smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

Last week @ man stepped up to

 us and said he would pay us every

 cent he owed, if he lived till Sa-

 turday night; we presume that

 man died. Another said he would

 pay us in a day or two, as sure as

 we were born; query-did that

 man lie, or were we born? An

 other said he would settle his bill

 as sure as shooting; we were led to the conclusion that shooting

 is very uncertain. Quite a num-

 Der said they would see us to-

 morrow; those men have been blind ever since, or else tO-mOr-

 row has not come. One man told

 Us, six months ago, that he would

 pay us as soon as he got some money; that man would not lie, and of course has not had @ cent since.

 But the experience of newspa- pers is about the same all over, says the Fremont Journal. Last year we stopped one mans pa per who owed six dollars. He was serving the public, and we met him while in the discharge of his duties. He averred that as soon as he got through and re- ceived his pay, he would indeed. He told us the same thing this Spring, and we presbme he is still assessing. Another came all the way, five miles to assure us that he was all right, and that we need not be afraid. He would have some money soon, and would | pay-yes he would. Some time | later we saw his money at a dis tance. He was putting it in a bank. It was the last and only glimpse we had of it. He never had. 8 hatchet and ran around hacking cherry trees, or they would have died without know ing who killed them. Another would pay us after sheep shear ing. His sheep are long woOls, and it takes long while for the wool to mature. Another would pay after wheat harvest, but his wheat, like the century plant, is of slow growth, and don't ripen of ten. Another had poor health, but was improving. He would get around soon and raise some money and pay us. He has had a relapse, for though he eats hear ty and works hard, he don't get around worth a cent. We would have some hopes of getting even with such folks some day. when an administrator is appointed, if they had anything to administer on.
Year: 1876

ABOUT BOILING EGGs.-Th ere is an objection to the common way of boiling eggs which people do not understand. It is this :- The white under three minutes rapid cooking becomes tough and indigestible while the yOlk is left soft. When properly cooked, eggs are done evenly through like any other food. This result might be attained by putting the eggs into dish with a cover, as a tin pail, and then pouring upon them boiling water, two quarts or more to a dozen eggs, and cover and set them away from the stove for fifteen minutes. The heat of the water cooks the eggs slowly and evenly and to jelly like consistency, leaving the cen ter or yolk harder than the white, and the egg tastes as much nicer and richer as a fresh egg is nicer than a stale egg, and no person

 will want to eat them boiled after having tried this method once.
Year: 1876

A remarkable instance of death

 bed repentance has just occurred

 in Butler county, Ky. A man

 who has been very ill, confident

 that his last hour was fast ap-

 preaching, sent for a magistrate and made a confession that in the year 1870 he had murdered a man

 named Charles Mitchell, on Green River. His story was that dur ing the war he and Mitchell had robbed man named Davenport, in Warren county, and that in the division of the spells Mitchell had taken more than his share. In revenge, the salf-confessed murderer, watched his victim for ten years with the purpose of kill ing him, and at last, when fa- vorable opportunity presented it. self, he shot him through the heart. Mitchell, when shot, was on barge, and his body fell into the river. It was never found, and though suspicious of foul play were entertained, there was no proof even of his death. The man who fired the fatal shot, having eased his conscience by confession, immediately began to get better and now promises to regain his health entirely. In the meantime the officers of the law are preparing to arrest and prosecute him whenever he has recovered sufficiently to be safely from his bed.
Year: 1876

Those who read the newspapers know That
suicides by very young persons are not infre-
oucnt. I'm this city on Sunday night mere
lad of 16 years William Mcdowell, shot him
self He was employed in a downtOw bank
ing house but the family refused to give
even the reason which they copjectured for
the deed. The coroner's investigation may
throw light upon it. The almost inevitable
conclusion, in considering such cases, seems
to be that they result from morbid
and probably congenital propensity. We
can understand how an adult worn OUT
by misfortune, harassed by want, and
with nothing but the gloomest prospects, may
shuttle off this mortal coil in pseudo phio-
sophical way. 1t Is difficult, however, to COM
prehend how an experience OF Only sixteen
years can make life utterly distasteful; for 1t
can hardly have been very tragical, and scarcely
such as to preclude the prospect of relief and
of n change of fortune. If we remember,
too, how children of even seven or eight
years have done the same deed OF SELF
slaughter, we shall better comprehend that
natural propensity may have impellcd the IRE
sponsble youth To an act the nature OF which
was not fully comprehended.


The moral of such tragedy is not far to
seek. 1t complexities the problem of edrca-
tion. and shows the necessity of specially
allowing for individual tempcraments. Many
a boy has been ruined for life by a miSunder-
standing of his idiosyncrasies on the part of
hose TO whom his culture was coniided. III he
has naturally bad temper, or is continually
desponding, or if there is an abnormal
development Of his imagination or of his
curiosity, he may, whenever sufficiently and
peculiarly excited, seek qualification or relief
through resource about which he does not
stop to reason. This may specially be the
ease with children of an cpileptic diathcsis.
1t is for parents carefully to watch their
charges, and fully to comprehend, if possible,
their peculiarties, adapting culture and dis
cpline to each particular case.
Year: 1876

At the recent meeting in Philadelphia OF
the National Social Science Association an
important paper was read by DR.. John Pack
ard on the training of nurses. The first Insti
tuition for this purpose, and probably the most
complete in its system and working in the
country, is that under Quaker rule in Phila-
delDlia. 1t is self-sustaining so far as the
nurses are concerned, while the charity is
large md widely extended toward patients.
The woman is helped at minimum cost to
means of earning her livelihood, and then
placed in the way of earning it, So much the
world owes to all its citizens, however much
political economists may question whether it
owes any more.


Ii is now proposed that there shall be gen
cral association for the training of nurses in
every large city, and n central bureau of adj
ministration In New-York and Boston two
years. study is required; in New Haven, fifteen
months; in Philadelphia, one year. lnstruc-
ton is given in the management of vcntlla-
ton, lighting temperature, the handling OF
the patient, administration of food, medicine,
etc, besides the treatment of obstetrlcal cases,
and to certain extent of especial diseases.
All this by old fashioned people was held to
come by nature to most women with families,
while the fact was it seldom came mt all.
Anybody who has had the bad luck to be i'll
in Il country neighborhood, where his pains
and symptoms furnished pleasant stimulus to
the drowsy tone of society, and has been
tended by jury of matrOns, each urging her
favorte pOsset and personal experience i'll sim
liar ailments, will know how short a way
good feeling and good intentions with vague
knowledge go in the presence of pain and dan
ger. Another popular notion is that a disap-
pointmcnt in love or q melancholy turn of
mind prominently fits woman for the giving
of ipecac, or for night watches. The heroine of
the popular novel from Evangcline down invari-
ably soothes her woes by nursing in hospital.
where she as inevitably meets her long lost
lover in dying condition, probably indeed
because the nurses are all herolnes.


In old times women were skillful doctors.
The Guineveres and Rosamunds had little
else to do than to learn how to physic Lance
lot and his squire when they came home
hacked and bleeding. Tho skilleds aursing of
women, except among the religious sisterhoods,
came into disrepute for many years until Miss
Nightingale with her corps of lady aids dis
placed the male nurses. 1t is largely owing to
that lady's sound English sense that study and
practice are now urged as requisites for the
female nurse, instead of purely sentimental re-
quirements. The present scheme goes beyond
Miss Nightingale's plans, and if carried into
effect will provide efficient helps to the physi-
clan, in family life as well as In the camp or
hospital The properly trained nurse is only
and always the adjunct to the physician. The
Year: 1876

There is, this Summer, but one important
historical anniversary-that which gives name
and dignity to the whole year. IL is not
enough that the Fourth of July is already "a
national holiday not enough that business
shall be silent, and labor idle, and that a few
companies of soldiers and fremen shall make
festal parade in the streets. There should be
a solemn and universal cOmmcmOration, offer
ing to the whole people at least the Oppor-
tunity of participating in some form of exer-
cscs impressive enough to be remembered.
The National Celebration of the Day at Phila-
delphia is the appropriate, but also the only
form in which the Government can be repre-
sented and probably not one-twenticth part
of the multitude which will then be present
will succeed in seeing or hearing the solemni-
ties.


This city has made seasonable arrangements
for her own independent celebration, and the
example has been very generally followed in
all the larger cities and towns throughout the
country. But there are great numbers of
earnest and thoughtful people in the smaller
communities, who are reluctant to see the
day pass by without such honors as may lie
within their reach. The following is one of
many letters which THE TRIBUNE Is receiving
in regard to this subject:


TO the Editor OF The Tribune.


SIR: Az we cannot all to Philadelphia to witness the
celebration OF the Centennial Fourth OF July would you
be pleased give your readers Ia the villages aud
try districts suggestions for suitable cominemor-
ton of the day DAVID SILVER.


7arryiopn " T., May 81. 1875


Without attempting to prescribe any fixed
plan, we would suggest that the first thing in
order would be for each community to call a
meeting and appoint committee of its best
citizens to consider the form of local cele-
bration. The conventional order of exercises
includes prayer the reading of the Declaration
of Independence, All Grafton, an original poem
or hymn, and the appropriate music. But it is
Year: 1876

There is fear in some quarters that the
thirdterm specter may matelalze suddenly amid the
chaos ut Cincinnati.


Whether Mr.. Blaine is politically ruined or
not Il question which there is great difference OF
opinion but there Is striking unanmity in the belief
that he has utterly destroyed his Democratic opponents
In Congress.


The newspaper prophets seem to be pretty
well agreed that Mr.. Blaine will not DO nominated
There has been unmistakabe change In newspaper
sentiment toward him during the past few days. or
course. his moro partisan friends W confident
ever but outside Of them there to DO little h0po
Year: 1876

Private but entirely authentic and accurate
information concerning the health of ex-Speaker
Blaine, makes it certain that his prospects of
speedy recovery are even more satisfactory
than the General Press dispatches indicate.
There is certainly no reason to apprehend that
he will not be abundantly equal, in ample bod
lily strength, to the discharge of any public
duties to which he may be called.
Year: 1876

q In the Woman's Department Of the Centennial
Buildings there is containing tiowers OF frnit'
or some other sort of womans work. marked as for
sale. with the addition that they are made by the
descendants of Thomas Jefferson. who earnestly
solicit orders Foreigners may read in this little
card significant commentary on the gratitude Oh
republics and no doubt they will read it, The great
estates and titles of European nations belong 10 the
descendants of men who III some way served their
king or country won decisive battle perhaps or
proved useful companions in dissipation to some
Jolly prince To Thomas Jefferson we owe the
ennobling principles which lifted the Revolution
above the level of mere mercenary insurrcction.
His fortune was sacrificed, We all know IN enter
tanning the hordes of admirers who came TO
Monticello as to another Mecca, to pay homage TO
him. After they had literally eaten him out OF house
and home their homage was paid in no other way.
jefferson before his death felt the pinch of want,
and in letter to his daughter, referring to the fact
that the country had so soon forgotten him, he says,
Probably have overrated myself and the service
have rendered" When the grandchildren of this
man come with pitable appeal to the public to
keep them from need it is little wonder that meaner
men in office make haste to provide for their families
BY fair means or foul.
Year: 1876

HAPPILY there is no conflict of authorities in
the Centennial management at Philadelphia.
There was and is a wide difference of opinion
between the Centennial Commission and the
Board of Finance as to their respective pow
ers; but they have agreed to work harmoni-
ously. and deserve credit therefor
Year: 1876

In letter from Gen. Butler, published in
another column, he denies the report that he
had said nothing but another election can
settle the present political complications.
What he did say was that there was but one
compromise possible; everything else was
either an abandonment of Mr.. Hayes by the
Republican party or an abandonment of Mr..
Tilden by the Democratic party. And that
compromise was that both their claims might
be submitted to new election under the law
of 1892, If all the parties agreed in not count
ing the votes on account of their doubts of
the fairness of the election, or the fairness Of
the ascertainment of the election. Just why
the Republican party should submit to an
other election is not clear, when the electoral
vote proves that its candidate has been elected.
There will be no new Presidential election
until the fourth year of Mr.. Hayes admins
tratiOn, D.
Year: 1876

In SUSTAINING the Drew demurrer to the
answer of the Canvassing Board, and granting
peremptory order to it to recanvass from
the face of the returns, the Supreme Court
will probably be told by the board that it has
no Jurisdiction in the case. This will probably
result in the issuing of an order Of contempt,
and the board viii be placed in limbo. The
next thing win be writ of habeds corpus
from the United States circuit judge, and
then the board will do the sams - the South
Carolina bosrd did-smile at. the suprem


Court and say, "What are you are going to do
about it," ~-'s
Year: 1876

Major Richards has called for an investies-
tion st the hands Of the Police Board, which
lie expected to solve the great mystery as to
wbythe gamblers have been permitted to defy
all law by publicly carrying on their infamous
business for many years. The public are be-
coming very curious in regard TO this matter,
and the reports Of the investigation will be
read with interest. It Is hoped that the In
vestigation viii inquire further than proposed
by Major Richards himself. and expose all
the connections that have existed between
members Of the police department and the gam
blers.
Year: 1876

THE St. Louis Times says: "If you ever At
tempt to wear stolen clothes, Mr.. Hayes, re-
member that the smallpox may be concealed
in them" This Is similar to the spirit e1-
hibited by the Democracy during the war.
Blackburn, the brother of the member from
Kentucky, sent the smallpox contagion In old
clothes to our Northern cities In 1868. The
editor of Democratic daily now threatens
the life of the President-elect In the same
villainous spirit. There will be some hanging
done with neatnsss and dispatch If this cow
ardly talk Of assassination Is not hushed up
before the Centennial year is dead.
Year: 1876

Mr.. BENJAMIN HILL has been very calm


and much retired since his famous speech last
session. That orstoricsl effost, eloquent in
its rhetorical beauty and rendition, was les
son by which the member from Georgia has
prohted much. Although It did his party
irretrievsble injury, yet no one can question
the fact that It has done Mr.. Hill large
amount of positive good. Lately, on the
floor Of the House, he is said to have scknowl-
edged that the election Of President Hayes
Year: 1876

New York City.


A large number OF New York politicians are
in town looking after the appointment of
succes sor to United States District Attorney
Bliss, whose term of office will termi-
nate next month. Among the aspIrants
for the position is person known
as Judge" Abram j. Dittenhoefer, whose
judicial title was acquired by q tempo
rary appointment, some sixteen years ago, to
fill few months vacancy upon the Marine
Court bench of the city of New
York, at a time when the jurisdIc-
ton of that court was limited to
cases not involving a higher sum than $500.
The Judge became somewhat notorious
during the Administration of Andrew John
son as the "counsel" for q great many
whisky distillers and rectifers in New York
city, and welded so great an influence over
the collector for the Thirty-second district that
the whisky men who got into trouble with the
Government always retained the "Judge" as
their attorney. In the course of three years
the "Judge," who up to that time had been
comparatively q poor man, amassed for
tune of nearly million dollars, and then, in
order to escape prosecution, fed to Europe.
While abroad bis friends sanctioned the report
that the Judge" was insane and under
treatment In . mad house in France. The
object of this trick was 10 draw the more lib
orally upon the sympathies of certain indi-
viduals who had been wronged by the
"Judge" and were clamoring for revenge.
After prolonged absence all obstacles to his
safe return were removed by purchase, and
the "Judge" came home, no traces of insanity
emotional or otherwise-being visible.
Such in brief are the antecedents of Judge"
Dittenhoefer. His appointment to q position
of such responsibility as that of United States
Attorney for the Southern District of New
York is one which ought not to be made.
Year: 1876

time. This Tilden and Wheeler proposition is
like Pats suggestion TO divide his house with
his wife, giving her the outside, while he re-
tanned all the blessings of the inside. The
Presidency is everything; the Vice Presidency
comparatively nothing. A compromise of
this kind would be as unpalstable to every
Republican In the country as water straight is
to the taste of the purple-nosed innocent who
made the unfounded and foolish statement.
To-day is the Herald's regular non eonlpos
rae,st,s day. Look out for more trash.
Year: 1876

WHILE Henry watterson is apparently coun-
selling peace at the Capitol his journal is
crowded with seditious articles, melting armed
resistance to the Inauguration of Hayes.
Henry should put the breaks on the young
men in charge of his journal before they run
1t into the ground.
Year: 1876

viii ultimately result in advancing the ma
terial and political interests Of the Southern
people. We have always ciatmed that Beuja-
min Hill was an able man and powerful
speaker, and that some day he would forget
his old hate of the Union and overcome his
treasonable tendencies, and that when he had
accomplished these things he would be q CON-
paratively safe man In the Council Chambers
of the nation. Evidences Of this change al
ready appear, and may Heaven keep him
from backsliding.
Year: 1876

With uncovered head we stand in the dawn
ing twilight of the glorious second Centennial,
and amidst the awful confusion of our great
political fight we reyerently pause and, in the
language of the immortal poet: r. .
Year: 1876

CLEVELAND, January S.-A meeting
will be held in this city on the 18th inst.
Tor the purpose of considering what
measures are necessary to secure the re-
peal OF the act of the last Congress known
as the resumption act. A memorial to
Congress has been extensively circulated
in this city, and received the signatures
of a very large number of prominent
business men, petitioniug the repeal of
so much of the act as provides for the
payment of U. S. legal tender notes in
coin upon the first day Of January, 1879,
and authorizing the Secretary of the
Treasury to sell and dispose of the bonds
of the United States for the purpose
of enabling him to redeem such legal
tender notes; also representing that in
the judgment of the petitioners the en-
forcement of the resumption clause of
said act would be exceedingly disastrous
to the business OF the country.
Year: 1876

WAsHINGToS, January S.-The con-
centraton of naval vessels ut Port Royal
is in pursuance of the general plan of
the Secretary of the Navy to make that
place the headquarters of the North At
iantic station. 1t has many advantages
over any other port on the Atlantic
coast. The climate is very healthy and
the harbor offers every facility for ex-
ercises IN naval tactics. Vessels that
rendezvous there can reach Cuban
waters and the gulf, where our interests
most need to be looked after within 4s
hours. It's the policy of the Secretary
of the Navy to have home squadron
larger than any abroad. He believes in
being prepared for any emergency which
may arise.
Year: 1876

NEW YORK, January S.-E1-Mayor
Hall and the play Of "The Crucible,' re-
tired from the stage OF the Park Theatre
tonight. The house was crowded with
as enthusiastic audience as on the first
night. Mr.. Hail made an address in
which he thanked the people for the sup
port he had received from them. he
said ms enemies and friends differed as 10
whether he could play or not; that be had
tried to drop the legal harness 10 vain
but found he could die with il on.
Year: 1876

NEW YORK, January Sit is an
nounced that the new and advanced
rates on frelghts from this city to the
West will 90 into effect on Monday on
the basis OF 15 cents per loo pounds for
first class freight TO Chicago. The
schedule is to be uniform on all trunk
lines gong west from New York and
Boston. A ditierential allowance is made
in favor of Philadelphia and Baltimore
on the ground that the distance from
those cities to Chicago is less than from
New York. The difference is not con-
sidered large enough to make 1t matter
cf serious concern for the merchantile
community of this city.
Year: 1876

IT must make fellow feel mean to go
to Washington for an office, and be COM
pelled after failure to leave his personal
baggage to pay hls hotel bill. No won
der there are so many who insist that
Republics are ungrateful. A fine lot Of
second hand valises is now on sale at the
Capital.