smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

One would naturally suppose that il q


man was safe from violence anywhere,
it would be in the house of prayer, and


when surrounded with innocent women
and children; but such things fail to
have their influence in Tahlequah. In
Saline district, Charley Konsine and
Dick Riley enter into lit
tie pistol argument over a bot
tie of whisky and hurry off to the
happy hunting grounds. A white man
is found dead on Spring Creek and
another is shot on the road near the
same place, all within the space of few
days. On Grand river, William Cocran
fells woman because she would not let
him murder man who was asleepin the
house. A csttle-bUyer is found dead sud
robbed on Barren Fork. The sheriff of
SequOysh district is called to the door
and ssluted with 8 load of buck
shot And sol is all over the country.
How long shau this state Of things be
allowed to go OIL? We have not the
room in this number of Our paper to
examine the evident causes OF this mis-
rule, but shall refer to them again at an
early day. Asewe go to press we learn
OF another brutal murder in the CherO-
kee Nation, this time in Canadian dis
trict. On last Friday morning, about
eight O'Clock, the house Of Mr.. Jesse
Foreman, who lives two miles from
Webber's falls, was surrounded by q
dozen or more scodndrels from Illinois
district, and before he was sware OF
their presence he found himself at their
mercy. Foreman was shot down in his
own house, in the presence of his fam.
lily. Our informant, who LEFT the scene
in less than an hour after the murder
was committed, reports the most intense
excitement prevailing in the neighbor-
hood, in which the murdered man was
great favOrite. 1t is regarded as an
other evidence that the Ross faction are
determined, if possible, that opposition
to their schemes of plunder shall be
accounted for with the life of any one
who may oppose them.
Year: 1875

At the instance Of NJ. Thiers, in 1871,
a fund of nearly. thirty thousand dollars
was raised in France for bronze statue
Of Lafayette, to be presented by the
French government to the city Of New
York. The statue arrived in New York
last week, and it will soon be placed per-
maneuuy in Central park. The New
York Times says Of it:


General Lafayette is represented in
bis twentieth year, that being his age
when he j1iaed the revolutionary forces.
The figure stands upon the bulwSrks Of
the ship, the right arm gracefully ex-
tended snd the left thrown across the
chest, the hand grasping the swOrd-biIt
The body is firmly posed on the right
foot, the left leg being extended, with
the toe OF the military boot resting on
the Oulwark. The head is turned slight
iy to the right, and is in perfect accord
with the general pose Of the body. The
whole is the result OF 8 study from
paintings of Lafayette taken from life.
Year: 1875

The symptoms of Liver Complaint are un-
easiness and pain in the side. Sometimes the
pain is in the shoulder, and Is mistaken for
rheumatism. The stomach is affected with
loss OF appetite and sic mess, bowels in gen.
eral cOstive, sometimes alternating with lax.
The head is troubled with pain, and dull,
heavy sensation, considerable loss of memory,
accompanied with painful sensation OF haV-
ing left undOne something which ought TO
many of the above symptoms attend the dis
ease, and at other times very few OF them; but
the liver is generally the organ most involved.


Nearly all diseases originate from Indiges


tion and Torpldity of the Liver, and relief is
always anZiously sought after II the Liver
Year: 1875

THE rapid rise in wheat in Chicago
the past lev days has developed weak
ness in the ability of several dealers in
that city to make even. A dispatch last
night chrOnicled two or three failures,
and more are regarded on the ragged
Year: 1875

Ok WEST TWENTY THIRD STREET THIRD HOUSE
~ west of Fifth Avenue HoteL-Handsome Rooms with
without private table also Rooms for gentlemen table
Board 80 per week; house and table first class
Year: 1875

90 EAST NINETEENTH STREET CORNER OF
% Fourth avenue, one short block from broadway :
Large Rooms southern exposure newly furnished
all convenences hall Room adjoining If desired; to gentle
only
Year: 1875

lax EAST TWENTY FIRST STREET (GRAMERCY
ire ParD.-liandsomey furnished second floor front
Rooms to let with Board private table If required also
single Room for gentleman terms moderate.
Year: 1875

A SECOND AND THIRD FLOOR EN- SUITE OR
~ singy, handsomely and completely furnished for
would let Lower PART location first class
moderate Can be to-day. 4OS West Thirty
fourth street
Year: 1875

10 NINTH STREET WEST.-TO LET, WITH
lO Board. elegant Room with large dressing closet,
hot and cold and all conveniences house and table
unexceptionable table boardcrs Apply for week.
Year: 1875

A plain yellow cat created remark
able sensation in church at Austin,
Nevada, recently. The cat, one OF the
Thomas variety, made his home in the
church and occupied usually comfort
able resting-placeon the organ, his favor
ite perch being what Is known as the
pedal bass. On Sunday when he distin..
guished himself the cat was occupying
his usual place and remained enjoying
a comfortable nap until the congregation
bad become seated and the services be-
gun. Then with the commencement
Of the singing the organist came down
suddenly on the pedal bass and the cat
went up and out into the body of
the church like rocket. d.
scribing a parabola he lit on back of u
pew near tile center of the room and
with an unearthly yell, began to claw
the nearest chignon. Tue lady assailed
screamed, and in her terror never
waited to open tho pew-door, but turned
a complete somersault into the aisle, and
rushed tor the door. A panic seized the
congregation, who did not all compre-
hend the case, and for time the scene
was particularly wild. The cat finally
escaped through side door and the
congregation quieted down, but the
solemnity of the occasion had been
shametully marred.
Year: 1875

1t is becoming more and more evident
that the Intlationists, at the coming
Democratic State Convention, at Co.
lumbus, will find themselves wanting,
and that those who favor sound tinan-
cial politics will be victorious. Thus
the Democratic County CONVENTION
of Cuyahoga, as we mentioned in our
yesterdays paper, decidedly expressed
itself. That gold and silver is the only
Ereiiable paying medium, and that we
must soon resume hard cash and honest.
ly pay the National debt.


Thurman has this time better pros.
pect than last year to have his views
adopted. At that time they accepted
his proposition of the finance plank
only partially, and the adopted
portion, distgured by unreasonable
ct ceteras, at the instance of
Of the Intfationists. Nearly all the dele.
gates at the last Convention were labor
ing under the imitation fever, and it was
clearly impossible to bring into recogni-
tion a sound view of the financial ques-
ton. Since that time, great deal
has been done, and we expect
that the finance plank of the next plat
form will, if not perfect, be bearable. All
hard cash Democrats and Liberals
should 60 to Columbus and put great
check upon the inflationists. The parole
must be: Hard cash as the basis OF cir
culation; no imitation, and also no con-
traction; down with the National Banks,
and legal-tenders in place of National
Bank notes; return to hard-money pay
ments as soon as the interests OF the
country will allow it.


The Liberals in the State Of New
York will hold separate State Conyen-
ton. They are ON the fence to see
(which way the eat jumps"
Year: 1875

The symptoms of Liver Complaint are
uneasiness and pain in the sjde Some
times the pain is in the shoulder, and is
mistaken for rheumatism. The stomach
is affected with loss of appetite and
sickness, bowels in general costiye,
sometimes alternating with lax. The
head is troubled with pain, and dull,
heavy sensation, considerable loss OF
sstion of having left undone something
which ought to have been done. Often
complaing of weakness, debility, and
low spirits. Sometimes many of the
above symptoms attend the disease, and
at other times very few of them; but
the liver is generally the organ most In
Year: 1875

INFLUENCE OF NEWSPAPERS. - Says
Daniel Webster: Small is the sum that is
required to patronize a newspaper, and
amply rewarded is its patron, l care not
how humble and unpretending the gazette
which he takes. 1t il next to impossible TO
iil sheet with printed matter without
putting into it something that is werth the
subscription price. Every parent, whose
son is away from home or at school, should
supply him with newspaper l well re-
member what a marked difference there
was between those ofmy school-mates who
had. and those who had not. access to
newspapers. Other things being equal,
the first were always decidedly superior to
the last in debate, composition, and gener-
al Intelligence.
Year: 1875




At the regular weekly meeting Of the
Methodist preachers Of Boston and vicini-
ty, held at Wesleyan Hall, Tuesday after
noon, the recent difficulties IN louisiana
were discussed at considerable length.
Bishop Bowman gave an account Of what
he knew about the treatment Of cOlored
people in Louisiana, narrating a number Of
instances in which they had been shame
fully abused, and deprived Of life, even.
By invitation, Rev. B. l. Ives, Of New
York, addressed the meeting, and bis
speech was Of the most radical kind. He
declared there is altOgethertOO much tOady-
ism on the part Of Northern people in their
treatment Of the South.


He said we are undertaking now TO coax
the devil out Of the miserable whelps down
South, when nothing but stTychnine and
cannon ought to be used. He rather agreed
with Phil. Sheridan's declaration during
the war, athat if he had owned he'll and
Texas, he would lease out Texas and live
in the other place" Mr.. Ives adminis-
tered a castigatiOn TO the church, declaring
that there is not a paper in the Methodist
Church that dares to discuss the Civil
Rights bill, and ask that il be enforced. be
said he believed the meanest rascals in the
South are in the Methodist Church South.
He declared himself a. Radical Of the
strongest kind, and said be believed the
u,Ore he hated the rebels Of the South, the
more he loved God.


He declared he believed the spirit now
rampant in the South has got to be crushed
out BY another war, and he longed for the
appearance Of some cOlOfed man able to
become a leader among his people, WELD
ing the sword and torch. He said the
Bishops ought to come out publicly and de-
clare the whole truth about the treatment
Of the colored people in the South, but he
didn't believe they would. If they did, he
knew they couldn't return to the South,
for if they did they would be hung but
he intimated that it was no worse TO hang
a Bishop than a minister, but he suggested
if it was done it might wake up the people
quicker than anything else.


He thought the Bishops were too tender
hearted, and they reminded him Of the
man who wanted to cut of his dogs tail,
but be was too tender-hearted to cut it OF
where it ought to be, so be cut it of an
inch at a time. The speech Of Mr.. Ives
was received with frequent demonstrations
of approval, some Of his most radical utter
ances exciting considerable applause,
mingled with laughter.
Year: 1875

IT is now understood that the Texas
and Pacific bill cannot be reached IN
the House. On a point Of order 1t
would of necessity go to the committee
of the whole, where at this stage Of the
session it could not be taken up. 1t Is
therefore expected that an effOrtwil be
made to pass it first in the Senate.
Year: 1875

THE eighteen Republicans who voted
against the House caucus rule say they
will not support any rule that Repub-
Hcans would not be willing to have ap-
pTed when they are In the minority.
Year: 1875

FROM present appearances the lead
ing statesmen Of the Administration
party regard the sustaining of the
Kellogg fraud IN Louisiana as the test
issue upon which to make the next
Presidential campaign. The Demo
Gratis have reason to give thanks for
this remarkable foresight.-Nel0 York
TribpuP.
Year: 1875

Scenes in the House During the


Deadlock.
Both Sides Plucky, But the Strain
Beyond Human Endurance.
The Speakers Way Out of the


Difficulty.
What OTdway Knows About the


Subsidy.
Pinchback q Bitter Pill for the


Sick Party.
Republican Lack Of Harmony on
the Louisiana Question.
Year: 1875

Postofiee appropriation bill, recommend
the appropriation of $4,000 to comply
with the original contract with the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company, under provisions
of the act of Feb. Ii. 1866, but they do not
recommend an appropriation in accordance
with what is known as the subsidy act.
Year: 1875

W. will send the weekly WING and Chronicle for TWO
DOLLARS January 1917 making
until January


The 1876 will I've history aud
will read live, newspaper
publish 1t will be time
n Of the Centennial Celebration
through columns the wonderful development country
S5s hundred o


Ia addition this the Presidential year,
exciting political expected expect
toll hand aud the thckest of the fight battling
Republican PARTY do
and not for the giving needless those who differ with
propose of purpose
world
aly Of East Tennessee


space building
of this country.


o the WING and Chronicle the Paper
something Of interest TO all classes
money
Money o by Drafts, addressing
...... wHIG AND CHRONICLE,


KNOXVILLE TENN.
Year: 1875

The Paris correspondent of the Phila- delphia Press writes: One of the strangest and most horrible of @sensa- tional incidents took place the other day at Puteaux. A party of children who were playing in the. enyirons discovered floating in the air and partly entahgled amid the branches of tree white par eel upborne by means of some twenty or thirty little red toy balloons which were attached to it. The attention of the police being called to this singular ob- ject, it was brought down and the pack age opened, which proved to contain the corpse of newborn infant. Investiga- tions into the matter brought to light the following facts: The child was that of a poor toymaker and his wife; just after the confinement of the latter the hus- band had died suddenly, and all the household goods and chattels had been seized for rent. The unhappy woman was driven mad by this accumulation of misfortunes; she killed her infant, and then went out and threw herself into the river, leaving a written paper in which she declared her intention of committing suicide, and said that she chad gotten her baby all ready to go up to heaven 3 A sadder tale with stranger termination 1t would be hard to find. The toy bal looms evidently had formed part of the dead husbands stock in trade.
Year: 1875

The Evening Post gives an extract from 8 letter written by Q merchant of New York city on February 21, 1877, to his son in Europe. We clip some sen tences from it, showing the extent of the ice-blockade of that year: Since the 18th of January 181O our river has been blockaded with ice so that attempts to get to sea have been in vain. The British packet and several other small vessels made an attempt three weeks ago to get out, but were caught in the ice, and 1t was some days before they could get back again. For several days the people crossed on the ice from Brooklyn to New York, and from New York to Hoboken, and the Sound has been com pletely fast between the islands above Hurlgate, so that they have been riding in sleighs from one to the other, and ali around these parts. There are now ready for sea fifty or sixty sail, among which are the Protection and Marcus Hill. We are without accounts from England and Ireland for ninety days. There are thirty or forty sail approach ing the Hook.
Year: 1875

CURE FOR SCRATCHES. Take fresh burnt lime, powder it, and mix it with fresh lard, add enough of the lime to make thick paste. A few applications of this paste to the scratches never fails to cure the worst cases. %I @8
Year: 1875

If there were only ten farmers in each
county, living ten miles apart, we would
see at once the impossibiIity of maintaining
any system of public schools in Texas To
succeed, under such circumstances, we must
needs have harrow gauge road passing
each cabin, and all converging at the school
houses. But we have no such roads. and
cannot build them, and Judge Reagan is
right when he pronounces the maintenance
of public school system, in sparsely pop
ulated districts, wholly impossible. More
over there is IA deal of justice in the asser-
tion that no man should be forced to toll to
educate anotter's children. He is not only
wrongfully robbed, but the strongest incen-
tive to honest industry is removed from the
path of him whose children become the
benefciaries of this public charity The
products of such institutions are wanting In
personal independence and are fit subjects of
a dispotism and not of a republic. Bismarck
understands this scheme of benefcence
thoroughly, and expounds 1t justly, when





the government first and the country's reh-
gion second, and the house hold, if it may
continue to exist, last in the affection of q
citizen of the empire. We would place the
family first, the country second, and, above
all, and first in the hearts and thoughts of
the people, the supreme majesty of the
Ruler of the Universe. Professional peda-
gogues naturally go mad about this mat
ter of forced education at the cost of
somebody else. They. gather statistics
with wonderful facility, showing that
in order to make people proper citizens the
youths of the country must be converted
in shysters and pill pedlers.


There are certainly two sides to the ques-
ton and our government was purest and
best, there was less knavery and more
plain, simple honesty when the public
school system had not given us q system in
the, conduct of which there is said tc be
more money stolen by placemen than ever
reaches the Federal treasury and that it
costs two to collect and pay into the treas
ury single dollar. In any event there are
two sides to this question as applied to
Texas in its present condition, and we need
only move slowly and if patriots would
have the future of Texas perfectly blest
they need only guard, for future use,
the. enormous wealth in lands of the
public schools and university of Texas.
Let this be honestly preserved and leased,
but never sold, and then each citizen will
be educated, not by taxation, but by re-
source which wise craftsmanship pro-
vided, and which criminal impatience and
folly would squander. When we have suf-
icient density of population to make the
existence of schools possible the school
lands will furnish revenues enough for their
maintenance, and there will be no necessity
for the taxation of one citizen to pay for
the education of another's children.
Year: 1875

The influence Of Austria and Russia In
the disaffected provinces Of Turkey is
watched with jealousy by other European
powers. When Russia may intervene ac-
lively cannot be foreseen and what course
Western Europe would adopt and what
might be the relations between Prussia and
Russia in case an European struggle were
inaugurated cannot be foreseen. There
fore these remote eastern troubles involve
all Europe, and, of course, must affect
the fortunes of this country. 1t is not long
since the massacre of certain Montenegrin
Christians was the topic of exciting dis
patches from Court to Court; and now the
Hefzegovinian insurrection, which is in so
far similar as it is a revolt Of semi-inde-
pendent Christians against Mohammedan
power, is exciting an amount Of attention
which, apart from the hazardous and deli
cate position of Turkey before Europe,
would be quite disproportionate to the
event. Servia, and no doubt the other
Danubian principalities, are in that state Of
agitation which troubles like this arc sure
to excite. Just now, fears Of the interven-
tion of Austria in the difficulty are rife;
European statesmen would regard such an
Intervention with grave distrust. The con-
dition OF the eastern question" Is such
that very small spark applied to it might
kindle a great war; and tins is why small
insurrection in q remote corner of the Sui
tan's dominion arouIes at once the universal
interest and apprehension of the European
Courts
Year: 1875

Great and terrible conhagrations in many
cities, especially of this country, serve to
show that we have progressed very slowly
IN the art of controlling fires. The destruc-
tion of Chicago was unavoidable even when
the firemen of many cities, with most ap-
proved steam machinery, exhausted every
appliance of art and mechanical and engl-
neering skill. Even so of the great con-
fagration in Boston; and when water pipes
are frozen in New York, if fire swept over
single street, the magnificent city would
be laid in ashes. The danger of complete
annihilation is even greater in the small
city than in the great metropolis. Houses
are compactly built, the sun shines as fierce
ly, roofs are as dry and materials used as
combustible, and winds blow as strongly
here on the confines of boundless plains as on
the shores of Lake Michigan. What secu-
rity have we against utter annihilatlon
There are few bucketsful of water in each
public cistern, and the city authorities are
excavating u few more; but these, if a
great confagration occur, would be speed
ily exhausted. OF recent years much at



it is now universally agreed that steam and
other fire engines and patented devices for
the election of carbonic acid gas, while
often very serviceable, are not trustworthy.
one building at least is destroyed before
a steam fire engine Can be put
in motion and moved q mile, and
cisterns leak or contain too little water
The dc cree is final that each building must
have within it the means of saving itself.
When constructed iron pipes must be pro-
vided, by which each story may be flooded
at once. and there is no security for. prop
erty or health or public decency till the city
sought to be supplied with water furnishes
baths for each household, and stream of
living water penetrates each story of every
building. This is of more importance than
the free distribution of atmosphere, since
he who does not obey laws Of cleanliness
should, of course, be deprived of breath.
In this, the capital of great State, grow
ing in greatness as no other can progress,
there is no adequate security for property
or public health, or provision for popular
cleanliness. With river at the base of
the hills, as clear and beautiful as the San
Marcos, with heights from which it de-
scends, on whose SUBMITS good reservoirs
might be cheaply constructed overlooking
the capital; with every facility that nature
could provide for the construction of water
works, such as are required in irrigating
farms and gardens, and. in cleaning cutters
and sewers, and in rendering confagrations
impossible, we are content to pay enormous
rates of insurance, and live, each year,
through nIne months of summer, with no
more water than should be supplied for an
equal number of canary birds. The scheme
OF constructing temporary water works, as
approved by our city government, is emf
Dently laudable, and will serve many adj
miiable purposes, and do, now and then,
infinite good; but il il operates TO prevent
the utilization of the advantages given US
by the river, and by the natural reservoir at
Mount Bonneli, it must become, in the eyes
of property -hOlders, q great calamity.