smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

THIRD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FArR.-The
ladies OF the Third Presbyterian church
will hold their festival only one night longer.
They will open at T. o'clock Monday eve
ming and close that night. Friends Of the
church and congregation and the public
generally are invited to come and aid them
by their patronage. @. '
Year: 1877

The following is verbatim copy OF let
ter written by Red Cloud to al army officer
as preliminary report Of his operations as
an agent OF the Government to treat with
crazy Horse, and sent by him to headquar-
ters by courier: , So -.
Year: 1877

y KILL 1OLu ACi


Sir My Dear have met some indians on
road and thare say the indians on bear lodge
creek on 10th april and thought let you
know it.


And think will let you know better
after get to the camp so | sent the young
man with this letter he have been to the
camp before his name is arme blown Oh.
Year: 1877

We don't want to growl at anything
for the sake of growing, but we are
compelled to say that The PIdindedL-
er, which purports to be the organ of
the Good Templars, is about the thin
nest excuse for weekly exponent of
any Order, that we ever saw. One
would suppose that with the four edi-
tors whose names are paTaded so con-
spicuously on the first page, that an
attempt would be made tOget up some
thing readable occasionally. There
are Good Templare enough and friends
favorable to the Order, to support a
good live paper, one that would aid
in the good work in Nebraska and
who would gladly pay q dollar year,
without thinking they hat thrown it
away, if there was more vim in the
paper.-StGte journal.
Year: 1877

An examination of the list of per-
sons sworn in as members of the low
er House of Congress reveals the fact
that seventy-one of them were COM
PEELED to take the modified oath, hav-
ing been connected with the Confed-
eracy. This is an increase of ten over
the number in the last House of Rep
resentatives. There are fifteen eX-Con-
federates in the Senate, with fair
prospect that five more will be admit
ted. This gives total now of that ell
ement in Congress of eighty-siX.


The solid South is not myth it is
reality, and rightly regarded the
most imposing reality in this country.
For the present, at least, there is but
one party in the South. The methods
by which state after state were wrest-
ed from the Republicans and turned
over to the Conservatives may be open
to criticism, but their thoroughness
canrot be doubted. The vanqulshed
have not been beaten, they have been
annihiated. The Republican party
does not exist even in name in any
Southern State. As old Sir Jacob Asst
ley said of the IrOnsides one may say
of the Southern Democracy "You
have now done your work. and may
go to play unless you will fall out
among yourselves"


1t looks very much as ifthe Confed-
crates with their Northern allies
would soon have complete control of
the Government which they attempt
ed to destroy. The spirit which ami
=, Dnl-
icy has led them to suppress their real
sentiments. Their hate of the Gov
ernment which defeated their cher
ished project of d. solution of the
Union is not abated, ut SO, long as
they can control the Government for
their present purposes, they are not
likely to resort to any extreme meas
ures. They are more powerful in the
forum than they were in the field
st. Joe Herald.
Year: 1877

Right whales frequently find their way
into the Bay of Fundy, and are there cap
tured. The bay is also favorite resort for
the thrasher and the swordfish. / have
heard old coasters say that they had seen
thrashers forty-fve and fifty feet long, NOV
ing with great velocity on the surface of the
water, their heads raised ten and twelve feet
above. Bay of Fundy fishermen, in speak
ing of them, say they are the greatest of sea
villains. Twenty odd years ago one of these
sea monsters got caught on sand ar,where
he was left by the rapid falling of the tide
in the Cumberland branch of the Bay of
Fundy, and was killed by the people on
shore after an exciting struggle. He meas
ured forty-six feet in length. As Captain
Memo says, the head is fiat and serpent-like
the eyes almost red, with ugly white circles
over them. Indeed, nothing could be more
repulsive than the head of this sea monster.
The only other sea villain they are known
to fraternize with is the swordish. Both
are well known to old coasters and fishermen
as the deadly enemy of the whale and it is
the common belief that they hunt in couples,
and on finding the whale make immediate
war, the swordfsh attacking beneath and
the thrasher on top.


The common belief is that the thrasher
has huge weapon, very like sedge ham,
mer, protruding from his mouth, with which
he administers on the whales back those
terrible blows you can hear ten or twelve
miles distant. / have myself stood on bluff
overlooking the Bay OF Fundy and witnessed
three of these terrible battles between a
whale and his enemies. the swordfsh and
the thrasher. The swordfish did his deadly
work underneath while, as Captain Memo
says, the thrasher coiled himself half over
the whale, and applied the blows with his
ponderous tail. In the distance however
the thrasher seems to raise and let fall his
weapon very much as a blacksmith's helper
handles his sledge. You could see the wea-
pom rise and fall you could hear the blows
distinctly, although the distance was believ.
ed to be not less than ten miles from shore
and you could also hear the whale below
| anu Stt ulul DlON. OH Oll6 VI IDbSb OCCd
sons the terrible contest lasted nearly three
hours, the water in the vicinity being RED
with blood. About every fifteen or twenty
minutes the whale would disappear in an
attempt to escape from his enemies; but
they would quickly pursue him and force
him to the surface, where the combat would
be renewed.


These two sea villains, the swordfish ant
thrasher, invariably kill the whale wher
they get him into close quarters and a
soon as the combat ceases, which can be
clearly seen by the whales body floating
motionless, the thrasher will proceed to clea


water, where, raising his serpent-like heaC
, in triumph, ten, twelve, and fifteen fee


above the surface, he will continue for iftee
and sometimes twenty minutes lashing thu


sea into foam.
Year: 1877

An incident occurred during the session
of the United States District Court at Ports
mouth, the other day, which for the moment
relieved the monotony of case. Counsel
for defendant was examining witness with
the object of establishing the fact that the
defendant had been member of the State
Legislature, when his Honor observed that
it was a gratuitous statement, aud not mate
rial. Counsel-"But l think, your Honor,
it is evidence of respectablity for man TO
have been member of the Legislature of
this State" His Honor-"Hum-I have
my doubts about thatp Counsel-"I will
not press the point, your Honor"
Year: 1877

There were two of them hanging over the
front gate the other night, She was stand
ing within the yard and he on the sidewalk
outside, both leaning on the top rail, and
apparently as. happy as two pigs in corn
field. He was saying, "Now, my own little
darling, sweet idol of my soul, whose image
is ever on my heart'-when he saw the old
man coming down the front walk, and con-
tinued in different strain "The potato bugs
haven't destroyed our crops so much since
we purchased Paris green, and you will also
find that cabbages can be raised better on
richer soil" The old gentleman heard it
and turned back, saying, as he entered tn,
house, "These young people take more in
terest in agricultural affairs than people
generally suppose"
Year: 1877

A Manchester mechanic has invented a
horseshoe composed of three thicknesses of
cowhide compressed into steel mould and
then subjected to chemical preparation.
Its inventor asserts that it lasts longer than
the common shoe and weighs only one. fourth
as much never splits the hoof, and has no
other injurious influence on it requires no
calks, even on asphalt is so elastic that the
horses step is lighter and surer, and adhere,
50 closely that neither dust nor water cal
penetrate between the shoe and the hoof.
Year: 1877

All day, all night can hear the jar
OF the loom Of life and near and far
It thrills with It's deep and muned sound,
AS the tlreess wheels go always around.
Busily, ceaselessly goes the loom
In the light ofday and the midnights gloom.
The wheels are turning early and late,
And the woof is wound in the warp OF fate.
Click, clack there's a thread Of love wove In
Click, clack another Of wrong and sin;
What checkered thing will this life be
When we see 1t unrolled in eternity!
Time, with face like a mystery,


And hands as busy as hands can be,
sits at the loom with It's warp outspread,
To catch in its meshes each glancing thread.
When shall this wonderfr' web be done?
In thousand years, perhaps, or one
Or tomorrow. Who knoweth? Not you nor |,
But the wheels turn on and the shuttles fly.
All, sad eyed weaver, the years are slow,
But each one Is nearer the end know. =.
And some day the last thread shall be wo( IN,
God grant It be love instead of sin.
Are we splnners Of wool for this life-web-say?
DO we furnish the weaver a thread each day
1t were better then, oh my friend, to spin
beautiful thread than thread Of sin.
Year: 1877

Prot. E. S. Holden gives these
timely observations in the Popular
Science Monthly:


If the standard time is important
to the man of business in making
his appointments and regulating
his affairs, to the traveller in proyid-
ing railways with a correct time by
which to govern the movements of
trains, and in general to every citi-
zen in his daily occupations on
land, it is vital to the successful
and safe navigation of the ocean.
Every ship that sails for a foreign
port must before her departure
know the correction of her chro-
nometers to Greenwich time THAT
is, the number of seconds they are
fast or slow on that time), and,
besides this, their rate Tor the num-
Der of seconds they daily gain or
lose). Provided with good chro-
nometers and with these data well
determined, ship sails from her
port with the power of determining
on any day her position on the
earth's surface.


A simple observation of the aIti-
tude of the sun at noon gives, by a
short computation, her latitude,
and a determination of the angular
distance of the sun east or west of
her meridian gives the local time.
The difference of the local time of
the ship and the Greenwich time,
as shown by her chronometers,
gives her longitude. Latitude and
longitude being known, her place
on the chart can be put down with
but little uncertainty. This is
daily done, if possible, on every one
of the ships sailing out of New
York city, and on the skill of her
officers, the goodness of her chro-
nometerS and the accuracy of their
rates depends the safety Of her pas.
sengers and cargo. TO all men OF
business, then, in their appoint
ments and affairs on shore and in
their commercial ventures by sea
the fact that standard time is
easily attainable and perfectly
correct is of no slight Importance.
To travellers, whether by sea or land,
it is a matter Of life and death. The
watches of railway employees are
usually set by one clock, but a diff
ference Of one or two minutes on a
crowded road may bring about the
most fatal results, as the reports of
the various railway commissions
will show. If a ship leaves New
York supposing her chronometer
which is regulated to Greenwich
time to be losing two seconds a day,
while it is really losing six, every
day she is really about a mile farther
west than her reckoning shows her
to be, and in a voyage of a month
she will suppose herself to be too
far west by thirty miles. Such a
result may be attended with the
most disastrous consequences, and
that it does not oftener so result is
due to the skill and watchfulness of
sea captains, a class of men whose
vigilance and taithfulness are too
little appreciated.
Year: 1877

public office better than any other person it is certainly desirable that he should be appointed to that office, if he is willing to take it. Mir. Schurzs prohibition is just as fool ish as it is illegal It is an instruc- tive fact that if the rule which Mir. Schurz advocates had been estab- lished by law year ago, it would have been impossible for him to occupy his present place in the Cab met of the Fraudulent President, because when he vas appointed to that place his name appeared at the head of the Westliche Post, of St. Lotus as one of it's editors. So far as Schurz is concerned, it would undoubtedly have been good thing if such a law had been in force; but it will not do to set aside the Constitution in order to prevent every charlatan from getting into public station.-N. Y. Sun.
Year: 1877

We do not find, in the endorse ment asked for by the Texas Pacific Company, anything more than . fair business proposition, to which the assent of the people might readily be given, and to which tie approv al of Congress ought to be extended.

 For more thar thirty years we talked about grand trans -conti- mental thoroughfare that should sup ply the commercial wants of great nation, and make speedy transit from ocean to ocean.

 The Union Pacific is completed, but its line through the mountains is perilous or imIassable one-fourth of the year, and traffic on that comes to a solemn pause In the midst of hy- perborean snows.

 Under these circumstances, the country demands some better way to reach the Pacific coast. The Union Pacific cannot meet the wants of forty millions of people. The whole country demands a measure of this kind, and no better plan has been suggested to secure it. The Govern ment really risks nothing. The South and Southwest should join hands, and act as Q unit to procure the Government guarantee.-St Louis (Mo. Times.
Year: 1877

The Georgia Constitutional Con invention has adopted the tax paying qualification as prerequisite to voting. A mans tax receipt will therefore be his credentials at the ballot box, and the man who refuses or neglects to contribute his share toward supporting the government will be debarred from exercising the elective franchise. This may at first sight appear to be an encroach- ment upon the inalienable rights of every freeman, but when we come to ~1ook at it in the proper light, there is nothing wrong about it, and all the objections which may be raked up against it will fail to shake the soundness and justice of the meas ure. It is one of the oldest of our preconceived ideas of representative government that taxation and rep resentation go together. The DUTIES of citizenship, among which is his duty to contribute his share toward the support of the government which protects him and his proper ty, are as incumbent upon him as privileges are sacred, and when he refuses to discharge the former he should be denied the latter,-or rather, he forfelts the latter. The State Government are, as it were joint stock companies in which every taxpayer is d stockholder, and he who pays no taxes should be entitled to no voice in controlling the affairs of the company.
Year: 1877

In olden times, when printing was in It's infancy, and before the tele- graph flashed its fresh news from continent to continent and the rail road accelerated the commerce and traffic of the country to almost light ming speed, it was not so much a matter of wonderment that people refused to subscribe for newspapers. But Tn the present fast age-in these days of the telegraph, the steam press, and of progressive ideas, when all depends upon a man being up to the times, it is strange that any man will be a non-subscrlber. When for the sum of 3 cents per week, the family circle may be sup piled with we'll printed, newsy pa per, it is astonishing that there is a home in the land devoid of at least one paper. Who is tue man then who is a non subscriber? You may know him by his looks, by his drawl and by his bad luck. He IS the man who swaggers into your store, or of flee, and with yawn and a drawl asks; "W hats the n-us-e-| He IS the fellow who comes around with precise regularity and wants to know If you have some old newspapers that you can give "feller." He's the fellow who is always out of luck,- he always sells his wheat little too sool, or holds it little too long. He is the very chap who always gets humbugged by every sharper and
Year: 1877

The really active and thoroughly alive energetic man knows no dull season in business life, for the sim pie reason that as feeling of dttll- ness commences to creep over his nelghbors he begins to look about him and to devise ways and means to make the public cling to, rather than fall away, from hlm. The best adhesive plaster in this instance is printers ink, and as proof of the assertion we point our readers to those business men of the city who are now advertising most freely in the daily papers. If they are mer- chants tbeir stores are always crowded with customers, who come with cash to purchase where they arc informed by the public prints they can lay out their money to the best advantage. The business man who now advertises is in a pros- porous condition-his stock passes from him rapidly, and with the pro- ceeds of the sales he IS able to re- supply himself with goods of the latest styles-his clerks earn their money, and his customers are gratl- fled. The man who does not adver- tise at the commencement of the dull season, lessens his force ot clerks or employees, and those who remain have almost less than noth' ing to do, as the place of business that does not make itself known to the public through the daily papers is as quiet and as little liable to be entered as an undertaker's estahlish- ment Tn a healthy season, The non advertiser, commercially speak Ing, is a dead man-his goods, for want of ready buyers, lay on hls shelves until they become old, rusty and unfashionable, eventually find ing their way to the cheap aution houses, while the proprietor gener- ally bursts or retires from a busl- ness which he did not know how to conduct successfully, and his drop ping out does not create a ripple, for he is not an advertiser, conse- quentIy unknown. Some men may lay tho fattering auction to their souls that they have been too long established in business to require putting" in the papers. That IS just where they are mistaken-no' business becomes so old that vari- able American pubic will respect or sustain it if it's proprictors fail to keep step with the advance of the age. When people want bargains, if they are intelligent, they refer to the advertisements in the city papers, where they always find some live business man talking to them in the strain that will win their support and their custom, which is naturally drawn away from the man who fails to see bonanza in constant and extensive advertising.--Gazette.
Year: 1877

It appears that, on one occasion, Mir. Schurz moved in the Cabinet of the Fraudulent President to estab fish the rule that no editor or pub fisher of a newspaper should be appointed to any office under the present administrations; and this proposition he is said to have main taincd with pertinacious argument.

 If Mir. Schurz will look into the Constitution and the laws of the country, he will find that there is not one word in them authorizing such prescription against news paper editors or publishers. They are citizens with the same rights as others, and there is no valid reason for putting them under the ban in the manner which Mir. Schurz desires.

 50 far as our experience goes, 1t very rarely happens that newspaper men are willing to take office. Sometimes, however, the case may arise in which it is their duty to lay aside their own occupations, no matter how interesting or how profit able, in order to devote themselves to the service of their country in an official sphere; and whenever one of them can discharge the duties of a
Year: 1877

A day or two ago family con- taining four ladies halted on Wood ward avenue, near the Holden Road, and one of the females sniiied the air and cried out:

 "Ah, how delicious is the scent of that new mown hayr

 "Ah! an. ahr the rest of them cried out, as they elevated their nos es.

 A man in his shirt sleeves was leaning over the fence, but they did not see him until he cried out:

 "I begs your pardon, ladies, but the old horse fell into the ditch there three days ago and died, and I did not find the body until an hour ago. I've sent a team to haul it away, and am sorry about the smell. Drive along Q little and you'll get windward of the corpse"
Year: 1877

A citizen who was driving horse and carriage on the upper end of Woodward avenue yesterday morn ing wasn't satisfied with his horses rate of speed, and while giving the animal a liberal dose of whip sudden ly discovered that he was being run away with. A forewheel was dished by the curbstone and the man thrown out. As he scrambled up he saw the horse and buggy flying down the avenue like bird, and he cried out as he rubbed hIs praised knee:

 "That's it--she's struck the gait now-now she's settled down to it I'd give a thousand dollars if had a stop watch here to time her"
Year: 1877



 following good word for local papers,

 "You might as we'll forget your churches and school houses as to forget your local paper. It speaks to ten times the audience your minis ters do. It is read eagerly each week from beginning to end. It reaches you all, and if it has a lower spirit aud less wisdom than a ser mon, it has thousand times better chance at you-going, as it does, to almost every house, you owe 1t to yourselves to rally liberally to it's support, exact flom it as able and hightoned a character as you do from any educator in your midst. It is not beneath your notice and care flor it is your representative. In. deed, in its character, it is the con summation of the importance, inter est and welfare of you all. It is the aggregate of your own acquaintance, and you cannot ignore it without most miserably deprecating your. selves"
Year: 1877

trickster who comes along. If every body was just like him where would the support of the press come from? Who would pay for the printing of these "old newspapers" which these non subscribers are forever begging? Though these men manage to live and yawn out an existence without the newspapers, they do not know how much better they would get along if they would subscribe.
Year: 1877

St. Louis Price Current and Trade Journal.

 Justice Miller has just announced a decision in the Supreme Court of the United States, to the effect that property settled by merchant upon his wife during period of prosper ity, and while he is not involved in debt, is liable to be seized for the benefit of his creditors, if he subse- quently goes into bankruptcy-pro vided that the original purchase be made with money diverted from his trade. The opinion was delivered by Justice Miller last Saturday, and will have an important bearing upon proceedings in bankruptcy. Prop erty not taken from mans business may be vested in his wife and held by her, free from liability on ac- count of the husbands future debts.