smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

The following record VIII show the changes In
the temperature Tor the past twenty four hours,
IN comparison with the corresponding day OF last
rear, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnuts
pharmacy, HERALD Buudmg
Year: 1874

Struck for Pay.


LOUISVILLE, February 16.-The labor
ers engaged in grading the Lowell and An
derSon railroad struck this morning. Satur-
day was ay-day, when many found there
was no money for them after the price Of
their board was deducted. They now want
more than one dollar a day, their present
wages.
Year: 1874

A Brahmin on lotus pod


Once wrote the holy name of God,
Then planting it, he asked in prayer
For some new fruit unknown and rare.
A slave upon the dusty road


Fell fainting meath his heavy load;
The Brahmin, thoughtless, straightway ran
And lifted up the fallen man.
The deed scarce done, he stood aghast
At touching one beneath his caste.
Behold, cried he, ! am unclear,
Ny hands have clasped the vile and mean.
God saw the shadow on his face
And wrought a miracle of grace
The buried seed uprose from earth
And bloonied and blossomed into birth,
Its leaves were marked with letters rare.
And gladly read the Brahmn there
These words: Count all Of equal caste,
Then COUNT thyself the least and last
Year: 1874

From the New York Tribune.


The police reports last week
We're full Of eases which, without
the addition of note or comment,
preach sermons to each housello Id
where they are read such as can
never be uttered from the pulpit.
One little fellow, at an age when
no child should be out of its
mothers care, makes three several
attempts to throw himself into
the river, and finally succeeds and
is taken out dead, "the proof being
indisputable that'the child, hardly
more than an infant, was drunk
at the time" Another boy, aged
fourteen, dies in Brooklyn after
repeated attacks of delirium trem-
ems. ''The organs of the boly,'
says the report of the post-mortem
examination, were literally de
cayed from the incessant use of
liquor" His mother was found
keeping watch over his dead body
too drunk to comprehend what
had happened. Another story,
with a touch of pathos in it's hor-
ror, comes from Philadelphia. A
man named Womfort kept Il beer
saloon in the suburbs OF the city.
and one night had remained with
some of his customers until morn
ing, singing and drinking. His
wife, who is represented as a
peaceatle, gentle woman, and who
was daily expecting the birth of
a child, came to the door as day
broke and complained of the noise,
begging her husband to send the
men away; whereupon, it is
stated, Womfort, without reply,
drew out a pistol and shot her.
The woman was removed to a hos
pital, where her child was born,
and, finding herself dying, had
her husband brought to her from
prison, bade him farewell atfec-
tionately, and then voluntarily
made a statement Of his limo
cence. Surely, although the lie
was spoken in the very face OF
death. no accusing spirit will he
just enough to write it down
against her soul.


Every man and woman can
draw for themselves the lesson
from these facts j; it would be idle
in us to make sermon of them,
urging temperance and weakening
their meaning. They are but repe
| titiOnS of the same old trxths
vice and its swift Judgment, and
that blind, half animal, half di
vine love which lifts humanity
out of all its degradations.
Year: 1874

The Agricultural editor of the
State Rsqisfer, a farmer, and one OF
The leszhiiig and earnest working
members of the Order of Patrons oj
Husbandry in the State, speaks thus
plainly of the corrupt doings Of the
National Grange:


The proceedings of the air-tight
corporation tthe National Grange,
are very slowly leaking out. The
Ru'at World Of March IA, in giving
a summary of the Constitution Of the
State Grange Of Missouri, as amend
ed since the meeting of the National
Grange, has the following paragraph
relative to the provision In their Con
stitution for representation in the
National Grange:


The State shall annually elect as a
delegate to the National Grange, one
Of its members for each fifty thousand
fourth degree members in the State,
aud one additional delegate for each
fraction over thirty thousand; this
arrangement for representation to
take effect from and after the
adoption of the fifth section Of the
third amendment to the Constitution
Of the National Grange.


Can any Patron Of Husbandry tell
US why they are not informed Of the
proceedings OF the National Grange .?
If they really amended the plan of
representation ia the patrIarchal
head Of our Order, why have not the
Representatives relieved the anxiety
Of the membership upon the sub
jcct? There can be but two reasons.
One is cold contempt for the in
teIligence, the rights and the inter
ests Of the Order-a naughty disdain
for the feelings of those who pay the
fees by those who lavishly expend
itteiJ. va ~ 10 "a pntt VI tic oSp'b'N
to perpetuate in power the relentless
leeches who are living luxuriously
upon the magnificent fund yearly
paid in to our National Treasury.
They knew the storm was raising for
representative head, and they dare
not adjourn until something was
done to allay or deceive the members
on the subject. The Ndtionoi Sponge
has evidently attempted to make
this secret proposition to the State
Oranges, keep it from being known
or urged by outsiders, and by the OPP
crations Of tile ring Of thisgredt .fg,tre
hen4 Of our Order, induce third OF
the small State Oranges, who have
not been initiated into tricks that
are vain," to reject the proposition,
and then the patriarclIs, down from
whom come all wisdom, will inform
M that they have proposed t. yield
their power, but the Grangerr
have refused to accept It, This 81
lence-this determined seeresy by ail
The members os the National Grange
Year: 1874

The u. ). Senate is still laboring
with the currency question. The
pendulum of probability vibrates
somewhat irregularly through an arc
extending from early specie pay
ment to extreme imitation, and seems
most likely to settle finally at a point
of moderate increase. The situation
has not materially changed within
the past week.
Year: 1874

masses whom You represent. Our party
supremacy must be maintained in Tennes-
see and all the States. This done, we may
hope for a new era of prosperity in Ten
'nessee. The tide Of victory is already with
US, The recent elections fOreshadOw vic
tory in November the most magnificent
victory ever achieved by any parry in len
nesSee-
Year: 1874

Was. ington Special TO Chicago Tribunel


Upon the whole, this has not been q
good session for lobbyists. No jobs of
of magnitude have slipped past the
vigilance of the House, the majority
of whom are new members, fresh from
the people, and deeply impressed with
the public desire for retrenchment and
reform. Quite frequently comparison
has been made this session between
this and the last Congress to the
great advantage of the old body. The
improvement is, however, perceptible
only in the House. The Senate are
the same old collection of pompous
marplots that they were in the last
Congress, with few really able and
conscientious men among them to
make more conspicuous their general
uselessness. The few lobbyists here
are not cheerful. Their time and
money had been spent in vain. It is
noteworthy that the Pacific railroad
| jobbers have not had the nerve to
make any sustained effort on the
treasury. They were greatly discour-
aged at the reception given their
schemes In Congress, and by the press,
and after freely showing their hands
they subsidized. This is most remarka-
BILE in view of the fact that this lobby
was without doubt the best, contained
the most able men and controlled the
most money of any that has put in an
appearance for some years. There will
however, probably be lapse from vir-
tue next winter. The thieves are
growing thin and must be cared fol
| apppdilV
Year: 1874

BOSTON, June 29.--A full bench of
the Supreme Court of Massachusetts
has decided that the School Com
mittee Board is sole judge OF its own
membership. This decision sustains
the action OF the Boston School Board
in refusing seats to women and the lat
ter must go to the Legislature to OBJ
tain That privilege.
Year: 1874

1 As your last weeks mention of the breaking away of dam in this place was brief, and in part incorrect, send you the facts as gathered by an eye witness:

 About half past one o'clock on the morning of August 12. some of our village people were awakened by the rushing of waters and an alarm was at once given that the Knife Go. s reservoir had burst. Abut twenty men started immediately with lanterns to ascertain the extent of the flood, and if necessary to relieve the inmates of the only house which stood in it's path. The rise of the water had been sufficiently gradual to allow these people to escape and the house stood for several hours inaccessible, the highway in front being transformed into 8 rapid torrent. The reservoir which broke away was built four years ago, about mile west of the factory AS first built it was simply wall of stone laid in cement, seven or eight feet wide at the bottom and twelve feet high. About twenty acres were food cd, the water averaging about ten feet deep over the whole surface, when the dam was full, as it was at the time of it's bursting. This stone wall leaking solne- what, last year, it was backed by bank of "gravel" and no leakage has been per- ceptible lately. The stone work was good, and is good. There was no break above the water line, but the water forced passage under the dam, through which 1 gravel-bank and water escaped in a hurry. The highway near Mrs. Wedges was wash cd out for many rods. from two to five feet in depth.

 The garden concreted with this house was also damaged, chickens washed away. bee hive overturned, Sc. Little dam age was done below, as a gate was shut ! which diverted the torrent from the main reservoir of the factory. where great harm would have been the result of its sudden coming. MT. Munson, who lives on the hill near the reservoir, was not awakened and his surprise may be imagined at find ing the lake which was full at night, empty in the morning. One person who had gone out at the first alarm, after about two hours. when the water had began to subside had returned to bed. But scarcely had he taken "forty winks," when Q neighbor who had slept through the excitement, came rushing in with the startling information that the reservoir had burst. And so it had SEER.
Year: 1874

A NAUGHTY PHILADELPHIA GIRL-A
young girl Of Philadelphia, who is now on her
travels, went to Westminster, and conde-
scended to admire the great abbey. With
admiration came the desire Of possession. The
whole abbey was too large to be removed, SO
she quietly took a penknife from her pocket
and cut off piece of the chair of Edward the
Confessor She was arrested, and as she was
very pretty, they let her off with five hundred
dollaTs-the price would have been higher if
she had been palmer Not content with this,
she serenely journeyed to Dresden, in search
of new worlds to conquer While visiting a
church there, she attempted to possess herself
of somo eowers from shrine In pulling
them off she overturned the image of the
Virgin, to the infinite horror of the cnstodiaus
of the church. For this pleasing freak her
father paid twenty-five hundred dollars. Her
beauty probably made the Gne smali on this
occasion also; bat fancy the panic in that
family fshe had had red hair and freckles |
And if she had been forbidding female of
uncertain age, dare not dwell on the financial
crisis that must certainly have ensued. Cor.
respoRdeace Boston Transcript.
Year: 1874

A goat is more inexpensive than agreeable,
and will live on almost anything but a capri
cornus in Buffalo was an exception to the rule
the other day in regard to inexpensiveness
1t got into the house and had regular blow
out on a Panama hat, three linen shirt bosoms,
box Of cigars, and part Of partially coR-
structed new bonnet.
Year: 1874

A wag, with the word whoa" brought
horse driven by young man to a dead stop.
That's a fine beast of yours, says the wag.
Eyes, pretty good sort of an ANIMAL bat he
has one fault He was once owned by
butcher, and is sure to stop whenever he hears
o calf bleat.''
Year: 1874

WORTE REMEMBERING.-Ben and COM
mon clay will clean marble. Castor oil is an
excellent thing to soften leather. Lemon juice
and glycerinc will remove tan and freckles. A
dose OF Castor oil will aid you in removing
pimples. Lemon juice and glycerine will
cleanse and soften the hands. Spirits of am
monia, diluted little will cleanse the hair
very thoroughly. Lunar caustic carefully ap-
piled so as rot te teuch the skin, will destroy
warts. Powdered nitre is good for removing
freckles. Apply with rag moistcned with
glycerne. TO obviate offensive perspiration
wash your feet with soap and diluted spirits of
ammonia The juice Of ripe tomatoes will re-
move the stain of walnut from the hands with
out injury to the skin.
Year: 1874

Women dress " to please the men" do they ?
Why, if the whole male genus were extinct,
it wouldn't make feather or furbelOw differ
ence in the get-up of the dear creatures so long
as there was living chance OF spiting some
other woman.
Year: 1874

This is the way the people who live on the
coast Of Maine describe their weather:
Dirty days hath September,
April, June and November;
From January up to May,
The rain it raineth, every day.
All the rest have thirty one,
Without blessed CLEAN Of sun;
And if any of them had two and thirty
They u be just as wet and twice as dirty,
Year: 1874

INVESTIGATION INTO BASEMENT OFFICES OF
CAPIToL.-Bya resolution which has passed
both houses of the General Assembly the
Governor and State Treasurer are author
lied and required, with the aid of such ex-
perts as they may deem necessary to employ


for that purpose, TO examine and report


upon the condition and management OF at.
fairs in the basement of the capitol, and they


are required to report TO the next General
Assembly the results Of their Investigation,


with such recommendations as they may
deem proper.
Year: 1874

The MODERN DANcE.-Dr. Hatcher had
Notwithstanding the heavy rain and iuclem.
cnt weather on Tuesday night) very full
audience at the Second Baptist church to
enjoy his humorous lecture on the " Ad.
vantages of the Modern Dance" The lee.
ture was highly interesting and was well
received. It is hoped that he may be in.
duced to repeat this treat at an early day in
this CITY
Year: 1874

thus: Mr.. , you say that we
are to follow the same business in
heaven that we do in this world?
Yes, that is in perfect accordance
with reason; for the creator him
self is not idle, and why should his
creatures be? Well thin, yer hon
or, do paple die there? Certainly
not; they are as immortal as the
Creator himself. Thin I should
like to know, yer honor, what they
will find for me to do, for I'm o
graye-digger in this world. ~,
Year: 1874

fair way to recover, when, one day, he


fell into lethargy so profound that he


was thought to be dead, and, in due time,


was buried. The following day, beside


the grave in which he had been inferred,


another citizen of London was buried,
and at last one of the assistants chanced
to stand on it. Suddenly the man cried
out that he felt the ground move under
his feet, as though the occupant of the
grave would find his way to the surface.
| AT first the man was thought to be the
victim of an hallucinatlon; but the ear
| nestness with which he persisted attracted
| the attention of a constable, who caused
the grave to be opened. They found
| that the officer had forced the coffin-lid,
and had made partially-successful
effort to raise himself up. He was en-
| tirely unconscious when they got him
| out; but it was evident that the effort to
| extricate himself had been made but
short time before. He was carried to a
hospital near by, where the physicians,


after a time, succeeded in resuscitating
! him. He stated that for about an hour
| before his last swoon he was fully con-


scious of the awful situation he was in.


The grave had fortunately been very
hastily and lightly filled with clay, and
utIC duIt buClC biiC COutluulby VI tl1C
mass had been broken by large stones,
| which allowed the air to penetrate as far
| down as the coffin. He had tried in vain
to make his cries heard and finally, partly
| in consequence Of having an insufficient
supply of air, and partly in consequence
of the mental agony he suffered, he had
| fallen into the unconscious state in which
he was found.


Another Englishman describes what
he experienced, while lying in coffin in
perfectly conscious state, in the fol-
lowing words:


"It would he impossible to find words
that would express the agony and despair
I suffered. Every blow of the hammer
with which they nailed down my coffin
| lid went through my brain like the echo
of death -knell. would never have
believed that the human heart could en-


dure such terrible agony and not burst
into pieces. When they let me slowly
down into the ground, 1 distinctly heard
the noise the coffin made every time it
rubbed against the sides of the grave"


This man also awoke under the knife
of DOCTOR He, like Stapleton, had
been stolen and carried to the dissecting
room of medical school. At the mo-
ment the professor made slight incision
down the abdomen the spell was broken
and he sprang to his feet.


These cases in which living persons
under the supposition that they were
dead, have been entombed, are sufficient
to demonstrate that here, if anywhere,
too great caution cannot be exercised
that no corpse should be buried without
having the most positive evidence that
life is really extinct.-Ira1asl@ted from the
German for App1eton's Jowraa1
Year: 1874

A DRUGGIST in Des Moines, Iowa, was
recently made the victim of a rather ex-
pensive practical joke. A man, ap-
parently under the influence of liquor,
entered the shop one morning and called
for a glass of soda-water. After drinking
it, he staggered against pane of French
plate glass in the show-window, shivering
it to atoms. Seeing the mischief he had
done he hurried away, but the druggist
pursued and overlook him, demanding
payment for the damage. The inebriate
protested that he was impecunious, but
the plea did not avail Two clerks seized
and searched him, and extracted from
somewhere about his person a $100 BILL
This they deposited in their money-till,
deducting the price of the glass, and,
stuffing the change into one of his pock-
cts, sent him adrift upon the street.
During the day the druggist discovered,
to his horror, that the bill was a counter
felt. Of course no time was lost; officers
were sent in every direction, and the
offender was at length captured and
brought before the bar of justice. Here,
however, legal technicality disturbed
the even flow of equity. The drunkard
urged that he was guiltless of any crime !;
that the counterfeit money happened to
be in his pocket at the time of the acct
dent, and that it was taken from him by
force. Under the circumstances the
honorable gentleman who presided over
the court felt constrained to dismiss the
case, and the druggist, with the fear of a
suit for assault and battery before his
eyes, declined to move further in the
matter.
Year: 1874

CHILDREN are generally credited with
originality, but it is seldom they attempt
an elopement, and the adventures of a
boy and girl, each about five years of
age, living in the southern part of the
city, are now furnishing considerable
amusement for those who have heard the
story. The other afternoon the little boy,
with poorly developed ideas of the cost Of
travelling, asked his father for six cents,
stating that he wished to set himself up
in the newspaper business The request
was not complied with, and the boy Wis
tied his fathers place of business, and
was given few cents by those employed
at the same establishment. He then
went to his home, and donning his best
clothes quietly left the house. Mean
while the little girl, who is the constant
companion of the little boy, visited her
home in the absence of her mother and
dOnned her best clothes, not forgetting to
place several articles of clothing in a car


pet-bag which she by some means secured.
Thus equipped the young couple pro-
ceeded hand in hand to the depot, and
like old travellers got upon the cars, ask
ing questions of no one, and keeping
their own counsel as to where they were
going. But their carefully-laid plans
were soon frustrated by cruel railroad
official, who, devoid of all sentiment and
with desire to perform his duties with
out fear or favor, put them off the cars
and sent them home. Disconsolate and
discouraged, the youthful couple carried
their carpet-bag to the building in which
the boys father is engaged and deposited
it in the entry leading to his office. They
then returned to their homes disappointed
and unhappy, but said nothing of their
attempted eiopement. The next day,
however, the story leaked out, and Gre
ated considerable amusement among the
parents and friends of the children.
Where they were going or what they
were going to do they were unable to tell,
their only desire being to escape from
the control of their lawful guardians and
together fight the battle of life free from
all restrictions. Worcester (Mass.) Spy.
Year: 1874

In every section of the Southern States
with the exception Of those which have
been devastated by floods, the crops
promise to be abundant Tor this season.
Tho wheat crop in tho border States was
never better, and there Is at present NO
indication Of rust or weevil. The corn
crop is tho most promising that has been
seen for years, and the area planted has
iufringed greatly on the grounds hitherto
devoted to the tobacco plant. From the
rice'growing regions Of the Carolinas, and
from tho wheatgrowing regions OF North
Carolina and Virginia, the same news
comes up. "We have planted more than
ever this. season, and the crops look
splendid. II VIC meet with no misfortune
VIC shall have o plentiful harvest" The
sugar crop on the banks Of the Mississippi
must necessarily. be a failure, and the
planters will do well TO provide means for
the propagation OF q crop for the next


year, and even this will be o difficult mat.


ter unless the hand otthe general govern.


ment shall be stretched forth to aid them.
Year: 1874

The Committee on Banking and Cur
rency today voted on several propo.
sitions relating to the Currency bill as
amended by the Senate and now on the
Speakers table. A motion that the
Chairman report the bill as It came from
the Senate and recommend its passage
was voted down. Also tho proposition
that the Chairman move q suspension OF
the rules to take the bill from the table
for action to-day. Finally 1t was agreed
that the Chairman to day move that the
bill be taken from the table and referred


to Committee with leave to report 1t
back for action at any time. It Is not yet
determined what the Committee will
recommend in regard to any Of the new
features inserted in the bill by tho Senate.
Year: 1874

Our attention has been called to an arti.
Gle in tho Cleveland Leader ot Friday last
giving an account Of the delCterious effects
experienced in that city from the use Of
tho mill obtained from swIll.ied COWS. II
Is the old story that Is go familiar to the
New York public, Cows that are not
led with pure feed cannot give pure milk,
and children that arc fed with impure
milk cannot be healthy. We are not
aware that this atlllctIon Of larger cities
applies to Wheeling to any great extent,
and yet We suspect there are swill.ied
cows whose milk is sold in our midst.
II so, those who use tho milk and have
children whose sickness has been a puzzle
to them had better look into Ithe matter
before summer sets in.