smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

ing. Visitors confidently expect to


see great piles of bricks rising scores
of feet above the roof, and the major
ity of them believe that the failure to
have such chimneys will result in the
poisoning of the atmosphere by the
gases which escape through the low
ventilation. This would probably be
the result but for the arrangement
that has been made to effectually dis
pose of these gases. At the back Of
the retort there is a venthole four
inches in diameter opening into the
furnace. Through this vent the gases
generated in the retort during the
combustion of body will be forced
to escape into the furnace, there be-
ing no other outlet from the retort
In the furnace they will be consumed.
But little smoke will escape through
the chimney, and that which does
will be harmless, as will be the hot
air which will accompany 1t.
Year: 1876

A private letter from Augusta, Ca,
to gentleman in Providence con-
tains touching narrative of heroism
on the part OF two young men in the
fever-stricken city OF Savannah. The
writer explains that some business
delay is caused by the grievous fam
lily affliction OF an assistant, and goes
on to say:


"The death of a young brother in
Savannah, Monday morning, has
thrown his whole family into the
deepest grief-a young fellow, not
much more than boy, who martyred
himself for the good of the people
suffering with the yellow fever, and
himself fell victim He was pre-
scription clerk in Lipman's drug store
there, and whensthe fever broke out
the whole force left but the book
keeper and him. A little later the
book keeper left, and Charlie ran the
whole thing himself, and Lipman or
dered him by letter, to close the store.
Then, instead OF coming home, as his
people kept begging him to do, he
replied no. He felt it was his duty to
stay, and he went TO work i'm Claws
drug store, putting up prescriptions,
hundreds per day; no time to rest, no
time for dinner. Clay took the fever,
and Charlie nursed him, but be died.
Charlie still ran the drug store His
cook took the fever; he nursed her,
and she recovered. Then a young
friend, Symons-he nursed him, and
got him up, running the store all the
time, day and night. He wrote his
mother: L have to get something to
eat the best way / can: my cook is
down.; 1 have no time for myself,
putting upprescriptions all day; when
night comes am so tired 1 .an hard
ly put one foot before the other; L
have not had my clothes off in a
week, and 1 have not brushed my
hair in four days This although
ordinarily he was extremely neat and
careful of his person. 1t sounds like
old army times. AT last.when Symons
was up. Charlie took sick He wrote
that he hap taken the fever, but was
feeling pretty strong and confident
of soon being up and at work again.
kilograms then began to pass ten or
twenty a day, Charlie improving;
with good care he will come through
all right and everything looked
hopeful. when all at once, Charlie is
worse and he began to sink. Symons
nursing him in turn and keeping up
constant correspondence with Angus
ta by telegraph. Finally kilograms
could be passed with difficulty, the
telegraph boys refusing TO carry the
messages in Savannah. 1t was the
worst quarter in the whole city. The
last two kilograms received from Sy-
mons were: Il will stick to him to
him to the last Il shall not sleep to-
night and the brave young fellow
kept his word; they both died the
same night. Symons had never fully
recovered. and wore himself out wait
ing on his friend"
Year: 1876

Religion is sometimes undertaken
for worldly ends. A man in Raleigh
purchased a lottery ticket, and then
went to his clergyman and asked il
he though his chances of drawing a
prize would be improved il he should
become "sorter good and join the
church. The clergyman tried to
explain that IL he really should be-
come "sorter good" he would destroy
the lottery ticket, and the man went
away with the feeling that religion is
"curus kind OF thing, after ALL"
Year: 1876

dom used. and then it meant but one
thing-do notl as whoa should
mean but one thing to hOrse--stopi
The mothers authority and care
wer not fritte-ed away on trivial and
transient things.
Year: 1876

Would you ask us why this dunning?
Why these sad complaints and murmurs.
Murmurs loud about delinquents
Who have read the papers weekly.
Read what they had never paid fo-
Read with pleasure and with profit.
Read of church affairs and prospects.
Read of news both home and foreign.
Read the essays and the poems.
Full of wisdom and instruction:
Read the table Of the markets.
Carefully corrected weekly
Should you ask US why this dunning?
We would answer. We should tell you.


From the printer. from the mailer.
From the kind old paper maker.
From the landlord. from the devil
From the man who taxes letters
With a stamp of Uncle Samuel
Uncle Sam the rowdies call him:
From them all there comes a message
Message kind but firmly spoken.
Please to pay the bill you owe us


Sad il is to hear such message
When our funds are all exhausted:
When the last greenback has left us:
When the nickles all have vanished:
Gone to pay the paper maker.
Gone to pay the toiling printer.
Gone to pay the landlord tribute.
Gone TO pay the clerk and devil.
Gone to pay the faithful mailer.
Gone to pay old Uncle Samuel
Uncle Sam the rowdies call him
Gone to pay for beef and Bridget.
Gone to pay our faithful parson.


Sad 1t is to turn our ledger.
Turn the leaves of this old ledger.
Turn and see what sums are due us.
Due for volumes long since ended.
Due for years Of pleasant reading.
Due for years of anxious labor.
Due despite our patient waiting.
Due in sums from three to twenty.


Would you lift burden from us?
Would you drive spectre from your
Would you taste a pleasant slumber?
Would you have quiet conscience?
Would you read paper paid for?
Send us monsy-send us money:
Send US money-send us money:
Send the money that you owe us


-Htntin0ton Journal
Year: 1876




Not long ago an engineer brought his train
to a stand at little Massachusetts, village
where the passengers have five minutes for
lunch. lady came along the platform and
ssid "The conductor tells me the train at the
junction in P. leaves fifteen minutes before
our arrival. 1t is Saturday night; that is the
last train. have very sick child in the car,
and no money for a hotel, and none for
private conveyance a long, long way into the
country. What shall I doF'


"Well," said the engineer, 81 wish could
tell YOU"


"Would it be possible for you to hurry a lit
tlep said the anxious, fearful mother.


''No, madam, have the timetable, and the
rules say must run by it,"


She turned sorrowfully away, leaving the
bronzed face of the engineer wet with tears.
Presently she returned and said, care you a
Christian?"


81 trust am" was the reply.


"WiN you pray with me that the Lord may
in some way delay the train at the iunction"


why, yes; viii pray with you, but have
not much faith."


Just then the conductor cried, "All aboard"
The poor woman hurried back to the deformsd
and sick child, and away went the train climb


Somehow" said the engineer, "everything
worked like charm. As prayed, l couldn't
help letting my engine out just little. We
hardly stopped at the first station, people gos
on and off with wonderful alacrity, the con-
ductor's lantern was in the air in a half min
ute, and then away again. Once over the
summit 1t was dreadful easy to give her little
more, as / prayed, till she seemed to shoot
through the air like an arrow. Somehow
couldn't hold her, knowing 1 had the road,
and SO we dashed up to the junction six min
utes ahead of time"


There stood the other train, and the con-
duetor with the lantern on his arm. SWELL"
said he, "will you tell me what l am waiting
here for. Somehow felt must await your
coming tonight, but don't know why" 'T
guess" said the brother conductor, ''it Is
for this poor woman, with her sick and de-
formed child, dreadful anxious to get home
this Saturday night" But the man on the
tngioe and the grateful mother think they can
tell why the train waited.
Year: 1876

The Snow Brothers-Ben, Lu and Ed-now
performing at the Theatre Comique, are con-
sidered to be the best gymnasts in this coun-
try, and for their pains to become such are
soon TO receive the champion belt of the pro-
fession. Since their return from their North
ern and Western tour a marked improvement
is noticed in their physique, and the agility
they display is something remarkable. Their
acrobatic feats are wonderful and are not
to be excelled; for quickness of action
and artistic finish they are perfect; their hat
trick is grand, and they are perfect in their
vaulting and somersaults. Besides this, the
three performing dogs, Shavings, Wash and
Niger, are the best in the business, and add
no little to the show. 1t might be suggested
to Mr.. Rogers that if he would place that in
imitable monkey performance about the mid
die Of the programme 1t would be a more
fitting place than al the end. The piece i,
too good to be lost.
Year: 1876

Briefs printed from new type, and on fine
paper, for one dollar and fifteen cents per page
at the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN Book and Job
Printing office, southwest corner of Pennsylva-
MIA avenue and Thirteenth street, (second
foor.) Our prices cannot be surpassed for
cheapness and good work by any other estab-
lishment In the District.
Year: 1876

Printing Offices with small facilities can
save money by having their printing done at
the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN Job Office. Our
unlimited assortment Of job type and fast
presses viii enable US to allow twenty per cent.
on all orders.
Year: 1876

No picture ought to be hung higher
than the height of the average human
eve when the owner of the eye is stand
irg. If the picture is portrait, or If it
has human faces in it, it's eyes should
look as nearly into ours as possible and
if there be no such simple guide, per-
haps good rule will be to have the line
that divides the picture horizontally
into equal parts level with the eye. II
one stal is in hanging pictures with the
determination to place them 80 that they
can be easily seen and enjoyed without
stretching the neck the least, or stoop-
ing the body, he will be pretty sure 20
do well. In remote farmhouses and


country taverns we often see pictures,


particularly portraits, skyed as high as
If their owners had been academy hang


ers, and the painters young rivals of a
school. I suppose the reason is that
the simple hearted owners think pic
ture such precious thing it can't be
hung too securely out of reach of med
ding hands. They are often not clear
in their minds as to what picture is
meant for, and, not finding in it any
practical relations in human life and
society, they treat it with reverence and
put it where it will disturb them as little
as possible. But as the people come to
enjoy pictures and get some intellectual,


spiritual nourishment out of them, they
want them, as they want their books,


where they can see them and use them.
Year: 1876

The case of Richard Van Wyck against


Richard q. Allen and others was argued
before the general term of the court Of
common pleas. The appeal was by the the
defendants from q judgment for $4,000
had against them in the court below.


The plaintiff, who is market gardener,


purchased from the defendants one and
one half pounds of what were represent
ed to be seeds of the Van Siclen early
fiat Dutch cabbage. After planting ne
found that the plants never headed and
were of no use. The main question In
the case is as to whether, without any
express warranty and on mere repre-
sentation which they supposed to be
true, the defendants can be held liable
for the damages arising directly from the
use of the seed. The jury in the trial
term 81 the court answered the question
in the affirmative by giving judgment
for the plaintiff. Decision was reserved
BY. the general term.-NesU York Times
Year: 1876

A lsuehable adventure is said to have
befallen q certain committee, just before
the commencement of the Abyssinian
expedition, who, in the exercise OF their
duties, visited Woolwich to inspect o
new kind of mountain howitzer. 1t was
proposed to fire the guns off the backs
of the mules that carried them, bywhich
plan it was thought great saving of
time might be effected. A donkey was
accordingly procured for the expert
ment, and light gun strapped firmly to
O cradle resting on the pack-saddle, so
that the muzzle of the weapon pointed
over the donkey's tail. The gun was
loaded, the donkey turned with his tail
to an embankment, and the usual prepar
ration made for firing by means Of Ian"
ward and friction tube. At this juncture
one of the committee suggested thatthis
mode Of firing might derange the aim,
by the Jerk Of pulling the lanyard, and
Il was arranged to fire the gun by q
piece of slowmatch tied to the vent.
This WAS done, and the match duly ig-
nitei, Hitherto the donkey had taken
rather o sleepy interest in the proceed
ings, but the fizzing of the match on his
back caused him to first prick up his
ears, and finally to turn round, in a con-
tinued effort to see what was going on
behind him. The members of the COM
mittee were utterly dismayed by this un-
expected conduct. In vain they at
tempted to dodge the impending dan
ger; which ever way they ran, the
donkey was sure to head off in new di-
rection. The noble chairman, who was
too corpulent to run, flung himself on
the ground, end calmly awaited ms fate'
It was an agonizing moment; then
bangi-the shot went harmlesaly rico
chetting away in one direction, while
the unhappy donkey turned q complete
somersauit in tile other. The subse-
quent report of the committee was not
favorable to the new method OF firing
mountain howitzers.
Year: 1876

The Ashville IN. C.) Pioneer says.
A number OF men met at house on
North Tow river, Mitchell county, for
the purpose of general spree. As
usual in such cases, quarrel ensued,
and in q fight between young man
named Davis and drunken companion
named Tooley, the former was stabbed
in the abdomen, and portions Of his en-
trails protruded from the wound. In
this condition he was placed in blanket,
o pole run through loop in the same,
and the ends shouldered by two men,
who attempted to carry him where he
could get surgical aid. The path led
along the side of rugged mountain,
and they had borne him some distance
when the knot through which the pole
ran loosened, and the wounded man was
thrown down the mountain, his intes-
tines catching on bushes and winding
around him as he rolled down it's
precipitous side. He was alive when
picked up, and his friends carried him
to q house in the neighborhood. We
are informed that an old midwife was
called in to attend him. She pushed
back the entrails and sewed up the
oriAce with packthread. Later in the
day DR.. Dugger arrived, who gave it
as his opinion that the operation had not
been properly done-that Davis
paunch" was not in the proper posi-
ton, and that some Of the minor entrails
were missing. This he ascertained by
giving the patient several hearty shakes;
Ie said "the sound was too hollow. !"
At this order the man was again ripped
open, while parties were sent in search
OF the missing entrails. They found
several of these indispensables to the
progress of digestion, and hurrying back
to the house, handed them to the NJ: D.
AS they were very dirty, he rinsed them
in cold water, sprinkled little salt over
them as q preservative, and then put
them in the patient. The wound was
reserved, and when our informant left it
was thought that Davis would recover.
If he does, life insurance policy would
be the greatest extravaganza he could
indulge in.
Year: 1876

The family should be a community.
To make it truly 80 there must be com
mon interest. Alas for that household
where the fathers business, the mothers
social cares, and the children's sports
and pleasures are not shared by each
other Then it will not be strange if
the expenditure is ont of proportion to
the income, and if the companions and
resorts of the children are evil. Happy
that home where the cares and joys are
80 divided that the former are not op-
pressive and the latter arc multiplied
where the hearts grow closer as the years
roll by, 80 that the separations which
must come to every family are only
bodily and therefore temporary
Year: 1876

The early settlers of America, among
other trials, experienced great difficulty
in attending divine worship. On ac-
count of the raids of the Indians it was
necessary that at all times the men of
the household should 60 armed. A
picture shows the strange scene of the
master of the household, with his gun
on his shoulder, about entering the little
log church built in the woods. It is the
first Sunday that they have had service
in long time, and the whole family
have come up to hear the words of truth
from one who had periled his life and
sacrificed his earthly prospects for the
good of his fellow creatures.
Year: 1876

The above estimate for Madrid is from
recent compilation given in a journal
in that city. The capital OF Spain
is thus made to rank as one Of the most
unhealthy places in the world.
Year: 1876

One curious feature OF the Charlie
Ross case has been pointed out by
the New York Evening Post. 1t
consists in the fact that 80 many
children supposed to be the lost Ross
boy have been discovered in various
parts Of the country. These child
ren or many Of them, must have been
held under suspicious circumstances,
and the inference is tnat the crime OF
abduction is much more common in
this country than has heretofore been
imagined. No doubt many. children
have been stolen concerning whom
there has been no public excitement.
Year: 1876

The New York Herald in review
ing the sad scandal which caused the
retirement Of attorney general Will
liams from the cabinet and the social
ostracism Of his wife, AS noticed in
the Tribune yesterday, says: " There
is still mystery behind it all, the un-
ravcling of which would probably
begin with those pests OF journalism,
the female correspondents"
Year: 1876

weather While % sessr from sslsw
TO points unnistaksby TO pie Want UeaherI


The principal changes In the atmosphere since yester
days report are the direction Of the wind, which haa
veered from westward TO eastward and the reversal Of
pressure areas generally causing changes in he direc'
ton Of air-currents. Moisture is ut mean, and thd
mercurial column steadily above the average OF 80
TRIBUNE having been checked by the sudden yeering of
the wind, whereby eastern current is brought tn
against another from the westward the opposing
forces meeting somewhere in the Mississippi Valley.
This change viii net alter the weather conditions already
reported probable the Middle and Eastern
States for several days though increased wet weather
that territory Is foreshadowed by the movements
noted.


For this city and 100 miles around pleasant weather
with occasional oyersladOwing clOudiness moderate
Temperature and deep haze with the probability OF rain
the last OF tie week. may be expected.
Year: 1876

A woman found house that
pleased her, but the back yard didn' t
give satisfaction. The fence didn't
contain single knot hole, and she
sad sho wasn't going to break her
neck by climbing on top an oIt bar
rel to see what was going on IN the
next yard.
Year: 1876

numbers, speaking all the language:
Of the West, French and Italian
German and English. One may


distinguish them afar off by their
stovepipe hat, that beautiful cylin.
der whose perpendicular outline is
the emblem of uprightness, and
which we wish might always be a
sign and pledge that the man whose
face appears under it would illus
trate in his own person the unbend-
ing integrity of Western civilization.
And so the stream of life rolls on
over that bridge. as over the bridge
of Mira, never ceasing any more
than the waters Of the Golden Horn
which roll beneath it.


And not. only races, but all condi-
tions are represented here-beggars
and princes, men on horseback fore
ing their way through the crowd on
foot carriages rolling and rumbling
on, but never stopping the tramp,
tramp of the thousands that keep up
their endless march. Here the son
of the Sultan dashes by in carriage
with mounted officers attending his
sacred Though very insignificant
person, while beggars, in all the mis-
shapen and mutilated forms of
wretched humanity, line his path,
and stretch out their withered hands
for charity.


In the mongrel population of Con-
stantinople one must not forget the
dogs, which con ,titute large part
of the inhabitants. Some traveller,
who has illustrated his sketches with
the pen by sketches with the pencil,
has given, as a faithful picture Of
this Capital of the East, simply a
pack of dogs snarling in the fore
ground, as its most conspicuous fea-
ture, while mosque and minaret
may be family seen in the distance.
If this is caricature, yet il only ex-
aggerates the reality, for certainly
the dogs have taken full possession
of the city. They cannot be "Chris-
tian dogs" but Moslem dogs, since
they are tolerated, and even protect
ed, by the Turks. 1t is a peculiar
breed-all yellow, with long, sharp
noses and sharp ears-resembling,
in fact, more the fox or the wolf
than the ordinary house dog.
A shaggy Newfoundlander is never
seen. As they are restrained by no
Malthusian ideas of ofpopulation, they
multiply exceedingly. They belong
to no man, but are their own masters,
and roam about as freely as any of
the followers of the prophet, They
are only kept in bounds by a police
of their own. 1t is said that they
are divided into communities, which
have their separate districts, and
that if by chance stray dog gets
out of his beat, the others set upon
him, and punish him so cruelty that
he flies, yelping, to his own crowd
for protection. They live in the
streets, and there may be seen gen.
orally asleep in the day time. You
cannot look anywhere but you see a
dog. curled up like a rug that has
been thrown in a corner. You STUN
BILE overthem on the sidewalk. They
keep pretty quiet during the day,
bat at night they let themselves
loose, and come upon you in full cry.
They bark and yelp, but their favor
ite note is hideous howl, which
they keep up under your window by
the hour together, (at least it seems
an heur when you are trying to sleep)
or until they are exhausted, when
the cry is Immediately taken up by a
fresh pack around the corner.