smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

nights when we do want her she per
versely keeps herself hidden.


My dog Hector, as Itold you some
time ago, affects philosophy. When he
was puppy he vas presented TO me to
be trained for the protection of my
house. Thinking there might be some
thing in a name, | chose for him the
name of my tavorite hero, the son OF
Priam and Hecubb the husband OF An
dronache and the defender for ten years
of his native Troy against the embattled
host of Agamemnon. However, after
seeing him engaged in battle with an
old gray cat belonging to one OF my
neighbors, l reluctantly concluded that
his courage was rather moral than phys
ical and | regretted that | had not NAM
ed him Plato, Zeno or Aristotle. My
fence is little rickety as an Irishmans s
fence ought to be. My neighbor's pigs
are not slow to take advantage of nation
al weakness aud my garden is their
daily playground where they and
the heroic Hector enjova life of
perpetual romps. When evening
comes and the owners of the pigs loud-
ly invite them bome TO supper,the gen.
erous Hector, alive to the calls OF good
fellowship as an 1rishman's dog ought
to be, stands at the breach in the fence
aud with gentle violence PREVENTS THEIR
LEAVING and thus saves, if not his mas
ter's garden certainly his reputation for
hospitality. One OF my ne:ghbors has
i'll natureGly hinted that this peculiarly
of my dog might be utilized about hog
killing time and it may be that Hector,
Year: 1877

Texas has never been supposed to be very religious community, but the current belief must arise from ignorance of the real fervor of the people when their notice is called to any

 case of immortality Dr. s. 1. Russell one of the prominent men of Bell county, is an infidel The other night he was taken from his bed to wood 'finveigled into some woods," another account says) by company of men said to be led by members of Baptist church, stripped and addressed thus ''We know you are an tolerate no infidels in Bell county; so, by the help of God, we will stop your career of inf delity." A hundred lashes were then laid upon his naked back. He was then freed, and mo- tice posted on the tree that hereafter infidelity in Bell county will be punished by the torch and halter.
Year: 1877

The legislature will not meet in the new cap- itol building this year, as it will be impossible to finish the work on the legislative halls by the 1st of January. The decoration of lhe halls should be completed according to the contract by December 15, but although it Is now well advanced, it willhardly be finished by that date. The work is being done with the utmost care, and will present an elegant appearance when consummated. The senate chamber decorations are exceedingly beautiful, and reflect genuine credit on the artists having the work in charge

 In the representatives, hall the work is not SO far along, but will be equally as artistic as that in the senate chamber when finished. When the decorations are through with, both halls will have to be foored, which will require consid- erable time. Even if the two halls should be in readiness by January 1, it would be entirely disagreeable getting about the building, the work being in progress on the numerous hall ways, staircases and department rooms. The committee rooms for the legislature would also be in an incomplete condition, and uninviting in every respect. The legislature has evident ly settled down to the conviction that another year will be needed to get the capitol into fit state for the legislative session, and most of the members have selected their seats in the old state house for the winter -Hartt0rd Post
Year: 1877

MT. Farjeon said of American literature in his Lot6s club speech: :-''In intellect, Itake it, we are about level; but doubt whether you give yours full play. If you did you would depend upon yourselves and less upon foreign markets for your literature. As it at present exists, it is an anomaly which am sure you all join me in hoping will soon be wiped away, not that native art is slumbering here. You have giants among you-men whom the old country would be proud to own as sons. Born among you, working among you, are laborers in the fieldsOf literature, painting, sculpture and dramatic art whose work is great in the best senseio of the word, and who would give to the countries of the Old World lessons which would do them no harm to learn. If their num- bers are small you are principally blame, for

 it strikes me that you do not sufficiently appre- ciate them; that you place their work af too low an estimate"
Year: 1877

As an engine belonging to the Phil
adelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
railroad was standing on the track on
Washington avenue on Tuesday, and
during the temporary absence of the en-
gineer and fireman, an unknown man
jumped upon the engine and started it st
full speed towards the river front. Two
freight cars which were attached to the
engine struck the bumpers at Washing
ton street wharf with such force that
the engine was thrown from the track and
the cars ran into the river. The stran-
ger, who was evidently insane, was
pitched into the water by the shock and
drowned.
Year: 1877

While we are shivering and COM
planning of the winter weather that has
returned upon US, after few days Of
rsd-hot summer, the people in some of
the down east States are faring much
worse than we are. In Berkshire
county, Mass, snow fell. on Thursday,
to the depth Of four inches, and the as
tOnishing declaration is made that sit
is feared the fruit crop is injured. !"
Their season must either be a desper-
ate way behind ours, or their fruit is Of
; much harder kind if it is not totally
used up.
Year: 1877

A TERRIBLE CASE OF HYDRoPHoBIA. -
A case Of great interest to the medical
profession involving a horrible death,
has occurred in Philadelphia. On
Christmas eve Michael Crosson, a bar
tender in a saloon at Eighteenth and
Naudain streets, in the south western
part Of the city, was bitten by terrier
dog in the cellar where he went to draw
ale. The wound was not deep and
healed in short time. A few days
ago the old wound began to pain him,
and a red eraplion appeared, which ap-
peared and disappeared two or three
times On Tuesday Of last week, Mr.
Crosson went to bed with a pain 10 bis
shoulder and arm. DR.. Carroll was
called to attend him, and administered
a powerful anodyDe The patient grew
worse, and at 10 o'clock that night the
physician was informed Of the circum-
stances Of the biting, and Crosson was
told that be must prepare for death.
He continued to grow worse, and at
l 80 o'clock Thursday morning sprang
from his bed in delirium. Four men
could scarcely hold him, and he died
in an hour after from exhaustion. The
peculiarities Of the case to the medical
profession are that the patient was kept
under the influence of anodynes nitrate
Of amyl being given and morphia His
mind remained clear up to within an
hour of bis death.


Thomas Welsh, of Cambridge, Mass
also died on Wednesday Of hydrophobia,
of the worst type. He was bitten by
a dog last Christmas
Year: 1877




This dryer was invented for the purpose of
saving part OF my own crop Of peaches in
1875 Thousands of baskets of fruit had
rotted in my orchard The Smocks and Late
White peaches were ready to dry when . be-
gan, yet the peaches dried after that with a
common stove without CRATE bars, sold for
two hundred dollars. improved the dryer
greatly in 1876 and this year, and claim that
it will dry fruits and vegetables so that they
will be nearly as light and rich in color when
they are dry as when put fresh in the evapor-
ator. That which darkens more fruit than
all else, is the vapor that is thrown of in
drying, and remains in the dryer until il
passes through all the fruit in the way to the
outlet


My invention by the use of tubes takes the
greater part of that moisture out ofthe main
chamber without its passing through the
fruit, and also supplies DRY HEAT to every FIVE
trays continually, thus retaining the natural
color of the fruit by quick drying. When
the fruit is nearly dry it is slid into mIlder
heat in the finishing chamber.


The following certificates show what is
thought by those who have seen the fruit for
two years:
Year: 1877

General Howsrd's command arrived
at Bsnnock on the night OF the 18th, and
left for Horse Prairie the morning.
All the Cinnamon OF Horse Prairie are
missing, and are supposed to have been
killed. The rear guard OF the Indians
are still oa Horse Prairie
Year: 1877

1t is something of consolation in
this weather to reflect that man who
holds a 5000 pew sits down just as
ihrmly on the sidewalk as a fellow
who occupies one of the free seats
back by the door without any cushion
ON Tx.
Year: 1877

NATURES FREAK.-One of the
Cinnamon residing in the rear Of our
Office is one of the most remarkable
illustrations of natures freaks that
has ever come under our observation.
While possessing the peculiar features
and shape of the MoDsolian race, his
body is half white and half black,
the dividing line in front commenc-
ing at the larynx, and the spinal col
umn being the converglng line in the
rear. The right leg is ghostly
white, as is also the right half of the
body from the throat down, while a
jet black is the color of the other
side. We have been unable to learn
the cause of this singular fact, but
deem it worthy the attention of med
ical experts. Silver State.
Year: 1877

A New York schoolmaster told a
young miss that the word "obliga-
tory" meant binding, whereupon she
laid her head upon her hand, and
after a brief cogitation, handed the
teacher this sentence: 1.-THE obliga-
tory of my book is worn OUT" He
tainted.
Year: 1877

A Frenchman says this is = new
German game: Three Germans sit
down to table three pipes are in
their mouth three mugs are before
them before each mug is drop Of
beer on the table flies are in the
brewery +; first fly on drop of beer
on the table wins the game for the
owner thereof.
Year: 1877

THERE is novelty, at any rate, in the sug-
gestion Of the Bullionist, monetary journal
published in London, that the directors or
managers of British banks might do stroke
OF business by extending their operations to
the United States: $50 far as the laws of
the United States are concerned, the for
elgner is as free to the banking business in
New York or any other city in the Union as
the American private banks are. 1t would
only be the competition OF the latter that he
would have to care for, because, under pres
ent circumstances, he could easily do business
on better terms than the National or State
banks. At the present moment the Ameri-
can State and National banks are over
weighted by severe burden of taxation, both
on their issues and on their discounts and
deposits. They pay heavily for the privilege
OF issue, in return for which they have to lock
up large amount of their capital in Govern
ment bonds yielding 4t per cent. The mar
gin OF profit, after satisfying the demands of
the Government, is slight, and sometimes is
swept utterly away. 1t would be great deal
more profitable to employ their capital in
commerce, or in discounts yielding per cent.
Let one OF our larger London Institutions
plant branch in New York. 1t would
escape much of the taxation imposed on the
American banks, would have perfect freedom
in its business so long as 1t did not claim
privileges of issue, and we have little doubt
1t would prove success"
Year: 1877

THE elderly patriotic ladies of America who
have been sewing and tea drinking all their
lives in aid of the Washington Monument
may be interested in knowing that during
that protracted interval the substructure has
been succumbing to the corrosive onslaughts
of the elements, aud that board of experts
lately appointed to make an examination will
report that the insecurity Of the foundations
will prevent comnetion of the monument.
This calamitous state of affairs would other
wise have resulted from lack of money, and
thus brought about, would have been far
more repugnant to the fine sense of the grate-
ful and generous mass of the people
Year: 1877

THE unanimous opinion of the Democracy
is that the Supreme Court cannot be trusted
to give decision on grounds of law; it is
unable to rise above its personal and political
bias, and is no longer the body it was when
the bred Scott decision was given.
Year: 1877

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley L


Pulen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon US by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
ations. The name and address of the writer are IL
l cases Indispensable not necessarily tor publication
but as guaranty Of good faith


We cannot undertake to return reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1877

The blue glass mania has reached its climax
in the sad case of Chicago man. He went
into an opticians and bought pair of blue
goggles to wear on his eyes, He dropped into
hat store and ordered little round piece of
blue glass put in the top Of his hat in place of
the usual tin ventator. He then partook of
dinner of blue fish at a restaurant with a blue
skyght, dipped his fingers into blue glass
finger bowl and refused to drink anything until
the waiter hunted him up a mug with blue
glass bottom The day was now spent, and
going home in blue light street car the blue
glass man meeting his children at the door,
refused to kiss any but those having blue eyes,
sat down in blue chair to read copy of the
blue laws of Connecticut and gos into such fit
of the blues that he took some blue ink. and,
writing in his will that at his death the glass
in his coffin should be blue glass and his mon
ument be made of blue granite, he grabbed
revolver and blew out his brains.
Year: 1877

Since the discovery of the buttons at Mycepe
it is argued that the taunt that man has more
buttons than brains is Greek in origin
and was originally applied to some
of the liverIed flunkies of the Peloponesian
aristocracy. 1t may be charged to some his
toric acquaintance of ours if this digging keeps
Year: 1877

trail Road provided as was the 9th with forty rounds %
hall cartridge each.
A REPORT THAT THE CENTRAL MEN HERE WILL


STRIKE.


a policeman, who was stationed yesterday
AZ the Hudson River Railroad Depot In Thirteth-t.
stated last evening he had learned by conversation
with the employees that they would strike there this
morning at O'Clock unless satisfsciory arrange.
neu with officers OF the company should DC cnec'cd
tonight
Year: 1877

PHILADELPHIA, July 24.-The train hands
ON the Central Railroad OF New Jersey and It's branches
qye been notified by the signal Committee To do no ser
vice for the Company after o'clock tomorrow morning
Year: 1877

A Washington dispatch of recent
date says: 1t can be accepted as q
fixed fact that President Hayes will
get some severe blows from his
party after the November elections.
The day of reckoning is postponed
until after that period, not that
Republicans have any hope Of car
rying Pennsylvania and New York,
but because, if they arc lost to their
party, it will give those who lead
the opposition additional ammuni-
ton to more successfully conduct
the fight. There is no use of dis
guising tho real feelings of u large
number of Republicans in Congress-
They ore bitter toward Hayes, and
when once the match is applied to
tho magazine of indignation the
explosion will bo much more severe
than the President daro anticipate.
1t seems to be the purpose of those
who desire to antagonizo his policy
Of administering tho Presidential
Office to force him to abandon his
neutral position, and go over COM
pletely to the Democracy, or undo
what has already been done, and
come back to the Republican fold.
81 venture a prediction" said we'll
known politician to- day, "and that
is, that in less than six months
Hayes will be IN out-and-out
Democrat, or more Radical than
Grant. He will be forced to accept
ono of tho two extremes"


The Senate has in ono or two in
stances given President Hayes u
direct snub. Ono day last week
Hayes indicated through Senate
rial friend that he would send in
an important batch of nominations.
This fact was communicated to q
number of Senators, who precipita-
ted an adjournment on Thursday
until NIorday, and left Rogers, the
private secretary, standing outside
with the budget, which he had to
carry back to the White House. A
certain Senator was told that the
President was quite anxious to have
several nominations in which he
felt personal interest confirmed at
once, and was asked when the
Senate would act upon them. His
reply was laconic "You can tell
tho President that when we get
time to inquire about his nomina.
tions they will be acted upon and
not before"
Year: 1877




What John Sherman said, last Fri
day night, in his electioneering speech
of the Ohio campaign about finances
or the civil service or the Southern
question, was of no practical consequ-
ence whatever.


But he made startling proposition
on another subject before he got to
the end of his speech. He proposed a
scheme that involves a new departure
for the Republican party new fea-
lure in the policy OF the Government
new branch of legislation for Con-
gress aud revolution in the political
system of the country. He proposed
that the Government should seize the
opportunity off ,red by strikes to take
Il long step in the way of undertaking
The supervision and direction of all
the business and industry ofthe coun-
try. lie weat very much further in
the direction of Communism than the
Cleveland platform aud very much
further than Mr.. West, the Republican
candidate for Governor of Olio. In
fact the principle upon which his pro-
position rests Is the foundation stone
Of The most radical school of Commu-
nistic theorists to be found anywhere.
BY developing applying and enforcing
it he will leave nothing whatever to
be done or to be desired by Justus
Schwab himself. He gave prominence
and importauae TOMS proposition by
going from his place in the Treasury
Department to his own State of OHIO
In which a political campaign is in
progress to. make it. He evidently
meant that it should there receive the
endorsement of his party so that it can
be brought up hereafter in Congress
Us party measure.-N. Y. Snn.
Year: 1877

TR1FLEs.-There are many little things in
the household, attention to which is indispen-
sable to health and happiness. The kind Of
air which circulates in house may seem a
small matter, for we cannot see the air, and
not many people know anything about it; yet
if we do not provide regular supply Of pure
air within our houses, we shall inevitably suf-
fer for our neglect. A few specks of dirt
may seem neither here nor there, and q closed
door or window appear to make little differ
ence; but it may make the difference of q
life destroyed by fever; and, therefore, the
little dirt and little bad air are very serious
matters, and ought to be removed according
ly. The whole Of the household regulations
are, taken by themselves, triAes-but triaes
tending to an important result.
Year: 1877

A PROFITABLE BUs1NEss.-A correspon-
dent of the New Orleans Times says: "The
General Government has about put stop to
depredations on the public lands, but this
only trebles the force now cutting from State
lands. To show you how profitable the bust
ness of getting logs from State lands is, I'll
instance one man who was only engaged in it
for eleven months, and during that short Pc
riod, he was enabled to get married FIVE differ
ent times. The last spouse, however, proved
to be less thrifty than the other four, and the
fellow had to swap her off to neighbor for q
double-barrel shot gun. I am acquainted
with dozen men who were present at all the
weddings, and can testify to the trade for the
shotgun" .>...
Year: 1877



 For several months past we have heard some of the stock men of this valley speak of boneyard some thirty miles east of here, on the edge of the desert. Rufus Dillurd, Jack Parton and Andrew Eos. ter, stockmen, came in from there last Monday and brought in large quantity of teeth and some large bones. I will give you their description as near as l can recollect it. These bones are found in low volcanic sand ridges and alkali flats, and extend over distance of four or five miles in length and about one mile in width. The bones can be found on top of the earth and sticking ap through the drifting sands by hundreds and thousands, from the size of mouse upwards. My informant haz no knowl. edge of what lies buried beneath the sand and alkali flats, and all the speci- mems were taken from the top of the ground. They say there is a small alkali pond at the edge of the main deposit of the petrified bones, and over an area of about eighty acres those bones lie on the ground The largest bone measures thirty inches in length, with no sign of the knuckle on either end. and from the shape of the ends we judge must have been twelve or fourteen inches longer It is perfectly straight and nearly round in the middle. The circumference of the large end Is sixteen inches, and the smaller is twelve and half inches. The next one is slightly curved and rather flat, and has two knuckles on the upper nd tn1 | tn ha in straight across from tip to tip, twenty four inches; around the curve, twenty eight inches. This bone is as perfect as it ever was, and it is petrified. Now comes the incest fossil of the whole, part of the under jaw bone, thirteen inches long, six inches wide at the widest end, and four inches at the other. One side of the bone has been split off and shows six perfect teeth, firmly set in the jaw and beautifully petrifed. They measure across one and one fourth by one inch. There is another tooth, though a jaw tooth, that measures two and one half inches one way, that has been split open l could not get the size the other way. It is five and one-half inches long Now comes one of the strangest of this strange bone deposit. Vast quantities of stone arrow heads, such as were used by Indians, are found through these bones. It looks as though these animals were surrounded by water, and perhaps got poisoned by the water, and perished by the thousands; then some chemical properties in the water or ground petrified them. There are thous- ands of bones that are not petrifed.- San Francisco Chronicle.
Year: 1877

A farmer in this county, who is sup posed to own as good common sheep as anybody in this locality, sheared his flock on the 23d, and after weighing the fleeces, found that each sheep averaged two and a half ponnds. Take the whole number of sheep in this State, and they probably will not average more than the above. Say that wool is worth twenty cents per pound, the profits from each sheep will be fifty cents. Take now an estimate of feeces of the thoroughbred Merino and Cotswold which will not average less than eight pounds ger head-the net profits on each sheep, Sl60, or $1.10 in favor of the thoroughbred over the com mon stock. It is not, however, alto gether fair to estimate the feeces of the two breeds at the same price, as it is q we'll known fact that the wool of the thoroughbred will command a higher marketable value. Now it costs the same to raise the thoroughbred as the common sheep; the mutton of one is as good as the other; the profits of the wool of the thoroughbred is three times greater than from the common. Every farmer own ing a flock Of sheep should make it con- venient to purchase thoroughbred ram to improve the quality and yield of his wool such an investment will pay.-S. Liue Stock Journal.