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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-11-16
The Christiancy Divorce Case

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-THE testi-
mony of Horatio c. King, Jr., was
taken on Saturday in the Christiancy
divorce case, subject to ruling Of the
Chancellor as to its admission. 1t was
before him the disposition of Giro was
made. He testified that Mrs. Chris
tiancy came to his Office and asked to
see the letters which have been put in
purporting to have been written by her
to Giro. The examiner showed them to
her, and she read them over and re-
marked that she did not know she
could be SO sentimental; that she had
a purpose in writing them, and that she
wanted to entrap the scoundrel.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-11-16
More star Route Disclosures.

CHICAGO, November IA special
frsm Washington says /: There arrived
in this city yesterday gentleman who
is taking great interest in the Star
route prosecutions. His name is Jen-
nings, and he comes here to tell little
story which is without doubt counter
part of what hundreds of other sub
contractors could tell were they SO dis
posed. Among Dorsey's routes in
Montana was one about 200 miles in
length. The schedule of this route al
lowed eighty-four hours for the trip and
required three trips per week. The
pay for the service was $50 900. Dorsey
sub-let this route to Jennings
for ST., 900, and pocketed $4,000 per
year clean cash. Dorsey, two years
since, went to work and had the route
expedited from eighty-four to sixty
hours, and the pay consequently raised
to about $4,000. He pocketed the
$4,000 additional pay and told Jen-
nings that he had better make his trip
in sixty hours, instead of eighty-four
hours, as the Government would pre-
fer it but made no raise in the con
tract price. Jennings obligingly tried
to do his work in sixty hours, but failed
frequently, owing to inefficient equip
ment. AS a result fines were inflicted,
and last year Jennings fines exceeded
his pay by $1,000. This proceeding
naturally made Jennings contract I'M
profitable, and he was obliged to throw
it up. The Government is thoroughly
investigating, and it is thought that
Jennings fines will be RENTED event
ually.
A PostcTIce Discontinued for Good Cause
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.-First AS
sIstant Postmaster General Hatton to-
day discontinued the postotfice at
Shackelfords, King and Queen county,
Virginia, because the people of that
town would not let the postmaster have
a place for an office. All the citizens
of the town are Democrats, and they
objected to the appointment of Goalder
because he is a Readjuster. They re-
fused to rent him a room for an Office,
and when he bought lumber, refused to
let him have ground on which to erect
an office. This case was represented
to the Department, and the Office was
discontinued
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-11-16

The Campbell Cannon case has now
assumed positive shape. Cannon has
been proved to be an alien. Hence the
plain question before Congress will he
that of citizenship. and its discussion
will no more be entangled by the con-
sideration of polygamy and religion.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-11-16

Judge Folger assumed tho duties of
Secretary of the Treasury on Monday.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-11-16
The Only System that Does All tho Work
by Inch Measurement, and Only
One Piece.


n DRAFTS THE BACK, 'FRONT.' SLEEVE
suits and gentlemens shirts with much accuracy as
Dress All in want Of the system patterns should
call early, as am always crowded the last days.
kYAll patterns warranted to At money refunded.
Mr. Loudon will Carson to explain this system
or may be found by calling at the Ellsworth House.
sepll W. N. LOUDON, Agent.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-11-16

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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-11-16

Tickets admitting Gent. and LADIES', 81 90
nas- The Best OF Music will be in Attendance. ia
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-09-30
Agricultural Methods in New Mexico.

The Mexican and Indian methods of
harvesting their grain are very primi-
tive, similar, indeed, to those of East
ern countries in Bible times. Wheat
is cut by hand with a sickle, and taken,
unbound, in carts to the threshing floor.
This consists of a round plat of level
ground, in an elevated place, fifty, 100
or 200 feet in diameter, as the farm is
large or small one, the surface of which
is pounded or trodden as hard as a ce-
ment floor. Around the edges of this,
tall poles are set in the ground five or
six feet apart, forming circle. The
unthreshed grain is piled up loosely IN
the center, and, when everything is
ready, thin layer raked down be-
tween the central pile of grain and the
circle of poles, and then a flock OF goats
or sheep, or sometimes of burros or po-
MES, is driven around over the grain
until it has all been beaten out of the
heads by their feet. The straw Is then
thrown outside of the circle of poles, and
the wheat pushed up toward the center.
Another lot of the unthreshed grain is
then raked down, and the operation re-
peated until the wheat is threshed. 1
was forcibly reminded of the scriptural
Injunction which forbade the Hebrews
to muzzle the OK that trod out the grain.
The winnowing is also done in the Bib
lical way. After the wheat has been
separated from the straw, it is gathered
mp into heap, and when a brisk breeze
arises it is thrown into the air IN the
teeth of the wind, which blows away the
chaff while the wheat falls by itself on
the clean floor At distance the flying
chaff looks like steam escaping by sue
cessive pufs from the exhaust-pipe of an
engine
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-09-30
The Man With the Umbrella.

Why is it that the public do not look
kindly upon man carrying an umbrella
in a hot day is a mystery yet to be
solved, but the fact is they do not, and
that not one man in hundred has the
moral courage to carry one.
"Been raining down your way ?"
''No, sir -
"Going to ?"
"No, sir p
"Then you carry the umbrella to keep
the flies off?"
Yes, sir"
''Weil. that's good plan, and all
soft men ought to practice it. "
The next man had grin on his face
as he called out:
whats that for ?"
"'To keep the sun of. :"
'What do you want to keep the sun
off for?"
might get sunstruck."
Suppose you did %
Suppose you mind your business,
sir ?"
The next one presumed upon his long
friendship to halt the man with the UNI
brella and whisper
pretty sharp work in you, old fell
low-keep the bulge toward your cred
itors and they can't see you I"
Other men told him that wearing a
poultice on the head would dispense
with the umbrella, and others said if he
was afraid of his cars being tanned he
should fasten a fan on each side of his
hat. Not one single man took him by
the hand and encouraged him, and when
he reached the postoffice he was so dis
couraeed that he lowered his shade and
used it to punch the ribs of boy who
had begun 10 sing:
Hes a dat-he's feIler,
Aud he lugs an old umbrella"
Detroit Free Press.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-09-30
Are Apartment Houses Hotels !!

No less a persc mage than Gen. Han
cock elected from the Supreme Court
some explanation on tins subject. he
took for his family rooms at one OF the
leading family hotels in this city. The
engagement was for the entire winter,
unless the General should be ordered
away on military duty. This did not
occur, the party remained. and during
the winter valuable jewels belonging to
Mrs. Hancock were stolen from her
apartment. The proprietor of the hotel
denied being responsible for the loss, for
he said that, when rooms are let for the
entire season, at a fixed price per month,
the establishment is not an inn, but an
apartment house. Thus we see that
there Is opportunity for nice distinctions
even important ones-between the
three arrangements: visiting hotel
without making any bargain, hiring an
entire house and lot for the year round,
and the halfway plan coming INTO
vogue, under which the owner of the
building retains the general manage
ment OF 1t, Just as IN hotel, while the
tenant hires a suite for a definite term,
Just as one takes house. In the Han
cock case the Judge said he considered
the establishment hotel. 1t was called
hotel and kept in the manner OF hotel
on the European plan. And the hiring
was not absolutely for the winter, but
subject to be closed if the General
should be ordered away. Therefore the
proprietor was told he must pay, as an
inn keeper, for the stolen jewels. But,
If the establishment had been ayowedly
an " apartment house, if no business in
receiving transients had been done, AMI
If the rooms had been hired for the win
ter, irrespective of contingencies, the
tenants would, no doubt, have been told
that their property was at their own risk
with respect to thieves. York
Tribune.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-09-30
Artesinn or SeleSrouting MelIs.

In 1888 the French Government began
the sinking of an artesian well at Gre
nellie. then a suburb, but now a portion
of Paris This well was not completed
until February 26. 1871, when, at
depth of ], 792 feet, the auger, having
penetrated n ledge of rock. suddenly
sank in several yards OF water. When
the drill was withdrawn, the water OF
the well spurted 112 feet above its top,
and continues yet TO run in a constant
stream. Paris is situate in the lowest
portion of a basin shaped mass of for
nations, so that the strata slope toward
the city. As in Cincinnati, which Is
built on the lowest formation geologl-
caly within several hundred miles, a
"deep flowing well may be suuken
almost anywhere in its "basin with
almost surety of obtaining a steady
flow OF water. The Grenelle we'll is
utilized for many purposes, discharges
500, 600 gallons per diem, and, as the
water Is pure, it Is used for drinking
when cooled down from its temperature
of 50 degrees Fab. at the mouth of the
well. The immense abattOirs-slaughte
houses-in the neighborhood are kept
clean by its waters. Since 1871, the
city Of Paris has gone rather extensively
into the artesian well business. The
largest is that at Passy, which was com
pleted in 1860. This is two feet in diam
eter and nearly ?, 900 III depth, and dis
charges five and two-thirds million gal
Ions daily, but its great flow has dimin-
ished the yield of the Grenelle well
about one-fourth. st. Louis has vainly
attempted, by boring hole some 3. 600
feet deep, to obtain an adequate supply
of water. She has one artesian well at
the Belcher sugar works which dis
charges a tepid, medicated water 1t is
pretty certain that any well sunk deep
enough in the Cincinnati basin to dis
charge a constant stream by natural
force would produce warm mineral
water, but it is possible the streams from
such wells might be found highly useful
for many economic purposes. At all
events, 8" the Paris of America" might
become even more like her European
exemplar by sinking few huge artesiau
wells.- Cincinnati Gazette.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-09-30
Celebrated Prisoners.

At one time, poisoning was largely
practised in italy. The most celebrated
OF the italian poisoners were two women
named La Spaza and Tophania, who
were both executed. The latter con-
fessed that she had been instrumental in
poisoning 600 people, during a life of 20
years. Her poison was colorless and
tasteless, and could not be detected. 1t
was put up in vials and labeled by her
Mamma of St. Nicholas" f" though it was
usually known by her own name as
Agna Tophania. So common a thing
did poisoning become, that fashionable
ladies kept bottles OF this fatal water
upon their dressing tables, as they would
lavender water. By regulating the dose
victims could be dispatched In week,
fortnight, a month, or a longer period,
as suited the plans of the poison
ers. In England seventeen persons were
poisoned by Rouse, the Bishop of Roch-
ester's cook. Madame de Brinvilliers,
a young Frenchwoman of most engaging
manners, ran most distinguished ca
reer as a slow poisoner. By the advice
If her husband, she leagued with poi
soner by the name of Saint Croix, to
dispatch her father and brothers, that
she might inherit their property. The
fellowship of crime inspired her with
guilty passion for her accomplice. and
she afterward sought to poison her hus-
band that she might marry Saint Croix.
But he latter had no fancy to form
closer connection with this wicked
woman, and, by the secret administra-
ton of antidotes, prevented the hus-
bands death. She was at length de-
tected in her practices, and perished on
the scaffOld
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-09-30
Chronicles.

Hear me, oh, yo tillers of the soil ::
open your ears and hearken unto nv
voice
Put not your trust in men who show
unto you models of strange and wonder
tul inventions, else We be bamboozled
and deceived
Look not upon the model of the ma
chine that goeth forth into the fields to
reap and gather up the sheaves.
Nor upon the pump that requireth
not human aid 10 seduce from its sub
terranean bed the sparkling water for
the refreshment of the lowing kline.
Turn We away from him who presenteth
them flee from the sound of his velvet
embroidered voice
Else it bite We like a serpent and sting
ye like the prickings of the conscience
of him who defrauded the publisher aud
payeth not his yearly titlzcs.
Erem his lips droppeth taffy as drop
sspeth the sap feom the sugar tree III the
camps of our fathers.
Shun him, on We agitators of the clod-
ded field, for he will draw over thine
eyes the feecy substance which is called
wool, yea, verify, he will hornswoggle We
with words that are pleasant unto the
ear.
He viii say unto "Sign We this
covenant, that We may act in my stead
and supply the toling mass es with my
handiwork.
Serve We as my agent; for viii We
not therefore wax rich will not the
silver and gold flow into thy Golfers?
Sign quickly l beSeech We, that an
other may not reap the golden harvest
in thy stead"
And when We sign or engrave upon the
covenant thy seal, he will go on his way
rejoicing, saying uuto himself:
'' Verify, did | not strike the duffer
handsomely; did 1 not turn the trick in
bang-up shape?'
When a fortnight passes the machines
have come not; the wonderful mechanism
failed to materialize
But IN their stead there cometh unto
We a person clothed in fine raiment and
look of dignity.
And presenteth unto We your covenant.
saying:
"Payest unto me what thou owest: :
pungle up the ducats, else l bring We
before the Judge.
S722. 10
Then VIII We wax sore afraid. and
your heart will be in your bosom as
heavy as the biscuit of the amateur
cook.
And We will go down into your gar
ments Tor scrip, and viii pay the amount.
while the stranger will wear an electric
smile.
And when the man of fine raiment
departeth, We viii say unto your wife
g Yea, verify, am not / condemned
foo, ?"
And she will softly reply: "You bet.
Then viii We seize you ledger. and
write upon the debit side thereof:
To damfoolishuess. .s722 10
And on the credit side thereof
By experience. 500 oOO, O0O, Oo0 600
Detroit Free Press.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-09-30
A Boon for Gentlemen.

An agency in Paris furnishes men to
make calls at a fixed rate per hour. If
this conventional sort of sham visiting is
insisted on no American city, say of
80, 900 inhabitants and over, should be
without so admirable an arrangement.
1t is true that few earnest men make
calls before they are married because of
business" and after they are married
it is well known that the wife makes all
the calls in every well-regulated family.
None the less, the unmade call is ter
rible burden on the masculine con-
science. There is first the vague feel
ing that he ought to have made the call,
the series of doubtful excuses for not
having made the call, and, lastly, poign-
ant remorse that it Is now too late to
make any call. Under these successive
shocks a social conscience, scared as
with hot iron, is at last developed. and
a man gracefully accepts all manner OF
hospitality, from a dinner down, with
never call to acknowledge the debt
An agency will cure this after fashion,
and an agent calls executed with
neatness and dispatch" would probably
learn how to leave, when to leave, and,
above all, not to sit and say nothing, 81
lent as a sentry box.-Spri'gfieta
mass. Republican.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-09-30
A Strange Accumulation

Thomas Dick puts the boarding of
wealth IN this striking way (:
Suppose man could Law up a stock of
clothes and provisions sufficient to last
MIN for 300 years, what would it avail
MN, since he can live at most but from
seventy to 100 years? Suppose he laid
up In store-house 10000 pairs of shoes,
TO What end would it serve, if he could
make use, during his whole life. of only
the one-hundredth part of them? He
would be IL the same condition as a man
who had 100 dishes placed before
nm at dinner, but who could partake of
only one; or of a person who had 100
mansions purchased for his residence,
put could occupy only one. How ridicu-
lous 1t would appear if all that could be
sld OF man while yet he lived was
simply this-that his whole life had been
spent In collecting and laying up in a
storehouse 10000 mahogany chairs
winch were never intended to be used
Ior @ the furniture of apartments, or TO-
oOO pairs of trousers which were never
10 De worn And where is the difference,
IN point of nationality and utility, be-
tween such absurd practices and hoard
ing thousands of guineas and bank notes
winch are never brought forth for the
benefit of mankind. There is no conduct
connected with the pursuits of human
pel,igs that appears more absurd than
sucn practices (however eommon) if ex-
aiiiihed 10y the dictates of reason.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-09-30
AIexander's Night Thoughts.

Saltokof Skupschirofsky," said the
Car to the Captain of the guard, "have
the guards been doubled at the palace
gate?" "They have, my Iiege," re-
sponded S. s, land the man with the
telescope sweeps the horizon. so that not
even a solitary horseman can approach
thy imperial dwelling" "And the light
ning-rod man ?" He sleeps beneath
the Neva, so please your majesty. 4"
1.-The man for subscriptions to the Life
of Sergeant Bates % "He speeds to
Siberia ON a special train" And the
ladder and tree protector men 2" "Ask
of the vipers in the palace dungeons. -
1.-The man who continues at this late
day to say, what, never?'" "Thy
imperial headsman wears his watch
chain. "'Tis well. Telegraph to
Europe that another conspiracy has been
baffied, keep the gum-drop and corn-ball
boys, who spread sedition on the rail
road trains, under thy vigilant eye, and
may ST Isaac of Knownow bless thee. -
And the Car, putting on his cast-iron
night-shirt, retired to his princely couch.
Boston Transcript.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-09-30
The Civil Jury system.

The civil jury of to-day Is a crude
anomalous relict of the past, which has
come down hlough four centuries with
ont material change and which never
could have found a place in modern
jurisprudence had it not been foisted
upon us by time and circumstance. Men
drawn at random from the masses, with
out reference to their intelligence, ex-
perience or calling, are made to decide
intricate questions of property, finance,
trade, shipping, mechanics, etc, cOncen-
ing which they are wholly ignorant. As
their duties are temporary they gain no
experience. AS they serve unwillingly
and with impotence to return to their
bhsiness or homes they are apt to be
careless and Indifferent In the number
of its members the jury is absurd. Con-
troversies involving vast interests are
decided by a single Judge. The disputes
of nations are settled by too or three
arbitrators. Business men submit their
difference to one of their own number.
But in jury trial, however insignificant
the amount or the question involved.
twelve men are deemed essential to settle
tue matter satisfactorily. Nor is this
the most ridiculous feature of the system:
In tribunals of arbitration, court, legis-
lative and other bodies, the gravest
questions are decided by a majority. But
IN the case of a jury, the ancient re-
qurement of unanimity, which Hallam
properly denounces, as n preposterous
relic of barbarism" defeats every verdict
to which each of the twelve jurors is not
willing to agree. .-Ne,0 York Herald.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-09-30
IT Makes a Difference.

"You see, I was going up in the
Woodward avenue car, explained the
old man, "and passenger got IN and
trod on nv awful corns. l was SO
shocked and surprised that 1 yelled out ::
D it'll before I could check my
self. Every woman in the car rose
up in horror, and two or three
OF the men said I ought to be run
out. Well, the next night was at the
theater and one actor said D you !
and every woman giggled- Then an
other said D me Z and every woman
laughed. Then third said D
her i and he brought down the house.
How it comes about L don't know. but 1t
seems to make heap of difference
where you are when you kick an old has
with stone under it. Detroit Free
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-09-30
WHY SHE SauIRnED.

tear
Yourself from out my pre.enee--:ell me- fairest q
the fair
my conversation stupid, that you ainch and twist
about,
Like an urchin with the cholic, or an oil man with
the goutf
Do 1 tire you with my stories, annoy you with
my jokes,
Or wear upon your patience critcising other foks9
Tell me why YOU are so restless, and keep turning
on yonr scat,
And shrngging mp your shoulders-telI me, sweetest
Of the sweet"
1he maiden hides her blushing face within her
shapeiy hands,
While her fair breast with emotion colaPses and ex-
pands,
And in timid voice replies: "No. no, indeed, my
Your tones like sweetest music fall upon my listen
ening ear;
sis
Beneath the scnctilations of your sparkling native
wit,
But for the past ten minutes I have b en- on tor
lures rack
-ssE-s Laas hpg pa been Pr0menading upand dswn
Drfroif Free Press
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-09-30
The Catalina Tree.

1t is believed that the railroad tie of
the future will be cut from the beautiful
catalpa tree. The Fort Scott, Texas
and Gulf railroad have planted 500 acres
of young trees. and the Iron NJ ntaln
railroad have planted 100 acres, near
Charleston, Mo. On the track-bed of
the latter company ties of this wood
have laid in the muddy silt of the Mis-
sissippi for twelve years, and are still IN
a good state of preservation. They have
outlasted two sets of white oak ties, and
bid fair to survive the third,
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-09-30
THE OLD STORY.


When was a maid,
Nor Of lovers afraid,
Ny mother cried: " Girl, never listen 10 men,"
Her lectures were long,
But thought her quite wrong,
Aud cried Mother, whom should l listen TO
ihen?'
Now, teaching, in turn,
What never could learn,
End, like nv mother, my lessons all vain;
Men ever deceive,
silly mRidens believe,
And siill It's the old story over again.
So humbly they WOO,
What can poor maidens do
Bat keep them alive when they swear they must
die7
Oh! who can forbear.
As they weep in despa r,
Their crocodile tears IN compassion 10 dry?
Yet, welded at last,
When the honeymoon's past,
The l0rcTs fOrsake Us, the husbands remain;
Our yanity's checked,
And we ne'er expect
They will tell US the old story over again.