Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 3, Number 22, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 November 1872 — Page 1

Vol. 3.—No. 22.

THE MAIL.

Office, 3 South 5th Street.

[Original.]

THE LAST FLY.

Poor thing, f" Hhlverlng, Dlwty beaded, slow of wing, What a strife Bee hi* toe-nail* clntch and cling To the cracks of plastering, Poor thing I, %,• Poor thlsg, "*V Done buzsing, Ixmt of all his kith and kin, Creeps along, Pretending strong, Bat his legs are growing thin, Hare, to kill him were a sin, Poor thing I Poor thing, Done guxstlng, s't Not a drop to wet his tot gue* While he dreams, 80 he »eem», Of the days when be was young, And lie tickled and he sang, Poor thing! Poerthlng, Watcli hira cling There he seeks the window glass To his oost! Jack frost Nips him on the head, alasl Another fly is gone, I guess, Poor thing! *.r«v Poor thing, Let as fling The veil or oha All his boss, Since he was And is now forever gone Where good flies have lot* fan Poor tbl

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Town-Talk.

DARWIN

Is a name wbleh has become as familiar to the ears of Terre Haute as "household words." One wonld think the whole town had read Darwin daily from youth up. T. T. wonders how many of those who write and talk confidently about Darwinism ever really read the works which explain and teach it. Probably about throe In a hundred—or less. Bat what has all at once made this acknowledged son of a monkey famous in our great metropolis? A careful investigation has brought out the facts explaining this mystery. It soems that a parson who shall be nameless—or rather shall not bo named by T. T. hn has a name—finding that a .good many learned men were inollned to accept Darwin's theory of the ''Desoont of Man"—ought it not to bo ascent?—and that the thoologlans were getting the worst of the fight with tho scientists, undertook to do a little hedging. As T. T. did not listen to the sermon ho cannot speak with authority, but ho learns from those who did hear

It, that the ground was taken that the Ulble does not tell In what way man swas made, and that therefore he who says that a monkey was made first and afterwards turned into a man does not contradict tho Bible. It It is true that the Bible doos not toll In what way God created man, thon the conclusion is correct, and the hedge is a success. In •Justice to tho parson T. T. will say that ho learns that he plainly assorted that lie did not believe that the thing was dono as Darwin says it was, but only moant to say that if Darwin was right It would not prove the Bible wrong. This brought out that staunch old de^fonder of the orthodox faith, the Journal, which asserted that this attempted dofonse of the Bible was worse than an attack npon it, and was undermining the faith, and seriously threatening

4'those

who had hopes,"and it promised

%o review the whole subject. Quick lupon the heels of this, oame the rumor "that a public debate between the offending parson and our Congressman was

agreed upon. What wonder that Terre so

Haute h«s been all "tote up" over those things. Politicians, editors and Con

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a preacher is material for a sensation.

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Hatching la done more quietly. But according to this some high aO'

spoils that another will be laid. Wo- to inspiration was necessary to the socman suffrage is to be tried on sooner or cess of their undertaking and that their later, no doubt aboat that. If it brings undertaking was beneficial to the the milleniam, shots op grog shops, world. In that esse they might not be keeps bad men oat of office, raises bad men, bat very good men. woman's wages, does away with drank- Mr. Tyler contlnaes, the Bible reads en husband?, or does one-half that the like a trne book there is majesty and sanguine friends of the cause expect, T. sublimity in it its historical details T. will gladly circulate a subscription are probable its requirements reasonto secure the hen which hatches the egg able, etc. These do not prove that it is ,1 a golden coop, or anything else desira- of divine origin^ a book written by men ble. There is one thing which pa rales might possess all these characteristics.

T. T. and he suggests it lor an explana- Again: "If we judge of the origin of tion. If the women are as intelligent the Bible by the good fruits of its reand good as the advocates of this

infloence for good If she needs to be educated by men as to what she ooght to want or be willing to do, where is her superior wisdofa? Hhere is a political movement in which this one of superior intelligence and morality ia especially interested, and yet she "don't see it," or what is worse, won't see it. If she is so wise and good, so much wiser and better than men, why not let her decide this matter herself? T. T. suggests these things not for the sake of opposing, but to get an explanation which shall satisfy many, and hasten the incubating process.

Husks and Nubbins.

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tl**p -V _____ THE BinLE. IS IT DIVINE? In'a late number of the Express' the Rev, B. B. Tyler gave some reasons why the Bible must be considered the book of Ood. As he says, the question is important and no harm can come of it»discussion. It is known that many Intelligent persons now living disbelieve in the divine origin of the Bible, and this number Is constantly increasing. There must, therefore, bo some arguments against the divine origin of tho Bible, else all intelligent people would be compelled to believe it. I wish merely to notice the chain of argument presented by Mr. Tyler in order to see whether It must produce conviction.

The first argument is that the Bible has been received as of divine origin by the most cultivated, inquisitive and Incredulous races of men. This does not prove that it is divine, for jnany errors have been accepted as the truth by men, and men may bo mistaken in this mattor.

The second argument's tlint such ideas as Ood, heaven, hell, spirits, immortality, etc., are not natural, because there are no archetypes of them in tne natural world they must therofore have been revealed: th* Bible reveals them, therefore the Bible is beyond the human, is divine. But man can obtain ideas which have no archetypes in the material world, vis: such ideas as infinitude of space, eternity of time. The very fact of life argues immortality it Is natural to believe life will continue unnatural to believe it will end. And

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1 WOMAN SOFVRA0B ever among mem. in n-g»iu hi iud has been the sensation of the Nreek.

find all people, in all ages, enter-

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idea

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movement represerit them, and on ac- Its origin." Could not a system of recount of which they are wanted at the ligion invented by men be attended polls, bow does it happen that they do with good results Is the Decalogue not know what they ought to do or, beyond the possibility of human dis if they know it, do not want to do it covery Is It not rather the outgrowth T.T. supposes it would be admitted that of human experience? a majority ot women of Terre-Haute, It appears that neither of the arguto day, are against the movement, ments noticed is sufficient of itself to and that the strongest opponents are establish the divine origin of the Bible among the most intelligent and highly and if no one ot them, then not all of moral. The advocate says to the wo them, for each must stand or fall by its man "you are so wise and good that we own merits. But it is argued that mirwant yoa to vote." The woman says, acles establish the authenticity of the "I don't want to vote." Is she so doU Bible beyond all contradiction. But of apprehension that she Is not able to we do not know sorely that any mlrasee how greatly the ballot will increase cles were performed. We have only her influence? or so careless of doty the testimony of men who lived hon that she is not willing to increase her

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bo well that this haa been clearly and year to year. The aun rises and sets, but better than hlmselt .Ulborluu,.!, .uud, ud irom u» mw».oxm ud go, th. r.io Mb,

the amount of cackling don*, T. T. the gr*»e grows. Men In a low stage of

ning off to cackle, and no aooldent hap- Qod or god. would retrwt lolo

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tain Ing in some shape the idea of the immortality of the soul. It cannot be

gresamen defending "tbe faith" against shown that all these people obtained this idea from the Bible ontbeoonT. T. waits to see what the end will be. trary it Is not known that the Bible was

of God, no idea could be more nat- rles of the devil.

:The egg haa been laid. T. T. does not ural. In fact the Idea would seem to Plato says, Ood hss so framed his "state this upon his own authority. The belong rather to a low than to a high lawa that it is for the advantage of ev"'organ" of the Prealdent of the Asso- order ot human Intelligence. Men see ery one to observe them. datlon stated the foot, that Is, it de- the operations of the physical universe Beecher says that religion Is not to 'dared that It was only the egg. It may going steadily on from day today, from

never supposed that anybody wonld civilisation would naturally impute r^fnt heat in 18B8. think It cujuaog m.r. U*n Uhm to th. .cttonof

bnttf the old hen settles down to anything to do. The higner ine civil-

quiet eteady work, and dont keep run. isaUon the more this idea of a personal

pens, the shell will be pecked Indue sonallty, into law, necessity, something

season and the peep and peeper will beyond human ken or conception.

corn^. There aeen., to be a German Thee, ideaa, then, aw not supernatural,

but natural, and do not prove the dl-

vine origin of the Bible.

uawum The o«xt argument Is that the authors lightly the "greatest reform of the age." of the Bible nr at have hewn inspired The JToofiial and Mteenger, speak^It la entitled to be called the greatest for If they wr lot inspired thoy were Ing of the breaking down of apart of

If Pat no other reason, yet bo- had men, b. Ae they pretended they the floor of a church while the minister 1 the sanction of all were inspira*./bot their work shows was preaching, trifles with Scripture by the editors in town but one*. It most that they were wx bad men therefore asking, "If the foundations be removgtve the fallows a peculiar sensation to they were inspired. I answer tbst ed what can the righteous do Our adbo agreed. T. T. has no doobt that the their pretending to be Inspired would vice would be to fix up the floor first atnvement l»tosarcc*d, that the egg Is not ncce^aarily Biake ihem bad tsws snd then toro a witheti^g^k,tpW|jd to send forth its chick, or if this egg! for they might believe tiiat a pretension the man who laughed.

then there can be no doobt as to

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of years ago to establish the fact

and these men might themselves have been deceived, or deceived others. But But even admitting that miracles were performed, they do not absolutely prove that the Bible is divine for a time might have been when men could do things which men csnnot do now,that is, work miracles Indeed, a time may come again when men can do so. The doctrine of miracles, therefore, is not absolute proof that the Bible is divine.

Mr. Tyler concludes by adverting to the Bible account of the creation, its explanation of the mysteries of life, its doctrines, promises, etc. As regards the ereation, science appears to have discovered much more than the Bible has revealed In fact, the Biblical account Is so meagre an indefinite that it seems capable of being fitted to almost any theory which men may propound. It contradicts nothing because it defines nothing. Astronomy, geology, palaeontology, all that scienco may discover and demonstrate, can be "reconciled" with tho Biblical account of creation, because that account is altogether nebulous and undefined. There is nothing positive or absolute thero for science to collide with its relativism is infinite.

As regards the doctrines of the Biblo, that one which is the basis and cornerstone, viz: the reward of the good and the punishment ot the bad, very few intelligent persons, even be they believers in the divinity of the Bible, accept ns an absolute and unquestionable fhct. They may think they do, but tbey do not. They put their own construction upon it, a construction which experiencee and intuition has taught them is right, but which is utterly at variance with the doctrine of tho Bible. There is much that is pure and good in tho Bible, which no good man can disobey, which will do for the government of men throughout all time but there is also much which cannot be harmonized with the idea of a divine revelation, the earth-marks of men, I should say, which show how they fingered and moulded it. But the Right is Right, nrhnther it be of human or divine origin? let men obey It none the less,

Pulpit and Preacher.

Talmage says that when Chrlstains lie they lie like the devil. The ministers of Janesville have organized against the "Black Crook."

Rev. Dr. Holland thinks dove-eotor«d

ever among them. In regard to the pantaloons and shiny boots are emlsaa-

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being or beings greater than them- A Congregational Church in Adrian, selves, to t3od or gods. We find this Michigan, is said to have called to its a .. it A.tt A 1 a I a a

uui accoraing to mis some htgn au- selves, to «oa or gwu*. u™ Micnigsn, »ia thority the hatehing, (the setting Is statement beautifully verified and lllus- pulpit, Rev. W. S. Balch, a UniversalmAAnl ta miIa* am Tt trated In the old mythologies, with I -tnw-r

probably meant) is going on. it may be a long time before the chicken peeps, which It la 110% shown the Bible had but if the old ben settles down to anything to do. The higher the civil-

man better than his neighbor

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TERRE-HAUTE, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 30,1872. Price Five Cent*.

People and Things.

Byron eulogized a cigar. Cowper versified a canary. Homer wrote epics on frogs. Burns wrote verses on head vermin. Pope twanged his lyre about a lady's fan. -i »s .*•

Yale Seniors wears kid gloves to recitations.

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When a male rat gets old he quits society and gets gloomy. Bacon says: "Without good nature man is only a better sort of vermin."

A beao is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beeide it. ANew Torker, blind for forty years, is now taking his first look at the city.

In Beloit College, Wisconsin, a negro, an Indian, and a Turk are among the students.

William M. Carleton, author of "Betsey and I are Out," is giving readings through Ohio.

Buffalo horse doctors wear stove-pipe hats, black pants and diamonds from Arizonlan fields.

Mansard, the original architect of the roofs ef that name, was a Frenchman, and died in 1666.

Pat GUmore, the jubilee man, didn't lose anything by the Boston fire. He hadn't anything to lose, v-

There are 50,000 young men employed as drummers In the United States. Jost think of that, and weep.

A rascally old bachelor ssys that the most difficult surgical operation in the world Is to take the jaw out of a woman.

Vanderbilt has got up new suits for conductors of passenger trains. They are made of rubber, and have no pockets in them.

Drummers are fined $200, if they solicit sales in Washington without a licence, while in Omaha they are shot down in their tracks.

If the Ledger, of Xoblesville, Ind., is to be credited, Col. Tennie C. Claflin has an ex-husband living and residing in that flourishing town.

Spurgeon says he is not coming to this country until after the day of judgment. We shall be past conviction then, he should remember.

A Boston merchant, who lost $100,000 in the property burned last week, ordered a man out of his store on Thursday for whining about the fire.

The Rev. Gilbert H. Robertson denies that he intends to appeal to a higher court, but says he will remain in Louisville, and, in a new line of duty, live down the late unpleasantness. g|*

Josh Billings defiues a thurrerbred bizziness man as "Wan that knows enuff about steelin' so there kantennybody steel from him, and enuff about law so that he oan do his steelin' legally."

A m^n at Newark, N. J., fifty-four years old, who has for sometime been insane on religious matters, recently took it into his head that eating was sinful, and has literally starved himself to desth.

Each has a trouble of bis own. One man Is In trouble to decide what he shall get for dinner to-morrow, and another for fear he shall get no dinner tomorrow. Let us share one another's burdens.

The Titusville Press says that Stanley, when he lectures ln this country this winter, will be dressed in his salt of clothes msde by a Ujljl tailor, consisting of a twine string wound around bis big toe, and a straw hat cut low in the corsage.

A Chioago Tribune letter says: "Mr. Beecher was never so populsr as he ia to-day and Theodore Tilton's Golden Age haa received, I ud&erstand, nearly thousand new subscribers sinoe the publication of the assault npon himself snd his family."

A Quaker says: "I expeot to through this world bat once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show or good that I oan do to my follow human beings, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect It, lor I will not pass this way again."

A righteous punishment has fallen upon a man named Wagoner, in Fultoa, Tenxu On last Saturday be proCued the name of the hash in the presence of the chivaric landlord, John Bell, who shot him dead. The name of hash must be kept sacred if any number of audacious boarders haye to die.

Tilton's only allusion to the Woodhull business la aa follow* **I have but small desire for profo»alonal#and nono— not a shred—for political distinction but If my life is spared, and if the stuff of which it la made proves not wholly Inadequate to the higher usee of a manly character, I think I foresee my title dear to at least one sort of honorable tune and that is by proving that I oan be the target of more scandal, and at ^hs-esms time the Ule-bearer ofl^s, than any other man ln America.*'

Feminitems.

Rubinstein's mother teaches music in Moscow. Kansas laws give mothers the control of their children.

Two lsdies In Canada West are running a store entirely in the interests of the English church. ,^7

The lady aophomoren at Ann Arbor hase the handsome freshmen by blindfolding and kissing them.

Miss Kellogg will write her autobiography, giving .without varnish the inside history of stage life.

An old lady in Saginaw, Mioh., hss given bonds in |900 not to scold her neighbors for an entire year.

A Lewiston, Me., Isdy lately drove her yoke of oxen to a millinery store and went in feodo her shopping.

Three Philsdelphia women, convicted of being common soolds, have been sent to prison for three months.

Woman ought to do all ahe can to make this earth a paradise for man, as it waa all her laolt he lost the other.

Miss EllzaWeatherby, Lydia Thompson's main support in the blonde burlesque, fell and broke her knee-cap last week, and Is disabled for the present.

At a notable asssmblage at Berlin, Wisconsin, the belle of the occsslon sneezed and threw out her false teeth. The boys laughed—they couldn't help It.

Miss Eliza Lyman will tarnish the lumber for the water-tanks and buildings of a new railroad In Vermont, and and superintend the work under contract herself.

Woodhull and Claflin need 148,000 in order to to insure their freedom, snd It is pleasant to reflect that the generosity of their friends has already secured |9.55 ot the amoont.

Empress Elisabeth, of Austria, has written to the woman's rights club in Vienna ''Ladies, take my advice, and keep away from politics. There is nothing but misery in it all."

It is renorted that Miss Alexander, a California actress who was for ten years a member of Brighsm Young's family, will be the next to tell on the lecture platform what she knows about Mormonism.

A Boston woman, who has been reading in the papers thst Sunday marriages are illegal, writes to tbe papers to know how it is with a baby born on Sunday. If so which should be punished—the father, the mother, or tbe baby?

Miss F. H. Churchill, of Chicago, leotured at Cooper Institute, New York, Tuesdsy evening, on the subject, "Will tbe Ballot Elevate Woman?" Her answer l« "No." Peter Cooper gave Miss Churchill the free use of the hall, and she gave tbe proceeds of the lecture to so in so os to

Madame Dudevant's proposal to establish Masonio lodges for lsdies, does not meet with the opposition from the original lodges expected. On tbe contrary, they are only malicious enough to say that it makes no difference, for as secret societies they won't lsst long.

Anna Dickinson is said to be disgusted with politics. She msde a most convincing speech in New York City in behalf of Greeley. She oan't see how any person, after such a speech, oould bsve voted for Grant, and yet they did, a few of them, and gentle Anna is now confident that "corruption rules the hour," and doesn't think it best tor women to soil their garments with politics.

Miss Sosan B. Anthony and her voting sisters who have been arrested for illegal voting stand alone In their martyrdom, but not alone ln the glory of having not voted at a political election. Other American females who voted for President are Mrs. J. J. Bsker snd Mrs. J. G. Nolen, of Toledo, Ohio, whose proffered ballots were received and counted in the Third Ward of that city.

A sensational story eomes from Sheffield, England, to the effect that a lady there has just met, In the person of minister of the gospel, a burglar whom she several years ago discovered under her bed one night as she was sbout to retire. She gave no alarm, bat knelt and prayed so fervently for the reclamation of sinners with guilty purposes in tueir hearts, that the burglar left her unmolested, and from that night dated his reformation. How much more sensible than to raise a peat hullabaloo and send tbe poor follow to jaiL

The unmarried ladies of the Moquls tribe of Indians of Arizona are a curiosity to us outside heathens. They wear their hair in such romantic style that there is no danger of a follow mistaking one for a married woman. As soon as they are marriageable tbey do their hair up on each side of the head, something In the shape of two great wings, or, as it most reminds one, of tbe wheels ot a propeller. Tbe dear creatures look as il they were

Con nilbiali ties.

BALLAD OF THE BALL. 14

GUS.

Dome right in! How are yon, Fred Find a onalr, and have a light."

Well, old boy, raoovered yet (Tom the Mather's Jam last night ora. Didn't daneib the German's old."

I suppose Gus has It now* In a wine-glass on his shelves It's a mystery to me

Just ready

to fly. As soon ss they enter tbe holy bands of matrimony they drop their jqrtage, ..and. t|ien their hafr hsngs In long roils by the tide of Cite head.

Why men will deceive themselves.

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PRID.

Didnt you I had to lead— s. AwfUl bore bat where were you 15 otrs. Sat It out with Mollie Meade. x. ,\\

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Then ahe gave me such a glance.

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Jolly little girl she Is— 8ald she didn't e-a-r-e to dance— iRather have a quiet chat,

So when you had cleared the room, And had captured all the chairs, Having nothing else, we two

Took possession of the stairs. I was on the lower step—.. Mollie on the next above, Gave her booqnet to hold— •.

A-s-k-e-d me to draw her gTove. Then, of course, I squeeaed her handTalked about my wasted lifeSaid my sole salvation must

Be a true and gentle wifo. Then, you know, I used my eyes— hJ ~t She believed me, every word, Almost said she loved rtie—Jove!

Such a voice I never heard. -y Gave me some symbolic flower With a meaning, oh. so sweet! Don't know where it Is, I'm sure, R:

Most have d-r-o-p-p-e-d It In the street, iff How I spooned! and she—she goose! Well, I know It wasnt right, But she did believe me so,

That 1—k-1 s-s-e-d her pass a light," v,

JULIA.

Mollis Mesde! well, I declare And walking up the avenue! After what occurred last night,

Who'd a-thought of seeing you Ob, you awfhl wleked girl— i» There, don't blush—I saw it all.,r mollis.

"Sawall what?"

Run his neck right in the noose.

"I was almost dead to dance—» I'd have done it if I oould— But papa uld I must atop,

And I promised ma I would.

JULIA. "Saw you, last nighty. W

At the Mather's-ln the hall," MOLLIS. I Oh you horrid! where wtre you Wasn't Gus an awful goose? Most men must he caught hut he

So I looked up sweet, and said 1 didn't mind a talk with him. Hope he didn't see my face— vI

Lueklly the lights were dim.

Then he gently squeezed my hand, Looking sweetly In my face i, With his handsome, loving eyes

Really, he's a funny case! **,*•*•

Ho was all so earnest, too: But, I thonght I'd have to lnunh When he kltwed a flower I gave,

Lookiug slllv as a calf.

••Saw him kiss me? Oh 1 you wretch 5.^,? Well, he begged so hard for one, And I thought ther'd no one lctiow, 80—11-e-t hltn—Just for fun

I knew It wasn't rp.nlly right To trifle with his feelings dear, But men are such funny things, ss

They need a lesson once a year. [tHi Perkins. Love-letter ink Is the latest style of writiug fluid, so-called because In four* weeks it disappears.

A Topefca woman wants a divorcer because ber husband sloops with revolver under his pillow.

An indiscreet youth in Cairo has been fined for violently kissing tho school ma'am. She was so homely that the judge said there was absolutely no excuse for him.

Sundry females of very advanced views are trying to carry tho divorce system to its legitimate conclusion in Illinois by establishing a community on the basis of polysndry at Lone Prairie.

A yonng man who went west front Danbury, Connecticut, a few months sgo, has sent only one letter home. It came Friday. It said: "Send me a wig." And bis fond psrents don't know whether be is scalpcd or married.

If there was more marrying and less coqueting in this community, our young men would soon have an object to live for that would strengthen their resolves^ and they would bccome useful citizens. Young men should have an aim In lite if it only be to teach, young girls tbst tbey were born for something more than rival patrons for dressmskers snd milliners.

A daughter of a well-to-do Illinoisformer yielded her sffections to tbe suit of a bumble shoemaker, who appealed to the old folks to give their sanction^ to the match, Tbey refused, of course, Last summer tbe maiden began to pine away, and by eating slste pencils and drinking vinegar, made herself a most interesting invalid. The solicitude other family was aroused, and all whims of the sick girl readily complied with. She seemed to have a mania for new and elegant clothing of all kinds, and the old gentleman spent a goodly share of bis horde in gratifying ber wishes. In foot, she laid up for herself a firstclass wardrobe, and a few days ago disappeared from tbe paternal roof. A St. Louis justice of the peace united ber to tbe Crispin of ber choice, and. there I# mourning at tbe farm bouse iiw tbe prairio state.,