smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

A medical correspondent OF the Lon
don Lancet makes n suggestion which
may prove useful on emergency to
some OF our readers. He says:


I'm consequence OF the difficulty I
experienced in removing from q pa
tient a portion of steel imbedded In
the cornea, which did not yield to spud
or needle, some other means OF remov-
al became necessary. Dry, soft white
silk waste suggested itself to me, and
was wound round a thin piece OF wood,
SO rs to completely envelop the end.
This soft application was brushed
once backward and forward horizon
tally over the part Of the cornea where
the foreign substance fixed To my
astonishment, it was at once entangled
by the delicate but strong moshes OF
the silk and was withdrawn with the
greatest ease, caught by the same. A
gentleman, in turning steel at lathe,
suddenly felt that a portion had en-
tered his eye. He went at once to a
surgeon, who, with the most skillful
manipulation, failed to extract the
same. saying il would soon work out
OF itself. The next morning the pa
tient saw me, hnEing suffered severely
since the accident, and on the first ap-
plication the portion Of steel was ex-
tracted -
Year: 1876

Who carries the mail from Os-tra-
gou-nosh, away up on the Minnesota
line, to the nearest frontier settlement
In Dakota? Why, Bocs. a mongrel
kind OF dog, an apparent ultimate re-
suit OF the mingling OF every kind Of
dog found in the Territory. Boss
master a year ago, was a drunken
half-breed who was paid 80 a trip In
Summer, and SIS in Winter for taking
the mails distance OF some sixty
miles. Boss master was honest. and
never purloined a letter, but he had q
way Of drinking on the road, and the
mails were often delayed. Last
January the mail carrier never reached
his destination, but was found frozen
stiff In snow-bank, three miles be-
yond Jobley's run. Boss was keeping
guard over his master and the mail.
Now Boss runs the machine in bad
weather All that has to be done Is to
take Boss and secure the letters round
his neck in an oil-skin wrap, and
away goes Boss to the end Of the
mail route on the biggest kind Of q
lope There is no use Of starving
Boss, like people do pigeons, to get
him to work, though he does expect q
feed at the conclusion Of his Journey.
No one as yet is intriguing for Boss
place. Sixty-two miles as the crow
flies carrying the mail through the
snow, Is not position most Office
seekers care for.
Year: 1876

There are many practical evils, pa
tent to all, which result from lavish
personal expenditure. In almost every
case it has deteriorating effect on the
character, pandering to vanity and
conceit. In an ideal world no one
would obtain additional respect and
Difference on account of riches. But
under present conditions large expen-
diture is a bribe for obsequious and
undeseryed homage, quite as certainly
as money given by candidates at elec-
flons is a bribe for political power.
While 1t tends to make of the poor
false and sycophantish, it as surely has
the effect OF giving the rich very ex-
agserated idea OF their own worth and
Importance. In most cases it is a bar
rier to free intercourse between man
and his frlends,o or those who may have
been his friends, but who have ceased
to be, on account Of prosperity, selfish
ly used, having enabled and encour-
aged him to indulge in tastes and
habits beyond their means. It is but
seldom that riches are employed for
cultiyating the society of the worthiest
anu DtSI. II WOlld De nearer the TrllLl
to say that they are mostly used to
cultivate the society of the rich, who
can give return for expensive enter
tainment a practice especially incon-
sistant with the principles professed
by the religious world who are not less
than others the slaves OF the prevail
ing fashion. Again, from the custom
OF lavish expenditure set by the opu-
lent, extravagant expectations are
formed as TO what decency demands
from professional persons, or others
Of moderate means, which often make
life a very har! struggle, when, but for
the example set by plutocrats, exist
ence might be comfortable and easy.
There is large class, the vain and
weak minded. over whom the customs
Of the rich has such overwhelming
force that, in order To comply with it,
they commence life on scale quite
beyond their means, the consequence
being perpetual struggle with fate,
or, In many cases, utter degradation
and ruin
Year: 1876

In Hindoo districts, the Brahmins,
for consideration, promise the people
immunity from smallpox. At one
place, an ingenious chamar, having
found out a strange oval-shaped hole
in rock, gave out that all those who
passed through the hole would escape
smallpox. People came with their Of
ferings, and at last the Thakur Of Mar
war brought his child to pass through
the rock. As some people who were
actually suffering with smallpox had
been through it, it is not strange that
the child caught the disease. The Tha-
kur was so angry that he had the
chamar seized; but the chamar was
equal to the occasion, and declared
the child was bewitched by village
woman. She was therefore burnt with
hot copper piece till the authorities
interfered. The people still believe in
the power OF the chamar and his story
Of the witch.
Year: 1876

And SO, at last, the cold.blOoded mur'
derers Of Lee nave met their fate. They
were taken out Of Jail last night, carried
of to the woods, and no doubt hung up
by their necks until they were very dead.
This fate they richly deserved, dcplOre as
we NAV the mob law by which it was
me,cd out to them. Crime has been ram
papt in the Kanawha region OF late, and
the PEOPLE have become desperate. Only
this day one week ago a most hideous
murder was committed in Cabell county,
by n man and woman. The man was
taken out Of Jail on Sunday night and
hung, but the woman was spared for her
sex sake. The fact that no man could be
found to put rope around her neck
shows that the mob was not wanting in
character and self.respect, and from all
We have read OF the mob that last night
revisited Charleston and avenged the
death Of Lee, il was OF the same character.


From these two uprislngs we may as
well take solemn warning. That warn
ing is that when the law Of heland ceases
to adequately protect life, the law OF self.
protection, the first law of nature, is al
most sure to be invoked. 1t is because
the Courts, through the subteriuges OF in.
genious lawyers, do not protect society
that large numbers Of people, otherwise
law.abiding, are moved to take the law
into their own hands.


Truly. We have fallen upon deplorable
times when this is the case.
Year: 1876

President. These connecting links with


the fast rcceding scenes Of the great
drama Of tho Revolutionary period have
nearly all disappeared. The last surviv-
ing soldier Of Bunker Hill passed away
several years ago. When the roll is
called at Philadelphia next summer
there will probably not be a single one
TO answer of all the brave men who
helped to achieve our independence.
There will be present a few venerable
men Of the past like Mr.. Edwards, who
were children in 177G, who may per.
chance remember the Fourth OF July of
that eventful year, and they will be, as
indeed they ought to be, among tho most
interesting features Of the great exhibi-
ton.
Year: 1876

The MOorefeld Examiner processes to
have advices from here to the effect that the
impeachment trial now going on is a sort
Of a farce, and that Messrs. Burdett and
Bennett willb acquitted. This may be the
case, but il the Examiner man has any
money bet on his advices we advise him
to hedge without delay.
Year: 1876

We commendthefol questions
from the Charleston News aud Courier
to the consideration of our colored
people. Det every man who has col
ored men in his employment ask each
one Of them these questions and get
an answer for each question


Whom do youwork fOr2


Is he Republican or a Democrat 2


If Democrat, why do yOu work
with one who is so opposed to you in
politics2


Why do you not engage in business
only with those of your own poiiueai
IaISiI VII NOT this he bettert


Can you not find employment among
them? Ii you cannot, have you asked
yourself why is this so2


If you work for a man-we appeal
to you as men-do you think il lawful
TO iniure his interests2


If you do not injure them directly,
ought you to give others the power TO
do IT'D Ii you were sent TO tend cattle
would you lend tho gun given you TO
protect them to some thief 10 kill any
that he pleased2


How is it, then, that you so readily
combine with others TO put in office
men who rob your employers2 Are
you aware that when you employer is
robbed you are robbed to a certain ex-
tent also2 If your employer thrives
you thrive with him. If be is pinched,
how can he pay you good wages


If you put up men who tax your
employer and yourself only 10 enable
them to steal aud live finely, are you
honest2 And have you not allowed
your vote TO do this again aud again2


You call yourself Republican. If
men are named whom the people can
trust, your hands are clean but if the
old story is repeated, and swinllers,
cheats, or incompetent persons are put
forward by your party and you cling
to them, do you think yOUr employer
can trust you loih his interests. Ought
LoY
Year: 1876

There is an American story Of re-
spectacle antiquity which tells how q
fast train outran the sound Of its own
signals and came to utter grief, the
sound Of the warning whistle arriving
after the collision The driver was
killed, aud the story ended with the
words Poor fellow he was dead when
his curses reached him" As curious
and much more certainly true, is the
fact that when man Is struck by
lightning he does not sec the fash
We do not know whether it has been
observed that something similar will
happen to the frst man killed by the
eighty-one-t gun, within a mile Of
the muzzle; he will not hear the shot
fired. The velocity of SQUAD is 1872
feet per second. The muzzIa velocity
Of the bolt Of the eighty -one-ton gun
is about 1,600 feet per second. This,
of course, rapidly diminishes, bat the
average for some distance would be
greater than that of the sound. In
fact, as the shot carries the whistle
along with it, one would hear the
whistle Of the shot before hearing the
gun. Some curious observations might
be made with regard to this latter
point, as to the acoustic effect Of sound
emitted by body travelling faster
than the sound. The only other ex-
ample we have is the lightning fash,
producing the irregular roll Of the
thunder.
Year: 1876

Texas, the largestState in the Union,
is agitating the question Of splitting
into two or more sovereignties. The
northern part Of the State would like
to set itself up as independent of the
other sections, while the people west
OF the Colorado believe il to be to their
interests to separate. IL was recently
formally proclaimed in Congressional
Convention that the whole machinery
of the State is welded in the interests
ofthose parts where numerical strength
preponderates, and il is resolved that
concerted action must be taken to se-
cure Justice.
Year: 1876

would respectfully inform the citizens
of CiarksyiIIe and vicinity, that L nave
onened n Tailor shop on the corner of First
and Franklin streets, and am prepared to
make up work on short notice ana In good
style.


All Work made up in the Shop Guaran'


teed.


l have an experience OF twanty-nNe
wears in cutting. My motto is to please the
man l work for. Please give me call


Respectfully,
July %, lS76-ly.
Year: 1876

The Abolitionists were coming into
power, need not say by what combi-
nation of imposture and accident they
got it. All the Northern States as well
as the Federal government fell into
their hands. No doubt their dislike
of Southern people was very great but
Northern Democrats were objects OF
their special malignity. Long before
that time, and ever since, this sentl,,
ment has been expressed in words and
acts too plain to be misunderstood.
You show how strong il is ia your own
heart when you tell Southern men (and
you do tell them so in this very speech)
that you honor them ten thousand
times more than Democrats of the
North. Remember, in addition to
Year: 1876




The Gazette, of Wednesday morning.
proceeds to charge THE ARGUS with being
opposed to bridge across Rock river at
this point, and then continues with a long
harangue about the advantages of the
present location, etc. After laboring hard
in the interests Of the present oscners and
endeavoring to convince its readers of the
necessity for purchasing the present struc-
ture, and trying in vain to show that the
people all think as it does, it winds up with
few weak efforts to defend its course and
then gracefully swallows the whole thing
at one gulp by stating the following:
1t has leaked out that the committee will report
at their next meeting that locality is better
man the present on account of the bad condition OF
tne piers They claim that the foundations are IN
upon.


1t is to be hoped the committee will re-
| port IN favor of new location, the present
one is not at all desirable If the
committee do SO report and the city con-
cludes to build bridge further up the
river. which is just what should be done,
then will the Gazette indeed he unhappy
The ARGUS insists that the road leading to
the present bridge is unfit for travel and
that the present structure should not be
purchased at any price The whole thing ir
nutshell is this: The bridge as it now
stands is an elephant on the hands of the
present owners, and they desire to rio
themselves of the burden, so the city i.
expected to buy up the worthless structure
and give them the desired relief. The
city should do no such thing, and it is to be
hoped it will not.
Year: 1876

CRouP.-Almost daily we are called up


on to chronicle the death of some loved
one, by this dreadful disease, which often
takes its victim away from loving parents,


with only very short notice. Every


mother should supply herself with Coe's


Cough balsam, for it is no exaggeration
to say it will cure ninety nine cases in every
one hundred, if taken in season. There


are very many mothers who will tell you
they owe the life of some dear one to this


wonderful medicine One very desirable
quality is, that it leaves no bad effect, il
being perfectly harmless In cases Of


cough, hoarseness, or tickling in the throat
it has no equal
Year: 1876

BUFFALO, March Last evening an
engine and freight car on the Grand TruLk
ran through a bridge over the canal
Four men we're on the engine at the time
of whom Daniel Hardy, Of Brantford, was
torn to pieces in the machinery of the
locomotive which continued to work five
minutes after going through the bridge
and while in the canal.
Year: 1876

An Ordinance
To Modify and Amend ian Ordinance


Providing for the Election of City Weigh.


er, and for the Weighing Of Hay and


Coa1,''


Be it ordained by TIE City Council Of the City Of


Rock Island.


SECTION 1. That the ordinance providing for the
election of City Weigher and for the weighing of
hsy and coal passed August 15th 1851, be and the
same is from this date so modified and amended as
to provide that persons having coal yards and en-
gagged in the business of selling coal in the city of
Rock Island, may sell and weigh the same on their
own scales at their several places Of business.
SEC. 2. If any person other than city weigher
shall weigh any hay or coal which lie sold is for
sale for in the city of Rock Island, other than
agent, such person shall be subject to penalty of
five dollars for each ofense.
Passed January 10th. 1876.
BAILEY DAVENPORT, Mayor
s. T. COOKE, City Clerk. 1-d3t
Year: 1876

W hat hurts the Republicans is not
that it was done, but that it was done by a
party named Muligan. Should Blaine
become president, mo Irish Need Apply
would be painted all over the White House
from chimney to basement.
Year: 1876

living in this manner, and has survived
a family consisting Of father and mother,
tour brothers and two sisters, all Of
whom were in good health and Constitu.
tion. During some of her attacks OF
| cOuyulsions her head and feet would be
drawn backward so they would meet
and remain in this position eighteen
hours. Under all these utilctions she
bore up with sweet and patient temper.
For some time she kept little shop,
laying shelves put up on the wall by her
bed, and within reach of her right hand.
the only one she was able to use, and
here she sold little confectionery and
small things. She was very industrious,
and always doing whatever she could.
She did much fine sewing, and dressed
dolls for the children, even when unable
to see. For about twelve weeks she has
been now gradually failing and has at
last passed away, and it is said by the
physician who attended her for the long.
est part OF her sickness himself AN old
and experienced surgeon hat he does
not believe, if there was post mortem
examination made, that any organic dis
ease would be found, all her manifold
ills having been functional, and none or.
ganic. The case of Miss Burgess has
been one of great interest to the medical
faculty, and she has been visited by
many physicians as a physiological curl.
osity.
Year: 1876

If you should ever meet with an ac.
cident at table, endeaVOr tc be composed.
A gentleman carving tough goose, had
the misfortune to send it entirely out of
the dish into the lap of a young lady
who sat next to him, on which he looked
her full in the face aud said, with utmost
GOODNESS, " Madam, will thank you for
that gOosep


Switzerland as a Republic is 400 years
old.
Year: 1876

THE resolution Of Representative Nor
rison fixing the twelfth Of June as the
day Of the final adjournment Of congress
will not be considered by the committee
OF ways and means, to which it has been
referred, until further progress has been
made with the general appropriation
bills, which it is necessary to pass by the
first of July, the commencement Of the
fiscal year. According to present ap-
pearances, the adjournment viii not
take place befoge the middle Of July. A
number of senators say that the senate
will postpone the BslknRp impeach-
ment csse, as otherwise the appropriS-
ton bills could not be acted on In time
to afford the government the necessary
means to carry on its operations.
Year: 1876

Twas ever thus. No sooner has public
credulity been worked up to the sticking
point; no sooner have Mr.. Bayley's skill
fully prepared letters been received and &C.
cepted as meaning to say that there is
twenty foot channel through the jetties; no
sooner do Captain Eads and q select party
of guests prepare for . triumphal entry
from the sea through this new pathway for
the commerce of the world, than there oc-
ours something to spoil the whole thing.
Three thousand newspapers printed in
Northern and Western cities have within
the last two weeks declared the jetties
completed success. Many rods of
editorial have been written on them, and
tons of type have told the story to those in
nocent people who look for truth in news
papers. Saturday morning the steamer
New Orleans was to arrive, with Captain
Esds and party. The pass that vas open to
the commerce of the world would certainly
wash with it's waters her welcome hull.
But later comes the homely and unroman-
tic facts, obtained from one of her officers
The steamer arrived at the jetties at half
past six O'Clock Friday night. Pilot Fran
els boarded her, and informed her officers
that there was not water enough for the
steamer to go through South Pass. The
steamer was drawing thirteen feet six
inches forward and sixteen feet six inches
aft. She then went on to Southwest Pass,
came over the bar, stopped at the head o1
Captain Eads' plantation to permit him
and party to be transferred to the steamer
Grafton, which was there Waiting for them
to take them to the city of Port Eads, where
they arrived safely. The steamer arrived
at her wharf in this city early in the fore.
noon.


The City of Norfolk. of the Morgan Line
drawing about ten feet, arrived at the Jet
ties about the same time, and went round
and came in Southwest Pass. She is now
at Quarantine Station.
Year: 1876

Some time since United States Shipping
Commissioner William Wright received a
complaint from Edward West, one of the
crew of the brig Alice, that he and his ship
mates had received no pay. The vessel was
abandoned in Havana, and most of the
crew came to this port. Colonel Wright
wrote to our representative, Consul General
Hall, at Havana.


Mr.. Hall has replied that he also had re-
ceived letter from West of Q similar tenor.
The brig was still there. Mr.. Hall had not
lost sight of the interests of the crew.
Some of the parties having claims against
the vessel have partially agreed to advance
the money due the seamen, but have not
yet done so. Mr.. Hall hopes to make some
such arrangement, that the matter may not
be brought into the courts, and payment
deferred indefinitely. He will do all in his
power to recover their wages. OF some
articles left on a British vessel, by two Of
the crew, he ascertained they had been sent
to them.
Year: 1876

The State Central Democratic Commit
tee, on Friday night, after protracted de-
bate, decided that they knew better what
the third ward wants than the people do
themselves, so rejected Mr.. Fitzpatrick by
q vote of thirteen to twelve, and the third
ward still remains unrepresented in the
grand council of the party.


So far as the facts develop to the public,
Mr.. Fitzpatrick has at some time, or in
some manner, given aid and comfort to
certain Republicans, or to some Republican
organization. This, then, is an unpardona-
BILE sin in q white man. 1t appears to be
made conspicuously SO by the earnest-al-
most frantic-appeals of these identical
Democratic judges to colored Republicans
to come into their organization.


Mr.. Fitzpatrick seems to have won warm
public sympathy by his manly and deter
mined fight. 1t is the only direct issue
which has been made and persistently
fought out between the aristocrats and the
people in this Democratic city. So far the
commonalty, through their representative,
Fitzpatrick, have been made to feel that
the silk stocking can conceal an iron heel
But we doubt if this act concludes the
drama.
Year: 1876

John Anderson, the first man who as
cended the great South Do me in the Yo-
semitic valley, lives alone in q small house
near the saddle of the dome. He is hard
at work constructing Q staircase of thou
sand steps up the dome. He hepes to have
an elevator running in time, and is also
working on a model of steam car that
shall carry passengers up the almost per-
pendicular walls.
Year: 1876

This is the day that Staub, at Gold
No 60 Canal street, spreads the
most attractive periodicals in the land on
his counters, and sells them to all corners
at New York prices. There is not paper
or q magazine that he will not have, and no
one can fail to find those desired.
Year: 1876

Owing to the fact that the call for the
election Of delegates to the parish conven-
tion has been issued for the eighteenth in
slant, the Republican mass meeting hereto
fore announced has been postponed until
the twenty seventh.
Year: 1876

From the Philadelphia Times.l
Our fathers God! from out whose hand
The centuries fall like grains of sand,
We meet to-day, united, free,
And loyal to our land and Thee,
To thank Thee for the era done,
And trust Thee for the opening one.
Here where of old, by Thy design,
The fathers spake that word of Thine
Whose echo is the glad refrain
Of rended bolt and falling chain,
To grace our festal time. from all
The zones of earth our guests we call.
Be with US while the New World grests
The Old World, thronging all its streets,
Unvailing all the triumphs won
By art or toll beneath the sun;
And unto common good ordain
This rivalship of hand and brain.
Thou who hast here in concord furled
The war flags Of agathered world,
Beneath our western skies fulfill
The Orient's mission of good will,
And, freighted with Loves golden fleece,
Send back the Argonauts of peace.
For art and labor met in truce,
For beauty made the bride Of use, ..
We thank Thee, while withal we crave
The anstere virtues strong to save,
The honor proof to place or gold,
The manhood never bought or sold!
OF make Thou US, through centuries long
In peace secure, and justice strong;
Around our gift of freedom draw
The safeguards Of Thy righteous law,
And, cast in some diviner mold,
Let the new cycle shame the old.