smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

y Gen. Rosser, formerly of the Con-


federate service, but now located in


Minnesota as chief engineer of the


Northern Pacific railroad, dissents


from the view of Custer's action so


unanimously held by the officers of


the army, and, in card, published


over his own signature, says this:


"From what can gather from Gen.


Terry's instructions to Gen. Custer, it


is quite evident that it was expected.


if not expressed. that Custer should


attack the savages wherever found,
and as to the manner of attack. OF
course that was left to the discretion


and judgment of Gen. Custer, and


viewing the circumstances of this


fatal attack from my standpoint, / fail
to see anything very rash in the plan


ming of it, or reckless in its attempt


ed execution. On the contrary. 1 feel


thai. Custer would have succeeded had


Reno with all the reserve of seven


companies passed through and Joined


Custer after the first repulse. l think
it quite certain that Gen. Custer had
agreed with Reno upon plan of
junction in case of the repulse of either
or both of the detachments, and in
stead of an effort being made by Reno
for such a. junction, as soon as he en-
countered heavy resistance he took
refuge in the hills. and abandoned
Custer and his gallant comrades to
their fate. 1t is useless to say that
Custer should have amused those In
diaas as soon as he reached them, or
Terry could have come up with rein
forcements, for. although it is stated
that Gen. Terry was only twenty or
thirty miles off, and he moved by
forced marches, he did not reach the
scene of disaster until three days after
the occurrence. The Indians were
running, and it is very evident to my
mind that Gen. Terry expected them
to make every possible effort to escape,
and Custer was doubtless ordered to
pursue them, cut off their retreat to
the south, and drive them back upon
Terry and Gibbon, and thus hemmed
in between these commands, they
were to be.crushed. To do this it was
necessary for Custer to strike them
wherever found, and by vigorous blows
and hot pursuit he was to drive them
into the trap which Gen. Terry had
prepared for them. Infantry on ex-
peditions against Indians can only be
as guards for supply trains, and in the
pursuit of Indians upon a mission such
as Custer's they are as useless as fox
hounds in. pursuit of wild geese. 1t
was expected when the expedition was
sent out that Custer and the Seventh
cavalry were to do all the fighting, and
did a portion of them do it.
AS a soldier, would sooner to-day lie
in the grave of Gen. Custer and his
gallant comrades alone in that distant
wilderness. that when the last trumpet
sounds could rise to judgment from
my post of duty, than to live in the
place of the survivors of the siege on
the hills. knew Gen. Custer well
have known him intimately from boy
hood, and, being on opposite sides dur
ing the late war, we often met and
measured strength on the fields of
Virginia, and 1 can truly say now
that / never saw a more enterprising,
gallant or dangerous enemy during
those four years of terrible war, or a
more genial, whole-souled, chivalrous
gentleman and friend in peace than
Major General George A. Custer"
Year: 1876

Gov. Tilden has at last found time to.
explain the income business. A letter
has been published, signed by his conf
dental law. clerk, in response to request
to examine the pretended account of his
income during the year 1862. The letter
bears the marks of Tilden's peculiar
dexterity in avoiding the points of most
consequence in the charge against him.
The delay in replying to this charge has
been fatal and now the reply IN the main
point is fatasiy inconohsiye, The Til
6ur1e saya that he has kept himself with
In the letter of the law, but it is plain
that he eyaded its spirit. He could not
be sent to the penitentiary, as he is try
ing to sent Jarvis Lord, for defrauding
the government, but he contrived to
keep the government from getting out
of him the money to which 1t was en-
titled. He did not tell the horse-car
conductor he had paid his fare, but he
kept his hands in his pockets and looked
unconcernedly at the conductor, as if he
had; and the effect was the same. When
the conductor detects such a passenger,
he generally wants to put him off the
car. When the American people find
him running as reform candid ate for
the Presidency, they are gong to vote
for the other man.
Year: 1876

La the course OF his recent address at
Nashville, Prof Huxley spoke as fol-
lows:


know that it is thought very often
that men of science are in the habit of
drawing largely from their imagination
but it is really not so. The most sober,
careful consideration of facts forces up
on you more and more detcrminedly the
conviction that the theory respecting
which we have this archie illogical cyl
dence of period of the past history of
the world, is of a duration which, in
comparison with our human standard,
may be regarded as almost absolutely
infinite. Take for example, the case of
the cataract of Niagara, where | have
been recently spending some time, so
might fill myself with the grandeur and
beauty of that extraordinary natural
phenomenon it is quite easy to see that
the Niagara river has formed its own
valley, has cut its way back through the
plateau of rock from which it falls for
some six miles. There is not the slight
est difficulty in seeing that. The great
cliff from which it tumhles is formed
of two kinds of Focks-hard rock at
the top and soft rock underneath. The
water undermines the soft rock below,
when the solid stratum above falls over.
You can trace the gradual excavation
for six miles from that marvellous bluff
which, from Proctor's monument, over
looks the plain of Ontario Now, the
rate at which that work is going on has
not vet been positively ascertained, but
we may be perfectly certain-I am now
speaking largely within limits-that
that work of cutting back does not go
on at the rate of yard in a year. We
have six miles of such cutting, which
will bring you to period of ten thou
sand wears for the cutting blck of Mag
ara alone. 1t is an immaterial matter
to me how many years it takes, but it
would be nearer probability, much near
er the truth if / had said three or four
times that amount.


What relation does a period of that
kind bear to the vast duration expressed
by these vast ledges of strata which
form the globe? We are people curl
GUS enoughIto form a very distinct calcu-
lation of this. The sides of the ravine
through which Niagara is cutting its way
are formed by alluvial matter, which
must be older than the river which has
cut through it. In that alluvial matter
you find the remains of shell fish, undis-
tinguishable from those which now in
habit the lake, and along with them you
find-as has been found-the teeth of
the mastodon, which we know from
abundant evidence was an inhabitant of
the continent of North America at a
comparatively recent period, the very
last step of that long series of changes,
Of which the limestone, upon which
Year: 1876

ARRANGEMENTS are being made by
the Republican national committee to
send twelve strong speakers, all officers
of high rank in the Union army during
the war, into the South Immediately af-
ter the October elections. Am6ng those
who have already agreed to go are Gen
eral Banks and Stewart L. Woodford.
No attempt will be made to prevent
their speaking, we think, and their work
will not be without effect. An active
canvass throughout the South with
means taken to show the people, both
white and black, that they will be pro-
tected in their rights at the polls will
create change in the coerced sentiment
existing there at the present time. II
any fairness is shown the speakers it is
thought that a revulsion of feeling may
be created which will succeed in carry
iRg six Southern States for Hayes and
Wheeler.
Year: 1876

you are now standing, indicates one of
the older ones.


Thus it follows that the whole work
of Niagara occupies one period of this
vast duration of time, that ten thousand
years, or whatever else it may have
been, is but anIinfinitesimal fragment of
time, 80 far as the great phenomena of
the globe are concerned. During that
vast time the population of the globe
has undergone a slow, constant and grad
ual change, one species giving way to
another. We have passed by slow and
gradual methods, without vast and sud-
den changes, into that state of things
which obtain at present. i need not say
that this view of the past history of the
globe is very different one from that
which is commonly taken. 1t is SO
widely different that it is absolutely i'm
possible to affect any kind of parallel,
far less any sort of reconciliation, be-
tween these two. One of these must be
true. The other is not.
Year: 1876

THE verdict returned by the jury in
the trial of J. D. Lee, will be received
with satisfaction. If as full justice is
shown in the sentence one of the most
atrocious villains on the face of the
earth will soon receive his reward. He
was charged with being q participant in
the Mountain Meadow massacre, in
1857, and the evidence produced against
him was conclusive. He was, however,
only one of the ringleaders in the affair
and If investigation scouId be carried far
enough, Bflgaam \ .ung @oad prob
ably be found fully as guilty and just as
worthy of a moose.
Year: 1876

The other night Baltimore man was aroused
from his sleep by some unusual noise, and, miss
ing his wife from his side, be suspected some
thing was up, and, going to the front window,
saw her come out of the front door and elope
with man whom he well knew. The phiIo-
sophical husband watched them out Of sight,
and then cfIuclled and went back to bed, say
ing that was the third time she had given her
self away, and he hoped she would make it
stick this time, poor Jane, or she'd be getting
discouraged. Burlington Haukxve.
Year: 1876

The New Boar YARD. - Mr..
Yarno, the proprietor of the new
boat yard on Mechanics wharf,
intends going over to Port Mad
ison to obtain the lumber
for finishing the new sloop yacht
which he is building. The frame
work is already up and he thinks
he can have her in the water in
the course of a few weeks. She
is 81 feet long, II feet beam and
scales about 18 tons, carpenters
measurement, and will be the
largest as well.a the handsom-
est sloop yacht in these waters.
Her breadth of beam is SO great
in proportion to her length that
she will carry an immense
amount of sail. Mr.. Yarno is
making arrangements to procure
the lumber for the rest of his
boats from the Madison mills.
He will have quite a little fleet
in the water before the boating
season commences.
Year: 1876

HAVE STooD BY EACH OTHER.-Anoth-
er Smith in the Interior Department!
Secretary Chandler hunted high and low
for an Indian Commissioner, but had
no success ill he struck tile Smith FAM
lily. There were three Smiths engaged
in the noble work of elevating the red
man to the delights of civilization be-
fore this new member of the family was
discovered. What would become of
the Indians were there nc Smiths?
From the time of that little affair be-
tween Pocahontas and Captain John,
the innunerable descendants of those
two immortals have stood by each oth-
er like brothers, -Ne,o York Tribune.
Year: 1876

ASSAULT AND BATTERY.-John


W. Mcdonald, a well-known


"Lava-Bed ranger, was on a
decidedly big time last night.
He went into the house of Will
liams, an old colored man, and
after some words with him,
knocked him down and kicked
him in the head, cutting his face
up badly. Afterwards he went
INTO a downtown saloon and
endeavored to get up a row. AT
ter throwing him out of the
house two or three times the
proprietor gave him in charge
of an officer and was taken to the
lookup. This morning he was
tried before Justice Scott on the
charges of assault and battery
and drunk and disorderly and
fined on the first charge SO and
costs and on the second charge
SIS and costs. On the officer S
attempting to take him to Jail
from the Justices Office, he show
ed fight, and assistance Of the
bystanders had to be procured.
Year: 1876

q Methods of hardening glass are
now one of the favorite studies of in
ventors. Mr.. Macintosh, of London,
finds that by enclosing fused or pastry
glass in platinum moulds of the de-
sired shape and then suddenly cooling
it by any frigorific mixture, the glass
becomes exceedingly hard. Glass can
be made harder than the diamond, and
its powder be used instead of emery
powder or diamond dust. Artificial
gems of the proper hardness and of
adamantine lustre can be made.
Year: 1876

RUNAWAY.-A team attached
to heavy wagon run away this
morning. They created some
little excitement as they dashed
through the plaza and finally
brought up against shade-tree
adjoining Mr.. Yesler's house.
Some slight damage to the team
and harness.
Year: 1876

HIGHWAY ROBBERY. Antoine
None, a Greek, night before last
assaulted a half-breed woman on
the street and stole from her
pocket a handkerchief, in the
corner of which was tied a $40
gold piece. He was arrested
and examined last evening be-
fore Justice Scott, and bound
over in the sum of 500 to the
next term Of the District Court.
In default of bail he was COM
mitted. He is a hard case and
was up before for a similar Of
fense, which was not proven.
Year: 1876

In the clear light Of frosty moon the
toll was taken. for the first tine in nv
experience. Soon we came to q long
bridge with several arches; the widow
said it was Of no rse to resist man
who would have his own way, SO she
paid the toll without murmur,


But You won't take toll for every
arch, will you" she said 70 archly that
could not fail to exact my dues: and
that vas the beginning of my courtship.
-From Literature Of Kissing"
Year: 1876

n A joke at the expense Of those
ladies who are perpetuaIly striving to
gain hearing in the press has been 60
ing the round of literary circles. to tho
effect "that they look much better in
muslin than in print"
Year: 1876

The reign of terror, the war of races
in the South, must be stamped out Of
the nation" Yes. but see here. Jane,
can you look at that foot of yours and
conscientiously say that there is nothing
in its magnitude 10 suggest the idea
that you might do the stamping your.
Salf2
Year: 1876

The one political issue involved in the
late civil war was that Of allegiance. The
South claimed in that contest that ale
gisnce went hand in hand with sovereignty,
and that irasmuch as the States were SOW
ereign, the paramount allegiance Of the
citizen was due, not to the General Govern
meni, but to the State. On that issue the
Southern States, under the policy Of sepa-
rate State action, Withdrew one by one
from the Union. This withdrawal was
deliberate, and accompanied by all the
formalitlcs of solemn legislative proceed
urc. The President of the United States
denied the power of the General Govern


ment to coercc these seeding States. Con
gress failed to exercise the power thus de-
nied by Mr.. buchanan. The American
people stood by and Witnessed the process
of national dissolution until a hostile gov
eminent had been organized at Montgome-
~, Alabama, and the great body Of the
Union loving whites of the South had been
forced into obedience to the provisional
political authority thus suddenly placed
over them. Not until the national flag was
fired on in the harbor of Charleston, South
Cgrolins, did the people awaken to fall
realization of the peril which thus menaced
their liberties. Thus forced TO fight for IFS
life, the nation arose in its might and the
contest for sovereignty began. -Four years
of war settled the issue thus formed so far
as the battle field could settle it The
Southern disunionists were forced 10 recog
Year: 1876

THE New York bark-note engraving
companies are at work again in their
periodical efforts to break up the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing. This is their
privilege. They are simply laboring in
their own interests. So long as they con-
fine their efforts to Legitimate competition
for the work Of the Government they are
entitled to consideration. But when they
go beyond this policy and resort to mis-
representations, subterfuges and attempts
at corruption they should receive a prompt
and effective check. There is no doubt
that all things considered the Government
will best consult its own interests by doing
its own work. 1t has ample facilities for
doing the work in a superior manner,
without cost OF transportation, and with
assurance of perfect safety and better pro-
lection from counterfeits than can be
afforded by private parties. Beyond this,
by doing the work here large amount of
deserving labor can be kept in employ
ment and the machinery and appliances
for this purpose, which have been obtained
at much expense, utilized in an effective
manner. 1t is certainly the wiser course
to retain the work here, where tine masses
may be largely benefited by it, than to
seLd it abroad for the benefit OF such rich
moropOlies as the New York bank-note
engraving companies and the Adams Ex-
press Company. True economy aud i'm
munity from risk alike dictate the per-
formance Of tie work by the Government
Year: 1876

nize national authority as the paramount
law OF the land. The white Unionists Of
the South were delivered from the despot-
ism which military oonscription in the
name of Stale Rights had established over
them. The slaves were freed.


This struggle over the issue of allegiance
did not end with Lees surrender. The
emancipation Of the negro race created the
necessity for national legislation in regard
to the political ard civil rights Of the freed
people. And thus the General Govern
ment WAS forced to once more intervene
IJ sovereign authority in Southern affairs,
snd By Congressional procedure and Con
st;tutional amendment clOthe the black
man with the rights Of citizenship. The
ballot was given to this man. He was
placed on an equality with all other citi-
zens OF the Government before the law.
Aud 90 By formal nsiionallegiSlatiye act the
American Congress took Jurisdiction final
and complete over the question Of citizen
ship. The fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments. TO the Federal Constitution -estab-
liskcd national citizenship. By these
amendments we became nation. The
organic structure Of the Constitution was
changed and brought into harmony with
the Declaration OF Independence.


By this revolution in our system of gov
eminent the nation now claims the para
mount allegiance Of the citizen BY this
act the nation also owes protection to its
citizens. Thus the principle of protection
to the rights Of citizenship is made to 60
hand in hand with the allegiance OF the
citizen. They are SO vitality correlated
that separation between them is impossible
without the dislccaiion of the Union. And
as The contest for paramount sovereignty
between the States sud the General Gov
ernnlent grew out Of the slavery question,
SO the principle Won at such bloody cost
on tae battlefield and confirmed By con
stitutions, procedure is now to be made
good il the person Of tho maa who WAS
once slave. Tire negro has in the recent
election placed the nation under q new
obligation TO make good its sacred pledge
when it tec?ced emancipation and declared
uaiioesj citizenship ia his case. He row
demands protection. fGli and ample, for his
po;.ticat and civil as well as lis human
rights de GAINS the protection Of lis
Gng. Re psoc!aims his allegiance to the
nation. He embodes in this claim the
wlIcie idea Of national citizenship as that
idea isvcives bnth allegiance and protec
t:on. Il Cannot te longer treated with in
diaerecee.. Are We nations Docs alle-
giaoce carry protection with its Shall the
flag protect the citizense Shall cn,aaciPa
tioa stand [ Shall tlIe cause OF civil equal
i,y before tie Law be made good? These
are tae issues which lie before Us il the
immediate future o: Our political progress
as free people living under law and under
law administered and enforced by adc-
quatc authority. . -..
Year: 1876

The commission to frame o new form of
government for this District is making
progress, and we are glad TO say that in
many respects. its work so far is we'll done.


The plan is moi what We could have wished,


but there sEe many features in the details
which we consider a great improvement
upon the present form. But the prospect
for its adoption during She short session is
SO poor that il is hardly worth while to
waste time in the elaborate discussion OF its
Year: 1876

The man who gets into debt is always will
ing to be counted out, and on the very same
principle we find the festive creditor always
ready to be counted o. in. Thus extremes
meet, and we preserve our equilibrium.
Year: 1876

It is said that supervisor in one OF the
counties of Florida who was waiting for an
escort to accompany him to Tallahassee with
the returns was aecused of being 3 coward,
and Immediately set out with his trust and
met an alligator, which deroured him, re-
turns and all. He denied the allegation, hut
could not defy the alligator.
Year: 1876

That portion Of the Northern Democracy
which resided in Canada from 1851 to 1865
have become remarkably belligerent of late
You cannot ask one at the dinner table what
he will have without his CRYING ''Tilden OF
blood" Extract the War Democrats from
the Northern Democracy and there would moi
be enough pluck left for the ordinary battles oi
life
Year: 1876

a CURIOUS ExpERIMEST.-Au expert


ment has lately been made in RussIa in


order to ascertain whether il was possible
to get regiment OF cavalry to cross q
river by swimming g their horses over. The
river selected was over two hundred and
thirty yards wide and more than twelve
feet deep. The troops with whom the ex


pertinent was made were the S:h Regiment
of Cossacks. The first trial was made with
thirty horses divided into groups, the lead


ing horse of each group being fastened to q
boat; the men SWAN by the side of their
horses, holding on to the name, and crossed
the stream safeIy in three minutes. After
this the whole regiment marched into the
river and swan acrose, without using boats,
in a quarter of an hour. Russia has not
originated this method of crossing streams.
On the End February, 1904, when England
was daily expecting Invasion, an accident tai


fire in Northumberland was mistaken for
lighted beacon, and the alarm spread over all
the border. Ga no occasion, even when
that country was the scene of perpetual
war, was the call to arms more readily
obeyed. The Selki:S shire Yeomanry, al
though scattered over twenty or thirty
miles of country, made a forced march,
5 swimming each stream with pistols and
ammunition held over their heads. TO Dal-
keith, where they arrived at one O'Clock
the next day, many of the troopers having
ridden forty or fifty miles without drawing
Year: 1876

During the storm on Sunday night last a
negro woman, living in Tyaskin district,
Wicomico county, on the banks of the Nan
ticoke river, left her home TO seek safety
elsewhere, carrying her infant with her
The water from the river was rapidly
rising and she feared the house would be
washed away. In her fright she dropped
the child and was unable to find 1t In the
darkness. The body of the babe was soon
after found, but life was extinct, 1t having
perished in the flood.
Year: 1876

The following record will show the changes In tho
temperature for the past twenty. y.four hours in CON-
parison with the corresponding date Of last year. as
indicated by the Thermometer at hudnut's pharmacy
HERALD Building