smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

save NE, are DleSt.
Mother, love thy gravel
The violet, with its blossoms blue and mild
Waves DER thy head; when shall il wave


Above thy child?
'Tls sweet flower; yet must
Its bright leaves to the coming tempest bow
Dear mother, tits thine emblem: dust


Is ON thy brow.
And / could love to die:
To leave untaSted life's DARK, bitter streams
By thee, as erst in childhood, lie


And share thy dreams.
But must linger here
To stain the plumage of my sinless years
And mourn the hopes to childhood dear


With bitter tears.
Aye, must linger here,
A lonely branch upon a withered. tree
whose last trail leaf, untimely sere,


Went down with thee.
OFT from life's withered bower
In still communion with the past, turn
And muse on thee, the only flower


In memOry's urn.
And when the evening pale
Bows, like mourner, on the dim blue wave,
stray to hear the night winds wall


Around thy grave.
Year: 1878

Pneumonia is still quite prevalent
throughout southern Indiana and Illinois
The mild winter aud early spring have been
peculiarly favorable to the development OF
the disease, which has been unusually fataI
in some neighborhoods.
Year: 1878

.' A suit was brought at Middletown, N.

 r., in 1875, against the landlord and tenant of liquor saloon, for damages caused by the loss of horse which was driven to death by the plaintiff s son

 while intoxicated by liquors supplied to him at the saloon. The plaintiff obtained verdict in his favor, which was confirmed at the General Term, and the landlord carried the case, so far as he was concerned, to the Court of Ap- peals. The action was brought under the law of 1873, known as the Civil Damage law, which makes the owner or lessor of premises on which intoxi- eating liquors are sold jointly liable with the tenant for any damage done by an intoxicated: person who has been supplied with liquor on such premises.

 The Court of appeals now affrms the Judgment of the lower courts, thus establishing the liability of owners or landlords of any premises in the State used in the liquor business for damages done by any drnnken person who may procure liquor at such places. If 8 man should get intoxicated in New York saloon and commit a murder, inflict a wound or do any injury to person or property while in that condition, the landlord or owner of the premises would,

 under this decision, be liable not only for damages actually sustained by the parties in interest, but for exemplary damages as well. r. ... ,.-...y -e-, >ze -:- t~
Year: 1878

ta According to 8 speaker in the Baptist Union of Scotland, the Isle of Skye is quite primitive. In that island he has seen a dear sister, "with creel of ma nure on her back, creeping up the hill

 side on all feurs to her husband, who was planting potatoes" Also, "A mother and daughter yoked to the har- row, dragging it across their patch of corn, while the husband was in Glasgow laboring to pay the rent. From one end to the other the people are in gross darkness in respect of the simple Gospel. "
Year: 1878

AMONG the relics which Colonel IN
gersoll brought with him from Scot
land is a bottle half full of hair oil
which once belonged to Robert Burns.
From the number of such bottles
brought to this country by marine rel
ic-hunters, one is apt to conclude that
the poet must have bought his bottles
by the gross and his hair-oii by the
barrel Courier-Journal.
Year: 1878

How very small and contemplate this
great fghting-man could be, is exempli-
fed in his conduct to this lady, which
even exceeded in baseness his persecu-
ton of Madame de Stael. The first time
his eyes fell upon her she incurred his
Jealous anger. 1t was in the Court of the
Luxembourg on the occasion of the
great reception given him by the Diree-
tory to celebrate his italian victories.
While Barras was delivering long ora
ton, she rose from her seat to obtain a
better view of the hero Of the day.
Clad IN simple white, her invariable COS
tune, her wonderful beauty Immediately
attracted all eyes, and a murmur of ad-
miration ran through the assembly.
Bonaparte glanced sharply round to ascer-
tain the cause, and he saw that lovely form.
Indignant that even woman should for
an instant distract the admiring gaze
from him, he cast upon her glance
so stern that she sank back upon her
seat overwhelmed with confusion. From
that hour he became her enemy. Being
present at the trial of General Moreau,
he demanded so angrily, what was
Madame Recamier doing there {" that
she was counseled by her friends, if
she had any regard for her safety,
not to attend a second day. Yet the
Jealous despot was no more insensible to
her charms than were other men. 1t
was at a ball given by Lucien that she
met him for the second and last time.
She observed his eagle glance following
her every movement, and presently
Fouche came up to her and Whisperedin in
his insolent way: Madame, le premier
Consul yous trouva charmante !" After
the supper Napoleon himself addressed
her brusquely with: "Why did you not
come and sit by me at support You
should have done so; it was your place"
The Great Mogul or the Sultan of Tur-
key, could scarcely have been more dicta-
torial to female subject. Through his
vile agent, Fouche, he made oVertures to
her to take the post Of Dame du Palais.
ffHe has never vet" said Sir Pandarus.
tmet with a woman worthy of him, and
no one knows what would be the love of
Napoleon for a pure-minded woman;
she would assuredly obtain an influence
over him which would be most benef-
cent" But Juliette Recamier' virtue was
proof even againso the allurements OF
this modern Zenghis-Khan, and she
shrank from his advances; thereby, of
course, mourning his deadly hatred.
which became more or less extended to
those who frequented her salons. Hear
ing that three of his ministers had been
seen there, he demanded angrily since
when the Council had been held at
Madame Recamier's? and forbade them
thenceforth 10 appear there. He said
openly that he regarded as a personal
enemy every person, whether French
or foreign, who visited her
Year: 1878

"Is it possible for persons hair to
turn within a short timer There are
so many instances now on record that
there ought to be no longer any doubt
upon the subject. In the late Arctic ex-
pedition nearly every mans hair be-
came Tayer, and in some cases white,
but assumed its natural color when the
men returned to lower latitudes. In
many cases the human hair is said to
have turned gray from grief, extreme
care, or sudden fright. During an out
ward passage to Australia (says a CORE
spondent), the ship 1 was in suffered
greatly in the British Channel; twice
we were nearly wrecked, having lost
three anchors and two cables. The pilot
who had charge was constantly on
watch, only snatching a few minutes
sleep here and there, as opportunity
afforded. On the whole, he had a very
anxious time indeed, and when he event
ually left the ship off the Isle of Wight,
he certainly looked twenty years older.
thought his hair had decidedly turned
grayer; this may, however, have been
only imagination, and therefore ought
rather to be considered as an impression
than actual fact. Within the last few
months fresh case of the possibility of
the color of the hair changing has come
under my notice. An old gentleman,
aged eighty-nine, residing IN my imme-
diate neighborhood, lately died. For
many years his hair has been perfectly
white, but few days before his death
some of his hair became black, giving
the appearance of his having d.lrk brown
or black hair. Here it is interesting to
note that in his younger days his hair
was light. After the death Of this gen.
itleman the tips of his hair for about an
inch assumed the original color, beeom-
ing white again. I have heard of an
other instance where, after death, the
hair had turned from white to black.
Dogs seem to be affected with regard to
their hair in like manner as human be-
ings. 1 lately read of case where a
black Newfoundland dog became gray
in a few weeks, and the writer declares
that the only cause for this sudden con-
version was grief
Year: 1878

1t will take long time to get the
new silver dollar into circulation. 1t Is
estimated that the mints will be able to
turn out about $S,000,0OO per month.
This will give three-quarters of dollar
20 each inhabitant of the United States
in a year. People needn't be in a hurry
to buy mule to carry their dollar OF
the daddies vet awhile.
Year: 1878

There is nothing sweeter in the
world" wrote Father Lacodaire, than
to be forgotten, except by those who
love US and whom we love, The rest
bring US more trouble than JOYS and
when we have accomplished our task,
dug our furrow, be it great or small, the
nappiest thing is to disappear"
Year: 1878

Cnspotted from the world Her radiant features
Have looked on sorrow all these eighteen years.
And yet, among theseinnOcent young creatures,


You shall not find one face so free from tears
Unspotted from the worldl-A child in spirit


A woman's heart, an angels peaceful smile
What more from Heaven can this girl inherit


Than Heaven hath lavished on her all the whilef
Unspotted from the world!-Yet care and sorrow
She felt, for daily bread is hardly won
Care for to-day-wbile hath the dark tomorrow


its loads unIiehted, and Its tasks undone-
UnspOtted from the wOrldi-Yet loves adjoining.
The gins Of wealth and ease. she hath not known.
Her nchest robe. the humbiest garb of mourning
Which she hath worn for aIl-and is alone,
CnspOtted from the world Her dying mother


Prayed for this one rich gin upon her head;
And angels. smiling softly on each oth,r,


Beheld the holy prayer fulfilled indeed
UnsPOtted from the world Her brow is placid,
Her sweet eyes shine undimmpd by earthly team,
Her lips smile eever-sofly-undeaaced


By the grave lines that bitter sorrow wears
Uaspotted from the worIdl-Oh. angel mother.


When she shall iOin thee In the heavenly throng,
Her voice will sound as sweet. and like no other,
As when she murmured her first childish song
Unspotted from the world Serene in brightness.
Let her toll onward till the sun goes down
Earth's dust never soil her garments whiteness
Earth's rust cannot corrupt her golden crown.
Unspotted from the world l-snovv-white for Heaven
On her pure forehead shower diviner light
To others let the Pems of earth be given


She hath no need, oh Lord, before thy sight!
Year: 1878

There are men, aye, and women too,
who still cling with the utmost tenacity
and bull-headedness to long exploded
theories of the effects of the supernatu-
raj, and believe implicitly as they do in
heaven that mysterious causes control
the affairs of life, despite all Of educa-
ton and enlightenment and the repeated
sweeping away of these cobWebs of the
brain.


1t is a common belief that the moon
exercises a marked control upon veget-
able matter; that those growing above
the ground must be sowed in the light,
and those to mature beneath the soil in
the dark of the "silver orb" when in
fact the time of planting has no more to
do with a successful yield than it has
with the growth of rocks. Given a good
soil, proper cultivation, freedom from
weeds and plenty of food, and they will
produce a bountiful return despite such
foundationless superstitions, and the aold
man" the children are wont to discover
will laugh at the idea as the veriest
moonshinel


With sailors such things are very COM
mon. A horseshoe must be nailed to
the heel of the foremast a ship must
never have its keel laid or be launched
or sail on Friday; the Sabbath is lucky
time for leaving port killing black cat
on board will produce terrible storms, if
not shipWrecks; a minister among the
passengers is bad omen; rats will leave
ship about to be lost; sharks will fol-
low ship if there is to be death on
board, and so on through a thousand
variations.


Haunted" houses are so common as
to be scarcely worth the mentioning.
Every locality has at least one, and
village lacking this exquisite topic for
hair-raising-gossip is to be pitied. The
old belief that the head must lie to the
east, and the doors and windows opened
for the passage of the spirit (after leaV-
ing the body is not altogether abolished,
and the senseless superstition that no
one can die upon feathers, certainly not
if any of them are from wild birds, has
its advocates.


Don't kin a toad 1t will make the
COWS give bloody milk, is asserted by
many who should know better and yet
it would puzzle the most profound phi
losOphers to trace the Connecting link"
between the batrachian (eYen though Of
the geniaes brgo) and the bovine. If
the butter don't come easily, drop red
hot horse shoe into the churn, and sing
burn your nose, burn your nose" and
some old witch's proboscis will suffer
and your labor be made easyl Don't
cut the nails of a young child; it will
make thief of i'll Don't look at the
new moon over your left shoulder; it is
very unlucky.


To repeat even a hundredth part of
the floating superstitions would fill an
entire paper. Some people, ancient
danes especially, have 'sign" for every
thing, or rather make of everything a
"sign." Strange how the relics of witch
craft have endured the light of centuries;
how education and science and religion
have not been able to Danish them how
such intangible things as ghosts and
"spooks" and dreams influence the lives
OF those who are looked upon as sane /;
how age doats upon them and children
are taught
Year: 1878

and this we presume is the reason why
women find their fortunes predicted by
the grounds at the bottom Of the cup!


1t is high time such nonsense was
banished, and forever. They belong to
unlettered ages, and should not be toll
Grated in the present. The mother who
permits her child to hear such rubbish
is not fit for her place, and the nurse
who retails it ought to be sent to the
pillory. We earnestly protest against it
in these days of higher civilization (;
of freedom from the thralldom of dark
ness that ever surrounds ignoran ce.
Don't let your children's minds be stained
oy any such nonsense, and don't proclaim
yourself fool by advocating it.
Year: 1878

General Witcher came all the way


from Virginia to accept the Office Of
U. s. Marshal for Idaho, run with the
Federal officials and the Statesman
clique two Or three days, aud took his
departure for the east saying he would
not accept the Office. Such a move
was unexpected, and we think looks
bad for the people of Idaho. We are
no prophet, but will predict that Mr..
Brayman will be removed and Mr.,
Witcher return as Governor, and he
and the Statesman ring be as thick
as four in bed. Remember this, and
watch the ebb and flow of the tide
Idaho World. a f -.
Year: 1878

An opening has been made in the
Skagit Jam which allows of the pas
sage of canoes, and soon as the annual
frcshet occurs it will probably cause
the whole mass to be removed. The
river is one of the finest in the Terri
Tory. and when this obstruction is re.
moved will admit of navigation by
steamers distance inland of eighty
miles.-W STANDARD.
Year: 1878

SEEDING.-From every direction we
learn that about double the amount of
wheat has been sown in Whitman coun.
ty this year that there was last. IF
the season is favorable our wheat crop
this year will be enormous.-P. Gazette.
Year: 1878

Especial Telegram to THE GLOBE.


WASHINGTON, March 17.-More of Robe
sons bogus contracts are coming to the sur
face. Chief engineer Hook, who now is at
the head of the bureau of steam engineering
of the navy department.. is going to testify
before the committee on naval affairs
that he signed the unlawful and waste
full contracts made for steam machinery on
the Sd of March, 1877 in conformity with a
peremptorily written order of Secretary
Robeson. He will also testify that as soon
as Secretary Thompson came into Office, he
called the new secretary's attention to these
contracts, and advised their immediate sus-
pension. The contracts were suspended be-
fore any work had been done.
Year: 1878

Red Wing Republican.


We tell the St. Paul people no news when
we say that the sermons do not make the
paper Indispensable. On the contrary, the
Monday paper with the sermons, is the one
the petitioners wished to have suspended.
Let us have sermons omitted, the news of
two days included in one paper published
Monday morning, and let the Sunday paper
be suspended. (


The printer will rest his seventh day, the
citizen will not have the world thrust on his
hour of worship. the countryman will get
his news ample and fresh; for we feel sure
the publishers will not publish single paper
that is not wanted. But the Sabbath keep
ing city subscribers must show that the Sun
day issue is not wanted. The Monday issue
Is wanted
Year: 1878

Quincy [IlI.) Herald.


What are the facts as to the demand made
by the people of the Western and Southern
States concerning financial reforms? They
ask that national policy which has been
steadily pursued until the country is on the
verge of ruin shall cease. That the effort to
bring the business of the land, and all its
property values, to q gold basis shall be aban-
doned. That an immediate end be put to
that system of contracting the currency
which has paralyzed trade throughout the
Union, and they insist that the government
alone shall issue the circulating medium.
They ask that a reasonable amount of cur
rency be kept in use, because it is simply
impossible to dispense with it as we are now
situated, even if it were ever advisable to
do 90
Year: 1878

ShaKopee Argus.


! wish to acknowledge, with much satis-
faction, the public reception given mo by
the citizens Of Shakopee on my return home
on Saturday from my legislative labors.
When / took my seat in the Legislature it
was with the intent to perform the duties in
volved faithfully. I am well rewarded for
all my labors in knowing that my course is
approved by my constituents. While the
people Of my district rejoice at the success
in defeating the bill for the removal of the
Year: 1878

Special Telegram to The GLOBE.


WASHINGTON, March 17.-Chicago will be
the first place visited by the treasury COM
mission appointed to investigate the custom
houses of that city, st. Louis, Cincinnati and
Detroit. Special agent Tingle says that the
commission will visit other Western cities
with the same objects in view, and after
they have massed all of the charges made by
the Western people against the New York
custom house management, they will then
proceed to New York and examine into their
truth.
Year: 1878

county seat, yet trust the people Of the
State at large will feel greater satisfaction
over the passage Of the bill to provide for
the recovery and destruction of the railroad


bonds, as well as my success in maintaining
in railroad legislation, that freight and pas
senger rates should be subject to the control
of the Legislature. It is encouraging to be
assured that my own constituents endorse
my action, and for this assurance they will
Year: 1878

st. Patrick day. None of the Irish National
societies took part out of respect to the memory
of the late Pope and owing to the celebration
being contrary to the express wishes of the
Catholic clergy. Up to late hour this even
ing no disturbance had taken place,
Year: 1878

The prompt passage of two appropriation
bills by the House, and the advanced stage OF
other bills in committee indicate disposition
on the part of the Democrats to confine
themselves to business this session. 1t is
said to be their intention to avoid debate
when they possibly CAP, the melancholy ex-
pecience of Fernando Wood Monday having
put them on their guard. They will very
likely find some difficulty in carrying out
this plan, for some of their number are boy
ish enough to want to find out for themselves
the folly of attempting to defend the South
ern election frauds.


1t is very natural the Democrats should
wish to avoid debate; for they are now on
the defensive. So long as they were the hun
ters they followed the game open-mouthed.
Now they are the hunted they are anything
but anxious to go on with the chase. The
shameless ballot-box stuffing in South Caro-
lima, the Louisiana atrocities, and the cipher
revelations have done away with the "fraud"
yell. The exposure of the criminal intrigues
of Mr.. Tiiden and his followers have spoiled





fall elections, the near approach OF resump-
ton, and the uncertainty as to the action OF
the Greenbackers, discourage financial dis
cussion. The grievances of the Democrats
no longer exist, and their future policy is un-
certain. They are all at sea. They are too
anxious about their own course to criticize
that OF their opponents. too busy excusing
their own blunders and defending their own
action to attack the Republicans. They
want breathing spell, want time to think,
want to be let alone until they get rested.
They would gladly pass the appropriation
bills and then adjourn.


But the chances are that the animals will
get stirred up before the show closes. The
Republicans are in jubiIant mood and full
of fight, and disposed to anything but silence.
They have got something to say and they
mean to say it. They want to know about
the cipher kilograms, they are longing to learn
how many fraudulent ballots were cast in
South Carolina, they are bent upon finding
out how many negroes were killed in Louisi-
ana. These inquiries will be pressed, and in
all probability some of the Democrats will be
angered into undertaking the defense of the
indefensble. Then hot debate and angry
controversy will follow. The Democrats are
not under good enough discipline to control
themselves. They are not well organized.
They have no able leaders, lin the House at
least. Even il they had leaders it is doubtful
if they would submit to leadership and strict
discipline. They have been used to guerilla
warfare too long, The only able organizer
they have had since the death of Douglas is
Tiden. and they never took kindly to him.
In his present bad plight it is not good for
them to openly accept his leadership, aud the
most of them are heartily glad to be rid of it.
Thus with no one to officer and control them,
with each man fighting tor his own hand, and
with all exasperated by recent defeat and
confused by the sudden change in the polit-
cal situation, it is altogether probable that
some will lose their heads, and that many
blunders will be made.
Year: 1878

The Greenback theory was never better
illustrated than by the tenant who, repeated
ly pressed to pay his rent at last wrathfully
turned upon the landlord with: "Now you
needn't put on so many airs, old man. Why
owe enough in this town to buy up all your
old houses" That is the condition the
Greent ackers want to put the Government
in. They want it to issue Treasury notes
until it owes enough to pay up all the old
bonded debt. They measure wealth not by
what country owns but by what it owes.
Year: 1878

To show what may be accomplished by
defective drainage. the town of Bradford,
Mexican county, town of about 1900 in
habtants, furnishes fine example. It is
said that 1t has now one hundred cases of
typhoid fever Of malignant type Yet this
town is upon high ground, In region famed
for It's pure air and healthfulness. The peo-
pie have chosen to depend upon surface
drainage and they must take the conse-
quences.-Philadelphia Record.


Some day or other, our citizens will wake
up to consider the absence Of system of
sewerage here. AS certain as Gay, the
poison now being percolated through the
entire soil our city rests upon, will produce
frightful local epidemic in the future.
Year: 1878

The vote of Mr.. Simpson, every thing
considered was quite a compliment to him.
He was new in business of politics, was not
supported by any of the old stagers, he
conducted the canvass without those aids
commonly used. He is a young man, of
marked intelligence, and independence of
character, and can console himself with the
reflection, that he has q future.
Year: 1878

WE have to many municipal officers one
half would do. There is no more need of
q Chief Engineer, Register, Purveyor and
Messenger in the Water department, than
there is for the curl in dogs tail; unless
for ornament. Two men would be enough,
Our Councilmen must remember that econo-
my is the cry.