St Valentine's Day.
About the beginning of October, turkeys, young and old, move from their breeding districts towards the rich bottom lands near the Ohio and the Mississippi.
So this is your birthday again. Well, bless my soul! Columbia, you will be as tall as your father soon.
The subjoined engraving, the design of which is from the graceful pencil of Rowse, is more eloquent than words.
The fairy of the enchanted realm entertains her subjects in an earthly way.

A terribly savage duel with axes took place the other day In the Trinity bottom, near Dallas, Texas, between two wood-choppers, Haskell and Haynes. The latter had his arm nearly cut off, and Haskell his shoulder badly hacked. Each man struck his antagonist repeatedly with his weapon, and both were bathed in blood and terribly hacked and mangled. it is thought that neither of them can survive.
Illustrated Police News, February 22, 1879.

