smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

The question Of the removal Of the State
capital to Baton Rouge is still being agitated
by the press Of the State. We have watched
and lfstentei II any good and sound rea-
sons would be advanced for this. measure by
It's advocates, but 80 far have heard none.
The most prominent argument Is that large
cities are too corrupt to be a proper place for
State officers and legislators. This is so absurd
that we wonder they are not ashamed to adj
vance 1t. First because men who areso natu-
rally corrupt themselves, or so weak minded
as to be unable to resist the corruptions Of
a city, or the evil influence of corrupt lobby
lists, are totally unfit to be In the Legislature
or In State office; and there could be no
greater shame and disgrace to our State than
the fact, Il such fact should exist that the
men who had been chosen and sent together
as the assembled wisdom OF the State, had
not sufficient manhood to resist corrupt
temptations, or forbid the approach Of dis
honest temptOrs. 1T we have not enough up
right men left In the State to constitute a
State government we had better quit the
business and get someb ody to attend to itfor
us.


Second, II the corruptions Of New Orleans
can influence your officers and legislators,
you can ,ss % 70 good BY putting them some
where the corruptionists cannot reach them.
The remedy Is to elect perfectly upright men,
who have ability to take care Of themselves,
and then it will make but little difference
about the corruptions Of the CITY,. Or, If any,
the matter will be reversed, and instead Of
the city having an immoral influence on
them, they will exert a moralizing influence
upon the city.


We have no objection to Baton Rouge as
capital: We like the old town well. And II
the old Capitol building was as It used to be,
we would labor hard to keep it there; but as
matters now stand we can see no good reason
1of mourning the expense OF a move.
Year: 1879

Notwithstanding the bad weather and the
drizzling rain OF yesterday, the competitors for
the Mobile trophy were promptly on hand at
FroRmoor. There were present seven men
on each team from the Washington Artillery.
Louisiana Field Artillery and the Continental
Guards.


/ The shooting was generally below the usual
average. owing to the bad weather and the shift
ing wind. The result Of the shooting was as
follows.
Year: 1879

Resoaued, THAT a special committee Of nine
members Of this Convention be appointed By
the President with powers to ascertain wheth-
pr or not an equitable adjustment Of the consol-
tdated debt Of the State contracted under the
legislation Of the year 1874 can be effected, and
to report thereon as soon as practicable.
Year: 1879

To noted breach of promise case re-
Gently, the Judge decided in favor of the
defendant he having proven that the plain
tiff had very offensive breath, caused by
CATARRH, and that while he offered TO
purchase OUR VEGETABLE CATARRH
CURE for her, she persisted in using some
other remedy. although she constantly
grew worse. Finally being unable to bear
it any longer, he cancelled the engagement,
and Notwithstanding the fact that plaintiff
proved that since their two hearts had dis
continued to beat as one, she had, by using
above named preparation, been entirely
cured, the court while commencing her
final sensible action, decided against her
on the grounds, that anyone troubled
with such disgusting and annoying dis
ease who would not accept the offer defen-
dans proved to have made. was not enti.
tied to any damages" Let others take
warning and profit by this unfortunate
young lady's experience. OUR" VEGET.
ABLE CURE for CATARRH, is smoked in a
pipe. and by this method of medicated
vapor applies direct to the disease.


Sold by all Druggists; SOC and $l.00 pei
| Dackage
Year: 1879

is common complaint 10 hot weather. II
you feel SO. get q package OF Kidney
Wort and take it and you will at once feel
its tonic power. 1t keeps up the healthy
action of the Kidneys, Bowels and Liver,
aud thus restores the natural life and
strength to the weary body.
Year: 1879

should provide himself with a bottle of
SOZODONT, so that when he calls upon


the ladies he can rinse his mouth and re-
move the odor which hovers around the


person of the nicotized. Not alone for its
aroma is it valuable, but as a curative and
preservative of the teeth it is unsurpassed.
Year: 1879

Tempted. perhaps, by the prospects of an
unusually gay season, the managers of opera
and concert companies have made start, and
some of them are already prospecting while
fashionable society hardly yet acknowledges
itself to be in town. 1t is assumed on all
sides that people mean to spend great deal
of money this Winter. The first CLEAN of
sunshine after the long period of gloom has
had remarkable effect upon the spirits Of
the public and all the world seems brisk and
merry Musical and dramatic entertainments
OF most kinds are likely to obtain a much
more liberal support this year than they have
earned at any time since the era of imitation
and extravaganza.


fitting prelude to the classical concerts
Year: 1879

The Tilden Police Commissioners will Rpt


it seems obey even the voice OF an extraor-
dinary General Term of the Supreme Court.
The Court plainly indicated its convection that
both divisions of the Democratic party should be
recognized IN the appointment OF Election In
spectors, and it was supposed that this deci-
sion would have been received by the Board
with as much respect as If IL had
been accompanied with the mandamus
which the Court did not feel that it could
Year: 1879

nation Israel, so that they might study
the Law which Thou gavest to them
and not to us, and so that they might
observe all it's commands in joy and af-
fuence. For as Thou didst not give the
law as an Inheritance to us, and the com
mands were not intended for us, there
fore have we assisted Thy nation Israel
unto whom Thou didst reveal Thyself,
and to whom Thou didst make known
Thy laws


But the God of Judgment answered
them r1 h.m a H..s


Fools Can you conceal anything
from me I see the heart and search
the reins before you think your
thought, I know it all. All that you
built, invented and prepared, was only
done in order to increase your power and
might, and in order that you might en-
joy carnal pleasures; there is not one
among you who respected my law, there
is not one among you who did not try to
injure the children Of Israel, the OBJ
servers of that law


The mighty and naughty Romans
then departed from before the Judge of
the universe in fear, confusion, and with
their heads bowed down. X y Iawoke,
and streams of tears issued from my
eyes, for [ understand the Interpretation
of this dream. Alas [ see that the
children of our nation direct their at
tention to the pleasures and luxuries Of
the world which are as transient as a
shadow, but they do not even think Of
life eternal, Of the life Of the soul They
constantly desire to build luxurious pal
aces, to dress in silk and lace, to wear
beautiful and rich garments, to adorn
themselves with gold and jewels like the
Roman aristocrats, and to rule ever their
brethren ii A l5 ! b MS
IS the reason why the Romans said to
the omniscient God. that the house of
Jacob participated in the pleasures
which they had invented in their coun-
try. Woe unto me ! The word that
God spoke through his servants, the
prophets, will soon be fulfilled upon the
children of Israel In short time
God will scatter us over all nations and
spread us over all lands. O, house of
Israel return and repent, for why will
you die, when God may yet listen to
your petitions and grant your prayers ?
Pursue the path of peace and avoid war,
remain in your country, even if you have
to work hard for your living, and have
to endure many sufferings. Israel, my
nation, doest thou wish to move about
in strange lands, like bird that for
sakes her nest and flies from branch
to branch so that it may escape the ar
rows of it's pursuers If thou seekest
for greatness, then thou wilt be a So
journer and wanderer in all countries of
the earth, thy heart will find no rest
and thy soul no repose; but if thou
wilt be satisfied with bread to still thy
hunger, then thy sorrows will change
into joy, and thy misfortunes into glad
ness"
Year: 1879

Judge Asa Packer, who died on Saturday in
Philadelphia, was an American of the Amcri-
cans. In no other country is there soil and
room to make just such growth as Lis possi-
BILE. He began life as canal bOatman, and
when he ended it was not only one of the
wealthiest men in the country, but a great
commercial power and philanthropist who
had seen and grasped the most practical
ard direct method of helping his generation.
Nowhere else would shrewd young laborer
have been able to detect the sources of en0r-
nous future wealth and to bring them within
his own command; in no other society would
he, as an adult have been able easily to edu-
cate himself. and to step at will into the class
for which his keen Intelligence, noble charac-
ter and simple, genuine manner fitted him.
Nothing lasts but character" William Welsh
was wont to say. And that is true in
arstocratic governments as well as ours


but only of the dead. The Apostles them
selves in England or France would be
snubbtd while living on account OF their origin.
Here, man like Asa Packer has not only
the chance to reach his full development, but
receives at every forward step the recognition
and homage which he deserves. The Ameri-
can public can bear to be twitted with its
lack of appreciation OF art, as long as it
appreciates the highest manhood, with the
fine instinct which it invariably has shown.


Judge Packer, as the controller of the
Iehgh Valley Railroad and of vast coal in
terests, was the employer of large bodies of
men, and made every hour to feel how great
was his power, but he always retained
a singular simplicity of manner. This
and his total lack of self-consciousness
were probably the secrets of his strong per-
sonal influence. He was neither ashamed nor
vain of his rise from an humble beginning.
The poverty of his youth, like the wealth of his
age, was but an exterior circumstance, to
which he attached 10 weight. At the
celebration of his golden wedding i'll Mauch
Year: 1879

There is no abatement of homicidal excitement in
Massachusetts,. The POcasset child murder being
vet fresh, the respectable town of Fitchburg is
shocked by the case of Francis T. Hayden, a medi-
cal student who is charged with poisoning his Sis
ter and is somewhat more than suspected of having
sometime previously poisoned his father and
mother. In the stomach Of the young
man quantity Of white arsenic, it is sald,
has been found. The neighborhood of Lynn
is hardly vet recovered from the shock Of finding The
dead body of young woman in the water there-and
without drawing hasty and uncharitablc deductions
from these crimes, to which might fairly be added
hose of financial character at Fall River. in tho
ime State we may express our surprise. Here is
q State remarkable for its common school system,
for the number OF its churches and charitable insti
tutions for the general orderly charac-
ter of its population. Why should it not
be remarkable, also, for freedom from unusual and
revolving crimcsl Moreover, the offences against
law. to which we have been aluding are not all
committed by the poor and ignorant. Indeed, it is
hardly exceeding the bounds of truth to say that
most of tho offenders have been persons of good
education and of unquestoned moral rcputa-
tion. Hayden, suspected of poisoning in Fitch
burg had been student in tho Boston University;
aud like examples of cultivated minds and of un-
cultivated cOnsoienoes, might be given. Probably
every one of the POcasse Adyentsts could read and
write. Perhaps we shall have to revise our opin-
ions that ignorance is the sole principal of
crime. The foundations of human deprayity lie
deeper.
Year: 1879

The Washington dispatches hold out the
hope that if every member of the House VINO
is opposed to the Warner silver swindle is In
his seat on Tuesday morning the bill may be
defeated. Surely no Representative who
wishes to see this measure OF dlshonor
checked needs any further invitation to do
his duty than this statement. The ao-
sentees are needed in Washington. Ihey
must go back. Every member now away
from his post, who can reach it by human
effort before the hour Of voting tomorrow
should do it, The duty of killing the bill
should not be left to the Senate or to the.
President. The country has been SO disgraced
by wicked and reckless Congressional acton
on measures of finance that it will really be
q credit to us to have the Warner bill voted
down in the house in which it originated.
Let not vote be lost which can aid IN doing
this
Year: 1879

If Congress is to remain in perpetual ses-
sion, we stipulate for an uninterrupted success
sion of Salisbury. 1t was the Senator from
Delaware who lately informed the minority
that they need not concern themselves any
further about legislation the majority would
do all the work hereafter. And now he has
brought down on his party fresh burst
of laughter. In order to show the
bad character of Republican election ap-
pointees, he actually told the Senate how his
fellow Democrats at home bad bought one OF
these men off for the petty sum of hundred
dollars and when he was asked whether his
party was given to this practice, this innocent
old person remarked that the Democratic
party of Delaware. was generally equal 10
emergencies !" SO 1t is, to be sure. The
presence of Mr.. Salisbury In the Senate Is
proof enough of that.
Year: 1879

Mr.. Maxey is another of the Demo-
cratic Reformers in the Senate, giving
his clerk almost as pleasant place
at Government expense as Senator Cock
rell gave the clerk who runs a news
paper and a bank in Missouri, while draw
ing pay from the Senate. These may seem
to be small matters, but do they not remotely
suggest what the Democracy would do If they
captured the whole Governments
Year: 1879

did not leave Sheffield for want of
work, but because they were offered
better wages and more comfortable
homes by the proprietors Of the
Frovy cutlery works. They expect
five hundred more will come over in
the fall.
Year: 1879

THE Power OF WoMAN.-What q


power OF influence these female smiles


90 have upon u.s., What undertaking is


there that we will not undertake If t6ey


will stand by and look on and encourape


Why, sir, l have thought in moments of
enthusiasm that if my wife, Mrs. ARD.


was to unfold her angelic wings and


soar away to Chimborazo's top, and cali


me with q heavenly smile I'd 60 too. #


could. wish they were all rich. for
these too traits about women have al
ways struck me. They can live on less
when they are obliged to, and make a
little go a heap further than the men.
but when money is handy they can spend
more and take more satisfaction in get
ting rid Of it than any body. When INV
wife and her numerous relations Get Get
hold OF that big estate over in England
how We will splurge. Forty millions Of
pounds lying there in the bank just
waiting for ,'em to come up and prove
property and take it away.E[Bill ArD in |
Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution.
Year: 1879

IT is little singular that Mrs. Cris-
holm's grief is always most poignant in
he fall Of the year. Her husband and
children were killed in the spring bpt
there are no elections in the spring Of
consequence and the sorrows OF the un.
fortunate lady do not reach the news
papers until the eve of important State
elections. AS soon as the people begin
to talk about voting she seems to be re-
minded of her loss.
Year: 1879

for the Constitution aud the laws, under n
threat to wipe all the war measures from
the statute-book through violence, intimi-
dation, outrage and murder for opinions
sake, or through any other of the methods
and agencies that have been adopted by the
South to divide and ALLEVIATE the feelings of
the American people residing in the differ
ent sections Of our common country,
will be confronted and condemned
by the GRANT men, until all sections and
all peoples of the American Republic shall
unite in respecting the Constitution and
the equal rights of every citizen, be he a
resident north or south of the line that di-
vided under an attempt to break the Union
and pull down the Government We can
say to our Virginia cotemporary, who seems
sometimes almost persuaded to be n Repub-
lican, that the only cement that can ever
unite this country in feeling and fellow
ship must be furnished by the South. 1t
must come through becoming respect for
the laws of the land, and just regard for
the principles of equality and justice. This
restored in good faith, aud we will have one
people bound together in the bonds of
unity, peace and mutual respect. Then we
shall have q prosperous and happy Nation,
and not until then. The remedy is easy il
Southern perverseness will allow and aid
its application.
Year: 1879

The GRANT men say their favorite "is the
only mau who can briug peace to a discovered
country" They divide the country aud then
recommend cement for reunting it. In the
opinion of many people the remedy Is worse
than the disease. alexandria Va Gasette.


The above does no credit to our good
neighbOr, who recently had paroxysm OF
good sense, if not of good temper, toward
the Democratic party, which gave some hope
of its political future. Its charge that the
GRANT men divide the country and recon-
"mend q cement for reuniting It," is II wide
shot from the mark Of candor and truth
The GRANT men have never, by word or act
divided this country. TheSo attempted
to divide 1t by secession, but through the
patriotism, courage and persistency Of the
GRANT men it has been held intact. Each
subsequent attempt, through u disregard
Year: 1879

IT seems that Mr.. TILDEN Is disgusted with
the Democracy of the South, and says that it
has seriously handicapped the party in the
North. 1t is no less true than sad that modern
Southern Democracy has disgusted better
people than Mr. TILDEN, but if his present dis
gust have its natural effect and be reciprocated
by the Democrats of the South to the extent OF
letting him alone in the next National Demo-
cratic convention, his expression of it will be
the best days work he has ever done for the
party to which he now processes to belong
Alexandria Gazette.
Year: 1879

THE Philadelphia Times attempts to
throw discredit upon THE NATIONAL RE-
PUBLTcAN's interview in regard to TIL
DEN's present political attitude, This only
imparts verify to the matterwith those who
have f,thomed the sincerity and veracity of
the Times
Year: 1879

ONE thing our Southern brethren will
learn by experience in good time-and that
is, that the conquerors of the rebellion,
though patient, forbearing and long suffer
ing, will never consent to be governed by
the conquered. They will prevent it
through the ballot-box. That is their safe
guard and hope, and will be trusted until
the right prevails
Year: 1879

EXGovERNoR SHEPHERD was in Mexico ex-
amining mining property whom General GRANT
reached Sau Francisco. He telegraphed ut
once that he would hurry to the Golden Gate
to join in the welcome. SHEPHERD has every
reason to think we'll of GRANT, but IL he
would control his exuberanee and attend
strictly to his mining interests it would be all
the better for his fricnd.-U Utica Herald.


We think our cotemporary has drawn
slightly upon its fancy for its facts in this
scrap of history. We are Of the opinion
that when General GRANT arrived in San
Francisco Mr. SHEPHERD was in the wiids of
Santa Fe, vending his way homeward with
out knowing of the arrival of the Nations
favorite, or even casting look or thought
in that direction, though no one doubts
that he would have been happy TO join in
the welcome home. This allusion TO the
matter seems to be rather far-fetched, even
for the purpose of indulginS n little spleen
toward Mr.. SHEPHERD, if not toward Gen
eral GRANT.
Year: 1879

As it has turned out General GRANT
never did more popular thing in his life
than when he snubbed DENNIS KEARNEY
by refusing to submit to an interview with
him. But that refusal, we insist, was not
the act ofan intriguing politician. If General
GRANT were really candidate for renomi-
nation he would have willingly and freely
accorded to KEARSEY what he sought. But
as he is simply II private citizen, having no
reason or motive to cultivate the friendship
or influence of such creatures, he followed
the bent of his personal inclinations, and
was not at home" when the Sand Lot
agitator's card was sent TO him.
Year: 1879

THE recent denunciation Of the politi-
cal barbarism of the Southern Democracy
by Mr.. TILDEN is received with rare relish
by Republicans generally, who accept it rs
an unexpected Endorsement of the Bloody
Shirt. But the Southern Bourbons are very
wrathy over IT, They ssy II isa cruel and
brutal insult offered by man who knows
they will be compelled TO support him if he
is nominated next year, as they fear he will
be-and nominated, too, by the strength
of votes in the convention from States none
Year: 1879

DID Tiden pay too much income
tax or didn't be pay enough? Con.
gideripg the fact that Sammy has
been struggling SO hard 10 get the
matter adjudicated. it does take q long
time to get at the bottom facts Of the
transaction.
Year: 1879

upon condition Of the repeal OF an existing
law, Is a dangerous violation OF the censtitu-
should be at all times resisted by the Exc
cutive by all constitutional means, and espe-
cially In the present crisis, when an attempt
is being made to prostrate the just law en-
acted for the protection and purity of the
elective franchise under threat Of withhold
ing the means of carrying on the government
which the constitution enioins.


Resolved, That copy Of this resolution be
sent to each Senator or Representative from
this State in the Congress Of the United
States.


There being objections to the resolution, 1t
was laid on the table under the rule.
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, April 7-Senator Logan pre-
sented a petition signed by over 200 members
Of the Board Of Trade Of Chicago, Ill, in favor
Of legislation by which all railroads may be
authorized to construct and maintain tele-
graph lines for their own and the public use
on the ground that the expense connected
wit:l telegraphing under the present system
Is SO great as to be serious burden to the
business and commerce OF the country
Year: 1879

MANCHESTER, April THE Manchester
India Office a resolution stating that, while
acknowledging with pleasure the expressed
determination Of the government to afford
relief to the cotton industry engaged In the
India trade, and hoping some benefit will re-
suit from the recent change OF tariff. they
regret that duties on cotton manufactures i'm
ported into India are to be continued, to the
detriment of commerce in cotton goods in In
dia, and to the injury Of cotton Industry in
Lancashire. They request the government to
grant a total and immediate repeal OF such
unjustifiable duties.
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, April Tt is believed that
there is a majority OF the Democrats In the
Senate who hold the opinion that the army
bill has been thoroughly discussed in the
House, and that it Is not necessary that a
prolonged discussion should be had In the
Senate, and will move continuance OF the
session till the bill Is disposed OF. In that
event the bill may reach the President by
Wednesday OF this week.