Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-12-11
Mrs. Vice President Colfax.

Harper's Bazaar has very excellent
picture of the wife of the vice president
elect 1t does greater justice to her beau
ty than the fair portrait of her in the ac-
companying text which is all that we can
copy =
Nellie Wade as she is familiarly styled
by her friends, is the daughter of Theo-
dore l.. Wade, the eldest brother of Ben
tjamin Il. Wade, now president of the
Senate and vice president of the United
States. Her step-mother is her aunt, the
sister Of her own mother. Her father,
who died some five years ago, was an
Ohio farmer, and she has spent her whole
life, when not at school (she was educat-
ed at the Cleveland and at the Will
loughby (Ohio) female seminaries) in the
farmhouse where she was born, engaged
in domestic and home duties, which were
varied only by occasional visits to her
aunt in Washington, three years ago, that
Mr.. Colfax formed the acquaintance
which ripened into an engagement last
summer during a trip to the Rocky
Mountains The picture shows sensi-
bic, earnest, and thoughtful face, the
owner of which would be likely to give
none but good counsel to her husband in
his responsible position. But still more
striking is the graphic portrait, kindly
drawn for us by freind who knows her
we'll. "She is just thirty-two," he says,
"and not ashamed of her age. She is not
tall, not short, nor stout, but will aver
age 140 pounds. She is not hands ,me,
but good-looking. She is quiet, reserved,
repressed, self-poised, and self-controlled
to remarkable degree. But you think
of her that still waters run deep. She
seems to have life,-a quiet country
town, village, and farm life,-that has
! not been congenial, or rather has not
drawn her out at all and her repressed
manner and nature are due possible to
this. There is no gush, no brilliancy, no
, show, no exuberance in manner, appear
= ance, and style. Her new life will bring
her out; but she has nothing of what is
= called society manners and will make
: no impression on the multitude. Fastid
ious and feminine to very high and
, rare degree in one Of such experience
. she is most admirable selection for a
= wife for Mr.. Colfax,-a sweet, true, self
~ adjusted woman, with younger heart
: than | ever saw at thirty odd years, who
=. never would make career for herself
80 but would accept and fill whatever place
:, came to her in the way of duty" Judg
ie ing from this brilliant bit of character
= painting, the women of America vii
~ have reason to be satisfied with thei
- - representative in the second lady of tn,
= nation.
!, The WHIPPING PosT IN DELAWARE
{ ! The sheriff came out with the cat j
his hand This venerable weapon con
!, sists of stout handle about two fee
II long, with nine lashes of somewhat great
/ er length The thongsare made of thic
7 leather, twisted together, and as hard a
st wire They have been soaked with bloc
10. before this, and it has dried upon ther
,st until their edges are as sharp as knives
or The sheriff has just begun his term {
nc office, and this was his first whippin;
- He looked as if he was ashamed an
T disguised. 81 would almost as soon han
% a man as this" said he. The first cand
m date for the lash was the boy who stol
,r. seventy cents worth of pig iron. Th
M iailer brought him out, fastened him t
: the post, and removed rough blank
: T from his shoulders. He was naked
.be the waist. The thermometer was
NV thirty-fve degrees. Twenty lashe
in sheriff." said the jailer. The sheri
me swung his cat up slowly, and itdescen'
let ed on the bare skin. Zone" said tt
, il jailer, " two, three" &c, as the sher
nth tenderly. and with not half his seemir
strength struck twenty blows. The SIX
was not broken, and the boy, lookir
/, very sad, was hurried off. This officer
too humane for the law. Other sheri
ID. that know of used to stand off and e
net the victim as western drover would
, at fly upon his OK, and then measure t
md distance so nicely that the ends of t
by thongs would cut bits of skin from t
pu- prisoners back, and bring the blood for
red. in crimson streams. That was what Ii
and and chief justices had calculated upon
wa Out came the jailer with another be
In bow of fourteen, who wassurrounded
itch running children gazing curiously up
iver him. He had twenty lashes, also, and
red. each blow descended his muscles contra
red, ed and he tried to dodgetoavoidit. "W
men don't the sheriff make in swish?" al
uest amt half doin' it" said another. 81
red, ought to cut into him" observed anotl
rice. man, who seemed to take it to heart Il
idg- al the outraged majesty of the law '
on not better vindicated. When the !
rary was released, he assumed an air of bra