smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

at his death hour, was that his name would
not go down to posterity as poet but to
our notion, the play of &c Richelieu" alone
was enough to stamp him poet. The
character of the great Cardinal is SO little
understood by the masses. Most minds
picture him crafty priest, who stole the
livery of the altar for the perpetration Of
all sorts of political intrigues. They for
got he was in his youth great soldier, the
idol of the French army and the terror
Of its enemies and that in his old age he
sought the church as a balm for the sorrows
that piety alone can heal. The majesty of
the proud old grandee who would not de-
mean himself even to


SPEAK THE KINGS NAME,


Was beautifully mingled with tenderness,
as he drew the shuddering form of Julie
de Mortemare" Miss Wilton) to him and
said to '' Baradas" in tones of lordly con-
tempt 1" Go to them that send ye. Tell
them the virtue they would pollute, the in
nocence they would destroy, you found
nestled on this aged breast and sheltered
by the wings of omnipotent Rome" Mr..
Booth is yet a young man, being but A
years of age hut hard study and mental
anxiety have given him an older look. He
has been twice married, his present wife
being daughter of Manager McVicker, of
Chicago. May pleasant days in her smiles
and the love of their children, be the fu-
ture portion of one who has been so aptly
styled The American Talma."
Year: 1876

The new Jail building is just like the
Office We occupy-nothing like what it
ought to be, but considerably better
than none at all. The rooms for the
use of the county officers, in the upper
story, are well lighted and convenient
Ito the brewery in every respect. SO
there is no fault to be found With that
portion Of the building.


The Jail department, however, is dis
grace to civilized and intelligent COM
munity 1t is dark, damp. and ill-ven-
tilated, besides being built of a soft
stone that is inferior to average brick.
The floor which separates it from the
upper story is but single thickness of
plank and could be gouged through in q
few minutes by any expert burglar or
Jail. breaker. And when we reflect that
this little bandbox cost King county
only SIG. 600 in scrip. we feel that the
tax payers are fitting objects of COM
miseration.


The dim and solitary style of contine-
ment is by no means advantageous to the
reformation of prisoners. There is bus
manity in punishment, rs in everything
else; and humanity forbids placing liv-
ing beings in such dens as the cells of
that Jail. We believe in keeping Grim
inals confined securely and safely, but
we do not believe in subjrcting them to
contagion of disease by placing them in
damp dungeons. devoid of light and
ventilation. Sheriff Wyckof says he
feels ashamed to lock M prisoner in
such place and as for the prisoners
themselves, they openly avow their in
rentions of leaving there at the earliest
opportunity. 1t is no sort OF an equiva-
lent for the money it has cost ard, if
tie building of the new proposed court
house is to be conducted under the
same auspices. the louger it is deferred
the better for the people. We are al
ways opposed to the cheap and nasty
| STYLE of business and favor anything
that gives fair equivalent for the
money spent; but we cannot include the
new Jail in that category.
Year: 1876

The news by the North Pacific from
Victoria is not important. The Victoria
Council had lengthy debate upon the
subject of water-wor' s, the other night,
which occupied several hours and over
a column of the Standard. Why SO
much valuable time should be wasted
over water, in a town where the best
Martell brandy only costs four dollars
per gallon, we cannot possibly imagine.
Year: 1876

The removal of S. l.. Smiths saw
mill from kalama 10 Tacoma, is about
as sensible thing as that gentleman
could have done. He will find plenty
of business for his machinery there.
and We may soon look for an increased
demand for houses there, and correle-
want advance in the values of real es-
tate. Our only surprise in connection
with the matter is that Mr.. Smith did
not make this move before.
Year: 1876

The first locomotive for the Sonoma
prismoidal Zone rail- railroad, has just
been finished at Goddard & Cos foun-
dry, in San Francisco. The model
worked we'll enough when we saw it,
but we await for some one else to make
practical test.
Year: 1876

Romualdo Pacheco is said to be
elected to Congress by one vote. after
all the colonization in his favor by the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company,
who have a large number of men at
work along their line in Los Angeles
county. II the case were left to bona
fde residents, Wigginton would have
won easily.
Year: 1876

The San Francisco Ne,uS Letter con-
linues its aggressive warfare upon the
quaok doctors of that CITY, who swindle
invalids out of their last dollar and
turn them out in worse condition than
when they arrived.
Year: 1876

YThe appalling suicide of William
W. Bancroft, in San Francisco,
which appeared in the Sunday te]e-
grams, has shocked more than one
of his friends here and in Portland,
where he was we'll known. Scarcely
thirty-tive years of age and'possessed
of more than one mans share of
physical beauty, he has gone to the
grave by his own hand at a time
when he should have been making
a name and fame among his fellow


men. We first knew him at Port
land, seven years ago, and he was
just about entering upon the prac-
tice of the law. We went out on
the 0. & G. railroad; were gone
from Portland nearly year, and
returned to find Bancroft gone.
Two years later we met him in San
Francisco, where he had established
a tobacco agency, and had just been
united in wedlock to an estimable
young lady. What induced the
fatal step, God alone knows. If
there had been anything sordid Or
mean in his nature, we shOuld not
feel like writing a line to his mem
ory but knowing his generosity


that often impoverished himself for
the sake of wholly unworthy reci-
pients, we drop a parting tear to
the recollection of a man without
purpose, and soul without crime.
Year: 1876

Inc ClSpOSltlOn 10 regard tne Cninese
asa stupid people who only acquire our
habits when forced to them by outside
pressure, has too long been failure
among our people. Our coed qualities
and the virtues resul ing from mature
civilization, they have been slow to cul-
tiyate; but all the vilianies Of the Euro
pean races. they have caught up with
singular avidity.


The recent robbery of the County
Treasurer Of Coos county. Oregon. Is a
case in point. He is good nafnrea'
honest sort of mar, elected more from
his excellent social qualifications than
for any adaptabili:y he might possess
for the Office. He went home one night,
not long ago, in a jolly eondition-we
should suppose. from the circumstances
that followed-and went into sleep so
sound that gun wonld not have AVA
kened him. The day dawned and when
ba avoke it was to find that robbers
had entered the room and not only car
ried off his safe-key bnt his money also.
An examination of his office revealed
the fact that the thieves had unlocked
the safe and stolen a large amount OF
money, most of which has since been
recovered from the Chinese bdrglars
who perpetrated the theft.


Another case in point was that OF
friend of ours who imported diamonds
into San Francisco and had an office IN
the second story of building on the
Washington street side of the Plaza.
His goods were IN safes and the room
was secured with iron doors and window
shutters. One day, Chlnaman came
into bug diamond which he purchased
for sixty dollars. He was accompanied
by another heathen whose cat-hke eyes
went searching about the room. That
night, our friend locked up everything
as usual ard went home. About mid
night or soon after. the Chinese bur
glars (for they were nothing else) got
on the roof of the one-story building
next door. Armed with crowbars, they
commenced making hole in the blank
brick wall on the west side so as to en-
ter our friends Office. Silently but
rapidly they worked till about three
O'Clock when suddenly q iurid flame
shot mp towards heaven and revealed
them at their work. 1t was Dupont
street opium den on fire. Fearing the
approach of the police, the thieves ran
off leaving their work incomplete. but
half an holr more would have seen
them inside the building.


These almond eyed, long tailed fell
lows are sharp and pry into every hole.
Under pretense of getting washing from
the boarders. they invade the corridors
of every hotel and lodging house in the
city with their noiseiess felt-soled
Shoes Unless watched by the proprie-
tors and servants, somebody's fine
clothing will be wrapped up and carried
off in roll of dirty sheets-and that's
the last of 1t. Under the common law.
a landlord is liable for the property Of
his guests; and 1t behooves our hotel
proprietors to watch the almond-eyed
gentlemen who won't take mo" for an
answer and persist IN affecting one with
their favorite pretext conundrum, lyon
wantee uashee?" A little preca ntion In
this way may keep off an expensive
suit for damages.


The latest sensation by the venal and
Year: 1876

Three additional Teachers have been engaged
in the East, two for the Musical Department,
and one for the Painting and Drawing Depart
ment


Early application should he pade.for the ad-
mission of Boarders to Miss Rodnex~ec to
BISHOP MORRIS. sepl1-Dh
Year: 1876

They emplov about fifty men in the
yard and have already begun another
three masted schot ner of the style of
the Reporter. That success may always
hereafter crown their efforts to build up
this important branch of home industry
is the editors heartfelt wish. They can
point to the magnificent little feet of
coasters turned out by them with the
pride of honest mechanics. and feel that,
in the development of a new country's
resources, they have not labored in
vain.
Year: 1876

One cannot help feeling, even at this distance
OF time, that no calamity could possibly befal
the country equal in ma gnitude to a recur-
renee of public sentiment so demoralizing
and Saleful as then prevailed. And yet that
IS precisely what restoration of Southern dom
ination portends. A section that can poll 81
per cent. OF be entire electoral vote would be
apt under any circumstances to manifest some
consciousness of its strength. But when it is
Itionally and proverbially arrogant and
presuming, its sway will inevitably be irksome
and humliating. To be sure if it were legiti-
mately acquired there would be nothing else
but submission to it with what patience we
could command. But when everybody knows
that a considerable portion of it is simply
the result of the defiant trampling under foot
OF the rights and privileges of a majority of
the voters of several of the states that help
to comprise the "soid South it requires a de-
gree Of patience amounting to stoicsm TO en-
dure the wrong. L sincerely trust that the al
Tentative never will be forced upon the coun-
try. 1t will be severe test of its pride and
prowess.


No definite conclusion has been reached vet
respecting the local ticket. The Republican
committees hesitate to nominate Mr.. Green
but the voice of the party is uDquestionably for
it. A strictly party candidate could not hold
the voters. Great numbers of Republicans will
vote for Mr.. Green whether he is endorsed by
their convention or not, because they believe
him to be honest and they are heartily for "re-
torm"-not the name but the actuality. With
the Democrats the word means nothing but a
show. To the Republicans it is thing net so
much to be talked about assto be applied to ev-
erSthing that is defective in our system of gov
ernment local, state and national.


YARMOUTH.
Year: 1876

THOSE South Carolina clergymen want to
know ''What would the people of New York
or Massachusetts think or do if like appli-
cation of the bayonet policy were applied to
them under like circumstances?" The peo.
pie of those states have experienced the use Of
the bayonet. In 1854 both army and navy
were sent to Boston to force colored fugitive
back into slavery. In 1863 national troops
were sent TO New York to put down the
Democratic mob who were killing negroes
there
Year: 1876

IT will be remembered that Gov. Tilden
was once opposed. to the repeal of the re-
sumption date, and as strongly pledged as
man could be to speedy resumption. Yet he
yielded to party pressure. Can we expect
anything better of him in the matter Of these
Southern claims?
Year: 1876

We do not read anonymous letters and commuri-
oatonS. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
put as guaranty of good faith.


we cannot undertake to return CT reserve commr-
uicatona that are not used.
Year: 1876

BERLIN, Feb, The Ecclesiastical Court
has summoned the Minister of Muster to APP
pear for trial on charges which directs that
deposition summons shall be posted on the
doors of the episcopal palace because the
bishop is absent.
Year: 1876

VIZ fear that the getting down of the
fence Of our friend Kimberly, latter three
days deliberation) and throwing himself
at last on the side of the young lawyers,
had n damaging effect on the prospects of
the regulars. AT all events the Chairman
Of the Democratic Committee issued his
proclamation after Kimberly got down.
Previous to that time he would do moth.
ing in the matter, although the regulars
sought him diligently and with tears.
Year: 1876

When Garrick was in Paris, Preville,
the celebrated French actor, invited him
to his villa, and, being in gay humor,
he prepared to 90 in one of the hired
coaches that regularly piled between Paris
and Versailles, on which road Previle's
villa was situated. When they got in Gar
rick ordered the coachman to drive on;
but the driver answered that he could not
until he had got his complement of passen-
gers. A caprice Immediately seized Gar
rick. He determined to give his brother
player a specimen Of lis art. While the
coachman was actively looking out for
passengers, Garrick slipped out at the op-
posite door, went round the coach, and by
his wonderful command of facial express
sion palmed himself offon the coachman
as stranger. This he did twice, and was
admitted into the coach each time as a
fresh passenger, to the astonishmeut and
admiration Of Preville. Garrick slipped
out third time and addressed himself to
the coachman, who said in Il surly tone
that he had "got his complement" He
would have driven off without Garrick,
had not Preville called out that as the
stranger appeared to be a very little man,
they would accommodate the gentleman and
and make room.
Year: 1876

The Republican party is unanimously
of the opinion that the iniquitous records
Of all its strong and representative men
had rendered them SO deservedly obnox-
ious as to make it impossible to elect
them. so they take up a man whose
only recommendation is that nothing bad
sproven against him; and whose only
strength is that the bad men who have
controlled the Republican party are con-
adent that they can control him, have
closed their bargain with him, and placed
him in the field as their representative.
Hence HAYES became the embodiment
of all the sins of the Republican leaders.
Ast sins Of either one of them are
enough to justify his being thrown over
board by the party, how much severer
Judgment should be visited upon the man
who became the heir to the sins OF them
all?
Year: 1876

WASHINGTON, June 2l.-The nomi-
nation and confirmation OF Senator Nor.
rill as Secretary of the Treasury took
place while he was absent from the SEN
ate in committee room, and without his
having notified the President that he
would accept the appointments. The
news that the nomination had been
received and confirmed by the Senste
was surprise to him, as be still held the
offer of the appointment under consider
alton. He informed his friends this even
ing that he has not yet decided whether
or not he will accept; but that in case he
arrives at an affirmative conclusion NJ
will not enter upon the duties of the
office until after the pending approprla-
ton bill shall have been finally passed by
Congress. His colleagues on the Appr"-
priation Committee, of which he i.
chairman, and large number of promi
nent Senators, earnestly desire that he
should remain with them till at least that
time.


The commission of Mr.. Morrill,, as
Secretary of the Treasury was signed BY
the President at 2:30 o'clock this after.
noon. This is noted as being one of the
quickest executive actions OF that charac
ter that has ever been consummaled.
Year: 1876

WASHINGTON, June 2l.-At the Bank.
ers' Convention to-day, the following
Dream BILE and resolutions were adopted


WHEREAS, The general stagnation "l
trade and commerce together with the
depressed industries of the country are
making the present bank taxes absolute
ly unbearable and which if not promptly
repealed must end in the dissolution of q
large number of banking institutions and
the withdrawal of banking capital as an
investment throughout the land; there
ore


Resolued, That the members of this
Convention proceed in body before the
Committee on Banking and Currency to-
morrow, and each member, so far as pos
sible, present his views and those whom
he represents, and to facilitate the same.


Resolved. That those present at the
Convention also appear before the Com
mittee on Ways and Means in relation to
The numerous petitions before them for
the removal of stamps on bank checks.


Resoted, That the bill now before the
Banking and Currency Committee pro-
viding for the redemption agency ex-
penses to be taken out of the bank
taxes meets with our hearty concurrence,
and that the members Of this convention
press. the importance OF the same upon
the consideration o. said committee.
Adjourned.
Year: 1876

knees and simply said, PITY me. Pity
me, dear Savior. Save, or l perish !!
I said those words over and over.
The loving little girl had not been con-
vipced, and came and peered through
the glass and made her father look,
and then she came in and put her arms
around my neck and said


"Here is fve-dollar bill papa gave
me for you, because bad girls don't
pray


"When the steamer touched the
wharf, my husband and his father
rushed upon it My husband had
stepped back to speak to friend on
the wharf. and but for their seizing
him. he would have tried to jump on
board. He telegraphed his father,
took the night express, and was there
before the boat arrived.


"He had an elegant picture painted
of the little girl, and every Christmas
we dress it with flowers, and call it
The Christmas Angel"
Year: 1876

The last number of the Churchnlan (Episco
pail announces that the New Testament Re
vision Committee have stricken out as spuri
Gus the last seven verses of the last chapter OF
St. Mark. These are the verses on which the
Peculiar People" found their creed, and are
as follows:


IA. Afterward He appeared unto the eleven
as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with
their unbelief and hardness of heart because
they believed not them which had seen Him
after He was risen


15 And He said, Go We into all the world
and preach the Gospel to every creature.


16. He that believes and is baptized he shall
be saved; but he that believeth not shall be
damned


II. And these signs shall follow them that
believe: In My name shall they cast out
devils; they shall speak with new tongues.


Is. They shall take up serpents; and if
they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt
them they shall lay hands on the sick and
they shall recover.


10. So then, after the Lord had spoken unto
them, He was received up into Heaven, and
sat on the right hand of God.


90 And they went forth and preached
everywhere; the Lord working with them,
and confirming the Word with signs follow
ing.


1t also stated that the committee struck out,
as being false Interpolation, a verse in one of
the Epistles, which is frequently quoted as a
proof of the existence of the Trinity. The
verse alluded to is supposed to be the seventh
verse of the fifth chapter of the first epistle
general OF ST. John, viz: ''For there are three
that bear record in Heaven-the Father, the
Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three
aresOne."
Year: 1876

simple womanly dignity-the best of good


breeding.


The great event of her life, so far, is COM
ing next month. The whole family are going
to the Exposition in Philadelphia. Our little
rustic will pay very little attention to bric-a-
brac or ceramic ware. She does not know
terra Gotta from Sevres; she is not likely eth
er to linger long before the pictures, or any
works of art; but the wonderful plants of all
countries will hold her like enchantment; no.
body who goes to the great concourse will
catch shrewder, juster glimpses of the strange
phases of human nature gathered there; and
when she enters the old hall where her coun-
try had its birth, and reverently touches the
cracked bell, it will be with the passionate
loyalty of child. No doubt, when she
comes to the woman's department, she will be
elated and boastful as to the achievements of
her sex; not perceiving that she, and the vast
obscure sisterhOod to which she belongs,
chaste, modest, practical women, faithful
wives and tender mothers, are the chief pro-
duct of American domestic life in the past
century, and the products to which her
country can most safely and proudly point
New York Tribune.
Year: 1876

when Lieutenant General Sheridan de


nOunced the leaders of the Camelis
lodges and Ku-KluX bands as ''bandit.
IT," We all remember how the. citi.
zers of New York arose in indignation
at the "insult" thus thrown upon q
people by military commander. But
As we read this revolving despatch from
Bayou SaSe the question arises, "May
not the brilliant and illustrious Sheri-
dan have been perfectly right, even in
the extravaganza of his denunciation,
and May not the honor and the peace
of the nation demand that he go at
once to the Southwest to put and end
Year: 1876

The Patent Office at Washington is the
grave of a great many remarkable notions,
and some of the revelations that occasionally
come from it of the queer turn of American
inventive genius are very amusing. The
Washington Republican, in locking over some
of the ridiculous patents recently issued, finds
one issued to an inventor of an artificial moon
His idea was to have an immense balloon,
which was to be moored in the air above the
town or city, and from which would be sus-
pended an electric light or great fire. By
means of this invention we were to become
entire independent of the moon, and dispense
with gaslamps in the streets altogether.


Still another wanted patent for placing q
large propeller wheel on the bow of boat.
The vessel was simply to be started by a
steam engine, and then the forward motion of
the boat would cause the water to turn the
wheel on the bow, and this wheel would in
turn impart motion to another wheelsat the
stern, which is to drive the boat forward.
The inventors great fear in regard to this in
vention was that it would be impossible to
build boat that would be strong enough to
go through the water at the immense speed
he expected to attain by means of his inven-
ton, and his great object was to invent some
method to keep the boat from running more
than fifty miles an hour.


Another wanted to obtain patent upon an
embalming compound, and wishing to show
how well it would preserve bodies, obtained
the body of an infant, embalmed it in his best
manner, and sent the body to the office as Q
model. His model was instantly returned to
him.


Applications for patents for perpetual mo
tion are about as frequent Is ever. Many Of
these inventions show great deal of ingenu
ity, but all of them an utter lack Of knowledge
of the simplest laws of nature.