davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-01-22

WANTED. Il No. NURSE-middle-ag
w preferred. For such nnea good and pcrlna-
nput situation may hc had Ivy applying at No. j12
Sixth brt"ccn Clay and Leigh streets.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-01-22
WANTS.

ysT ANTED, a GOOD COOK, WASHER
w and IROSER. for three In family. Tt
that can come well recommended good wages will
be given. h ID. EACHD,
Real Estate Agent No. Fourteenth street,
IN oa-3l between Main and Franklin.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-01-22

OEFICE OLD DOMINION IRON AND NAIL WUHkS,
RICHMOND. January 20, 1878. !
WANTED, TO PURCH ASE, FOR
w CASH, WOODS-PINE LOGS, delivered on
the line of the i,auville railroad. Parties able to
make prompt deliveries will find II to their interest
to address ut once x. Il. BL LaNhENSHlP,
in 2C-lw Commercial Agent.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-12-13

There is a curious case now on trial in
the Surrogatc's Court, in New York. A
man named Hardin died recently, who
had done an extensive business as an
importer for twenty-five years. He was
at his business every day, and his asso-
Citations were with prominent and hon
orable men. He amassed during his
business career fortune of 81, ,OOO, 900,
and was generally thought to be Il
bachelor of modest and retired social
habits. Yet, during all this time, and
undiscovered by his most intimate ac
quaintances, he has lived with a woman
as his wife under the assumed name of
Mr.. and Mrs. Walker. To the neigh
bors, the trades people, the family
physician, and other domestic asso-
ciates, he was known as Mr.. Walker,
men of Broad and Liberty streets, he
was known as Mr. Hardin, and bachel-
or. Throughout twenty-five years there
was no confusion of the two charac-
ters-a circumstance which could only
be possible i'll a great metropolis like
New York. Upon his demise, the woman
with whom he had lived us wife made
application for half of his property, TO
which he was entitled i'll the absence of
a will, while several nephews claimed
the whole OF it ON the ground that she
had never been married to the deceased.
In support of her claim, she has pro-
duccd abundant evidence that she has
been known as the wife of the deceased
for twenty years, and that during that
time he had acknowledged and treated
her as such. At the last stage in the
proceedings, however, the contestants
produced witness who claimed to be
Mr.. Walker, the real husband of the
woman, and who testified that the
woman was arrested in 1913 for stealing
Il watch, and sent to Sing Sing for two
years, after which she had lived with
deceased as his wife The Mr. Walker
produced is a drunken shoemaker, who
spends most Of his time on Blackwell's
Island. Altogether the case is a queer
one, considering that 81 ! 900, 600 are in
ynlypl
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-12-13
Where Nickel Comes From.

Many people are not aware that the
nickel from which our smaller coins are
made comes from single mine, which
is the only one in the country that is
being worked. This mine is situated
in Lancaster county, Pa. 1t
has been worked for seventeen years,
and developed to a depth Of over two
hundred feet. The length Of this lode
is between two and three thousand feet,
and it produces from two hundred to
six hundred tons per month, employing
in the working of the mine force of
one hundred and seventy-ive men. In
the arts nickel is rapidly coming into
favor as n substitute for silver in plat
ing iron and other metals. It's com
mercial demand is rapidly increasing,
and, as it is much cheaper than silver,
it will undoubtedly be adopted in the
manufacture of many articles as
Il substitute for that more precious
metal. One mine, the Mine-la Motto
tract, Missouri, was worked from 1850
to 1850. The ore was the sulphuret,
associated with lead and copper. About
500, 900 was realize! from the crop
pings OF the vein. Groupings of nickel
ore are found also i'll Madison, Iron,
and Wayne counties, Mo. The refined
metal is worth three dollars per pound.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-12-13

Five brothers, comprising the entire
male members of n family named
Smaller, of Haddam, Conn, named re-
spectively Olcott, Orwell, Oscar, Or
lando, and Oliver W., chose Il seafarlng
life. Three became masters and part
owners of the vessels in which they
sailed. Since 1857 four have died and
been buried at sea. The fourth, Capt.
Orlando Smaller, left Savannah, Ga,
for this port, in his vessel, the schooner
Guy Il. Phelps, on the 2Oth of Septem-
Der. He died of fever on tie third day
out, and his body was committed to the
deep, after an Intellectual attempt of the
mate to reach the port of Beaufort, in
order to send his body home. The fifth
brother, Capt. Oliver w. Smaller, now
commands the schooner Il. S. Glider
sleeve, which sailed from this port for
Cedar Keys, Fla, on the ID of October,
and encountered the fearful storm of
the 9th and 7th inst, between Cape
Lookout and the Bahama Islands, but
arrived out with the loss of only a few
spars and torn sails. s.-Nc10 York EuGIl-
ina Post.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-12-13

Says a writer in the Chicago Journal:
In the requirement of perpetual health,
mental recuperation is Il necessary
agent. 1t is all fiction to say that men
must burn their brains out with the
midnight oil. There is nothing in the
most intense application which must
necessarily tend to shorten life. The
testimony which history bears to the
longevity of men whose lives have been
essentially intellectual confirms this
proposition. The following illustra-
tions from literature are striking con-
firmations of this theory. Georgias, the
rhetorician, worked to the age of los
years. Isocrates wrote to the age of
9S. Hipocrates was an ardent student
to the age of 80. The same is true
through long list of the names of per-
sons of that age, who exerted the great
est influence upon literature, philosophy
and history. Nearer our own day,
Richard Bentley died at the age OF 81,
Neander at rs, Sealiger at 60, Heyne at
81, Parr at so, Habley at 81, Newton at
81, Lord Bacon at 65, Kant at 80, Goe-
the at 80, Lord Mansfield at SO, John
Wesley, mt SO, Benjamin Franklin at 50,
DIR. Chalmers at SO, DIR. Johnson at 70,
Herschcl at 81, Laplace at II.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-12-13

The power of the eye is most strik-
ingly illustrated by the fact that when
two bodies of infantry meet in Il charge
of bayonets the front rank, on one side
or the other almost invariably gives
way directly the bayonets are crossed,
that is, before the cold steel enters the
body of either party. The front ranks
Give way, the rear ranks are generally
broken, and a rout ensues. The dread
full passion and fixed resolve in the eyes
of the front rank on one side everpow-
ers that of their antagonists, whose
hearts fail before them. Calculations
have been made to supersede this, by
the order that each soldiers bayonet
shall not take the man directly in front
OF him in the enemy's ranks, but the
next man to the left. A systematic mu-
tuahty of reliance was thus provided
for, and the effect of the cncmy'S eyes
superseded 1t was horribly clever
idea. But in vain-thc eye of the weak
er will only simmer, and wavers be-
tween the trembles for the mid
riif-anl no doubt gives the "prefer-
ence" to the man whose bayonet point
is within q few inches of the j"stc mill
ieH. Between the two he generally
fails, or takes to fight. The single
minded glare of the demon Of war re-
fleets the prefulent horror of the cold
steel point 1t is remarkable, on exam
lining the dead bodies on a field of bat
tie after there has been Il successful
bayonet charge, how few have been
killed by the point in charging thrusts.
The men have died from thrrlsts during
flight, or from the dubbed, i. e., butt
end blows, or pierced when on the
ground, or have been trampled to death.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-12-13

THE Grange is spreading in Virginia.
THE Paris Fire Department is man
aged by New Yorker.
MAINE claims the premium over all
other States in weathering the financial
panic.
The same engine at Spencer, Mass,
grinds sausage and prints the village
paper.
A FRENCH chemist has discovered
new method of making brown sugar and
he thinks he can sell it Mt three cents
pound.
The reintroduction of ruffs, now so
popular in this country, is due to wen
ON the neck of an English lady of
quality.
BRIGHAM You've is building himself
new house, which one of the local pa
pers declares will be zone of the most
gorgeous and costly residences any
where between sunrise and sunset"
REJECTED contributors form so large
class i'll England that they support
two magazines, whose pages contain
nothing that has not been declined by
the unappreciativc editors of other peri
odicals.
One good thing which the Changers
propose to do is to teach farmers how to
take care of their agricultural imple-
ments. A majority of Western farmers,
it is said, leave their high cost machines
uncovered ol er winter.
SIR HENRY THOMPSON, the surgeon,
makes larger income than any other
member of his profession in England.
In his youth Sir Henry was a linen
draper, but now, at the age of 50, he is
at the head Of his profession.
A KANSAS pastor has wisely declined
an addition of $lGO to his salary, on the
ground that the hardest part of his la
Dor heretofore has been the collecting
of his salary, and it would kill him to
undertake to collect 500 more
Ir is predicted as one of the possible
practical uses of balloons that the time
will come when mechanics who have to
work on church spires and high build
ings will do it by means of balloons in
stead of with the dangerous scatlolding
now in use.
In 1912 the theory of national pro-
lection of our citizens and aliens i'll the
service of the Government on the high
seas was thus stated by Daniel Web
stcr: I" In every regularly docu-
mcnted American merchant vessel the
crew who navigate it will find their pro-
lection in the flag which is over them"
Mr. TEGETMEIER recently liberated at
the London Bridge Station eight
pigeons which competed for valuable
silver cup. They rose well into the air,
and then flew straight away i'll the right
direction without turn. Two OF them
made ga dead heat" the time, " in
Guiding that required for capturing and
showing the birds" being Is minutes
the exact distance G3 miles. The
weather was overcast and rainy.
Most American travellers throw away
much of their reading matter at their
journeys end But in England at each
station can be found a box fastened up,
very similar to our letter boxes, but
sometimes larger, into which the trav-
eler puts his papers, books, etc. Those
are in turn collected by men who carry
them to hospitals, homes for old men
and women, and similar institutions,
where they are gladly received.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-12-13
Fire Alarm.

A contemporary calls attention to one
of the simplest and most effective de-
vices for giving timely alarm in case of
fire breaking ont III building namely,
an ingenious little invention known as
the Tunnlcliife Fire Alarm. n is
nothing more than Il cylindrical barrel
some three inches long by an inch and
II half in diameter, which, by screw
attached midway along its length, may
be readily secured to the ceiling or any
part of the room desired. 1t is made of
malleable iron, with Il smooth bore, and
contains, when ready for use, small
charge of powder, to which is attached
an inch of fuse. This fuse is formed of
chemical mixture that will ignite
whenever the surrounding atmosphere
is heated to 200 degrees Fahrenheit {;
that is to say, it is kindled by merely
heated air, and ut temperature less
than that OF boiling water. In case of
fire, the heat, which ascends at once to
the ceiling, quickly ignitcs the fuse, and
causes the required explosion to take
place before the flames can get beyond
point at which they may be quenchod
by pail Of water. The discharge of
one of these protective instruments
makes report as loud as that Of an
army musket loaded with regulation
cartridge.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-12-13
The Onion as Food.

It is stated that the onion forms one
of the common and universal supports
of life in Spain and Portugal. Author
ity shows, according to analysis, that
the dried onion contains from twenty
five to thirty per cent. of gluten, and
ranks III this respect with the nutritious
pea and the grains. at is not merely
as relish that the wayfaring Spaniard
eats his onion with his humble crust of
bread rs he sits by the refreshing
spring but it is because experience has
long proved that, like the cheese of the
English laborer, it helps to sustain his
strength also, and adds, beyond what its
bulk would suggest, to the amount OF
nourishment which his simple meal
supplies"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-12-13

above 200 could be spared for duty
outside our own territory. The Spanish
forces in Cuba are variously estimated
from 80, 600 to So, 900. 1t is Just posi-
BILE, should Spain get a foreign war on
her hands, that all the elements now
warning upon each other within her
borders may unite to sustain the Gov
ernment DC ,tuctO, and under those CIR
cumstanccs, Uncle Samuel would have
an opportunity to
Call 3OO.O00 murc
Shouting the battlc-cry of Freedom
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-12-13

CAPT. Fry AS AN ARTILLERY OFFICER
Capt. Joseph Fry, during the war,
belonged to the Confederate Mississippi
squadron, and was commander of the
battery at st. Charles, on White river,
Ark, which fired the fatal shot into the
gunboat Mound City, cutting her steam
drum, whereby Engineer William Will
COX, of Cincinnati, and over 100 others
lost their lives. Capt. Fry was a gradu-
ate of the Annapolis Naval School,
which he entered in 1874, and served i'll
the United States Navy until the COM
mcncement of hostilities in 1861. lie
was native of Florida. .-LiHic Rock
Cirk.) gazette.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-12-13
IN ME MDRIAN.

There have been few more beautiful poems th
this written 1t on reading 1t that George
Prentice said: Zone might almost wish to DIE,
he knew that so beautiful tribute as this would
written to his memory
On the bosom of a river
Where the sun unlUused his qInVer
And the starlight CLEANED forever,
Sailed n vessel light and free.
Morning dew drops hung like mamma
On the bright folds of her banner,
And the Zcphyrs rose to fan her
Softly to the radiant sea.
It her PROV pilot beaming
In the flush of youth stood dreaming,
And lie was in glorious seeming
Like an angel from above.
Through his hair the brcczcs sported,
And as on the wave he ilOatcd,
OFT that pilot, angel throated,
Warbled lays of hope and love,
Through those locks so bithcly flowing,
Buds of laurel bloom were blowing,
And his hands anon were throwing,
Music from Il Tyre of gold.
Swiftly down the stream he glidcd,
Soft the purple wave divided,
And q rainbow arch ahided
On his canvas, snowy fold.
Anxious hearts with fond devotion
Watched him sailing to the ocean,
Prayed that never wild c"mmutlon
Mid the elements might rise.
And he seemed like some Apollo
Charming summer winds to follow,
While the water tlag's carnlla
Trcmbled to his music sighs.
But those purple waves enchanted,
Rolled beside city haunted
by an awful spell that daGnted
Every conner to tine shore.
Night shades rank thc air encumbcred,
And the pale marble statue numbered
Where the lotus eaters slumbered,
And awoke to life no more.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-12-13
The PaperleSS Man.

We expected something when we saw
him trying to stuff one of John Tobin-
sons S circus bills into his pocket. Draw
ing neai and assuming one of orr smiles,
we inquired if he would not like to sub
scribe for good family paper For Il
moment the roller of clods semed nearly
lost in deep thought, then he slowly went
down into his pocket, drew out for
midable looking jack knife, and began to
whittlc on Il quarter-sectiOn of Il dry
goods box. He didn't whittle calmly
and deliberately as some folks whittle,
but sawed and gashed at the innocent
board rs though he was severing the
juglIar vein of some savage Modoc.
Young man., said he, sending Il long,
slim shaving close to our nose.
subscribed for paper once-it has
been quite Il spell ago-and it was a
slim legged chap about like you that
asked me to do it. We began to wish
the man over ON the corner would call
lis over there, but he did not. "Did
you like your paper?' we venturcd to
ask. Like it % he repeated well, |
rather guess | did but | got bit,
stranger. Yes, I'll be essentially cussed
eff | didn't get bit bad. You see as |
WAS one day readin' the news, | hap
pcncd to see a little advertisement
away down in one corner, and it said as
how if any one would send twenty-five
cents he would get fine steel photo
graph of Gen. Jackson. Now as
Samantha-that's my t'other half
was amazin' fond of pictures, | Jest
thought I'd send for one. So l put my
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-12-13

Or INTEREST TO OLD PEOPLE.-ln old
age incrustations form on the arteries.
cartilages and valves of the heart. The
deaths after the seventy-fifth year are
often caused by such incrustations.
They can be removed, however, by
Tactic acid AS buttermilk abounds III
this acid, NJ. Robing, in communica-
ton to the French Academy, advocates
its use as means of prolonging life.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-12-13
Startling News from Madrid.

WAsnINGroN, Nov. 25.-Hon. William
NJ. Evarts tclegraphs here from New
York the following important dispatch
81 have received to-day n private dis
patch. written in cipher, from Madrid,
which is so startling III its character
that | communicate it at once. The re-
public of Spain, or rather The form of
republic under Castelar,, is to be over
thrown by Il combination Of ruling
Spaniards too strong for him to resist.
The plan includes the establishment of
Marshal Serrano as regent for the young
Duke Alfonso, who at Il certain time is
to be proclaimed King, his Queen
mother, Isabella, abdicating her claims
to the throne in his favor. The quick
succession of events in Spain have
proved the inoiliciency Of Castelar, and
the Government he assumes to con-
troll to cope with the disaf1cction
in his Cabinet, insubordination in
the army, and the struggle of the
Carlist forces. In addition to this, the
p over of the priesthood has been Sc
cretly and most powerfully at work I'M
dermining the strength of republican
ism in Spain, and the hereditary oil
garchy of that nation has united its
strength with the church to bring about
this result. 1t is also undoubtedly true
that the coming of CASTELAR, toward a
pacific solution of the United States
Cuban difficulties has procipitated the
overthrow of the republic, and the re-
establishment of the Bourbon dynasty.
What have given above is the sub
stance of this important dispatch, and
conveys to Washington the first news OF
a national movement which cannot fail
of results that will complicate our diplo-
matte relations with the Government OF
Spain"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-12-13

The whole number of NIodocs sent to
the island in South Platte river, near
Fort Mcpherson, Neb., is 157.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-12-13
IncIe Sans ARMY.

The entire amy of the United States
at present includes only 30, 600 men and
about 1000 officers. At the most not
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-12-13

One day recently, Il respectfully
dressed man carried a well grown child,
mutlled up and apparently sick, into
French's Hotel He placed the child
on the stairs and began to talk to it in
a very rough, unkind way. The attcn-
ton Of the guests was attracted and
they gathered around.
You are able to walk up stairs by
yourself" said the man, land | won't
carry you.
The poor child began to sob wofsG
than before, and the brutal man gave it
Il severe thump on the side of the head.
The child moaned piteously. The in
diguatiou of the bystanders was excited,
and on" of them said to the man:
{" Is chat your child?"
What's that to you?" the man an
swered " won't tell You.
"He's my father," the child sobbed ;
"and he killed - my mother Just
as-he 's-going -to-kill-
The man doubled his fist and made as
if he was about to give the child aarsav-
age blow. One of the bystandcrs inter
fercd and said
"Say, if you don't stop:this, I'll call
policeman. never saw such Il brutal
father in all my life. -
The man began to tumble in his
pockets and the child cried out
Take care, he's got Il knife. He's
going to stick you.
Sure enough, the man produced a
knife and opened it. The crowd slipped
away, one by one, except two.
"Bring an officer, one of the men
cried to friend.
If am to be arrested" the man
said, "it will be for something" and
thereupon he plunged the knife into the
body Of the child. The child shrieked,
I'm murdered, and Il crowd rushed to
the spot. The man quietly raised the
child in his arms, and removing his hat
said
Gentlemen, this is wooden child.
I'm ventrlloquist, and any little offer
ing you may be pleased to make, will be
yely acceDtable "-Nfir ]OJE .Sitll
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-12-13
LONDON.

Some of the Famous Persons and Institu-
tiOns of the British NIetrOpolis-West-
minister Abbey, the Tower OF London,
the British Museum, etc. Described.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-12-13

ally, and is kept by her at Windsor
Palace. the one exhibited in this collcc-
tion being only a crystal facsimile Of the
pririna1
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-12-13
NUMBER 12.
General Notes.

THE Grange is spreading in Virginia.
THE Paris Fire Department is man
ped by a New Yorker.