smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

AAo oItdSe WIS., DeWOCfUt
gives the following curious pas
sage in real life:


In the burial ground near the
county poor house at Wyocena,
are two graves side,by side, con-
gected with which is a story full
of interest and instruction. Fitz-
gerald and Manley, said to have
been two Irishmen Of noble
birth, are buried there. In their
youth and early manhood life
was all rose-colored to- them. All
that money could procure they
had, and they travelled every
where in Great Britain and on
the continent, "and cities saw
and princely pomp;;" and were
lavish in their expenditures
At last they came to the United
States. All the details of theiE.
decadence is not known, but they
grew to be old men finally, and
went down in the social scale
faster than they made the de-
scent of life. One of them was,
for some time in the poor house
in Marquette county, and the
wanderings of both came to an.
end at Wyocena. When Fitz-
gerald was, sick unto death the
intelligence reached his wife in
the old country. and she
came all the way from Ireland,
a lady in birth, dress and sur
roundings, to stand at the death
bed Of her husband in an. aims
house in a foreign land; and
faithfully did she nurse him un-
til he expired. Probably for
years she had known nothing of
him Or his career until it was
about to close. The lesson of
this story is that no person is so
high-placed that misfortune can
not reach him; and that no
amount of present wealth is a
sure guarantee against future
want. There are by-paths lead
ing even from the mansions of
greatest opulence to the abodes
where public charity cares for
destitutlon.


All that the Russo Turkish
war has proved so far, says the
New York Herald, is that the
resources of great nation can
not, in an age of advanced civil
lization, be developed by govern
ment OF the primitive type, such
as survives beyond its date in
the Russian Empire. Not a fact
proves that Turkey is worthy to
stand, but many prove that if
Russia is to be equal to her
great destinies, she must burst
the she'll in which she has hith-
erto grown. No nation that as
pires to play part in the great
drama Of European politics in
the nineteenth century can count
in the game until 1t has relieved
itself of the government under
which it came out Of the food
of Tartar invasion five centuries
since. In all the qualities OF
good soldiers, the Russians have
in this war proved themselves
not only superior to the Otto
mans, but equal to any men in
the world. In steady courage,
tenacity, and dash, and in their
susceptibility to tactical instruc-
tion and discipline, they have
shown their high military quail
ity. 1t is in virtue of this quail
ity that, while only equal OF
barely equal in number to their
foe, they have invaded his coun-
try-completely crushed him in
Asia and brought him to the
verge of desperation in Europe,
But for the incubus Of grand
dukes, they might ere this have
been in Constantinople.
Year: 1877

The Porte is very uneasy about sup
plies of arms and ammunition still to
cone from New York, and is very an
CRY with America for allowing the Rus
sian squadron to remain in American
waters
Year: 1877

WAsHINGToN, May Ia.


Reply of the State Department to
formal notification by Turkey of ex-
istenee of state of war between that
Power and Russia is to the effect th at
the United States will continue TO oc
cupy strictly neutra. position toward
the beligerents. A similar reply will
be furnished Russia. The President
left this morning for New York.
Year: 1877

Fitz Green Halleck, the poet, whose
bronze likeness was unveiled last week
in the Central Park, New York, did his
best work almost sixty years ago, although
he was born only four years before William
Cullen Bryant, who is still vigorous in body
and mind. He is the author of the lyric
called Marco Bozzaris, presented often as a
model for defamation. The cost of the
statue and pedestal will be about twelve
thousand dollars, and its site is near the
monument of Shakespeare, near the south.
ern end of the mall.
Year: 1877

4 DREAN.-A lady in San Francisco re-
Gently had visit from her sister, who was
rich and wore diamonds. While the guest
was preparing to 60 out one morning she
laid on the bureau of her room a purse CON
tanning splendid diamond pin and a good
deal of gold, and when she had tied her
bonnet-strings in an adjoining room, looked
for the purse and could not find it. The
two ladies assisted by servant, made a
thorough search, swept the house, moved
the furniture, and rummaged in every
direction, without avail. At midnight the
lady OF the house was awakened bv the
entrance of her sister, who was was acting
IN the most singular manner and asking for
writing materials. \ pencil was given to
her and she immediately covered a sheet of
paper with scrawls which were hardly de-
cipherable. She soon lapsed into her nor.
mai condition, and the two ladies set to
work to decipher the writing. One SEN
tence was repeated several times. 1t was
this: She has it hid under the STOOL"
They decided that "she" meant the SER
want, and proceeding to her door they
knocked for admittance The girl un
locked the door, and was told that she
must dress and assist them in further
search for the pin. At the foot of the bed
stood covered stool, the cover reaching
the floor. Highly excited, the ladies rush.
cd to it, tipped it over, and there lay the
lost purse. The servant turned, ran down
stairs, unlocked a door, and rushed into
the street. The lady who had the dream
and wrote the blind hand is not Spiritual
list. She is a blue PRESBYTERIAN.
Year: 1877

And in accordance with law and order OF the Board Of
Trustees made and entered the 14th day of August A
D. 1977 many of such designated shares of stock be-


longing and standing in the Of the shareholders
aforesaid shall and will be necessary psy the
upon all shares held and owned by such shareholders
standing their upon the books OF the company
will be sold public auction at the office of said company
in the office Of Trenmor Coffin in Carson CITY Nevada
Year: 1877

Fourth. The reflection cast upon the hon
esty of the managers Of this road, when the
Governor uses the words q with an honest
application Of the means controlled by the
incorporators, Is most unjust attack on
men who are the peers OF the best In the
country, and is utterly uDsustained by the
facts; and assert that not one farthing OF
the money OF this company was dishonesty
Year: 1877




The facts of the case are that at the time
the Virginia Central Railroad Company en-
tered into the contract for the construction
OF the Chesapeake and Ohio railroadth the law
was construed not only by said company,
but by the commissioners with whom they
were contracting, as comforting upon the
company an entire immunity from taxation,
and this was one of the inducements ope-
rating upon the company to make the con-
tract, as is shown by the agreed statement
of facts in the suit, referred to in the mes
sage of the Governor. 1t also appears from
said statement that the State authorities
themselves for considerable time after the
formation of the new company construed
the law. as exempting all OF the property Of
the company from taxation, and the Circuit
Court OF the city OF Richmond decided that it
was exempt from all State taxes. The Court
OF Appeals reversed in part this Judgment,
and declared that part OF our property
was exempt, but part was liable. This
question involves one of the most valuable
rights Of this company, and one which any
manager of the road could not have yielded
without dereliction Of duty, without an ap-
peal to the court Of final resort. This action
was contemplated by the act of 1874.
Year: 1877




1t is little queer that the Times,
which has been the conservative Re-
publican paper and all through the
campaign was the organ Of the party,
has criticised the Administrator and
showed its big kntckles to the Presi-
dent. 1t seems to have got on the
other side of the fence in such q
marked way that the orthodox Re-
publicans take no pleasure in it, and
order the Tribune for breakfast in
stead. And, strange as it may seem,
the Tribune, which should represent
radical Republicanism, seems to
have made organic connections at
Washington, and is almost gushing
in its support Of Hayes. Of course It
doesn't give up blaine. Its affections
like those of our Latter Day Saints,
are an elastic commodity, and in its
harem Of admiration there is always
room for one more, the newest COM
er merely pushing the old flame aside
for the time. just now there is a
pretty little fight between the editor
Of the Tribune and the Messrs. Apple
ton, of which there are two or three
NcA oiOHes AHe ONO ulOSt generally
credited is that the Messrs. Appleton
sent a set of their cyclopedia to Mr..
Whitelaw Rcid, and that therefor he
he returned his check for the value of
the work. The check was promptly
and politely returned with the ex-
PLANTATION that the publishers did not
want the money, but hoped that Mr..
Reid would give the cyclopedia such
notice as itdescrved in the Tribune,
It Is said that Mr.. Reid informed
them that his self-respect would not
allow him to notice work one of
tho editors Of which had abused him
repeatedly and Indignantly, refer.
ring, Of course to the editor of the
Sun, Mr.. Charles A. Dana. This was
equivalent to q declaration Of war,
and the Messrs. Appleton withdrew
their advertising patronage from the
Tribune. And now the Tribune Is
publishing the Appleton dollar nov
els for ten cents. Perhaps with your
clear eyes, leaking through the clear
country air, you can see which party
has got the advantage over the other
and appreciate the merits Of the con.
troversy; but to people living in the
midst Of the conflict tho affair is aa
hard to understand as an eastern war
map.
Year: 1877




FT. MADISON, May pa man by
the name of Harris was sent to the
penitentiary here from Hardin county
some two weeks ago for the crime Of
forgery. On his way down he at
tempted to commit suicide by cutting
an artery in his leg below the knee,
expecting to bleed to death. This eff
fort at tself-destructisn was nreyented
and the prison physician was succeed
ing well in getting the wound healed
up. On Saturday the man was at
tackled with symptoms of fhydrophobia
frothing at the mouth and showing
all the symptoms of that terrible dis
ease, lingering in the most distress
ing agony till yesterday morning,
when he expired. 1t is not known
whether the man was ever bitten by
rabid animal, and the manner of
the attack aud his sudden death in
tho manner stated is unaccountable.
Year: 1877

A few days ago, John Mcpougal
residing on Z farm near the Agricul'
tural College at Ames, went away on
business, taking his son with him.
leaving his wife at homo, On re.
turning about s o'clock in the eve
ming, Mrs. McDongall was found sit.
ting in 9 rocking chair as If asleep
but dead. Her handls were FOLDED In
her lap, her feet crossed on the floor
her head reclining on one shoulder
and her eyes closed. She had done 6
washing, sprinkled and folded the
clothes preparatory for ironing, and
had evidently seated herself to rest
fAralysts of the heart was the cause
of her sudden death.
Year: 1877

Trying to Shuttle off this Mortal


Coll


When the ferry boat West Jersey reach.
ed the middle OF the western channel OF
the Delaware, on her way to Camden, about
2 p: M. Sunday, Joseph Carr leaped
headforsmost from the bow into the river.
The pilot saw the plunge, the boat was
stopped and after short search Carr was
found clinging to the rudder. He was
taken to the police headquarters in Cam
den, where he stated that his residence
was at Front and Arch streets, Philadel-
and that he intended to commit suicide on
account of domestic troubles, but the cold
water made him change his mind.
Year: 1877

FINGER SPLIT OPEN.-One day last week
little three-year old son of Mr.. Fisher,
who resides about four miles from this city,
met with painful as well as singular ac-
cident. The little sufferer together with
his brother but a few years his senior were
at the wood-piIe, the elder brother being
engaged in chopping wood. As the AK i'm
the hands of the elder brother was descend
ing, the younger brother, in attempting to
reach something directly in the line of the
falling instrument. received the blow in
tended for the stick of wood on the third
or ring finger of the right hand. The ak
descended with such force as to cleave the
finger in two, bone and flesh, from the
knuckle to the end of the finger, and bury
itself deeply in the wood, where it remain
ed, taking considerable strength to remove
it. The boy holding the AK raid hesaw his
little brothers hand i'm the way, but
couldn't stop the descending ak. DR.. o.
P. S. Plummer, who was called in. care
fully put the two halves together again,
done some neat stitching ON both sides of
the finger, and at last accounts it was heal
ing up nicely, and will doubtless soon be
sound and well.
Year: 1877

BARGAINS IN MII.LINERY.-Mrs.C Cross is
selling her excellent stock Of millinery at
cost, to make room for her immense invoice
of Spring and Summer styles. The ladies'
cannot do better than to look through her
goods. and secure bargains while they are
to be had. A hint to the wise is sufficient.
Year: 1877


ADDRESS OF WELCOME by SUP Il ahkdohf'


Ladies and Gentlemen : Again it has
beeemc my privilege to discharge tho
Agreeable duty of extending TO you u
cordial welcome at this, another meet
ing Of our County Institute and while
it IL with great pleasure that meet
you here, and most highly appreciate
the effort yoil have made to be present
and to take part in the exercises of the
Institute, | earnestly hope that you
will welcome all others TO this meeting,
feeling that II is your Institute and
that your abors and your efforts will
make 1t success. fhti


Since last We met together in the
capacity Of County Institute, the
Centennial year OF our nntion has
dawned upon US. The busy, bustling
scenes that have characterized our na
tions progress for a hundred years
have suddenly been suspended, and in
quietncss and serenity the people have
been called upon TO behold and invcsti-
gate the works of a century. The
works Of art and mechanism and skill,
the mighty inventions and strange dis
coveries that our people have ever
heen proud to boast Of, have been placed
upon exhibition and have stood up us
bright memorials while anxious multi
tudes have retired from their labors
and throngcd TO behold with astonish.
ment and pride the accomplishment OF
a century and to pay homage TO tho
names that bear the honors Of their
work. The poorly constructed machin-
cry and lily contrived appliances Of y
hundred years ago have been compared
with the well arranged mechanism OF
the present day. The old log school
Year: 1877

What is there more mysterious than a
blush, that a word or look or thought
should send that inimitable caruation
over the cheek like the first tint of sum
mer sunset Strange it is, also, that sho
face only, and that the human face, is
capable of blushing; that the hand or
foot does not turn red With modesty or
shame any more than does the glove or
sock that covers them. 1t is the face
that bears tn e angels impress; it is the
face that is heaven. Tie blush of mod
esty that tinted Woman's face when she
aWoke in Eden's sunny land still fingers
with her fair daughters. They caught
it from the rose-more fairer than the
fowers-blushed, and cast its reflex on
her velvet cheek The face is the tablet
of the soul, whereon it writs it actions.
There may be traced all the intellectual
phenom eDa with the confidence amou nt-
ing to a moral certainty. If innocence
and purity look outward from within,
none the less do vice, intemperance and
debauchery make their indelibie impress
sion upon it. IdiocY, rage, oowardice
and passion leave their traces deeply
even as the virtues of modesty, truth.
chastity and hope.
Year: 1877

Sam Randall is not as confident of
his election as Speaker as he was week
ago, Two things have discouraged him:
First, the positive knowledge that Nor
rison candidacy is in earnest, and that
if he should not have good prospects of
success himself, he (Morrison) would
not use his influence for Randall Second,
the conviction that the Southern Demo
Gratis are quite generally opposed to him.
Springer, when here, stated positively
that he had it direct from Morrison him
self that his candidacy was an honest
one, and that if likely to be defeated he
shall net work for Randall, as it is gen
orally supposed he did last year. This
fact is confirmed by information from
SaTler. RandalFs fears as to the South
have been increased by . converse ton
had with a member from that section.
That member told Randall that he could
not secure the vote of the South, for the
reasons, chiefly, that he was a high
tariff man, had always represented tariff
interests, and voted that way, and that
he was opposed to Southern improve
ment schemes. He was also opposed by
the small faction which did not approve
his course on the electoral bill. This
Southen mem Der stated that the South
would certainly cast its vote for a
Southern or Western candidate.
Year: 1877

CHEYENNE. Dec. 26.-Express train No.
4 and freight train No collided one mile
east of this city at o'clock this afternoon.
A dense fog prevailed at the time and
neither saw the other approach until they
were within 100 yards of each other.
When Engineer Weeks, of the express,
dicovered the freight approaching he at
once reversed his engine and applied the
air brake, when he and his fireman Jump
ed, the fireman receiving no injury, while
Week escaped with dislocated ankle. On
the freight engine were Michael Mcclure,
engineer, and Michael Callahan, fireman,
the latter of whom was killed instantly.
and the legs of the former were cut off
and his death occurred two hours later.
Conductor Curtis, Of The freight train, was


on the engine and jumped, saving his life.
Neither train was moving oyer ten miles
per hour. The engine of the freight was
driven entirely through the first freight
car and badly wrecked. The passenger
engine was less damaged and the train
behind the first baggage car was very little
injured. The express messenger wa
thrown from end to end of the car but not
injured. The responsibility rests on Dis


patcher Langdon. who, it is said. realized
his failure to hold No. for No. too late


to stop her.
Year: 1877

FULL WEIGHTAN THE CANS; absolutely
pure material; CAREFUL chemical combina-
tion-these are the secrets which have
made Dooley's Yeast Powder the
acknowledged nonpareil Of this class of
preparations. Nowadays people have
learned to study the question of health, and
they have solved it in one direction by. the
use Of this article.
Year: 1877

Mr.. II. G. Farell-Dear Sir; Actuated by sense
of gratefulness, 1 submit the following as an in
stance OF the utility Of your great medicine My
child, three years old, suddenly attacked with
terrible disease, which in less than six hours
pTostrated 1t to total helplessness, The limbs be-
came so rigid that not a joint could be bent; the
flesh turned black and cold and entirely deprived
Of feeling the eyes fixed, partially closed and al
together blind following this was deafness to all
sounds; the spine became contracted and so curved
that when lying its back the head and heels only
touched. Indeed, the child presented every ap-
pearance OF being dead Immediately on the at
tack, the family physician was called in. and for
three weeks he labored to restore it to feeling, but
all In van althouA h 1t was blistered dozen times
and various rubefacient Liniments applied. con-
sultation of physicians was then held, but to no
purpose. the case was then brought before the
Medical Society, but nothing could be suggested
which had not already been done, and the doctor
then told me he could do nothing more. We then
commenced applying your Lnimept freely over the
entire length OF the spine, and you may imagine
parents joy, when. after few applications, re-
turning animation was apparent, and it rapidly re-
covered with the exception of the sight which did
not become perfect for near a month. The child Is
now healthy and robust lie. Five other
cases of the same kind occurred previously in my
neighboorhood all of which died, when there is no
doubt if your Liniment had been used they would
have recovered. HENRY G. CLELAND,


Peoria,
Year: 1877

High Cut Winter Style( Open showing Construction)


The attention of the trade and the public in gen
era Is respectfully called to the merits OF the Pro-
lection Congress CATER This Shoe has proved Q
success, and Is becoming very popular. II has all
the merits Of the ordinary Congress Cater, with
none OF Its defects In the ordinary Congress, the
elastic material is exposed to wear by contact with
the pantaloOns and soon becomes unstghtly and
perhaps useless. In the Protection Congress, the
Goring is concealed from view and preserved from
wear making an upper that is unexcelled in nicety
of 1T and beauty OF appearance 1t has no cum
brous fastenings the clasp at the back being merely
to hold the lapcls in place. This clasp is elastic
and easily adjusted.


These goods are made in the best style, and Of
the finest qualities only OF French and American
stock; hand and machine sewed. They are fully
warranted.


Orders are respectfully solicited from dealers.


For sale by c. LIBBY Pat. and Inventor, 62 Lake
ST.. or PHELPS, DODGE & PALMER, Chicago.
Year: 1877

An adhesive cement for aquaria may
be made by mixing equal parts OF fiour
of sulphur, pulverized sal-ammonlac and
iron filings with good linseed oil varnish,
and then adding enough pure white lead
to form firm, easily working mass.
Year: 1877

The wife Of literary man should be
intelligent enough to share in her hus-
bands highest joys. She should not only
be able to get up early in the morning to
make the fires and pick up the stray
pages of manuscript with which he has
paved the Aoor, but she should also be
glad to get down on her knees with a
rag and a basin of hot milk to scrub the
ink out of the carpet.-N y Herald,
Year: 1877

On Monday young man rescued a
girl VINO had broken the ice of skating
pond in Toronto. On the ensuing Sat
urday they were married, although they
had been strangers up to the time of the
accident.
Year: 1877

What relief It will be to tho country to know
that tho Receiver Of tho Inter sUte1a las left
Washington without having secured IN appor-
tloumcnt Of tho rest Of the Federal offices In
Chicago among the rmploycs Of TINT concefnt
Year: 1877

There would be less of mistitting in
the business of life if parents and teach
ers, instead of ignoring, would consider
the predisposition Of boys, Andrews
Bazaar gives these two illustrations o
bows whose genious was at first ignored


Smeaton, the great mechanic, when {
boy, disdained the ordinary plaything'
of boyhood. He collected the tools o
workmen, and bothered them with ques
tions. One day, after having watched
some millwrights, he was discovered, tt
the great distress of his family, in a stu
alton of great danger, fixing windmill
on the top of the barn. His father sem
him to London to study law hut he
declared that law did not suit the bent
of his genius" and addressed memorial
to his father to show his utter incompe-
tency for legal pursuits. His father
finally abandoned him to the bent of his
genius, and it was he who built the
Eddystone lighthouse in the midst OF
the waves.


Able la Gallo one of the first astron'
omers of bis time, when only ten years
old, was sent by his father every evening
to ring the church bell, but always re.
turned home late. His father was angry
and beat him, and stu the boy stayed
out an hour after his task was accom-
plished. II $ father went and watched
him one night; saw him 90 into the
steeple and ring the bell, but never came
down for an hour, When he made hi
appearance and was questioned, he con
ft ssed that he had been looking at the
stars His father was not born astron
omer, therefore he hogged his son seyerly
and left him to come home by himself. He
met man of science on the way, who
seeing his tears, made kindly inquiries
and when he discovered that boy o
such tender age possessed passion fo
watching the stars by the hour together
and had improyised an observatory in
steeple, he Investigated the matter, ant
placed the child in situation TO stud.
what he most desired.