smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

much certainty expect 4 connection
with Charlotte lons.bcGore the present
yesr comes to q close-in abundant
time TO reap tie benefits OF the Fall
trade.


Already, in anticipation OF the early
completion Of this road, some CT our
more enterprising merchants are be-
ginning to look forward to an increase
of business from the West. We shall
be greatly disappointed if a railroad
connection with Charlotte, and through
Statesviile with the further West, and
with the Southwest by the Atlanta Air
Line, does not mark new era in the
business Of our city. With almost no
railroad connection with the interior
OF our own State, drawing its trade in
spite OF these disadvantages and Of
some State prejudicce, We have built
up a city Of twenty thousand inhabit-
ants, and enjoy Il commerce which
attracts vessels from almost every port
III the civilized world. Connected d.
rectly with the interior Of our State,
and with the sympathy which mutual
interests will enGender, we may look
forward to a growth IN population and
business without parallel in our past
history.
Year: 1874

The WEATHER. Yesterday morning the
pavements were covered with snow. with an
upper crust of ice, and the trees were loaded
with ice. Early in the morning long lines
Of persons, going TO their places OF business,
marched in single file down the middle OF
the streets, where the only safe footing could
be found. In many places it was not until
late in the evening that thc sidewalks were
cleared fthcir slippery covering by the effects
OF the bright sunshine and by the use Of the
shovel.


The limbs Of mauy trees along the streets,
and especially on Capitol Square, were
broken down during Monday night by the
weight OF the ice, and fell across the walks.
Year: 1874

NARROW EscAPE.--As train on the Rich
mond, Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad
was going out on yesterday the colored fire.
man of the "Agent" Qhe locomotive which
tows the trains on the connection track), bay.
ing occasion to pass back on one of the cars,
was caught by The telegraph-wire, which was
bent down by the ice, and was in imminent
peril of being thrown on the track and
crushed beneath the train. Fortunately, he
succeeded in holding on to the car, and only
received some very severe scratches and
bruises and all injury in one of his eyes
Which may prove serious.
Year: 1874

ALE FOR FAMILY UsE-ESGILsu ALE, CREAM
ALE, AND roRTER.-To supply demand from his
many countrymcn here, HENRY BOWLER has now
an ale tha. he Aattcrs himself win fairly compete
with their home beverage beth in flavor and quality,
AMI with his universally cream ale" and
porter viii enable him To please the palatcs Of all.
Orders to Spring Park Brewery promptly filed.
Year: 1874

THE SPORTING GENTRY Of Richmond and
Henrico county INDUCED themselves in the
luxury of grand cock-fght at Rockets
Yesterday. The Richmond men claim to
have won eight out of ten tights had Oh the
opca son
Year: 1874

FAILING OF TIE CoRNIoE OF THE OLD CRY
HALL.-About five minutes after 10 O'Clock
last night an unusual noise and rumbing
was heard by persons even in remote parts
OF the city, which proved to have been caused
by the falling of the immense stone cornice
along the entire southern front of the old
City Hall building. The blocks Of sand
stone, which formed this cornice, were very
large, and the noise which was made when
the entire cornice fell to the sidewalk may be
very well imagined by those who did not
hear it. A portion OF the sidewalk, from
near the corner of Eleventh street to within
a short distance Of DR.. Tupper's residence
has been completely barricaded for some
days past by reason of the bricks which have
been taken from the old building and piled
up in the gutter or on the walkway. The
cornice fell upon the old steps, or, rather,
where they used to be, and also upon the
sidewalk, completely covering it, but for
tunatey no one was passing near enough at
the time to be injured.
Year: 1874

LEVY BROTHERS seem determine to keep trade
lively. They open the fall trade this morning by
making important reductions in number OF lead
ing articles, few Of which ale mentlonrdi In their
advertisement This is the proper spirit to conduct
business in, always keep busy, and then You won't
have to talk about dull times. LEVY BROTHERS
act up to this, and IN consequence have good,
steady, increasing trade all the time.


II all of our readers knew their own interests
well they would make all of their purchases at this
old reliable house. Every article that one caa
think OF can be found there, and at the lowest
price-u fact LEVY BROTHERS. motto is one
price and that the lowest; so don't complain OF
hard times and being able TO get along but buy
your ary goods at the place for hargains-LEvY
BROTHERS store, aud tue sum saved IN the course
of ear will convince you that our advice Is good
Year: 1874

Boar CArsIzED-NARRow EsCAPE.-On
Sunday morning four young men, John Will
hams, Alley Feby, George Bannister, and
another, whose name was not ascertalned,
took sail down the river. After visiting
the brewery they concluded to 60 further
down, and on their return they met three
nasted schooner coming up in tow. They
tried to hitch on to the schooner, when the
boat they were in was capszed and they
were all thrown out into the river. The
young man whose name we could not learn
was caught under the boat, and but for the
presence Of mind of Mr. George Bannister,
who got into the boat which followed IN the
wake of the schooner and caught hold OF
him and pulled him out of the water, Woula
have been drowned. The three others got
out of the water after some difficulty, con-
siderably frightened, and as wet as drowned
Year: 1874

Friend Dispdtch,-I saw in your paper of
Fridays issue about Gan Architects expert
ence of Putting on Slate Roofing by bedding
them in Hydraulic Cement" ANY one OF
experience might know that the roof of any
house newly built will shrink, causing the
cement to crack and not adhere to the sheet
ing or slate, by which if any water should
get in there is no outlet for it. The best
method of putting on slate roof is by put
ting it on lath and rendering it in full with
good lime mortar inside. Forty years. eXpe
rience as slater through this world ha:
taught me.
Year: 1874

HARD RUN.-Our reminder to the editor Of the
Sabetha .4draRce of what he once said of Phillips,
hurt HIM so desperately that he sent all the way
to Doniphan County for files of the Chief to
copy something that we once said against Price
and then, to accomplish his purpose, lie had To
falsify the record. Two years ago, We spoke of
q man who had suddenly become a strong a.iyO-
cate of Price. who had once charged the Judge
with bribery-the only case we ever knew in
which such charge was made. This the Id
rance copies, representing that We had endorsed
the charge. In the very same article, we dis
tnctly stated that we did not; yet the editor of
the idraRce, with his characteristic style, omits
this. And this is what the Donphan County
Republican calls getting ahead of the Chief.
Well, it does rather get ahead of us.


Phillips s25 and $50 hirclIngs do heap of des
perately dirty work for little pay.
Year: 1874




To THE PUBLIC:


1t is useless to deny the fact that a great Gala
nifty has overtaken the people in some parts OF
the State. The corn crop of many OF the coun-
ties has been entirely destroyed by grasshOppers


This is especially true in the west, where the
country has been newly settled, aud where the
people are lily prepared to bear the loss In
most of the State the wheat crop was excellent
but the settlers of the past year have raised no
wheat, and many of them have been relying upon
their corn crop fol subsistence through the COM
ing winter. IL is feared that in some localities,
some of the people will suffer for the want of the
necesSaries of life, unless some means be de-
vised for their relief


The Legislature has placed funds at my
diposal which be used for that purpose, bat
hope to he able to aid in CARRYING out some
plan hereafter to be agr, ed upnn, which will
avert suffering aud W. MT. The first thing TO be
done, however, is tn obtain full and reliable sta
tisties from the localities most severely afflicted
and take this method of suggesting for the con-
venience of the County authorities of these va
riOus counties, as well as for our information,
that the boards of County commissioners take
immediate steps to ascertain the exact condition
of affairs in their respective connties- Every
family in each Of these counties should be visited
aud q careful inventory made Of their cehditioD
and amount Of avsilable effects. A synopsis Of
this should be forwarded to the executive Office,
with such suggestions as the commissioner may
see it to make, as TO the means TO be employed
for obtaining the relief needed


An investigation already made in some Of the
counties, has shown them to be in much better
condition than was ct first supposed, and il is
hoped that like Investigations throughput the
sections affected, will dissipate in great degree
the fears hitherto entertained.


As before intimsted, am not clear ss to the
means which should be employed to secure the
needed relief On one point, however, am clear:
Kansas may be poor, but she can aud will take
care Of her own needy. THOMAS A. OSBORN.
Year: 1874

HALL VALLEY PARK Co. COLORADO July 81; 1874.


EDITOR Consolidating that many persons hack in
Old DOnphan County might be little interested to learn
how stand in Colorado this year will leave
to occupy a limited space in your columns. have been
in Colorado three months and in the meantime have
travelled portion of the country and and
versed with people from nearly part of the Territory


would say to all parties contemplating coming here this
Stay where you are; least don't come to
Colorado this year. Times duller and money
tighter than they here before Colorado is
you well aware. emphatcally mining country. Upon
the of the mining interests depends the prosperity
NJ branch inf hnsiness ia
Year: 1874

II Beeeher says that the condition of his
health has been such, that for the last twenty
years he has expected to fall down dead at al
most any moment. Mrs. Tilton is represented to
have been for a long time in very delicate health.
Just imagine what the uproar would have been,
had two moderately healthy persons with their
desires got together
Year: 1874

~ New York Hotel sends us a ten dollar
puff, for the publication of which, it offers us
$3.50 in fare, if We go to New York to get it
just the price for one day in the hotel. Such
generosity is overwhelming If they will send
us pass to New York and return, including
sleeping car, meals on the road, and little
spending money to see the sights in New York,
we'll accept the offer, and just sling ourselves in
that hotel for one day. But if we have to pay
our own way to New York, the $3.50 will be no
object to us.
Year: 1874

ABOUT LIBEL.-As the time for "straining over
approaches. some of us begin to take an interest
in libel snits. The idea that il the editor OF a
newspaper, in the discharge OF n public duty,
publishes statement which proves to be nutnre,
the law presumes malice, may have once passed
for law or comnon sense but of late years, since
Judges have found that they can decide law
without a gown Ur a queue, they have also taken
up some advanced ideas. In a libel case before
Judge Taft, of Cincinnati, within the past year,
he used the following language in his decision ::


Falsehood and malice these publications essential
the plaintiffs But generally where words are
published Of men which belous per against his cha
till the contrary appears by nroo that
the libel il false malicious without any evidence
the part Of him against whom il has been pubshed and
this fair presumption whenever man has volunteered
publish utter words defamaory Of another without
occasion Of self duty IN make
pertinent for him speak Du there is class Of
which form exceptions to the general rule and
essentially different those to which have referred
They in which the language published would be


belous and subject presumption Of fasehOod and
malice but for the occasion which h was used In the
discharge Of public private duty whether legal
moral in the conduct of his Affairs in matters where
his interests is concerned the occasion prevents the
ference Of malice which the lsv draws from unauthorized
communication and affords qualified def DEF ending
on the absence OF actual malice
Year: 1874

" A good deal of stress has been laid on the
assertion that but three papers in the District
support Price for Congress; but the Chief is the
only one of the three that has received any abuse
for it. The Chiefs County has gone solid for
Price. On the other hand, there are the Seneca
Courier and the Sabetha 4draRce, in Nemaha; the
Hiawatha Dispatch, in Brown, and the Wathena
Reporter, in Doniphan, that have been footing
away for Phillips with all the wind that was in
them, and not delegate does he get in the three
Countiesi
Year: 1874

~ Sol Miller herewith that matters are in
deed in fearful condition and that outbreak Is actually
imminent As for its startling the State Sol Miller
will confess for certain portion of what coming direct
ly interests him. As for he sensation monger shall
see what we shall see-kdnsas City Times.


Whatever you know about US, just launch it
ont, without any delicate scruples. We are anx-
ions to see whether anything worse eau be said
against us than has already been said. When
you get ready, it is needless to make any fam
ing preliminary announcement, but just let it
rip
Year: 1874

~ The following special dispatches were sent
to the LcavenwOrth Times, by the Right Honor
able Mr.. Stewart, of the Wathena Reporter:


wATHENA KAN, August 15-At the primary election
in the Third Representative District today Smallwood
elected delegate by large majority. SmawoOd will
have five Of the six delegates from Donphan County, and
probably all W. T. SrEwAKT
EDITOR TINES The result the Congressional dele.
gates is close but unknown yet The Central Committee
will hold the ballots till Tuesday. WAYS that are dark
When know definitely, will inform you.


WITS
As an able-bodied liar, W. T. S. bids fair to
prove a success, with a little practice. We won
der if Phillips made this sort of service part of
the qHd pro quo in return for his little eleemosy
nary gratuitiesi In the first place, the result of
the election was known Saturday night; and in
the second place, but two of the delegates to the
State Convention from this County are for Small
wood for Governor If more than these two vote
for him, it will be owing to some circumstance
that may arise hereafter
Year: 1874

ES 1t is interesting to hear an editor with SIS
or $50 of Phillips money in his breeches, throw
ing out bis insinuations relative to the Chiet g
support of Price, who is not able to pay any man
q dollar for his support
Year: 1874

u The Atchison Champion has come ont in q
bran new dress. In age, the Champion is next to
the Chief in Northern Kansas, and we have a
fatherly feeling for it. Sometimes it gets little
huiiy at us, bat is 6rst-rate paper nevertheless,
and we are glad to see that it is going right
ahead.
Year: 1874

gitimate channels Of business
and demoralize commercial as well as
social life; that any further expansion
would increase the difficulty Of resump-
tion; that any addit ion to the currency
would not satisfy, but excite the de-
mand for more money, and put tne
country still further on the road to
bankruptcy. Resumption now would
lay basis for our new pros
perity, and a sound one could not
be had, unless IRE, ieemable paper
currency be done away with. The ma
ton had suffered ills of the crisis; now
let it reap the benefits. He intended to
vote for the resolution of the minority
offered by the senator from Delaware,
aud il that failed he would sup
p1rt that reported by the chairman
as the next best. He hoped y bill
would so1n be reported providing
for a return to specie payment. The
senators all said they were ready to re-
turn to specie payment. Let there be a
little less protestation, and more action.


Where there is will there is a way,
and he hoped that ii would be said when


the way was found the way was not


wanting.
Year: 1874

Duke de Broglie has informed the
committee on the electoral bill that the
government accepts twenty-five yea
Of age and three years residence as the
Qualifications for voter, and ls In favor
Of the appointment OF a senator by the
government or the council general IN
the event OF the creation OF all upper
house.
Year: 1874

> How 1T STRIKES TnEM.-Republicans in all
parts OF the State whenever they pay any atten-
tion to the matter, seem to rejoice that there is
prospect of harmony among the Republicans of
DoniPhsn County. Singular as it may seem, the
only displeasure at the prospect exists in this
County, with men who claim to publish a Repub-
'lican organ, and who, by all MEANS ought to be
the foremost in promoting harmony; but who,
on the contrary, grumble at the prospect, and use
all the means in their power to discourage it.
To show how it is regarded elsewhere, we give
the following extract as g sample, from private
letter written us by one of the best and most
prominent Republicans in the State:


was glad to your article on Nathan Pr;ce and In
that many papers have copied IL He is rood man
Your District" - ~ enosr iro"
Year: 1874

With great unanimity, the press OF Kansas Is
advocating the reelection OF Auditor Wilder
In this tbey but echo the voice OF the people.
Our own sentiments upon the subject have been
expressed decidedly and frequently, and they do
not differ from those of the masses 1t is the
oeprral impression that Mr.. Wilder will be nom-
mated and reelected without opposition. Yet
there is danger in this sense Of security. While
the peopIe are for Wider he has bitter and ener-
petic enemies. For years, there has existed
ring in Kansas, composed of bankers and specu-
Iators. Who have made it business to speculate
in the funds and the scrip of the State. They
have had the use of the public money in their
banking operations, and when holders of State
warrants presented them at the Treasury for
payment they were told there were no funds.
These spectators have then stepped in and
bought the scrip at discount. and drawn the
money on it, hich was in the Treasury or in
their own hands This ring has not been con-
fned to Topeka, but has included bankers in va
rions parts of the State. They have had
dersta1iing with every State Treasurer that
Kansas has yet had, who have played to their
hands, aud shared their profits. They could not
carry on their business without the complicity of
the State Auditnr, 6very one of whom they found
pliable and willing. until Auditor Wilder came
into Office. He was the inst officer who ever pat
his foot down on the System; he denounced and
exposed it, and brought the Treasurer to dishon-
or, if not to punishment, and forced him ont of
Office These men will not tamely relnquish so
good thing. They will say nothing, aud seem
to be floating with the popular current, but will
leave no effort untried TO secure the election of
delegates whom they can control against the re-
nomination of Wilder. In this they will be ai'l-
ed by the friends of the late Treasurer, who will
strive desperately for revenge.


The people will dn well not to take the renom-
ination of Wilder for granted, but to attend the
election of delegates, and elect men whom they
know to be right and, if necessary instruct them.
Year: 1874

is recognized as a man of executive ability. He
acquitted himself admirably last winter Chair
man of the Committee on Ways and Means in
the Legislature. These gentlemen are both good
fellows in everything save politics. Should eth
er of them be nominated, it will become our
pleasing duty to attempt to show to the people
Of Kansas why they should not be elected.
Year: 1874

DIR. Bells method of skin grating,
as performed in numerous cases at the
Royal Inirmary, Edinburgh, has prov
ed very successful. In procuring por-
tions Of skin for this purpose he takes
them from some sound portion Of the
patients body, preferably from the arm.
A piece of skin i pinched up by pair
of COMMON catch-forceps, and cBt off to
the required size with pair Of scissors.
This piece is divided into smaller pieces
about the size Of a grain of rice, and is
planted among the granulations Of the
ulcer by means of probe, one small
piece being sufficient for about a square
inch of surface. Over each of the CRAFTS
is hid a piece of gutta-percha tissue,
half square inch in size previously
dipped in some antiseptic solution. The
ulcer is then covered by two layers of
similar pieces of gutta-percha tissue,
placed on each other in an imbricated
manner, and over these a dressing Of
antiseptic gauze and a bandage; this
dressing is not removed for two or three
days, when it is replaced as at first. To
insure success, before grating the ulcers
should be free from fetor, and the dress
ing under spray.
Year: 1874

One Of the most remarkable suicides
ever committed came TO light at Sharon,
on Wednesday. William Miller, man
Of thirty -four, who had shown some
signs of softening of the brain, and lived
in house by himself, had not been seer
since Sunday, and boy lookidg in at
one of the windows saw his body lying,
face downward on the floor. An inves-
tigation showed that he had arranged in
the story above the one where he was
found, a sort of guillotine. A scythe
blade was placed so as to turn by its heel
on a pivot, just above a block where the
victim was to lay his head; the end Of
the blade passed through partition into
an adjoining room, and to it was attach
ed bag full of irop, and all was so con-
structed that he could bring the blade
down upon his neck by pulling peg.
Miller had, however, miscalculated the
weight necessary to cut off his head, and
after his throat had been cut and the
jugular vein and the windpipe had been
nearly severed, he had managed to raise
the knife and go down stairs, where he
died. Miller had told a sister who visit
ed him on Sunday, that she must not go
up stairs, as he had trap for a man up
there. The family to which Miller be-
longed was a respectable one.-SpiHg-
field, Mass, Republican, March %.
Year: 1874

The OK is a ruminant--and all rumi-
nants masticate their food the second
time, or rather first swallow and then af-
ter some time commence the process
called "ruminating," or popularly called
"'chewing the cud." Let us trace this
process in the COW.


The tongue first collects mouthful
of grass into bundle, when it is nipped
off by the teeth of the lower jaw and
the grasping power of the muscular
lips. She does not pause to masticate
now, but swallows it whole. Itdescends
to the first stomach or rumen, which is
only storehouse in which the food is
kept till wanted. The first stomach
consists of four small subdivisions, and
the coat is covered with thousands of
little elevations, which doubtless pro-
duced some chemical change in the new
ly-received food, From this first stomach
the food passes into the second, which is
very much smaller and very complex in
its structure. 1t is covered with multi
tude ofsmall cells, from which tits often
called the honey comb. In this second
stomach the food takes the form of
round compact masses, which are re-
turned through the gullet to the mouth
by the muscular action Of the stomach.
Now begins the process of ruminating,
during which he seems to enjoy the
very perfection of animal bliss AS
each portion of the food is properly
masticated it passes direct from the.
mouth to the third stomach. This is
accomplished by the closing of the tube
that leads to the second and third
stomaehs. The third stomach
is very small and called many
plus, from the numerous folds of which
it is composed, arranged like the leaves
of book Between these active folds
the food resists a short time, when it is
passed into the fourth or true stomach,
where the process of digestion is COM
pleted, and the food passes into the or
ganization.