smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

gladly will the mass of the Democ-
racy recognize the gracefulness of this
honest tribute from political oppo-
nent. It's effect upon this dissatisfied
element cannot fail of being benefi-
cial, and will go far towards electing
Governor TILpEN, should he receive
the nomination, which event appears
daily to become more probable.
Year: 1876

NEW YORK, Sth.-An International
Chess Match between the great play
ers of America and the English is to
be contested The game will be play
ed by cable the moves of each being
sent over the cables each day. 1t is
believed the match will not last over
two weeks.
Year: 1876

horses were precipitated in heap in
to the pit below, distance of nearly
thirty feet. All the passengers were
severely injured and several fatally.
The car was smashed and one horse
killad
Year: 1876

The Times is now devoting itself to
the task of proving that the election of a
Democratic President would be danger
GUS to the business interests of the coun-
try. This was one Of the great argu-
ments in favor OF the election of Grant
four years ago, and it was not without
effect, for Henry Clews, Jay Cooke and
others, supposed to be Representative
bankers and merchants, got together and
solemnly announced that Democratic
triumph was sure 10 be followed by q
financial panic. The Democrats were
beaten, but a panic came such as was
never before seen in the country, and the
political bankers went to ruin, dragging
thousands down with them. In order to
help the Times to play its little game
again, would it not be well to get Henry
Cews and Jay Corke to issue another
manifesto declaring upon their CONNER
cial honor, that the election Of Tilden


will bring panic and financial Disaster
Such document would be very valuable
for campaign purposes.-N. y. World.
Year: 1876

The conference committee on the
sundry civil appropriation bill have
leaehed hnsl agreement by the House
eOhierrees scquiescing in the Senate
amendments, striking out the clause by
maich the House proposed to repeal the
national registration law.
Year: 1876

IT is proposed that the House OF
Representatives shall not adjourn over
the summer and fall, as the usual Gus.
tom is, but that recess shall be taken,
thus permitting the House to reassembie
when public necessity may require IT.
This will be an act of prudence, especially
in view of recent developments at the


White House. ZACH. CHANDLER has
begun the HAYES campaign by secur-
ing the expulsion Of every Cabinet officer
who could be expected to oppose any
measure of corruption or violence; and
under his management as the chosen
leader of the Republicans in thiscanvass,
there is no doubt that every infamous
means known to Grantism will be en-
ployed, as it was four years ago. With
the cabinet apurihed" and Congress ad-
iournsd, GRANT and CHANDLER would
have no restraint upon their acts; and,
although it cannot prevent the employ
ment of the Whisky Ring, whose SER
vices are already secured for HAYES, it
can, by remaining in session, at least for
bid the terrorism OF Federal bayonets
which made the last Presidential election
a triumph of usurpation.
Year: 1876

An enterprise is a powerful indicative
in our politics is being undertaken here.
with no dout of success by our German
Democratic friends. We are to issue in
a short time q Tilden and Hendricks
paper. Thus the good cause is progress
ing. DIN.
Year: 1876

A Man 1mpaIed upon an IrOn eIHce'


A strange accident occurred Saturday night,
resulting in the death of a carpenter named VIM.
Lawrie, and which may result in the condemna-
ton Of sharppointed iron fences About mid
night he entered the yard in front OF his resi-
dence, No. 4Os New York avenue and when part
struck one Of the iron spear-heads with which the
top of the fence is adorned and fortified, and he
was impaled. Tho iron entered his head under
the ear and crushed in the bone. He was soon
relieved from this exceedingly painful position
and carried into the house, where he died during
the night. Mr.. Lawrie was about forty years OF
age The coroner will hold an examination.
Year: 1876

the Catholic churches. Especial attention has
been given to the quality Of the singing and the
arrangement of the musical programmes. The
choirs of some Of the Catholic churches embrace
some Of the finest artists in the city. and to-day
strain of grand music will ascend from every
church.
Year: 1876

The FmEPLACE.-There is nothing more
pleasant at this season of the year, when the
day is cold and damp, than a fire in the
fireplace. What figures and fancies the
flames conjure up in the mind, as the wood
crackles and burns, and the blaze, with
forked tongues, leaps and flares in the chin
ney. 1t holds one charmed to sit and watch
it as the heat warns the face and hands,
and the red particles of fire run in various
shapes on the SCOT on the back piece, and in
serpent-like flashes on the moss on the bari,
of the wood. The old fashion Of having a
fire in the fireplace is coming around again,
only in more limited form than on the
andirons, when huge volumes Of smoke and
flame rolled up through the opening at the
top Now the fireplace is smaller, but quite
as pleasant, and it reyives memories of those
years when our young life was bright and
full Of hope.
Year: 1876

MEN AS LovERs.--In the first place ii is
an imposition on any well-bred girl to keep
her up later than half-past ten o'clock, when
you have the opportunity of seeing her often.
II you always leave her with the wish in
her heart that you had staid longer, you gain
SO much. Never run the risk of wearying
her with your presence. BE just as earnest
and straightforward as in your honorable
dealing with men. Impress your friends
with the worthiness and seriousness Of your
love, so that vulgar and senseless banterinc
will appear to them as such. Love is re-
ligion-the supremest happiness wear it
manfully and proudly, but holly Woo a
woman bravely. If there is anything hu-
initiating 10 woman, it is to have a lover
whom she wishes to honor weak and vapid,
ever yielding and half afraid of her. She longs
to tell him TO " act like man !" The man
who conceals or denies his love for fear of be


ing laughed at, is a coward. A love that
has no element of divinity in it, is not love
but passion, which of itself has nothing en-
nobling. That was beautiful inscription
on an engagement ring, Each for the Other
and both for God,"-.Hss AJJie J. Terry.
Year: 1876

II had been am unusually wearisome day.
II seemed to the poor mother as if Puck
himself had possessed the younger children,
while the older ones were self-willed and
disobedient. A sullen and careless servant
made her feel that everything was going
wrong down stairs, yet she had been tied
hand aud foot TO the nursery with the fret
full exacting children. As if 10 try her
over-worked nerves to the utmost, strong
wind had kept up an incessant shaking aud
banging of loose blinds and doors all day,
till every fiber of her weary frame responded
with a confused sense Of hurry and unrest.


She wanted TO do so much for her children
not for their body merely, but for their
souls as wel-and to-day she had worked so
hard and accomplished so little. She had
long ago given up fine clothes aud luxurious
living for the sake of having time TO care
for their higher needs, but sometimes she
was obliged TO neglect even these. She
thought hopelessy tonight of the necessary
time She had spent in the care Of their phys
ical wants, of the imperative demands Of
every moment, and felt that she had done
nothing all day for their minds, their man
ners, or their morals. So she was weary
with bodily fatigue merely, but soul-weary,
with the teniold heavier burden of unsuc-
cessful toll, Of unaccomplished labor. Now
the welcome night had come, the little ones
slept in their white-coyered beds At
last she sighed gratefully, then reproached
herself" what should | do without them p
She sat in front Of the nursery fire, with the
baby peacefully sleeping in her arms. As
she gazed down on the placid little face, and
heard the steady breathing from the little
beds, that feeling of rest and relief which
tired mothers know so well comes only
when all the restless little ones are safe in
bed, stole over her. She laid the baby
softly in her cradle and tenderly tucked her
init was not quite time for the fathers
homecoming mechanically she took
up magazine lying on the table, and list
lessly turning its leaves, her eye caught these
words:
Year: 1876

General John Goshwieler, one of the
leading capitalists Of California, and one of
the really good fellows Of that state, tells q
thrilling story;


One day in early time he was standing
in pioneer shanty saloon, in company with
great big fighter who was the terror of
the camp and town.


There was nothing this giant could not
whip, and very little that he had not whip
ped. The big fellow was sitting near the
bar when stranger entered He was not
more than twenty-five, slender built, pale,
with big eyes, delicate features, and a hand
like a girl.


He stepped quientIy up to the bar and
asked for glass of brandy The glass was
placed before him, whereupon the bully
rose from his chair, put his big brawny
hand in front Of the yOungster, took the
brandy and drank it. The young man said
nothing, but quietly laid down four bits ard
said


''Give me another glass of brandy"


The brandy was put out, the glass was
filled and the bully again reached forward,
took the glass and drank it. The young
ster put four hits on the co9ater and said
easily:


Give me two glasses Of brandy"


The two glasses were put out, and filed
and the bully the third time reached for
ward, took glass and drank it. The
young raan paid no attention even, to the
giants pistols and knives, but taking the
other glass drank it and put down a dollar.
Then with and easy manner, be left the
bar for the door, walked five or SIX steps
turned like a fash of lightning and shot
the bully through the heart.


As he walked out Of the door he said to
one of the bystanders:


That fellow might have hurt somebody,
vet -
Year: 1876

shape OF the young and small leeches, and
those that, not having digested their food,
do not put IN an appearance on the uncere-
moniouS summons of the collectors


The price Of lecches in the market now
Is about four pounds per pound weight, an
average of 500 individuals going to the
pond An establishment, such as describ-
ed above, will produce several million
leeches annually in healthy condition
Serious losses are experienced i'll cold
weather, and In consequence of injudicious
handling of the annelides but the profits
are nevertheless considerable, as the cost
of maintenance and collection is not very
great.


The method of feeding these interesting
tiocks Is, as we have said, by sending num-
Der OF horses into the ponds periodically,
tor unless leeches are provided with an am
pie commissiariat, they will take themselves
off in search of forage elsewhere. The
horses used for this purpose do not suffer
to anything like the extent that might be
imagined. They are closely watched dur
ing the operation, and carefully tended af-
terward. In many cases, horses which have
been bought for trifie have, under the
care bestowed upon them, improved so
wonderfully as to have been sold afterward
at profit, so little does the system injure
them. Old horses, whose lives have hither-
to been a succession of hard knocks and
HASTINGS, and a perpetual round of fatiguing
journeys, here find a relief from their bur
dens death is deferred for months, and
even years, and the latter period of their
life is passed in paradise compared with
the experience they have gone through.
Paris alone Consumes some twelve mil
lion leeches annually; and, prior to the es-
tablishmcnt of the system of producing
them in artificial reservoirs, the annual i'm
pOrtation into France from abroad, cxclu-
sivc of its own production, was nearly fifty
millions. The enormous demand for these
useful surgical attendants throughout the
world may be estimated from the above
! figures.
Year: 1876

The condition of the industrial classes in
North Germany shows that flush times are
quite as demoralizing as hard times. After
the close of the Franco German war wages
rose to an unnatural level, all classes fancied
that the food-tide of prosperity had set in,
thrift was discarded and luxuries became
indispensable, craving for wealth beset all
classes and discomfort was fomented, and
the ultimate result was deterioration of
workmanship. Herr Reuleaux has sum
med it up: "The products of German
workmen are wanting in finish, wanting in
soundness, wanting in taste, and absolutely
devoid of imagination" The best work is
done by contented workmen who are mo-
derately prosperous
Year: 1876

At the close of its editorial remarks upon
Governor Tilden's "expanation that does
not explain, the New York Tribune sums
up the case in this pungent manner


Gov. Tilden many indeed have kept
himself within the letter of the law, but it
is plain that he evaded its spirit. He
could not be sent to the penitentiary, as he
is trying to send Jarvis Lord, for defraud-
ing the Government, but he contrivcd to
keep the Government from getting out of
him the money to which it was entitled
He did not tell the horse-car conductor he
had paid his fare, but he kept his hands in
his pockets and looked unconcernedly at
the conductor, as if he had and the effect
was the same. When the conductor detects
such passenger, he generally wants to put
him off the car. When the American peo-
pie find him running as Reform candidate
for the Presidency, they are going to vote
for the other man."
Year: 1876

TUNE" OH, Susannah.''
l had a dream some time ago,
When all around was still
| dreampt / saw Sam Tilden
rolling down the hill;
A big railroad was in his eye,
He put his arm round Hendricks neck,
Saying, " Tommy, don't you cry"


CHORUS.
Oh, poor Sammy! we cannot cry for thee,
For you are going up Salt River
With Imitation" on your knee.
Old Sammy then to Hendricks said:
{" | cannot win this race,
For honest Hayes and Wheeler
Are going to get the place"
Cob! do cheer up" then Hendricks said,
"And Try to stick by me,
And we'll spend the next four years to come
In some cottage by the sea-"


CHORUS.
Oh poor Sammy! we cannot cry for thee,
For you are going up Salt River
With Imitation" on your knee.
Hayes and Wheeler passed them by,
And soon were up the hill;
They looked around OH Sam and Tom;
And saw that all was still.
Friend Morrissey then came along
But, alas he found them dead;
lie poured some whisky down their throats
And rubbed the bottle on their head.


CHORUS.
Oh, poor Sammy! we cannot cry for thee,
For you are going up Salt River
With Imitation" on your knee.
The race was DER, the dream was true,
As the sequel soon will show,
For Hayes will be our President.
And TO the White House lie will go.
Wen send him for single term,
To let the people see
That our President is for reform
In this land of liberty.
Year: 1876

AFRAID OF THE PLAcE.--There
used to be superstition that if a MUIR
derer were brought into the presence
of the corpse Of his victim the wounds
would gape and bleed afresh. Per-
haps it was this that made the per-
petrator of the awful homocide OF
little child on Long Island yield to
the effects of local associations few
days ago The hardened wretch had
held out against all evidence, and
stoutly asserted his innocence until
brought to the scene Of the murder;
then he tlembled violently, WAS over
come by his agitation, and confessed |


He seems to have feared that the
very spot Of earth-the ground, the
trees, and the stones-might speak
out and testify against him!
Year: 1876

ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN
LIKE YoU.-A man was saving wood
the other day in his back yard. He
severed two sticks az thick as your
arm and then went into the house.
Mary" said he to his wife, my
country needs me there's no use
talking, we have Jest got to slaughter
all these In juns; no true patriot can
be expected to hang aroung a wood
pile these days. John" said his
wife, IF you fight Indians as we'll as
you saw wood and support your fam
lily, it would take one hundred and
eighteen like you to capture one
squaw, and then you i have to catch
her when she had the ague and throw
pepper in her eyes" John went back
to the wood pile wondering who on
earth told his wife all about him.
Year: 1876

- . -


A FoRGETFUL MAN.-The Cincin-
natl Enquirer says: His wife sent
HIM up town for "sumth'n' or ruther"
early IN the evening. On the way he
met friend, and they spent half an
hour in an animated dispute as to
whether Hayes or Tilden had the best
chances for an election. and whea he
left his friend at the corner Of Fourth
and Vine streets he had entirely for
gotten what Mariar had sent him for.
1t was in vain that he tried to think
up his forgotten errand. For three
long, weary hours he wandered round
from saloon to saloon, trying to slim
ulate his unreliable brain and pick up
his memory. Twas no use. The
more he stimulated the more he didn t
remember. He hated to 20 home and
acknowledged as much to his wife,
and so he just dropped in on his
friends to gather little sympathy.
After he had managed to scrape con-
siderable OF the artlcle together, anu
lust az the clock on St. Xavier church
was Ginning the midnight hour, the
telegraph editor opened a dispatch
and remarked that the Associated
Press announced the death Of DR.,
the famous physician of.


"By the jumping Jupiter | remem-
Der now, said the visitor, rising slow
ly from his seat and turning as pale
as a cholera patient; II remember
now. My wife had the cramp collie
and sent me to bring the doctor
D-n politics | wonder if she alive
vet ;" And he shot out of the door
after that doctor without staying to
bear what the outlook was in New
York.
Year: 1876

As train stopped for ten minutes,
and that individual who goes along
tapping the wheels with his hammar
was passing rapidly by the smoking
car, one Of the windows was Loisted,
and torrent of tobacco spit was
elected which completely deluged
HIM. The machinist paused for a
moment, and wiping some of the
streams from his person, said to the
other:


Mister what part Of the country
did you come from? p


"Me p said the splitter, puckering
his mouth for another expectoration.
II come from Kansas"


II thought So, said the machinist,
for if you had lived in Massachu-
sets or Connecticut they would have
had a water wheel in your mouth
long ago"
Year: 1876

Found on the street Dear Sam
lie: Paps watermillons is ripe. Come
and bring some more poetry like you
brought afore. My love for you will
ever flow like water runhin down a
tater row. Bring piece as long as
your arm, aad have heap more
about them raving rlnglits and other
sweet things. Come next sunday and
don { fole me.
Year: 1876

A Musician, whose handwriting
was very poor, wrote in an advertise
ment that his system Of instruction
extended from the primary elements
to thorough bass and it came out in
the paper, from prmeval liniments
to thorough bore.
Year: 1876

A WICKED Boy.-About three
weeks ago San Antonio father prom
ised his ten year old boy dollar il
he would learn by heart chapter in
the Bible. This morning the boy asked
for the dollar, as he had learned the
chapter, and the Old gentleman gave
it to him, not without suspicion,
however, that the coming circus had
something to DO with his sudden in
dustry in learning the chapter.


So he inquired: II hope, Johnny,
you don't intend to spend that dollar
in going to that wicked circus.
You are going to put it in the plate
on Sunday for missionary purposes,
amt you, sonny?'


The boy burst into tears. and said
huskily: "Why pa, you don't think
Id spend money to 90 to a circus?'


Whereupon there was a tableau
like little George Washington and his
hatchet. The old man cried out,
my noble boy" and wrapped his
arms several times around Johnny,
who blubbered like he had not a
friend left.


About ten minutes afterward, while
on his way to see dog fight, in the
company Of another boy, Johnny men
toned the occurrence and said:
"Ycu can bet your boots I'm not the
hairpin to pay "a dollar to get into the
circus when can crawl in under the
canvass, nor will the heather ever get
that dollar | learned psalms for un-
less they can beat me playing eucher
for it.


That boy will be sent to the Legis-
la.ure yet, unless his parents are very
careful.
Year: 1876

THE MAJORITY INVESTIGATION REPORT lo bh fhE-


srrrrp IN THE SENATE To-DAY-LIKkLIHooD


or Il. HEATED AND PARTISAN DISCUSSION.


lBY TELEGRAPH THE rRIBUNEl


WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.--The majority report on the
MisSssippi investigation has been finished and put
On nrint and will be presented in the Senate by Mr.
Bontwcll tomorrow. 1t is long document and is
said to be very severe on the Democrats. The re-
mort is in circulation that the Republican members
of the committee have not submitted the report to
The minority and that there is a good deal OF bad
feeling between Mr.. Bayard and Mr.. Boutwell, in
consequence of the latters action. The report OF
the minority will probably not be very compliment
ary to the majority for their alleged partisan course
The testimony taken by the committee is not yet
prined and will not be ready for several weeks 1t
will make about 1000 printed pages. 1t is
generally believed here that there will be
long debate in the Senate on this subject when the
report is made when no doubt senator Morton Will
finish the speech begun by him on Mississippi affairs
last Spring. OF course Mr.. Boutwell, will have TO
make speech on behalf of the majority, and per-
hans his Republican associates will also want TO be
heard. and Mr.. Bayard will want to be heard for the
Democrats. BY the time these speeches are through


proloneed discussion may set in and last for seve-
raj weeks giving pretty distinct forecast OF what
turn the political canvass will take. 1t does not
seem possible that two reports regarding Mississippi,
and about which there has been so much bad blood,
can be presented in the Senate without debate; and
when a political discussion is once begun in that
body there is no telling where it will end.
Year: 1876

to silver dollars were not changed and it was passed
under suspension of the rules, only 13 members
voting in the negative. The bill reduced the
amount of silver in the dollar, made subsidiary
coin and limited its legal tender to five dollars thus
demonetizing it, The provision for this subsidiary
dollar was amended in the Senate by substituting
the trade dollar TO be used in foreign commerce.


From this brief review it will be seen that when
silver dollars were at premium Mr. Kelley believed
in single gold standard to be consistent he must
either stand by that standard now, and for the
reasons he then gave or he must admit that the only
policy is to the cheapest metal, and by ever
changing laws, demOnetize that which happens for
the time to be dearer. Z.L.w
Year: 1876

In the Probate Court of the County of Los


Angeles, State of California
In the matter of the estate of


Jacob Keller, deceased.


Order to show cause why decree of distribu-


button should not be made.
NN reading and filing the petition of Lou
~ lisa Keller, surviving widow OF said
deceased, setting forth that more than four
months have elapsed since the probate of the
will of the estate of said deceased. and
that she is entitled to the immediate posses
ion OF all the property under and by virtue of
said will of said deceased il is ordered that
all persons interested in the estate ofthe said
Jacob Keller, deceased, be and appear before
the Probate Court of the county of Los An
geles, at the court room of said court, in the
city of Los Angeles, in said Los Angeles
county, on