smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

RESIDENTS OF HOUSES adjacent to mills
and factories will be interested in the at
tempt begun in the Superior Court yester-
day to stop marble factory's machinery
because it annoyed the occupants of ''The
Albany" apartment house. man might
as we'll try to sleep beside an industrious
cannon, or on the floor above perpetual
democratic ratification meeting, as in some
excellent New York houses that abut upon
manufacturing establishments.


An ArPEAL TO THE BENEvoLEST.-In the
columns of the HERALD to-day will be found
full details of the intense suffering of the
destitute in the great coal field districts of
PENNSYLVANIA and painful pictures of
squalor and misery in our own city. The
intimation that famine is impending shows
the extreme gravity of the situation. 1t has
passed beyond the question of how soon
business will revive. 1t is now n doubt as
10 how many will starve to death mean
while. We repeat our appeal to the bencv-
olent not to leave to organized charitable
associations the entire work of relief, but for
every family to be its own almoner.
And TO those associations we again
,ay that for each family they will discover
IN want they can, immediately find abun-
dant help by making the fact public With
elevators all over the country groaning with
the weight of grain, with the statistics Of the
fall crops staring us in the face, it is dis
grace to Christian land that it should APP
pear in print that fears Of famine are enter
tained in any part of it. We have sent ships
10 Ireland 10 starving men. Let US care for
those of our own household.
Year: 1876

The Direct Cable Company announces
that there will be no increase in the
tariff while the other cables are Grip
pied, but suggests that messages be as
brief az possible to give everybody a
phapnp
Year: 1876

GULF STREAM HEAr.--Simon New
combs Review of "Crolrs Climate and
Time" in the American Journal Of
Science and Arts. for April, SAYS:


''The influence of the Gulf Stream in
modifying the climate of Northeastern
Europe receives especial attention, and
his views of this influence seem quite
veil grounded. We had supposed the
view that the warm and equable climate
of that region was due to the Gulf
Stream to be one universally held, al
though no one had attempted to render
it plausible by an actual calculation of
the amount of heat conveyed by that
stream. This calculation Mr.. Croll has
made, and having reduced his own esti-
mate of the volume of the stream to
one-half, in Difference to the views Of
some of his opponents, he shows that
the amount of heat annually conveyed
away by the stream is equal to the
whole amount which belt of earth,
sixty-four miles broad. extending all
round the equator. receives from the
sun. We make the quantity a little
less, but yet equivalent to more than
the total amount of heat which falls on
a million of square miles ut the equa-
tor. Making all allowances for the un-
certainties of these data, and for the
fact that only one of the two branches
Of the Gulf Stream passes over to
Northeastern Europe. it must be ad-
mitted that the quantity of heat which
that region receives from the Gulf
Stream is not an inconsiderable fraction
Of that which it receives from the sur" I"
Year: 1876

How, as q general thing. your doctors
and lawyers get their first patients and
clients is one of the unsolvcd mysteries
/ know how it was in Bob Whitlow's
case.


Bob, after graduating with honor AT
first class medical college, went out
West and picking out popu!ous and
sickly neighborhcod, pitched his pro-
fessional tent, hung out bis shingle, and
boldly offered himself as the healer OF
the people.


His moderate patrinony was barely
sufficient TO meet the expenses of his
collegiate and medical course, having
his sole dependence for the future on
success in the walk of life which he had
chosen.


A few months convinced him that
the immediate prospect was not very
promising. DIR. Chincough had reigued
there for so many years with undiSpu.
ted sway, that the offer Of a young and
inexperienced practitioner to compete
with him was generally looked upon as
a piece Of impertinencc.


True, the heishboring graveyard dis
closed a mortality out of all proportion
to the population; but nobody attribu.
ted it TO Old Chin, rs some Of the less
respectful called him. / have already
said it was a sickly region, and Old
Chin had happy knack, moreover
when his patients died, Of laying the
blame to Providence, and when they
didn't, of ascribing to himself the glory


AS for my friend Bob Whitlow, Old
Chin simply ignored his existence.


Things began to look blue for Bob
His board bill fell behind, his Office
rent got in arrears, and unless affairs
took speedy turn an unpleasant crisis
must be reached soon.


One day a well dressed young travele,
fell sick ut the village inn. The land.
lord, with whom Bob boarded, would
fain have gotten the latter into the
case, for the stranger had the appear.
ance Of man able to pay, and If Bot
got good fee the prospect of his board
bill being settled would be decidedly
improved.


Accordingly, when the sick man spoke
Of calling q ply sician, the landlord
would have recommended Bob on the
spot; but the stranger going on to say
that he wished to consult q physician
of age and experience, his landlord bad
no alternative bet to name DIR. Chin.
cough.


Call him Immediately said the sicl
man.


Old Chin found the stranger danger
eusly i'll. He invariably found his pa
tients 30. Catch him undertaking th,
difficulty Of . case. He gave assurance
of his ability, however. to bring th.
gentleman around in time, though tn,
process might he slower than could b.
wished.


Strong medicines and plenty of then
was old Chin's rule of faith and prac
tice, aud on it he set to work in tia
present case.


The result was singularly unsuccess
ful. Every SYMPTOM seemed to lie as
Year: 1876

q t6e giant pcxls( m;xture.


The explosive pov1er Of giant powder
Is about the same ~ gun cotton, weight
for weight, but cube for cuba the form.
er far excels the latter, and Is more
generally used for the blasting of rock.
1t has done wonders in advancing the
excavation of tunnels and heavy rock
cuts on railways, and has economized
that class of work at least 100 per cent.
over the old style Of blasting with gun
powder. ts


The success of dynamite, or giant
powder, has caused many adventurers
to make up explosive compounds and,
to some extent, these supposed inn
provements have been more or less dis.
astrous, and destructive to life and pro-
perty. Giant powder cannot be explo.
ded by ordinary handling, and If car.
load was precipitated down . hill a
thousand feet it would not explode. If
you set fire to the carload it would burn
freely, but would not explode. If you
explode large percussion cap in the
midst of the giant powder there will be
an explosion Of the powder. The infn-
soria serves as q cushion to whatever
force may be applied to it, and thus .
sharp or close infringement Of great
power must be made, or an explosion
cannot be effected. The nitro-glycerine
does not leak or evapora.e from this 81
licious earth, and this circumstance
further adds to the safety Of the CON-
pound.


Gunpowder and gun Gotten win ex-
plode by spark, but giant powder will
not in that manner. There must be a
powerful explosive force applied to it,
and hence it is far less dangerous as an
article to handle or transport than any
other explosive. Thomassen, the au-
thor Of the Bremerhaven calamity, knew
the safety of dynamite, and hence he
had arranged his clockwork to let fall a
hammer with the force of so lbs. upon q
percussion cap in the midst Of the pow
der, to effect its explosis4pf41.fisss sss
fall of the cask let 60 the ban I'D
hence the premature result.
Year: 1876

Never take "Come and see me" as a phrase meant in earnest un- less it is accompanied with the date. Such an invitation amounts to nothing at all. Ifa lady or gentleman desires your company he or she will appoint time for your visit. "CaII on me when you can make it convenient" "drop iii as you are passing," "make us a visit whenever you have an hour or two to spare," are social antiquities by which men and women of the world un- derstand that they are not expect ed to do the thing requested.

 When people wish to be cheaply polite there is nothing like this kind of vagueness. The compli- mentary small change of society must always be taken at large discount. It is never worth its face, or any thing like it. Yet it is convenient medium of ex. change, and heavy debts of grati- tude that ought to be requited in better coin are often paid with it. People who have more polish than principle use it lavishly- plain, blunt, honest men sparing- ly or not at all. Whoever makes friendly visit to a fashionable house on the strength of a mere "Come and see me-" will very of. ten find that the family circle h e has dropped into by request is as ungenial as the Arctic circle, and he will probably leave it with chilly feeling that will prevent him from venturing into the same high latitude again. But when a whole-souled man, whom you know to be your friend, grasps you vigorously by the hand and says "Come and dine with me to- day-dinner on the table at five O'clOck-be sure to come, we shall expect you," you can take it as certain that your presence is warmly desired. It is pleasant al- ways to make or receive a visit from a friend, but a nod on the street is all-sufficient from a fash iOnable acquaintance.
Year: 1876

In the course of an admira-
BILE address to the law class of
the Vanderbilt university on
the Goth u't, Judge l.. 7.
Speed told the following an
ecdote, which we think wor-
thy of preservation and per
petuation: "After the com
mencement of June, 1927, at
the university of north. Ala
bama, a single student linger-
ed in the village Of Chapel
Hill, all the rest having re-
turned to their homes. He
had not money enough to car
ry him by public conveyance
to his distant home. He. was
a graduate and was waiting
for a remittance from home,
which a fond father, strug-
Cling with poverty, was en-
deavoring to earn for him..
The remittance came, but it
did not come in time. The
youth grew impatientand de-
termined to walk to his home
in Tennessee. While in a
store one day, buying some
coarse fabric to make him a
knapsack, there was an old
Orange county farmer sitting
on the counter watching his
movements. Young man.
said he, what do yon propose
to do with that cloth?' Il will
have a knapsack made of it.
SIR modestly replied the
youth. DO You propose to-
walk home?' Yes, SIR said
the youth. 'Well,' said the
farmer, 'sueh pluck as yours
will be apt to get along. I
have a good riding horse and
saddle at my home, which
shall be yours as a gift The
youth hesltated. Then said
the farmer, 'if you propose to
buy it, send me one hundred
dollars in four years without
interest-or whenever you are
able to do so outof money you
may earn YOURSELF The bar
gain was struck. The young
man mounted his horse next
morning and went on his way,
rejoicing, and in less Than 8
years the fine old granger re-
ceived a grateful letter, COW
ering a draft for one hundred
dollars, the first professional
earnings, over and above a
frugal living,of the late chief
justice of Tennessee
Year: 1876

There are plenty of good
but weak women in every
community who'll work and
starve and scrimp in order to-
fix up their parlors, and then,
won't sit in 'eni for fear Of
injuring the furniture.
Year: 1876

From the Virginia Enterprise, May l2.J


The header of the Sutro tunnel is now in a
distance of 13, 200 feet. A large quantity Of
water is being encountered, which retards
the work of running the tunnel The pres
ent rate of progress is about so feet per week.
In order to guard against the danger of the
tunnel being suddenly flooded with water,
holes are drilled in the face of the header
distance of from seventeen to twenty feet
with Burleigh and Ingersoll drills. The
whole number of men working in the tunnel
at present on the different shifts is 1875. The
work of enlarging the tunnel has been CON-
pleted, 90 that locomotives can be brought
into requisition in hauling out the waste
rock. A number Of men are engaged in
laying track for the same. The locomo-
tives have been overhauled and put in order
for work In order to avoid the presence
of smoke in the tunnel, nc, firing will be done
after entering, except Shaft No.2, where
there is good draft upward.
Year: 1876

BY Associated Press.


NEW YORK, June Sat the session OF
the Prison Congress to-day, resoluti on
was adopted that Congress be petitioned to
make small appropriation to enable rep
resentation of this county to attend the In
ternatioaal Prison Congress at Stockholm
in September.
Year: 1876

Young men should start right in all
things. At the coming November elec-
tlons many young men who have attained
their majority since the last Presidential
contest will cast their maiden votes. By
their votes they will decide between the
candidates and policies of the two great
parties. They owe an important duty to
the State and nation. They owe much to
business and to family but they owe much
more to their country. They should al
ways cling, therefore, to honest principles
as the only true rock of safety. The Re
publican party embodies those vital princi-
pies. Whatever has thus far been done
from the time we were emancipated down
to the present moment, has been done by
the Republican party party not without
faults, not without grave defects, and not
without bad followers, but still party of
noble record and naturally high duty to
perform. 1t. behooyes US therefore to exert
every energy in the coming contest, and
young men like those who organized last
week the Antoine Cadets have started in
the right way to vindicatc the wisdom of
their choice between the two parties We
understand that Governor Hayes does not
represent the political shrewdness of the
land, but he represents an honest desire
for purity in our public affairs and for Re
publican simplicity and economy wherever
it may be found. 1t is enough for US to
know that he represents those who have
made and will continue to make the Repub-
lican party the party of reform, and not
refuge for the wicked. He represents the
great mass of the people who, when they
saved the Union, purified it, and who are
determined there shall be no step backward
in the work they have undertaken. Our
political future is IN the backward move
ment that Democratic success means, and
we should see that by no votes of ours will
that end be obtained Our candidates for
President and for Governor represent
honestly and faithfully these vital princi-
pies of our party with sturdy common
sense and with that self praise, which in
the practical affairs of life outshines the
more brilliant and glittering faculties
which dazzle and astonish. To the standard
of this party and these candidates, a stand
ard of patriotism, of loyalty, and of political
integrity, the State and nation call upon
young men. Let us respond to the call
and by earnest and united help preserve
! blessings of free egovernment.-Ne,o Orleans
Weekly Gazette
Year: 1876

There is dust on sea and land in the
valley and on the mountain top there is
dust always and everywhere. The atmos-
phere is full of it. 1t penetrates the moi
some dungeon, and visits the deepest dark
est caves Of the earth. No palace door can
shut it out no drawer is so secret as to es-
cape its presence. Every breath of wind
dashes it upon the open eye, which is yet
not blinded. because there is fountain of
the blandest fluid in nature necessarily
emptying itself under the eyelid, which
spreads itself over the surface of the eyeball
at every winking, and washes every atom
of dust away. This liquid, so well adapted
to the eye, itself has some acridity, which,
under certain circumstances, becomes so
decided as to be scalding to the skin, and
would rot away the eyelids were it not that
along the edges of them there are little oil
manufactures which spread over their sur
face coating as impervious to the liquids
necessary for keeping the eyeballs washed
clean as the best varnish is impervious to
water.
Year: 1876

WASHINGTON, March 9.-The develop
ments of the last week have produced more
effect upon tie president probably than
anything which has ever happened during
his term of Office 1t is plain now to per-
ceive that beneath his imperturbability
there is an uneasiness and disquiet
which have never before troubled hun.
Since the fall OF Belknap. he has seen but
very few visitors outside of senators and
members, and the business he has with
them he depatches as soon as possible.
He has refused since last Thursday 10 see
several distinguished persons. An air OF
gloom and dependency seems to hang
around the W hite House. When the pre-
sident goes out, he keeps his eyes down
cast and does not seem to care to recognize
any one. With the very few persons to
whom be talks confdentially he admits
that he is not in happy frame of mind.
He seems to realize what was said by one
of his friends ou the day of Belknap's re-
signation, that the bottom has been knock
ed clear out of the third term. Whether
he sees in Belknap any signs of impending
disaster to himself is known only to him
self, but it is beginning to be whispered
around that the very offence of which Bel
knap stands convicted in the eyes of the
world will be brought directly home to the
president. It was said tonight. by per
son supposed to be well informed, that
within three months Gen. Grant would be
convicted aud removed from Office by the
vote of Republican senate.
Year: 1876

TRY THE ENAMELLED PIPE, 1T WILL Non
common iron pipe. Is positively THE BEST thing
for water service pipe. haye the exclusive agency
for Rock Island. FRED HASS


Store in Star Block
Year: 1876

For the Gazette.


Mr.. EDIToR:-You correspondent,
"a Lifelong Democrat" undertakes q
defence of the police being present at
the delegate election In Wilmington,
on Saturday. A lifelong. Democrat,
il he is one IN principle as- well as
name, never should undertake q de-
fence of such ah act, for It fs just one
of those things which the. Democracy
have been finding fault with for the.
last fifteen years. Not only did they
do 30 In Wilmington, but 10 almost
every city in our country, wherever
the Republican party was in power.
1t is disgrace that never should have
been laid at the doors of the Democrat
ic party, and II Is to be hoped that we
may never again witness such another
disgraceful outrage upon our party as
the hired police, paid by the taxes
dragged from the hard toll of the pro-
ductive classes, to be used for the pur-
poses of suppression of free thought, If
life long Democrat cannot bring any
thing against John O'Byrne, but that
he was so unfortunate as to have hap
pened to be born upon other than
American soil; it was no fault of his,
and therefore, he is not responsible.
The term carpet Dagger will apply
equally as we'll to myself, as Mr.. o.
Byrne; yet, also have been a life long
Democrat, and one that has tried to
do in every instance, that which 1
thought was for the best interest of
our party, yet my views have very fre>
quently been in opposition to many of
my fellow Democrats, yet is that sin
of which there is no forgivenessP No:
Mr.. life long Democrat, when you
undertake to read Mr.. O'Byrne or Mr..
Anybody else q lecture, open your
safety valve before hand and let those
worst of gases blow of, before you
undertake it, and you, at least, will
do it with more credit to yourself. l
do not write this in defence of MIR. o.
Byrne, he, suppose, is able to. take
care of himself, but do it in what Icon
slider tile defence of any Democfatic
citizen, either carpet Dagger or of the
manor born. 1 am not an O'Byrne
man, nor any other man 3 man, yet, as
Ia delegate to the State Democratic
Convention, will be on hand, and try
to vote for the best interests of the
democratic party, and upon that soc-
casion may say something in regard
to the character of the several candi-
dates for delegates to st. Louis, but II
nothing can be found to bring against
them, other than they are carpet bag
gers or Irishmen, or any other foreign
born, then i shall remain silent, for
those are things which never can eff
feet the principles or honor of the
Democratic party. Respectfully,


WIN. DEAN.
Year: 1876

I would respectfully inform those of
my friends, both here and at a distance,
who have any expectation of getting
thirsty, that have just received a most
complete assortment of Pure Liquors
ever imported to Lake Charles, which
am desirous of selling at wholesale
and retail at prices to Justify both seller
and buyer. Ny wines and brandies are
unsurpassed, and my whiskies "the
Simon pure" Before leaving town be
sure and call around and take a parting
farewell Lager beer, Scotch ale and
porter constantly on hand. ap4n4y
Year: 1876

A LITTLE six-year-old boy went into
the country on a visit. About the first
thing he had was bowl Of bread and
milk. He tasted it, and then hesitated
a moment, when his mother asked him
il he didn't like il, to which he replied
smacking his lips "Yes, mamma;
was only wishing our milkman would
keep cow"
Year: 1876

MARY CLEMMER has gone to Washing
ton to live, and from the capital she
writes as follows about the decay of con.
science that afllicts the whole body pol
itic just now:


What comment it is upon the dis
tance we have marked downward as a
people when In steal from the govern
ment " is spoken of as piece of prowess,
to he laughed at and boas ted over as il
stealing from the treasury OF your caun-
try were a very different matter from.
stealing from the Golfer of your neighbor!
No doubt somebody will assert this is n
dreadful thing Tor me TO say. But | am
perfectly aware of what am saying. I
Am not repeating anybody's "croaking." ;"
Instead, If should report in these col
umns the small pilfcrings and the names
of the pillerers with which | have he
come personally cosnzant in the last ten
years, you would think had been "put.
ting it, very mildly, and you yourselves
would he very much astonished. knew
senator's wife, now gone out of Office,
who took all the Christmas and New
Year srrcsents she made her friends(a and
OF course they were many out of the
government. Outside of her own per-
qulsites the government paid for them
all This may seem little thing. 1t was
for the United States treasury to pay for
one woman's presents. But it involved
The underlying principles of honesty as
much as taking hundred thousand in
the same way.
Year: 1876

THE Turkish revolution was a conspir-
acy of the ministers to get rid of sui
tan who had yielded more to foreign in
huence than the pure and unadultcrated
mussulmans could quietly allow. 1t is
the mad protest of the conservatism of
the Mohammedan Turks against Euro
pean reforms and every sort and kind of
foreign Intervention except that which
loans money on promise of interest that
is never to be paid. The new sultan is
an,i-Russian in his prejudices and ten
dencies, and while he can speak French
and has some knowledge of western Eu-
ropean affairs he is more likely to form a
Franco English alliance than one in
which Russia has leading voice. But
the situation Of Turkey is critical, and
Murad Efendi will be compelled to let
what he would wait on what he must,
with the moral certainty OF being showed
aside as suddenly and as remorselessly as
Abdul Aziz one of these fine mornings.
Year: 1876

A SINGULAR murder case is pending
at the Cudapah sessions, in India, in
which the accused, being assured by a
juggler that he could shoot at him with
a loaded musket without the slightest
fear of hurting him, took him at his word
and fired. The ball penetrated the jug
gler's brain, killing him instantly.
Year: 1876

The death of Abdul Aziz by his own
hand is the last act in the drama which
began with his overthrow. Driven from
power through the agency Of his own
nephew and trusted friends; deprived
oi his treasure, and treated as prisoner
in his own capital, it is not surprising
that the disgraced ruler sought relief in
death. Rumors were current that his
mind was derangcd. These reports re-
ceive credence in the official account of
the tragic deed which has been sent to
Washington. His death is not likely to
effect seriously the affairs of Turkey.
His overthrow was complete, and the
probability Of his heading a revolt was
very right.