smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

rous southrons! ah, gallant knights of
revolver and buck-shot! what a glorious
war was this! A hundred to one, and
that one poor girl with blood-stream-
ing face, shattered arm, and pleading
for help for a dying father. What a
manly hand was that which pulled the
trigger upon this bleeding, shattered,
unprotected grill


The sickening drama is about ended.
Johnnie weltering in his death blood in
the Jail above. The mother aided by
another son, and the poor daughter
carrying home the riddled but not yet
dead father. A little later and the
spirit of the son is joined by those of
father and sister, and then the curtain
falls. And this is what there is of the
Chisholm tragedy as related by the wife
and mother before the jury that is try
ing the man whose shotgun was fore
most in this assassin work. Will he
be found guilty, and if so, choked to
the dogs death which Rnch gnilt has n
thousand times earnedP tits doubtful
We know how hard it is to hang a
murderer even here in Chicago; and we
can imagine how much more difficult
the task in a community where such a
horror as the Chisholm slaughter could
occur Chicago Times (Dem.
Year: 1879

painstaking examination of the records,
tells the whole disgraceful story. We
believe the true inwardness of this
shameful showing to be that the South
steadily broods over the idea that in
losing its slaves it lost large proper
ton of the property on the strength OF
which it obtained the since repudiated
loans. Reputation thus assumes, to
the Southern mind, the form of a
righteous indemnity, only partial, but
good as far as it goes, for the losses
wickedly inflicted by the North. AS q
matter of National honor, apart from
the greater question of human rights,
how does the country view the possi-
bility of full Bourbon restoration next
year, with Democratic President at
the White House, and Democratic
majority in both branches of Congress,
dominated by the Repudiating SouthP
AS business stroke, to put it on no
higher ground, will it payP-BoSton
Year: 1879

The frequency with which the an
nouncement is made that one or other
of the Southern States is about to hold
a Constitutional Convention" for the
purpose of scaling down its debt, has
famiharized us with the general fact
that repudiation, more or less open or
concealed, is a settled financial policy
with the people of that section. Few
Northern readers, however, could form
ANYTHING like correct estimate of the
extent TO which the public creditors of
Southern States arranged" and "com-
promised" The New York Tribune, in
an exhaustive article, prepared evil
IDENTIFY with great care and upon a
Year: 1879

THERE is scarcely any trouble with
out a woman being at the bottom OF 1t,
so when you pass house and hear
youngster yelling like blue blazes, you
can make up your mind that the fore
going fact accounts for the noise
WbitshaH Times.
Year: 1879

1t is becoming fashionable among
intelligent men to send card in
stead of going to party. Being
out all night dancing, and eating
an indigestible supper while stand
ing up, does not hurt the card.
Year: 1879

Many man who scolds his wife
because things are not just to suit
him at home will be as placid as Il
custard pie and as mild as milk at
a fashionable summer resort, and
where nothing is so good as it is in
his own home, and he knows it. 1t
takes a man to do that.-Steu-
benville Herald.
Year: 1879

WIT AND HUMOR.


naugty men, think not TO cheat


The public when you say


"My life is now dreary blank
My wife has gone away"


St Louis Times-Journal.


A proved thing-A ship.


Ours to mankind--The dog-days.


A floating debt is certain in time
to sink any enterprise.


Out on foul-Taking a ride on
an ostrich.-Albany Journal.


A full hand-hired man on a
drunk.-Ottawa Republican.


In China the signs of aristocracy
are small feet. This must be effete
aristocracy.


A sporting gentleman of undue
levity of mind spoke of dog-show
as a reign of tarrier.


Gen. Burnside recently received
the militia of Road Island. The
militia road by in hack.-Cincin-
natl Commercial.


If proverty is disgrace mended
stockings are a darned shame
New Orleans Picayune.


Isn't it queer that man can see
nothing when he can't see anything!
Fond du Lac Reporter.


An old adage says Glove levels
ALL" So does tanglefoot whisky,
if taken in sufficient quantity.


If there only could be such a
thing as softening the brayin' of
donkey.-Philadelphia Record.


GA charge to keep have" as
the gun said, when it was loaded
and put away for future use.-Rome
Sentinel.


Won't some of those who "iust
drop into poetry" oblige us by
dropping clear through !-Quincy
Modery Argo.


How is it that trees can put on
a new dress without opening their
trunks! Because they leave out
their summer clothing.


1t must have been in the green
cherry season that Tennyson wrote,
"From our waist place there comes
a cry.-Cincinnati Commercial.


We do not know how it is with
other people this extremely para
graphical weather, but the chimney
sweep is always sooted.-New York
Herald.


Scandal mongers may learn this
lesson from the frog; Once over
passed the season of his adolescence
he gives up NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Gazette.


"Give the devil his DUE" said
Eighty orator. Then up rose a
backwoodman and said "He will
take his due (; don't you be afear-
ed."-New York Herald.


The Salem Sunbeam describes
misery as walking through a dry
good store where there are about |
fifty young lady clerks who have
nothing to do but look at you.


At the seaside. Affable board
ng housekeeper to prospective
tenant-"Just look at the view of
he beach, sir. Why, from this
Year: 1879

Ayoung Girl in Washington lately wore
a novel dress OF her own manufacture.
The foundation was white Swiss muslin,
made al exquisite shade of gray. through
the agency of spatter work, a method un-
derstood by most young ladies as consist
ing of a judicious sprinkling of ink with a
fine brush over a given surface Of mater
i'll. Each tiounce had a running vine Of
wild strawberry leaves on it, and small
ferns, while each seam up the back had
vines Of similar leaves and tiny blossoms.
The front of the apron was one exquisite
mass of ferns, grasses. wheat heads, lilies
of the valley, and dropping bells. The
entire dress was the handiwork of the
dainty goldenhaired girl who wore it
with 50 much grace and credit Here is
an opportunity for those young ladies to
distinguish themselves, who cannot paint
designs upon their party dresses, as is
the charming, but costly, fashion of to-
day
Year: 1879

A young gentleman from St Louis was
walking along the shore of Lake Michigan
with Chicago girl, when he saw on the
sands what he supposed to be a devil fish,
with its long tentacles spread out upon
the submerged soil of Illinois. He was
awakened from his dream by the young
lady, who said: ~ have just dropped
my glove" st. Louis Republican.
Year: 1879

Ex-senator Alcorn a Republican Of
Mississippi, says that he does not believe
negroes have been refused passage on the
Mississippi steamboats,, and that he nev-
er saw negro in the state who could
not get enough to eat, and never saw
negro beggar there. And yet he thinks
that, if Grant is candidate, he will be
inaugurated; he is such an obstinat. man,
and it will be so easy for the Republl-
cans to say that the negroes were bull
dozed in the South and the election
fraudulent.


When Democratic mayor of Boston
appoints Republican orator, colored
reader ofthe declaration of independence
and Catholic chaplain for Fourth OF
July celebration, the Boston Herald feels
an inclination to look about for the lion
and the lamb lying down together with
out the lamb necessarily being inside the
lion.


Each man and woman was sent into
the world not to be like somebody else
but to do his own work and bear his owr
burden, precisely the one work which
God has given him, and which can nevel
be given to or done by any other.


A Paris dispatch says; The Ministry
has just announced the decoration o
Mr.. Cole of Wilcox Il Co., of New
York, as Chevalier of the Legion O
Honor, in recognition of their exhibit il
the late Paris Exposition.
Year: 1879

A few days ago, the early morning
New York Express train, while fying
through Elkton, struck an old blind
horse, that had been allowed to wander
around town, and killed him instantly.
Fortunately no damage was caused to
the train by this mishap
Year: 1879

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-Dul-
ness throughout, weakness in the begin
ming and strength at the close, were
charac eristics Of tho stock market.
Money as easy at "a to 4 per cent.
Government securities were strong and
active, Sta es weak and railway bonds In
demand and firm.
Year: 1879

New York, Sept. l0-The Tribune says: Although some over zealous advocates of General Grants nomination in 1880 insist that his decision in the canal matter will not take him out of the Presidential race, it is evident that he has made up his mind to keep aloof from the whirlpool eff party politics. It is not t0 be supposed that he would entertain the idea of managing so gigantic a commercial and engineering un- dertaking as a ship canal between the At lantic and Pacific if he had any ambition CT expectancy of serving another term in the White House. He writes he has given two days consideration to tine matter. He is DO doubt we'll informed as 10 the drift of political events at home, and in these two days of reflection he must have weighed the chances of a nomination and election next year. Probably his conclusion was that a life position as head of the Canal Company would be more to his taste than four years more of the Chief Magisiracy, even if the latter were assured. Al all events, he has made up his mind, and he is the last man to waver when he has once come to de- cision.
Year: 1879

General Eherman's letter of reply to the Salisbury, North Carolina, invitation to at- tend reunion of Confederate and Federal soldiers, comes like an inspiritiDg burst Of martial music into the midst of an atmos- phere of dreary 'gush." We are glad to note that at least one of the great Captains of the war is not disposed to coDcede that between the cause for which the Confeder- ate soldier fought and suffered, and the cause for which the Union soldier fought and suffered there is no essential difference. The time has not yet arrived when the loyal nation can spotheosize Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis upon the same pedestal, or rank Robt. E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant ss equally entitled to the gratitude and es- teem of the country. So long as Mississ- ,pp, iuries return verdicts justifying the covardIy murder of the daughters of Re publican fathers, so long as the banks of the Father of Waters arc lined with those fleeing from the bondage of!errorism, which js exercised in the South over black skin ned citizens of the United States, it cannot be truly said that ii is quite the thing for Union soldiers to cheer at the mention oi Confederate victories, or for Sherman to don his cap and do homage to the flags "hicn gre still stained with the mire into which his legions trampled them. Nor m saying this do we mean to be understood as in'i- mating that it is desirable to retard the era of good feeling and homogenity of purpose which all patriots hope will eventually per meste the people of this nation. We sim DIv say. and we say it with regret, that thus far. the ssreciprocity of feeling appears to bs sll on one side;'' and we say further that the newly welded unity of feeling and ptr- nose between the North and South need not include, and in our judgment ought not ,o include, the proposition that because the people of the South were honest and earn est in their rebellion, that therefore, the rebellion was any the less great, cause less and s needless crime. It would be bet. ter for this generation and the next. better for the peace, the prosperity and the unity of our land, if the rising generation of the South could be taught to look upon the rebellion Of their fathers, if not as crime to be forgot ten. at least as a cruel blvnder, the details of which should be remitted 10 kindly ob- liyion. We therefore think that the hero of Atlanta struck the right key when he said that he would be glad to meet the peo- ule of North Carolina on some civic occa- sion, or, in memory of the Revolutionary war, but to meet them as ex-Confederate soldiers to commemorate ex Confederate battles or campaigns would be unjust to them, unjust to him, and unwise for the general welfare.
Year: 1879

Lincoln. during his term of office used TO sacnr tb
support IN Congress of many Senators and Representa-


Ves by appearing to defer TO their superior knowledge of
the htness OF candidates for place He had no choice
would the statesman be good as to name suitable
mani VI course he named with enthusiasm and the


vicious system by which, lattery Congressman were the
real appointing power and the executive simply register
uhdouDedy was strengthened by this practice It is
mechoy reflection that the Presidents anxietes were
members OF his own party by artice the support
70 which he was justly entitled On occasion when


al congressman could not agree, and interests
worried the good old man beyond endurance deleati


IN aVor OF certain applicants claims waited upon him
WIN great soemnity The spokesman person of weight
ana influence, having in mind the condition of the con


yior 1t was just after the second battle of Bull Run


somewhere down the ages and traced the course of
@ lloery up TO That time, showing how the President
no" pore upon his shoulders the hopes of mankind Some
IneS h9 the speaker feared that the weight would be
GOO hueh Tor the President Lincoln impatiently inter
Iupung the orator, said "Oh, can stand all that It's
life out of me - 'is ~
Year: 1879

Quite recently have been enabled through fortui-
IouS circumstances to make arrangements for procuring
large supply of those beautiful little gems of ncle-
plated clocks with heavy pategla fronts and stem
winding, which are now exceedingly popular in the
East and wherever used. (See illustration above1 All
the movements of this clock are perfect They are manu-
aoured of the best materials with polished steel springs
and all the plates screwed together In short this
clock, as we state, is gen. thoroughly reliable as time
Keeper and admirably fitted to grace any MANTLE shelf
or stand in any parlor, dining sleeping room Now
having related these unquestonabe facts pertaining to this
clock, which we designate THR NATIONAL tribune
Clock we beg leave to impress it upon the minds of all
readers that owing to special arrangements we are en-
abled to offer to any and all TIE National Tribune
Clock and Ihe National Tribune Neaospaper, for the
unprecedented low price of $5 In clubs of ten or more
subscribers desiring clock and paper we will allow
one extra cock and paper for the getting up of every said
club of ten The clock and paper will be sold under no
circumstances for less than dollar and five
cents whether in orders for hundred and in all
cases OF so ordering parties pay the freight the
amount OF which will be but trle No fears need he
entertained of breakage of the clock or
OF It's parts by transportation Thus we rive Won s1
ef CLOCK and an excellent newspaper of special interest
70 the thousands of soldiers of the country concernn
the patriotism their rights and their pockets while the
general news 1T publishes relating matters at Washing
ton, its social gossip lively sketches choice selections
Sc will render it welcome guest in every family circle
Now, here pro pectus for some good profitable usi
ness which soldiers especially could make great sccess
Almost every householder would buy one of these clocks
even ne had several on hand and those who have none
would surely buy Go to work then and get up your
clubs Think of it, beautiful family clock entirely
relable and an interesting family newspaper both for
one dollar and sevenyve cents together with an ex
ira clock and newspaper for every geter up Of cub of
en hSeoen clocks and eteoen nepapers for segeeen dol
5GfR ana tJty cents Remit by money orders which can
be obtained at almost every q. s. Post Office by regis
tered letter, by draft ON New York, or by express


Specimen OF paper sent free


Address at once,


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IFYeLJn n ~
Year: 1879

This is the most economical plan you adopt TO se
cure valuable and interesting reading.
Send us on your subscriptions at once in moneyorder
registered letter.


We can furnish any other leading papers magazines
in connection with the NATIONAL RIBtrNE and when
you think OF subscribing to any paper not the above
st just write TO us, and you may rely upon securing
1t upon the very best terms and that it will be forwarded
very promptly No subscriptions received for less than
one year.


Now, specially call upon the soldiers help us in
the work of enlagng subscription list by the
here presented IL readily be done, if they will put
their shoulders TO the wheel If they regard as their
paper-which it is, most emphaticaly-they will feel a
pride in it's success.


The larger subscription list the money we can
afford to expend in making it additionally attractive
sheet


We would like to hear from any soldiers North South
East Vest who would be pleased to labor in the cause
Let us hear from you, boys.


Address at


"FHE NATIONAL TRIBUNE COMPANY"


Washington, d. o.
Year: 1879

Ellwood Vansciver a young man
boarding at No. 626 +. Seventh street,
was arraigned at the police court last
evening, on the charge of assault and
battery on John p. Edwards, the pro
pretor of the boarding house. Mr.. Il.
testified that on Monday evening at $50
he was sitting in the front room OF his
house, and had occasion to 60 out into
the yard after drink of water. The
defendant who was in the house at the
time followed witness into the yard, and
on returning 10 the house slammed the
door after him with such force as to
almost break one of the panels Of the
door. Witness opened the door and was
in the act of going through to the front
room when the defendant rushed up to
him and uttering several oaths struck
witness severe blow in the eye, at the
same time threatening to kill him. Mr..
L. stated that the prisoner struck him
without the Least provocat:on. There
being 10 other witness his Honor sen
fenced the prisoner to \ fine of 50 ant
cost.
Year: 1879

Last evening a horse covered with
mud, y wagon in the same condition
with man in it that looked as if he
had been finished off in the most artis-
tic manner by plasterer with swamp
mud, were vending their way up Mar
ket street, the observed of all observers.
"My! why where did that muddy team
come from," was the expression which
passed from hundreds OF loungers.


Some of the pedestrians passing
along the street looking at the strange
comical sight of the mud begrim-
ed occupant of the wagon who pressed
down the springs at 236 pounds weight
discovered some resemblance of some
body with whom they were familiar,
and by examining the facial extreml-
ties where the mud had peeled off they
found we'll known jovial Whining.
tonian, whose sides shook with laugh
ter, Notwithstanding the unpleasant
pr.dicament in which he found himself.


TO cut the story short, it is only
necessary to state that Mr.. C. W. Tai
ley had been over on Cherry Island
experimenting the repairing OF some
embankments and coming to a gate
which was opened, the horse struck by
SOM. funny instinct, for it is said horses
do not think instead of going through
the gate like good and dutiful horse,
succeeded in sloshing around until Mr..
Tall-y were all overturned in ditch.
There were two other gentlemen along
with Mr.. Talley whose names We did
not learn, bu. who rendered consider
able assistance in eXtricating Mr.. Tai
lev, his horse and wagon from the I'M
pleasant predicament in which the
folly of tue horse placed them. This
accounted for the unusual sight on
| Market treet.
Year: 1879

As The "Gazette' is SO observing in
matters pertaining tojournalistic enter.
prise, and particularly to the numerical
local status of succeeding issues of our
afternoon dailies it would doubtless
be gratifying to know that in yester-
days issue of the REPUBLICAN, there
were eighty-three distinct locals, fresh
and newsy, to say nothing of the brew
ties and special MENTION while in
the Gazette" we could only find
thirty-fo1 To judge from the omis-
sion of the fact in its local column the
comparison is hardly suited to its tenn
per,
Year: 1879

Tomorrow evening the proposals for
const, ucting q new waterwheel and
forsbay at the City Mill pumping Sta
tion, will be opened by the Clerk of the
Council, and it will be then known
who is the lowest if not the best bidder.
Those who have not yet sent in their
bids should do SO with the least posi-
BILE delay, and be sure to accompany
it with a bond and security for $500.
Year: 1879

The City Tax Collectors Office is
being renovated to-day. The old paper
is being torn off the wall, and new
paper is to be put on by Edwin Parker.
The Office will be painted by Mr.. Smith
Year: 1879

Il. H. Heagland advertises for propo-
sails for building stone walls and laying
a brick pavement for sewer over Stall
cup run, from the north side of Second
street to the South side of Third street.


Masons and bricklayers will find the
job worth looking after. Every bidder
is required to give security in 500 for
the good. faith of his bid, and the one
to whom the contract shall be awarded
will be required to give bond of $500
for the faithful fulfillment of the same.