smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

Salem Mercury: From all parts of
this valley we learn that the pros
pect for the late sown wheat is very
discouraging. Unless rain comes
within few days there will be
much of the grain not worth cut
ting. Mr.. A. Siefarth, who resides
near Zena, in Polk county, called
on us yesterday and informed us
that with the exception of the fall
wheat there will be very little cut in
that vicinity and about Bethel and
Lincoln.
Year: 1878

MADAME THEIRS is sort of vain
glorious old lady. Yesterday, being
the first anniversary of the death of her
illustrious husband, there was grand
mock funeral in Paris. The widow
bore the expenses, amounting to $780,
600. That amount might have been
more profitabiy given to the poor of
France, and Mrs. Theirs would live
longer in the recollection of her coun-
try people, and die with the thought
that she had blessed at least a portion
Of the world. E1
Year: 1878

New York, Sep. 3.-The custom
house investigating committee met to-
day. jackson s. Schultz was the first
witness. He said the consolar system
and the bond system should be looked
into, and believed that many of the
bureaus and departments of the custom
house should be consolidated. He
asked that day be set apart to hear
the Chamber of Commerce of New
York and Boston Board of Trade ON
these questions, and Wednesday week
was decided upon.
Year: 1878

THE English government means bus
iness on the Asiatic railroad question.
Commander Cameron will leave Lon
don for the purpose of surveying a
route from the Mediterranean to the
Persian Gulf. Russia will have to fol-
low suit with road to the northern
boundary Of India.
Year: 1878

New York, Sept. 3.-President Bah
cock, Of the Pacific mail steamship
company, authoritatively denies that
his company is about issuing new
tariff, and calls attention to the fact
that overland railroads have exclusive
control of the matter of carrying
freight rates by steamer.
Year: 1878

A BRIEF cablegram states that there
is an impending split in the clerical
party Of Belgium. The religious ques-
ton is just now exercising both Bel
gium and Holland. The latter country
has advanced the most rapidly, having
successfully come out from the power
that kept control Of its public schools to
their detriment.
Year: 1878

THE colored people of New Orleans
appeal to their brethren in other states
for assistance. While donations are
pouring in liberally, there are not
enough to go around, and of course the
colored folks are kept to the last.
Year: 1878

DO not give yourself any unnecessary
worry, ma chere, Isshsve been spending the
time in dream land and did not miss you,
mademoiselle"


Daisy could not make up her mind to dis
close her secret even to Lizzie; so the latter
remained in utter ignorance as to her friends
encounter in their usually quiet library.


Several days after the events record above,
Lizzie and Daisy bade reluctant adieu to
Evergreen Dale, and returned to their school
and books. .......


CONCLUSION NEXT WEEK.
Year: 1878

A CLOCK MADE OF BREAD.-There was
recently received in Milan great curiosity
in the shape of a clock made entirely of bread.
The maker is Peruvian, native Indian,
and he has devoted three years of bis life to
the construction of this curiosity. He was
very poor, and being without means to pur:
chase the necessary metal deprived himself
regularly of a portion of his daily bread,
which he devoted to the construction of this
curiosity, eating the crust and saving the soft
part for his work. He made use of a certain
salt to solidify bis material, and when the va
rious pieces were dry they were perfectly hard
and insoluble to water. The clock is of re-
spectacle size, and goes perfectly we'll. The
case, which is also of hardened bread, dis
plays great talent, both in design and exeeu'
ton, and taken altogether it would be diff
cult to find greater curiosity.
Year: 1878

The BEST Cows FOR SMALL FARNs.-It
is not supposed that cows kept OF small
farm are put there for the purpose of raising
calves for sale They are placed there for
the butter they produce. The question is Of
ten asked, (which shall they be, blooded or
scrub stock ?" The question is easily answer
ed-keep only such stock as is best adapted
for the purpose. Our opinion and also that
of our principal dairymen of the country, is
that the Jersey, commonly called Alderney,
is, above all others, the best COW. They are
easily kept, very docile-a point not to be
overlooked-and beautiful, give milk of gu.
perior richness, from which is produced fine
iy colored, solid butter, having az equal text
ure and flavor. Butter made from such milk
has been known to keep when placed in dry,
not cold, cellar, without the use of ice, and
when taken out was in hard, firm condi-
ton, and was then sold at twelve to eighteen
cents per pound, higher than best ordinary
butter. The cost of Jersey is not much more
than for scrub, and they will more than make
up the difference in price in few months
Live Stock Record
Year: 1878

The BENEFIT OF LAUGHING.-Dr. Green,
in his Problem of HEALTH says that there is
not the remotest corner or inlet of the minute
blood vessels of the human body that does not
feel some waver from the convulsion occa.
stoned by good hearty laughter. The life
principle, or the inward man, is shaken to it's
innermost depths, sending new tides of life
and strength to the surface, thus materially
tending to insure good health to the persons
who moderately indulge therein. The blood
moves more rapidly and conveys different i'm
pressions to all the organs of the body as it
visits them on that particular journey when
the man is laughing, from what it does at
other times. For this reason every good
hearty laugh in which person INDUCES tends
to lengthen his life, conveying, as it does, new
and distinct stimulus to the vital forces.
Doubtless the time will come when the physi-
clans, conceding more Importance than they
do now to the influence of the mind upon the
vital forces of the body, will make their pre-
scriptions more with reference to the condi-
ton of the mind, and drugs for the body;
and in so doing will find the best and most eft.
fective methods of producing the required ef-
feet upon the patient.
Year: 1878

FACTS ABOUT WArER.-Place pitcher of
ice water in room inhabited, and in a few
hours it will have absorbed nearly all the per-
spiration gases of the room, the air of which
will become purer, but the water utterly hl-
thy. This depends upon the fact that the
water has the faculty Of condensing and there.
by absorbing nearly all the gases. At ordi'
nary temperature, q pint of water will con:
tain pint of carbonic acid gas and several
pints of ammonia. This capacity is nearly
doubled by reducing it to that of ice. Hence
water kept in a room awhile is always unfit
for use and should be often removed, wheth-
er it has become warm or not. And for the
same reason the water in pump should be
pumped out in the morning before any is
used. That which has stood in pitcher over
night is not fit for coffee water in the morn.
ing. Impure water is as injurious to health as
impure air, and every person should provide
the means of obtaining fresh pure water for
their domestic use
Year: 1878

The first accounts published in the
HERALD of the discovery and partial explor-
alton Of the great cavern at Luray having
excited general interest we deemed the
matter Of sufficient Importance to warrant
the detail of n gentleman Of high attain
ments and experience in scientific matters
to make a thorough examination Of the cave
and to report the result of his investigation
Our special commissioners first letter ap-
peared in yesterdays paper. His second is
published to-day, and we may here state,
to set all doubt and cavil finally at rest
that we vouch unreservedly and positively
for the truthfulness and unexaggerated
character Of every statement that has
been or may be made by our corre-
spondent. With the steady, well dis
ciplined mind of a man of science
he set about his task, rs his letters state,
with the impression that he should find
our first glowing descriptions OF the Won
ders Of the cave at least more enthusiastic
than the facts would warrant. His first
examination convinced him that his doubts
were not we'll founded, and his pictures Of
the crystal chambers, with their fairy-like
adornments, prove that the beauties of the
cave could not even be adequately described
except by master hand. One might we'll
imagine that the skill and taste of the
scenic artist had been employed to create
the effects painted by our correspondent,
and the description Of the music produced
by means Of the pendants in the stalactite
grotto call to mind the wonders Of Alad-
din's Cave.


1t is natural that SO remarkable discov-
cry as the great cave of Luray should bring
to the surface the accustomed number Of
ovcrwise critics and doubters. The Balti-
moreal, publishes an article in which the
assertion is made that the cavern is an old
and well known concern, called Rutfner's
Cave; but this story is set at rest by our
special correspondent, who shows that the
Luray Cave is quarter Of mile distant
from Ruffner's, is in 10 way connected with
the old cavity and leads in different direc-
ton. This is confirmed by statements from
some Of the original explorers Of Rufner's
in the neighborhood. There is no doubt
that the discovery has brought to light as
interesting natural curiosity as can be
found on this continent, and the letters Of
our special correspondent, as thorough in
scientific knowledge as they are rich in
descriptive merit, will be read with absorb
ing interest in all parts of the world.
Year: 1878

the necessity to guarantee himself against
one by a treaty with the other; but he had
great difficulty in determining which he
should be with and which against He saw
from the example of Hindostan and tire
crowd Of Indian princes, what would be his
fate on that side. He liked better the rela-
tions to Russia of the Central Asias she
dealt with and he inclined that way;
and he has not taken the responsibility
Of his defiance to England without
certainty on tho side of Russia. And
this war comes at time when England
ought to desire to keep her hands free out
Of consideration OF trouble nearer home;
for of course Russia has played the Ameer
in response to that parade Of force made by
England when she brought her Hindoos to
Europe last year. Russia reasoned then
with all Europe that England had no men.
Seven thousand Hindoos were sent to Malta
as hint that England had an inexhaustible
store where those came from, and Russia
now puts forward the Afghans as a means of
giving those Hindoos occupation and will
90 on with her projects in Europe.
Year: 1878

Mr. Peace is an English murderer and
burglar Of attainments. His story, as told in
the HI RAID yesterday, may be regarded as
one OF the strangest revelations in the history
of crime About his early youth we are not
informed, but burglary and picture dealing
appear to have been coordinate profess
sions with him until two years ago, when
lie fell in love with another mans wife.
The lady rejected his suit and he throat
encd to murder her. The husband, DIr.


Dyson, moved his household to another
place, and in about six weeks Mr. Peace
waited for the lady in tho back yard of her
house and fired pistol at her. He missed
her. Mr. Dyson came to the door to sec
what was the matter and received bullet
in his head. He died. The detectives
''scoured tho country for Mr.. Peace, but
he slipped through their fingers; he even
managed to have the idea prevail that he
had killed himself through remorse


This simple tale Of lust and murder is,
however, only the prelude to q career of
crime which makes oil the romance about
Claude Duval, Sixteen-st string Jack and the
dandy harrington fade into insignificancc.
For two years after his escape, having set
tied down in the suburbs OF London, he led
the life of a burglar and geMleman-very
much burglar and very much gentleman.
So much of burglar was he that he seems
to have worked out three districts success
sively, and 50 much of gentleman that
his establishment ut Peckham was the
pride of the neighborhood and him
self one OF its most hcnorcd residents.
Now, here was q murderer with q price on
his head ravaging whole neighborhoods at
his case and playing violin solos between
Year: 1878

The sum Of five and half million dollars
awarded by the Halifax Commissioners was
paid in London yesterday by our Minister,
Mr.. Welsh, and duly receipted for by Lord
Salisbury. Mr.. Welsh made the business
part of the transaction the occasion Of q
note, one half Of which consists OF. explana-
ton and the other half of protest. He
explains to Lord Salisbury that the award
is paid in consequence of the Presidents
the faith Of treaties and Of not
bringing into discredit the method
OF settling international disputes by
arbitration. The first of these reasons is
conclusive and might have dispensed with
the naming Of any other. The duty Of full
filling a compact cannot be strengthened
by any reasons OF utility outside of the
moral obligation and the binding sentiment
of honor. 1t was equally our duty to stand
by our bargain whether the bargain tended
to encourage or to discourage any particu-
lar mo lie of settling future controversies.


The protest which forms the latter part
of Mr.. Welsh's note is judiciously confined
to single point. The money is not paid
under protest with view TO demand it
back Mt some future time, but only with
view to preclude the idea that we shall
ever consent to regard this award as a
standard for estimating the value Of the
fisheries after the termination of the pres
ent arrangement. There is no protest that
the award is not binding because the Com
missioners were not unanimous, rs this
would be perfectly idle with reference
to future arbilrations. When our govern
mcnt makes another treaty of the kind it
can, If it should think it necessary, require
an explicit stipulation of unanimiiy to
make the decision binding. The country
will heartily approve of the manner in
which tho President has exercised the dis
crction with which he was clothed by Con-
gress in the act making the appropriation.
Year: 1878

be evident to the thieyes--frst, that they
can never realize any money out Of their
crime by holding together; and, next, that
they cannot all hope to escape this deter
mined and unfagging pursuit. 1t will
simply be matter for them to decide.
turn States evidence against his associates,
and thus not only escape punishment, but
secure n share of the reward. Whichever Of
the grave robbers studies the old adage Of
''honor among thieves" will be sure to find
himself before long in the felons dock with
one of his accomplices on the stand as a
witness against him.
Year: 1878

The hostile meeting which took place
yesterday between NJ. Gambetta and NJ. do
Fourtou naturally causes Il sensation i'll spite
of its bloodless result. The bare possibility
that Gambetta's life might have suddenly
terminated at this interesting stage Of his
career is not pleasant thing to think Of,
even by those who share the opinion of ex-
Governor Hoffman, EXPRESSED in the inter-
view which we printed yesterday. "A good
DEAL" he said, depends on Gambettas
life. but the Republic does not now depend
on any one life or two" Still it cam
not be disputed that the Republic has at
present no leader who could fill Gambetta's S
place. One of the greatest misfort,pes
which could befall France would be the loss
Of it's ablest statesman and the one man who
possesses the unlimited confidence of the
republican party. The Republic might
founder on to.established success without
him, but the loss of his guidance would be
an irreparable national calamity. While re-
joicing that he was unhurt we regret that
he was exposed to danger.


It was impossible, howevex, for him to
decline NJ. de Fourtou's challenge. He had
given just occasion for a challenge and was
compelled to accept the consequence inn
posed by the social opinion Of Paris. A
charge of falsehood was an injury which
admitted Of no other redress short Of an
absolute retraction, but the withdrawal of
the word which he made in the Chamber
Of Deputies was merely in Difference to the
rules OF the Assembly and therefore could
not heal M. de Fourtou's wounded honor.
He wisely refused to make any other
form OF retraction-wisely, because
it might have been ascribed to his
fears, and even the suspicion that
it was extorted would have i'm
paired his influence and usefulness. He
was governed by the same motives which
led our own Hamilton to accept the chal-
lenge of Burr. Gambetta's mistake con-
sisted in using the word, not in refusing to
retract it. He is naturally imperuous, but
a SOLDERING sense Of responsibility has en-
abled him to get the better of his impulsive
temper within the last few years, and we
trust that this single lapse will not be re-
peated. 1t does not become SO powerful q
leader to violate the decorum Of debate,
much less to employ an epithet of which q
duel was the necessary consequence.
Year: 1878

The Marquis of Lorne and his illustrious
consort, the Princess Louise, will, it is
thought, see the end of their ocean journey
on either Sunday or Monday next They
arc expected at Halifax about that time,
and it will be seen from our dispatches
this morning that the most extensive prep
arations are making to give them a rcccp-
ton entirely worthy of their position.
The fact that.the Duke of Edinburgh was
sent in advance Of the viceregal party
to receive them shows the interest
which the Queen and her government
feel in the event, and it must be exceed
ingly gratifying to Her Majesty and her
Ministry that the citizens of Halifax. and
the people OF the Dominion generally, have
OF their own motion so enth usastically re-
solved to more than meet the measure of
the expectation that was anticipated at
their hands. The reception at Halifax will
be invested with all the splcndor the army,
the navy and the civic authorities united
can confer. To-day tho fleet will leave
Halifax for the purpose Of meeting the
Sarmatian and escorting her in double line
to the harbor. AS they pass on their re-
turn, the forts and batteries will send forth
their laundering welcomes. On shore the
viceregal pair will find the city gay
with bunting and streamcrs, its streets
festooned with the hardy evergreens Of
Canadian forests and spanned by numerous
triumphal arches Of unique and striking
DESIGN. The train that will bear them to
Quebec will be the finest that ever whirled
over Canadian railroad. All this cannot
fail to be exceedingly pleasant to the new
Governor General and the Princess. 1t will
be unprecedented in the annals Of vice.
regal receptions, and will form an auspi-
cious opening of an administration that in
one way or another promises to bc the most
interesting and important in the history Of
Canada.
Year: 1878

The reward of fifty thousand dollars
offered by Judge Hilton for the arrest of
the men concerned in the Stewart grave
robbery, or Of ten thousand dollars Tor I'm y
one OF the malefactors, is in accordance
with the suggestion made in the HERALD q
few days ago, and affords, we believe, the
best possible chance of the discovery and
conviction of the criminals. 1t is, of course,


n distinct notification to all concerned that
the family and friends of the deceased have
fully resolved never to give dollar to the
robbers for the restoration of the
remains, but to leave no m cans untried


to accomplish the capture and punish
ment of the guilty parties. II will therefore
Year: 1878

"AIy life is my own to do what please
with, and propose to take it, said Mr..
Rowland Levine to his friends on Monday
night, and his friends appear to have as
sented to this peculiar view Of his case.
He had swallowed two ounces and half Of
laudanum two hours before; was deter
mined to die; would not swallow an
emetic-nor permit the employment of any
means to relieve his system OF the poison
and was prepared to put anybody out Of
the room who attempted to use force. His
feeble willed friends, therefore, sat and
looked on through the whole Of the period
in which it would have been possible to
save his life, and when at two o'clock he
became helpless through the operation Of
the poison taken they essayel tardy rem
edies too late to prevent death. Even the
doctor is reported as believing that his
course was proper one. AS to the as
sumption of the mans rights in the case,
which appears to be at the basis of their
error, no man in civilized societies has
ber of the community, and he is himself,
of course, member of the community. No
man has o right to kill any one in this State,
not even himself This man was therefore
engaged in the commission of crime, and
the police should have been called in and
should have used any necessary amount Of
violence to prevent the success Of the Grim
iIfal attempt. 1t is theory extensively
favored by the police OF some countries that
no man kills himself or attempts to kill
himself while in the use Of his right mind.
1t is theory that is practically convenient
and if applied in this case it would have
put the friends, had they forced proper
treatment in the charitable position Of
those who control lunatic for his own
good. In any view Of their duties as friends
or citizens they should have resisted the
suicide's attempts. AS it stands they are
accessories to the crime he committed. Any
person who deliberately assists another in
the commission Of self-murder is, under the
statute, guilty OF mansaughter; and what
attenuated proportion Of such guilt falls
upon those who only consent, but do not
actively assist, may be nice case for the
corrte
Year: 1878

Some Of the democratic papers are trying
to worry Mr.. Conkling's friends by discuss
ing the possibility of his defeat for the
Senatorship in spite Of his brilliant triumph
in the election of the Legislature. What
they have tossay on the subject is very wild
twaddle indeed Had there been any possi-
bility Of beating Mr.. Conkling he would
have been beaten in tho Republican State
Convention. A vigorous effort was made by
all his rivals and enemies of every stripe
and description to elect hostile delegates
to the Saratoga Convention. Everybody
knows what fasco they made of it. His
opponents could not muster in force enough
to dare to make even the semblance of
fight They were SO cowed and disheartened
by their failure at Saratoga that they made
no serious attempt to control the republican
nominations for members of Assembly. It
would have been idle and ridiculous fol
them to have undertaken anything of the
kind because the nominations of members
had to be made by the same Assembly
districts that chose the delegates ia
Saratoga. AS Conkling controlled the
districts when all his enemies were
strenuously working against him he had
less difficulty in controlling them after his
great success in the Convention had dis
couraged his opponents and added to his
own prestige and power. It was much
easier to nominate Conklipg men for the
Assembly than it had been to elect Conk-
ling delegates to the Convention from the
same districts, and this was done in all such
districts without even show of opposition.
Every district that sent Conkling dele
gates to Saratoga nominated a stanch
and reliable Conkling man for member
of Assembly. The consequence is that
Mr. Conkling has pledged majority,
OF the republican members-true and tried
adherents on whom he can perfectly rely
and whose fidelity cannot be shaken. All
the talk about formidable opposition to
him in the interest OF Ex-Governor Morgan
is idiotic rubbish. We shall not be sur
prised if Senator Conkling is reelected
without the formality Of caucus, as Sen.
ator Gordon was in Georgia day or two
since.


pose the confirmation Of Collector Merritt,
although he might do SO without at all en-
dangering his reelection. II Collector
Arthur should be reinstated in March he
would only have a fraction Of q year to
serve before the expiration Of his term, and
it is not worth while to embroil the party
over SO small a matter.