smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

MOUND BUILDERS relics of singu-
lar interest and Importance have
been unearthed on the Cook farm,
three miles south of Davenport, Ia,
nothing quite so rich as Schliemann's


Mycese ind. but as notable for this
country. They are two small slabs
said to be of ''coal," which probably
should be written "shale," /" one about
one foot square, the other about six
inches, and both covered on both
sides with inscriptions. On the lar
ger, a religious ceremony, apparently
the worship of FIRE, though possibly
the preparation for sacrifice. There
are fourteen human figures, sur
rounding fire, with joined hands,
while near the fire on one side is q
dead body lying in circle, and on
the other side two such bodies. Two
little circles to the right and left
above the figures are supposed to rep
resent the sun aud moon. Surround
ing the worshippers are small figures
of birds and animals crowded thick
ly in the space, and among them one
suggesting the mastodon. On the
smaller slab are three circles, one
within the other. Between the inner
circle and the middle one is a char
acter at each Of four equidistant
points, and between the middle and
outer circles are twelve characters ar
ranged like the hour figures on a d.
al. Outside these circles, as all over
the reverse sides Of both slabs, are
figures and signs which the learned
men of the Davenport Academy of
Science hope to be able to make
some sense out of. The only account
we yet have of this discovery is a
meager and not very clearly writ
ten newspaper paragraph, but it is
stated that a full scientific descrip-
tion' is shortly to be published by
some of the aforesaid learned men.
At present, we only say that there
may seem to be some intimations
of kipdred with the worship of the
Aztecs, with whom theory generally
tries to conduct the mound builders.
Year: 1877

Jane was still at the piano, be went
back to her and there remained dur.
ing the entire time she stayed, and
accompanied her home when she
went.


Annie, after her friends had de-
parted. went up to her room in no
enviable frame of mind, and her lit
tie heels clicked viciously as she
walked through the hall, and when
at last the solitude of her room was
reached, she gave way to ber anger,
and stamped her feet and bit her lips
to considerable extent. Then she
opened her bureau with q flourish
and took out the picture before men,
toned spitefully. as if she intended
the immediate destruction of it. But
when it was in her hand sbe seemed
10 relent, and broke down inconti-
nently and cried, am ashamed to
say like any other heroine, and final
ly wound up by putting the offending
picture under her pillow.


The next evening Annie was seat
ed alone in the parlor, in the moon
light, when Nels sauntered 10 and
seated himself by her side. She rose
up hurridely to leave, but be begged
her to stay, or be would think her
jealous, he said At that size elevat-
ed her nose to the highest attitude
possible, and sat down again in hur-
ry and began to laugh and chat in q
way quite surprising, considering
her usual silence. She made up
Year: 1877

CoRREcTIoN.-In the notice in yester-
days GAZETTE, of the supper to he given
at Madley Chapel lit stated that it was to
take place last evening. 1t should have
been this evening. Let no one fail to
90.
Year: 1877

New York, July ia strong delegation
of colored men were waiting yesterday
upon the executive committee of the Cuban
league, and gave formal expression of
sympathy to the colored residents of this
city with struggling Cuba. Petitions will
be sent to President Hayes and congress,
urging upon the government to take such
Immediate action as will tend the mcst
speedily to wipe out forever the foul blot
of slavery.
Year: 1877

illustrates the Piano War by n Dog
story, and Gives the Bottom Facts.
Last week at the Tombs court, New
York city, before Judge Duffy, two claim
ants appeared for and with handsome
Newfoundland dog. As neither had any
corroborative evidence, the astute Judge
decided that the instinct of the dog himself
would be the surest test of ownership. A
policeman was ordered to hold the dog in
the center of the court room, while one
claimant was placed on one side of the
room, the other on the opposite side. Both
were ordered to whistle for the dog at
signal from the judge, the dog to be re-
leased at the same time, and choose between
the claimants.


The judge called time each claimant
whistled to the best of his ability. Police
man let go the dog but the dog, after
looking at the judge and surveying the
scene, escaped through the door, and
sought elsewhere its rightful owner.


A similar scene has been enacted for the
past two weeks among the piano men. A
couple of piano-forte msnutacturers-both
respective centennial awards through the
public press, with about as much success
rs the claimants had with the dog.


The prize belongs elsewhere.


Stripped, then, of all verbiage, subter-
fuge, elimination and recrimination, law
suits, and all side issues simply intended to
befog the public, the naked facts as to the
centennial awards are just these


Most of the leading manufacturers re-
ceived nearly the same recognition in re-
gard 10 workmanship. Durability the
commission could only guess at. The
only real distinction was made by the jury
as to the TONE of the pianos exhibited.


The piano, violin, and every other musi-
cal instrument is valued and purchased
for Its


TONE.


Thus, then, the Baltomore house is given
an award for general excellence in the
requisites Of first-class instrument in
power of Tone" to which the commission
added singing quality.
The New York house for "largest vol
ume, purity and duration of tone"


Whereas to WEBER is awarded "sympa-
thetic, pure, and rich tone, combined with
greatest power"


Comment as to which is the highest
award would be an insult to the intelligent
musical public.


Let them be the Judges as to who is the
rightful owner of the centennial prize.


Suffice 1t to say that the Weber award
contains all that is possible in piano-forte
-"sympathy. purity, richness, and great
est power"


In short, a soul in piano. A. WEBER.


MCCLURE & HALL,


RUTLAND,


Agents for the Weber Piano.
Year: 1877

The Creditors Committee met about the
usual hour yesterday morning. There was
some discussion as to the propriety Or allowing
the reporters to be present, but it was finally
decided that, inasmuch as a report was to be
made in the evening anyway, and as the matters
to come up for discussion before the Committee
we're matters which would probably be broachcd
at the evening meeting, the reporters might be
Year: 1877

The severity of this winter at the
East Is shown by the fact that railroad
trains are snow bound in the State of
Virginia, while it is two feet deep in
some of the Eastern States. Nothing
of the kind here.
Year: 1877

Three English women recently distinguished
themselves in the Forest of Dean. They ut
tackled grocer. One Of them brushed him
down with a tar-brush, another poured down
his back the contents Of a pot OF tar, and the
third bound him as to his neck with tarred
cloth. The grocer complained, and the women
were fined.
Year: 1877

Are the gentlemen who were chosen vice presidents of the Pope County Im- migration Society for the various town- ships moving up in their respective townships? We trust they will see and feel the importance and benefit of acting promptly and spiritedly in this matter, for We assure you all that your time and pains will not be lost. Thsre is not day scarcely but what new home seekers get off the train here to seek in- formation concerning our county. If the vice presidents in the different townships will stir up their people and get up su ch information iE regard to the lands, the health, the society, the wants, the schools, the feeling toward newcomers, &c.,, in their sections, we can through our Secretary, who is al- ways on hand here, give all these home seekers just the information they de- sire, and we can settle hundreds of them in our county. Every one set tied here adds to our strength and wealth, and our ability to open up, inn prove and enrich our county.

 Messrs. Vice Presidents be active and vigilant. It is for your own good thai we urge this matter upon you.
Year: 1877

Ex-Governor Hendricks has been out to the Western slope recently, and while in San Francisco was serenaded, and responded as follows:

 q do not choose tonight, in'addres. sing you, to speak upon the poiltlcai question at length. They have placed Mir. Hayes in the presidential chair. ] do not think that the judgment of the l American people is that he was elected :; but without election he has been placed 1 in the presidential chair. He is for the purpose of the office, the president Of the United States, and you and l will give to his administration, for the good of our country, that support due to any officer de facto. But this wrong that you and the great body of American people believe has been perpetrated must not pass into precedent, to be fol- lowed in the future. It is crime rather to be detested, and the work of the future, in part, is to correct this, and to prevent its becoming a prece- dent. Hereafter the man who is elect ed must be president of the United States. And four years from this tune | it will be the business of the people oi the United Sta,es to express Judg- ment upon this question not to De mls- understood"

 This is the true doctrine, and if the democrats of the United States will listen to the wise counsel of men like MT. Hendricks, four more years will see Wendell Phillips prediction tha: the next Congress and President will be democratic, fulfilled. Let demo- crats now offer no foolish and captious opposition to the successful administra- tio1 of the government under Hayes, but let them remember how he came into the Presidency and that no act of his to which he and his party are forced by the irresistible drift of public opin- 1 ion which democrats have worked up, entities him and his party to immunity from condemnation for the fraud and force by which the people have this | time been svindled out of their right l ful President. Let Democrats remain steadfast and true to their party and principles, and when another election rolls around let them stamp the im- press of their disapproval upon the party of returning boards, and let them then be pre- pared to reject any and all doubtful and unconstitutional methods of counting the vote, and to

 see that the man who is elected shall

 be inaugurated regardless of conse- | ouenccs.
Year: 1877



 An act to require County Treasur-

 CTS to give Sufficient Bonds, and

 for other purposes.

 Be 1t enacted by the General Assem- semhly of the State of Arkansas

 SECTION l. That hereafter each County Treasurer of this State, be fore he enters upon the discharge of the duties of his office shall enter into bond, with good and sufficient security to the State of Arkansas in double the amount of all the County revenue that may come into his hands for one year, by virtue of his office as Treasurer: conditioned for the true and faithful performance of hls duties as County Treasurer, and that he will truly account for and pay over all money that may come into his hands as Treasurer.

 Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That within thirty days after the passage of this act the County Judge of each County in this State shall notify the Treasurer of his County to enter into bond in the manner herein provided.

 Sec. 8. That upon the failure of the Treasurer to comply with the law. by filing the bond as hereln re- quired, within fifteen days after the notice provided for in section two of this act, his office shall be deemed vacant and the Clerk of the Circuit Court of which County shall certify the same to the Governor, who shall cause such vacancy to be filled as provided by law; and the several County Treasurers shall keep their offices at their respective County sites.

 Sec. 4. That section one thous- and land twenty eight of the Re vised Statutes of this State, and all other laws in conflict with this act be and the same are hereby repealed, and that this act take effect from and after it's passage.

 Approved February 21st, 1877.
Year: 1877

The Gazette has short article in a late number urging upon the people and the press of the South to again in terest themselves in demanding of the government the refunding of the sixty millions of dollars cotton tax collected on the staple of the South. The major ity of us, of course, believe that it was unjust and unconstitutional to levy and collect this tax, and would be glad to see the matter rectified; but we have very serious doubts whether the re- funding of the tax so as to do jusdce, is practicable, for the money would in majority of instances, scarcely ever reach its way back to the hands of those from whom it was actually wrung. The producer is the man who bore the hardship of this tax and to him justice would demand that it should ne refunded. But how would he ever get 1t back? Cotton speculators and deal CTS would be the benifciaries of re funding act, as it would be impossible in the case of all but large cotton pro ducers to trace the matter back to hin who is justly entitled to the tax.

 And then again, this matter needs correction 20 more than other existing wrongs which still oppress the people The tobacco tax which is equally a unjust and oppressive is still being OK torted from the people. Had we no better wage war upon existing evils rather than to go back 10 old ones fo redress:
Year: 1877

The city of St. Louis seems to have bad luck with her fine hotels. The Southern Hotel, of that place, has met the fate of the Lindel. The fire was under such strong headway when the alarm was turned on that it was irnpos- sible for many of the guests and at taches of the hotel to make their escape without jumping from the windows in the fifth and sixth stories. It was at first supposed that some fifty lives were lost, but the number has since been re- dnced to less than half this number. The building originally cost over a million dollars.
Year: 1877

The Louisiana Commission have done nothing yet. They can do noth- ing. They have no authority to do any thing. They are simply intermeddling where they have no business. They have no doubt seen fquadroon ball and they should now go home and re- pert to weak-backed Hayes. We hope the people of Louisiana will not base any expectations of good upon visit of a 4 to Hayes delegation.
Year: 1877

As matter of general interest to our readers, and especially to the Collectors of Revenue, we present the following letter from Attorney General Henderson on the question of liability for the commission of such Collectors on the refunded taxes:
Year: 1877

American papers have often com
mentcd upon the fact that in some parts
Of England women have been sold at
auction during the last century. Yes
lcldsy the novel sight of woman being
sold under the hammer was witnessed by
hundreds of people in front of Burrie'-
auction store. When it became known
that such sale WAS to he made Il large
crowd gathered to see the woman, and
many were wondering il the authorities
would allow such disgracciul scene to
90 on. At 1880 the woman was brought
out. Her name was unknown, but she
was recognized by some Of tho by.stand-
ers as a person who had worked in mil
linery establishment on G. street before
the fire, and her character had never
been questioned. She seemed perfectly
composed in the presence of 80 large a
crowd and never moved muscle of her
face as the auctionecr called out for the
first bid. She stood in an elevated posi-
ton dressed in plain muslin, without any
special attempt at display. She was a
h ,ndsome brunette, with regular features
dark hair and eyes, and a complexion as
pure ~ wax. She was finally Knocked
down for IS, and to the surprise of every
body, the bidder was married man. He
says the woman is somewhat dilapidated
but he thinks he can melt the wax and
make her up into tapers for Christmas
trees. She originally cost $500 in New
York the workmanship being Of the best
and was for n long time displayed in a
Broadway milliner', window before she
was shipped to the Comstock.- lUy nio
| { N,rl CbrDnicic.
Year: 1877

Omaha Herald A citizen of Sioux
City, who has spent much time among
the agencies OF the up-river Indians,
says it is amusing, as well as touching, to
hear an Indian sing his death song.


Our informant was at Standing Rock
a few months since, and one day he OBJ
served an unusual stir among the In.
dians. Soon two bucks came forth from
different lodges, each with gun in his
hand. They walked out some distance
from the rest of the Indians and took
posts, distant from each other about fifty
yards. At u given signal they fired.
Both fell, wounded, one fatally. They
were Immediately surrounded by friends,
who made no particular effort to bind up
their wounds, but simply stood around
talking among themselves and gesticulat.
ing, while the wounded Indians, as soor
as they fell, began their death song
There was little music in it. 1t was 4
deep-dcwn unnatural tone of voice
kept up for half minute or so at time
when it would cease, and the sufferer
would in the interim make a confession
of all the evil deeds they had ever done
They would tell of the massacres il
which they had engaged how man!
scalps they had lifted from the heads .
white people; the number Of ponies they
had stolen, together with all sorts of i'm
portant and unimportant evil doings in
their lifetime. This accomplised, they
were ready to give up the ghost.
Year: 1877

The Florida Agriculturist, says lake
Okecchobec is about iorty-ive r1iIeS long
and twenty-five miles wide. This does
not include the marsh lands surrounding
it, which must be of still larger dimen-
sonS. The wafer of the lake is very
shallow, seldom over seven feet and in
very few places ten feet deep, and in
most parts boats cannot approach with
in two or three mile, of the shore on aC.
count of the shallOwncss. No fish live
in the lake not even an alligator can be
iound-as the water is stagnant and very
offensive to the smell. There is nothing
to prevent the draining Of this lake into
the Caloosahatchie river. A canal about
eight miles long will accomplish it, the
river having a sufficient fall to allow OF
it's being done. At present the outlet
from the lake to the river is closed up
by saw-grass and lily-pads, throwing the
waters Of the lake, in the rainy season
into the Everglades. What a grand
speculation there could b. made by
draining the lake and cutting the Ian,
into lorty-acre farms? For several year,
it would give the most splendid rice
crops ever seen, and then comes in sugar
cane, which would almost rattoon for
ever. We have never heard of any
country possessing such grand belt o
cane land that could be 20 easily turne,
to advantage.
Year: 1877

We have already received our valentine for
this gear. 1t is not pretty one, but what it
lacks in beauty is made up in mastery coloring
and skilful handling. The title is ga News
paper Man." and represents dropsical-headed
chap with Cronin nose, green coat and a


red pair Of trousers, going through piece of


ten cent muslin with formidable pair of


shears. You may have noticed that all editors


wear green coats and red pantaloons A quill
inserted behind comprehensive ear exhibits


much feeling, and is unlike anything found in


medieval art Very much unlike it. The


color in the nose is laid on with a reckless Law
ishness and brush, and doesn't suggest the
Goittesque style of painting to any appreciable
extent The abbreviated coat tails are remark
able for breadth of effect and absence of feeling
of the fugsrs is easy and graceful, as is natu-
raj with editors. The delicate modelling of
the feet reminds one more of a pair of gun. boats
than the early Christian frescoes They appear
to cover the whole ground-or, perhaps we
should say. the whole floor. The buttons on


the coat lacK strength and holes to push tn


needle through, while the shirt collar is terri
bly, real and happily conceived. The artist has


thrown considerable soul in the newspaper
mans shirt-collar. The legs of the table are


patterned after the Gothic style OF architecture,


and are rather weak; but the paste-pot on the
floor is full of tenderness and feeling and paste.
The brush, which reposes gently in the pot,
betrays a master hand and a short handle.
The shears, with which the editor is supposed
to be moulding public opinion, are bold, sharp
and vigorous, the rivet being particularly well
painted and oied. His head is so bare that it
barely invites criticism. All the details of the
picture are faithfully worked out, with one ex-
ception. There is marked absence of a news
paper bore going through the pile Of exchanges
| in the right hand foreground. With this defect
remedied, the whole picture would be 80 real
| and life-lke that tramp printer would natu-
| rally salute the counterfeit editor with: "Have
| walked from Reading; haven't had a bite to
| eat for two days; can't you give an old typo a
little help to 60 to Phiadelphia?'
| He, aid.
Year: 1877

IT is to be regretted that the determination
of Germany not to participate in the Paris
Exposition is irrevocable. 1t shows that the
animosity between the two nations has not
healed since the close of the Franco-German
war. 1t will detract greatly from the general
effect of the Exhibition to which this power
full nation, so rich in literature, art and
science, might contribute so much of world
wide interest Worse than all, it will tend to
embitter the two nations still more, and IN
crease their hatred ofeach other