smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

- Tomsto vines may be protected from
potato bugs by unEoIdering the ends out of
old tin cans and setting the sleek cylinders
around the plant at the ground. The bug Is
too lazy to root down under it, and cannot
climb the can To get at the green on top
Thus the can cas protsct the granger.
Year: 1876

The editor Of the Leader will proos-
bly, ind before he is many menths
older, that he has placed an unjust esti-
mate upon several members OF the Leg
Lature. If he expects to see the pest
wire pullers, psrlismensritans and ora
tors in the State" take their seats In the
legislature, this winter, he will suffer
disappointment. And il he expects 10
See FERGUSON come up here with
a bill in his breast pocket asking that the
location of the capital be submitted
70 the vote of the people, and see him
carry that bill through, he will be still
!urther disappointed. MIR. FERGUSON
will probably not introduce such a bill
and certainly no such bill will be passed
by the Legislature this winter. we
hsppen to know that Judge FERGUSON
regards such measure as a most absurd
Proposition.


When the editor of the Leader be-
comes personally acquainted with the
chief men of the Legislature, he will not
put the members from Ohio county down
So low in the scale. He will find them
perfectly competent to take care OF the
interests OF their constituents.
Year: 1876

Last night little girl about six years
old, daughter of a man named Rotter-
mick, who lives on Poplar street, was
found in vault on her father S premises.
Sne was rescued, and after regaining her
consciousness related that an old man,
while she was playing on the
street, had enticed her into a
cellar, and after violating her
had thrown her into the vault. Her de-
scription of the man led to the arrest OF
Ishmsel Jones, an old man of sixty, liv-
ing on Carpenter street. The prisoner
was given hearing this morning, and
was fully identified by the child. He
was committed for trial without bail.
During he hearing the mother of the
child sprang upon Jones, caught him by
the throat and pore him down. She was
removed with great difficulty. SO great
was the excitement among the people and
so violent their demonstrations, that the
officers could hardly remove Jones to
prison in safety.
Year: 1876

And thus it is that the great name,
the great authority OF the Republican
party. in its national capacity, is beng
used this very moment to uphold the
most strocious system of Government
which this country ever sew. A party
which cannot live and prosper unless 1t
De supported by corruption; party ths'
esnnot prosper unless it be supported by


revival of the old war feeling, and by
tearing open again the wounds from
which the people of the United States
have bled SO long; such d party when 1t
las come to that, does not deserve to
live. Cart S'hurz four years ago.
Year: 1876

Weston Democrat.


The First district is sweepingly in favor
Colonel Ben Wilson and the Democracy.
The whole district is aroused toits duty,
and at the election on the 7th promimo,
this county will be heard from IN the
majesty of its power -Four hundred
majority is the least that is required for
n great county-a Democratic county
such AS Lewis. Let the people speak
Year: 1876

YOUNG LADY KILDED AT BASE BALL
Miss Amelia Wilson. an intelligent and
prepossessing young lady of Miami, Ohio,
tried to catch a ball thrown to her by a
little boy, but missed it, and the ball
! She was badly hurt and died in FIVE days
Year: 1876

A bad book. magazine, or newspaper.
is as dangerous to your child as a vic
ious companion. and will as surely cor
rupt bis morals and lead him away from
the paths of safety Every parent should
set this thought clearly before his mind
and ponder it we'll Look to what your
children read, and especially to the
kind of papers that get into their hands.
for there are now published scores Of
weekly papers. with attractive and sen-
suous illustrations. that are as hurtful
to young and innocent souls as poison
to healthful body.


Many of these papers have attained
large circulations. and are sowing
broadcast the seeds of vice and crime.
Trenching on the very borders of inde-
cency, they corrupt the morals. taint
the Imagination. and allure the weak
and unguarded from the paths of inno-
cencs. The danger to young persons
from this cause was never 80 great as
at this time; and every father and
mother should be on guard against an
enemy that is sure to meet their child.


Look to it then, that your children
are kept free as possible from this faint
Never bring into your house paper OF
periodical that is not strictly pure, and
watch carefully lest any such get into
the hands Of your growing-up boys.
Year: 1876

The name of mother ! sweetest name


That ever fell on mortal ear
The love of mother Mightiest love


Which Heaven permits TO flourish here.
Dissect q mothers heart and see


The properties it doth contain
What pearls of love, what gems Of hope
A mothers heart beats on in vain.
The words Of mother when they flow


In loves true rhetoric from her lips,
The meteor stars of sin and shame


Are lost amid bright eclipse;
And when We walk the glittering path


Wherein temptations oft we see,
@, then we realize how strong


The power of mothers love can be.
A mothers love! it never wanes;


What if her boy an migrate seems?
The beauty of that wondrous love


Around the thankless offspring beams;
Though in the path of shame he walks,
Though crime has driven him to the bow
A mothers care can yet avail


A mothers prayer may win his soul.
What heart like mothers can forgive
The peccadilloes of our youth?
What hand like hers can lead US back
From sin, to innocence and truth?
O, name of mother sweetest name


That ever fell on mortal ear;
o, love Of mother Mightiest love
That Heaven allows to flourish here.
Year: 1876

chief crossed over the bosom, a pet
ticoat striped mostly in the parallel
stripes Of Moorish pattern, but oc-
casionally in checkers, which make
the pattern a tartan, tapestry-like
apron of brighter colors than the
petticoat, and bare legs and feet.
The men are a fine race, tall, with a.
certain stateliness and self-respect
in every gesture; their faces are al
most always good, and often quite
intellectual and chivalric, but in
muscular development the present
women of Servia can give their
husbands a stone and a beating. /
took the trouble to-day to measure
the waist of lass who was loung-
ing against the pillar of a tavern
where we were having some refresh
ment. Her waist was a good inch
more in circumference than mine,
and lam by no means a small-boned
man. | noticed as we came further
south how the ruddy complexion
and fair hair, bleached almost to
the hue of a shabby brick, were be-
ing left behind and giving place to
faces of an Oriental type-a blend
ing Of the Greek and Arab, with
clean-cut profile, straightnose, black
hair and eyes, and noble carriage.
Occasionally among the women a
face of pure Egyptian type was to
be noticed-a trace probably of the
infusion of gypsy blood which is


far from uncommon in Eastern


Europe. One woman | noticed


leaning dreamily over a garden


fence with a face cast in the very


mold of the Sphinx"
Year: 1876

Ito this day he is in the fourth re-
serve. The natural courtesy of
these rustic Servians is very pretty,
and their good will to the stranger
within their gates is obviously gen.
uine. The cafe turned out en-
masse to bid us good bye as we
drove away, and the village Pope
a venerable gentleman with long
white hair and beard, who wore a
black robe and carried a rosary,
gave US his blessing.


AT one bend of the road we came
on rude sylvan hut, by the fire
outside which were seated three
men and two women, all so swarthy
that we asked the driver whether
they were not gypsies. He did not
know their extraction, but explained
that they were the patrol charged
with keeping safe a cetain stretch
of road that in old times was wont
to have bad name. To the mex
perienced the aspect Of the patrol
would edo much to prepetuate this
evil repute. A little further on, on
little bluff over the river, lay in
bivouac apicket of armed peasants,
watching, muzzle-loader in hand,
the broad bosom of the Danube, in
expectancy perhaps Of the Turkish
hotilla. This picket, with the
lightning flashes from the storm
growing over the Banat flashing
on the eager excited faces, the ready
arms, the flowing draperies of
many colors, so different from our
Western notions Of uniform, the
picturesquely lazy attitudes of the
men off duty, and the bewildered
look out Of the eyes Of a compile Of
children who lay staring under a
tree, formed a rare subject for a
painter. AS we reached Semendria,
we met a small detachment Of
troops on the march, probably on
patrol duty, and night had fallen
amid thunder and lightning and
rain when We reached our quarters
on the margin of the Danube


under the massive but obsolete


defenses of the fortress.
Year: 1876

Special TO Mg st. Louis Republican.


FARIBAULT, Mimi, Sept 26-Much ex
citement prevails yet over the capture of
the Youngers, who are now confined here.
1t was feared that they would be taken
from the Jail last night and lynched
Chief McDonough had an interview last
eyeuine with some of our best citizens in
the parlor of the hotel. The chief views
for their safe keeping were adopted Cole
and Bob Younger are not badly hurt and
are doing well. Cole is now trying the
sympathy dodge, and makes great -four
ish about his early piety an1 his anxiety to
return to The fold of the Baptist church
Since Chief McDonough got here his
chance for escape is considerably less.
Both the Youngers are shackled and plac-
ed within the iron crib which forms cell
Col Carter is very badly wounded in the
mouth and may die. A strong guard Of
citizens, paid by the county, armed with
needle guns, are on duty night and day anC
any effort of friends from abroad to release
the robbers will not met with success, bu
will insure their immediate death by tn,
guards inside, who are instructed by th'
sheriff to shoot them on the first indication
of any attempt.
Year: 1876

ample OF this. He s a naval constructor and was ex
amined last week by Mr Willis chairman OF the sub
Committee Contracts and Purchases Circulars
have been issued the naval constructors TO the
head OF the bureau asking that varney bo disciplined
and called TO give account OF himself Tho Naval
Committee Of which Mr. Whit,horn is chairman, Is
hard work. The sub-commttees are busy night and
day and the ssenograpners complain Of overwork.
number OF additional witnesses sub
penaed to-day. There are said 90 be
distinct subjects or varieties OF fraud in Navy
Department upon which the main committee and iis
subcommittee taking testimony. Besides those
referred to above are the OF peculaon
in the live oak reservations of the navy bogus work
at the navy yards the OF national and State
elections and ordinary matter-of-fact fraudulent
tracts for supplies


The Committee Expenditures OF tho War Depart
men are to have important witness before them in
day or two, and is said good authority that
other official quite near the White House will bs
struck by the investigation lightning.


TREASURER NEW AND THE WAR DEPARTMENT


Treasurer New has been the recipient OF general
gratulatons to-day over his prospects OF being the
next Secretary of War In TO remark tonight
on the subject he said that he not aware that he
to have the appointment President Grant had
never said a word to him about it,


THE RESIGNATION OF GENERAL BABcocK An


PRIVATE SECRETARY ACCEPTED.


General Babcock's resignation as Secretary TO the
President has been accepted and he will leave the
Executive office within few days Speculation il ai-
ready busy with the names Of several persons as his
Year: 1876

State was tranquil Michoacan was considered pacned-
Peace had also been restored IN rehuantepec


EXECUTIVE TRIUMPH
As the steamer leaving Vera Cruz kilograms wore
received from the interior announcing the triumph oil
the governments at all points The different reVo'u-
uonary plans published show there has been NO under
standing among the rebel leaders


NEW LOAN
The government had asked loan OF 100000 from
tho merchants Of the capital, which was Immediately
granted and the money placed President Lerdos dis
position



reception and ball gwen at the residence OF
Minister Foster on washington's Birthday The
President, members Of the Cabinet and Foreign
Legations, and the Elite OF the foreign and
native population present Flags were displayed
during the day the national edihces and the
foreign legationG


PUBLIC HEALTH.
The typhus fever continued TO prevail in the capital
Year: 1876

martre, the Archbishop said, ''The Republic would
either revert TO Catholicism or not endure" /"


PRESS OPINION AMERICAN POLITICAL MORALS.


The news from Washington a sensation here
Some OF the evening papers express regret the
das and depore the decadence or political morality in
the United StateA
Year: 1876

Editors Dispatch: Will the City Engi-
tneer inform the citizens who have at this
time the misfortune OF living OH Tenth be-
tween Clay and NJ streets when the misc
rable condition of that street will be inn
proved? The leisurely manner in which
the so-called improvement is carried on
leaves the impression on my mind that it is
to be fall and winter job.


Yours, &C., MUD.
Year: 1876

OUR PHILADELPHIA N1s1ToRs.-Our Cen
tennial visitors were again taken in tow
Yesterday. They were carried to the Gas
Works, where they viewed the beauties OF
our system of giving light. The brewery
was then visited, and though no beer was
drunk q good deal Of it was looked ut.
From the brewery the party went to the
almshousc, where they were entertained by
Captain Bigger. They then returned to
their steam canoe in the dock, and turned
in for the night.
Year: 1876

Not >roIES.-Ycsterday it was currently
reported on the streets that John Morton's
the iiorist) stables had been entered on
THURSDAY night and his gray horse stolen.
The police in the city were notified in due
form from the upper station-house, but 1T
turned out that the horse wanted to Craze Il
little and had quietly left the stable of his
own accord. lie was arrested and brought
u
Year: 1876

At Work.-Hands were engaged yester-
day in gravelling some OF the waste places
on Seventh street near the Free bridge. The
City Council, ut its last meeting, passed
resolution to gravel this thorouShfare from
the terminus Of the paving to the end OF
the street, which will be done IN few days.
Year: 1876

STABBED WITH a PIECE OF LAflI.-LaSt
night Major Manning (coloreD was brought
into the First station on the charge OF stab
biu- Freeman Christian with piece OF
hath. Freeman was talking with lady
friend. when Major came in between him.,
and struck him with the lath, intiicting a
,Iigh1 wound Just below the right eye. lie
was locked up for Il hearing this morning.
Year: 1876

H0! FOR THE CENTESNIAL.-The eXcur-
sion under the auspices Of the Baptist Sum
day-School Association to the Centennial on
the 21st instant promises to be one Of the
most pleasant and successful OF the season.
We hear OF numbers of families who are
making arrangements to avail themselves OF
this cheap and attractive excursion.
Year: 1876

The cures made every Gay nv Freligh' $
Remedy are really wonderful Magic is
the only word to express the action of this
truly invaluable medicine Everybody
that once uses it experiences relief, and not
orly continues to use it himself but recon-
mends it to his friends If you are suffer
ing from Neuralgia or rheumatism, send
at once for bottle and try ii. Druggists
generally sell it.
Year: 1876

ments the apparent decline of conscientious
ness among all classes of the people, but
especially in the higher circles of society.
Belknap stided conscience and fell, and the
wreck is fatal. But happy will it be Tor the
people, says the hateRigencer, if they will but
heed this warning and give good conscience
room and sway. If such things had taken
place in France or Spain, where the moral
sentiment is weak and corruption reigns In
court and camp, the Christian at Work. would
not be surprised; but, occurring here, where
better things were expected and hoped for,
good men have to grieve over the sad revela-
tions The editor thinks the wonder is not
so great that one man has fallen from the
giddy height which he attained at one jump,
but that more have not fallen. He thinks
promotion should advance from the lower to
the higher positions, and that it should be
based on the integrity and fitness which the
person may show in the lower positions.
Year: 1876

Few crimes known to our laws are equal
in their consequences-in the extent of mis-
cry they cause-to those offences of savings
banks officers by which all the little econo-
mics of thousands of poor people are taken
from them at a stroke. No forgery that draws
a few thousand dollars from plethoric safe {;
no burglary that impoyerishes jeweller no
gigantic robbery of an express company no
ordinary crime is morally comparable to
the villany that flches the pittances on
which poor men and poorer women hope to
face a rainy day or to found endeavors to
better their condition. Despair is spread
broadcast by such acts epdeayor is dlscour-
aged, children are sent out to beggary, star
vation, vice, drunkenness, theft murder
come IN the train of the consequences of this
villany. But for forgery, burglary, robbery
for any one of these it is easy to put men
in prison for half lifetime, and for the
crimes of bank presidents and bank cashiers
our law, it seems, has no penalties. William
A. Darling and Spencer X. Green, two men
presumably responsible for the administra-
ton of a savings bank when one of these
monstrous villanies was perpetrated, have
just been discharged from custody be-
cause there is no means to deal
with their offence, which certainly i'm
plies either great defect in our law
or greater defects in the authorities charged
with the prosecution of offenders. There
are evident difficulties in any case when a
violated trust is the first fact, and because of
these difficulties the persons who prosecuted
for the depositors seem to have taken hold,
not on the most important aspect of the
case, but wherever they could find an act
that was crime. They thought they had
found this in an evidently false report,
which, by statute, seemed to expose the Off
GERS to punishment for perjury. But the
statute in virtue of which false swearing to
a report was perjury has been repealed, and
if this kind of false swearing is perjury at
common law there seems to be some diff
Guilty, so the robbers go free for the time
that was lost in this false pursuit has
brought into effect in their favor the statute
of limitations. Such a miscarriage of JUS
tice is to be regretted for at least two impor-
tant reasons-it discourages people from de.
posting in the savings banks, and thus
tends to lessen greatly the amount of availa-
ble capital, and it leads to acts of violence,
for some outraged depositor who finds the
law ineffective and is acquainted with the
persons of these delinquents may take justice
into his own hands
Year: 1876

Aside from politics the French capital ap-
pears to be making the best of the Lenten
season. New plays, of no great consequence
to dramatic art, it is true, have been pro-
duced. The little uncomfortable Palais
Royal Theatre rolls out its lawless fun all
the year round, and with such clever
actor as Ravel once more on its
boards it must do him the honor of
new piece for his rentree In matters
musical we have for some weeks past noticed
the name of that lively little prima donna
Pauline Lucca appears in connection with
lawsuits and flights and furtive nights of
opera here and there. The persistent


Gye, of Covent Garden, has succeeded in
serving notice of suit upon her at
Vienna; but we shall be much surprised if
that fact weighs heavily on the mind of the
cantatrice She has had legal difficulties
about husbands whom she led through the
divorce courts like children playing
'tag :" she has Jumped" her engage
ments with saucy nonchalance that
made everybody but the managers laugh,
and has treated with the latter
from beyond the frontiers of their nations as
regally as one of the high contracting parties
in a high joint treaty. Her troubles seem as
endless as her genius or her wilfulness, for
now she threatens to become an international
question, unless the French gallantry gets
the better of French Prussophobia. Lucca
is announced to appear in Meyerbeer's
'LAfricaine," at the Grand Opera, and it is
feared that because she once was or is now
the wife of Prussian officer the Partisan
public cannot listen to notes that
may have been as n trumpet blast
to Bismarck and his helmeted legions.


Lucca is undoubtedly German, but she is
also q genius, and the latter fact may plead
in her favor, for the French are likely to
think that the divine inspiration cannot
burn in the veins of a German pur sang. A
return to the classic in the domains
of Dame Fashion may be only sur
vival of the mad passion for the antique
that came in with the Directory and went
out with the First Empire; but, without
scanting the covering material as ancient
danes did on occasion, there is much of
beauty that our pinned-back Venuses might
copy from the old, old times with advantage.
Year: 1876

has high social and other responsibilities and
found that the salary of the Office would not
permit him TO live with the ''dignity" of a
Secretary. That may be false pride, but it
is human after all, and something is due to
the self-respect of the people who do not like
to see their officers in poverty and want. The
way to prevent this is to pay our public
servants not only enough to enable them to
live like gentlemen, but to put something
away for the rainy day. Public life inter
rupts a professional and business career.
When a man has been in Office for some years
he has either lost the opportunity or the taste
for q profession or trade. And in asking
capable citizens to take these places we
have no right to ask them to sacrifice
families-namely, the means of living
we'll and saving something for the future.


Therefore we are far from approving the
sweeping character of the bill now before the
Legislature in reference to reducing the sal
aries of our city officers. Instead of cutting
down all salaries indiscriminately let there
be a reduction in some of the unnecessary
offices with which this city abounds The
Mayor should not be reduced nor should the
judges be touched. We cannot pay good
judge small salary without opening the
way to temptations which should never be
allowed to approach the Bench. There is no
Judge in New York who receives too large
salary. Our judges leave the practice of the
Bar for years, practically for life, under the
new amendments to the constitution, and
they should receive some compensation for
this sacrifice. AS to the minor offices, it
half, consolidate the unnecessary ones,
and keep those who are in Office at
their present rate of compensation. If
there is to be economy let it be at the ex-
pense of the richly paid offices like the
Sheriff, the County Clerk and the Register.
Here are three offices whose incumbents re-
ceive all told, we think in the neighborhood
of two hundred thousand dollars year.
Why should not these vast sums that are
paid as "fees' be turned in to the city? Why
should not the Office of Sheriff, which has
become with us, as with others, a great
abuse, be curtaied of part of its revenue,
even as the government has curtailed the
fees of the great offices at the Custom House
Then let there be a cutting down in the num-
Der of assistants" and 'clerks" and ''bu-
reaus" which swarm around the Law De-
partment of the city government This is
the true way to insure economy; not to pinch
and scrimp the really necessary servants,
but abolish all that are not necessary and
nav the rest ample value for their services