Jul 30th, 2009
An early period intercourse could have taken place between Eastern Asia
and Western America, will have no difficulty in deciding on the
geographical possibility of such transit. At Behring’s Straits only
forty miles of water intervene between the two continents, while routes
by the Aleutian Islands, or through the Sea of Ochotsk, present no great
difficulties, even to a timid navigator.
It would seem, therefore, as if it was inevitable that the question of
emancipation is to be thrust upon us, and we must be prepared to meet
it. It is in this view, and irrespective of the question of right and
wrong in slavery, that some considerations present themselves, which can
not be ignored.
Perhaps no place of its size can boast of a greater diversity of
industries than Fitchburg. In such an article as this attention must
necessarily be confined to the chief among them, and but few words
devoted to the description of separate establishments.
I suppose you would like to hear about the school life of the children
in China. The girls are never sent to school, as the Chinese do not
think it is necessary for girls to be educated. Nearly every boy is
sent to school at about the same age as your American boys, six or
seven. From this time the boy’s playing days are over. If the teacher
sees or hears that any one has been playing after the school hour, he
would be severely punished. What would your American boys think of
such treatment?
While the white Mississippians were laying
the corner stone of a Confederate monument at Jackson, the black
Mississippians were holding the closing exercises of their university
at Tougaloo, only seven miles away.
Jul 27th, 2009
Efforts of four policemen were required to arrest a Negress and as a result there is the following list of injured: Patrolman Dubach, left arm bitten; Patrolman Harding, right arm bitten, Patrolmen Schneider, face lacerations; Patrolmen Reardon, left ankle bitten and a pair of uniform trousers damaged. The trouble started when a white man, Frank Brickler, Newport, Ky., met Patrolman Dubach and Harding at Fifth and Smith street and told them that a Negress had robbed him of $3.
Jul 17th, 2009
THE NATION - JUNE 19th 1884
TRUTH ABOUT THE CONGO.
The interesting interview with Captain Braconnier, published in the Herald on Monday, while it does not throw any absolutely new light on the purposes of the African International Association, brings out one or two points which are of considerable interest to all Americans who are thinking [...]
The climate of Texas is very peculiar. This is owing to the body of water to the eastward of it, and to the dry and elevated plain of the Llano Estacado, and the lofty mountains which lie to the westward. To these two causes are due the moisture and the cool temperature, and at times and in certain localities the excessive dryness of Texas.
