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THE WEEKLY AGE,
MURDER.
the
Political Combinations.
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SAGACITY OF A HORSE.
army, whose home is second or third
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Who would have supposed that
guilty of such utter folly.
omy become insane, and
State sanitary and vital Statistic De-
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done.
Peter Simple.
Letter from Brownwood.
What the Grasshppers Have Dne.
A Horrible Crime.
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Charles Revere, a rich New Yorker,
spent $50,000 on a cyprian, and then
blew hjs brains out.
From Montgomery.
A Bill of Indictments Against the
Convention.
Morton and Hayes are talked of as
possible Republican candidates for
the Presidency by those who hope
that Grant can be beaten for the
nomination. They will not do. Mor-
ton is too weak in the lower story,
and Hayes is too weak in the upper.
—Cincinnati Inquirer.
The Mark ane Express predicts
higher prices in Europe for breadstufs
than have lately prevailed.
Jay Cooke’s collection of pictures,
which cost him $100,000, brought
$30,000 at auction.
A Hartford correspondent of the
Boston Globe, says Gideon Welles is
hale and hearty, and appears to bear
lightly his seventy odd years. He
lives in a delightful part of the city,
and is surrounded by all the comfort
and luxuries of life. /
house he came suddenly to the city,
i and entering his home late at night
I found the King and the Duke of
Sexto in the house; shot at the King,
1 but missed him, and was himself
• shot dead by the Duke of Sexto,
' who was behind him. The street
who has held many positions of trust The King and the Duke of Sexto
and honor in the State. Every old have been corrupting the wife and
Texan would know him were his only daughter of an officer in the
name used.
In the Vermont Journal of March
81, 1874, there was the following
epitadh on a lawyer :
Baneath this stone lies Robert Shaw,
Who followed forty years the law,
And when he died,
The devil cried,
“Ha! Bob ! give us your paw.”
door from Mr. Cushing’s. He was
in the North fighting, but hearing of
the King’s frequent visits at his
The Beecher Jury’s Petition.—
All of the scandal jurors except Ed-
ward Whelan, rich builder, petitioned
the King’s County Supervisors, yes-
terday, for extra pay for 124 days
they were detained from their busi-
ness. Certificates from Justice Neil-
son and Clerk Knacoel accompanied
the petition. The subject was not
reached before adjournment. Each
juryman received $248, and asks tor
$620 more, which will give them $7
a day for their work. The total sum
asked for is $6,820, which, if paid,
will make the cost of the cost of the
jury, excsive of the board, $9,890.
Several jurymen anxiously awaited
the action of the Board yesterday.
—N. Y. Sun.
Hays, the Arctic traveler, is run
ning against Tammany for the Leg-
islature. The climate at Albany is
warm enough for him.
Saturday morning of last week a
daughter of Joseph Griffeth, aged
16 or 17, living a few miles south of
Weatherford, in Parker county, came
before Esq. F. A. Leach and made
complaint that her father, for a year
past, has been guilty of a nameless
crime with her. He first approached
her, and when she peremptorily re-
fused to acceed to his unnatural pro-
position, he drew his knife and
threatened her life if she did not
Since then he has,- by threats of vio-
lence, intimidated her into submis-
sion and silence,
His wife and a younger sister, who
slept with the outraged daughter,
came to a knowledge of the fact, and
when remonstrated with by his wife,
he kicked her out of the house, and
threatened dire vengeance if it were
ever revealed, They took advantage
of his absence on a trip to Jack
county, and appeared before Esq. L.
with the above shocking story. A
warrant was placed in the hands of
Constable Hanby, who arrested him
as he passed through Weatherford
on his return from Jack county on
Sunday. Judge Hood promptly re-
assembled the Grand Jury, which
had adjourned, and they found a bill
against him. He is now in jail. He
has heretofore borne the character
of a hard working, honest man, but
the evidence leaves no doubt of his
guilt.— Weatherford Times,
Moody and Sankey.
Extraordinary Audience at
Montgomery, Oct. 30.
Dear Young Vigorous Age :
I see in your isssue the 21st your
Bill of Indictments against the Con-
vention for its folly in depriving us
of one of the chicfest means of the
wealth, prosperity and influence we
enjoy—the Immigration Bureau.
The great army of grasshoppers
that, during the last two years, has
been prowling over the Western
States, did great damage, no doubt.
They literally devoured every green
thing and left desolation behind
them; but it seems that they tried to
do some good, by way of payment
for their rations. The Missouri pa
pers say that in the tract of country
eaten up by them, new varieties of
very rich and nutritious grasses,never
heard of before, arespringing up and
covering the earth with a dense car-
pet. An exchange says:
The principal species is a green
bunch grass of luxuriant growth, cov’
ering the ground formerly yielding
nothing but blue grass. Cattle eat
the new species with avidity. It was
conjectured that the seed was brought
to the region and deposited by the
grasshopper swarms which laid their
eggs there last fall. Some definite
explanation of the phenomenon
would be interesting since it is not
known where the grass originally
grew or what may be expected of
it, if its growth continues in the fu-
ture. The grasshoppers may prove
a blessing yet.
PERSONAL.
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A Stranger Killed and Robbed.
The city of Baltimore itself deserves
much credit for the grand results that
have followed to her from the building
of this road ; for in her corporate capa-.
city, from time to time, she has contri-
buted to it till she holds some $2,000,000
of its stock.
We have referred to this railroad and
its results, not only as an interesting
statistical fact, but as an example worthy
the imitation of others It shows what
railroads can do when under the man-
agement of broad, liberal views, or
statesmanship, if so you choose to
call it.
A Bad Young King — Alfonso of I
Spain is Caught in a Horri-
ble Affair.
Mr. W. F. Gill, of Boston, possesses
the original MS. of Poe’s poem of
“The Bells.” The handwriting is
very handsome and as clear as print.
Bismarck is of the opinion that
German sailors are the best in the
world, and that their lives should
not be imperilled by unsea worthy
captains and vessels.
They killed so many fatted calves
and beeves at the late funeral of the
Khedive’s daughter that the bntchers
of Alexandria have since raised the
price of meat.
The celebrated heroine, Fanny
Lear, who last year influenced the
Czar’s nephew to steal for her his
mother’s diamonds, has just published
her memoirs in book form at Paris.
Rear-Admiral Goldsborough is
pictured as the perfect picture of a
jolly tar, seeming to belong to that
Shakspearian age suggestive of fat
capons. Ths admiral is, however,
dangerously ill at the, present time.
A pair of canaries last week made
the tri]) from Nebrask,to Richmond,
Va. They came by express, and, at-
tached to the cage, was a tag bearing
an appeal to passengers along the
route to care for them.
Miss Nannie Ficklen. of Fredericks-
burg, Va., has married Mr. Daniel E.
Lee, a nephew of Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Miss Ficklen was one of the belles of
the White Sulphur Springs, last sum-
mer.
Mrs. Robeson, the wife of the Sec-
retary of the Navy, while visiting
Baltimore, last week, lost a camel’s
hair shawl, valued at one thousand
dollars, by leaving it in a hired car-
riage.
One of Horace Greeley’s Od
Letters-
The Austin Statesman complains, and
very justly, too, that Commodore Mor-
gan has sixteen steamers that pay tax to
no State or country, though they ply
and make their thousands in Texas wa-
ters. His vessels, as registered, belong
to New York, but never see New York
after they leave the stocks. When a
Texan tax-gatherer boards one of the
steamers he is shown the New York
registration papers, and the New York
courts have liberated him. Could he
not be induced to claim Texas as his
domicil, and let some of his wealth clat-
ter in her coffers.—Sherman Register.
Our Houston tax-gatherers will be af-
ter the old man hot, about this time
next year.
(From the Dallas Commercial-)
A man named L. Frazer, from
Maysville, Kentucky, arrived at the
Lamar House yesterday. This morn-
ing he hired a horse from a livery
here, and started north prospecting.^-.^
He was found about eight miles
from here, shot, with two balls
through the left breast, above the
nipple. He was able to give the fol-
lowing account. When near the
ford of a small branch, near Mr. N.
M. H. Harper’s place, a man rode up
behind him and asked where he was
going, at the same time demanding
his money. He told him he wouldn’t
get it.
The man shot at him twice and he
returned the fire, but he cannot say
whether either of his bullets took
effect. He fell from his horse and
the robber took from him twenty-five
dollars in currency, overlooking a
belt he had around him with eighty
five dollars in it. His wounds caused
him to faint, and how long he lay
unconscious is not known. When he
came to, by superhuman exertion, he
mounted and rode about a quarter of
a mile, when he was met by two men,
but they passed him, not noticing
anything wrong. His horse, with
unusual sagacity, turned and followed
them. He was unable to cry out,
and but for the grip which stiffened
on the saddle would have fallen off.
When they got to Mr. Harper’s place
they saw he was wounded. The peo-
ple of the house took him in and •
hailed a Doctor McDowell, who was
just then passing. He examined
him and pronounced the wounds
mortal. Mr. Harper, by this time,
had returned from preaching. The
man was able to speak, and gave him -
directions what to do. He says he
was shot between ten and twelve
and some of the neighbors say they
heard the firing. He was not dis-
covered till two o’clock. Mr. Har-
per immediately came to town to
give the alarm and telegraph to his
mother, living in Germantown, Ky.,
and to a friend in Indiana.
It is a terrible affair—a peaceable
man, who came here to look out for
a home, to be murdered on the high-
way, in broad day light, in sound of
half a dozen occupied houses. We
sincerely hope that the murderer
will meet with swift and retributive
justice. Mr. Frazer says that he can
not give a better description of the
villain than that he was very dark
complected. It is thought the assail-
ant followed him from the city this
morning when he left.
Later.—The citizens of Dallas are
excited and their feelings outragod
by this attempted assination and rob-
bery. And if the murderer is caught
it is possible he will have a short
shrift and a long rope. The officials
of the county are putting forth every
effort for the arrest of the assassin.
Yesterday, Sheriff Barkley arrested
a man named Pat Dolan on suspicion,
but he proved an alibi and was re-
leased; he was an employee of the
T. & P. Railroad. The baggage of
the unfortunate man is at the Lamar,
and will be taken charge of by Major
Barkley, awaiting the arrival of his
relatives.
Latest.—We learn to-day tnat
hopes are entertained that Mr. Fra-
zer will recover.
A young lady of Paris was left at
homo the other day to mind the chil-
dren, while the good mother went
visiting. Shortly after this the chil-
dren began to cry and be very cross.
The. little miss becoming tired of this
annoyance thus inflicted upon her,
took down a flask of old Bourbon
and began sweeten toddies and dis-
tribute them around with a lavish-
ness fearful to behold. In short,
while the whole place glowed with
merriment, and such a Bacchanalian
feast as they had was never witnessed
before under that religious roof.
The little housekeeper says it didn’t
make the children quiet, but that
they laughed a great deal,—North
Texan.
Brooklyn Rink.
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Synopsis of the Proceedings—Enthu-
siasm Unparallelod.
New York, October 24. -The first of
the Moody and Sankey revival services
was held at the Brooklyn Rink Sunday,
commencing at 8:30 and Germinating at
10. Fully five thousand persons were
waiting for the doors to open, and when
the services commenced, the building
was filled throughout, Moody taking his
place on the rostrum at the edge of the
large platform containing a chorus of
250. He opened the services by an-
nouncing the hymn commencing “Re-
joice and be Glad, the Redeemer has
Come,” which was given with imposing
effect by the chorus and congregation
Rev. Dr. Cuddingtou then prayed at
considerable length and so fervently
that he deeply moved the people.
He prayed that the tribes of Israel were/
now assembled before the Lord, he would
signalize the acceptance of their hom
age and desire to glorify him, and that
the power of God would rest upon this
assemblage with grace in every heart,
for our country's sake and for the world ‘s !
sake. There were frequent moansand
calls of “amen” during the prayer. San
key then called on the people to sing
heartily hymn twenty-seven, “ Lord, 1
hear the Showers of Blessing.” The
singing by 10,000 voices Was magnifieent.
Sankey accompanied them on the har-
monicum, Moody next read from Num-
ber xiii. the account of sending spies o
the Promised Land, and discouraging
of people at the report of the stature
of the inhabitants. This was followed
by Sankey singing alone, “Hark, the
voice of Jesus crying, who will go to
work to-day ?” His voice is very power-
ful and pleasing, and the accounts of his
singing have not been exaggerated.
Moody then delivered a discourse on
the text read. He spoke in a con’ersa
tional way, sometimes humorous, some
times impassioned and always rapidly.
He insisted that God has his own time
for revivals, that the only obstacle to
them is unbelief within the Church. He
compared unbelievers and doubters to
terrified spies, and courageous believers
to Caleb and Joshua, who relied upon
the goodness and power of God The
time was come, he said, and if they only
willed they might go to take the prom-
ised land. Turning to Drs. Cuyler and
Buddington, he asked if they were
ready, and receiving hearty answers in
the affirmative, thanked God for Caleb
and Joshua. In conclusion, he advised
that all dissensions be abandoned, and
all Church Bazaars, and that every one
devote himself heartily to work. San-
key then sang “Only an armor-bearer.”
and the audience sang the chorus. It
was then announced that on every night
of the week, except Saturday, there
would be service at 7 o’clock, at the
Rink, and a morning prayer-meeting at
Talmage’s Tabernacle.
Among those on the platform were
Revs. Dr Cuyler. Dr. Duryea, Dr. Prime,
Rev Dr. Buddington, E. J. Hayoe,
A. S. Hunt, and Dr. Stuart, the last
named from Philadelphia. An after-
noon service was held at the Rink at 4
o’clock- The building was packed with
people, and at least 5000 who sought
were unable to gain admittance The
churches in the immediate neighborhood
had been thrown open, and Sankey vis-
ited them and sang. In the Rink there
was, as in the murning, a large gathere
ing of clergyman, among those on the
platform being Dr. Buddington, Rev.
Mr. Stuart, and Dr. Talmage. Services
were opened by the singing by Mr. San-
key of the hymn, “Ninety and Nine.”
Mr Moody then took his text from the
sixteenth verse of 1st Paul to the Corin-
thians : “I declare unto y u the gospel
delivered." A . very effective sermon
was preached, which moved the female
portion oi the audience to tears, and
was listened to very attentively by all
The services ended by the pronouncing
by Dr. Ingalls of the benediction.
partment. Of an Agricultural Bu-
reau ; to founding a State Institution
for the teaching andtraining of Teach-
ors. Fifty years ago Russia—barbar-
ous Russia had sixty institutions de-
voted solely to the teaching of teach-
ers, while refined and progressive
Texas ignores the benefit it would
derive from such institutions.
Some system of public education
worthy of our great State and peo-
ple, it is certainly a paramount duty
of the Convention to devise. Why,
half a dozen practical men could be
found in every county in the State,
who could frame a constitution that
would meet our wants. We might as
well adopt the ten commandments
and adjourn to our little beds, leav-
ing to others to do the things left un-
Brownwood, Brown Co., Texas, )
October 20, 1875. J
Dear Age—Thie section of our
great State has a peculiar fascination
to one who, long years ago, traveled
all over it, hence I could not resist
the temptation, and have traveled
out of my way to visit again this de-
lightful region. As many readers of
the Age may not have seen this live-
ly portion of our favored State, I
don’t think it will be out of place, in
this letter, to say that it is settling up
very fast, great numbers of immi-
grants are moving in, and of a class
that will build up and enrich any
country. Most of the old settlers
have been exclusively raising stock,
and the new ones coming in are
showing them how to farm. The land
is rich, well timbered, and water of
the finest kind in abundance. Brown
county has many fine, bold streams
running through it. Game is very
abundant, deer and wild turkeys can
be killed whenever you wish to go
out and hunt them.
The Age has found its way up
here, and the good people-say that it
is a lively sheet, and by working a
little you can get lots of subscribers
up here. What about ths Convention ?
It seems to take an awful time for
them to make a constitution. What
has become of the wise men from the
East, West, North and South part of
our States, are they all asleep ? We
want for this State a good system of
common schools, but from the looks
of things, we won’t get it. However,
if the Constitution don’t suit we can
vote it down. There is a good trade
up here, and yo Houston mer-
chants ought to wake up and watch
for it, R, Cotter & Co. of your city,
are working up the business up for
themselves, distributing printed mat-
ter and soliciting business, their
Sarsaparilla and Pills are taking
the lead and will soon drive
out of the country North-
ern made goods. Their Liniment
for stock, and also Horse and Cattle
Powders sell well.
I will write you again from the
frontier, and hope the Age may flour-
ish, and that your subscription list
may be doubled.
Yours on the tramp.
Wanderer.
the wisest and best representative police heard the pistol shots, and
men of the State would have been ‘ came running to the rescue, and
" ” It is econ- 1 were sent about their business. The
omy become insane, and evinces a body was given to a night watch-
penuriousness unworthy of ( rdinary man, who carried it nobody knows
intellgence. And then their ndif- ' where, and is now receiving, it is
ference to other pressing needs of the said, $400 a month. The maid ser-
country—to the urgent want of a vant, who was an eye witness of the
c--- -- ’ -1 cu n murder, disappeared the next day—
some say was assassinated. But she
Barbarous Russia and Progressive Texas, i A correspondent of the Boston
-- ' Journal, writing from Madrid tells a
- The following letter is from an terrible thing on Alfonso, if its true,
old Texan, a man of wealth, and one The facts appear to be as follows :
St. Louis, Oct. 29.
A Globe-Democrat reporter inter-
viewed the chairman of the railroad
Commissioners. In regard to the
rates prescribed by a law of the Mis-
souri Legislature for carrying passen-
gers and its effects upon railroads, he
said :
In some respects the law is defec-
tive. It could not be expected that
the Legislature could mature a per-
fect system at once, but several roads
of the State have conformed to it,
and are now carrying passengers and
freight at the rates prescribed by law.
In doing so they have greatly in-
creased their popularity with their
patrons. It is too soon, however, to
say what effects it will have upon the
earnings of these roads. My opinion
is that the rates fixed by the law do
not necessarily result in a diminution
of the receipts of the roads. I hap-
pen to know that the receipts of one
of the roads which is now operated
under the legal rates are ten or fifteen
per cent more than they were during
the same months of last year. That
road is very popular in the country
through which it runs.
R. If the. receipts are as much un-
der the new law as they were before,
what benefit do the people derive
from its enforcement ?
Mr. McIlhaney. Several, even
under this law, and many more
under a well considered law, some of
which I will mention. All agree
that labor and capital invested in so
important and useful an enterprise
as our railroads, ought to be remu-
nerative. It can be made so only by
levying a tariff on the commerce
that passes over them. But they
should practice no injustice in doing
it. We all submit to be taxed by the
Government, but if the"State should
tax one citizen fifty per cent, higher
than ruling rates, it would not be
tolerated for a moment. Yet some
of our railroad companies do this
habitually. It is not unfrequently
the case that they charge fifty per
cent, more for transporting freight
100 miles than they do for 250 miles;
and, indeed, the excess that the
shipper of the shorter distance is
charged, is often so great as to place
him at q gpet disadvantage, and up
in the market, while the shipper
from the greater distance will have a
profit. Now, one of the objects and
efforts of the law is to prevent such
unjust discrimination.
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If the Convention, on assembling,
had selected Flournoy, Stockdale,
Ferris and about a dozen others,
equally capable and honest, and com-
mitted to them the work of framing
a constitution, and the balance ad-
journed until the task was complete
and merely reassembled for the pur-
pose of approving it, we, no doubt,
would have received an instrument
more fitted to become the organic
law of Texas, and far more likely to
be ratified by the people, than the
one which will be submitted to them
for adoption.— Waco Reporter.
had had time to tell her lover.
When he found" she was disposed of
he hid himself for several days, but
venturing out at last was found dead
in the street, stabbed, one morning,
The judge before whom the case
of the first murder should have
come, being a man of more than
usual firmness of character, and hav-
ing a knowledge of the facts, was
determined that some kind of justice
should be done. Many flattering
official positions were offered him if
he would desist from his purpose,
which he sternly refused to do;
when suddenly one of the papers
announced that he has committed
suicide! The other papers do not
dare even to mention his death, or
to make any comments. And the
courts have taken no notice of the
whole business, though the story is
already repeated from Lisbon to
Barcelona. The mother and daugh-
ter have been privately hurried off
to Bayonne.
Already rhymes like the following
have been printed and circulated on
the streets:
En la* doctrina Christiana
Dice el quinto, no matar ;
Pero la gente Alfonsina,
Por miedo de no pecar,
Tiene un Septo que asesina.
Which literally is—
In the Christian doctrine
Says the 5th commandment, Do not kill,
But the Alfonsist gentry
For fear of not sinning,
Have a sixth : Do thou assassinate.
The pun on the Duke de Sexto’s
name is very telling, as the last line
may be also read in Spanish, “Have
a Sexto, who assassinates.”
I cannot vouch for the truthfulness
of all details of this horrible story.
But there seems to be no doubt that
the officer came home at night and
found Alphonso and the Duke de
Sexto in the company of his wife and
daughter; that he was shot by one
of them, and his body disposed of
secretly; that the maid servant and
her lover have suddenly disappeared
and the wife and daughter have been
secretly conveyed to Bayonne; that
the Judge died by violence; that there
has been no judicial investigation of
the villainy; that tnere is an intense
feeling in the community; that the
papers have been profoundly silent;
that several persons have been im-
prisoned for talking of the subject;
that Canovas del Castillo, the Prime
Minister, has resigned, and that a
rdical change has been made in the
Ministry in a liberal direction in the
hope of warding off a revolution.
The young King appears to be
going the way of his mother. As is
customary in Spain, those who sur-
round the sovereign try to govern
him by his passions. So, it is said,
Amadeo was ruined and the peace of
his family destroyed. They sow the
wind and reap the whirlwind. The
corruption in high places and in low
is appalling, From the crown of
the head to the sole of the foot there
is no soundness in them.
I may say to you that Tilden and
his friends are working night and
day to rebuke the Western inflation-
ists, and arc ready to make any cor-
rupt bargain to secure his selection
as the hard-money candidate of the
Democracy. The visit of Carl
Schurz to this city and his speech de-
livered the other night has a greater
significance than you or the public
attach to it. The truth is that
Schurz is there to meet Tilden’s hard-
money friends and arrange for a
ticket with the “Blond Dutchman”
as the associate with Tilden. Schurz
is, in consideration of being given the
nomination for Vice-President, pre-
pared to devote his time between
now and the assembling of the Con-
vention in “scotching” the inflation
party of the West. His fuglemen
from the West, who are here, declare
that with careful manipulation of the
Western press and a vigorous cam-
paign on the stump, Schurz can
strengthen the hard-money party in
the West and kill inflation. Among
the wire-pullers who have been here,
or who are now here, aiding in a
combination between Tilden and
Schurz, are Joe Pulitzer, Schurz’s
Managing Editor in St. Louis ; Stil-
son Hutchins, of the St. Louis Times,
and Colonel Grosvenor.
These plotters have been as busy as
beavers paving the way for a fusion
between the friends of Tilden and
Schurz, and you may look our for a
development of this little game ere
long. It is to give you warning of
what is being engineered that I
hastily indite this letter.—N. Y. Cor.
Cin, Enquirer.
The pith is knocked out of this, to
some extent, by th fact that Carl
Schurz is debarred by the Constitu-
tion of the United States from being
Vice President. For though he might
be constitutionally elected to that
office and hold it, in what condition
would the country be, in case the
President should die? Carl could
not succeed to him, and the Senate
could not elect a President. Wouldn’t
there be a legal “lapse” of the Pres-
dential office?
Mrs. Eldridge, of Norfolk, Conn.,
is to give a $1200 clock to the new
Yale chapel. Her husband was a
member of the Yale corporate.
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New York, July 24, 1857.—My D
Sir: Seeing in the Tribune the dath
of your sweet child, whom I so well
remember, impels me to write you a
word. I offer no consolation, and I
need not assure you of my sympathy.'
But you and your wife are still
young and hopeful, other children
will doubtless be lent ycu; and,
though you will never forget this
firstling of the flock, nor fail to re-
member her with a pensive and
chastened sadness, yet you will live
to realize, even in this state of being,
how wisely prescient and merciful
is/the chastisement which “smiles
bat to head.” /
/ Let me give you, in this connec-
tion, a leaf from my experience.
/ I have had seven children, of whom
five are gone. Of three sons none
survive, and two of them were re-
spectively five and a half and six
years of age when they were re-
claimed. I need not say how beau-
tiful and good they were—the early
called are always thus. When the
first of them died my youth ended.
I thought I could never be
sorely stricken thenceforth. Yet
in due time there came an-
other, not so delicate, so beautiful
so poetic; yet so loving, so tender, so
devoted to me, that I thought I had
never been understood before. I can-
not remember that during his six
year’s abode with us he even wished
to contravene my will.
I left, January 14, for that hard
Western tour, in brave spirits and
good general health. At Galesburg,
after leaving him in excellent health.
I heard no more till I reached Scran-
ton, Pa., on my way home, when a
telegram reached me, during my lec-
ture, stating that he was dangerously
ill of croup. I hastened home next
evening, only to find that he died an
hour before I arrived, after enduring
a severe operation and extreme suf-
fering. With him I breathed my last
earthly aspiration. I have two little
daughters,'one eight years old and
the other but four months, having
been born since his death, but they
are very different from and do not
replace him.
Did you not mean to see me this
season ? Kind regards to Mrs. —.
Yours, Horace Greeley.
Missouri Railroad Law
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