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MANHOOD:
HOW LOST. HOW RESTORED!

IT, JUST PUBLISHED. n new
81 edition of DR.. CULvERwELL's
- CELEBRATED Essay on the rad
zeal cure without medicine) of Spermator-
rhea or seminal Weakness. Involuntary
Seminal Losses, Impotency, Mental and
Physics. iheapacity, Impediments to Mar
risge, ETC.: also, Consumption, Epilepsy
and hts, induced by self-indulgence or
sexual eItravagance, sc.
The oeieorated author, in this admir-
able Essay clearly demonstrates, from a
thirty years successful practice, that the
alarming consequences of self-abuse may
be radical cured without the dangerous
use of internal medicine. or the applica-
ton oil 'hs Snitei pointing out a mode of
cure AT once simple, certain. and effectual,
by means OF which every sufferer, no mat
ter what ms condition may be, may cure
himseI eneaPley, privately, and radically.
seS inns Lecture should be j n the hands
of every youth and every man in the land.
Sent under seal, in a plain envelope. to
any address, postpaid, on receipt of six
cents or Two postage stamps.
Address the Publishers,
THE CULVERWELL MEDICAL co.
Al Ann St. New York, P. o. Box. 1896.
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CITY OFFICIALS.

Mayor-H. A. Tyler.
City Judge-George Warren.
City Attorney-C. II. Wilson.
City Clerk. Z. Millet.
City Treasurer-T. p. Fortune.
Councilmen-T NJ, French, A. A. Far
is, C. L. Randle, W. b. Plummer,
W. T Buckner, II. S. Campbell.
City Marshal-Chas. Hacket
Marketmaster-H. z. Millet.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Hackett.
City Tax Colector-R f. Millet.
Sexton Peter George.
Dist School Trustees. W Cermau,
and Jno. w. Cowgirl.
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A bill has been reported faVorsbly
in the New York Legislature requir
ing the telegraph companies to lay
their wires underground in the city of
New York.
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FOR THE LEGIsLATURE.

We are authorized to announce C. NJ.
VAUGHN as candidate for reelection
90 represent the counties of Fulton and
Hickman ia the Lower House OF the ue xt
Kentucky Legislature.
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John c.. Griffin,

M ere b ant L ailOr,
"AS JUST RECEIVED BUTTERICK' S
II Report of latest Fall and Winter
Fashions, and a large lot of samples Of
French. English and German goods.
Gentlemen are invited to call and ex
Fl, sept26
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Local Items.

- Short commu nications on public
questions printed-but not responsible
Tor sentiments or expressions Of CORES
pondsats-except where We refuse to give
name Of author
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UNITED STATS GOVERNMENT

President-R. b. Hayes.
Vice President-Wm A. Wheeler.
Secretary of State-wm m. A. Evarts.
Secretary Treasury sherman.
Secretary of Warden. - Ramsey.
Secretary Navy Thompson.
Secretary Interior-Carl Churz.
Postmaster General-Horace Maynard.
Attorney General-C Charles Devens.
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MARRIED.

BUSHART-CALUWE this county.
on the 18th inst, at the residence of
the brides mother, by Judge II. c. Baily,
Mr.. L. NJ. Bushart aud Miss Elizabeth
j. Caldwell, all of this county.
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25cts Lower than the Lowest

have no clerk expensss-no store rent
and pay cash for all ny Groceries, and,
therefore can sell as cheap as the cheap
est. Best brands of Wittenberg and Lone
Star Flour, % cents cheaper than the low
est JOHN WHITING.
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CnrRr OF ApPAELs.

Pryor, Chief Justice; Thos. +.
Hargis, Thomas Hines, and - Golfer.
Judges.
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COUNTY OFFICERS.

COUNTY OFFICERS.
County Judge-H. c. Bailey.
County lerk.-Jno. A. Wilson.
Sheriff-W. {. johnson.
Circuit Court Clerk-T. NJ. French.
Assessor-Jas. Cooper.
County Attorney. b. Kingman-
Jailer-Frank Thomasson.
Master Commissioner-J. A Wilson.
County rveyor-Robert Mcconnell.
Coroner
Circuit Judge-Edward Grassland.
Common wealth's Atterney-C Thomas.
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Thirty three thousand members of
the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, have petitioned the Tennessee
Legislature to enact local option law.
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The suit Of Marshal. road surveyor,
against the county of Fulton, TO compel
the county TO build a bridge across the
Obion was thrown out Of court because
of an error in the way the action was
brought. The court held that the Com
mOnwealth should have been made par
ty, and that the overseer had no right TO
bring the suit. The court declared moth
ing as 60 the real issue. Next September
court the action will be renewed in the
name of the State, and the matter decid-
ed. Bythe-by, some parties have under
stood that the COUkIER accused certain
Magistrates Of being opposed to the build
ing of this bridge through prejudice. We
intended no such accusation. The CoU-
RIER's idea was TO have this long mooted
point settled authoritativeiy By The court.
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What is the difference between the or
binary school and the kindergarten In
fact, what is the kindergarten At what
age ought children to start to SCHOOL,
J. W.
The school and the kindergarten have
each their alphabet; in the school it is %
arbitrary characters, which, combined in
various ways, represent ideas. In the
kindergarten the alphabet is the proper
ties Of matter. as form, color, weight, di-
mansions, hardness, number, etc. The
one is representative, the other real The
one deals with the signs and symbols Of
things, the other with the things them
selves. No doubt, Prof. Flowers, Miss
Mary Eddings, or some of the Fulton
teachers can make you understand better
by illustration. There is no fixed age; Z
is adopted by the Public School law. We
think child we'll enough engaged up to
10 in learning natural surroundings, and
that the average child is crowded too
much to force more on the mind before
that age.
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TAKEN up

A S A STRAY, by T. ". Oakley, living
"A two miles East of Hickman, Fulton
county, Ky, on the Sth inst, ONE BAY
MARE, aged about 8 years, having small
white spot in her forehead, weak eyes.
and-about IA hands high, but having no
brand or other marks. and which l ap
praise at the value of $500.
Witness my hand THE 18th day Of Jan
uery, 1881. J. W. MAfES,
ia2S J. P. F. c.
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Capt. VIM Harpole, one Of the old
est residents Of Qbion county, died March
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old, reliable tailors, Devlin & Co., New
York. Suits measured to order at low
prices. A fit guaranteed or no pay. Call
and see for yourselves.
Cock Sighting, it is said, has grown
10 be q popular amusement about Hick-
man. Rumor has it that the City Hall,
one night during court, was converted in
90 . regular cock pit, and that high bet
ting snd excitement prevailed. Our re-
porter has diligently sought to obtain the
facts. but could sK& nothing to substan-
tiate the report.
The river is rising again at HEX
man and at that stage that at this time
OF year it is impossible to tell what il is
going to do. The ississippi has been
rising ct St. Louis for week past, and
. considerable freshet is coming from
above St. Louis. The Ohio, Cum berland
and Tennessee are alternately rising or
ststionsry-not doing much, but rather
on the rise.
We notice that Powell & Bro. have
rs-entsred the grocery trade with vim and
ssrnestness. Hickman suffered great
loss in this line of trade, some years ago,
when they retired, aud it is a favorable
outlook to general business to see them
actively returning to their old line. IL
means that the Hickman grocery trade is
TO be maintained with every advantage
that capital aud experience brings.
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Something New!

We have just received two hundred
samples Of Spring Cassimeres from the
old. reliable tailors. Devlin & Co., New
York. Suits measured to order at low
prices. A fit guaranteed or no pay. Call
and see for yourselves.
WDnSamv prA OF BRO a co
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Great big POst-Omce.


Ed. CouRrsR:-Some time since, don't
remember exactly when, some person
handed me q lot of money: aud have
forgotten who gave il 10 me or what dis
position was to be made of it. Will the
person please call sc the Post Office and
refresh my recollection on these points.
Respectfully, E. CASE.
Five gentlemen from the country
with two mules each, passed through the
city last Monday, and only remained here
long enough to price the wagons at the
Fulton wagon Works. They bought Eve
excellent wagons in Hi,kman aud return
ed Wednesday. Moral-Advertise in the
Fultonian and then Hickman will stand
no chance whatever of getting trade that
could be kept at home.-FaItonian.
The dry goods house of VIM. Cohn
Fulton, was burglarizsd last Friday night
and several hundred dollars worth Of
goods stolen. Turner McAdoo, OF Fulton,
took in the situation as a detective, and
finally gobbled two iramps Mt Clinton,
who confessed the crime and gave the
particulars of how they accomplished
their work. They claim to have been as
sisted and led into the robbery by Full
ton negro, but the negro made his escape.
The prisoners were brought to Hickman
on Monday new grand jury empannel
led. which returned a true bill against
thsm. On some plea the case went over
to the September Court.
CAPT. GRIrFIN's FASHION HEAD.
ouARrERs-Capt. Grifin's merchant tailor
ing establishment, Laclede block, is the
headquarters in this section for fashion
and style in geptlemen's dress goods and
wearing apparel. He is now just in re-
ceipt, from the East, of large number of
samples, embracing large variety of the
finest and best goods for gentlemen's
spring and summer suits. He charges no
profit on the goods, when made up in his
house. The hundreds Of patrons in this
community for whom he has done work,
will bear willing testimony that as tailor
he has no superior. Call and examine
his goods, and if you want spring suit
to look we'll, feel we'll, and last well, give
him trial, for his charges are always
reasonable.
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WE have saved our earliest and best
Cotton Seed for those that purpose rails
ing Cotton, and would be pleased 10 have
venience. Early planting and thorough
culture is the custom of successful cot
ton growers. Any widow lady farmer
that wants seed will be furnished without
cost.
variety of Fresh FIELD = -.
just receiSsd.
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that is the best you can say for me,
Miss Florence, | shall never have tho
audacity to ask you to dance again, -"
and with a heavy heart he left the con-
servatory, now fully satisfied he had
had enough of Mrs. Grey's ball.
He took a glass of champagne in the
supper room, where its quality was be-
ing freely discussed by the young men
who fingered there and went back to
pay his parting respects to his hostess.
There were still plenty of people about,
but a chill seemed to have fallen on
them, the dancers were few and every
body looked bored or discontinued.
Mrs. Grey was saying the last words to
a party of guests who were about taking
their departure.
"Such a pity it should have been a
failure" he heard one of them whisper
in a tone of sympathy. "And after all
the expense you have gone tor
II am sure, then, it must have been
the fault of my guests returned Mrs.
Grey, ''for did my part as well as |
could. Why. Mr.. Turner, are you GO
ing so soon? l wonder if you, too,
found my party a stupid one?"
She looked so harassed that Dick for
got the grudge he owed her, and would
gladly have declared her ball both
brilliant and delightful. but the words
he wished to say stuck in his throat-he
absolutely could not give them utter
ance. An awful impulse was upon him
and to his own secret horror and dis
may he heard himself assuring her the
painful truth that it was the most dismal
affair he had ever witnessed in his life.
Then overwhelmed with shame at his
involuntary rudeness he turned away
and his eyes fell upon the crimson roses
still blooming freshly over the door,
way.
What an idiot he must have been!
There in plain English letters were
the three words, +" Palace of Truth. +"
AS he looked and read the magic flute
pealed forth so loudly and so shrill a
triumph in its tone that Dick fairly
jumped and in the violence of his start
kicked the sleeping Snip. who leaped
out of his masters way and gazed at
him with reproachable. wondering eyes.
eleven o'clock, as 1 am living
manr' said Dick, yawning. Three
hours asleep and no ball for me to-
night. Snip, you little villain, why
didn't you awaken me?"
Snip was silent. He felt the arrant
injustice of this remark and bore it with
the equanimity of stole.
"Well." said his master, slowly as
he lit his candle. =" since you did not,
and as have had all the dissipation
and all the candor l need for one night,
Think, little dog, that you and l will
60 peaceably and gratefully to bed."-
Philadelphia Times.
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Concentrated Purpose.

The old saying concerning Jack OF
all trades remains in full force. One
talent. well cultivated, is worth hum
bred shallow faculties. The first law OF
success at this day. when so many mat
tiers are clamoring for attention. is con-
centratioD; to bend all the energies to
one point, looking neither to the right
nor left. It has been justly said that
great deal of the wisdom of q man in
this century is shown in leaving things
unknown; and a great deal of their
practical sense in leaving things un-
done. The day of universal scholars is
past life is short and art is long"
The range of human knowledge has ili-
creased so enormously that no brain can
grapple with it and the man who would
know one thing well must be content to
be ignorant of a thousand things, how
ever attractive or inviting. AS with
knowledge, so with work. The man
who would get along must single out
his specially and into that must pour
the whole stream of his activity-all the
energies of his hand, eye, tongue, heart
and brain. Broad culture, many-sided-
ness are beautiful things to contem-
plate; but it is the narrow-edge men.
the men of single and intense purpose.
who steel their souls against all things
else, who accomplish the hard things OF
the world, and who are everywhere in
demand when hard work is to be done.
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THE SISTERS.

THE speaker, after winning the love OF
Edith, weds her twin sister. Eveiyn.1
Whom | wood and won.
For Evelyn knew not of my former SUIT,
Because the simple mother work upon
BY Edith pray'd me not to whisper of it,,
And Edit b would be bridesmaid on the day,
But on that day, not being all at ease,
from the altar glaBclng back upon her.
The bridesmaid pale, statuelike. passionless-
mo harm, no HARM" / turn'd again, and
placed
My ring upon the finger of my bride.
So, when we parted. Edith spoke no word,
She wept no tear. but round my Evelyn chung
In utter silence for so long, thought
what will she never set her sister free?''
weIeft her, happy each in each, and then,
AS tho the happiness of each in each
We're not enough, must fam have torrents,
Hills, the great things of Nature and the fair,
To lift us as IL were from commonplace,
And help us to our joy. Better have sent
Our Edith thro the glories of the earth,
To change with her horizon, ii true Love
Were not his own imperial ali-in-all.
Far on we went. My God, would not live
Save that l think this gross hard-seeming
Is our misshaping vision of the Powers
Behind the world, that make our griefs our
gains.
For on the dark night of our marriage-day
The great Tragedian, that had quench'd her
In that assumption of the bridesmaid-she
That loved me-our true Edith-her brain
broke
With over-acting, till she rose and fed
Beneath apitiless rush of autumn rain
To the deaf church-to be let into pray
Before that altar-so think; and there
They found her beating the hard Protestant
She died and she was buried ere we knew.
From Tennys0n's NeU Poems.
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The Growth OF Children.

DR.. Percy Boulton, of the Samaritan
Hospital, London, has made interesting
studies of the health and growth OF
children. Instead of taking the aver
age of large number of children meas
ured orce, he has found it more profita.
BILE to measure a number of children
of normal growth, brought up I'M
eraverage circumstances. many times;
thus ascertaining their rate of increase.
The annual rate of growth was found
to vary between two and three inches
for each child per year. The following
working table, though not exact, is an
approximation to the statement of a
law. The weight, it will be observed,
normally corresponds with the heigh
RISING by stems one inch.
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An Absurd Idea.

1t was natural, perhaps, in the de-
preston that followed the Democratic
defeat in the recent election, that the
suggestion of DISARMAMENT Of the
Democratic party should be entertained
and debated. But the idea was as alb
surd as the defeat that provoked it
was momentarily disheartening. Leav-
ing out of consideration the fact that
parties do not disband or die till their
mission is ended; that even then they
must be instantly replaced by another
party, and that there is no new par
ty either formed or forming that
can take the place of the Democracy,
the vote itself proves that the Demo.
cratic party cannot disband at present.
1t has as much right to continued ex-
istence as the party that defeated it.
In the late election Republicanism was
barely victorious; Democracy was bare
ly defeated. A change of $4,000 votes
in single State--a State which by all
rules of normal party estimates ought
to have yielded Democratic majority
would have reversed the result and
made Hancock President instead of
Garfield. The Republican vote was
1889, AIS; the Democratic vote was
4.336, 014-Republican plurality, 3.401.
There are only 3,40l fewer Democrats
in the land than Republicans. Surely
an insignificant plurality like this.
which might have been easily obtained
by purchase, furnishes no warrant for
the DISARMAMENT of the defeated party.
But even this vote misrepresents the
real division of the people.
There are many reasons for believing
that the Democrats outnumber their
opponents this day. The Republicans
had the advantage of marvellous
general prosperity to help them; they
had the advantage OF being in power,
with authority to command the services
of an army of federal o(fice-holders
nearly thirty times greater than the
plurality of votes they received, and
they had the ready assistance of q
powerful banking system, which has
been attached to their fortunes for seven
teen years. Is it not amazing that,
with these potent considerations and
agencies in their favor. their vote
should exceed the Democratic vote by
only 3,400 and fall 800, 600 short of q
majority? Suppose either of the advan-
tages had been denied them; suppose
the country had not been signally
prosperous, or Mr.. Garfield had not had
the united support of one hundred
thousand office-holders, or that the
National banks had not been arrayed on
his side; or suppose that, giving him all
these great advantages. the Democratic
majorities in New York city and
Brooklyn had not been reduced 30, 900
by Republican money-is it not an alb
solute certainty that Hancock would
have been elected by ten, twenty,
fifty, one hundred times greater piurali-
~ over Garfield than Garfisid actually
eceived over Hancock?
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said; 1.-THE rooms are SO terribly hot
and the whole affair is very stupid.
Don't you think sop
1t has been worse than stupid fol
me-" he answered, laughing. II have
been insulted wherever went. First,
Mrs. Grey told me / was often very
stupid; then Miss Vincent, do you know
her? She is dancing now with Tom
Stern"
9. don't know her; but never mind!
What did she say to you?''
'"She told me that was awkward
and a bad dancer and intimated that
could never thoroughly learn"
Florence Redifer burst into laugh
as clear and merry as silver bells. but
you know, Mr.. Turner" she said,
"your best friends do not claim for YOU
that you dance WELL"
Dick gasped and then recovered; he
was getting hardened now. II ALWAYS
fiat:ered myself did," he said boldly.
She looked at him in some surprise.
"Of course | don't mean to say" she
explained, "that one cannot get around
with you at all, but only that you are
not very graceful or sure-footed. There
are plenty of men here who dance worse
MIR. Simpson. for instance"
~ should hope So" said Dick, as
81 Epson, little weak-eyed man. who
held his fair partner as if he feared she
was packed with dynamite and was IN
danger every minute of exploding.
moved iaboriously past the door. If
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A " Summer Horse"

The blacksmith shops at the head OF
Griswold Street had scarcely opened
their doors yesterday morning when a
colored man appeared at one of them
leading an equine which slid and walked
and hobbled by turns on the slippery
snow. If horses ever live over 100 years,
this one had passed that figure. His
hair was long, one eye was closed, and
he had so many limps that it seemed
useless to look for sound leg.
What want to know" began the
owner, after he had taken four turns
around hiLching post with the inch
rope used as halter. "am about what
it will cost to shoe dis boss"
1.-Two dollars was the prompt re-
ply.
"For de lands sake! but has iron riz
up to dat pitchp I'll have to dwell on
dat for few minits.''
He dwelt He walked around his
steed, looked him over carefully, and
then said to the smith:
Now, see hyar. If you war me
wouldn't you sort O keep dis beast fur
summer boss. an do your winter
hauhn' on hand-sled?"
Il would"
"Dat's what war finkin' bout, an
l guess I'll save him over till April and
call myself boss frew de winter. Seems
like 'stravagance to get butes fur me
and shoes fur him all to once. Hold up
dar', Philander-none o. your pullin'
up heetchin' posts round yerer'-De-
tr0it Free Press.
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, by steps one inch:
Feet. Inches. Pounds. Feet. Inche
Boulton belieYes chat when 3

DIR. Boulton believes that when a
child varies more than quarter of an
inch annually, or when his weight does
not correspond with his height within
margin of safety, put at seven pounds
the danger signal should be put out.
Then it is safe to conclude the chiId's
diet is not good. or possibly some dis
ease is lurking in his system. 1t is a
curious fact that loss of weight always
precedes the development of consump-
ton.
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There is no disparaging the force and
effect of defeat. All that can be done
is to submit to it. But to discover in
the pitiable Republican plurality of
S,40O in the popular vote a reason for
proposing the disbandment of the
Democratic party is the absurdity of
madness. ST. Louis Republican.