smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

The following extract from China pa
per gives picture ofpaternal government
in that country, in which the precept of
not sparing the rod is carried into prac-
tice in away which ought to strike terror
into the hearts of the official hierarchy.
The bamboo has long been known as an
effective instrument for governing the
masses and the correction of offenders
against the Chinese code, but there is
something novel as well as startling in
the idea of degraded official being
blows to be administered onthe palms as
preliminary castigation for malversa-
ton. If such mode of dealing with Off
cial malpractices were to become general
we might soon hope to see ynotable i'm.
provement in the administrative depart
ment which in China are so notoriously
bad and corrupt.


We learn thrt one of the mandarins
here, who had swindled the government
Of a large sum of money when making
purchases of warlike materials at Hong
Kong during the Formosan affair, was
brought up for trial before the redoubta
ting and the fautai. On the 4th of Angus.
the degraded official was subjected, as ar
introduction to something severe in store
for him, to fogging OF one hundred
blows on the palm of his hands. He was
to have been bambooed in the usual way
as other criminals on the breech, but fol
his bitter crying and vehement entreatie'
coupled with the fact of his not being ir
very good health. The defaulting ofiicia
is surnamed Man, and is related to
taoutai of that name who was DEGRADED
at the same time with the Viceroy Yine
Han in the Walsing affair.-PdU Nal
Gazette.
Year: 1876

Mount Hyamna, on the southwest side
of Cooks Inlet, Alaska, is an active vol
cano. On the west side of the inlet the
mountains rise hbruptly out of the water,
leaving only small piece of sandy beach
here and there. A correspondent says:
The natives tell of terrible eruption in
1854 and point to huge blocks Of lava
and long lomonite on the eastern shore as
having bsen thrown across on that occa-
casion, The natives do not like to visit
this region, holding it in superstitious
awe, and undertook the trip alone.
After the sloop had crossed the inlet the
prospect was uninviting enough. The
whele coast seemed one continuous line
of unbroken breakers, the white foam
leaping up high on the almost perpen-
dicular black walls of basalt and lava.
After fatiguing ascent along the lava
bed reached the snow-line and shaped
nv course around the mountain, just
beyond the snow. The view from here
was unobstructed, except toward the
east. by the mountain itself. To the
north and south stretched the long chain
Of snowy peaks, the whole length Of the
peninsuiar, but in the west the horizon
was bounded by nothing but the meeting
of the sky and broad Pacific. While /
was feasting my eyes a slight shock
made itself felt.


After a night passed in that dreary re-
pion, the volcano pioneer describes his
last sensation: While l was dressing,
large herds of deer were scattered all
through the ravine and climbing along
the sides, feeding upon the grass and
nutritious mosses-tame and came up to
my barricade, cycling it, and snufing at
it wonderingly.


An hours walk brought me to the foot
of the cave that forms the crater. On
the western extremity small current of
LIQUID lava was slowly descending and
losing itself among the huge boulders Of
the eastern slope Of the mountain. The
Opposite side of the mound was cold,
though somewhat slippery, and with
some difficulty scrambled up to the
top, to the very rim of the crater. The
wind was in my favor, blowing the
smoke and ashes away, and giving me an
opportunity to see as much Of the inside
OF this safety valve of the lower regions
as it is possible to see. There seemed to
be two separate abysses in the crater, only
one ION the western end) showing any
life at that time.
Year: 1876

The time Of gifts has come again,
And ON my northern window pane,
Outlined against the days brief light
Christmas token hangs in sight
The wayside travellers as they pass,
Mark the gray disk Of cloudcd glass;
Aud the dull blankness seems, perchance,
Folly to their wise ignorance.
They cannot from their outlook see
The perfect grace it hath for me-
For there the flower, whose fringes through
The frosty breath Of autumn blew,
Turns from without its face Of bloom
To the warm tropic of my room,
As fair as when beside its brook
The hue Of bending skies it took.
So from the trodden ways Of earth,
Seem some sweet souls who veil their worth
And offer to the careless glance
The clouding gray Of circumstance.
They blossom best where hearth fires burn;
To loving eyes alone they turn
The flowers of inward grace, that hide
Their beauty from the world outside.
But deeper meanings come to me,
My half-immortal flower, from thee!
Man judges from partial view,
None ever yet his brother knew;
The eternal eye that sees the whole,
May better read the darkened soul,
And find, to outward sense denied,
The flower upon its inmost side!


John @. Whttier
Year: 1876

The Grand Duchess Maria, whose
death in st. Petersburg was recently an
nounced by cable, was a remarkable
woman in many respects. From her
youth she showed wonderful intelligence
and an uncomfortable temper, which
only the despotic nature of her father
proved capable of mastering. She was
the eldest daughter of the Gar Nicholas,
who is said to have been passionately
fond of her; yet the violence of her ma
ture seems to have caused him more than
once to whip her with his own hand.
She was the terror and despair of all her
governesses and teachers, yet when she
became of age she showed more eruditiOn
than any of her preceptors, and was the
most liberal woman in granting pensions
to all Of them. She was tooindolent to be-
come good musician or painter herself,
but she was one of the best connoisseurs
of music and painting in her country.
Her physical development was unusu-
ally precocious. At fifteen years of age
she looked already a woman; and when
at twenty she was going to be wed to the
Duke of Leuchtenberg, who enjoyed the
reputation of being the handsomest man
in Europe, those who assembled at the
wedding ceremony were SO struck by the
stately appearance of the young Duchess
that in few months her name became
far and wide throughout Europe the
synonym for womanly majesty. She
outshOne her own mother in the palace,
not to speak of her sisters; and when
she showed herself during her travels
through the capitals of Europe, she to-
tally eclipsed Queen Victoria, so much
admired at that time, and who, though
they were both of the same age, looked
by the side of the Grand Duchess Maria
like a mere school girl. Upon the death
of her first husband she contracted a
morganatic marriage with one of her
fathers guardsmen, who was also cels-
brated for his herculean build and re-
markable manly beauty. The Gar was
very angry on learning of this marriage,
expelled the Countfrom his service, and or
dered his daughter to take trip abroad.
By and by, however, and as the lady did
not show any disposition to give in, the
father reconciled himself with her and
acknowledged the marriage, though he
never consented to make the ackno oWl-
edgement a public one.
Year: 1876

A TREASURE IN TREE.-The Nor
ristown, Pennsylvania Herald says:


About a month ago Jacob Klinck, a
farmer near Fox Chase, was saving down
large chestnut tree when the teeth of
the saw came in contact with some me-
talic substance. Fearing the presence Of
something explosive, he directed the work.
men to saw on the other side of the tree.
They did so. After the tree had been
felled q gold watch, two gold pencil
cases and gold chain were found en-
bedded in the wood, eighteen inches
from the surface. They were wrapped in
q soiled sock. The tree was sawn of
very close to the ground and they had
evidently been hidden at the junction Of
two roots and the wood had grown over
and inclosed them. The watch was old
fashioned, having case which could be
detached, and was inscribed with the
date of 1740. One of the pencil cases
was provided with pen. The other had
only pencil and was minus the seal.
The chain was long and was intended to
pass around thes neck Of the wearer.
There was also gold watch key, which,
however, did not fit the watch. The
tree had attained a great age, being
about six feet in diameter. An old man
sion once stood near by and it is sup
posed that the articles in question were
buried during the war Of the Revolution.
The watch was uninjured except that the
hands were rusted of. The finder has
had it repaired aud will exhibit it to any
who are curious to sec such relic. He
lives about a mile above the Fox Chase,
on the county line.
Year: 1876

GENERAL SHERMAN, in his recently
published ''Memoirs," gives a chapter on
the military service Of the war, from
which we extract the following regard
ing the amount of food needed by a SOL
dier while engaged in active service; ITO
be strong, healthy, and capable of the
largest measure of physical effort, the
soldier needs about three pounds gross of
food per day, and the horseor mule about
twenty pounds. An ordinary army
wagon, drawn by six mules, may be
counted on to carry three thousand pounds
net, equal to the food Of a full regiment
for one day, but by driving along beef
cattle commissary may safely count the
contents of one wagon as sufficient for
two days food for regiment of thou
sand men; and as a corps should have
food on hand for twenty days ready for
detachment, it should have three hundred
such wagons as a provision-train; and for
forage, ammunition, clothing, and other
necessary stores, it was found necessary
to have three hundred more wagons, or
six hundred wagons in all for corps
d'drmee." Tempelhoff, the historian of
Frederick's wars, gives certain facts in
dorsing this statement of our American
general. He states that one hundred
thousand men consume daily one hundred
and fifty thousand pounds Of flour, equal
to two hundred thousand pounds Of
bread; add this to one hundred thousand
pounds Of meat or vegetables, and the
report agrees with the observations of
General Sherman.
Year: 1876

During the winter of 1817-18 or 1878
10 duel was fought, says the Palladium,
in Oswego. The parties to it were
Mcdonald, Scotchman, and Campbell,
a sailor, and also Scotchman. Campbell
thought he was good-looking man, and
had pretty-looking wife, who was the
cause of the quarrel. Campbell knew
she was pretty and took in high dudgeon
some civilities shown her by Mcdonald.
A challenge was given and accepted, and
seconds chosen, but who declined to act
as such, and consequently they fought
alone. The spot selected for the occasion
was on the ice on the river near the east
side, and nearly in front where the marine
elevator now stands. They fought with
rifles, at ten rods distance, and were in
plain view from the opposite side of the
river, where there had gathered quite a
crowd of people to see what they would
do. But few supposed they would really
fight, and still fewer were disposed to
prevent them if they wished to do so.
The arrangement for hOstilities were as
follows: The cOmbatants, standing back
to back in the centre of the spot agreed
on, each was to march to line previously
marked of, and to face about, and when
each was faced both we're to fire. They
accordingly fred, Campbell first and
Mcdonald Immediately thereafter,
Campbell received flesh wound in the
groin. DIR. Benjamin Coe dressed the
wound, and he recovered sufficiently to
enable him to visit his anxious friends in
Canada. Mcdonald, too, left for foreign
parts after hiding himself short time.
Year: 1876

T Experience continually contradicts the
notion that poor young man cannot rise


If we look over the list of rich men, we
find that nearly all of them began life
worth little or nothing. To any person
familiar with the millionaires of the
United States, score of examples will
occur. On the other hand, the sons Of
rich men who began life with the capital
which so many poor men covet, frequent
ly die beggars. 1t would probably not
be going too far to say that large ma
jority of such moneyed individuals either
fail outright or gradually eat up the cap
ital with which they commence their Ca
reer. And the reason is plain. Broughtup
in expensive habits, they spend entirely
too much. Educated with high notions
of personal importance, they will not, as
they phrase it, stoop to hard work. Is it
astonishing, therefore, that they are passed
in the race of life by Others with less cap
ital originally, but more energy, thrift,
and industry For these virtues, after
all, are worth more than money. They
make money, in fact. Nay, after it is
made, they enable the possessor to keep
it, which most rich men pronounce to be
more difficult than the making. The
young man who begins life with the res
olution always to lay by part of his in
come is sure, even without extraordinary
ability gradually to acquire sufficiency,
especially as habits of economy, which
the resolution renders necessary, will
make that competence for him which
would be quite insufficient for an extrav-
agant person. 1t is really what we save,
more than what we make, which leads us
to fortune. He who enlarges his expenses
as fast as his earnings increase, must al
ways be poor, no matter what his abili-
ties. And content may be had on COM
paratively little. 1t is not in luxurious
living that men find real happiness.
Year: 1876

A curious affair has just been made
public near Silver Station, Pennsylvania.
Ten years ago a rich farmer named Swim
gle, sixty years of age, who had married
for his second wife q young woman long
resident in his family, went out one day
to pay 81 800 to neighbor mile or two
away, and never returned. 1t was found
that he had paid the money and left for
home on his horse at O'Clock on dark,
stormy evening. A widow woman liv-
ing in lonely place on the road testified
to hearing cries of murder. Blood and
signs of struggle were discovered in the
road next morning. The whole neigh
borhood was searched and 6wingle's
horse found tethered in the woods. A
band of horse and cattle thieves who had
infested the place, were accused Of being
the murdercrs and left the country.
Eighteen months afterward q skeleton
was found in pond by man who was


fishing. The bones were gathered and
buried as those of Swingle. A couple of
years afterward Swingle's son married
the young widow of Swingle senior. The
couple were living pleasantly together up
to last month, with three children, when
q note was received from Cleveland,
from the missing swingle, to the effect
that he was in lodging house, sick with
fever. He was found and brought
home, the wife attended him, the son was
almost crazy. Swingle senior, however,
died without knowledge Of what had oc-
CURED, and the young couple were mar
ried again. Swingle said that be had
taken a notion to leave while on the road.
had gone to Australia, grown rich and
then lost all. The skeleton is now sup
posed to have been that of cattle drovor
named Gibson, who frequently went
through the country before then, but has
not been seen since.
Year: 1876

"Whether the acceptance of Belk-
maps resignation really protects him
from impeachment is a question on
which opinions will differ; but there
is no room for question that the pur-
pose of the President was to bar an
impeachment and assist a confessed
criminal to flee from justice. This
bold attempt to shield guilty officer
from the legal consequences of
his crimes makes the President a
moral accomplice in the guilt of Bel
KNAPP The downfall of Secretary
Belknap means the ruin of the repub-
lican party. 1t is only another of the
many streams of corruption and folly
that have flowed from the present ad-
ministration and from the party now
in power"
Year: 1876

FlRE.-About o'clock, yesterday
morning, fire was discovered in the
second story of frame cooper shop,
on Orange street, below Tenth. The
alarm was soon given, and before the
flames could obtain much headway,
the firemen with their usual prompt
ness were on the ground and almost
Immediately at work. The fire was
extinguished without doing much
damage otherwise than burning the
roof and window.-The fire was dis.
covered by Sergeant Whelan of the
police force, and Benz. Morris, who
gave the alarm in time to prevent a
serious contlagration..
Year: 1876

A writ of Lunacy has been issued
out of the Court of Chancery, against
John B. Thoroughbred of Indian
River hundred, a supposed insane per-
son. The purpose of the writ is to
make inquiry as to his insanity.


The State Executive Committee of
p. of II. of Delaware, made purchase
of clover seed this week to the
amount of $1,000, and have yet to
make purchase of over two hundred
bushels more.
Year: 1876

Yesterday morning, about II o'clock,
wagon, to which was attached a gray horse,
stood at the north side of the sidewalk, a
short distance from where enters Seventh
street northwest. On the outside were the
words "Centennial Bakery" aud around the
vehicle was large crowd. Inside there were
two men, named Adams and c. Schoons, who
proved to be owners of the concern. They
were attired in neat white shirts and large
linen aprons, with white Marseilles caps on.
In the centre of the wagon was a portable
bake house, with its furnace in full blast. One
stood in the rear baking waffles, and when
done tossed them into tray in the front part
of the bakery. Here the other sprinkied
them with sugar and offered them for sale.
Ready customers were on hand, and a good
business was springing up, when Sergeant
Clements and Officer Farrer marched the hot
waffle establishment to the Police Court
There the sergeant testified that the men in
terfered with business by obstructing the high
way, and had been complained of by mer-
chants. While such may have been the case
in some other part of the city, it is rather diff
fCult to see where they were interrupting any
merchants business at the time the arrest
was made, as there are few business houses
in that immediate locality. But the defendants
stated that they arrived here Wednesday with
their establishment, with a sort of patent
cooking range, paste cans, sugar sitter, &C.,
and commenced their business, not knowing
there was anything wrong about it. The
Court imposed a fine on Adams as the princi-
pal, and with the consent of Mr.. Taggart, at
torney for the District, another charge Of
selling without license was dismissed, with the
promise that they procure such license as is re-
Quired by the District authorities
Year: 1876

1t seems TO be the mission of some OF our
daily papers to misrepresent the management
of this establishment. The public were in
formed a few days ago that zone source of
annoyance to the visitor, who enters early in
the day, is the marine guard, which is inya-
riably drawn up in front of the entrance, and
people are compelled to wait until they are
through with their nonsense" Also, that all
entering the yard are required to apply to "a
marine for a pass, which is never asked for
again until they leave. Both these statements
are untrue. The marines are drawn up for
"guard mount" every morning in front OF the
flagstaff, and nearly, if not quite, one hundred
yards from the main entrance. No obstruc-
ton is placed in the way of those entering or
leaving the yard. The sidewalks on each side
of the main avenue, and those leading down
to the officers quarters and store houses, are
clear. People who understand anything about
military matters know that parade grounds
are usually in front of the flagstaff.


As far as the "pass" business is concerned,
the commandant of the yard is required by the
Navy Department to appoint some officer to
issue permits to enter the enclosure, so as to
prevent improper persons, to wit, those who
have at different times been detected in steal
ing copper, &C., from gaining admission.
This duty is now performed by the lieutenant
of marines on duty as ''officer of the day."
He does not give permit to every person who
applies, and those who receive them are very
often required to show them to the watchmen
before entering workshops and offices. The
marine corps is a credit to the navy; the OIL
GERS and men perform their duty to the Gov
ernment faithfully, and should be commended
rather than ridiculed for so doing.
Year: 1876

An important letter was read in the House on Friday of week before last by Mir. Spencer of Louisiana. It was from J. T. Long, "counted in" member of the Louisiana legislature from the parish of De Soto. He says that while he is an active Republican and the regular nomi- nee of the party; yet, knowing as do that was fairly defeated at the polls, no intimidation or fraud having been prac- ticed by the opposite party in any precinct in the parish so far as I have been able to ascertain after thorough examination, my self respect will not allow me to accept the position" He concludes:

 I am convinced that very much of the disturbance that has prevailed through out the State for several years past is justly attributable to the fact that In many parishes men not elected by the people have been returned elected and maintained in office by the power of the Government. l must believe that you and your associates have been grossly de. ceived as to tbe manner ill " which the late canvass and election in De Soto was con. ducted and as to the result.
Year: 1876

In prepa ing the present edition for the press has accordingly been the aim of the editors to bring down the information of the latest possible dates, and furnish accurate account of the most recent scov- cries ill science, of every fresh production in ltera- ture and of the newest inventions in the practical arts, well as to give succinct and original record of the progress of
Year: 1876

The work. has been begun after long and careful preliminary abor and with the most ample for carrying it on to a successful termination. None of the original stereotype plates have been used. but every page has been
Year: 1876

Within the last ten years the progress of discovery in every department of knowledge has made . new work of reference an imperative want.

 The cement political affairs has kept pace with the discoveries of science and their fruitful appca-

 on the industrial and useful arts the fence and refinement f social life. Great wars and consequent revolutions have occurred, involving tonal changes of peculiar moment. The civil war of our own country, which was at it's height when the been ended and new course of commercial and in- dustrial activity has been commenced. Large access ainna to
Year: 1876

Which introduced for the first time the present edition have been added not for the sake of pictorial effect but give greater lueidty and force the plantations in the text They embrace all branches of science and of natural history, and depict the most famous and remarkable features of scenery archtec ture and art well the various processes of me- chancs and manufactures. Although intended for

 instruction rather than establishment, pains have been spared to insure their
Year: 1876

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