smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

WHY SHOULD WE BE AFRAIDl-There
is said to he ghost in a cemetery at
Geneva. We do not see why this should
cause the slightest degree of excitement.
If nothing but ghosts were to go to ceme-
teries hereafter it would be o comforting
assurance to all of US. 1t is strange that
people should have such an apprehension
about what are called GHOSTS" We
know for certainty that We all live lit.
tie Wholesome longer and some shorter,
the difference being nothing at all as
compared with eternity-and we die. If
we ever come back may we not come as
"ghOstSr


Then why should we ever be afraid of
what arc called "ghostsP
Year: 1878

THE QUAKER's ADDRESS TO HIS
WATCH. MAKER.-"I hereby send thee
my pocket clock, which standeth in need
Of thy friendly correction. The last
time it was at thy friendly school it was
in no way benefited or protited thereby,
for 1 perceive by the index of its mind
that it is liar, and the truth is not in
it. Purge it, therefore, I beseech thee,
and correct it from the error of its
ways, and show it the path wherein it
should go and when thou layest thy cor
recting hand upon it, see that it be
without passion, lest thou shouldst drive
it to destruction; and when thou seest
it conformable to the above. mentioned
rules, send it home to me with just and
true bill, drawn out in the spirit Of mod
Grafton, and l will remit it to thee in the
root of all evil"
Year: 1878

A LAWYER who has given much
attention to the subject contributes
to our local columns the draft of a
grand jury section for the new
Constitution. His idea is to evoke
discussion and it is certainly a sub.
iect which deserves the attention
of our best thinkers.
Year: 1878

WE learn, from a gentleman who
has made minute inquiries, that
we have fully one hundred thou
sand sacks of wheat In this county
this year, Notwithstanding that it
was supposed that the wheat crop
was failure. We shall have Il
large surplus of barley, hogs, beef,


brandy, wine, honey and oranges
for export and the corn crop prom
ises to be simply the largest ever


known in Los Angeles county
Year: 1878

rhe Herald steam Printing House is
not surpassed by any Job Printing office
ON the Pacific Coast, outside of San Fran
oisoo, in facilities for doing job work
Low prices. good work and expedition
may be relied upon at this Office.
Year: 1878

One hundred and twenty-three men and
twenty-five women committed suicide in New
York city last year. OF the various means of
self destruction shooting was principally re.
sorted to; forty-eight men and one woman
having chosen this method. Thirty.six men
and eleven women, or nearly half the whole
number OF female suicides, took poison.
Sixteen men and four women hung them
selves, and fifteen men and one woman used
the knife or razor
Year: 1878

The people OF Westminster do not probably know
that, although they have on two occasions in Town
Meetings assembled, unanimously voted down
proposition looking 70 authorize the Corporate au-
thorites 70 issue Corporation Bonds for the purpose
of establishing Water Works, yet 4 Bill Tor that
purpose has been introduced and Is now pending in
the Legislature As the object OF this communica-
ton is simply TO call public attention the tact AL
comment Is forbone. The people will probably
make their own comment quite efiectually as any
individual could in their behalf. A CITIZES.
Year: 1878

The Philadelphia TmeS-one OF the
strongest aad ablest independent Demo
cratic papers in the United States-eX-
presses its opinion upon the Potter MeNi-
capization scheme very clearly and explic-
lily in the following paragraph:


The weakness oithe House in not expressly
affirming the validity OF the Hayes title in
the Potter resolution has brought the Presi-
dent to a manly and undoubtedly just decla-
ration of his rights and duties in maintain
ing his title TO his high Office against al at
lacks, by the whole power oi the Govern
Inent. In thus avowinG his determination la
submit TO no revolutionary efforts 10 dis
place him, lac but avowed his purpose I" per-
form what would be his sworn duty as Chlei
Magistrate OF the Republic. He may be i'm
peached if he commits or has committed
any high crime or miSdemoanor since
his Inauguration as President, lust as any
other civil officer could be impcached, and
removed If ad Judged guilty; but 10 2sSaii the
title ne obtained from the Electoral Commits
sion as President of the United states, no
matter on what prcteXt or how giarinS the
Louisiana and Florida frauds may bc proven
would be nothing less than revolutionary
and lawlcss attack upon the government IT.
self. Against all such assaults the President
would be bound by his oath TO defend the
government, and TO employ its army and all
its moral and physical power to maintain the
ordained authority of a law-loving people.
II is not only his duty to do SO, but 1t is his
duty TO say so on all occasions when the
question commands consideration, and he
has done the country an essential service by
his significant utterance at Gettysburg. BY
reason OF his deliveTance the President and
Congress will be brought 10 a clear under
standing OF each other, on the common plat
form of obedience 10 law, within the next few
days, and there will be peace because the
vocation of alarmists and deInaSog1es will
bc ended.
Year: 1878

ii other newspaper men IN this State had
the same kind OF stamina and backbone
that ID. Il. Anthony and Sol. Miller possess,
the Republican party might inspire some
confidence among that class OF men who are
classed as being Ion the fence" and gather
many of them into the fold. The hearty
espousal of the greenback cause by The
TINES and Chief if properly supported by
In, other papers OF that party, would be far
more eilectual than all their milk and-watev
pledges OF the party for the future.
Year: 1878

A list Of unredeemed lands and town lots,
each tract and lot being described az the
same is described on the tax rolls for the
wear 1874, with interest calculated TO the
last day of redemption, due on each par
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, June ., 1873.


EDITOR TINES As it is customary 10
open conversation by remarks upon the
weather, can see no objection TO offering
tha, theme as the introduction to letter
and, as it is a subject that presents wide
field for observation as applied to this par
ticular.region, it lacks the monotony which
usually attaches to such subject in coun-
tries where the people are not offered the
variety of that material that We have here
in Washington. Within the last month,
we have experienced the climate OF every
parallel of latitude from Panama to Hud-
sons Bay. To-day We are overcome by the
languor of an equatorial cline, and seek
relief in gauze undershirts and mint juleps
while tomorrow dawns upon Us with the
chilling atmosphere of Democratic eau
Gus. Overcoats and palm leaf fans, COM
bined with umbrellas and linen busters,
make up the necessary wardrobe for man
who starts out in the morning expecting to
be gone until dinner time. Rain arrears
seem to be the favorite article which is
dealt in by the weather bureau here, and
from the frequency of the payments that
are made, we conclude that IL original
bill must have been disputed by Noah, as
being short Of what he ordered.


DECORATION DAY


was very generally observed here, though
not altogether in the manner which its
name implies. Ii is treated as a holiday by
the greater part of the people, and receives
the sort of attention that Is usually bestow-
ed upon the Fourth of July and similar
festive occssions. The departments were
all closed, and those clerks whose pecuniary
| embarrassment prevented their indulgence
in excursions out of town, were compelled
to remain in their boarding houses and read
dime novels, or wander hopelessly about the
streets and parks, or sit on Long Bridge and
catch perch. About three O'Clock, a very
heavy rain arrear was paid over, which in
terfered to some extent with the pic mic
business in this neighborhood, but to those
of Us who had no invitatatons to that sort
of entertainment, it furnished sort of in
ward satisfaction and revenge.


SUNDAY EXCURSIONS


down the river are offered - attractions to
Year: 1878

seems to have disturbed the Democracy a
little by his honest and manly expires
sions; being articles for which they have
no relish as a regular dish. The Kansas
delegation will soon he among their con-
stituents, who may welcome them home, as
men whom they may have 10 regrets Tor
sending here, and who will make the inter
ests of Kansas, and the Republican Party,
their united and paramount ambition.


BRIDGEwATER-
Year: 1878

We don't like to be irreverent, but
would like to ask What, for instance,
did George Washington know? lie new
er saw a fast mail train; be never held
his ear TO telephone; he never sat for a
picture in photograph gallery; be never
saw steamboat; he never sighted a
krupp gun; be never received a telegraph
dispatch; he never listened to the fiz ofan
electric pen; he never saw pretty girl
running sewing machine; be never saw
selfpropeling engine go down the
street TO q fire; lie never took laughing
gas; he never had set OF store teeth be
never attended an International Exposi-
ton; be never owned a bonanza mine be
never knew Old Probs; be- but Why go
on?


No; when he took an excursion it was
on a fiat boat; when he went of on a
train it was mule train; when be
wanted to talk TO d man in Milwaukee he
had to 90 there; when he bad bis picture
taken il was done IN profile with piece
OF black paper and a pair OF shears; when
he got lbe returns from back counties
they had to be brought in by a man with
an OK cart when be took aim at an enc
my he had TO trust to crooked barreled
old 1intlock; when be wrote 1t was with
q goose quill; when he had anything to
mend bis grandmother did ii with darn
ing needle; when be went TO fire he
stood In line and passed buckets; when
be looked at a clam ho never dreamed
that II was any relation Of his; when be
went 10 a concert be heard a cracked fid-
die and an insane clarionet; when be bad
tooth pulled be sat down and never
left OFF yelling when be got out Of teeth
be gummed yictnals when lie wanted an
international show be sent for Lafayette,
and ordered bis friends up from old Yir-
ginia with the specimen carefully labelled
in bottles; when be once got hold Of a
nugget Of gold from 40 Indian chief, be
felt rich when he wanted TO know any.
thing about the weather be consulted the
ground hog or goose bone-bnt why 90
onf What did such 3 man knowg Who
was be, anyway
Year: 1878

Not many miles from Shasta City is
the gulch, Of which the following mining
story is told II is pretty deep ravine,
with rocks showing all the way up the
sides. Gold in paying quantities had
been found along the stream, but il
seemed to disappear few feet from the
channel. One day, whilst gang ofbusy
men were toiIing in the stream, stran.
ger, evidently green at mining, came
along and leaned on ragged elbows TO
watch with protruding eyes, the results
of their toll. The miner nearest him
took out 50 nugget, and anxiety over.
came the man. S.a.a-y, he asked, where
can go TO dggin' TO find it like that?
The hardy miner stopped his work, and
giving the wink TO all the boys, so that
the joke should not be lost, pointed up on
the barren rocks where no gold had ever
been found. Ye zee that rough lookin'
placer Yes, yes, said the new hand.


Well, thar it is rich. Jes ye stake out a
claim, an go to work, an when we finish
here We'll come up, too, Then the new
hand thanked the honest miner, and the
boys all glinned appreciation of the joke.
That afternoon there was solitary fig
ure picking away on the slope, and every
time the miners looked up they roared
with laughter. But about the next day
the greenhorn struck pocket, and took
out something like $4,000 in few min
utes. Then, innocent TO the last, be
treated all around, and thanked the miner
who sent him up there, and took his
money and went down into the valley
and bought farm. Then the unhappy
miners arose, leaving their old claims and
dotted that bill side for days. But there
was no more pockets anywhere. The
whole thing reads just like the traditional
fairy Story. But when saw the guch
Much more unbelievable things have hap
pened in the mines.
Year: 1878

THE PAPERS are beginning to ques-
ton the influence of the moon in caus-
ing the ebb and how of the tides.
Many have always doubted the asser-
ton that the moon makes the tides.
There are none in Lake Superior, and
at different places on the globes sur
face the tides rise with different de-
grees of force and to different heights.
Is it possible that the tides result from
the motion of the earth on its axis, and
that at different points the height Of
the flood is greater or less because Of
ocean currents and the shape of the
coast against which eaters are driven
by ocean rS=frents and by winds, and
tlea.ssn by the rotary force of the earth's
motion on its axisS Tits impossible to
illustrate the facts because we cannot
make water adhere to the surface of g
sphere. But this accomplished, the
rotary notion of tins sphere, having
wster and continents and islands,
might explain the rest. But philoso-
piers have studied this question thor
oughly. and we only propose to call
attention to a matter which philoso-
piers have supposed to be finally set
tied for centuries, but which newspa-
pers again discuss as ifit were possible
to evolve new ideas affecting subject
30 old.
Year: 1878

Mr.. SECRETARY SHERMAN has dis
missed the syndicate and becomes him.
self the Secretary of the Treasury.
This is one of the acts of the Secretary
which the masses of the people will
approve. But the Secretary proposes
to place in the hands of the people a
series of gold bearing bonds. He would
bnbe the many to cooperate with the
New York bondholders of whom Sher.
man las become the peculiar and
speci representative. Each holder of
bond payable IN gold becomes a voter
approving Sherman's financial policy
and bowing in humble alteration at the
shrine of the golden calf. Why this
hot haste, Mr.. Siermanl Congress
will speedily enact law authorizing
the sale of bonds payable, interest and
principal, in silver orpaper or gold, and
this is the paper in which the people
propose to invest and this they would
have sold by the Treasury Department.
Mr.. Sherman's hot haste should be ar
rested by Congress and the law
amended under which he now acts.
Year: 1878

Fernando Wood is cooperating
with Conkling and Butler. He would


hardly confess it, but introduces
extraordinary resolutions contemplat-
ing the investigation of the accounts
Of every placeholder at Washington.


Great partisan feeling and excitement
Is begotten, and for the time the real
necessities of impoverished, bankrupted
industries Of the country are forgotten
in order that Democrats and Republic
cans may fight desperately over Woods
writ of inquiry. The people, Mr..
Wood should know, even though be
be representative bOndholder, ex-
pect something better just now at the
hands Of Congress than these windy,
interminable discussions. It is easy
enough to stir up Radical rottenness.
People have been breathing it so long
that they have absolutely lost the
sense Of smell, and such processes as
Wood proposes to adopt signify moth
ing We nsver recover stolen mon
ey. and the rnscals have no character
10 lose No impression can be made
Year: 1878

The East Texas Patron is satisfied
that Throckmorton is a statesman, and
that he would make an excellent gov
ernor, and says the only objection it
has to him is his connection with the
International Railroad subsidy. Had
Throckmorton been connected with the
International Railroad bill we would
not regard it as an objection, but the
Patron is mistaken. Throckmorton
had no connection whatever with the
International, either while the bill for
Suite aid was before the Legislature or
at any other time. Everybody ought to
know this, and the Patron will be salts
fed when it investigates the matter.
Throckmorton was attorney for the
Texas and Pacific, and when the bills
for this road and the International
were before the Legislature Throck-
morton procured the adoption of
a land proviso IN the Texas and
Pacific bill. This provision left
1t an open question between the
State and the Texas and Pacific
railroad company, whether the subsi-
dy should be paid in money, or a COM
promise made in lands; and when the
Thirteenth Legislature met Throck-
morton figured actively in procuring
the substitution of the land in place of
the money subsidy, measure emf
nently satisfactory to the people of
the State. Throckmorton was not in
favor of the money subsidy, and
Texas owes it to him that
the substitution of land for money
in the case of the Texas and Pacific
was made, and that, too, without an
exemption from taxation, as in the case
of the International. Again we repeat
it, Throckmorton was meyer connected
in any way with the International and
its measures before the Legislature,


but for time he was attorney for the
Texas and Pacific, and he prevented
the very complications with it that
arose with the International.
Year: 1878

WE can only hear from the East
through dispatches and newspapers
written or published by bondholders.
We had thought, because of the
unanimity of the great newspapers of
Boston and New York, that North
eastern States and people were wholly
opposed to the silver and anti-resump-
ton bills now before Congress. And
yet it is now demonstrated that each
labor union and industrial league and
the great body of the working people
concur perfectly with those of the West
and South.
Year: 1878

THE Mexican war question is no
more. Peace is the programme, and a
liberal commercial treaty and exten-
sion of the railway system of Texas
into Mexico. 1t is the policy of wis
dom and not of crazed folly. The wis
est soldier is ever slowest in inaugural
ing hostilities, and only savages should
wage war, and for the simple reason
that war merges civilization and Chris
tianity into savagery and demonism.
And yet there are not few who, for
selfish and local gains, have sought to
precipitate conflict between the Uni
ted States and Mexico.
Year: 1878

THE discussion of the question of
eternal punishment is now prosecuted
with great vigor and, properly, with
much earnestness, in Chicago. They
have already dug deep, very deep,
hole under the town into which they
are training Lake Michigan to run.
Year: 1878

AFTER giving the opinions of several
preachers on the subject of hell the
Cicilian man says he will try his haHa
on it at an early day. How naive the
confession, People contemplating
suicide commonly conceal the purpose
till the moment of its execution.
Year: 1878

The resumption act is un-repealed, the
Senate obstinately refusing to listen to the
demands of stricken industry, and starv-
ing labor. The rich capitalist,the foreign
bond-hoders, are favored by the Senate,
while the struggling debtors will be com
PEELED to pay a greater sum than their con :
tract calls for


The three gentlemen named as candidates
for Congress, from this county, Lore,
Gray, and Whitley, are publicly charged
with being advocates OF this hard
and wicked policy. 1t is high time that
the people of the county should be felt in
matter of Congressional nominations.
Promise to support no candidate to the
Dover Convention, unless he is known to
be fair, honest man, and distinctly
pledged to platform, and candidate 10
sympathy with the popular demand Of a
repeal of the resumption act, and q green
back currency of sufficient volume to float
the industries of the people, into such o
healthy condition as men may live by their
labor. If any of the gentlemen named, are
not "gold bugs" and West British politica]
economists, the people would like to hear
from them. So
A day older, and a day worse as to bust
ness, say the storekeepers of Wilmington
and the farmers of the State, yet men fol-


low the leader like sheep plunging over an


open bridge.
Year: 1878

It's such joke, lads, taking the old
hard rock in the rsar-the rock We
had pounded so many days. till in oil
the five of US there was just almost no
lite at all =


There was an old sledge hammer
lying on the ground, and Kale picked
1t up and they all started ont. II Kale
bad let the sledge. hammer lie there in
the old tunnel-but he didn't; he took
it along with him, and coming to the
old shaft he thoughtlessly struck the
protrudiug root Of the stump, which
clogged the bottom. blow with it and
the whole mass moved. then muddy
water trickled down! Not till then
did 1t occur to Kale that the shaft
above was filed with water for ct least
o depth of one hundred and fifty feet.
which, if it should break through into
the tunnel, would rush down, SWEEP.
ing it clean to the mouth; and, o, hor-
ror his four partners had gone on
ahead He could hear them laugh
ing and joking. ana could eco their pale
light in the dim distance. Then .
peculiar roaring sound nearly stopped
his breath with fear; he attempted to
cali the boys, but could not hear his
own voice.


Running back along the tunnel he
saved himself from q horrible death.
The tunnel out had . down grade of
one foot to every sixteen feet in length,
and the large volume of water, filing
the whole space, poured down this
grade with great velocity, carrying
with it the four bows and dashing them
from the mouth of the tunnel down
over the rocks from point to point !:
down through the tree-tops it whirled
and forced them. through tho air,
through the branches. sweeping them
on from rocky terraces still on among
the crsgs and boulders of the American
river. leaving their ghastly bodies at
the bottom at last. aud leaving poor
Kale alone with his fortune on Forest
Hill.
Year: 1878

amount OF litigation that may at
tend thorough sitting of the frauds
that have attended the use of the
counterfeit seal; the hardship that
will befall the thousands of holders
Of fictitious land titles, and the in
famous downfall of not few of the
high in estate. A proper dispensa-
ton Of justice in the matter would
largely increase the colony of San
Quentin, the counterfeiting Of the
seal in itself being made a felony
punishable by not less than five nor
more than fourteen years imprison-
ment. Already the finger of suspi-
cion has been pointed in various
directions, and startling events may
be looked for speedily if some un-
wholesome influence does not i'm
pede the progress of investigation.
The fact of this enormous crime,
with the widespread and prodigious
wrongs attending it, having gained
publicity, the people will look anx.


iously for immediate and energetic
action on the part Of the State au.


thorities for the correction of the
evil and the punishment of the


guilty.
Year: 1878

A Paris wine-merchant has set
an ingenious trap for thieves in the
cellar. The device consists of a
simple electrical arrangement, by
which his wine-cellar is put into
communication with the room in
which he sleeps. The tread of a
mans foot, the sound of his false
key in the door, or even of his
movements about the room, sets in
motion an apparatus and sound an
alarm in other parts Of the house.
lie had set up his indicator in his
own bedroom, and, after waiting
some time, was awoke one night by
it in time to descend with dark
lantern and revolver and effect the
capture Of the intruder. The plan
will work, provided the wine-bibbei
does not arm himself to the teeth
barricade the door, bid defiance tC
the neighbors and drink the cellar
dry, after the manner OF Athos, the
grim mousquetaire. Even wher
the electrical machine does its work
and the thief is caught, the result
is not always certain. A Partisan
who recently captured a thief occu-
pied a cell himself. The criminal
had made no resistance, had meek
ly surrendered and followed his
captor upstairs and into the street
but when q policeman was encoun.
tered he made charge of insanity
against the good man and had eS
capped himself.