smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

remarkable physical beauty; they had
blonde hair, their complexion was of
such transparent fairness that they
might have been taken for Albinos, but
for the vigor and gracefulness of their
limbs and their brilliant intellect. The
most experienced eye could not have
detected in them the slightest indication
of their African origin. They inter
married. Their children were dark
complexioned and the children of their
children are very dark mulattoes.


This inexorable law of nature is given
as one of the principal reasons why the
Creoles refuse to intermarry with families
who have the faintest tinge Of negro
blood in their veins, though their kin
NAV be as fair as that of Europeans.
The Creoies wish their Posterity to
remain what they themselves are
wnite.-TM, Victor Maignan's Aug
Antilles"
Year: 1878

Our dispatches indicate that the sit
uation in England is now warlike in
the extreme. The withdrawal of Earls
Carnarvon and Derby from the Cabinet
shows how serious the division must
have been when it compelled the lead
ers of the peace party to resign. Dis
raeli is now master of the situation,
and no one knows how far his schemes
may extend. His duplicity is shown
in the fact that only a week ago he an
nounced that perfect unanimity exist
ed in the Cabinet. Despite the gravity
of the situation there is possibility
that war is not intended, but only a
menace to force Russia to come at once
to terms and stop her advance on Gal
lipoli and Constantinople.
Year: 1878

THERE is no city in the world that can
show such an array of millionaires in
proportion to the population as San
Francisco. There are over forty men
there whose fortunes exceed $4,000, 900
each. None of these fortunes were
inherited, but were acquired by bust
ness and speculations, and all within a
period Of twenty-five years. None of
the millionaires have passed the prime
of life, and they are all just as eager in
their pursuit of riches as those who en-
joy no reputation for opulence. The
passion there for wealth is unprece-
dented
Year: 1878

THE LEADER earnestly requests its
friends in all parts of the country to
send in the news. Write often, give
us all the news and keep us posted in
all matters of progress and develop
ment. When in the city our friends
are invited to call at this office and fur
nish us with any information they may
possess.
Year: 1878

THE peace party of England are
making final effort to check the war
feeling and induce Parliament to refuse
money asked for as a contingent war
fund. kilograms are being sent from
London to every part of the kingdom
urging the people to petition or other
wise induce Parliament to vote against
the measure.
Year: 1878

"A touching story is told of Miss
Mary McCarger, who was killed at the
Tariffville disaster. A few years ago
she was engaged to be married, and the
preparations for the wedding were go
ing on apace. Suddenly her lover was
stricken with fatal disease and the de-
voted girl went to his bedside and took
care of him until he was called away.
A few days before the railroad accident
she remarked to one of her friends that
she was tired of living and waiting for
the end, and longed for the time when
she could rejoin her lover. ..H
Year: 1878

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. November.


Under the title of "Virchow and Evolution,
Professor TyndaI presents autobogTaphical de-
tails that Of singular interest as record OF personal
experience and Illustration OF scientific development
His boyhood as he relates was fond of play and phys
lea action but to school work Not from intel
Iectua apathy or appetite for knowledge but
because his earliest teachers lacked the power OF impar


ing vitality TO what they taught thread OF serious
ness ran through his character. He passed many
,eepless night in childhood frctted by the question
"Who made GOd"l He well versed in Scripture,
for he loved the Bible and was in the habit of commit


ting large portions It TO At later period he
became sdrOit in turning bis Scriptural knowledge
against the Church Of Rome The eternal SOnshtp O.,


Christ for example as taught in the Athanasian creed
was perplexity The resurrection Of the body was also
a thorn In his mind, but be derived momeDtary rest
from passage in Bsirs Crave" suggesting that the
same power which reared the piece at frat, and took
Il tdown could Teassemble the scattered parts Upon
further reflection however, the dlcuty returned The


esh OF the aud sheep which he had seen browsing
In the churchyard was undoubtedly q modification OF
human nesh. lie figured the selfsame molecule as be-
longing frat to body and aferward 10 different
one, and could not ask himself how two bodies
related could adjust their claims at the resurrection
Thus the plank which Blairs theory had brought mo
menary into sight had disappeared, and he was again
cast abroad on the waste Of speculation At the
same time, he could not get rid Of the idea that the
aspects of Nature and the Of implied
the operation OF power quite beyond his grasp the
thought Of which raised the temperature OF the mind
II refused receive definite shape in the
eeptions OF the intellect At this point Professor Tyn
dali acknowledges his great intellectual debt to Thomas
CARLYLE He has freely withstOOd that ustrlous man
An discussing the position OF modern science But
he always saw that the great point with Car
HE vas the inadsQuscy Of physeai science 70
Year: 1878

by a rally to the best figures Of the day. and by


fluctuations of from "A to l2 per cent, until the
close, when the whole market sagged Oft excepting
Western Union. which advanced from 94 to 94l2
In q word, the forced manipulation of the last few
days has put the market back into the exact posi-
ton 1t was in two weeks ago, wien Western
Union 81, and every one had the point that it
was going to 125. All feel that stocks are selling at
unreasonably high prices yet ell recognize the
power of capital which renders it peculiarly dan
gerous to perht Oae's operations to be governed by
common sense,


Even the coal stocks, although there are now
scarcely two opinions to the result of the years
business to the companies are az dangerous 10 sell
as the others The combination is admitted to be
failure as Of necessity all such makeshIfts must be
The consumption of anthracite coal has been re-
duced, and the iron interest of Pennsylvania, which
must ever be one of its best customers, has been
well-nigh ruined by il. Concerning tho ne
gotiatlons for new combination. we learn
from o trustworthy source that the pros
poets OF success daily grow less. At the
meeting Of the Board of Control on October G. it
was understood that q meeting of the Lehigh
operatives should be called immediately to con-
suit and state what they would accept. Eight days
have passed and no notice of such meeting has been
gwen for the reason rs we are informed, that the
private negotiations, which have not ceased, have
shown the differences TO be irrecOnciablc. For
proper understanding of the case it is necessary TO
state that the capacity of production of the col
heries along the Lehigh Valley Railroad is equal to
S,5OO,OO0 tons per. annun, while the carrying
capacity Of the LehIgh Valley Railroad is less than
5000 900 tons. In the combination expiring the
Lehigh interest was allotted 1898 per cent of the
total output, and this allotment was based upon
the capacity OF the Lehigh Valley Railroad and not
upon the greater capacity of the mines TO admit
to new combination the l.ehigh interest on basis
OF Its capacity TO mln6 coal would almost amount
TO a virtual retirement from business of the TWO
Delaware companies Yet II is about this which
the Lehlgu operatives, or at least the largest of
them, clam shall receive recognition III any new
combination. In the meantime the affairs of the
Reading Company are regarded as IN desperate
condition, and this feeling Is justified by the follow
ing report of the cOmpanYs business Tor the month
of september and since January 1:
Year: 1878

BURLINGTON, IA, Oct. 14.-The Demo-
Gratis and Greenbackers of this district
will hold joint convention at Mt. Pleas
ant tomorrow to nominate candidate
for Congress to be voted for at the No
vember election. They claim that other
districts will do the same, and that by
uniting they can carry at least five out
of the nine districts. They justify their
action by the declaration that according
to the act of the last Congress the time
for holding the congressional elections
in this State is on the Tuesday after the
first Monday in November.
Year: 1878

London, Feb. 8.-The Economist Gays the
investment business ia much checked by po-
litical uncertainty. A further relapse in
United States bonds accompanies the in
creased belief in the probability Of legisla.
ton establishing silver at par. We note,
however, feeling that some modi6catory
measures will be taken, but in what form
nobody can profess to foretell. which will
prevent any further decline. The adoption
of silver currency would probably, though
all forbear to speak with any certainty upon
that point, by raising the value of silver.
compensate in another way. We
hear it gravely remarked that
no matter what the United States
does in the way of adopting silver in
stead of the gold dollars for bonds, the bal
ance of trade is favorable to the American
and would prevent loss to the bondholder,
just az the foreign holders of French rente
receives his interest in full equivalent OF
gold !; but in the first place the adoption Of
such plan would cause so large an imme.
diate selling of United States stock that the
national balance of Indebtedness would al.
most of necessity be against that country
and further, the parallel is complete, for in
France artificial value is given silver by lin
can say that in America limit Of that
kind will be put in operation. Resolutions
favoring silver currency, allhoug h distinctly
affecting government bonds, have failed t
produce much movement in the price Of sill
yer. We presume the market is to some
extent kept down, because the German gov
ernment is known to have large remainder
of silver yet to dispose of, and the feeling
is that the rise in the price would immedi
atly bring out these supplies, may be moi
yet, but after some years Of cheap silver
without apparent effect upon the price
Silver and plated ware reductions are here
and there advertised and allowed by manu-
facturers.
Year: 1878

As will be seen by this, the whole tlckel
is completed with the exception Of all the
Levy Court Commissioners but one. The
difieulty in getting this part Of the ieksl
filled lies in the fact that all the Other
candidates nominated have declined ito
serve, and tho movement not extending
throughout the county to any great ex-
tent and the party leaders not being we'll
acquainted ia the Hundreds entitled to
the Commissioners this fall the whole
County Executive committee is in guam
dry, fearful lest they will not get ticket
Fixed by election day.
Year: 1878

PACIFIC RAILROAD BONDS. The Senate
committee on the Judiciary today instructed
Mr.. Thurman to report to the Senate the bill
to provide sinking fund for the liquidation
OF the principal and interest of the Pacific
The measure, which was originally introduced
by Senator Thurman, has been modified in
certain particulars by the Judiciary commit
tee.
Year: 1878

The LATEST SCHEME OF THE INFLA-
TI0NIsTs, is the proposed Introduction of a
bill, fixing the the volume of the currency. at
twenty five dollars per capita on the basis of a
population of fifty million people This would
require a circulating medium, of over one
thousand million dollars
Year: 1878

THE MOFFATT BELL PUNCH FOR THE DIS
TRICT.-The House committee on the District
of Columbia will hear further arguments to-
morrow in favor of the Introduction of the
Maffatt bell punch system in the District
Year: 1878

The following Endorsement will be OF in
tcrest to many who have not yet tested
these essential aids to the full develop
ment of the speed of trotter- BENToN'S
SPEED ACCELERAToRs--the price OF which
has been reduced to $3 per pair or So
Tor two pairs:
Year: 1878

No conflict is so severe as his who labors
to subdue himself; but in this we must be
continually engaged, if we would be strength
ened in the inner man, and make real pro-
gress towards perfection. Indeed, the highest
perfection we can attain in the present state
is alloyed with much imperfection, and our
best knowledge is obscured by the shades
of ignorance; ave see through glass
darkly;" an humble knowledge of thyself,
therefore, is a more certain way of leading
thee to God than the most profound investi-
cations of science. Science, however, or a
proper knowledge of the things that belong
to the present life, is so far from being
blamable, considered in itself, that it is
good aud ordained of God but purity OF
conscience and holiness of life must ever be
preferred before it; and because men are
more solicitous to learn much than to live
well, they fall into error and receive little
or no benefit from their studies. As
suredly in the approaching day of universal
judgment it will not he inquired what we
have read, but what we have done not how
eloquently we have spoken. but how holly
we have lived Thomas Kempis.
Year: 1878

Sucu Is LIFE.-We flourish awhile Men
take us by the hand and are anxious about
the health OF our bodies and laugh at oul
jokes, aud we really think like the fly ON the
wheel, that we have something TO do with the
turning of it, The sun does not stop for oul
funeral, everything goes on as usual, we art
not missed in the street, men laugh at the
new jokes, and in three days the great waves
sweep over our path, and wash out the las
vestige of earthly footprints.
Year: 1878

anew JERSEYS annexation to the
Union" accomplished by the overthrow
OF the Democratic party within her limits
last week, is the presage of the restoration
Of Unionism throughout the entire land.
When the people are SO aroused to the du-
plicities and dangers OF Democratic rule as
they were In Warren County, In that State,
for example, where the Democrats have
had control for twenty-seyen consecutive
years, as to throw of the yoke and assume
new political burdens, there must be some
strong and lasting motive at the bottom Of
it. Aud this motive exhibits itself all over
the country in a determination to put an
end to the subserviency OF Northern Dough-
faces to the Southern Democracy. The lat
ter have ruled the Democratic roost just
long enough since the war TO expose the
true inwardness OF Democratic national
supremacy. The people are beginning to
understand what they must expect If they
permit the Doughiace Democracy of the
North to hand tho Government over TO the
bourbon Nullifiers Of the South. This ac-
counts for the Republican majority, on the
vote for Congressman iu all the districts
of 1000 in New jersey, as well rs for the
whirlwind which has wcll-ngh swept the
Northern political horizon clean of the
filthy debris which has been its greatest
disgrace ever since the war
Year: 1878

IT Is source Of much satisfaction to his
many friends at the National Capital TO
know that Colonel WAIT, Of the third Con.
necticut district, has been reelected, and
that, too, by vote largely in excess of the
State ticket This shows Colonel WAIT to
be man OF the people-one who enjoys
not only their confidence, but their active
sympathies. No district in the country has
more faithful Representative than the
third Connecticut
Year: 1878

THE Florida Legislature is Democratic
beyond all doubt; but it does not nscessa-
rily follow that the successor of Senator
CoNovER to DO elected by It will be of the
uncOmpromising Bourbon stripe. Mr.. Cox
OVER himself has many friends among the
more Conservative Democrats Of the State
and Justice RANDALL, of the State Supreme
Court, Is looming up as compromise can
didate
Year: 1878

Nearly century ago there lived IN the
town of Charlottesville, Va, a young man
who played prominent part in society
CIRCLES. He was an accomplished dancer,
dressed in fashionable style, and was the
osutre figure of b lis and parties. Upon
one of these festive occasions o wag who


was present attached o bundle Of ragsto the
coat tails of the youth, and with this ab-
surd appendage to his otherwise faultless
oouarel, he went through the mazes of the
dauce with the beautiful bellies of the day.
When he discovered the trick that had been
p]ayed upon him, the young man was SO


deeuly mortified that he ever afterward
eschewed society and lived the life of
hermit, Abandoning the gay world, he
bptook himself to small building, where
he commenced the sale of whiskey. The
door of the den was fastened with log
chain and was never opened wider than
was necessary to admit the quart-bottle of
1.-The thirsty customer. @


Years ago, one rainy morning, when
customer knocked at the door of this singu-
liar individual, then an old man, there was
no response. The door was forced open
land the solitary occupant was found to be
|dead. The cellar was well stored with
|lquor mellow by age, and beneath the
ground, buried in earthen crooks, six thou
sand dollars in specie were brought to the
surface.
Year: 1878

St. Stephens day, in the Isle Of Man, is
& given over, among great part of the pop
ulation, to cruel custom, that of hunting
vrens with sticks and stones; and when


they succeed in capturing one, it is tied to


the end of long pole and carried around


the country. The custom arises from a
superstition, dating far into the past, of q


tairy SO beautiful that all the youths Of


the island went to look at her, and then


she would sing such wondrous songs that
|they would follow wherever she chose to


cad them, which was into the sea, for she
|was cruel and wicked, and lead them, one
|after another, to their death, until, at
length, scarcely young man was left, and
|trouble was in every mans home for the
brother Or son that was missing. Atlength
there came a knight, who, vowing venge-
pnce, laid deep plot for the destruction of
|the wicked lady. He seized her by her
Tong hair, but as he stood over her with
bis drawn sword she suddenly changed into
! tiny wren, flying away from under his
Fingers, and thus escaped with mocking
|augh of triumph; but by some power
greater than her own, the wicked lady fairy
|Sas compelled once in every year to reap
pear in the island in her assumed form,
Pnd this is on st. Stephens day, when the
Soung men of the superstitious island hunt
Pfter her with vivid memory of their an
Fient wrongs.
Year: 1878

The DAILY GAZETTE will be for sale
at Brandywine Summit Camp, and can
be procured of Frank W. Reeve, at Mrs.
Wallis tent, in Union circle. They will
also be sold around the grounds by a boy,
Year: 1878

A TYPOGRAPHICAL CR1ME.-Rossiter
johnson writes: If one book must be sim
g'ed out and doomed never to receive de-
cent Typographical treatment, it should


have been any other than the Bible. l
should like to see what would be the
effect of giving it fair chance. believe
it would be read if it were made readable.
We ought to have one edition of it without
foot notes--unless in rare cases where
these are absolutely necessary. Where
the italicised words are necessary to com,
pete and idiomatic rendering they should
be printed in plain Roman. when not thus
necessary they should be dropped.


Instead Of verses we should have para
graphs, and all figures and Indications of
the verses abolished. Conversations should
be printed in broken paragraphs, with quo
tation marks, just as in novel. Poetry
should be printed as poetry, Instead of
being crowded into one volume, the book
should be in four or FIVE moderate duode-
elmo volumes, with large type and good
paper, so that it could DO at once held
without firing the arm and read without
straining the eyes. Finally this book
should have good analytical index. A
cumbrous concordance is not an index, and
does not serve the purpose Of one. If
presented in such form, the Bible might
be enjoyed as literature and perhaps better
understood as divine authority.
Year: 1878

Il you take one Of the new silver half
dollars, pour little muriatic acid on the
figure Of the eagle, and set it out in the
sun for twenty minutes, when you come
to look at it it will be goue And the
man who took it vii be gone a|>o.-|Ev.
Year: 1878

Ia passing along the city lots, or the
highways through the conntty, how many


vigorous peach trees, bearing fruit scarce
Iy worth gathering. That many of these
trees are volunteers, and wele never set


where they stand, is very likely, but that is
no reason why they should continue to BE-
OF so poor a quality, when easily changed
into superior one.


Buds can be inserted in branches two
inches ip diameter, just as successfully
as on small trees, provided the tree is in
good growing condition.


1t should be performed earlier on young
stocks, as the sap ceases to aow sooner in
the fall. 1t should be performed now as
soon as possible on trees Of considerable
size, while seeding stocks Of the present
years starting may be successfully budded
as late as the first Of October.


In budding on large branches, one
should select the heaviest twigs to cut
BUDS from, and then use tri p|et buds. If
a single bud is taken. particularly when
the buds are taken from bearing tree
(an1 it should always be # possibIej it
may be but blossom bud, and never
make shoot at all, while the t:plet bud
has always two blossom and one twig bud.


A worthless tree, of say four inches
diameter in trunk, if budled now, may 10
1880 bear two or three bushels of the
very finest peaches. This season we had
an Early Beatrice that bore bushels of
fruit, budded only few years ago in the
branches of about as worthless tree as
one could find. On our grounds at Bluff
ton there are about three handred seed
lings of HaIa's Early, which we intend
planting, and leave unbuddel until they
bear fruit, when such AS don't suit Us, will
be budded with something that will.
Many will say we don't know how to bud.


Well, get some one to do it. There is
certainly in every neighborhood some one
who can perform this simple operation.
can teach ten men in five minutes how
to bud and with a little practice quite
successfully.


One of the great troubles with too many
Of our farmers, they think they cannot af
ford newspaper. Hundred who spend
as much for whiskey and tobacco in three
months as would get them the Journal Of
agriculture for years, which would keep
hem posted on the times and make home
much more pleasant for their wives and
and children IS. MILLER, in Journal Of
A Agriculture.
Year: 1878

When a clergyman announces 10 his
in the morning that there
will be special collection llf;ed this ev.-
ming, and it IS hoped all our fsi+nas viii
come prepared to contribute lib rally it
is remarkable fact that at least one third
of hi.. congregation is kept at home by
sickness in the evening. The collection
would BE- heavier if it were to prece,le the
No,rislown Herald
Year: 1878

Elk Governor Horatio Sey-
monr, in an address to a Dairy
mems Association at Utica, last
Thursday, proffered some sound
advice on the subject Of hard
times, saying: "The times are
beyond our control. Let us not
waste our time repining at these
facts, but combine our energies
to bring back again prosperity
to the country. We are not
suffering because we are depriy-
ed of the elements Of success,
but because we lack the industry
and virtue requisite to that sue
cess. The American people
should earn their substance by
labor and industry, and not by
the hazards of speculation"