smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

The murderer walked down stairs
calmly, then down the alley to Fitzwater
street, throwing his weapon, an ugly
shOemaker's knife, into an areaway. He
was speedily arrested aud lockedup. He
pfetends not TO know for what crime he
Is locked up. The Indignation Of the
residents of the neighborhood was so
great against Parr that he would have
been lynched had it not been for police
protection.
Year: 1879

THE PANIC IN MEMPHIs-HAsTY DEPARTURE OF


CITIZENS.


From the Memphis (Tenn.) Appeal. July Ill


The anxiety of the multitude to shake Memphis
dust off from their feet at fever heat all day.
gradually increasing as the hours grew apace. The
railway and steamboat ticket Offices were literally
Jammed from opening to closing and we learn
authoritatively that all not served. Retail
stores, and particularly trunk establishments had
more business than they could stand up to. Trans
fer vehicles. express wagons. and even the hand
cart ratified over the streets laden with
trunks, valises and baggage generally through
out the day, until the railroad depots
were packed with the dunnage of the
panic stricken people, This great the
Louisville Railroad that extra freight train
necessary to carry away the baggage of those who
secured passage that line last night. Nearly
entire streets Of residences have been deserted by
their occupants. and last night the crickets the
hearth were the only sounds heard in many locali-
ties. There considerable rivalry between the
steamboat and railway agents during the day. Each
played his card for business, but rumor got afoat
In the afternoon that bridge had been burned OH
the Memphis and Louisville Railway near Browns
vile, which gave to the steamboat fellows the ad-
vantage for WHILE but we cannot that it affected
the railway boys in the least since neither line of
road able to furnish transportation tor all that
wanted to go last night
Year: 1879

The Earl of Rosse has shown by ex-
periments that the moon not only reflects
heat to the earth (Which, of course, must
be the case), but that she gives out heat
by which she has been herself warmed.
The distinction may not perhaps appear
clear at first to every reader, but it may
easily be explained and illustrated. Ii
on bright Summers day we take piece
of fsmooth, but not 100 well polished metal,
and BY means of it reflect the suns light
upon the face, sensation OF heat will be
experienced; this is reflected sun heat;
but if we wait while so holding the metal
until the plate has become quite hot un-
der the solar rays, we shall recognize a
sensation of heat from the near proximity
of the plate to the face, even when the
plate is so held as not to reflect sun-heat.
We can in succession try, first, reflected
heat alone, before the metal hiss grown
hot; next the heat which the metal gives
out of itself when warmed by the suns
rays; and lastly, the two kinds of heat to-.
gether, when the metal is caused to re-
fleet sun-heat, and also (being held near
the face) to give out sensible quantity
of its own warmth. What Lord Rose
has done has been to show that the full
moon sends out earthward both kinds Of
heat, she reflects solar neat just as she re.
fleets solar light; and she also gives out
the heat by which her own surface has
been warmed.


1t may perhaps occur to the reader TO
inquire how much heat we actually OBJ
tain from the full moon. There is a
simple way Of viewing the matter. 1.-THE
moon were exactly as hot as boiling
water, we should receive from her JUST as
much heat (leaving the effect of our at
mosphere out OF account) as we should
receive from a small globe as hot as boil
ing water, and at such distance as to
look just as large as the moon does, Or
disk of metal would serve equally as
we'll Now, the experiment may be easily
tried. A bronze half-penny is exactly
one inch in diameter, and, as the moons
average distance is about lii times her
own diameter, half-penny at distance
of III inches, or three yards and three
inches, looks just as large as the moon.
Now let half-penny be- put in boiling
water for while, so that it becomes as
hotasthe water; then thatc coin taken quick
ly andsetthree yardsfromtbe observer will
give out, for the few minutes that its heat
remains appreciably that Of boiling water,
as much heat to the observer as he re-
ceives from the full moon supposed to be
as hot as boiling water. Or globe Of
thin metal, an inch in diameter and full
Of water at boiling heat would serve as a
more constant artificial moon in respect
Of heat supply. 1t need not be thought
remarkable, then, if the heat given out
by the full moon is not easily measured,
or even recognized, Imagine how little
T the cold of winters day would be re-
lieved by the presence, in room not
otherwise warmed, of a one-inch globe of
boiling water, three yards away And,
by the way, we are here from observations
made on the moons moons heat during
his Teneriffe experiments. He found
the heat equal to that omitted by the hand
at distance CT three feet.
.
Year: 1879

If you are going to paint your house,
barn, wagon or machinery, the wonder
full Imperishable Mixed Paint is surely
the best, for it is warranted by their
agents in your own town not to chalk,
crack, peel or blister; to cover better and
work easier than any other paint. Toe rmper-
over oil other paints, al the California State
Fair, 1873. and the Gold Medal at the Oregon
State Fair. 1873 Get o circular from their
cry. Try tue paint and you certainly would
have 40 other. l - -. ~.
Year: 1879

cussed in that nervous, bitter can
vass without effect. No new de-
velopments or changes have since
been made calculated to lmpeach
his integrity or to disqaalify him


in the least for the high office to


which he aspires. If he be worthy
of the respect and confidence o! the


people then he is no less so now;


and the chances to elect him next
year are certainly as good, If not


better, than they were in 1876.


We can very well see why the
opposition should keep up a fierce
and unrelen:ing war on Mr.. Tilden,


but why Democrats should strike
hands with and join them, in the


work, would seem incomprehensible
to any one gifted with the power to
discern objects three. inches beyond
the end of his own eye lashes, or
to Discriminate between wisdom
and folly. sense and nonsense. We
q ever did 1hanker after crow" and
we don't care to depreciate a man
to-day that we may be called upon
TO extol to the seventh heaven to-
Tennessee made little
mistake in this respect in 1876.
The delegates had themselves inter
viewed before starting from Nash
billie, and went to st. Louis "cOving
Tor Hendricks" but when Tilden's
was 4nnOunpad thew
jumped higher and snorted longer
and louder than anybody else.
There was nothing really wrong in
this last, emily if they had been less
noisy and demonstrative before the
their subsequent enthu-
siasm would have been more appro-
pirate, and perhaps, more highly
We hope that folly is
lOt to be repeated
Year: 1879

Col. "Bob" IngersOll, in a recent
letter on the money question, put
the case in this way: I'VE are told
however that the government can
create money. This L deny. The
government produces nothing; it
raises no wheat, no corn, it dIgs no
gold, no silver. IL is not produc-
er, it is q consumer. The govern
ment is a perpetual pauper that has
to be supported by the people. 1t
is constantly passing the contribu-
tion plate. The man who passes II
l admit has a musket within him,
but at the same time the govern
ment is supported by these contri-
buttons. You cannot live upon the
promise Of your own government
any more than you can live upon
the notes of your hired man-any
moro than you can live upon a bond
issued by occupants of the county
poor house. You cannot live
upon that which you have to sup
port"
Year: 1879

While many words once in com
mon use are now nearly obsolete,
few persons are aware how large .
number of new words are constant
ly coming into our language. The
supplement- OF the new edition OF
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary,
recently issued, contains, among
other attractive features, an add


ton of over 1900 new words and
meanings, aud yet it is but a fe"
years since q general revision was
made and great care taken to insert
all the words then properly belong
ing to the English language. Where
these words came from and what
they are is q surprise to persons
who have not examined them. That
they have not been hastily coLppiled
Is evidenced by the accuracy Of
and the careful study given to tbeir
and definitions.
Year: 1879

New York Public: The safest
and most profitable investment that
can anywhere be found at this time
for money, the use of which Is not
needed for a few years, is In the
purchase Of well-selectod real estate.


This general fact probably no intel
ligent man would. dispute, though
some deny it In application TO par
ticular cases when IL does not suit
their interists. II will be recoa-
nized that real estate, as a rule, falls
faster and farther when times are.
bad, and rises faster and farther
when times are good, than any 9TH
kind of property having real and
solid value. The intrinsic value
changes only with the growth or a
community or state, or the improve
ment of means of communication;
so that for production or for I Sc in
residence or in commerce, the valuo
may increase rapidly and greatly,
but can decrease but slowly and
moderately. But the price, on the
contrary, depends upon n market
that is more variable than almost
any other. At times real estate is
wholly unsaleable, no matter what
its real value or price may be. At
other times it is the object of the
widest speculation, with very little
reference TO the present legitimate
demand. AS a consequence when
real estate is not wanted it sells for
a song, or not at all; but when 1t ls


wanted, there is scarcely any limit
to its price. Hence, longheaded
men are always on the alert to get
possession of real estate after every
period of depression, and to such
shrewd purchases the whole or q
great part of almost every colossal
fortunue may be traced. We are
just emerging from n period Of un


exampled prostration. The price
OF real estate has fallen, as il usual
ly does at such times, in greater ra-
ito than that of almost any other
class of property Of substantial
character. Now, if ever, the pur-
chase Of real estate may be consid-
cred certain to yield exceptionally
large profits If property is judi
ciously selected.
Year: 1879

The fact that the Utes have been
supplied with arms and melted to
hostility against the whites is bold
ly charged against the Mormons
by General Merit, and if this
is so, it forms another strong
reason for vigorous measures
against the Mormons. They form
a hot-bed of treason and incestuous
dissipation in the heart of the con
tinent, a foul blot upon our fair
country. Nothing better than send
ing them to some South Sea island
will arrest their rnlfschief.-IRa Banner.
Year: 1879

Courier Journal: We regret to
observe that the Northern Republi-
cans are encouraging the Lemars
Sentinel in its outrageous assaults
upon what it calls "the nigger voters
of the South" The course of that
stalwart sheet toward the colored
voters of the South is characterized
by the extreme of indecency and
villification, but it fully represents
Northern Republican sentiment on
the subject, which finds mo terms
too vile to express detestation of
colored voters who do not obey the
Republican mandate to vote the Re-
publican ticket The "nigger vo-
tiers" are beginning to comprehend
the hypocrisy of the Republican
leaders.
Year: 1879




The Kinsley (Kansas) Graphic
good humoretlly discusses on the
work of making a newspaper:


Editing a newspaper may, be just
the thing, but we know by a large
majority that it isn't. In the first
place your wealth does not accu-
mulate so fast but what you can be
your own business manager. Not
very many editors keep a carriage,
and those that do have it in their
wife's name. When your paper
comes out, about one half the peo-
pie in your town feel kindly toward
you for the position you took in
some local matter, and the Other
half won't speak to you. The party
that feels kindly towards you may
set up the cigars and hope you are
doing well, but the other side won't
even give you light. About twice
a month you have great difficulty
in explaining to a man as big again
as you are, that you meant just the
opposite of what you said about
him. But an old editor can always
do this. Young editors sometimes
get licked, but an old one can talk
a bull dog out Of countenance. The
experiences and troubles of an edi
tor is too big a subject for one issue
of country paper; but that they
have their share of torment while
here on earth, and that they will be
finally crowned in glory, we believe,
by large majority.
Year: 1879

When we read that nearly all the
important railroad companies in
the Northwest have adopted spa
per" car-wheels, one is struck with
amazement. The idea of making
a wheel from material which, of all
others, would seemingly be the
most unfit, sounds like burlesque,
and yet practical experiment has
demonstrated that paper car wheels
are not only more durable but safer
than those made of iron.
Year: 1879

A correspondent OF the-.Beston
Journal says THAT an eminept pity
cician here told him that there is
mo profession in New York in
which it is SO easy to lay up con-
petencyfor The future as the minis


terial. The average pay is larger
than MANY other profession, for
while the lawyer and DOCTOR are
struggling he fhinistef takes his
position WITH 3 bounds but he IS
apt to spend in trips to Europe the
money ne should lay up. q.
Year: 1879

A man in Pennsylvania noted for
his generosity lately had 100000
left him as a legacy. > Beggars of
all manner of causes, good, bad and
Indifferent, fiocked upon him so fast
that he adopted the plan of stating
to each the amount or his legacy,
and the fact that he had hosts OF
applications, and the inquiry in
view OF all this, how much he ought
to be expected to give the appli-
cant. The amounts then applied
for he noted down, and promised
an answer in six months from the
time he got his legacy, At the end
of that period he added up the
amounts applied fer and found the
sum total thereof was 100000.
Year: 1879

An editor in Illinois talks in this
way: "If you owe but a single
dollar, go and pay it; when there is
so little money we ought to keep it
moving around lively. Jim owed
US. and we owed Bill, and Bill owed
Jim. Jim got mad because I'VE
made him pay one morning last
week; but we paid Bill, and Bill
paid Jim, and Jim went to bed that
night as happy as a clam, with just
as much money as he had in the
morning and three men out of debt"
Year: 1879

The perils of nn extra session of Congress
and a horse-race are about equal so some of
those Democratic Senators think who ad-
iourned the public business to enjoy the
sports of Pimlico. Going over, the special
car was full of hopes, expectations, and hi
larity, presenting u rare picture of that type
of happiness which is greatly enhanced un-
der the confident anticipation of winning,
which usually precedes the moment when
chance comes in to arbitrate the case. Every
body who had turned away from the duties
and responsibilities of craftsmanship to revel
in the beatitudes of race-course expected
to win, and hence the party were without
any spots on the disk of their sun of expec-
tation. In this frame of mind they went /;
they saw they bet their money on the bob
tailed horse they got cleaned out, aud
they returned to the dignifled theatre of
craftsmanship wiser, if not better
men. If all we hear is correct, Senator BECK,
who represents horse State, and who
prides himself OH the infallibility of his
judgment in horse-Aesh, found at Pimlico
that he had made rs great mistake in Sc





lecting his favorites ut horse-race rs in
choosing his part in politics as n Bourbon
He lost his money on the wrong horse, as he
is losing his caste rs politician and states
man by linking his fortunes with party
that has lost its future. Kcntucky's Sena-
tor returned from the races in q far differ
ent frame of mind from that which buoyed
up his heart and made him exuberant on
the subject of fleet horses and the like
when his face was set toward that Ken
lucky paradise which was opening in Mary
land He was not intoxicated with sue
cess. His pocket-book was not blooted /;
quite the contrary. Indeed, it looked
q little as if concrete roller
had passed over it. He was evil
IDENTIFY disconnected and unhappy; and
unless he was misunderstood lie muttered n
sOliloquy which indicated that he had lost
his confidence in extra sessions of Congress,
in caucus legislation, in horses and horse
racing, and indeed in almost everything re-
lating to this sublunary sphere, save blue
grass and horned cattle. 1t is intimated
that the Senator is dissatisfied with the
President for proclaiming an extra session
of Congress, and is a little cool toward the
Senator who moved the adjournment that
the enjoymcnts and chances of Pimlico
might be shared, and who struck the bulls
eye of fortune for himself in every stake,
when they were realized. This was griev-
Gus to the Kentuckian, who begins to Won
der if he is not altogether on the wrong
| side
Year: 1879

A CORRESPONDENT complains that brokers
of New York and Baltimore are allowed to do
general brokerage business in the halls of
the Treasury Department without a license
and without paying any tax, and also that
Adams Express Company is permitted to do
an extensive business without license. If
our correspondent is well informed Major Nor
gan should attend to the matter.
Year: 1879

MIR. WARNER has the consolation, should
his silver bill fail in the House, that it died
in the House where it originated, and was
not slaughtered in the Senate, as it will be
should it ever reach there. IL will die at
home and with its parent, aud can be buried
decently by its friends
Year: 1879

THE demand for BEN HILLS speech, in


which he attempted to apologize for the


secession war, continues to increase In close


Western districts, wherein it is freely dis
tributed as a Republican campaign docu-
ment AT the same time HILL is being
roundly denounced by his Bourbon constit-
uents in Georgia and the South generally,
who insist that there was nothing in that
war TO apologize for. This unhappy pre-.
dicament in which Mr. HILL finds himself
Is not " the result of ill-advised asperity y
on the contrary it is the result of despica-
BILE failure by him to follow in the eoncilia-
tory footsteps Of such rampant Gushers as
LAMAR and GoRDoN. Those eminent
worthless, while assuming, as HILL did, the
garb of humility and the smooth tongue
of neighborly pacifcNtiOn, did not disgust
nor alarm either friend or foe by Offering
any excuse for their past records or the mis-
deeds of their sections, but claimed outright
that they had abandoned secession for good
and ala claim, we are sorry TO say, they
have not faithfully adhered to- They are,
no doubt, as earnest In their friendship to
the Lost Cause as HILL ever was, for they
have proved their tealty thereto sword in
hand but they have been careful not to
Year: 1879

Both official and unofficial information
agree in effect that the so-called political
trials growing out of violations of the ma
tional election laws last year in Florida
cannot fail to produce the most beneficial
results upon the future peace and prosperity
of that State. The several convictions of
ballot-box suffers that have already oc-
CURED, as well as others that are likely to
occur before Judge SETTLES court have
stricken terror to the minds of evil-doers in
both political parties. Although the tele-
graphic news from the pending trial of
Representative" HULL is meagre and un-
satisfactory it is safe TO assume the record
Judge SETTLE has made in this series of
cases on trial before him will be rounded off
with distinctive illustration of the i'm
partiality of the blind goddess, who sees no
difference in the malefctor, be he the petty
county official or the would-be national
statesman. Mr.. HULL's striped suit is
awaiting him at Albany.
Year: 1879

THE new bill TO regulate the manner of
the electoral count gives to the States,
through their judiciary, the right to deter
mine the result of contests in the event of
disputed electoral elections. We have heard
of something Of this kind before. 1t is well
to remember in this connection that the va
lidity of the last electoral count in South
Carolina was finally adjudicated through
the process of writ of mandamus, by
which the controversy therein involved was
transferred to the United States Circuit
Court.
Year: 1879

L. R. Democrat: It seems to be generally conceived by the State press that It will require our strong est men to lead the canvass of 1880. The Pine Bluff Press says the plain duty of the true Democrat will De to lay aside all claims of mere personal friendship and advocate and aid strong unacceptable men-men who can explain and successfully vindi- cate the principles and policies of our party. It says ''Confederacy thIs or that" has nothing to do with the next campaign-that power, strength, intellect and ability to talk are what we need ard must have.

 The Helena World takes the same view of the question. It says:

 There is no doubt that the Dem ocracy of Arkansas will have diff ferent TOW to hoe in the canvass of 1880 from which they have had since 1874. The reason is apparent. At that time the great national bat tie will be fought for the Presidency. the Republican tactics will be ar. ranged in the most ingenious man. ner. Besides thIs the insidious foe Greenbackism will be at work ener- getlcally and ably, for it cannot be denied that the recognized chicftain of that creed, tho Hon. R. K. Gar land, has sufficient standing morally, and the necessary intellectual quail fications to mould considerable opposition. h view of these weighty considerations, It must seem plain to all progressive Democrats that it is the duty of the party the coming year to nominate mon upon the State ticket who will bring strength, rather than select those whom it will be necessary to bolster up during the spirited canvass that is certain to come. We need . number one ticket and must have it. Besides this it will stand us in hand to bring ont our giants for special duty from one end of the State to the other sledge hammer blows struck home to the popular heart from such men IS John J. Hornor of Phillips, and w w. Mansfield of Franklin"

 It is truly gratifying to note such . tendency as expressions from the public press like the above indicate. Yes; let Arkansaw's Governor next year be q man who, in any assem- blaze of great men, can stand up and command recognition and respect as the peer of the best.