davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-24
FACTS WORTH KNOWING.

Naples has now plenty of excellent
water
Fresh discoveries of gold are con
stantly being made in Japan.
1t is proposed to establish a Chin
csc Chamber OF Commerce at Hong
Kong.
In 1860 the coal mines of this coun-
try produced 1000 600 tons. In
1884 5 the output was So, 0p0,0 900.
The late Bishop of Manchester owed
his extraordinary mastery over his
voice to having lived for years with
deaf mother and aunt.
The earthquakes in Audalusia last
winter Injured over IL 200 buildings
of which 4 400 were ruined, killed 745
persons and wounded l, ass.
A pet deer belonging to w. II.
Payne, of Spencerville, Cal, has
voluntarily returned to captivity at
ter year of freedom spent in the
forest IN company with its kind.
For fifty eight years past some per
son has found it worth his or her
while to pay the annual interest on a
green umbrella pledged IN the Paris
Mont de Petite for the sum of 3 francs
so cents.
The sum expended by the National
Government in showing respect to
the memory of Vice President Hen
bricks is fguree out to have been in
excess of the total value of his for
tune, which is estimated at $3.50, 600.
Twenty five years ago we were 30
600 600 people; now we are near
go, 600, 600 Then we had 141 cities
and towns Of over 8 600 inhabitants;
now we have 286 of such cities and
towns. Then the total population of
our cities was 5,000,0 900; now it is 49,
600, 900.
a hole was formed by the sinking
soil lately IN one of the streets Of San
Burnardino, Cal From this hole
volume of smoke has been rising a
peculiar, sui phurus smell penetrates
the air in the vicinity, and, as no one
knows from whence the smoke comes
some alarm has been felt.
The Emperor of Russia grows stout
ct uiOT6 u6t p-CueSltQ dUu DFOdu-
shouldered. His light gray eyes,
which resemble more those of his
mothers relatives at Hesse Darmstadt
than his fathers the late Emperor,
which were dark blue, or what the
French call black blue, are losing
their vivaclty.
The British Medical Journal states
that the Baron de LenvaI, of Nice,
has offered prize of 5000 10 the per
son who shall invent an easily port
able instrument for improving the
hearing, Only completed instru-
meats are received, and they must be
sent in before Dec 81 1887. The prize
will be awarded in September, 1888.
at Brussels.
The new Brazilian slave law fixes
the masimum value OF slaves at the
following rates: Slaves under thirty
years, 5000; slaves from thirty to
forty years, $500; slaves from forty
to fifty years, 5000 slaves from fifty
to tifty-hve years, $500; slaves from
fifty five to sixty years, 5000. The
value of female slaves is put at % per
cent lower than these rates.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-24

pressed strong and discriminative
thought in words at once accurate
and abundant. His only vanity was
his English" She also sketches his
harem.
I'VE discover in the center of the
hall long line of girls with skins of
olive, creatures who in years and ply
steal proportion are yet but children,
!some twenty in number, with trans
parent draperies with golden girdles,
their arms and bosoms wholly nude.
and covered with barbaric ornaments
of gold. Their only garments the
lower skirt, floating in light folds
about their limbs, is one of very cost
y material bordered heavy with gold.
On the ends of their fingers they wear
long nails OF gold, taperipg sharply
like the claws of bird"
She describes q dances in this har-
EN- while the prime minister sits
stony and grim, his huge hands rest
ing on his knees In statues que repose.
HIS department to his female slaves
was studiously ungracious and often
mean.
In the midst of the Bangkok is a
sort of sanctuary for criminals. where
Turk fugitives of every class. Women
in disguise as men, men in the dis
guise as women, hiding phases of
every vileness and crime of every en-
ormity, at once the most disgusting,
the most appalling and the most un-
natural the heart of man has conceiv-
ed. Most of the women who compose
the harem OF the King, who died in
1868 were of gentle blood, the fairest
of the daughters of the Slamese mobiles
and Princes of the adjacent tributary
States; the Queen consort was his
own half-sister Beside many choice
Chinese and Indian girls purchased
annually for the royal hafem by
agents from Bangkok and Bengal,
enormous SUMS were offered year aft
er year at Bangkok and Singapore for
an English woman of beauty and
good parentage to crown the sensual
collection. French women offered
themselves for the harem, but the
King would not accept them" AL
though religious ceremonies were
held at this court Mrs. Leonowens
says:
THE King of Siam was more sys-
tematically educated, and more ca pa
cious devourer of books and news than
perhaps any man of equal rank ia his
time. In Unborn integrity and stead
fast principle he had no faith what
ever. He sincerely believed that every
man strove to compass his own ends,
and when sometimes | ventured to
disabuse ms mind of his daring scorn
for motive and responsibility ] had
the modification to discover that
had but helped him TO an argument
myself. 1t was simply my pecuniary
interest to do So Money, money,
money. That could procure anything.
The love of children was the constant
and hearty virtue of this despot. They
appealed to him by their beauty and
their trustfulness; they refreshed him
with the bold innocence of their ways
AT o'clock he retired to his private
apartments, whence is issued immedi-
ately peculiar domestic bulletins, in
which were named the women whose
presence he particularly desired in ad
dition te those whose turn it was to
wait that night. His spies penetrate
into every family of wealth and in
huence. Every citizen suspects and
fears always his neighbor, sometimes
his wife"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-24
THE INSIDE Op SIAM.
An ET-Governess shows Up the Court
aad Its fcketneAs
CINCINNATI Enquirer.

Mrs. LeonowenS, who was govern
ess of the young princes of Sam, pub
lished a sketch of the prime minister
OF that country as follow: He was
the actual ruler of that semi barbar-
Gus realm, and the prime contriver Of
its arbitrary policy. Black, but
comely, robust aud vigorous, neck
short and thick, nose large and nos
trils wide, eyes inquisltive and pene-
trating; his was the massive brain
proper to an intellect deliberate and
systematic Well founded in the best
idioms of his native tongue, he ex
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-24

Two years longer VIII be required
to complete the revision of Websler's
Dictionary, on which President Por-
ter. of Yale. and others have been ep-
gagged for some time. The compilers
will eudeavor to perfect the introduc-
ton of multitudlnouS new WORDS
which have come into more or less
common use during the last decade,
such as boycott dude and others
There will be, however, a careful
avoidance of strictly slang terms ano
idio.as of only limited use.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-24
DAUGHTERS.
ALL THE YEAR RoUsD.

One stands in robe Of white
G Beneath the sunshine, IN her eyes
A harry, UNTOLD secret Ike.
Her Well-sprinR Of delight.
She holds posy IN her nd
of roses red. Of roses rare,
Loves latest gift 10 oRe sol fair
AS any in the land.
We leok at her end smile,
And to Or hearts We softly say,
Can bliss like hers endure Away,
or but a litte VII ley
Will faith cling close TN ouPh sun end snow,
viii loves roe garland Keep us req
From bridal couch 10 graveyard bed2
Alacki we cannot know
one stands alone apart,
She wears tbe sign Of widowbood;
Sharp Rritt hath drained Of all us good
Her hungry, Empty beart
Toteno o grave she couDttih best;
She tuins non Us v DO love htr well,
And wears the yellow a'Jbodel
DtahS flower, up her breast
We COX at her md sigh,
Ard softly t. cur hearts We say,
Will REF Ike htrs endure tlway,
Or essen by and by
VIII wee weep Oh through sun and snow
or " III The al hodel give pace
To fitwtfs about bush ng face?
AlacR how should eBnOwf
One SITS with tboupbiful eyes
Down-dropped on htnsly woIk, smile
IJpop her lender mouth The While
Htr busy ta,k she pies.
Some bresseo thought tnohains her mlno
How RiCetDd Cetp her musings are,
Hieb asihe heiph OF itIn ost star,
And low as human kDd
She wears upon her breast
A mix y bite lily ; Cod bath gwen
To her fOrttBste OF bis heaven,
an tarest Of his rest.
She cen e from ut lie furnace flame
on sorrow. sItDg 60 help he weak,
Ard gifted with good words 70 speak
In lime Of grief or shame.
We look at her al smile,
And 10 our hearts We softly lay.
GOOD vofk Ike bers euouIef Away,
Beyond earth g little whiei
Beyond eaith's round OF sun and snow
Beyond the height Of topmosi star
And WI ere her harvest waits aiar
God knoweth, and We know
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-24

The Russian army balloon service
was lately tested by two Lieutenaniss
Of sappers, who, with a professional
aercnaut, accomplished journey OF
1C6 miles il five hours. a carer
pigeon service is being organized.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-24
Thong htfulnesS.
Chicago News.

DIR. Boynton tells us a story OF the
gifted but extremely modest author
ess, Mrs. Eva Katherine Clapp. Mrs,
Clapp had but recently gone to house
keeping, and lady friend who was
dining with her noticed that whenever
she wished to do any thing she stepped
to the, kitchen door and gave her or
ders in the form of h4ttering requests;
You ought to have call, " sald
the friend"
"What forl' asked Mrs. Clapp, in
nocently.
why for the servant, of course"
Il will get one, said the autheress,
quietly.
The next day she came home with q
handsome silver bell, and, taking, 1t
into the kitchen, handed it TO the de-
nestle, saying:
Annie, when you want 10 see me
for any thing just ring this bell.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-24

There are no saeuoAs, as we under
stand them, in Russia The only
places where liqu is sold in that
country are hotels and eating houses
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-24

Even Russian biouses are made OF
jersey We bling.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-13
A MOB IN MAINE.
ANTI-PRoHlBlTIoNlSTs GO ON THE
WAR-PATH.
OutTages on Prominent Temperance Adj
vocates- Their Houses Stoned and
Riddled with BuIlets-Miraculous
Escape of an Editor.

SPRiNGvALE, Me-, June 13.-The trouble
which has been brewing for some time over
the enforcement of the prohibitory law,
eliminated Thursday night in the organiza-
tion of mob, armed with revolvers and
stones, and attacks upon a number Of
houses in which windows were smashed
and other damage was done. The gang
went to the house Of William III frost,
about quarter of mile from the village,
and sent a shower of stones through the
windows, accompanied by volley OF bull
lets from revolvers, fired in reckless disre-
gard of the sleeping family within. Taking
the direct road to the village, the mob next
stopped at the house of John w. Frost, G
justice Of the peace Here shots were fired
into the house. where women, children
and old men were sleeping. Fortunately nc
one was hurt, but the windows were demol
ished. The hou of G. II. Roberts was next
visited Here also the windows were
| smashed and the furniture damaged. The
residence of Wilson Cheney, a prominent
clothing dealer, was also treated t.
| volley of stones. The final effor
of the mob was made agains
the Office of The Advocate. TIL,
editor of this paper sleeps in the office
rained into the room. The editors only
offense was the publication, without com
ment, of the liquor trials. By what seemed
a miracle he escaped injury. The raider
then disbanded. Much excitement wa
shown Friday morning, and the sheriff o
the county was telegraphed for.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-13
THE FIRST THREE MONTHS

Is there an impartial observer of politi>
cal events who will not admit that the
first three months of Cleveand's adminls>
tration has increased the confidence which
the country showed it felt in the demo~
cratic party by entrusting it with power
last November Numerous abuses that
had grown up under republican rule have
been corrected even in that short time and
the foundation laid for a thorough re-
formation of the government. All that
has been done has been accomplished in
the most quiet manner possible. without
noise or jar and without distracting the
attention of the people from their legiti-
mate business. Compared with the first
three months of Garfeld's administration
the result is greatly in favor of the demo
cracy. -Four years ago the whole country
was thrown into confusion and excite
ment by the war commenced by the adj
min!stration at Blaine's instigation upon
a powerful faction of its own party. The
whole energies of the administration were
employed not in conducting the public
business in proper manner, but in graft
flying the malice and building up the pol
itical fortunes of James q Blaine. Ha(
that person been elected Jast November
these scenes of injurious public excite
ment would no doubt have been repeated
The contrast between what is and wha
was, and what is an what might have beef
is very great and strikingly to the advan
tage OF the democratic party.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-13

NEW YORK, June Ii The next conven-
ton Of the American Bankers association
will be held at Chicago, Sept IS and "a,
1885 1t is desired to make the discussions
this year practical, the addresses brief, and
the resolutions fruitful of good results The
coming convention has already ELECTED
an extensive correspondence, and important
topics have been suggested. Prominent
upon the list are the silver problem and it's
labor aspects, with the remedial expedients,
and the fundamental conditions OF final ad-
justment or temporary solution, the causes
and control of panics, the safeguards
against losses by defalcations, the decline
in the rate of interest, with its
effects on the banks and business of the
country, the basis of bank circulation, the
recent and prospective fluctuations in the
metallic reserve of tbs treasury, the practi-
cal means of sound bankruptcy legislation,
the strength and weakness of the banking
system at present as compared with former
periods, the statistics and indications Of
clearing house movements throughout the
country.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-13
LOCUST A LA HAIR 1T MAN.
A Pennsylvania Doctor Takes Them Fried
I'm Butter.

A Pennsylvania Doctor Takes Them Fried
I'm Butter.
WEsTcHEsTER Pa. June l3 DR.. William
D. Hartman has astonished number Of his
friends by the announcement that he had
been living on locust5 for some days. He
dug up a number, had them fried in butter,
and called on some friends and invited them
to partake OF the lunch. The doctor re-
marked that it was necessary to eat half
dozen to get their flavor, and after that they
would be eaten with relish. He called
them baby locusts, and they were fresh
from the earth. They arc very abuni ant
in the surrounding groves, covering the
trees and fences SO thick that they can be
gathered in by the bushe
When the doctor was asked by reporter
how he prepared the locusts he said after
gathering them from the earth he took them
home, washed them through six courses OF
pure cold water until they were perfectly
clean, then they We're put into boil
ing water and boiled some twenty
minutes, after which the legs were
removed and the bodies placed
into pan, seasoned with pepper and salt
and cooked in butter until they became q
nice brown color or quite crisp They arr
very meaty, he continued, and have a de
licious taste. He gave them to number Of
friends to TASTE and they all pronounced
them excellent
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-13

am sixty seven years Old, and have lived in
this (HalD county all my life. Up to twenty
eight years ago was regarded as the strongest
man in the neghbOrhoOd-the most robust in
health In November 1856, | had a long and
serious spell of typhoid fever. II left me emacia
ted and a cripple in my right leg At times that
limb was swollen an enormous size, being twice
as large a. its natural condition, and infamed
and angry in appearance. From my knee down
small sores came, and at the ankle large ulcer
came, which discharged poisonous matter My
whole system became infected. The doctors
would patch me up for awhile, but the ulcers
would never heal The mercury and potash with
which they dosed me brought on rheumatism and
dyspepsia was an object of pity 10 all my
friends Some thought that the only hope TO save
life WAS amputatiOn. | continued 10 grow worse.
and for three years have not worn shoe Hope
had almost left me. Swifts Specific was sug-
gested, and commenced its use at once. From
the very first began TO feel better. have taken
thirty six BEETLES, and the shadows which had
darkened my life for twenty-eight years have all
been disspated. I he effect of the medicine has
been wonderful indeed. To-day am able To at
tend TO all my farming interests, and walk from
one to five miles per day. | am satisfied that the
disease is entirely broken up, and henceforth
am to be free from those terrible apprehensions
and suffering which formerly made my life miser
able. Swift's Specific has done more for me in
one year than all the drug store medicine pre-
sCribed by physicians did in twenty eight years
and most Cheerfully bear this testimony Of it.
merits. WIN X. REED.
Hall County. Ga. Feb. Is. 1885.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-13
Official Notes.

WASHINGTON CITY, jane 49, Inquiry
made in official circles respecting the office
of first assistant secretary of the interior,
whicn under authority of congress will be
created on july next, resulted in strength
ening the opinion that ex-Congress-
gresham Post, of Pennsylvania, will
DO selected for the place now
occupied by Assistant Secretary Mul
drow, and that Mr. Muldrow will be made
first assistant.
The president has appointed Samuel L.
Graham to be United States marshal for the
western district of Virginia
The postmaster general appointed the fol
lowing named postmasters in Pennsylvania
George H. Cline, at Quakertown; William
Laurer. at East Texas, and Owen Schadt, al
Rushvilla
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-13
Fetch on Your Heavy Sea.

WASHINGTON CITY, June l3- Secretary
Whitney has sent a telegram to Capt Bel
KNAPP, the president of the board appointed
to witness the trial trips of the despatch
boat Dolphin, stating that Thursdays
trip was entirely vslueless, not
having been made in. accordance with his
orders in a heavy sea. Another trial trip at
sea will be arranged for next week unless
Capt Belknap is entirely satisfied with the
tests of the vessel thus far made.
The Dolphin made her final trial-trIr
Thursday, that of steaming six hours at sea.
According to the log her average speed wa:
l2A knots per hour, but according to the
distance charts it was Is e-l0 knots.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-13
ALESSON IN ETIQUETTE,
Which Some City Negroes Tried TO Teach
Their Country Cousins.

Which Some City Negroes Tried TO Teach
Their Country Cousins.
New York, June ia special to The
Tribune from Columbia, s. c., says: News
has been received here of bloody riot,
which occurred Sunday at a negro camp
meeting, at Mount Zion church, about
nine miles from Yorkville. The coun-
try darkes had promulgated the
idea that they did not desire the
presence of the town negroes at their meet
ing and in turn the town negroes had
boasted that they would go down to Zion
and teach the rural darkies a lesson in
etiquette Besides the knives and razors
and cheap pistols which go to make up a
negro's defensive outfit, each party
was well supplied with whisky.
Scarcely had the first town contin-
gent arrived when hostilities began.
The conflict was desperate and bloody,
and ragged for over an hour, at the end of
which time the country darkies were in pos
session of the field and the town darkies in
full retreat. The casualties, as near as can
be learned, were one man killed, two fatally
wounded, and at least twenty more or less
seriously injured. A general stampede fol-
lowed the first clash. The meeting closed
without the formality Of the doxology, and
frightened negroes Of both sexes and all ages
and conditions scampered off in a every
direction.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-13

NEWMAN, Ga, June S-News of a ter.
rible tragedy comes from Coweta county.
Henry Attaway, son of Whetten Attaway,
was in a field at Campbell with a force OF
negro laborers, directing them in their
work. One of the negroes, upon being
ordered about by Attaway, grew violent
and rushed upon his employer with an open
knife. The father of the Infatuated negro
caught Attaway and held him while his son
gave him three stabS. With the strength
of desperation young Attaway broke loose,
and, sinking the knife in his assailant':
temple, killed him instantly. Attaway died
shortly after
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-13

ment of exports of domestic breadstuffs
which was issued Friday by the bureau OF
statistics shows that during May,
1885, the total values aggregated
Sll, S46 $50, against sll, 46S SIS during May,
1884, and that the total values of the ex
ports of breadstuffs for the five months
ended May 81, 1885, aggregated s67, 5s4 2OS,
against $50, $40, 241 during the same period
in 1884
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-13

YOUNGSTOWN, Oaio, June 1B-Miss
Melicia Merriman was engaged to John K
Mourey, and they were to be married in
autumn They intended to attend a picnic
together Wednesday, but at the last moment
the young lady was detained She suggested
that her younger sister, Mollie, go with
Mourey in her place. This was done, but
the couple did not return Thursday. Miss
Merriman has just received a telegram from
her sister announcing that she and Mourey
had gone 20 PIttsburg, where they were
married, and that they would return in a
few DAYS
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-13
CARD.

To all who are suffering from the errors
and indiscretions of youth, nervous weak
ness, early decay, loss of manhood, &c.
l will send a recipe that viii cure you
FREE OF CHARGE. This great remedy
was discovered by missionary in Soutl
America. Send self addressed envelope
to the REV. JOSEPH T. INMAN, Station ID
New York CITY.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-13
From the Dissecting Room.

Having taken Swift's Specific for blood poison
contracted at a medical college at a dissection.
while / was a medical student, I am grateful IN
say that it gave me speedy and thorough cure
after my parents had spent hundreds Of dollars
for treatment My arm was swollen to twice it,
natural size, and as nothing helped me was de
spairing of ever being cured. But hearing of the
s. S. S, bought a bottle little thinking | would
derive any benefit from it. began iaking il regu-
larry. and soon the swelling began TO go down and
the arm ceased to pain me. / continued its use,
and after taking eight bottles was thoroughly
cured AUGUSTUS wendell, Newark, n. j.
Send for book on Blood and Skin diseases. 1t is
mailed free THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co,
Drawer 3. Atlanta, Ga
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-13

=. 49, w.
stigmatizing the first assistant postmaster
general as a driveling old idiot there Mr..
Hay was seen to vince psrceptibiyl and
myself as superanuated old ass with one
foot in the grave. Have you got all that
DOWN.
"Yesn
"Tlsen I'll sign it."
After having affixed his signature the gov
ernor asked: snow what are you going to
do about it.'
"Pll have him bounced" replied the dig
nified Hay, "before you get out OF the build.
ing"
The governor walked off in triumph.