Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1881 — Jackson Daily Patriot. Happy Friends. [ARTICLE]

Jackson Daily Patriot. Happy Friends.

Rev. F. M. Winburne, Pastor M. E. Church, Mexia, Texas, writes as follows: Several months since I received a supply of St. Jacobs Oil. Retaining two bottles, I distributed the rest among friends. It is a most excellent remedy for pal no and aches of various kinds, especially neuralgia and rheumatic affections. White men are not permitted to marry-in the Indian Territory unless they marry Indian women, but a man with a squaw for a wife can take a farm wherever he chooses, providing it is a quarter of a mile from any other, and may occupy it as long as he cultivates it. The Choctaw and Cherokee girls greatly prefer white to redskin husbands, and many of them have found this inducement sufficient to secure them, and as the result a large proportion of the children of that portKsn of the territory reserved for these tribes are half-breeds. A Dutchman turned to a negro boy and asked him; “Boy, do you think a nigger has got a soul?” “O, yes,” said the boy, “I .reckon they’ve got souls.” “Well, boy, do you think you will be allowed to go to heaven?” “Yes, sir, I’spec I will be ’lowed to get in.” “Now, boy whereabouts do you think they’d put a fellow like you in heaven?” “I dunno, sir,” said the boy; “but I reckon I’ll git in somewhar ’tween de white people and de Dutch.”

Mrs. Mary Drover Cowdry, who recently died at Passaic, N J., was a daughter of the 7th New York regiment until she married in 1864. Her father, the regimental adjutant, left her an orphan of four years in 1&60, and the command showed its respect for his memory by assuming the support of his child. Her formal adoption when nine years old was touching to all concerned, and the regiment gave her up at her marriage with a present of $2,500.