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# St Louis Railway Company v. McGee

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United States Supreme Court
115 U.S. 469
St Louis Railway Company v. McGee
Argued: November 23, 1885. ---
A. T. Britton, A. B. Browne, and Thomas J. Portis, for plaintiff in error.
No appearance for defendant in error.
WAITE, C. J.

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# St Paul Railway Company v. Burton/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
111 U.S. 788
St Paul Railway Company v. Burton
The order remanding this case is affirmed. The act of March 3, 1875, c. 137, § 5, (18 St. 470,) makes it the duty of the circuit court to remand a suit which has been removed from a state court when it satisfactorily APPEARS THAT THE 'SUIT DOES NOT REALLY and substantially involve a dispute or controversy properly within the jurisdiction of said circuit court.' The exemplification of the record of the naturalization of Moses Burton, which was offered in evidence, did not require, to complete its authentication, the certificate of the clerk under he seal of his office that the judge of the court was duly commissioned and qualified. The certificates may be to some extent defective in form, but we think the record as a whole could properly be considered by the judge on the question of remanding the cause. Affirmed.

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# Ten nights in a bar-room and what I saw there

Early temperance melodrama, later adapted to the stage and to film. Original publication 1854.
TEN NIGHTS IN A BAR-ROOM,
AND
What I Saw There.
BY
T. S. ARTHUR,
AUTHOR OF "THE BAR-ROOMS AT BRANTLEY," "ORANGE BLOSSOMS," ETC., ETC., ETC.
PHILADELPHIA:
PORTER & COATES.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by T. S. ARTHUR, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Re-issued according to Act of Congress, and entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1882, by T. S. ARTHUR, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
CONTENTS.
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# Texas Gas Transmission Corporation v. Shell Oil Company/Concurrence Black

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United States Supreme Court
363 U.S. 263
TEXAS GAS TRANSMISSION CORPORATION and Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Federal Power Commission, Petitioners, v. SHELL OIL COMPANY. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Petitioner,
Argued: April 20, 21, 1960. --- Decided: June 13, 1960
Mr. Justice BLACK concurs in the result.

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# Texas Pacific Railway Company v. American Tie & Timber Company

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United States Supreme Court
234 U.S. 138
Texas Pacific Railway Company v. American Tie & Timber Company
Argued: January 20, 21, 1914. --- Decided: June 8, 1914
Messrs. Hiram Glass and W. L. Hall for plaintiff in error.
Messrs. Rollin W. Rodgers and R. P. Dorough for defendant in error.
[Argument of Counsel from page 139 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Chief Justice White delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Texas Pacific Railway Company v. Abilene Cotton & Oil Company

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United States Supreme Court
204 U.S. 426
Texas Pacific Railway Company v. Abilene Cotton & Oil Company
Argued: November 2, 1906. --- Decided: February 25, 1907
Messrs. David D. Duncan, John F. Dillon, Winslow S. Pierce, and Thomas J. Freeman for plaintiff in error.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 427-428 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Hannis Taylor for defendant in error.
[Argument of Counsel from page 4279 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice White delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Texas Gas Transmission Corporation v. Shell Oil Company

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## Concurring Opinion

    Black
United States Supreme Court
363 U.S. 263
TEXAS GAS TRANSMISSION CORPORATION and Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Federal Power Commission, Petitioners, v. SHELL OIL COMPANY. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Petitioner,
Argued: April 20, 21, 1960. --- Decided: June 13, 1960
Mr. Mathias F. Correa, New York City, for petitioners in No. 167.
Mr. Willard W. Gatchell, Washington, D.C., for petitioner in No. 170.
Mr. Oliver L. Stone, New York City, for respondent in both cases.
Mr. Justice BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# The Adventures of Pinocchio (1904)/Preface

Under the assumed name of C. Collodi, Carlo Lorenzini is well known to the reading world of Italy. His most successful book, Pinocchio, was written for children, and has already become a classic. Of all the fairy stories of Italian literature this is the best known and the best loved. The name of the marionette hero is familiar in every household of northern and central Italy. In its whimsical extravagance, its quaint humor, and its narrative style the story appeals strongly to both old and young.
American children, who have long delighted in French and German fairy tales, and among whom Hans Christian Andersen is universally beloved, should not remain in ignorance of this Italian classic. The Florentines call it a literary jewel, and as such it should be known to all young readers. In order to preserve the unique flavor of the story ​as much as possible the translator has followed the original rather closely. Pinocchio’s waywardness and love of mischief are fully set forth, and the moral, though sufficiently obvious, is not allowed to detract from the enjoyment of his adventures.
The story is one that readily lends itself to the fertile fancy and skillful pencil of an able illustrator. In the present volume, as in the original, the pictures play an important part which is not likely to be overlooked by the readers for whom the book is designed.
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# The Adventures of Romney Pringle

First published in Cassell's Magazine, Jun-Nov 1902. For the original work, with the omitted illustrations, see [Project Gutenberg Australia]
The Adventures of Romney Pringle
by
Clifford Ashdown

## CONTENTS

* Preface
* I. The Assyrian Rejuvenator
* II. The Foreign Office Despatch
* III. The Chicago Heiress
* IV. The Lizard's Scale
* V. The Paste Diamonds
* VI. The Kailyard Novel
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# The Adventures of Romney Pringle/Preface

PREFACE
IN the course of the present year there died suddenly at Sandwich a gentleman who had only a short time previously taken up his residence in one of the curious old red-brick houses which, surrounded by large gardens, sleepily nestle in the shade of its venerable towers. He was reputed wealthy, his name given as Romney, being popularly supposed to denote ancestral, if not actual, connection with the town and district of that name on the South Coast. A man of highly-cultured tastes and of rare and varied information, he led a very retired life, divided between his books, the cataloguing of a valuable collection of antique gems, and cycle-rides into the surrounding country--for he was an ardent cyclist. A chance meeting on the Sandwich Flats, whereon he had lost his way one misty evening, was the commencement of a close friendship with the present writers, who, on Mr. Romney's demise soon after, were found to be designated his literary executors. A series of MS. stories, apparently intended for publication, furnished the sole explanation of this somewhat surprising provision. Whether, as might be imagined from their intimate record of the chief actor's career, they were derived from the notes of actual experience, or whether they were simply the result of imagination, they are here presented exactly as left by the author.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Alexander, William Cooper

​ALEXANDER, William Cooper, lawyer, was born in Virginia, Jan. 4, 1806, second son of Archibald and Janetta (Waddel) Alexander. He was educated in Philadelphia and at Princeton college, where he was graduated in 1824. He then studied law and was admitted to the bar on arriving at his majority in 1827. He gained distinction as an advocate and orator, and took active part in political life. As lieutenant-governor of the state of New Jersey, he presided over the state senate for several years. In 1851 he was a candidate for governor, but was defeated by a few votes. He was a member of the peace congress of 1861 and presided over many of its sessions. In 1859 he helped to organize the Equitable life assurance society and was its first president, which office he held until his death, which occurred in New York city, Aug. 23, 1874.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Allen, Alexander Viets Griswold

​ALLEN, Alexander Viets Griswold, author, was born at Otis, Mass., May 4, 1841. He was graduated at Kenyon college, Gambier, Ohio, in 1862, and at Andover theological seminary in 1865. He was a resident licentiate of Andover, Mass., 1865-'67. He took orders in the Protestant Episcopal church, being ordained a deacon, July 5, 1865, and priest, June 24, 1866. He was rector of St. John's church, Lawrence, Mass., 1865-'67, and professor of ecclesiastical history at the Episcopal theological school, Cambridge, Mass., from 1867. He received the degree D.D. from Kenyon 1878; from Harvard, 1886, and from Yale, 1901. He was elected a member of the Massachusetts historical society. He published: "The Continuity of Christian Thought" (1884); his Bohlen lectures under the title "The Greek Theology and the Renaissance of the Nineteenth Century" (1884); "Jonathan Edwards" (1889); Memoir of Phillips Brooks" (1891); "Religious Progress" (1894); "Christian Institutions" (1897) and "Life and Letters of Bishop Brooks (1900).
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Alexander, William (soldier)

​ALEXANDER, William, "Lord Stirling," soldier, was born in New York city, in 1726, son of James Alexander, who claimed to be earl of Stirling. He received a good education, and gained repute for his knowledge of mathematics and astronomy. With his mother, the widow of David Provost, he engaged in the provision business left her by the death of her first husband. He also became aide-de-camp to General Shirley of the British army. In 1756 he went to England to give testimony in behalf of General Shirley, who had been charged with neglect of duty; and while there, in 1757, he entered upon an unsuccessful suit before the house of lords to gain the title and estates of Stirling. He returned to the United States in 1761, and married the daughter of Philip Livingston. Through the influence of his father-in-law he was made surveyor-general of the state, and was chosen to the provincial council. He sided with the patriots in the revolutionary war, and was made a colonel in 1775. He was largely instrumental in capturing a British armed transport, and Congress for his bravery made him a brigadier-general in 1776. His command was cut to pieces at the battle of Long Island, Aug. 26, 1776, and he was taken prisoner, but his bravery in obeying the orders of General Putnam and stubbornly opposing a vastly superior force, enabled the great body of the American troops to escape, and as soon as he was exchanged he was promoted a major-general. Upon General Lee leaving New York in December, 1776, to aid in the defence of Philadelphia, General Stirling was left in command of the city. He afterwards received the surrender of a Hessian regiment at Trenton. He distinguished himself at the battles of Germantown and Brandywine, and was defeated and lost one hundred and fifty men and two guns at Matouchin, N. J.; and at Monmouth he successfully resisted an attempt to turn his flank, but at the cost of a large number of his men. In 1779 he surprised the British at Paulus Hook, N. J., and in 1781 was transferred to the command of Albany, where he died a few days after the declaration of peace. He was one of the founders and the first governor of King's college, New York city. He wrote "The Conduct of Major-General Shirley, Briefly Stated," and "An Account of the Comet of June and July, 1770." He died at Albany, N. Y., Jan. 15, 1783.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Alger, William Rounseville

​ALGER, William Rounseville, clergyman, was born at Freetown, Mass., Dec. 30, 1822. He obtained, by his own labor, the means to acquire an academical education, and then entered the Cambridge theological school, from which he was graduated in 1847. He was ordained to the Unitarian ministry, and became pastor of the Mount Pleasant Unitarian society in Roxbury, Sept. 8, 1847. In 1852 Harvard college conferred on him the degree of A.M. He resigned the pastorate of the Mount Pleasant church in 1855, and answered a call from the Bulfinch street society of Boston. Two years later he accepted an invitation to deliver a Fourth of July oration, on "The Genius and Posture of America," before ​the civil authorities of Boston, and created a sensation by roundly denouncing the slave-owners of the south and the upholders of slavery in the north. This oration was ill-timed and radical. The board of aldermen refused the speaker the customary vote of thanks. The Massachusetts house of representatives elected him chaplain in 1869, and in the autumn of that year his church united with Theodore Parker's congregation and organized a society, which held free services in Boston music hall, where he preached to crowded houses until he sailed for Europe, in 1870, for rest and recreation. While in Paris his health gave way, as the result of arduous overwork, and he was granted a year's leave of absence to recruit. He returned to this country, in May, 1872, and continued to preach in Music hall. In 1874 he accepted a call from the church of the Messiah in New York city, and ministered there until 1878, when he removed to Denver, Col., and from there in 1880 to Chicago, and in 1881 to Portland, Me., where the next year he abandoned the ministry and returned to Boston. Among his books are: " A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life" (1861); "Poetry of the Orient" (1856); "The Genius of Solitude" (1861); "The Friendships of Women" (1867); "The School of Life" (1881); "The Sources of Consolation in Human Life"; "Life of Edwin Forrest" (1877); "A Symbolic History of the Cross of Christ" (1881); and "Prayers offered in the Massachusetts House of Representatives during the session of 1868" (1869), printed by request.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Allcock, Thomas

​ALLCOCK, Thomas, manufacturer, born in Birmingham, England, in 1814. He came to the United States in 1845, and invested his capital in a small drug store under the Astor House. He built up a good business, and in 1854 invented a porous plaster, the sale of which made an appreciable increase in his income. At the breaking out of the civil war he joined the Union army as assistant adjutant-general on the staff of General Gates, and afterwards helped to organize a regiment of artillery, of which he was appointed major. He was actively engaged in nearly a score of battles, receiving a wound at the battle of Ream's Station, and for his brave conduct he received the brevet rank of brigadier-general. He remained in business in New York from the close of the war until his death, which occurred in New York city, Dec. 27, 1891.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Allen, Andrew

​ALLEN, Andrew, delegate, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., in June, 1740; son of the Hon. William and Margaret (Hamilton) Allen. He was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1759, completed his education at the Temple in London, England, and was admitted to the bar of the supreme court of Pennsylvania in 1765. He married Sarah, daughter of William Coxe. He was commissioner of Philadelphia County in 1768; a member of the Provincial assembly and council, 1769-75; attorney-general of Pennsylvania, 1774-'76; trustee of his alma mater 1775-78 and member of the Continental congress in 1776. He disapproved of independence, and ceased to attend in June, and was afterward attainted of treason by the assembly. He went to London and renewed allegiance and his property was confiscated. He died in London, March 7, 1825.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Alger, Cyrus

​ALGER, Cyrus, iron founder, was born at West Bridgewater, Mass., Nov. 11, 1781. He is noted as the inventor of the cylinder stove, for improvement in weapons of war, and for establishing what was for many years the most extensive iron foundry in America, at South Boston, Mass. He died Feb. 4, 1856.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Alger, Horatio, Jr.

​ALGER, Horatio, Jr., author, was born at Chelsea (Revere), Mass., Jan. 13, 1834. He was graduated from Harvard university at the age of eighteen, and occupied the next few rears in teaching, writing, and doing newspaper work. For a year he travelled in Europe, acting as correspondent for American newspapers; returning to America he studied divinity at Cambridge, and in 1864 was ordained to the Unitarian ministry at Brewster, Mass. In 1866 he settled in New York city, where he studied the condition of the street boys, and found in them an abundance of interesting material for stories. Besides more than fifty books written for young readers, he published "Helen Ford," a novel, and many magazine articles, poems, etc. Among his books are: "Nothing to Do: a Tilt at our Best Society" (1857); "Gran'ther Baldwin's Thanksgiving, with other Ballads and Poems" (1875); "From Canal Boy to President" (1881); "From Farm Boy to Senator: the History of Daniel Webster" (1882); "Abraham Lincoln, the Backwoods Boy" (1883); "From Log Cabin to White House"; "Digging for Gold" (1892); "Victor Vane, the Young Secretary" (1894); "Only an Irish Boy" (1894); "Adrift in the City" (1895); and books illustrating New York street life, as the "Ragged Dick," "Luck and Pluck," and "Tattered Tom" series. He died at Natick, Mass., July 18, 1899
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Alger, Russell Alexander

​ALGER, Russell Alexander, cabinet officer, was born in Lafayette, Ohio, Feb. 27, 1836; son of Russell and Caroline (Moulton) Alger and grandson of John Alger, a Revolutionary soldier. His parents died in 1848, leaving Russell the oldest of three orphan children, without money and with a brother and sister to care for and support. He had been accustomed to work for the neighbors for a small quantity of provisions, or a few pennies a day, even before the death of his parents, who were very poor. He now found homes for his brother and sister and secured work for himself on a farm, his remuneration being his board clothes, and the privilege of attending school three months in the year. He afterward secured a place where he was paid regular, though small wages, and he was able from his savings to pass several terms at the Richfield academy. He thus fitted himself to teach a district school, which he commenced in the winter of 1856, boarding around among the farmers as a part of his remuneration. After this time, by close economy he was able to assist his brother and sister in obtaining an education, and to advance himself in the study of law. In 1859 he was admitted to the bar and began practice in Cleveland, O. Overwork and indoor confinement soon broke down his health, and in 1860 he was obliged to relinquish for a time his profession. Borrowing a small sum of money he went to Michigan with a friend, where they engaged in the business of lumbering. In 1861, through the failure of another firm, he lost all his capital, and was left in debt. On the breaking out of the civil war he promptly enlisted as a private in the 2d Michigan cavalry, and was soon promoted to a captaincy. He served three years, through many hard-fought battles, and step by step he gained promotion until at the close of the conflict in 1865 he was made a brevet major-general "for gallant and meritorious service." Not discouraged by his former failure, he once more embarked in the lumber business, this time with such success that in twenty years he had amassed a comfortable fortune. In 1884 he was nominated by the republican party of Michigan for governor and was elected. His administration was exceedingly popular, for he brought into the conduct of state affairs business methods combined with strict honesty and a close attention to every official duty. The best men of both parties desired to see him again in the gubernatorial chair, but he declined and devoted himself to business affairs. His name was prominent as a candidate for the presidency before the republican convention of 1892, that nominated Mr. Harrison, he receiving 143 votes on the fifth ballot. President McKinley made him secretary of war in his cabinet, March 4, 1897, and he held the portfolio and conducted the department during the war with Spain. He offered his resignation, July 19, 1899, which was accepted. He was appointed to the U.S. senate from Michigan, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James McMillan, in 1902, for the term ending in 1907.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Allan, Chilton

​ALLAN, Chilton, representative, was born in Albemarle county, Va., April 6, 1786; son of Archibald Allan. He settled in Winchester, Clark county, Ky., as a wheelwright, and educated himself for the legal profession. He represented his district in the state legislature for several terms between 1811 and 1831 and was state senator in 1823. He represented his congressional district in the 22d, 23d and 24th congresses, 1831-'37, where he was chairman of the committee on territories and a member of the committee on foreign affairs. In 1838 he was a member of the board of internal improvements in Kentucky and chairman of the board, and in 1843 was again a representative in the state legislature. He died in Winchester, Ky., Sept. 3, 1858.