smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

Go to the dull churchyard and sec
Those hillocks of mortality,
Where prOudest man is only found
By small hillock on the ground.
-TiXall Poetry.


Virtue never grows old.


He that is warm thinks all so.


He that gets out of debt grows rich


Light burdens long borne grow heavy.


What three know every creature knows.


Where the will is ready the feet are light


Talking comes by nature; silence by un-
derstanding.


Constantly choose rather 20 want less than
to have more.


Broken friendship may be soldered, but
never made sound.


No man ever yet looked on the dark side
of life without finding it.


How can we expect harvest of thought
who have not had seed-time of character?


1t is better to be doing the most insig-
nificant thing in the world than to reckon
half an hour insignificant.


Don't despise the small talents; they are
needed as well as the great ones candle
is sometimes as useful as the sun.


The greatest evils in life have had their
rise from something which was thought to
be of too little Importance to be attend
ed to.


Luck is a good thing, but one cannot
always afford to wait for it. Pluck is bet
ter thing, because it is always ready to
begin.


Modesty in your furniture, equippage
and words will show that your mind is well
regulated, and your heart free from pass
sion.


When you are down-hearted and the
world looks black to you, you ought to be
hospitable enough to entertain a hope of
better days.


If you would relish food, labor for it be-
fore you take it; if enjoy clothing pay for
it before you wear it; if you would sleep
soundly, take clear conscience to bed with
you.


If love and affection could be won with
gifts and jewels then indeed would love
have its prce but it is not 80. Affection
springs from the heart only; no gifts can
produce it, child's love is won more
truly by parents fond embraCa ana AIs
than with glittering toys.
Year: 1879

A young gentleman from st. Louis was
walking along the shore at Lake Michigan
with a Chicago girl when he saw on the
sands what he supposed to be devil fish,
with its long tentacles spread out upon the
submerged soil of Illinois. He was awaken>
ed from his dream by the young lady, who
said: 81 have Just dropped my glove"
Year: 1879

A Blathersktte Gives His Views With Ref


erence to the Negro Exodus.


ST. LOUIS, May ll.-Gen. Conway, of New
work of improving the condition of the col
ored people of the South, has been here several
days in behalf of the charitable and philan-
thropic people of Philadelphia, to ascertain
the condition and needs of the refugees from
the South and report to the people how they
may be easily helped. In an interview which
will be published in the Globe-Democrdt to-
morrow he says: The exodus is only in it's in
fancy and if it were not for the
terrorism exercised over the negroes by the
planters and merchants along the Mississippi
river to keep them from leaving there would
have been q, 900 refugees here now. He thinks,
however, this terrorism will wear out after a
short time and the colored people will then be.
gin to leave again. He also says many more
would have left but for the fact the steam boat
men have refused them transportation under
threats of merchants, planters and others that
they would withdraw their patronage if they
continued to take emigrants away. He thinks
the negroes in the South ought to come out
but advises them not to leave till provision is
made for them in the North and West. He
says he has already received offers of employ
ment on farms in Illinois, Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania for thousands and in Indiana alone he
says homes and good wages can be had for
5000 in twenty days. Owing to the not
altogether harmonious feeling among the
colored people of this city who SO far have
done the principal work in assisting the re.
fugee she thinks committee of trustworthy and
influential white citizens should be organized
here; if this isidone he lsays there would be nc
lack of money to carry on the work, but a:
things exist now not much assistance can b.
looked for from the East.
Year: 1879

Now that we have succeeded in inaugurating
quite war among our White Bear correspond
ents it may be as we'll to state that the
original article relative to Webbers' road,
the so-ca]led "blood on the moon" article was
written by GLOBE reporter without limit,
suggestion or request by any one who ever
lived at White Bear. 1t was published simply
an item of news, and was strictly true,
and the GLOBE don't care a toss up
how much the White Bearites wrangle about
it. Neither does it care how they settle their
rad rumpus, but the GLOBE will record the
news as it occurs. The jocular allusion to
''blood on the moon" appears to have been be-
yond the depth Of at least one of our CORES
pondents and has worried him hugely.


This much is said because one resident of
White Bear has been blazing away at another
resident of White Bear, under the supposition
that he was the author of an article which the
GLOBE perpetrated on its own no, and without
inspiration from any source. It was simple
item of news, and but for lack of common
sense would have been so accepted.
Year: 1879

short time since frightful accident .oc-
CURED at Paine's mill, north of Merrillan will
age. While Peter Otterson, Norwegian, was
assisting to change belt to pulley that was
revolving at the rate of nine hundred minute,
he was caught by the belt in such a manner as
to tear his right arm off at the elbow, bruise
his legs and injure him internally. Medical
skill was promptly secured, but the poor man
died that evening in great pain
Year: 1879

The people of st. Paul yesterday voted
down the proposition to devote $4,000 in
bonds to the erection of a high school. Now
let them go to work like men and build a
high school and pay for it by taxation, as
Minneapolis did. Or is st. Paul opposed to
high schools on general principles?
Year: 1879

MAJORITY FOR THE TARIFF.
BERLIN, May lit is believed there will be
majority of about twenty in favor of the tar
iff bill in the reichstig. Amendments will be
more numerous than important.
Year: 1879

The Late Election on the High School


Question.


DR.. Dana, pastor of the Plymouth church,
delivered discourse, last evening. upon the
recent vote in this city on the issue of bonds
for building High school. He took for mis-
text Haggai I, Consider your ways


The reverend speaker began by urgi, a
calm consideration of the action taken
at the late city election, with q
ol sr reversing ei ssa%ek ss deoon ey a if Asf
deprecating the tendency to partisan feeling at
an election and disclaiming any desire save to
advance the best interests of st. Paul, he pro-
ceeded to consider the lessons of the election.


The public indifference was manifested by
the fact that 4,o64 votes were cast for mayor,
and only 3,733 on the question of issuing
bonds, showing that 3sl who voted for mayor
did not take interest enough to vote on the
High school question. It would have been
more to our credit if the total vote in reference
to the High school had been the largest, for
that would have indicated interest and opinion
respecting matter which affected each indi-
vidual and the city as an entirety. No city can
hope to prosper long wherein public apathy az
to grave local questions exist.


He regretted that the matter had not been
submitted alta special, instead of municipal
election, as then there could have been a vote
on its merits, while as it was 1t was mere
appendage to partisan tickets. 1t was met and
disposed of mainly upon partisan grounds. In
fact, it was humiliating that the party which
has always claimed to be the representative of
the most advanced ideas, the friend of educa-
tion, ETC., was afraid to commit itself to the
support of the measure lest it might prejudice
the interests of its local candidates. How help
full it is to trim in such matters is now ap
parent.


WHAT OUR RECORD Is.


Notwithstanding it is generally admitted that
the High school at present is not properly
housed, that the rooms are unhealthy and in
every way unfit for their use, we have voted
down the proposition to erect building. Gc
to Minneapolis Chicago, Cleveland, Milwaukee
Detroit, and on the sea board, and no city has
as yet, ventured to make the recored We have
What they glory in we have voted to dispense
with. From the Pacific to the Atlantic
coast, st. Paul cannot find companion te
share in the singularity of this anomalous
record.


Abiding to the alleged charge that the Catho.
lies opposed the High school, the speaker sale
that while their papers had done so, yet in
voting numbers recorded themselves in favor
of it for local reasons, and in loyalty to the
city they have done much in building up, be-
lieved it expendient, under the circumstances
to properly have the High school here existing
Certain property owners and leading business
men opposed it as unjust, and increasing bur
dens of taxation, ETC., while they helped tx
burden the city by the issue of bonds for othe
improvements without submitting the matte
to the people.


WHO ATTEND.


In reply to the charge that only the childrel
Of the rich were enjoying the privilege of tn
school, he cited the following record of tn
l
Year: 1879

From the Pioneer Press.


The editor of the Washington Post
(Democratic} has talked with all the
politicians at the seat Of government,
and says the contest for the republican
nomination has already practically mar
rowed down to Grant, Blaine and
Washburne, with Grant a great way
ahead. Grants great strength arises
from his solidity in the South, and
the fact that the tremendous influence
Of the money power is all on his
side.
Year: 1879

The postmaster at this place the
other day offered gold eagle in pay
ment of a money order, but it was re-
fu,ed, as the party had meyer seen that
kind Of money before and would not
be convinced that it was as good as
paper. ~
Year: 1879

THE colored Rcpu blicans are organ
ganizing for the campaign of 1850. They
are about TO assert their Independence
as Republican organization and threat
en- to demand recognition in Delaware
politics as they are represented in Ohio
where a colored man was elected upon
the Republican ticket. 1t is very likely
that the next Republican convention in
Delaware will take their view of the
matter and nominate Delaware negro
for Representative to Congress and a
white Radical for Sheriff or Coroner
in Kent and Sussex. AS the Re-
publican party organs claim all the ne
groes to be Republicans of course the
white people who are not willing to
sep on the platform Of equality" have
"no say" in the matter. The equalit!
which seems to have been most popular
with the negro was that which the Radl
Gals Granted the South, viz: that tn
negro should vote "early and often,
but the white man should not vote {
all. This kind Of equality" mad
the negroes solid for the Republ ca
party and induced them to help II


white northern rascals make the deb


in those States that have been adjusts


or repudiated.
Year: 1879

1t is pretty hard to throw off old hab
its all at once. A Nebraska dealer in
agricultural implements 'got religion,
felt it his duty to point out the way to
others, and said to farmer: "Brother
Jones, | will guarantee that if you join
our church you will not find it the best
in the market, but it will take you straight
through without any further inventory.
Give it trial, and if not satisfactory
| will take back your religion aud refund
your money"


George" said schoolmistress TO one
of her unruly scholars, ''why is 1t you be.
have so badly? When you first came to
school you were obedient, submissive
and willing to learn, now you are just
the contrary p "Well, to tell the truth,
marm," said George, IL was not much
acquainted them


Professor Pennington, in a summary
of the experiments begun in 1870 by the
Maine Agricultural College to ascertain
which has. the greater value as food for
swine, cooked or uncooked meal, says


ave have, by an experiment which
has been continued through from three TO
four months of each of the nine years
since its beginning, obtained evidence
that all the money and labor expended
in cooking meal Tor swine is more than
thrown away


An assistant lady work, gave up
her place, because she did not have what
she considered her liberty.


Llbertym exclaimed her indignant
mistress" liberty! Why, l gave her a
day, every week, and Thursday night
of every night in the week.
Year: 1879

A single wedge of pie was left over
from dinner When Georges mother
went to The pantry al hour later, that
piece of pie was gone. As her eye turn
ed from the empty plate in an inquiring
way toward George, with the astonishing
CELEBRITY of youth be perceived what was
in her mind and what was not in the
plate, and answered her uuspoken ques-
ton with, Il shouldn't wonder, ma, IL
some tramp took it, they are always
round setting fires, and soaring folks,
and taxing things. you know" His
mother made no reply except to brush
certain suspicious crumbs off Georges
Jacket II was evident that the tramp
theory would't work Boston Trans
cript.


A new way to fight duel Let each
one of the combatauts swallow dose of
poison, and then toss up for the cmeiic.
Year: 1879

WOMEN AND TROUBLE, Eastern
editor says a man got himself into trouble
by marrying two wives.


A Western editor replies by assuring
his contemporary that good many men
IN that section have done the same thing
by marrying one


A Southern editor says that a friend
of his was bothered enough by simply
being found in company with another
mans wife.
Year: 1879

EDITOR LEDGER: For a long time
it has been my impression that news.
paper man knew everything, but now
| am sure of it. Your reply to my
first communication was a prophecy,
or next door to it. You said time
would read the riddle; and sure enough
a very short time, few hours time,
proved you to be correct respecting
one-half of it. II is published that
the Howards have cut the buggy
business in two. They have dispensed
with five, and from this out the disin-
terested philanthropists will take their
airings afoot, which is the mode of To-
comotion they are most used to. This
will be hard on some of the disinter-
ested, for if their earnings are to pay
for their rides they will seldom be able
to do more than compass the expense
of wheelbarrow. But, now, / think
they deserve great deal of credit for
such great retrenchment. Don't you?
1t is not every corporation that has got
soul enough to be SO elf-denying as to
cut down their pleasure drives one
half, especially when other people foot
the bills. 0ne-half the buggies gone
at a sweepl Think of It'll Don't il
remind you of Shakespeare?


''Her chignon falling, quoth 0phela fair.


0, Hamlet, what falling of was there!"


Yes, they deserve praise for such
rigid economy, no matter what growl-
ers may say about taking long time
to do it, the papers shamed them to it
and other fudge. The deed is done
and it is pleasant to know it. Let
them cut down some more useless ex-
travagances and they will make first
class Howard from the unlikely ma
terial of A SPoRAD.
Year: 1879

The Paris Estafette relates that a
young man, aged twenty-six, who had
been married only three months, made
an appointment to dine with his wife
recently at a restaurant in the
Palais Royal. The young wife was
punctual, but the husband came not.
Alarmed, ahe went home, and found
the door of the apartment locked. She
received no answer on ringing. She
had the door forced open, and discoy,
cred her husband dead in bed, Be-
side him was beautiful girl, also
dead. Both had taken poison. The
young wife, thus suddenly made a
widow, was carried from the scene a
raying maniac.
Year: 1879

when this cruel war is over, and
the day of reckoning comes with those
who are now clothed with little
brief authority, one of the greatest
difficulties they will have to contend
with will be the rule that allowed
almost unrestricted commerce on one
public highway, and absolutely pro-
hibited it on another. If any man
believes a competent jury will be
convinced that this was to prevent the
spread Of infection that man needs a
guardian.
Year: 1879

The subscription price Of the DAILY
PUBLIC LEDGER is s5 per annum and
SOC per month fOrlsss than one year. The
WEEKLY LEDGER Is 81 per annum-
postage free,


Persons leaving the city for the summer
can order the DAILY LEDGER at soc per
month in advance, with the privilege Of
changing postofice.
Year: 1879

Ok BOARD STEAMER BATEsvILLE. J


OFF MEMPHIS, Sept. 80, 1879 :


EDITOR LEDGER: With great re-
luctance do We pass the fair but
unfortunate city of Memphis this
morning. The hearts of all on board
beat in sympathy for their brethren
who are compelled to stand and face
the scenes of The present epidemic.
We pray that the trials through which
they are now passing may soon be at
an end and the cloud of trouble pass
away, leaving alone the silver lining Of
Year: 1879

Did anybody ever hear of a city in
which disease and death reigned SUI
preme being quarantined against a
country in which no infection existed? ?
There is a city called Memphis that
once had such quarantine, but the
judiciary set it aside.
Year: 1879

SUBSCRIBERS who wish 10 re-
new will do us - favor by SEND
ING MONEY before their time
expires, as our mail list is very
large, and our force TO do the
work small. NO USE TO SEND
ORDERS WITHOUT the MONEY.
Year: 1879

A Chicago girl did aot wish to marry her lover but said yes to bis proposal for the fun of being engaged. The young man was very much in earnest, and when she at at Iergth informed him that she had only beeu joking he threatened to klll her if she dId not keep her promise Thus bulldozed she submitted to ms;Timony. That was year ago. Lately she appealed to the coarts. and the Superior Court has decided that the marriage, LaFing been accomplished by threat of violence, iS Toid.-s. T..
Year: 1879

One day a gentleman in India went into
his library and took down book from
the shelves. AS ne did SO he felt pain in
his finger, like the prick of pin. He
thought that pin had been stuck by some
careless person in the cover of the book.
But soon his finger began to swell, then his
arm, and then his whole body, and in few
days he died. 1t was not pin among the
books, but small and deadly serpent.
There are many serpents among the books
nowadays; they nestle in the foliage Of
some of our most fascinating literature ;
they coil around the flowers whose perfume
intoxicates the senses. People read, and
are charmed by the plot of the story, by
the skill with which the characters are sculp.
tured or grouped, by the gorgeousness of
the word-painting, and hardly feel the pin
prick of the evil that is insinuated. But it
stings and poisons. When the record of
ruined souls is made up, on what multtudes
will be inscribed, Poisoned by serpents
among the books p
Year: 1879

For our daily life we have need of meas
ure of confidence in our eyes and our judg-
ments. Some things belong to observation
and arithmetic. Moving along more or
less obscure path, we are mainly left to dis
cover for ourselves the broken bridges and
the swollen streams. If we fall through or
plunge in, we must undergo the consequences
of our insufficient care or imperfect judg-
ment. 1t is ranting religion that teaches
us not to foresee and to neglect the use Of
our best judgment. There is also danger.
GUS element in the teaching which leads us
to demand divine deliverance from the
effects of short sight and bad reasoning.
What we need most in this relation is to
feel that we are entrusted with the care OF
ourselves and our fellows, and that we have
eyes to see with and minds to reason with ;
if God had intended to see for us he would
not have given us eyes. But we have scarcely
reached the end of our own best work be-
fore we begin to realize that Gods greater
work is the really large dependence of his
saints. It is little that we do--not so little
that doing it is non-essential-and it is much
that God does in this very field of daily life.
His are the skies above us and earth beneath
us his the rain and the sunbeam. Our task
is to fit our little work into his large work
to place our cup under his showers and our
flower-bud under his sunbeam. 1t is surely
much-it may easily be everything in ouI
living-to realize that the rain and the sun
beam are divine outgoings and notes of an
infinite harmony wherein the morning stars
and the sons of God repeat the music of g
perfect and everlasting creative love. Thus
far on our way, we are, however, only in q
process of training for the real exercise ol
our religion. Our work and Gods work
making our happiness by the success of oul
adjusting of ours to his-train us to the
larger task, and nothing but such religious
training can fit us for the really severe ex
ertion of our lot. A man cannot, as rule
bear a great load without much experience
with smaller loads; we cannot see well with
out much using of our eyes. All that w
are we become by training. Often it is un
conscious; but there is school in ever,
house and field, shop and street. Seeing
God daily in our working world is school
ing for seeing him when we shall most neet
the vision of his everlasting glory.-Th
| Mefh0Iisf.
Year: 1879

DANGEROUS it were for the feeble brain
of man to wade far into the doings OF the
Most High; whom, although to know be
life, and joy to make mention of his name,
yet our soundest knowledge is to know that
we know him not as indeed he is, neither
can we know him; aud our safest eloquence
is our silence, when we confess without con
fession that his glory is inexplcable, his
greatness aoove our capacity and reach
He is above and we upon earth therefore
it behooves our words to be wary and few
-BishOD Hooker
Year: 1879

The reception Of Gen. Grant at
Chicago Yesterday was on grand
scale. Expense was not considered
by those who had charge Of the af-
fair. One of the pleasant features
of the procession was to have been
The appearance Of 1850 old soldiers
in the line. Chicago seemed deter
mined not to be surpassed by San
Crancisco's ovation to the only living
eX-President.
Year: 1879

As the great Presidential campaign of 1880
campaign which is to decide the
political destiny of the Republic for decades, if
not for centuries, to come, q sense of the i'm
portance Of the struggle begins to impress it.
self upon the minds IF all patriotic citizens The
menacing dangers to popular government and
the rights of humanity, which have been vivid
~ brought to notice by the present ascendency
of the Confedero- Democratic party in the leg
islative branch Of the government, have ad-


nonished Republicans of supreme necessity of
the cOnsummatiOn of the gigantic
against Liberty, which aims at un-
control of the other branches. A
party spirit has been thereby aroused, which
is destinedtO make next years struggle for
the Presidency the most eventful, the most
perhaps the most bitter on record
During that coming struggle
Year: 1879

sDsh the gloss and freshness Of yo"th.
Thin hair is thickened, falling hair
checked, and badness often, though
not always, cured by its use. Moth
ing can restore the hair where the
follicles are destroyed, or the glands
atrophied and decayed. But such as
remain can be saved for usefulness
by this application. Instead of foul
ing the hair with a pasty sediment, it
will keep it clean and vigorous. Its
occasional use will prevent tho hair
from turning gray or falling off, and
consequently prevent badness. Free
from those deleterious substances
which make some preparations dan
gerous, and injurious to the hair, the
Vigor can only benefit but not harm
it. If wanted merely for