smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878




Police Officer Hart Of the Mulberry street
police saw last evening a woman. dressed in
u seal-skin sacaue and silk gown. crouchinR
at Franklin and Elm streets and moaning rs II
in pain In response TO questions. she said that
she had taken the half OF n four-ounce bottle OF
laudanum that she had purchased In the after
noon from a Second avenue druggist. As they
rode to the station on a Blocker street car. she
gave her name and condition as Sarah. the
wife OF Augustus Archer. well-to-do farmer
Of Garden City.


She had lived in comparative content with
her husband until two months ago. when.
owing to an incompatibility Of temperament.
that grew greater as time passed on. existence
with him becoming uncomfortable, she quilted
him. She tried To support herself by the most
manual OF occupations that We're reputable
but scovered that the struggle WAS too severe
had found So hard TO live. Last Saturday she
met her husband In College place. and told him
OF her repentance. but he sternly refused "
forgive her and take her back.


No" he said, you have made your bed
and must lie ON it,"


She had but a few dollars and no opportunity
10 earn more. even in the hard way forced upon
her. Her gold watch and chain. that she still
retained. she calculated. would not support her
long. So she resolved 10 anticipate the stirva.
tion that seemed in store Tor her. She hoped
that the money she had remaining would
be sufficient 70 bury her and keep her from I'LL.
with an iteration as 10 her husbands comfort
able condition. and said that her father-in- Law
was one OF the richest men in that section o
Long Island


Al the police station the usual remedies wert
applied but ~ midnight she was very low and
apparently slowly but surely sinking.
Year: 1878

THE BANKRUPT BILL.-Hon. John t. Har-
ris. q member of the Judiciary Committee
OF Congress, has telegraphed to an official
here that the repeal of the bankrupt bill is
certain, and advising all parties interested
to take notice accordingly. His language is
that the bill will be passed just as soon as it
can be reached. The repeal will go into ef-
feet as soon as the bill is approved by the
President. The fact that he is member OF
the committee which has been considering
the reDeal makes his opinion OF importance.
Year: 1878

THE Circus To-DAY.-The last perform
ances OF Campbell's Great Circus and Me
nagerie will take place this afternoon and
tonight. The performances will be equal
to any yet given, and everybody should take
advantage OF this last occasion OF seeing
them. The afternoon matinee is for the
special accommodation OF ladies and chill
Year: 1878

DON'T GO WHERE Your LOVE LIES DREAM
ING but to any cigar store restaurant and ask
for WHITLocK MODEL CIGARS, and dream the
happy hours away by yourself. 1t will paw better In
the long run.
Year: 1878

You may break, You may shatter the vase If you


will,
But The scent OF the roses will cling round it si
was written in spirit prophetic Of j. & L. ATKIS
SONS Extract OF White Roses
Year: 1878

The act by which the Emperor of
Germany constituted the Prince
his delegate runs: Whereas, in
consequence OF my wounds, I am


for the time unable to afiix the
necessary signatures, and, more
over, am ordered by my medical
attendants 10 withdraw from
every kind of business, that the
healing of the wounds be
not impeded, therefore, so long as
l am thus hindered, make over
to your Royal and Imperial High
ness, my beloved, to act as is nee.
essary to this end" This docu-
ment was not signed by the EN-
peror, as he could not move his
hand, but is authenticated
by the chief officers of
the State. In communicating this
imperial decree to the Chancellor
the Crown Prince wrote: "It is my
firm determination to administer
this representation given over to
me by his Majesty the Emperor
and King, and now undertaken by
me, with conscientious observance
of the Constitution and the laws,
according to the known principles
Of his Maj my imperial father
and sovereign"
Year: 1878

Golden Medical Discovery
Is Alternative. or blood-cleansing.
Golden Medical Discovery


Is Pectoral.
Golden Medical Discovery
Is a Cholagoguc, or Liver Stimulant.
Golden Medical Discovery


Is Tonic.
Golden Medical Discovery
Year: 1878

THE late "Boss" Tweed was born of
Scotch parentage in the city of New
York, April 8 1928 and was consequently
tifty-fve years old at the time of his
death. He learned the trade of chair
making, and began business with his
brother in the furniture business. His
first connection with public life was as
an alderman of the seventh ward of
New York. He was elected to congress
i'll 1858, and committed his most stu
pendous robberies about the year 1868.
Year: 1878

The Pittsburg, Pa. opera house was
crowded the other night with a fashion
able audience to hear Edwin Booth,
when just as the curtain was about to
rise, the gas was shut off, and the room
made totally dark A panic ensued,
but no one was seriously injured.
Cause: non-payment of the gas bills.
Year: 1878

Let a young gentleman and young
lady try the following scientific expert
ment: A galvanic battery is set in mo-
ton, and while he takes one handle in
one of his hands, she takes the other in
one of hers. Then let them softly kiss
each other. This brings out all the
fireworks there are in two moving
souls.
Year: 1878

GOOD dairymen contend that milk is
partly absorbed when kept for long
time in the udder, also asserting that
COWS MIXED thrice day produce more
and better milk than if they were MIXED
only twice day.
Year: 1878

Mamea, the Somoan ambassador,
took formal leave of the president to-
day. A United States steamer will
await the ambassador at Panama and
convey him and make a survey fo1 the
purpose of selecting naval depot ceded
under the recent treaty of amity and
commerce.
Year: 1878

A Washington dispatch to the associ-
ated press of the 10Th inst, says the in
dications at the treasury are that the
currency balance at the beginning of
next month will show not less than
$1,500,O00 and the coin balance will be
largely increased from the first of the
present month.
Year: 1878

The usefulness of toughened glass, says an
English exchange, bids fair to be greater and
more serious than was at first supposed. Some
experiments are reported to have been made in
France with view to showing whether this
substance can be pressed into the printer ser
vice and substituted for the metal composition
of which types are made. The metal does not
at first sight strike the observer as the best
that could be found. 1t is bright enough
when the letters first come from the foundry,
and before they have seen any service; but a
few days wear G ives them very much more
dingy appearance, and before they are finally
returned to the melting pot they have degener-
their bodies as well as battered in their faces.
The idea now is to discard these long proved
but unattractive servants and fill their
places with glittering types of glass. The ad-
vantages in point of cleanliness alone would, it
is alleged, be not insignificant. But the Patrie
points out that there are other and more solid
improvements involved in the new system.
The toughencd glass; which is not to be made
in quite the same way as that used for tumblers
and wine glasses, and need not, Of course, be
quite SO transparent, is naturally much harder
than the old metal, and can hardly be crushed
out of shape by those little accidents which SO
shorten the life and spoil the beauty Of the
only type we now employ. 1t is also capable
of being cast into more delicate shapes, so that
the difference, for instance, between the thin
and the thick strokes can be more clearly de-
fined. Finally, it is now found that the new
material can be cast in exactly the same moulds
as the old, and that therefore there need be no
expense incurred in altering the machines and
implements used in the manufacture of type.
If the Pats1e has been:well informed, the ex-
periments have been completely successful, and
the adaptability Of toughened glass to printing
and to numerous other purposes is likely ere
long to be fully established. r,;!t 49,.
Year: 1878

Sin Chun nourished in his household
dog to which he was much attached. One
cay as Sin Chun was sleeping heavily in
thick the governor of the province,
who was out on hunting expedition,
Glanced to pass and ordered the grass of
the thicket to be fired in order to friqhten
from it whatever game it might hide.
The dog tugged at Sin Chun's clothing,
but could not arouse him; then running
to stream hard by plunged into it, and
returning to where his master rolled him.
self over and over, wetting the grass.
This performance he repeated several
times, till he had so saturated the ground
that his master was safe from the flames;
then, exhausted and cruelty burned he
laid down by his masters side and died.
Sin Chun, awakening, was not slow to
comprehend the danger to which he had
been exposed and the means by which it
had been averted. With many tears he
carried home the body Of the dog,
wrapped it in costly shroud and placed
it in handsome tomb, which the govern
or caused to be called ever afterward,
"The Tomb of the Faithful Dog"
Year: 1878

It IS reported that lew days ago
twelve Indians at Spotted Tail Agency re-
volted against the local authorities. and
threateped the lives Of some Of the official at
taches Of the agency. Spotted Tail interposed
to quell the disturbance, but was informed by
the turbulent parties that while they regard
ed him As their head chief, they would not
obey him under the present circumstances.
Spotted Tail then drew his revolver and killed
two of the insurgents, when the balance re-
treated and have not since been heard Of. The
cause Of the difficulty, or whether it extends
beyond the dozen Indians involved, is not
known at this time
Year: 1878

A portion of the report of the late Sem
ator Morton on the Chinese question was
found among his papers, and will soon be pre-
sented to Congress as an incomplete minority
report There is enough Of it to indicate the
deceased Senator's intention to frame a paper
recommending humane and liberal policy in
the treatment OF the Chinese question.
Year: 1878

ALondon dispatch says that unless the
belligerent party in the Cabinet obtain an un-
expected success, it is anticipated that all the
ministers can agree to ask of Parliament for a
vote OF money to prepare men and ships as a
precautionary measure, on the same principle
as Gladstone asked for q vote during the
Franco-G German war.
Year: 1878

The Department of State has been in
formed Of the loss of the ship Granger, on
Swallow reef, and the arrival at Labnan of the
second mate and six men. The fate of the
other boats containing, respectively, Capt
Doane, vile and six men, and the other, con-
tanning the first mate and seven men is not
known to the department.
Year: 1878

old umbrella to make stump speech could
not possibly render himself more ridicus
lous than did the honorable Repre-
sentatives who took part in Saturdays
debate; and it may be useful to our
variety actors to suggest series Of speeches
such as appeared in yesterdays HERALD as
a change from the wornout humping of the
conventional umbrella on the wooden table.
Kelley's disclaimer Of bringing the bundle OF
dirty linen into the House to be washed; his
explanation of the letter written by Foster,
Governor Hayes Congressional represen-
tative," stating that he ''had reason to be-
lieve and was free to say that Hayes desired
the return of Mr.. Kelley and his naive ad-
mission that "my friend Fosters letter
was concocted to answer a double pur-
pose," might be made irresistibly funny on
the stage. SO might Fosters description of
the arrangement for surprise" serenade
to be given to him at Philadelphia by the
fire company to which Kelley had belonged,
in order that he might make an "unex-
pected" speech in Kelleys favor. We COM
mend the subject to the attention OF our
comedy people. 1t might do very well for
the stage, but rs IN exhibition in the House
of Representatives of great nation it was
simply humiiating.
Year: 1878

tion. Were it not for the presence OF mind
of the officiating minister fearful
loss of life might have followed the crashing
in of the roof and walls. He noticed at
once that tornado had struck the church,
and feeling satisfied of the presence OF ex-
treme danger from the nature of the storm
and the weakness Of the building, he called
to his people to throw themselves under
the seats and thus secure some shelter
from the falling timbers and walls.
The expedient, which must have come to
him as the inspiration of a moment,
saved the congregation. The church iell.
but only few persons were hurt seriously.
The seats broke the force of the falling
ruins and protected the crouching and
panic-stricken people almost completely.
Such q quick comprehension of the necessi-
ties OF the situation is rarely found in men
whose avocations do not habituate them to
emergencies involving life and limb. and
we heartily compliment the minister Of that
Atlanta church on the presence of mind
which he displayed on this occasion and on
the safety of his congregation.
Year: 1878

How many really sane people are con-
fined in lunatic asylums in this State is not
easily to be got at. Miss Dickie was un-
doubtedly one, and an inquiry, elsewhere
recorded by HERALD reporter in the Insane
Asylum on Blackwell's Island, undoubtedly
reveals two more Under the law as it
stands there is every opportunity for the
evil disposed to secure the committal
of relatives or friends who are ''in
the way" In the private asylums
the illegally detained have not very much
chance to get out, if their relatives are only
Jealous in reiterating the patients insanity
and rich enough to pay their board. In the
public asylums the patient has better
chance of getting out when cured or when
he has remained long enough to establish
that he never was insane, because he is
kept at the public expense, and the public
is interested in lessening its taxes


The great evil exists in the want
of safeguards against tho committal of
those who are not insane. When we reflect
on the terrible thing it must be for sane
person to find himself forced into living with
lunatics, and how great the chances are that
such u person would 60 mad in earnest, we
think that something should be done to
make such committals impossible. The bill
introduced into the Assembly by Mr.. Thain,
which is appended to our report
er's story, contains some excellent
provisions, chief among which is n
regular trial, of which the alleged
lunatic will have due notice, and at which,
except in clearly defined cases, he or she
will be present The bill may be suscepti-
BILE of judicious amendment, and it should
receive full discussion but the Legislature
should certainly make an end this session
of system which can be, and has been.
used to deprive sane persons of their lib.
erty. The changed law should apply to oil
insane institutions, public and private.
Year: 1878

tive for adopting some method Of settling
disputes arising out Of our Presidential cleo
tions, and this contest in New Hampshire
suggests a reason why such disputes are
likely to be of frequent occurrence in our
future politics. When all the preliminary
elections are done away with, and the loose
floating vote has no means Of judging be-
forehand, it will be divided between the two
great parties, and our Presidential elections
will not be 30 decisive as when they were
virtually decided by series of local con-
tests extending through the year. The
most important and urgent of all the duties
which press upon Congress is to provide
some means Of settling disputed Presiden-
tial elections.


We see no good reason why the Chandler
fasco should have much effect on the New
Hampshire election. Chandler's manifesto
was an arraignment of Mr.. Hayes Southern
policy; but, inasmuch as that policy is in
dorsed by the New Hampshire democrats,
Chandler's followers, if he has any, would
stultify themselves by voting the democratic
ticket. The supporters of the President
will not vote with tho democrats and thus
try to make it appear that his policy is
running the party. Nor do we see why the
removal of Collector Simmons should have
much effect on the New Hampshire contest.
What would the sympathizers with Sim
mons gain by defeating their own party !?
There is a multitude of local Offices to be
filled in this election. and republicans who
vote for their local candidates are likely to
support their State ticket. New Hampshire
is close State, and whichever party carries
it will probably succeed by the usual slen-
der n1aioritv
Year: 1878

The mild and delicious air of yesterday
enticed thousands from their homes, and
the city pallor thus brought to light was
soon overspread by warmer tinge When
of cold, bleak winter Sunday one wanders
among the great tenement houses Of the
east or west side and sees an ill-clad woman
or a half-clad child run shiveringly across the
windy street, like frightened wild thing
over path in the woods, the first thought
that comes is longing for spring, that the
calico dress of the woman and the broken
toed boot of the child may not be such
mockeries of protection against the ele-
ments. You do not wish the spring OF the
poets for them; you do not, in fancy, place
the woman by the cottage gate, looking
in gladness down the green lane, bordered
with towering thorn, or place the boy in
green field among violets, primroses and
daisies, where he gambols and gathers posies.
Not at ALL You simply wish Gods sunshine
to warm the dismal street; you ask for
sky of blue, with here and there heecy
cloud and gentle breeze that will keep
the air these people breathe both fresh and
sweet. When your prayer is heard, as 1t
was yesterday, when the spring-the city
spring, that does not wait for slow-bursting
bud or gently opening fower-has come, q
half-mile walk among the tenements will
cheer the heart of the humane, as the bonny
blithe birds of the groves cheer the votary
of nature. You will not see exactly the
stately, staid procession of well-dressed,
grown-up people who parade Fifth avenue
on the fine Sabbath afternoons, so rich
in silk and broadcloth, in beauty, manhood
and serene self-consciousness; nor is it the
more enlivening groups Of Sunday saunser-
ers that throng our beautiful Central Park
that you will see. But what an outpouring
Of humanity you witness! The sidewalks
are thronged with men and women who
chat and laugh and carry the blessing oi
the fresh air and the sunshine in their eyes.
The old are there about the doors, forgetting
| their winter pains; and the children, they
| are the greatest marvel of all. If you
live in a quiet uptown street you see
few boys and girls playing about in
the afternoons, but down among the tall
tenements you see them in hundreds on
every block. You recall all you have seen
of beehives and oil you have read Of hatch.
ing chickens by steam, and you fnd that you
have had no idea of how many small chill
dren can be drawn out of single tenement
house by the wizard forces of the mild ali
and the sunshine. AS you walk back to the
sedate world again you ask youself if, after
all, there is such need in this broad land O.


packing humanity so close, and wonder i


when rapid transit is cheap it will be posi-


BILE to spread this hived humanity out
little in the direction of the green fields tha


they never see now unless when they ar,
burying their dead.
Year: 1878

Captain Howgate's Polar Scheme.


In to-day's paper will be found an ample


account of Captain Howgate's views on the
feasibility of the establishment and mainte-
nance from year to year of Polar colonies as
centres from which to prosecute Arctic re-
searches. It will be seen by this article
how much may be said in favor. Of
the project to balance what has been
said against it by those who, either
through critical spirit or in mere
humor of contradiction, ever oppose


what is based on new views or theories.


Captain Howgate puts the case hopefully
by o simple mparison with the results Of
the voyage of the Discovery. He believes
that that ship failed to reach the Pole
only-to use familiar illustration, as one
misses train-by few minutes time.


Had she reached the point she did reach
only "the fraction of an hour" earlier she
might have got through the ice in which
she wns caught. This reasons great efforts
down to fine point. But Captain How
gate is Of opinion that her failure was due
to an unusually bad year. There are,
therefore, milder and severer years, and his
project Of colony rests on the theory that
wintering through from year to year it must
come some time upon an open year, year
of exceptionally favorable weather, which
will give ample time for the ex-
ploration that is still necessary to
solve the great Polar problem. This
is tho essential point in the whole plan of
the Polar colony. 1t is true there is no
known law by which it can be determined
how many mild or how many bad winters
may succeed one another. These events are
not rhythmical- even irregularly rhyth-
mical and il is az possible that there may
be ten bad winters in succession to ono
another as two. But it is not likely. II
there should be it is true that the power
of endurance of even a regularly refreshed
and reinforced colony might be exhausted
before any results were obtained equivalent
to the cost. But we do, not believe that this
is danger which can be legitimately
weighed against the project, because it is a
common observation that seasons vary
within narrower limits with us, and the
basis of calculation is that weather in Arctic
regions varies under the same laws as il
milder ones. That might be objected to al
an absolute proposition; but, as counted
upon az part Of the theory of this ex.
pedition, it is probably safe. Naturally
many objections will be made to q scheme
30 new Oh this, but IL is we'll worth goot
!. trial.
Year: 1878

We print q memorial to President Hayes
on the fisheries question, prepared by COM
mittee appointed at public meeting of
citizens Of Gloucester, Mass, a town largely
engaged ifis the business of fishing. The
memorialists complain of the injuries and
violence practised against American fisher
men at Fortune Bay, in Newfoundland, and
set forth their views of the exorbitance Of
the Halifax award. On the first Of these
points they neglect to draw an inference,
which, we trust, Secretary Evarts will not
fail to make-namely, that those violent in
juries lay the foundation of claim for in
demnity. Although the immediate injury was
inflicted upon only two vessels it's effect
was to drive away about dozen American
vessels which had gone thither for the pur-
pose of fishing and compel them to re-
turn home empty and lose the labor OF a
winter.


AS to the extravaganza Of the award the
views Of the Gloucester memorialists are
very positive. In their opinion the fish
ing privileges granted by the United
States in the treaty of 1871 are more valu-
able than the privileges received, and if
there is to be any compensation it is due to
us and not from us. The United States are
the most valuable market for the fish caught
by the Canadians, and by the treaty we
made this market free. Their facilities for
catching and curing Ash are so much better
than ours TINT q free admission to our mar
kets gives them an advantage against which
our fishermen cannot successfully compete.
Vessels are built SO much more cheaply in
the provinces that we have not an even
chance. Then the fishing grounds are close
to their doors and they are not subject to
long voyages and long waiting in order to
profit by indications Of successful catch.
The memorialists think that, with these ad-
vantages ON the side Of their rivals, their
free admission to our markets overbalances
the privilege of fishing in the Canadian
waters. Be this as it may, the award is ex-
orbitant, and will undoubtedly be made to
appear SO by the information soon to be
communicated to Congress.
Year: 1878

The News FROM BRAZIL is not encouraging.
Business is dull freights to this country are in
active; heavy losses are reported in the coffee
trade, and the government treasury is empty.