davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1875-01-07
The irish Mermaid.
BY SAMUEL LOVER.

mermaid once, its said,
Game near ITisa cliffs to dwell,
And 70 her ave thrre often sped ...
4 gallant, rolling ocean swell,
RI curl'd his head whensieT
He paid his visits there,
The affections to ensnare
OF tais irish diving belle.
One day this swell was borne -.
To the me N Ids shadowy cave,
With some trifles he had'torn
From the wreck OF gall o. brave
Here" said he, Il bring my fair
\ comb and glass Of D. auty rare, --.-
With w'ich u trim her sea-Qreen hair
As sue floats upon ths wave"
ooh. be aisy. IL you p'ease.''
said the merm iii to him mild
II Z presents such as these ..........
Thst you think be Deguiled ?
Don't know you've struck and wrecked
rome noble ship, and do you expect
That in heI plgnder I'll be decked, l..
You younger thief OF the waters wild
"By the honor of my crest,
Half indignant he replied,
- ships nay prey-and hunt my best
When would strip her for my bride.
Bnt no more OF these veKatioRs-
III. give up nay depredations
EveFm9re with thee abide.
Say you're mine, I'll lay my head,
With all those curls so many crave,
On your precious oyster bed,
By-the-by, 1 hear they are numbered
AS much as six shilling a hundreds
And with such wealth wen ne'er be snn-
dered ......r
But spend in comfort all we have"
''Ah I'get out of fhat,r says she
Nov see your tricks too well.
What tEol you'd make OF me,
iy palaverI.i-r oc can Swell
You only want 30 plunde inc.
And sell the bed from under me-
Get cut now f;-it's wonder she
Escaped the rogue so well.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1875-01-07

their minds with useful knowle;se Ii
they do not pursue habits of reading
and observation, and social intercourse,
which result in culture, the question
whether they will ever rise TO occupy q
place where there is. room enough for
them will be decided in the negative
The young physicians and young law
yers who sit idly in their offices, and
smoke and lounge away the time swat
lag for something to turn up, are by
that course fastening themselves for life
TO the lower stratum, where their strug-
gle for bare liviihood is TO be perpetual.
The first ten years are golden years that
should be filled with systematic reading
and observation. Everything that tends
TO professional and personal excellence
Should be an object of daily pursuit.
To such men the doors of success open
of themselves at last. Work seeks the
best hands, as naturally as water runs
down hill, and il never seeks the hands
of triler, or one whose only recOa<
mendation for work i tIISSs needs il.
Young men DO NOT know very na-- -
any way, and the time always comes ~
those who become worthy, when they
look back with wonder upon their early
good onini0n of their acquaintance and
themselves,
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1875-01-07
RUTLAND, VT, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY I. 1875

is kept in the warmth and light. Heart
|. sick mother and surly cook sing and
laugh for him. 1t is the old story of the
/ den OF wild beasts and the little child
that led them. There is our friend,
young Stott, who married that silly
daughter of Fish, the sugar dealer It
was a pretty fair type of an. average So
ciety marriage. Stott is an entertaining
fellow for half am hour. good Judge of a
cigar, tells story well, fair shot at bill
lizards, had the usual distaste of meneef
his caIibre for any part of business ex-
eept the drawing of his salary. Miss
Fish had led the German with him all
winter he thought her taste in dress
better than that Of any other girl ia the
set, and was struck with her apprecia-
tion of his favorite operas and plays. 1t
seemed quite natural for them to marry.
Two or three months ago this wonder,
Tot, came to them. The Uttered thing,
peering out of its f1anHeis, created i hji-
man soul, as it seemed in both of them.
They found traces of each other in it;
it was an ordinary baby to other people,
but to them mystery--a miracle it
bound them together with q strange new
love for each other it bound them both
to an awful unknown life beyond. 1t
has worked by this time an odd change
in them both. Mrs St0tt spend sher
days in the nursery, and has given up
millinery for medical books Stott has
gone enorgrticallY to work, intends
that boy of his shall,haye as fair start
in life as any other fellow There is a
certain gravity, common sense and self
respect apparent in Stott, too, which
hint that a change lies at the root of
things. .......-. ...9
When we look from this honse to 9th
ers at the baby's work, and remember
that all over the world, since time be-
gan, it has been the same; how selfish
men have grown generous, and dissolute
men sober and moral, for their ehildren's
sake how giddy girls have been meta
morphosed into patient drudges how
day by day and hour by hour harsh
words are s0ftened and tired hearts /
lightened by the baby-when we think
of the tenderness and delight that sur
r0and the cradle from Indus to the Pole,
we begin to understand that this feeble !
little Tot is indeed one of the most po- |
tent agents sent by God to bring the |
world to him. We see the plain rational |
fact underlying the blind reverence we
give Him; why when we would give !
shape TO our ideas of the highest spirit |
in heaven, we made them like our dar-
ling and why, more than all, when |
Christ would teach His disciples the most |
enduring lesson, He took a little child. |
and set him ia the midst of them.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1875-01-07
TyndaIIin Rhyme.

Some person with a faculty for getting
at t'the soul of things'' has furnished
Biacltoood'S with a rhymed version of Fyn-
da1rs Belfast address, in which occurs the
following strain OF adnlstory verse
First let US honor the atom so lively, so
WISE and so small. --fs..e
The afofnists nextlet US praise, Epicurus,
..r IfI,eretius, and al. s- -s
Let Us. damn With amt praise Bishop But
Ter, in whom many atoms combined
To.f0rm at wonderful structure il pleas
ed him to eau HE mind. 49,
Last praise we that nCbae body to which
for the time we belong
Ere yet the swift W.airl Of atoms has har-
s.r lied las ruthless along. s..s.sE ..E
The British A Association, like the Leyia-
than, worshipped by Hobbs,
The incarnation of wisdom built up by
our wttless nobs. r --...- -.-.-. ..--rs. ..1a
Which via carry on endless discussions,
when and proDably you ...
Have melted ia in6nIte azure, and IN short
till all IS blue. -.-......-.. .-...
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1875-01-07
TOT.

The following article from the New
York Tribune, is good reading for any
season of the year, but is especially ap-
propriate to this one, when people are.
commonly supposed to be in a reflective
mood -...s.
Everybody knows Tot That is an.
unlucky house, barred out from all good
fellowship, on whose threshold you
cannot find the dusty print of his little
foot, or the glass of whose windows
glitters too costly and clear for the
mark of his fingers. The odd point
about him is, that you find him where
ever you go. Puck, or that daintiest
spirit, Ariel, were but logy fellows be-
side him. They were never found in
more than one place at time they had
to travel post when they set out to girdle
the earth in forty minutes. But it you
30 into the stateliest mansion on Murray
Hill, there is Tot in his fleece of finest
lace and when you take shelter out In
the hut on the prairie, there he is in the
warm corner of it swaddled in yellow
flannel Nothing can be more common
or familiar than his rosy little face and
chubby legs; there is not household in
the world to which they have not
brought work and anxiety and care; but
nothing can be more uncommon or un-
-, -f7,.--i,,iar ifan the tender, awed sense
with which from day to day we always.
meet him. We all nurse Tot and
coddle him and scold him; his teeth
ing and his collie, his cap and worn
shoes are real things, but somehow,
with all, he Is not real There is
o world wiae conviction that he is of
diviner origin than we, a something lent
TO us-alien to our workaday world.
His sweet foolishness, hisignorant ways,
bis broken talk, his hurry to love and
be loved, we may refer to immature
brain and muscle, but there is strange,
supernatural power in them which we
do not account for. Everybody pays
homage to it. The surliest dog knows
it and is gentle with him. 1t calls all that
is good in men or women to the light
perppetGally, as no sermon or Bible
words can do. The caIlous, drunken
wretch, hardened to any exhertation or
entreaty, looks at the laughing face of
the dear baby, and touches its hand,
and human pain and desire struggle up
through the burnt brain fresh and pure.
the remembrance of his mother, of the.
innocent boy he was, the might have
been. Go into your next neighbor,s
house and see what manner of a king is
Tot. There may be legion of aches.
and pains and worries, the great grief.
of a mortal sickness, debts pouring in
with every postman's knock in shoals of.
yollow envelopes, despair above stairs.
and insolent ili-temper. in the kitchen !;
but what does baby know about it 2: He
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1875-01-07

The galleries, the parks, the public
squares, the monuments, present these
women with innumerable specimens of
nature given without any attempt at
concealment. Seeing always such
things they present no novelty. They
are part of the education, portion of
the daily life of these women, so that
there is never time when they are
other than commonplace in their exis-
tence and characteristics.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1875-01-07

The Pennsylvania coal regions, that
dark and bloody ground in the war of
capital and labor, are apparently about
to be the scene of one of the most exten-
sive strikes in the history of American
Industry. The coal harons have decided
to reduce the miners wages twenty-five
per cent in the Schuylkill, Lehigh, Up
per Lehigh, Wyoming and Lsckawanns
regions, on the first of JaDuary. The
miners, on the other haud, will strike
universally as soon as the new rates are
promulgated, and declare that thry can
and will stick il out year before they
will submit. In the other anthracite
districts wages viii be reduced ten 20
fifteen per cent, which will also cause
strikes. SHOULD these threats be carried
out on both sides, 25, 000 miners will be
thrown out of work; in addition TO the
90, 200 already in that condition. The
DoBthfy sales of coal at New York
came of Thursday, and this news will
bull the market. In the threatened
strike 1t Is safe to say that the public
sympstbies viii not be with the coal bar
Das. who, while so remorselessly CUTTING
down the wages of the miners. ars
steadily raising the price OF coal.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1875-01-07

The new directors of the Emma Min
ing Company have. begun a suit against
Mr.. Park Of Bennington, Senator Stew
art and General Baxter. for tiye million
dollars obtained, as they claia,. by fraud.
ana.oonspiracy. The. Fsss Press. SAYS
with reverence tU tir4s suit. :. =. :
Park had. previously sued the company
and attached the mine for advances of
money made by him and as the super
intendent of the mine, Silas Williams,
who was charged by the Nation with
s'salting" the mine, to aid the sale, has
sued that paper for libel, the affairs of
Emma would seem to be in a way to be
thoroughly ventilated. We do not ex-
pect, however, that anything will be
brought out, to change the main facts
already known-tbat Mr.. Park, Mr..
Stewart and Mr.. Baxter, sold a mine to
an English company at large price
that the mine paid as well as it was ex-
pected to, for nearly q year after that
then the supply of rich ore failed and
the mine ceased to be profitable, though.
still worked and at times showing signs
of renewing its former yield and that
the English stockholders are Disguised
and consider themselves swindled, ~
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1875-01-07

In AN article on Sentences to the
Reform School the Freeman takes the
view that sentencing boys until they
should reach full age, was not made to
fill the school nor has it had that effect.
"There is one thing, however" it says,
"that does decidedly tend to increase
the number of boys at Waterbury, and
that should straIghtway be knocked in
the head when the legislature meets.
The vagrant act of 1864, which was in
troduced the day after the st. Albans
raid and framed by LuClus B. Peck for
the purpose of catching possible rebels,
has become a source of evil. Towns
have poor boys on their hands, or there
Is poor boy who may become trouble
some to somebody easier way
than to have them sent to the Reform
School, where they ''will be well taken
care of, and where, besides, the State
will have to pay for keeping them ?
Boys have been sent 10 the Vermont
Reform School whose crime ia: reality
was poverty, and whose transfer to Wa
terbury was caused by the desire of
towns TO get rid of paying fortheir sup
port This school is not State poor
house; to,preyent its being made such
the vagrant act of 1864 should be re-
pealed, and further, the State should be
on the watch that no otner laws are
stretched for the sake.of allowing towns
TO get rid of paying for the care OF ]
their own poor boys. { ,..s. e...,I..-
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1875-01-07

barefoot, and get their toes stubbed,
climb up on the high beams and get a
tumble, or slide down board and tear
their clothes, that they were told not to
do SO. ...s. ~. III. .s-.s.s=# (.
But is ii not s'the most unkindest cut
of all' to remind q man when he is
utterly, hopetessly, irretreivably ruined,
or thinks he is, that you told him how
it would be 4? When he is clear down.
down as low as he can get, and with no
sign of u rebound; and when the heavi-
est and most crushing burden he has to
bear is the sense of his own folly and
wretchedness, To tell him that you
warned him, La the other eases. there
is always the ultimate devotion of the
parental instinct to come to the rescue,
the quick moving maternal impulse, and
the paternal consideration The stub
toed or st0ne-bruised boy may after all
goto sleep thinking of his mothers kiss,
orof his fathers s0tt0 g0ce, but distinctly
audible remarks, Il did just So when
was a boy In the last case, there is
only one last drop of bitterness, wanting
to make the cup overflow, and that is
for some old friend to come along and
tell the wretched victim of his own mis- 4
calculation and folly, Il told you,so.'
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-07
NEW ORLEANS REPUBLICAN TUESDAY DECEMBER ~ 1875


pause awhile. say q year or more, for
breath. With proper resistance, no final
Judgment could be rendered OF execution
issued for year Or two, at least By that
time creditors would probably come to
some sort Of reasonable terms, and per-
haps accept conditions similar to those
proposed by the State.
We do not urge the adoption of these
extreme measures SO long as it is possible
to avoid them. We do not even know
that such course as we have indicated is
practicable. But we invite the attention
Of clear headed men to the subject and
ask them to put their wits together to de-
wise some plan to get the city out Of its
present difficulty and set it on its feet
once more. We believe there is way
out of this no less honorable than that
which has been practiced so rigidiy Of
giving every dollar that could be raised to
the bondholders and permitting our local
creditors to incur the risk of starvation.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-07

discarded in favor of Democratic ef-
member of Congress. 1t is, however, for
the doorkeeper, sergeant-at-arms, post
master and chaplain, clerkship Of COM
mittees and other subordinate positions,
that the crush eliminates. II is, with
Democratic hundreds, the last refuge from
labor. tits the drowning rats struggling
for the floating shingle. Here they are, from
the Washington dispatch:
For the 200 or 800 subordinate places there
are at least 1000 applicants, not few Of
whom are already at work to secure the re.
spective positions, including clerks, assist
ant doOrkeepere, messengers, document
folders, pages and bathroom attendants. A
dozen or more applicants want the privil.
ege OF keeping the restaurant which has for
HOne years been in possession Of George T.
Downing, c0lored.
One thousand tickets for couple of
Hundred subordinate to say menial-
positions. Prominent Democratic free
men praying to be allowed to open and
shut doors, bring bath towels, run
errands, fold documents. Others would
educate their children to the same ignoble
trade by putting them in the livery Of
legislative lackeys, thus rearing them
among the demoralizing influences of
political association. Then there are a
dozen OF more Democratic applicants for
the vacant slippers of Downing, the col
ored caterer, who has SO long dispensed
creature comforts to hungry congressman.
Whence have all these cor1norants as
sembled? From the snow and granite of
Maine to the fogs and swamps of Florida.
Each candidate for Speaker looming up in
his neighborhood as invincible, takes along
train of subordinate aspirants to blow for
him. Their chief reduced to his normal
insignifcance by contrast with others
more popular than himself, his followers
are discharged without pay or Transports
ton, and fall into the common raid for
anything that may Offer
This is Democratic principle, the
leaves and fishes. To keep the party
united in this object there is but one
common sentiment. It is to vilify the
Republicans. 1t is to create such a
prejudice against the Republicans that the
very name is reproach, and thus to Sc
cure monopoly of Office through con-
centration of social hate. 1t is to organ
lie the hate of white and black, Catholic
and Protestant, ignorance and intelli-
gence, as an element for the services and
perpetual tenure Of Office. The Demo-
crat may entertain any opinion with i'm
punity and applause. The Republican is
denounced, though holding the same opin-
ion with a competing Democrat, merely be-
cause be may be fit to exercise the trusts
of Office. How long can such political
herd hold together, with no other cement
than the cohesive power of public plum
der"-expected?
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-07

The Democrats carried Mississippi by force
of arms; but it appears that is not enough.
The Vicksburg Herald says: "The Dem
Dcratic Conservative club at Rocky Spring s
has decided not to rent nor advance sup
plies to Radical negroes" The real fight il
the Confederate Democracy against Repub-
hcans, with the ultimate object of re-en-
slaving the black race in defiance of laws.
A few land owners and merchants may
protest against the sacrifice of all agricul.
tursl prosperity in the State; but the shot
gun of the village loafer il more powerful
than the advice of Intelligent men, and
Mississippi must resp its whirlwind Of
crime, desolation and poverty.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-07

Exposed in the avowal of opposite opin-
ions In the canvass and union in the sup
port of the same candidate beaten out Of
every profession Of principle they have
ever syowsd. the sham-ocraoy has but one
resource. Itisin the personal vitupera-
ton OF their opponents Randall is q
professionals and . Demossat Kerr il .
ffes trader, the opponent of internal i'm
provements, and Democrat. One il
nominatsd for Speaker and the other
moves 70 make II unAuimous. This De-
nascaey uuisss The sutithsis Of for and
seainst . principle n ding N once.
We kavs hsssto6oss nstsd ~ nunssous
60 d11se ~ a. 5our olnsss II ~ ~
= 0no ~ = - snndi1n&ao ~
= = - 1lrheues1 = p1pel-
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-07

Olive Logan has been acting in Louis
vile in a play called lisa. or Home Again
An elaborate criticism of Home Again
was once given in New Orleans paper,
but the reporter afterward learned that he
had made q mistake, rs the line "home
again" on the house bills of the theatre
only referred to the return Of the troupe
from Mobile, and was not intended as q
title to the play on the stage.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-07
PROCLAMATION.
FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.

SrATI OF LOUISIANA
Executive Department, ,
New Orleans, December g. 1875.
Whereas, am officially informed that JOHN
SoNNIER, noted desperate, indicted in the parish
Of St. Landry, Of this State. for the murder OF
ANDRE PRUBHoMME, and also indicted in the
parish of Calcasieu in this State for the murder Of
WILLIAM. RUNNIONs, is still at large. notice is
hereby given that, in addition to any reward Of
fered by the police jures of the respective parishes
and the friends OF the deceased the State of Louis.
lana will pay reward of FIVE HUNDRED DOL.
LARS for the arrest CT the said John Sonnier and
his safe delivery to the custody Of the sheriff OF
St. Landry parish.
Given under my hand and the seal of the State
this third day of Lececember, 4 D. 1875, and of
the independence of the United States the one hun.
dredth.
WILLIAM P. KELLOGG.
By the Governor
p. @. DESLONDE,
Secretary Of State. de4
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-07

J. c. Murphy and Co., No. 80 Poydrai
street, have received . large supply o.
onions, apples and potatoes for this mar
ket. Their onions arc of the choice red
and silyer skin varieties, beautiful enough
TO make the eye watsr ct sight Of them
While Murphy & Co. can supply the best
of potatoes, they also have kegs Of genu
inc krout for the Teuton, and other good
things for the bon tom. What is Of mort
importance to farmsrs. y the Eastern and
Western seed potatoes, Of which Murphy
4 Co. have 1900 barrels. There are many
places in this State and vicinity whore pc
tatoes can be Growa to good advantage
and the most important part of planting
them is to secure good seed Of the right
kind, s,.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-07
MIR. M'ENERY's CERTIFICATE.

The simple fact that Chief Clerk McPher-
son has refused to recognize the certificate
given by Mr.. McEnery to Mr.. Spencer, to
the effect that he was the duly elected
member of Congress from the fifth district
Of Louisiana, is made the subject of a
special telegram, and set off with stun.
ming headlines by an evening contempt
rary. As the House has already adopted
resolution declaring W. P. Kellogg the
lawful Governor of this State, we do not
see how any intelligent ian could expect
Mr.. Mcpherson to recognize any other
person as being entitled to the dignity.
Hence, We are surprised to find anybody
else surprised at the correct action of the
clerk of the House.
Taking success as the test of merit, Buff
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-07

The Democratic papers of New Hampshire
Say that the city election Of Dover went
Republican because the Republicans put up
the best men as candidates. Sly fellows,
those Republicans, nominating good men
and getting decent people to vote for them.
Democrats have never stopped to such rad
ical changes of policy.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-07

Mr.. Tweed will make tour Of tie Holy
Land. He was not satisfied with the defeat
of the Tammany candidates. He will be
greatly missed in New York, but when he
arrives in Paris he will telegraph, what
are you going to do about it ~
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-07

Charles Avery, aged lOl. companion of
General Wilkinson in the Southwestern
border troubles of 1s07-lSll, died at the
poorhouse in Hamilton county, Ohio, last
Thursday. He was formerly a wealthy cit
izAD there
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-07

. The National Grange of the Patrons of
Husbandry, meeting at Louisville, ap-
pointed committee to arrange q special
marriage ceremony for grangers. Much at
tention was also given to stock raising and
increase of crops.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-07

Sir Samuel Baker writes that the position
of African correspondent on the New York
Herald is one of great danger. The tribes
do not like the tone of the paper.