smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

her charges at the ballroom, and
does not see her until the twain
depart from the house.


In France there are two rows OF
chairs around the sides Of the dane
ing room, the daughters sitting in
front of their respective mothers
behind them on the back row. The
daughter goes forth to the saluta-
ton with the maternal approval,
and at its conclusion she is imme.
diately conducted back to her place
before the mother. 1t would per
haps be too much to expect Ameri-
can mothers and daughters to COM
ply with such rigid rules in their
dancing entertainments, but they
might at least remain in the same
room, where the young would be
under the eye of the elders.
Year: 1877

If you select good and healthy food
for your family you should also look to
the welfare Of your baby. For all
troubles OF early childhood nothing is
better than DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup. 25c
bottle.
Year: 1877

A tramp came along the other
day. says the Bridgeport Standard,
and confded to the impressible bet
ter half of farmer on the road that
he was Count who was travelling
through the country in this humble
way seeking true heart which he
might win and take back with him
to share in the revenues of his i'm
mence estates in Italy. He begged
that she wouldn't mention the fact,
as it might interfere with his cherish
ed plan of being loved for himself
alone. She promised not to say a
word about it, and invited the Count
to stop with them all night, giving
him the best bed in the house and
the seat nearest the beefstake at
the supper table.


The meal was quite a revelation
to her in the matter of the table
habits of the nobility of Europe but
the discovery she made in the morn
ing was still a greater eye-opener.
His lordship had departed in the
small hours, taking with him. pro-
baby as cherished souvenirs, the
larger portions of the bed linen, the
farmers best boots, an old horse
pistol and half a ham. lie left
a dirty, scrawling misspelled note
stating that he must away, as his
passionate longing for the true heart
of which he was ever in search would
not let him rest until they were
united. The farmer loaded his
shotgun. took the road. and was
gone two days. but didn't find the
Count. He must have gone back to
bis estates in Italy.
Year: 1877

IF | succeed. will save you. IL
[ do not succeed-weil, your chance
for life will be as good as if l re-
main here"


"Do not go. Edward, and risk
your life for me! Help must come.
If it does not, when the water is
high, and am washed away, you
may still reach the shore


."And leave you. my hearts dar
ling. to die? Do you remember
what said to you last night? love
you better than my life-better
than my life !'


He took her hand and kissed it;
then, without giving her time to re-
ply. plunged in.


He was strong swift swimmer,
but the waves were high.


She groaned to see how slow was
the progress he made. Then she
knelt upon the rock, though wave
after wave deluged her with water.
She prayed-prayed as she had new
er done before-not for her safety.
but for his. A great love had come
into her heart.


It was sigh for pittying angels
that fair girl upon the rock, in an
agony of unselish prayer, unheed-
ing the angry waves beating against
her-that strong swimmer fighting
the raging sea, which seemed to
hunger for him!


When he at last was near the
beach, she saw lie had stopped swim
ming. A cry of awful agony burst
from her lips as she saw a great
wave swallow him. Thank heaven,
there he was again, floating


Then she saw him swimming
again. Another wave covered him;
but, when it had broken itself to
pieces on the beach, she saw him
standing in shallow water. He turn
ed and waved his hand. She kissed
hers to him.


AS he walked along the beach. it
was with feeble step. Weak and
sore he was, with his terrible strug-
gle with the sea. Soon he quicken
ed his pace, and, gathering new
broke into a run.


Now that he was safe she began
to fear for herself The waves were
breaking with tremendous force
over her. She had to plant her feet
more firmly that she might not be
swept away.


How fast the sea rose! It's mil
lion voices filed the air with wild
clamor in longing for her. She was
sick with terror. Not much longer
could she stand up against that
teraible sea.


At last she saw boat put out to-
ward her. Nearer nearer it came
higher, stronger burst the waves
against her. 1t was very close
almost touching the rock.


But her strength wss gone. A
wild cry of despair, a closing of her
eyes, and, as she was swept from
the rock. she waited for death.


But love is quick and sure, and
caught her in his arms and
poured kisses on her wet face.


She did not resist him. Opening
her eyes, she asked:


Edward, are we safe?'


Eyes, my darling. safe T.


Your darling? Call me that
again -


"Aye. a hundred times. my dar-
ling p


'Yes, Edward, and forevermore.
say what you said. L love you bet.
ter than my life--better than my
life p"
Year: 1877

FRAUD IN THE Law, ATTIRE.-NIr
Black. who says he don't care who the
fifth Judge is, is credited with the sensible
remark that no man who has ever per-
formed a judicial duty witha show Of fit
ness or proprety will shock the common
sense and common honesty of the nation
uy deciding that a fraud is as good as the
Truth merely because i. comes wrapped
il. ;ha forms law.
Year: 1877

HIS WIDOW AND ORPHAN CHILDREN CRY


ING ABOUT THE GRAVE.


John Schleiden a German, und ertook
to clean a well on the Valentine farm,
situated on the road from jamaica 10
Flushing. l.. l., together with an assist
ant. AT clock on Thursday afternoon
he descended into the well by means of
rope. whichiwas held by the other man
outside. He worked about an hour be-
low, the debris being hauled out by means
OF n bucket fastened to the rope. AT the
end OF that time Schleiden directed his
assistant 10 take off the bucket, fasten
one end of the rope TO post near by,and
let tie other down in the We'll This was
done, and Schleiden began the ascent by
resting his feet onthe rough stones which
lined the sides of the well, steadying and
supporting himself by the rope. He had
almost reached the top, his head being
nearly ON n level with the trough, when
tAe stones. wheron 'nearly his whole
weightAwas resting, gave way,d and the
earth caved in.


Schleiden was thrown TO the bottom of
the well, where the falling stones and
earth soon covered him out of sight
There were about two feet of water in
the we'll at the time, and as the earth had
Clved in for distance of nearly five feet
al around, the few persons who We're
gathered by the man outside concluded
that Schleiden was either dead or would
be long before anything could be done TO
assist him. The work of removing the
debris was,s however, begun, and con-
tinued all night Yesterday morning the
body was discovered, badly bruised, and
showing that life became extinct shortly
after the accident. Schleiden leaves a
wife and two children. who fingered
about the well through the night crying
and Sobbing.
Year: 1877

General Sheridan's report that
there are no hostile Indians south OF
British America, with tie exception
OF the Nez Perces, will be gratifying
information to the whole country.
The surrender of the Sioux or rather
what is left Of them, is probably the
last We shall hear of that tribe. They
were the most intractsbls Of all the
savages. The only formidable band
now in the field is that under the
command of Sitting Bull, and =,
long as be is at large peace on The
border will be uncertain, Tor it IL 100
much 70 expect that he will setll,
down quietly as British subject.
Year: 1877

A Western journal, with a hos
tiIity which does not stop even at
the door Of death, says, in mott
cling the demise of Brigham
Young, that ''our country and ci.
v:lizatiOn have been relieved of
their worst and most disgusting
blotch, and hell has received u
dose that will make it bubble
with delight for months to Gomez
Year: 1877

MRS. HEATH has recently moved to
lVl this place for the purpose of meeting
n want which the ladies of the town and
county have for long time known, that
Of having a dresslnaker of experience
among them. am prepared to make all
kinds of dresses in the latest styles, and
guarantee satisfaction. Stamping for braid
ing and embroidery done in the best man
ner, with the new vest patterns. All ask
is tair trial. Residence on Elm Street,
in the Acomb Building. IF.
Year: 1877

The fool-fury of the mob is nearly spent.
In few localities, where men are extra
ordinarily ignorant or evil-disposed, the
destruction of life and property goes on; but
in general the great strike is at an end, or at
least an end has come to its violent manl-
festations. The criminal classes, who hast
ened to avail themselves of the large oppor-
tunities for plunder, have been put down by
force, and the well-meaning portions of the
community, at first ready to lend willing
ear to the complaints of the laborers, have
become SO alarmed at the ruin wrought, at
the transformation of movement ostenslbly
in the interests of labor into an insurrection
evidently in the interests of idleness and
crime, that they have turned upon the men
for whom their sympathies were in the be-
ginning excited and visit upon them the same
condemnation which society passes upon
their criminal allies. This is unfortunate for
the strikers, but they have made the mis-
fortune unavoidable. When they accepted
the assistance of the incendary and the thief
they forfeited the sympathy of law-abidng
men, and obliterated for the time the line
between the habitual criminal and the occa-
sional wrong.doer. They arrayed themselves
against society, and society, for Its protec-
tiop, has had to crush them.


The result of the strike is this: Much
property has been destroyed, many lives have
been lost, and no man is benefited whit.
The strikers have diminished in large measure
that great fund from which their wages have
been drawn. The obstruction of transporta-
tion has deprived the railway companies OF
considerable sums of money which otherwise
would DOW be in their Golfers, the violence Of
the rioters has destroyed no inconsiderable
portion of railway capital; so that if the cor
porations could i'll afford to pay higher wages
a week ago, they certainly cannot afford to
pay them now, for they are many millions of
dollars poorer than they were seven days
since. Thus the workman has only sue
ceeded in diminishing his opportunities for
employment at fair compensation.
Year: 1877

THEsbest answer that could be made to the
complaints that have been urged against the
Interference of the federal government in
State affairs is found in the service which the
federal troopsshave rendered in the preserva-
ton of order in West Virginia. The Govern
or of the State, who applied for the troops is
aDemocrat,aaand the President of the Balti-
more & Ohio, who added his solicitation to the
formal Erequisition, is sympathizer in the
extreme Southern feeling. But these men
who havesbeen among the revilers of the fed
eral government are IAcompelled to acknowl-
edge its benefcent power. When the Gov
ernor of State confesses that the whole
military force at his command amounts to but
four companies of militia, it is not time to
talk of disbanding the United States army by
refusing appropriations. The danger to public
liberty from our littleiarmy is altogether i'm
aginary. 1t is not large. enough to keep the
Indians in subsection and to preserve the
internal peace of the country.
Year: 1877

OF course not single dollar of the four or
five millions of property destroyed in Pitts
burg will come out of the pockets of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The tax
payers will have that burden to bear. The
rioters must themselves contribute their
share. Rent-payers must contribute theirs,
high taxes make high rents. So far as it was
public demonstration, just so far were the
incendiaries burning up their own property.
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1877

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS Is furnished
with Card certificate couDtersigned by Stanley I.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent
Year: 1877

RANDALL has no enviable task before him
in making up the House Committees. BE
will be expected to give every prominent
Southern Democrat a nice place, and it is a
popularity of the average Southern politician
to deem himself the one man upon whom the
fate Of the national government rests.
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous etters and eommuni-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1877

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate couDtersigned by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer a favor upon us by demanding
credentials OF every person claiming to represent our
L..
Year: 1877

THE New York College of Physicians and


Surgeons has put in bid for the distinction
of being the last retreat of prescription and
intolerance, 10y refusing admission to col
ored STUDENT. As usual, the dignified pro-
fessors resent the impertinence OF the press
in taking ptice of the affair, and reporters IN
Year: 1877

THE retirement of Mr.. Delane from the
London Times has naturally given rise to
great deal of gossip, and we probably know a
great deal more about his habits than he does
himself. But we may be permitted to express
mild disbelief of the statement that she
carefully read the whole paper through before
it went to press" Any one who should under
take to read the whole paper through before
it went to press, or afterwards, would be
better fitted for an insane asylum the next
day than for repetition of the feat.
Year: 1877

search of information have been made to feel
the vast superiority of the professors. Those
who have condescended to an explanation
say that the college is dependent on the fees
OF the students, and that while they would
not object to mild tint in student of AFR
can descent, the presence of an unmistakable
negro would have the effect of creating disor-
der, i'll feeling and detriment to the college. Is
this is SO, it shows that the class of youth
who seek instruction in the College Of Physi-
clans and Surgeons has something more i'm
portant than anatomy and physiology to
learn, and that is common hum anity.
Year: 1877

"There are more things in heaven
and earth Horatio, than were ever
dreamt of in your philosophy" ex>
claimed philosophic boarder, at the
breakfast table OF a popular house on
Howard street yesterday morning, as
be drew a nineteen inch stran Of hair
from his plate of hash
Year: 1877

When taken in charge, he gave mp
the work "a to himself, but begged
and entreuted the officers 10 take his
papers and go and arrest the seducer.
None of the officers would do this, be-
lieving as they did that the warrants
from Virginia were not good here.


MIR. Fickle was taken before Judge
Butt and required to give bond for his
appearance before the city court Be
inc an entire stranger in our midst,
he could not give the bond, and there
gore was committed to jail.


In the mean time the agent had
Year: 1877

We don't wish to say much about
it but even skirmish with ON edi
tor must be written up. Alter
reading our article last week, Drt
Bently came and interviewed ne.
He brought few friends along to
see him eat US up, with his hand'
tied behind him. He did not like
the reading OF our last article. and
we don't blame him. for there were
a few sayings in it which were
little severe. But he locked arms
with US, and we waltzcd around
The room with him to the tune Of
high words, and to the infinite de-
light of the spectators. His hands
were not tied very tight, either.
There were numerous chairs and
other furniture in the room which
were speedily demolished and put
ont OF tie way. The Doctor got
frantic and kicked over q two gall
fon jag of ink, which of course We
didu't like, because it was new ink.
and besides it spoiled the looks
of the floor. We took the Doctor
for sponge and mopped the ink
up as quickly az possible That's
what made the Doctor mad. &c
then showed over a chair and we
rolled around for a while, and
then we begun to feel like fight.
and we don't doubt but what we


would have had a quarrel very
soon but the Doctor suddenly con-
cluded he didn't care whether we
took back what we said or not.


and as there was not any prospect
Of our taking it back right off, lie
concluded to quit just as we had
got ready 20 begin. After the


whole affair was over we felt sorry


that it had begun, but as it was


none of cur instigating we could


not help it.-Rush City Minnesota


Post.
Year: 1877

We had an article in the same issue asserting that the plan was not what the friends thereof, including the Finance Board, announce it to be and we pointed out the error in the method of computation relied upon by the Finance Board. We showed that by the A. K. plan we commence ed to pay compound interest and that it was very costly arrange ment for the State, but very good thing for the bondholders. The Gazette passed by all thls and seized upon our other little article headed Hired of it,' to poke little fun at us and ridicule all the prominent men who think as we do on thls question. All right, we can stand your fun, Bro. Mitchell, but we would like something more solid from you. So now come down to business and see what you can say against our reasons given in this weeks paper for opposing the plan.
Year: 1877

The Searcy Record furnishes its readers with the supplement last week containing the circular letter of the Finance Board, and from the remarks of that excellent paper upon the subject, we make the following extract:

 ''We do not wish to be understood as opposing a settlement of the Bond question in some way; if the same comes within our ability to carry it. The AR. proposition lacks that qualification, not to men ton its objectionable features re garding the issuance of new bonds when only half of the old so-called valid bonds are in--leaving the other half still out. unless the hold CTS sec proper to voluntarily give them up, for new ones.

 We do not wish to go into figures, for you can get them in the supple ment. Besides We are not much on iiguratiye speeches anyway. Facts, plain old facts, suit the present oc- casion much better and when you apply them 10 the Finances of Ark ansas you can solve the question easily as to what shall be done with that unruly elephant. Old fashion ed arithmetic will show you al once that we cannot take up the Adams Redheld proposition, carrying out the intent on it's face, pay interest npon the entire indebtedness of the State, keep up the schools, and run the government too, to say nothing of Sinking Fand providing for the ultimate redemption Of the principal
Year: 1877

"WONT HOLD WAITER.

 It seems that the long letter of the Finance Board and the gratuitous supplement which is being distrib uted GRATIS by SOME ONE, does not convince everybody that the sscheme" is THE THING after all.

 The editor of the Independent Arkansian last week promised to carefully peruse the letter and after ward give his opinion of it. He does so at some length in his paper of the End inst, and from hls article we make the following extract:

 The manifest anxiety of the friends of this scheme, and the amount of money and hired brains now being expended in the effort to control public sentiment in favor of the Adams -Redfield funding process should open the eyes of the people, and before falling into the pit dug by the bondholders, look at every side and find it's bottom before you step in. Don't reject without an investigation. If approved then adopt, but do not approve or adopt until you prove the figures and learn the results.

 We have called on the Auditor and Governor for figures from the records. When we get them our readers shall have the full benefit of ali the light they afford. We know enough now to declare the letter of the Finance Board will not "hold water" It is full of contradictions within itself, and if we approve one part we must necessarily reject an other.

 He also touches the supplement business in a separate article ln which he asks some very pertinent questions. The answers to some of his questions might afford some qualification to the tax, paying peo- ple of our State. Here is what he NiSASS tQ AAQh

 Gan the Gazette print 100, 900 sup pleinents for its country rivals sim ply for ethe fun of the thing or does it get pay for its money and labor expended? If so, from whom: Does the Finance Board pay for printing these supplement-" out of their own pecketg Do they pay for these supplements out of the State Treasury2 If so, by what authority: If not paid Sor by any of these, then by whom? Is it the bondholder' S money that is being used to try and influence public opinion. An, here is the milk in the cocoa-nut So we win keep our printing office, and not discharge our printers for while yet, as we fear they will drop us 8 '.distributing medium" as soon as they can get their chains fastened on our State and the shackles oL the tax payer. Men of Arkansas, citizens oi our beloved State, tax payers of our commonwealth, be awake to your interest, don't be hamboozled by designing interested sharks. The nervous anxiety ot the men and papers pressing the scheme should arouse your suspicious. In vestigate well, and probe every prop osition to the bottom, let in the day light before you walk into the pit. If it will stand the beaming rays of the monday sun and no pitfalls are exposed, but smooth and even way is presentdd and no bad odors taint the atmosphere, then follow the light. We warn you against follow ing after twill O the wisps" or hearkening to the nervous shout of money grabbers and spectators, who are possessed of worthless trash, they desire to get into tangible shape"
Year: 1877




The adoption Sof the electric light as a
means of Illuminating the path of ships at
sea during the night has, as we, recently
pointed out, been followed by the applica-
ton OF this powerful illuminating agent to
the purposes OF naval warfare, and some Of
our iron-clads have been fitted with lights
and rejecting apparatus, which viii! be OF
great service in protecting them from such
night attacks by torpedo-boats as those lately
made on Turkish iron-clads in the Black
Sea and the Danube. The Russian Govern.
ment, it seems, are turning their attention
to the uses OF the electric light as an lllu-
minator for military purposes. In some, ex-
periments recently made at st. Peters
burg, with the special object Of increasing
the distance to which the light produced
BY electricity may be thrown, it was found
that the power OF the light is greatly aug
mented by covering the carbon burner with
a thin sheet OF copper. By this means the
celebrated Alteneck lamp was made to in
crease the power OF it light from 1920 to
1926 candles, and even this great power
was raised to that represented by the light Of
2O,275 candles by slight alteration in the
position CT the carbon and its cover
ing-yiz., by turning; it toward the direc-
ton of the object required to be lighted. 1t
was found that this light was sufficiently
powerful to render, objects visible at night
at distance Of over 5000 yards. These
results show that the Improvements now
being made in the system Of electric light,
or the lime-light, as it was originally called,
are likely to have an important bearing on
the condition OF modern warfare. To "a gar
rison provided with two or three such SEN
tinels night-surprises would have no fears; ;
and in the arts OF peace the vivid and easily
controlled light thus produced will have
still more valuable results. i.