davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Morning herald., 1875-11-03
Minnesota.
REPUBLICAN VICTORY,

ST. PAUL, NOV. 3.-The returns W to
midnight are meager, but enough to indi-
cate election of Pillsbury and the whole Re-
publican ticket by q favorable majority of
over 5000, excepting the candidate for State
Treasurer, whose elections is probable but
net certain. The Anti Monopoly and tenn
perance ticket received very few votes.
The Morning herald., 1875-11-03
ELECTIONS YESTERDAY.
RETURNS BY TELEGRAPH.

Twenty Thousand
Republican-A Snarp Fight in New
Yerk-Heavy Republican Majori-
ties In the West-N~w York, Mary
land, Mississippi and New jersey
60 Democratic-Ca Carpet Rag Rule
Killed in the SOnth.
The Morning herald., 1875-11-03
Illinois.

REPUBLICAN, TICKET ELECTED.
oalcAso, Nov. Entire Republican
s'Aet in the city and county conceded by
,uS'orlty of not less than 5000. 1t was the
'''uest battle ever fought in the city.
The Morning herald., 1875-11-03
Michigan.

DEMOCRATIC VICTORY IN MICHIGAN.
DETROIT, MICH, Nov. 3. = The Detroit
city election to-day hung on the question of
selling beer and liquors on Sunday. W. G..
Thomson, Republican, favored Sunday liquor
selling and Alexander Lewis, Democrat, who
represented law and order was elected by
about 800 majority. r.
The Morning herald., 1875-11-03
The Ba NIX Of England.

LONDON, Nov. 2.-12:30 p. NIT is gen.
orally believed that the Bank of England
rate will be lowered on or before Thursday.
The rate of discount in the open market for
three months bills is 2H per cent. which
is ~ below the bank rate. Consuls,64 1-16
for money and account. Erie, 152s.
The Morning herald., 1875-11-03
Seventeen Persons Drowned.

QUEBEC, Nov. "A Scow containing
eighteen persons was capsized during a gale
at St. Fanville Isle, of Orleans, and seven
teen were drowned. They were residents of
the Island, and were returning from ma rket
when the calamity occurred.
The Morning herald., 1875-11-03

Heavy Wlthddral From the Bank Of
England.
LONDON, Nov. 1880 p. m To-day
1854 900 were withdrawn from the bank on
balances, most of it for shipment to Ger
many.
The Lord Chancellor and Lords Justices
W ill sit as the Court of Appeals.
The Morning herald., 1875-11-03
Pennsylvania.

THE STATE FOR HARTRANFT BY II: 900 MA
JORITY-HEAvY DEMOCRATIC GAINS
STATE RETURNS UP TO pam.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 8, 2 A. M.-Wil
Transport gives majority for Hartranft o.
IL; a Democratic gain on Latta's vote oflast
year.
Lycoming county is good for 1000 Demo-
cratic majority.
In Blair county sayspore borough gives
Pershing majority of 81; and Millistown
givef Pershing a majority of 127, Repub.
lican gain. --
In Somerset county, 4th District, gives 92
gain for Hartranft.
Hazleton, Lazurene county, gives Is ma
jority for Hartranft; Republic an gain of
9G.
Easton gives Republican majority Of 50,
a Republican gain of 252.
Poottsville gives Pershing 1900 majority.
Lebanon borough gives 1872 Republican
majority. Allentown, Filth Ward, gives a
Democratic majority of 112. Second Ward,
Democratic majority of 8.
East Pike Land township, Chester county,
a Democratic majority of 60, Republican
gain Of 200.
Bel!efonte gives Democratic majority of
Is, and gain of II.
Harrisburg goes Republican by 800, gain
of 800.
Wilkesbarre, Fourth Ward, gives Re-
publican majority of IS, Democratic gain
of II. .,
Phoenixyille gives Democratic majority
of a0A. .a Republican gain Of SO.
schuylkill Township, Chester county,
gives Republican majority of 20, gain of
Is.
Uniontown gives Republican majority
of 25, gain of 49,. '..
Lewisburg gives Republican majority Of
1874.
Pittsburg in so districts, gives Republi-
can majority of 5000, and gains of 5000.
Kittanning in three districts, gives Re
publican gain of 1876.
Norristown in sixteen districts, gives a
Republican gain of 1888.
Lycoming county gives Democratic ma
jority of 1000. t
Perks county shows Democratic gain o +,
1000. .|....
Bedford gives Hartranft majority Of
twenty-nine. .Dr.... ..y,...
Lancaster gives net gains in 80 districts
Indicating $500 for the Republicans show
ing gain of 25, the county will give about
5000 Republican majority.
Delaware county will give 1 800 >Republi
ian majority. @ .'.'.'A ." ,'.".
Clarion county will give Republican
rain of 1856; Indiana gives a Dem. gain of
% and Republican majority in the county
II 1900. a. r. .,w,.... .ng.
. Somerset gives Republican majority of
30; Carlisle gives 326 Democratic majority;
Erie gives 1874 majority for Hartraaft and
E32 for Rawle. ....
selins Grove, Pa, gives Republican ma
GRITTY Of %, and in the county 400 ma jority.
Danville gives Democratic majority o
80 in the county. '"'.i ..d .'al .'a Fl
Philadelphia a'. |
The Morning herald., 1875-11-03
Ceremonies at " eStIMi nSter HAL.

LONDON, Nov. "A great crowd OF peo-
ple assembled at and about Westminster
Hall, to witness the Inauguration ct the
new legal system.
The Morning herald., 1875-11-03

NOME, NOV. S.-The German and Italian
mlsslous here have been raised to cmbas
sizes.
The Morning herald., 1875-11-03
The l. tr. 1t Cable Grappled.

LONDON, Nov. 2.-The steamer Faraday
has succeeded in graphing and buoylng the
direct United States caUle.
The Morning herald., 1875-11-03
The Weather TO.Day,

for the Afiddls States Northeast to South
as winds, slightly warmer and partly cloud,
nv ]oIlo'ced By falling barometer.
The Morning herald., 1875-11-03
REPUBLICAN VICTORIES.

SYRACUSE, Nov. 3, 2 a. m.-State Sena-
tor in the 23d district, Hon. D. Mccarthy,
Republican is elected by about 1000 majori-
ty. All the Republican members of Assem-
bly, are elected by majority from 300 to 1000.
LATEST FROM NEW YORK.
New YORK. Nov. $3.50 A. M.-Returns
from nearly all the towns in the State show
general Republican gain, and taking this
with Bigelow's small majority in this coun-
ty, It indicates that Seward is elected Secre-
tary of State, though the vote will nndoubt-
edly be very close. At this hour, 3 q. M,
the State is claimed by both parties.
The Morning herald., 1875-11-03

claim Clinton, for Comptroller and Kennedy
Superintendent of the Board of Education
by a small majority, ....,
9.30 P. M.-Becker, Republican, for
Mayor has 10000 majority over Lansing
Democrat.
The Morning herald., 1875-11-03
New X.

SEVENTY DISTRICTS HEARD FROM.
New YoRK, K,Nov.2.-Returns from seventy
districts in the city give the following: Bise-
low, Democrat, S,S04; Seward, Republican,
1858; smythe, Tammany candidate for Re-
eorder, 5,976; Hackett, anti -Tammany, g.
452. Hackett is undoubtedly elected. ,
FIFTY THOUSAND DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY.
The result in the city will probably be
successful for the Anti-Tammany
County ticket. The total vote in the city is
estimated at about 5000. More apath
was exhibited than was expected. TIL
Democratic State ticket will probably have
a majority in the city of $4,000 to $4,000.
The contest between Fox and Morissey is
very close and can only be determined by
the canvass; both claiming to be elected.
ILLEGAL VOTING.
A number of persons have been arrested
for illegal registering and voting. The cleo
tion has been marked by good order through
ont
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-08-25

An Australian correspondent of
the London Vines writes that 20,-
900 Fiji Islanders have fallen VIC
tins to the measles within the last
three months. When attacked
with the disease they refuse all
treatement therefore, plunge into
the rivers and streams to take their
accustomed baths, and will not re-
main within doors, exposing them
selves to rain and winds. Conse-
quently the disease strikes in and
death ensues. Furthermore, they
are imbued with the Mohammedan
idea of fatalism, and believe, when
attacked that they must die, and
hence cannot be prevailed upon to
take medicines or any precaution-
airy measures. So great is tire
power of imagination that when
told tina. they look i'll, they will
become panic-strichen, refuse to
eat, and die in few days. Among
those who have fallen victims to
this scurgc and their own ignor-
ance, are the leading. chiefs, and
the majority Of those who signed
the deed of session.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-08-25

one mile and a third per year.
Therefore, any calm person, who
is not blind or idiotic, can see that
in the Old Oolitic Period, Just a
million years ago next November,
the Lower Mississippi river was
upwards of one million three hun
dred thousand miles long, and stuck
out over the gulf of Mexico like a
fishing-rod. And by the same to-
ken any person can see that seven
hundred and forty-two years from
now the Lower Mississippi will he
only mile and three-fourths long,
and Cairo and New Orleans will have
their streets together, and be plod-
ding comfortably along under a
single mayor and mutual board
of alderman. There is something
fascinating about science. One gets
such Wholesale returns of conjec-
ture out of such a triffiing invest
ment of fact.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-08-25

A new danger threatens the doc
tors. The Eucalyptus tree absorbs
malaria, and so makes places ex-
empt from fever which were never
exempt before. The Spaniards call
it the "fever tree" Its virtues be-
came fully known in 1860. 1t has
been proved in Spain, in some parts
of Italy, in Algiers, and recently
in California, where it thrives well.
Gen. James A. Brisbin, u. S. A,
writes: "The evidence already
adduced is so overwhelming in its
favor, it must commend itself very
strongly to the favor of our farm
ers and tree-planters. 1t should
be given a full and fair trial in all
the States. | think it will grow
nearly everywhere in the United
States, and will thrive luXuriantly
in the south. 1t should be planted
at once in all our fever-and-ague
districts, and, if it will suck up
and dissipate the poisonous vapors
lurking in the swamps of Arkan-
sas and other southern States, it
will do a service for America worth
millions of dollars, and alleviate
much suffering, as well as save
many valuable lives"
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-08-25

There is comical story told Of
two Americans who settled their
quarrel in a fashion which would
have made the hair on q Partisan
fencing master bristle with horror,
but which, nevertheless, had an in
SEPARATION of common sense in It.
They were both in love with the
same lady, and it became necessary
to their feelings that they fight for
possession of her. One of the two
must clearly be put out of the way.
Yet why should they kill each 9TH
err They bore each other no
malice each would be glad that
the other should speed with some
other fair one they only insisted
upon being left in sole possession
Of the lady in dispute. The ques-
ton resolved itself TO simple issue,
which was the better shot. And
they determined TO settle this ques-
ton by shooting not at each 9TH
CT, but at q tree. The tree was
shot at; the inferior marksman
perforce admitted that he would
have been annihilated by his rival
and agreed to vanish, but not by Civ
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-08-25

ga rule for living happy with
others is to avoid having stock sub
jects of disputation. 1t mostly
happens when people live much
together, that they come to have
certain set topics, around which,
from frequent disputes there is
such a large growth of angry
words, mortified vanity, and the
like, that the originsl difference
becomes a standing subject for a
quarrel and there is a tendency
in all minor disputes to drift down
to it. Again, if people wish to live
well together, they must not hold
too much to logic and supposiDg
every thing is to be settled by
sufficient reason. DIR. Johnson saw
this clearly in regard to married
people when he said: Wretched
would be the pair above all names
Of wretchedness, who should be
doomed to adjust by reason every
morning, all the minute details of
a domestic day. But the applica-
ton should be much more general
than he made it. There is no time
for such reasonings, and nothing
that is worth them. And when we
recollect how two lawyers, or two
politicians, can go on contending,
till there is no end of one-sided
reasoning on any subject, we shall
not be sure that such contention is
the best mode for arriving at truth
but certainly it is not the way to
arrive at good temper.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-08-25
Josh Billings Wants to Know.

Why turkeys egg is spreckled
and ducks egg blue.
Whether a log floats faster in the
river than the current runs, or not.
Why goose stands first on one
foot and then on t'oher.
Why rabbits'have a short tail and
cats long one.
Why most all the. birds build
their nests out of different material.
Why tightening was never known
to strike beech tree.
Why the males among the color
ed race do all the singing.
Why a blak snaik liz the only
snaik in this country that kan climb
a tree.
Why a muskrat's tail has no fur
on it, and a mink's has.
Why quail's egg is round, and
a hens egg is pointed.
Why a bear always klimbs down
tree backwards.
Why a mules bones arc all solid
and their ears twise az long az a
horses.
Why dog alwuss turns round
three times before he sits down.
Why a horse always gets oph
from the ground on his forward
feet last.
Why, when a man gets lost in
the woods or on the plains, he al
wuss walks in a sirkle.
Why pig gathers straw in his
mouth and runs about with them
just before q rainstorm.
Why natur will allow one cross
between some animals and then al
low no more.
Where the Hys all go when the
cold weather sets in, and where
they all cum from so suddenly next
Why a hen alwuss knows her
little ones from another's and why
she will hatch twelve duck eggs
and think they are her own chick
ems.
Why an oyster and klam are
the only things l kno ov with an
imile life that don't hav to move
out ov their places to get living.
There liz lots Of lilly edicated
people who won't believe the book
of Genesis bekause they kant
prove it, who kant answer korrect-
Iy one-third of the above questions.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-08-25
The Wrong Kind of "a shirt.

1t was a respectable looking col
ored man who brought his washing
home.
"Your wife is a good washer
woman, isn't she ?" said the young
bachelor to the polite and obsequi-
Gus man.
"Yaas, sir, she commonly always
give satisfaction" replied the hus-
band of the laundress.
"Well," resumed the young bach
elor, in his blandest and most in
sinuating manner, "you can tell
your wife that / esteem her very
highly as one possessing many
womanly and Christian virtues, a
domestic gem and household orna-
ment, a social luminary and moral
beacon, an exemplary Christian, a
gentle, loving wife, a washerwoman
among 10000, and altogether love-
ly, but there's one objection"
"What dat, sar!" inquired the
smiling African, who had been
showing two rows of spotless ivory
and cavernous opening of the
head, while his wife was being so
extravagantly eulogized.
"What's that boss"
"She puts all the starch in my
socks, and none in my shirts; she
washes or irons all the buttons off
and forgets to replace them; ex-
changes my clothes for those of
some other patron, and if you'll
look at this holding up garment),
you'll see how inconvenient it would
be to wear either pantaloons, cuffs
or collars with such a shirt as she
sends me. 1t may be that she cuts
off the arms and collar to make the
tail longer, but / can't see what the
deuce she should want to rufile the
edges for"
The darkey looked a little dis
gusted as he wrapped the garment
up to take home, and he only said,
"Idea sending a man dat kim O
shirt"
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-08-25

Now when the soft Sunday after
Moons come, adolescent couples
wander to some shady nook, and
seated on a grassy knoll, gaze with
speechles5 rapture upon the green
ness in each others eyes, and sit,
and gaze and sigh, until the even
ing shadows fall, when slowly home
returning, she tells her parents
with voice subdued and reverent
bearing. that she has been out to
the quiet abode of the dead, read
the inscriptions on the tombstones.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-08-25
Shortening of the mississippi

Mark Twain, in the August At
lantic, mourns over the diminished
length of the Mississippi, in this
strain:
therefore: the Mississippi be-
tween Cairo and New Orleans was
twelve hundred and fifteen miles
long, one hundred and seventy-six
years ago. 1t was eleven hundred
and eighty after the cut off CT
1922. 1t was one thousand and
forty after the American Bend cut
off (some sixteen or seventeen years
ago.) 1t has lost sixty-seven miles
since. Consequently its length is
only nine hundred and seventy
three miles at present.
Now, IL / wanted to be one of
those ponderous scientific people,
and "let on" to prove what had
occurred in the remote past by
what had occurred in given time
in the recent past, or what will oc-
cur in the far future by what has
occurred in late years, what an OPP
portunity is hereI Geology never
had such n chance, nor such exact
data to argue FROM Nor ode
velopment Of Species either!-
Glacial epochs are great things,
but they are vague-vague. Please
observe:
In the space Of one hundred and
seventy-six years the Lower Miss
issippi has shortened itself two
hundred and forty-two miles,
That Is an average Of trine over
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-08-25

Life is a monstrous disappoint-
ment, and death is the only portal
to peace. There is not day that
passes in which virtue does not
sell itself for bread; in which some
poor frenzied creature does not
rush madly upon death in which
the good are not prosecuted and
the weak trampled upon. Behind
windows that you look heedlessly
at, tragedies red as any history or
fiction ever painted are being play
ed, and faces you admire, mask
with smiles an inward torture far
worse than the agony of the rack.
Who among our readers, has real
lied the fulfillment of his early
hopel Whose life has not its NOR
tifications, its bitter concealments,
its poignant humiliations, its wild
uneasiness, its wrestling and de-
feat! But we do not represent
life. We represent the fairest por-
ton and the highest level of it.
Beneath us is the great mass of
humanity, and they with and moan
and weep; they toll and starve,
and curse, and fight, and die. TIE
world goes roaring on as needless
of those who fall as the gale in
autumn is needless of the leaves
1t strips from the trees or the
branches it wrenches away.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-08-25

When Goldsmith once talked to
Johnson Of the difficulty of living
on very intimate terms with any
one whom you differed on an i'm
portant topic, johnson replied,
"Wby, sir you must shun the sub
ject as to which you disagree. For
instance I can live very well with
Burke; / loved his knowledge, his
genius, his diffusion and efulgence
OF conversation I; but would not
talk TO him of the Rockingham
party"
Mr.. Helps. in his very admirable
work, "Fricnds in Council well
observed:
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-08-25

A very pretty Sunday school
song is the one entitled, "Put your
armor on, my boys" There is
however, Young lady who dosn't
like to here it. She says it sounds
like "Put your arm around me,
boys"
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-08-25

ing up the ghost, but by leaving the
country. Hero were all the results
of duel obtained without its mock
heroics, and without more tragedy
than belongs to all remuneration.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-08-25
VIII aud Justice m missouri.


regularly indicted, aud it was un-
derstood that tho proof against
them was very clear.
"Are you a preacher :" said the
judge to one of them.
"Yes, sir" replied the culprit.
"To what denomination do you
belongp
~ am Christian, sir" with
dignity.)
Z" A Christian What do you
mean by that Are not all preach
ers Christians p
81 belong to the sect usually but
wrongly called Complexities" mot
so much dignity.)
"Ah Then you believe in bap-
tizing people in order that they
may be born again, do your"
81 do, sir (defiantly.)
"Mr. Sheriff, discharge that man.
He is an innocent man He is in
dicted for preaching the gospel,
and there is not word of gospel
in the stuff he breaches 1t is
only some Of Alexander CampbelPs
nonsense. Discharge that man !"
Exile Campbellite, greatly re-
joiciDg.
"Are you preacher ?" said the
Judge, addressing the second Grim
inal.
81 am, sir" said the miscreant.
"Of what denomination are you p
81 am a methodist, sir" Ills
looks showed it,
"Do you believe in falling from
gracep
81 do, sir" (Without hesitation
ado you believe in sprinkling
people instead of baptising them ?"
81 believe that people can be
baptised by sprinkling." (Much
effended.)
"Do you believe in baptizing
babies p
at is my opinion, sir, that in
fants ought TO be baptszed." I'm
dignantly.)
"Not a word Of scripture for
anything of the kind, sir :" shout
ed his honor, "Mr. Sheriff, turn
that man loose! He is no preach
er of the gospel {! The gospel is
truth, and there is not a word
of truth in what that man teaches
Turn him loose 1t is ridiculous
to indict men on such frivolous pre-
lenses. Turn him loose ~
Methodist disappears not at all
hurt in his feelings by the judicial
abuse he has received.
"What are you, sir!" said the
judge to the third felon.
"Some people call me a preach
er, SIR" tMeekly.)
"What is your denomination ?"
al am a baptist" Head up.)
His honor's countenance fell,
and he looked sober and sad. At
ter pause he said:
"Do you believe in salvation by
grace :"
al do" (Firmly.)
"Do you teach that immersion
only is baptism p
"That is my doctrine" Earn
estly.)
"And you baptizc none bnt
those who believe in Jesus Christ ?"
"That is my faith and practice"
with emphasis.
"My friend, / fear it will go hard |
with you. see you are indicted
for preaching the gospel, and it ap-
pears to me by your own confess
sion that you are guilty"
Baptist looked pretty blue.
"May it please your HONOR" said
Baptist's counsel, springing to his
feet, "that man never preached the
gospel. / have heard him say a
hundred times that he only tried.
i have heard him try myself"
"Mr. Sheriff, discharge this man
He is not indicted for trying
There is nothing said about the
mere effortl Let him go, sir! /
am astonished that the state at
torney should annoy the court with
such frivolous indictments !"
Exit Baptist, determined to try
again.
Court adjourned to flicker"
How IN Keen Friends.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-05-22

MIsINFoEMED.-In an article publish
ed il Yesterdays REGISTER we said that
by reason of changes made in the mode
of heating and ventilatinc the new Third
ward school house, the walls had been
made unsafe. We have since been as
sured that our information on this point
is incorrect and that the building is rs Sc
cure now as when first put up. We regret
we have been the means of causing any
uneasiness or alarm in regard to the
safety OF the building. We only told
the story rs we heard it.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-05-22
THE COURTS.

L. S. DISTRICT CoURT-Judgc JacES''''
In the case of Apologize and Cole.
men, assignees OF Gordon w giS l NJ
bspkrupts Us. The Pittsburgh, Wheeling
and Kentucky Railroad Company, on
motion by the defendants the account
aIea in the cause By Commissioner kog-
ers was recommitted with leave to ME
their answers Mt any time within SIXTY
dnvs from this date, and, on motion
of the plaintiffs, it was further ordered
that, upon the hearing before the Com
missioner, the defendants should produce
all their books concerning the operations
of the said railroad, after the LIST oil Aprli,
1872, for the use Of the plaintiffs ana Tor
their Inspections and this cause, on mo-
ton of the defendants. was continued uh-
til next term.
Mr.. Lamb presented the resolutions
which were offered by the bar OF ONO
county, in the Circuit Court iew days
ago, as mark of respect to Judge Paul!
and Judge Jackson ordered them to be
spread upon the minutes ofthis Court.
In til, matter of Thomas Sweeney,
bankrupt, the Court was occupied the
greater part ofthe day in the e%amiha-
ton of the said Thomas Sweeney.
Adjourned till this morning at nine
o'clock.