davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1884-01-03

Mr.. Hiram MsIniys. Who vss han
BY bsipg ihrcvs from . hcrse several
i vssAs en-. ID abl V BE- sheus assis,
Ahtoaxh be Il pretty lame and has 70 uss
. rruteh.
Mr.. Geo. O. Kendall has rested part
~ bis hocse 10 one Of the wosknsn su.
played 1t The Miliiners Car wheel work..
The gentleman has moved his family here
AID taken possession.
--Busipsss 10 driving 20 At The Millimsre
Car Wheel Works that they are obliged 70
run evenings un.il 10 O'Clock OF later 10
order TO set tho work out. this shop 10
doing large amount OF business 10 their
line
The .Lims Kils Club" dance 81 The
Town Hall New Years eve Was veil 81.
tended. and Ne should ssy al hsd . good
tims. A nice supper Vas served II Bart.
lsts's and the dance came 10 . close 1t
o'clock .. m.
Tho CAntats. or Christmas dialogue
mentioned in the JorsSAL last week. takes
place At the Town Hall this Thursday
evening. January Sd. and no doubt will be
we'll attended. Some fine vocal and in
strumental music may be expected. Ad-
minion % cssts. Reserved seats 30 cents.
A nns orchestra will accompany the whole.
The officers Of Post Dudley No. %. q.
A. H., will be publicly installed u the
Town Hall. Thursday evening. Jan. 10th.
Several prominent O.. A. r. comrades will
be present among them @. G. Kinsmsn.
A. A. q. Of tho department. II is also ex.
pectsd that Commander Valentine, the
Department CommAndsr will also be
present After the installation services
camp fire viii be held. hardssck and coffee
served and the whole 10 conclude with .
dance, free 10 all. everybody is invited.
Don't forget the night. Thursday evening,
January 10th, 1884.
There are whispsrisgs Of . recent
Wedding OF parties IN town.
The estimated value Of the presents
IN the Christmas tree at the Methodist
'harch vas $500. Many hearts were made
dad.
Miss Carrie NJ. Hoyt, teacher in the
3rattleboro graded school, is at home
pending her two weeks vacation. She is
ssocistsd in her duties in said school viii
islen j. Preston. . former teacher at Burr
nd Burton Seminary, under Mr.. Shaw.
fiss Hoyt is happy in her work and pleas.
ntly situated. /,
BERLIN, N. r. 4
"A writing school is to DO opened here j
Don. q
j. NJ. Potter is at present confined to {
is house by sickness. i
The Whyland laundry starts up today,
doudAy). after vacation Of four weeks.
A d. Brimmer. who has been very | |;
OK with fever does not entirely regain
Is health.
daniel H. Hull, it is said, will re-.
eve soon to Petersburg and will go in
70 store with his brother-in-law. B. F. !,
lark.
Miss Cynthia BALDWIN, ths forswoman
l.. G. Green & Co.'S. shirt shop is ct 1,
ttstown in attendance upon . sick friend. |,
"A. s. Allen, Jr., Who was recently y
arrisd at Lansing CHURCH, had reception
the family mansion. at Center Berlin,
n. LIST, 1884. Il
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1884-01-03

Wheat Bitteis is genuine pharmaceut.
ical preparation and so recognized by the
profession.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-06-05

THR Galveston News in the course
Of an able editorial says that the main
difficulty in getting rid OF of the six
shooter in Texas is its close alliance
with tho whisky demon" Wequote
the following passage
When the newspapers OF Texas
then insist that the six-shooter must
60; when tho whole press Of the
State unites upon this proposition |;
when it is demonstrated that the
public safety and the public peace
require the expulsion of this murder
ous implement, no power can resist
the demand, and tho sophistries of
the popular lecture.room will mot stay
it 30 soon as away is devised to effect
it. 1t is proposed in one state to
expel the pistol by declaring it fell
ony TO carry one, or to make threat
ening demonstrations with one. 1t
is proposed in another State to pro-
hibit the sale of side srms. Various
suggestions are made, and with the
hope Of reaching in some of them the
protection demanded by society. The
people of this country are aroused
upon this subject. Murder as a fine
art is undergoing such progress that
it has attracted universal attention.
The press is opposed to it seeks a
remedy, and will sooner or later give
one to the country. Is it not then a
little singular that at such juncture
the only hope of the six-shoooter is
to be found in its near and INSOFAR.
able relation to the whisky demon?
From the rostrum the pistol and whis-
ky are licensed, prohibition of both
being there pronounced q failure,
though the people, the press and the
pulpit with one vhice protest.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-06-05

himself in Wall street with specula'
tors who have ruined his fortunes
and the regulations Of his partners
by the most disreputable pratices
that have ever been exposed in the
financial transactions of this country,
He thinks the habit OF increasing the
pay OF men who are receiving as
much rs $4,000 a year ought to be
stopped until the men in the ranks
and their windows and orphans have
received their dues at the hand ofthe
Government.
President Arthur has had a lively
week of Misunderstanding and the ushers
at the White House have been un
usually busy. The visiting bicyclers
came down upon the Chief Magistrate
in great numbers; may OF the stran'
gers who came to the unwilling of tho
Luther statue called TO pay the their
respects, and a large delegation Of
the bishops and ministers of the
African NJ. Il. church in conference
at Baltimore came over with their
wives and sisters, cousins and aunts
to shake hands.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-06-05
I.Ieensed...To Do What Z

The monstrosity Of licensing mel
TO commit crime in order TO raise
revenue ia admirably depicted in tn
following lines as respects the Rquo
traffic;
Licensed TO make the strong man weak,
Licensed 10 lay a wise man lows
Licensed fond wife's heart 10 break,
Aud make her ehildren's tears to How.
Licensed to do n neighbor harm,
Licensed 10 kindle hate and strife
Licensed 10 nerve the robbers arm,
License to whet the murderer's knife.
Licensed where peace and quiet dwell
To bring disease and want and woei
Licensed 10 make this world hell,
And fit men for hell below.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-06-05
The True Issue,

We frequently hear opponents OF
OF local option processing 10 DO toe
strong Temperance men to support It,
declaring themselves in favor OF gen
eral and absolute prohibition. They
do this because they know that such
prohibition is unattainable Just now,
40 their declaration amounts 10 moth
ing.
Others argue that under local OPP
ton people who want liquor can cas-
ily 20 elsewhere for their supplies
That is true, but that would nearly
exclusively apply to old confirmed
drinkers, who would take their sup
plies home TO drink. That class Of
drinkers have no good reason there
fore, TO object TO local option, asst is
not prohibition as to themi their
liberties arc not invaded, for they
can continue to drink at home, il they
are 80 unwise and unjust to their own
rs TO do 80.
The great point aimed at by local
option is the suppression Of the pub
lie liquor traffic and its gilded haunts
with their destinations ofsocial excite
ment and games Of chance, where the
young and thoughtless are now be-
ing daily lured to destruction.
We are willing that in the impend-
ing vote - local option shall stand or
Tall by its just powers and limitations
rs above stated. Let there be no
Ialse issues raised in the case.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-06-05
IL D0u,t Paw.

1t don't pay TO ill the land with an
army in tattered rags, in order that a
few saloon keepers may walk in broad
cloth, and jingle their ill-gotten dol
lars.
1t don't pay TO feed this army on
refuse garbage, and not enough OF
that in order that these same saloon
keepers may have their wine suppers,
roast turkeys and champagne.
1t don't pay TO add TO the already
distressingly long list Of sad eyed
and care worn mothers, who with
their children, are pinched and star
we'd until the semblance of humanity
is gone, and nothing left but animated
scarecrows, dwelling in miserable
pens called homes, in order that the
saloon keepers wife and children may
dress elegantly, and grow fat on the
shame and distress of others.
1t don't pay to crush one citizen
that another may step IN and over
him into power.
1t don't pay to punish man for
crime, while he who made him
criminal goes free.
1t don't pay to transform IN army
of bright intelligent boys into thieves
and vampires on society, in order
that few may lead lives of idleness,
by selling that which has made these
boys what they are.
1t don't pay to license q man for
5000 to sell mixed frenzies, and pay
$40, 900 to indict the fiend that his
damnable trade has made.
1t don't pay to keep ten thousand
poor wretches in the penitentiaries,
hospitals, and lunatic asylums, while
honest industry is taxed for their
support, in order that a few rich
capitalists may revel in their wealth,
and grow richer in the manufacture
of that which fills these institutions
of crime and want. ..
It never pays to perpetrate
wrong. The short turn in life's work
will come some time. The balance
sheet of good and ill will prove that
it don't pay.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-06-05
NOTHING AND SOMETHING.
BY FRANCES L. W. HARPER.

II is nothing TO me, the beauty said,
With a careless toss Of her pretty head;
The man is weak il he can't refrain
From the cup you say is fraught with pain.
II was something to her in after years,
When her eyes were drenched with burning
tears,
And she watched in lonely grief and dread
And startled to hear staggering tread.
II il nothing to me, the mother said
I have no fear that my boy will tread
The downward path of sin and shame,
And crush my heart and darken his name.
II was something to her when that only son
From the path of right was early won,
And madly cast in the flowing bowl,
A ruined body and sin-wrecked soul.
II is nothing to me. the merchant said,
As over his ledger he bent his head;
I'm busy to-day with tare and tret,
And have no time to fume and fret.
It was something to him when over the wire
A message came from funeral pyre-
A drunken conductor had wrecked the train;
And his wife and child were among the slain.
It is nothing to me, the young man cried /;
In his eye was flash Of scorn and pride
I heed not the dreadful things we tell,
can rule myself. know full well.
Twas something to him when in prison he
lily,
The victim of drink. life ebbing away.
As he thought of his wretched child and wife,
And the mournful wreck of his wasted life.
1t is nothing to me, the voter said
The party's loss is my greatest dread
Then gave his vote for the liquor trade,
Though hearts were crushed and drunkards
made.
1t was something to him in after life,
When his daughter became drunkard's
wife,
And her hungry children cried for bread,
And trembIed to hear their fathers tread.
it nothing for us to idly sleep
While the cohorts of death their vigils keep,
To gather the young and thoughtless in
And grind in our midst grist of sin?
1t is something-yes, all, for us to stand,
And clasp by faith our Savior's hand
10 learn to labor, live and fight,
On the side of God and changeless right.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-06-05
From tine New York Tribune.
The Question of the Age.

1t has been said that the end and
the test of good government is the
greatest happiness of the greatest
number. If this be true it must be
owned that no government extant is
satisfactorily conducted. For OBJ
servation shows that as a rule politi-
cal energy is expended upon secon.
Diary concerns, while politicians
employ all their dexterity in avoiding
action upon the great problems which
most deeply involve the destinies of
the masses. There is to-day in the
English-speaking countries no such
tremendous, reaching, vital ques-
ton as that of drunkenness. In it's
implications and effects it over
shadows all else. 1t is impossible to
examine any subject connected with
the progress, the civilization, the
physical well-being, the religious
condition of the masses, without en-
countering this monstrous evil. It
lies at the centre of all social and
political mischief Itparalyzes bene-
fcent energies in every direction. It
neutralizes educational agencies. It
silences the voice of religion. 1t
battles penal reform. 1t obstructs
political reform. 1t rears aloft q
mass of evilly-inspired power which
at every salient point threatens social
and National advance; which gives
to Ignorance and Vice greater
potency than Intelligence and Virtue
car command; which deprives the
poor of the advantages of modern
progress which debauches and
degrades millions, brutalizing and
soldering them below the plane of
healthy savagery, and filling the cen
tres of population with creatures
whose condition almost excuses the
immortality which renders them
dangerous to their generation.
All these evils, all this mischief, all
this destruction of human souls and
intellects, go on among us daily and
hourly. There are none so ignorant
or inattentive as not to have personal
experience of some of them; some
hearth darkened some family
scattered; some loving heart broken
some promising career ruined some
deed of shame done. Yet how hard
it is to get this gigantic evil attacked
seriously. Temperance organizations
have indeed been fighting it foryears,
vet popular inertia has resisted their
utmost efforts. But has all been
done that might and should have
been done by the organized agencies
that represent the higher hfel What
are doctrinal points, for example,
compared to this ever present, ever
active. insidiOus influenced What
are sectaTian differences by the SIDE
OF this National cursel Can the
churches fold TIER hands and AAttsr
themselves that their duties are all
fulfilled. while the masses prefer the
saloon to the pulpit, and while rum
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-06-05
St. Leonard Hotel,
MAIN PLAZA.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.

n This Hotel has lately been open
"a on the European Plan, aud
promises to be rery popular. All
of the appointments are Grst-cldss
and new. The rate is 81 per day.
The proprietor Phineas r.
Loun,bery, is a Nic York man,
and knows how a hotel ought to
be kept; and we can answer from
personal experience that those once
enjoying its comforts ,riH DO sure
to return again. Cars and Om-
nibuses pass the door. Storkmen
sciH please make a note of this.
deoiy.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-06-05

HERE is an item which we COM
mend to the attention of all who
argue that the adoption of local OPP
ton will be injurious to other bust
ness besides the. saloons:
In Carrollton, Georgia, the sale of
liquors was prohibited five years ago,
and the amount of trade has increased
from 100000 to 100000, and there
is not one merchant in thirty who
would not vote against the reinstate-
ment of the traffic on purely bust
ness principles. Georgia has eighty
seven counties where liquor cannot
be had except in few of the larger
towns.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-06-05

The Hon. L. w. Moore has been
prominently mentioned, recently, as
a candidate for nomination for Con
gress from the Sth District Judge
Moore has q host of friends, who
would be delighted to see him hon
ored with seat in that honorable
body, a position his distinguished
ability would enable him TO fill, with
honor to himself and his constituent
cy, but he will not, the Journal is
authorized TO say, be a candidate.
This determination on his part leaves
Mr.. Miller without an opponent for
the nomination SO far as the Journal
has been able TO ascertain. La Grange
Journal
Although Judge Moore affects con
tempt for newspapers, it is clear that
he has through their aid, recognized
''tbe handwriting upon the wall as to
the futlity Of his cherishcdaspiraiions
to q seat IN Congress The Judge
eIenPhkes the old adAge, .sdiscre-
ton Is the better Of vAlor.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-06-05
Appeal OF Committee on Local Option,

Appeal OF Committee on Local Option
Next Saturday, June 7th, 1884, the
election on Local Option takes place,
Let every citizen discharge a duty
he owes to himself, his family and his
country, by turning out and voting
Let your judgment be your guide as
to how you shall vote. II your con
science tells you that the best in
terests Of the community demand
that you vote for local option, do 80
like men from asolemn sense Of duty.
Should the best interest Of the com
munity demand that you vote against
local option, do 80, obey the solemn
dictates Of conscience, but do not fail
to discharge the duties Of good citi-
zen. The friends of local option
have no fears of the result if every
voter will discharge his solemn duty
according to the dictates of his con.
science, exercising his best judgment,
and they ask no more. This much
they feel they have right to demand
OF every good citizen, be he white or
black.
The responsibility, fellow-citizens,
rests upon your shoulders. Will you
meet it and acquit yourselves like true
men? Ladies, demand of your faith
ers, husbands, brothers and friends
that they be true to the duties of
American citizens in exercising the
boon of freemen, the elective fran
chise, on this occasion.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-06-05
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent

WASHINGTON, May ~, 1884.
The policy suggested of rushing
thorough appropriation bills and ad-
journing right away does not meet the
approval of all the Democratic mem
bers of Congress. Some of them say
the land grant forfeiture bills are the
most important measures pending,
and are unwilling to go homo until
provision is made for the restoration
of those lands to the public domain.
The past few days of torrid weather
made some Members and Senators
desire an early adjournment, but
besides several important appropria-
ton bills that have yet to be passed,
an amicable agreement on the Naval
bill must be reached before the
session ends. If Congress gets away
before the middle of July some hard
work must be done, and so it is quite
too soon to begin packing it's trunks.
Besides it may happen that the Senate
will insist upon the House paying
some attention to the bills it has
placed upon the Spaker's table before
adjournment.
The Senate devoted most Of the
week to debate on the House bill for
bureau of labor statistics, and finally
pussed as substitute Senator
Aldrich's bill. This was treating the
House discourteously. 1t simply
relegates the matter to that body,
where, in the rush and heat of the
closing hours, it is likely to be
sighted
In the regular order Of Congressi-
onal events Friday was private bill
day in the House, but as things
happened, last Friday was personal
explanation day. Representive Wei
Ter was the first explainer. He arose
to deny at length, that he had been
solicited by Mr.. English, senior in
behalf of his son, who got the seat
for the Seventh Indiana District in
the contested election case ofEnglish
VS. Peele.
The next explsAaer was Represena-
tive kellogg, when the House was
made the scene of an act in the Star
Route Comedy. Referring to his
recent trial, he showed that he had
not pleaded the statute of limitation,
but was obliged to confess that he
had not exercised his privilege of
waving it. He stated that the law
which prohibits Members of Congress
from receiving compensation for
services where the United States was
a patty "had been violated thous-
and times" Mr. Hammond said it
was humiliating confession for
Member of Congress to say that he
knew 500 men who had represented
the people here, and who had com
mitted felonies, and yet to admit that
he had never mentioned the fact until
it was necessary to screen himself
Representive Springer has entered
his protest agoinst the bill for retir-
ing Gen. Grant, with the rank and
pay of General Of the Army. He
says under ordinary circumstances he
would be glad to do Gen Grant
honor. but now is not the time for
the Congress Of the Uuited States to
come to his relief He associated
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-06-05

rules in politics and society," Are
the higher educational agencies doing
all in their power to advance civiliza
ton while they ignore this obstacle
TO progress I Can any political
organization be said 10 represent the
best aspirations and the strongest
needs OF the people, while this abid-
ing source OF misery and crime and
poverty is allowed TO spread and
flourish 7
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-06-05

IT is is reported from Austin that
Wash Jones recently there in con
sultatlon with friends, has wisely de-
termined not to tackle Ireland again,
but will run for Congress in opposi-
ton to Hancock or whoever may be
the Dem ocratic nominee. This re.
moves the last doubt that Ireland will
have no opposition worth speaking
of
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-06-05
Saloons Destructive OF all Legitimate
Business.

We feel that VIC cannot do bet
ter than to republish from the FREE
Press of April 18th, the following
telling article from the Toledo Blade.
1t is so clear and explicit that he that
runs may read and understand, that
saloons, 80 fur from being q benefit
are the direst curse to any commun-
ity as regards business, as well as
morals. We wish to impress this
truth, because we now and then hear
men who ought to know better, oh,
iect to local option on the ground
that it is unfavorable in q business
point of view:
Let us take an average community
in which their are are say 1000 men
working for wages. This means that
there are altogether in the community
5000 persons, the other 1000 being
made up of women, children and
those incapacitated for daily labor.
1t is plain to any one who will
think q minute that all the money the
community can have is what these
1000 men can earn as the reward of
their labor. All the clothing, food,
house room, books, etc, that the
1000 women etc, can have is what
can be bought with the proceeds of
the days work of the men.
Consequently all the business that
can be done by the dry goods stores,
groceries, boot and shoe shops, etc,
which supply the various wants of
these people is limited to the amount
of money the men can earn in the
course of the year.
Therefore anything that diminish
es or wastes this total sum OF wages
is direct blow ut the whole commu-
nifty. tits q reduction of every ones
means of support.
If q saloon is started in commun-
ity and takes in $4,000 in the course
oil year-a very small estimate of
what 1000 men would spend in one
year-the amount of food, clothing,
ETC., bought is diminished that
amount at least, without taking
into account the diminished capacity
of the wage -earners who earn wages,
caused by their consumption of the
$4,000 worth of liquors. The whole
community is many thousand dollars
poorer because the saloon keeper pre-
fers to "lead an easy life, rather than
support himself by honorable labor
just in proportion to the amount
of liquor sold anywhere so is all 9th
err business injured or even destroy
ed The worst enemy to the sal
looms should be the man who deals
in any of the necessaries of life, for
nothing can be SO hurtful to legiti-
mate business as the destruction of
their capacity to buy by their indul-
gence in strong drink.
Considered purely as business
venture the most profitable thing that
the merchants of any city could do
would be to provide every saloon
keeper in the city with a good salary
and send him abroad to enjoy him
self for the rest of his life. If all
saloon-keeping could be stopped in
this way, it would pay the merchants
to support the saloon-keepers in lux
urious idleness, in the choicest spots
in the world.