davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Sharp County record., 1880-09-30
Jerry Greening's Fish Story.

i've never seed th' river so low
here afore 'cept oncet; lemme see, t
were bout forty-sev'n year 60" said
old Jerry Greening, of Lackawaxen,
the other evening, when some one re-
marked that the water in the Delaware
was very low. Yes, l rem ber now,
'twere in eighteen thirty-three, fer thet
were the year l killen sixty viii cats an
seven hundred an sixteen rattlesnakes.
Now s'pose you'll hardly b'leve what
rm goin' t tell ye, but | swow it's tn
solem' gospel truth. Wall, sir, they
hedn't been q drop O. rain since tn six
teenth f April, an then 'twere the
fourth O August, an all tn water that
were left in the Del'ware were lyin'
into pools. F course all TIL fish what
was in tn river to thet time was crowd
ed into these holes, an they were chuck
full of perch and pickerel, an catfshes
an sich, an bimeby, as the water kept
gittin' lower an lower, some O. tn fish
got crowded clean out O tn water by
tn fish under 'em; an, sir, | hope [
may drop in m, tracks if on seH,ral &C.
casions | didn't see tn fish crawl up on
the big rocks in the river early in the
eVenin', jest so as to get tn moisture
from tn dew when It fell. Yes, sir,
that's the gospel truth, an for over a
dozen nights L sot on shore an lly
counted as high s amillion fish, as thin
S shadders, crawlin' up on tn rocks
to git tn coolin', eyenin' breeze, an to
catch tn dew as L fell. Now, l know
most on yell think I'm a stretchin'
thet story little, an We, some O. ye,
may feel sorter del cate bout expressin'
yer opinion bout It, but l swow thet's
the truth, fer 1 never lied, bein' like
George Washington, an I'm too OF to
commence lynn now, bein' nigh onto
seventy-two year OF. ."-Riladelphta
Times. -.
Sharp County record., 1880-09-30

watched with breathless interest from
the steamer, although there was now
no doubt as to their overtaking it, since
the wind, which had lately blown with
much force, was going down with the
sun.
The iron monster rolled lazily from
side to side in the long, easy swells of
the midsummer sea, and an uncommon
silence prevailed along the decks. which
at length was broken by cheer, as the
life-bOat came up to the dory and sue
ceeded in taking its occupant on board.
The runaway "kite-boat" was lett
drifting on the waves.
"Why, the boys got nothing on but
bathing-suit - exclaimed the short
young man with the long telescope, as
the rescuers approached the steamer.
"And what mere child How ever
came he in such a position?"
"Do run, Walter, and get something
for him to put on"
"Poor fellow! He must be nearly
dead with cold and hunger"
Such and many more similar express
sions were heard ,on the Antartic's"
deck, as the boat came alongside and
was hoisted up to its place on the
davits.
Roll-for it was no other-looked
about him with dazed expression, as
if he were still asleep in tE9 dOry and
this was but one of his dreams. The
passengers were crOwding around him
and asking all sorts of questions, as to
who he was, where he hailed from, and
even as to what was the latest American
news. But here the Captain interposed
and handed Roll over to the care of
Master Walter Lansing, who at that in
stant appeared on deck with suit of
clothes for which his mother had sent
him.
This young gentleman, feeling great
ly honored by the trust reposed in
him, lost no time in conduct
ing the hero of the hour to his
own stateroom. Here he was
speedily made acquainted with the
details of Roll S curious runaway, which,
while the latter was dressing, Walter
fastened to recount to the other pas
sengers, from among whom he had a
large and appreciative audience.
After dinner, Roll, in company with
his young guardian, explored the can't
artic" from stem to stern. and when
the two came on deck again, at eight
o'clock, the Highland Lights were visi-
Bile. Soon after, the steamer dropped
anchor off Quarantine, and lay there
till early next morning, when she pro-
ceeded up the harbor to her pier in New
York City.
At nine o'clock Roll walked into his
fathers office, with his bathing-Suit un-
der his arm, and an hour later he was
being kissed, and cried and laughed
over, by mother and sisters, Tom and
Ernest, in the country-house at Mackeral
CoVe.-S. Nicholas
Sharp County record., 1880-09-30
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
An English Bible in A. D. 1874 cost
S1ee 65

An Eng glish Bible in A. D. 1874 cost
S166.65.
Philadelphia has 434 churches ;
New York, 354, and Brooklyn, 240. No
other American city has over 200.
Two converts of the Moody and
Sankey revival in Boston are known by
the Rev. DR.. Gordon, Of that city, to
have given $4,000 each for the pro-
mitigation of the Gospel.
The Evening Post says that the
Christian at Work is responsible for
sermonette " and pstitiorette, the
former meaning a short sermon and the
latter an abbreviated prayer.
DR. Hitchcock, laborer in the
Protestant cause in Paris, is alarmed by
the growth of society of atheists
lately formed in the French capital.
This society, he says, boasts of men,
bership of fifteen thousand in Paris
alone. Their influence is not simply
negative. They make aggressive war
upon the churches.
The Rev. Walter H. Brooks, pastor
of the Second African Baptist Church,
Richmond, Va, has been appointed
Sunday-school Missionary of the Ameri-
can Baptist Publication Society among
the freed people of Louisiana. He has
been very successful pastor, having
built up church of 1900 members.
The Methodist Episcopal Church
South has a church of Mexicaus at
Laredo, on the Rio Grande, with about
seventY-eight members, and a Sunday
school of sixty-two Mexican pupils,
forty-two of whom are men and women,
"some aged and gray-haired." The
Presbyterians also have Mexican Sum
day school and congregation at this
place.
The Chautauqua National Sunday
school Assembly, which in 1874 was de-
signed for the gathering of Sunday
school workers throughout the land, has
rapidly enlarged its field of labor, till
now it embraces secular schools in all
departments. Its aim is to offer an at
tractive place for teachers and others
to spend their vacation weeks, where
the advantages of boating, fishing, and
bathing are combined with religious in
struction, lectures on art, music, philoso-
ply, languages, etc. The season this
year, which opened August 4, was emf
nently successful, thousands collecting
there from every State in the Union,
and from every quarter of the globe.
For three weeks the days were filled
with varied programme, several occu-
pying the same hours.
Sharp County record., 1880-09-30
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

The mosquito is the Macbeth among
insects. He murders Sleep M y
Commercial Advertiser.
When you take no interest and lose
your principal it is not good to be a
Loan.-Nel0 Orleans Picayune.
How many sins will be cancelled by
the charity of giving wooden-legged
man a pair of skatesP-BOStOn Globe.
The man who wouldn't carry Goals
to Newcastle declined because he New
castle didn't need any.-Cincinnatt
Saturday Night.
An exchange praises large egg
which, it says, was laid on our table by
Rev. DR.. Wilson. Brother Wilson
seems to be more of a layman than a
preacher.-M Y Graphic.
Full many a gem of spurious ray serene.
The spotless shirts of hotel clerks do bear
Full many simple, ignorant sardine
Believes them purest stones OF value rare
-BHfalo Erpress
One man is not as good as another
in law. Law says that man who is
educated and cultured and given to So
ciety should have five times as much
damages for a broken nose as hod-
carrier. Detroit Free Press.
Look at the partiality of nature.
When bee stings once its work is fin
ished and it dies. But we have known
one gaunt mosquito to tap a conference
and then get mad because there WASH t
q picnic in the neighborhood.- O10ego
Record.
1t is a great mistake in mothers to
take so much pains teaching their chill
dren to speak. What world of trou-
Bile it takes to make some babies talk
and what a world of trouble they make
with their everlasting talking after
having once learned how to do it
Boston Transcript.
-Toddlekins is a very small man in
deed but he said he never minded it at
all until his three boys grew up to be
tall, strapping young fellows, and his
wife ,egan to cut down their old clothes
and ut them over to fit him. And then
he said he did get mad.-BurIingtOn
HlUk- EUe,
Sharp County record., 1880-09-30
Sunbursts Of Heat.

The scientific journals have lately
contained many notices of the observa-
ton of new and suspected variable stars.
The more carefully the stars are studied
the more evident it becomes that a pret-
ty large proportion of them undergo
changes of light with more or less reg
ularity. There are few whose brillian-
cy changes so quickly as that of Algol,
the Winking Demon, in Medusa's Head,
but there are many that wax and wane
remarkably.
This subject becomes especially in
teresting in view of the fact that rea-
sons have been shown why our own sun
may be regarded as q variable star.
Professor Proctor, in his essay on the
END of Many Worlds" suggests that
periodical outbursts of heat in the sun
may account for the curious tradition,
running alike through the Indian,
Egyptian, Chinese and Greek mythol-
ogies, that the earth at certain epochs
underg06s destruction and renovation
by fire. On such a supposition the story
of Phaeton becomes the tradition of an
actual event in the earth's history. Ac-
cording to the myth, Phaeton persuaded
his father Apollo to let him drive the
car of the sun for a day, lost the road,
and, approaching too near the earth,
set Olympus on fire, consumed cities
and whole nations with flame and turned
the northern end of Africa into a water
less desert.
The cause of any sudden accession of
heat in the sun, or in a star, is believed
to be the downfall upon its surface of a
vast quantity of meteoric matter whirl-
ing in track of some comet. We have
records of sudden Frightening of the
,un in modern times. A remarkable
Sharp County record., 1880-09-30
Crushed by a BOWlder.

Yesterday afternoon a curious acci-
dent happened to party of excursion
lists from San Francisco, who were
driving down from Lake Bigler. John
Simmons, William Townsend and
Charles N. Balch, who had spent a
week atthe lake, were coming down in
a private conveyance, when in Clear
Creek Canon, just this side of where
the hume crosses the road for the first
time, the team was struck by a falling
bowlder. They were driving along
leisurely when Mr.. Balch saw the rock,
which weighed several tons, coming
down the mountain side. He called the
attention of his comrades to the fact, and
an effort was made to whip up the
horses. At the same instant they saw
the danger themselves, and became so
frightened that they simply backed on
their launches and snorted with terror.
1t was only the work of a few seconds
for the rock to reach the team, and as
it struck them it swept them off the
road into the stream at the right and sent
the wagon and its occupants into the
bushes. The heavy growth of willows
broke the force of their fall, and, aside
from few scratches, they were unin-
iured. One of the horses was COM
pletely obliterated and the driver,
Townsend, was covered with spattered
blood. The other horse was so badly
mangled that he was shot in the head
with revolvers to relieve him of misery.
Last night Doc Benton sentup team
and brought down the wagon, which
was but little damaged. The fall of
the bowlder was probably caused by the
gradual loosening of the soil beneath it.
Cursor (NeU. appeal.
Sharp County record., 1880-09-30
ROLLS RUNAWAY.

1t was a bright crisp morning, and al
though the air felt like September, it
was really July; one of those days which
it seems ought to belong to the autumn
but which, by some mistake of the
weather-clerk, has been misplaced. The
cool a" off-shore" wind, coming from
far away up in the meadows, scarcely
paused as it swept over the little sand
island and rushed boisterously out to
the sea, with force of "haf a gale. !"
ANY one who was on the alert that
morning might have seen two boys
walking along the beach, one holding q
ball of stout cord, part of which was
wound around the body of the other.
From the motions of both the boys and
the evident straining and surging of the
line, the observer might have supposed
that they had hooked a large fish, and,
not being able to land it, were content
merely to prevent its escaping. But
the principal fact contradictory to this
theory was that the line, instead of
leading downward into the ocean,
stretched upwards far above their
heads.
If, now, the spectator had continued
his search for the unknown cause of the
boys singular movements, he would
have discovered, away up in the air,
monster kite, now rising, now falling,
as the gusts of wind struck it, and con-
tinually surging and swaying on the
kite string, seemingly trying either to
snap the cord or drag the boys into the
water.
"Whew! Doesn't it pull, thought
exclaimed the younger of the two, who
held the ball of twine.
~ should say it did," answered the
other, as he felt the quivering line.
"Isn't it a pity, Tom, that we can't
make use of that power in some way or
other? 1t tugs as hard as young
horse. Why couldn't we make it haul
a wagon, or a-boat?" he added, as
his eyes fell upon the little dory that
lay beside the dock, off which his
younger brother Rollin was just plung-
ing.
The idea once in his head, Ernest was
not the boy to give it up without, at
least, trial. SO, having explained his
plan at some length to Tom (who al
ways eagerly agreed with him), the
two hurried out to the end of the dock
and Ernest, jumping down into the
dory, tied the kite-string to ring in
the bow; he then proceeded to make
the stern of the boat fast to the pier
with a rope:
II6anWnII1, nUII Hau arrived at tne
surface of the water with many sputter.
ings, and. seeing what was going On,
Immediately clambered into the dory.
He was bright, athletic-looking
boy of eleven, but at present
his aquatic gambols had tired him
somewhat; so, instead of assisting his
brother vigorously, as was his wont, he
simply sat down on one of the seats and
asked questions.
The preparations for the trial trip
were very simple, so in the course of a
few minutes Ernest said:
"Now everythings ready, except
ing the oars. Run up to the house and
get them, won't you, TomP Do; there's
= Follnwri
Sharp County record., 1880-09-30

phenomenon of this kind occurred Sep
tember l, 1859, and, although it was of
very brief duration it produced start
ling effects in various parts of the world.
If there is a mass of meteors rushing
in an orbit that the sun crosses at GER
tain epochs and which then causes his
fires to burst out with the effects de-
scribed in the ancient traditions, they
have thus far escaped the ken Of the
astronomers Observation has shown,
however, that if such meteors exist they
are to be looked for in the wake of q
comet and we can depend upon the as
tronomers to give due notice of the
comets appearance.-N Y. Sun.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-23
TELEGRAPHIC JOTTINGS.

Sims, the youthful murderer, will be exe- cuted to-day at Fairp1ay, Col
 A slight shock of earthquake was felt at Ottawa at ? o'clock yesterday morning.
 Hon. c. B. Simonton has been renomi- mated for Congress by the Democrats of the Ninth Tennessee district on the 166th ballot
 A messenger of Parliament at Quebec was sent yesterday morning to cash check of $3, 600. He received the money but has not since been seen.
 Austria is actively preparing to join the naval demonstration in favor of Montenegro. Each power will contribute two men-of-war and the squadron will be under joint English and French command.
 E. w. Fay, county attorney of Lake coun- ty, Col, was arrested yesterday at Leadviile for forgery, and he is also suspected of hay ing committed a murder at Galveston. He was about to start on a bridal tour.
 The Tammany State Central Committee meet at Saratoga to-day. It is said by mem bers of the wigwam that the Tammany elec- toral ticket will not be withdrawn, but that the committee will, however, work in har- mony with the Faulkner committee
 In the House of Commons last evening on the report ofthe compensation bill the Tories again made an unsuccessful attempt for its rejection, but were badly beaten on two di- visions. They will renew their opposition when the bill comes up tomorrow.
 Yesterday at Buffalo, N. Y, Coroner Tow Ter began an inquest in the case of Cynthia Van Allen McCrea, of Chatham, Canada, supposed to have died in Buffalo of abor- tion Dr. E. Pynchon, the implicated physi- elan, and Dr. Hopkins of Dunville, Canada, testified.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-23

day Colonel Haskins, the president Of the company. was at the tunnel during the morn ing, and the officers who are directing the work to-day are Engineer Brush, Superin- tendent Anderson, Assistant Superintendent Burlingame, Andrews and Cliff and Foreman Herley. About thirty men were at work this morning.
 It is estimated that fifteen or twenty thou sand persons have visited the scene since yes terday morning. Nothing but the disaster IS talked of in Jersey City and Hoboken. Some. thing unusual was the visits of ladies, whose sympathies had been aroused for the poor miners, who came yesterday afternoon ln carriages to the scene of the disaster
 By the aid of a diver the spindle which fell last night was recovered this morning, and the work of pumping begun. The first ques- ton to determine is whether the water in the pit and shaft comes wholly from the river, directly through the cobble stone facing and through the upper part of the bank, or from the tunnels underneath, or in part from each source. If 1t comes almost entirely from the upper source the bodies can be gotten out much more easily. If it comes entirely from the upper source then it will be known that the walls of the connecting chamber and the earth above have completely clogged up the mouths of the tunnels, and only slight cof- fer dam above the mouth of the tunnels will be sufficient to allow the pumps to keep all the water out of the pit and shaft, and the men can dig out the bodies as fast as shovels and picks can be used. When the pump has been in operation for an hour this question can be settled If the water comes from both the upper and lower sources then stronger coffer dam which 1t will take longer to construct, running down over the mouth of the tunnel must be built before the pumps can keep the pit and shaft clear. Colonel Haskins said this morning that he did not believe it was possible to recover single body before Sunday.
 Thomas Brady, who was in the tunnel at the time of the disaster. said they were en- gagged in riveting iron plates when they were startled by a sound like that of escaping steam. Knowing 1t was leak, they grabbed up mud from the floor of the tunnel and be- gan to patch it up. Their efforts were prov ing to be vain, and Peter Woodland, the man in charge, ordered all hands into the air lock. Eight of them got in, and the air then forced the doors of the lock together so that it was impossible to open them. As the doors iammed, Olaf Andersen was caught by the head and shoulders. We tried to pull him out but could not ''The pressure he gave my hand and his last eager look I shall never forget. D he continued They then stripped off their clothes and crammed them into the holes The water by this time was up to their waists. They then broke the port-holes to let out the air and water, and then hurried to the shaft, which was fast filling with water In one hour from the time of the accident there were sixty-ive feet "of water in the cba
Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-23
New York Produce Market.

 Flour-Flour firm and in moderate demand and 1t to 15 cents higher in cases trade and family brands S5 85a7 10 No g. S2 65a3 60 shipping extras S4 30a4 70 Southern four in moderate request and unchanged.
 Whest-Strong and 3 to s4c higher; spot sales No. red, $1 10a1 Il S No B. S1 OS; ungraded red, Fl O5 al 07 No. white, $1 Hal 12; No do. s1 12a1 122 No. white, Sept sold at $1 071S No red, August 085s, and Sept. 0S7S
 Corn-Heavy and Aa1xc lower; spot sales of un graded mixed at 45 1a47, and No 9 AS; No. ?, July sold at 48s{ Aug, 4824 do Sept 4924
 Oats-Firm and kalc higher and fairly active spot sales of No l white at 42 No. 3Sa39 No. mixed at 3616, and No. at 36a364.
 Rye-Firm; No. Western sold at 93.
 Barley-Nomnal.
 Pork-Dul and weak; July held at s13 5oal4 30; Aug SIS 9oa14 10.
 Lard-Quiet but strong; Western, spot. s7 25 steam, S7 15 for city. Beef-Firm and in light demand at unchanged prices plain mess, s9 50; extra S1O OO
 Cut Meats-In moderate demand; pickled hams, 1O3&a11 k shoulders, 516.
 Whfskey-Nomnal on spot Cotton dull middlings Il 1916; futures weak PetroIeunl-Dun and nominal; crude Tn Darreis' 7I<a7LS naphtha barrels "A refined in barrels cargo lots IO bid and United Pipe Line certificates 981s. Br1tter-Trading continues on very steady move ment at firm prices: Creamery, finest, quoted at 2aaa4 good to prime 22a23 fair to good 2la22 State irkns choice, PC fair to prime 2Oa22 State pails and tubs choice, p; good to prime 2la22H fair to good 2Oa2l; ; state Welch tubs, prime 21 fair to good Iaa21 Western dairy, fresh extra, 18 good to prime 16a17 fair to good 15a16; Western factory fine 16: good to prime 16a17 fair to good 16a17; Vest ern factory fine, 16 good to prime, 15a16; fair to good, 14a1411.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-23
New York City.

NEW YORK, July p. The Park Commissioners have reconsid- cred the vote by which the site of the obe fisk was fixed near the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Central Park It will probably be placed in the plaza south of the Fifth avenue entrance to the park.
 Three young American Jesuits have just ar rived in this city on the steamship Italy from London. They are Thomas Sherman, son of General Sherman; Thomas Herman, son of Senator Herman, of New York, and ME. VanRensselaer, of a well-known family of Albany The last named gentleman is con verted minister. They have all been in Eng land for the past two years, during which time they have been making their novitiate at Rochampton College. They left this evening for Woodstock, Md.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-23
VOL. XLVnH.
LOCAL NEWS.
The P1ainvi1le Camp Meeting.

Preparations for the Annual Assembly of
 the New Haven District Churches.
 The annual camp meeting of the churches in the New Haven district will commence at Plainville Monday, August 16, at 2:30 D. m, and close on the following Saturday morning It is the purpose of the trustees and commit tee on public worship to do all they can to make the meeting eminently profitable to the churches and instrumental in the conversion of men.
 The daily religious services will consist of meetings for praise and prayer and Christian work at a. m.; preaching at 10 a. m; so- cial meetings at 1:15 D. m.; preaching at 2:30 p. m.; prayer and testimony meetings at p. m. preaching at 7:30 P. m. All preaching services will be followed with altar work at the stand and in the tents.
 The hours for meals at the boarding house will be a. m. 12 m., p. m., and rest at 10 D. m., at which hour the bell will be rung at the stand, and all activity inside the camp grounds will cease.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-23
PENNSYLVANIA.

MolIIe Maguires at Their Old Work.
 PoTTsvnLE, July 22.-Ja1nes Wood, aged sixty years, engineer of stationary en- zine for the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, was murdered last night at Bull Run, between Tamaqua and Summit Hill, by masked men. Revenge seems to have been the motive, as the money Wood had with him was not taken. The old haunts of the Mollie Maguires have been turbulent for several days past, and the murder was be- IieYed to be their work