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Improvement In Reading

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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
April
Year
1846
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

A clergyman requests us to say, that the present mode of reading, whereby, in sentences that have a prepositidn before the last word, the emphasis is placed or. the preposition,is entirely wrong. For example: "Have mercy upon them." "Depart far from me." "He carne among them." The emphasis should be placed on the last word, thus : "Have mercy upon them." "Depart far from me." "He came among em." Try and see if this be not the better way.CCTlie following provisión is a part of the new Constitution of Texas: "Sec. 22. The legislnture shall have power to protect by law,from forced sale, a certain po.-tion of the property of all heads of families. The homestead of a family not to exceed two hundred acres of land, (not included in a town or city,) or any town or city lot or lots, in value not to exceed two thousand dollars, shall not be subject to forced sale for any debts hereafter contracted ; nor shall the owner,if a married man, be at liberty to aliénate the same, unless by the consent of the wife, in such manner as the legislature may hereafter point out." (LT Mr. Chipman, Membcr of Congress from this Sta ie, was divorced from his wifc just bcfore he left for Washington. It nppcars from the St. Jo8eph paper, that at the recent session of the Circuit Court, ''in the case of Frnncis W. Chipman vs. John S. Chipman, on application to vacate deerce of divorce granted at the last term of court, the motion was granted and decree of di- vorce vaented and annulled."