davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-09-07
EXCHANGE. BANK
BUCK 4 TOAN,
PLYMOUTH. INDIANA.

WE BUY AND SELL FOREIGN
w and Domestic Exchange.
We receive Deposits payable on de-
mand, and make collections in any part
OF the United States and Europe.
We issue Letters of Credit and draw
drafts direct on our correspondents in
over $50 cities in Europe
W OFFICE IN OUR HARDWARE
Store, No. 6 Michigan st.
july20tf
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-09-07
The Putnam Insurance Company.

The above nansd company is one Of the best Of
the Hartford Insurance Corporations, which every
one knows are among the best in the country. Not
yet seven years old, it has, through the consum-
mate skill of its officers and managers succeeded
amount of nearly one m illion dollars From one
side Of the country to the other 1t has established
an envable reputation for soundness and fair deal
ing, and as the months roll along, it continues to
gather increasin strength and solidity. and add
steadily to the prestige of its good name. Tho
Western Department, with headquarters in this
city, under the management of Mr.. R. J. Smith, has
contributed in small degree to the success which
it hiss reached While as rule Eastern Com
panies lost money last year in the West, and cs-
pecially in Illinois, the putnam" succeeded in
adding 10 its surplus, not little through the
profits OF it's Western business In Illinois it re-
ceiyed S110, 4.23 premiums for insurance, and
paid in losses Ses,470.6l, showing an excess of re-
ceipts over losses sac, 073S2. This, be it remem.
be red, is for Illinois alone. We have not the
figures at hand exhibiting the results of its entire
Western business, but we can safely state that il
made money in every State in which 1t operated.
This is due especially to the splendid efficiency
which it enters into the examination and general
supervision of its risks, great care heng taken,
first, to insure only what may be regarded safe
property, aud second to get proper and adequate
rate FOR all risks which it insures. Cautious y.ri-
ting, small lines and good rates form the secret of
it's rosperity the West, during the same period
In which many other sterling companies have lost
money in the same localities. There Is good deal
of force and significance in the remark made to us
by Mr. Smith, 'In the general squabbe for bust.
ness at any price, We wish to be counted out"
The Company has paid in losses more thaa 81, 900,
600, every just claim has been duly paid. and DUR
ing all OF it's career has steadily applause be-
cause of its wise and systematic course. We speak
thus freely of the putnam because of its excel
lence, and because few Companies more entitled
to praise.-Norfh Resfern Reriep.
JOHN 5. BENDER, Agent, Plymouth, Ind.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-09-07

TooTH-DRAwING.-kb boys idea Of
having tooth drawn may be summoned
up as follows: 1.-THE doctor hitched fast
On me, pulled his best, and just before he
killed me, the tooth came out"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-08-31
A Very Uncomfortable Place.

According to a letter dated at the
Camp of the Sixth United States Cav
airy, near Fort Hays, the Kansas town
called Hays City is an unattractive spot
The writer says:
Hays City is a place inhabited by
thieves, murderers, adventures and adj
venturesses. Why they named the
place Hays City I cannot imagine, unless
it was on account of it being so near
Fort Hays (only half a mile), evidently
for the purpose of giving it character
abroad, for at home they seemed to be
living in the Scriptural injunction,
Eat, drink, and be merry, for to-mor-
row We die" for they do cat, and they
do drink, and if it can be called being
merry mot marry, for they don't do that
for a man to crawl out of bed very late
in the morning with flushed face and
eyes bleod-shot and protruding from
their sockets, say that if that can be
called being merry, they arc very merry.
A casual observer passing through the
town, seeing sign over nearly every
door, would think there was n variety OF
business carried on at the place, but il
he should stop and read few of the
signs he would find that they were near,
ly all engaged in the same line of bust
ness, or entertainment, that's it, en-
tertainmcnt; that's what they call it.
There's popularity about the signs that
leads person to think that ladies and
gentlemen do not live together, for it is
written on some, "This is Jake's house,
"Joe's house." &C., while on others are
Ladies' Parlors," "Ladies' Depart
ment," &c. And to take n glimpse in
side of one of these you would thinl
that you had at last found the real place
where it is every fellow for himself, ant
the devil take the hindmost, for thu
walls glitter with guns, pistols and knives
where frequently n poor devil dies to
day instead of tomorrow.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-08-31
The Westllcld Explosion.

The members of the Board of Inquiry
in the Westfeld case have not made any
statement as to their conclusions; but
the general drift of their report may be
summarized as follows:
|. There was u sulliciency of water in
the boiler; fires were "good," and fur,
mace doors closed.
2. The pressure of steam was increas
ing during the ten minutes previous tc
explosion, and was at least two pounds
above legal limit.
3. There was an old rupture under
the side of the boiler, caused by unequa
expansion.
4. At the joint in the middle section
Of the shell, opposite the centre of the
lower range of hues on the "port side
there was assure in the iron, created
or at least increased, by the bellows-likt
action of the shell in alternately round
ing and hattening under the varying
pressure.
5. The boiler had received its las
supply of water at Quarantine, an houl
previous to the explosion, and, while n
the slip, the water had become quies
cent, the air had been entirely expelled
and a great amount of heat had beer
absorbed which, however, did not evolve
the usual amount OF steam.
6. The explosion occurred the momen
the engineer sounded the whistle, be
cause that produced IN agitation of thu
water sufficient to cause extraordinary
masses of steam to be devolvcd; thu
water, when the air was "boiled out
of it, became reservoir of heat, which
absorbed the rapid accumulation from
the furnace, without being converted in
to steam, until stirred up; the pressure
then instantly increased to point be
You'd the capacity of the safety-valves t.
counteract it, caused the shell to yielC
at the point already weakened by tn
rupture, flaw, or fssurc, and the pcrrera
tions made in riveting.
7. Engineers should be better cducat
ed. Inspectors should search more care
fully for rupturcs and flaws, and cngi
necrs and fircmen must be especial
careful us to the condition of their boil
ers Just before starting.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-08-31
Are Sunday Weddings Void!

There is, we heard an eminent lawyer
allege few days since, no marriage le-
gal which is celebrated on the Sabbath
day. There are, no doubt, twenty thous-
and couples in this State alone for whom
the marriage ceremony was performed
on the Sabbath-many of them in the
evening of that day. A note drawn and
signed on the Sabbath is illegal, or any
other legal agreement between parties
Marriage is legal contract, which, if
performed ont of the legal time, neces-
sarily must be void and claiming this,
the sons and daughters of a recently de-
ceased millionaire mean to contest his will
because in that large portion of his
estate was willed to the children of their
stepmother, who was welded to their
father on the Sabbath, in a church in
the city of Rochester in this State. If
the question is to be decided that such
marriages are illegal, another long cata-
logue of vexatious suits will be brought
into our courts by parties similarly re-
lated to the one above mentioned. The
decision lately rendered by learned
Judge of our courts, that marriages Of
minors are illegal, and divorce for such
not necessary in order that they can
separate and remamy legally, since it
was carried into immediate practice by
the parties for whom the decision was
rendered, is proving baneful to society.
The harm that this decision does to our
social system is temporary only, and if
the entire marrying population bnt
learn of this decision, the future will
witness less Opponents Of young couples,
and less number of cases where guile
full and designing men enticc young
ladies from home in order to wed them.
That the ceremony of marriage perform
ed for minors on any and all days of the
week, or for a couple where one is a
minor and the other an admit, should be
pronounced illegal and non-eiiectivc, is
strange. But in the face of long-practis-
ed customs, that Sabbath day weddings
are illegal will strike thousands with feel
ings akin to CONSERVATION. With all
our laws and codes it is, indeed, strange
that those legal cnactmcnts which most
concern our personal welfare and happi'
ness are least known and least under.
stood by the general public, including
our most intelligent people.-Ne~ Yorh
Society
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-08-31
Dupcd by Gypsics.

An old gentleman IN Polk county,
Missouri, of considerable wealth, was
some time since made the dupe of mis-
placed confidence in the following man
ner as related by the Bolivar Free Press ::
CA band of Gypsies appeared in the
neighbor hood, remaining several weeks.
A woman belonging to the party made
the acquaintance of the old gentleman,
and communicated to him the startling
intelligence that a large amount of treas
ure was concealed on his place, and that
by obcying her instructions he could
secure it. This he agreed to do. She
then informed him that he must deposit
all his money ina certain place. After
the lapse of few days the whereabouts
of the treasure would be revealed to him.
He accordingly deposited the sum of
three thousand two hundred dollars in a
hiding-place known only to himself and
the Gypsy When several days had
passed, she again appeared unto him,
stating that her nominations would not
work, and assigning as a reason that he
failed to deposit all of his money in the
hiding-place, as stipulated. He then
added seventy seven dollars more to the
amount, but still the spell which was to
lay bare the hidden wealth proved I'M
successful. He then agreed to let the
Gypsy take the package of money into
her keeping in order to facilitate hel
COMPUTATIONS. She kept it several days,
then returned with the entire amount
and they counted it over together. The
Gypsy then informed him he must, tc
complete the charm, secrete the package
once more, for aperiod of ten days thai
he must not, in the meantime, look at OF
go near it. This was assented to, and
the package once more carefully sealcc
up and committed to his care. Whe1
ten days had expired he proceeded to g
to the place of deposit, found the pack
age as he had placed it, but upon open
ing it was amazed to discover that i
contained nothing but scraps of ole
newspapers. He sought the Gypsy wo
man at her usual haunts, but the entir
party had "folded their tents, like tn
Arabs, and silently stolen away"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-08-31
As to the other states :


SO that on this continent we have now
after comparatively few years of work,
nearly 1900 cheese and butter factories,
supplied with the milk of more than 300,-
600 COWS, and producing about 100, OOO,-
600 pounds of cheese annually. Our OK
port of the product of this new industry,
or old industry in u new form, was last
year the large amount of 57,0O0,OOO OF
pounds, valued at SS,000,000, while the
whole export from Britain of her cheese
is little over 100000 of pounds. Even
the Dutch, who have made speciality of
cheese for centuries, and who in their
varieties adapt their article to many tastes
and markets, exported last year only half
the quantity we did. When this expert
ment was commenced the European
cheescs had all their special markets and
special customers, who took them regular
ly, and would not be induced readily to
make change, while the previous
character of American cheese was not in
it's favor, but rather the contrary. We
had, therefore, nothing to look to for
success but the superiority of the article
at the price, and in less than twenty
years, with everything rather against
than for us, we have surpassed England
in the worlds markets, and are at this
day selling nineteen times as much
cheese as she is able to do, with all her
prestige and previous fame rs a cheese
producer In all the history of progress
there is no parallel to this triumph of
the American adaptation of fitting means
to needed facilities. Switzerland,
from a kind of necessity imposed on it
by the peculiarities of Alpine pastures,
had a kind of cooperative cheese-mak-
ing before we commenced it; but it was
and is of small account. Our cooper
ative arrangements enabled many single
workers with but Indifferent success, by
that union which is strength, to become
q great power for supplying the world
with two prime articles of family con-
sumption, and for doing it well. Oul
triumph, however, is not yet quite com,
plete. Before it is so we have got to do
one or two things, or both that is, tc
produce cheese which will surpass in
its attractive qualities the favorite pro
ducts of all other countries, or to pro
duce cheeses so nearly approaching
these favorites in qualities as to compete
with them successfully.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-08-31
A Mess of Fish.

A select squad of us went from an in
land village to the Ohio river on fish,
ing excursion. No sooner had we pitched
our tent and rugged our tackle than we
were honored with visit from Jake
Henthon. Jake is a man of too indie
pendent a spirit to be tyrannized by
despotic fashion or arbitrary convention
alities. Accordingly he goes barefoot
twelve months in the year; and in consc-
quence of the expanded valley which his
g footsy-tootsies make in the mud
Frequently in the vicinity of hen-roosts)
he is best known as Barefooted Jake. 4"
However, it is not with Jake's " bug
Washers" that we have to do, but with
the "elastic receptivity" of his NAV.
One morning Bill Lynch and | were run.
ming the fishing business, while Bill
Read prepared breakfast. Jakc's in
stincts prompted him to "shassay"
around the fire, and feast his nostrils on
the odor of ten pound perch which
was then baking. In due time Lynch
and returned to camp for breakfast,
and found Read coming ii with an arm
full of wood.
"Well, how about grub ~ was our
greeting.
ooh, all right; I'll set it out for you
in minute, boys. But Just come this
way, and see the incest baked perch you
ever laid eyes on"
We went and we looked; but saw only
rick of bones, from which every fibre
of meat had been picked Jake had
been there before us. | don't distinctly
remember whether We sworc ornot. 1t
don't seem to me as five did. Anyhow,
we ate breakfast without fish.
During the afternoon, while we were
all lounging on the bank, Jake yawned
and drawled out:
"pd like to have as many fish as
could eat, list onst. hain't had mess
since Tom Whitton ketched the big
fish"
Jake" said I, in tone meant to be
scornfully sarcastic, Il thought you had
pretty fair mess tbs morning You
ate at least fifteen pounds.
sob yes" replied Jake, " l ate that;
but what mean is a reel regular mess"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-08-31
Something about Cheese.

1t is comparatively but a few years
since farmers in New York state, seeing
the waste of labor necessarily consequent
on each small farmer being his own
manufacturer of cheese and butter, COM
menced to form labor-saving cooperative
factories, where one set of workers
would do the work of many, and where,
by affording superior facilities and giving
special attention, the quality of the pro-
duct might be improved The move
ment was completely successful, and at
this day, the number of these cooper
alive factories in the state is more than
nine hundred, with supply of milk
from quarter Of million of cows
every three thousand cows afforded q
million of pounds of cheese, valued at
$40, 900, or more than three hundred
pounds of cheese and three hundred
gallons of milk for each COW, OF this
large number of factories,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-08-31

KILLED IN A QUARREL quarrel be-
tween John Husmann, a house-painter,
twenty-one years old, and Maggie NAL
oney, young girl of sixteen, i'll Cincin-
natl, had fatal termination on Monday
night. They were tenants of the same
house, and it is said she had rejected his
offer of marriage. On Sunday night she
came home with some friends and found
Husmann and his mother sitting on the
doorstep. The quarrel was renewed,
and she at length became so enraged
that she seized piece of brick and
hurled it at him. 1t fell short of its mark,
and his mother drew him into the house
and shut the door. Scarcely had it closed
behind him, however, when he turned,
opened the door, and drawing a revolver,
fired at Maggie, who was standing at the
gate. The ball entered her left breast,
and she fell into the arms of young
man crying, "Catch me, Tom; I'm
shot" and instantly expired. Husmann
was afterward arrested, being found by
the officers concealed under some straw
in tie cellar.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-08-31
A Kentucky Romance.

An old lady of Kentucky has ro-
nance connected with her second mar
rage. 1t is rs follows When her
mother was young lady, Colonel Boone,
the nephew of Daniel, was very much in
love with her, and asked her, on one oc-
casion, to marry him, She told him she
was engaged to Morgan Bryan, and that
they were to be married in few days.
COL Boone went away and married an
other young woman. Afterward he, with
his wife, visited the other young married
couple, when their first child NOW in
her fifth score of years. was but very
few days old, and seeing the baby, he
laughed, and said to her mother "Now
Milly, as you wouldn't have me yourself,
you'll give me the girl for my second
wife, won't you ?" Whether any TESTING
promise was made | am not informed
but the baby grew up, and at twenty
seven she was married, had several chill
dren, became widow after nine years.
and remained one for long time, wher
Colonel Boone's first wife having dice
previously, she really became, in hel
own middle life, the wife of her mothers
early lover, who had claimed her in hel
cradle. The good old lady is accustomed
in relating this to her sons and neices
to speak of it us zone OF the most re
markable things that ever happened.
l think so too, and it is a true story.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-08-31

The CARAT.-The carat is nominal
weight, that expresses the tineness of
gold, or the proportion of pure gold in
a mass of metal thus u given weight or
quality of gold is divided into "a parts
or carats, and gold of % carats fine con-
sists of % parts of pure gold and 2 parts
of silver, copper, or others metal. The
carat weight is usually considered to be
the oath parts, of the pound troy, or 24O
grains troy, but it is not necessary to
give it any fixed or absolute weight, as
it is only used to determine the proper
tons of pure metal and alloy. The
weight of A grains used by jewellers for
weighing diamonds and precious stones
is called diamond weight, and is equal
to Is grains troy 5 diamond grains
being only equal to grains troy, since
the ounce troy contains $50 diamond
carats. The term carat derives its name
from bean, the fruit of an Abyssinian
tree called kuaru. This bean, from the
time of its being gathered, varies very
little in weight, and seemsto have been,
from very remote period, used as o
weight for gold in Africa. In India
also the bean is used as a weight for gems
and pearls.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-08-31
A Shepherd.

A maid is sitting by brook,
The sweetest of sweet creatures;
pass that way with my good book,
Yet can not read nor cease to look
Upon her winsOmc features.
Amid the bushes on her check
Her small, white hand rcposcs:
7 am n shepherd, for seek
That wilful lamb, with fleece so sleek,
Feeding among the roses
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-08-31
Bats i'll Confinement.

Bats dislike captivity so much that
they die under it. Five were turned
into roughly-made cage, in which they
were fed with flies, for which their APP
petite was something wonderful-in their
eagerness, they would snap and bite at
one another like so many ravenous ours.
Cooked meat they could not appreciate,
but raw beef was more to their taste a
circumstance affording their proprietor
great relief, since, by attaching piece
of beef to the inside of their box, he
was saved the trouble of catching flies
for them, and was able to watch them
cater for themselves. The meat proved
a source of attraction to divers blue
bottle flies, to the intense qualification
of the captives, who displayed great
quickness in disposing of these visitors.
No sooner did an unwilling blueb bottle
come within range than he was struck
down by pair of bats wings, the for
tunate bat falling instantaneously with
all its membranes expanded, covering
over its victim, and securing him by
thrusting its head under. When the
head came forth again, the membranes
Immediately closed, and the poor fly
was Immediately swallowed, wings and
allan operation affording several min
utes' enjoyment to the performer. They
seemed pretty comfortable in theil
prison, getting quite lively of an eve
ming, and RECALLING the ears of their own
er with harsh music of their own
more curious than pleasing. But il
nineteen days every one of them was
dead-nor did second party prove
longer-lived.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-08-31

The INDIANs.-General Sherman does
not think the need for troops in the
West will diminish within the next few
years. On the contrary, he believes it
will increase, owing to the necessity OF
guarding the construction and surveying
parties on the Northern and Southern
Pacific Railroads. The Northern Road,
from the point where it crosses the Red
River of the North to the settlements in
Montana, traverses region, inhabited,
he says, by hostile Indians, chiefly the
warlike Sioux, who will have to be fought
off the line of the road at almost every
mile of it's progress. The Southern
Road, when it gets into the Apache
country, will meet with the same diff,
Guilty, the Apaches being the worst In
dams to deal with in the country. Both
of these roads will eventually be great
peace as the Union Pacific has
been; but while they are building, the
General believes that large force Of
troops will be required to guard the Ia
borers and protect the track and stations
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-08-31

PENSIONS. The Commissioner of Pen
sions estimates that there are at least
forty thousand people, soldiers and
widows of the war of 1872, who will be
entitled to pensions under the act Of
February IA, 1871. This number will
require the sum of 100000 annually.
When the bill was under discussion last
winter the maximum number of these
pensioners living was supposed to be
only 5000, but the estimate of the Com
missioner is not likely to be correct.
This will require an appropriation for
pensions next year of fully $35, 600, 900.
The total number of applications for
1912 pensions to date is 3O,54O.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-08-31

PREJUDIcED.-A farmer who went to
Texas to buy farm was greatly preju-
diced against the country he thought to
settle in, from the fact that doctor
whom he had called in to attend him
when he was seized with q fever, began
trying his clothes on Immediately after
writing the prescription. The fact that
while the doctor was trying on his coat,
the chambermaid was examining his hand
kerchiefs, and the porter was struggling
with his boots, lent wings to his imagi-
nation, and doubtless had an influence
in regard to his speedy exit from the
State.