smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

THE locomotives OF the northern rail-
way of France now carry small clocks in
front of the smoke stacks to enable the
engineers and station masters to know
the exact hour of the arrival of a train
These clocks are all regulated by Paris
time. The trains are so frequent on the
northern line that a delay of a few min
utes even is enough to disarrange the
Year: 1879

CINCINNATI. OHIO, Oct. 31.-Judge Harmon of
the superior court, has made decision SUSTAIN
ing the integrity and validity of the ASSIGNMENT
or Archbishop Purcell, OF a number of pieces OF
property In trust for payment of his debts, as
against an attachment by the Jefferson National
Bank or Steubeny1lle for debt of the arch
bishop. The court held that the assignment was
IN good faith and for q good pur pose, and dis
missed the attachment.
Year: 1879

SECRETARY SHERMAN returned to the city i
six O'Clock this morning from New York. AS
sistant Secretary Hawley will leave this evening
for his home in Illinois, to be gone nearly fort
night.
Year: 1879

The history of Molly Maguireism in Penn
sylvania is sprinkled with blood. but we doubt
if any page of it is more ghastly than that
which records the occurrences at Mauch
Chunk yesterday. Yellow-covered literature
and the sensational drama are fruitful of
such tragedies, but they are rare enough in
real life. The spectacle of the doomed men
swinging at the end Of the rope, while the
messenger bearing the telegraphic reprieve
was striving to force his way in at the door
of the Jail, is probably rivaled only in fiction.
The prolongaton of the lives of Mcdonnell
and Sharpe depended on very slight contin-
gencies, all Of which failed them. If Gov.
ernor Hartranft's dispatch had been sent
few moments earlier; if the man who rushed
off to the scene of the execution with it had
made greater speed; if he had succeeded in
making the doorkeeper at the Jail at once un-
derstand his errand, or if he had broken his
way through to the foot of the gallows with
out stopping to parl3y-if almost anything
had occurred that did not occur, the convicted
felons would have stepped down from the
gallows and had a renewed lease of existence
for six days. Ii was race against time, and
they were beaten by half minute.


Although the affair was unfortunate, we do
not think that the victims are deserving of any
great amount of consideration. By their own
admissions they were members of a murder.
Gus gang, and had been prominently concern
ed in the Inauguration of the reign of terror
in Carbon county that lasted for twelve years
and extended throughout the whole mining
district. The crime for which they were con-
victed was done in 1868, and some fifty or
sixty bloodthirsty rufians were engaged in it.
Mcdonnell and Sharpe were not placed on
trial until 1877, and after that lapse of time
there was, of course, difficulty in identifying
them as two of the gang who shed the blood
Of Smith. 1t was this doubt that must have
acted on the mind of Governor Hartranft at
the last moment, and induced him to send the
Ineffective reprieve. The principal testimony
against Mcdonnell and Sharpe was given by
Year: 1879




Some thirty years ago 1t was In the
power of every Americon parent to
select trade for his SONS and to have
them brought up as skilled workmen
in some mechanical pursuit. So easily
was this accomplished that the boys
were to select the trade they would
prefer to learn, and there was no diff
Guilty in securing them places. Now,
however, the boys of large cities have,
comparatively, none of the chances In
the race OF life that their fathers had
and If they fail to become good, useful
and self sustaining men, whose fault is
it ? In the olden time parent inqui-
red what his child was fit for, and what
pursuit the natural bent of his mind
and habits Inclined him to. Now he
must feed, clOthe and educate him, and
if he is fortunate enough to get an
opportunity to learn him trade, he
must accept whatever offers. If he
shows particular aptitude to be q ma
chinist, he must either let him grow
up In idleness or make him q brick
layer or shoemaker. The chances,
however, are that he will be unable to
find an opening for him In any useful
trade. "Give the boys good trade"
was the urgent appeal Of dying mothers
and the accepted rule In every virtuous
household. Boys then looked forward
to the approach of the time of their in
ductiOn to life Of usefulness as their
first step towards seltsustaining man.
hood. Now they seek employment in
vain.


Singular as 1t may seem, this debar.
ring of boys from the learning of me-
chanical trades Is in many cases the
deliberate act of their own fathers.
The doors of the mechanical establish
ments are closed to the boys of Balti.
more In order that there may be places
kept open for the skilled workmen of
Europe who come to our shores, and
the half-learned mechanics who flock
to the city from country towns. A
Baltimore born mechanic is becom.
ing a rarity. The rules of trade soci'
eties. all of which prohibit and pro-
scribe boys and exclude them from the
workshops in which their own fathers
work, has always seemed to US one of
those extraordinary, if not insane acts
which cannotbe explained or defended.
We have frequently expressed desire
to hear some defence or explanation of
it, but have failed, even when we
have thrown open our columns to the
discussion, to elicit any Information
on the subject.


1t is neither safe, respectable nor
wise to bring any youth to manhood
without a regular calling. Idustrry,
like idleness, is matter of habit: No
idle boy will make an active and in
dustrious and useful man. A trade is
always a good standby to fall back
upon when more profitable pursuits
fail. We have known many men who
have made unsuccessful ventures who
have fallen back upon their trades, who
would otherwise have had no means of
obtaining u livelihood Thus the faith.
er who combines with others to debar
his son from this inestimable blessing
is helping to make him a helpless
drone, AID virtually depriving him
af "a fair chance in the race of life."-
BALTIC. American.
Year: 1879




If you went and sat on a hornets nest
it would be stimulating beyond doubt.
but by no means strengthening. I5
wo'd put life into a man and make him
frantically active for awhile, but as to
the nourishment got from it 1 very
much doubt whether 1t would be in
proportion to the stimulation. But
what does that stimulation which
comes from the absorption of whisky
and brandy mean? We shall find the
answer which science gives in The
results of experiments. made by two
eminent observers, DIR. Paikes and
Count Wollowicy. These men conduct
ed their inquiries on a young and
healthy adult man. They counted the
beats of the heart, first at regular in.
tervals during what were called water
periods; that is TO say, periods when
the subject under Investigation drank
nothing but water, and next, they
counted the beats of his heart during
successive periods in which alcohol
was taken in increasing quantities.
They found the average number of
heart beats in "a hours while the man
drank water was LOG, 200; in the earlier
alcoholic periods, 127 900; in the late
alcoholic periods l3l ,OOO. The heart
was doing great deal more work with
alcohol than without it. At first sight
it would seem almost incredible that
such an excess of work could be put
upon the heart, but it is perfectly cred
ible when all the facts are known.


The most thorough work on the al
coholic question is that of DR.. B. w.
Richardson, Fellow of the Royal Col
lege of Physicians of England. His
conclusion is that alcohol in itself is
not food, although people who take
much of it will become fat under its
influence. They become so, however,
because alcohol interferes with the nu'
tritive processes, and acts like drag
upon the wheels within. The man
gets fat because the system does not
throw off from it the refuse matter
which il is necessary to get rid OF. The
fattening is caused by the arrest of q
vital process necessary to health; it be-
tokens disease rather than health; and
after while perhaps the man dies of q
fatty heart, and physicians call it heart
disease.
Year: 1879

The farmer came in from the field one day,
His languid step and his weary way,
His bended brow, his sinewy hand,
All showed his work for the good of the land;


For he sOws,


And he hoes,


And he mows,
All for the good of the land.
By the kitchen fire stood his patient wife,
Light of his home, and joy of his life,
With face all aglow and busy hand,
Preparing the meal for her husbands band;


For she must boil,


And she must broil,


And she must toll,
All for the good of the home.
When Autumn is here with its chilling blast,
The farmer gathers his crop at last;
His barns are fun, his fields are bare,
For the good of the land he ne'er hath care;


While it blows,


And it SHOWS,


The winter goes,
lie rests from the work of the land.
But the willing wife, till life's closing day,
Is the children's guide, the husbands stay;
From day to day she has done her best,
Until death alone can give her rest,


For after the test,


Comes the rest,


With the blest,
By the farmers heavenly home.
Year: 1879

DAIN in the right side, under the
L edge of the ribs, increases on pres
sure; sometimes the pain is in the left
side; the patient is rarely able to lie
on the left side; sometimes the pain is
felt under the shoulder blade, and it
frequently extends to the top of the
shoulder, and is sometimes mistaken
for rheumatism in the arm. The
stomach is affected with loss of appe-
tite and sickness; the bowels in gen.
eral are costive, sometimes alternative
with lax; the head is troubled with.
pain, accompanied with dull, heavy
sensation in the back part. There is
generally considerable loss of men,
ory, accompanied with a painful SEN
sation of having left undone some
thing which ought to have been done.
A slight, dry cough is sometimes an
attendant. The patient complains of
WEAKNESS and debility; he is easily
startled, his feet are cold or burning,
and he complains of a prickly sensa-
ton of the skin; his spirits are low;
and although he is satisfied that exer-
else would be beneficial to him, yet
he can scarcely summon up fortitude
enough to try it. In fact, he distrusts
every remedy. Several of the above
symptoms attend the disease, but cases
have occurred where few of them ex-f
isted, yet examination of the body,
after death, has shown the LIVER to
have been extensively deranged.
Year: 1879

Washlugton Cor. Phil adelphia Telegraph.


The Conkling -Sprague scandal at


first attracted very little interest In


this city, because OF the general dispo-
sition of the people here to attribute


the apparently exaggerated accounts to
more Of political movement to iniure
Senator Conkling. The facts is, how
ever, that there is marked change
taking place in the conservative senti-
ment OF the country in reference there
10, by reason of the fact that the more
the matter is probed, the more unpleas-
ant truths appear to be developed. 10th
as is tn moral sentiment to attach
guilt to persons occupying the promi-
nent positions of Mrs. Sprague and
Senator Conkling, when once its sus-
picions are aroused, its verdict is gem
orally very severe, and this, unfortu
natsly appears to be the tendency OF
the convictions of the better classes of
the city. Outside of social circles here,
tine effect upon Senator Conkling is very
strikinglv manitesting itself in political
circles. prominent politician in this
city remarked that. unfortunately for
Senator Conkling, he is so barren OF
the natural elements that attach men
to each other, that, attacked as he now
is from all sides, he has nothing within
himself by which to win either sympa
thy or a disposition of his fellow-men
to overlook the crime with which he Is
charged. Almost any other public
man, with the personal attractions so
necessary to a successful public career
in this country, might recover from the
cloud that is now thickening around
Senator Conkling. Public men, who a
few days ago were ready to excuse and
deferd him have nothing to say, but
rather by their manner add to the
growing conviction that the chances of
saving himself for future, that prom
ised the most brilliant political achieve
ments, are against him. The feeling
appears to be entertained more in sor-
row than from any disposition to injure
him. New Workers in this city, and
among them some of his most ardent
political supporters, say that If his
election for another term to the United
states Senate was to take place this
tall, few of the Republican members OF
tie New York Legislature from the rural
districts of the State, could be induced
to vote for him, and without this class
Of support he never could be again
elected.
Year: 1879

Va tho ANSPupAiS"h'


MEssRs. EDIToRs We had though


that there had been enough said in re


lation to Sabbath breaking, but it ap


pears that there is class of people VIII


see every bo!y's fault but their own


We see that after communication


came out in last Wednesdays paper


that the people who dislike the idea 0


being called ignorant have been usin,


all the vile language that they possibl,


could about "W. L. g." but did not


like man should, go and face him.


They have found one Hiram Pratis


who thinks that he can show his wis


dom by advocating that it is right t


encourage our people in this city Il


spend from S., 900 to Sc, 900 every veal


on the last Sunday in this month ir


order to help the railroad companies


and the steamboat lines to fill our city


with thousands of people, who never
see inside OF church during the day,


but instead they promenade up and
down the streets, eating, drinking,


fighting and making general display
Of their ignorance, yet they tell us that
it is time for us to look for better
things. We are not opposing your
meetings, as some Of you say, but we
do and always will oppose the street
traffic. Again we say it is ignorance for
any set of people in christian land to
act 80. In regard to the camp that Mr..
Pratis speaks Of we know nothing Of
it. There may be camp at Smyrna
for all we know, yet if things are con-
Quoted there as they have been in this
city on the last Sabbath in August, we
certainly are opposed to it, as we are
Just as Euch opposed to sin in one
place as in another. We can prove to
you that the church which "W. 4. g."
i0 member had nothing to do with it.,
and more than that our ministers did
not go to the Smyrna Camp. Pratis
says that "W. L. g." called the people
who held these meetings "damnable
iguorants. This we deny, and pro-
nounce the statement to be false. What
we did say was this "That this street
traffic on the Sabbath day was brought
about by the most ignorant class of our
race, and that it was one of the greatest
sins" We hope this statement will
satisfy you, if not come on and we will
try and give you satisfaction. We
would have Pratis to know that this is
not fight against churches but fight
against Sabbath breaking. Let it be
carried on by whatever member of
church he may be, the man who does
it is certainly violating Gods law. A
man who carries on this traffic on the
Sabbath and says he is striving to keep
the Sabbath day, is he not an ignorant
man We say he is, and have just as
good right to form an opinion as
Pratis has. Now go on with your meet
ng, bat remember the Sabbath day
and keep it holy, and above all things
beseech you do not have any street
market on Sunday. W. L. G.
Year: 1879

A fine lot Of cat fish, rock fish, black
fish, halibut and other varieties of the
tiuny tribe can b. found on the stall of
Powell, the great fish man of the Third
street market. Call and try them
INey will be well r-lished even by the
weakest stomach.
Year: 1879

The Ladies' Of the Mite Society
of the West Presbyterian Church pro.
pose to repeat their popular excursion
next year. They desire to thank Their
friends for the liberal patronage and
hope to be able to favor the public with
an excursion which will render them
even more popular then before.
Year: 1879

Don't take any OF the quack rostrums, as
they are regimental to the human cistern
but put your trust in Hop Bitters, which will
cure general dilapidatiOn, cOstive habits and
all comic diseases They saved Isaac from a
.evere extract OF tripod fever. They are the
ne MUS tnum of medicines.
Year: 1879

he wished his examination to be final His explana-
tion was that he had to go to Madison to get help IA
servant) for his wife,"


cRoss-ExAMiNED.


81 do not remember that requested Mr.. Hayden
to help to obtain jury. After had been called to
and as passed Hayden's he showed up the window
of his house and asked is that you. HarryY and
asked me If should want him. l replied in the
Affirmative, and he went up with me- He said
nothing to me later during the night about asking
needed him at home she being i'll. While being ex-
freely" -esc : :


On redirect examination the witness said that at
the inquest nothing was asked Hayden about his
visit to Middletown olothe morning of the murder.
was anything said about arsenic.


The matter of Hayden haiing witness from his
window as he drove by was taken up and given
much prominence by both prosecution and Defence
night There were no lights in the house visible
from the road. and there was no noise other than


Had anything been said before about wanting


II don't think there had sir.'' f


Counsel for the defence agaip took the Witness and
by series OF skiltul interrogations drew from him
admissions that Hayden might naturally have been
called the following day he answered freely and
frankly, and that as nothing was said by anybody
absence of any interrogatories regarding Aayden's
purchase OF the package in Middletown.


IMronTANcE r. iS OF FEW sIAckBEnnIrs. a u.s.
the murdered girl detailed the appearance Of the
corpse the evening Of the tragedy. and said that
partly chcwed blackberres found in the pool
Of blood This against the defences theory that
the girl might possibly have been killed elsewhere
and the body removed to the place where it was
found. Continuing, witness said that he did not
testify about these berries at the first trial. although
he had mentioned it to bystanders when the body
was moved


He was cross.examined with great severity as to
these berries. and it was finally drawn from him
that he had known early during the trial that
he to be interrogated about them He learned 1t
from the counsel for the State who read to him from
paper. and he saw one Of the gentlemen last Sun
day at the scene of the tragedy in Rockand. He de-
MED that he had previously known that the lawyers
to be there and said that he went to the spot
only to what visitors there. 1t being FREE
quented Sundays by people through curiosity.


The witness became hopelessly confused III refer
ence to his dates under the discrimination of
counsel to such an extent as to greatly mar the
effect of his testimony. though he stuck to his story
about the berries without variation. The witness
will be recalled by the State when the court
sembles to correct his blunders.


The Court adjourned until Monday next at ten
o'clock f'f f


Sessions Of the court will be held next week from
Monday to Wednesday inclusive. and an adjourn
ment will probably then be taken over Thanksgiv-
ing to the following week.
Year: 1879

HOW MATTHEW CLARK, OF THIS CITY, CAME TO


BE LOCKED UP IN JAMAICA, L. l.


The telegraph operator at the Long Island Railroad
the depot agent Jamaica to arrest man whom the
conductor of the four O'Clock train would point out
to him. The man was accordingly arrested ana
rocked up. He gave the name OF Matthew CLARK. and
his residence No. 1.445 Second avenue this city.
Tho occasion for his arrest follows:--A Mrs.
Connolly. OF Rockaway. lost In the Rockaway depot
pccketbook containing two ten dollar bills three
one dollar bilis trade dollar and fifty cent piece
Tho pockctbook was afterward found near by,
emptied of its contents. and hence tho order from
the operator to arrest Mr.. Clark, who was
in the depot when the purse was lost
That evening he arraigncd before Justice Belts
In his pockets were found some $50. In one lower
pocket OF his vest three one dollar bills. trade
dollar and nifty cent peco, and In the upper pocket
o ten dollar BILL He WAS committed for examine
ton Tuesday, when exJudge Busteed appeared
for him. Offers OF settlement had been made to him
and to his counsel II he would return the money
To Mrs. Connolly, hut he refused to comply Nnd In
sisted that he had no money that was not honestly
his own Mrs. Connolly had never made charge
of any kind against him. She had refused to
attend court as witness, and wnen the case
was adjourned to wednesday afternoon she said
enter tho court room again. Mr.. Clark was re-
manded to his cell, but at about midnight for some
reason now unexplained as the officers could not be
found yesterday, he was turned out of IL. On
Wednesday he appeared voluntarily for examine
ton. An officer. who said he thought he recognized
mas sent q New Yosn e. make inaes and re
ported back that far he had been able to learn
Mr.. Clark was an sminently respectable man. Mr..
city, appeared In Court and testified that Clark was
q trustworthy man and had been in the firms SER
vice tor moro than thirty years The case was sent
be Instituted.
Year: 1879

THEY are lighting up Niagara Falls
now at night with the electric light
aud the effect is said to be beautiful.
Red lenses are frequently used on the
lights at the base of the falls and the
effect is to make the water of the great
cataract look like blood. The red
light. permeates the mass of water
flowing over the brow of the preci-
pice to a wonderful degree. 1t is all
one intense red. The electric lights
are also used to create another phe
nomena of nature, namely, a lunar
rainbow above the falls. l}y arrang-
iNg the lights in a peculiar manner
the spray that ever hovers above the
falls is so Illuminated that a rainbow
appears with many of the colors COM
mon to rainbow.
Year: 1879

WE get an idea of the French libel
law which seems to have a good deal
Of common sense. Don Carlos re-
Gently brought suit in Paris against
two newspapers for libel in connection
with pamphlet published by the
Spanish pretender's aide -de-camp,
General Boet 1t appeared that the
prince had made hot statement of
his own against General Boet in print,
and the judge summed up for an
acquittal on the ground that the pre-
tender to the throne of Spain had
himself broken down the boundaries
between his public and private life. -
In this country it often happens that
pretenders (not for Spanish crowns,
however, noisily push themselves for
ward, breaking down "the boundaries
between public and private life" and
when their pretensions are criticised
rush to the courts with a libel suit
against some unhappy newspaper.
The French judge gives hint of legal
construction which we commend to
our American judges.
Year: 1879

SECRETARY SHERMAN recently
caused to be published in the news
papers a statement that he was in no
way using his Office to promote his
candidacy for the Presidency. Iu
the face of that the anti-Sherman
Republicans assert that several States
are being flooded with copies of Sher-
mans financial speech in Maine, and
that they are inclosed in the official
envelopes of the treasury department.
This is to avoid the payment of post
age, and is in direct violation of law.
These official envelopes have printed
on them the following: ANY person
using this envelope to avoid the pay
ments of postage on private matter of
any kind will be subject to a fine of
three hundred dollars" !"