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your kind offer to change me to Burleson Co. I shall accept if the teacher comes into has made application to take my present school. I am desirous of making a home in some portion of the state: But you doubtless are aware of my trouble with the Hon. Sec. of State & the reason of my remaining in the humble position taken so long ago and until the matter is gasted I cannot feel permanently at home in any place.
 
The offer to use your influence with the State Superintendent was very kind & noble as you are. But again it would be useless for this reason. The Supt would be an appointee of Gen'l Davis & Gen'l Davis is influenced by Jimmy P Newcomb who seduced & lived with my wife a year & a half & now is the main spring of the divorce case to come off in September next. & to influence Davis he calls me crazy, and writes to me insulting letters. 

I am not idle however, and am preparing to prove to the Said J.P. that if the Mills of the Gods Grind soon, they grind