smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

tion. As soon as they can do so with safety
the passengers file out of the vehicle. fall
into line, and hold up their hands. 1t is only
"a wonder that there is no photographer
present to take picture of the group for
publication in some Northern illui trated
journal, as an inducement to stay away from
Texas. N


q The passengers contribute watches, jew
elry, pistols, and even money, to the general
fund, with promptness which suggests that
they had been drilled for the occasion, or
felt that they were likely to be drilled in
case they were slow in their movements. Ow-
ing to the failure of the post Office de-
partment to furnish the driver with dupli-
cate key to the mail bags, the robbers are


obliged to cut them open and relieve the de-


partment of the responsibility of delivering


to their proper address the registered pack
ages. Everything goes on as regularly as
clock-work. Occasionally the driver may


urge haste, as he may be behind time; but
| usually before the horses are fairly rested
| the heavily-laden robbers retrace their steps
to their ancestral castle on the


brow of the distant hill, just as we see them
do in the theaters. Doubtless some persons


will object that the foregoing is exaggerated


and overdrawn. Be this as it may, unless
more in done in the future than has beer
done in the past month, during which the
stage has been robbed three times, it viii


not be long before stage robbing will be ont
of the recognized industries of the country


and the favorite school for the graduation o.
| the heavy villains in the criminal drama.
Year: 1878

employer should keep and spend money
that you vejustlv earned but, Causeur's
word for it, it won't pay to fret or growl
about it. Never be satisfied with having
learned your money" Earn more than
your money, and then, in a manly,
straightforward, bnsiness-like way, ask
for more pay. Ten chances to one you'll
get it. If you don't, look about, and as
soon as you've found better place, dis
charge your employer. The hard work
that you have done, the record of it, and
the reputation you will have established
for hard work will make the task of find
ing new employment comparatively easy.
Your capacity for work is your only CAPT
tai. Invest heavily and you are sure to
win-BoSt0n Transcript. p ea T
Year: 1878

Reaumur relates the following anecdote
OF which he was witness: A queen bee
and some of her attendants were appar-
emily drowned in q brook. He took them
out of the water, and found that neither
the queen nor her attendants were quite
dead. Reaumer exposed them to gentle
heat, bv which they were revived. The
plebeian bees recovered first. The mo-
ment they saw signs of animation in their
queen they approached her and bestowed
upon her all the care in their power, lick.
ing and rubbing her; and when the queen
had acquired sufficient force to move they
hummed aloud as if in triumph.
Year: 1878




lGalveston (Texas) News.I


The robbing of stages and mails beyond
Fort Worth had become amusingly monot-
onous, if such state of mind is possible,
when slight shock was given to the monot-
ony by the recent casual shooting of one of
the highwaymen in an unofficial interference
with the regular order of amusements in
Robbers Hollow. Doubtless the man Ross
who fired the fatal shot will apologize TO the
State and federal authorities for his violent
intrusion upon the scene, and serene
impunity for stage and mail rifiing, inter
rupted without their agency or sanction, will
soon be re-established on the road to Fort
Yuma. Doubtless, judging from the past,
it is safe to assume that the stages and their
contents, including passengers, win continue
to be systematically robbed. OF course, on
each repetition of the performance there is a
new set of passengers, new and deeply
interested audience, so to speak, but the
programme and the actors in these popular
open air theatrical entertainments appear
to undergo little or no change. However,
ut is early In the season yet, and possibly the
managers and the scenic artists may have
some novelty in store. Meanwhile, let Us
glance at skeleton of the performance which
has so long been on the boards, or rather on
the wayside and the road, for run of ap-
parently unlimited duration. sfs @


AT the usual hour the stage reaches Rob-
bers Hollow, twelve miles west of Fort
Worth. The-tw well-known villains in the
play rush from behind their favorite old
bush, down the well beaten path. to the spot
where the robbery is to take place. They do
not need to shake their pistols sternly at the
stage-drvier to secure his attention, for the
horses, intelligent brutes, stop of their own
accord, as does the propelling power at
tached to milk wagon in front of q house
of regular customer. The driver seems to
regard the subsequent proceedings in the
light of . business transaction between
the robbers and the excursionists in the
stage, in which it would be indelicate
for him to intrude without special invita-
Year: 1878

From the Tribune AEtona: A French
paper learns that at a recent railroad ac-
cident in this country, where many per-
sons had been injured, a surgeon was
loudly called for, when gentleman pre-
sented himself, took his case Of surgical
instruments from his pocket, and had
cut off several arms and legs ere it was
discovered that terror of the catastrophe
had made him a raving maniac.
Year: 1878

A pious French priest recently gave
out an announcement of a procession to
take place the next day, as follows: "1f
it rains in the morning the procession
will take place in the afternoon, and if il
rains in the afternoon the procession will
take place in the morning"
Year: 1878

Inc Crescent, the national standard OF
Turkey, is said to have owed its origin
to strange circumstance. According to
the legend, the Sultan Othman, founder
of the Ottoman Power, saw on one occa-
sion in vision Crescent moon, which
appeared to keep increasing till it
stretched from the east to the west; and
it is said that the sight SO impressed HIM
that he thought he could see in it 80
much of his own empires future exten-
sion, that he was at once led to adopt the
crescent for his imperial banner.


A Havana dispatch says royal order,
dated September. 10. 1878, is promulga-
ted, which directs that a fugative slave
named Forrer, who made his way to
Madrid, where he applied for documents
to save himself from the consequences of
of his flight in case he should return to
Cuba, shall be declared free. The order
directs furthermore, that henceforth If
any slave, for whatever cause, shall en-
ter the territorial or maritime jurisdiction
of Spain, or Of any of her colonies or
possessions outside of the Island of Caba,
such slave shall be declared free, and all
children born of slave mothers. after the
latter have touched the soil of Spain out
side of Cuba, shall also be declared free
The owners of slaves liberated by the Or
der will be dulv indemnl6ed.


-%@%


While the scourge in the Southwest is
being abated every day by the healing
influences of the cold weather, small
epidemic is having its run in Western
Virginia. For distance of forty miles
along the line of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad, it is said, there is hardly house
in which diphtheria may not be found.
The cause is apparently far reaching and
the range of the dangerous malady af-
fords fine field for sanitary investiga-
ton. The country is generally supposed
to be comparatively free from these pes
tilences, but the ignorance and reck-
lessness of the rural population frequent
" more than Offset the purer influences
OF country air, and the medical inspector
is frequently needed out of town quite as
much as in town.


So
Year: 1878

If TnpEN were Republican and
Hayes Democrat how long think you
would the Presidential chair be occupied
by fraud? A quowarraato would not
then be needed to give the Presidency to
the man who had been elected to it.
Year: 1878

IT Is little curious that more money
has been made in the cigar business
since cigars have been subject to direct
tax than ever before. Cigars that would
not sell for more than a oent before the
war now readily sell for 8 cents.
Year: 1878

ENGLAND FRANCE AND TURKEY could
not drive Russia from the Crimea. Rus
sia is immensely more powerful now


than she was then. England as a mill
tary power has not advanced except in
the matter of wealth and population.
She has no generals or admirals who
have extraordinary characters for
achievements in the field or on the seas.
Will she then under the circumstances
undertake alone to drive Russia from
Constantinople, with the Turks too to
sustain the Russian side? There is no
telling what nation will do under some
circumstances But it looks to US as if a
nation as progressive as Russia is would
hardly be made to surrender what, as
history informs us, Russia has desired
for four hundred years, and she has now
acquired by arms. Russia and Turkey
in Europe combined have all the ele-
ments of wealth and if there is any
thing like the confidence in the old au-
tooratic government that there is in the
republic here, enough paper money
could be issued and sustained to bank.
rupt even England, before Russia could
be driven to abandon the fight for want
of funds. But the chances of war are
very doubtful. A storm may wreck q
fleet, or the defeat of an army for the
want of generalship dishearten a nation
Year: 1878

doctrines listened to and applauded
to the echo by the Greenbqckers.


These men forget or do not seem
to know that there is dollar'e val
ue in each and every gold and silver
dollar, independent of the govern
ment stamp upon it. Hammer a
gold or silver dollar until the gov
ernment stamp is effaced, and there
is, if it's honest money, the value of
dollar still in the misshapen mass
of metal. Put gold or silver dol
lar into the crucible and melt it
down and the dollar is still there.
But the "fiat money" of the Green
hackers would have no value, in
itself, and as the Greenbackers do
not propose that it shall ever be re
deema0le by the government in
metal, it would soon have as little
value as the paper upon which it is
printed.


If the Green hackers are correct,
their discovery is of great value to
humanity and will be a relief in
many respects especially to the inn
pecunious portions of the commu-
nifty. Whatever the government
declares is money, is money" That
looks plausible, certainly. Now,
let the Greenbackers go one step
farther and say whatever the gov
ernment says is milk, Is milk; what
the government says is gin, brandy
or whisky is gin, brandy or whisky;
whatever the government says is a
cigar is a cigar; whatever the gov
ernment says is loaf of bread, a
pound OF tea, bar of soap or a
good sized Goldfish is a loaf of bread,
a pound of tea, bar of soap or
good sized goldfish" Why not2 If
the government says piece of pa
per or a piece of leather is a dollar,
and that makes it a dollar, why, if
the government prints upon a piece
of paper "this is a pint OF milk"
"this is a loaf of bread" would they
not he pints of milk, etc? If we
can have 'fiat money" why not "fat
milk" and "fiat codfishY'


But our Greenback friends will
say, "this is all bosh; it is absurd !"
When men stop to reason they will
come to the conclusion that the
talk about "liat money" is all bosh,
too. When the government coins
money it simply puts it in convent
ent form for use, 1t does not add
to Its value. 1t takes the gold and
silver OF the country, weighs it
out, cuts it up into convenient di.
mensIons, and labels it for use in
commercial transactions; and for
the government to make anything
else money, or to issue anything ex-
cept promises to be redeemed in
real money at q proper time, would
be TO food the country with a cir
culating medium of no fixed value,
and to throw the business of the
country into inextricable confusion.
All this is so plain that it is diff
cult to see why every intelligent
and candid man may not fully com
pTehend.
Year: 1878

st. Louis Republican Letter; Tai
mage is dancing about in his pulpit
like a tomcat on a spiked fence. He
is telling the young men just where
to go to find the worst place (al-
ways an interesting item to the Y.
M. G. Al He is describing those
forms of dress which on women are
best calculated to mislead and en-
snare men, and solid chunks of his
sermon are given as directions to
dressmakers next day. All Brook
lyn fiocks to the great showing-up
sermons on Sunday, and early Mon
day morning they take their notes
of Talmage as a directory and start
sightseeing for themselves. Be
tween the pastor and Arbuckle's
cornet, Talnage's tabernacle is most
like circus of any Of the sensa-
tional churches just now. Beecher
seems to have faded out like an old
style daguerreotype. In presence
and in spirit Beecher seems to be in
a washed out condition. Time was
when he was as forid, as gay and as
inspiring a spectacle as a red fan
mel shirt on q clothes line-when
his discourse was spiced with wild
flights of fancy and capital bits of
descriptive acting. No longer does
he prance; no more does he act; he
starts in the orthodox jog trot from
the text to the doXology in his ser
mons OF to-day, and does not bolt
the pulpit even once. To the pill
grim who crosses the ferry Sunday
morning and ksPlymouth church,
Beecher is now a disappointment.
and the sensation seeker turns and
rushes for the trumpet which pours
its blasts forth from the Tabernacle.
Once inside, he is as satisfied as the
small boy at Barnum's. He sees a
spare, angular figure, with long
arms and loose legs, and with very
straight, spare, sandy hair, with tiny


little watery eyes, receding head,
and mouth like a Goldfish. / al
ways detected a familiar look in
Talmage's face, and passing a fish
stand the other day l recognized
the likeness. Stiff and stark lay
huge Goldfish, his eyes dim and his
mouth wide open. If that mouth
bad only shrieked, This, my
doomed hearer, is the seventh gate
of hellp' the illusion would have
been complete; it would have been
! Talmage himself.
Year: 1878

OF the South Pass within q narrow
channel. The success of this great
enterprise is already assured, and
ships of the largest tonnage have
20 difficulty in passing in and out
of port through the Jetties. 1t is
already demonstrated that the com
pletion of this work will add eight
or ten cents to the value of every
bushel of wheat shipped by the river
route to the outside markets of the
world. Iu this work James b.
Eads has done more for the agri-
culture of the West than any man
living. If he is encouraged to ap-
Ply the same principles to the i'm
prUvement of the river channel, the
Mississippi will become in fact, as
well as in name, great inland sea,
offering wholesome competition to
railway traffic, and annually trans
porting many hundred millions
worth of produce to the Gull,
whence it will go 10 the best mar
kets. But turning back from the
river to the rail, it is amusing to
see the change that has been
wrought in Missouri within the last
thirty years. In that time many
millions have been expended in
building steamboats,, houses, barns,
and making other improvements.
The money invested in railroads
has not been lost, for it has doub bled
the population and quadrupled the
/ value of property. A railroad with
out competition, and in the hands
of a selfish corporation, sometimes
becomes a curse rather than a bless
ing, but the evil must be cured by
building more roads. If we fight
the devil. with fire, we must fight
railroads with rails. This is just
what the South and West are now
doing to lift from commerce the
| blighting curse of extortion prac-
ticed by the present line to the Pa


cific. First of all, the country de-
mands the completion of the Texas
Pacific as an open highway through
the Southwest, free from dlscrimi


nation, combination or extortion, as
provided in the bill now before
Congress, and such is the strong
popular feeling in favor of this en-
terprise. that the bill is likely to be
passed in the next few weeks.


As to the Missouri Pacific, on
which rode to-day, it's manage
ment is so fair, and the road itself
is in such excellent condition that
its immense business is no matter
of wonder to any one. In coming
to this point to-day we met nearly a
! dozen heavy trains loaded with all
the products of Missouri and the
country beyond-produce enough
to have full freighted u score of
Missouri steamers, and in two days
instead of six, these trains bring
their burdens from Kansas City or
other distant points to St. Louis.


Have nothing special to write
from Jefferson City; in fact, as YOU
know, l seldom try to head off the
Tightening in the matter of news.
Hoping in the future to send you
some pleasant things from Wash
ington and other points, remain as
ever, Yours, J..L. T.
Year: 1878

The pencil marks you sec around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure In extending
credit to our friends and patrons, but
cash alone viii Yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to strict cash
rule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such a
course, and renew your So scription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


EE- We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance.
Year: 1878

The average adult male antelope
measures about five feet from the ex-
trcmity of the nose to that of the tail,
and about three feet in height at the
hips, which are considerably higher
than the shoulders. Its eyes are large
and intensely black, yet ola gentle and
gazelle-like expression. The ears of
medium size, erect, and pointed, which
gives it an air of great animation. Their
horns are strikingly characteristic, hol-
low and yet deeiduous, being shed late
in the autumn or early in the winter.
The are generally gregariOus, especi-
ally during the fall and winter months,
when bucks, does and kids are are
found together in large herds. But
early in the spring the does are apt to
drop out of the company in order to
care for their young alone, of which
they uniformly have twins. During
the late spring and summer months the
does with their young gather in large
herds, apparently for mutual protec-
ton. At the same time the old bucks
straggle off by ones or twos, and the
younger animals gather in small bands.
During their period of separation the
old bucks wander over vast extents of
country, and also frequent the wood
lands, where no other antelopes 90,
and where they are known at no other
season of the year. But as the sum
mer advances the younger animals with
the does and their kids come together,
and, finally, about the end of summer,
all are united again in herds of hun
dreds. They are very local in their
habits; for particular band of ante
lopes usually remain permanently
within a range of only a few miles in
extent.


As the antelopes usually feed in the
open plains, and can be seen at great
distance, they afford fine pastime to the
sportsmen in pursuing them. They are
not quick Of sight, but their scent is the
keenest, and their hearing Is also very
acute. They are also very rapid In
their motions, distancing both dogs and
horses in 4 race. They can, therefore
be come at only by the most stealthy
approaches from the leeward side
When hit, they are slow to give up and
be taken, but one with a broken leg oil
with a shot through the body viii
bound away as if unhurt. Where the
ground is broken, o. oYergrown with
sage bushes of cacti, the work of stalk.
ing them is less difficult, ifcare is takeT
always to have the wind blowing in the
right direction. When pursued on the
open plain they are inclined TO run In
circles, and, knowing this, the hunters
by pressing upon them from the outer
circumference, gradually drive then
together, and into the center, wher,
they are forced to pass within range oi
the hunters guns. The flesh, though
sometimes praised as delicate, is no
usually much valued for eating; nor il
it entirely free from an unpleasan
taste and odor, which seems 10 increas'
with age.
Year: 1878

IL is certainly a mystery that the in
habitants Of the Ottoman empire did not
all perish years ago from pulmonary
diseases. Their feet are frat swathed
in a coarse rag, which is then wound
round the lower part of the leg, and
bound tightly with twine; on the rag
is tied piece of sole leather hammered
into a rudely shaped sandal, with sides
rising one inch up the sides of the foot;
holes are cut in the upper edges OF the
sandal and strings tied in them, and
then fastened over the top of the foot.
II ia evident that their feet are wet the
moment that they step into mud or
water over an inch in depth. This they
are doing constantly in bad weather
consequently, their feet are soaking wet
for a week at a stretch, and yet they
live and multiply. They violate every
known law of hygiene in the ventilation
and often the cleanliness Of their dwell
ing. and vet their children are generally
sturdy looking, and the adults show
fair average physique. They sleep in
rows on a mat laid upon the floor OF
their Underground huts. Sometimes the
door is covered with them, and yet they
do not appear to suffer for want OF
oxygen.
Year: 1878

Judas Iscariot was the first; he car
ried the common purse, and probably
lid the marketing of the little band in
which he played so notorious a part.
He was the great father of embezzlers.
lie took advantage of his office to fill
his own pocket, Peter and John and
the other apostles were the financiers
ON the day of Penteeost, when great
company of proselyres sold their land
and possessions and brought the price
and put it into common stock. Peter,
rs the chief apostle, was doubtless the
chief financier, but yor see his integ-
rity IN the fact that some time after,
when the lame man at the gate of the
temple asked him for aims, he had 10
say. ''Silver and gold have / none"
Not penny had stuck in his hands
he had distributed il all. Later in the
history we find Paul In the character
Of financier. He was agent for the
churches in their rcommunistic relation,
receiving funds from one church to re-
lieve the necessities of another, thus
maintaining an equality. So far from
being ar embezzler, Paul refused to
take his living out of his agency. He
worked with his own hands, that he
might not be chargeable to those who
owed him much more than a living.