smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

ported Saturday evening, there are three
or four more buildings which were to-
tally destroyed. The fine brick school house
just across the Elkhart river, was blown down
and damaged to the extent of $4,000 Nc
Kay's agricultural warehouse had an end
blown OF. Reports say crops are demoralized.
Several other buildings were blown down
throughout the county.


A man named Seidle, while driving on Main
street this evening, was thrown from his
buggy, and SO badly injured he can not live.
After striking ground he slid about so feet,
fetching up against the sidewalk, smashing
one side of his head In. His horse became
frightened, made a quick jerk and broke a
wheel off. He is a baker by trade.
Year: 1879

Special to the Sentinel:


SHELBYvILLE, Ind, June l6.-Joseph Busby,
who is an aged man living at Waldron, this
county, was found this morning in a dying
condition near the foot bridge over Conn
creek, a short distance from the village. 1t is
supposed he fell or the bridge during a fit of
apoplexy, and was nearly drowned before he
was discovered. Two physicians were sum
moned to wait on the injured man, but little
hope is entertained of his recovery.
Year: 1879

NEW ORLEANS, June l6.-There seems to be
an impression among the delegates that
neither the majority nor the minority re-
ports on the State debt will be adopted by
the convention, but that g. compromise will be
effected by reducing the interest to a very low
rate for several years, then gradually raising
1t. This plan is favored by large number of
delegates; also, it is said by representatives Of
the large bondholders.
Year: 1879

A Democratic Caucus to be Held To-day to


Discuss the Warner Silver Bill.


WASHINGTON, June 16.-A call has been is
sued for a meeting of the Senate Democratic
caucus tomorrow to receive the report from
the committee of three senators, Messrs.
Thurman, Mcdonald and Garland, appointed
on Friday to confer with Senator Bayard in
regard to his proffered resignation of the
craftsmanship Of the finance committee, and
to report whether some harmonious arrange
ment could not be effected to relieve the War
ner silver bill from its present suspended po-
sition in the committee, and place it upon the
Senate calendar. The caucus COM
mittee will report that Mr.. Bay
ard is lnfiexfbly opposed to making
any compromise or concession In the matter,
and that he, therefore, absolutely declines to
become party to the suggested arrangement
of reporting the bill back to the Senate with
out recommendation, even though it be stip-
ulated that no further action shall be taken
on the subject until next session. In brief, he
insists that the bill should be left in the hands
of the committee for mature consideration at
the next session OF Congress, and that, If his
party colleagues deem II advisable to force !
ton upon the measure in opposition to his
conscientious convictions concerning it, they
must accept his resignation.
Year: 1879

savings banks of New York have the
same right the Bank of England 20 properly COM


peilsate and their retirement to pension who
have given them OF valuable service and saved
thousands of dollars to the banks by their prudence
and experience. In any event the officers Justly
claim that the accuracy OF statements closely
affecting their credit should be fully established be-
fore publication. The natural judgment of deposit


tor would be that bank incapable OF selecting
its stan of employees certainly incapable
OF taking proper care of the moneys Entrusted
in its care. The publications complained of have
their incentive in some circulars issued by the AS
sistant Bank Superintendent. which the officers
think too sweeping i'll their character and calcu-
lated to impair confidence III the institutions which
that official is to protect Doubtless they say.
there is proper foundation for his belief i'll the
travagancc OF certain bank managenents but in his
circulars he directs the accusations. rather impi
cations against all the savings banks of the city.
woundina the sensitiveness OF honest managers and
exciting without the fears of depostors of
perfectly reputable institutions. He had CORE
spondence not long ago with Attorney General
Schoonmsker the subject of savings bank
penses. end its seemed to indicate the ofi-
making these complaints that the Assistant
Bank superintendent had his private suspicious
about the management of every bank in the city.
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters ana communi-
cations. The and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publica-
tion but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munlcatlons tnat are not used.
Year: 1879

the treasury the discretionary power Of determin-
ing what ports should be included in the list The
Commerce Committee amended the act so as to In
clu6e all ports of delivery and in the discussion In
the House it developed that this feature OF the
measure Objectionable. Tho bill having been
recommitted, it will be reported again to the House
after the first proposed by Mr. Wait and IN
that form is believed there will be objection to
its passage.


INTERSTATE COMMERCE.


The House Committee Commerce heard argu-
mcnts to-day from q committee of the Board OF
Trade. which took strong ground in favor OF Con-
gress interfering and attempting to regulate the
charges OF transportation OF freight by railroad COM
panies. The committee will finish the hearing for
and against the Interstate Commerce bill next Tues
day. after which tho committee will consider the
BILL and expects to report it favorably Immediately
after the reassembling OF Congress in January.


THE NAVAL OBSERVATORY.


The Joint resolution reported to-day from the
Committee Naval Affairs for the appointment of .
commission to select site for the Naval Observatory
will. it is believed enable the commission to deter
upon proper place for the location of the OBJ
scrvatory. so that the work may be begun without
delay.
Year: 1879

Chief Joseph, of the Nez Perce In
dians, who is now in Washington, was
asked the other day what of all the
works of civilization seen in this his
first trip to the East had impressed
him the most 1t was expected that
he would name the capitol, but he re-
piled without moments hesitation,
that the most wonderful thing he had
ever seen or dreamed of was the bridge
over the Mississippi river at st. Louis.
He could build mountain of stone
like the capitol, he said, but he could
not build spiders web that would
stand alone in the air. He was afraid
to cross it, but he saw that the pale
faces were not afraid so he wrapped
his blanket around him and trembled
as the train went over. Apropos to
this is something more wonderful to
the pale faces of Northern Idaho, East
ern Oregon, ETC., and that is this: Why
is it that the fellow who murdered SO
many is lionized in Washington, while
white savages like Cook, at the Dalles,
for instance, are strung up by the neck3
dstOrlun
Year: 1879

The New York E'ceniny Post says:
"By common consent 1879 is regarded
as year for business In the COM
mercial and industrial world the re


covery of which there are signs is slow,
but there are signs of it, at least in
this country. We are ready to take a
fresh start, with an honest one-hun-
dred cent dollar, with old debts paid
or in some way cancelled, with the
wisdom taught by bitter experience,
with more moderate ambition and bet
ter regulated purposes. There is a re-
vived sense of the necessity of work.
There is no longer royal road to
riches. Men feel that the money
which they are to get in the next twelve
months must be earned, and they are
turning their attention not to easy
speculation but to substantial business. .
Year: 1879

Some excitement has been caused in
Menomonee county, Michigan, on ac-
count of the reported discovery of gold
and silver deposits in the iron ore
taken from that vicinity. An analy-
sis of the ore, made in Chicago, re
veals the fact that every ton Of the
iron ore contains about sixteen dollars
worth Of gold and silver. The Chi
cago Tribune is the authority for the
reputed discovery.
Year: 1879

From the Chicago Tribune.l


The innocent old gentleman must
shudder every time he thinks of the
narrow escape he had from getting the
presidency as the result of these secret
bargainings, and how near he came to
having his name passed down in his
tory as synonymous with fraud. As
the case now stands, or as the sub
committee are in fair way to make it
out, Mr.. Tilden goes on the record as
a purblind old dotard, without wit
enough to discover what was taking
place under his very nose. 1t begins
to look as if the Democracy made a
mistake in not nominating Pelton.
Year: 1879

A citizen of Knappa was moving
last week, and wanting to haul consid-
cradle of load yoked two young men
and steer up together and hitched
them to a sled. They got along first
rate, and made full team to all in
tents and purposes, but the steer
bucked, and that made pulling little
harder on the balance of the team.
This reminds us of Lish Applegate's
experience at breaking steer in the
early days of Oregon. Lish was yoked
up with the steer and the steer ran off.
With his legs flying behind him like
drum sticks Lish kept up with the
steer as the pair of them broke down
the lane at "A tearing rate. Meeting .
friend Lish sung out to him: "Stop
us, stop us. we are running away.."
They were stopped, and the boys be-
gan to unyoke Lish, when he turned
around painting, and imploring said:
"Unyoke the other OK first; I'll stand" !"
-Astorian.
Year: 1879

l. Any person who takes paper regularly
from the post-oliice, whether directed in his
name or anOther's, or whether he has sub
scribed or not-is responsible for payment.


2. If a person orders his paper discontinued,
he must pay all arrears, or the publisher may
continue to send it until payment is made, and
then collect the whole amount whether the
paper is taken from the Office or not.


s. The courts have decided that refusing to
take newspapers and periodicals from the post,
Office or removing and leaving them uncalled
for. is prima facia evidence of intentional
fraud
Year: 1879

The appointment Of committee at
the meeting of the business men of this
village, to perfect the organization of
a Board of Trade, is step in the right
direction. We are young town. in a
newly settled county, and scarcely yet
started; there are many important
matters which often rise, and on which
it is very desirable to have the opinions
and ascertain the wishes of the business
men, property owners and all Others
interested, and in no better way can
this be accomplished than by having
all interested meet and express their
views. The location of new, and the
repairs of old roads and bridges, is a
matter Of much Importance, as is also
the drafting of bills to the legislature,
and all other matters which are of pub
lie Importance. Prompt and decided
action always win, and the old saw,
"What is everybody's business is no
body's," applies with force in cases
where matters of public Importance
are left to everybody to look after and
attend to. There are several impor-
tant matters upon which prompt ac-
tion is necessary, and we hope to see
every taxpayer in this town take a
personal interest in this matter, and
we are confident they will never have
cause to regret it. The meetings need
only be called once in each month, un-
less business of a special nature should
require special cohvocation, and there
is not one man in the town who has
one cents interest in our prosperity,
but can spare the time to attend. The
Interchange of thoughts and ideas,
the unity and harmony engendered,
would alone amply repay any efforts
we may make.
Year: 1879

Scotty, of the Pope County Press,
blows his tiny little tin horn, last week,
in such ridiculous, squeaking manner
as to almost provoke smile of pity.
Say, Bub, you'd better go borrow
razor and blow out any little brains
YOU may be cursed with.
Year: 1879

The Minneapolis Tribune is Of the
opinion that 1.-The developments in the
Reno case, SO far, are of character
tending to disprove the charges against
the officer under investigation
Year: 1879

The proposed line of railroad, to run
from Little Falls to Browns Valley, is
a subject of much Importance, not only
to Morris, but to Stevens county. 1t
seems probable that such line will be
built, and the question really before us
is, what are we prepared to do about
it! The road will probably run from
a point, say Glenwood. in Pope county,
to either OrtonVille or Browns Valley;
it will intersect this line at point not
further east than Benson, nor west Of
Herman. Now this is the most feast
bic point at which to cross, and to go
either side of us would be a round
about way, but there is this question:
will not the line go to that point or
points where the greatest inducements
are offered! If we are to offer no bo-
nus, and other towns do, then we get
no road, if we are liberal, we do not
need to be extravagant, we can secure
the line. The towns east and west of
US will have to offer larger bonus to
secure the line, it is them not us that
will have to give the odds. We are
centrally located and will be called up
on for only a reasonable sum, reasona-
Bile in so far as to be proportionate
. with the benefits derived. We pre-.
sumo there will be considerable op.
position to bonding the county, but yet
feel confident that that if the sum asked
is not too great, there will be no diff.
Guilty. We will, therefore, say to oul
readers that there is but the one ques
ton, if the road is built, arc we will


ing to offer bonus, and thus secure
any benefits that may be derived! II
a future article, we will try to show ;
few of the many advantages to be de


rived from lake point outlet, and VIZ


hope our people will consider the mat


ter, and be prepared to act promptly


when called upon.
Year: 1879




The Mississippi Valley Emigration
Company have sent an agent to New
York to look into the matter of::secur-
ng good white labor for the Southern
plantations. The correspondent Of
the Philadelphia Ledger in that city
says Of this venture AS far as can
be ascertained, he is not authorized to
offer anything in the way of induce
ments apart from good wages Itis
doubtful whether this will accomplish
the end in view. 1t does not go far
enough. A permanent interest in
the land and its products ought some
how to be guaranteed in order to
overcome climatic and other objec-
tions. The Argentine Republic is
acting on the plan Of parhtioning the
land, and the consequence is there
has been a steady stream of European
immigration to the farming districts
on the river Plate for the twelve
months past, aud the movement il
still in progress
Year: 1879

st, Louis Times-Journal, 15th.l


The president Of the Memphis beard
of health and Il. w. Mitchell. of the
national board, unite in a dispatch
declaring that there is no danger to
persons coming into or going from
Memphis at this time" This may be
considered a reasonably safe assump-
tion, as there have been only six cases
of yellow fever, confined to three fam
lilies, and no new cases have occurred
for four days aud half. While these
assurances encourage the hope that
the disease may not become epidemic,
the absence of definite information as
to the origin or cause of the cases that
have occurred is unsatisfactory. The
natural and almost inevitable conclu.
sion, from the appearance of these
cases is that the germs of the plague
are latent and ready for development
whenever the conditions are favora-
BILE. Indeed, it is believed that there
have been occasional deaths from vel.
low fever in the South ever since the
subsidenoe of the epidemic last au.
tumn. As the summer heat increases
a multiplication Of such cases may be
expected. During twenty-eight years.
from 1922 to 1849, there was not a
single year in which yellow fever did
not appear at the City Hospital in
New Orleans. In that time there
we're thirteen epidemics in that city.
The belief seems to prevail among
physicians acquainted with the dis.
ease that the germs of the fever are
produced in full yigor only in tropical
regions. Such fever germs imported
into temperate regions may cause an
epidemic the first season, but the ten
dencyis to die out and disappear unless
fresh importations are made. The few
germs that escaped the frost in Mem
phis may produce occasional cases of
fegsr this summer, But unless there
should be another importation direct
from tropical regions there will be no
epidemic, and next summer there will
be po yellow fever at all. This has
been tho history of the plague, and We
may reasonably expect to see the same
general features reproduced. Tho
best assurance, however, that there
will be no revival of the epidemic at
Memphis is to be found in the general
removal Of Nnacolimated persons and
the energetic activity Of the authoW-
ties in the enforcement Of sanitary


measures,
Year: 1879

ANOTHER congress to favor the
adoption Of code of international
law, proportional disarmament of the
great military powers, and the adop-
tion Of arbitration as means of set
Ting disputes, is to be held in Rome
in 1880. 1t is said to have the sup
port of the leaders 10 most of the
warlike nations, but the congress is
not likely to effect much more than
its predecessors, at all events not
until some use has been made of the
great armies which all the powers of
Europe have been gathering together
during the last few years. 1t is not
improbable that by 1880 some of the
leaders who now profess to be in favor
Of arbitration will be at the head of
great armies, fighting for dear life.
Year: 1879

JOHN SHERMAN is not going to
harp so much on the finances, if the


Washington dispatch to the Pittsburg
Commercial Gazette is true: "The
secretary in conversation is already
beginning to show signs of abandoning
his original position, that the financial
was the all-important issue, aud adj
mits that the Southern question and
that Of the National sovereignty will
be potential features in shaping public
sentiment in the next contest. 1t is
admitted that when the secretary
absUdons the financial question as a
distinctive feature of his claims for
the candidacy, he practically yields
the strongest point which he could
advance Tor recognition. The secro-
tary, however, is becoming quite com
municative as to his plans, and does
not attempt to disguise the fact of his
candidacy" 3
Year: 1879

A man who is not ashamed of himself
need not be ashamed of his early condi-
tion. It did happen to me to be born in
a log cabin, raised among the snow-drifts
of New Hampshire at a period so early
that when the smoke first rose from its
rude chimney and curled over the frozen
hill there was no similar evidence Of


waite mans habitation between it and the
settlements on the rivers of Canada. Its
remains still exist; make it an annual
visit. carry my children to 1t to teach
them the hardships endured by the gen
erations which have gone before them.
l love to dwell on the tender reccllec-
tions, the kindred ties, the carly affec-
tons, and the variations and incidents
which mingle with all known of this
primitive family abode. ] weep to think
that none of those who inhabited it are
now among the living; and If ever fail
In affectionate veneration for him who
raised it and defended it against savage
violence and destruction, cherished all
the domestic virtues beneath its roof, and
through the fire and blood ofseven years.
Year: 1879

He lived just mile from the village,
Out there by the forks of the road;
His farm, by the help Of good tillage,
Increased what he planted and sowed.
His dwelling was low and old-fashioned.
The roof was covered with moss,
But still by his fixing and patching,
1t kept out the rain and the frost,
He lived very peaceful and quiet;
We knew him as Jeremy Toad;
So plain was his dress and his diet,
The neighbors all said-he was odd.
The fashions he never would follow,1
MOI try to put on any style,


But owing dime or dollar
He paid it when due with smile,
His words were but few, and we'll chosen
Twas clear that he meant what he said;
His temper-not heated, nor frozen,
And calm was the life that he led.
He did not belong to the meeting,
And said very little of God;


But orphans were glad at his greeting,
And every one said-hc was odd.
If ever he offered to sell you
A COW, or an OK, or horse.


He made it his business to tell you
Each one of the animals faults.
he hired Billy Peters, the cripple,
To husk out out his corn by the day,
And heaped up the grain on the bushel
To measure the wheat for his pay.
His name was not on the subscription
To save the poor heather abroad;
His neighbors he helped in aff1iction.
The people all thought-he was odd.
Year: 1879

whole b and of robbers was yerv
neatly trapped IN La Carolina, Spain, by
the bravery of girl of thirteen, who has
become the heroine of the neigh borhood


She is the daughter of a farmer named


Fueras, and is called Caramlta. The


family consists of the husband an wife


and daughter. The farmer sold some
cattle for $1,000, and had the money in
his house. A band Of robbers knew Of
the sale and the money, and laid their


plans to rob the house. After the farmer


had gone out with his work peop,e. q
couple of strangers approached the house
"a man travel.stained, supporting a
woman who seemed unable to walk anv
further. The man explained to the
farmers wife that he was going to a dis
tant village with his wife, and she being
i'll, had broken down on the way. BE
asked permission for the sick woman to
enter the house and rest while he went
to lind conveyance TO enable them to
continue their journey. Permission was
granted, the woman taken in, and the
man lett. The sick woman partook of
some refreshments, and the mother and
daughter went on with their work. Verv
soon Caramita discovered that their ouest


had on a pair of pantaloons, under the


gown. She communicated the fact to
her mother, unobserved by the visitor.
and the two managed quickly to slip into
another room, close and lock the door.
The visitor, left alone and knowing that
his character had been discovered, threw
OFT his disguise, and ordered the woman to
open the door or die. The door was not
opened, and the robber began to cut
through it with large knife. At length
ne hacked hole big enough for his body,
and he began to crawl through it. The
woman tainted and fell on the floor. The
brave girl seized her fathers gun, which


was IN the room, heavily charged with


ouckshot, placed the muzzle against the
sioe OF the man, now half way through
the hole, and unable quickly to get either
backward or forward, and pulled the


trigger. There was an instantly dead


man and loud report The other robber
lurking IN the heighborhood heard tho
shot and returned to the house to find his
comrades dead body plugging the hole
IN the door and hanging there. Before
he could remove the body, which was
helo IN the opening by the girl, and en-
ter the room where the mother and
daughtel were, the farmer came with a
force sufficient to capture the other rob-
Der. Then they sent for some police to
take charge of the living robber and the
corpse. On the person Of the dead robber
the police found two pistols, poniard
and whistle. The whistle was treasure
now, as there were doubtless more rob-
bers within its call. The police sounded
the whistle, and concealed themselves in
the house to await results. The shrill call
brought four more men into the house,
where they were Gagged and irened, and
all tive were marched to Jail in good order,
and the dead robber was buried. Little.
black'eyed Caramita saved her own and
her mothers life and her fathers money.
made six robbers fewer in Spain and her
self the heroine of La Carolina.