smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

seriousness, whether I had received my educa- tion at Oxford or Cambridge. Hitherto I had kept my countenance pretty well, but this abominable stretch of hypocrisy, and the plac- i'd mien and silver accent with which it was pronounced, would have forced laugh from a Quaker in the midst of a meeting I do not reccollect what answer 1 made him, but this recollect we'll: gave him to understand that 1 was no trout, and consequently, was not to be caught by tickling. This information led him to something more solid He began to talk about business

 1 taught English, and as luck would have it, this was the very commodity that Bishop Per igord wanted. He knew the English language as we'll as I did, but he wanted to have deal ings with me in some way or other did not care to take him as a scholar I told him that, being engaged in translation for the press, could not possibly quit home This difficulty the lame fiend hopped over in a mo- ment. He would gladly come to my house. 1 did not want a French spy to take a survey either of my desk or my house. My price for teaching was $6 month {; he offered me $20, but 1 refused; and before left him gave him clearly to understand that was not to be pur- chased WilEana Cobbett, 6y Edaoard Snaith.
Year: 1879

A baker has just been arrested in Berlin for making a gingerbread caricature of Prince Bismarck, and the child who ate it was taken into the back yard and soemnly spanked for assimilating Democratic ideas.
Year: 1879

The Volumes of the Bazar begin with the first Num- Der foriJanuary of each year. When no time is men will be understood that the subscriber wishes to commence with the number next after the receipt of his order.
Year: 1879

Dubuque uowa) Herald.


An episode in the career of two
well known young ladies is too good to
keep. They reside in the upper part
of the city, and are fond of riding
and may be seen on Main street al
most any day in a buggy, driving
down one side and up the other
being delighted with being the oh
served of all observers, The other
day they took it into their heads tC
drive out to the banks of the MaQuo-
keta. Tying their horse under an
umbrageous tree, the society damselS
sought the declining bank of the
river, and seated themselves upon the
velvet grass, fearless of snakes or ol
Intrusion. They amused themselves
awhile by throwing pieces of wood
and pebbles, when Miss H. proposed
to Miss S. that they go in bathing.
The day was hot and sultry, and the
proposition met with favor. They
sought retired spot, hid by hanging
branches, where they disrobed them
selves, and were soon up to their
waists in the cool water, splashipg one
another in playful mood While they
were thus innocently plunging about
in the classic Maquoketa, they were
not aware that young rural geutle-
man was revelinG in ~ che beauty Of
their charms or that he saw them
disrobe. But such was the case.
Two piles of muslin and lace, like
small hillQeks, were on the bank OF
the stream, and some distance from
the shallow place where " Undine and
Slntram were toying with one
another, To remove the hillooks OF
lace and muslin was the work of a
moment, The wicked thought en-
tered che mind Of Che amorous young
man, and in a twinkling the theft was
committed. The young ladies found
themselves sans drawers, sans chem
Use, sans skirts, sans dresses. Here
was a plight Two beautiful girls in
the garb that nature gave them, six or
eight miles from hOmel What was
"a be done2 One, who had attended
church more than the other, suggest
cd fig-leayes. But the other thought
Eve fool besides, there were no fig
leaves ia be had. Miss II started
Year: 1879

for the buggy. There was a lap-robe
there. That would answer immediate
purposes, as like the ostrich, their
heads and faces could be covered
hoping that the villain would relent
and return their clothing. Miss s.
was becoming unnerved. Miss H.,
while going for the lap-robe, found a
white pettieoat and black overskirt
which the thief had dropped in his
fight. The girls soon got into them,
and tearing the lap-robe in two pieces,
they arrayed themselves in primitive
style. They then got into the buggy
and drove toward the city, remaining
in the grove until Luna shed her fair
light upon the scene, and under whose
pale glimmer the young ladies sought
their homes and mammas.
Year: 1879

The subscription price Of the DAILY
PUBLIC LEDGER is s5 per annum and
SOC per month fOrlsss than one year. The
WEEKLY LEDGER Is 81 per annun-
postage free.


Persons leaving the city for the summer
can order the DAILY LEDGER at SOC per
month in advance, with the privilege of
changing pOstOfHOe.
Year: 1879

To the Editor Of the Courler-Journal.l


There is a great deal of unnecessary
alarm about fever and filth. What can
be done, anyhow, in country so free
as ours? Every mans house is his
castle, and if he wants to make it q
pig-pen who shall invade it2 One OF
the rights of man Is to stink. At my
house we often have to arise in the
night ard burn paper to head off the
odor of some liberty-loving nejghbor.
But would we deprive that neighbor
of his heaven right? Never.
The ungrammatical handbills that are
deGantly thrust under our doors, or
thrown into our yards every day
should all be put to tho flames
rather than thst the tender
feelings of our fragrant neighbor
should be disturbed. We ara all
too much prejudiced against epidem
les. The harm they do is too much
exaggerated. We cannot expect to
enjoy our iavorite stenehes without
paying a little something for them,
and we are certain to die, epidemic or
no epidemic; so let us be calmer Tue
people who die are neYeF missed The
widows marry, the widowers find new
mates, the starveling steps into a
situation made vacant by some hero,
and the world goes ON as happy as ever.
The moths that fall from the lamp
the flies that drown in the gravy, tie
men who are swept away In epidemics,
cannot be missed, Memphis is diving
but Memphis is marrying. Let us be
hopeful, 1t is noble, in any event, to
die for sinking neighbor, and be-
sides, death may take him off too,


DArp uarc,,
Year: 1879

Hamilton (0nt.) Cor Toronto Mail.l


To-day a rumor was whispered
among the guests of one of the lead
ing hotels in this city to the effect
that young lady had been deserted
by her reputed husband, with whom
she was living in the hotel for few
days past. The facts, as far as can be
learned by your correspondent, showed
that the rumor was too true most
respectable and well connected
young lady was abducted from her
home in England on a promise of
marriage that her honor had been
destroyed, and that the base scoundrel
who perpetrated the deed had aban-
doned her for the arms of an actress.
1t appears that the principals in this
story were brought up together in a
southern town in England and had
latterly formed warm attachment
for each other A few years ago the
young man emigrated to this
country, where he remained until a
short time since, when he deter
mined upon revisiting his home
and once more seeing the young and
innocent companion he had left be-
hind. The meeting of the two was of
the most affectionate nature, and
during the time that subsequently
elapsed old vows were replighted with
more sincerity on account of years oil
separation. Amid all this pleasant
dream, little did the innocent, con.
fding girl of nineteen know, as il
afterward turned out, that she was
taking a viper to her bosom, who woulC
ere long sting her affection with I
deadly fang. After a short courtshil
the marriage was arranged, and it wa
to be consummated in England. Ii
the meantime the feigned lover wal
most assiduous in his attentions to hi
lyOung betrothed. As the day of tn
wedding approached an unexpectet
change came Ger this blissful scene
The ways of Canada had no doub
Iproved dark ways to the scoundre
who had returned to accomplish
the ruin of his too confdin
| lover. Meeting her one even
ing, he said We must fly to Amer
lea l have just taken $4,000 from m
father, and unless | leave the countr
he will have me punished. Whei
once there we can get married" Stil
trusting in his slove, the young CIR
scarcely hesitated, and that eveniu
saw them en- route for Liverpool
where they took steamer, and on tn
23d ult they were registered at tn


hotel in this ,city as man and wife
Here they remained until yesterday
when the deceiver, who had previOusl
introduced his betrayed lover as


friend, requested her to take a rid


with him in a buggy. She compile,
with the desire. Almost before the


left the door of the hotel, the plottinI
villain opened the boxes and tool
therefrom' a quantity of his clothe
and calling a carriage departed b!
the first train from the city. Durin!
a recent visit of a theatrical troup
here, he became enamored of one of tn
artistes and by an arrangement will
her he left to meet her at some givel
point. The grief of the abandone,
girl can scarcely be imagined whel
she returned and learned that tn


heartless villain in whom she had s.


lovingly confded, had cruelty deserte,
her, aftel plotting her downfall. TIL
young lady's relatives in England
who are very wealthy, have been tels
graphed to for means to take he
home. as she was left with only $40 b
the absconded sconndrel.
Year: 1879

'SUBSCRiBERS who wish to re-
new will do us "a favor by SEND
ING MONEY before their time
expires, as our mail list il very
large, and our force TO do the
work small. NO USE TO SEND
ORDERS WITHOUT the MONEY.
Year: 1879

For good beer go to the Excelsior Brew. cry. If you want good drink of beer call al the Excelsior Brewery. The best beer manufactured in Arizona can be found at the Excelsior Brewery. Splendid veal at the Tragic Market.

 Delicious veal at tho Tragic Market.

 Magnificent veal at the Tragic Market. Mountaineers at the "Cabinet."
Year: 1879

By the same unknown channel
through which the Grand 0uro Of the
Memphi annually notifies the good
people Of his loyal city Of Memphis of
the movements Of his weird and mys-
terious army, the LEDGER has received
his ticket for Mardi- Gras. The de-
sign is delicate and exquisite. 1t
tells a mournful tale for the approach
ing festival day. No display. Why?
The broken black link bearing the in
scription 1879, in contrast with the
golden links representing the past
years and commencing with 1874,
when Memphis was set ablaze by the
glories Of the 0uros displays on our
streets, reminds us that death and
desolatiOn have too deeply furrowed
the avenues of the city to allow
the wheels of his majestic
floats to roll along in blazing
splendor this sad year. In the
center Of this ring of links, and
in the distance, is seen the Egyptian
cayerns from whence the Memphi
come on their annual visits but the
door is closed for the present. Imme
diately in front of the cavern stand
two obelisks, and in front of them two
likenesses of the sphynx, the fabled and
fabulous. Down between the lower
portion Of the broken link appears an
armless and mysterious hand, the fin
ger pointing to link of silver, float
ing in the clouds, which encircles
the year 1880, and which in
dictates, apparently, that if all goes
we'll this mystic order will make glad
our hearts next year. The work il
done in colors and done we'll. The
friends of the Memphi will prize this
card beyond calculation.
Year: 1879

The legislatures of Georgia and
Alabama have found it necessary to
protect themselves against farmers
from Texas coming to their State in
search of colored labor For some
time past there has been heavy col
Ored emigration from these States to
Texas, to the great inconvenience of
Georgia and Alabama planters and
farmers, To prevent this a license
tax of 800 has been placed on every
one soliciting people to emigrate. A
farmer, therefore, who goes to either
of these States to secure labor is liable
to this tax as an emigration agent.
The result has been to very nearly de-
stroy this colored emigration.
Year: 1879

AREyou in business for yourself? II
you are you want to have your health so
you can attend to business. If you are
not, you want your health just rs much.
When you are "all run down, feel miser-
able and have no appetite, you need ton
ing up. To do this there is nothing equal
to Reeds Gilt Edge Tonic 1t restores
the appetite, purifes the blood and stimu-
hates digestion. 1t is pleasant and safe,
and its quality, purity and flavor are guar
tend
Year: 1879

Mr.. OWEN MURPHY, the New
York excise commissioner, who de-
parted from that city between two
days, something over a year ago, and
took with him thousands of dollars
belonging to the excise fund, has not
yet returned to render an account of
his doings. He has been heard from,
however, in very, peculiar way, He
was not formally removed from his
Office for full month after he had
abscOnded and now his assignee
brings suit against the city for his
salary for that period. For downright
impudence, Murphy bears off the
palm from all competitors in the long
and steadily lenghtoning array of
absconding and embezzling officials.
Year: 1879

Special to the Courier-Journall


ELIZABETHTowN, February pa
somewhat tough story comes to me
from the west end of this county, and
if it turns out as luckily as those in
terested have reason to hope, it will
be one of the most remarkable cases
OF supernatural influence on record.
The place is little village on Rough
creek, on the edge of Grayson county,
known to many of the Courier Jour
nal readers as Rough Greek Springs,
but to the geography of Hardin county
as Sulphurville or Hardin Springs.
The location is romantic, and the hills
and the steep decliyities and the ere
vassers in the rock-girt bank of the
turbid stream are large. 1t is Just
such a place as Captain Kidd, or a
modern edition of that somewhat my
thical person, would seek to plant un-
told treasurers. for it is one of those
spots where, by force of circumstances.
one would least naturally look for any
thing Of the kind. Be this as it may,
though, the story comes all the same
that Mrs. John Harris, who resides
there, claims to have had angelic as
surance on three different and sepa-
rately distinct occasions that untold
wealth was hidden in those dark for
nations Of nature, about one mile
from Sulphuryille, and angelic admo-
milton to search and We shall find. She
claims that the messenger Of wealth
appeared unto her in supernal attire,
and in audible and pure English re-
vealed unto her the location of a
mine Of wealth that would bring a
blush ofshame to Golconda or any of
its sister or brother mines of untold
wealth. Guided by the spirit of the
other regions, she was led to the spot.
and there was revealed to her in a
vision, as though etched in kying col
ors, the prize that it had pleased the
powers of the beyond to give to her


Like a good and dutiful wife, she
confded her vision to her husband
and pictured to his con6ding mind the
blessings in store for them by reason
Of this hidden store, and he, in turn
con6dcd his plan to his brother-in-
law, VIM. Hay, who, in consideration
of the help he should give in unearth-
ing this wealth, should share it with
the discoverers


Armed with this message from the
other sphere and such worldly tools as
were best able to cope with nature,
these two gentlemen sailed forth to
the spot designated by Mrs. Harris as
the one where the angel had set his
seal, and were soon engaged in a
rough-and-tumble battle with the
hard rocks under which the treasure
lay. They are still digging, and
buoyed by hope, for Mr. Harris can
not believe that such a thing as an
angel would practice deception upon
an unsuspecting and confiding woman,
or that premonition given so often
could be otherwise than material and
certain, So far their labors have not
resulted in anything but rocks and
dirt, but, nothing daunted, they will
reach the center of creation or find
that angels promised Golconda.
Year: 1879




SAN Francisco, February 26.-A
Portland dispatch says that at a meet
ing of the board Of trade the follow
ing resolution was adopted


Resolved. That the board of trade
of Portland, Oregon, heartily indorse
the action of congress in passing the
Chinese restriction immigration bill.
and earnestly solicit the President of
the United States to approve the same,
believing that in so doing he will not
only confer on the people of this
Northwest Pacific coast, but on
the American nation, now and
hereafter the, greatest benefits which
can possibly follow to the trade and
commerce of the United States and to
society at large.


The resolution was forwarded by
telegraph to President Hayes, signed
by the vice president and secretary Of
the board


SAN Francisco, February 26.-The
Republicans of the Eleventh Senate
rial district have telegraphed the
President asking him to sign the Chi.
nese bill as measure to promote the
happiness and prosperity of the Colder
State.
Year: 1879

DURING the past three or four days
there has been developed outside of
congress most determined opposition
to the Chinese bill A prominent
member of the cabinet says that the
senate amendment is the worst fea-
ture of the bill, and that he does not
think it will ever become law.
While the President has notexpressed
his opinion of the bill, even to his
cebinet advisers yet the opinion is
general in official circles that he will
veto it. Many kilograms and letters
have been received by him from prom
inent persons in different parts of the
country condemning the bill and urg-
ing its defeat.
Year: 1879

WHAT does it profit man to have II
good business and to be making money if
he does not have health to enjoy it, Many
mans life is made burden to him by
fever and aguo when, if he would only
use Reeds Gilt Edge Tonic he would find
speedy relief 1t restores the appetite,
stimulates the digestion and corrccts and
gives tone to the stomach, and is whole
some, invigorating and unhiling remedy
in bilious and malarial fcvcrs and fever
and ague.
Year: 1879

SENATOR CHANDLER of Michigan
in answer to letter of Private Dal-
zell, writes that his candidate for the
Presidency is the candidate of the
Republican party, whoever that may
be, whether Grant, Blaine, Sherman
or some other man. He thinks it i'm
peratiye that the Republican nominee
should be a man whose loyalty to the
party is beyond all question, and
whose reputation throughout the
country is such that all true Republi
cans can support him. The wording
Of the letter indicates pretty plainly {
preference for Grant.
Year: 1879

When Professor Graham Bell was
in London he was asked how he ac-
counted for the fact that large pro
portion of new inventions came from
the United States, and how it had
come to pass that he, Scotchman,
born and educated at home, should 90
and elect to live in America and date
his discoveries thence. He said that
the fact was, in his case-and he knew
that the difficulty was felt with others
that he could not easily obtain in
England those appliances which his
work required. If he went to an in
strument maker and ordered anything
out of the usual way, he was met with
all sorts of difficulties, and when these
were over he was confronted by the
cost. In America, on the other hand,
the instrument makers and manufac-
turers lay themselves out specially to
secure the custom ofinventors. They
will go to any expense or submit to
any inconvenience in the way of dis
arranging their ordinary procedure.
Of course they do not do this purely
in the interests of science. They
find their account in the business they
secure should the invention turn out
to be practicability. They are
always glad to get new ideas, or be
themselves put on the track.
Year: 1879

WEST POINT maintains itself in
public estimation by the fact that the
young men educated there are to de-
vote themselves to the services of the
country Many of them, however,
resign, and taking place in the rank
Of private citizens, devote the educa-
tion obtained at public expense to the
promotion Of their private interests.
Year: 1879

A worthy Baptist minister in the
West gently rebuking his flock for
their extravaganza in dress used the
word garbage supposing it to be a
more elegant form Of garb. Wild
hilarity in the choir and horrible con-
sternation among the deyout portion
of the flock.
Year: 1879

you're the connecting link be-
tween man and the monkey was the
argument used by woman's suffrage
advocate, before committee of the
Connecticut legislature, in answer to
a man who opposed her IDEAS
Year: 1879

THE Chicago Times concludes that
the Presidential confusion in 1880 will
he between Grant and Wheeler on
one side and Tilden and Hendricks on
the other, and then the people won't
care much what happens.
Year: 1879

In the Prince of Wales country
house, in Norfolk, is a weighing ma
chine, upon which his guests at din
ner or tea are requested to stand and
be weighed In a book close by the
desk record their names and weight,
and the costume worn at the time.
The prince likes whist and the prin-
cess likes bowling.
Year: 1879

cit surprises me to see young man like you here," said Judge Bowker, at Reno, Nev., the other day to fellow who had been whooping it over night. "You filled yourself up with an enemy to deprive you of brains, proceeded the Court, rearranging its spectacles and glaring at the culprit. "Now, here you are, a yonng man of intelligence with good clothes on, and doubtless you have @ mother and sisters who think good deal more of you than I do. You've been sent to school and taught how to earn a good living. In return flor all this you go screaming around the streets at midnight, tearing down signs and making wild beast of yourselE Is that like the conduct of a reasonable crea- ture? No, of course it isn't. Now, I'm going to teach you lesson, young man. You needn't turn pale, for it won't help you any. You're discharged. Next time you're tempted to take drink think of my kindness and refrain from the de- passing habit, for if I catch you here again up you go, and all Reno can't save you."
Year: 1879

Commend us, says an exchange, to Carrie Roberts, the young and plucky maiden who was "at home" to tramp who paid visit to the house of her em- ployer, in New Lebanon, Ohio. It is not every young woman who, being alone in dwelling and suddenly discov- ering the presence of a robber, would have had the presence of mind to make direct for his hair and to administer to him lesson that made him glad enough to drop his booty and escape from the premises, followed by several shots from revolver fired in quick succession. If tramps in general came across such en- ergetic domestics their intrusions would be less frequent and less impudent than they now are. Circumstances, of course, favored Carries feat, or probably we ought to say her hands. If the tramp had been bald-headed, or had worn a wig, she could not have given him such conclusive evidence of her strength as to convince him of the prudence of Q re- treat. We can only express our regret that Carries aim was not as steady as her nerves and that she did not prevail on her visitor to stop by we'll directed shot from her revolver, although he doubt. less left her a lock of his hair.