smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

stantly torn limb from limb by his ex-
asperated comrades.


One of our chief diversions during the
winter was chasing wild horses that
abounded over the valley. Many were
captured, but always Of the inferior
class. Many there were that bid def
auce to all our efforts to restrain them
of their liberty. l remember accom-
panying two or three Of my mad-cap
comrades down the valley on a horse
hunt one pleasant winter day. We had
alighted at a deserted log hut and were
broiling some meat for our MONDAY re-
past, when three or four beautifully
formed animals were seen approaching
at a rapid gallop. Ever and anon they
would halt for a moment, throw up
their heads, and then approach at the
same rapid pace. At length they came
within a few hundred yards of US,
wheeling and dashing about with the
joyousness of unrestrained freedom.
The leader was a bright bay, with long
and glossy tail aud name. With the
most naughty and buoyant action
would he trot around and throw aloft
his beautifully-form head as if, after
the manner of some ringleted school,
girl, to toss the truant hair from his
eyes. Then he would lash his silken
tail, shake his flowing name i'm pride,
eyeing us the while with looks that
plainly told his confidence in his
powers Of flight, should danger Or
treachery be lurking in the Vicinity.
After gamboling about for some time,
his bright eyes cleaning with satis-
faction as if conscious that we were
watching his snowy points, he suddenly
wheeled, and, in a canter, placed him
self at more prudent distance. Then
he turned again to take another look,
once more tossed his head, paved the
ground playfully and again dashed OIL,
and even in the far distance we could
distinguish his proud and expanded
nostrils, his bright aud flashing eyes,
and the elastic movements Of his sym
metrical limbs, as be playfully prauced
and curveted about. We watched him
until he was but a speck upon the val
ley, and turned from gazing with re-
grets that such as he could laugh at our
best endeavors to capture him. q.


TO Dee continued
Year: 1878

LOST OPPORTUNITIES.- we only
knew our opportunities, what a differ
ence would it make in our lives. II we
only knew when to do, and when to
cease our doing; if we only knew what
would lead to success and what to defeat,
how every thing would be changed.
The world is full OF lost opportunities.
We let them slip away from US as they
offer, we let them 20 carelessly and
thOughtlessiy, never remembering that
they may never come again. In the
spring time the farmer who does not
SOW his grain while the mild rays OF
April and May warm and soften the
earth, need not expect to reap bounti-
ful crops in the harvest season. If he
neglect to SOW, he cannot reap, and the
opportunity is lost. We are no wiser
than this indolent farmer when we allow
the days to pass from US and leave US in
"the night when no man can work. -
Every individual has had, in this life,
enough opportunities presented to him
to make his fortune, if he had only
seized upOn them. Too many Of Us are
waiting for something grand to offer;
we have not the patience to accept small
things aud make the best of them, we
want the test of Fortunes gifts, and
want them for nothing. The one who
is wise will allow no opportunities of
making himself useful to pass unim-
proved. If they do not present them
selves, he will seek them out and make
them his own. And then, if failure and
defeat ensue, he is at ease in his mind,
for he has done what he could, and feels
no regret for lost opportunities.
Year: 1878

in garden" during the winter in hall. the inen
smoking. the women knitting and sociaole faniles
intermingling all listening TO music by the band


The Presidents alleged mind is at this time wholly
engaged with the money problem. Somebody has to'd
hin to believe in metal money; and to several gentle
men who called ON him immediately after the election
he was heard to say that no thought the hard money
men had won. After speaking on the subject Tor
few moments the President removed to kinder.
garten so that his brain might rest.


Bret Harte, who is q consul in Europe now is really
good story teller. notwithstanding that some OF
those who have met him say that he is'cold. The
truth is that he tells story well he writes onc
and that leaving out of the account that he has
bookkeeper. and 80 has financial pages which hs
does not pleasantly scrutinize. he is of the o
modest me-, who ever appeared in literature.


London Waid'-"In the highest quarters. hear.
attention is much absorbed by the question Of pro-
yiding for the successon-not to the Crown for that
is happily secured--but to the peerage which Lord
Beaconsfeld adorns The Premier's only surviving
brother is not very lordly personage and. besides.
is the incumbent Of lucrative position in the upper
house which could not be held by peer. 1t has been
accordingly suggested that the fitness of things and
all the interests involved might best be consulted by
passing over the impossible brother and going once
to the nephew. II has even been proposed that he
should at once he styled Lord Hughenden. just tho
Comte de Chambord in his joy the fusion OF
1878, used to call the Comte de Paris the Dauphin
Year: 1878

No discovery has yet been made Of the
body of Mr.. Stewart nor Of the persons by
whom it was taken from the vault. 1t is
no. reasonable to suppose that police,
confessedly not omniscient, should in
few hours make itself familiar with all the de-
tails OF scheme that has been coolly planned
and elaborately contriyed with especial
view to secrecy as n necessary element OF
safety. Judge Hiton's notion that the odor
of the body would render it impossible to
conceal it, and that consequently it would
assuredly be found in few hours, has
already proved not to be u brilliant fancy.
In England some time ago murder was
discovered by means Of bloodhound, who
led the detectives to place where parts Of a
of disclosure are rare. Naturally this
was one of the first points to sug-
gest itself to the rogues as
thing to guard against, and if the
body is not now actually in some vat in
which are substances that will smother the
odor it is perhaps underground. Indeed, it
seems to us that the police have done wisely
to direct their search for the remains on the
theory that the body has been put in
another grave, and that the miscreants hold
themselves ready to sell to the friends, not
the body itself, but the secret of where it
is. Perhaps the information given by the
vender ola material Tor the preservation
of dead bodies may prove useful. This
man remembers that on the 7th Of October,
the day on which it was first planned the
vault should be robbed, an attempt was
made to get from him the means, as he be-
leves, of preserving dead body, and it is
thought the man who came to him on that
errand has been identified. Doubtless the
substantial reward offered by Judge Hilton
for the discovery of the body and the thieves
will sharpen mems wits and memories, and
possibly may tempt some accomplice.
Year: 1878

NJ. Gambetta in speech to which refer
ence is made in our cable dispatches, has
spoken Of the removal Of the seat of govern
ment to Versailles as an attempt to ..de-
capita,e Paris" and as an "exile OF the Leg
islature' which is to endure fortunately
not forever" Evidently, therefore, the
great republican leader is in favor of the
return of the Legislature and the Presiden-
tial residence to the metropolis. and he
seems to foreshadow an attempt in pursu-
ance of the republican policy to make a
change in this respect BY the constitu-
ton Of France the scat of government is
fixed at Versailles, and it will be necessary


to amend the constitution in order to take
the governme ent to Paris but this will be
easily enough done if the republicans for
mally determine to advocate this measure.


We believe the change would be very un-
wise one. Many great calami.ies recorded
in the history Of France were the conse-
auence Of the fact that Paris was the capi-
tai and that the government was there, and
was thus within the reach and subject to
the dictation of street mob and for that
great evil there is no equivalent advantage in
having the Assembly meet in the city.


Gambettas present reference to Paris is
more like the rhodomontade Of Victor Hugo
than the calm reflection OF political reason.
Year: 1878

Darke county, Ohio, must be well named
if some of its prominent citizens who have
banded themselves together as regulators
are to be accepted as specimens Of the in
habitants at large. These regulators, un-
der the pretence Of giving the public better
protection than is afforded by the laws,
have been committing NJ urders and indulg-
ing in all sorts OF illegal and violent acts,
until the whole country is in terror Two
men who were notified by the band to leave
the county under penalty Of death and
neglected the warning have been shot dead


One man who had incurred the condemna-
ton of the regulators was murdered in his
bed by the side Of his wife. Ten other citizens
have received orders to leave, and one Of
them, fearing assassination, has taken his
departure. There is, however, dispos-
ton to make n stand against the ruffianism
Of the band, and the Grand Jury have in
dicted seven OF the number for kidna piping,
some of the accused being men Of wealth.
1t is to be hoped that the law will be found
strong enough to regulate the regulators.
Al rare intervals, in new and wild COM
munity, where 1T Is impossible to enforce the
laws and criminals get the upper hand Of
society, vigilance committee may seem
almost justifable. But it is always peril
Gus experiment for men to go outside the
law and set themselves up as judges, juries
and executioners over their fellows.


The enforcers Of lynch law easily slide
into the commission Of the worst OF crimes,
and the severe punishment of few lynch
ers would be wholesome in this country.
Darke county Ohio, would be an excellent
place to commence such an example. The
murders committed by the regulators of
that county seem to be marked by extreme
brutality, and it would be well to prove
that when the law gets its grip upon the
murderers it will be as relentless toward
them as they have been toward their victims.
Year: 1878




The crime for which Mrs. Alexander was
yesterday sentenced to Imprisonment for
life, ana for which young Bassett is yet
to be tried, is not without its proto-
type. Indeed, SO closely has the manner
of committing it been followed that it
would seem as though the story Of the
model crime had been read with care.
There are points Of variation, but these are
merely in the direction Of improved appli-
ances. Just fifty years ago fourished in
the city OF Edinburgh two rascals named
Burke and Hare, whose trade was murder
murder for the profit to be gained by sell
ing the bodies for dissection. Their last
victim was an old woman whose dead body
was seen in the rooms Of the murderers,
where she had been singing and carousing
a short time before. Blrke was arrested.
Hare turned kings evidence and the
former was hanged. Burke confessed
before execution to no less than fifteen
murders committed in company with Hare.
Their plan had been to pick up old or
weak-minded persons the street, bring
them to their residences, give them food
and drink, make merry with them. and
then when the liquor made them drowsy
put them to bed. Once asleep one of the
ticnds would hold one hand over the vic
TINS mouth and nose and press up the chin
with the other, while the other wretch flung
himself over the body to keep still the arms
and legs. The body was thus without
external marks Of violence; the body was
packed in box or barrel, and the surgeons
asked no questions. In the Bassett-Alex-
ander case the march of science is seen.
The victim once asleep, or even drowsy,
some chloroiorm took the place Of
the strangulation process. Fortunately
the law made the surgeon in this
case nice on the questions of where
and how the body had baen obtained, and
the students Of the Newgate Calendar found
that they had committed a murder, but
ctfer to buy bodies which DR.. Sanford is
said to have made before the crime to Mrs.
Alexander was sufficiently explicit as to the
source from which they should be obtained
does not appear. 1t is probable that as the
business in any case required defiance Of
popular prejudice Mrs. Alexander, in her
avaricious reasoning, leaped to the conclu-
sion that the scientific eagerness which
would risk running counter to prejudice
would not be stopped by an inquiry into
an infraction Of the law. 10 her depravcd
mind laws and prejudices were much the





her eyes than another. That is the way
crime is Matched. 1t is time that the SUP
ply Of the scientific need of subjects"
should be taken in every State out Of Grim
inal hands
Year: 1878

The AtaIanta.Na utilus Match To-Day.


The special match this afternoon on the
Harlem between Messrs. Eustis and Downs,
the famous Atalanta pair, now the cham
pions Of the country, and Messrs. Levien
and Childs, Of the Nautilus Club, promises
to be very close and highly exciting
struggle, while the known fairness of the
men and their mutual good will insure
thoroughly fair and gentlemanly contest
throughout. Matched almost to a pound as
to weight and SO we'll as to size that together
they would make a rafting four-oared team,
the friends of both pairs are naturally very
sanguine as TO the result, and, ii the water
is smooth, there is little doubt that very
fast time will be scored; while, if the Maui
titus men should manage to win, they will
doubtless find, long before next season
opens, plenty of work cut out for lem by
Killorin and Smith, and other fast North
western oarsmen, to say nothing Of those of
our own State, who have no disposition to
let the National Amateur championship in
pairs rest quietly on the sluggish little
Harlem
Year: 1878

Four staterooms were robbed on Sound
steamer in n single night, and heavy sleep
ers in armchairs, without the small pro-
lection of stateroom doors, were "gone
through" in style not SO much practised
afoat rs on the benches in the city squares


Doubtless it is to be regarded as an evidence
OF moderation and frugal mind that the
thieves robbed only four rooms instead of
forty, and their success is not so much an
fortune in choosing reasonably good sleep
ers Bolts on stateroom doors are a good
security to passengers if the staterooms
Year: 1878

have no windows; but if the bolts are tam
pered with SO as to be made impracticabfe
the mere locks on stateroom doors are no
obstacle to practissd thieves. On the Mas
sachusetts the bolts were wedged. But
when was this done? 1t may have been
done by connivance with some persons on
the boat; but even if there is no blame on
that score it is certain that it exhibits
grave want Of caution that there is no watch
man on duty in the stateroom saloon at
night.
Year: 1878

GENERAL HAScocK's recommendation that
more attention be paid to rifle practice in the
army is none too strong. If hundredth part
Di the ammunition used during the late war
had been expended in competitive marksman
ship the aspect of the struggle would have been
very different.
Year: 1878

EMIGRATION Of an undesirable kind will prob
ably set toward Virginia very soon. short
time ago a wife murderer was sentenced Tor
single year only, and similar punishment was
yesterday awarded to young man who Drained
Oil old one M the victim sat quietly at dinner.
Year: 1878

FRANCIS MURPHY, the successful advocate of
total abstinence, begins tomorrow q long series
OF temperance meetings in this city. We hope
liz may catch enough members of the Assembly
to Justify hopes OF a sensible excise law being
passed next session.
Year: 1878

The EVIDENCE upon insanity in the Wander


blt will contest yesterday would have beer
easier reading if the expert had merely in
dicated the classes of people who have no
streaks of lunacy in their mental composition.
Year: 1878

in alarm and stbgnation. Then came the
concealed expectation Of unsettling the
Presidency, and its utter and ridiculous fail
ure to accomplish anything except the pro-
duction Of a set of unmtigated scoundrels
MS its favorite witnesses. When we men,
ton in addition TO these the silver folly we
have made complete list OF the demo-
cratic work in the last Congress, unless we
add the wonderful shrewdness with which
the democrats fostered the greenback party,
which has by drawing off democratic votes
helped the republicans to carry number
Of districts.


whenever all the democrats in the coun-
,ry vote the same ticket il they can Sc
cure the help OF the independent voters
they are very likely to carry the elec.
ton; but it is good while since the
democratic party was numerous enough to
divide in two with u reasonable hope
of success. Whenever it shows the country
that it is the party Of honesty, good order
and stability, it will have fair chance of
carrying the Presidency; but to do that it
will have to place itself under the control
of its wise and honest leaders, Of the men
who have held TO what are called sound,
old fashioned democratic principles" most
Of which have been coolly turned out OF
doors and lett for the republicans to pick up.


Congress will meet in few weeks, and
the people are waiting to see whether the
Year: 1878

This department Of the ADVANCE Is open tbany
one to express his or her views In appropriate
language upon any subject whatever, whether
religious, philosophic, scientific or political.


The conditions are: Brevity, write on one
side Of the paper only, use appropriate language
and avoid personalities The name of tho writ.
er must accompany communications, not for
publication unless desired, but as a guarantee
OF good faith.
Year: 1878

TUE I'I&E Co EAr.-In paper
read at a domestic economy congress
at Birmingham, England, not long
ago, Or. Wilson gave the following
hints on the proper times for eating
for different classes Of workers. For
the active outdoor iaboper and arti-
san, aa early breakfast before work.
a midday dinner, with AT interval
OF rest, and supper after the days
work is over, have long bscn proved
by experience, to be the most condu-
Give to health. For the business man


later breakfast, a midday luncheon
4 isnd 5:el 4 Iatc dinner after the days work
For literary men, who write more in
the evening than daring the day, an
carly dinner and a light supper will
be found to be the most advantageous
for steady work IdIers, to enjoy
life, if they possibly can, should dime
early if they intend to spend til eve
ming at theatres and the like, but if
they accept dinner invitations freely
they Should be very careful not to
cat too much at the midday meal.


The breakfast hourshould be deter.
mined, in great measure, by the
hour Of rising but in any case food
should be partaken Of, before the
material business Of the d:1v is com
mcnced Those who like to take .
constitutional" before breakfast,


would fad theirs appetite whetted aud
their walk made all the mcrp onioya-
bic il they took little milk, or cqJc
an tnit, with bread or biscuit, before
star:in Work done before break
fast, ia always irl1some and fatiguing,
and on that account il is very likely
TO be badly done The last meal
should be sufficiently late for the
whole not to be absorbed before re.
tiring TO rest. 10 a person in health
three meals day ought 10 be quite
sufficient, and the practice Of contin-
ually taking Something" is aure to
bring on INDIGESTION
Year: 1878

A lady correspondent, sends us the
following treatment Of yellow fever.
Fortunately there is no case Of the
kind in the State, but az we have many
subscribers in the fever part, We pub
lish it in hopes Of its doing good some
where else.


SYMPTOMS AND TREATMENT OF YEL-


LOW FEVER.


Headache, pain in back and bones,
sometimes slight shivering at first,
then flushed face, eyes infamed and
often blood-shot, pulse full and quick,
skin dry and fcyerish. Sometimes
sickness of the stomach, but not often
in the begiQning Of the disease.


TREATMENT.


As soon as tho above symptoms
are felt, get to bed as quickly as pos
eiblc, Cover up with blankets, pat
a cup tull Of mustard in foot tub of
hot water; put it in the bed under
the clothes-patient lying on the
back. Keep the feet in it fifteen
minutee, Then give . simple dose
Of medicine (citratc of maguesia). A
bottle may be taken at an interval of
one or two hours.


Keep up a gentle pcrSpiration as
long as the fever lasts. If the skin
becomes dry give another foot bath.
Keep the patient quiet aud free from
excitement. Watch closely and keep
the bedclothes on If delirious keep
the clothes wet frequently with ice
water. Let the drink be ice water or
ice lemonade--but do not give enough
to disturb the stomach. Do not give
bowels rs do IL T not act has&ehddiaf1Kssv.ii iIse
all means keep the patient quiet. The
fever never entirely subsidies before
seventy-two hours from the time it
comes on. At the end Of that time
there is almost always nausea, but
gre0e'a roDaitjng, by mustard pouI-
tice over the chest. Ice pounded
like snow is grateful to the patient.
If weak when the fever goes off, q
teaspoonful Of good spirits i'll a little
sugar and water may be given every
half hour. One or two grains Of qui-
nine may also be given with good
tonic effect. While the fever lasts
for the first three days give no food
After the fever has gone and stomach
quiet THAT is about the fourth or fifth
day. and there is no more relapse
food may be given of the lightest kind,
and in small quantities, say beef tea,
chicken tea, rice, cruel, corn starch,
little tea, toast, etc.


DO not get up until after the eighth
day, no matter how well you feel. for
relapse is apt to prove fatal One
suffers so little in yellow fever that
they think they are welt when they are
not. Good nursing is more potent
than medicine. If taken in ti,ua it is
easily managed.
Year: 1878

Numerous petitions have been received from
every part of our state, at the Legislature, ask
ing for an appropriation sufficient to commence
mineral survey of the state. These petitions
bear the signatures of thousands of the best
men in our limits; that some immediate action
be taken by our legislators seems highly impor-
tant In view of the present business stagna-
tion throughout the state it is a matter of no
little consequence that something be done to
ensure more activity. Enough has been done
already to prove the fact that we possess an
abundance of ores and minerals, and already
considerable capital has been brought into the
state aud large number of men have found
employment through our mining interests
That the opening Of mines in our state can be
productive of any injury to our people through
investments is utterly absurd and ridiculous;
our people are to shrewd for that The history
of every mining section in the globe proves
that the capital is derived from the outside, and
that the landowner makes the most money.
Wherever mine is opened there will capital
lists centre, and business is brought to the place
through their Influence. Mining will not de-
tract ia the least degree the interest of the
farmers; on the other hand it will cause an in
creased demand for the farmers produce. Our
railroads and shipping, hotels and iron works,
and in fact all kinds of trades, will receive
some benefit from it. Our state presents an
area of surface equal to nearly ali the other
New England States combined, and we have
the testimony of scientifec men of undoubted
honor that we possess many and vaIuables ores
and minerals, indeed, the progress that has al
ready been made warrants the continuation
and in more systematic and comprehensive
manner, and the first cost should not be con-
sidered if it is within reasonable bounds. An
appropriation of $4,000 per annum would secure
the services of some enterprising and educated
young man who has had some practical expert
ence, with all the necessary assistants; it is not
work that requires great talent nor fancy
salaries to accomplish the desired end. Other
states have set us the example, and are now
reaping the rewards for their work in this di'
rection. 1t is sincerely hoped that our legisla-
tors will give it the consideration that tie sub.
ject so justly deserves.