smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING THE


woUNDINa OF A YOUNG MANA SEVERED


ARTERY AND BROKEN FANLIGHT.


young man named Christopher Develn. while
attempting, as is charged by the police. to rob
grocery in Manhattanville. at three o'clock
yesterday morning met with a mishap which the
physicians at the reception hospital in West Ninety
ninth street believe will result in his death. The
particulars Of the case were yesterday sont to
superintendent walling. at Police Headquarters.
by Captain Leary. Of the Thrtieth precinct. IN
whose district tho accident occurred. According
to the Captains report it appears that at
three A. NJ. yesterday Roundsnlan Frederick
Thurman was on patrol. and when at the corner OF
12sth and Lawrence streets heard noise made by
the breaking of glass. He quietly began an invests
CATION, and at the door of Henry Burkhardts grocery
store, No. ITO Lawrence street, he heard groan.
Upon continuing his search he found young
man lying unconscious in pool OF blood
the doorstep of the grocery. Blood was
flowing in copious streams from wound
in the mans arm. The officer at once saw that an
artery had been severed. and fearing that the
fortunate would bleed to death. made ligature
Of his handkerchief. After stopping the flow Of
blood the roundsman raped for assistance and in
few minutes several officers arrived and carried the
to the station house. whence he was removed
to the hospital in ambulance. 1t at first
thought by the officers that tho man. who
proved to be Christopher Develin. twenty
had been stabbed and two men who were seen hur.
redly crossing some open lots in that neighborhood
o few minutes before were suspected OF being his
assailants This theory was. however. dspelled by
the discovery that the glass in the fanlght the
grocery store door broken and stained with
blood. The fact thought to be established that
Develin had been injured while attempting to
forcibly enter the grocery for the pur.
pose of robbery, and that the who
had made their escape accomplices. Deve-
lin then charged with burglary and guard
was placed over him in the hospital. lie never
before known to the authorities criminal.
lie resided IN house adjoining the police station
and was in the habit Of spending a good deal Of
time in company with the officers while on duty.
Some time after his arrival tho hospital Devclin
regained consciousness, but declined to make any
statement. Captain Leary is searching for his sup
posed companions. He thinks he has found clew
by which he may recover valuable property which
has lately been stolen,
Year: 1879

Remember that the world is older
than you are, by several years; that for
thousands Of years it hes been so full of
smarter and better men than you that
their feet stuck out Of the dormer win
dows,that when they died the old globe
went whirling on, and not one man in
ten millions went to the funeral, or
even heard of the death. Be as smart
IS you can, Of course. Know as much
as you can, without blowing the pack
ing out Of your cylinder heads; shed
the light Of your wisdom abroad in the
world, but don't dazzle people with it.
And don't imagine a thing is so simple
because you say it is. Don't be too
sorry for your father because he knows
so much less than you do. The world
has great need of young men, but no
greater need than the young men have
of it. Your clothes fit you better than
your fathers fit him, they cost more
money, they are more stylish, your
moustache is neater, the cut of your
hair is better, and you are prettier, oh,
far prettier than sspa.' But, young
man, the old gentleman gets the big
gest salary, and his homely, scrambling
signature on the business end of check
viii drain more money out of the bank
in five minutes than you could get with
ream of paper and copper plate sig
nature in six months. Young men are
useful, and they are ornamental, and
We couldn't engineer picnic success.
fully without them. But they are no
novelties. Oh, no, nothing Of the kind.
They have been here before. Don't be
SO modest as to shut yourself clear out
but don't be so fresh you will have tc
be put away in the cool to keep from
spelling. Don't be afraid that YOU
merit viii not be discovered. People
all over the world are hunting for you
and if you are worth finding they vii
find you. A diamond isn't so easily
found as a quartz pebble, but peopl,
search for it all the more intently.-
Hoapkeye.
Year: 1879

That farmer will succeed who makes
up his mind that the whole secret of
success lies in himself that it is the
man and not the business that tells.
He win succeed If he brings to bear the
same amount Of force, foretheueht econ
omy and Judgment that any other
branch Of business requires. He viii
succeed if he sticks as close to the farm
as the mechanic does to bis shop, and
not expect to work three or four mouths
and then take his ease for the rest of
the year. That farmer will succeed
who takes the papers, and digests what
he reads, and is not afraid Of new ideas
and new methods of industry. He
will succeed if it is his intention that
whatever he sends to market shall be
the very best, and so made up and put
up thats.when seen it will be captivat-
ing for its freshness cleanliness and pu-
rity, and will unhesitatingly be taken
on account of his well known character
for honesty of weight, measure and
count. These who have farms may
think themselves fortunate, ,for, although
they will not thereby find reads to sud-
den wealth, they win certainly prove
that persistent farm labor will bring q
sure reward. It is worthy of notice
that the adventurer and speculator,
with blasted hopes and shattered health
and fortune, have in the end to come
back to the farm for health and safety.
Agriculture is the basis Of natural
strength and wealth, and most Ger.
tain and liberal support to all who fol.
low il intslligentIy.
Year: 1879

DIR. John Brown writes that ho new
er can forget an incident which occur
red during the cholera scourge in 1862.
He says:


Zone morning sailor came to say I
must go three miles down the river ts
a village where it had broken out with
great fury. Of / set. We rowed in
silence down the dark river, passing
the huge hulks, and hearing the rest
less convicts turning in their beds in
their chains. The men rowed with all
their might; they had too many dead
or dying at home to have the heart to
speak to me. We got near the place.
1t was very dark, but I saw q crowd Of
men and women on the shore at the
landing place, all shouting for the doc
tor. We were near the shore. when l
saw big, old man, his hat off, his hair
gray and his head bald. He said moth
ing, but turning them all off with his
arm, he plunged into the sea, and be-
fore knew where / was be had me in
his arms. / was helpless as an infant.
He waded out with me, carrying me
high up in his left arm, and with his
right leveling every man or woman that
stood in his way. 1t was Big Joe car.
rying me to see his grandson, Little
Joe. He bore me off to the poor, con.
vulsed boy, and dared me to leave him
till he was better. He did get better,
but Big Joe himself was dead that
night! He had Che disease on him
when he carried him from the boat, but
his heart was set upon his boy. I can
never forget how terribly in earnest he
was"
Year: 1879

IT seems to us that ii is quite time
that some of Il g Democratic Ora s in
Congress had endeavored to enlighten
the people as to the consequences that
may follow the action of that body
should it conclude to adjourn without
passing the regular appropriation bin
for the army. Would the people be
very much annoyed by il? How much
money would be saved by refusing this
appropriation, and what would be lost ?
If the army were to go out of existence
we are sure the. Governors of the vari-
ous States could for year or two main
tain the peace. 1t. would be happy
thing if the people would resolve to dc
without both army and navy until they
could be recognized on a more eco
nomical basis. AT present they are the
most costly military establishments o
the kind In the world; and about tn,
most useless.
Year: 1879

1T is quite evident that the editor Of
the Republican did not read the article
in the GAZETTE, on the Board of Edu-
cation he essays to make reply to yes
terday. Either this is so or he designed
ly misrepresents and mistakes the whole
tepor of the GAzETTE's reference to the
gentlemen named. We apprehend that
these gentlemen do not fully compre-
hend the position they are in and its re-
sponsibilities to this community. 1t is
one thing to be competent to do SER
vice and another thing to understand
and fully appreciate the importance of
performing such services. The work to
which the gent lemen were assigned was
not one from which they expected re-
ward. They were sent to the Board to
do such duty as was assigned them, or
to help to render such service as they
could, if not assigned to any committee.
And it was the merest trifing to resign
because the Democrats in the Board
choose to vote for man of their own
party, rather than one that was opposed
to them. If these gentlemen considered
their services Of SO much more value
than the services Of others, they are
making their misfortune in not being
able to control the political complexion
Of the Board the calamity of the chill
dren who are entrusted to their help for
education. We no where said: Y.'


off the gentlemen who resigned their
positions had proved themselves eo1npe-
tent, they would be advanced to higher
positions"


That is one of many misrepresenta-
tions which the article in the Republican
Year: 1879

contains. We do not think them OF
enough cotlsequsncs 70 point them, out.
We are satisfied to clip one paragraph.
1t of iself contains sufficient proof I'd
shov that .he gentlemen who resigned
lad been running the Board In the In
terest of their own political party as far
as possible. AT least this will be the in
ference, we doubt not, Of all who read
the following:


I"Messrs. Baird and Lobdell did exactly
what honorable men would do in such
cases. They saw that the Board had
been organized according to the behests
of b party caucus. They saw the old
and efficient Secretary and Treasurer re-
moved simply because he was a Repub-
lican, and Mr.. Morrow, a new and un-
tried man, elected to the Office simply
because he was a Democrat. Even
Lang the bailiff had to be removed be-
cause he was Republican aud Daily
appointed because he was Democrat"
If that Board had not been organized
and run as political body for a long
series ofyears its paid officers would not
have been found all to have been Re-
publcans. The Democrats acted more
generously than the resigning members
did, for they all, except one, voted to
elect Republican superintendent not
withstanding the designations of these
gentlemen. Had these men had con-
troll and the Superintendent been a
Democrat they would have pondered
and waited and looked up another man
for the position who pleased them better


in politics. We had hoped that politics


could be kept out of the schools but il


appears that this can only he done by


allowing all the salaried officers to be O


one party. To this every sensible mar


must take exception. You can put tina
in your pipe and smoke it at your leisure
Year: 1879

Our telegraphic dispatches from the State
Capital tell the story of the action of the
Governor and Council SO fully and clearly
that they need no gloss. Thieves dialect is
not easy 70 read unless one has the key to
it. That key the Council gives, Having no
further use for it, now the lock is broken
Stated in that honest language, plain En-
glish, certificates have been given to eight
men who were not elected to the Senate and
seventeen men who were not elected to the
House, and refused to twelve men who were
elected to the House.


The Councillors claim that they have been
acting under the forms of law. 1t may be
so, though eminent legal authorities dispute
it. But this much is certain; the canvass
ing board, according to its own showing, has
exercised its discretionary powers, not to
further the popular will, but to defeat it.
1t does not claim that the men to whom it
refuses to give certificates did not receive
majority of the votes cast. 1t only claims
that the returns of the votes were irregular; !;
and by disregarding statute that in its
presumption it declares unconstitutional, it
is enabled to carry out its purpose of revers-
ing the result of the September election.
The people who make laws and choose their
executors will call these unworthy stewards
to an account of the trust they have be-
trayed.
Year: 1879

The great desideratum in expending money is to
know where to get the most seyceable and satisfac


tory articles for the smallest consideration. Ask
novice and he will advise you to make your pur-
chases anywhere that you may find the goods re-
turn you fair equivalent for your money,-consult
a man of observation and he will direct you to the
where large and varied stock will be found to
meet the requirements of all classes of trade, and
where business is done on the ONE PRICE,
QUICK SALES and SMALL PROFIT
principle. Such is FISK 81 CO.'S Establish
Year: 1879

Now is the time for Governor Garcelon to
jump into the Kennebec, as he promised.
Or was that one of his many misunderstood
remarks, and did he mean that if he stole
the State he would jump across the river?
Year: 1879

THE Associated Press agents at Augusta
were not at fault for their silence. When
the Council were applied to for information
the answer returned was that they were un-
der obligations to the Argus and could not
give the news to the Associated Press. The
Argus has certainly done some dirty work
for them.
Year: 1879

LOWE, the Alabama Greenbacker, IS
quoted as saying that ''it will be an exhibit
ton of gross political immortality on the part
of Smith to accept the Goyernorship OF
Maine under circumstances SO suspicious OF
fraudulent dealing" He does not believe
the fusionists have carried Maine at all, and
says "any pretension on their part that they
have done so will react with fatal effect
upon the party all over the country" Mr.
Lowe doesn't know Smith if he thinks that
man will object to the show.
Year: 1879

MAINE Congressman are represented as
feeling greatly astonished at the State steal
That is curious. Have they so soon forgot
ten the character of the knaves they had to
fight last summer and fall?
Year: 1879

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


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

A man pulls open an iron door, and
you gaze with. awe into the heart Of a
huge furnace, the white-hot contents
slowly turning around and falling in cas-
cades of yellow fire. It is found that at
the works in Devon, Sulphur in the py-
rites is enough to keep the furnace, when
once heated, burning without other fuel.
The product? Here it is, white heap of
several tons, lying in an open shed where
every body passes. It is something like
fine flour. One ofthe men dips his thumb
and finger loosely into the white powder,
puts quantity into the palm of his other
hand, and brings it to be looked at pre-
cisely as miller shows sample Of flour,
smoothing it with his forefngers. All
this white heap is arsenic. More than
1900 tons year are sent out from this
one mine, to be used mainlv in those brill
liant modern dyes by which our women
and children can dazzle the sunshine at
cheap expense.


This innocent looking white powder,
this potent and fatal substance Of Which
three grains weight will killa man, was
lying by one of the ordinary roads Of the
mine, in the open shed, in heaps breast
high. No harm ever comes Of all this,
save skin eruptions to the work people,
and these rarely, but it gave one q shiver
to see those white mounds.
Year: 1879

THE salient feature developed by
the Potter Committee in their in
quiries into the cipher kilograms
SO far is the suddenness and GER
tainty with which the telegraph
company is always ready to destroy
Republican kilograms; and, while
nominally destroying Democratic
kilograms likewise, SO arranging
things that some pilfering Hessian
should always have copies Of the
latter. This may show party bias
and smartness, but it is not, in
the long run, sagacIous policy.
When the string is drawn from the
bent bow the rebound is always
tremendous. Just in proportion to
the unscrupulousnes, and the rigor
OF the Republican ascendancy in
the United States will be the vio.
lence of the reaction when the time
comes. AS to its coming, there can
be no doubt. The only thing involv-
ing difficulty Is the precise date.
Be the government Republican or
m onarchioal the sins" are certain
at some time TO be the "outs,n and
Egrsst corporation, which ought
to aim to Sesthe servitor of a whole
people, does great wrong in accu.
mulating heavy resentments. Far
better Is it to have record of fair
dealing which would lift public
corporation out of the ruts OF party


raneors. We think it not to the
credit or the ultimate profit of the
leading telegraph company of the
United States that it has left an inn
preston in the breast of every indi-
vidual Democrat that, for years on
years, 1t has been run In the inter-
est of its opponents. There is an old
italian proverb, devised for the in
dividual, which will apply to that
artificial person known as a bod y
corporate, that, though a man have
q thousand friends, he cannot feel
safe II he have one enemy.
Year: 1879

We are really sorry that we don't
happen to recollect, at this mo-
ment, the initials of the late Mar
shall President of France. The tele-
grams which We print this morn
Ing show that MacMahon is q gen.
tleman of the old school. He is a
lineal descendant OF one of the
Colonels Of one OF the three regi.
ments OF the famous Irish Brigade,
and Patrick Is one of his preno-
mens-we don't know the other.
In name and In nature he 10 loyal
to his fine old Irish lineage. We
hope that his retirement Will not
prove to be fraught with evil to
Republican France, and we do not
believe It Will. There Is o time for
Year: 1879

WE wish to have 1t distinctly
undsrstood that the HERALD Is q
Democratic paper. We have nailed
our colors to the masthead and We
propose to sink or swim, survive or
perish, on that basis. Far more
than at any time in our history do
we believe that the United States


will be ruled, for years to come. by
either the Democratic or the Re-
publican party. We think the
chances are for the former. More
flrmly than at any previous time
do we think that the State Of Cali
fornia will be ruled by either the
Democratic or Republican party
for an indefinite time ahead. At
the date of this writing we are in
cllned to think by the lateral
least rs respects the next election,
allowing for shifting political
kaleidoscope which may give the
Democrats the upper hand None
the less staunchly Dc we think that
the county of Los Angeles, at the
election next Fall, will be either
Democrat or Republican, as to
which, for the present, we decline
to venture a prediction. OF one
thing, however, we are superla-
lively sure, and that Is that the
men who are now diligently en-.
gagged carrying water on both
shoulders are politically wrecked.
We beg readers of the HERALD to
put pin there. The time-servers
are possessed with the idea that
there 10 no limit to their smart.
nsss; and yet we venture to
tell them that the time is
coming when neither Democrat
nor Republican will touch them
with q forty foot pole. 1t is all
very well to initiate the Apostle
Paul, and try to be all things to all
men, but, when the critical time
comes, the "stalwarts" of neither
the Republican nor Democratic
party will have aught to say to
these gentry. Some things can be
done ~ we'll as others; and the be.
trayal Of a historic party, the CO.
quoting with political ephemera,
may be rewarded in way the time
servers do not dream Of. We are
yet young in our opportunities for
forming political observations; but,
oven In our brief experience, we
have seen scores of promising poll.
ticians wrecked by q feeble and
fatal disposition to wander off after
strange political Gods. 1t is your
square and determined partizan
that succeeds. in the long run. AS
far as we are concerned, we give
formal notice that our voice will
never bs raised In advocacy of
those who have faltered in thu d~y
OF trial. On the contrary, quite
the reverse. In political matters
we know but two joys-one a fairly
earned success; t1e other, the ap.
proving conscience which follows a
squarely encountered defeat.
Year: 1879

Alter ordering the session for to-mor-
row night for the reports from the Com
mittee on Ways and Means, the House
went into Committee on the Senate
Census Bill, which has been so amended
as to vest the appointment Of super
visors in the President, by and with the
consent Ot the Senate.
Year: 1879

We also offer the balance of our entire stock at prices that are popular with the public,spe- cial mention of which will be made in this column from week to week until the entire stock has been disposed of: As the changes now going on in the building will compel us to close up the store for a very short time, we do not wish to move or pack up the stock if we can avoid it.
Year: 1879

The other night . nervous man IN
Burlington was awakened. hearing some
marauder in the ohicken.house. He
hastily dressed himself . little. sneaked
out to the hen.house. grasped his club
firmly. put his head In the door and
shouted, .Conie out Of there. you son
OF . sea COW. or I'll chsw the heart out
Of -you;" and then before he could see
which way to strike, . large dog with q
law like an alligator sailed out OF the
hsunsry and Bit him four times in the
legs before the astonished man could
reach the hall door. The man is nov
writing . pamphlet to prove that owing
70 the unframed and limited intelligence
Of the lower order Of animals. Language
calculated to inspire = man with terror
may be addressed to strange dog with
no effect beyond that OF snraging him.
Year: 1879

He is apt to think more of saying a
''smart," "telling," or a "taklng" thing
than of communicating the truth. In
this way he uses extravagant epithets,
gives exaggerated descriptions, and mag
nifies or distorts features for the sake of
effect. Even so noble a man as Thomas
Guthrie once said, in regard to the prep
aration of a sermon, "It is like the drop
scene in a theatre, you must lay on the
color thick" But, with all Difference to
such authority, that advice is exceeding
ly pernicious. For he who consciously ex-
aggerates does at the same time blunt
the edge of his conscience. Every time
he deviates from or adds to the real state
of the case he makes himself worse man.
Truth is the girdle of character, and he
who loosens that is on the way to loose
ness in other departments of morality.
He is on an inclined plane, and may some
day produce the biggest sensation of his
life by a terrible iasco. For the tempta-
tion is to 60 on. His hearers become
accustomed to the dose, the appetite
grows "by what it feeds on" and, in or
der to have the effects which were at first
produced, they crave for something
stronger. He seeks to meet that new de-


mand just as he sought to meet the first,
and so it increases until the fippant has
become the irreverent, and the irreverent
has become the protane, and the profane
becomes the impure; or until the odd has
become the heretical, and the man who be-
gan with throwing aside conventionalities
eRds by parting with the central verities
OF the Gospel. We do not affirm that all
this has actually happened in any indi-
vidual case, but the drift and tendency
of sensationalism are in that direction;
and, in DAY when some who are guilty