smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

Inc ldlotic young woman VINO nlrts
with stranger and finally goes off
and marries him in such haste that
she doesn't have time to notify her
parents and invite them to the we'd
ding still lives. She was heard from
again yesterday, as usual, living in
New York, and her father is rich old
fellow, In this case, however, the
idiocy seems to have been more than
ordinarily marked, and there is not
even rosy touch of romance TO give il
relief.


A Californian, with the semi.foreign
name of Lopez-but eltogether more
iamiiiarly known in his natural haunts
as California Joe-visits the cook in
tho family OF the millionaire and by
the cook is easily introduced to the
daughter He casually meets her II
great many times on the streets, many
more times than people are in the habit
of casually meeting on the streets of
New York, and she casually gets to
liking him and then writes TO him just
casually; then he visits her; they talk
the matter over, and he casually pro.
poses to marry her, which proposal
she accepts because the cook has casu.
ally mentioned that Joseph is a very,
very rich man and nice. All this re.
suited in the casualty of marriage, the
couple sliding off to an Episcopal
clergyman and making il strictly
private affair, with no cards. But this
welded love was not perpetual ioun.
tain Of domestic sweets. The lady
could not keep her secret-icw ladies
can-and she told the story to con-
fidential friend Thus it went IN most
expeditions manner TO the ears Of her
parents and threw them into a state
Of CONSERVATION. 1t was very natural
that they should inquire into the his
tory and habits and situation of their
son-in-law, and the inquiries resulted
in establishing the TACT that he isa truly
remarkable young man. Few men are
so well qualified by experience for
matrimony as he. Previous to this
last marriage he had but three wives,
so Tar as the detectives could ascertain
without going back of the returns
one in California, one in Arizona and
another at Mount Vernon, and, being
coach driver, was doubtless moved
by the ambitious desire to establish
matrimonial way stations, so TO speak.
lie had arranged that the profits Of his
last marriage should be hundred
thousand dollars, but his new father
in-law has seen fit to get mad at the
young mans eccentric manner, and
says ho will spend a million dollars to
put him in Jail. That would be an
elegant place Tor a bridegroom to spend
his honeymoon, with three wives pa
tiently awaiting hisrcturn to the bosom
of his family.


The young woman has been taken
out of the city by her parents, and, II
is said, has been placed in lunatic
asylum, as an altogether appropriate
thing. But there are other young
women with soft heads and susceptible
hearts, who are still at large, as there
are other coachmcn, in the disguise Of
rich Caliiornians, lying in ambush, and
the columns Of the daily newspaper
are yawning and ready to receive the
particulars Of the next affair Of this
kind. 1t will come along in n few days
as certainly as the earth rcvolves.--
Philadelphia Times.
Year: 1877

Curran was once addressing jury,
when the judge, who was thought to
be antagonistic to his client, intima-
ted his dissent from the arguments
advanced by shake Of his head. i
see, gentlemen, said Curran, I soc
the motion of his lordship's head
Persons uuacquaincted with his lord
ship would be apt to think this i'm
piled difference Of opinion; but be
assured, gentlemen, this is not the
case. When you know his lordshlp
as we'll as l do, it will be necessary
to tell you that when he shakes his
head there is really nothing in it.
Year: 1877

DAUGHTERS LOVE "A paragraph
is going the rounds Of the papers that
is calculated to attract more than Or
dinary interest. A little school girl
somewhere in New England refused
to define the word clown as "a low,
vulgar fellow aud for her stubborn
ness was punished with ferule and
detained in play hours but retorma-
tory measures failed to bring her to
terms, as il turned out that the child s
father was clown in circus, and the
deep love she bore her parent would
not permit her to disparage his call
ing. We are not aware how far the
rigid disciplinarian carried hla harsh
measures before the use OF the ferule
was abandoned, out we imagine that
even the Puritan school-master must
have been heartily ashamed OF his
conduct when he was able to fathom
the loving tenderness that nestled so
beautifully in the gentle heart OF his
recusant pupil.
Year: 1877

IT now comes to light that the refusal
of the German Government to take part in
the Paris Exhibition of 1878 is intended
not as sign Of hostility to France, but as
a snub and chastisement for the German
artists and manufacturers who made such
. discreditable show at Philsdelphia'
Prince Bismarck has very plainly express
ed his opinions on the subject, and given
these who bothered him about it to under
stand that he would be no party to making
German art and industry ridiculous for a
third time in the sight Of congregated
mankind.
Year: 1877

The grounding Of the Rusland, together
with the grounding ofthe Amerique,s shows
that there is strip Of the Jersey coast
which offers peculiar facilities for the de"
tentiop Of steamers bound to this port. The
soundings obtained there are said to be the
same as those found off the Long Island
shore, and in thick weather pilots are
apt to be misled, apparently without any
particular fault of their own. With q
heavy sea there would have been fright
full loss of life on both the Amerique and
the Rusland. This is risk that certainly
ought to be obvixted now that the attention
ofthe Light House Board has been so dis
tinctly called to it. 1t seems that fog
horns might be established at proper point
along the Jersey beach which would di
minish the danger, if they did not remove
it altogether. Setting aside the terrible
risk to life, the money lost by the wreck o
either Of these steamers, if either proves


total lost, would far more than pay til
cost Of a proper service Of fog signals. MI
Blunt might better employ his powers il


this direction than in bulldozing RUSSIA


consuls and admirals, or writing letters t


the newspapers to say that he does nc


know what "protoplasm" means.
Year: 1877

Holly springs Reporter.


The colored people of this vicinity
held o colonization meeting in the
Courthouse last Friday night. II was
quite an orderly gathering aud some
what interesting to the spectators until
Ben Phillips began his speech. He
was violent in his denunciation Of the
white people of this country. In the
widest days Of Republican rule we
never listened to speech 80 vicious
and bitter. There was no occasion for
1t either. He charged the white people
with having practiced every outrage
against his race. He said they had
robbed, murdered and oppressed the
colored race till they could no longer
live here, and he appealed to them to
rise up and 60 away. His language
was Of the most incendiary character,
such as would arouse the worst passions
of his people. We hear he has made
these speeches all over the county.
They are calculated to do harm and re-
suit in riot and bloodshed, Ben
Phillips is smart and az mean as beast.
He loves to hate the white race. He
is very worthless and trifliug man
and Of too little value to this COM
munity TO be allowed TO disturb it's
peace and good order. He must take
care. We are glad 10 know that the
colored people here disapprove Of his
speeches. Several OF them have so in
formed ns. If they mean what they
say we hope they will not retain him
as an officer in their society.


If the Independent movement in this
county should begin to promise success,
we would hear of just such speeches as
the above, and the black line would
soon again be rampant. Are our people
ready for this2 We believe not.
Year: 1877

september y, 1871.


Editor Of the VieksbuTg Herald:


DsAR SIR-Havlng read your edito-
rial in regard to bridging the Lake, my
extreme anxiety to contribute my mite
towards saving our city from utter ruin
induces me to offer for your considers
ton what l conceive to be an unan.
sweFable argument in favor of the
speedy construction OF the proposed
bridge, "if Mr.. Dabney's survey should
show the praCticability Of establishing
3 permanent wharf at the southern
point Of the Island" It is this: The
city owns the old river front, and of
course half of the bAtture or made land
will belong to her, and II our city au.
thorities would, even without the war
rant of law" act promptly, and secure
by purchase, for the benefit Of the city,
the south half OF tho Island, but q reTy
few years would elapse before the city
could realize, by sale of batture lots,
not only money enough to twice pay
her Indebtedness but to contribute
literally to the building of several i'm
portAnt railroads, so that instead of the
cutoff proving her destruction it will
make her the frst.clasS city her natural
advantages entitle her to be.


Yours very respectfully.


JNO. WILLIS,
Year: 1877

DEMocRATs, II you think your party
iS worth preserving, vote for the whole
ticket that you nominated at the Prim.
ary Election. You cannot afford to
have the negroes successfully organized
against you, nor can you afford to sup
port any irregular candidates.
Year: 1877

A TRAMP applied to q lady in Des
Moines for something to eat, and to the
inquiry as to why he didn't go to work
said there was not any chance to work
at bis trade now. The lady asked bim
what his trade was. "Shoveling snow"
vas the confident answer. He got his


Inner Dubuque Herald,
Year: 1877

Since the opening of the new and excel
lent Hotel Devonshire, opposite the main
entrance of Grand Central Depot, first
class accommodations at reasonable rates
can be had in this most convenient locality.
By all means stop at the Hotel Devonshire
on your next visit 10 the city of New York.
Year: 1877

Travellers often wonder why their fellow
travellers are so loud in their praise of the
Colonnade Hotel, Philadelphia but. after a
visit themselves, they are satisfied of its
famous excellence.
Year: 1877

great deal Of nerve, they said to go against the
instructions of their constituents and vote for
him. and they were afraid after the Convention to
return home and face the anger of their people Did
understand you to say that you disregarded the
wishes of your constituentsf' ~ asked the President
in his most gracious manner THAT'S just what we
did, replied the Cameronian delegation. Then I
must say, gentlemen, that you did very wrong"
said Hayes, dryly, as he dismissed them The other
anecdote is to this effect: A New-England delesa-
ton visited the White House last evening to bring
pressure to bear for Senator Cragn Secretary of
the Navy. After hearing patiently their fusome
preiminaries, when they came to name their candi-
date the President said "Cragin, Cragin let me
see, is he member of the House ~
Year: 1877

has been, worse ten thousand times than an honorable defeat.

 It should go on record that the awarding of the presidency to Mir Hayes is regarded by the Ameri- can people IS fraud and disgrace. Let the people through their leg islatures send up their protests against this great wrong, and let it be regarded as the crowning in fanny of this age that the will of the people has been defeated by corruption and fraud. Let not the consnmation be effected with the silent approval of the people. Let the people purge themselves of this great national scandal ard fix it upon the guilty wretches where it belongs.

 Wherever virtue, decency and truth controls the legislatures of the States, there should be adopt ed solemn protests against this na tional returning board infamy.
Year: 1877

counting in the man whom they have defeated is almost consum mated; and consummatcd too, by the act of she very tribunal to which the country has looked with so much hope and confidence. The hnmiliating spectacle of be- holding the most outrageous frauds and villainies ever practic- ed upon free people sanctioned and confirmed by a tribunal com posed in the greater part, of those men of the republican party who should be above all suspicion is now presented. The eight r. pub lican members of the Commission, three of them from the Supreme bench, have said that the will of the people shall not prevail, and that the whole volume of dirty work done by Wells and the re- turning board of Louisiana must stand.

 The country will wait with bat ed breath to see what kind of an administration the man who will accept an office conferred upon him by fraud and violence will

 r;vn
Year: 1877

--CAN WE STAND IT.--'Ihe Com mittee representing the holders of 8 considerable portion of the bonds of this State have submit ted proposition for settlement on the basis of fifty cents on the dollar for the new funded six per cent. bonds; thirty five cents for the railroad aid bonds, and fifteen cents for the levee bonds. Gov. Miller don't recommend the state 8 acceptance of this offer. He thinks the bond holders must come down to lower figures,--say fifty cents for the six per cent. bonds; twenty-five for the railroad bonds and ten cents for levee bonds. Just why Gov. Miller should intimate that settlement could be effected at these figures, ana why the state should pay any such will be more than the aver age taxpayer can understand when we tell them that these bonds are now selling in the New York markets at far less figures say twenty-seven to thir'y cents for six per. cent. bonds, nine cents for railroad bonds and seven c-nts for levee bonds. Why should the State now undertake to buy in these bonds at over fifty per cent. more than the holders value them at?

 WHAT would the people of this community think of their circuit judge if a case should come before him wherein his brother and some stranger were lltigants, and he should rule out all evl- dence and all witnesses of the stranger and give a decision bas ed solely upon the evidence of his brothers witnesses? What would they think of him if he should accept the evidence of his brothers witnesses when it was notorious that their reputation for veracity and honesty was de cidedly bad, and refuse to allow the stranger to introduce any re- putting testimony. or any witness es to impeach the testimony of his brothers witnesses? What would they think if in the face of
Year: 1877

decidedly q geod idea, and we hope to sec the bill become law. The bill provides that the differ ent county papers in the State shall be kept on file in each coun- ty clerk office and in the office of Secretary of State, and that each volume shall be bound in good and substantial shape for preservation, and shall become a part of the public records. There is sound business sense about this, and the value of the files will be not inconsiderable. Aside from their value as a permanent and convenient preservation of all legal advertisements, the value of the files as part of the current history of the different counties will be immense. We trust this measure will be promptly enacted into Q law.
Year: 1877

The electoral commission has spoken. By the perjury of eight of it's members the country will be provided with a republican president. Had this same repub- lican been ELECTED president by a fair, honest vote, it would have been all right, but to have a pres ident furnished by fraud, forgery

 and perjury is an ignominy of which the American people should purge themselves. The people should now speak. The rightof protest yet remains, and there should go up such protest to the skies, ss will make the victory of the Hayesites, won as it
Year: 1877

When the Electoral Commits sion was agreed upon as the means of deciding the presidency new thrill of hope sped through the country and tEe troubled ap- prehensions of fevereG populace were quieted and luiled into peace. The hope was that in any event, no matter to which of the aspi- rants to the presidency the decis- ion might bring success, and no matter to which of them it might bring defeat, t,--the hope was that the decision would give the coun- try a president who would and could succeed to the office of chief magistrate without any taint of fraud or corruption befouling and and besmirching his title thereto The hope was that the whole question would be handled so fairly, that in the consideration and final disposition of every point and matter submitted to the arbitrament of the Commis- sion there would be such q full and candid and conscientious ex- animation into the merits, justice and truth thereof, and an award so clearly based upon right anu so securely founded upon justice, and that Q sense of the high duty deyolving upon each member of the Commission would be so keenly felt leaving every word and every act so free from parti- san bias, that the ultimate result of the whole matter would be accepted without the slightest i conscientious qualm on the part of the forty millions of people who are to be effected thereby. The hope was that no matter which of the two great politica. parties should furnish the man to whom the title to the presidency should be awarded, his title would be so clearly established by such full and candid review of the ale ged frauds in the three South

 ern States, on the one side as on the other, that the American people would be spared the dis grace and humiliation of doing homage to q ruler born of fraud and installed into office agianst the will of people claiming to be free and enlightened,

 lhese hopes nave all been blasted. The proceedings of last Fridays session of the Commis- sion have sounded the death knell to all such hopes and aspirations. The country may now put on sack cloth and ashes, and bow her head in disgrace, for the in- fanny of placing an occupant in the presidential chair against the will of the people is now evident ly determined upon. The infamy of counting out the man whom the peopls have elected, and
Year: 1877

Everywhere throughout the South the press has begun its an nuaf exhortaion to farmers to plant less cotton and more grain, while farmers have begun their annual preparation to plant more cotton than ever. Twas ev- CT thus,
Year: 1877

Inc result of the city election held yester-
day is exceedingly gratifying. The people of
Portland have not only chosen as Mayor
man emlnently qualified for the position, and
from whose administration great and substan
tial benefit may be expected, but they have
also expressed unmstakably their sentiment
regarding the electoral decision. The issue
was distinctly made by the Democrats and
accepted by the Republicans. The large
majority Tor Mr.. Butler means that the people
OF Portland believe President Hayes to have
been fairly elected and legally inducted into
office
Year: 1877

A MARBLE statue of Louis the Sixteenth,
which, though in Bordeaux since the days of
the restoration, has never been put in posi-
ton, recently caused considerable disturbance
in that city, being the occasion of political
wrangling. One party of citizens wished it
to be erected in public park or some similar
conspicuous place; another party wished it
to be tucked away in an obscure corner of the
Garden of Music; third party proposed to
compromise the matter by placing it in the
museum among the models studied by young
sculptors. The municipal council took the
advice of the last-mentioned party, and trans
ferred the troublesome monarch from the do
main of politics to the peaceful realms of art.
If the statue is good representation of the
man it is intended to represent it will do in
fni:ely more harm as an art model than as O
political symbol.
Year: 1877

The act OF the Southern statesmen in Con-
gress in putting themselves on the reco, as
being against any attempt to evade the de-
cision of The electoral tribunal or thwart its
result is bearing splendid fruit for the South.
1t was an act of true craftsmanship, as was
the conception of the tribunal itself, and is
heartily appreciated by thousands at the
North, who had cherished the idea that
nothing good could come from that source.
Year: 1877

The general satisfaction among business
men at the peaceful settlement of the Presi-
dental dispute is already justified. Every
where there are encouraging signs of the re-
vival of trade. and it is evident that more
prosperous time is close at hand. The low
quotations of gold make short and easy the
step necessary to be taken to carry us back to
sound financial basis and the adoption of
the legitimate standard of value.
Year: 1877

The political campaign in New Hampshire
is still remarkably quiet. 1t is generally ad-
mitted that the Republicans will carry the
State by a handsome majority. The only
sharp contest will be in the Congressional
districts. For two of these districts the Dem
ocrats are making persistent though noise
ess fight. They realize that upon the re-
suit may depend the political complexion Of
the new House. The Republicans also are
on the alert, and entertain strong hopes of
electing solid Republican delegation.
Year: 1877

we 10 not read anonymous letters and communi-
catlohs The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
put as a guaranty of good faith.


we cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nicaticns that are not used
Year: 1877




By the far reaching shadows that they cast.''
All misjudgment and misinterpretation will
fade away in the light of an impartial and
comprehensive criticism, and the administra-
ton of President Grant will stand out
landmark in American history.


In peculiarly personal sense Gen. Grant
will grow dearer to the American people as
the years hasten on. His modesty of de-
meanor, thorough self reliance, honesty and
purity of character, and faithfulness in friend
ship are qualities which appeal directly to
the hearts of men and which will when the
petty passions of the day have subsded, and
length of time given the proper historical
perspective so necessary to correct judgment,
provoke as warm tribute of admiration as
his eminent public services. His fame is as
sured and history will describe his civic ca
reer as worthy complement to his military
achievements.
Year: 1877

TRENTON Sept IS 1871


The Democratic Gubernatorial State Convention win
assemble in this city tomorrow. Tho hotels
already filled with delegates composed OF the strong
OF the party from all parts Of the State The
friends of Mr.. Albeit of Hudson, doing the most
The oil the others are talking Iavoraby OF
stockton but others looking Tor somebody else
Each section OF the State has It's favorte who is hop
Ipg at least for complimentary vote The Convcn-
ton from present Appearances Will be an exciting one
Year: 1877

prevent the approach of such visitors to the
Atlantic coast; that is, to build up the Aile-
ghanes into a uniform wall, about five miles
high. The project may be safely recommended
TO the Labor Reformers; it would give plenty
of work.