davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-01
A Remarkable Discovery.

10
The n. Y, Herald published, few
days since from St Anthony, Minnesota,
giving an account of remarkable cave
that has been discovered in the latter
city. 1t is stated that man while dig
ging out earth in the cellar of his house
which stood on a limestone bluff, found
an iron trap door, which being opened,
revealed flight of steps cut in the solid
rock. He decended them and found sew
eral spacious apartments, in which were
a stone altar and various relics indicating
that human sacrifices had been perpetra-
ted there. Remains were also seen, in
dicating that the cave had been place
of resort, probably for purpose of human
sacrifice, by the MYSTERIOUS race which
proceeded the Indians in the habitation
of our continent The ooutlet of the
cave, though blocked up by falling
stones, obviously opened on the high
banks of the river The truth of the sto-
ry having been. called in question, Mr..
Reuben Nesmith of st. Anthony writes
to the St. Paul. Press, saying that tie
Herald's account is true and unexaggCrI-
ted, and that the matter had been pur
posely kept secret until the explorations
shall have been completed the letter to
the Herald having been authorized He
adds: s,.-,s, ss ;,l,fF- h .sa .,s
81 hope to be able, in the course of a
few days, to invite the public to test the
truth of the assertion made by the Her
aid, by personal inspection of these Won
derful relics, and this subterranean mo-
mento of past age, and which may be
truly pronounced prehistoric. | propose
to extend an invitation to the Governor
and the members of the legislature to Wis
it. them soon after they next assemble,
and trust that, should the Historical
Society decide not to purchase these re
markable antiquities, the State will at
once take measures to secure them to be
among its archives"
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-01
Ship of Death Floats into a Port
Of the Shetland Islands.

70, Since the time when the, Ancient Mar
iner told the terrible tale of. the curse
laden ship with her crew of ghastly
corpses, no more thrilling story of the
sea has been related than that of the
whale ship Diana, that recently drifted
into one Of the Shetland Islands.
A year ago she left the Shetiands on a
whaling voyage to the Artic regions,
having on board fifty men. From that
time nothing more was heard of her. The
friends of those ON board became alarmed.
Money was raised and premiums offered
to the first vessel that would bring It'd
lngs OF the missing ship, but all to no a.
vail. Hope was almost abandoned.
On the I'd of April the people near Ro-
mas Voc, in one of the Shetland Isles,
were. startled at seeing ghastly wreck
ofa shi p sailing into the harbor Bat
tered and ice-crushed, sales and cordage
cut away, boats and spars cut up fer fuel
In the terrible-pArtic winter, her decks
covered with dead and dying, the long
lost Diana sailed i'll like a ship from Dead
mans Land. Fifty men sailed out of
Lerwick in her on a bright May morning
last year. All of the fifty came back on
her on the ID Of April, this year same,
but low different. .---..
Ten men, ofwhom the captain was one,
lay stifened corpses on the deck; thirty
five lay helplessly sick, and some dying
two retained sufficient strength to creep
aloft, and the other three, crawled feebly
about the deck. The ship was boarded
by the islanders, and, as they climbed
over the bulworks, the man at the wheel
fainting from excitement, one of the sick
died as he lay, his death being announced
by the fellow occupant ofhis berth feebly
moaning, ssTake away this dead man." On
the bridge of the vessel lay the body of
the captain, as it had laid for four months,
with nine of his dead shipmates by his
side, all decently lain out by those who
soon expected to share their fate.
The. survivors could not bear to sink
the bodies of their comrads into the sea,
but kept them so that when the last man
died the fated ship that had been their
common home should be their common
tomb. The surgeon Of the ship worked
faithfully to the last, but cold, hunger,
scurvy and dyseEtery were too much for
him. The brave old captain was the first
victim, and died blessing his men. Then
the others fell, one by one, until the ship
was tenanted only by the dead and dy'
ing. One night more at sea would have
left the Diana a floating coffin. Not
one of the fifty would have lived to tell
the ghastly tale.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-01
Accidents of Speech.

b Pat has long labored under the imputa-
ton of making moressaccidents" with his
tongue than any of his fellow mortals,
but it can be very readily shown that the
'bulI' is not necessarily Indigenous to
Irish soil. '7 ''--'-' '",' y :. '''''' s7tH
.3 A Frehchman named Gallon, who died
in Paris not many years ago, was remark
able for a bovine tendency There is a
letter of his still in existanee, as follows: !:
''Dear friend; | left my knnife at, your
lodgings yesterday. Pray send it to me if
you find it. Yours, Carlton. P.fS. New
mind sending the knife : / have found it.
a There is note to. his wife, which he
sent home with a basket of provisions,
the postscript to which read; "Y ou will
find my letter, at the bottom Of the bas-
kct iIfyou should fail to do so let me
know immediately" b.Ioo zs3as,- i'a- j
1t is, said of this same character that
on one occasion he took lighted taper
to find his way down stairs without accl.
dent and after getting down brought it
back with thanks, leaving himself at the
top of the stairs in the dark as al, first.
"A ladyonce asked the Able de Matig-
non how old he was. "'Wliy, / am only
thirty.two" but I count myself thirty
three because a little boy was born a
year beforeoI was and died, evidently
keeping me back a year by accident, =
:; 1t was.a Scotch. woman who said that
the butcher of her town only killed half
a beef at a time.:ai''oi1 efiiilol7Aoo si3
omAtaa prayer .rneetinsi In N NewE Hanp5,
shire ia worthy layman spoke ota poor
boy whose, father was q drunkward run w and
whose mother was q widow s,t. -
i, At, a negro ball, in lien OF sffNot trans
feir4able'' on on the tickets, a notice was post
ed hoyeri the deori ''No gentleman adj
mitted unlesshe comes hisselfli aoiI "
s.n An American9lectmer of note solemn1y
said ;one evening. i Parents you may
have children, or if you; have not your
daughters may have. ~ - IL
A western editor ditttrinp once { i wrote: rot IA cor
respondent asks whether the battle Of
Waterloo e6carred before or after the
Christian era. We answered it did, ~
baFhosetGtwo observing men, zone OF
whom said he had always observed that
when. he lived through the month OF May
he lived through the year, and the other r
of whom said at {" wedding that he had
remarked that moreiawomeni them men
had been married that year, We're neither
of them Irishmen, s II, ,a4ssfT9 r zIgo
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-01
Catlfornta Enterprfse. Z

California, says the N. Y Times, has
made the world open its fneredulous eyes
to see her exporting the breadstufs and
agricultural products, for which short
time ago she was paying exorbitant rates
Rut she is walking ahead in other mat
tiers as well, and viii soon be her own
machinest as well as farmer. 1t was not
many wears ago that mining machinery
from athe States" was one of the largest
items of expenditure; now we send
out to California lfoundries for California
mills,and not only the mineral States,
west of the Rocky Mountains, but East
ern and Southern mines are beginning to
Iuse' Pacific machinery. The large tract
just outside of San Francisco, called the
"Botrero, is being rapidly flied with mills
factories, glass works, &C., and the first
rolling miA in California will soon begin
to work the first iron from the mountains
of Oregon. The latest and most ambitious
attempt. is the building of several small
iron steamers of $50 tons burden, for To-
pcal transports tion on Lake Chapala,
which lies about rs miles back Of Mama
Milo; one of the Mexican coal dePots for
the Pacific Mail Line. The lake.is about
a. hundred miles long, and is connected
by a forty-.nile rail road with Guad1a-
laxara, with which town it has an inland
freight traffic of about s'thousand tons
per week! Sc. that with the prospect of
peace and trade in Mexico, the continued
growth ,ofOregon and Washington, the
hdnA Der interest and fisheries of Sitka, and
the newly opening. commerce with the
East Indies, not to mention her. own inte-
rier activity and the rush that will come
with the Pacific Railroad, California Will
have use for all these facilities for her ftt-
ture business. h'a 5hAFioq"a ~
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-01
A Yankees Portrait Of Napoleon,


s'Burieigh," of the Boston Journal writes
from Paris in dspraise of everything about the
Exposition, except the Emperor. he ssyss,ss
Those who expect to- find in the EN-
peror feeble and waning man, will be
disappointed. He seems to be in the
prime of life and the full vigor of health.
He has none ofthat sleepy, drowsy look
represented in pictures. His ere is mot
heavy and stolid. His face is full of
thought, and bis eye, when he chooses to
lift his head, Is brilliant. He acts like q
misanthrope. The expression on bis face
is that of a man jaded-tired out with
tetes and shows-one who didn't care to
conceal his disgust. He sits back in his
carriage, or rather crouched up in the
corner, Indifferent to all the plaudits of
the great crowd, not even deigning to
look on the assembled multitude watch
ing for the imperial smile. sd -
Not so the Empress. She is benig-
nant, intellectual and handsome. She IS
the idol of France She never appears
but the people go into eestacies. She
sits upright IN her carriage, bows to the
right and left, not with the air of patron
age, but with genuine goodness and de-
light, with smile that is so peculiar to
her Majesty. Like Abigail of cid, she
seems to attempt by her own courtesy
to make up for the churlishness of her
husband. She is Spanish, and her style
of beauty so unlike that of the French
that it is marked. The French ladies are
not beautiful, tried by any standard, Ell
ther English or American. They, are
short, dark and fat. Their dress is not
becoming it is neither tasty nor elegant
The noble ladies, as they ride In their
coaches, are by no means attractive.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-01
WHOLE NUMBER 900
From the Providescs journal.
The Miller ofHarz."


A miller Of Harz, on long summers day,
Fell asleep in the shade of his mill,
And dreamed of a sure and speedy way
His Golfers with riches to flL
-.s---' - f-.sf--r fsff-t- ,
creaking old wheel that his forefathers built,
ana the force OF a stream turned round,
For century past had driven the mill.
/ And the grain for century ground. go
But it happened this day that the brook was low
And the noisy old wheel stood still
so the miller for lack of something to do,
Fell asleep in the shade of his mill
AS soon as he woke he at once began
To follow the plan of his dream, se.o,ia $
And in spite Of all that his friends would saw,
He turned the course Of the stream.
The summer had passed, cold winter was nigh !,
Still the miller could grind no corn, z'sssS
And the neighbors who laughed at his useless
s- work, .;,.s r.. - e-s-ei ~
he answered with bitter scorn. .57asisaSzls =
The dam was finished, but not that year;
And the people had ceased to go
To the mill, whose idle wheel ~
was buried beneath the snow.
To the millers Joy, the spring-tim came,
And the torrents poured into the glen,
Filling up to- the brim the pond he had made,
And turning the wheel again. -.
But one night as s'the villagers safe at home
Heard the sebs of the driving rain, "a
The dam gave way, and down the stream
Went the miller, the mill, and the grain.
How many man ia every land s. ssoda SSH
Like the miller has followed dream,
And sooner or late with mill and GRAIN -
Like the miller, gone down the stream
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-01
The Social EVIL.

The editor of the New York LsdsprndenR on
Saturday night, made the tour of the worst
of the city slums, and moralizes, on the subject
Dis follows. ID 20 H-s-lSA - ~ -
nggao7I1t = isea 7oiiGaiu ,
to the vice of prostitution. Whether or
not prostitution shall submit to sanitary
regulations by law, is not, new ques-
ton. The clergy are generally on one
side-the police on the other. We are
not sure but the police are right. 1t is
true that the mind staggers at the
thought of framing such an inquiry into
a law; but, on the contrary, the practical
difference between having law and
having none, is simply the difference be-
tween prostitution restrained and prosti-
tuition unrestrained. The French plan of
granting licences certainly answers in
Paris better than would the { American
plan OF no medical suryeilaneeas,i Wheth-
er the French plan would lessen the
'|great social eyip' in our American cities
is point not yet beyond dispute But
the question is not to be shirked or 81
fenced or concealed, it is to be met. If
the clergy are, to give tone to, public
opinion and public law on this subject,
we hope that before taking up. the theme
they viii go in. squads of four or five
each, and borrowing the arm of some
trusty poliee-sergeant viii make the same
tour of observation we had the satisfae-
tion of accomplishing on Saturday night.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-01
America no 3, Place for Fools l,,is'

In lecture lately delivered before the
London Farmers Club Mr.. James How
ard the we'll known manufactnrer of i'm
plements of Bedford, England, = made the
following pointed remarks sconcsEning
his experience in recent visit to sIthe
United States: He said he had been
profoundly yimpressed with thehappiness,
prosperity, sintslligence, and aselfgoyern-
ment,sot the sAmerican peoPlesi,iHe won-
dered that SO many people are willing to
remain in theld Old (World without q
chance to rise. with hardly a chance to
exist, If the. y. were crowded as
England is, the population would be
nearly a thousand millions. In reply,
to the question whether he thous h large
and opulent English farmers would do
well to send their sons to America he
remarked that one Of the, first iiaemoran-
da which be made in his diary after see
ing the United States was, thar it was
no use to send fool to America MIR.
Howard hit the nail on the head.n@I
tsffrl -. To -.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-01

SELECT POETRY.
The Elm Dance in the Rain.

The Elfn Dance in the Rain. :
- i i hear The beat Z 8
As of dancing feet
And of rain drops against the pane;
Each elf and sprite - 4
Is free tonight, - sizes
z.s{ Outside in the wind and rain. .s..
With wicked glee
a.fsf Round the old oak tree .- =
As the wild wind sweeps the plain,
= The careless rout :. 'al 2.
They laugh and shout,
Outside in the wind and rain.
The tall reed means,
The old tree groans,
= AS II torn by the anguish Of pain
YetdaDcing about
They sing and shout,
Outside in the wind and rain. .a.4
fao Little they heed
The slender reed
Which the storm on the earth hath lain,
Of the grand old tree,
Mid their reveDry,
Beaten down in the storm and rain.
Or, the sailors free,
s1sf gl Far out on the sea
On the tossing and terrible main,
Who with eager strife
For the good ships life,
Toll on, in the wind and rain.
For they, ah me!
Watch the pitiless sea,
Its cruel victory gain;
And they gambol and skip,
AS the stately ship
Goes down meath the wind and rain.
Hear their voices shrill, lG
On the lonely hill,
AS they echo the gales refrain,
Mid the tempest battle
My easements they rattle,
Outside in the wind and rain. g
And they whirl round the house
E5 :ef In their phantom carouse, e
ny These spirits escaped from the chain;s
f'- Oh, with wiling and shrek
Alas, who do they seek
Outside In the wind and rain.
And now as the beat
Oftheir Goblin feet
Come waited again and again,
pity the wight
Who on this wierd night,
Is abroad in the wind and the rain.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-01

I; The London, peace conference meets
the fate of all similar bodies when, the po-
htiesl atmosphere is fully charged with
electricity; instead of quieting the belig-
erency, it ;deepens and widens the. agi-
tatlon- When so many powers confe'-
plate ends; that il can cnlv - IL
ted by war, and - 5e consuma-
.1ssaence, it is not easy to- arrange
all the details for a substantial peace.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-01
Gen. gIongstreet was among the Vice

Gen. rllongstreet was among the VICE
presidents Of a meeting in New Orleans
addressed by the Hon. Henry Wilson g,
OF course he is not q Radical; but he
knows, the wisdom of Tiberality, and can
be hospitablei to free and sincere speech.
There is in the act of Gen. Longstreet
an encouraging overture toward the rec
ognition of Northern men and Northern
ideas. .aoi1afgGIf
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-01

(Wich is Postmaster,) and Professor in the Ham an
Japheth Free Academy for the dstelopemcnt Nv tn
intellek NV all races irrespective Of color. IJ
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-01

A miller of Harz, on long summers day,
Fell asleep in the shade of his mill,
And dreamed of a sure and speedy way
His Golfers with riches to fi.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-01
Written for the Toledo Blade.
NASBY.

Iriunl1ohGt progress OF j. Dd0is from For
tyess Monroe to Richmond
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-08-02
SUFFRAGE MEETING.


The Lyon County Impartial Suffrage
League met pursuant TO 8 call from the
Executive Committee. at the Empofia
School House, Saturday. July Goth.
Judge Watson in the chair.
=. Profl Motion, chairman OF s commitsee
to draft Constitution. reported. On
motion the Constitution was adopted and
signed by thirty four persons. {.
The election of officers being next 10
order Judge Watson was elected lPresi-
dent, Mrs Mary White, Yice President,
Miss Ellen Plumb Recording Secretary.
Prof Merton Corresponding SeeEetary,
" R. Holmes. Treasures. -
Upon motion, be President was auth.
olizsd TO appoint speci.I committee of
ladies to draft. az andress Tor pa5licaiion
By request Of The President, he was
allowed TO defer announcing the names Of
this Committee. and also of an Executive
COumitlee provided for by. the COr5litu
ZION. j4itI ltsI5} Etfftlft
Letters were presented from Lieutenant
Governor Green. and Elder c.. R. Rice.
Snort addresses we're made BIZ judge
Watson and Judge Bailey.
Upon motion. the League adjourned,
to assemble at tho. call of The Executive
c -f4gY Ga Ills, J. 4. s1oo9r.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-08-02
state TencherA, Instlrute.

The authorities of tine State Normal School
and the citizens of-Emporia are working to-
gether in the matter of the Institute with an
energy that promises to make it success.
The following citizens have expressed their
Willingness to receive members of he Institute
from abroad as guests in their families during
the week of the IRstitute Messrs. Eskridge
Morse. Watson, Kirkendal',- S. E, G. Holt
Williams. Hadley Gilmore, SPieer. Borton, 2
G. Hunt, Hart, Frakrr, Norton, S otter, CaPp.
Nc Burney, j. r. Hall, J. c Hall, Bundr-m
Van Holmes Hurst Kellogg, Frederieks White,
Whitley. white. Bancroft. Moor. ,MurJock.
Ella. Trask, Mrs. F. B Smith.
Others who can accommodate the Normal
Institute in the same way. will confer favor
by leaving VOID with Mr.. kellogg,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-08-02
SRERLFF,S Sale

DY virtue of an execution issued out of tb,
DDistrict court in and for Usage county, anC
to me directed. ] will offer for sale at public
auction at the court house door in the town o.
Emporia, in Lyon county, on Monday the 26ih
day of August, 1867, at one o'clock P n. of said
Gay the following described real estate, to wit:
The west half of the north west quarter of sec
ton 81 Of township number 90 of range mum
Der u, and the south west 4 of north west I
Of section 81, of township is, Of range ~,
siiuated in Lyon county Kansas, to be
sold as the property of Samuel F. Hart to sat
isfy judgment in favor of Herr and String
ham.
Dated this 25th day Of July 1867.
% 81 a. k. BANG CROFT, Sheriff.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-08-02
Horse Insurnnce.

We had call lew days ago from
Jonn l. Bailey, EsQ., who is travelling in
the Interested the Northwestern Hns-
Insurance. Company. OF. Topeka. Kansas
This company insufes all kiGts OF live
stock against loss by theft. Tue compa-
ny is composed OF Kansas men." and has a
capital OF SIO0.0oo. Horse Insurance is
comparatively a new Thing, and its beDe-
ftsto the farming community are eertaius
y great COkeEWatsou ofrbis place has
been ORpeiuted local and travelling ageng.
Those who desire Information iDregard e
this matter can secure ii by calling npor
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-08-02

On Sunday morn ing, July 29,h, 1867, VIM
Harden, in company with his wife. child aud
Virginia B, rks, altp mptsd TO cross the Neosh0-
at the ford above the mill dam, near Hartford,
in this county; when within few. rods of the
opposite shore, the water became deeper, and
the women, in changing their position, caused
the bed of the buggy to tip to the lower side ,
when the water struck the under surfaee of the
bed and caused the buggy to tip over, throw
ing ali into the river When the weight LETT
the buggy it appeared to inll back, aud after @
circuituus route the horses brought It out right
side up. The persons al seemed 70 light n
the water on their feet. Mrs. Harden holding
the babe in her arms all the time With the
assistance of her husband she was soon taken
to the shore Miss Banks seemed to be hold
ing fast to the buggy when Mr.. Harden went
to her assistance. When she took hold Of him
he was submerged, his arm bang omade fast
in his Goa which was taken ov-r his head.
When he arose and uncovered his face she
had disappeared and was seen no more till
about - NJ, when she was found in water
about six feet deep ga .-. s-.--
Virginia Banks was born in Ohio in 1871
raised in Iowa, educated at Cornell College
taught graded school in Cedar Rapids. She
came 10 Kansas nearly two years, dgo-returu-
ed home On the 4th insts from Cctton wood
Falls, where she taught SIX, months school
She was one of our best educators in the Stale,
de7out Christian. and loved by all who
knsw her. She. leaves many. to sympathIss
with the bereaved family. May her rest b.
sweet. j. ACA HULTY.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-08-02
Back gnin.

We were glad to meet Dr.. L. D.
Jacobs in town one day this week. The
DR.. has returned to Emporia. after swing
ing around the circle forseveral months,
and resumed the practice of medicine.
His Office is in the building mex, door
south of White & CIapp's store. The
Doctor made many friends here during
his brief stay last year, who will welcome
him back.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-08-02
Camp Meeting.

A Camp Meeting OF the Methodists will com,
mence en- Cedar Greek, 25 miiss southwest of
Cottonwood Fails. on Friday the 3Oth day Of
August, 1867. We invite all in Southwestern
Kansas, 70 come with their wagons. provisions
and tents, and meet with Us to worship God
aud ray that the hearts and dives of all the
people in these new settlements may be made
to conform with the character of J,sus that
their influence may live and~grow forever.
G R RICE. P. E.
T MURIbCK. p, c..