smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

ing tears. The earl read it; then he
sternly said Sir, do you call this
wealth ?-but doubtless you do in your
Inflated county. Sir, you are left sole
heir TO vast collection of echoes-if a
thing can be called a collection that is
scattered far and wide over the huge
length and breadth of the American
continent sir. this is not all (; you are
head and ears in debt; there is not an
echo in the lot but has mortgage on
it. Sir, | am not a hard man, but [
must look to my child's interest; if you
had but one echo which you could hon.
estly call your own. if you had but one
echo which was free from incum brance,
so that you could retire to it with my
ch,ld, and by humble, painstaking in
dor cultivate and improve it, and
thus wrest from it a maintenance,
would not say you nay; but | cannot
marry my child to beggar. Leave
his side, my darling; 60, sir; take your
mortgage-ridden echoes, and quit my
sight forever !!


MY noble Celestine clung to me in
tears. with loving arms, and swore she
would willingly, nay gladly, marry me,
though | had not an acho in the world.
But it could not be. We were torn as
under, she to pine and die without the
twelve month. to toll life's long Jour-
ney sad and lone, praying daily, hourly.
for that release which shall join US to-
gether again in that dear realm where
the wicked cease from troubling and the
weary are at rest. Now. sir, If you
will be so kind as to look at these maps
and plans in my portfolio. | am sure
can sell an achn- fo~ri~s~ ----.
than any man in the trade. Now this
one. which cost my uncle ten dollars.
thirty years ago. and is one of the
sweetest things in Texas, l will let you
have for"


Let me interrupt you," l said.
My friend. have not had moments s
respite from canvassers this day. |
have bought sewing machine which |
did not want; | have bought map
which if mistaken in all its details;
have bought clock which will not go
have bought moth poison which the
moths prefer to any other beverage:
have bought no end of useless inventions,
and now have had enough of this
foolishness. | would not have one Of
your echoes if you were even to give il
to me. ! would not let it stay on The
,-lace. ] always hate a man that trle:
to sell me echoes. You see this gun I
Now take your collection and move on
let US not have bloodshed"


But he only smiled sad. sweet smil;
and got out some diagrams. You know
the result perfectly well, because yo,
know that when you have once opened
the door to canvasser. the trouble i.
done and you have got to suffer defeat
compromised with this man at tn
end of an intolerable hour. | bough
TWO double -barrelled echoes in goo'
condition, and he threw in another
which he said was not salable becaus
it only spoke German. He said, "Sh
was perfect polyglot once. but some
how her plate got down. ."-Atlanti
for December.
Year: 1877

Let others praise the ruby bright,


Iu the red wines sparkling glow,
Dearer to me Is the diamond light


OF the fountains clearest flow.
The feet Of earthly men have trod


The juice of the bleeding vine,
But tie streams come pure from the hand Of God,
To All this cup Of mine;
The dew-drops lie in the fowrets cup


How rich is its perfume now!
And the fanting earth with JOY looks up.


when heaven shall rain ell her biow.
The brook goes forth with pleasant voice.
To gladden. the vale along;
Ard the bending trees on her banks rejoice
To hear her quiet song
Then give me the cup Of cold wateri


The clear. sweet cup Of cold water;
For his arm is strong. though his toll be long,
Who drinks but the clear. cold water.
Year: 1877

Work Commenced. Ground was broken
yesterday for the erection OF the new Meth
odist church on Fifth street near Stockton.
The cornerstone will be laid in short
time, and the work Of completion pushed
vigorously forward.
Year: 1877

The Minneapolis Tribune is one of the
best newspapers in Minnesota under its
present management. Its old circulation,
advertising and influence seems to have
been restored and It is pleasure, even
for an overworked newspaper man, to go
through its well filled pages.
Year: 1877

An Apology


The TRIBUNE did not appear on Wed
.nesaay, the edition tor that day having
been omitted on account of moving the
Office, overhauling I,our cylinder press
and the then uncompleted condition Of
cur new press room. The TRIBUNE viii!
hereafter appear regularly.
Year: 1877

The Postmaster asks the citizens Of
Bismarck to bear with the present close
quarters for the Office for q few DAYS vet
The new outd: was shipped by the Yale
Lock Company from Stamford, Conn. on
the 18th and the new building will, early
next week, be Geady to receive il.
Year: 1877

A London hvery-stable keeper recently
sued a medical student for disfiguring a
pony with lampblack. The pony was
originally milk white; his owner left him
for about five minutes in front of
public house and in charge of a small
boy. When he came back he found
waiting for him an animal as black as a
dress-coat. He protested that the pony
had been changed for another one; (" but
on calling it by name the intelligent
creature showed by its recognition of
its masters voice" that its identity was
unquestionable, although, as the owner
told the Judge, it was transformed into
ga complete guy, the queerest looking
animal you ever saw" All that the
boy, who was severely berated, could
offer in explanation was that a gentle
man had been examining" the pony.
The gentleman turned out to be a
mischievous medical student, whom the
magistrate fined fifteen dollars, chiefly,
perhaps, because the pony had caught
severe cold from the washing necessary
to the removal of the lampblack. The
owner testified that the efforts made for
restoration of the white coat were un-
successful. !" 1t was impossible to get
the lampblack out of her, and she shone
like a. beetle" The medical student
paid his fine, and was doubtless ashamed
of himself
Year: 1877

We want religion that softens the
steps and tunes the voice to melody and
fills the eye with sunshine and checks
the impatient exclamation and harsh re-
buke-a religion that is polite, deferen-
tial to superiors, courteous to interiors
and considerate to friends-a religion
that goes into the family and keeps the
husband from being cross when dinner
is late, and keeps the wife from fretting
when the husband tracks the newly
washed floor with his muddy boots, and
makes the husband mindful of the
scraper and door-mat; keeps the mother
patient when the baby is cross and
amuses the children as well as instructs
them; cares for the servants besides pay
ing them promptly, projects the honey
moon into the harvest moon, and makes
the happy home like the Eastern fig tree,
bearing in its bosom at once the beauty
of the tender blossoms and the glory of
the ripened fruit. We want religion
that should interpose between the ruts
and gullies and rocks of the highway of
life and the sensitive souls that are trav-
cling over them,
Year: 1877

A gentleman of Virginia City, Ne
vada, who has been taking look among
the old abandoned mines of the Truckee
district, made a critical examination of
the musical mountain, of which a good
deal was heard some years ago when the
mines were first discovered. Some of
the early miners pitched their tents at
the foot of the mountain, and were not
a little surprised and puzzled at hearing,
during the quiet hours, the tinkling
sounds that seemed to pervade the whole
atmosphere, coming from they could not
tell where. The sounds were not unlike
those of small music box. At times
they supposed that the sounds were
caused by the wind playing among the
they found that tn solution would not
answer. as the same bushes were found
everywhere, while the musical sounds
were heard nowhere else than on the side
of the mountain, at the foot of which
they were camped. They spent much
time in scouting about and listening of
nights and quiet hours during the day,
and at last tracked the sounds to great
bed of small pieces of rock that covered
the slope of the mountain. These bits
of rock were found to be quite senorous,
and the miners concluded that the
sounds they emitted were caused by the
action of the wind among them. The
gentleman who recently visited the
mountain says he went to it expecting
to find good deal of humbug, but
found it much more of a curiosity than
he had anticipated; the mingled tink-
lings much resembled the sounds of an
eolian harp, and frequently attaining a
startling degree of loudness and dis
tinctness. The sounds seemed to rise
and fall, approach and recede, as though
caused and governed by the wind. On
close examination it was found that
the small fakes of rock covering the
face of the mountain contain large
per cent. of iron. This iron is supposed
to be magnetic, and there appears to be
a constant motion among the chips of it,
which appear to cover the ground to the
depth of several feet in many places.
The whole drift of broken rock seems to


be moving down the slope of the noun.


tain with the slow, creeping motion of a


glacier, and the slipping over each Other


of the fragments composing the mass il


thought to cause the tinkling sounds


which are so numerous as to mingle anG


rise into single strong musical murmur
Year: 1877

A "TRUANT SCHOOL," the idea of
which is said to be borrowed from the
Strof Schulz system, of Hamburg, is
about TO be instituted at Hackney,
London. Truants are to be brought be-
fore magistrate, as at present; but,
instead OF being sent to an industrial
school, they are to go to the Truant
School. There the "silcnt system is
10 be rigidly enforced. The children
are not 10 be allowed TO utter a single
word, either by day or by night, save to
their teachers, or when saying their
lessons. They are to be kept for the
space Of one week in the silent school,
and are then TO be free to return home
and attend the ordinary schools of the
benefcent board. II they again play
truant they may be committed to the
place Of mute torment for a fortnight OF
for three weeks, or even for month.
Year: 1877

DR. CALDWELL, of Iowa, says that in
1862 he was present at the examination
of n body which had been buried two
years before. The coffin had sprung open
at the joints, and the hair protruded
through the openings. On opening the
coffin the hair of the head was found to
measure eighteen inches and the whiskers
eight inches. The man had been shaved
before being buried. In 1874 similar
circumstance occurred in Mercer County,
Pennsylvania. In digging a grave the
workmen came across the skeleton of a
man that had been buried ten years. The
hair was as firm as during life, and had
grown TO a length of ten or twelve
inches.
Year: 1877

The ball which penetrated Miss Alice
Blaine's head is still there. While talk
ing with caller the young lady played
with a pistol, then unloaded. she was
entreated to put it aside, as, even when
empty, dangerous plaything. She
laughingly ran up stairs to her brothers
room, put a cartridge in the cylinder,
and bounding down again to the front
door, merrily called upon her visitor to
see her shoot. But before she had lev
eled the weapon, in her hurry she pressed
the trigger and-was instantly a wiser
and very much sadder young lady.
Year: 1877

A FIRM of undertakers in San Fran
cisco caters to the desire of its poor
patrons by hiring to them very costly
coffin. After the funeral is over the
body is secretly transferred to cheap
coffin.
Year: 1877

A SCOTTISH traveller, who stopped for
few hours in a city in the interior of
India, caught glimpse of a white
woman in a native dress. She was in a
palki, borne on the shoulders of slaves,
which indicated that her rank was high.
On the following day she sent a message
to him that he was the first European
she had seen since her childhood; that
she remembered being dragged away
from her family, while their house was
burning, when she was five years old;
that her name was Lucy; that she had
grown up among the natives, had forgot
ten the English language, and was the
wife of an Indian Prince, and that she
desired to inquire of the traveller about
her parentage. The messenger implored
him to see the woman, who was weeping
at home but before he could do SO she
was removed from the neighborhood,
presumably as consequence of her
communication with the stranger. The
inference is that Lucy is survivor of
the mutiny massacres of 1857.
Year: 1877

\ young man of eighteen or twenty,
student in a university, took a walk one
day with professor who was commonly
called the students friend, such was his
kindness to the young men whom it was
his Office to instruct.


While they were now walking to-
gether, and the professor was trying to
! lead the conversation TO grave subjects,
they saw pair of old shoes lying in the
path, which they supposed belonged to
a poor man who had nearly finished his
days work.


The young student turned to the pro-
fessor, saying, g Let us play the man a
trick. We will hide his shoes and con-
ceal ourselves behind these bushes, and
watch to see his perplexity when he can
not find them"


Ny dear friend, answered the Po-
fessor, 4" we must never amuse ourselves
at the expense of the poor. But youare
rich, and may give your.elf much
greater pleasure by means of this poor
man. Put a crown apiece if you have
them, in each shoe, and then we'll hide
ourselves"


The student, luckily having two crown
pieces, did so, and then placed himself
with the professor, behind the bushes
hard by, through which they could
easily watch the laborer, and see what
ever wonder or JOY he might express.


The poor man soon finished his work,
and came across the field to the path
where he had left his coat and shoes.
While he put on his coat, he slipped one
foot into one of his shoes. Feeling some
thing hard, he stopped down and found
the crown. Astonishment and wonder
were upon his countenance. He gazed
upon the crown, turned it around and
looked again and again; then he looked
around on all sides, but could see no one.
Now he put the money into his pocket,
and proceeded to put on the other shoe;
but what was his astonishment when he
found the other crown. His feelings
overcame him. He fell upon his knees,
looked up to heaven and uttered loud
and fervent thanksgiving, in which he
spoke of his wife sick and helpless, and
his children, who, by sons unknown
hand, would be saved from perishing,


The young man stood there deeply af-
fected, and with tears in his eyes.


Now" said the professor, are you
not better pleased than # yeu had played
your intended trick ?"


ooh, dearest sir, answered the youth,
you have taught me a lesson now that
l will never forget. l feel the truth of
the words now which | never before un-
delstood--'It is more blessed to give than
TO receive" :"
Year: 1877

find things in frightful condition
here. East Of the Rocky mountains,
you have no idea Of the terrible depres-
sion upon this coast. We are suffering
from a complication of disorders. The
great mining bubble has bursted and has


ruined every one. ] mean this literally,
for not only have the rich or the middle


class suffered, but the mania for specula-


ton has spread down 10 the very ser


wants, and they are all today out Of
pocket and in debt Men who but three
or four months since supposed they were
rich, are to-day begging for employment;
and probably three persons out OF every
four are now making their FIRST acquain-
tance with extreme poverty The whole
community seems 20 he beggnred, and to
add to our afiliction we have just passed
through a great drought; our cattle are
diving by the hundreds OF thousands.
Their carcaseses cannot be sold for any
sum however small and the ruin Of the
cattle dealers will inevitably bring
great deal of the land now held in
masses into the market 10 be sold for
song.


PEOPLE east who have money, could
not do better thai to come out here III
order to take advantage of the reckless
way in which all kinds of property are
sold. Valuable farms and ranches can
now be had for one-twentieth Of their
value, and city property is for sale at
prices which would have seemed ridicu-
ious a Jew years back. The depression
is so great thatit cannot last much longer
in this way. But the suffering is intoler-
able. and bad as times have been in the
east they are as naueht compared With
the disaster which has overtaken the
residents of the Pacific coast. Thousands
are going to Arizona, where there Is Said
to be gold for the digging ana ihe
agricultural population will be increased
although at present agriculture Is the
most depressed industry we have. Nor1
has been sent TO John Mccullough, ID
New York, that there is no use in his
returning to the Pacific coast, and that
his theatre will have TO be closed. This
is the second year of dr,ught since the
settlement of California.


Southern California is described as an
cash heap, while the Sonoma, sacra-
mento and Sonora valleys are burnt to a
crisp. On one ranch alone p 1000 sheep
were killed because they could net be
fed.


The costly exchanges here, far superior
TO any you have in New York, arc
vacant, and haveproved tobe Caliiornias
greatest folly. Lookout for trouble
among the representative millionaifes Of
the Pacific coast Correspondent Of The
Graphic.
Year: 1877

TIE moistenins of coal with a view
% increase its heating eject Is frequently
practiced. \ calculation in a Ger
anau journal, based upon a careful con-
sideration Of the products formed and
the heat generated in their combustion,
together with the. specific heat OF the
products Of combustion and of the air
required, as well as of the heat rendered
latent in the steam. demonstrates not
only that neat is obtained from the ceal,
but that the temperature produced is
lower than with dry coal, and that there
is consequently n waste of fuel. 1t is
admitted that in exceptional cases of
dusty coal it may be advisable to moisten
IT to render 1t more compact, and pro-
mote the access of the air in burning
Year: 1877

To THE EDITOR OF HERALD


When arrived in Albany on Tuesday last as dole
gate to the Democratic State Convention learned
that certain gentlemen, what they subsequently
called the interest OF REFORM were intending TO run
tho Convention through the medium OF the State Gen.
trail Committee, and, as suppose, IN tho same inter
est had determined TO hold themselves In position,
regardless Of tho popular will, and to force such
ticket upon tho party as they chose by besmearing
those candidates opposed to thcm Mr. Edgar X.
Apgar, am informed was the leader OF these reform
o.s. had never seen the gentleman; but, through
tho medium OF my client, Mr. Tweed. l had
become somewhat conversant with his antccedents
and had seen q letter written to Mr..
Tweed by that gentleman and q check from Mr.. Tweed
TO him which induced mo 70 believe that Mr.. Apgar's
reformation was of comparatively recent date. I'm.
bued with an impression that the Convention should
be informed OF what nature the man was who
wishcd to dvest them of the power OF independent
had seen and on tho following day it arrived In AL
bany II my intention TO have read this letter to
the Convention as soon as my admission as delegate
gave me the power; and certainly should have done
SO had not the action Of tho Convention In ignomin-
iously driving him from its presence created for him my
Introduced to Mr.. George McCiee He stated that no
had been informed that had letter from Mr. Apgar
to Mr. Tweed in my possession, and after he mad gwen
mo what considered abundantly good reasons for do
ing So his request, placed the letter IN hts hands
TO read before the Convention On the last day OF
the Convention Mr. John Kelly said to me that he had
learned that letter from Mr. Apgar to Mr. Tweed was
in tho hands OF some delegate and asked whether
iueg anything about 1t. related TO him what have
set forth, and at his urgent request then pro
cured from Mr.. MCGEE the return OF tho letter.


| write this In order that Mr. Apgar may understand
that II was only through Mr ke,ys interference N
not called upon dccidc how much cheek TO use an
expressive term) must require in man to call upon
and tailor bill Respectfully,


New YORK, Oct. 8, 1877. JOHN U. ToWSEND.
Year: 1877

correspondent who read the article TO him, be the
Governor) being too Ill TO read It himself II will
be remembered that he was obliged TO leave
,hc Presidential party q. louisville BY reason OF
he has been confined to his house and for a weok
more his case pronounced very critical. He was
greatly surprised A. tho statements made at what he
had said, and he denied In the most positive
sAt;saed with the Presidents policy, and he auth
xed tho statement that SINCE return home he kAd
been dangerously III with maiarui evcr and thai he had
not seen or conversod with his most intimate friends
Presidents course toward the South unchanged.


PLEASED POLICY.


On tho contrary, he WAS more than ever impressed
that the policy irresistible and would sweep every
that convinced him that the President had made a
mistake On a sides he heard expressions OF loyalty
Secretary Brlst0w had never said aught against the
Presidents Southern policy and ho knew That had
would have pursued exactly the same course, and
would havc removed the troops from the Southern
States as promptly as the Prcsdont had done. While
South he had converscd with many prominent ladies,
as we'll as gentlemen and he was LED TO believe, from
the bottom hts heart that the policy or the President
had had lis desired effect and had done more 10 renew
good feelings with the North THAI thing which had
been tried since the war; and II had worked lar
gratifying results than the republican party At
the North had cared 10 expect He expressed himself
being pleased with his relations with Wade Hafnp-
ton, aud with the conciatory speeches made by Tho
latter


Mr.. CosKLISG's ATTITUDE.


He saw many who regretted the stand which Mr.
Conkng had taken toward the Illustration, and In
conclusion desired 10 be understood rs avorlng all
that the President had done, or was doing Tor the
South. II was his opinion that nothing but good Tor
the country would result from MS wise course which,
Gated by the HERALD snco the Inauguration OF mis-
administration.
Year: 1877

There was no betting on the above race last night,
all bots wero play pay In tho books and there
every probability that four or i've of tho above
would not TO the post should tho be very
Year: 1877

A discount OF twenty per cent will be allowed


TO clubs OF four or more persons Thus four
copies or Blackwood or OF one Review will be
sent % one address for Sies0 four copies of the
four Reviews and Blackwood for s4s, and so on.
Year: 1877




Although our government has little
army and large income it is unable to
pay its military officers. These citizens,
who devote their lives to the public
service, who are depended upon in war
for its defence, are, in time Of peace,
almost forgotten. Either because of
the ignorance or folly of congress last
winter an insufficient appropriation for
the payment of the salaries of army Off
GERS was made, and now there is no
money in the national treasury to meet
their legal claims. Tho is discredita-
BILE to the government, but the mistake
has been honorably redeemed. The
action of the leading bankers of New
York and Philadelphia in Offering to
pay the salaries of officers for the
months of July, August and September
deserves to be highly commended. They
make the proposition upon business
principles charging fair percentage and
requiring certain securities, but this
makes it all the more worthy. The OBJ
ject of these gentlemen is not to profit
by the necessities of the army officers,
but, on the contrary, to protect them
from the plundering of spectators. 1t
is an act of thoughtfulness and patrio-
tism, and the only regret is that it
should have been compelled by the
neglect of the government.
Year: 1877

Our ingenious contemporary, the
New York Sun, has got itself into
something of tangle by an over-conti-
dent zeal in the solution of knotty
mathematical problem. The question
was this:


If A sells B bale of cotton for $50,