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Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1881-09-06
Commissioners Sale of
Valuable Property.

PURSUANT TO decree of tie Cir
i cult Court of Washington county
rendered IN the suit of Lindsey and
wife vs. Templin and others for parti-
ton, the undersigned Commissioner
on Thursday, Sept, %, in front Of the
Mayors Office in the town of Goodson
Va, will sell TO the highest bidder the
Ia ee lois and brick hOute mentioned
in the plpadlugs In the above SUIT, be.
ing lJt- Nos %, 90 aud l6}. and stu.
ated on the corner Of Scott and
Moore streets in The town of Gro!-
son, Va, and near the depot grounds
Of the Narrow Gauge Il X. The said
lots will he 90 II ny a whole and IN p8-.
GELS, and thnt -ale adopted which pro
duce5 the greatest price.
TERMS:
The said house and lots will tie sold
for cash in hand sufficient to ray costs
Of suit and expenses of sHle, and the
balance on a credit OF six. tSelve and
eighteen munlhs-equal installments
with interest from day Of sale. and
bond with good personal security, for
deferred payments, and lien retained
until purchase money is paid.
a. FULk ERSON, Com.
AuE23'Sl.lds, .'
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1881-09-06

The young lady who could not make
her bangs stay blmg said She was hay-
ing u TUT time of it,
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-15
A Question of Tests.

ssYou see, observed Dr. Slim, as he
banged the patient across the back of
the neck with a club, "you see plainly,
gentlemen, that there is no organic diff
ficnlty. The functions are natural, and
this is a plain case of hysteria.
81 don't know about that, said DIR.
Stout, kicking the woman fearful lick
under the ear. ''She may not manifest
it, but there is certainly sensation there. "
" If you notice, Clipped in Dr. Green,
dropping a hodful of bricks on the sub
iect's head, "she does not act as though
she were conscious, though that may re-
suit as much from hysteria as from spin
al arrangement.
This test, remarked DIR. Sapp, as
he started a charcoal fire on the woman's
stomach, "has been found infallible.
If. under this treatment. she kicks, it is
hysteria. If she don't kick, we find that
even more potent tests must be APP
piled"
- In that case ny system Is the one to
employ, said DIR. Fiat, running a light
nlng rod through the patient. " Under
this treatment we inevitably arrive at
results"
I'm not sure but what we will have
to resort to heroic remedies, " suggested
DIR. Cruel, emptying a gallon of vitriol
down the woman's throat. 'These mild
tests do not appear to conduce to con-
clusions"
Have you noticed any peculiar
symptoms?" asked the faculty in chorus
of the weeping husband.
"Only-one-gentlemen, sobbed the
spouse.
''What was that?"
.'She-died -twenty-four hours
agoT'
And the question now is whether she
died of hysteria or spine, with pre-
ponderauce of evidence on both sides. -
Brooklyn Eagle.
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say: ooh, nothing very important
am sorry to trouble you, but-(Clara in
the next room behind the drapery said !:
1t Will be so mean If he tells now. but
we really need new globe and more
chemical apparatus. And think, SIR, the
health of the school would be promoted
by better method of ventilation.
The Squire said he would lay these
matters before the board at the next
meeting, but doubted if they would CON
sent to SO great an outlay at one time;
The Professor also had doubts, but did
not say so.
Somewhat to Clara's dismay the Pro
fessor staid to tea by her fathers invita-
ton. At the table, as she sat demurely
behind the tray and poured the tea, her
small brother, in loud whisper lmeant
to be very confidentiai), said: "Grand-
ma, what makes sisters eyes so awful
red?"
The next day rs soon as the, rhetoric
class had taken their places, Clara WI
hams arose and made very humble
apology for her conduct the day before,
and begged her teachers pardon, which
no doubt was granted. The Interior.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-15
A Speaking Machine.

A new and most ingenious speaking
machine has lately been exhibited by
Herr Faber before the Physical Society.
London. 1t is designed to more per-
fectly initiate, mechanically, the utter
ance of the human voice, by means of
artificial organs of articulation made on
the human model, and it is worked by
keys like musical instrument A bel
lows made of wood and India rubber
serves for lungs a small windmill is
placed in front of the vessel to give trill-
ing sounds; the larynx Is made of sin
gle membrane of hippopotamus hide and
India rubber; and a mouth with two
lips, a tongue and an India rubber nose
complete the organs of the apparatus.
Fourteen distinct sounds are uttered by
it, and, by combining these, any word in
any language can be produced-als
laughing and whispering.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-15
A Scared Ex.Confederate.

al think, Vest, said Senator Butler
the other day, "that the story you tell
about that fellow in Richmond who went
to have his picture taken is about the
best you can get off. Let's have it.
Well, a" said the humorous little Sen
ator from Missouri, Eve had a man by
the name of Peter Wilkes, who was
elected to the Confederate Congress from
the Springfield (Mo.) district, and he
came down to the seat of Government
with the air of Webster about him, and
Just looked and talked for all the world
as if the entire responsibility of the cause
rested on his individual shoulders.
knew him at home, and hence was
spared the anxiety of being disturbed
about his gre ltness. 1t was not long
before the close of the war when Garland
and l were walking down Grace street,
and Peter ran into us. He had benign
smile on his face, and i knew he had
been engaged III some agreeable sport.
Coming mp to us, he said: Vest, I've
been down street here to photogra-
piers. Got acard from him the otherd day
asking me TO call and sit for a picture.
He wants to get up the whole Confeder-
ate COngress-something historic, eh?
and Peters waistband stretched per-
cepibly at the thought of being thus
embalmed for posterity. Tipping
wink to Garland, 1 said
"'What shop do you mean, Petery
"'Oh, down!here on Main street, Civ
ing a certain number. Just then |
turned to Garland with alarm painted
ON my face, and said:
Why, Peter, YOU big ass, where
have You been in the last two weeks
Haven't you heard anything about that
fellow down there pretending to take
historic pictures 4? He is n spy in the en-
ploy of the Federal Government. We've
Just about proved it ON him, and he's
come to Richmond to- photograph all US
members for the Federal gallery; and
when this thing blows up the other side
will have all our pictures to aid them in
the search and prosecution Fact, Gar
land amt it?'
SO I've heard, Vest, he said
"Well, Peter didn't stop any longer
than it took him to say, My God aud
in two minutes he was just ont of sight.
That evening he came rushing into my
room with: Vest, you've done me
great favor, and I'll remember it to my
dying day
ca Find your man, Peter?'
go You bet 1 did. The internal ras-
cal had that machine of his in the back
room, and was oiling me up. / Just
went up to him with this trusty six
shooter, Gt was about yard lone) and
/ put it to his ear, and /, Shell out!'
Well, he shelled kind o lively ike. and
mashed it into 1000 pieces. No Fed
eral gallery in mine
Well, when the surrender came,
Peter was under the conviction that the
whole Federal Government had COM
bined to capture him, and he set ont for
California on foot. Yes, he's out there
yet, waiting for the animosity against
him to cool down. - Washington Cap
! itdI
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Orange Culture in FLORIDA.

Orange trees are set out in rows us.
ually from twenty-five to thirty 1eep
apart each way, and when budded COM
mence bearing in four years, seedlings III
from seven to ten years. They require
light cultivation two or three times
year, either with the hoe, harrow OF
small turning pillow, drawn by one horse
or mule.
To fertilize it is customary to raise
several crops of corn peas each year ana
pillow under the vines, which have an
influence similar to our clover. The rlch
hamock lands need no fertlhzlng 10
grow the grange or lemon, but many
persons raise vegetables between tue
trees until they commence bearing. IN
this case it becomes necessary to use
commercial fertilizers. In this way, by
close attention, intelligence and industry
which every business requires, there may
be realized from each acre in vegetables
from 500 to 800 per year. When the
orange tree is of full bearing age and well
cared for, each years crop IS worm
about 81, 900 per acre, about equal 70
fifty acres of wheat / have heard OF
some groves exceeding this; for instance,
the Spurs Grove near Lake Monroe. OF
four and one-half acres, yielded few
years since, as l am informed, seven
thousand five hundred dollars, and Col.
Harris fine grove of about seven acres,
near Palatka, yields an annual income OF
from ten to twelve thousand a nice IN
come. Uncleaned lands are worth from
s. to $50 an acre, according to quality
and proximity To towns and transporta-
ton, and those that are desirable are
being rapidly taken mp, rs there IS an
immense influx of population and capital
especially of our northern friends, who
usually have the faculty OF +Puttuig
their money where 1t will do the most
good. Budded trees cost from SO to
500 per 100 To clear the ground costs
from SO to $40 per acre, and fencing
from s. to $40 per acre.
An orange grove of full bearing age,
and in a fancy location, and having a
good water protection, which some think
important, sells for s., 600 or 80, 900 per
acre, and even at this price yields good
interest on the money invested.
I have endeavored to give the import
ant facts truthfully. Want of experience
and limited observation may have led me
into inaccuracies. / have no hesitation
in saving I believe that an intelligent
industrious and patient man may, in
ten or twelve years, IN Florida, make
with almost a certainty, fortune of from
$50. 900 to 800, 900. This appear IN
credible, but [ think it IS true and know
it has been Florida Letter IN
Kansas City Times.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-15
Nsse and Face.

A somewhat singular fact has been
observed with reference to the shape of
the nose, or rather, the setting of it in
the face, so to speak. To be strictly
correct, from the artists point of view,
the nose should be accurately in the mid
die of the face, and at right angles with
line from the pupil of one eye to that
of the other. As matter of fact, it is
rarely or never found thus placed; it is
almost invariably little out of 1.-THE
square. and the fact of lis being so is
often that which lends a peculiar expires
sion and piquancy to the face. A med
lcai writer points out that there are an
atomical reasons why a slight deviation
from the true central line may be ex-
pected: and that the nose which is thus
accurately straight between the two eyes
may, after all, be considered AN abnormal
one; the only absolutely true and cor
rect organ being, in fact. that which thus
deviates little to the right or left.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-15
Gnnd Manners.

A rudeness is worse than a crime; it is
a blunder, because it is SO easy to be
polite.
is a wrong to his amour 20rOPre.
Letters which are warmly sealed,
SAYS Jean Paul Richter, ARE often coldly
opened" When writing remember the
character of the person you are address
ing. and don't waste your sweetness
upon desert air.
Don't "cut2 anybody; that is, take
care not to know anybody whom you
will be obliged to ''cut
Always present the person of lower
rank to the person of higher, a gentle
man to a lad; the young to the old.
Never make introductions unless you
have GOOD reason to believe that both
parties are agreeable.
Never seal n letter of introduction.
The bearer ought to know on what terms
to approach a stranger.
No business is well done that is done
through any other agency than your
own.
If YOU pass an acquaintance with a
lady on his arm, do not nod take off
vonr hat. so that your salute may seem
to embrace both your friend and the
lady.
An adherence to etiquette is a mark of
respect; if a man be worth knowing, he
is surely worth the trouble of approach
inc properly. 1t viii likewise relieve
Won from the awkwardness of being ac-
quainted with people of whom you
might at times be ashamed, or be obliged
uuder any circumstances TO 'cut.
Never give letters of introduction
unless you are prepared to be response
bic for the persons to whom they are
given. Why should you trust upon the
society of a friend those whom you
would not admit to your own? Or why
ask his good services for individuals
whom Won do not know to deserve
them?
The holder of letter of introduction
should not take it in person, but should
send it with his card of address. The
receiver. if he be a gentleman, Will call
mon Won without delay AT all events,
Won are bound to give him an option;
whereas, by taking your letter inpersoIn,
You force yourself upon him whether he
will or not.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-15
The STYLE.

Though it would seem that the people
of all countries are equally vehement in
the pursuit of this phantom, style, yet in
almost all of them there Is strange
diversity in opinion as to what consti-
tutes its essence; and every different
class. like the pagan nation. adores 1T
under different form. In England an
honest citizen packs up himself, his fam
ily. and his style in a buggy or tim
whisky, and rattle away to spend sun
day. A baronet requires chariot and
pair. lord must needs have barouche
and four: but duke, o. duke, cannot
possibly lumber his style along under
coach and six, and half a score of foot
men. This style has ruined the peace
and harmony of many household, for
no sooner do they set up for style, than
all the honest old comfortable sans ccre-
monte furniture is discarded, and You
stalk cautiously about, amongst the I'M
comfortable splendOr OF Grecian. chairs,
Egyptian tables and Etruscan vases.
The vast improvement in furniture de-
mands an increase in the domestic estab-
lishment, aud a family that once re-
quired two or three servants for conven-
ienes now employs halt n dozen for style
Bell Brazen was one of these pattern
OF style, anu WlateNeI- Ic"h ohS -t""H'
seized with, however preposterous,. was
implicitly followed by all who would be
considered as admitted in the stylish
arcana. She. was once seized with a
whim-wham that tickled the whole court
She could not lay down to take an after
Moons loll but she must have one SER
want to scratch her head, two to tickle
her feet, and fourth to fan her delecta-
BILE person while she slumbered. The
thing took--it became the rage, and not
sable belle in all Hayti but what IN,
sisted upon being famed and scratched
and tickled in the true imperial style
Sheer not at this picture, my most ex-
cellent townswomen, for who among you
but are daily following fashions equally
absurd. -b'Uing.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-15
From the Australian RusA

While fifteen cents was mid in
Queensland, Australia, for KANGAROO
scalp, they came in at a great rate.
35, $50 scalps being paid for in q wear
and a half. A reduction of the rafe to
twelve has made all the difference in
favor of the kangaroos. 1t is estimated
that kangaroo eats as much grass as a
sheep, and destroys as much as # cots by
the skill with which it picks ont the
most succulent heritage.
The bush of Australia is so overfed
by the multiplying of wild horses that
they have to be shot down in cournon
with rabbits and kangaroos Tn one
district an Arab stallion got away some
thirty years ago, and was never recap
tured. He was a chestnut, and took a
couple of thoroughbred colts with him,
and it has been remarked that . large
proportion of the wild horses Of the dis
trict are of his color. Horses baI;aved
to be very old are occasionally Son far
away in distant ranges. One man has
shot 5000 horses in two years.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-15
Husbands and Wives.

A good husband makes good wife.
Some men can neither do without wives
nor with them; they are wretched alone
in what is called single blessedness, and
they make their homes miserable when
they get married; they are like Tomp-
kins' dog, which could not bear to be
loose, and howled when it was tied up.
Happy bachelors are likely to be happy
husbands, and a happy husband is the
happiest of men. A well-matched couple
carry joyful life between them, rs the
two spies carried the cluster of Eshcol.
They are a brace of birds of Paradise.
They multiply their joys bysharing them,
and lessen their troubles by dividing
them. This is fine arithmetic. The wagon
of care rolls lightly along as they pull to-
gether; and when it drags a little heavily,
or there is hitch anywhere, they love
each other all the more, and so Tighten
the labor PIOughmdn.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-15
Well Qualified.

One day Judge Dudley Marvin, who
was a famous lawyer for more than a
quarter of a century, was accosted by a
man who said 81 have boy whom ]
want you to take and make a lawyer of. >
{" How old is he ?" asked Mr.. Marvin.
He's Is years old, stout and rugged
he's got a pair of lungs like bellows, y
replied the father Has ne any other
qualifications ?" - Yes, sir he's got
the greatest qualification of all, " replied
the father; "he's the confoundedest liar
in town. I thought, when | heard you
in the court room just now, that il
wouldn't take very long 10y Sam to come
pretty nigh up to YOU. :"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-15
Excess of Eat.

DIR. George Johnson's diet for excess
fat The patient may eat Lean
Autton and beef veal lamb ; tongue
sseetbread; soups, not thickened beef
lea and broths; poultry; game fish
cheese eggs bread, IN moderation
Eeens spinach watercress mustard
nd cress; lettuce; asparagus celery
hdishes; French beans green peas
Brussels sprouts; caulifower onions /;
Roccoh sea -kale; iellies, favored but
lot sweetened fresh fruit in modera-
Ton, without sugar or cream pickles.
May not eat: Fat bacon and ham !;
at of meat; butter cream sugar po-
ptoes; carrots; parsnips {; beet root !;
Ice arrowroot sage tapioca maca-
bni vermicelli; semolina custard !;
hstry and pudding OF all kinds; sweet
axes.
May drink: Tea; coffee; cocoa from
Rbs, with milk. but without cream or
zgar dry wines of any kind, in mOder-
bn; brandy, whisky, or gin, in mod
cation. without sugar; light bitter
Der; Apollinaris water; soda water ;
steer water
May not drink Milk, except spar
igly porter and stout; sweet ales f;
sect wines. As a rule, alcoholic
huors should be taken very sparingly,
AMI never without food.
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OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
my FAvORITE.

1 know she isn't pretty,
Her cheeks are much too pink,
Her ewes and nose are all one snade
OF dreadful India ink.
Her hairs too short and klnky,
cannot keep Ii neat;
No wonder since tits ravelings
From grandpa's stocking feet
But, ohl she's such comforti
She never is too nice
To 90 and paddle in the brook,
Or help me make mud pies.
We dig beds in the garden,
Pick strawberries on the hill,
Play birdis nest in the sweet new nay,
Or in the grain, play MILL
II am sick or sorry,
She takes away the pain,
And when Pm tad, and mamma scolds,
She makes ME good again.
j tell her charming stories,
When we're in bed at night;
And don't mind the dark at all,
It's most as good as night.
have another darling.
A beauty Edith Grace
with lovely, curling, golden hair,
And rosy, waxen face.
But she wears lace aud satini
She can't play In tine dirt;
Nor wet, nor anything Tor fear
Her fine clothes NAV be hurt.
/ love my Edith tcGy 81,
But, II / tell the truth,
Come close, and let Ine whisper itl.
/ love my precious Ruth,
Because she goes where so,
Does everything do;
/ love her cause she's crergfGF,
Now tell me, shouldn't YOU?
Youths Companion
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Did not Understand Journalism.

l recollect sitting at table in London
beside the editor of leading journal:
He said: 50 I am in distress; L have lost
one Of my regular writers" | did not
know about journalism at the time, so 1
remarked: 81 suppose You will have
to get another" He replied: Get
anotherl l viii have to get three, and 1
will be surprised if at the end of year
one of these three writer's does as well as
the writer l have lost. Gotdwin Smith.
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EXc-,bo,iy Right.

When everybody says a tthing is SO,
it must he so. On this point Mr.. A.
H. Lyman, Druggist, Manistee, Mich,
writes: Every one who tries st. Jacobs
Oil SAYS that it is the best remedy ever
used for rheumatism. Mr.. White, Gus
toner, after having employed every
known specific for rheumatism was cured
by st. Jacobs On.-IiadidnapOtts Indt-
ana Farmer.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-15

INDIGESTION, dyspepsia. nervous prostratlon
and all forms of general debility relieved by
taking MENssIAN S PEPToNIzED BEEF Toxic. tho
only preparation of beef containing its entire
nutritious properties. 1t contains hlood-mak-
ing, force-generating and life sustaining prop
critics: is Invaluable in all eufeebled conditions.
whether the result of exhaustion, nervous pros
tration, overwork, or acute disease, particularly
if resulting from pulmonary complaints, Cas-
WELL Hazard d Co., proprietors. New York
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BABY's VISITORS.

NY baby boy sat 90 the floor.
His big blue eyes were full of wonder,
For he had never seen before
That baby in the mirror door
What kept the two, 50 near, asunderf
He leaned toward the golden head
The mirror border framed within,
Until twin cheeks like roses red,
Lay side by side. then softly said;
al can't get out; can't you come In ?"
Atlanta Constitution
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-15

HENDERSON was at the theater the
other night. ut was burlesque, a
take-off, wasn't it?" asked Smith.
eyes, said Henderson, that's what 1t
was, / guess. They had taken oil about
everything they dared to. "-Bostor'
transcript.
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n.rn.ra Manufacturing company.

Mr.. Isaac l. Hnrt, SuperlnIsIIsItu'
No. 3 Ashton street, says: L have used
that superior remedy, st. Jacobs on, IN
a severe case of rheumatism In my arm,
and its effect was wonderful, having ban
ished, after thorough trial, all pain,
leaving my arm as well as ever.-fun
River Mass Daily Herald.
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'MIRRoRs should never be hung, ;"
saws a writer on domestic economy,
"where the sun will rest upon them, .
and she should have added, nor where
the daughters could rest upon them
either. There should be no discrimina-
ton in favor of either sex.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-15

The New York obeIisx is little more
than half as big as the largest in Rome,
but bigger than that in London. There
are thirty-one of them scattered about
Europe, among which New Yorks ranks
twenty third In size.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-15
Great nerir.

All the fairs give the first premiums and spec
;al awards of great merit to Hop Bitters as the
nurest and best family medicine. and we most
tl,ax deserve it They are now on exhibition at
tbe state Fairs. and We advise all to test them.
See another column.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-15

TwENTY-s1x distinct companies have
been started since December, 1879, to
work the gold mines in South India,
with subscribed capital of SO, 600, 900,
half of which has been paid for the
rninas
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-07-15

AT THE conclusion of the ceremony at
a marriage in this city, a sweet innocent
sat down to the piano and thoughtfully
struck up. ''What Shall the Harvest be?'
and could not understand what the
others were laughing at.-BoWIing
Green Democrat