smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

The dead body Of man about hfty years old was
found hanging from tree in Central Park yesterday
morning tho northwest corner OF the old rcser-
voir the transverse road at Eighty -hfth street
The rope around his neck and about an
inch in thickness. The body was quite whom
discovered and one eye was wlde open, which gave
1t q startling appearance. Deceased neatly
dressed In blue flannel suit OF stout lid
aud had black hair, mus.ache and imperial. A tall
silk hat was found near whore the body hanging
A circular of clothing house at No. G29 Eighth
avenue the only article found in the clothing
The body taken to the Arsenal and thence the
Morgue to await identification.
Year: 1879

intending in the fall to take trip to Albany. This
he supposed was the basis OF his street nomination.
What the result of this nomination will be he did not
know nor care. But should he be elected it would
not interfere with his pastorate in Lee Avenue
Church political office is honor
disgrace he said, according to the office
and the manner and method Of obtaining
it; and the same thing may apply to preacher.
to nray for the state sunday he should be ready
to serve 1t on Monday His relation to parties is the
same as to the Church. and wherever he advance
the interests men, in Church state there is his
pulpit .Heis told it would be disgrace for him to
go to tho Senate DIs s ne looked IN ,6 there last
pare very favorsbly with denomina-
tional association gatherings that he had attended.
He s proud to be known q man Of the people. aud
is ready to lift up his voice against monopolies Of
every sort He fought slavery because it oppressed
men, and to-day he is opposed to convict labor in
our penal institutions because it oppresses honest
mechanics. But he does not want to be elected by
the purchased votes OF any man. He Ii . free min
lister and free citizen, and in becoming minister
he did not yield his citizenship.
Year: 1879

How IT Is WoRKING.-We met one Of the
prominent Greenbackers of this County, a few
days ago-one who had long been staunsh Re-
publican. Said he: "The last Congress has
about done the business for me. l have honest
ly been for Greenbacks, and still am for them
and can't help it. But when the issue is pre-
sented, must choose my country first, aud wait
till afterwards for the greenbacks. have been
dissatisfied with the thieves that got high in
the Republican party. But have noticed that
the thieves hang TO the party in power, whatev-
er it may be; and when q Democratic thief gets
a chance, he can generally throw Republican
thief in the background, and make him ashamed
Of himself. The Democratic party is exactly the
same that it was in 1860, and the last Congress
showed how near the Rebels have succeeded in
capturing the Government, after We fought so
long to conquer them"


Our friend is right, and there are good many
Greenbackers just like him. But with all his
observation, he must have observed another i'm
portant fact. In nine cases out of ten, when
the Greenbackers gain any important strength,
it is to the injury of the Republican aud advan
tage of the Democratic party. Those ten or q
dozen Greenbackers in Congress seldom voted
with the Republicans. They were nearly every
time found voting with the Democrats, to cripple
and starve the Government. As the Democrats
had a majority in Congress, the Greenbackers
pandered to their worst political prejudices, in
order to win favors from them. This Falls elec-
tion will indicate, in some degree, the probable
result of next years Presidential election
whether the Republicans have sufficient strength
in the North to rescue the Government from
Confederate hands, or whether the latter are
likely to remove the last barrier to their revolu
t;onary schemes, by electing Northern ally to
the Presidency. If the Republicans are gener
ally successful in the North, this Fall, it will
renew their enthusiasm, and dishearten the
Northern Confederates; and rice rcrsa. It re-
mainsdor our Republican Greenback friend, and
all who feel as he does, to determine whether
they will throw their might, this Fall, in the To-
cal elections, to encourage the Union on the Reb-
el side
Year: 1879

THE RIGHT KIND OF PRoMBITIoN.-All the
talk and buncombe about prohibition, is in the
direction Of effectiug it by stopping the manu.
facture and sale of liquors. Why indulge in
that nonsense, instead of going at the purpose
directf If it is right and necessary to regulate
mems appetite by law, why not operate upon
the men themselves, instead Of the roundabout


way of prohibiting the manufacture aud sale Of
an article with which he abuses himself, but
which also goes into use for other purposes :
Every man is held to be responsible for his own
acts, but this prohibition doctrine holds some
body else responsible. If prohibition is right
and necessary, prohibit the individual from
drinking liquor. Pass law to that effect, and
imprison or otherwise punish him for its viola
tion. Nobody proposes to stop murder and sui
eide by prohibiting the manufacture and sale Of
powder and shot, pistols, razors hatcher knives,
or axes. II would be just as sensible IS prohib-
iting the manufacture and sale Of liquor. The
man who cannot get within reach of liquor
without making hog of himself, is the one to
take hold of, not the man who makes the liquor.
Year: 1879

~ The Ingersoll Convention, at Cincinnati,
resolved, among other things, that they were in
favor Of prohibiting the circulation of obscene
literature, but demanded that the obscenity Of
the Bible should be placed on an equality and
treatesl the same as other obscene literature.
And why not There are passages in the Bible
that no decent man would read in a promiscu-
Gus company, aud that are as unfit 10 he read
as the most obscene book Of modern times. Why
is its circulation permitted! The exploded
h1mbns that it is the word of God, is too thin
for further excuse Or, still better, while learn
ed men are revising the New Treatment, why not
revise and purge the Old Testament of all that
stuff, even if they would have to condemn al
most the entire book If men have become 80
wise that they eau revise aud amed the word of
God, why not revise those portions that really
need it'll
Year: 1879

If Mr.. Tlideu, says the Alexandria Gu>
.etie, had only manifested half the boldness
and peTtiDacity in his effort TO secure his in
augura.ion as President that he exhibited in
his moro recent attempt to have Governor
Robinson ronomina'ed, he would have bad a
FAR better chance of occupying tho White
House than he will ever Eaye again, aud
would not have been, as he COW is, whether
Intentional or not it makes no difference so
far as the resulting evil is cor cerned, ere Of
the chief instrumentniities by which his
party in his own State has been divided and
will be beaten, aud that in the country be
prevented from electing the next President.
Thare are times when boldpess, even when
carried to the verge Of reckIessuess, is the
part of discretion, and other times when it
is directly the reverse, and unfortunately for
both air Ti'don and his party lie Is unable
to make the distinction.
Year: 1879

How TO DESTROY ASTs.-Tbe following
in recommended to CAREFUL housewives rs a
way Of Kidding closets Of these little pests
Procure largo ispouge, wash it we'll and
press it dry. which will leave the cells quito
open, then sprinkle over il some white sugar
and place it where the ants are troublesome.
They will soon collect upon tho sponge and
take up their abode in the cells. Il is only
necessary to dip the sponge IN sealdiug hot
water, which will wash them out-dead.-.
Put on moro sugar aud set the trap for new
haul
Year: 1879

Empty vessels give the greatest
sound.


Ignorance is the mother OF impu-
dence.


Every man living hath something to
do.


Ask thy purse what thou shouldst
buy.


In the company Of strangers silence
is safe.


A quiet conscience causes a quiet
sleep.


Examples are the best lessons for
youth.


A light purse often makes heavy
heart.


A civil denial is often better than a
rude grant.


He who hath no charity merits no
mercy


man is neither good nor bad for
zone action.


Good deeds remain; all things else
perish.


He who hath no shame hath no con-
science.


He is slave who cannot command
himself.


Love thinketh no evil, and envy
speaketh no good.


An hour of pain is as long as day of
pleasure.


He benefits himself who doeth good
to others.


He who gives his heart will net deny
his money.


He who falls to-day may be up again
tomorrow.


He hath lived i'll who knows not how
to die well


Anger begins with folly and ends
with repentance.


He is unworthy to live who lives
only for himself.


An honest man word is as good as
his bond.
All between the cradle and the coffin
is uncertain.
He who grasps at too ;auch holds
noChihg last.
If it We're not for hope, the heart
would break


know of nobody that has wish to
die this year.


Friendship is the most sacred of all
moral bonds.
Discreet wives have sometimes neither
eyer nor ears.
Year: 1879

TUESDAY, FeD. Ill 4. M


Tho description Of yesterdays stock market would
fairly answer for that of to-day. much wore they
alike in their few leading features. To admit that
this mornings market possessed more body than
mug of small beer q cherub tombstone is tho
best that be said of it. for it certainly want


Ing in the concomitants necessary to fuly developed
bull movement. The grand result OF the Days work,
however, to advance prices slightly and to leave
them tho brink Of buoyancy when business closed
Tho coal stocks wero most in favor tho two Della
and New Jersey Central being largely traded
In at advancing prices. There were enough
Of earmarks to show that the Keene-M Morgan
combination were holding the best bowers and were
only waiting good opportunity to play them profit
ably. Appearances were that Now Jersey Central
was stiffened at one moment help the Delswares.
and the Delawares stifened ut another moment to
help the Now Jersey Central-a sort Of "you tickle
me and Ill tickle you' arrangement, productive OF
titilating qualification to both parties. To enhance
tho pleasure it given out that the various coal
companies would advance the price Of their product
next month from onehalf to dollar per ton.
Michigan Central of the strong stocks on to-
days list. We learn from good authority that Mr..
Vanderbilt has contracted for the tunneling of the
Detroit river opposite Parkersburg. which on
completion will admit of the Michigan Central
trains reaching the Canada Southern line without
the delay and expense Of transshipment by ferry
is the case at present There is something more
doing in Pacific Mail and the price is hardening Tho
company have recently despatched Captain s. SAM
uels (of Dreadnaught and Henrietta fame) to San
Francisco to look after their interests the Pacific
coast and much is expected Of his ability to gather
up the ravelled ends of business which. to q great
extent has been left to lie loose There nothing
to remark in the other active stocks except an
doubted steadiness which budded into fractional
Improvement and very strong market at the end.


The opening. highest lowest and closing prices Of
stocks at the New York Stock Exchange were:-
Year: 1879

For heavens sake. don't let il get into the papers" is the first cry of a person caught in q mean scrape. Keep it out of the papers and it is ali right No matter how contemptible or dishonest the position may be, or how much reason the offender may have for shame, remorse and contri- ton, if the circumstances can be kept from tie "cormorants of the press, as the people who have good reason to be afraid of newspaper re porters sometimes cali tlem, hc is tranquil and happy. We are DO champion for that extreme license of the press that is sometimes displayed, but we have noticed that the ones who cry out the loudest against newspaper disclosures are generally those whose own lives and acts would bear very close inspection. People who live clean, straightforward lives have little to fear from the news papers.
Year: 1879

u is estimated that the wool clip of the world for 1878 reached a little over one pound 10 each inhabitant This is not enough to comfortably clo.he Us all, and shows conclusively that wool growing is an industry that can never be oyerdone. The increase in tie demand for woolen goods is al most equal 10 that of any other pro dllf
Year: 1879

It's pity that the coming census could not have been taken while the railroad builders were still within the limits of Yuma County As it is, Maricopa County will probably get credit for that population -Se3t5ae5.
Year: 1879

TIE legislature of Missouri is con silering the question of dividing the commonwealth, and creating two states. X bill for the purpose is now before the legislature, and the move mcnt is said to be popular among the rural memhers. 4 movement is also on foot to make five states out of TcXRs.
Year: 1879

A correspondent at Lisbon vouches for
the truth of the following narrative, which
lie translates from the Diaria de Noticias:
At the distance of one kilometre from the
village of Fratel, near Mia Ii. e. on the
frontier of Spain and Portugal, near the
town of Portalegre), Theresa Maria, who
was carrying her husband S dinner to him
in the fields, was told by little shepherd
boy that a wolf was prowling about the
place. Wishing to see one for the first
time in her life, she put down hel basket
and climbed up to high place to which
the boy directed her. There she saw the
animal in the act Of devouring lamb.
The shepherd boy began shouting and
! throwing stones, to see whether it would
=, let go its prey; and the wolf in it's fury
then attacked the poor little fellow, Jump
ing up at his face, tearing the flesh from
his jaws, and throwing him upon the
ground. The woman seeing the boys
imminent danger, in an impulse of heroic
self devotion, ran on the wolf wholly un-
armed, seized tight hold of him, and then,
after a struggle, contrived to blind him
with stone, and eventually killed him.
Meanwhile the boy whom she had rescued
ran, wounded as he was, to seek help in
the village. While several villagers were
coming up, armed with guns, stones and
sticks, to kill the beast and save the wo-
man from its fangs, she was returning
to the village covered with blood, and
with her arms, hands and face terribly
wounded. She said that at times she
was on the point Of being overcome, but
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the close hold of her left arm, while hit
ting him hard on the head with stone
which she was able to pick up. She was
taken to the Mia hospital. It is with re-
gret that all will read what have now un-
fortunately to add, that exactly month
afterwards the poor creature died there OF
her wounds. She has left eight children
SIX OF whom are very young, and dis.
tracted husband to mourn her loss; but
she found comfort in her last suferings
and under the pain of such parting from,
the recollections that she had given he1
life for another. The English and Portu.
guese have sent some e22 as small con.
ISOLATION to poor and industrious family
who have to mourn noble heart taker
from them.


In postscript written two days latel
the correspondent says: II am sorry in
deed to have to add the narrative tha
the little shepherd-boy, for whom the
brave woman sacrificed her life, is deai
also. She was allowed to console her dy
ing hours with the belief that she hai
perished in saving life. But it was no
to be so. The poor child died in the ter
ripple sufferings of hydrophobia. Beside
the subscription raised on behalf of th'
bereaved husband and the orphans, anoth
er has been very properly started to erec
monument at Mia, SO that such deco
may not be forgotten.'
Year: 1879

That truth is stranger than fiction the
Dubuque Qa.) Times demonstrates in its
local columns. A wealthy couple had
lived together in perfect peace for forty
one years. While sitting in the parlor
one evening not long ago, the husband
surprised his wife by saying, II am going
to tell you secret you have never heard
BEFORE There was brief pause as the
lady and near relative who CHANGED to
be present awaited the disclosure, and
the husband continued eyes, you will
be surprised to hear that had another
before I married you" Startled and
aghast the wife clasped her hands in sus-
pense, and asked. cam not theu your
lawful wife?" "You are my loved and
lawful wife, was the prompt reply; "my
to Dubuque and met YOU" Then he re-
lated how he had married his first wife
and been summoned to his home to find
her dead in childbirth. Then he went
West and settled in Dubuque, where the
second romance of his life came about.
Six years ago he received letter from
the woman who mad nursed his first
wife. She wrote that she was upon her
deathbed, and could not rest until she
had confessed her share in a base crime.
The wife had died but the son had sur
vived, and Though large bribe offered
by the dead woman's father, the nurses
lips had been sealed and the husband
told that the child had died with its
mother This man, the father-in- law, was
wealthy, but his daughters death left
him without an heir, and he took this
means Of supplying what fate had denied.
With her last breath the nurse informed
her employer that she had divulged the
truth to the gentleman in Dubuque, and
Immediately upon her death the father
in-law went West and offered large
bribe. This was refused, but the secret
was kept. The son was millionaire in
the city of p, and his father was anxious
to see him. The second wife was thus
told the secret for the first time, and
asked to 60 East to pay the first wife's
son visit When the story was told tie
wife announced in low tones: "Slnce you
kept it from me SO long I would rather
| you had never repeated it." The excite
ment caused by the recital proved fatal


In two DAYS the lady was dead.
Year: 1879

ding party were delighted. All of a sud
den, one of the animals, tired, no doubt,
stood up and then fell heavily on the
keeper. The latter tripped, lost his bal
ance and fell SO unluckily that he split
his skull on the edge of the pond and
disappeared Immediately under water.
Then nothing was more curious to see
the bewilderment and maneuvers of the
seals. These animals began to dive sew
al times, and then together they put the
body Of Alexander on their backs,
brought him to the surface and pushed
him on the shore, making plaintive cries,
as if calling for help. Unfortunately
help was not needed. The poor keeper
of seals was killed on the spot.
Year: 1879

ERNEST MORRIS, the young American
naturalist, lectured on the above subject
before the Long Island Historical Society.
He espoke particularly about the tribe of
Mandruca Indians who inhabit village
on the Tapajos river, the stream which
Mr.. Morris explored more than year ago,
remaining among its solitudes for four
teen months. .On his last. visit he arrived
at the village of the Mandrucas late in the
evening, just when they were all assem-
bled in great, palm -thatched shed to Gel
ebrate an important festival. He was well
coined by the chief, given good deal of
monkey stew, and later was provided with
hammock to sleep in. The festival was
kept up nearly the whole night, but by
eleven o'clock nearly all the Indians had
become intoxicated On caxaca, kind of
rum. The music for the dancers was fur
nished by an orchestra of four, one play
ing a rude sort of drum, one fiddling on
stick cut full Of notches and the other
two twanging away on old guitars.


All the interesting specimens which
Mr.. Morris brought home he was obliged
to steal. BE could have bought boy or
a girl for a knife or coat, but such a
thing as an old skull, an old piece of
pottery, an arrow or little poison such
as they use to tip the ends of their
| weapons with, could not be bought for
love or money. The manners and Gus.
toms of the natives he would not attempt
to describe, except to say, in the Ian
guage of missionary to the South Sea
Islands: ''They had no manners and
their customs were simply disgusting -
The women performed all the drudgery,
while the lazy lords s'laid off, and
smoked bad tobacco. The greater part
Of the work done by women was the
making of rubber out of the juice of trees.
Crops of corn and fruits grew of them
selves, and the only work to supply the
table was to catch few fish now and
then when the 'slords" scraved little
change of diet. Mr.. Morris discovered
one peculiar tribe of Indians who could
never indulge in little caxaca without
its making them begin right away
to cry, and they always cried
and sobbed while the effect o.


the spirits remained. The popular ides
that the forests ofBrazil abounded in wild
animals, richly plumaged birds and enor
nous reptiles was great mistake. Du
| ring his four years of roaming about tn,
forests he had come across not more thar
| half dozen snakes. They were big one


it was true. Sometimes he heard the ii
gers at midnight, but he never feared
Year: 1879

Joseph Lepp, Swiss confectioner liv-
ing in New York, is troubled. with a
strange malady. His disease is techni-
cally termed dermoid cyst of the tongue
Lepp is a tall young man, with dark
complexion, slight build, of good ad-
dress and appearance. He speaks
French, his native language, fuently
some German and little English. He
says Of himself: Cup to last December
I had no idea that there was anything
wrong with my tongue. My use. of it
was perfect in every way, and nv sens G
of taste as good as others There
was no apparent difference between nv
tongue and that Of another person. But
in December last, without any cause, so
far as I know, my tongue began to swell
and became very painful. AT the Ger
man dispensary IN Eighth street, where
went for treatment, the doctors cut it,
and it discharged freely. At first the
doctors did not notice anything unusual
After a little time there was a
quantity OF hair discharged every day
from the opening in the tongue. Sew
eral hundred hairs have been discharged
They are of all colors-white, black, red,
brown. They are of various lengths
from half an inch to two or three inches
some straight, some curled. Sometimes
mass or small lock Of nair would be
taken out. 1t seemed as if the tongue
was filled with hair inside. AS soon az
it heals up it commences to swell anc
pain me very much. Then it has to be
cut again; after discharge of hair, etc.
it will heal quickly, but has to be GU
again. 1t has been opened eleven times
now. It has been troubling me again
and l shall have to submit to another
operation in a day or two.'' Lepp per
mitted the reporter to see his tongue. L
was considerably larger than the norma
size of that organ. twas not discolored
but 'resembled ball of flesh, the shapI
of it causing him to speak and articulat.
in that maner peculiar to persons wht
have no palate.


A doctor told a reporter that during
the time Lepp was under treatment il
the hospital he saw him frequently
There was question in his mind as t.
the time of this growth of hair found il
Lepp's tongue. There was no mistake
about the hair being genuine, for one o
the doctors subjected it to MICROSCOPIC
test. It was growth of real hair. A
to the date of growth he was not willing
to say that the hair might not hav
grown recently. There might have beer
hair follicies, or roots, in dormant stat
within the mans tongue which nov
from some exciting cause produced
growth Of hair. At any rate, it seem
hardly possible that the hair remained
inclosed within the tongue SO many year
without growing. The case was unique
He had never heard or read in the book
of a case precisely identical with thi
one.