smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

Denver News: Miss Prince was
the only daughter of PIttsburg
merchant, and two years ago was
welded to Mr.. Savage, of Balti-
more. Six hours after the cere-
mony the train upon which they had
started on their bridal tour was
wrecked and the husband of less
than II day was killed. The shock
of the terrible calamity robbed the
young wife for time of her reason.
From this mental death she recov-
cred to 60 into slow decline. All
the blossoms of her life were with
ering, and the world, once so robed
in beauty and delight, became a
prison from which her spirit longed
to be free. They took her across
the sea, but the panorama of scene
and incident had no power to renew
the love of life, and the young thing
faded as a flower fades. At last
they took her to the South OF
France, and there, amid the bloom
of fowers-on the spot where Pc
trach once sang songs to Elvira-in
the home of Leonardo da Vinci's
exile-this fair American girl found
the peaceful quiet of the grave
Our correspondent who reloees the
incident draws vivid picture OF
the sorrowing family around the
death bed. The father overwhelmed
with grief, the mother wild with de-
spair, while a young sister clasplng
a hand of the dying girl looks with
pallid face and rigid lips into the
glazing eyes.


"The anguish is nearly over-my
race of life is done," came in a fee
BILE intonation from the lips of the
dying.


"And you are willing to die?"
asked a minister, bending over to
catch the whispered utterance.


"Oh, so glad Listen to me. 1 die,
as many of my sex have done, of a
broken heart. L had put my all of
life and hope on the hazard of an
earthly love and God has smitten
me for my sim"


at was no sin to love-"


"Oh, not to love-but to build an
idol as l did--and TO worship the
creature instead Of the Creator. L
have been terribly punished. The
horror of these two brief years no
words can tell.'


There was a futter of the feeble
heart. The blue eyes sheathed
themselves meath palely tinted wax
en- lids, and the fair young form,
once so full of subtle life, was fro
zen into death.
Year: 1879

The death of leading member of
the house of Rothschilds is an event
of no ordinary interest, although it
can have no effect on the standing
of that great firm OF bankers. The
power exercised by this family is
Incalculable. In 1876 the combined
capital of the Rothschilds was es-
timated by good authority to be
SO, 400. 100000, an amount about
equal to the entire funded debt of
Great Britain. But so thoroughly
is this immense business system
atized and so completely is its man
agement embraced within family
limits that the loss of no one man
can interrupt the operations of the
house. Baron Lionel Mayer de
Year: 1879

The use of a printers ink is nee
essary for the success of bushes:
man. 1t should be judiciously used
but more is lost by the failure tc
use enough than by. using toe
much. The business man who is
too close-fsted to patronIze news.
paper is not one who will lead in
the enterprises of the town. What
would a town be worth if it was not
known by the country? and how
can the world know of it only thro'
the neWspaper?
Year: 1879

TIE New York Graphic says: 1t is
pity that we cannot have some
convention of merchants and finan-
ciers to devise a suitable bankrupt
law and make it national in its oper-
ations Legislatures composed al
most exclusively of lawyers are not
to be trusted to frame laws affect
ing litigation. The history of every
bankrupt law shows the utter unfit
ness of lawyers TO act as Legislators
in framing our statutes.
Year: 1879

Very few men are blessed with the
talent of doing more than one thing
well. One may be able to plan but
can not execute, while his neigh
boris executive ability is his strong
point. This man is good at the
wheel, but lacks financial ability;
another one can design china and
earthenware of superior style, but
falls short of success as a business
manager. Similar differences are
met with in every trade,
Year: 1879

The Republicans ever the water have
determined upon n grand blow out TO-
night in honor Of their great and glorious
victory on Tuesday. They will illuminate
and jnbllate in all possible ways. They
will burn powder in various shapes. There
will be music by the band and speeches
from tho stand, and a big time generally.
They invite every body to take hand.
Year: 1879

young man, he has distinguished him
self in politics and at the bar by his
comprehensive Knowledge of the law
and by his great energy and indefati-
gable Industry. The appointment will
give very general satisfaction, and we
predict a brilliant career for the new
judge.


Judge White, we hear, is about 32
years of age. His father, Edward D.
White, was Governor of this State from
1886 to 1s39-Gov. A. B. Roman being
his successor in Office. The new Judge
is probably the youngest man who has
ever occupied seat on the Supreme
Bench of this State.


We regret that Gov. Nichols was
unable to find a lawyer from this
Supreme Court district fitted to fill the
vacant position. AS now organized,
the Monroe district is without a single
representative on the Bench.
Year: 1879

We learn that DIR. l.. w. Gregory
has recently mot with an accident
which, it is thought will involve the
loss Of his hand, or probably his arm.
Some days ago whilst examining a
vial Of swamp fever urine. he accidently
broke the vial and severely cut the
ring finger of the left hand, tho wound
being bathed in the purtrid urine,
which had been standing several
months. He was thus. infected with
animal poison, which is in all respects
similar to q dissection wound. The
wounded finger rapidly intlamed,
swetted and became gangrenous. This
inflammation now involves the entire
hand and fore arm, and it is thought
that the finger, at least, and perhaps
the entire hand will have to be sacri-
feed to the surgeons knife.-Col,nmbia
Herald
Year: 1879

The following telegram from Reading,
Penn, evidently forshadows sad state OF
affairs :" That the various trade union organi-
zations throughout the country, assisted by the
Knights of Labor order, have determined to
create and inaugurate great and general ag-
gressive movement against capital, is without
question positive fact. A prominent official
of the Knights of Labor organization, whose
name is suppressed at present for prudential
reasons, says that the order he belongs to,
and all the labor unions distributed ut all the
great industrial centers of tho country, have
been planning for an organized and determined
campaign for a shortening of the hours of labor,
with an increase of the ruling wages wherever
any extraordinary improvement in business
will warrant it. For some time, and, from
the correspondence that has been going
on recently, 1t is believed the promi-
nent wings of the Knights of Labor
in the East and West are ready to give
the signal for n grand, general and conoen-
trated uprising. The labor element of the
United States, it is said, was never before in
the indsutrial history of the country so united
and harmonious in its action, and so well pre-
pared, financially, to undertake contest with
the capitalists at this time. 1t is estimated,
after close and careful computation by the
| agents Of the Knights of Labor, who have been
Year: 1879

Another marvel recently brought to
light in the Yellowstone Park of North
America, is nothing less than noun
tain of obsidian or volcanic glass. Near
the foot of the Beaver Lake band of
explorers came upon this remarkable
mountain, which rises.in columnar cliffs
and rounded bosses to many hundreds of
feet in altitude from kissing hot springs
at the margin Of the lake. AS it was
desirable to pass that way, the party had
to cut road through the steep CLASSY
barricade. This they effected by MAX
ing huge fires on the glass to thoroughly
heat and expand it, and then dashing
the cold water of the lake against the
heated surface so as to suddenly cool and
break it up by shrinkage. Large frag-
ments were in this way detached from
the solid side of the mountain, then
broken up small by sledge hammers and
picks, not however, without severe
decorations of the hands and faces of the
men from flying splinters. In the Grand
iCemon of the Gibson river, the explorers
also found precipices of yellow, black
and banded obsidian, hundreds of feet
high. The natural glass of these locali-
ties has from time iimmemorial been
dressed by the Indians to tip their spears
and arrows tf+tts -..t4
Year: 1879

THE Indiana State House, although
just completed, has been seized by the
Sheriff, taken apart and slowed away in
building in Indisnapolis. This disas-
ter, however, has not overtaken the real
State House of which that city is 80
justly proud, but the miniature of the
same, which has been on exhibition in
indianapolis for come time. There was
dispute about the ownership of the
model of the State House and there is
likely to be law suit about the little
building, which is valued at $500. The
strange part of the affair is that any one
would pay twenty-five cents to see a
model of the State House when he could
go out and see the original for nothing
Year: 1879

BY new rule of the Postoffice De-
partmhet, sanctioned by the Treasury,
any person may order a book from
abroad by mail, and the duty, if any,
will be collected by the local postoffice
where the work is delivered. Hitherto
the duty has been collected through the
nearest Custom House, thus subjecting
importers of single volumes and persons
unacquainted with official red tapes, te
much trouble. The postmaster hence
forth will remit to the Custom House
the money collected. The new rule
will be convenient alike to regular i'm
porters and to private purchasers.
Year: 1879

There is curious sort of modesty pre-
vailing among the owners of great man
sions in London which induces them to
retain the name of the original owner
even when his successor is ten times as
distinguished Thusev the Duke of
Wellington was satisfied that his famous
mansion at Hyde Park corner should
continue to bear the name of Lord Chan
cellor Apsley, its original tenant, al
though it was entirely reconstructed by
the Duke; and. Mr.. Holford, who owns
the most artistic mansion in London,
built on the site of what was known as
Dorchester House, retains that name.
Year: 1879

The enormous emigration westward
the past couple of years, has had no little
to do with the recent sharp advance in
iron. By settling up new territory, a
demand has been created for railroad
facilities, and this has been met with
great energy by the old companies. just
now another strong factor in the ad-
vance in iron is the dearth of ore. There
is, literally, an ore famine, and this
more than lack of furnace facilities, is
boosting the price.
Year: 1879

The news comes from Detroit of a painful
accident on the Michigan Central railroad near
that place. The accident occurred at o'clock
at night, produced by passenger train bound
west colliding with switch engine. Twenty


five persons or thereabouts were killed and not
less than fifty were more or less injured, many
fatally. The Pacific express had left Detroit
forty minutes late and was going at the rate of
thirty miles hour when the collision
occurred. The baggage and express
cars telescoped, while the remaining
coaches, eleven in number, piled on top of each
other, The first coach was filed with emf
grants, most of whom were either killed or
seriously injured. Beyond thoses-sslies were
emigrants among the injured and Killed, SO far
as identified, were persons whose residence is
Canada and the east. Willie Rice, little fell
low four years old, who sustained a broken leg
and cut face, had his father, mother and sister
killed. The details of the disaster are appall-
darkness of the night, and the walls
and groans of the torn and crushed human
beings, indescribable. A correspondent who
visited the scene, says: "The force of the
collision be better seen where the engines
came together. They lay in a tangled mass
that renders it almost impossible to recognize
portions of either with any degree certainty.
One of the cylinders was thrown back dis
tance of sixty feet, clear over the wreck, and
landed between the track, while the smoke
stack lies at still greater distance from the
point of collision. The trucks of all the
wrecked cars were forced backward, and the
spectacle presents itself of cars but little
damaged otherwise, with compact mass
of wheels under their entire length.


"The train was made up of seven Wagner sleep
ers, four passenger coaches, and mail and bag
gage cars, making a very heavy train, and the
force with which such mass would come in
contact with such an obstacle while under a
high rate of speed, made especially necessary
from the fact of the train being late, can be
better imagined than described. The shock
came with the suddenness of an avalanche,
leaving death and destruction in its remorse-
less path. The ground around the wreck is
one mass of kindling wood, intermingled with
broken baggage, ruined express matter, and a
chaotic mass of debris. A somewhat singular
fact, is the large amount of passengers bag
gage remaining intact, though not more so
than the fact that some escaped alive from the
wrecked cars.


The caboose, which was attached to the


switch engine, was driven back some sixty OF
eighty feet from the locomotive, the tender be-
ing thrown clear off the track. horrible
sight presented itsclfat point where the end


of the baggage-car came in contact with the end


of the telescoped coaches. There a mass OF
some five or six human beings, including one OF


two females, were jammed together in a crushed
and mangled mass heads, arms and limbs pro-
truding in a-sickening manner, telling only toe
plainly the awful force of the collision
Year: 1879

ONE of the thirty-five or forty per-
sons injured by washout on the Read
ing Railroad, brought test suit, and
was awarded $3 500 damages. The case
is to be carried up, and IL the lower
court is sustained, the prospect is that
the Pennsylvania and Reading road will
have avery handsome bill to settle.
Year: 1879

visiting every section of the country within the
past month to learn the sentiment of the work


ingmen in regard to hostile movement against
capital, that fully 100000 laborers of all
classes are ready, willing and anxious to take
part in a strike. The prevailing local labor
struggles are but the premonitory symptoms
of the greater and more fully organized up
Year: 1879

Owing to the smallness of the gold
dollar, the New York Herald says: If
the Treasury Department wishes to pop
ularize the dollar of the fathers, let
them coin the gold dollar freely; it is
easier 10 lose than good idea"
Year: 1879

ALL kinds of crops flourished in the
West this year, according 20 returns TO
the Department Of Agriculture, except
the potato crop. The partial failure OF
potatoes is due chiefly 10 resumption
the resumption OF active work on the
part Of the potato bugs.
Year: 1879

Snow began falling on the Alpine
submits two weeks ago, unless the fact
mentioned by the cable should have
been produced by an avalanche. The
St. Gothard Pass is reported to be COM
pIetely blocked with snow, and traffic
cannot be resumed for some days. This
Is one more evidence of the necessity of
Fastening the completion of the famous
tunnel. ~
Year: 1879

The debate on the New Hampshire
case ended at O'Clock, and the senate
by vote of So against %, adopted the
resolution declaring Bell entitled to a
seat. He was accordingly sworn in.


The senate then took up the army
appropriation bill, but laid it aside
temporarily to allow Hereford to de-
liver speech, of which he gave no.
tice last week, upon Hoar's resolution
denunciatory of democratic pro-
gramme.
Year: 1879

Tammanys finger marks are plainly
spread upon the bin TO prevent residents Of
New Jersey from leasing parts Of Washington
Market The Tammuny chief who acts as
Comptroller supcryiscs the letting Of the mar
ket stalls. and it would be his interest to let
them 10 men whose votes he can control
Year: 1879

SENATOR BEcE, during recent inter.
view at Washington. stated the Demo-
cratic position in vigorous condemnation
when he said: "In the entire history OF
the Government. no President has ever
vetoed bill 10 repeal law. His pre-
rosative Of the veto is given TO prevent
legislation that is unconstitutional. or
thar encroaches upon the Judicial or leg
islative department. Now, We propose
only to repeal laws that have been en-
acted during the lsst twelve or fineen
years by the Republican party. Most OF
these laws we're passed on appropriation
bills. and We propose TO repeal them in
the same way. The people OF the country,
through the National Legislature, have
pronounced in favor of the repeal Of these
laws. They have condemned them. and
there is no warrant for the President to
veto them. do not believe he ever said
he would
Year: 1879

iuCsC hSuiCs iOih q ucOisiNc answer
to the allegation of Radical alligatOrs
that the Democrats in Congress seek
to repeal the supervisor laws in order
to permit election frauds in the South.
They show that it is the North, and
not the South, which suffers most from
the meddlesOme marshals- The opposi-
ton would make believe that She
Democratic party is merely southern
party, and that the North should
naturally be antagOnistic to democracy.
But the people know better and will
not be .deceived.-L Elizabethtown
News.
Year: 1879

Governor Robinson has taken prompt
and efficient steps to prevent the sale of
milk from diseased COWS and to check the
spread of the evil by quarantining the
stables at Blissville, L. l.. adjoining Gaff,


Fleischmanu & Co.'s distillcry, which have
been complained of by the local authorities.


Under directions from Albany the Sheriff
of Queens county yesterday placed strong
guard at all tho entrances to the offensive
premises, and no COWS are allowed to be
either taken into or removed from the stables.
The Governors orders also prohibit the
sale OF any OF the milk from the seven or
eight hundred cows now confined in the
stables, and which have been reported by
the Brooklyn Board of Health to be suffering
from fever and disease. This action of the
Executive will give satisfaction to the
who will no longer experience the
uncomfortable suspicion that the milk they
use at breakfast or give to their children
comes from the diseased animals that are
said to be stewing in the foul atmosphere
of the Blissville stables. It is to be hoped
that the present movement will bring to an
end an evil that has been suffered to exist
too long through the inanity of the local
authorities. A vigorous Board Of Health
would ere now have put stop to traffic
which is carried on in violation of the law
prohibiting the sale of unwholesome or
swill milk. Now that the Governor has
moved in the matter there is good pros
pect that these stables and other similar
nuisances will be broken up altogether, and
that the law will be put into force against
any who may hereafter violate its provisions.
Year: 1879

The bill for transferring the Indian
Bureau to the War Department is failure
in the present Congress. but Senator Pat
terson's bill relating to the Indian Terri
tory is so reasonable that il ought to sue
ceed. There are two distinct and separate
questions relating to the Indians. What we
shall do for the tribes permanently settled
in the Indian Territory is one question;
what we ought to do with the savage and
nomadic tribes which wander at large is
quite another question. 1t is with refer
cnce to the nomadic and warlike tribes of
unsubdued savages that the transfer of the
Indian Bureau to the War Department is
important. As for the peaceful tribes,
which have long been settled in the Indian
Territory, the duty Of the government is
comparatively simple. The bill reported
by Senator Patterson from tho Committee
on Territories proposes to establish courts
Of justice for the adjudication OF con-
troversies and the protection of individ-
uals; it proposes to revoke the grants OF
Indian lands to railroads and to give the
inhabitants Of the Indian Territory q Dole
gate In Congress torepresent their interests.
There can be no reasonable objection to such
bill, and we trust 1t may pass before the
close of the session.
Year: 1879

The brief sketch we receive by cable of
the Emperor Williams speech at the OPEN
ing of the Reichstag does not present any
very striking features. The members were
thanked for assisting in the suppression Of
the socialist agitation, and there was prob
ably some little significance in the express
sion of the hope that they would continue
to- help the government as far as might be
necessary in the cure of the socialist evil.
preciates the danger that may lurk in this
skeleton in royal closets, despite the pre-
cautions already adopted, and foresees that
the occasion for yet more actively repres-
sive measures may arise in the not distant
future. The Emperor explained that the
abrogation of the fifth clause of the Treaty of
Prague was prompted by the desire to put an
end to the uncertainty of the people of North
Schleswig respecting their future destiny.
The hope was expressed that the Russian
plague, owing to the energetic measures of
the government, would soon be suppressed
and the traffic on the frontier restored. In
referring to the customs policy of the gov
elAmcut VIC GAPcro1 5Poho SouiowAaV
plainly in favor Of protection and ''the pres
ervation of German market for home
production" He regretted the abandon
ment of the swell tried principles" which
have marked the nations policy since 1865,
and hoped for o reversion to those princi-
pies in the near future. In his congratula-
tions on the existence of satisfactory rela-
tions with other nations the Emperor
throws out hint that the power of United
Germany may be exercised as sort Of
peace police over Europe. "The promotion
and development of friendly relations with
and among the Powers, he says, sis the task
to which should be devoted the great power
achieved by German unity" The strength
Of the Empire is to be used to regulate the
relations ''among the Powers" as we'll
those in which Germany has q direct and
immediate part.
Year: 1879

situation OF affairs in England just now.
with weakened condition OF internal
credit and thousands of idle workmen lis
tening to the cries of starving wives and
children, it is straining things somewhat
for Englishmen to dictate even to savages
tho code of morals that should govern them
in any particular. If these "little wars
helped in any way to relieve the pressure
at home England might claim with some
truth that her well known policy of making
other people pay for the support of her
generally proved pretty effective. that she is
justified by her traditions in adopting it.
But seemingly the rule does not hold good
just now, for England's troubles at home
are not lessened by her troubles abroad.
Year: 1879

Methods for the redemption of humanity
arc not new in the worlds history, for over
since the first cru in which there wis O
man who could see humanity as It is and
imagine what it might be the wish for some
comprehensive form Of elevating the world
has been the father of systems and prophe-
cies almost innumernble. Tho newest plan


is that Of Mr.. Henry James, Sr., gentle
man and author, of high aims and charac-
ter, who pronounces society the universal
redeemcr and in the highest sense. Mr..


james is undoubtedly right, If we regard
the ideal society, for what virtue was ever
urged upon humanity, either by Pagan
or Christian. that Is not necessary in
its fullest measure to the perfected
society of which all of us sometimes
dream with vivid distinctness but never
behold with our waking eyes2 For
society to redeem mankind there Is
but single prerequisite. which is that
somebody or something shall redeem so
ciety, and 80 careful writer as Mr.. James
is probably ready to tell the world what
this Is. He certainly would not have us
snppose that his newly discovered redeamar