smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

1t is rumored, with what degree of authority
the GLOBE does not undertake to say, that Mr..
Charles Etheridge, the man who stole about
fifty Thousand dollars from St. Paul people,
will return to this city next week in answer to
summons sent HIM by the House of Hope
church, requiring him to show cause WHY he
should not be suspended from membership. In
private letter, Mr.. Etheridge complains Bit
terly that his conduct has been misunderstood


and that he has been too hastily judged by his
religious brethren. He thinks that he ought
to be accorded the privilege of appearing before
the sessions and pleading his repentance for an
act done while under great business pressure.
Year: 1879

An American medical man was called one
day to see a youth, aged eighteen, who had
been struck insensible by the kick Of horse.
There was depressed fracture of the skull q
little above the left temple. The skull was
trephined, and the loose fragments of bone
that pressed upon the brain were removed,
whereupon the patient came to his senses.
The doctor thought it good opportunity to
make an experiment, as there was hole in
the skull through which he could easily make
pressure upon the brain. He asked the boy
a question: and before there was time to an.
swer it, he pressed firmly with his finger upon
the exposed brain. AS long as the pressure
was kept up the boy was mute, but the instant
it was removed he made reply, never sus-
pecting that he had not answered at once.
The experiment was repeated several times
with precisely the same result, the boys
thoughts being stopped and started again on
each occasion as easily and certainly as the en-
gineer stops and starts his locomotive.


On another occasion the same doctor was
called to see groom who had been kicked on
the head by mare called Dolly, anaWhom he
found quite insensible. There was fracture
of the skull, with depression Of bone at the
upper part of the forehead. As soon as the
portion of bone which was pressing upon
the brain was removed, the patient called
out with great energy, whoa, Dolly!" and
then stared about him in blank amazement,
asking, "Where is the mare? Where am / ?"
Three hours had passed since the accident,
during which the words he was just going to
utter whenA happened, had remained locked
up, as they might have been locked up in the
phonograph, to be let 60 the moment the
obstructing pressure was removed. The pa
Year: 1879

ANCIENT MODE OF L1vINa.-The ancient
mode of living may be somewhat understood
By reference to an old book, precious in the
sight of the antiquarians- the household book
of an Earl of Northumberland, 1t appears
that the old earl had large family. It con-
sisted of six hundred and sixty.six persons
masters and servants. Fifty was the average
number of his daily guests There was a
very precise sumptuary code, and given out
in parcels and by rule. From midsummer to
Michaelmas, fresh meat was allowed /; for the
rest of the year salted provision were alone
admissible. Mustard was in great demand.
One hundred and sixty gallons year were
used at the table; no doubt the character Of
the fresh and salted meat required potent
stimulus to make it 60 down. One bottle
and third of beer was given to each person
daily. No sheets for the beds were used. The
table-cloths were few; they we're changed bat
once month, and washing days were rare.
Ninety.one dozen candles served the family
for year, The family rose at six in the
morning, dined at ten, and supped at four.
The earl and his lady had, at their breakfast.
something better than the rest-a quart OF
beer, quart of wine, two pieces of salt fish,
six red herrings, and dish of sprats.
Year: 1879

North Carolina is attempting what has
hitherto proved an abortive effort at IRE
union and fraternization Old soldiers Of the
North and South are invited to Salisbury on
October %. We are told that the ex-Con-
federates are going in force, but there is not
much Show Of Federal Generals, other than
politicians. Gen. Sheridan declines the invi-
tation with thanks and good wishes, besides
many regrets that official duties and previous
engagements will prevent him from attend.
ing Gen. VIM. T. Sherman, however, whose
letter is printed in full in the Charlotte Oh.
server, bluntly refuses to be present and says
"There is no use in my mincing terms.
Whenever and wherever the honest men OF
North Carolina meet to allay the sectional
and party animosities and to cultivate feel
ings of fraternity and respect for their fel.
low.citizens of the United States, it will be to
me most tempting to come to Salisbury, : =
but must not be construed as asserting to
the proposition that Confederates and Union
men were alike worthy of celebration for
the terrible history Of 1S6l'65." The Cen
eral adds that he would like to 60 on some
civic occasion when all are absolutely equal,
all alike interested in the present and future
glory of the common country. he would GER
tainly be out of place at Confederate
reunion. He says: ~


All soldiers in their social reunions glorify
their deeds of heroism, and this reunion will
hardly be an exception, and it would be q
strange sight for Gen. Sherman to cheer the
victories Of his enemies and respond to the
claim that because the soldiers of North
Carolina were brave and true to their State
and section, their cause was as sacred as ours,
which finally triumphed, and made our
Union more glorious and more resplendent
than before. Were I present and you should
suppress this natural feeling, would feel my
self an intruder, marring the natural happi-
ness of festive occasion. I know that the
soldier elements were the first to lays aside the
angry partisan feelings Of the war, and are
now leaders in the new epoch which is sure to
add wealth and prosperity to our whole coun.
try, and when some occasion arises when we
may all meet on common ground in North
Carolina, to celebrate some revolutionary
event, or to encourage some modern enter
prise, it will give me great pleasure to come
to Salisbury, to Raleigh, to Guilford Court
House. or any other place in the "Old North
State" H
Year: 1879

tient did not remember when he came to
himself that the mare had kicked him; the
last thing before he was insensible which he
did remember was, that she wheeled her heels
round and back her ears viciously. Popular
Science
Year: 1879

MAKING THrMBLEs.-The process of ma
king thimbles is described as follows: Bright
new silver coins are reduced to ingots by melt
ing in crucibles. They are then rolled into
the required thickness and cut by stamp In
to circular pieces of the required size: These
circular disks are placed under solid metal
bar of the size of the inside of the intended
thimble, which, moved by powerful machine
ry, descends into bottomless mold of the
size of the outside Of the thimble, and presses
the metal into the desired shape at single
blow. The remaining operations Of bright
ening, polishing and decorating are perform
ed by means Of lathe. First, the blank
form is fitted with rapidly revolving rod;
slight touch of sharp chisel takes a thin
shaving from the end another does the same
on the side, while third rounds off the rim.
The polishing is done by round steel rod,
which is dipped in oil and pressed upon the
surface. Small revolving steel wheels held
against the revolving blank pierce the inden-
tations on the lower half and end of the thin.
BILE; the ornamentation is done by similar
process. All that remains to be done to the
thimbles is to brighten and polish the inside,
boil them in soapsuds to remove the oil, brush
them up and pack them for the market.
Year: 1879

Some seventy-fve miles, almost directly
east, from Cedar Keys, in Marion county Fla.
is the celebrated silver spring, basin Of
water eighty feet deep and issuing from the
ground in such force and violenc as to pre-
sent the appearance of boiling on the surface.
The water is so pure and clear that the white
sand can be seen in motion at the bottom as
it is rolled up by the action Of the streams
pouring from the veins that form the spring.
This is supposed to be the Fountain Of Perpet-
ual Youth, of which Ponce de Leon had
heard, and for which he made search in one
of the most romantic expeditions on record.
His trail" is still pointed out from Lake
George, on the st. Johns, where he. had been
led astray and sent to the northwest, when the
fountain in which he wished to bathe, and
by so doing give old age the slip, lay to the
northwest. I am told that out in the gulf,
some distance from shore, q spring forces
itself with so much power through the brine
as to dispel the sea water for q considerable
distance so as to be plainly discernible- pre-
senting a diameter of twelve or thirteen yards.
These two fresh water springs-the one on the
land and the other in the sea--are about on
q due east and west line, and are certainly
objects of study. Assuming that Florida is
almost entirely of marine form alton, which it
evidently is, the source Of its numerous springs
and lakes of pure fresh water is matter Of
unbounded interest to the inquirer into ma
ture's mysteries. But why should there not
be springs and boiling fountains in the val.
leys and mountain of the oceans depths as we
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Year: 1879

any of the enorinities that haven per
petrated against the Consultation and laws
and their sacred guarantees. New York
holds q commercial supremacy that she can
only sustain by firm defense of the right
and the building up of strong safeguards
against revolution and anarchy. This SUI
premacy her people will not place in jeop-
ardy by transferring power to a proverbial
revolutionary party, which they have
trusted in the past to their great sorrow.
The outcroppings of the late extra session
of Congress, in which revolution came
promptly to the front in threat and act,
have taught the intelligent and patriotic
citizens of the Empire State that they can
no more safely trust the Democratic party
now than they could while the South was
in arms against the Union. These consd-
erations,w when New York is called upon next
to speak, will override all local schisms, all
personal differences, all sore heads and
sore toes, and the State will be as solidly
Republican MS it was in 1872, with its $4,000
majority for GRANT and WILSON. The pres
ent apparent flaw in New York will disap-
pear long before the next election shall
occur, and she will place herself with In
diana squarely inside n Solid North.
Year: 1879




A solid North has been revealed some
what earlier than had been anticipated
The North is now practically solid except
that Indiana has not spoken, and there is
slight flaw to mar its solidity revealed in
the State of New York, but which is not Of
sufficient magnitude to impair the struct-
ure. This slight imperlection has been
produced by causes such as will not be
likely to appear when that State is called
upon to vote upon issues of n more National
character. Next fall the contest will be for
Presidential electors, members of Congress
and members of Assembly. Parties will be
divided on National issues, and there will
be no room for lactional divisions or per-
sonal alterations The differences that have
sprung up under the friction of personal
and local ambition, and have marked the
recent contest more distinctly than is de-
sirable will entirely pass out Of sight. They
will not appear rs a disturbing element of
the campaign. There will be no occasion
for the exercise of scratching talent. There
will be no voting in the air. The issue will
be plain, and the line will be distinctly
drawn between the Republican and Demo-
cratic parties. Those who favor honest
money-the sovereignty of the National
power over what is known rs State sOver-
eighty, and the supremacy of the Constitu-
tion in all its guarantees over sectional rev.
olution and outlawry-those who believe
that the rights of freedom and equality be-
fore the law are more dear to the American
citizen than the mere qualification of per-
sonal ambition aud the enjoyment of the
spoils of office, will be found acting and vot-
| ing with the Republican party.


On the other hand, those who favored
and aided secession and rebellion; those
who have subsequently labOred to subyert
the Constitution of the United States and
defeat its most important guarantees to the
American citizen those who have banded
themselves with arms in their hands to de-
spoil q portion of the American people OF
the right of suffrage on account of race
color and political belief; those who favor
home rule; those who have subyerted the
popular will by intimidation, violence, MUIR
der, ballot-box stuiiing and false counting
of votes, and all who sympathize with these
nefarious practices, added to other political
denominations too numerous TO catalogue
here, will be alrayed ON the Democratic
side of the lino-and thus separated, the two
parties will contest the field OF 1880. Under
such issues aud with results that impend
over them there can be no doubt where the
State of New York will plant herself II
will most assmcdly not be on the side o
repudiation, deprecated currency, viola
ton of the guarantees of the Constitution
toward the,ss.nbest citizen in the land, OIL
Year: 1879

The leading Republican press of New
York city and Albany, the State capital,
seem to have settled down upon the con-
viction that the entire Republican State
ticket is elected except, perhaps, the En-
gineer. AS the remote Republican counties
make their returns the chances of success
for the entire Republican ticket have in
creased until the question is now regarded
as virtually settled. We now thinl; that
the boom is genuine, and the time for q
Republican shout is near at hand
Year: 1879

THE people of Memphis now have
another favorable chance to build sewers
throughout th3t Inflated city; but it is to
be feared they will neglect it again. Like
the old farmer who didn't need roof on
his barn in dry weather, and couldn't put
one on when it rained, they court disaster
and calamity by their own reckless disre-
gard Of opportunity.
Year: 1879

DISCREET, if not cowardly, FERNANDO
WOOD remained abroad until after the cleo
tion. He has returned now to enjoy the
discontinue of the Kilkenny cats of the
New York Democracy and TO tell them how
it should have been managed and would
have been if he had been at home. And
he will promise, ever so unscldshly, not to
be absent next year, when his Congressional
term expires.
Year: 1879

THE Mobile Register says "the Southern
States are the most peaceful, prosperous
and law-ubiding communities in the
" civilized world.' The trouble with this
declaration is the assumption upon which
it is based that the section referred to be-
longs 10 the civilized world. The political
barbarities and social diabolsm which pre-
vail therein under the bloody guise of bogus
Home Rule serve to prove that this is n
false assumption. As for prosperity, we
have always claimed that the South is bet
ter off to-day than it was before the war;
but we admonish its people that the exodus
is lorerunner of disaster, and that if it is
not stopped very soon, the tide of success
will turn against them, their prosperity
will come to an end and the accustomed
and historical punishment Of grave political
crimes will be visited upon them. This
punishment, as all the world knows, is de-
yelOped in general commercial and agricul-
tural stagnation, arising from the absorp-
ton of the public mind in other matters
than the regular pursuits of Christian live
lihood. When portion of any people or of
any community become so devoted to the
bigoted assertion of partisan control as to
forget the obligations Of good citizenship
and resort to bloodshed instead of peaceful
methods of conducting their forms of Gov
ernment, this fate certainly awaits them.
Year: 1879

EUREKA! The Democrats have now
found what they term an "invincble"
ticket. 1t is SEYMOUR and MCDONALD.
1t is to be hoped that they may try the in
vincibility of such contrivance. Nothing
would suit the Republicans better than to
have that party enter its cemeterial domain
and dig up from its moldering remains the
skeleton of statesman who has been buried
for fifteen or twenty years and attempt to
galvanize him into popularity again, 1t
would only prove second burial after VEN
lilating the ashes of the past, Let it take
that shape. The funeral might be made O
little lively by the Republicans, but the sec.
ond burial would be inevitable.
Year: 1879

In the Democratic Debt-Payers Of Vir-
ginia had in the past behaved honestly in
the use they made of the school fund in
that State they would not now be hanging
between wind and water, doubtful of their
success or defeat. They have persistently
Year: 1879

robbed the schools, closed their doors, and
practically suspended the system of free
public education in many parts of the
Commonwealth, ever since they came into
power under the guise of Conservatism
sham Conservatism. The effect of this sys-
tenn of robbery was to drive away from
them hundreds and thousands of voters of
the poorer classes who distrust them. be-
cause of their enmity to free schools, and
who sympathize with the so-called Read
justers for the reason that they claim to be
the friends of that system.


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THE claim is made that the real issue in
New York was GRANT and anti-GRANT,
and those who believe and hope the Demo-
Gratis have realized any success or made
any progress in that contest, pretend
also to believe that the result was unfavor-
able TO GRANTS Thrd-Term propects. We
apprehend, however, that all this will have
very little to do with his denomination. The
speculative assumptions of political gossips,
based as they are upon the facts and figures
of to day, will have very little weight when
the Republican convention meets next year.
The fresher and more direct influences of
the long session of Congress, which will
then be in session, will have more to do
with the action of that convention than
anything else. BY that time, unless the
impossible occurs-unless, we mean, the
Bourbons learn something and forget much
more--the necessity for GRANT" will be
ten times more apparent than it is now.
And it must be remembered that an in
creased necessity of this kind will be fol-
lowed by an increased return Of Republican
wanderers in Opposition fields to the ranks
of StalwOrtism. In other words, the So
called Republican revival of the present
will then reach its eliminating and over
whclmingly victorious altitude.
Year: 1879

James Robinson, man over 81 years
old, of Melville, went last Thursday
with his little grandson to see Coles
show in Owensboro. He drew from
the bank while there 5000 on check
of =, 800 and went into the show crowd
and had his pocket picked and lost
money, check and all. There are a lot
of sharpers hanging around show
like buzzards around dead carcass and
the poor old man was,no doubt the VIE
tim of one Of these
Year: 1879

IfyOu hear that We have quit work
or that our coal is not good, do not be-
lieve it but come right along to the Tom
Brown bank and We will sell you the
best coal in this county at 81 cents per
bushel BACK Il ADAMS.


43 IS.
Year: 1879

As I am unable to call upon my friends in
person, desire to announce that I am candi-
date for justice of the peace for the Third,
Fourth and Sixth wards at the coming election.


E. BURNAND
Year: 1879

A IL IN WANT Of Minnesota asparagus will find
n it by calling upon TRUMAN NJ SMITH, at
the public market, as good the best and cheap
as the cheapest. He will have full supply this
morning, wholesale and retail. 102
Year: 1879

The man who invented the fish.
hook will some day have q monu.
ment. 1t will be a granite column
500 feet high, built by the boys
alone. A boy might possibly get
along with marbles, tops, stills, balls
and kites, yet he would feel that
there was an aching void some
where. A kite does well enough
as long as it will outsail all other
kites and the string doesn't break,
and q pair of stilts are good prop
erty until after the first fail; but
for real solid pleasure the fish-hook
can never be beaten. A boy will
always expect more and get less
from it than anything else invented,
but he never gets too discouraged
TO try again. Il


The Smith boy was observed try
ing his luck yesterday in a pond on
a vacant lot on Alfred street. AS
far back as last December his moth.
er promised him half a day out of
school as soon as the fish began to
bite, and yesterday was the glorious
day. Where there's water there
ought to be fish, according to every
-body's reckoning, and the youth
surrounded" that wee little pond
hole with its barrel of muddy water
with just as much enthusiasm as a
man would throw line into Lake
st. Clair. He had ham, sweetcake.
potato, dried beef and boiled egg
for bait, and when he had spit up.
Oh the bait and cast in his hook
all the Seth Greens ever BON
couldn't have convinced him that
he would fail of at least one good
big bite. For two long hours he
tished for sturgeon and pickerel and
pike, changing the bait now and
then and never forgetting to spit
Oh it, and as he hauled UP for the
last time he would simply admit
that it wasn't just the right sort of
day to go fishing. If he had had
a little one to carry home his tri-
umph .weuld have been more com.
plete, but yet his eyes were like dia-
monds as he met two boys on the
corner and called out


"Say! I've stayed out of school
whole halliday and been a-fisbing.
l didn't catch any fish, COS they
were all OH their nests, but you
ought to have seen the big frog
which tumbled off a stone y
Year: 1879

church next Sunday evening"" The
church was crowded on the evening
in question and the sermon was
awaited with breathless interest.
The pastors reference to the Chi.
nese question was brief but pointed.
"The stewards have told me that
unless l discharge the Ohinaman in
my employ they will no longer be
responsible for my salary. My wife
has learned to like John because he
is a good Christian, thinks SO much
of us, and does his work SO faith
fully. / now answer you once for
AL that the Chinaman shall stay
with us and 4 shall continue pastor
OF this Church until the c0hferehce
sees fit otherwise to direct me, sal
ary or no salary, starve or no starve! f!
/ have never yet been intilnidated
from what i considered my duty as
q Christian. And do not propose
to be now Brethren, it strikes me
pretty forcibly that it would be bet.
ter for you to follow the religion
taught in the Bible than that dealt
out on the Sand Lots of San Fran.
CISCO" Prejudice is prejudice, but
grit is also grit. There was ap.
plause from every side of the church,
and when the preacher left the pull.
pit a prominent member of the con.
gregation stepped up to him and
said: "Parson, you have partaken
of my hospitality in the past many
time. Recollect that my latch
string hangs on the outside when
you come that way. There is a
crust in our cupboard when your
salary fails"