davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-04-28

FIRST LIEUT. THOMAS l. CASEY, JR., corps OF en-
gineers, has been ordered to Philadelphia to re-
sumo his duties under Lieut. Col. Godfrey Wetzel,
and as secretary to the commission advisory to
the board Of harbor commissioners
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-04-28

BIDS were opened at noon to-day by Gen. NJ c.
Megs for furnishing sixteen cast-iron columns 10
feet 10 inches in height for the stairway of the new
1na Pension @ building There were sixteen bidders,
White & Co., at $47 for each column, and C. A
Schneider & Sons, at $45.41 for each column. An
award will be made In few days
THE FOLLOWING CHANGES have been made in
the War department: Secretary's office, ". II.
Murphy, class l, resigned, and c. Il. Emerson ap-
Smalwood, class /, deceased, and George N. Ar
mold appointed. Ordnance office, John A. Madi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-04-28

APPOINTMENTS BY TUE PRESIDENT.-The Pre5i-
dent has made the following appointments: oliver
WOOD. OF Ohio, to be agent for the Indians OF Qun-
ault agency in Washington Territory; B. N. john
son, OF Me- to be register OF the land office at Fer
gus Falls, Mimi: John 7. Carl.n, OF Ohio, to be
receiver OF public money at Bozeman. Mont; Pat
rick M Buckley, to be agent for the Indians o. the
Willoughby, to be agent for the Indians OF the
Neah bay agency in Washington Territory, and
Chas. s. Crane, ND, U.S.A. to be visitor to the
government hospital for the insane. vice Joseph
X. Barnes. He has also appointed the following
poitmasters: Emma J. Porter at Somerville, N D.;
Prince A. Hazard at Colorado, Texas; W. b. Jen-
kins at Wenamac, Ind, and Joseph n Davis at
WahoO, Neb
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-04-28

Army ORDERs.-Lieut. Col Marshall l. Luding-
ton, deputy quartermaster general, has been di
rected to report to the quartermaster general for
temporary duty. Leave OF absence for five months,
with permission to go beyond the sea, to take effect
In June, has been granted First Lieut.. j. Estcourt
Sawyer, 9th artillery. Major James NJ Moore has
bee ordered to the department of the Dakota
he will be assigned as Chief quartermaster with
headquar ers at st. Paul or Fort Smelling. Capt
w. c. Beach, 1lth infantry, Will be relieved from
temporary duty in the department OF the east, and
will join his proper station.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1883-09-28

NOTICE il hereby y;ven that the m
- dersigned, Trustee sf HARRISON town
ship, will attend % H. '.a.ine-s a The
township q his home ea~' ~ IIaysville
On Saturday Of each week. aud persons
having business are expecting 70 present
it o. that day.
Onc-half Of the Township Library u a
Harrison Norgan's, q Ludlow. and one
half q John AnIenbercer's shop, IN
HaysvilIe- Parties wanting books may
get them q either place.
Thomas II. HorE. Trustee
May bth, Iee2--y. Harrison To.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1883-09-28
Oh,MyBack!|

1hats = comrs,ca cxprc>-
sion and has = world u
meaning. How much sur
fcring Is summed up u Y
1he singular thing shout
( IS. thar pain u the back
IS occasioncd by % many
things. May be caused By
kidney disease. liver com
plant. consumption. cold.
rheumatism. dyspepsia. over
work. nervous debility, &c.
Whatever the Cause. dont
neglect l. Something i
wrong and needs prompt
attention. No medicine has
set been discovered that
viii 80 quickly and surely
cure such diseases IS
BRowN's IRoS BfTTERs, and
il does this by commencing
At the foundation, and max
ing the blood pure and rich.
Wn. p. NarshaI1. u Logan,
pom, Iniiana. writes Ny wife
hss 90 many yeass been tzoa-
bled frun pain 10 her back
md general debility incidens
% her s<x. She has taken one
bursie ~ Brown's Iron B;nru.
and can uulhfllly ~ tkAt
sc has been . much tsne6led
tha khe fsono1nces = he
Only remedy q many nsdi-
cines xh< hzs lried."
Leading physicians and
clergymen use and recon-
mend BRowx's IRoE BI1-
TEKs. IL has cured Others
suffering = you arc, and i
vii cure you
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1883-09-28

Smith American Company Organ
with eight stops, knee swell. and bcauti-
hI tone, for sale atthc CornIEE 07YNx
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1883-09-28
MRS. ERNY'S,
- B..ssss. = - Sssns sss.s..
JAsPxR. INDIANA.

y. - larrs sar~R - sns bess RI ware.
helIow- wsrs. hardware. cutlery. g.: aise =
great variety 81 go@ir ~ III hinds a. her
tins % beslnsss. uhieh I'LL - seld - ~
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1883-09-28

Scouting, cuteoring, Roofing And JOB
Work psopntiy attended %. Call and
esanrIre stock cnd prices.
Ovt 3. ~. M7S. TRAY.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1883-05-24
NORTH CAROLINA LAWS.

The Supreme Court of North Caro-
lima has lately rendered these decis-
ions in reference to land cases:
Parol evidence is admissible to fit
the description contained in a deed to
the land, where the ambiguity is lat
ent otherwise where it is patent.
A contract of purchase Of land will
not be specifically executed where the
memorandum thereof contains the
words Zone hundred acres,' but fails
to describe its boundaries. This i'm
perfect description is fatal defect,
and cannot be aided by parol evidence.
A mistake as to course and distance
in the calls of a deed may be corrected
when the means of correcting the same
are furnished by more certain descrip-
tions contained in the deed and where
there is discrepancy between the
course and distance and the other de-
scriptions, the former must give way.
A widow is entitled to dover only
in an estate of inheritance, of which
the husband had seizin in law or a
seizin in deed, at any time during the
coverture; and therefore she is not
dowable Of reversion or remainder
expectant upon an estate Of freehold.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1883-05-24
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

A Hungarian Jew sent to Vienna paper
grain of wheat on which he had written
800 words taken from Tissot's book on Vi
emma.
A watch made entirely of iron and in per-
feet running order was exhibited in u Wor-
cestershire (England) fair recently.
There is creek several miles from
Waynesboro, Ga, which is so highly i'm
pregnated with lime that it will take the
hair off horses legs in passing through it.
A lady in Washington owns the wedding
vest, buttons and knee buckles of Light
Horse Harry" Lee. They are 1nade of
opals, surmounted with diamonds She also
has piece Of watch h-chaia, which he broke
one evening while @altzirg with her grand
mother.
In Nevada mining town, now deserted,
which once had several thousand inhabi-
tants, Indians are living in abandoned rows
of good brick houses, which they have adap-
ted to their tastes as far as possible by
knocking out the doors and windows and
punching holes in the roofs.
A grade Of wheat, known as goose wheat
in Oregon, is so-called because all the wheat
of that kind gfown in the State came from
the craw of a wild goose. Ii has a very hard
coarse shell, and makes peculiar grade of
-four. No wheat like it is known in this
country. The people of Oregon have Won
dered from whence it came. The wonder is
explained. From samples of foreign wheat
at the Agricultural Department the exact
duplica te of the goose wheat of Oregon has
been found. This wheat comes from a small
province in Spain, the only place where it
has been grown.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1883-05-24
ABOUT WOMEN.

A feminine barber in Idaho makes $50
day. This is better than being married and
removing her husbands hair for nothing.
Patti receives $4,000 night. AS she is
on the stage just sixty-two minutes this is
at the rate of Il little over eight dollars
minute.
A story comes from Canton, China, of :.
woman who, to punish female slave who
had stolen some food, cut slice from the
girls thigh and made her cook and eat it.
A young Baltimore wife has got into sad
trouble by signing paper without reading
it. Hundreds of wives and widows iave
done that and been sorry for it. The wife
in question finds she has signed away her
right of dover in nearly 100000 worth Of
property without knowing it. Her husband
told her it was not necessary for her to read
the paper. 1t is good plan never to put
your name to anything without first know
-ing what it is.
Girls ought to be able to talk we'll on cur
rent topics-books, new and old, all that in
terests their brothers. But do they show
themselves competent to carry ON conv er-
sation that will stimulate and refresh those
they meet? Good takers never fail to in
terest and to charm; but a young womaA
whose ideas are only broad enough to be
| expressed in the words lawful" ''horrid,'
and perfectly lovely" will hardly be class
ed as one of them Youths Companion.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1883-05-24
YANKEE WIT

Many years ago Pittsburg iron firm
purchased a lot of condemned bomb
shells for old iron. The shells were
not loaded but in order to melt them
it was necessary that they should be
broken up. This was attempted with
sledge hammers, but the laborers made
but little progress and it was finally
given up as bad job. One day long
slim Yankee came along and said:
Il understand you have a job for a
man here'
"Yes," was the reply; 1--WE want that
pile of bombs out there broken"
"How much will you pay %
"We will give you ftp apiece (six
and quarter cents) if you will agree
to break them all.
"Ill take the contract" answered
the Yankee. The day was cold one
and the thermometer down to zero
The man Immediately went to work
but disdained to take the large sledge
hammer which was offered him. The
Yankee laid every bomb out on the
ground with the hole up. He procur
ed bucket, filed them all with water
then he came into the house, made out
his bill, and said he would call around
in the morning for the money Every
one was much mystifed, but in the
morning their astonishment was great
The water had frozen during the night
and in the morning pile ofscrap iron
was found, as the freezing water had
broken every bomb into at least doz
en- pieces.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1883-05-24
FUNNY PARAGRAPHS.

A bad omen-to owe men more than you
can pay.-Georgia Major.
Eye may not have been bad wQmap ~
heart, but she certainly did raise Cain. in the
world.-Book Keeper.
"Be jabbers p' exclaimed an Irishman,
GIVE slept sixteen hours. l went TO bed at
Sand got up at 8.
A MANS thumb is small thing, but when
ha wants to- drive a nail it covers more sur
face than house.-Log Cabin.
"NNe frequently hear the expression "bee
in bonnet" Who ever saw bonnet with
out B in it.-Bostoa Star.
When an elderly maiden lady adorns her
self with false hair, false teeth, paint, pow
der, etc, she is making up" for lost time.
A certain shoemaker of Lynn, having been
divorced four times, has ust married his fifth
wife, and people are now advising him to
stick to his last.
"Remember who you are talking TO- sir p
said an indignant father to his fractious boy,
'fI am your father "Wsll, who's to blame
for that ?" said young impertinence,' '"it amt
me-"
A woman, lately looking at a printing
press at work, turned to her compaui On, and
In most earnest manner inquired We'll,
Charley, an them's the things as writes the
papers. Be's them what they call editors?"
Priest. "Pat, / understand you are going
to be married again" Disconsolate widow
er: "YIs, your riv'rence." Priest: "But
your wife, Pat, has only been dead 2 weeks,
D. w: "Yis, YOUR riv'rence; but shure amt
she as dead now as she ever will be?'
A boy wrote a composition on the subject
of the Quakers, which he described as set
that never quarrelled, never got into fight,
never clawed each other, and never jawed
back. The production contained a postscript
in these words-Pa is a Quaker, but ma isn't
Grandpa, does hens make their own
egggs" Yes, indeed they do, Johnnie" ]"
can do they always put the yolk in the
middle?" Guess they do, Johnnie" can
do they put the starch around it to keep the
yellow from rubbing off?n "Quite likely,
my littleboy." "An' who sews the cover on?'
This stumped the old man, and he barricAd.
ed Johnnie's mouth with lilipap.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1883-05-24
PERPETUAL WEATHER TABLE.
Some Points for Reference for those who Delight to
Watch the 'tciouds Roll By

The following table was constructed
by the celebrated DR.. Herschell, upon
a philosophic consideration of the at
traction of the sun and moon. It is
confirmed by the experience Of many
years observation and will suggest to
the observer what kind ofWeather will
probably follow the moons entrance
into any Of her quarters. AS a gener-
al rule it will be found wonderfully
correct:
If the moon changes at II o'clock,
noon, the weather Immediately after
will be very rainy, if in summer, and
if winter, there will be snow or rain.
If between 2 and 4 o'clock p NJ,
changeable in summer fair and mild
in winter.
Between and 6 o'clock P. NJ, fair
IA winter and summer
Between 6 and 10 o'clock p. NJ, in
summer fair, if the wind is northwest !;
rainy, if south or southwest; in winter,
fair and frosty, if the wind is north or
northwest; rainy, if south or south
west.
Between 10 and II o'clock P M,
rainy in summer, and fair and frosty
in winter.
Between II at night and 2 o'clock
A. M, fair in summer, and frosty in
winter, unless the wind is from the
south or southwest
Between 2 and 4 o'clock A. NJ,
cold and very showery in the summer,
and snow and storm in winter.
Between 4 and 6 o'clock A. M.
rainy, both in winter and summer.
Between 6 and s o'clock A. NJ.
wind and rain in summer, and stormy
in winter.
Between s and 10 o'clock A. M
showery in summer, and cold in win
ter.
Between 10 and ~ o'clock A. NJ
showery in summer, and cold and
stormy in winter.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1883-05-24
WINSTON, N. G, THURSDAY MAY "a, 1882.
EARTH's RICHEST GOLD MINE.
ABonanza nibe Transvuau unpreceden.ly Rich Quarts.
(Fs'om Colonies and India.Y

FROM COtOn1eS and India
The property irthe Transqual, from
which we reported some time ago on
good authority, that enormous quanti-
ties of gold-reaching in certain cases
as much as 1000 ounces to the ton
were likely to be tcEen, has been ac-
quired by an English company, whose
engineer and geologist, sent out to
examine the prospects of the under
taking, have sent home most salts
factory reports on the subject. Two
diggers," says one of them, 'semploy-
ing seven Kaffrs, had just cleaned
up for the week seventy three ounces
Of gold, and their means Of working
most inefficient. 1t is by far the rich
est place [ have ever seen, and the
amount it will produce is something
fabulous" One large reef has been
discovered running through the prop
erty and traced at the surface for over
two miles A series Of trenches, cut
| through it at the surface, prove the width
to be from two feet to eighteen feet. This
reef is composed of quartz, strong
ly charged with iron, some of
which, having been washed, has yield
ed very fair prospects of gold, suffi-
cient, as estimated, to produce from
two ounces to three ounces to the ton.
The engineer is Of the opinion that this
reef, when developed to depth of 80
feet to 100 feet, will prove of more
value than the whole Of the smaller
veins at present being worked. Some
quartz reefs which have been already
partially worked give, according to
the diggers, 200 ounces to the ton.
The proportion, indeed, is what they
admit having got from the quartz
which they pick out in their sluicing
Besides the quartz there is q large
quantity of alluvial soil, some of which
is reported to contain the extraordi
nary quantity of an ounce and a hall
to the cubic yard. If these prospects
are realized in practical working the
Lydenburg Gold-felds may claim tc
take rank among the richest in the
world, even if the exceptional return
Of $1,000 ounces to the ton should
in full working, be reduced in prac
tice to the 200 ounces which pi
oneer diggers have realized, OF
even to one-tenth of that proper
ton. Some of the alluvial wash
ings on the Lisbon property have
been proved to yield the unprecedent
ed quantity Of 1900 ounce Of gold tt
the ton. According to the certificate
of the assayers, the average yield O.
thirty-eight samples, taken under The
supervision Of the late Gold Commits
sioner for the Transvaal under the
British Government, is forty-eigh
and half ounces Of gold and three
eight ounces Of silver to the ton of ore
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1883-05-24
AN EPISCOPALIAN HORSE.

The Rev. DR.. Broadus, an old Bap-
tist parson famous in Virginia, once
visited a plantation where the .darkey
who met him at the gate asked him
which barn he would have his horse
put in.
Have you two barns?" asked the
doctor.
eyes, sah," replied the darkey
"dar's de ole barn, and Mas'r Wales
has jes build new one"
Where do you usually put the
horses of 7clergymen who come to see
your master?'
"Well, sab, if dey's- Methodis's or
Baptis's, we gen'ally put 'em' ip de ole
barn, but if dey's 'Piscopals we puts
''em in de new one.
"Well, Bob, you can put my horse
in the new barn ); Pm a Baptist, but
my horse is an Episcopalian."
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1883-05-24
BE CAREFUL IN OLD AGE,
(Populor Science Monthly.)

An old man is like an old wagon
with light loading and careful usage
it will last for years. but one heavy
load or sudden strain will break it,
and ruin It forever. Many people
reach the age of 56, or even 70, meas
urably free from the most pains and
infrmaties of age, cherry in heart or
sound in health, ripe in wisdom an ex-
perience, with sympathies mellowed by
age, and with reasonable prospect and
opportunities for continued usefulness
in the world for a considerable time.
Let such persons be thankful. An old
constitution is like an old bone-brok:
en- with ease, mended with difficulty
A young tree bends to the gale, an old
one snaps and falls before the blast. A
single hard lift; an hour of heating
work; an evening of exposure to rain
or damp; a severe chill; an excess ol
food; the unusual indulgence of an
improper dose Of medicine-any Of
these or other similar things, may cut
off a valuable life in. an hour, and
leave their fair hopes of usefulness
and enjoyment but a shapeless wreck
-=F
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1883-05-24
PETER AND HIS GAL.
"Two soais With But Single Thought, Two Hearts,
ETC., etc.

I hiteht my cheer up close to hern,
you're the very gal I've been banker
in arter for long time. / love you
all over-from the foot of your sole to
the head of your crown, and / don't
keer who knows it land if you say so
we'll be yned in the holy bonds Of
matrimony. E pluribus union, gloria
Monday morning, sic semper tyrannis,
non compus mentis, world without end
sez [, and felt as tho [ had throwd
up an allygater, | was so relieved.
With that she fetched a scream, and
after while she SEE, 'Peterv What
is it, Sally?' sez I. Yes says she, a
hidin' of her face.
You may depend upon it I felt or
full good. GLORY! gloryv sez /, /
must holler, Sal, or III bust open.
Hooray ! horray! l can jump over a
ten rale fence. can do anything a
fellow could, would, or orter do
With that sorter slesbed myself
down by her, and clinched the bargain
with kiss. Talk about yer sugar, talk
about yer merlasses- they want no.
whar; you couldn't have got me to
come nigh 'em, they would have tast
ed SO sour after that. Q, broomstraws
with sorghum lasses on 'em F.! eff Sal's
daddy hadn't bawled out, It's time
for all honest folks to be in bed, dc
believe I'd stayed all mite.
You'd orter seed me when I got
hum. I pulled dad outen bed ane
hugged him, ! pulled mann oute;a bee
and hugged her; I pulled Aunt Jane
outen bed and hugged her, I pulled
the niger servant outen bed an6
hugged her! Dad, sez /, 4 am goins
for to git married. tMarriedT' bawle'
dad. Married !! squalled mann. Yes
git married all over; jined in wedlock
hooked ON for worser or better, for lif
and for death to Sal; am that yer
thing, Peter Sporum, ESQ.,
With that l up an told them fror
Alpher to Omegar. They were might
pleased and mighty wilIin', and q
B., mean Sal and y, was according
ly spliced.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1883-05-24
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT.
Some of the Horrors Resultant From this Method
of Punishment

A correspondent of the ST. Louis
Globe-Democrot, describing Joliet, ILL.,,
State penitentiary, says the system of
solitary confinement merits some de-
scription. At point within the pris-
on yard, at the extremity of one of the
great cell houses, and far removed
from the noise and hum of the work.
shops, is stone building, in which are
arranged in two galleries forty solitary
cells. Each is about 1Ox16 feet in di-
mensions and 10 feet in the clear. A
long horizontal window, perhaps 6 feet
in width by eight inches in height, To-
Gated aear the top of the cell, admits
light and air, 1t is sunk in the heavy
walls, and rarely do the suns rays
penetrate the interior of the tomb-ike
apartment. The floor of the cell is of
stone, the ceiling is painted white, the
walls are a glaring white. The two
bits of color in the cell are the black
irons of the inner grating and the red
wooden bucket in the corner Of the
cell. That bucket is the only piece of
furniture. The prisoner to be pun
ished is led to one Of these cells and
handcuffed to the inner grating, his
arms being at the natural elevation. A
| heavy wooden door shuts off q view o1
the corridor He is alone amidst s
silence as profound as the grave. His
own voice, should he raise it in pro
test Of his fate, is thrown back to hin
by the cold, pitless walls, and the echo
causes him to start. He looks around
and nothing meets his eyes but thu
glistening white walls AT first he doe
not notice this. Ere long his eyes
used to the moving life Of the work
shop, begin to weary Of this mopoto
nous, glistening, blank view. Th,
feeling, at first irksome, becomes pain
ful He tries to look at the windoy
above, but it is SO arranged that h
sees nothing but the flood Of light Th
blue sky he remembers only as a thin,
Of beauty never needed before. 4
glimpse of it now would be boon in
estimable. He tries to shut his eyes
to relieve them of the glistening, blanl
impression, but his disordered nerve
cause strange lights, and an annoyin
phantasmagoria of grotesque and eye
changing figures to dance through hi
brain. If he is of an acute nervou
formation, this soon becomes tortur
to him, and he fears that he is loosin
his mind. Some of the most rebellion
spirits have been quelled by brie
retirement in these merciless whit
cells.