smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

A MASSACHUSETTS MAN who has gone
insane over the blue glass mania has re.
Gently erected large blue glass consorva-
tory over the grave of his mother law
for the purpose of resurrecting her. The
fact of bis wanting to resurrect his mother
in.law establishes his insanity.
Year: 1877

WHEN We think of the forlorn eff rt Of
the h!ibuslers a second time We cannot
help Tut think that, after all, the man who
could refuse them good, substantial growl
is little less than human IN his pity for
the VOC become,
Year: 1877

Inssmuch as very gross injustice
has been done the gallant crew Of the
sloop-of war, now lying in our har.
Dor, by a publication in our town,
which speaks Of them as being alto.
gether drunk and disorderly,' not
to be compared with Indians in point
of gentlemanly behavior, etc, IL is
not moro than fair that a simple
statement be made regarding their
character which, in view of actual
facts, is several degrees above that
represented.


The Captain of the Lackawanna, a
few days ago, called his men out and
read to them letter from the Sec,
Rotary of the Navy, in which they
the officers and crew of the vessel
were spoken of in the highest terms
of praise. The fact of letter of
this kind coming from such source,
an incident of rare occurrence, is
proof positive that the complinented
parties we're hardly set of vaga-
bonds. A visit to the vessel, and in
,estigstion of the matter, convinced
us that a vindication at the hands of
Port Townsend people was due. We
found the vessel in first.class condi-
ton every way; her officers to be as
fine and gentlemanly lot of men as
could be found anywhere, and those
who spoke Of the crew said that they
never sailed with better.


1t is expected that sailors, after
getting on shore when they have
been cooped up in vessel, are 60
ing to have occasionally what they
term iolly time. They drink, of
course, and often get drunk, without
being very decorous over it either;
but the fact that the officers of this
town did not take any of the Lacka-
wanna's men sin charge (at the time
mentioned, and that they were not
reported to their superiors on board,
shows that there was nothing serious
about the alleged disorderly conduct.
That they weredisorderly to some ex-
tent is not denied, but the proper
course in such matters is to have
them cared for by authorities, either
ashore or on their vessel; not to
abuse and misrepressnt the whole
crew before the world. S@5
Year: 1877

No pass is more desolate and dreary,
or less enlivened by human habitations.
The population must be scanty indeed
where there is scarcity of beggars.
remember in my earliest crossing of
Mont Cents, that the same beggar boy
who ran on the rightside of the diligence
in tattered coat and hat, begging for a
sous pour lait, appeared soon after hat
less and coatless on the left side, with
his whine translated into date mi quelche
cosG per pOUera ma. He had taken ad-
vantage of a little run behind the dill
gence so to change himself that one beg
gar did the work of two. The villages
and dwellings are principally those that
have grown up around the twenty or
more stations where lived the men to
whose care the road is intrusted. To
these men belonged the keeping the road
in order, and the protection and care of
the lives of travellers who might be caught
in the fearful storms of snow, or the
tempests of the battling winds of Lom-
hardy and Savoy meeting in the noun
tain passes. These houses at the most
dangerous points on the route replaced
IOSplSC hnOSC ulOlho ulduC OllCc
only refuge for the struggling traveller,
and around whose walls Napoleon gath
cred the sheltering barracks for thou
sands of weary soldiers who struggled to
reach this dreary shelter as if it were
very heaven.


All this that is grand and wild and
strong the modern traveller misses, but in
winding up to the point where the tun-
mel enters the mountain, he has a fore
shadowing of what must be higher up
and farther on. He leaves behind in
the Huguenot Valleys all the soft
Provencal coloring of forest and field,
and moves up through gray crags and
somber iawoods and mountain streams,
and high pastures. He leaves behind
the brown villages clinging to the cliffs
that marked the hunting grounds for the
hardy Piedmontese. The approach is
somber enough as the mountains come
in closer and closer to prepare one for a
journey into the depths of the earth, and
invest him with feeling of mystery and
solemnity, such as the ancients might
have brought into some mighty temple
where lay hidden power they could not
comprehend. All this, and infinitely
more, awaits the traveller from Paris
through the Tunnel of Mont Cents.
But the point of departure may not be
Paris but Geneva. Then he has choice
of routes, and if the American demon
of " hurry" does not drive him whittier
soever it will he will select the Simplon.
Then before him stretch three days of
delightful journeying, the first of which
will be passed on the steamer between
the city of Geneva and Bouveret, the
| little station at the head of the lake.
Year: 1877

1t is nearly hundred years ago
Since the day that the Count de Rochsnbeau-
Our ally against the British Crown
Met W ashington in Newport Town.
Twas the month of March, and the air was chill,
But bareheaded over Adqudneck hill,
Guest and host they took their way,
While on either side was the grand array.
OF gallant army, French and fne
Ranged three deep in gttering line;
And the French fleet sent welcome
VI hundred guns from Canonicut shore.
And the bells rang out from every steepe,
And from street to street the Newport people
Followed and cheered with hearty zest,
De Rochambeau and his honored guest.
And women out of the windows leant,
And out of the windows smiled and sent
Many coy admiring glance


To the tne young officers of France.
And the story goes that the belle of the town.
Kissed rose and flung 1t down


Straight at the feet of De Rochambeau;
Ana the gallant marshal bending low,
Lifted it up with a Frenchman's grace,
And kissed it back with glance at the face
Ofthe daring maiden where she stood,
Blushing out of her sken hood.
That night at the ball, still the story goes
The Marshal of France wore a faded rose
In bis gold-laced coat but he looked in vain
For the giver's beautiful face again.
Night after night and day after day,
The Frenchman eagerly sought, they say,
AT feast or at church, OF along the street,
For the girl who flung the at his feet.
Aud she, night after night, and day after day,
was speeding farther and farther away
From the fatal window the fatal street.


Where her passionate heart had suddenly beat.
throb too much for the cool control
A Puritan teaches to heart aud SOUL
throb too much for the wrathful eyes
Of one who had watched in dsmayed surprise,
From the street below; and taking the gauge
Of a woman's heart in that moments rage
He swore this old colonial squire
That before the daylight should expire,
This daughter of his, with her wit and grace,
And her dangerous heart aud her beautiful face
Should be on her way to a retreat,
Where of hers could fall at the feet
OF cursed Frenchman, high or low.
And so while the Count De Rochambeau,
In his gold laced coat wore faded flower
And awaited the giver hour by hour,
She sailing away in the wild March night
On the little deck of the slOop Delight,
Guarded even in the darkness there
BY the wrathful eyes of jealous care.
Three weeks after brig bore down
Into the harbor of Newport town,
Towing a wreck-'twas the sloop Delight,
OFF Hampton rocks, in the very sight
OF the land she sought she and her crew
And all on board of her, full in view
OF the storm -bouud fisherman over the bay,
Went to their doom that April day.
When R)chambeau heard the terrible tale,
He muttered prayer for moment grew pale;
Then "Mon Dcu" he exclaimed $50 my foe ro.
nance


From beginning to end is arose and and glance ;"
Year: 1877

The sea is the largest of all Gene
teries, and its slumberers sleep with
out monument All other grave
yards in other lands show some dis
tinctlon between the great and the
small, the rich and the poor. But in
the great ocean cemetry the king
and the clown, prince and peasant,
are all alike distinguished. The
same waves roll over all; the same
requiem by minstrels Of the ocean is
sung to their honor. Over the re-
mains the same sun shines, and there,
unmarked, the weak and the power
full, the plumed and unhonored, will
sleep on until awakened by the same
trumpet.
Year: 1877

Boys, what are you going to do
with the long winter evenings? A
writer addressing young men says:


There is world of possibility in
the good use of them. If you use
your evenings well for the next six
months, you will be worth more to
your employer, and find more joy i'll
your work.


Have you taste for science, and
would you like to know the reasons
why certain things occur as they do?
1t you have an inqu.ring mind in
this direction, then give yourself up
to the study Of philosophy.


Have you a taste for bookkeeping
or clerking? Then give your eve
nings to penmanship and the theory
and practice # keeping books.


Have you a desire to be speaker?
II SO, devote your winter evenings to
to the study Of the art of speech, and
you will be surprised at the gain you
make.


Have you taste for drawing that
has never been developed, and do
you wish to train your hand and eye
to be equal to skilled workmanship?
If SO, devote yourself to that branch
of the art tor which you have a taste.


Whatever you do, you need the
skill to write a letter in a correct,
easy, business-llke style, and in order
to do this you need to know the rules
and use Of language.


Now, young men, will you use
these winter evenings in way
which will fit you to be better men
of business? You can easily get
two hours each evening, or four hun.
dred hours, for study, and that is
time enough to educate yourself in
the rudiments Of any science, or in
the laws of language, or the art of
Penmanship, or the scienc of book
keeping, or the art Of drawing.
Year: 1877

have met with their death. As already
mentioned, thirteen dead bodies have
been taken to the surface, and further
explorations have revealed fearful spec
tacle at the bottom of the shaft. No
fewer than forty burned and mutilated
bodies still lie there, strewn in all direc-
tions. It was deemed advisable not to
take these bodies to the pit head, although
that might have been done, but rather to
continue the exertions being made to
reach No. pit. The feeling produced
over the country by the terrible catas-
trOphe can hardly be imagined. Soon
after tbe accident occurred the news had
spread over the whole of Scotland, but
from the very destructiveness of its
character in the loss of life it was not
credited even in Glasgow for consider
able time. Thousands of people crowded
to the scene of the explosion during the
day, and those who were observers Of the
frantic grief displayed by the widows and
families of the miners will not soon for
get it. There is scarcely household in
Blantyre in which there is not bit
ter mourning for lost friends, and the
deepest sympathy is felt all over the
country for the bereaved.
Year: 1877

The Constantinople correspondent of
the Political Correspondence relates
that many of the Bulgarians taken red
handed in acts of violence and con-
demned to death, when they see that
there is no longer any hope or chance of
escape, produce from hidden pockets
large sums of money, which they pre-
sent to one OF other Of the zaptiehs who
may perhaps have treated them with
kindness. Lately, five Bulgarians were
sentenced to death in Mustapha. When
it came to the turn of one of them to be
led forth, he requested the non-commis-
stoned officer commanding the party in
charge OF him to wait a moment. With
some trouble he then extricated from
the folds of his garments handful of
gold liras, and these he presented to the
sergeant. This latter, moved by the
generosity of his prisoner, tapped the
latter on the shoulder, exclaiming +:
Gas you are such good fellow, you
shall be hanged in the shade )" and
keeping his promise, he selected a shady
and pleasant spot, and there the Bul.
garian was executed
Year: 1877

There is no such thing as an easy
chair for discontented man.


Praise of enemies, like drum, is
as loud in proportion to its hollowness.


A granite rock is but an unsu bstantial
thing in comparison with solid thought.


You are better employed in drying the
tears of others than in shedding your
own.


He WHO is the slave of his own pas
sions is worse governed than Athens was
by her thirty tyrants.


How immensely would our conversa-
ton be abridged if all mankind would
speak the truth.


The most timid insect dimes upon the
body of live tiger as fearlessly as upon
that of a dead hare.


OF all earthly music, that which reach
es the furthest into heaven is the beat
ing of loving heart.


You had better learn to conquer your
ownwill than strive to obtain the mastery
of that of others.


There are some men so exquisltely
selfish that they go through life not
only without ever being loved, but with
out ever wishing to be.


The fends that lie in wait for us need
no charm to raise them-no mystic wand
no wizards spell the wickedness OF
thought is power sufficient. How often
to think evil is to call demon up to
act it


Times of general calamity and con.
fusion have ever been productive OF
great minds. The purest ore is produced
from the hottest furnace, and the bright
est thunderbolt is elected from the dark
est storm.


The greatest loss of time is delay and
expectation, which depends upon the
future. We let go the present, which
we have in our power, and look forward
to that which depends upon chance
and so relinquish certainty for an un-
certainty.


There is no funeral so sad to follow IS
the funeral of our own youth which we
have been pampcring with fond desires,
ambitious hopes, and all the bright
berries that hang in poisonous cluster
over the path of life.
Year: 1877

IatIon of the United States Since I799--


Result, FOrtY-Scven Million People In


1850.


The New York Sun says The specu-
lative American mind is already exer-
cised concerning the present population
of our beloved country, and is guessing
what that population will be in the year
1880-if this weary old world lives long
enough to hail that year Of enumeration.


Under ordinary and regular conditions
the merest tyro in mathematics could
forecast our increase. But the con-
ditions are not ordinary, and great allow
ances must be made for variations.
For instance, if we had certain ratio of
increase from 1910 to 1850, aud from
1850 to 1860, it would naturally follow,
supposing conditions equal, that some
thing like similar ratio would prevail
for the next ten years. But the con-
ditions are radically changed the cir
cumstances are not only different but
exceptional, and no formula of the past
can be made to apply. The war made
fearful inroads into the population of
the country. There was not only the
loss by battle and attending evils, but
the absence of half million of young
and middle-aged men necessarily re-
duced the natural increase in times OF
peace. There was rapid decline in i'm
migration decline that has continued
to the present time, and bids fair to go
still further. Between the arrival of half
and less than a hundred thousand in a
year, there is a very material difference.
1t should be noted, too, that the great
majority of immigrants are men and
women in the beginning of life, founders
of immediate families.


These hints are thrown ont to prepare
the reader tor the estimates, to be made
further on, of the population of the
Union now, and the probable population
in 1880. Keep in view the tremendous
drain by actual loss in the war, the nat
ural retardation of increase in conse-
quence of the absence of heads of fam
lilies, and the sudden reduction of i'm
migration.


Going back to the first census taken in
1870, we summarize the enumerations
up to 1870. Bear in mind, however,
that a considerable fraction of popula-
tion has been added by annexation, as in
the purchase of Louisiana and Florida,
the conquest Of Texas, the partition OF
Mexico, and the forlorn outpost of Alas
ka. Here is the summary:
Year: 1877

Inc UueSt.


BH MARY cLEMMER.
From out the great worlds rush and din,
There came a guest
The inner court he entered in,
And sat at rest.
Slow on the wild tide of affairs
The gates were closed;
Afar the hungry host of cares
AT last reposed.
Then through the dim doors Of the past.
All pure of blame,
Came boyish memories floating past
His mothers name.
"Ah all this loud world calls the best
I'd give" he said,
"To feel her hand, on her dear breast
To lean my head.
81 cry within the crowned day.
That would be joy,
Could she but bear mo far away,
Once more her boy"
Mans strength is weakness, after all.
He stood confessed
None quite can still the hearts wild call,
None quite are blsssod.
Across the face that knows no fear
A shade swept fast,
AS if a following angel near
tn moment passed.
he sacred silence of the room
Did softly stir;
A splendor grew within the gloom
OF her, Of her
Out to the great worlds rush and din,
Has gone my guest
The battle blame, the praise men win
Ire his-not rest.


ar out amid the earth's turmoils
A strong man stands,
Upheld in triumph and in tolls
By unseen hands.
But who may lift with subtle wand
The masks we wear?
only know his mothers hand
Is on his hair
only know through all life's harms,
Through sins alloy,
Somehow, somewhere that mothers arms
Will reach her boy.
Year: 1877

1t is very gratifying 10 us 10 notice 20
much interest manifested in many sec
tious of this State in the construction Of
short lines of narrow guage railways.
A road OF this description can be con-
s.ructed quite as cheap'y MS good turn
pike, and when done 1t is worth many
times rs much. We believe it has been
estimated that it costs twenty cents
mile TO move ton o..
freight by wagon, while it c's,s
but one cent to move it by rail. Over
long distances and easy grades, 1t Is pos
sibe that it would scarcely cost that
much on q narrow gusge, because the
amount of capital required in It's con-
structlon and the comparatively small
cost of operating it do not require 1t 10
make large earnings. 1t is further esti-
mated that every mile Of new railroad,
built through comparatively unde-
veloped country, adds one hundred
thousand dollars to the value of the
country through which it runs.


People who are discussing the question
of investing in the building OF lines
of railway through or near their own
property, and who have any doubts "s t"
whether they will afterwards be satisfied
with the investment, need on.y TO consult
those who live IN the vicinity OF rail
road now in operation. Ask one OF them
nom much he would take and consent to
have the railroad torn up and abolished
and he be compelled to 60 back 10 the
wagon and the mud road for all kinds O
transportation and travel. II he Is not Il
tool he will tell you that he would not
take the price OF half his farm and con-
sent 10 be thus set back hundred years
Year: 1877

proceeds of the establishment before the
proprietor received his.


We shall watch this Virginia expert
ment with good deal of interest. If it
shall yield the amount of revenue that
many think it will, and if 1t shall work
as satisfactorily as it now bids fair to do,
it will be worthy the examination of the
lawmakers of other States. 1t looks
like most equitable manner OF levying
a tax upon this branch of busness-more
go than is presented by the license tax:
The saloonist is taxed simply upon what
he does, as u property owner is taxed on
wha. he owns. II business is dull
with him and his. sales are light,
his tax Is light; If his
business is prosperous aud his Golfers are
well filled, he can afford to pay tax ac-
cordlngly especially as We have seen
that the tax comes out of the pocket OF
the consumers and not of the dealer.


As we are told that an extra session OF
the Legislature OF this State is to be held
this winter, Notwithstanding the treasu-
ry is empty, it may be well for the pro-
moters OF that scheme to examine into
the workings OF the Virginia be.l-punch
liquor law in order to find some means of
getting Their mileage and per diem.
Year: 1877

Owing To our going to press \ little earlier than usual. we were not able to give the results of lhe meeting held Tuesday night for the election of officers. In our next issue we are in hop s To give the full particulars.
Year: 1877

A WARNING TO BUSINESS MKN.-Iu a recent address over the remains of middle aged parlshioner who had lost his mind and his life by his close attention to business Dr. John Hall said:-

 The strain upon the brain of our business men during the past year has been tremen- dous. Is 1t wise to allow ourselves to be so given oyer to the absorbing interests Of business as to incur this great risk Is it wise to throw ourselves into business with such force that the strain may snap the thread of life ? A mans real life is not merely enshrouded in business. It is in his relations to his family; to bis immediate circle, and to his friends, so that he has peace within, and well founded hope in God. Men of business, said he, keep your business ID hand, possess your business and do not allow your business to possess you, so that you may, as far as possible, avoid thp causes which of late years have given us so many struggles and heartaches. have not passed all my life with business men without knowing the temptations by which they are surrounded. l know well how hard the pressure continues upon you, and ask you to take God with you, so that you may be preserved Tn health and enabled to feel that your real position and your riches are incorruptble, and may not be taken away. Let there be a feeling among us of how weak we are how un- stable we are; how little we know what is in the womb of the future. Let us believe the words of which the Lord speaks to us, and whether we be successfulor Tot in this world, let us believe together in God : let ITS be brethren together in the mystic rela- tions of bis providence, and when we are called, it may be also said to us, "Bles sed are the dead that die in the Lord, for their works do follow them"
Year: 1877

A Rochester man has just invented . steam hand organ for the use of farmers in welcoming tramps and book agents. An eight-horse-power machine can be heard forty miles, and the voice is a cross be- tween Congressional debate and the day of judgment It was tried last week at Niagara Falls. The water stopped running for ten minutes, and ten men fell dead at the first revolution of the steam crank The volce of the organ extended over six counties.
Year: 1877

A man never realizes the blessings of wealth so fully as when he takes his girl out riding, and discovers at the first toll gate that he has left his pocket-book at home in his other pantaloons,
Year: 1877

The suggestion of watch key that man can pull off his boots with, is the nat ural inspiration born of the difficulty with which the average male experiences In winding his watch with boot-jack. The fewer things he has to look after, the less he is likely to lose.

 No remedy heretofore discovered has beer so successful in curing Consumption and all diseases of the Throat and Lungs as Dr. A. J. FlagR's Cough and Lung Sy- rup. The medicine is pleasant to take,and and guaranteed if taken in season. It can be procured of your Druggist.
Year: 1877

No warrior is he whose armor undented, Shows never the mark of an arrow in flight; No hero is he on the battle aeld tented, With never g scar he has won for the right The friends who have gathered here without

 warning,

 Will pray, as they wish you kindly good night, That your lives may awake to beautiful morn

 ing,

 With the clouds all riven away from the light