smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

The Attempt at Suicide in the County.
The old colored preacher, Hampden Vim.
cent, who lives in the neighborhood OF
Gravel Hill, on the old Midlothian road,
was living up to q late hour last evening.
The attempt at suicide made by Vincent on
Saturday morning was not successful. Par
ties who visited the old man yesterday state
that the wound which he inflicted is q severe
and dangerous one, extending across the
throat about three inches; not, however,
reaching the jugular vein. There can be no
doubt Of the fact that Vincent inflicted
these wounds himself whilst laboring under
temporary insanity-Which he has been sub
feet to at times for several years. The ply
sicians who are attending the old man are
doubtful about his recovery. His condition
was very serious at o late hour yesterday.
Year: 1876

!. The CANvAss.-At the meeting of the
City Conservative Committee to be held tc-
night various important and interesting
matters relating to the canvass in this dis
trict are to be considered and disposed of.


A convention or primary election will
have to be held to nominate candidate for
the House of Delegates in place Of Judge
Crump, resigned. Several candidates are
already in the field.
Year: 1876

pS-NoTICE TO CAPTAINS OF VESSELS ENTERING
THE PORT OF NEW YORK AT NIGHT.-Tho NRw YORK
HERALD has adopted distinguishing Coson signal for
board the HERALD steam yacht showing white burn
ing the colos red red changing from the other
In succession and be several miles distant
ains of vessels upon seeing this signal will obss by
preparing any marine they may have for the Ship
News Department OF the HERALD


nPcrsons desrous OF communicating with vessels Arrlv
ing New York do bY addressing such vessels
of HERALD yacht pier No East River New York
Letters received from all parts of tho world and promptly de-
liyered Duplicates are required
Year: 1876

GOOD ADvIcE.-Two Roman Catholic
prelates have recently given utterance 10
sentiments which while intended for their
fiocks alone are not without value for the
rest OF us. Bishop Hendricken Of Provi-
dence has written letter 10 dlssuade the
Irish among us who are suffering from the
hard times from returning to ireland. His
advice to them is TO stay where they are
and wait for better days, or else "go West"
The Bishop of st John recently addressed
his people on the great good those who have
10 depend on precarious employment for
the means of support would do themselves
and their families II, instead OF clinging to
the cities and towns they would go into the
country and settle on well selected farms.
He described the condition of those in the
towns, sometimes earning good wages but
often out of employment and unable 10
procure the necessaries OF life, crowded in
filthy lanes and alleys, in garrets and eel
lars, working in mills, at the wharves, in
the sewers and trenches, harder than the
farmers ever work, but never attaining an
independence while in many cases their
children, allowed TO run on the streets in
idleness, were destroyed body and soul,
lost to God, to their parents and to society,
or scattered as they grew up, leaving their
parents helpless and comfortless in their
old age. He would not advise any one who
was comfortably settled TO break up his
home, but those who depend on their daily
labor would do infinitely better on good
farms than they can ever do in the city.
They would in few years be Independent.
God would so bless their labors that no
matter what the state of the lumber market
or any other market may be, they
would always have plenty, and what is of
far greater importance, they would see
their children grow up around them en-
gagged in honest industry, far removed
from the vices and temptations of the city.
They should go on the land, occupy and
own il for themselves aud their children.
Year: 1876

A VISIT TO BETHANY.-We went on over
the hill TO Bethany; we had climbed up by
the path on which David fed from Absa-
lom, and we were TO return by the road of
the Triumphal Entry. All along the ridge
we enjoyed a magnificent panorama; a
blue piece of the Dead Sci, the Jordan plain
extending far up towards Hermon with the
green ribbon of the river winding through
it, and the long, even range of the Moab
hills, blue in the distance. The prospect
was almost Swiss in lis character, but it is
mass OF bare hills, with scarcely a tree
except in the immediate foreground, and
so naked and desolate as TO make the heart
ache II would be entirely desoisle but for
the deep blue OF the sky and an atmosphere
that baihes all the great sweep of peaks
and plains in color.


Bethany is a squalid hamlet clinging 10
the rocky hillside, with only one redeem-
ing feature about 1.-THE prospect. \ few
wretched one story huts of stone, and a
miserable handful of Moslems, occupy this
f3vorite home aud resting place Of our
Lord. Close at hand, by the roadside, cut
in the rock and reached by steep descent
oftwenty-six steps, is the damp and doubt
ful tomb OF Lazarus, down into which any
one may go for half franc paid to the
Moslem guardian. The house of Mary and
Martha is exhibited among the big rocks
and fragments Of walls; upon older foun-
datons loose walls are laid, rudely and re-
Gently patched up with cut stones in frag-
ments and pieces of Roman columns. The
house OF Simon the leper, overlooking the
whole, is a mere heap of ruins. 1t does
not matter, however, that all these dwell
ings are modern; this is Bethany, and
when we get away from its present wretch
ed ness we remember only that we have
seen the very place that Christ loved.


We returned along the highway of the
Entry slowly, to identify the points Of that
memorable progress, up to the crest where
Jerusalem broke upon The sight OF the
Lord, and whence the procession, coming
round the curve of the hill, would have the
full view of the city. He who rides that
way to-day has grand prospect. One finds
Jerusalem most poetic when seen from
olivet, and Olivet most lovely when seen
from the distance of the city walls Charles
Dudley Warner; October Atlantic.
Year: 1876

GIVE HIM A CHANCE.-There is such q thing


crowding man; and when this becomes ap-
parent, he becomes an object Of pnblic sympathy.
This seems to be what they are just now doing
to John Speer, of Lawrence. He was one of the
earliest pionsers of Kansas, and endured his share
Of the troubles of those dark days. Since then
he has had sorrows crowded upon him enough to
oSerwhelm almost any mortal. Two sons mur-
dered and their bodies burned by Quantrelrs
gang another son accidentally killed lost
faithful wife, after years of suffering from pain
full disease, aggravated by domestic sorrow
son-in-lsw crushed to death on railroad; him
self the victim of political sharks and leeches,
who made him defaulter and a criminal; his
home given mp to satisfy his creditors leaving
him a pauper-and yet there are some men who
seem to be intent upon Kicking what is left of
the poor fellow. He received the Republican
nomination for State Senator in Douglas County,
and, Notwithstanding one of the bitterest fights
in the party ever made against man, he was
defeated by bare majority by one of the most
popular men in the County. But this does not
seem to satisfy his prosecutors, who still keep
kicking him. And now he has turned at bay,
and is giving some of them such thrusts as must
make them fairly howl. We say, fair play.
Having made pauper of the man, and defeated
him for Office, and revied him over the graves Of
his household, at least give him achance to make q
living for himself the few years he has yet ailot-
ted to him. His services in the past entitle
him to that, at least.
Year: 1876

a That distinguished statesman, Jacob Weis-
bach, of Frankfort, ex-csndidate of the Green
hackers for Congress, has already promulgated
his platform for the next Presidential campaign,
the first feature of which is Money Reform. We
are with Jacob on this plank; and now, if he
will only begin the reform by sending MS the .
that he owes us, and for which we have been
boring him in vain for the past two years, We
shall have some faith in his platform.
Year: 1876

vious and most natural Interpretation
is that he was willing Seymour
should be nominated, in spite of
the certainty that no would decline, as fur
tive means of fulfilling his promises to DORIS
heimer if the party should insist on voting
for Seymour in spite of his refusal, or of
controlling the new nomination afterward
if it should devolve on the State Committee.
Governor Tilden can clear himself from
these damaging suspicious only by active
efforts to get the vacancy in the ticket filled
and exerting himself to have it
that of Mr.. Dorsheimer. Dorsheimer
might have been a very good name to
put at the head of the ticket in the first in
stance; but if, after all that has happened,
it should be placed there now, nobody could
be made to believe that this whole scan
dalous fasco was not maneuvre by Cover
nor Tilden to accomplish that result. But
what may be done or attempted now to re-
trieve the situation will probably make but
little difference. The democratic party, by its
stupendous folly, seems to have flung away
all it's chances When the Presidential cam
vass opened Governor Tilden's prospects
seemed as bright as Franklin Pierce's were
in 1852, but it begins to look now as if he is
fated to fall under the same public con-
demnation while he is yet o candidate that
overlook poor Buchanan in the final year of
his term.
Year: 1876

The WAR IN TURKEY, if we may call
Scrvia part of Turkey, is problem Of
which the solution will never be by battle.
The determination of the question must be
by diplomacy. The Servians and the other
allied Slavonic peoples are only pawns in
the game of Continental chess which the
Powers of Europe play. Our information
this morning shows that the situation is be-
coming complicated. There is the third
Sultan in less than three months, and there
is no prospect of peace.
Year: 1876

Polo IN THs ARMY.-We print this morn
ing a communication upon the value of the
game of polo in the army and West Point.
Our correspondents observations are called
out by letter on the same subject which
we printed the other day. The point of the
argument, both of the Cavalry Officer" and
"Ziothen' is that polo teaches its players
that perfection of horsemanship, that un-
conscious knowledge and command Of the
horse, without which there can be no good
cavalry. They also show that for the real
purposes of drill game, with its emulations
and rewards, will be more efficient than hard,
steady, grinding drill. The subject, as pre-
sented by our correspondents, is worthy of
the careful attention of our instructors at
West Point and the officers of our cavalry
regiments
Year: 1876

POVERTY Horatio Seymour is good
man-wise, upright, just but it is an awful
admission for q great party that it has but
one man with whom it dare venture its can
vass. Yet this is tho admission made by tho
democracy in the Empire State when it en-
deavors to force man into obedience to its
will by making for him painful position in
which he must either appear to his party as
o traitor or to the country as buffoon whose
most SOLEMN declaration is an empty jest
Year: 1876

An APPEAL TO MR SEYMoUR's PATRIOTISM
in such a crisis as this is even more remorse-
less than his nomination against his widely
known wishes. He has always been too
thoroughly devoted to his party to fail it in
an emergency like the present. but had his
acceptance of the nomination been possible
it would have been indicated before the
adjournment of the Convention, nor would
the nomination have been followed with
another refusal.
Year: 1876

A CHASTITY STORY of religious delusion,
resulting in insanity and assassination,
comes from Arkansas. The Cobbites, q new
sect of religious fanatics, attract attention
by numbering a neighbor. Why people
should commit murder in the name Of One
who inculcated above all things love to ones
fellow men is one of those strange anomalies
which it is difficult to explain but religious
insanity does not differ from other kinds,
except perhaps in being more ferocious.
Year: 1876

'Ir Is UTTERLY impossible for me to be-
come the candidate for Governor" So says
Horatio Seymout, but the democrats assume
that by mere stolid persistency they will
compel this gentleman to recede from po-
sition that he deems due to his dignity and
self-respect. This is not the attitude of q
great party
Year: 1876

WALL STREET YESTERDAY
was only moderately active on q rather quiet
market Gold opened at no Is and de-
clined to 100 49, Recovering subsequently
it closed at 10. Money on call was easy at
l 1-2 per cent. Government and railroad
bonds were in fair request and generally
firm.
Year: 1876

IT Is USELESS to attempt to parry the
blow which the Saratoga Convention dealt
to the democracy of this State by holding
out hope of Mr.. Seymour's final accept
ance of the nomination. His acceptance at
this late day wonld not repair the evil which
befell the party by the unwise action Of the
Convention.
Year: 1876

TIE MEN who controlled the Saratoga Con.
vention on Wednesday and Thursday ought
to step down and out after their unfortunate
fiasco and give the wiser and ADLER leaders
of the party an opportunity to come to the
front
Year: 1876

AM NOMINATION the Convention could
have made would have given the democratic
party stronger candidate for Governor than
it is possible to obtain now after MIR. Sey-
mour's final refusal.
Year: 1876

THE SICK CHILDREN of this great city de-
serve the attention of the generous public,
and the facts elsewhere published in regard
to their needs and the methods proposed for
their relief should be considered by oil be-
nevolent citizens
Year: 1876

IT WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE to convince tho
democracy of this State that the remorseless
nomination of Horatio Seymour was not o
trick to give the naming of the candidate to
the State Committee.
Year: 1876

ONE OF THOSE PAINFUL EVENTS when
criminal receives his punishment is reported
to-day, in the case of Hillary Page, who was
hanged in Virginia yesterday, and admitted
that his sentence was just AS usual, the
machinery of the scaffold was imperfect, and
the death of the wretched man was painful
and slow. The rope is relic Of barbarism.
If the penalty of crime is death it should
be instant We should not torture oul
criminals,
Year: 1876

Governor TndeA's Connection with the


Fiasco.


IT is asserted by some Of the democratic
organs that Governor Tilden yesterday sent
an urgent letter to Mr.. Seymour, assuring
him that he had nothing to do with the
nominations made at Saratoga. but imploring
him, in view Of the situation, to yield his
objections and consent to let his name
remain at the head of the ticket. If Gov
ernor Tilden has written such Letter
it is a new blunder. 1t is suspected on
plausible grounds that the present grave
crisis is the fruit of his underhand manage
ment, and he would merely confirm the sus
picion by inducing Seymour to stand. II
would be interpreted as fresh effort b
carry out the original programme for max
ing Dorsheimer Governor of the Stats
not be nominated by the Convention.
The people will not tolerate an at
tempt to smuggle Dorsheimer into the
Governorship behind respectable stalking
horse. They know too well that every vots
for Seymour would be really vote fol
OCTSuelmcI, DSCduoC OSy AAVoA AoAAuAO w
qualify for the office would necessarily put
the Lieutenant Governor in the Execu-
tive chair. Governor Tilden is ths
one man who cannot afford to have this
game played. 1t would knock the
whole democratic ticket, Presidential as
well as State, ''higher than kite" 1t may
not be possible to save the State at all; but
in any event the most open and straight
forward course is the best Let everything
that is attempted be done fairly and above
board. If Dorsheimer is the real candidate
for Governor let him be named as such by
the regular action of the party and
then take his chances on his own merits.
He will be the worst beaten candidate
that ever ran for an Office if Seymour can be
persuaded to act as political decoy duck OF
q fgurehead to give an air Of respectability
to political trick. Perhaps the great
trouble with Mr.. Tilden is that he dabbled
with clay to make four Governors when
there was place for but one.
Year: 1876

stored in the navy yards. but exhausted within
perPd OF SIX mo tbs through the rapid building Of
ships Which we're then urgently required Green tim
Der OF necessity used the construction OF Others
aud these. after service Of n few years,
rotted away and became totally useless to the
service With this experience In view he believed that
the wisdom OF the pursued In this connection
was thoroughly established. With regard to the OF
old material, and having it re-rolled for in
building the ron-clads, no said that was the best
and most advantageous use the goverpmen. could
make OF it; that IL was contrary to law. That
whole question had been presented TO and dered
and approved of by tho Appropriation Committee OF
the last Congress at the time he entered upon the
repair OF the ron-clads, and that appropriations had
been made for less amount, with the express under
standing that this material was to be so used.


sCHUMAKER AND KING.


The House Committee on the Judiciary today con.
sidercd the case OF Congressman Schumacher and King
In connection with tho Pacific Mail subsidy
It has been long subject of discussion
among the members OF this committee
whether this Congress had any power inquire into
the character of It's members previous their election
The question was settled by decisive vote Of the
mtee that the House did have the right TO examine
into the Pacific Mail transaction, in order to determine
whether Messrs. Schumaker and King shall be allowed
retain their There only against this
determination, that OF Proctor Knott, the chairman.
Two members absent-Messrs McCrary and
Lynde. The former would have voted in the afr
Tho committee also decided that il would
be useless to waste It's time with this when it is
already overbudened with work. and decided TO refer
the testimony taken by the Ways and Means Commit
tee In the investigation to tie Committee on Civil
Service Reform for further investigation and report
Year: 1876

VISITS TO THE COOPER UNION, ACADEMY OF


DESIGN, &C.


His Majesty the Emperor OF Brazil devoted the early
hours yesterday morning visit OF inspection to tho
Western Union Telegraph building, he had arranged.
The managers would have rather His Majesty had
chosen hour, when he could have the inst
tuition In iu working order, but he was moro anxious
to acquant himself with the system than to be
amused or interested by what merely pictorial
His Majesty devoted nearly hours to the nspec-
ton of the machines and in making inquiries into the
system followed He was very much pleased
with the great scale on which the telegraph
worked and somewhat surprised at the great uses
made OF it by the people means OF communication.
After breakfast His Majesty, accompanied by the Bra
lillian Minister Conselhero Borges, visited Columbia
College and atcrward the Cooper Institute, where he
was received oy the venerable Peter Cooper and
corted by him through the building. From here His
Majesty went to the Practical Department OF the Ma
tona Bank Note Company where the secret process
Of money making duly explained. Here His
Majesty presented with a very choice
collection OF minerals by Mr. W. L. Hidden,
Of the employees, which His Majesty
was gracousy pleased to accept. visit was after
ward made TO the Astor Library, the rest OF the
afternoon being devoted careful inspection OF the
loan collection Of pictures at the Metropolitan Museum
of Art and at the Academy of Design. This evening
their Majeses will attend the performance Of "Romeo
and Juliet at the Academy OF Music ON Sunday
evening they will DO present Gilmores Garden when
New Workers will have opportunity OF hearing the
Centennial hymn imposed, by command OF His
Majesty, by Carlos Gomez the great Brazilian
musician. It will be rendered by Gimores Military
Band, strongly reinforced by string instruments
Year: 1876

The following record will show the changes In the
temperature for the past twcntyfo four hours, in


parson with the corresponding date OF last year, a.
Indicated by the thermometer At Hudnuts pharmacy,
Year: 1876

AZ n meeting OF the Police Board yesterday Sergeant
Robb of the Eighth precinct was transferred to the
Second inspection district Tor duty aide.


The eie tion advertising awarded the Tribune
and World those papers being the lowest bidders
Tho Superintendent was directed TO detail thirty
pa,rolmen At Creedmoor during the Centennial rifle
match.


The case OF Captain Robbins was dismissed
Year: 1876

If there is anybody on whom we
lavish onr sympathy in this wide,
wide world it is Jack Brundage, edit
or cf the Grand Rapids Tribune Jack
has said some awful tough things
about TiIden-things as true as they
we're tough; and he even went way to
St. Louis 20 help beat 'sSlippery Sam.
'out Of nomination, but he failed.
And now he comes back to his news
paper to sit in cave Of gloom and eat
his dish of ''old crow" It is to bad,
Jack, but, cheer up, my boy, support
him like little democratic man. In
a democratic convention men like Sam
TiIden will beat any honest man out of
nomination, but when he gets into the
field, the people make short Of all "re-
formers of his stripe. The ''bar'l OF
money, don't go great ways then.
Console yourself that tho nominated
he cannot be elected, and after election
it will be fun for you to remark to the
boys q told you so"--Dunn Co.
NelCs
Year: 1876

last few days. Tie attendance has
not been very materially diminished
because many Philedelphians have ia
ken refuge from the sweltering city in
the cooler braezes of the Park. Yet
even here Prostration and illness have
resulted from the intolerable tempera-
ture, in a few cases More oe this
weather is to be expected for two or
three weeks to come, and then, when
We get on the shady side Of summer,
and the farmers set their crops secur-
ed, we may expect the whole country to
enjoy a trip hither.
Year: 1876

] know that Centennial things are all
the fashion everywhere, but [ think
San Francisco can beat all the world in
this extreme, when one of our local pa
pers publishes an article from young
America" desiring a wife who can do
her own hOuse-wOrk, washing, ironing,
mending, and ress-making as our
grandmOthers did.


Now Iwonder if this Rip Van Wrinkle
is willing to do as our grandfathers did,
be content to see his wife dressed in pet
ticoat and sack, and eat fried pork and
boiled potatoes for dinner, and bread
and milk for supper, day after day, and
to wear starched bosoms only on Sun
days, and to sleep under cOlOred spreads,
and have calico curtains at the windows
and to bring the water and build the
fires as our fOrefathers did? There is
something very pleasant in the memory
of the old times and the dear grand
fathers and graudmothers, but women
have taken giant stride since those
days; but the fossil man who desires the
old type for wife must not call himself
"Young America" Young American
men must compete with the present
type of American women, and they are
not content with merely physical exer-
| else IN the. kltcneD, Jney are euucaIeu 10
higher place, and if the young man of
the period cannot offer them higher
place, they will surely make for them
| selves position.


This young man goes on to say that
his income is SI25 per month, with
nothing laid by. We would like to ask
| if man is not able to lay by anything
from his salary living alone, how is he
to live on the same salary and support a
wife and perhaps children, or is he one
of these modern men who expects his


wife to earn her part of the expenses by
taking in sewing?


have taken this young mans adver-
| tisement as text for few thoughts;


but he is the common type of our pres
ent young men, who whine about the ex-
pense of marriage. A man who expects
so much from the wife ought to be will
| ing to cobble his own shoes of evenings,


and to do his own tailoring, and fOrego
expensive cigars and clubs, and be a


veritable grandfather himself, if he


wishes a genuine grandmother for a


wife.