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ELLIOTT 4b BEMAN,
Eorrois aro Publishers.
DEVOTED TO PROGRESSIVE PRINCIPLES AND THE NEWS OF THE DAY.
ESTABLISHED IN 1SG
VOLUME VIII
HEMPSTEAD, TEXAS, FRIPAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1868.
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ATTORNEY8-AT-LAW.
J. W. OLIVER,
Attomeyat Lw.
HOUSTON. TEXAS.
B. F. ELLIOTT,
jTTomrer at law
HEMPSTEAD,
«84-tf Anatin County Texna;
a. dhlet. geo. w- johwsom
Chcslejr íl Johuion
A TTORNEYS AT LAW
BELLVILLE,
AMtia Ctu^, Texaa,
'OCm in tie Court Hote.fl
SAMUEL A. CUMMINGS,
ATTOKNEY-AT-LAW
b3 I adustry P. 0-, Austin Co.. Texas
2 limrr. N. Holland.
HUNT A. HOLLAND,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
BELLVILLE,
Austin County, Texas
Teb2-f4-1y.
B. T. &, C. A. HARRIS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
BELLVILLE,
Audi County, Texas.
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F. J. COOKE,
CoNVfcl'a.vcur,
And General Land Agent.
'Communications through the Post-
Office or otherwise promptly attended
to.
I HAVE now on regency many choice "Wits
and tracts of Land for Sale here,which
sn offered on easy terms.
JHO. T. JOYOB 3. REESE BLAKE
JOYCE &. BLAKE.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
HEMPSTEAD, TEXAS.
Over Kemper Stoue & Co' ., Drug
Star*.
JACK BELL.
ATTORNEY AT LAI,
XELSONVILLE,
AlTSTIR -Col NTY. TXAS.
■post-office address, Industry, Austin Co
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I. G. Sraikv, IL H. BOOJNE
SEARCY & BOONE,
A TTOR RE Y8 AT LAW.
ANDERSON,
Grimes County, Texas.
tfeb2-f4-ly.
J. HARRIS CATLIN,
ATTOKNEY-AT-LAW
>h:l Travis, Austin Co., Texas.
J. P. OSTERHOUT
ATTORNEY AT LA W,
BELLVILLE.
Austin County, Texas.
*A2-f4-Iy.
>V. WOODWARD.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Red River Street.
Hmpstad, Txas.
5n the same room with Mr-Clint) n Tort
CHAS. T:. KAVANAUGH
BRENHAM.
Texas.
Dr. J. n. McLacan,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Residence at Christian Rungeaer's.
BUCKHORN, TEXAS.
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BR. 3. L. CUNNINGHAM,
iPHYSICIAN Sf SURGEON
HEMPSTEAD, TEXAS.
Office at Kemper, Stone & Go's Drug
"Store.—Sleeping appartments at W. H
Starks residence. Calls attended to night
or day. g24-tf.
X.W. MOODT. F. *. BRADLEY , L. F. MOODY
MOODY, BRADLEY & CO.,
For the iSale of
cerros wool, hides, &&,
179 STRAND, GALVESTON.
PERSONAL ATTENTION given to
filling orders for Merchandise aud
¿Receiving and Forwarding Goods.
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DICKINSON & CLAYTON,
feas Cmmtrpmn.
ELLIOTT & BEMAN.
Editors and Publishers.
U. p. ELLIOTT. CHAS. A. BE1IAN.
HEMPSTEAD.
OFFICE—OH BREMOND, BETWEEN BED
BITE* AND 10U STREETS, ADJOINING
LARKE tf WATSONS DBUG STORE.
faetrg.
Beauteous Little Mazy.
There is a beauteous little dame,
Take care, take care,
Mary is this beauty's name.
Ah!sir, beware!
She has eyes like some young fawn's,
Tripping wild on Eastern lawns.
And her silver shining feet
Lightly dance to music sweet,
Ah í t-.ke care.
She has little anowy hands,
Take care, take care,
Like white lilies twined in bands,
Ah ! sir, beware.
When she strikes her light guitar,
See them glitter like a star;
Touch them too, like roses soft,
Kiis them—if she'll let you—oft; ,
Ahsir. beware.
She has ringlets richly brown,
Take care, taxe care,
Lovi tier than a jewelled crown,
Ah! hir, beware.
You are lost if once you presa
To your lips one single treas;
They are nets that hold
By some magic, young and old,
Ah! take care.
She has roses in her mouth,
Take care, take care,
Sweeter than the fragrant South,
Ah! sir, beware.
If you see her crimson lip.
Ten to one you'll long to sip;
But so guarded is the fruit.
You must snatch or lose your suit,
Ah! take care.
She is witty, young and wild,
Take care, take care,
Playful, like a petted child,
Ah! sir Leware.
Beauty, goodness, wit, combine,
To make little Poll divine,
Ah! take care.
When she sings and when she speaks,
Take care, take eare,
When she plays her pretty freaks,
Ah! sir, beware.
In a trice you'll find your heart
From its lawful owner part;
And the beauteous little dame
Bays 'tis hers by lawful elaim,
Ah! take care.
PLATFOBU-
-OF—
THE DEMOCRA TIC PAR TY
Adopted at New York.
—and—
Commission merchants,
GALVESTON.
DICKINSON & COCHRAN.
HOUSTON.
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The Democratic party, in National Con-
vention assembled, reposing its trurt in
the intelligence, patriotism and discrimin-
ating justice of the people, standing upon
the Constitution as the foundation and
limitation of the powers of the Govern-
ment, and the guarantee of the liberties
of the citizens, and recognizii g the ques-
tions of slavery and secessiou as having
been settled for all time to come, by the
war, and in the voluntary action of the
Southern StRtesin Constitutional Conven-
tions assembled and never to be renewed
or re-agitated, do, with the return of peace
demand—
First—'I he immediate restoration of all
the States to their rights in the Union un-
der the Constitution and of the civil gov
eminent of the American people.
Second—Amnesty for all past political
-odences, and the regulation of the elective
franchise in the States by their citiiens.
Third—The | ay men t of the public debt
of the U*5ted States as rapidly as practic
alte, all money drawn from the people by
taxation, except as muc!i as is requisite
for the necessities of the Government,
economically adn inistered, being honestly
applied to such payment; and, where the
obligations of the Government do not ex-
pressly state upot their face, or the law
under which they were issued does not
provide that, they shull be payed in coin,
they ought, in right and ju tice, to be paid
in the lawful money of the United Stutes.
[Thunders of applause- J
Fourth—Equal taxation of every spe-
cies of property, according to its real val-
ue, including Government bonds and other
public sec nties. [Renewed cheering and
ories "Read it again."]
Fifth—One currency for the Govennent
and the people the laborer and the office
holder, the pensioner and the soldier, the
producer and the bondholder. [Great
cheering and cries of "Read it again."]
(The fifth resolution was again read and
again cheered.)
Sixth—Ecoiomy in the administration
of the Government; the reduction ot the
standing army and navy; the abolition
of the Freedman'e Bureau; [great
cheering] and all political instrumen-
talities designed to secure negro suprem-
acy ; the simplification of the sys-
tem and discontinuance of inquisitorial
modes oí assessing and collecting iuternal
revenue, so that the burden of taxation
may be equalized and lessened, and the
creditor the Government and currency
made good; the repeal of all enactments
for the enrolling of the State militia into
the national forces in time of peace, and a
tariff for revenue upon foreign imports, and
such equal taxation as will without im-
pairing the revenue, impose the least bur-
den upon and beat promote and encourage
"e great industrial interests of the'
mntiry.
Seventh—Reform of the abuses in the
Administration, the expulsion of all corrupt
men from office, the abrogation of all use-
less offices, the restoration of the rightful
authority and independence jf the execu-
tive and judicial departments of the Gov-
ernment, the subordination of the military
to the civil power, to the end that the
usurpations of Congress and the despot-
ism of the sword may cease
Eighth—Equal rights, and protection
íor naturalized and native bora citizens at
home and abroad, the assertion of Ameri-
can nationality, which shall command the
respect of foreign powers, and furnish an
example and encouragement to people
straggling to national integrity, constitu-
tional liberty and individual rights, and the
maintenance of the rights of naturaliz-
ed citizens against the absolute doctrine
of immutable allegiance and the claims of
foreign powers to punish them for alleged
crimes committed beyond their jurisdic-
tion. [Applause.]
In demanding these measures and re-
forms, we arraign the Radical party for
the disregard of right, and the unparnllel
ed oppression and tyranny which marked
its career. After the most solemn and
unanimous pledges of both houses of Con-
gress to prosecute the war exclusively
for the maintenance of the Government,
and the preservation of the Union under
the Constitution, it has repeatedly viola-
ted that most sacred pledgo, under which
was rallied that noWe volunteer army
which carried our flag to victory. Instead
o Restoring the Union, it has, so far as it
is in its power, dissolved it, and subject-
ed ten States, in a time of profound peace,
to military despotism and negro suprema-
cy. It has nullified there the right of
trial by jury. It has abolished the habeas
corpus, that most sacred right of liberty.
It has overthrown the freedom of speech
and the press. It has substituted arbitra-
ry seizures and arrests, and military trial
and secret star-chamber inquisitions for
constitutional tribunals. It has disregard-
ed in time of peace, the right of the peo
pie to be free from search and seizures.
It has entered the post and telegraph of-
fices, and even the private rooms of indi-
viduals, and seized private papers and let-
ters, without any specification or notice
of affidavit as required by the organic law.
It has converted the American Capitol
into a bastille. It ¿as established a sys-
tem of spies and official espionage to
which no constitutional monarchy of Eu-
rope would now dare resort. It has abol-
ished the right of appeal on important
constitutional questions to the Supreme
Judicial 7Vibunal, and threatens to curtail
or destroy its original jurisdiction, v. hich
is irievotably vested by the Constitution.
While the learned Chief Justice has been
subjected to great and atrocious calum-
nies merely because be would not prosti-
tute his high office to the support of the
false and partisan charges mad against
the President, its corruption and extrava-
gance have exceeded anything known in
history, and by its fraud and monopolies
it has nearly doubled the burden of the
debt created during the war. It has strip-
ped the President of his constitutional
power of appointment, even of his own
cabinet. Under its repeated assaults the
pillars of the Government are rocking on
their base, and should it, succeed In No-
vember next and inaugurate its President,
we will meet asa subjugated and conquer
ed people amid the ruins of liberty and the;
scattered fragments of the Constitution.
And we do declare and resolve that evei
since the people of the United States
threw off all subjection to the British
Crown, the privilege and trust to suffrage
have been granted, regulatod and control-
led exclusively by the political powt'r of
each State respectively, and any attempt
by Congress, on any pretext whatever, to
deprive any State of this right, or inter-
fere with this exercise, is a flagrant usurp-
ation of power which can find no warrant
in the Constitution, and, if sanctioned by
the people, will subvert Our form of gov-
ernment, and can only end iu a single cen-
tralized, consolidated government, in
which the separate existence of States will
be entirely absorbed, and an unqualified
despotism be established in place of a Fed-
eral Union of co-equal States; and th t
we regard the reconstruction acts so-call-
ed, of Congress, gross usurpations, and un-
constitutional, revolutionary and void;
that our soldiers and sailors who carried
the flag of our country to victory against
a gallant and determined foe, must ever be
gratefully remembered, and all guaran-
tees given to the laws roust be faithfully
carried into execution; that the public
lands should be distributed as widely
among the people, and shoul I be disposed
of wader the vre-ewption or Homestead
law, and sold in reasonable quantities, to
noae but actual oc-cupants, at the mini-
mum price established bv the Government.
Wlieu grants for the public hinds may be
allowed necessary for the *ncouragci:ieut
of important public improvements, the
proceeds of the sale of such lands, and not
the lands themselves, should be so applied
that the President of the United States,
Andrew Johnson, in exercising the power
of his high office in resisting the aggres-
sions of Congress on the Constitutional
rights of the States and the people, is en-
titled to the gratitude of the whole Amer-
ican people, and on oehalf of the Demo-
cratic party we tender him our thanks for
his patriotic efforts iu that regard. (Great
and prolonged applause.)
Upon this platform the Democratic par-
ty appeal to every patriot, including all
the Conservative element, and all who de-
sire to support the Constitution and res-
tore the Union, forgetting all past differ-
ences of opinion, to unite with us in tlie
present great struggle for the liberties of
tke people, and that to all such, to what-
ever party they may have heretofore be-
longed, we extend the right hand of fel-
lowship, and hail all such co-operating
men as friends and brothers.
ROA DP.
House rents are so exorbitant in
New Orleans tliat a '• grasping land
lord" advertises " a splendid hogs-
head, just vacated by the former
occnpant, who leaves it for no fault.
The premises are a sweet location
for a family with young children, are
in thorough repair, with bnnghole
centrally situated and hoops in good
order." _
A Western democratic editor is solicit-
ing republican subscribers, payment to be
made only after Seymour and Biiir are
elected-
I was in a hurry to reach home.
No wonder, for it was the wildest
night I had ever known in all my
life, and the country oyer which I
took my way as bad and dark as
country roads in general. Conse-
quently, I was walking at a great
rate, with the collar of my great
coat over my ears, and a comforter
tied over my soft hat and under my
chin to keep it on and protect mj
ears, when suddenly a man stood full
in my path atd caught me by the
arm.
"Hallo!" said he, "you're just in.
time; you ar« wanted at the cross
roads to night.*'
The voice was the voice of a ruf-
fian.
I fancied myself attacked by a
highwayman.
I stood quite still and strove to
show him by my mi nner that I was
able to protect myself.
"What the deuce am I wanted at
the cross roads for 1" said I. "Un-
less I choose it would be a very hard
matter to get me there."
But instead of producing a pistol
and demanding my money or my
life, the man answered in an altered
tone:
"Beg pardon, I made a mistake, 1
thought it was my brother, and I
wanted to frighten hiin. Bad night,
sir."
"Very," said I.
"You don't know the time, sir ?"
he asked.
«'It was seven when I left the
train at L ■," said I.
"Thank ye, sir," said the man.
"Good night."
'•Good night," said I.
If his object had been robbery,
probably he had decided from my
rongh appearance that I was to poor
a man to be worth the trouble.
But aiter all, I thought, probably
he spoke the truth. A man may
have sncli a voice without being a
highwayman, no doubt.
Bo I went oa homeward, and soon
found myself under shelter, and par-
taking of a warm aud savory supper,
My mother was there and my
brother Ben. Ben was a great strap-
ping fellow who could beat any other
boy of his pge for miles around, if it
came to wrestling or boxing, and as
good humored a boy as ever lived—
a boy always to mother and me
though he had exercised his right to
vote already in one Presidential elec-
tion.
The moment Ben's head touched
the pillow he always went to sleep-
That night I followed *his example.
But I did not sleep long without a
dream— a dream in which I felt, a
sharp grip on my arm, and was
aroused by a cry in my ears :
"Wake up! you're wanted at the
cross roads—*'
It was so real, so palpable, that
when I started broad awake I actu
ally believed that some one was in
the room ; the man who had met pie
on the road perhaps, and who intend-
ed robbery or violence. But when I
had arisen and lit my lamp the room
was empty, except myself and Ben.
who lay snoring on his pillow.
I went to the doov ; it was locked.
I went to the window; the rush of
rain against panes was all I heard.
I even went across the pass to my
mother's room. She was awake:
there had been no unusual sound she
was sure.
Only a dream born of my meeting
the strange man o.i the road, I felt
had awakened me. I went to bed
and fell asleep again, Again I was
awakened by the same words, this
time shrieked iu my ear by an un-
earthly voice.
"Wake up, wake np. You are
wanted at the cross roads,"
I was on my feet once more, and
caught Ben's hand as he came over
toward my bed.
"What ails you ?'' he cried.
"Nothing," said I. "Did you
hear a voice ?"
"Yours," said Ben, "yalling wake
up ; you fairly frightened me."
"Ben," said I, "wait till I light a
j lamp: I heard another voice. There
side."
So I again lit the lamp, but we
8 arched in vain.
"Nightmare," said Ben, when I
told him my story.
"Ben," Baid I, "what is there at
the cross roads
"A house," said Ben. He had
lived in the neighborhood a long
while, and I not long.
"One little house, besides two oak
trees, and a fence. An old man
lives there—a rich man, and a bit of a
miser they say. His granddaughter
keeps house for him."
*"Ben, that fellow may have meant
harm to them. I may be wanted at
the cross roads.
"Brother," Baid Ben. "go to sleep.
You had a nightmafe," and Ben
plunged in between the blankels, and
was soon snoring again.
I also in ten minutes slept as
soundlj as before, but the awakening
soon came again.
I opened my eyes to see a girl
standing at the foot of my bed. A
girl in white robes, with golden hair
all about her shoulders, who rung her
hands and cried, "Oh wake up, you
are wanted at the cross roads."
This time I started out of bed,
bathed in cold perspiration. 1 trem-
bled like a leaf. 1 bad no doubt that
I had received supernatural warn-
ing.
'•Ben,'* I cried, "Bell, for the third
time I have been told that I am
wanted at the cross roads, and I am
e;oi«g."
And I began to dress myself as
peedily as possible, listening the
while to the storm raging wilder and
wilder than at any other period
since its commencement.
Ben remonstrated wilh me in
vain, At last lie also began to hud-
dle on his clothes.
"It you have gone mad I must go
with you and take care of you," he
said.
"But fancy another man, goin
out in a storm like this to the cross
roads, because "a nightmare caased
him to do so, and what would you
think of him 1"
"I said nothing. All I could have
answered would have been :
"I am compelled to go ; I must
go. I dare not refuse, whatever may
be thought of me."
In ten minutes we were splashing
through the mud aud rain along the
road. It was perfectly dark; now
and then a blazed red star in the dis-
tance told us that a light was beam-
ing through the rain in some cottage
window, but otherwise we would not
have been conscious of our proximity
to any habitation whatever. At last
nearing the spot where the road from
S crosses the road to P we
we had grappled the ruffians before
they knew whence the attack came,
or how many foes were upon them.
I do not intend to describe the
struggle;' indeed, I could not ii I
would. But we were strong men,
and inspired by the cries of the help-
less old man and the terrified girl, we
soon had one of the villains bound,
and the other lying prostrate on the
floor.
Then Ben started for assistance,
and before morning both were iu jail,
Ben admitting, as we shook each
other by the hand,, that "we werer
wanted at the cross roads."
The old man was not a miser, but
he had saved some few thousand dol-
lars for his old age, and living more
plainly than he need have done, and
een rise to the rumor, and so
brought the burglars to the cross
roads in the hope of booty.
The girl, a beautiful creature of
seventeen, was his granddaughter,
and as no story is acceptable to the
lady reader, without a flavor of ro-
mance, I will tell them that she be-
came in after year;:, not my wife but
the wife ot my darling brother Ben.
The Electoral Vote.
The following is a calculation of
the electoral vote, and how it is
likely to be cast at the comiug Presi-
dential election;
DEMOCRATS.
California,
5
Missouri,
New Hampshire
1!
Connectieut,
6
■ 5
Delaware,
3
New Jersey.
7
Illinois
1(5
Ne.v York,
3:i
Indiana.
13
Ohio,
21
Kentucky,
11
Oregon,
3
Maryland,
7
Pennsylvania.
20
Michigan,
a
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—
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were indeed in as solitary a place as
can be imagined.
The house, which abutted on the
very angle of the roads, called in fa-
miliar parlance the Cross Roads, was
the only one for some distance in
either direction, aud certainly on
such a niglit we were not likely to
meet many travelers.
All was quiet a3 the giave. We
stood quite still. In a moment Ben
broke out in one of his wildest
laughs.
"Well," he said,"how now? Will
you go home now and have another
niglitmaTe V'
But hardly had the words escaped
his lips when a shriek broke on the
air, and a woman's voice plainly
coming from the interior of the cot-
tage, cried:
"Help ! help ! help 1"
"Ben," sail I, "we are wanted at
the cross roadsand then under-
standing each other, without more
words we made our way to a window
through wliich a light shone. A
muslin curtail! draped the panes, but
through it we saw an awful sight.
An old man lay on the floor, and
over him bent a ruffian, clutchi.ighis
throat, and holding a pistol to his
ear, while another man grasped the
shrieking girl by the arm—a girl in a
floating night dress—with such long
golden hair as belonged to the girl of
my vision.
Not a moment was to be wasted.
Ben flung his weight agaiuót the
Fanny Fern on Editors.
Fanny Fern thinks it a great pity
tlipt editors, hi reviewing the books
written by women, so often fall into
the error of. reviewing the • woman
instead of the book. After having
her say on this subject, she talks-ot
editors in general tera:s, thus ;
"It is a pity that an editor should
not be a gentleman, for his own sake,
and because no position can be more
honorable than his. if he chose to
make it so, nor more influential for
good or evil. Think of the multi-
tude he addresses—the thinking men
anú bromen who pass hie columns un-
der critical review. Surely, this is
a career not to be lightly esteemed,
not to be shirred over bunglingly.
Surely, this messenger crossing the
sacred threshold of home, might well
step carefully, reverentially, discreet-
ly, aud discuss fairly, justly, all topics
especially connected with home du-
ties and home responsibilities. Sure-
ly, his advertising list, if he have
one, should be a clean one, such as
any frank-browed, hitherto innocent
young boy, might read. Surely, the
maiden, whose horizon is not bound-
ed by a strip of ribbon or sills, or eveu
the marriage altar, should have the
great questions of the day, relating
to the future of htr sex, not brushed
aside with a contemptuous sniff, or
treated with flippant ridicule, because
this is the shortest and easiest way
of disposing of that which requires
thorough and fair deliberation. It
seems so strange to me, who hold in
such exalted estimation an editor's
calling, that one should ever be found
willing to belittle it; it is also a
great comfort to know that there are
those who hold this their position,
for honor and inferas! second to none,
and in this light conscientiously con-
duct the paper, so far as their strength
and means allow.
This would be a very stnpid
world, I grant, if individuality were
not allowed in the editorial chair, as
well as elsewhere; but leaving a
wide margin for this, is J here not
| still room in ninny newspapers for
more instice, manliness, courtesy,
and above all, respectful mention of
woman, even though the exigence of
her life may compel her to address
the public 1
To Kiix the Cotton Worm.—
We clip the following recipes for
killing the col ton worm from tbo
Texas Farmer, published at Hender-
son. They are worth trying, and
much good may result from the ex-
periment ;
" Ta^e a plate for each acre of
cotton, (tin piates answer;, drive a
stake and place the plate safely up-
on its top by any apparatus—a board
for instance, nailed on top of stake,
and plate made secure by nails
around its edge. Then make a mix-
ture of equal parts ot molasses and
good vinegar, and fill the plates at
and for this purpose a special car, sundown with ibis mixture. The
containing the heating apparatus, fly is attracted, and delights to suck
Total, Democrats,
RAPlf-'Af.S.
175
Iowa,
0
Nevada,
3
Kansas,
3
Rhode Iilund,
4
Maine,
7
Tennessee,
JO
Minnesota,
4
Vermont.
5
Massachusetts,
l-¿
Wisconsin,
8
Nebraska,
3
West Virginia,
5
Total, 7?adicais,
■i-i
35
Should the proscribed States be
permitted to vote by the usurpers,
the result will be about as follows,
unless the bayonets do it all:
DEMOCRATIC.
Alabama,
Arkansas,
Georgia,
Texas,
Virginia.
RADICAL.
Florida.
Louisiana,
Mississippi,
North Carolina,
South Carolina
41
175
9
6
32
70
Total, 2ÍC 104
Democratic majority, 114 electoral
votes.
The German railways have adopt-
ed a new system for heating cars on
railways. At a conference of the
railway managers oí the North Ger-
man Bund, some time ago, if. was
agreed to warm (he passenger cars
on all the lines, beginning as soon as
the cold weather sets in n^xt winter,
will be placed immediately next to
the locomotive of every train, from
which pipes will convey a continual
circulation of hot water through the
whole train. Inside the cars these
pipes are made of copper, which will
communicate with the other cars by
short lengths of India rubber pipes,
fitting in by means of screw metal
heads. Ventilators in the interior of
the compartments enable the passen-
gers to regulate the temperature to
suit their convenience.
this mixture, and is killed bj- it.
"This remedy was tried in this sec-
tion last year only with pariial suc-
cess. If every planter would use it.
at first appearance of the fly, it might
afford some protection.
" Another plan is to make fires,
through the fields on scaffolds above
the cotton—one fire to the acre. The
fly is attracted by the light and is
destroyed. Either of these plans is
simple, and a trial will cost but little
The worms, as yet, have done no
damage, but are appearing in several
localities iu small quantities. The
question of a cotton crop will soon be
settled."
The largest topaz known has been
deposited in the Bank of France. It
is of Brazilian origin, and measures
seven and ore-quarter inches in
length, by four and three-fourth
inches in width, and about the same
in thickness. It weighs more than
three and one-half pounds. How-
ever valuable Ihis stone may be from
its brilliancy and size, it is still more
so from its artistic merit, as cn one quaiuted wiih his danghters, because
Brigham Young has been adminis-
tering a severe rebuke to j onng men
of immoral habits. In a recent ser-
mon, lie spoke of having refused sev-
eral young saints the privilege of vis-
iting his house ani becoming ac-
side is engraved at half length, Christ
breaking bread at the. Lord's Sup-
per. This composition was execu-
ted with the burin and diamond dust
by the ownei of the gem, Andrew
Coriello, formerly director oí the
Naples Mint.
The vomito his ij.oktu out at Kev
West.
they were in the habit of profaning
the name, of the D.uity, and then ad-
ded : "I do not wish my daughters
to be entangled wilh one who does
not serve God. I would sooner Bee
evoly one of them sealed to Father
Perkins here, who is S"> years of aire,
than that any of them should be seal-
ed to a wicked man."
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Elliott, B. F. & Osterhout, J. P. The Texas Countryman. (Hempstead, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, September 4, 1868, newspaper, September 4, 1868; Hempstead, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth180308/m1/1/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.