Word: east
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said that the schoolmarm, whose letter we print upon the first page, was so pleased with our Chicago delegation that she changed her day for coming East in order to have the pleasure of returning in their company...
Just before our Christmas holiday, a little down east "schoolmarm" desired to take her hand bag and start for Chicago. From Mame to Illinois, to her, seemed a great distance, for never had she ventured from the shadow of her native hills, never gone beyond the sound of dear old Ocean. More than this she must go alone-"a woeful, solitaire mayd." Nothing daunted by slories of disagreeable things which interested friends took pains to relate were sure to happen at this particular season of the year, she enters the sleeper, (for the first time in her life) in Boston...
...young gentlemen were Chicagoans. Yet it does not follow that they, as a class, are more thoughtful of a lady's comfort-although many of them claim so-than the men of the east. Never-theless it is undoubtedly true, that ladies can travel alone better in the west than in the east, for as a far western said. "We have not that super-abundance of females as with you, therefore when they do come, they are regarded with more respect." We have always believed that ladies can travel alone anywhere in this country, with very little trouble or danger...
...which ought to have exported food, was now forced to import in large quantities. England has neglected her agricultural for her manufacturing interests. Turn to India, a country which before English rule, wove the finest cloths known to the world. She had been protected by the policy of the East India Company. Now, thanks to free trade, she has no manufactures at all. When crops fail, then comes famine. Famines only occur in countries which produce food and nothing else...
Well, the election was held. As had been anticipated, the Republicans polled a vote which gave the Plumed Champion a magnificent majority. But though the Democracy was defeated, it still "claimed everything." Charges were made that three colored chambermaids had been colonized near the polls in the east corridor, and that they had voted as a unit for the Republicans. A Democratic deputy-inspectress, while attempting to arrest a repeatoress, was in turn arrested by a Republican marshallette. Turbulent scenes were for a time in prospect, but the arrival of the supper hour happily averted the threatened collision...