davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Connecticut western news., 1876-07-14
Items of Interest.

The less indulgence one has for ones self the more one may have for others.
 Some men make great flourish about always doing what they believe to be right, but always manage to believe that right which is for their own interest.
 A Pennsylvania physician told g sick lady that she couldn't. live month: She died that night from excitement and her husband sues for $1O,OO0 damages.
 A debtor severely questioned as to the reason of his not paying a just debt, re- piled: "Solomon was Q very wise man, and Samson very strong one, but neither of lem could pay his debts with out mcney." ...... .. ..-.......
 When you reflect that at picnics one hundred years ago it was the custom for the girls to stand up in a row and let the men kiss them all goodbye, all this en- thusiasm about national progress seems to be grave mistake. l5 aai za.s5
 Mark Twain, speaking of new mos quito netting, writes ."The day ls coming when we shall sit under our nets in church and slumber peacefully while the discomfted flies club together and take it out of the minister. allG
 A young Scotch farmer having set his affections on a young lady, recently pro- posed marriage without the usual pre- iiminaries. The lady, equally frank, rejoined: "Deed, Jamie, I'll take ye, but ye maun gie me my dues O coortlng for a that" t....-'...-a 4~-.
 A clergyman was "turned down |" ata fashionable spelling bee for spelling drunkenness with one n. Shortly after ward he returned to his parish, and found himself very coldly received by his rarishioners. He sent for the parish clerk and asked him what was the cause. "Well, sir" replied the man, Ga re- port has come down here that you was turned out of great lady's house in Lon don for drunkenness. 5-r ...eai
Connecticut western news., 1876-07-14
J. J. AstOr's Miscellaneous Business.

., In New York paper, printed on the tenth of January, 179O, may be found the first pianoforte advertisement ever published in that city. It reads: CT, Jacob Astor, at S1 Queen street, next door but one to the Friends Meeting House, las for sale an assortment of Piano Fortes of the newest construc- tion. made by the best makers in Lon don' which he will sell on reasonable terms. He gives cash for all kinds of Furs, and has for sale quantity of Canada Beaver and Beaver Coating, Racoon Skins, and Racoon Blankets, Muskrat Skins, etc., etc,
Connecticut western news., 1876-07-14
SALISBURY, CONN.,, FRIDAY, JULY 14 1876.
The Difference.

The flowers we lost will all return; Though dead and buried long ago, Beneath the winters ice and snow, They greet again the suns bright face Each in it's own appointed place,
 And through the summer bloom and burn
 The dead and lost will surely rise; Though buried deep beneath the clay, Through years and years they waste away, Yet in brighter, better land, We hope to take them by the hand.
 And find them glorious In our eyes.
 The flowers will como again, we know. For touch, and taste, and sight, and smell, The truth of resurrection tell. >. Last season brought them back again, And other seasons will, and then
 We do not grieve because they go.
 We do not know the dead will live. They never greet our mortal sight, Beyond the dark we see no light, And we have naught to check our grief, Except shadow called belief,
 And such sense as hops can give.
Connecticut western news., 1876-07-14

Not married in haste to repent at leisure were the two loving people who took the evening train at U. for a far commercial city, preceded by their good fortane in shape of strong box filled with Spanish doubloons and English banknotes ingenioaslt bequeathed by an eccentric cmisanthrope, and discovered in it's hiding place by woman's wit, kindled by woman's sympathy.
Connecticut western news., 1876-07-14
ADVERTISING RATES
Birthdays.

Who weeps when love, a oradled babe, is born! Rather we bring frankincense, myrrh ana
 gold.
 While softest welcomes from our lips are
 rolled "a To meet the dawning fragrance of a morn of oheokered being. Even while the thorn Keeps pace with rosy graces that unfold, Do we with rapture cry: Behold, behold, Aud yet, when from our darling fall the years As from the rose the shriveled petals rain, And into newer life the soul again ..s Springs thornless to the air of purer spheres, So blinded are we by our bitter pain We greet the sweeter birth with selfish tears.
 -Cdtholic World
Connecticut western news., 1876-07-14

A WHITE S1oUx.-Some of the In dians who were in the battles with the Sioux assert that there was white man with the Indians, and that he was not 8 half breed; that he had large white or gray beard. As Indians invariably pluck out all hair growing on their face, this latter fact would seem to indicate the correctness of their assertion,
Connecticut western news., 1876-07-14
ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE.

The cost of their execution is enormous, and it is believed they will find welcome re- p@dia, and worthy of it's high character The work is sold to subscribers only, pay able on delivery of each volume. It will be coml lete in SIXTEEN LARGE OcTAvo VOLUMES, each con. taining abont 800 pages, fully illustrated with several thousand wood engravings, and with numerous colored Photographic maps.
Connecticut western news., 1876-07-14

Which are introduced for the first time in the present edition have been added, not for the sake of pictorial effect, but to give greater lucidity and force to the explanations in the natural history, and depict the most famous and remarkable features of scenery, architeo- ture and art. as well as the various process of mechanics and manufactures. Although in tended for instruction rather than embellish- ment, no pains have been spared to insure
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-18

The bill was placed upon it's second read

Inc Dill WIZ RAaGoA UkVAA AS0
ing.
Senator Harper moved to adopt the bill
upon its second reading.
Senator Stamps moved that the further
reading of the bill he dispensed with.
Senator Alexander called for the yeas
and nays, with the following result:
Yeas-Allain, Blunt, Burch, Cage. Chad
bouru, Detiege, Ola, Greene, Landry, Pol
lard, Stamps, Weber, Whitney, Young-l4.
Nays-Alexander. Brewster, George.
Goode, Grover. Harper. Herwig, kelso,
Twitcheli, Wharton, White-l6.
Absent-Anderson, Blackburn, Breaux,
Dumont, Eustis, MasicOt-6.
The Senate refused to suspend the read.
ing Of the bill.
Senator Chadbou moved to adjourn.
Upon which the yeas and nays were de-
manded by Senator Harper, resulting az
follows:
Yeas-Blunt, Burcb, Cage, Chadbourn,
Detiege, Ola, Pollard, Stamps, Sypher,
Weber-l0.
NAYS Alexander, Allan, Anderson,
Breaux, Brewster, George. Goode, Greene,
Grover, Harper, Herwig, helsO, hslly, Lah'
drv. Ogden. Robertson, Steven, Wharton,
White, Whitney, YOung-2.
Absent - Blackburn, Dumont, Eustis,
Masicot, Twitchell-5
The Senate refused to adjourn.
Senator Harper moved that the bill be
made the special order of the day for TO-
morrow at 100 P. NJ.
Adopted.
On motion of Senator Allan the Senate
was declared adjourned until to morrow at
II NJ.
P. E. BECHTEL,
Secretary of the Senate.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-18
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.

Senator Mascot, from the Committee on
Enrolment and Engrossment, made the
following report:
COMMITTEE ON ENROLLING AND ENGKosslNG,
New Orleans, February Is, 1870. :
To the Honorable President and Members OF the
Senate:
Your Committee on Enrolling and En-
crossing bills beg leave to report the fol
lowing bills as having been duly engrossed,
Senate bill No. ll2, an act to incorporate
the St, James Methodist Episcopal Church
Association Of Shreveport, Louisiana.
Senate Joint resolution No. Z, lnstructlng
the Senators and requesting the Representa-
ives of Louisiana in Congress to secure
the passage by the national legislature -, OF
an act granting appropriate pensions to the
veterans of the war with MEXICO tneir
widows and minor orphans.
Senate bill No. 95, an act tor the reilei u
w. Z. White.
Senate joint resolution No. 6, instrnctlng
the Senators and requesting the repre-
sentatiyes in Congress from Louisiana 70
secure if possible, the passage OF an act 6y
the national Legislature approprlanng me
a,rocaeds of the cotton tax collected ID inc
States of Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas
Mississippi and Louisiana, to the construc-
t;on and repair of a system OF levees upon
The Mississippi river and tributaries 10 %
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-18

4S,OUU FISK. Observation-Disclosures.
2495O Million loan. ......lO
$4,000 Wharf bonds assumed by
lesseoe. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
$3.50 municipalities. ............-
The floating debt your committee have
failed to ascertain. The bill under con.
sideratit II proposes to vest the city author
ties with power to convert said debt intoa
new series of bonds, the payment of the IN
terest and redemption of which is provided
for under certain conditions contained in
said bill. Your committee deem it unnec.
esary to enter into any statement as to the
details of the bill, and confne themselves
to the principles on which the bill lie predi.
Gated. Your committee submit the follow
ing facts in relation to the bill. That as to
all of said bonds, except the consolidated
bonds, there is grave and serious question
of legality, because
l. They were. issued in contravention Of
the contract made by the city with the
holders of the consolidated bonds.
?: As to some of them, they are tainted
with fraud, because the city received an
inadequate compensation, and in some in.
stances no consideration therefor.
3. As to some Of them, they now represent
a portion of a debt created in aid of the
"Confederacy," which debt by the constl.
tuition of the United States and of this
In this connection, your committee call
especial attention to the provision of act
No. II of 1852. We quote:
"The Common Council shall annually, IN
the month OF January, pass an ordinance,
to raise the sum of $600,000 by special
tax. All ordinances, resolutions or other
acts passed by said Council after the first
day of January in each year shall be null
and void unless the ordinance imposing the
consolidation loan tax shall have been pre-
viously passed. At the end OF each and
every year any surplus of the consolidated
loan tax remaining in the treasury after the
payment of all the interest shall be sp'
piled to the purchase from the lowest ola.
ders Of such bonds issued under this act ~
have the shortest period to run"
And section four Of the same act PRIV
vides:
'Nor shall any loan be contracted unless
tho s.,me be authorized by vote OF ma
ioritv of the qualified voters Of said CITY
and M ordinance creating a debt or loan
shall be valid unless for some single ON
iect or rk distinctly specified therein
and unless such ordinance shall prolI
vide ways and means for the punc'.unaa,
payment of run ning interest durlps ea
whole time for y. 'ch SAID oeDt VI 'o'-
shall be contracted ,,.od
In a suit by the holt ers of consolldateaa
bonds recently brought before the United
States Circuit Court in Thu. city, the Juus'
Hon. w. B. Woods) held: ..o
There can be NO serious ques. 'on .n n. Of
much of section twenty-nine of thu oos ;oh
1852 as provides for the manner n VIM. -
the tax to pay the consolidated bonds 49,
be levied. and the safeg0ards for the ie..
and collection Of the tar constituted con,
tract with the bondhosder, the substans~'
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-18


per cent
$4,444, 900 Consolidated bonds ...... 6
5000, 900 Railroad bonds. ........ 9
2.S43, 500 Issue of of 1862.
5000 900 Issue of 1870. Observation-Disclosures.
$4,000 Jefferson city bonds. ..... 8
446, 900 Street improvement bonds. 7-90
9. $50 Street assessment bonds. 40
1.143,6OO Ten per cent bonds. 10
2,5lS,O0O Gold bonds (gold). .....
1865, 900 Gold bonds drainage series..)
1898, 400 Water works bonds. 5
l94.250 City of Carrollton bonds. -. s
109,OO McD0nough ............
$4,000 Fisk. 6
24,95O Million loan. 10
ga, 900 Wharf bonds assumed BY
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-18

The reports lie over.
By unanimous consent Senator Harper
called up House bill No. 33l; entitled an
act to confirm the notarial charter of the
New Orleans Pacific Railway Company,
with amendments thereto, to extend the
term of existence of said company, and to
confer thereon certain powers and fran
chises.
The bill was read the first time
On motion of Senator Harper the corst;-
tutional rules were suspended by four
fifths affirmative vote of the Senate in order
to place tho bill upon its second reading.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-18
OFFICIAL JOURNAL

OF THE
FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
OF THE
STATE OF LOUISIANA.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-18
MAJORITY REPORT,

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND QUARANTINE,
New Orleans, Feb iuary l6, 1876 !
To the Honorable President and Members OF the
Senate.
Your committee, having had under con-
siderat!ol Honse bill No. y, an act to au-
thorize and empower the Board of Health
of the State OF Louisiana to detan and dis
infect, and to pass after disinfection, YES
sells from infected ports at and from quar-
antine stations, in lieu of time quarantine
detention, in certain cases, and to repeal
conflicting laws, beg leave to report IN
favOrably, and ask that it do not pass.
Respectfully submitted.
E. L. WEBER, Chairman;
EMILE DE TIEGE,
A. DUMONT.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-18

of any property whatsoever, shall be issued
in all cases where such receipts shall or
may be issued as collateral security for
money advanced or borrowed on faith of
the property therein specified, and govern
ing the delivery and disposal of the prop
erty for which such receipts may be issued.
Reported favorably by said committee.
On motion vf Senator Grover the report
of the committee was adopted.
Senator Chadbourn moved that the bill
be taken up section by section.
Adopted.
The first section was read and adopted.
The second section was read.
Senator Grover moved that it be adopted.
Senator Whitney moved to amend by
striking out the words ''or secretary"
Adopted.
The second section as amended was then
| adopted.
The third section was read and adopted.
The fourth section was read and adopted.
The fifth section was read.
On motion of Senator Ogden the section
was passed over
The sixth section was read.
Senator Ogden offered the following
amendment
Amend section six by striking out the
words ''private sale orr in line twenty
eight, and to strike out in line twenty nine
OF the same section the words las they NAV
deem most advantageous" and insert after
the words "public auction" in line twenty
eight latter five days notice in q public
Journal"
Senator Grover accepted the amend
ment.
SPECIAL ORDER OF THE DAY.
The special order of the day, House bill
No. IA, was called up, and on motion of
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-18

perfol
eeivel
18th
now d
New
apart
to pal
can 4
ating
my D
can b
fed il
depod
inter(
trust|
ties t
other
YOj
so
are
not
to d
that
cOlie(
and l
of co
In
der Il
being
legal
mittd
wOui
menq
tent,
weig
of I'D
accel
not u
bond
taxpI
that
show
visiiO
any |
prov
mittj
we b
it,, al
with
cons
theil
in III
issud
undo
Stat(
theft
of til
in til
bein
",
the !
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-18

Yeas-Alexa nder, Anderson, Chadbourn,
Detiege. Drmont, George, Goode, Kelly,
Ogden Robe, -on, Steven, Sypher. Twitch-
ell. Wharton. White, Whitney, Young-l7
Nays-AIlain, Blunt, Breaux, Brewster,
Burch, Cage, Harper, Herwig, Kelso,
Landry, Pollard, Stamps. Weber-l3.
Absent-Blackburn, Eustis, Ola, Greene,
Grover, MasicOt-6.
And the motion to table prevailed.
Senator Young moved to postpone the
whole subject matter.
The President ruled the motion out of
order, on the ground that a motion to in
definitely postpone the bill had already
been voted down.
Senator White moved that the bill be
considered engrossed.
Senator Blunt moved to reccmmit the
bill, and called for the previous question.
Senator White made the point OF order
that Senator Blunt can not deprive him of
his right to debate the bill on his motion to
engross by moving to recommit and calling
the previous question.
The President ruled the point not we'll
taken, on the ground that the previous
question cut off all debate.
Senator Burch called for the yeas and
nays upon ordering Of the main question,
with the following result:
Yeas-Allain, Blunt. Breanx, Grover,
Harper, Herwig, Kelso, Landry, Pollard,
Robertson, Twitchell, Weber, Wharton-l3.
Nays--Alexander, Anderson, Brewster,
Bnrch, Cage, Chadbourn, Detiege, Dumont,
George, Goode, Kelly, Ogden, Steven, Whit
ney, Young-l5.
Absent-3lackburn, Eustis Ola, Greene,
Mascot, Stamps, Sypher, Whites.
And the main question was not ordered
Senator Cage moved to lay the motion to
recommit on the table.
Senator Breaux called for the yeas and
nays, with the following result:
The New York herald., 1876-07-14
The Old south Church.

The Old South Church, which never did
any harm in its life, but, on the contrary,
has a much better record than either Mr..
Hayes or Mr. Tilden, now stands like
criminal under sentence of death. Old age
is its sole offence, and this year, when Amer
ica is honoring her antiquities, it is strange
that this ancient glory should be On excep-
ton. The very fact that it is old should
save it, OF new buildings there are plenty,
but capital and enterprise cannot create his
torical monuments, unless they do like the
man in the comedy who built what he was
pleased to call ''new ruins" on his estate.
Philadelphia might as well tear down the
State House as Boston destroy the Old South
Church
The Bostonians are not themselves respon-
sible for this proposed vandalism. The peo-
pie know the value of the old church, and
are working hard to obtain reversal of the
decree of death. The committee appointed
to get subscriptions for the purpose are act
ing with energy and zeal. 1t has addressed
u letter to the Standing Committee of the
church. asking for time TO complete the fund,
and proposing to take lease of the building
for three or six months, and to pay fair per-
centage on the market value. Guarantees Of
this payment we're obtained in two hours-a
very encouraging sign. The Grand Army of
the Republic has come to the rescue Of the
church, and many of its influential members
have had n letter sent to GENERAL Horace
Binncy Sargent, Commander of the Depart
ment of Massachusetts, requesting him to
make an appeal to all the posts in the
State All the neighboring towns unto with
Boston in the protest. Quincy, Stockbridge,
Marblehead, Milton Hill, Mattapoisett, Sax
onville and other towns have their subscrip-
ton books and liberal contributions have
been made The friends of the Old South
Church now believe that they can save it.
and the country cannot understand how
they can fail. Boston is patriotic and rich
enough to raise the comparatively small sum
needed and understands that she holds the
building in trust, as it we're, for the whole
nation. Progress, we know, requires that
sentiment shall make way for mercantile in
tercsts; but is that progress which would OBJ
literate our few great historical monuments :?
We received these memorials rs legacies
from the glorious past, and it is our duty to
bequeath them to the future
The New York herald., 1876-07-14
Our Rinemen's Prospects.

The selection of the rifle team to shoot the
return match with the Irish rihemen marks
another step in the preparation for the fall
contests 1t results in placing three new
names upon the list of our first class rife
men, crowding out one of the old team who
would have secured place had he stood on
his old score-Mr. Yale. This result is not,
however, particularly regrettable, as the
young men who have secured the chance of
higher rife honors have undergone most
searching test, and will doubtless hereafter
justify their fine records in the late competi-
tions The difference in the teams only
amounts to three names, and the shooting
force Of the return team is, if anything,
stronger than that of the Centennial. Below
we give in tabulated form the result of the
two selections. So many of the Centennial
team resolved to stand upon their scores
that the difference in the Figures is not very
great but we arc pleased to note that the
tendency of all the shooting is to go higher
-Lx.xz 7. ~
The New York herald., 1876-07-14
Tho Southern States.

The republicans in North Carolina have
opened their campaign. North Carolina is
one of the test States in the Union, because
of its peculiar population and the delicate
shades of difference between its politicians.
Before the war North Carolina was generally
a whig State, and this whig element gem
Grated a powerful Union party, which
troubled the Confederacy during the war
and was relied upon by Mr. Lincoln in the
work of reconstruction. In most of the
Southern States the party lines have been
the old resident whites on one side, the
carpet-baggers and negroes on the other In
North Carolina there has always been a
powerful white party, composed of old set
tiers, who remained true to the republican
platform. The republicans have taken a
man of this kind for Governor in the person
of Judge Thomas Settle. The Judge be-
longs to one of the pioneer Carolina fami-
lies He was President Of the Convention
which nominated Grant and Wilson, and is
now, we believe, on the Supreme Bench Of
the State. He has the reputation of an elo-
quent and accomplished man, and in put
ting him at the head of the ticket the North
Carolina republicans mean to show that one
Southern State at least shall not 60 demo-
cratic by default.
We are glad to see old residents of the
South like Judge Settle acting with the re-
pubicans. What we have always dreaded
in the South since the war is the formation
of parties upon color lines or war lines. No
good could come from such division; and, in
deed. most of the evils Of which the South
erners complain may be attributed to it.
We desire to see in the South all idea o.
color, or nativity, or political feeling during
the war; driven out of politics. The cry Of
..carpet-bagger" has, we have no doubt, pre-.
vented hundreds of thousands of white
men-honest, worthy men-from going into
the South They would have gone with
alacrity into warmer climates and richer
fields; but unless they became democrats or
turned upon all the associations of home
they were apt to be received with shotgun.
So with the negro. We believe if there had
been more of the spirit of conciliation toward
the negro the democratic party might to-day
have the best share of his vote. We trust
also to see lively and earnest canvass in
the South. We dread nothing more than tha
restoration of sectional party in the Union.
God knows we have had enough of sectional-
ism. and we deplore its return. Therefore,
when we read the democratic calculations
about carrying all the South on the color
question, as matter Of course, we deplore
them, not because we object to the demo-
Gratis winning, but because any victory based
upon prejudice or hatred of race is a mis-
fortune
The fact. therefore. that the republicans
in North Carolina have found as a candidate
an old resident, man of distinction, who
is neither a carp st-bagger nor a scalawag noR
a negro, is a matter for general congntula-
ton. AS to the issue in this canvass we
have nothing to say. We do not care
whether Judge Settle is chosen Governor on