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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1883-11-02

"Can't say that we are overly
struck on Benjamin Butler for
President; but we do believe he
is one of Americas ablest states
men and could better hold the
reigus of our National Govern
ment than any man Republican or
Democracy in the United States
to-day.n-Jaion CITY Anchpr.
Has the Anchor forgotten that
Butler was the author and supper
ter of the terrible Reconstruction
Act, by which the whole people OF
the South were virtually disfran.
chised, and our local Governments
turned over to horde of carpet
bag robbers; and that he was the
chief promoter and prosecutor o
Andrew Johnson, when that grea'
cOmmoner made a heroic stand fol
the Constitution of our country
Granted that the spoon charge
and all other war issues are con
doned, Butler did enough afte
the war, to damn him in the est
nation of all good Democrats
Besides, no man ever heard o
Butler changing from Radicalisn
until he saw the popular tide turn
ing in favor of the Democrats
His ability is acknowledged, bu
we can't understand how any Den
crat, Republican, or Greenbackel
can have any confidence in tn
man.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1883-11-02
ais the gentleman friend

ais the gentleman friend of
lyoursW asked newly introduced
DIV of another at reception.
''Oh, no, he's MY husband vas
the innoc ent reply.
If a business house pays out
more money than it takes in, il
can never get rich. So, if town
sends on more money than il
takes i'm, il can never prosper.
Therefore, patronize home.
The prospect for war between
France and China is Frightening
every day II would not astonish
us if open hostilities began in No
vember. The black flags business
is growing more interesting every
day.
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines has
made her final appearance in tine
Supreme Court of the United
States. The record in her case
against the city of New Orleans,
involving e, 600, 900, was filed there
October 10th.
Rev. G.. o. Barnes has been do
ing successful Evangelistic work
for some months in and about
London. He has directed that
the tent which he used for his
meetings in the mountains of Ken
lucky be forwarded to him.
Jas. Gordon Beduett has formed
a partnership with Mackey the
millionaire to lay an ocean cable
from ireland to Nova Scotia. The
cable win be made near London,
and will probably be laid by June
1884.
What was in il: MY case is Just
here said a mad citizen to a law
yer. The plaintiff will swear that
Irhit him. | will swear that / did
not Now, what can yOu lawyers
make out of that five go to trialp
"A hundred dollars, easy was the
reply.
The following is a BARRIERS adj
vertisement in the st. Louis Post
Dispatch: "W. Il, professor
of cIinicultural abscissio and Grain
illogical tnpsis, tonsorial artist,
physiOgnic hair dresser, facial OPP
orator, Uranium manipulation, and
capillary abridger."
"Deacon," said the widow, as
she gently stroked, in feline
manner; the maltese tabby that
evidently lay in her lap for that
purpose, "don't you long for
spring, with its balmy breath, its
warm sunshine, and its gentle
showers, which awakens nature,
and puts life into everything that
has laid cold and dead during the
long winter, and brings everything
up out of the cold, cold ground
into light and lifcr' "Well hardly,
widow responded the old dea-
con, "You know | buried my sec.
ond wife last fall"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1883-11-02

The Breckenridge News, refer.
ring TO the death of General John
Morgan, says:
The true story of the death OF
General John Morgan will never
be told until the history of his
seandalous amours at Greenville,
Tenn, is written. His death, so
far as being a hero's martyrdom in
behalf Of a cause he esteemed hO-
ly, was due to his libertine instincts
and the blind, unreasoning fury
of an insanely jealous woman
Had he been pure as man as he
was dauntless as a soldier he
would probably be alive TO-DAY.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1883-11-02
a Good Prospect.

From the BracLen nemoeeatl
The next Congress meets on the
4th day of December. 1t will
contain 1914 Democrats and 13l
Republicans, Readjusters, indie
pendents and Greenbackers. The
House will be composed of the
best material the Democracy has
ever been fortunate enough 10
have represent the party in that
body in a Presidential year. A
large number of old-time Con.
gressmen have been returned, and
the new ones are men of brains.
They will legislate in the interest
of the people, as far as possible
with Republican President and a
Malone Senate. 1t is not likely
that any laundering viii be done,
but record made that will put
additional impetus TO the fight
against Republicanism and all
kinds of isms.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1883-11-02

SeWP n Nc~s.
A large ivory tooth, resembling
that of a mastodon, or some Diner
large extinct animal, was found
Saturday by workmen in the en-
ploy of Il. Spinks, the sand deal
er. II was found in pile of sand
twenty feet below the surface, and
is five feet seven inches long by
four inches in diameter in its pres
ent shape. In its original growth
it must have measured six aud a
half or seven feet in length. Ii
was found east OF Newport, neal
what is called Sandy Lane, in the
Taylor Mill bottoms. Upon being
exposed to the air il began to crack
and crumble. The specimen was
taken TO Mr.. Spinks' Office, No
423 Greenup street, this city, and
coated with varnish in order to
preserve it. Prof. j. w. Hall las
an eye on II and will probably add
il to his museum.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1883-11-02
concealed weapons

shown no disposition to remit ei,h-
or fine or imprisonment in cases
for carrying concealed a deadly |
weapon. The law is very hard |
one OH the better class vi people /
who are sometimes forced 10 car
ny weapons in self.defense, but 1t
is a law, and as long as the courts
enforce it there is no rason why
ii should be nullifed By the Gov
ernor The better = will be for
the General Assa b repeal II,
-ss s < Bs.saa6h 1900
leoman. ~
There is no certlN reason for
repeating this law, for il is the
most important and necessary on
the Statute books. If the Gener-
al Assembly campers with this law
at all, it should be for the purpose
of making it's penalties more Sc
vere.-Ilickman Courier.
Most heartily do we agree with
The Courier in its view.-Paducah
journal.
The YeOman is correct. Ii is
hard indeed for man, whose pass
ed life warrants the belief that he
desires to obey the law in every
respect. to have to suffer the pen
atty of such law or suffer per
sonal injuries inflicted by the
hand ofsome rough possessed Of
pugilistic strength. And we will
venture to say that the editor OF
the Courier, or the editor of the
Journal either, would violate this
very law if they knew some dou-
bic listed rough, drunk with NAL
lee, was seeking personal com
bat with him. Such a law, under
some circumstances, forces a.man
to disgrace himself. In case of a
personal difficulty with one whom
you cannot contend physically
you must either suffer him 10 in
flict just such personal injuries as
his malicious appetite may desire
or you must sink away and hide
yourself from his presence and
thereby he branded as a coward.
We think the old law in regard to
carrying concealed weapons was
better one than the present one
is. Amy person should be allowed
TO carry something to defend him
self if it can be proven that his
life is endangered or that some
one is seeking to do him serious
personal injury. Under any 9th
CT circumstances welthink the law
/ should fix severe punishment Tor
those who should be found guilty
of carrying concealed about their
person a deadly weapon. We
cannot agree with the Courier and
Journal.-Cadiz Telephone.
The Ttrphoae then would make
rufllanism common in commune
" ia order to gain protection
from a few ''roughs;" but civiliza-
ton does not contemplate such
methods The law gives the citi-
zen the right to arm and defend
himself in such instances as the
Tedphoac cites, and no court will
impose the penalty where a reas-
enable apprehension of danger
exists. Repeal your pistol laws,
and your good citizens still will
not make walking arsenels of
themselves, and will be equally
liable to be caught at disadvan-
tage by ''rOughs;" but some
''roughsr now restrained by fear
of the law, will commence the
disgraceful practice. The man
who iiabituaiiy carries concealed
deadly weapons without some
Just apprehension of danger to
himself, is in heart already an as
sassin, and only like nerve and an
opportunity to become one in fact.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1883-11-02

The Chicago Record tells the
story and vouches for it's truth, of
a hen in that place, with a brood
of 10 chickens, which she refused
to provide for, and as they gave
her great trouble, she flew to the
top of a fence one day, put her
head between couple of the
pickets and then stepped of,
thereby committing suicide. The
little orphans were adopted by a
pullet only three months old,
which has never yet laid an egg,
but is taking care of the family
with as much skill as an old tough
hen could.-San Francisco Chroni.
Gle.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1883-11-02
A Legal Csnundruu.

Lexington Transcript
The Hears Moore case in theARe.
corder's Court yesterday suSSs
a curious case bearing on
which occurred IN Miss
years since. A capias wal
to a sheriff, who was a very Fn
man, commanding him TO bring The
body of a good old minister who
was very large and feshy aud
weighed $50 pounds. He was
found working out in the woods
on a summer day. He did not
want to go, aud yet he was "A pune
tilious observer of the law. SO
he went and lay down fat on his
back in the shade and solemnly
said, "In compliance with the law
| hereby surrender my body to be
be taken by you," and he lay there
until the little man got tired and
went away. Now the question is,
did he resist an ofiicerf
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1883-11-02
ohio Election and the Tariff.

A Washington dispatch, in re-
gard to the Ohio election, says:
In a national sense the victory
ia deemed an important one, be
cause it will prove a warning to
slip over Democrats that a free
trade platform will prove anything
but judicious in national cam
paign. The Ohio platform declar-
ed for enough protection to keep
from walking over the line to free
trade. 1t has been adopted by the
Democracy of Pennsylvania, New
jersey and Virginia.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1883-11-02

j. W. Moore, j. S. Roland and
G. A. Doxie, parties who engaged
in selling something of a prize or
lottery scheme, Monday, were ar
rested by warrant from County
Judge Murrell, aud caused to an
swer TO said charge. The action
of Judge Murrell was very proper
in these cases. Men engaged in
such business ought to be prompt
ly dealt with according to law,
and if the law does not sufficient
ly reach them, law should be made
that will. The charges against
Moore and Roland were dismiss
ed; but one against Mr.. Doxie
sustained, and he was held to an
swer at the next term of the Full
ton Circuit Court in $500 bail, and
failing to give which he was com
mitted to the county fail.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1883-11-02
Sensible Colorea people.

"The colOred people of Cincin'
natl" says the Commercial 6azetiei
"do not view with alarm the de-
cision of the Supreme Court on
the constitutionality Of the Civl,
Rights law. They are not afraid
TO trust to the good sense OF the
white people of the State to allow
them the enjoyment OF all the
rights and privileges which the
law was supposed TO protect"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1883-11-02

The National Bee. Keepers Con
vention opened in Chicago last
week. There was great satisfac-
ton expressed by the members
over prospect of the largest
yield of honey ever known, espe-
cially in the West. The question
"What kind of bees are the best ~
was decided in favor of class be-
tween the Italian and Assyrian.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1883-11-02
Wants to s.rar.

"Why do YOU mutter that way
when you readn asked a man of
an old negro who sat mumbling
over newspaper.
"How ought | read, sah!'
"Why read without moving your
lips.n
"What good would dat sorter
readin do me, fur | couldn't heah
iti When reads | wsnster read
so | kia heah what Use readin'
bout
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1883-11-02

Large amounts of whisky is be.
ing sold over the State for from
20 to 60 cents per gallon, subject
to the government duty. These
sales are owing to the fact that
the bonded period has expired on
these lots, the tax is due, the sup
ply is greater than the demand
and distillers are forced to sell.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1883-11-02
he .Oa year'' Dodge.

FROM the New York worid.l
Our Republican friends will have
very little basis for calling this an
"ofio year in Ohio politics, when
they get the full returns. The
popular interest was reused TO an
unparalleled pitch for a purely
State election, and there is no
chance for the ublicans to
charge their def Ne lack Of
Republican deserH voting the
Democratic ticket, and not because
they failed to go 10 the polls.
That is the feature which gives
this election its greatest signifi-
canee, and it fully justiiies the
gloomy f0rebOdings with which
Republican leaders look forward
to the national contest next year.
There is no good reason why the
Republicans who abandoned their
party this year should return ana
? bow to its despotism in 1854. The
Republican party is too uniformly
and universally the party OF illiper,
alism and puritanical tyranny III al
the States, to prevent the local is
sues which complicated the pom
ties Of Ohio this year fiom surviv'
ing as adjuncts of the Presideh'
tial campaign next year.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1883-11-02

1T seems difficult to get true
blue Democrat to run on the tick
ct with Butler, in Massachusetts
two have been nominated for Lieu
tenant Governor, and each de-
clined. Democrats are willing to
use Butler as a club to smash the
Republicans, but representative
Democrats refuse TO identity their
names as a part of the Butler tick.
NJ
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1883-11-02
Gentiemen do not Garry Pistols

Ohirago tribune
We have never seen a gentle
man, scholar, person of polite
ness or refinement while engaged
in the duties of civil life, carry a
weapon. We have rarely met an
innate coward, brute, gambler,
rough or dead beat, one who ex-
poets to carry himself through ev-
cry controversy with a defiant
temper and a scoffing, slanderous
tongue, and to come out of il first
best whether he was right or
wrong. that did not carry pistol.
The class most unfit to carry
weapons are the only men who
ever carry them.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1883-11-02
Next Congregational Race In the firsi
District.

aiih letf phnur
The Telephone predicted soon
after the last November election
that Oscar Turner would not again
ask the people of this district to
send him to Congress as their rep
fesehtstiye. We think gow cur
advices warranted MS in saying
what we did on the subject, but
recent indications convince us that
we were mistaken. The Paducah
News is informed by q reliable
person that Mr.. Turner is or will
be a candidate for reelection. Ii
this is correct we will have a live
ly time next summer. Several
distinguished men are being can
vassed as probable candidates, and
we are credibly informed of one
in particular who will announce
himself soon after the next Lyon
Circuit Court adiourns. He is a
fine speaker and well versed in
political i.f.. MAKE your bets,
gentlemen"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1883-11-02
Tia Next seaatorship.

1t is generally conceded by
those who know anything about
1t, that Hon. John S. Williams will
be his own successor as United
States Senator from kentucky.-
IClark County Democrat.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1883-11-02

New Hamr shire has gone about
the work of DISCRIMINATING the toy
pistol in a sensible way, the Legis-
lature having recently passed a
law imposing heavy fine for sell
ing il and making the dealer liable
for all damages resulting from it's
use.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1883-11-02
THE HICKMAN COURIER,

THE New York Ssa and Nash
Vile Amcrica~ think Randall will be
elected Speaker, and the Gur'cr'
Jomnui thinks he has no ohssce.
The great lights differ.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1883-11-02

THE courts have decided that a
woman is not a person, but that a
railroad corporation is. 1t seems
that Law aud common sense don't
always run together.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1883-11-02

The prospect of routing Malone
In Virginia grows more encoura-
ging. His corrupt system Of boss
rule is the one great blot on South
ern politics.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1883-11-02
CreduIous People.

From the Ashland independently
Ii seems TO us remarkable that
there should be newspapers or
people who believe or profess to
believe in the innocence of Ellis
Craft on his mere assertion of in
nocence. They are willing to take
the unsupported word of this in
human monster against the sworn
evidence of his accomplice and
against the strongest corrOborative
evidence. Everything which was
produced at the different trials,
even the testimony of the witness
SEES for the defense, but forged
the chain tighter, and the more
strongly convinced everybody OF
his guilt. In all the trials there
has never been "a single juryman
who had the slightest doubt of his
guilt. And we do not think there
is a lawyer anywhere who could
read all the testimony and come
to the conclusion that he was in
nocent. Yet because he declares
himself innocent, as most murder
ers do, there are people so stupid
as to believe it against all proof
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1883-11-02

For mile or so the bicycle can
not contend with horse, but in a
days journey the horse is dis
tanced.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-04

prOuucuOl OF DtlLIef On IIIi5 cnaTiicteT III
its lack of keeping qualities. 1t com
mands fancy price, yet if not consum-
ed at once rancidity is developed, and it
must be sold at the price of lard. If
heavily sailed it will not sell to the best
trade; hence the problem which is to be
solved by ''Rex Magnus' is one of vast
Importance The butter markets of this
country to-day are grooming under the
heavy weight of summer made butter
already oily, rancid and unstable. ex-
cept at low prices. While fresh cream
cry butter commands 40 cents per pound,
some summer diaries, originally prime,
are going begging for customers at Is to
20 cents per pound. Who can estimate
the pecuniary advantage to dairymen of
any system of preservation by which
June butter may be continued sweet and
aromatic during the year? Who can
predict the revolution in dairying which
is sure to follow any method by which
the surplus dairy products, so economi-
cally secured during the flush of sum-
mer pastures, can be preserved for sale
during the winter season, when mich
cows require costly rations of Indian
meal added to the best of hay to con-
tinue butter making?
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-04
Davillad Grabs.

The gazelle-eyed reader has no doubt
heard of wheels within wheels and rings
within rings Well, devilled crabs are
crabs within crabs. A devilled crab is
one crab shell stuffed with the poor,
chopped, minced and fricasseed anato-
mics of about n dozen other crabs,
spiced with cayenne pepper and other
red stuff, and served one to each plate
as side dish. They are eaten by cpl
cures, epicacs and other foreigners.
They cost about fifty cents apiece, and
are the least food for the most money
eXtant.
AS a steady diet devilled crabs will
work grand transformation scene in a
mans pocketbook and discourage his
gastric economy They are best eaten
by gaslight or beneath the soft ef1ulgent
glow of electricity. Devilled crabs are
never eaten in private. What is the use
of "a man mortgaging all his real estate
to buy devilled crabs to eat when no one
is looking at him?" 1t is something akin
to smoking a six-bit Havana in II dark
room. Little children should be seen
and not heard, and deyilled crabs should
be eaten before folks with all the Osten-
tatious pomp and ceremony of laying
the corner stone of Masonic temple
Taken as whole-but then, the devil
leu cTdU cdnIlOt De biittJ way IIe
is the chopped and mangled parts of
other crabs who We're unfortunate enough
to be caught on a pin hook. Taken as
an article of diet he is expensive and as
you don't know exactly the date of his
capture and the exact length of time he
has lain on ice in the morgue back OF
the front dining-room in consequence of
this skepticism you approach the devil
led crab with reverence and tumultu-
Gus applause in the pit of the stomach.
The devilled crab is the next thing tC
snail patties and the man who would eat
snail patties should be severely repimand
ed, suspended from polite society for
sixty days and his pay stopped Blood
sausage, tripe and salt rising bread are
bad enough but even the inducements
held out by these appetizing tonics are
rather more seductive than devilled
crabs or snail patties. Cheek.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-04
The Ripht Sort of Man.

You, will find, as rule, that the men
who are favorites with men, are the best
and truest in their relations to women.
Yes, the men who like sometimes to
turn their backs on all women, and Ego
off with the other fellows" and have a
good boyish time on the water, or the
mountain. or in some other man $
den" Women need never be afraid
TO trust their happiness to those whom
other good men esteem good fellows;
but if man is avoided by men, shun
him. 1t is he who has f1irtations that
come to nothing, and has mot been
very NICE to the girls who have broken
their engagements with him; who, when
he marries, wrings his wife's heart, 1t
she has one, and spoils her temper, if
she is naturally an angel. Manly men
are the best lovers, the best husbands
the best companions for women-just as
womanly women are the best sweet
hearts and wives What do we think of
women who are summed by their own
sex, however charming men may find
them? 1t is seldom, if ever, that your
mems favorite ill-uses his wife. Per
haps it may be explained in this way:
Friendship of a sublimer sort Is what
love becomes after a year or SO of mar
riage. and he who is friendly to the
very depths of his soul, enters into this
state happily, and is ready for all the
delights that follow. But the man who
is capable of nothing but "a fleeing af-
lection which ever pursues new objects,
and cares for no woman when she is
won, hates the domestic ties, and be-
comes detestable in consequence. 1t is
the man who would die for his friend.
and for whom his friend would die, who
makes miraculously happy wife OF the
woman to whom he scarcely knew how
to make love to when he courted her.