smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

One hundred years ago not .
pound Of coal, or q cubic foot Of
Illuminating gas had been burned
in this country. No iron stoves
were used. and no contrivances for
ecopomizing heat were employed
until DR.. Franklin invented tho
iron framed FIRE place which still
bears his name. All the cooking
and warming in town and country
we're done by the aid of FIRE kindled
on the brick hearth or oven. Pine
knots or tallow candles furnished
the light for the long winter nightA.
and sanded floors supplied the
place of rugs and carpets. The
water used for household purposes
was drawn from deep wells by the
cranking "sweep." No form of .
pump was used in this country, a.
far as we can learn, until after the
commencement Of the present Gen.
tury. There were no friction
matches In those days by the aid
Of which fire "wsnt out" upon tho
hearth, and the timber was damped
so that the spark would not catch,
the alternative remained of wading
through the snow q mile or 80, to
borrow brand Of q neighbor.-
Only one room in any house wAs
warm, unless some of the family
were III In all the rest the tenn
perature was at zero during tho
nights in the winter. The men
and children Of hundred years
ago undressed and went to their
beds in temperature colder than
that Of our modern barns and wood
sheds, and they never complained.
Year: 1877

hand, and threw II with such force
against the floor that the most solid
metal would have received some
damage or bruise thereby. Cesar
was not only amazed, bat alright.
ed with the act; but the artist
taking up the vial from the ground
(which was not broken, but only
bruised together, as II the SUBJ
stance Of the glass had put on the
temperature of brass), drew out an
instrument from his bosom and
beat 1t to It's former figure. This
done lie imagined that be had con.
quered the world, as believing that
he had merited an acquaintance
with Cesar and raised the admira-
tion Of all the beholders; but It
fell out otherwise, for the Emperor
inquired II any other person be-
SIDES himself was privy TO the like
tempering Of glass. When be had
told him NO. he commanded his
attendants to strike off his head.
saying, that should this artifice
come once to be known, gold and
silver would be Of as little value a.
the dirt in the street Long after
this-viz., 1610-we read that,
among other rare presents sent
from the Sophy Of Persia to the
King of Spain, were six mirrors Of
malleable glass 50 exquisitely tenn
pered that they could not be bro.
ken"
Year: 1877

Upon seeing what had befallen his comrade, true as steel, the brave and intrepid Milan rushed to the rescue, blinded by the smoke from the gun of the murderer, and fired; simultaneously MT. w. B. White, Wh0 it will be remembered had placed himself upon guard at a window Of the room, as soon as he could complrehend what had been done, also fired, and the lifeless body of young Lewis fell torn and bleeding to the floor.
Year: 1877

L. Page and son have been cutting wood on
Albrights place III the foothills, near San
Jose. They had noticed for several days that
a number of birds remained constantly upon
2 tree near them, some going and coming
from time TO time. Upon cutting down the
tree tLeN discovered limb with hollow
cavity, some two feet in length and three or
four inches in diameter, in which were two
full-grown birds of some goody species.
There was a small aperature through which
the birds were supplied with food from their
mates. The limb was cut and the birds lib


Grated. They were neither of them able to
tiy, having evidently never been out of their
imprisonment. How they came inside is q
question. 1t is more than probable that the
mother bird was small, and though able to
make her nest in the hollow of the tree and
rear her young, could not extricate them, and
they did not gain strength enough to help


themselves until the hollow had so closed
that escape was impossible Those who ex-
amined the birds think they are about two
years old. They have been fed from their
birth by their bird.fellows through the aper-
a.ure IN the limb of the tree. a nobler in.
stance of devotion even the human family
never exhlblted.-Sdn Jose (CGl) Kercury.
Year: 1877

Not only so, but over and again;
during the last two years, has he
told the editor of this paper that
the Funding Bill was not only un>
fortunate, but clearly unconstitu-
tional, and that he would vote for
no man for the Court of Appeals
until he had absolute assurances
that he would, rs a member Of that
Court, vote with Judge Staples to
make it nullity.


We speak what We do know
when we say these things, and we
speak them to the credit of cur
dead friend, who had the courage
and magnanimity to acknowledge
his error and to turn and try to res
lieve the State of the bondage he
had helped to impose upon her.


Cochran is dead, but his work of
reform must not die. We must
redeem the legislature, and we must
vote for no man for Governor who
is not in favor Of REIMBURSEMENT
ofIthe public debt and determined to
cut the chains of this Funding Bill.
Year: 1877

The death Of Judge Cochran, on
Monday of last week, calls up one
of the most forciblc lessons Of the
day. In 1871 he voted for the
Funding Bill, and, though he died
at the early age Of 40, he lived to
regret that unfortunate and mis-
guided step in his youthful career.
Since 1870 he has been a member
of one or the other Of the houses
Of the General Assembly. In
mitigation of his great mistake it
must be said that this vote for the
author Of our greatest woes was
one of his earliest legislative acts.
lie was then but 35 years of age,
and was misled and deceived by
the message of Gov. Walker, who
had determined to induce the legis-
lature to wrap around Virginia the
chains of financial bondage so that
she could not disengage herself
during the present generation
Gov. Walker made it appear that
the property of the State was ais
most double its actual value. The
tllIacies Of that message are now
patent to all the people Of the
State, and, though they are now
dead and impalcd ON public opin,
ion, they lived long enough to de
ccive the lamentod Senator Coch-
ran.


During his recent Senatorial ca
rccr he was one of the un-
iiinching anti-funders OF the State,
and often has he told lis friends
that his vote for the Funding Bill
was the most unfortunate act OF his
official life.
Year: 1877

qualities for which General Terry has
always been distinguished-"n way
out but to pay out that is the doc
trine, and it is of no small import that
the Southwest speaks thus decidedly.
Time was, and that not long ago,
when the repudiators claimed that all
the country from the Ridge to the
Tennssee border shared their views
ana gave them countenanee. Here
we see one Of her chief. her ablcst and
most trusted leaders taking his stand
for honesty and wisdom, and at his
back the press Of the Southwest.
Year: 1877

truth of what | have just written i'm
theory, in practice, most of them
when elevated to place and power.
utterly ignore the interests Of the
scattered masses and hardly remember
the farmer even while eating the bread
produced by his labor. Now, it seems
to me, is the time when farmers and
others engage in industrial pursuits
should be informed as to the claims
presented 10y the various gubernatori-
al candidates for their support, and in
the exercise of their right Of suffrage
should keep plainly in view the man
who, while showing no improper
partiality for their, or prejudice
against other interests, will give to
them all they can in justice and Of
right demand.


Naturally, the Southside incines to
the support Of Gen. Malone -. but re-
Gently 1t has been alleged that, while
President of the Atlantic, Mississippi
and Ohio Railroad, he was unfriendly
to the interests | have named, and
upon this point we want information.
AS you have been for many years so
prominently and hOnorahly connected
with the agricultural and other indus
trial interests of the State, and official
ly with the administration of the
Virginia Agricultural Society, and
thus enjoyed opportunities for obtain
ing Information not possessed by
those of us who have been differently
situated l respectfully request you to
inform me, and through me the farm
ers of Virginia and Others interested,
what, in your experience, was the
disposition of Gen. Malone towards
the agricultural and other industrial
interests of the State? An early reply
will very greatly Oblige Yours, most
respectfully, &c, VIM. II. MANN.
Year: 1877

through us that way; but what
could we do? Not revolver in the
car except one, and that at the bot
tom Of a yalise. There was no use
for any one to make a start, there
were several ladies in the cars. The
two men at the end of the cars
covered everybody nearly with two
cooked revolyers, liable to go off at
any moment, for their hands trem-
bled violently, showing that they
were themselves excited. So we
obeyed orders to a certain extent,
but not fully, / didn't. / had my
hand up most of the time, except
when wanted to use them down,
because it was a sort of relief to my
arms to change them from their
usual position, but | found time to
put my pocket-book with $4O0 in it
down behind a lady's work-basket,
who occupied the next seat, after
doing which l walked back about
four seats and managed to get my
watch and chain off and down be-
hind my valise on the car floor,
after which little performance my
hands were up good and steady. l
then had nothing on my person
that | thought the thieves would
take except about ten dollars in coin
in one pocket, and l finally worked
up scheme to beat them out of
that. The man who was robbing
the seats opposite me was much
more expert than the other, and got
away ahead of him. After he had
passed me about four seats, and the
other one was at least four seats
from me the other way, | got up
leisurely and crossed the aisle, and
took a seat with man who had
been robbed, and the villain whose
plain duty it was to rob me, over
looked me entirely; so l was not
touched, and was the Only man in
that car who was not "gone
through"


| think it took them about fifteen
minutes to work that car, during
which they kept talking, ordering
passengers what to do, and calling
/ them such nice, familiar names, as
though we all belonged to one fam
ily-nameS that don't look nice in
print. But they finally got through
and left, giving us final order not
to stir out of the car, or we would
get shot, and although l had fully
retained my presence Of mind and
the danger was all over, something
like a streak of lightning or an
earthquake struck me just then,
and l liked to have shock myself to
pieces. In fact, l have hardly got
done shaking yet.


You know all about the robbery
of the express car and what took
place then, so | will close this al
ready too long letter. NJ.
Year: 1877

What Little Wsrren County hoy


found Under an Apple Tee.
To the American


McMINNVILLE, September ~
About thirty-five years ago there
died in this county, ten miles north
of McMinnville, on Mountain creek,
an old man named Adam little.
He was an odd genius and possessed
of a valuable real estate, and was
supposed to have a considerable
amount Of money. He was a
miser, in the true sense of that
word, and suspected that some Of
his neighbors might kill him for
his money. In consequence of this
fear he was supposed to have buried
his silver in the earth. / have
heard this from my early boyhood,
and neighbors have obtained per-
mission from the present owner of
the land from time to time to dig
for the hidden treasure, but none
have been rewarded for their toll.


Mr.. little doubtless intended to
reveal the hiding place of his
money before his death, but he
dropped dead suddenly, and had
no opportunity to communicate his
secret, and so took it to the grave
with him.


On the day before yesterday a
little son Of Mr.. Riley Webb, of
this county, was on his way to the
mill situated on the premises, when
some nice red apples attracted his
attention. He dismounted to OBJ
tain some of the fruit, and STOPPING
to pick up a rock, picked up what
be thought was a piece of pewter or
lead. Looking down at the ground,
he saw several other pieces of the
same kind, and putting a few of
them in his pocket, went on his
way, little dreaming that what he
possessed was silver and that he had
left more behind. The little fellow
took his "pewter home where
some older heads gave tia thorough
examination and pronounced it
silver and made haste to return to
the place where it was found, which
is on the land of R. P. Womack,
who now owns the Title place, and
in little more than one hundred
yards from his house, where they
found over six hundred pieces Of
silver.


This treasure troye has caused
great excitement in that neighbor-
hood, and it is not unlikely that
these moonlight nights will witness
many an eye longingly looking for
more PEWTER.
Year: 1877

London Nows.l


The great wall of China was
measured in many places by Mr..
Unthank, an American engineer,
lately engaged on Il survey for u
Chinese railway. His measure
ments give the height at eighteen
feet, and width on top of fifteen
feet. Every few hundred yards
there is tower twenty-four feet
square, and from twenty to twenty
five feet high. The foundation Of
the wall is Of solid granite. Mr..
Unthank brought with him a brick
from the wall, which is supposed to
have been made two hundred years
before the time of Christ. In build
ing this immense stone fence to
keep cut the Tartars, the builders
never attempted to avoid mountains
or chasms to save expense. For
1900 miles the wall goes over plain
and mountain, aud every foot Of
the foundation is solid granite, and
the rest of the structure solid ma
sonry, In some places the wall is
built smooth up against the bank
or canons or precipices, where there
is a sheer descent Of one thousand
feet. Small streams are arched
over, but in the larger streams the
wall runs to the waters edge, and
a tower is built on each side. On
the top of the wall there are breast
works, or defenSes, facing in and
out, SO the defending forces can
pass from one tower to another with.
out being exposed to any enemy
from either side, To calculate the
Year: 1877

Why He and Dan he guile Sever


ed their Friendship.


California Footlight.l


These two sagebrush wits once
roomed together during the early
days of Virginia City, when every
thing was in its primitive state, and
before the advancing hand of civil
lization provided the comforts of
metropolitan life, Both were en-
ployed on the Enterprise-Dan as
the "rock sharp" and Mark as the
"funny man." One of Marks &C.
centricities was to shirk all kind of
responsibility, and he invariably left
Dan to do all the buying, rent pay
ing, etc., and by dint of much per-
severance, and an equal amount of
forcible persuasion, Dan managed
to make Mark pay his quota toward
the expenses-not that the latter
regretted separating himself from
a few shekels, of course not but
from an indisposition to be bother
ed with such trifles; as his mind
scared to higher things than "a
dollars worth of coal" -four bits
worth of kerosene" or ga quarters
worth Of washing soap" etc. Mark
carried his indifference to extremes;
but there was really no limit to his
cheek. He possessed the pure, un-
adulterated article. lie would bor-
row Dams comb, use it, put it in
his pocket, and blow Dan up for
not possessing better one. In
those days he was never known to
own pair of drawers, OF an under
shirt, or even q pair Of socks; but
he would walk the streets in a suit
of Dams best, which he had appro-
priated from the latter's trunk, and
then swear because there happened
to be a button off the shirt. He
would 90 to Dams trunk, examine
the articles therein, und then turn
to that person and ask him if he
didn't have a pair of socks without
a hole in the heel.


Mark and Dan were both invete-
rate smokers, and of course we
know who bought the tobacco. If
Dan should happen TO get hold of
an inferior brand, and fill the box
With it, Mark would intimate that
"when people bought tobacco they
might exercise little Judgment,
and not get stuff a man couldn't
USE" These little peculiarities of
Marks nature, though somewhat
expensive to Dan, we're neyerlhe-
less enjoyed by him; but one day
Mark oyerleaped the bounds Of
Dams amiability, and that indi-
vidual got mad. Think of it-Dan
DE Quille in passionl


1t seems Mark ran out of a tooth
brush, and how to replace it with
out sacrificing some Of his mining
stock puzzled him considerably.
But brilliant idea one day thrust
itself into his troubled soonce,
Year: 1877

time of building or cost of this wall
is beyond human skill. So far as
the magnitude Of the work is con-
cerned, it surpasseS anything in
ancient or modern times of which
there is any trace. The pyramids
of Egypt are nothing compared
to it.
Year: 1877

Harry Nigh els, of the Carson Appeal, tells what he likes We like to hear a riian refuse 10 take his home paper, and all the time sponge on his reign bor for the reading of it, We like 10 hear d man complain. when asked to subscribe for his home paper that he takes more papers than he reads now, and then go around and borrow his neighhor's or loaf about until he gathers in the news from if. We like to see man run down his home paper as not worth while taking and every now and then beg the editor for a favor in the editorial line. We like to see a mechanic or a lner- chant refuse to advertise in his home paper, and then try 10 get share of the trade which a news paper brings 10 town. We like to see those things-it looks econOm- ical, thrifty, progressive and cheeky" Harry MigheIs likes to hear and see the same thing that we do.
Year: 1877

Tho following record will show the changes In tho
temperature for the past twcntyour hours In compar
with the corresponding date of last year. ndi-
Gated by the thermometer At Hudnut's pharmacy,
HERALD Building
Year: 1877

use their influence to stay all further
proceedings against him, and that the
Democratic papers throughout the State
favor his course in voting for Butler.
In the exuberance of his Joy he expresses
special pride in his speech assailing the
President, and intimates that he has re-
ceived over 400 letters from Republic
ans (?) in the North commenting his
course.


In view of Renegade Patterson's hap
piness and the general outburst of JOY
in the Democratic camp, it may be well
to inquire into the reasons for it. What
have they accomplished? Patterson
has saved himself from the Peniten-
tiary, and his Joy over it is confession
of his perfidy to his party. He has
kept his seat in the Senate to which he
was elected by bribery, for which he
was indicted with sufficient evidence on
that score to have sent him to the Peni-
tentiary. To keep himself in the SEN
ate and out of the Penitentiary he gave
the casting vote 10 fill vacant seat in
the Senate with man who was not
elected to it, and that man principally
notorious as the hero of the Hamburg
massacre, and kept out the man who
was legally elected. Knowing that
Senator David Davis, Notwithstanding
his strong Democratic bias, would not
vote for Butler upon the law of the
case and the facts before him, he left
his party and voted for Butler, whereas,
had he not been afraid of the Peniten-
tiary, he would have voted for Corbin
who was elected. BY his perfidy,
therefore, the Democrats have gained
two accessions to their power in the
| Senate-a man who sold his vote and
| himself to escape the States Prison,
and q man who was not elected to his
seat. In other words, man who was
| never elected is given his seat by PEN
itentiary candidate, and over this COM
pounding of afelony and double rascality
| Renegade Patterson and his fellow
Democrats are rejoicing. The former
| finds additional cause for joy in the re-
ceipt of 400 letters from Republicans
in the North commenting his course.
The word of man who will sell his
vote and his very manhood to escape
the Penitentiary is not implicitly to be
trusted. He may have received 400
letters, forty letters, or four letters, or
| no leJleTS. 1neTG are undoubtedly Oluer
carpet-baggers who have absconded
from the South and had no opportuni-
ty to secure immunity from the Peni-
tentiary by selling their votes, their only
immunity depending upon keeping as
far away from the South as possible,
who sympathize with him. There are
undoubtedly bulldozers in the North as
well as the South, who believe in the
dirty kind of politics illustrated by Pat
terson's course, who sympathize with
him. There never yet was a dirty bird
who did not have other dirty birds to
sympathize with him. But if ever man
in this country was regarded with utter
contempt and loathing by all respecta-
BILE men, whether Republicans or Dem
ocrats, that man is Renegade Patter.
son. Chicago Tribune.
Year: 1877

AN opinion has been rendered in the
hdbeds corpus case of the renegade Pat
terson, discharging him from custody,


which will prevent him from being
taken back TO South Carolina unless
the Governor of that State should make
another requisition, which, of course,


he will not do, unless the Democrats
should deliberately break their contract
by which they bought his vote with inn
munity from the Penitentiary. Patter-
SON is consequently happy, having since
his discharge received dispatch from
Columbia, 5. c., saying that the Dem
ocrauc members of the Legislature will
Year: 1877

Spring is trying season. Indications OF SICK
ness should at once be attended to- Fatal diseases
may be caused by allowing the bowels to become
constipated and the system to remain in dl>or-
dercd condition, rntil the disorder has time to de-
vsloD itself. An ounce of prevention is worth
pound of cure, is an old and truthful saying.
Therefore, we advise all who troubled with the
complaints now very prevalent headache, indiSes-
tiOn disordered liver want of appetite, nausea or
feverish skin. to take, without delay, Schenck's
Mandrake Pills. We know OF no remedy 50 harm
less and decisive in it's action. 1t at once strikes
at the root of the disease and produces Il healthy
tone to the system. People never need suffer from
any disease arising from disordered condition OF
the liver if they would take this exceant medicine


when they feel the first indications of the malady.
Families leaving home for the summer months
should take three four boxes OF these pills with
them They have almost instaneous effect.
They Will relieve the patient of headache in one or
two hours, and will rapidly cleanse the liver OF
surrounding bile, and will cfectually prevent a


bilious attack. They are sold by all Druggist.
Year: 1877




National Associated Press to the Star.


NEW YORK, May IA special from
Havana says fire occurred in a ware
house at Matanzas snd one thousand
hogsheads OF sugar were burned.


POstpOnement Approved.


The Herald editorially speaking of the
postponement OF the extra session OF
Congress says the final determination
will be generally approved. The diff.
culties alleged to stand in the way of the
postponement are mainly imaginary,
and even if some inconveniences SHOULD
arise from the delay they Will be more
than compensated by the avoidance OF
those which would have attended June
session. We shall at least escape the
discomtorts Of summer Congress at
the capital and the mischie ievOus agita-
ton which could scarcely be avoided
should Congress assemble before the
Presidents Southern policy has had
time to develop its good fruits. Besides,
an autumn session may give Congress
hint OF much needed reform. That
body now meets in December and wastes
that month in waiting for the Christmas
holidays to 60. II it should regularly
assemble on the 1st of November it
could complete all the preliminary work
OF the session before the HOLIDAYS and
have so fair start after New Years as
to get through by the 1st OF April.
Year: 1877

THE Khedive may not be the most
enviable man in the world, but there
are doubtless people who would esteem
it privilege to owe twenty-five million
dollars, and would even exchange
their own small debts for his. A man
is poor and miserable who is twenty
five dollars in debt, but to be twenty-five
millions of dollars in debt-that is lux
ury and opulence,
Year: 1877

II will be an agreeable surprise to
the public to find that the telegraph
monopoly will stick to low tariffs. OF
course 1t will pay, because 1t will in
crease the value of business very much
without at all increasing the operating
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