smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

Methods to be used in case of pres.
sing danger on shipboard in order to
arrest the flow of water into the hull,
have long since attracted attention.
One well-known plan is to lower sail,
and by means of ropes to apply it at
the place of rupture. A series Of inter-
esting experiments. has been lately
made by the English Government at
Keyham Yards with what are called
...collision mats''. Pieces of canvas are
sewed together, and, being made water
proof, and having had ropes properly
attached to them, are lowered into the
water. The experiment made were not,
however, conclusive in their character.
Although the exact location of the flow
of water had been ascertained, the pres
sure of the water in some cases partly
carried in the canvas. and scarcely
checked the flow. In case of an actual
accident, where the locality of the
ruptured portion of the hull could not
be discovered, the difficulty Of applying
the collision-mat in exactly the proper
place would be even more uncertain.
Year: 1876

Grateful for the service that Ann
Pender had done them, Mr.. and Mrs.
Clark had the poor creature placed under
the best medical men, and were re-
warded by seeing her completely re-
cover her reason.
Year: 1876

About 9o'clock this morning an elderly
gentleman, well dressed, intelligent
looking and entirely sober, boarded the
Ludlow ferry as it was about to go to
the Kentucky side. When nearly mid
way of the river he was scent to walk de-
liberately to the edge Of the cabin and
Jump into the water.


The alarm was at once given and the
man was rescued by some bargemen in
the immediate vicinity, who succeeded
in getting him to shore before life was
extinct, but he died few minutes after
being laid on the bank. Every means
was resorted to in order to save him,
but they were of no avail.


1t was soon ascertained that the sui
eide was retired grocer named Henry
Knollmann, worth perhaps $4,000, who
formerly did business at No. SO Gest
street, and has recently been living on
Eighth street near Freeman.


The deceased has wife in Europe and
deaf and dumb son in the asylum at
Columbus. Acting Coroner Schwab
being notified held an inquest on the re-
mains, the verdict being in accordance
With the facts stated above.
Year: 1876

so should you not meet large train Of Indians 60
ing down the river, or not receive any iirthrr @
to from me- it would probably be best for you to move
To my supply camp ,


We broke camp on the South Goose TINS morning. anu
are going gradually along the hills towards the Tongue
River, and anticipate getting about as Tar IA te IOrh
fork of the Goose about the same time tha my rceloCe
nInUfa
Year: 1876

WILL not Hayes or Tilden follow in the
footsteps of Governor Colquitt? He is
civil service reformer in earnest. Promis-
ing that honesty and economy shall be the
watchwords of his administration, and that
he will be the Governor of the whole peo-
pie, he says: II went through the cam
paign without promising or even intimating
to any man that 1 should appoint him to any
office. Ideclined all offices that involved
the idea of obligation. 1 am, consequent
ly, free to select for public positions only
those men that consider the best qualified
to fill them. IN making up my list of ap-
polntments 1 shall be guided solely by the
question of fitness. All applications for
office are being filed, and shall leisurely,
during the time preceding the inauguration,
apply the test of fitness TO the applicants,
and choose therefrom those who appear to
me to best stand the test" The truth is,
we do not believe that Governor Colquitt
will even inquire whether fellow come
from Waco or not.
Year: 1876

Honest, good citizens would deplore the
defeat of Mr.. lien, if for no other reason,
because he said not many days ago:


The first sep in reform is the elevation
of the standard by which the appointing
power selects agents TO execute official
trusts. Next in Importance is conscien-
tious fidelity to the exercise of the author
ity to hold to account and displace untrust-
worthy or incapable subordinates. The
public interest in an honest, skillful per-
Torrance of official trust must not be sacri-
feed to the usufruct of the incumbents.
e. But while honest taxpayers and modest,
Industrious, working men most deplore the
defeat of candidate for the presidency
who entertains the confessed purpose to in
vest honesty and capacity with Office, the
professional placeseekers and partisan ad-
venturers are most enraged because of his
possible and wrongful defest. They are
the class who would make the wrong to
Tildeu and to the country a cause for war.
They would aggravate the calamity in
volved in his defeat an hundred fold. They
would destroy the last vestige of public
decency. They would lay waste the fair
ess districts and ravage and destroy. They
are to be gamers, as Escobedo and Diaz
and Cortina and Lerdo and Iglesias
are gamers because of the woes and
progressive barbarism of Mexico. The
very men with whom Mr.. Tilden
has not sympathy in common and who
would rush like starved corps of Floren,
tine beggars to the gateways of the White
House if he entered there-these are the
people, having the least possible interest
in the well-being of the country, who
would drag the Republic down to Mexican
perdition because one man or another of
forty millions is made president. The de-
cency and intelligence and property and
industry and historical conservatism of
Americans cannot suffer such men, in an
emergency like this, to shape the country's
fortunes and least of all to involve us in
strife the most terrible because internecine
not between States, but between house
holds. The South has the least possible
stake in this contest between Hayes and
Tllden, and if there be conflict it is our
duty to ourselves and to the whole country,
to our poverty and future freedom, to stand
alOof
Year: 1876

WADE HAMPTON is most unfortunate.
Never did a man more love a State than
Wade Hampton South Carolina. When the
war came be sacrificed his convictions of
duty and right and wisdom and crest
wealth and then hazarded his life in illus
tration Of his love for the land of his birth.


Again has he abandoned his pursuits and
the wreck of once magnificent estates and
sacrificed time and money and toll that
South Carolins might be redeemed. But
knaves in Office at home and despot's
agents from abroad have thwarted the pur-
poses Of the hero and patriot, and Hamp-
ton, broken in spirit and ruined in fortune,
must still contemplate South Carolina in
chains and his people consigned to worse
than barbansm in government. Wade
Hampton is the very impersonaticn OF every
virtue that once distinguished the wisest
and best of the people of his State. He IL
illustrates in his own life the wasted fortunes
and withered hopes of the smitten common.
wealth, and wherever lofty courage, stain
less purity Of purpose and love Of country
are admired, Wade HamPten's name and
Year: 1876

Governor Dick Hubbard's term of Office


may be brief, but it will be full of sensa-


tional, perhaps dramatic, if not of grave
events. He comes into power when local
questions of infinite importance aud tre-
mendous public interests, as the union may


be affected by them, demand the patient at
tention and careful thought of as clear and
vigorous an intellect as that which disiin-
guishes Governor Hubbard. He may by
bare possibility so shape the course of
events that the necessity for an immediate
convocation Of the Legislature may be
avoided. Future revenues may be greater
than statssticians have supposed, and local
and temporary loans may obviate the neces-
sity for legislation; but it is hardly possible
that events of such magnitude as Ns I'M
pending in the Gulf States, soon to be con
sidered in Washington, growing hourly in
force and importance and giving origin to
political dangers which the press fails to
exaggeEate--it Is hardly possible that these
events will not create an absolute necessity
not only for the eonvocation of the Legisla-
ture of Texas, but for that ofevery like body
in all the States. If war supervene or the
danger become imminent, Governor Hub
bard viii hardly undertake to give direc-
ton to the conduct of the State or provide
for grave contingencies that mus, ariss,
without the aid and concurrence OF
the representatives of the peO-
Year: 1876

pie. He has great ability. He is
very proper scholar. He is deemed
a skillful lawyer and astute party leader,
an admirable declaimer and pleasing rheto-
rician. He has won distinguished honor
as a leader of the people and of the Senate;
but when Congress sits next month there
begins in both houses of that body war
of words which may become war of blows.
No such terrible dangers ever threatened
the peace of the country. Lincoln was fair
ly elected president. And yet war came.
Hayes will be thrust into Office without
election and in open contravention of the
will of the people, There came war with
out precedent danger in 1861; but now, in
1876, an internecine conflict is surely pos
sible, even probable. In the presence OF
these fearful facts Governor Hubbard's
stolid, selfish, apathetic indifference to the
country's woes and dangers, and his own
self-assertion, must be amazing if he under
take to direct the course of events without
the advice and cooperation of the Leg
islature. He may respect the ardent
words of the unbought Examiner, which
grows frantic when it has been suggested
that present and unavoidable future local
and financial necessities may make the
meeting of The Legislature an imperative
necessity, but when the new government
that spring from the relations of States to
Federal events there can be no hesita-
ton. AS surely as the fourth of March is
coming, even SO surely, unless most men
grossly exaggerate impending dangers, the
Legislature of Texas must be convened.


But We only proposed to say that if Tex
delegation recently chosen, the people
have abundant reason for self-gratu-
Iation in the fact that however grave
the emergencies or deplorable the events
which imbruted suffrage and greed for
Office may beget, or however unprecedented
the dangers environing the commonwealth,
Governor Hubbard is endowed with every
virtue in morals and intellect qualifying
him for the position he must occupy. We
may be pardoned for saying further that
however great the honor conferred upon
Governor Coke, and however earnestly his
conduct and bearing in the Senate may be
scrutinized, yet it SO happens that Coke
leaves the Office more difficult to fill to his
successor. The greater intelligence and
profounder craftsmanship must be required
at the hands of him who governs Trxas
wisely at this juncture than of those who
simply represent and speak for the State
in the Federal capital.
Year: 1876

TIE Young Mems Christian Association
of Dallas is observing the worlds week Of
prayer. The world is certainly in bad
way, and if ever young mems christian as
sociations intend to do practical good by
an interpleader filed in the High Court of
last resort the proper occasion presents i t
self when Russia holds Europe and Grant
America by the throat, each threatening to
deluge a continent in blood. The good
people of all classes and churches, if they
think prayers avail anything, never before
had such an opportunity to serve our coun-
try and our race. The burden of prayers
should be quotation from him who recks
least of the woes of men" Let US have
peace"
Year: 1876

oNE would naturally suppose that at a
juncture like this the San Antonio Herald
would suspend its everlasting ''blathering"
about the segregation of the several great
districts of Texas. The result, horrible in
the North and deplorable in the last degree
in the South, may be such that the unity
of Texas becomes of infinite importance
and value to the people. We do not pro-
pose to take stock in the next war, and our
safety is only compatible with the unity of
the commonwealth. The Herald in one
direction and the Age in another is simply
insane.
Year: 1876

Just as soon as Hayes is thrust into Office
by the bayonet and purse and returning
boards, in order to divert public attention
from outrages done the people, the United
States will be thrust into war with Mexico.
And now comes the opportunity of Hunt
ington and of the owners of the Interna-
tional. We will want road into Mexico
that armies aud supplies may be hurled
against the strongholds of Cortina, and
that we may assail the wretched country on
every hand and communicate with forces
on the Pacific. HuntIngton's road along
the northern confines of Lerdo's wretched
country must be built, and Huntington,
with his organized army of twenty thou
sand laborers, is the very agent the United
States must have. Let US have peace at
home and war abroad will be the cry of
Radicalism, and the government must then
extend the International to Lare o, and
Huntington's lines to El Paso.
Year: 1876

LET the Houston Ags roar and rant and
tear its shirt. There is at least one spot on
earth where peace viii always reign and
rude war can never come. It is tbe land
of the blest, serene, lighted BY moonbeAms
famed By y-breezes that never toyed among
flowers save such as grow in the densest
forests In this abode of blissful beatitude
there can be no war and the Age cannot
arouse the people TO arms for Tilden or
Hayes. In BsWIe county there was no
election on the seventh inst Nobody knew
the names Of the presidential electors and
the country's hopes Of peace ana blessedness
rest upon the paIpitating bosom OF Bowie.
Year: 1876

imprisoned and compelled to pay all dam
ages. We read of case in which gen
tleman crossing the street saw that he
could only escape injury or death by
shooting the headlong driver of a coach.
The Jehu was killed by the we'll directed
bullet, and the ccurt held that the footman
acted in self-defense, and was blameless.
Hackmen and horsemen should therefore
beware, and people need not break their
necks running to get out of the way of
furious riders and drivers. 1t is easier to
stop the carriage or madly-ridden, bucking
Bucephalus, and under such circumstances
the law would not make one endangered
pay for the perforated animal. But there
is no necessity for mad driving on the one
hand, or for pistol practice on innocent
horses on the other. Policemen should in
struct the whips and fancy performers on
horseback in reference to their rights and
privileges. They should be taught that
people on foot have the right of precedence
on the streets and crossings, and that it is
the business of drivers and mounted people
to see that they endanger no one and keep
out of the way and give the way to foot
men. If landowners bond be good, and
the mayor should see that it Is when the
hack is licensed, he can be made to pay for
all il juries done people on the streets.
Year: 1876

LAWYERS, young and old, are familiar with
the writings of Chancellor Kent. His COM
mentaries on American law are as common
ly read as Backstone's on English Common
Law; but that the learned Chancellor was
prophet as we'll as priest appears from the
following excerpt from his book.


If ever the tranquility of this nation is
to be disturbed and it's liberties endangered
81 struggle for power, it will be upon this
very subject of the choice of a President.
This is the question that is eventually to
test the goodness and try the strength of
the Constitution. =
The state of society, and of property in this
country, and our moral and political habits,
have enabled us to adopt the republican
principle and to maintain it, hitherto, with
illustTious success. 1t remains to be seen
whether the checks which the Constitution
has provided against the dangerous propen-
stiles of our system will ultimately prove
effectual. The election of a supreme ex-
ecutive magistrate fo- whole nation affects
so many interests, addresses itself so strong
ly to popular passions, and holds out such
powerful temptations to ambition, that it
necessarily becomes strong trial to public
virtue, and even hazardous to the public
tranquility.


But there was one greater danger which
the prophetic ken of the great Chancellor
failed to foresee. lie never deemed it pos
sible that the ballot-box would be so pol
luted by those paddened by greed for pow
er and gold that universal suffrage would
embrace Senegambian ignorance and unlver-
sal corruptibility. Chancellor Kent might
foresee all things, but never the existence
or necessity for returning board.
Year: 1876

YAxKEE-BAKKD BEAxs.--Pick over and
wash quart of good white beans. Soak
them over night In cold water enough TO
stand two inches on the top Of the beans.
In the morning put them IN fresh cold
water in q kettle on the back Of the stove
and let them pArboil. Drain them out Of
the water when they are cooked enough for
the skins to break by blowing them. After
draining put them in bean pot, or q tall
crock about eight inches hign and six inches
across the opening. Such one is almost
as good as a small Decked beaD-pot- After
the beans are in the pot put piece Of salt
pork as large as the palm Of your hand, or
q piece OF butter same size, aud nn even
tablespoonful Of salt on top Of them. Cover
with boiling water, and bake in q moderate
" heated oven from breakfast TINE one
morning throughout the day and evening,
and leave them Standing in the oven all
night and they are already 20 beat by the
breakfast fire. They must be looked after
once in two or three hours until the middle
Of the afternoon, and hot water put oa them
often enough 20 keep them Ineint- Ine last
few hours they will take care OF themselves
and in the morning wfii be as delicious
dash of baked beans As you'll ever want 70
ear. II necessity requires very hot hfe
| for other purposes. put . tin plate on top OF


the crock nearly covering Il. sometimes
with the best care, they will scorcb a little
on top. Take the burnt ones Oh and the
res, are al night.
Year: 1876

HAoKXES and wagoners do not seem to
know it, but it is a fact that they are
wrOng-doers, and liable for sll damages if q
footman be injured By reckless or careless
driving. The fOotmAn has the right TO the
crossing and the hackman or other teamster
must stop I'LL the pedestrian is out of the
way. The presumption Of law seems to be
that IL man, woman or child be injured
by hackman or horseman that the driver
OF rider is culpable, and may be 6ned and
Year: 1876

deeds and virtues will be honored and COM
memorated. In his case it is not the over
throw of party that We deplore, but the
woes of a State and the bitter disappoint-
ment of soldier and statesman, who sought
not to serve himself, but the old common
wealth that he loved
Year: 1876

American citizens. there is no reason
why they should be made the sub
iect of special inquiry The mere
9nronosition to place them even infer
entialIv in the same category as the In
dians or the cattle of the plains indi-
Gates an unwillingness on tho part of
some people to recognize the fact that
thew are free, and that with every ad-
vantage that anybody has they are able
to take care of themselves. On their
own part the negroes should resent this
discrimination as tending to perpetuate
the race prejudice and sink their citizen
ship in the question of their color.


Politicians who have been borne into
mower on the shoulders of the ne gro
doubtless find it difficult to let him
alone, but the time has come when all
such medding as that contemplated by
the Logan bill should be most enphat-
icaIiv resisted. d.-C Chicago Herald.
Year: 1876

Probable Results In Case OF European


War


In the event of a European war, which
seems imminent now, ii will be interest
ing to know something about the men
who are at the head of the Russian EN-
pire-the great power which will place
in the field the largest army ever known
in the history of warfare. Emperor
Alexander, who has never been a strong
man, is growing weaker as he grows
older; and, although he is now but nifty
eight years of age, he has become we'll
nigh seniIe. The recent reports OF his
intended abdicaiion in his sons favor
probably had their origin more in the
wishes of the people than IN the desires
of the emperor himself, for absolute SOW
ereignty is not the kind of baubie that
even a weak man would care TO throw
away. Alexander has always been an
intense admirer of his uncle, the Ger
man emperor, and has been more or less
subject to German influence. All the
best posts In the Russian service are filled
by Germans, even to the place of the
commander Of the great Russian army OF
conquest in the east, which Is hiied by
one Kaufman. The Russian people
have no fondness for the Germans, ana
this preference for their old-time enemies
fills them with disgust. The czar's phys
ical unsoundness is as conspicuous as Was
his fathers extraordinary bodily yigor,
and this fact places him at disadyan
tage among 50 hardy a race as the Rus
SLAMS. But his son and heir, the caro-
WITT, supplies in his character, person
aud opinions many of the deficiencies OF
his imperial father. He hates the Ger
mans as intensely as his father loves them
is intimately associated with the anti
German feeling Of the country, ana Il
naughty and imperious where ms iatheI
is weak and complaisant. 1t Is the ola
story of an heir-apparent allylng himsei
with a powerful opposition to gam PoPl-
Iaritv; and it is pretty tOlerably certain
that the czarowitz is more popular to-day
than the emperor. In the event, there
fore. of a general European war It Is not
unlikely that influence would be oro9ght
To bear which will procure the aodlca-
tion of Alexander H., and the succession
of The Young Nicholas TO the throne.
Another convenient fit Of sickness on the
old mans part viii settle the matter
without the necessity of going to the
trouble Of poisoning him of, as was done
with another car when considerations
of state demanded his removal.
Year: 1876

The New York ladies who are endeav-
oring to secure for shop-women the privilege
of sitting down when their duties do not re-
quire them to stand, propose to enforce their
requests by patronizing only those shopkeep-
ers who comply with it.


The reduction in New York rents gen
orally is one-quarter, but high priced build
ings suffer much greater depreciation. The
greater part of the Astor house being now
fitted for Offices bear two large signs " to let, p
and there are more "Offices" now in the
market than ever before. In the fashionable
suburbs the depreciation is still greater for
the gentry are unable to go out of town as
usual. Many ladies are learning to make
their own dresses, and the pressure is severe
ly felt among the modistes.
Year: 1876

Okra, a species of mallOW from two to
six feet high, which grows profusely at
the south, and has heretofore served
chiefly to thicken soup with its pods, Is
on the verge ef promotion to higher uses.
1t has been talked of for paper stock for
these twenty-five years, and has in fact
been successfully used for paper stock at
various times since 1860, being one of the
comparatively few discoveries made at
the south. The first suggestion, that
the outer fiber Of the plant could be so
used, was made by a French officer in
Algeria, but it was of no pactical value,
this fiber bearing too small proportion to
the whole plant to make it pay Dr.
Read, of Richmond, Va, first discov-
cred the adaptation of the whole plant to
Paper-making, and patented his discov-
cry eleven years ago; since then severa
northern mills have tried it, and a Mo
bile mill made good enough paper to
use for newspapers, so that the Mobile
Register printed an edition on it. The
only reason the manufacture has not
been prosecuted, is the lack of material
and it is yet to be introduced to any ex-
tent, even In the south. It would make
a profitable field crop and will grow in
any part of the Union. 1t requires a
pressure in bleach-boiling stronger than
is necessary for any stock now used. in
order to have the paper white, and
boilers would have to be constructed
with reference to this. The paper is re-
markably tough, and in this repect better
than almost any other now used for
newspapers.