smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

should provide himself with a bottle of
SUIODONT, so that when he calls upon


tae ladies he can rinse his mouth and re-
move the odor which hovers around the
person OF the nieetized Not alone for its
aroma is it valuable, but as curative and
preservative of the teeth it is unsurpassed
Year: 1879

is a common complaint in hot weather. II
you feel SO, get a package of Kidney
Wort and take it and you will at once feel
its tonic power. 1t keeps up the healthy
action Of the Kidneys. Bowels aud Liver,
aud thus restores the natural life and
strength to the weary body.
Year: 1879

caucus of prominent republicans was held last
night to agree upon candidate for Commissioner
Wheeler's seat in the Police Board. The Aldermen
are to meet to-day. and If the republican leaders
agree upon q gentleman who is acceptable to Mayor
Cooper the latter will send his name in to the Board
Last night the feeling in the caucus appeared to be
in favor Of asking the Mayor to nominate either
Mummy.
Year: 1879

TmE animus Of the Democracy in Con.
yrcss, for which they will be called to
an account by the Northern people in the
elections to be held this year, was clearly
shown in the debates upon the army bill
that has now become law. While the
Democracy in Congress would willingly
tie the hands OF the President 80 as to pre-
vent him from using the army to over
some an armed obstruction to the laws,
they at the same time stubbornly resisted
on every occasion every amendment look
ing to, the punishment by fine or impris-
onment OF the Southern Red.shirt riders,
who make 1t their business to go round on
election days and terrifY away from the
polls all opposition to the Democratic
ticket. The Democracy in Congress had
no notion Of opposing any amendment
calculated TO interfere with the success Of
their Southern allies. Their playful
pranks are rather to be encouraged.
Year: 1879

Cincinnati Gazette.


We learn that a movement is on foot to
interest the citizens in the subject Of
smoke consumers. From time to time 1t
Is announced that consumer is discover.
ed, is to DO adopted, and is quickly to
revolutionize the city in respect to the
amount Of fuel saved in the first instance,
and in the aspect OF clean city outward.
ly, as well as the vast amount OF money
and time saved In every household In
keeping up to the point OF respcCtability
IN walls and carpets and furniture and
clothes. It is easy to SEQ that when this
time comes, and come It will, grace OF
temper as well as graces Of person and
surroundings will grow amazingly
throughout our bounds. Some intellf.
gent and energetic women have taken
hold OF the matter, procured the last re.
suits OF discovery, data OF methods
adopted in London, regulations control.
ling the use Of consumers in that historic
cally smoky town, and statistics which
will be useful in carrying into operation
similar appliances here, as well as an
amount Of zeal in the matter which Is
sure to push on any feasible project. They
design to bring the subject before the pub.
lilo at an early day, and mean to urge the
ladies OF the city to create sentiment
which shall touch the authorities who
watch over the interests OF the city, and
which shall not end in smoke.
Year: 1879

following the murder, reaching here on
Friday morning. lie returned to New
York to get his things ut his boarding
place on the following Monday, and while
on his way to his old lodgings passed the
New York detectives again. They did not
suspect him, and he came back 10 this
city safe again on Friday last.
Year: 1879

Tho Record for tho Last Week In May.


The following is an "abstract and brief
chronicle" of the welded bliss, OF otherwise,
conferred through the instrumentality OF the
County Clerk aud bis assistants during the
week ending Yesterday:
Year: 1879

From every quarter of the country there
comes favorable reports in regard to bust.
ness prospects. Dry goods, groceries,
manufacturing operations, and, last and
best of all, real estate, which is a sure
prognostic, feel the stimulus of healthy
movement and reviving confidence. The
opening of navigation will soon add to the
activity now apparent. 1t is about time to
lay off our sackcloth and ashes and lend
our aid to the renewal Of confidence and
! prosperity.
Year: 1879

A CRUELER HOAX has seldom been perpe-
trated than that which has started the
credulous darkies of the lower Mississippi
Valley up the river with the idea that
Kansas is the land of promise, where the
long-desired forty acres and a mule "
await every conner. The poor creatures are
pouring into St. Louis by the hundreds,
only to find that they have been the
victims of wholesale deception, and most
of them have no monoy either to start O
new home or get back to the old one.
Year: 1879

The way in which Mrs Hayes's example
tells in behalf OF temperance may be un-
derstood by the testimony of the Washing
ton Star, which says:


Mrs. Hayes is being strongly reinforced
on the wine question by all who attended
the entertainment of Tuesday evening,
since the universal comment is that the
order preserved in the supper-rooms was in
such agreeable contrast to the indecorous
behavior at many parties, even small ones
at private houses, given during this and
other seasons, where wine was served. At
some small parties it has become necessary
to remove the decanters after they had
been on the table. Surely it is better not to
offer wine to ones guests than to rebuke
them, even tacitly, by Withdrawing it before
the evening is over. A widely-circulated
| account of intoxication at a recent hand.
some entertainment and gross violation oi
decOrum in the supper-room is mentioned
| whenever the events of the season are dis
cussed, and the conclusion of all such con


versation is: Mrs Hayes is right, after all
about the matter"
Year: 1879

One voter in every fifteen in the city of
New York is an officeholder. The number
of salaried and fee officers is 6,56l. The
number of officials in the employ of the
State and United States residing in New
York city is not included in this count.
Year: 1879

Mr.. Moody, in his late address at Ire
mont Temple, told a striking incident OF q
lady who hesitated to come ont as con
vert, lest she should be debarred from going
to the theatre. But Mr. Moody assured her
that she might do anything that did not in
terfere with giving her supreme love to
Christ and she came out finally on the
Lords side Soon after she went TO the
theatre, but instead of any enjoyment in il
she found herself so troubled that she could
not stay through, and she afterwards de
clared that the whole thing was so changed
and looked so different from what it hat
formerly, that she had no relish for ii what
ever, Aud this is but common experience
of theatre-goers who become hearty and
earnest Christians. -Congregdtionaiisi.
Year: 1879

"Halloo, you man with pail and frock,
can you inform me whether his honor the
Governor of Vermont lives here 2" said
British officer, as he brought his fiery horse
to stand in front of Governor Chittenden's
dwelling. lie does" was the response of
the man, still vending his way to the pig
sty. ais his honor at home ?" continued
the man of the spurs. "Most certainly"
replied the frock. take my horse by the
bit then," said the officer. :" | have business
to transact with your master" Without
second bidding, the man did as requested,
and the officer alighted aud made his way to
the door, and gave the panel several hearty
raps with the butt of his whip-for he knew
that in those days of Republican simplicity,
knockers and bells, like servants, were in
but little use. The good dame answered the
summons in person aud having seated the
officer and ascertained his desire TO see the
Governor, departed to inform her husband.
of the guests arrival; but on ascertaining
that the officer had made hitching post of
her husband, she Immediately informed him
that her husband was engaged in the yard,
and could not very well wait upon him and
his horse at the same time. The predca-
ment of the officer can better be imagined
than described,
Year: 1879

The farmers of South Carolina,
and the townsfolk too, do not
a'w,tys realize what resumption
me ms. They SOC that the price of
what thoy have to sell goes steadily
down, and that in wages for daily
work there is a decline. But thev
do not always pause to note tho
relative difference, as it can be seen
in the following quotations for the
New Years days Of 1878 and 1879:
Year: 1879

The editor of the Vicksburg'' Herald
finds its to I've ''impossible thoroughly
to understand the causes which have
led to the sudden and almost universal
desire of the negroes 10 enligrate to
Kansas" but he thinks there must be
some "deviltry,' at the bottom Of it, al
though he cannot tell exactly what 1t
il. Perhaps if this bewildeted jour
nalist will try to ascertain why it is tn at
a district in his State which contains
about three negroes to one white man
sends to Congress rebel Democrat
who was one of the leaders in the Fort
Pillow hatchery, he may find the so
solution of the other problem little
easier. Even a poor and ignorant black
man may have disinclination to live
in community which confers its hon
ors, by fraudulent means, Of course,
upon men whose hands are red with
the blood of the negro race.


The above we clip from the Philadel-
phia Evening "Bulletin," but we en-
Gorse every word of it. The rebel
writer for the Morning "Herald' and
the "Gazttte" will begin to find out
that the REPUBLICAN is not alone in the
opinion it has formed of the present
rebel Congress.
Year: 1879

CoRREspoHDENTs for the REPUBLICAN,
must let us know who they are, or
their articles will 60 into the waste
basket. This of course applies to per
sons with whom We are not acquainted,
50 do not send us your Communications
unless you send your name along.
Year: 1879

Or THE THIRTEEN Democratic Senators
who took their seats in the Senate in
the present Congress only five Of them
could take the regular oath Of Office
4 sht OF them having been ex-rebrl Of
icr,s lad to take the modified oath.
That is the way it is going these times.
Year: 1879

TuE Nail Manufacturers here had a
meeting vest erday afternoon to consider a
imposition from Pittsburgh to advance the
.,ri toai9 35 rate, instead Of 81 10 as now.
4l.er discussing the situation at some
length they did not sec that an advance
WAS warranted by any demand now in
sirht, and so declined to accede to the
proposition. The feeling was that such a
rnse at this time Of year would soon be cut,
and that thus prices would simply be de-
moralized for the full trade. They decid-
ed that it was better to maintain firmly
the present rate until a demand should set
in sufficient to advance the price itself
rather than to anticipate any such demand.
Year: 1879

There is no modern fashionable no.
tin quite SO absurd as the general re-
ce.ved idea that to be beautiful and at
trLctive a woman must possess u wan,
spjrituetic face and figure OF sylpi,-
like proporti0ns-a frayility in nine
cases out of ten the result of disease.
BY many fashionable bellies it is consid-
eretl special compliment to he spoken
of as frail and delicate. They forget
that the naturally delicate face and petite
figure are very different from the pale
and Jlsease-stricken faces that meet us
in the city throughfares, look out from
the luxuriaDt carriages Of wealth, and
glide languidly through our crowded


drawing-rooms. II disease were un-
fashionable, as it ought to be, not u
lady in the land but would take every
possible precaution to secure the fresh,
blooming face and well-roundcd figure


that only health can give. Ladies'
should remember that much as gentle
mcn may profess TO admire the face
ard form paled and cmaciated by dis
ease, when they choose a. wife they
prefer blooming, healthful, buoyant.


spirited woman. DR.. Pierce's Favor
ite Prescription Is the acknowledged
standard remedy for female diseases
and weaknesses. IL has the two-fold
advantage of curing the local disease
and imparting vigorous tone to the
whole system. 1t is sold by druggists.
Year: 1879

Although not belonging to the snake
family, the electrical eel, which is in the
Geological Garden, attracts the attention
of great many visitors. 1t is found in
the rivers and marshes of South Ameri-
ca a,where the natives fish for it in novel
manner. A number of horses and mules
are driven into the water, and the cells
discharge their electric batteries under
the bellies of animals, and after becom-
ing exhausted they are easily captured.


Though a few of the animals some
times become stunned and are drowned,
the majority scramble to the shore and
soon recover. The electrical organs
range along the whole body from the
head to the tail, and although the speci-
men at the Zoo is but ten or twelve
inches in length, it is capable, as has
been demonstrated, of giving severe
shock.


A short time since while the keeper
went into back room, several visitors
were attracted to the tank in which it
was confined, and one of the number,
who appeared to be posted, induced one
of his companions to touch the eel with
his finger.


The next instant q loud crash was
heard and fearful crash, as though the
tank had been pulled to the floor, which
did not occur, however. But as soon as
soon as the man received the shock he
threw the covering of the tank, which
he was holding up in his left hand, with
such force that it fell behind the stand,
making a loud racket. The shock
was very powerful, but lasted for mo-
ment. After the victim of misplaced
confidence had recovered he walked out
of the building amid shouts of laughter
from his companions, and will probably
never fool with an electric eel again.
Philadelphia Evening Star"
Year: 1879

sian banker from making call on GER
tain of her husbands relative, and in q
case of nervous prostration which sud-
denly attacked lady when her husband
had refused to take her the seaside. Both
of these cases yielded promptly to the
exhibition of mice, and there is no
room for doubt that the cure was due
solely to the remedy employed.


The addition of mice to the materia
medica will interest the profession
everywhere, and we may expect to find
the mouse treatment adopted in ner-
GUS diseases by all regular physicians
1t is rather odd that the distinguished
physician has not turned his attention
to rats. There may be discoveries in the
rat field which will be of as much impor-
tanee as those which he has already
made in connection with mice.
Year: 1879

a. All cannot become scholars but
all may be wise unto salvation. All cam
not acquire wealth; but all may gain
the unsearchable riches of Christ. ALI
cannot walk upon the high places of the
earth but all may be great in the sight
of the Lord.
Year: 1879

Steubeurille Gazette.


1t was rumored few years ago that a
skitf containing several cans OF nitro.gly-
cerine was upset at Cox's ripple few
miles below this city, and that upon
search being made, the cans could not be
recovered. 1t seems that the explosive
material was being transported 10 Martins
Ferry or Wheeling to he used in blasting
out the bottom ot fI.rnace, and for safety
two men were employed 10 convey it in u
skill tn the desired point. When they had
proceeded on their way MS fur as Cox's rim.
pie they met a towhoat with large tow
OF empty barges, and it being very dark
night, she ran over them spi!ling the con-
tents Of the skitr into the river and
drowning one OF the men. We do not
know whether there is any truth in the
above rumor or not, but remember tho
ripple Of excitement the matter created at
thelime. lfit should happen to prove
true and some passing boat would acci.
dentally pick up can or two OF it this
low wafer, it might help to tighten her
over the shoal place little.
Year: 1879

comets that he telegraphed to an ob- server stationed in the southern hemisphere, "Biela touched the earth November 27. Look out for it in the opposite quarter" The astronomer looked in the direction indicated, and saw patch of light, like a cloudlet of little stars, moving rapidly across the heavens. It sped on until it disappeared. It had come rushing out of the north and disappeared in the south. Prof. Proctor thinks that tho great mass of the dissipated comet did not meet the earth, but it passed so close that the outlying parts of the clust Jr touched the earth. On next Thanksgiving night this swarm of flying meteors will again come flying out of the northern heavens, and Prof. Proctor predicts that then there will be brilliant display in the sky. It may not happen, he said, because perhaps the meteoric cluster may have been dissipated, but he felt pretty certain that there will be display.
Year: 1879

It is well to look at all sides of a subject before you indulge in an opinion. Curran once said to Father Leary "I wish, reverend father, that you were St. Peter and had the keys of heaven, be- cause then you could let me in.' The shrewd and witty priest saw the sarcasm and turned it's sharp edge on the skeptic by replying, By my honor and con- science, sir, it would be better for you that l had the keys of the other place, for then I might let you out"
Year: 1879

A DENVER GIRL for diversion, not only engaged herself to marry two men, but appointed the same day, hour, and place for @ secret wedding with each. Tho suitors were somewhat disconcerted by each others presence, as we'll as by the girls absence, but they finally came to an amicable understanding to de- spise her.
Year: 1879




four thousand loads of rubbish every week
for several weeks to come we shall at least
see the benefit of having Mayor
to stir them mp. Nobody has failed
to observe the activity with which
the official excavators have sought for
the city pavement since the initiation
OF proceedings against the Commissioners,
and it has been thought that the Commits
sioners were getting ready to have the
streets examined by experts who would,
testify to their condition before the Gov
ernor But perhaps when they report how
clean the streets were the Governor will
want to know the date of their examine
tion. If he does this late activity will not
help but what it will do is to prove the
possibility of cleaning the streets, and
therefore show more plainly the delinquency
OF the Commissioners. We hope the Com
missioners in their present cleaning up will
not neglect their statistics, but keep an
accurate and minute account of the number
of loads and half loads removed from the
streets between the time of the Mayors
movement and the discovery of the pave
ment in every part Of the city, because
from the figures thus obtained we may
learn just how much rubbish has to be
removed every week, since the weekly
quantity will be about one-twentieth Of
what has now to be taken.
Year: 1879

Fourteen thousand loads OF dirt from the
surface OF the streets and twenty thousand
loads of ashes have been removed since the
Mayor intimated to tho Police Commis-
sioncrs that he intended to take some
vigorous action in regard to their abandon
ment of the performance of their duties


At this rate the streets will present y be
clean; ia fact, they are now clean in many
places. For moro than year it has not
been possible to get so good view Of the
pavement as may bs had now, and II tho
Commissioners keep ON and remove thirty
Year: 1879

Mayor Cooper yesterday submitted to tho
Legislature his views regarding the pro-
posed reduction Of salaries in the several
departments of tho city government. The
Mayor is correct in saying that q reduction
that would not reach the Police, Fire and
Educational departments, which exhaust
about seven millions Of the ten millions
appropriated for salaries, would be an in
significant saving. lie might have added
that the pairing down of all salaries, includ-
ing these deparsments, would only b, as n
drop in the bucket Of economy as compared
with the decrease in our annual taxation
that might be secured by the consolidation
Of departments, the abolishment of useless
Year: 1879

ludicrous to pretend that the freedom of
elections is endangered by the presence Of
federal troops at the polls, IL we have arith-
metc enough to compute the proportion
between the available sotliers and the
mu1titudinous polling places The dan
ger from this source is chimerical; and, on
the other hand. it would be preposterous for
the President to attach any importance to
the futile law which permits the presence
of troops at the polls. Weafe confident he
will not veto the Army Appropriation bill
fox a reason SO utterly empty and frivolous.


Next, as to the Federal Election law. The
democratic caucus has not decided TO re-
peal it entirely, but only to amend it. All
that part of it which relates to elections
outside of large cities is to stand, that
part Of it which relates to cities Of twenty
thousand inhabitants and upward is to be
repealed. The supervisors of elections in
each election district are to bc continued,
with the right to examine and
port all the stages of mn cleo
tion. This will furnish to Congress am
pie means for Judging OF the validity of the
election of its own members, and it is diff
cultto see that anything beyond this is i'm
portant. 1t is proposed to repeal those
sections of the Revised Statutes which
authorize the appointment of u chief super
visor or elections in cities of not less than
twenty thousand inhabitants and the ap-
pointment OF deputy marShals Whether
tho President will think il his duty to veto
bill which repeals the iiscriraination
between large cities and small towns in the
management of elections is question
which only he can decide.
Year: 1879

Elsctricity Versus Gas-Edison's Light.


We recently advised the sceptics and gas
manufacturers to leave Edison alone with
his electric light and make Old Father Time
the umpire az to the merits of gas and cleo
tricity for public lighting. We felt sure
that If Edison's invention turned out to be
what he claimed it would be all the argu-
ments to prove it otherwise would be vain,
and many persons would feel anxious to
recall their hasty criticisms. 1t was in the
interest Of such persons that we rendered the
above advice, because we desired to spare
them the modification OF finding themselves
in the ranks Of false prophets, and that
the failure of their prophecies was due to
their ignorance of the ground on which
they ventured. Our report of the first
practical illustration of the progress made
by Mr.. Edison toward perfecting his plans
for electric lighting will be read with much
interest. In the battle Of the lights the
public have been hoping for the success of
nny new mode OF public and private light
ing that would relieve poor civilized hu-
mnnity from the despotic, and not always
JuSts iuic VI VIZ buS hAStci hc III
ventor at Menlo Park has, il is claimed.
practically succeeded in his object of divid-
ing the current to furnish number
OF electric lights each equal to eighteen to
twenty candle power on one circuit and in
the proportion OF six lights per horse power
expended in generating the current. These
are remarkable results, even if they ex-
haust his powers of invention. But we do
not think they do. They represent only
the first developments of system Of light
ing destined to replace that of gas, as the
latter has replaced tho ordinary candle.
But the application of gas does not end
with the superiority of its illuminating
power. We feel satisfied that instead of u
decrease in the manufacture of gns there
will bc an increase ii the chemists only
show the same amount of skill in applying
IL TO other uses MS they display ingenuity
in vainly argning the impossibility of en-
ploying electricity for lighting purposes.
Edison's successwill inspire other in ventors
TO rival and surpass him, and the world will
be benefited, although some established in
terests mny temporarily suffer.