davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-03
THE CLOCK IN PALACE YARD.

The four dials, facing the four points Of
the compass, are each so large that there
are but few rooms in London that would
contain one Of them on the floor. They
are more than % feet in diameter; the
framework, figures and divisions are OF
iron, and the spaces filed in with opales'
cent glass. The figures are feet high,
and the minute-marks nearly ~ inches
apart-litne as we may think it when
looking up at the clock from Palace Yard.
The minute hand, with its counter weight
and central boss, is about two hundred
weight. This, however, is little more than
one-third as much as the original hand
designed by Sir Charles Barry, which was
SO elaborate and intricate, SO full of angles
and quirks that they interfered with
the going of the clock. The present min
ute-hand is for the most part fattened
copper tube, and is II feet long without
the counter weight. During heavy snow
storm, few winters ago, the mixture OF
snow and rain that fell on it pressed so
heavily on it as to stop the going. The
hands of the four dials are, it is said, the
largest in the world, except those of the
Mechlin clock, which are, however, only
hour hands, not comprising those which
mark the minutes. Large clock-hands Of
course require the descent of heavy
weights to set them going. Those at
Westminster are indeed heavy, No less a
depth than ITO feet in the clock tower is
allotted for the descent of the weight.
Going weights and striking weights to-
gether, they require 4, 900 turns of doubly
manned winch handle to wind up. Sir
Edmund said to the Horologists: "Various
suggestions were made byingenious people
for dispensing with manual labor for
winding; steam, water, the rise of the
tide, and other things even more unlikely
were recommend. My answer was that
the winding and care of the clock would
cost perhaps less than the interest on the
automatic machinery or steam engines;
that any such machinery would be liable to
get out of order, and would, of course,
require man to attend to it however
automatic it might profess to be. There
fore, as always prefer simple to compli-
Gated things, prefer to have the winding
done in the old fashioned way, running no
risk of failure. got over the difficulty of
the maintaining power by directing the
man to stop winding about minute be-
fore each hour and quarter. AS there are
weights to set the noble clock going, 80
must there be pendulum to regulate the
motion when once Produced and it is a
pendulum, in good sooth. 1t weighs
nearly 700 pounds, is about 13 feet long to
the centre of oscillation, and 15 feet total
| length. The rod which holds it consists
of perforated iron tube inside one of
zinc. Every beat of the pendulum has to
regulate the motion of something like O
ton and half of metal, in the form of
hands, counter and clock ma
chinery, and yet SO delicately is it suspend
ed by slip of spring steel that one Sill
gle ounce placed upon it at particular
spot would affect the rate of regulation
| All the Yeur Bound.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-03

IT is not only ON the fishery question
that American industry and enterprise
are suffering at the hands of British Gu
pidity, but the wheat shippers of Cali
fornia find themselves overreached by
the sharp practice of English purchasers
Wheat has generally been sold by sample,
and in several cases when the cargo has
arrived, the purchaser, on the plea that
the consignment was not up to sample,
has refused to accept it without reduc-
ton from the stipulated price. The
Board of Arbitration at Liverpool in de-
Gliding all such cases show u leaning to-
wards the interest of the buyer whom
they are supposed to have "seen," and
against the seller, whom they have not
seen. In recent trial, after an award
of pence per Genital had been made
against the seller, it was found that
fraudulent samples had been submitted,
when the finding of the Board was re-
versed. The American shippers of meats
and live stock have recently met with a
similar experience in the markets of Lon
don and Liverpool. The Produce Ex-
change of San Francisco are trying to hit
upon some means of circumvcnting these
frauds Let Secretary Evarts write Sails
bury few lines.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-03

ENGLISH Judges not only have facil-
ity in disposing of cases tried before
them which their American brethren
would do well to emulate but they have
a very practical way of discussing ques-
tions that incidentally arise during a
trial. A pickpocket was recently ar
raigned before Sir Robert Garden in Lon
don for stealing purse from young
lady's pocket, while she was cruising up
Cheapside on shopping excursion. The
prosecuting witness was full rigged-
trailing skirts and monkey jacket-and
stated in her examination that she usu-
ally carried her purse in her hand, but,
having occasion to raise her dress at a
street-crossing, she placed her purse in
her jacket pocket. The pocket was way
astern on the starboard quarter, where
fashion dictates that it must be con-
hructed, and was of course out of the
sight of the owner. A moment after the
pocket was emptied by an adroit thief,
but he was caught in the act and
natched up. In disposing of the case the
judge passed sentence upon this style of
pocket worn by the prosecutrix.
He thought this case ought to be a
lesson to ladies not to wear
their pockets behind them, and
that as thus worn 'they were the most
monstrous things in the world" 1t
seemed to him that the absurd fashion
might have been brought about by those
who were interested in picking pockets,
and that they were really inducements
for thieves to pick them. He had in
walking about the city been often tempt
cd to try his hand at them Sin order to
show how easy it could be done" As
the ladies persist in wearing their dresses
so long that both hands are sometimes
necessary when double reef is required
at a muddy street crossing the pockets
contents are left unguarded and un'
watched. As these "monstrous things
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-03
Physicians are Amazed.

Patients delighted, the doubtful silenced
and all who have eyes to see or ears to
hear, more than satisfied by the absolute
certainty with which Hale's Honey Of
Horehound and Tar cures coughs, colds,
hoarseness, and every affection of the lungs
and throat, tending to consumption.
Pixies Toothache Drops cure toothache in
one minute. Sold by all druggists at 25c.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-03
So 1t was.

A poor woman in Milwaukee, unable to
feed her eight-year-old boy, resolved to
kill him. She took him on bridge over
deep water, and, although he clung to her,
and implored her not to drown him, threw
him into the water. lie was, however,
rescued,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-03

AN AMERICAN might refuse the
Kingdom Of Bulgaria, but offer him the
crown of the King of Siam, with its at
tendant train of three thousand wives,
and observe how quickly he will snap
ut it.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-03

are gloried in by the American female
when full rugged for street sailing, the
Judges admonition is of practical utility
on this side the Atlantic.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-03

THE St. Louis merchants have consid-
erately postponed their expedition to
Mexico to an indefinite date next year.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-03

How much of our five and half
millions, mackerel money, was lavished
in that royal reception in Canada?
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-03

Sudden changes of temperature produce
coughs, colds, sore throats and lung disor-
ders, which DR.. Jayne's Expectorant can
be relied on to cure
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-03

For an elegant meal 60 to Lew. Boman's $
81 West Fourth street.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-03
A CRACK FINE-YEAR-OLD.

NASHVILLE, TENN, Dec. 3.--Gen W. G. Hard
ing OF the famous Belle Meade Farm, has pur-
Great Tom by King Tom, dam by Votigeur, and
own brother to King Craft. Price $1,000
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-03
SPORTING NEWS.
The Gloves.

A glove contest will take place Saturday night
at the Senate" No, g. West Fifth street, between
Jimmie Lyons and "Furgie" Bert. They are
youthful at the biz" but right lively time is
pNppptpQ.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-03
nal Associated Press to the Star.

y IIEf1FI TWIN f17V7'fTFF71''
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 3-Daniel OLeary, the pc
destrian at O'Clock last evening began his walk
of four hundred miles in one hundred and twen-
ty-four hours
Special to the Star
National Republican., 1878-10-22
HONEST MONEY,
TO know,

We notice lurking disposition on the
part of that portion Of the public press
which resisted the reconciliation of silver
with great bitterness, and which have been
exceedingly denunCiatory of the measure
and its friends since it became an accom-
plishcd fact, to withdraw from the General
Government the right to issue paper money
at all, and thus throw the country back
upon the national banks or the exploded
rotten system of State banks for our paper
currency. 1t would be n sad day for the
prosperity of the business interests of this
nation when that step backward shall be
taken. THIS country had an experience Of
Il quarter OF century with State banks,
and it will require q full century to wipe
out the recollection of the losses and disas-
ter. that were entniled upon the business
interests Of the country through those in
sutulions During the period Of their
existence We lad no uniform paper cur
rcury for the purposes Of trade aud COM
mcrCc,
The losses to the people through bank fail
ures were immense; presentation Of the
correct figures, Or even an approximate to
them, would be astounding, But that was
not all; there was steady drain upon the
resources Of business, under a system of dis
counts where Interstate trade was carried
on The bills Of Ohio banks and those of
interior New York, were heavily discounted
at the metropolis Of trade and commerce.
New York State money was discounted in
New England rs was that Of Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, and the South, The bills Of Il
Maine bank were regarded with suspicion
in Louisiana, and rice re,sd, An individual
National Republican., 1878-10-22

THE idea that the Republican Campaign
Committee here in Washington has had
anything to do with the recent political
outbreaks in South Carolina is simply
preposterous, II was put forth in all the
force and emphasis of double-leaded type
by the Post t-erior; but no respectable or in
telligent journal OF the North has taken II
up with any other view than to laugh at Ii
as an idle and empty campaign slander. In
the South, however, where the Nulli6cation
Democracy seeks any kind Of an excuse,
however fimsy, to Justify the course of
GARY's red-shirt legions, this bit OF Mum
chausenism will be reproduced as un-
doubted truth The result will be to incite
further depredations upon the rights and
lives of innocent and inoilensive citizens in
that section by the already willing reOr-
sanized Ku-Klux and White Leaguers. In
short, the idea was conceived with an in
ccndiary intent, for the purpose of furnish
Ing the Southren bull-dozers with an excuse
for further outrngcs. II will be taken up
by them and made war-cry Of They will
say that tho "niggers" have been armed by
the Radicals at Washington, and offer the
POst-erior's assertion rs proof of the asser-
tion. The moral consequences will rest
Jointly upon the orignators of the lie and
those who carry it out 10 its logical re-
snlts
National Republican., 1878-10-22
WHAT Is TO he /?

This day two weeks hence the elections
will be held which will decide the political
complexion OF the Forty-sixth Congress.
Butequally important for the struggle oflSsO
will be decided the question of State SUI
premacy. The Republican party has every
thing to hope for-nothing to despair. Con-
scous Of its integrity Of purpose, consistent
withal, and with unbrokeu columns, victory
is certain Committed to no financial
heresics, weighed down by no disastrous
legislation of its own, but standing firm
upon the rock of honor, and having the con-
sciousncss Of ever having legislated for the
common good, the Republican party must
be victorious. The great Middle States
will pronounce their dictum in November,
and which will only be the pioneer of their
decision in 1eSO. The Democracy may joy
fully anticipate, but their doom is sealed
The Eastern and Western States will coin
eide with their Middle States brethren in
their decision, and down, far down in the
depths of iniamy, dishonor, inconsistency,
and disgrace will the opponents of Repub-
licanism be consigned. The country will
live, resumption will take place, business
revive, misery and distress be no more, and
the demagogues and charlatans who have
had temporary power will be forever sunk
in infamous obscurity.
National Republican., 1878-10-22
SOUTH CARoLISA's DEFENSE.

The Charleston NerS aud Courier is de-
voting much time and space to set its party
right before the country by writing at SAM
LEE, as it calls him, and SwAIIs, MS it dis
trguishes him, who has presided over the
State Senate, and is now candidate for re-
election The trouble in South Carolina is
that the Democrats have attempted in this
election to crush out freedom Of political
opinion and action by force of arms, instead
of leaving them to the arbitnmcnt Of the
moral forces Of opposing sentiment, clothed
in reason, peace, and liberation. 1t Is of
this that the people Of the North and the
Government itself have just cause Of conf
plant. All that is asked Of South Carolina
is that it shall respect the Constitution and
the laws which assure TO every citizen equal
rights before the law. The right of opinion
aud the right to exercise that opinion in
public or private discussion. The right to
hold public meetings for the DISCUSSION of
the political questions of the day without
interference or mOlcstatiou. The right to
vote as the judgment and convictions of the
citizen may dictate; and all this without
being assailed by armed force and proscrip-
tive persecution for opinion sake.
The Charleston Ners and Courier attempts
a faint and feeble justification Of the out
RACES at White Oak, after virtually admit
ting all that is materially alleged against
the Democrats in that regard. 1t admits
that the Democrats, in armed force and clad
in the emblematic red shirt, denOting blood,
invaded and dispersed the Republican meet
ing at White Oak. II admits that the Re-
publicans, as they had clear right to do,
ondGavored 10 protect their meeting from
this outrageous and indefensible invasion.
1t admits that the red shirts rode up to the
meeting in much larger force, when the
meeting had been broken up by the unwar-
rnntable interference of those who had not
been invited aud were not welcome 10 the
meeting coming Us they did, in the inter
est Of mischief. II admits that wh en- the
rcd shirts rode up, armed, as they were
with rifles, there was Il general dusting Of
the dusky crowd" II admits all that
Mr.. SWAI,s has set forth rs to their
! Treatment Of him while going peaccably
. toward his home after his meeting hdd been
Adjourned and dispersed by the intruding
Democrats, but claims that he should have
submitted tpmcly to their attempt to pa
rade him insolentIy through the town where
he resides, and which he represents in tho
State Senate without going his own way
when such an outrageous interference will
personal freedom and right is not tOlerabl'
among civilized people. II admits that th,
Democrats mtrrlrrcd to prevent his peace
full entrance into the cOurt-hOu5e Of his owl
county, and that shots were fired and on,
man was shot by those who had attcmptr,
to prevent him by force from going peace
ably about his business. After the MAJ
was wounded Tor attempting to protect Mr.
SwAILs from violeuce, then the latter, ac
National Republican., 1878-10-22

The certainty of the absence of the
Hon" PorrAH from the next House does
not strike terror 10 the heart Of the average
Tildenized Democrat The truth is, as we
have often said Mr.. POTTER was dragooned
into his disreputable connection with the
so-called Title Investigation, end his re-
spectacle name was used by the Greaser
oonspirators to add dignity and force to
their seditious plans Now that he has
stepped down and out from their midst
they begin to throw mud at him with the
same vigor that would characterize the
ISLANDERS of gang of thieves against one of
their number who had turned States evi-
dence. The vicarious Baltimore Gazette
leads of in this vein as follows:
There will be no CLARKsoS n. PorTBR In
the next House of Representatives. Nature is
kind, however. She has a natural antipathy
for yacuums Perhaps some unknown man
with pair Of whiskers will turn up In the
November elections.
National Republican., 1878-10-22
PERSONAL.

srAroS SCHROEDER U s. ", is anchored at tho
Riggs House,
JrpGEJ, NJ wooDwoRTH, Of Omaha, Is registered
at the Arlington
GovERSOR }. A. BuRBASK, Of Indiana, is booked
at the Ebbiu House.
H. ELMER, Z, 3. ~, and G. A. Hull L. 5. A are
al the Ebbu House.
TuG Manchester baseball nine are stopping at
tI.u Imperial Hotel.
sIn GEoRGE CAMPBELL NJ. p, Of Scotland, Is a
guc,t At the Rigs House.
CpuuTNEY says hG will not row again until people
believe him to be- honest
HARTFORD has lost Its oldest lawyer, by the name
Of EHstus smith, aged 70.
Tux Grand Duke Alexis has turned up In Paris
Us lunk and aS hOmcy as ever.
f. : IsIIAM Of Chicago, and Leroy +. YOumaus,
South Carolina, are nt WOrnCys.
EbwARD OvEHTUS, formerly Pennsylvania Con.
grC,smum died ar Elmira last week,
Hos. ". NJ. IoSU, United States Consul at Pan.
anna J., registered at the Ebb,tt House.
THE Duke Of Ehuburg will be on hand 10 wei.
come the IpTucs when they reach Canada.
THOMAS \. VAL, superinten lent Of tho railway
mail svT Ice, h slupping al thc ltIgSs House
Isaac lAwrON, proprietor Of IN" smith FDrlfr
Tinr, rvnI South America, Is Gt the Ehbltt House.
1IlE father uf James German, living with hun IN
the east part ui Tainngc, Is now 10 years Oll aud
has voted at every election since he came ~ The
National Republican., 1878-10-22

country He Is still in good health aud in posses.
tAlch.) Eagle
W. sAsBuRs and @, II. Cavington, New. York,
ungton.
Miss SUSAN B. ANTHONY has begun lecture tour
through Ohio. Virginia. West Virginia, and neigh
boring States.
DR. THOMAS of Chicago, Is accused Of preaching
undenominational views, and has received warn
ing therefor.
JANE GORDON BENNETT made his sister splen.
dd wedding present on her marringc-no less than
CAPTAis G. c. TosPKIss, late United states Mar.
shal Of Colorado, has been sent to the Western
Lunatic Asylum, at staunton.
L. l. BRIaHAa, of New York y. c. HOLMES New
Jersey 5. II. Rainey, New York, and W. l. Neby,
virginia, are at the Ebbitt House.
RErREsESrATIvE ALEXANDER II, STEPHENS once
made . large fortune as lawyer and farmer, and
lost II In the effort 10 maintain q newspaper.
| CHARLES KApE, Of Brooklyn; Miss J. Kimball,
New York; W. II. Ii. Green, Mississippi, aud W. II:
Camp and wife, Connecticut, are at the Imperial
E.B. WARREN and wife, OF Philadelphia; Il. O.
st. Clair and wife, Michigan Mycr Stern, New
York and Fred Weber, Baltimore, arc at the Riggs
House.
wife, famous old couple Of Cornwall, w. the par.
ents OF nineteen children, was celebrated few
days ago.
CoLosEL BOB ISGEnsoLL lectures on Burns. His
lecture Is said to abound In scores OF excellent
| remedies for those unfortunate sccidents.-Syrd
cnsc Standard
A CRAZY girl In North Carolina was discovered
| the other day playing with a rattlesnake, from
which she had removed the nttles without any
harm from the reptile
A GOOD looking young lady Of Fonda, N. Y, wa,
caught The other evening snok knga cigar, and gave
| as reason for the act that 1t made II smell as
II there was a man around"
So STRONG an attachment IA said to exist between
Milo. Blanca del Grillo, Mime. Ristoris daughter
| aud her mother, that tho young lady Is unwilling
| ever 10 marry and to be separated from her.
Ex-GovERsoR J. I. HOFFMAN and family are sale
| to DO living handsomely in Paris on the Place Ven
dome, aud Mrs. Hoffmans receptions are said TO b.
among the most brilliant Of the American colony.
CLARA LOUISE KgLLoGGs ago has at last been as
ccrtained. She is forty-two. This is the missinI
/ link, and Americas only genius now answers u
all Of the qualifications OF being fair fat and forty
National Republican., 1878-10-22

THE progress of TALK-A-HEAP BLACK
BURN in the pending campaign in the
Northern States is everywhere impedcd by
an irreverent public curiosity regarding his
war record. The Detroit Free Press well
coined him to that city with the following
brief paragraph:
Tho Democracy Of Detroit know Hon. J. c.
g. BLACKBURN, OF Kentucy, who speaks on the
political issues Of the day this evening at the
Detroit Opera-Housc, too we'll by reputation.
The phrase "too well by reputation
herein used, signifies recollection that
BLACKBURN is double-iyed traitor-first
to his country in the war for secession and
second to his State, which never die secede.
fine specimen of modern Democratic
campaigner is this chairman of the Demo-
cratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
National Republican., 1878-10-22

Democrats, for IL is certain that the en-
oroachment of Southern Democratic power
in the Government is beginning TO alarm
them. The fact that the next House may
be constitutionally called upon to decide
who shall be President after 1881 is be-
coming better known. There is therefore
a gratifying assurance for the future in the
present situation, one that will more than
compensate for the disnppointmcnts of the
ofi-year, which are. after all, as apt to dam
age one side rs the other
National Republican., 1878-10-22

THE Baltimore Gasene criticises our de-
votion to the Protestant religion for the
reason that we give Democrats and the
Democratic party a keel-hauling occasional
ly, in manner becoming their deserts The
Gasetto seems to forget that the Protestant
religion Is at war with Satan and all his
family, and until the Democratic party
ceases to be coparceners with that power, il
must expect to share in the consequences Of
that unpleasantness
National Republican., 1878-10-22

THE New York Times says, editorially, in
regard to the condition Of affairs in South
Carolina: "The empty protestations of the
President are mere subject for laughter
" in South Carolina, where the fre-eaters
reason very simply, The President is
under HAMpToS's thumb, aud HAMPTON
o Is under ours"
National Republican., 1878-10-22

THE Administration is being arraigned by
its former friends in the South for the al
legged crime" of following in the footsteps
of its immediate predecessor. This is sad
but it is Il kind Of sadness over which very
few true Republicans will shed many tears.
President HAYES has, in fact, done no more
and no less than President GRANT did
under similar circumstances, in response to
the demands of the suffering and prescribed
citizens of the South, who elect to rank
themselves rs Republicans A Democratic
House in the present Congress succeeded in
crippling the power Of the Executive by re-
stricting the efficacy of the military arm of
the Government; but the President is
nevertheless determined to assert every re.
source which remains to him as Chief Mag
istratc for the protection OF the voters of
South Carolina and every other Southern
State. The empty cry of "Grnntisn' will
not deter him from his duty.