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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-10
An Arkansas Guiteau.

"Parson Timothy" said the Judge to
a colored man who had just been ar
raigned, "you are charged with stealing
Deacon Thompson's wife. have known
YOU for years, and had always considered
YOU an upright man. And now, sir, that
YOU are arraigned on so terrible charge,
with such overwhelming proof against
YOU, must confess that my faith in the
colored part of humanity is greatly
shaken by severe chill from the dark
swamps of deception. AS you expect
one day TO be arraigned before Bar
from which there Is no appeal, tell me,
are you guilty? Did you run away with
Deacon Thompson's wife p
"Jedge, replied Timothy, after sew
eral minutes reflection, " 1t would take
me some time to splain dis matter ter de
satisfaction Oh de Court. But I'll try.
l Is preacher, as yerself well knows,
an has assisted many man III tindin'
the Lamb"
Yes, broke in witness, "an' yer
foun' my sheep an stole 1t last fall, an l
ken prube it.
Silence Z" Numbered the Judge, or
you viii be stood on your head. The
prisoner shall be protected. The Con-
stitution of the United States declares
in Italics that prisoners are entitled to
the respect and floral tributes of every
man, woman and child in the country.
You are mighty Confed, Judge, >"
said the prisoner. LAS L was going TO
remark, / love Deacon Thompson like a
red mule loves oats. Visitin' his house
often, seed dat his wife glib him great
deal Oh noyance. l seed, sepenter
somethin' was done, dar would be a split
in de family. AFTER studyin' de ques-
ton seberal days L was inspired to re-
move d oman. De impulse was so
strong dat l couldn't shake it Off At
fairs grew wusser an wusser. At last
went ober ter de deacOn's house an re
moved de oman"
The Prosecuting Attorney then read
several affectionate letters that had been
written by the prisoner.
Judge" exclaimed the prisoner.
"that Prosecuting Attorney Is a fool,
an l owe the witness ten cents for
board Sensation III the Courtroom
was inspired to remove the woman"
Were you ever crazy ?" asked the
counsel for defense.
al should remark, answered the
prisoner 81 flung a Ratchet at ole
master fore de war, an afterwards butt
my head agin beech tree till 1t throbbed
like a stone-bruise. l is a heightened
niggar, an eff 1 hadn't come ter Little
Rock l might hab staid away. Don't
let bow-legged Ike testify, fur I Dor
rowed a shirt from him.
Here a frisky negro stepped up and
struck the prisoner with a hoOp-pole.
The prisoner in his excitement called
the Judge a liar. Recess was then
taken, during which time the prisoner
ate n boiled cabbage. After recess the
/ prisoner acknowledged that he owed an
other witness ten cents. Then the Court
adjourned. Rock Gazette
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-10

It Is said that no French cook can fry
oyster and that no American can do 1t
as well as the negro cooks of Baltimore
and New Orleans. We believe It.
Moreover there are good many other
things which can only be found in per-
feclon IN one special locality. For in
stance, there is a kind of steamed brown
bread which Is not fit to eat outside of
New England. Goldfish, too, is a deli
cag, cooked as Yankee housewives can
cook it, which it certainly is not under
any other circumstances. In Indiana
and Kentucky, one can get better fried
chicken, and green corn fritters than
any where else in the world. The cook
ery IN the extreme South has a still
more distinctive flavor. The okra soup,
called gumbo, which they make there, is
a thingof which Northerner is simp'y
incapable of conceiving of. AS for the
ICON pones," which they eat down
there. no white cook need hope to ever
learn to make them. 1t Is an absolute
impossibility that they should ever be
put together by any but black fingers.
Indianapolis Herald.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-10
A Tramp's Philosophy.

In the hip pocket of an old vagrant
was a memorandum book full of his OWL
writing with pencil, and some of his
philosophy is good enough to be pre-
served. His first paragraph reads
Drinking bad whisky because 1t is
offered free is like getting in the way OF
bullets purchased by an enemy"
A second reads
Honesty is the best policy, but some
folks are satisfied with the second best.
1t is hard to be honest on an empty
stomach"
"A dry plank under a rain-roof shed
is better than a feather bed In Jail, and
one isn't annoyed by the iailer bringing
In a square breakfast"
A fourth says:
e Pay as you go. If you haven't any
thing to pay with, don't go. If you are
forced to go, record every Indebtedness
and let your heirs settle the bills. >"
The fifth explains
1--WE should have charity for ALL
When winter winds blow cold and drear
we vags should pity the poor fellows in
India who are having red-hot weather. "
A sixth is recorded
Politeness costs nothing, but it is not
expected that you will wake a man up at
midnight to ask permission to go through
his hen-house 1t is more courteous to
let him enjoy his needed repose."
The seventh and last we noted down
as follows:
When you pick up an apple core do
not find fault because it is not the apple
itself, but be satisfied with the grade of
descent. Do not be ashamed of your
occupation. We can not all be lords,
cor can we all be Migrants. As can not
be lord, l should not lament at being
vagrant Be truthful and outspoken-
that is, tell them you are a Chicago fire
sufferer. Keep seasonable hours, or
some other vag will get your plank first.
Be-hopeful, cheerful, and good-natured
irowling won't cure q sore heel. Pitt
2delphiG Times.
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A Field Of Battle.

I had my letter to write and post, and
this involved a five-mile drive by moon
light to the rear across the most CHASTITY
field which can well be imagined. L
had some trouble In finding my carriage.
l had left it at a well-defned position on
the battlefield of the day before, but to
reach it / had TO walk for more than
mile over a plain where the carcasses OF
men and horses were not merely thlckly
strewn but frozen into all sorts OF tantas-
tic attitudes. The thermometer had been
l60 below the freezing point on the
previous night, and men only slghtly
wounded, who had not been able to
crawl to their comrades, had been frozen
to death. One man was stiff IN sitting
position, with both his arms lifted
straight above his head, as though his
last moments had been spent IN an IN
vocation, and 1t gave one shudder IN
the clear moonlight to approach hlm.
Others were crumpled up IN death
agony, and so frozen. In places, many
together, French and Germans were
mingled, not because they had been at
close quarters, but because the same
ground had first been occupied by one
and then by the other, perhaps at an IN
terval of half day. ! think was more
comfortable with bullets singing IN my
ears than walking amid the distorted
shadows of these dead and stlffened
men ; and it was quite a relief to see a
haystack on fire, and a regiment warm
ing themselves Mt it, and my prudent
coachman within comfortable distance
of the ruddy blaze. Then comes the
hard part of the correspondents life. l
had still to dine / had lived since the
mornings coffee on a loaf of bread
which had been picking at all day
then to write my letter--a good two
hours task; then to see that 1T was
safely posted, either that night or the
next morning early, so as to give me
time to get to the field for the third
days battle And all this after having
been on strain of exertion and excite
ment since daylight; and then the gen
tleman at ease in London reads it all in
his arm chair after breakfast for penny,
or at the most, twopence half-penny.-
Bidck7Cood'S Magazine.
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This beverage Is prepared by slow fer
mentation from strong infusiOns of malt,
barley, hops and grape sugar. 1t Is us
ually fermented IN winter, not requiring
a high temperature, and in summer the
rooms where 1t is prepared are cooled by
means of ice-machines. The barley is
first soaked in water. drained and then
thrown on the stone floors, where it be-
comes heated and begins to terminate
After termination has continued for some
days the mass is put IN large kilns to
dry, when it becomes malt. This is first
crushed between rollers, mixed with
water, boiled, and the liquid part, or
wort" drained Off Hops are added
before a second boiling, and the whole
Is run into fermenting tuns, where it is
mixed with yeast in the proportion of
one gallon of the latter to twenty-five
barrels of the former. Fermentation
continues twenty days, and after the
beer is put In hogsheads, before it is
drawn off into barrels for use, it is allowed
contact with the air to accumulate
carbonic acid, which gives it life.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-10
Some chinese Manners and Customs


1t has been we'll said that the every
day customs and manners of the Chinese
are Numerically opposed to what we are
familiar with. In a country where, as
Wingrove Cook says, " the roses have
no fragrance and the women no petit
coats where the laborer has no Sab
bath. and the Magistrate no sense of
honor where the needle points to the
South, and the sign of being puzzled is
to scratch the anhpodes OF the head
where the place of honor Is on the left
hand. and the seat of intelligence is IN
the stomach where to take off your hat
is an insolent gesture, and TO wear white
garments is to put yourself IN mourn
ing" it would be difficult perhaps to
find many customs which are common
with us. 1t is stated that, as the needle
Of the Chinese compass points toward the
South, so also every house IN China,
which Is at all pretentious, faces the
same way, as well as the state seats IN
all the reception rooms. The Chinese
at home, as abroad for the most part, are
industrious and frugal; the poorer
classes live almost entirely on rice and
vegetables, sometimes adding small
pieces of fish and meat They are ac-
customed to living In crowded apart
ments. and their clothing is usually but
a small item in the way of expenditure !;
although China is vast as to territory,
there are many who live, near the large
cities, in boats on the neighborlng rivers
and lakes Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-10
HISTORICAL.

THE Spanish Celts raised temples and
sang hymns of praise to death.
In single day, at the dedication OF
the Colosseum by Titus, 5000 animals
persisted.
AUGUSTUS solemnly degraded an over
threw the statue of Neptune because his
fleet had been wrecked.
THE favorite maxim of Philip III. OF
Spain was cit is better not to reign
at all than to reign over heretics.
TOWARD the end of the eighth century
the sale of slaves beyond their native
provinces was in most countries forbid
den.
AT THE beginning of the fourteenth
century the church for the first time
gave permission for the dissection of hui
man bodies
MEaREr, the friend of Charles XII,
exclaimed at the instant of the kings
death; "The play is over; let us go to
supper.
MARCUS AURELEUs, 10y compelling
gladiators to fight with blunted swords,
rendered the combats for time COM
paratively harmless.
SOME troubles seem to be brewing in
Cashmere, the Maharajah of which has
been suspected of intriguing with the
Afghans and Russians.
In THE year $50 A. L. c., Caius Grac-
chus caused a law to be made supplying
the poor with corn at price that was
little mere than nominal.
SIR Francis DRAKE called his own
plumber of towns in the West Indies, and
destruction of ships on the sea, "singe-
ing the beard of the King of Spain.
AT ONE porcelain mandatory in
Japan the clay pits have been worked
for more than 1000 years, and the de
posits seem scarcely more than scraped.
Oh THE death of the Emperor Ohio,
who is said to have killed himself to
avoid being the cause of a civil war.
some of his soldiers, filled with grief and
admiration, killed themselves before his
corpse.
AT THE time of the introduction of
postage stamps by Sir Rowland Hill, he
estimated that the increase of letters
posted on the 18th of February, was not
less than half million throughout the
United Kingdom.
THE triple wall which formerly sur
rounded Constantinople, and which
finally fell before Mahomet II, formed
an almost impregnable defence. The
present Sultan must have its value in
mind, as he is having his own palace and
garden surrounded by three similar
walls.
WHEN Pope Plus TX. died in 1878, he
bequeathed to his successor the conflict
with Russia defeat of the French
ultramontances, opposition against Italy
and Germany. The situation has now
changed. Russia and Germany desire
peace with the Vatican. The relations
of the Pope to Italy and France are not
greatly changed, although the former
treats the Vatican as municipal affair,
and the French government has drifted
into almost open hostility with it.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-10
A Lire.savIng Lesson in Physics.

1t is a well known fact that any per-
son of average structure and lung ca
pacity Will float securely IN water if care
Is taken to keep the hands and arms sub
merged and the lungs full of air. Yet
in most cases persons who are not swim
mers Immediately raise their hands above
their head and scream the moment they
find themselves in deep water. The
folly of such action can be impressively
illustrated by means of a half-empty
bottle and a couple of nails; and the
experiment should be repeated in every
household until all the members
particularly the women and children
realize that the only chance for safety
in deep water lies in keeping the hands
under and the mouth shut. Any short
necked, square-shouldered bottle will
answer, and the nails can be easily kept
in place by a rubber band or q string.
First ballast the bottle with sand, so that
it will Just float with the nails pointing
downward, then by turning the arms up
ward, the bottle will either be forced I'M
der water at once or will be tipped over
so that the water will pour into the open
mouth, and down it will go. To chill
dren the experiment is a very impressive
one and the moral of it is understood.
The vital value of this precaution was
strlklngly illustrated near Accomac G.
H., Virginia. A niece of the Hon. John
Nicely, while bathing, was swept off into
the ocean by a strong current and soon
disappeared in the high breakers. As
she could not swim her companions gave
her up for lost. Two young fishermen
who were employed some distance away
thoughtfully set out with small boat in
search of her, and when mile or more
from shore, found her floating on the
water. She had been drifting nearly an
hour and was greatly exhausted, but soon
recovered. Unable to swim she had
pluckily hoated, thereby making her
rescue possible. Scientific american.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-10
Wood Weaving.

This industry belongs strictly to the
town of Ehrenberg, on the Austrian
frontier. Spdrterie work, or weaving of
wood, was introduced more than cen
fury ago, but has been confined until
within a short time to the manufacture
OF cheap hats, glued together, and worn
by the lower classes. Lately, however.
owing to the interest taken by the Gov
eminent, Ehrenberg has been able to
send out fashionable hats and various
fancy articles, all made of wood and sold
ut very low rates. The aspen is the only
tree whose fibers are tough enough to
admit of weaving, and all the timber
having been used in the vicinity of the
town, the material is brought from
Poland. The process requires the utmost
nicely In dividing the wood, and as the
divider must always follow the direction
OF the fiber, it is necessary that the
q, 1hreads shouid be prepared by hand.
The weaving itself 10 done on large
IONS,
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-10
RESCUED FROM DEATH.

william j. Coughlin Of somervle, Mass, says: ''In
the fall 1876 with hleeding Of the lungs,
followed by a severe cough. lost my appetite and
flesh and was confined to nv bed. In 1877 I ad-
nitted 70 the hospital. The doctors said had hole IN
my lung as big half dollar. At time repoi
around that dead. I gave up hope, but a
friend told me Of Dr. WILLIAM HAMS BALsAM THE
IrxGs got bottle when TO my surprise. CON-
feel better to-day feel better than Tor
three years past. this hoping every one afflicted
with diseased lungs will take Dr. WfLLIAW HANS BAL
SAN and be convinced that IL CT RID
can positively say has done good than all IN
other medicines have taken since NV sickness
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-10

He WAS shrewd grocer, and when the
lady, who was going to have the sewing
society, came down for jug of vinegar,
he filed the jug with whiskey. And
folks quietly asked her where she bought
her vinegar, and the next day the grocer
sold six barrels of cheap vinegar to the
customers who thronged his store. And
though they were all pretty mad. they
couldn't very well kick, as he had giveI
them what they had called for, and ther
to say anything would be to get laughed
at.-BOStOn Post.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-10

a ROCHESTER street car horse shot out
with his heels the other day, and hit the
driver with one and the cash-box with
the other, and an investigation showed
that he had kicked six dollars into the
drivers overcoat pocket. Such wonder
full sagacity on the part of the horse
caused the discharge of the driver
Detroit Free Press.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-10
How 1t Works.

Everything bears hard upon the poor.
The rich man who puts nothing into the
contribution box, Sunday morning, is at
once supposed to have left his pocket
book in his other trousers but the poor
man who has but one suit of clothes
can't get off so easily.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-10

If the Baroness Burdett-Coutts sur
vive her marriage ten years she will have
paid, without interest, 50, 750. 600 for a
husband, taking her loss consequent on
marriage at e75, 900 year. However,
I wish to gracious 1 had few millions
to invest -Massachusetts Girl
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-10
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FROM an extensive use of st. Jacobs
Oh in the editors family, we are able to
speak confidently of its great worth IN
numerous ailments, and fully recon
mended it as an article most desirable to
have on hand in the medicine chest
Siam ford Conn Herald
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-10
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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-10

Now then, let's go in and be aesthetic
with whoop and hoorayl Let's yank
the American eagle off the coinage and
substitute the sunhower Well get rid
of that abominably misshapen eagle, by
this course, anyway
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-10

PURE cod-liver oil, from selected Gvers, on
the sea shore, by Caswell, Hazard Co, n. I.
Absolutely pure and sweet. Patients VINO nave
once taken Il prefer it to all others. Physicians
declare it superior to all other oils.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-10

PEOPLE who cannot spend the season of
winds and cold rains in sunny Florida. should
keep DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup in the house 1t
is the best remedy for Colds and Coughs and
will relieve sufferers at once
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-10

ENoUIRER Chow can you feel sure
that when you come to die, that you'll
go to heaven ?" Be murderer. They
all seem to possessthat feeling when they
come to be hung.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-10

We do not feel like blaming Macbeth for this
expression of disgust Even nowadays most OF
the cathartics are great repulsive pills, enough
taken DR.. Pierces " Purgative Pellets" he
would not have uttered those words Of con-
tempt By druggists.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-10
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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-10

"YEs, SIR" said the Louisville man,
"my neighbor told me he had concealed
$500 in his corncrib. But I didn't go
near it Hang it, I knew he lied ~
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-10

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