smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

It is related by q Chester, Penn,
lady that when General William
Harrison was running for the Pres
idency, he stopped at the old Wash
ington House Tor dinner. After din
ner wine was served 1t was no.
ticed that the General pledged his
toast in water, and one of the gen
tIemen from New York, in offering
another, said: General, will you
favor me by drinking a glass of
wine ?u The General defined in a
very gentlemanly manner. Again
he was urged to join them in a
glass of wine. This was too much.
He rose from the table, his tall
form erect, and in the most digni-
ned manner replied: Gentlemen,
l have refused twice to partake of
the wine cup-that should have
been sufficient; though you press
the cup to my lips not drop shall
pass the portals. made resolve
Year: 1879

Either a man must be cont ent with
poverty all his life, or else be willing to
deny himself some luxuries, and save.
to lay the base of independ ence in the
future But if a man deties the future,
and spends all that he earns (whether
his earnings be one dollar or ten dollars
every day) let him look for hunger and
want at some future time-for it will
surely come. no matter what he thinks.


To save il absolutely the only way to.
get solid fortune; there is no other
certain mode. Those who shut their
eyes and ears to these plain facts will be
forever poor, and for their obstinate re-
lection of the truth, mayhap will die in
rags and filth. Let them so die and
thank themselves. But, MOI They take
a sort of recompense in cursing fortunes
Great waste of breathl They might as
well curse mountains and eternal hills
For | can tell them fortune does not
give away her real and substantial goods.
She sells them to the highest bidder, to
the hardest, wiseSt worker for the
boon. Men never make so fatal mis-
take as when they think they are mere
creatures of fate; It's the sheerest folly
in the world. Every man may make
or mar his life, whichever he may choose.
Fortune is for those who. by diligence,
honesty, frugality, place themselves IN q
position to grasp hold Of fortune when
it appears in view The best evidence
of frugality is the FIVE hundred dollars
or more standing in your name st the
savings bank. The best evidences of
honesty is both diligence and frugallty.
Year: 1879

4 sTRoSo endeavor is being made,
says the Gold Hill Ners, to induce
Professor Stewart to deliver lecture or
so on the Comstock before he starts
East. He has number OF paintings to
illustrate his task. He should give his
many friends here an opportunity to see
these and hear what he has to say. and
at the same time testify by their pres
ence to their appreciation of him as n
man,a citizen and mining expert. The
time and place Of the lecture, if the
Professor listens to the Call OF his
friouds, will be announced ere long.
Year: 1879

A LIVE three-year.old papoose Was
recently buried with dead Piute buck
near Toquerville, Utah. An effort was
made TO bury squAw with the corpse,
but she. getting hint OF her intended
funeral, sloped for parts unknown. The
head Of the child vas loft projecting
above the ground so that it could
breathe. On the third day it was taken
from its porilous poFition by some white
people.
Year: 1879

An Augusta paper has announced
that it will publish nothing but tho
"honest truth " during the campaign.
The Stock Exchange thinks this is tanta-
mount to saying that no candidate will
ever get speech printed in 1t. and GER
tainly nine-tenths Of the Associated
dispatches will have TO he crowded out.
We shall look with much curiosity for
the first number nfter the new rule
shall have gone into effect. We sup
pose its columns will contain little be-
sides the weekly reports Of Comstock
mine Superinteudents.
Year: 1879

PRiTcHARD, the murderer OF Symons,
is still at the State Prison and confined
to his bed from tho wounds no received
at the hands Of the arresting Off.
Ger. His injuries. however, arc not
serious, and II is believed that ho will
bo all right soon. Under the most fay.
orable circumstances the outlook for
him Is anything but cheering. He will
most likely pass the remainder OF his
life under very exacting discipline. -
dppsak.
Year: 1879

A YOUNG Chippewa hunter was shoot
ing squirrels in tho woods that border
Lake Huron, in Ontario, whom largo
pine fell upon him, knocking him down
and crushing his log. lie could not
rise nor move the tree, which was lying
across tho broken log, To lio there
and starvo to death seemed all that was
left to him. In his dilemma ho took
out his knife, cut Off his own log, bound
II up with his sash, dragged himself
along the ground TO his canoe, md
padded homo 10 his wigwam on n dis.
tant island. There the caro- OF his
wounds was completed, and ho is still
alive.
Year: 1879

Puck: Notice woman when she
receives telegram. How it does scare
herl She trembles like dish of jelly,
and imagines all sorts Of things. Her
husband hns fallen down the hatchway
at his warehouse. Her Johnny has
gone out sailing and is drowned. Her
sister Maria has been scalded to death.
Nothing short Of fatal accident quite
fills the bill of her ina gination. When
she finally summons courage enough
to tear open the envelope. she finds a
message from her husband warning her
that he will bring a customer home to
dinner. and she Immediately calls the
children together and instructs them
not to call twice for raspberries, as
there is just enough to go round, and
give the visitor few extra"
Year: 1879

SPECIAL and positive instructions
have been sent by the War Department
to prevent Miles bringing on au Indian
war and telling him that the only pur-
pose Of sending him into the field was
to protect navigation on the Missouri.
Year: 1879

The Virginia Chronicle tells of a COW
backing against buggy with a young
lady inside. A wheel was smashed by
the collision, which so frightened the
lady that she tainted and was lugged
Imply into a dwelling near by. 1t is a
source o! satisfaction to know that the
COW wasn't hurt.
Year: 1879

Sometimes the pains of disease are SO great
that it seems as if they could not be borne,
and sometimes the minor pains worry men
and women into the grave by preventing
rest and sleep. Then the soothing influence
of Warmers Safe Nervine is like translation
from hell to heaven.
Year: 1879

ing that he will exhibit the same executive ability
that has been shown in his earlior works. there
is good reason to believe that Columbia" will bo
to-day presented with completeness OF ensensbie
and perfection of detail that will mako this Christ
mas afternoon memorable. II will be observed that
the Is simple and tho arrangement Is within
tho capabilities OF every who perform with
common facility the piano. Tho verso pub
lishcd Is the last In tho poem but is which Mr..
Gilmore believes will be quickly adopted and
adapted by the public Is expressive of . sacred
and yet . national thought. Tho interest felt
In tho production is very great. and tho fact that
will DO gwen with such grand effects likely to
result from instrumental orchestra comprising
representatives from all OF tho great bands aud
orchestras Of Now York and from . combination Of
choral societies ied by Miss Emma Thursby, induces
the belief that the occasion will be of unusual
interest II IL pleasant to note In this connection
that every dollar received will DO distributed for
benevolent purposes between two OF our public in
stitutionsSt Vincent de Paul and st. Johns Guild.
Tho hour Of tho performance is apparently well
chosen for q Christmas Day-to wit. between half
past three and Ave o'clock.
Year: 1879




Nearly twenty years ago, while resi-
dent of Silver City, we taught a Piute
Indian named Nose to write his lame.
he was very proud of the accomplish
ment, and at bis request was given a
pencil and note book in order that he
might show off among the members of
his tribe and such white men as he
CHANGED to meet. He wss taught to
make the letters after the fashion of
those in print. but in defiance of rule
would always turn thd letter IS" the
wrong way.


Seeing that Nose could write his name
the people of his tribe began to regard
him as man "wise beyond his day and
generation. and expected him to dis
tineuisbf himself in some way. Nose
felt that he i ust do something to keep
up his reputation and as it was not easy
for him 10 write anything more than his
name, he set up az doctor.


He has been practicing some years
and it would seem with much better sue.
cess than the majority of our white
physicians, as he has killed only three
men. But "the pitcher that goes often
to the we'll is broken at last" and at last
poor Nose is in tight place and is liable
to lose his life-to be stoned to death by
his own people.


The'Lyon County Times of yesterday
morning gives the following account OF
the trouble which has overtaken Nose,
and all because of his shallow draught of
the Piorian spring:


Captain Bob, the renowned Indian
warrior. who is the pride of that portion
of the Pluto tribe which lives between
the Comstock and Pyramid Lake is lying
on his death-bed, and there is much
sorrowing and lamentation thereat in
the Piute campoodies, as we'll as threat
ening of the tribal medicine man. Last
Sunday one who is known as Nose was
escorted to this city by over two hundred
Indians of all ages, from the pappoose
in arms to the aged buck or squaw.
These Indians represented every cam.
poodle from Walker river to Pyramid,
and had been summoned to try the medi-
cine man, who was accused of trying to
poison Captain Bob The evidence was
to the effect that only three OF the medi-
cine mans patients had died. and if Cap
tain Bob were soon gathered to the
bosom Of the Great Spirit. he would
therefore only be the fourth. This cir
cumstance saved the life OF the man of
medicine, as by custom of the tribe the
medicine men are allowed to live until
five of their patients have preceded them
to the happy hunting grounds. Then,
however, they are executed by being
stoned to death, each member of the
council which passes sentence upon him
being compelled to throw at least one
stone at the doomed man. But, not
withstanding the fact that, according to
Piute law, Nose was not yet doomed,
many members of the council held that
if Nose were killed the life of Captain
Bob might thereby be saved. and for a
time this opinion seemed to prevail.
But finally Nose who, during the trial
had stood in the center of the council,
pale as death and perspiring profusely,
was told that he might go, but that be
must save Captain Bob or he surely
would be tied into shaft head down.
ward. Nose lives near the Alta works,
in Lower Gold Hill, and he started
homeward. without awaiting for a second
order.
Year: 1879

At about o'clock yesterday morning
cave occurred in the Last Chance
mine by which two men, Oscar Towle
and John Duffy, lost their lives. The
cave occurred in the lower level of the
mine, about 120 feet west of the main
workings or first level of the mine. An
incline had been run down on the ore
8x5 feet, and at the distance named (120
feet) drift was started to the south of
the same dimension, making right
angle in the workings, AT point of
about 80 feet from the angle. and near
second angle, the miners were stopping
out ore. and it was here that the cave oo-
cu-red 1t was one of those casulties
which human foresight can never deter
mine. Any miner in the world might
have been caught as the unfortunates
we're il he had not been operating at
that point. To the human eye the slab
came down appeared to be perfectly
solid and safe, and it is doubtful if sound
ing it with the hammer would have given
warning of its condition. The slab was
about II feet in length and 2Ha feet
thick, where it was joined to the main
body. running up to feather edge on
the hanging wall. Between this and the
hanging wall proper there was thin
layer OF clay. which cut it off in that
direction; at the foot of the workings a
fracture had been made, no doubt by
the blasting and removing of the
contiguous rock, but it was entirely
concealed. This, as will be ap-
parent, left the slab detached and its
weight brought it down, happening al
the moment when the men were stoop.
ing down under it examining the place
which they had been shooting. The
third man, William Stockdsle, was
caught by the leg and held. He gave
the alarm and the men in the works be-
low came to his relief. His leg was badly
bruised, but not broken. He was re-


leased, but the stone, which weighed
about three tons, had to be broken befor'
the bodies of Towle and Duffy could b.
released. Il Silver Reef Miner, 18th.
Year: 1879

A Washington correspondent. whose
oat-of-arms is cherry tree and little
hatchet, writes that, woman in that
city is so proud. and elevates her nose
to such an altitude when passing a
Treasury girl, that she frequently has
the skin scraped off that organ by con-
ing in contact with the telegraph wires.
Year: 1879

A paper by trained nurse in Scribney for September says:-" preparing a meal for any one whose appetite is deli, cate, it should be made to look as tempt ing as possible. The tray should be covered with the whitest napkin, and the silver, glass, and china should shine with cleanliness. There should not be too great variety of viands, and but a very small portion of each one. Noth- ing more quickly disgusts a feeble ap- petite than quantity of food presented at one time.

 The patient should never be consulted beforehand as to what he will eat or what he will drink. If he asks for any thing, give it to him, with the doctors permission; otherwise prepare somo- thing he is known to like and offer it with hout previous comment. One of the chief offices of @ good nurse is to think for her patient. His slightest wish should be anticipated and gratifed be- fore he has had time to express It.. Duck observation will enable her to detect the first symptom of worry or excitement and to remove the cause An invalid should never be leased with the exertion of making 8 decision. Whether the room is too hot or too cold; whether chicken broth, beef tea, or gruel is best for his luncheon, and all similar matters, are questions which should be decided without appealing to him.

 Household troubles should be kept as far as possible from the sick.room. Squabbles of children or servants never should find an echo there.

 In the event of some calamity occur ring, of which it is absolutely necessary the sufferer should be informed, the ill news should be broken as gently as pos sible, and every soothing device em- ployed to help him to bear the shock.

 Above all, an invalid, or even per- son apparently convalescent, should be saved from bls friends. One garrulous acquaintance admitted for half an hour will undo the good done by week of tender nursing. Whoever is the re- sponsible person in charge should know how much her patient can bear, she should keep 8 careful watch on visitors of whose discretion she is not certain, and the moment she percieves it to be necessary, politely but firmly dismiss them.

 She must carry out implicitly the doctors directions, particularly those regarding medicine and diet. Strict obedience to his orders, faithful, dili- gent, painstaking following of his in- best results from his skill, and bring order, method and regularity into do- mestic nursing.
Year: 1879

Peck, the publisher of the Milwaukee Sun, believes in advance subscriptions. He says Any subscriber can tell when his subscription runs out by simply looking at the mailing slip pasted on his paper, just as we'll as for us to look at it for him and then write letter to him about it. If he wants the paper con- tinued the way to renew is to renew. If he don't want it continued no corre- spondence is necessary. But whether he wants it continued or not, when his time is up it will be stopped, unless paid for, no matter if he is 8 Congress- man, bank president, or a man that is getting eighteen dollars month in a saw-mill. All over the State there are papers that didn't want to hurt sub- scriber's feelings by stopping his paper when it had run out, and the sheriff is foreclosing on them, regardless of the editors feelings in the matter. People have got an idea that everybody is doing business to make money except editors. That impression is erroneous in very important particular.
Year: 1879

Says western man, writing from Newport, "A real estate agent said to me this morning: Rich men appear to be distinguished from other men by their restless and incessant desire to make money. They care great deal more for ten dollars than I do, and I own very little property. I have had Q great deal to do with millionaires here who live in Boston, New York, Philadel- phia and elsewhere, and they can drive about as shrewd and close bargain as any men l have ever known. I could tell you some stories of men of enormous wealth which would surprise you (you look skeptical-well, they surprised mel, but l won't because you are 8 cor respondent, and might feel tempted to reveal them in print. I never repeat anything unless understand that I am at full liberty to do so. The agent then gave me permission to mention, without using names, several instances of down. right meanness on. the part of rich men. One of them, 8 Philadelphian, had quarreled with him because he had wanted $5 more commission on Q sale of $150, ,0O0 worth of property on which he, the owner, had cleared $4O,OOO. A Crpsus had been anxious to dispose of a lot of ground which he had purchased, years before, very cheap. He had fixed the price several times, and when the price had been offered him he had de- clined and put it higher. At last he agreed to accept @ price which he had advanced again and again, and when it came to final settlement he demanded fifty dollars more, and the intending purchaser grew so disgusted that he withdrew from the transaction altogether. A well-known New York merchant bought a villa in Bellevue avenue and was to pay ten thousand dollars cash down, but the sale was not consummated because the owner did not want to receive five hundred dollars in trade dollars at par."
Year: 1879

Ono thing taught by the Frye murder in Boston is the unsafety of introducing into one's household ignorant and irresponsible foreigners of whom nothing is known. Frye was murdered because he had been imprudent enough to make companion of his barber, Infantino, Sicilian youth who had taken his fancy. While the latter was at the leather merchants house, playing billiards, evening after evening. he was struck by what seemed to him the luxury and splendor of the establish ment, especially by the safe, imagining it to be full of riches. He naturally coveted what he believed to be it's con- tents, and thinking that he might get possession of them, the idea of robbery became familiar to his mind. He had

 talked a great deal to two of his associates, also barbers, Ardito, Greek. and Chevvaro, an Italian, of Frye's wealth, and of the means by which they could secure a portion of it. Murder was suggested as the surest method, and though this was at first rejected by Infantino, as he says, he was finally persuaded to enter into the plan, in- volving the introduction of Ardito to Frye, the visit of himself and the Greek to the house, and their commission of the crime, while Chevvaro kept watch outside. The plot was most treacherous and was cruelty carried out. A more deliberate, col3-blooded murder has seldom been perpetrated. The de- tectives have for once displayed great intelligence, shrewdness, and energy in working up the case, and are en- titled to much credit therefor. It is pity that Frye should have been horribly butchered as he certainly was, on account of his kindness toward the Sicilian lad, and of the interest he had taken in him. If the merchant had not invited the barber to his homo, he would doubtless have been alive today. In all probability, Infantino is not naturally any more vicious than most of the youth of his race and class, nor had he, is it likely, any thought of crime when he first went to Frye's house. But the re- peated vision of wealth put evil into his heart. Avarice gradually but rapidly drew him into murder. Such a crime would not have been done by Americans, who rarely shed blood for money. But with uneducated Europeans, notably Spaniards, Italians, Maltese, and Greeks, murders for gain are not at all un- common. They are not sufficiently intelligent to foresee consequences, and to them human life has no secredness. Even small amount of money, when there is possibility of possessing it, excites wild desire and instigates them to any crime. It is so with the men concerned in the Frye murder. They appear, even now, to have no thought of the gravity of their situation, to be unconecious that the gallows is certain to be their doom.
Year: 1879

A large majority of the farmers of Ire land, says letter writer, have no leases of the land they till, but pay the rent from year to year, liable at any time to be elected, as sometimes they are, for trivial offenses. There seems no link of sympathy on the part of these land lords for the welfare or prosperity of their tenantry. The business part of receiving the rents is done through agents, and, unfortunately, these gre valued in many instances by their en- 'ployers on their ability to collect the rents without paying much attention as to the methods adopted. I have met and talked to many Irish farmers who never saw their landlord, although liv- ing on their places all their lives. There are some few good, kind hearted land lords in Ireland, who give encourage ment and take an interest in their ten antry, and these show it at a glance, for they live in habitable houses, and farm their land to better advantage. But the bulk of the landlords spend eight tenths of their time, and nine -tenths of thelr money, in the South of France and England. They are, to sum it up in a sentence, miserable, worthless set of absentees, who have it in their power to do much good if they would only try. The tenantry whom, as rule, are hard working, industrious people would meet them more than half way if they were offered any encouragement to better their condition, especially in their houses, many of which are not fit to house cattle.
Year: 1879

The Pittsburg Telegraph tells this story A queer story was told to one oi our reporters few days ago about McParlan, the famous detective who broke up Jack Kehoe's gang of Molly Maguires. The man who related the incident was formerly member of the Mollies, and he knows whereof he speaks. Some time before the grand finale of McParlan's work man who lived in the same house with him, prompted by curiosity, one day went to McParlans room while the latter was away and forced open the lock of his trunk. After searching through the trunk the investigator came across a bundle of letters and papers which fully explained McParlan's mission among the Mollies. The man read them through, and foolishly for him he put them back in their hiding place. Boiling over with the importance of his news, he hastened to meeting of the Mollies, which was then in session, and there he told his story. He was not believed, but was greeted with shouts of indignation, and the meeting even went so far as to put if to a vote as to whether the man should not be beaten for thus slandering 6 Molly ill good standing. Jack Kehoe interfered and the matter was dropped

 When McParlan came home he disco V

 cred that his papers had been meddlet with and he hid them elsewhere, and when the man who had endeavored t. betray him went to look for the paper

 a second time he could not find them.