smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

TnE WEATHER.-The only marked change
That has occurred in the meteorological condi-
tons during the past twenty.four hours is the
general northward movement of the area Of
high barometer that extends over the South
western districts. Two distinct centres of low
barometer have been developed within the de-
preston that oyeElies al the districts east OF the
Mississippi River-one on the Middle Atlantic
coast and the other in the northern lake region.
Rain has fallen in the central valley and lake
districts and on the Middle Atlantic and New
England coast. Clear weather prevails IN all the
districts west OF the Mississippi River and cloudy
elsewhere. The winds have been from fresh
10 brisk over the lake region aud the Northwest,
brisk over the Western Gulf and generally light
in the other districts The temperature has
risen in the Middle Atlantic and New England
States. the Gulf districts and the Northwest
Elsewhere il has been variable. Increasing Y
winds arc probable for the Western Gull, where
steep gradients nre likely 10 be developed, and
also on the Middle Atlantic coast during tue
next few days. As soon as the depression
passes oil the coast the weather will become cold
and will continue so for few days. when it will
probably change again. 1t il possible that the
high area which extends over the Southwest
and South viii turn the depressions course
more to the north, in which ease we will not cx-
perience the rains that attend il. The weather
in New York and its vicinity today will he warm
aud partly cloudy in the morning. possibly with
occasional light rains. followed by clearing aud
colder weather. Tomorrow it promises to be
cold and fair.
Year: 1878

times, while the astute detectives of Scot
land Yard declared themselves unable to
account for it. 1t was wonderful career,
but-and here is the consoling part OF it
it came to grief. In one Of his nocturnal
raids he dropped into the arms Of COM
mon policeman. There was struggle and
some shooting, but the burglar went TO Jail,
and bit by bit his story was unrayelled.
He will doubtless be hanged for the MUIR
der All there is to be said about this case
resumes itself in the thought that rascality
is the surest guide to it's own detection.
Year: 1878

THE TESTIMONY yesterday Of two OF the
italian children alleged to have been kidnapped
for the Italian slave trade in this country shows
that they have been pretty well schooled by the
padrone. His escape is not improbable.
Year: 1878

In PERU the outlook for the payment Of either
the interest or principal of the foreign debt is
pretty blue. II an earthquake were to swallow
up the majority of her politicians Peru would
stand good chance OF getting along.
Year: 1878

If THE STORIES of some Of the militsmen
who confined in Ludlow Street Jail for non
payment of fines he true Il is not very cred
table TO the military authorities. 10 expect a
who cannot buy bread TO pay fines is rather
I...nI
Year: 1878

When young woman who has mar
ried an elderly gentleman of means in
the hope that he will soon die and leave
her his money finds that he lives on and
on, i'll total disregard of his implied
contract, it is but natural that she
should look npOn herself, with that pity
which she would bestow upon any 9th
er neglected and i'll used wife. The
promise of his hacking cough is still
unfultilled. Quinsy will not carry him
have destroyed Thalaba, Septimius,
FELTON, or the old Ahasuerus. Tender
~ she watches the progress of his rheu-
matism, and while he is sleeping she
lovingly opens the window to give it
air, but the horse chestnuts which he
carries in his trousers pocket during the
day counteract the draughts of night,
and the disease fails to thrive according
to her wish. Age cannot wither him
nor nOstTums cut his infinite longevity {;
and if the young wife grows pale and
wan with weary watchings at his bed
side through the sorry midnight hours,
waiting and longing for the change that
will not come, what human heart can
wonder if at last she becomes exasper-
ated and resolves in her sore straits to
resort to harsher measures than slow
nature yieldsP AS one thinks of the
blighted promise of her years, and of
how the gnawing teeth of Time seem to
have been filed for her husbands bene-
fit and her despair, adjectives flow from
the pen as fast as the Arabian tree
drops medicinal gum. On one side are
youth and beauty and capacity fol- the
enjoyments of widowhOod; arrayed
against them are grabbed age, selfish
ness, unyielding tenacity of life and a
leathery frame, hacking away at which
Time only blunts his sickle. The SYM
pathies of any decent man especially if
he be young, poor, unmarried and ease
loving, inevitably gush out for the
weaker in the struggle for life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness Z.
World
Year: 1878

Your Boston correspondent, in this
mornings paper, discharges a halting
vOlley of small shot at prOOf-readers in
general, and one or two in particular.
So far as it goes, his criticism is just !;
but only part of the story is told, and
that part could have been tOld-has
been told, by every ordinarily Intelli-
gent reader of the daily press or of less
frequent publications. There is another
side to the impeachment, not SO gener-
ally understood by the common leader,
and not appreciated as it deserves by
those directly interested in proof-read-
ing as branch of the publication bust
ness. In the first place, it is necessary
that prOOf-reader, to fill his position
properly, shall be little less than walk
ing cyclOpadia. He must not only be
familiar with all branches of printing as
a mechanical art, but he must be author
ity on every branch of human science,
from hOrse-trOtting and bOat-racing, up
to MIR. Joseph Cooks Biology and Oar
wins sublime guess work; and this,
not in a superficial manner, but to that
extent that he may detect the possible
errors of others, themselves professors
in their various specialties. He must be
master of all possible and impos-
sible combinations of the English lam
guage, for he is supposed to know what
every sort of writer wants to say better
than said writer himself knows, and to
possess the faculty of making all sorts
of authors Ineligible to all sorts of
readers. Then he is supposed to pos
sess sight knowledge OF all dead and
modern languages sufficiently compre
hensive to enable him to detect the errors
which have such persistent way of
cIeepiug into the literary ventures of
recent college graduates and returned
European tourists, who have suddenly
found the English tongue quite incapa-
BILE of expressing the most common
ideas. With more or less of variation,
according to the circumstances, these
are the requirements of Il professional
proof-reader-it is hard to select pro-
fession requiring so varied and critical
preparation. What is the ''encourage-
ment" to perfection held out to the
wOuldbe proof reader? Generally not
the slightest-though there are worthy
exceptions. | know prominent New
England daily paper, publishing IA week


ly edition in connection, that pays its
proof-reader the magnificent sum of one
dollar and quarter per day. Nor is
this solitary case, though there are
probably few as extreme. Book pub
fishers, whose readers are required to
exercise nicely of judgment and ex-
tent of general knowledge much more
complete than that of the newspaper
reader, scarcely better compensate them,
the cOmpositor at the case, in nine
tenths of the offices in the country, max
ing better wages than the proof reader,
with none of the mental wear and tear
of the latter. Even then, generally, the
prOOf-reader is hurried through his
work at a rate fatally fruitful in over
sights and blunders, subject to every
sort of interruption and annoyance. Are
not these hints sufficient to explain poor
proOfreading P-Letter in Springfield
Republican.
Year: 1878

1t is worth considering seriously
whether the lash may not be introduced
into our criminal system with advan-
tage for the punishment of brutal of
fences, especially against women, and
for the repression of young desperadoes
of the dime novel type. Dime novels
do not represent their piratical boy he
roes and young highway men as com
ing to the whipping post. They end as
rule III battle against overwhelming
numbers, on the scaffold or in the dun
geOn of some romantic castle. There
is something grand, gloomy and pecu-
liar about the clank of fetters, and to
perish on the scaffold, in the ewes of
many criminals, confers a positive So
cial distinction. But there is nothing
in the least heroic about the swish of a
rod or cat, and England has returned
of late years to the doctrine of Della
ware that the whipping post is whole
some prophylactic against those pests
and perils of the weak and the unpro-
tected, the juvenile rutfian aud the
tramp.-Nelo York World.
Year: 1878

The excessive use of Paris green that
has followed the introduction of the
Colorado beetle seems to be reaching
the point where the remedy is worse
than the disease. 1t is a bonanza for
the dealers in this poison, but the reck


less application of the green is killing
of birds by the hundreds in all this
region. The sweet singers fall dead
from the trees, and local experts who
have examined into the cause, charge
1t to the potatoe bug poison. Fish are
also killed by eating the beetles that
get into our ponds and streams. Law
ing aside the question whether so free
use of Paris green is not dangerous to
human lite, it is asserted by competent
agriculturists that there is no sort of
need OF dealing it out so lavishly as has
come to be the fatal custom with all
growers of "Murphys." One big local
farmer even says that it would be inst
as well to let the bugs eat the vines af-
ter they had become well started. He
remembers when boy that his father
compelled him to whip off the potato
tops, so lnsuring bigger yield unde,
ground. The abundance of Paris gree,


Is certainly encouraging suicide, or al
least furnishing ready means that is be-
ing made available for self destruction


All in all, it is high time to be ecopom-
zeal ID the buying of poison which is
working much deadly evil, when hand
picking and a reasonably close over
sight OF the vines will give us all the
Year: 1878

In certain western fort, some time
ago, the major conceived the idea that
artillery might be used effectively in
fighting with the Indians by dispensing
with gun carriages and fastening the
cannon upon the backs of mules. So
he explained his views to the COM
mandant, and it was determined to try
the experiment. A howitzer was Sc
lected and strapped upon a mule,
with the muzzle TUNED toward the tail.
When they had secured the gun and
loaded it with ball and cartridge, they
led that calm and steadfast mule on the
bluff and set up Il Target in the middle
of the river to practice ut.


The rear of the mule was turned
toward the target, and he was backed
gently up TO the edge of the bluff The
officers stood around in IL semiciIcle,
while the major went up and inserted a
time fuse in the touch hole of The hOwit-
Zer. When the fuse was ready, the
major lighted il and retired. In Il min
ute or two the hitherto rnruffied mule
heard the tizZing back there on his neck,
and it made him uneasy. He reached
his head around to ascertain what was
going on, and as he did SO his body
turned and the howitzer began to sweep
around the horizon. The mule at last
became excited, and his curiosity be-
came more and more intense, and in Il
good second or two he was standing
with his four legs in bunch, making
six revolutions minute, and the howit-
Eel threatening sudden death to every
man within half Il mile.


The commandant was observed tu
climb suddenly up tree; the lieuten-
ants were seen sliding over the bluff
into the river, as if they didn't care at
all abOnt the high price of uniforms the
adjutant made good time toward the
front; the sergeant began to throw up
breast works with bayonet and the
major rolled over the ground and groan-
ed. In two or three minnIes there was
Il puff of smoke, dull thud, and the
mule-Oh where was he 4? A solitary
jackass might have been seen turning
successive somersaults over the bluff,
only to rest at anchor, finally, with his
hOwitZer, at the bottom of the liver,
while the ball went off toward the fort,
hit the chimney in the majors quarters,
ratified the adobe bricks down into the
parlor, and frightened the majors wife
into commissions. They do not allude
to it now, and no report of the result OF
the experiment was ever sent to the
War Department.
Year: 1878

Wait not till the little hands are at rest


Ere you fill them full of flowers;
Wait not for the cgowning tuberose


To make sweet the last sad hours;
But while, in the busy household band,
Your darlings still need your guiding hand,


Oh, fill their lives with sweetness.
Wait not till the little hearts are still,


For the loving look and phrase;
But while you gently chide fault,


The good deed kindly praise.
The word sou would speak beside the bier
Falls sweeter far on the living ear;


oh, fill young lives with sweetnessl
All what are kisses on clay cold lips


To the rosy mouth we press,
When our wee one flies to her mothers arms


For loves tenderest caressl
Let never a worldly bauble keep
Your heart from the joy each day should reap,


Circling young lives with sweetness
Give thanks each morn, for the sturdy boys,


Give thanks for the fairy girls;
With a dover of wealth like this at home,


Would you rifle the earth for pearlsl
Wait not for Death to gem Loves crown,
But daily shower lifes blessings down,


And fill young hearts with sweetness
Remember the homes where the light has fled
Where the rose has faded away;
And the love that glows in youthful hearts,
Oh, cherish it while you mayl
And make your home a garden of flowers,
Where joy shall bloom through childhood's hour.


And fill young lives with sweetness
Louise s. Upham
Year: 1878

~ An opulent farmer applied to an
attorney about a lawsuit; but was told
he could not undertake it, being already
engaged on the other side. At the same
time he gave him letter of recon-
mendation to a professional friend. The
farmer, out of curiosity, opened it and
read as follows:


Here are two fat wethers fallen out together.
If you'll fleece one III fleece the other,
And make 'em agree like brother and brother"
There was no lawsuit after that.
Year: 1878

We think the sessions of the Legis-
lature should be hi ennial, both as a
matter of economy, and to give every
body time to become accustomed to
the laws; to learn their full force and
effect; to find out and enjoy the good,
or endure the evil of law some lit
tie while before it can possibly be
changed.


The legislative body would be mol e
careful in enacting laws, if time was
given to test every law. 1t sometimes
happens that a law is passed in the
interest of a State which takes years
to prove its value, and sometimes it
takes more than twelve months to
show that a popular demand is ex-
trcmely ridiculous. While we wish
to see deliberation and boldness in
the Assembly Chambers, we think it
well for the State to have occasional
political excitements they raise the
spirits of the people and awaken their
energies which might otherwise be-
come dormant; aud for this reason
we think there ought still to be a
State election every two years, but
electing only one-half the members of
both Houses.


Let the State be divided into large
and small Districts, and have two
Senators and two Representatives
from each.


Thus we could always have new
and old men in the Legislature. New
men to call for the repeal of unpop-
ular laws of the last session, and the
old men to defeud them, thus giving
every one u fair chance to see both
sides of every question. At the same
time the people are expressing their
disapproval of any act of the previous
session, a part of the old members
will be there to defend the action OF
the Legislature.
Year: 1878

|. The disruption and breaking up of
the Republican party leaves but one
recognized organized political party
in the State and that is the Demo-
cratic Conservative party represented
III the administration of the State by
Nichols and Wiltz. On what future
basis a party can be organized TO OPP
pose that which is now in power and
which has already given such proof
of its ability to control the future des-
tinies of the State, time alone must
determine.


There are, We know, some disaffec-
ted elements in the g Democratic
Conservative party !" some who con
denim and oppose Gov. Nichols for
his wise, patriotic, manly and con
ciliatory course since he assumed the
reins of government. They are as
yet few in number and insignificant
in influence. Weuld it not be we'll
for the few TO pause and reflect be-
fore they undertake crusade against
the Governor. Has he deviated an
inch from the principles of the plat
form on which he was nominated and
elected Z Will not his policy, if par-
sued without interruption for the
next few years, fuse the voting popu-
iation of Louisiana into one grand
conservative mass, whose aim and
object will be, not the success of par
| ty, but the good of the State the
restoration of her prosperity and the
development of her vast resources
We think this will be the final resnli
| and for one We shall use our utmost
efforts to bring it about, and will sup.
port aud sustain the Governor in hi,
policy,
Year: 1878

We don't like to be irreverent, but


would like to ask. What did oul
fathers kno8? What, for Instance


did George Washington kuow9 He


never saw steamboat, he never saw
fast mail train he never held his
ear to a telephone he never sat for
his picture in a photograph gallery +;
he never received telegraph dis
patch /; he never sighted Krupp gun ;
he never listened to the tizz of an
electric pen; he never saw pretty
girl run sewing mechine /; he never
saw self -propelling engine go down
the street to a fire; he never heard of
evolution he never took laughing
gass; he never had set of store
teeth he never attened an interna-
tional exposition; he never owned a
bonanza mine he never knew an '0ld
Prob : he-but why go on 7 No, when
he took an excursion it was on fiat


boat; When lie went off on a train
it was mule train. When he wanted
to talk with a man in Milwaukee he
had to go there. When he had his
ptCtulc tdhCH IO NdS uOi!C III ploul6
with piece of black paper and a pair
of shears. When he got the returns from
back counties, they had to be broughG
in by man with an OK cart. When
he took aim at the enemy he had to
trust to a crooked -barrelled old flint
lock. When he wrote it was with
goose quill. When he had anything
to mend his grand mother did it with
n darning needle. When he went to
a fire he stood in line and passed
buckets. When he looked at clam
he never dreamed it was any relation
Of his. When he went to concert he
heard cracked fdddle and all insane
clarionet. When he had a tooth
pulled he sat down and never left off
yelling. When he got out of teeth
he mummed his victuals. When he
an international show he sent
for Lafayette and ordered his friends
up from old Virginia with the speci-
men carefully labeled in bottles.
When he once got hold of nugget of
gold from an Indian chief he felt rich.
When he wanted to know any thing
lbont the weather he consulted the
srOund-hog or goose bone. When
but why go. ont What did such
nan know Who was he, anyway 2


Washington Union.
Year: 1878

ON our first page we give an article on the Senate amendment to g bill re- garding timber in the Territories. We see by the Congressional Record of April 2, that the House without de- bate, concurred in this amendment, but did not in all the amendments, and until a Conference Committee of the two Houses acts, the final fate of this important amendment will not be known, but the agreement of both Houses on it shows that Congress is willing the people shall have neces- sary timber fer local use without pay or prosecution.
Year: 1878

dignatlon OF such q moment


Equally heart rending must
have been the discovery that met
the gaze OF Edward Moench
Of Dixon. Missouri. oa going honc
after days absence. Failing t. b"
greeted by the clambering welcome Of
his two motherless little daughters he
hastened into the house. Their play
things We're upon the floor, but all
was still The alarmed father sought,
high and low, for his pets, but found
them not until he chanced to recollect
that like the beautiful Genevra, of the
poem, they sometimes concealed
themselves from him in The big trunk
He raised the lid. and there they were :
Peacefully sleeping-but never to
wake They probably had lain down
in the trunk to take nap, and became
overpowered, as there was no catch on
the lid, and it might have been raised
by either of them.
Year: 1878

TRAGIC REALITIES. Daily the tele-
graph teens with heart-rendering
records of accident, tragedy, and
crime, which demonstrate all too
truly how much stranger is truth
than fiction" Indeed, there have
been recent horrors that would be re-
iected, as too sensational and improba-
ble for belief, were they presented to
us in the pages of novel. Imagine,
for instance, the terrible spectacle
that met the eyes of the grandson of
President Harrison when his own
fathers naked corpse was hauled up,
by rope around its neck, from the
dark we'll in the cellar of Ohio Medi-
cal College Hon. Scott Harrison, the
son of the historic Whig Chief, hav-
ing died soon after a case of grave
robbing occurred. was buried with
unusual precautions. His grave was
walled with brick. and tilled-in with
large rocks, which were cemented to-
gether with barrel of cement poured
over them. And to make assurance
doubly sure, a man was hired to
watch the spot every night for a
month. Yet within a fortnight the
grave was robbed and the corpse
dragged by the heels over rocks and
broken glass to the wagon. 1t was
then carried 10 Cincinnati and
passed into the cellar of the
Medical College through a window
prepared for the purpose. The Janitor
of the College tied rope around the
old mans neck and lowered him into
a well, dug for the reception of sub


jects, until wanted on the dissecting-
board. Meanwhile the robbery of
another grave caused party of young
men TO search the college. They were
about to give up in despair when some
one pulled at the rope, and hauled up
a stark, bloody thing which instantly
called forth an exclamation from
young Harrison-''great God 1t is
my father" Can Language depict the
mingled surprise, grief, anger and in
Year: 1878

The citizens of Toledo hoped that when A.
Reed left this city for Walla Walla, that We
should have peace, and that in that far awav
country the oiOr OF his odorous reputation
would never taint the atmosphere. But in
this We have been mistaken. His reputation
has preceded him They have heard Of him
through the press, and every man, woman and
honest Indian is mad 70 think that the presi-
dent should ship a political dead beat and no
torOus swindler to that community, and re-
move an honest man and faithful officer, with
out any cause whatever.


We are in receipt Of the Walla Walla
STATESMAN Of August 81, giving an account Of
the indignation Of all the respectable citizens
Of Walla Walla, as soon as they discovered the
character Of the man who had been imposed
upon them 10y the corrupt and Yenal executive
Hayes.


\ petition addressed to the president was
prepared and signed almost unanimously by
the citizens of both parties, asking Hayes to
reinstate Capt. W. c. Painter, an old citizen
and gallant soldier, who was removed without
any cause whatever to give place to the public
nuisance from Toledo.
Year: 1878

THE LABOR COMMITTEE all the test-
mony taken before the labor committee Is
published, the volume which contains 1t will
be imposing. That which will constitute its
novel feature is the wide difference OF opinion
between the witnesses as to what has caused
the business depression, and the remedies
that should be applied for its removal Some
Of the opinions contain matter for reelection, Sc'
but the majority are utterly trivial. The
suggestions as to restoration of prosperous
times are generally biased by the business IN
which the witness happens to be engaged. 30
that it as !" the wish that is father to the
Thought"