Fulton telegraph. (Fulton, Callaway County, Mo.). (Fulton, MO), 1875-01-29

              zkTTJU TON FULTON, CALLAWAY COUNTY, MISSOURI, JANUA11Y 29, 1S75. NO. 12. EG-R 1 rC V i (1 A. f! 'A It I I I ! ! I THE LAST DAYS OF TOM MARSHALL. The Unhappy End of a Life of Bril- liant Opportunities. Mi pjiford Twyman, a personal friend of Tom Marshall, delivered at Louisville last Tuesday evening a verv interesting lecture npoii the life of Itie brilliant, gifted and iucklea Kentucky orator. From a lull report ol .it in the 'Courier-Journal we ropy the following passages describing the lat, melancholy, miserable days ot Marshall's lite: 1 havo said ho had no home. That was true, because he had in him none of the homo qualities. He could not or would not make a home. Before the death of Dr. Lewis Marshall ho gave to hisdaughter-in-law, Mr. Tom Marshall, during hor lifo.on-tiah of tho old Buck Fond lariii, consisting of more than oue hundred acre, situated about four miles from the town of Versailles. Upon this tract a small but comfortable co tinge was erected and paid (of by the liberality of the community. Here Mrs. Marshall resided and (his piaco he called his home. But lie came into towu, and remained day's and even weeks before returning. How he lived, and what manner of life ho led, it is indeed didloult to describe. lu August, 1863, two years before his death, iir, Marshall, in a couimnnh-atiou to oue ol 4he Louisville papers, had occasion t speak of himself, using the third person; when tic employed the followiug language : lie seemed to have lost caste in Versailles with all political parties, stud to be utterly without weight, iuflu-euce or social position in Woodford. A low of lU.od -friends still frequent his company t)t'Kururt bis conversation in his sober Intervals.' This was a sad picture drawu by his own peu and yet it hardly did justice to the tacts. The sober iutervats, became less frequent. Ho grew sad for want of company, for want of mental employment, for want of intellectual association. He would stop the school boys on the street and read and explain to them their Latin and rreek exercises, lie would gather around him a group of men .or boys any one for au audience ami read to them from ancient or modern' history, but more frequently from his own writings, which bad been published in 1858 by Sir. W. L. Barre. He would pause in these street readings, and explain, criticise, condemn or approve the subject of tho writer. He wu8 exceedingly fond of reading from his own essays or articles, published between 18:10 jjtiid, 1850, aud of pointing out how subsequent events had demonstrated his wisdom or confirmed his views. I now own a copy of his writings, which I luiVo often fen I him, aud which he peucil-inarked through and through. During the last four or live years' of bis life, lie was entirely without mcatisand had no employment ; a precarious and hazardous charily supplied his wants. He slept many nights in a chair in the common sitting-room of a cheap country tavern ; in warm weather he slept on a wooden hi-ncb a-thf ( court-house portico; and during the cooler nights of tho early fall, lit The- hav-loft'of a public livery-stable, lie felt his situation more keenly thau one might suppose, and would often speak of it with bitter satire aud with far uioro wit than reverence or piety. . He was wont to compare himself with tho Saviour of mankind, saying that he, liko Cliri.it, had nut where to lay his head. J lis food, was obtained in much the same manner as his other necessities weresupplied.- 'He accepted the charity of a meal wherever and whenever it was offered to liim. lie culled oue day at my home to borrow the book to which 1 have before referred. He came just at the dinner hour, and when I happened to be alouo. 1 invited hirn to join me. He declined, saying that several gentlemen wero on the street waiting for him to read to thern ai:articlc from the book, but he added; .have my dinner for mo and I will return and get it. He did return in an hour or two, and ale with an appetite difficult to satisfy. He explained aud excused his hearty meal by saying it was Ids first food for tweuty-four hours, and he had no expectation of another meal for an equal length of time. But his insatiable thirst for drink survived all this. It was sad, yes, it was pitiful to follow him into the clump, rough bar-room and hear him prostitute his genius aud great gifts to produce coarse and vulgar wit to amuse a lot of thoughtless boys or ignorant men, and thus bribe them in furnishing him liquor. Passing the street oue night 1 heard peal-after peal of laughter coming from a saloou. Prompted by curiosity, 1 opened tho door and went in, and there was Capt. Marshall quito drunk hiirro united by a rude aud boisterous crowd, his clothing torn aud soiled, his hat mashed and pulled down over his face, his face itself blacked and smeared with ink and soot. He leered at the crowd for a moment from beneath his slouching hat, and then drew himself up majestically, raised his arm and shoulder in a most expressive gesture, and said, in bitter and contemptuous tones, You remind me of a lot .of cowardly bantam chickens picking upon the head of au eagle with his wings broken. This was greeted with a shout of laughter, and the whole crowd proceeded to drink. 1 more thau once met him late at night, after even the bar-rooms were closed, wandering alone upon the streets, with liis hat oft, striklug his forehead with his open hand, looking up at tho moon aud calling himself a lunatic, a star-gazer, and delivering an address to an iiuag-inary uudiance . in the heavens. But let us pity rather than censure him. , At many periods of his life he made determined and continued enorts to conquer his thirst for, liquor. He said that j his contest wus not oue of days or weeks, j but of months aud years ; that when the desire tame ou tut sufferings were equalled m I;f by tho torments of the lost. He drank the hottest teas and sncli substitutes as were suggested to biro. 1 remember ouco to. havo seen him swallow more than au ounce of the extract of gin-ger.but slightly adulterated with water, but all to no purpose. It was the stimulating effects of alcohol that he craved, and he must have it or go mad or die. His failure to conquer this consuming passio'vfor drink assisted in making him a fatar-V-At Is fgth exhausted nature gave way and he was stricken with his last illness. A friond informed him that he must soon die, asked hint some question looking to a preparation to another world. He promptly stopped him and said: No, sir; no, sir. I do not wish to pray. I had no hand in coming into this world. I havo failed in all I have over seriously at tempted or desired whilst in it. I shall make no arrangements for ray departure, nor for another existence. If God .has managed .the matter no far, I shall permit him to continue it as best pleases him. He dismissed the subject and referred to it no more. After remaining silent for some time, as if musing, he said : Well, well, this is the end. Tom Marshall is living, not having a suit of clothes iu which to be buried ; dying upon a borrowed bed, covered with a borrowed sheet, In a house built by charity. Well, weir.it is meet and proper. After an hour or more he looked through tho open window, and calling the attention of those around hhii to a solitary tree standing in the middle of a large open pasture, lie said : When I am dead bury me beneath that tree in the middle of tho field; 1 have been crowded-all of my life, and I do not wish to be crowded after my death. . He said no more, but after a time quietly ceased to uroathe. He was placed beuath the tree, but no stone nor Ajrl p mark tells tho passing travelleriwho rests below. As the yours pass away, and time and distance soften all things, his faults, his vices and his misfortunes arc forgot ten. He is remembered as a brilliant wit, a most accomplished aud fascinating orator and by somo as an excellent and learned lawyer. Let no one suppose that his was a dash at fame, that he gained only temporary notoriety, or that he drew inspiration from liquor whilo he .abused the prodigal gifts of nature That would be far from the truth. Mr. Marshall was all his lite a patient aud diligent student. He gained success only when entirely free from drink, and after laborious study. Every great attempt made without preparation or when under the influence of his master passion, was more or less a failure. He, like all the sons of men, had no royal road to fame, and only found the pearls of wisdom after a diligent search, or enjoyed the fruits of victory after a well fought con tost. A PAINFUL STORY. Many of the oldost citizens of Illinois will remember Thomas Ford, one of the oldost lawyers of that .State, who was elected governor some time back in the ''forties." When he died he left a number of children and no property, excepting a historv of Illinois, iu manuscript. This, (Jen. Jauios Shields, now a resident of Missouri, had published, and the proceeds were divided among the children. The children wero adopted by different citizens the youngest, Thomas, with whom we have to do.iu this sketch, being adopted by the late Hon. Thos. E. Moore, of Peoria, III., and assumed that gentleman's name. In the fall of 1871, young Ford or Moore (he always wrote his name Thomas Ford Moore) became dissatisfied with I'eoria, and determined to go to the Far West to seek his fortune. At this time excitement was ruuniug unusually high '.u regard tohorse-stealing. It was near the close of a beautiful day in July that young Ford for tho first time approached Slate Creek Itauchc, situated iu Summer county, near the town of .Indwell. He had walked all day from the south-east. Just before reaching tho rauche he became cognizant of the fact that two men were followiug him, but he had a revolver, and supposing if tho men interfered with him it would be for the purpose of robbery, he had uo fears of them. He soon arrived at the rauche where he refreshed himself with meat aud drink for half an hour, and then started for Caldwell. His journey lay through a woods of scattered trees aiid ' abundant brush. He had gone scarcely a mile when three men suddenly sprang upon him from a hazel copse. So sudden was the attack that he had no time to draw a weapon no time to make a defense. The three men were quickly joined by three others, and the leader iuforined their captive that he was exceedingly happy to have succeeded iu capturing him so easily. For, said he "we havo been watching you for several hours past. Tom inquired for what they had arrested him. At first he could get no satisfaction, but at length he was informed that he was arrested for horse stealing. The horror of his situation then forced itself upon the young man. He realized that he was iu the hands of a mob who knew no law save that of Judge Lynch, iu whose court they wore jurors, judge, witnesses, attorney ana executioners. Though a thousand times innocent he knew he would dio if he could not fully couviuce these men of his innocence, Ho knew that some of the loudest and most active of these vigilantes were the real horse-thieves, who would not hesitate to. hang an innocent man to divert suspicion from their guilty selves, and he knew if the party were ot that number he would certainly perish. They asked him his name, aud ho told them Thomas Moore, and then informed them that he was the son of Thomas Ford former Governor of Illinois. How cau your name be Moore, then, said the leader, if you are the son of a Governor named Fordf" The young man amid the shouts of derision that followed ,attempted to explain. He was dragged along. Shut up your cackle, said one burly rufflau, striking him in the face with bis fist. m A rope was'here brought In view. Take him to yonder tree, said the leader. My God, gentleman, protested the unfortunate youth, are you going to hang me upou bare suspicion ? Before God 1 am innocent of crime, and if you will give uie time aud opportunity I can prove it. We have all the proof we want, said the leader. If you have got any prayers to say, make them short, for we have so many of you fellows to attend to that we have not got much time to give to each of you. In God's name men is there no chance for life ? Must I die like a dog for nothing? Give me some chance for my life, aud, if you will take it, don't murder me in such a cowardly manner. Vaiu were tho words of the poor boy. They attempted to bind him, but with all the Voung strength .of a well built frame, intensified aud auginouted by desperation he threw them off. And again they threw themselves upon him, but in his despair he burled them from him. But what must be the result of this? What could be the only result? They wero six to one. He was exhausted, overpowered, thrown down and his hands and feet securely bound, Then a rope being passed over the fork of a tree aud the other end around his neck, he was asked if ho had any confession to make. No, said he, tuy.chief consolation iu this moment of my death is that I am inno cent. 1 never stole a horse, lou doubt my stories. I have letters in my pocket to provo that I am who I say I am. For God's sake look at them. We'll hang you first and then look at your letters afterwards, shouted one of the ruffians. Pull away, boys, and let us get away with this business. Oh, give him a minute to pray, said the leader. The ropo was slacked up aud the doomed boy fell upon his knees iu silent prayer. The two minutes over, the cruol hands at tho other end of the ropo pulled it taut and with another jerk the poor innocent youth was dangling between heaven and earth. A fow moments and tho dark transaction was dona. After he was dead tho men examined the pockets, and found letters and papers firoving his identity, and also proving lis innocence.' The villains had literally hung their mau first aud heard his defense afterward. One of them expressed a fear that they had been engaged iu a bad job. The facts of the murder came out nearly or quite as above detailed, and occasioned no little feeliugiu the vicinity. WORDS OP WISDOM. . Mr. Schurx concluded his great speech In the United States Senate, ou the Louisiana question as follows : "In the name of that inheritance of peace and freedom you want to leave to your children; in the name of that pride with which, as Americans, you lift up your heads among the nations of, the world, don't trifle with the constitution of your country; don't put iu jeopardy that which is' the truest glory of tho American name. Let not the representatives falter and fail when the liberties of the peoplo aro at stake." Corn is selling in Benton counfy for 75 cents per bushel, aud cattle are starving. . DISTINGUISHED PERSONS I HAVE KNOWN. John Randolph of Roanoke. 11Y MKS. JKS3K B K N TON FRKMONT. Mr. Randolph is one of the earliest figures thnt crosses this back-ground. His habit of wearing white flannel and pale drab clothes, gave to his very long, thin liguro a ghostly effect, aud 1 was iu awe of him for various reasons. First, I was out of favor for being born a girl, when he had counted ou a namesake whose pedigree suited him; for he held that, of people as of horses, it was true that "Blood will tell on some part of the course." My mother as well as my father wero among the few to whom this morbidly nervous invalid gave his siucero regard aud continued friendship. Mr.Uaudolph's Montaigue was given to my father with this beginning to the inscription : "To my friead Benton for friend you are in the bost sense of that much abused and prostituted word " An intermarriage between the daughter of his cousin, Kdmoiid Randolph(Attorney-General under Washington) and my mother's uncle, Thomas Pros ton, made a connection which took a warmer shade from the love and honor all grew to have for our Aunt Edmonia. His letters to both my mother aud father, especially those written when in Kng-glaird and ou the Continent, were marked not only by the keen wit that all knew of, but by sad and tender feelings which he only expressed iu the sacred privacy of friendly intercourse. His queue a long, full lock of brown hair, soft as a girl's he sent back to my mother from Switzerland. On the long, narrow paper in which it was folded he had written, iu his fine Italiau handwriting : "Cut off on Mt. St. Gothnrd and dedicated to vengeance when 1 read the false and calumnious report made against uie by 1). V., when an ocean rolled between us." For many years Mr. Randolph occupied the house next to ours iu Washington, aud his horses and his men Johnny and Juba were as much part of daily life to me as our own people aud horses. Tho old English life wa.s the plan ou whicliJVirgiuians wero faithfully trained, and a great deal of open air lifo made part ot it. Arlington, now a vast cemetery, was one of the country houses near Washington which it gave mo so much pleasure to visit that after all theso years 1 still see freshly tho bright rivor as our cavalcade crossed it four- horses were always put iu for this distance aud the bad roads, aud somo on horseback with us, going ahead to examine the road riding back to the carriages and the meeting there, with the old time hospitality of refreshments offered, and gar dens visited, and kind notice taken of the children's, growth sinro the last year. Mr. Randolph and his Juba make a part of this picture. 1 was no tavorito with Mr. Randolph. My health aud high spirits jarred his nerves. It is hard now to realize the cruel treatment then given to invalids. Bleeding to excess was a matter of course horrid blisters, quarts of drinks that destroyed the appetite, aud iu addition to this diet" was enforced. Healthy patients died at once. Imagine a chronic invalid -with wrecked nerves, subjected to bleeding, blisters and "diet !" This should be remembered to Mr. Randolph's benefit, and offset his bitter andhalt-insane sarcasms aud personal thrusts. Struggling" against the was a counter current ot kindness and lofty thought which found expression in his care for his own slaves, aud his unceasing efforts for general emancipation, and, whilo waiting that, colinization. Mr. Randolph was sincere in his care for his slaves, although his morbid mind did not devise anything so simple and practical as acting for himself aud liberating them in his own life-time. Among the few things his palate craved was a certain preparation of almonds and fresh milk, supposed to bo healing to tho lungs. The preparation of this morning glass of milk was always a pleasure to us children. The breaking the almonds, so many sweet and so many bitter-dropping them iuto hot water, and then drawing off their shrivelled brown skins, then pounding them in a marble mortar, then straining the whole clear through a bit of new thin muslin, then mixing this milky fluid with the proper sugar aud fresh warm milk this much 1 was allowed to help in. But the crowning honor of going with the glass of milk and giving it to Mr. Randolph was taken away from me at his asking, I am sorry to (ay because in my eagernoss I had stumbled and spilt the almond milk ou his white flannel dressing gown. As an instance of Mr. Randolph's anxiety to atone tor tho pain ho sometimes gave by his bitter speeches, my mother loved to rocall not only the words, but the look aud voice aud evidcut deep feeling with which she once heard him say to a lady who had been stung to tears by some sarcasms he had made upon women and the evil they had done from the creation : "But if women lost us Paradise, it was through woman we gained the Saviour." He claimed his namesake, aud one of the many wills he made gaveau estate to my brother, and another to my father. My fathci did not accept either. Nor would they have been accepted even if the number of wills made by Mr. Randolph had not neutralized each other. But among those I know to be friends to-day "friends iu the best sense of that much abused word" are tho nearest relatives and heirs-at-law of my mother's and father's friend, tho honorable, generous Virginia gentleman John Randolph, ' of Roanoke. JV. Y. Ledger. Daniel Webster. ANDRKWJACKSON. General Jackson, too, was tall and thin and often suffering, but not even a child could mistake the strong, self-centered, steady nature that makes his thin, resolute face. The very qualities in jno which tried Mr. Randolph mado me a favorite with the President; aud he liked my father to bring me with him on the many occasions when they consulted together. He liked to have uie near him where his hand could rest ou my head, and smootho my curies, as my father had scon it years before, smoothing and dying tho fleece of a sheep a sheep which ho had had brought in to please a child who cried because its pet was out iu tho rain. it was when regiments wero forming for the war of 18P2, and General Jackson had his many enemies who objected to his having the command of one. After the way of that time, he had fought many duols, chiefly lor his friends alliances offensive and defeiisi vo wero then thought as right anil necessary between individuals as among nations. Going one rainy night to show General Jackson an address ho had written in re-gar.! to this regiment, my father found this dreaded duellist with a little boy and a sheep between his kucos, dividing his cares between the two. The eighth of January ended the discussions of his fitness, but not the har-assments given him by old enemies. Among cures he had to bear wus the having charged to his private account all the expenses of bringing homo that same regimcut, without waiting consent to his request to move them from New Orleans beloro the coming hot weather caused illness. This, with othor such causes, nearly swamped all General Jackson's private means. My father had a position of influence even thou in Washington, and used it so successfully that this outlay was authorized and so lifted from Genoral Jackson. At the very hour 1 was at the War De part incut. (I have heard my father, tell.) at eight o'clock, when I was sending off this notification of release from debt, my brothcr was carried iu a blanket through the streets of Nashville, wounded in tho leg by General Jackson, and that not for his own, but for a friend's quarrel. I terminated his business for him, and sent him a challenge. Ho refused to accept it from nie, and declared he would uot tight me. Then I notified htm to go armed, for I would attack him whenever 1 met him. Which was done ; and a Montague and ('apulet business they mado of it; for it spread to the friends of each, aud one result was that my father's party followed that of General Jackson's into the chief inn of the place, and iu the firing which followed, some balls penetrated into an inner parlor where some peaceful travellers were. One of them, a lady, told many years after that, tho names of Jackson and Benton 'were a horror to her, for she had been mado ill by the fright. Her child, then two years old, brought about a different feeling, however, when we were married and my father became known to her in his perfectly lovcable, domestic life. One day tho President could not seo. my father at tho White House, because the surgeons wero just extracting the ball from au old wound, and later my father was told that it was tho ball he had put iu his old friend's arm. General Jackson wished to make my father Minister to France, but neither that nor any Cabinet position, nor indeed any evidence of personal favor did he think it right to accept. To sustain the party and the administration was another thing and that he did it magnificently and unselfishly the country knows. But my uncle would not seo this difference, and in his resentment against my father for even acting with General Jackson politically, he ceased to speak to my father. Nor did he relent; but he bequeathed to my lather his large estate in Louisiana. This my father would not accept. It touched him very much, but ho would.not take money where love had been withheld. When the old king lay a dying, and from the pain and iuconvenienco of his disease dropsy could not easily turn himself, he had the portrait of his wife placed at the foot of his bed. 1 have tried to be a Christian, he would say, and I know I do fully forgive all my enemies, as I hope for forgiveness, l.nt 1 cannot-forgive thos'e who killed my Rachel with their slanders. I have an admirable portrait of General Jackson, taken before the Presidency hid weighed upon him, or the loss of his Rachel chilled aud saddened him. It only needs the helmet and mailed-coat to be a type of the heroic, crusading knight; but, as 1 knew him, thick, white locks made the hclmit, and the once iron hand was all gentleness. DANIEL BRYAN'S OATH. Daniel Bryan had been a lawyer of eminence, but had fallen, through intoxication, to beggary and a dying condition. Bryan had married in his better days the sister of Moses Felton. At. length all hopes wero given up. Week after week would tho fallen man bo drunk ou the floor, and not a day of real sobriety marked his course. I doubt if such another was known. He was too low for real conviviality, for those ho would have associated with would uot drink with him. All alouo in his offlce and chamber, ho still continued to drink, and even his very life seemed the offspring of his jug. In early spring Moses Fenton had a call to go to Ohio. Before ho set out ho visited his sister. Ho offered to take her with him, but she would not go. But why stay here ? urged the brothsr. "You are failing away and disease is upon you. Why should you live with such a brute? Hush, Moses, speak not so, answered the wife, keeping back her tears. I will not leave him now, but iie will soon leave me. Ho cannot live much longer. At that moment Daniel entered the apartment. Ho looked like a wanderer from tho tomb. Ho had his hat ou, and his jug in his hand. Ah, Moses, how are ye? he gasped, for he could not speak plriuly. Tho visitor looked at him for a few moments iu silence. Then as his features assumed a cold, stern expression, he said hi a strongly emphasized tone : Daniel Bryan, I have been your best friend but ono. My sister is au angel, though matched with a demon. 1 have loved you, Daniel, as I never loved man before : you were generous, noblo and kind ; but 1 hate you now, for you are a perfect devil incarnate. Look at that woman. She is my sister she now might live in comfort, only that she will not do it while you are alive ; when you die she will come to me. Thus do 1 pray that God will soon give her joys to my keeping. Now, Daniel, 1 do sincerely hope that the first intelligence that reaches me from my native place, after I shall have reached mv new home we bo that you aro dead ! . Stop, Moses, I can reform yet. You cannot. It is beyond your power. You havo hail inducements enough to have reformed half tho sinners of creation, and you are lower than ever before, (io and die, sir, as soon as you can, for tho moment that sees you thus, will not nnd me among the mourners. Bryan's eyes flashed, and he drew himself proudly up. Go, he said, iu the tone of the old sarcasm. Go to Ohio, aud I'll send you news. Ohio, sir, aud watch tho post. I will yet make you take back your words. Never, Daniel Bryau, never. You shall, 1 swear it. With theso words Daniel Bryan hurled the jug into the fire-place, and while yet the thousand fragmeuts were flying over the floor, he strode from the house. Mary sank fainting ou the floor. Moses bore her to a bed, and then having called in a neighbor, he hurried away, for the stuge was watting. For a month Daniel hovered over the brink of the grave, but did not dio. One gill ol brandy will save you, said the doctor, who saw that the abrupt removal of stimulants from the system that for long years had almost subsisted on nothing elso, was nearly suro to prove fatal. You cau surely take a gill aud not take any more. Ay, gasped tho poor man, take a gill and break my oath. Moses Fellou shall not hear that brandy and ruin killed me. If the want of it can kill me, then let mo die I'll net dio till Moses Feltou shall eat his words. He did live. An iron will conquered the messenger death sont Daniel Bryan lived. For ono mouth he could not oven walk without help. Mary helped him. A year passed away, and Moses Felton returned to Vermont. Ho entered the Court House at Burlington, and Daniel Bryan was on the floor pleading for a young man who had been indicted for a forgery. Felton started iu surprise. Never before had such torrents of eloquence poured from his lips. Tho case was given to the jury, and tho youth was acquitted. The successful counsel turned from the court-room and met Moses Felton.They shook hands but did not speak. When they reached a spot where nono others could hear thein, Bryau stopped. Moses, ho said, do you remember the words you spoko to me a year ago? I do, Daniel. Will you now take them back uusay them now and forever ? Yes, with all my heart. Then I am iu part repaid. Aud what must be the remainder of tho payment? asked Moses. I must die an honest, unperjured man. The oath that has bouud me thus far, was made for life. That evening Mary Bryau was among th hQppiiMt of tho luppy. THE MONEYLESS MAN. II V HKNKV HTANTON. Is there no place on the face of the earth, Where charity dwelleth, where virtue has birth ? Where bosoms In kindness and mercy will heave. And the poor mid the wretched shall ask and receive V Is there no place on earth where a knock . from the poor Will bring a klud angel to open the door? Ah! search the wide world whprever yon ran There is no ojien door lor tho money less man. Go lonk In the hall where the chandelier light Irlves oil with its splendor the darkness of night; Where the rich bunging velvet, in shadowy fold. Sweeps gracefully down, with its trimmings of gold. And mirrors of silver tak up and renew-In long lighted vistas the 'wlldering view; (Jo there iu your patches, and find if you can A welcoming smile for the moneyless man. Uo look toyntirjudge in dark flowing gown. With the scales wherein law welgheth equity down; Where ho frow ns on the weak and smiles on the strong. And punishes right while he justifies wrong; Where jurors their lips on the Bible have laid. To render a verdict they've already made; Go there in the court room, and find if you can. . Any law tor the case of the moneyless man. Go look in the batiks, where Mammon has told nis hundreds and thousands of silver and gold: Where, safe from the hands of the starving and poor, Lies pile upon pile of the glittering ore; Walk up to the counter ah, there you may stay. Till your limbs have growu old and your hair turns gray Aud you'll And at the bank not one of the clan With money to lend to a moneyless man. Go look in your church of the cloud reaching spire. Which gives hack to the sun his same look of lire Where the arches aud columns are gorgeous within. And the walls seem as pure as a soul without siu ; (Jo down the long aisle see the rich and the great, In the pomp aud the pride of their worldly estate. Walk down in your patches, aud find, if you can Who opens a pew for a moneyless man. Then go to your hovel no raven hasted Th wife who has sntlered so long tor her bread; Kneel down by her pallet and kiss the death frost From the lips of theangel yourpovertv lost Then turn in your agony upward to God. Ami bless while it smites you, the chastening rod. And you'll find at the end ot your life's lit tic span. There's a weleome above for the moneyless mau. The Dress of Man and Wife. Tho difference between tho dress of an averago business mau and that of his wife is thus prettily described by a writer in tho Qulaxy : Sometimes women call attention to their persistent gratification of their passion for dress in a way which makes them the reverso of lovely. We. saw au instance of this only a fow days ago. A lady aud gentleman wero walking arm iu arm through streets, the condition of which, mado the utmost simplicity and evou coarsouess of dress appropriate. Of their relations there could be no doubt ; for she bore herself with that expression of being a property-holder in him which is every one of the loveliest forms of the married woman's manifestations of self-consciousness. Rich aud rare was the dress she wore. Her gown was of black siik, thick and soft, and with dull lustre which tells of dollars in every glint. Over it she wore a velvet garment, indescribable in shape, and unutterable iu name, over which meandered, iu and out and ii, and out, au interminable procession of bugles, flashing in the sun like a 'Illack Crook" march of black beetles. Upon her head was a nondescript structure of costly uselessuess, from which fluttered an ostrich plume, every dowle of which was as fresh as if it had been plucked yesterday. Her ear-rings were of dull gold, Kt rosea ii pattern, and her closely fitting, three-buttoned kid-gloves were like unto them iu color. His overcoat was shabby his trousers discolored by tho Weather aud cut out into elliptical raggcdiiess about bis heels. The glory of his hat had departed, and its fashion was that of two yours agone. Ho kept one hand in his pocket, aud the other was glovoless. His shoes were shapeless and foxy. He cowered and crouched as he walked, the protector and provider of tho splendid being at his side. A glance at them discovered their iden tity. He was a professional man of mucli and well deserved distinction ; she was one of tho shallowest and most frivolous of her sex. As the bright sun lookod down upon them, revealing to a thread the contrast of their appearance, certain doubts and questions arose it being his labor that provided for them both. But how foolish and impertinent such questions. If she was happy and ho was content, who had a right to ask any questions, even in the recesses of his own mind? Goto; what would you have, with your nebulous notions of right, of good taste and of propriety ? You were not called to pay for the silk nor for the maul ua-makcr's marshalling of tho procession of beetles. If he was willing to be seen iu the streets looking like a walking rag-bag, while she leaned upou his arm in a gallant array that was spun from his brain, if not fashioned by his hand, should not all the world bo con tented like wise ? Yea, verily; and pay her compliments upon her "charming toilet." AN OLD CHURCH. Perhaps tho oldest meeting-house iu tho Uuitod States is that at Iliugham, Mass., it was built soon after tho settlement of that town in 1680 aud was then considered a very imposing structure. It cost the town 130, aud was 65 feet long by 40 wide. After two centuries tho massive beams of oak still stand, aud tho timbers have become so hard that it is almost impossible to cut them with a knife. The meetlug-houso is colloquially known as the "old ship." When finished tba building was rude, there was uo paint to adorn the logs, uor plastering on the walls or ceiling. Seats of oak coverod tho entile aroa of floor and galleries Tho males sat on one side by themselves, females on tho other. Tho sexes were again seperated as to age and condition, j no unmarried women. being permitted to sit with the wives and widows. " The second seat ou the gallery at (lie east end of thohouso," was for "yo maids." Year by year repairs have been added to the old house, although but little change appears on tho outside. The belfry is surmounted by a slight spire, and is surrounded by a balustrade. Tho wbolo aspect of the building is strikingly unique. It is the oldost house of worship iu the United States. Throughout its long J history it has had six pastors. The pros- I cut imcumbeut, the Kuv. Calvin l.iucoln, ; has just pussed his 7Mh birthday. i Inllon f clenrAl). Ertahi. .SUED IV Vor, 1839. Oi.n Skri . X.VXVf. F..S- Publishad Every Friday by Jolui 13. AVllliams'. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION:' One copy one year, ud rnnce, . . . 00 Single copies in wrappers, ready for mailing, Five cents each. ;eo. ii. Aiuiint, COLLECTING AGENT, FII.TO.V, JHISSOIItl. TTOTES and Accounts promptly col lifted LN for a reasonable commission. No charges until collections are made. Okfick in old Bank building, up stairs, room No. 1 . January 8, 1S75. (9-tf,) ADOI.t'lllS W. IIAKIIIS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ITLTOX, MISSOURI. fiSSTOHlce over Tucker's Drug Store. January 22. lS7.r. I. W. McKI.MVEY, ATTORNE Y-AT-L A W, FUI,TOV, MISSOlIU, PRACTICES in the Courts of Callaway and adjoining counties. Ofkicr (For the present) iu the Tklk- urapii I'rmting House. January 10, 1874. (2J-tf.) Or. O. 31. I o o t e h , DENTIST, (Successor to Dr. J. W. Veach.) IS now fully prepared to perforin all Ie.ntal operations in the best anJ most scientific manner. All work warranted. Ofkicr Over old Bank, Court street, Fulton, .Mo. January 1H74. 7 ly ROBERT McPHEETERS, Notary DFULT3lio, ( OXCORD, NO. T"EEDS, MORTGAGES, &o., prepared on "reasonable terms. January 2. 1874. 17-tfl J1STO. .A.. FLOOD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, FULTON, MO. TTTILLi practice in Callaway and adjoining counties. Oki'icr I'i the Court House. January 2, 1S74. -ly.l ft. .t. xvTrrid:rtHOiN, BAKE1R -AND- Confectioner Cornor Asylum and Nichols street, FULTON, 2MIHSOIJI!. O: RETURNING thanks for past favors and respectfully request a continuance of the samn, I desire to remind my friends and the public generally that I am "'till on hand with a large and well selected stock of Confections, Also, always on hand, Fresn Broad, XFLtlxsIs. Pies And a good assortment or C .A K ID . Orders for Weddings and Parties So licited. March 7, 1873. (lC-tf.) Fall and Winter STOCK OF I ILL LIsT IE IR, Mrs. B. Williams, FILTOX, BIO., KEKPS ON BAND A FINK STOCK OK HATS, BONNETS, Feather's, Flowers, Ribbons, Laces, Silks, VELVETS, CHIGNONS, PLATS, SWITCHES, And evorytb'.ng usually kept In a First Elm Mfcy Stars. Final Mel tloHient. ALL creditors and other persons Interested In tin estate of ltoo't H. Dawson. dec.'d.,are not hied that I will make a final settlement of mv administration of said estate at the next Knliruary term of the Callaway county court to hn'bejrun and held in the town of Fulton. In said county, ou the third Mondav In February. 1S7.". WILLIAM If. DAWSON. Adm'r. Det .ember 4, 1874. ll-lw.T. FARM FOR SALE. A VALUABLE tann for sale, near the Auxrassu (Presbyterian) t'hurch, Cul-lawav county, Mo., containing 'XJ'i iktck. Apply to .1. P. HAltKISOX. Or to A. (I. Harrison on the premise. leciier 1H, !s74. c ' ) MISCELLANEOUS. IIOCKADAV. D. r. BA1LKY. H0CKADAY & BAILEY, at Law, ril.TOX, IMISSOIItl, "'l 1 f A, practice in the Courts of Callaway V aiifl adjoining counties, and will give prompt attention to all business entrusted (9-tf.) to I heir eare Januiirv K JOHN T.BROWN, UFA! Kit IX Fresb Drncs. Mefiicmes and Chemicals, Fancy and Toilet Articles, Sponges, Brushes, Perfumery, &c, FULTON, MO. nrfIYSK.TANS' PRESCRIPTIONS Care- X. fullv compounded Sept. J8,bS"4. 45-1 y. SOMETHING NEW! AXDKEW A." 91 A Ell Z TTTOl'Ll) announce to the cltlzensof Ful- ton and vicinity, that they have just opeued a MEAT SHOP, on Columbia street, at the old Pearl saloon, where they will keen the bent quality of fresh meats, and will sell low for cash. Give us a call. A. A. MAEKZ. June 20, 1874. - 33-tf. . MARBLE WORKS. OLD RELIABLE. THE undersigned would respectfully call the attention of the public and 'especially of those whose duty It becomes to decorate the last resting place of friends with suitable Crave Stones, that he Is always prepared, at his old stand on Asylum street, to execute any work in this line, either of American or Foreign Marble of the best grades and at prices that defy competition. Mv motto: No Satisfaction Ro Pay ! Call anil see. CHRISTIAN FISCHER. March 20, 1874. 19-tf.J CiO TO Godfrey's Gallery WHERE PHOTOGRAPHS are made equal 1 1 to any in Aortn beautiful Missouri, and the most PORCLA1N PICTURES. GEMS As cheap and good as they can be had anywhere. A fow copies of f::;::;?.A;;;:; nmm mmmi Still on hand. Special pains taken with Ch ildren, and in Copying. ;AI.I.F.ItY Over Herdon & Harris llrug Store. March 31, 1871. 20-tf.l CALLAWAY COUNTY Savings Bank, FULTOX, MO. HDWIIV I'IKD W. T. SKCM -President. Cashier. DIUKCTOR8 : D. M. TUCKRK, JNO. A. HOCKADAY, T. Ft. N KSIUT, W. T. 8XELL, EDWIN CURD. TTril.T. do a General Banking and Ex- V change Business. Collections and Ke- mittane.es Promptly Made. .lanuary 2, IS4. (8-tf.) IJLzVCIxfSIVIITIIIIVO, AND HORSE NIIOEING. T AM NOW nrenarad to do all 1 kinds of IMitcksmlthlug in the neatest, most substantial and ex peditious manner. A I.I. ITOItK WARRANTED. UOHSK-SHOKING $11. SO 1 will pay especial attention to HORSE SHOEING, And Hatter myself that 1 can give entire sat isfaction to all who favor me with their pat ronage, t employ only first class workmen and superintend all work done at my establishment. Shop on Nichols street, just be lli net telkgrai-h oinee. A. SLOAN. Oct. 13, 1871. 48-tf.J New Sloomfield DRUG STORE. rTTIIIS establishment Is now In receipt of a JL full line of all articles kept lu llrst class Drug stores, such as PURE DRUGS, Medicines and Chemicals, Perfumery, Toilet Articles, Stationery, Oils, Paints and Dye Stuffs, Lamps-and Coal Oil and Patent Medicine's! CHOICE CIGAES AND TOBACCO! THE BEST OP Wz d fm, Kept on hand, strictly for EVSedical Purposes. jgg-Frescriplons Carefully Com-potitided.'&iaJ. 8. It.lKER MT. D. Dec. i, 1S73. (4-3m.) ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. tst QTICE Is hereby fflven that letters testamentary upon the estate ol Conrad Nctf. deceased, have hceu oh-tuiucd by the undersigned, from the clerk of the county Court of Callaway county, In VHCntion, hearing date Dec. 17." 1874. All persoim having claims against said estate nre required to present them as the law directs within two rears from the date of said lottcrsor be precluded froinsnv benefit thereof. RMUEL XKFK. Ex'tor. lceembcr 1S74. 7-3v. (juiutlian' Notice. NOTICE I hereby given that I will make fumllcatioii at the next February term of the Ciilhiwiiy county court, commencing j on Moik1.iv. Frbnmry'lS, 1S7.V t'r leave to i nmkea llii'al settlement of my fiiiiiniiaiiHhlp of Precilla W. Wnlton. .lOSKPII W. DRISKELL, Guar. November 20. 1S7 I. 4w.J STRAY NOTICE. rl TAKEN IP bv Pavld .K s of Nine Mile Prairie township, and posted befor ctlu lunlerstjf nei. one line anil lei pofteil Wi'cr, marked: crop off thf l irbt and under- oil in i in- n il tu . nil in 1 1 i in-1 oraini on the riirbl hip and I year old. Appraised at !. w. p.. nrvr, .1. 1 JifCembcr 1, 174. ii:tv M IPC ELLA KEOUS HAED TIMES! Ihopetiiattho.sk who'are owing MK will reflect that these hard times are pressing upon tin Doctor as well as upon others, and that they will come lu Immediately and pay off their accounts, or at least give me their notes, so that I may have the benellt of the Interest, while I am wailing for them to get ready to pay. . I am needing nionev and wish to see them early. K. T. SCOTT. January 8, 1W5. (9-3w.) : VICK'S FLORAL GUIDE For 1675. Published Quarterly. January Number Just Issued, and contains over 100 pages, 600 Engravings, descriptions of more than 000 of our best Flowers and Vegetables, with Directions for Culture Colored Plate, etc. The most useful and elegant work of tti kind hi the world. Onlv 25 rents for the yuar. Published in English and German. Address, JAMES VICK,- Rochester, N. V. December 18, 1874. L-3w.J BLACKSMITHING! TT WOULD respectfully announce to tof .A. irienus ami customers that 1 nave removed to my new shop on Asylum street. just east of D. M. & J. Tl. Tucker's Dry Goods store, where 1 am prepared to do all kinds of BLACKSMITHING, on reasonable terms, on short notice and In a workmanlike manner, for C-A-S-H. Thankful for past patronage and hop to merit a continuance of the same. WILSON W.BIMB. October 8. 1874. (48-6m.) INSURANCE AGENCY. IE1. S. POSTOK REPRESENTS THE Conneotieut Mil Lift Instruct Cospuj ef Hartford, Cou. Assetg Jan. 1. ?3, 34,936,141.18.. FIRE COMPAHXES. CONTINENTAL INS. CO. OF N. YORK, Assets, m $3,394,351,81. PHCENIX OF HARTFORD. Assets, Jan. 1, '73, fl, 583,646.00 AMERICAN CENTRAL INS. CO., OF ST. LOUIS, M0. Assets $044,048.68. ST. JOSEPH FIRE AND MARINE INS. CO. OF ST. JOSEPH, M0. Assets M $494,10T.3S. These Companies are all A No. 1. The rates are fair, and those desiring Insurance should call on the undersigned at onee. HT. IS. XOJ August 8, 1873. (TON. 30-ly. CALLAWAY Southern Savings Bav FULTON, MISSOURI. CAPITAL STOCK $50,000, With Power to Increase Same to $300,000. F. O. XICIIOLS WM. L. WHEELER,., ..Presidijct. .Cashikr. VI r ILL Buy and Sell Exchange on St. Louis and Eastern Cities: also. Gold Sliver. County and City Warrant aud Uucur-rent Money. t&" Accommodation? Afforded, Deposit Received and Collections Made Promptly, and Remitted at Current Rates on Exchange. Board of DiHECTons. F. O. Nichols, I. AT. Boulware, Wm. L. Wheeler, R. W. Tureman and Wm. H. Bailey. May 30, 1873. 35 Iy.l CITY Boot and Shoe Store ! XOOE OUT FOR AND OO TO WILLIAMSONS, Southwest Corner Public S(piart, 3Jultons Missouri. ALL LOW FOR CASH' Gents Calf Sewed Boots, Gents' Calf Peggod Boots, Gents' Kip Pegged Boots, Boys' Calf Pegged Boots, Youths' Calf and Kip Boots. - And the Sest Assortment of MEN'S AND JOYS' SHOES. Ladles' Fine French Kid Shoes, (fron and sido lace ;) Misnes French Kid Shoes, (front aud side laco.) Also the most complete assortment o! Chlldrcns Wear in Callaway county. MANOFACTDEED Mil: lie is prepared to manufacture all kinds of MEN'S AVE Alt in tha heet manner of the best material and a perfect fit. NO FIT, NO PAY. CALL ON ; .A. AVilliamson, j Southwest Corner Public Square ! October 10, 1873. (40-tf.) I STRAY NOTICE. IHMAKEN UP by John Campbell, living In. JL Bourbon township, Callaway county, Vo.. find nnsteil Vwfnr tbo iihitriilr(wl "a to., nnd posted before the underpinned. ; Red Roan 5Str-er. 'A or 4 yearn old, crop off i ue i-ift ni ear anuppiu in t lie tcit. ApprnlRcd u w v. Ki. til BUGG. J. P i Dui'cmbirr 4, 1S7-1. (w fa.)