smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

The Work Of Relief gees BrascIy ON


and Many Destitute Families Have


Reason TO Rejoice.


The total number OF destitute persons re-
lieved by the relief committees WAS yester-
day evening 20S. The various committees
in the different wards are working faith
fully and carefully seeing that none who
are in need shall suffer ard from personal
observation allow no one 10 receive food or
clothing Who is not in actual want The
chairman of the committees, ID. VI. Swan
of the First Ward, VIM. Small OF the Sec
oud, c. n. Stevens of the Third, and B. c.
Becker of the Fourth receive ali recon-
mendations and take the responsibility TO
visit each applicants residence in. person
before any relief is given. This Is tire
some work but it is performed every day
faithfully. The ladies who are members
of the committees have done noble work in
the good cause and many suffering families
have been made comfortable through their
efforts.
Year: 1879




Chief OF Police Moonlight left yesterday
morning for Topeka, in response 10 sum-
mons TO attend the trial az a witness, Of
Mira. Maud Miles, alias Pierson, who was
arrested here about six weeks ago by Off
Ger Sullivan. The arrest wss made by the
officer On account OF the suspicious appear
ance OF the woman, she being dressed In cal
ico and driving horse and buggy Of the
no5bfest fashion, IL occurring TO the official
that 1t Was something strange that woman
dressed SO plainly should be possessed of so
fine arig. She was inquiring the way to
the bridge, her intention being to cross into
Missouri TO meet her husband, so she said
at st. Joseph, but subsequent developments
proved that it wasn't as far as St. Joseph
that she wGs going. The horse and buggy
were provided for and the woman locked
up, and in two or three days word was re-
ceived from Topeka that the woman had
hired the rig there for an hour, but instead
of returning it had struck out for Leaven-
worth. She was formerly a resident OF
this city and was brought up here. Short
ly after her arrest her latest husband, Miles,
was captured here by officer Yerkes, and
sent to Atchison, where he was want
ed for jail-breaking or some misdemeanor
of that kind. 1t was also suspected that
he was member of a horse-thief gang
which has been pretty busily engaged in
this vicinity for sometime past.
Year: 1879

rived in the city two or three days ago,
where they were 10 meet the father, who
had come here with the expectation OF get
ting work at the State Peuitentiary. The
mother went out to the pen yesterday but
her husband was not there, but having been
there and unable to obtain work had left
the city. She does not know where he is
now, and being without money the family
is, TO say the least, in a most unenviable
position They are stopping at 4 boarding
house on Cherokee street.
Year: 1879

NORWICH, Conn.,, January 16.-At late
hour tonight it was announced that the
Jury in the Cobb case had agreed and short
ly after midnight Chief Justice Park and
Judge Culver took their seats on the bench
and the jury filed in. Mrs Cobb and her
mother were brought into court, when fhe
jury were questioned and stated that they
had agreed on verdict. They were polled
and Mrs Cobb was placed at the bar, where
she stood with her black veil thrown back
from her face. The foreman, in answer to
the clerks question. announced that the
jury had found her guilty of murder in the
second degree. Then court then adjourned
until tomorrow.
Year: 1879

The thaw of yesterday, while it had no
peroeptible effect upon the roads, made it
very sloppy upon the sidewalks, while in
many places the pavements were flooded by
water from drain pipes leading from the
roofs of business houses. During the past
intense cold weather all these pipes were
frozen up and the result of the thaw is an
overflow, causing great inconvenience, but
y good thing for the timers.
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, January "a delegation
of the Society of Friends from Pennsylvania
called at the Executive Mansion to-day.
The President indicated that he did not
think it at all probable that the control OF
the Indians would be given to the army.
THE NEW YORK CUSTOM HOUSE NoMISA


TIoNs.


At q meeting of the Senate Committee on
Commerce TODAY nothing was said on the
subject of the New York Custom House
nominations
Year: 1879

NEW YORK, Oct. 21.-The Haytien minister
here has received intelligence that another
revolution took place at Port-au- Prince on the
third instant. The provisional government
was deposed and another formed. The con-
chambers were called to meet on the fifteenth
Instant to elect a President and amend the
constitution
Year: 1879

It is well to remember at this iuneture that
Foster was the Sherman nominee. and that
Grandfather Taft, who was beaten, was the
Grant man. This Is not Grant victory. On
the contrary, quite the reverse.
Year: 1879

MACON, Oct. 20--A call was issued to-day
to bankers OF the State for convention on the
twenty ninth instant to consider their course
Of action regarding the recent course OF the
Legislature restricting the rate Of interest to
5 per cent on pain Of forfeiture Of entire in
tereSt,
Year: 1879

THE trial of Lille Duer, at Snow
Hill, looks like cruel persecution by
which probably all the means of her
parents will be taken by lawyers fees.
and the taxables of the neighborhood
saddled with heavy costs to pay Court
charges. No good can result from such
trial to the parents or friends of the
deceased. We never believed there was
any real cause for entertaining any other
opinion than that the shooting of Miss
Hearn was accidental. Since Miss Duei
has been allowed to testify in her owl
case, her evidence must be taken, anc
the jury will not be able to diyest them
selves of doubts and therefore must ac
quilt the defendant.
Year: 1879

In A little while the rise in the price
of silver will cause the strife for gold to
drop out of politics and in year or two
the people will wonder that there ever
was any opposition made to the use of
silver coin for money, and read para
graphs in which learned gentlemen are
called "fools and knaves" because they
voted to coin money out Of silver, with
wonder and astonishment.
Year: 1879

MR.. DUTcHER's committee, it is hoped,
will get about their work at their earliest
convenience, and relieve our city from
the disagreeable business which has been
resting upon it ever since the exposure
of Nelson j. Lees career with low |
woman. We really feel sorry that this
duty has devolved upon the committee.
they are gentlemen Of experience and
supposed to be able to understand the
ins and outs of trade pretty thoroughly.
But evidently Mrs. v atson takes a very
commonplace and sensible view of the
duties they have assumed and should
they proceed, will no doubt demand
damages of them unless the whitewash-
Ing she may claim is properly applied
with skill, and doubly coated. Had Mr..
butcher fallen only as Cough did, and
his want of morality only been the want
Of abstinence from liquor this community
and his temperance friends would have
had little to dread. They could have
easily overlooked his besetting sin and
put him on his feet again. But the deptl
Of infamy charged to him, man with 6
family, does not stop here. 1t matter.
not whether his prosecutor, Spear, wa.
worse than himself. Had Mr.. butcher
and Mrs. Watson, even denied the
charges in any very clear and distinct
form the community would have beer
better able to excuse them. But as Mr.
butcher was well paid in many ways fo
the services he rendered here Will,
under the charge of Mr.. G.. w. Well
and other gentlemen, he has no furthe
claim upon our people; although the,
would no doubt be unwilling to see hin
suffer any injustice. Evidently Mrs
Watson is as diplomatic as butcher, an
both Of them appear to be skilfully man
aging their case with considerable drea
Of each other. The lady, however, W
believe has taken herself away for til
present, in accordance with the yer
proper dictation of the committee VIII
may have desired to be excused froi
coming within the vortex of the circl
Of which she seems the attractive centr
Their prudence is certainly commend
able.
Year: 1879

In THE case of the murder OF Mrs.
Hu,l suspicion rests on negro named
Francis, the husband of her cook who is
said to have shot a man sometime ago,
and fed from where he had lived in
West Chester county. He isrepresented
to be large, burly, daring fellow and to
have been to visit his wife several times
lately. The police are on his track,
Year: 1879

A couple not one hundred miles
from Manchester, carried on their
courtship in rather novel manner
A young man had fallen in love with
the daughter Of his employer but
from certain ideas of wealth, a match
was opposed by the father. The con-
sequence was, that the young man
was forbidden to visit his employers
house. The old gentleman was in the
habit of wearing a cloak, and the
young couple made him the innocent
bearer Of their correspondence. The
lady pinned a letter inside the lining
of the old mans cloak every day, and
when the father went into his count.
ing house and threw of bis cloak, the
lover took out the lady's epistle, read
it, and sent the reply back in the same
manner. Love and ingenuity were
finally successful.
Year: 1879

Bob Ingersoll has been converted
He stopped over night lately at the
house where there were two heartless
fends practicing on the accordeon.
He says he throws up the sponge, and
takes back all he ever said about there
not being place of infinite torture
CYonkers Gazette.
Year: 1879

The House Committee on Coin
age ReIegates to Oblivion
the Unfortunate Trade


Dollar.
A Fire In New York Which Breaks
Up Several Small Insurance


Companies
More Moderate Weather Prevails at
the East and Rivers are Break


ing Up.
Year: 1879

The Presidential backbone will now have a
benefit.


Having marched up the hill, the Democrats will
now march down again.


A second extra session would mako the Republi-
can majority in 1880 almost unweldy.


The Democracy can perform its backdown slowly
or ouickly according to taste, but the jig must be
danced.


Matt Carpenter seems to have given mp hIs idea of
being third party. Senator Dayis's fate has scared
him, evidently.


The eagerness Of tho Democrats to nominate
Davis for the Presidency is not great enough to
make Illden nervous.


They have discovered in kentucky that Beck has
"squeched" tho Republican cry of revolution.
Up this way 1t is thought that the cry has squeched
Beck


report IL circulating through tho South that
Tildcn has light the silver question: and is
now in favor of double standard. The report is
not intended for circulation III this latitude.


1t is all proper and natural enough for newly
converted Democrats like Palmer and Trumbull to
hope for their own advancement whom a reaction
from Tilden sezes the party. but if that reaction
comes the man who will profit by 1t frs: Is General
Hancock.


That the Democrats will bo so phenOmenally
stupid as TO force another extra session seems in



down now, but what is the in calling fresh
attention to the operation by forcing a second
session in which TO perform it Do they wish to
DO piggish even in making blunders


Colonel Love- of Alabama. ought to adopt tho
japanese method Of duelling as described in A
Scrap Of Paper; tho challenger falls his sword
and tho challenged party 10 expected to follow his
noble example. After tho enforcement of this
method of settling the difficulty there is danger
of tho wrOns man surviving. This consideration,
however may not be attractive to Colonel Lowe.


Congressman Goode, of Virginia, fills tho country
with gricfby declaring that the Republican speeches
in the House almost made him despair Of the Re-
public, and that he only consented not to despair
by assuring himself that the Republican speakers
misreprescnted the sentiment Of the North When
Mr.. GoOde reads the November election returns there
is danger that his despair viii overwholm him as
with food.


Patterson Is In a rage. and promises to vent him.
self in a card He declares that the reports about
HIS Indian Territory excursion started for base
purposes of blackmail that every dollar expended
that journey was Judiciously paid out. and that
nothing that was improper extrayagant was done
with any of the funds. Patterson may DO right aud
the reports may also be right ut tho same time. HIS
Year: 1879

idea of what is udcious and proper may be directly
opposite to the popular idea-hence the apparent
collision.


John A. Logan Is In predicament. He il chal-
lenged to tight duel by ono Z" "COlonel" Lowe. who
won his military title in trying TO destroy his
try. Logan, this man intimates, ~ coward. As
Logan was engaged in only about n hundred bat
ties during the war for the Union. and as his re-
ward for gallantry was merely promotion from
private citizen to majOrReneral, IL - possible thas
he may be compelled to go out into Held and sno0t
at some unknown man, in order to make bIs coun-
trymen believe he Is brave.


The sudden flop of Judge Davis and the appear
ance of Senator Carpenter in the ranks Of the
stalwart Republicans put end to all third party
foolery in the Senate There has been 10 demon
stration of the kind in the House, aside from
the Greenback movement which was only
another form Of Democracy IL may be
said therefore, that all possibility for any
thing like n third party movement in 1880 has
vanished at this early day. The issues are 80 I'M
porant and so clearly defined, that there Is for
40 middle course. The country wli De divided INTO
two great parties, and the hight VIII be between
them. If anybody wishes TO amnse hlmsei Dy
riding the fence. of course he can but he Will not
be able to collect an audience to watch him.


very complete canvass of Ohio has been made
by correspondents Of The Cincinnati Enquirer, for
the purpose Of ascertaining the attitude Of the Re-
pubcans of the State questions Of local and Ma
tionaI politics. The result shows that General Car
field is the first choice Of his party for Governor,
and that he can be nominated entirely without op-
position if he will consent. The party is remark
ably unanimous in its desire 10 give him any post
tion in it's power. Next TO Garfield, Judge Taft Is
the strongest candidate for Governor. and after him
Foster On the question of platform the general de-
mand is for genuine Old-fashiOned Republican
declaration of principles radical and unconpromis-
ing and there is an equally earnest demand for an
aggressive campaign. This information IL collected
by a jealous Democratic journal, but II : undoubt-
edly accurate, and is certainly wonderfully compre-
bensive and complete.
Year: 1879

sanderous" and Mr.. Lowe thereupoD de-
manded to know whether those words were IN
tended to apply to him. He said that the pub
lished interview was not strictly correct, but
the language we have quoted above is from
his own statement of the true version.


1t will be observed that Mr.. Lowe does not
make the "fase and slanderous" charge on
his own responsibility. He only repeats "a
"current report" adds that he never heard IL
denied and hints that ii General Logan were
questioned about it he might lie. In other
words he accuses political opponent OF
dishonOrable action, confessedly without KNOW
ing whether the accusation is true or false,
and without caring TO inquire. Is there any
form of slander baser than this, which adds
meanness to mendacity7 IL the charge was
false, the man who took it up and prOpagated
it, In sheer reckless indifference whether there
was any foundation for it or not, made nm
self fully responsible for the falsehood, and
deserves the same treatment that a gentleman
would give to the original manufactures OF
the lie. General Logan was quite right In ap
plying to the report the vigorous terms ne
did, and leaving Mr.. Lowe and the newspaper
to divide the affront according to their own
ideas of their respective deserts. 1t does not
appear to us that there Is any choice between
them.


There is great prevalence of this style OF
SANDER In society, in politics, in the rival
ries of professional and business life, nothing
is more common than to hear venomous and
loose -tOngued people disseminating the most
outrageous stories about others, and shelter
ing themselves under the shameful plea,
''they say" 1t is a satisfaction once in
while to find the victim of an attack of this
sort applying to the scandal-mongers the
plain epithets which they deserve, and treat
ing their di5avowal of responsibility with in
dgnant contempt.
Year: 1879

of the possibility of honest mistakes by wit
nesses and complainants and of unjust con-
victions on testimony intended to be truthful
The sailor lad, who brought the charge,
was undoubtedly sincere in doing 80,
and his good reputation was attested Dy
the appearance in court on Saturday OF
several officers from bis ship to bear witness
to his honesty and generally excellent char
acter. 1t was evident that he beiIeVeu nc
had given the bill to the cashier, and If an
old washerwoman, to whom the sailor poy
had, in fact. given the bin, had not accident
ally heard of the matter and had not hap
pened to be very honest person, Mr. Merritt
might have suffered for a long time the
pangs of unjust suspicion. The case may
seem a trivial one, but upon just such
honest and mistaken evidence human lie
might have been sworn away. The books are
full of such cases. The affair may well serve
to show those who give evidence the neces-
sity of testing their memories well, and those
who hear it the wisdom of declining to be-
leve a story simply because it is told in good
faith.


The Democratic debate as to the " "uDcer-
"tainty " of the Presidents action upon the
Army bill must exhaust itself to-day, for the
announcement comes from Washington that
his message vetOing the bill will reach the
House of Representatives o-mouow-Would
be sent in to-day if the House were IN session.
For a man who has been either tavoraDly DIS
posed toward the bill, as some Dem
cratic wiseacres have represented hum, or
turned hither and thither by doubts ana
fears. as others have had it, the President,
when once compelled to decide, certainly
makes up his mind with extraordinary
promptitude, and becomes very suddenly
courageous From the statements made in
our Washington dispatches, it is clear that
the majority in Congress Will be as h'tie
pleased with the matter of the veto message
as with its manner 1t is likely to show
that the President has been misunderstood
bv Republicans as well as Democrats. III 1t
fulfls the expectations formed OF it in
Washington, it will not only state the plain
and inevitable grounds of objection to the
bill itself, but will go further and boldly de-
clare that it is part OF q scheme to cOerce the
President under threats to withhold appropri-
ations. There is reason enough In the bill
for q veto message of the usual sort. Some
of its nOn-pOlitical provisions even are
questionable - those relating to promo
ticns, for instance, which the ma
iority in the Senate refused to have
amended. But there is reason enough in the
bill and behind it for a veto message of an
unusual sort. and this, it seems, re are to
have. The President sill, il is t. lieyeG, as
sert the rights of the Executive Department,
within its proper sphere and defy Congress -
encr0ach upOn them. Let him take this stG },
and he viii find the people behind him.
Year: 1879

May moving has become independent OF the cal
endar and begins now any time during these last
DAYS of ADul. Already many house is turned in
side out and has its doors and windows wide open.
lading. 1t is frInged with cheval-de-frise Of
char-leCs. 1t brstles with the component parts of
bedsteads, while above bulge the feather-beds in
quite useless state of plumpness. All the neighbors
seeing the furniture at its worst, see also how
shabby it is, and make critical comments upon Its
condition. No pen can describe the infinite dscom-
fort of the htting-the misery OF the taking up
and of the putting down, the fractures, the ruin
and loss of things beloved and the worst of all,
when the incoming and the outgoing meet upon the
stoop and the household ohattes Of both are hope
lessly commingled. Until that happy but hardly
to be expected time, when every householder shall
hold in fee and not by lease, these changes, with
their moumful chances, must be annual. Happy
they who from year 10 year can cultivate the
domesticites under the same roOf-tree; who live
long enough in a street to love it; who grow TO
like a neighbOrhood and the ways leading to it
Man is not moving animal. IL was meant that he
should grow old in home, to the very door-pOsts
of which he may become attached Tho men
get the best Of the vernal pulling up of stakes.
Moving may sometimes bring an increase of comfort
at last but the process itself be pleasant
Year: 1879

The Sunday controversy still RACES in Newark.
In defiance of fit and proper law, the lager-beer
sellers and the venders of much stoutcr potables,
desire to carry on their business upon the Sabbath
There is no reason why they should-tbere are many
reasons why they should not. But they fancy that
they have found out a way OF compelling the au-


borities to ignore their violation of the statute,
which rs extremely comprehensive If 1t prohibits
the sale of beer or of whskey it also prohibits the
sale Of newspapers milk, bread cigars, as well as
travelling by RAIL- or even shaving by a barber.
1 he beer men have determined that the Sunday


law shall be enforced III It's entirety. They propose
70 pu. the public to so much inconvenience that in
sheer desperation it will cry out for the repeal of
all Sunday restrictions. They probably reckon
without their host There is no reason why, during
certain hours of Sunday, articles Of neces-
sity should not be sold; is there any
why travel which disturbs nObodys peace
should not be allowed. If the beer and bar men
drive the community to extremity, the only result
will be an amendment of the statute. The general
prohibition will be modified. The sale of milk and
bread. and even Of newspapers, upon t0e Sabbath
will be legalized. So will travel. Then the beer
gardeners and the barkeepers will find themselves
out in the cold, and exposed to the undivided ener
gies Of the police Through their exertions the
question will become very much simpliicd, and not
at all in their favor. They Will merely have called
the attention of the Legislature to necessaT amend
rnents. which will be made. The law as modified
will be more vigorously enforced than ever and the
beer men have done a good work, not at all to their
own advantage.
Year: 1879

CooKIEs-1 cupful Of butter, u cup
fuls Of sugar, 4 eggs well beaten, cup
full of sour milk and teaspoonful OF
soda; caraway seeds are nice Gf one is
fond of them) for seasoning; if lemon
or cinnamon are preferred, teaspoon
full is sufficient. Stir in flour till quite
stiff; knead well and roll thin, and cut
in any shape you, fancy; bake quickly
and keep in a dry place. They never
mold and are very convenient to keep
on hand.
Year: 1879

1t is possible to do this even in regions of
country where mi;sma is most rife. and where
the periodic fevers which it causes assume their
most formidable types. The immense popularl-
ty OF HoStetter's Stomach Bitters is very largely
attributable to the fact of its efficacy as reme-
dy for chills and fever, bilious remitents and as
a preventive of the various forms of malarial
disease. In those portions Of the west and south
where complaints of this nature prevail, and IN
the tropics. it is particularly esteemed for the
protective influence which it exerts and it has
been very widely adopted as substitute for the
dangerous and comparatively ineffective aka
loid. sulphate Of quinine. Physicians have not
been among the last to concede its merits, and
the emphatic professional Inducements which
it has received have added to the reputation il
has obtained at home and abroad.
Year: 1879

now said that visitors are not SLOWED on
tho hill ON which this mine is situated.
Even mine owners and citizen living near
to this property are ordered away wheA
they 90 around the dumps. A mill test on
ore from this mine run over 5000 per toB.