davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29
A STORY OF AGGRAvATION.
In H1ultitudInous Chapters.
CHAPTER I.

THE AMERICAN VELVET PLANT.
'tMy dear, said Mrs. Scroggs, "you
must get me at once an American vel
Vet-plant. have been reading its de-
scription. It is charming"
My dear" said A1r. Scroggs, there
are several growing out there on the
hill Which shall I transplant for
you?"
sWhat do you mean 2" said Mrs.
Scroggs.
g The American velvet-plant' is the
mullen" said Mr.. Scroggs.
H Pshaw r said Mrs. Scroggs.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29

leins, ss They live in a world of their
own." They will not see themselves as
others see them | Talking of art. and
stamped indelibly with Poverty. her
mark Condemned for life to fiat beer.
and dreaming of Amontillado. in yene.
tian glass They could not be made to
see why it was SO impossible to grow at
least one little rose from their stalk.
just one
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29

A POPULAR clergyman says it is in
teresting to observe how many people
go to the circus, ssjust TO please the
children, !" and very curious to notice
that sometimes it takes several able
bodied men and motherly women to
look after one little boy or girl on such
an occasion.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29
CHAPTER X.
THE LITTLE WOMAN AS BUYER.

THE LITTLE WOMAN AS BUYER.
The little woman, who has slipped
out quietly, comes in and sits down by
the window, although it is cold. She
has been trying to buy Christmas
wreath with her six cents, but there are
none to be found at cheaper rate than
a shilling apiece.-LouSse e. Fug7aiSs,
in AppLetO1a g Journal.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29
A BUSY MART.

The Trade and Commerce OF Chicago EOI
the Past Year-Thc Receipts and Ship
ments of Live stock, Produce, etc.
We condense from the Chicago Times
the following brief exhibit of the COM
merce and trade of Chicago for the past
year. The receipts and shipments of
the different cereals are shown in the
ANNEXED table
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29

THE authorities of Danbury, Conn.
have required the owner of every build
ing to provide it with strong ladder.
under penalty of one dollar month.
You need not look there is no joke in
this.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29

PACKING AND PROVISION INTEREST.
It is estima ted by competent parties
that there is between $12, 600, 600 and
$14, 600, 600 of capital employed in the
packing houses, while the aggregate
trade is estimated at $50, 900, 600. The
following shows the receipts and ship
mente of produce since Jan. 1
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29
RECEIVED.
THE LUMBER BUSINESS,

Chicago is still the largest and most
important lumber market in the world.
There are now about $50 firms engaged
in this branch of business, and over
$12, 900, 600 is constantly employed in
the city, while over $50, ,O00, 600 is in
vested by Chicago men outside of the
city, in mills, pine lands, etc. To
transport this properly large feet of
vessels is constantly engaged during
the season of navigation, and upward
distributing and manufacturing it into
dressed lumber, sash and doors. The
following table shows the receipts and
shipments of lumber, shingles and lath
during the mast year
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29

Dr.. EVANS, the American Paris dem
tist, had the honor of rasping the teeth
of the Prince of Wales, the other day.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29
Immigration.

The report of the Chief of the Bureau
of Statistics has the following table,
containing comparative statement Of
immigration by countries ethnoloRically
grouped for the four fiscal years, from
July l, 1870, to June 80, 1874:
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29

PRODUCE.
The following is statement of the
receipts and shipments of few of the
prominent articles of produce
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29


grouped for the four fiscal years. from
July l, 1870, to June 80, 1874:
Countries ethnolog- c--Year emded juno SO-
scGtty grouped. 1871. 1872. 1873. 1874.
England, Scotland
and Wales.... +95.455 83,SoA SO, 462 81 oo0
Ireland. ....-.. 57.43s 6s,Ta2 1884 6S7o7
Teutonic: Germa-
ny, Austria aud
Netherlands.., 8S, 43l 147 900 I59 3A7 OF eQS
Scan dinayian:
Sweden, Norway
.3 ana Dennsrk.:: 22,lsa as.s7s ss.4s1 1918
France, Sw1tzer-
land, Italy, Spain
and Portugal. :. 9,s33 1880 2SSG1 q 694
Sclavonic: Russia
~ Poland sss ss ass sssss ssss ,sTs: 81:
British North
American Prov
1nces. 47,O&2 &0.1IS 37.8H 32,9G0
Spanish and Port
uguese Colonies:
Mexico, South
America, Cuba
and Porto Rico. I.2i8 l6O0 I7e0 L53s
All other countries lat 4.A<e s6.O67 6.llI
Total Immigrants ssi, $50 4o1.sOs 4s0,sos sls,ss0
.16,O42 Of this number were reported as from
Great Britain, not specined.n
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29
GRMRRAL MEROHANnl

GENERAL MERCHANDISE.
The following shows the estimated ag-
gregate transactions in the different
channels of merchandise for the past
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29

Total bu thour reduced to

Total bu (hour reduced to
wheaf) st, ,050, ,637 SO, ,356, 6
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29

Total. !, ,s4s, ,sl7 24sk 4.22s, ,9al
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-03-06
A New Invention OF the Enemy.

This brings me to speak Of this new
style of promenading with the gentle
man hanging on the lady's arm. This
is a contemplate thing, and should be
cast out of all goo society as evil.
One may say, "I can't zee any differ
ence which has hold of the others
arm" Possession, in law, is considered
half, and why not SO in other things?
A woman's safeguard is to keep q mans
hands off Of her. II you need his as
sistance in walking, take his arm in
stead of his taking yours. just tell
He may not like it at the time, but he
will like you tenfold more. Men will
be, and do. just what the women allow
them to. Men will not do to trust.
Give a man your atm and you will
find him very confidential and he will
take great many privileges he would
not take, if he was not permitted to do
SO. He will Pive your arm many affec-
t1onate squeezes and ely twists that he
could have no opportunity Of doing,
and the opportunity is just what he is
after. A few words more of advice,
and I close. Keep your girls off the
square only when they have business.
Teach them that it is unnecessary to go
to the postoffice every time they go out.
Your glrls can walk alone Just as well
as your boys. Don't allow your girls,
if they have a beau, to 30 with boys
much older than themselves. If pos
sible, instill into their very natures that
they are safer in their own hands than
they are in thu hands of any man
preachers not excep 'ed.-EIchange.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-03-06

depot, because oats will follow corn
with no cost but the seed and harvest
ing, both of which can be paid for
every winter in the mutton that can be
fatted on the growing crops; it is
cheaper to raise all the pork the farm
er's family can consume annually than to
buy bacon at ten cents per pound it is
cheaper to grow pound of wool, up to
a certain number of pounds, than the
same number of pounds of cotton and
it is cheaper to grow anything that can
possibly be grown upon the farm than
to buy it on a credit.
Few farmers understand properly
what is meant by "buyirg on a credit. !"
They know they get the article and pay
more for it than if they paid the cash /;
but they never once calculate the pre-
MUM and percentage they are paying
for this privilege of getting time or
credit. Let me illustrate. The aver
age farmer may raise meat enough to
do him till the LIST of April. By that
time he has to buy; but having no
cash, though good credit, he goes to
the store and buys bacon at Is cents
per pound, payable LIST of November
following. He learns the cash price is
12a cents per pound, but necessity COM
pels him to buy on credit. He thus
pays q cents per pound FOR the priv
lege of buying on a credit, on one-sixth
the price to be paid, which 10 simply
16s per cent. per annum for the use of
money, But he buys in April, and has
to pay first November, only eight
months credit, and thus pays twenty
five per cent. per annum for the use of
money. What farmer can afford to do
this and live? What is applicable to
bacon is equally so to corn, hay, -four,
implements, mules, and every article
the farmer buys on q credit.
It is estimated that the average in
crease of the agricultural wealth of the
United States is about fonr per cent.
per annum The average increase of
agricultural wealth in any southern
state annually since the war has not
been one per cent. Indeed, some of the
states have travelled the other road, and
are now lost in the wilderness of debt
and there is no more potent cauee for
This condition of things than that of
buying on a credit the necessaries of
life to enable them to grow cotton, and
this, too, very frequently at cost that
exceeds its market value. There is an
infatuation about this cultivation of
cotton that amounts to an hallucinatiop.
Can there be nothing Invented to SO far
dispsl it as to induce the southern
farmer to live more within himself and
less at the mercy of the Shylocks of the
land Cor. Rural CdrolSnian.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-03-06

and forever, she did not heed the light
footsteps of time till some far off clock
tolled out the hour, and as it ceased,
two other voices-was it the echo of
their ewn-took up the strain two
voices, strangely familiar to Jack,
standing there in the shadow of the
indens, whose tones gave him a great
thrill of enlightenment, as Titania and
Starveling, tired of dance and mask,
paced up and down the sweet secluded
tryst and opened their hearts.
Emilia" Starveling was saying,
whom Jack had recognized earlier as
the handsome cousin OF his fancee,
"are you still bent on feeding your
pride and starving your heart? Isn't
love better than noble birth, older than
the oldest families.
CT don't know" answered Amelia,
lightly. "We know what life is like,
you and I. Franz; but the trouble is
we can't climb this family tree of ours
far without coming upon hornets
nest. If our great grandfather had
traded in the Indies and lost every cent,
instead of sitting on his bench and
pegging shoes and laying by treasures,
why, in that case, my dear Franz. 1
should prefer you to all the Jack Ches-
eldens that ever breathed.
"'Your pride is yet no mate for mine,
Too proud to care from whence 1 came "
quoted the love-sick youth, as they
passed on through the treacherous
shadows. The hand that Jack was
about to relinquish was pressed closer
as the tunefol voice died away in whis-
pers the farewell he had been about to
utter tainted on his lips; there was no
reason under heavens why he should
marry Emilia, since she did not love
him. He drew Dawn toward his b art;
the adagio of flutes and violius drifted
down to them as if blown from some
other world.
"Puck has been playing pranks with
all of us but the spell is broken, F."
said he. We belong to each other. "
And so the midsummer night ended.
"Miss Cabot" said Mrs. Deuceacre
next morning, L" I understand that you
were seen walking in tine shrubbery
last night VITA Mr.. Jack Cheselden. If
this is true, permit me to say that your
services will be no longer needed in my
house."
cit is all quite true" said Dawn.
81 am going to marry Mr.. Jack
Cheselden."
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-03-06
Sleep.

A physician says that the cry for rest
has always been louder than the cry for
food not that it is often harder to OBJ
tain. The rest comes from sound sleer.
OF two men or women, otherwise equal,
the one who SLEEPS the best will be the
most moral, healthy and efficient.
Sleep will do much to cure irritability
Of temper, peevishness and uneasiness.
1t will restore to vigor an overworked
brain. twill bnild up and make strong
weary body. 1t will cura headache.
1t will cure a broken spirit. 1t will
cnre sorrow. INDEED, we might make
long list of nervous and other mala-
dies that sleep will cure. The cure of
sleeplessness requires a clear con-
science, and avoidance Of stimulants
aud narcotics. For those who are over
worked, hsggard, nervous, who pass
sleepless nights, We commend the adop-
ton of such habits as shall secure
sleep: otherwise, life will be short, and
what there is of it sadly imperfect.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-03-06
What is a I" Gentleman 2"

What is gentleman? ?" is ques-
ton almost useless to ask in society, for
it is practically insoluble, and leads to
endless discussions as to birth, moral
worth, mental accomplishments, and
conventional manners. But the lawyers
have got hold of it now, and last week
four of cur best Coleridge,
Heating, Grove, and Denman-debated
heartily the pros and cons Of the dis
puted point. The case arose through
the description in legal document of a
retired lawyers clerk. who acted occa-
sionally in the capacity of a writer of
gentleman" No doubt, accuracy OF
description is extremely useful, and
may be essential in matters of law. So
the four judges "granted a rule" on
the prin.a facie ground that the word
so applied was inaccurate, insufficient
or wrong" One counsel commended
that he ought to have been called q let
ter writer or debt collector, while a
Judge pointed out that if indicted for
any offense he would be called "la-
borer." 1t appeared in evidence that
at the time he was employed in what is
called "winding up" an estate, but
"estate winder" is not calling in any
directory we know. In one quoted case
the judges held that q government clerk
ought no. to be described as "gentle-
man" decision that may dismay some
of the young patricians who take tie
queens pay In West End off oes, and
would especially shock Thackeray's
Rawlins Rawlins, E-q, of the foreign
office, who was such an Ass and re-
spectacle" At the previous hearing of
the case Mr.. Talfourd asserted that
"the term would include anybody who
had nothing to do and was out of the
work-houee." This, we humbly think,
is going little too far, for it comprises
habitual thieves, mendicants and per
sons in the receipt of outdoor relief.
Some of the judges inclined to the be-
lief that this handy man who worked at
all kinds of odd jobs ought to have
been described as of emo occupation, !"
because he attached himself permanent
ly to none. The awkwardness of the
whole question arises from two causes
the desire of some persons with dem
ocratic occupations to pass in society
for persons of higher standing, or to
conceal their connections with new call
ipgs that as yet have no recognized
status. The best final solution might
be to reject the legal status of the word.
The means of livelihood generally sup
ply the best indications men are land
owners, farmers, fundholders, share
holders, ETC., and few cases cannot be
covers by titles of this kind. In truth,
"gentleman" ought to be, not legal
style, but title of honor given by So
ciety, and therefore affixed according to
the varying standards of place, circum-
stances or time. Its retention in law
papers when the proper use of the term
is SO perplexed is apt to be a SNARE
London Telegraph.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-03-06

How TO ALLEVIATE CoUaH.-The
London Lancet, which ought to be a
good authority, says: ''Anodynes, mar
cotics. cough mixtures and lozenges,
are practically of no good, and but too
often increase the debility and hasten
the fatal end. The best method of cas-
ing cough is to resist it with all the
force of will possible, until the accumu
lation of phlegm becomes greater, then
there is something to cough against,
and it comes up very much easier, and
with half the coughing. A great deal
of hacking and hemmiIg and coughing
in invalids is nervous, purely nervous,
or from the force of habit, as is shown
by the frequency when thinking about
it, and the comparative rarity when the
person is 80 much engaged that there is
no time to think about it, and the at
tention is compelled in another direc-
tion."
VINEGAR BIrTERs.-Dr. j. Walker, q
regular practicirg physician of Cali
fofnia, has conferred a priceless boon
upon mankind, by the introduction of
"Bitters compounded from herbs
exclusively, which may be truly said
to be supersedipg all others. erd is
becoming a bitter dose indesd for the
charlatans and quacks, on account of
its immense sale and universal popu-
larity. Not only are these Vinegar
Bittera, as he calls them, an invalu-
able tonic and Alternative. but they al e
ackno wledged as a standard Medicine,
and the astonishing rapidity with
which they cure diseases hitherto de-
clared incurable, seems almost incred-
ible. After having been carefully
tested, they are kept on hand in thou
sands of households, and used for any
and every form of disease, many re-
lying upon them in preference to the
most celebrated physicians. They
have become q recognized "famIly
remedy" and properly so.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-03-06
Don't Hack, Hack, Cough, Cough

Cough is a symptom by which various dis
eased conditions OF the throat, bronchial tubes
and lungs manifest themselves. But whether
it arises from the irritation produced in the
throat and larynx by taking cold, from an at
ton, or from various other causes, nothing
will allay it more speedily or cure it more per-
manentiy than DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery. 1t does not matter whether it be
a recent attack, or a lingering cough. the Dis
for its relief and permanent cure. In fact, it
will cure q cough in one-half the time neces-
sary to cure it with any other medicine, and it
does it, not by drying it up, but by removing
the cause, subduing the irritation. and healing
tho affected parts. No time should be lost in
commencing the use of proper medicine for
the relief Of q cough, for unless this course is
.ursued, serious and dangerous disease Of the
covery is sold by all dealers in medicines.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-03-06
DR. adful Picture OF the Persian Famine.

Statistics will show far more forcibly
than could any exercise of the imsgina-
ton how bitter we're the sufferings of
the Pereians while the lord of all that
fair land of Ivan was spending untold
gold in his visit to Europe. Hardly
had DR.. Bellew and his English fellow
travellers who have told the story left
Afghanistan than the signs of the long
three years of famine were seen on every
hand. Everywhere we're deserted houses
upon which the curse had laid its ma
liRnant hand. The green and beauti-
fully foliated trees, the vineyards and
orchards, stood in stark contrast to the
misery that reigned around. The high
roads were insecure, for the Turcomans
had everywhere resumed their old habits
of plundering, robbing, and murder
ing. MescEid, out Of a population of
As 500, had lost 90, 600 inhabitants, who,
without Offering the slightest resistance,
had been marched off to slavery in
Khiva and Bokhara, had persisted of
hunger. In such numbers did the
starving wretches allow themselves TO
be led to chains for the sake of food,
that the gates of the city had to be
locked to keep any of the Inhabitants in
the city. We give q few of the most
fearful examples of misery. Only four
families remain in Mahiabad. Out of
400 in Ghibk, only $50 inhabitants are
left. In Kun numbers of families
strayed away to look for food where, in
dse1, none was to be had. The sur
vivors were too feeble to bury the dead,
who, exposed, added pestilence to fam
inc. In Damghan, Geographic station
east OF Tehersn, only 200 famiI re-
main out of 1. 900. and in Teheran itself
200 persons persisted weekly of starva.
ton and typhus. The district of Tur-
bet HardarI lost 20, 600; the district of
Selzwar, "a, 600; of Nischapur, at least
10000; Hamadan, lost between 25. 900
and 5O,0 and in Kirmanscha alone
Is. 600 persisted of hunger. On the
whole journey from the frontiers of AZ
ghanistan to the Persian capital DIR.
Bellew saw not one child; all were
dead. Nowhere was there music, sing
ing, or Joy. All was sorrow, death,
mis- ery.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-03-06
Chinese Revival Meeting.
Effect of the Preaching of the Evange
lit liam InQnda

list Iiammond.
The sensation of the day was a meet
ing gotten mp by Wah 10y, a converted
Chinaman. It was held on the corner
of and Third streets. Wah 10y man
aged, at half past one O'Clock, to get
togeth some 200 of his country men.
He had about him six Chinese who have
been Christianized. These were pro-
vided with singing books, while on a
blank wall we're hung a number of slips
of white cloth, on which various songs
were sterciled. 10y stood in front of
these, and with long wooden pointer
pointed out the words, emphasizing the
syllables and the music at the same
time. The singing by the Cinnamon
reason to expect. Early in the evening
a number of ladies came up and aided
in the singing, and subsequently the so
or 60 whit men in the crowd Joined in
the choruses. After considerable sing
ing, Rev. Mr.. Hough addressed the
Chime SO assembled, Wah 10y interpret
ing sentence by sentence.
"When Jesus was kere in the
world"
Chow 10y sing chewing see Jesus see
you late"
"He said, Come unto me all ye that
labor and are heavy laden, and will
give you rest"
"Say lung yet che choy ching buy
sat che quoy longing, onlying yah wong
yet wing choyse."
"You are all seeking for happiness.
but you are not happy"
cling ty Sc ing you moy chawiDg
sing eew s,t yeng."
"You seek for happiness, but do not
find it."
"Ayng how u sing chopg lee set sing
coy ing gee"
Jesus shows us the way to true
happiness"
lying low mnsing leying toy set
oy-ng."
In this manner the exhortation pro-
ceedsd d. The Chinese above given, if
not thoroughly ineligible to the civil
il ID reader, can be sifted by the ne a, est
Chinese laundrymar, our report being
special and accurate and in the pureet
tone of the poetieal tongue of the
fowery kingdom.
Wah 10y now took the stand and
preached to the Chinese for twenty hin
ute in what appe art to be an earnest
and eloquent manner, if eloquence has
a place in Chinese culture.
More singing followed, and Mr.. Ham
mord having meanwhile arrived, was
placed in a buggy. and Wah 10y mount
ing beside him, the Evangelist preached
to the Cinnamon, the interpreter, SEN
tence by sentence, translating for him.
The Chinese gave good attention, and
nearly all wore smiling faces. It was
great curiosity to them. Said one:
"All same Nellie man, Chinese hab
big meet, all eame in street. Bully
Sacramento Record.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-03-06
Effect OF Nervous Influence ON the
Heart.

Experiments made with much care
and precision show that the circulation
of the blood is accelerated or retarded
by nervous influences in manner which
before was only vaguely suspected.
More recently the Investigations of this
subject by NJ. Marcy, in relation to the
beating of the heart, and its connection
with muscular exercise, fever, and vio-
lent emotions of anger, fear, JOY, ETC.,
all of which, he says, exercise direct
action on the peripheric circulation,
have excited peculiar interest. NJ.
Marcy does not consider variation in
the beating of the heart to be due to
any change in the activity of the heart
itself, but says it is certain that chances
in the general circulation take place
under the influence of moral emotions,
the face becoming red, or pale, etc.
These well-known changes must entail
variations in the frequency of the beat
ings of the heart, SO that the power
which moderates or accelerates the con-
tracJions of the heart. he thinks, can
be no other than the contractility of the
vessels of the whole body by nervous
agency.