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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-06-10
The Beginnings of Milwaukee.

For several years Juneau was the sole
white inhabitant of that region, only oc-
casionally visited by wandering trader,
tral1per or missionary. The nearest post
to him was a miserable settlement
called Eschikagon, at the mouth of
Skunk river, some ninety miles across
dense forests to the south. F" All sup
plies came by water from Mackinac, the
headquarters of the American Fur Com
pany, and the settlers lived far more
isolated and truly frontier life than il is
possible to do now anywhere IN the
United States except in Alaska.
Juneau was sharp, and, IN 1881, Sc
cured from the Indians a cession of all
the region, claiming for himself a large
tract on the east side of the river. Then
he began to advertise the advantages of
settlement there, and, one by one, got
neighbors.
Among the earliest were two gentle
men whose names are household words
in the city-Byron Kilbourn and George
II. Walker. They had enterprise and
knowledge aud money. Klbourn took
up tract on the west side, and Walker
south of the Menomonee, and for many
years after these quarters of the city
were known respectively as Kilbourn-
town and Walkers Point" In 1884,
Milwaukee county was set apart from
Brown county, which has since been
similarly subdivided a score of times, un-
| til its former ducal proportions are re-
| duced to mere hand-breadth at Green
| bay. This act showed the enterprise of
thu pioneers, for there we're then not
white meu enough In TIE region TO Ell
the offices provided for by the county
organization. More kept coming, how
ever, from Detroit and BSffalo and New
England, and the wheezy steamboats, of
that early day in lake navigation began
to make the struggling village a stop
ping-plaee.
Juneau's log warehouse was the head
| quarters for gossip. Here We're wont
to cOngregate," says the chronicle.
Wheeler, "pioneers and sailors to hear
long-expected tidings which had fioun-
dered through mud and forests and over
prairies for weeks before they reached
the settlement ON the same spot the
merchants and multitude generally now
read from a bulletin the news Of the
world, which comes fresh and quiverine
over the wires from every point of the
compass once day"
Such was the irregular, muddy, pro-
sale beginning of this great and attrac
tive lake port.-HaTpeJ-,s Magazine.
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The DeYiI,s Bridge.

1t is an enchanting drive to the baths
Of Incca. ,Che white road, dazzling
and dusty, first runs across the f1owery
plain to the foot of the hills, and then
follows the Serchic far into their re-
cesses. Picturesque villages, with wide
" overhanging roofs and pergolas of
vines bowed with their purple grape
clusters cling to the side of the hills,
Roses. especially our common China
roses are formed into hedges amid
which a shrine with a picture or an
image of saint peeps out here and
there. The corn fields are red with
pladiolus and poppies or blue with corn
dowers. High above the olives, tail
expresses shoot up into the sky. At
lenath. in the narrowest part of the val
lav we come upon the old bridge, the
Ponte della Mandelena, built by Cas-
truccio more than 500 years ago, with
one of the highest and widest arches In
Itoly. raised even far higher than the
roofs of the neighboring houses to be
ont Of the way of the sudden floods
which characterize the river. So high
If is that the peasants believe that 1t Is
impossible that it can have been built by
buman hands, and it is often known by
tbe name of Ponte del Diavolo. When
the builder was in despair, they say, the
devil came by night to help him, but de-
manded the first passenger across the
bridge as his reward. In the morning
the bridge was finished, but the man
outwitted the fend by making dog
cross the bridge first. So furious was
the devil at his disappointment. that he
seized the animal and dashed it with such
force upon the ground that 1t went
through the center arch, and was carried
away by the flood, &" in proof of which, .
says the contadini, the hole which the
dog fell thrungh might be seen under
the present pavement of this day."
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spoOpendyke Starts a Fire:

"Mr. Spoopenkyke~ called Mrs.
Spoopendyke from the head OF the stairs
the morning after the sardines had been
disposed of. "Mr. SpoopendykeF she
called again a shrill fslsetto. The only
answer from the bed was loud snore.
MIR. Spoop-"
Spoopendyke, springing up IN bed
'fWhat aiis Won? Think I'm deaf IN one
ear and can't hear out of the other?
Think L"
why, no, my dear, but thought
You might be asleep. You know l
called you twice before you answered.
I don't think you heard me.
"Did hear YOU. too, but l thought 1t
was a fish horn. All it would take to
make steam whistle of you would be
locomotive to put you on. do you
want anything?"
1.-The fire in the furnace has gone
out, said Mrs. s.
"Oh. has it," yelled Mr.. S., and he
dropped over and laid his nose against
the wall. "What has it gone out Tor,
to take a walk? Gone down to hear the
news? Gone to Washington? pose
I'm going to get up and start II thls
time of night?"
up an hour"
Mr. Spoopendyke bounced out of bed,
caught up his coat and tired to get MS
feet into the sleeves.
Mrs. S. went down stairs to get the
kindling Presently Mr.. 5; came down
and stalked to the woodshed. few
moments he called his wife to know
where she kept the saw.
"Why, where did you put it when you
had it last?''
"Oh, 1 dug hole in the garden and
buried it, then 1 planted cabbage over
its grave. Don't think / swallowed it,
| do You? Going to find that saw? Oh,
you've got it, have you? Where did you
find it? Here, give it to me-" and he
| grabbed it and sawed his fingers acros:
the teeth to see how sharp it was. Every
tooth left its mark. He dropped it OF
his toes with a yell of despair, anC
howled and danced around the room a
if he had small dog at his heels.
'Did it hurt you, dear?" asked Mrs
S., sympathetically.
"No, dod CAST it, of course it didn'
hurt, I'm just dancing to keep warm
just trying to work off my spirits, yol
know"
And with a terrible grin he grabbe'
his saw and started to file it. just a
the family were sitting down to break
fast. Mr.. 8. walked in with basket G
charcoal and his saw.
"Come to breakfast" said his wife
Il have started the fire."
"Why, have you, my dear? Wher
did you get the kindling?" ?"
II split up board 1 found In th
barn"
''The deuce you did, you'll ruin m
vet. Did you know that was black walnu
and paid dollar for it? o, you ougl
to have been a business man. ALI
would take to make Jay Gould of yo
would be hatful of United States bono
and a few railroads.
And Mr.. S. helped himself to plat
of beefsteak, and let his victuals stop b
month
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A Lawyers Experience in a Sleeping.

I never did, never could and never
Will sleep a second in a sleeping-car
berth. But all OF the party said it was
because thought I couldn't, and quot
ed many texts of scriptureand old saws
to prove that a man could do anything
he resolved upon. AS usual, female per-
tinacity and volubility prevailed, and we
tried it. 1 resolved l would omit no
means of alluring sleep; that l would
array myself as for my bed at home,
take my usual night-cap of cold water,
Lay me down to sleep, and "pray the
Lord my soul to keep" I put my boots
outside the curtain, crawled up to the
top berth, and, after many contortions
of the body, bumps on the top of my
head and decorations of my limbs, con-
trived to fall in Undue and regular order.
1 had been told to lie fiat on my back,
and obediently did SO. The cars ratified
and iolted over the rough road, stopped
every few miles with a Jerk and started
with q greater one, until 1t seemed TO
me that my soul and all that was within
me were being agglomerated into one
consistant and uniform Jelly. L trled
nv right side while and became satis-
fed that was the wrong side. Then L
tried the left and was sorry had left
the rl20U. bIlcu ~ oo~S W.
light, and got up and shivered around
ten minutes trying to fix my overcoat as
a shade to my lamps. A man who slept
| opposite my section alternated between
| fearful snoring, strangulations and Wild
and copious expectorations. felt l
had nearly composed myself to sleep,
when it occurred to me that sound and
direction indicated that my boots were
being utilized by my catarrhal neighbor.
l hustled down again and drew them IN
| from the storm. Then became certain
that my money was in peril, that my
pants andvest which contained my treas
ures must be taken from the pegs and
stored away behind me in the berth.
tried for two or three hours to fix things
so that could go to sleep and enjoy
that peace and rest that are the posses,
sions of the innocent and good, but
things went on from bad to worse, anc
under renewed tortures to head anc
limbs dressed me, took cigar, wen'
to the smoking-room, threw myself intt
a corner and smoked sullenly and silent
ly through the dismal night. t.-Retdte6
bo the ISy0TinQfield Republican.
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Bayard Taylor as Letter-writer.

Taylor was a scholar in several litera-
lures, but he was never man to be
satisfied with a smattering in any lam
guage. What he got he worked for, and
so 1t was worth the having when he had
made himself master of it. Letter-writ-
ing seems nowadays ''lost art. +" In
the hurry of this present busy world
there is not sufficient leisure for elaborate
correspondence, there formerly was in
the days of Cowper and Gray, two of the
most charming epistolary geniuses that
ever lived. But Taylor, like Dickens
among modern authors, excelled as a
letter-writer, and his briefest notes were
sure to contain some felicitous express
sion, some humorous quip, worthy to be
remembered. When his memoir is writ
ten as 1t is sure TO be before long, it is
10 oe hoped his letters will be collected
and given to the world with the story of
hls remarkable career as traveller, poet
ana noyelist.-J 4. Fields, IN the Con
gTe9otionGEist.
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A Reminiscenee.

Still another incident in connection
with the great review occurred during
the march through the city of the Poto-
mac. Custer, the cavalry leader, was
riding at the head of his men down the
avenue, the recipient of cheers which
seemed to never end. "Custer % '' Gus
ter !" Hurrah for Custer r was shouted
from thousand throats. The young
commander took off his cap to make his
acknowledgements, when some fair adj
mirer threw from a window a heavy
wreath of flowers. This he caught upon
his arm. The motion frightened his
fiery horse. The animal reared high In
the air. The Generals cap fell from his
hands. His saber was dashed to the
ground, and the horse rushed off at a
mad gallop.
"My God He will be killedY' was
exclaimed by a dozen spectators in a
breath.
They did not know Custer. Still
clutchiLg the wreath, he never forgot to
guide his mad steed. He was unable to
check its career, but he firmly kept his
seat, and, after the animal had exhaust
ed itself by mad race of nearly mile,
the rider brought it under control and
rode quietly back to his command, amid
the renewed applause of those who wit
messed his wonderful horsemanship.-
Washington letter.
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Antidote For Snake Bites.

Under the common name OF "Guaco
many plants are known, belonging to
different natural families, which have
reputation for curing snake bites. In
recent number of the Pharmaceutical
Journal particular attention is drawn to
one of these guaco-yielding plants, the
Mikania guaco, a composite plant OF
south America. The paper referred to
is the substance of letter received at
the Royal Garden, Kew, from CORE
spondent at La Salada, New Granada, In
which the writer gives his personal testi-
mony as to the value of the remedy, and
saws that it forms the basis of all the
preparations of the snake bite doctors OF
the district. Notwithstanding that there
are several species of snakes in the coun-
try whose bite is considered mortal,
some killing in very few hours, 1t Is
asserted by the writer of the letter, who
has resided in snake-infested regions for
many years, that, lfoperly and promptly
administered, the guaco is a sure cure
for the bite of the most venomous. An
infusion or tincture of the leafes Is used,
internally, and hot poultices OF the
bruised leaves and stem are applied e1-
ternally.-NGtltre.
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bade them to seek you, and bring you
back home. They wrote, | know, but
never received any answer; and so L
thought you had treated me as | de-
served, and had resolved to forget me for
ever When Lillian was three years old
my uncle died, leaving me shis heiress,
and took this house, in which / have
lived ever since. alone-quite alone,
with my child. Oh, Ernest, how l have
longed for you, and prayed to heaven
to send YOU back 70 me? l have seen
your name in the newspapers sometimes,
andI know that as an artist you have
risen To fame. And Eow, Ernest for
our chiid,s sake, forgive me-take me
back. and try to think of me as leniently
as possible. L know that YOU can never
love me again, / don't expect you to;
but"
Indeed, Marian, You are wrong; |
have never ceased to love you, inter
ssl,atcl I.E,asas, lalss.tsss.s ,sssA$s~a- : "A
nave been as truly your husband IN
heart, all through these bitter years, as
If we had never parted. have wept for
You and have prayed for you too, over
and over again. But"
But you cannot take me back. No.
nOi' exclaimed Marian weeping u
VOC NAoiS ~ sboh w. tIi blANtSut Ab4
Lily's sake"
''And, for Lily's sake, will" said
Ernest. 81 love nv child too well TO
part with her now. Rise. Marian, my
wife-my well-beloved-the past shall
be forgotten; blotted out as though it
had never been, and we viii begin our
marriage life again"
''I am not worthy. Oh. Ernest. 1
have never deserved such love as thisr'
said Marian, as she was clasped in her
husbands embrace
You shall make yourself deserving:
it is all in your hands now, remember"
he said, with grave tenderness, and
looking into the depths of her beautiful
eyes.
How long they remained thus. in
happy silence, they might never have
known had not little hand, the touch
of whose fingers Ernest Darrell had felt
before, been placed within his own
He looked down and met the upturned
gaze of his child. In a moment she
also was gathered to his arms, while
blessings fell upon her fair young head.
And as she had fallen like a sunbeam
across his path in the beginning, so did
she continue to the end; and through the
happy years long afterward he could
only look back, with Joy and thankful
ness unspeakable, to the day on which
he had met her by the side of the brook,
carrying her basket of water-ilies.
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In the Natter Of stockings.

The United States Supreme Court has
rendered decision of considerable I'M
portance involving the customs duties
on wooden stockings The practice OF
weighing stockings and charging for them
by the pound, as they do sausage, has
long been repulsive to the refined sensl-
bilities of the aesthetic portion of the
people, and the Supreme Court has
struck popular chord In holding that
the pound charge Is illegal and that
stockings shall be admitted at the duty OF
thirty-tive per cent Gd UdlOren1 only.
The ground of the decision Is that stock
ings are in a sense works OF art, and that
it has been the purpose of the Legislation
on tariff to encourage art by admitting
its productions at the lowest rate of duty.
Recently the same Court decided that
plain porcelain plate is dutiable at the
rate of fifty per cent, while a plate OF
the same material on which picture has
been painted shall be admitted at the
rate of ten per cent. Consistency, there
fore, demanded that the stocking, which
is a work of art, should pay a less rate OF
duty than mans wool hat. The Court
states that its members have OBJ
served that stockings are elaborately
embroidered in colors, ornamented with
flowers and stripes, arranged IN manner
truly artistic. Where the elderly gentle
men of the Bench observed these things
is not stated, but as the windows OF the
Courtroom overlook the back yard OF a
Treasury clerks boarding house it Is
presumed they got their information
from the appearance of the clothes-line
on wash-days. However that may be,
the fact of the artistic ornamentation OF
stockings is clearly affirmed. The Court
further states that because of the pound
duty on stockings the fashion of wearing
| long stockings has been threatened; that
lady correspondent in New York chron
icles the arrival of an Importation o
stockings for ladies' wear which are no
| longer than the mems wear. There is M
eight -to-seven business about this deci
sion. The Justices may divide on sucf
| minor questions as the election of Pres
ident, but they are solid in regarding
stockings as works of art entitled to what
ever encouragement a low rate of duty
can give.-1litt0Gltkee Wis.) Repub
/ ffQnn
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A DepraYed Mouse.

NJ. B. Bartlett has a curiosity at his
store, in the shape of a whisky-tipplng
mouse, that comes up as regularly for his
liquor as the most veritable old toddy
Upper in town. Tt appears that his
mouseship had acquired taste for the
ardent by tapping up the stray drops
that fell from the faucets of the long row
of barrels in the store, and like a real
human had been led into the whirlpool
of an overweaning indulgence by the
practice of occasional ''nipping." When
under the influence the little, long tailed
topper cuts up the most curious antics.
He rolls around on the floor in a perfect
spirit of drunken recklessness, stands on
his head, and plays regular 'high jinks"
among the barrels and bottles. As with
mankind, whisky seems to make him
sociable, and when on one of his jam
borees he cuts around the store and
Office without the least apparent fear,
and is as familiar and friendly with the
boys as can be, even running up their
legs and allowing them to handle him.
Eurekd (NeU) Leader
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SHE was young lady fresh from
boarding school, and she went into the
laundry to learn how to iron shirts. She
did not succeed very well, and she
said: "Oh, Katy, I shall never be able
to get any polish on this bosom. -
ssSure, miss, was the answer. syou
want to put little elbow grease on it. y
sPlease get some for me right away,
Katy" was the innocent response.
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"THERE is no surer test of the quality
of a nation" says Ruskin, than the
quality of its servants, for they are their
masters shadows, and distort their faults
in fiattened mimicry. A wise nation
will have philosophers IN its servants
hall. a knavish nation will have knaves
there, and a kindly nation will have
friends there Only let it be remem-
bered that kindness means, as with
your child, so with your servant, not in
Aulgence, but care.
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DIR. HErr1ER, of Vienna, having oP-
portunity to make post-mortem exam
nations of 16, ,562 bodies, found evidence
that 78O of the persons deceased had had
consumptive disease of the lungs WHICH
had healed or been cured
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APRoPos of the great fire in Paris a
correspondent offers the following adj
wee: In disasters of this kind one
sn9uld proceed with the strictest order
ana method. Accordingly, one will
fli nrs1 OF all save the children, who are the
t, tISure, the women, who are the present;
th eie oio men, who are experience; then
IiE furniture; and, if there is time, the
con Gonssefal relations and the mothers-in-
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:. IHERE is house on the boundary
me between Hartford and Windsor, CT,
Whlen ghosts have no title to visit. 1t
was quilt fifty-fve years ago, and has
neeh inhabited ever since, much of the
time ny dozen persons, but there has
never been death in it.
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He WHO tells lie is not sensible how
great task he undertakes; for he must
be forced to invent twenty more to main
tain that one.-POpe.
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Simon Camernn,s First Geography.

Yesterday an old gentleman who
knows much of his early history gave
me one incident as a specimen of how he
began life. Gen. Cameron's mother, F."
said the old friend, twas great woman.
She labored for her children with zeal
and energy of which few beings are cap
able, and it was her teaching and ex-
ample, as well as native mental force,
which marked the life Of her boys with
those strong characteristics which have
enabled them to make their mark in
life The old storekeeper IN Maytown,
the little hamlet in Lancaster county
where Gen. Cameron was born," said
my informant, 90 often told of his struggle
for his first book in geography. He was
only 8 or 9 years old when he became
far enough advanced III elementary edu-
cation to study geography, and he APP
preached the teacher with the desire of
his heart. The teacher. promised if he
could get book to put him in the class,
but how to get that book was the ques-
ton. 1t cost 81, and even pennies We're
scarce in his home He consulted his
mother, and they together planned for
the geography. She entered heartily
into her sons ambition.
''After three months of effort, enough
left from the daily demand for bread was
saved up. These were carried to the
country store by the boy who has since
written SO strongly upon the pages OF
his country's political history. When
they were weighed and counted the mer-
chant shook his head and sid: : There
is only 70 cents worth, Simon, and the
book costs 81 AS the boy thought OF
the struggle he had made to accumulate
what he had brought, and still the prize
was far away, the tears sprang to his
eyes. The merchant reIented, and, tax.
ing him by the shoulders, said Simon,
you are a good boy you can have the
book, and you can pay me the other q
lived long enough, said his friend, tc
pay the ~ cents but to do the man who
thus served his childish ambition many
kiDdnesses - DhiIndeL11HilI Press
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SOME of you may think it very funny
that there is not barber in all the Bar
barry States.
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Yes, passin' down de lane,
An haltin' Sy de way
Jlst long 'nud 20 rest our limbs tt
An fur de chill EN- pray;
Las, Sunday preacher Gordon sid:
+" De march will seon be Ger
An all de ole folks safely cross :
Upon dat shinin' shore"
CHohUs-But old folks am Jolly folks,
An while wait 10 20
Let's gin de fiddle lots O. work
And rush de ole banjo,
Oar Uncle Dan'l. he am lame,
An Peter White am bald,
An Dinah Rock an ole Aunt Chlo'
Am waitin' 20 be called;
An Trustee Pullback SAYS 10 me:
De summons soon mus come
For you an me an us ole folks
To tote our baggage home
CHoRUs-
Oars Pickles Saith aud Daddy Toots -
nearin' Of dar end,
An Deacoi SpOoner an his wife
I'm crutchin' round de bend
y Az ps old folks am hangin' On.
- ~ 'ansasr- sr-<rafttn- fot.nll - -
To let de chiren grow bit
Fo' we go under ground.
CHoRus-But old folks am Jolly folks
An while wait 10 90
Let's gin de fiddle lots o. work
And rush dc ole banjo.
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Boston beaux take their sweethearts
to ride in open horse cars.-Boston
Post. That's the place to collect the
fair,
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A GENTLEMAN and three ladies who
must have had a great deal of spare
time have found by count that blonde
has about 140, 900 hairs on her scalp; a
brunette, 100000; and red-haired
belle only sS,0 900. This last provision
OF nature is undoubtedly to prevent in
voluntary incendiarism.