smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

From an Olympia correspondence.
dated the 10th inst, We extract the
following choice morsel, which the
gentlemen mostly interested can roll
under their tongues at leisure:


Near the close of the session q
resolution was adopted providing
that no bill should he introduced in
either house to which objection was
made. This was done to expedite
legislation, and prevent the passage
of frivolous bills, of which many
were known to exist. On the heels
of this resolution the proprietor Of
the IntelHgencer, assisted by his
man Friday, who held a subordin-
ate position in the Legislature, ap-
peared in person at the capital with
a prepared bill, providing that the
hatelkgence, be declared the litigant
organ of King county; that all
notices whatever of legal nature
should be published in that paper,
and fixing rate for said publication.
This bill was placed in the hands OF
q member of the lower house from
your county, with instructions to
await the proper time, spring it upon
that body, and rush it through be-
fore the members had time for e.
Election. But you know there's
many slip 'twixt the cup and the
lip, and while this dishonest trans
action was eliminating, some friends
of the DISPATCH smelt a s'rat," and
when the ambitious member from
King moved to introduce the bill in
the lower house, Mr. Gregory, of
Walla Walla, who was on the alert
for him. objected, and of course
killed the motion. In all haste the
bill was carried to the Council,
where similar attempt was made to
introduce it, with the same result.
This sneaking attempt of the Intel
ligencer cabal to subvert Legislation
to their personal ends, met with such
unqualified disapproval from the
honorable members present, and
cast such odium on the principals
concerned, that one of them made
quick time back to your city, and
the others, for the balance of the
session, had little to say.


We are not surprised at the above
development of an attempt made by
the lnteligencer crew to subvert leg
islation to their own ends. The
natural instincts of some men lead
them in the direction of trickery
and meanness with the same unerr-
ing certainty that the duck follows
the water course.
Year: 1877

O1cAAAD1, NOV. U II, 1C0.


To THE EDITOR OF THE DISPATCH:


Reading an article in your paper
of October 9th: clipped from the
Port Townsend Press, concerning
the Cranney bankrupt case, charg-
ing certain party with attempting
to put through the court fraudu-
lent claim of some $500, but was
detected in his little game, and the
proper officers cut it down to $3.50,
his just DUE" and furthermore this
certain party is charged in general
terms as correspondent of the In
teltigencer from Utsalady, rejecting
in severe terms on the management
of the Cranney bankrupt case, on the
court and all connected Herewith.


These reckless and false charges
going the rounds of the public press
filed me with grievous surprise and
Indignation. For these general
charges was the first intimation that
I had received that my claims had
been cut down to the paltry sum of
$3.50 for nearly two years service and
money advanced in the capacity of a
book keeper for a numbering firm of
this magnitude. The claim 1 filed
for was an honest and just one, and
what I was allowed at the time. Iau-
thorized Judge Dennison to act as
my attorney, and collect for 10 per
cent. Furthermore I have a bill of
sale of spars and lumber given me
some time prior to the attachment or
the confirmation of the concern in
bankruptcy, agregating the amount
I filed for, but surrendered the same
back when the concern went into
bankruptcy. Does this look like
perpetrating a fraud? And should
this not prove sufficient evidence to
convince the public or interested
parties, that the charge of fraud is
false and malicious, and the cutting
down of a just claim to that degree,
the hight of injustice, and without
parallel in equity, I can produce
still stronger. And as to the other
general charge of being the author
of a communication to the weekly
Mtelhgencer, rejecting upon the
management of this complicated
bankrupt case, is adding insult to in
jury, for the writer has never written
a word to that paper, or any other,
concerning this case, and have once
written to the editor earnestly beg
ging him to make repartion for the
damage done the writer, by disclos-
ing and publishing the author, but
as yet have received no response
and can conceive no better way to
refute the charge than through the
DISPATCH, trusting you will publish
this statement in your next issue,
and relieve an honest man from the
odium of fraud. Yours respectfully,


VIM. r. GRIFFIN.


Late book keeper of Granger &
Canney.
Year: 1877

The ill effects of soda on linen
have given rise to a new method of
washing, which has been extensively
adopted in Germany and introduced
INTO Belgium. The operation con-
sists in dlssolving two pounds of
soap IN about three gallons of water
as hot as the hands can bear, and
adding to this one tablespoonful Of
turpentine and three of liquid ammo
mia; the mixture must then be we'll
stirred, and the linen stepped in it for
two or three hours, taking care to
cover the vessel containing them as
hermetically as possible. The clothes
are afterward washed out and rinsed
IN the usual way. The soap and wa
ter may be repeated and used Sec
ond time, but in that case half tea
spoonful of ammonia must be added.
This process is said to cause great
economy of time, labor and fuel.
The linen scarcely suffers at all, and
its cleanliness and color are perfect.
The ammonia and turpentine, al
though their defensive action is great,
have no injurious effect on the linen;
and while the former evaporates inn
mediately, the smell of the latter is
said to disappear entirely during the
drying Of the clothes.
Year: 1877

Wonderful stories have been told Of the intelli-
ecnce Of various species of the ant inhabing differ
eat parts Of the globe, but it is doubted much If
fiction ever contributed to them more than they
really possess. The " Agricultural Anti Of Texas
is far from being myth. DIR. c. Lincicum, man
noted for his scientific attainments and resident of
Texas for some twenty years or more, studied the
habits of various species of ants very closely, and to
him We are indebted for the history of the Agrcu-
tural Ant" In Communication to the Smithsonian
Institute in 1874, he says:


"In ls4s, the year came to Long Point, Texas,
there was but cae agricultural ant city within mile
Of the place. This was situated in nearly barren
little spot on top of an elevation underlaid with
strat6ed sandstone Here there was but little grass
and weeds to interfere with their seed-collecting
labOrs. The ant rice which they SO carefully cult
vAe was Ourishing in regular circle the outer
border, but inside Of the pavement. There were
little patches of the grass scattered about
the little glade, which had doubtless been planted
there BY some experienced ant for it bad beea nearly
cleared Of ali other vegetabes-n fact cultivated BY
them"


Or. Lincicum then proceeds to give minute dss-
erptiOn Of all their operations in regard to planting
keeping clear Of weeds. and hnally harvesting and
storing tie crop in holes made r the ground for the
purpose. II the stored grain happens to get wet
during heavy rains It is all taken out and spread in
the sun to dry for little agrisultursts know that
moisture win cause it to sprout prematurelY or be-
come mouidy and rotten. There are other equally
interesting and intelligent species Of ants inhabiting
Texas, bat We have meagre knowledge Of them
Year: 1877

At the annual dinner at Clements Inn, London,
after the banquet of that learned society, members
and guests rise on the removal Of the whto cloth,
and witness the following thanksgiving in panto-
mine: Before the president of the second table the
butler puts mass of bread consisting of four oaves
adbering to each other by their kissing crustI.
Taking this of bread in his hand the president
of the second table slowly rises it above his head
the full reach Of his arm. and after few moments
pause brings it down with laundering whack on the
oakon table. A second time the bread is elevated
and struck upon the resounding board. Yet a third
time the same feat is performed and then, before
strangers have had time to recover from their as
constituent the grace actor has thrown the bread so
that it slides and spins down to the bottom of the
long table, where it is caught up by the butler who
instantly runs out of tho dning-hal with it in his
Outstretched hands. The whole grace is typca {.
The four loaves represent the four gospels the three
elevations are u reverence of the three persons of the
sacred trinity the manner in which the bread is
cast down the table indicates the hberality with
which the bread of life was given to mankind; and
the alAcriiy with which the butler ran out of the hall
exemplihes the aacrity with which jealous servants
hasten to distribute the bread Of spiritual knowledge
Of those who hunger after it.
Year: 1877

young nobleman, whose family had not been at
since the accession Of Her Majesty, firm, tall


fellow of manly bearing was presented the last. AS
his name Lord George Alfred Connaught, being
announced, he passed Prince Albert and the young
princess in apparently naughty manner, without
removing his chapcau. They seemed enraged but
it nigh: be mistake, arising from embarrass-
ment in q young nobleman first approaching bis
sovereign, notice taken of the apparent rude
ness. When he reached the Queen. however, he un-
covered his head knelt gracefully BEIGE her. kissed
her proHered hand. arose. thrust his chapeau in a
positive upon his head, and turned to address
Prince Albert The latter drew back his face
flushed scarlet I. looked like an intended insult to
the Prince Consort in the presence Of his wife and
sovereign. A murmur Of indignation ran through
the throne-room. The old Duke Of Wellington,
bending under the weight of seventy-eight years.
and covered with decorations, stepped forward to
interfere.


The Lord Chamberlain, however, was before him.
and when just upon the point Of arrestng the offend
or, the Queen interposed, saying Right right !
Lord COnnaught is right ~ and then turning, ex-
planned the transaction to the Prince, the young
nobleman meanwhile looking on. 1t was some time
oeiore Ans strange eonduet couiu De understood by
those present. Lord Connaught, the only person
whose head was covered, moving with great self
possession among bishops and chaneelOrs leaders Of
the Commons and dons of the universities, the OBJ
served Of all observers. II seemed that for special
services rendered to the King by a Lord ConnAught,
in the reign Of Henry VII, right had been given
by patent in perpetnty to the head of the house in
each succeeding generation, to remain with covered
head in the presence of the ruling sovereign This
right had been in allegiance during the minority of
the present Lord Connaught and had been forgotten
by all but the Queen. He had uncovered his head to
her as woman but, jealous of the inherited privi-
lege had resumed his ehapeau upon rising, and con-
tiuued to wear it afterwards.-Court Circular.
Year: 1877

THE Governors MEETING in Phil
a1elphia came off according to pro
gramme this week, and was very
slim affair. Only seven Governors
were Oh hand, all the rest have proba-
BY too much other business, either
State or personal, to attend to. These
seven we're duly lionized and toadied /;
dined and wined carried around aud
shown the curiosities and sights of the
city and Of the Permanent Exhibition,
taken to the manufactures and big
stores, and bored with hundred thing1
that they didn't care button about,
and were, doubtless, heartily glad when
the time came for them to return home,
wishing they had done as the rest did,
and stayed there. This sort of busi-
ness should have stopped with last
year. That was the era Of toadyism
in this country, and it should all have
been finished up then.
Year: 1877

The above are all reliable manufacturers Of Philadelphia
Every pair guaranteed confidently offer them the public positively


be Iee Goods in this Measures taken and Boots
and Shoes made In addition the above we have an
immense stock Of Easternmade goods in
Year: 1877

A MAIL rider and horse on the overland mail came into Tucson from the west ear ly Thursday morning. and brought no mail which seemed strange to some, when the fact Is no daily mail from the west was actually due here until yesterday The time between here and San Diego is five days, and the mail which ftthere on not be due here tn yesterday morning Therefore no mail was due Thursday morn

 ing.
Year: 1877

THE CITIZEN OFFICE Is now etter than ever supplied with job papers. and is pre- pared 10 do better and cheaper work than is done elsewhere in Arizona. The bill heHd and letter papers are the very best and they will he printed io order at a very small profit; also have n great variety of cards which will be printed and sold from SS.G0 per thousand upwards. If
Year: 1877

GRAND OPENING LORD WILLIAMS TWILL DISPLAY FOR PUBLIC IN w spection one Of the Largest and Most Attractive Stock of Goods ever before Brought

 to this Market. The Great Eastern shsu sf New

 Goods. They have arranged To have arrive Month ly, a complete assortment Of such goods ss the people of AriEoRs want. and they Can Sell them at Wholesale and Re- tail Cheaper than they can be Afforded from any other

 Market. Not excepting the much sxtoIlsd Quay

 nAs route.
Year: 1877

An unknown man, who was taken to Bellevue
Hospital on Friday last from the Twentieth pre-
cInc suffering, it supposed, from cerebral
hcmorrhagc died in that institution the next day.
post mortem examination Of tho body of the deceased
was made Yesterday when It was discovered that lie
had died from fractured skull Tho matter 10 to be
Year: 1877

The following record will show tho changes in tho
temperature for the past twcpty-four hours,
parison with The corresponding date oil last year,
indicated by the thermometer ut Hudnurs pharmacy,
HERALD Building
Year: 1877

a CERTAIN Signor L. Guano, of Genoa,
has invented an apparatus, model of
which is on view at the Ministry of FL
nance, which, if practically a success,
would prove great boon to travellers, for
it is designed to prevent railway collisions
without going into technicalities, the idea
is this: Between the rails is sunk a kind
of box, of masonry, in which is contained
a spiral spring, on which rests an upright
lever with arms pointing up and down the
line. The lever lies above the level of the
rails, and on the sides of it work cog-wheels,
to which are attached wires, which, pass
ing through a tube and around horizontal
wheels. communicate with the next box.
From the front of the engine, to work on
the line, descends perpendicular rod,
communicating with the whistle, and to
the tender is added central wheel, not
touching the ground, but attached to bell
in the guards van.


On train leaving a station, as it passes
over the first of these levers, the engine
rod and the tender central wheel strike
against it, the weight of the train presses
it down, and in so doing raise all the arms
of the levers up to the next station against
any train coming in theopposite direction,
at the same time ringing a bell at the next
station. Surprising by chance train on
the same line to have passed that station,
it would strike against the first lever, and
be warned by the whistle and bell that
there was danger ahead, and would put
back at once, while at the same time, by
reversing the levers once more, it would
warn the coming train TO proceed eau
tiously. If no other train is on the line,
the first one, having set the levers in the
opposite direction, passes over them with
out raising any alarm.


The estimated working distance of these
levers from each other is two to three
miles, but the inventor says that his appa-
ratus has been at work for some months
successfully. at a distance of about six
miles, between San Pier d'Arena and
POnte Decimo.-C0;. Pail Mall Gazette.
Year: 1877

A Neao York San correspondent has a
very interesting account of the capture of
white whales for the New York and COney
Island Aquariums from their native
haunts at the Isle au Condres, in the St.
Lawrence, seventy miles below Quebec.
Here little French colony make bust
ness of spearing porpoises Tor their oil,
taking now and then white whale, the
larger of which are preserved for the
aquariums, as they are required from time
TO time. These whales are timid, stupid
creatures. In pursuit of small fish they
run up close to the shore, and the fisher
men corral them by planting stakes at
distances nearly two feet apart, in line
inclosing parallelograrin mile in width,
and extended three-quarters of mile from
shore seaward. AS the tide recedes the
whales find themselves within this inclos-
ure. One of the big whales could swoop
down a score of the stakes by a single
dash at them, and there is even room for
him to dart between without touching
them; yet so cowardly is he that these
slender distractions suffice to turn him.
He will rush seaward to within a yard OF
the fence, then wheel in wild alright and
dart back toward shore, and so aimlessly
exhaust himself, while the water is con-
stdHtIy growing HOIe anu more SudlIOW.
At last he lies hopelessly stranded. None
has ever been known to break through
the barrier and escape Tue boxing up
and transportation of these big fish to
New York is great labor, and it often
takes thirty strong men several hours to
get one of the monsters into his travelling
case. Once in his box, water has to be
poured over the backs and blow-hOles Of
the imprisoned whales every five minutes.
That water-pouring, by the way, is mo-
notonous and tiresome job, which must
be continued without intermission during
the next ninety hours, while the whales
are being carried by schooner to Quebec,
thence by rail via Montreal and Albany to
New York. The water in which they lie
must not cover their blow-holes, else, as
they have not room to move, they would
be unable to rise and breathe, and would,
consequently, drown; yet they must be
kept constantly wet. So their boxes are
tight only as far up from the bottom as
their eyes. Above that line there are
cracks for the surplus water to flow off,
and a man must stand over them until
they can be got into tank, dipping from
the river while in the schooner, or from
hogshead when in the cars, and drenching
them all the time,
Year: 1877

Some peculiar troubles that afflict the
Chinese are thus vividly pictured by a
missionary correspondent:


"A few Sundays ago visited preach
ing station connected with the London
Mission, and witnessed strange phase of
missionary experiences. From my boat
to the chapel was a walk of upward of an
hour, and through missing my road hap
pened on attle-field, which, however,
was at that time, fortunately, clear of ac-
tive cOmbatants. The rice and potato
fields were uncultivated and thrown up
into entertainments, and long lines of
shoot battery walls extended in all di-
rections. Rows of square brick towers,
thirty or forty feet in height, and about
fourteen feet square at base, faced one an
other. At the top of each tower was a
man whose duty was to pick off with a
gun any unwary farmer who might stray
too far out of the hostile village Chatting
one of these men about his exalted posi-
ton, he assured me he was a good shot.
and had plenty of ammunition. This
deadly feud has now continued upward
of a year. 1t begun through heather
practices, and is carried on heathenishly
Two idolatrous professions, coming from
nearly opposite directions, were converg-
ing toward one road, and when they met
they fought for precedence, each party
maintaining that their idol was the more
worthy to take the lead Thirty two
villages were at first involved in
the quarrel that ensued, but now
only two are actively fighting. Late
ly, they have each obtained a piece
of cannon, and, as their funds allow, they
open fire IIpnn one another: a house next
to the Mission Chapel was almost unroofed
by one of these shots few days before |
was there. Naturally, the Christians have
suffered greatly because they will not sub
scribe for the buying of powder and shot
For the whole year they have refused, al
though many times threatened with as
sassination, and have lost their crops of
rice and potatoes. They have shown a
thoroughly Christian spirit throughout,
and have offered to subscribe twice as
much as other persons for any useful OBJ
jeet, provided they are not required to
give money to continue the feud. In two
cases, at least, the long quarrel has caused
insanity One of these | met myself
While crossing the earthworks, between
the hostile villages, |. passed mad
woman, who stood alone in the empty
fields, raving about the disaster which the
fighting had caused She asked me if [
had come to help the fighting, and warned
me of the evil of doing so. II is impos-
sible to say when this sad affair will close,
and the native brethren be again in peace.
There is no prospect at present of such an
event. The nearest Mandarian resides at
a distance of six miles, and does not in
terfere, and it suits the purpose of the
village head-men to continue the struggle.
At your missionary prayer meetings in
England you ought always to remember
those who are suffering in heather lands
for ChriSt,s sake -
Year: 1877

A perverted sense of justice is probably
at the bottom of the charity which is CO.
piOusly showered on the families of inter-
esting murderers. Murderers are the bel
ligerents of private life, and the sympathy
which does not go to military Nations
bent on blowing up the monitors and mag
azines of their neighbors is kept for anna
.teurs who do little butchery in quiet
way at home. Last year one or two re-
spectacle men, in France and England, so
far yielded to circumstances as to cut the
throats of their partners, mistresses, chill
dren and other near connections. Their
surviving relations were consoled by so
many gifts that poor and struggling man
might be tempted to commit murder in
stead OF insuring his own life.


A great scholar, modest and original
worker, who, s,lftaugnt, unlocked the
keys of dead languages and unravelled the
mysteries of unknown alphabets, lately
fell victim to his devoted enthusiasm for
knowledge Spent with travel, labor anu
the toll of dealing with a jealous and bar
barous people, he left in distant land his
work unfinished, and his widow and fam
lily to the gratitude, not the sentimental
charity, of England. We wish we had
reason to believe that, while thousands of
pounds are collected for unlucky aliens,
more than one thousand had been sub
scribed for the widow and children of the
scholar to whom we refer.


The descendants of another writer,
whose name is known to every English
man and woman who can read, and whose
works have been the delight of four gener-
ations, were also till the other day in utter
destitutinu but were thought less deserv-
ing thar the families of aSsassinS and the
armies of unfriendly Powers. Buthappily
in this instance the neglect has been cor
rected by the Queens generous grant of
pensions to the three sisters Defoe.


All this freakishness in charity springs
from the fact that charity is too often
mere form of self-indulgence. First, a
morbid interest is excited by some high
ly-colored tale of sin or wrong, and then
comes the need to relieve the feeling of
undue superiority and unjust good fortune.
When once the attention OF people IS
caught by a wrong, they are ready enough
to see that it is more by luck than desert
that they are saved while others are dis
graced or ruined. The charitable gift
that follows is partly an effort to right the
wrong, still more an attempt to sOothe the
conscience; not least, it is little gift to
Nemesis, like that sacrifice of ring
which has so often been quoted.


A little more discrimination and little
more gratitude would improve the char
acter of that second-rate charity which is
mainly mpulsive.-London Saturday Re.
gielo.