smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

The body Of a rnan who went to
California to ragain HE health, was
recently shipped in a metallic coffin
for his former home IN the East
When tho Central pacific train ar>
rived at Ogden Junction the corpse
was consigned to tho Union Pacific
Express Company and placed under
charge of express messenger Frank
Burgess. While the train was in the
western part of Nebraska, Mfr, Bur4
CESS heard sounds from the coffin
that led him to believe that the dead
man had come to life. Tt was in the
night, and he heard the sounds as be
lay dozing and half asleep. Again
the noiso was heard, and the attention
OF the messenger was pivited to- the
coffin, and the horrible possibility
that the dead might be alive thrust
itself upon the messenger so forcibly
that lie called the attention Of other
employees to it, but after listening a
moment, they merely laughed at him.
The convictions Of the express mesA
sengor, however, were SO strong that
he had heard moans from the cpffinr
that he had the case opened when
the train made its next halt. Tho
weather was very cold and npon the
inside Of the glass plate of the coffin
there had accumulated thin film Of
frost, such as might have been depos-
tied by the breath of person Con-
fined i'll such narrow quarters. The
face was also drawn mp against the
glass plate, and other Disturbances
indicated life. While Burgess had
no doubt that the tnan, though dead
then, had been alive ir. the coffin, the
other employees explained tue accu-
mutation OF frost ON the glass as the
natural exhalations of the dead hody
and the disturbances of tho corpse as
due to the movements in the shipping.


A private dispatch received from
Chicago says that when the coffin ar.
rived at it's destination and was OPEN
ed, unmistakable proofs OF the terri
bic truth were discovered The
hands were cFinched, the lip bitten,
and tho mouth filled with bloody
froth. The man had been alive, and
1t was his moaning that had been
heard but not recognized.-Omaha
Herald.
Year: 1877

Never use lady's name in an i'm.
proper place. at an improper times
or in mixed company. Never make
assertions about her that you think
untrue, or a(lusions that she herself
would blush to hear. When you
meet with men who do not scruple to
use woman's name in o reckless.
manner, shun them; they are the
very worst members of the commu-
nifty; men lost to every sense of honor
every feeling of humanity. Many o
good and worthy woman's character
has been forever ruined and her
heart broken by lie, manufactured
by some william and repeated whereit
should not have been, and in pres
ence of those whose little Judgment
could not deter them from circulating
the foul and Dragging report. A
sIander is soon propagated, and tho
smallest thing derogatory to a wo-
mans character will fly on the wings
of the wind and magnify as it cireuo
lates, until it's monetrous weight
crushes tho poor unconscious victim.
Respect tho name of woman. Your
mother and sisters are women, and
as you would have their fair name
untarnished, and their lives unembit,
tered by the slanderer's bitter tongue,
heed the i'll your words may bring
upon the mother, the sister or tho
wife of some fellow creature.
Year: 1877

CARLYLE AND DARWIN.-Thc Brit
ish papers publish the following ex-
tract of a letter written TO q friend
by Mr.. Carlyle: ga good sort of a
man is Darwin, and well meaning,
but with very little intellect. All, it's
a sad, terrible thing to see nigh


whole generation Of mon and women,
processing to be cultivated, looking
around in a purbined fashion and
finding no god in this universe. l
suppose it is reaction from the
reign Of cant and hollow pretence,
processing to believe what in tact they
do not believe. And this is what we
have got to. All things from frog
spawn; the gospel Of dirt the order
of the day. The Older I grow-and
l now stand upon tho brink Of eter =
nity-the more comes back to me
the sentence in the catcchiSm, which
learned when q child, and the fuller
and deeper its meaning becomes,
"What is the chief end OF man? To
glority God and enjoy hi'n forever"
No gospel Of dirt, teaching that men
have descended from frogs through
can ever set that aside"
Year: 1877




New Years night an infant child
was found in basket at the Centre
vile depot, on the New Jersey Cen
trail Railroad, by Edward Marshall,
track walker, and by him taken
home. Il card inscribed "Martha
Jenkens" fastened to the child's
clothing led the old folks to believe
that it might be their daughters
child, she having eloped from their
homo in Liverpool !; England,
with man named Jenkins. They
we're 80 strongly impressed with the
idea that they requested the report"
ers who called in search OF the facts
to mention it in their story, and to
say that their daughter would receive
welcome home if she would return
to them, she being their only child.
Chief Whitney, Of the Bayonne po~
lice, learned of q probable case Of in
fanticide, and in working it up learn,
ed that poor, miserable woman,
living in q tenement house on Av-
enue D, Bayonne, had had an infant
child until - few days ago, but re-
Gently it had not been heard or seen.
He learned that the woman was
Mrs. jenkins, and on questioning
her about the fate of her child learned
further that she had put it ont in the
snow in basket on New Years
night. She told him her story, how
she had clipped from Liverpool, and
Eived in New York with her hu3-
band until about a year ago, when
he took to drink Lecause he could
not Oh ain work, and then deserted
her. She had four children, but
three had died, and the last one was
born after her husbands flight. She
nearly starved after the birth of her
child, and was kept alive only by
The charity OF her eishbors, as poor
almost as herself. When she could
go ont she could not find employ
ment, and by reason of i'll health and
scant food she could not nourish her
child! She know from u letter she
received from friends in England
where her father was employed, and
knowing his fondness for children
determined to put her child in his
way. Sine watched him, and know
ing when he would pass the depot at
Centreville che LETT the child Just
where he would see it. She hid to
see what became of it, and when he
picked it up she ran away. She in
tended to commit suicide the follow
ing day, but her courage failed her
on seeing the ice on the river, and
she went back to the tenement house.
She would scarcely believe the chief
when he told her that her father
wanted her to come home again, be
cause he had been so much incensed
at her elopement. Finally she con-
sented to 60 to her father and re-
turned home.


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Year: 1877

Judge Hoar once said of a lawyer:
'He has reached the superJative of
lite; at first be sought to get on, and
then he sought to get honor, and now
he is trying to get honest


And now the community had bet-
ter look ont, or they will be horn
swaggled.
Year: 1877

Keep your own counsel. Nothing
can be more injurious to yonr own
piece of mind than TO have too manv
Confdants. You live in abject elav-
cry every day, as you are constantly
fearing some Of your numerous con.
fidants will reveal asecret you would
not have anybody TO know for the
world.
Year: 1877

Making due allowance for the general depression in
business which has prevailed during great portion OF
the pcr,od covered by the above dates aud tho dim
tpuilon IN receipts resulting from the use o postal
car ds In lieu letters It Is apparent that compare
tvely small portion OF the decrease rs attributable to
those causes, for Notwithstanding the long continued
and still existing inactivity in trade manufactures and
commerce. the records oil this Office show steady IN
crease in It's general business There can, perhaps
be no better test OF the increase decrease o. such
business at large oiicc than IS to bo found IN
parison OF the pumber OF pieces OF mail matter dev-
cred and collected by It's carriers during series OF
years. The result OF such u test us applied Ct this
Office appears below. the figures beng copied from
tho records OF The central oce alone, hose Of The
branch stations being omitted, though showing sim
liar state OF facts


NUMBER PIxcEs OF MAIL MATTER HANDLED ny LET


TER CARRIERS AT CENTRAL OFFICE, NEW YORK pOsr
Year: 1877

THE WAR.-We have been asked two or
three times recently to give more news
about the war in Europe, and we will try
to comply with the request. There
is not much for this week, however.
There has been no fighting recently. A
report on Sunday was that the Turks under
Osman Pasha had repulsed the Russians
the day before, but the report is still un-
confirmed. Nearly all the news seems to
favor the Turks, but the New York Tribune
says it is considered that the military
resources of Turkey are strained to the
utmost, and that her power is liable to col
lapse unexpectedly at any moment. The
Russian officers before Plevna are confident
that the place will fall into their hands.
The opinion is expressed that the capture
of that stronghold would entail irretrievable
disaster on the Turks. All is quiet in the
Shipka Pass, where the Russians were so
badly whipped recently. Snow, however,
has fallen and is nearly four inches thick
at the base of the Balkan mountains, where
both armies are located. The Russians
talk of going into winter quarters.
Year: 1877

wIt is significant of the enormous
power of fashion that, while the infiu.


ence aof the clergy was potent as to
produce crusades, they bitterly failed in
the attempt to put the ridiculously long


shoes worn at that epoch out OF fashion,


1t was mode then among the men and
women in England and France to give
an enormous length to the toe. The
clergy chose to constrpe this into an i'm
pious attempt to add cubit to stature,


but though they could overthrow thrones


and send q million of. men to the des-


erts Of Asia they could not prevail
against long toes. sse II aill daa M
Year: 1877

1t is great misfortune to have have 4
fretful disposition Ittakes the fragrance
out of ones life, and leaves only weeds
where cheerful disposition would cause


flowers to bloom, The habit of fretting
is one that grows rapidly unless it be
sternly repressed; and the best way to
overcome 1t is to try always to look on
the cheerful side of things. ri e8adl
Year: 1877

q Men will differ as to the course which
Gen Lee thought proper to pursue In
siding with Virginia and the South in
the grand struggle; hut no fair minded
man can examine the proofs and doubt


for q moment that he acted from the pn-
rest motives-from. the highest sense ol
duty and honor. ~ Z i2.i.
Year: 1877

Eye and Esr-The eye should be


large and prominent; the eye Of
the. horse is an accurate index OF
his temper, and experience has


shown il too much white is visi-.
BILE be is dangerous one ;the ear
/ should be thin, erect and net too


long-quick and lively; the ear


indicates both spirit and breed
Year: 1877

That there is gold in the Big Horn
mountains there can be no longer a
question.


The information published by the TR1-
BuNr of late on thissubject is conclusive
on this point.


Thousands have already left the Black
Hills and points in Montana for the new
mining district and all reports from them
confirm the view that the gold deposits
ofthat region are simply immense.


The distance from Bismarck to these
new gold fields is $40 miles. Steamboats,
run from Bismarck to the foot Of the
mountains and to within dozen miles
OF the gold fields.


The trail from Bismarck is we'll defn-
ed, several large military, and railroad
surveying expedite ms having passed over
it. The road is good and the country is
free from hostile Indians.


The whole trade Of this region Will
center at Bismarck and we are not sur
prised that the construction of the Libby
Custer and other boats specially adapted
to the Big Horn trade, tobe used as Big
Horn packets, has been determined upon
by responsible parties.


While it is true that this trade cannot
be diverted from Bismarck, it Is impor-
tant that our citizens take immediate
steps to call attention to the Big Horn
gold fields and to advertise the advantage
presented by this route over all others,
and it would be well to send reliable
man to the Big Horn to prospect and re-
port. It was in this manner, it will be
remembered, that attention was attracted
to the Black Hills gold fields. Bismarck
efforts did more to open the Black Hills
mines than the work 6 al Others, and
but for the tardiness Of the railroad peo'
pie in acting upon the information placed
before them, Bismarck would have reaped
ten fold greater advantages than she has
realized.


But it does not lay in the power of any
body to obstruct or delay the opening OF
the Big Horn country, and, in view of its
effect on the Indian question, we have
reason to suppose that the government
will extend protection and assistance,
should it become necessary, to those
opening the mines, but it is in the power
of those interested and the North Pacific
to hasten the occupation of the country
and the opening of business connections
Herewith.
Year: 1877

er, that our rambling porker actually
followed q wagon train from here to
Tongue River, and is still four;shing
at the Cantonment. There is nothing
fresh about this story, but the pork.
Year: 1877

IMPORTANT TO PERSONS VISITING NEW
YoRK.-One of the best kept and most
convenient Hotels for Merchants and
others to stop at when in New York is the
Grand Union Hotel, nearly opposite the
Grand Central Depot, kept Oh the Euro.
pean pIan--you therefore only pay for
what you get Everything is first class,
and prices moderate. adapted to the string
ency of the times, You save the expense
of carriage hire, and by leaving your bag
gage check on the counter of the Hotel.
your baggage will be delivered in your
rooms, ffteens minutes after the arrival
of the cars, free of expense. We advise
you to give the Grand Uuion a trial.
Year: 1877

Catarrh in its extent and destructive force stands
next to Consumption, and is closely allied to it ;
1or In certain constitutions the transitions from
TO the other is only question of time. II is there
fore singular thing that those afflicted with it
should not make it the object OF their lives to rid
cannot, in the chronic ,tsge effect cure nor even
bring the system under its influence fully. In
many such cases the bones a. cartilage Of the
nose are eaten away, the organs Of hearing, of


ing, and of tasting, so affected to be rendered
useless lhe uvulva so nlongated and infamed to
produces constant and distressing cough. The re-


turn to health must necessarily be slow under the


most favorable circumstances, when seriously af-


hIced; but as the evidence of its great value daily
comes to hand, we become more and more satisfied


that there does not exist of Catarrh that can
not be cured by judicious and persistent use of
SANFORD RADICAL CURE FOR CATARRH The re.


lief IN every obtained from the first dose an
indication Of whatit will do when the system is
brought constitntionaiy under its influence.
SANFoRDs RADICAL CURE sold by all whole
sale and retail druggists throughout the United
States Price 81.
Year: 1877

LONDON. April l4.-The Atlantic cable
officials announce that the shilling tariff
for ordinary news messages and six penny
rate for deferred business will be continued
notwithstanding the advance noted yes
terday.
Year: 1877

IN THE CONNECTICUT SENATE.


BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD


HARTFORD. JAM %, 1877.
Tho State Senate to-day yoconsidercd Its
voto Of last Friday, passing q resolution
indorsng the plan proposed In Congress
for counting the electoral vote. Senator
Bishop (dcm., tho author of the resolution, urges
this action in view Of newspaper charge that he had
trcked tho republican majority into voting for it. Ho
earnestly dsclamcd any such intent and further said
that his resolution Of legislative Endorsement, to.
gother with the plan itself, had been heartily
approved by ALL irrespective OF porty, among the bust
men ~ whom he had spoken on the subject. The
matter was then tabled, and, as IN the House, yea
and nay vote was ordered II when It up for
final action.
Year: 1877




The effect in England of reported Rus
sian successes has been to renew the dis
cussion about British interests, and Rus
sian newspapers like the Daily Telegraph
and Morning Post, greatly excited, call for
instant preparations to protect the inter
ests and honor of the country, which lie
under most direct menace. They find
the Cars proclamation a revolutionary
manifesto, manifesting determination
to annex Bulgaria. They add to this
the reputed intention of Russia to claim
Armenia and the Turkish ironclad feet
as indemnity, and force the passage of
the Dardanelles, and declare such changes
would rob England of her real rampant
for her Eastern empire. But it is noticea-
BILE that papers of quite different class
are beginning to exhibit uneasiness.
The Economist calls attention to the
probability that if the Dardenelles are
to be kept closed against the Russiansby
force, England must do it alone, because
the other powers are not sufficiently in
terested in that result to Justify the
anticipation of their cooperation. The
Observer declares the time has arrived
when the government should know itself
and be prepared to enforce its views
when necessity demands, and the Turk
ish papers are very guarded in their COM
ments and devote attention chiefly to
discussing the Austrian position, and at
tacking the ministry for not taking the
opportunity to make further declaration
of policy.
Year: 1877

Speaking at vegetable banquet at
Leeds, in England, the other day, the
Rev. c. II. Collyns said he was descended
from long line of equity ancestors. He
had been a sufferer from gout, but hav-
ing more than ten years ago become a
total abstainer, and having, not long
afterward, become vegetarian, he had
gradually driven the gout out, and could
give no other reason for it except pure
and wholesome living abstinence
from alcoholic liquors and from flesh
meat. The teeth of man showed that he
was not carniverous, but frugivorous
animal, and the stomach, he contended,
also showed that he was intended not
to re ceive flesh, but the fruits of
the earth. He would not 60 back to his
former mode of life for anything that
could be given to him. Vegetarian diet
agreed with the delicate as well as the
robust. 1t was wholesome and enjoy
able, and to it he a owed new issue of
life.
Year: 1877

The New York Sun says: Artificial
eyes for horses have been made for several
years past in Vienna, and to some ex-
tent in the United States. M. de la
Grandiere, Frenchman, who has been
dead for some years, was an expert in
this business, and made large number
of eyes for horses. These eyes are about
ten times the size of an artificial human
eye, and are not made hollow like those
for human beings, but are solid; and
herein lies the difficulty in giving them
their proper hue. There is only one
person in this city who manufactures
artificial eyes for horses. They are made
entirely by hand, by Mr.. Hahn himself,
as they require the skillful handling of a
superior workman. They are not kept
on sale, but are made only on order. A
model of the empty socket is necessary
to the work, and with the aid of this a
glass eye can be made that will defy all
save the most accomplished experts.
Year: 1877

favor in England, namely, Usage. John
Bull does not like his beef the day after
it is killed; it must have few days to
season and become mellow and tender,
and these days may as well be passed on
the ocean as elsewhere. The business of
transporting fresh beef to England is no
longer risky experiment; it has become
a fixed business, and is just now giving
employment to unemployed steamers
that else might be lying idle for want of
freight. 1t is highly probable that YES
sells will finally be built for the express
purpose of transporting meat and other
commodities that need preservation in
refrigeratOrs.
Year: 1877

Life insurance law has been enriched
with another decision of interest to both
insurers and insured. In 1870 Regina
Mansbach took out a policy on the life
of her husband in the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company of New York. In
1873 the company refused to take the
premium then due, and cancelled the
policy, claiming that Mr.. Mansbach (who
is still living) was guilty of misrepresen-
tation when taking out the policy in
saying that he had no chronic disease,
when in fact he was suffering from
bronchitis in a chronic form. Suit was
brought to compel the company to re-
store the policy, and on the trial two
physicians who examined Mansbach in
1873 testified that in their opinion the
disease was chronic three years before.
The court expressed the opinion that it
was extremely doubtful whether any
physician could predict the condition of
any person at given time from an ex-
animation made two years afterwards,
and held in addition that the examina-
ton in the case was so cursory and
superficial that its result could not be
followed as against the examination of a
physician made at the time the insur-
ance was effected and Mansbach's posi-
tive denial that he was afflicted as
charged. He holds further that the
plaintiff has an interest sufficient to
maintain the action, and that, after the
company's refusal to receive the pre-
MUM, it was not necessary to make
further tender. He therefore gives judg-
ment for the plaintiff that the company
receive the premiums and restore the
policy.
Year: 1877

PITTsBURG Commercial: A pigeon
alighted on the minute-hand of the clock
in the tower of Trinity Church at 10 AS
o'clock yesterday forenoon, and seemed
so delighted with its perch and the little
hoist it got at every tick, that it kept its
perch until its body was securely fast
ened between the two hands. When it
attempted to fly it could not stretch its
wings, and in a few seconds it was
squeezed to death. The ponderous ma
chinery was stopped by the sexton, and
the dead bird could not be taken out un-
til the hands were unshipped.
Year: 1877

THE records of the Electoral Commits
sion still remain in the hands of its Sec
retary, as in drafting the bill forming
that body no provision was made for a
custodian. The Secretary is very much
embarrassed as to what disposition he
shall make of these papers. The law
places no responsibility upon him. He
will take good care that the records are
not destroyed for the present, and will
no doubt ask Congress at the next ses-
sion to relieve him of them.
Year: 1877

EVERY dog that steps into the street
in New York is now compelled by law
to wear a string not more than five feet
long, and have responsible person at
the other end of it. The reason of this
arrangement is, that if the dog should
wish to go mad while out, he will have
some one to lead him home. Should il
happen, however, that about the time
the dog is observed to be going mad, the
responsible person should recollect an en-.
gagement elsewhere, the dog is at lib.
erty to profer the vacant end of the
string to whomsoever, in its Judgment
is likely to accept the trust.
Year: 1877

The banks of the Thames are just now
lined with mosquitoes, which have been
brought to London in cargoes of foreign
grain. One of the things upon which
Londoners have always prided themselves
has been that the annoying insect was not
be found in their city.
Year: 1877

CAPTAIN EADs has made a report to
the South Pass Jetty Company, in which
he claims that the greatest success has
thus far met his efforts. He closes by
saying: Finally I may add with abso-
lutte certainty that this entire system of
works is now SO far completed that no
financial difficulties can intervene to ar
rest the process of nature, which is
continually operating to enlarge and
perfect the desired channel through
them.
Year: 1877

AN English lady, having an income of
twenty-five thousand dollars year, was
so struck by the devotion of young
crossing sweeper. to his mother that she
proposed to him, placed him in the
hands of tutor for couple of months,
and when he had been intelligently
veneered and polished, married him at
Wells Cathedral. The experiment was
not success, and the lady is now suing
to for a divorce.