smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878




vERACITY.


In regard to the witness, introduced on
Friday In the Vanderbilt viii case, who claimed TO be
widow Of the late DR.. stoddard Ia claim denied by
Mrs Stoddard Of Poughkeepse, who declares that she
the true and lawful widow Of the dead doetOr Scott
Lord Of the counsel the contestants said yesterday
have not the witness since Bne left the court
the day of her examination but have no reason 10
doubt her claim From independent evidence know that
lived with DR.. stOddard and by him was introduced
and recognized his ife. whether there was legal
divorce from the first wife fdo not know whether the
later marriage In all respects perfect These spirit
uasts not require. perhaps, all the formaes ana
rites that demanded by persons Of different faiths
The witness will take the stand again tomorrow and
think probable that she be able to explain the
matter I do not deny that DR.. StOddard may
have had former wife whom he discarded, for have
not had TO Inquire into that matter, but from
credible authority, independent OF this witness am
confident that ts woman was the wife OF the DOCTOR


at sure, also" continued Mr.. Lord, THAT she nad
the interviews with the Vanderoilts 70 which she has
testified. A long time ago was told that Commodore
StOddard and a few months ago / was Informed that
StOddard widow had been present the interviews
between the doctor and the Vanderbts. The dscrep-
ancy In the name Is very slight In her testimony she
stated that her husbands name was Charles Amas9.
The doctor have found convenient TO change MS
name, partially at least during his residence IN TINS
city"
Year: 1878

The Fort Smith Independent says :
Taking the Iron Mountain Railroad as
a line running through the State of Ar
kansas. the late Democratic State Con
yention, which has just adjourned at Lit
tie Rock, did not nominate man for of
fee northwest of that line. The same
thing took place two years ago in the
nomination for State officers. Put that
in your pipe and smoke it,


How about the Secretary of State I
He falls over the northwest line. Then,
again, but for the pertinacity of Logan
and Yell counties-two of the Indepen.
dents nextdoor neighbors--the great
northwest" would have had place on
the ticket. They could, but would not
"Smoke that" Judge.
Year: 1878

ton whose pride is in its honor, whose
glory is in the universally of its educa.
ton whose strength is in the love OF
its sons and daughters, and whose high
est ambition shall continue to be The
LAND OF THE FREE, AND THE HOME OF
TIE BRAVE.o
Year: 1878

In the diary of Lady Chatterton, just
published in London, that lady relates
an amusing incident in her mothers
first presentation to King George Ill.
when my mother appeared, with her
hair powdered after the fashion of the
time, the good-natured King was SO
glad to see her that the conventional
kiss, given to young girls on their first
presentation, was, on this occasion, SO
hearty and affectionate that his nose
became covered with the powder of her
hair. The Kings face being rather red,
the white powdered nose produced a
most ludicrous effect, and the lords in
waiting, perceiving suppressed laughter
among the Court, and seeing the
difficulty each succeeding lady expert
enced in keeping her countenance as
she advanced, ventured to say to the
King, Your Majesty has powdered
your nose.' The King not quite hear
ing, but perceiving that something must
he wrong, became alarmed, and said:
'What-what-what' the matterP-my
nose! my nose' My mother was al


most convulsed with laughter, which
she tried in vain to suppress when she
saw Queen Charlotte's severe eyes fixed
reprovingly on her. At last the King
understood what had occurred, and as
he wiped the powder from his nose he
burst into a hearty laugh, to the great
comfort of my mother, who was then
able to take her place in the Minuet de
la Cour with becoming gravity"
Year: 1878

Few Americans have any knowledge
of what it costs to keep a great histori-
cal house and title. When DIR. Longley
was Archbishop of Canterbury he was
entitled to various livings whose yield
was nearly f2Oo,O per annum, and yet
such was the expense of the archiepis-
copal position that he died in penury,
and were it not that the Queen secured
the admission of his daughter to Hamp-
ton Court, she would have been without
roof to her head. The Marquis of
Butte has an income from his estates of
f5OO, 900 year, but SO much of this has
to go back to keep up the estates that
his actual net income is less than Il
twelfth of this amount. In the case of
the Duke of Chatworth, 200 servants
sit down to his tables, and they in turn
have each servant to wait on them.
The same thing prevails everywhere,
and applies to the Queen as to all others.
London Letter.
Year: 1878

1t has always been a subject of curl
osify and inquiry as to how and where
prairie dogs, living on the prairie far
away from any river or stream, obtain
their water. Mr.. +. Leech, formerly of
Mercer County, Pa, and a frontiersman
of experience, asserts that the dogs dig
their own wells, each village having one
with a concealed opening. 1t matters
not how far down the water may be, the
dogs will keep on digging until they
reach it. He knows of one such well
200 feet deep, and having circular
staircase leading down to the water.
Every time dog wants drink he de-
scends this staircase, which, consider
ing the distance, is no mean task. In
digging for water the animals display as
much pluck as in resisting the efforts of
settlers to expel them from the land of
their ogenitors.-Erchange.
Year: 1878

THE healthy growth of the baby is depend
ent upon its freedom from the pernicious eff
fects Of opium. DIR. Bulls Baby Syrup is the
best remedy known for the diseases of early
childhood.
Year: 1878

A WRITER in Science Gossip observes
that all grazing snimals eat a great
quantity of earth. Earth seems COM
Portable to their insides and it is certain
that they enjoy it. He used to ride a
horse, be says, which, being regularly
fed on hay and corn and not turned cut
to grass, pined for little dirt. "Find-
ing out this sometimes let him 90 to a
hedge.bank, slackened the rein and
watched him scoop out with his tongue
earth enough to fill pint pot. This, I
think, is tie reason why horse SO often
stirs up the mud in pond with his hoof
before drinking. Many horses will paw
tho water even when passing clear
stream, giving their riders the fear that
they want to lie down in it,
Year: 1878

NATURE never does anything without
an intelligent purpose. For example,
the eye, as DR.. Paley has demonstrated
at great length, and in the most conclus-
i've manner, was made to see with. So,
too, man was furnished with mustache
in order that the cracking noise made
by it when it takes fire from match
while he is in the act of relighting a
cigar stump may warn him to withdraw
his nose from the flames. In short, the
evidence that nature always has pur-
pose in whatever she does is go conclusive
that it may b, unhesitatingly assumed
that when she endowed woman with a
lap and withheld that gift from man,
she acted in pursuance of a prsiseworthy
design.
Year: 1878

A STRANGE story OF the sea is told by
captain just arrived at New York.
His vessel, the Allahabad, took fire when
two weeks out bound for New York.
He fastened down the matches, soaked
the decks, and made for the nearest port.
A large force of men finally extinguished
the fire, but the whole cargo had to be
taken out. While waiting there to
reload he received the captain of the
coal>lsden new English ship Glen Ericht,
who had abandoned his vessel at sea on
fire. After the Allahabad set sail again
and was well on her voyage, she came
up with the Glen Ericht still ahoat with
her Goals still burning. She was
abandoned in December and found in
April. All that time she had been
drifting about the waste of the ocean.
Perhaps she is drifting yet. The wood
was all destroyed, but the iron hull was
sound and tight at last accounts.
Year: 1878

A reduction in the temperature of the
2,000-feet level OF the Savage mine, from
l2O degrees to 81 degrees, since the
Sutro tunnel penetrated that mine, is
now reported and the cooling process is
still going on. If the air>draft through
the tunnel into the mines can reduce the
temperature 26 degrees in so short time
at depth of $50 feet below the level O:
the tunnel, there is reasonable prospect
that it will ultimately have like good
effect upon many other mines put or to
be put in communication with the tun-
nel Men can work without danger of
collapse at temperature no higher than
"a degrees, and thousands of miners
have done good work in the gulches at
10 degrees, but at 12O degrees it is i'm
possible for any man, however strong, to
work more than few minutes without
rest. If the Sutro tunnel should bring
about lige change in the temperature
of the Comstock mines generally with
that already realized in the Savage
2OOO-foot level, it will be the means not
only of making mining more profitable,
but of saving very great waste of life
and health attendant hitherto upon that
sort of labor San Francisco Chronicle
Year: 1878

The sweetest little fish story of the
season is told by Frank Abbot, of Bur.
lington. la. At Clear Lake dwells a
little girl who takes ride every day in
a small skiff drawn by two pickerel.
They are regularly harnessed, and by
mean of lines she ia enabled to guide
them in any direction. The fish are
about three feet in length, weigh between
seven and eight pounds each, and are
very powerful. When the girl has tired
of riding she drives the pickerel to the
beat-heuse, where they are embarrassed,
taken into commodious glass aquarium
made expressly for them, and fed
When she goes to the tank to harnes;
them for ride, the pickerel jump almost
into her arms, 60 glad, apparently, are
they to see her. The young miss hal
been offered 81 900 for her team.
Year: 1878

These days strongly remind one of the beach
and surf and a good plunge into the latter.
And speaking of bathing, our venerable friend
g Mrs. Partington" says some persons can battle
with perfect impurity in water as cold as Green
Iand's icy mountains and India's coral strands,
but for her own part she prefers to have the
water little torpid.
Year: 1878

ST. Louis Journal The good slammeth
the front door and maketh noise, for his heart
is without guile and he feareth not the grievous
words of his wife but the naughty man shut
teth the gate softly and stealeth up stairs in
his stocking feet, and stumbleth over the rock
ing chair, and the last condition of that man is
worse that the first.
Year: 1878

A Confederate soldier, In one OF the


battles Of the late civil war, was
strack Oh the bead by q Minnie ball


which passed through the skull, and


the surgeons, afraid to probe tho


wound In search OF II, left the man 10


die. In the course oi lime he fecov'
cred, but had lost his reason aud was
sent to the insane asylum at stanton,


Va, where he remained for eleven
years. AT length Dr. Fauntleroy OBJ
tanned permission from the asylam
authorities aud friends Of the insane
man to make q surgical examination
OF the head, with tho hope OF finding
the ball, lle was successful, and
found tho ball imbedled on the IN
side Of the skull aud pushing against
the brain, Unable 10 extract II with
any instrument at hand, no took a
chisel and mortiscd II out. As soon
as the ball was removed, reason TO-
sumed It's control, and the deranged
ono was in his right mind. lie says
he is not conscious Of anything that
occurred during the interval Of eleven
years-trom the time he was struck
on the battlefield to the moment the
was removed from the brain,
all was blank to HIM.


Another case IN the same county OF
Augusta was that OF boy whose gun
bursted while shooting, and drove the
lock into the brain. The piece w
taken out by n skillfal surgeon with
out serious injury to the patient.


But the most remarkable case in
the same neighborhood was that OF q
woman subject to fits OF mental de.
and while in a spell OF
luuacy drove an eight.penny nail into
the top of her head, penetrating down
into the brain-the nail having been
driven up TO its head. The nail was
drawn out, and the woman has been
in sound mental condition ever since.
Year: 1878

Now, as in former years, when a


political campaign is iminent, the sto'


rics of Southern outlages come thick


and fast and bloody. Among Radi.


cal politicians there is deadly fear


that if this leverage is lost their dis


honestly perpetuated power will come


to an end. The "Solid South" is


made the excuse for sounding the


alarm bell but on this point the coun-


sci for the defendant is entitled to az;


respectful hearing as the blackmail-


ing accusers. The Charleston News


and Courier is certainly as fully enti-


tied to credence as the Washington


radical and partisan organs which on


ly live to keep the ensanguined gar


ment tapping. That journal says:


"Time will tell the tale. The South
is ready to be judged by her ac-
tions. The South is not willing
to be judged by the fears Of her
friends or the hopes of her foes. BE.
fore the next general election shall
take place the South and the Union
will have had two years experience
of the solid South. The events of
these years will demonstrate, as facts
alone can, that the solid South means
good order, absolute freedom, justice
and respect for the rights of all class
es in the South, and, so tar as the solid
South can accomplish it, concord,
peace, honor, and public and private
faith for the whole American Union.
For this the people of South Carolina
strive and labor; but they and the
people Of every other Southern State
will find their difficulties increased a
.housand.fold by any conduct in the
North that will warrant the idea that
he South is not wanted, and that her
pest efforts for the highest purposes
Ire misjudged and even treated as
This is a patient and digni-
led response to Incorporate accuse.
ion, and it deserves consideration by
II who have been ready and anxious
o believe the worst things of the
;outh.
Year: 1878

An Ohio man went out and hanged
himself the other day because a Col
lumbus dentist told him his teeth was
affected with "nodular calclfication of
the pulp He.left note to his wife,
saying he didn't want to live on and
give it to her and the children
Burlington Hawkoye.
Year: 1878

A correspondent writes to the Scl-
entifio American that the worst tooth.
ache, or neuralgia coming from the
teeth, may be speedily ended by the
application Of q bit Of clean cotton
saturated in a solution of ammonia to
the defective tooth.
Year: 1878




Porte had accorded equality before the
law, and admission into all public Offices
to all it's subjects alike, withom distinc-
ton of creed-this clause had been in
serted in the 9Th article of the provi-
sionary treaty prepared by the Porte.
A committee was then appointed by the
Board On May I0a letter was written
to the Earl Of Clarendon, whose answer,
dated May 18th, was to the effect that
the situation Of the Eastern Jews would
obtain the most favorable attention at
the hands of the English Government.


When the politics of the Ottoman
Empire became better known in Europe,
all the anxieties regarding the situation
of the Eastern Jews were dispelled.
There was no doubt any more that they
would have all the rights Of citizenship
alike with the Christians. Now the
question suggested itself Whether the
Western Jews had done all their duties
toward their brethren of the East;
whether their mission had been accom-
plishasl2 No IS. the
Jews Of Turkey had received all civil
and political rights; it was necessary
now to teach them how to use those
rights and how to enjoy the advantages
of their new ly acquired liberties. Long
years of oppression and suffering had
reduced them to miserable state of
mental and material condition; they
were poor and ignorant; they needed the
assistance of their European brethren
to be freed from their state Of decay, to
be made susceptible for the benefits
which the new state Of affairs was to
offer them Assured Of the good dispo
sition of the Ottoman Empire. they
were certain to fill an important place in
the government if they could only be
made worthy Of such a position. DR..
Philippson has earned the credit Of
being the first who had developed these
in a series of articles in
his Journal and in a special memoran-
dunn which he had addressed to the pub
lie on that affair, with great force and
with warm sympathy. Among others,
he made the reasonable remarks that it
was necessary first of all to give instruc-
ton to the Turkish Israelites; that it
was impossible for the time being to
schools in that country, be-
cause there were not the means to de-
fray the expenses Of such schools, and
also because such establishments would
have to struggle against the prejudices
of a class Of people which had been de-
prived of all secular instruction for cen
turies and was consequently not capa
Die of approaching the benefits and the
necessity of such instruction. He pro-
posed that Jewish young men Of Turkey
be brought over to Europe and educated
either at the expense Of the communi-
ties or at that of some charitable indi-
viduals, Such young men, after having
finished a course of studies, should be
sent back to Turkey to work among their
He solicited that, for the
Year: 1878

Albert Cohn did not belong to the
Israelites Of Paris alone; he belonged to
the Jews all over the world One half
of his active life was spent in the SER
vices Of the Israelites of the East, whom
he visited several times, and for whom
he has shown great sympathy and love.
1t was in the year 1854, during the
Crimean war, when he was for the first
time called upon to employ his wonder
full energy in behalf Of the Oriental
Jews.


The French Revolution had opened
for the Jews of all civilized countries an
era of freedom and deliverance. No
sooner were the Israelites of France de-
livered from their burdens of political
Year: 1878

4 live fish embedded in human
skull, says the San Francisco Call of
Nav u st, was taken from the bay
near the India dock yesterday morn
ing. The finny tenant must have
had liking for its strange quarters,
as it was too large to make its escape
from the orifice, and must have de-
veloped considerably from the time
It found its way inside. The fisher
men had a dispute over their treasure,
one of them claiming that never be-
foIe had such an occurrence been
heard OF. This was denied, but the
production of a newspaper containing
the following settled the difficulty:
''In 1857 two sons of Mr.. John H.
Witt, of Greensburg, Penn, were in
the habit of setting night lines in
the Allegheny River, in order to be-
come possessed of the tinny tribe.
One morning very mysterious thing
was observed from the shore, being
attached to one line :out some dis
distance. On drawing in the line fish
was fas ton the hook with its head pro-
truding from the orifice of a human
skull which rests upon the Yertebral
column, its body being in the skull,
and too large to allow its escape there
from"
Year: 1878

SOME of the would-be aristocrats in
the Democratic party have tried in every


way possible to injure and cultail the in
tluence of the GAZETTE. They even
bribed Or tried to bribe the Legislature to


assist in this work. They could not
strike harder blow at the party than to
detract from the newspaper that supports
the party and those whom it descries to
elect. In spite of all these villainous at
tacks the GAZETTE has more influence
to-day than ever it has had. Under its
influence the Democracy has grown so
powerful as to be impregnable except to
those within its own ranks. A party
Year: 1878

SENATOR BAYARD's chances for the
Presidency were diminished through his
opposition to the currency of the constl-
tuition, gold and silver, the platform OF
the Democracy of Delaware. None OF
the friends of Senator Bayard regretted
to witness his course more than did the
GAZETTE.
Year: 1878

THE enormous charges for tuition in
the private schools of Wilmington Is
sending the most numerous and reliable
class Of our peoples children to the pub
lie schools, which are even better than
any of the private schools.
Year: 1878

TARIFF ON TYPE.-One of the most
obnoxious features of the new Tariff Bill
now before Congress is that which pro-
poses to increase the import duty on type
of foreign manufacture. While we may
believe in protective tariff in the alb
stract, we also believe such tariff should
be regulated so as to insure the greatest
good tothe greatest number, and not in
such manner as would result in enriching
a few at the expense of the many. The
type founders of the Uunited States are
exactly twelve in numb ber, while the mas
ter printers Of the country are not less
than twenty thousand. These few found =
ers have already grown wealthy at the
expense of the employing printers, and
this with the present tax of 25 per cent.
al Udloren. The proposed tariff places
a duty of Is cents per pound on plain
type, which is equal to an ad valorem of
from 80 to rs per cent, and 80 cents per
pound on job and advertising type. equal
to from 80 to 100 per cent. dd Uaiorem,
according to size and style of letter. 1t
is plain to be seen that this would be
nothing short of prohibition, and leave
the great printing industries of the
United States at the mercy of the dozen
type founders, already grown wealthy
under the protection heretofore afforded
them and under combination whereby
competition among themselves is un-
known. Cheap type means cheap books
and cheap newspapers, but this branch of
the matter is so plain that it need only be
mentioned to be understood. The print
ers Of the country are alive to the i'm
portnnce Of defeating this increased tariff
measure. While we believe type should
be placed on the free list we certainly hope
our Representatives will not allow the
tariff TO be placed any higher than at
present
Year: 1878

THE Record Union has the whole mat
ter in a NUTSHELL thus: There is but one
popular sentiment in California upon the
Chinese question, but every thinking
man knows perfectly well that the prop
lem can never be solved by perpetually
bawling out "The Chinese must goi" Be-
fore the Chinese can be got rid Of the fav-
orable action of Congress upon our de-
mands regarding them must be had, and
no amount Of vitaperation will effect any
thing in the meantime. All the influence
that can be brought to bear is now being
employed to secure the stoppage Of Chi
nese immigration, and if it is done at all
it will have to be done in that way. The
foolish and irrational talk of Kearney and
his kind only tends to hinder instead OF
helping the cause ofthe workingmen, and
1t is time they realized this truth. Kear-
ney has no power, and cannot get any
power to make the Chinese go. The
question is national one and the nation
alone can settle it.
Year: 1878

Justly INDIGNANT.-The better class
of Democratic journals in this State are
complaining bitterly at the actions of
their party majority in the present Legs
lature. The San Francisco Examiner
goes so far as to intimate that they are
trying to defeat the Democracy in the
next general election, and the Colusa
Sun is inclined to concur. The Napa
Reporter thinks some of the Jonahs on
the good ship Democracy should be tossed
overheard We presume the Democratic
press did its share in electing this caucus
Of Democratic nobodies, who think their
principal business at Sacramento is to
legislate for the good of the party, and in
so dong are committing political suicide.
II is certainly their growl, and they show
a commendable spirit of independence of
party in objecting to the wrong acts OF
their chosen leaders.