smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

Albert sutton. thiriy-nine years of age, . night
watchinan in the employ Of the Brooklyn al" Rail-
road Company, was struck and fatally injured at an
early hour yesterday by OF the Broadway line
opposite broadway rark. The unfortunate man was
sitting OF the excavations when the step Of
the passing car struck him the head and fractured
his skull. He taken TO the Eastern District Hos
pital, where IL WAS said that lie could not recover
Year: 1879

COMPLICATED CAsE-A silver half dollar with hole punched through it and string

 and tag upon which the address was written attached, went up the Naugatuck road the other day as third class matter under the sane tion of one cent stamp. Cn0Dan lNeics l ]
Year: 1879

The Fourth Of July will be here in
due time, just one day before our Gift
Distribution, and we learn that quite il
celebration is contemplated at Worth
ington. The main featu ure is to be a
Picnic of the Public Schools of the
county. This suggestion comes from
Superintendent Ogle and wherever sug-
gested to the schools of the county
meets with an enthusiastic second.
We third it and fourth it and carry it
by Unanimous majority" There
will probably be other demonstrations
besides those made by the schools.


The crop prospect is good, the rail-
road prospect never was better, and
let us all get together, climb the liberty
pole, catch the creased pig, shed our Or
atorical blood for our country, and
wake up next morning to the Gift Dis
tribution. Tickets So year in ad-
vance.
Year: 1879

TO FOREIGN SUBSCRIBERS


Subscribers to the ADVANCE living
outside Of Mobiles county will please
remember that when we notify them
of the expiration of their subscription
and they do not respond, we take it for
granted that they do not want the
paper longer, and our rule is to strike
their names off.
Year: 1879

Our Graham Lakes correspondent
asks; "Why do we not get, the AID.
VANCE until Tuesday when we should
get it on Saturday?" Here it is again.
Between the careless route agents and
the careless postmasters, our subscribe
ers are continually disappointed by not
getting the ADVANCE on time. We
put the paper in the post Office here at
'Vorthington every Thursday evening
~ regular as the setting Of the sun.
Year: 1879

Postmaster Soule is putting new
fence in front of his residence lot which
he got up "out of his own head'-not
the lumber, but the plan. He'd better
put barbed-wire hedge around his lot
if lie intends to plant any melons this
year.
Year: 1879

Jas. Gown, of Adrian, dropped in
here the other day and drew anotl-
er S. greenback bill on us and shot lis
right through the left pocket. The
bill lodged in an old leather pocket-book
and thus saved us,
Year: 1879

CHATFIELD, May 26, 1879.


A. p. R-WOrthingtOn.


DEAR SIR: Enclosed find mo 1ey or
der for one dollar which you claim is
your due. 4 wrote you to stop my pa
per after receiving your letter, but it
still continues to come, and now re-
peat it, you will please discontinue my
paper for I shall not take 1t from the
office any more. remain rs ever your
humble servant, 0. II. CHAPMAN.


We copy the above because it affords
us text for some things we wish tosay
to this subscriber and others. l. Chap
man seems to take offence because we
notified him that his time was up and
six months ''gone." lie is one of a
number who expect publisher to al
ways await the convenience Of subscri-
bers and never notify them that they
are owing him or that he needs money.
2. He wants us to stop sending the pa
per while he is still owing us. We Of
ten receive such requests, but the rule
with printers is to keep on sending the
paper until arrearages are paid, or un-
til they are satisfied that the man is a
rascal and don't mean to pay. We wish
to impress this upon the minds of those
who ask us to strike~th names off
and ''charge up'' what is due. Your
| business is to scratch around and get
the money and pay us what you owe us
before stopping.
Year: 1879

and smoking ont the wigwam every two hours is
considered about the right thing. This course of
treatment has been pursued by the Piute medicine
man for some time. notwithstanding which Bob is
rapidly nearing his earthly end. The Putes have
been thrown into state OF excitement over
the prospects of Bob's early demise. and
there is weeping and lamentation from Walker
River to Pyramid Lake. on Sunday night
last the excitement eliminated in number OF In
dians assembling at Silver City and trying Moses. the
medicine man. tor malpractice. About two hundred
Indians We're present, and Moses was charged with
attempting to poison Captain Bob. II this had been
proven he would have been stoned to death on the
spot HIS defence that during the course OF his
professional in Nevada he had only killed three
men. and il Bob should die he would only be the
fourth man to succumb to his medicinal treatment.
Under the Pluto law he had right To lay patients
under the daisies before following them himself.
This seemed to have decided effect the tribe, and
the older members rrunted approval. Some one
then suggested that Moses be killed Immediately,
1t might have beneficial effect upon the patient.
After considerable parleyng II decided TO give
the Doctor another chance. and If Bob died Moses
should be executed in due form. When an Indian
informed by Chronicle reporter that there we're
some doctors in Virginia who had been killing
man month regularly for some years he expressed
his unbounded astonishment and passed some very
profane and uncomplimentary remarks on tho stu
pidity of q race which would submit to such impo-
sition. At last accounts Bob had not long to live
Year: 1879

duct. and his lofty and unsectional PATRIOTISM
He would have earnestly endeavored,' nc
said, to bury the melancholy memories OF a
"troubled past in those trenches wherein
"the Wondering remains of the mar
"tyred heroes who gave their lives to
otis struggles are to-day resting" 10
this no reasonable person can take the
slightest exception. There is no exercise
now in vogue to which the American people
are inclined to give freer scope than that OF
burying the melancholy memories oi troubled
past; but there is notion III some OF the
Northern States, and it is growing every DAY
more prevalent, that it is not absolutely
necessary that the burying of these mel
ancholy memories should all be on one
side, or that the gentlemen who con-
slider the burying so important should
have all the best offices under Government
turned over to them for undertaking pur-
poses. Mr.. Blackburn's party friends, too
doubtless, had some notion of this KIND; Tor
n majority of them agreed to retain him on
the floor of the House, where he can bury the
melancholy memories of the troubled past to
his hearts content, but with the not unusual
notice added-"Burial private"


The Speakership cOntest-with Mlr. Randall
running principally, as his friends said, be-
cause to take Southern man for the place
would hurt the party, and Mr.. Black
burn running because, as he says, ne
wanted to show that the South can be
trusted-iustrates fairly the present sit
uation. The Southern Democrats had
strength enough to elect their own candi-
date; but enough of them had the wisdom
to listen to the arguments of MIR. RandalPs
friends against such imprudence, and the self
restraint to exercise patience In presence OF
temptatiOn, to prevent such n cOnsummatlcn.
They said it would be danGerous-just now.
SO the time for putting a Confederate
Speaker over a Confederate Congress is post
poned. Mr.. Blackburn says it was mistake !;
that he only wanted to bury the melancholy
memories of the troubled past and show that
the South could be trusted with everything.
Neither Mr.. Blackburn nor his friends seem
to have considered the possibility that there
may be other objections than those growing
ont of the war to their holding all the offices.
Holding now nearly all those In the disposal
of the House. they think the only thing neces-
sary for them to do to get the remainder is to
say that they are anxious to bury the melan-
choly memories of the troubled past, ii they
can only find a place to do it in. For that
reason, Mr. Blackburn stepped briskly up to
Speaker Randall and demanded his chair. or
course. neither Randall nor any other
Northern Democrat had any melancholy
memories to bury; the thing to do now
adays is to lead up those gentlemen who
failed a little while ago to upset the Govern
ment, and give them their choice of the best
places under the Government. so that they
may have a chance to bury their melancholy
memories.


It's very queer that we have to put all these
ex-Confederates in Office III order that they
may bury their melancholy memories.
Year: 1879




Sir John A. Macdonald and his colleagues
of the Dominion Cabinet were so fully COM
mittcd to the policy of Protection that the
readiustmcnt of the Tariff has followed as a
matter of course. They have looked the facts


in the face without hinching, and have full
filed the pledges which they made to their
constituencies during the recent exciting can
yass. They have staked their political rcpu-
totions upon a Protective rather than Rev
enue Tariff Whatever may be the ulti-
mate effect Of the adoption of the new
schedules of duties. the hold of the
Government upon the Provinces has been
temporarily strengthened. To have gone
half way would have been little better than
inaction, and to have done nothing would
have been suicidal Boldness is often the
safest as well us the Wisest course in politics.


1t must be borne in mind that the COnfed-
Grafton has not been successful as a financial
experiment. There has been one Governor
General famous for his wit and tact In post
prandial eloquencc, and now there is another
who is somewhat prOsier in speech but has an
illustrious lady by his side; and the Provinces
have been brought closer to the Crown and
possibly to one another. But the pressure of
hard times is everywhere felt Confederation
has not brought with it the blessings of COM
mercial prosperity. Deficit has followed deficit.
The receipts of the Treasury from ordinary
sources of revenue have uniformly fallen be-
low the expenditures, and each year the neccs-
sity for further retrenchment in the budget
has been more pressing. If the Provinces
were to stagger under these burdens much
longer, some of them would be tempt
ed to withdraw from the COnfedera-
ton, and the Scotch and Irish of
Ontario would swell the ranks of the fee
BILE annexation party. The Government could
not afford to disappoint the expectations of
the industrial and agricultural classes. An
equilibrium between the revenues and the eX-
penditurrs must be restored on paper, If no.
where else This was done in the Finance
Minister'S Budget speech. An effort has been
made to break the force of commercial and
financial depression by a radical change III
economic policy. American ProtectiOnists
will watch the result with intense interest.


We are now considering however. the political
rather than the economic aspects of this new
policy. If it fails, the Provinces will take
less interest in the scheme of Confederation
than they do now, and their ardOr has already
cooled. If it succeeds, they will be brought
nearer to the great nation across the border
which has built up its own industries and
opened for itself markets abroad by enforcing
the same system to which the Dominion has
turned almost as last resort.
Year: 1879

Mr. Blackburn tells us in all candOr that in
his canvass for the Speakership he was run
ming simply as the candidate of section. 1t
but he says: Il had hoped that it might
"be the pleasure of this House to have
"mpOsed the responsibilities and duties of its
"Speakership upon one from the section and
" the people with whom | am identified, for
" | felt assured that had this been its action
" the result would have proved to the people
" of this country that the South deserves not
"its mistrust, but might safely be charged
with the formation of its committees
"and the shaping of the legislation of
" the land" That is TO say, if we
rightly apprchcnd Mr. Blackburn's drift, his
only object in desiring to be Speaker was
to show that the rule of the Democratic party
in the country need not be feared on account
of the prepOnderaEce of the Southern element
in the party and the probability that this ele-
ment would bring Bourbonism to the front.
He desired the opportunity of showing to the
country that the Bourbons are not so bad as
they are represented, and that even if the
formation OF the committees and the shap-
ing of the legislation of the land should be
intulsted to them, there need be no appre-
hensiOn of danger. This, Of course, was in
answer to the argument which had been most
strenuously applied to his defeat, that the
party could not afford at this juncture to
take up a Southern Democrat and a Con-
federate for Speaker, because it would at
once excite mistrust and arouse opposition at
the North, and damage the party i'll 1880.


Mr. Blackburn tells us, too, in general terms,
what he would have done had he been elected
Speaker; and what he gives us to understand
is that he would have disappointed friends
and enemies by the conservatism Of his con.
Year: 1879

The extra session of Congress has one mis-
sion. 1t was forced upon the President and
the country by the Democrats, and they
"builded wiser than they knew" They con-
troll both houses. Upon them rests the whole
responsibility of the Government, excepting
that share which the Constitution has vested
in the Executive. And the mission of this other
wise unnecessary assemblage of Congress is to
show the country that the Democratic party does
not dare to face fair and honest vote of the
people that 1t is determined to open the
doors to fraud, so that the next Presidential
election may he decided by repeating, by
stufiiDg ballot-boxes, by use of fraudulent
certificates of citizenship, and by false re-
Year: 1879

The liquidation of the debt of $4,000
upon the edifice of the Church of the Messiah
was great achievement even in the days
when so many debts have been wiped out.
The meeting held last night, which Dr. Bel
lows addressed, marked the very day of the
legal cOnsummatiOn of this work, which will
be cOmmemOrated still further by meetings
o-day and this evening.
Year: 1879

he is not identified and he plainly consd-
ers that he'would be making display OF high clVlc
virtue il he shaped tho legislation of the land
broadly evenly and IN the interest of all. rather
than narrowly, sect'Onally and III the III
terest of his class. Imagine Mr. Gar
field demanding the SpeakershIp because he
was identified with the North, or proclaiming in
patronizng way that he wanted to prove how falrly
he could treat the South. What howl would
have gone up from all the Democratic press over
the contracted sympahies of the geographical
Marty and the party Of deaCh,ssues and of hate!
Year: 1879

The proper treatment Of youthful OF


tenders is worthy of some consideration


Occasionally quite small boys are ar,


rested for stealing, and in some in


stances they have been committed t,


prison until the next term of court


We have on more than one occasion


seen the late Chief Justice discharo.


such boys with a reprimand, on the


ground that they were too young to be


held responsible for theft. Small bows


nave also Leen sent to Jail for vagrancy
for period of thirty days, against the
wishes OF their parents who were able
to maintain them. We think such
commitments wrong and must regard
the officer making them as highly CEN
surable. Boys under fourteen wears
OF age, arrested for larceny, should be
turned over to their parents who should
administer proper punishment and en-
deavor to instill into their minds princi-
pies of integrity and honor. This ia
much better than committing them to
jail where they must associate with low
and vile characters, and learn more de.
grading practices than any they had
been addicted to. The truth is our citv
should have reformatory institution,
where bad boys could be instructed in
morality as we'll as in books and given
useful occupation. In its absence.
however, parents should be compelled
to look after their boys and be made
accountable to reasonable degree for
heir conduct. In this way petty THEY
ing could be broken up, and the delin-
luent eventually become useful citi.
en. Too many persons are now sent
q Jail without adding mere infants to
he number. We hope that We may
'ot soon bs called upon to chronicle
he commitment'of small boys to New
Jastle Jail for any offence whatever. II
nay DO good to arrest and frighten a
10Y guilty of petty theft, but injury
VII certainly follow his commitment to
rison to await trial at the next term
{ the court.
Year: 1879

James Trusty colored youth was
arrested last Saturday evening by officer
Bowling. On Eighth street near Har-
rlson is an old stone house which at
present is not occupied. Complaint has
at times been made of parties sleeping
IN the house, the residents in that
nelghborhood being afraid it would be
set on fire. James stated that he had
spent the day on the Brandywine but
did not return to his home in the even
Ing. His Honor dismissed the case.
Year: 1879

Another attempt to assassinate the Car
of Russia has been made at Moscow, and
has failed; the implement used, some ex-
plosive apparatus called an 'infernal ma
chine" going off too late for the scheme Of
the conspirators, and only after the Gear
had passed by. This is commonly the way
with contrivances of this sort, and has been
from the time of Bonaparte. Disaffected
Russians have shown themselves within
recent years to be very resolute assassins /;
men prepared to throw away their lives II
at this price they could strike effectively at
the life of the man who might be assigned
as victim. If it had fallen to the lot of
any one of the more desperate agents Of
conspiracy to strike ut the Gar instead of
at his successive agents of police it is
scarcely possible they would have failed.
Yet there is certainly room for tho
view that the divinity that doth hodge
king might have unnerved them at the criti-
cal moment. Russia is to be congratulated
upon this second escape of her sovereign
from assassinations prepared by the nihilist
conspiracies. But it is to be apprehended
that the persistency of these men in bloody
attempts will provoke anew the fercest
possible spirit of repression.
Year: 1879

In Professor Proctors valuable contri-
button concerning meteors, which will be
found in another column. he fairly dis
claims responsibility for disappointing the
public expectation Of a display OF celestial
fireworks Thanksgiving night, saying that
he made no prediction on the subject. but
merely indicated how desirable it was that
the heavens should be observed at that
time. An examination Of the Professors
article in Belgrduia which raised the ex-
pectatioS fully sustains this disclaimer
In that article, alluding to Biela's comet, he
remarked that it was probable" that
''many meteoric attendants" Of it would
be seen on some nights between November
25 and December l, and ''quite possible"
that "a very fine shower" would be
visible. His letter to-day certainly sets
forth sufficient grounds for the alleged
probability and possibility. The truth is
that the public have come to put such i'm
plicit trust in the control of astronomers
over the celestial mechanism that they
easily construe hint into a promise, and
are greatly vexed if the "crank of the uni
verse" is not turned to the precise point at
the most convenient time for their own
pleasure. Thanksgiving was just such a
time, and when Professor Proctor, their fa-
vorite lecturer upon his scientific speciality,
limited that they might see celestial fire.
works gratis on that holiday and the
heavens did not respond they telt as much
aggrieved as if Mr.. Vanderbilt had inti-
Al, l. 4 -. Il q
works in all the city parks that night at his
private expense and failed to do so. But it
is by no means sure that an exhibition was
not visible somewhere upon the earth on
November q. No cable dispatches on the
subject have been received from the
other hemisphere, and we must await the
mails for knowledge. The concluding SEN
tence of Professor Proctor's letter touching
this point, in which he expresses his con-
fident anticipation that many hundreds of
meteors belonging to the system OF Androm-
edes we're observed in Europe and in
America elsewhere than this neighborhood,
is we'll warranted by previous experience.
The dispassionate and philosophical spirit
Professor Proctor manifests in relation to
the whole matter brings to our remen-
brance by contrast the temper with which
Professor Loolnis behaved some years
ago, when, after he had predicted (not
merely hinted) that q meteoric shower
would be seen here at certain time we
took pains to assunge his disappointment
by procuring news through the cable that
though not visible here it was in England,
and thereupon he ill-humoredly denied
that it was visible anywhere, being deter
mined TO have it precisely his own way
or not ut all.
Year: 1879

In report of some things said by ply
sician just home from Memphis we find
this reference to cotton :--"There are thou
sands OF bales of cotton at present lying in
Memphis in the cutters and dirty streets.
They are saturated with yellow and malarial
fever poison and will take it wherever they
90. Eighteen men in the employ of the
Iowa Central who handled them died of
yellow fever" Memphis is too completely
demoralized for the world to expect that
any local authorities there would take
steps to prevent the expectation of that
contaminated cotton; but II certainly never
Year: 1879

When the Metropolitan road was first
opened the cars at night were light enough
to read in, and the stations were not 80
dark that q short-sighted man could STUN
Bile at the steps leading to the track, or
parroter find favorable business conditions
ut the ends of the platforms. Lately, how
ever, this company, whose last monthly
statement showed surplus of receipts over
expenditures to the extent of nearly hun
dred and fifty per cent, seem to have found
some special incentive to economy, and the
consequences is general toning down of
light to an extent that is extremely annoying
to the public. This cheese-paring system
of economy is foolish on the part OF any
one who Is not compelled to resort to it;
in any one else it smacks strongly of ex-
tortion or worse faults. The Metropolitan
road already receives more upon its in
vestment than the public should be COM
PEELED to pay, and the least 1t can honorably
do is to make its service in all respects
pleasant to those from whose pockets its
income Is gathered.