smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

A Thrilling occurrence is reported from
Evanston. ILL.,, and as it is probably the
first instance on record in which the
bustle OF lovely woman became an i'm
plement of crime, the case is thus i'm
mortalized by the Cleveland Leader.
There was boy in that town named
Daley. The boy had dog, which he was
accustomed to take with him on his daily
excursions to certain suburban pasture
fields to drive home the COWS. On the
9TH instant young Daley found on his
way to the pasture something white and
ruf1ed and mysterious. He did not
know what it was, but it was too beauti-
full to throw away, and the happy thought
struck him that it might be intended as
an ornamental portable awning for dog.
So he called hia deg and tied the gay
device round his body just behind the
foreless. This held the wayy frilIs of
the tournure aloft like canopy. Thus
caparisonsj, the dog pranced along
gaily in front OF his master to where the
COWS were quietly grazing in the field.
Imm mediately there was wild commotion
The COWS knew in general way some-
thing about dogs, but an animal half dog
and half bird. with a towering banner OF
whalebone and wire and muslin floating
in the summer wind, was to them new
and terrifying spectacle. They eyed the
approaching terror moment, then tossed
their heads, turned tail and broke in q
wild stampede for town. The frantic
herd burst from the end Of the lane into
the main road just as grave and serious
ex-minister of the Gospel, whose sands
of life had nearly run, &C.. came driving
along. Him the COWS needed not. The
dog with his phenomenal attachment
waving up and down, was behind, and
they cared for nothing in front. One
jumped across between the horse and
vehicle, two others dashed against the
wheels. capsized the elder into ditch
full Of muddy water, and left the buggy
standing on its beam ends with two
wheels in the air. Then the horse caught
sight of the dog and ran after the COWS,
smashing the vehicle to atoms and dis
tributing it along about two miles of the
public highway. The COWS reinforced
by the flying steed, carried the village


like an invading army, and such was the
terror and surprise OF the people that
they have since done little else but talk
about it. Tha minister crawIed out of
the d,ch and began legal proceedings
against the boy, who came into town by
side street. and slipped up the back
stairs supperless to bed. The dog with
the hustle saw that he had overdone the
thing and crept under barn. The
problem that absorbs Evanston is where
to classify the crime Of that boy under
the statues of Illinois.
Year: 1878

The Nevada Transcript records this ac-
cident in hydraulic mining: Monday
morning. shortly after Z o'clock, large
bowlder fell from the top of the bank in
the Blue Banks mine. Tho lookout
gave the warning cry, but before the
men could get out of the way, the bowl
der came crushing to the earth with all
the momentum that descent of over 800
feet could give. 1t struck in the slush
at the head Of the sluice, splattering
stones. gravel, etc., in every direction.
Three men were injured by the flying
debris. James Cunningham left arm
was broken twice between the wrist and
elbow. Jacob jacobson was badly hurt
about the back, but when our informant
left the physician had not determined
the nature Of the injuries. A man by
the name OF Mitchell was considerably
bruised about tho body. but not 80 as to
disable him from walking home, while
the other two were carried away in q
wagon.
Year: 1878

A young man in Orange county, Va,
isa said to visited his sweetheart forty
times in five weeks. and the old man be-
gins to wonder where the fellow got his
living before he met his daughter.
Year: 1878

One who was familiar with the every
day life of "Artemus Ward" remembers
him as having short, stubby. sandy
moustache, which, when be was not
otherwise occupied, he was frequently
and abstractedly dressing with his pocket
comb. About this time he was connected
with Vanity Fair. and wore on his shirt
bosom tlashy cluster pin which had the
lustre of locomotive head light. He
would occasionally sacrifice even proprie-
ties for joke. Dropping into fashion,
able saloon on Broadway with party of
friends one evening, he coolly took an
overcoat from the arm of one of them
and playfully pledged it at the bar for o
treat to the crowd, prompted purely by a
passionate love of fun. Having perpe.
trated his joke he laughed the most
heartily Of any of the party at the ap-
parent discontinue of the owner of the
coat, who had no recourse but to redeem
IL himself.


A NEW FABLE.-An honest farmer
once led his two turkeys into his gran.
ary and told them to eat. drink, and be
merry. One Of these turkeys was wise,
and one foolish. The foolish bird at
once INDUCED excessively in the pleas
ures of the granary, unsuspicious of the
future; but the wiser fowl. in order
that he might not be fattsned and
slaughtered, tasted continually, mortified
his flesh. and devoted himself to gloomy
reflections upon the brevity of life.
When Thanksgiving approached, the
farmer killed both turkeys, and by plac-
ing stone in the interior OF the prudent
turkey made him weigh more than his
plnmper brother. Moral, be happy
while you may.


That noble old lady. Mrs Pearson,
mother of our fellow citizens Billy P. and
mother-in-law to jolly old Geo. Fryer has
just returned from visit to her other
children and grandchildren in Placer
county, California. Mrs. P. is 70 years
of age and is now busy cutting two front
teeth in her lower jaw. We have heard
it stated that Mrs. p brother recovered
his sight at her present age. and that he
lived many years afterwards and was
able to read without the aid of fspectacles.
May you live and see your hundredth an
niversary, and cut many more teeth,
Grandma Pearson Carson Tribune.
Year: 1878

quest several times before it was complied with.
After what seemed sufficient time to drive to the
New-York Hotel as directed, the Judge put his head
out of the window with the exclamation, You
blockhead, are you not at the hotel yet ~ Indade
Pm not replied the eoachman, Pm two miles and
a half beyOnt, the gentlemen tould me to drive on
and Pye been driving on waiting to be told TO stop


The Judge says he missed the train and subse-
quently learned he had been misrepresented"
after ALL and therefore will decline all interviews
hereafter on the political situation
Year: 1878

We clip the following in order to show
that the same cry which is so preya-
lent in America. is also forcibly uttered
in England The spirit Of the times
works it's influence all over the world
al ke: Nj i MIN MD.


LIVERPOOL, October 9th 1873.
To the Editor of the Je'rish World:


SlR.-Another year has passed away,
and my mind becomes more solemnly
impressed with the shortness of time
and the magnitude of duty, and | feel
called upon by the dictates Of con
science and rromptings Of soul, to raise
voice against the progress of sham and
the advance of unreality which gener-
ally exists in our community. Before L
enter upon the threshold Of my arguoo
ment, feel that | owe you debt OF
lasting gratitude for the earnest, power
full. and scholarly New Year leader
which adorned your paper some few
days since. I am satisfied that in thank
ing YOU I am the exponent Of the teel-
Year: 1878

A Rumor that it is Going into Politics


which is Promptly Conlradicted How


ever.


ALBANY, N. Y, July 20.-It is stated that
the Grand Army of the Republic has deter
mined to enter into politics, ,and several persons
connected Herewith have already arranged a
meeting with President Hayes and his Cabinet,
at which plan of the campaign will be map
ped out The offices now held in Albany and
other parts of New York are all, under this
this plan, to be filled gradually by members of
the Grand Army, and the whole north is to be-
similarly served. General Robinson was the
guest of President Hayes recently. and de.
manded of the latter that the surveyorship of
customs in New York city shall be filled by one
of the Grand Army, to which it is believed the
President acquiesced. The postmastership of
Brooklyn and the pension agency of New York
were filled by the President with Grand Army
soldiers, at the demand of the same institution
some time ago.


New YORK, July 2O.-General John c.
Robinson, who is the head of the Grand Army
in New York, says that he and others have
been appointed committee to urge the Presi-
dent to give the government patronage to
members of that order, but nevertheless denies
that the Grand Army has gone into politics.
Year: 1878

George W. Peck, in his 4th of July grafton
at La Crosse, said: 1t may have been noticed
that thus far 1 have made no alluson to the
American eagle, che national trade mark
patent applied for, but 1t is not that 1 do not
appreciate the position that species of poultry
occupies on these occasions. The poet, allud-
ing to the eagle, says:


Bird Of the broad and feetng wing,


Thy home is high in heaven.


This is too true. He is high old bird, and
the committee that selected the eagle as ma
tional emblem should have been arrested for
disorderly conduct o great bird! You live on,
mice. You soar aloft on pinions airy until YOU
see poor little mouse with one leg broke, and
then you swoop down like ward constable
and run him in. You are nice old bird for
trade for nation of heroes, you old
coward. You sit on a rock and watch
peasant woman hanging out clothes, and when
she goes into the house to turn the clothes
wringer, you, great bird, emblem of freedom,
you representative of the land of the free and
the home OF the brave, you swoop down on the
plantation and crush your talons 10 the uuiver-
Ing flesh of her little baby, take him to your
home high in heaven and pick his innocent
little eyes out. The bird that should have been
selected as the emblem of our country, the bird
of patience, forbearance, perseverance and the
bird of terror when aroused, is the mule. There
is no bird that combines more virtues to the
fquare foot than the mule. With the mule
emblazoned on our banners, we should be a
terror to the foe. We are nation of uncom-
planning hard-workers. We mean to do the
fair thing by everybody. We plod along, doing
as we would be done by. So does the mule.
We as nation are slow to anger. So is the
mule. rs nation we stick our ears forward
and fan flies off of our forehead. So does the
mule, We allow parties to get on and ride as
long as they behave themselves. So does the
mule. But when any nation sticks spurs into
our flanks and tickles our heels with straw
we come down stiff-legged in front, our ears
look to the beautiful beyond, our voice is cut
loose and is still for war, and our subsequent
end plays the snare drum on anything that gets
in reach of us and strikes terror to the hearts
of all tyrants. So does the mule.
Year: 1878

The Disease Epidemic at Havana-A


Few Gases at Key West.


WASHINGTON, July 20.-Reports received by
Surgeon-General Woodward of the Marine
Hospital show during the week ending July
9th there were SO deaths from yellow fever at
Havana, and six from smallpox, large in
crease in the former, corresponding decrease in
the latter disease.


Advices from Matanzas show an increase in
yellow fever at that place. 1t is reported to
have spread to nearly all the vessels in port,
though but few deaths occurred.
At Key West there have been up to the
tenth instant five cases of yellow fever. The
first three were in the shipping from Havana,
and the last two not connected with shipping.
The city is healthy. There are no fears Of an
endemic
Year: 1878

Excitement Over the Approaching EIec-


lions.


BERLIN, July 21.-The approaching elections
absorb the public attention. The canvass is
becoming bitterly personal and acrimonious
Apparently the utmost confidence is felt in
ministerial circles that the government will
secure good working majority.
Year: 1878

this question is, that the advo-
Gates of protection are almost
invariably the promoters of
cooley labor. Under the spe-
cious guise of encouraging home
industry, they would shut our
ports against competition with
manufacturers, and open them to
the importation of cheap labor
ers to compete with the free la
Dor of the country. We hold to
the doctrine that any restriction
upon trade and commerce is in
consistent with free government;
that every citizen has a natural
and inalienable right to dispose
of the results of his labor as he
chooses; to buy and sell when
and where he can do so at the
best advantage to himself. The
only protection to home industry
which is legitimately within the
power of government is to pro-
hibit the importation of cooley
laborers.
Year: 1878

FIRST PRINCIPLEs.-The Pert
land Standard sneeringly re-
marks that the editor of the
DISPATCH has "got down to 1910
with his editorials" We would
like very much to see one Of our
modern Democratic editors get
as far back as that in the advo-
cacy of the principles upon
which the old Democratic party
was founded, Of which they now
appear to be utterly ignorant.
We were educated in the idea
that principles are unchanged
BILE, and to regard "history as
philosophy teaching by exam
ple." The only indication we
now have of what constitutes
Democratic principles is by ref
erence to the past, for we can
find nothing relating thereto in
modern Democratic papers edit
ed by men who regard politics
as simply device by which the
public offices are secured, and
who would scorn 20 profit by the
wisdom or the experience of the
past, looking upon the founders
Of our government and our reli-
gion as "old fogies," not up to
the "advanced ideas" Of the
present day.
Year: 1878

necessity; that there is not a
sufficient amount of coin in tho
country to meet it's necessities
as q circulating medium, and
that the only way in which pa
per money can maintain aetand- a
ard value is by making it con-
vertible into coin at the option
Of the holder. It is a very great
mistake to suppose that the re-
sumption Of specie payment
would necessitate the redemp-
tion Of all, or any considerable
portion of the greenbacks now
in circulation. For all purposes
Of domestic exchanges who
would not prefer Government
notes, redeemable in coin on
presentation, to gold or silver.
For all foreign exchanges gold
has ever been the only medium.


The so-called "National Banks
are an expensive and unneces-
sary burden to the people, with
:


out any constitutional author
ity. To the General Govern
ment exclusively belongs the
power to coin money and fix its
standard value. That standard
value can only be fixed and
maintained in a mixed currency,
by making the paper represent
ative convertible into coin value
when required. The plan pro-
posed by President Van Buren
and adopted by the Democratic
party under the name OF "Sub-
Treasury" was to issue treasury
notes equal to tho business de-
mands of the country, redeema-
BILE in coin and receivable for all
government dues. Under that
systcm the paper would always
be at par with gold and each
would bear it's proper relations
to tho demands of business with
out bringing on those periodical
financial crisis promoted by
bankers and moDey-changers for
their own purposes.
Year: 1878

Passing Russell q Northrop's dry
goods sto~, 3O5 Market street, on Sat
urday evening, we were brought to &
stand still by large crowd on the pave
mrnt, looking into one of the show win
dows of this enterprsing firm. Look
ing in the same direction we saw the
cause of so much anxious curiosity.
some enterprising clerk in the estab-
lishment had arranged pile OF
goods in such manner as to represent
a picture of large tunnel finished out
away back at the farther end with a
mirror. The rays from the headlight
Of locomotive on a dark night bore
some resemblance to it, but really We
ara at loss how to describe it, and
do not wonder that crowds Of people
stopped to look at it. Mr.. Northrop
informed us tharit was an old thing
in the East, but it is certainly some
thing new in Wilmington.
Year: 1878

The zone State of the Peninsula :"
agitation has again commenced. Our
valued contemporary the Middleton
Transcript branches out with strong
argument in favor Of union, reiterating
the sights aud wrongs of our section at
the hands of the Western Shore, and
telling again Of the advantages OF Pen


nsular consolidation. Now, We do Ike
the " Little Diamond" aud especially
esterm her brilliant Bayard, but We
love our own old commonwealth none
the less, and have no desire to change
State boundaries or associations. We
may at times suffer hardships at the
hands of our brethren over the Bay,
but prefer to 'suffer the ills We have
than fly to others we know not of.
Besides, we would lose our identity as
Eastern Sh remen, and, like the West
ern Shore is to Maryland, would form
so big part of the ''new sovereignty"
that We might be inclined to impose Oh
somebody So please don't agitate the
matter any more. Our Western Shore
brethren are not anxious to get rid of
Us, and We don't want to go.-Chester
torn News.
Year: 1878

Men are simply planted here: plant
ed not to mature, and reach their ful-
ness of growth, but planted to- be trans
planted. Here we begin to live moral
Iy: that is all. A few, by reason OF
their advantageous position, spring up
quickly, grow fast, and exhibit to a
goodly degree spiritual fulness. But
where there is one full-grown tree in
the forest, there are beneath its branch
es a thousand reeds; and if we could
only gather up the mold, and sort the
life-germs out, and give each good 10
cation, proper attention, ana ume
enough to develop in, the whole earth
would not be vast enough to hold the re-
sultant growth.


God can do just this. There is not
single germ of possible spiritual life,
buried we care not where, that Is not
noted of God. He sees not alone the
great moral Examinations in our world,
but the smallest point of emittent radl-
ance is perceived of him. 1t there Is q
spark of heavenly flame in us, he knows
it. Our desires are known to him; our
repentances all are seen. Not the least
movement of moral growth in our hearts
escapes his attention.


Nor does he look at the measure OF
our lives as we look at it. What, Tor
instance, as regards length, is our life
to himp To US it seems long. Seems
it so to himP To us it seems adequate.
Does it seem adequate to him? Is good
ness to man in his eye as fruit rounded,
full and fair? Or is it as a seed, as a
germ, out of which in the eternities ful-
ness of proportion and vast fruitage
shall come?


Here is the hope, then-the hope OF
small beginnings, the hope which IS ever
connected with actual life, however un-
developed. The mother looks at her
babe, and beholds the man yet to be.
The florist takes the bulb in his palm'
and in it sees the flower that will come
cut of it. And so God takes the soul,
fragile. immature, with only the breath
of spiritual life in it, and sees as he looks
at it in eternal perspective-a saint. an
angel, king among kings, a raaian' IAN
| den Rule
Year: 1878

Hitherto mans knowledge of the ex-
tent of the universe has Been bounded
by the limits of vision. During the days
when the range of sight is narrowed by
the suns excessive brightness, we see
but minute fraction even of the little
world we inhabit. At night a wider
reach of vision Is possible, and some
thousands of stellar and planetary
bodies are added to the domain OF
positive knowledge, thus enlarging
enormously mans idea of the magni-
tude Of the universe. But the increase
Of knowledge which darkness reveals is
almost infinitesirfial eompared with the
wider view of the universe opened up by
the telescope; and every addition to the
telescopes penetrative power brings a
larger and larger universe within our
ken.


That the most powerful of telescopes
enables us to reach the limit of the uni
verse no one imagines. See as much as
we may, more-perhaps infinitely more


Lies Beyond. So, at least, all experi-
ence leads US to infer; but our positive
knowledge ends with the limit of vision.


Must this always be SOP Hitherto
science has given no hint of the possi-
bility of exploring the vast and mysteri-
Gus beyond, from which no visible ray
of light has ever been detected, or is efEt
likely to be detected, by the most far
reaching and sensitive of optic aids.
But now there comes promise of an
extension of positive knowledge to fields
of space so remote that light is tired out
and lost before it can traverse the inter-
vening distance. 4 new agent or organ
IS 60 f4,- hxn
has been given to the world in the tasi-
meter, by which it is possible not only
to measure the heat of the remotest WIS.,
ible stars, but, Mr.. Edison believes, to
detect by their invisible radiatiOns stars
that are unseen and unseeablei Mr..
Edison's plan Is to adjust the tasimeter
TO its utmost degfee of sensitivehess,
then attach it to large telescope, and
so explore those parts of the heavens
which appear blank when examined by
telescopes of the highest penetrative
power. If at any point in such blank
space the tasimeter indicates an acces-
sion of temperature, and does this in
variably, the legitimate inference will
be that the instrument is In range with
stellar body, either nof-luminous or
so distant as to be beyond the reach of
vision assisted by the telescope; and the
position of such body can be fixed and
mapped the same as if it were visible.
Seeing that the tasimeter is affected by
wider range of etheric undulations
than the eye can take cognizance of, and
is withal far more acutely sensitive, the
probabilities are that 1t will open up
hitherto inaccessible regions of space,
and possibly extend the range of OUT
real knowledge as far beyond the limit
attained by the telescope as that is be.
yond the narrow reach of unaided
vision. Possibly too it may bring with
in human ken vast multitude of nearer
bodies-burnt out suns or feebly reflect
ing planets-now unknown to us be-
cause not luminous Scientific Aneri.
| can
Year: 1878

Capt. Frederick G. Burnaby, who
is the son of Leicester parson, devoted
the first years of his discretion to feats
of activity and endurance with SO much
success that he soon won the repute of
being the strongest man in the British
army. He went to Khiva, by way of
spending the leave which the House
hold Cavalry commonly give to shoot
ing in England or to amusement on the
continent. His Ride to Khiva"
brought grist to the mill
Year: 1878

own station as an indecency no less than
a bore.


His theory of marriage iss however,
not quite so heartless as may be sup
posed. 1t is untrue that he bargains
only for money, and not at all for love.
He simply thinks that the money being
secured, the love is pretty sure to come;
that, in short, any two of about the
same social standing, and of not gross
ly disproportionate age, can hardly help
learning to like each other very much
by merely living under the same roof,
sitting at the same table, having the
same interests and the same cares. 1t
is hundred to one that they fall into
the habit of attachment. The brief in
timacy of the engagement is supposed
to be sufficient for the discovery of any
exceptional defect of temper, person or
disposition that might prevent their lives
from taking the ordinary course. They
court not so much to learn to love-that
will come in due time after marriage
as to be sure that they will not be
obliged to hate. 1t is theory, after all,
and it has something to show for itself
in a percentage of seemingly happy
unions that is far from being so absurd
ly small as most English people believe.
Year: 1878

For SUPERv1soR.-In our advertising
columns this wesk will be found the for
NAL announcement of Ellis Flowers as n
candidate for the Office of Supervisor
from the Third District. So far as we
have been able to ascertain there is no
opposition to MIR. Flowers and it is we'll,
as we do not believe better man for the
position could be found in the District.
Flowers will make an able representative
for his section and faithful guardian of
the codnty's interests. Vote for him.
Year: 1878

HEATHEN CERENoNIEs.-Our lower
country cotemporaries say the Chinese
of their places are busily engaged in
driving the devil off" and from the
discordant sounds which reach us we
should judge that his Satanic Majesty
has reached Weaverville and our To-
cal heather have found it necessary to
exercise him here. sIf"Old Nick" can
stand the racket long lie can do better
than many of his disciples of earth.