smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

THERE being but two deaths reported in
the last twenty-:our hours to the under
takers we discontinue the regular yellow
fever reports which have burdened our
columns and often been painfully con
spicuous for two and half months
While there will be new cases, perhaps
for weeks, the disease has ceased to be
an epidemic. We have had heavy frOsts
and some ice. Those who are careful to
have their rooms thoroughly ventilated
and fumigated may feel comparatively
safe Yet cases can occur in December
as the germs of the fever may be kept
over much longerin closed rooms, Some
physicians are of the opinion that il
never dies out altogether in New Orleans
but exists in a dormant state awaiting
favorable conditions for development
With the first day of the month we enter
upon an era Of business, Of politics in
small way, and the ordinary affairs o
life. Cotton will pourin, our streets viii
be througed with people and all the sign
Of life and commercial activity will TAX
the places a short time so desolate.
Year: 1878

NEW YORK, June 21.--A Berlin
dispatch says that Schouvalof has


Informed the Congress that Russia


Is determined to stand by the
Anglo.Ru agreement and will


not treat on any other basis nor
make further concessions.
Year: 1878

For COLORED MEN.-A few colored men in
this County have been humbugged into the
Grecnback ranks. And now, if q few Of the
Greenback leaders can control matters, they
will make consolidation with the Democrats,
and attempt to turn over the cOored men TO the
party that tried to break mp this nation in the
effort to keep them in slavery. One element of
this Greenback Labor party is burning machin-
cry; another element is crying out in favor Of
driving out Chinese laborers and still another
element is determined not to permit colored
men to work for living, unless they work as
slaves. In the very District in Indiana where
the Democrats and Greenbackers have united,
several farmers have had their barns burned,
because they employed colored men rs farm
hands, Another Republican farmer, who EN-
ployed colored laborers, received the following
warning, from his Democratic neighboIs:


august 81, 1873


"Wiliam MeKin.ie You have had warnings two
three times to put the dam niggers off Of your
farm, and don't fool about You any il you
don't ship them in one week you may look out for
yourself No dam niggers can stay among us in this
precinct. We mean business and you will find out
We know how to do it, and you will hear from us if
you don't mind"


This is in Indiana, where the Democrats en-
acted a Constitutional prohibition against color
ed people living in the State unless they gave
surety for their good behavior, and where the
Greenbackers are uniting lovingly with these
same Democrats. The Greenback party in this
County will make the same combination, If the
leaing men can effect it. Do colored men want
to be sold ont by any such bargaini If not, let
them stand by the party that has shown itself
to be their friend.
Year: 1878

A RELIC OS THE DARK AGEs.-Dowu at Qska-
loosa, they have curiosity in the shape OF
fossil relic of the Dark Ages and. what is more
wonderful, this fsssil edits newspaper called
the Iadepe.dent. He has recently given express
ion to the atrocioas sentiment that the yellow
fever plague in the South has been sent by God
upon that people Is Q visitation for their deeds
of blood. He does not try TO explain why God
has thus visited . comparatively narrow strip
of country, while Texas, South Carolina, and
other sections, that have been guilty Of fully as
bloody deeds, are exempt. Neither does he ven-
ture to explain why it 10 that the class who
were murdered are suffering IS terribly from
this dispensation of Providence as the class who
murdered them. The class Of heathens repre-
sented by the aforesaid fossil, have most infa-
nous opinion of God. They think he caused the
mnrder of Lincoln-for what purpose, they have
never yet revealed. They believe that if per-
son kills frog. God will cause his cows to give
bloody milk: that If a gang Of outlaws in .
community commit outrages, God will send the
yellow fever upon the whole State, killing the
guilty and innocent alike; that if q man goes
fishing Sunday, God will drown the children
of his descendants, hundred years or 50 after
wards and much other stuff equally as disgust
ing.


There are people, who may he igno-amuses, to
be sure, but who nevertheless bold that God
has established certain laws which, if broken,
bring their own sure punishment, but that the
punishment can be traced directly as result Of
the violation Of those laws. If men abuse their
health and corrupt their blood, the effects will
he entailed upon their progeny. If they neglect
the laws of health and cleanliness, and permit
the air to be poisoned by filth, sickness must en-
sue. Some regions exposed to malaria,
which, under certain conditions, is more preva-
pie go to these regions to dwell, without taking
means to destroy OF counteract the malaria, they
will suffer from pestilencc, such as yellow fever
and cholera. These are the natural results of sp-
parent causes, governed by the laws of IN intelli
gent and reasonable God. But if any man can
explain how shooting q nigger in New Orleans
can cause the yellow fever in Memphis, or how
mans swearing can bring lightning down to
strike him, or how merchant selling By false
weights can cause his grandson to have epiep-
tic fits, we have never yet seen the thing laid
down in print. But we believe these fossils do
not try to explain it. They are satisfied in the
belief that "God works in mysterious ways"
We have noticed one pecnliarity in these fos-
sils who have such terrific ideas Of the vista
| tions of God. They never seem to have the
| slightest fear that God will visit punishment
upon them for hypocrisy, OF for misrepresenting
and lying about their neighbOrs.
Year: 1878

Y The Democratic papers have been making
capital of an alleged expression of Col. st.
John, that he would bear the temperance BAN
ner through the State. st. John sits down on
il, by saying that any such expression from him
was used solely in connection with the temper
ance work, and before he was nominated for
Governor; that he does not mix his temperance
with his politics, and never used such language
in connection with political canvass.
Year: 1878

Judge Gilbert. Supreme Court, Kings county.
yesterday heard argument reserved his decision
o a motion in the suit OF the Commonwealth Life
Insurance Company against George Bowman aud
others TO orecose mortgage TOR $50 QUO on certain
property staten Island Since the suit was be.
gun, hve years ago. Mr.. Bowman has commenced
action to set aside decree obtained against him, and
the motion yesterday to open the decree so that
he might defend on tho ground OF usury and prove
that the plaintiffs we're not the owners OF the mort
ut the ume they brought tho action and got the
dacH
Year: 1878

Horace E Scudder, in Sunday Afternoon"


There had been scandalous affair in
the city of fP--which was much talk
ed of throughout the country. A man
enjoying unlimited confidence, having a
fair name in business, in society and in
the church had suddenly been convict
ed of forgery. "No one becomes very
base all at once," says the adage, and
the disclosure was made that this man
of trust had for many years been carry
ing on his business by the aid of forged
paper, but had until now been able to
conceal his steps. A full confession was
made to the court be the guilty man,
and this with his subsequent conduct
after sentence to the penitentiary were
made the occasion of good deal of
comment in the newspapers and among
business men or those who were social
ly connected with the forger.


Two gentlemen, among others, were
talking the matter over one day, short
ly after the prison doors had closed
upon HalcrOft, and he was lost to sight
for five years. They were sitting in the
private Office of the elder of the two
near the close of the business day. The
feature of the case which most impress
ed the elder was the culpability of the
banks which had for long time receiv-
ed HOlcrott's paper without any exam
ination, from the general trust which
they repOsed in him.


''No bank or person has right" he
exclaimed, "tO accept any securities
without the closest scrutiny. In the
interest of the community they are
IN, fnrt,,, 81,
and reputation of the man who offers
his paper, and to exercise the same care
as a goldsmith who is asked to buy or
advance money on any precious stones
which may be offered to him. 1t is not
the name on the face of the paper only,
but the names on the back which should
be inspected and tested with the utmost
precaution."


''What you say, Goldthwait,n said
the younger man, "has just at this mo-
ment the weight of this disaster to en-
force it; but you know very well that
IN ordinary times no one could maintain
such vigorous guard, You do not
yourself look sharply at every bank bill
which passes through your hands you
take it for granted that the bulk Of
money in use is good, and only now
and then are you on your guard against
a counterfeit issue. What is to me the
most remarkable about HOlcrOft's case
is the courage with which he and his
family accepted the consequences, and
let the law take its course. He made
no effort to escape, and his friends
made none to keep him out of prison.
They had money enough, and 1 suppose
they could have taken advantage of
legal quibbles and STAYED off the final
trial and perhaps got him free after all"
Year: 1878

If were told that must die tomorrow,


That the next
Which sinks should bear past all fear and sorrow


For any one
All the fight fought, and all the journey through,


What should 1 dol
1 do not think that should shrink or falter


But just go on.
Doing my work, nor change, nor seek to alter


Aught that is gone;
But rise and move, and love, and smile and pray


For one more day.
And lying down at night for . last sleeping,


Say in that
Which hearkens ever: Lord, within Thy keeping


How should fear
And when tomorrow brings Thee nearer still,


Do Thou Thy will
1 might not sleep for ave. but peaceful, tender,


My soul would lie
All the night long; and, when the morning spendor


Flashed Der the sky,
think that could smile, could calmly say,


1T is His day"
1 may not know my God; no hand revealeth


Thy cOunsels wise;
Along the path no deepening shadow stealeth,


No voice replies
To all my questioning thought the time to tell,


And it is well.
Let me keep on still doing and still trusting


Thy will always
Through long life of true devotion,


Or a short days.
Thou canst not come too sOOn-and can wait,


If Thou come late.


Susan Coolidge
Year: 1878

MYSTERIOUS ExPLosIoNs.-Mys


Gus explosions are getting unpleasantly
numerous No satisfactory explanation
has yet been advanced of the tremen-
dous explosion in the Barclay street
candy factory at New York, by which
the front of a building was thrown out
with such violence as to wreck the front


OF the building across the street, Sew
eral witnesses speak of the air as being
filled with flame at the instant Of the
explosion, but what exploded is mys-
terry, as the boiler aud furnace fiHes
were found whole. 1t is suggested that


the air became so filed with the fine
dust of flour and sugar as to make an
infammable and highly explosive com
pound, and it is said that the great


Iradesten flour mills at Glasgow were
destroyed in this way in 1872. The
supply Of wheat having momentarily
ceased the friction of the stones gave
fire to the flour, which permeated in
Year: 1878

stantly all the air of the interior of the
mills, blowing out the ends of the build
ing. Ten persons lost their lives at
New York, and it will be remembered
that two or three persons were killed a
few years ago at Boston by an explosion
in a soda water manufactory, which was
not satisfactorily explained.
Year: 1878

The liver is the imperial organ Of the whole
human system, and it controls the life, health
and happiness Of man. When it is disturbed in
Its proper action, all kinds Of ailments are the
natural result The digestion OF food, the move
ments of the heart and blood, the action of the
brain and nervous system, are all Immediately
connected with the workings of the liver. 1t has
been successfully proved that Green's August
Flower is unequalleti in curing all persons aict-
ell with dyspepsia or liver complaint, and all the
numerous symptoms that result from an unheal-
thy condition of the liver and stomach. Sample
bottles, to try, 10 cents. Positively sold in ali
towns the Western Continent. Three doses
will prove that it is just what you want.
Year: 1878

Valley Junction. The firm are In the lum-
Der trade, and Stephenson had heard that
their recommendation would probably se-
cure it for h,m. he walked from Peters
burg TO see the senior member OF the firm;


but found upon his arrival here, to his great


disappointment, that the position had been
filed. That he was willing to go to work,


and work hard, there can be but little doubt.
The prisoner said he wrote the Luding,,
ton story while sitting in the park (Capltoi


Square probabiy) one day, and in It at


tempted to give the experience OF MS lr'ehu.


There is nothing to'hold the young man on


longer than week, unless the New York
authorities signify their desire to have him.


He is complaining OF the shock and bruises


received BY him in his fall. The wonder Is
that he was not killed outright. a sober
man would have been smashed to pieces.
II Stephenson ever seriously entertained the
idea OF killing himself. the idea vanished
when he found himself going down into
the foundation. for his cries for help were
prompt and piercing.
Year: 1878

THE NEW YORK 1IsITeRs.-The visitors
who were expected to arrive early yesser'
day by the steamship Old Dominion were
detained several hours at Hog Island, Where
the steamer Went ashore.
Year: 1878

In the case of the United Ssates against

 Henry R. Curtis the sentence of death was

 to-day pronounced upon the defendant.

 When asked if any cause could be shown why the sentence of the law should not be pronounced, the prisoner stated that De hal been ably defended, and had nothing to ssy. Mir. Aram, the defendants attorney. then made motion for new trial

 These motions having been disposed of, Judge Silent admonished the prisoner that he had better come tc speedy realization of the awful fact that his time upon earth was limited to few short weeks; that the edict of law, following the verdict of guilty. Is memorable, and that he had better pre- pare himself for his doom within the short time allotted him, and by good conduct and repentance to atone as much as possible for the crime committed. The Judge also said that though the pardonlng power could vet be resorted to that the prisoner could not and ought not to build up any serious hopes in that diiection.

 That tho facts of the crime being so plain, ana the crime having been committed upon $ United States military reservation siid by { a United States soldier, thut in such {. case the power of the President to pardon is not Dftcn exercised.

 Curtis was then sentenced to be hanged | by the United States Marshal on the s3d I lay of August, 1878.
Year: 1878

ble monuments in the hearts of his living | associates.

 It is meet that when those that we love, or whose traits of character and qualities of mind we admire, are taken from among us, that we should pause and reflect, that we, by their example, may be stimulated to greater usefulness.

 In the life and character of him whose memory these eloquent tributes have been offered, there must have been much to ad- mire and worthy of example. To be Gov ernor of great State, successful business man, and an esteemed companion, are in- deed evidences of ability aud of traits of character that attract notice. But to add to these also the fact that he occupied ap elevated place in the legal profession, ant our cause for admiration becomes the nor .
Year: 1878

In New Orleans there are about twenty
deaths day from yellow fever That is
not great many, and the disease is worse
there than at other points. Undoubtedly
these twenty deaths a day are twenty too
many, aud we do not make this reference to
the calamity in any sense that may seem to
slight the affection and sorrow thus visited
upon a people. They cannot be without
the sympathy of all right thinking persons
in this visitation ; but as the reports in re-
gard to the appearance Of this disease here
and near US seem to have an exciting effect
on the minds of people easily frightened
it is as well to note the fact that the results,
even in New Orleans and on the Lower
Mississippi, are far from alarming. There
are generally about hundred new cases a
day and from twelve to twenty deaths.
Yesterday, although the death rate was
greater than usual. the number OF
new cases was noticeably less. More
than half those that die are children.
With the actual population of that city
this is about one death to ten thousand per-
sons. AS many children afflicted with other
diseases incident to the summer finally die
with the epidemic malady, even part of
those rated as its victims would probably
die from other causes if not swept away by
the prevalent malady. In this city in the
summer and from the ordinary diseases in
cident to poverty, heat and bad diet, we
have often had to record the deaths in q sim
gle day Of one hundred children alone, and
we cannot regard twenty deaths, even in q
smaller city, as indicating a very alarming
type of epidemic. If this malady has SO few
victims on the Gulf coast, where it is almost
at home, we may safely count that if it
should reach so far as this it would assure6ly
retain but little malignity.
Year: 1878

In the name of the paternal government
which is longed for by all workingmen
who do not work we demand an explana-
ticn Of the halfway measures that are pro-
posed for utilizing the national domain and
printing presses. One patriot asks Con-
gress to appropriate paltry four hundred
million loan to workingmen who will locate
farms another (betore the Hewitt COM
mittee) proposes that only men OF
certain classes shall receive $4,000
each from the government to start
them in business, and lot more have
asked General Butler that horny-handed
son of toll and despiser of capitalize en-
gineer an appropriation which shall settle
a specified number of men on ready made
farms with buildings attached. Why this
distinction of the few from the many2 The
inability to stock and build upon their land
has restrained hundreds of thousands of
clerks, tradesmen, teachers and professional
men from settling upon the farm which
Uncle Sam offers to every one. Although
many Of these work harder for given amount
of money than any day laborer they are,
of course, not workingmen still, they are
human beings and may become working
men if allowed fair chance. Then there
are the thousands of editors who, now that
Kearney has exposed their infamous meth
DDS of making money. are ashamed to look
sheet of paper in the face. but long for an
humble cot in the wilderness where they
may hide their sinful heads, alb
jure soap and water, combs and tooth
brushes, and become honest workingmen
themselves. The capitalists are, of
course, fiends of the deepest dye, but
when their money has been raked
into the national Golfers by the reformers,
and redistributed to labor, are they to be
allowed no facilities for reform? And the
office-holders, who are to be hurled from
lucrative positions, which will of course be
left vacant or filled by men who will not
draw their salaries, are they to have no op-
portunity to start anew in life in the puri-
flying atmosphere which the subsidized
workingman will exude from every pore
We all want farms, Messieurs Laboring-
men, and if you will only make your relief
measures of free ready made farms general
in their application you will suddenly find
the capital-cursed East yours to command.
Year: 1878

better terminal facilities. In the next five
years we shall require nothing less than an
elevated freight railroad running over the
wharves, and circling the whole city's water
front, with convenient connections to all
freight depots and warehouses. We shall
need also o great extension of the bonded
warehouses, for New York must in future
become what London already is, storage
place of the products of all the world o
port at which assorted cargoes can be made
up at all times for any place on the globe.
These are few of the subjects which ought
to engage the attention of the Mayor to be
chosen by the people this fall. All of them
have relation to the comfort and the pros
perity of our artisan and laboring popula-
tion, and it is in their interest that we have
called attention to tho importance OF he
Mayoralty.
Year: 1878

The national party is in fair way to
know how it is itself Republicans
and democrats are of course wicked
wretches, who quarrel because each wants
all of tn spoils so when q body of patriots
assumed patriotic name and thought only
to rid the country from the blighting infu-
ence of seli-seeking demagogues everybody
believed that their proceedings would be
marked by the pleasantness of brethren
who dwell together in unity. But before
these noble public servants had en-
joyed single nibble at the pub
lie crib they began to fall out and
kick each other out of the stable.
The air at Syracuse a month ago was alive
with hoofs and ears which were not allowed
to operate among those whom they claimed
as companions. Later it was decided that
these might be useful at the polls, where
n donkey is as good as anybody else if he
will restrict himself to walk upon two feet
only, and committee is attempting to har-
monize the conflicting interests of these
aggrieved beings. If the results SO far at
taincd are an earnest OF what is to happen
in the future the public will clap
its fingers to its ears and hurry
of TO some machine made convention in
search of peace. Assembled in the interests
of labor against property, and the humble
many against the prosperous few, two of
the many wings of this discontented body
were unable to do better than to proffer
lists of names which met the approval of
Peter Cooper, q gentleman whose white
hairs, amiable disposition and high
moral character cannot save him from
the damning charge of being an en-
ployer and n capitalist. If these harmonic
ers are working for the sake of the money
which it is supposed the pseudo party in
this State can get out of one or more
wealthy residents Of New York city, any
sort of noise will doubtless fall upon
their ears like the richest harmonies OF
Beethoven; but if they really propose to
combine the hopelessly discordant elements
with which they are dealing the public
will understand that money has already
been obtained somewhere else. Nothing
else can combine material as antagonistic
as theirs IL its own admirers tell the truth
about it
Year: 1878

There is, we suppose, no doubt that some
portion of the United States forces assigned
to duty On the Rio Grande have gone into
Mexico in pursuit Of cattle thieves, and
there is just rs little doubt, we presume,
that they have gone there regularly in the
performance of their legitimate junction,
and that they will behave themselves while
there and return safely, and that no dis
turbance in the relations of the two govern
ments will result. Although the Mexican
government chooses to shut it's eyes to the
state Of facts on the border, which is
plainly visible to our own officers, and
assumes an obstructive attitude in regard
to the preservation of the peace, our
government is under an obligation to pro-
tect the property of the people on this side,
and will apparently do it, not deferred by
the chimera that such conduct may pos
sibly produce war. President Diaz is re-
ported to have charged that General Ord
finds that raids are committed because in
that peaceful and bucolic district he would
otherwise rust in idleness. We do not
ton on such subject is of infinitely more
value than that of any Mexican adventurer
whatever, and if he finds reason for activity
the people may be assured there Is reason.
AS to the likelihood OF war, all the sharpers
and contract thieves in Washington cannot
make one. Perhaps the Mcxicans are not
wise. but they know too much for that.