smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

Brief ItenS.-Owing to the resolution
adopted by the Board OF Governors Of the
Beethoven Association relating to their
muSicaieS during the summer there will be
no entertainment tonight, and the Beetho-
zen newspaper the organ Of the Assoca-
tion) will be published semi-monthly in
stead OF weekly, as heretofore. The Bee
h0uen has become an interesting little sheet,
and to be without it would be- great loss to
the Association.


The clerk OF the Hastings Court has is
sued several marriage-licenses during the
past week, the contracting parties being all
white.


a regular meeting OF the City Council
will take place tonight at Council Chamber
Hall at O'Clock, at which time a resolution
for summer recess will be adopted.
Burfoot Wake, Emmett Duval, and
John Carey jerks, OF this city, left here
last night in small sail.boat for Petersburg
and City Point on fishing expedition
They will be gone several days. They
sailed in the "Bonnie Jean "-the boat
which won the medal at the Brewery few
days ago, and said to be the fastest cat-boa
on the river.


Our city was visited by heavy wind
storm yesterday afternoon, scattering th'
dust, greatly to the discomfort OF persons
who were caught upon the streets. Th
people generally were sadly disappointed n
not having q rain, as it fell very fast Jus
beyond the corporate limits.
Year: 1879

PEsTILENCE IN WOODEN PAyEMENTS.-
We may never have an epidemic Of yellow
fever here, but it might occur. and if it
ever, does occur, every yard OF wooden
would have to come UP before
the plague. could be stamped out. 1t is
probable that other diseases are harborcd
by the decayed wood in our streets. just as
the yeIIow.fever germs were protected
from the freezing temperature by the un-
sound wood of the Plymouth Louis
Times Journal
Year: 1879

A great demand exists for facts in


regard TO the liquor traffic. and who
ever can contribute them should now
come forward. We want the figures OF
arithmetic and finance more than those
OF rhetoric aud pathos, as the best
means OF handling this unpleasant
question. The general business Of the
Lansing House has been nearly one
third larger for the present winter
than 10 was in 1877, the price Of board
and rooms being somewhat reduced. -
But this increase Of business does not
bring an increase OF drinking at this
hotel. The average daily receipts at
the bar in 1879 are only l3 per cent. as
much as they were ia 1877. Less
drinking therefore takes place among
the frequenters OF the hotel, and they
furnish fair average for the general
community. The red ribbon reform
has done something, but the tar Law
has also done something, to check the
baleful tide Of Intoxicating drink. The
character OF the members OF the pres
ent legislature is an evidence Of reform
since 1873, year when we had the
most bibulous body seen in Michigan
for long period. IL the tax law is
injurious 20 temperance. az some con


tend, how does it happen that 20 years


prohibition brought forth a Legislature
like that Of 1875, while stringent taxa.
ton for only four years brings forth
one like that OF lST9?-I Lansing Rep
Year: 1879

The United States mail car on the
Michigan Central Railroad, bound
vest, Friday, Vas discovered TO be on
FIRE as the train halted al Battle Greek,
says the Journal The fire caught
from q spark from the engine. which
lodged in the roof Of the front part oi
coach. Very fortunately IL was dis
covered before the flames had made
much headway, and was extinguished
with q few pals OF water.
Year: 1879

They have a real simon pure home
made rapping and talking ghost in
Bloomer township. II locates the
whereabouts OF the body OF certain
man thought to have been murdered,
and paralyzes any one who calls il q
Itar
Year: 1879

In the middle of the. fight at Rorke's
Drift, when the Zulus had fired the hos
pital, q rush was made by band of the
enemy to fire the stOrchouse, the other
building which Outlasted the defense.
As fast as these Zulus came on with fire
brands they were shot down, but one
managed to escape the fire and got in
close TO the wall of the stOrehouse. The
defenders, with their rifles through the
loop-holes, could not slope their weapons
to kill him, and 1t seemed as If his pur-
pose of firing the thatch on the roof of the
house should succeed. Fortunately, a
young corporal of the army service corps
named Atwood, bethought himself of a
plan to rid the camp of the Zulu. As
luck would have it, there was. q small
square hole in the wall which had been
used as q window, and the Zulu happened
to get below this. Atwood, with his car
bine. made his way to this hole, and push
ing out his weapon, let it hang pointing
to the ground. 1t was impossible to take
aim in his awkward position, so he trust
ed to fate. The Zulu had by this time
stuck firebrand on the end of his assegai
and was in the act of rising up to set fire
to the thatch when Atwood, not seeing the
Zulu at all, but knowing about his po-
The shot probably, in fact, saved Natal
at daylight was found at the spot with his
skull smashed in, and the assegia, with
the firebrand stuck on the end Of il, held
tightly in his dead hand.-(Durban letter
in Edinburgh Scotchman.
Year: 1879

Perhaps" says the Boston Transcript,
sit is because of the growing scarcity of
available men, perhaps it is because OF the
increasing independence of the fair sex
whatever the reason, it is tact patent to
sll who frequent places of amusement that
ladies venture abroad in the evening with
out male escorts far more frequently than
they did ten years ago, and it is greatly to
the credit of our city that they can do so
with impunity. A lady would hardly go
out alone of an evening, but if accompan-
led by another of her sex, especially if one
of the pair be tolerably along in years
it is not necessary to give exact figures
shoth feel comparatively safe. The result
ID that young men are not quite so much
of necessity as they once were, and are
made to feel that they are no longer indis-
pensible. Time was when young man,
simply because he was man, was permit
ted to feel that he was a very important
creature, but now that male escort can
with propriety be dispensed with on Occa-
sion. he has been made to descend from
his high horse. He was wont to impose
his cheap horse and slang on his lady
friends, and was permitted to parade his
conceit and ignorance. simply besause he
was necessary evil; but times have
changed all that, and he now often finds
that unless he can command respect by
his knowledge, his character or his gentle
manly department, his room is considered
more desirable than his company. All of
which is having an excellent effect upon
the average young man of the period"
Year: 1879

We don't believe these spots on the sun
have any influence on the weather at all,
we don't care what the astronomers say
We believe they are pasted on the sun
just like the liver-colored spots on q
cloud blue meat hound, for ornament and
variety.
Year: 1879

are very appropriate in these days of horse
racing when SO many young men are learn
ing to bet. 1t says:


"There can be no question about the
good antecedents of the deceased, of his
careful training and exemplary culture,
yet under the influence of low associations
we find him yielding to the passion of
gambling and its attendant evils. Every
intelligent man must know of the dangers
which beset such habits and associations,
and yet hundreds Of young men with high
aspirations and noble impulses delude
themselves into the belief that they can
indulge in such snares and escape scot-free.
This is a grand mistake. The greatest loss
in gambling and kindred evils is not in the
stakes passed from one to another, but in
the loss of that inherent self respect which
is the conservator of every reputable mans
character. The very fact that a man will
allow himself to take friends money, won
by gambling, is an evidence that he has
swerved from that fine sense of honor
which is the very foundation of all true
manhood. Therefore we ought to avoid il
as we would rattlesnake."
Year: 1879

MAINE too is learning that the "world is
governed too much" By constitutional
amendment adopted at the late election
the Legislature will hereafter meet in
biennial sessions instead of yearly as
formerly. The sentiment is growing that
fewer and shorter session of our Legisla-
lures would be more in harmony with the
public interest. We are ahead of Maine in
that we have always had biennial sessions,
but many of our people think that if the
Legislature met every four years instead of
every two, we would be saved much un.
necessary and expensive legislation. 1t
takes about half the session at cost of
nearly 100000 to break them into the
duties of law making, and much of the
remaining time is spent in putting through
'jobs" for political adventurers, or class
legislation of no benefit except to those di-
rectly interested.
Year: 1879

THE DOVER FAIR.-The State Fair was
closed on Friday last, and the closing day !
was such an one as the managers could not
have improved on if made to order-bright,
bracing and calling out throngs OF people.
The fair was on all sides voted success.
II was what it was intended to be, the "big-
eestn thing ever held in Dover. 1t remains
To be seen whether this immense success
NAV not prove its great element of weak
ness. Was it natural or the result of an
over dose of stimulants? Opinions will
differ on this point as influenced locally or
from some official connection with it. 1t
was certainly a great departure from the
simple agricultural show. Not that it was
deficient in this particular, but that other
things were made so paramount that agri-
culture was, by force of circumstances,
thrown completely in the back ground.
From the first, by the published bulletins
of the management and from the large
premiums offered, it was apparent that the
races, the tournament, that which ex-
cited and stirred the blood of the thousands
of spectators-would be paramount to all
other things. We are not now complaining
Of speed. The horse as a servant is mans
most valuable help of all the animals, and
there is no objection to developing his
capabilities, but the horse should not be
made the instruments of thwarting agri
cultural knowledge, which gives to him
his greatest value. The races were made
to absorb almost the entire day from the
time the mass of the people got on the
ground. In the excitements which follow
ed these tests of speed, 500 persons would
be absorbed in the turf to one who would
be enlarging his store of knowledge among
the agricultural products, stock and farm
machinery. True, the visitors were at
liberty to go where they pleased, but the
mass of them were tempted away from what
should be the legitimate object of such
fairs nine-tenths of the time they were on
the ground. We believe in fairs, and
thus write as a word of caution to those
interested in, and wish to perpetuate them
A gentleman who was one of the largest
exhibitors last year at an expense o.
several hundred dollars, did not exhibit
this year because the managers contrived
to keep the people on the race course mos
all the day. We know of similar dissatis
faction this year that will have like re
suit. Passing by the money expended il
premiums on jockey clubs that ought to e
to develop mechanical or agricultural art
the wagers on this and that race and tn,
immense school it has been in developing
betting among our young men, we caution
the directors that if they want to keep VI
the fairs for anything but race course
that they give exhibitors q better show
The latter do not object to reasonabl
time being devoted to the turf, but the
do object to going there at considerabl
time and expense to show their product
to few hundred spectators. Let us re
member that the Fair was instituted 70
the benefit of agriculturists in our midst
and not for horse jockeys and gambler
of other States.
Year: 1879

ADVERTISING SAEATs.-It has become so
common to write the beginning of an ele.
CANT, interesting article and then run it
into some advertisement that we avoid all
such cheats and simply call attention to the
merits of Hop Bitters in as plain honest
terms as possible, to induce people to give
them one trial, as no one who knows their
value will ever use anything else.
Year: 1879

LoosING JoKE.-A prominent physician
of Pittsburg said jokingly to a lady patient
who was complaining of her continued ill
health, and Of his inability to cure her." try
Hop Bitters u The lady took it in earnest
and used the Bitters, from which she
obtained permanent health. She now
laughs at the doctor for his joke, but he is
not so we'll pleased with it, as it cost him a
good patient.
Year: 1879

Some of the Fall River operatives are
again on strike. Out in that region they
seem to vibrate between strikes and defal.
cations. Their latest "strike'' effort has
been diversified by brutal and savage
attack upon some women and children who
happened to differ from the leaders, who
have thus lost the respect and sympathy of
all decent people.
Year: 1879

The Southern editors who abuse Tilden
because he subscribed so small sum for
the yellow fever sufferers do not exhibit
any good taste. They say he might have
won the Solid South to his support had he
been more liberal. If he could, it is greatly
to his credit that he declined to make the
speculation.
Year: 1879

TELEGRAPHIC.
Detection and Arrest of a Body
Snatcher at Chattanooga.
He Attempted to Ship the Body as


Cotton Seed and Fish.
An Extensive Counterfeiter Cap


tured in New York.
An Exciting Day Among New York


Stock Dealers.
Year: 1879

Mr.. EDITOR: In the Thanksgiving
issue of the Tsribune correspondent ap-
pears to have ''agonized" few sticks con-
cerning bit of information" pertaining
to the University" Postofice aRd Mes
senger. 1t is unnecessary to say more
about this settled question than that this
appointment of Messenger will prove
beneficial in many respects to the Cadets
and the Institution. The establishment of
the postofice would have been quite an
acquisition to the postal accommodations
of the University. but as the Faculty has
seen fit to refuse place for it on the hill,
it will, of course, be abolished. It is true
that the old arrangements for carrying the
mail may be satisfactory to the postotfice
officials in the city; also, it is true
that the new arrangement will
be satisfactory to them. 1t is true
by which the Faculty are enabled to assist
one or two meritorious students who
would not otherwise be able to attend col
lege;" also it is true that this is one of the
little "perquisites'' by which our Postmas-
ter General is enabled to assist and honor
one or two worthy and meritorious stu
dents who may not otherwise be able to
attend the University. He seems to think
a Federal appointment will terrify the
boys on the hill, and cause party spirit to
run high. This is hardly justice to the
students. That there are any on the hill
who are so narrow-minde1 as TO let an ad-
ministration appointment govern their as
sociation, we don't believe. No3e are so
prejudiced and mean. We have had but
one occasion to notice on the hill disre-
spect on account of politics, and that two
years ago. At the time this oc-
Cured, the man who treated his fellow
student with disrespect, because of the po-
litical virus entertained by him, was
branded on all hands as a fool" and, to-
day, we believe, were the sam thing to
occur again, the boys would condemn it
likewise.


If there are any o: these "fools" on the
hill to-day, they should be sent home, or
class formed of them at once and lectured
daily by the Faculty on the "evils of party
bias" and the "love of country" If there
be any on the hill, and this appointment
will expose them, God send it. Let that
man be published to the world. Again,
we ask, what student is so foolish as to get
mad when the Federal Government ap-
points an agent who may perhaps hold diff
ferent political views to himself? All this
cant about political preferment, in an
educational point of view, being unwise,"
is not true. This appointment being made,
the Faculty will take advantage of it, and,
as we said, if there be any cadets who are
so low flung, educate them to rise above
party bias, and to respect all
gentlemen alike without regard to
the political faith to which they
may belong. This appointment was made,
no doubt, because it was consistent with
the welfare of the public service The
cadets are thankful to Gen. Key for this
favor.


The Tribune correspondent asks that
the University authorities be left free to
manage their internal affairs So do we
S. mail transportation belong to private
individuals, corporations or Institutions


No, it belongs to somebody else. 1t be-
longs-yes-to the authorities at Wash
fOO
Year: 1879

SALINA, Nov. 27.-The boiler of a
portable saw mill at Rush Greek,
near here, exploded with terrible
force, Tuesday, blowing the mill to
atoms and instantly killing the en-
gineer, Joseph Hanger, whose body
was hurled in a mass across the
street. Three school children who
were passing at the time were Sc
verely cut and scalded, but their
injuries are not fatal. The mill
was an old one and the engineer
had considered the boiler unsafe for
some time previous to the explos
sion.
Year: 1879

IT is said by some that Blaine would
consent to take the second place on
the ticket, provided it was offered to
him unanimously and Grant would
have tue first. If this is so, the Briga-
diers might as we'll bang up the fiddle
and "disintegrate" in earnest. The
Atlantic and Pacific oceans would
have to be anchored down to bed rock
Or they couldn't hold the United States
during the canvass. Canada and
Mexico would have to expect to have
their toes stepped on quite often in the
next year. How we do pity the black
eye Democracy has in store for itself.


urant and Blaine! Hoop-la!
Year: 1879

The Atlanta Constitution wades
through column article to prove that
the revival of sectional strife was not
due to the extra session and the Briga-
diers. Too thin neighbor-and we
mean not the slang "too thin" but
the old English classical "too Thin.
There's an old proverb that says
silk purse can not be made of a soW's
ear, and just the same way you can't
make the truth out of a lie, the own
peculiar tenents of you party to the
contrary, notwithstanding.
Year: 1879

A young Market Square man and
jamie Lamb, whose virtue is not as
good as it might b., were installed in
the Hotel de Smith last night
Strange to say, however, they did not
seem to fancy being dead heads. and it
took some trouble and persuasion to
induce them TO enter the elegant suite
of rooms so kindly provided
for such people by the charita
BILE and generous city of Knoxville.
They, it seems, had imagined to-day
was Christmas instead of Thauksgiv-
ing and had been indulging in a little
too much postprandial, pre-Christmas
corn in the glass bottle, and as a conse-
quence were-well, at least lively.
Sitting in state in a fashionable buggy,
not more than hundred years old,
and behind a Bacephalus noted more
for its points than its beauty, they
were splitting the town wide open last
night at late hour, when Officer
Gleason undertook to have finger in
the PIE. They, however, nerceIvlng
his little game laid on the dreadful
whip and flew forward on the wings Of
the wind. Officer G., undeterred
by obstacles also dashed on, mounted
on the steed that nature gave us all.
Then followed race that has had no
equal since Tam O'Shanter Imagined
himself pursued by the devil, The
noble horse, though, proved no match
for the doughty Irishman, and just as
the oil Fair Grounds were beginning
to obtrude itself in the flying triplet's
vison, the majesty of the law was
vindicated and the run away pair
captured.


P. S.-Fragments of turkey intend
ed for their maslication must be di.
rected in care of Watchman Nose and
a large slice must accompany it to
guarantee safe delivery. Cashier White
will present their bills early Saturday
morning. May they long live TO alb
stain from such another Thanksgiv-
ing.
Year: 1879

The process Of repaving street, as man
aged by the Commissioner OF Public Works,
inflicts a great deal of discomfort upon
abutting householders. We will suppose
that the long invariable squabble between
the Commissioner and the Aldermen as to
whether the job shall be done by his con-
tractors or by their political ticket holders
has been settled, and that he has got full
control of it. Now, what is the experience
of a householder on the line of the work?


In the first place, barricade of stone
blocks is built along his sidewalk, three
feet high and four or five feet wide, narrow
ing the footway TO space scarcely sufficient
for two travellers to squeeze past one an
other. The stones are dumped and piled SO
roughly that the tagging is cracked and
splintered to IN extent which will cost him
a substantial sum for repairs. week in
tervenes before anything more is DONE


Then few laborers como and grub up tho
old pavement very leisurely, consuming a
week more in removing the debris from a
single block. At the outset they seal up
the carriageway at each end of the block
with additional barricades of paving stones.
and thenceiorward, until it pleases the
Commissioner to unloose the imprisoned
inmates, no cart, wagon or other vehicle
of transportation, except balloon, can
approach any of the houses. Visit
ors in carriages must alight at the
external barricade and pick their pas
sage among the stone walls to the DWELL
ings of which they are in quest All social
entertainments are suspended No parcels
can be delivered save by messengers on
foot. No fuel or heavy merchandise can be
delivered at all. The garbage and the
ashes accumulate in every kitchen and
cellar, unless the householders will pay
private scavengers whose charges are pro-
portionate to the trouble they must take in
removing rubbish by hand since there is
not room even TO trundle n wheelbarrow
along the sidewalk. When the debris of
the old pavement is cleared away there
follows another interval of repose, which is
broken ut last by the appearance Of u few
more laborers, who very leisurely upturn
the soil. and, by consequence, cause half
q dozen cases of malarial poisoning to
develop among the unhappy families of the
neighborhood. This accomplished, activity
is suspended again for an indefinite period.
II death occurs the difficulties OF conducts
ing the funeral may be oonjectured from
Year: 1879

The Secretary of State made an in
teresting speech last evening, much of
it in the witty and facetious vein in
which he excels. 1t is not sur
prising that Mr.. Evarts made great
many effective hits, for witty thrusts come
easy to him. But it is surprising that he
can so far abdicate his selt-respect us to
come here and speak for Mr.. Cornell after
oil that has happened within the last two
years. and happened chiefly by Mr.. Evarts'
procurement, he being the member of the
Cabinet from New York with a special
title to be heard on questions of
New. York politics. Apart from his
instigation the war on Mr.. Cornell would
not have been made, so that when the
President and Secretary Sherman support
this candidate they merely make an i'm
piled acknowledges that they were mis-
led by the New York member of the Cabinet
But for Mr.. Evarts himself to come out for
Cornell in public speech seems like eat
ing very different kind of leek.


Mr. Evarts might have found excuses
enough for keeping out of this canvass.
Has he nothing to attend to at Washington
in his own department? He might employ
his time more usefully in trying to find
somebody to fill the London mission which
has been SO long vacant, and the st.
Petersburg mission, which is vacant Are
these important posts kept untitled
merely to excite the political zeal
of aspirants, thus using them for party
purposes instead of in the interest of the
country? With SO much neglected busi-
ness in his department Mr.. Evarts could
have found enough to occupy his attention
without going upon the stump and pocket
ing his pride to support Senator Conkling's
candidate.