davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-01-01

This is according to an old-timt
and reprehensible custom, the time OF
the year when many men ''begin-life
over again." by forming new resolu-
tions for the future and swearing
off, from their sins of the past and
present. Such practice is really the
most inexcusable nonsense. If New
Years is the time to 'fswear off, y every
day in the year is New Years. The
time to set resolution to do right
for the future is the very moment one
realizes that he or she has been living
a life not strictly in accordance with
moral propriety or christian duty.
The time to swear off" bad habits is
right now. The time to set resolu-
tion to adhere to correct habits for
the future, is right now.
Young man, if you are in the habit
Of smoking, don't place box of cigars
upon your mantle-shelf and. "see
which will gain the mastery, neither
smoke one day ''to taper off with. y
JusSquit. If you are in the habit of
profane swearing, don't adopt the
modified by Jingo," bod blast it, y
or "By Jimminy Krouts." Just quit
it, all at once. IL you have been
making a fool of yourself by drinking
to excess, don't strike a tragic atti-
tude in front of your mothers picture,
place your hand over your watch-fob,
roll your eyes heavenward, and call on
the Almighty to curse you if you ever
even smell whisky again. If you can
not quit without swearing" you
cannot quit at all. But you can quit
without it, and the way to do it is to
quit. Keep away from the stuff and
let it alone, and the quitting process
is complete. The same with all be-
setting sins. No formal ceremony
will work reformation. Only a deep,
earnest, manly resolution will do it.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-01-01

In the appendix to the Congression-
al Globe of the Thirty seventh Con-
gress, there is said to be-we have not
examined-a speech delivered by
Hon. William Allen Of Ohio, and one
by Hon. R. FL. Mungen of Ohie-one
being verbatim copy of the other.
This is explained in this way. Allen
hired a man to write his speech,
agreeing to pay him seventy-fve dol
lars. When it was done, Allen put
the man off with fifty dollars, when
the writer sold copy Of the speech
to Mungen for fifty dollars. Mungen
got his speech into the Record ahead
of Allen.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-01-01

A farmer near Vincennes, Indiana,
is terribly frightened. he hasa well
near his house, from which1he gets
water for family use, and to water
stock, and a ghost has been drawing
water there for several days. He has
watched and seen the windlass go
around, and the bucket come up, but
could see no hand manipulating the
machinery of the well. But we do
not discover anything 70 be alarmed
at in all that. If a good, strong, will
ing, kind-hearted ghost volunteered
to do our work for us, we would say
"go in, old ghost, an much 'bleeged
to ye.r
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-01-01
Transfers of Real Estate.

NJ. D. Jones, Jr, s. D. Morgan, lot 49, in Altoona,
| $50.
Gabriel Evans to Erastus Davis, lG in scioto
| tp. $5663.
Joseph c. West to Edward Swan 5 acres in Scioto
| tp., SIS.
Edward Swan to Joseph C. West, acres in scioto
tip, $25.
Sheriff Cherington to H. Hollberg and B. Cailaghan,
AZ acres in franklin to-. $l7s6.
W. H. Behem to John E. Hughes. lots 149, 150 and
151 in Vaughn's Addition to Jackson $500.
D.F. Edwards to Amelia Watson, lots S46 4s9 and
40 in Welston, $4,000.
Sheriff Cherington to Adum Blair 12O in Sclo-
to tp.. $22s0.
Simpson Jones. EN'r, TO Leonard Cast, lot 2I in
Jackson $780,
Mark sternberger Barbara Bertsch pit. IS and
"A in jackson. $4,000:
Welston c. & 1. Co. to California Clark, 12s acres
in Milton tp., $125.
Same to D. F. Edwards, lot SAG in wellston, s2ss.
Sheriff Cherington to Sophia Burt, lot II in
Yaughns addition to jackson. $40.
D. F. Edwards to Patrick Guthrie, lot 161 in Aus
tins addition to Wellston $400.
Sher If Cherington NJ Monahan, lot 81 in James
town, s231.
Same to Joseph JONES' 40 acres in Madison tp,
1920.
Joseph c. West to Nancy West, so acres in scioto
tp., 81.
Wellston c. 1. Co. to Thos. Irwin, lot 4ls in Wells
ton, sl75.
Almarinda Mercer Samuel McG.See lot SO, Kahn's
Add. to Jackson, SIS.
John Hackett to Frank Davis, acre in Lick tp.,
s2f0.
Trustees of Coal Tp NJ. j. Wilson, part lot 80 in
Shocks Add. to Enrekas $40.
j. Humphfres to Almarinda Mercer, q of an in
Lick tp., $13l .25.
John Kessinger same. q in Lick tp., $500.
H. s. Bundy Geo. White, lots 4s5 and 49G in Wells
ton, s12o.
s. II. Melvin to Joseph burlington, x lots III and
I72 in Austin's Add. to Wellston. 5000.
George Colley to w. P. Coley, lot 729 In Wellston,
$500.
H. S. Bundy to George Coley, lot 72s in wellston,
$3.50.
Mark Sternberger to B. F. Holcomb. lot 10 in D.
Hoffmon's Add. to jackson. 1856.
B. F. Holcomb to S. E. Matthews lot 10 in D. Hof-
mans Add. to Jackson, $235.
L. D. Ray to j. g. Ray 20 in Jackson tp., 800.
w. j. Lewis to John Morgan, 16 acres in Liberty
tp., s275.
B. F. Scott to Matthias Walters, lot 27 in Scotts.
1st Add. to Coalton, s62.
Joshua Linton to Amos Linton, 40 acres in Jackson
tp., $500.
Rees Lewis Amos Linton As in jackson tp.,
$3.50.
NJ d. Jones, Tr., to S. D. Morgan, lots "A and As in
Altoona 500.
Sheriff Cherington to Thurman Smith, 81 acres in
Madison tp., $lS9.
John S. McGhee to Cynthia Lasly, AS in Mil
tod tp.. $3.50.
No. mortgages recorded, 9.
Amount secured, S3I077.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-01-01
Standing BY An Old COmrade.

General Sherman was a few days
ago visiting in New York, and thF RE
learned that executions had been issued
against the property of General Grant
at the instance Of w. II. Vanderbilt
for the recovery Of a sum Of money
loaned Grant prior to the failure of
Grant & Ward. General Sherman
Immediately struck out for Philadel-
phia, and set about raising fur<s to
relieve his old comrade from his tenn
porary distress, and will doubtless be
successful, as, aside from his being
successful in his plans generally. he
has enlisted with him in the work Mr..
George w. Childs, and other wealthy
Philadelphians.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-01-01

to $4,000 per acre, owing to location
and improvement.
This part of Michigan is settled
almost exclusively by people from
New. York, though an occasion; l
family from Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Farming is done here on a better
scale than in southern Ohio. That
is, more attention is paid to thorough
cultivation of crops, and protection to
all kinds Of stock from the rigors Of
winter. Hoping the Standard will
live long and prosper, I am respect
fully yours,
I'D. CALLAGHAN.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-01-01
The Coal Business.

Some two months ago DIR. Caleb
Briggs died at his home, in Massa-
chusetts, we believe He was an old
man. Some 46 years ago he was one
of Prof. Mather's assistants, in the
first geological survey of Ohio.
Nearly 90 years ago we wrote. series
Of articles which we published in the
Standard. We reproduce one, taken
from the Standard of Juyly 6, 1865:
Minerals in jackson Co.-No. %.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-01-01

The wife of Green Shumate died
Dec. 13, 1884, at Little Compton,
Carroll county. Mousouri. She was
about II years of age. We were &C
quainted with her and her husband
before their marriage. She was a
daughter Of William Rose, who was a
citizen Of this county some fifty five
years ago. The deceased was the
mother Of Marcus Shumate, of Frank
lin township, in this county.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-01-01

Paul Hines, the champion baseball
center fielder Of shis country, has
made wager that he will catch ball
thrown from the window Of the
Washington Monument, over five
hundred feet high.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-01-01

Elmer Finch, freight brakeman
on the, main line Of the c. w. & B.,
was killed. near Zaleski on last We'd
nesday by falling from the train and
being run over
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-01-01

Miss Mollie Lawson took laughing
gas at Kokomo, Indiana, while hav-
ing tooth extracted. This was sew
eral days ago, and at last accounts she
was laughing yet. She was in con-
vulsions, and not expected to live.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-01-01

Much valuable space is needlessly
wasted in the public prints with re-
gard to the formation Of Mr.. Cleve-
lands Cabinet. Suppose, friends,
that we all wait and see what it will
be. 1t may be better than we think
it cannot be worse.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-01-01

At Thorn Creek, in Butler County.
Pa, is an oil we'll which is attracting
much attention as curiosity. The
oil flows from it with such force that
it is estimated that it would reach
height of hundred feet-but it is on
fire, burning steadily, and giving such
a powerful illumination that it is said
one can see to read by it at distance
of mile and half after nightfall.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-01-01

1t is said that Mr.. Cleveland win
r4main in Albany to prepare
his inaugural address, and will
go to Washington shout the 1st of
March. The address will doubtless
be very able document, judging by
his past literary efforts-hotably his
letter to Mrs. Beeeher.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-01-01

There will be skating at Jones Hall
Rink on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
evenings. The greatest enjoyment of all.
Everybody visiting town should call at
the Rink, and try on pair of skates.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-01-01

While officers were attempting to
arrest desperate named Bob Sulli-
van, near Miles City, Montana, the
desperate fired upon them, and killed
at single shot DIR. Carlin and his
three-year-old boy. The man was
carrying the child in his arms at the
time. Carlin was a sheep-raiser, and
went from Findlay. Ohio, to Montana.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-01-01

The Naval arm Of the Government
is in bad fix. There is no money
for the Navy-and no Navy for the
money.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-01-01

G. Aultman, of Canton, Ohio, the
great manufacturer of agricultural
machinery, died suddenly on last
Thursday night. aged fifty.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-01-01
List of Contributors to the Hooking VAL
ley Sufferers.

The following persons contributed the amount of
the opposite their for the relief of the
suffering miners and their families in the Hooking
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-26

The London st. James Gdzette tells q
hitherto unpublished anecdote of Victor
Hugo During the poets exile days in
Guernsey an English lady who had been
for some time living with her family at
St. Savior, near the center of the island.
missed her youngest son, an intelligent
child of about five years DID, The boy,
it afterward appeared, had strayed from
his nurse, and, wandering aimlessly
about, had grown weary, and contented.
ly fallen asleep in the open air. Victor
Hugo, in one of his solitary rambles,
found the child just awakening, and
recognizing him as the son Of
lady whom he knew by sight,
he hoisted him on 10 his
back, and greatly delighted, cantered
with him across country to his own
house. A storm came on, and it was
decided that the youngter should not be
sent back that night. A messenger,
however, allayed the mothers anxiety,
md next morning the boy was returned,
together with profuse apologies, many
thanks, and huge basket of flowers
and fruit. On being asked how he had
enjoyed his unprecedented visit, the
boy said: every much indeed M. HUI.
go played at lions with me all the even
ing. He was the lion under the table.
And do you know once when he came
out of his den and growied he pulled off
the table cloth and broke ever so many
glasses 1t was funl"
Another anecdote, also unpublished, is
equally eloquent of Hugos love
of children. Some months later
the little daughter of tho
same English lady fell sick of scarlet
fever. The poet heard of it, and, after
bringing several offerings of grapes, he,
one day, although still comparative
stranger, begged as a great favor to be
allowed to sec the patient, who was by
this time beginning to mend. lie laughed
ut the idea of infection, and upon being
led to the sick room, sat down by the
bedside, and, gently taking one of the
child's hands in his, was soon inventing
FOR her benefit most enchanting fairy
tale. He came again on the next day
and on several subsequent days, always
with anew story and always in the best
of spirits When the child was well he
came no more: but every year afterward
until his death, although she has now chill.
dren of her own, he sent to her on his
birthday some little token of his kindly
recollection of her.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-26

will often open the way among savages
who would fight the explorer if they did
not think he could bewitch them all
Young Thompson, who recently came
oack from the Nasal country, Travelled
far on his reputation as a man who could
take his teeth Lat OF his mouth and put
them back again. He had two false teeth
on a plate. When argument and en-
treaty awaited nothing, he had only to do
the teeth act to get about everything he
wanted. A chief south of Lake Nyassa,
who had never seen glass, became the
warm friend of missionary whose watch
he was examining. He could see the
hands right before him, but he couldn't
put his fingers on them, and he thought
the white man by some occult power
kept him from touching them.
Some petty chiefs have been in the
habit of appearing before explorers and
personating their sovereign the Big King
for the purpose of getting a handsome
present. The explorers have found
means of exposing these frauds. As a
rule, none but great chiefs are allowed
to possess gaudy or highly colored
cloths. If such goods are offered to a
sub chief who pretends to be the king
he refuses to receive them, and stands
revealed as fraud. Consul Elton car.
ried quantity of red velvet with him in
his travels through East Africa. He says
he reserved the velvet for great chiefs or
impostors, and that in both cases it
answered admirably. York Sun.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-26
An Odd Animal

The armadillos are the mail-clad war
iors of nature; and the most completely
lrmored Of the whole odd family OF arm
Ldillos is q beautiful ornamented little
fellow called by the naturalists Toly-
pentes, and by the Brazilians 'bolita.
"Bolits" means ''little ball. and the
Irmadillo was so named because it has
The power of rolling itself up into the
ihape Of ball. Its various shields are
20 arranged that when the bolita rolls
itself up it makes a perfect ball of hard
she'll.
A traveller in Brazil tells of watching
some little children at play tossing a
large ball, about the size of foot ball.
When they were tired of the game they
threw the ball on the ground, and to his
surprise it turned into an animal, and ran
hastily away. 1t was one of these little
armadillos.
The same traveller says that he has seen
these animated balls used by a little
child in playing with a kitten. The
game may have annoyed the bolita, but
1t could not have caused it any injury,
because of the perfect protection afford
ed by its armor.
1t has need of all the protection it
can have, for it lives in a land where
tho mischievous monkey is plenti-
full. Anybody who has seen monkeys
teasing each other, will be able to gain
some idea of the torment the slow -witted
Armadillo must undergo as it is passed
from one to another of party of mon
Keys. When Tolypentes is set upon by
the frolicsome monkeys. however it sud-
denly curls up, and is safe within itself.
The bafiied tormentors turn it over, look
ing in great establishment for the tail
they know must be there. IfTolypentes
mad any sense of humor, he would GER
tainly laugh heartily within his shell at
che chattering, grinning crowd.
AS the boita, like the other armadillos,
burrows in the earth, it has forefeet suit
able for that work. It's toes are armed
with long and hard claws, which enable
1t to dig with wonderful quickness. In.
stead of walking upon the fat part of its
front feet, the bolita walks upon the tips
Of its toes, and in doing so looks comic.
Ally dainty and mincing At the same
lime it can move with considerable
swiftness.
The aramadillos live only in South
/ America, and are all small in size com.
pared to the gigantic armadillo that
lived ages ago. The largest now living
8 not more than three feet long, while
hat of former ages was as large as big
lining table.-St. Nicholas.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-26
Secretion that Communicates the
RInnh.

When the bile is diverted from its proper
channels, into the blood which is always the
case in liver complaints, it ceases to be a
healthy secretion. and becomes poison. Its
abnormal presence in the circulation and
stomach is indicated by the suffusion of the
skin with hideous saffron tinge, by head
aches, vertigo, nausea pain in the right side
and under the right shoulder blade, by indi.
gestion, obstruction Of the bowels, and other
minor symptoms. Order may be substituted
for this state of chaos, and further bodily evil
averted by using the beneicent Alternative and
tonic Hostetters Stomach Bitters, which, by
relaxing the bowels, promotes the escape from
the circulation of bilious impurities, besides
rendering the action of the liver regular, and
removing every trace OF dyspepsia. This pleas.
ant and purely vegetable anti-hilious medicine
is not only infinitely more effective than any
form OF mercury, but it is on account Of its
freedom from hurtful properties, Infinitely to
be preferred to that poisonous drug.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-26
Making O Mouse Useful.

In French town in which the tele-
graph wires are laid underground, tel
sgraph line was interrupted. The
workmen pulled out the wire and re-
paired it, but then discovered that they
could not pass wire through the pipe,
Oy means of which they could pull the
telegraph wire back into place A
laborer, however, found an ingenious
way of avoiding the difficulty. He
caught mouse, and tied to its tail a
very slender wire. Then he put the
mouse in the pipe. At first the mouse
refused to submit to what it perhaps
regarded as an indignity, but when a
big cat was brought, the mouse ran for
dear life through the pipe, dragging
the slender wire, by means of which the
workmen pulled the telegraph wire
through. 81. Petersburg Rodaik.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-26
Friend ofWOnan,


This title is often applied to Mrs. Lydia e.
Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass, by happy wives
and mothers who have been cured of dis
tressing disorders and relieved of pain and
suffering by Mrs Pinkhams Vegetable Com.
pound. Mrs. L. H-of Strother, s. c.,
says in a recent letter: "Your medicine has
done me so much good that l don't think
ran stop taking it until am entirely we'll I
owe all my good feelings to you The dec
tor can't get any credit for curing me, it is
your medicine that has done me more good
than anything have ever taken" A dress
maker in Findlay, O., says: II have de-
rived so great benefit from the use of your
Vegetable Compound that I recommend it in
the strongest terms, with the utmost conf.
dence and am sure it will cure the most
stubborn cases. consider it very mnch
better than any other preparation made fos
all Female Complaints"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-26
arrow Escape.

s.arrOW Escape.
. ROCHESTER,, June l, 1882 "Ten
Years ago was attacked with the most
Intense and deathly pains in my back and
-KidHeyl
Extending to the end Of my toes and TO
my brainl
(which made me deliriousl
from agonyl !
ut took three men to hold me on my bed
at timesl
''Tho doctors tried In vain to relieve me,
but to no purpose.
Morphine and other opidtesf
"Had no effectl
"After two months 1 was given up to
"When my wife
heard a neighbor tell what Hop Bitters had
done for her, she at once got and gave me
some. The first dose eased my brain and
seemed to go hunting thu ough my system toT
the pain
The second dose eased me so much that
slept two hours, something | had not done
for two months Before / had used five bot
Ties, was well and at work as hard as any
man could, for over three weeks; but l.
worked too hard for my strength, and taking
4 hard cold, | was taken with the most
acute and painful rheumatism all through my
system that ever was known.
81 called the doctors again, and after sew
.ral weeks they left me a cripple on clutches
for life, as they said Imet friend and told
him my case, and he said Hop Bitters had
cured him and would cure me. lpoohed at
him, but he was so earnest l was induced to
use them again.
In less than four weeks threw away my
crutches and went to work light y, and kep'
on using the bitters for five weeks, until L
became as well as any man living, and have
been so for six years since.
1t has also cured my wife, who had been
sick for years; and has kept her and my chill
dren we'll and healthy with from two to three
bottles per year. There is no need to be sick
at all il these bitters are used. j. j. BERK,
Ex-Supervisor. \
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-26
If a laddie meet a lassie,
Comm thro' the rye,

III u lduule meeC laSSl6,
Comm thro' the rye,
md especially the other two lines:
A. the lads they smile on me,
When comm thro' the rye,
eem to imply that traversing the rye was
IN habitual or common thing among the
lads and lassies" in the Land O. the
scots, and suggest, perhaps, harvest
cene, where both sexes, as was the Gus
iom, are at work reaping, and where they
would come and go through the fields, if
indeed not through the rye Itself, so as to
meet and kiss in it. The truth is, how
aver, the rye in the song is not grain at
I'll, it being the name of small shallow
stream near Ayr, which, having neither
bridge nor ferry, was forded by the peo-
pie going to and from Market custom
allowing lad to steal kiss from any
ass of his acquaintance whom he might
meet in midstream. That this is the true
explanation, any one may see who refers
20 Burns original ballad, in which the
irst verse refers to the lassie wetting her
clothes in the stream:
Jenny is a. wat puir body,
Jenny is seldom dry,
She's dragit a. her petticoaties
Comm thro' the rye.