smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

We were shown at the Office of DR.. ThiI-
bodo this morning the jaw of human who
belonged to the primitive race. 1t was dug
out of the ground at Lynx creek, sixteen
feet below the surface, and is entirely diff
frernt from any relics or remains of the
people who lived in this part of the hemjs
phere since the birth of our Savior. The
bone is shaped after that of human to a
great degree, is somewhat wide where it
connected with the temporal bone, but
runs to more pointed shape at the end of
the chin-never had more than six teeth.
which leads those who have examined it to
the belief that those who existed hare and
to which this bone belongs were grass or
fruit eaters. Skulls have been found in
the vicinity where this jaw bone was exca.
vated, of peculiar shape however, there
is not the slightest doubt but what they
belong to the old primitive race OF whoa
we have no tradition save the relics exca-
waited from beneath the surface of she
earth, being often found au 80 to 100 feet
deep. We have every evidence that there
have, at two remote and distinct periods,
people lived here who were different in
every particular. The ruins of the most
ancient and prehistoric race, numerous
and mostly hidden from view, being oov-
cred by earth, show but little evidence of
the civilization that followed of the more
recent inhabitants. The buildings of the
Aztecs were cons. ructed with great skill
for protection against incursions from any
enemy, while the inscriptions upon the
rocks show much advancement over the
older inhabitants of the earth. The canals
dug by the inhabitants who lived here
about the year 1000 show master skill and
compare favorably with those built in rhe
nineteenth century by the skilled engineer.
AragonG Miner
Year: 1879

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For two evenings of this week the peo-


pie OF Milwaukee were favored with first


class acting by Mary Anderson, Who has


become quite favorite within two wears.


Ihe Sun blonde was on hand pretty regu-


iariy those. two nights, as he always is


when beautiful woman is being pursued
oy villains ON the stage. The first evening
the play of the Hunchbaek - was given.


and even deaf and dumb and blind per-


son could not help but be impressed with
Ehe talent and beauty of Mary Anderson.
she IS marvel and can take ON more emo-
tons and dresses in single evening than
ny OF them. She is about six feet in


helohth when in repose but when her
Tame ia charged with emotion, and she
gata mad or excited, she seems 10 raise
right out of the stage and telescope up un-


til she is eighteea or nineteen feet high and


and others on the stage look like dwarfs.


Aow she does it the Lord only knows. She


is the most versatile actress we ever sat In


front OF. At times she would put on q


sweet lovely look, and you would have to


be held by two persons to keep from rush


ing on the stage and telling her that you
loved her like steam engine, and then she


would put on dying look and a wild, sa-
cred, desperate expression, SO you would


want to rush out after doctor. At times


we would give million dollars, in notes,
to be in the place of Clifford, who didn't
seem to know that she wanted him to hug
her, and then, again, when she goe sassy
at him and began to roll her eyes and her
breast began to heave, and she began to
swallow something, and look as though she
were dying for drink, we wouldn't have
been within reach of her for eight hundred
dollars. 1t was singular study when
her breast got to heaving. She must have
suit of lungs like blacksmith's bellows,
and when, in her excitement, she would
exhaust them, she would look so thil that
you could trace her wish bone with the
naked eye but when, in her passion, her
lungs become inflated, her bust runded out
and her dress fitted her like the paper on
the wall, and then all she lacked was her
own Mary Anderson smile to make the av-
erage man give Pacific railroad if she was
his sister. Oh, she beats them all. Mary |
Anderson does not rant. Some actresses
chew soap to make them foam at the |
mouth aud then tear around the stage as |
though they had bees in their clothes.
Mary does not do 80. II she has anything |
to say very loud and it's necessary to be-
come excited, she does not rant, but just
talks it right off as though she meant it
and you can tell by the expression of her
face that sne means business, just as if
soap suds were flying out of her mouth and
she was kicking over chairs. Another
thing, in the matter of falling upon the
stage, in tableaux aud in fainting, she does
it SO soft and gentle that you do not fear
she has broken some of her bones.
Year: 1879

| RAILWAY IN SEVEN MINUTES.


A Rome correspondent of the Boston
Pilot writes:


At last, after many years expectation,


the traveller in Italy who feels it part OF


his duty to ascend Vesuvius, will find the


task one that may be accomplished with


comparative ease. A railroad Is being


built which will take him from the foot OF


the grand cone to within few yards OF
the edge of the crater. When this rope


railroad is finished the excursion from Ma


pies TO the summit Of the cone and the re-


turn to that city will occupy only half a


day. instead of q whole day as at present.


This will include plenty OF time for dinner


at an excellent restaurant, which the rail-


road company will establish there. The


traveller win be free to descend the noun


tain when be pleases, and sufficient time


will be given him to examine its forma-


ton and peculiarities throughout. At the


edge of the crater he may place himself in


the hands of guides for exploration and


investigation.


From the observatory, low down on the
hill to the foot of the cone is about two
miles. A good road leads to the latter
spot and is accessible to carriages or other
modes of conveyance. The railroad from
here, where a station is in process Of con-
struction, leading to the edge of the crater,
ascends on an inclined plane fer distance
of 975 yards. The civil cngineef, guided
by the advice of the celebrated Professor


Palmeiri, who may be called the Old Man
of the Mountain, 80 familiar is he with
Vesuvius. has chosen path which will be
comparatively sheltered from the invasion
of lava floods. The vertical elevation is
1855 feet above the level of the station.
which is 866 yards above the level of the
sea. The average incline Of this Vesuvian
railway is Sc per 100; the maximum in
cline being Ga per 100. The builder of this
railroad met with great difficulties which
required great ingenuity to overcome.
They arose chiefly from the steepness of
of the ascent and the movable character of
the soil, formed of lapslla. or small pun
ice stones, which yield under the feet like
tiny cinders and give way under the slight
est pressure. The system chosen, howev-
er. has been to lay down on the lava be-
meath continuous, fixed and solid plank
ing, on which the rails are to be placed.
The wheels of the Car are constructed in
such way that they cannot leave the rails,
and these cars will be drawn up by two
wire ropes, worked by an engine at the
foot of the cone. The ascent will be made
in seven minutes. The cars will likewise
be supplied with powerful brakes, which
are sufficiently strong to stay their down
ward career if-an almost impossible case
Il ,th wire ropes should break at the same
Naturally enough no water is
fouad ON this burning mountain, and the
company, therefore, has established two
great tanks, or reservoirs, for the use of
he engines.
Year: 1879

OMAHA. May 19.-Judge Dundy's attention
was called TO the remarks reported to have
been made by General Sheridan this afternoon,
and he made the following statement in regard
to the effect of his decision in the Panca case:
There is no law of the United States or treaty
stipulation setting apart reservation in Indian
Territory for these Indians, nor for removing
them thereon, nor keeping them thereon.
They can't be removed and kept there
by force, for the reason
that no law or treaty in any
way authorizes this to be done, and the decis
ion is based upon that idea alone. 1t is not
claimed in the opinion that Congress might
not authorize treaty to be made which would
justify resort to force, but simply that no
such authority had ever been conferred, so far
as these particular Ponca Indians are con-
cerned. OF course it is not claimed that the
same rule would apply to all Indian tribes who
have reservations which that treaty required
them to remove to and remain thereon.
Year: 1879

Want Protection Against the Yellow Fever.


MEMPHIS, Tenn, May l9.-At meeting Of
the Chamber of Commerce held this afternoon
the following resolutions were adopted:


Whereas, At meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce on the Sth of May resolutions were
adopted intending to call the attention of our
senators and Representatives to the great need
of quarantine regulations for our Southern
seacoast; and,


Whereas, Said resolutions contained Ian
guage that seemingly reflected upon our rep
resentative, said representative having ex-
planned and conclusively shown this body that
said action was prematurely taken under q
misapprehenSion of the facts; therefore, be it


Resolved, That the said resolutions were not
intended to reflect or discredit the able efforts
made by Senator Harris and Hon. Casey Young
toward promoting this great enterprise, or
upon any measure of the House of Represent
atives, but never intended to pointedly point
to the great necessity of united efforts to pass
law to protect the helpless citizens of the
Mississippi Valley, and we now again urge
statesmen of all parties or creeds to give us
this safeguard, in the form OF Senator Harris
bill, so much needed for the protection, not
only for this valley, but this whole nation.
Year: 1879

A glittering ball room dress, made of
strands of spun glass, has been offered to
any San Francisco belle who will buy and
wear it. Professor Theodore Gremer has
done the spinning by blowing the glass into
of water and beet root sugar. which has q
toughening effect. The weaving was done
on an old fashioned hand loom, the warp
being 10 feet long and the woof four feet, q
number of colors being worked in 90 as to
produce . bright glass cloth. The dress rs en-
panier, with loop sleeves and square neck,
ornamented with box plating and bound in
blue. With the new dress there is . set of
beautiful blonde glass curls of a natural hue
upon the head of the model, reching to the
waist.
Year: 1879

Pan Handle Brakeman Hurt.
Special to the Sentinel:


URBANA, o., May ia man named Jack
son, Pan Handle brakeman, was probably
fatally injured this morning by being struck
by a bridge which the train was passing under
a few miles west of here. He was brought here,
where his injuries were dressed. Ee was then
sent back West.
Year: 1879

An Interesting Executive Session of the
. Senate.


WASHINGTON, May l9.-The Senate executive
session this evening was devoted to the
further consideration of the report of the judi
ciary committee on the subject of army pro-
motion. At the termination of the debate a
motion to amend the committees resolution
so as to declare that last years prohibition is
not now in force, and that the nominations
for appointments and promotion in the army
may legally be confirmed. This amendment
was adopted by a majority of 81 votes, but


when the roll was called on the question of
agreeing to the resolution in its vitaIly
amended form the minority RETAINED from


voting, and this broke the quorum, their


hope being to obtain q majority vote


in q fuller Senate at the next executive session


and meanwhile prevent final action. In con-


sequence Of these parliamentary tactics, and
on account OF the lateness of the hour, the
Senate adjourned with the main question still
pending. 1t was developed to day that the
members of the Judiciary committee were not
unanimously in favor Of the report that has
been presented on this subject, but as major
ity of the committee assented to 1t, the strong
influence Of a desire to sustain the committed 8
prestige is at WORK to secure its adoption by
the Senate, and the final result is somewhat
doubtful.
Year: 1879

SPRING LICK, KY, August 23, 1879.


Since my last communication we
have had quite seasonable weather in
this locality, and from what can learn,
equally so in other localities, which has
helped the last planting very materially,
but the bulk of il is too small to make
anything like good tobacco, and about
one-fourth of yield is the estimate |
place on it, unless the season from now
ON is favorable to the extreme. Parties
who have been riding over the county
saw that the crop is very uneven, and
that the leaves of the first planting are
narrow and small.


The farmers say they cannot see what
has caused the decline in prices in all
the markets, as there will not be more
than half crop to go on the small crop
of last year. They seem to think that
there must be "big bugs" creeping
around to suck the blood of the farmer
-(granger-like)


The corn crop will be excellent, and
other crops are very good.


The election is over, and we have
nothing to talk about now or engage the
minds of the people, except to speculate
about great medical water recently dis
covered in this vicinity by digging l4'
foot well. AS it may be of public in
terest, | give below DIR. J. p. Barnum's
opinion of the water and also the analy'
sis as given by him:


at is strong magnesia water, mucl
resembling i'm its chemical composition
the celebrated Crab Orchard SPRING
water, and will be found to possess sim
liar medicinal properties. | think i
will he found to be valuable, not only IA
cathartic, but lin small doses) as ,
remedy for dyspepsia, torpor of thu
liver, and similar affections. The fol
lowing is the amount of saline matte
| contained i'm 900 grains:
Year: 1879

The State of Kentucky has hitherto
erected monuments To its distinguished
dead, and We now propose one TO this
murdered jurist. He died martyr to
justice. Hedied poor. His widow is
needy and in poor health. We propose
that the State donate her $4,000. This
would be a monument in the hearts of
the people which would be an inspira-
ton To duty and demonstrate that re-
publics are not all ungrateful. Let the
press keep the ball in motion.
Year: 1879

THE State Treasury is empty. In this
connection il is well to bear in mind
that the salaries of nearly all the State
officers remain as they were in flush
times, while the wages of workingmen
and the salaries of employees in private
business men have been cut down about
one half.-C C0rjngtOn Commonwealth.
Year: 1879

THE country is interested in knowing
when the First National Bank of New
York will be able TO pay the large sum
ii owes the United States. Forty mil
lions is no small sum of money TO be
held without security.
Year: 1879

THE truly good of Ohio, first whip
the skin off of poor orphans and then
apply red pepper and salt brine AS a lin
iment, and because the girl cries, they
hammer her toe nails of. If that had
occurred in the South, Deacon Smith
would have called on the military.
Year: 1879

Blackunn Bros. are crowiing work on
the Masonic IuIdng. They intend to
have it al ready 10 hold the April term
Of the ID street Court in tic HALL of the
new building, which the M,oas have
contracted tu lease to the county for
that purpose.
Year: 1879

The circular o: l.. A. Treen's great
clearance sale is just received. They
have done for years past the largest boot
and shoe business of any house on the
Sound. They have line, lnrge stock,
sad Tor the next thirty days will sell their
Eastern and California goods at cost


90 early and s"4 tur,u, and secure bar
Year: 1879

SINCE the adjournment Of Congress, a
number Of General Grants iiiends have
had under consideration a suggestion to
create the Office of Captain Genera OF the
Army, win suitable pay and allowances,
and 10 have the same rendered to General
US. Grant in recognition ofhis patriotic
services in behalfoftbe Union, as well
30 afford him permanent occupation at
'ongenial en- ployment during tho remain
der OF bis life.
Year: 1879

They are fighting the war over again In the
queerest sort Of a way up in Dorchester,
New Hampshire. Way back during the rebel.
lion, when volunteering began to drag, nine
prominent citizens advanced to the town
enough money to hire the substitutes needed
to fill the towns quota. The town afterward
voted to refund the money and 1t was duly
paid over by the Selectmen But some peo-
pie were dissatisfied about the transaction,
and as time went on their opposition seems
to have grown. Finally, at the last town
meeting they found themselves in majority
and elected officers who were instructed to
bring suit forthwith against both the Select
men who paid the money and the people who
received 1t. About $4,000 is involved in the
dispute, and the controversy has grown in
bitterness and widened in scope as the years
have rolled on till now the whole county is
interested in the fight.
Year: 1879

In the early dawn next morning we
drove to Kxira, a place of IL, 600 inhabi-
tants, along fine road with sheltering
trees. The town stands on the high
bank of q river. From the top Of
the collectors house there ia an exten-
sive view over rich, well-timbered
country. There are many monkeys, some
very large, and though they iniure
the crops, no one molests them. This
care of life in regard to the lower creation
is q principle of Hindu religion more
strictly observed than that of care Of
their fellow creatures outside the circle
of their own family connection. Within
that circle they are wonderfully kind.
Hindus of high caste never take life.
Some are strict vegetarians, and in order
to preserve life will frighten away fish
from parts of a river where they have
reason to expect English officers to come
in quest of them Even the much
abused money-lender refuses all advances
to fishermen. On one occasion / came
upon an extensive enclosed park with
shelter sheds, maintained by . native
banker, into which horses no longer fit
for use were charitably received and
fed, that they might wear out their
lives in quietness. And yet female
infanticide is undoubtedly too common


"a females to 100 males being not an


unusual proportion in the population


A native Judge explained this to me by


the great desire among the lower class


to intermarry with the higher, lower
man being ready to pay q needy man o.
the higher order large sum Of none,


to induce the son of the higher rank Il


marry his daughter. But when tn
lower man has no money, ~ is too oftel
the case, the female infant il apt to b


neglected and allowed to die.-7he Mn.
tenth Century.
Year: 1879

During the past week our city has been
favored with the presence of members of
the sect of Friends who, for the second time,
have met here for their conference. 1t is
pleasant to think that they found Portland
so agreeable as to wish to return to it this
year-and the presence of the people of
peace in its streets surely does not fail of its
good influence upon the city. The Friends
are rightly so called, for the highest and
simplest principle, of--love ver-snd good Will
toward God and man, prevails in their lives
as in their counsel. Their history as sect
has record unstained by any act of perse-
cution or intolerance, and the simplicity of
their creed with its outcome of pure and
peaGeable practice is attractive to Christians
of other denominations, and satisfying to
its immediate followers. The yea and nag
of a Friend is accepted in courts of justice
as binding as the oath of another man; and
their tender thee and thou, their almost un-
conscious choice of Scriptural forms of
speech, give a charm and dignity to the
language, which is not with them the dis
guise of thought, but its clear and fair ex-
preston. Their continual waiting upon the
Spirit, their service of silence until speech
be sent-must give sense of the nearness
of heaven to earth, and greatly uplift their
faith


The Society of Friends, since its doctrines
were first preached by George Fox in the
seventeenth century, has been the subject
of persecution, opposition and misappre-
hension in various forms; but its peaceful
principles and the consistent course of it's
members have won for it the esteem in
which it is now universally held. Among
the followers of it's doctrines have been
many notable men and women; William
Penn, George Whitehead, Isaac Pennington,
of it's preachers; Elizabeth Fry, whose Won
derful influence over the degraded inmates
of prisons was proof of the power of loving
pity; and John Greenleaf Whittier, whose
face we are privileged sometimes to see in
our streets-the poet who sought peace and
ensued it through the dark ways of war;
who took the slave by the hand in the days
when abolitionism was despised, and who
ceased not to call the nation up to righteous
anger until peace was won with the sword
and his songs might lay aside their stress of
the prophet for the poets sweetness.


The Friends ha We not had so bright and
favorable weather as would have been de-
sirable; the skies have put on the sober gray
garb of our guests, and the rains have been
frequent and copious, but we have been
spared the heat which was the only draw
back to the comfort of the convention
of 1877. The meetings have been
largely attended and of much in
terest. 1t is to be hoped that the Friends
will conclude to visit our city for their next
convention, and that it will become their
fixed habit to do so on each occasion. They
will be sure of sincere welcome; and it is
with regret that we say to them, in their
own kindly phrase, as they leave us-Fare-
we'll
Year: 1879

want the S140, 100000 in the treasury paid out
on the mistaken notion no doubt that it will
benefit the poor man, and in this desire they
have the support of the great majority of the
Greenback party-a party which the argus
has fondled very lovingly of late and which
we fear will look upon its opinions quoted
above as very severe spank. If it was
possible we should reproduce Mr.. Talbot's
letter in full, but in the crowded condition
of our columns we can only quote one para
graph which contains an unanswerable ar
gument of the necessity of a coin reserve
1t is as follows:


presume Gen Anderson, who considers the
coin reserve in the treasury idle money" is in
the habit of paying all his considerable expen-
diturrs of money by giving checks ON the bank
in which he keeps deposit. Does he there
fore consider his deposit 'idle money!" which
he is using unthriftily? Suppose that, finding
his checks were always available to pay his
bills, that his creditor invariably accepted
them with bows and thanks, and confidently
receipted his accounts without the preliminary
caution OF presenting at the bank, he should
conclude: There, you see a cheek is good
enough currency for me. l will draw out my
deposit and invest it in yacht or in span of
horses and q coupe" How about the checks
afterwards? How long would he find them
available to keep on good terms with the
tailor and grocer? The fact is, he has got only
one money, and that is his reserve in the bank
He cannot, without swindling, use his money
and his check too. The check is an appropri-
alton of his deposit If he has already appro-
priated it to the yacht and the coupe, he cannot
afterward appropriate it to the tailor and grocer
Now this is the exact condition of the United
States treasury. Tt pays out it's checks (its
notes. to its creditors, public officers, contract
ors, holders of the public debt when they
choose to accept them, and it has the gold and
silver to pay such of the checks (notes) as are
presented. 1t has not two funds but only one
The notes are nothing so far as they are not
good to draw out to the last dollar the coin
which is kept to pay them with.
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publica
tion but as a guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munieations that are not used.
Year: 1879

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