davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1868-05-22
ROOK AGENTS WANTED

~ u ~
To solicit orders for DR. WILLIAM SxTrH,s Die
TIONARY OF THE BIBLE. TUE ONLY EDITION
PUBLISHED IN AMERICA, CoNDESsEp ny DIR.
SxrrH's ONLY HAND. In one large Octave volume,
illustrated with over 1a5 steel and wood cngray-
ings. @fg JFfa a
Agents and subscribers see that you get the
genuine edition By Or. Smith.
The Spriagfetd Republican says this edition pub
lished by Messrs. Burr Co.. Is the genuine thing
The Congratulated says. who ever wishes to
get. in the cheapest FORM the best Dictionary of
the Bible should buy his
WE ALSO WANT AGENrs for EI.LIOTTsa new work,
REMARKABLE CHARACTERS AND MEM
ORABLE PLACES OF THE HOLY LAND. BY
HENRY WARD BEEcHER, T. ID. WooLsEY, l. l.. ID :,
Pres. Of Yale Col, JOSEPH CUMNINss, ID. ID. L.
D.. Prss of Wesleyan Univ. Rr. Rev. THos. III.
CLARK, Bishop of n. l., &c. &c, It. .sfs
They are new and original works BY these au-
thors, and their subjects are approved by clegy-
men of all denominations. Agents are meeting
with unparalleled success. We employ no Cen
eraf agents for either book, md offer extra IN
Juccments TO Canvasscrs.! Agents, will see the
advantage OF dealing directly With the PUBLISH-
ERS. For descriptive circulars with full particu-
lars and terms address the Publishers.
Hrft @ LIB. BURR & CO..
9-sy By a. Hartford Conn.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1868-05-22
Cedar Fails, iowa /.

Every description Of Carpenter and Joiner work
done In the best style and warranted TO
give satisfaction. livery variety OF
scroll saving and wood turning f,f
sr done to order
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-01-10

A WORD FOR NEWSPAPERS. We clip
the following article from an exchange.
1t is true, and we commend it to every
man who has an interest where he re-
sides. G1aW ~ 8
Nothing is more common than to hear
folks talk of what they pay for newspa-
pers, advertising, de-, as so much given
in charity. Newspapers, by enhancing
the value of property in their neighbor-
hood, and giving the localities in which
they are published, reputation abroad,
benefit all such, particularly if they are
merchants or real estate owners, thrice
the amount yearly of the meagre sum
paid for their support. Besides, every
public, spirited citizen has a laudable
pride in having paper of which he is
not ashamed, even if he should pick it
up in New York or Washington.
A good looking thriving sheet helps
to sell property, gives character to the
locality, and in all respects is desirable
public convenience. IF from any cause
the matter in the local and editorial col
umns should not be quite up to your
standard, do not cast it aside and pro-
nounce it of no account, until you are
satisfied that there has been no more la
Dor bestowed upon it than has been paid
for. If you want good readable sheet
it must not be supported in a spirit of
charity, but because you feel necessity
to support it. The local press is the
"power that moves the people,"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-01-10

been. True, there was much good work
done in it, but not half so much as there
should have been. /, for example, was
in the very prime Of life-33 years old
and knew how to write for newspa-
per and / printed in that canvass one
of the most effective daily political pa
pers ever yet issued. 1t was sold for two
cents and it had $4,000 daily subscri-
bers when the canvass closed. 1t should
have had 100000 from the first day on
ward; and my Clay Tribune "a cam
paign weekly issued six months for fifty
cents-should have had not less than
quarter of q million. And those two is
sues, wisely and carefully distributed,
could not have failed to turn the long
doubtful scale in favor of Mr.. Clay's
election. OF course, I mean that other
effective, devoted journals should also
have been Systematically disseminated,
until every voter who could or would
read whig journal had been supplied
with one, even though he had paid moth
ing for it. A quarter of million of
campaign Tribunes would have cost at
most $125,000; and there were single
houses largely engaged in mining or man
ufacturing who were outraged more than
that amount by Mr.. Clay's defeat, and
the consequent repeal of the tariff in AS.
There should have been 81 100000 raised
by open subscription during the week in
which Mr.. Clay was nominated, and
every dime of it judiciously, providently
expended in furnishing information
touching the canvass to the voters of
New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylva-
mia. To put good, efficient journal into
the hands of every voter who will read
it, is the true mode of prosecuting po-
litical canvass meetings and speeches
are well enough, but this is indispensa-
BILE. Mr.. Clay might have been elected
if his prominent, earnest supporters had
made the requisite exertions and sacrif-
ces and | cannot but bitterly feel that
great and lasting public calamities would
thereby have been averted.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-01-10

LOST TIME.-Let any man pass an
evening in vacant idleness, or even in
reading some silly tale, and compare the
state of his mind when he goes to sleep
or gets up the next morning, with its
state some other day when he has spent
a few hours in going through the proofs
by facts and reasoning, of some of the
great doctrines in natural science, learn
ing truths wholly new to him, and salts
flying himself by careful examination, of
the grounds ON which known truths rest,
so as to be not only acquainted with the
doctrines of themselves, but able to
show why he believes them, and to prove
before others that they are true,-will
find as great difference as can exist in
the same being; the difference between
looking back upon time unproftably
wasted, and time spent in self improve
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-01-10

with bright smile, and stretched out her
hand to him with more than half of her
gingerbread. He took it with greedy de-
light, and then the younger children also
began to offer him something else which
they were eating, which looked SO much
like cold wet cabbage, that l did not
dare to scrutinize it closely.
"Oh papa," said the sweet little boy
/" look, those poor little girls have given
him something to eat, Mayn't give
him my apple?'
"Be still, will you" said the father, in
a tone SO needlessly and cruelty stern,
that l felt sure remorseful discomfort
for his own hard-heartedness must be at
the bottom of it. The little fellow sank
back into the corner of the seat, and
there settled down on his face that half
vacant, halfdogged look of misery which
always comes on children's faces when
they are unjustly treated. He did not
speak or move for some time, and now,
to my great relief, he has fallen asleep.
So, to, has the young woman from Green
field, who grew so tired by the middle of
the forenoon that she could not hold her
head up, and laid it on her blushing hus-
bands shoulder. If she could see the
expression of his face at this minute as
distinctly as do, / fear she would not be
perfectly satisfied with it. 1t is curious
mixture of affection, embarrassment and
cramp. There is certainly psychology
cal mystery in the fact that brides and
bridegrooms in railway cars parade be-
fore the eyes of crowds of strangers, who
they must know are laughing at them,
tendernesses and familiarities which they
would not dream of committing in fam
lily parlor. Discriminating justice also
observes-and this still greater psyche
logical mystery-that in these social
offences it is oftenest the woman who be-
gins.-Cor. Of the ". Y Epe,ai,sg Post.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-01-10
The Theory and Frequency eff Earth
qual1eS.

Various inquiries about cur recent
earthquake, incline us to the belief that
the subject of this grand phenomena is
not so well understood as we have been
inclined to believe. One gentleman ask
ed us "where it was" another "where it
started" another where it struck" I'M
plying that we only heard the reverbera-
: tions as we do stroke of Lightning, in
the rolling thunder. To those who have
not given the subject of geanology much
study, few words on the subject of earth
quakes and their supposed cause may
serve to dispel their erroneous views.
The recent earthquake in the Carrib-
bean sea, of which our young friend,
Dempser, gave so vivid an account in his
letter from st. Thomas, and our own
smaller one, has awakened so general an
interest on the subject, that we improve
the occasion to popularize the subject.
The shock we felt here the other night
was a real earthquake, not severe one
it is true, in which the crust of the earth
is broken into assures, houses tumbled
down and vast damage done, but never
the less, real earthquake. It may have
been more awe inspiring in some other
section, but probably not, or we should
have heard from it by this time.
The more rational theory of these con-
vulsions is that the earth's interior or
much of it is made up of motion mass
melted rock and iron, and other heavy
fIsible substances on which the outer
crust of the earth rests, and by which,
when it is disturbed, or thrown into mo-
ton, the crust of the earth is moved, ris-
ng as a billow of this moulton mass
passes along beneath it, and falling again
after it has passed. Earthquakes are
much more common and much more Wig
orous in volcanic countries than here. In
Central and South America, along the
line of the Andes, where volcanoes are
numerous, these earth-shakings are very
common, hardly month passes but what
they are visited with one Calabria, the
southern extremity of Italy, and the Is
land of Scicily have been repeatedly de-
vastated by earthquakes, and there have
occurred the most appalling ones on re-
cord Herculaneum and Pompeii in the
year 63, were buried by an eruption from
Vesuvius, and sixteen years before they
were greatly shattered by an earthquake
These shocks are sometimes of great ex-
tent, affecting half a hemisphere, at near
ly the same moment of time. The ground
is shaken and lifted upward, as by the
passage of an irresistible wave beneath
it. The shocks are sometimes repeated
in quick succession; the movements may
be so great as to rend the earth into
chasms, and they may open or shut again
or remain in assures of the width of a
few feet or yards, and extending to un-
known depths; smoke and flames are oc-
casionally sent forth from them during
the continuance of an earthquake. Tor
rents of water too, are sometimes elected
from these chasms. A section of the
country is sometimes permanently elevat-
ed or depressed by earthquakes. This
was the case in Chill in 1922. The whole
country between the Andes and the Pa
cifc coast was permanently raised from
7s@
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-01-10

= p - - - - -.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-01-10

ment. He will feel himself inone ease,
listless and dissatisfied; in the other,
comfortable and happy. In the one case,
if he did not appear to himself humble,
he at least will not have earned any
claim to his own respect; in the other
case he will enjoy proud consciousness
of having, by his own exertions, become
a wiser, and therefore more exalted
nature.--Lord Brougham.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-01-10

LOVE AND PoLITENEss.-As scene se.
Gently took place at Paris wedding in,
which the refining influence of love and
French politeness combined to make q
very charming picture. The bridegroom
an honest and Industrious locksmith, was
uneducated, and, when called on to sign
the register, marked cross. The bride,
on the contrary, although belonging to q
poor family, had received an excellent
education. Nevertheless, when the pen
was passed to her, she signed cross.
The bridesmaid, former school fellow Of
the bride, having expressed her astonish-
ment, the young wife replied |: Would
you have have me humiliate my husbandf
Tomorrow will commence teaching him
to read and write. - ~. -
4H.l HIf
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-01-10
poftry,


How to Live.
He livcth long who liveth we'll!
All other life is short and vain;
lie liveth longest who can tell
Of living most for heavenly gain.
He liveth long who liveth wclI
All else is being flung away;
lie liveth longest who can tell
OF true things only done each day.
Waste not thy being; back to him
Who freely gave it, freely give;
Else is that being but dream.
'Tis but to be, and not to live.
Be what thou seemest live thy creed
Hold up.to' earth the torch divine;
Be what thou prayest to be made;
Let the great Masters steps be thine.
Fill up each hour with what will last;
Buy up the moments as they go;
The life above when this is past,
Is the ripe fruit of life below.
Sow truth. If thou the truth wouldst reap:
Who soxs the false shall reap the vain;
Erect and sound thy conscience keep;
From hollow words and deeds refrain.
Sow love, and taste its fruitage pure;
Sow peace and reap its harvest bright
Sow sunbeams on the rock and moor.
And find the harvest home of light.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-01-10

two to seven feet, and embracing 100, 900
square miles of territory. The bed of
the ocean is sometimes lifted high enough
to come to the surface and form an is
land.
Depressions Of large sections Of land
are also common. A catastrophe of this
kind occurred in 1772, on the Island of
Java, when one Of the loftiest volcanoes
of this region was in action. An area
suddenly sunk down, including themoun-
tain fifteen miles long and six miles
broad, carrying with it forty villages and
destroying three thousand inhabitants.
In the great earthquake of Lisbon, in
1855, sixty thousand people are estimat-
ed to have perished. In that case, as re-
Gently at St. Thomas, the sea retired,
leaving the harbor dry, and then return
ed in great wave fifty feet high, and
swept everything before it. The noun
tains around were shaken with great vi
olence. A marble quay, then recently
built, sunk with thousands of people who
had gathered upon it for safety with the
ships moored at it, and none ever reap
peared The supposition is that the crust
of the earth opened in wide chasm into
which these dropped, and that it again
closed over them, preventing them from
again rising to the surface. Over the
spot the water stood six hundred feet
deep, and beneath this, locked in the fs-
sured rocks, in chasm of an unknown
depth, lie the relics of what was the life
and wealth of that portion of the earth
surface. The shock of this earthquake
was felt, Humboldt says, over space four
times the size of Europe. The waters of
Lake Ontario, here in America, were
strangely agitated, and the shock was
sensibly felt along the coast of Massa-
chusetts. Sailors on the ocean felt their
ships rise and sink as by the passage Of
huge, unseen wave beneath the bed of
| the ocean. s
The most remarkable earthquake in.
the United States was in 1911, most se-
verely felt in Madrid, in Missouri. Over
an extent of country three hundred miles
in length, from the mouth of the Ohio
river to that of st. Francis, the ground
rose and sunk in great undulations, and
lakes were formed. The surface burst
open in fissures, from which mud and wa
ter were thrown as high as the tops of
the trees. The country is called the
"sunk country" from the permanent de-
preston it then received The rate of
progress of an earthquake shock varies
from 900 to 5, 900 feet per second. One
view of the immediate cause of these
convulsions is supposed to be the leaking
down of water upon the interior fires of
the earth, and che steam and explosive
gases which this contact occasions, gives
motion to the moulton mass and that
moves with Irresistible power under the
exterior crust of the earth, producing
these sublime and awful phenomena.
This is wonderful world we inhabit, and
its great mysteries are worth studying.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-10-09
That Canvass of the Vote i'm the
CifY of Cleveland.

The Radical managers have recently
made a canvass of the vote of the city of
Cleveland. Itis said that the result
has not proven very satisfactory. In
fact they find that very large number
of men who have heretofore voted with
the Radicals are entitled to a place in
the doubtful" column, and they have
found some who blurt right out, 81 am
through with your party" They also
find that there are some of the old Wings
who respond to the sentiments of
Thomas Ewing, Millard Fillmore,
Henry Stanbery, and Franklin T,
Backus, who now go with the Delnocra-
cy. We understand that the Radical
managers think their agents have made
some mistake! The fact is that there is
a change going ON IN the public mind
against Radicatism. There will be, as
there was last fall, a salient, still cote
against the Radical party which will as
tonish them and crafty the great Con-
servative party which is laboring for
peace, for equal taxation, and restored
Union "THE TIME HAS COME" /"
says Chief Justice Chase, "tWHEN
ALL GOOD MEN SHOULD BAND
TOGETHERAGAINST THE REVO-
IUTIONARY 3JACOBINS !"-C Czeue-
land Plain Dealer. e.- -ss ,a:i-..
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-10-09
The Democratic Meeting.

The Democratic meeting held here on
Friday last, owing to the shortness of
the notice, and the inclemency of the
weather, was not as large as desirable.
Still, there was respectable number of
people in attendance. The meeting was
addressed by Senator Thurman, in one
of his happiest veins. His exposition
of the financial and reconstruction poll
cy of the Radical party, was lucid and
convincing, as was also his elucidation
of the object and operation of the tariff
established to benefit New England.
After Judge Thurman concluded his re-
marks three rousing cheers were given
him by the crowd, as a token of their
appreciationof his able address.-Shelby
County Democrat. ls .5af''
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-10-09
at COLUMBUS, OHIO, FRIDAY MORNING,
Radical ISLANDERS.

I Sometimes the Radical ISLANDERS ofthe
Democracy exhaust the patience even
of Republicans. The Boston Post gives
thisinstance
s7"But few weeks ago DIR. Loring re-
ceived merited rebuke from General
Schouler, President of the Grant Club
at Lynn, at Republican meeting there.
Loring, like Charles Sumner, called the
Democrats rebels, and in the course of
his remarks appealed to General Schoul-
er to confirm his allegation. The Gen
eral said in response: He had been a
Republican from the start, and did not
come into the party after the war was
over; that he could not indorse the re-
marks of Loring; that Democrat as
well as Republican had volunteered for
the defense of the Union that Demo-
crat as well as Republican lay side
by side, Ion every battlefield
Of the South that Democrat as
well as Republican had returned to their
homes worn and disabled by the war; or
lay side by side in every graveyard in
New England; and that he, for one,
would not acquiesce in the ISLANDERS that
had been heaped upon them.' The
General, as Adjutant of the State dur
ing the war, knows as well as any citil
zen in it the character of the men who
filled the ranks Of the army from Massa-
chusetts, and is toe honorable to en-
dorse the calumnies of grovelling recre-
ants who fawn for thrift before the power
of Radicalism, and abuse their old asso-
ciates to ingratiate themselves into favor
with those they deem ready to reward
scandal with promotion. Incivil action
the Democrats were as prompt in sus-
tanning the war as the Radicals
The Hon. Edgar Cowan who was the
Republican Senator of Pennsylvania
during the war, spoke as follows, ten
days ago, at Harrisburg: = y. s.a Z. z,
"There were two things I thought of
paramount Importance to the Republican
party when the war began, and the first
was that there should be no abuse of the
Democratic party till it was over, be-
cause, being half the people, did not
want them insulted and outraged when
we needed their assistance, and when
they were giving it nobly. Well, what
was the course Of the Radicals? Go to
the Congressional Globe and read for
yourselves. Day after day the Demo
Gratis were villifed and abused by them,
charged with disaffection and treason,
and that, too, at the very time they were
falling by thousands in the national
cause. This resented. am proud
that l did so, and prouder still that the
Democratic party maintained its patri-
otism and its dignity all through. Even
the Radicals could not drive it from
duty d
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-10-09
We give below the total vote of the
Reserve in 1864, 1866 and 1867:

1t will be noticed that the total vote
last year was greater than in 1864, and
that the Democracy have made clean
gain on this, since 1864, of 6,026. The
Radical vote is 5,25s less than in 1864.
A large proportion of the Democratic
increase came from the Radical party.
We do not believe the total vote of the
Reserve this year can exceed $4,000; of
this number we concede the Republicans
$4,000, and from reliable data we predict
that the Democratic vote will reach 31,-
600, which will give the Radicals on the
Reserve $4,000 majority, or about 1000
less than they cast last year.-Plain
Dealer. $1,000 ,-r ID.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-10-09
Ano.her Infa1ny Coming to Light.

We learn from dispatch to the As
sociated Press, that on Sunday morning
last, about four thousand stand of arms
arrived at Memphis, from St. Louis, con-
signed to E. G.. dickson, Little Rock
1t is alleged that they are for arming
negroes in that State. As the military
authorities know nothing of them, there
is, of course, considerable excitement
and indignation among the citizens of
Memphis. All the White River and
Arkansas River boats refuse to take
them on any terms, and they are conse-
quently left on the levee. But one in
ference can be drawn from these facts;
and that is, that the Radicals in their
desperation, are determined to inaugur-
ate war between the white and black
races, and that they are prepared to take
sides with the blacks. If the conflict
must come let it come Czeueland Plain
Dealer. ''-
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-10-09
Utterances of Leading Republi-
cans. i-. tfTf u

II would rather go to hell with a 10y
al negro than to heaven with Copper
head" "-Parson Bro,onlow's Speech TO
tie Radicals IN Philadelphia.
"Let us fill hell full enough of Feder-
al soldiers to make their feet stick out
through the bars Joe Bro0n, Of Geor-
gia, before he aoas Reconstructed. 10
"God is only an imaginary being, the
Bible is only fit to amuse children, and
the Christian Sabbath is a relic, of
barbarism." Carl Scbmrs, tile Radical
Orator.
at would be better to place the fran
chise in the hands of the most stupid
native negroes, than to give it to these
men, foreigners,) who not only do not
comprehend our institutions, but are ut
terly incapable of doing so.-Phila-
delphia Eoening Bulletin, Sept. 80. .
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-10-09
$lOO Silk Banner.

At meeting of the Democratic County
Central and Executive Committees, held at
Thurman Hall, on Saturday, August 20,
the following resolution was unanimously
adopted: ga .sIr .ses. -#- % g. IS -
ReSolued, Thatthe ward or township in
Franklin county giving the largest proper
tlonate increased Democratic vote for the
Democratic State Ticket, over the vote
given for Judge Thurman for Governor, in
1867, shall be entitled to and receive from
the committee, magnificent Silk Banner,
,oorth one hundred dollars, to be held by the
township or ward winning it two success
sive years. .re's. - a7 -
1893 7,t JOHN G. THOMPSON.
Ch'm'n Co. Ex. Com.
w. s. HUFFMAN, Secretary