smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

prosecution against the men who had
perpetrated the crime of falsifying oul
election returns. During the progress


of that trial the eyes of the whole coun'
try were upon us. The case was pros


ecuted and defended by able counsel
and with untiring energy aud vigilance


on both sides. The rulings and the


charge OF the criminal court have been
widely commended for their wisdom


and impartiality, and the accused was


convicted. The law, in this case al


least, seemed about to be vindicated,
and the people breathed freer in the
conciousness that their laws and their
liberties could not be trampled upon


with impunity. The convicted felon
appealed to the Supreme Court and
who falsified the election returns, and
by his fraud kept the State for weeks
in a state of revolution, involving the
loss of millions of dollars, committed
no crime against the law of Louisiana.
The Electoral Tribunal refused the peo-
pie relief and the country protection
from the frauds of the members of the
Returning Board, and now the courts
to which we were directed for redress
declare that the gang are innocent of
any crime.


Is this justice, is this law? If it be,
can constitutional liberty long survive
under such laws or such administra-
tion of the laws? 1t would seem, in
deed, that the seed, the bloom and
flower of justice had withered and per-
ished, and that commissions and courts
had only the dry and withered husks
of technicality on which to feed our
souls.


We understand that there has been
much graduation in some quarters
over this sweeping and unexpected de-
cision and the release of Anderson.
We cannot sincerely participate in this
rejoicing. Our opinions of right and
wrong, our love of justice and scorn of
the villainy which violates our most
sacred laws and corrupts our manners,
have grown too stiff and stubborn for
us to feel otherwise than deeply panied
and humiliated at the escape from JUS
tice, through the technicalities of the
law of a man who has so Wronged, op-
pressed and harassed our State. We
see in graduation over the result of
this trial a melancholy evidence of the
decay of that memorable spirit of resis-
tance to every outrage upon the con-
stitution and the freedom of elections,
which constitute the only true basis of
our institutions. From. formidable and
widespread, open and defiant, attacks
upon these there is little danger. "The
true DANGER" says one Of the wisest
and greatest of men, sis when liberty
is nibbled away for expedients and by
parts"
Year: 1878

n new sword has been introduced
in the English army. 1t is described
as a combination Of the ordinary regu-
lation sword Cavalry and Infantry,
with a six chamber revolver at the
hilt of the sword answering for the
stock Of the revolver, the chambers OF
which take the Boxer cartridge, regu-
lation pattern. The steel scabbard is
wonderfully utilized, being cut in
sections, with top hinges, and folding
up in the form of rifle stock. This is
attached to the hiIt OF the sword by
slot and catch, the whole forming q
short repeating carbine, or, with the
scabbard attachment, q sword and
revolver in one and the same weapon.
1t is sighted up to one hundred yards,
the foresight being taken from the
point OF the sword.
Year: 1878

You can't have everything you want
in this world. Life is like blanket
that is too short if you pull it up over
your shoulders you uncover your feet,
and if you cover your feet your shoul-
ders must be bare. However, some
cheerful people manage to draw their
feet up little and so pass a pleasant
night.
Year: 1878

If the spring puts forth no blossoms,
in summer there will be no beauty,
and in autumn no fruit. So If youth
be trified away without Improvement,
ripper years will be contemptible, and
old age miserable
Year: 1878

same; always MADE prOne and
grew rich.' The money kings are
simply acting on this Voltarian prlnci-
pie, with the difference, most probably,
put in motion the machinery for ac-
complishing the first part of the pro-
gramme, bringing about the artificial
scarcity and dearness of money by de-
priving the people In their respective
countries of the use of their most nee
essary circulating medium-silver.
Perhaps In this conspiracy, worldwide
as it was, not more than a dozen men
were absolutely behind the scenes. We
know how secretly the work was done
at Washington; 1t might have been &C.
complished quite as secretly at Berlin.
But now that part of the game is played
out, at least as far as the United States
are concerned; and there are evidences
that the money kings are quite prepar-
ed to take advantage of the reaction; to
push 1t further than it would naturally
go; to bring about imitation just as they
brought about contraction; and being
now loaded up with property bought
at low prices, to sell it out at high
prices. The New York World, which
fought against the Silver bill with as
much earnestness and occasionally
with more wisdom than its contem-
poraries, appears to be already inspired
in this sense. 1t is probably true that
it would not speak as 1t now does
without direct instructions from the
capitalists whose interests it represents.
1t says:


GA majority of the voters of the
West and South have demanded the
reconciliation of silver, and the law
making power in Washington has
decreed it. The Secretary of State has
officially announced our new policy
to listening Europe. 1t is no longer a
legislative question it has become an
administrative fact. We wait there:
fore to hear why, in the opinion of
silver men Mt least, there should not
be certificates of silver bullion as well
as of gold bullion ?''


We have already pointed out that
our immediate future danger lies in
imitation. 1t is very probable that the
persistent, insidious and dangerous
advocates of initiation will now be the
same men who brought about con-
traction and who declared that the
restoration of silver as money would
ruin us. Still, there is no reason worth
considering why we should not use as
money certificates representing bullion
just as we use with advantage certifi-
Gates which represent gold bullion.
Year: 1878

THE Woods family, of Port Discovery,
leave many very warm friends behind.
They were well known and highly es-
tecmed in this county. and numerous
kind wishes have been expressed relative
to their welfare when they reach their
future home in California.
Year: 1878

1t delhrones all reason and denies the
principle of causality, telling US that we
are here, not from Thales' drop of Wa
ter, but from a void.


Science is an inviting field of study
but not the only one; and they who
make it their sole study are liable to il
lustrate the oft recurring monotnania-
cism of the day Evolutionists are good
scientists but 'enigmas in philosophy


There is>another field Cor study. 1t
is two-fold Kingdom-twin- worlds
one ne see, and the other "cometh not
with observation. However unfit the
first God has made it the bride of the
second And this marriage is to con
summate inSa realm of more transcend
ent glory than the present career of man
This other world 10 enveloping u.s.
God is on its throne Tears, sorrow
pain and death have fed away with for
mer things
Year: 1878

An early hour to rise and an early


breakfast to sit down to are unauestion.


bly, good things 1t is said to be an in
rdication Of firm health when one can
enjoy his breakfast, and he certainly best


enjoys il. it.whclneither has to wait for it
or make it wait for him till the freshness
is off and the meal is uninvitine. Our


housekeeping readers who would have
their families as,ir betimes, must awaken
them with the aroma of the steaming
coffee or breakfast tea, which is better


than any breakfast bell. And il people


would really enjoy the early morning


meal, they must not destroyl,the desire
for it by late feeding Or over feeding the
night before. To rise from bed at an
early hour which enables ..you TO htake


hold of the day leisurely and do your.
self Justice in the matter Of breakfast,


is to have good start for the whole
hours of daylight. Every day is race,
and those win who take the first part Of
it gently. AS for such persons as are
required, by their occupation, to turn
night into day, they accommodate them
selves to their circumstances, and count
the early hour and the late from Lambs
standpoint. A certain proportion Of
time must be given to sleep, and no rule
for retiring or rising will hold which
does not recognize this natural fact, All
things consulted, early hours are Ger.
tainly best and most healthful- mot ab.
surdly strict, but kept With reasonable


uniformity. ~
Year: 1878

TREAT TIE Cows WE'LL If there is
any animals which policy would dictate
the gobd treatment of, it is the milch COW
1t should be remembered that 1t is only
the food she CONSUMES beyond what is
required to support the natural waste OF
the system, that can afford surplus in
the way ofmilk. Hence, the food which
would barley support two cows and leave
nothing for the owner, if eaten by one
cow would enable her to return the value
of one-half of it in milk.
Year: 1878

wWe are all greater dupes to oul
weakness than to the skill of others; and
the successes gained over US by the de.
signing are usually nothing more than the
prey taken from these very snares we
have laid ourselves. One man falls by
his ambition. another by his perfidy, a
third by his avarice, and fourth by bis
lust. What are these but so many nets
watched, indeed BY the fowler, but woven
by the victim?
Year: 1878

EFA Bangor man who had paid par
ticular attention to teaching his children
politeness, had la surprising experience Of
the results few days ago. An old friend
had dropped in to dinner, whom the
children had never seen. Pork steak was
served for dinner, of which one Of them
was very fond, and as the friend was
helped to a goodly slice, the little fellow
said: LISA very hard case to sit here
and see the largest piece of lean so into
strangers plate"
Year: 1878

THE ant-silver war has been transferred
to Rhode Island, little Rhody having the
honor of firing the last gun. In few
days the opponents to silver remonetiEation
can all be crowded into that State without
inconvenience to themselves.
Year: 1878

THE proposition to transfer the In
dian Bureau to the War Department
meets with the favor of leading jour-
nails Of both parties. The New York
Tribune, In an article recommending
this transfer, says: SIT seems about
time that something should be done to
lessen the facility with which the noble
red man can drag us into such bloody
and costly wars. When the War De-
partment had once put him down he
would stay down.
Year: 1878

Much satisfaction is felt ut Wash
ington amongst the Republicans over
the New Hampshire. election, and many
are agreeably disappointed at the elec-
tion of Republican legislature, in
surfing the election Of Republican
Senator
Year: 1878

THE LEADER earnestly requests its
friends in all parts of the country to
send in the news. Write often, give
us all the news and keep us posted in
all matters of progress and develop
ment. When in the city our friends
are invited to call at this office and fur
nish us with any information they may
DOseaea
Year: 1878

IT is dirty bird that fouls its own nest


egg. And this is what the Congress does
when it denounces the silver issued by
its order and distributed promiscuously


among the people for a dollar, when, as
it says, it is only worth so cents. 1t Is
time the Augean stables were cleansed
out. Every State Legislature Ought to
make it a penitentiary offense for any
Representative or Senator to be found
employed either as counsellor or agent
for the procurement of any claim, bill OF
subsidy, and the reception of any money
for such service should be evidence oi
guilt. H,l ~
Year: 1878

1t is more prevalent during the spring
and fall than at other seasons the rea-
son is, that changes of temperature are
then more sudden and frequent. There
are persons who have lived many years
in fever and ague districts without hav-
ing had the disease. With proper care
and attention all might avoid it. An
observance Of these simple rules would
generally ward off the disease.


Avoid exposure to the damp air Of the
early morning and the early evening, ex-
cept when exercising, and then do not
remain in the open air to cool of. Avoid
great fatigue; sleep eight hours out Of
twenty four. Be sure that the water
used for drinking and cooking is per-
fectly pure. Wear flannel undercIoth-
ing at all seasons. Keep the feet warm
and dry.


To cure the fever and ague, take
twelve grains of quinine at one dose.
about an hour befom the chill is en-
peeted. just one week from that hour
take another twelve grains Of quinine.
The disease will seldom return. This
is the dose for an adult. Children
should take smaller doses according to
their age The reason that decided
doses cure fever and ague seems 10 be.
that the disease receives a shock which
breaks is. Small doses Of quinine only
hold it in check during the time the
medicine is being regularly taken; as
soon az IL Il siIanai,sIed tha dssaaea ron,
orally returns. Hence the popular no
ton that 4uinine only feeds the disease.
The fault is not with fhe medicine, but
in the manner of administering it.
While we do not believe in encouraging
the employment of medicine, we are
bound to say that qninine, heroicalIy
administered, has proved the only dead
shot for fever and ague in our practice.
--Hatts journal Of Health.
Year: 1878




Il is considered an accomplishment
for a gentleman to know how to carve
we'll at his own table. Il Is not proper
to stand IN carving. The carving knifs
should be Sharp and thin.


To carve fowls (which should alMarz
be laid with the breast uppermost1.
place the fork In the breast, aAd take
off the wings and legs without turning
the fowl then cut out the merry
thought, cHt slices from the breast, take
out the collar bone, cut of the side
pieces, then cut the carcass In two. Di.
vide the joiuts in the leg Of turkey.


In carving sirloin, cut thin sIices
from the side next to you Ut must Be
put on the dish with the tenderloin IN
derneath) then turn it, and cut from
the tenderloin- Help the gaests te
both kinds.


In carving leg Of mutton or ham.
begin by cutting across the middle -
the bone. Cut a tongue across. and not
lengthwise, and help from the middle
part.


Carve foreqsarter of lamb By sepa-
rating the shoulder from the ribs, and
then divide the ribs.


To carve leiR Of veal, begin at the
smaller end and separate the ribs. Help
each one to piece Of kidney and its
fat Carve pork and mutton in the
same way.


To carve fllet of veal begin at the
top and help to the stufing with each
slice. In breast Of veal, separate The
breast and brisket, and then cut them
up, asking which part is preferred


In carving pig it is customary 70
divide it and take ef ths head bsfsre i
comes TO the table, As to many persons
the head is revolving Cut OF the
limbs and divide the ribs.


In carving venison, make deep in
cision down to the bone to let out ths
juices, and turn the broad end toward
you, cutting down. in thin slices


For saddle Of venison, cut from the
tail toward the other end, on each side,
in thin slices. Warm plates sse very
necessary with venison and mutton, and
in winter are very desirable for All
meats -FatiOnaI Agriekltlsriss
Year: 1878

Profound thinkers are sometimes so
absorbed by their thoughts as to forget
what is passing around them. The
story is a familiar one of Sir Isaac
Newton, whose frugal dinner was eaten
by hungry visitor, but who thought,
from seeing the empty dishes, that he
had dined Socrates, the famous phil
osopher at Athens, had his moments of
utter oblivion of ordinary life. One
morning, when in camp at Potidaca, he
fell into trance. The soldiers gath
cred around him in large numbers, won
dering at his appearance; but he did
not notice them, nor even the noon.
tide heat of the sun on his bare head.


The evening drew on without any
change in the posture of the philosopher
and great crowd gathered around him,
spreading their pallets for the night to
watch him. Through the cold night he
stood, still lost in thought, and only
when the sun rose again over Mount
Athos did he start from his strange
absorption, and return to the duties Of
the camp. During twenty four hours
he had been wrapped in meditation,
wholly unconscious of the hundreds ol
curious eyes fastened on him.
Year: 1878

l never bet on the man who is al
ways telling what he would have done
if he had been there; / have noticed
that this kind never get there


The fear of the law here, and the law
hereafter, has furnished US some very
clever specimens of Christianity.


Fools don't know their strength; il
they did, they would keep still.


True happiness seems to consist in
wanting all that we can enjoy, then get
ting all we want.


The best way to keep secret, is to
forget it.
Year: 1878

a Portland boy was sent BY his teach
er. woman, to the superintendent to
be whipped. The lad suspected the
contents of the note snd hired boy he
met, to deliver it, giving him ten
cents. The superintendent didn't dis
cover till after the castigatiOn was ever
that the boy he had fogged had not
seen the inside of school house for
-,oDtk
Year: 1878

Beecher says in his newspaper that
s'the intimations of the Bible, so far as
it contains any, are that the departed
live in close proximity to the earth, and
are cOgnizant of what Is going on.
How can Vanderbilt feel while that
row is going on over his vast estatel
Year: 1878

HUSBANDS, if you wish to preserve
the happy, smiling face you thought so
beautiful at the marriage altar, from
wrinkles and premature age, do not fail
to clean your feet before coming into the
house; put your boets in the proper
place instead of leaving them in the
middle of the floor; hang your coat
away instead of throwing it off on a
chair, and place your hat on the rack
instead of tossing it on the tete ol
table.
Year: 1878

A TEACHER in Boston school vas
delighted to see every ehild's hand SO
up in answer to the question of how
many had ever heard of Mr.. Emerson,
bat her soul sank within her when she
discovered it was Billy Emerson, the
minstrel, whose SHOW bills had plaearl-
ed the walls Of the Hub for several
days
Year: 1878

The Indian famine has cost the government
ties hereafter to regard these visitations as
regularly recurring and not as exceptional
events, and to make preparation for them by
laying up 81 SOC, 900 Il year so as to meet the
scourge when it comes without unduly das-
turbing the revenue.
Year: 1878

An act should be passed, by our
Legislature, making it the duty of
county attorneys to bring suits
against persons who have failed to
give In all their effects to the assess.
or, for the taxes that would have
been levied against them had cor.
rect assessment been given. This
law would relate back for an unlim.
tied number Of years, as the statute
of limitations will not run in favor
of a party guilty of II fraud. until
the fraud has been fully discovered.
Such a law, properly enforced,
would bring into our county and
city treasures an amazing amount,
fifty thousand dollars a, least.
Year: 1878

The Nationals in the Legislature
can secure the election of a Nation.
al United States Senator for Indi-
ana, and it Is the universal demand
that they do it or break hahn
string. Indiana Sun.
Year: 1878

Any person, by dropping us postal
card, with his name and address plainly
written thereon, can get this paper three
weeks. And we will put his name upon
our subscription list At the expiration
of the three weeks If he does not desire
to continue taking the paper, he can no
tify us by card or letter OF the fact, and
we will charge nothing for the three is
sues; but in default OF such notice he is
to be considered subscriber at the usual
rates and terms. Address,


THE CRISIS, Chillicothe, Mo.
Year: 1878

Those who may be anxious to preserve old
and decaying trees may be glad to try the fol-
lowing method, which is recommended by the
Gardeners Chronicle, in preference to plug
ging with concrete. "However much care
may be bestowed upon it, it is impossible to
adhere cement to living tree, and before
long the water, percolating along the bark,
will find its way slowly but effectually into
the hole and pursue its work. The only effec-
tive way of curing such disease is to make a
plug of oak or other wood, smearing it with
tar, and hammer it tight in the hole until its
outer surface is on the same level as the hole.
If there is any recuperative power left in the
and the wound be perfectly healed, which will
never happen with the concrete process"
Year: 1878

PARIS. May 4.-Notbing but the great
Exhibition is Ia ked about here, and,
when the unezampled success Of the open.
ing on Wednesday st is considered, this
:, most natural. The probability of war
or the hope OF peace is but seldom a topic
Of conversation, and though Europe may
bo on the verge Of carnage, France
troubles herself but little This, in It
self is
Year: 1878

HIGHWAY PR1vrLEaEs.-His Honor,
Judge Presley, in charging the
jury on Monday in the case Of an
assault and battery in the road in
front of q mans house, expounded
some law as to the privileges OF
persons on the highway which may
be we'll for all to know. It is
simply right Of soay--a right to
the use of such highway for pur-
poses Of travel, &c. The soil is the
property Of the party owning the
adjacent lands, and any ono be-
coming boisterous or making him>
self otherwise Objectionable in front
of mans house in O public road
after first being ordered to leave,
may be elected as trespasser by
the use Of such force only as Is
necessary to get him away.--Darl-.
ington Ne,os. a .
Year: 1878

sive hounds and pestiferous fees
which abound in the country. But
hencefarth they will be powerless to
hurt the sheep of prudent husband,
men. Tho protector may be readily
adjusted to sheep of any size, and is
worn without inconvenience by
lambs only fow weeks old.
Year: 1878

which will compel justice to be done to New Mexico and A izona. and will be saving to the people there in the next fifty years of $2OO,OOO,OOO The only discOuraging feature about it is that it will take some years to build ii, while the Southern Pacific is already at Yuma, with material accumulated there which would en- able tl.e Southern Pacific people to push the road across the desert to Florence or Tucson during the coming Summer. It will be hard on the Arizona people to wait three or four years longer for railroad comn:u- nicaiion with the outside world but that waiting, if necessary, will save them tens of millions of q liars in the next generation. We trust the bill will become d law.
Year: 1878

It should always be borne in mind that it
is no5s the gross amount or quantity OF" food
that we give our fowl stock, but the mode
in which it is distributed to them, that tells
to the best and most economical advantage.
Ii YOU scatter over large quantities OF food
among the fiocks-or more than they need
at a teeding-they gorge themselves, and
will very quickly become cloyed,. however
choice may be the provender that you afford
them.


For this reason we deem it important fire.
ouently to remind those who are endeavor-
ing to breed poultry to fair profit-no mat
ter whether for fancy Or for marketing pur-
poses-that fixed system should be adopt
ed aal. adhered to continuously FIVE would
Year: 1878

The season for shipping eggs is rapidly
approaching, and few hints about the best
method are appropriate.


Careless packing is to blame for many of
the anathemas that are continually hurled
atshippers. and express companies. A good
plan is to roll each. egg separately in soft
paper, much as oranges are packed for the
voyage from the SOUTH, Lay thin layer
on the bottom Of the box and build up the
eggs in layers, filling in the spaces with
some short cut hay, or some packing that
will not '.slouch" when the box is handled.
The box must be sohdly nailed together, so
that it will not rack and eaase shifting of the
eggs, and consequent jarring. The cover of
the box must be made fast by screws to
avoid the pounding in fastening up and in
Openinr.-Er.