davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-31
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

REV. Thomas Harrison, the boy
ssprescher," claims to convert. on am
average, thirty-five people day.
Professor j. L. Smiths private COL
lection of meteorites, the largest in the
world, have been bought by Harvard
College for $4,000.
The Ontario Legislature, by ma
;oritv vote, has declared 10 fsvor OF eo-
ucation of the sexes by passing motion
in favor of the admission of ladies 70
University College, Toronto,
Mr.. Buxton, Chairman of the L0ni
don School Board, states that. "anoma~
IONS as it may seem, the more vigor-
ouslv compuIsion is enforced against
absentees, the greater the ), tendency eaSSns 70
an irregular attendance at scnooi.
The first society Of the African
Methodist Episcopal Zion Churcn OF
North Carolina was organized In 1904.
There are now 500 societies, and S'4
churches have been built The mem
bership has increased to about 5O,VVV
and the ministers number 327.
REV. DIR. Hopper, veteran mission
arv Il, the East, thinks Edwin Arnolds
estimate of the total number OF budd-
hists in the world is too high by about
400. OOO, 900. His own belief IS tnat
there are not quite 73,OOc,OOO OF tn EN-
all told, as against some ZooruV'Vov
Confucianists..
The Chautauqua school OF tbeoi-
-opy. organized about year ago, -
steadily growing, in spite of difficulties
incidental in the creation of an entirely
new undertaking. Il already enrolis
forty-four students in Hebrew. 16l in
Greek. los in doctrinal theology, l26 in
practical theology, besides others In
minor department. !.
The Christian Iptelligencer has re-
ceived letter from Rev. james H.
Ballagh, of Yokohama, Japan. in which
he announces 1.-THE prospect, the GER
tainty. with Gods blessing, Of . revival
of tenfold power and spiritus! results
this year over the gracious reyiving en-
loved last year." IS the outcome OF the
observance OF the Week of Prayer.
Speaking of the church attendance
in New York, the author of the annual
report of the New York Missionary So
ciety says: Below Fourteenth Street
there is a population of 54l 1926, with
lIOi0SJtub CuufCnO <AD0'~ 49,
teenth Street there are 285 Protestant
churches, with population OF 664, 57S.
1t is supposed that the Protestant popu-
lation Of the cityis from 500, OOOto 6OO'-
900.
There are in New York City, 40.
cording to the last annual report of the
City Missionary Society, 4S9 churches.
chapels and missions, with accommo,
dations for $500 persons. They are
conducted at an annual expense OF
about 100000 The number Of Pro-
testant evangelical places of worship is
396, with accommodations for 10000
persons. The regularly incorporated
Protestant evangelical churches are 278.
with an average membership Of 800,
which would give total of SO, 4OOmem1
bers. The 356 Protestant evangelical
Sunday schools have 50, 237 pupils. The
religious and charitable societies num-
Der over 800. The receipts and dis
bursements of the local charitable or
CARNATIONS amount to $1,000, 900 per
annum.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-31
POETRY AND TIE POOR

"The world is very beautiful?" said,
As yesterday, beside the trimming stream.
Glad and alone, 1 watched the trenuious
Slant thro' the wintry wood, green-carpeted
With moss and fern and curving bramble-
And bronze the thousand russell margin
And in the sparkling holly CLINT and play.
And kindle all the bricrs flaming seeds.
"The world is very horrible," sigh,
As, in my wonted ways, to-day thread
Chili streets, deformed with dim mOnotony,
Hiding strange mysteries of unknown dread,
The reekIng court. the breathess fever-den,
The haunts where things unholy throng AID
brood:
Grim crime, the fierce despair of strong
Child-infamy, and shameless womanhood.
And men have looked upon this piteous
Blank lives unvisitcd by beautys SPELL
And said: LET be; il is not meet to bring
Dreams of sweet freedom to the prison cell;
Sing them no songs of things all bright and
Paint them no visions of the glad and free.
Lest with purged sight their miseries they
And, thro'. vain iongings, pass to blank
despair"
q brother, trealng ever darkenlng ways,
o sister. whemcd in ever deepening care, :.
Would God we might unfold before your gaze
Some vision of the pure and true and fair,
Better to know, tho sadder things be known,
Better to see, tho tears half blind the sight,
Than thralldom to the sense, aud heart of
stone,
And horrible contentment with the night.
o, bring we then all sweet and gracious
things
TO touch the lives that lie so chill and drear.
That they may dream of some diviner
sphere.
Whence each soft ray OF love and beauty
springs.
Each good and perfect gift Is from above;
And there Is healing for Earth's direst woes:
God hath unsealed the springs of light and
love,
To make the desert blossom as the rose.
ta The Spectator.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-31
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

"A Louisville lady has sued for di!
vorce, asserting that her husband
has not done any work for fourteen
years. There are some women who
want man to be on the jump all the
time Courier Journal.
Gold thimbles were among the
sscostly favors'' distributed in german
the other evening. as if any fashionable
young woman OF the period ever has
occasion to use such thing. As we'll
give them q broom or sewing ma
chine, says Mrs. Parvenu.-BrOoklyn
Eagle.
"A Morgantown IN. CO. boy, who
recently had a quarrel with his sweet
heart, sent her the following touching
valentine: my dearest and sweetest
Amanda, I've been. not goose, but q
gander. Your heart never harden, but
grant me your pardon, I'm sorry ]
histed your dander.''
"A Duluth woman kicked man on
the shin and jabbed out his eye with an
umbrella simply because he kissed her..
And yet he thought it was very funny.
If she had rammed the umbrella down
his throat and opened it inside Of him
he might have been tickled to death.
Ieras Siftings.
- 1T is no wonder that SO many peo.
pie are color blind in this country, when
some of the new colors are designated as
"burned cream, baked pears, crushed
raspberry, scorched banana, speckled
green gage and terra Gotta" Elephants
breath, monkeys smile, and canary
birds gasp, will probably be added in
the spring.-San francisco Evening
Posi-.
Miss Edith tagged six)--Mamma,
they say the Gibbses have come into g
whole lot of money. Ella Stanford says
they are real. common and vulgar, but
4 think we had better be very nice to
them, ~ there are two boys in the
family about my age, and when grow
up something might come Of it, you
know. The Judge.
4 Who knowsP Some day, after Il
gets to . more perfect stage of evolu-
ton and Development, the lollipop man
may grow lead in his head. and tho
world can utilize its dudes for lead PEN
ellis. As there 10 nothing in the dudes
head now, there IL plenty Of room for
the lead, and hence this theory is all
the more plausible. Time viii tell
WilliaDsspoys Brcakfass Table.
General jackson wrote dollar with
big d and God with little 2. There
are few million people still living in
the United States who do the same
thing every day. But not in print; oh,
no, brethren, not in print. They're
very careful to have the capitals
properly and respectfully placed in
print, but In business they use little
,nonpareil &, while the ID is four-line
plea thic.-Bsrlingtow Hawkeyc.
VIII Always Remember
We met ae the bell Of the old church -
sounded,
We met in the meadow. mot far from tho
lane;
Ny limb. how they shook, and my heart how
And Of. how suaeredi How great ives my
paint
It's ages ago. but IN always remember
Her breath. sweet and bsimy ss hay In the
IN never forget that dark night in Decsnber.
How ! went Ger the fence with the hslp Of
~ =, Marrsas yosu.'ah
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-31

The Republican situation in regard
to the Presidential nomination is now
defined with some distinctness. 1t IS
pretty certain that four candidates will
be presented to the convention. Presi-
dent Arthur will be named by New
York. Vermont will put Senator Ed
munds in nomination. John. Sherman,
having settled his differences with ex-
Governor Foster, will be presented by
Ohio. General Logan will be named
by limos.
1t is probable that some names OF less
prominence may be put forward ut the
start, such as Gresham or Harrison by
Indiana, for complimentary vote. But
the four candidates named VII initiate
the fight, and they will create situa-
ton very much ike that which pre-
vailed in the convention of 1880 be-
tween Grant, of Illinois, Blaine. OF
Maine. and Sherman, of Ohio. 1t seems
probable that neither of the four will
be nominated, but they may hold the
convention as the convention OF 1880
was held by the triangular struggle I'M
til some new candidate steps in to carry
off the prize.
OF the four candidates Edmun1s has
the most character. The others are OF
piece with the material out of which
the Republican party has tried to make,
and with one accidental exception has
made, Presidents since its foundation.
In 1852 the embryo organization put
forward John p. Hale. In 1856, after
the death and burial of the Wing party.
Republicanism nominated and sought to
defy John G. Fremont. After Lincoln
the Republican party elected Grant, q
pro-slavery Democrat, who had declared
that he would tear his epauleites from
his shoulders if he thought the war was
waged for the abolition of slavery. Then
came Hayes, Garfield and Arthur. We
omit Lincoln, an accidental and provi-
Dental President. And now come as
expectant nominees Arthur, a machine
politicians; John Sherman, who has
been associated with every political
roguery that has been rracticed since
he entered Congress and has made him.
self millionaire; and Logan. an igno-
ramus.
What list of names rs compared
with Washington, Adams, Jefferson,
Madison, Monroe, jackson, Van Buren,,
Polk, Pierce and Buchanan!
The contest will be bitter. Foster has
already given notice that Ohio will
''knifc'' Arthur if he should lie the
nominee. Arthur will have to contend
against treachery in his own State. The
old enmities will again unite against
Sherman. The politicians will not have
EdMunds. Logan will be considered a
joke.
What will follow? Who will be the
Garfield of 1881?
Win it be James G. Blaire? He has
been playing a shrewd game TO build
himself up quietly while hidden in the
pages of an imaginary look. He has
strength in New York and in the West.
He has more popularity and more in
dividuality than any candidate named
on the Republican side. He might be
the best nominee after all. What won
der that his friends legin to regard him
as the coming man?
Does anybody dis-er the wiry form
of old Tecumseh Sherman in the dis
lance? Would he accept a nomina-
ton?
There is q proverb in Ohio that q
Sherman never declined anything-ex-
cept loan to a friend.-N. y horid.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-31

"A resident Of Glover. Vt, has the
distinction of possessing the largest sole
in the State. He wears . s6oe that
messires twenty-five inches il length
and Is eight inches wide. His friends
hsye;no dlmculty in keeping Track Of
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-31
The Senate Committees Report Fore
shadOwed.

Senator FRYE allows the substance Of
what his Copiah County report will be
to leak out. He oracularly remarks that
tho country VIII be amazed when the
truth is told, and that things down in
Mississippi are bad beyond concep ion.
Now, this is free admixture of truth
and demagogy. Why. every line of the
testimony which had any significance
has been printed and every word which
tended to justify tho mission of the Sem
atorial Committee has been emphasized
with headlines. italics, and by every
method known to sensational journal
ism. How can he say, therefore, that
any surprise is in store for anybody?
There are many things in the anomalous
condition of society in the negro states,
wher, horde of utterly disqualified
voters emerged ut a single step from
slavery 10 the status of voting citizens,
in numbers sufficiently large to put
them in tie majority at the polls, which
may be distorted and misrepresented
by an ingenious politician to the disad-
vantage of the people Of those States.
The difficulties which be ct the white
people of several of the Southern States
udtc UcCu SuCil IldJ -lulDucu L1cu Ill
every part of the world see much more
to praise in their conduct than to blame.
That order has been preserved, pros
perity measurahy restored and life
and property made reasonably safe
excites the wonder of all thoughtful
and fair men. This Copiah County in
vestigation has by vast preponderance
of testimony shown that the white peo-
pie have sought the common good of
whites and blacks and have achieved it
with as small an amount of injustice
and irregularity as could be expected.
1t is great mistake to suppose that
the white people in a community where
the negroes preponderate are actuated
by any purely partisan considerations.
There is no such enthusiasm for either,
of the great parties as would lead them.
to assume great risks aud spend much
time to circumvent the negroes. Nor
are the Offices of much value. They
have small pay attached to them and
frequently arduous duties. What the
whites do set above everything, and
what they will continue to value above
everything, is the security of their FAM
lilies, the projection Of their families,
the protection of their property and the
maintenance OF social order. These
ends happen to be most easily secured
in the name of and in alliance with the
Democratic party. 1t requires some
genius for government. and . much
greater amount of intelligence than the
negroes have to perserve local instuti-
tons and good order. As a majority
of them are Republicans, when they
are defeated the Republican party Is
defeated This is the whole case, as
those who understand it know full wen.
81. Louis Republican.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-31

sake me, then the Lord will take mo
up."-Mrs. N. L Rayne. tn Detroit
Free Press.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-31

"A farmer of Fall River, Mass, has
recently sold pair of fowls, dark
Brahmas. for forty-seyen dollars, to go
to Auckland. New Zealand. The dis
lance is nearly seven thousand miles
Boston Post,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-02
MIsCELLANEoUs FOREIGN

ROME, Oct 1.-Reports of cholera IN Italy
the last twenty-four hours show total 433
fresh cases, and 1917 deaths, against 421 cases
and 229 deaths for the preceding twenty-four
hours. Totals reported to-day include 1876
cases and ffty-seven deaths in Naples; fifty
two cases and thirty deaths in Genoa.
MADRID, Oct l. Three fresh cases Of
cholera were reported to-day in the province
Of Alicante and three In the province of Tar
ragona In the former province there were
two deaths.
CoSsTASTISoPLE, Oct. 1.-The Turkish
troops have recaptured fortress Dhofar. and
are actively proceeding against Yemen The
insurgents force Of the rebellion is greatly
reduced.
ROME, Oct. 1.-The pope has announced
his intention Of making Laten palace
cholera hospital should the necessity arise
for such action.
CAIRO, Oct. IAN action has been begun
before mixed tribunal against the khedIve
in consequence Of the suspension Of the
sinking fund
CAIRO, Oct. 1.-Gen. Wolseley and staff
have arrived at Assonan. The steamer
Ghizeh successfully passed the cataract Bob
FL Ambak, beyond Sarass.
CAIRO, Oct 1.-The Mudir of Dongola,
has released all political prisoners.
CAIRO, Oct. Lord Northcote con-
veued the sheikhs to-day and discussed the
question Of provincial administration. The
sheikhs are opposed to giving the English
police any authority to act without orders
from the mudirs, who ought to be held re-
sponsible for public order. Nubar Pasha
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-02
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.

The Iowa Prohibitionists met in state con-
vention at Marshalltowr yesterday.
Gov. Hendricks left Cincinnati for home
yesterday. He did not stop in New Albany.
The coinage of the various minis during
September was S4,613.363, of which 81, $780,
600 were standard dollars.
Yokohama advices announce the arrival of
Prince Oscar of Sweden, August &c, and was
to leave for home September Is.
The naval academy at Annapolis began
its fortieth scholastic year yesterday. Capt.
Francis NJ. Ramsey is superintendent.
Mr.. Kirki, the new japanese minister to
the United States, arrived in San Francisco
yesterday on the steamer City of Peking.
The Pennsylvania Green hackers have de-
cided not to fuse with the Democrats unless
they are allowed one-half of the electors.
The city council of Petersburg, Va, has
taken prompt measures to prevent the water
famine. which is now threatening the city.
The coIored war veterans of central New
York celebrated yesterday as the thirty-third
anniversary of the rescue of Jerry flu
gitive slave.
John Il. Flynn, master mechanic of the
Western & Atlantic road, and president Of
the American association of master mechan-
les, died yesterday at Atlanta, Ga.
f. s. Chanfrau, the actor, was stricken
with paralysis yesterday evening while at his
supper in Jersey City. He had not regained
consciousness at late hour, but his physi-
clan has confidence that he will survive.
The secretary of the interior has decided
the claim of the heirs of James and Gather
inc Bigby for compensation for the reserva-
ton in Tennessee granted their parents,
Cherokee Indians, under treaties of 1917 aud
1919, cannot be allowed.
The Union veteran army organization, in
tended to secure pensions and lands to vet
Grams of the war, and ''see justice done
them," held their third annual convention
yesterday in Hartford, Conn. Resolutions
urging congress to act in favor of veterans
were passed.
Seventeen cars of Lancaster tobacco were
shipped yesterday from Reading, Pa, for
San Francisco. 1t is the largest single ship
ment of tobacco ever made in the history of
the country. 1t is estimated that each car
contained over twelve tons of tobacco. The
value of the tobacco is placed at $50, 900.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-02
POLITICAL MEETINGS.

Hon. Ignatius Donnelly, the nominee for con-
gress of the Democrats, the Farmers alliance,
and the Peoples party will speak as follows:
Thursday, October 2, 1880 p. m. in Litchfeld.
Friday, October 3, Z 80 p. m, in DeGraT.
Saturday, October 4, 1880 P. m, in Belle
PLANE.
Monday, October G, 1870 p. m, in Shakopee.
Tuesday. October :, 7;3O p. m, in Jordan.
Wednesday, October s, 1880 p. m, in Brown
ton.
Thursday, October 9, 7:8O p. m, in Appleton
Friday, October 10, 7 80 p. m, in Watson.
Saturday, October Il, 1880 p. M, in Monte
Vdeo.
Monday, October 10, 7:9O p. m, in Grove City
Tuesday. October Il, 1880 p. m. in Nlanannah.
Wednesday, October Is, 1880 p. IN, in Kings
ton.
Thursday, October 16 7:2O p. m, in Greenleaf
Friday, October II, 80 p. m, in Hutchinson
Saturday, October IS, 1850 p. m, in Granite
Falls
Monday. October 90, 100 p. m, in Waconia.
Tuesday, October y, 1870 p. m, in Glencoe.
Wednesday. October -. 1890 p. m, in Olivia.
Thursday, October Is, 1880 p. m, in Water
town.
SriIay, October q, 1880 p. m, in Bird Island.
Itis expected that the supporters Of Mr.. DON
nelly viii secure halls and make all the prepare
lions for the meetings in their respective towns.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-02
Northwesterners at Chicago.
Special Telegram to the Clio


CHICAGO, Oct 1.-R. T. Gilmore, Apple
ton, Wis, is at the Grand Pacific.
G. W. Kingsbury, Yankton, D. T., is a
guest of the Sherman house
j. f. Burke and wife, Saltwater, are stop
ping at the Sherman.
Mrs. G. w. Van Dusen, Mrs. Fred. Van
Dusen and c. II. Chadbourne and wife,
Rochester, are guests at the Grand Pacific. =
A B. Gibson and wife, and Col. Charles
W. Johnson, Minneapolis, are at the Ire
mont.
E. W. Durant, Saltwater, is guest of the
fremont.
c. H. Wilkinson and George F. Gary, La
Crosse, are at the Palmer
Il. P. Marx, Shakopee, E. E. Moore, Moor
head, and j. II. Weller and wife, Minneapo-
lis, are at the Grand Pacific
A. Porter and wife, Winona; j. H. Long,
Mankato; Horace E. Horton and wife, Roch-
ester; G. H. Saulpaugh and DR.. Chas. Drew
and wife, Minneapolis, are at the Grand
Pacific.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-02
CURRENT COMMEYT.

NATHANIEL MACON, an old-time North Carolina
Congressman, figures in funny story now cur
rent. He learned at Raleigh that the state had
had been charged with silver adle. He went
home indignant aud Indignantly took the stump.
''Fellow-citizens." said he, where will this ex-
travagance end? You have been taxed to buy
for His Lordly Excellence q silver soap ladle.
Now, my old woman and your old woman has to
stir their soap with pine single, but the old
woman of this big Governor has silver thing to
stir her'n," Some one whispered to him that 1t
was ''soup ladle,' not 'soap ladle.'' 'Now
they tries to git outen 1t. The gentleman wits
pers that it was a soup ladle. Yer can't git out
en- it. sir. l have 1t here, plain, in black and
white, on this paper that I copied myself
soup ladle;' and If soup don't spell soap,
what do it SPELL
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-02
NEW YORK
Especial Telegram to tn. Globe. /

Especial Telegram to the Globe.i
NEx YORK, Oc:- Free realizing char
scteTized the early dealings in stocks, and
decline Of 1 per cent and over II many
shares was the result The principal bust
ness centered in the Changers, Vanderbilts,
Union Pacific, Delaware & Laekawanna and
Northern Pacific preferred. 1t appeared to
be nothing but brokers' market dur
ing he morning, with TIE room traders
a. the chief operators Thsre was consider
able Delaware & LaekaEanna marketed and
be stock seems to come from the clique.
Omaha preferred sold al the opening, e1-
dividend, ~ per cent. The market ruled
quiet during the latter part Of the day, though
prices improved fractionsIly and the tone
vas rather firm There were
sales Of Pullman At 11591151<.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-02

interests, their objects will not be accom-
plished by blind adherence to party which
has grown arrogant with long continued
power. Let me impress upon the people
that the issue involved in the pending can
vass is the establishment of pure and hon.
est administration of their government.
Let us show them the way to this and
warn them against any cunning by de-
signed effort to lead them into other paths of
irrelevant discussion.
With these considerations before them,
and with an earnest presentation of our
claims to the confidence of the people,
and OF their responsibility, we need not fear
the result of their intelligent action. Yours
very truly, GROVER CLEVELAND.
To Allen G. Thurman.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-02
The Martha Saved.

HALIFAX, Oct 1.-The disabled steamer
Martha was towed into port tonight by the
steamer New Foundland. The Martha sailed
from Steilin for New York, September 9,with
eighty passengers and general cargo. She
had fine weather and all went well until
Tuesday morning, when from some unknown
cause the machinery broke down completely.
1t was quite fine weather when the accident
occurred. The steamer at this time
was southeast of Beaver harbor,
and the chief officers were despatched ashore
in boat to telegraph to Halifax for asss.
lance. The ship, meanwhile, was laid under
canvas TO await aid. The examination Of
the machinery tomorrow viii ascertain the
extent of the damage.