davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-18

PRESIDENT j. II. Seelye says in the Con-
gregationalist, in regard to the new system
of self-government at Amherst college, that
it is the unanimous conviction of the faculty
that they have never knowna year where so
much honest work has been done in the
college, and with so healthy results, as in
the year now closed. The attendance upon
college exercises has surprised them all.
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-18

In Paris there is musical composer
named Goodies, who has been afflicted for
some time with intermittent insanity. When
he goes off on an insane turn he fancies
himself entitled to the possession of i'm
mense sums of money. Then the doctor at
the asylum where he is habitually received
writes him an enthusiastic letter, saying the
money has arrived and asking him to come
and get it, and the poor fool never fails to
fall into the trap, although he abominates
the asylum.
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-18

THE New York Evening Post says that
the important thing in the Virginia contest
is that "whatever breaks up the old parties
in the South and causes division on some
thing else than the color line is of great adj
vantage to the country and especially to the
cOlOred men,"
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-18

A THOROUGH investigation of the livings,
held by the clergy of the Church of England,
is being held. Many clergymen receive
large salaries for doing next to nothing
For instance, the living at Winbust yields
$4,000 year, and no duty whatever is re-
quired from the incumbent 1t has been q
sinecure for 400 years, and has usually
been purchased by families having son in
ordarS
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-18

MISCELLANEOUS.
Summer
Complaints

AT this season. various diseases of the
bowels are prevalent, and many ires are
lost through lack of knowledge of safe
and sure remedy. PERRY DAVIS PAIN
KILLER is a sure cure for Diarrhea, Dys-
eentery, Cholera, Cholera Morbus, Summer
Complaint, ETC., and is perfectly safe.
Read the following:
prn, II b, BA,1SBRIDaE, N. Y, March @, 1881
FERRY DAVIS PAIN KILLER neuer fails to afford
instant reaef Tor cramp and pain in the stomach.
N1cHo1v1I1E9 9SsEFH 4. Y Feb ggaDIET. 3 Iss5
cospa The ssry Sss medicine ned know Of for dysener
used it for years, and it is sure cure every time
Mo,uaoy, Tow, JUNIus Nus, w = DEE 2Jg;
;eTa@p colic and cholera morbus and i gave almost
- i'--s- cAnsrsv111E e Ga. T. Hab2sfsh Feb ss ISL
- For twenty years have used your Pam KILLER
sG}%9RHlants. S}9RHaI .t and Would SAFE
DAVIS sfPSG Pss MH kSaR 5sR tMsv. s
should i e of SFa he sfs fsy No mother
ree TSSad haray ara dare
coswArBono. s. G.f ~ e s5sfsH E. issi.
in fssary sa 6Sas ayey family in this section S keNsR bottle
cnrrvr ! u Il ns12 s CoSsqJATE, LATE. ~, -,
haHe t hnowR sw PERRY DAyIs PAM m almost
observation and use regard its presence in my
household as an indispensable necessity
l. s. POTTER, o. S. Consul
- - BURToN-oN-TRENT ENG
had been several days suffering severely from
d1arrhoea accompanied with intense pain, when
tried your PAIN KILLER, and found almost instant
relief. II. j. NooNE
21 MONTAGUE ST, LONDON, ENG.
During residence Of twenty three years in India,
have given it in many cases of diarrhaa, dysen.
terry and cholera and never knew it to fail to give
relief. R. CLARIDGE.
No family can safely be without this
Invaluable remedy. Its price brings it
within the reach of all.
For sale by all druggists at 25c., SOC.
and $1.00 per bottle.
PERRY DAVIS & SON, Proprietors,
Providence, r. l.
jun28 eod&w1y
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-18

ONLY a short time ago Major Daniel, the
Democratic candidate for governor of Vir-
ginia, made a speech in which he said !:
Confederate money, though dishonored
and repudiated here, is current in heaven"
Major Daniels chances of handling it any
more are dubious.
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-18

IT has been estimated, with approximation
probably to accuracy, that the railroad sys
tenn of the entire world embraces 105,O0O
locomotives, representing 30,000,O00 horse
power. The steam engines, stationary, in
vessels and others are estimated at 10000,
900 horsepower. If we admit that the
nominal steam horsepower corresponds to
the effective labor of three draught horses,
and that the draught horse produces the la
Dor ofseven men, we shall find that the steam
engine actually represents the labor of a
thousand million of men.
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-18

We do not read anonymous letters and communi
cations. The and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable, not necessarily for publca-
ton but as guaranty Of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return preserve com
muncations that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-18
The Governor in the Pouts.

In its Jealous championship of our be-
ligerent chief magistrate, our esteemed
evening contemporary makes an editorial as
sertion which is not justified by Gov. Plais-
ted's own statement, which is re-published
in the very next column of the same ISSUE
Says the Advertiser:
One Councillor, without taking the trouble
to rise, told the Governor that he sh ould have
nominated Mr.. Little instead of Mr.. True for
trustee of the Reform School; an another,
when Mr.. Little'S nomination in place of Mr.
Thompson came up moved to lay the nomin-
alton on the table, until Mr.. Little could be
advised to decline it. The Governor thought,
not without reason, that it was the business of
the Council to advise him and not Mr.. Little.
AS the author of this motion persisted in it,
the Governor dismissed the Council.
Says Gov. Plaisted:
Councillor Bowers then rose and made the
following motion:
II move that the nomination of MIR. Little
lie on the table until we can get letter from
him declining it."
Councillor Hinckley said. ''Oh. let us vote
and settle it,"
The Governor said, "With all due respect,
decline to entertain the notion
"Then," said Councillor Bowers, "I call up
ON the Senior Councillor, Col Robie, to put
my motion"
gard it as matter of sufficient importance to
make an issue of it; that he had no feeling
about it at all, not the slightest. After Col.
Robie sat down, the Governor directed the
Secretary of State to call the roll, when Coun-
cillor Bowers rose and put his motion in a
modified form, at the suggestion of Councillor
Robie, viz: That the nomination lie on the
table until the next meeting of the Council.
"And L demand" said he, "of the senior
Councillor to put my motion; if he won't
will. The Governor has insulted me in de-
Ginning to entertain my motion, and that isn't
the first time he has insulted me either in
that way. The only reply the Governor made
was this: Gentlemen, this Council stands
adjourned without day.
In other words Councillor Bowers made a
motion which was regarded as objection
able, and upon suggestion of Col. Robie he
modified it mot 'persisted IN it,'') and so
framed it that it was an entirely proper and
parliamentary motion, which no presiding
officer could refuse to entertain without in
dignity not only to the member making the
motion but to the body over which he was
presiding.
And this is the grave offence on the part
of a single Councillor, together with words
of ''censure'' on the part of another, which
our worthy Governor deems sufficient cause
to justify him in ''dsmissing the Council"
and absenting himself from its adjourned
meeting, at the risk of hazarding the credit
of the State and clogging the wheels of the
State institutions. And the usually law
abiding Advertiser appears to justify him in
this remarkable proceeding.
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-18

A VERY peculiar instance of the auctua-
ton of values in commercial commodities is
shown by the comparative returns of the ex-
ports of petroleum for the years 1880 and
1881. The amount in gallons exported in
1881 was 26, ,304, ,537 less than the amount ex-
ported in 1880, yet the value of the exports
for 1881, so greatly reduced in quantity, ex-
ceed the value of the exports for 1880 by
$4,696,971. 1t would seem difficult to fix
the standard of values with so slippery a
product as oil,
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-18
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST IS.

EVERY regular attache OF the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate signed by Stanley Pullen,
Editor, All railway, steamboat and hotel managers
will confer favor upon us by demanding credentials
Of every person claiming to represent our Journal
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-18

GENERAL Grants new house at No. 3
East Sixty-sixth street, New York, is large
house, four stories high, with brown stone
front and bay windows. 1t has never been
Occupied aud cost SQ3 600
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-18

Wagner has decided not TO visit America
this year, but an enterprising New York man
ager has secured three dozen New Jersey tom
cats, which he will conceal on the stage, and
with the assistance of three bass drums. fonr
pair of cymbals, and the occasional dropping
OF a basket OF crockery from the flies, hopes to
-(Chicago Tribune.
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-18
FOR SALE
YACHT FOR SALE.

IL EEL Schooner Yacht "Banshee," length 25 it,,
~ beam 81a feet, draught Aft, moulded iron
every respect; roomy cabin, accommodating four
persons, cooking utensils, crockery etc. A good
tender sold with the boat. Inquire of E. WOOD
Portland, aug9eod2ws
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-18
FOR SALE.

n lot Of PINE and HEMLOCK TIMBER on Rocky
- Hill, on west side of road leading from Sacca-
Kappa to Duck Pond, little over mile from Sac
ccarappa and Cumberland Mills, opposite the resi-
sdence OF the late Josiah Winslow. Apply to
l. N. HACKER,
aug4ozWs on the premises.
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-18
THE RUBY RIVER.

To keep the blood pure is the principal end of in
ventions and discoveries in medicine. To this OBJ
ject probably no one has contributed more sgnally
than DIR. David Kennedy, of Rondout, N. Y, in the
production of a medicine which has become famous
under the title of the 'Favorite Remedy 1t re-
moves all impurities of the Blood, regulates the dis
ordered Liver and Kidneys, cures Constipation,
Dyspepsia and all diseases and weaknesses peculiar
to Females.
@-When inquiring of your druggist for this new
medicine, avoid mistakes by remembering the name
DR.. David Kennedy's ''Favorite Remedy u
and the price, which is only dollar a BOTTLE and
aug9eod1m
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-18
A we'll KNOWN LADY
Grave, o.ad Pxal
Iivcrer.
SPASMS.

Mrs. S. A. McIlwain, of Fergusonville. Della
ware county, N. Y, writes ''Only a few days be-
fore commenced using the 'Favorite Remedy in
one of my spasms and sinking spells, my friends
thought was dead, and gave up the attempt to re-
store me to consciousness. am confident that if |
during nv periods of critical illness Should never
have recovered.
That the Lord may bless you and in
crease your means Of doing good is my daily prayer
and may many yet unborn praise the sFavorite Rem
edy' and its discoverer.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-02-18

The slanting-tooth harrow has al
ready proved an important labor
saver in some departments of farming.
The round, smooth teeth, slanting
backward at an angle of forty degrees,
freely clear all distractions, do not
clog, pulverize manure, harrow wheat
and destroy the small weeds iu corr,
drills. Two or three borrowings OF
wheat in spring, before sowing clover,
have increased tho yield on an average
about five bushels per acre, and if used
on all the IS, OOO, 600 acres OF the Union
would be worth over II hundred mil
lion dollars in the aggregate. Used on
corn before 1t comes up, and every few
days for Il month afterward, this im,
plement clears out all starting weeds
and saves 50 aracre in hand hOein.
and cultivating. Ga the $4,000, 900
acres of corn in the Union it would be
worth SUM of great magnitude.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-02-18

There is likely to be another little
family jar in Louisiana Republican
circles. 1t has been all along conceded
that, in case the State were divided in
to two United States judicial districts,
Judge Alex. Boarman, of Caddo, had
earned and would be fairly entitled to
occupy the bench in the Northern one.
It now appears that the willy kellogg
has a candidate for that position. See
ing no other hope for continued poll
teal preferment, the ssSenator'' con-
templates running for Congress as
Darrell's successor, and, in order to
promote his prospects in that line, will
endeavor to secure the United States
Judgeship for Hon. Taylor Beattie.
With the latter's grateful aud earnest
backing, Kellogg thinks he could
easily make the Third District poe
Marlborough. In the meantime the
Pardee and Leonard factions arc mold
ing their breath in establishment ut the
sudden change which appears to have
come over Judge Billings prospects
IN. o. CITY Item.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-02-18
NOTICE..
THE BEST OFFER YET MADE.
Four of Frank Icslie's Publications,
One Year for only $3.50.

oHc car Tor only SS.jO.
Tho Frank Leslie Publishing Co., IL
Dey ST.. Now York, viii send Frank Les
lies Family Friend, "A l6 page illustrated
pEpcr, for only $l.OO per year.
Frank Lesiie's Young Folks devoted to
the interest of young people, and contain
ing much to interest those of moro
mature age. This paper contains IL pages
Of Illustrations and valuable reading matte,
Just the paper for young children. Price
per year so cents.
Frank Leslie's National Agriculturist
And working Farmer, IL age illustrated
paper, for only Sl.OO per ycar.
Frank Leslie's Pulpit OF Tho Day IL IG
page illustrated ynper. just The paper for
Sunday reading. Price only IS cents pcr
} ear, or all four of the above publication
for -. 80 per year.
Any person desiring to act as our agent
on scndinS us 80, will receive post paid
sample copies of tho above publications
togcther with Il complete agents outfit oil
II beautiful ptcIium chronIos, also Il copy
of our Book of Valuable information OF
oyer 500 pages. containing an illustrated
dictionary of every useful word to he
found i'll the English Language, medical
anu household receipts, legal advice and
forms, articles on etiquette and letter writ
ing, advice to merchants, clerks, mccl,:,n-
les and farmers.
Samples of all of our publications. and
illustrated Catalogue (wiihout premiums
for - cents. All desiring steady and pro.
iitnblc employmenI should send at once be
tore their territory is taken. Address,
FRANK LESLIE puhlis,hn. Go.
/" DeN Street, New York.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-02-18
PUBL CATIONS.
~~--~E-"1-'-----"---.'--
THE Sun FOR 1881,

Eveiybody roads The Sun. In the edi-
tons OF this newspaper throughout the
year to come every body will find:
that the reader will get the greatest amount
OF information with the least Improbable
sx s 1nnt o Of time and eyesiEht. The
between redundant fullncss and unsatis-
factory brevity.
ponds less upon it's recognized importance
than upon it's into: est 20 mankind. From
TO s,or9 he Yes 81 Sun Prints
loves, hates and troubles. This story is
romance that was ever devised.
Ill ~: Good writing in every column; and
eorn is tho of e"ery subject
Nv. Honest comment. Tho Suns habit
is to speak out fearlessly about men and
". Equal candor III dealing with eacl,
political party, and equal readiness TO
bulse what is blanable in Democrat or Re
publican.
vi. Absolute independence of PARTISAN
true democratic principles. The Sun be-
iievcs that the government which the Con-
It's not ion of duty is to resist to it's utmost
power the efforts Of men in tho Republican
party to set Up another form of govern
year 1881 and the years Immediately fol-
lowing will probably decide This supreme
| that the victory will be with the people as
against the rings FOR monopoly. the rings
| for plumber and the rings for imperial
power.
| Our terms are as follows:
| For the Daily Sun, four-pag sheet of
twenty.eig columns The price by mail,
] post paid, is so cents month, or sc so Il
year, or, including the Sunday paper, an
eight-page sheet of iiIty-six columns the
price is 65 conts II month, or 81 20 a year,
| postage paid.
| The Sunday edition of the Tho Sun is
also furnished separately at 81 20 year,
postage paid.
The price of The Weekly Sun. eight
pages, fifty-siN columns, is 81 a year,
postage paid. For clubs of ten sendin {;
$40 we will send an extra copy free.
| Address /. w. ENGLAND,
| Publisher OF the Sun, New York City.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-02-18
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY.
DEVOTED TO

DEVOTED TO
Literature, Science, Art, and Politics.
TERMS: 80 cents number $500 n
year, in advance, postage FREQ. Witt, life
size portrait OF Holmes, Lowell, Whittier
Bryant, or I.onglellow. $500 with two
portraits, $500; with three portraits, 81. 90
with four portraits, $500 with all five por-
traits, 5000.
CLUB RATES OF THE ATLANTIC WITH HoUGlI-
TON. MIEfIIN ~ CO.'S OTHER PERIODICALS.
Tho Atlantic Monthly and United States
official Postal Guide $500.
Tho Atlantic Monthly and DwiSht's Jour
nal of Music; 500.
The Atlantic Monthly and Boston Medi-
cal and Surgical Journal $500.
Tho Atlantic Monthly and Tho Reporter
$1,000.
Whittier. Bryant, and LonyfelIow will DO
sent for Sl.oO each in addition to above
rates.
All communications for the editor and
all books for review should be addressed to
tho editor of the "Atluntic Monthy,'' and
ali business communications to tho pub
fishers, llouSt"n, Miniin u Co., Boston,
Mass.
Contributors arc requested TO send their
MSS. without rolling or folding them, and
cial-notc size. No notice Will he taken of
any communication unless I stamp is in
closed to pay postage on the answer.
Persons ordering II change in direction
and tho new address i'll tlIl. No change
ctn be made after the 9TH OF any month in
the address of magazines for tho following
month.
moncy-ordcr, draft, or Registered letter, to
HoughtOn, Miiliin Il Co., Boston, Mass.
Boston Office Of Atlantic Monthly, Park
street Now York Office, Il Astor Place.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-02-18
Only A DOG.
Ipatriot Free Press.l

We were all crying, every one Of us.
Esther declared 1t was smoke that had
got into his eyes and made them
smart but mother threw her apron
over her head and sat rocking and Sob
bling Tor ten minutes. Phoebe and I
just threw ourselves down ON the floor
by poor Leo, and took his dear old
shaggy head in my lap, and the hot
tears dropped one by one and Phoebe
petted his poor old stiff ears and
smoothed out his thin, gray hairs !;
and then we took Off the old brass col
lar that was marked all over with
hieroglyphics that we had scratched
with pins in the proud days when he
first wore it; then we cried again, and
just then in walked Squire Toots, and
lWhen he saw ue all so distressed he
Hooked at us and then at Leo then he
took ont his handkerchief and gave
his nose real Sunday school blowing,
and said kind of huskily:
"Why it's wicked to feel s. bad.
Anybody d. sPose it was pusson !;
faint only a dog !"
That Just made US all feel worse
There wasn't any Heaven for him to
go to, and we knew we never could
see him again, and we couldn't remem-
Der any life without Leo, we were such
little tots when he came 10 us, and he
had been, one Of the family all the
time. Father used to lecture him just
as he did us children. "Where did
see you to day, sir ~ he would say
| "Over at Mr.. Mason's, associating with
that dog that steals! Shame - And
then Leo would whine, and pretty
soon father would say, "Go to bed,
sir - and he'd sneak Off to his box in
the back shed and lay awake all night
to protect US while we slept, and he
never once in over fourteen years was
fOrgetful of his trust-and he was "only
a dog"
u time that we went racing home from
4 way to race with us and do all sor Is O
funny tricks at our bidding, and how
proud we had always been Of him will
his handsome stately presence nnt
superior manners and how safe we fel
to hear his llcep-chestcd bark as we
went to sleep.
Well, death had found him sure
enough, and we buried him out in the
grove in little hollow, where he loved
to lie on hot summer days, and there
will be no resurrection for him, though
there will be for the vilest thief he
kept from our doors but none the
less, in looking over his honest,
blameless life, in which he was never
faithless to any, even the smallest
trust, dare apply to him the Mas
ter's need of praise, "Wcll done good
and faithful servant;'' though, as
Squire Toots said, "He was only q
dog"
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-02-18
THE BEST PAPER! TRY IT.!
BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED
THIRTY-sISTH YEAR.

THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN.
The Scientific American is a large first
class Weekly Newspaper of Sixteen Pages,
printed in the most beautiful STYLE pro-
fusely illustrated with splendid engray-
ings, representing the newest inventions
and sciences including now and interest
ing facts in agriculture, horticulture, tho
home, health, medical progress, social
science. natural history, geology, astror1-
omy. The most valuable practical papers,
by eminent writer's III all departments OF
science, will be found i'll the Scientific
American.
Terms, $500 per year, SLIGO half year,
which INCLUDES postage. Discount to
all Newsdealers. Remit by postal order to
Mum Il Co., publishers, 81 Park Row,
New York. --.-
PATIENTS. ..
In connection with the Scientific Ameri-
can, Mcs'srs. Mum IL Co., AFRO solicitors of
American and Foreign Patents, have had
50 years experience, and now have the lar
gesI establishment in the world. Patents
are obtained on the best terms. 4 special
notice is made i'll the Scientific American
OF all inventions patented through this
agency, with tho name and residence of
the patentee. BY the immense circulation
thus given, public attention is directed to
the merits Of the new patent, and sales or
Introduction often easily effected.
Any person who has made a new dis
covery or invention, can ascertain, free Of
charge, whether patent can probably he
obtained, by writing to Mum Il Co. We
also send FREQ our hand book about tho
| their costs: and how procured, with hints
for procuring advances ON inventions.
Address for tho paper, or concerning
MUM q CO.. 81 Park Row, New York.
6Sralch Office, cor. + ~ 18th SIS, Washing
Con- ID. G.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-02-18

An ingenious and tnterprising E;I.
myra, N. ", merchant has invented
an apparatus for the convenience OF
customers who come to his
establishment in .their carriages.
The invention consists of tassel at
tached TO Il cord conncctin. with a bell
in the store. The tasscl hangs Oh n
post at the edge of the sidewalk, and
the customer has merely to pull the
tassel, when an employee comes to the
carriage and receives the order.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-02-18
NoriCE.

Those Of our readers, desiring, steady and
rr"htablo cmp:oymcnt. or valuable read
ing matter cheap tor 1881, should send II,
cents To tho Frank Leslie Publishing Co.,
II, boy Street Now York, for complete set
OF their publications. and lllust rated Gaia
tnugc. containing list of premiums, &c, or
Si-''o lor II complete agents outfit of IL
beautiful thronoS and Premium
Book OF Valuable Information, containing
over 900 pages, with sample copies of all
our publications., etc See advertisements
in another column.
An active agent wa,it6d in every town
twenty TO Thirty dollars can DO made
weekly. Their illustrated Publications
with their now prcn,iums, take Mt sight.
DO not delay il You wish 10 secure your ter
ritory. Address
FRANK LESLIE Publishing Co.,
IL pey St, New York.