smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

ored kid slippers and sandals are worn
with elegant watering-placp drawing
room toilets.


A favorite way Of wearing the broad
sash so popular at present IS to place it
around the waist to form a belt, and to
tie it carelessly on the left side in large.
loose knot.


Hamburg cdging of a rich pattern, with
all the ground or muslin cutaway, is us d
for stripping the tabliers of pongee dresses
and dresses of otner monochrome material.
Black grenadine dresses are relieved by
transparent sleeves of black Spanish lace,
and there are beaded sleeves with vest to
match worn with heavy black silk trained
dresses.


Dark olive, gendarmc blue, myrtle
green, and very deep wine color are the
best selections for the contrast with Poni-
padour silks, and are worn indiscriminate-
ly by blondes and brunettes.


Furniture coverings are of thick Gre
tonne; the colors are olive with yellow.
slate color and blue, tan with rose and
dark blue with white. Only two colors
are shown in the new combinations.


Lace sleeves are seen on all dressy
silks used for dinner and evening When
these are white, they are usually of Val
encicnnes, but if the scarf or sash is
white Spanish lace, the sleeves should
correspond.


A very preceptible change, says Paris
correspondent, is coming over the man
ncr of dressing the hair, doubtless occa
casioned by the different style Of bonnet
now in vogue. The hair is worn neither
very high nor very low; the chiguon, or
back hair, scarcely reaches the bandeau,
and falls only to the top Of the nape of
the neck. The hair is worn close to the
head, and there is no extra size or bulki-
ness aimed at; the front hair is cut and
fringed, but all exaggeration is avoided.
The hair should never touch the eyelids;
if it does the effect is hideous; but then
again, if the hair is too short the forehead
looks bare. The just medium is attained
by letting the hair fall to the centre of
the forehead in The very lightcst curly
waves possible. Plaits-to which we al
ways return-are again to be seen. most
people arc content with wearing their
own hair, but many wear false additions,
which TO be comfortable should be as
light as possible.
Year: 1879

4 Man Who Wants to Eat Five Ounces of


Opium Each Day.


New York STAR


"Opium! opium for heavens sake give me
opium!'' cried poor fellow in one of the
wards of ST. Vincent's hospital last night.
The doctors and Sisters of Mercy who sur
rounded him kindly but firmly refused to
give him what he wanted. They substituted
mild narcotic, which mitigated, but did not
stop the mans cravings. The man who was
begging so piteously for the drug was Thomas
Francis, once well-known baseball player,
and formerly pitcher for the old Atlantic
club. He had been sent to the hospital from
the Ninth precinct police station, to which
last he had come as prisoner, having been
caught by Mr.. Henry Van Buskirk, of No.
2l Eighth avenue, stealing some crockery
from the kitchen.


In the station house Francis said that he
had stolen the crockery, intending to sell it
to get money to buy opium. He was put
into cell, but he had not been there long
before he began to rave like maniac. The
police surgeon was called, and he found the
prisoner trembling like an aspen leaf, and
suffering from extreme nervousness. The
man was so seriously i'll that it was resolved
to send him to the hospital. It required the
united efforts of two strong men to hold him
in the ambulance on the way, however, and
in his paroxysms he bit the hand of one of
the surgeons. he struggled when being car
| ried up the steps at the porch, and fought
| when taken into the ward.


In one of his more rational moments he
gave the doctors brief account of his ex-
perience as an opium eater. He said that
! while playing match game of base ball
several years ago he was hit in the side with
| ball, which came flying through the air at
a terrible speed. Two of his ribs were
broken and he was injured internally. The
physicians who attended him gave him small
doses of opium to alay the pain and secure
| him sleep at night. The result was that
Francis acquired taste for the drug. It
was not long before he required an ounce of
fluid extract of opium daily. The habit
grew upon him rapidly, and at last the large
quantity of five ounces was required each
day-from one-haf to one ounce being
enough to kill an ordinary man. He made
desperate efforts to escape from the habit,
but in vain.


Francis is a member of respectable fam
ily in Brooklyn. His opium habit incapaci-
tated him for business, and his friends re-
fused to give him money to purchase the
drug. In his desperatlopp ne resorteo TO
theft. Although he is only rs years of age,
the effects of the opium have made him look
like man of 50. Deep lines are in his face,
his cheeks are sunken, and his eyes have a
peculiar CLASSY appearance. Ten years ago
he was one of the most popular professional
ball players in the country. At one time he
was paid salary of $4,000 per annum, and
a share in the gate money for his services as
pitcher. He distinguished himself in matches
with the Atlantic club, played with the Hay
makers, the Red Stockings, and other noted
organizations.
Year: 1879

plant trees; plant for yourself ana ana
plant for the future. Their growth Will
add yearly to the farm almost as fast as
a mortgage will consume it, and IN
place of planting mortgages, as so many
are prone to do, plant trees. The
former fills the future life of the farmer
with sadness, dependency and griet,
the latter with joy, thrift and hope
Kansas FarIueT.
Year: 1879

Thomas s. Backmaster, laboring un-
der temporary insanity caused by ex-
treme physical suffering, took his own
life last night about 1890 o'clock by
shooting himself through the heart
with pistol. Mr.. Buckmaster came
to this city from Kent county years
ago, he having lived in the vicinity of
Lripsic and Dover. He was carpen-
ter and builder, and worked at his
trade there, years after he came to this
city.


Being troubled with kidney affection
about Ave years ago he had to stop
work since which time he has suffered
untold misery, his disease being so Sc
we're that he was at times temporarily
insane, and frequently threatened to
take his own life. Yesterday evening
his disease was unusually severe, but
in talking with his son Frederick, he
appeared perfectly rational and seemed
very much gratitied when his son told
him that after this week he would have
no business to call him out in the even
ing and he would remain at home
with him.


EThs family all retired to bed last
night as usual except the son Fredrick
who had not yet came in. About 10
o'clock Mrs. Buckmaster who slept in
an adjoining room to her husband was
awakened by the noise of somebody
going down stairs and n investigating
the cause she found that her husband
had gone down stairs and was about
returning carrying lamp in her hand.


She accompanied him to his room, and
sat up for some time when her hus band
asked her why she did not go to bed,
to which she replied that she was sit
ting up to take care of him. Mrs.
Buckmaster knowing that he made
threats of taking his life, when laboriDg
under severe suffering, took a knife
which was near by down stairs to Sc
crete it and while doing so she thought
Of pistol usually kept in closet, but
looking for it found that it was miss
ing.


The thought striking her that her
daughter had hidden the pistol in an
other place, she looked in that place
also and found it missing. Hurrying
to go up stairs again she had but reach
ed the first step when she was Mortified
to hear the report of the pistol in her
husbands room, and huarying into the
roUm found her husband lying on his
back on the floor breathing his last,
death having been almost instantane-
Gus. Mr.. Buckmaster had got the pis-
tol while he was down stairs, and not
withstanding that his wife was with
him he had succeeded in secreting it
beneath the bed clothes without her
seeing it.


From the position of the body it was
shown that Mr.. B. had lain down on
his back, while he held the muzzle of the
pistol close to his left side so that the
ball would strike the heart, and with
the right hand he had touched off the
trigger that sent the leaden messenger
on its errand of death. Mr.. Buckmas-
ter was GS years of age last December,
and leaves five sons and four daug ghters
all grown up, and wife.


The coroner being notified held an in
quest last night, when the jury render
ed a verdict of death from pistol shot by
his own hands while laboring under
temporary attack of insanity. The re-
mains of Mr.. Buekmaster will be in
tered in Riverview Cemetery, to NOR
row (Thursday) at two o'clock.
Year: 1879

County nperrisorS.-ihcrc will be Il
called meeting Of the Board Of Supervisors
OF Chesterfield county this morning at |
O'Clock, ut The courthouse, TO take action
concerning the refusal, OH the part OF the
president and Board Of Bridge Commits
sioncrs CT the Free bridge, to Use the funds
recently appropriated hy the supervisors
towards the repairing OF the bridge Tie
Bridge Commissioners being Unable to
guarantee 10 the citizens OF Chesterfield one
years travel free over the bridge (aS re-
quired by The resolution adopted by
the supervisors ut their last meet
ing), consequently refused the funds
appropriated by them towards the
Improvement OF the bridge. There is no
dnrbt but that the supervisors OF Chester
field will Immediately change the resolution
adopted by them relating to the appropria-
tion recently made 50 Is to come into con-
iormity with the desires OF the commission
ers. The people Of Chesterfield arc anxious
for the bridge to be repaired. and will not
hesitate in the least TO literally contribute
funds towards its maintenance and sup
port.
Year: 1879

POTTER's Committee has returned
from New Orleans with no infOTms-
ton on the fraud question, rot h card
Of before. For goodness sake, MI
Potter, adjourn sine die and cease
making an ass of yourself
Year: 1879

An exchange says that the only
jokes women like to read are those
which reflect ridicule on men, and
asserts in proof that on taking up
a paper, a women invariably turns
to the marriage column. This is a
high-menial charge against the fair
sex.-Graphic.
Year: 1879

An editors life is full of sunny
spots-sunny as the south side of
a straw stack in May-and one of
them is when, in the gratitude Of
his heart he stands treat to man
who praised his paper, announced
himself supporter and a constant
reader of it, and promised to ad-
wise all his friends to support it in
the same way, only to discover the
enthusiastic mans support consists
in regularly borrowing the paper
from friend.-Toronto National.
Year: 1879

Choice creamery butter from the
dairies of the United States is in excel
lent favor in the markets OF England,
but just at this particular Bush and
warm season of the year prices in the
English market leave no margin of profit
for the producer.
Year: 1879

Chicago, July 22.-Active measures
are being undertaken to rid the city of
crooks and confidence men, which bore
fruit tonight, in a decision made at
conference among them, to leave the
city at once, although the races begin
ming tomorrow promise rich field for
their labor.
Year: 1879

The Adams Express Company sent
down this morning from Camden five
carrier pigeons to the Adams Express
agency at this place requesting that
they be let loose in tins city. The
pigeons were taken to the top of the
watch tower of the City Hall where
they were at ll.37 A. NJ. liberated at
once. After executing several circles
over the Jackson & Sharp works, two OF
them took a line direct for Camden
closely followed by the other two. The


fifth one apparently settled somewhere
as it was hid from view from the first.
Year: 1879

The man Mcguire so badly abused by
a police officer while making an arrest,
was discharged from New Castle Jail on
Sunday. He cannot however, use his
fingers from the effects of the severe
pressure of the nippers around his
wrist.
Year: 1879

THE RESOLUTION OFFERED IN THE HOUSE BY


MR.PoTTEE EXPECTED TO CAUSE a LIVELY DIS
CUssIoN--HAYES WILL MAKE HIS NoNISATIoN


FOR MINISTER TO GERMANY To-DAY-THE


CHIEF CLERK OF THE INDIAN BUREAU-wILL
THE PRESIDENT VETO THE PENSION ARREARS


BILL.


Special to the Sentinel.


WAsHINGToS, Jan. 20.-Mr. Potter attempted
to get up his resolution to investigate the
cipher dispatches under suspension of the
rules but Mr. Butler objected, and it was fin
ally agreed that it should come up tomorrow.
Mr.. Butler will oppose the adoption
of the resolution claiming that it
Is not alleged that de dispatches implicate the
president in any way, or effect his title, and
that what ever may be shown to connect
T1lden with them, he being private citizen,
is not subject to impeachment, and hence
the investigation in any event would
prove fruitless and void of results. 1t is ex
pected that the introduction of the resolution
will occasion sharp and possibly protracted
debate, and it is believed that the opposition of
Mr. Butler is made at the suggestion Of men
of both parties who feel tnat no good can come
of the investigation.


1t is expected that the nomination to fill the
vacancy at Berlin viii be sent to the Senate
tomorrow. The name of the nominee has
not yet been given to the press.


1t now transpires that the Chief Clerk of
the Indiana Bureau has been suspended for
thirty days, but that no charges have as yet
been preferred against him.


The statements made thai the president will
veto the arrears of the pensions biH is prema-
ture, as ne has come to no conclusion
in the matter. 1t is now
regarded however, as an unwise piece of leg
islation, and it is stated upon seemingly good
authority that several senators have called
upon the president and admitted that they
were not fully Informed in regard to
the bill when they voted for it
Secretary sherman says it will take fifty mil
lions out OF the treasury, and it is said he will
use his influence with the president to secure
aveto


The committee to consider and report upon
the Butler-Corbin contest did not have a
quorum to-day.
Year: 1879

again on the stand. He was cross-examined,
and said that the following order was sent
Major Reno by General Custer: "Major Reno
You will advance and try to
overtake the Indians, and when you do so
charge them. Take the scouts with YOU, This
contradicts the testimony of Lieutenant Wal
lace that the order was given by Colonel Cook.
Girard was cross-examined on this point but
Strci- To
Year: 1879

The best religion is that which will make a
colored man sit down content to eat corn bread
for supper. knowing at the same time that a
ueghbor has fat chickens and no dog in his yard
Year: 1879

Thomas Riley was arraignsd at the
police court last evening on the charge
of a larceny Of pair Of shoes. Edward
Lee who resides on Third street near
Tatnall, testified to the defendant stop
ping at his house last Saturday even
ing, begging for money. Yesterday
morning the same man deliberately
walked into the house and taken new
pair of shoes and walked out as coolly
AS though nothing had happened. Wit
ness did not see the prisoner take the
shoes but his mother missed them soon as
the man left the house. Officer Brickel
testified to arrssting the prisoner yes
terday morning. A party who had
taken the shoes from the prisoner re-
turned them to the officer. Riley was
ordered to be sent to New Castle for
sixty days.
Year: 1879

There was but .ne case tried at the
police station last Saturday evening. A
lad named Terrell Dougherty was charg
ed with cutting down several trees on
the Brandywine at the foot of Frank.
lin street. Officer Taylor who made the
arrest could not swear that the defend
ant had committed the act though he
was told by several lads that Dougher-
ty was the boy. The testimony not be-
ing sufficient to hold the boy the case
was dismissed. His Honor said that
complaints have been numerous of late
of boys mulilating the trees on the
Brandywine and the guilty parties will
be severely dealt with.
Year: 1879

Opium is the most dangerous drug,
especially when given to children in
the shape Of a soothing remedy. DR..
Bulls Baby Syrup is warranted not to
contain opium in any form, and is the
most innocent and eficaoious remedy
for children teething or suffering with
Wind Collie, Diarrh1s Or Dysentery.
Price Is cents bottle. For sale At all
drug stores.
Year: 1879

Byron Lapaire was arrested by officer
Mccormick last Saturday evening. The
officer found his man on Water street
between Market and King, so drunk
that he could hardly stand up. Officer
Mccormick conducted his prisoner to
the hall, and at the trial last evening
Byron was ordered to pay fine of SO
cents and costs.
Year: 1879

Yesterday morning about so passen-
gers went on the Delaware Western
Railroad to the oolored camp at Avon
dale. Next Sunday is what is termed
the "big day" and no doubt there will
be a large attendance Of parties from
this tity at the camp.
Year: 1879

About ten O'clock yesterday, the
Water Witch steam yacht pleasurins
company was preparing to take u short
sail, for which occasion they had So
cured keg OF lager beer. On getting
it down to the wharf they decided that
the best plan to get it on board the
yacht would be to roll it over into til.
water and then lift 1t on board. 1t went
under the water, however, when several
of them stripped and dived down to
the bottom, but failed to get it, and


thus they were compelled to go without
their beer.
Year: 1879

Jackson Tribune and Sun: A field
OH the farm of Mr.. EwelI, east of Cot
ton Grove, in this county, is causing
great excitement. 1t seems that for
some time past the tread of persons
and animals passing over it sounds
hollow like drum, as if a cave exist
ed below. Lately these sounds grew
more distinct, and seemed to indicate
that the earth over the supposed sub
terranean cavity was a mere shell.
Persons could hear loose dirt break
from the crust as persons and animals
passed over and then could hear a
splash, as if the loosened dirt had fall
en- many feet into lake of water.
These strange sounds grew more fire.
quent and palmer, until the field was
abandoned in alarm. No entrance TO
the supposed cave has yet been discov-
cred, although vigorous search has
been made. There is considerable ex-
citement in the neighborhood, and
various conjectures are indulged in.
The following amusing anecdote is
told: A few days before the field was
abandoned man was plowing in il.
He kept hearing the hollow sounds
and the falling and splashing of loose
dirt. His imagination was highly
wrought up and terror was rapidly
getting possession Of his soul. Sud
denly his horse stumbled and fell to
the ground and the terrified plowman
thinking that his animal had fallen
into the abyss below, and that the
ground beneath him was giving
away, broke and fed in a panic, nor
turned to view the scene behind until
he was well out of the mysterious
field. He was greatly astonished
when he did look around to see the
field in statu quo, the horse standing
patiently in the field awaiting devel-
opments, and the field itself still peace
fully glistening with its green fruit
under the summer sun. Our plow-
man returned TO his work, but very
soon after this the field was abandon
ed and is now regarded with awe by
the people of the ncighborhood.
Year: 1879

People who have warm friends are
healthier and happier than those who
have none. \ single real friend is
treasure worth more than gold or
precious stones. Money can buy
many things good and evil. All the
wealth in the world could not buy q
friend or pay for the loss of one. 81
have wanted only one thing to make
me happy" Haslitt writes, "but want
ing that, have wanted everything, and
again, my heart, shut up in prison of
rude clay, has never found, nor will il
find, heart to speak to-" We are the
weakest of spendthrifts if we let one
friend drop off through inattention, or
let one push away another; or if we
hold aloof from one for petty jealousy
or needless slight or roughness.
Would you throw away a diamond
because it provoked you? One good
friend is not to be weighed against tho
jewels of the earth.
Year: 1879

Nothing makes a man so in love
with purity as purity. Many a man
has been lifted out of debasing sins
against which he has vainly struggled,
by coming to know and love pure,
sweet woman. II is the sight of en-
bodied goodness that makes us want
to be good. Many mother, by the
quiet usefulness of her life, fills her
children with a desire to be like her
that makes them i'm their turn unset
fish. There arc obscure men and wo-
men who hardly in their lives utter
word of conscious teaching, who by
their example do more to make people
around them gentle and truthful and
Christianlike, than any preacher can
do. 1t is not those who talk about
goodness, but those who are good
that are the light of the world.
Year: 1879

FROM the Boston Herald.


The Democratic party has been driven by
It's Southern masters, by force Of circum-
stances, and by lack Of harmony ON all other
issues, to accept as its sole doctrine the old
Calhoun dogma of State Rights.--New York
Mail.


The above is fair sample of the
paragraphs we find too common in the
Republican organs. No distinction is
made in such paragraphs between the
doctrine of State sovereignty, the fruit
of which was secession, decided
against in the late war, and State
rights, which is the correct doctrine
under the Constitution, the most vital
of the principles underlying our gov
ernment, and as important for New
England as for any section of the
Union. How far State rights should
extend is question upon which hon
est and patriotic men may differ, but
we do not understand that the Demo-
cratic party, or any section of it, main
tains that the States are not subordi-
nate TO the National Government in
all those functions which the Constitu-
ton cOnfcrs on the National Govern
ment, or that they are in duty bound
to accept the Constitution, with all its
amendments included, as the supreme
law of the land. Yet these Republi-
can organs are doing all they can to
teach the young citizens Of this coun-
try-thOse who have come of age since
the war--that there is something
reasonable and revolutionary in the
principle of State rights, and the
phrase is habitually used with con-
tempt and covered with odium. This
is all wrong. 1t leads to the most er-
roneous ideas of our form of govern
ment. 1t implies that ours is cen
tralized government like France with
an unwritten Constitution like En-
gland thata majority in Congress,
the President consenting, has no linn
itations to its power to do whatever il
sees fit to do. When the nation was
making a supreme effort for its own
life, the Constitution was neglected
and sometimes violated. There is no
longer excuse for such treatment of it.
1t alone makes us a nation, secures
freedom to the late slaves, and equal
rights for all under the laws, We can
not guard it too carefully. Its pro-
visions securing the rights of the
States are as sacred as those giving
power to the nation. They guard us
against the encroachments of power
which possesses in the highest degree
the capacity for self-aggrandizement.
New England is especially interested
in maintaining this principle of State
rights in its most comprehensive char
acter. 1t has realized its importance
in the past, and may be called upon to
defend it in the future. We beseech
the Republicans who denounce State
rights as something infamous and
wicked, to look beyond the next cleo
ton and be wise in time.
Year: 1879

One of the most used words during
the great rebellion, and one which had
its origin at about the time of the
Bull Run defeat, was "skedaddle."
Some bogus philologists tried to trace
its origin from the Greek. But this
was voted fraudulent. 1t was simply
an army word, perhaps growth,
possibly an inspiration. Nor was
there ever a satisfactory explanation
of its origin,