smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

THE German-American Female
School has published at this office q


circular which serves to show how
earnestly the people of Austin are de


voted to the benefcent task of eiu-
eating their daughters; how these are
instructed thoroughly not only in
mathematics, but to speak German and
French. A majority of the pupils are
daughters of the best German citizens
of this and adjacent counties and
towns, and since children acquire a
spoken language with facility that is
even marvellous, there can be no such
school as this for the proper training
of American girls. Moreover, the
opinions and prejudlces of these are
liberalized. They soon learn to respect
German intelligence and virtues, and
admire German genius in art and let
tiers, and since emigres from Germany
constitute so potent class of society
everywhere in Southwestern Texas, a
thorough knowledge of the German
tongue and an acquaintance with Ger
man literature becomes almost indls-
pensable in social life in the capital.
1t will be q blessed day for Austin
when it may become the central seat of
learning as of legislation for Texas,
and this consummation is only posi-
BILE when the bar-rooms that poison the
atmosphere and corrupt popular morals
are closed. Then people would gather
here to rear and educate their children,
not in the vices of dramshops, but In
schools like this, conducted by admir-
able German ladies who are doing the
city and country infinite service.
Year: 1877

THE Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
Railway Company propose that if Bel
ton will grade and crosstie the road
from the International to Bolton, the
Galveston company will at once supply
the iron and locomotives. The pres
ent is Belton's golden opportunity.
The value of property will be doubled
as soon as the contract is complete, and
every acre of land IN the county will
be enhanced in value twenty-five ol
fifty per cent. When the road is com
pleted these figures may be agair
doubled. The future attractiveness o.
Bell county's broad prairies, unmatched
in richness and fertility, cannot b.
overestimated. Surely the people ar
too wise to let this opportunity escape
unlmproved. A century may elaps'
before such another presents itself TO
their adoption.
Year: 1877

Now that Blaine and his ardent
clique have pronounced against the ad-
ministration it only remains to be seen
whether the President have the courage
and tenacity of purpose that distin-
guished his predecessor. If Blaine and
Morton and Cameron can drive the
President from his chosen line of
policy, then the South will be victim
lied and ruinous intervention in the
affairs of Southern States will be con-
tinued. But the Presidents personal
friends declare that his tirmness often
degenerates into sheer obstinacy and
that if will DO wholly impossible to
shake his purposes or the course map
ped out when he accepted the Cincin-
natl nomination, Blaine and Morton
and the party repudlating this pro-
posed scheme of administration
throughout the canvass. The conser-
vative people of the country will watch
the development of President Hayes's
policy and character and purposes,
through the next few months, with
eager interest. Just now we can only
congratulate ourselves and the South
that Blaine and Morton and Cameron
have thrown down the gauntlet and
Radicallsm from both directions wages
outright war against the conservative
President, who says he was elected
by party to be the proper, honest,
just President of all parties and of the
whole country. But it is most for
tunate event in the history of the times
that the worst men in Congress ant
those who most hate the South and it
civilization have pronounced agains
the administration and policy of thu
President, and it is only amazing tina
we find here and there in the Soutl
newspapers pretending to be Democrat
ic and friendly to the South co-operat
ing with Blaine and Morton and Chand
ler in the base work of breaking dow
a power now exerted in behalf of tn


best interest and good fortune anC
| freedom of the South.
Year: 1877

If Tilden had been invested with
office, elected as he was by the votes
of Southern States and by white peo-
pie, he would have been regarded by
the masses of the North the peculiar
representative of "rebels." The Sen
ate would have obstructed fatally every
measure of his administration designed
for the relief of these States, and the
Republican press and politicians would
have waged perpetual war against the
South. So infamous would we have
been made In the worlds eyes that i'm
migration from Northern States would
have been arrested, and the war of
sections would have ragged with de-
gree of undying hate and ferocity
never known even when Ben Butler
and Thad Stevens raved and swore and
tore their hair and fastened amend
ments on the perverted constitution of
the United States. We cannot, of
course, anticipate the policy of Presi-
dent Hayes. We have no guiding light
save that embodied in his inaugural,
but if this illumines properly and
truthfully the pathway in government
which he proposes to pursue, there are
no dreadful shadows falling upon the
future of Southern commonwealths.
1t is very sad that many good men
and faithful party leaders have failed
to secure postof1ices and marshalships
and collectorships, and while we con-
dole with them, with sincere heartfelt
earnestness, we must confess that
If the President tell the truth
of himself and purposes, the
South, bereft OF cares of State, can
go to work, mind its own business,
grow rich and be prosperous and blest.


But we only proposed to say that if
President Hayes execute in office the
policy defined in his inaugural, the In
ter Ocean will be finally silenced, the
character of the people and social hab'
its of the South misrepresented nc
more, and the practical prosperity OF
the whole country will be wholly un-
precedented. 1t is almost impossible
to believe that President of the
United States can entertain or propose
honestly to execute such purposes. We
know nothing but partisanship in Of
fee. We can dream of Washington,
Adams, Monroe, Jefferson and Madi
son, but their purity is deemed a fs
bic, myth of the forgotten and i'm
possible past, and though President
Hayes declared that he would have
only a single term of his illustrious of
flee, we cannot see how he can escap'
the clutches . Morton and Blaine ane
of those terrible Republican declaimeri
who kicked aside Hayes and his lettel
and platform and waged the presiden
tial contest on a platform Of sectional
ism and of bitter malignity. We Cal
only hope that the newly-chosen Presi-
ident may have the strength Of charac
ter and purpose to defy the bad ane
accept the philosophy of the good ane
great men of his party and do justic'
to the South. He can do this; TildeI
could not have done it perfectly
Hayes's party and newspapers, stripped
of effice and power, would have beer
potent enough to rends. Tilden impo
tent.
Year: 1877

ago this Central stock which made
men and women milhonaires had tum-
bled down to ten cents, and now it
has gone down till it has fallen below
nl, and then it is swallowed like a
Whit of chloroform by the anaconda
of the International. Such, in any
event, will be the final destiny of the
once mighty Central and its managing
magnates. They have gone down and
out of sight, and have lost magnitude
and brilllancy in the galaxy of stars
that shone not long ago with steady
splendOr everywhere within the hori-
IONS verge that hedges in the imperial
prpatr ass of TeYos
Year: 1877

An ingenious person named Frank
P. Jannarone, of Washington City, in
spired probably by sympathy for the
numerous short-sighted persons who
are compelled to wear, or who affect
eyeglasses, has invented self-adjust-
ing ''nose clamp" which not only re-
lieves the skin of the nose of the un-
pleasant contact with bone clamps COM
mon in ordinary glasses, besides avoid
ing dangerous pressure upon the optic
nerves, but also avoids entirely the use
of the profanity provoking guard chain
generally in use The invention is so
simple that the wonder is that no opti-
cian has never thought vf it before. In
plpce of the usual permanent nose
clamp Of hard rubber, bone or tortoise
shell, one of soft rubber is substituted,
and this is hung in the middle on q
hinge, which permits it to adjust it.
self to any angle or any part of the
bridge OF the nose. When once placed
it cannot be shaken of, and yet the
pressure on the skin is felt much less
than that Of ordinary frames. The new
frames can be applied to any ordinary
eye-glass ty any optician.
Year: 1877

ANY war begun by Southern man
or Southern State and in the South,
would speedily become, just such as
was the late war, one of sections. In
it the North would be consolidated
against the South. New York City and
State and the East prospered wonder
fully during and for a short time after
the late war. Another war in the South
no matter what its origin-would be
turned to account in the old way. The
World, which was angry because Wade
Hampton did not show fight, may not
be without method in its madness.
Year: 1877

The BUSINESS REVIVAL IN New YORK The
city is unusually full for the beginning of the
season. Business begins remarkably well,
considering the general and protracted dull
ness There are twice MS many buyers in
town ms last year, many of them from the
South and West They buy more, on better
terms, with less higgling about prices, than
at any time since the panic The general re-
port Of the buyers is encouraging. Crops of
all kinds are good People have retrenched
and saved Country dealers have no surplus
stocks of old goods to carry they buy just
what they want on short time at low prices
and nothing they can't sell and pay for
Business to-day means actual demand and not
mere speculation. The feeling among our
merchants is frmer and more hopeful than at
any time since 1873. But there is no fever,
no furry, no great expectations. The long
depression has nearly rid the business of the
city of the commercial adventurers who were
reckless because they had everything to make
and nothing TO lose. More women are buy
ing goods this fall than ever before. One
firm reports ~ women buyers in one day.
Their purchases were not large, but very dis
Greet and discriminating They knew exact-
ly what they wanted bought quickly. paid
cash or its equivalent, and the aggregate of
these purchases was SlO,G5O. This shows
that the woman movement has not spent its
force in vain. though Lucy Stone cannot vote
and the republicans of New Jersey nominated
Newell instead of Mrs Stanton for governor.
N. J. Letter.
Year: 1877

Ak ERRING but REPENTANT JUDGE.-A GER
tain lawyer in Lewis county, Ky, was APP
pointed Judge of the criminal court. being Il
much younger man than ever before held the
office. He was n brilliant, honorable fellow
and sound jurist, thoroughly competent for
his Office except that he drank hard. The
other day, in opening court he was so much
under the influence of liquor as to be unable
to transact business The next day, being So
Der, he came into court, and said Gen
, tlemen and fellow citizens: / appear before
you to say am victim to a vice which has
disgmced me before you and my country.
As | entered this court room heard some
one say, there goes pretty timber to make Il
criminal judge of. l felt that remark as a
steel through my heart for it is just. l am
unworthy of the high honor and trust you
have conferred upon one so young, and | re-
turn to you the office have lost being un-
worthy of it. Pardon me, friends and c0un-
trymen, but you shall bear this no longer.
My judicial integrity and official acts are
blameless. Thank God, am no longer Grim
inal Judge of Lewis county. May heaven keep
me in my afflction" There was not a sound
in the crowded court as he spoke. No one
could look at him and not know that the strug-
gle through which he had passed before he
could so humiliate himself was worse to bear
than death. But there is no one whose heart
would not warm to an offender who is man
enough to acknowledge his error, and to go
honestly and humbly to work to regain his
lost place. when the judge entered the
court" says the local paper, the public feel
ing against him was that of anger and con-
tempt but when he went out, every man
there was his friend, and ready to hold out a
helping hand TO him."
Year: 1877

GRANT ON THE GENEVA AwARD.-At Glas-
gov, Scotland, Gen. Grant said, in reply TO
inquiries ON the subject, that, with respect to
the belief in England that the Americans got
the best of the bargain in the Alabama award
our people were by no means satisfied with
the result, and there was sharp fight over
the confirmation of the treaty on the ground
that its terms were not broad enough to cover
all the losses of local interest. 1--WE yielded, p"
he said. more than we intended to yield, but
had got so far into the business of doing what
we advocated that nine-tenths of our people
had no desire TO recede. We did not want
war, or even new arbitration. We wanted
the question settled peacefully, at once and
forever With respect to the -, 0OO, 900 sur
plus left, General Grant says when it came to
the distribution of the money under the terms
of the treaty, it was found that if the insur-
ance companies which had received war pre-
miums were admitted to participation in the
sum il would not be large enough to go around.
So they and other parties were excluded. He
thought that Congress would yet supply the
requisite legislation, 80 that the money would
be wholly distributed here.
Year: 1877

The policy of the President has commended
his party to the confidence of the country as
no other course could have done. The dis
tinctive criticism upon the Republican party
was that it was essentially sectional and vim
dictive and centralzing. We do not say or
think that the criticism was iusti6able, as of
the party, but it was certainly justified by
much for which the party was responsible.
This, indeed, was the main explanation of the
elections of 1874 and of 1876. The indispens-
able condition of the continued vigor of the
party was a restoration of faith in it as the
more probable agency of progress and reform,
and of wise treatment of new issues. This
faith had unquestionably been disturbed. The
nomination of Mr.. Hayes tended to revive it.
His administration has confrmedit. And the
one thing that has prevented more universal
and cordial restoration of confidence in the
Republican as the party of peace, as it was
the party of war, has been the reluctance and
hesitation of many of the conventions heartily
and enthusiastically to sustain the Administra-
on.-HdIpey's Weekly,
Year: 1877

Cheeky 1. Filley and the Globe
Democrat are holding a matinee
again, one is postmaster and the 9TH
er a republican paper, of course each
one calls the other a thief. 1t is
strange how when two RAIDS get mad
at each other they give their party
AWAY ssa
Year: 1877

- The present Governor of Virginia is
widower. Colonel Holiday, the newly nom
mated candidate, is also widower. We
hope the latter will get married before he is
elected, as we think it is high time that the
matrons of the State had some representa-
tive and some rights in the Executive man.
sion. We had intended to put that plank
in our platform, but forgot it in the noise and
confusion of the moment-PeiersJurg Post.
Year: 1877

The magic days of childhood
That fairylike appear,
And smile in purer brightness
With every passing year
What charm iIlumes your memoryf
What mystic joyous spell:
What beauty, passing wonder?
Not one of us can tell.
1t is, methinks, the conscience
The purer heart of youth:
holy love of Justice,


rare regard for truth
When every wish sincere is.


And every hope q dream
When beautiful. enchanting,
The years of manhood seem.
But now the'world, deeeivingI
Dispels each fairy dream.
The stars of fond ambition


No longer rise and gloam;
And all is Death and Danger
Where Fancy laughed before;
And thoughts of fame and honor
Are crushed to live no moro.
Our dreams are like the yapors
That melt before the sun;
Their coIors like the rainbow,
Their life as quickly run:
Like worlds of golden sunset,
Too gay to live an hour.
That fade before the twilight
And yield their magic power.
think that God must order
Our childhood thus to be.
To tighten care and trouble
OF high and low degree;
To nerve us on to conquer


And bear our future woe,
BY looking back on brightness
That brightens as we goa
Year: 1877

- The practical and patent result of the
economy of the last Democratic Congress is
surplus revenue of thirty million dollars in
the treasury of the country. If one Dem
ocratic house, in ono term, has such result,
the national debt will be mere matter of
moonshine when both houses of Congress
and the President are Democrstic-ns, if the
country be fortunate, they will be in 1881.
Year: 1877

It was hardly three days afterward, when
Miss Mary, sarreptitiOusly engaged in pick
ing berries in the woods, heard the tramp OF
horses feet on the road that ran parallel with
her retreat, divided from it only by low
Year: 1877

e777is not easily earned In these times, but
y 1 it can be made In three months by
6Ha7any one OF either sex, In any part of
y the country who Is willing to work
steadily at the employment that we furnish.
eO0cpcr week In your own town. You need not
your whole time to the work, or only your
spare moments. We have agents who arc
making over S20 per day. All who engage at
time money cannot be made 30 easily and
rapidly at any other business It costs noth-
ing TO try the business. Terms and 50 Outfit
Portland, Maine. 5-24-0-2i
Year: 1877

Ii is not pleasant discovery, al
though one that has been made in 700
many places during the past ten days,
that personal courage is not so com
mon an attribute as il should be. From
first TO last the lawless thieves and
roughs who have raised riot and an.
archy during the past week have been
met too often in the most oowardly
spirit, and in very few instances only
has brave man faced them, with re-
volyer in hand, and dared them to con.
tinue their workofdevastation and plum
der. In Martinsburg where tho dis
order first broke out, it does not appear
that there were any town authorities if
there were they were very careful not
to got within speaking distance of the
strikers. And when the feeble and in
efficient militia companies met the mob
they laid down their arms and capitu-
lated, not halfso much from sympathy
with their sufforings as from fear of
violence.


The case OF Pittsburgh was anomal-
Gus, but it afforded brilliant illustra-
tions of heroes whose energies were de.
voted solely to securing their own safe.
ty to live to fight another day. 1t has
been sufficiently proved that the peo-
pie, believing that the corporation had
no soul, forget that it had eyes and
hands, and that it paid handsomely to
be protected in the enjoyment of its
rights. SO they sat quietly down and
watched the destruction of its proper.
ty, to be rudely aroused with notice
that upon them alone must fall the cost
of that Sundays amusement. And yet
one brave man might have aroused
them to a sence OF their duty as citi.
zens and their interests as property
owners and taxpayers. The Sheriff
went out and read the riot act. The
crowd jeered at il as at any little pop
gun. Did the Sheriff thereupon call
upon the citizens for aid Did he sum.
mon them right and left, command
them to join him in dispensing the mob ?
Not bit of il. llc put the riot act in
his pocket, went home and called upon
the Governor for troops, because there
was riot and internal violence that he
could not put down. And he had not
made the least attempt to put il down.
The troops came. What their recep-
ton was is only too well known, aud
General Pearson, safely concealed be.
yond the reach Of danger, publishes
card which ought to have been ad-
dressed ITO the mob" assuring them
that he has no hostility to them that
he did not order the troops to fire; in
short that he had disgraced the uni
form that he wore and the State that
commissioned him. When the Penn
sylvania troops were stoned as they
passed through Altoona, did the Mayor
summon force and say that, rs long
us he was Mayor Of Altoona, the
troops oi the State should pass over
the great highway OF the State unmo.
Tested? Certainly not. Tho city of
Altoona might as well never have had
n Mayor, a City Council or police
force for all they did on the one day
that they should have worn their au.
thority. This side Of the picture IS
completed by The spectacle Of the sur
render Of the arms of the State by
members Of the militia of the State to
n lawlcss mob within sight ofthc State
Year: 1877

Acts of Assembly are allowed to charge
more, but these are exceptions to the
general law Of the State. Congress
deals with general law applicable tc
the whole State, and relating TO banks
Of issue all over the State.


Tho special Acts authorizing banks
OF issue, if there are any, apply only Ia
the particular banks created by them
or permitted by them to take more
than six per cent, and these laws are
laws unto these banks only.


The general Banking Law of Penn
sylvania prohibits tho taking of more
than six per cent. discount. The Ma.
tional Banking Law prohibits Ma
tional Bank in Pennsylvania from tax.
ing more.


In case greater rate of interest has
been paid, the person by whom il has
been pad, or his legal representative,
may recover back in an action in the
nature Of an action OF debt, twice the
amount of the interest thus paid, from
the association taking or recovering
the same provided such action is COM
menced within two years from the
time the usurious transaction occurred.


From the origin Of the loan from
the retaining of the first discount
through all tho renewals, up to the
time Of final payment of the principal,
or up to the time of entering Judgment,
there is locus pentilcntie for the party
taking the excessive interest, and any
time till then he may consider the ex.
cessive interest as paid on account of
the loan, and so apply il. and lessen
the principal. Up to that time he NAV
make this election.


When payment is actually made, or
Judgment is entered, the election is
made. and if, as in these cases. iudo
ment is entered for the full amount of
the notes or full amount of the loan !.
or payment is taken in full without
Year: 1877

When q young man is a clerk in a
store and dresses like a prince,
smokes fine cigars, and drinks nice
brandy, attends theatres, balls and
the like, l wonder if he does it all on
the avails of his clerkship?


When young lady sits in the
parlOr all day, with her fingers COW
cred with rings, / wonder If her
mother don't wash and do the work
in the kitchen?


When the deacon of a Church sells
strong butter, recommending it as
sweet, | wonder if he don't rely on
the merits of Christ for salvation ?


When a young lady laces her waist
a third smaller than nature made it,
| wonder if her pretty figure will
not shorten life some dozen years or
more, besides making her miserable
while she does live?


When man goes three times a
day to get dram, wonder if he
will not by and by go four times? a.?


When a young man is depending
upon his daily toll for his income,
and marries a lady who does not
know how to make a loaf of bread
or mend a garment, wonder if he
is not lacking somewhere, say to-
wards the top, for instance?


When a man receives a periodical
or newspaper, weekly, and takes
great delight in reading it, but neg
lects to pay for it, | wonder if he
has a soul or gizzard?