davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-07-17
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

Ca ROBINSON & CO.,
nEALERs N CHOICE BRANDS oR FLOUR.
y Depot Store.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-07-17

Al. CUTLER.
TlLLINERY. DREssMAKING AND PATTERN
VI Rooms.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-07-17

iis.s..s
~
1bsl
fra
NJ
spBs
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-07-17
NIIsCELLANEOUS,

J. E. DWINELL.
OAN BE FOUND AT J. E. DwINELL'S SHOP
- good stock OF Furniture Of all kinds; also
gs1d and well selected stock Of Carpets Room Paper,
Picture Frames Plain and Gilt-Edge Curtains and Pix
10 match. nice lot Of Baby Cabs, with Canopy
Top 70 you like. Good stock Of Collins and Caskets,
all viii be- sold low for cash or approved credit lie
will not be beat on prices. Glover Vt. 4-25u
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-07-17

ief
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-10-05
A Useful Invention.

A San Francisco inventor is exhibiting
in that city model of an anchor which
is thus described by local journal 1t
has two shanks, the one half the length
of the other, and the shorter connected
with the longer at the middle by a bolt,
on which it swings freely. When sus.
pended by the short shank the point OF
the huke of the anchor cannot fail to
strike the ground. The chain is intended
to be attached to this short shank. The
main shank, on which the stock OF the
anchor is fixed, is curved upward at the
point where tho chain ringis in ordinary
anchors. and q mortise in the short
shank permits it to fall over it, which Is
the position it will assume as soon as
the fuke strikes, and in which position
it will remain as long as the strain OF
the vessel is on the chain. The object
of the invention is to enable the anchor
to be raised with ease. By the methods
now in use the ground in which the
Huke of the anchor is imbedded has to
be torn out, or the fiuke itself will give
way. With the movable shank IN the
new contrivance the inventor asserts that
the anchor can be raised to the surface
with the same ease that it is lowered, as
the fiuke is required to come up precise
ly the same way it went down, without
tearing out any of the ground in which
it Is embedded. It is also arranged that
q reserve fuke can be adjusted to take
the place of the one in use in case of ac-
cident,
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-10-05
The Turkish Empire.

The sultan of Turkey, who has just
been dethroned, may pass into history
as Murad the Unlucky. He came to
the government just three months ago,
in the middle of a violent and bewilder-
ing political commotion. He assembled
a throne made vacant by the bloody
death of his uncle, and, captured by the
leaders of the palace conspiracy, was
made sultan whether he would or no.
Murad was throught to be very tolera-
BILE prince, and great expectations were
entertained of his reign. Nobody
knows what has been going on in the
shadow of the palace ; but from time to
time it has been given out that the new
sultan was going to pieces very fast.
Lately it was announced that his mind
was wreck, and that his deposition
had become necessary. This step has
now been fulfilled, and Abdul Hamed,
brother of the falling Murad, and second
son of the late Abdul Medjid, has been
proclaimed his successor. Hamed is
about thirty-four years old, and is re-
puted to be fair sort Of prince, as
Turkish prime 50, which is faint praise
Like his brother, he succeeds to the
90, ernment of a distracted, wornout,
and impoverished empire.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-10-05
Hay Fever.

The writer of recent work on hay
fever adduces several instances to es-
tablish the fact that the disease has no
tendency to shorten the duration OF Life.
Daniel Webster suffered from it to the
last year of his life, and he died at the
age of seventy Chief Justice Shaw OF
the Massachusetts supreme court, who
had been subject for many years, died
at eighty another gentleman at eighty,
four Mr.. Samuel Batchelder IS still
living at ninety-two, and another gentle
man is still living at the age OF eighty
who has been sufferer for thirty years.
The great English humorist, Sydney
Smith, whose piquant account OF his
sufferings from the symptoms OF his dis
ease will be remembered by the readers
of his correspondence, lived to the age
OF .s9vonty-four. Thus far no medicine
has had much effect in the treatment OF
the disease. The only remedy which
mas been found uniformly successful in
variety of cases is change OF climate,
and removal of residence to mountain
Gus region.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-10-05
International Entomology.

The Toronto (Can.) Globe, in an
editorial article on the grasshopper
pests in the Western States, says: The
experience of the last four years has
demonstrated that the grasshoppers are
irresistible while healthy. Therefore
their parasites must be aided in their
efforts to overtake them, and individual
effort can do little or nothing in this
direction. If it is anybody's business
to fight the locusts, it is the business OF
the United States and Dominion gov
ernments, in both of whose territories
lie the lands from which the catoptenus
descends. Killing the insects after they
have arrived in Minnesota or Manitoba
is a poor business-ir fact hopeless
one. 10 prevail against them their
habits and those of their enemies must
be studied at their homes; and, If needs
be, the two governments must 90 into
the business of raising parasites and
letting them loose upoM the country.
This may seem tosavor of the ridiculous;
but when it is considered that these
visitations are periodic, and, unless
something is done, inevitable, the ab'
surdity of the suggestion will I've less
apparent. Say ten years will elapse be-
fore the next flight from the Rockies.
At the end of that time Manitoba and
the Northwest will have received many
thousands of settlers, who will be inst
turning the corner after their first strug-
giles. Hitherto it has been the Western
States that have suffered. Our own
country having been undeveloped, we
have not had the full terror OF locust
plague brought home to us. If we had
received of our kinsmen and countrymen
the cries of homes desolated, farms
abandoned, hopes crushed and imminent
starvation that have come from Mime
sofa, Nebraska and Iowa, we should be
willing to take any means to prevent the
recurrence OF the calamity, or to miti-
gate it's horrors.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-10-05
High Hash Talk.

A dialogue occurred at a Detroit
boarding house, according to the Free
Press, between an effeminate, shabbily
dressed young man and the landlady,
which for ponderous rhetoric exceets
anythi0g of similar nature that has
seen the light in some time. The land
lady appeared at the front door, in an
swer to the bell, and was accosted by
the young man as follows:
eff you are manager of this domiclle
wish to know if you could be per-
suaded to provide me with apartments
and provender during my sojourn in
the city, which may be of two or three
days, duration and may possibly extend
through greater period"
The mistress of the house, catching
the style and spirit of the inquirer, re-
sponded:
Unfortunately, great demand ex-
lists at present, which so crowds the CO.
pacity of my apartments and the con-
tents of my larder that l cannot con-
scientiously provide the accommodations
you desire"
Evidently the young man had e1-
nected to completely crush the landlady
with his command of the English Ian
guage, but his disappointment was
plainly shown in the look of blank
amazement which he bestowed upon
her after hearing her reply. He was
not completely annihilayed, however,
for he continued: "Provided you
could, madam, pray what amount of
money would you impose upon me for
accommodating me9" -.
"Eight dollars a week in advance. ="
was too suggestive, and as the young
man backed down the steps he simply
said "good-day."
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-10-05
Pearl Fishing in Scotland.

Pearl fishing, once common in the
rivers of England, is now no longer an
industry in that country, but the search
for pearls is still prosecuted in some OF
the Scotch rivers, apparently with more
vigor than success. The fshings in the
shallow waters of the Dee (Kirkcud-
brightshire) have of late years become
exhausted, and all the ingenuity of the
pearl seekers had to be called into play
in the search in the lochs and deep
pools in the rivers course. During
the last three years tongs have lbeen
nsed with fair success, and the parts
thus reached have been thoroughly
fshed. Beginning on the lee side, the
boat is allowed to drift, the fisher lean
ing over, with his head literally in the
water, but protected by a tin box,
through the plate glass bottom OF which
he scans the bottom of the loch, per-
haps thirty feet below, but to his eye
not more than tenth of that distance.
On a series of poles. joiuted after the
fashion of a sweeps broom, is landing
net, with steel scoops, into which the
fisher sweeps every shell that comes be-
meath his gaze. In this way. and with
much industry, large number OF pearls:
have been obtained, many of them of
considerable value: but in another sea-
son or two the whole will be exhausted,
and the pearl and pearl fishing OF the
Cree and Dee will become thing OF
the past. 1t is to be regretted that the
Jewel robbers in England do not search
the rivers for tho pearls which, during
the occupation of Britain by the 10
mans, were found in large quantities IN
the fresh water mussels.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-10-05
Moman,s Rights.

An exchange says: On the return
trip of the excursion train from Harper's 8
Ferry lady, whose avoirdupois is some
thing in the neighborhood of 300
pounds, having ridden long distance,
standing and in silence" approached
O. high-toned young mar, who was en-
loving two seats all to himself:
"Sir," said the fat lady, "can you not
make room for me on that seat 2"
"Well, pom honor, madam, lam sorry
but am-ah reserving this for me wife
all, pon word am" was the reply.
The old lady swelled up nearly twice
her natural size, and, having taken in
full supply of breath, she let out with {:
You nasty gold spectacled snob, you
amt got no more of wife than / have !;
you are trying to save that seat SO as you
can put on airs and lay down and go to
sleep when you feel like it. Git up out
of thar or I'll smother you to death with
my shawl"
"Well, madam" -,
"Don't madam me, I'm single; git
up, tell you," ard with that she seized
the young man by the back of the neck
and raised him as high as the roof OF the
Ger would admit, and calmly dropped
into the vacatedseat, much to the merrl,
ment of the e1cursionists, who were Just
in the proper mood for fun and frollc.
As the young Dundreary gazed at the
! old lady munching pie he muttered to
himself: ".Weli, 'Ton my life J. but
the fat woman gave him glance, ano
he rushed into another car and took .
seat on wood box.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-10-05

likely false alarm. "Nay, nay" said
she, "last time I went in for him there
I got fine affront. "Ill come with
you," said she. "I'll take the poker,
and We have got our tongues to raise
the town with, I suppose" So they
marched to the toll-bar. When they
got near it, they saw something that
staggered this heroine. There was ac-
tually O man half in and half out of the
window. This brought the blacksmith's
wife to O standstill, and the timid pair
implored her to 90 back to the village.
"Nay," said see, "what for9 1 see but
one-and-hark T. it is my belief that
the dog is holding of him" However,
she thought it safe>t to be on the same
side with the dog, lest the man might
turn on her. She made her way into
the kitchen, followed by the other two,
and there sight met her eyes that
changed all her feelings, both toward
the robber and toward each other. The
great mastih had pinned man by the
throat, and was pulling at him, to draw
him through the window, with fierce but
muf1ed snarls. The mans weight alone
prevented it.
The window was like picture frame,
and in that frame there glared, with
lolling tongue and starting eyes, the
white face of the village blacksmith,
their courageous friends villainous hus-
band. She uttered an appalling scream
and flew upon the dog and choked him
with her two hands. He held, and
growled, and tore until he was all but
throttled himself, then he let go and the
man fell. But what struck the ground
outside, like lump of lead, was, in
truth, lump of clay; the man was quite
dead, and fearfully torn about the throat.
So did a comedy end in an appalling
and most piteous tragedy; not that the
scoundrel himself deserved any pity,
but his poor, brave, honest wife, to
whom he had not dared con6de the vii
lainy he had meditated.
The outlines of this true story were in
several journals. I have put the dis
jointed particulars together as we'll as I
could. I have tried hard to learn the
name of the village, and what became
of this poor widow, but have failed
hitherto. Should these lines meet the
eye of any one who can tell me, hope
he will, and without delay.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-10-05
Power Better than Law.

Commodore Vanderbilt was once adj
vised "to get the law" OF a certain mat.
ter.. "Law!" he exclaimed; why, l
have the power already" Long before
the famous Erie litigations fell into such
a hopeless tangle that he and Mr.. Drew
were compelled to settle their quarrel
themselves, he had conceived a great
contempt for the courts OF justice. HIS
first experience in the courts was in the
course of the steamboat litigatlons
which grew out Of the charters granted
to Fulton and Livingston by the New
York Legislature, and which Chief JUS
tice Marshall brought to an end in 1924
by deciding that the State could not
grant an exclusive right of navigation.
Capt Vanderbilt, in 1918, took COM
mand of the steamboat Bellona, OF the
New York and New Brunswick line,
which was chartered by the New Jersey
Legislature. The Troy Press describes
his first appearance in coult: He was
arrested by the sheriff of New York on
an attachment for contempt, and taken
before the awful presence OF the great
Chancellor Kent, at Albany, to answer
to the charge of violating an injunction
awarded in the case of John R. Living
ston against Aaron Ogden and Thomas
Gibbons, prohibiting Gibbons, his
agents and servants, from navigating
with any boat or vessel propelled by
steam or fire the waters in the bay Of
New York. or in the Hudson river be-
tween Staten Island and Bowles' hook.
The chancellor held that as Vanderbilt
was not in the employment of Gibbons,
and as Gibbons had not been running
the Bellona since the injunction was
served, and that as no collusion had
been shown between Gibbons and
Tompkins, Vanderbilt must be dis
CHARGED from the attachment with costs.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-10-05
A Desperate Experiment.

An absconding clerk in the Sault Ste.
Marie canal Office adopted a clever
though perilous plan to escape arrest.
He took passage on propeller and,
rightly Judging that the law officers
would be in readiness to receive him
with open arms the moment the steamer
made her first landing, he donned life
preserver and quietly jumped overheard
when about mile from shore. He lett
behind him afew words written on pa
per collar, politely apologizing to the
captain for having made free with the
lie preserver, and promising to remit
it's valne if it proved to be worth any
thing. No proposition could be fairer,
but as nothing has been heard OF the
desperate navigator it is feared that he
will never remit.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-10-05
Thoughts for Saturday Night.

The wife makes the home, and the
home makes the man.
Hope never spreads her golden wings
but on unfathomable seas.
The most laudable ambition is to be
wise, and the greatest wisdom is to be
good.
To think kindly of each other is good;
but to act kindly toward one another is
best of all.
Difference is the most complicate, the
most indirect, the most elegant and ef-
fective of compliments.
Few things are impracticable in them
selves, and it is for want of application
rather than means that men fail of sue
cess.
Many a life, that might have been
most efficient if rightly directed, has
been lost to the world, and doomed to
mortifying failure, becauSe men have
not been sufficiently developed to know
their own peculiar endowments, or to
make intelligent chance of vocation.
Irresolution loosens all the joints Of
State: like an ague it shakes not this or
that limb, but all the body is at once III
a tit. The irresolute man is lifted from
one place to another, and hath no place
left to rest on. He fecks from one egg
to another, SO matches nothing, but
adde's all his action.
Not enjoyment, but rectitude, is the
chief GOOD. both in this life and tie life
which is TO come. Enjoyment flows
from rectitude; but the fountain is high
er and purer than the stream. Enjoy
ment is often an end unworthy to be
sought. Rectitude is always to be sought.
Rectitude is always to be desired above
all things.
Friendship is vase which when it is
flawed by heat, or violence, or accident,
NAV as well be broken at once-lt never
can be trusted after. The more grace
full and ornamental it was, the more
clearly do we discern the hopelessness
of re storing it to its former state. Coarse
stones if they are fractured may be ce-
mented again, precious ones never.
1t is not you who, on your deathbed,
quit Sln; IL Is sln tuat qulIs Jo", ~ 10
not you who detatch yourself from the
world, it is the world that detaches it
self from you. 1t is not you who break
your bouds, tits your bonds which break
Of themselves through the fragility COM
mon to our nature. 1t is easy to see
that he who condemns the irregularity
of his own life only at the moment when
he is obliged, in spite of himself, to re-
sign it, does not condemn them from
conviction, but necessity.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-10-05
Appeasing Him.

Thompson, the artist, is OF a some
what testy disposition. His charming
wife knows this, and whenever her lord
and master wears frowning brow,
hastens ia appease him by some of the
myriad little foolishnesses so becoming
in young brides. The other day she was
out of town, and Thompson embraced
the opportunity to dismiss fat and
stupid serving man whom he abomina-
ted. Half an hour terward, as he is
at work in his studio, he hears scratch
inc at the door and then timid bark
like that of dog, but not that OF dog:
"Bow! Wow! !"
He opens the door. 1t is the servant.
"You internal fool, what 90 you
mean2"
"Oh, I had noticed that my mistress
often appeased you sol"
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-10-05
Withcraft in France.

At Montbrison, France, not long ago,
the magistrates were called upon to ad-
Judge somewhat singular case. jean
Marie Baron, aged thirty seven, well-to.
do farmer of Poncins, had for. three or
four years entertained the hullucination
that some of his neighbors, jealous OF
his prosperity, had combined to injure
him by witchcraft. His COWS fell sick,
his wheat swithered and he himself had
singular fits of oppression and despond-
ency at the sight Of the Objectionable
persons. He consulted several doctors,
even going to Lyonsfo for treatment, but as
they all derided his story he resolved to
put in practice the remedy suggested by
q village crone-namely to draw blood
from each of his prosecutors. Accord
ingly he armed himself with number
of stout pins with glass heads, hid him
self near the parish church door on a
procession day, when the whole commu.
nifty would naturally gather there, and
falling suddenly upon hisvictims planted
a pin in each with remarkable vehe-
mence. Mr.. and Mrs. Raynaud and
Miss Jeanette Badleu complained to the
police of the assault. Baron declared
with an air of happiness that he was
guilty that he bore no ill-will to the
complainants that he had to do what
he had done, and it had proved effsctual,
as he and his cattle had recovered their
health. The Judge endeavored to con-
vince him that he had never been pos
sessed, but the prisoner retorted un-
answerably that until he had assaulted
his tormentors he had suffered, whereas
from the very moment that he had drawn
blood he and his beloved cattle had en-
joyed perfect health, so that infallibly
he must in the first place have been be-
witched. He was sentenced to fifteen
days imprisonment, receiving his punish.
ment gleefully, "since," he said, "that
is not so much to undergo as the price
of the recovery OF ones health and luck. )"
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-10-05
The Fearful Little Maid.

A little maiden all alone
And bending down she takes flower,
And plucks its petals one by one.
"He loves me well lie does not love-;
Trembling, weeping, now is she.
"Ah, does he love ? or loves he not
Icannot try dare not see !"
Her heart is beating loud and fast,
Her binding tears are like q pail
She d1es lot hear the eager step,
She does not see the shadow fall.
The flower is taken from her hand,
Swiftly the petals he removes.
"He loves-loves not-he loves-lovei
not.
See, darling its the lase-he loves !
Fanny Barro,o.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-10-05
The Souls Hope.

TU6 SUuIB IIVP0s
Behold We know not anything;
can but trust that good shall fal
At last-far off-at last, to all
And every winter change to spring.
So runs my dream but what am II
An infant crying in the night
An infant crying for the light
And with no language but q cry.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-10-23
CHURCHES.

BAPTIST CHURCH-Rev. ]. I. Zealy, ID. d..
Pastor. Sabbath services II a. m, and p. N.
Prayer meeting every Thursday night, at Z
o'clock Sabbath School, a. m, David Stsl-
ton, Superintendent.
BETH ISRAEL CoNGREGATIoN.-No minister
at present. Prayer meeting every Friday
evening, o'clock.
CHRISTIAN CHURcH-Rev Geo. A. Smythe
pastor. Sabbath services u a. m. and 4 P. m
Prayer meeting every Thursday night. Sab
bath School, 8 a. IN. Geo. L. Potter, Superin-
tendent
CATHOLIC CnURCH.-Rev. II. A. Picherit
pastor. Sabbath seryioes-Mass, a. m, High
Mass, 10 a. m., Vespers and Sabbath school al
D. IN. Mass every morning at I o'clock.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.-Rev. W. G. Crane, D. D.,
Rector. Sabbath services / a. m, and Z p. M
Friday evening services 4 o'clock. Sabbath
School 911 a. m. Oliver Clifton, Superintend-
ent.
METHODIST CHURcH.-Rev. G. B. Galloway,
Pastor. Sabbath services II o. m, and p. III
Prayer meeting every Wednesday night. Sab.
bath School, 8 a. II. W. L. Nugent, Superin'
tendent.
PREsBYTERIAY CHURcH.-Rev. John Hunter
DID, Pastor. Sabbath services IL a. m, and
D. m. Prayer meeting every Tuesday night
Sabbath School 8 a. m. J. L. Power, Superin'
| tendent.