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Marshall, Harrison County, Texas, Saturday, February 14, 1853.
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Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
MARSHALL, TEXAS.
Feb.,20, 1851. n45ry
Dft, V. W. EAfl
* Ma Texas.
Ü3" Office, o*e door East of
building.
his profess
of jpvyp W. H.Dial, wherf
consulted, unless profession
> may at i
ally absent.
Marshall, April 10,1852—n48.tf.
CITY BBUCI SI ORB*
SOUTH SIDE Of THE PUBLIC SQUABE
TEXAS.
«CITY
ON THE SOUT
n
I are now receiving a large stock
of fresh and genuine Drugs, Medicines, Paints,
Oils, and Dye Stuffs, and all other articles usually
kept in a complete Drug Stone, which we are offer*
ing on the usual credit, to punetoal customers.
We know our stock to be fresh and genuine, and
warrant every article we sell to be such.
YOUNG & JOHNSON.
MarahaQ, July 34,1852—nl 1-ly.
.BUSINESS CARDS.
£. C. Mi ART,
, WHOLESALE and BETA.IL
STAPLE DRY 800DS& GROCERY
MERCHANT.
Corner Commerce and Milam Streets.
May 22,n2 tf. Shbevepobt, La
T IIV W1RÉ
JH. VANHOOK, successor to Coleman &
a Vanhook, in the manufacture of Tin, Copper,
and Sheet Iron, ke^ps constantly on hand a complete
assortment of Tin ware, which he will sell at rea-
sonable terms.
Jon Wobk done in a superior manner, and at
short notice. Give him a call.
Marshall, April 17th, 1852—n49:tf.
THERE IS KO HURRY!
A Tale of Life Assurance.
T do not tell you whether the village of Rep-
ton, where the two. brothers, John and Charles
Adams, originally resided, is bear or far from
London. It is a pretty village to this day. ^ and,
when John Adams, some five and thirty years
ago, stood on the top of Repton Hill, and looked
down upon the bouses—the little church, whose
simple gato ,wa&fl*s!i§g :noblé_¿«w
trees, benéift whose branches be had often sat
—the murmuring river, in which he 'had often
fished—the cherry orchards, where the ripe
fruit hung like balls of coral; when he looked
down upon all these dear domestic sights—for
so every native of Repton considered them—
John Adams might hive been supposed to
question if he had acted wisely in selling to his
brother Charles the share of the well cultivated
farm, which had been equally divided at their
father's death. It extended to the left of the
spot on which he was standing, almost within a
ring fence; the meadows fresh shorn of their
produce, and fragrant with the perfume of new
hay; the crops full of promise; and the lazy
cattle laving themselves in the standing pond of
the abundant farm yaro. In a paddock, set
apart for his especial use, was the old blind
horse his father had bestrode during the last
fifteen years of his life ; it leant ^its sightless
head upon the gate, half upturned, he fancied, to
where he stood. It is wonderful what small
things will sometimes stir up the hearts of very
strong men, ay, and what is still more difficult,
even of ambitious men. Yet be did not feel at
that moment a' regret for the fair acres he had
parted with ; he was full of the importancé
which the possession of a considera
money gives a young man, who ha
ging almost unsuccessfully iq an arduous pro.
fession, and one which requires a certain ap
pearance of success to command success—for
John Adams even then placed M. D. after his
plain name; yet still, despite the absence of
sorrow, and the consciousness of increased pow-
er, he continued to look at poor Ball until his
eyes swam in tears.
With'the presence of his father, which the
sight of the old horse had conjured up, came
the remembrance of his peculiarities, his habits,
his expressions; and he wondered, as they
passed in review before him, how he could ever
have thought the dear old man testy or tedious.
Even his frequent quotations from " Poor Rich
arc! " apyátw| to him, ibf the first time, th<
results of common prudence; ánd "his rude but
wise rhyme, whdn, in the joy of his heart, he
told his father he had absolutely received five
guineas as one fee from an ancient dame who
had three middle aged daughters, (he had not.
howéver, acquainted his lather with that fact)
forcibly to his memory than it had
" For want and ®ge save while you may;
No morning sua jtóHaa,aUthe tay."
He repeated the last line over andover again
a&his father had done; bat as bis ""knorning
sun " was at that moment shining, it is not
matter of astonishment that the remembrance
was evanescent, and that it did not mafke the
impression upon him his father had desired
long before.
A young, unmarried, handsome physician
with about three thousand pounds in his pock et,
and " good expectations," might be excused for
building " des chateaux en Espagne." A very
wise old lady once said to me, " Those who
have none on earth, may be forgiven for build
ing them in the air; but those who have them
on earth should be content therewith." Not
so, however, was John Adams ; he built and
built, and then by degrees descended to the
realities of his position. What power would
not that three thousand pounds give him ! He
wondered if Dr. Lee would turn his back upon
him now, when they met in consultation ; and
Mr. Chubb, the county apothecary, would he
laugh, and ask him if he could read his own
prescriptions ? Then he recurred to a dream—
for it was so vague at that time as to be little
more—whether it would not be belter to aban-
don altogether country practice, and establish
himself in the metropolis—London. A thou-
sand pounds, advantageously spent, with a few
introductions, would do a great deal in London,
and that was not a third of what he had. And
this great idea banished all remembrance of the
past, all sense of the present—the young aspi-
rant thought only of the future.
Exchange Office.
THE undersigned has opened an Exchange Of-
fice in Slireveport, and is prepared to sell
Checks on all the principal cities in the United
States; also to purchase Exchange and receive
Deposits.
I will continue to advance on consignments to
Wkight, Williams & Co., in Cash or Bagging and
Rope ; I will pay balances due their customers at
my office, free of charge. B. M. JOHNSON.
Shreveport, La., Sept. 11 1852.—ly.
I
W.S.PICKETT. WH. M.PERKINS. SAML.P. WALKER
PICKETT, PERKINS & CO.,
Commission Merchants
No. 67 Magazine St., [Corner of Natchez sr. N O.
REFEKENCE3-A1. Steinlein, McKenney 4
' Murrah, T. A. & J. C. Harris, Marshall; H
Rhine St Bro., Clarksville H. Spaner, Shrevepori
La. April 19,1851. flry
CJREN SHJi H* # CO.,
(Successorslo C. Lewis tf- Co.)
GROCERIES, WINES, LIQUORS, SHIP
BOAT AND FAMILY STORES,
No. 14 Gravier st. corner Tchoupitoulas,N Oklean
M.D.COOPBK. O. B. FRIERSOK. GEO. O. SWEET.
M. D. C00FER k CO.,
Cattoa Factors & Commission Merchants
No. 136 Common street, New Orleans (n31ry
JOSEPH H. PALMER A CO..
vImporters and Wholesale Dealers in Dry Goods.
' No. 47 CAMP STREET.
. Ma 1851 ln4ry New-Ori.baks.
Five years have passed. Dr. John Adams
was " settled " in a small " showy " bouse in
the vicinity of May Fair; he bad, the world
said, made an excellent match. He married a
very pretty girl, " highly connected," and was
considered to be possessed of personal property,
because, for so young a physician, Dr. Adams
lived in a " superior style,"
His brorher Charles was still residing in the
old farmhouse, to whieh, beyond the mere keep-
ing it jn repair, he had done bul little, except,
indeed, adding a wife to his establishment—a
very gentle, loving, yet industrious girl, whose
dower was tuo small to have been her only at-
traction. Thus both brothers might be said to
be fairly launched in life.
It might be imagined that Charles Adams—
having determined to reside in his native vil-
lage, and remain, what his father and grand-
father had been, a simple gentleman farmer, and
that rather on a small than a large scale—was
altogether without that feeling of ambition
which stimulates exertion and elevates the
mind. Charles Adams had quite enough of
this, which may.be said, like fire, tobe "a
good servant, but a bad master," but he made
it subservient to the dictates of prudence, and a
forethought, the gift, perhaps, that above all
others we should most earnestly covet for those
whose prosperity we would secure. To save
his brother's portion of the freehold from going
into the hands of strangers, he incurred a debt;
and wisely, while he gave to bis land all that
was necessary to make it yield its increase, he
abridged all other expenses, and ivas ably sec-
onded in this by his wife, who resolved, until
priucipal and interest were discharged,-to live
quietly and carefully.
Charles contended that every appearance
made beyond a man's means was an attempted
fraud upon the public; while John shook his
head, and answered that it might do very well
for Charlo ta say so, as no one expected the-
sáck thgt'broug&t the grain to market to be of
ftnehtdlMd; bimthát no man in' a profession
could get on 4b London without making "an
appearaftce." At this Charles shruggedliis
shoulders, and thanked God he lived at Repton.
The brothers, as years moved rabidly on, en-
gaged as they were by their mutual industry
and success in their several fields qf action, met
but seldom. It was impossible to say which of
the two continued, the most prosperous* Dr.
Adams made several lucky hits; and having
so obtained a position, was fortunate in having
an abundance of patients in an intermediate
sort of state—that is, neither very well nor
very ill. "Of a really bland and courteous na
ture, l^e was kind and attentive to all, and it
is certain that such of his patients as were only
in moderate circumstances, got well long before
those who were rich. His friends attributed
this to his humanity as much as to his skill;
enemies said he did not like " poor patients."
Perhaps there was a mingling of truth in both
Statements.
The money he "had received for his portion
of the land was spent, certainly, before his re-
ceipts equalled his expenditure; and, strange
ly enough, by the time the farmer had paid off
his debt, the doctor was involved, not to a large
amount, but enough to render his "appearance"
to a certain degree fictitious. This embarrass-
ment, to do him justice, was not of long con
tinuance; he became the fashion; and before
prosperity had turned his head by an influx of'
weal£, so as to render him careless, he got rid
of bis debt, and then his wife agreed with him,
that "they might live as they pleased."
It so happened that Charles Adams was pre-
sent when this observation was made, and it
spoke well for both the brothers that their dif-
ferent positions in society had not in the small
est degree cooled their boyhood's aff ction ; not
even the money transactions of former times,
which so frequently create disunion, had chang
ed them; they met less freque+rfly, but they
always met with pleasure, and separated with
regret.
" Well!" exclaimed the doctor, triumphantly,
as he glanced around bis splend;d rooms, and
threw himself into a chaise longtte, then a new
luxury, " well, it is certainly a charming feeling
to be entirely out of debt."
"And yet," said his wife, " it would not be
wise to confess it in our circle."
" Why ?" inquired Charles.
" Because it would prove that we had been
in it," answered the lady.
"At all evénts," said John, " now I shall not
have to reproach myself with every extra ex*
pense, and think I ought to pay my debts first;
now 1 may live exactly as I please."
"I do not think so," said Charles.
"Not think so! " repeated Mrs. Adama, in a
tone of astonishment.
" Not think so! " exclaimed John. " Do I
e the money myself?"
kilted, my dear tellow. To be snre you
do," Sl^d Charles.
by should I not spend it as pleases
me bestí" there any reason why I should not?"
As if to^gfare the strongest dramatic effect to
Charles's opfajflp? nurse at that moment
opened the dnfwing-room door, and four little
laughing children rushed into
" There are four reasons against
ing your income exactly as you please;
indeed, part of your plan be to provide for them,
answered Chai les, very seriously.
u I am sure," observed Mrs. Adams, with the
half-offended air of a weak woman, when she
hears the truth,- "John need not be told his duty
to his children; he has always been a most
affectionate father."
"A father may be food and foolish,
Charles, who was peculiarly English in his
mode of giving an opinion. " For my part,
could not kiss my little Mary and Anue when 1
go to bed at night, if I did not feel I had already
formed an accumulating fund for their future
support—a support they will need all the more
when their parents are taken from them, as they
must be in the course of time."
"They must marry," said Mrs. Adams.
"That is a chance," replied Challes; "wo-
men hang on bands now-a-days. At all events,
by God's blessing, I am resolved that, if they
are beauties, they shall never be forced by iheir
poverty to accept .unworthy matches; if they are
plain, they shall have enough to live upon with-
out husbands."
" That is easy for you, Charles," said the
doctor, "who have had your broad acres to sup
port you, and no necessity tor expenditure or
show of any kind ; who might go from Monday
morning till Saturday night in homespun, and
never give anything beyond home-brewed ale
and gooseberry wine, with a chance bottle of
port to your visitors; while I—Heaven help me
—was obliged to dash in a well-appointed equi-
page, entertain, and appear tó be doing a great
deal in my profession, when a guinea would
pine in solitude for a week together in my
pocket."
" I do not want to talk with 5'ou of the past,
John," said Charles, our ideas are more likely
to agree now than they were ten or twelve years
ago ; 1 will speak of the future and the present,
You are now out of debt, in the very prime ol
life, and in the receipt of a splendid income;
but do not, let me intreat you, spend it as it
comes; lay by something for those children;
provide for them, either by insurance, or some
of the many means that are open to us all. Do
not, my dear brother, be betrayed by health, or
the temptation for display, to live up to an income
the nature of which is so essentially precarious."
" Really," murmured Mrs. Adams, " you pul
one into very low spirits."
I Charles remained silent, waiting for a reply.
[to be cosTiBoer]
[From an English Periodical.
Household Economy.
HUMBRR IV.
JWr. Editok—What a strange thing, and
wlnt a' strong and stubborn thing Prejudice is I
fi^w fond it is of that which is old! How it
jjkei that which fo new; never cor
jW Jt.jbe9t. 0r whaÜMMMfee new mi
an improvement on the old! Now ft stick**,
old opinions, to old habits, to old customs, just
as th^*-limpet sticks to the rock not, "as does
that wonderful liitle creature, from instinct,
knowing that the rock is the safest, securest
place—not because the old opinions are sounder,
or the old customs and habits wiser and better
than the new; no, but because they were the
opinions, and habits, and customs of forefathers
and foremothers—of those who lived centuries
ago, and whose very tombs have crumbled into
dust!
I am neither a painter nor a poet, Mr. Edi-
tor, else I should like to try my hand at describ-
ing the creature. I should represent him aaan
ugly old man, with a wizen, pale face, hard fea-
tures, plenty of wrinkles on his brow, a grisly
beard reaching down to hi& hips, as blind as a
mole, as deaf as a beetle, dressed up in a coat
that.ought (a century or two ago) to have been
sent to Rag Fair, or some such place; without
brains, and, of course, without common-sense ;
and yet, withal, fancying himself a clever, vigor-
ous young fellow, able to see, and to hear, and
to think, and to reason, and to act, and to devise,
better than any one else in the world; and as
stubborn and unwilling to yield as—what shall
I say ?—as a very mule !
And yet, with all his ugliness, how the old
fellow is hugged, and kissed, and nursed, and
fed, and petted by many as the darling of the
family ! And what strange pranks does he play
up wherever he is admitted ! He makes people
shut their eyes, and then they grope about, cry-
ing, " How dark it is; " Others he makes con-
tent to pore over their work with a farthing
rushlight, straining their eyes, and spoiling what
they have to do, when, if they would but get up
and open their shutters, the light of the glorious
sun would sabine upon them.
Prejudice is the sworn foe to all improvement.
When 1 was quite a girl, Mr. Editor, a new
road was made near our village. A nice road
it was : as straight as a line, cutting off an ugly
elbow in the old road, and so saving about a
mile and a quarter ; as hard as limestone could
make it; as level as a bowling-green; clean,
every wsjrcomfeftoWer—Tlw old road
was one of the worst in that part of the country,
and from the time the new'road was planned it
had gpne unmended. Well, would you believe
it, there were some old farmers that would con
tinue to go along the old road, spite of all its
ruts and holes, and spite of all that was said in
praise of the new one. Prejudice had bewitched
them, and there their horses, poor things, tugged
and strained, as if their traces were fastened to
a rock, almost up to their knees in stiff mud;
their wagons twisted about and cracked, that
you would have thought they were going to
pieces ; while the wagoners—some of them as
tull of prejudice as their masters—swore and
flogged, first Smiler, and then Captain, till the
sweat ran fairly from their foreheads. Every
now and then a wagon was broken down, or a
horse was lamed, or some mischief or other was
done. Often were they called out to by persons
traveling along the nice new road. But no.
"Veyther, and granveyther, aye, and gra-gran-
veylher, had gone that road for many a long
year, and they zeed no reasou in the varsal
world why they should go on you^r new-fangled
road; apd go they wouldn't, to please anybody.'
was one ol the tricks played by old Preju
I was ¡ñlnwes that that generation had died
off; but it seeHStbatiDhev have their successors,
There are people in mjMwigh borhfiod—some
three or four at least—who
hue and-cry about the new plan
Like the old farmers, they aré determihed to
as their mothers and aunts, and their grnndmo
thers and grandaunts, did before them, spite of
all one can say to the contrary. Yes! there the
old washer-woman rings them up out of their
warm beds at four o'clock in the morning; they
spend an hour or two in smoke and smother,
puddling and dabbling about in steam and slop
till nearly ten o'clock at night; some ol the
things not above half washed, and the whole of
what are called white things nearly as jellow as
kites' feet ; husbands and men-folk cross and
scolding, and chiTdren neglected, and 1 know not
what beside; and all because old Prejudice
out upon him!—has persuaded them that the
old plan is the best, and that the new one is a
•' dangerous innovation ! " Well, let them go
oil till they find out their error. I shall still
stand up, as my Jem sometimes says, "for im-
provemeht and progress." The rotten old road
of which I spoke was shut up by authority, after
many horses had been killed, and many men
injured; and so i live in hopes that after a few
more families have been made miserable by the
old washing process, the new plan may take its
place, with all its attendant coniiorts.*
1 said, in my last, that the man who found out
this new plan deserved praise; and I called upon
men and women to club their pence to raise
st&tue to his honor. But, lo and behold you,
Mr. Editor, these folk seem lather disposed to
club their pence to put him out of the world, and
out of iniud. You can't think what a nest of
hornets I have raised around me. Those whom
old Prejudice has not bitten, are doing well,
One of them got up her wash so snugly that her
good man actually knew nothing about it till a
day or two after, when he said, "Why, Bessy
ain't you going to wash this week ? " She
laughed, at^l said, " Oh, I've got a new plan
all my wash was finished yesterday, and the
things are clean and put away in the drawers. ~
'That's y good hearing for tne, and I wish yi
may always do the same," said he.
It wM JUit so with Sarah Spring. She said,
"Ah, it'*, all very well for you, Martha, to talk
about gating up a wash 90 nicely. You've gat
,your two rooms, your nice Copper
Httle yard; d«d a husband and
nd *do both oTthM help you.
BtttyoQ
'W badly We are off; cárty one roém
and do everything in—no wash-house, n jnárV
ngt no copper. Then my S*m «ays it is none
of'his business to help washing; I have fo
his meals, and my babe is sickly, and often cross.
You don't mean o say that I can wash after
your newfangled plan.
My reply was—"Why, Sally, these are the
very reasons why I should like you lo try my
plan." I know there are many situated like
Sarah. Spring. I pity them most sincerely,
though I can't help thinking that they might do
better, if there wasn't something wrong. I am
sure a little thought and a little management
would help them greatly.
Now, the room in which the Springs lodge is
of a tolerably good size. There is a kind of
recess at one end, with a ^urn-up bedstead.
The fireplace is old-fashioned and large. Sam
generally goes out a little before six in the
morning, and comes back at eight to breakfast.
Now, Sarahr might sort berthings over night,
make the mixtures ready for the morning, and
put her white things to soak, covering them
well down with a board, or a coarse apron. In
the morning she might light her fire, get one
boiler-full of water hot, wring her things out
from the soaking, and put them to boil. By
drawing the boiler partly on to the hob, she
would find room for her little tea-kettle; and,
while that was boiling, she could see to her
child and the breakfast. By nine o'clock the
things would be nicely boiled, and ready to
finish off. Let her put them into the tub, boil
the clean water for rincing, and While that was
boiling, do any little thing about the room, or
prepare for dinner. Then would come the rinc-
ing, first in the hot and then in the blued water.
These things she might hang up on a couple of
lines across the back end of the room, ,and set
open the window. They would soon dry there
in the summer, and in the winter, or in damp
weather, with about two penn'orth of chumps,
she might make up a blazing fire, and dry them
upon a horse or line before it, The poor boiler
must be at work meanwhile, preparing some
water for her colored and woollen things, which
P. Bnnn a* rt fcmils.
* Curiously enough, just at this moment a di
little urchin passed under my window, singing wi
" There's a good time coming, boys—
Wait a little longer."
irty
'ith
r the old systev^
lave been assured by
iby soda, that the mixtu
In addition to all this, I
chemist where I buy
_ . used as I use it, will
tnjure the linens or amons qt alL
As to ntten calicoes, t aan
the eagerness of some of the nm^ra to 1
cheap, and. at the mum tii
things, they may use something
which makes them rattan before 1
•our hands.
price, must expect to havat
to white powder in thin, f i
to scald or rinoe new calico or Hum times
before I could get it all out. What I say, there,
fore, is, as my little Peggy learnt at the Infant
School, l'Try—Jry again.'" became, as oM of
your " Diggings" has ft* MExperience Is the
mother of science. " I am «envinccd that old
Prejudice is the only hindrance in the way of
this new plan. ! don't know thnt J have any.
thing particularly cruel in my (RsMabon, but
certainly I should like to give the dHInaonster a
deadly thrust. Have at him, Mr. Editor, with
some of your most sharply-pointed pens. Placa
the truth clearty before him; if he refuses to
open his eyes, sound it out so loud that it may
enter in at his ears. He has surely been in the
world long enough.
But I must break off. As my dear mother
used to say, " I have other fish to fry." [ con-
clude, hoping that we may soon hare cleanly
people, and a cletfner world.
Martha Makbpbacb.
The "LoMy" Proceedings.
The extraordinary tact and the varied talent
of those who constitute the Lobby Delegation
for the present session, awaken cheering hopes
as to the action of the Legislature. A numer-
ous and well appointed corps of the sort
in concert, cannot fail to effect much. It is to
be desired that the press a! the -Capitol will give
them suitable notice, and will entertain the
public with a connected account of their move-
ments. Reports of the proceedings of the Lob-
by are as essential to the correct understanding
of what is going on in the Legislature, and,
indeed, are even more so, than the debate* in '
regular session.
If neither of our cotemporaries at Austin will
give this extra constitutional branch of the Le-
gislative Department a just share of their atten-
tion, we shall be compelled to employ an effici-
ent reporter, whose province it mUMm to faith-
fully detail what is doing among those who,
from their weight in all qiirjlinw ■**"
either landed or pecuniary appropriations, are
regarded with the highest interest by the read'
ing public. The more intelligent of the com-
munity at large are better pleased with that
which is practical, than with flatulent debates,
bedecked with the tritest tinsel ót rhetoric-
spoken to give an excuse for putting them in
iratkm and
eir stock of clothes is not very large, I would
engage that she might get all her washing over
by a little after eleven o'clock, or, making allow-
anees for attending to her child, say twelve. If
any part remain unfinished, let her cover all up
tidily before dinner, and have as few things as
possible about the room or the fireplace,*when
my lord comes home. Dinner may then be
taken in comfort, without any glumpy looks. If
she has luck in drying, she can iron a little in
the afternoon or evening; or, if but few are dry,
let the ironing take place next morning.
Now, Sam Spring is not a had«tempered fel-
low after ail, and if he saw that his Sally was
striving hard to avoid mess and bother, and he
were to find her, when he came home at night,
ironing and singing to her boy, I'm sure he'd
be .as pleased as Punch, and treat her an a good
husband knows how. If, however, after all her
striving, he still complains, refusing to make
allowances, scolding, and saying, "I won't have
this," and "I will have the other "—if he still
makes unreasonable objections, and requireS
impossibilities—whv, all I can say is, that he
deserves to go in dirty linen for a month—a
punishment I should not l|Jte to inflict on any
fellow creature.
As to those who have the convenience of a
wash-house and copper, but no yard for drying,
they must dry off in their rooms, with a good
draught, or before the fire, as I have reconi-
Sarah Spring. So much for the first
> my plan—want of convenience.
I mayl^H that 1 have been obliged,
more than oiMfl^foget up my wash pretty much
in the way that I haW.here recommended. Two
or three years ago, a me a recipe for
a cough medicine, and at the rfnlkif it were these
two curious words—Probatum e^N^Ümught it
was the narpe of one of the things ii
hut the chemist told me they were
words, the English of which was, It is tri
So 1 may put at the end of my recipe for wa
ing—both my first plan and that which I have
recommended to Sarah Spring—It is tried!
But then this lime!—this dreadful lime! A
grave old lady said, " I wonder, Martha, how
you could recommend such a thing, especially to
poor people. Why, if I were to use that mix
ture, I should expect, in two or thr.-e washibgs,
to have all my things dropping into holes. Lin-
ens and calicoes are nothing too strong nowa-
days, but this lime-water of yours would soon
make thein all as rotten as a sleepy pear. A
friend of mine made her servants try it, and they
say the things are quite, spoilt. To be sure they
looked a good deal whiter; but that, they said,
was owing to all the pores being filled up frith
white powder, like chalk, or whitening. And
do you know there's a long letter about it in
Punch, this week, which complains in the same
«ay ?"
Now I am sure old Prejudice has been busy
in that family. And what makes this the more
remarkable is, that her husband is a great man I exhibition. There are thus on die
for improvements in railroads and steam engines, $wo acres and a halfj or exactly 21>2<-100;
and is constantly crying down old customs and ' ... • . ..
old modes of traveling. As to Punch, anybody
may see that he is only raising a laugh at the
poor washing-women's expense. I soon found
out that the servants had not followed the direc-
tions. They had used a great deal too much lime
—they were not careful to pour the mixture off
clear, and the things were not above half rinsed.
That made all the difference. As I said in my
last, you may get up a wash in this quick man-
ner, without the lime—only jour things will not
be so white. Follow my directions closely, and
your things will not be injured á Wt; certainly
not a quarter so much as by the long rubbing
print; and printed to excite the adm
stimulate the support of Buncombe.—
[Gal. Jour.
Fearful Leap.
The Louisville Courier states that at the re.
cent buinihg of the paper mill in that city, Ed-
ward Johnson, a member of the Mechanic Fire
Company No. I, saved his life in a most mirac-
ulous manner. He was standing upon s plat
form playing a stream up to the fire, from tie
Mechanic engine, and seeing a wall about to
tumble in, he began to look about for *oa>e wa?
to retreat. The flames had closed in behind
him, and were rapidly surrounding him on all
sides—the wall had already commenced to
crack and tottes, there was but one way tp es-
cape, and that was to leap from where he was
standing into a cellar, which was filled with
burning timbers, about thirty tive feet below.
He threw down the pipe, and taking a glance at
the crowd of anxious spectators around, jumped
from the platform, and landed in the celiar, unin-
jured. He managed to scramble out of the
place he had jumped into without being bunted.
The Flonr Remedy for ScaMs.
It will be recollected that some of the papers
have had a paragraph recommending the use wf
wheat flour in the case of scalds or burns. A
gentleman at Dayton, Ohio, taw i , and the other
lay, as he writes the Empire, tested it to his
atisfaction. He says :
While at the supper table, a little child,
was seated in its father's lap, suddenly
' a cupful of hot tea, severely
scalding tts|Wyiaud and arm. I immediately
brought a pan oFrfour and plunged the 1
it, covering ehtMLc the parts icaldm^i
flour. The sffiii^w>Mj
pain was gone instantly. lS%ieThili|iiil the
arm loosely, applying plenty of floor next to the
skin, and on the following moráng there was
not the least sign that the arm hmFbecn scalded,
neither did the child suffer the least pidn after
the application qf the flour."
New fork Crystal Palace.
This building, with the exception of the floor,
will be contracted entirely of iron and | ~
Ten large, and eight winding stai
nect the principal floor with the gallery,
building contains on the ground flow, 111,000
square feet of space, and its galleries, Whieh
are 54 feet wide, 62,000 square feet store, mak-
ing a total area of 173,000 for the purpose of
■44
the galleries one acre and 44-100; toft },
an inconsiderable fraction, finir acres.
dome is supported by 24 columns, which go
above th¿ second story to a height of 62 feet
above the floor. The quantity of iron to ha
used for the building will amount to above 1250
tons. The roof will cover an area of 144,000
square feet. The glass for the buikQag will
amount to 89,000 square feet, in 0,027
10 by 34 or 38
Wild ducks are estimated to fly 00
hour ; swallows fly rather faster;
flies 206 tniles an hour.
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Marshall, J. The State Patriot (Marshall, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 39, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 12, 1853, newspaper, February 12, 1853; Marshall, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth180404/m1/1/: accessed June 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.