smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

| up his bride in gin shop at Amster-
dam, and from the subsequent conduct
of the lady, l am inclined to think
an Amsterdam gin shop is not good
place to select a wife in. Her ante
cedents were of character entitled
Magdalenish, without the Magdalene's
repentance, for she punched her hus-
bands head rifled his pockets ;
sometimes locked him in his room and
sometimes locked him out; she car
ried knives and pistols in her pocket ;
and concluded by bringing baby in-
to the house while he had been two
years at sea.


In Brooklyn, on Tuesday last, a
young man was discovered dead in a
cellar, where he had literally starved
to death !; to aid his exit he had taken
a small dose of laudanum, which he
had procured in some way, and then
laid down to die. His manner was
refined; he was gentle spoken, and
had evidently seen better days. The
turf of POtter's Field closed over him
on Wednesday last. A family by the
name of Ross, in Brooklyn, was dis
covered in the last stages of destitu-
ton the children were starving and
in rags when they were found. The
father was once respectable, well-to-
do book-keeper, but the devil of
drink took possession of him till it
drove him to madness and the gutter,
the wife became insane, and at the
closing scene the Society for the
Protection of Destitute Children
came forward and rescued the worse
than orphans from life of misery,
and perhaps from the States prison or
the gallows.


We have been greatly exercised in
New York for the past week on ac-
count of genuine ghost-none of
your hollow squashes with candle
stuck inside of it, nor any thing of
that sort, but ghost that you could
pelt with boot-jacks and glass bottles,
and who rather liked it. It was the
ghost of Old Sheppard, a watehman,
known >along the docks for many
years. Old Shep got drowned, but
he would not stay drowned, and he
keeps bobbing around among the
shipping as usual; sometimes he
can be seen about midnight sitting
on the end of a bowsprit, and at other
times smoking his pipe on top of the
main truck. We are uneasy. Some
of his old friends suspect that there
are no fluids where ho has gone to,
and that the old man has come back
for a drink. Truly yours,


BROADBRIM.
Year: 1878

l BIZ WILL SAhLEION'
There's come a singular doctrine, Sue,


Into our church tO-duy;
| These curious words are what the new
Young preacher had to say:
| That literal everlastin' fire
Was mostly in our eye;
| That sinners dead, if they desire,


Can get another try
He doubted if warmer cline
! Than this world could be proved
| The little snip-I fear some time
He'll get his doubts removed.
I've watched my duty straight an true
And tried to do it we'll
Part of the time kept Heaven in view,
An part steered clear O. hell
An now half of this work is naught,


If l must list to him,


An this ere devil have fought


Was only just whim-
Vain are the dangers have brayed,


The sacrifice they cost
For what fun is it to be saved,


If no one else is lost?
just think! Suppose when once l view


The Heaven I've toiled to win;
A lot of unsaved sinners too,


Come walkin' grandly in
An acts to home same as if they


Ildu TCdu CuClf tlJlS CIedEs
An look at me, as if to say,


"We're glad to see you here J"
As if to say, "While ToU have ben


So fast to toe the mark,
We waited till it rained, an THEN
Got tickets for the ark"
Yet there would be some in that crowd


I'd rather like to see
Ny boy Jack-it must be allowed,


There were no worse than hei
I've always felt somewhat to blame,


In several different ways,
That he lay down on thorns o. shame


To end his boybood days,
An I'll be willin' to endure,


If that the Lord thought best,
A minutes quite hot temperature,


To clasp him to my breast.
Old Captain Barnes was evils SON


With heterodoxy crammed-
used to think he'd be the one


If any one was damned
Still, when l saw a lot o. poor,


That he had clothed and fed,
Cry, desolately round his door,


AS soon as he was dead
Then came a thought couldn't control,


That in some neutral land,
I'd like to meet that scorehed-up soul,


An shake it by the hand.
Poor Jennie Willis, with cry


Of hopeless, sad distress,
Sank sudden down, one night, to die,


All in her ball room dress
She had precious little while


To pack up an away
She even left her sweet, good smile


Twas on her face next day;
Her soul went off unclothed by even


One stitch of saving grace,
How could she hope to go to Heaven,


An start from such place
But once, when lay sick an weak,


She came, an begged to stay
She kissed my faded, wrinkled check
She soothed my pain away.
She brought me sweet bouquets of flowers
As fresh as her young heart ''
Through many long and tedious hours
She played a Christian part.
An ere long will stand around,
The singin' saints among,
I'll try to take some water down,
To cool poor Jennie's tongue.
But tears can never quench my creed,
Nor smooth Gods righteous frown,
Though all the preachers learn to read
Their Bibles up side down,
hold mine right side up with care,
To shield my eyes from sin,
An' coax the Lord with daily prayer,
To call poor wanderers in.
5ut if the sinners won't draw nigh,
And take salvation's plan,
III have to stand and see 'em try
To dodge hell if they can.
Year: 1878

We have received summons to
serve as a juror, and a notice to work
the road and We are at loss how to
discharge both duties, unless We take
a hoe into the jury room, aud have
the road brought 70 us.
Year: 1878

MEMPHIS, Nov, l5.-The members of
the national yellow fever commission de-
part tonight for Richmond, Va. On their
report to be made they will advocate a
system of national quarantine under the
direction of the United States government.
The commissioners are convinced from
their investigation that the yellow fever is
not indigenous in the atmosphere in any
part of the United States and that in New
Orleans it was caused by importation
Whatever doubt there may be 10 the case
of New Orleans, there is no doubt but that
it was carried from New Orleans to every
other point The disease does not seem
to be prevented from prevailing epidemic
ally, either by distance from the sea leyel,
as under favorable circumstances for it's
dissemination it might prevail in any part
of the United States. Heretofore the sea-
board quarantine as far as the Gulf of
Mexico is concerned, and making excep-
tioDs this year in case of Texas, have been
inadequate to prevent the introduction of
the disease The difficulties of inland
quarantine are SO many and SO great in
cases OF towns on the Mississippi river or
ln cases of towns having extensive railroad
connections, as to make it almost practc-
ably impossible With this view of facts
the commission are Of the opinion that the
only reasonable protection to keep yellow
fever from this country is system of ma
tioual quarantine.
Year: 1878

Railroad ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS EarGlCuIafs.


BANGOR, Me-, Nov. IA passenger
gives the following account. The train
was going at moderate rate Of speed
when we reached Peel Suddenly there
was shock. The train had jumped the
track and we found that the passenger
car was rolling down one Of the worst en-
bankments on the line. The car had a.
most reached the waters edge when it was
discovered that it had caught fire. The
flames spread rapidly, The men took ef
their coast and tried to extinguish the
fire, but without avail. The flames had
comp plete possession and leaped from seat
to seat, rendering the passengers almost
frantic with fear The clothing Of those
aboard soon caught fire and as the people
rushed from one part of the car to another
in burning garments the lsceue was most
terrible.


The little boy VIII burned to death
managed to keep clear of the fire long after
the clothing of many other passengers hac
caught, but in his anxiety for the safety OF
some of his friends rushed into the flames
and perished.
Year: 1878

SAN FRANCISCO, August 2l-The directors
OF the Masonic Savings and Loan bank an
nOunce that In consequence of improvident
loans heretofore made on navy pay certifi-
more deposits will be received or loans be
made. The assets will be converted into cash
as rapidly as prudent management will per-
directors are confident of their ability to paw
all demands in full, less interest from this
date.
Year: 1878

HORRIBLE CHILD MURDER.-The residents
of the village of RandallstOwn, about 10 miles
from Baltimore, on the Liberty road, are exer.
cised over reported case Of infanticide in
in their usually quiet burgh. It appea rs that
years of age, hitherto of good repute and the
ward of a respectable farmer who lives near
Randallstown, gave birth to a child. When
the child was born she was alone and when
the discovery was made the infant was a
corpse. The circumstances connected with
the discovery were made known to Justice
Slade and jury of inquest was summoned


Prior to the inquest an examination by phy-
sician revealed the fact that the throat OF the
infant was stuffed full of wheat bran. At the
inquest this was testified to by the physician,
and the jury by their foreman, John D. Sud.
man, rendered a verdict that the child had
been suffocated with bran. Suspicion rests on
the mother, and if the investigation now being
made warrantsit, she will probably be arrested
for the horrible crime.-[ Bait. Gazette, ED,
Year: 1878

THE REVOLVER IN POLITICs.-The some
what turbulent proceedings at several western
and southern democratic conventions moves
a New Orleans paper to record that the point
fashion. 1t Is the revolver that is pointed thi
Year: 1878

TIE wisconsin Senate has passed bill
to increase the cost OF FIRE insurance in
that State, by imposing a tax Of 2 per
cent on all premiums, the proceeds of the
tax to be given to the local FIRE depart
mens. The effect Of the law will be to
tax the persons who insure for the main
lenauce Of fre-extinguishing arrange.
meuts for the benefit OF those who don't.
Year: 1878

Mr.. J. H. Haden, ex Engineer Chief of the
change, is said 10 be the inventor of a new kind
of railway, which was invented to meet the
needs in the East for the cheap, speedy and
effective means of transporting men and mu-
the necessity of surveying, leveling and pass
ing through the preliminary stages of ordinary
railway building.


The new railway is one-rail structure, and
the line it represents requires neither sleepers
nor foundations, the line running upon seven
feet posts, 440 to the mile, the rolling stock
upon it being shaped like an inverted V, de-
signed upon the camel saddle principle. The
carriages and engines fall upon either side like
the panniers on an animals back, the wheels
of the engines trucks and carriages being
horizontal, and gripping on each side of the
rail. The material of the new railway is wholly
of timber, the posts of the fence which con-
stitutes the road are firmly sunk into the
ground. Its hight rarely exceeds three feet,
because it follows as nearly as possible the
natural undulations of the country through
which it passes, small hollows being graded
out by varying the height of the posts.


The cars of the whole train form continu-
Gus iron skeleton, on which the freight is car
ried in boxes constructed so as to be movable
without breaking bulk. The seats are turned
down when troops and baggage are transported
together, but turned up ont of the way when
freight only is carried The empty freight
boxes are arranged to do duty as ambulances,
palanquins, or pontoons. The engine, which
weighs only four tons and is of one hundred
horse power, does not require weight to give it
tractiye capacity, and can consequently, by
means of its eight horizontal grip-wheels, ac-
tually climb hillside (grade one in ten)
with load of one hundred tons.


This novel structure has many features that
suggest the trial of such railroad on these
Islands. 1t not only recommends itself by its
adaptability, but by by its cheapness, and we
see no good reason why such structure would
not be useful in places where transportation
is not only expensive but almost impossible,
from the broken nature of the country. From
what we learn of the uneven character of the
surface on some, if not all, of the islands of
the Hawaiian group, and the very imperfect
roads, We think it more than possible that the
new railroad projected by Mr.. Haden could be
utilized. At all events, it might be worth the
trouble of making inquiry on the part of our
officials as to the practicablity of the thing,
and hence we call attention to it.
Year: 1878

yer dollar being quoted at ninety cents instead
of its full face value. "This is the hair that
has broken the camel's back" and the people,
particularly of the Western States, have be-
come very earnest in their advocacy of the
doctrines of the Greenback or National Party.
The politicians are taking the alarm, and not a
few of them are changing their views on the
greenback question.


These changes of opinion are but the result
of the handwriting on the wall, which the poll
ticians read as warning, that it will not be
safe much longer for them 70 run counter to
the wishes of the people. Two notable cases
occur TO our mind just now-those of Senator
Thurman of Ohio, and no less parsonage
than the Hon. John Sherman, the present
Secretary of the Treasury of the United
States, also from Ohio, and late one Of the
United States Senators from that State. Both
these gentlemen were the advocates of the
hard money doctrines, till they found that the
majority of the people of Ohio held the ad-
verse doctrines, and now they seem to vie
with each other for who will go farthest on
the other side. Sherman is Republican i'll
politics, whilst Thurman is Democrat, and
these two men fitly represent the attitude of
the Republicans and Democrats in the fnan-
cial muddle, into which their respective par
ties have involved themselves. The present
canvass in the States this fall, for members of
Congress, will develop the whole strength
of the three parties, the monetary question
being the only one of any moment in the
contest. From the result of the late cleo
ton in the State of Maine, both Repub-
licans and Democrats in the other States
have become alarmed, and now both the old
parties are bidding for the support of the
Greenbackers to help them. The Greenback-
ers or Nationals as they aptly call themselves,
don't appear to fraternize with either of the
old parties, but feel as if they are not only
strong enough to carry a majority of the men,
berS of Congress, but to dictate terms to both
Republicans and Democrats on any and all
questions. We are inclined to believe that
the National Party will develop such strength
this fall as to place them in the front rank in
Congress, as well as the next National Con-
ventions for the choice of candidates for Presi-
dent and Vice President in 1880. This is evil
IDENTIFY the condition of parties in the United
States at the present moment. The month of
November will reveal the truth as to which Of
the parties now arrayed against each OTHER
are in the ascendency. Should the Nationals
develope sufficient strength to be considered
formidable in 1880, one of either of the old
parties will be absorbed by the new party
and that combination will rule the next Presi-
DENTAL election. But one thing is evident, that
in this contest the National Banks are doomed
to be wiped out.
Year: 1878

Some men when in the company
of a rich man, are the empty echo
of the rich mans voice. If he
says alt is very like a whale" or cit
is bumped like a camel" they are
sure to swear that he Is right,
though the subject under discus
sion may be pound of candy or a
sewing machine. We delight 70
fawn in the presence of a million
aire, whose very presence is a gift
we highly prize. Some one has
aptly calico this sserpentine pride"
and ''Columbine simplicity" We
are apt to be tyrants to those below
us and lackeys to those above us.
We are too much like the poor fool,
who in the presence of the king


Woald not with peremptory tone,


Assert the more upon his face his own.
Year: 1878

The balmiest sleep ever expert
enced was when we were nesting in
the old trundle-bed, with curly
headed brother just turned out oil
the parent nest to make room :or n
new customer. But trundle bed
dreams were soon at an end, for
when the next customer came we
were crowded out of the trundle
bed TO make room for the next that
was turned out of the parent nest,
and so we keep altering for years
until we. are turned out into the
wide world. On! where are tho lit


tie heads that we have kissed a
thousand times DER as they nestled
in the old trundle bed? Some OF
them have grown old and gray ana
others are resting upon their ever
lasting pillows in widely separated
lands We are always sad when
we think of the old trundle- bed.
Year: 1878

The Petersburg Sun wants to
know "What is the use of teacher
who don't teachY' And now how
thin an argument is that! Doesn't t
the wisest body of law makers in
the world choose for their speaker
the man who isn't expected to
Snpak2
Year: 1878

The PENCIL marks you see around this
paragraph tthus) mean that your sub
scription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure IN extending
credit to our friends and patrons, but
cash alone viii yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere 10 a strict cash
rule. We hope you win comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such q
course, and trenew your su scriptlon
without delay. We solicit your favor.


sE- We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance.
Year: 1878

Some one wrote to Horace Gree


ley inquiring if guano was good to
put on potatoes. He said it might
do for those whose taste had be-
come vitiated with tobacco and rum,
but he preferred gravy and butter.
Year: 1878

DON'T WASTE THE WATER.-Superintend
ent Davis, OF the Water w orks, publishes III
another part OF the Dispatch very urgent
appeal to citizens to be rigid!y economical
in the use OF water at this season OF tue
year. He says:


1.-The pumps are now driven to their ut
most capacity day and night, never being
stopped unless for repairs. which, from
such constant labor, is often necessary. The
reservoirs during this hot weather are losing
hoad daily, which is all important, particu-
larry in the elevated parts OF the city and in
case OF fire. In view OF the above it is
most urgently requested that the citizens
Will use every effort TO prevent all unne-
cesSary waste, and thus save the city from L
possible water famine"
Year: 1878

EXPLOSION OF BARREL OF WHIsKEY.- =
Yesterday afterooon between 6 and 7
o'clock barrel OF whiskey which was
standing in the gutter near the corner Of
Second and Main streets exploded. much to
the CONSERVATION of the neighbors, making
Il tremendous noise, breaking the glass in a
window. near by and set fire to the awning
post in front OF the store. The whiskey IT.
self took fire and was pretty much con-
sumed.
Year: 1878

An Act in relation to Leasing of Railroads Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep resentatives in General Assembly convened ::

 No lease of any railroad hereafter made shall be binding on either of the contracting parties for a period of more than twelve the stockholders of the company or companies that are parties to the lease by vote of twe- thirds of the stock represented in person or by proxy at meeting of the stockholders called for that purpose, and at least one months mo- tice shall be given of such meeting by adver- Using twice week for four weeks in daily paper published inthe State, and also by mail ing copy of the call and of the lease to each stockholder and said notice and call shall state that at the meeting the lease will be sub- mitted for the approval of the stockholders.

 Approved March 27 1878.
Year: 1878

more than ten years and the sentence in ev cry such case shall take effect at the expiration of the terms of imprisonment in said prison un- der all sentences against the accused imposing imprisonment therein ill force and unexecuted at the time of such escape or attempt. Approved March 27. 1878.
Year: 1878

A little boy in Sioux City Sunday school put aposer to his teacher The lady was tell ing her class how God punished the Egyptians by causing the first-born in each household to be slain. The little boy listened attentively, and as the proper interval mildly inquired What would God have done if there had been twins ?"
Year: 1878

The morning bird concerts are now in suc- cessful operation. It is very pleasant to be awakened at dawn by the sweet songs of these little feathered warblers, or would be if they came three or four hours later.
Year: 1878

Catching California salmon in Kentucky river does not entitle man to the rank of col onel, whatever the state papers may say. To be real Colonel man must first get himself on the governors staff
Year: 1878

A subscriber wrote to a journal to make some inquiries about the next worlds fair, whereupon the wicked editor replied that he was under the impression that the next world wouldn't have any fair.
Year: 1878

Mark Twain told newspaper reporter that he was going abroad in order to find quiet place to write, where he would not be disturb ed once day It is singular that it never oc- cured to him to remain at home and secure desk in store that doesn't advertise
Year: 1878

The usual number of people went to the circus yesterday ''just because the children want to go. you know" That gxey-headed old lie has done duty on circus day almost as long as the freshest circus jokes have been in use, say million years.
Year: 1878

OF to enter tho tunnel which swept the at
terrific speed to the river bed thirty feet below the
outlet of the tunnel. Clifford died The Others
dangerously injured The tunnel has been used 10
carry ice out Of the canal to the river
Year: 1878

An exchange justly says: The dis
aster reported at San Francisco bar on
the 25th, is very serious and unfor-
tunatc affair While every disaster of
this kind is greatly to be regretted, the
present one, following SO close upon
recent disasters elsewhere, will serve as
noticeto the rivals of Oregon scommerce,
both north and south of us, that the
mouth of the Columbia river is not the
only point on the coast where "A marine
accident may occur Experience shows
that the Columbia river bar is in no
way more liable to these disasters than
the entrance of other harbors. The
Alta, which had so much to say about
the Columbia river, may now write up
this greater misfortune at the entrance
to San Francisco bay.