item: #1 of 9 id: 11228 author: Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell) title: The Marrow of Tradition date: None words: 90717 flesch: 78 summary: White men might lynch a negro on suspicion; they would not kill a man who was proven, by the word of white men, to be entirely innocent. The matter was not only in his own thoughts, but in the air; it was the spontaneous revulsion of white men against the rule of an inferior race. keywords: carteret; child; clara; crime; dat; day; death; delamere; dey; dis; doctor; don; door; ellis; face; family; father; fer; general; gentleman; good; gwine; half; hand; home; house; jane; jerry; josh; know; life; like; little; long; major; man; matter; mcbane; men; miller; mis; moment; money; mrs; negro; negroes; nigger; ochiltree; people; place; polly; price; race; right; room; sandy; suh; tell; thought; time; tom; town; way; white; wife; woman; wuz; years; young cache: 11228.txt plain text: 11228.txt item: #2 of 9 id: 31128 author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred) title: Facing Death; Or, The Hero of the Vaughan Pit: A Tale of the Coal Mines date: None words: 73999 flesch: 84 summary: In a short time I hope that the Vaughan pit will be pumped out and at work again, and when it is, Mr. Jack Simpson will be its manager! So young Jack Simpson led a dual life, spending twenty-six days of each month as a pit lad, speaking a dialect nearly as broad as that of his fellows, and two as a quiet and unobtrusive young student in the pleasant home of Mr. Merton. keywords: 'em; bill; boy; brook; day; girls; good; haden; harry; head; house; jack; jack simpson; know; lad; lads; life; look; man; men; merton; mother; mrs; nelly; night; pit; place; round; school; shaft; sir; stokebridge; thou; thought; time; vaughan; water; way; work; years cache: 31128.txt plain text: 31128.txt item: #3 of 9 id: 33257 author: Marshall, Emma title: Under the Mendips: A Tale date: None words: 86038 flesch: 84 summary: Very well, said Miss Falconer; there is my writing-case; take care how you write; begin, 'Miss Joyce Falconer presents her respects.' little Joyce, there are many graver questions at issue than the freaks of an over-indulged, reckless boy like Melville. keywords: acres; arundel; aunt; away; bishop; bristol; care; carriage; charlotte; children; day; days; dear; door; face; fair; falconer; father; gilbert; god; good; gratian; great; hand; head; heart; home; hope; house; joyce; left; life; look; lord; love; man; maythorne; melville; miss; mother; mrs; people; piers; place; poor; right; room; round; son; squire; susan; thought; time; want; way; wells cache: 33257.txt plain text: 33257.txt item: #4 of 9 id: 39346 author: Brown, George William title: Baltimore and the Nineteenth of April, 1861: A Study of the War date: None words: 54808 flesch: 65 summary: For the future troops _must_ be brought here, but I make no point of bringing them _through_ Baltimore. Judd, N. B., with Lincoln in Philadelphia, 16; hears of conspiracy in Baltimore, 128-133. K Kane, Marshal George P., investigates supposed plot, 15; head of Baltimore police, 35; letter to Crawford, 40; keeps order at Camden Station, 48; attempts to quell Baltimore mob, 51, 53; Col. Jones's gratitude to, 54; hasty dispatch to Johnson, 69, 70; after the war elected Sheriff and subsequently Mayor, 70; arrest of, 97; release from arrest, 109. Keim, Gen., arrests John Merryman, 87, 140. keywords: april; baltimore; brown; case; city; colonel; constitution; corpus; court; day; fort; general; government; governor; habeas; history; john; law; letter; lincoln; man; marshal; maryland; massachusetts; mayor; military; new; north; order; people; philadelphia; police; power; president; regiment; right; south; states; street; time; troops; union; united; war; washington; writ cache: 39346.txt plain text: 39346.txt item: #5 of 9 id: 60650 author: None title: Story of the Riot date: None words: 36000 flesch: 82 summary: When I arrived at 34th Street men saw me on the car, and when it reached 33rd Street the car stopped suddenly and everybody jumped off. ---- _City and County of New York, ss._: William L. Hall, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he resides at 202 West 49th Street; that he is employed as an elevator conductor by R. H. Macy & Co., on West 14th Street; that on August 15th, 1900, he was on his way to visit a friend at 410 West 36th Street, and had reached 36th Street and 9th Avenue, when a crowd of young men and boys, from about sixteen to nineteen years of age, got around him and commenced yelling, jeering, hooting, and striking him with their fists, and with sticks, pieces of pipe, and one in particular struck him in the side with a weapon made of a long piece of wire, with a hammer head fastened to it. keywords: ---_city; august; avenue; car; county; day; deponent; deposes; head; home; house; man; mob; new; officers; police; public; station; street; west; york cache: 60650.txt plain text: 60650.txt item: #6 of 9 id: 61173 author: Scott, Robert title: Misrule date: None words: 3491 flesch: 94 summary: Coming? Glen had just seen Joan Bourne emerge from her office and lock the door. Glen unfolded the map of Government House that had been placed on his desk that morning. keywords: day; duckpath; glen; joan; people cache: 61173.txt plain text: 61173.txt item: #7 of 9 id: 61217 author: Aandahl, Vance title: 1,492,633 Marlon Brandos date: None words: 1530 flesch: 93 summary: Good old Chet, best man in Accounting. Good old Barth, best man on a duck hunt since the guy who invented shotguns. keywords: bartholomew; chester; eyes; man cache: 61217.txt plain text: 61217.txt item: #8 of 9 id: 6856 author: Headley, Joel Tyler title: The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873 date: None words: 81542 flesch: 67 summary: The fact that the mob refrained from damaging the theatre, shows that they did not desire destruction; they had only done in their rough way what other men deemed respectable, and even legislators, have often done, and almost as boisterously, to prevent an obnoxious person from being heard. Having stopped the draft in two districts, sacked and set on fire nearly a score of houses, and half killed as many men, it now, impelled by a strange logic, sought to destroy the Colored Orphan Asylum on Fifth Avenue, extending from Forty-third to Forty-fourth Street. keywords: act; attack; avenue; body; broadway; brown; building; captain; chapter; citizens; city; colonel; command; crowd; day; dead; draft; duty; fire; force; general; governor; hall; head; house; left; little; man; mayor; men; military; mob; moment; morning; near; negroes; new; night; order; people; place; police; quarters; rioters; riots; sandford; second; soldiers; state; stones; street; thought; time; troops; way; windows; work; york cache: 6856.txt plain text: 6856.txt item: #9 of 9 id: 7060 author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred) title: At Agincourt date: None words: 122138 flesch: 77 summary: But there must be no mistake; if trials they must have, it must be by good men and true, who will know what is necessary and do it; and who will not stand upon legal tricks, but will take as evidence the fact that is known to all, that those people are dangerous to Paris and are the enemies of the king and the Duke of Burgundy. Who is your lady, young man? Dame Margaret de Villeroy, may it please you, sir. keywords: agnes; archers; arms; attack; burgundy; butchers; castle; count; dame; daughter; day; door; doubt; duke; england; english; eustace; father; france; french; friends; good; guy; house; king; knights; lady; long; lord; man; margaret; master; master guy; men; morning; nobles; paris; party; place; present; round; sir; sir eustace; sir guy; thought; time; tom; wall; way cache: 7060.txt plain text: 7060.txt