smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

The following proclamation has Teen
issued by the President.


WHEREAS, A JOINT resolution of the Senate and
House of Representatives was duly approved on
the 18th day of March last, which resolution is as
follows:


BE it resoEged by the Senate and House of Rep
reseutatiyes OF the United States of America in
Congress assembled That il be and is hereby
recommended by the Senate and House OF Repre-
sentalives to the people of the several States
that they assemble in their several counti' .
or towns on the approaching Centennial ami
versary of our National independence, and that
they cause to have delivered on such day an
historical sketch oil said county or town from its
formation, and that copy of said sketch may be


filed in print or manuscript in the Clerks Office
of said county, and an additional copy in print or
manuscript be filed in the Office Of the Librarian
of Congress- to the intent that complete record
NAV thus be obtained of the progress of our in


stitutions during the first Centennial of their
istence'; and,


WHEREAS 1t is deemed proper that such rec
ommepdation be brought to the notice and knowl-
edge of the people of the United States; Now,
therefore, |, Ulysses S. Grant, President Of the
United States, do hereby declare and make
known the same in the hope that the Ject of
such resolution may meet with the approval OF
the people of the United States, and that the
proper steps may be taken to carry the same into
effect.


Given under my hand, at the City of Washing


ton this 25th day of May, in the year Of our Lord
| 1876, and of the Independence Of the United
| States the Tooth. U. IS. GRANT
By the President.


HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State
Year: 1876

WHEN a man has determined to COM
NIT suicide he should make preparations
coolly, so that nothing likely to contribute
to his comfort may be neglected. A per-
son has 10 die but once; and, when he has
the means at command, and has made up
his mind to use them, it is best for him to
shuttle off this mortal coil gracefully and
easily. Mr.. Joseph Higgins, of San
Francisco, thinking that he had outlived
his usefulness as a benefactor to man.
kind, went down to one of the wharves OF
that city and made ample preparations to
give up the ghost. Fastening to his body
miscellaneous assortment Of old iron, to
insure speedy drowning, he was about to
plunge into the water, when sudden
thought for a time deferred the fatal act.
Anxious that his friends should not be
compelled to spend their money in adver-
Using for the missing man, or in giving a
reward for the body, he fastened rope to
his person, one end of which he attached
to a pier. Once more he prepared for the
fatal plunge, and once more happy idea
DELAYED the dreadful act. The dying
words of eminent men of all ages have
been chronicled, and why not his? The
last expression he left was the simple bu


forcible word, "Pullp' This he in


scribed in conspicuous letters upon
card, fastened the card to the shore-end o.


the rope, and q moment later the mlscel
Year: 1876

laneous collection of old iron and Mr..
Joseph Higgins were at the bottom of the
river. But his death was not so easily
accomplished as he anticipated, as the
sequel will show.


Some hours later, as an inquisitive po.
liceman was prowling around that wharf,
he saw the card containing the last word
of Mr.. Joseph Higgins. If it had been a
whisky bottle, perhaps the policeman
would have been as prompt to obey the
request. However, he proceeded to pull, "
and soon after pulled Mr.. Joseph Higgins
to the wharf alive and kicking! The wa
ter was shallow where he had jumped in
and the rope was too short and the old
iron too heavy to make further explora.
ton toward deep water easy or possible.
Consequently his " last moments" proved
too numerous and lengthy to man de-
termined to go off suddenly. While wait
ing for the tide to rise, he changed his
mind, and resolved to postpone his first
appearance in a tragic part. But the iron
held him to his engagement and he could
not stir. Fortunately, the policeman
came in time to be of great assistance, and
Joseph Higgins, much' wiser since the
Illustration of his attempt upon his life,
was hastily escorted to the lookup, where
he will be allowed ample time to note the
difference between a prison cell and q
watery grave.-N. Y. Weekly.
Year: 1876




INDIANAPOLIS September "a In re.
ply 10 yours of the eighteenth Instant am
happy to say that we have every indication
to encourage us to look for glorious Demo-
cratic victory in this State. Everywhere
hear of prominent Republ cans leaving tn cir
party and battling for the Democracy, and in
no instance do hear of Democrat faItering
The German are almost unit with us, w hich
is big element here. 1t is true that Harrison
is about the strongest man they could have
brought cut agaiC ST us, and L am not as S n
suine about old Blues overwhelming majnri-
ty as some, but don't hesitate TO give hun ten
thousand. The soldiers reunion, held here a
few days ago, was little more than farce, as
great mum oers, after a a>cerLatnins that 1t was
consequently the procession was no larger
than the torchlight affairs that the Demo.
Gratis get up every night in the city alone.
Blue-Jeans's majority Is VsTiOusly estimate d
by the knowing ones at from ten as high as
twenty five Thousand. His success is almost
beyond doubt, even by his opponents
Year: 1876

We observe that an article in one OIL
our city journals of yesterday an.
nounces the name of Uncle John Rob.
inson as Chief of Police, to be appoint.
ed by His Honor Mayor Johnston to
take command of the new police force,
which some anticipate will be made by
the Supreme Court reversing the action
of the late General Assembly of Ohio,
which took from the Mayor the appoint
ing power of the police force and vested
the same In Board of Police Commits.
sioners.


This thought is rather hasty on the
part OF the Mayor. While we have a
nigh regard for the capacity Of Uncle
John Robinson for the position mem
toned, we trust he will not be deluded
by any of Mayor Johnston's phantoms.


We have confidence in the Mayors Sc
lection of "Uncle john" but doubt sHis
Honor's prospective decision of the Su.
preme Court. Be cautious, gentlemen;
this Is matter which concerns the
whole people.
Year: 1876

Though the Mormon authorities
appear to have made up their minds
to sacrifice Lee, that person has no
mind to be offered up for the sins of
the Church. He curses the Nor
mons as traitors, and threatens rev.
Citations which will throw fresh light
upon the fearful tragedy in which he
was an actor. 1t is imposing too
heavy burden upon the credulity
of the public to ask them to believe
that this man acted upon his own in
dividual responsibility, without a
hint or suggestion from his superb
ors, in the perpetration of the dis-
bolical Mountain Meadow slaughter.
The case against the Church is quite
as strong as that against Lee, aud
there can be little doubt that the
policy of giving him up to his fate to
appease public Indignation and re-
lieve the Saints of any responsibility
in the matter has been deliberately
agreed upon. Meantime the doomed
man manifests determination to
die, if die he must, no meek and un-
complaining victim, but to pull down
the pillars of the Mormon te mple in
his fall, and perish, like Samson, in
the midst of hecatomb of his be-
trayers. He threatens that if he is
consigned to the gallows he will be
amply avenged that his forty sons
will follow up those who have been
instrumental in procuring his death,
and will never rest until " they have
camped upon their graves"


In regard to the guilt of Lee there
is no room for doubt. The witness
Hamblin testified that he saw Lee
cut the throat of young girl whom
one of the Indians had captured and
brought before him as being d" too
handsome to be killed" Samuel
Knight testified that he saw Lee
blow a woman's brains out and kill
a man by blow with the butt end
of a gun. This wholesale murderer
richly deserves the extreme penalty
of the law, yet the attempt to shoul-
der the entire responsibility upon
him, and exculpate Brigham Young
and the Saints is utterly wrong.
Year: 1876

RAILROAD BUILDING IN CAL1FoR.
N1A.-The San Francisco Bulletin says
that without much noise, yet none the
less effective there is a going on in
California this centennial year more
construction ofrailroads than any pre-
vious period of the States history.
Nor is this construction of railroads
confined to one section. In northern
and southern and middle California
railroads are in progress which will
tend in a short period to further de-
velopment of the States resources.
There is more railroad work going on
at this time than any other state in
the Union.
Year: 1876

Within the last ten years the progress
of discovery in every department of knowl-
edge has made new work of reference an
imperative want


The movement of political affairs has
kept pace with the discoveries of science
and their fruitful application to the indus
trial and useful arts and the convenience
and refinement. of social life. Great wars
and consequent revolutions have occur ed,
involving national changes of peculiar mo-
ment. The civil war of our own country,
which was at its height when the last vol
ume of the old work appeared, has happily
been ended, and new course of CONNER
cial and industrial activity has been COM
menceG. Large accessions to our
Year: 1876

which are introduced for the first time in
the present edition have been added not
for the sake of pictorial effect, but to give
greater lucidity and force to explanations
in the text. They embrace all branches of
science and of natural history, and depot
the most famous and remarkable features of
scenery, architecture, and art, as well as
the various processes of mechanics and
manufactures, Although intended for in
struction rather than Establishment, no
pains have been spared to insure their
Year: 1876

EMERSON says this, and we haven't
time to debate the question: Mature
is the true idealist. When she serves
US best, when, on rare days, she speaks
to the imagination, we feel that the
huge heaven and earth are but a web
drawn around US that the light, skies
and mountains are but the painted
vicissitudes of the SOUL" '-
Year: 1876

have been made by the indefatigable ex-
plorers of Africa.


The great political revolutions of the last
decade, with the natural result of the lapse
of time, have brought into public view a
multitude of new men, who's names are in
every ones mouth, and whose lives every
one is curious to know the particulars.
Great battles have been fought and impor-
tant sieges have been maintained, of which
the details are as vet preserved only in the
newspapers or in the transient publications
of the day, but which now ought to take
their place in
Year: 1876

In preparing the present edition for the
press, it has accordingly been the aim of
the editors to bring down the information
to the latest possible dates, and to furnish
an accurate account of the most recent dis
coveries in science, of every fresh produc-
ton in literature, and of the newest inven-
tions in the practical arts, as well as to give
succinct and original record of the prog
ress of
Year: 1876

The Southern Hotel is first class in all its appoint


ments. Its tables are AT all times supplied In tbs


greatest abundance with all the delicacies the ma.
kets afford Its clerks and employees are all poll
and attentive to the wants OF the guests at tt,,
Hotel


There is an improved elevator leading from the
first floor to the upper one.
Railroad AMI Steamboat Ticket Ofice New
stand and Western Union Telegraph Office in ka
Inda Of the Hotel. s-2lttrJy
Year: 1876

The following from respectable ex-
change may be worth trial Group
may be cured in one minute. and the
remedy is simply alum and sugar. To
effect cure. take knife aud CRATER
and shave off in small PARTICLES about q
teaspoonful of alum. then mix It with
about twice its quantity Of sugar, t.
make il palatahle. Almost lnsianiane-
ousiv relief will follow,
Year: 1876

John Collins, talented London pick
pocket, took an active part in the Moody
and Sankey meetings, and after the depar-
ture of the evangelists became a popular
singer and exhorter. His piety was not
questioned by his fellow::workers, and his
friends among the thieves did not expose
him. Thus he was enabled to pick pockets
with great facility, often taking the watches
and pocketbooks of men and women while
praying at their sides, or while explaining
to them the way of salvation. Continued
success perhaps made him careless, for
while taking part in the exercises at the lay
ing of a corner stone for church in Tx
bridge, he was caught stealing a watch
from a woman who was sharing hymn
book with him during the singing. He was
arrested, and then great number of rob-
berries were traced TO him.
Year: 1876

The high born ladies of pride and
ia hion in China have very small feet.
Those who have the very smallest feet
are exceedingly vain of them, and some
who have hardly anything in the shape
of feet, natural style, are quite carried
away with self-conceit. From the very
birth of an aristocratic female infant,
her feet are compressed by various ap-
pliances, and thus reduced in size. The
flow OF blood to them il impeded by
compression of certain arteries, SO that
they do not reach their proper growth.
II can easily be understood, on the Oar
of such interference with the feet, for
generations, will result in the formation
of an almost foo,less type of femininity,
through arrest of development in that
portion of the body. There are Chinese
ladies who find it difficult to walk on ac-
count of the smallness Of their feet, and
there are some among those of them
whose feet were not properly attended TO
in their infancy, who will suffer years of
agony, in the process of distortion. that
that they NAV get az small as those of
their rivals. 1t is found. however, that
no efforts begun after the early period Of
life, can make up for the want of proper
manipulation in the first months of in
fancy. As for the small-footed Ameri-
can ladies of Washington society, about
some of whom so much has lately been
said, we must observe, with due repect
for them and for the facts, that the feet
of some of them, as compared with
those which are to be found in high
Chinese society, are of >lephantine pro-
portions. If small-footed Washington
belle were to place her foot alongside of
that of real tip top Chinese belle, we
are sorry to say that even patriotic
American observers would burst out in
to laughter at its size and splayness.-
| TN. Y. Sun.
Year: 1876

1t was a very embarrassing circum-
stance, and it happened at a hotel in
Mt. Vernon. A man and his wife we're
stopping there. The man was subject
10 severe attacks of collie, and was taken
sick there in the night. He told his
wife that he must have immediate re-
lief or he could not live. thought mus-
tard draft would relieve him. She
hastily robed herself, went down stairs
and found the watchman. who admitted
her to the dininR-room, and she spread
the mustard from the castor on her
handkerchief and hesiened up stairS
Finding the door ajar she rushed in.
turned down the bed clothes and slap
ped the mustard draft on the nncon.
cious mans bowels. He instantly spran.
mp in he'd and in strange voice said
my Godl Madam what are you doing?
She had got il on the wrong man
We leave the reader 10 imagine hei
feelings. She found her own room
and in accents Of horror told her hns
band the facts. The extreme Indicrous-
meas Of the incident set him into an in
ordinate fit Of laughter that relieved
him az thoroughly as the mustard would
have done. Very early the next morn
ing, before many Of the guests were NJ
man and woman, trunk, bandboxe-
etc, might have been seen leaving the
hotel, for the woman's name was on the
handkerchief
Year: 1876

A writer in an exchange has the fol-
lowing good suggestions for building
permanent fences:


] desire to call the attention of farm
ers to kind Of road fencing which /
think will prove substantial and not
very expensive. That the roads shall be
planted on either side with lines of trees
twenty feet apart in the row. When the
tress have attained the size of FIVE or six
inches in diameter at the base, they may
be used as supports for wire fence. Sugar
maple, elm, oak, black walnut and hardy
evergreens are adapted to this pnr-
pose. They common cedar iransplan ted
from the swamp grows vigorously on
high ground. The plan for building
this fence by fastening oak scantling,
two inches square by four in length, 10
the trees with coach bolts. Two and
one half inch bolts FIVE inches long go
loosely through the timber and screw
firmly two inches into the tree and the
timber. The bolts can be turned out as
the growth of the tree requires. The
holes in the trees should be scared with
a hot iron, and awabbed with wax.


Six strands of No. wire are used
which pass in holes eight inches apart,
and of sufficient size, to allow the wires
TO run freely through the timber. In
like manner the wires go through in.
square oak pickets placed four feet apart
between the trees. The top and bottom
wires are wedged in the pickeis TO keep
them in placed. In sections of twenty
ed, to which the ends of the wires fasten.
Each wire is provided with a stretcher
by which the tension is regulated. The
stretchers are made Of s inch round
iron, one foot long with eye at end to
hold the wire and thread cut six inches
on the other which goes through the
post with handle nut. The tension OF
the wires should be slackened during
winter to allow for contraction by frost
The size of wire, number Of strands, and
closeness of pickels should be graded to
meet the demands of the fence. One OF
the advantages of this kind of fence is
exemption from snow drifts, while the
trees are things Of beauty and constantly
increas in value.


A fence on our place very nearly an
swering to this description, supported on
maple trees of twelve or fourteen year,
planting has answered so good purpose
the past reason that we can recommend
it for trial to others. Farmers plant
your trees. Mark this Centennial yeaI
by millions Of trees planted along the
public highway. An average of 10 days
jndiciously employed by each farmer in
the country, in planting highway trees
cannot fail to prove a satisfactory invest
meni of time. Plant with care and
mulch thoroughly, these are important
conditions of success.
Year: 1876

There Is something beautiful and sub
lime in the hush of midnight. The my
riad Of quiet sleepers laying down each
their burden, insensible alike 10 joy or
sorrow; helpless alike-the strong man
rs the infnnt-and over all the sleep
less eye, which, since the world tegnn,
has never lost sight Of one pillowed
head Thoughts like these come 70 us
in our wakeful night hours with en- al
most painful intensity. Then eternity
only seems real, and every day life a IA
BILE. But morning comes, and the stir
and hum Of life chase them away, aa the
warm sun dries mp the dew drops, while
the~e thoughts perform their reviving
mission ere they depart
Year: 1876

From the Burlington Hawkeye,


Yesterday noon bold, bad boy, who
lives on Columbia street, went home from
school and said: "Dear mother, mayen't
! go in my bare feet this afternoon?
None of the boys wear shoes in the
spring" But his mother said, "No,
my darling boy, cannot let you go
bare footed, and if you tease me about
il / will waffle your tender cuticle with
the unkind end of cheerful skate
strap" So the bold, bad boy closed
the debate with a sigh. and when the
yeas and nays were called his motion
did not prevail, and the house soon af-
ter adjourned. But the boy went ont of
the yard by the alleyway, and took off
his shoes and stockin gs, and hid them
behind the woodpile, and scudded mer-
rily off to school. and every body ad
mired his fat, muddy bare feet. But
when he got ont Of school the ground
very solemn time hippity hopping back
home, and when he got there he couldn't
tell the woodpile from a haystack, and
his shoes and stockings might as well
have been in the middle of the ocean
for all the good they did him. So he
went into the house, and after a great
deal Of filibustering, he made his report,
which was tabled, and the house went
into committee of the whole en- the state
Of the boy. His mother took the floor,
and after an exciting and highly inter
esting session the committee arose and
the house adjourned, while the boy rub
bed such portions of his anatomy as he
could reach, and framed bill for the
more perfect prevention of chilblains.
Year: 1876

Vesuvius is waiting for warm weather
To erupt, for the snOw and ice around
Naples now would make short WORK Of
its hres. and thus its majesty would Be
irreparably snubbed In the eyes of tho
Inrrnrnni
Year: 1876

Baron Rothschild, with number OF titled friends
and considerable retinue, on Wednesday visited the
belmont training farm at Babylon, and made oareiul
inspection OF the extensive stables and the splendid
stud drumming horses 10 be seen there The larm OF
Oharey Green and the record made by MS ast trotng
norses had been made familiar 10 the Baron ana ms
friends through public report and they took the oppor
uny 10 visit the south Side Driving Park, where they
Hospitality received by Mr. Green They were
particularly pleased with the display OF trottng Stock
and compimented "Charley" highly upon his system
OF training The Baron Immediately struck with
the fine points and splendid action of Tornado Maid aud
mate and, on hearing tho price at which the team
would be sold, made an offer so near Mr.. Green g
dgures that is probable the sale will be effected Tho
party returned TO New York the evening train over
he Tep pfra
Year: 1876

About 6ny members Of the Port Richmond Shoot
ing ASSOCIATION assembled yesterday the Four
ners Staten Island for the second days sport at fox
hunting, with a half dozen hounds The fox was
turned loose at eleven O'Clock at the Poorhouse farm


and took its course toward Toedt HILL but after ion
chase by the hounds the pursuit was given over as
the animal could not be found Among those taking
part in the chase were Coroner Dempsey with his
Dexter Arthur O'Leary, with his black mare Jesse
Cornelius Hart with Plow Boy; Captain Whitman with
Rose Daniel Dempsey, with Poor Boy, and the veteran
fox hunter Joe Donohue, who managed the hounds
Year: 1876

Yesterday before Justice Morse, Of Brooklyn, Alex
ander Brown, of the principals in the prize fight at
Canarse, brought up for examination A large
number of witnesses testified TO having witnessed the
fight but of them positive as to the identity
OF the prisoner Sergeant johnson, Of the mounted
squad testified that Brown told him he had been tight
ing with Jack Leavy and that he had lost He also de-
scribed Browns wounds at the time of the arrest.
Brown remanded 10 Jail for further examination.
Year: 1876

both having scored all the way from 100 TO 800
points and should they keep up their strength the
night OF the match, II is likely they will record larger
and better average than have yet been recorded
The game is 600 points at the American three ball
game subject TO the rules governing the championship,
and n offers a better hcd for scoring large runs than
the tournament games