smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY-THE TERRIBLE EFFEcrs


OF PLAYING WITH KERosENE-A LITTLE GIRL


BURNED TO DEATH-PRoBABLE DEATH OF


HER BROTHER.


wARRES, Pa, Oct. 20, 1875


On wednesday last Mrs Charles Ginty, living on the
oil Creek road LEFT her house In charge Of her three
children and neighbours child while she went to make
some purchases The Gnty children were Charley,
aged ten; Maggie, three years old, and Edith,
a baby eleven months old. Sarah Smiley, the
neighbours child, aged seven. During the absence
OF Mrs. Giny the girls Sarah and Maggie got tho kero-
senc oil can and were playing with It the stove
Charley out doors and the baby asleep in the
die The little girls in some way spilled the
oil out OF the can, and spark swapping
from tho stove ignitcd it before II could be
taken up. The blaze OF the burning oil filled the room
aud tho screams OF the children attracted the boy
Charley, who rushed into the heuse. The flames
between the door and tho children, but he rushed
through them and FIRST snatched the baby
from the cradle and bore IL back through
the flames aud laid il, badly burned on
n back window, and escaped with slight bruises AS
soon the boy had deposited his baby sister in safe
place. he hurried back to bring out Maggie the three
yearold He fought hs way through tho wall Of fire,
and as he reached the space the other side his


little sister enter closet on That side OF the house and
shut and asten the door Charley hammered the door
and called his sisters name and begged her to open
the door he might rescue her, for he that the
house doomed. The little grl seemed be crazcd
with fright however, and did not open the door The
brave boy nnaly compelled abandon his sister
her fate, and fly for his own life Before assistance
rived the house all IN flames the boy found
lying on the ground the baby. almost unconscious
aud was unable to tell the who trying to put
the fire out that his little sister locked in the closet
In the burning house. portion OF the bedding and
furniture removed while the child left 10 be
consumed. II was not until the house was burned up
that the terrible announcement made that one OF
the children was missing search was made among
the and the charred remains of the unfortunate
child were found.


The injuries received by the brave Gnty boy IN saw
ing the baby and his attempts at rescung his other
little sister IL is feared, will prove fatal His clothing
nearly all burned Off and his HAIR singed to the
scalp. His face and hands also burned to blister
The baby Edith is burned badly about the head and
face ana Is also in very critical condition The latest
accounts from the of the shocking occurrence
state that Mrs. Ginty has become a raving maniac.
Year: 1875

WHAT MEssRs. FLOOD AND o'BRIEN SAT ABOUT
THE BONANZA MINEs-THE HOSTING or ORE
WILL BE RESUMED VERY SHORTLY.


SAN FRAScrsco Oct. 20, 1875
Tho Chronicle OF this morning publishes the report
OF interview at Virginia City with Colonel Fair, OF
the firm OF Flood oBricn, and Superintendent OF the
Consolidated Virginia In reply to questions tho
working OF the Bonanza mines Fair SAID, "we won't
hoist anything through Curre at ALL We will have ma
chinery OF our again in brief space possi-
bic, perhaps in two weeks. We have 100
men working now and have ordered all duplicates
OF old machinery that require We get all the
timber want at n weeks notice We can timber
enough in here to supply all the Comstock mines and
have supply left Then you may just say that have
the whole matter fully IN hand about these Mines
and nothing serious that can possibly beiall
them.n


Mr. Curtis, Superintendent Of the Ophir minc, gives
assurance OF speedy renewal of work. No damage has
been done by the water III any of the mines


Mr. Flood In an interview, said the statement that
no ore would be hostcd until next spring was all
"bosh.p He would not say when the works would bo
replaced until he could know certainly.
Year: 1875

Tho following record will show the changes in the
temperature for the past twenty four hours in compar
ison with the corresponding date OF last year ndi
Gated by The thermometer at Hudnuts pharmacy,
HERALD building
Year: 1875

SOME months ago a young man and his
wife reached Atlanta from their home in
Maryland, intending to cast their lot
among our people. Not succeeding in
finding employment the husband made up
his mind to try his fortune in the Black
Hills, and so told his WIFE She objected
most strenuously, with tears and lamenta-
tions and begged him to desist, but he
argued the case so earnestly to her that she
finally yielded to his plans. After it was
settled that the parting should be had it
was agreed that the stipulations should be
reduced to writing. An attorney of this
city was accordingly visited and the sin
gular document drawn up. 1t was made
as mutual bond between them to keep
before each their respective duties. The
terms we synopsis as follows:


1. He is to be absent not more than two
wears, whether good or i'll fortune betide
him, unless by unavoidable causes.


2. The wife is to return to her home in
Maryland and maintain herself from the
proceeds of her own services to her family
and the rents of piece of property belong
ing to her husband. a..aszia
8. The property of the husband is con-
veycd to the. wife in a separate deed o
gift and in case of death to revert to the
husband; in event of his death before his
return to be subject to her disposal.


A. Should their separation exceed the
time of the statutory laws of the States
where each may be living wherein an ap
plication for divorce on account OF deser'
ton or failure to support may be made
neither is to take advantage of the fact.


5. He, if successful, is to remit to his
wife all the money over and above his
needs at stated intervals; to keep up a
Year: 1875

ftlI dream. And oh, how sweet and dear
the patient mother-tace looked as Myrtle
came cheerily home with her burden.
How she kissed the baby over and over,
remembering how the empty cradle and
dusty lily looked


All the doleful clouds seemed to vanish
out of her sky, and her face was a pleas
ant one to see as she went TO and fro,
Frightening this thing and thatwith dainty
touches by the way. In the worried days
that came after that, when she well nigh
complained again, a memory came back
of the lonely home, of her uniorgotlen
dream, and she smothered all complaints
by kissing the baby dozen times in the
place of ne,-ChrtStidR FeekIy.
Year: 1875

How THE insect comes by this impulse
to do, is one of those seemingly simple
questions which, in reality, includes the
whole; it is the overcoming question
regarding each new faculty as it makes its
appearance in the series, and demands a
few words in reference to the main the
cries involved. The term instinct is not
to be taken, in its popular sense, as refer
ring to all the actions performed by ami
mails in distinction to those performed by
man, but must be limited to those auto
matte actions which are performed with
out teaching or individual experience.
Now this impulse, or instinct, as exempli-
fed in the bee, must as was formerly sup
posed, have been directly impressed up
on the nervous organization at the crea-
ton of the first bee and transmitted by
each succeeding generation, or, as con-
tended by Herbert Spencer and others,
the race must have become gradually en-
dowcd with it, by a constant repetition of
those acts which each individual was
stimulated to perform by its surroundings
at succeeding times. The former method
presupposes special creation and endow-
mcnt for each species of animals; sup
position generally rejected by scientific
men as presenting insurmountable diff
ficulties, and as not having facts
within possible reach to sustain it; for no
one has ever known of special creation
The other method presupposes develop
ment in some of its various phases, which,
although not without its difficulties, salts
fies so many existing conditions, and is
constantly helping to solve so many for
merly insoluble problems, that scientific
men are led to adopt it, professionally at
least, as probably true in its main feat
ures, and certainly of great Importance as
an aid in further investigations. Accord
ing to this theory, instinct is the aggregate
or accumulated experience of each race of
creatures in which it is found-is i'm
pressed by repetition upon the nervous
organization, and is inherited alike by
each individual of race, causing their
actions to be the same generation after
generation unless changed by necessity
from changed surroundings. This is the
mode Of action characterizing the large
class of animals whose highest nervous
development is the sensorium. 1t en-
braces the cephalous mollusks and the
whole division of articulates; and its
highest development is reached in insects.
Popular Science Monthty
Year: 1875

BREAKINa UP AN IcE-FLoE.-The
ice on the Red Clay creek, below the
Lancaster Turnpike has lately become
SO heavy as to endanger the bridge OF
the Wilmington. s. Weston Railroad
Falkland station and the Turnpike.
The creek, and the adjoining meadow
were covered with large masses of ice.


which in the case of a freshet, would
have been piled against the bridge,


being unable to pass between the
|abutments, and rendering the bridge
liable to be carried away. On Wed
nesday force of men were set to
work, breaking UP the ice, and sue
ceeded in putting it in such condition,
that it will easily pass down the
stream if the water rises.
Year: 1875

an earnest desire to justify your generous conf
dence, and strong regard for the honor and acel-
fare Of our State, inspire NTH the firm resolue TO
spare effort and to consider no other consequences
in the endeavor to faithfully discharge the duties that
aoiu be incumbent on me II your choice shall proce
to be the choice of the people also pledge you and
thousands for chona you act in that event. honest
purpose and fred determination to make the public
good my single aim and constant care.


Gen. Connor's Acceptance.
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and cemmuni-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1875

+ AIDES send your address to 81 Spring ST., and
II have the agent of the Ladies' Easy Cutting and
Work Table call and show this gem of the work
room. Patterns cut free Tuesday to test the SYSTEM


maI16 If
Year: 1875

DESCRIPTION:


Said Reeder is about six feet In height
copper color. grey eyes, well proportioned,
carries his head well back on his shoulders.
his right hand has a scar across the back OF IL
and he cannot shut his hand entirely up.
Year: 1875

CL.ARKSVILLE TENNESSEE, April 1879.


the hard shown the of max
material changes business and these changes to the
all easily themselves with Boots Shoes Hats


when money they did twelve eighteen months ago
money plentiful To accomplish this have first bought
goods extremely b Second have had shoes made of
handsome dispensing with
which greatly adds the of
Shoe Third selling short profits; when
profits do believe right charge full
profits when of the people the county have not made
the months have adopted this through policy
and from Of general beneyoene for by this course be-
will the number and increase
the pn1 house and then by fair dealings good goods and low
My this have offered for the
people, both Qayand Prices My stock OF mems
specially the best town. being
durability cheapne the prices ranging from
full Also light BogaDs heavy Calf Shoes
and durable Mems and boys Pow Shoes mems PoT
Shoes and good shoe for 81 O0 Ladies full
stock calf shoes from the finest shoes In Ladies





Ckvc Ladies and Misses fine shoes in styles side lace front lace
nobby and Call ladies these goods
like The best Ladies Custommade English Lasting Shoe the
Yankee SHOE fully warranted
will wear as long any 50 50 shoe ank and child
the heard Of Mems full stock % sged ca
for s. So BOxOed Boots Opera Boots Cloth Boots
Cloth Alexis Gentlemen please cal and see these goods
Year: 1875

The committee assume. that neither
an appeal to the patriotism Of our
people, nor even a well drawn picture
(were they capable of doing it) of the
coming Centennial, is what was intend
edor expected when they were appoint
ed. The purpose of the committee is
simply to organize and make sugges-
tions. and if possible, stimulate the
people in all parts Of the State to pre-
pare for the nations coming great Gen.
tennial.


The Legislature, though the subject
was brought before the present, as
the last General Assembly. failed to
make any appropriation for having the
State represented, and her products
put on exhibition.


1t is not the business of this COM
mittee t0 condemn this action. Under
the constitution the Legislature alone
Year: 1875

have piest and finest Hats for old mddleaGed and young
men of any country OF all think have peter
and chper only ask the
town judge yourself above statement not
ere a of have compliments stock
them Straw Hats Ventilated Straw Hats Broad Bra
all kinds boys and Children Prime good


straw hats for Boys When need of of above goods
remembering show goods with pleasure whether you buy or
not AS one the hard will take exchange
for goods all Country Produce Butter Eggs Chickens Dried
Tlow all kinds of Skins &c desire
your willing all to assist and all


their inducements good goods lowest prices
produce market price My
franklin Banner the


street and Mammoth Sign on Store Wishing all
| respectfully,


Apr A-6E - AAAA~~AA>-1A
Year: 1875

THE CoMAICSIsr AND THE RELIEF Society.
In answer to a number of letters received
IRON correspoldents we desire 10 say that
we do not symPsthiEe with any movement
that countenaBces q resort to violence to
cure any right, until all pesceable means
have been exhausted. and that We have no
sympathy with any movement that makes
nationality q test of membership that We
sympathlze with any and every measure
properly insugurated and carried out, that
has for its object the smelioration Of the con-
dition Of those who labor for living We
sympathize with the objects sought to be ac-
complished BY the Communists, but We have
40 sympathy with the measures by which
they have heretofore attempted to accom-
plish them. The funds of the Relief and Aid
Society were contributed for the benefit OF
the poor and the needy, and its officials are in
duty bound to render an account of their
stewardship, when called upon in proper
manner, but no particular nationality has
the right to arrogate to itself the exclusive
privilege OF representing or speaking for the
industrial classes. or making a demand in
their behalf
Year: 1875

The Chicago Railway Review says We
are informed by the leading iron mAnufsc-
turers and dealers in this city that there is a
very large amount of inquiry for steel rails
and that the prospect Of good spring bust
ness is excellent in fact, never better A
large number of companies will. according to
present appearances, take advantage OF the
low prices to relay track. with steel rails
Year: 1875

We are requested by the city authorities
to warn persons against venturing out upon
the Ice on the lake. 1t is extremely perilous,
inasmuch as, with the present moderate
weather, the ice is soitening rapidly, and if
it should break and flow out into the lake,
with the prevailing wind from the west, per
sons caught upon it would almost certainly
be lost
Year: 1875

Last but not least, the poor ar6iugInen
have brought sacrifice greater than them
all Deprived Of regular employment and
reasonable compensation for the same, held
from sctusl want and starvation BY odd Jobs.
and living ON the cnarsest food, at half ra-
tions at that far too proud to beg. too hon
est to steal, it their only remedy to keep
life IN The body Those same men have
clubbed together in clubs of eight and more
to subscribe ior one copy OF The WORKING
NAN's ADVOCATE. and to correspond through
the same. beliving this to be the proper
course to pursue, q remedy and necessity TO
advance the interest Of the workingmen, also
to warn their children in the future and learn
them to cooperate to help the needy, expose
the tyrant, dishonest unprincipled working
men and political tricksters and to benefit
the next generation. if not the present
Year: 1875

forty or more are engaged in this
process at a time, the splashing can
be heard for quite distance. In
many families the cooking is done
by the Chinese, some of whom man.
ifest commendable skill and efficien-
cy in the business. This labor is
all done by males. There are but
few female Chinese in this country.
They are willing laborers and they
effect the price Of labor very much,
hence the reason why other laborers
are so prejudiced against them.
The Irish Eould drive every China
man from the State if they had the
power. They as a race are dishon-
est, and most of them will purloin
every time they get an opportunity.
Even the cooks will take tea, sugar,





or any thing else in such small
quantities as not to cause suspicion.
Cinnamon have been detected in
shaking gold coin in a tight bag,
by which means they would obtain
dust from the coin, but not enough
to prevent them from passing it at
the stamped value. Every China
man has his long braided cue, some
wind them around their head, and
others let them hang at full length.


They live cheap and consequent
ly save the most of their earnings.
/ visited one street in San Francis
co, occupied exclusively by the orr
entails. There were several trades
men who kept some curious articles
for sale, many of which were i'm
ported from China. Among their
eatables were several kinds of bugs
and worms which they consider very
delicious. They are anxious to
obtain knowledge of the English
Language, land make good proficiency
in learning it, but they will in no in
stance teach their language to
Americans. 7. r. M.
Year: 1875




The hull of the Old Dominion Line
steamer is almost completed.


The sloop Active is on the railway at Cor.
sons ship yard receiving repairs.


The tab boat building at the same yard
will soon be ready for launching.


An iron steamer being finished by Roach
& Son, which has not yet been disposed Of,
we believe, will soon be ready for use.


The large monitor now on the ways there
is being built in the most substantial man
ner known to naval architecture. She is
well under way, but months must yet elapse
before she will be finished.


The engines of the Pacific Mail Steamship
City of Sydney will be in running order in
few days, and the joiner work is rapidly
progressing. The City of Sydney will be
on par in point of excellence with her sis
tiers which have recently been sent away
finished.


The keel of an immense double turretted
monitor is being laid at Roach's ship yard.
The vessel when completed will be a MONS
ter, and will no doubt be valuable addition
to the United States Navy. The work on
one of these monitors is always of more
important nature than that of any o.her
class of vessel and the time necessarily
longer.
Year: 1875

Ben Franklin's wife the first time she saw
him as he sat beneath her window MUNICH.
ing loaf Of bread laughed at the shocking
bad hat he wore. Now if he had only
known G. s. Humphrey the fashionable
halter, at PIG Market street, he would have
purchased shiny silk as that would have
captivated the lady at once and saved court.
ship. He is now able to furnish the gentle
men of Wilmington just such hats at rea.
sonable prices. He may be found next
door to the popular dry goods store of San.
ders & Son,
Year: 1875

"The mirror of fashion and the mould of
FORM was the expression OF lady yester-
day afternoon as she saw gentleman on
Market street, who had just purchased a
new suit of clothes srom Waterman, at the
Northwest corner of Fifth and Market
streets. He is always supplied with the
very best, and fine overcoats, diagonal suits
and gents business suits and boys clothing
may be obtained of him at the very lowest
cash prices.
Year: 1875

Believing that the sale and consumption of
spirituous and malt liquors in the settlement
would be productive of much evil continually
and no good the Association will insert a
clause in all deeds prohibiting forever the sale
of Intoxicating drinks, as a beverage, on the
lands sold.


Plats of the lands and further inform alton
can be had by calling at the office of the Asso-
citation, ~ SPRING STREET, Los ANGE-
LES.
Year: 1875

A Public School building to cost over $4,000
is now being erected and will be completed
before the second sale. The percentage of the
last sale devoted to the erection of this build
ing amounted to over $1,000, and the same
percentage no per cent. on town property and
23 per cent. on farm property will be given
for the same purpose from the proceeds of the
next sale. e
Year: 1875

William Aliens resurrection exhib-


tied to the young men Of this genera


tion one of the worst specimens OF the
era CT our party politics, when party
spirit was most truculent, Democratic
manners in political controversy the
coarsest when Northern Democratic
leaders stigmatized the Wings as the
gentry, and themselves cultivated the
manners of bawds and Doors; when the
Democratic party proclaimed that the
country was the legitimate spoil of the
victorious party; when no Democrat
dared expose Democratic peculation or
plunder; when to invent the meanest
columnies against public men of the
Wing party was accepted as the duty
of Democratic speaker, and by none
more gluttonously than by William
Allen. He was farmer putrescence
which should never have been dug up.
He exhibited his old breeding on the
stump by calling every Republican in
public place thief, and by charging
that Republicans have no motive but
to steal. On account of his age he has
been tenderly treated by the press,
while his performance has been that of
a conscienceless blackguard. He will
60 down in his own bad odor, after
having been up long enough to show
that he is as abandoned to what he
used TO call Demscratic principle as he
is to decency and trutnfulness.-Cin
Gazette.
Year: 1875

ps- The tide ofinmigration is steadily set
ting in, and the first thing eastern people do
is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
a new one of DESMOND. They say there Is no
comparison between the two 215o
Year: 1875

1t is said that old Ben Wade and ex-
Governor Noyes both decline to run for
Governor next fall on the Republican
ticket, and that the leaders in this State
are now turning their eyes to ex-Govern-
Or William Dennison, now one of the
Commissioners of the District of Colum-
bia. If Mr.. Dennison had not accepted
the post of District Commissioner and
permitted himself to be used by the ring
he would make better material for cam
didate; but if the people of Ohio should
become convinced that he has been aid
ing amy of Boss Shepherds schemes, they
would express their indignation in an
emphatic manner, for the honest voters
here understand the character of the
Boss and his projects good deal better
than Mr.. Dennison appears to.
Year: 1875

ments were made for the wedding.


1t was appropriately remarked by the
man that married them, "that he was
ashamed to say lin addressing the bride)
that.the same forbearance and persever-
ance which accomplished for you this
result, was not characteristic of the sex
to which he belonged, and that no man
would do what you have DONE" s.