davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-05-30
A Cool Relation.

How touched was the grief displayed
in B. at funeral a little out of
town! The undertaken, who was direct
ing matters in very professional and
proper way, noticed man giving or.
ders, and, as he thought, rather EN-
croaching upon the duties and privi-
leges of his own Office.
"And who are you, my friend, that
is SO busy about horc?"
"Oh! you don't know mes"
"No, I don't"
We'll, Tn the corpsc's brother"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-05-30

The latest novelty i'll divorce j,ris-
prudence comes from London, where II
woman met the petition of her lord
with tho plea that she had been led into
evil solely through the plots of agent
employed hy her husband to watch her
movements Her defence met the a.,-
proval OF Lord Pcnzance, who decided
That the husband was responsible Cor
!hr acts Of his agent.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-05-30
Almost Incredible.

When Jacob courtcd Mary Jane.
las. without fault hc thought her,
AMI cv'ry evening, fair or rain,
Attired IN all his best no sought her.
Shes honest, true, and kinl, said hc,
AZ she In pretty in her features;
Aud If she'll ouly marry mo,
Wc'll be the happiest Of creatures.
His parents, hearing how he felt,
And noticing his eager furry,
Said: "Son, be cautious. Sho wont melt.
Don't bo i'll such precious hurry.
Her family are not renowned
For being quito as meek as Moses,
An'! some who married III It found
No end OF thorns among their roses.
I'll try her temper jacob cried,
IN all tho ways by spite invented ="
But ere dozen tricks he'd tried,
His own good nature sore repentcd,
I'll" more he leased. to make her mad,
Instead of vixen spunk revealing,
She only seemed IN lncckly sad
Az comes Of wounded tender feeling.
No longer seeing room to doubt
That she was mild beyond expression.
Onr Jac, b brought the question out,
And she surrendered Ut discretion.
In proper course the wedding came,
With orange blooms and tears and laughter;
\ bridal tour to crown the same,
And pretty cottage home thereafter.
but ah, alas, for Jacobs peace!
Ere yet the honeymoon was over,
His Mary temper broke the lease
He thought lie had on life In clover.
From being gentle AZ Of old,
And shedding tears when he'd offend her.
She turned into perfect scold,
AS ugly as the Witch Of Endor!
Astonndcd at tho fearful change,
And wOnd'ring how he had been blinded.
The hap.ess man could not arrange
The questions answer AZ he minded:
TIL, ut her frthcr's house, ono dsy,
ne put the query, quito emphatic:
now ulu you take lnc In, that way7
She said: ''I'll show you in the attic"
And then they climbed the garret stair.
III, standing under beams unnumbered.
The lady showed, with mOcklug air,
4 central post, with braces cumbered.
!" You see its nearly worn in twain.
Or seems to be, with weight its carried:
But sc'th my teeth I gnawed the grain.
A fortnight. just, before we married!
"Whenever you would tease me most,
And then had gone, and left me beaming.
l used to come and gnaw that post.
10 keep myself from raging screaming!
knew you'd never know your mind.
If temper should show forbade you,"
Said Jacob: That, my dear, was kind:
fut dont wish some ether had you :"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-05-30
NUMBER 8.
4 COLORADO CHARACTER.
jim Whitls,ch's Luck-The Good an.
Bad Of 1t.
From the nenver Ne~s

Jim y" "h1tA9lch's lNck-The Good and
Bad OF 1t.
From the Denver Ne~s.
Here is the case of Jim Whitlatch,
who used to be called the ''Quartz
king' OF Montana, Jim was among the
htty miners who halted by the holy wa
ters OF Cherry creek. He was then not
out OF his teens. Like MANY others,
who had the advantage of being older
and stronger, he travelled hard road
from the Missouri hither, though he
fought the privations manfully. Other
men prospered, and scores got riches,
but Jim plodded on in poverty. He
seemed to take naturally TO = vicissi-
tudinous life. Finally his star of luck
got into the ascendancy, and his sand
and gravel claim, up by Idaho, yielded
hlm bushel of nuggets, and he bought
stage ticket to Nevada.
Jlm's bark ran on the high tide of
luck over there. He prospected and
mined, and, like old King Midas, or
Midas of ole, everything he handled
turned to gold. Il was he who discov-
cred the ''Yankee Blade" the 's Whit
latch Union," and half a dozen that
equally celebrated mines. Some how
or other, though honorably, he amassed
q fortune of 100000. But, alas, it
takes 2 stong man to hold small for
tune, and Jlm's grip wasn't equal to
the emergency. At any rate, he saw
his last dollar-never so highly priced
as the first One-vanish from his clutch.
Then Jim beto0k himself. bv bull
team express, to Montana, and gradu.
ally gravitated to Helena, whence he
started on prospecting tour. Luck
was with him again. he discovered
and christened the Whitlatch lode-hv
all odds the richest gold lead in the
territory: Thence forward he travelled
no up hill trail to fortune. He visited
New York, banqueted the Wall street
capitalists, organized a company, with
q million or two of funds, and returned
home, wiser and happier, as we'll as
healthier man. Jim was substantially.
successful, and he was commonly re-
garded as millionaire. But he a wear
or two ago his fortune began to 20 to
pieces. The rest is easily told. Per
haps it was with him as Josh BILLINGS
thinks it always is with men on the
road. Perhaps every one
gave him kick.
Last week, 1T may have been the
week before, Jim p]odded out of Salt
Lake, in southwark direction, on a
march. He is poorer, if
anything, now, than the poorest of us.
Jim is an estimable, amiable, and faith
full man. Modest and retiring in his
habits, warm and affectionate in his
feelings, just and honorable in all his
relations, he has managed, in most To-
calities where he resided, to "bind to
him with hooks of steel :" all who knew
him.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-05-30
In the Studio.

In the Studio.
81 Nls. Macy =. DODGE.
"XSu. 70, h.pptsst ezpss.ssoa, = Jon pssasel
III do the rest: arrange those folds for you.
Hour eyehds you may wink- Just so-vith eass.
Nov glsnoe here: that win do.
Once more.
Don't move! The posture is al s1aos;
Thst hesd-turn + . very s~eef surprise:
1er; Ts! quite Rsrieft,on fs. r that f.l Of lace
'Tis done.
In CHEEKY tms rinss out upon tie sir:
Presto 1.-the vgneete'S there.
Hark waves Of ripping laughter from the screen
Nay, SIRENS. l can manage only one;
But leave us, pray, alOnel
" The negative7 All, that never show,
.musts' Then, from brood Of bird,sts, know
I honor 'must and 'shauv
AHA, my lite fellow, are you here
To make your pretty faee picture gsy7
Well. stand upon this rock, my little dear;
y, Foid Cd. afrns' and look this way.
"Yes, msd.m, yes, IT is al right:
And sns ss TO
Nay, nay, It must not be.
Well try again.
"But not to-day, Sir; no!
I'm mad, quite mad, With IN hsve to do:
Morning and noon, till night, I'm thronged just %.
On Wednesday come 1t two. :
|" oh, for blest rainy days! Not dew to flower
L. sveeter than the cloud to this psrehed brain
Who veds the sun and soulless crowds each hour
IN 'lasutas'ne pam rrt.., Il. ;t;,r~ii
. In some bright moments srt = hede re1oios,
When Sympathetic souls have faith in me,
u wiaen fair Kellogg, With her kilvery yoice
on rarest minstreky -
accepts my pose. -.
"IcFy, 'Divinel diy1ney
Bnt there some their wills 9ainst mine Array,
md nimieking hxel STAN, dsigP but to shine
One resolute, fixed way.
UGH make the artist in me cry With pain
Over the wesrisome and futile hour,
10 wrought to passion sre the nerves which strain
To lift to light each flower.
Yet still triumph. As when 1t command
OF Art, Ristori felt the fire in me,
md gave me Marie Antoinette' a. grand
Al II . human 50 = .E..y -,
4 earnest souls were pulsing TO her spell!
Such moments szs rastosativus of eaeo-r:
tut pardon!
You viii come Tomorrow WI
At ten, then, if You please"
-Hs.pers NasDtpe.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-05-30
Luminous Hours.

God gives us royal hours, when the
sun comes out, and we oan see our con-
dition. There are times when our pas-
sions and appetites and lusts, when all
our selfish and degrading propensities
lie still, so that our better nature rises
into the ascendency. There comes open
hours when God let's man see the Sun
OF righteousness so that they can take
their observation, and ascertain where
they are, and which way they are going,
and how better to lay their course. And
men who do not give heed to these lu-
minous hours do not know what it is
for their own good. You are not al
ways the same. No man is always the
same. Sometimes the strength of >.
mans life is in his upper feelings, but
more often it is In his middle or lower
feelings. Why3 Because the world
gets the first chance at you. You were
animal in the beginning. The great
basllar instincts are strongest in all of
u.s. Society touches us more fre-
quently on a lower plane than On a
higher. Care, and anxiety, and associ-
alton, and sympathy, and all manner
of influences and circumstances,
are perpetunlly tending to keep
us down. But now and then there
comes a change. BY and by the upper
faculties rebound, and we have, as it
were, o replenishment Of divine grace.
And for an hour we have an insight in
to our real manhood-that for which
Christ died, and which is to make us
sons of God. The better part of our
nature rises up, and then it is that we
sec visions that are worth seeing. and
dream dreams that arc worth dream
ing. Then it is That wo feel the full
force of our destiny. Then it is that
we mourn over our past lives. Then it
il that we hold out feeble and implor
ing hands for help and succor. Oh if
men knew how to take care of these
hours as those poor Ephesians and
wandering Jews did who gathered up
their instrum ents of mischief-their
amnlets, their charms, their w1itiugs-
and burned them, how much better it
would be for them. In these hours is
the time to bring all such things and
burn them. And let them be burned
quick; for the hour may pass AMI you
may have another mind. Bccchcy.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-05-30

A pAToxysM Of fear caused by tho
sight of IL spider led IL D.nbury woman,
t" kick her husband down stairs ON
Monday.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-05-30

Az >NoH of the Internationals was
organized ut Santa Clara last week.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-05-30

An old chronicler, writing in 1900
gives us picture of debauchery in
England in his time, in which we re-
mark the same tendency to magnify
the past and depreciate the present,
that is exhibited by so many round us.
It is come to pass that nowadays there
'tare very few feastss where our men
OF war are present, but they do invite
and procure all the companie of what
calling soever they be, to carousing
and quaf6ng, because they will net be
denied their challenges; they with
many new conges, ceremonies and rev.
erencies, drinke to the health and pros
peritie of princes, to the health of
counsellors, and unto the health of
their greatest friends, both at home and
abroad, in which exercise they Iever
cease till they be deade drunke."
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-05-30

And sign your viii before you sup from home
Some fiery fOp with new commission vain.
Who sleeps on brambles tin ho kills his man.
Some frol.c drunkard reeling from q feast,
Provokes broil and stsbs you for lest.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-04-30
0be 0iu,es, Mem Bloon,helo, l)a.
me to remember my people, and to-
night ny Sll

II "UI II u
me to remember my people, and to-
hurried her out OF the carriage as it
stopped. "only some friends,Y I said,
Z who want to wish you joy, Hester.
She stopped; some quick thought flashed
over her face, and, in her old impetuous
way, she sprang up the steps and opened
the door.
The lighted hall was crowded with black
faces bright with joy. We heard tumult
oflaughter and shouts, and weeping.
"Uncle Page, this is your doing" said
Bob, "No Canada now; this is better"
pointed to the hall table where lay the
abestos box. Hester Needed it but little.
s0hi Maumer--all of you," she sobbed,
fthank God You are all here tonight
Old uncle Joe held her by the hand.
Hush ~ he said, in husky voice, kneel-
ing down. "Let us give thanks unto de
name ob dc Lord 70
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-04-30
A Singular Case.

In the Summer of 1866, in Luzerne Val
ley, Pa, Mark Wilson and Miss Wallace, Il
lovely girl of eighteen, had been engaged
for some months, when she suddenly Tilted
him, and without explanation forbade him
to enter her house. Wilson plunged into
dissipation, and rapidly lost his character,
his business, and his small means. He was
frequently heard, with fevered energy, to
lay his ruin ut her door, and vowed revenge
with the most determined bitterness
Shortly after he made preparations toleave
for Europe, but before doing so by some
means persuaded the girl TO take drive
with him. He gave out at the livery stable
that he was going to an occasional picnic
resort, in wild gorge among the neighbor-
ing hills. Neither Of them returned, and
days after the body of the girl, stabbed to
death with a pocket knife, sworn 10 as
Wilson's was fonnd in the turbid water of
brook that threaded Picnic Gorge. -
She was buried in an agony of sorrow, by
her loving parents, and the day after the
funeral Mrs. Wilson, nee Miss Wallace, re-
turned from New York with her newly
welded husband. Who the murdered girl
was, and how knife like that of Mark
Wilson's came in her heart, the most rigid
investigation never could discover
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-04-30
One of Mr.. LIncOln's MercIful Acts.

Col. Forney tells the following in the
Washington Sunday Chronicle" among
his interesting Anecdotes of Public Men,
"While l was secretary of the Senate
there was scarcely an hour during any day
that was not called upon to help some
body who had friends or kindred in the
army, or had business in the departments,
or was anxious to get some poor fellow out
of the Old Capitol Prison. These constant
appeals were incessant demands upon the
time of very busy man, but a labor of love,
and am glad to remember that I never
undertook it reluctantly. One day an ener-
getic lady called on ME to take her to the
President and aid her to get a private sol
dier pardoned, who had been sentenced to
death for desertion, and was to be shot the
very next morning. We were much press
ed in the Senate, and she had to wait
long time before could accompany her to
the White House. 1t was in the afternoon
when we got there, and the Cabinet was
still in session. sent in my name for Mr..
Lincoln, and he came out evidently in pro-
found thought and full of some great sub
ject. stated the object of our call, and
leaving the lady in one of the ante-cham-
be:s, returned to the Senate which had not
| yet adjourned. The case has made a deep
impression on me, but forgot it in the ex-
ctement of the debate and the work of my
Office until perhaps near 10 o'clock that
night, when my femalefriend came rushing
into my room, radent with delight, with
the pardon in her hand. '' | have been up
there ever SINCE" she said "The Cabinet
adjourned, and l set waiting for the Pres
ident to come out and tell me the fate of my
poor soldier whose case placed in his
hand after you left; but waited in vain
there was no Mr.. Lincoln. SO I thought
/ would go up to the chamber of his Cabi-
net and knock ] did SO; and, as there was
no answer, opened it aud passed in, and
there was the worn President asleep with
his head on the table resting on his arms,
and my boys pardon at his side. quietly
walked him, blessed him for his good deed,
and came to tell you the glorions news.
You have helped me to save human life."
This is the material if not for solemn his
tory at least for those better lessons which
speak to us from the lives of the just and
pure.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-04-30
RIarneY.

"Ah, Jenny, Jenny said the Bishop
of Derry to a drunken blacksmith, "Pm
sorry to see you beginning your evil course
again and Jenny, am very anxious to
know what you intend to do with that fine
lad, your son?''
81 intend sir said Jenny, ''to do for
him what you cannot do for your SON
Eth, oh How's that--how's that ?''
To which Jenny, with burst of genu-
inc feeling, said, 4" intend to make him a
better man than his fatherl"
tB- A Western lawyer included in his
bill against his client" To waking up in
the night and thinking about your case,
five dollars"
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-04-30
AGENTS WANTED FOR THE NEW WORK,
OUR CHILDREN,
TO BOOK AGENTS.
MARK TWAIN's NEW BOOK,
.I2OUGHINGIT,"

Is ready for Canyassers. No book Is looked fo
more impatiently than this, and agents viii d,
well 10 get territory for II as early MS possible
Apply for Circulars and terms 10
DUFFIELD ASHMEAD, Publisher,
III SAMSON Street, Philadelphia.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-04-30

SPRING TERM COMMENCES
On Monday, the sth OF April, 1879.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-04-30
The Lost Will.
A story Of Old virginia.
CONCLUDED.

nERHAPS FRIEND COX saw it on my
Il face and thought it had better be
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-04-30
Bloomfield Academy!
An Engiish and Classical School
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
Young Men Prepared For College,

4 Noymo1 .SrLoa onad School of AT.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-04-30

A > the above school has recently been re-orRan.
"A ized students can enter any time
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-04-30

Years passed. Strange enough, you
think, that two true, honestly loving hearts
should be kept apart for years by the want
of dollars and cents. Yet l have known
such things happen more than once in nov
els, If not in real life.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-04-30

him enough to work at her task cheerfully
trustfully. She worked hard, no shrinking
or make believe. She was employed as q
teacher in Richmond. and good thorough
little teacher she made by-the-way. Friend
Cox would not give her up altogether, so
kept her with her; and every dollar the
girl owned was laid up for the one great
purpose, to bring back her "pcople" to
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-06-05
MANCHESTER ITEMS.

NEW WHARF TO BE BuILT.-The shipping
room on this side Of the river has been very
much crowded by the shipments of the Old
Dominion Iron and Nail Company and the
stone from Ordway, Andrews 4 Green's
works. The completion Of the Tredesar
bridge. connecting their works ria Belle
Isle with the Danville railroad, hasIcndcred
the contracted wharf-rooIn now used totally
inadcd,late to the demand. Yesterday tie
DanyilIe Railroad Company entered into
contract with the Committee for the In
pyuyement of James River for building 4
dyke wharf $50 feet in length. This wharf
Will extend from the old stone wharf To the
Is crane now used by the granite company,
and will give sufficient room for the ship
ment of freight at this point. Walkers
wharf, which is owned by the town of Man
chester, could be made very available for
vessels drawing twelve and half feet oi
water by the thorough blasting and dredging
of a channel from Rockets. This would
afford additional facilities to shippers, and no
doubt the railroad company would fix a
track to reach this point. The town authorl-
ties should have an eye TO this Improvement.
PENCIL NoTEs.--The canvasser for the
i" Juei,riates' Home" has not yet "gonc
through" Manchester.
The Alert Fire Company meet ut their
hail tonight. They are thinking Of steam
fire-enginc.
The Conservatives of the town are unanl-
nous for Greeley and Brown.
No arrests have been made for two days.
The town isyery quiet.
Both of the cotton mills are run to their
full capacity.
More buildings are projected, and piles OF
bricks may be seen in different PORTIONS OF
the town ready for use.
Nobody in this place has yet been an
nounced for Congress. This. is aseli:abnesa'
tom rare enough in these days of love foI
office. Can't we have justice done the talent allen
OF our serene and phiosophic city? Will
not some one declare hinlself9
MIR. Douglas Baird, superintendent OF Ole
Dominion Nail Works, on Belle Isle, who
was SO severely wounded aaew weeks ago
is not expected to survive, erysineias having
set in. He was at one time thought to bt
beyond any danger.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-06-05

Tui NIllGtp fAiSE-I'RkTESCE CASE or
Ia. ions l.. GRkES.--Thc continued case ei
A.. i. l.. Green, charged with defrauding
", II. +. " ii'ialnS by false pretclicc out OF
u l,i " groceries amounting i'll the agyrC-
al, T. $500. WAS brought before Justice
hi'c again OF Yesterday for preliminary
,>uninul"n. Three additional witnesses
W.ir "NIuiincd Il aptain Potts. the agent at
rl,, station II which the goods were received !:
i'. ~IHIth. who resides at the County-sclt of
Iruu-Nrh, from which place the letter is
s.Ur,"d /" have iccn written by DR.. Green to
Nj. Williams, upon the faith of which the
.rrH, Wrrr sent iy Mr.. Williams to the az
,i,i md a colorcd man who lived upon
jan >,'ur l"l where DIR. Green's residence was
situated.
III, ilr>i Witness testified. and exhibited
IT. hu'n>. showing the arrival of the goods
;,ni ~; >i.aatur" Of Dr. Green, who received
rn"n. Th" second was DR.. smith. who re-
ifrd = conversation with DIR. Green. iD
which conversation Dr. Green denied to pr.
,mltti that h" ever had any tobacco and the
,nlnIrd wituc>s stated that The lot upon
vhi'h hr. Green lived was only three or four
a.rc-. and not sufficiently large to raise ten
hnr~hvad> Of tobacco. ......
The argument occupied more than an
hour. the Commonwealth being represented
~ Nr. George ID. Wise ut, the conclusion
"t which. Justice White said that if the evr
''c4,r" showed only Il "prolnise TO pay he
>a"uld promptly discharge the accused; bus
Ihar' Icing also proof of false statement on
the part of the accused Of IN existing fact, he
i,it constrained 10 send him OH to the
Hastings Court for Indictment on the first
Monday in july. Bail was allowed in the
sum ol $1,000.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-06-05
ACTION SALES THIS DAY.

runN X W. kEESEE viii sell at 10 a. NJ. at the
..,,.ck Nnusc. corner Eighth aud Clay streets,
.l,,r, a,aorincnt of furniture.
RAM. ,sEEII. & co. viii sci. at 10 A. NJ. dry
...,i, t-,rt, shoes. hats, clothing, Canton mat
rjU..SC
,i.IEi!> 4 WILLIAMS will sell at T. M. a
r,i,,ng l,,i the east side of Third street I've
io,"utsry aud tanat. .-.t|
.j.I.EE. 4 WILLIAMS will SCH at l.. NJ. a 6enn-
, yn.rlr,.. lo, on The east side of Third street
t,iAr~n Cary and Canal streets.
Y .nnppIN viii s"ll al : 4. NJ. one hundred lots
!g tlgr i,lan"I " Hnck tIill, adi"ining Maih'hcS-
,.raud fronting on Iiuli and Decatur streets.
tl,p.KI,oON { co. WIN sell at : l.. NJ. a framed
dv cllinC and 10, tho south side Of RraSad
street between Twrn'v-first aud Twcnty-Scc"nd.
lN>G BROTHER viii sci, nj /, NJ. tw" ynlu-
,..', aud improved farms In r"whItan county,
.u Jlnr, river, twcuIy-ihrcc miles above the
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-06-05

FAIR AND FEAST AT Union STATION METHo-
DIST CHUKcH.-A fair and feast for the bene-
it of the Union Station church was opened
last evening in the basement of the church
by the ladies of the congregation. The pro-
ceeds will be bcapplied to the liquidation of an
Indebtedness incurred in the making of re-
cent repairs to the church ediiice. The fair
room is beautifully and tastcfully decorated.
All the dclic1cies Of the season will be served
by the ladies of Church Hill, celebrated for
their beauty and hospitality. and every effort
will be made to please those who may at
tend. The fair will be continued during this
week, and every evening the ladies will be
on hand to minister to the wants of those
who may IritroniZc them.