smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

The gentlemen's waiting room in the rail-
road depot at Clayton was entered on Wednes-
day evening, by some miscreants, who broke
open some two or three trunks belonging to
travellers and rifed them Of their contents /:
they also got into the ticket office and appro-
priated several dollars in small change that
were in the drawer. A light had been out of
one Of the windows for sometime and it is sup
posed that the thieves reached through the
place where the light should have been and
unfastened the catch over the sash, raised the
window and got through it into the room.
Suspicion fell on number of tramps. Police
man Heald was notified and started in search
of the burglars.
Year: 1877

South Carolina that they must caro- for
themselves. How soon lamp-posts will bear
fruit is for them to say. To the people of
the North and West notice is given that all
the toll to which they are subjected, that
boudholders and monopolists may fatten Sc
cure, is repaid by no security for their rights,
and that shrinkage of values is now in
order. IF there is law for fraud there is
reason for violence. Aud to that We make
our last appeal Washington Capitol.
Year: 1877




JOHN YOUNG BROWN, IN House OF
REPRESENTATIVES, :-Somcthing has been
said Of bargaining with the South. You
cannot win them over by brides they want
uothing but justice. see before nc dis.
tingushed and cherished friend from the
South (Mr Lamar), gentleman of the
highest ability and unspottcd integrity,
honored by his people and worthy of their
trust. speak not by his authority, but as
his name has been mentioned in this con.
nection, | say that | am sure he would
shrink from such coalition as his soul
would rccoi from cruel wound Of dis
honor


The men you could bribe in the South
arc not worth having. You would loathe
them when you got them; they would have
no followers or influence at home. And If
they were to join with your party to sustain
it in its past and present policy, they would
find themselves political parahs in the land
Of their birth Nothing will concliatc the
South but justice, and you will so find it..
They want rest, order, home rule. Your
largess there will be thrown away if given
to corrupt. These people are, your peers,
equals, before the law and neither by
bribery nor force can you change them from
Sc: fdom to vllainy. In the precious name
Of their manhood and womanhood, l repu-
diatc the intimaton with scorn unuttera-
blc


There will be no division in the Dcmoc-
racy. Lay not that hattering JUNCTION to
your souls. 1t is .. difference to-day only
among them as to the policy of the hour
And now ask you. my countrymcn of the
Republican party, in the name of justice,
Of peace, of truth, Of liberty, of civ
i!zation, in the name of all these, 1 ask
you to halt. Forbcarancc has its limits
say it not in mcnancc, but in sorrow and
solemn earncstncss


The manaccs must fall from the limbs
of our sister Southern States. You must
call off your dogs. These unfortunate pco
have been baited and badgered until the
just sentiments Of the world in Indignation
condemn your cruel policy


he never once drank a single drop more
than the prescription called for, and he
died at last sober man, as the wife had Sc
earnestly prayed that he might But the
end was not yet. When the loving and
patient woman laid him in his grave, and
saw her long labors thus ended in the vic.
tory for which she had toiled so hard and
suffered so bitterly, she turned, in her grief
to the brandy which had been lief in the
house, and, drinking it, she fell herself into
the power of the devil which she had Tough,
so hcroically. And that woman died, moi
many months later, a hopeless, hclples:
druukard
Year: 1877

My school days are DER forever, I...
And with them my hopes have all fed.
All! what can do to be cheerful,


Since fancies and fond hopes are all dead ?
Say, enjoyment where is thy home? Z
On. pleasure. where can thee find?


Say, where dwells contentment so humble,
II not In the peaceable mind?
Not In the mansion OF Pride, t ..
Nor In the great staterooms of power
Can happiness dwell or contentment-
How happy are those who love not the fair
Come death, come death gently soothing
MY cares and my sorrows away.


such a change for the better occurring,
May change dark night to bright day.
Year: 1877

10 THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.


Noticing In the papers the other day
that the workingmen of the Ninth Ward
mad nominated member for Council and
inspectors, I, as workingman, thought IL
strange as Mr.. Knight is a worthy repre-
sentative of that class and one for whom
every workingman ought to vote and work
for. Query-How many working men are
going TO vote for Johnny Jones in the
Seventh Ward, who thinks 80 cents day
sufficient to support workingman and his
family' If We want or ever expect to get
any rights let US show it to day by voting
against our worst enemy, Johnny Jones.


A WoRKINaMAN.
Year: 1877

General Grant, in letter just re-
ceived by a relative. says that he has
found the labor of accepting the
hospitality Of his English friends
more arduous than the cares Of state.
1t had become so great a tax upon his
health that from the 1st of October he
had determined to retire to private
life, and that the first thing he should
do would be to avail himself of the
courtesy extended by the Secretary
of the Navy to visit the Mediterra-
mean in one Of the vessels of the Eu.
ropean squadron and pass some time
on the waters of Italy. He will re-
turn to the United States in Decem-
ber, 1877.
Year: 1877

We have received some commune
cations advocating the clsims Of some
Of the different candidates for Office. In
the future we will admit these only on
their being paid for as advertisements.
An &ll.suflcient reason for this course
is TO be found in the fact, that the
friends OF one candidate have as much
right as the friends Of another, to the
free use Of our columns. All who wish
10 puff their favorites can do so to their
fa., satisfaction at the regular rate,
twenty cents per line, so long IS they
- not attack the opposing candidates.
Year: 1877

The list OF lost Pacific steamers length
ems rapidly. The wreck OF the iron
propeller Elen on the Chill coast ap-
pears to have been one of the most
tragic disasters OF our day. How she
came to 60 on the rocks we have vet to
learn. But she did 90 on them, and
apparently, pounded to pieces st once
In the breakers. Some forty people
reached the shore twenty others seem
to have secured footholds upon the
reef against which the ship bad been
dashed. There they waited day after
day for help, which the people on shore
and the war vessels In the ofing were
unable 10 afford, until heart and hope
gave out aud all but three OF them
plunged into the sea. Out OF about
l6O known TO have been Oh the Eten
it is believed that nearly or quite two
thirds have peri'hpd.-tNsw Iorh
Sun.
Year: 1877

will venture to assert that when the
other side Of the question is heard, this
new Kemper outrage will vanish into
thin air. How ridiculous aud SANDER
Gus It appears. But the dog will re.
turn to bis vomit, and the slanderer
will indulge in lying.
Year: 1877

I'm THE DISTRICT COURT OF TIE SEC


ond Judicial District of the State of Nevada in and for
the county of Ornsby. Roger Crow, plalntlf VS. D. L.
Clegg and Florence Clegg and A w Pray, deienuants
brought the District Court OF the Second Judicial
District of of Nevada in and for the county OF
Ornsbv and the complaint filed in said county OF Orsby


in the Office of the Clerk of said District CourThe State
of Nevada sends greeting to j. L. Cegg and Florence Gregg
and A. w PRAY defendants You hereby required TO
appear in an action brought against you by the above
plaintiff the District Court OF the Second Judicial
District of Nevada in and for the county OF
Osby and to answer the complaint filed therein "a copy
of which accompanies this summons) within ten days Tex
elusive day of servce after the service on you OF
this summons-f served within this county or II served
out of this county but in this district within twenty days
be taken against you The said action is brought to fore
close certain mortgage executed by defendants j. l.
and Florence Cegg said plaintiff, lot No one D in
block No six (6 Rice Peters addition to the city OF
Carson in Ornsby county, Nevada which sad mortgage
was given to the payment OF promssory note


made by defendants j. L. and Florence Cleg on the 10th
day of Nav A. D. 1875, plaintiff the OF SIX
hundred dollars and interest thereon at three @ per cent
per month all in gold coin of the United States And
plaintiff asks decree of foreclosure OF said mortgage and
proceeds applied to the payment OF COSTS attorneys fees
taxes insurance and the principal sum and interest on
said note in of the United States, and found
Insufficient Judgment be docheted against the prop
erty of defendants L. and Florence Cegg for any bal
ance found remaining due plaintiff All OF which Is more
fully set forth in plaintiffs complaint file in my Office
And YOU are hereby notified that you fail to appear and
answer the said complaint, above required the said
nIantf will apply to the Court for the relief demanded


Given under my hand and the seal OF the District
& Court of the Second Judicial District OF the State


LIS OF Nevada and for the county OF ormsby, this


4* oath day of August, in the year OF our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy seven


ano5-1aw6w ALFRED HELM, Clerk.
Year: 1877

L. Page and son, cutting wood near
Jan Jose, CAL, noticed for several days
that number of birds remained con-
stantly upon tree near them, some
going and coming from time to time.
Upon cutting down the tree they dis
covered limb with hollow cavi y,
some two feet in length and three or
four inches in diameter, in which were
two full grown birds of some gooily-
sized species. There was a small
aperture through which the birds We're
supplied with food from their mates.
The limb was cut and the birds liber-
ated. They were neither of them
able to fly, having evidently never
been out Of their Imprisonment. How
they came inside is a question. 1t is
probable that the mother bird was
small. and though able to make her
nest in the hollow of the tree and
rear her young, could not extricate
them, and they did not gain strength
enough to help themselves until the
hollow had closed and escape was i'm.
possible. Those who examined the
bids think they are about two years
old. They had been fed from their
birth by their fellow birds through
the aperture in the limb of the tree


A nobler instance of devotion, ever
the human family never exhibited.
Year: 1877

AN INTERESTING PRobLEM.-A
friend informs us that a question
founded upon the following highly
intellectual proposition is being dis
cussed by colored debating club in
the Fifth beat, Monroe county, Miss.
Suppose man has an unruly dog
which he has kept tied for period OF
FIVE years; suppose the dog makes his
escape, and as he passes along the road
he is Kissed at by a goose; and suppose
the dog, mistaking the sign as COM
ing from his m master, springs ferocious.
ly upon hog that is wallowing in the
gutter close by, and tears it into
mince-meat, who shall be responsible
for the damage, the owner of the dog
or the owner of the goose?"
Year: 1877

Is that forgiveness which will not hide


The dismal past in deep forgetfulnese
Which keeps the wound spread open wide
And gaping, in its dire distress'
Which will not pour in the oil of love,


And let the bitter past be dead?
Forgive, and by forgetting prove ~.


The holy benefits we shed.
Forgive, as ye would be forgiven"


Was not proclaimed by human tongue;
This golden key unlocks the heavens,


For heaven begins when this is sung.
Year: 1877

THE latest spring styles of gentle
mems pantaloons have slab of sand
paper set in the rear of the leg, and
men who are not smokers are wonder
ing what under tie sun it is put there
for.
Year: 1877

THE most careless observer of political
events must be impressed with the verifca-
tion of the old saying, that the Democratic
party has its head in the South and its tail in
the North, furnished by proceedings in the
House. 1t would require but very slight
chan ges in the organization perfected by the
majority of that body to render it more
complete representative Of the Confederacy
than the Congress which sat at Richmond
during the war. By few more partisan
changes in the North the ascendency of the
men who made great but vain efforts
to destroy the Republic will be complete. The
question is forced upon public attention
whether the party vanquished in the appeal
to arms shall come back as masters of the
nation. And all citizens who are not anx-
ious to complete such startling revolution
should stop to consider how nearly it ha s
been perfected.
Year: 1877

The anti-resumptionist and silver men
are losing no time in getting their wild
schemes before the House. Mr.. Ewing of
the banking and currency committee, and
the leading infationist of the country, appears
to have taken currency matters into his own
hands, regardless of the chairman of the
committee. He managed to secure test
vote Wednesday on the question of repeating
The resumption act, and had not time failed
him, would have been as successful with the
bill for the recoinage of the silver dollar.
The committee stood seven to three in favor
of non-resumption, but disagreement rose
between Ewing and Fort, the Illinois men,
ber desiring to save the free banking clause
in the third section. So on the final vote
the committee stood six to five in favor of
reporting the bill to the House. The pro-
vision relating to the fractional currency was
allowed to stand, the soft-money men not
thinking it worth while to make any contest
over a currency which is already nearly re-
deemed. Mr.. Ewing was about to take up
the silver bill, when Mr.. Eames defeated its
consideration by making the point that it
was twelve o'clock and the committee had no
right to sit during the session of the House.
So that measure still waits hearing, but
there is no doubt that a bill will be reported
for the restoration of the silver dollar, max
ing it unlimited legal tender for all debts,
public and private.


1t is charged that Ewing was guilty of bad
faith in his course after the repeal bill was
submitted to the House-a charge that hon
est men will bring against the entire pro-
ceeding. The understanding was that he
was to admit Forts amendment and then
have the bill recommitted. Instead of that
he moved to reconsider, and so got absolute
control of it, with power to call it up any
time. The proverbial honor among thieves
seems to have been wanting in this instance.
The motion for reconsideration forced the
test vote which the Eastern Democrats were
so anxious to avoid, and was carried by a
majority of twenty-five.


An analysis of the vote shows that of the
supporters of Ewing 107 were Democrats and
81 were Republicans, and that of his oppo-
nents 81 were Democrats and 95 were Re-
publicans. The strength of the reputation
movement is with the Democracy, and the
only hope Of the advocates of an honest cur
rency is to-day as 1t has been for decade
past, in the Republican party.
Year: 1877

A SERIES of bills indicative of the drift OF
the extra session relate to the removal of the
few remaining political disabilities imposed
for participation in the rebellion; the repeat
of the iron-clad oath, the repeal of laws for
bidding the payment of claims to persons
who were not loyal, bills providing that the
direct taxes collected in the States in insur-
rection should be refunded, and the extraor-
dinary proposition introduced by Mr.. Ban
ming, the newly appointed chairman of the
Committee on Military Affairs, for the repea-
Of the law forbidding the employment in the
United States army and navy of persons who
were engaged in the military and naval ser
vice of the Confederacy.
Year: 1877

our artists, for alas, of historical painting so
calleo, we have little or none. But one fact
must De clearly borne in mind, and that is,
that though it may be allowed to the artist
that ne is right in neglecting the minute resli-
zatlon OF detail II he finds it will interfere with
his pathetic or humorous or peaceful concep-
ton, yet it can never be granted that he is at
all right, or indeed anything but utterly and
unbesrably wrong when he, besides ngeiectiDg
natural fact, begins to falsify it,
We may excuse him for instance in
casting his pi ,ture into such a shade as will
obscure all but the masses of the foliage, or
the shining surface of the water; but never for
painting tree in full daylight as a confused
blotch OF color, without the spring of its boughs
and the curves of its leaves SO it is that the
French practice is apt to lead to such unreal
aud wretched results because the artists find
themselves at every turn incommoded by an al
most infinite series of natural facts which thew
have not learnt to master. The English prac-
tlce at present gives in many cases all the mate
rials OF picture without the vivifyiug spirit
which would make the dead bones alive:
while the French gives picture which is ex.
expressive enough as far as it goes, but which
is generally restrained to a very limited inter-
probation of nature from the artists incapacity
to fully represent her"
Year: 1877

AN efficient preservative against lead poi
soning would be welcomed by pottery glazers
and workers in the'poisonous preparations of
lead; but the preservative must be some
thing that can be taken or applied with the
minimum of trouble. II is stated that wash
ing the hands thoroughly with petroleum
three times day has been found to prevent
all symptoms of lead-poisoning amongst
some workers who have given it fair trial,
and who are so satisfied that they recon-
mend it tor trial by those liable to injury
from the salts of copper or m ercury.
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous etters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the ritter are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1877

If the Democratic support of the Beach
ticket isn't any warmer than Tilden's en-
dorsement, it will take less frost than that OIL
the mildest October night to freeze it so tina
no election can thaw it out.
Year: 1877

To those dependent upon salary, a Policy is in
acords goods, it appeals, first security against
all possible contingencies. No one now wealthy is
sure of dying So Secondly as means of accun'ata-
tion for taking the expectation of Life, Policy Of
Insurance on your life will probably yield you fair
interest for your annual investment besides the full
DEATH the Policy is beyond question the best invest
ment that can be made often increasing. very many
times the amount of premiums raid The Chief ad-
vantage of Life Insurance u.s. that it makes this pro-
vision aohen most needed, and achen every other
means Dl1U fail.
Year: 1877

SIOh1 Vt LIE y ON lun hhOhs


The night which will dwell in my
memory with vivid distinctness while
life and reason are left me, was in Octo-
Der, a long while ago. l was at that
time telegraph operator, stationed upon
the Grand Trunk Line of railroad.


Mine was by no means model place of
residence. There were beer gardens,
drisking saloons and gambling houses
out of all proportion to the more respec-
table shops and residences; we had two
arrests of counterfeiters, and there was
scarcely day passed that there was not
brawl among the rufHans around US.
Still there was school and timi d blue
eyed woman had cnme to teach there.


How long an unprotected woman nigh
have lived there | cln only guess, for AL
ice Holt had been there but three months
when she consented to walk into church
with me one day and walk out my wife.
Year: 1877

The pearl that CLEANS on beauty's neck.
To secret anguish owes its birth;
The gems which grace the coronet


Were born among the throes Of earth.
The altar which the rose distills.


Proclaims the flowers sure decay
The forest songster ever trills


Most sweetly on his dying day.
The cruel az must cash the wood


Before the healing gums may fow.
And all of wise, or fair, or good,


Is sequent to some hidden woe.
Year: 1877

1t has been question with marks-
men, says theSpringfield( Mass. Union,
whether the recoil of pistol or rifle
occurred before the ball left the bore.
Many have contended that it did not,
and that the tendency of q pistol TO
''throw up" did not effect its accuracy.
A recent experiment seems to have
shown conclusiyely that the recoll oc-
ours before the ball leaves the bore
and does affect its direction. The ex-
pertinent was this: A rifle barrel,
twelve inches long for convenience,
was secured to a solid bed in such q
way as to prevent any movement but
that of recoil directly to the, rear up-
ward. In this situation it was fired a
number of times, and the balls follow
ed each other into the same hole in the
tsrget. An incline or wedge was then
made fast upon the bed at the rear of
the barrel in such way that the
breech would be raised as it slid back
in the recoil. Fired under these con.
ditions it sent the ball lower than be-
fore. This showed that the recoil and
subsequent elevation of the breech oc-
Cured in season to affect the direction
of the ball that is, before it had left
the bore. OF course the length of the
barrell has an effect in several ways
upon the degree in which the recoil
affects the accuracy of the shooting.
Year: 1877

that kind of don't know what to do


with myself feeling that makes girls
throw their arms round the nearest friend


and smother her with kisses, that is


feigning petty jealousies of others, and


saying / wish you could love me: when


one isn't in mood for sweet stuff. The


most loving-hearted girls don't show


their feelings by any means. They do


not love to kiss or parade affection, but
they are kind, o SO kind, to their last


breath and drop of strength, to those
who need and deserve their care. Kind
with the kindness that makes one wise
for others happiness, so that mother
looks into the mending basket to find
that troublesome torn shirt-sleeve made
whole, and the apron finished for Bobby,
and father has the room quiet for a
long evening when he wants to read the
debates, or to make calculations, ana
Jennie finds her rain-spoiled dress
sponged and ironed fresh in the ward
robe, and Mrs. Brown over the way sees
the children taken out OF the house when
she has racking headache. ana the
teacher knows who will run up the
fiounces and sew on buttons for the new
suit she is hurrying to make out OF
school hours. There is nothing too
homely or distasteful for this sort OF
girl to do, and she might take for her
signature what I saw once in kind let
ter of Elizabeth Stoddard's, the novel
ist. Yours to serve The kisses and
the love-making may be shy enough
with her. but the kindness is for every
body, and it runs very deep. Nothing
draws on her help and sympathy so
much as to need it most, to be without
interest or attraction in any way.


"The best recipe for going through
life in an exquisite way, with beautiful
manners, is to feel that everybody, no
matter how rich or how poor, needs all
the kindness they can get from others in
the world. The greatest praise written
of Madame Recamier, the most beauti-
full woman and complete lady of her own
or any other known time, was this" and
Miss Winchester's face softened, and her
face fell to a moving key as she repeated
softly the words afterwards saw copied
in an old manuscript book of hers, and
knew that she had loved them. ''Dis-
grace and misfortune had for Madame
Recamier the same sort of attraction that
favor and success usually have for vulgar
souls.


There was the nature of great lady,
Vide AOdke.
Year: 1877

Below we have tabulated from the
last edition of Poor's Manual" a
statement exhibiting the number of rail
road companies in each State, and how
many of them earned dividends the last
wear. 1t is as follows