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rJf BELLVILLE,
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Cewt at Anatin, Tyler and Galveston.
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B.T.&C. A. HARRIS,
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BELLVILLE,
Auatin County, Texaa.
«pris ly
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Grimes County, Texaa.
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BELLVILLE* FRIDAY, JIINE 21, 1867
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Be I II I lie.
Notice of Co-partnership.
rpHE undersigned having aasoci a ted
X themselves in the bu>ir.ess of Whole-
sale and Retail Merchants in Bellville,
Austin County, at the store recently occu-
pied by W. E. LUHK, the business will
hereafter be conducted in the firm-name
tf Milleb & Lchn.
W. E. LUHN,
H. Mil.I-F.lt.
April 1,1867.—gll-tf.
Vheo. Bennewitz,
aUKBB OF
0EDSTEAD8, TABLES, CHAIBS,
CRADLES, CRIBS, COUCHES.
LOUNGES.
All kinds of turning performed with
diapatek. such aa Billiard Bailar Ten pina,
Pipe bowlr, Tool kandlea, etc.
Spinning wkeela, for spinning flu , made
at ahort notice.
Prieee reaaonable. Tij Urn.
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EST Urauite Crockery, direct trum
Liverpool, for vale at
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EfcSEYS, Denims, Blankets, stripes
. of all kiuda, tor sale at
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CLOCKS, Gold and Silver Watches,
direct importation, for sale at
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A heavy stock of • Stationery school
books, English and German, low for
cash, at MILLElTa. LUHN'S.
KOCH&KOPISH,
ME RC HANT S,
BELLVILLE. TEXAS.
Dealers in
DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES,
HARDWARE, CUTLERY,
Tobacco and Cigars,
A good supply always on hand.
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houston, Texas.
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H An NESS, TREES,
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AMES, Traces and Hardware, of
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NIHIL t'lT.
I wonder who young Nihil fit,
And where it-was be fit and wken;
I'd know just huw the fight went on,
Ai.d it' young Nihil licked his man.
Did Nihil let go with his rightT
.Did t other punch hiai in the gob t
Did NÜhí bore him to the rupes,
And coautor on tke fellow's uobt
In rain is all my'questioning—
A full account was never writ;
Ar.d all that I can ever know
Br simply this—that Nihil fit.
HONOR TO WORKMEN.
Whom shall we call our heroes,"
To whom our praises stng T
Tke pampered cnild of fortune.
The tuied lord or king 1
They live by other's labor~
Take all and nothing give;
The noblest types of manhood
Are they who work to live.
Tke honor of our workmen,
Our kardy sons of toil—
The heroes .a our workshops,
And monarch* i f our soiL
Who spaas the iii'.t v.Tth iron f
W ho reara the paii.ee uoúse t
Who creates lot tue rich man
The comforts of his home t
It is toe patient toiler-
All honor to him then!
Tke true wealth of the nation
Is in her working men.
For many barren ages
Earth hid her treasures dfcep;
And all her giant forces
Seemed bound as in a sleep;
Then Labor's anvil chorna
Broke 011 the startled air.
And lo! the earth in rapture
Laid all her riches bare.
'Tis toil tbat over nature
Gives man his proud control,
A'd pui ii.es ui.u iwiiuws
The Seuip:es oí lis soul.
It scauers iou> siseases,
With ail its ghastly (rain.
Puts iron in the muyele
And chrystal in the brain!
Tbe Grand, Almighty Builder,
Who fashioned out the earth.
Hath stamped his seal ot honor
On labor trow our birth.
In every augei fio er
1 hat blossoms iroin the sod
BeLold the intster touches,
The nauuiwuikoi bod.
Then honor to our wo.kmen,
Our hardy sons oí toil—
Tbe heroes of our workshop,
And mon&rchs of the avil.
From the At^ntic Monthly.
The Han Who Stole a Meet-
ing House.
On a recent journey to the Penn-
sylvania oil regions, I stopped one
evening with a fellow-travelier at a
village which h^d been thrown into a
turmoil of excitement by the exploits
ot a hoise-.hief. As we sat around
the tavern-hearth alttr BUpper, we
heard the particulars of tbe rogue's
captuie and escape fully discussed;
then £ llowed many another tale ol
theft and robbery, told amid curling
puffs of tobacco smoke; uutil, at the
close of an exciting Mory, one of the
natives turned to my traveling ac-
quaintance, and wifti a Lroad laugh,,
said, "Kin ye beat thai, stianger?"
"Well, I don't know; may t I
could if I should try. I never hap-
pentd to fall iu with any such tall
horse-stealing as you tell of, but 1
know of a man who stole a meeting-
house once."
"Stole a meetiu'-house! That
got s a little bey ant anything yit," r
marked another of the honest villa-
gers. Ye don't mean he Btole it and
carried it away?"
"S.ole it and carried itaway,*' re-
peated my traveling companion seri-
ously, crossing his legs, and resting
his arms on the baci of his chair.
••And more than all that, I helped
him."
•How happened that?—'for you
don't look much like a thief, your-
self."
All eyes vera turned upon my
friend, a plain New England fanner,
whose honest homespun appearance
command* d respect.
• I was his hired man, and I acted
under orders. His name was Jed-
wort—Old Jedwoit the boys callad
him, altl¥>ugh he wasn't above fifty
when the crooked little circumstance
happened, which I'll make as straight
a story of as I can, if the company
would like to bear it."
"Sartin. stranger, sartin! about
stealin' tbe tteetin'- house!" chimed
in two or three voices.
My friend cleared'hia "throat, put
his hair behind his ears, and with a
grave, smooth face, but with a merry
twinkle in hiB shrewd gray .eye, be-
gan as follows:
"Jedwort, I said .-his name was;
and I shall never forget how he
looked one particular morning. He
stood leaning on the front gate, or
ather on ti e post, for the gate itself
such a shackling concern a ahild
couldn't have leaned without
breaking -. it down. And Jedwort
was no child. Think of a. stoutish,
stooping, duck-legged man, with a
mountainous back, strongly suggest-
ive ot a bag of griBt under hie shirt,
and you have him. That imaginary
grief had been growing heavier and
heavier, and he more and more bent
under it, &r tbe last fifteen years and
more, until hia head and neck just
came forward out from between his
shoulders, like .a tnrtb'a frota iu
shell. Hia arms hung, as he walked,
almost to the ground. Being curved
with the elbows outward, he looked
for all the world, in a front view, like
a waddling interrogation point en-
closed in a parenthesis. IfSnan was.
ever a quadruped,"as I've heard some
folks tell, and rose gradually from
four legs to two, there must have
been a time, very early w his histo-
ry, when he went about like Old Jed-
wort.
• The gate had been a very good
gate in its day. It had even been a
genteel gate when Jedwort «ame into
possession of the place by marrying
his wife, who inherited it from her
nnde. That was some twenty years
before, and everyihiug had been
going to rack and rnin ever since.
•'Jedwort. himself had been going
to rack and ruin, morally speaking
He was a middling decent sort of
man when I first knew himand 1
judge there must have been some-
thing about him more than common,
or he never eould have got such a
wife. But then women do marry,
sometimes, unaccountably. I've
known downright ugly and disagree-
able fellows to .work around till by
and Ly they could get a pretty girl
fascinated by something in them
which nobody else could see, and then
many her in Bpite qf every thing; just
aa you -may have seen a magnetiser
on the stajpa to make his subjects do
just what lie pleased, or a black snake
charm a bird. Talk about a woman
manying with their eyes open, under
such circumstances! They don't
many with their eyes open; they are
put to sleep iu one sense, aud ain't
inore than half responsible for what
they do, if they are that Then rises
the question that has puzzled wiser
heads than any of ours here, and will
puzzle more yet, till society is differ-
ent from what it is now—how much
a refined and sensitive woman is
bonnd to Buffer from a coarse and dis-
gusting master, legally called her
husband, before she is entitled to
break off a bad bargain she scarce
had a hand in making. I've 6at here,
to-night, and heard about men get-
ting goods under false pretences;
youv'e told some astonishing big sto-
ries, gentlemen, about logues stealing
horses and sleighs ; and I'm going to
tell .you about the man who stole a
meeting-house; but when all is said, 1
guess it will be found that more ex-
traordinary thieving than all that
often goes on underour own eyes, and
nobody takes any notice of it. There'a
such a thing, gentlemen, as getting
hearts under false pretences. There's
such a thing as a man's stealing* a
wife.
'•I speak with feeling on this sub-
ject, for I had an opportunity of see-
ing what Mrs. Jedwort had to put up
with from a man no woman W her
stamp could do aibjthing but detest.
She was the prettiest, patiehtest crea-
ture you ever saw. She was even
too patient/' If I had bean tied to
such a cub, I think I should have
cultivated the beautiful and benig-
nant qualities of a wild-cat;'there
would have been one good fight, and
one of us would have been living and
the other would have been dead, and
that would have been the end of it.
But Mrs. Jedwort bore and bore nn-
told miseries, and a large number of
children. Sha had nine of these, and
three were under the sod and six
above it when Jedwort ran off with
the meeting-house in the way I am
going on to tell you. There was
Maria, the oldest"jyH, g perfect pic-
ture of what, her mother bad been at
nineteen. Then there were the two
boys, Dave and Dan,fine young fel-
lows, spite of their father. Then
oame Lottie; aiad. Susie, and then
Willie, a little fonr-y ear-old.
It waa amazu g to see what t:.o
i. , /• •
mother would do to keep her family
looking decent with the little means
die had. For Jedwort was the tight-
est screw you ever saw; It waa av-
arice that had spoilt him, and came
so near turning him into a beast. The
boys used to say he grew bo bent look-
ing in the dirt for pennies. That
was true, of his mind, if not of his
body. He was a poor man, and a
pretty respectable man, when he
married hia wife; but he had no soon-
er come into the possession of a little
property, than he grew crazy for
more. There'are a good many men
in the world that nobody look* upon
as monomaniacs who are crazy in
just that sort of. way. They are all
for laying np masey, depriving them-
selves of comforts, and their families
of the advantagea of society and edu-
cation just to add a few dollars to
their hoard every year; and so they
keep on till they die and leave it to
,-ftheir children, who would be much
better off if a little more had been in-
vested in the cultivation of. their
minds and manners, and less in stocks
and bonds.'
"Jedwort was just one of $at class
of men, although perhaps he carried
the fault I speak of a little to excess.
A dollar looked so big' o him, and In-
held it so close, 11;at &r list he
couldn't see much of anything else.
By degrees he lost all regard for de-
cency and his neighbors' opinions.
Hia children went barefoot, even af-
ter they got to be great boys and
girls, because he was too mean to
buy them shoes. It was pitiful to
see a nice, inter, sting girl like Maria
go abont look.. ¿ ■ s-he did, while
her father was 1. .. s «¿¡..ney into
the hank. She watted to go to
school, and learn music, aud be some-
body; but he wouldn't keep a hired
girl, and so she was obliged to stay
at home and do housework; and ehe
could no more have got a dollar out of
him to pay for clothes and tuition
than you could squeeze sap out of a
hoe handle.
The only way his wife could ever
get anytbingjiew for the family was
by Btlling butter from her own dairy,
and selling it behind his back. 'You
needn't say anything to Mr. jed-
wort about this batch of butter,' she
would hint to the storekeeper; but
you may hand the money to me, or 1
will take my pay in goods.' In this
way a new gown or a piece of cloth
for the boys' coats, or something else
the family needed, would be smug-
gled into the house with fear and
trembling lest old Jedwort elionld
make a row and find where the mon-
ey cams from.
"The house inside was kept neat ss
a pin; but eveiytliing around it look-
ed terribly shiftless. It was built
originally in an ambitious style, and
painted white. It bad four tall front
pillars, supporting the portion of the
roof that came -over the porch, lifting
up the eyebrows of tbe house, if I
may so express myself, and making
it look as if it was going to aneeae.
Half the blinds were off the hinges*'
and the rest flapped in the wind.
The front door-Btep had rotted away.
The porch had once a good floor, bet
for years Jedwort had been in the
habit of going to it whenever he
wanted a board for the pig pen, until
not a bit of floor waa left.
"But I began to tell about Jedwort
leaning on the gate tbat morning. We
had all noticed him; and as Dave and
I bronght in the milkt his mother
asked, 'What ii your father planning
now! Half the time he stands there
looking up the road; or else be'6
walking ap that way in a brown
study.*
" 'He's got his eye an the old
meeting-honae,' says Dave, Betting
down hia pail. 'Ho has been watch-
ing it and walking round it, off and
on, for a week.'
"That was the ént intimation I
had ofLwhat the old fellow was
up to. But after breakfast be fol-
lowed me out of the house, as if be
had something to aáy to me.
^ 'Stark,' says he at last, youv'e
always insisted on't that I wasn't an
enterprisin' man.'
(To be continued.)
new
INDIAN CHIEF I
THIS DISTIXGClSIIED QUARTER^ HORSE,
WILL STAND THE PRESENT SEASON
At R. LiiNTON'S,
Near Induntry, in the Forks of Mill Creek.
HE will be adraivied to Mares at $5
the Leap, ^¿0 the Season, and
the Insurance. Money 'to br paid when
the Mare is serven, or good note gtvcu
wneii served by the leap ói Season.
Every care wiii be taken--to-prevent
accidenta, bat I witi net be respouaioio lor
any which u:ay <-ccur.
1M>1AN (JUllii? is a deep sorrel, with
a small star on his forehead, no othjr
white; fifteen anda half hands high; eight
years old ; of large bone, heavy mnacle,
and great stamina.
INDIAN CHIEF waa un< by Lev
than, jr.—dam, Mary X>aldwblk thé eel
brateu Quarter Mana of Kentucky; she by
tbe renowned O-d'AWShy. - He (Ls des-
eciitf ed from a long and -uuürukeu .line
firtt class hurtes, a ¿áct.whi>-li w;:i «.iriit
ice reader forcibly w&eu he. is remi. ued
that Indian ch1&?—the best sou of -is
sire or dam, was by Boston, the best e... of
imported Dionea, the best sonof l'Morizel,
one of tbe best aona! of the greatest of
English Stallions.
A. Pi PISHEB.
June 7th, 1867.—3 m- .
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CASH INVARIABLY ON DELIVER!
* Legal lYoticeg.
•hi
Ésttafe Notice,
,4 T the ot„tíf*
J\. County Court of Austin, county, the
nn<le:-sig'ne3 was appointed Administrator
of tie estate or J?Hi Kay, deceased;
-it persons' háving* claims
•sn :te%re requesteSxto present theS
h tlie't! «• prescribed by law. «•'
JOSEPH BLASINÚAME, Adm'tJ
' - "i-avitl. i Hi 7 —17-lit." , ;
r*~-
-Bucku-trü, May 31.1<&7.—g-St.-
\Estray Notice.
TAKEN >UP, by W. M. Sberrn, and
tstr-yed before W. Z. Dixon, J^.,
a Black Horse, twelve or thirteen years
old, both, rei't rVet white, a little white in
tue face; ai d a mall snip on the noae. tío
brand. Appraised at $óú; * 4
•- . AiATTHEWS,
Mi y 24 1i, 18ó7. County tlark^A. C.
■;3if
Estray Not-ce*
TAKEN UP, by OT. Ross^nd eatrayed
berore J. J. Josey, j. P., on theltfth
day of April, A. !>., ISo7, a I"
Horse, three white feet, Ms
about 14 years old, and
Appraiaed at $25.
May84ti, 1867.
Z.'w. MATTriteWBjjir*r
County ClerkA. O.
Changs of Firm. -
rpHE CO-PABTNEBSHIP heretofore
A existing under tlie name and btyle
of Hammitt, Robb & Co., is by mutual
consent this ¿ay uiseolreJ, Ly the witu-
órawal «i T. b Hammitt. ri'i e rea-aiu-
og firm; Kqbi & Gisay u -1' col vcí i ii
et> uuw due aikij-ty aii debu contracted
by tUe lato tirui.
T. S. AMMiTT,
BlCriAJO) BOüB,
J. ii. GUAY.
The undersigned takes this occasion to
say to the public generally, that Bichard
Kobb & J. B. Gray are mechanics of well-
known skill, and my recent connection
vviiii tiieui enables nie to bay with confi-
dence that any kind of Engine, Saw Mill,
Plantation,:(iin Work, ú-c., entrusted to
liieui will be tl.,ne i>> i¡-.c beaten manner,
and at the shortest notice. m
T. S. (AMMITT.
Hempstead, May 7tb, is;>7.—if.
HEMPSTEAD FOUNDRY
1 ' . ■/ I;
-AND —
Estate Notice. -t
*. j
r ETTEiiS of A.l.r i' ÍHtri.tien oa Ike
i-i Eef • it) i al:■i in KLL, lata
of Hca^stead, ucceased, having beea
granted to mc by the County Court of Aa >
tiu County, at the March tena theseoC
A. D. 1867; all persona having alausa
«gainst «aid estate are required to preaesA
the same, duly authenticated, within tka
time prescribed by law.
ALEXANDER GLENN,
AdhHniste tpr.8
Bellville, April 12,18S7:- _ t
-g-W—6t—Pr's lee #5, specie. **
Estaie IVoticc.
AT the MARCH TEEM, 1867, of^tho
Conuty Court of Au>ilp countyitho
u • ¡.• í::.giiéd wen np^irrtcd Administr -
t ■ ü i:i !.Le i j «mi «f Callicott,^<tto
oinikk^.-« i v .ue«-.-ted;. 11 pers«rtisht ving
c:^im& b lltl «¡otate are required to
pr<<sent t>.e saine within tke tüue-q>ro>
scribed by law-HiR^t R
!".. alexander GLENN,
AdmTs.
Bellville, April 1?, 18G7.-gl3^t- •'
Notice lo Credctom.
LETTE K S of'idimiiish-iifion- amictta-
mtnto annexe on tLe Esuitu 11J. O.
W hi;field, tit Ci aseíi, having béey granted
to ¡he un:!.*1'.signed at tbu ¿taren Term,
A.t>. leiiT, ol" lac Oeuntv Court ot Austin
county, thereloie, ail persons holding
ciaim ajtaiuüt .-¡-.id estate, not heretofore
(.resented, ait. hereby notified to present
them, duly autuei.¿ic-iled, within the*timo
prescribed by law. >
DOUGLASS HARRIS.
Bellville, April 18th, 1í5S7- -i"""
- gI3-6w.
Estate rTolica.
WE are new ^re[>ared io manufacture
Saw Miii, ó-.w Ginning Machines,
(Jin and ¿¿ill Gca.iug, ¡SLafai-g and
Piiüies, i?u¡4ai- iliiia, ot.ull sizes.
Buii of ail sise j ou hand and made to order.
Al' kinds of Ir..n >;nd Brass Castings,
Grate Bars, Plow Points, Hollow Ware,
and extra Oven Eiiis always on hand. .
We employ none but the l>e¿t workmen.
W*e have added to our Machinery and
we a re prepared to do all kinds ot Railroad,,
Saw Miil, Plantation Woik, Bepairiug of
Machinery, Blacktm'uuii-e, Boi.t-r and
rftei m Engine Work of j il kind-;, «¡one in
iie- best manner at the sudrt^st tioiioa and
at the lowest rates.
^"Orders REsiaciy.ixLs 'yi-rren.
1-0 E j £¿. v ii i -
^N.B.—OldBrass.C'.'ppe. > i u: I :.n,
bought at the highest rutes g>8—ti.
A. SESSUMS & CO-.,
GALVESTON and HOUSTON,
TEZAS, .
COTTON and tiOOL FACTORS,
GENERAL COMMISSION
MERCHANTS,
—and—
WHOLESALE G30CEBS-
BAGGING, BOPE AND TIES always
on hand, and will be furnished at
lowest rates to their patrons. Especial
care given to the suie of Cotton and Wool
to their address at Galveston or Houston.
Parties shipping their Cotton can obtain
Permita nnder their Bonds, er draw on
them for amount of1 Taxes-
Wool Sacks Furnished.
May 31,1867.—3 m.
LETTEES of Ait.-in'stration on the
Esta, j of THOMAS . ft 1 ii¥EN-
b< ,'N, late oi Heir,pateaii, de.-eí -1 L iving
been giuuieJ to .;s l y the Co!'*ít¿.Jj,ourt of
Ausan.Couniy; at the Miivh term thereof,
A. D. 18'iii ; all jhtp -us having cfaima
airuiiist said estate aie required to present
lie' same, duly a ¡thenticated, witluu the
time prescribed bv law.
J. G. l'ELL,
JAMES B. STEVENSON,
Aduiinistcatara.
Bellville, April 12. IH67.
-g l¿—ó t. Pr'aíée §5 specf^
Miscellaneous.:
Now is Your íimel
r| lO reduce our large stoek. which, by
A the addition of the large amount of
Goods brought up by H. Miller, from
Galveston has become too extensive for
a country atore, we will sell our «arpias
stock of
Dry Gocds,
Boots and Shoe
Hats,
Crockery,
Etc., etc., etc
For cash,, at cost and carnee price*.
ty Country Dealer's and Peddiers are
Invited to give us a call and get our prises.
* ■ MILLER & LUHN. •
HOIST O I¥ HABLE
:', WORKS.
Monuments, Tomb«, Head stonet
jiianui'dctured from the ocst of Italian at.
America^ Marble. Inscriptions neatl,
carved in aB languages. Prompt attentk'
given to.aB orders trom the country.
Marble boxes are insured againts braku
age. Fire brisk constantly on haad.
T.X BYRNES.
An Act authorizing the Cqnrt of
Police to District tke CatuiUft of
th" State in Commissioners' Dis-
tricts.
Skgtion I. Be it enacted by the
r.-egidut*rc of the State of Texas%
That the Police Court of each county
in this ¡¿rate may, at s; aie regular
session thereof, Lpfore the next gen-
eral election, divide their respectiva
countios into four Districts, as nearly
equal as posible in territory as may
be, by allotting to each District entire
voting precincts; and at the/next
general election, and every four yeara
thereafter, one County Commissioner
shall be elected for and reside in
each of said Districts, by the quali-
fied voters of the c< uti[yr4vho ¿hall
hold their office until their suc^bson
are elected and qualified.
Sec. 2. Tbat this act shall not be
ro construed as to compet "any*Court
of PoHea to divide the conntjK into
Commissioners' Districts, aa coateo-
plated in the first section of thn act.
Sec., Tlr c ;HA Act. bajfei font
•from vi«i at-
■n.sy^sHgev .
aj j; jv el C j'1 l)''í í4,1 c66,
An Act t¿\ dixcharge Firemen from
serving on Juries..
SsnioN 1. Be it enacted by th*
Legislature of the State of Texas,
That each and every fireman belong-
ing to any regularly organized Fire
Company, who are provided''with
engines and necessary appliances,
doing duty in auy incorporated city,
who shall have served as ka activa
fireman for a period of. seven yean
after the passage of this act, shall,
upon receiving from the Mayor of
Bach city a written certificate that
snch service has t«an pertomtfd, be
exempt from jury doty thereafter in
the-county where such service waa
rendered, ' , .
Apprpved October 24th, 1866.
■ ,'x
Notice. ■*
THE PARTNERSHIP héretofore ex-
isting between Ciias, Kavabatgh
and B. Fr Elu .xt is lW day dissolved
by mtltual consent.
. CHAg.T.KAVANiJJftH,
B. pJeLLIOTT.
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Osterhout, J. P. The Texas Countryman. (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, June 21, 1867, newspaper, June 21, 1867; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth180267/m1/1/: 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.