smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

The "exodusters" are at work in the


seahoard States, it seems. Five of theiI


victims arrived in Washington last satur


day, from North Carolina, penn|ess as a
matter of course, and were furnished with


railroad transportation to the West Some
OF the Western papers are beginning to


have proper appreciation Of the exodus
mania among the Southern negroes.


They now seem to have had their eyes
opened to the evil effects of general in.
tiux of negroes into their country, and are


even resorting to threats to avert it. Hear
the Chicago Times On this subj act:


II this sort Of thing is to 60 on-and all
the indications are that there will be a
great deal of it after the crops in the
Southern States are gathered 1T need not
surprise the colored brethren and their
malignant advisers If some Denis Kearnev
arises, with ample support, to proclaim,
not that the blacks must go, but that they
shall not come into the Western States.
The proportions that the negro migration
is likely to assume may make their vista
ton a curse beside which grasshoppers
and the Chinese will sink into utter in
significance There is no portion of the
West that needs an addition of tens of
thousands of negroes to its population,
and none in which they can live to which
such AZ addition would not be an intoler
able calamity. The drain of population
from the Eastern States, and especially
from New England, to the West is SO
large that there must be some inconyen-
fence in those regions from the depletion
OF their population. If the blacks move
from their Southern homes at all, they
should be directed to the Northern sea
board States, were work may be found for
them in the places left vacant by the an.
nna Westward movement Of young men.
All the vacant fslds of industry in the
West are wanted for this more desirable
and constantly increasing emigration. If
nothing else will keep, back the black
swarm, resort to the "shotgna qnaran
ine' may become advisable.
Year: 1879

IIeVeIAnU HcfaIu,


The British lion comes this year from
the hands OF the country Fourth OF July
orators in the shattered and dilapidated
condition in which they leave him. In
nearly every village grove throughout
the land might have been heard the
sickening thud Of his miserable carcass
as the infuriated orator swung him by
the tail and banged him against the
trunks of the surrounding trees. 1t is
really matter that should be brought
to the notice OF Mr.. Bergh.
Year: 1879

The latest amusement is termed the
Printers Delight" and is performed
in the following manner: Take a
sheet OF note paper, fold it up careful
y and incluse a bank-note sufficiently
large to pay up all arrears and year
n advance. Aud what adds immense
y to the feat is to send along the
aaine of a new subscriber with cash
% balance. Keep your eye on the
1rinter, and if you detect a smile the
rick is a success. Try it.
Year: 1879

AFrench clergyman, the Abbe Meigne, appeals in Les Mondes to the whole Christian world for funds to make exca- vations on the spot where the Egyptians were swallowed up when attempting to follow the Israelites across the Red Sea, because the finding of the remains of Pharaohs army would be powerful reason in favor of the truth of the Holy Scriptures" If 300,000 francs are sub scribed he will at once commence the work. But he seems to have overlooked the probability that even if the identity of the site be beyond dispute the decay ing power of tune must have long since destroyed every vestige of armor, har- ness, chariot and skeleton, unless, in- deed, they have been preserved by a miracle as great as that the belief in which their proposed recovery is to sup port
Year: 1879

The Vienna correspondent of the Lon don Telegraph says: "The Czar is suffering from mental fatigue, and l hear, from a trustworthy source, that his condition is daily getting worse. He Is so nervous, fretiul and petulant that he can scarcely attend to business
Year: 1879

What is nobler than man wrestling and wringing his bread from the stub born soil by the sweat of his brow and the break of his back?" asks philoso- pIs,r. We don't recall anything at this m5ment, but we know what is q blamed sight more popular-hiring some other fellow to do it while you sit on the fence and superintend him.-Keokuk Gate ffhJ
Year: 1879

The life OF all fishes Is one OF per-
petual warfare. The carnage of the sea
exceeds that which is allowed to perplex
our reasons on dry land. The herring
satisfies many stomachs "a broiled fresh
herring is luxury, and it is an unfor-
tunate fish withal. An old whaler has
known Of hogshead of herring being in
the belly of q whale; and fifteen good
sized herring have been found in the
stomach of cod. Proceeding into
mathematics for a moment, if we allow
Goldfish only two herring per day for
his existence, and suppose him to feed
on herring for one year, we have seven
hundred and thirty herring as his allow
ance for twelve months, and fifty Goldfish
equal one fisherman in destructive
power. Compared with the enormous
consumption of fish by each other, the
draughts made upon the population OF
the sea by man seems to dwindle into
insigni6cance. The Soland goose can
swallow and digest six full-sized herring
per day. 1t has been calculated that in
the Island of st. Kilda, assuming it to
be inhabited by two thousand of these
birds, feeding for seven months in the
year, and with the allowance of five
herring each per day, the number offish
for the summer subsistence of a single
species of bird cannot be less than
2I4,000 900.
Year: 1879

A curious feature of the operation of
the No-License law at Norwich, Ot.,
is the substitution by drinkers of other
stimulants in place of liquors. Per
haps the most natural substitute of all
is Jamaica ginger. This extract has
about double the alcoholic strength of
whisky, and, as it is a medicine in con-
stant demand, and kept by all druggists,
it makes very satisfactory substitute
for the habitual old topper who is bound
to get drunk on something. That it is
used in this way to considerable extent
is shown from the increased sale of the
drug, as well as the confession of the
user. One dealer estimates his sales of
Jamaica ginger since the 1st of Novem-
Der as fully three times as great as they
were before; another sells perhaps
third more now than before that date;
another has noticed but small increase


not over per cent; while fourth
estimates the calls upon him as five
times as large now as they were up to
Nov. 1. It is also said that the sale OF
paregoric has slightly increased in some
cases. Boston Journal.
Year: 1879

The civil tribunal of the Seine has
confirmed the claim of a Madame de
Rabinwich TO be the legitimate daughter
of n wealthy Russian by the name of
Garfudksl, who lately died in Paris,
leaving his property to his widow and
an adopted daughter, Madame de
Wouytch. 1t was shown that she was
the offspring of prior marriage con-
tracted in 1878; that she was born in
1920, and that the deceased concealed
the fact of her existence. She will there
fore receive half the fortune of a father
who had for many years virtually dis
owned her.
Year: 1879

IT was long ago shown by statistics
that in general married people have a
less mortality than the unmarried, but
M. Jansens, of Brussels, in following up
the same matter, has reached some other
conclusions which are rather surpris-
ing. He states from his experience that
while married people commit less crimes
and are less prone to suicide than the
unmarried, widowers kill themselves
much more than married men, and that
while men with children are of more
reputable life than those without them,
widows with children, on the contra ",
are more likely to be wicked than
widows without them. -
Year: 1879

What is The use of keeping cavalry
on the frontiers of State in whose
very capital marshals aud sheriffs go
for one another in the frontier fashion
and why drill companies in the use of
firearms when a fusiiade is kept up
through the dead hours of night by
drunken debauchees? Hooting, shout
ing reveleis through two whole nights,
till the taking of life proclaimed
peace, have moved up and down the
streets from one TO another drink-
Ing place. Intoxication at last be-
came insanity, and madness, death.
Policemen are poid to guard the city
thoroughfares and its pgblic places
and to maintain decency and order.
Should such order be tolerated? We
have read of cities undone because
they failed to protect the citI-
zen; because life, not guarded,
was made a plaything for drunk
en- fellows to fire at; and then
come officers of Federal and State law
to share in these practices, and the city
government is impotent. 1t is great
pity, but lawlessness, that ends so often
in bloody deeds in which none are to
blame except that they are drunk and
needlessly wear arms and take life and
destroy the value of property and
homes, should be erigidly repressed, and
if conservators of law and order
that we have cannot prevent carnivals
of blood and murder, the sooner this
local government ceases to exist the |
better. Men who Gid the shooting !
and the man shot, and their as
soclates, were armed to the |
teeth, and needlessly went armed |
and then all, or nearly all had
maddening whisky. 1t Is
time that there was reform even in the
capital of Texas; and while we are
broodIng over the woes of cities dying
of debt let US not forget that crime and
vice and drunkenness are tu2ging at
the heart strings of Austin, which has
lost blood and life enough within
a year to fIighten those who love the
pretty capital, evidently growing weak
and pale from the loss of blood.
Year: 1879

ALL the interior newspapers will
have, they say, representative here
on the fifth day of February to Or
ganize Texas Press Association which
proposes to furnish Texas news and
receive that from all quarters through
st. Louis. The San Antonio Express
requests all Texas newspapers which
would enter into this arrangement to
notify the STATESMAN and let it be
known that each paper will have q
representative here authorized to enter
into a money-paying contract. The
scheme must be executed. The press
of the interior has suffered enough.
The present supply of press news given
is simply bosh, nonsense and worthless
tWaddle.
Year: 1879

Every conceivable honor was extend
ed to the remains OF Mr.. Schleicher by
the people of San Antonio. OF his
illness the Express tells that ''upon
returning to Congress after MS re-slec-
ton last November our representative
went actively to work, though the ex-
citement Of the heated canvass through
which he had passed seemed to have
affected his health. On the evening
Of the second instant be was compelled
to take to his bed, being afflicted with
erysipelas. His condition grew worse
daily, though he was not considered
dangerously Ill until the lapse OF about
a week, when a very hot fever seized
bin. Soon his mind became affected
by this fever, and constantly in his
sleep he talked Of his congressional
duties and OF measures inviting public
interest. When aroused, however, he
would appear sensible and converse re-
tionally though when left 10 himself
the same unnatural condition would
return. Then he was seized with con-
gestion Of the brain, passed into an
unconscious state, and during the
night OF the tenth, after eight days Of
illness, death ended bis sufTenngs.1
Year: 1879

ALL the appointments of Governor
Roberts, excepting that of Major ]. B.
Jones for the Adjutant Generalship,
have been confirmed. A vigorous
fight has been kept up for three days
upon this nomination, and evidently
breach is widening between those who
would sustain the Governor in the
matter and those opposed to the ap-
pointment. A Governor is elected to
execute the laws of a State, and to
carry out public policies, but it be-
comes questionable whether his per-
sonal likes and disllkes should i'm
pede legislation. Should Major Jones
be even in the end confirmed, it
appears now that the opposing element
will retire with anything but the kind
est feelings towards the Governor, and
such a result should be averted. Prob
ably the solution of all this misunder-
standing will be reached by new
nomination upon which all could read
lily combine. Such a man may be
found, and it appears just and right
that he should be, when dlscord Is be-
ing sown through warm discussions of
the merits and demerits of the gentle
men now before the Senate.
Year: 1879

THAT miserable Governor of Penn
sylvania should be hanged. He par
doned two men on the day of their
execution. OF course, he was salts
fed of their innocence. But official
laziness and indifference were such
that the telegram announcing his &C.
ton was received by the bloody exc
cutioner one minute after his victims
were thrust into eternity. The sheriff
is innocent, but the Governor is a
murderer or the men did not deserve
pardon.
Year: 1879

In the trial of Quiensbury at Pales-
tine for the murder Of the Graysoaa
it was proven that fifty or six ty guns
were fred at him and his family and
Into bis residence. DIR. Grayson was
pierced by ffty-one bullets and his
poor wife shot through the head as
she lay in bed by the side Of her three
little children. The tracks OF ak
horses and one mule were found IN
front of the house next morning. show
ing that seven devils were there that
night, thoroughly corroborating the
story Of one who turked States evl-
dence.
Year: 1879

The Rask penitentiary is fbuilt Of
yellow sandstone, 30. the white lime
stone Of Middle and West Texas.
Il Is stated that 1t stood the late freeze
without showing any disposition to
crack--Iels2ram.


The Telegram knows full well that
sandstone, If taken from a quarry and
exposed full of moisture TO intense
cold, the freezing moisture would
make it crack. The white stone Of
Austin quarrles, taken from below the
surface Of the earth, Is unaffected.
when once exposed to the action Of the
sun, and dred by heat or cold. Other-
wise our new court house snd jail, the
most beautiful in the South. even AZ
those structures are most durable.
would have fallen long ago. L was
the fact that the stone was lust taken
IRON the quarry and frozen before il
dried that made il crack.
Year: 1879

When the peddler rang Mr. Birds door.
bell the other day, Mr. Bird opened the
door. Mr.. Bird had the badly on his arm
and had four other children at his heels.


Is the lady of the house IMP asked the
peddler


Certainly she isn'' replied the bird. she
is out She is perennially and eternally
out p


Where can see her p


Why go down to the woman suffrage club.
room if she isn't there go to the society
for the prevention of cruelty to animals
and if she su't there visit the hall of the as.
sociation for alleviating the miseries of the
Senegambians and if she has finished up
there, look for her at the church aid society,
or at the Ninth ward soup house, or the
home of the onelegged, or at the refuge of
infirm dogs, or at the hospital of the
asthmatic, or at the st. Pollycarp orphan
asylum, or at some of these places. If you
get on her track, you'll see more paupers
and strong. g.minded women aud undercloth-
ing for the heather than you ever saw in
the whole course of your life


4 wanted to sell her a cold-handled flat
iron, Just out. Do you think she will buy
one%


She will if you can prove that the naked
cannibals in Senegambia are yearning for
cold.handled flat irons. She would buy
diamond breastpins for those niggers if they
wanted them, believe


4 intended also to offer her new kind of
immovable hairpin which


'All right. You Just go down to the home
for the one-legged and persuade those Grip
pies to cry for immovabe harpus and
she'll order 'em by the ton.


Has she any children p


well, I'm the one that appears to be hay
ing 'em-just now, anyhow


Because have gum-top for feeding
bottle that is incest thing you ever saw


Now said Mr., Bird, I'll tell you what
you do. You get those paupers to swear
they cant eat the soup they get at the soup
house with spoons; they must have it from
bottles with a rubber muzzle, and Mrs. Bird
will keep you so busy supplying the demand
that you won't have any chance to sleep.
You just try it. Buy up the paupers Bribe
'em.


How'll know her ifI see her p


why, she's very large woman with a
bent nose, and talks all the time. You'll
hear her talk as soon you get within mile
of her. She'll ask you to subscribe to the
Senegambian fund and and to the asthmat.
ic asylum before you can get breath. Prob
ably she'll read you four or five letters from
reformed cannibals. But don't you mind
'cm, My opinion is she wrote them her
SELL


And with baby singing a vocferous solo
and the other children clinging to his legs
Mr.. Bird retreated and shut the door. The
peddler had determined to propose to girl
that night, He changed his mind and re-
solved to remain a bachelor Cincinnati
Times
Year: 1879

Eleven years our daughter Suffered on a
bed of misery under care Of several of the
best land some of the worst) physicians who
gave her disease various names but no relef,
and now she is res ored to us in good health
by as simple remedy as Hop Bitters, that
we had poohed at for two years, before using
it, We earnestly hope and pray that 10
one else will let their sick suffer as we did,
on account o prejudice against so good a
medicine at Hop Bitters' The Parents.
Year: 1879

BY the flow Of the inland river,
Where the fleets OF iron have fed,
Where the blades OF the new grass quiver,
Asleep are the ranks OF the dead,
Under the sod and the dew,


Waiting the Judgment Day,
Under the one the Blue,


Under the other the Gray.
Those In the rohing OF glory
Those In the gloom OF defeat,
All with the battle blood CORY,
In the dusk OF eternity meet.
Under the sod and the dew.


Waiting the judgment Day,
Render the the laurel the Blue,


Under the willow the Gray.
From the silence OF sorrowfu hours,
The desolate mourners go,
Lovingly laden with flowers,
Alike with the friend and the foe,
Under the sod and the dew,


Waiting the Judgment Day.
Under the roses the Blue,


Under the lilies the Gray.
SO with an equal splendor,
The morning sun-rays fall,
With touch impartially tender,
on the blossoms blooming for all.
Under the sod and the dew,


Waiting the Judgment Day,
'Brodered with gold the Blue,


Melowed with gold the Gray.
SO when the summer caleth,
on forest and field OF grain,
With an equal murmur falleth
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the Judgment Day,
Wet with the rain the Blue,
Wet with the rain the Gray.
Sadly, but not with upbraidlng,
The generous deed was done;
In the storm OF the years that are fading,
No braver battle was won.
Under the sod and the dew,


Waiting the Judgment Day,
Under the blossoms the Blue.


Under the garlands the Gray.
No more shall the war cry sever,
Or the winding river be red a.;
They banish our anger forever,
When they laurel the graves OF our dead
Under the sod and the dew,


Waiting the Judgment Day,
Love and tears for the Blue,


Tears ana love for the Gray.
Year: 1879

In a handsome house on Fifth avenue
there hangs upon the parlor wall velvet
case In it are two lockets, each a, like the
other as can well be imagined a cameo
head of Christ surrounded by an enameled
snake with ruby eyes, Over them hangs
three golden balls.
Year: 1879

For moment the sight was embarrassing.
Then Mr.. Francklyn stepped forward, and
Frank said


There seems to be some mistake I have
a namesake somewhere


oh, no; we are cousins to your late Aunt
Miranda, who just made you her legatee,
and as you have come home az last we mean
now that you are here, to make you accept
cousins place in our house and our friend
ship said Mr.. Francklyn.


1t is enough to say that the dinner wa.
perfect, the hostess charming, the host iol
ly good fellow and Bessie so bewitching that
Frank was in love over head and ears before
the dinner was finished.


The letter from my lawyers was at the
hotel when Frank returned, covered with
the postmarks of half the New Brunswick
in the country, among which it had travelled
while he was waiting for it at the Hotel
Brunswick The last murmur he made as
he dropped off to sleep was, Found an 'un-
ivy WV Npuoiio uili anu anu ne was
dreaming of black eyed girl in white in
another minute.


".


The phegmatic clerk:at the pawnbroker' 5
turned over two lockets apparently Just alike
and examined them curiously, then put
them back in their wrappers and in the safe
The next day both lockets were redeemed
They thought it curious at the moment, but
odd things are of daily occurrence in the
office of a pawnbroker, the theater of the
daily tragedy of woe and want, poverty
hunger an2 dirt.


Frank looked at the locket when he reach.
ed his Hotel, it was the same. There was
the little bright spot where the pawnbroker'
acid had touched the corner of the case, but
the rest was the same exactly. No-he rub.
bed his eyes-whereas when he took the
locket to the pawnbroker the initials on the
case had read


v.D.v.


OF this he was perfectly sure yet here
now, they were plainly reversed, and read


V.D. V.


He puzzled over it some time Then he
went down in a car and demanded of the
pawnbroker an explanation. The man told
him of the two lockets, exactly alike, left
within an hour of each other on the preced.
ing day each pledged for SO each redeem
ed in the morning, and explanations how
they must have been changed. The young
man hoped that there was no harm done
remembered that the other locket was left
by young woman : really didn t rcn.mh-
er that she looked like, and then went back
to his work. Frank returned home puzzled
1t really didn't matter; it was only a chance
purchase of a unique trife in jewelry he
hadn't the remotest idea whose the initials
were, but he was superstitious about it, and
it troubled him. That the locket had q
double in New York there could be nc
doubt. and so Frank resolved not to tell the
story, but to wear it on his watch chain, in
the hope sometime to attrack the attention
of some one who could solve the mystery.
Year: 1879

Another house and lot OF ground situate in said
Main township Columbia county, Pennsylvania
bounded on the east by public road leading through
the town OF Mainville, on the south by lot OF the
Public School District, on the west and north by lot
or land OF John W. Shuman on which are erected a
large two story frame dwelling house, barn and out
buildings.
Year: 1879

TIE Butler men are trying to defeat Long
by alleging that he was opposed to the cleo
ton of Lincoln. If there were time perhaps
they would follow this up and show that
Butler would have voted for jeff Davis had
he been a candidate The records of the
Charleston Convention conclusively prove
fhic
Year: 1879

THE Argus says it is the imperative duty
of the Governor and Council to follow the
constitution in canvassing the votes. That's
so, but will they do their duty? The Argus
evidently anticipates that they will not as it
says that fusion Legislature quite possibly
may be inaugurated.
Year: 1879

GEN. BUTLER told Frank Bird last year
that it wasn't the GOvernorship he was
after; he had better designs Fortunately
election to the Governorship is necessary to
the accomplishment of his Interior de-
signs, and the Goyernorship he couldn't get
last wear and cannot this.
Year: 1879

IT will be seen by despatch elsewhere
that Senator Blaine explicitly denies wri-
ting such letter as was attributed to him
by the Boston Globe detective. 1t will also
be seen that the Boston Globe refused to
publish Mr.. Blaines denial. As Mr. Blaine
suggests, it would be well to enquire who
forged that letter, and the conduct of the
Globe would seem to suggest where the in
ouiry had better be begun.
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable, not necessarily for pubca-
ton but as a guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
mumcatIons tnat are not used.