smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

The New Orleans mint is working now
to the full capacity Of its appliances, and
is turning out each months more and
more coin. A strike of $4,000 during
working month was until lately consid-
cred an excellent result, but during this
month fully $50O,000 in coin will be
manufactured.
Year: 1879

Fred Lerch has arose from his ashes and
from his new brick fire proof announces
grand opening tomorrow night on which
occasion the Yankton brass band will be
in attendance. The public are cordially
invited to be present In the new. pleasant
and. commodious resort and participate in
the proceedings.
Year: 1879

It is clear. sunshiny day, and the light
streaming in through the windows Of the Grim
inal Court illumfnaues every nook aud corner
OF that often dismal and unirvitng room.


The knowledge that at least the greater nor
tion II not the whole OF the morning session
will be devoted to dry, legal arguments does not
diminish in the least the attendance.
By 8 o'clock there is a crowd around the Michi-
gan street entrnnce, and five minutes after the
doors are thrown open there is not vacant seat
in the room. The same female faces are to be
seen in the benches set aside for the sex, md
the number is about the same as usual, the
whole east side of the main floor being occupied
by them.


AS to Stevens, there is no alteration in his de-
meanor, except that he pays more than usual
attention to the proceedings, evidently relishing
speeches more than evidence. Mrs. Young and
Annie Coon are accompanied BY the daughter
Of the former-a pretty little child Of 20. After
spending abo2t fifteen minutes in endeayoring
to make each other understand their respective
positions on the question raised Friday, the at
torncys settled down to work, or rather talk.
Year: 1879

LOUISVILLE, July l9.-As to this
city establishing quarantine against
Memphis, the following from the Post
and News Of to-day fairly represents
public sentiment:


I'VE cannot afford to so back on our
humane and sensible record of last
year, and there is now no reason to do
so, but it would be well for some sys.
TEN to be adopted by which officers
should be stationed atsome point down
the road with strict instructions and
full authority to stop the bringing of
suspicious baggage into our hotels and
boarding houses and to turn every
case of disease which could possibly
be regarded as even incipient yellow
fever aside to a yellow-fever hospital.
That would be enough, while the
city of Memphis is not under the
epidemic cloud nor suffering from
more than a dozen cases, and these
were not caught one from the other.
1t would be unnecessary hardship to
put the wife and children off the train
outside the city. We must keep the
yellow fever out, but we must
let the healthy people come, and
this is not impossible, it seems
to us. We must not let fleeing
families with bundles of bed-clothes
and other domestic rubbish into the
city; but when men and women in
perfect health, with change of cloth
ing, wish to come they must be per-
mitted. 1t would be folly to try to
prevent them. We can be more care
full than last year and still lose none
of our good name for humanity"
Year: 1879

Everybody liable to yellow fever is
urged to arrange for summer quarters
elsewhere than in Memphis. The
situation is discouraging and the fu-
ture uncertain. Those best informed
are inclined to believe that gloomy
health prospect is ahead. 1t is very
certain that some thirty or more per-
sons are now sick, who to all outward
appearance were in sound ordera week
back. Several of the number are
dangerously i'll, and two or more are
hopeless. The vicinity Of Clay and
DeSoto streets in South Memphis is
where the majority of those i'll are
now located, but scattering cases are
TO be found in various parts of the
city. The malady, whatever it is,
appears to be slowly spreading,
and will be likely to attack
every person who remains here, unless
they are granted an immunity by
having suffered from yellow fever last
year. The city authorities join in
recommending the evacuation, and
that, too, with as little delay as is
convenient. The more that stay the
more copious will be the material for
the scourge to work upon, provided it
is to be a scourge, There are many
features connected with the sickness
at present calculated to inspire hope
that it is to be of milder type than
was the fever of last year; but q
change may occur, and it lhay become
very virulent and fatal. In a
time like this everyone should
aid his poorer neighbor. 1t is
cheaper to send people away than it is
to feed, nurse and bury them in the
event of the worst. A number Of
prominent citizens, in view Of the
expected emergency, have already paid
the passage of their employees
to other points. They believe
in helping their neighbOrs, and they
also believe in getting them out as
soon as possible.
Year: 1879

Huntsville independents


MFs. McGrath, with two other ladies.
in charge of twenty-four orphans from
the Episcopal Orphanage at Memphis,
left their quarters near Memphis on
the earliest train after tho yellow fever
alarm and brought them to Huntsville,
After spending a short time at the
Huntsville Hotel they were taken to
the barracks, where they can have as
cool and healthy air as there is to be
found anywhere in this region. The
ladies of Huntsville have evinced a
most eemmendable interest in their
welfare. The children are under the
special care Of the Protestant Episco-
pal Church, but they are from the
various denominations Some of them
were left parentless during the soourge
OF last summer.
Year: 1879

The New York Herald of Wednes-
day SAYS. 'Of SO little moment are
our politics Just nov, that probably
the best thing which could happen to
the country would be TO keep Mr..
Hayes in the White House for another
four years, and tell him to go ahead
in the same tranquil aud Quieting way
lp which he has SO far conducted bis
administration"
Year: 1879

New York Tribune.


He was faultlessly attired in a neat
blue flannel suit, with white waist
coat and standing collar. He wore
a narrow blue and white necktie, and
seemed to have taken special pains
with his toilet He was an object of
curiosity, both while he was in the
courtroom and while he was being
taken from the Tombs. He was
seated during the day beside his
counsel, Messrs. Howe and Hummel.
To the scores of lawyers, politicians
aud curious spectators who were IN
the courtroom during the afternoon.
Cox was psychological study. He
sat quietly Watching the proceedings,
without betraying the slightest
nervousness, and seemed to enjoy as
much as any one the sallies of the
counsel aud the often times ridiculous
answers Of those who were under ex-
animation as TO their fitness to serve
on the jury Indeed, he seemed Sc
calm and unconcerned, and wore such
60 upeonoerped expression, had it mol
been for his position beside his coun-
sci no one would haye picked hin
| cut as the accused murderer from thI
bal lt-dogen negroes who were eonstqnt
| ly il the room.
Year: 1879

The Paris Gaulois publishes the
text Of the will of the late Prince I'M
perial. In addition to the clauses al
ready made known, it contains the
following cOdieil +" have no need to
recommend my mother to neglect
nothing to defend the memory Of my
great-unole and my father, and | beg
her to remember that as long as the
Bonaparte family exists there will
also exist representatives Of the I'm
perial cause. The duties which our
house owes to the country will not
lapse by my death and the task OF
continuing the work Of Napoleon
and Napoleon Iii will devolve upon
the eldest son Of Prince Napoleon,
| trust that my beloved mother, by
seconding him by all the means in her
power, will give to us, when we shall
be 20 more, this last and supreme
proof of Affection"
Year: 1879

At Chatham, Columbia county, N.
Y the Roman Catholic Church was
the other day struck by lightning and
greatly injured. The ministers Of the
several Protestant denominations
waited upon the pastor to express
their heartfelt sympathy and one Of
them declared that he would rather
his own church had been struck
because his people could better afford
the loss.
Year: 1879

Governor Robinson has been talking with a
correspondent of The Herald about the recent
exposure of tie false pretences of his friends
respecting the alleged economies of his ad-
ministration. The exposure was first made in
q letter to THE TRIBUNE by Mr.. Charles E..
Smith, Editor of The Albany EUening Journal
Mr.. Robinson says that the statements in the
letter are "too ridiculous to impose on in
"telligent men, We have often remarked
that as political campaigns approach their
crisis the principal politicians of the opposite
party are moved as if by general impulse to
express Il strong disapproval of THE TRIBUNE.
They generally agree in stating that
they "used to read The TRIBUNE" and to
consider it able and fair, though they did not
agree with its politics, "but now - etc.


etc., etc. We were not conscious of their ap-
prova during that past indefinite era 10 which
they refer, and we shall not dTOOp under their
present censure. We know that next wear
they will lament the supposed deterioration in
our moral character with precisely the same
formula of words. and that every year to the
very end of time the politicians upon whom we
are led to pass an unfavorable judgment will
think that "TnE TRIBUNE used to he fair, but
"now -" etc. This is the Governors state
of mind. We dare say he really thinks he has
been very hardly used, and that THE TRIBUNE,


in refusing to give him credit which he is
certainly not entitled TO, is actuated by the
most disgraceful spirit of partisanship.


AS Governor Robinson sees the taxes
diminishing and hears his reckless supporters
declaring that he reduced them, he gradually
persuades himself that he deserves these
praises, and comes to look upon 1t as per-
sonal injury that they should be withheld from
him. When we reach the substance of his
answer to Mr.. Smith, however, we find that
it amounts only to this, that "the Constitu-
"tional Amendments give q Governor more
power than he formerly possessed to con-
"trol extravaganza and check corruption, but
"they do not compel him to do SOP and
if he had chosen to be reckless and
extravagant he might have destroyed the
effect Of the new constitutional safeguards
altogether. That IS to say. the Governor de-
serves the highest credit as financial re-
Year: 1879

Readers of the history of Barnaby Ridge"
cherish lively recollection Of an old female, Miss
Mlggs by name, who betrayed. when the rioters
approached the house she livedin, more hystercal
concern for hor virtue and reputation than all the
Young and pretty women put together. When
she was asked what was the matter she answered
distractedly between shrieks. | don't know what
mayn't be the matter; anything may be the mat
ter y; and in the anticipation of being speedily alb
Quoted least kissed, she fell her knees and
began TO scream very loud, " What will become Of
me Have mercy, good gentlemen, on my sex's
weaknessp Yet when the rioters did attack the
house. and the master of it took his gun to defend
the door, Mss Miggs thrust her head out of the attic
window and. for reasons of her own. cried to the
crowd. "Don't mind his gun; ! poured mug
of table. beer right down the barreD Shortly after
ward she was dragged out OF the way, protesting
and struggling which latter species of opposition
involved scratches" History repeats itself. There
is "A tremendous screaming and scratching now, by
nervous parties who don't know what is the matter
at this moment, but arc persuaded that something
aw full may be attempted against them in 1850: and
they can think of no better way Of defending the
house than to get 81 the powder of the defender
ard spoil it with small-beer. They proclaiming
this notable device from the attic window, TO the
intense delight of a jeering crowd and they evil
IDENTIFY believe tnit luty HiNc |lnulcalcu tuclr
virtue. still ii may be doubted whether they have
ever been in danger Of improper embraces, unless,
indeed. they have now managed by their own action
to LET III the mob.


There il young woman III this city, of whom it
is related in current newspaper paragraph that
she has Just begun her work in college medical
student The life OF this girl thus far has been full
of toll cheerfully undergone for others. AS of
the daughters family of nine children-a family
comparatively poor and very hardworkng-sh has
made brave struggle, early and late, in domestic
labor at home, in teaching and in book
binding outside. Through these latter labors
she has been able to help her brothers and sisters
through their education, give comforts To her deli
cate mother. and take something Of tho burden of
life from her toilng father. Does courageous.
selfish and singe-minded girl like this deserro to
dergo the insults that SAID TO be heaped upon
the women students who venture TO appear at the
chief clinical lectures Ia this ctyf Or must she give
mp the imperative practical instruction there found
In perfectioni The refined modesty Of the average
medical student-a modesty so shocked by the
presence of an honorable and earnest woman-stu-
dent that IL feels obliged 10 resort to what de-
Year: 1879

.:It was the best entertainment ever at
tended, in Detroit This is the opinion we
heard lady express on the way home from
the readings and Rotations given by the
Miss Bannings. Surely it was q very pleas
ant evening. There was not a time in the
hour and half when the atten-
ton of the audience tagged, and there was
no part of the programme that one could af-
ford to lose. Every selection was well rem
dered. Miss Banning's rendering of seThe
Brook was SO much more than an ordinary
recitation that the audience was delighted,
and in parts of s'The Engineers Story the
interest was almost painfully intense. Miss
May Banning's selections were of character
to please the audience as well as her sisters,
but not one of them was allowed to depend on
this. Every one of them showed, as did her
sisters, the most careful study in detail.
ssBobolink'' alone was enough to establish
her reputation, but when "The OWL came
on and drew around bim q host of smaller
birds, each one chirping out, in his own
language, his wonder at Old Wisdom on q
Limb, think We all voted the performance
most excellent. Speakers and readers are
sometimes advised to "practice before q
glass; I wonder if Miss May Banning
sspractices before an owl" "Lullaby" makes
us wonder if from infancy she was destined
for a public reader and tortured her father at
night and took notes 80 as to enable
her to make such success of that
recitation. May We not hope that such read
ing may turn the attention of some of the
fifteen out of every twenty young ladies who
''take lessons on the piano and who will
never be able to play SO as to find any
| pleasure or culture in it, from the costly, and
to them, useless study, to the much cheaper
study Of reading, that promises for the
| average girl about hundred times as much
pleasure and culture.
Year: 1879

The City Council cut the sorlian knot


on the market house question last night. A


resolution providing the additional funds,


over the amount realized from tho sale Of


bonds,was adopt<d by a two-thirds vote, and


the contract was awarded. This action will
be heartily approved by the large majority
of tax payers. 1t is The one public building
which will pay fer itself. committee of
the Business Union, the majority
of which was hostile to the project
when oppo nted. investigated the
matter, and, with but one dissenting voice,
reported in favor of it. They found that
after paying interest on the investment, in.
surauce and all expenses there would be net
income remaining of four thousand dollars
per annum as a sinking fund to pay off the
principal. The council deserves the thanke
OF the public for their determination to give
St. Paul q first class market house.
Year: 1879

streets bearing arms, loaded or unloaded.
This law will go into effect on the first of
July, but notwithstanding this fact all the
communistic companies announce their in
tention of parading the streets of Chicago
on the 4th OF July with arms and arn1auni-
ton, and to resist any effort to enforce the
State law.


The occurrence of Sunday has peculiar
significance from the fact that the military
company which so unwarrantably charged
and fred upon crowd of people form part
of the socialistic military organization. It
shows in the first place that the intention to
bear arms on public occasions has not been
reversed, and furthermore that each COM
pany is provided with ammunition, which
they are privileged to use on any occasion.
The companies not being organized accord
ing to law have no right to carry arms Of any
description, and the fact that in addition to
arms they carry ammunition is enough to
prove their inoenaiary Intentions


We apprehend but little trouble from the
communistic element save in Chicago, St.
Louis and New York. These have been the
oentsrs Of the agitation. The theories held
by the party can never obtain 8
hold except where there is 8
large vagrant foreign popula
ton. People who settle in small towns o.
on farms are not communists by nature
and never will become 80. But the damage
done in cities of large size may be incalcu
liable, and if the communists of Chicago per
sist in their intention of bearing arms ant
carrying the red flag on the fourth of july
there will be trouble that may extend to ev
cry large city the continent. We hope
however, that the police authorities of Chi
cago will be firm in the emergency. It il
time that people, of whatever way of think
ing, should be taught that their first duty is
to obey the law. If the socialists, arme<
| and equipped, allowed to parade tn,
streets of Chicago after the new law goe
into force, few people will care to entrus
either their lives or their property in tina
city, for open defiance of law is an evidenc
of the fact that other outrages will not onl


be perpetrated but allowed.
Year: 1879

A suggestion of the future is contained in
the reports Of the disturbances at Chicago
park on Sunday, in the course Of which sew
eral persons lost their lives and others were
seriously injured. There was school pic
mic at popular grove, and in the course of
the day fellow got into disturbance and
was pretty badly handled. He and his friends
endeavored to obtain redress by an infliction
Of physical punishment upon the original
aggressor, whereupon military company
that was present charged upon the party
with fixed bayonets and drove them from the
ground. Outside the grove the militia loaded
their guns aod fred upon the crowd that
had assembled to witness the disturbance,
'lischarging several rounds in quick success
sion, killing and manning considerable
number of inoffensive citizens. The result
thus far has been the incarceration of q part
of the offending military company to await
prosecution for murder.


In some sections of the country this in
oldent would have no particular significance
beyond that involved in the detection and
punishment OF the persons who. fred the
fatal shots. But in Chicago there is far
deeper meaning-one that may have effect
upon the whole future of the city. Chicago
is composed of all sorts of people. 1t is a
large city, and, as a consequence, has been
the refuge of persons expatriated from
other nations. We therefore find that
that city, more than any other. on
the continent, has been the city of refuge for
the sooisiistic exiles from France, Germany,
Bohemia, and other European countries.
These exiles have not been idle during the
few years they have resided in Chicago.
They have associated themselves with peo-
pie speaking their own language, and have
succeeded in building up in that city So
cialistic or communistio party numbering
twelve thousand adult voters, or about ona-
fifth Of the adult population of the city. Be
sides using them for political effect and pur-
pose, the agitators have organized them into
military companies, whose avowed purpose
is war upon capital and civil government.
and the destruction of all business that does
not give the employe full share with the
employer in the profits of the business
For several years these companies have been
IN the habit Of parading the streets
with ii ttransparenoies bearing inoendiary mot
toss, the entire number carrying loaded
j muskets and hurting defiance ct all who
happened to make remarks invidious tc
them OF their cause. They have defied tn.
police authorities on numerous occasions
and have declared their intention to do SC
again whenever it shall suit their conyen.
fence. The last legislature Of Illinois


spurred up to the emergency by the news, news


papers Of Chicago and by petitions from thl
respectable inhabitants Of that city. nasaoi
a militia bill in which it ws1 was made ! felon1


ior any body OF men not organized unde,
the militia laws Of the State, to parade the
Year: 1879

A BROTHER of Senator Morrill, is spoken
of for governor of Maine: So is the SON
in-law of Senator Chandler. AS Chandler
has the largest bar'l there is but little ques-
ton but Gene Hale will carry off the nomi-
Year: 1879

bill or allowed it to become law with
out his signature, the United States


would have been put 10 a great disad'


vantage when compared with the pow


er retained by the States. 1t woule


have diveste the National government


Of any power whatever, or control ove1


the election of President or of mem


bers of Congress. The government


would have to submit to just such laws


and regulations governing nationa


elections as the State might see proper


to make. 1t would not if those federal


election laws were repealed, have the


power or the right to have single off
Ger either civil or military at the polls
in any capacity whatever to protect it.
self in the election of its own officers.
President Hayes very clearly puts the
disputed point when he says, "The
States may employ both military and
civil power to keep the peace and en-
force the laws at State elections" 1t
is only the federal government that the
Democrats propose to divest of even the
civil authority that is necessary to in
sure order and peace at national elec
tions. The Democrats propose that the
States shall have the whole control Of
elections which effect the national
government. They, in fact, propose to
make the national government a mere
machine to be run in the interests OF
their own selfish purposes. The States
can surround every election poll with a
civil and military force, to control cleo
tions, but the national governments
hands are to be tied, and it is to be
contented with whoever is sent to
Congress, no matter how elected, if he
only has in his possession the requisite
certificates properly attested. If this
is to be the Interpretation of the law,
the states will have all the power and
the government none whatever
Take away this power of supervision
by the national government and the
elections for President and Congress-
men become mere mOckery; the gov.
ernment would only have to accept and
register the vii! Of the States i'll an
election in which it is deeply interested
but deprived of taking any part. |.
this principle is carried out, Congress
sional elections hy the people might as
well be abolished and the Legislatures
of the States be empowered to elect
the Cougrt sHnen as they now do Sen
atols, and as they could elect presiden-
tial electors if they saw proper to
exercise that power. Had the army
bill with its political rider been allowed
to bt come law, the only guarantees
afforded fer the main tenance of order,
the enforcement of equality as between
different cl: sses Of citizens, and fer the
prevention Of fraud would have been
destroyed. That this is the point
aimed at by the tx rebels and their
dough- faced allies no man can doubt.
The whole demonstration was a bold
stroke for States rights, and the Old
notification doctrine that has already
plunged this government into one long
and bloody war, and though We do not
want to be an alarlniat, but if this
principle is carried out it will most as
suredly do so again, ami to the lovers
Of freedom and equality before tho
law We would say to be torewarned is
to be torearmed.