smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

To ne Editor Oft he National Republican:


SIR: Tho conduct of the police force ycster-
day in supprcssing tho attempted riot and
maintain ming law aud order has been highly
complimontod by tho citizens of the District,
as well as the press Of the city. This public
recognition of their efficiency aud promptncss
in the discharge of their duty Is we'll merited.


If reports as published In the papers are cor.
rect, these guardians Of life and property are
to he rewarded for their watchfuness and
fidelity by having their salaries reduced
25 per cent. This proposed parsimonious
policy on the part of tho Commissioners
docs not have the approval of tho property
holders or citizens Of the District. II we are
to have tho services OF honest, respectable,
faithful, aud fearless men OH tho police force,
such as we now have, salaries sufficient to en-.
able them to provide for tho support of their
families must be paid them. Carry out the
unwise policy of the Commissioners of hiring
cheap policemen, and the police force of the
District will be made up from an entirely diff.
icrcnt class of men than what we now have in
the service. Tho pay now received is not q
fair compensation for the arduous and danger.
Gus service in which they are engaged.
Year: 1878

The MEETING OF BANK PRESIDENTS i'm
New York yesterday adopted resolutions look
ing tot united action by the leading banks, trust
and insurance companies and mercantile com
munities in memOralizing Congress against
the passage of the pending silver bill, and to
urge upon all financial institutions and mer-
their affairs upon gold basis as speedily as
possible.
Year: 1878

THE NEW HAMPSHIRE REPUBLICAN Con
eating all sectional feelings and while recOg
niZing an honest difference of opinion as to
the past acts of President Hayes, welcoming
to keep faith with the people. and secure to the
whole country the blessings of a just, efficient
and honest republican national administra-
ti0n;' opposing as mischievous any attempt
to reopen the presidential controversy. and
dlSapprOving the efforts in behalf of the re
m0netization Of silver and the imitation of cur
Year: 1878

DIR. LAMBERTS APPLICATION to the court
that the receiver of his exploded insurance
company be directed to keep him informed of
its affairs was decidedly cool. He will have to
amuse himself some other way in the peniten-
tary-T " Y Herald ytH
Year: 1878

what he said. The fact is, the dca.
con began to think that the widow
was u very charming woman. She
was very comely, and then she was
such an excellent cookl Besides, he
had no doubt in his own mind that
she was worth a considerable sum Of
money-what objection could there
be to her becoming Mrs. WillisG-
He brought this question before hei
one evening, The widow blushed-
professed to be greatly surprised--in
fact she had never thought of such a
thing in her life-but, on the whole,
she had always thought highly Of the
deacon, and to cut the matter short,
she accepted him. A month after
wards she was installed mistress Of
the elders large house, somewhat to
the surprise of the village people,
who could not conceive how she had
brought him over.


Some weeksafter the ceremony, the
elder ventured to ask her about the
pot of gold she had found in the eel.
lar.


"Pot of gold" she exclaimed in
surprise, "G know of nOne."


"But," said the elder, disconnected,
"you asked me about whether the
law could claim it"


"oh, lori elder, I only asked from
curiosity"


"And was that the reason you
made inquiries at the banka"


Certainly. What else could it
beH'


The elder went out to the barn,
and for half an hour sat in silent
meditation. At the end of that time
he calculated, as a closing considera-
tion:


After all, she makes good minco
piesp


1t gives me pleasure to state that
the union between the elder and the
widow proved very happy one, al
though to the end of his life, he
could never quite make up his mind
about the "Pot Of Gold" 4
Year: 1878

Teach children while young to
wait on themselves, and take care Of
their own things. Order is one of
the first lessons in which an infant
should he taught, and the girl Of
Of her little piaythings, as wei a.
yourself. When she is'a little older
and wends her way to the classic
halls of learning, and comes home at
noon or night flushed and happy,
and filings her hat into the middle of
the room, and her sack, gloves, lunch
box, and books to the four points of
the compass, don't gather them up
yourself, but teach her to do it, for
in SO doing sho will learn most val
liable lesson, and your time is too
precious 10 waste in this needless
manner.


For surely if any ones time is pre-
cious it is the mothers System is
the twin.sister of order, and should
go hand in hand with it. Give her
at an early age some little tasks to
perform about the house, for which
she alone shall be responsible. Let
none of the servants be coaxed in to
doing them for her. Teach her to
assume care, thus will you fit her for
the burdens of life.
Year: 1878

The sweetest life is to be ever
making sacrifices for Christ; the hard.
est life q man can lead on earth, the
most full Of misery, is to be always
doing his own will and seeking to
please himself BicEcrteiM,
Year: 1878

A certain rural editor announces
that he intends to wage war on fraud
as long as he can raise hand. It's
no use TO undertake TO convert wo-
men from painting their cheeks
They will do it.
Year: 1878

allow can l best teach my children
to be gentle and polite in their man.
ners, and keep them from contract
ing the language and initiating the
ways of the children on the streets
with whom they must to a greater
or less extent come in contact?"-
The mother is the mirror in which
children are fashioned If she will
uniformly use correct language, and
require it in her children, if her
tones are habitually gentle and
sweet, and she insists on the same in
them, if she is courteous in her man.
ners to them and demands like cour-
tesy from them, whatever roughness
of manner or speech they may from
time to time fall into from outside
association will be but Transient.
Year: 1878

"You want to break on this road,
do you? Well, you can sit down
there, we have no vacancy just at
present; but we kill about two.
brakesmen day, and ! dare say in
a few minutes l shall hear Of some
one losing an arm or a leg, and then
you can have the job" The man
thought he would not wait.
Year: 1878

WRoSo.-Complaints are continually be- ing made against certain person who has the handling of the U. s. Mails at Dos Palms, which, if true are wrong, and should be stopped, It is said that the mail bags go through a jamming and pounding pro cess whereby, if anything happens to be in the bags in the shape of merchandise or parcels allowed to pass by law, they are broken, and of course arrive in worthless condition. It is said that the reason for so roughly handling mail matter is for the purpose of deterring the public from send ing packages through the mails. So long as the government regonizes the right, and until Congress repeals the present law allowing the transmission of packages not weighing over Abs, the rights of persons in this particular business should be respected.
Year: 1878

Two teams heavily laden with merchandise for the old and popular house of L. Bash ford S Co, belonging to Mr. Peters, dis charged their cargo this morning at the brick store of the firm.
Year: 1878

As will be seen by reference to our ad- vertising columns, T. J. Drum has removed his Law Office from his old quarters next door to finders & Rowes store, to nicely fitted-up room one door south of the Court house, where he will talk law to all who require his services in that line.
Year: 1878

NEW York. Jan. Glowing to the troubles be-
tween Russia and Turkey the leather merchant.
harvest by the expectation Of large shipments
of leather. Only a few months ago the tanned
leather market was very much depressed. and
business was almost at a standstiil. But since
then the continued demand for export pur-
poses has sent the prices up very high, Last
week over 65, 900 sides of leather We're shipped
lands use large quantity of leather is also
being shipped to Russia. most OF the ship
ments being sole leather. The market, since
per cent


In addition to the export trade. large. orders
factories so that the leather market has bsrn at
times fairly exhausted. Every week however,
the supply. as well as the demand has in
creased, and this will be continued so that there
will be no stoppage in the market. either for
home or foreign consumption.
Year: 1878

The VIRGINIA MEDICAL SoCIETY.-The
ninth annual session Of the Virginia Medi-
cal Society will commence at the ball OF the
House OF Delegates tomorrow night at s
o'clock. The banquet will take place at the
ST Clnire
Year: 1878

The Recue des Deur Mondes contains
several "Incidents in the War of Mexi-
can Independence from which We
select the following thrilling scene. A
Captain in the insurgent army is giving
an account of meditated night attack
upon a hacienda, situated in the Cor
dillera. and occupied by large force Of
Spanish soldiers After variety of de-
tails, he continues:


Having arrived at the hacienda un-
perceived, thanks to the obscurity of
moonless night, we came to halt under
some large trees at some distance from
the building, and 1 rode forward from
my troop in order to reconnoitre the
place. The hacienda, so far as / could
see in gliding across the trees, formed a
huge. massive parallelogram, strengthen
ed by enormous butteresses of hewn
stone. Along this chasm the walls of
the hacienda almost formed the contin-
uation of another perpendicular one,
chiseled by nature herself in the rocks,
to the bottom OF which the eye could not
penetrate, for the mists which incess-
antly boil up from below did not allow
it to measure their awful depths. This
place was known in the country by the
name of "the Voladero"


had explored all sides of the build
ing except this, when l know not wha
scruple of military honor melted me to
continue my ride along the ravine which
protected the rear of the hacienda. Be
tween the walls and the precipice there
was narrow pathway about six feet
wide; by day the passage would not have
been dangerous, but by night it was a
perilous enterprise. The walls OF the
farm took an extensive sweep, the path
crept around their entire basement, and
to follow it to the end in the darkness,
only two PAGES from the edge ofa perpen
dicular chasm, was no very easy task
even for as practiced horseman as my
SELF Nevertheless. I did not hesitate,
but boldly urged my horse between the
walls of the farmhouse and the abyss Of
the Voladero. l had got over half the
distance without accident, when all of a
sudden my horse neighed aloud. The
neigh made me shudder. Ihad reached
the pass where the ground was just wide
enough for the four legs Of a horse, and
it was impossible to retrace my steps.


aHalloo," 1 exclaimed aloud, at the
risk of betraying myself-which was
even less dangerous than encounteringa a
horseman in front of me on such a road.
There is Christian passing along the
ravinel Keep back"


1t was too late. At that moment
man on horseback passed around one Of
the buttresses, which here and there
obstructed this accursed pathway. He
advanced toward me. Itrembled in my
saddle; my forehead was bathed in cold
sweat.


@For the love of God can you not
returns" 1 exclaimed, terrified at the
fearful situation in which we both were
placed. rf


"impo.ible!' replied the horseman in
hollow voice. @ ]
Year: 1878

self for few moments-and then re-
commenced the same maneuver. All of
a sudden felt bis hind legs give way


under me. A horrible shudder ran


through my whole frame. l closed my
eyes as if about to roll to the bottom of


the abyss, and I gave to my body VIC


lent impulse on the side next to the


hacienda, the surface of which offered


not single projection, not single tuft


or weeds to check my descent This


sudden movement, joined to the desper-


ate struggles Of my horse, was the saliva


ton of my life. He had sprung up


again on his legs, which seemed ready


to fall from under him, so desperately


did feel them tremble.


had succeeded in reaching, between


the brink of the precipice and the wall


of the building, spot some few inches


broader. A few more would enable me


to turn him round, but to attempt it here


would have been fatal and 1 dared not
venture. 1 sought to resume my back


ward progress, step by step. Twice the
horse threw himself on his hind legs and
fell down upon the spot. 1t was in vain
OF urge him anew, either with voice,
bride or spur; the animal obstinately
refused to take a single step in the rear.
Nevertheless did not feel my courage
yet exhausted, for / had no desire to
die. One last and solitary chance of
safety suddenly appeared to me like
flash of light, and resolved to employ
it. Through the fastening of my boot,
and in reach of my hand, was passed a
sharp and keen knife, which l drew
from its sheath. With my left hand
began caressing the name of my horse,
all the while letting him hear my voice.
The poor animal replied to my caresses
BY plaintive neighing: then, not to
alarm him abruptly, my hand followed
by little and little the curve of his
neck, and finally rested upon
the sp)t where the last of the vertebre
unites itself with the Uranium. The
horse trembled, but calmed him with
my voice. When felt his very life, so
to speak. palpitate in his brain beneath
my fingers, I leaned over toward the
wall, my feet gently slid from the stir
rups, and with one vigorous blew 1
buried the pointed blade of my knife in
the seat of the vital principle. The
animal fell. as if thunderstruck. with
out single motion; and for myself,
with my knees almost as high as my
chin, l found myself on horseback
across a corpse. Twas saved uttered
. triumphant cry, which was responded
to by the Colonel, and which the abyss
with hollow sound, as if it
felt thatits prey had escaped from it.
I quilted the saddle, sat myself be-
tween the wall and the body of my
horse, and vigorously pushed with my
feet against the carcass of the wretched
animal, which rolled down into the
abyss. l then arose, and cleared at a
few bounds the distance which separa-
ted the place where l was from the
plain, and under the irresistible reac-
lion of the terror which 1 had SO long
l sank in a swoon upon the
ground. When l re-opened my eyes
the Colonel was by my side.
Year: 1878




To the Working CIRss.-We are now
prepared to furnish all classes with constant
employment at home. the whole ofthe time.
or for their spare moments. Business new,
light and profitable. Persons of either sex
easily earn from so cents to S. per evening,
and q prop rtIonal sum by devoting their
whole time to the business. Boys and girls
earn nearly as much as men. That all who
see this notice may send their address, and
test the business we ma ke this unparalleled
offer: To such as are not well satisfied we will
send one dollar to pay for the trouble of writ
ing. Flu particulars samples worth several
dollars 10 commence work on, and 8 copy Of
Home and Fireside one of the largest and
best Illustrated Publications, all sent free by
Portland, Maine.
Year: 1878

SPEAKING of the pestilence now rava-
ging the South, the Washington Star re-
marks that two months must pass before
the frost will bring relief, and that there is
no prediction how far the plague may
spread or what loss of life it may cause
withinthat period. Health authorities in
all our cities cannot be teo mindful ofthese
facts Or too vigilant in roofing out all
possible sources of pestilence.
Year: 1878

THE Prohibitionists Of Massachusetts, are
men Of indomitable pluck. q For many
years past they have never failed to put a
candidate for governor inthe field, and. Lin
keeping with this welEestablished custom
have just nominated another candidate for
defeats They believe in the adage that ii
is long lane that has no turns.
Year: 1878

Il may be pleasing to some workingnen
to hear Dennis Kearney abuse and vilify
everybody and almost everything that car
lay claim to responsibility; but we art
greatly mistaken in our estimate of the
1aboring classes if these sentiments arr
shared by q great number ofthem. SO
Year: 1878

penses remain as before, because they
have already been reduced to the low
est limit. 1t is easy to foresee that
such policy can only result in smaller
profits and greater pecuniary embar-
rassment.
Year: 1878

A STOCK bear is described as a person
who sells what be has not got; bull as
a man who buys what be cannot paw
for and financing as buying shares
by man who dosen't want them from,
one who has none to sell.
Year: 1878

A corrLx Of nsishbors became 80
hostile that they would not speak to
each other but one OF them having
been converted at o camp meeting. on
seeing his former enemy. held out his
hand, saying. "How dye do. Kemp
am humble enough to shake hands
with O dog"
Year: 1878

the first duty of a citizen, 1, e, TO pay
something for government. They seem
TO think the whites are bound to do
everything to support good government
and their duty is only to enjoy its bene-
fits.


Mr.. Higgins and Mr.. Bird got a good
share of the party's benefits. They were
wise enough to seize upon the occasion,
went for the official patronage and got it.
But they did very little for the negro in re
turn. In fact they soon saw he was dead
weight; and the difficulty now ishcw is
the party is to get ridof him. The old
Commercial long ago showed that il would
have given the best tooth in its brazen
head if it could have got the GAZETTE to
advocate making Democrats of the ne
groes. But alas. there was no use in
coaxing: the DEMOCRACY were in no need
OF such association. The white boys
could not endure meeting without re-
gard to color with the thermometer at 900
and they preferred that our Republican
friends should have monopoly of such
luxuries.
Year: 1878

During illness ice. is generally
needed in the sick room. The following
method of preserving it is highly recon-
mended, and is certainly worth trying
Cut piece of flannel about niue inches
square, and secure it by a ligature round
the mouth of an ordinary tumbler, so as
to leave cup-shaped depression Of
flannel within the tumbler to about
half its depth. In the flannel cup SO
constructed pieces of ice may be preserv-
ed many hours, all the longer il piece
Of flannel from four to five inches square
be used as loose cover to the ice cup.
Cheap flannel, with comparatively open
meshes, is preferable, as the water easily
drains through it and the ice is thus kept
quite dry. When good flannel with
close texture is employed. a small hole
must he made in the bottom of the fan
mel cup, otherwise it holds the water,
and facilitates the meeting of the ice.
Placed In a cup of this kind, two ounces
OF ice has been known to last for nine or
ten hours.
Year: 1878

PHILADELPHIA, July 5.-A great
change has come over Benjamin Hunter
since his conviction. He is no longer
ae,e to conceal the dependency and
wretchedness that one In his position
must suffer. In the words OF quaint old
" Judge" Ware, one of his keepers, "Hun-
ter's all broke up" On Wednesday night,
after the verdict, when he was taken
back to his iron cage, Hunter was morose
and unhappy. He complained of little
things in his surrounding, and insisted
that his bed was very hard, although 1t
Is the same bed and the same apartment
in very respect which the prisoner pre-
tended to be delighted with in converting
with the writer shortly before the trial
began.


AT his own request no one will here
after be permitted to see him but his
family ard his counsel. He sits and
broods gloomy with his head between
his hands, .or PAGES the stone floor Of
his cage with his head bowed and his
hands behind his back. He Is very much
on the alert of everything that takes
place about him, and every little noise in
the passageway outside seems to attract
his attention and TO annoy him.
Year: 1878

From Congressman Wards Chester


Speech, Juiy4


"To my mind Republican govern
ment should be so organized that such
scenes as the murder Of Eliza Pinkston',
husband, on his own threshold, in the
face of his weeping wife and daughter
praying for mercy; or of Daniel Webster
solely for their opinions sake, would call
for speedy vengeance, instead of indiffer-
ence. Iwould not rest until every rifle
club was exterminated and every White
Lacquer was down with the heel of the
law upon his neck. [Applause.l"


Ward is more dangerous than Spitz
dor
Year: 1878

Undoubtedly the human conscience,
and especially the boyish article, recog-
nizes a broad difference between the
theft of growing crops--of apples on The
trees, for instance, or corn on the stalk,
or melons in the iield-and that of other
species Of property. The surreptitious
appropriation of the former class of chat
tells is known in common parlance as
hooking" while the grayer term steal
ing describes the same process in other
cases. The distinction may arise from
a feeling that, so long as crops remain
rooted to the ground, they are natures,
not mans, and that nature can't be re-
garded as forming business contracts
with some individuals TO the exclusion
OF others, or in fact as aceeding TO any
of our human distinctions of meum and
t,aim, however useful we find them.
Ethical philosophers may refuse to con-
cede the sanction of the popular dis
tinction here alluded to between hook
ing and stealing; but, after all, ethics
Is not deductive but an empirical sci
ence, and what are morals but collec-
ton OF usages, like orthography and
orthoepy? However that may be, it is
the duty of the writer in this instance
merely to call attention to the prevalent
popular sentiment on the subject, with
out any attempt to justify it.-Scribner
Year: 1878

Dairying is rapidly-growing. rural
industry of California. The time was,
says the Bulletin, when it was generally
believed That the climate of California
was not favorable to making good but
ter, but it is now known that no State
in the Union can make better butter, or
keep it good longer than they can
Wherever alfalfa grows rapidly the year
through, as it does on river bottoms, the
dairy season is practically perennial
On this clover, or on hay made from it,
cows keep UP good flow of milk the
year round, and are only dried up TO al
low of necessary rest and recuperation.
Large quantities. Of empty firkins have
been shipped from the East, and all that
have been made by local coopers have
been used, and still the demand for
something to pack butter in is unsatis-
fed. But few years since California
shipped the lirkins from the East, not to
put butter in, but to get the butter that
came i'm them. 1t now wants the empty
firkins, and will return them well filed
with butter of a quality superior to that
formerly received.
Year: 1878

The secret of running a boarding
house proiitably is to find out just what
your boarders don't like, and then feed
'em lots of it.


Lightning struck a hive of bees in
Kansas, the other day. The painful
story is soon told. The misguided
lightning came out of that hive quicker
than ii went in, and went off into space
with its tail between Its legs. Moral
Never pick quarrel when you are not
acquainted with the folks.


The fellow that invented and perfect
ed the machine that turns out the in
Vulnerable paper bags now in use has
invented new way to fasten buttons
OH cards. What an opportunity he
missed when stopped in his button-fast-
ening career. Had he invented ma
chine to fasten buttons on shirts and
boys clothes, in the larger and better
use of that term fasten, his name would
have soon become household word.