smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

Horatio Seymour and Senator Ker-
nan we're interviewed on the same day.
This is what the Senator said:


II have all along believed that the
regular Democratic nomination would
be successful, and that Robinson will
be our next Governor. | feel certain
he can be elected. But tell our peo-
pie now, as l told them at Syracuse,
that there is need of very hard work
to make our victory certain, and that
if they expect the Administration, to
do anything in opposition to Mr.. Cor
nell and his ticket they are very much
mistaken. l told them then that j Ohm
Sherman. Garfield and the rest of Mr..
HAYES friends would be in New York
to stump the State before the campaign
closed, and that there would be no
lack of Administration canvassers.


"Will the Administration do this
after having turned Cornell out of Office
as man unfit to be surveyor at New
York?'


THAT makes no difference in a po
litical fight. The administration lool
upon the struggle in this State as th'
opening of the Presidential contest o
1880. and they will make any sacritic
of their personal feelings in order t
win. | have warned our people of thl
Already the Republicans have organ
lied and opened a general canvass
the State, and they have tho men an
the means to do the work thoroughly
If our people expect to win-and
believe they will wiu-they must max
the same sort of an effort"
Year: 1879

No Democrat has any business to
identity himself with the huIlabalOo
over Grant. If he were being vel
coined back home simply as distin
guished traveller and citizen, it would
be different, but these receptions are a
part of deliberate programme gotten
up to bring him before the public
as a Republican candidate for Presi
dent. His journey was prolonged for
this purpose The whole scheme has
politics for a groundwork, and no dem-
ocrat should leLd himself to it, unless
he wants to vote for Grant for Presi-
dent. In that event, the more noise
he can make and the bigger fool he
can make of himself the better it will
he
Year: 1879

A negro, while digging well on


Mr.. John Walters place near Albany.
Ga began suddenly yelling out at the
top of his voice for the bucket to be
let down, which was quickly done,
aud the darkey was drawn up to the
top of the well trembling and painting,
with eyes as white as cotton and big
as saucers. Investigation revealed a
swift underground, stream, rushing
along underneath the spot who're the
negro had been digging. There was
only thin crust between the negro
and the stream, and it suddenly began
to give way. The darkey could SEE
and hear the water rushing below him


He escaped without injury, but hi'
tools sank in the water and were lost
Year: 1879

1t is settled fact that Hon. Oscar
Turner will be a candidate for re elec-
ton to Congress, and it would be our
souls delight to see an open race be-
tween him and a good, stauneh Demo
crat, one who is not afraid to eat lit
tie FIRE when necessary. Such race
would result in the overwhelming de
feat of the Hon. Oscar, and demon
strate to him that the Democracy of
the district is still supreme.-May field
Democrat,
Year: 1879

They have a sensation among the
doctors ia the East over the death OF
a man who, it is supposed, was poison
ed by dentist who filled one of his
teeth with arsenic. The effect was to
destroy all the flesh about his head,
and cause him to suffer dreadfully up
to the time of his death. The dentist,
Boston man, denies that be used ar
senic, and says the poisoning musI
have been in some other way.
Year: 1879

With all of its other wonders North
Carolina has now given birth to one
Of the most remarkable monstrosities
ever known to the medical world in
this or any other age. This pheno>
menon has been discovered to exist
few miles from Monroe. 1t is stated
by the father, negro living some ten
or twelve miles south of this place that
this prodigious lusus natuI9 is almost
an exact counterpart of the frog, with
hands, feet and in form of body very
near similar to that of this amphibious
animal, in habit almost the same. 1t
exhibits a decided preference for the
waterly element, and at night, when
the croaking gutteral notes of the nu-
merous Neptunian choirs are re echod
aud reverberated through the wood
and marshes, this would be aquantile
peals forth its strange, unnatural song,
which the father AYERS is almost the
same in intonation and sound as that
produced by the pond frog only o
coarser and louder scale keeping it up
until about the hour of midnight,
when be, she or it luls him, her or it
self into quietness and sleep. 1t has
been on exhibition 10 this place for
the past two days. The creature has
attraced great deal of attention and
a number of medical men from a dis
tance have come here IN the past few
DAYS to examine it.
Year: 1879

There are two constituent parts OF
this adipose tissue. that are to be elm


mated before the butter is gotten pure
and clear; the membranous sacks and
tissue, in which the fat is carried, and
the Stearine or pure tallow. Ihe
points of their respective departures
will be noted.


These masses Of fat are carried, at
ter being thoroughly washed, by
steam elevator to the fourth story o


the building, where they are cut Z
atoms in a small mill with multitude
of sharp revolving knives. THIS cut
ting fine of tie membranes, leaves the
oil cells free to rise to the top, Tx
cream, just as soon as the norman ant
Year: 1879

The committee on investigation in the Brodskcy.
Patterson case met at the Metropolitan Hotel last
night. The time was occupied on the part of the
counsel of Mr.. Patterson to prove intimidation Of
voters. Opposing counsel indulged in argument
upon the question with the committee. Several wit
nesses were called. but nothing Of Importance was
developed. After two witnesses had left the stand
Mr. Davenport suggested that it should be recorded
that they had given their evidence without being
sworn. An adjournment was taken until three p NJ
-1av
Year: 1879

seciGcaons proof to supply information these
points Is impossible controvert yonr assertions except
as have done. II they made more specific
can make my denial specific. If you confront me
with any proof to sustain them can overthrow II
by counter proof. But until you specify the par
tcuxr facts aud circumstances which base
conclusions and which have t to
Judgment before hearing do not afford the oppor


unIty heard which the law prescribes. That
tnnity demand rs matter Of right Iprotest against
proceeding part looking toward removal
specific allegations OF the for it, which


shall have opportunity to controvert supported by
evidence which shall have opportunity Ia confute


have ia all things conscientiousy sought to do my duty,
and feel that have In all things done duty Police
comm ssioner and member of the Board of Police of the
city OF New York. Yours respectfully.
Year: 1879

A correspondent of the Chicago In.
ter Ocean, now travelling with the Mexi-
can excursionists, writes: From this
height the valley looks like basin,
blocked up at the South by solitary
mountain that rises, like Ben Lomond,
and cuts off the view of Lake Zochimil-
west is the rugged Sierra Madre. In the
Tezcuco, an unbroken mirror, on the
further shore of which the old city of
the same name can be distinctly seen.
To the north is Guadaloupe, with its
sacred crest, while the cities of the
Aztecs and Tacubans fill up the center
of the picture. To the southeast stand,
cold and grand, Popocatapetl and
Ixtachuatl, side by side, a resting place
for light clouds that float lazily through
the air like the robes of angels who
might hold court there in silence. To
some, Orizava appears the grandest
of the great peaks of Mexico, but not
me. Its peak rises sharp and cold from
amidst the lesser mounts, like a men,
Der of the earth through which the
pulse of life had ceased to throb, so
still and chill with its snowy summit,
pointing always and forever upward to
its home among the skies. The twin
mountains, in sight from Chapultepec,
are more massive and ragged in their
outline. They, too, are always white
capped with eternal snow, carpeted in
purity, as though the Creator had set
apart these spots for His own use,
where the foot of man might not tread
nor pollute the sanctity of His terrestrial
throne. What must have been the
glory of the scene when the fretful
mountain used to blaze out In angry
fires, and the trembling earth quivered
with the fury of its roar! But the fires
are sleeping now, only light wreath of
smoke rising now and then to indicate
the latent power that is slumbering
within its depths.
Year: 1879

urge upon the President the necessity of
signing the law restraining Chinese immi-
grafton. The San Francisco clergymen and
other influential bodies also joined in the
appeal for the Executive sanction of the law.
The New York Chamber Of Commerce, on
the other hand, denounce the law as unjust
and impolitic, and interceded for the Exec
utive veto.


The Marquis of Lorne and the Princess
Louise will visit New York in May. A suite
of II rooms has been engaged at the Wind
sor Hotel, which will be especially decorated
and prepared for their occupancy.
Year: 1879

AN artist went to his allopathic
doctor for a remedy for q cold which
kept his wife at home. "Paint your
wife's back with IODINE" was the in
junction. In the evening the artist set
to work. His artistic fancy got the bet
ter of him. He sketched landscape
with river in the foreground, noun
tains in the background, and introduced
bits of still life. "Have you not fin
ishedP" said the wife impatiently.
"Yes," he replied, s'one-half minute
more to put my name and send for the
framer.''
Year: 1879

The boy who thinks himself killed
if asked to saw stick of wood at home,
will go over to Johnny Bragg's house,
and not only saw all the wood he can
lay hands on, but split it and pile it up
in the bargain, and come home and tell
what a "good time" he has had.-BoS-
ton transcript.
Year: 1879

The manner of living in France is
much the same as in the South of our
own country. The early meal, which
takes the place of our breakfast, con-
sists only of roll and cup of coffee or
chocolate. The second breakfast, as it
is called, is much like our dinner, and
their dinner, which is eaten between five
and eight o'clock, never consists of less
than five courses, and often of more.
Vino is an indispensable article with the
Frenchman. Be he young or old, rich
or poor, he must have his wine. The
may be purchased at the exceedingly
reasonable price of fifteen cents per bot
tie. Holding the fact in mind that a
dinner in Paris is no dinner at all with
out its accompanying bottle of wine, we
are surprised to find so little intemper-
ance here. Even on New Years Day,
the day of the year in this country, the
city was perfectly orderly and quiet,
Notwithstanding the crowds of pleasure
seekers who thronged the streets from
early in the morning until late at night.
Giving the French people all due credit
for their orderly conduct in general, we
can not but deplore their utter disregard
of the Sabbath. They seem to have no
idea that there is a commandment, "Re-
member the Sabbath day." etc. Stores
are open, and people are making pur.
chases the same as on week days; and
any Sunday, by glancing across the
street, we may see family seated at q
window engaged, and seemingly very
much interested, in card-playing, for il
seems to be their regular Sunday after
noon recreation.-COr. Paterson Press
Year: 1879

And went for that Heather Chinee.


In the scene that ensued


did not take a hand,


But the floor 1t was stTewed


Like leaves on the strand"


with fragments of maceIated Com.
mercial House hash, the air laden
with perfumes therefrom, and-Howe
convinced all present that no truer
Republican could be found in the
State. Howe's a brick! Has ability,
industry, indomitable perseverance,
cheek-nO name for it-and has the
happiest faculty of getting his bag
gage on the advance train before it
is out of sight. He never "gets left"
either in a senatorial contest, or an
election in Nemaha!


The new State officers wear their
honors easy. The message Of Gov.
CARRIER is pronounced by all, not ex-
celled by any previous State paper.
1t is understood he will make a short
trip east, and then return to his form
er business at Red Cloud. The best
wishes of the people go with him.


Gov. Nance briefly outlines the pol
10y of his administration, which is In
perfect keeping with the best interests
and future prosperity of the young
State of which he is, by-the-way, the
youngest Governor in the United
States. Those who are most intimate
with him, predict an energetic and
course of official conduct.
Young Mathewson, the member from
Madison county, is making a splend-
d and popular record as Speaker of
he House. Cad chief clerk of the
House, and who IS well known to
you, and in all parts of the State,
Year: 1879

EDITOR HERALD: = Knowing
your. uniform courtesy, especially
to myself, l simply wish to say to
Messrs. Buchanan and Francis that
I am patiently waiting for that
''forgery case" to come up. AT the
time I defended myself In the Coun-
Gil and told the two honorable COM
mittee men with myself on finance,
that 1 knew that one of them re-
quested me to make the change of
equalizing the bills,an he denying
the fact, I did not then know who
the persons were who witnessed the
request to me to make the change;
but since that time, two persons
have volunteered to state under
oath, that he did so request me to
change the bills, one of them hav-
ing just asked him what he should
do to demonstrate against this re-
duction in his wages, when Mr..
F. replied that he need not remon-
strate, for that he and Mr.. Butler
would fix that by changing the
bills.


Now it will doubtless give the
gentleman, yourself and the honor
able Council, great pleasure to
know that 1 shall not disturb the
dignified deliberations of that au.
gust body any more, after this date,
as cannot do SO with honor to my
self and my party or to the abused
citizens of this fair city.


1t was, indeed, fearful falling
off when five out Of twelve men
elected by the Workingmen went
over to the contemplate minority
of three; but when 1t is reduced to
one voice alone crying in tine will
derness of corruption and dishonor,
it shows that the plea of the work.
man shall never more be heard in
the Council Of this city for the
coming year.


Respectfully, Mr.. Editor, yours,
in fair field and q fair fight,


JESSE II. BUTLER.
Year: 1879

If we had known that the veteran OF
the Meridian Mercury intended to take
the dodge of denying the authorship OF
his pistol bill, and then get mad because
The COMET championed his claims for
State Senator, we would not have inter
fered in the matter at all. How he over
expects to be elected unless we do give
the people of his district some excuse
for voting for him, we don't know. We
want him in the State Senate as a
neutralizer. He will be certain to op-
pose all measures that ought to pass,
and his opposition will greatly aid the
passage of good laws. In case he is
elected, all the other senators would
have to do would be to wait and see
what course Col. Horn took, and then
go the other way. His faculty for tax
ing hold of the wrong end was hardly
ever equaled, and never excelIed,
Year: 1879

EXECUTIVE MANSION, I


Washington, d. c., Jan. 26, 1868.
Major General Hooker:


GENERAL-I have placed you at the head
of the army of the Potomac. Of course l
have done this upon what appeared to me
to be sufficient reasons, and yet think 1t
best for you to know that there are some
things in regard to which am not satisfied
with you. believe you to be brave and
skilfull soldier, which, of course, like.
also believe you do not mix politics with
your profession, in which you are right.
You have confidence in yourself, which is a
valuable, if not indispensable quality. You
are ambitious, which, within reasonable
bounds, does good rather than harm; but
think that during Gen. Burnside's command
OF the army you have taken counsel of your
ambition and thwarted him as much as you
could, in which you did great wrong to
the country and to a most meritorious and
honorable brother officer. l have heard in
such way as to believe it, of your lately say
ing that both the army and the Govern.
ment needed dictator. OF course, it was
not for this, but in spite of it, that 1 have
given you the command. Only those gen.
erals who gain successes can set up as dicta-
tors What I now ask of you is military
success, and l will risk the dictatorship.
The Government will support you to the
utmost of its ability, which is neither more
nor less than it has done and will do for all
commanders. much fear that the spirit
which you have aided to infuse into the
army, of criticising their commander and
withholdiding confidence from him, will
now turn upon you. 1 shall assist you as
far as can to put it down. Neither you
nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could
get any good out of an army while such
spirit prevails in it. And now beware of
rashness. Beware of rashness, but with
energy and sleepless vigilance go forward
and give us victories.


Yours, very truly, A. LINCOLN.
Year: 1879

Tho stalwarts of Boston are bette
finished stalwarts than the stalwarts @


other sections. Their philanthropy j


more pluvious. The saints of BostoI
are better specimens of the articl


than the average saints of Nortl


America, The intelligence of Bostol


is grade finer than other intelligences


It was left for the mental grasp of


Radical newspaper of Boston to dis


cover and point out the striking par


ellel between the Children of Israel in


Egypt and the children of Ham in the


South. Israel had "Moses," and the


stalwarts found some trouble in raising


up suitable Moses for Ethiopia. II


was an easy thing to raise up an army


of KuKlux and have all the male chill.
dren of Ham brutally butchered in the
night. But to find juvenile Moses in
the bulrushes, and then wait for him
to grow up and lead his people out OF
the land of bondage was problem too
heavy even for Boston stalwart. How
ever Boston has discovered that the
yellow fever epidemic last year in the
South was another form of the genuine
Egyptian plague that scared the origi-
nal Pharaol, nearly to death. But like
the cruel heathen of Egypt the Phar-
aohs of the South continued to harden
their hearts, and refused to let Sambo
depart in peace. In this state of the
case Moses was necessary and must
be found. Stalwart engenuity was
equal to emergency. They found
him in Nashville. He is described as
an old mulatto, II years old, full OF
fervor and devotion to the Second Ex
odus. They have also found the prom
ised land, but up to this date Moses
has no rod to strike the rock of Horeb
and draw forth L wing streams of water,
and the heavens have rained down no
mspna for the starving multitude that
We nave heard of. II appears that the
Exodus as far as it has gone has taken
an unscriptural turn, and the unhappy
victims of oppression are calling on
the stalwarts for bread. This is Cir
cumstance calculation to give q moral
shock to stalwart philanthropy.
They had made no calculation of hay
ing to feed and clothe the oppressed.
Their idea was to draw them away
from their southern taskmasters, and
be their bosses themselves. 1t grieves
o stalwart to think that he freed Sambo
and yet don't get the benefit of his
labor. The stalwart mourns because
there is good prospect of reconcilia-
lion, happiness and joint prosperity
between the Egypt and Israel of the
South
Year: 1879

NEW YORK, May IS, 1879.


On Wednesday German of middle age.
who is known as John the Wood Chopper -
was discovered in dying condition IN lit
tic cellar where he kept wood and coal for
sale. 1t was thought that he was starving
He was removed to Bellvue Hospital, where
he died in great agony shortly after his ar
rival. A quarter of an hour after his death,
while an attendant at the hospital was put
ting a shroud on the body, an arm of the
corpse suddenly flew up, nearly striking the
attendant in the face. The arm was
straigltened ont by the astonished attend>
ant. but it again faw up. The man ran to
one of The doctors, who said it was only
muscular contraction of the arm, a not
unusual occurrence in dead bodies The
dead man was poorly dressed. but forty dol
lars in American and German bank notes
was discovered sewcd in the lining of his
waistcoat. post mortem examination
showed that death was caused by dose Of
Paris Green.
Year: 1879

We shall never be happy until some
lterprising publisher" starts Know
othing organ. There are Know
othings in this country and all they
eed, is an organ to entitle them to a
Irn arty divide in the county board of
iistrars,
Year: 1879

NEW YORK, May THE strike OF the long,
shofemen appears to have been partially sue
cessful. The agent OF the Pacific Mail Steam
ship company finding It impossible to get hts
steamer on On time yesterday, decided to give
the men their former wages. He had NO tiIfn-
Guilty whatever In finding plenty OF the long
shoremen ready to go TO work. It was rumored
last night that several OF the Coastfng COM
French Line finding it impossible to get the
Canada ready last night, took on the old hands
giving them the Old wages OF IS cents per hour
Tor night work and 80 cents for day work
Year: 1879

Among the countless forms of walking
and running matches now in vogue,
there is one which was Il great favorite
at the sea in the day of long voyages
and still frequently to be met with
Thirty pieces of ship biscuit are laG
along the deck yard apart, and the
man who can pick them up and bring
them back to the starting point, one by
one, and in the shortest time, wins the
day. A very wclI-coutcsted biscuit
race" of this kind lately took place on
board South Atlantic steamer, between
two Of the second-class stewards. The
first who started, slim, active young
fellow of twenty-three, was the favorite
with the majority, but some of the
knowing ones shook their heads at
his commencing with the nearest pieces,
and thus leaving the hardest work to the
last. He made good time, however,
though showing visible signs of cxhaus-
tion towards the end; but his wary op-
ponent, knowing himself to be the
weaker man, flew at once to the far end
of the Ene, thus making each successive
journey shorter than the last. AS the
race neaTed its close the excitement be-
came intense. Many of the passengers
shouted and gesticulated as eagerly as
the sailors themselves; and the motley
crowd swaying to and fro in the lantern
light (night having already faIlen), the
shouts Of encouragement from one side
and outspoken ridiCule from the other,
the loud and frequent appeals to the
timekeeper, and the flying figure of the
runner in his striped shirt and jaunty
white pantaloons, leaping, turning, and
darting backward and forward like a
snake, made very picturesque scene
The second man proved the conqueror,
but only after hard struggle, his time
being 8 minutes Is seconds. to his
antagonists 9.26.