smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

we're to be taken at once ; and Mary wrote
joyfully that she never knew how much
she loved Will until she saw him stand
ing before her at his fathers door, when
she had supposed him to be dead.


Not O word of poor Carl Blumenthal,
except to say that Will was SO good, he
did not blame her or Mr.. B. in the least,
and would certainly shake hands with
the latter should he chance to meet him
only, he was very glad that he got
home when he did.


We reioiced, of course, in Mary's JOY
but, if the truth must be told, we were
very sorry for ourselves and as to poor
Mr.. Blumenthal, he was scarcely to be
thought of at all-his future stretched
before us such a gray, dismal blank.
We broke our dreadful news to him in
fragments, giving him morsel at a time
as we thought him able to swallow it.


After long period of silence, the de-
serted German shook his head sorrow
fully, and said: "That one little
woman she have dreadful smile" (poor
fellow, he meant "irresistible '), land
she speak German like to break my
heart. She should not ought to with
her husband not dead"


Evidently he could not divest himself
of the idea that Mary was in some way
to blame for Mr.. Murphy's unexpected
appearance.


Brunhilda actually cried for sympathy,
and took a melancholy pleasure in rum
ming to the door for our letters. But
such is the ingratitude Of human nature,
that she was probably compared, some
what to her disadvantage, with the lost
one.


About six months elasped, when we
one day encountered our blighted friend
with fair haired little woman clinging
to his arm and looking very happy. She
was evidently German, and as evidently
his wife and he subsequently informed
us that she was an old sweetheart who
had followed him from home. She had
arrived just at the right time, to act as
poultice for the wounds inflicted by
"that one little woman with the
dreadful smile"


This arrangement naturally "made
things comfortable all around, with the
exception, perhaps, of two lone women
who had lost treasure that could not
be replaced.
Year: 1877

Not long after the stealing Of Charley
Ross, little son of Henry Dochmueler,
of st. Louis, was stolen. The father
had but little property, and was unable
to pay the expenses of an extensive
search; but he shrewdly hit upon plan
for.accomplishing the object ctfectually.
He read the newspapers carefully, and
whenever he saw an account of the find
ing of supposed Charley Ross he sent
to learn if the boy was not his lost one.
At length, two years after the kidnap-
ping, he saw m account of stray boy
in illinois, and, on going there, he found
what he had been 80 long in search of.
The child's hair had been dyed, and he
had changed much through sickness and
deprivation, but there was no doubt as
to the identity. He had been stolen by
wandering beggars, who had made his
pretty face profitable in exciting sym
pathy. The father is now prosecuting
the supposed kidnappers.
Year: 1877

The question of precedence having
arisen between certain queens counsel,
an affidavit was read in the supreme
court of Nova Scotia, setting forth that
the seal attached to the commission of
queens counsel appointed by TIE local
government, was not the great seal of the
province, but the old seal which was Or
dered to be returned by the imperial
government in 1869. The premier of
the local government admitted the gov
ernment had been using the old seal.
The court expressed astonishment at
such contempt for her majesty's author
lied and expressed opinion, and said that
all acts requiring the great seal done
since 1869 were totally void.


This state of affairs leaves Nova Scotia
to-day without a parliament and without
II government, with all grants of mar
riage licenses, consequently marriages,
and all commissions since 1869 totally
void. The greatest excitement prevails
in consequence. The chief justice, after
intimating that it would require i'm
perial legislation to rectify the matter,
adjourned tho court for ten days for a
full inquiry.
Year: 1877

If your seat is hard to sit upon, stand
up. If rock rises up before you, roll
it away or climb over it. If you want
money, earn it. It takes longer to skin
nm elephant than q mouse, but the skin
is worth something. If you want conf
dence, prove yourself worthy of it. Do
not be content with doing what another
has dol" on"-surpass it. Deserve success,
and it will come. The boy was not born
q man. The sun docs not rise like a
rocket, OF 60 down like bullet fired
from gun; slowly and surely it makes
its round, and never tires. It is rs easy
to be leader as wheel horse. II the
job be long, the pay will be greater; if
the task be hard, the more competent
YOU must be to do it.
Year: 1877

The Cincinnati Enquirer prints the
following bit of history in answer to the
inquiry of subscriber: The expression:
"Pull down your vest, was first heard
in this country in 1853. A New Eng
land deacon named Spilkins had n vest
which was too short for him. When in
heated debate or controversy his vest
would work up under his chin. People
who were listening to his discourse wonld
interrupt him, and tell him to pull down
his garment, and in this way the express
sion came into use rs q means OF check
ing bores.
Year: 1877

In the Criminal Court of Cook
county, Illinois, on the 9th inst
Judge McAlIister rendered a de-
eision in an application for a
writ Of habeas corpus on behalf
of q woman arrested FOR va gran
cy and committed to prison by
a city justice, under an act to
punish vagrancy, passed by the
Legislature of this State at the
last session. Judge McAllister
declared that the act was uncon-
stitutional and atrocious to the
last degree, in that it denies to a
person the right Of trial by jury
guaranteed by our State consti-
tution. He says the act was
passed during undue excitement
over the tramp nuisance, and
that he should consider he had
done good thing if he succeed
ed in giving the measure its
death blow.
Year: 1877

The House committee on etu-
cation and labor has called down
upon itself the female scorn of
unborn generations by cruelty
killing the project for a woman's S
university in Washington.
Year: 1877

The Democrats of the Southern States
claim now to be the peculiar and only
friends that the colored man can rely upon.
Their line of reasoning is in accordance
with the Southern idea of the destiny OF
the black race, now that he is clothed with
citizenship. The Raleigh IN. c. Observer
has recently read us a very respectful lee
ture on this subject, from which we are dis
posed to extract, to show the true inward
ness" of the South toward the future of the
colOred race. 1t says a greater mistake was
never made than to think that somebody
wishes to bull-doze the colored brother" 1t
contends that


If fthere be any danger to the negro It Is not
that he will be intcrfcrcd with by the white
| man, but that he will be severely let alone-il
| cOnsummatiOn that would work to his speedy
| ruin. The negroes have neither land nor
money, and If IL should so happen that there
| was no market for their muscle they would be
in a desperate condition. The end would OF
course be starvation, nor could IL be arrested
| by resort to violence. In North Carolina at
| least the white race has nothing to fear from
a resort to violence by the black race. The
day when such violence could accomplish any.
| thing has passed, for We once more hive under
| a government oil law


There is no disposition here to interfere
| with the negro save for his own good
True, We make no prctencc to putting our
selves on level with negroes, but still the
negro has all the rights before the law that Il
white man has. The benefits Of our govern,
ment he shares equally with us, while its
| burdens he does not share; white men pay
| the taxes to support the government that pro
tects the negroes, and they pay the taxes that
support the public schools that educate thcil
children; white men pay the taxes that sup
| port the normal school in which the teacher
of those children are taught white men pay
the taxes that support the asylums in which
the deaf aud dumb Of their race are instructed
and In which their insane are cared for, ant
! the pOor-houses in which their paupers are fec
| and clothed. All these things and more tn,
white people do for the black people in NORTH
| Carolina, and that too without thanks.


This is all very well so far as it goes. |
the people of North Carolina find the color
ed man without either land or money, an,
the common law of humanity is allowed (,
assert itself, they will find market 70
black muscle, and Tins enable him to vim
dicate his manhood and ameliorate his con
dition by his own industry. This wOul'
avert the desperate condition" with whicl
he is threatened The legitimate inference
to be drawn from the Observers argument i
that if the colored man will subject himsel
implicitly to the Democratic leaders, follow
where they lead, vote AZ they vote, an'
Year: 1877

AFTER all, JOHN BULL has not yet secured


that Needle. The caisson containing the obe-
lisk is now snugly harbored in the port Of
Ferrol, where it is to remain all the winter,
pending the determination of the question of
salvage in the admiralty court. The amount


of salvage is largely determined by the value
of the rescued property. Who is to determine
the value of CLEoPATRA's Needle2 1t should
Year: 1877

Washington, Feb. 15.-The Demo-
Gratis have recovered in great meas
ure from their panic concerning proba-
BILE future action of the electoral COM
mission, and many of them to-day ex-
press great confidence that Louisiana
can be decided in favor of Tilden and
Hendricks. These expectations, how
ever, seem to be based almost wholly
upon the conceded ability of Trumbull's
argument, in connection with the fact
that the commission has granted so
much time for discussion of the admis-
stability of evidence, and as the commits
sion not only heard able Democratic ar
guments, but actually received evidence
in the Florida case, which it subse-
quently decided was of no legal weight
whatever. Theprobabilities still strong
ly indicate strict adherence to the
principles then laid down, and q deci-
sion of the pending question in favor of
the Republicans. The exposition just
made by the Senate committee of the
true inwardness of the Oregon cipher
dispatches is the subject Of much COM
ment to-day and the Democrats gener-
ally concede that if they fail to secure a
favorable decision concerning Louis
lana they can no longer hope to make
much of a stand upon the Grover-Cro-
min electoral college business.
Year: 1877

A joint stock publishing company has
been started in Dundee, Michigan.
They propose to publish a newspaper,
and advertise for first-class editor;
who can do fine job work; who will take
cash, instead of potatoes and wood on
subscription; who can't be bought off
with a glass; of five cent beer from
speaking the truth when a sensational
local item appears, and who will work
for So per week. Here is a chance for
some one of the mauy active and self
denying journalists of Cheyenne, who
so frequently favor us with kind advice
how to run newspaper.
Year: 1877

No ONE CAN WITH SAFETY risk a
contact with the linen or clothing used
by person suffering with a contagious
disease, unless the same has been disin-
fected. GLENN's SULPHUR SOAP is
the most reliable disinfectant in use.


fS-daW1w
Year: 1877

We know of no one better pre-
pared to wrestle with the following
conundrum than our venerable
friend of the Cleveland Banner,
who asks:


Can any one tell why it is that
the soul of a young and pretty wO-
man is more dear to the average
deacon than that of a sGuint-eyed
woman with a wart on her nose ?
When we have seen young and
pretty woman 60 up to the altar,
we have noticed. half q dozen dea-
cons knock their heads together in
their eagerness to whisper consola-
ton to her bruised spirit. But
when the squint-eyed woman knelt
down only one deacon went neal
her, and he merely touched her or
the shoulder and said, "Pray fer
yently, sister, and all will be we'll


No one can long abuse health withou
suffering generally with blood diseases
Keep the blood pure by using Dr.. Bull
| Rlood Mixture
Year: 1877

Twenty Thousand People
old and young, every week. 1t is just to say
that the patrons of tho WESTERN
HETHODIST belong to the best class of
community.


We desire our business mon to make note
of the above facts before completing their
advertising arrangements for the coming
season.


We use our bost efforts to keep our columns
free of all irregular and irresponsible adyer-
tising; for many good people seeing an adj
vortisemont in paper, especially their
church paper. take it as guarantee of re





sponsibility. Such confidence should not be
abused when it can be hOlpcd, We want,
therefore,


This Advertising Patronage
Of such business meu and firms as We car
recommend to our friends and tho public
without compromising the character Of thu
paper.


our Terms shall be in Harmony


with ths Business outlook.


Send in Your FavOrs.
Year: 1877

IT'S APPEARANCE UPON DRY LdND
Terrific Encounter in Field Near Ca


hokla, Witnessed Throughout by q


Member Of WellKnown Family


beware tho Jabborwock, My Son


beware the Frumious Bandersnatchl"


The st. Louis Republicae gives
an account of a terrific encounter
between q bull and M unknown
species of monster that has of late
appeared in tho Mississippi River
and on it's banks. The story is told
by Mr.. Jabez Smith, como of tho
most reliable mon of the commu-
nifty"


One evening recently, Mr.. Smiths
son went to pasture to drive bull
home. Just on arriving at the pas
ture, he heard an unearthly noise
in the woods. The boy lodged
behind the fence, and the bull
squared himself for the unseen
enemy. In a moment moro


TIE MYSTERY WAS SOLVED.


From the edge Of tho woodland
there upreared a head upon q sway
ing neck at least twenty feet in
length. The head was that of q
wolf OF dog, save that there was
prolongation into huge bill or
horny jaws. This bill the Monster
opened at intervals, displaying n
row of immense fangs upon each
division, while as he opened it on
each occasion there was emitted q
kissing noise loud enough to be
heard for a great distance. From
the back of the head and adown the
neck depended mane of coarse
reddish hair. The monster retained
it's position for q moment or two,
swaying its head gently back and
forth, when it's eyes fell upon the
bull; then it at onco showed signs
of great excitement. It snorted
fiercely, the Kissing sound became
almost continuous, and it would re-
pcatedly open it's immense jaws and
snap them together with sound
like the report Of a rifle. It's hest
tatiOn did not long continue. Mad
dened by the sight of the bull the
monster advanced at once and
SWIFTLY TO TIE ATTACK.


Raising it's head still higher, it shot
forward over the fence and thence
over in swift, billowy undulations,
the fence seeming no obstacle at all.
AS the animal entered tho field it's
whole body could be distinctly seen.
The great neck terminated in a
body Of somewhat less length, sup
ported upon four short legs armed
with immense claws, though the
motions of the animal seemed to re-
semble rather those of snake, than
OF thing with legs. TO the body
was joined u tail quite us long as
the neck and terminating in huge
barb, hard apparently as iron, and
having the bright rod color of n
boiled lobster. The neck and entire
body were sheathed in scales of q
dark blue color and as large as
dinner plates. Most remarkable of
all was pair of huge membranous
wings which were folded along the
body on either side. Tho appearance
Of the great reptile was in lcscribably
fearful and repulsive. 1t moved
toward the bull, Kissing loudly, and
sweeping about the apparently
doomed animal in circles of de-
creasing extent.


Tho bull meanwhile retained his
position with lowered head and IN
occasional response to tho Kissing
by q short hollow. He was alarmed,
but evidently


FULL OF FIGHT.


His whole body was quivering,
and his stump Of tail stood out like
the limb Of n sturdy oak


AS the monster swept about in cir
cles, the bull turned slowly, always
keeping his front toward the enemy
Year: 1877

His whole body was quivering,
and his stump of tail stood out like
the limb of q sturdy oak.


AS the monster swept about in cir
cles, the bull turned slowly, always
keeping his front toward the enemy.
Suddenly the reptile raised it's head
to on immense height, opened it's
huge jaws and darted forward.


The boy in the fence corner saw
tho shock of the encounter and
nothing more. Instantly there aroso
such q cloud of dust as almost to
conceal tho powerful combatants
from sight The ground shook as
with somo internal convulsion The
air quaked with commingled bel
lowing and roaring, Dinly dis
cernod through tho dust-cloud
could be seen portions of bull and
reptile and tufts of flying hair and
chips of shattered scales. There
could be heard the snap of the mon
ster's jaws and tho rattle of tho
bulls horns upon it's mailed sides.
Flashing here and there through the
dingy nimbus could be seen tnA
Year: 1877

every point. There wasn't woman
worth having in his workroom that
wouldn't leave and go over to Miss
Drake at the first opportunity, and
none came back.


AS this dealer in woman's apparel
walked home that night he wished him.
self we'll out of the business. Six months
after, the staunch clipper, the "Plover, :"
again made the port of Hubbubble, and
Captain Hart. as jolly as ever, fastened
to pay his respects to Miss Drake. He
found her busy as usual, and so glad to
see her old friend that pretty flush
stole over he face. and a stray tear rest
ed on her eyelashes.


The Captain actually kissed it away
before the girls, which made the little
milliner blush in earnest. "The fact
is" said the matter-of-fact Harry, 81
have considered you my property ever
since 1 induced you to enter into part
nership with me in the dry-goods line.
And now you have got your cooperative
union in regular working order, with
such leaders as Lucy Wade and Jessie
Wilton, I think I'll take you on the
next voyage to select our own goods.
I've sailed clipper without mate
long enough"


"Oh, Harryl'' was all the reply he
got then ; but he proved good hand al
pressing suit. And when he sailed
again he took the milliner with him
no longer Miss Drake, but his OWL
dear wife.


Jessie and Lucy, tried and faithful
were left in the care of the establish.
ment, and many fearful eye followed
the kind-hearted proprietress as she bad,
them adieu. Across the way the re(
flag of the auctioneer hung conspicuous
on the morning of her departure. Jone
& Co. had proved failure in every
sense of the word. And now they wer
being sold out. "I'm sorry for him
and for every other man who is so fool
ish as to attempt women's business,
said the little lady.
Year: 1877

Poor GIRLs.-The poorest girls in
the world are those who have not been
taught to work. There are thousands
of them. Rich parents have petted
them they have been taught to despise
labor, and depend upon others for a
living, and are perfectly helpless. If
misfortune comes upon their friends, as
it often does, their case is hopeless.
The most forlorn and miserable women
upon earth belong to this class. 1t be-
longs to parents to protect their daugh-
ters from this deplorable condition.
They do them great wrong if they ne
glect it. Every daughter should be
taught to earn her own living. The
rich as well as the poor require this
training. The wheel of fortune rolls
swiftly round-the rich are very likely
to become poor, and the poor rich. Skill
to labor is no disadvantage to the rich,
and is indispensable to the poor. Well
to-do parents must educate their daugh-
ters to work. No reform is more impera-
tive than this.-Selected.
Year: 1877

to delegate certain of its sove-
reign powers, relating solely to
general interests, to a common
central government, specifically
retaining all the sovereign pow
ers belonging to an Independent
State, save only those thus del
egated. The Union was based
upon State sovereignty; it drew
all its powers and vitality from
a recognition Of the sovereign
right of the individual States to
form and maintain such Union.
But the compact being an act of
sovereignty, perpetual in it's
terms, and in the nature of a trea-
ty between two or more nations,
could only be dissolved by mutu-
al consent or force. The attempt
of one or more of the parties to
the compact to repudiate the
same. was a just cause Of war,
as would have been a violation
of treaty between nations, and
war consequently followed; not
by personal rebellion, but by
State authority; every act of war
was under the authority of or
ganized government incapable of
committing of treason.


These primary principles of
international law were always
recognized by Mr.. Lincoln in all
his official acts and proclama-
tions. Mr.. Seward never spoke
of the war as a "rebelliOn," in
his official foreign correspond
ence, because that would have
subjected him to the ridicule of
foreign diplomatists. Slavery
was abolished as war measure;
the Union was reconstructed
under the war power; and is full
time that We should drop from
our vocabulary a phrase which
is cherished in ignorance and
conveys to a large portion of our
fellOw-citiZenS 4 menace and a
taunt.
Year: 1877

The New York Herald hopes
that some arrangement will be
made between the cigar manu-
facturers and their employees
by which the latter will not be
driven from their homes and the
suffering occasioned by the
strike immeasurably increased.
The differences between the con-
testants ought to be compro-
missed as soon as possible.
Year: 1877

The New York Herald says the
death of Senator Morton dimin-
ishes the slender and waning
Republican majority in the Sen
ate. That body now stands 80
Republicans against 33 Demo
Gratis. Senator Patterson, of
South Carolina, who is under in
dictment for felony, Is likely to
lose his Seat by expulsion, and
his successor will be a Democrat.
Senator Davis, of Illinois, who
attended the Senatorial caucus
of neither party, will probably
act with the Democrats IN ques-
tions where they have right and
Justice on their side. If the
Democratic claimants from Lou
isiana and South Carolina are
admitted to seats the long Re-
publican ascendancy in the Sen
ate is gone and the Democratic
party will have a majority in
both branches of Congress. 1t
is certain enough that the Dem
ocrats will control the Senate
during the last two years OF
President Hayes term, and there
seems almost an even chance
that they may gain this advan-
tage in the Forty-fifth Congress.
The appointment of Dan Voor-
hees as Morton's successor re-
duces the Republican majority
to four, and to three as often as
Judge Davis votes on the Dem
Ocratic side. The almost certain
expulsion of Patterson will leave
a majority OF two, and Of only
one after his successor is seated


With Sharon absent, as he feels
at liberty to be great part OF
the time, the Republicans would
be annihilated as soon as Patter


son is replaced by Democrat,
and the Senate would be brought
to a tie on political questions.
But a tie would not destroy Re-
publican control, since the Vice
President, who is a Republican,
has a casting vote whenever the
Senate is equally divided. But
it must be remembered that there
are are three vacant seats, and
that the filling of these may re-
duce the Republicans to an alb
solute minority, when the cast
ing vote of the Vice President
cannot help them. Louisiana is