smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

A BEAUTIFUL GIRL FOUND HANGING.


Just as we are going to press, we are
startled with the following details of a
sad event which will cast q shade OF
gloom over this community. For the
present, out of respect for the suffering
parents of the lady, we refrain publish
ing the names of the dramatis person9
in the scene described below:


For the last ten years there has been
in this city an eminently respectable
family, the pride of whose household
was a charming daughter of seventeen.
She was as beautiful as the idesl of the
poet, and as remarkable for intelligence
as for surprising lovliness. Her eyes
were like stars on summer night, and
her form, warmed by youthful, vigorous
womanhood, was as graceful as thatof q
Grecian goddess. Her hair hung in
graceful ringlets over her lovely shoul-
ders like moulten gold, and her cherry
cheeks, as soft as velvet, looked like
roses mingled with snow. AS natural
result one would expect that creature
possessed of such charms of mind and
form and feature would awaken the
grand passion in some mans bosom;
such was the case. For several months
past, fascinating young gentleman,
we'll known on Main street, has been
paying her the most devoted attention.
He, too, was handsome and Intelligent.
Her female friends would occasionally
tease her about him, and food of con-
scious bushes would irradiate her beau
tiful face at the very mention of bis
name. Everything seem to pass along
smoothly for awhile, when all sudden
she lost her spirits and wore q look OF
melancholy. Her musical laughter was
hushed, and she seemed like lily that
had been made to fade by the burning
rays of q summers sun. Her parents
became anxious about her condition
and watched over her with tender soil.
citude. Although frequently questioned
as to the cause of her depression and
sadness, she made no reply except in
an equivocal kind of style that rendered
confusion worse confounded. Las,
evening about 8 o'clock, she was missed
| from her home, and the worst fears of
her parents were excited. They sought
high and low, but she was nowhere to
be found. At length her father remem-
bered that of late, she had been in the
habit of sitting, sad, weeping and dis.
tracted in o vine covered arbor situated
in the garden. He rushed to the arbor
and as that distracted father gazed upon
the scene that met his view, rendered
more dismal by the dim, glimmerine
starlight, his blood curdled in his veins,
his cheeks turned pale, and the heavins
Of his bosom plainly told that it was
filled with deepest emotion. There be-
fore him was his beautiful daughter
her tall aud graceful form arrayed ir
spotless white, her long, golden hail
streaming like food of light down te
her waist, hanging-oh think of il
young men and maidens and pare Mt
hanging with her arms-around hel
lovers neck and her head pillowed OF
his manly breast.
Year: 1876

Led hy wiser hand than ours


We tourney through this earthly scene.
And should not in our weary hours


Turn to regret what might have been.
And yet these hcaits. when wruug by pain,
Or torn by disappointment keen
Will seek relief from present care


In ,hou hts of joy that might have been.
Bat let lis still these wishes vain:


We know not that of which we dream:
Our FIFE might have been sadder yet.


God only knows wha; might have been.
Forgive US Lord. our tile faith,


And help us all; from morn till cen,
Sill to believe that lot the best


Which is-aot that which might have per.
And grant We may so pass these hours.
Th. cradle and the grave between.
That deaths dark hour not darker he


By Thoughts of what life might have becn.
Year: 1876

E Frank Moulton says that either
he ought to be in the penitentiary or
Beecher ought to be out of his pulpit.
There is no getting around that. But
Mr.. Beecher's failure to do his duty is no
excuse for Moulton neglec.ing his Let
him go to the Penitentiary.
Year: 1876

w Washlngton Dispatch in n. Y. Tribune.


Some OF the most earnest advocates of hard
money in the House are beginning to feel dis
couraged at ths timidity of the majority of
their associates. They fear, in the first place
that majority of the members of the House
are against them, and that there is more
danger that some imitation measure Will be
passed, than hope of legislation looking to-
ward resuu ption. But many of those who
profess desire for honest currency and the
adoption of some measures which will infuse
confidence into trade and remove the financial
depression are unwilling TO do anything to
bring about the result they profess to desire.
Among the democratic majority is the timid-
ity especially apparent. The leaders on the
Democratic side of the House, especially
those of them who are committed in general
terms to sound financial principles, seem to
dread dissensions, which are sure TO arise in
their party whenever this question is fairly
opened for discussion and seeing very little
chance Of making any political capital, and
great danger of losing ground, they appear
disposed to postpone the opening of the ques-
ton as long as possible.


Mr.. Blaine, as is well known, has prepared
careful speech on the currency question,
and will probably be one of the first to speak
on the subject A vague fear prevails among
some of the Democrats that the tactics which
were so annoying in the Amnesty debate will
again be resorted to break their ranks, or at
least to place the party in the majority on the
defensive. If he is so disposed Mr.. Blaine
can, by his superior address and by his aggra-
waiting way of preventing subject, excite the
| different currency factions of the Democratic
Farty to such pitch that it win require al


most more than human forbearance 20 refrain
from replying to him; and when the ball is
once started, and examinations and recrimina.
I tions are made on either side, no one can tell


where it will stop, or how much damaged the


Democrats will be by the encounter


The Republicans, in such contest as this,


would have great advantage. The record Of


the Administration and of the last Republican


Congress is in favor of honest currency, and
Year: 1876

in those States where this question has been


made party question the Republicans have


been oftener on the right side than the Dem


ocrats 1t will only be necessary, therefore,


for the Republican leaders, who nearly all


hold sound views on the subject, TO hold the
debate well in their own hands, and they can
probably keep their party well together.
Should the question take the shape of the pro-
posed repeal of that part of the act of 1875
which fixes a day for specie resumption.
a caucus would probably solidify the Repub-
lican vote against such bill, as it did in sup
port of the measure itself last year; so that,
with good management, the Repu lican party
can be kept pretty we'll united against any in
fiation measure, if its vote cannot be thrown
for the bin to hasten specie payments.
Year: 1876

IT was like the song of some wonder.
full bird, and it made the air shine after
the sound had died away; and yet il
was just the remark of y brave young
man who walked past me one day,
arm-in-arm with companion: "De-
pend upon it, Tom, st. Edmund 0i
Canterbury WAS right when he said to
somebody, Work as though you would
live forever live as though you would
die to day."
Year: 1876

THERE'S a boy in Burlington who
swallowed a can of concentrated lye
two years ago, and although his moth
or made him carry hatchet in his
pocket and hung picture Of G. Wash
ingtOn over the foot of his bed, she
hasn't been able to get a word of truth
out of him since. She. wants to know
what to do with him. Oiled strap in
liberal doses is good, bat we think this
is desperate case. Better let him
read law md trust IBerciful provi-
dence. Burlington HaWkeye.
Year: 1876

IT is all a s2istake to suppose that there is
any necessity to gather together an assort-
ment of Democratic principles The question
is whether the Democratic party is to be put
into possession of the Government There is
no principle involved. The old party is not
reformed in any particular. 1t has all the old
vices. The party possesses vitality, ire
spective of its principles. That is what is
the matter with it. That is the reason why
it ought to die and doesn't. The DeEloc1atic
party is sgain submitted to its Southern wing
Look at the committees of the present House.
They show where the potentiality of the party
is lodged. Just now the party is under bonds
to behave beautifully, that it may win the
Presidency and the Senate. With the COM
plete possession of power, the mask would be
thrown off. We need no Blaine or Morton to
tell us this. The fact is manifest The lead
ing policy, if not principle, of the Democratic
party coming into power with the present
feeling, would be to avenge the humilations
of the Southern Confederacy. Can the Nation
afford it p Gin. Com.
Year: 1876

WHAT may prove striking and in
teresting feature of the Centennial GEL
bratiOn is an immense album, contain
ing the autographs OF several thousand
of the leauing men of the country, be-
ginning with the President, Cabinet,
Supreme Court, Senate and House of
Representatives, which is to be covered
with a glass bell and enclosed in safe,
with front panel of thick glass,
through which the volume may be
plainly seen from the outside. 1t is
proposed to put the safe in the rotunda
or other cOdspicuous place in the Capt.
tol, there to stand until the year 1876,
all object of curiosity and attraction
and souvenir TO everybody for the
next hundred years. The autograph
album will be accompanied by the pens
with which the names were written,
and, if possible, by another album con-
tanning, rs far a. they Can be obtaiHed,
photographs of the signers.
Year: 1876

From La CrOnicd of Wednesday we
translate the following letter which is
a keen and good natured satire upon
our American custom of always being
in hurry. 1t is from the pen of q
young lady, who is a native of Mexico,
and now on her first visit to San Fran
cisco. We appreciate the humor even
if aimed against our own foibles.


No tengo TEMPO" or, "I have no
time.n This is the favorite expression
of the inhabitants of this famous met
ropolis. Should you meet young
lady in the street whose appearance
pleases you exceedingly do not, once
venture to address her the least gal
liant word, though your heart might
prompt you to the rash act for she will
say" Speak not sir, / have no time"
Should something happen to you in
which you might need some ones as
sistance, assist yourself as best you
can, but by no means dare to ask for
help for this will be denied, and all
the answer you might get would be-
!" have no time.u Should you happen
to be the recipient of some insult or
injury however great or small, do not
ask foran opology nor ofiera challenge
for all the answer you might get
would be-" | have no time"


In brief, dear reader, that may not
be tiresome, allow me to say that
this is the country wherein impatience
and swearing are mostly carried on.
Nothing more can be done why ? be-
cause there is no time. Time is money.
To prove what | have already stated
| will say that as soon as l arrived
from Mexico, that dear country of
mine, where time is SO plenty, was
taken with desire to return, for to be
sure did not like this manner of liv-
ing, which in spite of myself had |
nevertheless to conform to. But dear
me | had no longer time. 1t then
became necessary for me to continue |
this queer kind Of life, and L must |
tarry for have no time to go back. / |
abstain from attending church because
L have no time. / make no calls be- |
cause | have no time. | do not amuse |
myself because | have no time. | do |
not write or read because l have no
time. In short | can not enjoy the |
pleasure proper to my sex and age be-
cause | have no time. Can this be
called living ? Surely not Then L do
not live because [ have no time, and |
| can not even die as | would like to,
for the simple reason that / have no
time! What else must | say? Nothing
here. l must hold my tongue for I
have no time. NOVA.
Year: 1876

If there is q Health Officer or a
Board of Health, or any one in au.
thority who cares for the health of the
people, let them for the sake of hu-
manity, and for the credit of the city,
set to work and aboUsh the Internal
nuisance at the North. easta corner of
Alameda and Also street. The stencil
from that corner is terrible, yea verify
it is damnable, and ought not to be
allowed three minutes,


Having discovered that the HER
AID edition is worked off in about
the same time that is consumed in
grinding out an issue OF the Express
that paper concludes our edition is fif-
teen quires. Our friends have placed
their own issue at about the right
number but they forget or omit to
state that the HERALD press works off
six copies while the Express may be is
printing one.


A hack came very near being demol-
ished by the fire engine as itwas 60
ing to the fire yesterday. With per.
sistent awkwardness, the driver sta
toned himself in the way of the GAL
loping fire team and a collision was
narrowly avoided. Hackmen should
beware Of the "masheen.u
Year: 1876

ocr. 2, 1876
To THE EDITOR rHE HRRALD:-


In your valuable cditoriols In relation to Married
Women as School Teachers will ask what Is to be-
come of all the single Women or young ladies that is
now ting themselves TO take the position Of school
teachers do not know II you aware Of the great
expense that Of the Parents OF the girls to
send them 10 the Normal School have two dought-
ers tnat Is attending Normal School and requires all
that can spare TO keep them dressed as 10 COM
pare with the drcascs Of some that more ablo to
dress ther children than am they expect to gradu-
ate and II there vacancy how can they do
they say they wish 10 do, that ID 10 make me some
rclarn what have bten paying out fur them.


A TAXPAYER
Year: 1876

ii The Washington, Chronicle is becom-
Ing seriously alarmed in view OF the
fact that ''of the 100000 illiterate
voters In the United States .7oO, 900 are
in the Southern States" and the Gin
cinnati Enquirer reminds that staunch
Republican journal that "ssven-t tenths
Of these illiterate voters are RepubliT
cans" Indeed, the sole reliance OF the
Republican party in the South has al
ways rested on the ignorance OF the
colored voters and the ease with which
they have been duped. These voters
are now, however. becoming distrustful
Of their former guides, and having grown
somewhat In political knowledge are
inclined to assert their Independence.
The more ignorant they were the more
solidly they voted the Republican ticket
In the past, and the more readily they
acquiesced In Republican frauds. See
ing the consequence OF such action on
their part, they are now ready to nnlearn
what they first learned amiss. and to
that end are joining their white neigh.
bors In the good work Of redemption
and reform.
Year: 1876

The high Federals do not assess the
official underlings any longer; they
send somebody who Is not high Fede-
raj to solicit subscriptions for campaign
purposes, and then simply discharge
the obtuse underli1gs who fail to re-
spond Thus a law OF Congress Is
evaded, and the Father OF Lies Is
whipped around the stump.
Year: 1876




they judge Let those who, like the
Herald, are endeayoring to rekindle the
flames Of fanatical hate which still
flicker in the Northern heart, place
themselves In the position OF the people
OF Edgefield. Let them imagine them
selves, with their families, outlaws in
their native land and surrounded by
overwhelming numbers OF a race which,
though by nature quiet and gentle, is
% ~ hie -rdar evil infnenees of the
most shocking deeds Let them know
that the emissaries of Morton and
Blaine were stimulating it to the CON-
mission OF such deeds with a cool in
difference whether it succeeded or not,
being confident In either event Of win
ming that political success which is all
they seek. Letthem feel that they have
no protection from the law, which is
only used as means Of making
their defense more, difficult and
enhancing the danger, and let them
then say whether they could contem-
plate with perfect equanimity the re-
enactment among. themselves of the
scenes OF st. Domingo. and whether
when indignity and outrage had cul-
minated in threats Of the most appalling
nature and driven them to arms, they
could count the beatiDgs OF their pulse
and keep it within the measure at which
it courses in Boston HA rf s-t


Now, this is just the position Of the
white race in the carpet-Dag provinces.
The protection Of the law has been with
drawn from it, and the vile wretches
who undertook q task which might we'll
Year: 1876

The matter cf the wharf lease Is again


under discussion Tho views heretofore
expressed by the DrMocRAT are. we be-
lievo, ipdprsed hy the large majority oi
the people, If tho leseees cannot com
ply with their lease the city should
annul IL. imposing as little hardship
upon the lessees as the public interest
will permit, and resume tho admiuistra-
tion Of che property. We are not Of
those who. believe that public officials
arc necessarily dishonest and therefore
unit 10 administer tho public proper
ties. We believe the present city gov
ornment IL composed Of honest men.
and there ls no reason why we should
not elect honest men to succeed them


This Particular property should by all
means be in the hands OF the oity. that
it may he Administered directly In the
interest Of oar commerce. Lot the
wharf bonds go upon the market, and
take their chances there and in the
courts with all other city obligations.
Year: 1876

and cheeks. That Lewildering, beautiful,
blessed ride


Streets, and a crowd, aud church spires
were in it-yes, and a wedding aud fun
eral, too; all things that Deb had seen in
her hlgh-chair in the daytime, with her eyes
shut, she saw in the sleigh on that ride,
with her eyes open wide.


She sat very still. The young lady did
not talk TO her, and she did not talk to the
young lady. The horse hold up his head.
lie seemed to Deb to he flying. She thought
that he must be like the awful, beautiful
white horse in Revelation. She felt as If
he colld take her to heaven just as well as
not, If the young lady's brown gloves
should only pull the rein that way.
They rode and rode. In and out of the
merry streets, through and through the
singing bells, about and about the great
church spires-all over, aud over, and over
the laughing town. They rode TO the riv-
er, and the young lady stopped the white
| horse, so that Deb could look across, and up
and down.


"Thcre is so much OF it," said Deb, sofl-
ly, thinking Of the crack Of it that She had



For the crack seemed to her very much
like fifteen years in high chair and a
long, ad-shouldered, silvered river
seemed TO her very much like this world
about which she had wondered.


They rode TO the mills, and Deb trembled
10 look up at t1eir frownng walls, and to
meet their hundred eyes but some of the
girls who wore the little pink bows. and
who knew her, came nodding TO look down
out Of them, and she left off trembling TO
laugh; then, in a minute, she trembled
again, for all at once, without any warning,
great Androscoggin pealod the time just
over her head, and swallowed her up in
sound. She turned pale with delighted ter
ror, and then she flushed with terrified de.
light.


Did it pray, or cry, or laugh2 Deb did
not know. 1t seemed 10 her that If the
white horse would carry her into the great
heart Of that bell, she need never sit in a
high-char at a window again, but ride and
ride with the young lady. 1t seemed to her
like forever aud forever,


They turned away from Androscoggin
without speaking, and rode and rode. Day
light dlmmed, and dusk dropped, and see
all the town blazed with lights. They rode
TO see the lights. Deb could not speak
there were SO many lights.


And still she could not speak when they
rcde into Brick Alley, and Jim McMahen-
ey and her mother, and the children who
did not wonder, came out to meet her aud
take her back to her high-chair.


She was too happy too speak. She need
never wonder any more. She could re-
member.


But the young lady did not want her to
speak. She touched her white horse, and
was gone in a minute ; and when Andros-
coggin rang them both to sleep that night
for the young lady forgot TO ask for her
Cluny, and was too tired TO go TO the party
i am sure / cannot tell which was the
LA ppier, she or Deb.-ElisaGeM Stuart
Phelps.
Year: 1876

The faithful days work, in the field, the
workshop, at the forge, in the kitchen or
the factory, is far more honorable, useful
aud elevating than that of the schemiug
politician or tho flushed and eager specu-
lator, who counts his votes or his gains by
the thousands, but whose labors add moth
ing TO the prosperity, happiness or virtue
OF the community.


1t Is certainly important for each one 10
find his own sppolnted work in the world,
that which he loves best, as far as practical
BILE; but it is folly TO sit down supnely
and give way to despair and lethargy
because he imagines he ought TO occupy a
more prominent or important post. Nine
tenths of the changes made under this de-
lusion prove 10 be for the worse instead of
the better. Tho character and capacity that
fail of success In the one case fail yet more
signally in the other. Froude well says
"You cannot dream yourself into charac-
ter-you must hammer and forge yourself
one;" and it is only by laying hold ear
nestly and vigorously of the work that lies
nearest to us, and raising its value by put
ting into 1t all the yigor and energy, all the
patien CO and fidelity, all the thought and
ability we eau command, that we have any
right to expect success in any of its mean
ings.
Year: 1876

It often happens that the ink with which
old records were written, upon either paper
or parchment, has faded and rendered tne
characters entirely undecipherable. 1t is
we'll, therefore, to know that such writings
NAV easily be rendered legible by moisten-
ing the paper with water and then passing
over the lines in writing brush which has
been dipped in solution of sulphide OF am
monia. The writing will Immediately ap.
pear quite dark in color, and this color in
the case Of parchment, it will preserve. Re-
cords which were treated IN this way in the
Germanic Museum in Nuremberg ten years
ago, are still in the same condition as i'm
me!iately after the application of the pro
cess. On paper, however, the color gradu
ally fades again; but it may be restored al
pleasure by the application of the sulphide
The explanation Of the action OF this sub
stance is very simple; the iron which en-
ters into the composition of the ink is trans
formed by the reaction into the black sui
phide.
Year: 1876

engaged in investigating the affairs Of the
War Department. but in addition to this
knew nothing except what he was told by
Nr. Belknap himself. The latter was
greatly confused at the time he rendered
the written request to be relieved, and LEFT
the impression on the Presidents mind that
while lie did not intend or desire to shirk
any personal responsibility for any official
act. he did intend and desire to assume re-
sponsibility fer the acts Of others. The
President was deeply impressed with what
then appeared to be an act of self-sacrifce
on the part of the ex-Secretsry, and. with
out intending to aid him in avoiding pun
ishment to the full extent of the law, wrote
an acceptance. If the President had at
that instant known the full extent of Mr..
Belknap's completely in the acts of those
whose memories and secrets he seemed
intent upon shielding. another and diff
fercnt result might have ensued.
As the case now stands, the President has
already been assailed for precipitate
friendly action, when, in fact. he acted
under misapprehension. 1t Is prob
able, however, that if he had not ac-
cepted it the Opposition would have in
stantly charged him with retaining an un
worthy person in official position and
self-confessed corruptionist in his Cabinet.
As 1t is, by placing Secretary Robson in
charge of the War Department, which he
could not have done SO long as Mr.. Bel
knap retained possession of the portfolio.
the Government service has not been iu-
tcrfered with. but its imperative interests
have been served. At the same time, the
ends Of justice have not been retarded, be-
cause the cases Of General Belknap and his
accompliccs were instantly brought to the
attention Of the proper judicial authori-
t;nS