smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

On tho 'th, after slight meal which afterward saved
them from pcrishing, they pursued their course
through some foot hills vergng toward the noun
tains


They were soon discovered by the swarming bands
OF Indians that moving eastward the plans,
toward Crooks camp and had ride at full speed for
the mountains.


CHASE THEM.


The scouting party mounted and galloped toward the
mountains, the Sioux yelling as they caught a glimpse
OF them like hounds tho scent They seemed to bo
distanccd In the race, but had broken into
Two bodies and were making double circuit
To gain the high points which they knew the pursued
must pass The scouting party climbed the outer ridge
and we're approaching shelter about noon, trotting
quietly through ravne, when suddenly


FIFTY SHOTS
was poured from the surrounding rocky slopes
where the savagcs were masscd while many more
of them charged down them like fury Every man
of the lttlo party felt despair chilling him. They
wheeled and gaopcd for the timber the valley fol-
lowed by vollcy; before they reached shelter three
horses we're wounded


DESPERATE ExPEDIEyr.


A brief council held and by the advice OF tho
guides they determined attempt to escape further
into the mountains, leaving thcr horses to engage
the attention OF the Sioux tied to the trees All the
ammunition taken from the saddles. The party
then moved stcalthiy from the ground and dashed
behind the projecting rocks The Sioux did not see
them. and they climbed up and up slippery
prccpiccs until exhausted While resting they heard
firing recommence louder than ever, and knew all
their horses would probably be killed and be sorry
price for their captors


Their hunger was great as they had abandoned all
their rations From dusk they scrambled along tho
sides OF the mountains all tho night About dawn on
the 9tn they reached the bank OF Tongue River.


WORN OFT
that they could not ford the swift and deep current
They therefore MD themselves in the thckets and
were left One OF them crazcd by exhaustion
and fear few miles further south tho Sioux
were seen, but luckily, the iugitivcs escaped obser.
vation.


SAFE AT LAST.


Four miles from camp packer, who was hauling
oancd his mule to one OF the scouts, and news was
carried to Colonel Royal, who was commanding
during General Crooks absence on hunt Two
companies Of cavalry sent with horses 10
bring them in. Before meeting the relief they were
so Iatgued they could only march 100 yards without
dropping TO the ground


The scene Of thi desperate adventure is shown on
the map published today and shows tho vigilance of
tho Indian enemy.
Year: 1876

TO THE EDITOR THE HERALD


am poor girl, but like what you gentlemen call
pluck bravery. Poor General Custer had plenty OF
It. am sorry he was killed so by those ugly Indians.
lncosed send ten cents. Let every girl and boy do
The samc and fine monument can be raised What
about the poor widows of the soldiers who butch
cred Will you allow me to propose that the monu-
mcnt to be raised shall consist of magnificent build
ing be called the Custer Monument Home' for The
widows and children OF all soldiers who may be
killed in our with the Indians Money enough
be raised to endow it. and have no doubt but this
style of monument will be received with greater favor
than pile OF stone brass remain yours,


MARY MUNRO,
Year: 1876

TO THE EDITOR OF TIRE HERALp:-


Papa gave mo $40 this morning for my pocket money
during the VACATION aud send II to you to help build
the monument to The brave Custer and his gallant
] am only little boy of ten; but when go back to
my school at ST. Johns will try and get our boys 10
contribute for think everybody ought to show how
much they mourn the loss of such splendid soldier


GOUVERNEUR NORRIS CARNOCHAN.
Year: 1876

&Relow win be found the contents Of few from the
many letters received yesterday. The sentiment per-
sading them is OF unms,akable admiration and
gret for the man who SO often led his victory
and only met defeat in death.
Year: 1876

In the Confederate archives there
has just been discovered letter from
The present Chief Clerk of one of the
.Comptroller's Offices in the Treasury,
to a person connected with the Con-
federate State Government, recon-
:mending the bearer of that letter to
office in the Confederacy. The result
of that letter was, that the person
who presented it was appointed. The
writer of the letter has been for a
great many years prominent officer
in the Treasury Department, of
known Democratic affiliations. His


loyal ty was more than once doubted
during the War. His associations
since have been with many of the
pronounced opponents of Republican
ism and the Union. He has been
suspected by associate officers in the
Treasury OF having furnished secret


Information to Democratic investiga-
ting committees in violation of De.
partment regulations. and it is notice
able that while the salaries of all of.
6cers of corresponding rank have
been: reduced from 10 to 40 per cent.
his salary has been reduced by the
Democrats but 800.
Year: 1876

The President, in conversation with
gentleman a few days since, told
the true story of the madman who
has recently given such romantic tes.
timony before the Committee on Ex-
penditures IN the Interior Department.
The President says that he was con-
scious for many weeks that he was
being shadowed, that he could leave
the White House without finding this
maniac turn upon him at some street
corner and lower upon him with his
raving eyes. This espionage became
intolerable, and the President one
day stopped the man and told him
that it must cease or he would have
him arrested. 1t did not cease, and
the President, in his walks, carried q
cane.


The madman still continued to
haunt the White House grounds and
the streets, and was finally taken to
the asylum. He had been there but
q short time, when his friends here
told the authorities that they would
take him to his home in Ireland, If
he should be released. The request
was Immediately granted, and he was
sent to Ireland.
Year: 1876

"A gentleman visited an unhappy
man in Jail waiting his trial. 'Sir,"
said the prisoner, tears running down


his cheeks, II had good home ed
ucation !: it was my street education
ruined me. I used to slim out Of the
house and go of with the boys in the
street. In the street 1 learned to
lounge in the street I learned to
swear in the street I learned to
smoke; in the street I learned to gam
bic; in the street learned to pilfer.
Oh, sir, it is in the street the devil
Turks to work the ruin of the youngT
Year: 1876

"A subscription paper was lately
circulated with the following object
in view: 1--WE subscribe and pay
the amount set against our names for
the purpose of paying the organist
and boy to blow the samep'
Year: 1876

WE clip the following from the
Osceola Outline, as applicable to
Republicans of this county, as we'll:


During the coming contest we
hope to see the Republicans of Os-
ceola county standing firmly togeth-
er in support Of their whole ticket.
This is the safest and best course to
pursue, as we are satisfied that great
care will be taken to nominate the
best men in the party. The issues
at stake in the Fall are of more
than usual Importance, and any di-
vision will only encourage defeat.
We also, trust that every effort will
be made to maintain harmony and
good feeling, and that all sections
of the county will be found work
ing together for the general good. .
Year: 1876

THE news of the nomination OF
Gov. Hayes as candidate for Presi-
dent was received all over the
country with expressions of salts
faction. Large and enthusiastic
ratification meetings arc being held,
and the evidence is daily growing
stronger, that no better choice could
have been made.
Year: 1876

THE Constitution of the United States
lodges the appointment of all officers
created by law with the Executive. The
only exception made is in regard to minor
appointments, which Congress may by law
vest in the heads of Departments or the
courts of lsw-never in the Congress nor
in either House thereof, nor in the law
making power of the Government at all.
We notice that both Houses of the Con-
gress are becoming oblivious of this pro-
vision. They assume to name persons in
the bills which they originate with refer
ence to the government of this District
who shall be commissioners or provide for
their appointment by the presiding Off
GERS of the two Houses. OF course, any
Executive will feel bound to disapprove
legislation of this character. His oath of
Office will compel it. Why shoul1 the
Congress render it necessary?
Year: 1876

ately telegraphed to Mr.. Chairman Clymer
pronouncing the same as unqualifedly
false" and without even the slightest
shadow of foundation in fact, and stated,
also, that he could so brand the calumny to
the fullest satisfaction of the Clymer COM
mittee if the Honorable chairman" would
only give him the opportunity by having
him subp9naed before that body of Confed-
crate ez parte inquisitors. But, of course,
no such subpoena has or ever will issue, for
it is not the truth that the Democratic
party is after. 1t has President to elect
between now and next March, and if it
prosecutes the work according to the die
tstes of its own conscience truth must and
will be, by any and all means, gagged and
suppressed. 1t seems very hard, however,
that this testimony of McCook, which is,
unquestionably, as General Reynolds pro-
nounced it to be, call false" should be
published without the denial or without
giving the slandered party a chance to say
q wordE but, when we come to consider
the fact that it is not the truth which our
SOAlSucIdtc SOuSTtSS COuultIccS dlC oAISAJ
and that they are simply seeking restora-
ton to power, there is no reason to feel
surprised at all Those who know General
Reynolds, and who worked with him in
Texas reconstruction times can testify to
the impartial, able and honest way in
which he discharged the onerous duties of
commanding officer of the Fifth Military
District, and they can only express their
regret with the General that Chairman
Clymer will not allow him to come before
his committee, as then we would have the
satisfaction of giving to the public addi-
tional proof, from a well known, exalted
and most reliable source, of the base and
villainous efforts which the Copperheads
of the North and the Ku. .Klux of the South
are now making, through their doughface
and Confederate representatives in Con-
gress, to secure the reinstatement of the
late emancipated negroes of the South by
the election of Democrat to the Chief
Magistracy of the nation.
Year: 1876

Ii THE DEMOCRATS desire to carry the
next Presidential election the country
would like to know what use that party
intends to make of the appointing power.
Is the appointing power of the Democrats
as exercised in the present House of Rep
resentatives to be taken by the country as
a specimen OF what they intend to do in
the event of their success this coming cleo
tion2 Ifthe people of this country are to
Judge the Democratic party by the prece-
dents set by them within the last few
months, under the lease of power given
them in one branch of the n ational Legis-
lature, they can safely conclude, with the
Democratic party in full blast, that the i'm
portant administrative positions will be
filed by that party by those who can fur
nish the strongest evidence of their hatred
of the flag of their country, or such as have
named their sons after the most notorious
assassins, or those who can furnish
the greatest number of indictments
preferred against them by the courts
of the country, charging them with
larceny, perjury and arson, while the





Xxx Robbins, vendors of infected clothing,
Sons of Liberty, Knights of the Golden
Circle, White Leaguers, Ku Klux and the
devil Is 1t any wonder that such Demo
Gratis as Hill, with this record of his psrty
in the present House of Representatives
spurring him on, should point with pride
to the roll of the Georgia penitentiary for
honored names, or that Tucker, with the
Cabinet position of Postmaster General in
expectancy, should unblushingiy proclaim
from his seat in Congress that it was his
opinion as lawyer that State had the
right to authorize justice of the peace to
open the United States mails, to take there
from and destroy all such mail matter as in
their opinion was not calculated to increase
the happiness and prosperity of its citizens9
The country can tolerate Cox on Sunset"
'bellowing hyenas, ''Dry up, Blaine"
with an addends of "shoo fly" but this
kind of Democracy it desires to take at
long intervals and in homeopathic doses.
Year: 1876

notes of the charmer. It would like 10 sell
out to some one, but, alas, there are none to
buy. Like little match vendor with her
matches the young editor goes out crying,
"an organ, an organ, who'll buy an organ!
None but possible Presidents need apply"


The Boston critics claim that Anna Dickin-
son has met both with dramatic and financial
success as an actress. Because the New York
critics were piqued and wrote her down
severely, 1t is no positive indication that she
has failed. The public is the final arbiter
when critics disagree, and it will decide as to
the merits of Miss Dickinson.


The pin-back and the corset having failed
to kill the ladies of Mississippi, they have
gone to chewing snuff. With suicidal energy
they have thrown away their spruce gum, and
taken to Scotch with q vengeance. The
physicians are becoming alarmed over the
prevalent use Of 1t, and claim that it is ere
ating sad havoc with the prospects of an in
crease of native Mississippians.
Year: 1876

WE ARE in receipt of divers communi-
cations respecting the late employees of
the Bureau of Engraving and Printing,
from which it would seem that the old,
suffering employees have not been gen.
orally re-employed, but that their places
have either been filled by new and mex
perienced hands or have not been filled at
all. As these people are in certain sense
the wards Of the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
We shall feel it incumbent upon us to in
vestigate the matter and ascertain with
what fairness the late destitute furloughed
have been treated, and who, if any, are at
fault in the selection of new appointees.
Year: 1876

After drifting about for four years hither
and thither in the sea of political endeavor,
the New York Tribune at last finds itself
aground. For three months past, with the
voice Of a velvet-tongued siren, the successor
of Mr.. Greeley has chanted his music of fat
terry to the great political leaders of both
parties, but they have turned deaf ear to the
Year: 1876

DR.. Hall, in one of his "Health
Tracts" gives few reasons why mar
riage is favorable to health. Bachelors
are always in a state of unrest. They
feel unsettled. If indoors after supper,
there is a sense of sOIitariness, inducing
sadness, if not settled melancholy,
with all its depressing influences. And
many, many hours in the course of the
year are spent in gloomy inactivity,
which is adverse to a good digestion
and to vigorous and healthy circula-
ton. His own chamber or house being
so uninviting, the bachelor is inclined
to seek divertion outside-in suppers
with friends, in clubs which are intro
ductories to intemperance and licen-
tiousness, or to those more unblushing
associations, which, under the cover of
darkness, lead to the speedy ruin of
health aud morals; and when these are
gone, the way downward to an un-
timely grave is rapid and certain. On
the other hand, marriage lengthens a
mans life by it's making home inviting
by the softening influences which it
has upon the character and the affec-
tiOns-by the cultivation of all the bet
ter feelings of our nature, and in that
proportion saving from vice and crime.





of the physical functions of our nature
without marriage. 1t is necessary to
the perfect man-for Divinity has an
nOunced that it was mot good for man
to be alone" Marriage gives a laudable
and happy object in life-the provision
for wife and children, their present COM
fort aud their future welfare, the enjoy
ment in witnessing their happiness,
and the daily and hourly participation
in the atfectionate interchange of
thought and sentiment and sympathy.
These are the considerations which an
tagonize sorrow and tighten the burdens
of life-thus strewing flowers and cast
ing sunshine all along it's pathway.
VOltaire said: "The more married men
you have, the fewer crimes there will
be-" Marriage renders a man more
wise. An unmarried man is but half of
perfect being, and it requires the other
half to make things right. And it can
not be expected that in this imperfect
state he can keep the straight path of
rectitude, any more than a boat with
one oar can keep straight course. In
nine cases out of ten, where married
men become drunkards, or where they
commit crimes against the peace of the
community, the foundation of these acts
was laid while in a single state, or
where the wife is, as is sometimes the
case, an unsuitable match. Marriage
changes the current of mans feelings,
and gives him a center for his thoughts,
his affections, and his acts. Here is a
home for the entire man. The counsel,
the affection, the example, and the in
terest of the "better half" keep him
from erratic courses, and from falling
into a thousand temptations to which
he would otherwise be exposed. There
fore the friend to marriage is the friend
! to society and to his country
Year: 1876

soon shorn from her large, shapely
head, leaving the features so changed
that she appeared much more like boy
than girl.


"If 1 only had pantaloons and boots,
and coat and hat, now, I'd be all
right" she said, viewing her changed
countenance with satisfaction.


"There's an old suit here, left by my
brother when he outgrew it, that will
just fit you. You may have it and well
come"


The transformation was complete.
Before night Madge found situation as
waiter in a hotel, with salary of ten
dollars per week, and a business that
occupied her just half of the time that
she would have been obliged to employ
every day at half the wages, had she
engaged herself to work as woman.


The second day of her employment at
her new avocation had well nigh passed
by as the first had done, without espe-
cial incident outside of her business,
when she was thrown into a tremor of
excitement and fear by observing,
among the many guests who sat at one
table, upon which it was her province
to wait, the very man from whom she
was hiding. Her voice trembled
slightly as the long rigmarole of eata-
bles the head stewart had told her to
name to each guest was rapidly called
over, but her husband failed to recog-
nize her, and ehe soon regained her
usual self-control.


She watched him disappear in the bar
room, and drew long sigh of relief,
when again she was startled by the sud-
den advent of stranger who had just
alighted from coach, and who took a
seat at table and hurriedly gave his or
ders without waiting for her rigmarole
of roasts, stews, fricassees, and so forth.


GAS I live, it's Mr.. Morrison ~
thought Madge. "And he and George
will meet and there will be terrific
encounter. o, my God, why is it that
I, an innocent party, must suffer, as
though 1 were guilty, the terrible
wrongs of these men, who are both
comparative strangers to me?"
| ITO be continued.]
Year: 1876

l couldn't stand it any longer. 1
knew it would make me sick. l looked
across at the Deacon, kind of appeal
ingly, and he took the hint and sat
over, and slipped into the seat beside
him. Nobody else knew why l moved.
The smell of hair restorative in a close
church is bad enough, but that 'long
side of tobacco smoke made close prox-
unity intolerable.


Now, last fall, at the association,
some of the brethren got up resolutions
against the use of tobacco-sCmething
about requiring them to abandon the
use of it altogether. / voted against
it. / thought we had no right to die
tate to others what they should eat,
drink, or wear; that if a man chose to
wear a filthy wad of tobacco inside his
mouth it was no concern of ours, no
more than if he wore his trowsers
wrong side behind, or his coat wrong
end up.


But yesterday, at church, felt like
reconsidering my vote. 1t did seem too
bad that one mans breath should poison
the whole inside of a meeting-house;
that we should all come in out of
the fresh, crisp, bracing air on this
sunny Sabbath day to be met with a
uduS6dGIuB SJ6DC0s


How tObacco-chewer or smoker can
unblushingly mingle among men not
given to filthy habits, and come into
the presence of women-sensitive, deli
cate, refined women-is past my COM
prehensiOn. A man would be hooted at
who would sit down among ladies and
craunch raw onion, or eat a smoked
herring, or pick the meat off mutton
bone that was old enough to have been
buried a week before; aud yet, none of
these are any worse than the breath of
the man who chews or smokes tobacco.


We have all seen women riding in
carriages while the gentleman accom-
panying them smoked as vigorously as
the chimney of a gas mandatory. We
always thought that those were the
ladies to associate with such gentlemen;
that ''like loves like.n


Just as granny and the deacon and I
were starting to church last Sabbath, a
newly-wedded pair passed US, tilting
along in new carriage. They looked
pretty, bright and cheerful, and happy,
and we've going to make their appear
ance that day. Positively, her veil had
real hazy, blue, Indian-summery
look, just because of the cloud of smoke
that enveloped the married couple. L
laughed at Lily, who stood waiting to
wrap US up comfortably.


"Why," said she, "do look at that
bridei She must be intensely and
blindly married to submit to such treat
ment. She will be as well smoked as a
last years jowl before they make their
appearance, Pm afraid" ."-PipissieUd
| Potts in the Home MIQGzine,
Year: 1876

BEAUY NOT A REQUISITE OF LOVE
There is most affecting and thrilling
story told in illustration of our theme,
of Commodore Barclay, who fought the
battle of Lake Erie against Perry. He
was engaged to be married to a fine
young English girl. At Trafalgar, with
Nelson, he lost an arm. At Lake Erie
he lost leg. On returning to England,
feeling his condition very acutely, he
sent friend to his betrothed to tell her
that, under the circumstances in which
he found himself, he considered her re-
leased from all engagements to him.
The lady heard the message, then said
to the friend edward thinks I may
wish our engagement broken because of
his misfortunes, does he? Tell him
that if he only brings back to England
body enough to hold the soul he carried
away with him, pll marry himw
Year: 1876

OVERWORK.-UnWis above many is
the man who considers every hour lost
which is not spent in reading, writing,
or in study, and not more rational is
she who thinks every moment of her
time lost which does not find her sew
ing. We once heard a great man ad-
wise that book of some kind he carried
in the pocket, to be used in case of an
unoccupied moment-such was his
practice. He died early and fabulous.
There are women, who, after hard
days work, will sit and sew by candle
and gas-light until their eyes are almost
blinded, or until certain pains about the
shoulders come on, which are almost in
supportable, and only driven to bed by
physical incapacity to work any
longer. The sleep of the over-worked,
like that of those who do not work at
all, is unsatisfying and unrefreshing,
and both alike wake up in WEAKNESS,
sadness, and languOr, with an inevita-
BILE result, both dying prematurely.


Let no one work in pain or WEAKNESS.
When man is tired, he ought to lie
down until he is fully rested, when,
with renovated strength, the work will
be better done, done the sooner, and done
with self-sustained alacrity. The time
taken from seven or eight hours sleep
out of each twenty-four, is time not
gained, but time much more than lost;
we can cheat ourselves, but we cannot
cheat Nature. A certain amount Of
food is necessary to healthy body, and
if less than that amount be furnished


decay commences the very hour. 1t is
the same with sleep, and anyone who
persists in allowing himself less than
Nature requires, will only hasten his
arrival at the mad-house or the grave