smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

A Virginia City butcher tells the fol-
lowing story: 1 had been in the slaugh-
ter house but short time when one af-
ternoon about two o'clock-our time to
begin killing carriage drove up. Two
ladies alighted; one known TO me as the


wife of the superintendent of one of the


leading Comstock mines, and the other
a young lady from San Francisco, as 1
afterward learned. 1 saw, almost as
soon as the ladies arrived, that the
younger one had no use of her right
arm. 1t was so completely paralyzed


that she was obliged to move it about
with her left hand. I observed that
when she wanted to put her dead hand
into her muff she was obliged to reach
through with her left, get hold of the
hand and then draw it to where she
wanted it, just as though it had been a
skein of yarn. Well, it appears there
had been some understanding about the
young lady coming there, but what she
did not little surprised some of us the
first day she came. The ladies stood
looking on the while we hauled up o
bullock and knocked him on the head.
No sooner had the knife been with
drawn from the animals throat than the
young lady threw off the large mantle
that she wore, and, rushing forward,
sat down upon the floor just at the bull
locks neck, where torrent of blood
was gushing. She then barred her right
arm and thrust it to the shoulder into
the gaping and blood-spouting throat Of
the animal, holding it there until the
blood had ceased to flow. We were
then killing about thirty animals every
afternoon, and every afternoon the girl
came and thrust her dead hand into the
bleeding throat of one or more of the
animals. The girl had great courage,
and when the bullock fell, and the knife
had done it's work, she at once ran up
and seated herself on the floor as re
gardless of the blood as if it had been
so much water. There she would hang
across the neck of the beast until il
ceased to bleed. She was so brave that
we were all glad when she got well. ]
remember how happy she was when she
came one day and showed us that she
could begin to open and close her fin
gers. From that time forward she i'm
proved rapidly. Soon she could move
her arm, and finally could grasp and
lift things with her hand. 1 think she
came for about three weeks before she
was cured. The last day she came she
was quite bright and merry. more SC
thanI had ever seen her. After putting
on her mantle she thanked us all for our
kindness to her and shook hands with
us, giving us the cured hand, which, as
she laughingly said, we had "some
right to-" After the young lady went
away we thought we should see many


persons there to try the blood bath, but
none have ever come. That girl was the
only one, and I never saw anything like
it before or since.
Year: 1876

away towards the door, but Miss Faulk-
ner detained her.


"I want you to tell me all about your
SELF" she said, "and how you knew
where to bring the bracelet"


Then Bettine told her her little story
as meekly and uncomplainingly as pos
sible. She did not mean to tell any of
their troubles, but some way Miss
Faulkner asked her so many questions
and was so kind and sympathizing that
she could not helpit And when she told
about Karl the tears would come into
her eyes, and she felt very much asham-
ed until she looked at Miss Faulkner
and saw her eyes full of tears, too.


Then the lady left the room, and came
back in few minutes with a gentleman
"a benevolent looking old gentleman
and Bettine had to tell her story over
again to him. Then they sent for Karl
to come in, and then, after the gentle
man had talked long time with him,
they were taken into another room and
had the incest dinner they had either of
them ever eaten in their lives. After
wards General Faulkner sent them home
in carriage, telling them he would
come and see them the next day.


Bettine had to rub her eyes every two
or three minutes after she had got home,
to be sure she wasn't dreaming, and by
the next morning she had got to feel
quite sure that it could have been moth
ing but dream, wnen she saw that
same elegant carriage rolling into the
little dirty narrow street where they
lived; and then such store of good
fortune looked in upon them, that Bet
tine began to fancy, rather, that the old,
dreary days had been dream, and her
present happiness the only reality.


General Faulkner got Karl situation
in warehouse, where he earns what
seems to Bettine an unheard-of sum of
money, and hired for them three of the
cosiest little rooms you ever saw, in a
cottage, little way out of town, where
good German woman lives, who seems
ever so much like Bettine's mother; and
Bettine has nothing to do but to keep
house for herself and Karl; and you may
be sure that she is the incest, tidiest lit
tie housekeeper imaginable.


The hand-organ is put up in corner
of the little kitchen, with Bettine's tam
BOURNE hung over it; and sometimes
when Karl comes home at night he takes
the organ out of the corner, and plays
Home, sweet home," on it; and,
though the old grenadier's joints have
grown little stiff by age and inaction,
he hobbies up and holds out his cooked
hat still, and the gay lady and the sol
dier begin their hornpipe, and the
dairymaid carries her eggs and milk to
market, and the snuf-taking old lady is
as persevering as ever; and though some
of the tones are harsh and out of tune,
the melody is still very sweet and plain
tive, and brings tears to Bettine's eyes,
But they are happy tears, now that she
knows. what "sweet home" is.
Year: 1876

The rebellion against the Turkish
government in the province of Herze-
govina was melted by the exceedingly
oppressive manner in which the Turkish
government has collected its taxes from
the people. 1t has been the custom
with the government to sell the tax list
to private individuals for a stipulated
price, allowing them to collect them,
thus saving the government the trouble,
time and expense of making the collec.
tion. By the laws of the empire, no
farmer, for instance, could store his crop
OF grain until it had been inspected and
its value appraised by a government
official, and as this was done late in the
year it has not unfrequently been the
case that the entire harvestMfor the
whole territory was destroyed by rains
before the official made his inspection,
and thus the labor of the entire year was
lost, while the burdens of weak,
despotic, bankrupt government remain
ed the same. This has continued so
long and borne so heavily and disas-
trously upon the people that, about six
months ago, the people rebelled against
the government. No religious questions
are involved, the struggle being against
the tyrannical methods of executing
despotic laws.
Year: 1876

TIE twenty-frst anniversary OF the Or
ganizatiou Of the Association for the Relief
of Jewish Widows and Orphans will be
celebrated tomorrow at IL A. NJ, at the
"Home," corner of jackson and Chippewa
streets. The occasion will be one of profit
and pleasure, as it is well known that this
Is one of the best conducted charitable in
stitutions in this city. 1t Is the pride of
those Of the Jewish faith that they care for
their own pooc. Here those who have con-
tributed to the association. and those who
are willing to do go, are invited to feast and
be entertained at the Home itself, that they
may see how much good their charity is do
ing and may do.
Year: 1876

PRESIDENT SEELYE, in speech be.
fore Republican meeting in Amhurst,
Mass, said. 81 for one, am not will
ing to transfer the great power of the
Government from the hands still reek-
ing with the blood of its brave defend.
ers. do not stand here to defend
everything which the Republican party
has done; but when the Democratic
party is held up as the party of reform,
| am reminded of the decrepit old lion
in the fable, who sought to gain by
strategy what he could not gain by
strength. The spirit and tendency OF
the Republican party is toward reform.
It is still worthy of confidence, and
though 1 am not willing to throw up
the party, am willing to expel those
men who have used the party for their
own evil ends. accept the Republi-
can party because believe in its prin-
ciples, which it has never believed"
Year: 1876

The Philadelphia Press publishes the fol-
lowing on the authority of an eminent citizen
of the South:


We have on our table letter from an old
friend, Southern gentleman of many years
standing, before the war of a Douglas Demo-
crat, and since the war sincere Republican,
still residing on the spot where he was born.
In one of the cotton States. For obvious req.
sons we do not print his name but his posi-
tion is so high, and his testimony so direct.
that few words from his pen may be useful
as showing the settled purposes of the Con-
federate Democracy should they obtain con-
troll OF the United States Government s.Let
me say to you, my dear friend, that if Tilden
and Hendricks are elected the Secessionists
will own them, and will control the Govern
ment. We will have no peace for century
to come. The Supreme Court of the United
States aciU be enlarged to make q naajorftv of
Democrats on the bench, aodO sciU declare the
FOarteeaM and other amendments no part of
the Constitution Of the United States. MANY
OF our former slave-owners believe that if the
Democrats can get possession of the Govern
ment that such owners will be paid for their
slaves. Jefferson Davis, in that case. will be
pensioned within the next three years, and
the family of every Confederate General who
fell during the rebellion will also be pensioned
on the Government. As things now stand
with us it is impossible for men loyal to the
Government to be elected to Congress from
the South" The writer of this letter sus
tains position in this State like that of Eli
K. Price or Frederick Fraley, in Philadelphia,
and is man about their age
Year: 1876

The reform" cry as mantle to cover all
the sins OF the Democracy, is a failure. The
country has come to the conclusion that a
mere promise to reform from such a source.
coupled with the sort of surrender to imitation
lists and to the worst elements of the party
everywhere that has lately been common, will
be merely hinderance to reformation.
Year: 1876

TLDEN's defense against the charge of per
jury is that an income tax is not tax on in
come, but tax on earnings. For instance, il
Governor Tilden received $40, in 1862 fol
work performed during several years, the
whole $4,000 would not be subject to tax on
income. This is contrary to all legal de-
cislons on the subject, and if Mr.. Tilden can.
not get up better defense he had better
withdraw. Judge Benedict, of New York,
decided not very long ago that the tax was a
tax on income received during the year and
not upon the earning of the year. So that de-
fense is swept away.
Year: 1876

The Christian Advocate of last week COM
ments in the following strain on Mr.. Kerr's
death-bed religion: "We think no one can
read the account of the closing hours of Mr..
Kerr without wishing they were different,
without wishing the dying man had had the
rod and staff of David to comfort him, and
had left behind him his testimony to its sup
porting strength. And no one, we think, can
but regret that in his last counsel to his son,
he had not directed him to the worlds Ex-
emplar as the pattern of right life instead of
to himself, and that he had not firmer.
broader foundation for his faith as to his fu-
ture than his own merits. A faith resting on
this reveals lack of self-knowledge, or a
very incompetent understanding of the de-
mands of eternity. A deep sense of self-de-
hciency has ever been characteristic of the
greatest and best of men, and regrets that life
has fallen below the ideal standard brought
out in the life of the matchless One. have
been part of their daily experience"
Year: 1876

INTELLIGENT newspaper editors continue to
publish tables of what they presume will be
the result at the approaching November cleo
tion. The last one that we have seen sets
down the following States as sure for Hayes
and Wheeler. We copy from the Philadel-
phia Enquirer:
Year: 1876

The result may be widely different from
what is indicated in the above table, but as
MIR. Tilden must carry all the States set down
as probable for the Republicans, the i'm
probability of his election seems palpable to
the most obtuse mind
Year: 1876

SEYMOUR is the Democratic candidate for
Governor of New York. Now we will hear
all about the part he took in the great riot in
New York city during the war; 1t cannot be
claimed for him that he was war Governor.
Year: 1876




A difference of taste in jokes is great
strain on the affections.


Vanity is as ill at ease under indif-
ference as tenderness is under love
which it can return.


The most powerful of all beauty is
that which reveals itself after sympa-
thy, and not before it.


Who supposes that it Is an impossi-
BILE contradiction to be superstitiOus
and rational at the same time?


Honor comes from inward vocation
and hard.won achievement; there is no
honor in dOnning life as livery.


Often the grand meanings of faces.
as well as written words, may lie chief
ly in the impressions of these who look
on them. -.-s


The subtly varied love drama be-
tween man and woman Is often such as
can hardly be rendered in words put
together like dominoes, according to
obvious fixed marks.


A soul burning with sense of what
the universe is not, and ready to take
all existence as fuel, is nevertheless
held caI tive by the ordinary wirework
OF local forms, and does nothing in par
ticular. ~


What in the midst of the mighty
drama of life are girls and their blind
visions? They are the yea or nay of
that good for which men are enduring
and fighting. In these delicate vessels
are borne onward through the ages The
treasure of human affections.
Year: 1876

New YORK. Jan, 1.-THE workingmen
held very large mass meeting last night,
for the purpose of urging upon our law
makers the Importance OF promptly adopt
ing such measures as will revive our in
dustlies in order that employment may be
obtaiuable by the tens aud hundreds Of
thousands now in enforced idleness. Peter
Cooper presided, and Congressman Kelly
and exMayor Opdyke sent letters re-
GREETING they could not be present.


Peter Cooper, in his address, said justice
cannot be established and the general vel
| fare of the nation cannot be etfectuaily
promoted without resembling the resump-
tion act of 1875 and substituting a cur
rency bill similar to the one the house of
representatives passed in 1862, which
made treasury notes a legal tender for
all duties and debts, and made them con-
vertib!e into interest sbearing bonds of the
government. When a true Ame ican
system of finance is adopted, which shall
put all that circulates as money entirely
and exclusively under the control OF the
government, making it receivable for all
duties and debts, employment for all
working classes and PROS sperity for the
whole country will be the natural and per
manent result.


An address to the working men of the
United States was adopted, which says
that when the government began to cou
| tract its credit Systematically and, in a
large measure, from year to year, to pay a
debt that was not yet due, all Other
credits. private and corporate, began tc
contract also, aud brought on panic il
the financial affairs of this country, Of
which we now feel most deplorabe effects
As remedy for these evils the address
suggests a currency which will best facli
tate the exchange Of the products Of labor
that this currency be supported by the
credit of the whole country; that the pre-
sent national debt be put. as far as pos
siblc, in the hands of American people
and the enterprise ard labor of the nation
will be set to work again; and that The
national debt be converted into bords pay
able in currency aud bearing the loves
rate of interest.
Year: 1876

CHICAGO, Jan. lI,-Jno White, la
borer in the fertilizing works at the stock
Yards, while throwing offal into vat of
boiling blood last night. fell in and when
his remains we're discovered this morning
the flesh was almost entirely boiled from
his bones
Year: 1876

Nature in her own gradual process of
cure, where she heals withou, the aid of
medicine, does not put US on the rack.
There never was falser theory than that an
external remedy,to be effective, must burn
aud irritate the exterior surface. Burd-
sail arnica liniment, though penetrating,
mild, emollient and soothing.
Year: 1876

MISTAKEN KINDNEss.-The father
who, for great portion of his life, has
struggled with poverty, is unwilling
that his children should have similar
experience. So be denies himself in
diligence in even necessary things that
be may save and make for his family.
The mother, remembering how irksome
household tasks were to her in her girl
hood, permits her daughters to lead
lives of domestic ease and Incidence,
thinking that in SO doing she makes the
best manifestation in her power of ma
ternal love. As natural consequence
of this view of the parents, we see
growing up all around us young men
and women perfectly useless for all the
practical purposes of life-unabls to
cope with misfortune. Intellectual or
moral fibre is not inherent; it must be
built up from within, and is the result
Of independent thought and action.
The sooner boy can be made to wait
upon himself, to think for himself, to
act for himself the sooner the germs of
true manhood begin to develop within
him. 1t is no kindness to surround
him with such attentions and care that
be will not be compelled to learn the
lesson of self reliance, Of patient in
dustry, of persistent hope. The real
crowns of this world are crowns of
labor.
Year: 1876

A a dinner party in London last
August, there were two sisters present;
one widow who had just emerged
from her weeds, the other not long
married, whose husband had gone to
India for short time. A young bar
lister present was duputed to take the
widow to dinner. Unfortunately he had
the impression that his partner was the
married lady whose husband had just
to India The conversation between gone
them was commenced by the lady, re-
marking how extremely hot it was;
eyes, it is very hot" returned the
young barrister. Then happy thought
suggested itself to him, and be added
with a cheerful smile. "But not so
hot as the place to which your husband
has gone" The look with which this
lady answered this "happy thought"
will haunt this unhappy youth till his
death.
Year: 1876

Two workers in one field


Toiled on from day to day;
Both had the same hard labor,


Both the same small pay.
With the same blue sky above,


The same green earth below,
One soul was full of love,


The other full of woe.
One leaped up with the light,


With the soaring of the lark
One felt it ever night,


For his soul was ever dark.
One heart was hard as stone,


One heart was ever gay;
One worked with many a groan,
One whistled all the day.
One had fower-clad cot


Beside merry mill,
Wife and children near the spot
Made it sweeter, fairer still;
One wretched hovel had,


Full of discord, dirt and din,-
No wonder he seemed mad


Wife and children starved within.
Still they worked in the same field;
Toiling on from day to day;
Both had the same hard labor,
Both the same small pay;
But they worked not with one will,
The reason let me tell -
Lo ! the one drank at the still,
And the other at the well.
Year: 1876

It is the fashion now to suspect
everybody. Very we'll. if only every
one would suspect himself. That would
be most wholesome and timely exercise
1t would help to restore that confidence
Of man in man which is essential not
only to the well-being of society, but
almost to the existence Of society itself.


When men are distrustful of themselves,


not in lack of a becoming self-reliance
but in profound sense Of the power Of
evil within the soul, and the power Of
temptation without, then their very
weakness makes them strong. It puts
them on their guard. gives a more
delicate touch to conscience, and sends
them to the Infinite Source of strength.
Year: 1876

rranclS ADAMS on the issues IN INT
present Presidential Campaign. wat


recently read before mass meeting in


the Cooper Institute. New York. Il


was written ID answer to an invitation


to the distinguished writer to be pres


ent and address the meeting:


Daniel Magome, Jr.. Esq. Chairman


Nev York State Democratic Committee.


DEAR SIR: Absence from home pre-


vented me from answering promptly


your letter of the Goth inst.


If / were younger it would be an


agreeable duty to perform the task to


which you invite me. But have not


done anything Of the kind for fifteen


years. and am now in my seventeen
year. Should accept your invitation
I should probably give rise to others


which would have an equal claim. Ny
judgment is that I had better stay at
home. Yet think fully appreciate
the importance Of this canvass It is
narrowing itself daily more and more
into struggle between the people and
the managers who hold the official or
ganization of the country-for their
own exclusive benefit. From the days
of the Credit Mobilier down to the last
exposures made by the Investigations
of the last Congress, there is only one
conclusion to be drawn, and that is the
prevalence of corruption almost every
where in the Republican organization.
The honest men do, indeed, make
brave and sincere efforts to resist this
baneful influence, but they are too often
defeated to raise any just hopes Of ulti-
mate success. This struggle has been
going on for years, and no material
change for the better has yet been
effected. The time has now come for
a radical change and the substitution of
a wholly new influence, tied up by no
restrictions other than the genuine
wishes of honest men of all parties. -
When in great popular convention Of
a party to nominate a candidate for the
Presidency. one gentleman, deeply
compromised by the investigations Of
a committee of the House of Represen-
tatiyes. comes within twenty-five votes
of nomination, and another, who
really did honor to himself by fearless
and effective exposures Of corruption in
high places. could not command more
than hundred votes, it seems to me
that it is high time for change in pub
lie opinion. Neither is the case i'm
proved by view Of the manner in
which the canvass has been carried on.
The great effort of the Republicans
seems to be to operate on the popular
passions excited during the late civil
war. Instead of repeating the honora-
bic call Of President Grant ..Let us
have peace" the cry is for raising
what may prove another war. And
why is this? Only because the people
Of the Southern States choose to vote as
they please, without regard to the COR
rupt combinations Of ofice-holders all
over the country, welded by equally
combinations of legislators at
the seat Of government. to perpetuate
their own power. Verify. verify, if
the people are wise they will lay down
party and seize the present opportunity
to make change. I am very truly
yours, CHAs. FRANCIS ADAMS.
Year: 1876

Potatoes are going up in price. Sons
Of Erin, remember when you go to vote.
that the Democratic party has formed
an alliance with the potato bug and the
heathen Chinee to put up the price.
Year: 1876

A BOY SERIOUSLY BUKNED BY AN Ex,


FLOODING PIN WHEEL.


Between 9 and 10 O'Clock, last night
during the display of fireworks in front
OF the Water Witch Engine house, q
very serious accident occurred.


A large pin wheel which was being
set off fell from it's position TO the
ground when several boys rushed to il
and one of them tossed it into the air
In descending it exploded and struck
a boy named Martin Blank, burning
him in a serious manner about the
face, breast and stomach.


as soon as possible the boy was
taken 10 his home, No. 725 East Sixth
street, where DIR. Kirschner was cal,
led In to attend him. He was found
to be very seriously injured, and his
recovery, this morning, was scarcely
hoped for.