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The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1857-10-24
hardware and Cutlery

~ w At INV" WV y
Ivory handled table knives and forks
Do do dessert do dc
Common do dc
CaNer- and s,ecs.
Pocket and pen knives.
Scissors and shears,
Sheep shearors.
Iron basting spoons.
britannia tea and table do
Mil and saw hcs
Socket chlses.
Augurs.
Drawing knives.
Tack hammers.
Mncing knives,
iialcheis and axes,
Cupboard, tel and pad locks,
Knob locks,
Door latchcs,
Stock locks,
Flesh forks,
Tea bells.
Brass eandlestieks.
Brass butts,
Cast do
Hook and staples,
i!a, pins.
Sad irons,
Hooks aud hinges,
Nails and brads,
Curry combs,
Trace chains,
Sieyes,
Grind stones,
Castings,
Cork screws
Rifle wires.
&, u, Caps.
The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1857-10-24
Sundrics.

Toile, Powder, Tooth Soap. Shaving DO
Pomade, Cologne, Balm of Thousand Flowers
Papier, Machc lioXrs, Cabas, Combs. Hair
Brushes sewing Birds, Money Belts, Tooth
brushes. Wax Beads, jet Bracelets, Bead
Necklaces, \ iolin -triags.
The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1857-10-24
Tin and Wooden Ware.

Tan ana wooden ware.
Tin plates,
Pans.
Cups,
Coffee pots,
STEAMERS,
Cake pans,
Nauee, do
Covered buckets,
Wash pans,
Nutmeg graters,
Swimmers.
Candle moulds,
Cake turner's,
Bread coasters.
Cake boxes.
Mouse traps,
Wooden bowls.
Butter ladies'.
Cedar buckets.
PAINTED do
Well do
Scrub brushes.
Brooms,
Door nat-
All Of the above goods VIII b. sold at low
prices.
r. r. HYDE
Marshall, De, ; 81. No-eu
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-08-14

1t has been affirmed-wc know not
on what authority-that DR.. Kcnnicott
and others, render sAaulim, in Judges
10: 4, handfuls or Sheaves instead of
torcs. AS if Samson had only "sat
fire to 100 sheaves, laying them end to
end" With this rendering, however.
but very few interpreters agree, snd
and that it is erroneous seems to be
demonstrably certain, both from the
uniform rendering of the same term in
other places and the narrative which
acquaints us with this exploit of Sam
son.
The word shaM in the singular, and
shautlm in the plural, is translated fox
or foxes, according to the connection,
in the following places; Judges Is. d,
Songs of Sol. 2. is; Lam. 8; 1S; Ezek.
IL: a; Nehe. 4: 8; and Psalms 70. 10.
Gcsenius, q prince among, if not the
prince of, 1Icbraists, does not intimate
anything about shcavcs. 1fany of the
lexicons of others give such arcndcrinp,
VIC have not seen them; and unless there
is defect in the text itself, we arc
persuaded that slnulim, in judges / s:
4, means animals Of the fox kind.
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-08-14
MISSIONS DO GOOD

About ten years ago, says the Day
Spring, u Wesleyan missionary from
England commenced mission at Pat,
meist"n in South Africa. in the land of
the katfirs. The place was then Il
Wilderness. Formerly the country had
been 'hckly inhabited; but constant
wars among the people had swept off
thousands. and Others had taken refuge
IN tho more rugged portions uf,he land.
but Fakee, the chief, requested that
the mission might be in this locality,
winch bad been the country Of his fure-
fathers; promising that he and his uibo
would follow. So the missionary and
his VILE went there, hoping to do good
10 some among the "tcus Of thousands
"i naked and savage Kallirs." any Two
OF whom could at any limo have taken
Their lives, and sliced upon their p,op-
eriy. But God took care ofihese dwel-
iers IN the wilderness. They are still
alive; aud now, for forty or fifty miles,
on every side Of them, there is a large
population willing to receive instruc-
ton. There are nearly one hundred
families at the station. Tho people
are becoming civilized They plough
and bni!d. and make their own fnrni-
t"'e. Tho missionary instruc,s them
IN al the arts oflife, and they have com.
to''abie houses, having built quite u
humber OF brick cottages, in Europeau
STYLE.
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-08-14
M0RGAN70NN MQNONIG1ALLA CO., VA. FRIDAY AUGUST 4 BE
Judging by their IDEAS of foyos

Judging by their ideas of foxes with
out any regard to the foxes of Samson's S
time and country, some see an unan-
swerable objection to the correctness
of the common rendering, in the large
number (3O0) Of the foxes taken. 1t
would require, say they, a more expert
hunter than modern times have yet
produced. Grant this, and still, when
it is remembered that the Romans
sometimes had as many as 200 lions,
the securing so large Il number might
not have been an impossibility. Espc-
cially, as it is not known how long
Samson was engaged with their cap,
ture, and how many persons assisted
him.
But the Hebrews included in the
term shaul, an animal of the fox spe-
clcs, called the .jackal, and with these
animals the country Of Samson was
overrun. They generally went in com
panics of from 30 to 200, and could be
taken easily in nets. Many intcrprc,
ters, in the front rank of scholars, think
that these were the Samson foxes. If
SO, the difficulty on the score of numser
is obviatcd.
There is, however, another difficulty
"a tail difficulty with which some arc
perple%cd. How could they run if tied
tail to tail OF course, such obiectors
imagine that the tails were tied touch-
ing each other, whereas, from anything
that appears from the narrative, there
might have been several yards of cord
between them, with the blazing torch
dragging from the centre. The object
was to burn the ripening harvest, not
the foxes. But be this it may, the
sheorcsrendering increases the Difficult
ty while the passage as it now stands,
is not incredible.
We have made these remarks as a
caution against being misled by the
views of DIR. kcnnicott, or any other
photographer, as long as the present
tent of the passage remains what it is.
There are, unfortunately, so many 9TH
er passages in the Bible by which u re-
vision of the English Scriptures may
be advocated and defended, that it is
not neccssary-if it were right---to ar.
que by doubtful one Chris. Index.
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-08-14

BE gentle at Home.-Thorc ale few
families we imagine, anywhere, in which
love Ia not abused as furnishing the II.
cense for impoliteness. A husband.
father, or brother will speak harse words
to those he loves best, and those who
love. him best, simply because the se-
curity Of love and family pride keeps
him from getting his head broken. II
IS shame that man will speak more
impdlitely, at times, to his wife or els.
ter, than he @ott!d to ahy other female,
except low and vicious one. It is thus
that the honest affections Of mans
nature prove 10 Ge a weaker protection
to a womar1 in tho family circl5 than
the restraints Of society, and that wo.
man is indebted for the kindness and
politencss Of life to those not belonging
TO her own household. Things ought
not so To be. The man who, because
ii will not be resented, inilicts his spleen
aud bad temper Upon those ufhis hearth
stone, is small coward and veIy
mean man. Kind words are circuIa.
ting mediums between true gentlemen
aud ladies at home, and no polish ex-
hlb'ted IN society can atone for the
harsh language and disrospecful treat.
ment too often INDUCED il between
those bound together by Gods own ties
of blood, aud he still moro sacred
bonds to cOnjdgal love.--L;(e Hius-
rdtcd.
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-08-14
From the Messenger and Recorder.
WUISKEY REVIVAL,

A trip down the MonongaheIa, few
days since, to Pittsburg, has painfully
convinced us that the business of max
ing and consuming bad Uhiskey is on
the increase. There is distilery not
far the other side Of Mason & Dixon's
line, that has sold to a single house in
Baltimore, in one year, whiskcy valued
at $l7, 900 ! And this is but one out
of several similar establishments in the
county where it is located.
Further down the river, perhaps in
Allegheny county, we noticed a large
new brick building, of two or three sto-
rles, occupying right pleasant loca.
ton or the bank. The enquiry natu-
rally suggested itself, Is that County
Po6r House, (or Drunkard's Palace,'
as Hunt would style IT'D or is it the
country seat of retired millionaire d?
1t was neither, gentle reader; but it is
oohn Some6ody'$ Sill Horsc!! Oh!
my cohntry, what a transformation has
been elected in the last half century,
y Once on a time" in arough little log
shanty, in the head of an obscure hoi,
low, they made rye Hquor that was IL
quor' Why, the oldlfashioned topcrs
used to guzzle On and on, until we ye-
rlly thought that some of them were
P'chled, and couldn't spoil --4t they
lived SO longl But now the spacious
Drlck palace rears its front in the broad
light OF day, with a fair exterior, while
within are heaps Of mouldy corn, and
halt-rottcn potatoes, and cockroaches,
and strycninc ! the produce of all which
IS q vlllainous compound, that swolls
the carcasc, destroys the brain, and
Kills by wholesale, and Q, how quickly.
The hollish principle of ava,icc is
simulated into unwontcd activity, at
the present time, by new recipe from
Beclzcbub's patent Office, by which the
spurious product Of o bushcl of grain
IS doubled; the distiller producing foou
gallons from u bushel, instead Of t,Vo,
as formerly; and this by the aid Of one
OF the most active poisons in nature!
This state of things will probably
continue until the frequency and horri-
bleness of whtskcy poisoning shall at
length arouse the slumberine masses to
an indignant overthrow Of the entire
system of drunkard making. May the
time be FASTENED I
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-08-14

Picture 9f CAicago-.The following
picture Of the city Of Chicago is from
recent letter TO a country paper:
"Chicago is f4si city Young
America is represented by a large
force of fast young men, Even the
Old fogies are tast--sOme Of them very
last. They make money fast, spend il
last, i've fast. and die fast. There are
plenty Of gamblers here, lcwd woman,
had rom and deviltry in general. Tie
Mayor, the Hon. John Wentworth, is
waging active war against the gambling
deDs, houses Of i'll fame, and other un.
lawful and vicious institutions and prac.
iicesj but | am inclined to think he 70 %
coives more kicks than thanks for eff
cient services. Even Republican ourn-
ais do not sustain him in his course; on
the contrary, the Journal takes every
occasion To spit out its venom upon him
all resulting fom a mean ebi,it of
newspaper rivalry and political jealousy
There Is more ribaldry, more low and
vulgar accusation against each other
among the newspapers Of Chicago than
can be found in the Journals of any
other place | know Of in this country.-
Chief among tho backguard prints is
The Times, Douglas organ. Every
cpithet and vulgar expression short of
downright profanity are used to express
its partisan bitterness and foolish ;nsan.
iry."
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-08-14
The kducstich and Early Habits of Madeleine
Smith, the Alleged PoisOner.
Correspondence of the Liverpool Albion.

correspondence oil the Liverpool Albion.
OF Miss Smith much has been tuld.
but the greater part of her ife.story re-.
mains to be written. The eldest mem.
ber of family which she has driven
from home aud happiness, she was nur.
tured amidst all the reGnements of life
like h"t-h"use plant. Her father re-
solved that she should be kept apart
from the world AS much as possible,
raln'y imagining that severe system
OF scclusion from its evils would pre-
serve his flower from contamination
She was permitted to know of evil on.
ly as II IS mentioned in the catcchism
While she was a girl he thought he
could m)uld her into spotless being
by denying her even so much acquin.
tance with the outside world as is re-
vea'ed in the columns of newspaper
The London Times might be his daily
monitor, but Madeleine was too deli
cate 10 nuke acquaintance with its de-
tails of life.
When she catt!e into society, Made.
leine Smith plunged headlong into the
vortex Of the existence of which she
had been previously unaware. The
hot-house. plant was not fitted for tho
rongh atmospheric OF the world and it
pcrshed. The carechism was exchang.
ed for "Lucretia,' and novels of that
class, which We're devdu.cd with un.
wholesome avidity. The fast literature
"f the day took the place Of those"good"
books which she had been set to read
by that good old DR.. Bcalt;c. the vener.
able pastor Of the United Presbyterian
| Church, Of which her pareutswero mem.
hcIs. She became faster in her pace
than those Of her female acquainlances
who had been accustomed to what 1sa-
&C Tayl"r's old lady friend called cit
tie wholesome neglect" She had been
before so well taken care Of, that she
now took no care of herself And so
1t came about, in the course of a few
short years, thai she met IN the poor Jer-
sey youth with her "lare"
She led two lives and later in the
night in which she had been down tn
the minister's house, perhaps to read
to This venerable man, whose eyesighl
was growing dim, she would sit down
TO the constr uciion of a letter TO l.. An.
| gelier at whose contents the most utter.
| ly abandoned ofyour Whirecharel Gun.
fortnnates' would blush with shame.
singular ahecdore has been related
tous on the best authority, which shows
how in this hypociilica! w"man's career
the strangest Injunction of events oc
Cured.
L'Augelcr, died on Monday the. 23d
of March, and on the Wednesday fol
lowing the day before she ran away
from B!ylhwood square to Row, she
vas clustered with the pastor of the
church in which she sat, and convcrs
ing with view to obtain what is call cd
a "token" or in other words certificate
for the sacramental table. She is said
to have been great favo,ite of the old
| Clergyman ever since she was a little
girl, and that since he became so old
and inflrm that he could scarcely read
she has been in the babit Of calling upon
him every other evening and perform
ing that Office for him.
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-08-14

4 Sensible 'V0maa's Mcu.--Mrs. NJ.
+. Legare, edltress Of the NewOl llcans
S0HthcrR Mirror, says: "Woman is,
10y appointment, suprcmo in The social
and domestic circle; it is much more i'm.
portant that she have the finer faculties
OF her nature ID high state Of cuIri.
vation, Than the stronger and more m as.
chline qualities of MUD. She had bet.
ter be a philanrbropist than a philoso.
phcr. One Florence Nightingale is
WORTH more 10 man than all tho bucrei.
ia Motts and Fanny l.. Towuscnds that
eyer cursed the world; while in the do.
mestic circle one good intelligent, am
liable wife or sister, who, with such men.
tai training as serves to develop its beau.
tics and thus serves TO invite the stern.
or sex to WOO its refined pleasures and
humaDiHing influences shines brightef
than whole 'woman's riphts conveu.
tion' ~ solemn couclaye, resolving to
don tho habllimohts and usurp The
realm Of the other sex. W0man's el.
ements is owe; her weakness is her
strength. battle against innovation,
female sufiragc, lady physicians, and
Boomer dtessos."
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-08-14

gs5" Thomas II. Stockton, in a late
number of bis Bid1e Times, says; at
is not in bitterness, but in sorrow that
look upon the church, in too many
instances, as a people not called from
the world, but with the world called inl
mot overcoming the world, but over.
come by the worldn
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-08-14
The Great American,

TIE Giant of'thc U'orld-NIjies DIR.
de".- Some weeks ago we gave few
iac's IN regard TO tho weight and di-
mensions of this extraordinary man. and
promised our readers through the cour
tesy of flivnd in Henderson county,
iurther items of interest. The friend
we referred to was the Rev.John Brooks
whose racity, we believe has nevo,
been questioned by any ono. He writes
as follows
MIR. Darden was born in North Car.
oilna, in the year 179S, aud departed
this litc al his residence in Henderson
county, Tennessee, on the 23d day Of
January, 1857 in the 60th year Of his
age.
He joined the Baptist Church in ear
ly life, and shortly after emigr ated to
Tennessee, where he connected himself
with what is called the ChristiunChulc ch
but had not been member of any
church ioryeors past but was moral aud
fond ot conversing on religions Subjects
He was an obliging and kind neighbor,
aud fond of company. About fifteen
years ago he joined the order of Masnns
He was twice married. His children
are very large, but probably none Of
them will be mole than half the weight,
of their father. He was quite active
and lively, and labored until about four
years ago, when he became so heshy
that ho was compelled 10 stay at home
or be hauled about in a two horse wa.
g"u.
In 1910. he made contract with n
tailor To furnish him a suit Of clothes
for $S50-the cloth TO cost five dollars a
yard. Upon measurement. it took l2
yards OF cloth. 50 the tailor lost SO
and the making. The tailor states that
thee men each weighing over two hun
dred pounds, put the coat on and button
ed around ihem, and walked across the
sqnate at Lexington. lu 1850, it took
l34 yards of flax cloth, yard wide, to
make him coat. It took sixteen ward,
OF cambric for his shrond 81 yards o f
black velvet To cover the sides and lid
of his coffin; l25 feet Of plank to max q
the same.
His coffin was eight feet long.
Across the breast 30 inches.
head, IS
foot II "
Its depth 35
He weighed in 1915, S7i pounds.
His hight was 7 feet inches.
His weight, WHOM he died, as nearly
as could be ascertained, was fraction
over ! 900 pounds. Juckson, (Ienn. y
Wig.
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-08-14

a 'prt@h|e hbo~t tie Agc IF Horscs.
The editor of the Southern Planter
Says "Tbe other day wc met a a gen.
ueman from Algbamo, who gave us a
piece OF Information as to ascertajuinp
tho age Of horse, after it has pas,
aed the ninth year, which wos quite new
TO us. and will be, wo are sure, to most
o' our readers. 1t is this: After tho
horse is nino yeas old, a wrinkle comes
on me eyclid, at the upper corner Of
The over lid, anl ovory year thcrcaf.
ter no has one we'll defined wrinkle for
each year Of his age over nine. lr for
instance, horse has three wrinkles, ho
10 Twelve; if four, he is thirteen. Add
the number Of wrinkles 10 nine, aud
yon w'I' always get al it. SO says Tho
gentleman; aud he is confident il will
never foil.
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-08-14
"WhO Made YNnl,2

o"c OF the ladies connected with tho
"Aleihodist Five Points Mission" who
has under her charge some thirty lit
tie boys called them together on tb,
morning of Christmas to perfect them
IN their answers To questions she intend
ed To put :" them before the visitors
during the aftcrnoonn. After arranging
them Pr"perIy the first boy on the right
IN answer to the. question 'who made
you! was to say "Ciod." To the second
",Oi what are you made" reply. "the
dust uf Tho earIh," aud So on Though
the Carechiam. The all importan, mo-
ment having arrived, the little 'shavcrs"
were told to stand up. The little head
boy 1t seems was missing, bat the fact
being nnn"ticed by the teacher she pro-
cerded with the question. ''nho made
You y which elicired the EIowiup
'aughable answer. 81 was made out vf
de dirt of de ert' de IirlIe fclley what
t"d made has got de belIy,ache and
gone hothe.'
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-08-14

Woman is mysterious poem, which
must be read many times before fully
understood; he who has never loved
but once, knows tho sex better than no
who has made a new conquest every
DAY for twenty ycars.
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-08-14

lhe North Eastern Railway Com.
Pany 10 England, have lately paid SI4..
oVo Tor breaking the ribs Of one nan
apo $4,000 for killing the wife Of anotb.
er-showing which lib was worth, Ji" ,hn
most. "'''' '"e
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-08-14

.homish Priests --Holton expresses
Jnst sentiment in tho FOLLOWING ain.
guar manner: at is a great defec,
of the ltomioh system, that it has nv -,
way OF d'sposihS Of bad priest. 1t
can convert him TO no other purpose, a
we do razor that will no, shave, II
cannot Kill him, as we do horse with
a broken leg. 1t can only maintain
nm as gentleman at large, or make a
missionary Of him."
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-08-14

NJ. Seventy fine looking Irish girls
from sixteen to eighteen years of age,
have just been shipped to this country
and transported to the West for the
benefit of those who want wives.
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-08-14

B"d Ar1c%. jOr tie L0dic$. The Prov
IIence journal aunouucas that there -
n panic IN the kid-glove market. and
That The ladies arc in danger of having
nothing TO, wear' in that line. The
Chinese "ar brings another distI $50 up.
on our fair friends. Cape shauls ar,
Imputed only fro;n Caution. which is
half destroyed aud lis lrade entirely cut
off. The journal says:
Rev Grape shawIs we believe, arc
moi much worn at present. But as soon
as they become scarce, they will ncces-
sarily become fashionable. Such is tho
law of nature. And it becomes really
impossible TO get them; il there are
none IN The market, then every woman
must have one, and the husband who
refuses TO get one is a "bruie" and the
father IS "iyraut.' Meantime we ad.
wise every lady who is the possessor Of
one of these euvied articles Of Attire
not to throw i, away, even although it
Is cold as ihe hills" aud though ,hev
have worn it till they are ASHAMED to
be seen with it," nor even although thew
are 'Sure it looks like a fright" In the
uHrcasonableucSs Of the masculine sey
men hGve been known 10 refuse To buv
an article merely because it could NOT
oe bought, even although directed and
entrea'ed to do so by those whom thew
were bound to CRAFTY in every wish and
~ every caprice. The same thing NAV
happen again, FOR The world is not grow,
ing any better.
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American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-08-14

-. E~rofean TesHmony.-Thc London
lines, IL an Article on lho Wost In.
dies, says: 1t is allowed on all hands
mat when slaves were well treated, tho
CONDITION was superior not ouly 20 that
of their c0uutryrncn at home, hu, 10
'hat ~ the poorer classes 10 many parts
Of Europo.p
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-08-14

There ore many who delight in play.
ing the fool, but who 60, angry The mo
nicn' they are told 50,
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-08-14

Advices from Texos says that the
Nhinese sugar capo baseyctyw whore pro.
ven ven us superior ability to corn iu with
standing drought
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-08-14

a lady has commenced civil suit
against dry goods merchant doing bu~
slneSs in Broadway, Albany, for kisr
sing her against her will. Tho dana,
gcB are laid al $4,000.
The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1857-02-17

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.9aaffsI sisssaxst lsass t4gag5. 4azsyss8glt tEtT
ssc psyepfsart.
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