
ed Oscar Turner, through mistake, is
the Chairman Of the Republican Cons
mit.ee, and he mistook Turner for
Gen. Robinson, the Chairman Of the
Ohio Republican Committee. :" We are
aiding him, (the greenbackeD and it re.
quires a good deal Of money, aud l
would like that you would aid him,
said Hubbell to Turner. Read the
letter in this paper.
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Tho Atlanta Constitution advises
the negroes to wait until the fall be
fore they emigrate to Kansas. They
will then have from two to three feet
of snow to cover up in. The Repub-
lican party will bring their food to
them where they are warmly tucked
under the snow, and they will have
nothing to DO but TO vote and sit on
the Jury.
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WILL any man because be hates the
na me, democrat, but honestly is rot a
Republican, remain in movement
which Turner'S letter plainly show is
being used only as tool to dicids the
Democrats and help the Republicons?
Come out Of there. or openly cut loose
and say you prefer Republican, to
Democratic successl
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as he expressed it. Acting on this
thought. he resolved some time ago.
before he returned from the Black
Hills, he says, to kill his three chill
dren as the only way to save their
souls. His wife has been afraid of
him, and has feared that he would
carry out some of the threats he has
made against her aud the children, but
seoms 20 have been taken of her guard
lie says that he had fixed upon to day
as the day when the children must die.
and two or three days ago bought some
cynanlde Of potassium 10 poison them
lie apparently watched his opportunity
to have the children alone, and this
afternoon sent his wife up town TO buy
a hat for the youngest. After she
had gone be called tie children in
from the street, where they were play
ing, telling them that they were to be
washed and dressed, aud then he would
take them up street and get them some
candy. After getting them in the
house he attempted to administer the
poison to them, but as they would not
take it he deliberately shot them in
cold blood. He then wrote letter iu
German 10 one of his neighbors, tell,
ing what he had done, aud hinted at
suicide, and closed by saying that his
wife knew nothing about it, Carrying
the bleeding body of little Annie into
the room where the others we're mur
dered, he laid it on the bed beside the
baby, leaving the eldest lying on the
floor
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ESTABLISHED 1859
The Republicans know that 90 per

The Republicans know that 80 per
cent of the Greenback vote in Ohio
or Kentucky comes from the Demo.
cratic ranks, and hence money is pour
ed out like water to help the Green
hackers. How DO you Democrats like
the picture? Road Turner's letter
and set a peep through the key hole.
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THE Greenbackers of this District
will read with delight, the letter in
this issue from Hon Oscar Turner ex-
plainiug the Hubbell proposition.
Rsad it democrats, and get Mr. BoIin>
ger to read it.
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WatcYmelons arc only Eve cents
apiece IN Galveston.
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THE MURDERER

IL an intelligent, well informed Ger
man, who has lived in Holyoke about
seven years. During this time he has
always been employed at some of the
mills, aud last worked at the Germauia
wooden mill. lie has always been very
sober and Industrious, aud though he
has at times acted very queerly, he
was never considered otherwise than
an "odd genius" Before he came to
Holyoke he worked in Northampton
at the Bay State cutlery works, aud
later at the Bay State paper mill, and,
till within few mouths, has had money
in the savings banks, both at Holyoke
and Northampton. He has at differ
cnt times drawn out his money, and
talked of buying farm, and then he
would afterward deposit it again. On
the first of March he drew out all the
money be had in both savings banks,
and, after paying what debts he owed,
had about SlI0 left, with which he
started for the Black Hills. About
three weeks ago he came back. and
since that time has done nothing He
has not, SO far as known, tried to OBJ
tain employment, aud has been possess
ed with the idea that he could not work
any more, and was unable to support
his family, and he had had & constant
impression that his little girls would
grow up "and
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IN 4 POOL OF BLOOD.

He then went out, locking the door,
and entered Blaise Borlin's lager beer
saloon, near by, where he told what be
had done aud asked for glass of beer.
Deputy Sheriff Kingsbury happened
to be 10 that part of the city, and fol-
lowed kemmler up the street to Mar
tin Smiths saloon. He was at once
taken to the station house aud placed
under guard Meanwhile so great a
crowd had gathered at the scene of the
murder that the officers with difficulty
effected an entrance to the house
When they had done so, what sight
to behold The tenement was q small
one Of four rooms on the third floor
Everything spoke of poverty, but the
that the poor mother had done her
best to make her home pleasant and
cheerful. The first room entered was
evidently used for a sort cf living
room, and on clothes line hung the
dresses aud aprons of the little victims,
washed and irOned ready for the Sab~
bath. Scattered here aud there on the
floor we're the playthings they had last
used. On the table stood the bottle of
cyanide of potassium, and near it tea
cup, which smelled of The poison
showing that the unnatural father had
tried to feed it to the children before
shooting them. In the cupboard was
half loaf of bread and the remnants
of the MONDAY meal. Opening cut Of
- 81, haI-Oavr. l., IL
bodies of Annie aud Emma, with a
bullet hole through the head of each
The former was just breathing, while
the latter lay as if
SHOT WHILE ASLEEP.
One little hand was raised to its cheek,
and all blackened, as was the face, with
powder The bullet that did the dead
iy work was found in the pillow, hav
ing passed completely through the
head. All were shot between the ear
and temple, the bullets in every case
having gone entirely through the head
Ludmilla, the eldest, had evidently
stood beside the bed when shot, aud
fell over on the floor, where her body
was found in pool of blood All
three bullets were found by Sheriff
KIngsbury. They were 32 caliber,
and the pistol, when taken from the
murderer had four chambers discharg-
ed, showing that one shot had been
fred that did not take effect. Medical
Examiner DR.. l.. NJ. Tuttle, made an
examination of the bodies preparatory
to an inquest, after which they were
banded over to tue undertaken. At