smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

AS there is no organization in the
city to take charge of this particular
business, we would suggest that the
Mayor and Council take steps to
bring the subject before the people.
1t is question that appeals alone to
the patriotism of the people, ,and is en-
tirely optional with them whether
they will aid in this national enter
prise. Los Angeles will doubtless be
we'll represented at the great national
fair, and if the proper facilities are af'
forded to exhibit the products of oul
country, it may bring returns to us,
financially, hundred fold. All are
equally interested.
Year: 1876

M PERSONS wishing to breed
@fS to this fine MESSENGER
n Horse will apply to the SUBJ
~ scriber, who will take pleas
M ure in showing some of the
iii colts of the get Of 1879. Colts
N that will prove the ability of
Year: 1876

the paper is nearly double (from 10
to 13 or 20 cents a sheet.) Imper-
feet paper is, however, never thrown
away for, at the time of sizing,
holes or assures are patched up
with their strips, and the face is
made so even that defects can only
be discovered by holding the sheet
up to the light. This paper, which
is usually gray, although sometimes
colored pink and blue, is very tough
and firm, and excellent for the gums


my ink with which the native


write. For the purposes of the


European it is of little use, and the


Russians have to import all the pa


per they require"
Year: 1876

London Telegraph


Yesterday discovery was made
in Paris suggesting a tragedy more
horrible in its details than any of
those imagined by Edgar Allen
Poe. 1t is well known that on the
banks of the Seine there are always
to be seen a large number of people,
for the most part vagrants, who
earn a livelihood by hooking the
sickly specimens of half-suffOcated
fish thas are found at the point
where the drains of Paris flow into
the river. One of these unfortu-
nate anglers fishing at st. 0uen
yesterday felt an unusual weight
encumbering his line. He took
steps to pull out of the water what
he expected would prove a valuable


find, when, to his surprise, be dis
covered it to be the trunk of a
young woman, the hands of which


were tightly tied together with a
cord. The body presented marks


of having been cut open


with a hatchet, HOrrifed at


the unwelcome sight, the poor


man ran for the commissarJ


of the district, who Immediately


telegraphed for N. Jacob, chief Of
!. the spolice. The latter had the


river dragged, with the result o
finding the legs and other parts o
the corpse. These, as was the cast


with the trunk, were found wrap
, ped in a petticoat Of printed cotton
AS soon as they were collected
medical examination was made 0
, the remains, and they proved to b
| those of q female Of about twenty
e eight years of age, who eyidentl
/; belonged to the working elias,
l From their appearance they coul
S not have been in the water aboy
d two or three days. To-day crowd
S have gone to the morgue, wher
: the murdered woman is placed o
n view. No trace has yet been di
n covered either of the identity or {


the perpetrator of the crime.
Year: 1876

A poor Arab, going through the
desert, met with a sparkling spring.
Accustomed to brackish water, a
draught from this sweet well in the
wilderness seemed, in his simple
mind, a present to the caliph. So
he filled the leather bottle, and,
after a weary tramp, laid his hum
BILE gift at his sovereign's feet. The
monarch, with a magnanimity that
may put many a Christian to blush,
called for a cup and drank freely,
and then with a smile thanked the
Arab, and presented him with a
reward. The courtiers pressed
eagerly around for draught Of
tue wonderful water, which was
regarded as worthy such a prinoely
acknowledgment. To their surprise
the caliph forbade them to touch a
drop. Then, after the simple
hearted giver left the royal presence,
with a new spring Of Joy yelling
up in his heart, the monarch ex-
planned his motive Of prohibition.
" During the long journey. the
water in his leather bottle had be-
come impure and diStaSteful; but it
was an offering of love, and as such
l accepted It with pleasure.
feared, however, that if | allowed
another to taste it, he would not
conceal his disgust. Therefore it
was that ! forbade you to partake,
lest the heart Of the poor man
would be wounded"
Year: 1876

The brains of the republican party,
and what is more important its treasury
lie in Washington City. That treasury
is the treasury OF the country, and it is
supplied by taxes imposed upon the
people, and expended under laws made
by congress, generally known as ap-
propriaton bills. We know great
many poor devils in this section who
are only getting fifteen or twenty dollars
per month for hard labor, who, a few
years ago, could command, for the same
work, fifty per cent more pay. The
brains, above alluded to, will take very
good care to accept the reduction offer
ed by democratic house rather than.
as they term it, allow the wheels of
government to stop; or in other words
to allow their political workers and
cldquerS to become scattered and IN
available for campaign purposes. A
slightly reduced treasury is SO much
better than no treasury at all. The
democrats can only do their duty by
standing firm.
Year: 1876

We would extend to the public our most
heartfelt thanks for the very generous patronage
extended to us, and we are detf rmined to merit
the success so literally extended, and will offer
from this time such
Year: 1876

Mr.. HART, owner of five shares of stock
in the Washington and Georgetown Rail
way Company, we are informed, thinks it
very hard that those citizens of the District
who own the stock by the hundreds of
shares will not vote him back into the con-
troll of the property. He sees that the
affairs of the company have been recu-
perated, and that the enterprise is again on
its feet, and with good tracks and rolling
stock is making money with prospect of
continuing TO be financial success for
some years if the present management is
maintained, go he wants ''Shance to max
vun leetel shent per shents on him vile he
is phat." He means that he wishes to
bleed the company again until it is unable
to stand on its own merits. He wishes to
apply to its management the tactics of his
old friend and associate Boss Tweed"
He will settle inflated bills in the name of
the company and then pocket the amount
between their face and "honest money"
He will not do for this latitude.
Year: 1876

SOME of our contemporaries have notified
the railway corporations of the country that
their books are to be examined soon to as
certain whether these companies have made
true reports of the amount Of taxable earn
ings in the past. If they have not and re-
fuse 10 settle they are to be prosecuted for
the 'tshorts" and the so per cent penalties
additional. 1t isvery kind, to say the least,
in the Treasury officials to give this notice
through the press so that railway officials
may hasten to prepare for the reception of
the examiners by doctoring their old books
or hiding them altogether. Does any one
suppose that companies who would make
false reports for the purpose of cheating
the revenue in the first instance would hesi-
tate one moment to alter or destroy records
in order to save detection and punishment?
1t is about time that such leakage Of infor-
nation should cease. Those officials who
impart such information to the press in
order 10 protect corporations in frauds
upon the revenue should at once give place
to others who will deem it their first duty
to protect the Treasury Of the people in
preference to those of revenue thieves and
Year: 1876

us as q nation. and presents problem that
must be solved now, at the very threshold
of our entrance upon the second century OF
our existence. If this little lesven OF an
archy succeeds in diffusing itself into the
whole Democratic mass, and that mass OBJ
tains control of the Government, then the
experience of our first century is wasted,
and our experiment in self fgovernment is
failure. On one side is Democracy and
anarchy; on the other Republicanism. law
and order, protection and elevation of labor,
the education of the masses, increase of
population, economy, development and
thrift.
Year: 1876

We HOPE to see some of the vacancies in
the Treasury Department filled by leading
men of the South. Governor Parsons, of
Alabama, is the equal of any man in the
nation. He is an eminent lawyer, a ripe
scholar and has a reputation for honesty
which even his political enemies of the
South have never dared to attack or ques-
tion. His promotion to a high position
would strengthen and encourage Republi-
cans in the South, and would insure the
electoral vote of Alabama for the cause of
"equal and exact justice" in the next
elprtion
Year: 1876

She had been recently elevated from poverty
to wealth by suddenly striking oil on the estate
left her by her deceased husband, and she came
here for the purpose of going into society and
seeing something of the world. She took her
meals at a cafe, and on being asked yesterday
where she was going she replied, 81 am repair
ing to the calf for refreshments.
Year: 1876

1t is pretty generally understood that all of
the West India islands favor the confederation
mentioned in the American circular to the
Powers of the Old World, and the general con-
dition of those provinces is such as to warrant
success If the experiment is tried.
Year: 1876

Bowen, in the Independent, says that his
contract to support the Northern Pacific rail-
road did not bind him !" more than ten minutes" Z"
If he had said twenty minutes many people
would have been surprised, as that would be
just ten minutes longer than he would ever
allow anything to bind him. Ten minutes Is
his regular time.
Year: 1876

IT WILL be seen by reference to another
c,lumn that an effort is to be made TO have
the next Republican National Convention
held in this city. Let all who favor it so
t. the Arlington tomorrow night.
Year: 1876

Curing the long voyage of Il e salier, bear


ing the passengers who escaped from the ILL.,
fated AIosel, there was much anxiety shown
by those interested in the vessel and its precious
cargo concerning the possibility of another
explosion caused by secreted dynamite on
board. This anxiety passed away on the arri-
Year: 1876

val of the vessel at the port of New York, but
there is still left much material upon which to
reflect with profit and sadness. The authori-
ties In Germany believe they have secured
evidence SUFFICIENT to place beyond the perad-
venture of doubt the fact that many Of the
great ocean steamers which have lefl port
"neyer to be heard of more have been the
victims of similar plots as the one so unfor-
tunately executed by the inhuman Thomas.
Among this fated list they place the ill-starred
City of Boston.
Year: 1876

Dslleoning is talked of as one of the features
Of The Centennial. There could be no more
propitious time for investigating the practica-
bility Of aerial navigation than during the
present year, and should the true eastern cur
rent be discovered it will give impetus to aero
nautical experiments which the close of an
other century will find Of incalculable benefit.
Year: 1876

JOB WORK.
Done at the RECORD office in the best style
known to the art; and must be paid for on de.
livery unless persons having the work done
have standing accounts with the ONCE. No da
Walton from this rule.
Year: 1876

Perhaps your home Is but scantilv
furnished, and you can afford few ornu-
ments or pictures. We'll, then, yoa
have Natures treasury to draw upon.
Have flowers in your room. They cost
little, and the pleasure they give is be-
yond price. If you can have flower
1or your window, so much the better.


What can be more delicious than the
suns light streaming through flowers
through the midst Of crimson fuchsias
or scarlet geraniumsl To look out into
the light through fowers--is not that
poetry? And to break the force of the
sunbeams by the tender resistance of
green leaves. If you can train a mas
turtium round the window, or some
sweet peas, then you will have the most
beautiful frame you can invent for the
picture without, whether it be the busy
crowd, or . distant landscape, or trees
with their lights and shades, or the
changes of the passing clouds. Any
one may look through flowers for the
price of an old song. And what pure
taste and refinement does it not indicate
on the part of the cultivatorl A flower
IN the window sweetens the air, makes
the room look graceful, gives the suns
hglt new charm, rejoices the eye, and
links nature with beauty. Then, as for
pictures, what can be more beautiful


an a group of tastefully arranged
Autumn leaves and ferns? Brilliant
hued leaves also make. lovely transpa-
rencies. They can be arranged between
two panes of glass, or, simpler still,
formed into wreath, Just fastening the
edge of one leaf to another with muci-
lage, and then hanging them in the sun
shine by one of the stems. For a cen
ter-table ornament, nothing is prettier
than simple fernery, which may be
arranged by your own hands. Simply
grown in q common hower-pot, with a
little charcoal beneath rich, loose soil,
they will soon obtain fine start. Placed
in basket upon the center-table, no
prettier ornament can well be imagined;
their graceful, feathery fronds dropping
over the sides, or standing upright in
green and diaphanous beauty. A pretty
floral ornament may be made by filling
shallow dish. with moss Of different
shades, bordering it with the trailing
vine of the partridge berry. And the
only price we have topay for ali these
woodland treasures is exercise and air.
More recuperating, invigorating and
restful, in nine cases out of ten, would
be walk in the country side than the
after-dinner nap. 1t might not be on
the first trial, but persevere all through
these fully-ripened days, before the
grand storehouses of Nature, with their
superb Fall openings. are over and
locked for the Winter.
Year: 1876

The uncertainty Of wealth is proyer-
bial-the descendants of the rich of one
generation being the poor of the next.
The cause is too often apparent in the
enervation, want of economy, enter
prise and forethought, in the inheritors
Of wealth, when compared with their
less fortunate neighbors. Has it ever
suggested itself TO you hoA sure is the
reward of honest toll when properly
directed?' The wealthy rising men OF
to-day, as body, are almost without
exception self-made. The secret Of their
success, sought after by many. is as
plain as a mondays sun. They do not
float INCREASINGLY with the stream Of
humanity, but in their separate callings
struggle hard against the stream. When
times are hard they are not seen on the
street corners complaining of their lot;
but reading the future by the unerring
light of the past, know that the dark
clouds on the horizon but foretell the
coming sunshine. Their little savings
are scrupulously cared for and judi
ciously invested, while the croaker COM
forts himself with dismal prophecies
and the result is an abundant and golden
harvest. Such an occasion is the pres
ent. For three years enterprise has
been pazalyzed, and the most dismal
prophecies have been apparently we'll
nigh realized; but the busy marts Of
commerce, now deserted, shall be
thronged again; the cheerful buzz of
the factory, now dismal in its quietude,
shall resound with honest industry.
Then what will be the respltq The dol
lar judiciously invested shall be doubled
and trebled; and the poor man, un-
known and unheard Of, who takes stock
in the prosperity Of his town and nation
shall be extolled and honored. To all
we say: Keep not your means idle, pay
your debts, take advantage Of the prof
table investment now offered. whether
it be in houses. lands, or business en-
terprises, and our word for it you will
not regret it. The cry Of oyer-produc-
ton is farce and delusion. There is
room enough in this broad land of ours
for every honest son of TOLL Hard
work faithfully followed will bring sue
cess every time. The more discourag-
ing the times Of to-day, the greater the
revival when it comes and the sooner it
will come.-AmeTicaa Manufacturer.
Year: 1876

AcD-PRooF PkMr.-The following
recipe may be of value to some of our
readers. The application of water glass
or soluble silicate of soda to wood or
metal utensils, to protect them from the
action of corrosive bodies, Is sometimes
desirable, and this material, a CORES.
pondent in the Polytechaic6es Journal
tells us. may be used with little difficult
ty If you go the proper way to work.
The wood or metal must be perfectly
dry to begin with, and free from rust or
any kind of fatty matter. ANY of the
pure mineral colors may be used for
mixing with the silicate. Powdered
lime, amounting to twenty or twenty-five
per volume, is mixed with the pigment.
a1d double as much water glass is then
added. The mixture is then applied in
the same way as ordinary paint.
Year: 1876

The BLESSINGS OF WoMAN's SOCIETY.
All men who avoid female society
have dull perceptions, and have gross
tastes, and revolt against what is pure.
Your club swaggerers, who are sucking
the butts of billiard-cues all night, call
female society insipid. Poetry is unin-
spring to q yokel; beauty has no charms
for blind man; music does not please
a poor beast, who does not know one
tune from another; but, as true cpl
cure is hardly ever tired of water-cress
and brown bread and butter, protest
can sit for a whole night talking to a
well-regulated, kindly woman about her
daughter Fanny, or her son Frank, and
like the evenings entertainment. One
of the greatest benefits man can de-
rive from o woman's society is that he
is bound to be respectful to her. The
habit is of great sgood to your moral
men, depend upon it. Our education
makes us the most eminently selfish
men in the world, and the greatest ben
eft that we have is to think of some
body to whom we are bound to be con-
stantly attentive and respectful.
Year: 1876

"THE times are hard, my DEAR" said
a man to his better half, land 1 find it
difficult to keep my nose above water"
You could easily keep your nose above
water, returned the laIy, "if you didn't
keep it so often above brandy"
Year: 1876

The BArTLK-FIKLD.-Nom man who has
experienced the horrors of war can
truthfully assert that he felt no fear
during an engagement. A battle is a
veritable hell upon earth; not to be in
serious apprehension while it lasts is TO
be either drunk, crazy or insensible.


The highest type of bravery is that of
the man who realizes the full extent of
his peril, but sticks resolutely to his
duty. 1t was my experience, and that
of all those about me, repeated a dozen
times, that, shell-fring is not nearly
so demoralizing as that of musketry. It
is not often that shells are thrown SO far
that their fragments scatter death and
wounds, and that their loud humming
overhead does not cause that nervous
tingling which always follows the sharp
zip of the rihe-bullet. The peculiar
cutting of the air made by half dozen
Of these at once is apt 10 give the soldier
the idea that the whole air is filed with
them, and that he is certain to be struck
by one Of them. The first sensation, on
being struck by a bullet, is a stunned,
numb feeling, which for a long time
overpowers the pain Of the wound. Sol
diers have been frequently prostrated
by spent balls. A curious effect of shell
wounds is that they do not bleed the
hot fragments sears the torn blood YES
sells and stops the effusion. A minnie
ball extracted from the human body
presents a remarkable sight. 1 have
seen them where the resistance Of the
flesh had turned back the pointed end


on all sides with such regularity that
the ball resembled q saucer or q flower.
Year: 1876

IT seems to me that 1 read all kinds
OF cures for ivy poison except the right
one l have always endeavored to keep
II before the public, but have failed. 1t
Is to dissolve sugar of lead-a bit the
size OF hazelnut-in half a toacup of
sweet milk or warm water. Apply as
warm as can easily be borne, with a
sort, hnty piece of rag. Three or four
applications are sufficient to effect a
cure. If the poison is on the face. and
near the eye or mouth, this astringent
wash may be constantly applied. 1t is
marvellous cure, and by watching
closely, one can see the fevered blisters
operation.
Year: 1876




WoMAN's love is ikened to a vine.
Perhaps it is like it. though it is very
strong in hours of need, as strong as It
is tender. Yes, surely, we will not de-
ny that it is our nature to ask for COM
fort and support, and seek to twine our
selves about something that can offer.


And there is no better reason than
this very trait of ours why we should be
careful how we give our hearts, and
make very sure that the man we choose
also has a heart-a strong and honest
one-and that his love is Of the kind to
be enduring; and that he has ingrained
in his nature that most excellent and
manly NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. He
should be an oak, not reed; for though
in Summer weather the vine may drape
the reed very prettily, it will not resist
the tempest. Nor need the vine dread
the ruggedest oak. Its bark may be
gnarled, its branches knotted; but all
the greener and fresher will be the fol-
age that it bears, all the more tenderly
will it shadow that which is beneath it.


There is sweetness in weakness; some
thing very loveable in many a faint.
willed and unenduring man but two
vines cannot support each other. They
only tangle and fall upon the ground.
The stronger, the braver, the more un-
like woman a man is, the better for his
wife. Remember this, girls. This is the
advice Of sister woman, who speaks
for the safety and happiness of her sex.
Year: 1876

LETTER TO THE UNITED STATES SENATE
FROM CARL sCHURTZ AND OTHERS.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. A. Ex-Senators Carl
Schurz and John B. Henderson and other
prominent men of this city have forwarded
letter to the President of the United
States Senate relative to the counting of
the electoral vote, with the request that he
lay it before the United States Senate.
They say in the letter that the present con-
dition of the country calls for some action
which shall settle the political disquietude.
The clause IN the Constitution respecting
the canvassing of the electoral vote is
quoted, and pronounced inadequate and
liable to diverse construction. The ATTEMPT
to canvass the State in joint session of
Congress is deprecated as certain to raise
partizau issues, and develop strife which
may prove most disastrous to the country.


The letter then proposes as the remedy
that the whole matter shall be transferred
to the Supreme Court OF the United States.
1t Is urged that that is the only tribunal
from which fair and bipartisan decision,
one which will satisfy the whole people; can
be obtained.


10 effect this, the letter proposes that the
two houses shall improve the three weeks
preceding Christmas in framing and agree
ing upon constitutional amendment plac-
ing in the Supreme Court the duty of can
vassing the electoral vote. Most of the
State Legislatures meets Immediately after
the holidays, when the amendment could be
submitted; and the letter hold. to the opin-
ion that the ascendment could be ratified
without delay, so that it could be made d
part of the Constitution and apply to the
present election. Both of the Presidential
candidates, it is urged, would recognize the
wisdom Of this course, and both the Repub-
lican and Democratic Legislatures would
ratify it. The letter dwells at length upon
The wisdom of removing this important
matter from tribunal likely to be affected
by party strife.
Year: 1876

From the n. Y. Sunday Herald.


The session which will begin tomorrow
will be one of the most imoortant and
at the same time one Of the most exciting
that has ever sat. The attitude of the t wo
parties is one Of suspicion and exaspera-
ton each side is watching the other with
distrust; men Of opposing politics are be-
coming alienated from each other and in
such times the rash, the INSCRIPTIONS, the
adventures who have nothing to lose and
hope to gain something from tumult, to-
gether with the illogical, the ignorant and
The fauatical, make up a formidable force,
all, whether with good Or bad intentions,
likely to contribute to the general confusion
and to increase it to pitch which M "
easily become dangerous to the public
peace. y