smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

soul, points concluslvely 10 coihiuS
Judgment. A faithful record of every
mental operation is preserved on the
tablets of the soul as If written with
pen of diamond upon steel. There is
not an act done, not word escapes the
lip. not an idea conceived in the mind,
that is rot written by memory in char
acters as enduring as adamant, treasured
in the inmost recesses of the soul. Why
this faithful record Why these char
acters as endurable as eternityi Why
this power of recalling acts long since
committed with the freshness OF yester-
day7 Why this iDdestructabilliy OF
thought? Why this "Book" Of memo
ry? If there be no account 10 give here
after, why are the materials for Judge
ment day so carefully preserved by mem
ory? Why does conscience assure that
there is All account to give? The an
swer 10 these questions must be: There
will be a day of judgment.


This judgment day may be a day of
twenty-f -four hours, or it may be an In
definite period. The length OF that day
has never been revealed. 1t may be the
government ofimmortals by the appoint
ed King of Zion. Whatever may be the
character of that day, it is still in the
future, and will surely come. The idea
presented in the Word OF God,s court
of Justice by which every soul is to be
tried. ale hath appointed a day IN the
which he will judge the world. 1t is
not revealed to men, it is not known TO
angels. That day will not dawn until
this world, in its present form, shall
have accomplished the object oi its ex-
istence, or fitted up for some grander
purpose. The angel will first stand with
one foot on sea and one on land, and
swear by Him that liveth forever, that
time was, that time is, but time shall be
no longer. The dead bodies of the small
and great will be quickened by the arch
angels trump and rise from their slum-
bering beds of clay. Whether it is to-
morrow, or at the end of six thousand
years, or any stated period in the indef-
! mite future, no mortal man can tell. 1t
is worse than folly, it is being wise
above what is written,for any man, since
prophesy and inspiration has ceased
VIXEN the Scriptures were completed and
the Christian Church established, TO
point out the exact hour, or day, or
year, or even century, when the Lord
Jesus will come to judge the world.


Who will be the Judge? This is
Christ's appropriate work. "He hath
committed all Judgment unto the Son.


lie was a prophet when he revealed
the will of his Father, priest when he
ascended Calvary, judge when the
great day of trial shall have come:
Who else in the universe so qualified
as the Goldman? He is the Omniscient
God. and knows the secrets of the hu-
man soul. He is our Elder Brother
and can sympathizc with suffering hh-
manity. In the flesh he passed through
the fires of persecution, experienced the
power Of temptation, endured the suffer
ings odious TO human nature, and felt
the privations OF life devoted to God.
He knows the sinfulness OF sin, the re-
quirement of the law, the commands OF
Jehovah. Thus, in every sense, he will
be competent judge in that great day
when all his people shall anxiously wait
his just, righteous, and final decision.
Year: 1879

"A Husband Returns from the Block Hills
and Finds His Home Deserssd.
Two years ago there resided in this city q
happy couple named Gee, whose married life
was productive of that felicity which is sup
posed to characterize the connubial relations
of those whose union has been perfected in
accordance with the high and natural laws
of true affinity. Their local babitation was
situated on Seventh, near Franklin street.
and the roof tree, though adorned to meet
the modest requirements of simple tastes
and honest comforts, was apparently the seat
of many domestic joys that oftentimes dis
dain the bedizened society of loftier preten-
sions.


Time passed and brought business obliga-
tions to the young Benedict that necessitated
a visit to the Black Hills.


The partner of his joys and reverses was
informed of the necessity that occasioned
his unwilling absence, and the parting that
followed was fraught with unusual tender
ness, mingled with regret and sincere affec-
ton. The husbands absence proved of
longer duration than was at first anticipated,
but the rude life of the frontier drew peren-
NAL consolation by the weekly receipt of
regular letters from the apparently constant
and loving wife. The correspondence so
early began and faithfully conducted
was mysteriously interrupted few
months since by the failure of the wife to
respond to her husbands 8 letters, which had
previously been answered with the utm ost
degree of promptitude. Letter after letter
was dispatched by the thoroughly alarmed
husband, but no answer was forthcoming to
assure the writer of the fate of his unre-
sponsive wife. Further suspense as to the
reason for her prolonged silence at last be-
came uncomfortable, and with a view of ascer-
tanning the true reason of the painful neg
lect, the husband determined upon visit to
his home in this city. Arriving here from
Deadwood on Friday evening, he at
once proceeded to the place of his former
residence, on Seventh street, where the mys-
terry and doubt surrounding the strange con-
duct OF his wife became doubly aggravated.
What had been left contented and COM
Portable home was now silent and deserted.
and the unhappy man was confronted with
the four bare walls, with no vestige or trace
OF the former inmate. Inquiry was made of
the neighbors, who supposed that Mrs. Gee
had given up the premises in order to join
her husband at Deadwood.


The conduct of Mrs. Gee is regarded as
peculiarly strange and unwarranted, and the
almost distracted husband can assign no
reason for her more than perfdious action,
| as he has contributed literally to her sup
port within the past two years, having for
warded over $500 since his absence. Dill
gent, but unsuccessful, search was made for
the woman yesterday, the supposition being
that she has departed the State in company
with q paramount.
Year: 1879

Friday afternoon J. Shaaneck, West St..
Paul, had narrow escape from death. He
was in the bottom of well picking away
for the water level, while companion was
in charge of the hoisting apparatus. Shan
neck filled large tub with earth, and gave
the sign to hoist. The tub shot up over his
head towards daylight, and he bent down to
resume work. just then the tub became
unfastened and dropped, with contents,
down upon him. He didn't know what hit
him, but the accident was seen from above.
and the man at the win dlass descended at
once to Shanneck's assistance. He was
found to be unconscious, and was only re-
vived after great exertion and care. The
heavy weight struck him on the shoulder.
and partly on the head. Had the weight
fallen direct he would doubtless have been
killed. Yesterday Mr.. Shanneck wis wholly
out OF danger, but considerably crippled
from the accident.
Year: 1879

The sale Of season seats for the Hess opera
has been most enc uraging, and good audiences
are assured from the start. The company is
one of the best that has ever come to St. Paul.
embracing not only Miss Emma Abbott, a
prima donna who has received the most enthu-
siastic enconiums from the Eastern press, but
such artists as Castle, Hall and others. We
risk nothing in saying that the opera will be a
superior entertainment, and that none who at
tend will 60 away disappointed. The sale of
seats, both for the season and for single nights,
will be resumed at the Opera house box Office
tomorrow morning at o'clock
Year: 1879

MIR. Bruno Kennicott, the manager of the
Plnafore English Opera troupe, is in the city.
He comes with the deliberate intention of set
ting our people mad with the fever that has
ragged so fearfully at the East for months past,
and will commence his malign designs on the
18th of the present month. As one dose will
not be enough he has engaged the Opera House
for the succeeding night, and the company
will keep the ball rolling. 'Did you ever?''
NO. never" what! never" swell, hardly
Year: 1879

The use of the word 'stalwart" as
applied to the Republicans, is now
confined exclusively to the Confedro-
Democrats, who would gladly make
people believe that we are not all Stall
warts now, but that there still remain
in the Republican ranks considera-
BILE number whose eyes have not been
opened by the exploits of the Confed-
crate Congress, and the open threats
and declarations of Confedro-Demo-
cratic leaders. Nothing more strik-
ingly illustrates the entire closing up
of the Republican ranks, than the fact
that the use of this word is thus linn
tied. At the time of the dispute in
the Republican party, as to the proper
course to be adopted toward the South,
the word was used constantly in Re-
publican newspapers which took the
Administration view of the question,
and it is in these newspapers that it
had it's origin. But that quarrel has
been settled. The Confedro-Democ-
racy with it's retinue of staggering
Brigadiers, fully demonstrated to lib
eral Republicans that they were alb
surdly in the wrong, in supposing that
secession and disunion was stamped
out, and they went over in Mass to
that side of their house against which
they had been so recently ranged,
leaving the word ''stalwart" and a lot
of other rubbish to fall into the hands
Of the common enemy, who is now
desperately trying to turn it to some
account When we get split up again
and want it, Messrs. Confederates, we
will ask you for it. Just at present it
would be entirely superhuous, because
we all rally under one big Republican
flag, and there is not a single ism"
banner in all the army. Just wait


until we march up to the polls next
fall and see if you can find one.
Year: 1879

The people of the Northern States
can not trust the Northern Democrat
ic leaders, because they are. not free
men. If we look back through all
the history Of the Democratic party
we find that it's men who held the
place of leaders Of the party in the
Northern States have been merely fol-
lowers Of imperious Southern masters.
So degrading is this service that they
did not regard the citizens of the
North as having equal rights with
those of the South. They could not
conceive that a Northern man was
the political equal of a STAKEHOLDER.
They resolved State rights and State
sovereignty, but they meant Southern
States. The idea that a Northern
State had rights was to them rebellion.


They meekly accepted the rule that
allegiance to slavery went before al
legiance to the Constitution as quail
ifcation for place in the Government.
They regarded the use of the United
States army in carrying off fugitive
slaves from the Northern States, with
out trial, as in the natural order
There were cruel prosecutions of Nor
thern citizens under pretense of hav-
ing aided slaves to fly, in which juries
were packed by United States Mar
shals to convict, and United States
Judges were under the same supreme
allegiance to slavery, and whenever a
State court attempted to intervene
for their protection these Democratic
leaders howled that it was treason.
The instance has not been known
when a Democrat justified Northern
State court in any intervention to
protect a citizen against arbitrary acts
| by Democratic administration. In
that case State rights became treason.


When secession began, every Nor
thern Democratic leader-that is, eve
ry one in any representative trust
recognized that he owed to the South
ern leaders an allegiance above that
to the Constitution. They promptly
assented to the claim of the State
right of secession. For their declara-
ton that the Constitution gave no
power to prevent State secession was
the same as declaration Of a consti-
tutional right of secession. All these
Northern Democrats servilely follow
ed the Southern lords in breaking up
the Government. True, they avoided
the risk of joining them in arms, but
they did much more for the South by
treacherously using their representa-
tive trusts to oppose every measure
for the defense of the Nation, and by
incessant seditious efforts to divide
the people of the North.


If we grant that the Government
of the United States had the consti-
tutional right and duty to prevent
State secession by force of arms, ther
to call the whole course of these
Northern Democratic leaders treason
! able is no strong use of words; it is /;
. plain and undeniable statement. Ii


Congress they acted as representative


of the Southern Confederacy. If the.


had been under direct instruction
from the Richmond administration
: they could not do more than they di'
E to weaken our Government and al,
! the enemy. At home, claiming tn
immunities of peace, they did all il


their power to aid the enemy in wa
Year: 1879

by sowing sedition among the people,


and disafection in the army.


In all this the Democrat knew no


North, no Union, no country; he


knew nothing but South. His con-
duct as Representative in Congress


and in the State Legislature, and as


an agitator among the people, was as
malignant toward the Union cause, as


treacherous, and - considering his
claim to immunity as if the country


were at peace-as cowardly as it is


possible for men to be. The name


Copperhead was simply an apt de-
scription of his cowardly and venom
Gus character. Happily, a large num-


ber from the ranks of the party, prin-
cipally of Americans, followed the
natural instincts of patriotism, and
left it for the time, many volunteer
ing, and many more voting on the


Union side; but the former leaders,
and large disloyal mass, and mass
more ignorant and deceived than dis
loyal, kept up an organization of a
large party, which, all through the
dreadful struggle, was used to oppose
the Government, to aid and comfort
the Confederates, and to SOW treason
among the Union soldiers.


The secession was conquered after
mighty war which utterly exhausted
the South; but these Northern Dem
ocratic leaders remained the same.
They had no Joy in a restored Union.
They were even less reconciled than
the Southern leaders who had fought
it out. Still they wanted to make
the result defeat to the Government,
and to bring in the Confederate States
as masters of the situation. And
since the Democrats have had control
of the House, and now Of both branch
es of Congress, every Northern Dem
ocrat recognizes it as Confederate con-
troll. When Senator Hill, of Georgia,
by slip of the tongue, spoke of it as
''this Confederate Congress" he SIM
ply spoke the reality.


No Northern Democratic member
assumes to have any rights as repre-
sentative of Northern people; he
freely accepts the place of servant to
the Confederates, whose whole policy
is to take from the National Govern
ment its lawful powers, and to make
each Confederate State supreme. Per-
haps their design is not to prepare for
a new SECESSION; for, with the South
made solid by force, and the North
divided by party servile to them,
they may be masters of the whole;
but if they were preparing for new
and for setting up South
ern empire, their course could hardly !
be more direct to that end than it has
been.


There is no such thing as a free
in most of the Confederate
States. No Northern Democrat dare
lift up his voice for one. He comes
up with servile alacrity to help take
from the United States Government
it's lawful power to protect the ballot
box by the civil authority in the cleo
tions of United States Representa-
tives. He knows of no office of a
Northern Democrat but to obey
Southern dictation. He had no voice
to save the Union from secession, nor
to support the Union volunteers; he
now has no voice against a policy de-
signed to break down the National
and make the Confederate
States dictators. No matter what
man comes into the place of Demo-
cratic Representative or candidate, he
has to put on this yoke, and he does
If with a1acritV
Year: 1879

Isn't it g little curious that the late
war was fought entirely by the Dem
ocrats, on both sides? Steedman claims
that the Democrats are entitled to the
credit for whipping the rebels and put
ting down the rebellion, while we all
know that every soldier in the rebel
army was Democrat. Strange there
was nothing in this country at that
time but Democrats. But how did it
come that the rebels were forced to
surrender, after the Northern Democ-
racy had declared the war a failure?-
Allen County Republican.
Year: 1879

IF any number of The Methodist
during the last nineteen years has es-
capped unfriendly criticism, it has been
so poor number that we are ashamed
Of it. We are not trying to please ev-
erybody, but to do our duty as we un-
derstand it. So says our contempo-
rary The Methodist. And so say we
of The COngregationalist." b" And so
would any other Editor say who occa-
sionally issues a paper to be ashamed
of If half dozen people could not
talk together two or three hours on
half dozen current subjects, and all
be of one mind in everything, how
impossible it is for paper to state or
discuss a hundred topics before the
eyes of thousands of people, and have
every one of them say Amen to all it
says Examiner and Chronicle.
Year: 1879

inches of pay gravel and water
enough to use rocker. The gold Is
quite coarse, however, and much of
It is picked out with the fingers.
One chunk was taken out which
weighed nearly two pounds and
was worth about S400. A good
many smaller nuggets were found,
ranging down to twenty-five cents
In value. One which Mr.. Bard
brought with him to town he sold
for $21.


On Monday morning last the
body Of the aged father Of Fran
cisco Hlguera, of the Ballona, who
had been missing for two days, was
found lying dead, with ope OF his
legs broken, in ditch near the res
idence of his son. 1t is supposed
that the old gentleman, who was
quite feeble and nearly blind, fell
into the ditch, the fall breaking his
leg and being unable to crawl out or
make himself heard, perished from
exposure. Cur informant stated
II
on the forehead of deceased and
from blood found on the end of bis
cane, which was sticking up in the
mud, it Is thought that his fore
head struck the cane as he fell.
We are not advised whether an in
quest was held.


The Committee on Exhibitions
of the Horticultural Society held q
lengthy meeting last evening to
consider matters connected with
the next annual Fair. The time
of holding the Fair could not be
definitely fixed, as 1t was desirable
to confer with the Agricultural So
ciety aud ascertain its wishes 40
that both Fairs could be held dur
ing the same week. 1t was decided
to offer then liberal premiums to
the best bands of music in South.
ern California. A schedule Of
prices for tickets of admission was
arranged which are much more lib
eral than any ever offered on the
Pacific Coast, as 1t Is desirable to
populariZe the Fair and secure a
large attendance from this and ad-
joining counties. The details of
the premium list were brought up
for discussion. pending the consid-
Grafton Of which the committee ad.
journed to meet again on Monday
next at 2 o'clock P. NJ.


Under many insidious guises
doth the office-seeker present HIM
self. Yea, verify, even under that
of patriotism. Aud 1t was Doctor
Samuel Johnson, the dictionary
man, and not the horse doctor, who
defined patriotism as the last refuge
OF a scoundrel. Yea, verify. Can
such things be, and overcome US
like summers cloud, without our
perpendicular wonder? Crook
backed Richard says they can.
Alas! and again alas! 'Tis O
wretched world. But it is, never
theless. the world we live In, and
there is no use jumping it stiff.
legged until we hear q horn footing
US, with suggestive cadence, to
better. When shall we hear that
reformatOry and resurrectionary
vibration2 NJ man shall say.
Meanwhile, the Office of Railway
Commissioner will be anxiously
sought by simple-minded people
who mean no guile.
Year: 1879

DILL Hayes has introduced bill in the As
semby which embodes novel scheme for the adj
ysncement of the commerce of New-York. The
nroect is in brief TO establish ut the lower end of
Manhattan Island grand underground rail-
way depot or terminus, and to tunnel the
Hudson River, so that the great trunk lines
could bring their freight right into the city,
instead of discharging it the New-Jersey shore.
The advantages claimed for such plan obvious
enough. Freight could be brought to its very
destination without breaking bulk, the expense
that must now attend reshipment to this city would
be saved and such local business as the presence
of a great depot must always stimulate would fall
TO the lot of NewYork instead of NewJersey. Then,
TOO. the present system Of hauling freight cars
throurh the streets, often hindrance to traffic,
would come to an end. DR.. Hayes's bill, though
avowedly designed in behalf of this project. is cast
in the form of a general law " to provide for exca-
ya;ing, tunnelling and bridging for transportation
purposes within villages and cities of the State 1t
provides that when it becomes necessary or
properD for railroad company to build any part Of
its road under ground, or bridge the waters, it may
take such lands under water, and uplands, owned
and unemployed by the State as are necessary to
the purpose The bill goes on to provide that the
company shall have the right to construct Its foun-
datons tunnels etc.. provided that where there is
TO be tunnel the consent of the authorities or Of
the commissioners, to be appointed by the Supreme
Court shall be obtained, that the surface OF the
ground shall always be kept firm and safe for
buildings, etc. etc.


Whether the scheme il quite practicable isa ques-
ton which it may take generation or two to
answer. tunnel under the Hudson River, long as
il would be- certainly presents difficulties which
modern engineering would not attack with cOuii-
dence; the fact that such "A tunnel has been begun
seems to have in his eye proof enough of this The
same NAV be said of the construction of the under
.round terminus depot in this city. But both
branches of the work would require an enormous
expenditure of capital, and the plan is, in its
nature revolutionary and startling, requiring time
To allow the public mind to grow familiar with 1t.
IL must also be said that the instantaneous success
of the elevated railroads has turned mems minds
away from underground plans OF all sort Certainly
# does not seem ut all unlikely that freight
will be drawn through the streets at some
future time upon elevated roads constructed espe-
eially 10 heavy traffic. This is not an argu-
ment, be sure, against the tunnel. which Is the
only possible method Of bridging the Hudson River
But unless there Is some organization OF money and
PURPOSE behind this bill, of which DIR. Hayes has
given the public no hint. 1t may be- very long time
before his idea becomes reality. Ii would not bo
safe to suggest that the day may never come be-
Year: 1879

The conversation with Secretary Sherman,
of which full report was given Monday,
casts great deal Of light upon the position
in which the Democratic majority in Congress
las placed itself If We are " presume that
Year: 1879

The cause of elevated railways in Boston
seems to be hopeless, so far as the action OF
the Legislature is concerned. A majority of
the Senate Committee are adverse to the
petitions which have been presented in favor
of rapid transit, and the minority, though
almost equal to the majority in numbers, will
not offer any bill. Ii the action of the Legis-
lature is final, this would seem to put the
q rest
Year: 1879

Atlanta has had high-tOned shooting affray
after the old aristOcratie manner. There was
q Colonel ON one side and Captain on the
other, and the only circumstance which de-
tracted from the dignity of the affair was the
fact lot there was not so much as a single
General engaged either in the capacity of
friend OF spectator. The Colonel, 1T seems


closed a certain business transaction in "a way
not agreeable to the Captain, who therefore
gave notice that unless the cOntract-an en-
tirely proper one-was not cancelled before
sundown, he would, in his aristocratic aud
extra judicial manner, proceed to Kill the
Colonel. He was as good as his word, and
the Colonel is dead. with bullet-hole through
bis BRAIN II the murderer has been arrested,