smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

There has been an interesting CORES
pondence in the London Times as to the
degree of comfort with which men can
live at great heights. 9lr. Webber,
writing from the Grindewald, in Switzer:
land, states that in Thibet he has hVed
for months together at a height OF
more than fifteen thousand feet above
the level of the sea, and that the result
was as follows: His pulse, at normal
heights only sixty-three per minute,
seldom fell below one hundred per
minute during the whole time he was at
that level, His respiratiOns were often
twice as numerous in the minute as
thew are at ordinary levels. A run OF


one hundred yards would quicken both
pulse and respiration more thana run


of one thousand yards at the sea level,
and the higher the level, the greater
the difficulty of walking or running
fast. He crossed the shoulder OF the
Gurla Mandhata at height OF some
twenty thousand feet, and found the


greatest difficulty in getting his breath
quickly enough, had frequent and vlo-
lent headaches, and found that his


native guides and companions suffered
much more even than he did. Clearly,
The physical constitution Of man has


not been naturally selected so as to admit
of great variations in the altitnds Of his
dwelling place. ?
Year: 1879

substances known to be compound
yield changed spectra under changed
conditions. Other substances, hereto
fore supposed to be elementary, act in
tie same way when subjected to the
same treatment. There is the fact
which chemists must explain. And we
may add that it is the only fact that
requires explanation, for the previous
announcement that the spectrum of one
metal has been obtained by the
spectrum of another metal was
wholly incorrect. Nothing at all
resembling a transmutatiOn of met
ais has been accomplished, even if
it should prove that they are more
nearly related to each other than mod
ern science has taught. But Mr.. Lock
yer's discoveries have opened highly
interesting field for research, and the
future is full of possibilities. Boston
advertiser.
Year: 1879

He was a sleepy, absent-minded sort
of barber, too lazy to talk, with a look
of bitterness in his sad, solemn face that
meant an aggrieved, resentful feeling
toward all mankind. He stood at his
chair, Iistlessly rubbing the customers
face, and gazing woefully into space,
without thought or heed to immediate
surroundings. 1t was plain to be seen
that his soul was not in his work. He
had danced all the livelOng night pre-
ceeding at a shin-dig in BuCktown, and
his eyes were heavy.


The customer was a pOrtly man, with
bald head, mutton-chop whiskers and


pind untroubled with care. The day
Year: 1879

The ablest Democratic speech we have read in support of the measures now pending before Congress to restrict federal control of elections is that delivered in the Senate by Mir. Hill of Georgia. As an assertion of loyalty to the Union, it deserves more consideration that it receives at the North We are apt to give little credit to loyalty which not only yield ed to the public demand for Secession, but actively strove to make that secession effectu- al. Nevertheless, there is no denying that many Southerners like Alexander H. Stephens and Mir. Hill deserve credit fer sincere at much regret

 It is furthermore noticeable that the South erners of what we might term the moderate school, disavow the extreme State Rights the ~ ory of John C. Calhoun. Indeed MT. Hill avows himself thorough supporter of the views advanced by MT. Webster in reply to Messrs McDuffie and Calhoun in the famous Senate debates of half century since. Mir. Hills view seems to be, in short, that under our present constitution the sovereignty was transferred in part to the federal government; and retained, in part, by the States. The vi- tai point of difference between Webster and Calhoun was whether the federal government could decide what powers were given to it under the constitution, or whether the States had right to decide that question each for itself. The latter theory implied the right of the State to "nullify" any federal law it con- sidered unconstitutional MT. Hill seems to take MT. Webster's as the true theory and, al- though the contrary doctrine was prevalent Tn the South up to the time of the war, we do not believe it is any longer considered an open question even there.

 The prevalent Southern opinion on this point today, we should take to be this: that before the war, it was matter of doubt whether there was any right of secession that since the war, it must be taken as conclusively decided that there is no such right. That the South has no present wish to renew the war, seems plain to us, even from the published views of their most extreme men.

 But because the South proposes no second rebellion, it by no means fellows that they propose to allow the negro his free vote. It may be that in many parts of the South the negro cannot be safely allowed power that would lead to Carpet-Bag Restoration. In such states, however, there should be fair meeting of the question by the passage of an educational or property qualification, thus giving up portion of their congressional epresentation-instead of resorting to fraud and intimidation to effect that indirectly which they are afraid to do directly.
Year: 1879

for the cheese as soon as it shall be sufficiently cured. Many farmers who have been recently shipping to N. York, and who have lately re- ceived orders to keep their milk at home, are glad to avail themselves of the privilege of taking it to the factory. A.
Year: 1879

ENJOY LIFE.-What truly beautiful world we live in Nature gives us grandeur of mountains glens and oceans, and thousands of means for enjoyment. We can desire no better when in perfect health but how often do the majority of people feel like giving it up disheartened, discouraged and worried out with disease, when there is no occasion for this feehng as every sufferer can easily obtain satisfactory proof that Greens August Flower will make them as free from disease as when born. Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint is the direct cause of seventy five per cent of such maladies as Biliousness, Indigestion, Sick Headache Costiveness, Nervous Prostration, Dizziness of the Head, Palpitation of the Heart, and other distressing symptoms Three doses of August Flower will prove it's wonder ful effect, Sample bottels 10 cents. Try it. Sold by A. s. Wright 6 Co, Litchfield.
Year: 1879

he went at all into the details of the transac- tion, that night took him to the lock up The next morning, had him before the mag strate, MT. Jason Fem. When put to plea he said ''I did the deed but did it in self de- fence" That has always been his claim. At the inquest 1 think Mir. Baldwin asked the questions.

 Mir. Frank Atkins, another member of the jury of inquest testified to the same facts as the others. On cross examination, Mr. Atkins said, Had Hickey been sober, should have thought his Hickey's conduct strange, but as we supposed that he was drunk we did not think much of it. He stated that O'Donnell had come there to murder him; he spoke of striking him with his fist, and knocking him | off the precipice.

 1honsGs Hiagins.-I knew Hickey and ODonnell. Hickey was cousin to nay wife he has worked for me I saw Hickey on the 2lst of November The first time he was at work in his garden he appeared to have some cider down the next time he came to my house from 10 to II o'clock at night He came along singing and talking to the dog. He came to nay bedroom door, said he wanted to see me, said he was sorry he had left me and wanted to come back to work Asked If 1 would not go to Waterbury fer him for some meat the next day. said I could not, but would on Saturday. He then wanted cider. My son drew him pitcher of cider he staid on the lounge in my sitting room, that night ; heard him there during the night, heard him singing. In the morning found him at the table drinking some cider. He staid in the morning and helped do the chores; he did a churning for my folks. He left along in the forenoon and went to his own house. I saw him next, that afternoon, after MT. Powers had told me of finding O'Donncll's body. I had known of Ill feeling between them O'Donnell came into my yard enc Sunday evening; Kick. l ey sat beside me reading O'DonneT, after speaking to me, said to Hickey, .'You are no man y told O'Donnell we could have no row there. It was quieted.

 ] Cross e1antBed. .-O'Donnell was a stout. hearty young man. When sober he was well behaved; when under the influence of liquer he was right the other way, ugly and inclined to fight. That was the talk concerning him ; Hickey had complained to me of O'Donnell's attacking him. remember the tine that the
Year: 1879

Judge Sunhower Truax, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Lime Kiln Club, announced at the last meeting that he had delicate mis- sion to perform. He had been requested by the new janitor to state that there was deficiency in the cash accounts of the old janitor. The Treasurer's book showed that the janitor should turn over to his successor the sum of thirteen cents, whereas he had only turned over eight. Brother Gardner requested the ex-official to step forward and explain, and he stood up and said:

 'I tole de new janerter all about it an he had no bizness to raise dis fuss. Dat five cents was lost down crack in de ho' out in de ante-room, an do Treas urer should report it as cash on hand. '"

 "Kan dat five cents be sawn down dar under de ho' ?" inquired the President, and being informed that it could he ap- pointed a committee of two to "sawn it" and report. The result was the acquittal of the old janisor of the serious charge of embezzlement. The commit tee reported that they could see the nickel under the floor, and that it could be recovered any time carpenter was called in.-Detroit Free Press.
Year: 1879

which he purchased at Mar seilles when he was but poor lieutenant of artillery. Napoleon HI. wore this watch from the day he was named Prince President un- til the day of his death at Chiselhurst, and it is picturesquely related that in 1870, just as he was about to put him. self at the head of his troops the watch suddenly stopped. He was superstitious, and this incident served to depress him for days. After his death his widow gave the watch to her son.

 The American wife of the late Charles Fechter publishes defence of his character, in which she says: "His death, thank God, was 8 peaceful one. He died in the full belief of Christ, and prayed to his God for forgiveness, and God heard his prayer, for more beau tiful face of happiness and rest never was seen in death. His suffsrings were beyond belief for the last two months. /" She represents him, contrary to the testimony of managers and actors who were brought in contact with him, as being more incapacitated by disease than by drink. On that point she says " You know when he was unable to play they would invariably say, Oh, well, he is drunk again ? May Heaven in His mercy forgive them as freely as my poor suffering darling forgave them for none but God and myself knew the dreadful agony he endured while acting. He said, only few days ago, would not wish my greatest enemy to suffer one- tenth part that am enduring now"
Year: 1879

He was poor, broken-down tramp, a drunken, worthless fellow, and when they found him lying dead on the door of the distillery there was not much thought about it. By-and-by the police came and bore the dead body to the station-house. It was only the body of poor tramp, but as it lay in the rude room at the station there was something in the expression of the face that seemed to indicate that the man had not always been what he was. Later in the day 0 lady and gentleman past the prime of life, the former richly dressed and the latter having evidence of wealth, entered the station-house and viewed the re- mains. The woman glanced at the face of the dead and exclaimed, cit is he, my son l" and her frame was shaken with grief. In moment she recovered her self, and with an icy expression said, "Let the law take it's course. Let him be buried in the Potter's Field" and then passed out. The son must have committed grievous fault that the mother could have spoken thus, but il would seem that the shadow of the grave should have forgiven the past. The curious part of tho whole affair, however, is that the richly-dressed lady should have known that the body of the dead tramp was at the station house, and tha she should have come there to identify

 her son. There is Q painful suspicion of tsfly about the story. Weare getting rather too much romance mixed up witt events and things. People do like to take their facts straight.
Year: 1879

A.

 A Dakota letter to the Madison (Wis.) Journal says :--Yesterday, in coming up the road, witnessed scene which to "States man could not but have melan choly, though romantic, aspect. There was bridal couple aboard the train. He was pleasant, intelligent appearing young man, with evidence of farm training and fair education. She was as fair as Maud Muller the day the Judge net her in the fabled field; of evidently far superior training to her sturdy consort, she was one of the love- Hest and brightest and gayest brunettes one may meet in years of long extended jaunts. She had bandbox, evidently containing her summer hat; a guitar carefully wrapped ia an embroidered bag, of 8 workmanship so exquisite as to surely have been her own music roll, shawl strap messing two or three of the latest novels, and all the miscel- laneous sachels and bundles with which the average young lady possesses her self on pilgrimage to the sea-shore or on tour to Aunt Betssy's among the rural hills.

 The brakeman hoarsely called "Four- teenth Siding" There was not build- ing in sight save the one-roomed six by ten shanty barracoon of the switchman, and the eye lost itself trying to fathom the dreary beyond. This was the stop ping place for the bride and her groom. He was taking her to her new home, fifty miles back on the plains but there was no one to meet them as expected, and the thread like trail disappeared over the horizon, five miles away, with no sign of greeting team. It seemed like dark revelation to the poor girl it was the first test of devotion to her husband-and severe one. On being lifted down from the car steps, she gazed around in the utmost dismay then, with quick, beseeching glance into the young mans face, down which sympa- thetic tears were streaming, despite his evidently brave resolutions, the bride of ssthe plains sank into his arms and sobbed aloud. The scene told it's own melancholy story, and visibly affected the hundred or more spectators who had crowded to the platforms, as usual upon all occasions of leaving passenger on a siding. Let us hope that the messen- gers from that for-away home finally reached Fourteenth Siding" and that husbands love may soon be m all. sufficient solace for that oity-bred bride so suddenly transported to the treeless wilds of Dakota.
Year: 1879

The main cause of nervousness, is in digestion, and that is caused by weak ness of the stomach. No one can have sound nerves and good health without using Hop Bitters to strengthen the stomach, purify the blood, and keep the liver and kidneys active, to carry off all the poisonous and waste matter of the system. m.-Jou"nal.
Year: 1879

Two LITTLE BOYS thought it good sport to play in great bin of grain in an ele- vator at Goshen, Ind, but one day they did so when the grain was being drawn off through an outlet underneath, and they were irresistibly pulled down and smothered to death.
Year: 1879

BAD MEN.-A police official of New York city says that among the criminal classes of New York-which he con- sidered the worst on the face of the globe-men could not only be hired to go to prison if necessary, but men could be found willing to commit a murder for 8 hundred dollar bill
Year: 1879

The Philadelphia Press turns an intro
spective eye upon the jury system and de.
plores the impossiblity of getting good
juries in large cities. 1t divides the adult
male population of Philadelphia into two
classes, those who want to perform jury
duty and those who don't, and it assumes
that the willing juror is bad one, and the
unwilling juror good one but it suggests
no method of getting the unwilling juror
into the box. Perhaps the method in
vogue in Scotland, of majority verdicts,
might bring about the desired remedy for
the evil of hung juries, which so frequently
interrupts the course of justice in our legal
practice.
Year: 1879

The friends of Delaware College will make an effort
to get some sort of permanent endowment for that in
stituton at the present session of the Legislature 1t
is proposed thathe college be made free in its tuition
to any student who can pass the necessary examina
ton and that the State make some provision by
which the faculty may be increased as to make the
institution excellent in every respect as other State
universities
Year: 1879

The Spaniards, who were the first to dis
cover America, are the last to appreciate
the full value of their dicovery; The re-
cent importations Of wheat from this
country at the port of Barcelona have been
received with as much incredulous wonder
as the natives taken back by Columbus from
the West Indies 1t was not deemed pos
sible that grain grown in the United States
should equal in quality and appearance the
production of Egypt or the shores OF the
Euxine. Our cattle, our corn and our un-
equalled apples will find proper apprecia-
ton at no distant day, not only in Spain,
but at all the ports of the Mediterranean.
Our facilities for internal transportation
put the valley of the Mississippi within
competitive distance as against countries
not further from the Mediterranean than
Minnesota is from the Atlantic.
Year: 1879

For some time past there has been a shoal forming
in the Delaware river commencing near the mouth of
the Christinana Creek, and extending up to near
Edgemoor There little doubt but that in the course
of time it will become island as grass can now be
growing on it, 1t is said that one of the recent
storms added one foot of surface to it.
Year: 1879

William Dean has been appointed chairman of the
special committee of the House look after the Levy
Courts and when he comes in with his report there
is expectation of pretty lively debate Some of the
Sussex members expressed a good deal of astonish-
ment at the allegations made by Mr. Dean of the cx-
travagance of the Levy Court in New Castle county,
and from their remarks it apparent that they are
prepared to sustain any action of the committee which
will be based upon properly authenticated inorma-
ton. Why gentlemen" said the bluff chairman of
the committee know myself of case where a levy
court commissioner was paid over 81 to watch man
white-Wash fence for which the laborer got 81 so
The other two members of the committee, Mr. Savin,
from Kent and Mr. Cannon of Sussex are hard brain
ed sensible gentlemen and they will carefully
slider whatever is brought to their notice.
Year: 1879

An English nobleman, who is in the
habit of talking to soldiers in an affable
manner, was much amused lately when a
euardsman said to him, in hearty and
genial way like you, my lord. There's
nothing of the gentleman about YOU"
Year: 1879

The DetdWdreaR wants the license on small mercan-
tile dealers leSsened and increased on other things
now almost or entirely exempt. 1t says:


I'VE believe there isino license paid by the keepers
ofbiard soloons and yet there are few places more
detrimental to the morals of young men. They are
not unfrequenty the annex of hotels and become at
once the recruiting station for the whisky bar and
the training school for the gamblers hell Young
men not unfrequently enter such places without any
thought of participating but induced to try
their hand Step by step they are led on untl they
become infatuated and ruined. The State very
properly prohibits and Furnishes with severe penal
ties certain forms of gambling and it should not tole
rate it in the form of billiard tables whether kept in
hotels or other places Buff the Legislature does moi
break up this species of gambling it should at least
impose such license fee upou it as would discourage
and limit it. license fee of $500 or $500 for every
billiard table in the State would not be exorbitant
We confess, however we in favor of prohibition Of
this evil by stringent penalties rather than liberation
by license. The State do without the license fec
| if the young men can be saved from ruin"
Year: 1879

tBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBrSE.J


WASHINGTON, Dec. I1.-A Democratic Senate In
obedience to the fiat of Democratic caucus, has
actually authorized the employment of three Re-
publican messengers TO serve the three committees
of which the chairmen arc Republicans. A man
who should have predicted such a thing previous to
the late elections would have been thought insane
The measure was introduced to-day by Senator
Wallace, the man who was foremost at the extra
session in remanding Republican employees of the
Senate to private life. It was opposed only by
Senator Salisbury. Even the latter based his oppo-
stion upon the principle of economy III public ex-
penditurc of which he has always been consistent
promoter. He expressed his Willingness that the
Republican chairmen should have Republican as
sstants. He wished however. not to increase the
corps of Senate employees.
Year: 1879

Official information from the Post Office
Department at Washington states that there
are four thousand lady postmasters in the
United States. al that the number is rapidly
increasing. We have noted the appointment
of several women to this position in our own
State and Washington Territory during the
past year. These positions better fit the phys
ical capacity Of women than OF men, while
their mental capacity is equally fitted for the
discharge OF the duties pertaining thereto. 1t
is certain that women keep the more orderly
and quiet Offices the denizens OF village
whose post Office is presided over by self-
possessedli md dignifed woman go there to get
their daily installment from Uncle Sans mail
bags. take il and go their way, while the village
post Office presided over by a man is usually
the rendezvous for idlers, who congregate
about the stove in winter or lounge under the
awning in summer, to smoke, whittle, chew,
gossip and make unmannerly remarks concern
ing the women who call for mail. All are call
ed postmssters in the records OF the Depart
ment; hence, 1t is not possible to state the
exact number Of women 80 employed in Gov
ernment service, but the official information
referred to above states that there are not less
than the number given.-Portland (Oreo New


Northwest.
Year: 1879

The New York Times says John
Long. West Virginia farmer, came to
that civ Thursday and caused the ar
rest of his stepsister, Emma, on the
charge that she was insane and unable
to take care of herself The lady, who
is pleasant-featured and very bright, "A
wears old, was taken before Justice Kill
breth. Long said that his stepsisier
had become mentally affected from spi.
ral disease, and was sent to the Virginia
State Asylum for the Insane. He
learned that she vas in New York and
came on to take her home, where she
could be cared for. The girl denied
that she was insane. and astonished the
Justice by her brilliant conversation.
She said that she was the daughter OF
former wealthy slave trader. Her
mother married twice, and her step
father maltreated her TO such an extent
that to escape from her sutierings she
pretended to become insane, and was
committed to an asylum for year. Al
the expiration Of that time she went TO
Philadelphia as companion to lady,
and after that came to New York. She
declared that she was perfectly clear
mentally, and offered to submit TO an
examination as to her sanity at once It
required, but the magistrate assured her
it was unnecessary. Justice kilbreth
told Long that he did not consider HIM
self Justified in holding her, and that as
she was of age he could do nothing fur
ther than discharge her. Her brother
gave her some money and bid her good
bye, and she, thanking the Justice left
the rDuvt