davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-17

EEAte39 = 1T .lJI
ge- sva 20 '.A 'e1
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-03-08
A Pleasing Incident in Real Life.

Twenty-Five years ago, says the Harris.
burg Telegraph, an editor and his appren.
tice worked together in neighboring city
1t was in the days when men were men and
boys were boys. Each one knew his proper
place, and between the editor and the ap-
prentice there was real reciprocity of re.
spect and regard. The apprentice had be.
come man. The paths in life of those
once associated diverged. Time rolled on,
but the political principles which one Of
them held, and which the other imbibed
in his apprenticeship, never changed
The elder ceased to be a journalist just as
the younger took charge of one of the
most influential newspapers in the north
western part of the State. We now gee
these individuals, after long years, brought
in association once more, one as Deputy
Secretary of the Commonwealth, the 9TH
er as Chief Clerk of the State Senate
Twenty-Five years ago, Isaac b. Cara was
the printers apprentice of George w.
Hammersly. Each having we'll fulfilled
his duty in life, they meet now both in
honorable positions he that was once q
boy now man, honored, capable, trust.
worthy and popular, and he that was man
to the boy, 40 more than his equal now
in the same traits of character. There is
lesson in such an incident of real life,
which every man and boy may study
with profit.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-03-08
JfElstelIaueuus.
Wealth of the Andes.

The whole range of the Andes is known
to be filled with precious metals ofincalcula-
BILE wealth. All along the coast, ford 200
miles, are mineral indications visible to the
naked eye, and in some places the tourists
sail many days past bluffs deeply stained
with the deposite of copper. AT every
port mineral specimens from the interior
are exhibited for sale, and to induce ex-
plorations; and small smelling works dot
the shores from Peru to far south of Val.
paraiso. The traditions of the Indians
whom the Spauiards found here nearly
400 years ago were full of accounts of gold
and silver mines, and from that time to the
present day new discoveries have followed
each other with almost fabulous rapidity.
1t would be impossible to give all the ira
ditions that still exist respecting mines
that have once been worked by Indians
on q small scale and are now unknown.
The authenticated accounts of accidental
discoveries of silver by poems, who either
parted with their new acquisitions for a
.trife or suddenly amassed immense for
tunes, would fill volumes. In the coal
mines of the south Of Chile l saw men
working with the pick who once owned
portions of the coal district, and many Of
the copper aud silver mines now in opera.
ton have laborers employed in them who
knew of the existence of the mines long
before they were opened. A few lucky
discoveries turned their good fortunes to
account, aud from paupers became veal
thy. l know of one instance in particu.
lar, where the owner of mine was for
merly halfstarved peon, glad to get ten
cents day, and who has an annual in
come of 100000. Gold and silver, in
more or less abundance, are found from the
lsthmus of Panama to the Straits of Ma
gellan. The silver mines of Peru have
long been we'll known, and the discovery
of silver in Chile dates back to very
early period. Gold is found in many
parts of the country, and has been worked
some, but not with satisfactory results -
1t is believed that the extreme Southern
districts of Chile, now occupied by In
diaus, have very rich gold mines, as con-
siderable quantities of that metal reach the
coast through tho hands Of traders with
the various tribes. Near Valparaiso sew
eral attempts have been made to get out
gold, and one or two parties did tolerably
we'll for time, but the project was finally
abandoned. Immense mines Of silver and
copper are found in Bolivia and the north
of Chile and farther South are rich and
extensive coal fields. Mines of cobalt,
zinc, lead, etc., have also been discover
ed, and are being worked successfully
In addition to these mineral RICHES, por-
tion Of the coast yields many tons of salt.
petre annually.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-03-08
Race Between a Locomotive and a Prai'
RE Fire.

George W. Bungay, who recently wit
messed prairie fire, writing to tho De.
troit advertiser and Tribune, says of it (:
About seven O'CLOCK at night l took
passage on the Dixon Air Line railroad.
The trair had proceeded but few miles
from the city of Chicago when we over
took fire on the prairie. 1t was bitter
night; the wind blowing hard, and the
snow was falling, but the tall, stiff, dry
grass OF the prairie stood high above the
thin sheet of snow on the ground, and the
flames spread with great rapidity. There
was broad margin between our track
and the river of fire that swept before the
wind. The line of fame was about half
a mile in length, and now and then it
made such rapid progress it seemed to
keep pace with the train. 1t was pic
turesque and grand race between the fire
steed of the prairie and the iron horse.-
The former had no delays to mako at sta.
tions, side tracks and crossings the lat
ter had the advantage Of human brains to
do its thinking and to pilot it.
On, on they sped, through the thick
and stormy light. One cracking and
whispering in the wind, soaring and driv-
ing away every living thing in its path !;
the other neighiug and pressing forward
with tread which shook the ground aud
made the light in the nearest window
culver like aspen leaves. One fared it's
banner of flame in the sky and tossed its
torches upon the crisp air, giving a warn
ing of approaching danger and light in
which to escape to some safe retreat; the
other with its name of smoke and breath.
of sparks, and its eye in its forehead,
dashed along III 'meteorio shower of
sparks. 1t was "poetry in notion
ringing with the rhythm of progress,
whose sound is music married to the cou-
plet of iron, in the iron epic of an ad-
vancing age.
Our locomotive gained the race at last,
and we left the fiery cavalry in the dis
lance, fighting with the wind and snow,
aud leaping ever the creeks and ponds in
It's courso-making bontires of the lone
haystacks that stood, like Lots wife,
within the reach Of itsinnumerable spears
of flame. Before it was borne crimson
flag that lit up the heavens behind it
was a charred and blackeued wake of Gin
ders. Whether it swept away any hu-
man habitations in its path, l can not say
but it was most attractive sight, and
go full of suggestion l have been tempted
to give brief account of it..
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-03-08
The Oldest City in the World.

Damascus is the eldest city in the
world /; Tyre and Sidou have crumbled
on the shore; Baalbec is ruin Palmyra
lies buried in the sands of the desert
Niueveh and Babylon have disappeared
from the shores of the Tigris and Euphra.
ties. Damascus remains what it was be-
fore the days of Abraham centre of
trade and travel, an island of verdure in
the desert, "a predestincd capital" with
martial and~sacred associations extending
beyond thirty centuries.
1t was near Damascus that Saul of Tar
sus saw the light from heaven, "above
the brightness of the )" the street
which is called the Strait, in which it is
said he ''prayeth," still runs through the
city; the caravan comes and goes as it
did one thousand years ago; there is still
the sheik, the ass, and the water-wbeel /;
the merchants of the Euphrates aud tie
Mediterranean still occupy these "with
the multitude of their waiters'' The
city which Mohammed surveyed from a
neighboring height and was afraid to en-
ter, "becauso it is given to man to have
but one paradise; and, for his part, was
resolved not to have it in this world" it
is to this day what Julian called the
eye of the EAST as it was in the time
of Isaiah, "the head of Syria"
From Damascus came our damson, our
blue plums, aad the delicious apricot of
Portugal called dauasco; danask, our
beautiful fabric of cotton and silk, with
vines and flowers raised upon a smooth,
bright ground; damask rose introduced
into England in the time of Henry VII. i,
the Damascus blade, SO famous the world
over for its keen edge aud remarkable
elasticity, the secret of the manufacture of
which was lost when Tanerlane carried
off the artist in Persia and that beauti.
full art Of enlaying wood and steel with
silver and gold-a kind OF mosaic engra-
wing and sculpture united, called damas-
keening-with which boxes and bureaus,
aud swords and guns, are ornamented.
1t is still city # flowers and bright
waters the streams from Lebanon, the
"rivers of Damascus" the "river of
gold,' still murmur and sparkle in the
wilderness Of "Lyriah gardens"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-03-08
FL AIR, MD FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH g. 1867
Mountains Around Jerusalem,

Jerusalem does not lie in the hollow Of
an amphitheatre; it is placed, on the con-
trary, ON an eminence with deep valleys
running nearly all around it. But it is
true, notwithstanding, that the mountains
girdle it about, as the Psalmist describes.
On two sides, the north and east, it is en-.
folded by the Mount Of Olives on the
south, the Hill of Evil Counsel-the re-
puted site of tie country palace of Gaia
phas, the High Priest, where the conspi-
rators against our Lord met on the night
. of bis seizure in Gethsemane-overhan
the valley of Hinnom, and looks right over
1t on Mount Zion. And although upon
the west the hills are at great distance,
they are on that side the highest of ALL
ln that direction are Ramah and Gideon,
and not farther away than FIVE or six
miles is the remarkable height by the
name of Neby Samwil, upon which height
tradition tells US that Samuel, the proph.
ct was burned. Ofthe truth Of this state.
ment there is no evidence, but recent in.
quiries aud observations seem to have
proved it to be the site of the ancient
Mizpah of Saul. Standing on the top of
Neby Samwil, the eye ranges from Jaffa
on the Mediterranean Sea on the west to
Jordan valley, and the mountains of Am.
mon and Moab beyond it on the east
Jerusalem is thus in the heart of a moun-
tain land for nearly twenty miles on Ell.
ther side there is nothing around it but
hills.-Buchanan's Clerical Farlough IN
the Holy Land.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-03-08
The Great Tobacco Factory of Spain.

A correspondent at Seville, writes !:
The change from the fairy scenes in and
around the Alcazar to the tobacco factory
is like nothing on this planet. Put your
hand into pitcher of hot water and
quickly plunge it into another of cold, and
the change will not be whit more strange
than to pass from the beautiful Alcazar TO
the presence of FIVE thousand young girls,
all in one room, and Sevillanas, too, in the
factory. They are all old enough to be
mischievous and "put on airs" I doubt
if as many black eyes can be seen in any
one place as'in this factory. Their fingers
move rapidly and their tongues little
faster. Both consume ten thousand lbs.
OF tobacco day, but you must not suppose
that they use tobacco in any shape J. no,
but they must talk, and talk they do With
rapidity that is amazing. I have often
heard that woman's weapon is her
tongue, and that the sex were notorious for
using it, but, like many other unkind
statements against heavens best, last gift
to man, doubted it until I peeped into
the Fabrico de Tobacos of Seville. What
may be the weight of mischief manufac-
tured each day along with the cigars, I
don't know, but | feel safe in stating that
it is at least equal with the tobacco. This
factory was erected in 1850 is 600 feet
long by SIS wide, and is surrounded by
a moat. 1t is the principal factory in the
kingdom, as every one uses tobacco in
some shape in Andalusia, not excepting
the. ladies, but it is when they are on the
shady side of forty that they puff and
cogitate. Snuff, cigars and cigarettes are
manufactured here. The best workers
among the girls earn forty cents per day,
the poorest about half that amount
Every night they are all searched to see
that they carry no property away with
them.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-03-08

e. The Italia of Naples announces the
the death of the famous "brigandess" La
Gizzi, who was for some Tins the terror
of the Volturara districts. La Gizzi was
tall muscular woman with beetling
brows, covered with thick mass of black
shaggy hair that fell over her shoulders
and breast, and was so bloodthirsty that
she voluntarily performed the Office of
executioner on every captive doomed to
death BY her band.
1t is related that on one occasion after
stabbing three of her captives she collected
the blood that flowed from their wounds
in jar and then poured it over the head
Of her lover, telling him that should be
his baptism of blood. Being sharply pur-
sued by the troops, her consort and her
self took refuge 10 the cottage Of a peas
ant at Petrosa and compelled him with
frightful threats to give them food but
while they were busted with their meal
he seized an axe and attacked them with
such fury that he struck both La Gizzi
and her companion to the ground before
they could defend themselves. He then
ran to the neighboring village of Rickig-
liano, collected the national guard of the
district and returned with them to his
cottage. Here they found the two dead
bodies and after decapitating them carried
the heads of La Gizzi and her lover, to-
xe,her with their conqueror, in triumph
through the district.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-03-08

A DOG SToRY.--Tbe Harrisburg, Pa,
Telegraph tells the following story A
few days ago, as several persons were leav-
ing tho office Of one of our physicians, on
Third street, they discovered on the stairs
leading thereto, dog who had been Sc
verely wounded in one of his legs, from
which the blood was flowing freely. See.
ing the door open, the dog at once enter.
ed the Office. limped to the Doctor, and in
the most imploring attitude held up the
wounded limb. The man of pills and
bandeges took pity on the animal, and
upon examining the wound, found that an
artery had been cut. Carefully laying
bis dogship on the floor, the Doctor pro.
ceeded to bandage the wound, which he
accomplished as skilfully as if his patient
was member of the human family. The
dog seemed grateful for the attention
shown him, and after exhibiting his graf
itude in an unmistakable manner, he
proceeded to the door, and departed
What seems most singular is that the an
imaf had never been at the Office before,
aud that he was an entire stranger to the
physician. Instinct alone could have
caused him to visit the gentleman referred
to, in this hour of distress. Although
this statement may scarcely be believed
by some of our readers, we assure them
that it is true in every particular, and the
dog referred to can be seen any day with.
in short distance Of the Office where b,
received the physicians attention.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-03-08
40etieal>
THE SPIDER AND THE BEE.

OR LOOK NOT ON THE OUTWARD APPEARANCES.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-03-08
TIE MIsER AND HIS BAG.-The Lon.

The MIsER AND HIS BAG.-The Lon.
don Lancet says:
ga good illustration occurred a few
days since Of the strength Of the ruling
passion even in death. An old man in
his last illness Was admitted into one of
the metropolitan hospitals. He was with
out relatives, friends, or apparent means
of subsistence but when undressed and
put into bed bag of money was found
suspended on string round bis neck -
To this he chung with tenacity, refusing
to part with it to any one, and wearing it
about him by day and night. AS his end
approached the treasure became matter
of anxiety to those tending him for the
sum was evidently large, and it was fear.
ed that it might offer temptations to
some patient in case tho moment of his
death should be unobserved. At length
the hour arrived, and when death appar.
emily claimed him, nurse gently un-
fastened the string aud. removed the bag.
At the same moment tho old man opened
his eyes and felt iustinctively for his
treasure which was no longer in its place.
He uttered the word "Gone !" and died.
The money, which was found to amount
to ETA, was handed over to the hospital
authorities"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-03-08
A GAY Cow AND HER FATE.-A COW

A GAY Cow AND HER FATE.-A COW
belonging to German named Roddy, o
dairyman in Pitt. Township, Penn,
had for several days manifested irrepressi-
BILE symptoms, and on Saturday morning
last cut such fantastic, ludicrous and dia-
bolical capers as to proclaim her mad be-
yond the shadow Of doubt. She COM
menced operations by breaking out of tho
pen or stable, wherein she was confined,
into an alley. Here Roddy and his wife
endeavored to check her career, one head
ing her of in either direction, but the
Infatuated bovine thought them only
"trifes light as air." and catching Roddy
postericri on her horns, tossed him
over the fence. She then wheeled round
and paid her respects in similar man
ner to his wife, tearing almost every par
ticle of clothing from her body, and uu.
tremendously tumbled her down steep
embankment. Not content with this, she
apparently determined, like any human
law breaker, to destroy the witness Of hor
villainy, and accordingly made rush for
the door of house on the alley, occupied
by Mr.. Bowers, a shoemaker. The pro-
prietor attempted to bar the door against
her, but she went through it with crash,
caught her horn in Mr.. BIS mouth, tore
his face open from the mouth nearly to
the eye, and then rushed into the street.
After lesping precipices, tearing down
fences, frightening people out Of their
wits, and creating sensation generally
for three hours, she was shot in hollow
pear the coke oveus, on the Centre av-
enue, and taken to Urban's slaughter
house, where the carcass was dressed and
cut up for beef.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-03-08

Bas. So intense was the heat during
the month of Augusta that apples, it is
said, were roasted on tree al Bridgeport,
Conn. The truth of this we cannot as
sert, but we remember hearing of leaf
of tobacco which grew upon the south
west corner Of a lot, and probably on the
southwest corner of the plant, which was
rolled up during one of hot days, and par
TALLY smoked
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-03-08

1t CHANGED Spider and Bee
Once settled on the sefsame tree,
And then began q warm debate
Which could the fairer work create.
The Spider boosted, none so well
or geometric forms could tell,
Or could so cunningly design
How square with circles should combine.
She said the webs she daily wove
Her skill, in this respect, would prove;
And, farther, from her own slight frame
The silken threads to spin it came.
Whereas the honey of the Bee
Was stolen from each flower and tree;
Nay, that she was obliged, indeed,
To borrow from the humblest weed.
The Bee replied, she never thought
Such charge against her could be brought;
That as to stealing honey sweet
From every flower she CHANGED to meet
Her skill was so conspicuous here,
She'd nothing from such charge to fear.
So delicately she distilled,
And her slight bag with honey fll,d,
That never had a flower compl lined
That by her means its juice was drained
No leaf had been at any cost,
Or by her robbery had lost.
As to the webs the Spider spun,
Her combs as skillfully were done.-
Indeed, the merits of her cause
Might rest on mathematic laws
For these were never disobey'd
In any hexagon she made.
But what was chiefly on her side,
Her works were usefully applied;
She labord for the public good,
And Stored her cells for winters food.
Taught by this fable let us aim
At virtue, rather than at fame;
Caught by no outward show or glare,
Appearances that promise fair,
The dazzling are not always bright,
But glitter with delusive light
Let's estimate things by their use,
Not the effect they can produce.
Ellen Roberts
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-03-08

g ANEoDoTE OF Mr.. LINCOLN
trust thesLord IS on our side, Mr.. Lin
coln,' said the speaker of a delegation of
Christian men, during one of the dark
days of the Rebellion.
IL do not regard that as essential a..
something else," replied Mr.. Lincoln.
The pious visitors looked horror struck
until the President added, 81 am most
concerned to know that We are on the
Lords sids.'
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-03-08
@ A young lady of seventeen years Q

age attempted to commit suicide, by
drowning, in Paris her sweetheart
having forsaken her. The first words she
uttered when she recovered her senses,
were: "Mon Dieu how cold the Seine
is p The boatman who rescued her,
stood near and exclaimed Sab my
little darling, it has nobody to warm its
bed"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-03-08

w. at is difficult to live" said
widow with seven girls, all in genteel
poverty. "You must husband your re-
sources, said sage friend.' 81 had much
rather husband some Of my daughters"
said the poor lady. j
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-06

Bsre. Ka.he-tae's LaassrFs.

BIrsa KasIasrtae's E-=a<srEE.
ALBUM.
Coming FROM i. gloomy court,
Place of Israelite resort,
This old lamp I've brought with me,
Madam, on it's panes you'll see
The initials K and f."
"An old lantern brought to me?
Ugly, dingy, battered, blackI'
(Here lady, l suppose,
Turning up pretty nose)-
pray, sir, take the old thing back,
I've no taste for bricabrac.''
"Pleasc to mark the letters twain
(Im supposed to speak AGAIN.
Craven on tbs lantern pane,
Can you tell me who was she.
Mistress of the flowery wreath,
And the anagram beneath
The mysterious X +?
FUN hundred years are gone
Since the little beacon shone
From Venice balcony;
There, on summer nights, It hung,
And her lovers came and sing
To their beautiful Il L.
Hush in the canal below,
Don't you hear tho plaeh or oars,
= Underneath the lanterns glow,
And q thrllllnS voice .beSlns
To the sound of manuolins?
Begins singing of amore
And delire and dolore-
o the ravishing tenore!
Lady, do you know the tune?
Alb, we all of us have hummed it!
I've an old guitar has thrummed it,
Under. many changing moon.
Shall try it? Do Re Mi y
What is this? Ma fol, the fact is.
That my hand is ont Of practice,
And my poor old fiddle cracked is,
And mani let the truth out
Who's had almost every tooth ont,
Cannot sing as once he sung,
When he was young as you are young,
When he was young, and lutes were
strung,
And love-hmps in the easement hung"
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-06
READY-MADE CLoTHING

TESHE ladies, gentlemen and young pco
Il PIC OF Commbia, who may be in want
OF .'SoMETHINGs TO WEAR, : are respect
fully and earnestly invited hv the ladies of
the Industrial Association to call at thcir
Work room, in the Female Academy. and
examine the articles which they have now
ready for sale. Some one will always be
found ready to exhibit the ready v-ma,ic gar
ments and to receive orders from those
who may wish to have work done neatly
and promptly.
The object of the Association is to fur
nlsh constant employment to those who,
having been impoverished by the war, row
depend on the needle for daily bread.
Does not such all object comnc nd itself to
the hearts of our citizens? Or must the
anxious applicants for work be told thai
o'r'pcoWe prefer Nurthcrn- made garments.
ah1 ''at thcre -, therefore, no more work
tor Me'n?, Shall 1t be said that such an
Assoclatlon as t;l!5 cannot be sustained in
the capital of S"nth Carolina? Jan 10