smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

MAN DISCOVERED WITH TWO WOUNDS NEAR THE


HEART.


The body of man about thirty-five years
old with brown hair, musache aud chm whiskers. and
dressed in blue diagonal suit found yesterday
morning near the Port Chester Railroad track at one
bundred-and fort y-seeOnd-st. From the appearance
Of the body IL was then believed that the man
had been run and killed by tram
In the night There deep gasn on the left side OF
the and skull had been crushed IN. The body
was sent 10 the unrecOgniled. An examination
there last evening showed that the had been killed
by a plsfo-shot wound and knife wound In the region
of the heart. No weapons found near the body.
The police believed last night that the man had been
murdered.
Year: 1879

THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY GIVE HIM HEARTY ONE


OF THEIR OWN AND THE VETERANS GIVE HIM


ANOTHER.


General Grant arrived at Chicago yesterday
from Galena and was publicly and enthuslas-
tically received by the people of the city, re-
gardless of party. The city was profusely
decorated. and the procession was very long.
An address of welcome was delivered by
the Mayor of the city. In the even
ing. the veterans of the Army of the
Tennessee gave the General special recep-
tion of their own. General Sherman presided.
Year: 1879

A German physician has started new
theory with regard to food. He maintains
that both the vegetarans and the meat eaters
are on the wrong track. Vegetables are not
more wholesome than meat nor meat than
vegetables, and nothing is gained by con-
suming a compound of both. Whatever
nutritive qualities they may possess, he says,
are destroyed in great measure, and often
by the process of cooking. All food should
be eaten raw. If this practice were adopted
there would be little or no illness among
human beings. They would live their ap-
portioned time and simply fade away, like
animals in wild state, from old age. Let
those affected with gout, rheumatism, and in
digestion, try for time the effect of sim
pie, uncooked diet, such as fruit and oysters
for instance, and they will find all medicine
unnecessary and such rapid improvement
of their health that they will forswear all
cooked articles of food at once and forever.
Intemperance would also, it is urged, no
longer be the curse of civilized communities.
The yearning for drink is caused by the un-
natural abstraction from what are termed
"solds'' of the aqueous elements they con-
tain-uncooked beef for example, containing
from 70 to 80 per cent. and some vegetables
even larger proportion of water. There
would be less thirst, and consequently less
desire to drink if our food were consumed in
its natural state without first being subjected
to the action of fire.
Year: 1879

A scientist once observed fly, only as
large as grain of sand, which ran three
inches in half q second, aud in that distance
made the enormous number of $40 steps. If
q man were to be able to walk as fast in pro-
portion to his size, supposing his step to
measure two feet, he would, in the course OF
a minute, have run upwards of twenty miles,
a task far surprising our express railroad en-
gines, or the famous Seven League Boots re-
corded in the nursery fable. In leaping also.
insects far excel man, or any other animal
whatever. The flea can leap two hundred
times its own length; so also can the locust
If man were six feet long, and could leap
as high and as far, in proportion to his size,
as one of these insects, he might stand near
the New York Custom House, leap up into
the air over the top of Trinity Church spire,
and alight in Greenwich street; which would
be something more wonderful than it has
ever entered into the minds of the writers OF
fairy tales to conceive of. The insect called
the froghopper can leap more than 25O times
it's own length. Some spiders can leap
couple of feet upon their prey.
Year: 1879

1t is the essential nature of all wines and
spirits to send an increased amount of blood
to the brain. The first effect OF taking a
glass of wine, or stronger form of alchohol,
Is to send the blood there faster than CON-
mon; hence the circulation that gives the
red face. 1t increases the activity of the
brain, and it works faster and so does the
tongue But, as the blood goes to the brain
faster than common, it returns faster, and no
special harm results. But, suppose a man
keeps on drinking, the blood is sent to the
brain so fast, and in such large quantities
that in order to make room for it, the arteries
have to enlarge themselves; they increase in
size, and, in doing so, they press against the
more yielding flaccid veins which carry the
blood out of the brain, and thus diminish
their size, their pores, the result being that
the blood is not only carried to the brain faster
than is natural or healthful, but it is prevent
ed from leaving it as fast as usual hence a
double set of causes of debt are in operation
Hence man may drink enough brandy or
other spirits in a few hours, or even minutes,
to bring on fatal attack of apoplexy. This
is, literally, being dead drunk.
Year: 1879

lFrOm Among the Zulus.


Twas out after porcupines, and was lying


down one night near porcupine's hole, wait


ing for him to come out. had no gun, but


only my hunting-knife and a large knob


kerrie with which to knock the porcupine on


the nose for that, as you know, kills him at


once. did not hear sound until l found


the grass near me move and lion got his


paw on me and lifted me up. The brute


pressed his claws into me, but luckily, my


leather belt prevented his teeth from damag-
ing me, and he carried me holding on to my


belt and coat. If either of these had given
away should have been laid hold of in a far
more rough manner. A lion is like cat in
one thing-he can hold live creature in his
mouth and not damage it, just as have seen
a cat carry mouse. knew the nature of
the lion we'll enough to know that if strug-
gled l should have my neck broken or my
head smashed in an instant, so l did not
struggle, but quietly drew my knife and
thought what was best to do. I thought at
first of trying to strike him in the heart, but
l could not reach that part of him, and his
skin looked so loose that I could not strike
deep enough, carried as was. l knew it
would be life or death with me in an instant,
so turning myself bit, gashed the lions
nose and cut II through. Inc lion urOppeu
me as I should drop poisonous snake, and
jumps away roaring with pain. He stood
for an instant looking at me, but I did not
move, and he did not seem to like to carry
me again. More than once he came up to
within few yards, licking the blood as it
poured from his nose; but there remained
like stone, and he was fairly afraid to tack
lie me again. I know buffalo and an OK are
very sensitive about the nose, and cat if
just tipped on the nose, cant stand it, so
thought a lion might be the same, and so it
prOve6
Year: 1879

On rainy days, the active child resents his
confinement within doors, and is more than
usually troublesome. We know of nothing
which will afford him surer amusement than
the making of scrap-books. Provide the little
ones with a pair of blunt-pointed scissors,
and let them cut out and trim neatly the
pictures from papers you do not care to pre-
serve, circulars of farm machinery, or any
thing they fancy, and then, armed with q
cup of boiled starch and an old tooth brush
Gf you have one, let them exercise their in
genuity in filling the book with their collec-
tions. Quiet small children find enchant-
ment in this kind of work. A large picture
may be put in the centre of the page, and the
space around it filled with small ones, and
short pieces of prose and poetry. We have
seen very pretty ornaments for these juvenile
scrap books cut out of illustrated books for
children, which had become badly tattered
with use, so that the pictures were all that
were worth preserving. When two pages
are full, the book should be left open until
dry before going on. This amusement need
not make much litter about house, and the
little workers can easily learn to pick up their
scattering scraps after themselves, and wash
The starch-cup and brush after using it, so
that it will be ready for the next rainy day.
Year: 1879

From the Norristown Pa,) Herald.]


Last evening, shortly before dusk, George
Waterfeld middle aged painter, was sitting
on the porch in front of Mr.. Samuel Clayton's
hotel, at Edge Hin village, when he suddenly
jumped up, walked to the bar room door, ex-
claiming that be was shot and fell dead. A
physician who was called in extracted
MIME ball which had lodged in his heart No
one was seen shooting, nor was the report of
q fire-arm heard at the hotel, but after some
time man who came to the hotel stated that
he had seen young man named Titus He'll
man shooting with rife at Abingdon Sta
ton, half mile distant, about the time of
the tragedy. Heilman was sent for and ex-
planned that he was practicing with mimic
rifle by shooting q ball Oh the cupola of the
engine house at the station. The distance
from the station to the hotel is variously es-
tirnated at from one-half to three-quarters of
a mile, no one putting it under the former
figure. The hotel stands upon high ground,
being not less than 100 feet above the level
of the railroad, and the ball must have been
what is known among the marksmen as q
curve shot = Deputy Coroner Fenton held an
inquest the jury returning verdict of acci-
dental death. as a...-
Year: 1879

young,
When the buds OF April bossomed and birds of spring


time sung!
The gardens brightest glories by summer sun are


nursed;
But, oh! the sweet sweet violets, the flowers that


opened first
There is no place like the old place. where you and
Where we lifted up eyeds the spendors Of the


morn!
From the milk white breast that warmed us; from the
cnging arms that bore,
Where the dear eyes gstenng DER that will look
US no more.
There is no friend like the old friend who has shared
our morning days.
No greeting like his welcome, no homage like his
praise!
Fame is the scentless flower, with gaudy crown of
gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in
every fold.
There is no love like the DID, that we courted in our


pride;
Though our leaves are falling falling and we're fad


ing side by side;
There are blossoms all around us with the colors of
And We live in borrowed sunshine when the light of
day is gone.
There times like the old times-they shall never
be forgot;
There is place like the old lace-keep green the
dear old spot!
There friends like the old friends-may heaven
prOlong their lives!
There no loves like the old loves-God bless our
loving wives!
Year: 1879

THE Democratic papers are loudly assert
ing that the resumption of specie payments
is due to Providence, and that the Republi-
can party is getting the benefit of that all
powerful help. That is very well. Now
will some of these papers tell us what Provi-
dence has done for them during the past
twenty years?
Year: 1879

Of the speakers who came into this State
to defend the fusion programme and advo-
cate the election of the fusion ticket little
was known by the people of Maine. We
were for the most part ignorant of their an
tecedents, and of the estimation in which
they were held in that part of the country
whence they came, and could only judge OF
them by their performances in this State.
That gave them an advantage in the begin
ming. Unlike some of their Democratic col
leagues they were not discredited at the
start. But most of them lost no time in fur
nishing material from which to make up
Judgment. 1t is perhaps needless to say that
the judgment was in the highest degree un-
favorable. These imported speakers for the
most part distinguished themselves by
reckless audacity of statement and an enor-
nous mendacity heretofore unknown on the
stump in Maine. In extravaganza of mis-
statement, in virulence of abuse, in down.
right falsehood they even exceeded those ac-
tive and unscrupulous disseminators Of mis-
information, the fusion newspapers and





1t is only by their record made in Maine
that we propose now to judge these men,
and as part of that record we publish in an
other column a portion of a letter written by
Mr.. r. M. Springer to the Chicago Sentinel
and published in that paper in its issue OF
the End inst. Comment upon the letter is
unnecessary. The indignation of our read
ers will suggest proper terms of characteri-
zation This man, Springer, was one of the fu-
sion orators during the campaign just finished
and is now reputed editor of the New Era. We
only ask that whenever the intelligent voters
of Maine peruse that paper they recall the
statements made over Mr.. Springers own
signature in the article we elsewhere copy,
and attach to his editorial utterances the
same credit to which his personal utterances
are entitled. We further suggest that the
Argus, which has cowardly insinuated what
Springer states with audacious wickedness,
copy his article in order to show its readers
the character of the people of Maine.
Year: 1879

From the Turf, Field and Farm.


Itisa curious fact, and one the causes of
which present subject well worthy of consid-
eraton that in this country the game of chess
does not receive that support and countenance
from men of wealth and position which it has
from them in every foreign country. Whether
it be that our wealthy classes takes no delight
in our intellectual pastime or whether from the
nature of our social and political organization
it has happened that in the struggle for wealth
they have as a class, been 80 constantly de-
voted to their pursuits that they have found
no time to acquire knowledge of the game,
we do not know, though we incline to the lat
ter view, because we cannot see how any man
of intelligence having such knowledge can
help feeling desire to aid others in acquiring
it by doing something for the cause. In for-
eign lands, when it is proposed to inaugurate
grand congress and tournament, such is the
hold the game has upon the governing class
that we see governments offering valuable prizes
and the notability striving for precedence in
their offers of contributions In Vienna, the
Baron Rotbschild is proud to be the president
of chess club; in France, Ministers of State
take pleasure in publicly acting on committees
and witnessing Journeys; III Canaua, the Mar
ouis of Lorne is willing patron; in England
we find Royalty itself not ashamed to acknowl-
edge its fealty to the game, while the names of
Lord Lyttelton, Earl Granville, Lord Gre
more, the Duke of Manchester, Earl Dudley,
Lord Arthur Hay, Lord Ravensworth, each of
whom has taken delight in serving on COM
mittees in that country, besides host OF other
noblemen, and men of letters who have time
and again taken public positions in connection
with the game sufficiently to prove the esti-
nation the governing class of that country
has of it.


The contrast presented by our own men OF
wealth is not at all to their credit. Here he is
rQrd ariS in terriS-that man of wealth and IN
fiuence who gives countenance and money IN
aid of an intellectual contest at chess; lavish OF
their means in support of every other brane1 Oh
sport, they hold aloof from chess, the hoples.
of them ALL and it is left to those VINO can les'
afford it to open their pockets to give IL SUSIE
nance AS we said before, we do not know the
reason of this lamentable indifference OF that
cIaes of onr citizens to what is so delightful to
the corresponding ranks of other countries.
Rnt that it SO we all know, and all regret-as
much on account of the stigma it puts upon
our men of wealth as because the game of
chess lacks in this country that encourage
ment from them which in foreign lands is free
ly and gladly given to it.


A young woman i'll Hamilton county, Ohio,
won prize by preparing good dinner in
sixtv-fve minutes One girl cooked q dinner
Year: 1879

"THE potato is threatened with serious
damage from rot says the Machias Union
Why don't you attribute it to the resump-
tion policy? That would be in the line of
all your argument this Summer. DO you re-
frain from complaint because your party is
in the same condition as the potato?
Year: 1879

TILDEN declines so act as an election in
spector, and says he is going into the coun-
try. Can it be that he disappreves of the
Democratic policy this year, and so is going
to dodge the vote? His experience in tax
lodging NAV be useful now.
Year: 1879

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate signed by Stanley T. Pullen,
Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel managers
will confer favor upon by demanding credentials
of every person claiming to represent our journal
Year: 1879

IT is said that the hero of Cipher Alley is
compelled to keep barrel on tap all the
time under Pelton's supervision. Old Usu-
fruct is stirred up by the Tammany hornet
like a bob-tail nag in fly time.
Year: 1879

THE claim of the Democracy that they
have done anything to bring about good
times is equal to the brass exhibited by their
Patron Saint when he offered the kingdoms
of the world to the Lord to fall down and
worship him.
Year: 1879

SO old Usufruct failed to get the Election
Inspectors appointed that he relied upon to
stuff the ballot-boxes in New York City!
Truly Providence is against him and his
works of evil
Year: 1879

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


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
muncatIons that are not used.
Year: 1879

WHAT an awful ruin the Republican par
ty has brought upon the land 1t is said
that holders of all kinds of goods, particular
ly iron and steel, sit upon their counters
and weep over the result of Republican vic
Year: 1879

Notwithstanding the advance on all kinds o
Boots Shoes and Rubber Goods enabled by
this recent purchase of large stock bought at 60
cents the dollar, to give the consumer some lines
of goods prices far below anything heretofore of
fered.


Read carefully the list below, and obtain, if need
ed some of the kind mentioned before they all
disposed of.
Year: 1879

To be good for single day Is remarkable


in Democratic paper of the Bashi Bazouk


order, such for instance, as the Democratic


organ of this city. Day before yesterday 1t
announced that it not only desires, but
urges the punishment of crimes in all


States and sections, and the preservation
of order in every locality" Its fall from
grace has been sudden but very great, for
after one day of serene goodness, it
yesterday refers to the murder of
DIXON with the air and words of
justification. 1t will be recollected that
the shooting was done with shotgun loaded
with buckshot, at long range, and that the
victim was shot in the back. This gives
evidence that BARKsDALE was in no such
danger rs is represented in justification of
the cowardly and barbarous act; and yet
in view of these glaring facts the Democratic
organ at the National Capital says yesterday
of BARKsDALE: This killing of DIXON
calls for no defense on ourpart and deserves
"no special condemnation" A single day s
desire for the punishment of crime and pre-
servation of order seems to have been a
serious restraint which easily gave way
when the waves of brutality came surging
upon it. The killing of DIXON was cool
blooded, unmitgated and unprovoked MUIR
der, and that man who deliberately tells
the public that such crime deserves no
condemnation" does not light up in his
tory much more favorably than the MUIR
derer himself There was no brawl be-
tween these men. There was no politics in
the affair, for they were both Democrats


but there was q deliberate, cold-blooded
murder, which the voice of Democracy say,
deserves no condemnation
Year: 1879

THE Buffalo Courier must have become
much degenerated in character when it
becomes retailer of the small wares of a
bil!ingsgate machine. 1t has not formerly
been in the mud-slinging business, but it
seems to have become intensely Democratic
of late
Year: 1879

think of that except when find Radical
has got the best Of me. Then feel o little
uncomfortable until the thing is over.


What idea have you of elections2


They were instituted to give the Demo-
cratic party power, and hence regard it
my duty TO make them subserve that end
at oil hazards, if at the cost of human
right, life and comfort, for all is fair on our
side in politics.


This over, then the can didate is ordered to
take his place in line, with the admoniton
that his rank will be determined by the
number of lives he takes, under the rules
ofsavage warfare where rank and distinc-
tion are won by an enumeration of the
human scalps secured while in service.
This is feature of the civilization of por-
tion of free and enlightened America in the
nineteenth century. Shall the blotch stand
or be wiped out? This great and grave
question must be answered in 1880. Which
shall it be2 The free and enlightened North
must make answer, rs it has full power to
decide it.
Year: 1879

THE bottom fell out of the so-called CAS-
sANAvE scandal so quickly that its archi-
tects barely had time to get out of the way
and save themselves from being over
whelmed with an avalanche of their own
filth.
Year: 1879

To the unintiated the kilograms from
Mexico convey the impression that Pres-
dent D4Az is necessity, as it were, and that
his reelection is imperatvely required for
the preservation Of the Mexican Republic.
To those who understand the facts in the
case they simply show that DIAz, whose
friends control the wires and the dis
patches transmitted over them, is try
ing to convey that impression to the
outside world. DIAz is a successful hum
bug-nothing more and nothing less and
the day of his success is almost spent His
renewed candidacy is In violation of the
Mexican constitution, which prescribes the
Year: 1879

THE New York Tribune furnishes the fol-
lowing interesting "reminiscences of the early
life of the President of the United States:


President HAYES, as college student, is
said to have kept minute diary, and exam
ined himself as to his motives, purposes, ideas
and aspirations He declares himself AS being
at that time too ready to try the edge of his
wit on others, and perceiving this failing he
proceeded to curb It, Whether this had the
effect or not of bringing about change in the
opposite direction, he is described as painfully
bashful in society. From the two extremes he
at last struck a medium. Ho was addicted to
every kind of manly sports, and excelled in
shooting. hunting swimming and skating
while as u fisherman he was especially success
full. He accomplished some great feats in
pedestrianism, walking forty miles home to
Delaware In twelve hours, at Christmas time
and then, after vacation, back to Gambler,
when there were four inches of snow on the
ground.
Year: 1879

THE story goes that Boss KELLY will be
satisfied with the nomination of CLARKsoN
n. POTTER by the New York Democrats,
though why he should we fail to under
stand If the Boss had been reader of
The NATIONAL REPUBLIcANin in the past he
would have known nearly two years ago-for
we then announced it as q fact-when the
POTTER Investigating Committee was
organized, that TILDEN promised this nom-
nation to POTTER, 1t is really none of our
business; but we cannot see any differ
ence under the circumstances between
POTTER and ROBINSON, viewing them both
from the anti-TILDEN or Tammany stand
point. Either one of them would, as Gov
prnor, simply represent TILDEN and be-
come plant tool in the scheme for the
denomination of the Cipher Ogre.
Year: 1879

THE rebels fought to enforce their con-
struction of the Constitution as regards the
question of State Rights They now claim
that no change has been made in that in
strument whereby that question has been
settled against them or adversely to their
construction of it. And although they
sometimes admit that the war settled
secession, they still maintain that the con-
stitutional right of q State to secede re-
mains unimpaired. This attitude, it will
be admitted, is not altogether consistent,
for it is apparent that they do not believe
in reality that the war settled anything.