davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-18

of opium and the sum of $4,000 in addition
to be released.
The Postmaster General has issued an order
providing that after July LIST, next, no allow
ance for advertising uncalled-ior letters will
be.made to any postmaster unlesss by special
authority of the First Assistant Postmaster
General.
Mr.. Garland introduced in the Senate bill
appropriating 15,0O0,O 900 to be expended by
the Mississippi river commission building and
repairing levees.
The Chinese immigration bill as passed
by the Senate provides that from and after
the expiration of ninety days after the passage
of the act, and until the expiration Of twenty
years after its passage the coming OF Chinese
laborers to the United States shall be sus
pended, and prescribes penalty of impris-
onment not exceeding one year and fine O
not more than $500 against the master of anv
vessel who brings any Chinese laborer to this
country during that period. 1t further pro-
| vides that the classes of Chinese excepted by
the treaty from such prohibition, such as mer-
chants, teachers, students, travellers, diplo-
matte agents and Chinese laborers who were
| III JIG OuitSu vi tlo II I'll VI november,
1880, shall be required as condition for their
admission to produce passports from the gov
eminent of China personally identifying them
and showing that they individually belong to
one of the permitted classes, which passports
must have been endorsed by the diplomatic
representative of the United States and China
or by the United States consul at the port of
departure.
Senator Hill of Georgia, is lying critically
ill in this city. He has experienced no relief
from the recent surgical operations performed
in Philadelphia, and grave fears exist as to
his recovery. His extreme illness is known
| to but few.
In the report from the Committee on Com
merce made to the House upon Representa-
tive Crapo's bill " to amend the statutes rela-
tive to danger signals" it Is asserted that
from five to seven millions of property, and
from three to fifteen hundred lives arc lost
annually in fogs, falling snow, mists and
hick and hazy weather, in waters navigable
by commerce, and that the greater part, or
all, of this loss may be directly attributed to
the present defective signals and rules in
| force.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-18
Concerning Copper.

1t is pet theory Of many workers in
copper that this useful metal is eventu-
ally destined to become as cheap as lead
or iron, because of the extent to which
the worlds supply is constantly being
increased through the preservation and
re-utilization of old copper and brass.
The only copper which is actually con-
sumed is that which is dissolved into
dust or lost in the sea or buried in the
land beyond hope of recovery. A ship
which should be given a new suit of
copper or yellow metal sheathing this
week, would probably offer large por-
ton of it for sale three years hence as
old metal. Mill accoutrements, hose
couplings, lamp.burners, faucets, and
the thousand and one articles in the
manufacture of which copper is icon.
sumed," nearly all come back into the
market again sooner or later. The city
of Boston gives an order for hose coup
lings to-day, and in the course OF few
yesrs it will offer the same couplings
for sale as old metal. The 500, 200; 900
bushels of wheat raised in the United
States per annum is nearly all consumed
each year; but the 10000, 600 pounds
of copper, which is now estimated as
the annual production Of this country,
is merely added to the vast supply OF
copper and brass that has been accumu-
lating in the world since the days Of
Tubal Cain. Some of the copper now
in use on the steam fire engines OF this
city may, in fact, have been originally
worked by old Tubal himself, in the
days when the earth was young.-Bos.
ton Bulletin.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-18
Who Kissed Away The Tears Z

Is anything stranger than the human
heart? Nature sends frail, green
vine creeping across the earth to reach
grim wall and cover its ugliness-to
reach dead branch and cover it with
life. We bless nature as we see these
things. and yet we do not realize that
human hearts are ever doing the same.
One day, months ago, rosy-faced
child looking from a window saw a
queer old man 60 limping past. It
tapped on the pane and the old man
looked up. The sight of that sweet
face opened his old heart, and he went
on his way feeling richer than for many
a month past. He was the grim wall
the child was the green vine. He
passed again, and again the child was
at the window, and for days and weeks
they never missed seeing each other.
At each meeting the vine crept nearer
to the wall-the wall appeared less
grim and forbidding. One day the
"wall' laid aside his old hat for a bet
ter one. Another day he had new
coat. Again he was clean shaved, and
the "vine" scarcely recognized him.
No one knew the old man, but all knew
that he was feeling the influence of the
vine.
A week ago as the old man passed he
missed the face at the window. Was he
too early or too late? BE fingered and
looked and seemed lost. It was the
same next day, but kind heart pitied
him and sent out word that the child
was sick. The green vine had reached
the wall only to be blighted. Two
days more and there was Grape on the
door. The child was dead. 1t had
fallen asleep in death without o strug-
gle, knowing nothing of the grand
here after, bus having no fear. On its
pale cheek was tear-a single tear
which glistened like diamond. No
hand dared wipe that tear away. 1t
seemed tie between the present and
the past-the living and the dead.
"Please, can I see the-the child I"
1t was the old man-the grim wall
who knocked timidly at the door and
spoke thus. They knew him by sight,
and thew led him into the room where
the vine lay dead. He stood over the
coffin for moment, lips quivering and
eyes full Of tears, and then he bent
over and kissed the face which would
watch for him no more. When he had
gone they hooked for the tear. He had
kissed it awayl Old and poor and I'M
known, he had reaped treasure such
as all the millions of the world could
not buy. Detroit Free Press.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-18
FORTY-sEvENTH CONGRESS.
SENATE

In the United States Senate a bankrunt low
was reported, which embraces what is known
as the equity system. The bill giving men
sion to Mrs Garfield, Mrs. Polk and kfra
Tyler was reported A further appropriation
was made for the sufferers by the floods in
the Southwest. The Chinese immigration
was further discussed. In the House of Ren-
resentatives the Consular and Diplomatic r.
preparation bill was passed, and a resolution
was introduced reciting the sympathy that tbe
country felt for tho oppressed Jews in Russia
aud calling upon the Gar to use his indnsnce
TO ameliorate their condition. Mr.. SbeIIev,
OF Alabama, by request, introduced a hi Il,
aid in the construction of the MARYLAND "a "
Delaware ship-canal, and bill was MIRO fro.
duced permitting the Southern MARI
Railroad Company to extend its line int9 w q
District of Columbia. The House refusal 'i 10
suspend the rules and pass bill allowir ", q
farmers and other producers of leaf tobacco
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-18

to sell their own or their tenants tobacco
without license or penalty.
In the United States Senate the bill for q
commission on the alcoholic liquor traffic was
considered during the merning hour, and
amendments were adopted providing that not
more than three Of the five members Of the
commission should be of the same political
party. and that not more than three of them
shall be prohibitionists. The Chinese Immi-
grafton bill was further amended and finally
passed.
In the United States Senate resolution
was adopted looking to settlement of unad-
usted claims between the government and
citizens of Nicaragua and the United States
The liquor commission bill was passed by a
vote of "a to IA. Bills were introduced to
equalize the pay of officers of the navy and
relating to the registration of trade marks.
HOUSE,
In the House, bill was reported from the
committee on naval affairs for the construc-
ton of vessels of war for the navy, and one
from the committee on post roads, providing
for mail service between the United States and
foreign ports. A bill was passed for the pur.
chase of the Freedman,s Bank building in
Washington for $250,000. The Speaker laid
before the Hours the draft of an act to provide
for the payment Of mail carriers.
In the House bill was reported from the
Committee on Territories for the admission
into the Union of the State of Washington.
bill was reported from the committee on ways
and mesns relating to the exporta ton of to-
bacco, snuff and cigars free of tax to adjacen
foreign countries. The agricultural apr ropria
ton bill was passed.
| In the House minority report Was pre-
sented favoring the seating of NJ. d. Ball as
delegate from Alaska. A report was pre-
septed from the Secretary of State touchin.
the imprisonment in Mexico Of Thoma
Shields and two other Americans.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-18
FOREIGN News.


The opposition to the tobacco monopoly bill
in the Prussian economical council annoys
Prince Bismarck. He estimates the net profit
from the bill at 166, 100000 marks.
Four hundred rifles, supposed to be the prop
erty of Carlists, have been discovered by the
Spanish authorities in Catalonia.
1t is officially announced that the Aus
TRANS have captured Ulox, after a desperate
resistance.
The Queen was deeply affected at the mes
sage of congratulation from the President
Services of prayer and thanksgiving for the
Queens escape were held throughout Eng
land
In the event OF Bradlaugh presenting
himself to be sworn, it will be moved that the
previous action of the House of Commons be
affirmed.
In addition to those reported, three others of
the Nihilsts have been sentenced to death.
The Gear has been advised by the Minister of
Justice to commute Lurtig's sentence.
body of French troops RECOMMENDING
south of Ain-Sefra were surprised and driven
back by greatly outnumbering force of
L uuloluu bapoSfuShehy SoAAiS
90 who endeavored to bar their retreat
were routed, with loss of one hundred killed
and wounded. Any diminution Of French
troops in Tunis is believed inadvisable.
The Sultan has advised Arab Bey to act
with moderation, and to respect international
objections.
Forty persons were killed by mine acct
dent in Teplitz, Austria.
The Empress of Austria has visited Queen
Victoria. In the House of Commons Mr.
Gladstone said the attempt upon the Queen
was due to morbid desire for notoriety.
The debate on the Land Act Committee was
resumed.
Sir Stafford Northcote's motion to affirm the
action of the House in the Bradlaugh case
was carried without division. A bill was pre-
scented to amend the law prescribing the oath.
Prince Milan has accepted the crown of
Ser vi
Skobeleff's famous speech in Paris is be-
lieved to have been instigated by Ignatieff.
A meeting of bi-metalists was held in
London.
1t is rumored that the Direct and American
Cable Companies are negotiating for an ad-
vance in rates.
Minister Lowell publishes a letter saying
that American citizens in Ireland must obey
the provisions OF the Coercion act.
MacLean is said to have been seen lowering
about Windsor Castle last summer.
The proclamation of King Milan says the
energies of the new King will further the
cause of virtue and enlightenment.
The Pope will soon create seven new car
dinels.
NJ. Roustan, the new French Minister to
the United States, will not leave for Washing
ton before the end of May.
Nine European travellers in Tunis have
cen murdered.
The London Standard, speaking of the re-
ports of impending war between Russia and
Austria, says that nothing is known in Lon
don to justify such reports.
MacLean, the Queens assailant, has been
committed for high treason.
Mr.. Dudley Edward Saurin will succeed
Mr.. Victor Drummond in the British legation
at Washington.
Tho Gear, in his rebuke to General Skobe-
left, lamented the consequences of his recent
speeches.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-18
Boys Will See the Point,


There, Bub, quit kicking the table
leg, brush back your hair, and take
that seat by the window while give
you little advice. You wish to be-
come famous and to be known as Billy
the Terror of Kenoshoa, or the Boy
Avenger. Now this is not practicable
outside of books. To be sure you
have read of boys becoming blood.
thirsty villains. in velvet pants and top
boots, in marvelously short time, but,
as rule, the boys who start out to
duplicate those yellow. covered fellows,
bring up in some isolated Jail, and
instead of velvet pants they are adorned
in real life with ragged overalls with
the vitals worn out, sitting around in
lonely places waiting for the beautiful
maiden to come and fall in love with
them as they do in the book. But
have found a way for you to crafty
your long cherished desires. l want
you to arm yourself with a double
edged grammar and a self cooking
arithmetic, and skulk down to the
school-house Monday bright and early.
When school calls conceal yourself
behind your book, and whenever you
see an opportunity, jump on q diff
cult problem and probe it through and
through. After you have to all appear
ances mastered it, turn it upside down
and make it prove itself. By the time
you have followed this up couple Of
months you will begin to receive some
of the notoriety you crave, and will be
looked upon as The Startler, or the Boy
Mathematician. By the end of the
term you will be pointed out to admir-
ing spectators as the Double Entry
Wonder OF the Seventh Ward School.
You think now that this will satisfy
you, but it will not. On the contrary,
it will only spur you on to attempt
still more difficult achievements. An
uncomfortable desire to graduate will
take possession Of you, and before you
realize it you will be standing before
hall full of people, with valedictory
in one hand and a cold sweat in the
other, trying to carry off the honors OF
commencement day. Thus you will
go on step by step, until your friends
would hardly recognize the little Willie
Brown of to-day in the red-headed
professor of Poughkeepsie, who will
be teaching a dead language with one
hand, while he pulls an astronomical
constellation to pieces with the other,
twenty years from now. OF course
you will live longer than you would
if you had become famous as the Dash
ing Highwayman Of Oconomowoc, but
you will die in good time, full Of years
and govt, and the great dailies will
devote half column under some gilt.
edge tonic advertisement to your obit-
uary notice, and some enterprising
cigar manufacturer will name brand
of cigars after You, and you will be
mourned as the Bald-headed Philoso-
pher of the Nineteenth Century. There,
that is all this time. Now run out and
tie this can to the tail of that liver
colored dog that we shut up in the
smoke-house this morning, and turn
him down this street by the sitting.
room window, while I get on my specs
and see if it affects dog the same as
it did fifty years ago.-PecEs Sun.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-18

Napoleon III. once quieted tho en-
ragged ladies of his court, who were af-
fronted that he led into dinner one
evening an American woman, by saying,
"that in America every man was a SOW
ereign and every woman, therefore, a
oueen."
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-18

The expression commencement ex-
ercisss" is applied to the concluding ex-
ercises of college term, from the fact
that they mark the commencement" OF
the graduate dependent life.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-18

Teeth d. not belong to the bony
skeleton, but are developed by the iv-
ing membrane OF the mouth, which Is
only continuation of the skin. Hence
the teeth are classed with other skin
appendages, as the hair and nails,
The Osceola times., 1882-11-11


The Gazette gives the following
graphic description Of the splendid
display made i.y the st. Louis, Iron
Mountain and Southern railway land
department, represcntedby Prof. w.
5. Thomas, at the recent State Fair,
which ia manner shows the great
resources of the state of Arkansas:
In such a superb display as Mr..
Thomas presents, it is difficult to be-
gin and paticulsrize any one article,
SO bewildering is the number. The
fruits shown were all grown along
the line of the Iron Mountain road,
and embraces every fruit from apple
to fig. The display ofnative grasses,
$50 varieties, of every form and
shape, all adapted to our soil and eli
mate, and most especially SO for
stock seeding. The department also
shows cultivated r1f.hern grass prov
ing it can grow 81 the south as well.
Red clover eight feet high, timothy
the same height red-top, orchard
grass, and all crops cultivated north
of the Ohio river for foraging pur-
poses; grasses of other kinds, alfalfa,
burr clover, Japan clover, and John
son grass are some of the kinds.
Then oats eight feet high, wheat pro-
ducing scventy-one bushels to the
acre by actual measurement of land
and grain, clover, rye barley, rice,
corn not excelled, ear fourteen inches
long, 9l inches in circumference;
broom corn, excellent fibre and quail
ity; sorghum cane, l0l feet high;
ribbon or Louisiana sugar cane; sam
pie of doura corn, which produces
forty bushels to the acre, taking for
domestic purposes the place of buck
wheat; winter oats; Arkansas silk,
made from cocoons from worms fed
ON Usage orange leaves, and white
bushy Tobacco. The latter is grown
bv Elisha Wilson, of Saline county;
the length Of leaf is y feet, quality
superior to Kentucky Tobacco. Next
The Osceola times., 1882-11-11
Col. POiildcNtcr Dunn.

Addressed bis constituents of Ms
sissippi coauty at this place last
Monday. The Union Chu ~ch, which
owing to its seating capacity, was
selected rs the place of rendezvous,
was filled to its utmost; aud for three
hours the Colonel handled, in his
usual graceful and pleasiog style,
the subject of our government pol cy,
and with the ease and skill of the
well-infolmed statesman that he is,
riveted the attention of his aud 'encc.
1t Was jcst tie kind of talk neces-
sary to educate and instract tie peo-
pie on the great questions and issues
now before the Amerjcan people.
The subjects Of tariff, finance and
revenue were treated in so simple
and lucid a manner that the most
dull and illitcrae could not but be
edited and entertained, and went
away enlightened upon subject mat
ters that before were but little or
imperfectly understood by them.
Col. Dunn has host of warm
friends and ardent admirers here who
esteem it II privilege, RS well as a
sacred duty, to assist in returning
him to congress.
The Osceola times., 1882-11-11
Election Returns.

The elections here for Congress-
man at Large, and Congressman for
the First District passed off very
quietly. From the returns from our
County; it would seem that our peo-
pie either did not know that an cleo
ton was 20 be held, or didn't care a
continental who represented them
in the United States Congress. Out
of fifteen voting township, seven
only held elections, the returns from
which foot up the following mcager
returns:
For Congressman at Large-Breck-
inridge 300; Chas. f. Cunningham
81.
For Congressman First District -
Poiudc.tcr Dunn, 30l; J. B. Miles
80.
The Osceola times., 1882-11-11
CARDS AND ADVERTISEMENTS
Space

~ Advertisers by the year will eerestrlcted
ito their legitimate business.
Yearly advertisements may be changed OF
reset four times during the year free OF charge
sS-Parties contracting for yearly advertise
ments and disseminating from any cause. VIII be
charged short time rates, as per time Inserted.
SEE RATES.
rP-Foreign advertisements, sent through
Advertising Agencies, must be paid for in ad-
vance, or a deposit made with some one whouI
we may designate.
e~f" Marriages and deaths, not exeeeling ten
lines. will be published sr news. iree OF charge,
Int obituaries, tributes OF respect. funeral notl-
,es and invitations charged as advertisements,
- Ali personal matter, letters or commnni-
cations setting forth indtviduai schemes OF IN :
or partie-, organizations or societies, VIII d.
charged for as other advertisements
ssr-In all legitimate demands OF the demo-
cratic or Conservative party, or OF the great M
terests Of the general public upon our columns,
the TINES will not iaii of lis duty
The Osceola times., 1882-11-11
A Party with n Future.

Today the democratic party is the
party of grand opportunities. To
achieve two years hence the greatest
victory in its history it will be neces-
sary only to keep the spirit of genu-
inc democracy well to the front, and
the few blatant fools who so often
misrepresent democracy far in the
rear. Nothing more than the result
Of the present years elections can
mark the devotion of the great ma
jority of the people OF the United
States to democratic principles and
policies. Nothing could more en-
phatically signalize their opposition
to the centralizing, unrepubl'can ten
denotes of the misnamed republican
party.-[L. r. Gazette.
The Osceola times., 1882-11-11
OSCEOLA, ARKANSAS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER II, 1892

in the display comes koollmoor, a
kind of clay, and potters' clay. Two
medalions, one of Garfield and one
of Lincoln give samples of the beau
ty of this clay for such purposes,
aud it will make all kinds of articles,
from the commonest whisky Jug to
the finest vase, resembling Sevres
china. Samples Of cotton yarn made
from cotton seed by the Clement at
tachment. Then there is a variety
of marbles equal to Tennessee mar
BILE, manganese ore, of which the
largest deposit in the known world
is to be found in our state. Zinc
ores from Lawrence county, antimo-
ny from Sewer county, as fine as that
from the mines of Born, lead aud ar
gentiferous galena, copper, iron ores
Of superior quality and value, soap
stone or steatitc-the only locality
that it is found in the Mississippi
valley is our state, gypsum hard fin
ished, alabaster OF the most superior
quality, leather made by James Sar-
tain Judsonia, equal to the finest
French calf-skin textile fbres of
every kind used in manufacture, spe-
cimens of granite, sand stone, a large
display of Woodruff county corn,
a sample of dingal, spald as it is call
ed in Germany, where it is used in
making flour. 1t is grain that must
be planted with the chat on the face
and must not be threshed. 1t is
new grain and never was in this
country before.
The variety of products here emu
merated will show the resources Of
Arkansas to tie fullest extent. There
is hardly gran or fruit Of any other
state that Arkansas cannot produce,
and the staples shown are most su-
perior. Col. Thos' Essex, land com
missioner of this popular road, is to
be found in our city at any time,
ever willing to answer inquiries as to
the excellence of Arkansas as an el :
terprising and thriving state, while
Prof. w. S. Thomas was never wea-
ry of showing his extensive and mag
nificent fair display, aud this task
was repeated over and over again.
Mr.. Brantley, chief clerk of the de
partment, ever alive TO the interests
of the state, can always be found
al the land Office.