smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

equal force 10 the auxiliary anu auXll-


iary relief sought.


'sThe complainant is clearly mistaken
In supposing the Supervisors of Elec-
ton appointed in this State, under
the act Of Congress approved June
10, 1872 (17 United States Statutes,
pages 24S, 249, have any authority
to supervise or report upon the election
of State officers. No return or report
they might make in reference to the
election Of any State officer could have
any official sanction or be received as
evidence in thisor any other court. The
court having no Jurisdiction on the case
made by the bill to determine in any
form of action the right of complainant
to the Office in dispute, it is needless to
inquire whether a bill in ehanoery will
lie in such case, or whether the rem
edy must be by a writ of quo iOdrrdTlto.
And for the same reason it is unneces-
sary to inquire whether the court,
supposing it to have Jurisdiction,
could grant the several injunetions and
restraining orders prayed for in the bill.
The complainant must, therefore, be
remitted to the justice of his own State
tribunals, where, from the foundation Of
the government down to the present
time, the exclusive jurisdiction over
eases of contested election for State
offices has been vested and still re-
mains, except where the case turns
solely on the single fact specified in the
twenty-third section. The demurrer to
the bill is well taken, and the injunc-
tions and other extraordinary wFits and
relief prayed for are refused, with leave
TO complainant TO have a re-argument
upon the demurrer, before a full bench,
at the next term"


From the editorial of the Little Rock Gazette


Of Tuesday,


II will be seen that while re-
fusing for the time the application of
the complainant, Judge Caldwell never
theless refers it for re-argument and re-
view to the full bench at the coming
term of the United States Circuit Court,
when, as we are informed, it is probable
that both Judge Miller, of the United
States Supreme Bench, and Judge Dill
Ion, of this circuit, will be here to take
part in the determination of the case.
So far as Judge Caldwell is concerned,
the vexed question of jurisdiction seems
to be settled. We hear it rumored that
the counsel for the cOmplainants in these
cases will take steps to make test case
of some one of them before the Supreme
Court, or one of its Judges, or before
Judge Dillon, at as early day as prac-
ticable. We hope so. The matter is an
important one; but in the meantime we
prefer not to make the questions in
vOlved the subjects of newspaper dis
cussion.
Year: 1873

When the cell in which Stokes was
confined prior to his sentence was
searched, a bottle was found in a corner,
which, on examination by a chemist,
was found to contain concentrated solu-
tion of strychnia.
Year: 1873

A bill was introduced yesterday in
the New York Assembly, for consti-
tutiOnal amendment, excluding from
the right Of suffrage, any one convicted
of bribery or larceny, or any infamous
crime, OF who has become interested in
any wager on an election. Recent de-
velopments lead to the opinion that
such bill passed at Washington would
empty the National balls of legislation.
Year: 1873

The chief thing, however, that wise
parents should din into their children's
memory, and impress on their conscience
almost from the first hour they are ca
pable of understanding it, is the misery
and bondage, and even disgrace that
come with debt. Borrowing seems so
easy, and lending so natural, and youth
is buoyant with hope, and conscious of
integrity. ''It is only for short time,
and payment will easily be made; and
who need know?" But tendency of
this kind should be burned out of a
young mans nature as with hot iron.
1t is fault toward which an irfexible
sternness is at once the kindest, and the
only effective remedy. An indulgent
easiness in the early days of youth may
foster habit, which will paralyze the
sinews of robust action, and reduce ul-
timately it's victim to the contemplate
condition of being either a mendicant
or thief If the earliest commission
of fault of this kind is severely pun
ished at the moment, the first fault may
be the last /; while one condOned offense
may be, not only to the offender, but to
all the rest of the family, false symp


tom of parental weakness, that may re-
suit in harvest of sorrow. 1t is true
that if no one would lend, no one could
borrow. But not all lending is to pay
debts, and not all borrowing is to dis
charge them. AS a rule, it is sometimes
better, where there is claim of blood
or friendship on you, to give half rath-
Year: 1873

er than lend all. Where there is deli


cacy of feeling the request is not likely


to be repeated from the same quarter,


and often you are as happy to aid, as
your friend to be aided. There will Of
ten also be cases where, from the con-
viction that the granting of loan would


be mischievous or useless, for very
friendships sake, though painful, it is
our duty firmly to say, No But lend
ing, as a rule, from friend to friend or
relative to relative is always very haz-
ardous proceeding on one side, if not
on both; for the time of repaying is
never quite convenient, and a borrow
er's memory is often treacherous. 1t is
cynic's remark, founded on painful ex-
perience of average human nature, that
to get rid of a man you don't want, the
shortest way is to lend him money; and
it is beyond question, that in money
transactions between near kinsmen,-to
avoid feeling of painful obligation to
the one, and the possibility of real in
convenience to the other,-the best wav
of managing it, is as a matter of bust
ness -lSI55lddU Af100zitlo
Year: 1873

Prof. S. Shaler, upon the authority
of Capt. John Pease, an old and obser-
want whale fisher, writes as follows,
concerning the frequent struggles be-
tween the male sperm whales


The conflict between the males of
sperm whales cause great damage to
the lower jaw; the evidence goes to
show that at least two per cent are
crooked more or less, and one in several
hundred very badly bent by those
struggles. There are two specimens in
the small museum at Nantucket which
are singularly contorted one of them
is bent literally into one turn of a spiral.
Capt. Peas tells me that he found one
that was bent sideweys at right angles
to the proper position and finally fixed
there, seeming to be permanently fas-
tened in this singular position. In
fighting, the males rush at each other
with open jaws, and strike in passing.
The great speed and power of these
massive creatures must lead to the most
serious results from such collisions.
Capt. Pease once found sperm VIII lie
nearly dead on the water, with the lower
jaw hanging by single band or liga-
ment few inches through. Sharks
and crustaceans were devouring the
creature, but the wrench which had
crippled him must have come from one
of his own kind"


In the same article Prof. Shaler men
tions fact which, if it can be proved,
may certainly become strong argu-
ment for the Darwinists. 1t is as fol-
lows


''The captain is convinced that the
right whale has trace of hair within
the skin. He says that when the skin
is fresh, if it be scraped with knife so
as to remove the superficial parts, there
will be seen a trace of hair in the inner
section. This point is worthy of atten-
ton from those naturalists who have
opportunities for such work. It is evi-
dent that if the whale is the descendant
of some land mammal form, it would
be likely to preserve a trace of the
hairy covering. In this connection it is
interesting to note that, in the museum
at Nantucket, there is tooth of a sperm
whale with two fangs after the fashion
of an ordinary mammalian canine. The
specimen was taken many years ago,
but with it is the statement that the
other teeth of the whale were of the
same fashion. This clearly looks like a
reversion to some higher mammalian
form of dentitiOn"
Year: 1873

newspaper correspondent tells


story of African feticbism in Jamaica,


which shows method in the madness of


the supernatural A strange appariatiOn


haunted the Port Royal mountains, rear


the harbor of Kingston. 1t was called


the =" rolling calf" and came rolling


down the mountains in wheel of fire


ON a road leading to the harbor. In the


wheels, fastened with chains, was the


figure of a man with calf's head, and


it came with great rattle and roar, and


passed out of sight in the direction of


the city. 1t was believed in by the ne


groes, and seen and wondered at by


white men, and no explanation was CIV
en- by anybody except this: cit was


the way the disembodied souls of those


butchers were punished who in lifetime
took away the young calf from its moth
er and slowly tortured it to death by pc
riodical bleedings. This was sufficient
for the negroes, and the people general
ly had faith in the thing and this expla-
nation 1t appears to have had deep
er meaning, however, and may be ex-
planned upon rational business basis.


The cOlOred policemen were III the dark
about its nature and origin and purpos-
es, as well as everybody else, and 1t was
perfectly right that they should be.
They took its appearance as matter-of-
fact, and questioned no further. The
they were not in secret was this
Valuable smuggled goods were landed
at night at Rock Fort, and had to be
conveyed to the city by some safe means.
1t was notorious fact that the rolling
calf appeared soon after the arrival OF
certain steamers. Whenever 1T did so
the people Stunned the vicinity of its
operations. 1t effectually cleared the
track for smuggled goods. That was
the reason and method of it. 1t was in
its glory in 1868. Lately one who had
observed and shot at it then, while roll
ing, told the story in the house of
planter near Kingston, and the planter
laughed heartily at it. He said he had
a man who could do the specter. The
specter was performed on the same
night, but the man who did it refused
to tell how it was done, and the process
Of the trick remains unexplained. The
performer had reputation as an Ohcah
man. and had been imprisoned and fog
ped for l1Yaofisino fetichiSm
Year: 1873

As soon as they were gone, / again
examined the marks, and found they
were a combination of letters and fig
ures arranged like this:


S-1225-D


copied them upon paper, and then,
taking the knife with me, went to nv
Office down town, to study out, if pos
sible, the cipher / had discovered. I
had no doubt that it was made by Cecil.
probably after he had been stabbed !:
and was convinced that the cause of
its being in cipher was that no one
would be apt to notice it enough to
obliterate it. But by what means could
obtain kew was now the puzzle.


Acting according to suggestion of
Lansing, I went to the public library,
and for a week rummaged its shelves
for any work that mentioned cipher
writing. l continued bringing home
books until my den looked more like a
reading-room than a detectives Office,
while in their midst sat Lansing, search
ing every page, and occasionally jot-
ting down something in book by his
side.


One day I entered with my arms full
of books, and noticed look akin to
triumph on his face as his pencil flew
over the paper. In answer to my in
quiry he handed me a slip of paper
upon which he had copied table CIV
ing the relative number of each letter
that is used in common English words.
I looked it over and waited for him to
speak. In a moment he looked up and
said:


g You see that table gives Sc the
prominence over all others; call 'e'
one. Then see 't is second best call
t. two. Then run your eyes up to the
fifth in Importance, and we have sd
and Il Take last number five, and
the figures, with the addition of the two
letters that were expressed, read, set
trd.' So you see have translated the
cipher in one way.


/ admitted that il was very ingen-
ious translation, and was very much en-
couraged by it, although the word
" settled" might not have any special
relation to the case in hand. But 1
did not doubt that it was nearer the
true rendering than any we had reached
yet, and it convinced me that the fig
ures were to be changed, in some way,
to letters, before the cryptogram could
be entirely solved.


About week after this, Lansing was
called out of the city by the sickness of
his mother. As parted with him at
the depot, told him to keep up his
courage, and to write out his defense,
while would attend to the remainder


During all this time the opposing
counsel were striving in every possible
manner to make an adamantine chain
of evidence that should Immediately
condemn the prisoner beyond any
shadow of doubt.
Year: 1873

In this way nearly three weeks had
passed since the murder, when I re-
ceived telegram from Lansing, inform
ing me of his return to the city. All
this time 1 had been shut up in my
office, working, it must be confessed,
with little hope of success.


The day that expected Lansing's
return I went to the place where the
body had been found, and examined
carefully the marks on the wall, but /
could find no other than the ones I had
seen before, so concluded that those
were the only ones. As / stood looking
at them, however, 1 saw what seemed
to be piece of stone lying on the floor
of the cellar. As a detective sees a
clue in everything, I picked it up and
found, to my surprise, that it was a
piece of putty, AS soon as discovered
this 1 searched the whole wall to find
where the piece came from, and at last
l discovered that some marks near the
others were filed with putty. Iscraped
the putty away and the whole cryptic
gram appeared as follows:


S T-l225-D
Year: 1873

Carrier-pigeons were ef great service
TO the French during the late siege OF
Paris by the German army. This bad
been fOreseen by the German com
manders and in order 70 prevent the
importation of these Invaluable mes
sengers from Belgium, where they are
raised and trained in almost incredible
numbers, they were very early in the
struggle declared contraband of war.
But in this matter at least the French
had been provident and long before q
German soldier had crossed the Rhine
the military authorities had collected
twenty-five Thousand pigeons, which
we're distributed among the command
ers of the various cities and fortresses
most exposed to the danger of a siege,
to be used as a means of communica-
ton. A depot was established at Bor-
deaux for the reception of new pigeon
recruits. After the fatal lines were
drawn aronnd Metz and Paris, and all
telegraphic communication with the
world outside had been severed, news
and orders were sent and received daily
by the pigeon post. The missives haG
TO be written on the smallest scraps OF
thin paper, in order not TO impede the
pigeons flight, and the camera and
microscope were called into Tequisition
to crowd the greatest amount of news
into the smallest compass. A whole
side of the London Ti7nes was on sew
eral occasions photographed on thin
piece of paper less than FIVE inches
square. This microscopic newspaper,
embracing news from all parts of the
world, was at first read by means of q
powerful microscope /; afterward IT was
thrown upon a white wall by means Of
a magic lantern in a darkened room,
where it was read by thousands OF
people.


The German commanders tried many
expedients to break up the pigeon post,
without success. AS a last resort they
brought to camp a large number OF
trained hawks, which made sad havoc
among the serial messengers. This was
roundly by the French news
papers and orators, but surely without
reason. n.-Hdrper's Magazine.
Year: 1873

flesh to stone, from stone to adament-
unmoved by Sovereigns infinite wrath
or Savior's priceless love-unmoved,
and therefore lost Oh, now may hell
swallow up our sons and daughters in
its depths in that agony of which no
due conception has ever crossed the
human breast; in that fire whose smoke
ascends forever and ever, because its
flames know no quenching!


& o, God as soul after soul Joins the
great caravan of humanity in its march
toward Thy judgment bar, inspire those
whom thou hast called to the office of
parents with all needful wisdom, grace
and fidelity. And take then our off
spring under the shadow of thy wings :.
guide them by thy counsel here, and
receive them to thy glory hereafter.
Year: 1873

We did not either of us shout "eure-
kap' or anything else. But 1 looked
at Lansing, who was trembling like a
leaf, and said, "You ought to have
been a detective"


Having written out the cipher accord
ing to his translation, and being con-
vinced that I had been outwitted, or
something of that soft, by lawyer, 1
leaned back in my chair, and can't
tell why, but l burst out in a hearty
laugh, which Lansing soon joined.


After my risible powers were exhaust
ed, rang the bell for the errand-boy,
and sent note like this to Denning:


"Come up to my den this forenoon,
and bring some handy instrument for
the detection of foreign substances,
such as pieces of stone in blood"


After sending this l prevailed upon
Lansing to go with me to luncheon. In
an hour we returned and found Den
ming, with large microscope and sever
al small walls. | Immediately went to
my desk, took out Roger Lyons knife,
and handed it to him, asking him to see
If there were any pieces of stone in the
blood stains which still showed ON the
knife. He knew my meaning in an in
stant. And taking a vial he carefully
rinsed portion of the stains with its
contents, letting a liquid run upon a
glass side, which he had placed in the
suns rays.


Impatiently he watched and waited
for the evaporation of the liquid. 1t
was soon all gone, when he placed the
slide in the microscope and turned the
powerful sun-glass upon it. On look
ing into the lens, minute particles of
stone, some stained with blood, were
plainly visible, thus proving that the
knife had been used to cut the stone of
the cellar after the blood had stained it.


"This is the result you wanted to
reach, is it not ?" asked Denning, as
he looked me in the face.


Yes, l answered.


Then, taking piece of paper, wrote
for moment, anG then handed him
what l had written, with request that
he would sign it, which he did. 1t was
an affidavit certifying that, according to
the best medical knowledge the de-
ceased must have lived some time after
the fatal blow was received and that,
from minute particles of stone which
adhered to the blade, it must have been
used by some one, probably the de-
ceased, to cut stone with after the
blood stains were on It.


Here, then, was the evidence to prove
the innocence of the prisoner. could
not resist the temptation TO reveal it to
DR.. Denniny, and happier trio could
hardly be found than were assembled
in that little down town Office.


The trial was to commence in about
week, and, of course, we were impa-
tient for the time to pass.
Year: 1873

Prof. Voelcker thus explains the ac-
ton of clover in increasing the fertility
of soils: All who are practically ac-
quainted with the subject must have
seen that the best crops of wheat are
produced by being preceded by crops of
clover grown for seed. / have came to
the conclusion that the very best pre-
paration, the very best manure, is a
good crop of clover. A vast amount of,
mineral manure brought within reach of
the corn crop, which otherwise would
remain in lookup condition in the
soil. The clover plants take nitrogen
from the atmosphere, and manufacture
it into their own substance, which, on
decomposition of the clover roots and
leaves, produces abundance of ammonia
In reality the growing of clover is
equivalent, to graf extent, to manur-
ing with Peruvian guano and in this
paper of mine I show that you obtain
large quantity of manure than in the
largest dose of Peruvian guano which a
farmer would ever think of applying.
1t is only by carefully investigating sub
iects like the one under consideration
that positive proofs are given, showing
the correctness of intelligent observers
in the field.
Year: 1873

If a man believe in God, il is almost
necessary that he believe also IN the
improvements of time. II "a good God
is ruling the world for His own high
and blessed ends, il must follow That
these ends are brought nearer hv every
rising and setting sun, and that every
age is an advance upon its predecessor.
II may not be seen To be so by very many
there are backward eddies in the most
headlong stream but, on the whole,
every age is an improvement on the age
il succeeds, and our own day is, after
all, the best day the world has yet seen.
To n man who wants 10 do good service
i'm his own time, we think this faith very
essential. One must, 10 work well,
rave some faith in his works success.


He can work TO little purpose who la
bors under the burden of this despair.
that the new days are always the worst
days, and that the worlds golden age
lies behind him. There is more 0f en-
couragement in the hopeful, and, We
b lieve, the more reasonable and Chris
tan faith, that we are but in the dark
ness ourselves, but in the darkness
which is only so in comparison with the
coming day but our darkness is the
brightness OF lhe uPNu 10 lht ulkhk
that lies behind, and that still before
us the eastern splendOrs wait behind
the hills. Better than the fathers will
be, let us trust, in the good government
of God. the children; old evil dies, If
new evil comes, and the old evil is the
worst That II exists in memory only
softens its dark outlines, while the new
evil is present and seen in all its hide
business. We have a right TO make our
own all the hope and courage that faith
confers. We have the right 10 do our
daily work, hard and fruitless M u ma
seem too often, under the help of that
high trust. We have the right 20
strengthen with il our own hands and
he hands of our fellow-workcrs. We
have no right, and are half traitors and
towards TO preach despair of our own
day, and mourn for the DAYS of the
past-days which bad their own sore
evils, which true men met, but which
we have for often, with the faithful
toilers who, by conquering those evils,
made our own better days possible
Huqh Miiie- Tim psOD.
Year: 1873

A home that is fitted up with taste
will be the resort of a better class of
people. and more genuine enjoyment
VIII be shown in visiting it, than one
which has nothing but the costliness of
it's contents to recommend it. However
much astonishment and vague admira-
the one may excite at first, it viii final
ly become an eye-sore rather than at
traction, while the other viii reveal a
new old beautiful feature at every
place, and will never lose its pleasing
power. A part from this, however, is
the all-important, hard, practical fact
that there is an actual economy in good
taste. Thousands of persons annually
buy gaudy and vulgar carpets that there
are not and cannot be objects of interest
when for much less money they might
in humber material, but of equally
substantially quality, purchase some
thing much better suited to the charac-
ter of their rooms and much more in
harmony with the surroundings. If n
room is arranged as q work of art, a
carpet is only an item in the general ei-
feet. and it is matter of no eonse-
auence that it should excite remark
on its own account. What we want
when stranger enters our parlor is
that he shall be impressed with a GER
tain beauty, by certain completeness,
| by a certain richness of effect, by GER
tian home feeling, as if the place were
the dwelling of refined people, who
think enough of their home to strive to
make it beautiful. Tt is not necessary
that he should remark whether ouI
CARPET is Brussels or ingram, whether
whether or wall paper cost 10 cents or s.
a piece, whether our furniture is of the
most costly wood, elaborate carved and
covered with the most expensive mate
rials. whether our curtains are of the
finest lace or richest damask, but ratheI
that our combinations of colors are har


monious. that our furniture is solid anC
substantial, and in fact, that our room


has a cozy, comfortable look which
pives some hint as to the character o


its owner, and which seems 10 extend 1


large and liberal welcome.
Year: 1873

TIE referenc suit to determine the
rightful possession Of Eva Grifiimg, a
young quadroon. who was adopted and
taken from her parents in the South, IN
her infancy, by Frederick GrifiiDg Of
Brooklyn, and whose mother has been
seeking to obtain possession of her, was
decided IN favor OF Grifhing on Tuesday.
The girl, now about 16, is decidedly
averse to leaving her happy home IN
Brooklyn for a hovel with her mother
in he South