smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

We desire to call the attention of select
men to a very neat and convenient blank,
for use in making up highway bills. This
is designed TO supersede the old-fashioned
and inconvenient tax bills in sheet form
heretofore used, and will be found much
more desirable for the use of the survey
ors. We invite the orders Of selectmen OF
all towns in Verment. Price 90 cents per
dozen copies.


d&w GLOBE PAPER Co.
Year: 1877

SAN FRANCISCO, June "a.


A Boise City dispatch states that the
settlers OF Weiser Valley have nearly all as
Sembled ut point in lower Weiser Vslley
where they are building a fort. A party
of military has gone to the relief of the
people shut up in the fort at Stale Creek.
The fifteen hundred indians encamped in
Great Camas prairie have been induced to
send their principal chiefs to an interview
with the governor, the result of which Is
t1nknnwn
Year: 1877

For farmers and those who live in local.


tiles where people can retire at eight or
nine O'Clock in the evening, the old notion
about early rising is still appropriate. But
he who is kept up till ten or eleven or
twelve O'Clock. and then rises at five or
six, because Of the teach n.s of some old
ditty about 'early to ri,.," is committing
a sin against his own soul. There is not
one man i'll ten thousand who can afford
to do without seven or eight hours sleep.
All the stuff written abou. great men who
slept only three or four hours q night Is
apocryphal. They have been put upon
such small allowances occasionally and
prospered, but ro man ever yet kept
healthy in body and mind for number Of
years with less than seven hours sleep.
If you can get to bed early. then 50
G rly; if you cannot get to bed till late.
then rise late. 1t may be as proper for
one man to rise at eight AS 1t is tor another
to rise at fve Let the rousing bell be
rung by at lea thirty minutes before
your public appearance. Physicians say
that sudde:. ju mp out of bed gives irreg-
ular motion to the pulses. 1t takes h ,urs
to get over too sudden rising. 1t is
barbarous to expect childr. n IL lan,i on
the centre of the floor at the call of their
nurses. the thermometer below zero. Give
us time after you call us,t roll over, gaze
at the world full IN the face, aud look be-
fure We leap,
Year: 1877

"When the morning came with her eye


of flame,


And looked on the youthful earth,
When man, at the call IF the Lord Uf all
Rose up in his glorious birth;
When the stars rang out with a tunefu
To the mountains and the sea.
And the worlds great heart with quick


encd start,


Beat time to their melody.
Like a grain in the sod grow the though,


of God,


AS na:ure's slow work appears,
From tie zoophy te small to the Lord of all
Through cycles and sums Of years.
But the dark grew bright, and the nigh,


grew light,


W.el the era Of truth began,
And the soul was taught through the pri


ma. thought,


OF the life of God in man.
Through the ages dim has that holy hymn
Come down to our listening ears;
And still she it float with sweeter note
Through the vista Of coming Years.
Aud a voice made known from the view


less throne


AS it has been it shall be,
On, on from the past. still on to the last,
Like river that seeks the sea.
Hour by hour, like the opening flower,
Shall truth after truth expand;
The sun may grow pale, and the stars


may fail,


But the purpose of God shall stand"
Year: 1877

MIR. SPEAKER: The deceased was not from
my portion of the State, nor was person
ally acquainted with him until the last ses-
sion of the Legislature; but he was mem
Der OF this legislative household, and feel
unwilling to remain silent while this tribute
OF respect is being paid to his memory.


Man is partly human-part divine. The
human tends to narrow in and to eirsum-
scribe his feelings-his thoughts--to .acri-
nee every Offering upon the altar of self
The divine tends to enlarge and to liberalize
his views; to elevate him to a higher sphere
TO give him broader outlook upon life ;:
and TO refine and suhlimate the aspirations
of his nature.


Occasions like this touch that diversity in
man and inspire emotions OF no ordinary
character. They are like the Ininstrel's
touch as he sweeps the strings of his harm
which has long hung silent upon the wall
awakening tones of saddened melody which
swell and echo along the corridors of the
soul. ''o


When long life of usefulness and honor
has been lived and the decrepitude and in.
firmities of age ensup, relatives and friends
can more readily yield to the DEGREES of fate
Year: 1877

1t is stated that the destitution of the
colored people in Louisiana has never
been greater than it is as at this time.


Scantily clad and with insufficient sup
plies of wholesome food, many of them
become easy victims to the diseases OF
winter, and deaths from pneumonia and
other species of sickness incident to in
clement winters are very numerous
Here are seen the fruits of oarpet-bag
rule in the South. Under it all indus
tries have been Frustrated, and there is
no employment for the colored people i;
who, on the other hand, have been di-
verted from the labors necessary to their
support to do the bidding of their carpet
bag masters. The 9 forty acres and a
mule" promised them by those who have


made use of their suffrages have never
been forthcoming, and never will and
now the poor deluded colored man is left
to starve. Is it any wonder that hun


dreds of them should have deserted their
betrayers in the late election and return


ed to their only true friends, the native
whites of the South?-W Washington Union.
Year: 1877

The large majority by which this meas
ure passed the Senate (47 to ~ is an
indication that the same inhuen ces which
pervaded that body will push it through
the House. The President it is said will
sign it, and therefore it may be assumed
that it will become law, right or wrong.
The sword may be beaten into a plough
share and the spear into the pruning
hook. Under the bill the final grapple
on the Presidential issue will begin on
the 1st of February, in manner as follows: !:


The Senate and House are to meet on
the first of February in the hall Of the
House; the President of the Senate is to
preside, and each House is to appoint two
teIlers; the presiding officer is to open
all the certificates in the alphabetical order
of the States, and hand them to the tel
lers; if there is but one return, and no
objection be made, that vote is to be
counted if objection be made, the two
Houses are to separate, and reassemble
upon reaching conclusion, and if they
concur in sustaining the objection the
vote is to be rejected, but otherwise to be
counted if there are two returns, those
returns are to be submitted to commits
sion consisting of five Senators, five
Representatives, and Justices Clifford,
Strong, Miller and Field, Of the Supreme
Court of the United States, together
with a fifth Associate Justice of that
court, to be selected by them this com
mission is to report the result o.
its deliberatiOn in each case to Con
gress, and the count is to proceed IL
conformity herewith unless the twC
Houses concur in sustaining ohjec
ton thereto. This is not probable, a;
the Senate or the House, according t,
its political predictions, will sustain tn


decision of the Judges, and therefor


they will practically decide the issue on
!, way or the other.


In all States where there is but one Sc
of electors, the votes must be counte'


unless both houses object. In the cas-


of Mississippi, the Radical Senate vii


no doubt object; but the objection vii


be overruled by the Democratic House


and so thanks to the wisdom of the Leg


islature for sending Ames adrift, ant



thanks to the Lord Almighty for putin


it into the head of Ames to battle th


contrvance of the tricksters who pal
!. $500 to procure a vacancy in the offic
of Lieutenant Governor, that one c
5 their clan might succeed to the Office {
5 Governor-the hard swearing of th
5 Office holders to cast out the vote of th
: State, will go for nothing. The fir
r real contest will be over the vote {


Florida.
Year: 1877

THE election of David Davis (of the
u. S. Supreme Court to the United
States Senate from Illinois, in place of
Logan, is great gain for the cause Of
justice and patriotism. In politics, he
is classed as an independent; but is
practically a Democrat of the school of
Trumbull, Palmer, etc. His term in the
u, S. Senate does not commence until
the 4th of March, at which time his seat
on the bench will not be vacated and
hence he is not disqualified from serving
on the commission to count the Presiden-
tial vote
Year: 1877

The love of country produces good
manners, and good manners also produce
the love of country. The less we satisfy
our particular passions, the more we
leave to our general.-Mantesqnieu.
Year: 1877

BETTER STAY AT HoME.--The follow
ing is one of the numerous paragraphs
that are appearing in the press. 1t is
better to bear the Imaginary ills we
have here in Mississippi, than to fly to
those we know not of in Texas and other
lands to which distance lends enchant-
Year: 1877

New York, May s.-The Herald's
Salt Lake special says: ''In the taber-
nacle, day before yesterday, the Prophet
arose at an unexpected moment and
broke forth in an. address to the saints
and sinners, which gave the latter to
understand, if they wanted blood they
could have plenty of it, and indeed they
were likely to have more of it let out
of their veins than they could spare, at
an early period" Many discreet Cen
tiles are quietly arranging for the re-
moval of their families at the first sign
Of an outbreak.


The Herald says editorially: After
re-reading the Gilman affidavit in the
light of District Attorney Howard's
statement, we are led to the conclusion
that an attempt to misrepresent How
ard had its rise in Mormon quarters,
and was intended to procure the re-
moval, in disgrace, of an officer who
knows too much and is too jealous for
justice to be liked by Mormon authori-
ties.
Year: 1877

There is said to be a young man in
the Missouri penitentiary whose par
ents at their death left him a fortune
of $4,000. There is where his pa
rents made fatal mistake. If they
had taken the precaution to invest
that sum in small dog, and then
shot him, and then had simply left
the young man jackplane or wood
saw, with printed instructions how to
use it, the chances are that, instead
of being in penitentiary, he would to-
day have been gradually but surely
working his way up to a handsome
competency and an honorable old age.
But ever since the days of Adam an
Eve parents have made it a point to
toll and struggle all their lives in or
der to realize sufficient sum of mon
ey to purchase, when they are dead
and gone, their sons each frst-class
through ticket to the devil, and it is
not much to be wondered at that so
many of their sons, reared in vice
and idleness, as too many of them
often are, have no higher ambition
than to invest their inheritance in
just that sort of transportation.
Year: 1877

The wasp is frequently disturber of
the peace, although lover of sweet
ness and light. He lately acted in
both rolls within five minutes in Bel
gium. Two peasants, while in an inn,
desiring to gamble, hit upon a novel
method. Each melted lump of SUI
gar in water aud poured the syrup
upon a table. A multitude of flies
were upon the walls. Money was bet
as to which pool ofsyrup the first doz-
en- of flies would gather around.


Soon there were eleven flies around
one pool, and, while its owner was
anxiously scanning the air, in to the
room buzzed wasp, and began feed
ing by the side of the eleven. The
wasp was instantly claimed as fly,
the claim was declared absurd, a
warm argument followed then blows
and then the bolice marched both men
off to the station house
Year: 1877

be the next United States Senator is
trivial.


1t is fortunate circumstance for oil the
best interests of the State that the political
leaders of each side this fall fear defeat. A
party certain of success is pretty sure to
nominate unfit men to Office; party appre-
hensive of defeat in vital point is apt
to put its best men forward it courts
public favor and support by giving the bost
assurance of good intentions Both parties
here this fall must cater to the public wants
or run the risk of losing the Legislature.
And we take this early occasion to
admonish the political leaders in
this city that, as they are ex-
tremely solicitous to carry their legisla-
tive ticket, they must take care to put in
nomination men against whom no suspicion
rests OF unfaithfulness to the city's interests.
New York has been neglected and abused
too long. The time has come when the peo-
pie are awake to their interests and can be
brought to condemn at the polls men, ifany
such are nominated who have in other
years played them false and preferred to
serve corporations antagonistic to the city's
welfare.
Year: 1877

The East Side Ftre-AnOther Warm


ing.


The disastrous confagration on the west
side of the city last month found its COM
panion calamity yesterday morning in the
burning Of the car shops and stables Of
the Dry Dock Railroad Company. Fortu-
nately the elements of horror caused by the
loss of life which marked the former event
are lacking in the latter one, but it never
theless strongly emphasizes the lesson of
the necessity OF the most thorough prepara-
ton to suppress alarge fire which was taught
the authorities by the Thirty-ffth street
burning. That they are not SO prepared now
is conceded by every one. Several things
combined yesterday morning to keep
the flames within bounds, otherwise we
might have been called upon to record
place, the fire occurred at a time when it
was possible to obtain good supply of
water. Four or five hours later with the
water in use all over the city, the result
would, in all probability have been very
different. Again, there was, comparatively
SPSAhihb, Aio Wihu, oo eAAut WIG nuilcS WcIc
not carried to the adjoining blocks, and
the firemen werc enabled to concentrate
their efforts on the burning buildings.
These were two important advantages, and to
them we chiefly owe very narrow escape
from great and at one time imminent dam
ger. No one seems to know exactly the
origin of the fire, but it will probably be
found to have been owing to the careless
ness of some employe. The important and
practical question, however, is why should
so much combustible material be allowed to
be accumulated ut any one point for ncgli-
gent employees to set on fire? Hundreds
and hundreds OF tons of combustible matter
which n spark was sufficient to ignite was
collected in the companys buildings.
The necessities of their business required
an immense quantity of hay and straw but
why could not portion of it have been
kept at some outside depot and brought to
the city only Us it was required? II there
is no ordinance on this point it is certainly
time there was one. Matter SO easily fired
as that which has just been consumed should
Year: 1877

Death, as we'll as Justice, should be
painted blind, for he is no respecter Of
persons, but takes with equal indifference
the saint and the sinner, the beggar and tho
king. Among the hundreds Of thousands
who were yesterday summoned to that un-
discovered country whence no traveller re-
turns an archbishop and an opera singer were
not the least distinguished. In such strange
contrasts the old painters found texts for
quaint sermons, and Albert Diirer or Hol-
beln introduced many singular groupings
in their pictorial Dances of Death" In
this there would have been no want Of
reverence for it was the object of those reli-
gious painters to show how death levels all
earthly distinctions. The eminent per-
sons whose biographies are published
elsewhere to-day had careers as utterly
different as could be well imagined. The
man dwelt in the seclusion and sanctity Of
the Church; it was his sacred duty to in
vite the thoughts of his fellow creatures to
another and higher world. The woman
lived in the splendor of the stage, and it
was her mission to depict the passions OF
this life, it's loves and hatreds and excite
ment. Religion was the all in all to the one;
art the principal worldly occupation to the
other. To compare two such careers would
be impossible; it is enough that death con-
trasts them. Mile. Titiens for twenty-five
years interpreted one of the noblest of arts,
and during her whole career won the re-
spect as we'll as the admiration OF society.
1t is just two years to-day since she first
sang in America and revealed to US
the beauties of one of the greatest
voices of the century. Religion suffered
nothing from her resplendent display
of genius, for she had the heavenly gift of
song. Earthly honors had been abdicated
by the venerable prelate whose loss the
whole Catholic Church now laments. Arch
bishop Bayley devoted his mind and soul to
the advancement of the spiritual welfare Of
mankind. and no one can measure the good
results Of his unselfsh labors. 1t may be
as the music of earth expired upon the lips
of the dying singer SO the music of heaven
saluted the ears of the dying bishop.
Voices of angels unheard in the stiffness Of
the deathbed may have ushered him into
that abode where music and worship are
forever one.
Year: 1877

When man like w. c. Gilman falls into
crime the community is naturally shocked,
because for the moment it knows not whom
to trust. Here was man who had about
him almost all the safeguards which exist
in we'll regulated orderly society. He
came of q good family and has relations
and connections upon whom his crime falls
as the gravest of calamities. He was at the
head of IN honorable business created by
his father and left to him together with the
highest reputation for probity. He had not
only family but large social relations. He
was q man ef uncommon culture and there
fore had many interests in life besides mere
money getting. So far as is known he had
no vicious habits.


And yet he fell. ''Let him who thinketh
be standeth take heed lest he fall" says the
Scripture. When such crime committed
by such n man is discovered men are par
donable If they regard its author with irri-
tation and vindictiveness For case of
crime like this is SO great shock that for
the moment it makes even the most strictly
honorable men think with kind of dismay
Of possibilities in their own careers and
we doubt not that yesterday multitudes of
honest men, men of the most rigid and
spotless integrity, paused as they read of the
Gilman frauds, and asked themselves the
humiliating question, "What security have
we that we, too, may not some day become
rogues?"


Perhaps it is not entirely unwholesome
that, in the rush and strife of business, men
shall be forced occasionally to look them
selves sqnarely in the face and ask them
selves this question. 1t is one ofthe benc-
fits OF the great publicity given to crimes
Of NIL kindsb by the modern newspaper that
it forces men oftener to study their own
careers and their own aims and passions,
and warns them away from evil courses by
the tale ofguilt broughtto light. 'Let him
who thinketh he standeth take heed lest he
fall" That seems to us one lesson of Gill
mans crime.
Year: 1877

If the weather is propitious to-day Jerome
Park should have brilliant assemblage on
Its grand stand and green lawn, for the third
day of the fall meeting promises to be one
of the most interesting of the series. The
first race, for purse of four hundred dol
lars, will be followed by the grand national
handicap, and this by race Of mile heats,
the best two out of three, for which some
capital horses are entered. Races Of this
kind are always popular, as the excitement
is prolonged and the result frequently un-
determined until after n close struggle.
All the races, however, are likely to find
favor on this fashionable course, where
every arrangement has been made to
promote the pleasure OF the public, and the
Year: 1877

The New Campaign In Washington.


Washington streets, dull and deserted
during the hot summer, begin to be lively
with statesmen and politicians. The nu-
merous democratic candidates for the Speak
ership have already engaged apartments
and promise their friends to be on hand
from to-day. With them have probably
arrived still more numerous candidates for
the minor Offices of the House-gentlemen
who would like to be sergeant-at-arms, or
doorkeeper. or clerk, or postmaster, or
librarian, and who would not utterly refuse
even smaller things. All these people and
their friends will be eaten up with anxiety
for the next two or three weeks, and the
smaller the place any one wants the more
persistently he will buttonhole everybody
about 1t.


Then we hear Of new journals about to
appear, and old journals under new au-
spices. The administration has SO far got on
without an organ, but it will presently have
the choice of several and we do not doubt
that if any democrat has money enough to
spare there will be o new democratic organ
also for the winter. The session promises
to be lively a good many Congressman will
be anxious to ascertain where they belong /;
the two parties which have SO long con-
fronted each other in the Capitol are not as
solidly arrayed as in other days; and when
the Speaker is chosen, and the two houses
are fairly organized, then, as the late Arte-
mus Ward used to say, ''the trouble will be-
gin."


For once the country may look on in
peace and without much care for the result.
No vital interest Of the American people is
at stake, and only good can come OF the dis
putes Of the political leaders.
Year: 1877

reputation of the management is guarantee
of first class sport. The drive to and from
Jerome Park is alone sufficient attraction
on a bright October day, when the woods
assume their fall fashions of gold, crimson
and green, and the ladies can see how
nearly the millinery OF nature approaches
to the splcndor OF art. Such entertainment
as may be expected this afternoon should
bring ont on the road the fastest teams, the
best Of the four-in-hand coaches and the
beauty and fashion Of the city.
Year: 1877

Aho 0ueens Ooumty rOxuouA"ss


Yesterday the members Of the Queens
County Hunt Association had their first run
after the hounds over the plains Of Hemp
stead and across what might fairly be called
20 stiff bit of country" The dogs were
thrown off, punctually at the hour ap-
pointed, and soon struck scent, which
they followed at lively pace. The run
is fully described in our report of
the hunt, published elsewhere this
morning, and lasted with scarcely a
break for over one hour. With fresh horses
accustomed at the most to hurdle jumps on
a steeplechase course, and succession of
fences that would be regarded with respect
in any fox hunting country, it is satisfactory
that the days sport was not marred by
single serious accident Falls were'few in
number and none were dangerous, SO that
the whole affair may be regarded as
complete success. The good horseman-
ship displayed by the whole field was highly
creditable to the association and augurs we'll
for the future of this healthful and exciting
sport. We publish to-day in connection
with our report q map of the district in
which the hunts will take place during the
coming season. Almost any part Of it is
easily reached by railroad, and the arrange
ments for the care of horses at the different
stables are very complete. So far, there
fore, the future of this sporting enterprise
looks very promising.
Year: 1877

IF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION would address
themselves to the subject Of increasing the school
accommodations instead OF fdscussng the wornout
question OF corporal punishment they would bet
ter show their fitness for their positions.
Year: 1877

San FRANCISCO does not mean to be left out in
the forgery business. William X. Cooper, one
of her citizens, and an old hand in the business
has just turned up with little fifty Thousand
dollar arrangement.
Year: 1877

No BETTER EVIDENCE could be furnished Of
the weakness of the case of the street car
monopolics against rapid transit than the argu-
mcnts they have put forward in the latest
phase Of the litigation.