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the, presidents party next morning
about daybreak. There ] again took
charge of my train, and on the morn:
ing Of the 9th President Davis heard
of the danger to his family, who were
travelling some distance ahead, from
marauders in search of horses. He
decided to take his staff and few at
PENDANTS and join them, the train to
proceed to Florida-the intention, as
understood, being there to take boats
to Cuba, and from there to the Trans
Mississippi department. AS ! was
more likely to be captured with the
train than with the mounted party, IN
order to provide means for the trans
portation to Cuba, l called the staff
together and paid Col. F. R. Lubbock,
A. D. c. (former governor of Texas);
Colonel William Preston Johnson,
A. D. c.; Colonel John Taylor Wood,
A. d. c., and Colonel = (whose
name l. forget, but naval officer3
each ST. 500 in English sovereigns, to
be used in buying boats or other ex-
penses, and took their receipts in due
form. Having a bag which still con-
tanned about $500, l placed it in the
saddle-bags of Mr.. Reagan. He OBJ
jected, saying he was already weighted,
having $4,000 of his private funds
brought from Richmond; but, upon my
urging that the party might need it, he
let it remain.
president Davis, to the best of my
knowledge, had only some $5o-pef-
haps less-of specie and Confederate
currency, his private funds. The whole
treasury passed through my hands as
acting treasurer. The president never
saw the treasure nor my disbursements
of any part of it. He could only have
received any of it through me. l did
not offer to pay him anything, and he
would not have received it if l had.
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WHAT BECAMEO OF THE CONFEDERATE
'. MONEY.

Everybody is having say about the
confederate bonds that disappeared at
the close of the confederacy. Mr.. NJ.
H. Clark, of GAINESVILLE, Tenn, who
was acting treasurer of the confederacy
at the opportune moment has written
letter, generating Jeff. Davis from
any share of the booty. Clark was ap-
pointed at Mr.. Reagan's suggestion,
while the whole capoodle were running
away. MIR. C. gives the following &C
count of his services:
Thepresident made the appointment,
Mr.. Reagan drew up my commission,
and President Davis affixed to it the
last official signature he ever made. l,
of course, preserve it as a precious
relic. The entire treasury was turned
over to me, and spent the day in fill
ling the acquisitions of the acting Sec
retary.. ! settled with the depositors,
who had followed with the train-some
all the way from Virginia; paid off
the naval brigade, through Postmaster
Wheeless, of Nashville; paid off
the troops who were near
us, through the proper &C.
credited officers; burnt millions of
bonds and currency in the presence of
Secretary Reagan and General J. C
Breckenridge, secretary of war; turned
over to the Virginia bank officers the
specie which belonged to the Virginia
banks. which they had never been able
to obtain from the, treasury for want of
proper officers to deliver it. One of
my last acts was to turn over to Major
Moses, Confederate States agent,
$4,000 ir silver, mainly bullion, which
the president had ordered to be used in
furnishing subsistence to the paroled
soldiers who were passing through to
their homes, thus relieving them and
the distressed country through which
they were passing.
81 took proper receipts for all my
payments, and with the whole treasury
! isbursed, except an Insignificant sum,
,,eo company with the acting Sec
scg, | left Washington about
,eria1o. clock at night with a
M. in iecgt given us by General Duke,
Houston arrseTtly dismissed, and joined
Vance hotel.
D. m. All are ns,
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Tuesday, January II, 1882.
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.

In the house, Wheeler, of Alabama,
introduced bill to prevent the spread
of contagious diseases, and to aid COM
mon schools.
Williams, of Kentucky, to erect a
monument over lack. Taylor's grave.
Darrall, of Louisiana, to terminate
the Hawaiian treaty.
King, of Louisiana, to appropriate
100000 to improve mouth of Red
river.
Thompson, of Kentucky, that tax
on distilled spirits shall hereafter be
made payable on withdrawal of such
spirits from bond.
Mooney, of Mississippi, to make the
agricultural department an executive
department.
Hawk, of Tennessee, to grant pen
sions to civil officers injured in the
service of the United States, or their
widows and orphans.
Dibrell, of Tennessee, to remove tax
on tobacco in hands of producers; on
matches, bank checks and bank de-
posts.
Epson, of Texas, providing for a
treaty with Mexico.
And some 400 bills were referred to
appropriate committees.
The bill to incorporate the Garfield
hospital failed upon a vote of 14o nays
to sc yeas.
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A gentleman who recently met the
duke of Albany's fnancee in Paris
writes that she is very pretty accom-
plished and exceedingly popular in the
regal court of Holland. He prophe-
cies that she will only be second favor
tie to the princess of Wales, who is the
most popular lady in Great Britain,
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iature lake between Partrick's and
Konrumpfs, where the pigs delighted
to sail around, winking their pink eyes,
and, wagging their delicate ears, and
twinkleing tails at passers-by, is now
nothing but mere mud-hole. Crossings
have disappeared, curbstones and side
walks are no more. The street CIR
tracks have sunk into oblivion. Police
have been banished to the Seminole
camps, and the ladies have to skip
across the gutter" the best way they
can. However, snow shoes can be
had at the post Office, providing you
sabe how to get them.
For inasmuch as the railroad closes
in on us, disturbing our tranquility, so
doth the tramps and trampeses darken
the bright doorways of the households
of Bracket. ...o. ST..
Cowboys and desperadoes have
said their valedictory, and the era OF
their first cousins has been formally
opened. .."
l neglected to say that those having
checks can enter the mint" now by
the rear entrance, thereby avoiding the
crowd at the front door. ..'
e. READJUSTER.
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Readjuster's Budget.
BRACKETT AND CLARK, Texas, }


January IS, 1882.
Editors EVENING LIGHT.
Lieutenant S. w. Fountain left here
last Tuesday, having in charge several
military convicts, bound tor Fl. Leav-
enworth, Kansas.
First Lieutenant J. G. Balance, 22d
infantry, arrived here last Thursday,
after an absence of over IS months, on
sick leave.
Fifty recruits have been assigned to
the ED infantry, and are now en- route
from depot. This acquisition increases
the strength of the regiment nearly to
its maximum allowance.
Last Tuesday evening Mother
Goose party was given at the Post hall,
by the officers children, and more
mirth-provoking assembly one seldom
sees. No pseudo, simulated happiness
was donned by them for the occasion,
but real JOY shone forth from each
laughing eye.
The paymaster is expected to-mor-
row, and most every one will have
Christmas again.
Hay for the supply Of the garrison
is now being procured in open mar
ket at SIS per ton. The Dignowitys
are on hand.
The gun has been moved down
near the bank of the river, near the
bridge, to avoid damage to the ma
sonry of the buildings in the post. 1t
also serves to get the fellows home in
time for reville.
We have a new hospital steward,
lately arrived from Duncan.
Some folks are badly frightened,
and think Clark is to be abandoned.
I do not see why they should take on
so about few soldiers leaving. How
ever, they may be anticipating raid
by the Indians or border ruf-f-ins who
would raze their families to the ground,
steal their houses and lands, and float
them to Mexico; cruelty burn their be-
loved cattle, sheep, etc., at the torture
stake; drink all the l & c whisky, and
when the devastation and carnage
would be complete, launch their barks
on the broad bosom of the Los Moras
and with copies ofthe Fort Clark News
flying defantly at the mast-heads, sail
triumphantly away to -. Now,
if anything like this is going to happen,
they ought to let a fellow know, and
give him chance, but should smi-.
Judge Robinson, we learn, has pur-
chased the California exchange saloon
at Bracket from Mr.. Maloney.
A vacancy exists in the postoffice de-
partment at Brackett-Mr. Flatow, the
competent ex-deputy, having accepted
a position in Mr. Piggot's store.
We learn that on Friday evening last
Mr.. T. Maloney, who was playing with
a revolver in the "Long" saloon, ac-
cidentally discharged the same. No
one was hurt, but all present swore that
the ball passed within an inch of their
heads. Fred.'s Zone of the survivors)
hair is not quite settled yet.
Rain is the order of the day just now,
and the southern avenues of Bracket
are very swash-swishy, The once min.
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borrowing Trouble.

What a vast proportion Of our
lives is spent in anxious and useless
foreboding concerning the future
either our own, or that of our dear
ones. Present joys, present blessings,
slip by, and We miss half their flavor,
and all for want of faith in Him
who provides tor the tiniest insect in
the sunbeams. Oh, when shall we
learn the sweet trust in Gud, that
our little children teach us, every
day, by their confding faith in US?
We-who are so faulty, so irritable,
so unjust; and Him who is so watch.
ful, so pitifnl, so loving. so forgivingP
Why cannot we, slipping onr hand
into His each day, walk trnstingly
over that days appointed path,
thorny OF tiowery, crooked or straight,
knowing that evening will bring us
sleep, and peace, and home.
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LoNGING.I

/ long for that bright immortal sphere
Where ties are never brokenl
Where celestial skies shall gfeet our eyes
And words Of love be spoken.
Removed from sorrow, toll and care,
Well gather ro md our king
And gardens rich with deathless flowers
Their eternal fragrance Hing.
Their blissfnl chants our hearts shall hide
While rays OF glory gleain;
And grief, nor death, shall cast no shade
On life's translucent stream,
Well need no sleep to osootlie our eyes,
=, Nor balm for any pain;
There blooming youth; with bounding feet
Shall walk the golden plain.
There sorrows cease, and aching hearts,
And death, are all unknown;
There snowy blossoms breathe perfumes
Throughout that gilded home.
There bright-robed saints, long lain in dust
Live decked in cleaning sheath,
And Gods own hand Il hi, on tlleir Esss
A glitteriIig, bridal intrs.l,,
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and fash over the piano keys, were
busy from dawn to sunset in the
housework that women find ever
waiting them.
Edward Lancaster was never very
poor, and Edith never knew again
the wants and cares of her girlhood;
but the wealth be had lost was not
restored and never regretted BY its
loss he had learned his wife's heart,
deprived Of that he found the treas.
ure of domestic life aud in his new.
duties he found the pleasure of max
ing the knowledge he loved useful to
Others.
The Professor had been two years
in his new home, when, one evening
from the college, he found Edith sew.
ing busily tipon a cloak for year.
old boy growing .in-the -cradlerr.
She held up her work for inspec.
ton.
"My yatching dress, Edward"
II remember it," Edward answered
gravely.
"Do your | never wore itbut once
the last day We were ut White.
cliffe."
"The day." her husband answered,
when after an hour Of doubling ag-
ony, found my wife had married
me we with the true love-for better,
for worse.
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Thoughts.

He that has no charity merits no
mercy.
Men need not try where women
fail.
Every man is occasionally what he
ought to be perpetually.
Every part of the soul, if it comes
to any largeness or any strength, goes
through discipline.
People are to be taken in very
small doses. If solitude is proud, 50
is society vulgar.
Everywhere endeavor to be useful,
and everywhere you will be at home.
A hundred men make an encamp-
ment, and one woman makes home.
Good style is good sense, good
health, good energy, and GOV d will.
Where woman is held in honor,
there the gods are well pleased; where
she receives no honor, all holy acts
are void and fruilless.
The conqueror is regarded with
awe, the wise man commands our
esteem, but it is the benevolent man
who wins our affection.
When men are friends there is no
need of justice; but when they are
just, they Still need friendship.
lie who comes up to his own idea
of greatness must have had very
low standard of it in his own mind.
The best portion of good mans
life is in his little nameless, unre.
numbered acts Of kindness and Of
love.
Whilst you look too much on 9th.
ers gardens, you will neglect your
own.
The seeds Of our punishment are
sown at the same time we commit
sin.
There is no such thing as being
proud before man, and humble before
God.
Faith steps into our aid when our
boasted reason and knowledge fail.
Vain glory is u flower which never
comes to fruit.
Experience and wisdom are Che
best fortune tellers.
Crimes sometimes sh,ck us too
much; vice almost always too little.
He is not poor that little hath, but
he that much desires.
The sweetest thing on earth is q
little child when it has learned to
know and love.
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One watch set right will do to set
many by; but, on the other hand, one
that goes wrong may be the means of
misleading whole neighborhood;
aud the same may be said Of the ex-
ample We each sci to those around US.
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ANTEDATED HISTORY.
Found In the Archives of DnI-
Ias, \, ~. 1900

And 1t came to pnss IN he days Of
Arthur, the kiug, and while the great
aud mighty Pr &c, O. NJ. reigncd over
the land u Texas in the lSS2d year, in
The twelfth month OF the year, that u
great calamity fell on the chief city of
the land, even on the city OF Wahco,
which Is by the mighty river Brazos,
goo lly stream and fair to see. For i'm
the -cl'.samc mouth Of the sell same
ycar the grcnt and mighty men who live
IN the land, the tIllcrs OF the soil, their
wives and children, even unto the suck
ling btbe, were toIliug III the fields, even
the field II cotton.
And the black men OF the land ~
Guiuca, who were hewers OF wood and
drawers Of wa cr unto tn children o.
the land, with tleir wives and their ch
Jrcu, were also bust d in the cotton fields,
uud there Was found no one to bri <
wood unto the people OF the great city,
even unto the city OF Wahco.
And behold, Ia the eighteen hundred
and cighty.rccond year III he twclfth
month of that year,thc wood piles OF the
! great city were empty, aud there was no
wood IN the city,
Aud the snow tel from hcaYen nhtll
| the fences were covered, ana the frost
came and 7mute every green thlhR, ana
all green hluE7 ned and the great river
"Hs tr zen, yen the mighty river bThzns'
Ana IN me ma NE OF ths t"'''tIl
month cam hail an snow hnd Ir t"t
, h"-t ana no smoke assembled from inc
. houses on vance, tnr tnert was u" woo"
/ Tor ihr cihIdrrn 81 NHhc" 10 nnth'
ana the 'IllII,'l 81 'f.'ino'N even ne :l
. pl"'" mem VII" .u,'I W'Fe7 1u' III ,i'
/ are" ana 'H'I, MS "Nc' ".u w.,
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ps.st -sbN "a.

A little son OF MI lIany Levine is
quite III.
Judge Cluk has returned from ms mp
to New YORK.
Mr. VIII woodward went down to
Temple Yesterday.
MIR George Munncrlyn went down to
Taylor Yesterday
Il. .. cali. Eqr, aud county CLERK
pAvr b,rjcn, ut ilillshoro, are in thrriA .
WI. Gordon. q prominent cotton buy
cr OF Corsicma, ,siu the city ON business.
MIR. Judge rliublc, oi Alabama, IFS 30
the CiIy,a guest oi her sister MIR ~ J..
Wright.
MIR Elmer Rogers lett on the Missouri
Pacific yesterday tor san Antonio and
| other points In Ia" south west,
r.C.M. Roynton, OF tho Hamilton
Herald. arrived In the city last evening
a special and valuable edition OF his paper
will De issued In "A few days.
Mayor SturgIS and City MTshN Luke
| Moore went down 10 Bryan last night, To-
! be absent u day or two. The mayor Is
d. lrndnnt in "a law suit there, and the wpt.
shal IL "a witness.
NJ Tom Y. Mann and family, aud h,-
brorhtr Henry, len IN the Missouri l'wIi-
f. train Inst evening tor "A visit To their old
home, at Lebanon, Tennessee. they wi.I
be- gone month or two.
lion. Roger .. Mills writes to col H.
A Mrkrnnuy. nj this civ, say ing. Pleas,
have notice given that | VIII speak IN
Waco tuesday nj ht, October 10, loo2.
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The s.ntc-, IIig Drive.

II seems to lee the determination or
the grocer house NJ \. Jones rllur d
Bro. to occupy the very front muhs .
tar rrtul grocer business of the utg.
The lar drive consists % fine -ylrr-
tluu Of can, fruits, can meats, can iinh
and rhrosc, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, rnrnu,
coffee essences, tine natural tent japan
tea w. one pound rutstor~ most rlr.
gaut assortment 81 pickles On bulk aud
iu glass choice lHrlc red n.p.r- ut o.k
liity ceut, per bucket II m tine above
kind Of goods that the, sell AT pui-
form low price with their heavy ns-ort-
lard. hams, ouilpe, sugar, flour uuj corn.
They are second 90 non" 200 the 81 5. ir
sure and try thom, Ms. and > FEATHER
block.
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ILL.,
Improved Iron InylqOrato,

The mOstpcrlcct and Satisfaction
binalion knowH to the proI, .,i ~"
which iron is c mbin,d; and 81 S co,. !,
is the success OF tins prepalaiion ' " p
destined to become. Nithonr a da 'l'
most popul r OF ll the non ,o cJu
In use. And We hesitate not Ia M
that this medicine /, mo- secret po' ru
cheaply Cotton ~ comp unJ In, wv ~
genuine constitutional remedy ~
ing those Alternative powers .n ni "
to cuperttr and iuyi.uraie The h.,
system when broken down hv hat
disease commonly called, and L
known a. dyspepsIauud lniipestlo, I,
which ninr-tcnlhs Of n'l our m. ia
mate, because wien 'hD diy,.,io1 F,
paired from want OF the uaunI =,
is 40 important il the digestive e,o.
of man, then It is that hi, VlPgE 7,
many lype', II tIally called di.,sl..,-I
lassitudu aud sour stomach, wakett
mental exhaustion, Impaired ,in0tr ,
general prustraliun OF the Who, ia.
liver complaint, followed hv nigh,.s.
and all diseases ct tue 81 Don. LINN
NEY aud BLADDER. that produce, I
fearful aches known A. rheumati.n
ralgia, backache md ueryou. sBj
headache. Aud all ruusuapliy,
weak females, who me in search
good tonic to build up their cont.
cannot find, Wr honestly believes {,
ora more certain remedy Onalh
bottle is sufficient to prove Ia 1e
wonderful medicinal properties. a
regularly according 10 direction,
your druggist ior IMPROVED lRoy d
ORATOR, and he sure 20 take no
Price 81 per bottle Prepared oli
Tucker & Willis. Waco. Texas
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BI.N =. a.. SHAW
Resolutions f"~Sed by Ih"
Quarterly Conferences,

The following resolutions which cy.
plain themarltD,, were pu--od Monday
10y unanimous vote ~ the GA. trrlN
COniereur, ~ tho Waco district, NJ T..
Church South held in the Fifth street
Methodist Church. M tins city.
Whereas luy Euy J. u. Shaw has
served us .a our pastor for four years
last past, and by thr regulations u the
church must soon sever his connection
with M, and
Whercas, This It's the fourth quarterly
conference ~ our station for the present
term and oilru the last opportunity Tot
o1presslnguurup appreciation oi his worth,
Resolved, Tint M royiewi K MS labor
for the past four years va accord tin
an honesty ~ purpose, carnestness o
action and IL succcs- m execution, whicl
will leave their deep impressions upor
the hearts and .ges of those with whom
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EHHH.NnNyENTION.
CITY Democrats Decide for n
Free stuCC

The CITY drmucr tic convention, com
pos, i ~ full delegations from the i've
wards " the city met az Oh" court house
last might, according To- call "f tue chair.
man. Z. G. Smith, 90 ava appropriate hni
very Ecu.lIIe Address. .tutcd tHa object
nf the meeting aud coucl dci 10y sH ing
TINT he bad performed mis- duty, aud de-
clAriug tLe body ready for business. Mr..
A.. Curutu.r- was rluctA pc mtuent
chairman, and j. b. tiIlmsr and Il. II.
Kiug-blry. Jr.. -prrctBrIe- On motion
~ tH- J. Moore, Esq, the chairman OF
each W.fl WINS authorized to select
delegate from iu, ward 30 retire and de-
tcrmluu upon tue credentials NJ dele
gates and the hA-is NJ reprcsont ton,
The chairman az the wards -puudcd Ns
second ward, T.. =. MohruuuJ, thIrl
ward, Col. j. ". Sp.rht. fourth ward,
Bart Moore. fifth WAli, ia 20 j. +. DH.
VIA The committee retired aud the con.
ventiou at l,s .psp proceeded 10 Hiscuss
the matters and things upon which they
eut 10 dJsrmIu.. A'trr au absence "
ten minutes TIA. committee, us selected,
returned Wl made Ga, following report
Your committee uu cr,Icut Hl- and
husl- ~ rep-.- utguun be-. leave To- re-
port ag follows
wml SO. is entitled b. votes; No.
TO + vutue. Nu.3 iu l3 votes; no ! 10
3 vutra. and SO ta 1 votes.
", tuI wa.I So. J ha- tine following
accredited delegates ouu,l.i to vote, ~.
/ wit T. o. Nlu.u, - W. Mabrg W. W.
/ LmrmuullI Hut houriirr A. Alexander
! J. W. Patterson, j. H. Wiu.let ". Il.
Scarborough. H. Elton.
/ so q. I. 4. l.tu .lpUu9.,upor. \. Pow.
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huCo Politics.

After full investigation we find j, l.,
Barnes, the grOcerman, south side OF
Square, has come out before the people
"a q dependent candid t. to I'LL an uiiic,
he has long sought after, aud every us-
Hurance he will bc elected, aud is now
selling groceries ior cash at remarkably
low figures: Fine mackerel, FOR DE
-nrdines per quarter box, Zoe, pickles
ints, ljc; quarts, 20c hnlf "a Ion, Boo
one gallon, G0c, pure apple vinegar, =
to Doc per gallon, aud la mil line of wiuc'
aud liquors, cigars aud tuhaccos, and
other select grocer cs IN endless variety
The polls are open.-J2Gd3t
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he hns come in contact, ar they have nl'
ready rected enduring monuments TO
their memory in the temporal and ma
terial advancement oi the church.
Resolved, That Ia biz separation from
us we recognize that we J Sc q Jealous
Christian, an able preacher, sincere
brother, An honest and fearless lover of
truth and good citizen.
Resolved further, That the socrctury
be instruct. 4 to present to our Brother
Shaw copy OF these resolutions as %
mark Of our esteem and 10 spread them
upon the minutes OF this conference.
w. II. JACRaoE.
EUGESE NILLIAM5.
Waco, September 25, 1882.