smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

and couple of belts off two dead men.
Out of one belt two cartridges were gone,
out OF the other, five. 1t was with the
captured ammunition and arms that we
fought the other bodyof troops. il they
had all remained together they would
have hurt us very bad. The party we
killed made five different stands. Once
we charged right ia, until we scattered
the whole of them, fighting among them
hand to hand. One band of soldiers was
right in the rear Of us; when they charged
we fell back, and stood for one moment
facing each other. Then the Indians
got courage and started for them in
solid'body. We went but little distance
when we spread out and encircled them.
All the time could see their officers rid
ing In front and hear them shouting TO
their men. 1t was in this charge that
most of the Indians were killed. We
lost 1876 killed and 100 wounded. We
finished up this party right there in the
ravine. [Gen. Sheridan is of the opinion
that Red Horse meant to say that 1876
were killed and 100 were wounded dur
ing the entire engagement, and not in
any one particular charge.


The troops up the river made the first
attack, skirmishing. A little while after
the fight commenced with the other
troops below the village. While the
latter fight was going on we posted some
Indians to prevent the other command
from forming a junction. Some of the
young men took the clothing off the dead
and dressed themselves in it. There
were several men among them who had
citizen clothing They went up and at
tackled the other command that way. Both
banks of the river were very steep and
difficult of ascent. Many of the troops
were killed while crossing. When they
got on the hill they made some kind of
fighting works, and the fight was then
carried on at distance, the young men
sometimes charging close up. The fight
continued at long range until the walk.
ing soldiers came. This was Gen.
Terry's column, which arrived at point
near the battlefield on the night of Goth
of June There are many little incidents
connected with this fight, but don't
recollect them now. / don't like to talk
about that fight If hear any of my
people talking about it l always move
away.
Year: 1877

child or children the necessary school books
to enable them to comply with the require.
ments of this act, such board is hereby
authorized to furnish such books free OF
charge, the same to be paid for out OF the
contingent funds nt the disposal of such
Board of Education.


SEC D. In case any parent, guardian or
other person shall fail to comply with the
provisions Of this act, said parent, guardian
or other person shall be liable to fine of
not less than two dollars nor more than five
dollars for the first ofTense, nor less than Ave
nor more than ten dollars for each and every
subsequent offense. Such fine shall be col
lected by the Township Clerk, or, in case the
school district in which the oiiense is com
mittad is situated within a municipal cor.
poration, then by the Clerk of such corpora.
ton, in the name OF the State of Ohio, In an
action before any court having competent
jurisdiction, and the fine so collected shall
be paid to the County Treasurer, aud by him
accounted for as other money raised for
public purposes, and said money shall be
applied to The use Of the common school of
the district in which such oflense was com
mitted.


SEC. 6. It shall be the duty Of the Town
ship Clerk or the Clerk Of the municipal cor
porations, as the case may be, as provided
for in Secs. 3, 4, and OF this
act, to prosecute any offense occur
ring under this act, and such Clerk
neglecting to prosecute for such fine within
fifteen days after written notice has been
served on him, having been notified by the
affidavit setting forth the facts by any mem
Der of the School Board or any taxpayer
within the school district in which the Offend
ing party may reside, shall be liable to q fine
Of not less than ten nor more than twenty
dollars for each oifense, such fine to be col
lected in the name Of the State of Ohio, in
an action before any court of competent
jurisdiction, by any person feeling aggrieved
thereby.


SEC. z. Two weeks attendance at half
time or night school to be considered within
the meaning of this act equivalent to an at
tendance of one week at a day school.


SEC. 8. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after the lst day of Septem
Der, 1877.


THE Democratic members of the AS
sembly met in caucus on the 10th, and, b.,
after three-hours' session, adopted a
resolution agreeing not to nominate n
candidate for Senator, but to vote blank
in open session.


A WOMAN named Donahue was found
on the morning of the 18th in wagon,
near the Cleveland Workhouse, frozen to
death. She was seen alive the previous
afternoon in company with another
woman, both drunk. 1t is supposed she
crawled into the wagon, and, falling into
drunken sleep, perished from cold.


THE fourth annual convention of the
Northwestern Ohio Volunteer Firemen's
Association will be held in the city of
Tiffin, April "a. The firemen and citi-
zens of that city are making every ar
rangement for the entertainment of dele
gates to this convention, and will spare
no pains to have their city honorably re.
membered. Each company is entitled to
one delegate for every ten members or
| fraction of five.
Year: 1877

in blowing never let horses rest on a
hill or eminence in draft of wind. II
the horses are at all warm it is very inju-
rious. The plowman also should take
care of himself in this respect,
Year: 1877

replied that he would submit the whole mat
ter TO the Cabinet. He said the stdtu quo
would be maintained until final decision
was reached. To q delegation Of Democrats
headed by Senator Gordon, who urged the
removal of the troops from the State Houses
in Louisiana and South Carolina, the Presi-
dent said the question would at once be
taken up and disposed Of 1t was the one
thing now to be first considered.
Year: 1877

view, that Of building up good, healthy
condition Of affairs in the South; they may
even force split in the party in power,
and commit political hari-kari themselves,
still the people will stand by the President
who says that he serves his party best who


serves his country best and is himself
honestly endeavoring to practice what he
las preached.
Year: 1877

A REPORT comes from the Red Cloud
agency that CRAZY Horse, who is now
encamped on the banks of Little Powder
river with over hundred lodges of hos
tiles, is preparing to come into that post
When CRAZY HORSE gets far enough in to
place the halter around his neck, We hope
the Government will see to it that the bus-
nres Is done with dispatch.
Year: 1877

PRESIDENT HAYES has no alternative
but to stand finn in the present emergency.
He las nominated an excellent Cabinet,
and so long as the people approve Of his
sclections it matters very little whether
schenipC politicians like them or not.
Year: 1877

THE indications now are that the Cabi.
net combinations will not be made this
week. This is embarrassing to the Ad
mlnistra,ion, and the Senate of the United
States will! be responsible for all the evils
that may arise from the delay.
Year: 1877

FROM out the noise of the Republican home
wrangle comes the Democratic cry, "There is
light ahead for the Democracy" Yes, light
headedncss has always afflicted that giddy
orpan ization
Year: 1877

The largest devil fish ever known to be
captured, dead or alive, has been landed
in New York dead. Itwas driven ashore
near st. John during severe storm a
few weeks ago, and it was found by fish.
ermen dying on the rocks where the ebb.
ing tide had left it. The creatures body
is ten feet long, ending in caudal tin two
feet and a.half across, and is armed with
ten huge tentacles, two of them thirty
feet in length and the Others eleven
feet. At the base of the arms is a pow.
erful parrot-like beak, above which are
two deep-set eyes each eight inches in
diameter The arms are slender and lath.
cry, broadening at the base, and are sup.
piled with several thousand suckers, in
double rows, by which the animals prey
is seized with grip from which there is
no escape and dragged inward to be
killed from the powerful beak. The body
and arms were dusky red when found,
but have since become perfectly white.
The creatures mode Of progression is not
the least remarkable thing about it. The
water is admitted to the breathing Or
gans by valves, and when it has given up
its oxygen to the blood it is violently ex.
PEELED through sort Of funnel, and the
creature is thus driven backward with
great rapidity, while the broad caudal
fin acts like a rudder in directing its
course. 1t can also move backward or
sideways by the action of its fins, and
sometimes crawls along the bottom with
its long arms in most ungainly fashion.
This extraordinary creature has been pur-
chased for the New York aquarium, and
will be placed there in alcohol.
Year: 1877

The CosT OF WAR.-Prof. Sheldon
Amos, of London, writes in the last num-
ber of the International Reuiow on this
most important subject, and is of the
opinion that the increasing cost and de-
structiveness of war will in due time re-
produce the best results of civilization,
such as are always reached by reason
rather than violence. The question Of
success in war, he says, must become in
creasingly one of whether nation can
pay for it in the place of paying for other
things. When each nation is firmly as
sured of this, the speculative hilarity
which now belongs to war will have van
ished, and itcannot be long before the
nations, under liberal and constitutional
governments, combine to adopt some
scheme of mutual assurance less extrava-
CANT, calamitous and inhuman than that
of self-protection. This is the language
of true craftsmanship as we'll as of sound
philosophy, and it will have to be needed
more and more as nations increase the
burden of war debts under which they
stagger. Nothing but the cost of war is
likely to bring it to an end as a means of
arbitration.
Year: 1877

A HEAD equal to the greatest events,
and a heart superior to the strongest
temptations, are qualities which may be
possessed so secretly that a mans next
door neighbor shall not discover them,
until some unforeseen occasion calls
them forth
Year: 1877

a club of 4 subscribers,
at $2.25 for each sub.
scriber for one year,
we will send an extra
copy free; to any one
Bending o club Of 10 for
one year, at S2.S for
each subscriber, we Will
send seeds to the value
OF IS, the sender OF the
Year: 1877

| at $2.25 for each sub
scriber, we will send
q Winchester Ride, Of
the value Of SIS: to
any one sending us a
club OF so subscribers
for one year. at $2.S for
each subscriber, we
will give 5000 In Gold ;


to any one sending us q
Year: 1877

s'Oh why did you call me, motheri

 was sitting beside the stream. And watching the play of my sailing boat As she danced in bright sunbeam. And tossed the pebbles in, one by one, Till the water grew strong and high Then 1 eheered and chesred, till I slmos

 feared

 should anger old Bessy hard byl 'tBut. mother. why will you sit and sew

 Through the whole long summer day7 You'll come and look at my sailing boat

 As she rides in her miniature bayl And when I'm 6 man and st sea, mother, I'll not let you sit and sew, ... But build you ship where the men, mother, Shall cheer us wherever we go. But cannot now stay if you won't mother For promised our Harry, at three, To meet him down by the squire's walk. To climb the old chestnut tree; And hear it's two by the minister's clock. And my 'topmsst' not yet done But half an hour will finish that

 So-a kiss, and hurrah for 8 runl" And the boy returned to his sailing boat, While the mothers eyes grew dim Withiears-to think of the coming years When she could not work for him; And the coat is worn-and the coat Is torn, And ship rides out of the bay; But mothers must weep till they fall asleep And work while the children plsyl
Year: 1877

The San Jose Mercury says. s'Though it is not to the credit of the power of re- sistance in the sterner sex, nor of their high appreciation of honor and probity, it is yet an undeniable fact that in places of trust and responsibility women are found more reliable, more accurate in the discharge of their duties, more honest in their rendering unto Caesar the things which are C@sar's,' more fitted for positions in the handling and exchange of money than can be said of the masculine sex. Not that we think them endowed by nature with an ap- preciation of honesty so predominant as to become controlling power, for we do not believe it; neither that they are blessed with 8 so much more exalted opinion of honor than mankind as to be alone capable of managing the financial affairs of mercantile institution. But this, that in the handling of money, for instance as cashiers in business houses, in the different departments of the gov. ernment, such as the treasury, custom AOu0CSS ROoO-oAANOSs OtNs9 "OAO1 d1 z almost invariably found true to their trusts, honest to farthing, faithful in the discharge of their duties. A recent circular from the treasury department mentions this fact in particular, that while men in the employ of the govern. ment are constantly guilty ofpeculation and require continual watch over thei1 movements, far less surveillance is paic over the departments where women arc employed, and with the occasional dis appearance of from ten to twenty five cents, such as might easily he accounted for in handling the money, if not in tht lack of courage to abstract larger sum none whatever have stuck to the fingers of the women counters, while but few months ago $3s, ,OOO was stolen in one package by the lords of creation in ar adjoining apartment"

 A true heart never grows old.
Year: 1877

Eton is now almost entirely filled with the sons of men who send their boys there. not because they them selves have been there, not because they wish their boys to become gentle men, but because Eton is school where the son of commoner can make ac- quaintance with lords and the sons of lords.

 Some ten or twelve years ago there was no little talk about Eton, and it was complained that boys there were taught nothing. The eminently prac- tical answer given by one of the mas- ters was that. in the case of his own house, the majority of parents did not want to have their boys taught any thing, and rather perferred them to be idle.

 If the charge was true then, it is still more true now; for year by year Eton has become more and more crowded with the sons of wealthy parrenus. Nothing is cOmmoner than for parent to send his boy to Eton, expressly en- joining him to make good acquain- tances, to enjoy himself as much as possible, and to write home for money whenever he wants it. Half B. dozen such boys would ruin the moral tone of any school. At Eton they can be cOun- ted by the score.

 Any one can judge of this for himself who has visited Eton within the last few years, and who has seen the man. ner in which the boys fit up their studies or little sitting rooms, the man ner in which they dress, and the lordly indifference with. which they spend their money. A young gentleman of this stamp will have small Turkey carpet and luxurious easy chairs in his study, and will decorate it's walls with execrable sporting prints, and it's window with hothouse flowers which are daily renewed. He will dress as fastidiously. and will be fully as we'll supplied with jewelry, kid gloves, neckties, umbrellas and other such niceties of the toilette as Bond street dandy.

 If he is given to rowing he will have his own private boat; and. save only that the authorities think 1t necessary to draw the line somewhere, he would probably keep 8 dog-cart for fine weather, a brougham for wet, and a va let to minister to his personal comforts, |-L0nd0n Examiner.
Year: 1877

When the women of households un- derstand as much of the constitution of the human body as they do of the value and marks on an old piece of pottery, and are as we'll instructed in the best way of keeping their homes healthy and pure as they are in its artistic decora- tion, we may find sanitary law practi- cally unnecessary; for each home will be "a law unto itself, '" and so the whole community will be saved vast amount of suffering and pain inflicted on it now by the ignorance and carelessness of those who are left uninstructed in these most important matters,
Year: 1877

II is hoped that majority Of the Senate
will stand firm against the attempted re.
peal Of the resumption act. 1t is not how
ever known as yet how the Senate is di.
vided on the question and only vote will
show. Strong confidence is felt that If the
Senate fails TO defeat the anti-resumplion-
lists the President will interpose his veto
against the schemes.
Year: 1877

Speaker Randall bends to the power OF
the South as a slave to his master. The
South made him Speaker, and he must
obey. His subservience is seen in the
great influence and strength which the
South has upon the committees. 1t is
also seen in the displacing of Morrison of
Illinois and Cox of New York from the
chairmanships which they held at the last
session, to bestow them in accordance with
the wishes of the South also in retaining
Proctor Knott at the head of the Judiciary
though he is manifestly Incompetent for
the position. If there was one man of the
chairmen of the old committees that
should have been displaced Proctor Knott
was the man, but being Kentuckian the
Speaker did not dare remove him.
Year: 1877

The soft money men carry things with
high hand in the House. The very next
day after the committees were appointed
. bill was reported from the committee on
banking and currency to repeal the act
for the resumption of specie payments.
Though the bill was not passed the action
had upon it developed in some measure
the sentiment of the House. Practically
l3s members declared for the repeal of the
act and 1l6 against. Of those who ia-
vored repeal 109 were democrats and 81
republicans. OF those who opposed re-
peal "a were republicans and % demo-
very nearly--in the House on the money
question. The democratic party is the
party of imitation the republican party is
the party that supports measures for an
honest and sound currency, at as early a
day AS practicable.


1t fs noticeable that the vote of the tor
mer slaveholding States goes nearly solid
against resumption. They give 76 votes
against and only Is votes in favor. This
settles the question as to the attitude Of the
democratic party in this matter. 1t will
follow where the South leads. The
doughface democrats of The north will fall
into line in accordance with the crack Of
the party whip as sounded by the demo
Gratis of the South. They will do as Mr..
Cox of New York has done. Though he
has been known as being an advocate in
times past Of sound currency and repre-
sents a constituency opposed to imitation,
he is found meekly voting with the anli-re-
simptionists against the resumption act.
Year: 1877

ghost speedily become too drunk to
keep his feet, he would doubtless
nave ma lm6rued his spectral hands in
Chinese blood. AS it was the ghost
ultimately fell into a sound sleep,
and when the return of davligbt
gave the Chlnaman sufficient co1r.
age to examine his visitor closely he
found that. instead of being a Der-
son from the other world, he was a
disreputable white man popularlv
known as hummer Dick. Forum
ately, Yung Ting's frying-pan had
survived the ghostly orgy, and with
this argument he explained to his
visitor at length, and with the skill
of veteran beater of clothes, the
gross impropriety of his conduct.


1t will be readily conceded that,
IN the language of the golden State,
this California ghost "lays over" the
very choicest ghosts that Eastern
mediums have yet materialized.


what are the dim and silent spec
tres of Messrs. Eddy and Bliss in
comparison with this healthy, vigor-
GUS and hungry ghost, with an appe-
tite for roast pork and brandy, and
a signal ability to make his own liv-
ing? Thus does the magnificent
climate of California once more de-
mOnstrate its capacity for the pro-
ductiOn of every desirable object up
on a scale far grander than that to
which the inhabitants of the effete
climate of the Eastern States are &C
custOmed. ~ Y. Times.
Year: 1877

Our obejective point was the
great bat cave some ten miles north
east of the little town of Semla, a
place seldom visited by northern
tourists. When within less than a
mile of the cave, which is situated
on the crest of a high buff, that
may be called an irregular table
land, General Ord attracted my at
tention to an immense dark shadow
IN the horizon, extending from the
ground line high up into the heaV-
ems. II had all the appearance of
strong volume OF smoke issuing
from the funnel of some gigantic
ocean steamer. at looks like smoke"
said the General, "but it is simply a
cloud of bats issuing from the cave"
On approaching nearer l could dis
tinctly make out che flying vermin,
which were, truly, thicker than the
densest swarm of bees I have ever
seen, and there appeared to be no
end to them. We soon reached the
cave, which dips into a brambly
gorge, and from the capacious mouth
shaped like the half choked arch of
a bridge, we could see the bats fly
ing out in tens of thousands, the
column growing deeper every sec
ond. The cave is as gloomy as the
realms of Pluto, having a gentle de-
cline for some hundreds of feet, the
roof being quite lofty and the floor
covered to an inealculable depth
with guano deposit, which enhales
an efiuvium calculated to knock
down the strongest kind of horse.
The guano will be more efficient as
barrier against lurking despera-
does than all the police in Texas.
Bats, as you know, do not perch
singly, but hang to the wall and to
each other Just as bees do when in
Swarm" The temperature of the
cave is sufficiently low to prevent
them from becoming heated, and
how they manage to support the
enormous weight of their own mass
es is a question which only practical
naturalists can solYe. They man
age to do it, though, without the
slightest apparent discomfort. And
there cannot, at a moderate compu-
tation, be less than thirty millions
of bats in those enormous caves.
Year: 1877

The Vienna Seminal, official journal of
Lincoln parish, gives us the following to
tremble at:


We trust that our leaders in New Orleans
will resist any illegal attempt of Grant, or
any effort whatever which has for its OBJ.
ject the establishment of the Packard gov
ernment. If we are a free people, let US
assert that independence which of right be-
longs to us, No better time than now to
strike. Let every brave and noble-hearted
Loulsianian swear by the Eternal God that
Nichols shall act as Governor, and that
none shall usurp his right. He was elected
in accordance with the requirements of con-
stitutiOnal law, and we are pledged in that
law to sustain and obey him. If every
Democrat in the State felt Is we do, our
legally elected officers would rule. or Grant
would have 20 garrison troops In every
parish in the State.
Year: 1877

Among the latest Democratic lies that
have come home to rOOst, the story of the
transfer of the Thirteenth United States
Infantry to Washington from this point has
been eontradicted, and General Augur has
telegraphed a denial of the story about
smallpox in the soldiers quarters.
Year: 1877

Hon. George F. Hoar, the new Senator
from Massachusetts,, is the same who was
here in 1875, chairman of the committee to
investigate the election of the year before.
He was born at Concord, graduated at
Harvard, is a brother of the independent
candidate for Congress who ran against
Butler at the last election, and is even fifty
years of age.