davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-09-15
Ancient Footprints.
Hartford Conn. .)Times:

Hartford Conn. )Times:
A vessel, just arrived at the
dock, foot Of Potters street, with
q load of heavy stone blocks taken
from Portland freestone quarry,
has among the cargo some remark
able specimens of the trackmarks
of fossil beasts aud birds that
once lived in the valley. These
slabs were taken from q stratum
about six or seven inches thick,
lying at depth of about eighty
feet from the top of the quarry, the
position of the stone being about
thirty feet below the present bank
of the Connecticut, and perhaps
800 feet east of th Q river. Above
there lay, for ages a formation of
about eighty feet ofrock and rocky
earth, half Of that thickness being
Of clear freestone, the kind of
which the houses are built. In
the case of these houses, as of so
many in this city, the material was
taken from this same quarry. The
slabs in this same cargo are of va
rious sizes, perhaps six or eight
feet long and proportionately
thick. Among them are broader
unhewn slabs, and on these are
found the remarkable tracks. The
lower stratum is not seen in this
collection. 1t has the depression
caused by the steps of the antedi-
luyian creatures, birds and beast 4
who walked on that shore when
the sea reached the region where
these quarries now are; the upper
one, fitted into these tracks, and a
perfect cast. hardened now into
freestone, was formed of those
tracks, in projection or relief. The
line of cleavage enables the free
stone to be easily split offin strats
accurately corresponding to these
distinct stages of the formation,
shows the tracks in high relief.
The enormous skeletons, still
partly preserved under the miry
swMnps in New York, New Jersey
Pennsylvania and other States
probably represented a big beas
of the elephant species, who
roamed the Connecticut valley al
so. Here are his tracks in relief
One, which measures fifteen in
ches by eleven and is larger than
the track of any living elephant
shows the impression of the toes
very distinctly and Enthusiastically
} aud also the reverse representa-
ton of impressions of the innel
muscular projections of the bot
tom of the huge foot. OF these
} tracks there are three; on q single
slab five to six feet longand per
: haps a yard or more wide an'
seven inches thick. There is nc
! mistaking these tracks. They ar,
evidently the tracks of some hug
beast, and one of the elephan
kind, too-and not any mere ace
7 dental formation by other causes
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-09-15
Financial sagacity.
/" Cornwallr in Inter Ocean.

Cornwallr y in Inter Ocean.
| will venture, however, to re-
peat one of the stories ] heard
around the fire on the beach the
other night. Promising that tho
startling, | believe that it is true
in every particular. The first was
told by a banker of very wide re.
pute for sagacity and probity the
event he described as campara-
lively recent. A certain cashier,
having large responsibilities at the
head of a great city bank, was
tempted, no matter how, to indulge
in private speculations with the
banks funds. Before he realized
it he had misappropriated and lost
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-09-15
Lamegt OF the Basgagemen.

The dropping ofthe remark that
It was now rather rough times for
baggagemcn at the Union depot
to make perquisitos, so strict was
the Union Company rs regards
the collection of excess baggage
money, called forth from one of
the baggagemcn the remark:
"That's so; all that is left now
is the roping of trunks at twenty
FIVE cents apiece, and we are work
ing that for all there is in it. We
come at the travelling man with
the remark Better have that
trunk roped,' ifit is not strapped,
be the trunk a good or inefficient
one. If a fellow hesitates and is
somewhat green about travelling,
we tell him that the trunk will be
carried at owners risk il not prop
erly roped, and if that does not
bring him we hunt weak place in
the trunk, or come one of onr
shaky twists on it, and tell him we
will have to mark 1t Bad 0rder,'
and this generally brings the quar-
ter. We get only ten cents of it
though; the Union Railway Com
pany furnishes the rope. This
costs four or five cents, and the
other ten or eleven cents goes in
to the treasury of the poor Unior
Railway Company. The fact is,'
added the baggageman, tive Ough
TO have the whole revenue derived
from this source, when the meagr'
salary they pay is considered"
"How many trunks do you ROPE
day g' asked the reporter.
80, we have gone as high as for
ty or fifty, but since George Venl
was appointed General Baggage
Agent the boys don't dare to rul
it as strong as they used to. w,
don't touch Kansas City or 81
Louis, though. There the boy
let trunks drop on purpose t.
burst them and get chance t.
tie them mp with rope, and whel
they catch a woman who wear
good clothes on gray back the
salt them for fifty cents, but a
these points he did not think th
boys divided up with the Unio
Railway Company."-IndianapOli
Journal.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-09-15

The telegraph line of the L., n.
o. & 7. Railroad was completed
to-day to the north boundry of
Sharkey county, distance of 81
miles north of this city. This
makes a continuous line of the
company of 81 miles Of telegraph
line from Port Gibson to the point
stated above.-vicksburg Herald.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-09-15
NO. s

azlzHzalszizalzzzlsssa-sNn
$4,000. In desperation and to
retrieve his fortune he went still
further, with the result that in
stead Of extrieating himself he
shortly found the amount of his
loss increased 100000. The time
of the annual examination Of his
accounts aud affairs of the bank
being close at hand, he was unable
to eontrive n method of conceal
ing his stealings, aud the day be-
fore the official examination he
went to his lawyer. a wealthy man
aud made a clean breast, said he
owed the bank 100000, which he
was utterly unable to pay, aud i'm
plored.his advice. The lawyer,
after some reflection, asked, Do
the directors still retain their con.
tidence in you ~ "They do not
even suspect was the answer.
VIII you promise to be governed
by my advice ~ +" / will.r Sit
down and write complete con-
fession of your guilt.n The cash
ier wrote and signed the required
confession.
"Now," said the lawyer, go to
the bank before 10 o'clock to.mor-
row morning and take negotiable
securities from the safe, TO the
amount of 100000. Bring them
to me rs early as possible
The cashier did as directed, aud
brought government and state
bonds to the required amount and
gave them to his lawyer. "Now
will go with you,' said tho lawyer
"and plead your case with the
bank directors.at the regular meet.
ng.s They went the cashier read
his confession in a voice convulsed
with sobs. lie told how the theft
had been committed, avowed his
remorse, aud in the same breath
confessed his inability to make
good the amount. "What il the
amountgn asked the president.
at is 100000 answered the cash.
ier.
There was n decided sensation
in the board, and exclamations of
astonishment at the extent of the
loss from mouth to mouth, in the
midst ofwhich the lawyer rose and
addressed them. lie begged
them to consider the confidence,
which was in itself a temptation,
they had reposed in their. cashier
his long service, and other things
calculated to mitigate their feel
ings toward his client. lie tn Ell
showed them that the publication
of this deficit ut that time would
cripple the bank and probabl!
compel it to close its doors, an.
ended by saying that he himself
had such confidence In the future
of his client, in his remorse an,
!. repentance, that he would engage
to collect among his other friends
and various sources 100000, an,
bring it to them before O'clock o.
that day, provided they woul
give bis client o written guaran
tee against criminal prosecutio
"lfn0t," he added, "his ellen
would surrender himselfinto thei
: hands and meet the penalty Of hi
= misdeeds, but the bank would los
the whole amount" Well, the d
rectors delibcrated, but they a,
: cepted the lawyers terms, CAV
the cashier release on the cond
= tion named, and took his resigns
tion at the same time. The Law
yer easily made a loan upon th
: securities and kept his word. "an
said my informant gravely, ths
> very cashier is q broker in tn
!, New York stock exchange to.da.
:. He has paid up his liabilities t
:. the bank and is highly respecte
, by all who do not not know him d
5, well as do"
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-09-15
Heavy Rains.

Corpus Christi, Tex, Sept. s.
The damage by rains and high wa
ter in the surrounding country is
much greater than was supposed,
all the creeks west, which have
been dry the entire summer, sud.
denly becoming raging. The
streams are twenty to forty feet
deep, and are spreading across the
country, washing everything be-
fore them. Horses and sheep are
floating by hundreds down the
current. Wind--mills and out
houses were swept away. The
less to stock cannot now be csti-
mated, as nearly the entire West
ia Hooded.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-09-15

noer that came from my machine
that resembled tow OF waste.
In comparing my machine with
Lefrance's, your authority could
not be. very good, unless he has
examined both machines, and il
he has seen them both, he is GER
talnly very poor authority, if he
says my machine is a modification
OF Lefranee's.
To say that the Northern iute
manufacturer wishes TO encourage
Jute culture in the South, is be-
lleved to be all bOsh; it may do to
stuff the Southern people with
such "taffy" as an experiment in
the desperate effort to place. inte
and butts on the free list, but the
scheme is too plain and will prob
ably result in an opposite effect
from the one you desire; the ben
etits that would acrue to the
Southern planter by having free
Jute and butts, are too small to
receive consideration. Why do
you not mention bagging, bags,
carpets, etc., as welli A promise
from Dundee manufacturers, that
the American consumer of jute
goods, would get his goods cheap
er, if admitted free of duty, would
be just as good as a promise from
dealers generally in the North,
that jute goods would be cheaper
if jute and butts were on the free
list; but these tariff arguments are
old and well understood.
The object of your letter is OF
course obvious, aud while it seems
rather early to commence the tar,
iii argument, you will probably
need all the available tire between
now and December to prepare
your scheme, but | assure you
that all the South viii ask is eqnal
taxation for protection; we ask
no advantages, we claim equal
natural ability, and we demand
equal protection to our industries
and if you are not willing to allow
it equal by allowing the same pei
centage of tariff on raw jute ant
butts as upon the manufactured
we are prepared to urge the policy
of placing all manufactured goods
in which jute aud butts enter
paper as well-to be placed Will
the raw material on the free list
this may seem bold to you. but W.
know how to get cheap jnte in thu
South while you do not II seems
which is unfortunate.
Good business sagacity wou.,
seem to indicate q policy on thu
part of Eastern jnte dealers ant
manufacturers, to examine TO
themselves this juto problem, ant
see whether 1t is possible to pro
duce better and cheaper artlcl
than they now receive. The.
ought to be more interested thai
the Southern planter, aud the,
should know that the Southert
States are not the only place t
grow jute in competition with III
dies; there is jute being grow
this year in two sections acros
the gulf, with labor at Is to 2
cents per day, and with the aid @
my machinery we can make chea
.jute. 1t is a question however
for you to settle whether it is bef
to continue to antagonize the ne'
jute territory, or whether it
best to aid in developing ths
which will prove the savior of tn
iute industries of the Norther
States. Hoping that you and
may live to see more jute mani
facturers in the United State
than at present in Great Britain
and that we both will receive a
the credit due us for presentin
it, and above all l hope We ma
receive goodly share of thos
benefits called dividends.
Very respectfully yours,
T. ALBEE SMITH.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-09-15
.gSvILLETIMES.
sn.x. SEPT. Is, 1883.
-rnns. 4rH DISTRICT.


/ CIRCUIT COURT.
..,sr-Begins on the lst
Y March and October and may
sounty-Begins on the md
- s,s.,eh and October, and may
, = judicial days. -. .,
a : -.oupty-Begins on the 4th
| ! March and October and may
] i judicial days =,
ILL., eOunty-Begins on the ma
~. the 4th Monday Of march
raAsr. and may continue 8 ju-
T. eOunty-Begins on the Srd
4, - fine 4th Monday Of March
49, and may continue 6 judicial
-. eounty-Begins on the 18th
Ear the 18th Monday Of march
I's.r, and may continued judicial
I,.,,on eounty-Begins on the
I'M after the 4th Monday Of
G "a october, and may continue SC
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-09-15

Regular morning service at II a m Evening
service D. m. every sunday Communion
first SUNDAY In each month D. II Ramsey.
Rrctor sahbath-rehool at9.tj m J. NJ
Moore supc rinicndent
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-09-15

Preaching at n n. IN. and y, m eyevy sunday
Communion lst Sunday tn February, Mry, Au-
gust aud November inayer-meetinE every
Wednesday, night. : Archer Pastor sunday
school At or sam. Brown sup
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-09-15
cHANCERY COURT.

Ian. eounty-Begins on the list
! q April and October and may
! 8 judicial days.
bington county-Begins on the "a
II April and October, and may
l. lsjudieial days.
|,r ecun.y-Begins on the LIST Non
,.v and November, and may con-
.judlcial days.
Iom. county-Begins on the Sd
of Nav and November, and may
ls Il judicial days.
lower eounty--Begins on the LIST
ofmne and December, and may
be s judicial days.
sey county-Begins on the 2nd
of June and December, and may
ls 6 judicial days.
I,lar meetings are held by the
of supervisors as follows: Bien-
1t Monday of January to elect
| commissioners. Annually first
N Of usrch, to receive Tax-Collec-
yuorts Of delinquent and insolvent
N Monday of August to receive and
|uOu the Assessment Roll; lst Mon-
! September to levy taxes; and on
Inday next preceding each term ol
n Court.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-09-15
Mothadist Church

day. prayer-meetlng every Wednesday night
sunday school. $50 J W IIonnoll, Pastor
W. Il. Tigy, supt.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-09-15

This list of distances is procured
from the latest official surveys and
maps.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-09-15

services Friday evenings at ~. and Saturday
mornings at l0h. J. Hosea, Rabbi.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-09-15
OFFICE RULES
SUBSCRIPTION TERMS.

One year, IN advance. g GO
When not paid e. shove, or within one
month from expiration of time paid feF
s. %.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-09-15
ADVERTISING RATES.

Transient Advertising, One Square
One Insertion, .................S 90
Zach subsequent Insertion, ........ 70
Fees for Legal notices, which are in
cluded under this head. due on OF before
last publication. N0proof furnished IN
I'll paid for.
'Lseals." five lines or less. this type,
80 cents for first, = cents each subse-
quent Insertion.
Personal articles or notices charged for
according to their nature.
Customers viii please give explicit di>
rections, Of length Of tine for publication
of advertisements.
Regular advertising. one square, ms.
s. 6ms. Sl2. year SO.
Larger advertisements, quarterly, half
yearly. and yearly,
Contracted for at Liberal Rates.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-09-15

Ems Of Supreme Court-Com-
le on the LIST Mondays of April
October.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-09-15

Orders from transient customers verz
bal or written, for job work. advertising.
or subscription, must be accompanied BY
the cash. Accounts Of regular ensto-
mers due and presented the LIST Of each
month.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-09-15

For State and District Offices, ...... 81;
For County Offices, ,...,.-.-.......... IL
For Beat Offices. ............. ~ :
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-09-15

"POi 'ieoi, . w FeTRusoil
le Town Council meets ON the
'lohday of each month.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-09-15
ANNOuNCING CAEDIpArEs.

yearly. and yearly,
Contracted for at Liberal Rates.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-09-15

The crop is not tlinned to six
inches apart; If it were so, II
would only be to our advantage,
as we do not need any such ex-
pense here.
Second-The bark is not peeled
from the stalk and subsequently
rotted.
Tbird-Clear water is not al
ways used in rotting.
JIITE IN THE UNITED STATES.
You say "granted that jute will
grow here (which by the way is
rather liberal, as most of our North
ern opponents have not been will
ling to grant so much), the cutting
ia by no means confined to the
cane knife or bush scythe."
No jute planter would think Of
hauling jute stalks three miles
nor half mile. We neither bind
or stack jute stalks.
The washing and rubbing is mol
long and tedious.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-09-15

US. Circuit Court
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-09-15

hdxes Of the Supreme Court.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-14
Brazilian Vehicles and Drivers.

The common job wagon of Para is a
most clumsy AFFAIR." mere cart with
out springs and with but two wheels,
the whole guiltless of paint. The
harness found with this vehicle always
consists of a little square wooden sad
die resting on a straw-stuffed cushion,
traces of chain, leather collar and no
bits, the animal being guided by means
of a long rope fastened to the neck,
and perhaps also wound around the
head. Sometimes this carriage is
drawn by a single OK, but usually a
wretched mule is urged along by blows
from the knotted end of a rope or a
short wooden whip with long leather
lash. The driver is always clothed in a
suit of blue drilling made in two gar
ments only-pants and short, loose
jacket. The pants are confined to the
waist by some sort of q long lash,
wound many times around the body.
The square-cut jacket is finished with a
straight binding about the neck, and is
only buttoned at the throat, and falling
open the rest of the way gives GOODNESS
to the wearer, and at the same time dis
closes his natural complexion to every
one. No business house of North
Brazil has anything to do with deliver
ing parcels of groceries, etc., so that
the business of this cartman Is to solicit
orders for taking home your purchases.
On the way he trots nimbly by the side
of his team, Or else sits perched on the
thill of the rude cart, swinging his
bare feet while he clings to his narrow
seat. his lOud. shrill and t%nneless whis.
tie only broken by his occasional excla-
NATION of .Caminha!" which is an
imperative eco" There is now but
one express wagon with springs in the
city of Para. This one. has been in
great demand for moving pianos, but
as it was not always readily obtained a
regular company of men has been Or
ganized for the purpose. This piano.
moving company consists Of negroes,
who carry the instruments ON their
heads, and for their services are paid
at the rate of S. per mile.-Saw Fran
cisco Chronicle.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-14

more, l begged Kitty totake seranb;n.
and with her the gray pussy. And R;.'
ty was sorry that She had been ~ H.. NJ
and said-I might play with Cousin 10y tx
| ps much as I pleased, "au
again, Farmer Brown came in md Ivy
US that Brindle, his finest COW, had heaa
killed in the storm. They had fonua
her were she had been browsing in tha
meadow, just the .'other side Of the
orchard tence."
Kitty and / 1ooke6 at each other with
awe-struck faces. Suppose that we had
been parted, each with anger in her
heart towards the other. ! can tell Won
that we never forgot it. AMI whenever
we were tempted to be angry, . word o.
thought about the Thunderstorm an tbs
hill was enough.-S. S. Times
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-14
The Circus of the Future.

IL Is uOG possible CQdG has
forgotten the circus of his boyhood days.
Then they were used to having an ele-
plant or two. They had a camel and
. few other animals. There was but
one ring, and the performers did not
live in hotels, but tried to be contented
with whatever good things-more likely
they were bad-the gods sent them.
There were ne sleeping-cars then. The
happiest man was he who could pick
up a nap here or there on the road,
when the fit took him, undisturbed by
the roaring of the lion or the loud talk
of his keeper. Circuses then went to
small towns, comparatively speaking,
such as the big shows of this day can
not afford to visit. One tent, one brass
band, one rope-walker, one elephant, or
possibly two, n great rider, and a few
other individual specimens-these made
up the show Of the days of our fathers.
Talking with a friend just now, he re-
called the memories of his first circus
down in Plymouth County, and more
than fifty years ago. There was one ele-
plant attached to that-"Bet," Dynamo
and she not many years after crushed
the head of her keeper, which he con-
fidingly placed in her mouth. Foolish
man, foolish elephant. The animals
of this day are better trained and held
in closer subsection. In the old days
some of these shows exhibited in the
open air-in the tavern yard, or some
other convenient place. While here at
the North, n day or two was enough;
i n smaller southern towns a show would
stay a week. Here fifteen miles was as
far as you could expect a man to 90
with his familyto a circus. Down there,
fifty miles wasn't a great distance.
There, is nothing particularly new
about the circus of the present. . There
is an awful lot more of it-too much,
some people think. But MI. Watson
had other ideas of the circus of the past.
His recollection went no further back,
but his suggestions did. There have
been %circuses for two thousand wears,
and, if one. thinks for a minute, it will
be seen how easy was the transition
from the old circus of classical days to
that of these later times. Twenty cen
turtles ago they did things on a tremen-
dous scale. In Rome, for example,
there was the Circus Maximus. In the
time of Julius Caesar it was 1875 feet
long and 625 wide. The depth of the
building surrounding the space was
about 312 feet. Its dimensions were
subsequently much greater. All the
circi in Rome, of which there were q
considerable number, are nearly oh.
liberated, but a circus on the Appian
way, about two miles from Rome,
known as the Circus of Maxentine, il
still in a state of preservation. Its con.
struction is believed to have differed
very little from that of other ancient
buildings for similar purposes. Along
the sides at the end were ranges of stone
seats TO: the spectators. At the othel
end were the carceres, or stalls, covered
and furnished with gates, in which the
horses and chariots remained until, OF
a given signal, the gates were thrown
open. In the center was the spina, :
long and brcau wall, round which the