davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-04-19

There is but little change to note in Flour the
demand is fair and well distributed as to grade.
Grain receipts arc light, with good milling de-
mand. Primo Wheat is active and Iirm, readily
selling at full figures. Corn is strong and higher.
Rye and Oats steady. Eggs are wanted. Other
produce is without quotablc change.
BALTIMORE. April 80 Vas consolidated Sc
past duo coupons 64k,: new 3s CO. lO-4Os
Al bid to day. Cotton quiet midding 9Fs.
Flour-markct dull: Howard street and West
crn super s., Goa; 10: do cxtraS3 25a$i co. do.
family 81 l5a5 90: City Mills super - T3a3 %
do extra So 5na4 II do. Rio brands 81 62ai 81
Patapsco family 81 to- do. supcrlatvc patent
s. 10. Wheat Southern higher, with light re-
ceipts Wcstarn finer and quiet: Southern red
91a91 do amber 96a9S: No > Western winter
red spot 81 l,s9l.i May 92'.a92a. Aug 9Okls
90E. Corn -Southrrn higher and quiet: West.
crn higher and dull: Southern white 1Ia11 l.:
do yellow i1a4T u: Western mixed spot i6tia
4GIs; May aud. June 45:,al6; steamer LA
Ar. Oats steady and quiet :; Sonthcrn
39a43: Western white - inai3: do mixed 3Sa:}9;
Pcnna IOai3. Rye steady at 7oaT2. Hay steady;
prime TO choice Western SlAa1G 81 Provisions
quiet and about steady. Mess Pork $lDall.
Bulk meats shoulders and clear rib sides packed
4iha6t,. shoulders jins'il. clear rib
sides G;t, hams lolnal1'4 Lard refined ia.
Butter lower Western packed l2aiS; creamery
25a2S. Eggs stoady At IL. Coffee steady and
quiet Rio carEoes ordinary Ia fair ot,sS'-,
Sugar steady: soft Gh Whisky steady and
quiet at 81 1JA1 20.
CHICAGO. April l9.-Thc following are the
quotations for May delivery: Wheat - l1-l6;
Corn 377775 Oats 29T, Pork - 20: Lard S. SOa
) 32l,.
NEW YORK. April 10 Stocks dull and steady.
Money easy at ! i9a2 Cotton steady; nplands
81, Orleans 97-lG; futures very dull. Flour
firm and qniet. Wheat lower Corn higher Pork
firm ut 50 5OalO Lard firm at 2OaSii 22k.
MARINE NEWS.
PORT OF ALEXANDRIA, APRIL -. 1856.
SIM rose..............5 10 Sur s"ta.... ... Gal
ARRIVED.
Str Norfolk, Philadelphia. 10 + A Reed & Go.
Str John Gibson. New York, to + A Reed & Co.
PASSED Ur.
Schrs W Cnnncrs and Brave lumber. for George.
town, and John Mc(innis, coal for Washington
Schr Jennie IIuddclI Norfolk. by Vim A
Smoot & Co.
Schr BrockIcy. Mattaw"man, by Vim Smoot
& Co to losd lumber for Philadelphia.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-04-19
ADVICE 70 MOTHERS.

MRS. WINsI0w's SOOTHING SYRUP, for chill
drcn taething, is the prescription of one of tho
best female nurses and physicians in the United
States, and bus been used for forty years with
never FILLING success by millions of mothers for
their children. During tho process of teething
its value is incalculahle 1t relieves the child
from pain, cnros dysentery and diarrhua, gripping
in The bowels, Ard wnd-colic. BY giving health
to the child it rasfs the mother Price 20 cents q
bottle, mY5-1ylM.WHS
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-04-19
Brutal Assault.

CHICAGO, April 19.-Henry Smith, 80
years old, and one Of the men employed in
Maxwells' Bros. box factory during the re
cent strike, was the victim of brutal as
sault yesterday forenoon. The trouble
started on Saturday night in boarding
house where Smith and a large number of
workmen live. A discussion arose about
labor unions, Smith coutending that it was
every mans right to belong TO a union or
not, as it pleased him. While Smith was
standing in front Of the boarding house Sun
day he was attacked by three Of the men
with whom he had argued the night before.
He was knocked down and kicked most un
mercifully about the head and abdomen
His face was converted into mere mass of
bloody pulp by the heavy boots ofhis assail-
ants, and his body bruised black and blue
by the same means. After firing themselves
out in their inhuman work the three men
fled, leaving Smith insensible and apparent
ly dead on the ground. A patrol wagon
was called, in which Smith was taken to
the county hospital. The physicians say
the chances for his recovery are slight. Two
Of his assalants have been arrested.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-04-19
Counterfciters' Rendezvous.

Fort KEoGH, Mont, April 1.-the
house in Butte City where the late whole
sale counterfeiting of United States coins
was carried on, has been discovered. Un-
derneath the house was a cellar where the
work Was done, and in the cellar has been
found an assayer's furnace for melting
metal, plaster.o Paris molds for making
coins, aud an electroplating battery for COW
ering the counterfeit gold coins with film
of gold. The only entrance to the cellar
was through the floor above, by moving q
loose board, over which the cook stove
STOOL Tho nue OF the furnace beneath
was connected with the stove pipe, and they
could always fire up without suspicion.
There were dies for making every kind of
coin from nickel TO $50 gold piece. The
silver coins were excellent counterfets,
having the correct weight, the right jingle
being secured by proportion OF melted
pla-S
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-04-19
Suicide.

CINCINNATI, O., April l9-Mrt Charles
Cole staggered in TO her mothers house in
Covington, KY, last night and fell on the
floor overcome by poison which she had
taken just before entering the house. She
died in few minutes. She had been mar
ried bus TWO months. Her mother says
that she YVES cruelty treated by her husband
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-04-19
MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL

NEW YORK. April 19-There was an irregular
opening to the stock market this morning but
the changes from Saturday were only for !, to =
per cent During the hour the market has been
extremely dull for nearly everything. Prices
have been firm throughout, but the tluctuatir..,
wcrc within very narrow limits, and show adj
vanccs generally of Il to Il per cent.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-04-19

"Thou troublest me-I am not in the
vein," he said when invited to make
Fourth Of July grafton. But he bought
bottle Of Salvation Oil, and the National
Holiday heard from the Eagle.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-04-19
WASHINGTON, d. c., April 10, 1856.

WASHINGTON, d. G., April 10, 1886.
SENATE.
The chair laid before the Senate mem.
orial consisting of resolutions of the United
Labor League of America rendering the
thanks Of that organization to Hon. w. 4.
Gladstone for his Irish home rule measure,
and urging the United States Senate to pass
q vote of thanks to him. Referred.
Mr.. Vest, from the Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds, reported favorably
the bill to provide for the erection of fire
proof hall ofrecords in Washington. On bis
motion the bill was passed.
The Senate ut 1910 p. m. went into exec
utive session.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-04-19
DIED.

In Baltimore, Nd, on Saturday afternoon, April
10, WILLIAM DEAN for many years resident
of Alexandria, aged 50 years, 5 months and 10
DAYS.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-04-19

EAsTER DYES.
Package No. l contains Pink, Blue, Green and
Yellow.
Package No. 2 contains Orange. Red, Violet and
Dark Green Prizes 10 cents each.
Each pai kaee contains sufficient to dye at least
ST dog III eggs Can be sent By mail. =
a.19 {. s. LEADBEATER & BRO.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-04-19
HOUSE.

Under the call of States number of bills
and resolutions were introduced and refer
red.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-04-19
@S(l@g:z % 1
CONGRESSIONAL.

BY A SSOCIATED PRESS
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-04-19
EASTER DYES.

al,10-ts
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-03-18

eel catches the large and 5 the small
gems. | saw Il diamond embedded in
| the sand when | first arrived and
pushed it out with my cane. In the
rough it weighed 3 9-S2 carats, and pol
ished carat and half OF course 1
had topay well for it to the owner of
| the field. There is no doubt in my mind
that that country is still rich in undis-
covered diamond fields. Why, in the
| Province of Goaz there are fields
that l was told had not been worked
| for sixty years. The natives outside
of the cities absolutely know nothing
about the rich diamonds that can be
found in certain localities. The circle
of their lives is very small. and they
have no enterprise or push. How IS
the diamond trade conducted? Why,
it is done just like any other business,
pretty much; the bankers and mer-
chants paying sO.much for diamonds in
the rough or polished. At the mines
diamonds are always quoted in the
rough. They do not say so many carats,
but SO many actavios, which is about
III carats, less a thirty-second of a
carat. The export duty on them is one
per cent, and the officials are vigilant
and always collect it. But that export
duty is small compared to our import
tax of ten per cent. Every thing in
Rio JaneirO is done by system of red
tapeism circumlocution. A foreigner
Immediately upon his arrival, has to
report himself to the chief of police and
get a passport to go about. In leav-
ing, another passport has to be OBJ
tanned. l met the Emperor several
times at his palace and participated in
jubilee demonstration at the time he.
departed for Europe. Of course, like
all autOcratic governments, there is a
great deal of buncOmbe and flashy mil
itary shows. In buying ticket to
leave the country, it is necessary to
give the Government thirty days no.
tice of your intention to purchase pass
age and sail"
"What is the difference between a
Brazilian and an African diamond?'
THE specific gravity of a Brazilian
diamond is greater than that of an Afri-
can diamond, and hence the former
will weigh more. The Brazilian is al
so much more brittle and difficult to
cut. They have more brilliancy and
more specks in them than African
gems, and as brilliancy is ono of the
requisites to create value, the Brazil
ians are generally the best. The shades
of most of the Brazilian stones are blue
and steel color. The Africans are gem
orally white and yellow. More than
one-half of the diamonds sold come
from Africa. In 1869 diamonds reached
the highwater mark in prices, and have
declined in value from fifty to one hun
dred per cent. This fact is due, of
course, to the extensive fields discOv-
cred in the Transvaal country. Europe
of course, receives by far the greater
of diamonds. ~ Y. Mil and
EIpresS
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-03-18
Pressure of the Sea.

Il = often asked, when an ocean
going vessel has been lost at sea, and
it is supposed she has foundered, why
none of her timbers rise to the surface
again and float, as submerged wood
will nearer shore. The explanation is
that if the vessel has been sunk in deep
water the pressure to which it is SUBJ
jected will be SO great that certain
quantity o. water will be forced into
the pores of the wood, and thus render
it so heavy that even when detached
from the ship piece of the timber
could not float. 1t is because of this
constantly and rapidly increasing press
ure, too, that diver can not descend
to any very great distance below the
surface. Fishes have, however, been
caught at a depth at which they must
have borne pressure of no less than
eighty tons to each square foot of their
Christian at Work.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-03-18
BUDDHIST MORALS.
How the Believers In Buddhism Aim to
Acquire Merit.

The leading principle of Buddhism is
to acquire merit. There are a good
many ways of doing it, some of which
are good and others not quite so good.
You may lay upa store by giving album
dant aims to the yellOw-robed monks
as they come round in the morning
with their aims bowl held before them
in their clasped hands, and YOU may
add to it by flinging stones at the un-
regenerate who walk about with their
boots on in places where they ought
not to. You may build a rest-house.
or monastery. or a pagoda, or have
a bell or an image cast, and enter
goodly sum on the credit side toward
another existence, and you do not lose
any of this if by chance your plan
should have been too ambitious, and
you find that you are unable to pay
for the material you employed on the
task. The purveyors should be con-
tent with the share they have had in a
good work. To take any life at all,
even that of scorpion that has bitten
you, or any smaller and less dangerous
creature that may have done the same
thing, would be a grievous sin. The
Manichaans say that the souls of farm
ers become herbs, so that they may be
cut down and threshed out. The baker
becomes bread, and is eaten. The
killer of fowl becomes fowl, and of
a rat, rat. The Buddhists 60 nearly
as far. Fishermen are represented as
dangling by the tongue on tish-hook,
while demons draw him up and drop
him down again into lake of Boiling
pitch; but though you may not catch
fish or kill animals for yourself, tn ere
is no dement, in buying the flesh of
them, if a fore-doomed hunter or fish
erman, or any of those who have not
become Buddhists, should offer it to you.
There is no sin in setting snares to
each and kill tigers or cheetahs that
may come after your oxen or fowls;
you even gain small merit by doing so.
You rnust not tell lies, on pain of tor
ture in one of the eight bells; but if |
you are brought up. whether you like
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-03-18

test, sweetest thing in the world: I
long to deck you with Jewels and line
raiment, just to pay you back for all
your bravery. Oh, Polly, 1 love you!
Therer'
Miss Miverton and Mr.. Renno1ys
occupied back seats; they both
looked engrossed in each other. What
Polly said l don't know-somethin 0
that was satisfactory to the driver
Then she looked up conscience.
stricken.
"Oh, Jerry!" she cried, sit isn't I
you love; it's my bonnet, and you have
no idea what l sacrificed to get it. I
spent all my allowance. l was the
most extravagant creature; got angry
with all my sisters, even mamma and
papa. Now you have loved me and
told me so just because of it, will take
it off, she cried, in a passion. twill
never wear It again." She seized the
structure with both hands-it fell into
her lap.
Oh, careless, absent-minded Polly!
Where were your senses! Stupidity she
gazed one moment at the dreadful OBJ
ject. 1t was her wretched, dilapidated,
ragged, withered, limp, disreputable
old hat, and her beautiful one of lace
and roses was lying in the bandbox on
her own bed.
The archdeaconess didn't like the
match at all, of course, but she was
heard to congratulate herself that
Jerry's wife was an economical little
thing, and wouldn't throw away his
money.
You remember that horrid little
straw bonnet she wore to the polo
match. don't you, Sue?' she asked of
Miss Miverton, who was Miss Miverton
still.
Miss Miverton remembered.
'.One thing will never do, Jerry"
said Polly to her husband during the
honeymoon.
''What?" he asked, with insatiate
curiosity of q weak-minded bride
groom.
Il will never have an allowance
again" And she never did.-Harper's
Bdzdr.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-03-18
BRAZILIAN DIAMONDS.

Primitive Methods by Which They Are
Gathered from the Eeds of Streams
Mr.. H. N. Collier, who has visited
the diamond fields of Brazil and made
a study of the dazzling gems, gave a
reporter some interesting facts. Mr..
Collier first visited the diamond fields
of Brazil in 1871. He landed at Rio
Janeiro and obtained a permit from
the Emperor Dom Pedro to go into the
interior. The fields were six hundred
miles from Rio, and could be reached
partly by wagon routes. At that time
the fields were worked by slaves in the
most primitive way. The total cost Of
all the machinery used in surface work
at the fields was not more than one hum
dred dollars.
when sufficient quantity of dirt
has been gathered from the beds of
shallow streams the washing begins.
The washers that catch the diamonds
and let the dirt and water pass through
are nothing but large and small sleeves.
They look like these diagrams:
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-03-18
POLLY'S ALLOWANCE.
The Trouble and the Good It
Brought Her.

The ladies of st. Philips sewing cir
Gle always spoke of Mrs. Fuller's six
daughters as if they were an extrava-
gance in which she had wilfully in
dulged, and by good management could
have avoided. IF they had only been
boys. now!' Mrs. Archdeaconess (as
Polly Fuller called her behind her au-
gust back) Neyins would say. '.But
six goodfor-nothing useless girlsr'
Perhaps the reason Mrs. Nevins object
ed so strenuously to Mrs. Fuiler's pref
crencc for the female sex was that she
had had bows: that is. she had had one
boy, college-bred. European-toured,
with fortune in his own right. to say
nothing of his prospective hejrship
through Jeremiah Nevins, Sen, the
richest vestry-man in St Philip
Church. And this adored, petted and
only boy was very fond of the Fuller
girls. and so attentive to Polly, the
prettiest of the lot, that Blooming ale
was agOg with excitement on the sub
lect. So she would repeat: eff they
had only been bovs-stalwart hard
WI UoNS. buj SIX glElS.
Now it was hard to believe-for the
archdeaconcss was tall. grizzled. bony
and she might have left Jericho at any
hour. ''for her beard was fully grown"
that she too must at one time have
been girl, as Mr.. Bardeu was once a
single gentleman; but this fact did not
soften her toward her sex. If Jerry
But we are anticipating.
There certainly were six Fullers-
Margaret. Jen, Julie, Polly. Lillian.
Rosie. They lived in little cramped-
up rectory that belonged TO st. Philips,
poor little church on the outskirts of
Bloomingdale. Their papa was dear,
wrong-headed. clever. impractical
clergyman. Their mamma was only
shade better, as she proved by hav-
ing SIX girls instead of boys. Her
light bread was apt to refuse to rise,
and her preserves had way of work
ing after the second week.
If the archdeaconess could have
broken off the engagement between
Rev. Alphonso Fuller and Susan his
wife, which had existed for twentv-sev-
en- years. and sent the six offending
maidens back to chaos or to paradise.
and married them both to more suita-
bic and more practical people, l sup
pose it would have been better. Prov
ldence is poor manager, compared to
Mrs. Jeremiah Nevins; but she couldn't.
So st. Philips had to put up with a
thousand dollar year rector, his shift
less wife, and his half a dozen daugh-
ters.
The Fullers were generally absurdlv,
provokinsly happy. AS long as one
has no objects of bigotry and virtue"
1t makes little difference if the cat does
jump on the parlor table. If the carpet
is worn to rags, the tears of the maid
of-all-work may be dried with the re-
Election that cinder or two dropped
from the ash pan will do little dam
age.
But about six months previous it was
borne on the minds of these six females
that if they had an allowance they would
all present much better appearances,
and spend less money in doing it. And
when the six Fuller girls made up their
minds, there was an end of it. They
interviewed their mamma, they bullied
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-03-18

it or not, to bear witness against m6a
being tried on q capital charge. you
are held guiltless if you diverge from
the truth IN order to save the life of .
fellow-creature, especially if that man
be co-religionist. 1t may be conclud-
ed that the more pious Buddhist is,
the more capable he is of demonstrate
ing that any religious matter is entire
ly right or entirely wrong, and that
whichever way he acts he is sure Of
deriving merit from it.-Harper's
Weeklu.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-03-18

Pennsylvania, in the Shoe amt
Leather annual, holds the lead in the
number of tanners and leather dealers
within her borders. There are seven
hundred and twenty-five, slight addi-
ton since last year. In the cities the
roll OF the trade shows some increase.
especially among makers of light leath-
er. Ten pages are filled with the names
OF the principal retail shoe dealers of
this State.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-03-18
"A countryman was standing q

"A cOuntryman was standing O.
one of the wharfs the other day watch
ing the process of hosting an anchor
of ship which was getting under
weigh, and, as he saw the huge iron
rise from the water to the "Yo, heave,
OH" of the sailors, he remarked: You
may heave high and heave low, but
you will never get that great crooked
thing through that little hole; l know
better. Philadelphia Press.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-03-18
THOUGHT AND SORROW"

win sisters deem We.
Pale Thought and deep Sorrow;
Each her lineaments seem ye
From the other to borrow.
The same grave expression
Ye depict on mans face,
And like plaintive depression
On his features ye trace.
On woman's pale browye
Both carve the same Ines,
On mans forehead plOw We
Like care-wrinkled signs.
With the same sad still light
Each eye do We kindle;
Ye make il more Dr ght
Or its fierincSS dwindle.
In the same deep-drawn way
Sigh alike Thought and Sorrow
He who thinks deep to-day.
He who bodies ill to morrOw.
The lips curve sedate
Ye linn in like fashion,
To mark thoughts that are great
Or Griefs mourntul passion.
To each other ye lend.
In men younger or older,
The same earth-ward bend
Of mead and of shoulder.
Mems slow heavy gait
In like manner We share;
Ye both crawl ut the rate
OF men burieued with care.
Words in common. as "pcDsive,"
Ye partake. Thought and SorrG
Each. her terms apprehenSIve
From the otherye borrow.
If diff renee between We
Perchance there might be,
It's the difference mainly
That is "of degree"
If pale Thought wear an air
Of somter ungladness,
Sorrow hath, "a her share,
More positive sadness.
Or urge we more just
Thought doth doing imply
While Sorrow part must
In mute suffering lie!
Yet are suffering and doing
In true issue the same;
Each is test of mans going,
Each his yigor may tame.
II the rapt air of Thought
We call fifty abstraction"
While Sorrows onslaught
We say ends in distraction"
Both terms but declare.
BY cOequal concession.
Thought and Sorrow both share
Alike lost self-posse s,ion.
BY your kinShip. what mean We,
Pale Thought and lean Sorrow
That your features are seen. ye
Share Likeness so thorough!
Docs it mean that deep Thought
Is 10y Sorrow attended.
And that Sorrow is taught
By deep Thought to be friended?
Does il mean that while life
Needs must grief find or borrow.
Mems Thought is ave rife
With objects OF Sorrow?
Twin sisters ] deem We,
Pale Thought and lean Sorrow:
Each her lincaTen seem We
From the Other to borrow.
john Dlre3i, IN the 1tienGuna
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-03-18

Diamonds in plenty, a geologist
who has studied the subject says, will
yet be found in Georgia, in belt that
he locates between Atlanta and the
Savannah river, distance of about one
hundred miles by from ten to thirty in
breadth.