davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-31
AUNT FANNY BARROW.
Her First and Second Meeting With Gem
eral sherman.

"I have met General sherman just
twice in my life," said Aunt Fanny Bar
row the other evening. The first time
was in New Haven, twenty-five years
ago, just after the close of the war.
was visiting my friend Mrs. Donald G.
Mitchell, who then lived at New Haven.
One afternoon she began to tell me of
the ravages committed by General Sher-
mans army on her fathers plantation
in South Carolina, and the story was so
sad that we both shed bitter tears. That
! evening l went to a large party. Tho
first thing l saw on entering the room
was tall man in military dress sur
rounded by little court of ladies and
gentlemen. WHO'S that?' I asked.
Somebody replied, General Sherman.
did not stop to think what was doing,
but rushed up to him and seized him
with both hands. l am not sure but
shook him, for was almost beside my
self. oh General Shermanr 1 cried,
how could you let your men treat my
friend in that way! they broke her beau
tiful piano, they ruined her carpets,
they smashed the pictures of her dead
father and mother then burst into
tears.
General Sherman was terribly
moved. For Gods sake, madam, calm
YOURSELF he said These things are
horrible, bnt they are the fortune of
war. Calm yourself, was not there,
or | should have stopped it,
Then" continued Aunt Fanny" l
turned, and without replying rushed
from the room, still sobbing. You can
imagine the commotion l created; in
fact l broke up the party.
The next time / saw General Sher-
man was at the Inaugural ball at the
Metropolitan Opera-house. Mrs. Hicks
Lord, leaning on the arm of the General,
came face to face with me in the prom
enade. She stopped me and said, Aunt
Fanny, | want you and General Sher-
man to know each other The General
bowed gallantly. ] did the same some
what frigidly, fear, and then passed
on.
"'Who is that woman, Mrs. Lord?'
asked the General.
"'Why, that is Mrs. Barrow-Aunt
Fanny she replied.
What is there between that little
woman and me?' said the General, knit
ting his brows Something terrible
happened to me once, with which she
was connected-what is it-what is it%
Mrs Lord could not tell him, for she
did not know" said Mrs, Barrow in con-
clusion; 'and General Sherman was un-
able to remember"
Perhaps when the General reads this
he will recall the circumstance.-Mun
sey's Weekly
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-31

Southern prison and that the two daugh-
ters of tho same household had died
within week Of each other, leaving
the old folks childless and almost pen
niless. Waiting to hear no more, Jack
hastened to the old farmhouse, and
without making himself known listened
to the pitiful story of the old people,
who upon the morrow would be turned
out of the house where all their welded
life had been spent. 1--WE gave our
boys all to our country, but now we are
forgotten both by God and man." MUIR
INJURED the old man.
"Father, God never forgets," said the
good wife, tenderly. Don't you re-
member poor Jacks last words Go
will not forget your kindness to poor
orphan boy?'"
"Ah but did not send the poor lad
away for a crime our own boy COM
mitted? God is furnishing us for this
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-31
THE ScoRE-CARo FlEND.,
The Base Ball Game Couldn't Go ON
without Him.


If you want to enjoy yourself at
baseball match manage to sit beside the
man who tries to keep score of the
game FOR his own satisfaction.
No one has yet solved the mystery
why this man hothers his head about the
score, but all tho same he is as much
absorbed in the work as if every mark
and figure he makes were to go into tho
next United States census reports.
The chief popularity of this man is
that he doesn't know how to keep a
baseball score anyhow.
The official scorers, who get paid for
their labor, do not do half the work for
their money that this man does for the
pure love of it. 1t is understood that
large part of the satisfaction he finds
comes from knowledge that the people
around him can't keep score, and there
fore he must be greatly envied and ad-
mired. This belief may be right or
wrong, but with this man it goes.
The score-card fiend does not go to
the ball-match for the pleasure of see
ing the game. He is educated far be-
yond that point and goes for the pleas
ure of recording the play-the game
People who are satisfied with merely
watching the progress of the game en-
the field are subjects of this mans pity.
When the score-card fend is SO anX-
tout to keep correct record of every
detail on the field, we hold it is not
right to make him the victim of detec-
tive information. If, for instance, he
has been absorbed in watching the
ladies in the vicinity, and the game has
got away from him, it is not fair to tell
him, when he asks that O'Keefe went
out on foul when, in fact, he made a
home run. Misinformation of this kind,
when given to him a dozen times during
the progress of the game, has tendency
to mar the accuracy of the score. Give
the score-card tiend a chance.-N. Y.
World
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-31

sin, Mary, and tomorrow night we will
sleep in pauper's bed"
God never forgets," said the stranger,
and then came the most joyful moment
of his life, when he was able to reveal
himself to them and assure them that
the boy whom they had saved from the
almshouse had come back just in time
to render them like service.
Jack did not leave them again, except
for few days to arrange his business in
the West, and bring back the money to
save the old home from the auctioneers
hammer. God did not forget them,"
and after many days the bread which
they had cast upon the waters came
back to them. Belle V. Chisholm, in
Christian Inquirer.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-31
THE SINGING VOICE.
Singers and Doctors Agree That Tobaoc,
Affects 1t.


Affects 1t.
That the voice is affected by tobacco
is proved by the testimony of singers on
the one hand and by the experience of
physicians on the other. A very large
acquaintance with vocalists of all grades,
extending now over logger period of
years than | care to think of, enables
me to say bat while few consider
their voice improved, the vast major
ity think ixis more or less injured by
smoking, says Dr. Morrell Mackenzie. I
attach far more Importance to the testi.
mony of the latter than to that of the
former, as singers have frequently the
most eccentric notions of what is good
for the voice." AS stout mustard and
melted tallow candles ha We each been
vaunted by distinguished artists as
vocal elixirs of sovereign efficacy, it is
not surprising that tobacco SHOULD also
have its adherents
The example of Mario, who lsmoked
necessarily, is often cited as proof of
the utiiity-or, at any rate, the harm-
lessness-of the practice. 1t is obvious,
however,, that an exceptional singer is
by virtue of possessing an exceptional
throat, and no rule for general use can be
safely founded on such an instance. Bali
zac used to say of great men who were
victims OF the tomper passion that there
was no knowing how much greater they
might have been If they had been free
from that weakness In the same way
we may say of Mario: How much finer
might even his voice have been without
his eternal cigar? 1t might at least have
lasted longer than it did
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-31
PuNoENT PARAGRAPHS.

-Employer-"Well, Patrick, which
is the bigger fool, you or ~" Patrick
Faith, couldn't say, sor, but it's not
mesilf, surely. y.Y-Boston Budget
-Husband-'I have often heard that
bread is the staff of life" Wife-"So
have l, Oscar" Husband--'Well, this
bread would make good staff for po-
liceman. Inter Ocean.
-Minnie-'I heard that you are going
to enter the lecture field" Mamie
THE idea! I'm going to be married"
Minnie-"Well, / knew it was some-
thing of the sort. ."-Terre Haute Ex-
press.
Miss Crabtree-"See what nice shoes
/ bought for five dollars" Miss Gilman
why, these I'm wearing cost mo ten
dollars" Miss Crabtree-"I suppose
they charge according to size. Boston
Herald.
Poor woman! Have you no husband
to help you earn a living?" 81 have a
husband, so called, but he is deeply en-
gagged in something else" "Of what
nature?" Trusting in Providence. "
Chicago Times.
do you think" he asked in hesi-
tating accents, "that you could learn to
love me?" eyes," she replied coyly, II
could learn, but I'm afraid you'll have
o good deal of trouble teaching father"
Washington Post.
Cotton merchant Ito son who wants
to be poet)-"Why, boy, remember
that poetry, even good poetry, will
never pay as we'll as cotton, even bad
cotton-especially bad cotton" .".-Har-
pers Bazaar.
-Palmer-"It's mighty funny, but
there are no less than six people with
whom l have been talking within
week who are now dead" Curtleigh-
81 haven't the least doubt of it. I'm
sorry can't stop to listen to you to-day,
but the fact is I'm not prepared. ."-Bos-
ton Transcript.
Mrs. Brown-Our sex is advancing
every day. They are beginning to ap-
point women in the small post-oiiices.
They should have done that years ago"
Brown-"Not at all. They had to wait
till the postal card went out of fashion"
-Lippincott's Magazine.
Tourist (headed westward) Are
there many wolves in Kansas ?" Mover
(headed eastward )-"Heaps NV 'em,
pardner! !" Tourist-How do you pro-
nounce the name by which they are
called-c-o-y.ote or ki-ote ?" Mover
"Wall, some calls it one an some the
other, but them that have run up agin
'em much pronounces it real-estate
agent Munsey's Weekly.
First Farmer-"I hope we're goin'
to have a spell of dry weather, now,
neighbor Meadows; it's just what we
need" Second Farmer-"Well, I'd just
as soon it would rain right along"
First Farmer-"Why, what's the reason
OF that?" Second Farmer-"My city
cousins said they were coming to stay
with me if the weather was fine. Light.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-31
DECORATION DAY.

TIE old earth to the sunbeams said:
Come let us hasten with the flowers;
Give me-" she breathed, your kindling kiss;
Give me your strength" she prayed the
showers.
Call the rhodora from the swamp,
Call the aZalea sweet as musk
Call lilies that from burdened hearts
Their fragrance pour along the dusk.
"And call from all my secret cells
The bushes OF the perfect rose,
For would heap my heroes graves
Full soon with every bud that blows"
Then said the sunbeams and the showers:
I'm morning glow, in midnight dew,
Though clothed with grass, though heaped with
bloom,
Though tenting skies be gray or blue
"Yet while on each white marble there
The sacred letters shine like fame,
The grave no other garland needs
Whose headstone bears heros namel"
~ -Harper's Bazaar.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-31

was given up to the wayfarers and
Mother Gibbons brought out her most
dainty knick-knacks to tempt the appe-
tite of the sick man. That they were
no ordinary tramps their scrupulously-
clean, well-mended though thread bare
garments testified. The man told sad
atory of an old homo in Pennsylvania
which had been forsaken for the rolling
prairies of the great West; of the mis-
fortunes that had robbed him of his
small estate and swept his wife and
children into the grave. After five
years of helpless struggling in the new
country he was going back to die among
his own kindred and leave his little
Jack in the care of his own people.
In the morning the family was aroused
by the cries of the child who understood
enough to know that the white, stiff
form by his side was lifeless.
Poor papa is dead" he sobbed, as
Mr.. Gibbons and his wife came hurry
ing downstairs. The boy was right
the stranger had died alone and unat-
tended while they slept.
A coffin was provided at the expense
of the township, and the next morning
a few Of the neighbors followed the hum
ble dead to grave in quiet corner in
the church-yard.
Before the day was over Mr. Gibbons
wrote to an uncle whose address little
Jack was able to give, but it was weeks
before reply came, and then The only
satisfaction obtained was: 81 have a
family of my own to support, and can
not take the lad into my house. Bind
him out Or send him to the almshouse
until he is old enough to support him
SELF"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-31

Where oil the dwelcrs are dumb,
Nor hear the sound of tho bugle.blast
Nor call OF the rolling drum.
So still they lie in Uiier dreaming,
The hearts that were wont to beat,
Ready to rise and answer
To hurry on eager feet,
By day or nighttime, in rain or sum-
Through valley or field or street;
Ready to meet the summons,
Ready to come or go;
40 march In the scorching heat and dust,
Or halt in the binding snow:
To spring half awake from dreams Of homo,
TO the sabre.thrust OF the foe;
Ready to yield, not strength alone,
And the hands keen, willing art,
But all of the sweet, full life God gave
Not only tithe or part,
But all to their duty,
Asking body, and brain, and heart
What memories throng as we pause and stand
Where flowers ON these graves are thrown,
While all about us the sunlight streams
And the breath of the May is blown
From warm, green valleys whose ripenod grass
In drifted swaths is mown.
What dreams come to us. . . Ah far away
Is the martial clang and tread
Far, far, is the sound of the clashing steel,
or the charge, in mud triumph led;
The pain, the passion, the tumult wild
For these are the peaceful dead.
Their flags are folded, or idly float
To the sweet caress of the wind
Tho flags that pressed through tho bullet
storm,
While million OF souls behind
Followed steadfast and faltered not,
Like the thought of one mighty mind.
What dreams comes to us. . . What heart
deep prayers;
Yet the tender tears we shed
BY these grassy mounds, where the heroes sleep
With the blue sky overhead,
Are bright with blessing, so touched with
light,
They might answer for smiles instead.
We dream of the soldier brave . But we
dream
or the men. who were loved and dear;
OF the unlIissed kisses, the VOWS unkept
The passionate, homesicE tear;
The human yearnng. the whispered prayer
That no one but God could hear;
OF tired sleepers, with boyish brows,
Dewdrenched in the starlit air;
OF blotted letters, and true-love rings,
And the pictures OF women fair
Hidden close in those stalwart breasts
With lovers jealous care.
Our hearts beat fast with the beating drum
Swell high with the music's strain,
For love, that is ever life's theme of song,
The sweeter through loss and pain
For love, that lasts over strife and war,
While the years and the ages wane.
Bring flowers-for the world is abloom,
Like garden grown anew;
There are willing hands at the tender toll
There are hearts long tried and true,
And flowers enough for the boys in gray
AS well as the boys in blue.
The task is ended-the twilight falls,
The sounds of the day dccrease
Yet not with the silence of shout and song
Can the palms of our glory cease;
We have strewn the breasts of our noble dead
With the blossoms of lasting peace.
Madeline S. Bridges, in Leslies Illustrated
Weekly.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-31
A Genuine Curiosity.

Hardup-Do you see this IS bill, Dunn
ley? There's something quite peculiar
aboutit.
Dumley-How's that? 1t looks to me
just like any other So bill.
Hardup-Well, there's one great diff
ference between it and most other bills.
1t belongs to me. e.-Light.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-31
GOD NEVER FORGETS.
The Story of One Decoration Day
and What 1t Brought.

NE bright even
ing among the
last d a y S of
May, 1852, there
came to Farmer
Gibbons door,
seeking shelter
for the night, a
C o n s u m ptive-
10 o k in g man
and his little
seven year OLD
son. The good
+ a + m g r h a d
n o ver be Q n
known to turn a
hungry stranger
from the door,
hence the warm
est corner in
the COW kitchen
Telegram-herald., 1890-07-24
BREVOORT SLUCCED
Lawyer McDermott Skins His
KnnekIes on the Judge.
4 SCRIlNlCE IN THE CITY HALL
The Lawyer Insists That a story His
Honor was Repeating Mas Lie. and
When he Told the Judge Asout it
the Fistie-Eneoaatsr Followed

Fourteen years ago Judge Henry \.
Brevoort vas candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination for prosecuting at
torney, 10 run against John G. Hawley.
The Democratic county convention was
held AT Dearborn and A. II. MeDer-
mott, the lawyer, was one OF the seere-
taries. Judge Brevoort later claimed
that MeDermotthad attempted 10 count
him cut Of the nomination. McDermoti
denied the imputation, claiming that as
he was secretary, and not teller, he had
nothing to do with the ballots. McDer-
mott heard that Judge Brevoort had
been repeating the story recently.
About IL O'Clock this morning Mr..
McDermott met Judge Breyoort IN the
city hall eorricor, IN front Of the county
clerk Office, and said" hear that you
have been rehashing thai old story"
81 don't know as there is any rehash
about it," replied Judge Brevoort. 81
have told some people about IT,"
"All that I've got 10 say about 1t.
said McDermott, rather excitedly, sis
that II IS a -- lie.'
You call me a lIar?"
ayes, do"
Judge Brevoort did not wait for any
more discussion. He let his strong
right arm fly in the direction of Nc
Dermott's nose. The latter raised his
left arm just in time 20 prevent being
struck on the nose and the blow did no
damage, save to knock his hat off and
provoke him. In a second more Judge
Breyoort got singing blow on his
cheek bone from McDermott's fist, the
knuckles of which were skinned by the
contact.
For a few seconds the scene was a
lively one. The combatants hats had
been knocked off, fists were raised III
the air and there was every indication
OF a fight TO the finish. Judge Bre-
voort's cane had dropped on the floor
and McDermott made for il. At that
moment Patrolman Hally. who is sta
toned in the city hall, seized McDer-
mott, who said excitedly:
"lf you're gong to take me, take
him (Brevoort) too" Judge Brevoort,
however, had disappeared and the otfi-
Ger released McDermott. Quite crowd
had collected and the "scrap" was the
talk around the city hall all the rest OF
the morning.-Ddroit Journal.
Telegram-herald., 1890-07-24
SELF-SACRIFICE.
). j. Wood Retirss In Favor of some Old
Soldier.

HUDsOS, Mich, July 23.-J. J. Wood a,
the bookseller, has been a candidate for
postmaster, and his candidacy was re-
garded fsyorably by large contingent
Of citizens here. There are other can
didates, however. and Mr.. Wood has
sent the following letter 10 Congress
man Allen. in order that the difficulties
now existing may be settled:
"You know all about the bad blood
that has been stirred up in hudson and
the surrounding towns over the prema-
ture contest about the Hudson post
office. When | presented my claims
for the place 20 you, | was forcibly I'M
pressed with the preference that you
told me you had for soldier candidate
for the place. To prevent, as much as
| can, the bad results following long
and bitter contest. l will, If thought
best, make way for All old soldier 10 be
postmaster OF Hudson, knowing that
among the boys IN blue you can worth
lily bestow the position TO competent
and worthy veteran who, perhaps, is
having hard time to get along now" ="
Telegram-herald., 1890-07-24
Bayonet Notes.

Grand Rapids city city physician is
with Co. X.
"Cal' Kenny IS devoting his spare
time converting Capt. Rogers.
Yesterday evening Col. irish ordered
the Second out for dress parade.
Ceasar and Crowley viii, ~ all prob
ability. be selected for the target shoot.
Quartcrmaster VIII White is looking
after his pets OF the Second with 8
fatherly eve.
The boys say that "Blondy" Bll's
complexion serves him as a bathing
suit when he goes IN swimming
Before leaving Grand Rapids, Cor
p0ral Eagan arres sted three men, and
forced them into service.
Acting Quartermaster Sd Penlev. 0f
Company I. is fulfilling bis duties with
q snatch. neatness and accuracy.
SsresantJ. &. Boon has bad his head
shaved only leaving the letter + 0n the
top. lie presents lsughabie appear
ance.
"Pa" Pi1ley, q O.. 7, Miss Cook
Of Co. 3. and "Blondy BiI. of %. X.
are considered the greatest wags in
camp.
Nichols. = c3ioTed man. and Casey.
OF CO. X. made the quarters of Co. <
rng last night. TIE former has A
sweet tenor voice and the latter . fari-
tone. TIE singing was accogapani ed
~ banjo and guitar.
A young man qamsd Montell. a raw
recrait III Comparv 3. came - earnn.
th king that al re had e 30 vas 81
have a good tnae. He refused to os,ev
a. order II q larte fFnssser Cook ard
Vas ~ rpea nonf US morning CaEt.
kinney 6roUgat tas Tscgalt he.k
l.. FP.
Telegram-herald., 1890-07-24
SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS
And James Roach Can Not be Found at
Sand Beach.

SAND BEACH. Mich, July 23.-James
Roach has been missing from here over
two weeks, and the suspicion that he
may have been dealt with foully is
growing. lie came here from Grand
Rapids. and il is claimed brought with
hlm 500, received whlle-at the soldiers
Home, for back pension. lie rented
room at a boarding house. and told the
landlady he was there to buy a farm.
lie was around the place tor several
days, but has not been seen by any one
since July :.
His friends finally became anxious
over his disappearance, and by break
ing into his room found something that
resemblcd blood, and the door between
his room and an adjoining compart-
ment had the appearance of having
been forced open. HIS trunk was found
unlocked. and from it had been taken
oil that was of valIe.
The old mans cane, without which
he could not walk, is also missing
winch = considered evidence against
the murder theory. The case is mys-
ferrous, and may turn out another
Huron county murder.
Telegram-herald., 1890-07-24

led IN ths discuss.on which followed.
Mss Belle 81. Perry read = paper On
which Sennie Killers Conversions seIr
endorsed Owing 70 the sosSAee
q Mrs. Eva C. Doughty, her paper on
Ethics OF Ous Professions, Was read
y Mrs. +. l. skragae. The remainder
u the afternoon was devoted 10 an
% Experience Meeting" which proved
both pleasant and instructive steam
boat excursion bad been Planned Tor
the evening. bot heavy storm pre-
vented. short business session VAS
held ia the evening and the following
officers were elected.
President-Mrs. Frank Howard.
Wee President-Mi Bates.
Recording Secretary - Mrs. G. O.
Murphy.
Corresponding Secretary = Mrs. Isa-
dora Miner.
Iressurer-Nrs. Belle NJ. Perry.
Executive Commlttee-Ars. :. j. La
tour, Mrs. Pallis Sleeper and Mrs. Eva
&. Doughty.
Telegram-herald., 1890-07-24
EVERYTHING READY
For the New Pavement on Canal
Street.

For the New Pavement on Canal
Street.
Mayor Uhl affixed his signature to the
contracts with the Warren Schaarf Paw
ing Company, yesterday, and the work
of improving Canal-st. can now pro-
ceed. The contract calls for the COM
pletion of the piece between Pearl and
Lyon-sts., by August 20, and that be-
tween Lyon and Bridge by September
20. The whole cost Will be S34, ,l04.
The sidewalks between Pearl and
Lyon-sts., are to remain the same
width, but from Lyon 10 Bridge-sts..
they are to be narrowed two feet, and
the guttels will be three to nine inches
deep, to afford water shed. The sur
face of the street will be brought to a
level with the street car tracks as now
lald.
The company will remove all the old
block and flag pavement, and the best
pit gravel viii be used TO bring the
street up to the required surface. Upon
this gravel will be laid bed of cement
concrete, six inches deep, and upon this
Is to be laid the pavement proper. The
pavement consists of a matrlx or bind
ing, the material of which is cement
prepared with the best quality of as
phaltum, obtained from the island of
Trinidad.
The company have gwen bonds to the
amount of $40, 900 to keep the street in
repair for FIVE years, and TO indemnify
the city against claims of men, sub
contractors. or others, for labor or ma
tcral.
The work will be done upon one side
OF the roadway at time, 30 rs TO least
interrupt traffic and business.