smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

cell. At o'clock the Sentinel CORES
pondent found him waiting Tor some
Thing to come, he hardly knew what.
He said that he bad slept well, and bad
eaten hearty breakfast, and was feeling
pretty well. He had not then heard from
Captain Hunt, his attorney, and remarked,
"While there's life, there's hopei" he
said that he had made all preparation for
the future life that he could. He thought
that he had been entirely converted, and
would 20 to heaven. He still asserted
that the murder was an ac-
cident. Speaking of his courage, he
lid that he was not certain this morning
how be would meet his fate. He said of
t lat, as of his religion, that he would do
the best he could. L noticed that he was
beginning to grow somewhat nervous
with this conversation, and left him. Half
an hour later he was


VISITED BY HIS SPIRITUAL ADVISER.
About half past o'clock Captain Hunt
returned from Springfield and without a
word OF hope. Entering the cell he told
the prisoner that all was over, and that he
must consider this the end OF life. For a
moment this intelligence stupefed him,
but few moments later he began to
realize its import, and bis nerves began to
tail. From that moment he WAS utterly
PROSTATE until the time arrived for the last
walk from the prison to the gsllows. The
Rev. Mr.. Burks of Vermillion held
religious services about 10 O'Clock, and the
prisoner prayed with them in a broken,
mumbling sort of way, wiping his eyes
now and then, and uttering


CALCULATIONS AND FBRvENT AMENs.
About 10 o'clock the militia marched in a
oodv to the Jail, and thence were dis
tributed to guard the alleys and
avenues leading to the prison. Il
is fact which can not be denied,
that this militia arrangement always seems
fsrcial. Mere boys who don't understand
he use of q firesrm are usually selected.
as in this case, and verely believe that had
some wag set going the rumor that a
crowd was about to rush in and rescue
Johnson, such collection of pale faces
and quaking limbs would have been seen
as was never before known in Paris. But
don't want to disParsge the
boys. l only wish to gently
insInuate that militia companies, like
average juries, are not likely 70 sa ve the re-
of the one and the arms of the other for
strength and support.


PUBLIC SENTIMENT.


1 took occasion to sound public senti-
ment as much as possible. There is but
little feeling for him, very lit
tie. All his life a losier
and terror in small
way, the public verdict seems to be, "a
good ridance" When Cszsy was hung
the feeling was different. There was q
strong sentiment in his favor, and it was
used by friends who sought to influence
executive clemency in his behalf. But
there seemed TO be a general feeling against
Johnson.
Year: 1876

THE LAST HOURS OF THE CoNDEMNED--


WITH HIa SPIRITUAL ADvIsERs-AFrBR


THE FAILURE F THE REPRIEvE-rHE


MILITIA AND PUBLIC SEN iIMENT.


The day was ushered In by bright SUP,
very much such a day as that on which
poor John Cazsy one year ago took his fat al
drop out OF the world. The pris-
oner was awake at sn early hour,
and pacing up and down the hoor OF his
Year: 1876

Slowly, one by one, the hours of the
night were counted by the iron tongue OF
the city clock, each stroke seeming to
knell the fate of the human being doomed
to suffer the rigors of the law on the NOR
row. How each stroke must have fallen
like lead upon the heart OF the man who,
behind the heavy iron wicket, counted
usher in the last dsy of his ill-spept life.
A telegram from his attorney, then doing
his best In Sprins field to save him, had
already conveyed tue intelligence clearly
aud crushingly, in the lsconic expression, D,
"No bopev When this was was read
Johnson wiped his eyes. stared slowly
about and then droopsd his head. he was
convinced that AL was over.
Year: 1876

On motion the foregoing report was
adopted and the Auditor directed to
issue warrants 10 accordance Herewith.


1t is ordered that tho Auditor be
authorized to make all collections from
parties who are indebted to the county
for care Of the Insane, that are able to
pay, and report quarterly to the Board
Of Supervisors.


The following was offered:


The undersigned agree to pay Cedar
county twelve hundred dollars in full
payment ef al accounts and demands Of
every character and 6nal settlement Of
charges growing ont Of building the
west abutment Of the Cedar river bridge,
said money to be paid on or before the
Year: 1876

When Seth got home from macker-
elling he sought his Sarah An, and
found that she, the heartless one, had
found another man. And then most
awful tight he got, and so he went
away, and bound himself to cut live
oak all down In Florida. He pined


upon the live oak land, he murmur-
ed in the shades; his axe grew heavy
in his hand, all in the wild wood
glades. MosquetOes bit him every
where, no comfort did he get, and
how terribly he'd swear whenever he
got bit. At last, despairing Of relief,
and wishing himself dead, he went
into the woods piece and chopped
off his own head.-B0st0n Adperfiser.
Year: 1876

The Democrats of Ohio will hold their
annual state convention at Cincinnati,
Ohio, on the 18TH of May, for the pur-
pose of nominating state officers, and
selecting delegates at large to the Nation
al Democratic convention to be held at
ST. Louis, on the 27th of June. The &C
ton of the Democrats of Ohio is being
awaited with great interest by their breth-
rem of all the states in the Union, hence
the necessity that every county in the
state should be represented by its most
intelligent, candid and judicious Demo
Gratis, who will not be governed by mere
local considerations in the discharge of
their duties; who will be willing, in a
declaration of principles, to concede
something at least to the views of the
Democracy of the other states, with whom
they are expected to cooperate in the
grand political campaign Of 1876. Die
tatorial and unwise conduct on the part
of our Ohio Democrats will take from the
state the chances that it has to secure
the nomination at ST. Louis for one of its
own men. On several questions the Dem
ocracy of Ohio are not thoroughly in ac-
cord, and men should be sent as dele
gates to the state convention who will
view the situation from a broad and high
stand point, and not be governed by any
heated prejudice Of the past, but look to
the future. The Democrats Ohio ought,
by their convention, to say to the Demo
cracy of the Union that they intend to
cultivate with them a spirit of harmony,
and that, though they may or have enter
tanned some peculiar views on finance
that have not obtained to any great ex-
tent in other states, they will ignore all
such differences, and work harmoniously
to secure the downfall ofthe Republican
party which has been so notoriously cor
rupt in its management of public affairs,
and bring about the success of the old
Democracy, who will insure to the people
an economical and honest government
in the future. Therefore, we urge our
Democratic friends in all the counties to
send to the state convention good, fair
minded, unimpassioned men.-Pain
Dealer.
Year: 1876

IT is generally conceded that Sheriff
Rauch hasn't the nerve TO grapple with
some of the great questions which fall in
the line of his duty. Hence the histor-
ical fact that he makes himself scarce in
the neighborhood of Massillon, while the
mob of miners murder, pillage and burn.
Wouldn't trip to Canada be in order
until these nasty troubles are settled?-
Alliance ReUielU


The Review ought to specify wherein OF
in what Sheriff Rauch fails to obey the
orders of Court and grapple with duty
The assault at the Warrington mine
was over before the Sheriff knew any
thing of it; and although it was in broad
day, and we are told the guilty are known
no warrants of arrest were sworn
out. Our neighbor of the Review ought
to be satisfied, now that the Governor
and the State authorities have taken the
matter in hand. 1t is probably as well
to let the State bear the expense of keep
ing troops to guard the mines, as to bur
den the taxpayers of Stark county,
Don't you think so, Mr.. Gillespie2
Year: 1876

A COMBINATION door lock, the inven-
ton Of George G. Nodle, of New Berlin,
in this county, was shown us yesterday.
The lock is simple of construction, and
the combination enormous. AS door
lock it is superior to any we know of,
combining more conveniences, and at
the same time exceedingly difficult for
the uninitiated to manage, 1t gives us
pleasure to mention Mr.. Nodle in this
connection, and to say that he is me-
chanic of rare skill and fine inventive
capacity. This lock is by no means his
only invention.
Year: 1876

THE venerable Hard Money apostle of
the STARK COUNTY DEMOCRAT says


zone would suppose the Enquirer would
remember last fall, butt doesn't. 1t Itwould
do it over again."


The Enquirer remembers last fall with
If the editor of the STARK COUNTY DEM
oCRAT seeks success through Hard Money
and devotion to the interests of the bond
holders, let him join the Republican Or
ganization. That party, as at present Or
ganized, is run exclusively in the interest
cf the Money Power.-Cin. Enquirer.


The Enquirer need not have told us it
remembered last fall with pride" That
has been evident from its persistent folly.
There are two classes of people who do
not improve by experience-those who
wont and those who can't. Perverse con-
ceit and jackass obstinacy mark the first,
and feebleness the last. The former ere
members with pride" The editor of the
STARK COUNTY DEMOCRAT seeks success
through justice and the Constitution,
withoutan if" He also has ever shown
devotion to the interests of Democracy
without an off" The Enquirer, on the
contrary, seems to continue devoted to
mischief, Notwithstanding the result its
course brought us last fall in the State
and in its own county. That sheet puts
on airs of Democratic purity, like a class
of females


Who though lost to virtue are not lost to shame,
And wish the credit of an honest name.


1t is pitiable that the Enquirer coAtin-
ues in ITS prostitution
Year: 1876

Why did the Canton Democrat of last
week contain no notice of the Democratic
Convention called to meet in Canton to-
day Saturday? Mr.. McGregor, as Sec
retary of the Stark County Committee
certainly could not have forgotten so i'm
portant a matter. Also, why were the
circulars sent only to a select few? Gen
tlemen, such political chicanery to thwart
the desires of the masses is little, con-
,temptible, and highly pernicious to the
interests of the party.-AHidnCe Leader.


We beg leave to relieve the Democratic
soul of the Leader, if the editor carries
one, that the circulars" printed were
sent out fairly to all principal localities
in the county, without any political chi.
canery" as we know of. Straight forward
Democratic dealing is the only sort Of
political travel we are familiar with. The
call was in the DEMOCRAT of this week,
and it was not the juniors fault it was
not inserted last week. Call again,
brother Phelps-glad to see such Demo.
cratic ZEAL Get ready to sail in with US
us after the st, Louis Convention. Watch
and pray.
Year: 1876

We don't know as there was anything spirit
ually wrong with the young man, but he was
driving out the Richvlle road, alongside the rail-
road, and hearing the telegraph wires hum, he
imagined a train was coming and he got out
tied his horse to fence post and held him BY the
bride till the animal went to sleep, then be got
mad and drove on.
Year: 1876

We observe that "Republican" has


been airing himself again as Cedar


Co. correspondent OF the Dsyenpor,


Gazette. When We spoke of receiv.


ing from Davenport letter on the


Congressional question, the Gazette
fastened to apply sharp stick to the
malcontent who would go away from
home to say anonymously that which
could bette, have been said a. home
and in proper person, we're it not for
tie probable fact that there, and over
his own signature, his reputation IS
an intriguer and political contortioniss
would Il once destroy the effect of bis
windy assertions. However much or
little this vas deserved by the Dav-
snport letter writer, whose epistle
se did NOT publish, We more than
Inspect it would ct exccllently we'll
D the Cedar county sRepublican'
Ihosc lucubrations the Gazette has
rice g;ven to the public. |
Year: 1876

Have you risen from your bed after short sleep to


find yourself nearly suffocated with Catarrhal mat
ter in your nose, head, and throat? Have you no.
ticed what depressing influence it exercises on the
mind bunting its faculties besides enervating the
body as well? How difficult to rid the head OF this
foul matter all can testify who afflicted with Ca
tarrah. How difficult to protect the system against
its further progress towards the lungs and bronchial
tubes, all physicians testify. 1t is terrible dis
case and cries ont for relief TO be freed from the
danger of suffocaton while lying down; to breathe
freely sleep soundly and undisurbed; to know thai
no poisonous, putrid matter defles the breath and
undermines the system; TO know that the body does
not through its veins and arteries carry the poison
that is to destroy, is indeed blessing. To pur
chase immunity from such fate should be the OBJ
ect Of all afflicted. But those who have tried many
remedies and physicians despair of relief or cure
rhey become incredulous With such the long ar
raw of stmonias from best citizens physicians,


toe
Year: 1876

In Hartford one night recently while Il young
lady was on her way home. Il public carriage
suddenly pulled up beside her, person appar-
ently woman got out, seized the girl and was
forcing her into the back when some gentlemen
passed bv, and the abductor> hastily made off
The young lady is convinced that the person
who seized her was a man attired in woman'S
clothing. There is not the slightest clue to the
perpetrators of the crime.
Year: 1876

A st. Louis correspondent sketches the
leading characters III the Babcock trial
with a graphic pen. Babcock's appear
ance in the courtroom is not Just what it
should be in his own interest, if the opin-
ion OF attorneys who have often made
pleas before rural juries is of weight He
is too foppish. His brother is nearer the
ideal detendent : solid in appearance,
plainly clad, and quiet in air as in action
The jury is composed OF hard-fisted farm
ers, between whom and shiny broadcloth
there is no sympathy. OF course this is
all a minor matter 1t is not to be sup
posed that man will be convicted or az
quilted because OF his appearance. but it
is something to prepossess a Jury. 1t
would be quite possible for the jury to ac-
quit Il man on evidence. even though he
wore waXed moustaches and a shiny suit.
Few among the notables in the courtroom
attract the attention accorded to Williams,
eX-Attorney General. His Burnside whis-
kers surround sparsely an almost sensual
face in which a pair of tishy-gray eyes
twinkle increasingly. He is full and sleek
and well fed, and bears 10 trace of the
anXieties which beset him. lie is one of
Babcock's pillars OF strength, and the con-
situations with him from all quarters are
frequent Judge Porter is the most pre-
possessing of Babcock's counsel. OF the
style OF the man the country became well
informed during the Beecher trial. His
ftce is closely shaven save a grizzly NOUS
tache. 1t is believed that upon him and
>torrs, Of Chicago, VIII deyolve not only
the most difficult portions Of the work in
the examination of witnesses, but that
they also will be most prominent in the
appeal to the Jury
Year: 1876

The editor of the Lewiston pa Sentinel has
lately received legacy Of 100000 from an old
citizen of Mifflin county, AS some acknowledge
ment of the benefit derived from the reading Of
that newspaper. An act worthy of emulation.
How different the feelings Of that ''dear depart
ed' in his new home from those of the poor
fellows who were taken out in debt to the pril,-
ter. Reader, You may not be able to leave a
500 900 legacy to your editor. but do do try to
get out square with him. Exchange.
Year: 1876

a Young man in Olathe. Kansas who is bar
ucular about his washing, the other day wrote
a note to his washerwoman and one to hi, yjrl
and by strange fatality put the wrong address
on each envelope, and sent them of The
washerwoman was well pleased at an invitation
to take ride the next day, but when the Young
lady read, If you muss up my shirt bosoms
and rub the buttons off my collar any more, as
you did the last time, will go somewhere
else" she cried all the evening" and declares
that she will never speak to him again
Year: 1876

fhus becomes powerful purifying agent in over
coming the poisonous action of the rotten matter


that has, during sleep, dropped into the throat and
mingled with the contents of the stomach, to be ab
Year: 1876

Must convince them that it possesses great merit'
while the and original method of its prepara-
tion when studied with the disease satisfies the
mind of any reasonable person that its method o.
Year: 1876

Independence Railroad which he may
submit to us.


ResolUed, That we urge Senator
Jones to use his utmost endeavors to
place his plans in such shape as TO en-
ergize the work of construction as
speedily as possible.
Year: 1876

There is in China remarkable
people known as "the nameless sect"
They profess "an old religion" which
prevails more or less all over China,
but especially in the province of
Shangtung. Disliked and prosecuted
by the civil authorities, they have for
long time endeavOred to keep their
beliefs and practices secret. Their
religion is said to have come from
the West. whence they also expect a
deliverer. They do not worship idols.
At the close of their religious services
they have a meal, of which bread
and wine form the greater part. 1t
is thought that they may be the rem


nant of the native churches planted
centuries ago in China by HISTORIAN
missionaries, who are said to have
preached the Gospel for nearly a
thousand years through Southern
and Middle Asia with marvellous en-
ergy and success, and to have exert
ed powerful influence in China for
upward of six hundred years, from
the seventh to the thirteenth century.
Year: 1876

A much more pleasing performance.
and one which might, perhaps, better
have been mentioned in connection
with the exploits of the jugglers, is
the 'segg dance" This is not, as one
might expect from the name given it,
dance with these fragile objects.
1t is executed in this wise:


The dancer, dressed in corsage
and very short skirt. carries willow
wheel of moderate diameter, fastened
horizontally upon the top of her head.
Around this wheel threads are fas-
tened equally distant from each 9th
er, aud at the end of each of these
threads is slip moose, which is kept
open by a glass bead. Thus equipped,
the young girl comes toward the
spectators with basket full of eggs,
which she passes around for inspec-
ton, to prove that they are real and
not limitations. The music strikes
up jerky, monotonous strain, and
the dancer begins to whirl around
with great rspidity. Th n, seizing
an egg, she puts it in one of the slip
nooses, and, with quick motion,
throws it from her in such way as
to draw the knot tight. The swift
turning of the dancer produces 4 CEN
| trifugal force which stretches the
thread ont straight, like ray shoot
ing from the circumference of the cir
| Gle.


One after another the eggs are
thrown ont in these slip nooses, until
they make a horizontal aureOle or
halo about the dancers head. Then
the dance becomes still more rapid,
so rapid, in fact, that it is difficult to
distinguish the features of the girl:
the moment is critical; the least false
step, the least irregularity in time,
and the eggs dash against each 9th
er. But how can the dance be
stopped? There is but one way
that is to remove the eggs in the way
in which they have been put in place.


This operation is by far the more
delicate of the two. 1t is necessary
that the dancer, by single motion,
exact and unerring, should take hold
of the egg, and remove it from the
moose. A single false motion of the
hand, the least interference with one
of the threads, and the general ar
rangement is suddenly broken, and
the whole performance disastrously
ended.


/ At last all the eggs are successful
Iy'I .Oved; the dancer suddenly
stops, and, without seeming in the
laast .dizzied by this dance of twenty
five or thirty minutes, she advances
to the spectators with firm step
and presents them the eggs, which
are Immediately broken in fiat dish
to prove that there is no trick about
the performance.
Year: 1876

1t will be an odd thing if we some
day fill our lamps with iron filings
instead of oil, and dispense with
wicks. Yet an experlmentalist in
Berlin has shown that brilliant,


lasting light may be obtained by
burning iron. He took straight
bar magnet of some power, and
sprinkled iron filings on one of its
poles. Applying to this the fame of
burning gas or spirit it took fire, had
continued to burn for some time as
freely as any ordinary cOmbustible
materials do. The filings arrange
themselves in accordance with mag
netic force, and, however closely they
may appear to be placed, of course
no two of the metallic filings are par
allel, and consequently certain
amount of air is confined as in a met
allie sponge.
Year: 1876

From the Omaha (NeD.) hepuOncan.l


The Black Hills fever is raging vio-
lently in this city, and the exodus to
the Centennial Ell Dorado has COM
menced. From every quarter come
news that thus early IN the season
men are beginning to pour into the
Hills by hundreds. Gentlemen,
principally responsible and disinter-
ested army officers, who have recent
" arrived here from Fort Laramie,
say that they passed numerous par
ties on their way up from Cheyenne.
Thousands more from every quarter
of this country will go into the Hills
this spring. We have no desire to
mislead any one on this subject
From the most reliable information
at our command, we believe that men
who are willing to work and endure
the continual hardships of miners
life, can make more money from their
labor than they can in the city, and
for some fortunate few large fortunes
are to be found in that land OF gold.
Year: 1876

During leap year the girl who
counts all the gray horses she sees
until she has got up to hundred
will be married within a year, to the
first gentleman with whom she
shakes hands after counting the one
bnndredth horse. Every girl in the
citv carries a memorandum book,
that she may be sure to keep a cor
rect record. One has already twen-
ty-six, another eleven, and another,
who only began yesterday, has seven.
If somebody would bring a drove OF
a hundred gray horses to town to-
day, what a shaking of hands would
take place to morrow.
Year: 1876

If the conduct of the majority in
Congress so far is to be accepted as
the average capacity of the party for
the exercise of power, we can't think
of any one against whom we are suf-
ficiently spiteful to want him on the
Democratic ticket for lS76.-[ Phila-
delphia Times independently.
Year: 1876

Tho Board OF FINANCE OF Jersey City have been In
formed by Corporation Attorney Douglass that under
the existing charter the police justices not required
furnish any security TO the city, though thousands
OF dollars IN nncs pass yearly through their hands
They have kept record OF their financial transac-


tons on behalf OF the city, and the investigation now
progress is accordingly very tedious and II Is doubt
fu II the total amount O the dciacation will
10 light Mr. Douglass also states that there IS au-
thory vested In police justice TO remit fine once
imposed; yet this has bcen the custom according 10
defence OF Justice DAVIS. member Of the Board
OF Finance faid 10 HERALD reporter yesterday, 81
had The slightest Idea that official corruption in
city could enter SO boldly and take possession OF
inferior courts III this investigation commenced
but We will push The guilty 10 the wall u u takes
months TO DO H.