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Year: 1872

The COURIER AND HICKMAN-We
sometimes think it hard that the CoUR-
TER should fight so increasingly for Hick-
man, and its interests 10 every shape and
form, and yet receive scarcely thank
from those who are most largely inter
ested in the growth and prosperity of
the town. Generally speaking our mer
chants are fair minded and liberal men
in the management of their business, and
yet there are those merchants, and some
not merchants, whose interests really
should direct them to more liberal spir-
it towards establishing and maintaining
a first class paper in their midst They
expect their local paper to stand up for
the interest of the town and its trade to
put the advantages of Hickman in all
regards before the country in its best
light, and to invite population, trade, and
business here. During the year the
COURIER publishes what would make
large sized book especially in the inter
est of Hickman, Hickman merchants,
and Hickman property owners, and yet
there are those who attach no credit to
this constant watching and constant ad
vertisiag of the town and its interest, and
think because little card does not fill
their house with customers at all seasons
and times, that it does no good. Two
thirds of the CoURIER's circulation Is
obtained outside of Hickman and Fulton
county, and very large proportion OF
its patronage, and the question often oc
ours, why should we make so great
snecialitv Of fayorieg Hickman?
Year: 1872

A Coop MEMPHIS PAPER-We
have been favored with an exchange by
the Memphis Daily Register, which is a
sprighily aud newsy evening journal re-
Gently established in that city. Those
in this section interested in Memphis
markets would do well to subscribe for
it. The Register ought to prosper and
We hope that il will.
Year: 1872

THE Republican party of Kentucky
has selected three negroes to grace their
delegation in the National Republican
Convention. The Cincinnati Inquirer
says; "The Republican party of Ohio
will have to grapple with this question
We know of several worthy colored men
who will seek this honor The sincerity
of Ohio Republicans must be tested.
Year: 1872

4 CoNcERr-The members of the
Hickman Cornet Band, propose giving
IN metu.e e minstrel performance at City
Council Hall, Saturday evening the 30th
distant We learn they are provided
with the stage scenery of the late Hick
man Dramatic Club. and that the per-
formers are prepared to give the public
\ nice entertainment.
Year: 1872




Although the official text OF the cor
respoudence between the British govern
mont and our own relative TO the treaty
of " ushiuSton has not yet been PrOuaul
gated, there is now no doubt that its
character Is such as TO facilitate rather
than impede 4 settlement ot existing
difficulties Earl Grunville's note must
have been friendly in tone, else it Is
hardly probable the reply OF Secretary
Fish would have received the cordial ap
probation expressed by Mr.. Gladstone;
for 10 diplomacy as in cummouer matters.
i'll temper on one side usually beeets i'll
temper Oh the other, aud had the British
on uttered an omiuous growl, the Amer
lean eagle would have felt bound TO re-
spond with a hostile scream.


ONE hundred thousand cattle are said
to have died in Western Texas in the
last twenty days.


MoRGANFIELD has a fifty two year
old fish aud that vouched for.


SAvAxNAu Is excited over the birth of
calf with thick growth of negro wool
extending from its forehead entirely
along its back.


The law of England is that no one
can be married after u O'Clock III the
day.
Year: 1872

"The Pure Milk Association of Boston Is goug
ahead vigorously" The pure wool association ha,
established depot ut 1900 Main street, where IT is
being made up into beautiful styles for spring
Year: 1872

I Z


that the full amount of one million Of


dollars will be soon invested by our people


in this road to secure its speedy compile


ton to Houston. And the agitation of the
subject here has aroused feeling in


Texas to aid the good work. The Hous-


ton papers, especially the Union and the


Telegraph, are publishing vigorous arti-


cles showing the great advantages that


will flow to New Orleans and Houston
Immediately after railroad communication
is established between the two Places


and are urging that extraordinary meas
ures be taken to complete the work by the
first Of next May. The Union says that if
the road is finished by that time it will
secure a Large part of the spring and
summer travel from Texas to the water
ing places and the North, which


will otherwise be taken to St.
Louis by rail. The St. Louis peo-
pie are looking forward to an early rail
road connection with Texas, and unless


the New Orleans road is finished to Hous-
ton by May next the Union evidently ap-


prehends-and very correctly, too-that


much Of the trade and travel that should


benefit New Orleans and Houston and the
railroad destined to run between the two
splaces. will 60 to enrich St. Louis and its
road running to Texas. To prevent this
the Union is anxious that Houston should
help to complete the railroad connection
between that city and New Orleans as early
as May next, and to secure this it proposes
that Houston repair the railroad already
built from that city to the Sabine, one
hundred and six miles in length, and take
the bonds of the New Orleans, Mobile and
Texas Company for thework. The propo-
sition is a good one, and shows the ear
nest desire of the business men
of Houston-we are satisfied the
Union reflects their wishes in this
matter-for the speedy building of the
road. They fully appreciate the magni-
tude Of the rapidly increasing trade of
Texas, and, as the railroad centre of that
great State, they are anxious that Houston
should enjoy the advantages of railroad
connection with this city. That will Sc
cure to Houston and New Orleans the
greater portion of the trade of Northern
and Eastern Texas and other sections that
the st. Louis road is intended to divert to
st. Louis. While we believe the speedy
completion of the New Orleans road to
Houston is Of great importance to both
places, we deem it also no less SO to the
principal owners of the road, who are
deeply interested in making it profitable
one. They should strive to finish this
road in time to prevent any diversion Of
trade from it to the St. Louis road.
Year: 1872




Republican delegates should bear in


mind the fact that the Fsr1in" which DEM
ocrats talk so loudly about as the result Of
a Republican victory, relates solely to the
hopes of their office seekers. These
':ruin" shriezers do not care the stump of
an old cigar for the public good They
are clamoring for the places now filled by
Republicans, and will exert all their efforts
to get them. Defeat means the ruin of
their hopes for two years, if not forever.
For nothing but immediate success can
hold the party together. Defeat also
means no less to the Republicans. Once
let the patronage of Office and the admin
istration of power be wrested from their
hands and the party will be broken up.
When colored man applies to Demo
cratic Office holder for place, however
insignificant, he will be told the negroes
and white Republicans have been keeping
the ''rightful owners of the soi' out Of
their ''rights" too long already; that there
are no offices or places to give any Of them,
and if they do not want to starve, they
will have to take up the hoe, the sugar
knife and the ak Such conduct would
be strictly in accordance with the policy
of the Democrats, for it is one Of the most
distinct of their dogmas that the white
man was made to rule, and the negro to
work.


This can be prevented by nominating
strong ticket to-day. Put first class men
on the city and parish tickets for every
position. Whomsoever the colored man
supports will naturally be his friend and
he had better have his friend than his
enemy in office as the dispenser Of power.
Next to mans getting a good Office him
self is having friend in it, This is the
chance the eolored people now have. The
fusionists have agreed upon full ticket
but have not put the name Of a single col
ore3 man upon it. Their leaders are all
white and the rank and file are of the
same color. They neither expect nor de-
sire the votes of the colored men, as there
will not be places enough for one-tenth of
their white followers.


The Republican convention must, there
fore, select for candidates men who have
influence among the better portion of the
opposition party, and who can, at the
same time, call out every Republican vote.
Our success depends upon it. Defeat and
suffering viii follow any mistake that the
convention makes, for the enemy is wary
and ready to take every advantage and
profit by every error the Republicans may
commit Their most fatal error will be to
nominate weak men. Avoid this and Vi
tory is within our reach
Year: 1872




weak and impoverished condition, mas
again confronted the Republican party
and thrown down the gage of battle,
which has been accepted and the contest
commenced. The heavy blows that have
been given Democracy in Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana, Nebraska, ETC., have fairly
placed the old party hors du combat, It 1t
was not SO before 1t is no longer in
a condition to make even the show OF
fight for the presidency of this great ma
ton. General Grant will be reelected
by larger majority than has ever been
before given to presidential candidate,
and he will be backed up by Republican
majority in both branches of Congress.
Nor will the Republican victory end here.
The Republicans will be successful in
almost every State election for State otf-
GERS. In this State, where it was sup
posed few months ago the Liberal coall-
ton would achieve an easy conquest III
November the Republicans are likely to
meet with complete success. The State
will go for Grant, and the entire Republl-
can State ticket will be elected unless a
reign of terror is successfully inaugurated
on the day of election, and Republicans
prevented from voting, as they were in
1868 We do not believe the Democratic
party is strong enough to do this in No
vember next, and therefore are prepared
to see a quiet election, and in that case o
certain Democratic defeat. And the same
result may be looked for in nearly all the
States Of the Union, for Democracy has
shown itself to be. decidedly weaker in
this contest than ever before, giving un-
mistakable signs of its approaching end.
The people feel that it would have been
better for the country if the Democratic
party had ended its career when the death
kneII of slavery was rung, but they will
be content to have it receive its quietus in
November next. When this event has
transpired, the war that commenced in
1861 and all of its terrible consequences will
no longer be visible, and peace will again
pervade the land and crown it with pros
perity.
Year: 1872

| An extraordinary statement was made in
the Democratic convention on Saturday
by one of the delegates, Mr.. Stevenson. He
said that the Liberals had control of the
city by virtue Of their being in possession
of the registration Offices We do not be-
lieve this statement to be true in reality,
because we trust that the laws of the
United States are sufficient to protect the
community from being overcome in any
such way; but we do believe that Mr.. Ste
vepson believed what he stated. And more
than this we believe that the Democratic
convention believed and still believes it to
be true, for upon no other hypothesis can
we account for the weakness of the Dem
ocracy in its dealings with what is mani
testify o mere faction of its own members
who have rebelled against the party for
the purpose of receiving advantages to
themselves. Take the muster roll of the
Democratic party and compare it with the
printed list of delegates to the Liberal con-
vention, and, our word for it, every Lib
eral will be found recorded as Democrat
only few short months ago. They are
Democrats to-day, but Democrats in rebel
lion, not against the tenets Of that party,
but against the will of the party in its dis
position of Offices


Now, it is said that this party dominates
the city Of New Orleans, not by virtue Of
its numbers and the popularity of its prin-
ciples, but by virtue of its possession Of
the very offices that were created for the
protection Of the city. This is to say that
we are in as bad condition as a Central
American State, where the army which is
paid to protect the country, uses its
power to Cypress and destroy the commu-
nifty.


The respectable people of New Orleans
can not indorse by their votes any party
that bases it's right to succeed upon any
such strength as this. Honest men must
win an honest fight, or the very corruption
they employ to obtain fraudulent victory
will drag them down to the same depths
that are occupied by those who are fami-
liar with vice. There can be no reform in
any administration that is elected by an
abuse of the registration law. for the men
who will commit perjury and forgery to
insure their own ends against the Repub-
icans and the Democrats will not hesitate
to employ the same helps to forward their
schemes after an election.


And since it has been officially declared
declared in the Democratic convention
that the Liberals are in a position to abuse
the city, we contend that the duty Of the
Democracy is plain in the premises. It
should not only refuse to affiliate with
party that possesses such an unwarranted
power, but it should assist the Repub-
licans in defeating any such peryersion of
a law that was made for the benefit of ALL
Will they do it?
Year: 1872

There can no longer be a doubtas to the


fast approaching death Of the Democratic


party, It has been in diseased condi,


ton for long time and its dissolution


calmly looked for by the American people
for number of years It was their will


that this once vigorous and popular party,


composed Of the Democratic brain, bone
and sinew Of the land-s1ould retire from


the scenes Of strife and corruption that had
proved so fatal to its once healthy consti-
tuition and calmly yield to death in pri-
vate life away from the contentious, noise
and hustle of the world. But the Demo
cratic party, though suffering severely
from its infrmities, has preferred active
life to repose when it was tottering with
the weight Of death has chosen to die
with harness on its back rather than give
up the ghost without a struggle. This
accounts for the unequal contest that is |
now going on in this country for political |
supremacy. The Democratic party, in its |
Year: 1872

If our property-holders and business
men have been slow in responding to the
proposition to have them become interest
ed in the stock of the New Orleans, Mo-
bile and Texas railroad to the amount of
one million Of dollars, it is now considered
sure that, with the aid of some of cur
citizens who are far less pecuniarly inter
ested, this will be done. Enough has
already been subscribed to leave no doubt
Year: 1872

The New York Commercial AdUertiSer
says q it is understood that Mrs. Laura Fair
will lecture in this city during the coming
winter upon Obstacles to Coniugal FL
deity Mrs. Fair is o lady whose theories
derive great authority from the force Of her
axamnyeU
Year: 1872

A Titusviue wife placed toy snake in
her husbands boot the other morning, and
then could hardly get breakfast because of
her snickering at his performances when he
discovered it, He first looked in the mirror,
then went and threw his demijohn of old
rye into the mill race. He drank thirteen
cups of coffee at breakfast, and for several
evenings afterward astonished his children
by going to bad at nine o'clock each eve
ming
Year: 1872

Lately an English plow was introduced
into one of the provinces of India and the
natives were taught its superiority over
their own clumsy machinery. At first as
tonished and delighted at its effects, as
soon as the agents back was turned, they
took it, painted it red and set it up on one
end and worshiped it.
Year: 1872

.. Colonel T. s. Williams informs his friends
and the public at large that it was entirely
against his wish and consent that he was
nominated before the Liberal Parish Con-
vention for the office of Administrator of
NNinnrna
Year: 1872

Hon A. w. Faulkner, the Republican
candidate for Representative in Caldwell
parish, is ready to sell good land to actual
settlers on six years time. He owns several
thousand acres, both bottom and hill land,
which he will sell in lots of forty acres or
more at reasonable price The buyer to
pay nothing for two years, and after that
to pay one fourth every year till all is paid.
Year: 1872

SENATOR BRowNLow. -
We extract the following from
late Knoxville letter in the
Cincinnati Commercial:


Upon entering the Senator's
(Brownlow's) house we found
him lying upon a large sofa a
negro rubbing his feet. He is
in wretched health, butt no
more than he has been for two
years. His hands and feet are
continually jerking and shaking
with the palsy. He cannot
speak above a whisper and
some days his strength is so
far gone that he cannot do that.
Indeed he is as helpless as an
infant. n Nothing but constant
care and watching upon the
part Of his family and friends
and in his own iron determine.
tion keeps him alive. ".
Year: 1872

gest goose that ever Walked
IT'S a perfect natural curiosity,
that goose, and Polly and /
determined to fetch that goose
and our daughters on and give
1t to the President


No express charge on it?'


Not a charge; there it is, the
biggest nat'ral curiosity of a
goose


MY friend, kick 1T that front
door; say present for the
President, and you'll see him
in three minutes, and before
you can get home you'll be
Postmaster ,gtfl


Jones saw the little family
and the big goose disappear in
the White -housej and although
the Star informs us that the
President received that day, no
mention is made of that goose.
Year: 1872

It is a terrible thing to be a
non-property-holder In a coun-
try where you can't vote in
time of peace unless you own
propertywand have not money
enough to hire a substitute in
time Of war. .. 49,,
Year: 1872

and Anger line of street car!
by a man from the interior o
somewhere. He wsS d tall
raw-boned specitheh oshnnan
Iity, costumed in the middl,
ages Of the West -thatis, say
JONES; as a middle-aged gen.
tleman in Indiana, for example
gets up his wedding apparel, -
This middle aged man was
accompanied by his wife and
two daughters, and he asked
our friend where the President't
house was.


On Pennsylvania avenue,
responded our friend.


What's the numberT de-
manded Western innocence.


1T has no number


No number2' gaspsd the
querist.


None whatever. It is the
high privilege of the President
not to be numbered. He is
not liable to number or grade.
He is the only man except
Mullet who is above the board
of public works. If the board
were to order the Presidents
house numbered, or begin
digging about, the President
would rise to a question ot
privilege, and then the board
would be in a devil of a fix
'You don't say sop What
would they do to it, do you
suppose?'


L can J. say precisely; we
never had a precedent, but
more than probable the board
would be split into kindling
wood.


Poor devil! Well, stran.
ger, l want to see the Presi-
dent


Do you want an Office? If
you do, you must see Conk'
ling


Don't want no office


Do you want an order on
the New York Custom.house
for a jobp


Don't want that neither.
What I want is a little secret
between Polly and me--Polly's
my wife,


'Ohp


Yes, it's a pretty big thing,
| can tell you.'


well l have no wish to pry
into family secrets. I will
point out the house yard, with

q scarecrow in front to keep
the ce-seekers from stealing
the Presidents garden sass
You 60 to the front door and
ring-no, kick on it, and a man
will open it. That is not the
President; but he will show
you up to a room where you
will find q small man attached
to big nose. That is not the
President, although he thinks
he is. Nosey will ask you for
a card,sDon't give him a deck;
he only wants your name on a
slip of paper to send to the
President. Then nosey will
say, sit down. You needn't
be in a hurry to do that; you'll
have plenty of time. After an
hour Nosey will tell you that
the President is seeing Sena-
tors. If you look sharp you
can see them. They will come
in with their ebenezers eleva-.
ted as if they smelled a bad
smell. Then you'll be told at
the end of an hour that the
President is, seeing members
Of the House. Then you'll be
told the cabinet is in session -
to come again next day. The
next day you will be put
through the same performance,
and the next, and so on for a
week, and then the door will
be thrown open and you will
have the privilege of seeing his
!excellency smoke and say moth
ing fer ten minutes. 81


Great thunder! Polly, let us
Jake our present and 60 home.'


Present, you don't mean toI
'ay that you have a present for
The President?'


Yes, we have. Fact 10 we
nave . stuffed goose---ths big !
Year: 1872

We met sleigh load of boys and girls the
other night few miles out of the city, on
their way to a" spelling match" in the school
house of neighboring district, and the jing-
ling bell and the merry laughter of the young
folks made us forget for a season that we had
passed the forenoon of life, and we Joined the
happy throng in imagination, and were back
again among the scenes of years ago, when
cares were few, and the greatest sorrow OF
our life was to be compelled to stay away from
spelling or singing school to get our boots
tapped, and know that "Bill Jones' would
60 home with our girl after the exercises oil
the evening were ended.


Is there an individual living who does not
at times brush the cobwebs away from his
pictures of the past, and revert fondly to the
scenes of his youth? If so let him be known
tboueh we do not believe in the unmanly
feeling that prompts one to look back for all
his pleasures, and see only clouds and stormy
weather in the future.


But we commenced to talk of spelling
schools-the old fashioned kind, held in the
winter evenings in our own or neighboring
school-houses. The latter, however, were
looked forward to with more pleasure, as the
usual monotony of the occasion was relieved
by the excitement of meeting foreign ioe'
and the fun of a ride under the buffalo rooes'
to the field of contest.


How ssbig'' we used to feel when in SOL
emu manner the schoolmaster would step up
on the rostrum, and after erasing all traces
of the DAVIS arithmetical exercises upon the
blackboard, that our minds might not wander
Year: 1872

In divorce ease pending in Ohio, the
grounds of the husbands application are that
his wife insists that he shall kill the old cat
that has been with them for ten years. he
saws at is not because he hates to part with
the animal, but the job is too much to ask
of him while he is in feeble health as at pres
ent." He has drowned her twice, shot four
hall a mound of stryc6nine. committed hari-
kari on her with pitchfork, and the only ef-
feet perceptible is a trihe more tone to her
voice and bay window over one eye. ms
is one of the most singular concatenation CT
circumstances on record.
Year: 1872

The Dividend of 1872 Is considerably larger than
any previous distribution by this Company upon
single years business.


The Claims by Death during the year 1871 were
fraction less than seventyeight per cent of the
predicted by the Companys Table of Mortality. eFa


The receipts for interest alone has always been
much more than its death losses. pc


W Be particular to insure with this old and relia-
bic Company. You will then have Policy of real
and suhstantial value Apply to Il.