davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1890-03-30

In an inquiry before the railway COM
missioners it has just come out that two
men in the employ of a certain railway
company as locomotive engineers were
compelled to work for forty-eight hours
GU a stretch. The men seemed 10 take it
Is a matter of course, too.
, 1890-03-30

A little girl five years old has arrived
in Paterson, n. j., having travelled by
rail alone from Saginaw, Mich. The
child, at the request of her father,
was shipped as express matter, with a
tag about her neck giving her name and
destination and also the key Of her
trunk.
, 1890-03-30

The best salve in the world tor cuts,
bruises. sores, ulcers, salt rheum. fever
Sores, letter. chapped hands. chilblains,
eorns and all skin e%ruptions, and positively
cures piles or no pay required. It is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or
money refunded. Price 25 ceuts per box.
For sale by B. B. David, Druggist.
, 1890-03-30

The latest attraction of the London
Zoo is a collection of monster lizards,
the largest animals of their class. They
are so large and strong that it is said in
India burglars sometimes make use of
them, seiZing hold of the lizards tail and
being drawn by it to the upper window
of a house.
, 1890-03-30

The annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the Ell Seven Cattle company will
be held at the office of the com pany in
the city OF Cheyenne, Wyoming. On Mon
day. April I, 1890, for the election of a
board of trustees and such other business
as may properly come before the meet
ing, JAMES p. WARD,
john CUDAHY, Secretary.
President
, 1890-03-30

Notice is hereb, given hat there will
be a meeting OF the stockholders of the
Guthrie & Oskamp Cattle company at the
office of the company in Cheyenne, on
Monday, April I at 10 O'Clock a. m, and
fer the purpose of e~lecting trustees for
the ensuing year and for the transaction
of any other business that may properly
come before the meeting.
, 1890-03-30

A Pittsburger has recovered, in the
courts, the full value of personal prop
erty stolen from the sleeping car while
he slumbered. It was only a few hun-
bred dollars, yet enough to have placed
q safe in that sleeping car.
, 1890-03-30

Just before Robert Fisher, a wealthy
farmer of Spencer county, Md, died a
few weeks ago he informed his brother
that he had buried 10000 in bonds in a
jar in his cellar. After his death the
jar was found as described, but the bonds
were gone and they nave not been found.
, 1890-03-30

Try Underwood & Bros. mocha and
pounds for 81.
, 1890-03-30
Rags Rags!

Good price paid for white rags at
Leader Office.
, 1890-03-30

WE. Mccoy has moved his red Globe
restaurant to 504 West Seventeenth
street, where he will be pleased to serve
his ola and new customers. Meals Is
and 25 cents. Mr.. Mccoy was one of
the first to open a short order house in
Cheyenne. and is well known as a first
class chef" My tea and coffee are I'M
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09
SMOKELESs POWDER,
Germany Badly Disappointed ms Cold Rem
ders the Explosive Worthless.

Germany Badly Disappointed MS Cold Rem.
ders the Explosive Worthless.
st. Louis Post-Dispatch.1
Smokeless powder has proved almost
worthless because it will not keep in cold
weather. A letter from Rome to the
journal des Etats UniS says that the States
of the Triple Alliance have notified each
other of the failure of their experiments
Italy built factory that would turn out
out 10000 cartridges a day, and she in
tended to enlarge it as soon as the success
of the powder was proved, but she received
notice from Germany that resulted in
closing the factory. Germany said that the
cartridges were good enough as long as
they were kept warm, but if they we're taken
out in the cold it ruined them, and they
would not explode.
This will be a sore disappointment to
Germany, for she has been anxious to get
hold OF some powder like that the French
have. France has a powder which makes
some smoke, but very little, and it is good
in any weather. Germany has tried in
every conceivable way to get hold of some
of it to have it analyzed, but it is more
carefully guarded than gold, and every cart
ridge in the whole of France containing
that powder is watched and record kept
of it. There are two French soldiers who
are now serving life sentences in prison for
trying to steal single cartridge to sell to
Germany
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09

all seated what next comes up to trouble the
religious dictator and his deacons? Back
we 90 to the records and find the town ap-
pointing "twoe who on the Lords day shall
walk forth in time OF Gods worship to take
notice of such as either I've about the meet
ing-house, without attending to the word or
ordinances or that lye at home or in the
fields, They shall be prosecuted" "All
bows must sit on the three pair of stairs in
the meeting house including those of the
pulpit. One constable is to keep out dogs,
and women must keep their faces veiled;"
for the more order in the church man was
appointed ''thst wholly tended to keep peo-
pie from sleeping, with short dubbed stick,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09

pie went armed to church, formed process
sions as they wended their way through the
woods, and like primitive customs, all
brought about by fear OF wolves and In
dians, but the most interesting phases and
incidents have been left out, for what reason
it is hard to surmise, unless it be on account
of the fact that ridicule and lower esti-
mate of the fervent worshipers might take
the place of the high standard in which they
are held if the true story was told.
The Puritan meeting house was from the
start the center of all life and activity, of
all moral, political, military and social
affairs. Austerity, alike of church and
members, was evident everywhere. The
palisades, the armed sentinels, the huge,
shingled, unpainted exterior and the great
square, wooden pews and enormous oak
beams and braces upon which the gallery
freemen piled up their hats during service,
all signifed aggression and severity, more
even than it demonstrated that civil gov
ernment was vastly secondary to ecclesiasti-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09

cal laws and it is not to be wondered at that
there were many dissenters among these very
dissenters from the English yoke.
CASTE IN oLDEN TIMES.
The first important duty when a meeting
house was to be erected was to appoint a
committee, whose duty it should be to pro-
vide wine, rum and cider and "baiting bits"
for the participators III the grand ceremony,
an event which not only called opt the deni-
zens OF the immediate parish, but those who
lived within radius of 20 miles. The oc-
casion was usually celebrated much as is the
custom nowadays when a corner stone is
laid, the exception being that the rum is not
drunk on the premises. After the church
was boarded in then came meeting to
decide over the question OF aisles, that is
"shall there be one grand aisle from the
entrance to the pulpit, or two aislts
which separate the body" Sometimes
the members were so divided upon the mat
ter that another church was started and the
goodly worshIpers made content Another
trouble arose whensthe divine clergyman OBJ
jected 10 negroes and Indians standing IN
the aisles during services, but this was set
tied by building "pen" in one corner and
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09
BEATING THE SLOT MACHINE.
FIattened BuckshOt Very Fair Substitute
for Five Cent Pieces.

FIartened Buckshot a Very Fair Substitute
for Five Cent Pieces.
st. Paul Pioneer-Press.l
"Gimme uickel's worth of buekshot, -
said St. Paul gamin wearing somewhat
disordered rainment. His head just topped
the counter in bazaar devoted to sporting
goods.
81 suppose he will load them into rusty
pistol and accidentally shoot some one OF
his intimate friends" suggested a by
stander.
20, nc" replied the proprietor of the gun
store, ''he has no firearms. He is going in
to beat the nickel-in-the-slot scheme, and l
suppose 1 am particeps criminis."
"How?'
"Why, he will put them On the street car
track; the car will convert them into the ex-
act size of nickels and pennies, and, OF
course, you can anticipate the financial
panic liable to ensue in St. Paul shortly,
with gum machine at almost every
corner"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09
WHEN is A MAN DRUNK?
Tests That Are Applied in England With In
different Results.

Tests That Are Applied in England With In
different Results.
Newcastle, Eng, Chronicle.l
"Drunk, or not drunk?" That was the
question which presented itself for settle
ment the other day at Ripon. On behalf of
the luckless man, who was accused Of hav-
ing imbibed too freely, it was submitted
that be was only "fresh." The legal gen.
tleman, whose services had been retained,
further maintained that person who could
walk, as his client had been able to do, was
not "drunk" within the meaning OF the act;
and he reminded the Bench that it had been
written that
He is not drunk who from the floor
Can rise again. and still drink more:
But drunk is he who helpless lies,
Without the power to drink or rise.
This poetical plea, however ingenious as
it unquestionably was, was not regarded
sufficiently sound to hold water, and so the
customary fine was imposed. 1t has lately
become customary to apply tests in such
cases, but this does not appear to have been
done in the present instance. When the
licensing act of 1872 came into operation, a
the happy expedient of fixing the limits of
supply by the ability of his customer to
utter, without stumbling, the words truly
rural;" and sometime ago it Jared badly
with poor fellow in London, who was so
far gone as to be unable to spell "constitu-
tional" or Statistical" The law, how
ever, takes no cognIzance either Of "shibbo-
leths" or spelling bees in such matters.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09
BUY HEAVY DUMB-BELLS.
The Usual Advice AppIieu Only TO Men of
Leisure.

The Usual Advice Applies Only to Men of
Leisure.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The busy man of sedentary habits who
wants exercise is always advised to get light
dumb-bells or Indian clubs. Now, this is
very common error into which the ANA
teur falls-light clubs and light dumb-bells
will do for the professional athlete, the man
who spends hours every day at his exercise,
but they are not for the Dlan who is willing
to give up only 10 minutes in the morning
and Is more at night to the hardening OF his
muscles. He can get with a fve-pound club
and fve-pound dumb-bell the same amount
of exercise in Is minutes that he can get in
half an hour with clubs and bells weighing
half that. And that is what the man wants
exactly, the greatest amount of exercise in
the least time.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09
The Editor of the Mc.r.

Foreman (excitedly): "Here's a go!
johnson, the murderer, has just been found
innocent, and the Governor has telegraphed
pardon. We've got the whole account of
the hanging set up, with illustrations, and
the form is on the press"
Editor (coolly): Don't get excited, my
boy. just set over the account in large
caps, johnson pardoued. Below il q full
account Of NhaE he escaped"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09
TROUBLES OF THE VEGETARIAN.
Willing TO be Called Crank bur That's Not
the Worst.

st. Louis Post-Dispatch.1
One difficulty vegetarian meets in tray
cling through the world is the indisposition
ofpeople generally tohumor his ideas about
diet. He may resign himself as being
looked upon as odd, and may even get so
that he doesn't mind being pointed out as
that crank who won't eat meat" but even
after he has achieved this placid frame OF
mind, where are his vegetables? He doesn't
get them. Everywhere he goes he has meat
put before hiQ in one form and another.
beef, mutton ahd ham, with but the merest
apologies for vegetables, and if he travels
much, why he can get little else to eat but
meat and bread. Many people who have
got beyond 30. and have begun to know
something of the functions Of the digestive
organs, would esehew meat and become the
strictest vegetarians if they could get what
they want to eat, but meat is everywhere
placed before them, they hate to make
trouble and 30 they 20 on eating it
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09

in this the lowly, who wished spiritual food.
could find solace. Some of these subjects
later on, discovered that they were sinners
indeed, and SO expressed themselves, desir-
ing to be saved and taken into the Lambs
fold. Here was still another difficulty to be
gotten over. But the wits Of the minister
and elect found way out OF it and the slave
finally allowed 'half covenant" which
church, but could not partake of COM
munion. Think of ii, We modern worshiper;
think of such condition prevailing among
men who sought in the wilderness freedom
to worship God"
HOW SEATS WERE DISTRIBUTED.
Perhaps the most caste-like characteristics
which our fathers displayed occurred at the
"seating of ye meeting house" and the laws
relating to it were as follows: Four men
were elected as ''seaters'' to determine
where each person should be seated, which
rules applied to sage, state and dignity"
1.-THE town agreed and voted that the fore
seat in the front gallery shall be equal in
dignity to We second seat in We body of We
meeting house, the fore seat in We side gal
Iery, equal in dignity to fourth seat in We
body of the house; second seat in We front
gallery and hind seat in same equal in dig
nifty to fifth seat IN body of the house" and
so on. The age was fixed by calendar, es-
tate by rate book, but dignity2-there's the
rub--it is safe to presume that the rate book
assisted the ''seaters" in that perpIexing
matter.
Well we will suppose the church-gosrs
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09

were punished as follows: MARY Oliver
for neglect Of public worship shall be pub
licly whipped and a clert.stick put on her
| tongue for 1 hour for slandering elders. -
| Another non-attendant and slanderer gets
"pillory, ear cropped, imprisonment for IL
months. branded F on her right cheek and
! pays fine OF e30.'
Too much money could not be expended
on fnery; ''it set a bad example for those
who could not afford ii, and undoubtedly
took money out of church box. Perhaps
the moral was essential, but how incongru-
Gus the law seems, when we read the case of
I Nicholas Noye's wife, Hugh Marshes wife
and William ChandIer's wife, prosecuted
for wearing silk hoods and scarfs, but dis
charged on proving their husbands to be
worth 9200 each. Then follows the case of
"John Hutchin's wife" for the same offense,
discharged, upon testimony of her being
brought up above the ordinary rank.
The colonial church-goer came naturally
by his procliVities, his father and grand
father were even greater prosecutors, as
Macaulay intimates. They interdicted,
under heavy penalties, the use of the book
OF common prayer; not only in churches
but even in private houses. 1t was crime
in child to read by the bedside of a sick
parent one of those beautiful collects which
nad sootned tne grief OF 4O generations OF
Christians. Severe punishments were fixed
for such as should presume to blame the
colonistic mode of worship. Churches and
sepulchers, fine works OF art, and curious
remains OF antiquity were bruTally defaced.
Sharp laws were passed against betting.
The adulterer was punished with death.
All of the maypoles were hewn down, play
houses forbidden, and actors whipped at the
carts tail.
INNOVATION OF CHURCH STOVES.
Aside from the mental disorder of the
churchmen. they suffered many physical ills
in order to keep up the religious favor.
Think of going to church in cold winter
days on loot through great snow drifts, and,
with frozen limbs, sitting for an hour or two
in the chilly atmosphere Of an unwarmed
sanctuary. Had it not been for the advent
of the tavern later on, where the noon hour
was spent over lunch and hot cider, the ardor
of the worshipers would have waned to a
great degree. The introduction of the foot
warmer which was supplied with hot Goals
by the sexton, materially comforted the
frozen martyrs, but this innovation, like the
stove was ought against as detracting from
the enthusiasm of the preacher and the glory
OF the ''pitch pipe" leader. So great was the
objection to stoves that one speaker (possibly
facetlously) remarked: 1--WE do not need
stove in this house to warm it, the preaching
is hot enough for that purpose" Time
nhanpes all things H n r
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09
COLONIAL CHURCHES.
Customs Of the Puritans Scarce
Hinted at in Our Histories.
CASTE AMONG The WORSHIPERS.
An Official Whose Duty Was to Tickle the
Faces of Sleepy Women.
A BITTER WAR ON THE CHURCH STOVE
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH

HEcolonial
, ,church-goer
affords n o
end of topics
for the pen
of the his
torian and
yet one rare
lyreads any
thing about
them. Here
and there we
find trag-
mentary ac-
counts o t
how the peo-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09

JUDGE a woman's refinement by her per-
fumery-whether loud dIsagreeable scent.
or the refined fragrance of Atkinscn's Ell.
tracts or Sachets. 81
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09

having at one end knob, and at the other a
fox tail, with which he would stroke the
women's faces that were drowsey and with
the other would knock unruly dogs, and
men that were asleep"
PENALTIES FOR CHURCH oFFENsEs.
The offenders of the law of the church
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09
ONCE RURAL DISTRICTS.

Another amazing thing to the returned
old-timer is to note the districts which the
spirit OF progress has taken possession Of in
its onward march. There is, or was, Nc
Farland's Grove, in the East End, for exam
pie. A famous place for picnics it used to
be; and it could be made as private as the
most exclusive could desire Therefore it
was much in favor with those who wished
to have the enjoyment of a strictly select
picnic. But now, where the grove was,
streets have been laid out and city improve
ments are beginning to appear. Near where
the platform was laid groups of new houses
stand, Of the sort have spoken OF; and there
is no spot within long distance available
for any kind of a picnic. In other direc-
tions the same sort puzzling experience is
encountered. All along Fifth avenue, all
along Penn avenue, one passes through
districts which he remembers as strictly
rural, and which he now finds occupied by
a continuous line of homes.
It is all very surprising and very beWil-
dering. And now 1 spend much time IN
wondering what the young reporter of to-
day will find when he goes back to Pitts
burg after an absence Of ten or dozen yearsl
JAMES G. PURDY.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09
THOSE ENGLISH MAIDS.

"Imagine the maids going out to wet
damask towels in the dew to wash their
ladies' faces with, and wetting handker-
chief in it by night to lay on the cheeks
while sleeping. II you don't believe there is
anything in it don't say SO till you try it.
There was Lady Florence P, celebrated
for her complexion, who never washed her
face in anything but napkins lett out in
dew all summer. Then for color they had
the most marvellous decoction, distilled,
they said, from carrots, an amber liquid,
which brushed on the cheeks LETT no mark
at first, but presently bloomed in the soitest
pink blush, which wouldn't rub OF, or wash
of any too easily. Oh, the delight, after nights
IN hot gas gaslight rooms Of lying under the
hands of one of those clever girls. who never
needed to be told anything, but slipped off
your things and brought your cup Of tea or
chocolate, and bathed your arms and
face and neck with Lavender spiris or
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-28
Baby nothered-Drowned in Lake
ATTEMPTED Suicide.

Baby Smothered-DrOWned in n Lake
Attempted Suicide.
SAN Francisco, January 27th.-Finn has
signed the following players for the San
Franciscos: Spear and Stevens, catchers ;
Lookabaugh and Young, pitchers; Charley
Sweeney, first base; Shea, third base;
Ebright, short stop; Levy, left field; Han
ley, center field, and the catchers alternat-
ing in right field. 1t is believed that an
Eastern player named Pond will be secured
to play second base.
Edward Curpe, while hunting in the sand
dunes south of the Cliff House, on Sunday,
found the body of man in small lake
of sea water. A card certifying that H.
Kneeman represented the White Labor
Shirt Factory was found in his pocket, and
was the only clue to his identity.
A very sad case was reported to the
Coroner to-day by Charles A. Rice. Dur
ing the night his eight months-old son,
who was sleeping in cradle in the same
room with its parents, turned over on its face
in some manner and was unable to roll back
again. lis head was buried in the pillow
and when Mr.. Rice awoke this morning he
was Mortified to find that the baby was
smothered.
Louis F. AuEerais, of the well-known
family of that name of San Jose, attempted
SulClue VI OuUuay ny Jumping HOlu tue
steamer Piedmont into the bay. a boat
was lowered and Auzerais, who is an ex-
pert swimmer, struck out toward it and
allowed himself to be taken in. 1t is
thought that he was half crazed from drink
when he attempted to drown himself. He
is married.
After rest of several weeks the Chinese
habeas corpus mill started to-day and
landed eleven Chinese and remanded one.
Itisreported that large number of Chinese
females intended for houses of ill-fame are
now on their way to this city.
Mayor Pond attended the funeral of
Superintendent Heating Sunday. When
he returned he was seized with a severe
chill. 1t is feared he is suffering from
pneumonia.
The revenue cutter Richard Rush, by
order of the Government, sailed to-day for
Portland to carry mails for northern
points.
Superintendent Fillmore said this even
ing that if no more bad weather troubles
them, he hopes to have the blockaded
trains moving by tomorrow.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-28
WHOLESALE REDUCTION.
Los Angeles Has Gone in for Retrench-
ment in Earnest.

Los Angeles Has Gone in for Retrench-
ment in Earnest.
Los ANGELES, January 27th.-The tax
levy of per cent. on each 500 valuation
in this city with which to meet municipal
expenses has proved insufficient for that
purpose, and the receipts from all sources
will fall short of expenditures by at least
$4,000.
The Common Council has appointed
committee after committee to make sug-
gestions as to the most feasible mode of re-
trenchmext. The Commissioners failed to
make any practical recommendations, and
the Council has been wrestling with the
question for some time as Committee of
the Whole.
To-day they passed an ordinance reduc-
ing the police force to sixty-eight patrol
men, six mounted officers, four Sergeants,
a Chief, Captain and one clerk. They also
reduced all the salaries of city employees 10
per cent, and let the city funds to bank
ing firm at A per cent. per annum.
The mem bers of the Council also agreed
to return to the city 10 per cent. of their
salaries for the next few months, or until
the required amount is made up.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-28
BOARD Of Fire Commissioners.

The Board of Fire Commissioners met
last evening, all the members being pres
ent. The monthly payroll was allowed,
as were the following bills: Capital Gas
Company. $50; Schroth & Co., SIT Oh; P.
Gras, So rs; F. F. Phillips. 81 rs; NJ.
Kesller, 81 rs; Krebs & Co.. 81 Sacramento
Glass ard Crockery Co., 60 cents: D. Nc
Kay, IS cents; James McCaw. S.: r. Camp
bell, s. 80; Huntingdon Hopkins Com
pany, 80 cents; Friend & Terry Lumber
Company, % cents; Knmmer6eld & Co.,
81; 4. Logan. 81 so; NJ O'Mears, Jr.. 81 !;
w. D. Kent & Co.. IS; A Mendis. 81 q !;
P Figg so cents; Hopkins & Bros. 81 !;
r ]. Van Voorhies. 50; Standard Oil Com
pany. 50 so; McCreary & Co So SO: Whit
Tier, Fuller & Co.. Sc Is; Neubourg & La
ges, IS 40; Krebs & Co, 81 40; A. G. Tufts,
81 80: NJ McElanay, $40; Weitzel & Low,
81 SO Landau Bros. 81 IS; Nixon & Co..
s.; Cofey & Co., s2l; C. A. Fisk, SIS; A.
Grafmiller, So rs.