smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

Newspaper paragrahists and quite mum.
ber of other people have, from time imme-
mortal, had great amount of fun over the
contents of boys pocket it's treasury of
tops, marbles, cold biecuit inlaid with jam,
lonesome pennies, pits of horse-shoes, kite
strings, hy-shooters, pop-guns and harmoni-
cas- but they don't pursue their discoveries
in the pouche regions. They don't any of
them, know what pocket is, nor anything
about what one can hold. We found one
lying on the sidewalk yesterday on Six


teenth street, and at this present moment
it is living on our table, and the contents
which it contained have so taken up our
space that there is barely room to pen this
statement, and they are amazing to the be-
holder. We give an inventory more for the
purpose of enabling the proprietor to OBJ
tain the pocket than for any other reason,
for far be it from us to exhibit such thing
merely to pander to the idle curiosity of an
unmerciful and sarcastic public Two white
cotton handkerchiefs, the hens OF which
are bigger than the balance a fish that is
a candy fish, of many colors one short
slate pencil, black, chewed at the end, too
hard at the other one slate pencil, light
mole color, chewed at both ends, and very
short and slabsided one bit OF sky-blue
ribbon, intended for some fellows button
hole two bits in currency one piece OF
short, black, scalloped ribbon garter, with
out buckle, very elastic, but not long two
short pieces of barber-pole candy, one Of
peppermint, the other lemon one pair of
small black kids, not live ones, but gloves
one parasol tassel q camel's hair brush ;
one love letter, very tender, praising the
recipient and running down another girl,
hence very valuable one horse-hair ring,
unfinished three hsir-plns one perfum'
cry bottle-stopper box Of breath per.
fume one loose tooth, jaw a small ball Of
hoss and crochet needle piece Of raw
cotton full Of white powder the left heel
Year: 1876

Gov. Tilden had magnificent opportunity.
He stood too long at the brink of it, and at
last let it go by 1t was known that his friends
in convention had opposed that clause of the
platform which demands the repeal of the Re-
sumption act. Some of them, as Mr.. Dor
sheimer stated, in debate, signed formal pro-
tests against it. 1t was reported that the per-
the passage of bill of that nature by the
House. That there was bitter contest in the
House between that wing of the party which
approved Mr.. Tilden's hard-money record and
that wing which accepts Mr.. Hendricks as its
representative was well known. Nor had Mr..
Hendricks hesitated to declare his opinions
Without waiting for the response of Gov. Til
den, not only in his reply to a serenade at In
dianapolis shortly after the nomination, but
in the letter recently published, Gov. Hen
bricks had placed his own Interpretation upon
the st. Louis platform. Gov. Tilden should
have felt that he could not accept that inter
probation, even by silence His past record
was honorable. Men had called him the Jack
son of later times, and had expected from him
something of that sturdy, unyielding fidelity
to convictions which made ''Old Hickory" in
spite of all his faults, the master of his party
and his time Had Gov. Tilden been the
master of this time, and of the Democracy of
to-day, his letter would have been somewhat
different in its treatment of the most impor-
tant question under discussion.


Let us suppose for moment that Gov. Til
den had said to his party bluntly: ''With
you hold the act of 1875 insufficient. But
it was formal pledge of the public faith.
Democracy does not repudiate Our duty is
not to do worse, but to do better than our op-
ponents shall approve the repeal of the
Resumption act only when accompanied with
Legislation which, in my judgment, will bring
resumption more surely and more quickly.
Think what light would have shone in thou
sands of faces on Saturday The nation
would have found man, and true man is
always a master. 1t would have found a
worthy match for Gov. Hayes. For that was
Year: 1876

precisely his reply, when challenged by oppo-
nents in his party and State


But unfortunately Gov. Tilden did not
show himself to be that sort of man, and his
party certainly is not that sort of party. There
was his fatal weakness; he is not master OF
Democracy, but its servant. The Democratic
party intends to repudiate this pledge of the
public faith. Its purpose was so clear and
strong, even before the convention, that many
friends of Gov. T.lden yielded. Yet some
hoped that in him the old Jarksonian spirit
would appear. They have been disappointed.
Through his whole letter they search in vain
for one word to prove that the man actually
and unmistakably rises above the party.


The fault is not so much that of Gov. Til
den, it is true. His party does not tolerate
independence Submission is its first law.
The most powerful impulse of the party to-
day is to make war upon the public credit by
repeating the Resumption act, ard there was
no master to quell that storm. The cunning
devices of the magician at Albany were felt at
Washington for time, but the rising tide of
party feeling submerged all barriers. Through
committee chosen in the belief that it would
resist infationists and repudiators to the end,
that spirit of the party has forced its way at
last, and Gov. Tilden bows assent the next
morning. With cautious phrases the Cover
nor who signed the New York Resumption
act of 1875 speaks before the Democratic party
of 1876. The party has not found a master
but servant Its real representative is Gov.
Hendricks. Its most available candidate was
Gov. Tilden.-1N. Y. Tribune
Year: 1876

IT would be no easy matter to tell what the
policy of the Democratic party is in regard to
the financial question. On Saturday, imme-
diately after the appearance of Tilden's and
Hendricks letters of acceptance, the Demo-
cratic House repealed, by vote vote of one
hundred and three to eighty-six, the act OF
last year which declared specie payment shall
be resumed in January, 1879. The action
was taken in obedience to the imperative be-
hest of Governor Hendricks, who declared it
was necessary to carry the Indiana State tick
ct and the Indianapolis district. Governor
Tilden is known to be in favor of resumption,
but in his letter of acceptance he asserts that
the fixing date when resumption shall COM
mence is "a delusion and snare" "It can
not be doubted" he says, ''that the substitu-
ton of system of preparation without the
promise of day would be the gain of the
substance of resumption in exchange for its
shadow" In this declaration he fatty contra
diets what he has already stated over his Off
cial signature. The New York Legislatures,
during the session of 1875, enacted law de-
claring that on and after January l, 1879, all
taxes levied and confirmed in that State
''shall be collected in gold. United States
gold certificate, or national bank notes, which
are redeemable in gold on demand"


The act provides further that "Every con-
tract or obligation made or implied, and pay
able within this State, and made or implied
after January 1, 1879, and payable in dollars,
but not in specified dollars, shall be payable in
United States coin of the standard weight and
fneness established by the laws of the United
States at the time the contract or obligation
shall have been made or implied The act
which provides for the resumption of specie
payment in New York State was approved by
Governor Tilden March "a, 1875, yet he says
in his letter of acceptance that the fixing of
day by the National Legislature for the re-
sumption of specie payment by the general
government is ''delusion and a snare" Ac-
cording to the Governor, it is all very well to
fix q day fer State to do certain thing, but
it is all wrong to specify time at which the
nation shall commence to do the same thing.
supplemental letter explaining the difference.
He is better logician than to hold that the
greater is contained in the less. If il is advi-
sable for a State to resume without inaugu-
rating system of preparation, it is certainly
advisable for the nation to do the same. If
the one can fix date without detriment to its
interests, the other can do so, too. Evidently,
our Democratic friends are at sea on the finan-
cial question.
Year: 1876

Mr. Boutwelrs report on the investigation
into Mississippi affairs is quite lengthy, but
the points are represented with much clear
ness. The evidence is summed up under
eighteen heads, of which the following are the
last two:


s'Your committee find that the resignation
of Governor Ames was effected by body of
men calling themselves the Legislature OF the
State of Mississippi, by measures unauthor-
lied by law, and that he is the rightful Gove-
nor of that State The evidence shows that
the State of Mississippi is at present under the
control of political organizations composed
largely of armed men, whose common pur-
pose is to deprive the negroes of the free ex-
ercise of the right of suffrage, and to establish
and maintain the supremacy of the white
line Democracy in violation alike of the Con-
stitution of their own State and of the Consti-
tuition of the United States


Finally, the committee say, the measures
necessary and possible in an exigency are
three: First-Laws may be passed by Con-
gress for the protection Of the rights of citi-
zens in the respective States. Second-States
in anarchy, or wherein affairs are controlled
by bodies of armed men, should be denied
representation in Congress. Third-The Con-
stitutional guarantee of republican form of
government to every State will require the
United States, if these disorders increase or
even continue, and all milder MEASURES shall
prove Intellectual, to remand the State to a
territorial condition, and through system of
public education and kindred means of i'm
provement change the ideas of the inhabitants
and reconstruct the Government upon a re-
pub can basis.
Year: 1876




THE New York Herald thus rebukes
the Democratic blather about Radical
oppression of the South:


1t is with surprise that we see the
/ Courier-J Journal follow after the baying
pack of wild newspapers who believe
that the election of Tilden is Becessary
to save the South from Radical oppres
sion.' There is no such thing as Radi-
cal oppression. The Republicans, as a
party, stand with the Democrats. They
have never ceased to hold out to the
South the hand of magninimity and
friendship. There is nothing that Til
den, as President, could do that Hayes
could not and would not do. But the
Southern men insist upon regarding
the Republicans as enemies, as men
pining after their goods and chattels,
as laboring to build up governing
class of adventures and negroes to rule
over and plunder them. There has
been good deal Of this; but who is to
blame? The Southerners provoked a
policy of repression, and that policy
has been enforced. They have striven
steadily to bring the Union back to
what it was before the war. The Re-
publicans have defeated this in legisla-
lion as they did in arms. 1t has been
losing game. 1t is unjust TO say that
the Republicans did not wish to act
with the old Confederates. The truth
is, when an old Confederate acted with
the Republicans, he was at once hunt
ed out Of society. Take the case of the
celebrated General Longstreet. He was
good enough to command a great ar
my under Lee, but as he professed his
desire to act with the Republicans, he
was outlawed. The same may be said
of Gen. Mosby, who was good enough
to commend cavalry guerillas for Lee,
but who, as soon as he supports the
Republicans, becomes infamous.
Year: 1876

A difficulty occurred recently
through the sale of horse, resulting
in law suit which is likely to end in a
tedious and expensive litigation. AS
both parties are determined to weather
it through, it may safely be estimated
that the price of several horses will be
involved in this issue, whichever party
gains the suit. This is not the first
time that difficulties have arisen
through the same cause, and any means
that will be found effective in avoiding
the trouble will be readily adopted by
parties trading in horses. A gentle
man from Alabama, who appears to
have great confidence in his theory,
lays down the following for determin-
ing the age of horse: Up to the age
of nine years the teeth are an unfailing
guide, but beyond this age the dental
test is powerltss. There is another
equally infallible test, however. 1t is
this: After horse is nine years old a
wrinkle comes on the eyelid at the
upper corner of the lower lid, and every
year thereafter he has one well defined
wrinkle for each year over nine. Ii,
for instance, the horse has three wrink-
les, he is twelve; if foar, he is thirteen.
Add the number Of wrinkles to pine,
and you will always get it. So says
the gentleman; and he is confident it
will never fail. AS good many peo-
pie have horses over nine, ii is easily
tried, and it would be well for those
who do try it to give their experience
to the public. There are number of
stock breeders, for instance who own
aged horses and brood mares whose
ages they are familiar with. BY coun-
ting the wrinkles ''at the upper corner
of the lower lid," in these aged ami
mails, it will be easy to determine IL
the above test is borne out by fact.
Will some our many readers try the
experiment, and report the result? IL
the theory proves a correct one, tho
sooner it is made public the better.
Year: 1876

PEcuIIARITIEs AND TRAITS oP THE BOY DIS


COVERED IN oHIo-A SENSATION FOR THE


PEOPLE.


TRPN, OHIO, jan 81 1876.


The Charley Ross matter still continues the theme Of
conversation Aspecal has just been received from
Carey Ohio, which says that the writer has just re-
turned from along interview held with the boy this after
noon The boy stouty claims that his Charlie
Schenck; that his pa told him go, and that his
fathers name is Samuel Schenck, horse trainer He
has many features which correspond with the descrp-
ton OF the Philadelphia Charley Ross, and IL
Is maintained by most OF the people who
have seen him and compared him with
the photograph Of the lost child that he the Identical
little boy while others who are slow 10 believe say
there are many points In which he resembles him. but
incidents that warrant very careful and complete
vestigaton as 10 who the boy really is and whence
he came.


During the course OF conversation and in reply to
question he said he once lived in New York and
kept in building in which were confined lot OF chill.
dren- "Here was kept for long time, he says,
sand nobody came to see me but an old woman and
some men, He told Of many places and large towns
where he was last summer, but could give definite
Information as TO his previous whereabouts


The boy was very shy about talking with strangers
at first but grows more talkatve on getting better ac
quainted He seems TO be strongly attached TO his
adopted mother, but can give no idea OF his natural
maternal parent He cannot speak distinctly more
than onehaf the words used in common conversation


Mrs Beebe, with whom he was lett by the two un-
known men. says the boy and the man who brought
him into her house do not resemble another in the
least and the thought of the great difference between
the two struck her when the called the child his
OF conversation generally, and many docking to
Mrs Gibson's residence Many theories anoat rel
atve TO the child and the parties having him in
charge firmly believe that he will yet be proven be
the yeritable Charlie Ross
Year: 1876

Tho following record will show the changes In tho
temperature for the past wenty-four hours IN com,
parison with the corresponding last year as in
dicated by the thermometer Hudnut's pharmacy
HIM n
Year: 1876

competition from abroad TO the injury both Of the
American capitalist and the American labCrer. The
same remarks apply with equal force to the second
section of the BILL which deals with iron and other
metals Our own rolling mills are furnishing rail-
road iron at about onehaf the price obtained three
years ago, and yet even at these rates, Mr. Wells,
Mr.. Morrison. and the Parsee' are unwilling that
American labor shall furnish it. The whole bill
proceeds indeed on the basis that our revenue must
be increased by inducing foreign importatons, no
matter what effect will be produced on the Ameri-
can mechanic whose bread depends on the revival
of the trade in which he is skilled"


"And the new free lst-what of that'"


"By those who have carefully examined the free
list which the bill contains, Ii is pronounced and
denounced as the most shameless attempt to play
into the hands Of the unnaturazed British end
German importers who desire that they shall escape
paying dollars tax for the support of Government
to which they owe no allegiance. but from whose
people they are annually amassng fortunes. Ex-
perts in tariff-makng do not hesitate to say that
there are several jobs concealed in this ree-is and
that poisonous and corrupting sting can be found
in the tail, which makes up in many respects the
larger part of this peculiar animal"


"Will the party in the majority support Il"


"Wise Democrats even of the anti-pTotecton
school, ar averse to having their party committed
to a bill whose origin gives it bad reputation and
whose passage would fatally divide them 1t is not
considered probable that it can be killed i'll the
Committee, but it is deemed quite certain that it
never can pass the House. Its tax of three cents
pound OH coffee and 15 cents on tea preudIccs the
bill with many Democrats, who do not stop TO look
into its general character very exhaustive de-
bate may be expected upon it in Committee of the
Whole, and few, except its sanguine authors expect
that it can possibly survive tho ordeal of discus
sion.D
Year: 1876

plunder. To-day he is Chairman OF the Board
Of Directors, possessing the confidence OF the great
body of shareholders, invested by the vast majority
of them with such power az, to use his own words,
no Chairman was ever before permitted to WELD.
He IS the Company. He represents the victims,
and the style in which he to fight their battle
may be judged from q single fact. He makes his


first attack the most powerful of all those origin
ally responsible for the fraud, whose portrait. as
drawn by Mr.. MacDougall, presents some singular
features:


stand here knowing that the subject OF this resolu-
been the terror OF the city OF London. whom was
looked upon being Don QuiYoe for daring 10 tonc
Of whom said that he had retained all the leading
counsel In England and that he had got lawyers en-
poyed his clerks that he had armed himself win con-
troll the Press and that there was no co ner in
which man dare get up against him. but that he would
be miselably crushed. That man has had TWO years
fight with me- and that which said two years ago say
nOw-that he may be schemer who - able 10 pass on
bad thing, be may be very clever man IN INA. M way
but he Is not Jack OF all Trades and you put % "
any other business he would prove very weak mlsei
Bile, and contemplate opponent Cheers Well. gen
tlemen. the person to whom refer is person oi the
name of Alfred Grant"


This sketch certainly Ia not by friendly hand,
but it conveys scarcely an exaggerated idea of the
extraordinary position Grant has held in the city.
He may not have been respected, but he has been
dreaded. He was a master of his trade, man OF
undenable abilities, restrained it was believed, by
no scruple and possessed of that vast power which
great wealth and abilities used without scruple,
give. Few men have cared to attack him. Through
it's financial editor he subsidized The Times ITSELF as


memorable trial proved though its editor and pro-
prietor were ignorant that Sampson sold and Grant
bought the use of its money columns. He is still
strong in the city, and MacDougas contest is to be
no light affair. IL will be watched with an interest
nothing has excited since the Rubery case For the
general public, the climax will be reached when an
American Minister is put into the dock, or when he
pleads guilty by pleading his privilege. 6. W. s.
Year: 1876

BOARD OF ALDERMEN.-The last regular
meeting of the Board of Aldermen before
the summer recess will be held this after
noon at O'Clock.


Next Monday the Common Council will
hold its last regular meeting before adjourn
ing for the summer holiday.
Year: 1876

OLD FIRST REGIMENT MEETING.-The Old
First Virginia regiment will meet tonight
at the Hastings Courtroom, when the an
nual election for officers will take place, and
it will Of course be OF interest to every
member to be present.
Year: 1876

Church FeaSt.-The ladies Of Salem Bap-
tist church will give q feast in the yard OF
the church at the old courthouse. Many
ladies from Richmond will be present and
assist the country ladies.
Year: 1876

Stamp duties were always objection
able. But the people never knew how
odious they are until now. They are the
dearest Of all means for raising revenue
and ought to be secuted by every honest
man. They are a scandal and ought to
be objected to BY every one.
Year: 1876

The REJEcrIoN OF THE New PARTY
RULES by the popular vote on Saturday,
is to be regretted because while they
did not differ in some particulars from
the Old Rules and were no more obJec-
tionable to those who voted against them,
they clearly fixed and pointed out the
hundreds from which the candidates for
the Legislature were to be chosen in ro-
tation in order. Now the party of ne
cessity falls back upon the old rules.
Year: 1876

TERRIBLE VENGEANCE FOR HUSBANDS MUIR
DER-THE WIVES PARAMoUR TAKEN FROM
THE JAIL AND HANGED TO A TREE-NARRow
ESCAPE OF THE WOMAN.


CINCINNATI, Jan. 23 1870
special to the Gazette says:-Edward Williams who,
with Mrs Meeng was arrested for the murder OF the
Iattcrs husband taken from the jail last night
prisoners assured by q minister that sufficient
evid ence OF their guilt had been obtained and that the
Jail surrounded by q mob OF excited people, but
both denied all completely in the act although the
minister continued praying with them and asking for
confession. The mob finally


FORCED


from the jailor took Williams out and placed him under
a tree In the Court House yard where, with q rope
around his neck and be standing barrel he made
confession. He expressed hope that the mob might
obtain Gods forgiveness for their crime he had
home 10 heaven He died after hfteen minutes OF terri
BILE agony


THE WOMAN BROUGHT OUT.


Mra Mceling was then brought out aud, placing her
In front OF the dead murderer the crowd called tor her
confession She said Williams had been her paramour
for three years that she had been trying for the past
three months 70 poison her husband without success
that Williams struck heeling the head with axe
while he was asleep on Wednesday night, afterward
cutting his throat she assisted In destroying the ev
dences OF the murder and IN buryng Meeling she
accused herself Of beng


THE CAUSE MuRDER,
but begged ptfully for life. Though the feeling
mously for her execution, could be found who
would put the rope around woman's neck, and she
was returned to Jail williams body left hang
until It was cut down by the authorities this morning
Year: 1876

The following record will show the changes IN the
temperature for the past twenty-four hours, in COM
parison with the corresponding date Of last year In
dIcatcd by the thermometer at Hudnut's pharmacy,
HERALD Building
Year: 1876

The storm. which has wrought such havoc along the
coast severest in the city carly hour yeser
day morning. The snow had fallen SO heavily as TO
impede travel greatly during the night but under the
dsspating influence Of driving rain, which continued
for three or four hours, not vestge OF IL re-
manned. The in its fall binding as 70
make pedestriansm exceedingly unpleasant, but the
heavy fall of succeeding rain which went driving be-
forc tho wind was far worse. Fortunately the storm
visited the city at time when but few were
Obliged TO 60 FORTH that its effects perceptble
only to a small proportion OF the Inhabitants No
serious damage reported to have resulted from its
visit 10 the city.