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National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1866-09-14

| wish YOU could see our S0ph III,

wish YOU could see our S0ph just
for one week. In the first place, she
is always late to breakfast: she neN-
CT combs and ties up her hair. but
only gives it smooth and a tWlrl.
sets III her comb awry. and SO much
is completed. Her dress has gcncr-
ally two or three green spots on the
front breadths. her shoes are down
at the heel. and she scu.is about
rather than walks. She is too
lazy to open her windows to air her
chamber; too inefficient to throw
back her bed-clothcs: She yaWns
over her breakfast. looks over Che
morning papers. and reads the mar
riages, the concert notices. the plays
1T the Museum, and then SITS over
the parlor register with a yellow
covered book of the last trash liter
allure. Well, this pretty piece Of
clay is to be married to our Tom.
She goes into her nicely arranged
bedchamber. which the maid has SO
nicely put in order. Heavens how
it looks in Il few moments stock
ings thrown heller Skclter, a par OF
boots, both StringleSS, and worn
threadbarc, the morning dress left
Just as she dropped Out of it. and
her old faded skirts all tattered
about the bottom. Her brush is full
OF hair, her comb looks black as ink.
her toilet cover is daubed with Mac
caSSer.' bears oil. and rosemary. But
She is now dressed for the parlor,
ready to receive Mr.. Woodlun. Hen
hair is combcd over her ears as
smoothly as if ii polishing iron had
fattened every stray lock, her dres
is all neatly hooked up. and what a
trim little form she ASSUMES ? Hen
boots are hemmed close, and she
holds the identical piece ot rufliing
IN her hand to hem, which she be
gan month ago. Her mother
speaks OF Sophia's indus,ry-shc is
afraid she will sew her lic out OF
her. She was thankful Mr.. W. call
ed TO invite her to the evening con
cert. And previously to going there
dressing takes place, and her room
Hgain looks as il Bedlam had broke
loose, which only makes three times
a day her chamher-maid is called to
put things to rights. And the worst
Of all Is, our Soph is expecting to
marry Tom, whose father is a rich
man, but has put his son to a clerk
ship at the sum Of $500 per anmlm
Tom. do take another lOok before
you leap-.just one more my good
fellow, take off the finger rings. take
out the watch. and look at the un
mended hose, lit up the dress, and
see the holes under the arm; take
off the ribbon around the neck. AND
see how greasy it is inside; and, as
live, the handkerchief isn't hem
med. What wife you are getting
Think of her manaccmcnt-hoN
your shirts and dickics Would ht
folded, your stockings dancd. youI
pants mcnded. your rips sewed--on
~ they 'front.'. With your salary %
five hundred all spent i'll thre,
months of housekeeping, and YOU
with your finger in Your mouth. ask
ing your father to lend ven a thou
sand or SO.
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+ HE DHIGENT W0Ht-

T HE DHIGENT WOMAN.-Shc
risttf in the morning betimcs, as
the lark singcth to his mate. so she
maIlcth a joyful noise in her house.
She shalieth up her bed. and beat,
eth the pillows thereof, and like rs
an eagle Stirrethup her nest, so She
stirrcth up the feathers and spread
/ eth out the sheets. and layeth the
blankets apart.
She laycth hcr hands r. the wash
tub. and ruhbe.h upon the board.
making elem the fine linen: her
hands take fast hold OF the wiring.
or, and turning the crank the water
is pressed out.
She clothcth her family with pure
garments when she has made them
smooth with 4 hot iron. and by rea.
son thereof her husband is made
comedy when he stitch among the
! chief men. or walhcth in the market
/ places.
She hneadeth up dough and bak.
eth goodly cake for her household,
and to every one she giyrth Il piece
of bread, and butter of kline.
She provideth her dinner in due
season. and her supper iailcth not,
when the good man rctmneth at the
! end of the day. weary with his la.
bors. and the strife of men.
j She lookcth well to the WAYS of
her household, and scorncth the
idle woman. with delicate hands.
who licth in bed. and callcth n ser.
want.
She kcepeth safely the heart of her
husband, and suiltrcth not his feet
to wander in forbidden paths. by
reason of her discretion. Yea. he
loVcth her. and like cooling doves.
they valk together the way of life.
Like the busy bee she continucth
diligeni all the day long, and hy
reason of hard work her bones do
ache, Yet She complainant not. be.
cause she doth it willingly.
She IS modest in her apparel. and
hrlngeth no shame to her husband
10y reason of unpaid bills for costly
feathers, or lnatua sOliling, or itizZly
waterfalls of dogs hair.
She ohcNS the voice of nature in
the circumference of her waist. and
makes but amoderaic spread about
her neither limbs. She is good man.
hered III the carS---a rare accomplish
mcnt! She tuckcth up her drc.,
hrtimes, giving the street to mems
feet, without mclcstation.
She IS a keeper at home, not CAD
ding about, revealing secrets she
ought moi to, but ready always Ia
labor in Kindness, and charity. and
good works.-Ros'oR Daily Idrc,ii
ser.
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The story that Jenny Lind was
MISSED III London was n fabrication.
II is estimated that the corn crop
in Pennsylvania will reach, tlisycAl',
nearly 30,00O,00O bushels.
Mrs. Alonzo Richardson. of Ciin.
ton, Maine, hung herself with n
skein OF yarn on Saturday last.
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dress and went into the Kitchen
Gerald was up before me. and we
prepared together, a most substan-
/ tial breakfast. before the doctor
made his appearance.
Wen. nurse was his greeting,
how'S your patientF
Still asleep
You must have made her tody
pretty strong, he said. with dancing
eyes.
oh. Amy is a liberal provjdcr,'
said Gerald: when she cooks rice.
FOR instance
Now Gerald" | cried.
Don't mind him. said the doctor:
'what splendid coffee. Yours. Amy 2
Yes; Gerald taught me to make
/ it. or rather to grind it,
There is no great art in that
said the doctor. taking cake from
the pile before him.
1t don't come naturally. though
said, grayely.
i must 90 IT, Woodtown this
morning. Amy, if you can get along
alone said Gerald. Can You have
dinner later, say two o'clock !
Yes. glad of the extra time
The doctor left me some powders.
with directions about diet; forbade
me allowing Aunt Fanny to rise,
and promised to call the next day.
Here was 4 prcdicament, Gerald
gone. AUNT Fanny asleep. and | to
do the work. OAc week of cr-
. rand girl duties had by no means
prepared me for the whole RESPONSE
bility Of the house. and ] felt rather
diSmaYed. Fortunately. my Aunt
had a woman to take her washing.
and ! had 4 supply Of clean clothes
to start ON. Onc week had drcnch-
ed two wrappers. muddied two.
creased three muslin dresses. and
made mountain Of soilcd things.
! never passed the stove without
carrying of a "reminiscences on my
dress, the pots and kettles left traces
OF an acquaintancoship on every
thing Of mine they touched: and
washing dishes invariably dcluoed
me with greasy water. had left a
piece of trimming or muslin on Soy
eral nails, aud the w0odShed bore
lloatlng banners in honor OF vie
torious wrcnghoS given to nav dress
eS or skirts. \ month Of This life
would make me a walking rac-bae.
for had no materials in my sum
mcr wardrobe fit for the Warfare
Never mind /, Dinner waste he cook
, ell, and | was to perform the task.
Jerry had plrckcd pair Of fat
fowls the night before. and | knew
that Aunty intended them for din.
ner. looked ut them as they hung
in the spring house. woudcriuo how
You did cook them. when | rtmcm.
bercd that we had had roast mutton
day or two before. had seen
that prepared, therefore could
cook chickens. Their heads were
off. so lga.ricd them np tothr house
to roast. | washed them very clean.
laid them in the drippiu~ nan.
sprinllled some flour over them nit
ON salt and pepper. put some water
in the pan. and showed tbrm into
the oven. CabbaoeS and corn |
could cook so i rrSoIvoI 70 snr,-a
them with the chickens This oa
nv mind. wont to Amt rannv.s
room. She was awake. romnlaini1 -
of headache and sore throat TLr
doctor had given me directions f,r
4, ~ ~
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Truth is Stranger than Fiction.

Truth is Stranger than Fiction"
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Such n Clocks, Watches, Jewelry, Gold, Silver
ana PLACED Wares in variety, Tor common
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aud careful attention.
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Bradford. June II. 1866,
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National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1866-09-14

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MEMPHIS TENNESSEE, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1866

dreadful trouble had been softened for
him, and had, as it were, faded out, and
that the evening Of his days had been
calm and tranquil This, at least would
be the impression, reading his closing
at Edmonton. But it is said, and it is
vouched for by good authority, that not
long before he died, he and his sister had
been placed at Enfield in house called
Bay Cottage, with woman named Red
ford, who was accustomed TO take care
of deranged persons. 1t is said that
both required restraint and that the
woman of the place treated them with
cruelty, often locking up brother and
sister together in a closet during some Of
their fits There are those who recol-
lect having seen Mary Lamb at win
dow, tearing up a feather bed, and scat
tering the feathers in the air Fortu-
nately friends found out their pitiable
state, and Charles was removed in time to
Edmonton, where he could die in peace
During that interval, his mind seemed to
be filled with but one subject 1t always
reverted to Coleridge, and in the strang-
est way--even humorously He would
lHttrrupt tHt 'cOHNtrbhtiUu WIFI an uD-
rupt exclamation, 81 So Coleridge is
gone |" On November 2lst, five weeks
only before he died, he asked to write
something in friends album. "When
| read the death Of Coleridge," he wrote,
9 it was without grief 1t seemed to me
that he had long been on the confines Of
the next world-that he had a hunger for
eternity But since | feel how great a
part he was 70 me, his great and dear
spirit haunts me cannot make crit
icism on men or books without an inef-
fectual turning and reference to him
He was the proof and touchstone of all
my cogitations He was my
fifteen years old friend, without dissen-
sion. Never saw | his likeness, nor
probably the world can see again /
seemed to love the house he died at more
passonately than when he died. - p"
What was his mansion, is consecrated to
me a chapel" A more pathetic chime
to departed friend was never sounded
He seemed never to recover the blow
[ W. p. Fitzgerald.
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in old mansions which possessed great
historical and traditionary interest.
Many of these houses were built of bricks
imported from England, before the revo-
lution. They were GENERALLY planned
with view to the qualification of the
profuse hospitality which distinguished
the race of men who inhabited them.
The war has made sad havoc with these
relics of the past. Many of them have
been destroyed utterly others have been
so dismantled that the work of rebuilding
is too costly for the impoverished owners
of the soil, and they must stand, at least
for time, monuments of the atrocities
which civilized man has felt warranted
in committing, upon the pretext of re-
storing the rightful authority of Govern
ment of a1.t
Among those venerable edifces, which
have, fortunately, survived the strife, is
Stradford, in Westmoreland county, the
well-known seat of the descendants of
that Richard Lee, for whose services in
supporting his cause Charles the Second
is said to have ordered the arms of Vir-
ginia to be quartered on those of Great
Britain, with the motto, En- dat Virginia
quartam The house now standing was
distinguished as the birthplace of Richard
Henry Lee, afterward the mover of the
Declaration of Independence; Of Arthur
Lee. Agent and Commissioner Of Con-
gress on the continent Of Europe during
nearly the whole Revolutionary war; OF
Francis Lightfoot Lee, one of the signers
of the Declaration; of William Lee,
Commissioners Of the Revolutionary Con-
gress to Holland; and, at later date,
of Robert Edmund Lee, who, in another
civil war, has attained a fame equal to
that of any of his name.
A young lady of Virginia, who in the
retirement of a country life, in that once
favored land, had cultivated the art of
drawing and painting, has given US a
picture Of this birthplace of the Lees
which the modern art of photography has
multiplied Here we have the substan-
tial and not inelegant structure faithfully
brought before US. There are, as in all
of those old Virginia houses, a main
building and two wings, whilst at a little
distance from the dwelling will be re-
cognized those offices and out buildings
which were appurtenances to the plan
tation houses of the olden time. A soli-
tary Lombardy poplar yet remains, the
last of his discarded species. The well
worn road from the outer gate shows that
even at the date the picture was taken,
the old mansion kept up its habit of hos
pitality. A negro woman is crossing
rude stie with basket balanced upon
her head, after the manner of her kind.
A few cattle and sheep Craze in the ad-
jacent grounds or repose in the shade,
and everything about the place betokens
that unostentatious rural taste in which
the refinement of the Virginia character
was nursed, and which was so favorable
to the development of the simple, but
energetic and hardy characteristics which
distinguished the illustrious family who
for so many generations held it in their
name.
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Last DAYS Of Charles Lamb.

II is sad to think that Lambs later
days we're not Of the calm and pleasant
sort described by his friends. A great
tenderness and delicacy, friendly SEN
sitiveness, has kept back from the ae-
count of Lambs history much which
concerned the horrid spectre which at
tended him all through his life. We are
led to believe that in time that great and
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Potts Farewell.

John H. Potts, retiring from the Texas
press, for the good of the press, bids his
late contemporaries good-by as follows :;
" We bid long farewell to our late breth-
rem of the press, never expecting to meet
them in this world, or to be troubled with
their presence in the next They have
our prayers for their utter failure in their
great and persistent efforts to keep alive
the fires of discord" M
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Thomas R. CLAY.

An Atlanta dispatch, of the 4th, says
The remains of Major Thomas r. Clay,
of Kentucky, who died in this city in
1864, were disinterred to-day and for
warded to Kentucky. Major Clay was a
distinguished officer of the Confederacy,
a son of Colonel Henry Clay, of Mexican
fame, and grandson of the statesman,
Henry Clay His remains are to be re-
inferred beside those of his father, in the
State Cemetery, at Frankfort. They
were escorted to the depot by number
of Kentuckians, who are in the city.
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General Lss,s,Rirthnlacs

Before war had brought ruin and de-
vastation upon the tidewater counties Of
Virgins, that part Of the State abounded
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&4IO.GIS RI

LOSSES ADJUSTED AND PAID during the
year 1865, in very marked and striking nan /,
ner exhibits the solid, substantial, and faithful
service rendered patrons by the Phoenix, as well
as its ability to pass through seasons prolific OF
confagrations,. with honor and profit 10 those
most interested.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-05-09

An average annual cash dividend to Stock,
holders of fourteen per cent. upon its capital
stock since its incorporation, portrays the great
success and stability of this eminent Institu-
ton, the superior financial accuracy displayed
in its investments, and the important truth that
the management of the PHOENIX is ia the
hands of those who know how, successfully, to
couduct
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INSURANCE.
'~,oco.oo~0c cc>S-Sc~e~ ~co~cc 40 ',c11y','s>
4s,ooO,ooo DOLLARS
OF PROPERTY
Destroyed byNF'ire,
.f h O. ST a J. q y
Within the limits of tho United States,
DURING THE YEAR 1866

SHOULD SUGGEST THE NECESSITY OF
- good insurance 10 every man who desires TO
protect himself against the loss which follows In
the wake Of fire.
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For Jefferson Davis VIC ask no ESeeu-
tive clemency, for he has committed no
treason. For him we implore no pardon,
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