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BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
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Newspaper.
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GENERAL DIRECTORY.

OFFICIAL.
SENATOR -31sr pisrnIcr:
Hon. L. J. Storey, OF Caldwell Go.
xsraxsESrArivEs-8ir DISTRICT:
hon. J. N. Holmes, Of GuadalupeCo.
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COUNTY oTyioRns.
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Thus The Years 80 lsy.

A tear, smile.,
From Joy awhile
To turn away and sigh;
To suffer loss,
To bear he cross b..
'ris thuL the years 70 BY,
t Advance, retreat, .H
Success, defeats, .-u.
TO hide from human eye. fH.
Our wounds and pain
. TIL cured again
IT'S thus tho years 60 by. 1.r.
Long hours Of strife, u bob
.. Nal And bitter lie; 1.i
Then, hid from smile and Sigh.
I. Pc Unbroken calm. &
Palm laid to palm
IT'S thus the years gotH.
B. L. WELLS. In N. Y. Tribune.
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Nayor--H. B. Cof1ied
Council-W. 0. IIuichison, T. r. Fourqurean. L.
W. MITCHELL D. P. Hopkins, P. Il. Turuer.
Marshal-A. J. Toalson.
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Report vas made in the Legislature
unfsvorably On petition sskiDg discon
tinuance ai the criminal district eouri
of Harris county. Biilw introduce
t. insure payment 10 sheriff. and othe'
officers amounts paid by them for I'd
yertisinz legal sales; one member
shiie the proposition vas under iIs
cussion. JirYl~ycl tis knosle9rc g
re question y opp1sin- pablicsiio'
of lsral sdrr-'isiaz IN ne-rsu-rers. "a
vor.ng c-Teu,.-s instead Bill Eas in
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-03-22

Gen. George Washington Park Cur
It's Lee. who is at last TO get his rights
IN the Arlington case, is about forty.
FIVE years old. tall handsome and aud
remarkably like his father, Il. Il. Lee,
He is president of Washington and
Lee university, ut Lexington, Virginia,
where he lives with his two sisters,
Misses Mary and Mildred bee, in tho
house where their father, mother. and
sister died. lie is an old bacht lor AMI
very shy of the gentlor sex. He grad
usted at West Point. and like his ia.
,har' came out Of the faur ye.rs course
without single demerit Miss Mory
lee was frv days ago entertained
by Lori and Lady Napier at Gibralter
and few weeks before was within tho
Russian lines in Turk-y. l.
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Marshall Herald: The State IL in
DEBT. and tha; debt is increasing yeas
after year. The people are Oppressed
xi.h taxes. anil thew see 10 prospect nj
,he;r heinz lessenel What does com.
mon sense po;n, Oh; as the remedy ?
Cert.;nTy to lcsscn the number of Oh
~cs and The courts. m res!Rcs salaries
rbere they can BE- Refused. and 10 sa.
n end n the endless sTsten oi litiga-
i;on. evil md criminal vita which the
State = enrse4-
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-09-25
Nihilist Revenge.

Aromantic explanation of the assassina
tion Of General Mesenzoff last spring il
offered by Russian journal. Three
Nihilists condemned to Siberian exile
wished to marry. and fixed upon three
girls Of their own political persuasion,
who agreed 10 follow. them 10 the place
Of their banishmert Marriages OF this
description are tolerated by the laws Of
Russia; and the three convicts in ques.
tion received permission from the com
petent authorities to be united TO the
objects of their choice. Accordingly
they were welded; but their sentence
OF banishment was immediately after
ward changed into one OF solitary CON
hnement in the central prison at st.
Petersburg. Upon learning this their
wives sought and obtained audience OF
Nabokow, the minister Of justice, whom
they ertreated TO reverse the last de-
cree, and to send their husbands, as at
first determined, TO Siberia, whittier
they could accompany them. Nabokow
replied he could not assume the respons.
ibility OF altering the modified sentence,
and referred the three women to the
chief of the secret police. To him,
therefore, they applied; but he angrily
rejected their petition, telling them
that 'he was quite aware how cunning
was the political party to which they
belonged, and how eager TO increase its
numbers by marriage and the results Of
that union. He should, therefore, treat
them as persons outside the law, to be
dealt with in an exceptional manner.
As soon as this decision was known in
Nihilistic circles he was at once con-
demned to die as the most inveterate
and dangerous enemy of the cause; and
three days later, he persisted by the
hand Of an assassin.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-09-25
Story Of Beau Hickman.

Tits related OF the famous Beau Hiok
man that in his best days be once went
to first class hotel in B ,ltimorc. and,
after registering his name, said he
wanted the very best the house could af.
ford for his money, twirling in bis hand
at the same time quarter Of a dollar.
The clerk saw before him an elegantly at
tired gentleman, and, as Beau requested,
assigned him handsome parlor and bed
room. Beau lived like fighting cock,
ordering wines, extra dinners and every
thing palatable, for week, at the end
OF which time the bill was sent. The
amount was something extravagant. lii
Nothing abashed, however, he stroll
ed into the ofiiee and confronted the
clerk. Look here, sir; there must be
some mistake about this; when 1 came
here ] told you I wanted the best you
could afford for my moneys worth. l
had this quarter then (producing the
coin) and it's all I've had since. The
clerk waxed angry and high wads fol
lowed. Your fault, sir, your fault
said the imperturbable Beau, mot mine
You can kick me out il you like, but
I'D rather go alone. Tradition saws
they were about 10 proceed 10 violent
measures when the landlord appeared
ON the scene, aud looking at the name
on the register, recalled the peculiar va
grant character Of the man before him
(then Just becoming notorious in Wash
ington) and discovered that he bad been
'egregiously Sold The thought flashed
aross his mind, If this joke gets out
I'll be the laughing stock of my friends,
and never hear the last of il. Dehber.
ating moment he turned to Beau,
and good naturedly said: that's che
best ever had; butI can't keep it. III
make bargain with, you Here, take
five dollars and pay your fare to Wash.
ington (Bsau quietly pocketed the half
eagle) and now go over to the LII
House, stay week on the same terms
you stayed here, and I'll give you din.
ner every time you come to Baltimore.
Thank you, replied Beau, without
cracking smile, I've been over there
for two weeks and they sent ME here.
1t is needless to add that Bean disap.
peared out of the front door with an
accelerated notion and the landlord
never heard the last of his attempt to
get even with his neighbor.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-09-25
Sad Case.

The following story comes from
Ebensburg, Cambria county: The lady
was an accomplished girl OF twenty-five
years, daughter of George NJ. Reade, a
prominent attorney; the husband a
young man named t. Fl. Stophell, of
Strongtown, Indiana county. He had
been attentive to Miss Read for some
time, but her father, widower, as we'll
as her brother, objected, and the meet
ings OF the pair were recently carried on
secretly. During the absence of the
father, month or more ago, the two
were married by Rev. Mr.. Thomas, a
country clergyman. The announcement,
however, was not made public, and the
man and wife continued to meet clan
destinely as before as opportunity pre-
sented. On Saturday last he arrived in
Ebensburg and put up at the Blair
House, with the intention, it is said, to
carry Mrs. Stophell off to Johnstown.
The lady was in high state Of excite
ment on reaching the hotel, which in
creased as time passed, notwithstand-
ing the efforts OF her husband and his
friends to soothe her. While thus en-
gagged they were surprised by the
abrupt entrance into the room of Mr..
Mathiot Reade, the only brother of the
distracted bride, who hourished loaded
revolver and seemed intent upon max
ing short work Of the man who had had
the temerity to become his brother-in-
law without his sanction or consent. -
Seeing the peril of her husband, Mrs.
Stophcll excitedly interposed herself be-
tween him and harm, and a moment la
ter young Reade was disarmed through
tue united efforts Of Mr.. Stopaell and
Mr.. Blair, son Of the landlord, who
chanced to be present. In the mean.
time the foolish precipitancy Of young
Reade resulted in throwing his sister
into state Of hysteria, and she was
taken to room in the hotel in raving
condition, hysterical coma intervening
by Sunday dawn, and death from brain
fever resulting. .saotgia ttiBi % .
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-09-25
Advice for the Sick Room.

Nothing is more easy to an expert
enced nurse or more difficult to an in
experienced one than to change the bed
linen with person in bed. Everything
that will be required must be at hand,
properly aired, before beginning. Un,
tuck the lower sheet and cross sheet and
push them toward the middle OF the
bed. Have sheet ready folded or roll
ed the long way, and lay it on the mat
tress, unfolding it enough to tuck it in
at the side. Have the cross sheet pre-
pared as described before, and roll it
also, laying it over the under one aud
tucking it in, keeping the unused por-
tion of both still rolled. Move the pa
tient over to the side thus prepared for
him; the soiled sheets can then be drawn
away, thecl ones completely unroll-
ed and tucked in on the other side.
The coverings need not be removed
while this is being done; they can be
pulled out from the foot of the bedstead
and kept wrapped around tie patient.
To change the upper sheet take off the
spread and lay the clean sheet over the
blankets, securing the upper edge TO
the bed with couple of pins; standing
at the foot, draw out the blankets and
soiled Sheet replace the former and
put on the spread. Lastly change the
pillow cases. --Scri6ner.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-09-25
The Much Abused Fly.

A writer in 50. Nicholas answers the
question which arises in the mind oi
most people, when annoyed by a perti
nacious fly, Of 'What use were flies ere
atedP as follows: Well, this fly, ol
course, had mother fly, and she laid
lot OF very small, shiny, brownish.
white eggs, and when each one of these
little eggs hatched, there came out q
funny little yellowish white maggot,
not very active, but very, very hungry.
The appetite that these little fellows
have is something really wonderful,
and this it is that helps them to be Of
such good use to man. For while they
are maggots they live around the barns,
and eat up old decaying material that is
filling the air with poisonous gases
which might bring sickness to great
many of us. One little maggot could
not eat very much of course; but there
are so many Of them, that what they all
eat amounts to great many wagon
loads every year. This is the good
work that the fly spoke OF when he said
that he had done a great deal for us
before he became fly; and yol see he
is right. After the little maggot has
eaten all he can and has grown all he
can, he is about third OF an inch long.
He then becomes shorter and stouter,
stops eating, remains quiet, and in
few days changes into small dark red
dish-brown chrysalis, about quarter
OF On inch long. He only lives from
eight to fourteen days as a chrysalis,
and then, some bright morning, the
skin cracks all along the back, and out
comes Mr. Fly. He is little stiff and
lazy at first; he comes out drowsily,
stretching his legs, and slowly waving
his wings, after his long sleep of nearly
two weeks. But the warm sunlight
soon takes the cramps out of all his
JOINTS and, spreading his wings, he
takes his first flight. sa 2 ..A s.tr
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-09-25
Terrible Fate Of an rElenhant.

One Of the appurtenances of the show
OF Bailey's mammoth menagerie travel.
ing through the country, is an immense
electric apparatus which is used in con.
nection with the electric light that sup
plies illumination for the entire canvas
Of the circus. This machine consists OF
a large magnet and an immense arma-
ture, which is made to revolve two hun
dred and fifty times in a minute, by
means of a thirty.five horse power en-
gine. The apparatus is of intense cleo.
trical power, a knife-blade held within
two feet Of it becomlngs SO heavily charg-
ed with the current that it can be used
thereafter as loadstone. When getting
ready for q performance in Bonneville,
Mo-, the man in charge fired up the
boiler and put the machinery in motion,
and strolled OF, and had not his atten-
tion called to the machine again until
he heard an unearthly roar and a crash
coming from the direction Of the batte-
ry. He was startled, as was also the
small army of workmen inside the tents
and the large army Of boys and idlers
on the outside. Everybody rushed to
the spot.
On approaching the vicinity Of the
electric machine Romeo, the favorite and
most docile OF the ten performing ele-
plants, was found in the throes OF the
death agony, aud with his trunk torn
away by the roots from it's base. The
poor beast lay there shorn ofits strength,
and presenting q horrible, mutilated
appearance. Everything was done that
it was possible to do for the dying ami
NAL, but its agonies were terrible, and
when at length it gasped its last there
was feeling Of relief among those who
surrounded its mountainous corpse.
The leader of the band, who witnessed
the accident, says that Romeo, who was
roaming around in the tent with his
nine giant companions, shambled up to
the machine, and was shifting at the ar
mature when its trunk was caught in
the revolving apparatus, and the animal
was thrown violently to the ground and
the trunk carried away by the whirling
machinery.
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Remarkable RecnHerH.

An account from Manchester, Ohio,
says that Mrs. Clay Cooley, most esti-
mable and devoted wife and Christian
woman, has been afflicted with spinal
disease for ten years, unable to turn
herself in her bed, and could not stand
alone without her braces. On thenight
of the 12th she prayed all night, and
next morning she said to her husband.
i am curedl / am curedp and Il am
hungry Mr.. Cooley said, Il will get
up and get breakfast; you have not rest
ed anyylie down and l will bring your
breakfast After the meal was ready,
he came in and announced it. She said:
y will get up and 60 to it. Her hus-
band got her braces for her, but she
said, i don't want them; / can walk;
and at once rose up, when she turned
deathly sick. She lay back and offered
upa fervent prayer that she might get
up and walk. After the prayer she rose
up, got out OF bed, and dressed herself.
Her little family, astonished, gathered
around her, she telling them that she
could now walk as we'll as they. After
breakfast she said, Il must let my neigh
bors know an I out she went, walking
and shouting into their houses. She is
still walking to-day, md to all appear
ances as well as anybody could be.
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oh, God VINO cam telI WHAT nar

Oh, God Who can ten what a mar
suffers when his sin finds him out
1 held in my hand the sparkling stone.
1t seemed TO fasten itself to my hesb. -
l took it TO the window. Yes, it was q
diamond Of great value. singular luster
and purity.
That, at least, would retain. =
walked toward Mr.. Ballentynes
great house in one of the fine streets Of
Glasgow. His only daughter, tho heir
ess of vast wealth, lay dying within.
had killed her-I, the poor artist from
the back street, who had been raised TO
the best place by her hand, that gentle
hand which 1 had spurned
Aunt Elspeth let mo in, with sor.
rowful face. Agnes had broken blood
vessel, and would not last many hours.
your diamond said /, as / held it up
before her. You dropped it in my stu.
did,
no. said she, with that crystalline
truth of hers, j. never had such dia.
mond.'
But found it where You sat, and
where You wept, said I.
Then keep it, said she, 'for it must
have been that tear. Tears have come
hard, Archie, hard as diamonds. 1t is a
cruel death to die; serious thing,
heart break, Archie, to love and to not
be loved. But we were neither OF us to
blame. Console Aunt Espeth and poor
papa, ArcLie. Paint them a picture Of
me, and keep the crystalliaed tear; it
will make your fortunel' And with her
old playful smile, she leaned back against
my shoulder, put her hand in mine, and
died
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-09-25

Rose Terry Cook, breaches this little
lay sermon on household industry that
ought TO make an impression upon every
girl in the land. She says Il shall
never forget my own childish tears and
sulks over my sewing. My mother was
perfect fairy at her needle, and her
rule was relentless. Every long stitch
was picked ont and done over again, and
neither tears nor entreaties availed TO
rid me Of my task till it was properly
done; every corner Of hem turned by
the thread; stitching measured by two
threads to astitch; telling Of absolutely
regular width, and patching done in
vlsibly; while fine darning was sort Of
embroidery, I hated il then, but ! have
lived to bless that mothers patient per-
sistence, and I an prouder to day Of the
six patches in my small girls dress,
which cannot be seen without searching,
than Of any other handiwork except,
perhaps, my bread
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-09-25
An Authors ConstanOy. !,

In the Life OF Charles Lever, just
published, occurs this pleasant para,
graph about the bright novelist: cTc
Judge from the exploits Of Lorrequer
and O'Malley in the field, Of Irritation,
Lever might well be supposed to have
had considerable experience and apti.
Jude as a Lothaiio; but his companion
from youth, Major D., assures ut
that this was in reality not the case, for
although delighting in female society,
he seems TO have never had but one real
love affair-the one which began in Bit
boyhood, and ended only with his life.
Lever read all his novels to his wife
and she pruned as she pleased. From
the day she died he felt that his righ,
hand had lost its cunning; and in dedi
eating Lord Kilgobbin' TO her memory,
he declares that it must be his last.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-09-25
Sitting Bulbs Forces,

a A correspondent, after wishing the
camp OF General Miles and the brave
little force with which he drove the 81.
oux across the line into Canada, accom-.
panied Major Walsh to the encampment
Of Sitting Bull, on British territory, and
says that from personal observation he
knows the Teton or hostile Sioux camp
to number at least eleven hundred
lodges. They have from twelve to fifteen
Thousand ponies at the lowest calcula-
ton, and their arms and ammunition
are Of the best quality. No mere Amer
ican regiment, or portions OF two Amer
ican regiments, however brave the Off
GERS and men, could beat the 5000 able
bodied warriors of that camp, not to
speak of boys, who would be no con-
temptible allies in the skirmishing tao
tics of Indian warfare. Perhaps the 81.
oux, for want of provisions, cannot hold
together long, but when starvation
comes, the correspondent hardly believes
they can be restrained by the small
force of Americans now in the field. 1t
is not necessary to be a West Point
graduate to learn that si1 repeating
rifles in Indian hands are superior to
one breech-loader in the hands of a
white soldier. That is about the pro-
portion of the respective forces. ASK
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-09-25
A Hnshand,s Rnrnnupn

A strange method of retaliation as
practiced by gentleman who had been
despoiled Of his wife's affection, is told
by private detective: A couple Of years
ago well-known vocalist ran away with
an equally prominent artists wife, and
for time the guilty couple could not be
found. Finally the husband came to
me, and, by aid of my books, traced the
wife and her paramour to street not
far from the Albany depot. From there
they fed to Chicago, and now the hus-
band keeps track OF that singer, and
wherever he has an engagement he
writes to the manager detailing the facts
in the case. This usually terminates
the vocalist's engagement, and day he
can hardly get a chance to sing in any
first class concert. The artist is not
altogether vindictive In this matter, for
he has notified the destroyer Of hishome
that when he will leave the woman, re-
turn to his own deserted wife, and make
o written acknowledgment Of the wrong
he has done, he will cease his persecu-
tions.' This story is undoubtedly true
in its essential details, and is now given
to the public for the first time. All the
parties are well known in Boston, and
one Of them has stood very high in
public favor, kf GA t