smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

ERIE's NEW STEAMSHIP BASIN is n step in the
right direction. Tho great ocean freight lines
will profit by it, to be sure, but so will New
York and the entire grain interest that centres
here
Year: 1879

THE editor OF the Argondut seems
to vibrate between dyspepsia and a
love Of antithesis. We should
think, from reading his editorials,
that he had founded his style ON n
diligent reading Of Victor Hugo
and Macaulay and had foundered
In trying to combine them. We
would beg to be INDUCED in the
suggestion that, while mannerism
10 often an incident OF genius, If the
genius happen to be absent the vi
cious outline is In too much relief
to result happily for the reputation


Of an editor. BY all means write =
com plets article once, and dash
dash rules, just for the sake Of
novelty. We were fascinated for a
while by the ingenious expedient
OF breaking a single article into q
half dozen bits; but, when we
found that 1t was simply q Jesuiti-
cal expedient for inficting an un-
com monty long homily on reader,
ws resented the charlatanism of
the style. II the editorials of the
Year: 1879

FROM every quarter Of Los An
geles county we hear good accounts
of the growing crops, but they have
at length reached a stage at which
a little more rain would be accept
able. For days the clouds have
lowered and copious showers were
imminent, when some malign
north wind has blown them away.
The pastures were never better
than now, and we bid fair to short
ly regain our old status as u sheep
county. Singulariy enough, the
great bulk of the rainfall in South
ern California this year has been
purely local.
Year: 1879

Argonaut were written without
this pinchbeck method they would
be of fair ability and often very
readable. But, as the case stands,
they are entirely too pretentious
and verbose. The fiction of half a
dozen articles where there is really
only one leads to an unpardonabie
diffuseness.
Year: 1879

A private letter from st. Peters
burg, dated January q, just re-
ceivsd In New York, says:


I have a sad story to tell. You
have probably heard some reports
about the epidemic prevailing In
Russia. 1t is a fearful disease
brought here by the soldiers from
the East. 1t has spread in the
Southern provinces of Russia at q
rapid rate. Thousands upon thou
sands have died with it within the
last five days. The victims when
taken live only about two hours,
and turn as black all over as a
negro. All the physicians ordered
to the care of the sick have died
within twenty-four hours after
their arrival The corpses are
burned and so are the houses in
which the people died. Whole
towns have been laid waste during
the past few days. The govern
ment has placed Gordon OF soldiers
around the infected provinces, so
that the people cannot get out, and
spread the disease. Any who at
tempt to leave and break through
the Gordon are shot dead on the
spot. The people are beginning to
feel uneasy all over the Empire.


CANNOT GET AWAY.


The government, of course, does
not allow the news to get out. All
reports are suppressed, but the
worst of all is that nobody can get
out Of the Empire. The Austrian
and German governments have
placed q double Gordon of soldiers
along all the frontiers, preventing
all persons from entering their ter
ritory from Russia. All persons
from Russia by railroad are stopped
at the frontier and detained twenty
days in quarantine, their baggage
ana clothing disinfscted, aud il
they prove all right after the lapse
of twenty days they are permitted
to cross the border. During the
twenty days quarantine the people
are housed in large sheds and
barns, without any acoommoda-
tions or comforts. or course, a
knowledge of this fact keeps people
from travelling. There is no possi-
bility of slipping out anywhere.
May God grant that the disease
"black pest" as they call it here
may in some way be checked. l
believe the government is doing all
in its power to prevent the disease
from spreading, but if it is not
stayed soon then the victims may
fall by the thousands daily. 1t is
much worse than the yellow fever
was in the South last summer.


LEGEND OF THE PLAGUE.


1t was brought by a Tartar sol.
dler month ago, who, on leaving
the Turkish territory, pulled off
from o dead Turk on the battle-
field handsome silk shawl, which
he tied around his body. On arriv-
ing in his native town he presented
the shawl to his sweetheart, a girl
of nineteen years. She tied it
around her body and danced about
for joy in room in which were
some twenty-five people. In two
hours she died, and five hours after
the introduction of the shawl into
the room the whole party
of twenty five had died. All
turned black. In three days the
whole town, containing 100 peo-
pie, had died, with the exception OF
forty-three persons who had fled in
time. From this town the pest be-
gan spreading all over the country.
Year: 1879

A CONSTANT Cough, with Shortness Of
Breath, Failing Strength and Wasting of
Flesh, all betoken Lungs more or less
seriously affected, and demanding
Expectorant serious results may be either
avoid ed or nalliated
Year: 1879

In connech oil with the following list
we b I'VE for sale several tracts of land,
ranging from to 20 acres, adjacent to
the city, suitable fer suburban resi-
dences, and choice residence lots in all
parts of the city. We also have the ex-
elusive agency of several Of the best
business lots in the business center of
tie city. Call at our Office for infor-
nation as to price and location.
Year: 1879

A correspondent OF the Nashua Tele-
graph, writing from Montreal, says that
at no time has the sentiment in favor of
the annexation of the Dominion to the
United States been as strong az it is at
the present time. The movement, as
the writer calls it. is quiet but significant.
1t is not the result of any fresh admira-
tion for the United States on the part of
Canada, but the necessity of the stu
alton. The fact that the dollar of the
United States has come to be as good as
that of any nation is one of the causes
attributed for the change Of sentiment.
Again. thoughtful men in Canada see
that the tariff of the United States may
be reduced, while the increasing debt of
Canada and its top-heavy Government
will render it impossible for her Parlia-
ment to reduce duties or other taxes.
Every year the necessity of having free
admission to the markets of the United
States is impressed upon the people of
Canada. They hoped to have obtained
this by means of a reciprocity treaty, but
all hopes in that direction have faded
out. The annexation sentiment is found
almost exclusively in business circles.
As rule the politicians are opposed to
it. Indeed, there is no real sentiment
in favor of annexation which does not
have its origin in business necessity.
Year: 1879

Lord Bacon as wit, q lawyer, judge
and philosopher, will be remembered
through the ages to come, down to the
last syllable of recorded time. His life,
with all its accomplishments, is marred
with unpleasant scenes. Much humor is
traced to him as its source. Perhaps
the most amusing thing occurred in the
case OF the criminal Hogg. convicted of
felony. who begged his homer not to
pass sentence of death upon him, be-
cause hog and bacon are so near akin to
each other; TO which he replied: my
friend, you and I cannot be kindred un-
less you be hanged, for hog is not bacon
until it is hung" And then sentence
was PASSED upon him.
Year: 1879

White Cow of your State is prominent candi-
date for dictatorship in the enterprise his
best friends claim that he would he more use
full in distributing and instructing novices in
the use of these political machines than in
making them
Year: 1879

Factories, like most other branches of manu-
featuring, have been standing idle for some
time but will soon be set running again in or
der to furnish a full supply of CORY garments
to be weaved next summer. Several Of the
ebony and mahogany contractors for these use
full party clothes, are here from the South
looking after places in the tailor shop


One OF them (Pinchback) has been selected as
jim Anderson he is the boss expert in the
business, especially in the coloring part. He
never wastes any Of the gore. Others will be
provided with stations appropriate to their
capacity. 1t being limited that the Sacred
Year: 1879

The Secretary OF State has directed the
Consul General at Porte-au-Prince and the
consul at Caps Haytien to make thorough
and immediate Investigations Of the case of
the American brig Shasta, which arrived at
Philadelphia with yellow fever on board, but
with clean bill OF health given by the consul
lar agent at Port de Paix, Hayti, from which
place she last sailed. The Consul General Is
also directed to issue a circular upon the sub
iect OF bills Of health to the several consuls
under his jurisdiction, calling upon them to


exercise vigt ance In the examination OF the
vessels about to sail for the United States,
and caution In the issuance Of bills OF health.
Year: 1879

A clergyman who can preach three
sermons conselutively without m ontion-
ing Galileo.


A man who will refrain from calling
his friends speech "happy effort"


A woman who remembers last SIM
days text, but is unable to speak under
standinsly of the trimmings on the bon
net of the lady in the pew next in front
An editor who never feels pleased to
have have his good things credited, or
mad when they are stolen.


A pencil that is always in the first
pocket you put your hand into.


A man who has been fool some time
during his life and knows enough to keep
the knowledge of itIto himself.


A married man who does not think
all the girls envy his wife the prize she
has captured.


A married woman who never said,
"No wonder the girls don't get married
nowadays; they are altogether different
from what they were when / was girl"


An unmarried woman who never had
an offer.


A man who never intimnted that the
economies Of the universe were subject to
his movements, by saying, II knew if I
took an umbrella it wouldn't rain," or
some similar assinine remark.


A pocket-knife that is never in "them
other pants"


A mother who never said she "would
rather do it myself when she should
have taught her child to do that thing.


A father who never forgets that his
duties to his children are as many and
as weighty as theirs to him.


A child who would not rather eat be-
tween meals than at meals


A converted brother who does not ex-
aggerate his forsaken wickednesses when
relating his experience.


a person, age or sex immaterial, who
does not experience flush Of pride upon
being thought what he is not and may
never hope to be.


A button on the male garmenture that
never comes off except when the person
whose mission in life is to sew buttons
on is near at hand with her utensils.


A singer who never complains Of o
cold when asked to sing.


A woman who, when caught in her
second best dress, will make no apology
for her dreadful appearance, Boston
Transcript
Year: 1879

People in search of quiet region in
which to settle will be likely to steer
clear of Kentucky. In twenty counties
of that State the records of indictments
show III homicides in period of five
years, an average of SO to each county.
Year: 1879

that 'John Browns body lies Wondering, but his soul
marching on" And then the terrible images of great
battle; the confusion nfinde of noises the earthquake
of arrng muudes the thousand sights and sounds and
emotions which rush upon too rapidly for him to
prehend them the spectral train Of images which fill his
closed eyes night after the long days work done lines
of battle advancing and etreatng infantry rushing and
batteries galopng to and fro ALL the smoke of bat


tie endeavorng to shut out the gaze of heaven: and
amid ALL deaenng crash of sounds as if it feared
some higher voice than mans would be heard forbddng


''An these images, and more crowd to-day upon the
memory of those who actively participated in that strug
GLE There others in whom the of to-day awaken
far different memories; widowed hearts which will bleed
aresh the grave of husband lover and aged
ens who have the bread life in bitterness
since the staff taken away which alone could support


e The ancient deied their heroes and worshped them
The Chnaman still worshps his deceased ancestors HUI
nature is such that dead dead long
their memories live in hearts We assemble to-day
pay them offerings of love, almost with the feeling that
they hear voices; that they breathe the Tag
of the sweet tributes lay above their resting
places that they our tears and understand our
grief and our gratitude t mt that those officers should
be chiefly performed by the fair hand of whose
active zeal and thoughtfuness supplied the military hos
ptals with thousand little needs to which the provi
dent of the did not EXTEND whose active
mnistraons assuaged the suengs produced by wounds
and disease and mitigated the pangs of death No
complete history of the could be written without
volume devoted specially to the consideration of womans
work in it. The work of the Sanitary society and the
sanitary fair preserved armies from pestence,
be dreaded than the bullets of the enemy and
rendered possible the successful prosecution of the
Womans sacrifices greater than the sacrifices
of those who perish in the hospital the field for,
whenever Union soldier offered up his life in that same
sacrifice loyal woman gave that which to her
worth infinitely more than life


Did the limits of our paper permit should be pleased
sketch proceedings which took place in hundreds of
cities villages but dismiss the subject
by saying that believe sympathy and affection for the
Union soldiers is still living flame in millions of tru
American hearts.
Year: 1879

List of the Battles of the War of the Rebellion


We continue in this number the publication Of alpha
bctica list of the Battles of the War of the Rebellion
from authentic sources b. continued hereafter 1t will
be pleasant hope for the old soldiers to again the
and dates of battles in which they their friends
took part.
Year: 1879

The main cause oi nervousness IL In
digestion, and that is caused by weak
ness of the stomach. No one can have
sound nerves anil good health without
using Hop Bitters b. strengthen the
stomach, purify the blood, and 10 keep
the liver and kidneys active, 10 carry off
all the poisonous and waste matter oi
the system. Zee other column.
Year: 1879

A fashion item says "puffs and false
braids are being dispensed WITH" but
when you see q woman drowning and
reach the spot as she Is going down the
third time, you want to grab her pretty
close 10 the skull. or you may have 81
worth Of false locks and your labor for
your pains.
Year: 1879

Dallas (Texas) Herald: The whest
and oat fields Of Dallas county are not as
beautiful to the eye now as erstwhile, for the
reaper and binder have cut them right and
left. So far as heard from no rust has an.
peared. Corn and cotton are in very
prosperous and promising condition, the
late hot weather being Just what was
needed to make these crops grow. Peaches
will be plentiful, while crops generally
promise well.


Charleston Is. @ News and Courier:
There is considerable complaint of grass,
which in some localities has made much
Roadway, and will be difficult to eradicate.
The area for cotton is about the same as last
year, but there is an important increase in
the acreage devoted to food crops. The Ia
borersAre working well, and, with favorable
weather until harvest, fair returns are an
ticipated. The people are generally in good
spirits, and look hopefully to the future,


The Charleston News speaks hopefully
OF the future of the South Carolina low
country, and says that the prospect Is that
the general cultivation of rice and long
cotton will be hereafter regularly profitable
and that this will be augmented by the cul-
tivation OF jute. and Of wheat, oats and hay,
which, il claims, can be made, under the
Rsvenel system, to better advantage on the
sandy plains OF the South Carolina sea coast
than on the farms Of New England or the
prairies Of the west.


Cotton, corn and cane are reported
doing finely in Louisiana. Rice is suffering
from low water. A local paper says: The
loss Of the rice crop, which naturally follows
decline Of the river in this season OF the
year, will prove serious misfortune to the
financial prosperity Of the parish of La.
fourehe. The yield Of that cereal in the
parish in 1873 reached 34,44s barrels. The
present crop can not be safely estimated at
over one.third OF that amount, and will
more likely fall short Of than exceed that
estimate.
Year: 1879

PROF. WISE seems to be in earnest
In his scheme for crossing the Atlantic in
q balloon, and to be setting about his
preparations in very practical manner,
strikingly in contrast to the dare devil
method Of the unfortunate Donaldson a
few years ago. His idea is to thoroughly
test the conditions, both Of the natural
air currents and the necessary features
OF an alr.shipto meet the varying atmos
pheric conditions, with the purpose
devising automatic machinery that will
cause the balloon To regulate itself then
to end trial balloon across without an
occupant, and follow up with others, IT
necessary, until 1t shall seem safe to at
tempt the aerial voyage himself. Three
scientists will accompany him, and many
applications for the privilege have al
ready been made. Professor Wise's pre-
iiminary experiments are already being
made on Manhattan beach.
Year: 1879

1t being considered necessary to hsve the
coffee houses in the vicinity Of the places
where the laboring people were wont to
resort for their morning and evening
drinks. The coffee men, however, out,
generated the rummies by sending out a
wagon every morning and evening, and
peddling the hot coffee and tea for a
penny mug. The success was so great
that number Of benevolent individuals
have started coffee wagons, and have all
they can do to supply the demands of
the thirsty throngs which morning and
evening besiege the wagons.
Year: 1879

The following is an extract from
diary kept by Admiral Pathnan, Am
bassador of the French Republic to the
Court of ST. James:


"Youth can dissimulate; advanced
age can not. The history of the elderly
man or woman's life is always written
on the face, and there is no means that
1 know of to attenuate the record.
Queen Victoria was pretty, then comely,
and would now be decidedly plain were
it not for the impress her physiognomy
bears of virtuous and holy. (sainte)
existence. She has not the English love
of action. A sense of duty alone keeps
her in the world of reality. To be truly
happy she must suffer herself to drift
into dreamland. A lady in her conf
dence told me that beautiful scenery has
the effect on Her Majesty's imagination
which the hand of musician has on the
key board of piano. The expression of
the Queens eye is vague end dreamy,
unless she is addressing somebody who
like your very humble servant-has
been Just presented to her. 1t then is
sweet, animated, and, above every thing
else, honest. can not think how q
knavishly minded person could support
her frank, open gaze. They tell me she
has the gift of divining spirits. AS a
matter of fact she has nearly always
shown discernment in forming friend
ships and in placing her confidence.
After presented my letters she asked
about you and sMlle. Rose,' and said
she felt greatly obliged to the President
of the Republic for sending to
England as his Ambassador 3 naval
officer of, by his mothers side, English
blood. The French navy was very pop
ular in England, and her Majesty had
always heard that French naval officers
were men of the best education and
most elevated feelings. The Princess
Beatrice is small and fair. She gives
the idea of being in poor health and
without stamina. Her sister, the Prin-
cess Christian, would be one of the
handsomest women in England were she
little taller and much less stout. She
came up with her babies from Frogmore
when l was at the Castle. Her life is
placid and beautiful as the scenes in the
midst of which she lives. 1t has the
dignity, softness, richness and calm of
the Windsor landscape. The Princess
is the most skilled needle-woman in
England. She is also musician of su-
housewife and farmer. Her poultry
yard and dairy are models OF excellent
management. Not the least of her tai
ents Is one for cooking. Every day,
when the Queen is at Windsor, she pre-
pares with her own hands dish for her
lunch which is sent up to the Castle in
Norwegian apparatus for keeping it
hot The children of the Princess are
well grown and robust. The Queen
seems most loving grandmother. She
neither hides nor parades the womanly
sentiments in the exercise of which she
has found her greatest happiness"
Year: 1879

The general tone of the correspondence
to the Department of Agriculture is hope
ful of revival of industry, and the
surplus of unemployed labor is growing
less. Good labor can generally find en-
ployment at fair prices. Many are idle
because they will not accept the reduced
wages offered.


The London Rdil,oay Netos understands
that movement is on foot to place General
Grant at the head of the Management of the
Atlantic and Great Western Railway.
Year: 1879

THIEVES 50 exasperated Prof. Deham,
at Castle Shannon, Pa, by stealing
fruit from his garden at night, that he
resolved to shoot the next offender.
While watching in the grape arbor, gun
in hand, he heard a rustling among
some bushes and fired III that direction.
Then he went to ascertain whether he
had hit anybody, and while he was
searching in the bushes his hired man
shot him dead, mistaking him for the
thief.
Year: 1879

lowed tv the boat from the weather
quarter, with five men and King, the
chief officer, who was asleep in his room
at the time the vessel struck. The steam
er, meantime, reversed her engines, and
in a few minutes she was alongside the
sinking vessel. She waited until nothing
more could be saved, and then proceeded
or her way only slightly damaged by
the collision. The officers and crew of
the lost bark speak in terms of the high
est praise of the gallant conduct of Capt
Jackson and his men after the two yes
sells struck The Luna was laden with
sugar and bound from Porto Rico 10
Queenstown.
Year: 1879

GEN. ORD, Of Texas, recently sent to
the Springfield Mass armory, a piece
Of a meteor picked up in Mexico some
time ago, with the request that it be
made into sword for himself. The
piece is composed of iron mainly, but
is so soft and brittle that the workmen
find it very difficult to harden the metal
sufficiently for the blade, though they
will probably be able TO finish it in
good shape.
Year: 1879

The San Francisco Bulletin believes
that 5000 100000 would be required to
make good the bank losses in that city
brought to light within the last four
years. It attributes them nearly all to
incompetent or dishonest banking.