smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

MADAME EMMA S0UlE,
The fashion SEASON will open superbly at
Madame Emma Soule's, corner State and Mon
roe. This lady is in the East selecting choice
millinery and dress goods. Will return to the
city about the 5th OF April.
Year: 1879

One Of the Oldest and most reli-
able Dry Goods firms in this
city, have been forced by their
largely increasing trade to open
a new and more commodlous
store on the corner Of Madison
and Peoria-sts., where they will
in fact occupy three adjoining
stores, one hundred and fifty
feet deep, in addition to their
old stand, which includes two
others. This enterprising firm
commenced business immedl-
ately after the great fire, and
their trade has steadily in
creased up to this time. They
have never known what it was
to see dull times. This can only
be accounted for by their supe-
rior practical business ability.
Mr.. Mayer will take charge Of
the new establishment, which
will be ready for occupancy
about the 18th Of April.
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, April S.-Quite debate
was started upon The propriety of instruct
ing the chairman Of the committee OF the
whole, when the house shall be in COM
mittee on the legislative appropriation bill,
to award the floor in accordance with the
rules of the house, and not be bound By
any list of speakers which may be formed.


After an informal discussion the subject
matter was referred to the committee on
rules. The house then went into COM
mittee of the whole on the legislative bill,
the consideration to be under the five
minute rule and all general debate not tc
be reserved. until the political features o.
the bill are reached.
Year: 1879

rode over to the widows to give her the
latest news. He entt red without knock
ing. She was not to be seen. He passed
into the kitchen but she was not
there. In the big pantry, however, was
the stolen barrel of f1ourl There was the
brand, the slaves were soiled by contact
with the ground, and there could no mis-
take. The constable heard noise up
stairs. The stair-door was open and he
crept up to find his beloved overhauling
some of her stolen property.


"Then there was fainting scene," sug-
geeted the reporter.


81 really don't remember whether he
tainted or not" was her soft reply.


There are Spartan fathers and Spartan
sons in Michigan. This constable was one
of them. 1t was a hard position to be
placed in-love on the one hand and duty
on the other, but duty triumphed. He
gave her dead away, made the arrest and
was witness against her.
Year: 1879

CInEh.-Cider is preserved in Nor
mandy by putting half pint of sweet
oil IN the cusk and plugging the bung-
hole with wad of cotton. The oil,
being lighter does not combine with
the cider, hut forms thin covering
which prevents the oxygen of the air
coming in contact with it. The cotton
filter the air entering as the cider is
drawn of, so that no insects or impuri-
ties can pass. Cider in bottles should be
covered with few inches of earth
which keeps the cider at an equable
temperature and prevents bottles from
bursting.
Year: 1879

THERE Is a young man at Cadiz, KY,
of such susceptible and sympathetic
physical composition that he was fore
ed at one time co abandon a position
in a drug store for the novel reason
that he could not handle any kind of
medicine without being affected with
all the consequences Ii was calculated
to produce Oh the party for whom 1t
was intended.
Year: 1879

Few were aware Of the physical strength
possessed by Mr.. Lincoln. In muscular
power he was one in thousand One
morning we were sitting on deck, he saw
an axe in a docket on the bull
warks, and, taking it up, held it at arms
length at the extremity of the helve, with
his thumb and forefnger, continuing to
hold it for number Of minutes. The
most powerful sailors on board tried in
vain to initiate him. Mr.. Lincoln said he
could do this when he was eighteen years
of age, and had never seen day since
that time when he could not. 1t occur
red to me, when reading the details of the
plot that terminated in the death of the
president, that his abduction, which was
at one time proposed by the conspirators,
would have resulted very disastrously to
those who should have had the termity to
undertake it. The plan proposed was to
waylay the President at night, during one
of his frequent visits to the War. Depart
ment, where he was in the habit of going
to read the telegraphic dispatches, dur
ing the time OF important military move


ments, and where he would often remain
until very late hour. returning alone
through the grounds of the White House.
A half-dozen men were to seize and car
ry him off; but, had they attempted it
they would probably have found that
they had met their match, for he had the
strength of a giant. Judge SWEET, Of
Chicago, who was an intimate friend Of
his, says that he has seen him dash into a
crowd where two powerful men were


fighting, and, taking each by the collar
hold them out at arms length in the mos,
helpless and ridiculous position.
Year: 1879

A missionary some years ago preached
to the Zuius about hell, and told them
how hot it was and how surely they
would 60 there if they did not change
their courses. A Zulu chief, having
heard him, invited him to dinner. The
meal ended the chief, says South At
rican newspaper, turned sharply round
to the missionary and said: ssWhat was
that you said this morning about putting
the great Zulu people in great fire after
they were dead? Come this way, and /
will show you what the Zulus are; you
don't know them, I can see." He took
him to pile Of wood, which was of ire
mendus proportions AS big as a bay
store and had 1t set fire to all round


When it was properly in blaze, and
gave out so much heat that no one could
come near 1t, the king summoned the
two regiments who had listened to the
sermon and ordered them to charge the
burning pile and extinguish it. Naked as
they were, without shoes or any covering
at all, they rushed into the burning mass
like madmen, raving and yelling, and
did not stop till hardly vestage Of the
fire remained. The king then said to the
missionary: "You have seen that That
is what we will do with your hell. The
Zulus won't play with your fires, and
you had better clear out Of this country
at once, or I will have slittle fire made
for you to put OUT The missionary
took the hint, and left the kraal the
same evening. Is it any wonder, ask
the people, after this, that Gattling guns
and rocket batteries have no terror fol
the Zulus?- and it is certain they have
none. The Zulus, when ordered to at


tack, attack; and though they may bs
mown down by thousands still come on


vntil they conquer or die.
Year: 1879

London Times.


A terrible murder with robbery has
been lately reported from Ekaterinoslay.
A soldier Just returned from the theater
of war had gone to the village Of Karn-
auchowka. While there he was asked to
be godfather to child about to be bap-
tized. The pope who performed the rite
was a venerable man of about sixty years
of age, and the soldier was so impressed
with his devotional demeanor that at the
conclusion of the ceremony he presented
him with a gold piece as an honorarium.
The unusual value of the gift attracted
the attention of the priest. He asked the
soldier whether he had many similar
pieces. The latter answered without re-
serve that he had been able to save his
pay and had been otherwise fortunate and
that he had turned all into gold, which
he carried about him. The cupidity Of
the priest was aroused. The better to Sc
cure his object he took his deacon into
confidence, and they resolved to watch an
opportunity to rob the soldier. A few
days later this latter set out on his journey
homewards. He had to pass through a
thick wood. This the conspirators learned
beforehand. They lay in wait for him,
attacked him, felled him I'd, the earth and
literally gnawed his throat in the absence
of weapons sufficiently homicidal. Hav-
ing robbed him they left him by the way
side, convinced that be was dead or dy-
ing and could tell no tales. But some
peasants coming up shortly afterwards
found the unfortunate man still living
They were so prompt and skillful in their
attention that he recovered consciousness
and was able before his death to indicate
clearly who were his assassins. They are
now in the hands of the police.
Year: 1879

This is purely practical reasoning: but
had the fox pulled the string first out
Of the line Of fire in order to discharge the
gun and then get the bait, that would have
been abstract reasoning.
Brutes and boys are just alike, in that
nothing occurs to them beyond what the
immediate fact before them may suggest.
The one Find | call purely practical
reasoning, which both have; the other
abstract, which brutes never acquire, bot
which the boy will as his intelligence
Develops
Year: 1879

AGED FORTY.


Men may not have given him chance,


BUT GOD WILL!


You wouldn't think that these rough
men had sentiment in their hearts, but
they saw through the Elders's motives in
an instant, and the toughest man in the
lot stopped down and carefully rear
ranged one of the sods.


Three weeks more went by, and one
evening Jack Bullet came into Joe White
Dream, alive and we'll. He stood on the
little square in the centre Of the town,
and said not word till the, wondering
men gathered about him. Then he point
ed to the grave in the valley, his eyes
filled with tears, and he choklngly said:


s'Boys, sneaked back here this morn
ing to kill some one in revenge, but |
cum across that-that grave down-thar,
and-and-


He held out his hand to the men, and
the tears blinded him SO that he could
not see a face Elder Graves went down
on his knees again, every man with him,
and there were tears, and 4 prayer SO
beautiful and tender and true that Jack
Bullet sobbed like a child. His heart
was broken, and all the satan in his ma
ture was driven out in a moment.


Joe Whites Dream was mining camp
many months after that, and that Jack
Bullet was one Of the best men IN it
The head-board grew gray as the rain
beat down and the sun shone, and the
beautiful wild rose grew till it covered
all the grave, but no one disturbed sod
The grave was a sign-a beacon light, as
it were, and perhaps miners Nere right
when they said Of our town:
They've had a revival up thar, an
they are the best chaps an the hardest
workers on the slope. y
Year: 1879

Cats are atfectionate; they love
young chickens, sweet cream and the
best place in front Of the Fireplace.


Dogs are very faithful; they will
stick to bone after everybody else has
deserted it.


The donkey is an emblem Of patience
but 1t you study him closer, you will
find that laziness is what is the matter
with him.


The eagle Is the monarch of the skies
but the little kingbird will chase him
to his hiding place.


Monkeys are initiatives; but If they
cant initiate some mischief they are
not happy.


Hens know when it is going to rain,
and shelter themselves; but they will
try to hatch out glass egg as honestly
as they will one Of theft own.


The elephant has the least, and the
rabbit the most eyes for Its size; and a
rats tail is just rs long as Its body.


The roof Of thoroughbred dog's
mouth is black; so Is the bottom of a
cats foot who Is good mouser.


The serpent and the crab change
their clothing each year; the raocoon
lives all the winter long on the NOM
ory of what he ate In the summer.
Year: 1879

"A picturesque incident is narrated
concerning Gen. Chanzy during the
time of his Imprisonment under the
Commune. He was closely watched,
ana when one morning lie asked for a
Darbor to shave him, that individual
was only allowed to enter escorted BY
TWO national guards. The day was
dull and the light bad, and the knight
OF the basin moved the general about
several times, complaining that he could
not zee, and that the guards were in the
way. Grumbling, they fell back little
and the barber began his work. Pres
emily he observed that he had never
seen man more difficult to shave, and
adding "How hollow your cheek is !!
Come, General, Ia Prouencaden' he
thrust his thumb into the Generals
mouth to press the cheek outward. The
prisoner was for the instant naturally
enragcd, and was about to protest,
when he become aware that some small
object was lying on his tongue. The
shaving finished and his visitors gone,
he placed himself in the only position
In the cell in which he could not be
seen, and took from his mouth what
proved to be u little roll Of paper, on
which was written: "Keep up your
courge; you arc not forgotten. This
will not last long. Saisset." 1t was II
true prediction; in Il few days the
General was liberated by an order from
the central committee,
Year: 1879

The stream is caltnest when it nears the tide,
The flowers are sweetest at the evontide,
And birds most musical at close Of day,
And saints divinest whom they pass away.
Morning is lovely, but holier charm


Lies folded close in Evenings robe Of balm
And weary man must ever love her best
For morning calls to toll, but night to rest
She comes from heaven and hor wings doth


bear
holy fragrance like the breath Of prayer
Footsteps Of angels follow in hor trace,
10 shut the weary eyes Of Day in peace.
All things are hushed before hor as she throws
O'or earth and Sky her mantle Of repose
There is a calm. beauty, and power
That morning knows not, in the evening hour
Until tho evoning, we must weep and toll
Plow life's furrow, dig tho weedy oil,
Tread with sad foet our rough and thorny way
And bear the heat and burden Of the day.
On when our sun is setting. may we glido,
Like Summer Evening down the golden tide,
And leave behind us, as we pass away,
Sweet, starry twilight round our sleeping clay
Year: 1879

From Whatever direction one comes
from the surrounding plain, the most
prominent sight Is the lofty range OF
sand mounds, rising up from out the
center of the town, and overlapping
everything. These are composed OF
earth from the original thirteen sur
face acres of the Kimberly mine, and
thrown up around the edge of the
gradually-deepening pit, just as the
ant on smaller scale piles up circu-
lar ridge around it's hole. By diamond
"mine" in"Africa is meanta a pipe of sew
eral acres superficial area and unknown
depth, running straight down through
stratified layers Of shale. Each pipe,
and there are only four, is filled in to
the level Of the general surface of the
plain with sand. tufa, and diamond
bearing brecoia or soft rock. The
Kimberly pipe or mine has now been
excavated to a depth of about $50 feet {.
Most Of the streets Of the town con-
verge to It. We walk to the edge of
the rock which surrounds it, called the
''reef," and before and beneath us ex-
tends an abyss-a huge, oval-shaped
cauldron-open full to the skies. Over
its edge lies a sheer descent of $50 feet {;
across It, from side to side, stretch of
l 900 feet, or fifth ofa mile. Coming
even as one does from the life of the
town, the first look into the mine is a
fascinating and bewlldering one. Lit
tie by little facts unfold and steal upon


The attention. One talks to his neigh
Dor as to deaf man, for u steady hum


or roar fills the air, chiefly made up of
human voices and the whlr of buckets


ascending and descending OH their wire
ropes. Ten thousand men are working
below and around us, in the pit and
around its edge. All Is in plain sight
for there Is no burrowing under ground.


Far below, little black pigmy men-so
they seem in the distance--are moving
about, but not singly or at random, for
closer observation shows that they arc
working in groups, each group upon a
certain well-dofined square patch Of
solid earth, at which it is picking and
delvlhg, or walking to and fro over It,
carrying little buckets Of loosened
soil. In their midst sits or stands a
white overseer, or the master himself.
Spreading over the whole excavation
Or pit, cauldron, pot or basin, which,
ever conveys the clearest idea, like a
SPIDERS web on dewy morning, run
innumerable little white threads--so
they seem as they glisten In the sun.
Follow one such thread to our feet, and
1t will be found to be a shining wire
rope, worn white with constant use.
And here on the edge or brim, called
as we know, the "reef,'" we find a
Year: 1879

No barber knOweth whom he may
shave, and the man who rushcs into a
shop and drops into barber. chair,
without seeing who occupies the next
chair to the right or left may get badly
left, as case proved recently. A
solid old citizen in the Wholesale trade
was taking 1t easy, his face covered
with luther, when In came young
man who flung off his coat, bounced in
to chair, and called out:


Hurry up, now, for must get back
to the store before Old Blank does or he
will raise thunderi Hang him, he
won't even give fellow time to die -


The solid citizen turned his face to
glance at the other, and the barber no
ticed reddening OF his face.


"Going on q vacation this summer ?"
asked the barber who was preparing to
shave the young man.


"Vacatlon How In Tophet can get
away from old Blank? And If l could
he pays such a stingy, contemplate
salary that | couldn't afford even ride
on the ferry boati'


"Why don't you ask him for a raise P''
inquired the barber.


"Why don't ask for the hand of his
freckle-nosed daughtcr2 He'd dis.
charge me in minute, though he's
making money and can afford it. If
the old hyena would have stroke of
apoplexy tho junior partner might do
something, but such chaps always live
to be hundred years DID,"


Conversation ceased here, the solid
man got out Of his chair, took a brush
Ing and sat down, and when the clerk
arose from his chair and turned around
snow-balls would have looked black
beside his face. He tried to bow and
speak, but something wouldn't let him &,
and when he started to put on his coat
he held 1t tails. up and collar down.
He was still struggling with it when
the solid man rose up, looked around
and walked out, saying never word. &.
The BARRIERS wet the young mans head
and held cologne to his nose, but he
walked sideways when he went out,
and there was an uncertain wobble to
his knees. In applying for the vacant
position, state what shop you shave at.


-
Year: 1879

There are no new Developments in
the Lynch scandal, except that the
woman in question is getting herself
mixed up in mass of contradictory
statements. She had admitted, and
sworn to the admission that her charge
against Mr.. Lynch was false, and was
made solely for the purpose Of procuring
mo ley. Mr.. Lynch contemplated en-.
tering suit against the woman for per-
jury and blackmail, and will doubles.
do so this afternoon.
Year: 1879

We learn from one of our brokers
that between fifty and sixty thousand
d0lls has been the share which from


he rise in Reaing, North Pacific and
p few other stocks, has fallen to lucky
mingtonians within the past week.
II will be we'll if they are not tempted
10 lose more than their good luck EN-
abled them TO gain.
Year: 1879

When the Central Railroad was in its
infancy, the company experienced
great trouble with certain landowners,
whose property had been taken by ap-
praisal, at or near Tribes Hill It was
with great difficulty that trains could
pass, although vigilant watch was
kept up. Men were stationed with
hand-car just east of the curve leading
into Tribes Hill from the east, and,
when they heard the evening train
coming west, they would put on the
hand-car just as near ahead of the train
as they dared, and run ahead of the
train into the station; but between the
hand-car and the train the track would
be literally strewn with stones, rails,
ahd all manner of distinctions, which
were thrown down from the heights
above, so that the train would have to
stop to clear the track leach train car
ried men for that purpose), and then
proceed at a snaips pace into the station.
Then again the tracks would be piled
with huge heaps of straw, and the en-
gineer would stop and find nothing but
straw. 1t was usually thought that the
straw business was only a scare, but
about the first time he attempted to run
through without stopping he found
huge bowlder in the center. Tins mat
ters went on from bad to worse; an at
tempt was made to burn one of the
company's bridges near this village.
This was SO highly criminal, and it was
made SO hot for some persons, that hos
tilities ceased. Upon one occasion,
George Cox, who, with his brothers,
Tom and Maxwell, were well known up
and down the valley as locomotive en-
gineers, was watching the track near
Tribes Hill with shot gun, with in
structions to shoot the first man he saw
placing any distractions on the track.
It was quite dark, and at a short dis
tance from him he saw two men carry
something large and heavy and place it
on the track. His first impulse was to
shoot, and he hauled up, but he hated
to take human life, and thought he
would steal upon them and see who
they were. He did SO, and found that
they were two travellers who had come


from the canal with their chest to take
the train, and, being tired, had set it
down to rest..-Anlsterdam On. -


Democrat. sod. s
Year: 1879

1t is probably impossible to discover
in the history Of this country any states
man who has left behind him reputa-
ton so poorly preportioned to his
ability and influence as has. Albert Gal
latin. Not especially attractive in life,
he remains singularly uninteresting
since his death. A chapter in Mr..
Adams book concerning his youth fails
to introduce him in an agreeable light.
Enjoying every advantage which the
best social position, an excellent edu-
cation, and family only too kind could
give, he yet chose at an early age to run
away. This venture, if not altogether
without an object, was at least devoid
of any sufficient cause or excuse. He
was evidently soon ashamed of it; but,
as is the freakish habit of poor human
nature in such circumstances, he visited
the punishment for his folly upon the
relatives whom he had injured rather
than upon himself, neglecting to send
the simplest information concerning
his fortunes to those who never ceased
to manifest soicitude as tender as it
was undeserved concerning these mat
ters. This coldness of nature never
wore of throughout his long life. The
only evidence of warmth of feeling
which we ever find in him was shown
toward his second wife, who seems to
have made his home thoroughly happy
and attractive. In this respect, as in
SO many others, he offers striking con-
trast to Hamilton, with whom it is inn
possible not to compare him. Both
landed as strangers upon our shores.
In less than year after he arrived in
New York, Hamilton had made more
and warmer friends then Gallatin ever
secured throughout his life, long, useful
and honorable as it was. And, as years
went on, Hamilton constantly and
largely increased the number Of those
who, apart from their political faith in
him, dearly loved the man. Gallatin
never had SO much as the nucleus of q
personal following. People met him as
he met them, with much temperateness
both in affection and in hatred. In an
age of vituperation he seldom used
those potent epithets of abuse for
which his contemporaries must have
ransacked the dictionaries and synonym
books; in return he enjoyed an e1cep-
tional freedom from the more scurrilous
personalities then in vogue.-Atlaaatic
M0YtbLu
Year: 1879

The wonderful cave which is to be
seen near Burnet is certainly one Of
the greatest curiosities of the age.
While passing through this cave gem
tlemm discovered a small aperture
about six inches in width. Having
pick he broke into this opening, and to
his astonishment he soon discovered
large and airy apartment. Entering
this, he found what appeared to be a
stone table beautifully carved. Several
stone chairs stood in one corner of the,
room. He continued his search, and at
last in a dark corner he found the
skeleton of man. He attempted to
raise it from the floor, but though he
exerted his utmost strength he could
not move it. Hesays that it appeared
to be solid stone. It is impossible to
conjecture who was the hermit or how
long the skeleton has remained hidden
away in that silent cave.-Bam7aet
(Teras) Bulletin. 'l 9AS ''''