smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

Many insects prove that their parental
instinct is strongly developed by taking
care Of their young after they are Matched.
OF this kind are several solitary insects,
and those which live in societies, as bees,
ants, and some wasps, etc. The mason
wasp burries living caterpillar with its
eggs, but does not leave it to take its
chance After the maggot is hatched and
has devoured the first caterpillar, the wasp
returns, opens the hole, pushes in another,
aud again closes the hole, and this is
repeated till the young animal is able to
get his own living. The field bug has. q
family of thirty or forty young ones which
she conducts about as hen does her chick
ems, beating her wings rapidly at any at
tempt to disturb them. If you disturb a
nest of ants by digging, you will perceive
the inhabitants much less intently occupied
with providing for their own safety than
the conveying of certain little white bodies
to a place of security these are the young,
and to effect this purpose the whole com
munity are in motion, and no danger can
divert them from attempting its accomplis-
ment. A cruel observer having cut an ant
in two, under these circumstances, the
mutilated animal did not relax its affec-
tionate exertions; with that half of the
body to which the head was attached it
contrived before expiring to carry off ten
of these white masses into the interior OF
the nest Insects seem to live especially
for the nutrition of their young. When
we consider the exertions of these little
animals, apparently SO disproportioned to
their size, and the constant labor in which
they are occupied, one might be apt to
think the pleasures of their existance were
outweighed by its pains. But what strikes
US as wearisome toll is probably that
delightful occupation, and, like human
parents, they are never so happy as when
actively engaged in advancing the interests
of their young.
Year: 1876

Among the strange productions of Cape
May, says the Monmouth On. j. y Demo
crat, are the "cedar mines s'-swamps of
dark miry stuff in which are buried i'm
mense trees of the white cedar, CvpreSsus
hyOideS of the botanists These mines con-
tain enormous trees, buried to a depth
varying from three to ten feet The logs
lie one across another, and there is abund-
ant evidences that they are the growing of
different successive forests Indeed, in
these very swamps forests of the same trees
are now growing. The miners have be-
come very skillful at their work. An iron
rod is thrust into the soft mud, over which
often the water lies In striking a buried
tree the workman will, by several sound
ings, at last tell how it lies, which is its
root end, and how thick It is. He then
manages to get a chip, of the tree, and by
its smell determines at once whether it is
worth the labor of mining, that is, the
workmen will tell unerringly whether the
tree be a windfall or break down. IF a
breakdown, it was so because it. was de-
cayed when standing if windfall, the
trees fell when found, and has been pre-
served ever since by the antiseptic nature
of the peat marsh in which it was buried
The soft earth is then removed This makes
a pit in the swamp. Into this the water
soon flows and fills it up This is rather
an advantage. The saw is now introduced,
and at regular intervals cut is made
through the trees, when the log floats to
the surfaco IT. Is curiouS that tho Loo of ~
sound tree will be sure to turn over when
it floats up, the lower side thus becoming
uppcrmost. Trees in this way are some
times obtained which will yield 10000
shingles, worth $50 per thousand thus
one tree will yield 5000. The age of such a
tree, as the season rings have been counted,
has been made out from 1000 to 200
years, and even more. A layer of such
trees is found covered by another layer,
and these again by another, and even a
third, while living trees may still be grow
ing over all 1t is evident, indeed that
New Jersey has experienced what the geo
logists call Oscillation" Cape May con
tains abundant evidence of having been lift
ed out of modern sea. The recent oyster
and clam are found in natural beds, just as
they died in the ocean, but now in posi-
tions many feet higher than the contiguous
oyster beds while buried trees exist at
depths lower than the beds of living mol
lusks.
Year: 1876

The Buffalo Conlnercial thus describes
an interesting experiment which was tried
at the medical college in that city, one day
last week: "The subjects were two dogs
one considerably larger than the other
which were placed under the influence Of
ether until both animals were utterly un-
conscious. An artery in the neck of the
larger dog was opened. In this tube was
inserted, and the stop-cock of the tube
turned of, thus preventing any blood from
escaping until the proper time came. The
small dog was then placed upon the table,
the carotid artery opened, and the animal
allowed to bleed to death When the blood
had ceased to run it was announced that the
dog was absolutely dead Artificial respira-
tion was applied, and then the tube in the
neck of the large canine was inserted in that
of his bloodless brother, the Professor mean
while working upon the chest after the man
ner used in restoring drowning person.
As soon as the stOp-cock in the tube was
turned the blood from the dog commenced
flowing into the empty veins of the other,
and in very few minutes the creature
was breathing again as naturally as ever
The students applauded loudly and the
TRANSMISSION was complete, Neither of the
dogs, we are assured, felt particle Of pain
during the operation"
Year: 1876

finding in the receiver live bird, of some
unknown species, perfect in its anatomy
but, strange to say, entirely without feath-
ers


"This most astonishing result" remarks
the paper from which we quote, ''has al
most upset our previous notions of natural
philosophy and the governing laws of ami
mial organism. AS we gazed upon the
featherless bird hopping about, and feeding
upon the seeds given it, we began to doubt
the reality Of our own existence, or that of
anything about us y


The Professor, urged on by his success,
has set about another analysis, and has no
doubt of being able to produce perfect birds
of every known species.


The Aigemeine Zeitung of the next day
remarks that the whole city is electrified
with the Development.
Year: 1876

A Troy On. Y, man has been trying to
kill rats with bread covered with arsensic
The bread disappeared, but the rats didn't t
diminish, and finally he caught his thirteen
year old daughter eatingit. She confessed
that she had disposed ofall oft, and liked it
better than anything she had ever tasted.
1t appears that the girl had fits a year ago,
when she kept begging for arsenic, and the
doctor, thinking she was going to die any
way, gave her some, whereupon she got
well. Since then she has been given the
deadly poison at different times, the only
effect being to make her appear well, bright
and cheerful. The case has been laid be-
fore several scientific men, all of whom pro-
nounce it one Of the most remarkable
phenomena of the age.
Year: 1876

A gentleman and lady got off the Pan
Handle train yesterday evening, and step
ped out on the south side of the depot
They were quickly surrounded by a crowd
of voracious hackmen. Punching away
vigorously with his umbrella, the gentleman
soon cleared space around him, and hav-
ing secured silence enough to be heard, he
vocilerated, "Wouldn' some of you like to
90 to the devil p The tone of one of the
hackmen was wickedly urbane as he quick
ly replied "Come right along, sir run
the finest hack on that line "-b,diandpoltS
Sentinel.
Year: 1876

The Democrats find little comfort any
where. Harper's Weekly, during the past
year has recently united with the opponents
of the Republican party in finding fault
with Grant, but in a recent issue of that
paper, gives its estimate of the Democratic
party in the following terse paragraph:


Nothing should cause any man to for
get that the Democratic party is now what
it has been for years-the political organi-
zation of those who aimed to destroy the
National Union and Government for the
basest and most revolving purposes, and
still declare that their views, except as to
the practicability of secession, remain un-
changed"
Year: 1876

Judge Orvis, at the recent Centre county
court, rendered a decision which is impor-
tant His honor ruled that where a man
gives his wife money, he having no debts
at the time, nor in any way showing an in
tention to defraud, real estate which the
wife may purchase with such funds cannot
afterward be made liable for debt con-
tracted by the husband subsequent to such
Gift and purchase.
Year: 1876

Last October Judge Mites Taylor, a
wealthy merchant of Smethport, Mexican
county, fell from the rear door of the resi-
dencc, distance of eighteen feet, breaking
his back. 1t was thought he would die in
few days, but he is still living and no
fears are entertained of his speedy death.
His spinal column was dislccated little
above the center Of its length. Until DR..
Freeman ingeniously replaced it, he suffer
ed great pain in the broken column. Since
then the pain has ceased, but he has no
feeling Of any kind below the fracture. His
stomach i3 curiously affected portion of
Its functions, or rather, its energies, has
been destroyed so that even when acting
on light food its operations are slow and,
to q certain extent, uncertain. Whenever
he partakes of stronger food than prepared
milk or cruel, as his appetite frequently
tempts him to do, despite of all previous
experience, he suffers severe pain all round
that portion of his body above line across
and intersecting the point of injury. In
other words, so far as feeling and other
sensation are concerned, he seems to have
been literally broken in two parts, and
while one-third of his body is as thorough
ly alive as ever, the lower two-thirds are
as dead as though buried in the grave His
mental faculties as clear as ever.
Year: 1876

The Idaho Avalanche asserts that with
in a circuit of five miles around Silve City
money enough might be extracted from the
bowels of the earth to pay off the national
debt twenty times over.
Year: 1876

The rJgues have devised a rcw plan for
swindling people, specially farmers The
rascals, who go in pairs, watch the adver-
tisements of stray horses or cows, and one
of the follows goes to the advertiser and
asks to see the animal. His request being
granted, the scoundrel informs the adver-
tiser that it is not the one he is looking for
The fellow goes back to his pal gives him
a description Of the animal, and the pal
then goes to the advertiser, describes
the horse or cow accurately, and gets pos
session. Then the swindler tells the ad-
vertiser that he lives long way off and
don't want to be troubled with taking the
animal home and offers to sell it for half it
is worth. The advertiser generally makes
the purchase, and in nine cases out of ten
subsequently has to return the animal to
the possession of the rightful owner, losing
the money that he paid the impostor
Year: 1876

wife through the back of the head with a
rifle yesterday at Q O'Clock, the ball
coming out in front, tearing away her
lower jaw. She is still living, but will
probably die. McEvis is in jail.
Year: 1876

etA gentleman, dining with . friend,
was asked what part Of the fowl he
preferred. "Oh only a bone" This
request was literally taken, and bone,
well scraped. was sent to him. Half
Of that. if you please, said he, sending
back his plate
Year: 1876

The Hawaiian Gazette thus speaks
Of the reception of the news in Ha-
wal concerning the reciprocity treaty:


When the steamer City of San
Francisco rounded Diamond Head,
and itwas discovered that she was
decked with rainbow Of bunting
from bowsprit to stern, all we're con-
iident that she was the bearer Of
good tidings, and enthusiasm ran
high. The news spread like wild
ERE through the town, and when she
entered the barbor, and the news
for which we have for eighteen long
months watched and waited that the
treaty bill has passed the Senate, and
bad been signed by the President,
reached the large crowd on the
wharf, the popular joy was Intense
mems hearts appeared TO be too full
for uttsrsnes-fhs town Vas jubi-
lant." ..rFf.
Year: 1876

Dyersburg was favored with a visit
on Tuesday last from the Hon. James
E, Bailey, of Clarksville, gentleman
recognized as one of Tennessee's S best
orators. Space forbids us to give in
detail the full substance of his speech,
embracing as it does the whole field of
political labor. We cannot, howev-
er, pass over the remarks in reference
to the financial ruin to which we are
drifting. The questions discussed
were not new to Col. Bailey's audience,
but so ably argued that they elected a
marked attention and interest. Col.
Bailey contrasted the expenditures OF
the decade of years prior to 1860, and
that subsequent to this date, and the
lavish reck klessness and waste of pub
lie money during the latter period was
set forth in language and figures not to
be misunderstood. The entire political
status of the Republican and Demo-
cratic parties was discussed, and In do
ing so we pay the speaker well earn
ed con pliment when we say that his
views and ideas of government were
expressed in "a liberal manner, and
ideas of government were expressed IN
liberal manner, and here we cannot
but express our admiration for the
friendly spirit in which Col. Bailey
canvassed the character Of the leaders
Of the different parties. We know not
whether Col. Bailey is an aspirant to
any Office or not, but of this weare sat
is6ed; that an abler gentleman or more
polished statesman could not be select
ed to represent our fair State. Col.
Bailey is opposed to the high tariff sys-
TEN and his illustrations to show its
ruinous effect upon the pockets OF the
people were indeed forcible and con-
vincing. Dyersbug Progress.
Year: 1876

The printers dollars-where are
they? A dollar here, and dollar
there, scattered over numerous small
towns all over the country, miles and
miles apart-how shall they be gath
cred together2 We imagine the printer
will have to get up and addres to those
widely scattered dollars someting like
the following


Dollars, halves and quarters, dimes,
and all manner of fractions into which
We are divided, collect yourselves and
come home Ye are wanted Com
binatiOn of all sorts of men that help
the printer to become a proprietor,
gather such force aud demand with
such good reasons for appearance al
his counter, that nothing short of a
sight of you will appease them. Col
lect yourselves for valuable as you
are in the aggregate, single you will
never pay the cost of gathering. Come
in here, in single file, that the printer
may form you into battalion, and
send you forth again, to battle for him
and vindicate his credit.


Reader, are you sure you haven't
couple Of the printer S dollars sticking
about your "old clothes ?'
Year: 1876

At democratic meeting at Bates
burg, s. c., on the 9th inst, there
were several colored speakers, among
them one Tom Watson hard working
field hand He made brave speech,
and so formulated the situation in re-
gard to the colored people Of the south,
that an abstract is we'll worth printing
His words, of course, are put into
shape by the reporter, and this is the
extract in question:


The radicals have been ruling this
government for ten years, and their
motto has been lie, cheat and steal, !"
and to-day there is no money in the
country. My colored friends, we have
to labor hard every day to get bread
for our little children; we have to go
bareheaded and in our shirt tails. [
went to Edgefeld the other day and
went into Larence Kain's Ca leading
white radical) palace, and | saw car
riage for his baby that would cost 800
in New York, and had white girl to
roll it. When his wife walked across
the floor, she dressed so fine you could
hear her 'rattling" a hundred yards.
tell you, my colOred friends, the rad
ical party is rotten. They have been
ruling thirteen states twelve of them
have rotted down, and the sills under
the thirteenth (South Carolinas) are
rotten, and it will fall on the 7th of
November. There is no such things
as party now; it is honesty butting
against rascality, and tell you rascal
ity, has got to get out of the way. l
have been voting for the radical party
for the last ten years, and, white folks,
| will tell you why | did it. These
here carpet -baggers and scalawags
came around and told me to give them
Office, and they would tax you so that
you would have to sell your land, and
then we could buy it. | thought it
would be mighty nice to have big
plantation, aud voted for them and
told them to stick on the tax. They
stuck on the tax; they got land, fine
horses, fine clothes aud plenty of money,
but | have never gotanything from them
yet. | tell you another falsehood they
have been telling the colored folks.
They tell US that as soon as the demo-
Gratis get into power they will put us
back into slavery. | tell you, my
colored friends, that is impossible.
The whole world is against slavery.
The constitution Of the United States
forbids it, and the white people could
not put you into slavery if they would,
and they wouldn't if they could.


At the conclusion of his remarks,
Tom came forward to the front of the
stand, and, with all the earnestness of
his honest soul, cried out ''All you
honest colored men come up here.
Give me your hand and God your
heart, and let's havean honest govern
ment." A number of eolored men
were Immediately enrolled on the dem
ocratic club.
Year: 1876

A letter from an officer of the United


States steamer Franklin, dated of the
coast of Portugal. gives the details Of
the order received by the Commander
of that vessel, from the Navy Depart
ment. relative to Tweed. The letter
says:


The telegram requested the Consul
to detail any United States Govern
ment vessel passing out of the Straits,
until orders could come from Wash
ington. A few hours later, a dispatch
from the Secretary of the Navy order
ed us to remain at Gibraltar for further
orders. The next day came telegraphic
orders from Washington to proceed to
Vigo, communicate with the United
States Minister, and receive Tweed on
board, place him under strict guard,
allow him no communication with the
crew, and upon arrival at New York to
allow no communication with the shore
until instructions shall be received
from the Navy Department as to his
final disposal


A postscript to the letter, dated Vigo,
Spain, has the following additional:


We climed the hill to the castle, but
admittance was denied us, because the
Governor had given orders to allow
no communication with the prisoner.
These prisoners guarded SO closely,
were Boss Tweed aud Hunt, a cousin
Of his. The people generally are OPP
posed to giving up the old sinner. But
the Government had no hesitation in
taking him upon the arrival of the
bark from Cuba, with the fugitive on
board. The Governor of the Province
went on board and found the Boss in
his shirt sleeves, barefooted, in the
midst of scrubbing the deck. The old
Boss looks quite jolly. aud has brass
enough to last him a hundred years.
He will be confined to the cabin dur
ing the passage, and whilst in port an
officer is always present with him.
Year: 1876

Col. Bailey delivered Friday night
at the court house in this city to a very
large audience an able aud interest
ing address upon the current politics
of the day. He made an excellent i'm
preston upon his audience which was
Iauch pleased not only with his man
ner but his matter. He left this city
en- route for Memphis.-Bro
Democrat
Year: 1876

The United States Tobacco ournal,
in an article on the prospective out
look for tobacco in America, says:


Another unforeseen and new feature
has come to further aid In the devel-
opment Of our grand resources as a
tobacco raising country, and to confer
greater prosperity to the trade than
has ever been experienced before
The German tobaccos which have al
ways been important competitors with
our own and supplied numerous mar
kets of the world with the weed, have
this year been IA complete failure. At
the very best this crop will give ma
terial only fit for the manufacture of
cheap smoking tobacco, but as can be
seen from our trustworthy reports in
another column can never be adapted
for cigar manufacturing purposes
Where then are the cigar mauufac-
turers In Europe to ia ke their suitable
supply of tobacco from? The better
grades of Java tobacco, of a mOstexcel-
lent cigar material, have risen in pri-
ces to such an extent as to make the
manufacture Of cigars out of this ma
terial highly Improbable; laterreports
announce this crop Of 1876 poor one.
HavaDna wrappers, last years and
this year crop, are to the greatest
extent unfit for the purpose. Brazil
is the only article which combines
comparative cheapness with quality
and other ingredients for successful
cigar manufacture. But this crop
alone does not suffice in the least to
satisfy the demands of European cigar
manufacturers. The other South
American and West and East India
tobacco crops are of such inferior
quality as to make our most common
tobaccos preferable. Naturally there
is nothing left for Europe but to look
to US for their supply of leaf The in
creased demand by exporters and their
badly disguised anxiety to purchase is
convincing proof of the correctness OF
our theory The near future will de-
velop larger export trade than we
have ever seen before All kinds OF
tobacco. high and low-priced, Will be
in active demand, and neither holders
of old or new tobacco need fear de-
probation In values, but on the con-
trary can rely upon a most prosperous
trade for long time TO come. AND
as with the increased effiux Of our to-
bacoos. their good qualities will be
further recognized and appreciated by
European cigar manufacturers, and
consequently become more popular
with smokers abroad, the tobacco cul-
ture ia this country must assume i'm
| nense proportions and become the
most important and remuneratiYe
branch of agriculture.
Year: 1876

red people will sec It and have the maniness TO assert
their rights by full vote He also said 90 tninh
that South Carolina be carried by peaceful and law
s oaaus and would have It understood it would Ill
,.oona ma the candidate of the reform party to be
eIectad by any except honest means Ny election would
$1,000 he a sham II brought about by fraud and
Intimidation at the South. want fair election; ana
while they win charge that they do not have IT, Iar
fsr election they will be defeated everywhere especially
a. every 9outhern Slater
Year: 1876

not meet untfi next Thursday. He was ais, OF the
opinion that there would not b. another election Of dole
gates but simply reassembling of the former eonven
ton As TO the propriety of running Seymour whether
he accepts not he thought suct would net be
judciOus and he did not think 1t would be adopted


VIEWS OF BERNARD REILLY.


Bernard Reilly, member of the State Cen
tra Committee said that In his opinion the committee
had ample power 10 all the vacancy. He opposed
however 10 such action. and he should favor
ing the old convention. II would cost great deal Of
money TO say nothing OF the trouble to issue call for
convention and the delegates already chosen fully
represented the Democratic party. The delegates from
this city, both Tammany and anttTammany, in the old
convention favorable to Clarksop N Potter. with
the exception of those from the With and xvItb Dis
tcts his nomination certain up to the time Mr.
seymonr's name was mentioned There had been time
for consultation since and it was uncertain now who
was the strongest candidate.


prominent local politician said that John Kelly con-
troled tho convention, and his candidate Carkson N
Potter would have received the votes OF nearly two
thirds OF the delegates The opponents OF Mr. Kelly
defeated in their attempt to keep his name on the
electoral ticket and while the breach was widening be-
tween him and Gov. Tilden, Mr.. Kelly was getting
stronger every day The injudiciOus course OF Gov TIL
denis recognized adherens in the convention and hs
failure to control the nomination for Governor after
provoking q contest with John Kelly, had drawn away
from him many OF the local politicians, and left MI
Kelly of the situation. The opposition favored
new man In order beat John Kelly but nothing could
prevent Mr.. POtters nomination Mr. Kelly Thought
best 10 insist upon it,