davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-02-24

wheeling.
The market this week was quite slow,
Nessrs. Hudson a BsyhG furnish the to'-
loving quotations
Csttle-l,000 to LOO lbs stock 3!@4c
per ID; 800 to goo lts. S93tc per h.;
leo to 800 lbs. S@5fc per ID.
Hogs--Msrket active; S3S4tc per ID.
Lambs-Good al 3(94tc per ID.
Cslves--&S A096 90 per head.
Shesp-S@3ic per ID,
Chicago.
CEroAGo, February 23.-The Droser
journal reports: Csttle-Receipts 5000
head; shipments 1000 hesd; msrke
strong shipping steers 50 GOES so
stockers and feeders & S0@4 35; COWS
, bulls and mixed 81 5O@3 10; bulk 81 q
@3 %; through Texans s. 1904 Is.
Hogs-Receipts IS, 900 head; shipment
! 5000 head; market slow and l5c lower
Z rough and mixed s. 1904 20; psckin
and shipping u 20@4 so; light s. 7U@
! 4 IS; skips 81 s0@S 10.
shsep-Recsipts 5000 head shipment
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-02-24

We the undersigned Banks and Bankers Will pay
all Prizes drawn In The Louisiana State Lotteries
which may be presented at our counters.
j. Ii. OGLESBY, Pres Louisiana NATL Bank.
8. Ii. KENNEDY, Pres. State National Bank.
A. BALDWIN, Pres. New Orleans NATL Bank
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-02-24

uspGL AniyO
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-02-24

Views Upon Relations or Tarln to
shook Making, by "Trus West Virgin
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-02-24

Make P. 0. Money Orders payable and ad.
dress Registered Letters to
NEW ORLRANa NATIONAL BANK.
New Orleans. La
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-02-24

Express (Chlcago and COLI
Express Chicago and Coll
Express Chicago and Col,
Zanesyille Accom..............
Zanesyille Acoom..............
Bsllaire and st. Clairs
VILE Ry.
tB. 10. DepOtl
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-09-27

Aunt Betsy Cole had q reputation
throughout all this region as fortune
teller, says the Atlanta Constitution.
The negroes and a great many white
people stood in great awe of her, and
by some she was regarded as a conjuror
"a person able to work spells and
charms. There was time when her
art of fortune-telling, for it was clearly
an art, was greatly in demand among
the schoolgirls. Aunt Betsy's tools of
trade, so to speak, consisted of beauti-
full quartz stone, the popularity of
which was its changing colors, pack
OF cards, china cup, and an unsur-
passed knowledge of human nature.
She sometimes inspected her visitors
palms, but more frequently she depend
ed on her wonderful stone, her cards,
and her china cup.
L have seen her stone change color
in her hands, but whether this was
produced by the play of the light on its
sides, or by some occult quality, l have
never been able to say. The changing
color appeared TO be perfectly natural
thing to the small chap that watched
it, but it has puzzled him no little in
after life. On one occasion bevy of
school girls called on Aunt Betsy They
were a laughing, chattering set, and
scarcely gave the old woman time to
make one prediction before they asked
for another. She told the fortunes of
ali, with one xception-and that ex-
ception the most beautiful and the rich
est girl of the company.
"Ah, honey" she said, in response
to repeated protests, your fortunes
made"
Within the course of very few
months the young girl was dead.
On one occasion a Jones county gen.
tleman went to Eatonton to consult
Aunt Betsy in regard to the disappear.
ance of gold watch. The story, as
related by himself, is to the effect that
he met with rather cool reception-so
cool, indeed that he refrained from
making himself known. But he dis
covered that he was pretty well known
after all, for Aunt Betsy, running her
cards in desultory fashion, remark
ed
''You are hunting for what is not
lost"
SWELL" said the gentleman, what
am / hunting torP"
1T shines and itswings in the air."
My watch is missing" responded
the gentleman, land l will give you
SO to tell me where it is to be found"
at will be found" replied Aunt Bet
sy, dryly, fright where you left it."
81 Immediately remembered, said
the gentleman, relating the incident in
the presence of the writer, that / had
hungmy watch on tree in my orchard.
| planked down 500 instead of So and
went home and found the old affair
swinging on a limb.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-09-27
A Swedish Breakfast.

A newspaper correspondent who has
been travelling in Sweden writes:
In crossing the gulf of Finland the
water was rough for a few hours, and
the pitching motion of the vessel dis
turbed the equilibrium of all sensitive
interiors. In the morning some of the
friskiest of our company of the night
before did not report for coffee at 1880
o'clock. | can only say that they
missed some coffee that was wonder
fully good. 1t was served with an as
sortment of bread, sweet biscuit and
cakes. This light refreshment kept one
alive till 8, when those who could pull
themselves together dove into the little
dining saloon and had their regular
breakfast.
The most important part of this
meal-Swedish fashions the trim
mings' You are expected to fill your
self at a sideboard before you sit at
table. l counted twenty different dishes
set out rs appetizers. Among them
were Holsters, eels in jelly, head cheese,
slices of sausages, picked tongue, pot
ted meats of nature unknown, cabbage,
beets, onions sliced with vinegar, bread,
butter and cheese. The true Swede
when in good form attacks all these
viands seriatim and makes hole in
them. But before he does anything he
fills large wine-glass from the color
less contents of one or more decanters,
which tower above all other things in
great castor. Those hold gin or kum-
mel or other fiery spirits. After ten or
fifteen minutes thus spent on his feet he
is ready to appreciate the beefsteak and
potatoes and the ham omelette and
other suhstantials which are rendered to
him when he sits down.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-09-27
Where Burns Was Born.

Five miles from Kilmarnock is irvine,
where Burns made his unfortunate start
as fax-dresser, and, worse still, con-
tracted, in the opinions of his biogra-
piers, very many bad habits; and nine
miles in another direction is Ayr, where
IN the summertime omnibuses run
regularly to and from the station to the
cottage in which the poet was born, the
monument erected to his memory, the
auld kirk of Alloway, and the auld brig
O. Doon-the three latter being situated
all close to each other. and about a
mile to the south of the former The
struggling High street reached, one
soon finds the inn on the right in which
Tam and his dear companion Scuter
Johnny are said to have got ''fou to-
gether." An oil painting above the
door represents the hero reluctantly
bidding good-by to his companions of
the evening in
That hour, o. nights black arch the key.
stane,
That dreary hour he mounts his beast in;
and gives fair idea, in a rude country
way, of the start for that memorable
ride. The house is plain, substantial
Scotch building two stories high, with
a matched roof, and remains very much
what it must have been when, as the
story goes, Dugald Graeme of Shanter
and John Davidson, the drunken shoe
maker, the originals of the poem, used
to 60 there on market days. The room
upstairs in which Tam was GLORIOUS"
is still pointed out; but the chairs of the
Carrick farmer and Souter johnny
have been recently purchased by the
Ayr Burns club, and placed in the
memorial room in the cottage where he
was born at Alloway. The original
drinking cup, or ''caup." of the inn, is
now the property of some private in
dividual; but the present landlord shows
a fac-simile in well-executed piece of
dove-tailed woodwork, bound together
with a silver hoop, which is filled and
emptied by enthusiasts, as was the old
one. -Macm'ttan'S Magazine.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-09-27
Gen. sherman and His Son.

Zone Who Loves Both" writes this TO
the Washington Post: | ask space to
correct some impressions likely 10 be
given by some correspondents regard
ing Mr.. Thomas Sherman and his dis
tinguished father and his devoted
mother, who is one among the best of
Gods good women. 1t is true that
when Mr.. Thomas Sherman announced
his intention to renounce the world the
General felt kcenly and spoke bitterly,
but his words were the outgrowth of
wounded pride and not of altered affec-
ton, and the father and his son parted
not in anger, but in sorrow For
several years there was not intercourse
between the two, but with his mother
and sister there was constant and loving
correspondence.
When Mr.. Thomas Sherman returned
from Stonyhurst he met his father in the
Generals home, then situated on Fiji
teenth street. The family having left
town few days before, the young
scholastic came to the city, thinking ii
best that the two who loved each other
best of all the world should be alone.
1t was q most happy visit. and, though
the brave old General might not have
been as vain of the modest habit of the
young scholastic as he would undoubt-
eddy have been rroud of the epaulets,
sword, and buttons which mark the
uniform of soldier, he never so ex-
pressed himself, and took honest salts
faction and keen delight in showing his
son among old friends and army asso-
ciates. After three days thus happily
spent the two went together to Oak
land, where Mrs. Sherman had cot
tage, and where the entire family wait
ed to welcome their father and brother.
1t is said the few days there were I'M
clouded. The father and his son were
inseparable and perfect felicity marked
every moment of the time.
1t seems a pity that correspondents do
not better inform themselves before
wounding others by publishing false
statements of purely private affairs, and
shame that of all others this writer
should have selected as subject the
brave soldier and the true woman, his
wife,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-09-27

Simpkins came home the other night
from long series of billiard games at
the club, which had been interspersed
with frequent visits to the buffet in
pursuit of inspiration and goodfellow-
ship. When he arrived at home the
billiards were still uppermost in his
mind, but the buffet was uppermost in
his head and his movements. He open
ed the window very cautiously, intend
ing to make stealthy, but bold flank
movement for the bed. He stumbled
on the threshold, however, reeled
against the doorpost, and fell fat in
the middle of the room. His wife Jump
ed with n start, aroused by the noise.
"Why, john" she exclaimed, "what is
the matter?" rs all right, my dear; s
all right" said he; Il carromed on the
door jamb for the bed, but / played it
too full. '-B0ston Record
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-09-27
What They Were.

A hostess who can not preserve her
serenity upon even the most crucial oc-
casions is lacking in one of the most
essential qualities as an entertainer
The thoughtlcss spilling of her best
wine, the soiling of her whitest table
cloth, nay, even the smashing of a
whole trayful of her best old family
china, should not cause one muscle Of
her countenance to change.
On the other hand. an affected iono-
rance respecting the contents of the
days bill of fare is at times almost as
the opposite extreme. l was myself
present at dinner party at which one
of the untutored stable-helpers had been
brought in, on an emergency. to assist.
What are these John?" inquired the
languid hostess, as John tremblingly
thrust forward dish of tartlets lust I'M
der her right elbow. Il don't know.
ma am, really" he replied, "but l think
they're tuppence apiece: - Chambers
Journal
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-09-27
The Uproar of Retreat.

Somebody's guns Numbered away for
few short minutes and then came
the titful rattle of musketry, and before
| could get into the saddle there arose
the ceaseless roar of the terrible storm,
says 0. o. Howard in the Century, de-
scribing Stonewall Jackson's flank at
tack on characteristics
sent out my chief staff, Col. Asmus-
sen, who was the first officer to mount
THE firing is in front of Devens; 90
and see if all is in order on the extreme
right = He instantly turned and gallop
ed away. | mounted and set off
for prominent place in the rear of
Schurz's line, so as to change front to
the northwest of every brigade southeast
of the point of attack, if the attack ex-
tended beyond Deven's right flank; for
it was OWNED at once that the enemy
was now west of him. | could see
numbers of our men-not the few stray
glers that always fly like the chaff at
the first breeze, but scores of them
rushing into the opening, some with
arms and some without, running OF
falling before they got behind the cover
of Devens' reserves, and before Gen.
Schurz's waiting masses could deploy
or charge. The noise and the smoke fill
ed the air with excitement and to add
to it Dieckmann's guns and caissons,
with battery men scattered, rolled and
tumbled like runaway wagons and carts
IN a thronged city. The guns and
masses of the right brigade struck the
second line of Devens before McLean's
front had given way, and, quicker than
it could be told, with all the fury of the
widest hail-storm, everything. every
sort of organization that lay in the path
OF the mad current of panic-stricken
men. had to give way and be broken
into fragments.
My own horse seemed to catch the
fury; he sprang, he rose high on his
hind legs and fell over, throwing me to
the ground. Ny aid-de-camp, Dessauer,
was struck by shot and killed. and for
few moments was us hopeless as any
OF the men who were speeding without
helped me to remount.
rode quickly to the reserve batteries.
A staff officer of Gen. Hooker, Lieut.
Col. Dickinson, joined me there; nv
own staff gathered around me. was
eager to fill the trenches which Barlow
would have held. Buschbeck's second
line was ordered to change front there.
His men kept their ranks, but at first
they appeared slow. "Wfl they meyer
get there?"
Dickinson said: ooh, general, see
those men coming from that hill way off
to the right, and there's the enemy after
them. Fire, oh fire at them! You NAV
stop the fiightr'
mo, colonel said, 81 will never
fire on my own men!'
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-09-27
Mud Singing.

The Plattevlle Dela0crat denounces q
statement Of the HERALD in reference
to a Democratic candidate as "a libel
and lie and says the editor ''knows
that he lies" Thatis not expressed in
the usual courteous language oi that
paper, bet shall not draw out discour-
teous reply, We shall simply ask our
esteemed Democratic brother to rise
and explain to his large and intelligent
audience the exact nature and extent of
the HEEaLDs misstatement. We are
always ready to correct any error to
which our attention IS courteously
called, provided it is shown TO be sub
stantially an error.
The Democrat also says it is
lie that the Democratic nominee for
sheriff two years ago was saloon
keeper, but it knows SO little abouthim
that it can't spell his name. Perhaps
if the editorof the Democrat had seen
that candidates name at the head of
his saloon advertisement as often as
most old readers of the Lancaster pa
pers have he would know just how TO
spell it.
The gentleman referred to, however,
is not a candidate for any Office this
year and may not care to have his case
discussed. So far rs the present
nominee is concerned, we have not en-
ployed as the Democrat suggests, mud
Singing aud lying against him. The
only mud-shngihg of the campaign,
thus far, is the Democrat unwarranted
charge against the HERALD
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-09-27
The Great Heidelberg Cask.

An interesting event in connection
with the 500th jubilee of Heidelberg
University is the filling of the great
Heidelberg cask with wine. Visitors to
the old castle will remember that cele-
brated cask, the largest in the world,
lying in the vaults of the Friedrich
Building. Its length is 331 feet, dia-
meter % feet, and the slaves measure
over nine inches in thickness. 1t was
built in 1851 at cost of $4,000. A
stairway leads up on either side to a
platform on the top which affords room
for several couples to dance. Accord
ing to survey Just made this Goliath
of casks holds 263,229 bottles of wine,
and 1t is safe to assume that its contents
Will contribute greatly toward inereas-
ing the general merrymaking and revel-
~ which fills Heidelberg and the
Neckar Valley during the present week.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-09-27

The Platteville Democrat points with
pride to the fact that its candidate for
sheriff two years ago was not saloon
keeper schen nominated. Perhaps it
scould be more exact to have referred to
him as retired or '.ex-sa loon-keep-
er," but newspapers are not usually SO
finical. We believe the Democrat still
SAYS Gen. Bragg, and Gen. Logan. :"
though, strictly speaking, they ceased
to be generals twenty-five years ago.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-09-27
REPUBLICAN TICKET.

For Governor,
JEREMIAH NJ. RCSK.
For Lieutenant Governor,
GEORGE W. RYLAND. Of Grant.
For Secretary OF State,
ERNST G.. TIAlAIE. of Kenosha.
For State Treasurer,
HENRY b. HARSHAW. OF Winnebago.
For Attorney General,
C. E. ESTABROOK, of Manitowoc.
For State Superintendent,
JESSE b. THAYER, of Pierce.
For Railroad Commissioner,
ATLEY PETERSON, of Crawford
For Commissioner of Insurance,
PHILIP CHEEK, Jr., of Sank
For Member of Congress, Sd District.
ROBERT NJ. La TOILETTE,
For Sheriff,
JOHN DOLPHIN, of Glen Haven.
For Clerk of the Court,
w. A. JOHNSON, of Clifton.
For County Clerk,
j. A. THOMAS, of Wingville.
For Treasurer,
THOMAS MCMAHON, of Harrison.
For Register of Deeds,
l.. H. BOUGHTON, of Cassville,
For District Attorney,
j. w. MURPHY, of Platteville.
For Superintendent Of Schools,
G. l.. HARPER, Of Lancaster.
For County Surveyor,
GEO. MCCALL, of Harrison.
For Coroner,
FRANKLINLYSTER. Of Jamestowga.
For Member of Assembly, lst District,
j. b. MCCOY. of Platteville.
For Member of Assembly, I'd District,
II. b. SdOWAL1ER, of Lancaster.
For Member of Assembly, Sd District,
RUFUS NJ DAY, of Mt. Hope
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-09-27

HARRISON, Wis, Sept. 81, ISS

HARRISON, Wis, Sept. 81, 1886.
c. II. Barter, Ctaiymdn Republican
County Central Conln,ittee:-H Having I'M
expectedly received the domination for
the Office of County Surveyor by the
Republican county convention, | thank
them for the honor, but it was not of
my own seeking, and my private bust
ness is such as to compel me to decline
the nomination.
Respectfully,
gro. MCCALL.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-09-27

1--WE should retaliate, sir-retaliate
on Canada for this outrage, sir-this
outrage of seizing our fishing vessels!"
he exclaimed, as he waved his umbrella
around his head. 'War is n dreadful
thing" said one of the group. who's
talking about warp" Then how would
you retaliate?n why, sir, induce their
capitalists to invest in American rail-
road securities. and bankrupt the Do
minion inside of five years, - HaI
Street AeUS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-09-27

The Platteville Democratic paper, re-
ferring to the Lancaster Democratic
paper: at saysit will some time in the
culture speak editorially of the several
candidates. Isn't the editor acquainted
with them now? II so, what is he wait
ing for? 81" 1t is sad to see the Dem
oeratlc brethren thus dwelling together
indscord.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-09-27
GEO. MCCALL
Since the Democrats have been in

partnership with the St. John party,
they have become very fastidious, They
now denounce as mud. singing" any
allusion to the fact that any of their
men sell liquor. They didn' use to be
SO sensitive and particular about small
matters when they were denouncing
the Republican party fol "sumptuary
legislation
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-09-27

Mrs. Grundy says that all the society
youths together have scarcely money
enough to buy mule.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-09-27

Libraries are feature of the iails in
Yueatan. Mexico.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-09-27

Nickels have been introduced recently
for the first time in Santa Barbara. Cal
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-09-27
-~---~-~ -~-~-~n-~-T-- ~ -
Continued fran FIRST Page.

Miss Nettie Meyer neutrality-suspicious.
folio :............ -. .............. 80. 25
Mrs Caleb Taylor. knit lace .,,......,t -. 80
Mrs. Ed Chandler. s0eet, bolster and stand
cloth .. !. ................ -. -. 50
Mrs Graves, wrlstlets .,....... $50. .,.... 25
Lou Eberle, sash and sliding door oper-
tor acknowledgements. ....,.....- Diploma
Mrs j. 7. Lewis, Knitted ladies vest ........ p
Mrs G. y. Smith, card 81 sample patterns. rs
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-01-23

ELKToN, January, 1886.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-01-23
Ro"'"'' "'''o''. ti'tio".
THE OLD WOUNDS.
How Reformed Criminal Was Hunted
to the Death.
A STORY BY MRS. M. P. HANDY

An Injured Soldier Brought to Dunkard
Farmhouse by An Old Mare, the Aid
Extended and Observation-Disclosures
Lois Hinckle looked anxiously down
the glen through the one rift in the
hills which surrounded her home.
Her father was late, and those were
troublous times-times when men,
however peaceable, in leaving their
own thresholds took their lives in their
hands.
The Shenandoah Valley was the de-
bateable ground between two armies, a
dark and bloody ground, over which
surged and ebbed the opposing tides
of the blue and the gray. 1t mattered
little to Lois and her people which side
held sway-the Dunkard Brethren
were men of peace, and had no part
nor lot in the great conflict between
the North and South.
Even the sweeping Confederate con-
scription, which ''robbed the cradle
and the grave to fill its armies was
forced to respect the religious scruples
of men who could neither be coaxed
nor Coerced into their ranks-men
who preferred rather to be shot down,
unresisting, than to make war on their
fellow-men, even in self-defense. But
the government at Richmond could
and did lay heavy hand on their
goods and chattels, emptying their
well-fllled barns and giving in return
paper promises of payment in a worth
less currency, a formality dispensed
with by the Union army, which hest
tated not to impress the property of
people who refused the oath of allegi-
ance to the United States, albeit from
a misrepresentation of the Scriptural
command "Swear not at ALL
Nor was it alone in person and prop
erty that the brethren suffered. Many
were added unto their church, but not
of such as should be saved. towards
found shelter from the CONSUMPTION
under the broad brimmed hat and
long coat hypocrites, to whom the
doctrines Of lSe faith were as nothing.
Worse than these were the wolves in
sleeps clothing who crept into the
fold spies, who found the dress of the
Dunkards the safest disguise in which
to pursue their perilous calling guer-
illas, who hid revolvers and bowie
knives under the long skirted coat, and
slaughtered Union men under cover OF
the garb of peace.
Therefore LOIS was anxious the sun
was setting and her father, who should
have been home by noon, had not yet
returned. There was an ominous glow
in the western sky, tint too lurid to
be caused by the sunset alone, too
smoky for the early autumn haze. She
called her mother to see. "The woods
are afre agen,' said the old woman,
sadly. "Well, the Lord s will be done.
You don't see anything of Pop?' she
added, still more dolefully.
Lois shook her head then with an
exclamation half of joy, half dsmay
sprang forward. He was coming, bu,
on foot, slowly, as though weary.