smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

A RATHER MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR
A man named Armstrong, a tenant
on the farm of Esq. West in Penn tip.
came into camp of movers near
the Clear Creek bridge, 2 miles north
of town, one night week before last,
with his head badly fractured. He
became unconscious almost immedi-
ateIy and before he could tell what
had happened to him. Hewas iden-
tilted next day and taken home where
be is now slowly recovering, under
skillful medical treatment, but has
not yet become sufficiently rational
to tell how he got into the condition
in which he was found. He had been
in town the day before, but no one
has yet been found who seems to
know how he received such severe in
juries. Tt is to be hoped the mystery
will soon be unraveled.
Year: 1877

SUPPOSED SU1c1DE.-Our Hollow
town correspondent sends US an nc
count of a supposed suicide in that
vicinity, which will be found in an
other column. Since his letter was
written, we learn that the body of
the unfortunate man was disinterred
on Sunday night, and recognized by
his uncle, as that of Henry Hender-
son, of the neighborhood of vii
liamsburg, Clermont county. He
was unmarried, aged about %, and
had been missing for some time.
His uncle, hearing Of the discovery
of the body near Hollowtown, came
to see if he could identify it. He re-
turned home on Monday, taking
the remains with him.
Year: 1877

Charley Ross's father was in Iron
ton last week. The Register says :;
'He is an agent for a plhmbago
works, and called upon our iron
men. He goes into the business of
travelling for the sale Of merchandise,
so as to keep up the search for his
boy. He is sprightly, intelligent
old gentleman"
Year: 1877

A man was found dead in the road
near this place, last Saturday morn
ing.


A coroner's inquest was held, but
no information was elected to show
who he was, or where he came from.
It is the general belief that he shot
himself through the heart; as a pis-
tol was found near him.


He was supposed to be about 80
years old, and was dressed in dark
plaid suit, with dark grey flannel
shirt, and black cloth cap; had
Year: 1877

FIRE.-Last night bright reflection,
evidently that of large fire was observed
off to the southeast. The Weccacoe fire
engine started and ran out to the east
part of town. Nothing definite is known
as to the cause of the fire, but is supposed
by some tc have been the marshes burn
ing. The fire was in the same quarter as
was that which caused the death of
young Thomas Massey.
Year: 1877

The TEMPERANCE FoLKs-The usual
afternoon temperance meeting was held
on Sunday in the McClary building on
Market street, and was not so largely at
tended as the proceeding meetings have
been.


Mr.. A. A Sergeant was called to the
chair and after the singing of Rock Of
Ages" prayer was offered by Mr.. Wor-
rel. III n.. -15.l RI -.,
Mr.. Sergeant then made a few remarks
in which he said that thus far in the
series of meetings which had been held
the attendants had simply enjoyed them
selves. If any good was to be done, they
must throw off this lethargic spirit and
60 zealously to work. s
Rev. DIR. Lansing Of Atlanta, Ga, mis-
siouary OF the Freeman aid society was
then introduced. He spoke at some
length upon the evils Of the liquor traffic
and said that nothing but firm wrestling
Of Gods people in the cause could drive
it from the country. He said that at
the Conference he had heard some very
poor ideas on temperance; one dear broth
er did not want Temperance brought into
politics, yet while the political field was
80 infected with intemperance he could
see NO good reasons for not allowing a
little total abstinence also. Enough
money was spent in Wilmington alone
in one year to relieve all the misery and


want for twice that time.


Mr.. Wells stated that the people Of
Wilmington were getting veryindifferent
on the temperance question and he
thought it would be a good idea to cir


culate the pledge for the reception Of
names. This was done.


1t was then decided by vote that
another meeting should be held at the
same hour and place next sabbath after
noon.


After singing the dorolory the meeting
adjourned.
Year: 1877

ssterday morning in the Iabsence of
the pastor Rev. A. u. Smith the pulnitsof
Grace church was occupied BY Or, Free-
nan OF New York, who discoursed from,
Kings XIV, 4; But he himself went a
days journey into the wilderness and
came and sat himself down upder a in
niper tree, and he requested for himself
that ne might die and said: 1t is enough:
now v Lord, take away my hfe for am
ened gentleman spoke in substance as
wei enndnn the text soul utterly Vcast
down and dispondent. Yet we find It the
case always in human nature that the
spiritual man is subject to frequent reyul-
sions Of feeling. Sometimes when sin.
gle misfortune comes upon q man he is
able 70 bear 1t but when q series of trials
come all his confidence departs as in the
case Of Elijahgandl becomes dispondent,
me old prophet when he gave utterance
10 TINS lamentation must have wondered
that the power of God did not exert itself
moro powerfully upon those peonIe
among whom he was laboring. He an
ticipated the result of his work in a par
ticular manner and when it did not come
as he had expected 1t would he was ready
to give up the battle. He saw that the
result likely to come from the power of
God was the conversion of these people
and when it did not occur he was over.
come. -e


Mans extremities are Gods opportuni
ties and though we do mot see how He
VIII bless US, 1t Is His intention that we
should not know. God is his own inter-
pretator and If we take Him at His word
the beneficial results of our trust is felt


We may feel dis 'pondent as did EHiaf
but God Is always with MS and If we but
know this and trust accordingly we will
be greatly blessed. - - -
Year: 1877

QUEER FREAK OF PoRKER.-An old


Republican friend who lives less than


hundred miles from this city, on the morn
ing Of the late Presidential election, was
the owner of fine, large. fat porker, that
would probably weigh $50 pounds. On
the morning Of the election nelghbor, on
his way to the polls, called and invited our
friend twhom we shall call Xerxes, simply
because that isn't his name} to accompany
him and cast his vote for Hayes. Xerxes
refused, giving as reason that he hadn't
the time to spare. That evening Mr. Pork
er didn't make his appearance. nor the
next morning, nor the next, and X. started
out to find the missing animal but dill
gent search and fnquiryfailed to give any
trace OF his missing swineship. and he was
given up for lost. But 10 and behold! or
the very day Mr.. Hayes was sworn init
Office that lost swine made his appearance


in good health but fearfully thin in flesh
Finding that his master didn't intend t.
vote, he had rooted his way into a straw
pile. and there remained until Hayes wa
duly placed in the position to which he wa
elected by the people. II there is a lesso
to be learned from the above true story, W


are more than repaid for writingit it. Selah
Year: 1877

The fair In ard Of tho Church OF the Holy Name,
Ninety sixth street and Boulevard has been thus far
quito SUCCESS and tho receipts have been quito up
tho expectation OF the pastor Rev. James NJ Gu-
lran Still the chartabiy inclined in tho parish have
vet plenty OF time to add to tho support they have
already given the tar, aud the ladies' In charge
doing their sweetest 10 add to It's attractions Tho
fair Will close Wednesday evening next. From
now till that time q grcat deal can be dono to make
the aid fund reach o handsome figure
Year: 1877

The Hartford Courdnt contains the
following Twenty-Five years ago a young
man in New Haven was engaged to marry
q young woman there. For some reason
she transferred her promise to marry, if
not her affections, to another person.
The first srlitor, who was a respectable
mechanic, disapproved of the match and
declared that his rival was a .disreputable
person who would lead his affianced Il
wretched life, and that while he could
surrender her himself, he would rather
she should die than marry that man.
Accordingly, and as he said solely to save
her from the awful fate of such degrad
ing marriage, he killed the girl. He did
not attempt to conceal his deed he JUS
titled it, and regarded himself as the
savior Of the gil!'s happiness. He was
tried for murder, and acquitted on the
the ground of insanity, although ne
stoutly denied that he was insane, and
said that he had acted upon his cool con-
viction of what was best for the girl, and
WIS ready to suffer the penalty of the
law for the homicide. Acquitted, he
was remandcd to the county Jail by the
court he remained there seven or eight
years, all the time protesting that he was
in his right mind, and that the State
should either hang him for murder or re-
lease him. He was then transferred to the
State prison at Wethersfield, by what
authority it does not appear, under no
sentence. There he has remained until
this day. in the same state of mind, ap-
parently rational on all subjects except
that he insists that he had right to kill
the girl to save h-r from dishonor and
that if the State thought otherwise it
should have punished him as murderer.
This is the story of Willard Clarke, who
has now petitioned the Assembly to re-
move him from the State prison to the
insane ASYLUM ut Middletown.
Year: 1877

The stock men Oh the Laramie plains,
says the San Francisco Bulletin, are
passing through the hardest winter
known since the settlement of that couu-
try. The basin, which is bounded on
the northeast by the Black Hills, Oh the
southeast by the main range Of the
Rockies, nnd on the southwest by the
Wasatch mountains, has long been re-
garded as one of the richest pasture re-
gions of the continent. The grass of the
numerous valleys is 80 nutritious and
the range so wide that the stock ordi-
narily live the year round without hay or
grain. The present winter, however,
has been remarkably severe. The snow
covers the whole valley to the depth OF
two feet, and in some places it is three
feet deep. Cattle are dying by thou
sands from exposure and starvation, aud
the sheep are not much better off. The
horses will likely get through h the winter;
they have sense enough to paw the snow
away with their feet and get down to the
bunch grass, and so manage to pick up q
living. The horned cattle, tarding in
the snow belly deep, make no exertion to
help themselves. Stock owners have
prospected for hundreds of miles to the
north and south for open pasture, but
the snow holds the entire alley in it's
embrace. Hay shipped from the East or
West would cost as much for transporta-
ton as the cattle are worth; 80 nothing
can be done but wait until sunshine or
showers dissolve the snow. 1t is esti-
mated that there are two hundred thou-
sand head of cattle, four hundred thou
sand sheep and about fifty thousand
horses in the section of Wyoming Terri
tory above described. About fifty thou
sand head of cattle were driven down
from Montana to winter on the Laramie
,,1oinu
Year: 1877

An exchange tells a story of a gentle
man who. on going to bed, lost collar
button, which on coming detached rolled
to q distant corner of the room. He
searched for it about ten minutes, and
then gave it up for lost. In the night
he dreamed that he found it under the
washstand, and on waking up found it in
that spot. This isn't half so odd rs the
case of man who lost valuable horse,
and before going to bed ate n Welsh rare
bit. He dreamed hisho1se was III village
chrlrch4ifteen miles away, and was quietly
consuming the hair in the pew cushions.
having left the buggy on the pulpit steps:
When he awoke next morning he found
TINT in reality q neighbor's boy hadfound
the horse and vehicle and had put it up
in q livery stable nntil he could clnim o
reward
Year: 1877

Ii our breathing is imperfect, all the
functions of the body and mind are
impeded; in fact, the manner of
breathing at any particular time is al
most as good test aa the pulse itself
of the general state of the system,
physical and mental. One of the COM
monest faults in the use of the lungs
is the habit of breathing, as it were,
from their surface-not bringing suf-
ficiently into play the costaI and alb
dominal muscles. By watching the
domestic animals horse or COW, for
instance-we may learn a lesson in
breathing. We perceive that there is
little emotion near the fore extrem-
tiles but the breath is impelled from
TANKS. So should we have the main the
action from the waist. Any form of
dress or belt. therefore, which con-
strains the base of the lungs does
harm.
Year: 1877

It is the province of friendship to
! censure and reprove. Perhaps lie
willingness to see faults i'm those we
love, and the courage to speak of them
il the 'grandest test of friendship that
can exist. Flaftery is not the mark of
interest which we all ardently desire
our friends to have in US. 1t is true it
is pleasant, and there are few of us
who do not like to listen to it, but it
has been the one thing that has allnred
thousands TO destruction, and when it
had accomplished its ruinous work,
those who made use of it to win the
esteem of their victims, threw off their
Disguise and had never been aught
but enemies.


Severe reproval, and more especial
ly from dearly loved friend, is with
ering and biistering; it pierces the
tenderest depths of the soul; it Lace r
ates until great drops of blood and
floods of tears gush forth, and uni
verse of agony. and despair bank
themselves upon the poor, torn and
shattered heart. But there is a sweet
peace that follows this agitation-a
bright morning that swallows up the
gloom of this night, and they are the
after thought that it was loving friend
ship that prompted the castigation,
and that the guardian care which
prompted it may have been xthe bar
rier that stood between us aud ruin.
Friendship like this is the only friend
ship of a mother and sister-it was
the friendship of the Savior.
Year: 1877




No man is gentleman, who, with.
out provocation, would treat with in
civility the humblest OF his species.
1t is avulgarity for which no accom-
p faiia1...se.st of tfro-s nvs.arese e--ss over
atone. Show nae the man who desires
to make every one around him happy
and whose great solicitude is never to
give cause OF Offense to any one, and
will show you gentleman by ma
ture and practice, though he may new
err have worn a suit of broadcloth, nor
ever have heard of q lexicon. 1 am
proud to say, for the honor of our
species, there are men in every throb
of whose hearts there is solicitude for
the welfare of mankind, and whose
every breath is perfumed with kind
ness.
Year: 1877

cept the crash of a limb of some tree
under its weight of snow, or the thud
of the fall of a large mas from the
picturesque arches formed by the in
lerweaving tops of huge pines. Even
the barking of a pack of hungry
wolves, the growing bear or the roar
ing Of lion, would be preferable to
the stiffness of death which prevails
in all that wild region. where the king
of terrors keeps his stronghold, and
all is as still and silent and torpid as
the bodies of the Indian children al
the bottom of the frozen Jake.


This article would be too long were
to describe the details of our jour
ney to the region of Rabbit or "O was-
soc" Indians. l shall reserve that
theme for another occasion. But to
sum up, I must say that we found the
statement of our Indian informants
confirmed in every particular. The
Rabbit Indians suffer severely from
famine. They inclOse the youth of the
tribe in alright enyelops, called
"mokocks., They are shaped some
thing like large egg. They fish up
these in the spring, and most of those
inclosed-all bnt few, say two per
cent.-are alive and well after the re-
suscitation.


There can be no doubt about the
facts here stated. People, however,
laugh at the statement, and in theory,
at least, ridicule the fact here stated
as absurd.


So much for the facts. Now, as to
the philosophy of it, we may ask what
is there absurd in it, except the rare
occurrence Of such incidents.


There are incidents, however, on
record, to prove it possible that ami
mails, even human beings, haye reviv-
ed after having been dead in appear
ance, and by the cessation of all ply
sical signs of animation, such as the
circulation, breathing, etc. The bear,
a vertebrated animal, and nearly rela
ted to man in his anatomy, lives dur
ing the longest winter, dormant, with
out food, air or sustenance his breath
ing even ceases. The hedgehog bea.
yer. and other quadrupeds are subjec,
to the same habits of Information and
torpor. Then there are snakes, fishes
and frogs, which without any doubt,
after being frozen solidly, return to
life and circulation of the blood in
warm weather. The celebrated Jesuit
traveller, Hue, states that in Siam he
knew an instance of man who used
to consent to remain buried in the
earth for six months for wager, and
come up alive and sound after the ex-
piration of his stipulated term.


Men don't like to try this thing now
on themselves for fear of a miscarriage
Of the experiment. Physicians state
that in cases of hanging ii a criminals
spinal column is not dislocated by the
Gall, aitar ileati, a a psrenfly y nccnrs from,
suspension of breathing, the victim
can be resuscitated. What then can
be said against the possibility of ludi
an children living in their mokocks"
for only six months in the level bot
tom of their calm lake in the wiIds of
the North?
Year: 1877

triyed to happen at the house where
she lives at least four or five times
before breakfast. You should know
how late she lies in bed in the morn
ng. You should take note whether
her complexion is the same in the
morning as it is in the evening, or
whether the wash and towel have rob-
bed her of her evening bloom. You
should take care to surprise her in
her morning dress, and observe how
her hair looks when she is not ex-
pecsing you. If possible, you should
be where you can hear the morning
conversation between her and her
mother. If she is ilf-natured and
snappish to her mother, so she will
be to you, depend upon it. But if
you find her up and dressed neatly in
the morning, with the same counte-
nance!the samesmile the neatly combed
hair, the same ready and pleasant an
swer to her mother which character
lied her department in the evening,
and particularly if she is lending a
helping hand to get breakfast ready
in good season, she is a prize, John,
and the sooner you secure her to
yourself the better"
Year: 1877

Referring to women, Col. Inger-
soil advised men to 90 to their homes
of an evening. 1t seemed to him
nowadays people gave up courting
when they got married. The best
way was to keep counting right straight
ahead. Take just as much pains to
look clean and manly, and be full of
love. Think how you used to talk,
and how full of life you were when
you went to see her; now you go
home moping, and you wonder why
it is your wife is not in raptlres. 1t
applies to both sexes. 1t is not nee
essary to be n king to be happy, pro-
videa you are the king of one heart.
He believed in giving the woman all
the rights he claimed for himself. He
wanted to see more happy homes,
more kindness, more real affection in
the homes of this world. There is
no happiness in this world, unless
with the woman you love. The leo
lures pronounced marriage as the
grandest and highest institution
among men, and that no man was a
man who would not live up 20 the
marriage contract. He said that SO
that when he left the SANDER might
not be uttered that he was in favor of
free love.


The man who will say it, and who
does say it, Is simply infamous: and
vet YOU do it, and do it in the name
of religion. On the rearing of chill
dren the lecturer enunciated the
views that they should be dealt with
tenderly, never brow-beaten nor whip
ped for faults, but caressed and guild
ed into habits of obedience in all that
is essential to their welfare, and al
lowed fair amount of latitude to de-
velop individuality and independence
of nature.
Year: 1877

In the suit Of Frederick Law Olmsted against tho
city Superior Court General Term Judge sper giving
the opinion decides that the pos OF Landscape Architect
OF the Parks Is Office but employment Olmste1


holding tha position Of Landscape Architect accepted
position OF Commissioner OF tho state Survey. He
salary the latter position and resigned within
three months but tho cy declined hm Tor that tme
ground IAat the acceptance ot any second olce
Year: 1877

The necessity of mounting all Cap
tains of infantry companies, if the
officers are to perform their duties
efficiently, is being again dwelt upon
by the French military press. In the
French army, as in nearly all other
Continental forces, company on war
footing, numbers two hundred and
fifty men, and it is urged that
it is simply impossible for the Cap
tain, however active he may be,
to properly superintend its working if
he has to move about on foot. Extended
in skirmishing order, formation which
has now become its normal fighting
order, or employed as an advance or
rear guard, company of two hundred
and fifty men covers a long stretch
of ground, and can, it is argued,
only be adequately controlled by a
mounted officer. After a march, again,
the captain of a company ought to
look after the comfort of his men,
visit them in their bivouacs, satisfy
himself that they have received their
proper rations, and see that all camp
duties are properly performed. But if
he is fatigued by long march on foot
he will be but too likely to perform his
work in a perfunctory manner; and
consequently his company will suffer.
Moreover, now that short-service sys-
TEN prevails in nearly every European
army, the captain of company will
generally be one of the oldest, if not the
oldest man in it, and therefore notso well
able to endure fatigue as the younger
men under his command. For all these
reasons it is generally recognized as
necessary that the captain should be a
mounted officer. In the German army
he is provided with horse, and in
time of war even with two. In Austria
and Italy the mounting of all captains
has only been temporarily postponed
from considerations of expense, and il
France captain, when on line Of
march or during maneuvers in the
field, may ride if he chooses to provide
himself with a horse at his own cost
but unfortunately the small pay re
ceived by them does not allow many o.
the French officers to avail themselve.
of this permission.