smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

1t is well known fact that from time
immemoriai herds of wild horses have
roamed over the plains of southwestern
Kansas. Their origin no man knoweth.
1t may be dated back 10 the early Span
ish conquest of the country. It has
been exceedingly difficult to capture
them, the method pursued having been
to run down and lasso them with feet
horses. Latterly, however, it is found
that they can be captured in herds. The
method is to get up an outfit of fast
walking team on wagon carrying pro-
visions and camp supplies, and three or
four riding ponies, and as many men.
When herd is found they are kept
moving, no effort being made to drive
them in any direction. The teams and
ponies are not driven faster than a walk
and every opportunity is embraced of
cutting across to save distance. The
wild horses are kept in motion till dark,
being given no opportunity to Craze
during the day. At night they are too
tired to Craze and will lie down. The
pursuers camp, feed their horses from
grain which they carry with them and
are up by daylight, have breakfast and
start again. This is kept up every day.
Every day takes some of the scare and
wild out of them; they become accus-
toned to the sight of the men on horse
back and the team find they are not
going to be hurt by them, and, tired and
leg weary with constant travel and little
feed, and in from eight to ten days will
allow the men to ride in among them and
drive them in any direction. They are
then headed for the ranch and are quite
tame and docile by the time they get
in. They are of the pony order, such as
used in the cattle business, make good
riding ponies, and when thoroughly
broken, good teams for light driving in
that country. They sell, when broken
to ride, at SIS to $25 per head, and when
broken to drive at from $50 to $75 per
span.
Year: 1878

took the train to Birmingham at
about O'Clock in the afternoon. My
carriage companion was beautiful
woman, and her beauty impressed me
the more because of it's delicate char.
acter, and because she was the first really
pretty woman of her class that had yet
seen in England. She was just tall
enough to be noticeab]y SO, and the noble
elegance of her figure could not be con-
cealed by her travelling dress. This was
long garment OF soft texture and light
color, buttoned from the throat to the
lower hem with buttons of the same tint
as that of the dress. Her hat, or her
bonnet, was also of the same material,
and was without ornament of any kind.
In her dainty ears were small, dull gold
earrings, set with turquoises, which were
matched by the brooch which confined
the lace frill around her lovely throat.
Her eyes were blue; her brow fair; her
mouth had the childlike sweetness which
Murillo gave to the lips of his virgins;
in expression her face was cherubic
She apparently had no other luggage
than small leather bag which she put
into the rack above our heads We sat
in silence, for there WAS no occasion of
my speaking to her, and she looked
mostly out of the window.


After we had passed one or two more
stations she took down the little hand
bag, opened it, took out bottle and
small silver cup, and turning herself
somewhat more to the window, poured
something into cup and drank it of
at draught. did not see what she
drank, but in an instant knew. The
perfume filled the whole carriage. 1t
was brandy; and the overpowing odor
with which was surrounded told me of
the strength of her draught as we'll as if
I had mixed her grog myself, or had
joined her in social cup. At this I was
not so much astonished as I should have
been two OR three days before, for at the
Birmingham festival I had seen, during
the internal between the two parts of a
morning performance, potations of. the
same kind by ladies of whose respecta-
bility there could be no question: At
lantic Monthly.
Year: 1878

The Rural New Yorker says: Some
of our. contemporaries advocate airing
cellars during the night and closing
them during the day to prevent damp
ness. The theory is that the hot air
during sunshine holds moisture that is
condensed in the cool cellar, while at


night, the temperature outside and m


the cellar being more nearly alike,


there is less dampness. This strikes
us as bad advice, though true enough,
30 far as we know, as fact. A damp
cellar il not necessarily unhealthy if
1t 10 kept clean and pure. When
cellar windows are opened the
colder air passes out producing
partial vacuum. This induces
the air which has been warmed by the
SUMS rays to enter, when, by cooling, it
is deprived of part OF its moisture and
as before passes out and thus constant


change OF air Id maintained. But the
warm, moisturesladen air is free from
the poison Of those malarial diseases with
which night air in valleys or low tracts
is infected Carhonic acid also, the re-
suit in part of slow decomposition Of
Year: 1878

|
! in his life, and more loyal man neve
lived. have the greatest respect TO
| McDowell's mplishments and charac


ter, and l was glad to make him majo


general. The country owed him that


if only as an atonement for its injustic


towards him. But Mcdowell never wa


what you would call popular man. H


was never SO in the army nor at Yves


Point. Yet | could never understand it


for no one could know Mcdowell withou


liking him. His career ia one of the SUI


prising things in the war. So is Buell's


Buell. does not like me, am afraid, bu


| have always borne my testimony to hi


perfect loyalty and his ability, Buell. ii


a man who would have carried out 10y
ally every order he received, and l think
he had genius enough for the highest
commands; but, somehow, he fell under
cloud"


| LOGAN, WARREN AND BUTLER.


There were in the army no two men
more loyal than John A. Logan and
Frank Blair. I knew that Sherman did
not mean to dispsrage either of them,
and that he wrote hastily. Logan did a
great work for the union in bringing
Egypt out of the confederacy, which he
did, and he was an admirable soldier,
and is, as he always has been, an honor
able, true man-a perfectly just and fair
man, whose record in the army was brill
liant. Blair also did work in the army
emitting him to the gratitude of every
northern man and to the respect of every
soldier. Warren is a good soldier and a
good man, trained in the art of war.
But, IS a general, if you give him an
order he would not act until he knew
what the other corps would do. Instead
of obeying-and knowing that the power
which was guiding him would guide the
others--he would hesitate and inquire
and want to debate. 1t was this quality
which led to our disaster at the mine
explosion before Petersburg. If Warren
had obeyed orders we would have broken
Lees army in two and taken Petersburg.


[ have always regretted the censure
that unwittingly came upon Butler in
the james river campaign, and my re-
port was the cause. I said that the
general was bottled up, and used the
phrase without meaning to annoy the
general or give his enemies a weapon.
[ like Butler, and have always found
him not only, as all the world knows,
man of great ability but patriotic man
and man of courage, honor and sincere
convictions. Butler lacked the technical
experience of military education, and
it is very possible to be man of high
parts and not be q great general. Butler
as general was full of enterprise and
resources, and O brave man. If I had
given him two corps commanders like
Adelbert Ames Or Schofeld, or Macken-
Eie, or dozen l could mention, he would
have made fine campaign On the James
and helped materially in my plans. I
have always been sorry / did not do so.
Butler is man it is fashion to abuse,
but he is man who has done the coun
try great service, and who is.werthy of
its gratitude.
Year: 1878

CRAMPS and pains in the stomach and
bowels, dysentery and diarrheea are very
common just now and should be checked at
once. Johnson's Anodyne Liniment will
positively cure all such cases and should be
kept in every family.


The most distressing case of scrofula
cured by Parsons Purgative Pills. These
pills make new rich blood, and taken one a
night for three months will change the blood
in the entire system.
Year: 1878

THE Supreme Court has rendered two i'm
portant decisions relative to the responsibility
of military officers of the Confederacy for
property destroyed, and to the imposition of
certain taxes by States. In the first case it
is held by the court that the destruction OF
cotton by officers of the Confederate army in
obedience to rebel military orders was such
an act OF war on the part of the military
forces of the rebellion as would relieve the
person executing the order from civil respon-
sibility of the suit, at least, of any owner at
the time voluntarily residing within the lines
of the insurrection, but the conclusion is not
based upon any authority conferred by the
acts of the Confederate Congress, for it is said
they could give no warrant whatever. 1t
rests upon the belligerent rights conceded to
the Confederate army, such concession plac-
ing the soldiers and officers of that army as
to all matters directly connected with the
mode of prosecuting the war on the footing
Of those engaged in lawful war. In the sec.
ond case it is held that tax imposed by the
State for selling at auction goods imported
and sold in the original packages is in effect a
tax on the privileges of selling foreign goods
at auction, and is void, as laying duty on
imports and as regulation Of commerce, for
hidden by the Constitution. 1t is also de-
cided that a tax laid by State on the
amount of sales made by the auctioneer is a
tax On the goods sold.
Year: 1878

At this present writing there is not much
opportunity to comment on the general
features of yesterdays elections. Everything
which the wires can furnish, together with
an editorial resume will be found on the
second page.


One glorious result, however, can be here
mentioned with jubilation, and that is the
overwhelming and utter defeat of Butler in
Massachusetts. The good old Common
wealth is to be most heartily congratulated on
escaping danger which seemed threatening.
But for the magnificent uprising of her sem
sible and well meaning citizens the adroit
demagogue, by appealing to the lower pas-
sions and prejudices of her more ignorant
citizens, by arraying class against class, by
shameless falsehoods and malpractices and BY
resort to every species of trickery
which his ingenuity could suggest and his
depravity could carry out, would have sue
ceeded in forcing himself into her Chief
magistracy. She has been saved this extreme
disgrace. 1t is to be hoped that the narrow
ness OF her escape may suggest to the better
class of her people the folly of that political
snobbery, the natural reaction against which
has alone made Butler possible.


As to Butler himself, the obvious but in
correct suggestion is that his career has
ended. He is nearly seventy years old, has
just suffered great and unexpected defeat,
has forfeited the respect and good will of
everybody whose respect and good will are
worth having, and has been so erratic and
inconsistent as to sacrifice the confidence of
everybody. Yet so active is his mind, so
varied his resources, SO boundless his ambi-
ton, that he will probably be found in the
future as in the past organizing the vice,
ignorance and discomfort of the nation
against its virtue, wisdom and industry. He
will be dangerous until he is in his grave, and
even then his career may incite turbuler !
youth to follow his bad example. For the
present, however, Massachusetts, has sup
pressed him, and for this great blessing may
we all be duly thankful.
Year: 1878

EVEN cities and towns have to 90 through
the school of adversely to find that honesty
is the best policy. All over the West, aud
especially in Missouri, which has always
been under Democratic rule, there are coun-
ties, cities and towns that have repudiated
their debts, and even gone so far as to de-
grade the courts by the election of unscrupu-
lous men to the bench, in order that they
might escape such compulsion as it was in
the power of the courts to exercise. Such
corporations are soon found out, just as a
rascal In business soon finds no one to trust
him. Merchants refuse to sell to their peo-
pie unless for cash or at exorbitant prices;
immigration passes them by, and they are
marked for years. Kansas City, which Is
one of the most prosperous and growing cities
in the West, owes much Of its wealth and re-
munerative trade to the fact that il is shin
ing example of honesty and good faith in q
desert of extravaganza and reputation.
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous letters ana commun
cations. The anne and address of the writer are in
all Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as q guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return OF preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1878

Two more of the "Brush Electric Light
Machines" have been put into opera.
ton at the Permanent Exhibition, and
will be used for the promenade concert
to be held there Tonight. The total light
will be almost equal to that of 10000
candles or 3 200 gas Jets.
Year: 1878

The PLAGUE OF OFFICE-SEEKING is not
confined to the United States. AS soon az the
appointment OF Sir Garnet Wolseley as gov.
ernor OF Cyprus was announced in London.


his house in Portman square was besieged by
the unemployed: So severe was the press
that it cost a good deal of physical exertion to


dispose of the applicants. Very many of
them wanted posts to be specially man1fac-
not exactly know what they wanted, but inn
agined Sir Garnet could give them Opportuni-
ties for receiving comfortable incomes for
making themselves generally useful. The
whole surplus population seemed to have
come down upon the administration of the
Year: 1878

BOILER EXPLOSION.-The steamboat Henry
Tete, lying at the wharf foot of Custom house
street, New Orleans, exploded her donkey
boiler yesterday, blowing OFF her chimney and
Shattering up her works and forward part of
the cabin. Damage estimated at 5000.
Year: 1878

mist there were high hopes in The TRIBUNE Office
that she would make the to Ireland in fifteen or
siXtecn DAYS and return with at least three weeks
arrears of important news.


With the first evening however. the trials of the
little vessel began. Her deck and bulwarks beng
low, the spray swept her from stem to stern, reez-
ing rs il fell, until she encascd III ice On the
10Th gale came on from the eastward eliminating
in a hurricane which Obliged the captain to lay-to
under the storm-staySail. For two days the vessel
was III constant danger Of laundering This expert
cncc was repeated three or four times during the
next ten days, when every apparent lull OF the
storm was succeeded by n more violent gale. The
matches were kept constantly closed, the steersman
was lashed to the wheel the crew and twopassengers
crowded into the little cabin, while one huge sea
after another swept the deck. For three days and
three nights at one time all were thus confined be-
low, not Knowing at each plunge OF the vessel into
the trough between two tremendous waves whether
she would ever rise again. One great fear was that
the deck would be broken in by the great weight Of
water under which ii was repeatedly buried.


On the Ist of March finally, the weather began to
improve. and on the 4th-thetwonty- y-fourh day Of
tho voyage-the first dry spot appeared the deck!
Two days afterward, the Irish coast was sighted,
and on the 9TH Cork pilot was hauled on board
through the water, by u rope fastened around his
body Immediately on reaching Cork, Mr. Gale
started for Liverpool with his mails and TRIBUNE
dispatches. Next day, the first officer Of the Eng
lisb sloop-0f-war Crocodile was sent by the Admiral
Oh board tho william j. Roncr, with the demand
that Captain Mc(nIre should haul down the Amer
lean iag This the latter pcromptorly refused to
Year: 1878

Golden Medical Discovery
Is Alternative. or blood cleansing.
Golden Medical Discovery


Is Pectoral.
Golden Medical Discovery
Is a Cholagogue, or Liver Stimulant.
Golden Medical Discovery


Is Tonic.
Golden Medical Discovery
Year: 1878

lLL STREET YEsTERDAY.-The stock
Eel was active and stocks were gem
strong. Gold was steady all day
Government bonds were firm,


dull and railroads quiet. Money


was active all day at z per cent.
closed at per cent.
Year: 1878

WANTED GOOD PAYING TENANT


w wishes to secure o small house within
walking distance of the business portion Of
Canal street by the first of September next.
Rent must be moderate. Address j. D., this
office je26 If
Year: 1878

A Boston newspaper admits that Boston audi
ences are sometimes ''as undemonstrative as a
wooden Indian" What elected this remark was
the cold way IN which a good play, finely acted.
was received the other night at one of the Boston
theatres DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who ls
BostonIan (by adopton) himself, once said,
in melancholy way after lecturng. that
Boston audiences were remarkably "slow on
the triggcr,"-and yet the Doctor was one
of their pets. How they regard strangers
who venture to hold forth in their presence with
what lack-lustre eyes, with what critical express
sion of countenance with what complete absence
of warmth It is unnecessary to set forth. The late
Mr. Seward was once tarrying for day or
two there on his way to another place where
he was to deliver an Grafton. A friend found
him seated solitary and alone by fire in the gen.
temen's parlor of the fremont House, reading a
book about Goethe just out. The New-fork states
man was in the last stages of the blues. Although
il was well known that he was i'll the city, and in
spite of his acquaintance with many OF the lead
ing men, not single person had called upon him up
to that moment. He very vigorously declared his
purpose of getting out of that" and he did within
two hours. 1t was unfortunate, but nobody, of
course, was to blame 1t was not Mr. Stewards
fault that he was not French prince, an English
prince, japanese ambassador, Brazilian en-
pcror, or a great chess player like Paul MOrphy.
He was only Senator, and Senator from New-Y
at that So he spent his time in the Hub in
reading about Goethe and guarding himself against
the east wind. 1t was said of a Boston public
man. now very much shelved. that he would be an
excellent person to put around butter in June
After ALL il may be the effect of the east wind afore
said. Boston may be highly hOspitable with an un-
fortunate manner. 1t may admire speaker ex-
ceedingy, and let him know nothing about it
which is unfortunate for the speaker.


While the instances of individual charity and
heroism called out BY tho yellow fever epidemic
Year: 1878

State Senator PomerOy does not share the
views of those who look TO see the Greenback
party grow to enormous dimensions in the
next two years. He believes that its largest
vote, in this State at least, has been cast,
and declares that the Republican Greenback-
ers arc already returning to their old allegi-
ance.


The whole story OF the Union Trust forgery
was told IN court yesterday by the engTaver
of the forged $4,000 check, who described
the process from the first attempt at engrav-
ing to the distribution of the spOils in
Broadway restaurant Nothing but the natural
desire Of this accomplished criminal to save
himself from long imprisonment could have
induced him to part with so many of the
secrets of his trade.


Although the proceedings in the Vanderbilt
case yesterday were bestrred at one time
with real excitement, no part of the
days talk was more interesting than
Bishop McTyeire's description of the way
in which the late Commodore founded the
University which is called by his name He
did it in a very peremptory and business-lke
way, very much as he might have ordered
NHN pUAioAhS VI a uCh DidlCH W OUc Ol his
railroads; and, indeed, he did show Il quaint
desire to have the new college as well man
aged as The New-York Central.


Lord BeacOns6elds refusal to receive the
influential committee of which Lord Law
renee Is chairman, indicates a settled purpose
to disregard the arguments which have been
put forward by that soldier-statesman against


T-l.
that he will be prepared to account to
Year: 1878

THE weather for more than three
weeks has been excessively hot through
out all the United States lying east of
the Rocky Mountains. The mercury
seems To have reached hundred de-
grccs in the shade in every principal
city. Hundreds of deaths have been
caused by lifelong continuous heat, and
unless people are more than ordinarily
prudent there will follow an amount of
sickness and death from fevers, which
will far exceed those resulting from sun
stroke. There are already many indi-
cations in the cities, both east and west
that the fail months will bring more dis
case than usual. The exercise of Il
great deal of prudence in the quality of
food, and great care in the matter clean
Illness of person, sleeping apartments
and dwellings, especially cellars, will be
necessary during the next few months
to insure the people against the diseases
/. that are sure to come after this bot and
wet season.
Year: 1878

The careful tidy housewife, when she
is giving her house IFS spring cleaning,
should bear in mind that the dear in
mates of her house are more precious
than houses, and that their systems
need cleansing by purifying the blood,
regulating the stomach and bowels to
prevent and cure the diseases arising
from spring malaria and miasma. and
she should know that there is nothing
that will do it so perfectly and surely as
Hop Bitters, the purest and best of all
medicines. See other column.
Year: 1878

An observer Of finance us well as pol
tiles, says that the rapidity with which
the new per cent. bonds are being
purchased, does not show the conf
dence of the people i'll these securities
half SO much us it shows the want of
confidence of the people in any other
kind of investments.
Year: 1878

RICHMOND, July 20, 1873.


Editors Dispatch: Hope you will al
low me small space in your valuable paper.
| There never was such an unjust imposition
imposed upon property-owners as at pre-
sent-not only by the city but the State.
/ am taxed by the commissioners, who re-
assessed city property for State taxes, S2,393,


which paid to the State for the years 1876
and 1877, and half the city taxes for the
year 1873 on this S2,393 more than the pro-
perty was valued at by the commissioners
appointed by the court to divide the estate
OF my parents, which division was made in
the year 1866, which is a well-known
fact that property in 1866 was worth
more by at least one third, il not
more, than it has been since that year.
In addition to this S2,393 increase in valua-
ton on my property since 1876, am swim
died by cuIyert tax OF Ss9.70 annually,
when the property is so that there Is no
culvert running in front or at the side of
| it, but runs directly from my property, and
it is impossible to enter said city culvert,
as this property spoken Of is from three to
four, or more. feet lower than the culyert,


and any reasonable person will admit that
the property cannot be entered to the city


culyert. But the greatest fraud is to force
me to enter this property in private and
individual culvert on an adjoining lot.


| have received notices to pave the side


walks belonging to The city and not to me.


BY measurement it is $40 square yards.


The bricks are to be purchased at
the Rockets brick-yard-no doubt the
property of the city. To take up and
relay the pavement at present on the
ground belonging to the city, but not
to your humble servant, where every
person walks on said pavement, which will
cost me. at the city price for doing, the


work, the nice little SUM Of S187.273, in
addition to the tax on this increase on my
property, 1888, and S1.40 city tax on the
/ SIO0, and then the culyert-tax on this one
piece OF my property, $29.70 annually.


When the tax is counted up 1t makes quite
i a difference, when the property Will not
bring the assessed value by one third, u