smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

Very few of the sudden deaths
which are said to arise from diseases OF
the heart do really arise from thatcause


To ascertain the real origin OF sudden
deaths, experiments have been tried in
Europe and reported to scientific con.
gress held at Strasbourg. Sixty-six
cases of sudden death were made the
subject Of thorough post mortem ex,
animation. In these only two were
found who had died from disease oi
the heart. Nine out ofsixty-six had
died of apoplexy, while there were
forty-srx cases of congestion of the
lupes-that is, the lungs were so full
of blood that they could not work


there not being room enough tor


quantity of air to enter TO support life


The causes that produce congestion of
the lungs are cold feet, tight clothing


costive bowels, sitting still, chilled at,
ter being warmed with labor or rapid
walking, going too suddenly from elost
heated rooms into the cold air, espec'
ialy after speaking, and sudden depress
ing news operating on the blood. The
causes of sudden death being known


an avoidance Of them may serve q
Ieprthen many valuable lives which
would otherwise be lost under the YER
dict heart complaint" This disease
i supposed TO be inevitable and in
curable: hence. many do not take tn
rains they would DO to avoid sudden
death If ihey knew it lay in their pow
Year: 1878

Mr.. W. A. A. Wallace, known to
history and to uovelists as big Foot"
Wallace, the slayer Of the Chief Of the
Big Foot Indians in the days long past
is again in the city. Those who read
the Express during the centennial
year will remember our reporters in.
terestiug iu.erview with the old man.
He had been to Philadelphia to see tho
sights, and to take on his way another
last glance at the dear old scenes OF his
childhood iu the Old Dominion State,
for big Foot" was by birth . Virgin
ian. His adventures iu Texas iu early
times are known, probably with a some
what exaggerated idea by thousands OF
people, young and old, who have read
of them in the works Of fiction for
which they have served subject. A
man of iron frame and possessed of Ii
on.like courage, Foot" was never
known to evade danger or to avert the
promptings of his indomitable will.
Notwithstanding that the march OF
years has silvered the long coarse hair,
which hangs bushily about his neck,
and ploughed his face with deep burrows
and stayed his elasticity Of step, and
bent his powerful frame, the heart and
spirit ofhis younger days still crops out
in every movement. Foot" lives on
the Chicon southwest of this city some
distance, leading solitary life. He
says that he has grown too old to fight
Indians. climb rugged mountains and
chase the flying deer as he took go
much delightin in former years, and SO
has settled down to pass the remainder
of his days in quiet and unconspicu-
Gus way He will ere he returns to
his home purchases quantity ofgarden
seeds. for he has resolved to amuse
himself to some extent in the culture
of vegetables for his individual use.


Foot" is man Of excellent practic-
al sense, and in any kind Of trade is
without peer in all our list Of acquaint'
ances. What he doesn't know Of the
habits and natures of stock in general,
it would be folly to try to understand.
His life has been one calculated to cul-
tivate a naturally shrewd mind and to
inure him so completely to the trials of
this world as to make it pleasure Of
ten for him to encounter them. There
is no man in Texas the events of whose
life were more closely identified with
the tolls and travails which ended with
the sovereignty of Texas than big
Foot" Wallace, and the life Of this re-
markable adventurer and veteran
pioneer will be reverted to through
many generations to come with that
peculiar pride with which Scotland re-
members her Rob Roy and kentucky
to her first white settler. Daniel Boone.
San Antonio Eapress.
Year: 1878

The grumblers who complain of hard


times now are beginning TO be cornered.
The people are looking into the facts of the
situation for the causes of existing COM
plants, and in doing so are finding out that
they arc "better off now than they think


The first discovery they make in this in
vestigation Is that dollar now has about
five times the purchasing capacity 1t had in


1864, those flush times when the reckless
ness of war-engendered speculation seemed
to put money within the easy reach of ev-
erybody. In other words, they find that q
dollar will go as far to-day in procuring the
necessities of life as FIVE dollars did four
teen years ago and it does not appear that
wages or salaries, or whatever you may call
the compensation earned by labor, have
been reduced to correspond with this
shrinkage of values and consequent en-
hancement of the purchasing power of those
wages. 1t is true they have been reduced
to some extent, but the clamor against it
has served to protect the salary receiving
or wages-carning classes from any glar-
Ing outrage in this respect. In fact,
the average Of wages is higher now
than it was before the war, while the
the cost OF living is nearly, if not quite, as
low. A comparison of the prices of the ne
cessities of life, as they stood in 1864 and as
they stand in 1873, proves the truth of these
assertions beyond the possibility of doubt.
Gold was then rated at $50; it is now with
only 1.0Ol in greenbacks, The following
table presents many interesting points OF
comparison which sustain this assumption
Year: 1878

TILDEN's present occupation is ftly de-
scribcd by an illustration applied by local
paper TO a Nevada aspirant for a county
Office, who is said to have m empty barrel
planted in his yard and TO devote an hour
every evening to hailooing his wished-ior
title into it, and then jumping back to hear
the pleasant echo. In TILDESs case the
empty barrel is supplied by the POTTER
Committee and the halloOing into it Is aided
to no little extent by the expenditures from
that famous barr o money in procuring per-
jured testimony for that committee.
Year: 1878

THE Democratic Congressional Commit
tee and their fragrant organ are pooling
their issues in and around the Capitol, and
il the figure that surmounts the dome is
not appropriated to party purposes, it will
be for the reason that it cannot be made
available. The heavy bronze doors, with
their artistic ornamentatiOn, unless kept
red hot, are in danger Of being appro-
priated. The House wing Of the Capitol
edice has become den of thieves during
the vacation OF Congress-
Year: 1878

SENATOR Combines recent letter to the
last Saratoga conference continues to receive
the approval of the Republican press of the
country. The Cincinnati Times says mo
" loftier, sounder Republican platform has
been framed this year" We add that
Senator Combines utterances are always
apt to be received in the same way, for they
are always as lofty and sound as this Sara
toga letter. 1t is to be regretted that he
does not speak oftcner.
Year: 1878

As will be seen In another column, we
have among us large delegation of men
representing the railway postal service of
the country. They are truly worthy
body and we cordially welcome them to
the National Capital, and hope their stay
with US will prove to be both pleasant and
profitable. 10 this connection it is gratify-
ing to know that similar Organizations-
somewhat national in charncter-are fast
finding out that Washington is one of the
best places in which TO hold their annual
meetings. In the near future it is believed
every body will appreciate this fact and be
governed accordingly.
Year: 1878

Is party whose Congressional commit
tee violates every principle of right and
propriety, by openly and boldly appropriate
ing the properties of the General Govern
ment to party urposes-yirtually stealing
from the Government its oflice-rent, its gas
its stationery, its clerk-hire,a portion of its
printing, and all that is decently done-en-
titled to be trusted with more power in the
Government The people, knowing these
things, will say not. Theft, open and
shameless, and lying, brazen and unblush-
ing, now constitute the chief stock in trade
of the Democratic party. Its committees
steal and plunder in small way, and thus
teach their followers that if the time shall
come when q broader field of plumber is
opened TO that party they can depredatc un-
der high precedent and plunge their arms 10
their shoulders into the property and treas
ure of the nation with impunity. Their
committee does it, a Democratic House has
done it, aud their organs encourage and ap-
plaud each depreciation, demanding, how
ever, rs reward for their sOrtid efforts u
liberal share Of the plunder thus secured.
This is Democracy in ISIS US it dcvclopes
its true inwardness to the country and
If these things shall appear in the green
tIee what may We expect when greater
power is entrusted with such a party? 1t
will soon demand that larceny shall become
mere matter of book account, aud false
hood and perjury shall be condoned in u
note Of hand.
Year: 1878

THE expired bankrupt law ha, very few
friends, and they seem to hesitate about
making public defense of it. But it was
passed in 1867 mainly to aid the South in
settling financial difficulties growing out of
the war
Year: 1878

Socialism, as movement, does not move by
discussion. Its programme is violence. It's
tone Isl No argument; let US have our way, or
beware! Modern violence consists largely in
voting, aud when this kind is available and
sufficient, the social democracy asks no more.
If it is not available, the proposition is plain
and loud to use weapons aud torch. If, how
ever, voting is not to be controlled, in the long
run, by intelligence, reason, argument, and
discussion, then the civilized world has been
building for century upon faith in certain
doctrines which are about to give way and to
expose society to terrible convulsiou. All
our inherited institutions of civil liberty fa'e
toward the executive, as if from that organ
alone danger could come. The power has nov
been transferred to popular majorities, under
the assumption that they would never abuse it
to enrich themselves at the expense of produc-
ers, as monarchs and aristocrsces have done.
The new task is to devise institutions which
shall protect civil liberty against popular ma
iorties, since 1t appears that this assumption is
not beyond question. That task lies next be-
fora us in the development of the art OF govern
ment and 1t appears that the great civilized
nations will have to execute it before the end
of this century, if they do not intend to give uD
all that has besn won in five thousand years OF
history
Year: 1878

TIA Colorado election is of no little imp or.
tance on several accounts. Regarded even
from the narrowest party standpoint it is
considerable triumph for the Republicans, for
it gives them Congressman, secures Sem
tor, and makes certain that the vote of the
State will be cast for the Republican candidate
if the next Presidential election should be
thrown into the House.


But the election results in greater good
than this. 1t teaches politicians that they
will not find it safe to disregard the will of
the people or reverse its declared expression.
At the last Congressional election of Is 76
the Republican candidate had nearly a thous-
and majority over his competitor. But the
Democrats in the House fancied it necessary
to add one to their number, and so, on the
weakest of technicalities Mr.. Belford, who
was elected, was deprived of his seat and Mr..
Patterson, the defeated candidate, put in his
place. The people of Colorado have just had
the opportunity to express their opinion of
the outrage-and that expression is one Of
emphatic disapproval. Mr.. Belford's majority
is nearly treble that he had in 1876, and the
Republicans have secured two-thirds of the
Legislature. If the result teaches the Demo-
cratic House justice and decency it is worth a
great deal more than party triumph.


Another good thing about the Colorado
election is the small Greenback vote. Not
| more than six hundred Greenback ballots


were thrown in the whole State. Evidently


the fiat-money lunacy has not found many
victims there. 1t is to be sincerely hoped
that it will show no greater relative strength
in other portions of the West.
Year: 1878

THE situation is put in this clear way by
the Cleveland Herald: If you wanted to
know whether grain was scarce you would go
to the milers and grain-dealers; if you
wanted to know whether coal was scarce you
would go to the coal merchants. Now. if
you want to know whether money is scarce,
go to the banks-they deal in money. They
will tell you that there are millions of unem-
poyed currency in the country and that
many banks are retiring their circulation be-
cause there is no profitable use for it. They
will tell you, too, that it is not more money
that is needed, but more business to employ
the money already in existence.
Year: 1878

WHEN Greenbacks were first issued, prices
of all the necessaries of life went up sooner
and much higher, in proportion, than wages.
Should the Greenbackers succeed in obtain
ing another issue of irredeemable paper cur
rency, the same experience will be repeated.
Year: 1878

THE New York Democrats seem to know
and appreciate each other very thoroughly.
At the Syracuse convention the Tildenites
temporarily seeded in order to pass resolu-
tion denouncing the rest of the convention as
gang of thieves. And now the New York
Express, the Tammany organ, says Tilden's
friends are trying to buy up two or three
members OF the state committee in order to
centrol the machine, and adds that men who
'club together to steal a convention are equal
to almost anything, from robbing hen roost
to bribing legislator" The only point where
all these statesmen agree is in denouncing
"fraud" in the Republican party.
Year: 1878

WESLEY BISHOP is probably the meanest
man alive. He has confessed-the crime of
another; and attempts to throw the larger


portion of the blame for the murder of his
wife upon the woman who was led. BY her
misguided passion for him to assist in the
Year: 1878

MEXICAN bandits are now robbing United
States mail coaches. AS we have no army to
speak of, the Government will, as usual, be
obliged to accept the situation as gracefully
as possible.
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous letters ami communi-
cations. The and address Of the writer 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: 1878

The following letter is too good to be laid
aside. It was written to an ambitious Eastern
gentleman who wrote to the editor of noted
Western paper, to know If he woald like
regular Boston correspondent. Doubtless its
tone aud character will be recognized By some
of our Grsenbaek friends:
Year: 1878

THE Street Commissioner ought to give
a hint to the men who sweep the streets, to
sprinkle them before sweeping if dry, and
windy day. Also, as lady one day re.
marked sweep with the wind. The Como
missioner is one of those live, men, ou
whom hint is never thrown away,
hence we give it.
Year: 1878

where the applicant for a warrant must
satisfy the Justice that the case is one Of
great public importance. a aTaly-. .


In Wilmington, counting the Mayor, we
have one Justice and one constable for
every 5000 Inhabitants. x
Year: 1878

Tonight an adjourned meeting of the
Board Of Education will be held for the
purpose of bearing the report of the special
committee appointed at last meeting to
consider the Ninth Ward contestant caes.
Year: 1878

From the Ohio Greenbacksr.


"Grow in grace and in the knowledge Of
the truth" Is an old time religious injunc-
tlon, and if progression in spiritual life is
dependent upon the growth Of knowledge,
we may conclude that knowledge is essen
tial to success. even in the political field.
We have been too much accustomed to let
Others do our thinking for us. We
listen to the voices of so-called statesmen,
and passively accept their conclusions as
correct.


A new era is ushered in, in which the
people must do their own thinking.
Sturdy old Solon Chase was unwilling to
accept the doctrines set forth by a certain
Congressman who advocated new finan-
cial idea. He set his own brain to work
and after long and patient investigation
he discovered-what? Why, that this
man was right and the others who oppos-
ed the new doctrine was wrong. Straight
way the plain-spoken farmer became a
preacher OF financial truth-the world
knows the result.


Here is living example for other men
to follow. Whatever we may think the
elections indicate, the victory, the final
victory, Is lar in the future. The money
power has existed for ages past and is not
to be overthrown in a day. Those who
hope to elect a Greenback President in
1880 will be bitterly disappointed, unless
they begin at once to train, drill and edu-
cate themselves for the great struggle.


There is no time to lose. Let every man
who believes in the peoples cause go to
work without delay to strengthen it.
While the enemy takes rest after the
fight is our golden opportunity. Spread
the truth. Documents, newspapers, fire.
side chats, country school house discus
sions, and debating clubs are legitimate
weapons within our easy reach. Improve
the time this coming winter, and much
good will be accomplished.


1t was said Of great lawyer that he
was always 'in state of chronic prepare
tion, and so it should be in the case Of
every National Greeenbacker. First, So
lon Chase;-then $4,000 voters. All this
in spite of the best talent the party in DOW.
er was able to furnish in opposition. Bril-
liant oratory tickles the ear, but it takes
the plain, homespun truth to educate the
masses.
Year: 1878

TO the Ed dItor Of The TrtbWnG


SIR; / was surprised, the other day, to see
1t announced In OF your Personals" that Admiral
Porter himself designed the new Naval Monument in
Washington. That monument which Is one OF the most
beautiful works Of art at the National Capital was DO
Year: 1878

~ Things over the water look very much as
if there would be big war between England
and Russia, probably involving several other OF
the leading powers. England is making great
preparations, and Russia doesn't seem to scare
much; and it looks as if Turkey were disposed
to take the side of Russia. The situation seems
to be this: England is mad, and is cavortng
around, because Russia whipped Turkey with
ont consulting her about it; and Turkey is mad
at England, because she refused to come in aud
help her, when it might have done some good
A general war will be a terrible thing for Europe
but it will help the prices of American produce.
Perhaps the people over there do not like to be
killed any better than farmers over here like te
sell their corn at 20 cents bushel.
Year: 1878

e 1t is reported that Charles Francis Adams
has declined the Government Dictatorship of the
Union Pacific Railroad, because he wants a more
important Office at the hands of President. That
is Adams style, from the foundation of the fam
lily. They would accept Office from any party,
and change their politics to suit the party hav-
ing the Office to give.
Year: 1878

The Anne ican public is familiar with the Advertising
Agency of Geo. p Rowell Co. If any firm doing bust
the continent afford to move on" with
splendid reputation through these hard times this would
seem to be the is advertised by appreciatve
newspaper fraternity largely without charge yet,
in view Of all these facts the list sent for
month for which they pay fair price, in money by the
inch is devoted largely to their business The order
takes somewhat by surprise and 1t would


five disposed to doubt the wisdom of pushing bust
through the hardest times. We add for the benefit
of the Thomases who may read, that Messrs Geo. P.
Rowel Co. knowing all about the adverti
sing business than other firm. having handled mill


ions and millions of dollars thus appropriated Another
feature worth noting is their Hberality with Uncle
SAM" They have doubtless expended more money for
POSTAGE during the last quarter of century, than any
other firm In the United States.-Charanooga Times.
Year: 1878

P- 1t now looks as if the new National party
were going to absorb the Democratic party 50
largely AZ to ruin it. 1t was the intention, in
organizing the National party, to draw its larg-
est accessious from the Republicans, and then to
unite with the Democracy to beat the Republi-
can party. But the Democracy have been SO
much in the habit of coquetting with anything
and everything to secure temporary advantages,
that their forces have become demoralized, and
run after every new-fangled thing that comes
along. This new National party is now causing
them trouble. With proper management, the
Republican party, can preserve its strength al
most unimpaired, while the tail of the Democra-
cy is trying to prevent its body from deserting
to an ephemeral organization that at present is
filling the land with its buzzing.
Year: 1878

q The anonymous contributor to the Bale
tin, who is usually given place in the editorial
columns, and who devotes his articles principal


ly to the Chief, maysas well sign his proper name
TO his production, for we recognize his style as
perfectly as If he called himself "Al Soctorine."
Year: 1878

II Dick Morris, the Captain General of the
Atchisou Democracy, recently went to another
prominent Democrat, who is taking an active
part in the temperance movement. saying
'Look here, how far are you going to carry this
thingf Don't you know that you are sapping
the very foundations of the partyr
Year: 1878




In general, the use of single fertiI-
izer will be found profitable in a farm
practice only in connection with ma
nure or on land in strong heart, and
the poor farmer will never succeed in
enchancing the cropping capacity OF
his farm to an increased profitable posi-
tion through the use of one fertilizer
alone. Much of the discredit which
artificial fertilizers have won, from
non appreciation of the fact that they
cannot snpersede dung. but must be
used in connection with other plant
food. A snperpAosphate or nitrogen
Gus, or potassic manure can always
find place on farm, hut can never take
the place of manure in farm practice,
and the sooner this false hope is de-
stroyed the better it is for all concern
ed. A mixture of chemicals or other
elements containing the food that
plants require does however offer prom.
ise of practical results ON the farm, and
can be offered iu competition with
dung, SO far as the result in crops is
concerned. This. then, in the prom
ise Of the complete fertilizer; il the
farmer has dung sufficient for five acres
only, and wishes to cultivate ten or
more, in addition to what his dung sup
ply will allow. then he must rely ON the
complete fertilizer for every acre in ad-
dtion to what his dung win cover. The
experience of ages have shown the re
liability Of dung; all the best modern
experiments We have to show the efficacy
of mixture Of chemicals IN takingt the
place OF dung. provide they supple
ment the soil supply SO as to furnish to
the crops the elements shown by analy-
sIs to exist in dung. We cannot fairly
compare superphosphate in its re-
suits with dung; single element with
complete fertilizer. The recognition
Of this factb farmers will make lev-
olution in farming, and will disperse
much of the fog which interested par
ties have thrown about the question of
fertilizers. In final word, all the
best experience and experiments, as We
interpret their meaning, point certain
ly to the facts we now claim, that the
single fertilizing element must find its
profitable use in connection with other
manures, while the complete fertilizers
alone can be expected to furnish mater
al in form for farm practice, and it is
the only means of artificial fertilization
as yet discovered which offers
means Of extending an arabic land be-
yond the ability OF the dung heaps to-
supply. - e 'ta. 'H1 b7zaat