davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-08-30
SCHOOL AND CHURCH..

The Louisiana Legislature has in.
creased the appropriations tor public
schools by $4,000 this year
"A few years ago the women of
India were not allowed to learn to read.
Now there are 126, 348 girls attending
schools established for them.-M Y
Times.
The Bible Society has decided to
discontinue its practice of providing
railway coaches with Bibles. So few Of
them are read and so many stolen that
the work is not producing good results.
N Y. Examiner.
For seventy-four years the present
organist of st. Michael's Church, Gov
entry, Eng, has held that position
longer, perhaps, than any person has
ever held similar position before.
The first theological seminary estab-
lished in this country, the Reform
Dutch, at New Brunswick, recently
celebrated its one hundredth anniver-
sary and commencement. -. Newark
(N ~ Register.
Mrs E. T. Housh, editor of Woman
AT Work, announces the following
creed: ''We believe reverently in Chris
tianity, respectfully in man, devoutly
in woman and lovingly in children; and
that children need to be better cared
for, woman better encouraged, man
better helped and God better honored. {"
One of the five missionaries of the
American Sunday-school Union in
Texas sends a list of schools organized
by him with fifty-one teachers and SGT
scholars among the colored people of
Texas, and of fifteen other schools aided
by him, having forty three teachers
and sol scholars of the same class. /
The city of Boston maintains one
Normal, ten Latin and high schools,
tifty-one grammar schools and 404
primary schools. In addition to these,
the following special schools are main
tanned: One for deaf mutes, two for,
| licensed ministers, an evening high
school, thirteen elementary schools and
five evening drawing -schools.-BoSt0n
Herald /
The new missionary ship Morning
Star, the fourth of the same name and
mission, was launched recently at Bath,
Me. She has steam power and cost
$4,000, of which 1926, 900 has been sub
scribed. She is 100 feet long, 30 feet
beam and of $50 tons burden. She has
very large sails to adapt her to the
light winds of the Pacific. Her prin-
cipal business will be to carry mission
aries and teachers between the differ
ent islands of the Pacific. boston Jour-
nal. !
The revision of the Old Testament,
which, it was hoped, would be out this
year, will probably not make it's ap-
pearance before early in 1865. The
eighty-tifth and last session of the En-
glish revision committee has been held,
but months must intervene before the
complete work can be given to the pub
lie. Nothing is positively known of
any changes made in the old revision,
the revisers on both sides of the At
lantic having kept their pledge of Sc
crecy. Chicago Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-08-30
THE CURIOUS HOUSE.

know house so fair and fine,
No flaw in it can you detect
a silver beauty smooths each line
Drawn by its patient architect.
To look upon its fragile frame
And note its splendor in the sun,
No builder known to human fame
You say can do what this hath done.
1t has no shingle, roof, or beam,
1t is not hnttressed on the land
Its airy filagree ana scheme
Seem products of fairys hand.
How swung aloft, how lightly stayed.
Without window, board or pane
A dream in definite shape arrayed,
A castle from the realms of Spaini
Though Piranes might despair
It's lines to mend when once undOne,
! see its owner in the air
Across the silver ramparts run.
And when break has crept into
The chcekered strands that greet the eye
Has made the battle places new
And not scar can you deScry.
On geometric curve and coil,
Dew -diamonded beneath the sun,
This little builders wit and toll
Was spent until the work was done.
o silken house of gossamer,
Thy woven wonder does not cease
And yet the blOod-stained doors deter
Wayfarers fond of life and peacel
No jewellers in those chambers meet,
No jocund footsteps jar the floor
For, they who step within retreat
At once, or leave 1t nevermore!
joel Benton. IN st. Nicholas.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-08-30
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Nature combs the ROSTERS head,
but man has to comb his own.-Phil0-
dolphin Chronicle. :
"A cocoanut tree bears fruit for
forty years. And if it bore the same
cocoanut every year, it wouldn't be
bit harder to get into it than it is
Burlington Hd1Okeye. !
An old doctor said that people who
were prompt in their payments always
recovered from their sickness, as they
were good customers and physicians
could not afford to lose them CHICAGO
Tribune.
is the earth round or flat?" asked
a member of school committee of an
applicant for the position of teacher.
''Well, I'm not particular about that"
replied the candidate. "Some likes it
round, and some likes it flat. | teach
it both ways. Golden Days. {
keep off the grass is the familiar
sign in lawns and parks, but in the gar
den of gentleman, who had been
bothered by thoughtless visitors, there
were boards with the following words:
please do not pick the flowers with
out leave" Some wag got paint
brush and added an ''s' to the last
word N Y. Graphic.
Whistle all the time. Sing the
rest of the time. Hum bar of every
new opera necessarily. Drum on the
table with your fingers and pat the floor
with your foot. If your friends do not
place you in a lunatic asylum after this
you will be warranted in buying cor
net. flute, violin, accordion, or hiring
piano. -Erchange.
-"My dear, look down below" said
Mr.. Caudlc, as he stood with Mrs. eau
die on high bridge and gazed at a tug
hauling long line of barges. "Such
is life, )" he continued. "The tug is like
a man, working and toiling, while the
barges, like women, are--""I know"
interrupted Mrs. Caudle, sharply. "The
tug does all the blowing and the barges
bear all the burden"
-"'What is your price week for this
room?" asked gentleman of seaside
landlord. The price was named "Does
that include the ocean air.. or do you
charge extra for that?' swell, replied
the landlord hesitatingly, as though he
wasn't the man to charge for anything
that he could possibly afford to give
away, 'that depends. Of course, if
you keep your window open all night l
should expect to add little something
to the bill - New York Sun.
Are you hurtP" shrieked dozen
picnicking females as q young man
was tossed over neighboring fence by
an angry bull and landed on his head
in the middle OF the road. "Hurt?"
he answered. "Why, of course not.
am used to coming down that way"
USED to it," exclaimed the fair chorus.
"Why, how can that be?' 81 own a
bicycle" was the reassuring reply
Philadelphia Call
An old man who said he had two
sons in the newspaper business recently
applied for admission to the almshouse
The sons, who are travelling in the same
direction, say they were willing to sup
port their father, but he refused to live
on cough syrups, kidney pads and liver
regulators, and declined to use due bills
which were good for sewing machines,
melodeons and lawn mowers, by paving
about eight-sevenths of their price in
cssh. That was the best the sons could
do, and the old man preferred to go
over the hills to the poorhouse.-NorJ
riSt0l0n Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-08-30

Wash horse collars with carbolie
soap and then oil the inside.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-10-01
BLAINE's SECRET MARRIAGE.
Interview With One of the witnesses, Ex-
Congressman Lemoyne.

CHICAGO, Sept. 23.-"Yes, 1 witnessed Blaine's
marriage in Pittsburg, in March, 1851" said
Congressman John V. Lemoyne yesterday, in an-
swer to q reporters inquiry.
Ibid you know at that time that Mr. Blaine and
his wife had been married previously in Ken
tuckyT'
mo. were they?" inquiringly answered Mr. Le-
moyne, with some surprise Mr.; Lemoyne had
Just returned from two weeks hunting trip in
Minnesota and Dakota, and when seen had not
been in his house ten minutes. He had not read
the daily papers since he left Chicago. and had
not seen Biaines letter to Phelps nor his sworn
reply TO the iDterr0gatories OF the In
dianano:s Sentinel, in both OF which Blaine as
serted that he was married secretly in Kentucky,
IN June, 1850. Mr.. Lemoyne was referred to these,
and after looking at them he said: "Well. can
not say how IL was 1t may have been SO, but l
heard nothing said Mr. Blaine or any one else at
the time OF the Pittsburg marriage which led me
even TO suppose that there had been previous
marriage. BE says that the Pittsburg marriage
was had simply to satisfy all possible doubts re-
eardiDg the legality OF the one ne claims occurred
ton of that sort TO those who witnessed the Pitts
burg marriage"
DO you bIieve that he was married in Ken
"Oh, he must have been" replied Mr. Le-
moyne, laughing; doesn't he say he was. Ii
makes me think of what the man said about the
patent medicine: IF you don't believe it's good
Just read the printed advertisement and see what
that says But" continued Mr.. Lemoyne seri-
ously 'lt seems most remarkable 10 me- that If
this Kentucky marriage did occur, Blaine should
have kept ii secret SO long. child was
born three months after the Pittsburg marriage,
and the date OF its birth appeared on its tomb
stone. Now, in that life of Blaine, written few
years ego by a Maine man named Conwell, L
think, the one for which Robbie, just elected Gov
ernor, wrote the preface, the story was concealed.
Blaine acted unaccountsbly, il seemed to me- in
allowing the date of his marriage to be published
in that book as March %, 1851"
"Were you witness to the Pittsburg marriage
because OF your intimacy with BlaineT
"Yes, suppose that was the reason. was a
clsssmate of his in college, and living in Pitts
burg at the time
at has been said that Blaine was induced to
marry through a sort of shotgun argument offered
by one of the StanwoOd boys Did you have any
reason at that time for thinking such to be the
case?"
mo: il ii was so did not know it."
"Do you know S. L. Blaine2'
'No; never heard of him before"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-10-01

mechanics and laborers out of employment:
to the corruption that pervades every hole
and corner of the National Government; to
the thieving rings that rule supreme at
Washington to the soulless monopolies whose
iron hand is upon the neck of every wage
worker in the land-in short the depressed
condition OF trade and commerce through
out the length and breadth of the land aud
if anything can be found therein to CON-
mend that party to the people. why then, its
hold upon the affairs of the Government
should not be disturbed, otherwise it should
be cut down and cast out.
II it is the wish of the majority of the peo-
pie of the United States that their servants
shall steal, rob and plumber; shall bring the
whole power Of the Government to bear upon
the industries of the country, that few
monopolies shall flourish, shall make thiev-
ing, perjury and dishonesty of all kinds the
chief object and business of officials, and
shall employ the most disreputable and dis
honest methods that can be invented to still
further fssten their grip upon the throat of
the body polite, why let them signify it by
voting for that representative of the worst
element of the most debased political party
that the world has ever given birth to, James
| q Riaine
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-10-01
Lamb and Hord at Charlottesville.

John E. Lamb and Hon. Francis T. Hord
addressed the citizens of this place Saturday
night. The weather was very bad and the
streets we're very muddy, but notwithstand-
ing this large crowd greeted these gentle.
men. They both delivered mastery ad-
dresses and were received with rounds of
applause. The street parade was very
creditable affair and was participated in by
several delegations from the out to wnships.
The only thing that prevented this demon
stIation from excelling all others of this
campaign was the rain.
The Waynetown Press, which has hereto
fore been a neutral paper, has declared for
Cleveland and Hendricks and will support
the entire Democratic ticket. Ed Gopher is
editor, and he proposes to make things hum.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-10-01

marriage. this ardent youth of twenty-one years
voluntarily and instantly separated from his
youthful bride for nearly year. leaving her to
undergo the dangers and sorrows of maternity and
lbs subsequent responsibilities. privations and
su 1erines alone, while he bstook himself to the
remotest accessible regions of the United States
Is candidate Blaine's admitted conduct that of
man who had voluntarily contracted two honor
able marriages, or a person who had been tardily
persuaded into one marriageg-Portland (Me)
Argus.
Mr.. Blaine should write no more letters or tell
the truth. The Times said he made mistake In
bringing that libel suit, that tue people really
cared nothing about his love affairs of thirty years
he ought TO have told the truth" He should
not have said the "story is utterly and abomin-
ably false in every statement and in every impli-
cation" and then be compelled in just month
toadmit the truthfulnesS of the story in all its
salient and important features. His reputation
will be better if he writes more letters to my
dear Mr.. Walter Phelps on the subject of too
previous, too private aud too numerous marriages
OF the same parties kansas City Times.
But the most shameless falsehood ever uttered
by so notable a character is the matter set up in
avoidance that he was secretly married in Ken
lucky the 3Oh OF June. 1850. He does not give the
name OF the functionary officiating: he has no
living witnesses, and no record. and asks the
American people to believe him when he says
thar, though professor in a college he recklessy
married without license and without ever in
curing whether license was necessary; that the
LADY made no inquiry about it; that the minister
marrying made no inquiry, when il was a peni-
Tertiary ofense for minister to pretend that he
had authority when he did not.-Nashville Amer
lean.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-10-01
(ltieuEa
Miracles OF Healing Unparalleled in
Medical History.

81 have been afflicted for twenty years with an
obstinate skin disease, called by some NJ. DIS
psoriasis. and Others, leprosy, commencing on my
of the most skiful doctors IL slowly but surely
tended, until year ago this winter IL covered my
entire person in the form OF dry scales. For the
last Ihfee wears 1 have been unsble TO do any
labor, and suffering intensely all the time.
Every morning there could be nearly dustDsn-
ful OF scales taken from the sheet on my bed, some
of them half as large as the envelope containing
this letter. In the latter part of winter my skin
almost. thar could Be- thought Of. without any sn1
relief. The 18th of June started West. in hopes
could reach the Hot Springs. reached De.
.roit and was so low thought should have 70
go 70 the hospital, but finally got as far as Lam
sing, Mich, where I had a sister living. One
Dr. - treated me about two weeks, but did
me no good. All thought had but short time
TO live. earnestly prayed to die. Cracked
through the skin all over my back, across my
RIBS arms. hands, limbs. feet badly swollen, toe
nails came of. fngernails dead and hard as bone,
hair dead, dry and lifeless as old straw o, my
God how ] did suffer.
my sister had small part OF a box OF Cuticurs
IN the house. She wouldn't give up; said: We
win try Cutieura.' Some was applied on one
stopped the terrible burning sensation from the
word go. They Immediately got the CUTIcURA
RESOLYENT CUTICURA, and CUTICUEA SOAP. COM
meneed by taking one tablespoonful OF ReSOlvent
three times a day; after meals: had bath once
DAY, wafer about blood heat used Cuticura Soap
freely; applied CnticuTa morning and evening
Result, returned 10 my home in just six weeks
from time left, and my skin as smooth as this
sheet OF paper.
"HIRAM f. CARPENTER.
Henderson. Jefferson County, New York.
Sworn to before me this nineteenth day Of
January, 1850. "A. N. LEFFINGwELi-
Justice of the Peace"
Cuticura ResOlvent, the new blood purifier,
internally, and Cuticura and Cuticura Soap. the
great skin cures, externally, clears the complex
ion. cleanse the Skin and Scalp, and purify the
blood of every species Of Itching, Scaly, Pimply,
Scrofulous, Mercurial, and Cancerous HumOrs
Skin TOrtures when physicians, hospitals and
other means fail. sold everywhere.
Potter Drug and Chemical Co.. Boston
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-10-01
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

The principle that the essence of owner
of the corner of the Republican party, and
that is why its leaders protest against any
change in the management of the affairs of
the Nation. The principle is wrong, of
course, because it is in opposition to our sys-
tenn of government. This was fully recog-
nized by the first leaders of the Republican
party. They looked upon political offices as
trusts only, and that they were responsible
to the people for their stewardship. But
that element in the party has passed
away, and the Blaines, the Dorseys, the Bel
knaps, the Elkinses, and men of that ilk have
taken their places, and having been in pos
session Tor some time, now virtually claim
ownership of the machinery Of COVE rnment,
and profess to believe that in their endeav-
ors to retain possession, the end justifies the
means.
To be sure, their theory of government is
Numerically opposed to any form of gov
eminent which contemplates Government
of the people and by the people,
and is at variance with the
doctrines of their party as set forth and
presented by Lincoln, Sumner and the other
early leaders. We must conclude, then, that
the Republican party of to-day has the name
only of the party to which Chase, Trumbul
and Glddings belonged, and that its object
now is to fasten centralized power upon
the people, the ownership of which rightly
belongs to Blaine and his followers by right
of possession. This principle is further en-
phasized by the cry that the best interests of
the Nation demand the continuation of the
existing power; that any change would be
detrimental to our commerce and our indus
tries, and that any agencies that can be in
troduced and employed to secure the perpet-
uation of the powers that be should be.
Now, if the Republican party possessed
all the wisdom, honesty and patriotism of
the country, and int ne other hands could
the reigns of government pass with safety to
the Nation, Blaine and Dorsey would per-
baps be justified in assuming heirship to
the Ioffices at Washington. But if we as a
people have the right to judge tree by its
fruit, and preserve its life or cut it down
and cast it out according as we
shall deem best then we may
deal with the Republican upas tree
according to the good and evil it has done,
and in summing up its acts we must call at
tention to the poisonous influence which it
has and continues to exert over the only
things which can make any people great,
namely, their trade and commerce and in
dustrial and social interests
First, then, let US point to the National
and Savings Banks that are collapsing and
bursting from one end of the land to the
other, with multitude of beggard deposit
tors vainly knocking at their doors; to the
working women whose wages have been re-
duced below the living point; to the
teas Of thousands of honest and capable
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-10-01

of any sympathy that may be thought to be
due on account of the invasion of his private
and home circle. 1t was his place as an
honorable man to rebuke the carbon crows
of Buffalo, and his failure to do so shows
conclusively that he is lacking in every
sentiment of decency that should character
ize man who seeks the highest Office in the
gift Of the people.
There is much reason to believe, too, that
Mr.. Blaine knew of the original SANDER on
Cleveland, circulated by the clergyman, Ball,
and gave it his countenance.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-10-01
REsURRECTIONIsT BLAINE.
His Celebrated Bloody Shirt Speech in the
Famous Amnesty Debate.
New York sun. Jan % ls7e


Famous Amnesty Debate.
New York Sun. Jan % 1876.
But Mr.. Blaine, being fairly in the bone
business, was not content with the CHASTITY
spoils of the Andersonville bitches. 1t
Will be observed that every one of the
historic cruelties" cited by him were
cruelties inflicted by Roman Catholics.
He eagerly explored the vaults of
the Inquisition, fondly traced the
ravsges of Aiva and hung gloat-
ing over the massacre of st. Bartholomew.
That must have been a moment of supreme
triumph to the learned politician. He had
not only placed his skeleton far in advance
of Mr.. Mortons bloody shirt, but he was
Just then about two lengths ahead of Grant
In his ant-Catholic development. These
chronicles of the darker ages were sealed to
the uneducated soldier, and the studious
Blaine was not slow to improve his advan-
taee. But, on the whole, the spectacle is
not attractive-this of a reckless demagogue
blowing the embers of dying sectional pas
sions, and armed with a glowing brand to
barn his mothers church. He might have
remembered his grandfather Ephraim, the
pious beef contractor of the Revolutionary
war; be might have remembered the long
line of ancestors who have fallen asleep in
the faith against which he agitates: he
might have remembered his mother, home,
and baptism, or even those maiden aunts
who, with the Sisters OF Charity, still prose-
cute their self imposed mission of healing
and mercy under the ecclesiastical authority
which he affects to dread; he might have re-
membered any or all of these; but if he did
they were dismissed as triies which his
vaulting ambition would not brook. In
the vulgar strife for Grants old boots there
is no room for either mental or moral integ-
rity.
In case Mr.. Blaine succeeds in getting the
Republican nomination by making the
loudest and coarsest bid, the country artist
who will paint his picture for the campaign
banners will have the opportunity of his
and somewhat Compliant gentleman, his
capacious pockets filled with protruding
documents labelled Credit Mobilier Shares"
STOPPING and industriously clswing open a
secluded grave, over which the grass has
grown green and the flowers have bloomed
through many year of peace.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-10-01
Lightning in Telegraph Offices.


1t sometimes happens, however, that an
actual discharge of lightning does involve
telegraph wire, and such discharge is then
usually distributed so that it passes to the
earth in small, broken outbursts wherever it
can find an outlet. In such instances
enough of the fragmentary discharge may
fall to the share of some signaling
Office to produce very grave mischief.
Telegraph wires should. on this account,
never be carried into the interior
of dwelling-ho or of inhabited places,
without appropriate arrangements having
been made to neutralize the risk. The plan
which is most usually adopted for the pro-
lection of instruments and operators in
such circumstances consists in the ingenious
expedient of arranging two broad metal
plates so that their contiguous surfaces be
face to face very small distance apart, one
of the plates being in immediate connection
with the telegraph wire. while the other is
in communication with the ground. The
narrow interval between the two plates is
then sufficient to prevent any escape of the
ordinary electrical current of low intensity
which is employed in telegraph work, but