davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-12-16
MADRID, Dec. Is.

MADRID, Dec. Is.
Political affairs are still in an unset
tied condition, both here and through
out the country. There is great dis
tress among the poor of Madrid, and
trade of every kind is almost at stand
still. Many people are leaving the city
fearing new troubles.
The Government has sent prosecu-
tons against several journals OF this
city for publishing articles approving
the Cadiz instruction.
General Dulce has gone to Cadiz. He
will embark from that port tomorrow
for Havana to assume the duties of
Captain General of Cuba, vice Lersun7
di, removed.
The correspondence to-day denies
that there was any truth in the story of
the projected coup d'etat in favor OF
Duke Montpensier at Cadiz. The Duke
on reaching Cordova, found that the
movement at Cadiz was in the interest
of the Democrats. and further that it
had been suppressed by the Govern
ment He therefore voluntarily re-
turned to Lisbon.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-12-16

The object some wives have in blow
ing up their husbands is doubtless to
have them come down.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-12-16
Tslegrams.
spain.
LONDON, Dec. Is.

LONDON, Dec. 10.
The Geographic correspondent of the
Daily News this morning says that the
peaceful termination of theinslrrection
at Cadiz is entirely attributable to the
good offices of r. T. Farrell, the Amer
lean Consul in that city.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-07-21

FoR WIDowERs.-A man lost his wife. His neighbors called upon him to offer consolation, and he came into the house all covered with dirt and water.
 ''Why, MT. Brown, what have you been Going?"
 "My wife dying so, made it broken day, and I thought I would clean out my we'll"
 Another, town-crier, couldn't cry because his wife was dead.
 Another heather declared it was SPLENDID weather; his wife had such a cold, she couldn't speak.
 Another barbarian had inscribed on his wife's tombstone, "Tears cannot restore her, THEREFORE I weep"
 And while upon the same subject we will tell another "good one"
 A man was married he lost his wife and had stone erected over her grave. He married second wife, and when she died he had the gravcstone split, and it thus served for the two depart eds. He proposed to third, and the lady quaintly remarked;
 "I do not believe that stone will split again" A refusal,
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-07-21
Radical Catechisn,.

What is the greatest sentiment ever uttered by statesman
 Ans.-I propose to fight it out on this line If it takes all summer.
 What constitutes free government Notwithstanding negroes, and disfranchising white men.
 When is it necessary to quarter stand. ing armies among the people2
 Ans.-When they are democratic. | Is there any higher law than the coti. stitutions Ans.-Yes; bayonets. Who is the greatest living statesman of the present day? | Ans.--Grant. Was Grant nominated on account ot his statesmanship? Ans.-No; he was nominated with the hope that he would save the re- publican party.
 or all the races under the sun, which is the most educated and refined? Ans.-The negro. Who was the father of his country Ans.-John Brown. Who are the most prominent divines of the present day? Ben. Butler and ID. w." Logan. Who will be president if Grant is elected? Washburne, and old daddy Grant. Were there any democratic soldiers in the late Lincoln war? No, not any. Were the southern states ever out oi the Union? M No, but they were out of the aboli- ton party. Why does the Grant platform claim that the northern states have the right to regulate the elective franchise2 Because they have gone back to de- mocracy, and lost to radicalism. Why does the same platform claim that congress should regulate the fran chise in the south2 Because without the aid of the nig- gers there, Grant would be skinned kitten" Why is the Freedman's Bureau con- tinued until after the presidential election? In order to control the ballot box, and pay lot of loyal carpet-baggers who are too lazy to earn their living.
 Would the radical party commit any vile acts if they had and dared use the power? Yes, they would hang al. the demo- crats in the land. What is loyalty?
 Fealty to the radical party and negro supremacy.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-07-21

A dreadful hailstorm has lately occurred in Texas. Great injury was done to the crops, and the roads were blocked up for miles with fallen timber blown down by the tornado. Whole farms oftwenty acres were demolished, and some of the planters were moving off. Hail stones fell weighing five pounds.
 H@ A Frenchman having heard the phrase, "I've got other fish to fry very readily learned its application One evening, after escorting young lady home, and being invited to walk in, he thought of the above expression, and excused himself by saying: "I tank you. mum; must go cook some fish,"
 | a3r An exchange, in speaking of the magical strains of hand organ, says When he played Old Dog Tray we noticed eleven pups sitting in front ol the machine on their launches, brush. ing the tears from their eyes with theil fore paws"
 The iron manufacturers in Mas sachusetts are making money. The Tauton papers announce that two com. panies in that city have just declared dividends of 20 per cent. each. -Mr. Frank Reid of the Zanesville Ohio postoffice, has invented machine which will add five long columns oi l figures at once.
 sBrA Connecticut editor gives an ac. count of man who "blew out his brains after bidding his wife good bye with shot gum"
 By~A child was run over bya wagon three years old and cross-eyed with pantaiets which never spoke after. | wards.
 D9-Doolittle and Butler having dined together, Prentics conjectures that it must have been at place of en. tertainment for man and Beast.
 p@~Everywhere cndeavor to be use. fuland everywhere you will be at home
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-07-21
The Managing woman.

To be good housekeeper is one of the most essential and useful accom- plishments; and the man who secures for his wife one whose education in this respect has not been neglected, combined with a mild, confiding and loving disposition, has most valuable treasure, and if his home is not agreed ble and pleasant he may be assured that the fault is with himself, and he does not possess the manly and gentle- manly attributes necessary for such a partner for life. We commend the following just and truthful remarks to the attention of our readers:
 "The managing woman is a pearl among women; she is one of the prizes in the great lottery of life, and the man who draws her may rejoice for the rest of his days. Better than riches, she is fortune in herself-a gold mine never failing in it's yield-a spring of pleasant water, whose banks are firing ed with moss flowers when all around is bleached w}ite with sterile sand. The managing woman can do anything, and she does everything well.
 Perceptive and executive, of quick sight and steady hand, she always knows exactly what is wanting, and supplies the deficiency with a tact and cleverness peculiar to herself She knows the capabilities of persons as well as things, for she has an intuitive knowledge of character. The manag- ing woman, if not always patient, is always energetic, and can never be be disappointed into inaction. Though she has to teach the same thing over and over again, still she is never weary of her vocation of arranging and or dering, and never less than hopeful of favorable result.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-07-21
A Novel Invention.

The "Mechanical Tallyman" Is the last invention. This new machine has been invented to take the place of the check clerk: and the necessary liabili- ty of clerks to make errors in counting barrels, etc., as they arc taken out or put into vessels or cars, has originated this invention-a mistake in counting made by Mir. Wm. Boa, the inventor of the machine, and the foreman of the Chicago Dock Company. and costing him S36, having been the immediate cause. The mechanical ta.lyman" has the merit of being of simple construc- tion. In appearance it very much re- sembles clock, having, like two fin- gers--a large one and q small one; and having also, like clock, its dial, marked off into minute and hour di- visions. One revolution of the large finger counts one hundred, and one revolution of the small finger one thousand; the revolution of the small finger being made up after revolutions of the large finger. While, therefore, the large finger makes one complete revolution, the small finger passes but one-tenth round the dial plate.
 The machine can be attached to any kind of loading or unloading apparatus whether it be mere slide, an eleva- tor, or skid. In the case of the latter it is attached to the side of the skid 1; while under the skid, in it's center, is placed a valve, which, when rolled over and pressed down by a barrel, or in the case of slide, by the sliding box, or in the case of an elevator, pushed out of the way by the ascend ing or descending article, connects with the machine, causing the large finger to count one by moving it over one division-the finger being pushed along one space as every article presses against the valve.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-07-21
From the La Crosse Democrat
 Is the Negro a White Man |

IN ume Ne8rO 8 Wmltc M0m
 What our people need. to cure them of their negro fanaticism, and dispel the delusion which has wrought SO much mischief in our land, is, to make them understand the true character of the negro, and the great and striking differences which are to be found, throughout it's whole system, in the intrinsic character and qualities of bone, muscle, blood, fibre, hair and everything else that enters into, his organization and composition, between him and ourselves. All this is mat ter of fact, of scientific investigation, and not of sentiment. It is what can only be learned by the careful, thorough investigation of the naturalist, the man of science.-At the head of this latter class, of the men of our day, stands Professor Agassiz. With no preju- dices against the negro, but from his long residence in New England, and personal association and interchange of thought, with her leading men, more likely to partake of their views, politi- cally, he has nevertheless, risen above all these influences, and been faithful to truth and science, and gives his testi- mony as calm, unbiased observer, a cool and thoughtful philosopher, who scorns to conceal or pervert fact, hit where and prove whatit will. Candid, truthloving white men, read the follow ing, and ponder upon it, and cut it cut, and lay it by, and read it again, and again ponder upon it, and repeat the process until you can make up your minds that the negro is not your equal, and that he should occupy the subordi- nate position which God evidently intended, and his nature has fitted him for, and that you will stand by your own high, noble white race, and go for its supremacy over the negro every where:
 q have pointed over hundred speci- fic differences between the bonal and nervous systems of the white man and negro. Indeed, their frames are alike in no particular. There is not bone in the negroes body which is relative the same shape, size, articulation, or chemically the same composition as that of the white man; even thenegro's blood is chemically a very different fluid than that which courses through the veins of the white man. The whole physical organism of the negro differs quite as much from the white mans as it does from that of the chimpanzcc, that is, in his bones, muscle, and fbers. The chimpanzee has not much further to progress to become q negro than negro to become q white man. This fact science inexorably demonstrates. Climate has no more to do with the the negro than it has with that of the negro and the chimpanzee, or than it has between the horse and the ass, the eagle and the owl. Each is distinct and separate creation. The negro is no more negro by accident or misfor- tune than an owl is the sister ofthc eagle, or the ass is the brother of the horse. How stupendous, and yet how simple is the doctrine that the Almigh- ty Maker of the Universe has created different species of the lower animals to fill the differnnt place and offices in the grand scenery of nature!'
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-07-21
Domestic Recipes.

PACKING BUTTER IN THE SUMMER.-A Vermont butter maker writes to the N. Y. Farmers Club, rohcerning packing butter to keep: Pack it in we'll soak ed tubs or firkins, put little damp salt in the bottom and place it in cool dry cellar, on bench of wood eigh- teen inches from the cellar bottom and the same from the wall. Stone or earthenware does not keep butter we'll as the moisture from the surrounding atmosphere in warm weather, conden- ses on such vessels and soon affects the butter. Put no salt oh or between the layers. Fill to within half an inch of the top. Place clean wet cloth over the butter, pack the edge down with a knife, and then spread thinly wet salt over the cloth. Having made and dealt in butter for some time, can say the above mode of packing and keep ing butter will be useful to many, and cause smile of delight to the buyer ICE CREAM.-Take one quart of milk and scald it very little, beat the yolk oi four eggs to froth, and stir in slowly Add one half pound of sugar. Flavor as you like it, and freeze.
 ALDERBERRY WINE.--Two quarts o1 berries to five quarts of water. One pound of sugar, to one quart of the juice and water together.
 TOMATO CATsUP. -Scald your toma toes; then place them in kettle to boil. When done, cool and strain them through seive, then add pepper, sali and cloves. Scala them again, and add one tablespoonful of brandy to one pint of the catsup, place in bottles, cork and seal while hot, setting it in a cool place.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-07-21

b1y The Republicans ought to ap- point day of thanksgiving for happy riddance of the Blair family.-Cincin- nati Commercial.
 Make one job of it and give thanks at once for all your riddances. You have got rid of Mir. Lincoln's Cabinet and of the Supreme Judges he appoint ed. You have got rid of the Vice President you elected in 1864. You have got rid of all those old ..Jacksoni- an" gentlemen like Amos Kendall, of whom you were once so proud. You have got rid ofa great many statesmen and hundreds of thousands of soldiers. Besides the Blair family you have got rid of the Chase family, the Adams family, and the family of "Abraham, Isaac and Jacob" I;would be hard to name decent family that you have not got rid of. If such losses are pleasing you will never be done giving thanks. You have got rid of an inter- esting family of States, and retain only q troublesome family of bonds, Buffers, scallawags and negroes, of whom we wish you much joy.-Louisville Cou- rier
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-07-21

"Shall I give you some, Caroline ? said Hepsy, returning. "Yes; make it part water. Hurr, mp, Hepsy. Now give napkin !" ana Hepsy, mortified. watched her making preparations to feed poor lifeless John
 Good Lord! Miss Caroline, car stand most anything, but pouring brandy into corpse is going little too far, and I shall call your father r
 "Hepsy, rub his hands and feet witf something hot instantly! Help me tt take him off this dreadful board Don't you see how his countenance hal changed P
 "Lord, yesw replied Hepsy, tremb ling with terror. "You have mauled the poor dead creature till he look awful Don't you know you are act ing very wicked part. What do you think the undertaken will say to sucf behaviour? The girl is raving distract ed l" and Hepsy ran to call some one as she saw Carrie attempt to change his position.
 Caroline, for Gods sake what is this Hepsy is telling me? You must have gone stark mad! Poor childw and tears streamcd down the old mans face.
 "Will you come here, father, and set for yourself? There is cold perspir ation on my darling's face. Give mt the brandy-quick Hepsyw Hepsy passed it mechanically.
 GO for the doctor; somebody TUT quickly. Itell you he is alive! John John John! open your eyes, darling Y and, to the utter astonishment of hel father and the consternation of pool trembling Hepsy, John slowly lifted the lids, smiled pleasantly, and by the time the doctor arrived, the pulse, al. though feeble, was quite regular, and life and consciousness had entirely re. turned.
 The terrible paraphernalia of death was removed, and Carrie, worn out with her long watching and fast, slept quietly by his side. When he revived sufficiently to speak, he informed them that he had been keenly conscious all the time, and suffered the most terri. blc mental agony for fear Carrie might be induced to leave him; but the no. ble, loving girl, acting out an impress sion stronger than the human wills by which she was surrounded, defied them all, and saved her darling's life.
 The next day the wedding came of, but in an entirely unexpected manner Carrie, radiant with sweet content, and this time with healthy color on cheek and lip, stood by the side of the couch, and in the presence of few friends vowed to love, honor and cherish, in sickness and health, until death did them part.
 "Ah! Carrie had walked within the shadow of death, and the VOW came spontaneously from an earnest soul.
 Johns q do" was firm and tender. HE knew that the woman who stood by his side was staunch and true-truc in life, true in deatllEhis then-his al ways.
 There was not dry eye in the room. Even the minister faltcred.
 John convalesced rapidly, and there is no happier couple to-day in New York city than Mir. and Mrs. John Curtis.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-07-21

R4A Baptist minister is responsible for the following; "When was much younger than now-in fact, soon after the commencement of my administra- tions-I held meeting at my own house. It being customary for many of the congregation to remain to din- ner, Mrs. B. sent our negro boy Tim to neighbor Paul's for some butter. Tim returned and located himself, standing on one foot at time, in the out skirts of the congregation. Being well warm ed up in my sermon, thinking neither of Tim or his errand, but only of the most successful mode of pressing upon my hearers one of my strongest arguments, l demanded, with all the energy in my power: "And what did Paul say? Tim at the top of his little squaking voice, exclaimed, as Tim only could have done: "He thed you coulden't git any more butter till you paid for what you had got!" "This brought down the house and cut short one of the finest efforts of my early ministry; and since then l have kept my preaching disconnected from do- nestle affairs
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-07-21

D@rA little fellow, some four or five years old, and who had never seen a negro, was perplexed one day when one came where heand his father were. The youngster eyed the stranger till he had passed, and then asked his father l:
 "Pa, who painted that man all black SOP
 "God did, my son, replied the father.
 "Well, ''said the little one, still look ing after the negro, I shouldn't have thought he'd held still.'
 bDr"The man who raised cabbage head has done more good than all the metaphysics in the world said stump orator at meeting. "Then, replied a wag, "your mother ought to have the premium"
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-07-21

py~it was an ardent boyish love that faded out as life grew older my heart flew to her like dove, and lighted on her beauteous shoulder; or slipped the honde of her lips, or in her eyes found heavenly graces; loved her to her finger-tips, loved her very footprint traces! Her features wore rapturous charm, her smile made all within me flutter; in rounded beauty was her arm, her little hand was fat as butter. No wonder that 1 loved her so; but she was false as she was pretty, and soon she sacked her little beau, and took big one from the city. Icaught him out one gloomy night-'twas one of love's extremest phases-I aggra- vated him to fight, but oh, he larrup'd me like blazes,
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-07-21

p@An exchange describing cele- bration says: The procession was very fine and nearly two miles in length as was also the prayer of Dr. Perry the Chaplain.
 During a recent severe thunder storm in our vicinity a COW was struck by lightning and instantly killed be- longing to the village physician, who had calf four days old"
 D~An honest farmer writes to the chairman of an agricultural society "Gentlemen, please put me down on vour list of cattle for bull.'
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-07-21
From the Charleston News.
 Gen. Grant and Jen. Davis.

Some years ago a certain young U. s. officer was wild and as unpopular among his army comrades as he was reckless. During the great Crystal Palace exhibition in New York city he distinguished himself by riding horse into hat store, and performed several other feats which at last brought him to court martial. The court assem- bled at Fortress Monroe, the officer was tried and the finding given, but not published, guilty of conduct un- becoming an officer and a gentleman. 1" Informed of the finding, and anticipa- ting it's approval, the captain, for such he was, went at once to Washington, called upon the Secretary of war, and made frank statement of the case.
 He acknowledged his falt, but said if punished by the court in the manner he expected, he would be forever dis graced. In consideration of his posi- tion as an officer, and the circumstances connected with the family, he begged permission to resign. The Secretary of war informed him that such thing -as resignation after charges had been preferred was .unheard of in the annals of military law and contrary to the rule and practice of the service. But the officer begged on, and finally the Secetary yielded; and tho soldier be- came civilian and merchant. That officer was Ulysses $. Grant, and the Secetary of War, ex-President Jeffer- son Davis. These are the facts as they were related to us by an officer of the United States army.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-07-21
Eclipse of the Sun.

The total eclipse of the sun which is to take place on the 18th of August next, is already exciting unusual inter- est among astronomers, in consequence of the long period of darkness which it will occasion. A line drawn on the map from Alden across, Hindustan, and away to the southern coast of New Guinea, will represent pretty accurate ly the line of total obscurity. It so happens that 0ii the day above named the moon will be almost at it's nearest to the earth, consequently, the moon will hide the sunso completely that the du- ration of the total darkness will be nearly seven minutes. This is so rare phenomenon that all interested in cos- mical science are earnestly desirous of getting all they can out of it by obser- vation. Foremost among them, the Royal Society have taken such meas- ures that, if the weather be only favor- able at the time and place of observa- tion. most satisfactory results will be obtained. They have sent out to India a number of newly constructed instru- ments--telescopes, spectroscopes, prisms, actinometers, and others, by which all the phenomena of an eclipse may be we'll observed ; and as the ob- servers will be some of the most skill ful of the officers employed on the great trinometrical survey of India, we may hope that the highly important questions involved in the phenomenon will be cleared of their present uncer- tainty. If the southwest monsoon, which will then be blowing, will only leave the sky clear at the place of ob- servation, we shall by Christmas next know more about the sun and it's light and atmosphere than hitherto.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-07-21
Dr. R. B. SHELBY.

FTNENDERS his professional services to the l. Citizens of Des Arc and surrounding country, in the practice of Medicine and Ob. stetrics. He hopes from an experience of over fifteen years in Southern practice, to merit share of public patronage.
 ofhce one door East of Burney's Drug Store. msrch26- ls6S-Iy