smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

against the back of his cOat-tails
and doubt If he could keep from turn
Ing back somersaults most of his time.


"You say the coroner was not i'm
pressed with these viewsS"


"No sir; he allowed that the man
may have been circus actor, and have
had a hinge put on his back on purpose.
But when pointed out that the man
had row of teeth in his shinbone, and
that some of them were as big as a wal
nut, and showed him that for man to
attempt to eat his meals with his shins,
or for a man to have the toothache near
to his toes, was in violent antagonism
TO all precedent, as well as TO the as
certalned facts about human physiolo-
gy, he said the mans teeth may have
been shifted by disease or something,
and maybe that was what killed him.
He said his grandmother knew man
in Illinois whose teeth slipped down
and began to grow upon his ribs, with
fatal results"


"Had he his grandmother affidavit
to that effect?"


"He neglected to produce it If he
had. The skeletons left foot was COM
posed of the horses breastbone. 1t
looked as much like foot as a clothes
pin looks like the Goddess of Liberty,
and as the other foot was made up of
about three feet of the animals spinal
column, while the neck was formed Of
the horses upper jaw. demonstrated
strenuously with the coroner"


"What did he sayF"


"He said that kind of man was the
kind, speaking generally, that was put
together in the Garden Of Eden, and
while might think could get up
better one, he wouldn't trust me to
tack together an idol for Digger In
dian, or words to that effect. So re-
piled, and he hit me with the horses
fibula. retaliated with the tibula,
and in about two seconds he had heav-
ed all the skeleton at me that hadn't
heaved at him. Then he winked at
the Jury, and it suddenly brought in
verdict of death from cause or causes
unknown, and then l had HIM arrested
for assault and battery"


The magistrate held the coroner in
bonds to appear at court, and when
that functionary had given the bond,
he moved off to collect his fees for the
inquest.
Year: 1879

| THE SCARED WILD CAT OF GOLD HILL
AND THE WILD DOG OF MILWAUKEE.
(From the Gold Hill New News)


There was fight advertised to come
off at the Alhambra theatre Sunday
afternoon, between an Eastern fighting
bulldog named Turk and a 42-pound
wild cat, a vicious brute, for 800 a
side-that is, the cat and dog were to
fight for their lives and men bet 500 ii
side on the result. The fight was to be
followed by grand olio on the stage
1t was an immense bill and it drew. In
due time the cat was introduced upon
the stage and was Immediately followed
by Turk; but at the first kiss of the
dog the cat took to the audience, and
the olio, instead of being performed by
the troop, was done by the spectators,
tooth and toe nail accompaniment.
The first bound of the cat took it upon
the piano of the orchestra. The pawer
of the ivory left the swelling strain un-
finished, and turned back handspring
over among the audience. The next
leap of the "varmintn was at the con-
trabass, and both player and instru-
ment went down instanter with broken
heads. The cat fingered lovingly a
moment among the strings as if to test
their quality, and then sprung out
among the audience. Then began an
oliO i'll dead earnest, but not the one ad-
vertised, although the fight was over. IT
consisted of ground and lofty tumbling,
leap-frog, and such-like feats of deX-
terity, all having single obiect-to
amuse the audience by a glimpse of
sunlight out of doors and under the free
light OF heaven once more. 1t was per-
fectly satisfactory as a whole, and each
player did his best. Time-shortest on
recOrd-1.69. Everything went off
well, especially the audience. The cat
was found few moments later looking
out OF one of the boxes and waiting for
an encore.


From the Chicago Tribune)


Considerable excitement was aronsed
at a performance last Sunday evening
IN the Grand opera-hOuse, Milwaukee
by the extraordinary behaviour of one
Year: 1879

Father, where is our Jamie tonight
Jamie, so bold and so gay7
The twilight shadows are falling now,
Why does he stay away2
Jamie is handsome, and manly too,
And he will be good and great;
But, father, why is our darling boy
A staying away so late2"
''Our noble boy is child no more,
He has grown to mans estate;
He has gone a counting Minnie Gray,
The reason he stays so late.
For her golden hair and eyes of blue
Have stolen his heart away;
And he goes in the holy twilight hour
A wooing sweet Minnie Gray"
"Why does the maiden lure him away,
Now we are growing old9
And we have shielded him all his life
Our love has never grown cold.
The maiden can never love as we
Have loved him all his years,
Who have led him along the path of life,
Sharing his smiles and tears"
But, Millie, remember long years ago,
When 1 was handsome and gay,
And you a maiden so fair and sweet
That you stole my heart away.
1 had a father old and gray,


And a mother kind and true,
Who loved me fondly all my life
But my heart went out with you"
A blush crept over her faded cheek,
Her eye shOne clear and mild;
No longer she chided the lovely maid
For winning away her child.
She thought of the long ago, when she
Stood close to her lovers side,
In the little church, and the man OF God
Made her happy bride.
Year: 1879




Position affects sleep. A constrained or
uncomfortable posture will often prevent
repose. Lying flat on the back with limbs
relaxed would seem to secure the greatest
lest for the muscular system. This is the
position assumed IN the most exhausting dis
eases, and it is generally hailed as token
OF revival when patient voluntarily turns
on the side; but there are several disadvan-
tages in the supne posture which impair or
embarrass sleep. Thus in weakly states of
the heart and blood vessels, aud in certain
morbid conditions of the brain, the blood
seems to gravitate to the back of the head,
and to produce troublesome dreams. In per-
sons who habtually, in gait or work, stoop,
there is probably some distress consequent
on Strengthening the spine. Those who have
contracted chests, especially persons who
have had pleurisy and retain adhesions of
the lungs, do not sleep well ON the back.
Nearly all who are inclined TO snore do so
when in that position, because the soft pal
ate and the uvula hang on the tongue, and
that organ falls back so as to partially close
the windpipe. 1t is better, therefore, to lie
on the side, and in the absence of special
chest disease, rendering it desirable to lie on
the weak side so as TO leave the healthy lung
free to expand, it is well to choose the right
side, because when the body is thus placed
the food gravitates more easily out of the
stomach into the intestines. A glance at
any plate of the visceral anatomy will show
how this must be. Many persons are deaf
in one ear, and prefer to lie on one side (;
but, if possible, the right side should be
chosen, and the body rolled little forward,
so that any saliva which may be secreted
may run easily out of the mouth, il not un-
consciously swallowed. Again, sleeping
with the arm thrown over the head is to be
deprecated; but this position is often as
sumed during sleep, because circulation is
then free in the extremities and the head
and neck, aud the muscles of the chest are
drawn up by the shoulders, and thus the
expansion Of the thorax is easy. The chief
objections TO this position are that it creates
tendency to cramp and cold in the arms,
aud sometimes seems TO cause headaches
during sleep, and dreams. These small
matters often make or mar comfort in sleep
iug.-lfedicdI Journal
Year: 1879

When tho reputation of a min- ing district rests alone upon the fictitious value placed upon the stocks of few of its mines which are listed in the Stock Boards, as is too frequently the case, that district must expect vicissitudes which will be far from pleasant. Those values are much too dependent on influences out of control of those most di' rectly interested in the welfare of the mines themselves to be altogether agreeable. The de- sires or manipulatiOns of a few operators exercise an influence which is unhealthy to the gener- al prosperity of a group of mines. A disastrous termination to a stock scheme may be fatal to the prospects of 2 whole district.

 This has happened scores oi times, and, no doubt, will con- tinue to happen so long as miners prefer 10 sell half developed mines to working them them selves on Il small scale. Two or three dozen prosperous little mines in district worked by their owners do much more for the neighborhood and the camp than one big one worked by q com sany of nOn-residents.

 The manipulations of a set o' sordid, interruptions operations III Idaho< mines, 6 few years ago. set that Territory back many
Year: 1879

At the Sand Lot last Sunday, the admission was frankly made made that Kearney's mission to Washington is to sell out the W. P. q. 10 the Democracy for the coming Presidential election. The mass of the membership Of of the Workingmen's party be- long to the mudsill wing of the Democratic party anyhow, and in being relegated into that fold, even by bill of sale executed by Kearney, they will only be going home-the prodigal son return ing to the ranch of his father. But how will this thing suit Mayor Kalloch, who has ever ex. pressed himself as being a repub- lican in national politices? He will have to swallow the dose, and his own political predilec- tions will go down before superior numbers if he wishes to remain in the party. He will either have to abjure the Workingmen ar be swept by the tide into the DemOcratic camp. But politics make strange bedfeIlows.
Year: 1879

The "Semi-TrOpic's" sugges- ton that a branch Dead or return Letter Office, be established on this Coast has met with the unan. imous approval of almost all the papers on this coast. Only a few tried to throw cold water on the project and they through the idea 1t was useless to try.

 The matter got into the hands of the House Committee on Post Roads and Post Offices and the plain justice of the idea was so patent that they took il up at once and on last S8 urdays FecoH- mendcd bill for the establish ment of such branch office. Now the bill goes 70 the House for ac- ton. Favorable action there is almost equivalent to the same in the Senate.

 Now let all our papers give one more grand whOop-up to this much needed enterprise and the thing is done. Write a short leader on thesuhject, urge strong ly its adoption and send marked copies to every Member of Con gress that you know and we shall have the establishment. Put your shoulder 10 the wheel once more and retire with the feeling of having done a good act.
Year: 1879

Francisco, Cal.-On my return

 from Globe District I was enabled

 to visit the celebrated Silver ) King mine, located in this coun , ty. and about thirty five mile:

 7o-.n If Florence. I had heard } much of it's great wealth. Fly examination satisfied me that in-

 stead of the report being eXager' lated, the contrary is the fact tn the management Of ihis prop

 4rty much credit is due for th-

 manner in which they have opened it up during the past year. They have, without any expense to the stockholders, sunk fine timbered shaft three hun dred and fifty feet deep cutting the vein proper at three hundred feet. At a depth of two hundred and fifty feet a cut was made through eighteen feet of granite to the hanging wall where the vein was tapped and crossed for seventy eight feet, all solid ore, much of it assaying in the thOus- ands, half of it high in the hun dreds and the rest of it will work to a profit. The same rich ore 1 was exposed where the shaft l passes into the vein and no change is visible all the way to the bot tom. The value of this mass of reserves cannot well be properly estimated, but it assures to those interested the possession, beyond doubt, of great wealth that will outlast this generation. l The ten-stamp mill of the com DlAy has steadily run without ] inte, mission the year entire on pay ore taken from the old work i ings OR the f0ot-Wali side. No i dividends have been declaI ed since last October, but the pro- perty has been and is being open ed and the show of ore now made more than compensates for the delay. Surveys and plans are now being made for a first class thirty-stamp mill at the mine, with the reduction works com plete, to turn out the bullion there. Until this new mill is ready aud in running order the present ten.stamp mill at Picket

 Post will be kept running as at

 present, when the concentration process will be changed to that of amalgamating and the twenty five thousand tons of .tailings con-

 verted into bullion. Everything at the mine and mill indicates

 thoroughly defined policy of eco

 nomy and praticalmaterial result.

 No company on this slope can show a better record in this res pect. Any doubts that prevail ed heretofore regarding the Silver King being a true Assure vein of great magnitude, are now ended. as both walls are fully exposed. They arc of syeni;ic granite and the vein matter is quartz and DOT phry. Much of the ole is most beautiful ruby and native silver. This property has a fair reputa' ton but not near what the show ing made entities it to. Its own CTS may we'll be proud of it's pos- session and at some not distant day Arizona and the Pacific Coast will render to it the position in the mining world to which it is so justly entitled.

 The foregoing article is com- mended 10 the attention of our readers. It shows the opinion Of

 a visitor to a piece Of property, : owned principally by one of our , fellow townsmen, over which has been expended from time to time tasgood deal of adverse criticism tlnterwoten With a deal of in-

 vidious personality. ... .=

 ]! There are patent facts, connect. led with the Management of this
Year: 1879

WE are very much airaip > 'iiie "ichi-
hers of our newly orga anized Board
Of Public Education hav materially
lowered themselves in the estimation oi
sensible men by their co nduct at The
last meeting. We have n pthing to say
as to the fairness or unfa airness OF the
manner in which the con lmittees were
formed. The President Is amply able
IN defend his own action IN this regard,
and will no doubt do it vii Ell pressed to
the task. Whether the appointments OF
chairmen of committees we're the best
that could be made or nbt we do not
propose to consider. Certainly the old
Board did not commend itself very high
ly to the parents of the ch hildren or the
Taxpayers either, and G cannot see
that there is therefore mi ich to be lost
by the course taken by fine gentlemen
who declined the Presidents appoint
ments. Men of more ability and less
disposed to trifs over great public
trust would have gone to work and per-
formed the duties assigled them. II
their abilities were transcendent that
would soon have shown for itself, and
whatever duties they Performed they
would have received the credit for. TIL,
misfortune now is that it will be said t.
be apparent that they wanted to laut
themselves or be lauded As chairmen in
stead of allowing the good work Of tn
Board to accomplish their recommenda
ton. 1t is said, with hoy much trutl
we do not know, that Mdssrs. Baird am
Lobdell are very competent men, an
their refusal to serve will be detrimen
tai. If this be so that will be thei
fault. They accepted 1he position a
candidates to be elected with no assul
ance that they We're to be chairmen c
any special committees; and if the
were not appointed to positions whei
they could be most useful they coul
not have been blamed fur that, had the
accepted the positions assigned the
and did what they could to perfect Il
schools and make then useful and /
duce expenses. These gentlemen VI
therefore have to answer for thus shir
ing their duty.


They should have performed the du
assigned them or resigned from the Boal
DIR. Grimshaw's experience in the ma
agement of schools is unAuestioned. A
the surprise Of his friends is that he ,
cages in so many disputes, and seems
take more delight in getting the memb
into wrangle over some small mat
than he does in attending to the m
important matters thai should eng;
the attention of man of his acknc
ledged ability.


What is most needcdin the Board
reduction OF expenditures. If they


not effect this it would be about as well
theinto orderthe salaries paid as theyco
due and all to resign; or agree to IN
and adjourn without doing any busine
since we are quite sure the schools co
be properly and success asfully conduct
whether they meet or not. They now
pend more money tina the expense
the whole city was few years ago. Z
year, by the 30th of June, the Be
will have received 100000, and the C
plant is heard all around, that it


been too extravagant.
Year: 1879

ONE EFFECT of c Calfornia's adopting
a new Constitution cannot fail to lie
good, and that is the breaking up of the
land monopoly. Under the new regime
cultivated and uncultivated land is to be
assessed at the same valuation, and, of
course, the great ranch owners will find
It TO their advantage to break up their
vast estates and sell them in small farms
rather than hold on tp them and be taxed
in this wholesale fashion. Nowhere else
are there larger estates than in California
where the great ranc hes, chiefly devoted
10 Wheat ralslng, are held under old
Spanish grants and single one often
covers tens OF thousal lids of acres.
Year: 1879

LOVES INGENUITY A couple.
not one hundred miles from Man
chester, carried on their courtshlp
il. rather a novel manner. A
young man had fallen in love with
the daughter OF his employer but
frOm Gel tain ideas OF wealth. "a
match was opposed by the father.
The consequence was, that The
young man was forbidden to visit
his employers house. The old gen
tIeman was in the habit OF wear
lug 4 cloak. and the young couple
made him the innocent bearer OF
their correspondence. The lady
pinned a letter inside the lining oi
the old mans cloak every day.
aud when the father went intO his
counting house and tire, Oft his
cloak, the lover took out the lady i
epistle, read it, and sent the re


ply back III the same manner
Love and Ingenuity were finally


successful.
Year: 1879

1t is difficult to understand just what
measures the French Republicans, or the
great body of them represented by Gam
beta, desire to shape into legislation. One
thing only is clear: they want to see men OF
more radical views in charge of public
affairs. Doubtless their demand has been
fastened by the unwise action of President
MacMahon in the appointment of reac-
tionary Minister of War. But it would soon
come in any event. And there Is no good
reason why it should not be made. The
theory OF the new French Republic is the
theory of parliamentary government as it has
been developed in practice across the chan
mel. The Republicans are now in clear
majority. They carried the Chamber of
Deputies last October by an overwhelming
vote, and the recent elections gave them un-
disputed control of the Senate. They feel
that they are not represented by the cabinet,
and SO demand one in sympathy with their
views. The programme announced by the
Government does not meet with their ap-
proval, and they claim the right to frame one
that shall.


There is widespread belief that the French
Republicans are fastening too fast and thus
imperllling the Republic. The belief does not
seem to be wel-founded. The expression of
1t has been heard every time the Republicans
have made parliamentary move, and in
every instance the event has proved the
error OF the belief. So far the Rrpubli-
cans have known when and where to
stay their march and when to take
it up again. They have displayed mod
GRAFTON and good sense along with unfagging
vigor and wise persistency. The country has
sustained them in every step. 1t is behind
them now, and we have little reason to sup
pose that they are about to spoil all their
good work by hasty aud ill-considered legisla-
tion. The country has learned to put conf
dence in Gambetta. The world has yet to
learn that lesson-but it is in more recep-
tive mood than it has ever been before. In
this last crisis the leaders of the Left have
contented themselves with requiring the
ministry to adopt their programme and to
put itself in sympathy with the advanced
sentiment of the country. This done
change of personnel is not insisted upon.
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON specials announce that the
commissioner of pensions has prepared cir
cular, saying that as soon as practicable after
the arrears pension bill has been signed he
will publish full instructions for all concerned
No claim under the bill will be adjusted till
Congress has made an explicit appropriation
for this class of claims. Meantime. all in-
quiries received will be filed, but no answers
returned till the cases are taken up for ad-
justment. This is necessary to prevent the
present work of the Office from being block
AIDED by unnecessary correspondence. The
bill has been referred by the President to the
Interior Department for report. 1t is found
that it covers wider ground than that upon
which the office estimate of twenty millions
was based, and that it Is certain to require
much more to meet its requirements. 1t is
not yet safe to say that the President will
SIGN IL.
Year: 1879

ACAsE of considerable interest TO property
holders is reported by St. Louis exchange.
A young lady at hotel in st. Louis went in
search of the bathroom, and groping along a
dark passage opened the door of the elevator
aperture and fell down the space, seriously
injuring herself. Judge Boyle, of the Circuit
Court, dismissed her suit for damages, hold
ing that guest in hotel is not supposed to
wander around dark passages and go into the
first open door she sees without having any
knowledge of what the place may be.
Year: 1879

IT is reported by the Washington corre-
spondent of the Boston Advertiser that the
Southern men at the Democratic caucus
Monday expressed great delight at the adroit
manner in which the committee of seven had
drafted a resolution TO meet the difficulties
presented by Mr.. Elmunds's propositions,
and at the same time maintain its peace
among Northern and Southern Democrats.
The former had announced in the first eau
Gus that it would solidify the North against
the party if the Democrats voted against Mr..
Edmunds's Endorsement of the amendments
and the Southern men were equally pro-
nounced in saying that their people would
never submit to proposition that the gener-
al government had the right to interfere, as
claimed by Mr.. Edmunds. The resolution as
men agreed that they could stand upon the
general declaration that the amendments
were binding, and at the same time declare
that their enforcement, so far as matters con-
nected with the elective franchise and protec-
tion of the citizen, belonged exclusively to
the State. The Southern men are so perfect
ly satisfied with the form of the resolution as
to declare that the Northern Democrats have
finally formally agreed to the State Rights
doctrines in as extreme a form as any of its
former advocates presented before the war.
The caucus took very important step bear
ing upon the question of called session of
the forty-sixth Congress. 1t was agreed to
informally request the Democrats in the
House to amend the bill already passed III the
Senate just before the recess, in regard to
jurors, by adding to the repeal of S2Oth Sec
ton, making participation in the Rebellion a
ground for challenge, the S21st section, Civ
ing the United States District Attorneys dis
cretion to administer the test oath. Ia case
as thus amended this could not be forced
through the House, it was further agreed to
ask that it be put on some important appro
priation bill, and so either passed, or by COM
pelling a session of the new Congress give the
Democrats power to make the repeal. In
this connection the appropriation bills are
now being held back with purpose of con-
trolling the question of called session. 1t
is said that sections are in course of prepara-
ton for appropriation bills abrogating all the
powers which the general government now
has OF supervising the elections for members
OF Congress or for President and Vice-Presi-
dent.
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and communi
cations. The and address of the writer are in
sl cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return OK preserve CON-
munications that are not used