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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-11-24
A Hunting story.

Lieutenant Neville Chamberlain send.
to Field the following description of an
/ encounter he had with a bison in the
woods OF the Maharajah of Mysore:
! Il had no companion; so took with
me one of the local shikaris. named
/ hampa and another man to carry my
/ spare rifle. Ny battery consisted of a
/ ID. b. Shore rifle and ID. b. I2-bore
4 rifle. l took the Shore myself, and Civ
I ing kampa my 12-bore crawled up TO
the herd through the grass. Out of some
high grass Just in front of me rose a
4 splendid old bull. He was only about
twenty yards off, and Just moving be-
hind a clump of bamboos, when | fred
at the point of his shoulder with the g.
| bore. great stampede took place
The smoke hung in the long grass
which as L knelt was nearly up to nv
neck-and | could not see To give him
the second barrel. / ran forward. but
could see nothing; so. still running, l
opened the breach of the rifle, threw out
the empty cartridge, and was in the act
OF pushing a fresh cartridge home, when
from behind a small thick lump OF bam-
boos, some five yards from me, and
about thirty yards from where / started.
l heard loud snort. Kampa gasped
out 'Kartir (bison) and vanished: and
at once the bull came charging down at
me. | only had time, as he hurled him
self at me, to spring behind a small tree
on my left. He whizzed past like a bat
tering-ram, cutting a large slab of bark
out with one of his horus, and turning
almost in his own length, was
round at me again. This occur
red four or five times, but my atten-
ton was so fully taken up in lodging him
that could not get the rifle ready for use.
To make long story short. it ended by
my catching my foot in a creeper. /
fell over backward, and as rose he ran
in and tossed me. One horn-I suppose
his lett one-fortunately went clean
through my breeches and flannel shirt,
tearing them to ribbons, and, as far as l
can remember, l seemed to sit on his
head; while the other horn passed under
my right arm. He threw me a long
way, and fell on my back under some
bamboos, the rifle dropping out of my
hand from the shock OF being tossed. /
was a good deal shaken and out of
breath, but | think my first thought was
that now he would leave me if | kept
still; but he ran up again and stood over
my body, shaking his huge head over
my chest. | thought then that it was
hopeless. | could think of nothing bet
ter to do to protect myself, so sat up
and struck him four or five times with
my fists on one eye, which l could just
reach when his head was down. He
shook his head and pushed me back with
his nose. managed then to plant sew
erai severe kicks on his muZZle with my
heavy hob-nailed boots, and he com
menced sparring at my legs with his
horns did my best to keep them out
OF the way, but got few bruises on the
Sims. This began to get monotonous,
and knew another toss would not find
friendly pair of pants. He was still
standing over me when l got in
good volley of hobnails on his nose.
shouted at him, and sat up to hit him
again; then. to my intense relief, he gave
a below, left me. and went crashing off
down the hill. L never saw the bull
again
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-11-24
A PIucky Soldier.


Private Hinkson, reserve man be,
longing TO the royal Irish brigade at
tached to the Gordon Highlanders,
bayoneted seven men during the charge
OF iel,el-kebir, and was afterward at
tackled by three Egyptian officers. A
bullet was sent through his right cheek
and passed out of his neck, but he suc-
ceeded IN bayoneting two. Before he
kiiled the third another bullet struck
nun almost in the same place, opening
tne Lrst wound and following a similar
w hlie lying on the ground he was
hreo at again by an Arab, but was res
cueo oy two men of the army service
CORPS with only slight additional in
Jury 70 one of his fingers. He suffered
from lockiaw for three days. and how
ne recovered is marvellous. Its thought
that ne will receive a distinguished con.
DUCT medal London T'eEeqraph.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-11-24
PUNGENT PAKAGRAPHS.

An exchange prints long article
about "Courting in the last Century"
1t has no interest for the mAn whose
courting days are over He'd rather
know something about courting in the
next century Noyvistouop Herald.
up to a dozen years ago it was gem
erally believed all over the world that
a cat could kill sleeping child by suck
ing its breath Twenty years hence no
one will believe that dropping the dish
cloth brings bad luck.-Dstro@ Free
Press.
Heard at the Conundrum CIu6s
''What is the difference between frigi6
undulation and den in the forest?'
The prize answer was, Zone is a cold
wave, and the other is void cave"
Music by the band.-M r. Commercial
AdUeTtiseT.
Among the presents received by the
bride at a recent New York wedding
was an order for twenty tons of coal
Probably it was from the unsuccessful
suitor who felt that he owed the girls
family about that amount of fuel
Chicago Tribune.
"A New York stone cutter received
the following epitaph from a German to
be cut upon the tombstone of his wife,
- Mine wife Susan is dead. If she had
lived till mex Friday she'd been dead
shust two weeks. AS a tree falls so it
must stan IN Y. Graphic.
"A female, young or old. who does g
mans work ought to get mans pay
Boston Globe. - True; and if you VIII
look at the new fall styles you will per-
ceive that many women who don't do
mans work are getting pretty good
share of mans pay.-GouiSvitte Cour-
ter-JourHat.
"A resident of Yorkville recently
found basket on the sidewalk at his
house. 1t was covered with linen. He
grasped it quickly, and rushed to the
station-house, crying, q A doctor! 1t
still livesi Fo- | saw it kicking through
the linenr' At that moment n woman
rushed into the station-house, shrieking,
..Mein Gott in himmel! Wy for you run
away nit my Limberger cheese pr
Farm and Fireside.
Husband and wife have been hav-
ing a little tiff Finally the good man
engulfs his head in his hat and makes
for the door, deadly determination visi-
BILE in every outlying tail of his coat.
.sWhen'll You be back, my dearp' haz-
ards the meek partner of his welded life.
..Whenever l please, madamr 'Do
try and not be any later than that if You
can help itr' is her meek reply. En-
change.
--"Have you any black ladies' clothp"
she asked, amblng up to the ccnDter and
focusing her glasses on the niild-man-
nered clerk. "No, ma am" he answered,
civilly," '.but we have choice article
in camers hair ''Do look as il I'm
in need of camel's har?' she asked,
leaning over counter. ''See hare.
young man, when l want hair know
enough to 90 to hair store and Buy 1t!
You can't get off any of your dead car
Gus stock on mel Camel hair, indeecr'
and she founced off before the dazed
clerk could recover his wits and explain
- Dd7a6urQ NeUs.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-11-24
SCHOOL AHg CHURCH.


--Bishop borgess., of Michigan, has
issued a pastoral forbiddiug the marry
ing of Catholics and Protestants under
pain of excommunicatiorf. ID 'trot Post.
Livingstone Hall of Fisk University.
Nashville, Tenn, was ded'eate9 recent
". The cost of the structure, 500, 900,
was provided for by bequest of Mrs.
NJ. E. Stone. of Maiden, Mass.
The Government of Japan have re-
solved on the establishments of %, 7s0
primary schools. The whole empire is
divided into eight collegiate depart
meets, with one college 10 each depart
ment Even children under six years of
age win be compelled TO attend the
primary school.
Christian Missionary Association has
been Incorporated at Boston. It is
formed for the purpose of colonizing
Palestine with industrious and energetic
Christians. and by their prudence, labor
and perseverance restoring it to its
former grandeur.-Boss PQsg
"a fashinnabla. .elslreI N h.nS....-al--
has an invalid room, a luxurious
apartment near the pulpit, but out of
sight OF the congregation, where Invalids
can sit, lie down, walk around. leave or
eBter at any time without disturbing any
one else, yet at the same time be able to
bear the entire service.-N y. Irsde-
T'e.sstent.
TX day or two ago. during grammar
lesson III one of our public schools. the
teacher asked the pupils to John sen
tence using relative pronoun. Among
the answers the suNioined came from
sharp little urchin: II met my cousin"
On being asked where was the relative
pronoun, the lad looked up and said:
" My cousin is a relative. Boston
TraUeller.
The gift of John F. Slater, of Nor
wich, Conn, of 81 900, 600 for the edu-
cational benefit of the freedmen Of the
South, is now in charge of the trustees of
the fund, which is now incorporated
under the laws of New York State. Ex-
President Hayes is the president Of the
board and its other members are Chief
Justice Waite. William Z. Dodge. the
Rev. Phillips Brooks. Daniel {. Gilman.
John A. Stewart, Alfred II. Colquitt,
Morris X. Jesup, James P. Boyce and
William A. Slater.
The wealthy Methodists of Phiia-
delphia who are building tie new Trim
ity Church have planned an extraordi-
nary edlnce when IS not copy OF any
other on earth. The new building VIII
have under one roof the church audito-
rum, the Sunday-school, the dining
room, and all the conveniences that
advanced architectural ingenuity sug-
gest or liberal expenditure procure.
The style is Gothic, with a profuson of
stained-glass windows. One majestic
polychromatic window is 10 be twenty
feet wide and forty feet high, admitting
a food of many-colored light. The
church viii seat about 1.5O0 persons. but
is so connected with the Sunday school
room that the two can De thrown into
one, thus accommo- -tating more than
5000 persons. Bishop Supson laid the
cornerstone for the new Quilting
Chicago Tiibu &c.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-11-24
A Struggle with a Bear.

While Harry Tucker and Wellington
Sprague, conductors of the Maine Central
Railroad, together with Olville A.
Robinson and A. @. Leach, of Portland.
were on hunting expedition at the
forks of the Kennebec a few days ar,
they suddenly encountered monstrous
lear, which gave a savage snarl. and
then started for them. The young men
had no heavy ammunition. but they
made quick use of what they had, pour
ing hot shot into bruin' body. Quickly
reloading, they all fred again This
second round enraged the bear, and
she howled tiercely. Finally the fight
ing came to close quarters. and the
hunters attacked the infuriated beast
with the butts of their Ri es. Tucker
broke the stock of his rife short oil at
the first blow This reminded him of a
monster pocket nife which he had pur-
chased at Bingham. Taking that out.
he ordered his companions TO once, more
hold the attention of the bear while he
crawled behind her. The bear now
stood erect on her launches, and the
three men were engaging her attention
as much as they dared to do Tucker
rushed up behind her and plunged the
knife deep into her side twice, his com
panions in the mean time rushing for
her with their guns. The moment she
felt Tucker behind her she turned and
made grab for his shoulder. just catch
ing his coatand heavy shirt in her teeth.
Be ore she could do more the stabs in
her side had done their work. and she
fell dead with fuckers clothing still in
her teeth. Boston journal
Grumblers never work, and work
ers never or. mble. = DR.. IEf.kfams
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-11-24
A Woman Rescues Boy in Mid Ocean.

A short time ago, Mrs. G. A. D. Nc
Arthur Campbell, formerly resident of
Coonamble, distinguished herself by a
deed of admirable bravery. Mrs. Camp
bell was a passenger in steamer from
Hong Kong to one of the northern ports
of Queensland, and one day boy about
four years of age, to whom the lady was
much attached. fell overheard. the acci-
dent occurring through a sudden lurch
of the vessel. With the exception of
Mrs. Campbell and the man at the wheel
all the passengers and crew were at
dinner. Without waiting for life buoy
or divesting herself of any clothing, and
simply saying to the man at the wheel:
Don't tell the child's MOTHER Mrs.
Campbell plunged into the water, swan
to the boy, and held him up till both
were rescued, the steamer having been
promptly stop and boat lowered.
Neither the lady nor boy was much the
worse for the immersion.-Sy sydney Morn
ina Herald.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-11-24
All in One.

Father,'' he suddenly observed. as
he threw an ear of corn into the basket
and warmed his fingers by blowing on
them. '.they say there is good deal OF
politics in town just now"
:. Is. ehP''
:. Yes, and they have speeches almost
every night.
81 Do, eh?''
Yes, and bonfres'
:. Bonfres? That puts me in mind.
Wen build one in the lot and husk corn
every night after this until we finish up
the Job Lucky that you happened to
mention the name. Wen bonfire and
husk and politics all at the same time.
Exchange.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-11-24
I pREAM OF HOME.
i,m's rqys slant the path along.

The sum 8 rIvs slant the path along,
The air is balmy as In June;
he robin sings his evening song.
And through the SKY he new, gray mooz
Moves calmly or. Gutrliiimeled, free,
But something whispers unto me
Not yetH'
The brook sings as it gently flows,
The frog croaiSs by the waters rim;
There in content the liz grows,
And there the iishcs. dartiug, swim.
l hear and see the old brown mill,
But an, those sad words haunt me still
Not yeti"
In clover meadows broad and fair,
In drOwsy mood the cows await
The farm boy seal upon the air,
While, with his pail. beside the gate
Which opens down the grassy lane,
My brother breIthes these words of pain
'Not YETI
Thesteepled church, the school house near,
The wood where have roamed at will;
The quaint. old farm house, 10 me dear.
My youthful home-my manhOoas still
! sec them Us in days gone by,
But something whispers tas l sigh
Not yeti''
o, Hearts, TO whom there is no Mayl
Who yearn 10 hear my footballs where
The path, so beaten, takes its way
Nm Under De old trees so grand and fair
can but say J. le, can ,,5, go p home
For longer, stili, your breasts must know
A sadness free from all disguise.
Ere can leave these scenes and 20
And look into fair, loving eyes.
And clasp the hands so warm, and kiss
The lips I've pressed so oft in bliss
Not yet!'
Forgotten. but as sweet and strong
As when one dreamful Autumn day
said goodbye" and passed along
Down the old walk. and went away,
Not thinking there would come a day
When | should have, as now, to say
Not yetI'
Alas. not yet, Far. far from thisi
Still must / wait All can do
Is Just 10 watt a long, long kiss
Believed with love. oh, Hearts to YOU,
And murmer these sad words once more,
pnthought of in the days of yore-
Not yeti"
-T}nIffnlor American
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-11-24
They Didn't Sell Stoves.

-Four or five weeks ago a woman with
an undecided look on her face entered q
Detroit hardware store, threaded her
way for sixty feet among coal stoves of
every pattern and timidly inquired:
DO you keep stoves here?'
Yes M"
'sCoal stoves?''
"Yes' M
She said she had been thinking of get
ting coal stove for the winter. and the
clerk took her in hand. He showed her
how the doors worked and how the
hampers were arranged, and the fues
situated, and he talked of double drafts,
great savings, increased cheerfulness,
reduction in price, and all that, and she
said She d think it over and drop in
again.
In about three days the woman reap
peared and inquired of the very same
clerk if they sold coal stoves. He re-
piled that they did sell one now and
then, and he cleared his voice and began
the usual thirty-minute lecture on the
the different kinds of base burners. The
beautiful nickel-plate, the place for the
tea-kettle, the ornamental legs-the anti
slinker shaker-all points were touched
upon and praised and explained, and the
woman said she wouidn take one along
under her arm just then, but would call
again. She called that same week,
heard the same lecture from the same
clerk and started for the bank to draw
the money to pay for base-burner.
That was the lastseen of her for week.
Then she walked softly in and innocently
Il suppose you keep coal stovespn
..No ma am"
''Not any kind?''
"Not a one. We used to. but went
out of the business year ago.
There were twenty coal stoves on the
floor. but if she saw them she didn't lei
On. She heaved sigh of disappoint-
ment, glanced around her, and went
slowly out with the remark:
.Well. don't know as | want TO buy
,ne, but l thought it wouldn't do any
arm to look at some of the latest makes
Detroit Free Press.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-11-24

robert Harris, a poor boatman,
touno 500 Spanish doubloons under the
stump OF tree near the Pamlico River.
IN North Carolina, the other day. The
nndihg OF the coin has caused great ex.
citement Harris was offered s., 600
Tor ms treasure During the past hun
dred years periodical searches have
been made on desolate sand-bars and
islands on the North Carolina coast for
treasure supposed to have been buried
py the pirates, Captains Kidd and Black
pearu: from time to time money has
been round Q. Ptcauzk11e.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-11-24

An indianapolis woman, asking for
a divorce after twenty-eight months of
married life, says of her husband; ''Of
his home he made prison. of his wife a
prisoner, and of himself prison guard. -
Indianapolis Journal.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-11-24

All the Justices of the United States
supreme Court are now keeping house
IN " asnlngton, including Justice Cray.
who is bachelor.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-11-24

--Grumblers never work, and work
ers never gr, mble. u Or. Hl.ffdps
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-03-24
THE WAY IN INDIAN CHIEF PRO-
CLIMATES

CLAMATES.
"People of my tribe: The past year
has been one of great prosperity to the
Ute Nation. We have acquired two VAL
Ter dogs and nine maroon-colored pa
posoes. Fortune has smiled upon us
and our sky has been unclouded. We
own large amount of real estate and
don't have TO pay taxes. The white
Father feeds US, and the pale-face on the
frontier warns our gizzard with the fire.
water of the East.
"Our squaws are clothed in the gar
ments of the white man, and our maid
ems are clad in the soldier pants of the
pale-face. The bitter winds of the win
ter do not chill US, for verify the wind
is tempered to the shorn lamb, high,
low, jack and the game.
"Other tribes have lost many of theil
numbers by overwork, softening of the
brain and govt, but the Ute Nation is
still strong as the mountain oak. We
have multiplied upon the earth, and
while we have increased the standing ar.
my has fallen off. Nine soldiers have
deserted and three have starved to death
leaving the rest of his army alone in his
wigwam.
"Let us therefore be joyful. Let u,
whoop 'em up, Liza Jane. Let virtue
be your aim. e pluribus ker PUNK
verbena terra firma sic semper ruta ba
ga. "-Nye's Boomerang.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-03-24

There is a young editor wandering
on the face of the earth who formerly
published a paper at Storm Lake,
Iowa. He left there the day after
the issue of his last paper, and is
supposed to be crossing the state on
foot to get away from an Infatuated
female populace. 1t seems there
was a concert given by young ladies
of the city, and the gallant young
editor wrote it up in splendid shape.
The same day he had visited a herd
of short>horn cattle, owned bya farm
er in the vicinity, and he wrote up
the cattle also. The cross-eyed fore
man of the Office got the two articles
mixed as follows: "The concert Civ
en- last evening by sixteen of Storm
Lakes most beautiful and Interest,"
ing young ladies was highly appre-
ciated They were elegantly dressed
and sang in most charming man
ner, winning the plaudits of the en-
tire audience, who pronounced them
the finest short-horns in the county.
A few of them are of a rich brown
color, but the majority are spotted
brown and white. Several of the
heifers were fne>bodied, tight limbed
animals, and promise to prove good
property. "-Peck's Sun.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-03-24
ARCTIC PHENOMENA.

A remarkable echo was noticed be-
tween two mountains at Plover bay
another, noticed by our sledge party in
a cliff at Cape Onmann, Siberia, gives
back more than dozen echoes; and
Baron Wrangell ralates that pistol
fired near some cliffs on the River Lena
is echoed 100 times. The great distance
to which small sounds are sometimes
transmitted is also worthy of record.
The first time the acoustic clearness of
the atmosphere came under observation
was at st. MichaePs, where converse
ton carried on at an incredible distance
could be distinctly heard. Amid the
grim silence and desolation of Wrangell
Land. at time, too, when the air was
acousticalIy Opaque for this latitude,
distinctly heard our boatswain, small
man with squeaky voice, giving orders
two miles away, while laughter and
sounds of the voice when any one spoke
above the ordinary tone were heard with
such amazing distinctness as to suggest
telephonic communication Arctic let
ter.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-03-24
REMARKABLE FLOW FROM IN OH


WELL.
Any one familiar with the heavy oil
developments knows that goodly part
of the drilling is Clone on the hill known
as the "Point, near Franklin. It rises
from the bank Of the French creek in
very abrupt manner. Philip Cheeseman's
brewery is situated at the foot of South
Park street, on the west side of the
creek. His beer vault is on the other
side. 1t is an immense vault, blasted
out of solid rock, and penetrates into the
hillside nearly 100 feet. In this is
stored large quantities of lager beer.
The casks that hold the beer contain ON
an average abont ten barrels each. One
cask In the rear end of the vault is used
as a supply cask All the others are
connected with this one by pipes, and
the supply cask. being sunken, is al
ways kept full of beer. The hill at this
place is so steep that it cannot be as
cended.
Above this vault, on the hilltop, Rial
& Son own lease. They drilled num-
Der of wells on their lease, and they were
all profitable. Some time ago they
located No. 9 directly over this beer
vault. The rig was built and things ran
along in the usual manner for about
week. When they had reached depth
of 400 feet, 200 feet less than where they
usually find the sand, the drill struck
crevice and dropped away several feet.
The tools were withdrawn from the hole
and tie bailer run. 1t came up SEEM
ingly full of oil. Bail as they would,
they could not exhaust the supply.
They decided to tube the well, and were
ordered to do so by Mr.. Rial. The next
day the well was tubed without being
shot. They commenced to pump it, and
it threw the fluid out at great rate.
Noticing something queer about the oil,
one of the men tasted it. He found it
SO good that he put his lips to the pipe
and took long gulps of the delicious
SUuI. L hSJ Out anu liltu
They became what is known as drunk.
The owners visited the well, drank, and
were overcome. Operators came TO see
it, drank, and were overcome. The
people of the town who had heard of it
went up the hill, drank, and were over
come.
Little by little they came to realize
what they had been drinking. One man
was found in the crowd who had tasted
beer before. He affirmed that it was
beer, but they laughed at him. How
would this Rip Van Wrinkle elixir get
into the bowels of the earth? At last
they decided to call In undoubted au-
thority on the beer question, and sent
for Philip Grossman. Grossman came.
He tasted it once, twice, and then he
tore his hair. sis it beer?" they asked.
"Beer? Yes; it's mein own make.
Mein Colt in Himmell, you are pump
ing mein beer vault dry" Such was
the fact, and the way that well was shut
down was a caution. They visited the
vault and found it to be so. Three of
the large casks were empty.-OH city
Derrick.