smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

In those days there were no envelopes
for letters, and postage was calculate by
distance; twopence in the Metropolitan
District, tenpence to York, one shilling
and twopence to Edinburgh, two shil-
1ings to John o. Groat's House, and
something almost prohibitive to the con-
tinent of Europe. Franks" were in
great request, and members of both
Houses of Parliament were daily, If not
hourly, besieged by letter writer's to
obtain the privilege of their names on
the corners of epistles, which would not
have been sent through the post at all
unless they could have been sent gratis.
When Sir Rowland Hill proposed his
scheme of uniform rate of postage, he
was considered daring revolutionist,
destined to ruin the country, even when
he fixed the rate temporarily at four
pence. When, after quiet interval, to
accustom the panic stricken public to
the great change originally contem-
plated, the rate was reduced to penny,
elderly people held up their hands in
dismay and predicted the collapse, not
only of the postoffice, but of the Empire
of Great Britain. When was q yonth,
women wore patterns. Are such articles
ever seen in our day ? At that time it
was considered vulgar for gentleman to
wear cotton shirt or a silk hat. The
shirt of fine linen and the hat of bea-
yer were de rignetT. Watches had
double cases, between the outer and in
ner of which it was the custom to insert
what were called watch papers, on which
were printed or written texts from Scrip
ture, moral maxims, passages from the
poets, or tender love effusions purport-
ing to be original. Still more recently,
and when in my prime, I remember that
it was considered contra 6oa0s D,ores
and all the proprieties for lady to ride
in hanson cab, or for gentleman to
smoke in a lady's presence; and,
worse still. if possible, for q lady to be
seen In the street with o gentleman who
had pipe or a cigar in his mouth / re-
member-and it is scarcely memory of
Older date than thirty years when a
gentleman in full dress was not COM
PEELED by fashion to attire himself like
clergyman or tavern waiter; when the
fashionable evening dress was a blue
coat and gilt buttons and colored or
embroidered vest, and when bright col
ors in the waistcoat were not considered
the exclusive right of the footman or the
costermonger. / remember, too, when
ladies were not ashamed to be economi-
cal in their attire, and did not allow
their silks or satins to trail on the
ground, but wore their gowns, /" as they
were called, of a length that just touched
their ankle, and allowed the dainty feet
and portion of the ankle to be seen.
This fashion pleased the gentlemen and
did no harm to the ladies, conduced


greatly to comfort in walking, besides


saving considerable sum in the dress


makers account.
Year: 1879

While at "court" a remark struck the
lady which may show how the wind
blew. A bottle on a post served for a
target, for shooting matches are all the
fashion. She took her turn and smashed
the bottle. The Zulu men vowed" a
good deal and exclaimed, 1--WE can never
conquer the white men if the white wo-
men can shoot like that"
Year: 1879

The new telegraph company propose
to do wonderful things, if their account
is to be believed. They will have but
one rate for ordinary messages, twenty
five cents for thirty words, and one cent
for each additional word. Press mes
sages will be sent for ten cents per hun
dred words. The principal invention
upon which the company bases its claim
to existence is a sort of an improved
automatic transmitting machine, which,
it is asserted, is capable of being worked
at the rate of 1000 words per minute
sixty times faster than the Morse in
struments now in use-on 500 to 1000
mile circuits. A popularity of the ma
chine and its apparent Improvement is
the use of double row of letters, one
above the other. In the old automatic
machine there was but one row, and
whenever it was attempted to do fast
work the letters ran into each other SO
as to be indistinguishable. The entire ar
rangement is only limited by the ability
of the receiver to register the dots and
dashes of the Morse alphabet distinctly.
Year: 1879

Not long ago man was run over and
killed by the cars at Evanston, in the
neighborhood of Chicago. The body
was identified as that of Josiah Hill, a
resident of South Bend, Ind, who had
been at work on a farm at Winnetka,
five miles from Middletown. The widow
and daughter were inconsolable and
quite broken down after the coroner's
inquest (Which found that Josiah Hill
came accidentally. to his death " and the
bnrial in the graveyard at South Bend
Several days later Mrs. Hill mustered
up energy enough to go to Winnetka for
her husbands effects. Lo and behold!
when she approached the farmhouse
there was her husband quietly at work
in the barnyard. She tainted several
times and could with difficulty be in
duced to believe that it was only a
very strange case of mistaken identity.
As for Hill himself, it was the first he
had heard of his own death.
Year: 1879

Two years ago a few citizens of New
York city, after examining the various
methods of dealing with drunkenness,
decided in favor of what they called the
Christian plan. They rented building
near the Central Park, and announced
that they would receive Incorporate men
who desired to reform. The cure of
intemperance is sought at this reforma-
tory, not by medical treatment or physi-
cal agencies, but the inebriates are
taught that drunkenness is a sin
against God, and no other means of re-
form are employed. The results, accord
ing to report just published, have as
tonished those who undertook the exper-
iment. Of three hundred and three per-
sons received, they assert that one hun
dred and eighty-seven were wholly re-
claimed, and have been long enough
away from the asylum to test the thor
oughness of their reformation. This
proportion is believed far to exceed that
of any other inebriate asylum.
Year: 1879

GENERAL HOOPS CHILDREN.-An excel
lent photograph Of the orphans OF General
John B. Hood has been prepared under the
direction OF the old soldiers Of the southern
armies now living in New Orleans. Fhe
picture is an excellent specimen Of photo
eraDhic art, and will be sold for the benefit
of the children, suddenly hereft OF father
and mother. A formal appeal for the as
sistance of these children need not be made
to the people Of the South. "
Year: 1879

A DEARBORN KNOCKED OVER AND


BRoKEN--THE ADVANTAGE OF A


QUIET HoI.~E.


Michael Mcdonald boy who lives
about d mile from Third street bridge Is
the owner Of dearborn, and an old iron
gray horse. About o'clock this morn
ing, he left his team for few minutes.
at the southwest corner Of Water and
Market streets, aud returning after a
brief absence, got into the wagon, with
a little boy, and gathered up the reins,
preparatory to starting ap Market street


At this time one of Morris Wrldie's
teams, consisting of horse attached t.
ldmber wagon, was standing in War
ner's coal yard. The horse became
frightened and dashed madly out Of the
yard, and III turning around into Water
street, collided with Michael MELON
alu's dearborn. In an instant the dear
born went over with a smash, throw .ig
the boys ont, aud completely wrecking
the running gear OF the concern. The
old iron gray horse, however, stood like
hero, and never budged an inch, even
when the broken wagon came clatteriug
around lis heels. The boys, fortunately,
were not hurt. Weldie's horse ran a
short dist ance along Water street, but
WIS stopped before causing any further
trouble. When last seen Michael Me
Donald was Ding on the corner wait
ing for the owner of the runaway team
to come and arrange for paying him u
his loss, while the old ion gray horse
stood in the gutter like "A Statue, as in
different as though these kind OF acci-
dents were accepted by him as naturally
as his daily ratiJns of oats and hay.
Year: 1879

Successful advertisers admit that the newspaper
is the most effective advertising medium, and the
best agency for communication between people of
all classes


'udicious advertisers select those papers which
nave established character and influence. They
are read by thinking people and people of enter
prise-the most desirable in all communities to
reach by advertising.
Year: 1879

During the coming Presidential year The Tri-
bune will be more effective agency than ever for
telling the news best worth knowing, and for en-
forcing sound politics. From the day the war
closed it has been most anxious for an end of Sec
tional strife. But it saw two years ago, and was
the first persstently to proclaim the danger to
the country from the revived alliance of the Solid
South and Tammany Hall. Against that danger it
sought to rally the old party of Freedom and the
Union. 1t began by demanding the abandonment
of personal dislikes and set the example 1t called
for an end to attacks upon each other instead OF
the enemy; and for the heartiest agreement upon
whatever fit candidates the majority should put up
against the common foe. Since then the tide of
disaster has been turned back; every doubtful
State has been won, and the Omens for National
viz MOI eheerinU
Year: 1879

Of The Tribunes share in all this those speak
most enthusiastically who have seen most of the
struggle. 1t will faithfully portray the varying
phases of the campaign now beginning. It viii
earnestly strive that the party of Freedom, Union
and the Public faith may select the man surest to
win, and surest to make good President. But in
this crisis it can conceive of no nomination this
party could make that would not be preferable to
the best that could possibly be supported by the
Solid South and Tammany Hail.


The Tribune is now spending more labor and
money than ever before to hold the distinction 1t
has long enjoyed of the largest circulation
among the best people. 1t secured, and means
to retain it, by becoming the medium of the best


thought and the voice of the best conscience of the
time by keeping abreast of the highest progress
favoring the freest discussion, hearing all sides
appealing always to the best intelligence and the
purest morality and refusing to cater to the tastes
of the vile OF the preudces of the ignorant
Year: 1879

The TRIBUNE.-In another place will
be found the prospectus of the Neu
York Tribune. During the late cam
paign the Republican party and press
generally regarded this paper as the ma
tional leader. The campaign was
fought substantially on the plan it out
lined, and largely with weapons it fur
nished. 1t gave the country the pite-
GUS story of Mrs. ChisOlm; furnished an
admirable antidote to Greenbackism in
its series on the A. B. C. of Finance :
portrayed the real danger from the
South in the exhaustive articles show
ing in detail how every Southern State
but one that went into the Rebellion
had repudiated its own debts, and
would much more surely repudiate
those of the Nation, incurred in whip
ping it, whenever it got the chance
exhibited in detail the wild schemes of
the Greenbackers in Congress and the
mOnstrOus extent of the Southern
claims; exposed the robbery of a rail-
road from New York by it's Governor
for the price of 81 a year; and in a
hundred other ways forced the fighting
and led a thoroughly aggressive cam
paign. 1t did all this too, without a
particle of the calumny and vitupera-
tion so common in party organs, win
ming votes by the force of its arguments
and never repelling by reckless person
al abuse. We urge every reader who
wants New York paper to read it's
prospectus. 1t offers Chambers Cy-
clop@dia as a premium on terms that
would seem incredible, but for what
it has already done with Webster's Un-
abridged Dictionary.
Year: 1879

r, Inc keene Styles are made by Lyndon Carriage
Company, and they are finer lot than ever before
Manufaetured by this company. These will be
sold as low as can be bought of the Manufacturers
. Every person IN want OF Sleigh come and look
than the lowest Also New Lot of


HARNESSES.
Rubber trimmed and the best in the state for the
money: All Hand Made and Oak Leather and
Still at the old stand
Second Block South Of Court House.


n. C. MOORE,
Year: 1879

She was silent for a moment. and
then she said so sweetly-ohl l shall
never forget it


land what do you think your dear
mother would say-how do you think
she would feel-to know that her little
boy was guilty of such disgusting habit
as this?. pointing to my cheek, where
the tell-tail quid had vainly tried to
stand its ground.


"'l must leave nOw,' she continued,
but here is my card, and if you come to
me most any evening, shall be glad to
see you, and perhaps we can be of some
service to each other


''She gave me her little gloved hand,
and to my dying day l shall never forget
the sensation of that moment. l could
not bear to part with her; without her 1
felt that could do nothing-with her
grould grow to mans estate-a man in
the truest sense of the word. From
that moment tobacco never passed my
lips.


"As soon as could summon courage
called upon the lady. Well do l re-
member how my heart beat as l waited
in the elegant parlor for her to come
down and how awkward felt as 1 fol-
lowed my guide to her private sitting
room. She got at every point of my life,
and before bade her goodbye it was
arranged that l should spend two even
ings of each week at her house, and
study on the occasions just what she
thought best.


NO lover looked forward to meetings
with the mistress of his heart any more
ardently than l did to these meetings
with my friend.


81 grew careful of my personal appear
ance, careful of my conversation, and
strove in every way to be worthy of the
noble friendship. Two years passed in
this delightful manner-tw0 years that
me. My friend not only attended made
to my studies, striving also all the while
to SOW the right kind of spiritual seed,
but she procured me business situation
with friend of hers, where remain to
this day. Nobody but God knows what /
owe this woman. During the last three
months of those two years noticed that
she grew constantly pale and thin; she
never was betrayed into speaking of
herself. Sometimes, when would ask
her if she felt worse than usual, she
would reply:


"'Oh, mol am only Il little tired
that is all


"One evening she kept me by her sofa
much longer than was her custom, while
she arranged lessons, and laid out work
enough, it seemed to me, for months.


"'Why so much tonight? Inquired
conscious that my heart ached, and va
guely suspecting the cause.


because, DEAR she answered, 4 do
not want you to come for the next week,
and am anxious that you should have
sufficient work to anticipate, as well rs
to keep you busy. L think l can trust
you to be good boy, John


Il think you can, ma'am,' answered,
almost sobbing.


eff / should see your mother, my dear
boy, before long, what shall say to her
for you?'


"Then l knew all, and my grief knew
no bounds. 1t is no use to go on. She
died two days after; and when hear
folks saying, There's woman at the
bottom of it, l feel like telling the whole
world what a woman did for me-"
Year: 1879

to one who really loves his country.
There is only enc hope of avoiding the
troubles that threaten the nation, and
that is that the Democracy will show its
teeth and bad purposes so thoroughly in
the struggle now going on in Congress
that the entire North will be aroused,
and enough of her States which voted
for Tilden will change and wheel into
the Republican line to elect our candi-
date E. H. C.
Year: 1879

The manufacture Of glass tubing
is surprisingly simple. The glass
blower takes small quantity of
melted glass from the pot with bis
blowing tube, rolls it slightly On q
mar bic slab to give it a cylindrical
form, be then adds a small quantity
Of glass from the same poi, and blows
the enlarged mass while rolling it,
taking great pains to keep the shape
cylindrical Iftubes Of large caliber
are required, the inside diameter Of
the cylinder is enlarged, and the
glass is allowed TO cool slightly be-
fore drawing For tubes Of very
small caliber, such as thermometer
tubes and other capillary the inter-
nal diameter of the cylinder is de-
creased and the glass is used very
warm.


In making piece Of glass tubing
the assistant places q ball Of glass
cylinder by aid Of bis blowing tube.
Now the men, each holding an end
Of the glass cylinder by means Of
their blowing tubes, began to sepa-
rate walking backward. The cylia-
der is thus heightened, and at the
same time made smaller in diameter,
and the diameter, Of course, depends
upon how much the tube ia drawn
out


When the tube has attained the
right size it is generally too warm
and soft to admit Of laying il down
without destroying its shape; j. is
therefore cooled by means Of a isn.
When it beeomes sufficiently cool il
is laid upon a series Of equidis,sut
parallel wooden blocks of uniform
height, where it remains until il be
comes cold IL is then cut into
lengths with a diamond or a 6!e. Ii
the tubes are TO resist great pressure
or changes Of temperature, they are
snuealed with great care. They are
sometimes plunged into boiling lin
seed oil ana slowly cooled
Year: 1879

At Catskiil. if young man takes hia
girl to the opera house. and it begins
to rain just as it lets out. in order Ia
save hack hire he offers to walk her
home. 60 you please. for the cham
pion belt and what You can get at the
gate and she always accepts.
Year: 1879

AFTER all the talk and the fright
of the Democrats about the Grant
boom, the General announces In
his quiet way that he will not al
low his name to come before the
Convention. The wear and tear of
brain might have been saved those
gentlemen of the Democratic press
who have been trying to show how
the General was using his foreign
tour as an electioneering dodge
Santa Barbara Press.


The simple truth is, neighbor,
that the Grant boom doomed itself
out and its subject, who is a man of
o good deal of hard common sense,
found the fact out and acts with
characteristic promptitude. There
is only one thing which
has debarred Grant from
receiving the admiration OF
all classes Of his countrymeD, and
that is his unwilllngness to come
out and place himself upon the
plane upon which Washington,
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and
Jackson placed themselves-viz,,
that it was unpatriotic and un-Re-
publican on the part of any Ameri-
can to aspire to hold the Presiden-
cy for more than two terms. All
Grants administrative short-com-
ings would have been overlooked
and condoned If he had had the sa-
gacity to so record himself.
Year: 1879

For the last time the new Con-
stitutional issue will be raised in
the Democratic County Conven-
ton to-day. While we doubt the
wisdom of ever raising this ques-
tion; while we believe that when
the new Constitution was submit
ted to the voter the latter was ex-
pected to vote as pleased him best,
with no one to make him afraid;
while we believe that the very es-
sence of free institutions is that
the citizen should not be molested
in the expression Of his preference;
while we believe all this, we never
theless think that, for this once.
the County Convention should so
far give heed to the public senti-
ment on this matter as to nominate
for the Legislature gentlemen who
have been pronounced in their ad.
vocacy of the new organic law.
We think the majority of the Con-
vention share this view and will
act on it.
Year: 1879

The Republican papers are as
suming, as a matter of course, that


Ewing and Rice in Ohio are to be
defeated by Foster and Hicken-
looper, the latter two stay-at-home
patriots during the late unpleasant
ness. The easiest thing in the
world is to take things for granted.
1t is the process which in logic is
known as begging the question"
It answers admirably until the re-
suit is known. Should the Demo-
cratic candidates be beaten, a thing
not at all probable, it would show
how hypocritical Is the Republican
assumption of regard for the heroes
Of the late war. In the case of Rice
this aspect OF the question is
brought down to- very fine point
indeed. He enliAted In the Union
Army q privai y and fought bis
Year: 1879

way to the rank Of a Brigadler
General. He had one leg shot
away and carries in his body, be-
sides, seven bullets. 1t may admit
of doubt as to whether these facts
will establish his patriotism in
Republican eyes when it is also
borne in mind that he is an en-
thusiastic Democrat. AS for Cen
eral Ewing, he also was a gallant
Union officer, attaining the rank of
Major-General of Volunteers.


When two Republican civilians
are confronted with two such dis
tinguished soldiers even the match
less cheek of the Republican party
ought to blench when making an
appeal to the "bloody shirt.n
Year: 1879

The Santa Monica wharf project
is still in full vigor, although to
many the scheme seems to have
slumbered. The apparent delay is
owing to the discovery of an inter-
esting fact in natural and marine
history. Piles cut with the bark
on will last fully three years longer
than those denuded of this natural
protector. For some reason which
has not been fully explained the
dread teredo does not like bark.
Consequently, the cutting of the
piles OF the South Santa Monica
wharf has been deferred till Au-
gust. However, work has gone on
all the same. An ample warehouse
is being erected, and those of our
farmers who hold on to their grain
till late in the season are almost
certain to benefit by improved
prices and cheapened transporta-
fiOp
Year: 1879

DR. CARVER, at q recent exhibition
in Eugland, placed ten glass balls on the
ground fred a bullet into the trus i'm
mediately beneath. The missile tearing
up the soil, threw the balls into the air
and they were broken as they rose. The
doctors greatest feat was performed for
q wager of one hundred pounds sterling
that he would hit an apple upon the end
Oi knife held by his colored attendant
riding on horseback at full gallop at a
distance of thirty yards. A large apple
was procured and stuck on the end of a
pruning knife. The negro mounted a
horse, and held the target with his left
AMI as far as possible behind his body.
The start was made about one hundred
yalds away, and when the rider came
within range, riding at furious gallop,
the doctor fred. The attempt was q
t"ilure, and odds of ten pounds to two
pounds were bet against Carver. The
second time he struck the apple, knock
ing it into half a dozen pieces.
Year: 1879

Among the numerous pests Of the
south African bush, Cne OF the most for
nidable is the puff-adder, 50 called from
its habit of initiating its head and neck
Just before striking its prey. It's mode
of attack is TO throw back It's head and
strike downward with the two hooked
teeth that project from the upper jaw,
inficting a wound which IS almost in
variably fatal. It's fondness foT p eyiBg
upou mice, which are It's chief ioOd, fre.
ouently leads it into the houses ot the
eolonists, who find it ve.y Troublesome
guest, inasmuch as its body is 20 tough
and elastic as to defy almost any weapon
except q charge Of shot. o. one Occa-
sion lie wife Of 8 missionary in one Of
the remoter settlements of Cape Colony
noticed on the floor of the TOon in which
she was sitting the empty skin OF q
mouse, out Of which the flesh had been
sucked as clean as could have been the
inside OF an orange. Detecting At once
the well-known trace Of the puh-adder,
she cautiously searched the whole room


and at length lifting s corner OF the
mating upon which her baby lying
asleep, found the snake cOiled UP under
meath. With great presence Of mind,
she Iefrained from disturbing it, and,