smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

THE Ohio County News now circu-
lates in more houses than any other
paper in Ohio county, and We intend
ard have every reason TO believe that
within three months we will have a
circulation in the county double that
of any other paper. We do not claim
seven or eight hundred more subscri-
bers than we in reality have, nor do
We claim eight or nine hundred subscri-
bers outside Of the county. We sim
ply claim that we circulate as large if
not superior number of papers of
any journal read in Ohio county
[ News.


When the News containing the
above, first came to light, some per-
sons thought that the News man had
set out with a firm determination to
beat Gulliver, and the admirers OF
that eminent exaggerator, believed,
from the start made, that the News
would soon surpnss their favorite.
Others thought the editor had first
gone to Williams Bros shop and had
his conscience scared, and then to
Klein & Bros and had his counte-
nance refined with brass, in order TO
enable him TO publish such "buster.
Sill Others though that as Joe Null
haitian was in this part of the world
about then, he had dropped in and
tried his hand on local for the News.
When we looked at the paper and
saw it was dated April Ist, then the
whole thing was explained. The ed
itor had tried his hand ON an April
fool yarn, and we'll bet that no man
in the State has succeeded in telling,
writing. or publishing such lchoPper a;
the News man.
Year: 1879

In order to stimulate the Farmers to greater
exertions, and induce them to improve the
quality of their two great staples, Corn and
Tobacco, and at the same time increase the
circulation of the HERALD, we offer the fol-
lowing very liberal Premiums, amounting in


the aggregate to
Year: 1879

The New York Mail has this quite
too awfully interesting item: "a New
York bridegroom recently sent pair
OF diamond earrings to his bride, in
closing the box containing them in a
jewel casket, fourteen by sixteen
inches and nineteen inches high. The
sides of the box were of solid selected
Marcchal Neil buds, bound by a rim
of tea roscbuds; the cover was of
superb white rosebuds. A ring of
violcts was the lid-liftcr. The inside
Of the box was lined with white
satin
Year: 1879

Special to the Ledger.l


NASHVILLE, February 2O-Gover-
nor Marks this morning vetoed the
bill which recently passed the legisla-
ture to amend the fire insurance law Of
the State. The bill is known as the
Wisconsin bill. An effort will be
made to pass the bill over the COVER
nOrs veto, but with not much chance
Of success. The opinion is gaining
ground among members of the legis-
lature that the present insurance laws
are the most equitable and practi-
cable, and that they should not be
tampered with.
Year: 1879

gives their hearts to money maxim and
leaves the Lord to shift for himself sl.
ways swears


When Drew. Jay Gould Eldrides and
James Fisk. Jr.. were in exile in New
Jersey. the reporter. having some busi-
ness win the last nsmed, called 1t the
Taylor Hotel, and after . great deal Of
trouble in passing the guard. Was ID.
mitted to the presence Fisk gave his
visitor Q cordial greeting, and made
him At home in the front parloe. After
the busi1ess between the two had been
satisfactorily transacted the reporter
expressed = desire to meet Mr.. Drew.


Hello. Uncle Dan'lr Col Fisk shout
ed Come here. you old sinner


A tall. well.built old gentleman, with
an innocent face, stepped from side
room aud stood in the doorway.


Well, Jeems.' be said. 10 duts-like
tones. whist do you want.'


This gentlsmsu wants you; l don't.
I've had a dam sight more to do with
you than was good foe me-


Then followed the introduction:


ALLOW me to introduce Old Uncle
Danr Drew, the dsmdest old hypocriti-
cal scoundrel that ever sung psalm or
stole q ham


'Jeems. Uncle Dsn'l here said, with
the suspicion of tremor in his voice.
you oughtn't 10 talk that way. Ell you
don't look out. your wine and your
women. and yonr wulgarity will git
you into trouble


With these words on bis lips. the old
man walked back into bis sitting room.


The announcement Of the death Of
Uncle Dsn'l brought forth reminis-
cences from many members of the Stock
Exchange. The first appearance Of
Uncle Dan'l in the street ID lost in the
memory Of the oldest speculator BIZ,
the doings of his latter years are very
vivid in the minds Of many. especially
those who happened to be bitten. 1t is
RENE bered that he did not like to pay
out money. but gave note it he could.
or q check If he was forced to. This
system Of doing business. said one who
is now accounted shrewd operator, is
what broke the old man up and ruined
him He did not keep book account.
but carried in his head the record Of all
his enormous transactions. He brought
into the market all the tricks and ways
of the cattle drovers. and il WAS to an
extent owing to their ignorance of these
tactics that his opponents were worstsd
so often. The general verdict is that
if any one set out TO get anything out
Of the old man he would succeed il he
only kept up his fight long enough. A
young broker. then an office clerk. was
sent to Drew's office with David Groes.
beck, to deliver 5000 shares OF stock on
q call on Erie. Drew was not in, and
the next day he wished to repudiate
the transaction on the plea of non- de-
livery, because the difference was about
ten points against him. His broker
insisted, however. that the delivery was
made, and that the holder Of the privi-
lege should not suffer because he was
not there to take the stock. By this
argument Drew was forced to draw his
check for the difference.
Year: 1879

The County Commissioners were noti-
fed this morning that one Of the bridges
on the Harris Road in Mt. AIRY was in a
very dangerous condition and that the
same would probably have to be replaced
by new structure. The matter was re.
ferred to Commissioner Reardon with pow.
er to act.
Year: 1879

Specials to the Star.


CoopERsrowN, N. Y, Nov. 14.-The Gov
ernor having declined to interfere in the
case of Myron A. Buell., convicted of the
most brutal outrage and murder of Gather
inc Mary Richards, he will be executed by
the Sheriff of this County to-day. The
crime for which he suffers and which he
recently confessed in full, is one of the
most barbarous on record. The substance
of the story is that he worked for two years
on the farm of Ex-Supervisor Richards,
father of the girl. and that on June 25th
1878, he met Catherine in the neighbor-
hood of the COW stable, and inducing her to
go into the latter, he attempted to commit
an assault upon her, and then deliberately
killed her.


He then let out of the stable a bull that
was stabbed there, and laid the corpse of his
victim in the place where the bull had
stood, thus designing to have it appear that
death was caused by the bull. The victim
was robust, handsome girl, about fifteen
years old, while Buell. is now about twenty
two years old.


AS the dav of his death approached Buell.
grew thoughtful and read the Bible almost
continually, but the enOrmity of his crime
and the fear of death continued to grow
upon him until he almost lost his reason.
Latterly he had exhibited the most abject
cowardice, and it is feared lie will break
down when taken to the gallows.
Year: 1879

Innumerable beds of native oysters
have been exhausted, along the New.
England coast, and thousands of acres Of
oyster land are under cultivation. Two
acres Of good oyster land are said to be
as profitable q piece Of property as the
average New England farm. But the
intelligent toes of ths New England clam
digger still find no difficulty in fastening
upon their prey in its native sand. The
bakes OF Rocky Point and the annual
meetings of the greedy fat men in Nor
walk do not seem to diminish the supply.
Wonder is sometimes expressed that the
shell-ish of the New England coast are
SO plentiful, after satisfying for SO many
years the appetites Of large population,
and this wonder would be increased,
were it generally know that the untu-
tored savage who preceded us did not
shrink from his share of the labor which
has prevented the oysters and clans from
filling up our harbors. Some years ago
large quarry was opened on the rocky
shore Of the town Of Branford, Conn,
and from it the unpublished rose granite
or syenite SO freely used in the Fourth
avenue improvements, above the Forty
second-Street Depot, was taken. Hun
dreds of years had covered these rocks
with soil and turf. A short distance
from the water were pleasant groves; at
the waters edga were low and level head
lands, and just in front were little islands,
cool and shaded. Here the savage en-
ieyed his clam -bakes. Here he came in
September, having overhauled his al
manac so as to be sure that their was an
''r" in this month, and ate the Juicy
oyster When the soil was cleared from
these low headlands, broken oyster shells
and clam-shells were found lying four
feet deep under the turf. Their condi-
tion was such that their presence was
not explained by the geolosist's theory
of upheavel. What grand bakes and
roasts must these copper-colored heather
have enjoyed on that breezy shore Far
into the cool Autumn night one can see
them lingering around the campfire,
plucking the unluokY bivalve from the
ashes, and wrestling its succulent body
from its hinging shell. The white mans
water was then an unknown Injury,
and when sleep came, it was the sleep
Of the glutton.
Year: 1879

But some ladies smoke ; Yes, and


some ladies drink liquor Does that


mend the matter! The Easy Chair has


seen n lady at the head Of her own


table smoking Il fine cigar. You will


see great many hi ,hly dressed women


in Paris smoking cigarettes Does all


this change the situation? Docs this


make 1t more gentemanly to smoke in


a carriage with a lady beside you, or


upon II bench in the piazza But some


ladies like the odor of ~ cigar Not


many; and the taste of those who sin
cerely do SO cannot justify the habit of
promiscuous putting in their presence.
The intimacy of domesticy is governed
by other rules; but gentleman smoking


would hardly enter his own drawing
room, where other ladies sat with his
wife, without u word Of apology. The
Easy Chair is no King James, and is
more likely to issue blasts of tobacco
than blasts against it. But King
james belonged to a very selfish sex--a
sex which seems often to suppose that
it's indulgences and habits are to be ten
derly tolerated; for no other reason than
that they are its habits. Therefore, the
young woman must defend herself by
showing plainly that she prohibits the
intrusion of which, If suffered, she is
really the victim. In other times the
Easy Chair has seen the lovely Laura
Matilda unwilling to refuse to dance
with the partner who had bespoken her
hand for the German, although when he
presented himself he was plainly flown
with wine. The Easy Chair has seen
the hapless, foolish maid encircled by
those Bacchic arms, and then head
long whirl and dash down the room,
ending in the promiscuous overthrow and
downfall Of the maid, Bacchus and mu-
sicians. If in the Grandisonian day
the morals were wanting. it was some
thing to have manners. They at least
were at least to the imagination a
memory and prophecy. They recalled
the idyllic age when fine feelings, and
they foretold the return of Astea to her
ancient haunts Here is young Adonis
dreaming Of four.in-hand and yacht,
like any other gentleman. Let US hope
that he knows the test Of gentleman
not to be the ownership Of blood horses
and a unique drag, but perfect courtesy
founded upon fine human feeling--that
rare and Understandable gsntleness and
consideration which rests upon manner
as light as the bloom upon fruit. 1t
may be initiated, as gold and diamonds
are. But no counterfeit can harm it;
and, Adonis, it is incompatible with
in a lady's face, even if she
acquiesces. - Editors Easy Chair in
Harpers.
Year: 1879

We are having lovely weather now, the
true Indian Summer" Of the prairies, hay
is all secured and loads Of golden corn are
In transit from field to crib. Little plow
ing being dore but farmers are looking
for the means to buy a few more head of
young stock, and calves are in good de-
mand Our hopes of a railroad seem to
have good found alton, and grade stakes
ale anxiously looked for A town is
talked about and parties are looking 10
the main chance. Some ioveley town
sites are being looked and i, is to be hop
ed that the Iron Horse will soon put in an
appearance.


q WAnRInCu
Year: 1879

t GRANGEvILLE, Dec. 8.


Ed. TELLER: There will be Sun
day school concertgiven by the Grange
vile Sunday school children about the
holidays. They are making extensive
preparations for the event, and we will
expect something worthy of the effort.
There seems to be some dissatisfaction
about the way we are treated by the
stage company in regard to the mail
from this point to Mt. Idaho. We
mail letter here and it is carried to
Lewiston, thence to Mt Idaho, rather
a round about way, we must admit.
Just where the fault lays we are not
prepared to say. If it is with the
company, they should at once see to
it that we get mail sack to be car
ried between the two points. If the
postnasters neglect their duty in not
forwarding Che sack, if such one be-
longs to us, we do ask that the matter
be inquired into, for it has become an
noying. There will be a grand dress
ball given in the Grange hall on
Christmas Eve. The invitations will
be general. They anticipate good
time.


We have not had any severe wealth
ter yet this Winter. Monday morning
the thermometer indicated twelve de
grees above zero, which was by all
odds the coolest we have had yet The
weatherwise predict that we are to
have mild Winter, as the Chenook
winds have come very early. The ex
pressman reports fifteen inches Of snow
on the Elk City trail, three feet on tht
Warrens route, and about the same OF
the Pierce City trail, not an unusua
depth Of snow for this time Of year
The services held by TIE Rev. MIR
Hall are increasing in interest eacl
Sabbath evening, and the house is vel
| filed. His sermons are listened to at
tentively. The singing oy the choir i
very much admired. Mr. TELLER, i
ever the reporter OF your paper wh'
wrote that article about one of ou
citizens and the bottle Of hair vigo
comes to this town and falls into tn


hands of that gentleman, in less thar
two hours there will net be enough o
him left for the coroner TO hold an in
quest over. q There is still mucl
sickness in the neighborhood, genei
ally from cold. Mr.. Martin is herr
trying to organize writing class fo


the Winter, something that is yer,
much needed, and no doubt he will
raise a large class. He is spoken o
as an excellent penman. TEMUs.
Year: 1879

Down in Washington County, on its
northern border, lived a religious sect
known as the Amish Church, with Pc
culiar views. They discard all show in
dress and living. The men wear no
collars on their coats or buttons on their
clothes. The women wear no buttons.


They are considered devices of the devil.
Only hooks and eyes were tolerated by
either sex. Their preacher, Benjamin
Eicher, learned and progressive man,


became imbued with the spirit of the
ace, and made an innovation on their
tenets by declaring that the acts of men
were of more Importance than what
they wore. This was the beginning of
a division and the church divided itself
into hooks and eyes and buttons. The
controversy was bitter. The hooks and
eyes were headed by one Conrad, who
denounced the buttoners as heretics.


The preacher one day came to his pull
pit with collar and buttons on his
coat. This was an objectionable sin
with the Conrads. He had daughter
who was educated and refined, taught
music and also was teacher in the pub
lie schools. A son of the elder Con-
rad, brought up in the faith of his fa-
ther, in the heat of the contest made re-
marks against the virtue of the young
lady. She brought an action against
him for SANDER, and last week the case
was tried, resulting in verdict for $500
against young Conrad. 1t was plainly
apparent that the Scandalous words


were the result of a mistaken belief that
because she had departed from the hook
and eye faith she was UNANIMOUSLY bad.
As she sought only a vindication of her
good name, she will not demand the
money.-St. Paul. MINI. J Pioneer Press,
Year: 1879

DR.. F. l.. Ponds hospital in this city, the
largest institution in the United States, es-
pecially devoted to the treatment of this
particular disease is full of patients from all
over the Union. These patients, both male
and female, are of all ages and conditions,
and afflicted with every imaginary form Of
visit to the hospital, the other day, convinced
us that all of these sufferers have implicitfaith
in the skill of DR.. Pond, and those whose
cases are most critical only regret that they
had not availed themselves of his services be-
fore suffering years of worse than useless
treatment i'll other hands. The most peri ect
system, good order and neatness is appare mt
everywhere; the Doctor makes 1t point to
personally look after the care and comfort Of
each patient, and the smile of gratitude with
which he is welcomed in every room is evi-
dence tnat his efforts i'll their behalf are duly
appreciated. Each succeeding visit to the
Aurora Cancer Hospital more fully impresses
us in the belief that it is the most admirably
conducted institution of the kind in the
country, and that its energetic and skillful
proprietor is doing a wonderfully-successful
work in the relief and cure of persons afflicted
in this direction.


The hospital is full of patients-arrivals
and departures being of almost daily occur
renee. At the hospital, his powerful electro
galvanic battery is in excellent working order,
and frequently proves of inestimable value in
the removal of monster tumors without draw
ing blood, and the performance of other diff
cult and dangerous operations. Scrofula and
skin diseases of all kinds are treated with sue
cess by the DR.. Send for information on.-BeacO1,.
Year: 1879

There is no modern fashionable notion quito
so absurd as the generally received idea that
to be beautiful and attractive, woman must
possess a wan, Spi1ituelle face and figure of
sylph-like proportions-a fragility in nine
cases out of ten the result of disease. By
many fashionable bellies it is considered a
special compliment to be spoken Of as frail
and delicate. They forget that the naturally
delicate face and petite figure are very differ
ent from the pale and diseas2-stricken faces
that meet us in the city thoroughfares, look
out from the luxuriant carriages of wealth,
and glide languidly through our crowded
drawing-rooms. If disease were unfashion-
able, as it ought to be, not lady in the land
but would take every possible precaution to se-
cure the fresh, blooming face and we'll
rounded figure that only health can give.
Ladies should remember that much as gentle
men may profess to admire the face and form
paled and emaciated by disease, when they
choose wife they prefer blooming, health
full, buoyant-spirited woman. DR.. Pierce's
Favorte Prescription is the acknowledged
standard remedy for female diseases and
weaknesses. 1t has the two-fOld advantage
of curing the local disease and imparting a
vigorous tone to the whole system. 1t is sold
by druggists.
Year: 1879

One of the gentlemen from Bangor
recently made seventeen speeches in
the Maine House, and then remarked
that if the members would only stop
talking so much the business could be
dispatched more expeditiously.
Year: 1879

A MAN STRUCK by A COAL GAFF AND


KNOCKED SENS ELEss.


r. Is morning, few minutes before
IL o'clock, colored man named Will
Inn Gibbs was injured SO badly that it
Is very pob bic hs will die from
The effects II the injury.


Tie unforuna man was engaged at
work with number of others in unload
ing coal fr,m boat lying at the wharf
Of the Old Ferry rolling mill over
rhi,d street bridge, when, by some
means, notch in coal gaff slipped,
and ia ling struck him on the head with
such force as to knock him TO the ground
senseless in which condition he remain
ed some time. -.


Upon examination II was found the
gaff had tut large, deep and ugly
wound on the left side of his head. lie
was placed upon settee procured from
a near resident, and carried to his home
on Orange st eet between Tenth and
Eleventh.


DIR. West summoned and sewed up
the cut. 1t is very probable that the
man Is alS injured Internally, and that
his Injuries will prove fatal.
Year: 1879

If the Illinois legislature was to declare
everyone in contempt who actually has
contempt for that body 1.-THE jails and pri-
sous would not hold the half of them.
That's the kind of opinion the people haYe
Of their law makers,
Year: 1879

Our country is getting to be fearfully
alarming, the average Of life being less
ened every year, without any reasonable
cause, death resulting generally from the
most Insignificant origin. At this season
of the year especially. cUld is such q
common thing that in the hurry of every
day life we are apt to overlook the dam
gers attending it and often find too late,
that Fever or Lung trouble has already
set in. Thousands lose their lives in
this way every winter, while had Bos-
chefs German Syrup been taken, q cure
would have resulted, and . large bill
from . doctor been advoided. For all
diseases Of the Throat and Lungs, Boz
chec's German Syrup has proven itself to
to be the greatest discovery of its kind
in medicine. Every Druggist in this
country will tell you Of its wonderful
Effect. Over $4,000 bottles sold last
year without single failure known.
Year: 1879

age. These periods of enormous dura-
ton of time sink into inSigniicance be-
fore the history of the solar system as a
whole.


We find wide relation between the
parts of the solar system, in all that the
planets, from the mightiest globe to the
smallest satellite, except one of Uranus,
move i'll their paths in the same direc-
ton. Astronomers would he AS much
surprised TO see one of the asteroids
which 200 have been discOvered-going
i'll the opposite direction as to see the
sun rise i'll the West.


All the heavenly bodies are parts of
some mighty whole. BY the nebulaT
hypothesis, the whole solar system was
once an enormous mass of gaseous mat
ter, which began turning like a disc.
Tnen the outer part became discovered
and formed one orb; the next and the
next followed, until there was only
central sun left to rule the entire
system. Each planet went through the
same process, rings after rings and sat
elites after satellites were formed. This
nebular theory accounts for the general
features. 1t is not opposed by facts
HC dlOO DC COIi-
sidered. Prof. Newton, of Yale College
estimates that the earth is increased by
400,0O0,0OO every year. This may amount
to thousands of tons of matter, but it is
nothing as compared with the mass of
the earth. Still we may say the earth is
growing; but her growth is only like
that of one who has already attained
his full stature. These meteOrs are only
the residue of a residue, the few left out
of the millions of the past. In remote
ages the earth must have met far more
From rough calculation made, find
that my assumption must have been
wrong, or the earth would have inereas-
ed tenfold more than she did. But we
may rightly contend that no small part
of the mass of the earth is formed from
meteoric aggregations. If we take La
Places theory with the meteOrie, we
may account for the present condition
of our planet. And as the earth, and in
deed all the matter we knOw--Our bo-
dies and brains-have come down from
the heavens, is it any wonder that all
our higher thoughts and aspirations are
heavenward?