smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

A gentleman, having taken YER


active part in the Scotch rebellion @


1745, escaped after the battle of Preston


Pans to the West Highlands, where h


was received by relative of his, lady


who, being like himself attached I,


the Stuarts, was glad to offer him al


asylum. But as the search was yer,


strict after the rebels, who, if taken


were executed, it was necessary for hin


to be concealed where there would b
no danger of discovery.


He was therefore conducted by one o
the lady's servants to cave in seques
tered part of the mountains, and being
furnished with supply of food for some
little time, was left to take care of him
self. The only way of entering his re-
treat was by small opening, through
which he had to creep, carrying his pro.
visions with him, and feeling hisway with
one hand at every step.


A little way from the mouth the cave
became very lofty, and, still advancing
cautiously in the darkness, he presently
became aware of somthing that stopped
his further progress. Unable to see
what it was, and afraid to strike any
thing in the dark with his dirk, he
stopped, and felt carefully around for
the object, and soon perceived that it
was goat with kid. This would not
have been an unpleasant discovery, had
he not feared that the owner, following
the goat hither, would betray him to his
enemies; otherwise she might supply
him with nourishment.


Soon, however, he discovered that she
was in great pain, and then, carefully
feeling about her, perceived that one of
her legs was broken. Fortunately he
was not without some knowledge of the
treatment of animals; he therefore
bound up her leg with his garter, and
offered her bread to eat. But her mouth
was parched, and she refused the bread ;
he then gave her water, which she drank
eagerly.


Deeply interested in his suffering COM
panion, he ventured out at midnight,
pulled a quantity of grass and the tender
shoots of such trees as goats are fond of
browsing, and, carrying them to her in
the cave, had the pleasure to find that
she ate of them ravenously.


The goat remained for some time the
companion Of his solitude, and he had
the satisfaction of seeing, or rather know
ing, that she was rapidly recovering.


At this time it happened that the
servant, to whom was intrusted the Sc
cret of his retreat fell sick, and it was
necessary to send another with provisions.
The goat, on this occasion, happening to
be near the mouth of the cave, opposed the
mans entrance with all her might, but
ting at him most furiously. The gentle
man in the cave, hearing an unusual
noise, went forward few yards, and
then receiving the usual watchword from
his new attendant, came to the entrance,
and after few words of interpositior
the faithful goat permitted the me. a to
enter. So resolute was the an. '.mal on
this occasion, that the gent, ,.eman felt
she would have lied in his de.
tense.
Year: 1876

A CERTAIN Count Tschitschagow has
brought his extraordinary name into
notice in Europe by losing SOC, 900 francs
in two days at Monaco. When the last
piece of his fortune was gone the Count
lamented that he had nothing left with
which to buy his supper. The proprietor
OF the gambling-house showed his gen.
erosity and magnanimity by pushing
over to him FIVE hundred francs. The
Count took 1t, and invited all his CON-
panions Mt roulette 10 n fine supper.


When this was over he took carriage
TO go TO Mantou. Arriving at the desti-
nation, the coachman found that his
passenger had disappeared. The next
day the Counts body was found at the
foot of high precipice on the road. He
had opened the door of the carriage as
1t was passing the cliff and sprung out.
Year: 1876

THERE is a growing tendency toward
planting corn more closely together one
way. If the ground is we'll fitted, the
corn is as easily cared for in drills as
when planted in rows both ways, and the
yield is largely increased. At the last
meeting of the Western New York Far
mcrs' Club, the very best corn growers
announced their adherence To this plan I;
the stalks are more evenly distributed
over the ground, and thus the elements
of fertility are more readily taken up by
the plants. There seems to be some
division of opinion as to whether IL is
most profitable to place the drills three
or four feet apart.
Year: 1876

"AITHEW DTKONG.
/ may state that when the thing raised
itself up and struck the mast, it was
apparent that the sea-weed.like mass
was long, coarse hair, covering dark,
thick neck. But the thing could not pos
sibly have been a serpent; for, to raise 80
prodigious length of neck above the
surface huge body below the surface
was of course required.
Year: 1876

HERALD reporter in searching for the antique yes.
terday, discovered two mouldy trunks in the seizure
room OF the Custom House From the customs records
1t was learned that they were imported by NJ
Fernen Semen chief steward Of the French steamship
Vile de Paris, from Havre, and were filled with beads
choice silks, &c, which the steward intended 10 run
ashore and sell without paying the United States any
duties Special Treasury Agent Captain Charles N
Bracket seized the goods. Their value is estimated
81 339 The case brought before the late United
States Judge Batchiord OF the District Court and the
goods condemned and ordered TO be sold. The
steward appealed the TO Judge Woodruff, who
affirmed the decision Of Judge Blatchiord. The United
District Attorney however forgot TO order the
sale Of the goods to take place at auction Now that
the HKRALD has discovered the goods, they will be
sod-douotless for fifth OF what they worth in
Year: 1876

At meeting Of tho Board of Excise held yesterday
a decision rendered in the case OF Nathan Cold
smith, proprietor of the Tivo Garden charged with
violation OF the Sunday Liquor law The complaint
was dismissed the ground that the evidence
insufficient. Commissioner Stewart voted against the
dismissal and Commissioners Stiner and Marshall in
favor of it.


resolution was adopted notifying the counsel in
the Of Atlantic and Pacific gardens that the
cases would be called up for trial on Friday next
Year: 1876

positively the defendants connection with the con-
spracy later date than the time referred by
neses who had been on the stand and that to- morrow
he would proceed TO introduce these witnesses.
During the course of the trial the jury will
be strictly secluded from the public, precauton
that was not observed In the Mcdonald and Avery
cases The witness Everist has not yet maize himself
visible to public gaze, but the prosecution promise 20
have him here at the proper time. The report from
Washington that he has fed the country anu returned
70 Lurope Is not believed here.
Year: 1876

The cry of horror which the Democratic
organs have raised over exAttoney- General
Williams's testimony in relation to the Secret
Service fund is ridiculous. Probably the ex-
penditure of thirty or forty thousand dollars
of that money in payment for the work done
by MIR. John l. Davenport in NewYOrk was a
gross irregularity, but there is no evidence
that it was intended for any corrupt purpose;
and if Mr.. Davenport cannot show that he has
kept within the letter of the law i'll bis dis
bursements We can only say that we nave
greatly moderated his shrewdness. He was
appointed Supervisor for the purpose of cut
ting down the Democratic vote III this city,
notOriously swollen by fraudulent natural
izations, by colonies of reDeaters, and other
devices of the old Ring, far beyond its legiti-
mate proportions and although he went at his
work with good deal of violence and con-
tempt ior the rights of citizens who did not
like Gen. Grants administration, it would be
unjust not to confess that he did purge the
registry of many names which had no right on
it. For that service the President seems to
have authorized the payment OF part OF the
Secret Service fund.- and if the money was ap-
propriated by law for the expense of " de-
tecting and bringing to trial persons guilty


4" of crimes against the United States" Gen.
Grant and Mr.. Davenport may certainly ask
whether crime against the United States does not


include illegal voting. 1t is satisfaction to de-
cent Americans, however strongly they may be
opposed to the present Administration, to hear
| he President denounced as cOrruptionist
only saved from impeachment by the approach
| ing end of his term, because he ordered pay
ment which may have been equivOcal, but
which was at least technically correct 1t will
he time enough to accuse him of purchasing
| his reelection when we have some proof OF it.
We carry already in the eyes of the world as
| heavy a load of disgrace as we need care to
| shoulder.


There il little doubt that the violent parti-
sanshp which characterized all the transac-
tions of the Chief Supervisor in NewYork di-
rected the expenditure of this Secret Service


money; but when, pray, was the present Ad-


ministratiOn conducted upon any other princi-


ple than that of making every possible use of
! its power to insure its own perpetuatiOn ! Su-
| peryisors of Election were created to give the
| Administration at Washington power to


control elections in all the States,


and monstrous as some of their operations


seem it will be hard to show that they are


not at least technically authorized by law.


The expenditure of $4,000 in New-York,


even supposing it to be altogether corrupt,


would have been mere tri1e in comparison


with what has been done at the South. A


story of direct bribery makes an immediate


impression upon the popular mind; but the


complicated narrative Of much greater out


RACES in Louisiana and Alabama is passed over


with comparative indifference. II Grant,
| Williams Davenport, and Whitley spent the
Year: 1876

public funds for election purposes, what was
that in comparison with the crime OF ordering
United States troops to disperse state
Legislature Even the power and money
of the Secret Service have been used under the
direction of the AttorneyGeneral in much
more villainous operations than that which is
now suspected. The Marshals and Secret Ser
vice Agents who went into Alabama to carry
the State for Grant in 1874 were guilty OF a
eraver Offense than bribery, for they violated
the personal liberty of unoffending citizens,
menaced them with blank warrants, drove
them out of the State to prevent their voting,
arrested them for constructive or fictitious
offenses, and marched them three hundred miles
for examination before a partisan commits
sioner, when there was a competent judicial
officer at the place of arrest For several weeks
in the crisis of the political campaign, Alabama
was filled with terror by the paid agents OF
the Department of Justice, aided by troops OF
cavalry The moment the election was over
the prosecutions and arrests were dropped and
the whole hideous pretense of disturbance was
exploded.


The Grant faction has upheld this form of
fraud and outrage upon the suffrage so long
and practiced it i'll so many places that 1t has
no reason to complain if it is now suspected
of minor wrongs, such rs bribery by means
of the Secret Service fund. The whole art OF
government, according to this clique of poll
ticians, consists in not letting people vote
against the Administration.
Year: 1876

Indoors that is, in town. the Winter-mOst
damp, muggy, dsagreeable of all Winters-has
not yet lOoscd its clammy hold on us. The
furnace in the cellar and the malari0us air
without are like two unmanageable demons,
not to be held in check, and from morning
until night we open windows, shut registers,
or inspect thermometers, to ward OF the pol
sonous breath of one or the other Of them.
The doctors coupe stops at the door every
day we creep coughing along the streets per-
spring under our Winter clothes, and with a
mortal terror upon us OF diphtheria, pneu-
monia, and all the rest of the deadly crew If
we dare to take them off. The table is
laden with wilted peas, knotty strawberries,
and ghastly tomatoes, toughened, not ripened,
in Bermuda. AS for our talk, it is
no more healthy than the air we breathe and
the food we eat. There is plenty of unwhOle-
some scandal ready to follow every wedding
or funeral the corruption unearthed at Wash
ington has filled every household with foul
odors; every man who calls himself honest
seems to he in haste to rush to the front with
the disclosure that some other man is a thief
we put on our strongest Eyeglasses to peer
into the wardrobe and jewel-box of the wife of
every pubic man, intent Oh proving ncr
bIibe- taker, or receiver of stolen goods; we
hold our breath, and probe and dig curiously
into other and fouler scandals, not yet ex-
planned. All this may be necessary, but it is
not wholesome. Hunting the rat behind the
arras is not the best OF manifest work for men
the Augean stables must be cleaned, no doubt,
but general distemper is very apt to follow
the cleaning.


Let us take the morning train and go an
hour or two out of town. The wind is blow
ing sharp but dry, the sun shines hotly and
there is no fog. The farmhouse doors stand
open and the fire in the stoves has died out
there is plenty of work in the field to keep
everybody warm. The earth lies plowed
into brown burrows, ready for planting There
on the hillsidss arc tho pale blush slopes of
Year: 1876

sometime, somebody sold railroad bondsin which
some way Blaine had suspected interest,"
And, finally, comes some unutteaDly olV
creature irving to spatter his own filth over
Mrs. Blaine.


The people who start these stories mistake
the general temper of the American people,
and the possibilities of Presidential cam
paign. One distinct charge of corruption clearly
proved may ruin the best candidate, but CLOUDS
of unsustained calumnies never hurt, and are
often n positive help. The Republicans nave
been busy pushing the stories against GOV.
Tilden. They have not as yet damaged
him an iota. They were active in forcing
tho campaign against Mr.. Pendeton de had
not the ghost of a chance at the outset, but he
has precisely the same chance now. Inc
Democrats are bringing real discredit upon
the worthy investigations they are prosecuting
by their obvious efforts to spread drag net
which may possibly fish up something against
BristOw. The stories against Blaine, unlike
the rest seem to come rather from political
associates, who are rolling up the whites
of their eyes in friendly alarm for Blaine IN
public, while busy in secret caucusng WIN
cuileless Independents for Bristow Mr. Bris-
tow ia so good man that he ought
not TO be subjected to this damage from
puerile supporters. We are sure they DO not
act with his approval. But he should give
them notice to stop; and should especially
wash his hands very promptly OF the dirty
crowd who have been trying to bespatter the
wife of his chief rival.
Year: 1876

The time is approaching when England will
have to decide upon releasing or surrendering
our fugitive criminals. Unless the British
Government deems there is sufficient cause
"tO the contrary" as provided i'll its Exradi-
ton act, Winslow will be released on the
third of May, and Gray, who was committed
yesterday, probably about the same time. In
that event our Government Will be forced to
act The article in the Ashburton Treaty Is to
Continue in force until one or the other of
" the parties shall signify its wish to termi-
mate, and no longer Accordingly we may
abrogate it at once or throw upon Great
Britain the responsibility of that step, rcserv-
ing as a grievance for future settlement her
wrongheadedness in regard to Winslow. 1t is
noteworthy that The Toronto Globe disapproyes
the conduct of the British Government, hold
ing that it is "making more than one mis-
"take" Being contiguous, Canada has more
reason to fear the escape or influx of criminals
than Great Britain. There is great weight,
therefore, in her principal ministerial organ
being ON our side.
Year: 1876

King Malietoa Of the Samoan group is altogether
too modest monarch. In his Stcinberger procama-
tion he states by cay Of apology that he is unac-
customed to the manner Of civilized nations'-and
yet in the same paper We find the following: If
any person holding any Office in my government
opposes my will shall have him removed from his
Office" Tho King certainly holds enlightened views
in regard to his civil service, and if he had only
embraced in his menace of removal the friends Of
any who had the hardihood to oppose his will as
well as the reckless officials themselves no one
could have discovered by internal evidence that the
document did not emanate from Washington.
Year: 1876

Prof. Henry gives us slight insight into
the future as well as the past by telling us of
both the projects and the completed work of
the National Academy of Sciences and tho
Smithsonian Institution. Students OF the
,,eather will find in our correspondents report
Of the Washington meeting, new hints as TO
the origin of cold spells; it seems now to bo
ascertainod that when we have a cold snap
here, the inhabitants of Alaska may be ENJOY
ing their nearest approach to warm weather
Prof. Mayer has the good fortune to turn out
one or two notable discoveries every year, and
this time he comes before the Academy OF
Sciences with suggestion of interest to every
lOver of music and it may here be mentioned
that some of our mast successful makers OF
pianos acknowledge that they owe several of
their best improvements to the researches in
acoustics that hay heeu made within the last
ten or fifteen years 1t seems to be the rule
rather than the exception that work done solely
with view to gaining scientific knowledge,
brings up some unsOught practical application
of valde.
Year: 1876

One of the five Republicans who are charged
with selling out to the Democrats In voting
AGAINST the Brooklyn charter, has mustered
courage to demand an investigation. His four
colleagues skulked in the background, and
seemed at a loss to comprehend his sensitive
ness in regard to personal honor The Assem-
bly,, under the lead of Mr. Fish, extended the
investigation to all the Republicans who cut
loose from their party under such suspicious
circumstances. This was wise. The Legisla-
ture has had the negative virtue of not doing
anything that was notOriOusly bad. The
breach in the Republican ranks has thrown
the legislators into panic, and some of them
think that the only way to save their reputa-
tion such as it is, will be to adjourn speedily.
Let these timid souls go to the bottom of this
scandal, and then find heart to dispose OF the
important measures which are now before
them.
Year: 1876

The Young women's Christian Association has
issued circular to shopkeepers, making an urgent
appeal in behalf of female clerks who are required
TO stand continuously while at their daily duties.
We are glad that the ladies of this useful ASsocia-
tion have taken up tho matter. THE TRIBUNE has
many times protested against the cruel wrong Of
keeping women all day and day after day in at
ttude which is not only fatiguing but serious in
jury to their health, and it is satisfactory to know
that great many establishments in which womGn
are employed have modified the rule which was
formerly almost universal. The ladies of the AS
sociation take sensible course in adding to their
civil circular resolution, that in making our pur-
chases wo will give preference to those houses who
thus care for the welfare of their employees"
Year: 1876

The proceedings of the Board of Aldermen
generally have the effect of an opiate upon
drowsy community. There was an eolIylnR
episode yesterday in the presentation OF tne
petition of telegraph companies for permission
to lay underground tubes from Liberty-st. 10
Broad and Whitehall-sts. The unslghtly poies
and trells-work of wires with which our
streets and sidewalks are now incumbered are
an intolerable nuisance. The wires ought 10
be buried out of sight. These companies are
willing to substitute underground for aerial
wires at their own expense under the super
vision of the Department of Public Works
Let them do it.
Year: 1876

Many years ago the licentiates of Prince
ton Seminary were in the habit of preaching
at station some distance from that place
Among their habitual hearers was a sincere
and humble, but uneducated Christian slave,
called Uncle Sam, who, on his return home,
would try to tell his mistress what he could
remember of the sermon, but complained
that the students were too deep and learned
for him One day, however, he came
home in great good-humor, saving that a
poor uniarni old man, Just like himself
had preached that day, who he supposed
was hardly fit to preach to the white
people but he was glad he came, for his
sake, for he could remember ererything he had
said. On inquiry, it was found that Uncle
Sans "unlant" old preacher was Rev.
DIR. Archibald Alexander, who, when he
heard the criticism, said it was the highest
compliment ever paid to his preaching.
Year: 1876

ArRuIrFuL source of our besetting evils is
the recollection, still too fresh among us, Of
the rapidity with which great fortunes were
acquired during the war, How little reality
there was in many of the fortunes so hastily
acquired is not considered. A false stand
ard having been set of acquisition and ex-
penditure, hundreds of men keep straining
after that standard, and failing to reach up
TO it by fair means, they resort to foul.
Very slowly and reluctantly such men are
coming to see that they did not do their
whole duty to their country, or pay their
part of the full price Of Northern infdelity
and complacency, by sending all their near
est blood relations TO ths war; that 10 this
day something OF self-saerifice and frugality
and simplicity is demanded as the price of
that enfranchisement only, the first payments
Of which were made in blood upon the field
Of battle--John ". Chddrick.
Year: 1876

INFoRMATIoN FOR IIoUsEKEEPERs.
housekeepers are aware of the many uses to
which waste paper may be put. After
stove has been blackened it may be kept
looking very we'll for a long time by rubbing
it with paper every morning. Rubbing it
with paper is much nicer way of keeping
the outside of tea kettle, coffee-pot or tea
pot clean, than the old way of washing it in
Rubbing them with paper is also the
best way of polishing knives and tinware
after securing them. If little soap be held
on the paper in rubbing tiuware and spoons,
they will shine like new silver. For polish
ing mirrors, windows, lamp chimneys, etc,
paper is better than dry cloth Preserves
and pickles keep much better if brown pa
per instead Of cloth is tied over the top Of
the jar Canned fruit is not apt to mould
if piece of writing paper, cut to fit each
can, is laid directly upon the fruit. Paper
is much better put under carpets than straw.
1t is thinner, warmer, and makes less noise
when one walks over it. Two thicknesses Of
paper placed between the coverings on bed
are as warm as quilt. If it is necessary to
step on chair, always lay paper OH it, and
thus save the woodwork and paint from
damage