davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1852-12-28
TUITION AID BOARD,

- f,an accn iininiuc some clgi:t or lrl
tmy4 whli board III my iamily--'rui:ion.
hoard, lnIging, washing and ironing for
nine iunn;lis, The ensuing year Tor SluO
An ntir.n hoy ru,. heroinc healthy in the
coirSe nj n year, NJ this hcnrtiiIl reginn O.:
EupJ water, an! bt,cing air.
w &. BARRETT.
A;hens, Ga Dec. IL, 1852 7-3t
The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1852-12-28
CABINET WARiiROONI.
r.. W.. ANHGEPHINArs

e7=,S.sSzz,, TAXES this method ot
Si,mteryillr nn,lsiein,,v' lnvs ,hs. g
he has operied in Sumter.ilc opposite tl,e Is nn,;
Presbyterian Church, II CABINET, WARE.
ROOM, where hr will keep for sale. cl,eap. nu
G sGrn inrn,,prc AF comes u9dr this srarmenl
material and will furnish fur casl,, M CLnT5ls.
ION prices, all descriptions OF Furnitnre rna,i,
hemiriiig execnted nj The shortest ri6lilie I" =
ont delay !h - ~ ~
DAVIS, he s prepared to furnish Metallic. plat,
engraved in any style. '',- - <
{, All the snbsriber asks is fhir triaI. md
hopes by punciual attention to business mai
easy terms, 10 merit public patronage.
feofuA'y ~ loos. l7-ly
The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1852-12-28
Dwelling. House for Sale,

IIte sllbscrlDcr ullrrS her House aud lot,
EbGated tic.r the Presbyterian Church for
sSle, continuing about two acres OF land,
with all necessary out buidiugs-Nor terms
apply to,
NANCY SLEDGE.
Nov. 90. 1852. 4 If
$ sg.f-. ~. ~ - :
The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1852-12-28
D r 7 G. @ @ D S

BIEACIIED AND DROWN IIOMESPUNS a tns Scents
THREE YARDS WIDE SflEETING5, Blcschcd cdanjI de-
FLANNElS md Du,i do
BLANKETS KERSEfS AND Pl.AIDS;
CROSS BARD AND SWISS MtjSILNS;
JACONET CAMBRlCS:
SILK AND IINNEN IIANDKERCIlIEFS;
BUCK. KID WOOL s.s......
AIPACCAS MERINO DRESSES; /. =
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN lrom5 5to ;csO Do
do
DONNETS AND RIBBONS;
I,ACES AND INSERrNtiS'
SlSPENDERS AND CR.iVATS; ':i?.
GENTS FASHIONABLE IIATS,
SHOES
GENTS. AND CIll.DRENS. o every
Gl - Gz2 Gno ~ 81 Es2 I'D as O.,
SHOT
ToOlS, AND nTGf
TN TRUNKS. GUN CAPS POWDER AND SHOT 80
SAA@N esNs, Ass As,
'cs fancy and useful goods such 1asc
T"rk '"<s iokct Side rnh
Back Bnud Fny Handles
and Cards ladies' Dress Buttons Chlhrcn's Umbrellas
Sotl low
dure tfo" III" Indies
be
'crvlh, 5 C. O. L. McROY co.
The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1852-12-28
'h'A1ES NES q

Or,lnsra?hy, Rra ling, Writing, arl
."rpnary Geography. per mu:i:h, :" 81
Eng,iS Compositions. t;ran,-
mar. Geography History,
Algebra, Mythnl"gy, ithc-
tnrlr. Logic, Philosophy,
Chemistry mnd Botany, 81 90
Iintin OF French % 81 90
Drnwin: and Painting in Oh
or Water e., l"r.. 81 90
Monorhr0ua;ic {" - 81 %
W"r,lcd or thrnc!!c Work, :: 81 %
Wax Work ST NO
Music .n Piano or Gui.ar. =. :. 81 O0
- Of Piano g Gn
pupiis on Guitar furnish their own In.
slrumcntS inr practice.
It will he lnurh To :ha advantage nf the
pupils 10 he present on tho day l,' Svhno!
opens, ,ha, ihcv may he arranged III Their
respective classcs. and have the studies
assigned lhH.n.
Gone rig!lt or trn ";ing lltiGs can hc
Accommodated with Boarding IN The family
oi the l'rinripa', upon aS moderate tcr"s
as can be alii,r'!c,l. ~
M pupil Nili he received .nr less ihan
scsai;.n, unlrs, by special agreement,
anl no deduction made or absence except
tnr sickness.
The princpa! snlcits ,hr patronage p[
his numerous iricp l., and promises on hi
part. to t,sr!,a..c Faithfully hi, responsible
trust.
w w. AI.SrON, Principal.
SuntcrvIlc, Nov u, 1872. II
The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1852-12-28
Rail Road Notice.

Jcccmbc- iSt. 1882.
ON and after this date. the passcngc
lnd Mail Train will run AS fol!vws:
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-04-08
VOLUME TX. NO. Is.

1t with the wood he had brought. Being appa-
renty satisfied with the trial, he then took the
wood in his mouth, and swan with it across the
stream, and then returned with it to the side
where the pig was lying on the bank, and, laying
it down, he took up the pig, and crossed the
stream with it in safety, and bore it away for his
own breakfast, or that of his cubs. Let any one
explain the action of the fox as he may, truth Of
the story may be relied on,
At another time, fox made his way into a
pen, which was built of rails, in which was fine
family of pigs, along with their natural protector
their mother. The fox was evidently afraid to at
tenpt taking one of the pigs, till he was sure
that he could make his escape from the pen with
it in safety. So he took a stick of wood in his
mouth, and sprung through the opening between
the rails with it aud then sprung back again,
and drepeated the operation Of spnngng backward
aud forward with the stick in his mouth, till he
was satisfied that it would be safe IL seizo q pig
But he was mistaken. He had not made the
proper calculation for the difference between a
straight stick and living, struggling pig and
before he could get through the aperature, he
found himself in the jaws of the mother and in.
stead Of making his breakfast from young pig,
he was himself devoured--ErG.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-04-08
YP. THOMPSON, EDITOR & PROPRIETOR.

because their owner has not provided them a
warm corner for shelter in such storm as RACES
while we write. Probably he has been just
round the corner, spending his time at the " cor
ner grocery" while he should have been fixing
up all the holes ard Jrners of the house and
barn for winter. No isadder sight can bring a
tear into the corner of our eye, than to see the
poor dumb brutes Of some dOrOa al the corner far
mer, stand shVering in the fence corners, while
the cutting wind from the coolest corner of cre-
alton, is pillng the snow d-ifts into every corner
Of an ice bound world A man who will neglect
to provide snug corner for every domestic ami
NAL upon his farm, ought to be driven by a mad
bull into the corner ofa thorn bushhedge, where
with thorns behind, and thorns before, he should
be compelled to try the points of one or the other,
or spend night in the corner with wind north
west and thermometer at zero. How he would
wish himself In such snug corner as we now
occupy, while hurting, our rough cornered ana
themas at the brute, tnot tho bull,) ia the cor
ner. But Of all the snug corners Of the world
which most we covet, it is not the corner stone
of fame, nor corner box Of cash, nor corner in
some miser's will but it is corner in thy heart,
o woman and tear in the corner of thy eye
when we are carried round the last time, to be
laid away in some shady corner, where thou wilt
come and plant rose at each corner of the little
farm we shall then occupy.-1he Plow.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-04-08
Riband Conspiracy in Ireland.

The Dublin Evening Mail gives the fol-
lowing precise sketch of the Riband code, and
the machinery by which it is enabled to effectits
nefarious purposes.-From evidence which has
over and over again transpired in courts OF JUS
tce, upon the trials of criminals there is scarce
ly room to suspect that the picture is anywise
over,colored or exaggerated in its details -" A
Riband lodge is an affiliated branch of a secret
society, composed exclusively of Roman Catho-
lies, having for its object the two fold purposes of
extirpating heresy and regulating the occupation
and possession of land. 1t is both religious
and an agrarian society.
Each seperate lodge is composed of forty
members 1t has master, secretary, delegate,
three committeeman, and thirty-fonr members.
These are admitted with solemn oath to yield
unlimited. ed.obedience to the authorities of the in
sttution, and to maintain the utmost secrecy (;
they pledge themselves to wade deep in Prot
estant blood, and 10 spare none OF the hereto
race from the cradle to the crutch," The men,
bers are known to each other by secret signs
and passwords, changed every three months by a
central authority, unknown even to the conspwa.
tors themselves. They meet by concert at
fairs and on market days at some public house,
known to be friendly, and drop in one by one
till the room is full, and then proceed to business.
They avoid night meetings as much as possible,
lest they attract attention when they do meet at
night, it is generally at dances got up for the
purpose, when the junior members are dressed
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-04-08
nlisfelloneous.
For the Freeman.
California.

FRIEND THOMPSON, Sir:-Every one that Is
conversant with the papers Of the day, under
stands perfectly we'll of the rush that has been
moving towards California for the few months
past so great indeed has it been, that with all
the late and improved facilities for transportation,
that many have been compelled for want of ac-
commodation to turn homeward from New York,
and even many from the Istbmus. In this state
of affairs, and in the excitement that exists at
present,-all the correct information in regard
to California, and of the prospects of those al
ready there, and of the thousands now on the
way, should be received and read with more than
common interest.
l received few days since, letter from
relative who has been in California about two
years, and from the business that he has been
engaged in for the last two years-that of dri-
wing Spanish cattle and horses to the mines from
Lower California-is, perhaps, as we'll able to
judge correctly of everything he writes, as any
one else in that country and the information
may be depended upon, as reliable beyond
doubt. S. RUGGLEs.
Roxbury, Apr. l, 1852.
.Mukelumne River, San Joaquin Co., !
February IL, 1852.
When received your kind letter
it was treat indeed. People who are surroun-
ded by kind friends to rejoice with them in pros
perity, and sympathise with them in adversely,
have but faint idea of the pleasure it affords
one situated as | am, to peruse lines written by
a friend; prize them highly-they serve to
cheer and gladden. many an hour which would
otherwise be very lonely.
My health is good at present, but have had
much sickness since came here-but for the
most OF the time have been able to attend to
my business, which is mostly done on horse
back
Inc weather is very warm-the rains com.
menced the 25th Dec. and lasted ten DAYS, since
which, 1t has rained but little. The grass springs
up green with the rain, and it is now as forward
IN the season as it is in Vermont the Goth of
May and the air about the same temperature.
lhe miners complain sadly for the want of rain,
= ana unless we get more heavy rains soon, il
Will Dc the ruin of many of them. For the last
twenty-five months they have not had water to
d, WORK 10 advantage in the dry ravnes more than
~ days. and the consequence is that a LARGE
portion o. them are in debt to the ,raders and
unable to pay In the summer of 1850 thew
aug intending to wash as soon as the rain fell
i but 1t did not fall enough to wash some were
o disheartened and went to work on the rivers
others continued to dig through the summer O.
1851, and unless they have rain this season 4
r will hurt many of them badly, and if the mine,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-04-08
Cotopaxi,

Cotopaxi is the loftiest of the volcanoes of
the Andes which, at recent periods, have under
gone eruptions. II lies near the equator, and
yet its submits are covered with perpetual
SHOWS.
Cotopaxi is 1886 feet in height,-that is,
about three miles and halt perpendicular,
above the level of the sea. Were Mount We
suvius placed on the top of the Peak of Tene-
rife, this mountain would exceed it in height,
1922 feet!
The following description should not fail to
produce in our minds solemn awe of God, who
shows his power and majesty in the eruptions of
volcanic mountains
In 1898, the flames of Cotopaxi rose 5000
feet, or upwards of half mile above the mouth
of the crater In l744, the roarings of this vol
cano were Heard at the distance Of 600 miles,
nearly the extent of Great Britain. On the 4th
of April, 1868, the quantity of ashes elected at
the mouth Of Cotopaxl was SO great, that thick
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-04-08
The Fox and Pigs.

Much has been written 10 show the reasoning
powers of the brute creation but nothing which
have ever read of the dog, the horse, the ele.
phant, the spider, the ant, or the bee, seems to
prove more clearly that brutes or insects think
and form conclusions, than that which | am
about to relate of the action of Foxes
On certain day, many years ago, farmer, in
the northern part of Connecticut, was witness
to the following proceeding on the part of fox,
that had somewhere secured for himself small
pig, and was taking it upon his back to his burrow
On coming to SMALL rapid stream, he seemed
to hesitate for while upon the bank, and then
laid down the dead pig, and went off into piece
of woods near by, from which he soon returned,
with a stick of wood in his mouth. He laid the
wood down, and took up the pig sand then again
laid the pig down, aud took up the wood. Not
seeming to be satisfied with the trial, he went
again to the woods, and brought back a larger
stick than BEFORE He made the same sort of
trial again, by taking up the pig, and comparing
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-04-08
Short Sermon on Honesty,

In all things willingly to live honestly "-tieb. xiii le.
To live honestly is to live justly and above re.
proach. 1t is to so live that no man, who knows
how we live, can truly say any harm Of us.
Nothing is honest which is against justice or
honor.
One may be able to keep out of Jail, and yet
" not live honestly" All stealing is dishonest.
1t may be but pin, or mari lie, or an apple,
that we steal, but if we take it slyly, it is stealing
II is wicked to steal from brother, or sister, or
parent. We may not steal pnything, even if we
need it. The eighth commandment is, Thou
shalt not steal"
We may also be dishonest in borrowing
First, when we do not need what we borrow, and
then when we keep it longer than we need it, or
do not take good care of it, and send it home.
If YOU have done with it. /" In all things live
honestly"
Some are not honest in buying and selling.
Their rule is, to buy at all times as cheap as
they can, and sell as dear as they can. This is
wicked rule We often trade with those who
do not know the worth of the thing bought or
sold. 1t is cheating them, to make the best bar
gain we can. Sometimes we trade with those
who are in great want, and we fix our own prices,
and make them much too high if we sell, or too
low if we buy. There is fair price for every
thing. Let that be paid or taken for everything.
He who is just and true, and loves his neighbor
as himself will soon find out what fair price is
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-04-08

IN womon's clothes all that appears to the OBJ
server is rustic hilarity and merriment, but the
work OF death is going on within.
When an offence is committed against the
Oarbarous code Of laws this society has estab.
Ilshed, either by an agent ejecting nom paying
tenants from land for which they are unwilling
"r unable to pay any rent, or by farmer in be-
coming tenant for such elected land, or by
landlord preferring a Protestant to Roman
Catholic tenant, or by information given for the
purpose Of bringing to justice members of the
association, then, on the next meeting of the
lodge, complaint is brought forward against the
offending individual a jury is forthwith empan-
elIed and sworn, consisting generally of seven
members the master of the lodge acts as Judge;
The complainant is sworn and examined by coun-
Gel members volunteer evidence on one side Or
the other, and the Judge charges the jury the
verdict is brought in by the majority, and the
sentence of death pronounced in hideous moe4s'
cry Of justice by the presiding conspirator. The
appointment Of the executoners next follows
lots are drawn, and they on whom the fatal billie
falls must, on the pain of death, carry out the
merciless sentence. Frequently, however, tht
trial and sentences are reported to a disan
lodge, which furnishes the executoners, on thu
understanding of the service beng returned il
kind when demanded. There is no hurry abou
the MATERIAL is conducted in the most sedat
and business-like manner The victim is watchet
his habits examined and reported accurate in
formation of all his movements obtained-a TIM
is appointed for his execution if unf. vorable,
is deferred with perfect GOODNESS if favorable h
is executed without remorse and without mercy.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-04-08
Singular Historical Fact.

The New York Express brings tdlight sin
gular historical fact which is not genray known.
1t says that in 1917 Russian of emnen ce, M
Pazzo de Borgo being then in Paris, proposed
in a memorial addressed to his court on the im-
portance of replacing South America under the
dominion of SPAN, that the United States should
be subjugated. He said that " Founded on the
Sovereignty Of the people, the Republic OF the
United States of America was fire, which in
the daily contact with Europe threatene the
latter with conhagration; that as an asylum
for all innovators, it gave them by means Of dis
scmnatng at a distance, by their writings and
by the authority of their example, a poison of
which the communication conll not be question
ed, as it was well known that the French revo
luton had its origin in the United States that
already troublesome effects were felt from the
presence of the French refugees in the United
States"
The Russian Ambassador went on to state and
argue, that the conquest OF the United States
was an easy enterprise; that the degree of pow
er to which the Americans had risen made them
objects Of fear to the European monlrchical
governments, &c.
The editor Of the Express came in contact
with this curious paper in the State Library at
Albany, in an old he of the MtasoHn RepubH-
can, printed more than thirty years ago
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-04-08

DEFINITION OF A LIBEL-The following
definition of "a libel was given by Judge Shoply,
Of Maine, in the case of Gardiner Fountain
"Thjs publication, am bound to say, as
matter of law is violation of law, that it is il
egal-is wrongful, is immoral. Still, if such
be the character, the law allows the defendant
to prove the truth, and stand justified. So that
whatever be the character of the publication,
truth is its Justification 1t is unlawful and i'm
moral for one to cal bis neighbor thief, but if
he prove it, he stands acquitted the truth takes
away the immortality, So mighty is the power
of truth, that in the eye OF the law, to write or
publish the truth is never immoral. A man
may ever speak the TRUTH and be blameless,
aud be entitled to commentator for speaking it. !"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-04-08

A REPORTING MACHrNE.-Many and strange
as are the uses to which machinery is being
adapted nova days, we question if it ever en-.
tered into the head of any man to adapt it TO such
a description Of work as reporting 70: the press
Yet this has actually been accomplished by our
ingenious townsman, Dr. Dewer, who has inven-
ted a machine, at one end of which the reporters
short hand notes are placed, and at the other
end of which, few rods off --theyare produced
at the ordinary rate of speaking, in clear, bold,
long hand ready for being put into the hands of
the printer. An experiment made on Thursday
night, was quite successful. To give an idea
ofthe advantage that may be secured by this
machine, we may mention that four columns of
the type used for reports by the Times may be
produced comfortably in couple OF hours, by
one reporter, whereas, under the present la
borious and cumbrous plan nearly eight hours
would be consumed in the task by an ordinary
reporter.-.4berdeen (ScoHanI) Herald, Jan. "a
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-04-08

are all, in their several departments, working a!
the same problem, intent upon the same thought.
1t has enlisted and consecrated science; it has
merged or superseded ordinary politics, or has
given them holer purpose and deeper mean
ing it pierces through every organ Of the peri
odcaI press it colors all the higher literature
of the day, provides fiction with its richest char
acters and its most dramatic scenes, and breathes
into poetry an earnestness and dignity to
which the last age was stranger. Westminster
Relnptr
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-04-08

THE ART OF DWINa-To 90 down under
the water the Arab divers stop their ears with
grease, in order to protect their tympanum
agamst the great pressure OF the lower layers Of
water. But they do not stop their nostrils at all.
They descend into the water, holding on 10 a
rope fixed firmly along one of the sides and kept
down at the bottom by an immense stone they
put their heads an instant under the water, then
rise it Immediately they then cough, spit, and
blow their noses until the air vessels are
perfectly free then with the head thrown back
and the mouth on level with the water, they
inhale and exhale slowly the atmospheric air
After having thus well assured the easy and
regular play of the lungs, they inhale, little at
a time, as much air as they can; their pro ison
made, they descend rapidly in vertical position
along the rope. They remain under the water
at least five minutes and three seconds. and at
the most, six minutes and five seconds. Pearl
divers, it is said, have never been able 10 remain
beyond four minutes, and the most skilful Euro
pean divers cannot support the privations of air
longer than two minutes and a half
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-04-08
Obe 1oniIp GirtIe.
Corners.
BY sOLoN ROBINSON.

"Give me a corner in lhy Affections
Like bank for love to lie and play on -
And here, in our first corner Of our monthly
chronicle, we will give you an article which may
be read in the chimney corner Of every farm
house kitchen in America. We hope it will :;
for TO whatever corner coterie The Plow is ad-
mtted as companion, we hope to be the means
Of wearing off many of the rough corners of
prejudice against scientific studies applied to ag-
riculture.
Winter is the time for meetings around the far.
mer's fire, where every one has his favorite cor
ner. Everybody loves corners. Men, women,
and children, old and young, black and white,
cats and dogs, birds and beasts, all have some
iavorite corner. The chimney corner of the
great old fashioned Connecticut farm house
where we spent our youthful days, can never be
forgotten. There is corner cupboard " in
the same room, which had corner in our affec-
tions. My good old grandmother had her favor
ite corner, and the cat had hers upon the blue
dye tub that stood in the same corner. The
oven was in the opposite corner The clock had
it's corner of the kitchen, while just around the
. same corner, outside, was the well, with its
"-ITon bound bucket,
The moss covered bucket which hung in the we'll"
And Just beyond that, in the corner of the
garden, stood that glorious old tree, known a
every corner in town as the "corneF pear tree.
The school house was at " the corner" where
had corner seat. There was pair of brigh
eyes in the opposite corner which often cornere'
mine.-At the " corner church." we had cor
ner pew.--We used to hunt hens nests in al
the corners, for hens love corners, too. And i
there soul SO dead to love of rural scenes, tina
he is not delighted to see the sheep crowd int
the fence corners in summer timO, or panied a
though he were pressed with sharp corners, t
see them crowding into the same place in winte