smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

TYPHOID FEVER IN CoNNECTICUr-A spe-
clal dispatch to the New York Times from
Lltchfeld, Conn, Sept l6 says: The heavy
frost OF last night has been welcome TO this 10.
cality, in hopes OF Ii staying the spread a
what is claimed TO be typhoid fever of the m ost
malignant type, which has developed itself in
this Town. Such thing as so many people
being afflicted with typhoid fever on Litchfiald
Hills at the same time was never known be-
fore, no less than 70 people now being sick
Although the disease has not generally proved
1atal TO those afflicted, many New York people
who had been summeTing here became uneasy
and started Tor their city houses. The lady
superintendent of the renowned Echo Farm
was taken sick with the fever and dem inded
tnat she should be at once removed to anoth n
place that the farm might not lose any OF it,
popularity by her sickness
Year: 1878

CIhCIhNATI Sept 1S-A special dispatch
says: In March last the log house of Joe
Hurley at Seneca, Mich. was burned and one
son perished in the flames Mrs. Hurley and
her infant escaped but were so horribly
burned that they died the next morning
Hurley and the boy who slept upstairs eS
capped unhurt. There were suspicious circum.
stances at the time but nothing was developed
until last night, when Hurley was arrested on
the charge of murder made by his father in
law. One of the motives to commit the crime
was possibly an illegihmate intimacy with an
unmarried sister OF his wife, who now charges
him with the paternity of her two children,
one born before and one after the catas.
trophe."
Year: 1878

A CALIFORNIA OPINION OF KEARNEY.-The
Sacramento Record Union says:-There could
NOT De more overwhelming rebuttal of Kear-
IN this country are oppressed than the fact
that such thing as he is permitted to swag-
ger round in public with perfect freedom, and
tnaI though his presence Is stain upon our
civilization, and his speech a shame to our
inteillgence, no hand is raised to check his
1nsolence. The Kearney episode has at least
demonstrated beyond all question that what.
ever defects there may be in our form of gov
eminent, whatever abuses our politics NAV
engender. whatever injustice and robbery we
no country under the sun that offers so many
and so great advantages t0-the Kearneys
Year: 1878

THE Republican says ait hardly ex-
poets to carry the election" OF course
it does not. But the Democrats do, and
they are solicitous that there shall be as
little animosity between the two parties
as possible, and therefore invite all the
Republicans, who are disposed, to vote
with them, and help to shape the govern
ment, County, State and National, in
such way as to make II cast its bles-
sings more abundant, ,and, as the "dews of
Heaven, fall alike upon the rich and the
poor" There is no reason in the world
why every Republican who voted with
us at the late nomination elections should
not vote our whole ticket in November.
Come and join us.
Year: 1878

THE DEMOCRACY of Delaware have
determined the question of currency in
favor of gold and silver, and they want
no single gold standard speeches in this
campaign. The advocates of the single
gold standard and the ''rag baby" have
found that out. They wanted gold for
bondholders and the 'ras baby" green
backs for the people. But this was re-
Jected, after great struggle, and silver
added as legal tender. Now, we shall
have currency equal in all particulals S
to the currency we had in 1860, COM
posed of gold, silver and bank notes and
greenbacks, convertible into gold and
silver coin at the will of the holder


That is the doctrine of the Democratic
party from one end of the Union to the
other. Whether the State bank notes
shall be added to the u. S. bank notes,
and whether the greenbacks shall be
continued to be legal tenders, are ques-
tions to be determined by the people in


after years, when we shall have solved
the problem as to our ability to make re.
sumption permanent. Under strici
construction of the constitution there car


be no legal tender for private debts ex.
| cept gold and silver.
Year: 1878

THERE is nothing shows the weakness
and Generalization of the Republican
party more clearly than their abandon
ment Of their own men and their search
ing around the Democratic horizon for a
candidate that will suit their views tc
run for the Presidency in 1850. Ever
Grants shadow has grown dim, and
Blaine is no longer talked of,
Year: 1878

The above goods have long been their wearing u
their color and superiority of appearance is n w
tore should not be confounded with the that aod
which, while sometimes promising well to the eye Of purchase
unreliable in ~ pi'"D%i ae
Year: 1878

So LONG as the newspapers in the
small cities and country towns allow the
advertising agents in the large cities to
do business for them on credit and for
trade they may expect to be swindled.-
II the country paper would refuse to do
the work without payment, or its equiva-
lent, the agencies would be kept in hon
est hands, or the advertisers hands, and
they could rely upon prompt payment.
Year: 1878

holding on with the energy of despair.


Once l saw him straining every
nerve to reach the spot where the knife
had fallen, and, foiled in this he struck
at ne savsgely. bot I was too close for
him to do much mischief, and deter
mined. as l was. to protect my trust, I
bore all without murmur. It was a
silent struggle. for he was evidently
afraid of alarming my companions.
working only about fifty yards off, but
getting firm grasp at my throat a,
last. he worked himself upon my chest,
leaving the bag to its fate. The place
swan; the blood rushed to my eyes;
and then a shadow appeard to cross
my sight, and heavy blow to fall;
and the next remember is finding my.
self lying in my old place, with my
companions round me, while, seeing me
sensible once more, they one and all
thanked me and shook hands.


But it was some days before l could
make out what it all meant; and then,
for what they called my gallantry, |
was voted an extra share out of the
bag-a share | gladly accepted to carry
down to the port, where | took a ship
for home--to arrive safe and sound, for
the sea air drove away my ague-fever.


This is long ago now AS far as |
could learn, not one of my companions
succeeded at the digeings. for there
were many blanks to each prize. But,
as said, | found nugget. and that l
brought home. Mans life Is not long
enough to risk many speculations:
and take to myself the credit in
being wise enough in knowing when to
leave off. Gold can be purchased to,
dearly, and it is beggarly substitute
for health. But am not prejudiced,
partial preacher; for my voyage to Ca
ifornia was the means of finding
that INST inestimable of gold nuggets
Content.
Year: 1878

New YOfk WOrIu, Dehl.


For a public man or public news
paper to repeat, now that the silver bill
is law. the arguments which were suit
able when the bill was simply a project,
is to make an attack on the credit Of the
country without the chance of gaining
any benefit by 1t. If party differences in
foreign politics should cease at the waters
edge, II is equally dictate of patriotism
that party differences in finance should
cease when financial heresies are legaliz-
ed, until there is chance to repeal the
unjust law,
Year: 1878

1t is said that Ben. Buffers defeat
for governor of Massachusetts at the
late election cost him over one hun
dred thousand dollars; but he will
no doubt soon recover this loss. He
was recently employed by the city OF
Boston as special attorney in case
wherein that city was defendant and
certain manufacturing mill owners
plaintiffs. The suit was brought to
recover large sum of money, the
city having diverted the waters Of
the Sudbury river, to the injury of
the mill owners business. The Gen
eral conducted the case, and brings
in bill for $4,000 as reasonable
compensation for his services. There
seems to be protest on the part OF
the ci,y against its payment.
Year: 1878

Indianapolis SUM-


Every editor loves to have his
friends and particularly his readers
to call on him. They belong to the
same family, as it were. But when
you call to see an editor, don't stay
too long. Editors are generally very
busy in business hours. If you have
suggestion to make or news to
communicate, state it in the fewest
words possible.


Don't offer any excuses nor in
dulge in long preface to what you
have to say. 8lurt it right out; tell
the editor you wish him we'll, and
bid him good day. Editors dote on
such men as that. They love to re-
ceive calls from them. Don't argue
with them. Don't try to do it. He
has no time for argument while at
his work.


When you write 10 an editor for
publication, make it short. Pitch
right into the middle OF your sub
ject and be sure to stop writing when
you are through. Editors always
like something fresh and origina! in
the way of communications, and they
are especially fond of news. But
the editor must always be the judge
Of what is worthy of publication
Of course every writer thinks his
own production the best, just as ev.
cry mother thinks her baby the pref
tiest that was ever born. But the
editor may be so stupid as to have a
different opinion. If SO, it can't be
helped. Don't try to argue him out
of his notion. If he is too stupid tc
appreciate good thing, you cam
expect to remedy his dulness. You
may think you are a great deal smart
er than the editor, and that may be
true; but the editor may be respon
sible for the publication and you ar,
not. There is no class of men 81
anxious to please majority of the
people as. editors are. There is nj
class so covetous of the good opinion
of others. 1t is we'll to remembe
that fact.
Year: 1878

Ifthe Bland dollar is made legal tender
in unlimited amount, there is no reason Why
the trade dollar should not also be legal ten
der in sums Of twenty five or fifty dollars.
Such an enactment would put an end to the
nresent Inconvenience in handling this coin.
1t is now circulating in spite Of the law, byn
virtue of the good sense of the people who IT
fuse to recognize the Congressional diciuui
that 42O graiis Of silver are worth less than
4l2l grains For once We have the pleasure
ofagreeing with Senator voorhees, The trade
dollar sho uld be legPl tender.
Year: 1878

LIFE OUT OF DooRs. An English
scientific paper remarks as n curious
physiological fact that although open air
lille is 80 favorable to health, yet it Ia


the apparent effect Of -tuntug growth in
earley youth While the children Of we'll
to do parents, carefully housed and tend


ed, are taller for their age than children
of the poor they are not 50 strong in after
years. "The aborers children, tor in
stance, who play in the lonely country
ronds and fields all day, whose parents
lock their cottage doors when leaving
for work in the morning, so that their
of, ,prmg shall not gain entrance and do
mischief, are almost invariably short
for their age. The children Of working
farmers exhibit the same peculiarly.
After sixteen or eighteen, after years of
hesitation as it were. The lads shoot up,
and become great hulking, broad fellows,
possessed of immense strength. Hence it
would seem thatin door life forces growth
at the wrong period. and so Injuries"

BY way of comment on this, the Scien-


tdc american says: 1.-The inference is
plausible, but is wide Of the mark. The
childran of the we'll to do are tall not be-
cause they are will fed and saved from
severe exposure. The children OF the
poor are stunted not by too much sun and
AR, but because they nre i'll fed Give the
first class plenty or outdoor play, with
their proper diet, and they will be strong
rs well as tall; give the laborors' children
the food suitable to their years, and no
amount of sun and wind will stunt
them. On the contrary they will not
have to wait till age brings capacity to
turn strong food to bono and muscle,
and time to overcome the evil effects
of the hard times in early life, but will
grow from the llrst steadily and sturdily.'
Year: 1878

SACRAMENTO MosQUIl os The mem
bers Of the constitutional convention are
reckoning on lively times at Sacramento,
as this is the season Of the year when the
brass back Yolo mesquite sharpeneth bis
fangs or the railroad track across the
marsh, swelleth his chest and walketh to
the Sacramento dung hill hard by. But
the barn yard fowl ilseth and will not do
him battle, for it is we'll known that the
brass back Yolo gnat OF the genus culex
is to a Swedish lseeh us nursing calf is
to sucking dove. The hum Of his wing
is so like the cyclone that the Sacramento
men call it the ''sea breeZs," while his
track in the mud is synonymous with the
print sf the obsolete mast0don. And he
scorneth the mosquito netting that is Of
canvas, and perforateth those of-sheet
iron as in play. lie walloweth in first.
class gore and liveth unconquered, for he
sucketh Ikea double breasted vacuum
pump, and there is naught which can re-
sist the poiatedness Of his arguments. -
Stockton independent
Year: 1878

THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF A SAN
JosE LAwYER.-A certain breadth of
statement is generally admissible when
attorneys are addressing Court. and
where the lawyer sees things through
magnifying drops OF grief the habit of
using the editorial "wer is often uncon-
sciously exaggerated. A short time ago
an attorney remarkable for his verbosity,
was arguing a point in divorce case
before Judge 9eldsn. The defendent
when on the stand few minutes previous,
had spoken very disparagingly Of his wife, ,
and our disciple of Blackstone, the wife's
attorney, was dissecting the testimony. -
After trying to prove that every state
ment Of the witness was brilliant effort
to strangle the truth he said: "Your
Honor, man may dismiss compassion
frem his heart, but God, God sir, never
does. With tears fowing like mountain
rils he tries to assuage the woes ofall.-
The worlds garden has been made a
wilderness through this plaintiffs base
ness. His narrow soul knows not the no
bio instinct of forgiveness. We, Your
Honor, have tried 20 be wife to him in
all that holy word conveys. Yet he
comes here, may it please your homer,
and tells !his court that he would rather
sleep with sow than with US and this il
it please the court, after we have borne
him seven children" The Judge sat and
took il without batting ar eye, but il was
too much for the auditorium, and the
attorney sat down. A few minutes later
he seemed to realize what he had said and
went out to cool off.
Year: 1878

IT is stated that four hundred years
ago but seven metals had been discov-
cred, while. se ara now acquainted with
tle existence OF fifty one, thirty OF which
nearly three lfths, have been made
known to US since the beginning Of the
present century.
Year: 1878

In the name of God, amen! / J.
Timothy Doolan of Barrydownderry
in the county Of Clare, farmer, be.
ing sick, wake on my legs, but OF
of sound head and warm heart
Glory be to God do make this my
first and last will and ould and
new testament. First. 1 give my
sowl to God, when it PLACES him to
take it-sure no thanks to me, for
can't help it then-and my body TO
be buried in the ground at Barry
downderry Chapel, where all my kin
that have gone before me, and those
that live after, belonging to me, are
buried, peace be to their ashes, and
may the sod rest lightly over their
bones. Bury me near godfather
and my mother, who lie separated
altogether at the other end of the
chapel yard, lave the bit of
ground containing eight acres-rale
old Irish acres-to my eldest son
Tim, after the death of his mother,
If she lives to survive him. My
daughter Mary and her husband,
Paddy O'Reagel are to have the
black SOW that's going to have
twelve black BOUTS. Teddy, my
second boy, that was killed in the
war in Ameriky, might have got his
pick of poultry but as he is gone
I'll leave them to his wife who died
a week before him; L bequeath TO all
mankind fresh air of heaven, all
fishes Of the sea they can take, and
all the birds Of the air they can
shoot. / lave to them all the sun,
moon and stars. / leave to Peter
Rafferty, pint Of potheen. l can't
finish, and may God be merciful to
him.
Year: 1878

The following well drawn por-
trait OF "the man who don't read"
is taken from an exchange:


The man who don't read is al
ways prating about how things
"used to was" He is a knowing
fellow, full of wornout truisms. He
is a rich and inexhaustible mine for
every sharper who travels on his
wits, selling poor clothes for high
prices, or an expired patent right.
The man who don't read has very
large disgust for "new tangled
things" and believes IN his children
getting along as he did, and boasts
that he never went to school but
two quarters. We like this sort of
men; there ought to be one in every
community, just for the benefit they
are as an example for the parents
who do believe they owe something
more to their families, to them
selves, than to be mere dull brutal
machines.


The man who don't read usually
has a mission-it is to grow corn
and pork and pay taxes, or work
through the week at his bench or
forge as a machine. His home is
place to eat and sleep, his life a
round of drudgery-a struggle for
only bread and butter. The man
who don't read falls behind the age
in which he lives; drops into the
narrow groove of his personal Oh
servation, and declares the progress
around him to be departures from
the virtues and goodness of by-gone
times. Every day has a supersti-
tious sign, every change of the
moon, every sudden variation of
the weather fills him with prophecy
which bodies eyer} body i'll luck.


The man who don't read misjud-
ges the common natural laws of mat
ter, the easily explained changes of
vegetable and animal life are sub
jects for superstitious dread and
trouble. The great progress of the
world in literature, silence and art,
the news of the day, at home and
abroad are blrnks toithe man don't
read.
Year: 1878

The Knoxville Tribune says
Patterson appears to be in dy
ing condition. Some heart broken
or disgusted Radical recently said
that treason and death were rapidly
exterminatIng the Republican ma
jority in the Senate. 1t may seem
a little ungracious to say it, but the
death of Patterson will derive its
chief Importance from the fact that
his seat will be Immediately filed
by Democrat, thus reducing the
vote in the Senate to tie when Sen
ator Davis sides with the Demo
Gratis.
Year: 1878

The Knoxville Tribune says: The
telephone and phonograph, the one
for transmitting sound and the other
for preserving it, have scarcely
ceased to be cause for amusement,
when an electrician comes toward
with the electroscope, the province
of which seems to be to transmit
waves of light by electricity. Com
bine it with the telephone. and
while two persons are talking with
each other at dI stance of say five
hundred miles, they can actually see
each other, at least so claims the IN
Ventor.
Year: 1878

To the young man with his hail
parted in the middle who is about
to put his college education and hi:
sole leather trunk on a California
bound train, we say-stop! TIC
the clever artizan and the honest
mechanic, who thinks he will fly
from hard times in the east to i'm
aginary well l-paid employment in
the Golden City," we also say
stopl To the adventurous rustic
who wishes to leave hoeing the tur
nips of some New York farm to
delve for gold in the mountains OF
this land of. the pioneers, we EN-
phatically repeat-stay where you
arel


We should be glad to think that
there was plenty and prosperity for
every one who seeks to settle
among us-but, all the same, there
isn't. We do possess something OF
an approach to the eternal summer
and the gigantic strawberries the
east is so tired of hearing us brag
about. Sooth to say, double eagles
do not grow upon trees in Frisco
all the new eager arrivals to the
contrary Notwithstanding. In plain
English, the paper that speaks of
the magnificent opportunities this
State presents to the new conner,
lies, and lies in very gratuitously
criminal way indeed.


The unvarnished truth is that our
labor market is stocked to over
flowing, and fresh arriving trains
but add to the miserable multitude
in our midst that awaits, suffers,
starves, and finally fights its desper-
ate way back east again. Before
the door of every employment Office
in this city to-day, stands hollow
eyed swarm that would sadden the
heart of satyr. Men of brains and
culture, good clerks, excellent ac-
countants, business men of undeni-
able energy, mechanics of ability,
walk the streets in dumb despair,
and finally take those that lead to

the bay and the morgue. 1t is truly
said that San Franci SEQ is Califor
MIA, and here all the misery and suf-
fering of those who have journeyed
from afar to grasp the monotonous
repetition, the glittering mirage of
fortune are seen. The writer of
this cannot remember one evening
for very many that he has not been
asked for coin to buy meal or a
bed. And some of them to die on
the rack-the rack of continued dis
appointment ard bitter misery.
Every train that leaves Oakland is
crowded with emigrants, who sew
eral times repeat their unhappy sto
ry to the west coming daily addition
to the army of real martyrs they
have left behind them here. Yet
still the Alta and its ilk calmly sing
the old siren song, and still this
over crowded, over-traded, and fl
nancially prostrated community is
held up with fatal persistence as the
proper Mecca of the American
youth.-San Francisco Mail.
Year: 1878

The pencil marks you see around tbis
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scription is out or unpaid, and that Won
are requested to pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure In extending
credit to our friends and patrons, but
cash alone win yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere 70 a strict cash
rule. We hope you will Comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such n
course and lrenew your su scription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


CB- We enter no new names on our
books without the money ia advance.
Year: 1878

The shrewd and fair dealing man
always spends his money with those
who make their business known
through the county paper. He
reads the paper, sees who patrOnize
it, and then does his trading with
those parties. He sees that they
are doing just what he is by taking
and paying for it, supporting home
institution, that is Indispensable to
every town and county where there
is a newspaper published.
Year: 1878

Uses OF CRAB ApPLEs.-There are 80
many ways Of using them that the sup.
ply is hardly equal to the demand. They
make the most delicious jelly, and they
can be favored with lemon and various
extracts so as to be delightful. Then
they make splendid sweet pickles, and
keep nicely. They are fully as nice as
plums for preserves, and for pies they
are excellent. A friend of mine canned
a bushel of crab apples last year, and
such pies as they made during the sum-
mer makes ones mouth water to think of
theml They can be sliced and dried, and
are good. There are plenty of ways to
use them to advantage, but they do make
the very best jelly of any fruit that am
acquainted with. 1t requires granulated
sugar, pound for pound, as the old saying
is, for preserves. Maple sugar is nice
for preserves or canning, but it will not
do for crab apple jelly. l think there is
no fruit nicer to use in family, they can
be turned to account in so many ways
that are palatable and nutritious
Country Gentleman.