davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-16

IHE UNITED STATES GouRr, February 15-
Hon. GEORGE s. BRYAN, PREsIDING.-The con.
sideration OF the case of the Peoples National Bank
against j. @. Rich ardson, was postponed until the
10Th of March. Final hearing in the case of Jacob
Meetze was set down for the 10th March he peti-
ton of Hayneswocth u Fraser to establish a lien in
the case Of w. w. jenkins, was referred to J. C. Car
pcntor, Registrar. On the petition of Morris & Co..
for surrender Of land injunction &c. it was ordered
that the petition be on j. j. McCrea assignee
and W. r. Scott, and that he plead, &C.; and that
COPY also be sent to S. Leggett and notice for eg
gett to plead be published, and th, Injunction be
granted. possession be surrendered &C. W. T. Gore
R. II. Read received final discharge in bankruptcy
The petition of G. B. Glover to enforce lien against
William b. Knots was reported favorably on by
Be21strar, and the assignee ordered to sell for pa
hent &c. On the petition Of P1nckney Brothers
calling on Thomas s. Warlng to show cause why
property enumerated in petition should not be in
cluded In sche dule and delivered to assignee IL was
ordered that said Waring show cause on the 22d
instant why prayer should not DO granted Nouns
& Co.. plaintiff against William L. Leggett, were al
allowed to amend their specification OF grounds of
opposition to bankrupts discharge Petitions to
establish lien in the cases of nj Brogden, j. S. e.
Richardson, Samuel Il. Flowers, Isham Moor. Jo-
seph B. Iindali. James D. Graham, J. S. McFadden.
James A. Hammer and Phillip McElvoy. were reterr-
cd to j. O. Carpenter, Registrar, to report, &c.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-16

The ANN1vERsAnY OF TEE BIBLE SOCIETY,"
The ifty-eighth anniversary OF the Charleston Bible
Society will take place this evening at hafpast
O'Clock. at the Second Presbyterian Church. The
annual report of the society will be read by the Rev.
w. II. Adams, after which addresses will be deliver
ed by the Rev. j. r. Pickett and the Rev. Dr. Hicks
Tho Board Of Managers state that they feel the ne
cessty of increasing the efforts Of the society in cir
cuating the Scriptures, and earnestly appeal to the
citizens Of Charleston to enroll their names as men,
bers. The payment of only two dollars year con.
situtes membership. The public are invited to at
tend the exercises this evening, when collection
will be taken up to aid the work in which The society
zealously engaged.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-16

OUR WHOLE COMMUNITY has learned with
deepest pain the death OF Miss agnes Bates. sell
dom has one in woman's unobtrusivc sphere been
removed around whom SO Urge measure of the
general regard and affection had wound it elf. Her
na lad been devoted to the cause of education
the daughters of neighboring States, alike with
l"sc # Carolina, shared in the privileges of her in
~ttas,ipn. Her success in her vocation was re.
loatk9t e as universal. The esteem and confidence
., hey upils attesed unyarytngly the value of her
labors of love. She was rare woman, aud her fine
mental culture, high moral excellence and we'll
poised judgm ept render her demise general caami-
ty. The time and ace Of the funeral services VII
be announced in our Issue of to-u orrcw
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-16

HOTEL ARRIVALS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 49,
Charleston Hotel-Wm Martin, Columbia; Mrs Ruth
erford. Master Rutherford, Miss Pennington. New
York; Miss Belden, Connecticut; f Stephens and
wife, j Morbly and wife, B ltimore; Rev J A
Smith and wife Connecticut; A smith, Jr., Hart
ford; q L Grant. Mrs A McM lrron. Philadelphia; s
johnson. savannah; n rearson, Philadelphia; 6
M Buckingham, Connecticut; J A Buckingham New
York; Halle, Florida; Jas Dllworth, wife and
child. George Porter. Pcnnsyva aia; yde. Rich.
mcnd; g Peterson. Mcpherson, Montreal; r
Cameron, Florida; Cats, Baltimore.
Pavilion HoteL-U 8 Machray Laurens; UFar.
rem, Steamship saragossa; Hazeden and wife, Flo
renee; L Nelson, Virginia; II 1utte. Pinevile, c
Il Broker, Windsor, O; u d >hies. w Jordan, Au
gusta, Ga; 1houcon city.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-16
w NI. MCKAY.

WIN sell on TUESDAY. 23d instant at the Old Post
office, at II o'clock, He
That DESIRABLE TWO-AND-A-HALF STORY
DWBLLIr and two story Kitchen. lot measures
twenty-five feet front by hundred and nine feet
Geep.
Terms One half cash; balance in one year, secur-
ed oy bond and mortgage. Purchaser to pay Auc-
uoneer Ior papers and stamps. February 1e
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-16

House and Lot No. 18 Burns Lane-to be
sold at Risk Of former Purchaser. he having
taalsdt to comply aoith terms of Sale
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-16

DEATH OF CoLowEL j. .YAN.-The Barn
well Journal contains fu obituary notice of the
late Colonel j. j. Ryan, who died at that place on
Monday the 9Th instant. Colonel Ryan was o ma
tive of ireland but had been brought to this coun
try in his infancy, and had lived at Barnwcll from
the time he was eighteen years Of age. He was a
fortunate merchant, and prominent member of
the L easlature before the During the war he
colonel of reserves, and afterwards superin-
tendent of labor the After tho war, having
lost his fortune, he became an agent of the South
Carolina Railroad Company. which position he held
until disabled by disease.
THE BARNwEAL JOURNAL. - MI. John S.
Shuck. an active and enterprising young merchant,
OF Barnweu Courthouse, has commenced the publi-
cation Of paper ut that place, entitled tho
Barnwen Journal. The first numb r, which was
published on The 11th instant sustans rJr. Shuck's
previous reputation for energy and business capac-
ity It is well edited, and oxcellenly we'll printed
and wei made ur. The type and other material of
the Journal were supplied by Messrs Walker, Evans
Cogswell, ofthis city, who do large business in
that line having furnished the material ofa number
of new papers lately among which may be men.
toned in this State the Chester Reporter and Oar
lington Democrat; both handsome weeklies.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-20
The Pacific R0ilTOGd--
tSllOID- Sheds R1L11leH.

Our readers are probably
aware that long sections of the
Central Pacific Railroad are
covered with sheds to protect
the tracks from the snow
This defense is but partially ef-
fective. Travel was seriously
interrupted last winter both on
the Central and Union Pacific,
by snow, and we presume the
same thing will happen every
winter. But if the roofing in
of a road were a remedy against
snow, it is a remedy worse than
the disease. Sheds may pro.
tect the road from snow, but
what will protect the sheds
from fire? The event recorded
on Thursday last, answers the
question. The sheds have all
been swept away by fire, and
the road itself so seriously dam.
aged that the trains have STOP
ped running. 1t may be a
week before travel is resumed.
The category of railway casu-
alities is now enriched with a
class of accidents peculiar to
the Pacific Railroad. The tray.
eler may see the shielded road
metamorphosing itself before
his eyes into a huge serpent of
fire which it would be death to
approach. A road which is
overwhelmed by snow in the
winter and scourged by fire in
the summer does not answer
the essential conditions of a Pa
cific Railroad.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-20
Food for Old People.

Is your fat, good-natured
old grandfather living on fat
beef and pork, white bread and
butter, buckwheat cakes and
molasses, rice and sugar, till he
has lost all his physical energy,
and desires to sit from morning
till night in the chimney corner
or at the register, saying moth
ing and caring for nothing p
change his diet, give him fish,
beefsteak, potatoes, and unbolt-
ed wheat bread, or rye and In
dian, with one half or three
quarters Of the carboniferous ar
ticles of his former diet, and in
one week he will cheer you
again with his old jokes, and
call for his hat and cane.
Is he lean, and cold, and rest
less, and irritable?-give him
the fattest meats, with the best
of butter, and rs much sugar
and molasses as he desires, not
taking away entirely food for
the brain and mucles. but adapt-
ing them to his circumstances.
Perhaps his brain has been
over-worked, and exhaustion
and fitful action follow. If SO
he needs some phosphate food
to which he has not been accus-
toned, as oatmeal porridge or
oatmeal cake, with milk, or a
diet of fish, and pearl barley,
or pea soup. Or perhaps his
restlessness comes from inactivi-
ty of the bowels; if so, he
needs fruits, vegetables, unbolt-
ed wheat bread, ETC., with care
to keep his mind at ease, and
to have only such company as
is soothing and agreeable.
Or perhaps his iaitability
arises from the use of too much
meat aud other phosphate
food; if so, keep him on a diet
in which the phosphates are de-
icient, as rice, -four, bread and
butter, ETC., with other food
adapted to his other conditions
and habits. But that a regard
to these different conditions,
and an adaptation Of food to
conform to them, will very
much contribute to comfort and
happiness in the declining years
of life, there is not a shadow of
a doubt.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-20
The MOCE9'eL.
Josh Billings says Z:

Josh Billings says
The mackrel is a game fish.
They ought to be well eduka-
ted, for they are always in
schools.
They are very crazy tew bite,
and are caught with a piece of
red flannel pettycoat tied onto
q hook.
They aint the only kind ov
fish that are caught by the
same kind of bait.
Mackerel inhabit the sea, but
those which inhabit the gro
cerys alwus taste to me az tho
they had been born and fatted
on salt.
They want a good deal of
freshning before they are eat.
en-, and want a good deal of
freshning afterward.
I'll can hav plenty of mack
rel for breakfast, I can gener.
ally make the other two meals
out ov cold water.
Mackrel are considered by
menny folks the best fish that
swims, and are called the salt
of the EARTH
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-20

Among the different means
employed by the Russian Gov
ernment to effect the thorough
classification of Poland, the
most singular is undoubtedly a
decree lately issued at Warsaw.
In future all public clock
throughout the kingdom are to
mark no longer Polish but St.
Petersburg time. The Emper-
or happened, a few days after
the PRONUNCIATION Of the decree,
to ask one Of his aides-de.camp,
q Pole, what o'clock it was.--
The officer, without looking at
his watch, replied, Whatever
hour your Maj jesty pleases.'
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-20

Do not estimate the worth
of a young man by his ability
to talk soft nonsense, nor by
the length of his moustache.
DO not imagine that an ex.
ira ribbon, tied about the neck,
can remedy the defect of a soil.
ed collar or an untidy dress.
If your hands are brown by
labor do not envy the lily fin
gers of Miss Fuss.and Feathers,
whose mother works in the
kitchen while she lounges in
the parlor.
If a dandy, with a cigar be-
tween lis fingers, asks you if
smoking is offensive to you, tell
him, emphatically, Yes The
habit should be, even though
tne odOr may not
Do not waste your tears on
the imaginary sorrows of Alon-
70 and Melissa, nor the trials of
the dime-novel heroines. Seek
rather to alleviate the woes of
the suffering ones on earth,
If your dress is inconven-
iently long, and a gentleman
steps upon it, don't be angry,
but meekly beg his pardon, as
you ought. Always cherish a
partiality for the smell of dish
water; it is more conductive to
health and far less expensive
than Bouquet of Eden
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-20
Professor Josh Billings on
the Hornet.

We. HOT7l6Es
One of the best things from
the philosophical brain of Pro.
fessor Billings, is the following,
on that pretty and popular
member of the bug family, the
Hornet: rr
The Hornet.-The hornet is
an inflamibel bugger, sudden in
hiz impreshuns and hasty in biz
conclusion, or end.
Hiz natral disposishen IL a
warm cross between red pepper
in the pod and fusil oil, and hiz
moral bias iz, git out ov mi
way
They have a long, black bod
dy, divided in the middle by a
waist spot, but their phisikal
Importance lays at the terminus
of their suburb, in the shape
ov a javelin.
This javelin IL alwuz loaded,
and stands. reddy to unload at
q minuit's warning, and enters
q man az still az thought, az
spry az litening, and az full ov
melankolly az the toothake.
Hornets never argy a case /;
they settle awl ov their differ
ences ov opinyon by letting
their javelin fly, aud are az GER
tain to hit az a mule IL.
This testy kritter lives in con-
gregations numbering about
100 souls, but whether they
are mail or female, or conserva-
tive, or matched in bonds of
wedlock, or whether they are
Mormons, and a good many ov
them king together and keep
one huzband to save expense, |
don't kno nor don't kare.
/ never had examined their
habits much, I never konsider.
ed it healthy.
Hornets build their nests
wherever they take a noshun
to, and seldom are disturbed,
for what would it profit a man
tew kill SO hornets and hav the
Tooth one hit him with hiz
tavelin?
They build their nests ov pa
per, without emmy windows to
them or back doors. They
hav but one place ov admission,
and IL the shape ov an over
grown pineapple, and IL cut up
into just az many bedrooms az
there IL hornets.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-20

Did you ever see one OF
these here hoop snakes ? asked
Mr.. Ferguson. Me and my
hired man was down there, in
the home lot, by the side of the
road, and we see something
rolling down the hill, and, says
|, I guess that must be one
of them hoop-snakes coming
along My hired man, he was
Altered, and elm up a tree
but | took my hoe in my hand,
and went out and stood side of
a tree in the road, and when
he come along 1 stuck out the
hoe-handle, and he hit a slap,
and he made a noise jes like a
pistol; and, sir, it warn't more'n
minnit afore that are hoe.
handle was swelled up as big as
my leg
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-20

Paper petticoats having
come into fashion, the follow
ing advertisement thereof ap-
pears in England Mime. Per-
Gale begs leave to call the at
tention of ladies about to visit
the seaside, to her new and
richly embroidered paper pet
ticoats at one shilling each. =
Each petticoat contains an in
stallment of a new novel of
great domestic interest, by An,
thony Trollope, entitled 'Tucks
or Frills.' The story will be
complete in fifty weekly petit.
coats
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-20
Sounds During the N3ght.

The great audibility ofsounds
during the night is a phenome-
non Of considerable interest,
and one which had been oh.
served even by the ancients.-
In crowded cities, or in their
vicinity, the effect was general
ly ascribed to the rest of ami
mated beings, while in local..
ties where such an explanation
was inapplicable, it was suppos-
ed to arise from a favorable d.
rection of the prevailing wind.
Baron Humboldt was partially
struck with this phenomenon
when he first heard the rushing
of the great cataract of the ORR
noco in the plain which sur
rounds the mission of the Au-
res. These sounds he regarded
as three times louder during
the night than during the day.
Some authors ascribe this
fact to the cessation Of the hum
ming Of insects, the singing of
birds, and the action of the
wind on the leaves of the trees
but Baron Humboldt justly
maintains that this cannot be
the cause of it on the Orinoco,
where the buzz Of insects is
much louder in the night than
in the day, and ! where the
breeze never rises till after sun
set. Hence he was led to as
cribe the phenomenon to the
perfect transparency and uni
form density of the air, which
can exist only at night after the
heat of the ground has been
uniformly diffused through the
atmosphere. When the rays
of the sun haye been beating
on the ground during the day,
currents of hot air of different
temperatures, and consequently
of different densities, are con-
stantly ascending from the
ground and mixing with, the
cold air above. The air thus
ceases to be a uniform medium,
and objects seen through it are
very indistinctly visible with a
tremulous motion, as if they
were dancing in the air. The
very same effect is perceived
when we look at objects thro'
spirits and water that are not
perfectly mixed, or when we
view distant objects over a red
hot poker, or over a fame. In
all these cases the light suffers
refraction in passing from a
medium of one density into a
medium of different density,
and the reflected rays are con-
stantly changing their direction,
as the different currents rise in
succession. Analogous effects
are produced when sound
passes through a mixed medi-
| nm.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-20

A man by the name of Exc
Eads, in Greene county, N. Y,
is strangely deformed. He is
without ears, and never had
any. He gathers sounds
through the medium of his
mouth, and can hear anything
said to him in an ordinary con,
versation, Equally as strange,
his hair is black, with white
spots nearly as large as the
palm of a mans hand inter.
spersed through it. He is about
As years of age, and the happy
possessor Of thirteen living chill.
dren. His occupation is that of
a chairrnaker. arg9 N
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-20
Gen1S.

Philosophers hold it as a sa-
cred truth, that he who would
be happy must place a full val.
ue on his time.
He that would reach the
hearts of others must speak
from the depths Of his own.
Those who blow the Goals of
others strife, may chance to
have the sparks fly in their fa-
ces.
Strive to make every body
happy, and you will make at
least one so-yourself. "
Better be called a fool for
doing right than be a fool for
doing wrong.
He who is at war with his
neighbor cannot be at peace
with himself.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-20
Weddjllgs.

A crystal wedding-Marry
ing a glass eye
A silver wedding-Marry
ing an old maid of sixty.
An iron wedding-Marrying
q blacksmith.
Wooden wedding-Marry
ing a blockhead.
A golden wedding-Marry.
ing for money.
A plain wedding-Marry
ing a carpenter.
A paper wedding-Marry
ing an editor.
A tin wedding-Marrying q
milkmaid.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-20

Praise is like ambergris a
lite Whit of it and by snatches
is very agreeable; but when a
man holds a whole lump of it
to your nose, It is a stencil and
strikes you down. sI.ss sasss,
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-20

Bibles are the only books
that can be sold on the cars
without tribute to the internal
revenue. But book-peddlers
will hardly make a fortune in
that line. l, l.t- I2b3aa q. l9
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-20

I Delano wants his Internal
Revenue Bureau to be made q
department., 50 he can
get into the Cabinet. Would
it not be cheaper to abolish al
together the machinery, and
the villainons system Of taxa,
tion it represents. .s1szasxs
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-20

A convict in the Maryland
penitentiary has fallen heir to
eighty thousand. dollars,I and
wants to get out. s,sa,ss, ,.,x
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-20

Nattery, the current commo.
dity of the world, on which
fashion lives and thrives, is at
most a lie in its best clothes.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-20

Audacity is not courage any
more than fattery is fact. Men
of extreme cowardice often put
on a face of fsuperlative valor. .
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-20

A Paris laundress secured
the payment of her bill by car
rying off the wooden leg of a
refractory customer.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-10-20
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

Railroad men are looking
with astonishment at a trunk
marked 'llworth, Kansas
The wool clip of California
last year was fourteen million
pounds. Estimating it at thir-
ty cents, would make its total
value $4,2OO,OOO.
A lady gave this reason for
not knowing the color of her
minister's eyes when he
prays he shuts his own eyes,
and when he breaches he shuts
mine.'
In West Virginia the income
tax averages 80 cents a head;
here it is $4.12.
There are twenty-five Ameri-
can students at the University
Of France.
Once around your clenched
fist at the knuckles is the length
of your foot.
Prof. Blot says the reason
New York has no restauran 8 is
that Americans are too much in
hurry for their dinner to. en-.
courage them.
Capital punishment--Ten
thousand year and nothing
to do.
Maine is now building eight
railroads.
The Medical Gazette affirms
that the Board of Health has
discovered that people who live
on the top floors Of tenement
houses are subjected to undue
climb-attic influences.
1t is bad sign when one is
skilful in apologies. -
Somebody hints that the
Arabs are a people Of dry hab-
its. How could it be otherwise,
living as they do chiefly on the
sandy deserts? ..-.
The King of Denmark owns
a beet-sugar factory, which uses
machinery of his own invention,
and yields him an income of
fifty thousand dollars annually.
A gentleman in Macon, Ga,
predicts that cotton will go
down to fifteen cents during the
winter, and then rise to thirty
FIVE in the spring.
Fashionable marriages in
English ritualistic churches oc.
cupy two hours, as the exercis.
es include a sermon and the
communion service.
1t is fitting that limbs of the
law be clothed in breeches of
promise.
Spain had last year, in spite
of political troubles, 335 thea
ters in active operation.
If you plant yourself on a
rock, don't expect to sprout
right away.
The British soldier is to
wear a beard.
A conscientious prohibition
ist objects to dealing in Porter
apples.
The negro organ of Califor-
MIA opposes Chinese emigration
South.
The city of Dubuque, Iowa,
has a population of 1904, a
decrease Of 3,13S in the last
two years.
Good sleep is said to be OBJ
tained by immersion in bran--a
much better sleep, undoubted-
ly, than comes OF being soaked
in old Rye
When a person declares his
brain is on fire. is it etiquette
to blow it out?
One of the Episcopal mission
chapels in New York has a
communion service Of solid
gold % aia2 a, yiF e
A patch on an old garment
looks much better than an un.
paid charge for a new suit.