smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

forgiven many of the paltry dollars claimed, but this claim for flesh and blood would not be forgone jot nor tittle."

 You are telling me true i'

 It is no time to do otherwise now. When we quarreled told him he was no son of mine, and he swore he would not bear my name; he left, and left DO trace to track him by, though I tried hard at the time. Some ten years ago heard that he had taken his mothers name and was calling himself Lambert Morrison; whether the information was true or not I cannot say; but, true or false, that is the last have ever heard.".

 "Go you out into the world and seek my boy till you find him; seek as I sought you. in poverty, hunger, dirt, sorrow and madness, for weary, weary years. Bring him to me only and I'll forgive you every penny that you wronged me of." The father spoke, and, speaking, told the sole object of his life's secret. Money is nothing to man going down to the grave, but love and kin all.

 "Already the bread has returned" said the farmer, detaining Asahel Pen cost, who was turning to leave the house. "Your son." he continued, ad- dressing the invalid on the sofa, " is in New York, if Lambert Morrison and the handsome, bright boy Morris Pencost, I remember, be one and the same. Wife, get those letters. It was he who nursed our boy in his last illness and close his eyes, might have known it. They were playfellows, and he would not see his friend suffer uncared for. and he had too sorrowful remembrances to allow him to disclose his identity to us in Wayne"

 The farmer was right, and within ten days the missing son was clasped in his fathers arms and bore the third name of his life, the right Une, at last-Lam- bert Morrison Whitney.

 The fall of the proud squire was gen. erally hailed in Wayne, for he was one of those men whose temperament won few friends, and whose station repelled them. He received at his brothers hands enough to yield him modest in- come, and busted himself in the indis- tinguishable throng of the great city. Marcus Whitney lived on in Wayne. and gladly bestowed his benediction on the marriage of his son and Farmer Lin mars only remaining child Marian; that is, she was "child" to the farmer and dame, though turned of twenty-six-and peace and happiness have crowned the succeeding days of the warm hearted people so strangely thrown together.
Year: 1876

The Indian chief Spotted Tail has his good points. He loved his daug inter and cherishes her memory. She was the first born and the best beloved. She fell in love with young officer at Fort Lara mic, and died of broken heart eight years ago. Her influence over her father was so overmastering, that he vowed on her deathbed that he would make peace with the whites, since it was her wish, and would never again take up arms against them. When the treaty was made he asked to have the coffin con- taining her remains brought into the council in order that her spirit might witness the fnltillment of the VOW. All these years the old chief has yearned to have her grave near his wigwam, and his wish has recently been gratifed. The body was removed from Fort Lara- mic to Spotted Tail agency, and placed in box upon four posts, in accordance with the Indian custom. The burial ser vice of the Episcopal church was read, sermon in the Dakota language was preached by the chaplain, and the box was lowered into grave in the ceme. tery near the agency.
Year: 1876

The spiitualiet lecturer who noticed B lady in deep mourning taking her de- parture from the hell prophesied better then he knew when he told her that the spirit of her husband desired to com municate with her. "I know it," said she "he's waiting at the door,"
Year: 1876

Which are introduced for the first time in the present edition have been added, not for the sake of pictorial effect. but to give greater lucidity and force to the explanations in the natural history, and depict the most famous and remarkable features of scenery architec- ture and art, as well as the Various process of mechanics and manufactures. Although in- tended for instruction rather than ombellish- ment, no pains have been spared to insure thajr
Year: 1876

ga TIE REPUBLICAN STATE CENTRAL CoAMIr.
TEE Orchard H. Carter, of Fauquier county,
.chairman) will meet in this city on the 18th
instant for the purpose of fixing time for
holding State convention to appoint dele.
gates to the National Republican Convention
to nominate President and Vice. President OF
the United States. at the same date the Re.
publican committee on establishing q news.
paper in this city will meet and confer with
the Central Committee.
Year: 1876

IT is PRONOUNCED BY ALL WHO HAVE TRIED IT
that H. Shelton, corner or Main and Eighth
streets, has some of the incest and best.favosec
HOMEMADE PICKLE that they have ever seen; and
those In want will do well 70 call and see II, as he


selling 1. very cheap and fast by the gallon. e
Year: 1876

will not find the dignity and comfort of


farm life on higher level than in this


New England Nowhere else is the farm
er's home so near his neighbor's, so near
the church, so near the school. so near to
all the facilities of social and religious fell
lowship and enjoyment. The ownership
of fifty acres on one of the interior hill
sides, though the soil be worn and poor.
will make you what you never can be
hired as workman-your own master,
emancipated forever from the factory
whistle. That small holding will supply
you with work from year to year, with no
involuntary break of occupation. With
the thought, the skill and industry you
give the mechanical labor, your little
farm will produce all your family need to
eat, wear and enjoy. Your face may be
Drowned with the summer sun, but it will
look as manly as any tinge or lack of tiage
which the gas and grease of the factory
may give it. Go back into the country
and help re-people our New England with
its own children. Go back and help to
make its character and history what they
were; its best boast and the admiration
of all our American States.
Year: 1876

Mr.. L. T.. Page, of the firm of Page
& Gravel, returned to the city by the
Senator yesterday, after short busi-
ness trip to San Francisco. Mr.. Page's
chief object in visiting the city was
to lay in large supply of material for
his carriage and wagon mandatory.
The great success of this firm is owing
to their strict attention to the details
of their business. They are both prac-
tical workmen, and while Ole is en-
gagged at the forge the other plies the
plane and hammer and chisel. Though
employing a large force of workmen,
they do not allow any piece of work
to pass without their own careful SUI
pervision. To their especial merit as
mechanics is chiefly due the renown
which the house has achieved of turn
ing out the best work in their
line in Southern California, and
as good as can be found the
world over. From modest beginnings
the establishment has steadily MAIN
tanned its reputation, until it now
stands head and shoulders above every
mandatory of the kind in Southern
California. 1t would be an act of in
justice if we neglected to say in pass
ing that the enterprise of the firm in
the way of advertising has been large
ly instrumental in their success. Like
sensible men, they made a first-class
article and then told the public about
it. They richly deserve all the pros
perity they have achieved, and We
feel sure that it will increase many
fold in the future.
Year: 1876

Yesterday rumor was started and


rapidly circulated TO the effect that
the city's funds were endangered by
the suspension of the Bank of TEMPLE
Il WORKMAN. The rumor was credi-
ted because to many, the circumstan-
ces connected with the custody of the
city's funds were not clearly under
stood. Some months ago the Council
by resolution authorized the City
Clerk to advertise that bids would be
accepted for the custody of the city's
funds, the award to be made to the
firm giving the highest rate of inter-
est, with satisfactory security. TEN
PIE & WoRKMAN's bid and security
being satisfactory. the money was or
dered to be deposited in their Bank.
To this order the City Treasurer de-
INJURED. He held that he had given
bonds for the safe keeping Ofthe mon
ey, and that he had q right to deposit
where he pleased. The Council never
enforced its order and the Treasurer
Year: 1876

Whether o merit or demerit we will
not assume to say, but of the exist
ence of. the fact we are willing to wa
ger a large sum-which is that no city
in the State can select n council that
will GO off half cooked oftener, make a
greater number of mistakes and talk
more aud say less, than Los Angeles.
The latest blunder is always found in
the proceedings of the last session. At
the talking match on Thursday even
ing the Marshal was pre-emptorily or
dered to close y house, to conduct
which the proprietor had paid license,
and would at that moment have held
the city's license only that he had ap-
piled for reduction of the rate and
was waiting the action of the Coun-
Gil thereon. Now person at all ac-
quainted with the living ordinances
and resolutions under which this city
is partially governed, need not be told
that the Marshal is authorized to issue
license for the transaction of cer-
tain classes of business, and council
man ought to know that the Council
cannot close house or business hold
ing license thus issued until the au-
thority under which the Marshal is
sued it is revoked. The refusal of the
Council to license house, which, un-
der the law, is entitled to such license
savors of species Of hifalutin bombast
by no means creditable to the legisla-
tive body of an intelligent municipal
ity. If councilmen would consult the
City Attorney or some other lawyer
before indulging in.the past time of
riding rough shod over their own res.
olutions, they would avoid some awk-
ward blunders ana save themselves
the humiliation Of recoHsidering at
one meeting resolutions passed at the
meeting previous.
Year: 1876

IT now seems evident that the city
will lose none Of its funds by the sus-
pension of the Bank of TEMPLE &
WORKMAN, but perhaps we may rea-
sOnably conclude that the escape was
more through good luck than good
management. 1t is no fault of the
Council that every dollar was not en-
quilted in the maelstrom of insolvency.
Time and again the HERALD has
urged on the municipal authorities
the Importance Of throwing a guard
aroGn the city's funds which would
protect the people against the possi-
bility of loss, but the warnings were
unheeded and ooh it's all right" was
the only response that could be elicit
ed. Now it is time this fast and loose
policy ceased. The people are already
loaded with taxes, and the money
they strain every nerve to pay must
be guarded and economical. If there
is nothing in the charter which au-
thorizes the Council to protect the city
against loss, then in the name of the
people, let us appeal to the Legislature
for the much needed authority, and
when we get it, let it be the duty Of
everyIcitizen to see that men are elect
ed to office who will not only obey the
law themselves, but insist that others
obey IL.
Year: 1876

IT now seems more than probable
that Congress will so arrange affairs
between the two railroad companies
the Southern Pacific ami the Texas
Pacific-that We may reasonably hope
for An early completion of Southern
trans-continental road. 1t has been
apparent to all and admitted by the
unprejudiced that division of the aid
between the two companies with the
provision that each should build until
their respective roads met, as did the
Central and Union Pacific roads, was
the speediest and most practical way
Of securing the much needed thor
oughfare. The bill now before Con-
gress indicates that the matteri is fully
understood at the Capitol. The Uto-
plan idea of giving the Texas Pacific
Company monopoly of the route,
the right to build that entire road and
three hundred and fifty million dollars
to build it, now has no advocates and
is already regarded as a dead issue.
Let us have the road AS soon as possi-
BILE, and in order to do this, let those
build 1t who will loose the least time
in its completion.
Year: 1876

REFERRING to the HERALD's an
nouncement that one of the next rail-
road extensions to be recorded is the
continuation of the road now termin-
sting at Anaheim on to San Diego,
the Union says the road would no
doubt be advantageous to the company
and that city, and the people would
welcome its coming most gladly. The
World asserts that there is now no
hostility felt by the people of San Die
60 toward the Southern Pacific. The
HERALD asserted months ago that the
only locomotive whistle heard in San
Diego within the next ten years would
be from an engine marked S. P. r. R.,
and We think the people of San Diego
county evince good sense in withdraw
ing their gaze from the Ten SCOTT
Jack o. lantern, and turning their at
tention to something with local hab-
itation and name.
Year: 1876

never complied with the resolution,
but continued to exercise full control
of the funds 50 far rs naming the place
of deposit was concerned. With this
explanation of a heretofore not under
stood matter, we proceed to give the
Information CLEANED from Dame Ru-
mors thousand stories of yesterday.
After hearing that the funds were
part lost, half lost and all lost, forty or
fifty times from as many different per-
sons, We proceeded to interview City
Treasurer MELLUs, and he gave us this
statement: The funds are all safe; he
drew the money on general deposit
out of TEMPLE & WoRKMAN's Bank
some time ago and he had but four
thousand dollars in the suspended
Bank when it closed its doors, which
is on special deposit. The City
Treasurer makes this statement and
we give it to the HERALD readers in
order that they may know what is
said by those who ought TO know
whereof they speak.
Year: 1876

and that he will be produced upon the
stand, to the confusion of his fellow
conspirator Babcock, as soon as the
trial opens. The facts pointing to the
accuracy of this information are well
grounded, though Government off,
cials refuse to give any information
in the matter. His testimony will


undoubtedly settle the cases of Mckee


and Mcguire, which have heretofore
hung upon a slender thread, render
ing the conviction of Babcock almost
a certainty, and destroying the possI-


bility of the success of new trial. In
any case, the evidence of Everett is
valuable, mainly as a link in the gem
eral chain of testimony, and may be
said to complete the legal develop
meats on the part of the prosecution.
Year: 1876

THE Duty OF CoNGREss.-Ther report
from our Washington correspondent that
at the close of the Babcock trial the
House will probably proceed to investi-
gate the great unexplored region of the
whisky frauds, has been received with
general satisfaction. The fearless Bris
tow and the uncompromising Solicitor,
Wilson, have done what they could to
uncover the mysteries of ring only sec
ond in size and strength to that OF the
Credit Mobilier. But the operations OF
these bold assailants have been almost
necessarily confined to Treasury agents
of various ranks and to the distillers,
their allies. The object of Bristow' s
raid was to stop frauds on the Revenue,
and if be can do this-and he is in fair
way of doing it-by causing the convic.
ton and Imprisonment OF score OF
treacherous supervisors, collectors, in
spectors, gaugers and storekeepers, and
| a large number of swindling distillers
he will have no further motive to pur
sue the prosecutions. Babcocxs case ii
the only one outside the direct combina


tion between the Treasury officers ane
the distillers themselves in which tn,
Secretary has interested himself to sup
| ply evidence for trial. Probably thu
Secretary intended to confine his re
| WuOity W bWO hOab NtoSSS'
we have mentioned; but when it bega1


to appear in the progress of the worl
that somebody at the White House wa


playing spy and accomplice for the Ring


he did not shrink from following up tina


clew and furnishing testimony that LEI


to the indictment of Babcock. To at


tempt to connect the Presidents mos
Intimate and confidential friend wit
these stupendous robberies must hav


been painful duty for the Secretary


and the alacrity with which he discharge
. it is @ measure of his fidelity to the pull
! lie. His enemies-and every followt
/ of the President in and ont of Congre'


may be counted among them call it


bid for the Cincinnati nomination
Surely that is strange and foolish bi
+ which makes deadly foes of an impor


ant section of the Republican part


headed by the President himself.-Joi


nal of Commerce.
Year: 1876

PROPOSED NEW 1t is
said that a proposition has been made
by the western Union Telegraph Com
pany in regard to running telegraph
line from Townsend to Centreville,
and the probability is the line will be
built in short time.
Year: 1876

Tho proposition for the tra,lsfer Of tho
Indian Bureau to tho control of the War
Department has developed remarkable
strength in the House Committee on Indian
Affairs. a report favorablcto to tho passage Of
the hill providing for the transfer, and plac-
1ng the Bureau in charge Of MI army officer
sf rank not below II Colonel, Inns been agreed
npon by tho Committee without dissenting
Ndfa
Year: 1876

DELICATE as the organization Of the
brain must be. it is surprising to read
Of the hard knocks it can bear, not
only without injury, but even to it's
advantage. One man, who lost his
brain through suppuration ofthe skull,
preserved his intellectual faculties to
the day Of his death; and the brain Of
soldiers have been known to carry


bullets without apparent inconven-
ience. and to undergo operation for the
extraction of the foreign bodies with
out loss of power. A physician, who
was afflicted with an abnormal cere-
bral growth. which pressed upon the
cavities of the brain, SO as to para
lyze one side OF his body, and render
him speechless, retained possession
of his reasoning and calculating pow
ers until he died. One Of three broth
ers, all idiots, after receiving severe
injury on tue head, gained his senses
and learned to be clever barrister.
A stable boy Of dull capacity. and sub
ject to fits. had his wits sharpened by
the kick of horse, which nccessitat-
ed the abstraction of portion Of his
brain; and Pope Clement VI. owed
the Improvement of his memory to u
slight concussion Of the brain. On
the other hand it is = fact that the
brains Of persons with thoroughly dis
ordered minds as a rule, present no
abnormal condition after death, which
is not to be wondered at, when II is
found that symptoms of disordered
brain are often produced by very
slight alteration in tho constitution of
blood.
Year: 1876

low places to interfere with the
flow of the water in the channel,
no reservoirs forming in the swamps
to hold the river up, and the chan
mel will be equal to the discharge Of
each rise as it presents itself.


THESE LATERAL CURRENTS
tend to fill the channel of the river
with sand. Confne the water to
the channel and it will wash or
scour out. These are the facts as
demonstrated on the river itself,
and however they may antagonize
preconceiyed theories, or however
they may vary with apparent rea-
son, we must recognize their exist
ence, and seek better to understand
the laws that produce such results


Respectfully,


Il. P. CHAMBERS. +
Year: 1876

To the Editor OF the Ledger:


You will pardon me for again
coming to the rescue upon this
question Of protection to the Mis-
sissippi valley, and / am constrain-
ed more especially to do so by your
Endorsement, in the LEDGER Of the
4th inst, of the views expressed by
the Chicago Tribune Of recent date
on this subject.
Year: 1876

has not reached the highest flood
line, nor has it at Helena, or at any
point between, and the line Of levee
is intact protecting this valley on
the east 40 miles wide. Passing Hell
ena the valley on the east stretches
to sixty miles in width; yet for
eighty miles to the vicinity of Ar
kansas river the leyees are intact on
the east and the river has not yet
reached the highest food line and is
flooding the west bank Of the river
TO the hills.
Year: 1876

In the course of a recent article the Rich
mond (Va.l Enquirer says: SIN the first
place, the Radical hold upon power has here
tofore depended on the solid support Of sever
al hundred thousand voters of an inferior
and ignorant race, who were unconstitution-
ally clothed with the suffrage by the grace Of
arbitrary legislation and the point of the bay
onet But even without deducting this great
mass of machine-voters, who are moved like
puppets by the string which the carpet-b
gers move and pull, there is still great ma
jority of the people to whom the very name
of the Radical party is stencil and abomina-
tion." If this means anything, it means
that the several hundred thousand voters "ot
an ignorant and inferior race'' are not to be
allowed to vote this year. In pursuance of
this policy, Mr.. Cox wants the army TO be
abolished until after November.
Year: 1876

The public have right to require of Presi'
dent Grant that he give good cause fol
asking Postmaster General Jewell to resign
the office he has filled with such conspicuous
fidelity and ability. Gov. Jewell has been
assailed during his occupancy of the position
of Postmaster General by the Democratic
press, land ne has been before one of the inves.
tigating committees ofthe Confederate House
nevertheless, the great mass of the intelligent
people of the country believe that he has
been apositive strength to the administration
and an officer of rare efficiency and courage.
Until good reason is assigned for this sud-
den removal, the President will be sharply
and justly criticised.
Year: 1876

however, has refused to agree to reduction
OF the salaries of these clerks to the amount
OF ten per cent. on the ground that such
legislation should not be inserted in an
appropriation bills and because the present
salaries were fixed by Democratic Congress
at the present rates in 1854 when the cost
ofliving was much less in Washington than
at the present time.


1t is hardly necessary to remind any one
that the increase of department business
since 1866 is almost entirely due to the war.
As Senator Morrill, remarked-it is the era of
the settlement and adjustment of the claims
incident to the war. The care of the curren-
cy which the Government was forced to is
sue in the war period, requires large force.
The large bonded debt of the nation requires
afurther addition of clerical assistance. The
internal revenue system required in conse-
quence of the war, adds another long list of
employees to the government rolls. The
whole examination goes to show how great
tax the people are paying and must pay for
many years on account of the rebellion of the
Democratic leaders of the South, all of whom
who are now alive, are striving to again get
the control of the Government through the
election of Mr.. Tilden.
Year: 1876

SOME tine since an inquiry was made in
England as to the state of the teetotalers in
certain African regiment. The reply was
that 50 per cent. were dead and so per cent
invalided. This alarmed the temperance
party in this country, but on inquiry it was
ascertained to be quite correct. 1t was found
that one man had died from the bite of SER
pent, and the other had been sent home in
valided with broken leg.
Year: 1876

ONE can scarcely tell now whether the
Democratic plan IS to hand the Indians over
to the War Department, or the War De-
partment over to the Indians. If the pro-
posed plan of reducing the army is carried
into effect, the result of it will be to make
the Indian masters.
Year: 1876

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1876

tinued with equally striking results until
every department was embraced in the list.
The obvious deduction from the above is
that if the clerical force in the various audi
tors offices was only adequate to promptly
perform the business in 1860, the present force
employed is insufficient. Still for the sake of
getting appropriation bills through, the Sem
ateihas acquiesced in the greater part of the
reductions fixed by the House. The Senate