smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

THE THIEVES ESCAPE DELAWARE JUS


TICB.


On Sunday afternoon two men arrived
in this city with horse and carriage
which they put up at the Sorrel Horse
Hotel stables on Front street, near Ship
ley. Shortly after their arrival officers
Cannon and Traynor observed the men,
and from their action concluded that
something was wrong. They kept a
watch upon them, and soon discovered
where the stolen articles were found.
The officers then went to the Mayor and
asked him if they could arrest the men,
detailing all the circumstances of the case
as far as they knew. The Mayor replied
that they could not unless they had very
strong evidence as to the guilt Of the sus-
pected men. Here the matter rested un-
til yesterday morning, when the owner
ofthe articles came to this city, and going
to the Mayor and Chief detailed his loss,
and the description Tailed exactly with
that given by the two officers. Sergeant
Legg, was sent for, and the men turned
over to him and a search made for the
horse and wagon which was
found in a very short time, the sergeant
knowing where it was. In the meantime
the thieves went to the depot, purchased
tickets, for Philadelphia, and took the
9.46 train for that city, while officers Can
non and TraynOr, stood looking at them
powerless to arrest them. In some
strange way the thieves escaped Delaware
Justice. The horse was loaded on a car
ready to be shipped to Baltimore.
Year: 1878

infidel lecture of wonderful power, in
manner and tone, which marked bin
as an adept, he suddenly drew der
ringer, placed it to his forehead, and
despite attempts to prevent the rash
deed, fired and fell into the arms Of
two friends who were in the wings Of
the stage for the purpose of hindering
the execution of the design. The large
sized ball literally tore his brain to
pieces. He left request that his body
be forwarded to Cincinnati friends.
Year: 1878

ANOTHER mess of the Potter busi-
ness came over the wire yesterday eve
ming, Secretary Sherman being on the
stand. As Butler says his only object
is to prove that Packard was legally
elected Governor of Louisiana, all in
terest ceases, for there ale few who
have not always admitted the point.
Year: 1878

THE Black Hills Times fixes the dis
tance Of the sun from the earth at
ninety-two thousand six hundred miles.
No doubt the scientific world will ap-
propriately thank the Times for getting
old Sol so near.
Year: 1878

ENGLAND doesn't tumble to the
papal desire for a representation at the
Vatican. 1t is hard for the Jesuits to
understand that the Pope has no longer
temporal authority and consequently
legations are useless in his court.
Year: 1878

1T WOULD be well If masked bat
terry could be taken out on Deadwood
coach and give the road agents such a
reception that their account of it would
have to emanate from the other world.
There is a shocking monotony about
their exploits.
Year: 1878

Throughout the winter the Second
Avenue Railroad Company has been ex-
perlmenting with a Car driven by com-
pressed air, cor fined in eight tubular
steam receivers placed beneath the car


The experiments, which have been made
on the upper part of the track where the
grades arc very steep, are SAID TO have
len completely satisfactory. The car
can be started and stopped by one lever,
and the entire mechanical arrangement
is very simple. The directors also assert
that they can store sufficient air i'll the
receivers at one time to enable them TO
make complete circuit of Manhattan
island If necessary. AT present several
hours are occupied in charging the re-
ceivers, but machinery has been ordered
which will, il is expected, perform the
work In one minute. If the experiment
continues to be successful we may soon
see street cars running without horses or
steam either. The operation of the COM
pressed air is noiseless.-NeD York Post.
Year: 1878

Despair has ruined some, but pre-
sumption multitudes.


Delays increase desires, and sometimes
e1tinguish them.


Let them obey who know how to rule.


The near miss of happiness is q great
misery.


Haste trips up it's own heels, fetterf
and stops itself.


Look well into thyself there is q
source which will always spring up i
thou wilt always search there.


The virtue of a man ought to be meas
ured, not by his extraordinary e1ertions,
but by his every day conduct.


LiberaEty, courtesy, benevolence, un.
selfshness, under all circumstances and
towards all men-these qualities are tc
the world what the inchpin is to the
rolling chariot.


The truest help We can render to an
afflicted man is not to take his burden
from him, but to call out his best
strength, that he may be able 70 beal
the burden.


Hearts more or less, I suppose, most
of us have, but we keep them so close
cased and padlocked-we wear an out
side 80 hard or dry that little or none
of the love that may be within escapes
to gladden. those around us. And 80
life passes without any of the sweetening
to society that comes when attectlon is
not felt but expressed.
Year: 1878

The lord loves his land, and the miser his golt
And the hunter his horse and his hound,
The bishop his port, ani the warrior bold
His sword and the clarion sound;


And the sailor his lass,


And the beauty her glass,
And the reaper bonny bright sky;


But give me cot,


With love for my To-,
And a sparkle Of mirth in my eye,


And this ditty I'll sing


With the pride of a king:
Though the cash in my Golfers be small,


The best OF all wea tn


Is good stock Of health,
With heart that is thankful for all"
While the duke has his castle, the monarch his
crown,


And the courti.r his title and name,
And their ladies' repose on their couches OF
And the minetrel is honored with fame,


will journey through life


without envy or strife,
Looking out for its beautiful flowers,
..ss Aud carry light


For adversity's night,
Aud honey to sweeten its sours;


And ri merriy sing


As march with . swing,
Since. honesty feareth no fall:
"The best Of all wealth


Is a good stock Of health,
With a'heart that is thankful for ALL
Let the lord have bis land, and the miser his
gold, ss
And the hunter his horse and his hound,
And the bishop bis port, and the warrior bold
His sword and the clarion sound;
.... And the sailor his lass,


And the beauty her glass,
And the reaper his bonny bright sky;
IN But with lore for my lot,


In a sweet little cot
And the sparkle Of mirth in my eye.
I my ditty VII sing,
Spite Of penury's sting:
"Thouzh the cash in my Golfers be small,
~. The best of all wealth
g \. q. Is stock of good health,
With heart is thankful for ALL"
Year: 1878

Alady occupied whole year in search
ing for and fitting the following thirty
eight lines from English and American
poems. The whole reads almost as if it
had been written at one time and by one
author
Year: 1878

Two cases of leprosy among the Chinese in San Francisco have given rise to considerable apprehension. One of the lepers was found lying abandoned in the street in the Chinese quarter of the city, and his countrymen passed him by in throngs, refusing to give him relief in any form or to touch him. He was placed by white men in a fruit wagon, from which load of oranges had just been sold, and was taken to the Chinese hospital, but was there denied admis- slon. He was then taken to the hospital of the city prison. The other leper was found in the jail, and was utilized as a lecture specimen by the Academy of. Sciences. These cases will show whether the fear of contagion displayed by the countrymen of the sufferers is we'll founded, for the two wretches were freely handled by white men. The in- troduction of leprosy into the Hawaiian Islands has been great calamity to them, and the possibility of similar curse to California is not viewed with equanimity. To what extent the disease now exists there among the Chinese is not known, and there is no way of dis covering. The mortality returns report nearly all the deaths that occur among them to result from "causes unknown" I" and large proportion of them may be owing to this disease. Now that it is known to exist in the city, it becomes important to learn under what conditions it is infectious.
Year: 1878

No one who reads his morning paper, even carelessly, can fail to be struck with the extraordinary prevalence of crime at the present tune. Distasteful though such topics must be to every true journalist, they have crowded the columns of the press with increasing force of late. Fights, swindles, rob- berries, defalcations, murders and other crimes succeed each other so rapidly that mere mention is all that space can allow. The strangest feature of this abnormal and horrible state of affairs is that there seems to be nothing in the present status of society to urge men to the peculiar wickednesses that have been committed. Churches and other insti- tutions for the promotion of morality are as numerous and active as ever, and the responsibility of mau for the condition of his brother man was never so widely admitted as now. The only plausible theory seems to rest upon the tardiness of justice and the many leopholes for escape which approximations regard for the letter of the law opens to crim- inals. There are courts in which petty offenders against criminal and civil law are promptly dealt with, and in which sophistries are not allowed to take the place of moral sense. If there were others in which the doers of greater evils would be as speedily arraigned and by which they could be as promptly re- manded for punishment the dangerous classes, high and low, might be made to feel that forceful restraint which at pres- ent they lack and which is the only thing that can keep them in order. Hu- man nature is no worse in New York and vicinity than it is elsewhere, but moral ity is merely relative term it is very different article where quick cognizance and severe penalty follow violations of it to what it is in lands where the Bench is careless and venal. We have an un- equalled assortment of laws and prisons and fair quantity of gallows trees. If all of these were vigorously employed there would be speedy diminution of the quantity of crime.-N. 7. Herald.
Year: 1878

A former resident of Pittsburg, Pa, now citizen of Colorado, writes back as follows Wages in this country are very changeable. A good irrigator or ditchman makes from $50 to $40 per, month and board. A farm, or ranche hand, from $15 to $2O and board, and in many cases you will find what is termed out here "a tenderfoot," who is glad to have the chance to work for his board and wash. These 'tenderfoot' men are those who have never worked at any thing harder than the measuring of so much tape, etc., or the daily work of an experienced ink or pencil slinger. They would be exceeding glad to be back in the States.

 '' If man, young or old, comes into this country with little ready money, he can pre-empt his 16O acres of Gov ernment land, and after the lapse of thirty-one or thirty-three months q am not certain which,, the Government will give him deed for the same, upon the payment of $1. .25 per acre, railroad land being worth $2.25 per acre. For 8 small amount he can put up shanty and to invest his money then in cattle or sheep, and if having sufficient to purchase, say 15O or 200 head of cattle, can live quite nicely off the increase of stock In a

 mixed bunch of cattle, say of 200 head, the increase the first year will average all the way from 50 to 100 head, with possibly from to 15 or 20 head of steels ready for the market. From year to year

 the herd grows in number, and in loss

 than five years man can turn his in

 vestment over some three CT four times. ?
Year: 1878

Mr.. James Van Trump who has been
carrying on the plumbing and gas fit
ting business at New Castle, for some
months past, is having the store No.
722 Market Street, fitted up and will
soon open out plumbing and gas tit
ting establishment.
Year: 1878

SENT On TO THE GRAND JURY FOR PASS
ISG 4 COUNTERFEIT HALF-DoLLAR.-Edga
Hall (colored) was on yesterday examined
by Commissioner Peasants and sent on to
the grand jury OF the United States Circuit
Court for passing counterfeit silver half
dollar. a few days ago Hall attempted to
get out warrant for the arrest OF arespect-
able lady who has place OF business on
Broad street charging her with passing the
half-dollar upon him. Therefore he must
have known that it was counterfeit,
Year: 1878

q a Good Var Record There are seVeral
pensioners OF the war Of 1872 in this Guy
and vicinity. It Is believed that CheSterheio
will furnish q larger number than any other
county in this section. from the fact that It
sent q great many soldiers to this war. 81.


Chesterfield was well represented IN the
Year: 1878

THE MEETING OF THE Cry CONSERVATIVE
COMMITTEE To-NIGHT.-The meeting OF the
City Conservative Committee to be held at
the Sberiff's Office Mt s O'Clock tonight will
be the first one for several months, and from
the important subjects to be considered
ought to be fully attended. The committee
have to decide whether they will, under the
authority OF the State Conservative Com
mittee, hold over, or order on election for
new committee.
Year: 1878

Galveston is perhaps tie only
city I IN the land that can guard
nerseli against tramps. She is
located on an island, and all She
mas to 90 is to station police.
man at the end of the bridon
Year: 1878

The clocks in the Basque,
provinces of France arc made to
strike twice, first to give warning
and then to denote the hour. Few
Oh the people can read the time.
and frequently no minute hand ;s
used. "
Year: 1878

There are one hundred and
twenty-five species OF grass known
TO be native in Maine, and it is
thought a survey would discover
halt as many more. Fifty kinds
nave high agricultural yauIc. The
grass crop of the state is said to
be worth s42,Oe0,OuO annually.


AS year after year rolls into
the great sea o. the past, and man
drags nearer the great port of
death, he becomes more and mora
sadly convinced that red flannel
wrappers will shrink in spite of
he best efforts of the washer
woman. This is why it is so hard
% distinguish a last years wrap
'er from coral necklace.
Year: 1878

You are no longer a child; you have
long since put away childish things. Yet
YOU may now own to your most intimate
friend how often the remembrances of
your earliest childhood are uppermost in
your mind. They come in fragments
like tom bits of some bright picture, and
at times when those about you deem you
immersed and absorbed in the important
concerns of life. You may be states
man, lawyer, editor, merchant, physician,
Clergyman, soldier; the attention of ha
ton may be concentrated upon you; hun
dreds, thousands may be under your EN-.
pIoy or government; you are fighting
great legal battles; your commerce cx.
tends to the uppermost parts Of the earth ;
The treaties you are writing reaches the
profoundest depths of philosophy, science
or theology; the editorial you prepare to-
day may change the policy of a govern
ment; your face may be reflex of the
hard, stern practicalities of life, yet in the
very thick and press of your business, as
you take your seat il court, as you as
cend the pulpit steps, as you see the good
ship Washington laden with a thousand
tons of grain disappear in the ocean mists,
bound for Constantinople, there may have
mingled with these important concerns
some memory of your earliest childhood
the flower you plucked, the dirt pies you
made, the little sled and the first remem.
bered snow storm, the gilt watch and
chain, the frst pair of pantaloons, the low
bench at the infant school, and there
comes with all these, proud, busy, man
as you are, a warmth, glow of old, and
perhaps dear rccolection-a living over
in memory of childish days, a wish that
for the moment you can jump from all this
turmoil, care and perplexity into your
first jacket and trousers, and be child
again.


The world imagines that naught but
the greater matters engaged your atten-
ton, and you think the same OF. the
world about; you would deem it mo't
frivolous and puerile to talk to any one
about the wooden horse you found in your
first Christmas stocking, yet you cannot
rid yourself of this and other recollections.
They are indelible and part of you;
possibly in time you may realize that
when wee toddling infant, looking out
with wondering eyes upon the world,
feeling the force of u thousand surround
ing events and situations, which you
could not shape into words, as impress
ible to the characters of men and women
as you are to-day, knowing far more and
judging more than you were given credit
for, you were still as the germ of the
future man or woman, being of more
importance than you were accredited
with by others or yourself. The acorn
has that quality and power which under
certain conditions gathers to itself what
makes the stately eak, as the infant
gathers from events and surroundings
what makes the future man or woman.--
New York Graphic.
Year: 1878

A WOMAN who had spent the greater
part of the day in going to auction sales,
concluded she would attend service at a
fashionable church in New York on her
way home. Wearied and worn out, she
soon became oblivious to her surround
ings, and was only awakened by the rust
ling of the congregation as they arose to
receive the benediction. Seeing the min.
ister's hand raised in the air, she waved
her handkerchief at him, and said, in a
clear voice, "I'll take the green wash
stand, if you'll throw in the bowl and
pitcher. ."-Andrecs Bazar.
Year: 1878

AN IMPRISONED OwL.-The owner of
a large farm, not far from Lancaster, had
an opportunity few days ago of wit
Messing how an interloper is punished by
the martin specie of birds. A pair of
martins had taken possession of n small
box, and were building their nest. One
day, while they were absent, a screech.
owl took possession of the box, and
when the martins came home at night
would not allow them to enter. The
smaller birds were nonplussed for a
while, and in short time flew away,
seemingly giving up the fight. But if
the owl was of this opinion he was sadly
mistaken, for in short time the little
ones returned, bringing with them a
whole army of their companions, who
Immediately set to work and, procuring
mud, plastered the entrance to the box
shut. They then all flew away. In a
few days the box was examined and the
owl was found dead.
Year: 1878

When Chevy got home he found her
in a miserable state of mind; but being a
good-natnred soul, he made light OF the
trouble, and congratulated her that it
wasn't any worse.


"It's lesson that every one has to
learn" he said; !" "every body does the
self-same thing with a watch at first,
and it's precious few, Mary, that get off
so easy. Nearly all of 'em stick to it
till they break wheel or two, but you
haven't done hardly any damage. We
can get that all fixed up without scarce
" any trouble or expense, and the
watch will be the better for it, and 50
will you"


Chevy took the remains of the tiny
jewel to the shop and had it put in
moving order again, but the little fraud
would lie like sin as to the progress of
the restless reaper. Mrs. Chevy be-
lieved it, though, implicitly, and grew
fonder of it every day. 1t was so nice
to hold it up to her ear and realize that
it's little clatter was still alive, and then
to spring open the cap and find that it
was time to set about pairing the pota-
toes for dinner. 1t wasn't quite so nice,
though, when she had to wait for an
hour after every thing was dished up,
before Chevy came home and found
her temper red hot and dinner as cold
as a poor relations rich uncle.


And showing her that his own watch
only marked high y did not help mat
terS any. Every other time-piece in
town might prevaricate, but her own
little sweet cherub of watch was right
all the time. Perhaps if she hadn't
missed the train by only two hours and
ten minutes the day she was going out
to spend the Sabbath with her mother,
while Chevy was away on his South
ern trip, she might have remained firm in
that opinion to the end.


Since. then Chevy has instructed her
as to the functions of the regulator,
but while she continues to shove it back
and forth quarter of an inch every
three or four hours, more or less ili-tem-
pered, and soggy provender may be ex-
pected in the Observation-Disclosures
BREAKFAST Table.
Year: 1878

instead of brains. They pattern too
much by others generally after poor
example), and do not look into the why
and wherefore of raising crops. They
are not able to tell how much it costs
them to raise crop, or what their prOnt
may be, if any. They are generally
"too poor" to take an agricultural pa
per, They use the same old and clumsy
tools that their fathers did before them,
and are not in favor Of improvements.
Is it to be wondered at that such farm
erS are not successful?


Another way to improve is to watch
those of your neighbors who are most
successful-observe their management,
the crops they raise, manner Of tlIllng
and handling. Watch closely; you can
learn as much from their blunders as
you can from their successes. When they
make mistake, remember it, and
do not do the same. Keep an account
of each crop you raise, expense of seed,
culture and marketing. Find out wheth-
er it pays you or not. Discard those
that are Improbable, and adopt others
that will pay, Keep an account of all
your receipts and expenses. Many dol
lars slip out every year on foolish ex-
penses that would not if you made a
practice of writing down all expenses.
See to it that the balance is on the right
side of your ledger at the end of the
year. Spend your leisure hours in max
ing improvements on the farm, or in
useful reading at home, instead of sit
ting around in the grocery at the "cor-
ners." Try to make your home pleas,
ant, and the most attractive place on
earth. These are all helps towards be-
coming good farmer,-B. G. Pacb-
ard, IN CONntrN Gentleman.
Year: 1878

A Delicious BeefStfak.-Have your
frying-pan very hot, wipe the steak dry,
place IN it and cover tightly; turn
frequently and keep covered. When
done, add to the gravy one tablespoon
hot coffee, good-sized lump of butter !;
salt and pepper to taste. Pour over the
steak and serve hot.