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THE STATESMAN.
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the Statesman.
Villi 1XVJLL.V
pabllabed avsry morning except Honda-.
TIMS fEEKLV
pabllabed ttt Ttaoradsv marmne.
All br.'- curreapoodeaca eoanmonl It n elf.
Should b uuHKd Ui
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AUSTIN TEXAS THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 3 lS7(i.
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DR. C. M 'LANE'S
Celebrated American
Worm -Specific
VERArTFUGE
SYMPTOMS OP WORMS.
THE courtenaTT-e is pale and
leaden-colored wi'h occasional
Jushes or a rlrcunijcrihed spot on
one or both cheek ; the ayes become
dull ; the pupils dilate; an azure
semicircle runt along the lower eye-
lid; the nose U irritatad swe'Js and
... sometimes bleeds ; a swelling of the
upper lip; occasional licadacl e with
humming or throbbing of the ears ;
. an unusual secretion of s.iliva ; slimy
or furrad tongue ; breath vtiry foul
particularly in the morning; appetite
variable sometimes voraciom with a
gnawing sensation of the stomach at
others entirely gone ; : fleeting pains
in the stomach; occasions 1 nausea '
and vomiting; violent pains through
out the abdomen ; bowels irregular
at times costive; stools slimy not
infrequently tinged with blood; belly
swollen and hard; urine turbid; re-
spiration occasionally difficult anc'
accompanied by hiccough ; cough
sometimes dry and convulsive; un-
easy and disturbed sleep witTi grind-
ing of the teeth ; temper variable
but generally irritable etc.
Whenever the above symptoms
are found to exist
Da. C. M'LANE'S VERMIFUGE
Will certainly effect a cure.
The universal success which h?s
attended the administration of this
preparation has been such as to war?
rant us in pledging ourselves to the
public to
RETURN THE MONEY
in everjr ins'ance where it should
prove ineffectual : " providing the
symptoms atten:!irij the sickness of
the child or a. Ink should warrant the
supposition of wrtr being the
cause." In all cacf the Medicine
to be given if strict accordant
WITH THBDmilT Of:j. ' '
W'c pledge onse!ve3 to the public
that - 1
Dr. C. M'Lanc's Vermifuge
.does xot.cont.ux merccry
jr. any form ; and that it is an inno-
cent preparat ion not eatable of doing . .
the slightest irhtry to- the most tender
infant. Address al' orders to ''"
FLEMING PROS.. rtTTisi'it(;ii pA.
r. .S. De-iKm nnl ni)":!. nnW!tsi fmm
other Irian Fleming ft. . will !vll t(. write
tbrir flr'Vrm ilisrlnnlv m tfihe tW Pr. C.
'. To lho wMii ijt tn jrive thim a trial wc ill
('fwnrrl per mail pt reiM to nnv put of (lie
I'nitod State one Ih .ui I'llli (lir lwelri; ihtve-
rent pupe stnrr.p. it nne vi.il i.f Vermifuge for
fouler ihree.eMt.iiitv AH cMi-r fr.m Canada
Smtt lie accompanied I.y twenty ct-m rxtm.
- ' aalc ly Uraggiola and Country Store
Keeper gennrnllv
THE MOST PERFECT MADE.
CvIONE THIRD IS .SAVED3
ii quantity by their raTfift ptirity and prvn. '
atrt-nih; the only kind made by ft prer-'
tical Chemist and' Phvuiflan with Bcicntilio
ear to Intmra muforniity herdthfulne deli-
cacy and freedom from all injurious bhIw tan-
ecu. They are tor anperior to th common
adulterated kinds. Obtain the genuine. Ob-1
aerve our Trade Mark a above "tlreim"1 .
linking Powder "Hand and Cornucopia."
liny the Buking Powder only in ccn utrun'ly
labvlled. Many hava be'n dv'otived in loom.
r btillt Powder sold as Pr. Pritx''a.
MauuUctured onlr y
& rnicn
' oa au Jjomi and Cincinnati.
SIMMONS'S ; LIYtRl REGULATOR
Sor all dliruM of th Uttt Rmmarh and Kpleon
t.AKIll'S KKVKKS. BOWKI IH)MPLAI.NT8
HYttr-WMA MSN IAL Dkf KK8IUN.
MiSH JAI SKICK NACSBA. M'K UF. ADAC'illi
UlUO XSi ri'ATIoN ami UILlOUtSN aiHS.
It I Mtilneutiy a finuly Mlicin and by .
Wni( kel rrady f Intmadtal ravurt will '"
m many anbtHiruf aaltrrlDgaitd nuuijr adot-
lax in limu; and doctor' bill.
Afttv KortT Vara trml it la attlt raretvluf
tha aiiMl anqaaliaud toadmooiiiia o( lu virruva
truiu prruna of lb hljiht'iit . i.arat-ur and ra-
tKMiaihility. Km Dnij h;tclaiicoaiiurnd ll
awtlwwual
1J KCTUAI! Hl'KCIKIO
tnr CoiIpallaa llaarlwb Pa'a in tti Pbonldera
JitaaiarM boar rl. maco. tMul taata tu the luu.ali bii-
Ion a aiucka I'aliiaiku vt (bo Ucart 1'uiu id Ibc r-
iu ut bu Kbla jr aaHunrnry kI.khu mil tv-
udioira of avU ad of wbith an Ibc ulapnuc of a uia-
cmaudLlvsr.
Tat Live. th largrt orjian In (ha bodr. la
ratrraily hv aaat u( tn dUH and if nl
liMLiuTauin UBM uraai. Buttering an U hni-
i aahl DKAT i otU rn-ne. ;
If lar DfiX lurr. Tn.tTATo
hava friaut Uiwhb Miut Taaraa
badly poor ArrTiT aud Tijiih a Cuarau
' yoa ara aalfrrln ftvtni lKiin l.irka or "iaib- .
- iomkiu." awl uothrBK trill eura juu a a wi-
lly ana oarmauaauy. . .
' 1 Uava aovr tra o tried rarb a timulu rfTloArlnaa
atiaraciory and p raaanl rvauadf ill ait Ufa." U
UAiMaa.ai.UMia.aiu..- - f .
. AUg. IT. St.vktn.
" oo-aalHllr im wbea my condnlim raqnlroa It
Dr. Atjuaaaua'a Ua Kcxalaaur ita d aacl."
ban auix.IL STarnaaa.
Uwrwr or .lioAoma.
Toor Xaralator baa bare in a in By femflr fur
oaaa uiaa. and 1 aaa. parauadad H la a ta-oiuia MdW
oa lo laa auulud Hltan."-iiov. J. OuJ. taoataa.
Ala. '
-I aara aad tha Refnibtlur ta m famll.T for th t
aawntava yraia. I ran aardy rvcommend It to the
. wurid a .ha baat ndiciua 4 ha arvar naad for that
cia-a u4 dlaaaai It Ma. porta to mw."- II. Tararu
. VVariiiial ar 14 I Vy Jtott.
. tlDaiaa'B Lttror Hi-rotator baa ptuved a aood and
rfltaacanaa aaadiuaa." O. A N'l TTlta.
- ' X'rwyvaaCa.
WababVB arqnaiatutaitbltr. Sla-iniana'a titrr
- Mtxltcaaw lot aiora uuta l.raij yranaad tnw it 10
la Iba bcaa lacr Krgu lautr uttrtrd lo the putdlt."
- M. K. t-Voa aad U. k. eW i.. f.Hili. t.a
1 araa ra.cd by iaim U' U Itc.ulalor aft.-f
- tartca auttirwl aewrai axa with l.ulia aud ttw."
4 -w. Ktrrrjy
' af 7 w'friaad elf hav arxrd im firenUilmr fur Twa
aad Maury ta Ma gnaat M J. at. faibka
1 bara tima vvut taaiitciM a taoniacb tr-al and la
Bocaae baa ta-W toglv fall aai ia(ax )." fcUqjui
laucaaa Cbaltatwwa-iiof. Kiortua. . 1 v
1 yawiina. .
Trran artaal axpartaMM ta tba caa af lala aaadldna
la aay lractu i bra bvji att.l aru raiiafiud tonia aud
uraxxtba a ar a parvaUra mjKiao. ir. J. W. bv
! hava aard r Sliuuoua'a Litvr lu-sulatnr la aay
fkaail for lyvpata and Mr ll.-ajacto. ara rrcaid
Ian mvaioaal raamady. Il baa tH faitnl u na neiiaf
a aay tDataucak? Ucv W. r. kTatujK.
iVwicrH rJAary (tatra.
: aftauaMaw'a lArtt H-ttalato. a aaataiuly a aoarMc
ttt that ciaaa of comptaitita bikb U daiota 10 cur
he. lit Vt tit.
ro lioTaJMa ta a Fan.aa oa Rrcoaa-
Wbaat otataaoya" a aJiKf K ritual vr baa boca aroper
tairn. J. U. Zuua 4 Cu. rVuncUua.
ijrtT aod4wl :
TOTICS -
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1 benby if.vva Iba
. .it.
t will la atwar la UeapanalbKa
for .y 4bu cuatras4 by TAiXITUA 0. OaTT.
; witt:r. .''i; 1cauustt.' '
THE CONfeTtTC-nOX I.N SE.f EC A3IBI A
There was uerer a free' government de
stroyed that it did not owe Its orcrthrow
to coucessioDa niade o the mob by dema
gojriatQ. ana however lustly aaimat cour
age illustrated on battle fields rruy be laud
ed there is no heroism ao lofty or adiuira
blc an that which enables party leaders or
lawgivers whether the mob approve fr not
to vote and apeak the truth and prefer the
country's good to the mob's applause. It
ww in this sort f heroism that the ltte
constitutional convention waa lound want-
n. The learned and only really great
men of that body often detied the preju
dices oT the many and asserted their love of
truth and illutrated wisdom in govern-
ment; but the instincts of Rutabagaism
aamiminf the shape of vnlgardcinagogiain
lent before the rabble with a deirreo of hfi-'
milittting truculence that was even pitiable
as it was disastrous. It was a fearful blow
at popular rights and popular" freedom
when the creation of the judiciary was left
in the bands of voters very many of whom
maybe bribed and more flattered until the
cuuning shyster niiy defeat tile accom
plished scholar and jurist. To render this
result in many districts almost disastrously
certain the ignorant and incapable are suf
fered to constitute a majority of voters and
n such district's of all aspirant for
judicial honors the worst will be cho
sen. To prevent thia result tlUtrir-ia
were "gerrymandered." the Tin rnnap
being in these elections and properly
enough to disfranchise the blacks by indi-
rection. In achieving this end distorts
were elongated most absurdly and a few
iiacks not numbering it was thought; more
than a third of fie voters in each district
were assigned to each. It will cost a judge
certainly five dollars per diem to Lve and tra-
verse his endless circuit and his personal
expenses will be not less than $1500.1 To
feed and clothe and maintain a family with
$500 will be a difficult tusk and no lawyer of
learning and ability having a family will
seek the office. ! Bachelors are thus pre-
ferred to married men and marriage the
family is the State and no State can exist
or society be civilised in which every in-
centive is not prolfered in promotion of mnr-
riage and every penalty provided for vio-
lations of its. rites. . The business relations
of inea are thus to be determined by cheap
courts ami when tbey dielheir estates and
widows and orphans' become the prey of a
scheme of perquisites by which the ht-lpless
and unsuspecting 'may be -forever uncon
sciously robbed. - ' " 1
But Governor Coke comes before us and
while he is a great party lender and lik.'
other men loves power and therefore loves
to inveigh against any share of freedom of
thinking inside the purty none having the
right to think except .the good men who
make the little contrivuuees called platforms
Governor Coke appears and tells us with
perfect honesty if the new Constitution be
rejected there can occur no interregnum
or disturbance of society or government.
This true should we rely upon amendments
by legislature and people with all the
costly appliances and losses sustained in
elections and in maintaining - legislatures
which never have time to dispose of current
legislation or shall we reject the scheme of
Rutabagaism and perfect that in which it
fails so egregiously I ; The good the Ituta-
bugas have done may be retained by a .new
convention and the evil rejected and a
proper constitution could now be framed
in a very brief session of a body educated
by the blunders and hasty action of the
late pretended government framers. Since
no harm can come to the State if we reject
the new code and 'since there is no sane
man who would . vote for. the Constitution
because Radicalism pronounces against it
aud the cheapest mode o reform necessari-
ly consists in convoking' a new convention
there is no reason' unless a -citizen would
do the greatest possible mischief te Texas
why anyone unless a candidate fan office
created by it should Tore"for the adoption
of the new system1 of' -; government.
The - .Democratic party be it remum-
bered has disclaimed ' Vesporsibjlky
for the botchworkf "of " RutabRgatsni
and the simple question' presents' itself . is
it better to inaugurate a government to be
repudiated and reformed piecemeal through
weary years and at infinite cost of. legisla-
tive and popnlar action or resort to a hew
convention educated as it must bn by the
follies and failures of the one now. dis-
solved f The reason given by Johnson of
Colli u. -for- his-acthm .iir'lhe convention
surely cannot be approved by the? people of
Texas'. A correspondent' of the '"JVcir recalls-
his exclamation- In the convention on
a memorable occasion when' he said : ' i
" We are thirty-three kni yotf art thirtj-
seveu aud webve beatthe talent. of the
convention on every part'of the ground."
Be did not speak for the Democratic
party or for the people of Texas and yet
in this he informed "ui how the instrument
was framed and how absurd it id that the
people should feel themselves compelled to
vote for lawa widt h are no system and for
a framework of government which is only
an awkward code of laws. The writer re-
ferred to says properly that k .j- i -
It deliver over -aowtbero and eastern
countivs of the ''Black belt'.' once the rich-
est and still the fairest pf tbjs fertile land
inhabited by a people unexcelled in iutrcli-
geiice ' and moral worth' hopelessly' irre-
deemably to African misru'.e-. We shofeld
vote against it because by iu Radieal pro-
visinn for thetlectlmrof"all officers by
universal suffrage and it' extravagant i n-
tension of the doctrtutt of Itotn rule'! it
commits the government of the people Of
these countiea to the hands of the ignorant
aud prfjuiticed class who were lately sTavits.
Under the Constitution 'a vt Is in a very
fvw years DemocrtncGovrnor and fen-
ate won Id put a learned -aad enlightened
ju le n uur district bench. .We lw'd
that a leifislature Jean imbued with the fell
spirit of demagogism than the lat wclld
autetd our jury system so that ignorance
aud prejudice might' no longer -occnpy'tlie
jury box. If " lhyew" Contitution is
adopted there is nothing for us but deapair.
Uur former slaves will elect our district
judges our county judges our ckrk and
abends our county commissiooefs . and
justice of the ocace. '' - - . ;
The exodus of the white opultioa from
theae countiea will begin. The colored
race will flock here as to a tiew ! Doraiki.
In fact all over the Statn their attention is
already directed here and we havo in one
ncighborhotnl this wintejc a-j influx of 100
colored families settled under the auspices
of Mr. Hack worth the Radical dek-tate for
the Fifth District. - - :- .; 4
You may tell oa that time wi'4 wir'k out
our salvation. "We know better. We knovr
that oar laaU aradiiiiinishiag ia value our
white population docrcasini; and worst of
all we Inrgia to aee the dvmoraH-tinsr infia-
ence of negro supremacy; W have oo
hope of better things except i the defeat
of the Conautuuoo and whether it be
Democratic or Radical ta oppose it we can-
not. We obJt know that howsoever gool
. ... ..... ..
it may be for other sections of the P .te it
is dttth to os. And we pray God t avert
. "7 be dorp damnation of ft a taking off.
Bl'SIXEJ lMOPtiCTSi FOR : 878.
As a change for the better in the busi
ness situation has been confidently antici
pated with the advent of the new year
some indications of such a change if it has
begun should be visible in the annual com
mercial reports and circulars. At first sight
this is not apparent. The number of fail-
urea in 1873 is'announced as 7740 which is
more even than occurred in the general
crash of 1857 and in fact it is more than
at any period in the national history. The
ggregite amount of liabilities is-reported
at over $201000000 . about $30000000
more than last year. With that part of the
statement of the results of the business of
1875 however the summary of what is
gloomy and depressing in it end;. An en
couraging light will be thrown on the situ-
ation by an examination of the following
tabic reviewing the failures of the last
nineteen years:
Year. . ' No. -of failnres.' . Amount.
1857 4932 $291750000
1858....:...' 4225 95749.000
18.VJ 3913 64.394.000
18(50. ..-.;'.-'. :. .3C7G 79807000
18G1 .6993 207.210.000
IN THK liOKTH OSLT.
18(52 1002 23049000
18(53 495 7.899.000
1804 520 8.579000
18(55 530 17.625.000
IN ALL TUB STATES.
.1505
2780
'..........2008
....2799 ' !
i..3546:
.2915
18C0 .1505 53788000
1807 2780 96666000
1868......' ......2008 ' 63694000
1869 ....2799 ' ! 75054000
1870..... i..3546: 88242000
1871 .2915 . 85252000
1873 4069 . 121056000
1873 5163 228499000
1 874 .5830 1 55 239 000
4069
5163
.'. ....5830
i 7740
1875... 4... 7740 201060000
While the number of failures in 1875 is
so large the average amount of liabilities is
less than those of any yearj except two
since 1804. This shows us that the tremen
dous and widespread severity of the effects
of the reaction from the abnormal and spec
ulative activity of the war times with their
overtrading and inflation is mitigating its
severity and like ; a wave of impulsion
weakens as it widens. In 1873 it prostrated
the great business centers like a hurricane
and is now expending its last strergth oa
the smaller traders and business men of the
country.'' ' ' '.' ' ' ' ' ;
:' Wheii a gcnernl business panic occurs' as
in 1857 and 1873 the millionairehouses the
great bankers the large wholesale firms
with extended credits' the manufacturers
whose goods are found on the counters of
the mercantile world suJCer first and receive
the fullest force of the shock. Then the
panic-wave spreads .wide over the country
attacks in all localities the houses of smaller
capital and finally following its natural
sweep and effect it exhausts itself on the
outermost circle of smaller dealers to be
followed speedily by. a wave of renewed
couhdence and activity. So that the im-
mense number of small failures last year is
renllj a sign of encouragement and hope.
This is the general law of business reaction.
Nothing can counteract iu - Always when
a great panic is allowed to run its course
as that of 1373 is doing we find in a year or
two afterwards a formidable number of
small failures and then affairs begin to
mend. : We have thus glanced - briefly' at
the immediate causes for hope in the near
future.. The atmosphere in the business
world is yet heavy stagnant and lowering
but the quickening breeze which shall dispel
the fogs of despondency is at hand and
promises a wonderful - revival of enterprise
and prosperity for the present year.
Another thought suggests itself here. ' In
the last Eerce 'struggle r between France and
Germany the former was crushed and ap-
parently ruined her' capital ' taken her
fairest provinces torn from' her grasp and
burdened with an immense debt avowedly
inflicted by the conquering power for the
purpose Of rendering her 'permanently un-
able to avenge or retrieve her losses. The
statesmen of Europe said that France as a
political force was almost blotted from the
map' and was no longer a first-class State.
But as If to asser the divine law of com-
pensation France has since been blessed
with bouuiiful harvests while Germany has
suffered from scarcity ( the financial system
of France is the admiration of Europe
while .Berlin has been convulsed with re-
peated panic and to-day France asserts
that the produce of her vineyards in two
seasons enabled her to pay off her immense
war indemnity of-a thousand million dol-
lars.. Our section of ;the American nation
has had similar good fortune since the war.
While the Northern States have suffered
severely from drought locusts untimely
frosts and scanty crops the South begin-
ning the worldanew has been' steadily
growing in prosperity . The crops have
been large the seasons favorable and the
farmers have marketed their produce to
fair advantage. This has helped our busi-
ness men to stand firm and the failures have
oeen few aud light less numerous than be-
fore the war and not' so large. . Our en-
tire section has been benefited by haying
something to sell that the business world
wanted to buy. If now we add to these
undeniable and most encouraging fact the
universal movement towards and demand
for retrenchment of expense in every de-
partment of public nffsirs; -whether munici-
pal" State or national and the prevailing
caution prudence and economy that every
citizen feels called 'tipon to exercise -with
other-similar causes now in active opera-
tic and Jw reach The conclusion that
nothing bnt the improbable contingency of
a foreign war can so unsettle matters as to
hinder 'a steady" healthy' and satisfactory
revival of trade during the next' twelve
mouths.'" ' 1 :'- " ' '"' )
THE FilK THIMJ SCOTT AID
(iOCLO BOTaS HiPPV.
We make a proposition which every Tex-
an must approve. If we must endow and
build a St. Louis Philadelphia and Pacific
toad In order to lessen freight and passen-
ger rates between San Francisco and Phila-
delphia let. ns also build a road from San
Francisco to New Orleans Shreveport and
Charleston and Norfolk. In other words
if the North must have and we par for
another Central Pacific. in God's name let
us also have a Southern Pacific And if
Texas' be entrapped into the cession of an
empire to the2iarthero line which the Fed-
eral government u through iu agent' Tom
Scott constructs it is only fair that the
Federal government sjaist with an eqoivav-
lent the shorter road from Ban Francisco
through; Central Texas to Galveston. -All
we aak. is that Texas te dealt with fairly ia
this behalf. The St Louu EjUtaut is
'" - - v1 1 .
Tom Scott's earnest exponent and tells o.'
terrible wn ns iLfi:c:ei upon trade and
travel between e't. Louis and San Francisco
by Jay Gould's monopoly. .This may be all
true and Guuld may be for aught we know.
a stupendous villain and neither better nor
worse than Tom Scolt. When however
the lU)"illu-nn w eeps over woes which Tom
Scott would dissipate it confesses that
Scott's road is u-jt a Texas road or a South-
ern road; but a St. Louis and Philadelphia
highway. '1 his admitted how long before
Scott and Gould will be allies ami have an
understanding even as have Scott and Gar-
rett! Were they not warring gods hurling
the Alleghanies ami Iilue Ritlg at one an-
other not Ion; ago? and are they not coo-
ing doves to-day billing and cooing espe-
cially "billing" when freights are prof-
fered orTexans go East? Even such would
be the case when Gould and Scott have
parallel lines between St. Louis and San
Francisco. But this is a matter
that does not immediately concern Texas.
We want the roads of .California" Oregon
and Washington extended to the Atlantic
Ocean at the neaiest possible point to San
Francisco and that point is Gjircston; to
this city Jay Gould and Huntington bend
their steps and if Texas must endow with
imperial riches a highway designed as the
Itepublican. tells to lessen freight and pas
senger rates between San Francisco and St.
Louis we demand iu the name of justice a
Southern road between the two oceans.
Huntington asks only alternate sections of
public lands and wants no loan of eighty
millions or more of United States bonds and
that the Texas end of the line may be built
we ask that Congress make good the loss we
sustain when Kutabagaism transfers an
empire . to Si. Louis and Ton! Scott
uur reaaers snout. l . remember that we
speak of the Texas and Pacific as now
proposed to be built its trunk line diverg
ing north to bt. Louis from Texas at the
one hundred and fouitli parallel of longi
tude. The result of this divergence is con-
fessed by the St. Louis lipiiblican when it
admits that the effect will be to reduce
freights between that city and Sin Francis
co. It is a St. Louis roaa that Scott is
building and the JiepuMiean tells thet.uth
of it i it is a Philadelphia rond which Scott
is building and that makes' the little
Leader't legs rattle like a canebrake and its
knees to smite one another in an ecstucy of
rage when a highway from San Francisco
to Galveston is mentioned. But we demand
only fair play. Let Tom Scott have all he
asks if you do not rob Texas. Let us have
our land for Texas roads and Huntington
and San Francisco will guarantee the con-
struction of a line to TeXiirkana and to
Shreveport and to Galveston from El Paso
and thence to San Francipco.
WHO WILL HE Hit ?
The Cincinnati Commercial basing its re-
marks on "a few items of inside informa-
tion from Washington" inclines to the be-
lief that both Moiton and Elaine will fail
of the Radical nomination for the Presiden-
cy. "Morton" it says 'could command
almost anything with the. single exception
of the thing he wants. Hid ambition is to
be President and perhaps hei could compel
his party to nominate him if there was not
in his case a question 1 of : safety 'before
which when the test comes prudent poli-
ticians will first hesitate and then remon-
strate and then his strength will fade like
a dream." Mr. Blaine is likely to be "red-
hot for war" and "this is not exactly the
temper in which a prudent party in an
emergency would be likely to prefer to see
their presidential champion."' The Com-
mreiaT conclusion is this: "It may not be
inappropriate to say that Bnstow would
most clearly repres" nt the aggressive f pirit
of reform and command a larger liberal and
outside-support than any other Republican
candidate who has been named or who is
likely to appear in the convention. We will
not undertake to say whether this may be
to his advantage or disadvantage among the
prevailing politicians. - Taking the field as
we find it the probabilities are that the
Republican nominee will be one of three
men Hayes or Bristow or Washburne.
Hayes is a possibility. The other two are
decided probabilities and seem to have the
winning chances." It is almost painful to
reflect that Blaine grasping at a shadow
lost the substance and is hardly spoken
of as a probable candidate for the Presi-
dency. . s .
The San Antonio Herald says the St'atks-
afAM's Houston correspondent' is not well
posted and that Judge Devine has refused
to become a candidate for the United States
Senate. The Herald adds that :
"Judge Devine possesses the mastermind
of Western Texas and has no superior in
the Slate. For any position or office either
in or out ot the State to which he may as-
pire Judge Devine will always find in the
f"an Antonio Herald a sincere and faithful
friend and an earnest advocate. As regards
the new Constitution and thr. correspondent's
friend Lang the Herald certainly has no
affinity either for the one or the ther and
so perfectly ind. Cerent to them are we that
they may both be defeated In: lore the people
at the ensuing election without causing in
us the slightest emotion."
. In view of the fact above etated and
which is universally conceded. that Judge
Deyine is perhaps the ablest thinker of the
State and we want a representative in the
Senate worthy intellectually of this great
commonwealth and Western Texas is en-
titled to the making of the nomination our
Houston. correspondent has . committed no
crime in signifying his preference forjudge
Devine even thongh the distinguished gen-
tleman will not go into e scramble for the
office. -
- Judge Jaxks IL Bell duclaims any con-
iMii..n niih the Radical movement at Hons-
l u u f:ivnr of securing the support of the
m.tj. rit j . f the people of the State for the
adoption of the proposed Constitution. ... He
disclaims any connection as attorney or
otherwise with Tom Scott and says that
after being invited to moke a speech before
the Houston convention he did so not as a
partisan but as the earnest friend of Texas
and that his opposition to the proposed
Constitution is in consequence of bis devo-
tion to Texas. In view of the high per-
sonal character of Judge Bell we are com-
pelted to give credit to bis assertions and
feel gratified that he was not a party to the
above movement.
Thk Corsicana Imlct says that the con
duct of the h orrible "ghastly hideous in
fernal moo that bnrned - the negro who
killed J. M. Baker ia Milam county would
have di&graced Comanche. brave. Gov.
Coke U much of the same opinion and it
is time that the coons were banging Jadge
Ljnch ana all his bailiffs and executioner.
Jba Katsa AaatalUea K Olebrated
Re lgloaa Meforaner aa4 111a llelatttn
' toihd Pair Sax.
' ' " .
Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson in some arti-
cles recently published in Miiaiullant Maga-
zine has made a careful study of Jj'uu
Knox's relations to women in the course of
which be has pointed out some facts at
tested by Ktiox'aowu letters which strange
ly contradict the accepf.-d .theories of tb
great Scottish reformer's sternness of charac
ter and which constitute a singular com
meutary uion the contempt Koox expressed
woiueu in uis pooiisiMxl writings. Uom
aucMtiug upon mo goiter side ol the re-
jrper s character which he pointsour Mr.
'i"V?eu8on says: '
would ue e:fcy of course to mxke fun
oi tne wnole affair to picture him strutting
vain-gloriously among those iulenor crea-
tuies or compare a religious friendship in
me aixieentn century with what was called
l mink a literary friendship in the eiuh
teenth. But it is wore just aud profitable
recognize wnat mere is sterling and hu
man uiHiereeath all this theoretical affect a
Uon ot siipcruirity. Women be bos said
in;:is 'i inn Blast.' are weak. frail iuina.
tient feeble and foolish;' and yet it does
KOt appear that btwas.binisell any less de-
pendent than any other men upon the svm
pathy and affection Of these w eak frail im
patient lecole and foolish creatures
aeems as if he had been rather more depen
dent man most.
"Of such scraps and fragments of evidence
as to ins private life and more intimate
thoughts as have survived tft us from all the
penis that environ written paper an aston
ishingly large proportion is in the shape of
letteis to women of his familiarity. He was
twice married but that is not greatly to the
purpose; for the Ttr who thinks even
more meanly oi women than John Knox is
none the less given to marrying What is
really significant is quite apart from mar
riage r or tne man Knox was a true man
and woman the etcia-weillicha. was as nec
essary to him in spue of all low theories us
ever sue was to Aioetnet -..' : :
"It must not be forgotten that Knox had
been a presbyter of the old church ; and that
the many women whom we shall sue gather
ing arouno mm as ne goes through life had
probably been accustomed while still in the
commuuion of Rome to. rely much upon
some spiritual director so that the intima-
cies of which I propose to offer some ac
count while testifying to a' good heart in
the reformer testify also to a certain survi-
val of the spirit of the confessional in the
Reform Church and are not properly to be
judged without this idea."
The longest-continued and the closest of
his friendships with women and the one
which excited the most ill-natured comment
at the time was that between himself and
Mrs. Elizabeth Bowes the wife of Richard
Bowes and the mother of twelve children
This woman we are told waa a "religious
hypochondriac a very weariful woman full
ot . uuuuw auu scruples ana . giving no
rest on earth either to herself or to those
whom she honored with her confidence."
- - Knox seemed to have assumed something
oi tne atuiuue oi a iatner contessor to this
woman and their intercourse both personal
and by letter was so constant and confiden-
tial as grievously to excite the jealousy of
Kicnara isowes ana to create considerable
scandals .! . j .. .
"Now perhaps in order to stop scanda-
lous mouths perhaps out of a desire to bind
the niucb-loved evangelist nearer to her in
"the only manner possible; Mrs. Bowes con
ceived the scheme of marrying hija to her
fifth daughter Majorie and the reformer
seems to have . fallen' in with it reudily
enougn. it seems to have been believed
in the family that the whole matter had
originally been made between these two
wit! do very spontaneous inclination on the
part of the bride. . The
whole Bowes family-" angry enough already
at the influence he had Obtained over the
mother set their faces obdurately against
the match.'. .And I dare say the opposition
quickened his inclination. I find him writ
ing to Mrs. Bowes that she need not further
trouble herself about the marriage ; it should
be his business altogether; it behooved him
now to jeopard his life 'for the comfort of
b is own flesh .both fear and friendship of
an eartniy creatures laid aside.'
"The actual date of the marriage is un
certain; but by September 1566 at the
latest the reformer was settled in Geneva
with his wife. There is no fear either that
he will be dull; even if the chaste thrifty
patient Marjorie should not altogether occu-
py bis mind he need not go out of the
bouse to seek more female sympathy; for
behold . Mrs. Bowes duly domesticated with
the young couple. . Dr. JIcCrie imagined
that Richard Bowes was now dead and his
widow consequently free to live where she
would. j ' " This
however is not the. case i Richard Bowes
did not die till at least two years later. It
is impossible to believe that he approved of
his "wife's desertion after so many years of
marriage - and 'after twelve children had
been born to them;-and accordingly we find
in bis will dated 1558 no mention either of
her or of Knox's wife. .This is plain sailing.
It is easy enough to understand the anger
of Bowes against this interloper who had
come into a quiet family married the
daughter in spite of the father's opposition
alienated the wife from the husband and the
husband's religion; supported her in a long
eourse of insistence and rebellion and after
years of intimacy already too close and ten-
der for any jealous spirit to behold without
resentment .carried her away with him at
last into a foreign land.
"You would have thought that Knox was
now pretty well supplied with female socie-
ty. But we are not yet at the end of the
roll. .. The last years of his sojourn in Eng-
land had been spent principally in London
where be was resident as one of the chap-
lains of Edward VI. and here he boasis.
although a stranger be bad by God's grace
found favor before many. The godly wo
men of the metropolis made much of him;
once he writes to Mrs. Bowes that her letter
fonnd him closeted with three and he and
the three women were all in tears. Out of
all however he -had chosen two. HJod'
he writes to them 'brought ns into such
familiar acquaintance that your hearts were
incensed aud kindled with a special care
over me aa the mother nseth to be over ter
natural child; and my heart waa opened
and compelled in your prise nee to be more
plain tnan i ever was to any.' And out of
this two iven he had chosen one Mrs. Anne
Locke wife to Mr.- Harry Locke merchant
nigh to Bow Kirk Cheapaide in London
as the address runs. .If one mav venture to
judge upon snch imperfect evidence this
was the woman he loved best.
1 "We find him writing to her from Geneva
ia anch terms as these: Yon write that
your desire is earnest to see me. Dear sis-
ter if I should express the thirst and lan-
guor which I have bad for your presence J
should appear to pass measure.
Yes I weep and rejoice in remembrance of
you; but that would evanish by the com-
fort of your presence which I assure you
is so dear to me that if the charge of this
little flock here gathered together in Chriat'a
name did not impede me toy coming should
prevent ny lettor.- I amy that this was
written from Geneve; and yet yoo will ob-
serve that it u no consideration for his wife
or mother-in-law only the charge of bis
little flock that keeps him from setting out
forthwith for London to comfort himself
with ths dear presence of Mr. Locke. Re-
member that w&f a certain plausible enough
pretext for Mre. Locke to come to Geneva
the most perfect school of Christ that ever
was on earth ainee the days of the apostles'
for w are ww vnder the reign of that
'horrible snoawter Jcjebel of England when
a lady of good orthodox sentiment was bet-
ter out of London.-; It waa 'doubtful how-
ever -whether this was to be. She was de-
tained ia England partly by drenmatancea
unknown 'parti y by empire of her bead.'
Mr Harry Locke the Cheapaide merchant.
It is eumewbat humorous to see Knox strng-
giro? fur resignation bow that he has to do
wiUt a faithful hnsbaad (for Mr. Harry
Locke was faithful). Had it be otberwiae
J in my heart be aaya 'I could have wished
! jea' hen be breaks out jta and cannot I
ceae to wish that God would guide me to
this place.' And after all be ban not long
to wait for whether Mr. Harry Locke died
in the interval or waa wearied into giving
permission five months after the date of the
letter lastquotsxi 'Mrs. Anne Lot ke Harry
her son and Anne her daughter and
Katharine her maid' arrived in that perfect
school of Christ the Presbyterian paradise
ueueva." -
After quoting from Knox's published ac-
count of Mrs. Bowes's character written
after her death for the purpoae of ailencinjj
the scandal which his relations with her had
excited Mr. Stevenson comments upon tfce
facts which he has examined: '
"And now looking back it c.iunot
snid that. Knox's intercourse with women
was quite of the highest sort. It is charac-
teristic that we find him more alarmed for
his own reputation than for the reputaii.ui
of the womeu with w hom he was familiar.
There was a fatal preponderance uf self in
all his intimacies; many women come to learn
f : I. : i . .
mm in in uui no DwerconaesceaaeU lo oe-
couie a learner in hia turn. And so ihcre ia
not nnylhiug idyllic in these intimacira of
his; and they were never so renovating to
his spirit as thev niiirht have been. - But I
buliiTve thev were irood eiiunih toiaviunnu.
TMsncy the WHineu knew what they were
iiooui wnen so many of them followed after
nnox. - it is not simply because a man is
always fully persuaded that he knows the
right from the wrong and sees his way clear-
ly through the maze of life great qualities
as these are that people will love aud fol-
low him and write him letters full of their
'earnest desire for him' when he was absent.
It is not over a maowboae oue characteris-
tic is grim fixity of purpose that the hearts
of women are 'incensed and kindled with a
special care as it were over their natural
children. In the strong quiet patience of
all his letters to the weariful Mrs. Bowes
we may perhaps see one cause of the fasci
nation he possessed for these religious wo-
men." The Poor Woman.
She came from Detroit- Michiaran. and her
great pride was being an invalid. She lost
ho opportunity in sutinfr that she came to
Minnesota to recuperate. She did pot hesi
tate to enter into a conversation with any
person she came in contact with eiviue ad
vice climatological or physiological; to in
valids and seeking the same from those of
robust constitutions. Her conversation was
always prefaced with the introductory in-
quiry so Common to visitors "Did you
come here foi your health?" She thus ad-
dressed a stalwart ruddy-visaged young
man at the dinner-table of the Metropolitan
a. few days since and the following conver-
sation ensued : ' '
"Yes madam- I came here probablv the
weakest person you ever saw. I had no
use of my limbs in fact my bones were bnt
little tougher than cartilages. I had no in-
telligent control of a single muscle nor the
use of a single faculty."
"threat Heavens." exclaimed the aston
ished auditor "and you lived?" .-
"I did miss although I was devoid of
sight was absolutely toothless unable to
articulate a single word and dependent
upon others for everything being complete-
ly deprived of all powers to help myself.' I
commenced to gain immediately udoo rav
arrival and have scarcely experienced a
sick day since hence I can conscientiously
recommend the climate."
"A wonderful eisel" said the ladv. "but
do you think your lungs were affected?"
llipy were probably sound but pos
sessed of so little vitality that but for the
most careful nursing they must have ceased
their functions." i i
"I hope you found -kind friends sir?"
"Indeed I did madam: it is to them and
tbe pure air of Minnesota that I owe my;
lifer- My father's family were with me but
unfortunately my mother - was prostrated
with a severe illness during the tirae of my
greatest prottration." ..
"How sad I Pray what was vour diet
and treatmment?
"My diet was the simplest possible con
sistiug only of milk thut being tbe only
food my sykteni would bear. . A for treat
ment t depended entirely upon the life-
Kiviug properties oi jsrnnesota air and
took no medicine except an occasional light
narcotic wnen very restless. 11 v improve
ment uaica irom my arrival. My limbs
soon became strong my sight and voice
came to me slowly and a full set of teeth
regular and firm appeared." ' '
"itemai Kable miraculous! Surely sir
you must . have been greatly reduced in
flesh?" . .
"Madam I weighed but nine pounds. I
was born in Minnesota. Good day."
Xhe Vial Warld. .
Rochefort has been trying; to start another
newspaper in Paris.' A drunken man ar
rested there recently was found to have in
his possession letters from lioch'efort con
taining a plan for the organization of anew
journal to be called "The Ralliement."
Rochefort was to write for it over the signa
ture of " Le Lanternier" giving this rea
son: ine taw permits a transported per-
son to write but not to sign. If all the
world does not recognize me the fuult will
not be mine."
Something like a complete realization of
the horrors of the tragedy at Bremerhaven
may be obtained from the fact that aa a re-
sult of the explosion the poor law commis-
sioners of Bremen have now noon their
hands fifty-six widows one hund.-ed and"
thirty-five orphans and twenty maimed men
to wnom they must snpply the necessaries
of life. It is believed that one hundred
and twenty-eight persons were slain by the
explosion. ' ' . .
Mr. Fitzjtmes Stephen the distinguished
English advocate and law writer has writ-
ten an interesting letter to the London
Timet on the nature of the offense commit
ted by Thomas or Thoniassen. the author of
the dynamite explosion at Bremerhaven.
It appears that nnder the penal code of
Germany Thomas waa not guilty of murder
lor aitnougn ne premeditated the death of
persons who might be on the ship he did
not premeditate tbe particular event which
happened and the accident itself be would
if possible have prevented. At most Thom-
as was under tbe German law guilty of an
attempt to murder only ; and Mr. Stephen
does not think that Thomas was even guilty
of an attempt as ' the German penal
code requires that to constitute the at-
tempt - acts amounting to a commence-
ment of the cotnmisaion of the. felony
should have been done. Tbe Drincinle ol
be German law would seem to be the same
as that of the French code that so long aa
it is possible that the criminal may change
hia mind mere preparation for a crime does
not amount to an attempt to commit it. On
the other hand by the law of England
there is no doubt in Mr. Stephen's opinion
that Thomas's act amounted to wilful
murder not because he premeditated tbe
death of any particular person but because
ce ransed the death of many persons by
wrongfully doing an exceedingly dangerous
thing. He would hava been equally jruilty
of murder if he bad intended to try a phi
losophical experiment and bad hoped tbt
the dynamite would reach the United States
without exploding at alL
Rumors of a desperate conflict between
Senator Tburman and Governor Hendricks
for the control of the Ohio detention to
the National Democratic Convention . are
given to the pnblic by a correspondent of
the Cincinnati Enqvinr. The plan is to
have the State convention called to meet
ter the .National convention has been
calied and to f leet tbe delegate by con-
Tenuous in u.e congressional districts. Tbfc
correspondent thinks if the delegation were
to be chosen now it would be eqnall; di-
vided between ileadrkka and Tbormaa.
Buck Urban the name meaning a' city
buck is on trial for tbe murder of Geo.
Powers at Btlton. .There waa once a sweet
nrbue pope named Urbs so-called we
reckon btcaoae be was polite aa a dancing
matter whi n be excommunicated a -.king
Or plucked a tinner from purgatory. v
A mercaatlle Ranaar. ' "
Fifty ears ago or more a lad named Au-
guatua Hcuienway wan engaged as a ahop
y in a dry goods store i.-i L harlestown
Massachusetts. His extraordinary aptitude
Tor buiof9 attracted the notice of a Boattio
uierrhant who waa heavily engaged in the
Sooth American trade lie took the boy
to bis counting house on Central wharf Bos-
ton aud when the latter grew to mtnhood
sent him to Valparaiso to look after his
large interest in that city. In a short time
the young man left hia employer and struck
but for hmiRf If. The South American trade
was a comprehensive one. It embraced tbe
tmyiuir ol all kin is of S mth American pro-
duet hides wool.atropper etc. sending
them to the Uuited States and bringing
back an assortment of American manufac
lures. The business established by Hemen-
way advauced with great at rides i The
wealthy English houses in Valparaiso having
confidence in the remarkable ability of the
youug American lent him their credit. A
singular feature in this man's career was
that he mwr gave a note. Uis business in
a few years had become so great that he
found it necessary to return to BostfJWand
eatiatt-avirrrtNio- ia that city;' lie sent bi
brother Charles P. Uemeuway to South
America to manage the house there and.
remaining himself in Boston enlarged bis
operations until the magnitude of them de
manded every moment of his time. He
even built hia own ship and made addi
tional pronts ly carrying his own goods.
lie owned tugar plantations in Cuba cop-
... lv.Sn.ia I Cut V. 4 -.--.I I I -
... . li t a u miutu Attici icti mil nail uuat-
ness relations with the Barings of such mag-
nitude as to astonish even that colossal
house and the whole of this immense busi-
ness he managed himself.
Now comes a strange change in his career.
'About fifteen years ago oue morning he
walktd into the China insurance Company's
office and expressed some anxiety about a
payment which be was obliged to make of
a comparatively trifling amount saying that
he was afraid he should not be able to meet
it. Mr. Bacon the president of tbe com-
pany was astonished and after some talk
with Mr. Uemeuway was convinced that
the latter was a little out of his mind. Mr.
Uemeuway himself came to the same conclu-
sion. He sent for his lawyer and ordered
him to draw up a power of attorney confin-
ing the management ot his businews to bis
brother Francis Bacon and Mr. Til est on.
his brother-in-law of the firm of Spofford
& Tilcston. -Associated with them was his
chief clerk a Mr. Brown also a man of
great business sagacity. Having done this
he quietly retired to L;tchfield Connecticut
and put himself in charge of an eminent
medical man who resided there. In this
house he remained for thirteen years watch-
ing aud nursing his brain. He had satisfied
himself that w ithout perfect rest and quiet
the machine so terribly tried would give
out and the result would be softening of
the brain. He passed hia time in uiet
amusemeut glanced at the newspapers but
would never allow the word business to be
mentioned in bis presence. During this
long period of seclusion the great civil war
broke out and whs extinguished specie dis
appeared a new curreucy was born new
channels of trade were opened and new
methods of business .were evolve 4. The
great whirlwind swept by him unnoticed.
I'o his friends Hemenway appeared to be
hopelessly insane. .
About eighteen months ago like a clap
of thunder from a clear sky a telegram
came to Charles nemenway worded thus:
"Bring on your trial balauce Augustus He-
menway." The brother telegraphed to the
physician. The answer came: "Patient
perfectly recovered." . Mr. Hemenway re-
ceived his brother and the trial balance
and looked over it. A few days afterward
be walked into the counting-room . on
Kewis's wharf hung up hia hat on the ac-
customed peg and sat down to business
quietly. lie was trying his brain. In a few
days more he looked over the entire trans-
actions of tbe house for the past thirteen
years and generally approved of what bad
I been done. Among the items in the state
ment was ono for $ 103 charged to Mrs. He
menway. wnat is this? he asked. Mr
Brown did not remember. "Look it up if
you please" was tbe request. The book
was referred to and the bill was a dentist's
bill. Thia was instanced as a specimen of
his minute methodical ways. A singular
cnange naa come over the man. Formerly
he was brusque and stern. Now he had
become urbane and polite. He went to
church a new custom and on hospital fenn-
aay put tne louowing memorandum into
the contribution box: "$1000. A. H.n
The wardens were puzzled o know whether
it meant ten dollars or one thousand. . On
calling upon him the next day they received
one thousand dollars. . ( '
Mr. Hemenway resumed the charge of his
business. It had been enoimously enlarged
by his brother and Mr. Brown. To them
he released the entire profits of the thirteen
years. Now this extraordinary man has re-
sumed his some-time suspended business.
His first step was to go to England to pur-
chase at Swansea tbe machinery for the
thorough smelting of his copper. It had
been coming to the country in an imperfect-
ly smelted form as an article known to the
commercial world as "regulus." Uis friends
on hearing that he was going to sail in the
Adriatic one of tbe White Star Line strong-
ly advised him to go instead in a Cunardcr.
His reply was characteristic He said :
"I have examined the ship thoroughly and
have talked with tbe engineer. I am- satis-
fied." - Ha sailed in the ship and came back
in her. It gave him a week in Swansea
time to complete bis purchases. Wbea he
landed he had been absent just twenty-
three days. His voyage embraced the Adri
atic's two remarkably quick trips. He ihen
went to Cuba to look after bis an gar plan-
tations. He sold tbe whole crop to a Lon
don house on a strong market acting with
nis nsuai sagacity. Alter this sale sugar
went down a thing which he had foreseen.
From Cuba Mr. Hemenway went to Valpa-
raiso and from there to London where in
connection with the Barings he is now en-
gaged in toum hnge operations which will
no doubt prove successful aa it is asserted
that during hia long career be never made
a business mistake. Mr. Hemenway is
probably the wealthiest man in America.
He owns a great deal of property in New
York City. Seeing that the dry goods trade
was drifting over to Church street he
bought some old bouses there and polling
them down erected stores. He received as
much for one year's rent aa the ground and
old houses coft. During the whole long
self-imprisonment of this remarkable man
bis wire was an angel of mercy to tbe poor
going about and vuiting them and spend
ing money to the extent or a pnnce s reve-
nue. AH this sbe did in the most unosten-
tatious manner and as secretly as if detec-
tion would bring scorn instead of honor.
tyraat'a Vaaatlaat JLavoa.
The life of Byron ia Venice exhibits tome
of the moat sombre scene in hi reckleas
career. Venice says Castelar was like tbe
external form of his soul eumblio romaa-
tic; sometime gay sometimes melancholy ;
sensnaL yet monastic ; neither a daughter of
tbe earth nor a child of heaven. Tbe tool
o! the man and the spirit of tbe city compre-
hended each other. Both offered and both
wept. Both sought forgetfulneae in tbe
arms of pleasure. Both doubted tbe bc-
aigoity of tbe Almighty 'and both cursed
tbe injustice of men. Both pi u aged into
the exoesae of life hoping to find rest in
death.
Tbe friend who visited Lord Byron at
this time did not recognize him. Hia wasted
form and hie pallid face gave him the ap-
pearance of a corpse animated only by that
brilliancy of hi faulty beauUiul eyes.
Pleasure waa consuming bis existence.
Among his passing affection Waa a lovely
woman of dark complexion black eyes and
sanguine temperate. Tail ia ataOurc and
robust a a Vcooaol Titian sbe wa sensual
aa a Bacchante but capable of love and of
elf-aiacriQce. This waa Mariana the mia-
tresa of tbe house in which Byron lodged;
a married woman and the mother of a fami-
ly bat ready to leave all for tbe sake ot the
poet Light affections hv llt i;(!e sym-
pathy for profound sentiment which ev.-u
when aware of weknes. a.1 a.Tcct. in the
beloved object con.ider them as an iuiinu-
lty worthy of tender car ao.1 aienii.n.
Byron aoou discovered tht Mariana was
both Violent and jealous. Ore tiny while'
be was speaking to the aister iti-law'of Ma-
riana the laitercaom in an-l gnve a blow to
the poor girl. Another time she s. ld a
jewel which Byron bad-piven her n.
hich be purchaser acaln. iu order to rre
sent it to her a second time. " 1 of thi
kind is but of lurt duration ct not'-inr;
is so insatiable aa pure love. SeiiMialttr i .
neither satisfying cor Ctntt:nr." Pleasure:
and pleasure only means disut and weari. .
neaa. In the purity and devotion of a real
affection there ia the assurance of rternul
love. The abyss of the heart cu !. tilled
only with the infinite; but the voracity of
low desires is quickly over. Byron "mh-ii .
left tho house and the lady and went ton-
aide in the Palace Moueeui.v n'x'tit the
middle ot the Grand Canal ol Venice.
This was the nana nf ti.n .K ...t -
Margherita Cogni the well-known Venetian ..
baker. Then; are some w Im UMe cjmpfuvO.'
her to tbu Foruurma; out betw-u the mil v "
love of Raphael (or at least the prefene'i '
love) and this fancy of a few davs-ln tweeii
that fountain of inspiration and this mmee
of disgust there wai au iniinen; d ffor- .
ance. In Venice there are people of tho
lower class who sell oysters iu the market
and who nevertheless like to have their
ar soothed by tho Italian translation of
the poet and to listen to stories of his life.
Margherita was a woman of the people iu
the bad sense of the word a woman who
could neither read nor write; a woman ac-
customed to tyrannize over her family almost
In public who concealed neither a fold of
hersonlnora throb of her lu art and con-
rquently did not trouble herself to put any
restraint upon her actions. '
Lord Byron sought with mueh anxiety a
burial-place among' those lovely islands.
Floating along in his gondola ho went
among the Venetian Archipelago to t.hooso
a spot where to plant willow iree.of which
the branches droopinc oyer tho waters
should be a Shadow over his tomb erected
under the azure sky of the south close to
the Adriatic But as if wishing to hasten
his repose in the dreamless bed ho gave
himself up to tho study of. different rates
to the plastic art to tho intoxicating sons
of the carnival to orgies without intermis-
sion often turning away weary from a festi-
val he wandered amoni? the totnlie and met '
Margherita who at this time exercised inuclt
influence on hia life .
The boiling Venetian blood flowed in her '
veins' and excited her passions. Sue wns
tall shoulders broad ami her ar.ns robust;
her face was ban Isome and her he:d vulgar;
her eye seemed to consume like a llaming
fire. She loved almost to follv. but waa
jealous to madness. Sho caressed Lord By-.
ron and she maltreated bim. She met hint
with th smile of an angel and she rtruck
her nails into him with the ferocity of a
tigress. The eolden oin with which sho
confined her hair served her for a stiletto.
She was a woman to bring forth a race f
gladiator. She might have wrestled with
any vigorous Englishman add have won tho
victory. Her peculiar eloquence was inter-'
larded with shameful expressions. Her'
idea were no clearer than those of a primi-
tive savage. Her passions were us ardent
as a giant volcano in eruption llerc.harac-
acter wa formed by the wind of the la-
goons and her soul was cjieued by tho
southern sun; there was something gntnd in
uer wuoie oeingr- although it waa a brutal
grandeur. In the Palazzo Monceuijjo Byron
had collected horses numbers of cats ami '
dogs parrota and all kinds of birds; tind
this woman like a wild Eve in a stran-ro
paradise angry with Adam intoxicated
with wine and pleasure. r ' ' -
But notwithstanding her ferocity Bvron
deceived her. One day there was a fcerribto
uproar. The parrots .uttered itidcscribablo
noises the cats mewed the dogs barked
the furniture flew In piece' the Venetian
minors strewed with a rain of little crystal
the pavement of the palace everything was
in commotion as if struck by a huri icano
or shaken by an earthquake. It was caused
by Margherita who hail encountered a rival
and had with her a terrible battle which
was sustained on both sides with vijror and
heroism. Imagine tho fascination exercised
by that powerful nature ia the wasted framo
of the poet and his deep digubt. Her '.
glance put new tiro in the blood of thoao
almost exhausted veins. Uer violence . and
her unexpected blows pleased .hint like a
food tasted for the first time. t lie laughed
at the impassioned letters written by a
public scrivener for a charge of twelve sous
apiece and dictated by tha baker's wife on
her return to the market with her basket on
her head.
One night at a masked ball. Lord Byron
gave hi arm to a lady of respectability
BigBor Contarini; he was covered by a
black domino ana quite concealed by hi
mask. . Margherita arrived insulted tbe
lady and loudly vociferating snutched away
hi mask. On another occasion' she quar-
reled with her husband whose flesh she
tore' with her sharp nails. In the middle of
the night a loud knocking was beard at tbe
door of Byron's house w titan every one wa
sleeping; at the same time Margherita' hus-
band appeared and demanded his wife. The
police interfered and the woman was
brought back by force to her forsaken borne.
But she oon left it gain and took refuiro
in tbe Palazzo Monceuigo with her lover.
There she assumed the command of tho
household but alio exercised her power in a
moat tyrannical manner. She tried to copy
the mien of a ereat lady wore a snlendld
drew a Persian hat costly jewels Flemish
" ta uw uaiu di a prince. Ami in .
thia costume and wearimr cloves which in- '
commoded her she would catch up a stout
Hick and flinging out her arms apply it
ait arouna irom tne dogs to the servants.
It wa wonderful that she made an excep-
tion in favor of tbe master though nothing
prevented ber from reviling bim.
Polltteal. . - . .
The Pittsburgh CvmmerclalU acUina sad
ly unreliable a a Grant or'-an. Hear it:
Just so lone aa there ia enoush Of tho
third term carcass left to catch on the too
of our boot just o long shall .we continue
to kick it. What waa it born for exec: t
for to be bounced?"
Tbe Chicago Democracy met for consul
tation and reorganization laut Saturday.
Ex-Senator Lyman Trumbnll wa pn-aent
ana made a speech charging the adminis-
tration with mismanaging ' public aHairs
fostering corruption and bringing ruin anil
bankruptcy upon thousonJ iv all parts of
the country. ...
Tbe Indiana Democratic State Committee
meet oa tbe twenty-aecond of February to
settle the date for holding the ntate con-
vention. On motion . of Mr. Byrnes a
Catholic member a resolution waa adopted
declaring that a the common school system
of tbe State wa devised by a iN-t.iocrut
put in operation by a Democratic Legisla-
ture and fostered and extendt-d by a Dem-
ocratic constitutional convention it should
be preeerved Inviolable and the tchool fund
neither divided nor diverted . . '
A Washington letter says: ?'It ha been
a matter of remark that during the whole
of tb amnesty debate of lat wvek not one
member who wa In the Confederate army
took part in tbe discussion. ' Tula modera-
tion and forbearance wa tbe more rem fe-
eble from the fact that one of th deliber-
ate purpose aimed at by Mr. Eiuioe was to
tir up tbe reaentment of the Southern
members in the hope that they mlht bo
led into excited exprrsaiona which could I e
used for partisan advantage. Thia wek
the conversation which have taken plaee
among the Southern mrmbers bate uevei-
oped a firmer reaolve than ever to aba! a: n
from crimination and recritun a'ion to the
hut degree compatible-with jwrsoual honor
and rtrapert. It i believed i ha by sue )
coorae as this the coaroe t'Ay .uz role wt.i a
Mr. Blaine baa Laid out for himself aru
which it swam he intend to puraue-wi I
appear ia iu true light Utfore t jc country."
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