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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-03-25
A Grent River In Alaska.

The San Francisco Ne1CS-Letter says:
When the late Mr. Seward purchased
Alaska from the Gar, he was not aware
of the fact that he was getting with his
countless fur seals, fisheries, mines. and
-bergs, one of the greatest rivers in
the world, and now almost demonstrated
to be of greater volume than the Missis-
sippi. Such a stream is the Yucon
The vast region ii waters remains rs
much a terra incognitd as the Congo.
In fact, while the latter has been once
explored by Stanley-from the point
where Livingstone turned back down to
the Atlantic Ocean, and by Livingstone
from its extreme sources to where Stan
ley's explorations began, no traveller has
ever yet seen the upper water of the Yu-
con or has been able to enlighten the
world rs to its length or its source, or
the region it drains.
Here, then, is an opening for enter
prise and ambition, more fruitful of
promise than anything as yet unrevealed
in Africa or the Arctic Sea, and probably
less dangerous. That the country con
tains mines of gold and silver, we may
readily conjecture from the fact that such
mines exist ON all sides of it. The river
is navigable for hundreds of miles. 1t
is free of ice from June to September
Its banks are fanked below with Indian
villages. Its waters are filled with fish
for the support of human life, and its
woods with game. The mountains in
which it rises are unknown to white men,
but, as they are generally believed to be
stored with that sort of treasure which
led to the rapid settlement of California
and to the expansion of commerce on the
South and Central Pacific, there is the
strongest sort of temptation on the part
of thousands to see them, test them, and
dig them up, if the treasure can be found.
The Government has many vessels
lying idle and uselessly rotting for the
want of action. Why not fit one of them
up for two or three years cruise on
this great unexplored river of the North
The discovery of gold mines there would
lead instantly to a large migration from
all parts of the world, and in a few years
contribute millions to the commerce of
the Southern Pacific States and Terrific
riaq
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-03-25
Wire Network.

The number of wires which spread
over every large city, like seine, is
constantly on the increase, not only be-
cause of the growth in use, but because
of repeated electrical invention requiring
them. To the general telegraph was
added the fire alarm, followed by the
American District system, and finally
telephone. To these must be added the
electric light, which, on superseding gas,
as sooner or later it is bound to do, will
still further increase the wire-woven
shrouds encompassing our cities. Their
unsightliness, especially the ugliness OF
the poles which uphold them, is of itself
enough to condemn them; but in addition
they are liable to interfere with the Fire
Department particularly in its use OF
ladders. The New York Tribune makes
suggestion worthy of attention, In re-
commending a system of underground
tunnels which should be accessible with
out tearing up the streets, in which all
wires of every service, and the gas and
the water-pipes should be laid. The
more dependent a community becomes
upon these modern methods for provld-
ing light, water, fuel and communication,
the more serious become the INTERRUPT
tions. Every city which avails itself OF
them will be compelled to see that those
who ask the privilege of the streets IN
providing these instrumentalities, shall
exercise the privilege in a manner most
useful and convenient to the community.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-03-25
Stanton,s War Conduct.

'I was talking to General McAlahon,
who was for some time the principal staff
officer of General Dix, about Secretary
StantOn's treatment of Alexander Steph-
ens- and Postmaster General Reagan,
both now in Congress- writes Gath to
the Cincinnati Enquirer: stanton was
not very friendly to General Dix, look
ing upon him as a possible Presidential
candidate, and he issued orders directly
to him. saying: You viii proceed imme-
diately to Fort Warren, in Boston Har-
Dor, and receive from the naval vessels
the two traitor rebels, Stephens and Rea-
gan, and will see that they are confined
separately, and not allowed to commune
cate with each other, nor TO have writing
materials.
General Dix felt much mortified, but
he had no discretion in the matter He
went to the fort and sent McAIahon on
tug to the steam-sloop Tuscarora, COM
manded by Major Fraley, of Maryland.
That officer had taken care of Stephens
and Reagan in his private cabin. They
had been together throughout thevoyage,
and it was, therefore, absurd to separate
them. General McMahon said: Gen
tlemen, 1 have the misfortune TO be your
policeman. ana sorry TO say that
will have to take you off separately. as
my instructions are not TO allow you to
communicate with each other. WELL
said Commander Fraley, we can take a
drink, anyway So they took final
glass of wine, and Stephens was carried
off first.
''As he entered the casemate where he
was tobe confined, there was nothing there
but a miserable bed and one chair. He
looked upon the hospitality pretty
seriously, and said: Major, can mot
have table and pen and inkg 4 am
sorry, Mr.. Stephens, but they have been
forbidden Can have nothing to read,
not even newspapers p They also are
forbidden you. Mr.. Stephens sank into
the chair, and gave a slight sigh
Reagan was then brought off in a
tug and put in a similar easement with
no more accommodation, but he made
no complaint Stephens asked if he
could not see General Dix. Il win con-
vey your request to him, said McMahon,
and he did; but the General replied:
Major, 1 don't think can go to see Mr..
Stephens. My orders are so disagreea-
bic that 1 can do nothing for him.
would only have to say no, and that
should hate to do"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-03-25
A Mad Hunting Scene.

The Chicago correspondent of the
Cleveland Leader writes out (from a re-
turned army officers description) the
following thrilling incident of a grand
buffalo-hunt by the Crow Indians:
After riding over mountains for two
days, the Crows came upon fine herd
of buffaloes in narrow valley near by
the Yellowstone. There were four hun
dred Indians and four thousand buffa-
loes.
The Crows had been forced by fear of
starvation to take to the chase, and the
keen hunger they were suffering only
sharpened their eagerness for tilt with
their fellow-nomads, the noble bison.
The game stampeded down the valley
in the direction of the Yellowstone. The
chase was hotly followed, half a dozen
buffaloes biting the dust before the river
was reached.
One of the most vehement of the pur-
suers, who had distinguished himself for.
bravery in two or three fights with the
Sioux, fell from his pony in the midst of
the flying herd, and was trampled to
death by the frantic beasts.
: The Yellowstone, a roaring, rushing
river even at the lowest tide, was boom
ing with the regular summer freshet, the
outpoor of the melting SHOWS in the high
mountains.
When the river was reached the game
made a bold stand, and for time it
seemed doubtful which held the mastery;
but the incessant fusillade from four
hundred rifles, together with the des-
nerate proximity of the formidable bat
,lion, drove the herd In dismay into the
roaring torrent.
Beside themselves with the excitement
of the moment, the Indians urged their
ponies into the stream, unwilling that
even a flood should spoil their frenzied
sport, or cut them off from their game
The terrific current, made tumultuous
from the huge piles of rock here and
there in the channel, whirled buffaloes,
ponies and Indians along at bewilder
ing velocity, until the thousands of
beasts were rolling and writhing In in
extricable confusion.
In the dizzy evolutions of the horses
and riders, the latter were left to strug-
gle for themselves in the water, and to
be jammed to death between the surg
ing mass of drowning beasts.
Some, who saw the danger in time and
turned shoreward, found safety on terra
fl.Dla; but those who ventured far
enough to be embraced by the sweep
ing, restless tide, and to become involved
in the tangle of struggling animals, were
all drowned.
The story brought to the post was
that thirty Indians and fifty ponies were
drowned, beside five hundred or 8 thou
sand buffaloes.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-03-25
Successful Books,

Books which are Immediately success
full are those which catch and reflect the
passing tones of opinion-all-absOrbin
while they last, but from their nature,
subject to change The mass of men
know little other times or other ways of
thinking than their own. Their minds
are formed by the conditions of the pre-
sent hour Their greatest man is he
who for the moment expresses most
completely their own sentiments, and
represents human life to them from their
own point of view. The point of view
shifts, conditions alter, fashions succeed
fashions, and opinions; and having our
selves lost the clue, we read the writings
which delighted our -grandfathers
with wonder at their taste. Each gen
Grafton produces its own prophets, and
great contemporary fame, except in
afew extraordinary instances, is revenged
by an undeserved completeness of
neglect. Very different in general is the
reception of the works of true genius.
A few persons appreciate them from the
first. To the many they seem fiavorless
and cOlorless, deficient III all the qualities
which for the moment are most admired.
They pass unnoticed amid the meteors
by which they are surrounded and
eclipsed. But the meteors pass and
they remain, and are seen gradually to
be no vanishing coruscations, but new
fixed stars, sources of genuine light,
shining serenly forever in the intellectual
sky. They link the ages one to another
in q common humanity. Virgil and
Horace lived nearly two thousand years
ago, and belonged to a society of which
the outward form and fashion have ut
terly perished. But Virgil and Horace
do not grow old, because while society
changes men continue, and we recognize
in reading them that the same heart
beat under the toga which we feel in our
own breasts. In the Roman Empire,
too, there were contemporary popu-
larities; men who were worshiped as
gods, whose ightest word was treasured
as a precious jewel-on whose breath
millions hung expectant, who had temples
built in their honor, who in their day
were power in the world. These are
gone, while Horace remains gone,
dwindled into shadows They were men,
perhaps, of real worth, though of less
than their admirers supposed, and they
are now laughed at and moralized over
in history as detected idols. AS it was
then, so it is now, and always will be.
More copies of ''Pickwick" were sold in
five years than of Hamlet" in two hun
dred. Yet "Hamlet" will last as long as
the ''Iliad;" ''Pickwick, " delightful as it
is to us, viii be unreadable to our great
grandchildren. The most genial carica-
ture ceases to interest when the thing
caricatured has ceased to be.-Jdne8
A1ltho11y ETOatde, in Good Words.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-03-25
Rode Out His Dollar.

A jolly old fellow came down from the
mountains to spend several days at Sac
ramento. Becoming tired of footing it
about the city, he got into n street car,
and when shown by the driver the box
in which he should deposit his fare, he
dropped therein trade dollar. Then he
demanded his change, but the driver
informed him he could not give him any
unless he had paid the coin to him. For
a time the old fellow was in dilemma.
His dollar was i'll the box and he had no
show to get it out. Finally he solved
the problem of getting even with the
railroad company by notifying the driver
that he would use up the money he put
in the box In rides. This he did by re-
naming on the car for twenty trips, and,
armed with flask of whisky and lunch
of crackers and cheese, the old fellow had
a picnic all to himself -.Sacranaento
Bee
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-03-25
How EnglIsh wives Keep House.

English wives, high and low, keep
household accounts in a way that would
surprise many an American woman.
t, Every penny spent in the house goes
down in the hohsekeeper's book" with
which every mistress of household is
provided, Every bill is fled away care
fully when receipted. In fact, perfect
/. system Of order prevails, which enables
every man to know exactly what it costs
him 70 keep up his home. In that coun-
try every expenditure is made to bear its
proper relation 10 the income received.
House rent must be only such percent
age, table outlay so much, servants
wages so much, children's schooling SO
much, alms-giving so much, and if at the
end Of the year it is found that the in
come has been exceeded, these people
Immediately proceed to reduce items in
every department. The general style of
their living remains about the same, but
4 Is necessarily not quite so genuine.
San Francisco Cali
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-03-25
The Great Bell of st. Paurs.

st. Paul's has always possessed, and
still owns, a great bell From time i'm
memorial the citizens claimed the east
ern part of the churchyard as the place
of assembly for their folk-motes. ''In
the great steeple there situate (Which, we
may remark, was an isolated structure),
was their common bell, which being
there rung, all the inhabitants might
then hear and come together. Thus
Stow Dugdale supposes this building to
have stood where is now St. Paul's
School. So far back as the 18th of Ed
ward /. 02S6) mention is made, in a q1tO
warranto, of the custom of ringing a bell
IN this tower as one existing long ere
that date. Henry VIII. lost tower,
spire, and bell at n game of hazard to
Sr Miles Partridge, who quickly over
threw his winnings and melted the bell.
Fornotfar short of two centuriesSt Paul's
had no great bell. That which it now
possesses was the gift of William Ill 1t
was originally east in the reign of Ed
ward L., and was hung at the gate of
Westminster Hall, to notify the hour to
the Judges. 1t was afterwards called
Edward of Westminster, and subse-
quently Westminster Tom" William
gave it to The Cathedral of st. Paul,
whittier it was brought on Newly Years
Day, 1899. Since then it has been
twice recast, each time with an addition
OF metal 1t weighs more than two cwt.
over five tons. 1t is ten feet in diameter
and ten inches in thickness of metal. The
tone is very fine in the musical note A,
concert pitch. The honr is struck by a
large hammer, and falls on the outside
RIM of the bell by its own weight. The
bell is only tolled-that is to say, the
ciapper is only used-on the death of one
OF the royal family. or of the Archbishop
OF Canterbury, the Bishop of London,
the Dean of St. Paul's or the Lord
Mayor.-LondOH city Press.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-03-25

iHE last agricultural returns of Great
britain show that the growth of woods
ana az forests is going on very fast, and in
Iile last five years has increased their
area hall milliQn acres.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-03-25

''YoU must not play with that little
girl, my dear" said an injudicious pa
rent. ''But, ma, like her; she is a
good little girl, and l am sure she dresses
as pretty as ever do, and she has lots of
toys" 81 can not help that, my DEAR
replied the foolish mother; cher father
is a shoemaker. ''But L don't play with
her father, 1 play with her; she amt
shoemaker"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-03-25

'WnL you venture on an orange"
asked hostess of Leigh Hunt at dessert.
mot without imminent danger OF falling
of, madam" was his reply.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-03-25

'WHo inaugurated the fall campaign?.
inquired teacher in one of our public
schools. 'Adam," quickly responded
the sharp youngster.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-03-25

ANTOINE ASHLEY was found dead in
his bed in Oswego, and the physician
v. VINO made the pOst-norteln testified that
ms ieet had been poisoned by wearing
cIoth slippers. He had been employed
on steamer in the West, and wore cloth
Shippers. His feet were often wet, and
tne poison by which the carpets were
coiored soaked in through the cloth and
poisoned his feet.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-03-25

Poetry is the art of substantiating
shadows and of lending existence to
nothing.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-03-25

LIFE has no blessings like a prudent
friend.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-02-24
PRICE s CENTS.

that our Lord travelled that road. Don't wriegle
OUT OF that with the foolish twowine theory That
drnSins Is ~. tnreadbare you mean BY moderate
loon or the Jovial party then you are right. Most
nave no idea of moderate drinking other
than tip2ling The phrase Immediately suggests 70
them two fools slipping liquor on a treat But
use moderate drinking Tor Just such drinkino az orr
Lora pract.cea. To say that leads to drunkenness
Now this is not quite ingenious. 1t is true
and yet not true. DR.. Crosby could have well
afforded to clearly make the distinction which
IS herein clearly involved. The ''immoderats
drinking" OF which he speaks does often begin
IN the very moderate drinking which he dc.
scribes 1t is useless to deny or obscure that
fact. Just such drinking as our Lord prac-
ticed, does not often (nor perhops generality
lead on to immoderate drinking Why and
now II does IS not now the question. The fact
is certain. 1t isn't "atrocious, to affirm il,
but it is simply silly to deny it.
The logic OF many temperance men would
therefore convict Jesus Christ of being (wbat
some called him) "wine-bibber,-a rum
Iny!' Their logic is atrocious. 1t is equally
atrocious when applied to Others han Jesus
Christ. Because some men abuse liberty and
so degrade and ruin themselves, there
fore all men who instead OF totally ab-
staining, use their liberty without abusing it,
are sinful-that is the reductio ad absurdttn1i
80 lar Dr. Crosby's position i5 impregnable-
But the solemn fact is that here and now, for
some reason there are multitudes of men who
cannot or will not practice even what Dr.
Crosby defines as moderate drinking, without
serious danger of drifting into immoderate
drinking. The moderate drinking, while mod
crate, may not be sinful but it is dangerous to
many. To how many, to whom, in any COM
munity, cannot be known except by the very
experiment that proves disastrous to that un-
known number.
Let the discussion go on: We champion no
man: no hobby, no issue or theory We ap-
plaud the truth as it comes out of discussion
more and more clearly. And by that truth we
stand
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-02-24
boston Adyertiser.l
Clairvoyance in Medicine.

1t appears by the laws of Maine any person
having a certificate of good moral character
from the authorities at his place of residence
may recover compensation for services of a
medical nature with the certainty attending
s1it brought by the most skilful physician. The
certificate may come from the quack's friends
matter of a moment. but in court, as determin-
ing the right to sue and recover, that bit of
paper has equal merit with the parchment Civ
en- by the first medical school in the country.
The Maine reports record a decision, which
oyerruled the decision Of lower court, to the
effect that clairvoyant, who expressly dis
claimed any medical or surgical knowledge,
was entitled to recover for medical services"
because she has visited and examined the sick
person and prescribed. The certificate of good
moral character was produced when tho case
was tried, aud the woman, whose unscientito
and strange performances In the sick room
may he the tit subject Of ridi jule, goes out OF
court with the amount of her charges secured
to her by the decision of the highest tribunal.
There is no question that the statute was fair
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-02-24

DEMOCRATIC Vicksburg Herald: Some
Southern leaders would have the people be-
lieve the irrepressible conflict still goes on
When the cause was removed those who
wished to build up their fortunes thought
the contest would end. The extremists are
not satisfied at this, for the simple reason
that it leaves them no means of controlling
the masses. They continue the contest, and
make earnest proclamation of imaginary
causes. They never cease to warn the South
that the North is prepared to rush on it and
gobble up the States and their rights. They
ire the Southern heart by showing how cru
ely the people will be tax-ridden if General
Grant is pu, on the retired list of the army!
Grant, the national pauper." While do
ing all these things, they get as mad as hor-
nets If told they are not in favor of cordial
relations between the sections. They de-
clare they are opposed TO the irrepressible
conflict, while hey sustain Randall, Cox
and others, who feed them on sentiment and
refuse them justice. They are hindrances
to justice, peace and progress, and they con-
tend for the glorious privilege of keeping
the South fifty years behind sections of the
American Union that have far less natural
advantages.