davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-16
Horrors In MexlcO-A Terrible Gang
Of kidnappers.

Excitement prevails on account of
the immense number of kidnappers,
who demand heavy ransoms to restore
the captured persons. All the avail
able means of the Government are now
employed to crush this business.
On Thursday, the 18th inst, Gov.
Montrei, accompanied by large body
of police, surrounded the Plaznel de
San Lucas, and, in a pit under the
ground floor, found Senior Cervan ties,
who had lately been kidnapped. Ger.
vantes' face was bound up, with only
his mouth and nose left clear for res.
piration.
The kidnappers had also gagged and
filled his ears with wax, aud allowed
him but one egg daily for subsistence.
Cervantes was captured in the night by
five men while he was returning in a
carriage with his family from the hotel
to his residence.
number of documents were found
in the house, which confirm the exist.
ence of secret society, composed of
outlaws from all nations, with the title
of " Italia Boja." The society is gener-
ally known, however, as the Sociedad
Terrible"
Three of the FIVE kidnappers of Ger.
vantes were arrested the same day-the
Spaniards Ricardo Bello, aged % years,
and Gumarsindo Nupez, aged Is years,
and a Mexican named Jose Maria Orta,
aged % years.
They confessed their guilt, and stated
that the society was organized outside
of the Republic Of Mexico, and that the
same gang had committed numerous
similar acts. The three prisoners were
put to death in San Lucas square the
same evening in the presence of an i'm
mense cOncourse.
In the pocket of one of the prisoners
was found list OF forty persons who
were to be kidnapped. A rigorous
warfare has been started against the
organization, which is expected to de-
stroy it.
The same band kidnapped French.
man named Bassot, and tore out his
eyes and tongue. Bassot died while in
their hands.
Fifteen persons suspected Of being
members of the gang have lately been
arrested.
The Monitor mentions sixteen recen,
cases of kidnapping, all of which were
accompanied with horrible baroarities
City of Merico (July l6) Correspondence
of the NeU York Sun.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-16
The Fiji Islands.

The alta California is moved by the
receipt of copies of the Fyi Government
Gazette, a journal published on the Can.
nibal Islands, to make some interesting
comments on the advance of that group
toward civilization. Twenty years ago
the Fijians were, perhaps, the most de-
graded people on the face of the earth.
Cannibalism was still practiced pau
pers were neatly and effectively disposed
of by strangulation murder was scarce.
ly recognized as a crime, and the PEG
pie were superstitious, ignorant and de-
PRAYED in an extraordinary degree.
Now, these islands have such hopeful
attributes of civilization as king, a
cabinet, parliament, supreme court,
an official newspaper, and thanks
giving day once year. The high 9th
GERS of the Government, under the King,
are mostly Americans or Englishmen,
but many of the lower officers are ma
tives. With a population of 100000.
with no incensiderable natural resources,
and with a geographical situation that
possesses many advantages in view OF
the growing commerce of the Pacific, it
may be expected that the kingdom OF
FIJI will one day assert its right to re-
spectacle POSITION among the nations of
the earth.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-16

Byron married Miss Millbank to get
money to pay his debts. 1t turned out
a bad shift.
| Robert Burns married farm girl with
whom he fell in love while they worked
together in the plowfeld. He was ir.
regular in his life, and committed the
most serious mistakes in conducting his
domestic affairs.
Milton married the daughter of a
country squire, but lived with her but a
short time. He was an austere, exact
ing literary recluse, while she was q
rosy, romping country lass that could
not endure the restraint imposed upon
her, so they separated. Subsequently,
however, she returned, and they lived
toleraLly happy.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
were cousins, and about the only exam.
pie in the long line of English monarchs
wherein the marital vows were sacredly
observed, and sincere affection existed.
Shakespeare loved and welded farm
ers daughter. She was faithful to
her vows, but we could hardly say the
same of the great bard himself. Like
most OF the great poets, he showed too
little discrimination in bestowing his
affections o. the other sex.
Washington married woman with
two children. 1t is enough to say that
she was worthy of him, and they lived
as married folks should-in perfect har.
mony.
John Adams married the daughter OF
a Presbyterian clergyman. Her father
objected on account OF Johns being a
lawyer-he had bad opinion of the
morals Of the profession.
John Howard, the great philanthro-
pist married his nurse. She was alto
gether beneath him in social life and
intellectual capacity, and, besides this,
was 90 years old, while he was but %
He would not take "No" for an an.
swer, and they were married and lived
happily together until she died, which
occurred two years afterward.
Peter the Great, of Russia, married a
peasant girl. She made an excellent
wife and sagacious Empress.
Humboldt married poor girl be-
cause he loved her. OF course they were
happy.
1t is not generally known that An
drew Jackson married a lady whose
husband was still living. She was an
uneducated but amiable woman, and
was most ievotedly attached tolthe old
warrior and statesman.
John G. Calhoun married his cousin
and their children, fortunately, were
neither diseased nor idiotic, but they dc
not evince the talent of the great Estate
Rights " advocate.
Edward Lytton Bulwer, the English
statesman and novelist, married CIR
much his inferior in position, and got g
| shrew for wife. She is now insane.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-16
Garibaldi.

1t is stated that Garibaldi, though suf-
fering from rheumatic pains, is still as
laborious and active as in his best days.
He rises early every morning, takes his
usualride on horseback ,inspects with care
the rural improvements he has under.
taken, and writes and studies incessant.
ly. Every day he receives papers and
letters from every part of the world. and
among them, strange to say, rude and
insulting letters from France, the coun-
try for which he exposed his own life
and that of his sons. Meantime his
plantations, both native and exotic,
prosper on the island, and he has vic.
toriously solved the problem of pro.
ducing good fruit from rocky, dry and
barren soil.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-16
The Newspaper Press of this Country

Geo. p. Rowell q Co. have issued the
American Newspaper Directory" OF
1872. We learn that this country now
maintains 507 daiies, l05 tri-weeklies,
10 semi.weeklies, 1850 weeklies, 81 bi.
weeklies, 81 semi-monthlies, 6S5 month
lies, 4 bi.monthlies, and 55 quarterlies
in all 6,432 periodicals ; being an in.
crease on the last year Of 449. Never
theless, "A dailies have died within the
last twelve months. Florida alone is
without daily, being barbarously salts.
fed with bi-weeklies. There are 663
papers claiming over 5000 circulation
OF religious papers there are over 800
Of papers devoted to agriculture, etc.
l05; medicine and surgery, IS; educa
ton 95; commerce and finance, 76 ; in
surance, %; real estate, 43; science and
mechanics, "a law, % sporting, l3
and music, %. The Free Masons have
% periodicals; the Odd Fellows, 10
woman suffragists keep 5 "organs" go
ing and the temperance reformers 43
OF periodicals printed in German there
are 2S3; French, %; scandinavian
II; Spanish, 8; Hollandish, 6; Italian
5; Welsh, 3; Bohemian, 6; Portuguese
and Cherokee, |.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-16
JuareZ,s Successor.

The new President of Mexico is Lerdo
de Tejada, who has been, at any time
these last ten years, intriguing for the
place to which he now peaceably sue.
ceeds. He had been for long time
Minister of Foreign Relations in the
Cabinet of Juarez. Last year he be.
came a candidate for the Presidency,
and took the position of Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court, the holder of
which succeeds to the Presidency on
the death or absence from any cause of
the chief magistrate. He entered into
a coalition with the opposition, and
several revolutionary attempts, which
he did not countenance, were made
during the year in his favor. The new
Constitutional President is therefore in
sympathy with armed conspirators
against the Constitution. Consequently
it can hardly be that the change will be
acceptable to the country.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-16
A WOrld.FamOus Relic Destroyed.

The inhabitants of Ringethal, near
Mittweida, were alarmed on the evening
of the 25th Of June by the sound of the
fire bell. The linden tree, called Luther's
linden, and, as such, well-known
throughout the whole of Saxony, was
burning. 1t stood in the vicinity of the
church, and was so called because DR..
Luther, having been forbidden to preach
openly at Ringethal, and finding the
church too small to accommodate the
numbers who wished to hear him,
preached under It's shadow. After hav-
ing stood for so many centuries, sur
vived so many storms, and braved the
fury of the elements, the noble tree, at
once the pride and glory of the village,
has fallen a prey to fire. For three
hours the tree withstood the attacks of
its foe, until at length the upper portion
gave way with a crash, and speedily
nothing was left but the charred stump
to give some token of its former great
ness. The cause is said to have been
the cupidity of some Of the inhabitants,
who wished to become possessed of a
swarm of bees which had taken up their
quarters in hollow portion of the tree,
and which they endeavored to drive out
by means of fire. Why that came to be
permitted by the local authorities is a
mystery. 1t was only last year that the
good old tree was despoiled of great
part of its beauty and several of its
branches by the order of one of the
principal men of the place, so that this
second misfortune has but completed
its licactar
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-16
Varieties.

JOSH BILLINGS says, "Knowing how to
sit square on a bile, without hurting, Is
one of the lost arts.
SMITH, who was offered a plate OF
maccaroni soup, declined it, saying that
they f" couldn't play off any billed pipe
stems on him."
IF you don't give me dime," said
a young hopeful to his mamma" know
boy who's got the measles, and I'll 60
and ketch them"
PIcNICs in Pennsylvania wind up With
what is called Dolly Warden march
the young ladies standing in row and
the young men passing along the line
and kissing each good night.
THEY tell some reckless stories of the
uncleanliness and cheap management
in a Boston boarding house. The latest
is that pound of butter appeared at a
neighboring barber shop to get its hair
cut.
SAYS Josh Billings: "There amt
but pkew khan stick white hankker-
chief into the brest pocket ov their
overcoat without letting little ov it
stick out-just by acksident.
BARRIERS should frequently wash their
hands. A stranger, whose nose had
been gripped for the eighth time by the
offensive fl myers of his tonsorial mana
ger, blew the soap from his mouth, and
suddenly inquired: Was the body
| identified? ?" "What body ?" asked the
| startled shaver. What body y re
peated the stranger, in surprise. Why,
haven't you been on coroner's jury Z"
In jolly company each one was to
ask question; If it was answered, he
paid forfeit or if he could not an
swer it himself, he paid forfeit. Pats
question was, How the little ground
squirrel digs his hole without showing
any dirt about the entrance?' When they
all gave up, Pat said, Sure, do you see,
he begins at the other end of the hole"
One of the rest exclaimed, but how
does he get there?" "Ah," said Pat,
that's the question-can you answer
it yourself?"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-16
Personal.

A WISCONSIN woman mas had SIX
babies within year.
GEORGE w. CHILDs, of Philadelphia,
is said to be negotiating for prominent
New York journal-thought to be the
World.
MAYOR HALL, Of New York, had the
novel experience, the other day, OF
signing a warrant for $1,000, to pay
Wheeler H. Peckham for prosecuting
him.
The friends of Edwin Forrest will be
glad to learn that the veteran tragedian
is rapidly gaining his health, and will
probably be able to resume his profess
sional engagements in the fall.
MATHEo MINAFAw, who organized the
great Sicilian vendetta in New Orleans,
fifteen years ago, died few days since,
He was the last Of the original parties
to the feud, all the others having per.
ished by the pistol or stiletto.
Rev. DR. CUYLER, now in England,
writes to the New York Observer enthu.
siastically of Gladstone, with whom ne
has breakfasted. lie says that the
Premier receives his guests with much
of the affable dignity of Daniel Web
ster.
IDA WILSON, nee Lewis, the "Grace
Darling of America" still makes New
port her home, and can often be seen
in the harbor managing her beautiful
boat. Notwithstanding the fact that
she has taken unto herself @ better
half she still likes to be called " Ida
Lewis as of yore.
Tom THUMB recently went for a sail
in Bridgeport harbor. He was uncer
tain whether the center-board should
be hauled to the masthead or thrown
overheard. In attempting to do both
at the same time, he tipped the boat
over and landed himself in the mud
The General was thoroughly frightened
as the water was nearly up to his knees
1T is not generally known that Henri
Rochefort, so prominently connected
with La Lanterne and Figaro, is noble
man, his title being Count de Rochefort
Lucay. He is now an exile-or rather
is awaiting to recover from an illness
which has made his deportation impos
sible. He was born in Paris, and is A.
years Of age. He is the "hero" of -four
duels, out of which he came with flying
colors.
Miss IDA GREELEY is brunette of the
pale, clear. complexioned type, has
bright, dark eyes, full, red lips, feature,
very like her fathers, and an abun
dance of black hair. She is quite
petite, looks very young, and has all the
simplicity of manners of her philoso
phc father, combined with a certain
elegance and dignity that are as charm
ing as Undesirable. She betrays ex
cellent taste in her toilet, discarding all
fashionable monstrosities.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-16

In form and feature. face and limb.
grew so like my brother.
That folks got taking me for him,
And each for one another.
IL puzzled all our kith and kin.
IL reached fearful pitch
For one of us was born twin,
And not soul knew which
One day. TO make the matter worse
Before our names were nxed.
As we were being watched by nurse,
We got completely mixed
And thus. ysu see. by tate's decree,
r. rather nurses within,
Ny brother John got christened me,
And got christened him!
This fatal likeness even dogCed
My footsteps when AZ school;
And | was always getting logged,
For John turned out fool.
! put this question fruitlessly
To every one | knew.
- What would you do if you were me,
To prove that you were you
Our close resemblance turned the tide
OF my domestic life.
For. somehow. my intended bride
Became my brothers wife.
In fact, wear after year. the same
Absurd mistakes went on,
And when died. the neighbors
Came and buried brother John.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-16
Suspension Bridges.

1t is quite possible that European en-.
gineers borrowed the idea Of suspend.
Ing iron bridges from the Chinese,
since, as far back as sixteen hundred
years ago, suspension bridges were
hung by them. The invention is as.
signed to the Hans dynasty. Accord
ing to the concurrent testimony of all
their historical and geographical
writer's, Sangleang, the commander of
the army under Kaontsoo, the first of
the Hans, undertook and completed
the formation of roads through the
mountainous province of Shense, to the
west of the capital. Hitherto its lofty
hills and deep valleys had rendered
communication difficult and circuitous.
With body of one hundred thousand
laborers he cut passages over the noun
tains, throwing the removed soil into
valleys, and where this was not suffi.
cient to raise the road to the required
height, he constructed bridges, which
rested on pillars or abutments. In an
other place he conceived and accom-
plished the daring project of suspend
ing bridge from one mountain TO an.
other, across deep chasm. These
bridges, which are called by the Chi
nese writers, very appropriately, flying
bridges, and represented to be numer.
Gus at the present day, are sometimes
so high that they cannot be traversed
without alarm. One still existing in
Shense stretches four hundred feet
from mountain to mountain, over a
chasm Of five hundred feet. Most OF
these flying bridges are so wide that
four horsemen can ride on them abreast
and balustrades are placed on each side
to protect travellers.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-16

The rose of old. they say. was white.
Till love. one day. in wanton Hight.
Flirting away from flower % flower.
A rose tree brushed. in an evil hour.
By which the boy gods foot was torn.
The precious drops in plenteous dow
Fell on a roses breast below.
And all her snOw-white virgin pride
In blushing pure carnation died,
10 tell TO failure times unborn
How Love was wounded by thorn.
Sobbing with pain and weeping dew,
The wounded boy TO Venus few;
But few the ills which boys endure
A mothers kisses cannot cure:
And for such pleasure after pain
Love would be often pricked again.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-16

THERE are hot and cold springs at the
Sulphur Springs of Virginia. 1t is said
that rheumatic patients find the hot
springs as beneficial as the baths at
Wiesbaden, in Germany.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-16

JOSH BILLINGS says, "Knowing how to
sit square on bile, without hurting, Is
one of the lost arts.
, 1872-12-14

Attention having been drawn by Professor
Panum, Of the University of Copenhagen, to
the amount Of nutritious matter Contained in
that city has been endeaYoring to solve the prob
lem Of fixing blood in forms suitable for food,
and at the same time capable Of preservation,
namely; First, as sausages, puddings, and
cakes being mixed with fat, meal, sugar, salt,
compensation or substitute for meat, and in
tended more especially for the use Of the poorer
classes; and, second, as blood-chocolate, more
especially suitable to be used in hospitals, as
well as otherwise in medical practice, in which
latter form it has been recommended b7 Pro-
fessor Panum, at meeting of physicians at
Copenhagen, and ia now being employed in some
Of the hospitals Of that city.
, 1872-12-14

Tho Atchison Champion has the particulars
OF the killing OF Napoleon Brown, better known
as Nip Brown, by one Thomas Butler, both
residing in the vicinity Of DeKalb, Mo. Both Of
them we're desperate characters, and both have
been in many fierce encounters Whoa knives and
pistols we're freely used.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-03-10

ana expressed IN emphatic detorsAination
not 70 DO any such thirS. 7 picked e M
ana w walked towards the dog. 10 waxged
1ls tail and looked up and n,oaned. /. TO.
DROPPED the pistol. Shot! good fellow
Sim n,o % o.d a9ggy !" pat my arms around
died. "Au' '0"" s1'o''
The other day caught boy stoning an
olo dog who looked like Shot. Didn't I
put sudden stop to his fun!
-! went back to my bed Of sheepskins, but
did not sleep much. The next day We
1 0STied poor Shot, and skinned the panther.
his wild brethren. There were no sheep
stolen for long time Yoxna
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-03-10

TAKING CoLD.-If a cold settles on the
outer covering of the lungs it becomes
pneumonia, Inflammation of the lungs, or
lung fever, which in many cases carries
tie strongest man to his grave within a
week. If cold falls upon the inner COW
ering of the lungs it is pleurisy, with it's
knife-like pains, and it's slow, very slow
recoveries. If cold settles in the joints
there is rheumatism in its various forms !;
infammatory rheumatism, with it's agenies
of pain, and rheumatism of the heart,
which in an instant sometimes snaps the
cords of lite with no friendly warning. 1t
is of the utmost practical Importance, then,
in this wintry weather, to know not so
much how to cure a cold as how to avoid
it. Colds always come from one cause, some
part or the whole of the body being colder
than natural for time. If a man will
keep his feet warm always and never allow
himself to be chilled he will never take
cold in q lifetime, and this can only be ac-
complished by due care in warm clothing
and the avoidance of draughts and undue
exposure. While multitudes of colds come
from cold feet, perhaps the majority arise
from persons cooling off too quickly after
becoming little warmer than is natural
from exercise or work, or from confinement
to warm Woods Household
Magazine.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-03-10

The good which our exertious effect, may
rarely or never become visible.-Our duty
is, nevertheless, to persevere, and to strive
to do all we can, leaving the result with
Providence. Every man should go on
nor wavering in doubt, whether it may
succeed, but labor as if, of necessity, it
mast succeed.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-03-10

J. LINCOLN Il. H. READY
T LINCOLN & CO.. RAISE AND REMOVE
~ ALL KINDS OF BUILDINGS,
go Office, li9 Robin street.
communications should be addressed to Boz 100
Mechanics and Traders Exchange corner St Charlea
and Gravier streeIs New Orleans.
Country orders promptly attended to TAGS 70 "
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-01-25
THE OLD WORLD.
Telegraphic communication has been open
S,l.a....l.l.;

Telegraphic communication has been open
ed between Shanghai, China, and Europe.
French ladies residing in various European
capitals have opened bazaars for the purpose
of collecting money to assist in paying off
the German war indemnity.
A Prussian soldier belonging to the gar
rison at Luneville, in the department of the
Meurthe, was recently assassinated, and the
German military commander has demanded
the surrender of the assassin, and the French
authorities are searching for him.
meeting of the Loyalists in London on
the night of the 10Th was broken up by a
mob. The chairman was expelled, and the
platform and furniture belonging to the
room were demolished.
A special to the New York Herald, from
London on the 18th, says rumor prevailed
at st. Petersburg that the Grand Duke Alex
is had been married, since his arrival in
America, to Russian lady whom his father
| had opposed, and with whom it was thought
the attachment had been broken off.
Published statistics at Berlin show that
$4,000 emigrants left Germany last year,
| nearly all going to the United States.
A Vienna dispatch says Count Won An
drassy received deputation of Catholics on
the 18th, and in reply to their address, de
| clared that the Pope was under no constraint
as was shown by the recent appointment by
him of some thirty Bishops. The relations
between Austria and Italy are on good
| footing He knew of no Catholic power
which could be justified in offering the Pope
J on asvlum