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The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-24
FACRTIR.

The a has arrived when oysters
should be allowed 10 retain their over
coats.
A young man who has recently taken
a wife says be didn't find it half so hard
to get married as he did to get furni-
ture.
An Irishman, on seeing O very small
coffin, exclaimed, "Is it possible that
coffin was intended for any living crea-
ture ?"
The Detroit Free Press thinks that
mourning should be done in the heart,
and that grief should not be turned into
a signboard.
81 don't mean TO reflect on you, faid
one man to another. "No," was the re-
ply; "you're not polished enough to re-
feet upon anybody"
A man who was wasted in substance
on liver arousers, stomach tories and
anti.lean remedies, has at last concluded
10 try a short course Of victuals.
Have you ever noticed that the man
with a cold loves to talk just a little
hoarser than necessary 1t is so pleas
ant to be taken notice of, you know.
"What," says an inquisitive young
lady, sis the most popular color for a
bride ?" We may be a little particular
in such matters, but we should prefer o
white one.
B~ilkington had passed away. Mrs. b.,
who had just read the notice OF his
death in the newspaper, said: "What a
pity John couldn't read this. He would
be 80 pleased to SEQ his name in print
"Innocent" asks a weekly story paper
"How to shine in European society"
It's easy enough. Purchase a box OF
backing and q brush, and "shine" the
same as you would in American society
A professor of French in an Albany
school recently asked a pupil what was
the gender of academy. The unusually
bright pupil responded thatit depended
on whether it was q male or female
academy.
A Kentucky girl Gays when she dies
she desires to have tobacco planted over
her grave, that the weed, nourished by
her body, may be chewed by her be-
reaved lovers. There is poetry in the
idea.
An article in the Burlington HdUkeyt
is seriously headed: "Wind-A New
Thing in Politics." The idea Of wind
being a new thing in politics is toe
funny for anything. 1t is as old as poll
tics itself.
The Greenport Waterman asks
claw you a strawberry bed |" "No
sir; most emphatically, we have not
Ours is made of feathers. We cam
afford to lie on a bed of Strawberries
when it is impossible to glance at them
for less than se~venty-fve cents"
A famous Judge came late to court
One day in busy season,
Whereat his clerk, in great surprife,
Inquired Of him the reason.
"A child was born, his honor said,
And I'm the happy SIRE
An infant judge7' '0h, no. said he,
AS yet he's but a crier.'
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-24
A Famous Tree.

A cottonwood tree believed to be over
$50 years old, was recently cut down in
front CT one Of the hotels in Denver, Col.
Under this tree was held the trial Of
Moses Young, who committed the first
murder in Denver. The jury convicted
him, and he was taken to the cabin OF
the sheriff. At daybreak a posse of men
.ook Young from the cabin and hanged
him to q branch of the cottonwood tree.
The lynching was witnessed by a large
number of Indians, who had climbed to
the branches of neighboring trees. In
the same year Jim Gordon was tried for
murder under the huge cottonwood, and
was hanged to the same branch from
which Young was suspended. 1t is be-
lieved that there were other trials and
hangings in its shade. The tree was in
the early days Of Denver the largest of a
cluster of cottonwoods standing where
the city is nov tbickly built up.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-24
Whence the house OF Washington De-
rived It's Name,


While every American has heard OF
Mount Vernon, probably not one in a
hundred knows whence it derived the
name. The unfortunate Duke of Mon
mouth had a private secretary named
Vernon, a prudent, sensible man of bust
ness, who, after the dukes death, found
favor in influential quarters, and under
William III. became secretary OF state.
He left a son., Edward, born 1854, who,
greatly against his fathers wishes, en-
tered the navy, and serving with early
distinction, rose to the rank of admiral.
In 1922 he was returned to the house OF
commons, and having in July, 1893, de-
clared there that Porto Bello might be
reduced with six sail of the line, and
that he would stake his life aud reputa-
ton on the success of the expedition,
he was sent off with q squadron to dot,
succeeded, and gave his men $4,000,
which had lust arrived to pay his troops,
On returning home he received the
thanks of both houses and the freedom o
the city of London. From that time,
however, his star declined. An expedi'
ton to Carthagena made two years later
signally failed. Smollett, at that time
q naval surgeon, accompanied the Meet,
and has told the story of 1t in Rod
erick Random. where he compares
Vernon and General Wentworth, who
commanded the auxiliary land force,
to Caesar and Pompey. 1.-The one" he
says, "would not brook a superior,
while the other was impatient OF an
equal so that between the pride of one
and the insolence of another the enter
prise mlscarried." 1t was in the land
| force at Carthagena that Lawrence
| Washington, Georges elder brother by
fourteen years, had served, and appar-
emily he esteemed Vernon, as he gave
his name to his home on the Potomac,
and procured q midshipman's appoint
ment for George, but his mothers In
terposition ultimately prevented the
bows awaiting himself of it, albeit she
at first consented. Vernon's popu-
larity was so great that his unlucky
expedition does not seem to have
affected il, and he was actually
elected to parliament for three
places at once on his return. Probably
his known hostility to the government
had much to do with this. In l745 he
was detailed to watch the North sea, in
view off movement OF the ~pretender's
adherents. The next year a serious
squabble arose between him and the
government. resulting in his producing
two pamphlets, which so exasperated
the authorities that by the kings ex-
press command he was struck of the
list of admirals. He died in 1857, at his
seatin Suffolk, and, notwithstanding his
disgrace, a handsome monument to him
was erected in Westminster abbey. II
was Vernon who brought into use the
custom of mixing water with the ration
of rum, which got the name Of grog
from his habit of wearing a grogam
waistcoat, and hence his nickname OF
"Old Grog." Altogether the man who
invented grog, is buried Westminster
abbey, commemorated by Smollett, and
gave n name 20 Washington's home,
must bP regarded as no ordinary person,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-24

England's greatest poetis describe IN
interesting fashion by a clever CORE
spondent: Nobody would suspect him
for q poet now. His face is strong and
his eyes have a certain brightness, but
he is scanned, rather than wrinkled,
from forehead TO chin; he appears to be
puffy; he is partially bald; he stoop'
aud shuiles; dresses ordinarily and
carelessly, and has a generally rustic
mien and denotement. He does not AZ
feet, and never has affected, general
society, and the fact shows in his bear
ing and sloyenly raiment." The CORE
spondent adds that Mr.. Tennyson has
made such wise investment of his large
literary earnings, that his entire property
is probably worth million of dollars
u remarkable fortune tors poet,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-24
Words Of Wisdom.

1t is a very proud horse that will not
carry his oats.
They that will not be counciled cannot
be help. Ifyou do not hear reason, she
will rap your knuckles.
The source OF a craving vanity is often
a restless modesty, that long; to hear
something better of itself than it thinks
of itself.
Ambition often puts men upon doing
the meanest offices; so climbing is
performed in the same posture with
creeping.
The perfection of conversation is not
to play a regular sonata, but, like the
Eolian harp, to await the inspiration
Of the passing breeze.
Unselfsh and noble acts are the most
radiant epochsi in the biography of souls,
When brought in the earliest youth,
they lie in the memory of age like the
coral islands, green and sunny, amid the
melancholy waste of ocean.
You find yourself refreshed by the
presence of cheerful people. Why not
make earnest efforts to confer that pleas.
ure on othersP You will find half the
battle is gained if you never allow your
self TO say anything gloomy.
To set the mind above appetites is the
end of abstinence, which ono of the
fathers observes to be, not n virtue, but
the groundwork of virtue. BY forbcar.
ing to do what may innocently be done,
we may add hourly new vigor to rcsolu
ton when pleasure or interest shall lend
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-24

Juvenile Theology.--Mother Gut tea
table,: Jack, who helped you to those
tartsp" Jack (aged severn "Thc lord"
Mother; 1.-THE LordP Why, what do
you mean, JackP" Jack: "Well, /
helped myself, but father said yestcr-
day that the Lord helps those who help
LhemselYes.n
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-24

CLEANING SILVER SPOONS The dis
agreeable d~iscoloration Of egg can be
readily taken from silver spoons by
washing them in potato Whitewater in
which potatoes have been boiled. 1t is
much better than salt, as it does not
scratch the metal. The taste of fish may
be removed very effectively from steel
knives and forks by rubbing them with
fires horange or lemon peel,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-24
Rather Severe.

Nihilists seemingly begin to under
stand that every enemy oesnot deserve
to be punished with death. Some even
ings ago the chief Of police at Kief was
seized while returning from a visit to
some friends, tied, blindfolded, thrown
into acarriage and escorted to an isolated
house in the suburbs of the city. There
his eyes were uncovered, and he saw
himself surrounded by a host of persons
wearing masks and dressed in black.
Four of the masks undrcssed him, and,
stretching his body upon a board, fog
ged him until they fancied he ha had
enough OF it. He was next required to
sign a receipt for the logging he had re-
ceived. This the poor man at first re-
fused to do, but he was finally pursuaded
by threats OF another dose Of the knout.
He was then dressed again, tied, blind
folded, and conveyed in a carriage to the
corner nearest to the police headquar'
tiers. The authors of the outrage, de-
spite the mostactivc efforts OF the police,
remain undiscovered.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-24

A Philadelphia philosopher has dis
covered that all fools are not tops, but
all tops are fools.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-24

II your lamp is heavy, a bit Of long.
marrow paper will make q lamp ligh ter
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1880-04-24

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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1880-04-24
BEAR CREEK, April 18th, 1880.
Republican state Convon siou.

Republican State COnvcn tiOn.
This convention, which recently
met at Austin, was we'll attended. A
preference was declared for Grant
f r President, but no instruction given
to delegates to Chicago. Ex-Gov.
Davis was endorsed for the yice-Pres-
idepcy.
Resolutions were adopted giving
power to the state executive committee
to apportion representation to state
conventions, and of deciding the ques.
ton Of calling convention to put forth
a state ticket.
A state executive committee was
selected with Il, j. Davis as chairman,
and Il. Nelson secretary.
Gov. Davis controlled the convention
entirely. His power over the delegates
was truly wonderful. He managed
we'll, and shows himself thorough
leader.
The convention had many able and
strong men in it. There we're such
men as Gov. Pease, Web. Flanagan
Col. john l.. Haynes, Judge Chambers,
Geo. NJ. Dilley. Gen. A. G. Malloy,
Charley Campbell. j. G. Tracy. Judge
Leland. of Waco. Col. Alexander, Of
Fort Worth; and many others
There were some very intelligent color
ed men.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1880-04-24

"Dit tell me dnar," she said-
And coasinsiy the dark eyes shons'
sdshyly dropped The modest bead
Beside his own
"Bst tell ne. have you loved before
Or sus Or morsi"
The eager spsrtiiss face
IVES full Of tender. trusting grace;
She did not fssr BILE answer then,
Her king Of men
"But feline, dear. the best aud worst.
Or am arsti"
He turned bis eyes away;
Yet closer stili her hand he pressed
Nor answered yea nor nayi
A blush contested
All, 10 one burning word,
Jnsaid, unhsasd
Quick camp . burst Of teNs-
A tempest storm from april ky
And then, Forgive my doubts and fsars,"
he heard her Sigh
"why should I care whstloves ere past.
30 milne Of lsst'"
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A lIoouh and NO NliAtake.

1t does not require any extraordin.
ory exercise of The auricular appen'
daso to distinguish we'll defined rail
road boom in western Texas, to day,
and San Antonio is the pivotal point
We referred only few days ago to
the prospects, the certainty in fact,
that the Sunset route would creep west
ward from this point, and we know
that work on the International road
from Austin to this city has been com
meaced. We also have it from the
highest authority, Mr.. Pearsoll, presi
dent of the International company,
that the terminus Of that road will
not rest here. 1t il known that con-
tracts have been let by the Information
al for tho construction Of one hun
drod aud twenty miles Of road, and
the impression has been that this was
to include the building Of tho road
from Austin to this point, and to ex-
tend the eastern eud Of the line from
Longvicw to Texarkana. This
surmise, however, appears to have
been incorrect, as Mr.. Pearsoll EN-
phatically declares the purpose of the
company TO push the road on through
San Antonio distance OF about sew.
cnty-fvo miles. or far enough to con-
tol the trade Of the southwest, under
the contracts now let. The same au'
thority is given for the report that q
line of six horse coaches and immense
freight caravans are being constructed
for the International company, for the
purpose Of ut once entering into com
petition for the trade Of this city, and
that these passenger coaches and freight
trains will be run by the company
from here to the terminus Of their line
until tho track reaches this point, when
the coaches and freighters will DO pu,
on between here and Laredo or some
point on the Rio Grande. to be rur
entirely aud by aud in the interest o.
the International. Ifthis report b,
correct. our merchants will feel tn,
the effects of competition for freight,
and passengers long before the Interna
tional reaches our city.
Among other good probabilities 70
San Antonio growing out Of the con
struction OF these roads may be state,
the almost certainty that this will b
selected as the location for the machiu
the machine shops Of the two compan
les. We understand the idea of re
moving the shops Of the Supse
route from Harrisburg has no
been given up. but that the propo
sition to remove them TO Schuleu
berg has been abandoned. With the e,
tension Of that road west this voul
naturally become the rcst availabl
point for the machine and repair shop
of the company. and here they mu,
come. II will be necessary for the IL
ternational to have repair shop, 4
some point along its western line. an
what better point co1l
he selected than San An
tcaio? The location Of these shop
here EOali adj largely 10 our popul,
tioa, and isvoive the Distribute
among or people Of . vast SUI
money every eOsth.-lS&a Antooi
Express.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1880-04-24
From. lscnr Creek.

EDITOR FREE Pass: ! beg room
for few items. We have had rain
enough. and had II soon enough for oil
the spring FARMING purposes. The far
mers began their spring work with new
yigor. Gardens were nearly al planted
and up nicely, when the March freeze
came, also good deal Of corn had been
planted, and was up, oil Of which l be-
lieve, was thoroughly killed. and the
land has been planted again. Said
freeze hero was very severe, the ground
was frozen a full inch and q half deep.
Some very hardy vegetables were killed
such as cabbage, lettuce, parsnips, rad
ishers, beets, etc. Farmers anticipa.
tiops and hopefulness was running vary
high, up to this time, but here they re-
ceiyed q great backset. and became
quite gloomy. But nice Weathar and
fine rains soon made them forget their
former grief. Crops were soon all
planted again. and q renewed effort
made; q bright future seemed to be
opened before them, when all Of a sud
den the Norther OF the night Of the
9Th, blew up, and the next day seem
ing to become pretty cold, you could zee
farmers lips hanging probably as plain
" as you could haye seen Henry Clay's
nose. 10 the evening, tho covering Of
potatoes. beans, ETC., was engaged in
freely, but that was all borrowed trou-
bic. there was not frost enough to do
any material injury.
Corn is yellowed, considerably, from
the effects Of the cold. We have had
rain, but no surplus F.; no high water
no damage done springs are all flush.
All streams that usually run are run.
ming. Grass is Gue. Stock all
looking we'll. Fruit and mast are not
all killed. We have had few cases
of pneumonia, recently, but none fatal.
We have a fine Sunday school held at
Bear Greek school house. Our Bear
Creek Public Free school is taught by
Miss Mary Oldham.
Your Mountain City correspondent
thinks that Professor Syler and Mr..
Murray are now about even. 1t is the
most novel idea ever heard Of. How
are they even? What makes them
even? Does Professor Syler. finding
IN empty pocketbook. that had been
gone three weeks, and he IVY rains hav-
ing fallen during that time, and the
pocketbook showing no signs Of expo
sure, set them even? Or. is the idea
this, that Professor Sylcr lost about as
much money as Mr.. Murray's charac
ter was worth, and that that makes
them even? Will the correspondent
please explain. We cant see the point.
We believe that Mr.. Murray was I'M
Justly and unwarrnntably badly treated.
We are for our county, generally. but
for our vicinity, particularly, until we
are convinced that we are wrong. We
demand an explanation of the facts and
circumstances, that led to bis suspicion
and arrest. (the material facts) will they
give them? Mr.. Murray is above sus
piciou here, but we would help to Dust
him il We know he was bad man.
MELROY.
BEAR CREEK, April 18th, 1880.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1880-04-24

Mary Paul, . grand. daughter Of the
famous privateer. John Paul Jones,
lately died in Scotland at the age Of
seveuty-uine. Her ancestors name
was really John Paul-when ho enter
cd the privatcering business he added
the Jones"
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1880-04-24

II. De Lesseps expresses tho most
devoted intercs. IN st. Louis
writing to the Mayor that when he
retufns to this country his 6rst visit
will be paid to that city.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1880-04-24

Seguin elected q negro alderman and
then threw out the box from tho negro's
ward on account Of alleged informal.
ities in the election.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1880-04-24

How many useful hints arc obtained
by chance, and how often the mind,
hurried by its own ardor, to distant
views. ucglects the truths that lie open
beforcit.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1880-04-24

A great many people 10 New York
state feel bigger interest 10 the defeat
OF John Kelly than they do in that OF
any other man, Grant perhaps except.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1880-04-24

poSTERs. from full sheet to the smallest sirs
! Fragrance, &c got up IN the best style, al
rbe FREE PRESS OI.sC.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1880-04-24

The Nebraska Democratic conveu'
ton sends Tilden delegates to CinciL-
natl.
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