smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

possession, and that she was entitled to them
both. Justice Mills delivered the opinion.
Justice Field delivered a separate concurring
opinion with regard to the test oath demand
ed of Juror Holmes, as follows:


/ agree with the court that Juror Holmes in
this case can not be required to answer the
questions put to him. But GO further. do
not think that the act of Congress which, by
requiring test oath as to past conduct, ex-
cludes a great majority of citizens OF half of
the country from the jury-box, is valid. In
my judgment the act Is not only oppressive
aud obtuse and repugnant to the spirit Of our
institutions, but is clearly unconstitutional
and void. AS war measure, to be enforced
In insurgent States when dominated by ma
tional forces, the act could be sustained; but
after the war was oyer, and the insurgent
States were restored to their normal and con-
stitutional relations to the Union, it was as
much out of place and as imperative as would
be law quartering soldier in every South
ern mans house.


Justice Strong dfssented from the opinion of
the court.


Chief Justice Waite announced to the bar
that the court would adjourn for the term on
Monday, May 5.
Year: 1879

The SAD EXPERIENCE OF DELAWAHE GllL


WHO RAN AWAY WITH HER COUSIN.


BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.


BALTIMORE. March o. 1879.
The steamer Georgiana. on her return trip to the
Eastern Shore this evening. took among her passen
gers Miss Sarah Galloway. of Sesford. DEL, who
returns to her homo . sadder and wiser
girl than whom she eloped from it .
few days ago. Miss Galloway eloped with her
cousin, o young man named Charles Ross. from
their home in Seaford on Monday last. They had
been engaged for some time. The girl took passage
ON the steamer at Cambridge and was Joined at
Potters Wharf, where the steamer next stopped.
by her intended husband. The Georgiana arrived
here on Tuesday morning. when the young man
left the bride elect on the steamer ashore,
ostensiby 70 find clergyman to marry them. since
which time he has not been seen. Miss Galloway
waited patiently throughout the day for her lover.
and night approached and he failed to appear she
became greatly alarmed for his safety.


WASTED AFFECTION.


Her distress attracted the attention of the officers
of the who learned the state of affairs
The girl reluctantly admitted that she had given her
purse, containing all the money she had. to Ross,
but confident that he had not deserted her. When
the eorgiana sailed her return trip at nine r. NJ.
tire trip on the steamer returning to the city again
this morning. Her distress ut not finding her miss
ing lover the wharf was touching and she
appeared prostratcd from terror and grief. The
about thirty years old. When last he was
in a saloon, under the influence of liquor. The de-
serted bride elect is pretty modest looking girl.
about eighteen. She excited the sympathy OF all
Cambridge to night the steamer. and will proceed
from there to her home in Delaware.
Year: 1879

The Pcnnsyivanis Railroad Company have under
consideration the making Of some important i'm


provcmcnts at the Jersey City terminus and at tho
Cortlandt street ferry on this side. A now ferry
house Is TO be built and the Jersey City sdc new
bushels 10 10 be erected work on the forry house.
t ~ Understood, VIII be begun next week and on tho
elevator soou oetsrwsrds
Year: 1879

EDITOR GAZETTE -


About week ago we saw an account
of a patent coal cart invented by gen.
tleman of this city, and by stretch of
his imagination, he thinks one horse can
haul one ton in said cart, with great ease.
As the horse cannot talk, we will speak
for HIM, and assure the gentleman that
a ton OF coal weighs just as much In one
cart as another, and is entirely too heavy
for the majority of horses to haul up our
hilly streets. Blessed is the man who
uses his talents for the glory of God, and
the good of his creatures. How grateful
we would have felt if he had invent ed a
coal cart to open at the side to prevent
the strain of backing Or il he had in
vented anything to help the poor over
worked horses, but to construct dia-
bolical cart to break the backs and legs
of the faithful creatures, is an outrage
we could not stand quietly, and we trust
the people will prove too far ahead in
humanity to ever do anything but make
bonfire of it. We hope our citizens
will take decided stand and not pat
ronize any coal dealer who only use.
one horse for one ton.


EMILY WEBB.
Year: 1879

A CORRESPONDENT tells at greater
length than we have space for the story
of an attempted fraud which was ex


posed by chemistry. An emery wheel
guaranteed to stand 600 revolutions
Vas run at the speed Of 1000 revolu-
tions, and burst, doing large amount
Of damage. A suit to recover WAS in
stituted, based on a letter written by
the seller Of the wheel. in which the
strength of the wheel Vas rated a..
1000 revolutions. While in the office
Of the prosecutor. eudesvoring to effect
. settlement. tho defendant observed
that certain make Of ink was used
and he learned py casual inquiry
that the same ink was used exclusively
by the prosecutor. The defendant had
for several years used no other ink.
Taking ssmples OF the two inks to .
chemist; he was able. after analysis, to
secure . solvent for the one which
would not effect the other. The case
came to trial Evidence was taken as
TO the kind Of ink each party employed.
Then the chemist Was called. and in the
presence Of the jury applied the sow
vent, which removed the interpolsted
a." and left the res. of the writing un.
touched. The proof Of the torgefy was
sufficient. and the case Was dismissed.
leaving the dishones, prosecutor 10 de-
iend himself from . criminal charge
Year: 1879

DAIN in the right side, under the
edge of the ribs, increases on pres
sure; sometimes the pain is in the left
side; the patient is rarely able to lie
on the left side; sometimes the pain is
felt under the shoulder blade, and it
frequently extends to the top of the
shoulder, and is sometimes mistaken
for rheumatism in the arm. The
stomach is affected with loss of appe-
tite and sickness; the bowels in gen
eral are costive, sometimes alternative
with lax; the head is troubled with
pain, accompanied with a dull, heavy
sensation in the back part. There is
generally considerable loss of men,
ory, accompanied with a painful SEN
sation of having left undone some
thing which ought to have been done.
A slight, dry cough is sometimes an
attendant. The patient complains of
WEAKNESS and debility; he is easily
startled, his feet are cold or burning,
and he complains of prickly sensa-
ton of the skin; his spirits are low;
and although he is satisfied that exer-
else would be beneficial to him, yet
he can scarcely summon up fortitude
enough to try it. In fact, he distrusts
every remedy. Several of the above
symptoms attend the disease, but cases
have occurred where few of them ex-
listed, yet examination of the body,
after death, has shown the. LIVER to
have been extensively deranged.
Year: 1879

A rather Eentlemanly looking young
fellow had a hearing at police court
this morning on the charge of being
drunk and disorderlv. Special Officer
Legg testified that the young chap had
eaten about Is cents worth OF stuff at
the Depot restaurant last evening and
at first refused TO pay Tor it. Finally
under threat Of arrest he did pay and
then began cnrsing Officer Legg, who
arrested him AID brought him up to the
Hall. One dollar ahd costs will impress
the atfair on ths mind Of the young
gentleman.
Year: 1879

P. Donahoe who keeps grocery
store on the corner of Seventh and


Madison streets, keeps an empty crate
standing outside OF his door in which
the breadman places his 1usk and
loaves if he gets around in the morning
before Mr.. Donahoe gets about. Two
or three mornings ago however hs went
to his crate to get his bread and rusk,
but found the latter had disappeared.
A milkman coming along early in the
morning, saw the boy who put out the
light in the street lamps take the rusk
and walk off with it. Whoever that
boy is. he should bs taught little hon.
Psty
Year: 1879

A colored man who wished to show
his agility on Warmers wharf yester'
day morning, was somewhat alarmstl
when his feet slipped and he suddenly
landed in the dock. Fortunately he
went down feet foremost, and the tide
being out, he stuck fast in the mud


A rope was sooa thrown him when h.
was extricated from his unpleasant
position, q muddier If not wiser man.
Year: 1879

The first time you wear stove-pipe
hat everybody looks at you. Not, as YOU
may vainly imagine, because you are the
first young man who ever wore a stove
pipe hat, but because it is apparent even
10 the old blind man who sits in the back
pew, without any cushions, away back
under the gallery, where tho poor have
the gospel preached at them, that it is
the first time you ever wore hat Of that
description. Your old father claps one
on the back of his head, puts his hands
INTO his pockets, holds uR his head and
walks off down the street in a gale of
wind and never thinks of his hat. But
you, son, pull yours on at the most grace
tu' angle it can be posed, and you go
1eetcring along, both hands ready to fly
at the hat at the slightest provocation of
the ghostllest phantom Of puff Of wind.


You don't look comfortable, son. Your
hat IS always trying to come off; you
bump it against everything you pass; you
rub 1t the wrong way when you try to
/, brush the dust off it; when you carry it
IN your hand up the aisle, everybody
smiles, because you first hold it by the
brim and let the crown tip gracefully
over your arm, and by the time you have
Year: 1879

hit three or four worshippers in the head
with it, you change and turn it under
your arm and try to carry It that way
without touching it and the first thing
you do in that pose, you butt a woman's
eye out with your elbow. Then, when
you sit down, you put the hat on the floor,
setting it on the brim; a fatal mistake.
And then, before the sermon is half
through, you put your feet/on it three
times. But never mind; you have to
learn some time. Only don't imagine
that people never saw anything of the
kind before, because they have. -.
Year: 1879

DETROIT, MICH, June 2l.-The
division of the Chicago and Lake
Huron railroad, extending from Port
Huron to Flint, and formerly known
as the Port Huron and Lake Michi-
gan railroad, was sold at auction at
noon to-day for 100000 to commit
tee said to represent Eastern bond
holders of the Grand Trunk Company.


The purchasing committee will as
sumo the receivers indebtedness,
which, it is said, will foot up to over
half million dollars. The commit
tee say that the road will be reor-
ganized in the interest of the Grand
Trunk without any necessary delay.
Year: 1879

Annie Louise Cary and Miss Litta.
while at Virginia City, Nevada, at
tempted to find their way alone to the
opera house, where they were to sing
but brought up at the court house in
stead. They wandered about its cor
ridors for some time and finally
reached the vestibule of the iaii.
where an iron gate was slammed in
their faces, the turnkey assuring them
they could not enter, but generously
offering to take any message they
might wish to send their brother.
Great heavens, what brother p"
exclaimed Miss Cary, impatiently.
We want to go upon the stage.
There amt any stage to this ere Jail,
Miss, said the turnkey, and it re-
quired all the nerve of the fair singers
to keep from fainting.
Year: 1879

A woman in Los Angeles, Califor
MIA, became possessed Of the notion
that her little girl might, by slow
starvation, be brought to such a phys
ical condition that she would be trans
lated to the spirit world without dying.
With that end in view she fed the
child on fruit only, steadily diminish
ing the quantity, until the victim was
horribly emaciated. Neighbors then
interfered, much to the displeasure of
the mother, who declared that the
little one had reached point where
visions Of spirit life betokened the
nearness Of the expected change.
Year: 1879

Rockland Courier; A writer tells
MS to place our hand upon our heart
and feel its muffled beat-that it will
sadden us. True; but not half so
much as placing our hand upon our
wallet, and realizing from its thinness
that we must soon become the mufiled
beat
Year: 1879

Saltwater Lumberman: Exchanges
are Dragging about big eggs farmers
are laying on the editorial desks, as it
were. BY and by some granger will
bust hen, and there will be an end
of that foolish strife.
Year: 1879

The army bin, as approved by the
President, contains q provision that
any cadet who graduates at West
Point may have the option OF receiv-
ing $3.50 in cash IL he will resign his
commission Immediately on gradual
ing. The provision was part OF the
original Burnside bill, which con-
templated considerable reduction
In the number Of army officers and
adopted this means OF inducing Ca
dets to resign. But as the new law
does not reduce the number OF officers
there Is no necessity OF offsring any
inducements to cadets to resign. On
the contrary. it is said there are thirty
more vacancies In the rank of second
lieutenant at the present time than
there are graduating cadets this year.
Thus we have the anomaly of the
government educating young men at
the military academy. at large ex-
pence and then Offering them bonus
to resign and leave vacancies for men
who perhaps have no military educa-
tion. The provision is a fair speci-
men OF the laundering Legislation OF
the present Congress.-IndianapoLis
Journal.
Year: 1879

A striking instance of the arbitra-
tary state in which Scotland was
held in former times, both in public
and private affairs, is exhibited in
the sad fate OF a wife OF a Lord of
Sessions, whose title was Lord
Grange. 1t was suspected that the
lady, by some means or other. had
got at the knowledge of some State
papers OF infinite consequence, and
as poor women are set down in the
minds OF all arbitrary men TO be inca
pable OF keeping q secret, Grange
and his son were determined to Sc
cure the one contained in the papers in
question by putting 10 outof the lady's
power to diyulge anything she knew
Year: 1879

NCW Duk lsiA o. SlI JOH0 MOOIos


Not drum was heard, because the
drummer was not feeling very well
and asked to be excused, nor a fuc-
erol note OF any kind, as his corpse
to the ramparts We hurried; not a
single, solitary son-of.a-gun Of q SOL
dier discharged his farewell shot DER
the grave where the remains OF the
late Mr.. Moore were deposited. The
farewell shot business was omitted
on account Of the scarcity OF ammu


nition. We buried him darkIy at
dead Of night, and did the best Job
We could under the circumstances


We could not borroW. bog. or steal q
pick or a shovel In tho entire neigh
borEool, and were obliged to turn
ths sods with our bayonets. which, by
the way, wos the fist thing that had
been turned by said bayonets since
We had been drafted. We did all this
by the struggling moonbeams misty
light, and the lantern dimly burning


with Just about half enough oil in it
and strip OF an old flannel under


shirt for wick. Few and short were
the prayers We said, the chaplain be-
ing home on furlough, and no one
within forty miles to take his place
We spoke not a word OF sorrow, oul
time being somewhat limited. as the
enemy was not far distant, and ad.
yancing with gigantic strides. We
thought. as We followed his narrow
bed, and smoothed down his lonely
pillow with canteen, that the foe
and the stranger would tread o'ei
his head, and We far away on the bill.
low; but not too Far, however, as the
enemy outnumbered US about seven
to one. Lightly they'll talk of the
spirit that's gone, and wonder where
they can get another flask filed with
the same, and DER his cold ashes up.
braid him, knowing, OF course, thai
he is in no condition to defend him
self; but he'll little reck il they lei
him sleep on in grave where a
Briton has laid him, and not bother
him to get up and take out o buria


permit, or ask him to pay ground
rent. We wish here to correct the
impression that slowly and sadly we
laid him down from the field of hi:
fame fresh and CORY. We did no
such thing. The corpse was washed
and put In good shape, and We defy
any man to show that there was q
drop OF gore about him. 1t Is true
that We carved not line and we
raised not a stone, because there was
not stone mason handy who would
do the job at reasonable figures
About this time we heard the distant
and random gun that the foe was sui.
lenly firing. so We adj burned the fan


eral, left the deceased alone in his
glory, and made ourselves scarce in
that vicinity.-Cincinnati Enquirer
Year: 1879

Regulate first the stomach, second the
liver: especially the first SO as to perform
their functions perfectly and you will re-
move at least nineteen twenticths of all
the ills that m lnkind is heir to, in this or
any other climate. Hop Bitters is the
only thing that will give perfectly healthy


natural action 10 these two organs. 90 80
Year: 1879

The Park Commissioners held their regular weekly
meeting yesterday. The Board authorized the con-
struction of roadway from the Fifth avenue en-
of the Park to the eastern side of the Museum
of Art order to facilitate to that institution.
The plaza at Fifth avenue and Fifty-ninth street.
which is low and swampy ground. was ordered to be
filled in and raised to the grade Of the street, and
the removal of certain trees in this vicinity
also recommended, they are considered to be
adopted:


Whereas bill has presented and is before
Department OF Public Parks shall establish parade
ground the ball ground the Central Park and
whereas the Central Park by its formation and the
for which it intended and used-that of a
pleasure ground for all classes of ctzenshas made
almost universal the sentiment OF the injustice
darics and whereas. BY years of careful thought
by many of the highest military officials of
this city and State, including the present Major
conceded that the plan and Of the Cen
Park calculated for military purposes snf


cen grounds within the Park be appropriated for
such purposes without diverng them from the for
which they intended and been for years,
snteed and enjoyed. Therefore


learned with much of the proposition before
Legislature for the taking of portion Of the grounds
recognizing the that such action would
tail tho Park feel IL thcir duty, only their
behalf but behalf of the citizens Of the city of New
York. to earnestly protest against the enactment OF
such and earnestly that tho bill before
the Assembly may not become = law.


Resolved That copy Of the foregoing preamble and eso
luton be duly and transmitted to the Hon
orable the Legislature.


After which the Board adjourned
Year: 1879

had no right to coerce State. That Is what
the Democratic party, according to their eau
Gus resolutions, believe now, and that is what
every man who supports the Democratic par
ty votes for, whether he does 50 Intentionally,
intell:gently, or not. Upon this platform,
under Democratic rule, the Union of States
would again be q rope of sand. 1t is true the
validity of the constitutional amendments is
conceded; that is to say, the Democratic eau
Gus agree that they may stand. They do not
coHcede that they were legally adopted. No
leading Democrat has gone that far. That
admission could not be twisted out of such
men as Thurman or Bsyard, or Hill or Lamar,
or Tilden or Hendricks. The concession,
therefore, is insincere. 1t is blind. Besides,
what would the constitutional amendments be
worth if the government were in the hands of
the Democratic party? What is the amend
ment guaranteeing the right of suffrage to the
colored race at the South worth now? Even
while the Democrats only have one foot in
power, it is virtually ignored. 1t is spit upon.
Now, put the South in control of the gov
ernment, which would be the case if the
Democratic party should get into power, and
judging it from the standpoint of human ma
ture, what would it be reasonable to expect ?


The Southern people were conquered and
largely Impoverished. Their slaves were set
free. The debts created in prosecuting the re-
bellion were wiped out. They had no money
| to pay claims for damages; nor to pay PEN
sions to MANNED soldiers, or the widows of
those who fell in battle. At the same time
the South is taxed to pay the national war
debt, and the thirty millions year in PEN
sicns to Union soldiers, or their widows or
orphans, as they are also to pay the claims Of
Union men for losses sustained during the
war.


Is it reasonable to suppose that this state of
things would be permitted to continue under
government controlled by the party that
conducted the rebellion and made the war for
the Union a necessity? This question be-
comes specially pertinent when We consider
that no leading rebel admits that the rebellion
was wrong, but, on the contrary, believes that
the war for the Union was crime.


If the South was right in the rebellion, as it
contends it was, and submitted to the con-
querors only as the conquered submit, would
it be inconsistent in that section, whea it gets
into the place of the conqueror, with the
purse strings in its hands, to reimburse itself
10 the extent of equalizing the losses Of the
two sections ? If, having got into power, it
should proceed to do that, what could the peo-
Pile of the North do about it2 The South wo'd
then, in addition, be in a position to secure
through legislation what it lost on the field of
battle.


These are matters worthy of grave consid-
Grafton, and now is the time to consider them.
-GCincinnati Gazette
Year: 1879


1t hung in the sun, the little house,
1t huLg in the sun, and shone;
And through the walls could hear his Voict
Who had it all for bis own.
The walls were of wire, as bright as gold,
Wrought in pretty design;
The spaces between for windows served,
And the floor was clean and fine.
There was plenty, too, to eat and drink,
In this little house that shone;
A lucky thing, to be snre, you'd say,
A house like this for ones own!
But the door was shut, and locked all tight,
The key was on the outside;
The one who was in could not get out
No matter how much he tried.
Twas only prison after all,
This bright little house that shone;
All, we would not like house like that,
No matter if 'twere our ownl
And yet, through the walls heard the voice
Of the one that who lived inside;
To warble sweeter song each day,
1t did seem as if he tried.
To open the door, he never sought,
Nor futtered in idle srife;
He ate and he draIk, and slept, and sang,
And made the best of his life.
And l, to myself, said every day,
AS his cherry song heard,
There's lesson for US in every note
Of that little prisoned bird.
We all of US live life like his,
We are walled on every side,
We all long TO do hundred things,
Which we could not if we tried.
We can spend our strength all foolishly
In discontented strife;
Or we can be wise, and laugh and sing,
And make the best of our life.


ST Nicholas for February
Year: 1879

Cousin Kate was sweet, wide awake
beauty of about seventeen, and she
took it into her head to go down on
Long Island to see some relations of
hers who had the mifortuns to live
there. Among those relations there
chanced to be young swain who had
seen Kate on q previous occesion, and
seeing, fell deeply in love with her.
He called at the house on the evening
of her arrival, and she met him on the
piazza where she was enjoying the
evening air in company with two or
three of her friends.


The poor fellow was 80 bashful that
he could not find his tongue for some
time. At length he stammereG out:


"HOw's your mother"


"Quite well, thank you."


Another silence on the part of Josh.
during which Kate and her friends did
the best they could to relieve the mo-
notony. After waiting about fifteen
minutes for him to commence to make
himself agreeable, he. again broke the
spell by l.i HI .f.-i


"How's your father?" which was an
swered much In the same manner as
the first one, and then followed anoth
er silence like the other.


"HOw's your father and mother?''
sgain put in the bashful lover.


"Quite well, both of them" This
was followed by change of glances
and suppressed smile.


This lasted some ten minutes more,
during which Josh was fidgeting in his
seat. stroking his Sunday hat. But at
length came


'How's your parents?"


This produced an explosion that
made the woods ring.