smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

THE PARISH ASSESSMENT.


With the view of laying be-
fore our readers some inter-
esting information in regard
to agricultural statistics con-
nected with our parish, we
had occasion to inspect the
original assessment blanks as
filed up and returned to the
Assessor, for the present year,
a privilege that was extend
ed US through the courtesy Of
that officer. Our design was
to ascertain the acreage plant
ed this year, in cotton and
corn, and to exhibited it in
comparison with the planting
of last year. In this our eff
forts were foiled through the
very incomplete returns made,
and after completing the her
culean task we found that we
had discovered but IL 1903
acres planted in cotton, while
only 6.195 were accounted for
as having been planted in
corn.


The manifest inaccuracv of
the returns in the particular in
question led us to a mental
inquiry as to the object sought
to be obtained in placing col
umns upon the blanks for the
statement of these particulars.
The intention doubtless was
to compile valuable statistical
facts in connection with the
agricultural interests Of the
State, and this view makes it
the more astonishing that plan
ters, or persons interested
either in facts pertaining to
thse interests or in the duty
of compiling them, should
have exercised such gross neg
ligence in the premises.


But the deficiency that char
acterizcs this part of the re-
turn sinks into comparative
insigni6cance when we con-
template the fact that in re-
spect to the number of educa-
bic children in the parish the
return in scarcely less faulty.
Here indeed, is a VERY sER1-
GUS delinquency. How is the
Parish to receive its proper
aportlontment of the public
school fund, when the very
facts upon which the appor-
tionment is based are concealed
or perverted through the ne
glect of those whose duty it is
to ascertain or give them!


We do not propose to un-
dertake to establish the res
possibility for this delinquen-
cy upon any particular party
or parties. Whether it
properly rests upon the AS
SCISSOR or upon a number of
people who may have failed to
fill up that portion of the
blank set apart for ascertain
ing this important fact, is a
question requiring entirely too
much investigation to be hast
lily considered or rashly judg>
ed. In our capacity as faith
full journalists however, it be-
comes our duty to state the
fact that this most important
matter has been most shame
fully neglected and to insist
that the remedy, if there is
one, be promptly applied ere
it is too late. It is d subject
of the gravest Importance to
the people OF our parish, one
to the magnitude of which we
cannot, as the organ of the
people, close our eyes.


n@Archery is said to be CON-
Year: 1877

"a Senator" writing from Paris to
the London Mayfair, tells the following
story of an energetic presiding officer in
our American national House of Rep
resentatives: -.7-. .5F.7W s-ll
1t happened good many years ago,
when Mr.. r. M. T. Hunter was Speak
er. The House was in committee of
the whole, as we call it, and the Speaker,
on leaving, had nominated gentleman
named Tillinghast to the chair. Til
linghast was good sort of fellow, but
nowhere as a chairman, and in about
half an hour the House, which had not
much to do, and was bent upon larks,
got into state ofsuch perfect uproar that
poor Tillinghast, being at his wits end,
sent for the Speaker. When the Speaker
came, he was for moment at loss
what to do; but casting his eye round
the turbulent benches he observed a
young member named Johnson, rep
resentative from Maryland, whose de-
termination, tact, and knowledge of the
forms of the House had been proved on
several occasions. Johnson, accepting
the instructions, took the chair, rapping
smartly with the gavel, with which
our Speaker assists in carrying out the
conditions of our Constitution. There
was silence for moment, the House
being curious to see what the new-co
would do or say. What he said was,
"The House will please to be in ORDER"
an invitation which was received by a
roar of laughter. Amongst his other
claims to distinction. Mr.. Johnson was
well known as a sharp, quick hand
with the pistol, and not unaccustomed
to the duellO. For moment he stood
glaring at the disorderly mob. Then he
raped loudly with the gavel, and si.
lence being temporarily restored, he
spoke to the following effect:


Gentlemen of the House of Repre-
quest of your regular presiding officer,
L have taken the chair to preside over
your deliberations. 1t is my sworn du-
ty to preserve order with view to the
speedy dispatch of the business of the
country. devoutly trust you will ap-
preciate the responsibility devolved up
on me as well as yourselves, and that
we shall proceed with decorum and
regularity. You will find me neither
tyrannical or unreasonable, and if you
| respond to my advances in spirit OF
amity and cOnciliation, we shall get on
pleasantly and to the benefit of our con.
stituents. On the other hand, if YOU
are inclined to persist in the course OF
unbridled license that has prevailed
here for some time past-I give you fail
intimations-I will not endure it fol
one moment. When / call a member
to order he must take his seat quietly
until the committee has formally deter
mined upon the propriety of his con.
duct. And will make it a personal
thing with any member who is unruly
or makes unseemly disturbance hereaf


ter: l will show neither favor nor par
tiality, and if the dearest friend have
on this floor, be he Whig or anti-Whig


violates the rules of this House and re.
fuses to respect the decision of the pre-


siding officer I will send him a hostile
message the moment the committee
RISES" 1911
Year: 1877

DEAD THIS.


For sale at the old Tobacco stand, Corner
Main and Augusta Streets, formerly occupied
by Armentrout, a large and carefully selected
Stock of
CHEWING AND SMOKING TOBACCOS,


At Old Prices.
Notwithstanding the increase of the prices Of
al Revenue Tax, yet at this old stand you can
buy at the same low figures as heretofore.
Nineteen different kinds and styles open at
Year: 1877

Z.


shooting matinee held at the PresIdio ycstcr.
day honor OF General Horace Brooks, Of the regular
army tlately retired from active service by tho Pres
den by the staff Of the Second brigade of the Nacna
Guard of tho State Of California lovely day or
one more favorable for shooting never sccn and
If better not mado 1t fault of
the weather. AT tho time set for beginning the contest
there was quite crowd gathered in the shooting
grounds, and. after some consultation, sides were
chosen as given below, and the shooting began with
tho result as annexed The shooting 200 yards
on-hand:-
Year: 1877

Providence Journal.I


"Did l ever love any other girl?'
repeated a prospective bridegroom,
in answer to the fearful query of his
intended. "Why, darling, of course
not; how could you ask such aQues-
ton? You are my first, my only
love. This heart knew no waken-
ing until the sunshine of your love
streamed in and woke it to ecstasy"
And then he kissed her tenderly
and went home and said to himself,
al must hurry them things outer
the way right off or there'll be a
row." and he collected together a
great pile of letters, written in all
kinds of feminine hands, with lots
Of faded flowers, and photographs,
and locks of hair, and bits Of faded
ribbon, and other things, and when
the whole collection had been cram
med into the kitchen CRATE, he drew
deep sigh and said to himself,
'GIhere goes all that's left of four
teen undying loyes-let 'em flicker.
Year: 1877

Pay no attention to ISLANDERS and


gossip-mopgers. Keep straight on in


your course. and let their back biting


die the death of neglect. What is the


use of lying awake at nights brooding


over the remark of some false friend,
that runs through your brain like
lightning? What Is the use of get
ting into q worry and fret over gossip
that has been set afioat TO your dis
advantage, by some meddlesome busy
body who has more time than charac.
tere Tie things cannot possibly In
jure you unless, indeed, you take no.
tice of them, and in combating them
give them standing and character. If
what is said about you Is true. set
yourself right; il 1t is false, let it go
for what 1t will fetch. fla bee sting
you, would you go to the hive to de-
stroyit? Would not Thousand come
upon your 1t is wisdom to say little
respecting the Injuries you have re-
ceived. We are generally losers In
Ihe one If we stop to refute all the back
biting and gossiping we may hear by
he way. They are annoying, it Is
Year: 1877

A man in Kansas who was too mean
to advertise land he wanted to sell
put up a written notice In one Of the
hotels the other day. A man who
wanted to buy Q small farm was re-
ferred to the written notice, when he
replied, At can't buy land at a fair
price from any man who does his ad-
vertising in that way. He would
steal the fence. the pumphandle and
barn doors before he gave up posses
sion."
Year: 1877

InsNew Haven the other night q
woman came to the police station and
said she felt so remorssful for having
tried to strike her husband she want
ed to be locked up as a punishment.
If this thing becomes any way com-
mon the country will have to build a
lot ofnew and commodious jsils.
Year: 1877

connection with their lines the fourth part OF
the tickets they purchase, but dispose Of them
to the scalpers, dividing the discount with these
ulcn.. The railroads ure . party to this transac-
tion, inaslnuch as they aid the steamship agents
by dating the tickets back prior to the last ad-
vance IN rates, making it appear that the tickets
were really sold at the regular rates before tue
advance had taken place This shows that the
continued complaining on the part OF the rail-
roads that the scalpers are in turing their busi-
ness, aud that thcy should be suppressed, is
merely prctcnse. There is not single scalping
firm in the city which could live for month il
it was not Indirectly assisted BY some Of the
railro0ds.


POOLING EAST-BOUND BUSINESS.


A meeting Of the managers Of the roads con-
Meeting with the four pooled New York trunk
lines will be held in this city durpg the present
week. to discuss the ACCESSIBILITY OF forming a
pool on East bound business on the same basis
as the pool OH the Wcst-bound business. It is
hardly probable, however, that anything Of this
nature can te accomplished at present, as there
is SO much competition by lake; but with the
close of navigation tue prospects for pool on
East-bound business arc very 1tattering. pool
Of this kind would be very disastrous to the in
tcrests Of Chicago, unless tue roa1ls southwest
of this place can be induced to join the pool or
form similar one,
Year: 1877

Danbury News: "Dr. sehliemana says he
owes his success IN life to the faithful obser-
vance of a simple habit-that was to put on
first in the morning his left stocking and
left boot, and in drawing on his clothes to
put his left foot into his drawers and pants
and his left arm into the shirts vest and
coat. Only once in life he omitted to do
this, and on that day the Cardiff giant was
discovered by somebody else"
Year: 1877

Mr.. ENTwIsrLE from the Snoqualmie
was in town Tuesday. He reports that
the prospects for Il large yield fhops at
his place this season is very flsttering.
He also informed US that pack train,
loaded with -four for the Seattle market,
crossed the pass successfully last week,
and that another is now on the way. The
people ot the Yakima are made Of the
right kind of stuff; they are bound to
have an outlet for their produce, and ii
they can't have wagon or railroad, they
will fall back ON the days Of 40" and
scratch through Come this way neigh,
bors next time, you can fnd a market
here for load.
Year: 1877

PNKHAM & SAKE received recently
some fifteen tons of freight, heing an as
sorted stuck of clol hing and gents fur
nishing goods to be added to their al
ready extensive stock OF goods in this
line. These gentlemen do very large
trade with this section. Men have dealt
with them for long time, and hive oL
rags found they could depend upon their
word in getting q good nrtic!e at reason.
able rates,
Year: 1877

THE card of Or. Locke, dentist. will
he noticed in another column. The DR..
has been at this place and left with an
excellent reputation, both as a gentleman
and a man skilled in his profession. His
permanent location at Seattle will not
prevent his paying this place an occa-
sional visit
Year: 1877

NEARLY all ourup river loggcrs who
can are getting down their logs. The
general expression among the lumber
men is, that the prospects Of much OF u
June ircshet is very small, Hence their
anxiety to get their logs to deep water
before the river reaches too low stage.
Year: 1877

OUh friend B.. l.. Martin. we find well
fitted up in his new quarters, in charge
of the new store of the Puget Mill Co At
utsalody. They have upwards of $l0,-
GOO worth of goods on hand, and are
increasing Their stock with the increase
Of business, aud as last rs they can learn
the class ot goods desired in that section.
May this store mect with success, and be
benefit to the community at large.
Year: 1877

Careful experiments, extending over a
series of years, plainly indicate that the
food of healthy man, engaged in
manual labor, should contain a regular
daily supply of about three hundred
grains of nitrogen and four thousand
and eight hundred grains of carbon.
Among badly-fed operatives, subsistence
has been known to be maintained on one
hundred and seventy grains of nitrogen
and three thousand grains of carbon,
but that was attended by feeble health.
The amounts required in health may
vary, according to circumstances, such
as temperature, the moisture of the air
and the amount of muscular work per
formed, but the average to be maintained
is as already stated. Little or nothing
is known of the supply needed for brain
work, nor do scientists pretend to under
stand much about the needed supplies
of elements present in the body other
than carbon and nitrogen, nor even
what difference it makes whether they
are supplied with regularity or not.
Year: 1877

The horses of the great street railway
lines of New York labored through the
severe work which the wintry weather
imposed upon them only to become vic
Tins of cerebro spinal meningitis. The
horses attacked were first observed to
become weak in the legs and dizzy, then
unable to stand at all. Not all the
stables of the car lines have been visited
by the disease, but in the stables of a
Brooklyn company thirteen out of forty
attacked have died. The appearance of
the disease is attributed to the change
able spring weather.
Year: 1877

WHAT odd heads the ladies must have.
A Paris writer says that ladies will have
bonnets of seventy-two shapes to choose
from this spring.


RocKLAND Courier: The price of
kerosene is coming down, and the plea of
economy will soon have ceased to be an
excuse for girl turning down the lamp,
when her fellow comes to see her.


STATESMEN may argue, philosophers
ponder and mathematicians figure, until
all the universe is hazy with abstruse
chaotic ideas, but they can never bring
back happiness to the heart of the woman
who has lost the first pick at the spring
bonnets.


VELVET bands for the neck and arms,
finished with buckles and bows, are very
tasty, and are often worn, especially with
house dresses. The velvet that is usually
used is about an inch wide. Bows of
bright colored ribbon are greatly worn
with dark dresses, and are a wonderful
improvement. They are made in sets;
a set consists of six bowS-for the sleeves,
pocket, neck, hair, belt. They are fas-
tened on by safety pin, and can easily
be changed from one dress to another.
To the one for the belt IS attached rib
bon, which is worn loosely round the
waist, the bow TO be fastened to the skirt
of the basque at the left side of the back.
a few inches below the waist line.


A NEW style of costume, known as the
Breton bids fair to become quite
popular. A dress which we saw made
in this style was of plum color, vigogne
trimmed with the same color of velvet.
The bodice was plain in front; at the
back was one large plait and several
small ones, the whole fastened together
by wide garniture, each extremity of
which was ornamented with several lows
of fiat smoked pearl buttons. The pocket
was formed simply of bands of velvet to
correspond with the jupon and tunic,
which were trimmed with bands and
pluses. Added to this costume was an
outside jacket for street wear. This con-
sisted of long cuirasse back with vest
front, the latter somewhat shorter than
the jacket. The sleeves and deep turned
down collar were also trimmed with sew
eral rows of buttons.
Year: 1877

AN object of profound admiration is
the Patient Female who languidly stands
in prominent place in public audi
ence, till some gentleman gives her his
own good seat and himself retires to the
back of the room. Such self-forgetful,
ness on her part is separated bya narrow
line from b-ld-z-g,
Year: 1877

A GERMAN has invented a machine
for turning leaves for piano players,
which, says an exchange, will do away
with the ornamental young man. If some
other German would invent a machine
for playing the piano, it would do away
with the ornamental young ladies.
Year: 1877

STRONG BUTTER-A billy goat.


THE man who takes the most interest
in his business-The money-lender.


The "blue glass must be a ham@o-
pathic remedy, on the principle that
panes will cure pains.


some of the hotel walters remind one
of the millennium, they are such good
time coming.


THE annual egg product of Maine is
estimated to be worth at least half
million of dollars.


THE three things most difficult are
to keep secret, to forget an injury, and
to make good use of labor.


LANGUAGE is the amber in which
thousand precious thoughts have been
safely imbedded and preserved.


GOLD, Notwithstanding it continues to
go down lower and lower according to re-
ports, will never get so low but some per-
sons will stoop for it.


WORRIED mothers may be interestedin in
learning that the shingle cure is the best
remedy for boy whose tooth begins to
ache about fifteen minutes before school
time.


STRAWBERRIES have appeared but
the best way to cook beans is to bake
them in porous earthen pot. placing
piece of fat pork in the top so that it
may trickle down and hug the beans.


A WESTERN political organ that in
quires "where are we drifting?" is in
formed that from the character and Ian
guage of the article, the average reader
would suppose it was in the common
sewer.


ENTERING the house of one of his
congregation, Rowland Hill saw a child
on rocking horse. "Dear me-" ex-
claimed the aged minister, chow WON
drously like some Christians there is
motion but no progress"


On coming for the first time from
wretched garret in an inland manufac-
turning town to the sea-shores, a poor
woman gazing at the ocean, said: L am
glad for once in my life to see something
which there is enough Off
Year: 1877




Twenty years ago was a wild and
reckless young man in the town of which
I have been speaking, Mortified, and
was working in field with a man, and
he was weeping. And asked him why
he was weeping, and he told me very
strange story, which sounded strange
then, because | was not Christian. He
said when he was a young man (he was
then in middle Gfe) he started out from
that town to make his fortune, and, as
he left, his mother gave him this text,
"Seek first the kingdom of God"


He forgot all about the text, but went
from one town to another, but got moth
ing to do. He was very anxious to get
money. After he had been away from
home some time, he went into a church
and the minister preached from the text
which his mother gave him. The passage
went deep into his heart, but he was
seeking after money and didn't want to
be Christian. Finding nothing to do
in that town, he went to another, and
then another; and it wasn't long before
ne u6dIu duOlu6I StIuuUu 1IOlu tuC SouC
text and it troubled him very much.
But he didn't want to become a Christian,
and thought he would get rich faster
without having Christ, and thought he
would put off the question until he got
settled in life-just as great many peo-
pie in this building no doubt think.
Finally, he said he wouldn't seek the
kingdom of God till he got a position in
life. Then, with tears trickling down
his face, he said God had given him some
property, but no sermon ever touched his
heart since. After l became a Christian
1 thought would go and see that man,
and found that he had been taken to an
insane asylum, and while there he would
keep repeating the text, " Seek first the
kingdom of God" The next time went
home found him ~ his farm house. He
was idiotic. He didn't know me, but
reached out his finger and said, Young
man, Seek first the kingdom of God"
The text had followed him al through
life. The next time went home l found
he was buried.
Year: 1877

A correspondent informs us that in
the village of Droyton a grain buyer
several weeks ago saved a gander from
two dogs who were acting rudely to-
ward him, and ever since he has shown
the greatest affection for his protector
in fact, he never leaves him while in the
market, and if he enters store or other
place of business, the gander will re
main outside the door until his guardian
comes out, and always greets him with
kindness, which he shows by making a
great noise, tapping his wings, wagging
his tail and following him wherever he
goes. He is the observed of all observers,
and is certainly curiosity. He can be
seen every day in the village following
his protector from door to door. The
perceptive faculties of the gander are
remarked by everybody, and particu.
larly by strangers, as he will perceive
his protector in the morning as he comes
to business, several blocks away, and
will Immediately fly to him with every
demonstration of joy.
Year: 1877

Full short his journey was no dust
OF earth unto his sandals clave;
The weary weight that old men must
He bore not to the grave.


He seemed cherub who had lost his way
And wandered htther so his stay
With US was short, and twas most meet
That he should be No deliver in earth's clod,
Nor need to pause and cleanse his feet
To stand before his God.
Year: 1877

An oficer Of the Central PARK Police while going his
rounds yesterday IN the vicinity OF tho "Rambio"
was horriaed TO and tho body OF a man lying IN a
pool OF blood Finding that nfe was not cxlinct he
promptly procured aid, aud conveyed HIM tho
Presbyterian Hospital. There II found that the
was suffering from TWO pistol shot unds
the heart. From papers iound IN his possession
he was dentiGed As Erust RcIter, OF No. 2lO EasI
Houston street. where no kept O small fancy goods
store He had n god watch and revolver his per-
ron HIS wife commu uicsicd WITH and stated that
her husband lett his store cnry IN the morning. He
did not say where he was going; tut about noon
ne,ghbor called and told her that sho had Rich
the Bowery, and That he had gwen her his poegst-
book, with some money In IT, u take homo his WIFE,
he could not 30 there himself Alter this alI trace
lost OF until he found above described
He will probably die
Year: 1877

Soon after midnight on Friday, as the South Orange
train assembled the grade from Broad street, Newark,
the engineer large black object tho track
Before the train could be stopped the object was
struck IL proved DO a man who had deliberately
LAID down on the track with the evident purpose OF
bciug cut TO pieces. Iho unfortunate man still
alive, and removed TO Tho hospital, where hs was
dying al last accounts His name ~ believed 10 be
Francis Britain. He we'll dressed and is about
twenty OF
Year: 1877

At meeting Of the American Mining and Stock Ex-
change, held yesterday at their rooms, general de-
expressed for the sodatlon OF the concern
with the New York Mining Exchange, and an amend
ment to the constitution was passed giving 10 the
Board OF Management u power 10 act IN the matter.
joint meeting OF the two bodies Will be held on
Wednesday at noon for the purpose OF deciding upon
title Tor the consolidated institution and arranging all
other Affairs connected with tho mcrger.