The Bellville Countryman (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 37, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 10, 1865 Page: 2 of 2
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COUNTRYMAN.
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BtBflllt, Autia County, Tem
JUNE 10, 1865.
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Cawi datjm.—There are bow
several candidates for Governor be
fore the people. We shall not
troaMe Ourielves to announce their
Mum until we receive pay for so
doing- Our charges for announcing
candidates for State and District
offices and printing tickets for this
county are ten Dollars, specie, tf.
As the mails have ceased,
subscribers will call for the Country-
man at our office, whenever they
come to Town.
IW We refer to the advertisement
of the "City Blacksmith Í3hop." We
are acquainted with these young
men, atid hftVe no doubt their dili
gence, industry and skill will pro-
cure them plénty of work. Try
them. ; *
GT There is yet no candidate in
this county for the convention called
by Gqv. Murrah. There is, like-
wise, no candidate in this county for
the Legislature, for Governor, or any
other office. We are therefore in a
good condition for the "new order of
things."
fy Brother Flake of the Bulletin
hfts made his confession. We grant
him absolution. Perhaps we may
make our confession and erect onr
platform before long. It is said by
some, that "If our fore-sights were as
good as out hind-sights, wo would
be much more successful in the
world."
cr We eould issue a full sheet
now if we bad sufficient printing
help: but we have not, and are not
able to employ any at present. We
are entirely out of meahs, and receive
no money now for either subscription,
advertising or job Work. We had
hoped to rwelve n li t tle money during
the past Week, but not n dime has
found its way to onr pockets, while
ev«*y dime we had there has found
it« way ont. Wotnler.1 if somebody
vroti't help us: an editor feels much
better With even n little money in
his pocket.
N. B. We don't take the New
Issue.
Exckbdinulv hot, very hot, hotf
hotter, hottest. The Sun now is
giving ns some specimens of his calo-
rifying skills (We have forgotten
aH the big words we learned and
used when we were preparing for
college.). We have no thermometer
or we could tell how hot' the weatjber
is. Well, it's hot enough sure. It
was'proposed to get a thermometer
some years ago and place it in the
hall of the Court House for the ac-
commodation of the citizens and piib-
Qc generally; but Elijah, who was
present, said we would, all want to lie
tUien on it at once. .That settled the
The thermometer was
nfrer
TtffS
GT Quietness geaerally prevails
throughout this county now. We
Jboar.of no farther disturbances of
blicor private. Aliare
ily for something to
hermaiden'amnt.
Wbtoer than db
« Widower wtoh
turn up.
Z
an 7
iy Business will we hope soon
be revived aud the country be pros-
P*oua again.- A great many . who
have been unable to labor hitherto,
on account of rheumatism, consump-
tion, sow legs, weft éyes, dropsical
f&ctions, myopia, spinal obstruction*,
epilepsy, hydropathy, constitutional
debility, and many others who were
not very well themselves, are now
recovering their health more rapidly
than at any previous period in the
past four years. Suppose it is the
hot, dry weather that has such re-
cuperative power. Others have had
no time to devote themselves to ac-
tive business, having had to devote
nearly their entire time to the duties
of their offices such as Justices of
the Peace, Constables and Coroners,
etc. These being relieved from these
duties now, will be enabled to con-
tribute their portion to the active
business of the country. Another
clasB have been devils, editors and
pressmen in newspaper offices; others
have been mail contractors; otherB
have been compelled to personally
oversee fifteen niggers, sometimes
splicing some little ones together to
make a sufficieut number. All these,
and many others, will now be able to
enter into active business, change
their callings, make themselves useful
to their fellow citizeus It is aston-
ishing what an influence hot weather
has upon the people. If we could
get some rain, the effects, would
probably be more visibly increased.
Well, We'd as well laugh as to cry.
Singing often makes the heart merry.
So
"Get out of the way there, old Dan
Tucker,
"You're too late to carry me back
"To old Viiginny, to old Virgiuny's
shore."
ty Many in this county will
join with us in feelings of sympa-
thy and condolence for Col. J. W.
Barnes of Anderson. lie has lately
met with a sad bereavement. His
only remaining son, Mark, cged
about 17 years, died recently at
Houston, at the residence of Capt.
A. S. Richardson. Ho was a spright-
ly lad. Wb remember him well.
If there be any loss to a fnnd parent
more bitter, or imparting a greater
feeling of anguish than another, it
seems to us that it is in the loss of an
only son. God alone can heal the
wound? iu thu hearts of his parents.
They are greatly comforted by the
assurance that lie died in the Chris-
tian's faith, and in tho hopes of the
Gospel. *
Harrisburq, April 26.-It is repor-
ted in official circles that the District
Attorney of Franklin county will
bring before the grand jury of the
Court soon to convene in that county
bills of indictment againt General
McCausland, Harry Gill mor, and
other l6ading rebels, for, levying
war upon the inhabitants of Franklin
county, for milage, arsonand juurder.
There can be no doubt but that true
bills will be fouod, when Governor
Curtin will immediately demand
the wretches thus indicted from the
Governor of Virginia for trial in
Pennsylvania. Before the proposed
action of the District Attorney of
Franklin county was known, it was
contemplated by the Executive of
Pennsylvania to make a formal de-
mand for WcC*u*land and Gillmor.
This aótlon is now postponed to
await this result of the proceedings
before a Franklin county grand jury.
Court.—Judge Smith failed to
codrt here last week. We pre-,
that, owing to the change in
ilie governmental affairs of the State,
he deemed it nseless to enter dp
jUdgtpMu and decrees which. would
le attended on
and then dis-
horn*..
MY LITTLE NED AND I.
V
hy o*. w. 11. iiolcombe.
's d<*ad a:
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Ofl
My little pkjyitaate'i
I gave niw ibany a teu,. ,
A merry little negro boW <
Just twelve years old this year.
Alas! that on my childhood's heart
8o great a grief should lie !
We'll no more play, by night or day.
My little Nea audi!
.1. • .. • ¡ ' V«HKK'.
He was my shadow where I went
Subservient to my will,
Bat w:tli enduring gentleness,
He made me gentler still.
We olimb'd the trees, we Haridg'd the
brook, **
We chased the butterfly ;
We'll no more play, by night or day,
My little Nea and I.
I knew, when he became so ill,
His little soul would go,
Although my mother nursed him well,
And the doctor 6aid, "Oh no !"
For I had dreamed I saw hit face
Look smjling from the sky;
We'll no more play, by night or day,
My little Ned and I!
I heard him talking to himself
About the children fair,
With spangled dresses, all so fine.
Who played around him there;
Hewhisperedlow,and promised then
a
To join them by and by ;
Ie'll no more play, b
My little Ned and
We'll no more play, by night or day,
That long, long night we watched
his death,
The dogs howled at tho doori
The^bwls cried from the forest tree
A hundred times or more ;
My mother closet! his glaring eyes,
Whilst I stood sobbing by;
We'll no more play, by night or day
My little Ned and'l !
A clergyman and one of his elderly
parishioners were walking home from
church one; frosty day lately, when
the old gentleman slipped and fell
flat on his back. The ministef,
looking at him a moment and being
assured that he was not much hurt,
said to him, "Friend; sinners stand
on slippery places." The old gentle-
man looked up, as if to assure him-
self of the fact, and said : "I see
they do ; but I can't." *
MAILS IN T1 iiT^TRANS-MISS-
1SS1PPI DEPARTMENT.
Aobncv P. O. Dfer't Tn. Miss. j
Marshall, Texas, May 18, '65. {
The condition of the currency aud
tho country calls for voluntary aid
from individuals to those who are
engaged in furnishing postal facilities
west of the Mississippi river.
The public mails are for tho benefit
of the whole people, and in this emer-
gency the citizens should contribute
for the their support.
I am convinced that with reasona-
ble liberality, on the part of the
public towards postmasters and per-
sons engaged in mail transporta-
tion, manifested by local subscrip
tionB in towns nnd communities
where mails are ree'd and delivered,
mail servico on all important routes
will be continued.
The Governors of the several States
have been applied to for assistance
and it is hoped they will commend
the subject to the favorable consid-
eration of the several State Legisla
tures. But, in the meantime, it be-
comes the people to act for them-
selves.
The Agency is sending out a full
supply of blanks and stamps to all
post Offices tequiling, them.
JAS. fl. STARR,
Agent P. 0. Dept. Tr. Miss.
A Federal newspaper says:
lite Now President of the United
States is in the fifty-sixth year of
his age. His family consisfeiug at
present of his wife, two sons, antjl
two daughters, ore residing in Nash-
ville, having been driven hrom th/slr
bornes ins East TeoMMMv Charles
Johnson, a third sob; while acting ail
surgeon in the' áríty
from his horse
Hlujimi ~ '
THE WAY TO
SOH
Many teachers
G0VER1
)L.
a Do you tninx tn
! heálthy !—"Yes; I
t, the feacher runs in
of constantly calling for "no more
" AW avi
Do yon think
Ithy T
«omplain of
fey life."*
whispering," or exclaiming
let
irlliru BUD) Williw UCMUg on
tho áréfcy 'WalJ thrown
; I Ht{t J l*J< ( «
"don't
you let me see you whispering again
tp day." They had not created the
ifnpression that whispering was aB
disallowable as loud talk wtmld be,
and the consequence was that it^got
to bo considered an offence to be
constantly talked about or scolded
at. with no expectation on the, part
of the teacher that the difficulty
would be overcome. Tho distur-
bance thus created by the teacher
was greater than that which he at-
tempted to quiet. .He who at the
middle of a term is striving to sup.
press whispering, as a general fault
of/his school, is wanting in the
general attributes of a good govern-
ing teacher. Decision at the out-
set, and a determination expressed
in a few but firm words, will break
up this grievous habit, which is the
great fault of our schools. It was
painful to witness the annoyance of
some teachers, occasioned by dif-
ficulties of sometimes a slight nature.
At such times confusion seemed to
rise up in all quarters. The pupils
should never witness any manifesta-
tions of annoyance on the part of the
teacher. It may be difficult to sup-
press all signs of such disquiet
from tl^e countenance, or all
markB of it in the deportment, but
that teacher who can do it is sure of
the highest success. On the other
hand, the teacher who is continually
exhibiting uneasiness and fretfiilness,
is sore to win the disrespect of all
under his care. In some schools no
care is taken to secure quiet move-
ments about the school-room, or
when passing in or out. Yet in some
few instances, when the noise be-
came too boisterous to he endured at
all, then was the command given to
"let the noise stop * in the house
or the tencher perhaps would pass
into the entry, at recess, and demand
of the wrestlers to go out doors to
scuffle. Such things at the middle
of a term bIiow an entire lack of
authority, or a remissness in express-'
ing it. Sometimes whole classes
would rush at once to the middle of
the floor, the teacher constantly
calling out "come still I" How un-
fortunate that so many teachers aré
unacquainted with the easier and
better way of first learning the
school to move with order and still-
ness, never allowing any rudeness or
boisterousness from the beginning.
The soft and easy step of a boy from a
seat to the desk of the .teacher, will
do much to create a hush throughout
the room. One other great fault
must not be passed over—allowing
scholars to go over a large extent of
surface in the branches they pureue,
so that 'they hardly know' more "t
the close of the school, than at the
beginning. We noticed some classes
in arithmetic, who reported them
selves as having.gohe through, that
were utterly unable to perform gen
eral examples in common, fractions.
Many classes failed when called to
go back to the fundamental princi-
ple* of the science, The reaeoá of
this, we thinki lies in not requiring
scholar's to learn one thing at a time,
and tobe ablet to answer all que*
tions relating thereto, without any
aid. from, the teacher. We Often
remarked upon the absnidity of the
scholar's Baying he had been through
the arithmetic* two, three Or
times. When he is through 'he
ought 40 be master of it. Wo found
that ina great many cases' the de-
monstrations at the black-board were
given hy the teapbeT alone. This is
wrong. The pupil should he
quired to make ato earnest
and alifayls repeat thé demonstration
given by* the téaclkr. In this way
liter'thin by silent meditation is
e habit, of ^concentrated thought
cnltlfate^ }n &e youthful mind. To
utter word acquires him to think,
whin thofeVoi^s are dniwp from
hill ©W£ Mtfotutafe.'
Thy poft tenderhearted man we
w ^ oí wm 4 4ioaMksfhfflrba
always shut Ifrsyss and irMttMl
when h* run his awl lot# + s*ls.
The undersigned have eats!
Blacksmith Shop in Bellvilll,
West from the Court Hóum, WTi
hope to receive ashasaofihs _
ronage. AH kinds of work la
will Be done with neatneli aud dispatch.
Farming tools and utensils made and re-
paired ¡ wagons and buggiea will be ilO«|Sa,
repaired ana painted as desired. Parsons,
getting work done at this shop, w
delayed as short a time as possible1.
prices of work will not exceed
charged in I860.
W. J. DA:
GRATI8 PI!
Bellville. June 10, 1866. e36-tf.
Committed < "
TO the Jail of Austin cdtnty about tM-
10 It t., as a runaway slave a ae#po.
calling
longs
River
calling himself George, and says
' Massingale on Little
be j| |0
to Alfred Massingale on Lit"
ver in Milam county. Bald slave
about twenty six years of age, 'five ffeet.;.
five inohes high, blaok complexion, isear >
on the breast.
The owner will come and take aw*y
said slave, or he will be disposed of as
required by law.
Sheriff's office, Bellville Feb'y 14th TO.
e20-tf. CHA ftLES MANOR, Jailor
of Austin Count*.
awuy,
i.'He.
*$10 Reward.
My pony, the Generali'tan
or was stolen, some months ago.
is five years old, dark bay, or ma-
hogany hay; pony . built, haB both
tiind feet white, a star in the forehtrd ^
and some saddle marks; is slightly
sway backed and a natural pacer
under the saddle. . He was raised
between Travis and Brenham in this
county. He is branded on the shoul-
der, I think the right Bhoulder,
0 t. He is a valuahlo pony to
me and I should be very glad to
lear of his whereabouts so I can get
tiim. ,1 will pay ten dollars in'specie
for the return of the pony to me at
Bellville, or one half the amoutft for
information that enables me to get
him. J. P. osterhouT; "
e4-tf The Countryman.
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BLACKSMITH
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Rusk House,
HOUSTON, TEXAS.
R. O. LOVE,
PROPRIETOR.
Splendid accommodations for Ladles.
Administrator's Notice.
Whereas, at the April Term, 1866, of
e Hou. County Court of Austin countjr,
the undersigned was appointed Adininur
M. R. Filley,
aim
trator of t6e Estate of
deceased. All pefsónn háving claims
•Inst said estate are required to present
the same for allowance within the time ~
prescribed by law.
c32-6t, JOHN W. MANNING.
Administrator.
«8W _
JUST BF.OKIVEDÍ WW* MATAHBBOS,
And for salo at G. KOCH'S Store on
Piney:
Domestics. Calicoes.
Muslins, Cottonades,
Shoes, Nails, Rope,
Baling, Copperas, Alum,
Indigo, and sundry o
Articles.
eS9-13t. . H. MILLER A C*
i
Itptlce.
o<4
duly s^-
£^n7b7^'olim^^ we
required to uresent the same for allowapee
Adpiinistratorh'
Whbheas, afrthe April
0
E. 0l< Bvck, dse'd.
a fi<l
of the estate
inca
law. ' ^
OR
T. B. WOv ,
Administrators.
ir
Executor's IVotiee./
J thé April term A. D. 16Of,' «
theCoanty Court of Aastin
letters testamen
the undersigned on
m.dee'd,
esta1
Ileal
law.
Thompson
* "u fti
authenticated witam
AY&BÁML.
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COL. .J
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Osterhout, John P. The Bellville Countryman (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 37, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 10, 1865, newspaper, June 10, 1865; Bellville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth177191/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.