smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

trash accumulated there and placing It in one of
the corners OF the prison.


The reporter was informed by the under war
den, MIR. p. O'Brien, that there we're twenty per-
sons in the prison. but by an actual count BY the
reporter the prisoners numbered only seventeen.
In answer to an inquiry as TO the actual cost Of
keeping each prisoner, Mr.. OBrien said that it
WAS about fifteen cents hesd per diem.


portion Of the Workhouse, which showed
signs OF having been recently scrubbed and
cleaned up was in neat condition.


In regard to the


ATTEMPT TO MIsLTAD
the Grand Jury by bringing men from the soup
house into the prison yard, the reporter could
get only bungled explanation, the tenor of
which was that the souphouse beggars were in
the yard and got mixed with the prisoners.


The excuse seemed little singular. as the
WorkhOuse and the souphouse are two separate
institutions, and the only entrance into the
Workhouse from the souphouse IL through
large iron gate, which 10 kept always locked, and
no one can gain admittance through this gate
except an emp1oye Of the prison; souphous
beggars are positively prohibited from g. ing
through ii.


II the souphouse beggars were In the Work.
house yard at the time the Grand Jury visited it,
it 10 to be supposed that they were there


WITH THE KNOWLEDGE
Of the employees of the Workhouse.


Some Of the neghbors living in the vicinity OF
the Workhouse and souphouse cay that both
places are nuisances.


The reporter, after visiting the institution from
top to bottom and learning the above facts, with
drew,
Year: 1877

Another DEMOCRAT reporter having paid a
visit to the Workhouse, found three or four de-
crspid old women scrubbing out the cells, and
some OF the cells which had not been scrubbed
by them we're in Q dirty condition.


Some negro men were employed in cleaning up
the yard, which work consisted In gathering the
Year: 1877

CHEYENNE, November 15.-Advices from Rawlins, Wyoming, say: Doug las, with some 400 of his band of Utes, have left White river agency and come to that place in search of food, alleging that they have not received any goods from the government for year. A part of the goods have been in the rail road warehouse at Rawlins for long time, but for some reason they have not been sent to the agency. Although they are highly indignant that this should be the case, they have taken none other than peaceable means to have thelr grievances adjusted. To- night the town is full of them, and whilst citizens hope, from the long abiding peace between these Utes and the whites, no violent measures may be adopted by them, many fear that an unfavorable reply from Washington to their request to be allowed to draw their four at Rawlins may render them desperate and seIzure of the warehouse regult.
Year: 1877

quire into causes for removal of any

 except diplomatic officers; that reasons

 might be given to the Senate if it ask

 ed for them, but that Senators have no

 right whatever to solicit appointments or to volunteer advice to him on that

 subject. He admits their right and duty to scrutlnize not only appoint

 ments and removals, but holds that as this is thelr sworn duty they are there by prevented from asking blm to make appointments. He denies entirely the least authority for the abuse which is called "The courtesy of the Senate" and which has been held to give 10 a Republican Senator the right to decide upon appointments made in his State. It is on this that some Senators will probably oppose the President and fail. At the recent interview with the Senate Caucus Committee the President firm ly met the Senator's claim of the right of consultation by declaring his con viction that it was based on courtesy and could not be construed into priv ilege.
Year: 1877

In pursuance Of Senate JOINT
Resolution, No. GA, | have ap-
pointed a board of commissions
ers to consider plans by which
the passage of railroad bridges
can be made in safety by boats
Year: 1877

''Do you like very much to
have me kiss you, George
she said softly, as she stopped
over him and left the monogram
Of her lips on his marble brow
II do, indeed, dear" he said.
Il just shut my eyes and try to
think l feel the touch Of one
who was dear to me i'll the days
long gone by, before yoQ and /
were married" He had scarce
Iy finished the II mIrk before
he exclaimed, 80, don't, don't
do thatn' as a large copy Of
the Ney Testament hit him
suddenly three or four times or
the spot where he had been
kissed.
Year: 1877

A coUNTRYMAN came to town yestcr.
day and tied his horse, which was hitched
to buggy, to a post on Main street,
about 10 o'clock in the morning. While
the countryman was shopping, the horse
got the buggy backed square across the
street, and a wagon coming along, struck
itand broke the wheels.
Year: 1877

WEobserve that, in keeping will, what
il going on elsewhere, some OF the work.
ingmen OF Wheeling are moving in the
mstter Of new party organization. To
this end they have called meeting to.
night in the Fourth Ward. This is all
right, and, as We said yesterday, wa are
pleased to see this question Of labor and


capital taking scope as an issue before the
public. 1t is by publicity and full and


free discussion that the truth ia to be
reached and. made clear to public appre-
hensiOn. We observe that a meeting was
held at BellAire last night, at which
speeches were made by Messrs. WetheraId
and Naylor, OF BelIaire, and Albert L.


Wells, Of this city. These gentlemen
ought to be able to present the labor issue
intelligibly before the community. We
hope they will invite joint discussions and
ask and answer questions, ~ is the Gus.
tom at political meetings. The Ohio
platform will need a good deal of discus
sion nand explanation to make it very clear r
or very acceptable to any great number
OF people. We published it yesterday,
and as it is to be an issue among our
Ohio neighbors this fall, il should be pre-.
served as matter Of reference during
the progress Of the canvass. The changes
proposed by the platform adopted at
Cincinnati are too radical and sweeping
to be accomplished very soon, and there
is plenty OF time to discuss them. Il
many Of the things Sc, down in the plat


form can not be shown by fair argumen,
to be not only undesirable for the whole
community, but likely to be especially
injurious to workingmen, then let the
worSinsmen be conceded tue victory il
dseus"on, They must win that first
must convince the public before they car


win in such legislation AZ they propose
Year: 1877

The Alta mlne, situated beyond the Santa Rita mountains, has passed the doubtful condition and is HOW an aS- sared success. Not only Is the ore be rug worked ai profit, but the ledge is 90 fur opened as to remove all doubts about iis slze and permanency. Until this week the owners-D. T. Harshsw, John Long and Michael Fagin-hsve done all tbe work of development and therefore kept free of debt. This week four men have been hired and the force will be increased just as quickly as they csn add to the capacity Of the re- duction works. The process is that of lixiviatlon- IL is just the one required, and lumber and other materials were taken from Tucson thIs week to in- crease the present reduction facilities lhreefold. MT. Miller, in immediate charge Of the work of reduction, now saves 75 per cent. of the assay value of the ore, which Is over Sl00 per ton, and he is confident of so improving the works as 10 save 90 per cent The main shaft on the vein is fifty feet straight down and an incline runs from the bottom so as to make the perpendicu- lar development seventy eight feet. About August g, they brought in twen- y-five pounds of silver and September 1, thirty-one and one-quarter pounds, worth $1.12 per ounce, and by the end of this month they expect to bring in from s1 900 to S1,2OO.

 Now this mine Is not yet one of very large operations or income, but It is one of tue positive gains of the year, and will grow larger. It is a paying property. IL has been made so by it's owners They have not sought to en- list capital They have had confidence in its value from the beginning. They alsne have made it permanent pay ing property, and it is 8 most decided gain to the community. It ought 70 encourage many others who have equally good prospects as these men had twelve months ago. By steady and patient industry, they have made an unincumbered paying silver mine a kind of mine which men experienced in silver mining, say has never been sold for its full worth.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, August 25.-Captain John Simpson is relieved from duty in the Department of Arizona and order ed to report to the commanding gener- al of the Military Division of the Al lantic for assignment to duty as post quartermaster al Fort Hamilton, New York HarbOr.
Year: 1877

GOVERNOR PENNINGroN's ACTION.


Acting upon the telegram of Sheriff Bull
lock, this afternoon, Governor Pennington
telegraphed the secretary of war, enclosing
Bullock's dispatch, asking the secretary to
send troops Immediately to the Black Hills
to protect the settlers there from massacre
by the Indians. He also telegraphed Gen.
Crook to the same effect In reply to
Sheriff Bullocks appeal the governor said
there were no arms within his control, but
he instructed. Bullock to raise two companies
of militia and gave him all the authority
possible
Year: 1877

We desire 10 call the attention of select
men to very neat and convenient blank,
for use in making up highway bills. This
is designed to supersede the old-fashioned
and inconvenient tax bills in sheet form
heretofore used, and will be found much
more desirable for the use of the survey
ors. We invite the orders of selectmen of
all towns in Verment. Price GO cents per
dozen copies.


d&w GLOBE PAPER Co.
Year: 1877

SAN FRANoIsoo, May 20.


The match race at Chico to-day between
Goldsmith Maid and Rarus for purse of
three thousand dollars was won by the
Maid in three straight heats best time
214i, being the best time ever made In the
state.
Year: 1877

During repI eseDtAtion at Edinburgh, a
pres1ming coxcomb chose to render him
self conspicuous by standing up in the
midst of the pit all through the progress of
the frat act of the play. His neighbors
were at first too polite to insist on his
conforming to the usual regulations, and
merely represented to hin the incOnve-
nience those behind must suffer, to which
he paid no manner of attention. The audi
ence at last began to testify their displea-
sure, and the cry of"Turn him oul!" became
universal and a riot would most probably
have eDsued from the indignation of one
party and the Obstinacy of the other, had


it not been for the witty Henry Erskine,
who, laying wager with gentleman near
him that he would accomplish the matter
by single sentence, stood up, and, ad
dressing himself to the persons who were
forcing compliance on the obstinate youth,
exclaimed, leave him alone, gentlemen
1t is only tailor resting himself!" A roar
OF laughter followed the exclamation, the
efficacy of which was Immediately testified
to by the disappointed object of it, whose
only object wss to impress those around
htm with high notion OF his fashion and
gentility.
Year: 1877

and What a Woman Did About t.

 The San Jose Herald gives the follow ing: In this city resides lady noted am ,ng her friends for her timidity and nervousness, together with an extreme aversion to snakes loads, and other rep tiles. The sight of lizard was almost sufficient to make her tremble, and close proximity to a snake was accompanied by sort of mysteries. A few evenings ago, while walking in the grass plot near the house, she felt something suddenly strike her underpinning between the an kle and knee; instinct told her that "a snake had at last fastened upon her. and, giving one loud screech, she bolted to the house. At the first few jumps the thing seemed wrathy, and she could feel it insert it's tangs. almost to the bone

 Before reaching the door she was aware that the cold, ciammy coils had unwound themselves and she reached the interior with just sufficient life to get to the cup board Her faculties were at work in stantly to think up an antidote for the poison, and in looking at her pedestals, she could see the bright red spots where she was wounded.

 There was no one in the house, an | she, remembering she had heard brandy mentioned as being of service, took down the bottle used for making mince pies, and turning the neck into her mouth drained the bottle, and offering d prayer for the speedy return of her husband, threw herself on the bed, and scrawling on visiting card, poisoned by a snake" went to sleep. How long she remained this way is not known. Her husband arriving saw her, tried to awaken her, and then, noticing the inscription on the card, ran out and down to town for a doctor. Arriving, the physician found that slie was still alive, and in turning | her over to get some medicine into her gullet, got his proboscis in line with her breath, and sniffed the whiskey With out saying much to the frightened hus- band, he administered the potion used to sober people, and in less than an hour the woman who had been too drunk to

 move, was sufficiently recovered to relate

 what had happened. A search for the

 snake ended in the discovery of few wires belonging to hoop skirt that she

 had stepped upon, and in her eDdeayol

 to free herself the wire had pierced her

 skin. Imagination and liquor did the

 rest.
Year: 1877

The Philadelphia North american
says that the police of New York had the
murderer of Nathan in custody at one
time and knew that they had him. Mr..
Nathan's coachman had the idea that his
master owed him 800, 900, and the mur-
derer entered by the area way, just as
the coachman was in the habit of doing
surreptitiously. Also for several nights
before the murder the coachman had
slept about the wharveg on North river
and the murder was committed with a
"ship's dog" The police detained him
sixteen days and then sent him to the
Wards Island Asylum, without men
tioning the fact publicly, the family be-
ing satisfied that he could not be con-
victed on account OF his insanity.
Year: 1877

This brings me to the question OF
Irish discomfort. There can be no doubt
that it is quite as deep and passionate as
ever. OF course it ought not to be II
Mr.. Gladstone's predictions were wort'A
anything at the time he disestablished
the, Protestant. Church in Ireland.


Thenceforth, he assured the world, the
Irish would be contented and happy.


What are the facts? An Irish landlord
of the greatest influence in his own coun-
try assured me the other day that never
had he known the country to be in 30
disturbed and dangerous a condition.


Everywhere, said he, =" the peasantry
are being drilled with the utmost care
and regularity, and they are now all well
armed. The police dare not interfere.


The people hope that England will get
to war with Russia, and then they ex-
pect to give her some trouble and they
will dc, it, too." 1t would be of little
use to tell this to the majority of En-
glishmen,, for they would only laugh at
1T. Yet it may turn out to be anything
but laughing matter. In the event OF
foreign war there would not be many
troops to spare for the suppression OF
insurrection in Ireland. Mr.. Jennings
London Letter in the NeW York World
Year: 1877

At last it has been apparently proved
that copper is norma constituent of
the blood, not only of man, but of the
lower animals. In the case of the blood
of man, the presence of copper might
be thought to be accidental, and intro
duced through the use of vessels of that
material, in the preparation of food.
But an analysis of the blood of wild
herbivorous animals also discloses cop
per. 1t has yet to be asccrtained wheth-
er the copper belongs to the plasma or
to the blood globules, or both, or
whether it is introduced in the food or
drink .r
Year: 1877

The Sazarac Lying Club meetings are
reported in the Austin (Ney.) ReUeitie.
The members are very able liars, accord
ing to what we read about them. One
of them stood up in recent meeting
and said: 1.-THE telegraph company are
now using the quadruplex system over
the Virginia and Salt Lake circuit, by
means of which four messages can be
sent simultaneously over a single wire.
The increased strain on the wire is not
visible here in Austin, but was out at
Dry creek yesterday, and in that vicinity
the wire was just humping itself, and
groaning and strsining, and dropping
words Off in chunks. / examined the
wire and found knot in it, and came to
The conclusion that quadruplex mess
age had struck the knot and got tangled
up at that point. / tried to straighten
the wire out, but section of an account
of battle between the Turks and Rus
slams struck me on the ear and knocked
me down, and concluded that it was
not advisable to fool with the thing"
Year: 1877

About three miles west of Berlin, near
the Darke county line, on last Friday, a
lady went out to draw bucket OF water
from the well in the yard, leaving her
two children, little boy of about 4
years of age and little girl of less than
q year, in the house. While she was
Year: 1877

Some contend that they are more efiica
cous for the promotion OF temperance by
moderate drinking practice than they would
be by total abstinence-moderate drinking
is, in their estimation, the golden medium.
So thinks the drunkard too. Did ever any
eulogize intemperance Only let minister
holding such an opinion advocate it, and
who will applaud more heartily than will the
intemnerafe The late Professor Miller, in
his work n,tled Nephalsm," gives case
in point :" At public meeting in the west
of Scotland" he says, ian endeavor was
made to establish a temperance society by
the people. Several had spoken earnestly in
favor of the movement The parish minister
was present, but remained silent till near the
close. He was good man an advocate OF
temperance, specially so-called, and could
not see any necessity for teetotalism. After
all had ,poken he said little in favor OF
temperance in general, denouncng drunken
uess as great sin, but adding that he saw
no need of any pledge, or any association
that each one, for himself or herself should
be able to use the good gifts of God without
abusing them. lie had no sooner sat down,
than drunken weaver staggered to his feet
in the body of the hall, exclaimng, That's
richt, sir, that's richt Yeer on O0r side


The minister rose on the Instant pale and
under deep emotion, saying, in tones of great
solemnity, Ii am on your side, sir, an
wrong That was the turning point Will
him on that question. His temperance


theory was scattered to the winds before thu
demonstrative power of stern experience


and the practical result was, that the asso
citation was formed and the minister's mann


headed the list of its members DR. Reid
Year: 1877

Sir Henry Thompson, eminent both in
medicine and general science, says in let
ter to the Dean of Canterbury, published in
the London Times: | have long had the
conviction that there is no greater cause OF
evil, moral and physical, in this country
than the use of alcoholic beverages. do
aot mean by this that extreme indulgence
which produces drunkenness. The habtua
use of fermented liquors to an extent far
hort of what is necessary to produce that
condition, and such as is quite common in
all ranks OF society," Injuries the body and
diminishes the mental power to an extent
which ! think few people are aware of.
such, at all events, is the result of obser-
vation during more than twenty years of
professional life devoted to hospital prac
ice, and to private practice in every rank
above it. Thus | have no hesitation in at
tributing very large proportion of some
of the most painful and dangerous mala-
lies which come under my notice, as well
IS those which every medical man has to
treat, to the ordinary and daily use of fer
mented drink taken in the quantity which
Is conventonally deemed moderate. What
-ver may be said in regard to its evil i'll


uence on the mental and moral faculties,
as to the fact above stated feel that | have
a right to speak with authority; and | do
so solely because it appears to me duty,
especially at this moment, not to be silent
on matter of such extreme Importance. |
know full well how unpalatable is such a
ruth, and how such declaration brings
me into painful conflict, | had almost said,
with the national sentiments and the time
honored usages Of our race My main OBJ


ect is to express my opinion as protes'
,ional man in relation to the habitual EN-.
poyment of fermented liquor, as a beverage
But if ventured one step further, it would
be to express belief that there is no single
habit in this country which so much tend,
to deteriorate the qualities OF the race, and
so much disqualifieS it for endurance in that
competition which in the nature of thing.
must exist, and in which struggle the prize
of superiority must fall to the best and tC
the strongest
Year: 1877

The glory Of heaven will be in seeing
Jesus, "A little while, and ye shall see me,
because ! go unto my Father" "Where |
am ye shall be also" When we return home
after a long absence, it is not the house, or
the furniture, or tireside that awaken our
joy. 1t is meeting the loved ones. II they
have gone, every forsaken room or empty
chair is an agony. So in our Fathers house,
it will not be t. pearly gates or the streets
of gold that will make us happy, Ol how
transcendently glad will we be when we see
our LOrd II We ever weep in heaven it will
be tears OF JOY at meeting Jesus. Perhaps
in that upper room also he may show
unto us his hands and his side, and we may
cry out with happy Thomas, "My Lord and
my Godl"-Dr Z. l.. Cuyier,
Year: 1877

A correspondent gives Sitting Bulls
version Of the Custar massacre. Sitting
Bull says the fight was like hell with a
thousand devils; the squaws were like
flying birds, the bullets like humming
bees. We thought we were whipped,
not at first, but by and by; afterward We
knew your people were killed. | tell no
lies about dead men. These men who
came with the Long Hair were as good
men as ever fought. When they rode
up their horses were tired, when they
got off their horses they could not stand
firmly on their feet. They swayed to
and fro, SO my young men have told
me, like the limbs of the cypress in a
great wind Some of them staggered
under the weight of their guns, but
they began to fight at once, but by this
time our camps were aroused and there
were plenty of warriors to meet them.
They fired with needle guns; we replied
with magazine guns and repeating rifles.
(Sitting Bull illustrated by putting his
hands together with the rapidity of a
fusilade.) Our young men rained lead
across the river and drove the white
braves back and then they found that
they had good deal to do. The trouble
was with the soldiers; they were so ex-
hausted and their horses bothered them
SO much they could not take good aim
Some of their horses broke away from
them and left them to stand and drop
and die. All the men fell back fighting
and dropping. They could not fire fast
enough, though they kept in pretty good
order. They would fall back across a
caulie and make fresh stand beyond
on higher ground. There were great
many brave men in that fight and from
time to time, while it was going on, they
were shot down like pigs. They could
not help themselves. One Of the officers
fell where the last fight took place
Where the last stand was made the
Long Hair stood ike a sheaf of corn
with all the ears fallen around him, not
wounded


"Do you know how many stood by
him?"


"a few"


when did he fall?'


He killed man when he fell. He
laughed"


You mean he cried out"


NO, he laughed. He had fired his
last shot from carbine-not a pistol"


Did he stand up after he first fell?"


He rose up on his hand and tried
another shot, but his pistol would not
90 off.


WAS any one else standing up when
he fell DOWN."


Gone man was kneeling; that was all;
but he died before the Long Hair"


Sitting Bull says there were only
squaws, old men and little children in
front of Reno, keeping him in his strong
position ON the bluff, and preventing him
giving aid to Custer.