smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

THE charter granted to the Austin
and Pacific Short Line Railway Com
pany EXPIRES in fifteen days, unless
work is commenced upon the road in
this time. No company can then OBJ
tain the privilege to build a railway
along the route this charter covers ex-
cept under the present Constitution,
which is death on railroad enterprises.
The franchise now in existence is a
valuable one in many respects, and
should be preserved for the benefit of
the people of this section of the State,
and hence the necessity for giving i'm
mediate aid to place the enterprise
upon foot. A new style of iron,
adapted for narrow gauge railways,
makes it possible, together with the
generally low prices of everything, to
construct such road as the one pro-
posed from here to Lampasas, at a cost
of not over $1,000 per mile, and this
moderate expense makes it emil
nently proper, outside of the
question of charter, that little
time should be consumed in plac-
ing these railroad matters in motion.
A few gentlemen have gone actively to
work in the last day or two, and the
pluck they display gives confidence
that something will be done. Let US
have the narrow gauge.
Year: 1877

FLOUR is ouly beautiful to look at.
The greater volume OF the nutritive
properties of wheat is destroyed by the
process OF grinding and heating and
in the extraction of "shorts" and
'brsn." Infinitely to be preferred ia
the bread made of wheat which has
been simply triturAted in the mills OF
the Health Food Company, Of Frank
Fuller, OF New York City. In these
the wheat is beaten with countless
hammers, and grinding stones are un-
used. In England the Health Food
Company's process has been extensively
adopted, and no one who has used the
hammered -four ever resorts 70 that
which is ground. The newly-devised
mills cost three-fourths less than
those to which our fathers went with
the wheat in one end Of the bag and q
stone in the other to keep the sack
steady on the mules back. When we
witness the listless of Austin and
its terrific old fogyisrn, We must re.
member that this good town is still go
ing to the old mill in the old way.
Year: 1877

The Russian babes are shouting "On
to the Balkan" One night about a
month ago dozen children were miss
ing in Kischeneff. One father after an.
other sent word TO the police that child
was lost. The streets, the back yards
and the Hebrew quarter were ransacked,
but the urchins could not be found and
when morning came their mothers were
convinced that they had either been
kidnapped bya gypsy tribe or chopped
into sausage meat by Bashi- i-BaZouks.
Mounted patrols set out in the direction
of the Pruth to scour the country. and
about ten miles from the city the
youngsters were found. The taller BOYS
were armed with second hand muskets
and pistols. and the smaller urchins in
the rear had sticks and wooden swords
and all were marching on Constanti-
nople! They had PASSED the night in a
little wood by the roadside, and after
their bivouac had resumed their march
in excellent order. Their commissariat
had been managed admirably, for they
had taken luncheon with them from
town and had breakfasted heartily in
camp. When the police asked them
where they were going they replied,
briskly, $40 reinforce the army" The
advance of the recruits was checked and
a retreat was ordered on Kischeneff.
Such spirited lads ought not to have
been whipped after they got home, but
we dare say they were.' The domestic
proverb, which applies to the Russian g
children as well as his wife, runs, "Love
them as your own soul, and beat them
like your fur jacket"
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, Aug. II, 1877.-There is
a movement on foot which will be
vigorously pressed at the coming ses-
sion Of Congress to induce that body to
increase the infantry regiments OF the
army to twelve companies each, instead
OF ten, as now constituted, and allow
each regiment an additional lieutenant
colonel and major. II successful, it
would give to the army twenty
five lieutenant colonels and the
same number Of majors. fifty CAP
tains and one hundred lieutenants; in
all 200 commissioned officers. The
pressure for such increase comes from
the South, the object being, if success
full, to induce the President to select the
officers thus to be appointed from that
section. 1t is thought by those who will
agitate the subject that if the President
will assure Southern Representatives
that he will select the officers from the
South, it will receive almost the solid
support Of it's Representatives, sufficient
to carry the measure through Congress.
1t will be urged upon the Southern
Representatives that such legislation
will tend to produce q good feeling to-
ward the army in the South, and will
remove the prejudice which has existed
against it since the close OF the war
Inasmuch as such movement would
tend to further popularize the Presi-
dent among the Southern people, it is
more than probable that he will recon-
mend legislation looking to the increase
Of the army, and will cite the experi-
ence of the recent railroad strikes as
evidence that a larger military force is
desirable.
Year: 1877

IN. Y. Times


CoNsTANTINoPLE, July S.-The people
of the country are being pressed for
money contributions to an alarming eX-
tent. The financial distress on the part
Of the government is something terri
BILE, and that of the people is pitt
full to see. Here in Constantine
hungry-eyed woman or child ap-
pearing at our door and crying for
bread. II you go in the street with ever
so small a parcel in your hands, you
are beset with offers to carry it, finally
ending in the imploring wall, "Please
let me carry it; I won't ask much, but I
want some bread to eat"


There are well-to-do families who
have not eaten anything but dry bread
for weeks, and are thankful to get that.
There are mothers whose babes are
dying of starvation; there are families
whose young girls are being besought
to go on the streets to beg bread, and
whose young men wander about the
whole day in search of work, and stag
ger home wearied and heart-sick every
night with the same cry, "Chi k'dar-I
couldn't find it." This is the condition of
many Of the Christians of this city. The
same story comes up from all neighbor-
ing cities, with cries for help, and it is
evident that help must come to them
from abroad, or many will go down to
their graves with the blackness of fam
inc on their faces. This being the con-
dition of the Christians, the state Of the
women and children left behind by the
Moslem volunteers and conscripts may
be imagined. Their wretchedness is
hidden in the distant villages, unreached
by any highway, and the story is un-
chronicled in any public print. There
is imminent danger Of famine and pes
thence coming in the track Of this war.
Year: 1877

Their sympathy and Object


[Pittsburg PENN Telegraph, August 10.]


The agitation in labor circles during
the past three years, and the busy, cum
ming work Of scheming men who seek
aggrandizement by exciting the preju


dices of the ignorant among the
lower classes, has caused the outgrowth
working independently, have the same
ultimate object in view, and propose to
accomplish this purpose through the
same channel, namely, the ballot-box.
The recent troubles in this city and
elsewhere have given great impetus to
the growth Of these organizations, and
working men by the hundreds are pay
ing their necessary dues and taking the
strange oaths which, with their ex-
planatory adjuncts, seem to lend dig
nifty to the order. When the Ancient
started it had for it's prime object the
| liberation Of labor from its bondage to
capital, but this order soon lapsed into
| mutual assurance society, and has
now vast membership.


The Sovereigns of Industry are nearly
as mild in their instructions, though
smacking somewhat more strongly OF
antagonism to capital. The Bees is a
society of recent organization, whose
mem bership is confined almost wholly
to this county at present. One Prysock.
Of Allegheny, is or was the head centre.
He is illiterate to the last degree, can
not even read or write, but invented
remarkable cipher, which holds invio-
liable the secrets OF the order.
Prysock has worked extensively
among the miners of the county,
and probably has made pretty good
thing out of it. The oaths contain ex-
pressions of the bitterest enmity toward
capitalists, and look upon violence as
excusable if the ballot is not sufficient
in the accomplishment OF their object.
A slightly more dignified order is one
whose name is unknown to any but
Year: 1877

Especial to the Democrat


LONDON, Aug A.-The Times Vienna cor
respondent remarks, relative to the attack on
Schipka Pass, that all along the main range of
the Balkans, especially along Tundia Valley,
the face of the mountains is a precpitous
rock, through which the road leads up in
steep curves. However much of the bulk OF
Suleiman Pasha' s forces may have been Injured
to mountain warfare, and however heroic
may have been their efforts within the last
few days, it will be little short of miracle if
they should ultimately succeed in carrying
the pass.
Year: 1877

One of those romantic incidents of which
we read in novels has just happened in real
life, and people who accept the Jean VAL
jean of Victor Hugo as natural event seem
to doubt the repentance Of Christian Hanson.
Jean Vatican is one of the noblest person.
ages in fiction, and why should not Han
son initiate his example? Jean stole loaf
of bread and was sentenced to the GAL
leys, and after years of labor escaped and
attempted another burglary. His con-
science was aroused and he became good
man in the sight of God, while he remained
only convict in the opinion OF the law


Hanson served for ten years in prison as
burglar and when he was pardoned tried to
get honest work, and failing in that at
tempted q burglary in daylight, ex-
pressly to obtain admission to Jail
once more, and thus to avert starvation.
Is the fiction of the novelist stranger than
the fact of the Tombs? The novelty Of
Hanson's case attracted the attention of the
public, and he has been offered employment
by gentlemen who believe that his profess
sions of reformation are sincere. 1t is
true that many persons who act as
Hanson has arc impostors, but all
are not, and society is usually so severe
with the offender that it should give the
sinner who repenteth the opportunity of
proving his sincerity. Hanson is free, is
well dressed, and has honest and lucrative
employment We trust that his future
career will be reward to his benefactors
and proof that a man who is sternly deter
mined to reform will not find society re-
solved to resist and crush his aspirations.
Year: 1877

Governor Robinson's veto of tho bill di-
recting the Comptroller of tho city of New
York to pay the salaries Of the clerks and
assistants of the district courts who were
illegally appointed in 1876 will meet with
general approval. 1t is clear and concise in
it's statement of the constitutional objections
to the bill and unanswerable in its refuta-
ton of the plea of equity by which the
measure was pushed through the two houses.
The District Court justices who took office
in 1876 removed the existing clerks and as
sistants and appointed others in their
places in the face of protest against
the legality of tho act. The courts restored
the old employees and gave them the full
pay. Judge Robinson shows that to pay
the clerks who have no legal claim on the
city second salary is in direct conflict
with the provisions of the State constitu-
Year: 1877

The receipt of a mysterious letter of a
kind that sometimes proves worthy Of
attention caused the HERALD to send and
obtain accurate information about the
strike of the Troy iron moulders. 1t is
creditable to the unemployed moulders
and assuring to the public that the main
charge made by our informant seems
without better foundation than bad scare.
The explanations of the propretors as to
the method Of work in the foundries make
it practically impossible that explosives can
be secreted in moulders' boxes or the loose
sand with which they are filed Besides,
single explosion of any such guam
tity of dynamite as that alluded to
would effectually blast the hopes of the
strikers by running the foundries near which
they remain. Those who know the strikers
to believe any such terrible charges against
them. That the feeling between the old
hands and the new is very bitter is not
denied, but it is not easy to imagine how it
could be better With each party the
struggle is one for bread, and the SUCCESS



That actual violence has so seldom been in
dulged in speaks we'll for both sides.
That there has been great deal of ugly
talk is natural enough for, as tho
President of the Mouldcrs' Union said to
our reporter "When men are out of work
and starving they are not likely to be over
nice in their language or conduct when they
meet in the streets those whom they fancy
are the means Of taking the bread out of
their mouths" A similar defence might be
made for the non-union men, who arc cursed
and abused for tho sole fault OF earning
bread for themselves. The situation is bad
enough at best hundreds of men are idle,
angry, penniless and hungry, and there IS
too little work for tho hands that can do it.
There is but little danger, however, that the
troubled workmen will develop into MUIR
derous villains and deprive themselves Of
Year: 1877

Our lively neighbor, the Graphic, gives
pithy pictorial application to the horse rail-
roads and rapid transit of the old joke about
bovine opposition to the railroad. One Of
the first objections made in England to the
iron horse was that he might occasionally
meet in his path some obstinate cattle, and
in such an event the country gentlemen
could see only calamity to the train; for
they were not yet in possession of any stand
ard by which they could form conception
of its tremendous momentum. One of
them, therefore, put the case to Stephenson
as to what would happen if a cow should
get in the way, and he answered quietly,
1T would be vera bad-for the coo'." This
story should be remembered by the people
who are snorting and believing around and
throwing up dirt in their antics of OBJ
lection to that great enterprise which now
moves with all the momentum of popular
determination. All the hostility of horse
railroad companies or private owners will
not avail to defeat the purpose of the people
to have an easy means to traverse the dis
tances between their homes and their places
of daily occupation. An injunction was
placed yesterday on the operations of the
New York Elevated Railroad Company; but
that farce will come to an end il the legisla-
ton proposed with regard to injunctions of
this class shall, as we trust it may, get safely
through at Albany.
Year: 1877

An Ottoman Parliament was actually
opened yesterday by the Sultan in person,
which is one of the queer facts of contem-
given elsewhere, is at least successful imi-
tation of similar efforts in really constitu-
tional countries. 1t is not yet fully
certain whether Parliament will give
play to any real political vitality Of
the Turkish nation, or whether its
acts will more resemble the grimaces
and contortions of corpse moved by a
galvanic battery. In its original theory, and
at times in practice, the Turkish system was
an absolute democracy, in which all men
were equal, and the Sultan welded the
sword in the general interest; but in fact it
has grown into system of privilege SO OPP
pressive to all but the few that the mere
piled in the existence of parlia-
ment, seems like a mockery. 1t is
Characteristic popularity of the situa-
ton in Constantinople that it seems impos-
sible for Turkey to go on for any time as she
is, and equally impossible to make any
change that will certainly be for the better
The Sultan, helpless by natural incapacity
will not permit the existence near him of
any man whose talents might meet
the occasions to which he himself is M
equal; and the constitution comes in to
cripple the endeavors of IN executive in
nation where there is no popular will to
stand in the place of that sovereign will that
the law limits. In these conditions ruin
impends, and the great neighbor with half a
million men under arms stands by and
waits his opportunity.
Year: 1877

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-Thc stock mar
ket was much more active than of late, and
a considerable amount of business was done
in the leading stocks. The weakness in the
principal active stocks, however, still continues,
although there slight rally during the after
noon. Gold was steady ut 1O50s Government
and railroad bonds were generally steady, al
though the latter were somewhat weaker
Money early in the day was easy at 2l2 per cent
OH call, but later advanced to 7 per cent, de-
clining aftcrward to 4 a 5 per cent on call.
Year: 1877

that sometimes exist on and in the human
body should combine to substitute their
own volitions for those Of the creature upon
whom they live; should contemplate the
man as their estate. and deem it an oppres-
sion to them if he ventured sometimes to 60
his own way. Tonight will tell. perhaps,
whether the parasites or the people have
most power in the Legislature.
Year: 1877

To READ "THE Man AT THE TuRorrLE' will
not make nervous people unusually fond of trav-
cling by rail, but it will explain the cause of
many ~ disaster in which coroners' juries found
nobody to blame. The neglect of lawmakers to
protect the lives of railroad travellers by pro
viding that they shall be in competent hands is
another illustration of the sad tact that what is
everybody's business is nobody's business.
Year: 1877

tion, while as to the plea of "equity" he in
sists that as the new clerks took the offices
knowing that their title was contested in the
courts they accepted the chances OF success
or defeat. The veto is strong and decisive
in its tone and gives good evidence that the
public moneys under Governor Robinson's
protection will be secure against any i'm
proper diversion.
Year: 1877

The ABANDONMENT by the Corporation Coun-
sci of the case of the Fire Commissioners against
iircmcn who had sold their pay claims to brokers
will have the effect of rcinstating u number of
men who have been discharged for this nominal
offence and will also convince the Commits
sioners that it is not well for any set of men to
meddle with the private affairs of others.
Year: 1877

In ANSWER TO A NUMBER of correspondents
who complain of the manner in which the City
Hall flags are mismanaged would say that
heretofore no one person has had the city's bunt-
ing in charge. Hereafter, however, the Mayor
will decide when New York shall hang its ban
ners on the outer walls.
Year: 1877

THE BROOKLYN ALDERMEN made new fun for
The scofer yesterday. Though the votes were
not closely partisan as heretofore the men
who temporarily stepped across the party line
took particular pains not to place their votes
where they might have ended the struggle.
Year: 1877

NEW TYPE.-Bring along your job prin-
brought on her last trip, from San Fran
cisco, fine lot of jobbing type, cuts, -four
ishes, wood and metal furniture, and ma
terial for the ARGUS office; so that from
this time forward we will be prepared to
fill on short notice, orders from any part
of the Sound. We can get up any thing,
from large poster to a wedding card.
None but good stock kept, and no work
done except what Is warranted 10 give
satisfaction unless the patron has chronic
dyspepsia; and then we can come as near
pleasing as the next.
Year: 1877

The Republicans of this State look
and act as IL they had been put down
and trSmped on by the bull.dOEers.
They glide along, they disband, they
agree to everything, they are cowed
and they display no energy in the
world except in trying 10 oust one
the other from q Federal position. The
principles are dear to their hearts, they
love the @niggah," but still the New
York Times 10 exactly correct when 1t
says that not single Federal Office has
been vacated to enable its occupant to
sustain, by active participation in Con.
vention aud Committee, the principles
dear to his heart A year ago they
would have howled and ripped in op-
position to a policy like the President
is pursuing, but now they meet TO-
gether and indorse It, and then scram.
BILE, in the most energetic manner, fol
the few Offices within the gift OF the
Administration, They agree to every
thing that comes from Washington
The President is perfection personided
He is Simon, and If he says wiggle-
waggle, the Southern Republicans wig
gle.waggle In the happiest manner
They love to serve him 90 well that be
has to apply the boot in every instance
to get them out of Office.
Year: 1877

ond Judicial District of the State Nevada and for
the county of Ormsby. Roger Grow, plaintiff, J. L.


Clegg and Florence Clegg and A W. Pray defendants
Action brought the District Court of the Second judicial


District the Nevada in and for the county of
Ormsby and the complaint filed in said county of Ormsby
in the office of the Clerk of said District CourThe State
of Nevada sends greeting to j. L. Ceg and Florence Cegg
and A. W. Pray defendants You hereby required
appear in action brought against you by the above
plaintiff in the District Court of the Second Judicial
Ormsby and the complaint filed therein CODY
of which accompanies this summons within ten days Tex
elusive of the day of serce) after the service of
this summons- served within this county, if served
of this county, but in this district within twenty days
otherwise within forty daysor Judgment by default will
be taken against you The said action is brought to fore
close certain mortgage executed by defendants j. L.
and Florence Cegg to said plaintiff, lot No. O in
block No six (6 in Rice Peters addition to the city of
Carson in Orsby county, Nevada; which said mortgage
given to the payment of promissory note
made by defendants j. L. and Florence Clegg the 20h
day of May, A. D. 1875, to plaintiff for the sum of six
hundred dollars and interest thereon @ per cent
per month"; all in gold coin of the United States. And
plaintiff asks decree of foreclosure of said mortgage and


that the morgaged premises be deceed to be sold the
proceeds applied to the payment of COSTS attorneys fees
taxes insurance and the principal and interest
said note in gold coin of the United States and found
that judgment be dockeed against the prop
erty of defendants L. and Florence Cegg for any bal
ance found remaining due plaintiff. All Of which is
fully set forth in plaintiffs complaint file in my office.
And you hereby notified that you fail to appear and
answer the said complaint above required the said
plaintiff will apply the Court for the relief demanded


Given under my hand and the seal of the District
Court of the Second Judicial District of the State


A'' of Nevada in and for the county of OrInsby this
sI+ 24tl day of August In the year OF our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seVenty-sepen.


au25-law6w ALFRED HELM, Clerk