smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

are remarkably infsequent, and. when they 90
occur. almost invariably have q westward course
first. which brings their margins at any rate
within reach OF American observation The storms
leaving the continent off the New England and New
Brunswick coasts do in the great majority Of
cases with considerable intervals between their
centres-intervals that marked by conditions
which generally prevent the union of the storm
areas. Cases are known where two three
storm centres enter what might be termed the same
general area of pressure but these instances
and the storm centres lose their identity
How completely the identity of storm centres is
kept has been abundantly proved by observation
the American continent itself. Mr.. Scott specially
remarks upon a prediction from the HERALD office
of the arrival of storm coasts
the 18th of February, 1877. storm centre
did arrive on that day. but Mr.. Scott says
that the path of the disturbance in such
direction to say the least would render it i'm.
probable that the of the depression in question
had come from America and ON previous occasion
he had said that the presumption was that the
storm came from the neghborhood of Iceland; but.
in reality the very fact of this coming to the
British Isles from the northwest was the strongest
possible proof of the accuracy of the data upon
which the HERALD predictions based, for the
storm in question took a general northeasterly





followed by Of high barometer, between which
great undulation of their line occurred in
which the storm centre moved. When it reached
latitude little northwestward of Scotland and be-
tween that country and Iceland, the high pressure
in advance of it extended rapidly Norway
and Sweden aud the Baltic. while the area
behind it receded southward slowly. to
direct the Of the storm centre toward the
east and southeast and over the British Islands.
thus bringing it here from northwest direction.
Mr.. Scott's remark that it must not be forgotten
that the fact Of gale being reported the day for
which is foretod does necessarily prove
that the gale felt here is the storm that left tho
American coast has been fully answered by the re.
peated success of these predictions. So long as .
prediction here there only successful it
might be fair to say this but Mr.. Scott himself
could hardly venture to repeat the remark now.
An efficient system of weather warning would confer
such benefits upon mankind generally. and espe-
ciay upon maritime nation like ourselves. that it
to be hoped English Meteorological Office will
see the necessity in iuture of working cordially
with their American colleagues"
Year: 1879

A good editor, who is also printer,
says: IL never look at my old compos-
ing rule that do not bless myself that
while my strength lasts am not at the
mercy of the world. If my pen is not
wanted l can go back to the type case
and be sure to find work, for learned
the printers trade thoroughly news
paper work, job work, book work and
press work. am glad | have a good
trade. 1t is rock upon which the
possessor can stand firmly. There is
health and vigor for both body anc
mind in an honest trade. 1t is the
strongest and surest part of self-madt
man. Go from the academy to the
printing Office or the artisans bench i
you please, to the farm-for to be SURF
good farming is trade, and grant
one at that. Lay thus u sure founda
ton, and after that branch off int
whatever profession you please.
Year: 1879

Another false method indulged in,
although not as frequently as the one
Just mentioned, is the practice of re-
signing the pledge ad infnitum, by
men and women who are well known
as teetotalcrs, for the example" it
may set to those who are not. / ques-
ton the propriety of this on the ground


that it Is both immoral and unwise.
Immoral because it is acting lie; I'M
wise because reactionary influence,
preventing what it is meant to incite.
1t is a solemn act to sign promise that


will affect all of ones future life.
| When it is done, the obvious inference
| Is that it has not been done before, and


that there will be no necessity for it to
be repeated; hence its constant repeti-
ton gives it farcical appearance to


lockers OH, whatever the motive of its
inspiration may be. 1t is false appeal,


and the managers of Gospel Temper


ance societies will be loath to admit


that theirs is the Jesuitical motto, the


end sanctities the means" 1t is too


pa1pable. Instead Of inspiring enthu-


siasm 1t must incite disgust. Thinking


men who are not teetotalers are not all


devoid of morality, or wanting in a


sense of the fitness of things, and they


will be quick to argue that system


which admits of false methods and


clap-trap inducements is not desirable


nursing school for morals and religion.


Still another weak place in the pres


cnt temperance system is the means


taken to induce very young children to


sign the pledge;" many of them at
an age when all they can appreciate OF


the act is the ecldt they create and the
ribbon futtering from their breasts.
esteem this to be utterly wrong in prin.
ciple. 1t is claimed that children thus


started in the right direction will gen


orally grow up to be temperate mer
and women. Do the facts warrant


such an assumption? Most young peo


pie attaining years of discretion hole
themselves not responsible for such {
pre-emption of their individuality, ant
, unhesitalingly break a pledge they nevel
had the option of refusing. l by nG
!, means endorse such action on their part
. : but the fact remains, whether it is thu
J result of divine instinct implanted il
= the human mind do not care to argue
that promises extorted from those in
= competent to make them, by reason o


tender age or duress, are declared no
!, binding by universal law of man. l
= a cause is founded upon truth, it ca
well do away with such petty shams t


ensnare followers. No army is eve


much benefited by the recruits VIII
are kidnapped into its service, and n
!. band of workers are ever great
. strengthened by those who are unfair
a or forcibly made to take the oath of q
4 legiance.
Year: 1879

A number of girls in neighboring
town organized a charitable and benev-
olent association, and the father of one
of them gave her S25 to help along in
the good work. She added $75 TO her
fathers contribution and relieved a
great deal of real distress by purchasing
herself a seal skin sacque. A girl with
new seal skin sacque can render more
assistance to the deserving poor than
one who is obliged to wear her last
winters $50 coat. .-lNorristown Her
aid.
Year: 1879

wAsHIsGroS. August 10. 1872
COLONEL BARNETTEs COMPLAINT AGAINST THE


SPANISH AUTHORITIES IN cUBA-coNFIRMA-


TroN FROM THE AMERICAN CONSUL GENERAL.


The report of Consul General Hall at Havana to
the State Department in regard to the outrage
committed on Colonel Barnette confirms
substantially the statement already pub
lished in the HERALD. AS is usual in such
cases. the State Department awaits detailed
information before expressing any opinion on the
subject The impression has prevailed at the de-
partment that there must have been aggravat-
ing conduct the part of Mr.. Barnette
to have excited the acts of violence
provocation on his part. The department, however.
does not understand upon what grounds the local
officers were warranted in proceeding to deal in SO
summary manner with an American citizen,
though suspected or charged with being inimical to
the spanish authorities in Cuba 1t is presumed by
our officials that the peace of the island was not
jeopardized by the presence of Mr.. Barnette. and
that he entitled to be heard in a regular way.
without having his life endangered by the
rash conduct of subordinate officer and ir-
responsible persons in the service of the
government OF the island 1t is alleged by the Cap
tain General that Colonel Barnette not known
to the authorities as an American citizen and
that he charged with offences which rem
dered him liable to arrest and Imprisonment. All
the facts however. it is said at the State Depart
ment. cannot be obtained except by correspondence
with the Consul General and this will occasion some
delay In the absence Of Secretary Evarts Assistant
Secretary Seward who is Acting Secretary says that
the department will act promptly and rs firmly
the nature of the case demands.
Year: 1879

Congressman Kelley. OF Philadelphia, who travel
ling in Belgium. writes to the Pniladelphia Times
concerning affairs in that kingdom


The political condition of Belgium is interesting
Though the passing traveller ID not likely observe
the tact the Kingdom is profoundly agtated. In
deed it is said by those who have the of know
ing that popular feeling is more intensely excited
and more sharply divided than it has been the
revolution of 1880. The law of 1912. regulating the
public schools has just been reported after pro-
though not violent. that now proceeding on
the same subject in France The changes provided
by the new laws very far-reaching and the bill
passed by the meagre majority of six in the Cham
ber and of two i'll the Senate. So deep is the feeling
engendered by this measure that many partisans
OF either side refuse to trade with those Of
the other side or to mingle with them ut
cafes or elsewhere, and / was more than
assured that Catholic clergyman who
should bs known to visit any member of the Minis
try unoicialiy would lose caste with his brethren
and superiors Nor is this intensity of feeling
prising. Belgium is essential Catholic Italy.
The King and his family belong to the Church, and
under the law of 1912 the schools though supported
by the State were governed by the Church. No
book could be introduced into OF them till 1t had
received the approval of the Archbishop. The clergy
constituted the supervisory committees and could
enter the schools and interrupt the exercises at any
time and proceed to administer religious instruction.
The new law not only qualities but repeals these
privileges. 1t secuarzes the schools and puts them
in charge of the State, whose agents to select
books and appoint teachers. Under its provisions u
Clergyman cannot visit the schools officially adj
dress the children in any of them within thirty
minutes OF the opening or closing OF session, and
may then address the children only Of such parents
have filed consent thereto But what Is protested
against with most popular vchemence is the provi-
sion of this oi crnnee it is called by its oppo-
nents which provides that none other than head OF
n family serve a school committeeman OF any
degree. which is ingenious exclusion of the
clergy though it is not absolutely nsdious they
are not the only men in Belgium who do not marry
Year: 1879

EVIDENCE.


(BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.


WuKEsBARRE. Pa, August TO- 1879.


The sequel to the mysterious disappearance of 9
child in this city is being developed, and the
facts, they to light, transcend in some par
ticulars the story of the loss Of Charley Ross. 1t
is another illustration Of the fact that. while
circumstantial evidence may be overwhelming
innocence may yet prevail. During the term Of
Mayor Kearney. Of wilkesparre (now deceased),
eral years ago. lovely child. three years Of age
strangely disappeared from its parents home on
Brewery Hill. The mother distracted and
seemed to support accusation of the neighbors
that the father Morgan Thomas, had murdered it in
order to rid himself Of the responsibility Of its
maintenance.


MISLEADING oIRCURsrANcEs.


Mayor Kearney at once set himself about ferreting
suspected parents track, and privately informed his
immediate friends that he was convinced of the
guilt of the father, and would soon hang him for
cruel murder. He believed that he had in his pos
session sufficient evidence to than substantate
the story told by the neghbors and by himself
that the parent had murdered his child
and successfully disposed OF the corpse. The
father at first Indignantly repelled the charge.
His character until this time had been untarnished
When ne discovered. however. that the wife of his
bosom appeared to entertain like suspicion he gave
way to apparent remorse bordering on insanity. In
the meantime the Mayor active aud was formu-
lating a theory sustained by almost invincible
train of evidence tending to show the guilt of the
prostrate parent. The Mayor was truly sincere in
his convictions but he had completed his inves
tigation he was suddenly struck down by death.


POUND A SEIGHBoRISG COUNTY


Years have passed by and the circumstance has
long since ceased to be q theme OF wonderment A
few weeks since pcdler. old acquaintance of the
family to which the missing infant belonged, chanced
be travelling III the vicinity OF In the
adjoining county, and discovered the long-lost child
He conveyed this intelligence to the parents
in wkesbarre and they repaired to the place named
and fully identified it, but the people having il in
charge refused to give it up The parents returned
to Wilkesbarre, and procuring warrant from Alder
man Donohue. are now in quest of their child. Ef-
forts will be made to punish the abductors.
Year: 1879

An act of Congress, approved March 3,


1879, provides that no person claiming to
enter public land under the homestead or
presumption laws, will be permitted to make
| final proof until notice has been given as
required by said act, which took effect on
the first of the present month. The fol-
lowing is copy of the act,


Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled That be-
fore final proof shall be submitted by any
person claiming to enter agricultural lands
under the laws providing for pre-emption
or homestead entries, such person shall file
with the proper land office a notice of his
or her intention TO make such proof, stat
ing therein the description of lands to be
entered, and the names of the witnesses by
whom the necessary facts will be establish
ed. Upon the filing of such notice, the
Register shall publish notice, that such
application has been made, once a week for
the period of thirty days, in anewspaper to
be by him designated as published nearest
to such land, and he shall also post such
notice in some conspicuous place in his
office for the same period. Such notice
shall contain the names of the witnesses as
stated in the application. At She expiration
of said period of thirty days, the claimant |
shall be entitled to make proof in the man
ner heretofore provided by law. The Sec |
retary of the Interior shall make all neces- |
sary rules for giving effect to the foregoing |
provisions.


Approved March 8, 1879.
Year: 1879

| ONE of our subscribers on the Mobile q


Ohio Railroad says The COMET reaches his


postoffice Sunday morning, and he makes


it his chief Sunday reading, and he wants


to know if there is anything in the Bible


against it; or, in other words, can a man
absorb THE Comet on Sunday, and still
maintain his standing in the Church


This is a very grave question. We have
never had such a question fired at US be-
fore. But we consider it our religious duty
to answer it. We have to say that in all
our investigations of the Bible, beginning
at an early age, and running through a
series of years, we have never came across
direct prohibition of THE COMET, within
its lids, and as it is the aim of THE COMET
TO conform its politics to the doctrine of
the Bible, we can see no reason why it
should not be regarded as wholesome re-
ligious reading for Sunday, and be found
in good company on Sunday among tracts
and sermons. Our conscientious subscrib-
er must not infer from this that THE
COMET proposes to supply the need of
Sunday sermon, or that it would excuse
him for not going to church on Sunday.
There can be no sufficient excuse for
direliction of this kind. Every head of
household should give society, his children
and his conscience the benefit of moral
and religious example by going to church
on Sunday. But after he has been edited
by an orthodox sermon, we would recon-
mend perusal of The COMET in erder that
the good impressions may be strengthened
and fixed.
Year: 1879

GEORGE W. CARLISLE, a young gentle
man of Lawrence county, who has been
temporarily engaged in the Auditors office,
left jackson last week for his home with
view of entering the race for Chancery
and Circuit Clerk of that old county. He
has tho stuff i'll him to make a good Clerk,
and has proved tho possession of admira-
BILE traits of character reliability, faithful
ness and competency.
Year: 1879

have come to tell you | know the
whole story, just as you would tell
me yourself did you not wish to
spare me pain. l do not blame
you, little one. | am your friend
and his. Go to him and comfort
him. You will make him us happy
as you could have made me had
Heaven meant me to be your l,us-
band. | shall see your mamma,
and save you from all unpleasant
explanations"


His goodness touched her. In
her gratitude she could have knclt
ut his feet and kissed the kindly
hands which now led her back to
her wondering lover.


The next moment he was gone,
and Johns arms wcrc about llor,
and Johns kisses were on her
lips.


On Tcssic's wedding morning
she found among her bridal gifts q
magnificent souUcnir from Monrcith
Darlington, who retained for her
all the delicate and Ghivalrous sem
timcnt Of such friendship us onlya
noble gentleman can give to MI
adorable lady.
Year: 1879

The Rev. Mr.. Werlich was preach-
ing a weird sermon on the devil, in
the Methodist church, at Ephrata,
Pennsylvania, and 4 wicked young
man was struck with the notion
that the congregation had been
wrought up to just the condition
Of mind for being easily terrified.
lie slipped out, gathered some
equally wicked companions, and
unfolded his plan, which was sud-
denly to introduce Il long-horned
COW into tho church. They
brought 4 black one from tho field
near by, twisted her tail TO make
her give an unearthly below, and
thrust her through the door into
the center isle. The light was dim,
the preacher had excited his hear
ers by descriptions of eternal tor
ture, the horn and black face of
the believing COW were not recog-
nized for what they really were,
and the impression created was
that the enraged devil had dashed
in for vengeance. Several women
tainted, and the rest screamed but
the clergyman was not deceived.
at is only cow" he instantly
explained. Tho jokers were ar
rested.
Year: 1879

In the little village of Lockport, Will
county, Illinois, lives one of the pioneers
of the country who has seen his fourscore
years. Colonel James Wright for almost
half century has lived in the house he
now occupies, and has seen the wilder
ness blossom as rose." He was born
in the Empire State, and was brought
up on the battle-ground Of Saltwater, that
brilliant achievement of American arms
which gave Burgoyne his first check, and
was but the precursor of his downfall
and the surrender of his army.


Colonel Wright's father, who was a
Revolutionary soldier, owned the land
upon which this memorable battle was
fought, and upon it stood the house in
which the British General Frazes died.
All readers Of our Revolutionary history
are familiar with the name Of this gal
liant officer. who though opposed to us to
the bitter end, held it his highest duty to
serve his king. In the battle of Still
water he commanded the left wing Of the
British army, and received his death
wound through the instrumentality of
Benedict. Arnold. One historian thus
describes it:


"Here Arnold did an act unworthy Of
the glory of the well-fought battle. He
ordered up twelve Of his best rifemen,
and pointing to Frazer, who, on horse
back with brandished sword, was gal
lantly animating his men, he said: See
that officer. Himself is host. Let me
not see him long, The rihemen flew to
their places, and in a few moments the
hero was cut down." He was carried
wounded into the house above described,
and gently laid upon the floor where,
with the sound of cannon for a requim,
his spirit fed amidst the roar Of battle.


This house stood for years within the
recollection Of Colonel Wright, who in
formed the writer that he had often
seen the dark spot beneath the
window where the gallant Briton lay,
while his l1fe-blood ebbcd out, leav-
ing somber stain upon the floor,
that remained while the building stood.
-Americnn MOntHEv.
Year: 1879

Keep the Russian nation in STATE OF
CONTINUAL WAR: so as to have the soldier
always under arms, and ready for action,
excepting when the finances of the State
will not allow of it. Keep up the forces;
choose the best moments for attack. By
these means you will be ready for war
even in the time Of peace. This is for
the interest Of the future aggrandizement
of Russia.
Year: 1879

From the N. Y. Sun, April II.


The services In the Dominican church
at Sixty-sixth street and Lexington
avenue last evening was interrupted by a
loud shrek in the midst of the cOngrega-
ton. As the worshipers looked from
their devotions they beheld young wo-
man standing in the middle aisle and
swing her arms wildly about her head,
while she sang and shouted at the top of
her voice. She had an attractive face
and was tastefully dressed in black, with
white lace about her throat. She wore
no hat or cloak, yet no one noticed her
until she announced herself in the centre
of the church. She paid no attention to
the sexton, who attempted to quiet her,
but continued singing and shouting and
refused to go out until led away by an
officer. At the Fifty-ninth street police
station, where she was locked up for dis
orderly conduct, she said she was Annie
Cooper, and that her brother, who lives
at 64 Grove street, had threatened to kill
her. She declared that she would have
his life if she could escape from her cell.
Her manner left no doubt of her insanity.
Year: 1879

The business man makes q mistake
when he discontinues his advertising
patronage because times are hard. A
certain amount of good must be done. 1t
is his object to secure as much of it as
possible. II is no use in you saying ad-
vertising dose not pay, and dismissing
the subject in an Of-hand, Indifferent
style. If you have studied the subject
you know that it does pay. The faith
in advertising consists In the confidence
between fellow beings. Any subject
persistently and constantly urged will
win. Even ifyou heartily dislike sub
ject when first introduced to you, you
finally tolerate it, then become familiar
with it, and finally believe in it from
very force of advocacy. You believe in
1t in spite of yourself. Then you give it
a trial. If the trial Is satisfactory, the
advertiser is remunersted, If the article
is not what Is claimed for it, 1t is not
worth patronage. But the fact remains
that persistent and constant advertising,
If carried on in an insidous and legitimate
way will benefit both the buyer and seller.