The Texas Countryman. (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, July 6, 1866 Page: 1 of 4
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VOL. 6.Í
BELLVILLE, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1866.
J. P. OSTERHOUT, Proprietor.
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THE CHASTENED SPIRIT.
All before us lies the way;
Give the past unto the wind;
All before us is the day,
Night and dsirkuess are behind.
Eden with its angels bold,
Love and flowers and coolest sea,
Is less an ancient story told
Than a glowing prophecy.
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In the spirit's perfect air,
In the passions tame and kind,
Innocence fron: selfish care,
The real Eden we shall find.
When the soul to sin hath died,
True and beautiful and sound,
Then all earth is sanctified,
U psp: lags paradise around.
From the spirit-land afar
All disturbing force shall flee j
Stir, nor toil, nor hope shall max
Its immortal unity.
fjikellmtemts.
"COURSE OF LOVE" IN
MISSOURI.
that she didn't want to, declaring
that her mother would be "sorry for
this some time/
But without paying any attention
to her ¡protestations, her mother gave
her a ¡push, -shot the door, locked It,
and triumphantly put the key in her
pocket, and in due time went to bed.
retty early in the morning the old
lady arose, and without waiting to
dress, fished the key out of her pock-
et, and opening the closet door to hid
Laura come forth, gazed wildly for
one instant, and then uttered a pierc-
ing scream. Recovering very speedi-
ly, she started away from the door
and called faintly:
"Laura, Laura, dear! go into the
kitchen and see about the break-
fast !"
Then presently—"Jack, I say
Jack !"
Jack came forth with a very soh
in-law looking air, and answered—
"Well, madam, what is it V
"Jack do you know anything about
a farm V
"Not to speak of, marm."
"You can read, and write, and
cypher, I suppose ?"
•'Nothing to brag of, marn.
44Well, at any rate, Jack, I* think
that after breakfast you aud Laura
may as well go down to the city and
get married, for I'm tired of watching
you, that's a fact."
Asa ¡Harts has been on a visit to
New York and Washington City.—
While at the latter place ue visited the
great Nat onal, or "Central Lunatic
Asylum." where the "States" send;
their craziest men. He thus describes
ith TbadJ
Over ia Missouri lives ..a Mrs.
Hempdale, who has, or had a daugh-
ter named Laura, who loved a man
named Jack. This man Jack she
didn't like, but she was informed by
a neighbor that Jack and Laura liad
arranged a plan of elopement. Her
mind was quickly made up. She
announced to Lanra-tlie next morning
that she was going to Belleville on a
visit, to be gone three days, aud that
she must be a.good girl and notitear
the house down while she was gone.
That night Jack knew of it, and
as lie read the nice little note that
bade.liim "come over early and stay
until mother comes back, and what a
splendid time we will have," he-smil-
ed, knocked the ashes off from his
cigar, and resolved 44of course he
would."
Jack went over, but there .is no
earthly use in our attempting to de-
scribe the delectable things lie en-
joyed ; it was sugar season on that
plantation, sure. Just before dusk,
while Jack was running over full of
the glory of the occasion, in rushes
Miss Laura's black waiting woman
with—
"Lor bress my brak aoul, chil'n, ef
yere aint ole missus rite at the gate.
Sure!"
"My God ! Dinah, what shall we
do with Jack V
"Pop 'em in dat ar closet, dar, Miss
Laura !" and Jack was popped into
the closet in a twinkling.
In stalked the old lady, and after
sharply scrutinizing the disconcerted
and blushing countenance of Laura,
felt sure that Jack had t?een there.
"Come here, Laura. Now you
can't deceive me. That abominable
Plaine has been here, and you and he
have fixed up a runaway match, to
come off to-night. Oh, you little
thing, you, after your bringing up, to
treat me so. But you'll find your
mother is no fool. You'll find that
she's too sharp for you, my lady.—
Sooner than you should marry that
miserable Jack Plaine, I'd see you
laid in your grave. He's not going
to squander jny money, I assure
you."
The old lady rose, and going to a
clothes press returned with several
comforters and a pillow, and walking
up to the closet where Jack was con-
cealed, threw them with a flirt, and
turning to the trembling Laura, said :
"Now, march in her*, miss; step
along! I'll see that you don't get
nowheres near that low-flung me-
chanic this night!"
Laura whispered and
DRINKING GREENS
HIS LICKER
WITH
an
are
Col. Marcy, in his "Thirty Years
Frontier Service," tells of a Virginian
who, on testing the whiskey of an
Arkansas host, found it rather raw
and unpalatable, and mixed it itt the
shape of a "mini-julep," which was a
novel idea to the Arkansian. The
latter, however, was delighted with
the new style of drink, indulged in it
quite liberally, and learned the method
of concocting it.
The Virginian continued on his
journey toward Texas, and In due
course of time set out to return. On
arriving at the house before mention-i
ed, he concluded he would call and
rene w his acquaintance with his friend-
ly old host. Accordingly, he rode up
to the gate, and seeing one of the boys
of the family standing near, asked
him: "How i8 the old gentleman,
your father, my son?"
The boy, with an air of the most
perfect indifference, replied: "Why,
the ole man's dead, stranger."
"Is it possible 1 How long since ?"
"About two weeks, stranger/'
"Ah, indeed.! Pray, what was the
matter with the fpoor old gentleman,
my son?"
"Waal, mow, stranger, I'll tell ye
what it war. Thar war an old fejiar
from V rgina, he com'd along this
way last summer, and he jist ups and
larins the ole man to drink greens in
hisJicker, and you cap bet your life
on't it knocked him .higher nor a
kite!'
Upon the Virginian's suggesting
to the boy that it might have been
possible the bad quality of the whis-
key exercised a more deleterious in-
fluence upon hie father's health than
the mint, he replied:
"No, stranger, it war not the whis-
key, for we've Mlers used Jicker .in
our family, and though it made old
mom powerful weak, yet it never
pbazed ole pop arry time—no, it war
the greens, as sure as yer born."
"Pap, I planted some potatoes in
our garden." said one of the smart
youths of this generation to his fath-
er, " and what do you suppose cape
up V
"Why, potatoes of course/
"No sir! There came up a drove
of hogs and ate them all/
The "old man" gave in.
Why is the suspension of the Ha
beas Corpus Act in Ireland beneficial
to the Fenians ? Because it quickens
protested their apprehension.
interview he had wi
Stevens, the "crazy Penusyivanion."
I bad a great desire to see Thad.
and look into his " breeches pocket/'
Accordingly called upon the door-
keeper aud begged him to point out
the crazy Pennsvlvauian. He did
so, my Bower, ana I found myself in
the presence of a darkey so black
that printer's ink would make a white
mark upon his face. I approached
the gray-haired old chap and contem-
plated him with feelings which in
variably produce the desire to take
a drink. Could it be possible that
the renowned Thaddeus was only a
darkey, after all ? or, was it probable
that incessant legislating, upon the
negro, talking negro, thinking, dream-
ing and sleeping negro, had produced
the change of skin which wa9 before
me? I accepted the * latter theory
as highly probable, and accosted the
great mán, with the utmost reverence,
thus:
"Hello! old 'Steve!' How
you ? How does she run ?'
The sage of Radicalism replied, as
he fingered bis wool and exhibited
his ivory:
41 guess you'se mistaken; you is
Dis ar'nt MA Stevens; dis is Bill."
"Ah,' said I, ••Bill! what Bill ?' ,
"Civil Rights Bill, Salí!# Yah
yah! yah!" v
Chickens in fjjtit Hat.—Nat is very
poor, rather light fingered, and i t is said
not so bright as his parents could wish.
The other day, while passing a neigh
bor's,Nat saw a brood of chickens and
immediately caught one to carry home.
He bad not gone far, however, before
he saw the owner coming up the road,
and.not knowing what to do with the
chicken to conceal it, at last succeeded
in crowding it into his hat, whieh he
gain ¡placed upon his head. But the
nicken haviug a long neck and being
also pressed for air, managed to thrust
its head through an opening in Nat's
old straw hat. Nat was presently
accosted with:
14What have you got in your hat ?"
"Nothing but my head," said jgai
"But I see a chicken^s head Mak-
ing through the top of it/' W
Nat taking off his bat and looking
at tit in feigned astonishment exclaim-
ed-:
"Wal, how do you s'poBe that crit-
ter came in there ? He must have
crawled up my trowsers leg!"
" 1 1 "" í
Baptizing a Sinner.*—Poor old
Billy G had attended a gr^at re-
vival, and in common with many oth-
ers, he was ''converted" and baptized.,'
Not many weeks afterward one of bis
friends met him reeling home frpm
from the court grounds with a consid-
erable brick: in his hat.
"Hello Uncle Billy," said the
friend, ' I thought you had'joined the
church."
"So I did," answered Üncle Billy,
"so I did Jeems, and would a'bia a
good Baptist if they hadn't treated tne
so everlasting mean at the water.—-
Didn't you heir about it,. Jeems ?"
"No, I never did."
"Then I'll tell you about it. You
see when we come to the baptizin'
place, there was Jinks, the rich . old
Squire, waB to be dipped at the same
time. Well the minister took the
Squire in first; and after dippin' him
under raised tira up mighty keerftil
and wiped his face and led him .out
Then come my turn, and instead of
lifkin' me <out as he did the Squire, he
give me one slosh, and left me crawlin'
round on the 'bottom like a mod
turtle/' ,
"I am glad this coffee don't owe
me anything;' said a book-keener to
his wife the other morning at break-
fast. "Why" was the response
"Because I don't believe it would
ever settle."
Intellectual
Anna Dickinson
in Cincinnati on
whieh,
cated universal
stage of tfwL
rose and left the hall, w!
speaker paused a moment, and then
calmly remarked : "I want tossy,
before any other tender Soul
from Hie statement iftrvth,
be likened unto our systerft
ures. One man has the capacity of a
pint; another the capacity of a quart
—and another the capacity of a gal-
lon. It may safely the presumed that
the pint cups are about fall, and,
they are beginning to ge off lest they
should overflow. And if any others
shall be moved to' leave, we will be
able to determiné the measure of their
capacity with the greatest nicety."*—
After that the audience kept their
seats.
Two Spanish pincers recently mat to
fight a duel outside the gates of Bljboa*
al ter the seconds had Jailed t<
cile the belligerent*. Af this
a poor fellew approached the
and in a lainenteWe voice, said.:
"Gentleman, lamo poor ertiosn
with a large family, and .if you
would-*-"
♦♦My good man, don't trouble us
now," cried one of the officers.—-
"Don't you see my friends are going
to fight ? We are not in a charitable
humor/'
"It.is.pot dims I ask for," «lid ttí
manj "J am a poor carpenter* with
eight children, «nd my fwife is sicktf
are about to kill each other, I tho
of asking'you to let me make the
Hurrak/orywteptom^-*. littla
newsboy, in Nashville fuwatching a
federal procession páés. After ref
ing them very vindictively fori
little time he shouted
"Hurrah (or Jeff
"Psháw :" sat da blue-
Httrráh for the dSvíl, yo
"Very well-," repl
"you shotit for yow captain,—I'll
shout for mine/
it
P -J i
A young man Out
for «a wife as follo ws: ,
Wanted—By a young gentlemati lit
reduced circumstances,a kindimdlov-
ing companion to share the miseries of
life. Sne most be pretty
able, well versed in
when mad, and never get vexed
when she is in a good honor
this disposition can find permanent
employment*
is
was: If tkttB mtprt t To which the
servant replied. Hwr can
m • *
e translate it
be enjpty, pot coal
pútifijoel on, where
bigh'/ender?
No Sixpence
askeda liong"
of a pair of rowjs, and wi
"A dollar."
"And a dollar is it, mf darttn \ why
in my country you might toy them
for saxpence p piece,"
"And why didn't you stay in
blessed cheap country ?"
"Och, faith, i
pence there, to be sqi«!"
There isa story qf a
preacher who, delivt
tho duty of wives,
woman: pre !* who bis b««B guilty of
disobedience to her husband,
order to point her out to
condemnation, I will fling this
ary at her head " He lifted the
and every female present ducked
dived., *" Alai I"
"the multitude of
totes a general amnesty,"
m
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Osterhout, J. P. The Texas Countryman. (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, July 6, 1866, newspaper, July 6, 1866; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth180243/m1/1/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.