Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1872-07-20

married she learned that his first wife
had left him and procured a divorce
on account of cruelty
From the time that Kate Stanton
married him he made it his constant
study to thwart her every wish, and
annoy her in every way possible. Ii
she were pleased with a farm he would
sell it and buy another. If they had
any stock that she was interested In
that went the same way. Thus for
over twenty years they livel in a con-
slant warfare. Finding that it was
impossible to make her friends and
neighbors dislike her, he sold again
and moved West, thinking that lac
could circulate such stories about her
among strangers that no one would
ever wish to associate with her. He
soon fonnd snt his mistake, for the
rough pioneers could read character as
well as those that were more refined,
and they loved her aud hated him.
He would have some pretext tor a
quarrel nearly every day, but they
seldom came to blows, because she
was the stronger, and when be had
aroused her anger he was afraid of hes.
He knew that she would not strike him
unless he struck her first, then he gen.
orally got the worst of it.
81 He ruined the dispositions of his
children by his tyranny; they were
kind aud good d-hearted, but had no re-
spect for him. He was also an arch
liypoarite. Mheneyer he encountered
preacher be weuld drop his little evil
eyes to the floor, draw his nose down,
pucker up his mouth, and try to look
like saint and martyr.
s's Yes,' he would say, With sigh
that seemed to come from the heart,
8 l have endeavored all my life TO be
/ sincere Christian, but it is hard to live
as should live with my family. My
1 wife is very wicked woman, and she
has trained the children to be as wick
ed as she is. Bat, sir, lam, determin-
ed to persevere, knowing as do that
the greater the trials aud prosecutions
/ / endure here, the brighter my crown
will be hessafter.'
8. He deceived great many by such
talk, but he never deceive d me, tor the
first time i ever saw him he came to
our house intoxicated, refused to let
| him stay all night, and he swore at me
like pirate.
5. About ten years after their mar
riage, Mrs. Morgan lost her reason,
and for six weeks was raving maniac.
That was warning to her not to take
her troubles to heart; SO when her
! children went to the dances that We
always had at house raising and log
ging bees, she went also, and was the
liife OF all such gathering. Her cue
mics would say that she was to blame,
that she should stay with him. il he
| were old and childish. She needed
, ssme such recreation or she would GER
taiply have lost her reason again.
!. Many . time when the boys have
! been away FROM home nights has she
been obliged to 60 UP stairs to sleep
and draw the ladder up after her to-
Fl fear her husl,apd would kin her while
, she slept, for he had struck kar sever
al times when she was asleep, wher
) they werc alone. One day she stoot
r ID chair driving nail in a log Will
: an ak, when he came behind her ant
. struck her on the head with Q hickor,
, cane. He had been accusing her 0
> being everything but 2 respectabl'
!. woman, and she was trying her bes
|, not to say Anything and sd avoid
qnarel, but when the blow came, no
thinking what she had in her hand
!, she dealt him blow across the arm
with the head of the ak. His arm
E sweiled and looked very bad, and b
{ went .Or miles around to show his arm
He said he was sitting reading hi
i. Bible aud she tried murder him. q
4 would not tell OF it, but she inteude'
! to kill him, for she said she would, an
! he wanted it known so they woul
Q hang her if he were found dead.
{ /. He gave out word that he vas g
ing to sell his place, and was to clos
!. the bargain with man on the tent
4 of April. She had said several time
that he had sold the last place frol
e his family be ever should. She mean
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