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ROBT. ti. OWEN, PuoPKiETOtt
The Progress, of tH,e Frontier.
$2 PE It ANNl'M, in AdTtiiice.
VoL. VII.
LAMPASAS, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT. 27, 1877. NO. 18.
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THE DISPATCH,
íübmsiikd Weekly,
LAMPASAS, TEXAS
fe COUNTY DIRECTORY.
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H. K. OWEN,
Publisher Dwpatcu,
r#OFE88IONAL
a. 6. WAI.HKH
atthews* WALKER,
[S at Law
•n north side of the
acker.
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At Law
LAMPASAS, TkXAS.
Will Mactlce In tl « Courtu of tlie
|7tk Jafidtl District, iw) Supreme
rkmé Fiilonl Court nt Austin
mwm Mandrffrr * W lfi.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Connty Judge—W. I*. Beall.
County Attorney — W. II.
fr", ''-jtig
'mwitutf .
Justices-of the Peace—J. S.
eeinct 1; S. T. Bright,
R. ToWnsen, precinct 4; ifat-
Jliew Roach) precinct 3T
Sheriff—Albert us Sweet. Dis-
trict Clerk— M. V. B. Sparks.
County Clerk, D. C. Thomas. Cor-
mier—Tillman Weaver. Surveyor
— Harrison Miller. School
Commissioner — W. P. Beall.
Treasurer—J. II. Landrum.
Assessor—A. (J. Rice.
Hide and cattle inspector—
J. M. Brown.
PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY
Meet at the College Building* on
the second and fourth Saturdays in
each month at Oo'clok A. m!
H. BROWNING,
at Law,
A XI
P-
Amm/nimm. Tern*.
IN SIS AMcKARLAND
attorneys
—XXII —
at
A. *. WAIJirK,
ALKKR -
% nl i«nw
Offlr h*tí*^Sw nsH n Building, two
il.iur w«4t of ilie P"«t«lliitr.
Av.«XiS. Texiw. 1.24-ly
Unc8cum
—M-
MmívIi Mfle Public Square.
- —3*—
Off'I* Hi professional services to
the citir^n of lampasas
•nd vicinity. *
D
B. Wm. T. JOHNSON,
Ms Proftssicrl
JRtoKM to the citizens of f¡ i
IwWm «mounding country.—
All «liacmci trmtnl with the great-
e«t care and attention. n4l-ly
Office at HumenDrng Store.
Attend* calls at all hours night
A5D DAY.
COTTON TIE
la of tlw constantly increasing do
mmmi aaá popularity for the
CELEBRATED
TIE
aniTeraallj itngniwd u the fnvonte
tw of pbatera. cotton presses, and
fduppem of cotton, generally, the
THE AMERICAN COTTON
TIE COMPANY, LIMITED.
lob Proprietor and Manufacturero,
WK AGAIN CAUTION
All port lea intwsted against buying or
•rilfalf 8PUBIOU8 Ti« offered* under
oar hud «ad trade mark. As hereto-
fore. wo folly roa tantee tlie quality
«if Mr ABBOW TIE8 and iwure the
«vado they cao entirely rely on them
whea porrhaced through regular deal-
en.
Walter Tipps & co.
BRCKGGKRHGFFft HEIDENHF1MKli
101.E AGKKT , Al'IfUN, IfcXAH.
SCHOOL CREEK (¡RANGE
Meets oii the third Satur-
days in each month, lit i>, a 31.
I. O. O. P.
UropiiMis Lodge, Xo. It *!. 1. O. O. F.,
• ill meet regularly every Tuesday even-
ing nt 8 o'clock, I*. M , at their I.odge
r M m in the city of Lamp .*:) . Visiting
brother* are cordially invited to attend.
Br order of
F. M. TA'ITM.X. G.
Tiii-o. Pkalkkkim), Sec'jr.
'JEM PERAXCE.
The United Friends <•!' Temper-
ance meet every Friday nig.it at 01
• •clock.
ENCAMPMENT.
Lampasas Knnaiiiprneiit No. 8s!,*
meets the first, and third Thurs-
day- in mtli month. Visiting
i'litrinrehs arc cordially invited to
• -tend.
Louis Bouiio, C. P.
*R?E Owen. Scribe."
3! A?O.MC.
Lampasas Lo tg . Xn. *'¡52. meet 3rd
^Ntiinlnv night in each month.
' THOMAS IIAKDY, W. M.
THEO. HAU-KI.FMl NI>, Secretary.
CHURCH MRKCTORY.
Rev. W. W. Mautiil. Baptist, will
i r«:ieh at the I :tp*ist Church on
•In*lirst-Sunday, in each month, at
¡ 1 o'clock. a. 51.
— Rev. John S. White. Primitive
Baptist, will preach at the Baptist
Church ,"tt tin* second Sunday, in
each mouth, at 11 ««"clock. a. m.
—ll'-v. II.M. Burroughs, Baptist
will preach at the Baptist. Church
on the third Sunday, ill each month,
at 11 o'clock, a. Jr.. nnd on the
Saturday before, at the same hour.
—Thos. S. Denny, Episcopal,
will conduct'service at ('apt. Pratt's
•flice every Sunday 10::i0 a. m.
a r It Iv a l a n I) OEI'a ut l' It k 0f m aI i.S
Austin mail depart every day except
Sunday at 7 a. m., and arrive .same day
at 10 p. m.
San Saba mail arrives Tuesday,
Thursday and Sunday, at (5 p. in., and
depart Wednesday ..Friday and MnncT.iv.
at 7 a. ni.
Be I ton mail arrive *Saturday at 9
p. in., and departs Friday at 7 a. m.
Hamilton mail arrives Wednesday, at
5 p. ni., and depart Monday, at 7 a. in.
Gatesville mail arrive Friday at fl
p. m.. and departs Saturday, at 7 a. m.
Burnet mail arrives Wednesday, at
4 p. in., and depart Tuesday, at 7 a. m.
I X. HAMOX,
Postmaster.
NOTICE.
The Lampasas ity
GRIST MILL.
MOSES HUGHES, Proprietor
Thi mill ir now in successful opera
tion for wheat nnd corn. Come and
see us. We can guarantee satisfaction
when good grain is brought us.
F. Z. BROWN, Miller.
I
I VERY STABLE.
ltonnd Hock, Texas.
The new Olobe Livery Stable is now
opened with every convenience necessa-
ry. Call or address the proprietor.
J. H. BLA1X.
A. J. lORTHIMrTON
Continues to keep a select stock
DRY GOODS,
CLOTHING, BOOTS, SHOES
HATS, • FARMING UTEN-
SILS, HABI) WAKE,
(TTTLKRY.
groceries, provisions,
KISSES.
Here is a classification of kisses
in rhymes:
There is a formal kiss of fashion ;
And a burning kiss of passion ;
A father's kiss,
And a sister's kiss ta move!
There's a traitor's kiss for gold,
Like a Serpent's clammy fold.
A first kiss,
A stolen kirn,
And the thrilling kiss of love,
A meeting kiss,
A maiden kisit.
A kiss when fond hearts sever.
Bat the naddest kiss
On earth to this—
A kiss to part for ever!
rilK IIKUOKS WHO DIED.
by frank myrtle.
"God knows who wan right,"
Ah, ye , it i true !
And the God of the (Jray
I the God of the Blue.
He bore their proud spirits
To mansions above.
And lie crowned them at last,
With llis garlands of love.
The grass grows green
One the graves where they lay;
The flowers bloom nlike
Over the Bine and Gray.
And tears of loved ones
Are mingling with dew,
*Wl ile with it God blesses
The Gray and the Blue. j
In heaven above tts,
God opens His gnte.
Xo sttife, no contention;
No discord, no hate.
The porta] are open.
And there sitie by side.
Stand the heroes of hali tes,
The heroes that died
God. welcomes thorn all,
Though in battle's array,
One bore the bright Blue,
And the other the Gray.
Though one foucht for Union—
The other for State ;
One angel o^jnercy
Guides all at God's gate,
And there at the right hand
Of Him wiio is just ;
Away from the mortals.
And away from the dust.
There, there by God' throne,
Far away from earth's grave,
In raiments unspotted,
Stand the true and the brave.
Shall we—the frail worldings
Who yet lire and v* it—
Shall we sit in judguieut
Or cry out iu hate ?
While a Father above ub—
\ Father nil wise—
Calls btck His loved children
From earth to the skies.
Forgive us, forgive us,
Dear Father, above ;
Bring back to our conscience
The heart beat of love.
And while we are we*ping
For our loves to-day
Let us tenderly cherish
The Blue and the Gray.
I.KTTEK FltOlU HILL. LWNUI.RV,
but only to show the rising genera-
tion the gre.it danger and lolly and
final end of 6tich a life. A man
not only destroys his happiness in
this world*by leading such if life,
but he runs a great risk of ig?iug
cut down in sin without oue^fiio-
meut's time for reflectioh. %et I
am one of the fortunate ones, that
have been blessed with a little lime,
arid I think I should devote jfVfry
miuute of that time now in ^oing
good, after having thrown at^y so
junch.... precious time that I
l^hiaoe put ¿© much more profitable
use than I have. But now ifcii too
late for me, but.it is not tooj late
for all young boys who ma;
this, and who are now blessca
being iu possession of a iihppy
home, ami have the daily advice of
Christiau parents, as I once had,
but never availed myself of the
opportunity. Aud now, boys, re-
member the road Bill Lougley has
traveled iu disobeying his pareuls,
aud when yon go to do wrong re-
number that 9. very small wrong
leads tu a ¿till greater one, nnd so
on, until finally nothing will seem
wrong to you if yon follqw the
wrongt, road. My first step was
disobedience; next, whisky driuk-
1,yigV'n£Í>, carrying pistols^' next,
* gambling, and then murder, and I
suppose the next step will $e the
gallows. I hqpe my fatheK aud
mother will never be blamed for
what 1 have dune, for they tried to
raise me right. Now I am^going
to say a few words in regard to the
killing of Wilson An Jerson. I was
raised herein live miles of him, aud
•rje have played together ufen y a
time" When children. I nevfr had
anything Against him in my life,
and had nut eeen ^fiJnt^ forabont
eight years up to the evenürájalat I
killed him. But every tyna^r
would come in the country, uncle
Cale Longley would tell ni some-
thing that Wilson Anderson had
said about me, aud would ra^ke it
appear that he was telling n.r those
things for my own good, but; J find
sílice tnat he had an object ill view,
and I will explain it all iu tiie - fol-
lowing :
Now I am tried and convicted
and sentenced to death lor killing
Anderson, aud uiy evidence is of no
use. 1 wish I had told it aljjjefore
I was tried, Cut71 is Co
TO Till'. CITIZENS OF lee COUNTY.
Gii>oinu.i Jail, (
September iálli, Í877. )
Well, the blow is over; ih«;die is
cast; aud I am condemned !o die
without the sympathy of a single
one that I know ol. You are all
eager, and hope to see me brought
upon I he scalfold. Then 1 hope
your vengeauce will be l'ully glutted
aud that you all will be satislied
when you sue the last looting
knocked from under me and my
soul hurled into eternity. Tlieu,
gentlemen, for God sake, I hope
your prejudice will cease when 1
pay tins dreadful debt which is
exacted of me by* the law. 1 aui
willing to pay this debt for the
good of the rising geueratiou, aud
1 hope uow that iue law will tri-
umph over all lawless characters,
for of course you know my reason-
ing faculties are good enough to
kuow that the world would ruu
back iuto barbarism if the laws of
the laud were not enforced. Cer-
tainly life is sweet; yet 1 cau not
expect, to escape the penalty of the
law. For should 1 escape, cither
by pardon or by breaking jail, it
would be encouraging to alt boys
that are uow growing up wtio are
disposed to be lawless. 1 have two
dear brothers who are uow in their
boyhood, and are disposed to be
wilder than 1 was, aud hope this
will ,be a warning to theui, for 1
would freely die rather than see
them live tiie life that 1 have lived ;
yet 1 believe 1 have been the most
successful outlaw that 'jver lived in
Texas, as far back as 1 can renu m-
ber. But look at me now, utter all
the victories I iiave gained over my
enemies, during the past ten or
twelve yeais; where 1 uow sit
bound up in irons, awailiug the
doom thai 1 know is certaiu. Yet
1 aui thankful to Almighty God
that I have the opportunity '.o re-
pent of my sins aud tit my soul for
the blind step that it will soon take
off into the realms of an unknown
future, and also to advise the rising
generation, and tell tlient evils and
dangers of a reckless life. There
are many who may not take my
advice, but if I can be the means
of sating only one soul from eter-
nal ruin, it will pu> nie lor all the ! I was loading my ghn, uncle Cale
writing I have done since 1 have | gave nie twenty-six buek-sUot, aud
been iu jail; for that is what 1 said that he wanted to furnish the
have been writing oil' my lite lor. shot, anyhow; so 1 loaded with
Nut for auv good that it could do ! theui. The last words lie said as 1
tell the people how it waa C£tt3ed.
I was out in western Texan when
cousin Cale Longley was killed, aud
never heard ol it until one year
ailerwards, at my father's, iu'Bell
county, but i i.ever heard that An-
derson did it. My lather said he
killed hi use If running his horse, so
I never thought anything wore of
it. My brother Jiui left home that
time with me, which was tlie first
day of Januaiy, 18?5. We weut
hi to Bastrop county and stopped at
Bill Baker's near Red Rock, aud
stayed thereuntil the 28th day of
March, 18T5. While theie I heat-
thai there was a true bill to tin if
against me for shooting at some
uegroes, so brother Jiui and me
packed up and started for northern
Texas, arriving at uncle Cale LOng-
ley's on the moruiug of the3Uih of
March. Uncle Cale met mé at the
gale aud put his arms arouud my
neck aud cried like a child, lie
pointed to a grave out in trout of
the house, ami said : " Bill, there
lays poor little Cale, and the man
that murdered him still lives here
in oue mile of me." 1 asked him
who it was, aud when he said ic
was Wilson Andersou it surprised
me, for I had never heard of it
belore. lie then Lold me his rea-
sons for believing it, aud made it
appear that Anderson had certainly
done the killing, aud he did not
want nie to leave the country uutil
1 should kill him. 1 asked him
why some of his ooys didn't kill
him—he made various excuses why
not. lie was then afraid that 1
would uot do it, aud told me that
Anderson had accused me of steal-
ing his hoi so and had threatened to
kill me. The boys then concealed
our horses, and uncle Cale talked
all day ubout the matter, and noth-
ing wotnd do him but thatl should
kill Anderson utxt day. You all
know there is uo one but cau be
lullueuced by some oue else, aud he
louched my sympathy by his talk
iu various ways. Some time that
day J. M. Brown came there to gut
a load of corn, and 1 wanted to talk
with Mr. Brown to see what the
general opinion was iu regard to
the tuspiciou tor. Andersou, but
uucle Cale would not cousnut for
me todo so, because he said Jim
Browu would try to arrest me, aud
1 thought if that be the case 1
would not show myself, for 1 did
not waut to hurt Brown nor get
hurt, lor I never had anything
against him. That night it raiued,
and uncle Cale said it would bo too
wet to plow iu the forenoou and
not go uutil after dinner, lie told
me where I would hud him plow-
ing. So, about J o'clock in the
alleruoon, 1 started l';oiu unelfe
('ale's house. The day before, when
leave no life in him." He also told
me that Anderson would be armed
with a Smith & Wesson six-shooter,
and lie wfts watching fof me. I
found him where I expected, rode
np to the end of his row, shot him
dead and rode off. I met brother
Jim in the branch and rode otf, as
Anderson's wife said ; but she was
mistaken about either one of us
having on a white hat, but every
thing else she swore was true..
Now, citizens, it would do me no
food to tell a lie now, aud Wash
[arris did tell au untruth, but all
the other witnesses told the truth.
Now, some will blame me for tell-
ing all this on Cale Longley, but I
ink it is right for me to do it, for
he was the canse o flit all, and God
holds him accountable for the
murder of Wilson Anderson, al-
though I was not justifiable in
killing him. I have got to hang
lor it, but his Wood rests on none
other but uncle Cale Longley, and
he knows he is guilty. I would not
have made a clean breast of it, but
he has treated me very bud. When
I was first put iu j dl he w.13 in
town one day, and lie would not
comedown to see me. I sent him
word to send me a mat trass to lay
on, as I had nothiug to lay on but
the iron floor. Ite said I did not
need anything. Not one of the
Longley name has ever oome near
me, or paid one do1 lar toward get-
ting me counsel. Even my own
dear father has never noticed me or
come near lile while iu prison. I
don't ask any of them to come now,
but they are the cause of me being
right where I ain--but Í don't ask
any of their sympathy. I can die
like a man, and the people will be-
lieve what I have told this letter,
for it is true—every word of it, as
certain as there is a God in Heaven!
I have always been put up as a tar-
getvbetween tiie Longleys and the
vvorld^itrid have done the jobs for
them they^ere too cowardly to do,
and this the Thinks I get for ic.
No more at proseíTr, I will write
more before I am excuMl.^and 1
ex
hear
William P. Longley.
tt*e<t tilla, Vnung Lailld.
Pittsburg Commetci^fc
We heard a very pretty incident
the other day, which wé cannot
help relating. A young lady from
the South, it seems, was wooed aud
won by a youthful physician living
iu California. When the engage-
ment was made the doctoi was rich,
having been very successful at San
Francisco. It had uot existed six
months, however, |when, by an un-
fortunate investment, he lost his
entire "heap." This event came
upon him, it should be added, just
as he was about to claim his bride.
What does he do? Why, like au
honorable and chivalrous young
fellow as he is, lie siis down auU
writes the lady every particular ol
the unhappy turn which has taken
place in the fortunes, assuring her
that if the fact produced any
change in her ieelings toward him,
she is released from every promise
she has made him. And what does
the dear, good girl? Why, she
takes a lump of pure gold, which
her lover has sent her in his pros-
perity as a kcepesake, and, having
it manufactured into a ring, tor-
wards it to him with the following
Bible inscription engraved in dis-
tinct characters on ihe outside:
"Eutreat me not to leave thee; or
to return from following after thee;
lor whither thou goeot will I go,
and whither thou lodgest wiil I
lodge; thy people will be my people
and thy God my God; where thou
diest will I die, and there will I be
buried; the Lord do to to nie, r.nd
more also, if aught but death part
me aud thee." The lover idolized
his sweetheart more than ever when
he received this precious evidence of
her devotion to him both in storm
and sunshine. We may add that
fortune £0011 again smiled upon the
young physician, and that he sub-
sequently returned to the North to
wed the sweet girl he loved and who
loved him with such undying affec-
tion. Reader, this is all true.
xpect. more than a few will'iiEtoflU 1;uii,e3 x?ho '.'ead the Bibjeas
iear from ¡ (ni sely as t he heroine ol this mci-
' denit Seems to have done, are pretty
Ano
notlivr O'lmrgo Agnlnit Joliu Wesley
ll*r<lltt.
^ Iiillsborn Expositor.
John Wesley Hardin visited his
relations in this place about seven
years ago. He was at that time very
youthful looking and rather hand-
some, From here he went over the
river to Towash Springs, where he
got in a quarrel with a man named
Ben Bradley, over a game oí cards,
which led toa light. Bradley got
Hardin down and was about to kill
him with a bowie Knife, but Har-
din begged for his life, and Bradley
let him get up, and they made up.
After Bradley left Hardin borrowed
a pistol, followed Bradley and shot
hint dead.
i'd hint
id\.
It lift
At
^—** toi
ace Greeley' I*u«t I'rlrate Letter.
nut to OoiUt ol 111 y oplolto, I atai'.cd oil Wei'c
ill.
iOU I
Colonel M. W. Tap pan of Brad-
ford, New Hampshire, has the fol-
lowing letter from Horace Greeley,
which is thought to be the last
letter of confidential friendship
which he tver wrote :
Xkw York, November 8, 1872.
My Friend: We have been terribly
beaten, I was the worst beaten man
whoever ran for the high otlice. And I
have been assailed so bitterly that I
hardly know whether I was running for
President or the penitentiary.. In the
darkest hour my long-suffering wife
left me, nono too soon, for she had suf-
fered too deeply and too long. I laid
her in the ground with hard, dry eyes.
Well, I am used up. 1 cannot see before
me. I have slept little for weeks, and
my eyes are still hard to close, while
they soon open again. But no more of
this. You, n:y friend, went into this
contest for me. You kuew, as I did,
that we must stop fighting the rebels
some timo. But it is now settled that
we never shall. * * *
I need not speak of my wife. You
know tlu¿ whole story of her long illness
and painless death. Her sufferings
have been so great, that I rejoice that
they Were ended. Remember nie kindly
to Mrs. Tappan.
I am faithfully yours,
HORACE GREELEY.
The asterisks denote, tlie omis-
sion of passages relating to public
men now living.
A Ulil'M Coin poult Ion 011 Uo)«,
Boys are strange thing.3. Boys is
of three kinds—the baby boy, the
little boy and the big boy. I don't
like the baby boy, 'cause lie squ ills
and I have to rock hint with a
cradle. But if tlie big boy or the
little boy squalls aud kicks 1 can
rock hi 111 with stones. 1 like the
little boy best when lo 's got candy
and gives nie some. 1 I'ke 'he big
boy best when it snows, 'can he
can haul me on his ih-w sled. My
papa said he was a little boy once,
but mother says she wasn't, and siie
wishes papa was a little boy once
more; sister Julia says she don't like,
boys, and when 1 saw her and Tom
Brown setting in the same rocking-
chair Sunday night she says she
was trying to squeeze the life out ol
, him, 'cans" she don t like him; but.
I don't think she was litirtin^ linn
any, for lie woiildn 1 let her get. up.
! 1' 11:s is all 1 know about boys, -utd
! mother savs she hopes I won't
! uuVlI; know 110 nioic about 'em.
sure to míí.ke good sweethearts aud
better wives.
GOOD TALklCKS'
A "persistent taiker i¿ n^t-rvg^d
conversationalist. Tlie very word
conversation defines its meaning; it
is an interchange. The man who
insists in talking at you is a bore.
The English defiinitiou of a bore
betrays the great national weakness
iu this regard: "A bore is one who
insists 011 talking to you about him-
self, when you want'to be talking to
him about yourself." Neither is
the confirmed gossip a good con-
versationalist, for conversation sug-
gests discourse about things rather
than people. Here is another baue
bf so-.ial interchanges. They are
too often on the lower l. vel of that
talk which finds its subject matter
in persons. That is gossip. Peo-
ple who do not read or think must
largely make people and neighbor-
hood events the staple ol their talk,
but the bad habit obtains even
among those who by culture have
beeu titted to make better use of
their tongues. Gossip does not
always indicate ignorance. • It is to
be feared it lias become a fashion
iuto which even intelligent people
are drawn. But this kind of talk
is neither edifying nor wise. If there
were 110 worse result, it narrows
the mind to shut up its views to
neighborhood details. There is 110
excuse tor it now. The world's
gates all stand open. The papers
bring all lands, all governments, all
rising ideas, to our very doors.
Books lead us into the liberty of
the world, and the best of itsdoings
and thinking. A growing vice in
conversation is a l'ondess for smart-
ness. Tartness, repartee, aud sat-
ire are very good for an. occasional
reasoning; but, like horseradish
and mustard, they make a very
poor dinner. People with this pro-
pensity of saying grinding things
have a" terrible power; you go away
from them with a feeling that the
world is stulfed with sawdust—
that you yourself are an imbecile
and impostor. It may take days
for you to recover your proper
standing with youisell. 'Ilien, it
you ask your soul what fatal gill
has the tormentor, which carries
with it this fatal power of making
its fellow mortals miserable, you
discover that it is the gift of sel-
fishness. The person to whom you
have been talking is ungenerous.
A generous man or a generous wo-
man—you cannot coaie near such
au one without receiving some-
thing I hat makes amends tor your
own disappointment with, your
opinion ot, yoursoll. An ungener-
ous person adds the weight of an-
other to your side of the scales, and
down yon go.
now tkui:.
A MTTIiB ÜRHY FATAL.
It is well known that JuliuÉ
Caesar might have escaped assassi-
nation in the Senate Chamber if
he ha-1 resnd deliberately a letter
put in his hands by oue informed
of the conspiracy. The same fact
is true of one or two of the Freucli
monarchs who perished by the as-
sassin's knife. But the delay of s
lew hours to open these important
letters rendered escape impossible*
We have never aeew the follow-
ing incident before, but it iff
vouched for by Doctor McChfet-
11 ey, o€ Trenton, a reliable au-
thority.
The success of Washington at
Trenton has been generally con-
sidered as the turning point in the
war of independence.
Yet few persous are aware frpon
how slight an event this critical
action was made to hinge. On the
Christmas eve, when Washington
crossed the Delaware, Colonel llahlr
the commaddei of the Hessiaus,
sat in a private room near Trenton,
engaged in drinking and playing
cards.
A Tory, who had discovered the
movements of the American troopff,
sent a note by a special messenger
to the colonel, with orders to de-
liver it into his own hands.
The messenger found the way to
the house, and a negro opened the
door but refused hint admittance*
took the letter and delivered it to
the colonel, who was just shuflliag
for a new game.
Supposing the letter to be an im-
portant, or uot stopping to thiqk
at all, he went on with his play.
Tho reading of the letter would
have thwarted the design of Wash-
ington ; but the love of play con-
quered the colonel's prudence and
gave success to a worthier cause,
involving the loss of his life and
army, and intimately the freedom
of the colonies. Little did the
colonel think, when he was shuf-
fling those cards, that he was losing
the greatest game that was ever
played among the nations of the
world.
duigIIAM's kill
1i0w the prophet divided
worldly wealth.
HIS
When you pull your linger out
of the water there is no hole in tile
lluid. So it i; with a great, many
people; when they die they leave
no \.italicv in the world.
The New York Tribune's Saít
Lake special says Brigham Youug's
will was ria l Tuesday in the pres-
ence of all his wives and children
and a few friends. Brighant
Young, Jr., George Q. Cannon and
Albert Carrington are named as his
executors. The estate is largely
real estate, and is probably wortle
$2,000,000. The will was made
four years ago, and his yonugest
child, born of Mary Van Cott, was
then three years old. Young waff
the father of fifty-six'children, «fid
left seventeen wives, 1G sons and
twent^ight daughte
aTfii€ 1 akU*ftn equú
cf the property between ar
wives and children, with no prefer-
ence to any. Most all of them al-
ready liad something deeded
them. On this valuation was set
and it is :o be charged to the recip-
ients as part of their share, though
not necessarily at the valuation he
put on it. That is to be equitably
adjusted, when the es.ate is divided,
upon the youngest child comiug of
age. Meanwhile the iticomc is to
go to the various mothers, accord-
ing to the unmber of their childreit,
and they can withhold the shares if
the children behave badly. All are
provided for as far as their present
needs are concerned. His first wife
and Amelia are giver, a life-interest
in Amelia Palace—a large, modern,
new fine house; but he is known to
have changed his mind about that,
chiefly because they declined it, for
reasons best known to themselves,
although nothing in or ont of the
will ha3 yet come to light showing
it, and they are not otherwise pro-
vided for, except by their share of
income. Deceased held many inter-
ests in trust for the church aud in-
dividuals.
His executors are directed to turn
them over. The church is forbid-
den by law to hold more than $500,—
000 worth of property, and so it
was largely held by Your.g iu trust.
His friends will uot entertain the
notion that he ever abused that
trust.
There is no inventory of proper-
ty 011 the estate and it is widely
scattered. With the country pros-
perous and full of money, it would
be worth twice the valuation. Re-
cently Brigham Young endowed an
academy with lands at Provo aud
another at Logan, the latter with
12,000 acres. He had determined to
endow one at Salt Lake, but did
not live long enough to do so.
A person present at the reading
of the will said it seemed to be very
satisfactory to all concerned, ft
will be probated a3 soon as possible.
It will be wonderful if some disatis-
faction does not creep in within tho
next thirteen years.
JAY UitlLU.
For the benefit of those who have
never seen Jay Gould, ai.d who
form their ideas of men by weigh-
ing aud measuring them, it may be
stated here that lie is a dark man,
with oriental features, under five
feet six inches iu height, weighs
probably not more than 120 pounds,
is 41 pears of age, and is said to bo
worth over ten million of dollars,
lie married. Miss Ellen Miller,
daughter of a rich and well known
New York merchant, and is now
the fat her of five children; of whom
the eldest boy, George, about thir-
teen years old, promises, it is said*
to be as smart a^ his father.
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