smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

THERE are few questions which will not


graciously tolerate purely sentimental treat
ment. Emotional financiers who strive to in
ject some artificial worth into the greenback


by gIorifying it as ''blood bought" are never
successful to any alarming degree. Tile
greenback is now some six per cent above par
as computed by the present value of that ir
resolute unit, the silver dollar, and about five
per cent cheaper than the real and stable dt /
lar. not because it is ''blood-bought," but le-
cause the world has come to believe that the
United States has the ability and the will to
redeem its promises. No pretense of rever-
ence for the memory of Alexander Hamilton
can confirm the vacilating value of grain of
silver, and very Improbable will prove the
endeavor to boost and keep steady the silver
dollar by any counterfeit patriotism which
gushes into allusion to ''our fathers and such
wash as ''the dollar which was big enough for
Washington and jefferson and Jackson" The
fuddled economists who have nothing better
than this to contribute to the discussion of
such material issues are trifie below the level
of those other statesmen who believe in sub
mitting questions of this character to the de-
cision of town meeting in Ohio. The sig
nifcant fact that every inHationist, repudi-
ator, communist, and sentimentalist in the
country IS approximately clamoring for more
standards of value ought not to commend the
scheme of remonetizing silver to sober minded
Y. Tribune.
Year: 1877

From the Virginia city Chronicle.l


Inc case or John Doe Tome. a man whose
before Justice Knox Saturday. The man is
one OF those characters known as a check
guerrllla. lie was accused of having picked
up a s2o piece from the faro table at the Capitol
saloon, the money belonging to a player who
was In a ahalf-intOxicated condition. Tome de-
manded Jury trial, and when the selection
mad been made each juryman was asked
whether he had any prejudices against the
game. The following were the experiences of
the twelve:


Juror No 1-Have played little lost 81, ,aoC
at sitting once, at Simpsons Corner: had
won the money at poker the night before won
1t OF the fellow who dealt; have no prejudice
against the game.


Juror No. 2--Have played faro some lost
Corner-just my fool luck: think the game is
an rlght: used to play faro once, but haven't
played now Tor over week.


Juror No. 3-DrOpped about $40 once at
OrndOrn'S. trying to call the turn; no preiu-
diceS.


Juror No. 4-Play faro Occasionally-when-
ever have any money; won 5000 one night
and tried to bust it again a few nights after
had to spar for my grub all the rest of the
week: think could beat the game blind if l
had capital; no prejudice.


Juror No. 5-Am familiar with farO--slightly
stepped into Joe Stewards one day and
tapped the game for $500 in one deal; called
the turn for 500 and then quit playing be





enough to pay up that S5 assessment on my
Justice stock think faro is a good game.


Juror No: 6-Always liked faro when it was
square; think there are some square games
but the splits give the game big percentage
Juror No. Got $500 out OF the rise i'm
Ophir. and got ready to start back to the
and his honor seemed much affected |
struck one OF the games-nO matter which il
was-and in about two days hadn't red


The remaining five jurors related their ex
n a of t...k
one man was found who had any prejudice
against the game. He said he never won bet
IN ms life: He always coppered and played
the turn steady for two years, and never
caught 1t once. He thought faro was a swim
die, but admitted that he had been playing il
the night before. He was excused.


Geo. kritLer, the dealer OF the game, testi
fed as follows: 1 was dealing at the time Nc
Carty came IN and called for some chips. He
had won about go when Tome first showed up
MeCarty had the jack cOppered, taking in the
The COurt.-Does the jury comprehend the
The jurors nodded simultaneously, and the
The tray lost and the Jack won. So it was a
The Court-Is this point clear to the jury.
The Jurors again bowed with military pre-
Witness-Then, after two turns, he planked
70 piece on top OF the chips on the jack, and
saw him muzzle the sugar sung out, but he
Slid OF and was Getting away with it when Of
ficer Hanks sn.fched him and made him give
Jailer McCarty related the admissions of
Tome In the jail He had admitted taking
the money, but excused his conduct on the
ground that he might IS well have 1t as the
The jury stood II for conviction and one for
acquittal, and being unable to agree were dis
charged, as was also the accused.
Year: 1877

bacteria; the other is an infusion of turnip.
BOth liquids are as clear as distilled water and
there Is no trace of life i'm either of them. A
mutton chop. over which little water has been
poured to keep its juices from drying up. has
alm Ennm Tor three i,S daxs avs upon plate in warm
| The fefid mutton juice under micrOscOpe. it
Is found swarming with the bacteria. which
ilve Dy putrefaction, and without which no pu-


aaio Teaactiion can occur. With speck Of the
swarming liquid the clear mineral solution
and the clear turnip infusion are each inOcu-
lated: In twenty four hours the Transparent
liquids have become turbid throughout, and
tnstead Oh neng barren, as at first, they are


The experiment is now varied. Into the
pure mineral solution and the pure turnip in-
dust: The effect is tardfer than when the
speck Of putrid liquid was employed In three
days, however, after its infection with the
ing as before with bacteria. But what about
the mineral solution, which i'm the first expert


ment behaved i'm a manner undistinguishabie
from from Il the turnip juice. At the end Of three
Of bacterial life. While both liquids are able
TO feed the bacteria, and to enable them to
multiply after they have been once fully de
velop the germinal dust of the air into active
bacteria. The mineral solution, to take an
Illustration from higher life, can feed the
chick, but cannot develop the egg


The death point of bacteria IS another inn


pOriant subject. The experiments already re
corded show that there Is a marked difference
Oetween the dry germinal matters Of the air
putrefying organic liquids. The one can be
luxuriantly bred i'm the saline solution, the
Others refuse to be born there, while both of
turnip infusion: II we boil our muddy mine.
raj solution withits swarming bacteria for fiye
minutes, not one OF them escapes destruction
In the soft succulent condition in which they
exist In the solution. The same is true of the
tuInip infusion II 1t be innoculated with the
living bacteria only-the 2rial dust being
carefully excluded. But the case is enfireIS
different when we innOculate our turuip infn.
tfi0at In the air. '-.~s'e1
Year: 1877

The sugar crop of the island OF
Cuba is in danger of ruin. There is
every probability that within a very
short space, this island, which few
years ago produced more than one
half of the whole cane sugar of the
world, will be little better than a
barren desert.


Spanish colonial rule is producing
its natural results in Cuba. 1t
ground the colonists down until they
revolted, and in It's futile endeavors
to suppress the revolt, it has so bur-
dened industry as to render 1T unre-
munerative. The grinding of the
cane is about to commence, the fields
never looked more promising and the
estimates of the crop from every sec.
ton of the island where cane is still
cultivated are flatterlng; but with all
these favorable elements the yield
will be deficient. 1t does not pay al
present to make sugar in Cuba, and
Cuba cannot compete with any othel
cane producing country.
Year: 1877

THE STRIKERS, If allowed to continue
to keep men from running the trains, will
bring famine upon the cities and poverty
upon the farmers. At this season many OF
the crops are such as will not keep, and II
not sold aud consumed from day to day are
a total loss. No man can be q good citizen
and sympathize with the mob of strikers
that now threaten to destroy the work OF
the husbandman and reduce the people 10
greater poverty by raising food TO famine
prices while produce rots in the fields.
With an unprecedented surplus crop OF a
hundred millions or more of bushels OF
wheat ready to be shipped 70 Europe, where
it is in demand, the railroads are not per.
mItted to carry 1t to shipping points, and IL
may be sought for elsewhere 10 the ruin oi
our agricultural prospects. This must moi
longer be tolerated.
Year: 1877

The escape of The government OF Penn
sylvauia from Pittsburg last Sunday is one
OF the most marvellous and truly heroic
achievements of modern times. When this
cruel war broke out the Chief Executive
OF the State was several thousand miles
away, and, therefore, he Secretary OF the
Com m on wealth and the AdJutant General
rose up, sent out a lot of kilograms, ard
followed them up by promptly advancing
TO the seat OF war Nothing was heard OF
the government of the Commonwealth for
several days thereafter, there not being
even a telegraphIc order from the Adjutant
General to Indicate his whereabouts. 1t
was even supposed that the government OF
Pennsylvania had been swallowed up by
the mob. Yesterday, however, to the great
relief of every boby, the complete safety OF
the government was reported. On Sunday
It had valliantly Withdrawn from Pitts
burg, where there was some perturbation
to the quiet haunts of Beaver county where
everything was serene and where the gov
ernmeut has many warm friends. From
that point the AdJutant General succeeded
in escaping In safety to Harrisburg, and a
resumption Of telegraphlc orders from his
department may low reasonably be *.
peeted.
Year: 1877

GENERAL PEARSON, of the National
Guard, who has been missing for several
days. has finally turned Up and written


card to the Pittsburg papers. This
card is an apology to the strikers, and he
wants them to know that while he was
in command no orders were given the
troops to fire. He also wants an invesr
tigation of his conduct in what ne calls
"the recent unfortunate conflict between
the citizens of my native city and the
Philadelphia troops" SO that the strikers
may satisfy themselves on this point be-
fore they execute their threat to "hang
General Pearson on a sourapple tree" II
General Pearson hat spent half as much
time writing his resignation rs militia
officer as he gave to the composition OF
this apology. he might have done the
State some service.-Times.
Year: 1877

There are demagogues In both parties
and plenty of them, unfortunately. but
there are no worse demagogues than the
Republicans who take advantage of the
present state OF affairs to abuse the Demo-
cratic majority in Congress for trying to
reduce the Federal army.
Year: 1877

WHAT Is WASrED.-People are fat
tered with the idea that good crops
will make good times. That would
be tho case under other favorable
circumstances but not otherwise. II
ia not for want OF food production
that times are and have been hard
but for want OF means to employ la
Dor. What good will IL do TO have
o good cropif people have not the
means to buy all the flour aud meat
they want.


Ireland has good crops generally,
but arc tho Irish people we'll of for
all that I There are good crops in
Germany, but times arc bad there,
nevertheless. Bad legislation will
offset tho best crop that Providence
will give the country. Providence
10 boutiful, but Congress puts 1t out
Of the power Of the people to take
advantage or get the benefit Of the
bounty. Better the country had
wise legislation and poor crops than
good crops and unwiso legislation


Er
Year: 1877

authentic source that it is now definitely
decided that the Roumanian army will not
assume the offensive, but will conine itself
to covering the line of the Danube


At Constantinople the Softas have deman-
ded that the standard of the prophet be
raised for holy war, but the palace decided
to postpone this extreme step until the Rus
SANS are near Adrianople.
Year: 1877

NEW YORK, Jan. %


A petition to Congress in relation to the
compromise plan for the electoral count is
10 circulation at the Union League Club and
elsewhere IN the city. The petitioners make
substantially the following suggestions


l. That the const stitutioDality of the pro
posed act should be formally passed upon
by the Supreme Court. i.7


Q. That the Judges of the Supreme Court
should not be members of the commission If
PRIOR adjudication by the Court cannot be
attained.


8 That the part assigned to the five
Judges comports neither with the dignity
and impArttali'y of the Court, nor with the
rights Of the people, nor with the principles
and safety Of the country's institutions.


The petitioners ask that Congrt IS will not
involve the Judges of the Supreme Court in
any manner with the pending contest until
the Court shall be called 10 act on the ques-
tion in it's judicial capacity. 5
Year: 1877

The Registrar of the Water Department
IN another column gives notice to the
residents of theSecond andNint wards, and
all others who do not pay water rents on
their property, that If such properties are
within three blocks or squares of q fire plug,
they are liable to pay protection tax Of
u OO on each property, and that said tax
is now due and payable at his Office, corner
of Tenth and Market streets.
Year: 1877

From the Dallas [Texas) Tmes.]


In plain English, the papers that speak OF
the magnificent opportunities this State pre-
sents to the new conner, lie, and lie in very
gratuituous, criminal way, indeed. Inc un-
Vanished truth is, that our labor marker IS
already stocked to overt1owlng, ana every
fresh arriving train but adds to the miseraple
multitude in our midst that suffers, starVes'
and finally fights its way back East again.
Before the door of nearly every house IN TINS
city there daily begs halloWed swarm that
would sadden the heart of satyr. Men OF
brain and culture, good clerks, excellent ac-
countants, business men Of undeniable energy,
mechanics of ability, walk the streets IN
dumb despair, and finally take those that lead
to the chain gang and the work house. The
writer of this cannot remember one evening
for many that he has not been asked for
money to buy q meal, or bed, by men who
would have sooner died on the rack than to
have asked aims in the light of day. And
some of them do die on the rack-the rack OF
continued disappointment and misery. Yet
some journals calmly sing the same old siren
song, and still this over crowded, over traded,
ana financially prostrated community is held
up with fatal persistency as the proper Mecca
of the American youth.


We beg the journals in the East and North
to copy this. We ask that the truth and the
whole truth he told there as a simple duty to
humanity. In the name of distress we see
around us and are powerless to relieve; in
the name OF the tramps and vagrants that ill
our cities and towns, we solemly warn in
tended emigrants of all classes, except farm
ers and men with money to invest, that we
are over-stocked with labor, and will be for
the next four or five years. Though his ticket
be purchased and his trunk be packed, We
say to the man looking hither for employ
ment-GO back!
Year: 1877

Last evening one of the many devoted lov-
ers with which our city abounds was sitting
ON the steps of school street mansion with
a young damsel by his side. The hour was
nine. The old folks had considerably gone
to bed. She was gazing pensively into the
depths of the starry armament; he looking
tenderly down into the depths OF her starry
eyes, and speaking in low, soft tones Of
but why particularize Every one knows
what young men say on such occasions: Sud
denly the young lady noticed pause in his
remarks, and glancing at his face discovered
it s'pale and unreal in the moonlight" AT
the same time his lower lilnbs drew up spas
medically, shot out again like catapult, his
arms Joined in action with his legs and flew
wildly about in all directions, the fire flying
briskly from the stone steps and his boot
heels as he plunged madly around. ''Oh
George she cried, ''have the pears hurt
your" They'd been eating pears.] The only
reply she got was more desperate plunges and
kicks, and in q moment more George sue
ceeded in dislodging from his trousers leg
large sized rat which had evidently come
from under the steps, and for some unac-
countable reason had made ladder OF the
Young mans shin.
Year: 1877

The venerable George Dent, of Georgia,


writes: ''The sober, second thought caused
me to choose the farm as my occupation. to
which have devoted long life; and it l
were to be asked this day by any young man
to recommend to him the pursuit he should
follow, would honestly tell him to choose
that of farmer True, we have our trials,
troubles, and disappointments, as others have,
but from the very nature of our occupation
we can do more to guard against them and
overcome them
Year: 1877


Well, Tom my boy, I must say goodbye.
I've had wonderful visit here;
Enjoyed it. too as we'll a. could
Away from all that my heart holds dear.
Maybe I've been trifle rough
A little awkward, your wife would say
And very likely I've missed the hint
OF your city polish day by day.
But somehow, Tom, though the same old root
Sheltered us both when we were boys,
And the same dear mother love watched US Dotn,
Sharing our childish griets and Joys,
Yet YOU are almost stranger now;


Your ways and mine are as tar apart
AS though we never had thrown an arm
About each other with loving heart
Your city home is palace, Tom;


Your wife and children are fair to gee;
You couldn't breathe in the little cot,
The little home. that belongs to me,
And am lost in your grand large house,
And dazed with the wealth on every side,
And hardly know my brother, Tom,
In the midst of SO much stately prlde
Yes the concert was grand last night,
The singing splendid; but, do you know.
Ny heart kept longing, the evening through,
For another concert so sweet and low
That maybe it wouldn't please the ear
OF one 80 grand and cultured as you;
But to it's muslc-laugh if yOu will


My heart and thoughts must ever be true.
shut my eyes in the hall last night,


(For the clash of the music wearied me)
And close to my heart this vision came


The same sweet picture l always gee:
In the vineclad porch of a cottage home,


half in shadow and half in sun,
A mother chanting her lullaby,


Rocking to rest her little one.
And soft and sweet as the music fell


From the mothers lips, l heard the COO
OF my baby girl, as with drowsy tongue.
She echoed the song with .'Goo-acgoo."
Together they sang the mother and babe,
My wife and child, by the cottage door.
All! that is the concert, brOth,r Tom,


Ny ears are aching to hear once more.
So, now goodbye. And wish you well,
And many year of wealth and gain.
You were born to be rich and gay;


am content to be poor and plain.
And 20 back to my country home


With love that absence has strengthened TOO
Back to the concert all my own


Mothers singing and baby's Coo.
Year: 1877

The Virginia City Nev.) Enterprise
records Tabby's experience with the bee
hive. At first she watched their com.
ings and goings at distance. She
then fattened herself upon the ground
and crept along toward the hive with
tail horizontal and quivering 1t was
clearly evident that she thought the bees
some new kind of game. Finally she
took up position at the entrance to
the hive, and when a bee came in or
out, made dab at it with her paws.
This went on for a time without attract
ing the special attention of the inhab-
itants of the hive. Presently, however
old Tabby struck and crushed a bee on
tho ndna of the nnnninr leading TO tha
hive. The smell of the crushed bee
alarmed and enraged the whole swarm.
Bees by the score poured forth and
darted into the fur of the astonished
cat. Tabby rolled herself in the grass,
splitting, sputtering, biting, clawing and
squalling as cat never squalled before.
She appeared a mere ball of fur and
bees as she rolled and tumbled about.
She was at length hauled away from the
hive with a garden rake, at the cost of
several severe stings to her rescuer. Even
after she had been taken to distant
part of the grounds the bees stuck in
Tabby's fur, and once in two minutes
she would utter an unearthly 'yowl" and
bounce full yard into the air. On
coming down she would try to scratch
an ear, when sting on the back would
cause her to turn succession of back
somersaults and give vent to running
fire of squalls. Like the parrot that
was left alone with the monkey, old Tab
by had dreadful time. Two or three
days after this adventure, Tabby was
caught by her owner, who took her by
the neck and threw her down near the
beehive. No sooner did she strike the
ground than she gave fearful squall,
and at single bound got to the top of
fence full six feet in height There
she clung for moment with tail as big
as rolling pin, when, with another
bound and squall, she was out of sight,
and did not put IN an appearance for
over a week
Year: 1877

ato ~sy - uono DoyVa'i the Distant mountains
The sunset light dies slowly in the sky
Only the pine trees break the deep night silence,


And whisper soity 0s the wind goes by.
No human voice breaks on the solemn stiffness;


Yet long linger on the sanded beach,
Watching the deep, dark ocean rolling onward


To lands which thought alone not sight, can reach
have no fear Of the blue waves before me.


That strive to touch and clasp me as stand:
Do not know that lie whose care is Ger me


Holdeth the waters in HIS mighty hand?
But TO my spirit comes calm, deep rapture.


The while watch this wide. unrestng sea-
The Of something pure and full and changeless


or something unful6lled and yet to be.
think. perhaps. that when my feet turn slowly


Forth from the mortal ways Of sin and strife
When shall leave behind earths pain and pleasure


To stand and wait upon the shore of life
That shall stand with this same nameless rapture,


And wait for His bidding from the land above
Content. until He comes to gaze in silence


Out o'er the boundless ocean of His love.
Year: 1877

The two brightest stars to be seen
now are the planets Jupiter and Mars.
About four degrees to the northeast of
of Mars can be seen the planet Saturn,
star of about the first magnitude, but
shining with dull, leaden light. These
two planets will be close companions
for the remainder of the year. approach
ing each other to within less than a
quarter degree some time in November.
Venus now sets about one hour after the
sun. This makes four planets that are
visible to the astronomical student.
Year: 1877

The Scientific american says that
"It may be possible for a man to be
hungry and amiable at the same time,
but it is not safe for any wife to pre-
sumo upon SO unlikely an occurrence
habitually." Every wife should ponder
this very true physiological statement.
Don't ask your husband perplexing
questions or bother him with household
complaints, or even your own personal
troubles, just before breakfast or dinner.
In general, it is of very little use. Man.
age as well as you can, even though it
chances that you are hungry as well as
perplexed. After a comfortable meal
things will look brighter all around.