smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879




In the Graphic of yesterday appeared o
report of nm interesting conversation on
sThe Future" in which tho gentleman
upon whom the onus of answering fell in
dulged in predictions which, for number
and variety, cast into the deepest shade the
most oracular utterances of our other
esteemed metropolitan contemporaries. We
are informed that the present year will be.
in general, prosperous, although there will
be u widespread interest in precious metal
mining, q dangerous speculative feeling in
other industries, q partial failure of crops
and two important failures. in Wall street.
The prosperity of the year is to be as de-
ccptive a. that Of the seven fat kline Of
Pharaoh, however, for an unsuspcctod
weakness of our national banking sys-
tenn promises to expose itsolf. the bal
ancc of trade is to shift to tho
other side, Secretary Sherman mny be
nominated for the Presidency, aud foreign
war and new pcstilence, or an old one
with tendency to visiting, may be ex-
pected in the not remote future. AS these
predictions are in the line of contem-
poraneous human interest IL naturally
follows that sensible people will want
to have them at hand, where they
can follow them up. We. therefore,
scissor and reprint tho list, SO that
our readers may not complain that we
have left them unwarned. Between bless
ings and Affections the line Is drawn with
reasonable consideration, but there is still
enough OF warning in these prophecies to
cause any prudent man to keep his weather
ave omen.
Year: 1879

GENERAL TERRY, who is good authority on
such matters, does not believe Sitting Bull will
make an unprovoked attack ON the whites.
Perhaps not, but battles are frequently started
by the irresponsible ''bummers" Of one side or
the other, and even competent commander like
Sitting Bull cannot expect to be free Of these.
Year: 1879

One MURDERED SAILOR was legally avenged
yesterday by the sentence Of the murderer who
kept sailors den, to life imprisonment 1t il
to be regretted that the prisoner cannot be
accompanied by most of his clan.
Year: 1879

The murder Of Judge Elliott at Frankfort,
KY, rs told in the HERALD's dispatches to-
day, is one of those revolving crimes which
seem to palliate, if they do not justify. the
summary punishment Of their perpetrators
at the hands of an incensed community.
A judge of the Court Of Appeals who has
rendered decision in case in which he
can have no interest save that Of doing equal
justice and vindicating sound principles of
law is met in the public streets by the
suitor against whom the Judgment of the
Court has been given, and without q word
Of warning is shot through the heart and
laid dead on the sidewalk. The murderer,
on being arrested, admits that the second
barrel of the gun with which the crime was
committed was loaded for the assassination
of another of the judges, and would have
been used upon him had not some
children been in the way. So mis-
erable o murder is inconsistent with the
idea of q sound mind. 1t is charitable to
believe that the mans brain must have
been affected, probably by his legal trou-
bles, until he was insane enough to regard
even the calm judicial tribunal before
which the case was argued as his personal
enemies. The excitement that prevails at
Frankfort is natural after such a crime !;
but it is to be hoped that justice will be
carried out in proper form and that the
murderer will be punished according to
the provisions of law after fair trial. In
this case, as in the Porter butchery in
Texas, the failure of justice would reflect
upon and seriously injure the communities
in which the crimes were committed.
Year: 1879

WALL STREET YEsrERDAY.-The stock mar
ket was more active and prices were higher.
Government bonds were firm, States dull and
railroads higher. Money on call lent at 6
per cent until the close, when the rate was per
cent.
Year: 1879

bureaus, the simplihoation of the govern
ment machinery and the stoppage of the
great leakages that are to be found in almost
all the supplies furnished and work done
for the city.


The Mayor thinks that the salaries of
the Police and Fire departments ought to
be fixed by law, and in this the HEnALD
concurs 1t would be unad dvisable to allow
the politicians to bid for the support of
these departments with promises Of in
creasing the pay. In the Educational de-
partment the Mayor believes that the sala-
ries should be under the control of the
Board of Education, because the differences
in the grades and qualifications Of teachers
make it inexpedient for the Legislature to
attempt to fix their respective salaries by
law. But the salaries might be graded by
law, leaving the Board of Education to
classify the teacf@rs in accordance with
their qualifications The people have not
much confidence in q Board which has cut
down the teachers salaries without reduc-
ing tho total cost of the department, and
with no other effect than to leave large
amount to be squandcred on book jobs,
supplies, repairs and similar expenditures.
No doubt the salary account of our city
government is extravagant and ought to be
in some manner reduced and limited but
there is little prospect that a Legislature
which wastes its time in sqnabbling over
insignificant economies will afford any sub
stantial relief to the overburdened city.
Year: 1879




It is strange, but true, that a love af-
fair should have developed the present
system of postage stamps. But Glove
rules the camp, the court, the bar" and
why not the post office? Sir Rowland
Hill, whose death was announced re-
Gently, when on one of his philanthrOpic
and discovery tours through England,
stopped one evening at a north country
inn. While sitting with other travellers
warming himself at the kitchen fire, the
pOstman brought in the mail. Among
other persons who received a letter was
kitchen lassie. She took the letter
from the carrier, turned it over and over
in her hands, looking wistfully at it all
the time, and at last handed it back to
the postman, remarking: " | have no
money to pay the postage on a letter
from india" Rowland Hill stepped for
ward and said: q will pay the postage
rather than have you deprived of the
pleasure of a letter." and handed her the
required sum, which she received with
evident gratitude and surprise. After
she left the kitchen another traveller
said: "That is her game; she knew all
that was in that letter from certain
marks that was on the outside. It was
from a sweetheart in India, and before
he went off they agreed upon some sign
by which she was to learn if he was we'll,
prosperous and when coming home, and
when letter is brought to her she ex-
amines the outside and knows all that she
wants to, but makes that excuse in re-
turning it. Mr. Hill went in search Of the
girl and by adroit questioning, found his
fellow travellers guess to be correct. The
girl also showed him how she deciphered
the signs, telling him at the same time
that she was too poor to pay the post
age, and that was the reason she and
her lover had agreed upon this plan.
From these facts Mr.. Hill inferred that
the Government must annually be de-
frauded by such articles of large sums,
and he began planning q system Of
stamps which would secure to the Gov
ernment a certain postal revenue. The
present postal system is the result.
Year: 1879




At a recent meeting of the Odontolegi-
cal Society of Great Britain, Mr. Hep
burn read a paper on the result of his
Investigations on the subject of the eff
feet of smoking on the teeth. lie con-
siders that the direct action of nicotine
upon the teeth is decidedly beneficial.
The alkalinity of the smoke must neces-
sarily neutralize any acid secretion
which may be present in the oral cavity,
and the antiseptic property of the n1co-
tine tends to arrest putrefactive changes
in carious cavities. In addition, he is
inclined to believe that the dark deposit
on the teeth of some habitual smokers is
largely composed of the carbon with
which tobacco smoke is impregnated
1t is this carbon which is deposited on
the back part of the throat and lining
membrane of the bronchial tubes; and
with whatever disastrous effect it may
act in these situations, he thinks we are
justified, from what we know of its anti
septic properties, in concluding that its
action upon the teeth must be beneficial
Moreover, this deposit takes place ex-
actly in those positions where carries are
most likely to arise and on those sur
faces of the teeth which escape the or
dinary cleansing action of the brush.
1t is found interstitially in all minute
depressions, and filling the assures on
the coronal surfaces. It may be re-
moved with scaling instruments from
the surface of the enamel, but where it
is deposited on dentine this structure
becomes impregnated and stained In
deed, it is only when the enamel is
e. s- 10, Il
that any true discolorati0n of the tooth
takes place; but it is remarkable, he
says, how the stain will penetrate even
through minute cracks, provided the
necessary attention to cleanliness be not
exercised. The staining power of to-
bacCo oil may be seen when deposit
has taken place on the porous surface of
tartar collected on the posterior surface
of the inferior incisors. In this situa-
tion a shiny ebony appearance is Occa-
sionally produced. That tobacco is
capable of allaying, to some extent, the
pain of toothache, is, he thinks, true, its
effect being due not only 10 its mar
cotizing power, but also to its direct ac-
tion upon the exposed nerve; and he is
inclined to attribute the fact of the
comparatively rare occurrence of the
toothache amongst sailors, in great meas
ure, to their habit of chewing. He sas
been struck, in the case of one or two
confirmed smokers who have come IN
der his notice, by the apparent ten
dency which exists toward the gradual
production Of complete necrosis of
carious teeth, and the various stages of
death of the pulp, and death of the per-
iOsteum taking place without pain or
discomfort to the patient This condi-
tion may, of course be brought about
by variety Of influences; but in these
special cases he is inclined to think that
the presence Of nicotine in the mouth
has acted powerfully. The experience
of other speakers, in the subsequent
discussion, appeared to corroborate that
Of Mr.. Hepburn.
Year: 1879

The erection of the colossal head of


Liberty designed by Bertholdi for the
New York roadstead is making rapid pro-
gress at tle back of the Palais de PIN
dustr'e, and the public will shortly be
able to visit its interior Thanks to the
success of the Franco-American lottery,
the whole of the monument will be com
pleted in less than two years, and before
its departure for its transatlantic destin-
alton will be pat together temporarily for
inspection by the Parisians. The height
of the monument, it may be remarked,
will be about that of the Vendome Col
vImu y
Year: 1879

THE infiltration system of sailing beef
by filling the blood vessels with brine is
attracting considerable attention in Aus
tralia. In some recent experiments at
Brisbane bullocks were treated as follows:
At the instant of. killing the animals
heart was laid bare and incisions were
made in both ventricles. Into the orifice
of the left ventricle pipe was inserted,
and a stream of weak brine was forced
through the blood vessels, washing out all
the blood Pressure was obtained by
having the brine in an elevated tank. At
ter the expulsion of the blood the right
ventricle was closed by a clamp, and
stronger brine was forced in until all the
blood vessels were full. In this way the
distribution of the brine through every
part of the meat is said to be complete
and the curing perfect. 1t is proposed to
send to the Sydney Exhibition a whole
bullock thus preserved.
Year: 1879

FORTUNE, never tired of favoring the
Irish, has bestowed upon them another
distinction In the hands of one of their
race is at last the largest diamond One
Mr.. O'Flaherty has found, we are told,
at the Cape Fields, no tiny gem, but
huge mass of brightness weighing one
hundred and fifty carats, and promising
to be very mine of wealth. The largest
every known before when cut proved
only to weigh one hundred and eighteen
and a half carats; the Koh-i-noor does
not boast of more than two-thirds that
weight; yet an Irishman, whose claim is,
it seems, in the very middle of the
diamond mud, has quietly lifted this
large and brilliant stone from the earth
and taken it down to the Cape. He is
said to have three courses open to him
he can dispose Of it at once to SPECTATORS
on the spot; or, bringing it to England,
he can sell it to be cut; or he may have
ii cut at his own expense, and take his
chnnce Of a colossal fortune or compare
lively little,
Year: 1879

1t is shown in prison registers that
crime is generally co-existent with ig-
norance and an Unbalanced brain, in
which the faculty of arithmetical calcu-
lation is almost wholly lacking. Spo-
radio crime among the educated and
those Of honest parentage amounts to but
two per cent. This is an overwhelming
argument in favor of preventive meas
ures and their value above corrective
penalties-in fact, in favor of general
and, as far as circumstances Will permit,
thorough education.
Year: 1879

SOME day woman of noble impulses
and strong right arm viii be granted
to earth, and then the man who is in the
habit of looking back over his shoulder
at ladies he has passed on the street will
try it once more and then quit, because
that woman is born to hithim; and when
she does do it, he viii be only good for
the doctors to practice on for the next
si < months. Il Steuben1ille Herald.
Year: 1879

MANY tinid woman would willingly
and unfinchingly stand before the can
mons mouth, provided the canon were
piece of church ordinance, and the
charge simply to " love, honor and obey"
Year: 1879

"A clergyman said that he once visit
ed a lady OF his parish, who had just
lost her husband. in order to effer
consolation. and upon her earnest in.
quiries as to the reunion Of families IN
heaven, he strongly asserted his be-


lief ir that fact; and when she asked


with anxiety, whether any time must
elapse before friends would be able to
find each other in the next world, he
emphatically said: "No! they will be
united at once" He was thinking Of
the happiness Of being able to offer the
tho relief ofsuoh faith, when she broke
in upon such meditation by exclaim-
ing sadly. well, his first wife has
got him. then by this time u ro


Mr.. Editor. some of your readers
may think this rather singular ques.
ton, and some may smile at the idea
Of it, but to me it is rather . very seri-
Gus and pertinent question. For
we all hope for futureliie and re-.
union Of spirits. Happily l have but
one wife. and If death should part us,
I hope our reunion will be with un-.
divided affection as twas here on earth
for the very query above is sufficient,
to cause me not to marry again it l
should have the misfortune to lose
my wife. - 10 a sr "a.


It is said I'm heaven there shall be
no marriages nor giving in marriage"
Poor maidsns, how I sympathize with
you even the Bible gives you no con.


ISOLATION Of future happiness; even in
heaven you shall not enjoy the burning
kiss, or ardent embrace of lover or
husband you shall have no dear little
ones to fondle you, and call you the
dear sweet name of mother. I myself
cannot solve the proposed mooted ques-
ton, nor do 1 think can any divine or
spiritualist give you an answer to this
perplexing question. As for the bach.
elors, have no sympathy for. them ;
they could marry if they would. no
excuses about cost and responsibilities
true wife does anything to get along,
will even sacrifice wealth and life to
save true and worthy husband "


Again, if you have lost wife, father
or child years ago, and Of course liv-
ing so long in the spirit land and realms
of bliss. are they by experience in
spiritual life and spheres nots far i'd
vanced that they, even the
child, would have to be q teacher to
his parent who reaches there (the
spirit land,) years thereafter, just as
the immigrant to.a foreign CLINE and
country has to get information from
old settlers, These questions are not
propounded from an idle curiosity, but
from a sincere desire to arrive at cor.
rect conclusion. Any divine or phil
osipher who will unravel them, will
oblige. INoUIsITIvE.
Year: 1879

IT is said that the general denunciation OF
the Chinese emigrant bill by the leading
papers of the country is causing the advocates
of the measure in the Senate considerable an.
noyapce, and many of those who voted for 1t
are understood to regret their action already.
The bill will doubtless encounter stronger op-
position in the House, TO which body it has
been transmitted for concurrence in the
amendments inserted by the Senate, than 1t
did when the measure was passed.
Year: 1879

A CONFEDERATE paper in central Mis-
souri, comes up out of the bush and exclaims
exultantly that while Senator Logan will be
the only man Of any prominence who served
in the union army during the war in the
next senate, there will be seventeen confed-
crate brigadlers.
Year: 1879

ness of duty performed. And it will
PAY, as honesty always does in the long
run. -, C si


Let me ask each one of you, Where
would John. B. Baldwin have stood
upon these questions? You knew him
well, honored him, and thoroughly con-
fided in his good sense, integrity and
patriotism. In likamanner your faith
ers knew and confded, in his 'illustrieus
father, the pure and upright Judge, as
they knew and honpred that other emf.
nent man whom I have attempted brief
ly to sketch. No candid man who
knew these three could doubt or hesitate
to declare what stand they would have
taken had these questions arisen in their
day, or would now take If they were
living. Q.sd 1g5{ a.asl n5


Suffer me to commend to your sincere
regard and study the lessons taught by
their useful lives, wherein manly in
dependence and downright honesty
were leading traits. bl.


If have written plainly, it is because
am conscious of no other motive than
q warm regard for the homer and well
fare of our State having for myself no
special favors to ask of any one, except
that kindly good will which I cherish
towards my neighbors.


WIN. FRAZIER.
Year: 1879

Notwithstanding the fact that
the newspapers are teeming with
reliable information that the Lead
vile excitement is attracting more
men to that section than can posi-
bly, find employment, hundreds are
daily focking to that point with the
hope of bettering their condition.
We learn that several persons in
this county have got the "feyer"
and will soon be on their way to
Lcadyille.
Year: 1879

AT Dan Ryan's stable, one yoke
of work oxen, one span OF mares,
one span of pony mares, one good
cow, two sett of single harness, one
sett of double harness, one heavy
spring wagon, one buck board with
patent cover, one sulky.


Inquire at this Office, or at the
stable.
Year: 1879

Among intelligent men there is
no longer any question as TO i'm
provement of Stock. The better the
breed, the more money made. Tho
Durham stands at the head Of the
list. Call and see our herd, and
make your purchase soon.


HENRY Bios.
Year: 1879



 The Cincinnati Commercial has this to say relative to the new re- publican paper which rumor has said would soon be started at Little Rock:

 The Republican Publishing Com pany issue prospectus for first class daily newspaper," to be issued on and after the 1st of September next, at Little Rock, and in politics "stalwart." It is to have cores pondents in every county in the State, and publish all the news. IL proposes to make Arkaasas one of the foremost States of the Union, and 70 that end

 "Win truthfully and fearlessly ex- pose the shams, the tricks, the crimes of the Democracy since it assumed power in the State. We shall speak by the card, and always in such manner as to defy contradiction, whether our statement relates to the suppression of personal liberty, the destruction of private rights, the murders or violence enacted to se- cure political supremacy, to the de- falcations, bribery and corruption that have attended the official career Of the Democratic office holders, from the highest to the lowest in this State or elsewhere.

 "We propose to enlghten the peo- pie osthis State, and of all the States, upon the subject of home rule in Arkansas. We shall unsparingly expose the vicious methods, the frauds, intimidation, violence and revolution by which the Democracy secured control in Arkansas and throughout the south, believing that when these maneuvers, covered as they are with slime and infamy, are fully exposed, the honest, fair-mind- ed people of the south wIll repudiate with scorn and loathing the men and the party who have perpetrated them"

 It is understood that ex Senator Dorsey is b provide the brains and shot-guns necessary to attend to this business. Times in Arkansas will be made lively. The chief center of news Tn the State we should say would be the office of the Republican. It should be issued from a block house, and few responsible editors engaged to sit around with their harness oD to wait on folks calling on particular private business.
Year: 1879

Scott county is, Ye presume, just like all other counties h the State so far as her timber, water courses, soil, &c., &c., are concerned; she is a good county. So much the greater is the shame that there is something wrong with the people up there something which gives them an in suitable desire to spill blood, and tAas to keep tale cf violence and murder in Arkansas all the time fresh before the public. The latest deed of blood up there happened on Saturday, the 18th inst, when Sher- if Samuel Leming was shot and killed by Walter Malone, and Malone in turn was shot and mortaliy wounded by some parties who an- dertook to arrest him.

 Malone had been abusing his wife and the Sheriff interfered. His in terference cost him hIs life. Malone resisted arrest and was mortalIy wounded h the struggle

 Do the people of Scctt county real ize the evil they are doing them selves and the whole State by con tinually furnishing these tales of vio lence and blood to the public2

 It must be stopped. Something must be done to put 8 curb upon deeds of violence. Will not the best citizens in that unfortunate county come to the rescue and take the matter in hand? Let it be distinctly understood that law and order will be enforced at any cost, and that lawlessness and violence must cease.
Year: 1879

The Forest City Courier is very justly proud of the vote cast in that town at the School meeting on Satur- day, the 16Lh inst. Out Of l99 votes cast 193 were for Q five mills tax. We don't blame the Courier for boasting. Would that we could make such a showing for Russell vile; but while other towns are ex- ulting over having voted liberal tax for schools we are compelled to have the finger of scorn pointed at us as about the only town in the State which voted down the tax.
Year: 1879

The initial number of the Gen. ter Point News is before us. It is 8 i've column, four page weekly paper just launched out upon the uncertain wave of journalism by Messrs. J. L. Tullis and A. B. Grace-the former ss publisher, and Mir Grace es Edi- tor. The first number will compare favorably with the average newspa- per of the State. We wish the News we'll. We cannot have too many GOOD newspapers 4 good paper is worth a vast deal to any county which desires to prosper and grow in wealth, intelligence and morals.
Year: 1879

The clergyman in Chicago who has just announced that during the summer season he will limit his ser mon to twenty minutes, has made a most palpahle hit. He understands the tendency of the age toward para graphing, and has stumbled on the refreshing thought that brevity is the soul of . sermon as well as of wit