smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

of King or peasant, whether / an
heiress to millions or to an empty meal
tub?"


But, if you are not the daughter O
old Globose, how came you Mt the
rock?"


/" / was staying with my Cousin Mary
Ann. She sent me with message to hel
Albert, informing him that her father had
discovered her mode of communication,
and warning him against coming to the
rock any more. When 1 reached the
rock, found not Albert, but you, there.
L had heard of you as a young student
in the neighborhood, and, in fact, l
knew you by sight. was half in love
with you before We met. The rest you
know"


1t could not be denied that Helen had
practiced some deceit toward me, but
neither had L been wholly candid with
her. In both cases, perhaps, there was
some excuse-in hers, love for myself f:
in mine, love for her fathers money. L
was not well pleased to reflect that had
married miller's daughter when i'm
agined that 1 had intrapped an heiress,
and had serious thoughts of trying to
obtain divorce.


But, when / reflected that poor Helen
had given such irrefragible proofs of de-
voted love to myself, the cruelty of such
proceeding became too apparent, and,
finally, said to myself, "It's a mis-
take but it would be wrong to leave the
poor girl, who loves me 80 truly? L will
simply do right, and will stick to her till
death separates us"


But it was necessary to contrive some
plan by which we could support our
selves and it was while was begin
ming to despair of doing this that the
death of Elder Globose was announced
in the newspapers.


Helen wanted to attend her uncle's
funeral, and, although we were really
too poor TO travel as far as NIillwater,
still set out for that village with my
young wife. We did not arrive i'll time
for the funeral, owing to an accident on
the road /; but we arrived in time to learn
that the deceased Elder, having been out
ragged by the clandestine marriage of his
daughter, had left all his property to his
niece, Helen.


When the will was read to us, which
declared Helen q millionaire, she turned
to me and said


"Now, Charles, as you married me
for myself alone, you will be pleased to
have me place all this property in the
hands OF Mary Ann Globose, to whom it
rightfully belongs"


care you in earnest, Helen p


" / never was more So.


"Then, indeed, have married some
thing better than an heiress," was my
reply. "I am satisfied"


The offer was made to Mary Ann, who
peremptorily refused to deprive Helen of
what her uncle had left to her, aud final
ly the matter was compromised. There
was enough for both. We divided the
inheritance between us. Thus Albert
and Mary Ann were amply provided for,
while 1, on my part, never had cause to
regret that ! married Helen for herself
alone.
Year: 1877

some of the spectators would have been
wounded or killed, as there was a wall of
men several tiers deep on each side, and
not more than thirty feet from the direct
line of the bullets passage and what
few trees there were close around were
also full OF spectators"
Year: 1877

New York Correspondence Buffalo Courier


1t is rarely that Judge has had occa-
sion to excoriate either a plaintiff or de-
fendant as severely as Judge Van Brunt
was provoked to do in dismissing the
suit Of the Countess Heinrueth. This
woman, however, is simply only one of
the cleverest of her class. There are
scores Of others in New York who differ
from her only in capacity for intrigue
and fraud. now have in mind wom-
an who has been preying upon every one
she could reach during the fifteen years.
She has been arrested and tried at least
half a dozen times, but so cunningly
were all her frauds executed that it has
been impossible for the law to get hold
of her, and she is still free to carry on
her schemes Of blackmail.


A few years ago this woman, who is
the mother of three grown-up daughters,
forced her way into the house of Judge,
now, dead, whose daughter was about to
marry man whom the adventures
claimed as her husband. The marriage
was to take place next morning. The
woman burst into parlor where the
Judge and his daughter, and also the in
tended bridegroom and some friends,
were passing social evening, and
pounced upon her victim like tigress
She was finally put out OF doors, but not
until she had said enough to effect a
postponement Of the marriage. It took
place some afterward, but the woman
still asserted her claim and took every
means to annoy and torment the husband
and wife. She followed them in the
street, abusing them like fshwife, and
pointing out the man to passers-by us a
scoundrel and a bigamist, and her perse-
cution became so intolerable that the
wife at last was afraid to 90 out of doors.


Fear of public scandal prevented the
Judge from having the adventures arrest
ed. The constant wrong SO wore upon
him that he broke down, and two years
after the marriage he died. The repeated
allegations of the woman so prejudiced
him against his son-in-law that he ex-
cluded him altogether from his will.
This led to further trouble. The daugh-
ter, who had been carefully provided for.
was prevailed upon by her husband, to
whom she still clung, to contest her
fathers will, and long litigation fol-
lowed. While it was pending the con-
testant fell sick and died, but the fight
over her fathers property is still going
on, the husband continuing it as his wife's
executor. Meanwhile, the woman whose
claims, shouted at the street corners, were
the original cause Of all the trouble and
scandal in the family, goes about boast
ing Of what she has done, and seek
ing new opportunities to pluck the un-
suspecting. She is over so years old.
Year: 1877

An old German named John Schmezig,
scarcely able to walk from illness, might
have been seen on our streets on Friday
last, begging fer bread. He is sixty-five
years old, and is slowly recovering from
a protracted spell Of sickness. The old
man reached Cairo, after a trip Of $50
miles, every step Of which was made on
foot, Notwithstanding his feeble condition.
He started with ten dollars in his pocket
and made his journey on foot in the hope
that on his arrival in Cairo he would have
money enough left to pay his passage to
Troy, Ind, near which place he hoped to
find brother. At point on the Illinois
Central railroad, a few miles below Du
Quoin, he met a couple of negro men
who halted him, roughly threw him to
the ground, and proceeded to rob him.
He had seven of the ten dollars, and this
sum the negroes appropriated; but their
cupidity was not yet satisfied. They
stripped him of every article Of clothing
he had on his person, including his stock
ings and neckerchief. The old man as
naked as when he first came into the
world now attempted to make his way
into friendly clump of bushes, but the
fiends again overhauled him, brought him
back to the railroad track, and roughly
flung him down. Tearing the shirt they
had torn from his back into strips, they
bound him hand and foot and then lashed
his head upon the rail that the first train
passing might crush it from the body.
The mere contemplation Of such cold
blooded fiendishness brings shudder of
horror. A fhour or more elapsed, and
the old man, still tied to the rail, heard
the clattering of an approaching train.
He struggled desperately to relieve him
self, and at the very moment the train
(Which proved to be handcar filed with
section men) stopped, he succeeded in
freeing himself. He then told his story,
was furnished by one of the men with a
pair of overalls, another gave him COM
mon white shirt, and at a neighboring
house he secursd an old pair of shoes and
hat, and in this garb he reached Cairo.
Cairo Bulletin.
Year: 1877

Plenteous rain has fallen in many Of
the worst famine districts. Agricultural
work is active and crops are making rapid
progress. There can be no reasonable doubt
that the tide Of the great calamity has been
turned, but a vast number of those who sur
vive actual famine must still succumb from
their enfeebled condition.
Year: 1877

Congressman arrived in Washington
think the extra session will be confined to the
purpose for which it is called, the passage of
the army bill, and one for the deficiency in
the navy. The army estimates are ready
The first question will be whether the army
shall be increased. Letters from members do
not indicate much sentiment in favor of an
increase. The question will hardly be dis
cussed at the extra session.
Year: 1877

From statistics contained in the annual
report Of the quarantine officer of the port of
San Francisco it appears that the Chinese
coming to our shores during the period of one
year was only !, 400 in excess OF those return
ing home,
Year: 1877

Peruvian Syrup is a standard remedy
for building up and renewing broken
down or nervous constitutions. For
Kidney and Bladder Diseases, or part of
the many Irregularities of the various
organs Of the human frame, it is a sover-
eign remedy. 1t is a tonic without alco-
hol. This medicine is too well-known
already to require any commendation
from US. 1t is only necessary for US to
say that those who have never given it a
trial that it will accomplish all that is
claimed for it. Now is the time to tone
up the system before the hot months of
summer fairly set in.


so cents and 81 bottle. Sold by all
druggists. ..,+
Year: 1877

We reach for riches and we grasp a
milestone unless in health to enjoy them
A cough or cold quickly works our ply.
sical ruin unless we are careful. Use
DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup. Only % cents a
bottle.
Year: 1877

The usual eight lights were burning dimu
ly in our business houses, last evening until
between seven and eight o'clock, at which
time the gas was turned off at the gas works
and merchants not knowing of such pro-
ceeding having taken place, were surprised
on entering their stores this morning to find
the lights out, though the stop cocks were
on and the apartments filled with gas.
Year: 1877

The H tford Courant says that some
Glastonbury parties recently captured a
couple of rattlesnakes-a larg and q
small one-and brought them in a box
to town to exhibit. The larger snake
was about three feet long and eight or
ten years old. Last Sunday, at East
Glastonbury, while number of people
were looking at the reptiles, man
named Grover, butcher. came along,
and, announcing that this kind of cattle
didn't scare him bit, he took the big
snake out of the box. Holding it around
the neck be performed number of dare
devil tricks with it, and at length
actually put its head into his
mouth several times. Then, getting
bolder, he announced that instead of the
snake biting him he'd bite the snake, and
he made pass toward it with his head
and planted his teeth on the snakes
throat. But in doing it he brushed his
cheek close by the creatures mouth, and
in an instant like a fash, it drove its
fangs into his cheeks. The blood spirited
out in a needle-ike stream, and the fun
was over. The spectators at once (it by
good luck being at handy produced an
abundance of gin and stuffed the man
full of it. DIR. Stocking was sent for, and
ordered continuance of the treatment.
Against all protest the patient was
delugcd with liquor, and by Monday he
had so far recovered as to be up and
around. On Tuesday he was at work
again as usual. He will probably not
bite that kind of CATTLE" as he called
it. any more
Year: 1877

A number of absurd stories are going
the rounds of the press as to the disposi-
ton of the remains of J. Wilkes Booth.
The lates is by Captain Oliver P. Leslie, of
Pittsburg, who states the bod Y was sunk
in lake seven miles below Alexandria,
Virginia. The incontrovertiblef facts are
as follows; The remains were ordered to
be delivered to the friends of Booth by
President Andrew johnson. John Fl.
Weaver, the undertaken of this city, was
sent to Washington by his family to
bring them here for interment. A box
was taken up from the arsenal building,
and delivered to him. It was brought
by him to Baltimore and was examined
by him and a reporter of the Gazette, at
his room on West Fayette Street, near
Holiday. They found in it skeleton,
wrapped in an old army blanket. When
the blanket was taken off, the skeleton
was covered with powder having the
appearance of soapstone, and on being
rubbed between the fingers, it disap-
peared, just as soapstone will do. On
the right foot was an army shoe, cut
open at the top its entire length, as if
to accommodate swollen foot. On the
other was a large cavalry boot. The re-
porter of the Gazette examined the bones
in and above the shoe, and tor some time
could find no injury. Believing the re-
mains to be those of Booth, the reporter
made a persistent examination, and ut
last discovered the leg was fractured
clean through, just above the ankle.
The fracture was clearly marked, and the
portion below the fracture being lifted
out of the box, the ends of the bones
were of pure whiteness, leaving no doubt
as to the fact that Booth in leaping from
the box had fractured his right leg, and
otsprained it. Still the identity of the
remains were not satisfactorily estab-
ished, especially SIS there was no portion
of the spinal vertebr@ missing, and no
mark of any bullet upon them. A
brother of Booths was sent for, who was
told by Mr.. Weaver of the doubts as to
the identity of his remains, and Mr..
Weaver requested him to think of some
popularity, if any existed in the struc-
ture of his brother, that would forever
remove any doubt. After thinking for
brief while, the brother said that all he
could remember was that his brother had
his tooth. plugged with gold in apeculiar
manner. He described the location OF
the tooth, and drew with a pencil the
shape of the plug, which was of unusual
size. The teeth we're taken out, and the
tooth was found plugged justas described
by the brother, and forever setting at
rest any question of the identity of the
remains. The remains were buried in
Greenmount Cemetery, in the same lot
with his grandfather, father and other
children of the family.
Year: 1877

Don't do it. When you commence
reading an article, read it through. As
sertions, apparently leaning to one side
of the question in the beginning, may be
modified or explained before the close in
such way as to put an entirely different
face Oh the matter. The Dutch Justice
was satisfied to give his decision when he
had heard the evidence produced by the
plaintiff in the case, without waiting for
the story of the defendant. A cattle
doctor in Massachusetts, who was called
in the dusk of the evening to prescribe
for sick COW, entered the stable and
commencing his physical diagnosis in the
manner usual with auacks. He took
hold of the tail, exclaiming, "Just as l
expected Horn-ail is the trouble. Here
are all the symptoms: Softening of the
tail-wasting of the bone. No mistak-
ing the cause of the difficulty, this time" "
Going thence to the head of the animal
and attempting to take her by the horn
to further diagnose her, he found she
was mulley!
Year: 1877

The Latest Bait for Count fryn, en-.


Warnings of this kind appear to do
but little good, as the victims are
gene rally men too stingy to subscribe for
a newspaper, but we float this at a
venture:


The latest fraud on the farming COM
munity is the springfield swindle, the
modus operandi of which is as follows:
The first of the gang engages storage
room in the farmers barn, for spring
beds, representing himself as agent for
the manufacturers. He gets the victim
to write down his name and address, and
departs. Shortly afterward another
stranger informs the farmer that the
spring beds he ordered are at the door
and presents his bill for large invoice.
The farmer disclaims the transaction,
upon which the collector shows him his
signature to large order for beds. If he
still refuses to settle, two more strangers
visit him representing themselves to be
the lawyers of the company. They
threaten legal proceedings, but are will.
ing to compromise for portion of the
claim,
Year: 1877

The Euening Journal says that Chi
cago man thought he needed an errand
boy, and so he hired one. He advertised
for him, and picked him out of a drove of
two or three hundred, or maybe more,
because he seemed to be a brighter and
smarter boy than any of the rest, and
the man had the pleasure of telling his
wife and all his friends that he had got a
"tip-top good boy"


The first errand the man sent that boy
only took him about three minutes to do.
1t was to 60 down the street and back, to
take letter to the mail box. Evidently
he was ".tip-top good boy"


The second errand was to carry book
to a friend near by, and occupied an
hour. Evidently he got slow very fast
for a " tip-top good boy"


The third trip was to carry bundle
of papers to a lawyers Office, and the
boy was gone until the next day, giving
as an excuse that he thought it would
be just as well to hand in the bundle
when he came from home in the morning.
Evidently the boy was very slow boy
for "tip-top good boy"


The next errand the man sent that boy
was for a quarters worth of envelopes.
The boy got the quarter and started out.
Three minutes passed. An hour passed.
A day passed. 1t has been six months
since the boy went out after those en-
velopes, and he hasn't got back yet. Ev.
identity he is an awful slow boy for a
" "tip-Iop good boy" Still, when he gets
back it shall be our pleasure to finish
this item, and let everybody know just
exactly how long tip-top good boy u
usually stays away on his fourth errand
Year: 1877

IN the year 1928 the Russians lost
thirty-six thousand men by sickness
alone in Bulgaria. In the following
year they lost sixty thousand between
the Pruth and Adrianople; whilst out of
one hundred and twenty thousand men
not ov er six thousand ever recrossed the
Russian frontier alive.
Year: 1877

I draw each day some happy thought
From my rich memories of thee,
As Orient pearls the driver brings


Up from the gem-producing sea.
Each night pass the gates of sleep
To walk thy gracious form beside,
As If one entered Paradise,


And met the soul of his dead bride.
So is my life, by love of thee,


Made night and day alike divine:
Like some rude, worthless cup of clay


Filled to the brim with priceless wine.
SPECIFICS through all the cherries night,
Stood Memnon's statue but at morn
The stone lips hailed the Day-god bright
With sounds of love and rapture born.
Lo here an image of my heart,


That has no voice bereft of thee;
But into songs of joy must start


If thy sweet presence shines on me.
Year: 1877

To prevent your wife from keeping
you awake by snoring, We would advise
you to take clothes pin to bed, and
when she begins her sweet music, put
the clothes pin gently but firmly
astride her nose. If this doesn't stop
the delightful strain, then clap
porous plaster on her mouth, and give
her a pinch or two of Scotch snuff.
Year: 1877

LfO1t Lao.


The requirements of the law passed at
the recent session of the Legislature to
govern elections are briefly as follows
To be entitled to vote without registra-
tion one must have been a resident in
one particular county for three hundred
and sixty days, and three hundred and
fifty-fve days in one particular town
ship, village, or ward in the county.
Registration is required of persons who
have not the above qualifications. By
registering one may vote upon a resi-
dence of one year in the State, thirty
days in the county, and twenty days in
the township or ward. The entries OF
registration include number, name OF
applicant, last previous residence, name
of the precinct where expected to vote,
place of residence in that precinct, date
of removal to said precinct, married OF
single, date of registration, signature and
remarks. In places of more than fifteen
thousand inhabitants the voting precincts
will be distributed in the ratio of one to
every three hundred voters. Each vot.
ing precinct shall have its registry book
and two registrars, opposed to each other
in politics. The voting place is to be al
the registry Office. The registrars shall
be appointed before each election by the
Council of the city or Trustees of the
township, and the time for registration
shall be the third Friday and Saturday
preceding each election day. Wards are
to be described by letter and precinct by
number, as Ward A, Precinct 1. L
Council fails to designate the boundarie.
of the precinct within sixty days, ther
the Mayor shall have power to make tn,
division
Year: 1877

seems to you as if you never would. But
your temptation will come, and it proba-
bly, will come in this way:


You will find yourself, some time, with
number of companions, and they will
have bottle of wine on the table. They
will drink and offer it to you. They will
regard it as a manly practice, and, very
likely, they will look upon you as milk
sop if you don't indulge with them. Then
what will you do? Eh? What will you
do? viii you say, Boys, none of that
stuff for me / know a trick worth half-a-
dozen of that?" Or will you take the
glass, with yonr own common sense pro-
testing, and your conscience making the
whole draught bitter, and feeling that
you have damaged yourself, and then go
off with hot head a skulking soul that at
once begins to make apologies for itself
just as the soul OF Colonel Backus does,
and will keep doing during all his life.
g. Holland, So. Nicholas.
Year: 1877

What do you think, young friends, of
the hundreds of thousands who are trying
to cheat themselves and others into the be-
lief that alcoholic drinks are good for
them? Are they not to be pitied and
blamed2 Do you want to be one of these
wretched men2 If we are to have drunk
ards in the future, some of them are to
come from the boys to whom | am writ
ing: and l ask you again if you want to be
one OF them! No2 OF course you don't !


Well, have plan for you that is just
as sure to save you from such tate as the
sun is to rise tomorrow morning. 1t new
er failed; it never will fail; 1t cannot fail /;
and think 1t is worth knowing. Never
touch liquor in any form. That's the plan,
and it is not only worth knowing, but it is
worth putting into practice.


know you don't drink now, and it
Year: 1877

Ben Hill says that the next President of
the United States will not only be the candi.
date of the Democratic party, but that the
South will elect him with the assistance of
only forty.seven Northern electoral votes
the South furnishing the balance Of the one
hundred and eighty-fve required to elect.
Ben Hill is content that, notwithstanding
the overwhelming prepondersnce of his part
of the Union in naming the successor of Pres
ident Hayes, the South should be awarded
only the second place on the Presidential
ticket.


There is way, and one that is practicable,
by which the South may elect the next Presi-
dent with still less assistance from the North ;
and if resort be had to this plan, it is not un-
likely that the time is approaching when
American Presidents will be again chosen
from the South in the beginning of the second
century of the republic as frequently as they
were in the early part of the first.


Texas is eight hundred and twenty-five
miles long, and seven hundred and forty miles
wide. Its area is 274, 1856 square miles, near
ly six times that of the State of New York,
four times that of Maine, Vermont, Massachu-
sets, Rhode Island and Connecticut COM
bined greater than Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Wisconsin and Michigan combined.


The day cannot be distant when the State
will have to be divided. Its population in
1859 was a little over 100000. In 1860 it
had increased to 504,215-a gain of nearly
1876 per cent. 1t contains now a full mil
lion of people, and the tide of immigration is
steady, Notwithstanding the troubles on the Rio
Grande. When these shall have been perma-
nently settled, it Will be practically impossible
to maintain one State government over the
aggregate to which the population is certain
to rise, and the people will not. be content to
have only the same weight in the United
States Senate as Rhode Island


The diviaion Of the State into four States