smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875




1t is for you to consider whether that
remark was or was not in the nature OF
suggestion; that. there was no sensible
reason for making that demand, and
whether in conversation or in manner
the defendant betrayed any conscious
ness of guilt.


The Judge next referred 10 the policy
of silence, and said that Beecher's course
throughout was to be carefully scrutlnlz-
ed. You will inquire whether attentions
were paid to Mrs. Woodhull to cOnclllate
her at the instance or with the appro-
baton OF the defendant; whether before
Miss Turner was sent of to school he
favored that as precautionary measure
or contributed in that view, and whether
he repressed the " West charges.
If YOU find that Mr.. Beecher
did not thus act, those questions
will give YOU no trouble, but If you find
that he took such part in these transac-
tions. or any of them, then you will in
quire whether he did so in apprehension
that his sexual intercourse with Mrs.
Tilton might not be exposed, or from
some other and independent cause. You
will also inquire whether the defendant
refrained from publishing the denial as II
refutatlon of the allegations contained IN
the paper known as the "Woodhull
scandal" from answering the partic-
ular inquiry made by Mrs. Brad
shaw, in her letter, to which he
sent a reply, or was held in bondage to
sense of fear or guilt as now charged. In
any view of the case you may be dispos-
ed to ask why Mr.. Beecher, If innocent,
should have been garnered up in


All that Pain and Fear


so long, when he might have made
proclamation to the world and tramped
out the scandal as with iron boots. The
question upon all proofs is whether the
defendant understood that he was
charged with adultery, and spoke, wrote,
acted and suffered from and in conse-
ouence. or that whether laying
that out of view, he understood
charges to be that he had made impro
per proposals or advances and robbed the
plaintiff of rich inheritance in the love
of mis- wife, and whether coupled with
these charges he believed that he had
wronged the plaintiff by favoring
family separation and the dismissal by
Mr.. Bowen, and for these reasons he
spoke, wrote, acted and suffered as des-
Year: 1875

Typhoid and other troublesome fevers
are often generated by the impurities which
find their way into cistern and well water.
The gelatincus matter often found upon
the stones of a well is poison to the human
system. Wholesome water is always odor-
less. To test its purity thoroughly, place
in it a few grains of lump sugar, and ex-
pose it, stoppered, to sunlight in window.
Should the water become turbid soon after
an exposure of eight or ten days, It is a
proof that it has been contaminated BY
some kind of sewerage If it remains per
feetly clear, il is pure and safe. Such an
experiment as this costs nothing to make,
and it would be well if all families who
have the faintest reason to suspect that
their drinking water is impure would take
this way to ascertain the truth of the mat.
ter in order that they may provide in time
against the insidious and deadly poison
contained in all water contaminated with
sewerage.
Year: 1875

Self defense is the first law Of ma
'ure, but in a preparation to defend,
or 10 guard one, self one may tread
upon, and outrage tie rigds Of a
neighhor. THIS is now b"ing done
Us by NJ bile.


We publish a letter from one Of
our most prominent ne chants-and
not sent for pub'ication--,o show the
ani,rus felt towards Mobile by our
people.
Year: 1875

AUG. Lttl, 1919
Col NJ Smith;


DEAR SIR:-B ing very much con
fined to my business, know but lit
tie about What Is. going ON. Bat this
much | do know that we have been
shaneluIly treated by the authorities
of Mobile, in being 80 unnecessarily
quaranincd.


Lust year there was evidently a
bad feeling shown towards This place
hy Mobile, but this year shows that
feeling more plainly, why is this? Is
it because we are building up this
place in spite of all Obstacles either
from the United States, State, or
either OF our sister cities, that poor
Mobile in her last struggle should so
envy Us that they would have the
restilehce to he here whether it will
come o. not. better she look to her
Pest House for that most dreaded
disease now in her midst is far worse
than yello fever itself, if it was here.
If Voblle stiil unwarrantedIy keep
no this unwarran:able quarantine |
propose that the mercantile men OF
this place pass aud cairy out a reSolu"
ton to with draw their tade from
them for the future.


W. : DODsON.
Year: 1875

The remarkable discovery of boiling
lake in the island of Dominica has excl.
ted much scientific interest, and investi.
cations of the phenomenon are to be
made by geologists. 1t appears that a
company exploring the steep and forest
covered mountain behind the town Of
Rosseau came upon this boiling lake,
about 2500 feet above the sea level, and
two miles in circumference. On the
wind clearing away for a moment the
clouds Of sulphurous steam with which
the lake was covered, meuUd of water
was seen ten feet higher than the general
level of the serface, caused by ebulition.
The margin of the lake consists of beds
of sulphur, and its overlooking found
exit by a waterfall Of great height.
Year: 1875

Lebanon Herald.l


A prominent young gentleman who has
very recently forsaken the devious ways
Of celibacy, distinguished himself Sun
day morning 1t was at one of our city
Sunday-schools, and an effort was being
made to raise sufficient funds to pay for
Sunday-school periodicals for next year
including the Sunday-sohool Magazine,
the Sunday-school Visitor and the Little
People. Thereupon, our young Benedict
arose and spoke in the words and figures
following: "Mr. superintendent, ii you
will secure money enough for the Maya,
zine and Visitor, will supply the school
with Little People" His offer was
promptly accepted-he is known to be a
man who,


Whatever he is sot to do,


He does it with zest;


No matter what his contract is,


He does his level best "
Year: 1875

THE THIRD LARGEST
i o






policies Issued Not Southern
this old and sterling institution dividends










of
save
the best
the following of their






three Of the best and three Of the class
TO IScLUa
Mutual




will be noticed that the of



their pohcyholdes



Mutual
seen TO holders the last











p n thrown paid to the weak worthless institutions too
will

regards the character and standing
especially the public aae
the kind, send address subject
solicitors will find this

District and Local Agents throughout the State
Year: 1875

The Common Council have under
consideration proposition to light
the streets of this city with gas. The
company making the offer is new one
and their plan is also new. The prop
osition to the Council is, we are told,


very liberal, and the trial may be
made without loss to the taxpayers of
the city. The fact that the gas of
this company is manufactured from
crude petroleum and that we have
thousands of barrels of this article
running to waste in the San Fernan-
do mountains makes the consideration
of this plan one of Importance to our
people. The town of Santa Clara is
now lighted with gas generated from
petroleum and the Echo of that place
says of it, 'Tt is giving universal sat
isfation to its patrons, and we do not
hesitate for moment to recommend
the public generallyto use it in prefer
ence to any other light. 1t is more
brilliant, but less dazzling to the eyes
the best light to read by-can be
used without the slightest danger, and
in the long run is the cheapest,as we'll
as the best light that can be afforded.
Year: 1875

WASHINGTON, February 1st. = 1t
seems altogether unlikely that Pinch
back will obtain seat in the Senate
in any event. He has not in any of
the caucuses received majority of the
Republicans in the Senate, though he
did obtain majority of those present.
1t is known that some of those who
voted for Pinchback in the caucus did
so very reluctantly, aud he would prob
ably not get in the full Senate more
than twenty or twenty-five votes, at
the extreme limit. The talk in the
caucus was very plain, and it was
made clear that many Senators re-
garded him as very unfit person to be
a member of the Senate, and if he was
admitted immediate action would be
taken looking to his expulsion. The
Committee Oh Privileges and Elections
may make a favorable report on his
credentials, but action is not likely to
be pressed at present, if at all this ses-
sion.
Year: 1875

purchased California at forty and sold
1t fol seven hundred made money
these are the people whom the Post
says made the money that nobody
lost. But the people who pur-
chased California at seven hun
dred and have it on hand
when it is discovered that the
mine will only pay interest divi-
dends on its stock at forty dollars, will
lose money-these are the people who
will lose the money that some body
has made, and these are the people to
whose bad luck the Post will not call
attention. The real value of Califor-
mia is nearer forty dollars than seven
hundred dollars per share to-day, and
sooner or later it must drop from its
stock board ficticious valuation
to it's real worth as mine.
In the slide down the scale the
money made must be lost. The un-
fortunate feature of the transaction is
that those who have made the money
will not be the ones to lose it. Cali
fornia will doubtless yield immense
wealth but it is impossible that it will
pay interest for any considerable
length of time on the money for
which its stock has been sold. If 1T
cannot do this, money must be lost.
If it could do this in place of waver-
ing at seven hundred the stock would
go upward until it reached two thou
sand. No one need flatter themselves
that all these millions have been
coined out Of nothing nor yet out of
the great bonanza. Into the crucible
has been thrown the toll, honor and
life of thousands. The compound was
the philosophers stone that converted
nothing into bright yellow gold, but
it is gold stained with the widows
tear and blighted with the orphans
curse-in its sharp ring may be heard
the maniac's shrek.
Year: 1875

There was a little pinch in San
Francisco the other day. Stocks went
down with crash, and we are told
that many people of small means fell
from the apex of fortune to the abyss
of poverty. Under the excitement
created by the discovery of the great
bonanza, laboring men and women in
vested their earnings in stocks and
lost in an hour what years of toll had
accumulated. Vast misery will come
of this. Dependency, then despair,
will seize these unfortunates, and the
insane asylum and the drum kard's
grave will hide many of them from
the eyes of the world. Gambling of
any kind is dangerous to people of
small fortunes, and no kind Of gam
bling is so dangerous to this class as
stock gambling. The demand for more
"mud," which means an increase Of
the percentage paid on stock, is always
an ominous and generally fatal blow
to the hopes of one who has invested
his little all in mining stocks. He
cannot meet the demand, and is sold
out. We remember reading in the
Post that the millions made in the
advance in California and Consoli-
dated Virginia were made without loss
to anyone; that it was the simple re-
suit of the enhanced, value of the
stock. But was this advance an illus


tration OF the permanent value of
these two mines? The little pinch
the other day seems to us an indica-
ton that the ultimate answer must be
in the negative. There will come other
and more disastrous pinches, and there
will be bluer days than any yet seen
on California street. In the early days
of the rebellion a-man named GRID
LEY conceived the idea of selling sack
of -four at auction for the benefit of the
Sanitary Fund. That sack of flour,
worth one dollar and seventy five
cents, was sold and resoId until it net

ted the fund about thirty thousand
dollars. The money was devoted to a
noble cause, but will anyone deny that
In business point of view twenty
nine thousand nine hundred and nine
ty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents
of that money was lost? At no time
was that sack Of -four worth more than
one dollar and seventy-five cents as a
sack of -four. Now will the Post or
any other stock organ of San Francisco
assert that California, which eight
months ago was dull sale at forty dol
larsper share aud has now been thrown
up to seven hundred dollars per share,
is worth the money. People buy stock
to make money. Will California fol
any length of time pay dividends equal
to one per cent. on its stock sold al
seven hundred per share2 People who
Year: 1875

The prospects of the Los Angeles
and Independence Railroad are rapidly
frightening, and the list of subscrib-
ers to the stock is lengthening daily.
AS our citizens realize the Importance
of this road, its great advantage to the
valley and the numerous benefits
which will result from it, they become
enthusiastic in its support and
promptly place their names ON the
subscription books. We are assured
by the canvassers that the stock is
much easier disposed of now than ten
days or even one week ago. This is
encouraging, and leads us to hope that
the requisite amount of stock-$300,-
0O0-will be taken within the next few
weeks and the certain building of the
road rendered an established fact. The
inevitable fact that unless the Los
Angeles and Independence Railroad is
built, we shall lose the greater por-
ton of our interior trade should impel
every citizen of Los Angeles valley TO
encourage and assist the work to the
utmost extent. If we fail to build
this tt road within less than one year
from to-day, not a pound of freight
either to or from the mines of Inyo
county will be shipped by way of Los
Angeles, and we shall lose eur entire
trade with these mines. This is fact
that must be looked square in the face.
1t is railroad or no trade. We must
build the road.
Year: 1875

The veritable performing bear that was received
with so much eclat a declining market some
weeks since made his reentry into Wall and Broad
sts to-day and though he danced about with
oven more than his wonted agility and grace, and
turned several somersaults in such quick succession


as quite put to shame the best essays in this line


on the part of the Wall-st. athletes, found very
few, If any, symrathizing admirers in the present


builish tendency of the stock market. and retired


penniless. The dealings at the Stock Exchange to-
day. with three or four exceptions, have been
dull uninteresting and otherwise featureless. The
exceptions to this rule have been renewal Of the
speculative interest in Union Pacific stock marked
BY frequent and wide speculatiOns the price closing
on the handsome advance of IS at about the high
est quotation Of the day, 76is; recovery of per
cent from yesterdays decline In Pacific Mail, fol-
lowed by q subsequent return to near the opening
and lowest pr1ce of the day, and the sharp buying
movement in Western Union Telegraph, based upon
the announcement that the Companys new currency
bonds had all, except 100000. been taken at 30
per cent. This. with q growing faith that Western
Union IL fairly earning the per cent dividends which
il has been paying for year past carried the price
Of the stock up TO 7Si4 closing at reaction OF y
per cent. The upward speculation in Lake Shore
seems to flag while awaiting q decision OF the d.
rectors on the question Of August dividend. In
the opinion of well informed men, however, 1t Is
most likely that the dividend will be passed or that
one will be declared at so low rate rs not to in
crease confidence in the earning power OF the road
under present circumstances. This stock at the
close showed an advance Of Il per cent. Mariposa
Continues to be active since tie settlement of its
difficulties with Mr.. Kelly, and shows handsome
advance to-day TO 1lia for the Common and d tor
the Preferred. The remainder Of the list syinpa-
tlized 10 q limited extent with the move
ment in the stocks mentioned, but declined
slightly near the close The total sales Of the day
show material falling off from the business of yes
terday, amounting to 1901 Of which $1,000
were in Western Union at 1854 7sa 76bsf177 fs2
Year: 1875

Upon the land Of Mr. Webb Of
Mason county, w, T., is cedar
tree which is forty-fve feet in
circumference three feet above the,
ground. This tree has been burnt
out by the fire, leaving a hollow in
it into which five men on horseback
might ride and remain at one time
wish. ease and comfort Near this
monarch Of the borest is another
one, also y cedar, which seems to
have been blown down by the wind,
and is burnt out like the other,
within whose old, charred walls ten
men on horseback might at one
time find comfortable shelter.
California is not the only place
where big trees may be found.
Year: 1875

BAD MAN.-Elr. Swilling, of swilnss ranch, Black Canyon, informs that man by the name of William Little came 10 his ranch, some time ago, with two-horsc team and said he had been sent ty Mitchell tS Gardner for a load of water-melone. Swillng loaded him up and heard no more about him until he came to town, on Friday last, after wagon that NJ. & G. had to repair for bim when he learned from Mitchell that finding they could not finish the wagon in time, had sent Little with their wagon for him to use until it done; afterwards finding him in town with tue wagon, they told him to take it back to Swilsg, and supposed he Lad done so until week afterwards when they found the wa gon and team at Brooke tS Linns stable and Lit tie gone ro one knows where. Thus Swilling was not only cheated out of tue load of melons, but lost nearly the whole of his large crop by not having a wagon t0 take them to market. There is nothing small about Little.
Year: 1875

Cor HsM.-What Geo. Lount believed to be a skunk in his chicken house proved 10 be wild cat. Lornt fixed q boxtrap under the edge oi the chicken-house so that when the yarment thought that he effecting an entrance into the chickencry department he was merely crawl ing into the trap. Going home on Saturday eve ming he noticed that the trap was sprung, and raising the slide little to ascertain whether he had caught skunk or not, he was quite startled to find that the box, which is large one, was quite full of skunks or something else, and going into the house wkh candle where the end oi the trap is covered with wire mating, he saw that instead of skunks, ke had n very large wild cat. Knowing of ao better plan of getting him out he drew pistol from his pocket and put ball through his head which Quieted him. lie proved 10 be almost as large as an ordinary sized dog He will not kill any more chickens, but II does not bring back the 36 that he killed last week
Year: 1875

REMEDY FOR BED-BUGs.-We have not tried it but have pretty good authority for saying that the boughs and leaves of the common juniper tree, which is found in such abundance in this country, constitute thorough remedy for that vile pest, the bed-bug. The plan is to decorate your apartments with the green boughs, renew ing them when they become dry, and instead of straw, fill tick with the leaves or small twigs and place it under your mattrass, or gather the branches and lay them loose under and between the mattresses and generally about and through the bed between the blankets, etc. This is an easy and cheap remedy, and, We are assured, very effective. We shall try it on the principle that a drowning man will catch at anything that promises relief.
Year: 1875

TIE DEVIL BROKE LoosE-From the Chetopa (kansas) Advance, July l5:

 There have been no less than eight or ten murders reported within the last two weeks. Judge Busheyhcad, an uncle ofthe Treasurer, was murdered on the road to the Court house in Illinois District, and his head cut off and hid, and has not yet been found. One week ago last Sabbath night Richard Fields, a prominent merchant of Tahlequah, and Au- ditor of the Nation, was shot while sitting in church. One would naturally suppose that if man was safe from violence anywhere it would be in the house of prayer, and when surrounded with innocent women and chil- dren but such things fail to have their influ- ence in Tahlequah. In Saline District, Char ley Konsine and Dick Riley enter into lit- tie pistol argument over bottle, and hurry off to the happy hunting grounds. A white man is found dead on Spring Creek, and an other is shot on the road near the same place, all within the space Uf a few days.

 On Grand River, William Cocran fells a woman because she would not let him mur- der man who was asleep in the house. A cattle buyer is found dead and robbed on Barren Fork. The Sheriff of Sequoyah Dis trict is called to the door and saluted with a IOdu Ul puChsHOt

 And so it is all over the country. How long shall this state of things be allowed to go on We have not the room in this number of our paper to examine the evident causes of this misrule, but shall refer to them again at an early day.

 As We go to press We learn of another bru- tai murGcr in the Cherokee Nation. this time ia Canadian District On last Friday morning about o'clock the house of MT. Jesse Foreman, who lives two miles from Webber's Falls, was surrounded by dozen or more scoundrels from Illinois District, and before he was aware of their presence be found himself at their mercy.

 Foreman was shot down in his own house, in the presence of his family. Our inform ant, who left the scene in less than an hour after the murder was committed, reports the most it tense excitement prevailing in the neighborhood, in which the murdered man was great fayorite. It is regarded as an other evidence that the Ross faction arc de- termined, if possible, that opposition to their schemes of plunder shall be accounted for with the lite of any one who may oppose them.
Year: 1875

The Duplicate Assessment Roll of Yarapai county for the year 1875 was handed by the Treasurer to the Board of Supervisors, on Mon- day last, showing an assessed value of real and personal property amounting to s9So,ss4, and the total amount of taxes thereon to be so co. The same was audited, found correct and handed to the Sheriff for collection.
Year: 1875

SCHOOL TEACHER WANTED.--A teacher to take charge of A primary school in Williamson Valley can find employment by application io T. J. Butler, MINER office, or to the Trustees at the Valley Female preferred.
Year: 1875

To ALL, particularly invalids, spring is trying
season. Indications of sickness should at once be
attended to. Fatal diseases may be caused by al
lowing the bowels to become corstipated, and the
systom to remain in disordered condition until
the disorder has time to develop itself. An ounce
of preventive is worth pound of cure, Is an old
and truthful saying. Therefore, we advise all who
troubled with the complaints now very prevalent
headache, indigestion, disordered liver, want of
appetite nausea, or feversh skin, to take, without
delay, Schenck's Mandrake Pills. We know of no
remedy so harmless and decisive an its action 1t at
strikes at the reot Of the disease and produces
healthy tone to the system. People never need
suffer from any disease arising from disordered
condition Of the liver they would take this excel
lent medicine when they feel the first indications
Of the malady. Families leaving home for the
summer months should take three or four boxes OF
these pills with them. They have an almost in
st ntaneous effect. They will relieve the patient of
headache in one or two hours, and will rapidly
cleanse the liver of surrounding bile and will eec
tually prevent bilious attack. They are sold by
all druggists.
Year: 1875

SECTION l1Be 1t ordained by the City Council
Of the city of Rock Island That the Keoknk.
Northern Line Packet Co.. has leave n is heI e v
authorized to locate and maintain wharf boat fer
the LOADING and unloading of freight and passen
gers from lis line of steamers and for no other
pose west of the east line of Madison street any
thing contained in any ordinance in this city now In
Iorce to the contrary Notwithstanding.


Fr0Ctded, This ordinance shall in no manner in
terfere with the laws and ordinances now in force,
relative to the payment and collection of wharf
age or other control of said levee


This privilege to be in force until JAM 1st 1876