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VIRGINIA STEAMBOATeifis1..lis
COMPANY'S
JAMESRIVER LINE,
seq. FOR
NORFOLK, PORTSMOUTH,
AND
ALL REGULAR LANDINGS ON JAMES RIVER
CONNECTING AT
NORFOLK WITH THE BAY-LINE.
FOR BALTIMORE. PHILADELPHIA, NEW
YORK, AND BOSTON.

checked through.
The LIMITED TICKETS named above are on sale
only at CARRIERS S26 Main street, and Exchange
Hotel.
Freight received daily for Norfolk, Portsmouth:
landings on Tar river: washington, b. c., Hamp.
ton, and Eastern Shore OF Virginia, and regular
landings on james river. ut lowest rates
The steamer ARIEL has lately been almost en-.
tireIy rebuilt and refurnished In an elegant and
costly manner, and Is confidently recommended Us
the FASTEST and most comfortable steamer that has
run on this route for many years.
l.. q. TATUM, Superintendent.
.......... 903 Main street and Rockets.
j. W, MCCARRICK. Agent Norfolk. sc 4
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gifhlaoul 10 /.

TUESDAY 81. JANUARY u, 1919.
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DHILADELPHIA, RICH HgFFA
L MoND. AND NORFOLK STEAM. saasasEdsaas
SHIP LINE.-FOR, PHILADELPHIA, FALL
RIVER AND THE EAST. VIA FALL RIVER.
THREE TIMES A WEEk.-Until further no.
tiee the steamers Of this line viii make trt,Teek
THURSDAY, and SATURDAY, and Richmond
every TUESDAY. FRIDAY, and SUNDAY, con.
Meeting at Philadelphia with Clydc's New England
L Inc for Fall River. -
: QUICK TIME-FREQ UENT DEPARTURE
LOWE RATES.
Freight received daily until 5 O'clock P. NJ.
-..I.f-.f JAMES w. MCCARRtCK,
General Southern Agent, Richmond, Va.
49, WILLIAM Z. CLYDE 6 CO.,
... General Managers,
no23 No. IL South Wharves. Philadelphia.
CHEAP FREIGHT g THn hArEss.
POWHATAN LINE for BALTIMORE
AND THE WEST.
AND THE
CANTON INSIDE LINE for PHILADELPHIA.
The steamers SHIRLEY and DEFIANCE VIII
leave from Twenty-second and Dock streets every
WEDNESDAY at u M. aud SATURDAY at Z.
NJ, Through bills 81 lading signed to all Canadian
northern, and western points al low rates.
II. Il. DOUGLASS, Agent,
fec Twonty-sccond and DOCK streets,
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:LeaYe Richmond ht..'
Arrive at Burkevills

5dj III .iit.1
lIsis ] 81 s...stfy 90
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LITTELL's LIVING AGE

T. LITTELL'S LIVING AGE.
January l, 1879, THE LIVING AGE enters upon
Its one huadred and Jortieth volume. During the
year It will furnish TO its readers The productions of
the foremost authors. ABOVE NAMED AND MANY
OTHERS. embracing The choicest. Serial and Short
Stories by the Leading Foreign Novelists, and an
amount - 49, I. '-E..' -
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-02-28
A Strange Case.

In the Connecticut State prison is a
young man who has served fourteen
years of a life sentence for murder
1t appears, now, from facts which all
sides admit and agree TO it that he is
inrocent Of committing the murder
The real facts are that the prisoners
father and another man committed the
crime, and the young man, who could
at any hour during his fourteen years
Imprisonment, have produced evidence
that no human being could dispute, in
order to shield his father, endured his
punishment himself The father died
last week, and the young convict un-
burdened his secret, brought forward
the evidence, and went free. His name
is Charles Gilbert.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-02-28
Excursion 10 Europe.

Some parties in New York have
organized what is called an Educational
Excursion to Europe, the expense of
the entire round trip, including every
thing from the time you leave New
York until landed in the same place,
being only $500. You pay this amount
and have no more care or expense
whatever. The excursion takes in
England, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium,
Holland, Germany, Austria, Italy,
Switzerland, and France. Leaves New
York June 2S. The accommodation
is in every respect to be first class.
ample time for Sightseeing, and no
contingent expenses. If you have got
a spare $500, now is your time.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-02-28
CONGREGATIONAL DOings.
1onoress adiourns Monday.

Congress adjourns Monday.
The bill reducing the tax on tobacco
to l6 cents passed both branches of
Congress.
Bill to pension soldiers of the Mexi-
can war did not pass.
The friends of opening up trade
with Mexico are jubilant over some
favorable legislation.
The Texas Pacific bill did not pass.
The river and harbor appropriation
bill and the arrears of pensions bill
have both passed.
The tax on friction matches has not
been repealed. 1t failed in the House
bv one vote.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-02-28
uIoLn,an Rnnhs atPar.


We quote Hickman city bonds at par,
and being promptly paid as they fall due.
We quote this fact because it is a con-
pliment to the town, to its citizens, and
TO its Landowners, TO know that in these
times when reputation of public debts is
so rife and popular, when taxes every
where, and for any purpose, are consider
ed onerous, property deprecated and trade
stagnant, our town has met. and contin-
ues to meet, her bonded debt promptly
according to contract.
We doubt if there is another town in
Kentucky, or in the country, similarly
situated, which can present Us clean a
record.
In last week 5 COURIER we published q
proposition looking to the scaling of the
present city debt forty cents on the dol
lar; but, il comes not as a demand by the
city, but as a voluntary proposition from
the owner of the bonds. We think the
proposition a very fair and liberal one,
one that the larger taxpayers would be
well justified in accepting, and one that
would save the town about Sl0,0 If
these bonds are a good investment to those
who hold them, and they are, why would
they not be good investment to others
The bonds are good now, and certainly 40
cents off their face demand would make
them that much better. We would be glad
to see the proposition accepted, because
il would save the town about $4,000 di-
rect, and enable it in a very few years to
pay clear out. The proposition Is both
liberal and magnanimous, and, if not ac-
cepted, should estOp the larger taxpayers
from "grunting." We speak advisedly
in saying that there is not, and never has
been, any effort on the part Of the town
or its citizesn 10 repudiate or "go back .
on this debt, or any organized effort to-
ward effecting any kind of a compromise
or scaling, but the proposition comes,
from the other side.
fce, we would like to see the PROPOSE
rfion accepted, believing it entirely hon
orable on the part of the city, and, at the
same time, rejecting great credit on the
proposer for the liberality shown.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-02-28
Develop the state.

Some sections OF Kentucky are work
ing hard to infuse into the people an
enthusiasm for some system of State
aid toward developing the resources Of
tie State.
Some parts Of the State are lacking
in facilities to carry their produce to
the markets. Some have sleeping
mines of minerals buried in the hills
and mountains and some need one
deveIopement, and some another. Now,
we sympathise with every effort to
develop Kentucky, aud to bring
teemiug population that will make our
forests bloom as the rose. But the
terrible lessons which other States have
learned by embarking in such systems
deter thoughtful people, and cause us
to confess somewhat of old fOgyism
The example of poor Tennessee
fettered, crushed, ruined, and the pride
of her people sacrificed, and their chill
dren aud their children children
burdened-is before US The same is
true of every State in the South I!
Then, is it wonder that the people
have learned to prefer a simpler rule
of government than the one that em
barks in gigantic enterprises, and
which generally leave the people only
the heritage Of burdensome taxes, con-
fiscation, or else the disgrace of repu
diatioD
The latitude which government has
taken in the matter of enterprise
building railroads, etc-is stretch
beyond the contemplation OF old time
Democrats, and is a modern innova
ton.
a plain, simple rule, to punish the
wrong aud protect the right, is the one
best adapted to the present wants.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-02-28
Some Men,s wives.

81 tell you what it is. said one Of
small coterie of wealthy men who
had met in the Office of one of their
number, "they mny say what they
please ubout the uselesaness of mod
ern women, but my wife has done her
share in securing our success in life.
Everybody knows that her family was
aristocratic and exclusive aud all that
and when [ married her she hsG
never done days work in her life,
but when w. & Co. failed had to
commeace at the foot of the hill
again, she discharged the servants
and chose out neat little cottage,
and did her own housework until L
was better off again"
And my wife, said second, "was
an only daughter, caresSed and pelted
to death, aud every ybody said, "Well,
if lie will marry a doll like that, he'll
make the greatest mistake of his life,
but whes | came home the first year
of our marriage, sick with fever, she
nursed me back to health, and | never
knew her TO emurmur because We
couldn't afford any better style OF
more luxuIies"
well gentlemen" chined in a
third, Il married smart, healthy
pretty girl, but she was a regular blue
stocking. She adored TeDnyson
dOated on Byron, read Emerson, and
named the first baby Ralph Walby
and the second Maud: but | tell you
what it's" and the speaker eye:
grew suspiciously moist, when We
laid little Maud in her last bed a
Auburn, my poor vile had no remem
brance of neglect or stinted motherly
care, and the little dresses that lie IL
the locked drawer were all made b.
her own hands"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-02-28
Orr FOR FRANkronr.-sheria B.

Orr FOR FRANKFoRT.-Sheriff B.
R. Walker left Tuesday morning, with
four prisoners in custody, James Lambert,
Henry Mipner, George Hansborough and
John Sihms, sentenced TO the penitentiary
by the Fulton Circuit Court. The two
and each convicted for the ofFense of
grand larceny.
CoURT MATTERs.-There was case
in Judge Baileys court, Tuesday and
Wednesday, which attracted considerable
public attention and large audience of
spectators. Some parties were before the
court, charged with destroying proper
ty," or demolishing q house of reputed i'll
fame. The defense, we understand, as
sumed that citizens had right TO abate a
moral nuisance without any resort to law;
but afterwards modified their position,
claiming the right TO prove the general
character of the occupant of the house as
a mitigating circumstance for the offense,
and also for the'purpose of imPeaching her
testimony. This latter position the court
NZkiued. The destruction of property
y proven. and 80 was the ili-fame
OF The occupant. The jury returned q
verdict of acquittal.
CLEANING UP !-THE Work GOES
BRAvELY OK We note with pleasure the
work of the citizens of Hickman in carry
ing out the sanitary orders and requests
of the Board of Health. SO far, not 4
warrant has been issued, nor the power
of the law required in a single instance,
but every body, without an exception, is
complying with instructions. The whole
town is being renovated, houses raised.
dismantled, torn down, lots graded,
drained, and everything put to rights and
order. photograph of Hickman two
weeks ago and to-day would scarcely be
recognized as the same picture. And one
month longer, ami the change will be far
greater. Situated, as it is, upon high,
commanding hills, there il nothing to
prevent it's being the healthiest town in
all this section. Such was our history
before the epidemic of last year, which
was generally conceded, aud such it will
be again, if the present sanitary work is
maintained.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-02-28
Land for Goods.

A correspondent from Obiou county,
noticing the editorial in last week s
Courier, headed Invest Your Money
in Land writes US, inquiriug for the
wholesale merchant who is willing to
sell a stock of goods for land p Our
correspondent misapprehends the edi-
torial. We said:
ain the large money ceaters this feeling is
already reported, and will gradually extend
10 The country. We notice, for instance,
that some large wholesale dry goods mcr-
chant. are freely Offering to sell stocks
of goods at their regular prices and take
in payment three-fourths in real estate. "
Our argument was, that land is
assuming a fired value, aud for this
reason is coming to be considered as
good collateral and that, as before
the war, real estate was considered the
safest and best form of investment, so
now il was tending to the same stand
ard.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-02-28

"ONE AMONG Ten THOUSAND. Hon.
Henry A. Tyler. of Hickman, sets n beau
tiful example to the bloated bondholders.
The C0uriey-Journdi had frequent occasions
10 applaud the heroism and liberality OF
State Senator Tyler during the awful
plague that decimated Hickman, aud its
regret at his withdrawal from the race for
Lieutenant Governor is only increased
by the perusal of the following card nd-
dressed to the editor of the Hick kman
Courier Courier Journal.
1t is but justice, also, TO state that
the Hickman bonds are owned exclu-
sively by citizens of Hickman. aud
hence no foreign creditors, not inter-
ested 10 our local taxation, are affected.
Also, that the bonds bear 6 per cent.
interest, are not taxable, have always
been aud are now being promptly paid.
interest and principal, according to
contract
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-02-28
upOn Che payment of one dollar each, for

upon the payment Of one dollar each, for
feeding them.
Sec'5- If, Mt the expiration ef three
days, no owner proves or Identifies such
hogs, ~ shall be the duty of the Marshll
to sell hem Mt public auction to the high
est bidder for cash. on the morning next
after the expiration Of said time, and pay
the proceeds to the Treasurer-the Trea-
surer paying the Marshal one half of such
proceeds as a compensation.
Sec-s4 Ii, Mt any time within two
months after the sale, the owner of the
hogs should prove to the satisfaction of
the CikF Council his own ership of hogs so
sold, iksha!l order the Treasurer to pay
to the .ewner one half of the net proceeds
of sacfsale.
On hotion, the City Marshal was di-
rected 70 rigidly enforce said ordinances
on and5afler the 10th of March, 1879.
ASSESSMENT.
On motion, ". L. Gardner, assessor, was
allowed until next regular meeting to
return assessment book.
EFFORT To EcoSoMIsE.
The following proposition was pre-
sented. 70 witt
To Honsrable Mayor and Council of city
of Hickman
ueu pNuIoSc> W pi'uIiou
the ptIceedings of the CitX Council for
The = -.ss 1870 for $50. The price paid
former years has been $50. Sympashizing
with yqtr efforts toward economy, | vol
UNFAIRLY make this notwithstanding a.
the same time that the work. if charged
for rs other matter, IS worth four times
the pI ice named.
respectfully. GEO. WAHREx
On mtion, said proposition was accept
Cd and ordered to be filed and recorded.
PRESENT To THE CITY.
On notion, the following account was
allowed:
Geo. Warren, services as City Judge
from Sept 1st, 1873 to March lst, 1879
six moths, 500.
On notion, an order was directed to be
drawn IN the Treasurer for $50 in pay
ment o. said claim the balance having
been presented by Mr. Warren TO the city
as shown in the following communication
TO wit
To the Honorable Mayor and Councilmen
Of he city of Hickman:
Gentemen- Please allow the enclosed
account. Approaching the efforts of the
presen Mayor and Council toward ecOno-
my and retrenchment, | beg you will allow
me to present one half said amount 500
TO the city. Respectfully,
GEO. WARREN, J. c. C. II.
NOTICE TO vAcArE.
The Marshal reported that all parties
arc complying with the orders of the
Board of Health except Mrs. Belts.
On motion, the Marshal was directed TO
notify Mrs. Belts 10 move cut Of Fulton
House imme diately.
ACCOUNTS.
On motion, the following account was
allowed. and an order directed to be drawn
on the Treasurer for same;
A 4. Faris, to services as Board Of
Health for 1878, SO.
ROCK CURLING.
On motion, Alex. A. Faris and II. S.
Campbell We're appointed a committee to
ascertain the cost Of rock for curbing.
EXEYrr
On motion, it was ordered that all par
ties boarding employees be exempt from
license
On motion, the Council adjourned.
VI. Z. MlLLEF, City Clerk.
Hos. ALEX. WILLINGHAM, years
ago familiar old politician and
brush breaker" Of this section. is now
a candidate for the Senate in the
Caldwell county district.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-02-28
Ruined His boots.

The Pulaski Citizen tells the fol
lowing joke on Governor Marks of
Tennessee:
Gov. Marks lost his leg at the bat
tie OF Murfreesboro. He had on a
SPLENDID pair Of heavy boots that he
had just paid fortune for and the
ball tore all the heel Of one of them
out. A comrade was wounded 10 the
elbow and Marks passed and asked
him If he was badly hurt. The sol
dier told him he was NOS and
asked: "What are you limping for
Captain? Are you wounded? Yes,
said Captain Marks. but l wouldn't
care d-n if il hadn't ruined my new
boots" Mr. j. NJ. Neill saw and
heard this.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-02-28
Free AdXeriising.

We have to depend, in great meas
ure, on the farming interests for a
support. While it may be true that
we give value received, we wish to
establish a still greater community Of
interests by rendering the "bone aud
siuew" 4 greater service. Farmers
frequently have bunches of mules,
horses, hogs, cattle or sheep which
they wish to sell, while there are others
who wish to buy this class of stock.
Now, in order to let this class of our
readers make their wants known, we
VIII isIsssi Sc q e.S,.l s.sS1SSs:Le
!. -
Farmers VIII see at once the benefits
that will accrue by taking advantage
Of our offer.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-02-28
Iiiacnhmrn.s Chanccs.

Black burn will be nominated on the
first ballot, We now believe. lie now
has more instructed votes than all his
competitors combined, and the counties
TO hear from are, by report, largely for
him. His opponents are now working,
in some places, to prevent instructions
banking on the hope that, if he is
not nominated on the first ballot, com
binations can be effected to defeat him.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-02-28
Another l.ropOsiiion.

EDIToR CoURIER:-Being a taxpayer,
alike with others in desiring z
to see the town of Hickman out of debt,
and the burdens of taxation lessened, and
willing TO meet any of my fellow towns
men in any honest, fair, equitable effort
to accomplish that end, on an equal level
I now propose to burn - in bonds to any
other citizens 81 in bonds, thus eiviD z
the town relief from the amount Of the
debt thus destroyed.
Respectfully, II. \. Tf LER.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-02-28

THE Dexter (Mo) Enterprise, our
neighbor across the river, is now being
edited by an ex United Senator. aud
very ably edited too. Also, it has
just received a steam cylinder newspa-
per press, and is hyphensted The
Enterprise Messenger" With such
abilities aud facilities it should reap
unboundrd success but, we fear. sit
has o load that would sink a navy"
much less a rural rooster in the Miss
souri, swamps.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-02-28
A GAL.

We publish, in this issue, a call
signed by number of Democrats OF
Graves county, upon DR.. G. S. Miles,
to BECOME candidate for the State
Senate. He is good man, compe-
tent man, and would make one of the
best of Senators.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-02-28
Down 10 Hard Pan.

The business of the country is down
to "hard pan" as the merchant would
say, and it now only remains to bring
the politician down to the same level
Iu Kentucky our candidates have given
US "buncomb and thunder about the
war;" and national politics aud personal
diatribes. long euorgh. We, end all
the people, have, probably, been as
much to blame as the candidates, but
it should be stopped.
We want our candidates for the
Legislature to discuss questions that
will improve our condition. Give Us
good roads, churches, schools, and
protect US in making bread and meat,
and the other elements to prosperity.
There is no reason why Kentucky
should not thrive, and grow wealthy
aud prosperous alongside Of Indiana,
Ohio and Missouri, except that We are
welded to certain slow methods which
retdrd progress
We want to prosper as individuals,
we want to prosper as a people, and we
want to prosper as State. There is
no wisdom in the policy which pays the
State out of debt, aud leaves the people
impoverished by the minority action
of certain elements in the towns aud
counties. There is no wisdom in hold
ing on to dead policy or u dead
principle, because our forefathers es
tablished it, or prospered under it, if
it fails to bring u. prosperity.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-02-28

A great deal of the cash of Kentucky
has been invested in United States four
per centum bonds. The Princeton Bapacr
snys: "puring the past six months. not
less tha 100000 have gone out of Cald-
well county into these DC nds, while there
are n number of men who can give good
mortgage security for il ct six per cent. =
Il Exchange.
The same is true of Fulton county.
and perhaps every county in the State.
Why is it that money prefers invest
ment in United States bonds at fonr
per cent to Kentucky land mortgages
at sig per cent? Why will n man
- aninnS>aausen. n.
cent. are promptly ps7d. There
is no del1y in collecting, no fees for
collection, no quirks Of law, no ifs
or dnds, or doubts about it. Not SO
on a Keo+ucky morfgage-they are
seldom promptly paid, and the State
actually encourages delay by obstruet
ing speedy collection. All this suing,
court cost, lawyers fees, fees for col
lecting, etc, eat up the interest, which,
added to the quibbles and quirks OF
law Incident to exemptions, etc have
caused men to quit loaning money in
Kentucky. Our legislators have some
time let their "sympathies" run away
with the best interests of the people,
for there is DO greater error than
misdirected sympathy. If it is to the
interest of the people to be able to
borrow money cheap, to get it "low
down." then it occurs TO US that the
sensible way to do it is to have such
laws as will make the loaDing of money
prompt, safe, and profitable. If Ken
tucky mortgages we're equally as safe.
certain and prompt as United States
bonds, why would not moneyed men
as soon loan money here at 4 per cent.
as to the Government There is no
sensible reason why they should not
but the cost Of collecting, the delay,
the uncertainty, are the cause of the
rate of interest being higher wheI
loans are made and the borrower has
to pay for it.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-02-28

Messrs, Underwood and Jones may
as we'll withdraw from the contest for
Governor and give DR.. Blackburn a
clear field. 1t will strengthen them
for promotion in the future. The Ger
tain nomination of Dr.. Blackbun is
a question of "very short time and the
gentlemen named might as we'll make
a safe retreat while they have a fair
showing. Come, gentlemen, out with
your magnaninity.-Paducah News
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-02-28
W. A RE Now SELLING

DRESS GOODS
At 10, l2L. 10, 20 aud % cents; former
price 20, 20, so, so and 75 cents.
-OVERCOATS
At S3.50 $3.50. $500, 500, $3.50, $500,
$1,000, $500, and $1,000; former price
$500. $3.50. $500, Sl2.O0, $1,000, Si5. 90,
Sl6.5O. $1,000 and $500. All other
clothing in proportion.
A nice lot Of Ladies Shawls very low
~fI J. AMBERG'S SONS.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-02-28
To Societies.

If any of the Lodges, Orders or Societies
of this section desire publications calcu-
lated to advance the objects and purposes
of their organization, the Courier will
gladly publish them, free of charge.