davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-09-25
A Lotion for the Ladies.

A Southern lady sends the following
recipe for glycerine lotion, to those
who persist in using dangerous cos
metics. The pain occasioned by sun
burned and freckled skin, often so
troublesome, can be relieved, and the
shining morning face of youth restored,
by the application of glycerine lotion,
made thus Take one ounce of sweet
almonds, or of pistachio-nuts, half a
pint of elder or rose water, and one
ounce of pure glycerine +; CRATE the nuts,
put the powder in little bag of linen,
and squeeze it for several minutes in
the rose-water; then add the glycerine
and little perfume. The lotion may
be used by wetting the face with it two
or three times day. This must be a
grateful appliance of the toilette-table
for parched, rough skin. 1t should
be allowed to dry thoroughly into the
skin, when, if. it feels sticky or pasty, it
may be washed off with warm water.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-09-25
The Nettle Tree OF Australia.

The most remarkable nettle of this
country is the Urtica gigaS, or rough
nettle tree. This tree has large leaf,
something like suntiower leaf, hirsute
beneath, and every bristle has most
painful sting. Some gentlemen who
had been in Illawara, collecting speci-
mems of trees for the Paris exhibition,
told me that they had measured one of
these wonderful trees, which was thirty
two feet round, and, L think, one hun
dred and forty feet high.
Such is the potency of the virus of
this tree, that horses which are driven
rapidly through the forests where they
abound, if they come in contact with
their leaves, die in commissions. I have
seen a statement of the actual death in
convulsions of his horse by traveller
through these parts and one of the
gentlemen of the exhibition committee
told me that, as they We're riding in the
Illawara forest, young man who had
lately arrived, and was ignorant of the
nature of the tree, breaking off a twig as
he rode along, had his hand instantly
paralyzed by it. His fingers were
pressed firmly together, and were as
rigid as stone.
Fortunately, a stockman who was
near, observing it, came up and said," I
see what is amiss, and will soon set all
right"
He gathered species of arum, which
grew near, for nature has planted the
bane and the antidote together in the
low grounds, and rubbing the hand
with it, it very soon relaxed and re-
sumed its natural pliancy.
This is precisely the process used
by the children in England. When
nettled, they rub the place with bruis-
ed dock-leaf, saying all the while "Net-
tie go out, dock go in"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-09-25
COUNT THUR

the whole top of the bureau few up
like the lid of box, disclosing a deep
hollow, in which lay several packets of
bank-notes and government shares,
about dozen rouleaux of gold Freder-
icks, tightly rolled up in cotton, and
two or three jewel-cases, filled with
valuable rings and bracelets-the whole
amounting, as we afterwards calculated,
to more than 10000 Prussian thalers.
"Well, you may think how we felt,
saved as we were in the uttermost strait
by kind of miracle; and how we
blessed the name of my old uncle, when
we saw how truly he had spoken. The
inspector God bless him y refused to
touch pfennig of the windfall, saying
that he was sufficiently rewarded by
seeing so many good people made hap
py; so we paid our debts, packed up
all that we had, and came back to our
own folk and our own fatherland, never
to leave it again.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-09-25
A Regular Pest.

Like the locust swarms of Egypt have
the so-called "Croton bugs" taken pos
session of nearly every dwelling house,
office, warehouse, and other buildings
in the various parts of the city of New
York. Scarcely desk, bureau drawer,
closet, wardrobe, or even the refrigera-
tor, is exempt from the presence of
these annoying insects. The flour lar
rel is special hive for them, resting
and breeding there by the million un-
der the hoops, headings and wherever
crevice can be found. Even the
sanctity of beds and bedding is not ex-
empt from their visitations, and, no
matter how careful and tidy house
wife may be, she cannot overcome the
myriads of these pests as they swarm
from wainscotings, mantels, surbases,
dining tables, window sills, foorings
under carpets, from cupboards, and
elsewhere and everywhere. They revel
in the "dead shot powders that are
represented to be their "sure extermina-
tors" and dance-it may be the "dance
of death, in the dough trough and
bread basket, if they are dosed with
Paris green, a poison so fatal to human
life, and which they can track with them
wherever they travel. They are said
to be as harmless as crickets, but unlike
the cricket, which is seldom visible,
they are to be seen with the naked eye
almost everywhere. The cricket is
heard, but not seen the Croton bug is
seen, but not heard. 1t does not bite
but pinches and scratches, and is de-
clared by the papers to be an infiction
of the worst description.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-09-25

Harvest.

Spring hath the morning gladness,
The hope of budding leaves;
And Summer in her queenly lap
The wealth of noon receives
But Autumn hath the twilight's crown,
5 The joy of garnered sheaves.
Where late i'll stately phalanx
The ribboned corn was seen.
Where the golden wheat was waving
And the oats i'll silver sheen,
And where the buckwheat snow was white.
Hath the reaper's sickle been.
In clouds the purple aster
lnfolds the hill-sides bare;
The sumach lifts its vivid pumes
Like flame; the misty air
Hath bints of rainbow splendors
Estray and captive there.
The hidden seed that slumbered,
So safe beneath the snow,
When the bridegroom sun with kisses
Made earth's wan cheek to glow,
With thrills of life was quickened.
And could not help but grow.
BY softest love-caressing.
By sweetest drops of dew.
MID sudden storms of passion
And heats of wrath. it grew,
Till the fields were ripe to harvest
And the years long work was through.
The mother-earth is tired
No child on mother breast
Lies soft till after birth throes;
Toll giveth right to rest
And all the joy of harvest
With the peace of God is blessed
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-09-25
A Romantic Will Case.

An extraordinary will case is now at
tracing attention in Michigan. For
twenty-five or thirty years everybody
about Troy, N. Y, had supposed Abra-
ham Schryver dead. When his wife's
father died he settled up the estate and
decamped with the proceeds, amounting
to nearly million dollars, leaving his
wife to provide as best she could for
four children and young babe. For
months she suffered agonies of suspense
and grief on account of the mysterious
disappearance. Then came the news
that he was in Canada, and later still
the deserted wife received newspaper
from Canada containing an obituary
of "the late Abraham Schryver," and
thenceforward she and her children gave
him up as dead. She struggled on and
brought them up we'll, and now when
she is old and her middle-aged children
are married and settled about her, the
story of his wanderings is revealed to
them in most startling and dramatic
manner. Schryver appears to have set
tied in Port Huron, Mich. He was re-
Gently on his death-bed, and his house
keeper allowed no one to watch over
him in his dying moments but herself.
He died, and his will, made at midnight
and witnessed by hotel servants, left
the bulk of his large property to his
supposed wife. Only $500 was be-
queathed to daughter whom he had
adopted, and dissatisfied with this will,
and knowing that the testator had not
been exactly in his right mind, she
wrote to Troy for some information
about Abraham Schryver and his rela-
tions. The Schryver children investi-
gated the affair, and will contest the
will on the ground that the father was
not in his right mind, and that the in
strument is forgery, as shown by mis-
takes he could not have fallen into con-
cerning his own family.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-09-25
The Nathan Murder.

We publish, says the New York Her.
aid, an account of an interview with the
man Irving, who puts in a claim as
being the murderer of the late Benja-
min Nathan. Sifted thoroughly, it is
evident that his storyis sheer fabrica-
tion from beginning to end, and that
the fellow himself is fraud of the first
water. Per contra, several of the New
York papers believe and assert that Irv-
ing is interested in tho murder, and
that the late Chief-of-P Police Jourdan
knew it. The present chief, Matsell,
does not believe in Irving.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-09-25
A Fiendish Murder.

The death of Miss Maggie Hammill, a
wealthy young New York lady, at the
residence of James and Sarah Merrigan,
Williamsburgh, no longer remains a
mystery. A confession has been made
by the woman, from which it appears
that Miss Hammill visited the Merrigan
family and that Mrs. Merrigan and she
quarreled. After the quarrel Mrs. Mer-
rigan made up her mind to kill her, and
succeeded in doing SO by strangling her
with a piece of clothesline. Finding
that Miss Hammill was dead, Mrs. Mer-
rigan, fearing that her husband would
return, hid her between the bedtick and
the Stats. Then, not knowing what to
do with the body, she concluded tokeep
her husband out of the room, and sue
ceeded in doing so until the third night,
at half-past nine o'clock, when she set
fire to the place, with the hope of de-
stroying all traces of the murder. The
body was found badly buried, and the
husband and wife are under arrest fol
the murder.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-09-25

"Small thanks to you, sir" said a
plaintiff to one of his witnesses, 4" for
what you said in this cause" "Ah,
SIR" said the conscientious witness,
"but Just think of what I didn't say"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-09-25

About e25, 900 made the ancient tai
ent. 1t takes considerable talent to
make that sum nowadays.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-02-27

Some time ago bill passed the
Ohio Senate, permitting parties who loan
and borrow money to make contract for
any amount of interest they please, but
when no amount is agreed upon. the rate
shall be six per cent. Mr.. Newman,
Senator from this district, voted against
this bill
The pretext for holding to the old
usury laws, is, that the poor man must
have protection against the greed of the
money lender It is hard enough to be
poor. and be compelled to have to bor-
row money; but to have those who are
not the best fnanciers in the world to
tell the poor man that he has not sense
enough TO manage his own business, isl
going little too far, IF a man must
have money or let his property sell under
the hammer. or his family suffer for the
necessaries oflife, and he cannot get it
for per cent. or per cent. but the man
who has il to loan is willing to let him
have it for ten. whose business is it but
their own . Surely those who favor in
terest laws will not claim that the lender
shall be compelled to loan the poor man
money at 6 per cent when he can get 10
to IL per cent for it, No man can now
borrow money in Ohio at per cent,
while hundreds of thousands of dollars
are loaned at TO to H. Look at the
schemes TO get the loan of money. Any
number of men are, putting in bids in
this place. and in other counties, to loan
and building associations, offering 25 per
cent for the use of money.
The truth of the matter is that If our
Legislature would take off al restrictions,
and let this matter regulate itself, capital
would be brought in. and interest would
be lowered.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-02-27
sua Cuique voluptus.

To the Editor of the Standard:
In your last issueI notice the startling,
and monstrous assertion, that you have
no faith in written Constitutions. That
they are sham and a delusion. Had
this assertion been made on account of
the fragrant violations of the Constitu-
tion of the United States and State Con-
stitutions, in the last two years, there
might have been some show of reason, to
have justified you in your declaration of
denuneiation OF written contracts. But
when the assertion is made by you that
written contracts are a sham on the
ground that violations of such contracts
are justifiable, you teach the mons trous
doctrine that might makes right" that
minorities have no right to be protected,
that fundamental principles are at the
caprice of every mob. who may have the
power to trample them under foot, and
enforce selfish principles brought forth
by passion and prejudice.
The fruits and effects of such teach
ings may be seen in the present disor-
ganized condition of society by violation
Of contracts In financial circles; the dis
regard of marriage contracts ) the whole
sale bribery and corruption in obtainin 6
office; the selfish partisan legislation and
Mobilier speculations; the taxing of the
honest yeomanry of the country to build
up private corporations; the stealing and
plundering from the people for partisan
purposes by almost every department.. OF
the Government, Federal and State; by
upholding rings and corporations, so as
to secure favor, and have their means
and influence at elections. These are the
effects and out-croppings, by not being
governed by fundamental principles EN-,
bodied in Constitutions-which should
be held sacred by every lover OF
his country. / would not have been
more surprised to have heard Judge in
Court to say the jury Tin charge) writ
ten contracts are sham a deluslon, BE
governed by your caprices, than to hear
you, through a public journal, teach the
people the monstrous doctrine that
written constitutions are sham, and
may be violated at WILL to suit the pur-
poses and whims of those who happen to
be in the majority
Away with such doctIinel Our lives,
liberties, rights, privileges and property,
all depend upon the safeguards embod-
led in our Constitution, founded upon
fundamental principles, protecting each
and every citizen in all the rights and
immunities belonging to a citizen, at the
same time preventing any encroachments
upon the rights of individuals by capital
lists or corporations.
We want man in our coming Consti-
tutional Convention from this county
that cannot be purchased with gold, or
made to deYiate from the principles of
right and Justice, to favor any ring, COR
poration or political party. And if the
people, (not the politicians) are alive to
their best interests, they will see to it
that such man is elected to represent
them. !. I. MoNAHAE.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-02-27
IMPARTTALITY.

How hard it is in times of excitement
for good men to be fair and Impartial.
The New York Evening Post is generally
a fair, impartial paper. Recently it said:
Let us try to state the case with entire
impartiality: When Mr.. Colfax was ac-
cused last summer of having been bribed
by gift of Credit Mobilier stock his
reply was, in effect. that though he had a
perfect right to buy that stock il he saw
fit he had never owned any of it by gift
or purchase. In this, his first step, Mr..
Colfax wanted frankness, for taking his
own subsequent statement as correct, he
at one time was purchaser. of Credit
Mobilier stock"
The charge last summer was, that GER
tain members of Congress- including Mr..
Colfax had been bribed by Oakes Ames
giving them stock in this company. In
his speech at South Bend, Indiana, Mr.
Colfax said:
Never having had in my life dollar
of stock of any kind did not pay for.
claim the right to purchase stock in the
Credit Mobilier or credit inmobilier if
there is one; nor do l know of any law
prohibiting it.
"Do need to add that, neither Oal<es
me, or offered to give me, one share or
twenty shares or two hundred shares in
the Credit Mobilier, or any other railroad
stock and that unfortunately l have
never seen nor received the value of a
farthing out of the go per cent divi-
dends nor the 800 per cent. dividends in
cash, stock, or bonds you have read
about for the past month, nor 100 per
CT mt, nor the tenth part of one per cent.
have said that if twenty shares Of it
could be purchased at par without buying
into prospective lawsuit, it would be a
good Investment, if as valuable stock as
represented. But never having been
plaintiff nor defendant in court of JUS
tice, want no stock at any price with a
lawsuit on the top of it
did he here say, or even intimate,
that he had never owned any of this
stock by purchase? Not word of it.
He only denied what was charged-that
stock had been given to him. Can the
Post show where he ever did receive
such a gift? Mr.. Colfax asserted that he
had right to buy this stock, and every
man who is neither fool nor knave,
will agree with him.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-02-27
RANDoK THOUGHTS.
M TIE EDITOR.

Ny good friend L T. gets after me
about constitutions. That is his hobby.
The Latin heading which placed over
his communication is true. A few years
age an attempt was made to organize
literary association in this place. and /
wanted to 90 to work without any con-
stitution or written regulations The DR.
would not hear to it. Like all other such
attempts ut organization in this place, the
entire time was taken up in getting the
constitution drafted and adopted. and in
debating questions as to the meaning of
the constitution So il is in national and
state affairs
The Dr. pictures bad state of affairs
in this country. This is mostly in his
imagination. But suppose what he says
60 be true Would not this be the
strongest argument against written con-
stitutions We surely have been living
under written constitutions all the time,
and he pictures the result. In England
they have no written constitution, and
with all their rotten borough troubles.
they have nothing half so bad as the DIR.
pictures.
He is entirely mistaken if he thinks /
favor violations of the Constitution. But
he admits and must admit, that written
constitutions are violated, and thus
brought into contempt For instance,
the constitution of our State requires
every bill before it becomes law, to be
read three separate times. on three sep
arate days; yet in the report of proceed
ings of our Legislature you will see
nearly every day where constitutional
rule is suspended, and bills read by their
title, which is simply not reading them
at all, and this pretended reading being
done twice in the same day-all plain
violation of the constitution by legislators
solemnly sworn to its support.
This veneration for written constitu-
tions is an insult to the intelligence of
the people. 1t is saying that they have
not sense enough to legislate, through
their immediate representatives. just
look at it. Here is my good friend Dr.
/. T., who would evidently like to go to
the convention. He would say to the
PCOPAOf AAA CoANCALAOAs DG6 mere.
You have not sense enough to know what
you want. or what you may want, during
the next twenty years; SO /, l. t. NJ, and
my fellow-delegates, viii tie you up for
the next twenty years. We will fix in
the constitution what you may do, and
what you may not do We know it pretty
much all. What we do not know is
scarcely worth knowing" Modest. is it
not2
We have full confidence in the intelli-
gence of the people. Let them alone,
and they will have just such laws as their
needs require. As to the charge that the
good people of Ohio will oppress a
minority of their own peopls-their own
unless bound by written, or
printed contract not to be scoundrels-I
this charge is another insult.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-02-27
THE NEW CONSTITUTION.


The present constitution of the State
defects, which should be remedied, and
It'll proposed to have this done by a
convention which will meet in May next,
the members of which will be elected on
che first Monday in April. One of the
greatest defects in the present constitu-
ton isour Judiciary arrangements. There
is not single question of party politics
in this. or any other question which is
likely to come before the convention !;
hence. there are but few counties in the
State where it is likely to be question
between the two old parties. There ap-
pears only to be desire to get the best
men in the convention.
In this county there appears to be 3
strong desire to send James Tripp. There
viii probably be no party conventions
called. Mr.. Tripp is man of undoubted
honesty, integrity and prudence. He
has large law practice. and has been
engaged in that business for over fifteen
years, and is well qualified to take an ac-
tive part in recognizing the Courts.
He has had four years experience in the
Ohio Legislature, and is we'll acquainted
with the manner of transacting business
in deiibetatiye bodies. No man in the
county has better moral character than
he has.
We understand that Mr.. Trip will
consent TO be delegate provided he can
go as the representative of the whole
people of the county, without being re-
quired to give any party pledges.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-02-27
JUDGES AND JURrEs.


When all the New York murderers
were escaping punishment the cry went
rp from the press all over the country,
that juries were too ignorant to do their
4uty. But when Stokes was tried, the
jury returned verdict of guilty, and the
press stood Amased To convict 20 re-
Gpectable criminal was too much. In
faet Stokes remarked that his convic-
tion was bo be attributed 20 his respecta-
bility. At once measures were taken to
save the villain from the gallows. 1t is
said that there are over thirty judges in
the State of New York, and every one of
them has separate and independent
juriediction over such cases as that of
Stokes. Application was made to Judge
3 iBoardman, and he refused a stay of pro-
eeedings. Application was made to
Judge Davis, and the murderer escapes.
II Davis had refused. the other thirty
would have been tried Is il possible
that no one Of the thirty could not have
been bought with the money of this rich
murdereri Fault was found with the
jury when it failed to agree in the Tweed
trial. What was the use of a jury con-
yicting Tweed He is rich enough 70
buy every one of these thirty judges.
His conviction and punishment in New
York is impossible. A few days ago the
Tribune had an editorial about iuries
finding much fault with them. In the
same number was another editorial, jus
tifying Judge Davis in saving the neck of
the murderer Stokes. Such is the con-
sistency of that paper.
Now what is to be done for the safety
Of the lives of innocent people2 We are
not swift to impute corrupt motives to
public officials. In fact, we are prone to
err the other way; but we think no one
will deny that the Judiciary of New York
isutterly corrupt. The1nurderers, thieves
and sccundrels in that State cannot be
punished according to law. and there
does not appear to be honesty enough in
: the people TO make change. We have
ever opposed mobs. under any circum-
stances. They are always unreasoning
and unsafe. But one thing we have OBJ
served. A mob, or the men composing
il, are never punished. and SO can act
with perfect safety. Now suppose that
the morning after this Judge Davis had
cleared the murderer Stokes, the body of
Davis had been found suspended to a
limb of the nearest tree. Would not the
other thirty judges have paused before
setting aside the verdict of the next jury
who convicted murderer