davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1879-01-08

BLooMIxaTox. H., Jan. u.-Tha thcsmomet-
rical observations fFom all parts of the Unton
Indicate that tho cold has been ~ sarcea At
Bloomington as at any point Iu tho Northwest,
II not moro 80. On 1aat Saturday mnElliny tho
mercury stood At 90 deg. below 10 the city, anil
two relIabio persons report It between S3 anu
rs deg. below IN tho c1,llntry. Every day ssuro
the mercury has hcen from IN 10 Il deg. below
the Chicago record. Tho eoEf II playing sal
bl,slscl In the ilells, and rabbits arc found with
their cars entirely frozen nff:' Hundreds OF fht
l,ogs hare been su,othercd hy lrosts ptfny ny
for heat. Ttetco haulcrs hare had 10 quit hAu,a
ing for tho TtrT singular rcsson that thu icr' j.
10 brittle during tho !ntehse coI1 that 1t will
not bear loading and unloading.
, 1879-01-08

Ktmbn,l's New AsttnHt!u Cigarette |. t',o
latest and best known remedy. Ntsos fails III TIM
worst cA1ea. ..
, 1879-01-08

NrfurO isrrnkfast
a'waJe nke B0x0dont, md rub It In wcll, 1t Rlyrs
such pleasant ro1itf from p,rchcd ttnxuo rcaulIIuI
from sleep. promotes tho lieaitIsGu scctcttons NJ
tht mouth, u Will cost n.orr fos meat anu sue. :,
thlnEa, but dDn't baHFndgs 1t,
, 1879-01-08

BupYAl.o, N. r.. Jan. 7.-'The snow blockade
has been eiYectuallY removed, and alf trains sro
running regularly aud ucarly on time.
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Published March I, 1870. !
raAp TER ITR


AN ACT to establish a board of immigration.
The people OF the State of Wisconsin, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as
follows:
Section /. There snail be a board of immi-
grafton in this State which shall be composed
of five (5) members, who shall receive no com
pensation for their services rendered under
this act and who shall annually make report
of their doings to the legislature
Section 2. The Governor and Secretary OF
State shall be er o6icio members of this board,
and the other three members shall be appoint
&c by the Governor, but no more than ore
shall be appointed from the same county.
Section 8. The board shall have power 10
appoint in such counties as they may deem
expedient committee consisting of three
members to assist the board of immigration
in the performance of its duties, who shall act
under the instruction Of said board
Section 4. 1t shall be the duty of this
board to enhance and encourage immigration
to this State from other states of the Union,
the Dominion of Canada and Europe.
Section 3. This board shall have authority
10 provide for the collection OF statistics and
useful information concerning the climate,
products, population, and agricultural, min
eral and other resorces and advantages If
this State, and for the printing and dissemina-
ton OF the same in such languages as it mag
deem necessary.
Section s. The board of immiG ration shall
have power to appoint asecretary OF its board,
who shall be paid reasonable compensation
for his services, 10 be fixed by said board; and
also power to appoint local agents to aid and
assist all immigrants who may desire to locate
in Wisconsin and to pay said agents a reason
able compensation for the time of their actual
employment.
Section Z. There shall be appropriated out
of the general fund, not otherwise approprt-
ated. a sum not exceeding twenty-five hum
dred dollars, to be drawn upon the order OF
the Governor, and to be applied exclusively
in defraying the expenses incurred by said
board under this act
Section S. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after its passage aud publie
cation.
ADproved March A. 1879
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.pproved March 4, 1879.
Published March IL, 1879.
CHAPTER 1Q5

AN ACT to provide for the publication and
distribution Of the laws of Wisconsin con
| corning the organization aud government
| of towns.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, repre-
scented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as
| follows:
| Section 1. The secretary of state is hereby
authorized and directed to purchase OF the
editors the manusc ipt of work entitled
Laws of Wisconsin, concerning the Organi-
| cation and government of towns, and the
| powers and duties of town officers and boards
! of supervisors, with practical forms, by John
! G. Spooner and Hiram HAYES, counselors at
| law" at such price, not exceeding the sum
of twenty two hundred dollars, as may be
| agreed upon between the said parties and the
| governor, secretary Of state, state treasurer
| and attorney general: prootded, that said man
| uscript shall contain, properly arranged, all
laws concerning the organization and gov
eminent of towns which be in force at the
close of the present session of the legislature
and pT'oUided, further that said editors shall
execute and deliver to the secretary of state a
good and sufficient release or assignment of
all their interest in the copyright of said work,
and shall, without charge, prepare suitable
index for said book, and supervise the proof
reading and publication of said book.
Section 2. The secretary of state shall
cause to be printed, by the state printer, from
said manuscript, under the present printing
contract Win MIN, seven tnOuSduu copies OF
said work, which shall be bound IN the same
style as the session laws of said State for the
year 1878, and which, when so printed and de-
livered. he shall distribute among the several
counties of this State, allowing to each coun-
ty sufficient number to afford copies to each
town therein; such distribution to be in the
manner now provided Tor the distribution of
the general laws, and said books shall be dis
tributed among the town officers as the board
OF supervisors of each county may order.
Section 3. There is hereby appropriated
out Of any money in the state treasury be-
longing to the general fund, not otherwise
appropriated, sum sufficient to defray the
expense authorized and required by this act.
Section 4 This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after its passage and publ
cation.
Approved March 4, 1879.
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Published March 5, 1879. ]
CHAPTEr 15O


AN ACT to impose certain penalties upon
county officers for violating certain provis-
ions of law.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, repre-
scented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as
follows:
Section l. Every county treasurer who
shall violate the provisions of section one
hundred and thirty of the revised statutes by
publishing the delinquent tax list mentioned
in said section, in any newspaper that has
not been published the length Of time men,
toned in said section, shall forfeit a sum
equal TO the fees allowed by law for such
publications, to be sued fol and recoved in a
civil action Drought in the name of the state
of Wisconsin, one-half of such penalty to be
paid 10 the informer and the other half into
the school fund; and it is hereby made the
duly of the district attorney of the proper
county, on complaint made, to prosecute
such action.
Section 2. Every county clerk who shall
violate the provisions of section one thousand
one hundred and seventy of the revised stat
utes, by publishing the list of unredeemed
| lands mentioned IN sal section, in any news,
paper that has not been published the len 9Th
| Of time mentioned in said section, shall for
| felt aisum equal to the fees allowed by law
| for such publications, to be sued for and re.
covered in civil action brought in the name
of the state of Wisconsin, one half of such
penalty to be paid to the informer, and the
| other half into the school fund; and it is
| hereby made the duty of the district attorney
| of the proper county, on complaint made, tC
prosecute such action.
Section 8. This act shall take effect and bt
in force from and after its passage and publ
cation.
Approved March ] 1879.
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OFFICIAL.
WISCONSIN LAWS.
Published March 10, 1879. !
mr.. rSfI,TnID 1pey

CHAPTER 1913.
AN ACT to appropriate a sum OF mones there
in named to Frank Shomer, A. w. Farrand,
Z. Gallagher, NJ. I. BATHS and J. f. Morse,
as bounty for the invention OF a steam road
wagon, under the provision of chapter one
hundred and eighty-two Of the laws of
1876 and chapter two hundred and ninty-
three of the laws Of 1877.
The people of the State Of Wisconsin, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as
follows:
Section l. There is hereby appropriated,
out of any money in the State treasury, not
otherwise appropriated, the sum of five
thousadd dollars; provi1ed, the parties herein
named accept the said sum in fuI payment Of
claims against the State, as a bounty OF F.
Shomer, A. w. Farrand, E. Gallagher, NJ. I.
BATHS and j. Z. Morse, for their disburse-
ments and expenses incurred in the construc-
ton of a steam wagon on highghways in
compliance and fullhlment OF the conditions
set forth in chapter one hundred and thirty
and eighty-tWo Of the laws of 1876. and chapt-
err two hundred and ninty-three Of the laws oil
| 1877. But this act shall not be construed as
an admission that said wagon was a satisfae
| tory compliance with the requirements ofsaiC
| acts: and rrogided further that the amour
hereby a. propriated shall be absolutely il
| full Of all claims and demands Of all persons
growing or in any way arising out OF the act
above named or the invention or contest owe
| the said steam wagon.
| Section 2. Chapter one hundred and thirty
| four of the laws of 1875, chal ter one hundre
and eighty two of the laws of 1876, and ehapi
er two hundred and ninety-three of the law
of 1877 are hereby repealed.
Section 3. This act shall take effect and b
in force from and after its passage and publ
/ cation.
| Approved March 4, 1879
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European Armies.

Although the Russian army had con
siderable losses curing the war Of 1878,
If is great error 20 assume or believe
taat il has been materially weakened.
BY command of.the Gar, this vast mi .
tary eorce has been reconstructed. One
novelty, borrowed from the system of
Germany and Austria, is now being in
troduucd, that j., that each regiment Of
infantry shall consist Of four instead OF
three battalion with fifth depot bat
tatioR. tie number and cost Of officers
beiDg thus materially reduced. AT this
nomrnt, Russia has regular standin
Gncle{ing Cossacks, FiBs, and irregular
toops, of 300 600 for population of
94O0s 900. The Austrian army exceeds
800. O90, for population OF 100000.
France. whose army is in a transition state,
ceu pit 100000 In the rield, ont Of
population Of 81, 100000. Germany, with
As 006000 inhabitants, has over 100000
so'dieaA, withouiithe Laudsturm, and can
numbt:r two millions and half of fight
ing men on eu iden call Italy has
$4,000 soldiers. on population Of q,
0o0,00:, Of regular troops, there are
81 .00cin the British Islands, where the
papulsiion is 33,500,000.
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Approved March 8, 1879.
Published March z, 1872.
orr r,u1rxr1 SEQ

AN ACT amending section one thousand nlEe
hundred and seventy-two, chapter eightF-
nine of the revised statutes of 1878, by ia
serting in the third line of said section,
after the words except millers," the words
"town insurance companies"
The people of the State of Wisconsin, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact ae
follows:
Section !. Section one thousand nine
hundred and seventy two, Of chapter eighty
nine of the revised statutes Of 1878, is hereby
amended by inserting the following, after the
words except in the third line OF said sec
ton, the words town insurance companies,,
so that said section, when so amended, shall
read as follows: Section 1872. There shall
be paid to the commi: soner of insurance ey
every insurance corporation, person or agent
to whom this chapter applies, except town in
| surance companies, millers' and manufacture
| ers mutual insurance corporations. the fCl
lowing fees: for filing the first declaration ol
statement with certified copy OF charter
| twenty-five dollars for filing the aEnua
| statement of any insurance corporation othAl
than life or accident corporations, twenty
| five dollars; for filing such annual state
ment of any life or accident insuran,s
corporation, twenty-five dollars; 70
each certificate of authority to agents .
all corporations doing business in this State
one dollar; Tor every copy of paper filed in III
office, fifteen cents per folio; and for certify
ing ana aflXlng seal, fifty cents. Mlllers alt'
manufacturers mutual insurance corpora
tions organized under the provis ons of ser
ton one thousand nine hundred and forty ore
a, b, c, d. {, and f shall pay the following fees
For filing the first declaration or statemen
and issuing certificate thereon, ten dollars
for filing annual statement and issuing Ger
titicate thereon, three dollars; in case two .
more corr orations shall combine to effect ii
surance under joint policy or policies, eacl
and every such corporation so combining
shall pay the fees above provided, the sam
as il each and every one wrote seperGt
policies.
Section 2. This act shall take effect iron
and after its passage and publication.
| Approved March 3, 1879.
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The Changes in the Frog.

Nowhere in the animal kingdom is
so favorable an opportunity for peepiDg
into natures workshop IS In the meta
morphoses Of the frog. This animal is a
worm when it comes from the egg, and
remains such the frst four days OF its life,
having neither eyes nor ears nor nostrils
nor respiratory organs. 1t clawls. 1t
breathes through its skin. After while
a neck is grovcd into the flesh. Its soft
lips are hardened into horny besk. The
different organs, one after another, bud
out: then pair of branching gills, and
last long and Timber tail. The worm
hiss necome fish. Three or four DAYS
more elapse, and the gills sink back into
the BODY, while in their place others
come, much more complex. arranged in
vascular tufts, liz in each. But they.
TOO, have their day, and are absorbed, to-
gether with their framework of bone and
cartilage, 10 be succeeded by an entirely
different breathing apparatus, the initial
of a second correlated group Of radical
changes. Lungs are developed, fhe mouth
widened, the horny beak converted into
rows of reeth; the stomach, the abdomen,
the intestines. prepared for the reception
of animal food in place of vegetable: four
limbs, fully equipped with hip ard
shoulder bones. with neives and blood
vessels, push out through the skin, while
the rail, being now supplanted by them
as q means of iecomoliou, is carried away
pieeemeal by the ahscrbents, and the ani-
NAL passes the balsuce of its days as an
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MISCELLANEOUS.

The New Orleans Southern Bank has
suspended.
A number ofcounty judges in Virginia
are under indictments
One million dollars was sent from New
York to the New Orleans banks March %
The funeral OF Gen. Thomas W. Sher-
man took place at Newport, +. T March 20.
Ereights have been advanced on the
Wand lila, Wabash and Chicago & Alton raIl-
roads.
Several hundred dollars have been
raised in Chicago tor the relief Of the sufferers
u Szegediu.
The expenses Of the international ex-
position at Paris were 100000 francs, and
the receipts So,000OO0 francs.
There is a movement in the French
chamber of deputies TO remove the capital
from Versailles to Paris. Paris IS France"
The temporary suspension Of a num-
her Of New Orleans banks is announced.
Fnuds from New York Will be sent to their
relief aud they viii resume March 29th.
The English government has chartered
the steamers Ontario and Burmesia, the form
cr sails for the United States to take 500 mules
- Natal, the latter embarlls cavalry for South
Africa.
About four hundred more plantation
negroes, recently from the South, left ST.
Louis on The pad inst, for Kansas, and about
two hundred arrived by the steamer Helena
from Mississippi on the 2Srd inst
\ scientific examination Of the sulphur
which fen in the shower on the nth inst,
over the Iehigb valley, proves it to De the
pollen from species Of pine caught up Uy the
wind and carried from the Jersey forests.
At a banquet at Madrid, Spain, Marc h
I'D, given by the advocates Of he abo,.tion
Of Slavery, il was resolved the society for
promoting the total disappearance of Slavery
from the Spanish colonies should be reor-
-anized.
The New York Times of March 10th
publishes reports Of the actual condition OF
trade. manufactures and other industries in
fourteen States, and from business ceuters
in those States. showing that the condition
Of the business interests OF the country, as
compared with the outlook q year ago al
this time, gives promise Of profitable season,
the beginning OF the return 10 national pros
Ferity, and assurance Of a general and APP
parently lasting revival Of business. The
Times SAYS the 'manimity Of expression as 10
the favorable outlook Is the more trust
worthy because each inquirer was pursuing
his investigation entirelya unoiased and inde-
pendent Of any other.
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GOSSIP.

The reigning prints The latest fash
ions in calico.
Taggart calls his pig Barkis because he
is always swilling.
Gone, but not forgotten The fellow
who left the door open.
There is nothing like a short hand
writer to take man down.
& wag wants to know if lady's hair
is something to dore when it is banged
There are two as 10 spell separate, but
the wrong way is spelled with the more
e's.
There are two kinds of men who tell
the trutb-one from force of circum
stances and the Other for change.
The rage for antique ornaments is car
ried to such an extent that lockets repre-
senting the ark are occasionally seen.
A man who bought box of cigars,
when asked what they were, replied,
Tickets for course of lectures from my
wife"
They bounced him literally and tigura-
lively, starting him down two flights of
stairs "Well," murmured he, resignedly,
"p'raps it's just as well l ras goin
down, anyway
The new isle thread gloves are seen in
all the kid colors and pure white; they
are silk finished and Irregular" made,
initiating kid so well as to be preferred
for full dress wear.
a boarder at one of our city boarding
houses remarked to fellow boarder at
the table ''This must he healthy place
for chickens" "Why?' asked the other.
Because I never see any dead ones here
about"
The expression Of boys face at the
end Of straw that lacks two inches of
reaching the cider in a barrel is supposed
to be the model that the artist selected
in the delineatlon of Adam leaving para
disc.
The people of Ceylon bake and eat
bees. Ii we We're going to indulge ia this
kind Of provender we should want to
know that the baker understood his bust
ness, for if bee should revive after he
had been Swallowed!
s'My dearest Maria" wrote recently
married Brooklyn husband to his wife.
She wrote back, dearest, lei me correct
either your grammar or your morals.
You address me, My dearest Maria
Am | to suppose you have other dear
Mariars?"
How good fellow feels when, after
rushing through q side street, upscttir
a peanut stand, knocking down two
small boys, stepping on a dogs tail ana
splashing himself all over in puddle, he
finds that the street car he was heading
off isn't the one he wants-Ly7aa Re
porter.
A bare footed darkey, while hoeing
cotton one day, saw his big toe under
clod, and thinking it a mole's head hit
it and hurt himself. After working with
if while he got tired set his foot ON
stump and said: 'Well jes pain away
now; 7 doesn't care, you huris yer5elt
wusin ye do me-
please draw upon the blackboard ar
Interrogation point, SAID teacher to
one of her pupils. Cant make good
one replica the boy. draw a boot
buttoner," said the teacher, shat will
answer" The boy took the erayan and
drew hair pin Sharp rebuke by the |
teacher. Other scholars smile.
A young lady called at one of our
music stores the other day and asked for
something new in piano music. The
clerk asked her if it male any difference
how many sharps there we're in the piece |
.'Oh, nc" she replied, "not in the least,
for If there are more than two | always |
scratch them out with my pen-knife.N
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CASVALTTESa


A great fire is reported at Rangoon,
India
a $4,000 fire occurred at Vlck8burg,
Miss, March 10.
Burr 6 Thorne's Touring mill at Au-
burn, \. Y, was destroyed by fire March 49,.
Loss $4,000.
The business portion of the town of
Mnden, Ontario, has been destroyed by fire.
Loss 1000.
Edward Hoyt, of Bridgeport, Conn,
has boon sentenced to be hung, May -, 1850,
for the murder Of his father.
By an explosion In Pottsviile, Pa,
shaft eolliery, two men were instantly killed,
and one seriously, and another slightly in
jured.
Many avalanches have recently occur
red in the Austrian Tyrol, at Bliberg. Ten
houses have been crushed, forty persons kill
ed, and Is seriously injured, and Is missing.
Wealthy and influential Pensioners of
Father Valley Of the Irish Catholic church Of
Milwaukee allege grave charges against him,
and petition Bishop Hannie for his removal.
A terrible prairie file recently occur
red in Republic and Cloud counties, Kansas
They extended over an area ten miles long
and three miles wide, and swept everything
before them. 1t is said about one hundred
houses were consumed also large quantities
=. gram, farming implements, hay and other
products The winds were so high and the
fires so fierce and hot that the inhabitants
were Obliged to take refuge in cellars dug out
or underground habitations But one life is
reported lost, that of Mrs. BorveIsox, who
was burned to death while attempting to re
lease some horses from a burning stable
Several other persons were severely injured,
Loss estimated at $4,000.