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Year: 1871

The most singular incident in
tie eventlui life Of SAM Houston,
and one never hitherto explained,
was his abandonment of the Gov
Iernorship OF Tennessee only three
days after marrying young wife.
He became a voluntary exile a.
Inong the Indians of the plaius
Ior years thereafter, was made a
great chief, and only reappeared
in public life when Texas was
struggling for independence. The
Galveston News lifts the veil from
The secret chamber Of Houston s
heart by this strange narrat on :
"What we know about this matter
is so honorable to him that we
shall. for the first time, put it in
print. We may premise that our
Information is derived indirectly
from one now deceased, who. du-
ring her lie, had a right to know
what caused that strange episode
in the life of the great man. Gov
ernor HouStons first bride was a
Tennessee belle of surprising beau
;ty, and of considerable social rank
She was, if not the affianced bride,
at least the sweetheart of a neigh
boring gentleman, when Governor
Houston sought her hand. Her
family being very ambitious, forced
the match. and she was married
After retiring to her bridal cham
ber, her department was such as
to cause him to suspect that while
her hand was his, her heart was
another's. She confessed the truth
heninterrogated, ,and while prom
ieiug fidelity and wifely duty, de-
clared herself unab e TO love him.
He at once retired from the house,
leaving his bride as pure and spot
less as ever. He then resigned
his position and went among the
ICamanches. In due cour e of
time the lady sought and obtained
a divorce"
Year: 1871

Miss Lillian Edgsrto who be
gan her lecturing career in Wor
cester about year ago, in her lee
ture on marriage and Divorce,
mentions the case of one Edward
Preston, who obtained from the
Connecticut Legislature, in order
that he might marry again, a bill
of divorce from his wife, who be-
came insane at the birth of bis
child. She says, and her audience
agrees with her, that the curse of
God would follow such a man. and
why not those who helped him to
have two living wives at once
A case to match this was men
toned by a Vermont Senator in
the debate on the divorce bill.
He said wife came to him to Sc.
cure his services as a lawyer to 0b
tain a divorce. 9


She was asked if she could al
lege adultery, abandonment, or ex
cessive severity, and she said "no. "
She owned that the reason for
asking for a divorce was that her
husband had fits. She was informed
that she could not get a divorce
for that cause and ought not to
have one. She left, and at the
next court a lawyer presented her,
petition fora divorce on the ground
Of intolerable severity, covering
the very period concerning which
she had before admitted that she
had no such complaint to bring.
Her petition was supported b
manufactured testimony in the
shape OF affidavits, and her divorce
was granted in less than FIVE min.
utes.
Year: 1871

Ten or twelve years ago the
people in Massachusetts and Con-
necticut were in the habit of keep
ing up a perpetual howl against
slavery. One of their chiel argu-
ments against it was, very proper
Iy, that it was cruel to sell negroes
and thereby break up and sepa-
rate families forever brother from
sister and p rent from child. But,
in these very two States more fam
lies of intelligent white people
have been disrupted during the
past FIVE years, by granting di-
vorces without sufficient cause,
than ever occurred.In any part of
the Southern States in ten years.
While they were continually cry
ing out against separating members
of families as crime, the same
evil existed in a greater degree in
their midst.
Year: 1871

Ii is sad time Just now for
many who depend upon their sal
aries for the support of them
eeIves and families. So many
men are thrown out Of employ
ment because the times are so
dull; their services are not needed
in stores and workshops. But
some men and boys are always
retained. Do you know who are
the fortunate ones? They are
those who are nost useful TO their
employers-those. who do their
work the most thoroughly. and
are the most obliging aud econo-
mical.


Those young men who watch
the time to see the very second
their working hours is up-who
leave, no matter what state work
may be IN, at precisely the instant
who calculate tie eX'ra amount
they can sight their work and
yet not get reproved who are
lavish of their employers goods,
will always be the first to receive
notice thar times are dull, and
their services are not required


Whatever Jour situation, lay It
down as foundation rule, that you
will be ''taithful ia that which is
least" Pick up the loose nails.
bits of twine, clean Wrapping
paper. and pnt them in their pia.
ces. Be ready 10 throw in an odd
half hour, or hours time when il
will be an accommodation, and
don't seem to make merit of it
Do it heartily. If not word is
said, be sure your employer makes
a note of it. Make yourself In
dispensable to him, and he will
lose many of the opposite kind
before he will part with you
Presbyterian.
Year: 1871

The GAINESVILLE Gazette relates
the following: "a young. lady
was walking rapidly UP Miiwau-
kee street This forenoon with a
spool of thread in her pocket In
pulling her handkerchief hurried
ly from her pocket TO make Use
oil it in flirting with q tall gentle
man across the street, loose end
came with it and was caught on
one of the splinters of hitching-
post. The young lady spedarapid-
ly onward, happy in her innocent
little Irritation, unconscious that
the spool in her pocket was pay
ing out thread at little less
than ten rods minute. She beat
the time of the Great Eastern with
the Atlantic cable. At the Jack
son street crossing horse became
entangled in the thread, which
reused the lady to a Consciousness
that something about her was un-
raveling. The Lnruly cord was
quickly broken off close to the
spool. and the victim of the un-
windings got out of sight as quick
ly as p ssible. Ii is supposed that
she was endeavoriug to get the tall
gentleman on the string"
Year: 1871




Within the old home looking glass,
Another face see
Than the one that forty years ago
Looked laughingly at me.
The eyes are somewhat DINNER now,
The cheeks have lost their glow
That spake the flush of health and youth
Some Forty Years Ago.
Is this the boy of bygone years
This old and wTinkled form
Who thought, with all youths careless
ease, e
To take the world by storm
Is this the head, white with the flakes
OF Ages falling snow,
That shone with wealth Of golden curls
Some Forty Years Ago?
How rich in happy ignorance
Of the great worlds care and strife,
When climbing with high heart and hope
The sunny slopes of life!
Now, standing near the mountain top,
The green wales stretch below
Where once Iroamed with happy mates
Some Forty Years Ago.
But up the steep and toilsome path,
With hearts and hands together,
Some dear old friends still climb with me
Through fair and stormy weather.
Others have fallen by my side,
And rest in peace below
How changed the faces that knew
Some Forty Years Ago.
Year: 1871

NICE POINT OF LAw.-Last
summer a poor old clergyman
and his housekeeper to whom
he had bequeathed quite. large
legacy, were murdered at Chel-
sea, near London. A '"nice
point" has arisen in administer
ing his estate. The question is,
which was murdered first? In
the case Of the servant dying
before the testator her legacy
would have laPsed, while in the
other event it would fall to. her
legal representative.
Year: 1871




Reality is too real. Only prosy, mat
ter. of fact minds seek for real things
1t is for the most part the unreal that
makes life enjoyable. Deprive man of
all the illusions and delusions of life,
and he would be but little more than
clod of organized earth 1t requires
the threefold kingdoms of illusions,
delusion and reality to enable the hu>
man mind to iform noble conceptions.
There must be imagination to picture,
delusion to sharpen judgment, and re-
ality to furnish elements for combina>
tions Active minds soon tire of the
real things of life, and learn to live
much in the pure regions of the ideal.
As a tree or plant only wants just
enough of earth to keep it up and brace
it upright, so the mental organism
wants only enough of the material to
make secure anchorage; to be able to
touch bottom is all that is necessary.


The human mind delights in illu-
sion, bnt abhors delusion. Illusion
is merely an unreal image, pre-
scented to the bodily or mental vision,
and known at the time to be un-
real as. for example, painting con-
tanning sleeping beauty, a winding
stream, a clump of trees, setting sun
and an evening SKY. Not one of these,
nor yet the whole, will ever be mistaken
for what they are not, and yet they
may produce all the real emotions
of real sleeping beauty seen upon
the bank of a clear winding stream,
beneath the shade of clump of trees,
at evening when the sun is setting.
But let Wall Street sharper build a
house of paper in exact imitation of
brick and brown stone, and sell the
same TO some confident Miss Nancy,
under the impression that she is get
ting substantial palace, and when she
discovers the cheat, there is manifest
delusion. The pleasing object that
allures and delights il source Of un-
bounded qualification while the snowy
imitation that deceives, is source Of
unbounded disgust and adherence.


Now, Notwithstanding all the cry
that is made against illusions and delu'
slons, notwithstanding all the eager
search and longing for the true and the
real, still very much of life is made uF
of illusion, and by far the greater part
.ofall the enjoyment and all the good
all the permanent good that is, comes
by and through some form of illusion
Life begins almost with illusion. Th'
mother Who wants her child to be
good child, secures good actions b!
some promised reward. 1t may b.
sugar plums, if the child has learned Il
like these. Here is twofold illusion
The child's illusion ia the sugar plum
to its little mind sweet and all absorb
ing object that keeps expectation OF
tiptoe the mothers illusion is the in
terval of quiet and good behaviour
which she seeks to prolong as much a
possible, SO as to make good invest
ment Of her rewards. The real aim o
the mother, if she is wise, is to develol
and strengthen habit of decent obedi
ence in her offspring if she is short
sighted and unwise, she only makes


business transaction, with no eye to
Year: 1871

DAMP CHURcHEs.-Tt is surprising,
at this season of the year, when most
people are affected by atmospheric
changes, the apathy or indifference
which exists in country places of having
the damp, sepulchral air of churches,
locked up during the six days of the
week, improved by heating before the
congregation assemblies. We have
known persons predisposed to thoracic
affections, suffer severely by sitting in
cold churches throughout the morning
service. All we can say is, that when
the temperature and condition Of the
atmosphere of churches are neglected,
it is an essential of great moment over
looked. and that persons coming to
worship are thereby made to suffer, not
through any incaution on their part.
but owing to utter carelessness on the
part of those who should know better.
Our remark will meet. it is hoped, with
the attention which the importance OF
the subject demands.
Year: 1871

As to compulsory education In Ger
many. the police officers Of the. commune
keen list of all the children who have
arrived ag school age. This lis; is put
into the hands of the school board.
which now becomes responsible for the
attendance of all these marked in the
register. The master of the school pre-
pafes periodically list of absentees who
are ''unexcused, and IL then becomes a
duty of the board to call upon the par
ents OF guardians of each child and ad :
mopish them. If tie offence is repeated.
the name of the child is communicated
to the police, and the offended parent is
mulcted in small 6ne for each days
absence. non payment being followed by
imprisonment In Berlin and other
towns where the school board has more
control over the school, a committee of
the board assesses and collects the fine
subject to the right of appeal by the de-
liuquent to the magistrate. In Wur
temburg. the nnexcused absences are
rare; and in Saxony hardly a child we
are told, is overlooked. Here. the days
the child is absent from school are re
corded, and have been made good under
pain of the refusal of the rite of eonir
nation at the expiration of the eight
yeaTs term of schooling.
Year: 1871

ing and were favorably received by Baez.
Mr.. Wade explained the character Of their
object. Baez and cabinet gave cordial vel
come. Baez said peace and stable govern,
ment would follow a union with the United
States. The people were all anxious for
union Cabral had no DOminicans with him.
The forces he was supposed to command were
Haytiens, and Hayti was the real mover In
the whole matter. He had information
that an incursiOn was to be made while the
commission was here, to influence them,
and from his agents had learned the whole
movement He expressed hope that the
commissioners would examine all classes,
and promised to extend every facility.


Five of the party came across the island
from SANTANA to this place. The commits
sion find no appearance Of public disturb
ances or d;ssensiDns.


The season is very healthy.


The officers and crew OF the United States
steamers Tennessee, Nantucket and Yantic,
now in this harbor, are all we'll


The commission will be here week
longer, and will probably visit Aqua next
week. Stories Of trouble there are untrue.
The commission intends to start home IN
about four weeks


Baez has agreed to give safe conduct to
Cabral or any of his officers to come here
and meet the commission, and messengers
will be dispatched at once.
Year: 1871

denounce the management of the
chief custom-house of the country as
corrupt and dishonest beyond all pre-
cedent, and testify under oath to dali
ly outrages and to q system of organ
lied plumber imposed upon them OF
which it is impossible that the Secre-
tary of the Treasury should be igno-
rant.


To leave this perilous state of the
Treasury to the supervision of the
Secretary under whom it has come to
pass is to acquiesce in and to make 1t
incurable. The Secretary of the
Treasury is making political speeches
beyond the Alleghanies, and his chief
subordinates are junketing in the Old
World. The President encourages
these absentees by his own example.
1t is not by funetionaries themselves
SO destitute of any proper sense of re-
sponsibility or of duty that response
bility can be exactly tracked home to
all parts of the government machine
or duty enforced upon any of those
by whom it is worked.


The disease and the danger are ma
tional, and they demand the remedy
of a national investigation. Will the
organs of the Federal government act
with us to secure this remedy? -'t
Year: 1871

The deacon was not very much be-
hind, if the following story be true
In small town on the Schuylkill riv-
er, there is a church in which the
singing had run down. 1t had been
led many years by one of the deacons
whose voice and musical powers had
beed failing. One evening the cler-
gyman gave out the hymn, which was
in an odd measure, rather harder than
usual, and the deacon led off. Upon
its conclusion the minister rose and
said: f.t.-,,
Brother B-wiIl please repeat the
hymn, as 1 cannot pray after such
singing. a-I " -lagr


The deacon very composedly pitch
ed into another tune, and the clergy
man proceeded with his prayer
Having finished he took up the book
to give out the second hymn, when he
was interrupted by the deacon gravely
getting up and in voice audible to
the whole congregation said:


"Will Mr.-make another prayer?
1t would be impossible for me to sing
after such prayer as thatl'
Year: 1871

Mildewed linen may be restored by
soaping the spots, and while wet, Gov.
| ering them with fine chalk scraped to
powder and well rubbed in. -.....,.,.
To prevent bread from drying keer
a wet cloth around the loaf that is be-
ing cut from, and wet every time af:
ter meal. This will keep the bread
in fresh state. .-.--. ..i, 3


To remove the stain on spoons
caused by using them for boiled eggs,
take little common salt, moisten be-
tween the thumb and finger and
briskly rub the stain, which will soon
disappear. i


A simple mode of keeping butter
in warm weather, when ice is not
handy, is to invert common flower
pot over the butter, with some water
in the dish in which it is laid. The
orifice at the bottom may be corked
up or not. The porousness of the
earthen-ware will keep the butter cool.


Canary birds are sometimes covered
with lice, which cause ill-health and
sometimes death. They can be effec-
tually relieved of them by placing q
clean white cloth over their cage at
night. In the morning it will be COW
cred with small red spots, SO small as
hardly to be seen, except by the aid
of a glass; these are the lice, a source
of great annoyance to the birds. III


To clean tin covers get the finest
whiting; mix little of it powdered
with the least drop of sweet oil, rub
the covers we'll with it, and wipe
them clean; then dust over them
some dry whiting in muslin bag,
and rub bright with dry leather. This
last is to prevent rust, which the cook
must guard against by wiping them
dry and putting them by the fire when
they come from the dining room, for
if but once hung up damp, the inside
will rust. ,.-.- .-.....-... -.
Year: 1871

THE wife of blacksmith in Lynn
vile, ILL.,, was recently stung by q
honey bee, while picking apples in the
orchard, and died from the effects of
the sting in about 10 minutes after GO
ing to her room. The poison took eff
feet so rapidly that the head was
swollen to twice ls natural size in less
than an hour, and on the following
day the whole body presented the APP
pearance of being in the last stage of
decomposition.
Year: 1871

A CERTAIN young gentleman while
riding out with a lady a few days
since was suddenly reminded by her
that he was on the left side of theive-
hicle instead of the right as is usual.
The Intelligent youth in order to cor
rect his mistake Immediately turned
the horse and buggy completely
around and drove in the opposite di-
rection. -..---LL u \. .-nL1ls.L.L
Year: 1871

SUGGESTION ABOUT WEAK EYEs.A
Avoid using them when the nusez be-
gins to give pain; let them have rest.
Bathe weak eyes in tepid water. Don't
use weak eyes by an artificial light
Ii the eyes are MATTED together after
sleeping, the most instantaneous and
agreeable solvent in nature is the ap-
plication of the SALIVA with the finger
before opening the eye. Never pick
it off with the finger nail, but wash it
off with the ball of the fingers in quite
warm water.
Year: 1871

A GOOD way to get sick is TO go
shopping every day in the week, sat
ice cream and cakes for dinner, drink
strong tea for supper to strengthen
the nerves, and fret the balance of the
time because you haven't sufficient
means to buy all the fancy articles
diSnlaYed. no. - IN aaiIr.I 10
Year: 1871

The Ga'ary and Mark Twain are about
to terminate their contract for a specific
quantity OF dismally funny matter delivera-
bic monthly by the latter. Periodical extracts
Almanac would be cheerful substitute.
Year: 1871

It will be seen by the Supervisor's IS proceedings that Sanford is aspiring to municipal honors, and we think it will finally be developed that long since, the land on which the town rests was filed upon by pre-emptors, and that if the town be organized it will be upon land belonging to the indi- vidual who in the judgment of the Land Office has the superior right to it as a pre-emptor.

 Individually we have not the slight est care how this matter ends, but deem N not out of place to throw out these hints for whatever they may be worth. Suppose 4 patent should issue, as is quite probable at any time, to the ap- plicant or applicants for the land upon which Sanford stands, will it not be in the power of the patentee to eject the oc- cupants ! or dictate the terms of their occupation
Year: 1871

ESCAPED.-On Tuesday last, while at work on the streets under the charge of Deputy Sheriff Samuel Raglon, T. w.. Jones made his escape and has not been heard of since. He was permitted to go for pail of water to a well back of Lee & Scotts Touring mill, entirely out of an hours absence he was looked after but not found The escape of this man is at tributable to inexcusable carelessness, to say the least of it. The prisoner Jones was convicted last March of an attempt to poison the Station keepers and board CTS at Gila Bend Station, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for ten years He is bad man and deserved his full sentence.
Year: 1871

A "GENTE FINA" ball is being cooked up to come off about the 10th instant

 The report that gextlemen can only appear in swallow tail coats may not be well founded, and if true will not work we'll

 A gentleman who usually takes full hand at parties says if this rule is enforced he cannot be present, as he says it has been twenty years since he adorned his person with a claw-hammer, and he fears to do so now would create liability to take cold a risk not to be taken for an evenings pleasure. We only throw out this hint for the benefit of the party which we earnestly hope will be a brilliant success.
Year: 1871

Let the day come wet, or come it dry,
'Moug lifes gay flowers lpi butterfly
And lif.'s to me one ceaSeless charm,
For the blood of youth still keeps me warm,
ind I'm sweet sixteen ripe as peach
Swinging ON limb. Will anybody reach


For me
No wealth have at my command,
But million would not buy this hand;
That is, it would not buy FOR you,
Unless TO mine our heart were true.
: y. I'm sweet sixteen, ripe as prach
Swinging on limb. W;lianybody reach


For me-
And If for yours my name change,
Your business you must so arrange
That the Lodge" will not take all your time
But punctual coms at halfpa nine
To your sweet sixteen, ripe as peach
Swinging on limb. viii anybody reach


For me- 7
Year: 1871

Tie who thinks better Of his neigh
bors than they deserve cannot be bad
man, for the standard by which his
Judgment is formed is the goodness OF
ms heart. 1t Is the base only who
believe all men base, or in other words
ike themselves. Few, however, are
all evil. Even Nero dil good turn to
somebody, for when Rome was rejoicing
over his death, some loving hand COW
cred his grave with flowers. Public
men are seldom or never fairly judged,
at least while living, However pure,


they cannot escape calumny; however


Incorrect, they are sure to find euIo'
gists. History may do them justice
! but they rarely get it while alive, elthc
\ from friend or foe.
Year: 1871

to be instantly ana forever iols


Yetit is equally amazing how lais
class seem to have no other business.
but to repeat and perpetuate these very
things. That is the vocation of gos-
sips-an order Of society that perpetu-
ates more mischief than all the com.
bined plaques of Egypt put together.
You may have noticed how many
speeches there are which become mis-
chievous only by being heard a second
time, and what an army of both sexes
are sworn to see to it that the fatal rep
etition shall be had. Blessed be that
man or woman who can let drop all
the burrs and thistles, instead OF pick
ing them and fastening them on topas-
sengers Would we only let the vex>


ing and malicious sayings die, how fast


the lacerated and scandal ridden world


would get healed and tranquilized!