smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

st. Louis Globe Democrat: The
State of Tennessee ought to be and
perhaps it is becoming, the para
disc of poor men. Under the laws
of that singularly governed com
monwealth there is absolute eXemp-
tion of every mans property from
State taxation up to 81 1000 in val
ue. Inasmuch as the average
wealth of heads of families in the
State cannot much, if at all, exceed
the rich in numbers, it must follow
that more than half of the popula
ton of Tennessee pay no State tax
whatever. And, as will always
happen when an inequality in taxa
tion exists, those citizens who feel
that they are unduly burdened will
evade what they can of their load,
it follows naturally that the heavier
property holders in Tennessee have
resorted to all possible artifices to
defeat the assessors and taX-gather
ers in their efforts to get a State
revenue. 1t is no doubt due to the
extraordinary exemption from tax





the citizens of the State that Ten
nessee owes her inability too meet
her obligations to creditors. And
so dense is the ignorance of the
voters of that State, or SO depraved
its demagogues, that, according to
the Nashville American, it was the
tactics of the speakers who can
vassed the State recently in behalf
of total reputation to depict the
distress and despair of the poor
man, whose last COW, whose last
plow horse, and whose last bed
stead should be taken-the latter
perhaps from under q sick wife-to
satisfy the remorseless demands of
the bloated and heartless bond
holders of the Northern States.
Yet not a soul of this class is re-
uuired, under the laws of Tennes-
see, to pay penny of State tax.


But what ignorance and folly on
the part of State government to
create any such exemption in it's rev.
enue laws. Tennessee needs immi-
grafton; but she needs capital as
well. She needs immigrants with
capital to develop the vast re
sources of the State-and few
States have greater or better to off
er in climate, soil, minerals and
easy access to markets-far more
than she needs the ''poor trash" of
other States that may drift thither
as to a benefcent refuge from taxa


ton. But what inducement has a
capitalist to go to Tennessee or to
plant his money there, seeing, as he
does, that it is the policy of her
stupid Democratic rulers to put all
the burdens of tax paying on the
few whose thrift has given them
means, and to offer a bounty on
laziness and profigacy by exempt
ing all small holdings from any
burdens whatever? Will not the
leaders of the "solid South" ever
learn that it requires common sense
and common justice to govern a
commonwealth so as to promote its
happiness, it's honor, It's wealth and


its general prosperity.
Year: 1879

Nashville Banner: There are
more dollars spent for liquors than
for bread in the United States. by
careful statistics, collated from the
Internal Revenue Department, there
is known TO be used, Of foreign and
domestic liquors, something over
5000, 100000 WORTH This ~ an
enormous sum TO be wasted by peo-
pie who complain of being hard run.
But this is not all. The same
amount, or very near, is spent for
tobacco. The Tobacco crop is
enormous every year, and yet IT is
all consumed. There are very many
men who use tobacco who do not
use liquor at all. and besides there
are very many women who use
snuff and who smoke, and yet who
do not drink The population OF
the United States is fully 50,O00,0OO.
OF this there are 100000 voters.
Taking the women who smoke and
use snuff, and the boys under age
who use tobacco in one form or
other, we can safely say that ten
millions Of the citizens use IT, To
those who keep an account OF their
expenses il will be no surprise 70
say that the average expenditure Is
no less than $50 each. We know
many, very many, whose cigar nc
count runs up to $500 per annum
and we have heard Of Others who
spend So per day. So the above Is
a very moderate estimate. Here,
then, we have an annual waste OF
$I,lOO,OO0,OOO for liquors and To-
bacco. This Is a fearful sum 70 DO
wasted every year.


Can wa complain OF hard times
with such Wanton waste as this2
Year: 1879

Thousands OF acres of sorgo will
soon be harvested. Heretofore the
juice contained in the cane has
been about the only thing that has
been looked after. The seed has
been neglected or imperfectly saved.
1t is the almost universal testimony
of all who have saved the seed that
it is equally as valuable, acre for
acre, as corn for all kinds of stock,
that COWS, sheep, hogs, horses and
poultry all learn to eat it as freely
as corn, and that the seed from an
acre will do stock as much good as
the corn raised on an acre. The
seed heads should be left in the
field till they get dry, and then
should be hauled to the shed, stable
or.barn and put on scafold, not too
deep, as there is a tendency of the
seed heads to heat while slowed
away in too large piles. If it is
found that the seed on an acre is
equally valuable as the corn raised
on an acre of similar land, there
can be no risk in raising sorgo, as
the stock will not suffer by the
change of crop and the syrup and
sugar will only cost the making.


But there is a good deal of labor
in making syrup and sugar, and
more especially if one has not the
best facilities. Many growers have
gone very slow this year in pur-
chasing apparatus, preferring to
await further Developments and
we have recommended this, but we
predict that next year the very best
apparatus will generally be secured
and the best preparations made for
making sugar rapidly, cheaply and
successfully.-[COleman's Rural
World,
Year: 1879

In speaking of the feelings OF a pc
destrian while on a long tramp,
Weston once said that at times they
were dreadful, almost driving one
crazy to think of the number of
steps he would have to take to win.
This was especially the case where
a man WAS behind his competitors
in a race, and had lost the conf.
dence of his hackers and the specta
tors. He adopted many expedients
to divert his mind from the terrible
strain. Sometimes he would count
all the pillars supporting the build
ing in which he walked. Then he
would count the windows, number
ing the panes of glass, even MOTTO
ing which panes were clean and
which needed washing, with the
different rays of light from each.
He frequently counted the steps
in each lap, and sometimes for a
mile. The angles of the structure
were all firmly fixed in his mind.
The composition of the audience
was critically studied, and that fre-
quently without their knowing
that they were even glanced at.
The presence of friends could often
be felt in the crowd before being
seen, from a sympathetic thrill.
Applause and music always had an
inspiring effect; and when victory
was within grasp, the body and legs
felt no fatigue watever. That was
the cause of such marvellous spurts
being made at the close of long
Journeys.
Year: 1879

for a welcome, although a greatly


reduced, harvest yet. On Saturday


last another storm set in and ragged


in various parts of Europe, and the


damage from this last visitation is


likely to be greater than that by the


preceding rainfalls. Hailstones fell,


some OF which measured five inches


in circumference, and the loss by


breakage of glass Immediately
around London is said to reach


thousands of pounds sterling. In
BuckinghampshIre the rainfall is
estimated at seventy tons per acre.
In Bedfordshire the entire hay crop
is swept away. Damage by light
ming and food is reported from
Cambridge, Northfork, Milford,
Leicester, Bath and Monmouth.
This last storm destroys the hope
of a recovery through a change in
the weather and renders it certain
that England will have to look to
this side of the Atlantic for her
bl bleadstuffs. 1t is fortunate that
we shall be prepared to respond to
the demand. There is no fear of
a famine while America is blessed
with ample crops and is in a posi-
ton to furnish food to all Europe.
Year: 1879

The following suggestions have
been made by some one who knows
what is necessary to have a live
town:


1. Sell your building lots at
reasonable prices.


2. If you can afford to do SO, do
nate building lot for some large
enterprise, and thereby enhance the
value Of town property.


2. Induce business men to locate
in your own town.


4. Patronize the BUSINESS men of
your own town.


5. Always sum up your expenses
when you visit places outside Of
your own town to buy goods.


6. Speak well of a worthy public
enterprise.


z. If anything should be underta
ken that may be of benefit TO the
town, do not speak i'll of it to 9th
ers, because you may be prejudiced
against it.


8. Speak well to strangers Of your
town and its people.


9. If you have a surplus Of mon
ey do not invest it in far off specu
latIon, but give yourself and town
the benefit Of some profitable
factory.


10. Encourage your local newspa-
per by subscribing for, advertising
in and paying for it.
Year: 1879

In Normandy cider is said to be
preserved by putting about half a
bottle of sweet oil in the cask and
plugging the bung with a wad of
cotton. The oil being light can not
combine with the cider, but forms a
thin covering, which prevents the
oxygen of the air coming in con-
tact with it. The cotton filters the
air entering as the cider is drawn
off, so that no insects or impurities
can pass. Cider in bottles is put In
cellars, the bottles being covered
with few inches of earth, which
keeps the cider at an equable tenn
perature, and prevents the bottles
from bursting.
Year: 1879

The Cincinnati Commercial: Dean
Stanley was not equal to his oppor
tunities when he performed the
marriage ceremony for Prof. Tyn-
dali. The Dean should have asked,
"Do you take this anthropoid to be
your CO ordinate, to love with your
nerve centers, to cherish with your
whole cellular tissue, until a final
molecular disturbance shall resolve
Its organism into its primitive
atoms?" That the very reverend
gentleman did not avail himself oi
so rare an opportunity is only one
among the failures of mankind to
turn to advantage some genial mood
of destiny and launch the boat
when the tide is in.
Year: 1879

New Orleans Times: The sea
son of county fairs is almost here.
In nearly all of the wealthiest coun-
ties of the Eastern and Western
States the county fair is a recog-
nized institution, and the day fixed
for it in each year is anticipated
with as much interest and pleasure
as Christmas and New Year. Those
engaged in professional and bust
ness pursuits are as anxious for its
success as the farmer. All classes
of people feel a pride In it, and
strive to make it as attractive as
possible. That it has a beneficial
effect upon the community in which
it is. held there can be no question.
Farmers are eager to outdo each
other in producing fine stock, grain,
vegetables and fruit. Farmers
wives and daughters bring to the
fair their whitest and lightest bread
and their sweetest butter and finest
poultry. Fancy patchwork and
every variety of fine needle work is
seen there. In fact, the very best
of everything produced in the coun-
try is represented. The people of
one section see what progress those
of another section are making, and
are afforded an opportunity of com


pairing the products of different sec
tions. Farmers gather new ideas
about farming and stock raising,
and housewives exchange views rel
ative to the duties which belong to
their sphere of life. The influence
of these county fairs is noticeable
in the gradual, but sure, increase in
the wealth of the country. The
latest improvements in laborsaving
machinery come into use. Or
chards of the best varieties of fruit
are set out. Blooded stock take
the place of common breeds. The
land is more scientifically cultivat.
ed and better yield is secured.
Year: 1879

Just three weeks ago last Saturday
a heavy rain storm commenced in
England and lasted three days, Sc
riously damaging the crops and
and spreading a gloomy feeling all
over the country. The food was
so great that the low lying lands
were under wqter, and in many 10
calities the cut hay was floating
about in the fields.


This was bad enough, but the
people were not without hope. 1t
was not late in the season; dry,
warm weather might quickly follow
the storm and afford opportunity
Year: 1879

The New York Star thinks that
the invitation reported to have
been extended by the Emperor of
China to Gen. Grant to take COM
mand of the military forces of the
Empire at a salary of 81, 100000
per annum, affords better guaran-
tee against his third term ambition
than all the verbal assurances that
have been given in his behalf. 1t
may also explain the sudden will
ingness of the Russian Government
to concede the hitherto disputed
province Of Kuldja to China.
Year: 1879

Craftsmanship in this country
can have no higher end nor aim
than to keep labor employed, for it
is the essential factor of prosperity; /;
indeed, without it there can be no
prosperity. 1t is necessary that
measures especially designed to
give laboring men employment
should be brought forward, but it is
important that laws should be en-
acted calculated to depress labor
and thereby reduce its wealth pro
ducinC CAPACITY.
Year: 1879

Mamma, don't think the people
who make dolls are very pious peo-
pie, said little girl to her mother
one day. "Why not my child?"
because you can never make them
kneel. 1 always have to lay my
doll on her stomach to say her
prayers"
Year: 1879

Save your salt and lime for the
wheat field; SOW two to four bushels
of the former on your wheat in
March or April. Spread the lime,
1000 pounds to the acre, slaked,
any time in the fall.
Year: 1879

1t is estimated that the people of
the United States consume three
thousand barrels of liver pills a
a year, and yet there is occasionally
a man left to reach his end by a
railroad collision.
Year: 1879

The pencil marks you SEQ around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay up at once. Wo
would take great pleasure in extending
credit TO our friends and patrons, but
cash alone will yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such
course, and renew your su scription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


tB- We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance.
Year: 1879

CONSOLIDATING THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY. 1t has been said by some of
the Republican newspapers that the
speeches of the "Brigadiers of the Con-
federate Congress" is consolidating the
Republican party. 1t is possible that
the speeches of the Republican Senators
are doing more in this direction. They
are cramping up the party and driving
all the most liberal men who voted with
it, but favored the removal Of the army
from the Southern States, out of its
ranks. In fact the mode of consolida
ton Is of such policy as to exclude al
who will not consent to favor the sys
TEN Of Capitalization through which the
army and United States Marshals car
not only control the elections, but of
ficials seated in Washington be also en-
abled to dictate who shall be nominated
and elected in any of the States and Ter
ritories. This is the kind of consolida
tion which should, and we believe, vii
insure the defeat of the Republican
party when next it is tried before a
intelligent people at the polls.
Year: 1879

New York, Sept. 13.-From all
sources In an out of the city comes evil
dence supporting the Times assertion
this morning that the Syracuse bolt is
regarded as great party calamity by
all thoughtful democrats.


Horatio Seymour is reported as de-
claring that the only single prospect of
saving the party and carrying the state
is the retirement Of both Robinson and
Kelley and the nomination of candi-
date agreed upon by the state commit
tee acceptable to both factions.


There is rumor that Robinson, now
being vindicated by denomination, will
withdraw. The fact that Clarkson
Potter, whose political standing justi-
fies the highest place. should have been
put second on the ticket, is cited to
support the rumor.


The theory is that Potter can step in
Robinson's place, and the vacancy thus
made can be filled by the state commit
tee.


Robinson's friends ridicule the story.
The Star reports an interview with
Potter yesterday in which he declined
to state whether he should accept the
nomination. He had not fully deter
mined his course.


The Star says the general opinion is
that Cornell will carry the state.


A Tribune correspondent at Syracuse
says the split in the party, may be said
without exaggeration to run through
the whole state. In Oswego, Elmira,
Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo the
anti-Tilden wing is very bitter, and it
is expected that Kelly will reap many
votes from their feeling. As for Kelly
holding his men there never was such
unanimity in Tammany as on this
question. There seems no doubt that
Tammany will fulfill its promise to
stand by all regular nominees except
Robinson. At least the leaders insist
that they mean to.


The state central committee will un-
doubtedly order reorganization of the
party in the city, and all democrats will
be invited to join, and thus the follow
ers Of Tammany will be given the cas-
lest possible chance to desert their
leader.
Year: 1879

New York, Sept. 13.-A Tribune
correspondent in Utah says: "After a
long and careful review of polygamy l
think it can be only eradicated by a
law making the continuance of parties
in polygamous relations penal Of
fence.


At present a man can only be punish
ed where it can be shown that he has
gone through the ceremony of marriage
with more than one woman. l think
the mormons would abandon polygamy
If they saw themselves in the power Of
the government and liable to be severe
ly dealt with.
1t is historical fact that polygamy
was not a fundamental principle Of
mormonism, nor chief inspiration.
Year: 1879

The Bourbon element, in its endeavors to
make honest elections null and void and
mere farce, necessitated the framing of GER
tain laws for the protection Of honest ma
jorities. Sure the present laws are said to
be of their own framing; but this, though
at first apparently in their favor, does not
alter the statement of the case, for they
admit, through FERNANDO WooD and Others,
that they only were instrumental In passing
these laws for the reason that they regarded
them rs the lesser of two evils. Now, how
ever, they thiuk that they have become suf-
ficiently strong to cause the repeal even of
these mild laws that they were forced to
frame in the interest of honest elections. 1t
was not the result of any patriotism or love
of truth on their part that led them at first
to vote for these laws neither is it from
patriotic principles Or high regard for truth
that they now desire to repeal them


Their desire to repeal these laws at this
time is simply a two-fold political measure !;
first, it gives them an opportunity to talk
about patriotic principles" and "the polti-
zeal oppression" &c, under the rule of tho
Republican party; the second and by Far
the most important part of the programme
is not for effect at the South, where they
laugh at the idea of any such laws interfer-
ing with the vote Of the ''chivalry," but SIM
ply and solely that they may not have any
thing or at least so much to contend with in
New York city and Brooklyn. This metro
politan centre of the State of New York is
to be the great controlling centre in the
next election. Enough votes must be made
there at all hazards to overbalance the rest
of the State. The Democrats well know
that the State of New York is Republican
and that also in fair election, even New
York city would not poll so very large a
Democratic majority.


All obstacles that will at all interfere
with an abundance of cheating at the polls
by that large class of roughs which is the
pride Of the Democratic party in New York
city and Brooklyn must be reduced to the
minimum. In the last election these noble
very near being the balance of power that
would have put the Bourbon element once
more in possession of the Government that
it has done and will continue to do as
much as possible to destroy. So here is the
balance of power that all this Democratic
wisdom, oratory, moral and patriotic, talk
is all about. The sole and only aim of the
whole Of their tactics is the better how tC
enable them to secure the vote Of New York
city and Brooklyn as the balance of power
that will, if secured, give them in 1880 full
control of the three branches Of this Gov.
ernment. The Solid South is sure; il
would also make sure of the few
necessary votes at the North to con,
summate the victory, Every obstacle that
will at all interfere with this must at all
hazards be remOyed-hence the great effort
Year: 1879

over the public generally, or that part of it
interested in such affairs, is beginning to
count the cost to the defendant of employ
ing such an attorney as BEN BUTLER. The
result of this inquiry into other peoples
business is a conclusion that the venerable
ex-senator suffered more from the effect of
BUTLER's cross-examination of the widow,
and from the general and sweeping ex-
posure of the nastiness of the case at BUT
LER's hands, than he did from her direct
testimony against him. If this suffering is
TO be included among the contingencies Of
his retainers and fees paid to attorneys it
seems certain that he paid literally for his
yindication
Year: 1879

UNDER the outraged forms of perverted
law the Democratic majority in Congress
has succeeded in placing itself in revolu-
tionary attitude, from which there is no re-
treat save in the disgrace of defeat. If the
Democrats had attempted to repeal the cleo
tion laws with reasonable and peaceable
methods and failed they could have gone TO
the country upon the defensible proposition
that they were striving in constitutional
way to bring about certain alleged reforms
but they did not do this. On the contrary,
they backed up the attempt to obtain that
repeal by revolutionary threat to cut of
the supplies of the Government. This is in-
lefensible, and will add to the disgrace oi
their certain defeat.
Year: 1879

The overtness of the Democratic rebel
lion in 1861 was demonstrated in the
straightforward and more manly attempt
then made to defy its authority upon the
battlefield, and 10 overthrow it by open
and undisguised war. The covert Demo-
cratic rebellion of to-day is thinly disguised
by threat under the perversion of law to
cut of all appropriations for the support of
the Executive. This is the only difference
between the Democracy of 1861 and the
same party in 1879.
Year: 1879

on the part of the leaders of the Democ-
racy. 1t will be well for the Republicans if
they will heed this and prepare themselves
to prevent the roughs Of the metropolitan
centre of New York becoming the great
balance of power in 1890.


This is the sole purpose of the repeal of
these Federal election laws, aud, whether
the laws are repealed OF not, it bids us to
prepare ourselves for the contest in 1880
and to do all in our power to secure the
triumph Of honest maiorities and TO check
mate all tricks whereby contemplate
minority may again obtain possession of
this glorious Government and run it in the
interest Of its ignoble schemes.


THE COLORED EXODUS WESTWARD.


The st. Louis Globe Democrat gives an ac-
count Of another batch of $50 colored emil
grants who have reached that city en- route
for Kansas by river. 1t says "As a rule
they are better of in this worlds goods
than those who preceded them, and they
will be able to take passage to Kansas
"City without financial aid. They report
that thousands Of their late neighbors are
preparing TO follow them, and 1t looks rs
If the exodus has only just begun. The loss
" of so many laborers at this season of the
year must work great injury to the cotton
interest in Mississippi and Louisiana. as
planting time is at hand" The Globe
Democrat suggests that the Southern people
should take immediate steps to reconcile
their existing differences with the negroes.
They can do this IL they are willing to be
fair and reasonable. They must give the
colored man q chance to save something
from his earnings and they must restore his
political rights. The shotgun must be laid
aside for good. We have no doubt that If they
are given fair play the colored people will
do better in the South than in Kansas, or
any other Western State, and it certainly is
to the advantage of the whites to keep
them. But it cannot be done by force or
fraud