smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

We do not know whether to visit the
greater share of censure ON the persons
who were responsible for the escape and
wandering away of the eleven Texan steers
which created so much terror in the upper
part of the city last Saturday forenoon or on
the uniformed and ununiform ed idiots who
did their best to set the animals crazy and to
risk heavy sacrifice of human life by
their folly. That no person was killed
seems q miracle, especially as three of the
steers were driven 10 stampede through
the streets and rendered as angry and rs
dangerous as terror could make them. If
q little caution and judgment had been ex-
ercised when the wandering herd was first
discovered it would have been compara-
lively easy task to drive them into some
vacant enclosed space, confine them there
and remove them ut leisure. Instead
of that, by means of hooting, yelling,
pistol firing and other experiments three
were from time to time induced to dash off
at full speed, creating a panic among the
people on the streets and doing consider
able damage, but fortunately confning
their fatal attacks to one or two horses One
of the escaped animals turned into vacant
lot at Eighty ninth street and avenue A,
when the police popped their revolvers ut
him until he was sufficiently maddened by
pain and rage to break away again and con-
tinue his dangerous flight.


The owners of the steers have not been
discovered. Probably they never will be.
There ought. however, to be some punish
Year: 1879

that lie had been chosen by. lot to assassinate
his King. Very recently placards were found
on the walls of the Royal Palace, at Laeben
threatening the life of the monarch The
Bclgians have for the past few months,
been greatly excited over the parliamentary
discussions on the educational law which ex-
cludcs the clergy from the religious control in
elementary education, and the recent threat
was to take effect in case the King ratified the
bill The despatch further says that the would
be assassin is insane-which is not to be won
dered at If he has read the debates of the
Parliamentary proceedings
Year: 1879

ment for the carelessness that rendered
such perilous exhibition possible. and
the police and the people ought to be eau
toned in the event of the appearance OF
stray steer in the streets not to turn HIM
into furious and dangerous wild animal
by yelling and hooting and firing random
pistol shots at him that only serve to put
him in pain and never succeed in killing
him
Year: 1879

The WEATHER.-very little change has taken
place in the meteorological conditions through
out the territory east of the Rocky Mountains
except slight but general rise in pressure on
the Middle Atlantic and New England coasts.
The centre of lowest barometer continues to
dominate the weather in the Northwest
and the upper lake regions. The pressure
within it, however, has increased some
what, and there are indications that
IL will develop any serious energy dur
ing it's passage eastward TO the Atlantic
coast. The barometer is above the mean only
over the Gulf coast, and il is likely to continue
50 for the next twenty-four hours, when rise
will take place. Rain fell in the Northwest,
central valleys and upper lake regions. There
were also some light showers experienced OH the
South Atlantic coast. Tho weather was fair or
clear in the other sections of the country. The
winds have been light in all the districts, except
in some sections of the lake regions, where they
Increased to fresh. The temperature fell
decidedly in tie Middle Atlantic and
New England States, remained stationary in
the South Atlantic Gulf and central valley
districts, and rose in the West. The weather
over the British Islands is generally fine, but u
change will take place during the next twenty
four hours. The weather ia New York and its
vicinity to-day will be warmer and fair, with
showers toward night. Tomorrow it will be
warm aud clear.
Year: 1879

THINK of the HERALD being read aloud in
Plymouth Church, and from the pulpit, too |!
The act does credit to the pastors sense, dis
cretion and heart, for if the church is to look
after the publc's manners, morals and intelli-
gence, us well its faith, the records OF the
daily press cannot fail to be ut least as i'm
portant to pastors as many matters at which
they work more and learn less
Year: 1879

AN OLD MAN who was handed over to the
Commissioners of Charities and Correction yes
terday must have been fat money advocate,
for he talked stuff that no one could understand
and was boarding lot of metal scraps bits of
leather &c
Year: 1879

A SINGLE STEAMBOAT ACCIDENT will ruin the
excursion business for the season, and the acci-
dent is sure to come if the crowding of boats
continues-any false alarm will bring it about.
Year: 1879

X TELEGEAM from Washington says that Senator Chaffee, Of Cobra do, proposes to introduce bill in congress to impose an ad valorcm duty ot two per cent. on silver but lion. He considers silver as nothing more than merchandise, and entitled to protection as much as any other ar tic!c on the dutiatle list. The object of the bill is to keep foreign silv, r from coming in and interfering with the product of our ova mines, and i'll that view of 1t We thInk the measure is to be commended. The secretary of the treasury has recently bought considerable silver bullion from Ger many, bullion owners of that country having made special contracts for the safe Of bullion at lower figures than the miners of Navada. Colorado or California can sell 1t. This. says the Stoc.. Report, is all wrong and oil be- half of the silver mining interests of the Pacific We call for protection. The Pennsylvania iron interest, the Massachusetts mill interest and all other interests are protected by a heavy tariff, why should net the sil- yer interest? As Senator Chatfec truthfully says, silver is after all only merchandise no matter how much we may remOnetizc it. Let Us therefore protect our producing interest against foreign competition by some such proposition as that the senator ad- Yances.
Year: 1879



 WASHINGTON, Jan. 1G.-Thc House last night resumed the consideration of the bill authorizing lhe issue of certificates or deposit. Passed.

 In the House this morning the Speaker announced the regular order to he the consideration of the bill re ported last night from the Committee on Ways and Means 10 facilitate the refunding of the National debt and the pending question to be on the passage of the bill. Mills asked Wood to yield for an amendment sub jecting all bonds hereafter issued to taxation. Wood declined to yield for the purpose and the bill passed without discussion.

 The House went into Committee of the Whole on the bill for improv ing the Mississippi.

 The Senate by a vote of 4 yels to 1 nays passed a bill granting arrears of pension as it came from the House.

 \ delegation of the society of friends of Pennsylvania called at the Executive Mansion today. The President indicated that he did moi think fl at all probable that the con  trol of the Indians would be given to the army.

 In the Senate Dorsey submitted q resolution calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury for statement of all appropriations and expenditures
Year: 1879

SWEET, NUTRITIOUS.
Unlike many Flours of the day, these brands
are not made white at the expense of sweetness
and nutriment, but by system recently adopted
are made to contain all the virt,4e Of the grain,
excluding only the bran aud foreign matter.
We propose to keep supply of this brand OF
Flour on hand sli the time. for We consider it
the best now on the market. The trade can 81
ways rely upon getting the best Flour made.
We guarantee satisfaction in all cases. Ask for
CONE s. WESTON'S BEST. For sale BY


ivlT WASHINGTON g. BRO.
Year: 1879

TO supply the extraordinary demand for
Senator Conkiing's Great Speech upon THE
EXTRA SESSION OF 1879; WHAT II
"TEACHEs AND WHAT IT MEANS" The
National Republican Printing Company has
printed a large edition thereof in pamphid
form, Convenient for public distribution as a
RepuJlican campaign document. Copies OF
his pamphlet may be had on application at our
Counting Room or job Office, at the rate Of
$40 per thousand. Orders respectfully solicited
and promptly filled.
Year: 1879

THE formal iniormality of Caucus is to
be done away with by the Bourbons. Car
THURMAN is to make his speech to-day on
the legislative bill, and the faithful will
take their cues therefrom without hesita-
tion or compunctious examination.
Year: 1879

Mr.. HILL tells us if there had been no
Republican party there would have been
no war. He might as well have told us
that if there had never been any sense of
right implanted in the mind of man there
would never have been any struggle for the
advancement of humanity or no aspirations
for a higher life. Verify Mr.. HILL is phi
losopher-of the Southern pro-slavery school,
Year: 1879

Philadelphia Times.l


The cold wave which reached the
West and Northwest on the winter
solstice, December 21, accompanied by
large fall of snow, was modified in
this city and vicinity by warm winds
from the south, which made it day of
snow, rain, fog, ice, sluch and storms.
Since then the wind has been princi-
pal1y from the northwest, and, being
deprived of large portion of its heat
by passing over vast areas of snow, the
weather, to the great joy of dealers in
ice and the vendors of poultry and
other articles likely to be injured by
mild temperature, has grown colder.
On Monday morning the therm ometer
indicated 20 degrees above zero in some
parts of this city, and on yesterday
morning, in like exposure, 1S degrees.
In Europe, and especially in England,
the fall of snow has been unusually
heavy, and in Canada and some parts
Of New York and the New England
States the depth is three feet. The fall
of 50 great a quantity of snow imme-
diately after mild weather which
preceded it is not common, and is due
to climatic influences which might be
traced across the Atlantic. If the cold
weather which is now prevailing should
continue even to a late period in the
spring the winter must be far shorter
than the many which have preceded
it. In the winter of 1886 the ground
was covered with snow from the 25th of
November till late in April, and on the
10th of that month a team loaded with
two tons of iron crossed the West
Branch of the Susquehanna on the ice,
and in 1S74-75 the ground continued
frozen from Thanksgiving Day to the
last of March. Although severely cold
weather is cause of much suffering to
the poor and increases the demands on
the charitable by the diminution which
it causes OF outdoor labor, yet it is not
without its sources of enjoyment and
its benefits. Setting aside the pleasure
and healthful exercise of skating, which
the ice-covered streams afford to the
young and those of larger growth, the
ground by being deeply frozen is more
Year: 1879

The fool with the gun is abroad in
the land Mt this season. The fool il
neither versatile nor ingenious, but he
is effective. He either blows in the
muzzlc to sec if it is loaded, or pulls
the gun to him nIuzzle foremost.
Year: 1879

A good remedy for lice on cattle is water
IN which potatoes were boiled. For every
one Of your cattle take two quarts OF water
md eight middlP-szed potatoes cut in half.
If you have ten cattle you must take eighty
potatOes and twenty quarts of water.
When the potatoes are soft take them out.
Get large sponge and wash them freely,


hoosing warm day. Comb them with II
currycomh, and you will be astonished to
see the effects of the potato water.
Year: 1879

D. 4. Gilman for Lieut. Governor. This
is rubbing it in rather strong, but we must
swallow the crow and save the psrty-for
the politiCians-N0rris Tribune.


Certainly; if you are slave of the ring,
it would he your duty to endorse the devil
himself, if the party should nominate him.
What right have you TO whine and gag at
the dose?-Sc0tt County AdrOcdte.


We have no right, my dear boy; no right
to murmer or whine, but what can man
do but gag when his back teeth are af1oat:
Year: 1879

If the Village Council intend to take any
action in regard to providing water sup
ply in case of fire, now is the time to do So
The fall and winter seasons in this country
are the most perilous, and the cool weather
admonishes US of their near approach
Further delay, unless for good and sufficient
reasons, will be little less than criminal
negligence. Some time during the spring,
committees composed of prominent citizens
waited upon the Council and laid the mat
ter before them, and urged upon them the
imperative necessity of prompt measures
being instituted to avert possible calami-
ty to the village from this source, by pro-
viding a supply of water. The committee
represented the opinions and desires or the
business men and property owners, and it
was the duty of the Council to have taken
some action. 1t would have been no more
than simple act Of courtesy to have done
SO. Apparently no notice was taken of the
matter, at least no regard was paid to the
recommendations. in fact it looks as if the
whole subject had been completely ignored.
| There are but two or three weeks left in
which to secure water supply for use dur
ing the winter season. Reliable insurance
companies refuse TO take small risks, unless
at highest rates, sud old conservative COM
panies will not grant policy on any con-
dition whatever; lfence the merchants in
this village are doing business at a heavy
risk; they are carrying large stecks of
goods in buildings exposed to danger, and
rowerless to protect their property with
either water or an insurance policy.
Year: 1879

of perturbation in which they found her


heir surprise was. scarcely less than
hers when they were informed thai
somebedy who could be no other than
the queen of the fairies, for she was all
in green and gold, and shining bright az
the sun, had come into the house, and
seeing nobody there, had fallen to be-
witching the wheel which, as sure as
fairies were fairies, would never 90 again.


Sand see" continued tile young en-
thusiast, pointing to the handkerchief
tied to the spoke, ''something which she
had left"


The father united the handkerchief
and the sight Of the sterling piece of
coin which it contained soon dispelled
from his mind all suspicion as to the ter
restrial attributes of the lady who had
been honoring his cottage with visit.


The women of the cottage, however,
were off very different opinion. With
them the lady could be no other than the
fairy queen, who must doubtless have
come to tell poor Isabel her fortune; the
spoiled thread was a sign that the first
days of their life would be marked with
disappointment and sorrow, and the
crown piece tied in handkerchief to
tue spoke Of the wheel betokened that
she would in the end arrive by honest in
dustry ID wealth and comfort. Harmless
delusion! 1t lasted but for day. Sun
day came, and the appearance of the
queen of the fairies, in the same dress at
church as the duchess of the manor,
convinced even Isabel that she had been
deceived.
Year: 1879

A woman's glove is to her what his
vest pocket is to man. But it is more
capacious, and in ninety nine instances
out of one hundred it is much better
regulated. A man will carry two dollars
worth Of small change, four matches,
half dozen tooth.picks, a short pencil
and pack Of business cards in his vest
pocket and yet never be able to fiId a
nickel or match or tooth.pick or a
pencil or a card, when he wants it. Not
so with woman. She has the least bit
of glove, and in that glove she carries
the tinicst little hand and wad of bills
and memoranda for her intended pur-
chases, and dress goods samples and car
tickets and maybe a diminutive powder
rag. We have no idea how she does it
how she manages to squeeze those
Thousand and one things into that wee
space. But she does it every time, and
the glove never looks the least bit dis.
composed or plethoric or rutfled. And
when the woman wants any article con-
ccaled about that glove she DOESN'T see IN
to have the least trouble in the world
getting at it. All that is required is a
simple turn of the wrist, the momentary
disappearance OF two fairy fingers and
the desired article is brought to light. It
is wonder that no savant can explain -
st. Louis Journal.
Year: 1879

The late duchess of Gordon, says an
English paper, takin g an airing alone in
her carriage, in remote part Of the Scot
tish highlands, observed at some dis
tance from the road neat cottage sur
rou Eded by a garden. Her grace pulled
the check string, and asked the servants
to go round with the carriage to where
she desired them to stop, while she
crossed the moor to pay the cottage a
visit. The duchess happened to wear a
pclisse trimmed with god lace, and her
hat was ornamented with golden spang


les. A girl about twelve years old, the
only person IN the cottage, was spinning
at the wheel and singing merry strain.
AS soon as her eyes caught the figure of
the duchess approaching, the green dress,
the shining appearance of the hat, on


which the sun shonc, the singularity Of
such visitant in so lonely situation,
all so worked on the imagination of the
little girl that she verify believed the
queen of the fairies had come to reveal
to her some fearful mystery OF fate. In
great terror she escaped to back closet,
where, through small aperture, she
could see without being seen. The sup.


posed fairy queen entered, surveyed the
apartment with curious eye, and then
s.eing the wheel, bethought herself Of
trying to spin. She gave the wheel sew
eral turns, but could not make tolera-


ble thread, though she twisted up all the
carded wool she could find. As some
compensation for any injury her awk-
wardness might have occasioned, her
grace tied crown piece in a handker-
chief that lay upon the table, fixed it to
q spoke of the wheel, and departed.
The girl could. not summon courage to
venture from her hiding-place before her
father and sister came in, nor till some
time after could they extract from her
an explanation of the extraordinary state
Year: 1879

A man will sit up nights for a week,
and do IN enormous amount of thinking
in the daytime, and after pcnning hia
thoughts on paper and rewriting them
about half dozen times, will burst into
an editorial room about half an hour be-
fore going to press with, II don't know
whether you can make it out or not, it
was little point that hadn't seen no.
ticed, and I just thought I'd scratch it off.
Get it in this issue3'
Year: 1879

To be ambitious of true honor, of the
true glory and perfection of our natures,
is the very principle and incentive Of vir-
tue; but to be ambitious of titles, of
ceremonial respects and civil pageantry,
is as vain and little as the things are
which we court.
Year: 1879

As for the ministry, after An extended
reading of its biographical annals
through the whole period of our Ameri-
can history, We hesitate not to express
the belief that there has never been a
time from the first, when our pastors as
body, have been more able, energetic
and Jealous in all good works than they
are to. .day.-Interior.


Brethren. before we sing the next verse
of"John Browns body lies all mouldy
in the grave" let us take look into
the grave ana see if it is there. In these
days of Ohio medical colleges cemetery
isn't no safer than savisgs bank, and it
may be that political glee clubs, who
have been singing the song quoted above,
have been chanting rythmic lie for the
past fifteen years.-Burlington Hdsokeyc.
Year: 1879




A correspondent of the New York
Graphic has visited Maine, and claims
to have gathered some knowledge as TO
the workings of the liquor law of that
State. He says that so strictly is 1t
enforced that YOU cannot get bottle of
skerry or brandy at a drugstore except
upon the prescription of a ply slclan,
and then the quantity sold is limited to
n pint in every instance. No VINE IS
sold to be drank at dinner in hotels, y
persons private supply must be replen-
ished outside of the State. The only
authorized liauer. .dealer is the state
government. ASS State liQug agent "
is appointed by the GovernorsWho opens
IL warehouse. Twenty citizens OF any
town may petition to have town agency
opened, and the Governor makes an III
vestigation of the case. If he is favor
ably disposed, a town agents appointed,
with liquors from the State agency.
When person wants pint OF brandy
he applies to the local agent, but he
cannot have it unless he is known TO be
reputable citizen, or can find some
reputable citizen to identify him as
such The brandy is sold only for
mechanical largely predomlnatlng.



he registers his name in Il book that is
open for the inspection of the pubic.
Great care is supposed to be taken
against allowing this transaction TO oe
repeated too frequently. so much i0r
the manner in which the law is enforced.
Now, as to the manner il winch the law
is not enforced. The city of Portland
has population of $4,000, and one local
agent sltiices to accommodate all the
demands made in the legal way, but it
is not to be supposed that nearly all OF
those $4,000 people abstain from the use
of Intoxicating liquors. Onr authority
states that ) per cent of them drink as
much as they would if there were a
saloon on every corner. A system or
social clubs prevails, by means Of which
the law il success sful!y ev2ded. 1T is
described as follows: An ordinary club
is organized, prOcrIes and furnishes
rooms. A sideboard is one OF the artl-
cles of furniture, and it is we'll laden
4 member of the club drops in, helps
himself. and extends the courtesy OF the
club to friend. The waiter in atten-
dance registers the amount and quality
of the liquor drank, and at the end OF
the month the treasurer Of the club
"assesses that individual {" club dues :"
to a corresponding amount. The pop
ularity of these clubs throughout the
State is marvellous. Such is the state
of society under the Maine law" 1t
may be All improvement, morally, upon
a we'll organized license law III the
minds Of some, but the Governor OF the
State has eneQuivocally declared that it
Year: 1879

LOST CHILD FOUND BY A DoG.-The
(Cal.) Dispatch gives the following
thrilling narrative in relation to a lost
child: The lost boy mentioned in my
last was found the next day after he was
lost, about s O'Clock il the afternoon, in
the sand hills about three miles from
his home. A large party ofmcn had been
diligently searching for him all through
the night, without success, and it was
feared he would not be found alive. AS
it was, he wRs discovered in . very
curious manner. Henry Hackley, who
was one of the hunters, showed the boys
hat to his dog, which gave an intelligent
sniff in it, and at once took the trail and
kept 1t until he came up with the little
fellow. Hackley heard the baying Of
his dog and followed as best he could,
finally coming up with the object of his
search. The little chap was sitting on
the sand, noddng in doze, and when
Haekiey called to him be jumped up
ali d started to run. He was completely
bewildered and neatly frozen to death.
Hackley caught him up tenderly, fired a
gun to let the Others know Of his success,
and carried the younsster home. The
hunters gathetel hurriedly, expecting
nothing else Of course, than to find him
dead. Great was the joy Of all concerned
to see the little shaver safe and well.
He had walked abont in the great reach
of the sand bill nearly thirty hours. Du-
ring the night the wind blew cold and
fiercely, and he could have kept himself
alive only by constant travelling.


A Dutch Judge, on conviction of a
Year: 1879

What was expected Of man and woman
vas that they should sleep every morn.
ing until they woke mp OF their own
accord. But the serpent got into Eden
and thinQs have been muddled ever einos.
Year: 1879

bitterness against the whole social order under
which they live, and yet theT will make no sign
and give no minister or philanthroplst an oppor-
tunity OF touching the source of their reckless
ness Or des pair.
Year: 1879

THE mOst important feature in the
new Internal Revenue Law, is the re-
ductiOn of the tax on manufactured
tobacco from twenty>four to sixteen
cents, and OE snuff from thirty two to
sixteen cents. The bill, as it came
from the House, also included reduc-
tiOn on cigars from six to five dollars,
but this was stricken out in the Sem
ate, and, it is believed, will not be in
sisted upon. Under the bill, as it
passed the Senate, the law goes into
effect the first OF May.