smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

BRAIN work, and that OF the clearest kind,
comes into profitable play quite as well on
the farm as anywhere else. Look ahead,
geta just view Of the position; have plow-
ing, sowing, harvesting, and selling all done
at the proper time. Never hurry, but al
ways drive work ahead. Know in che even
ing@what you intend to do next day. Lave
your rainy day and your clear day occupa-
ton designed before hand. Always bring
into requisition the full means tor compass
ING the desired end. In short, study and
understand your business, and voa Will en-
ioy it and thrive at it.-Cincia,nati Gazette.
Year: 1877

. ADAILY ration of green food is actually
necessary for laying hens. Vegetables,
either cooked orraw, are much relished al
so. and serve in some measure to supply the
place of green diet. Onions chopped tine
and mixed with their foou are excecdihglys
wholesome, and If not a cure are certainly
preventative of disease in many instances.
Growing chickens are even more anxious
for green food than laying hens. They
crave it, and when necessary to be housed
from it on account of inclement weather, it
should be provided for them. There is no
food so wholesome for them as onion tops
cut up fine
Year: 1877

SLIPPED AND FELL.-A horse attach
ed to q wagon that was being driven
along King street, this morning, and
when Just below Sixth slipped on the ice
and fell. He was not injured, although
1t was sometime before he could be got
uD.
Year: 1877

= The Hiawatha D.patch has again put on .
patent outside. We trust the Dispatch will par
don us for . little plain but wholesome gratuit-
ous advice. Keep that patent outside, and hire
printer who can make the inside readable, and
respectable in workmanship. The mechanical
execution Of the Dispatch is disgraceful to the
craft, aud the matter is got up in style that q
fvs-year- old boy ought to be ashamed Of Not
line in advertisements or reading matter but
is bungled. We have spoken with scores of men
from Brown County. Almost universally, their
sympathies are with tho Dispatch, and they say
they want to do what they can to keep it mp, If
they have any encouragement to do so But
they are ashamed Of it. If the Dispatck will send
out respectfully got up paper, it will be lber-
ally patronized; if it keeps on it has been for
some months past, its days are numbered. Its
patrons are we'll nigh discouraged, and even now
regard their patronage as . charity.
Year: 1877

e Many papers make holiday of Washing


toms birthday, and issue no paper. Instead of
taking holiday, We make this issue Wash
ington paper. Our first page will be found pret-
ty well filled up with reading relative to George.
Year: 1877

e The Democratic papers are now soundly
abusing Judge Davis, because he declined to
serve on the Electoral Commission, and say that,
in a short time after taking his seat in the Sem
ste, he will be as good Republican as any of
them. OF course, be will. The Democrats got
their foot in it there, they do in everything
else. The only men they can buy, are those who
are not worth the investment
Year: 1877

a We can now begin to account for the large
list of names signed to the remonstranc against
She herd law. At White Cloud, the other day,
we talked with number of farmers living just
over in Brown County, who rallied us upon hav
ing favored the herd law. They said such law
would not be tolerated in Brown County, and
that they were % fearful that it might be en-
forced in County adjoining them, that they
signed the remonstrance against it!
Year: 1877

after night gaining an hours motion in
about fortnight. two hours motion in
A month. twelve hours motion tor half
the complete circuit in half n year, until
finally, At the end ot the year, they have
gained Il complete circuit.


1t is because of this steady turning
motion or rotation around the pole Of
the heavens, that the stars Of the dipper
(Say, Tor instance the poinlcrs) torm rs
it were clock in the sky, by which the
astronomers at any rate, though also any
ore who il willing to give n little atlcn.
tion to the matter, can tell the hour
within few minutes Of any hour in the
year.


A few observations made in this way
on a few nights during the COURSE of the
year. will give clearer idea OF the
steady motion Of the Star.dome (rcsult
ing in reality from the eartl's steady
rotation on her axis than any amount
Of description either in books or by
word of mou,h.-Pr9E r, a. Proctor in
st. NichOlqS far Dec
Year: 1877

The dwelling house with two lots, corner 5th
and Mulberry streets, will be sold at reasonable
figures aud on favorable terms. The house is
provided with q good cellar and fine well Of
water. Argly 70
Year: 1877




REDUCE THE SALARIEs.-The Phila-
delphia Telegraph, Republican paper,
takes very sensible view of the position
Of things just now, and proposes mode
to effect saving which it will be hard to
furnish good reason tor not adopting at
the earliest opportunity. 1t says:


"The Department Of State has Just one
salaried consulship untitled, and it has
1000 applications for eonsuIships on its
files, from which it might be inferred
that the demand for consulships is consid-
erably greater than the supply; and look
ing at the matter from strictly business
point of view, might it not be a good
thing to try and produce something more
Of an equilibrium between the supply
and demand by reducing the salaries at
some of the salaried consulships ? It is
tolerably evident that great many men
are decidedly of the opinion that a con.
sulship is something that is well worth
having, great deal better worth having
in fact, than great variety of of the EN-
ployments at home and the Government
would assurediy be justified in taking 8
business advantage Of the very active
competition for them. Exactly what any
body wants to be consul for-except a
very few of the most important ports
we do not know, but it is to be presumed
that the 1900 who have filed their papers
at the State Department know what they
are about, and calculate that they will
have something very nice if they succeed
In getting What they ask for"
Year: 1877

RKsPECTABILITY OF SNUGGIING.-
Smuggling has become so common a
pursuit that, like many other nefarious
practices for the suppression of which we
pay large salaries to preventive and de-
tective officers, it has assumed quasi
dignity and respectability that absolutely
brings it into competition with legiti-
mate vocations. 1t is unfortunate that
we have a system of revenue collection
that necessarily offers every encourage
ment to the protection of criminal avoca-
tions, and that smugglers have become
almost as common as burglars and pick
pockets, and from their assumption Of
respectability have become heroic as
fashionable. Indeed, they have begun
TO regard themselves as on an equality
with legitimate importers, and conduct
their criminal pursuits with an assurance
that savors of the legitimate. Ia the ar
ticle of silk our importation last year
amounted to over twenty one million
dollars, and in the amount of duty il
paid to the Government it was the second
on the tariff list. A duty of sixty pei
cent. is formidable element in an i'm
portant article of consumption and thou.
sands of genteel snugglers who belong
TO ring which it has been some time
the purpose of the Custom House detec


tives to break up.
Year: 1877

Possibly 1t may eventuaiiy turn out
that political activity on the part Of Office


holders can be suppressed in the case Of
State, city, county and town elective


officers, but FIRST let us see how the order
forbidding such activity works as applied
by President Hayes aoccrding 70 hts
solemn pledge, to executive officers in
the federal Government, What V first
to be done is to take of the Federal
hand from interference in our local and
domestic politics through Federal Off
Gals, often cafpetbaggers At the North
as well as at the South, whose functions
in no sense copcern State-nehts affairs.
Year: 1877




Truce.


The Times Paris correspondent says:
According to letter from Russia,
maeDating from a trustworthy source,
Prince Gortschakof accompanies the
Czar to Ploiesti solely to prevent Servia
from being involved in the war. Gorts-
chakoff fully estimates the Importance o.
the attitude Servia is now attaining and
does not wish to abandon this delicate
question to purely military manage
ment. But there is certainly another
motive for the Chancellor's journey. 1t
seems probable that Russia will attempt
a rapid seizure Of Rustchuk and there
propose peace after signal victory.
Gortschakoff, Of course. wishes to be at
the Emperor's side should this occur,
for if Russia accepts peace on the basis
of the reforms proposed by the confer
ence she will probably wish to act in a
thoroughly formal manner by placing
the peace reforms under the protection
of the dignitaries OF the protocol


The 7elegraph's OrsOva dispatch
gives the following details concerning
the peace rumors ut is believed by
many well.informed people at Bucharest
that the Russians are somewhat anxious
to negotiate through Berlin for some ar
raugemeut that would obviate the me-
cessity of crossing the Danube, having
con vinced themselves that the enterprise
is fraught with sacrifice and that the
result is altogether doubtful. 1t is GER
tain that at headquarters during the
past few days the tone has been anxious
and even despondent 1t is significant
that corn contracts have been finally de-
termined only for very short period
1t is the current impression that the
Russians are spinning out the time. re-
lying upon the chances Of achieving a
great success In Asia Some people
90 so far as to say they manifest a wish
to remain content with the fall Of Kars
They would then desire to keep what
they had gained in Asia and not cross
the Danube, but leave force in Rou-
mania until the referees framed treaty
with Turkey Those who are inclined
to place any credence in these reports
maintain that the Russian military and
financial resources are not equal to the
achievement of the enterprise into which
Russia has plunged.


s'There is no enthusiasm in the Rus
sian ranks. The new army Organiza-
tion is said not to work satisfactorily.
To sum up 1 may say that a talk Of
peace is certainly in the wind. 1t is
said the Grand Duke Nicholas takes a
pessimist view of the campaign. have
reported what l have been enabled to
1 learn from fair suthOrity; that there is
some basis for these statements l have
little doubt.
Year: 1877

THE TEMPERANCE MovE.-We would
respectfully call the attention Of our
readers to the call for the Temperance
meeting to be held in the auditorium Of
the Town Hall. to-morroW afternoon


Meetings Of the nature Of this one are
now being held all over the country
and are accomplishing vast amount Of
good in battling with the demon of in
temperance and in arrestiDg dissipation.
Surely no one will object to such a
movement here or interfere to prevent
it accomplishing any good that it may


Should it succeed it arresting the course
Of but one inebriate and saving the
wreck Of but one life, the work will not
have been for nought nor the labor in
vain. No one will, because no one can,
DENY the terrible effects of intemper-
apce and be would be a hard man in
deed who would object TO the saving OF
his neighbOr from such seourge, or
who would throw obstacles in the way
of those who would labor to accomplish
Year: 1877

For the FIRST time since the close Of
the war Decoration Day" seems to
have been observed in spirit Of mutual
good. will and reconciliation between the
people Of the once contending sections.
Federal and Confederate soldiers united
with each other in scattering flowers
upon the graves of their deceased com
rades and foes. Like Difference was
paid to the views and feelings of the
friends of the dead on each side. Ad-
dresses were made by both ex-Confed-
crate and Federal orators, and ex-sol-
diers of each army participated in the
ceremonies under command of the off,
GERS who led them to battle in the great
civil war. The action on that day, and
the spirit manifested, will do more and
90 further toward healing the breach
and allsying the hostility between the
two sections Of the country than all the
fine speeches, resolutions and promises
that ever have been or ever can be made
by all the political parties and cOnven-
tious in existence. Against the spirit
of fraternity and patriotism there kin
died all the bitter haraugues and vile at
tempts of Blaine, Morton, Wade, Grant,
Butler and Boutwell, to keep alive the old
sectional hate will utterly fail and fall
barmlessly to the ground. Observed
in the way 10 which it was this year,
Decoration Day" may be means of
much good in restoring and continuing
good feeling among the people of the
States for many years to come


THE BLUE AND THE GRAY.
Bv the flow of the inland river,


Where the fleets of iron have fed,
Where the blades of the new grass culver,
ASLEEP are Inc fhuhS VI Tue ucdu


Under the sod and the dew,


Waiting the Judgment Day.


Under the one the Blue,


Under the other the Gray.
Those in the robing of glory,


These in the gloom Of defeat,
All with the battle-blood CORY,


In the dusk of eternity meet.


Under the sod and the dew,


Waiting the Judgment Day,


Under the laurel the Blue,


Under the willow the Gray.
From the silence of sorrowful hours,
The desolate mourners go,
Lovingly laden with flowers,


Alike for the friend and the foe.


Under the sod and the dew


Waiting the Judgment Day,


Under the roses the Blue,


Under the lilies the Gray.
So with an equal splendor,


The morning sun rays fall,
With touch impartially tender,


On the blossoms blooming for all.


Under the sod and the dew,


Waiting the Judgment Day,


'Broidered with gold the Blue,


Mellowed with gold the Gray.
So when the summer calleth,


On forest and field Of grain,
With an equal murmur falleth /.
The cooling drip Of the rain.


Under the sod and the dew,


Waiting the Judgment Day,


Wet with the rain the Blue,


Wet with the rain the Gray.
Sadly, but not with upbraiding,


The generous deed was done;
In the storm Of the years that are fading,
No braver battle was won.


Under the sod and the dew,


Waiting the Judgment Day,


Under the blossoms the Blue,


Under the garlands the Gray.
No more shall the war-cry sever


Or the winding river be red;
They Danish our anger forever,


When they laurel the graves Of our dead.


Under the sod and the dew,


Waiting the Judgment Day,


Love and tears for the Blue,


Tears and love for the Gray.
Year: 1877

We had very heavy frost and thin
ice on Sunday and Monday last. 1t
was just what the sugar planter needed
to ripen the cane and cause it to yield
heavily. We hear good reports of the
quantity and quality from the upper
part Of this parish, and if the weather
is favorable for taking off the crop, our
friends who are engaged in the cane
culture will do well.-EOiW COupee
Pelican.
Year: 1877

In the new beer stamps, the head OF
Andrew johnson II handed down to
the eyes and esteem of his countrymen
On the barrel stamp, while George
Washington is put Off with the little
eighth barrel stamp. Aim so to- live,
young man, that when you are gone,
every time a bar-keeper taps fresh
keg OF lager, he will bang the faucet
right through your photograph.
Year: 1877




tempts were made in past years tt
introduce that currency there, but as
these attempts were made only by q
few individuals they met with little
success. The determination to intro.
duce the penny in st. Louis, shown .
few weeks ago, having been Joined ID
by the whole community, has met
with complete success. The United
States Sub-Yreasurer is now paying out
500 in pennies each week, or more
than he has been accustomed to paw
out in year hitherto. Pennies are
thus flowing in at the rate of 10000 q
week, and are forcing themselves into
every kind of business.


Now that this coin is in common use
in st. Louis, it is strange to see how
universally it's merits are recognized.
The praises lavished ON it seem almost
wild and exaggerated. Not only does
the penny, they say, have the effect OF
cheapening all small articles, but it has
had the effect of improving the mode
in which business is conducted in the
future great city. "Take care of the
pennies and the pounds will take care
of themselves A man who has beer
in the habit Of; giving the wrong change
for years, must necessarily y become slip
shOd and careless in the manner ir
which he does business, while boys
who are thus educated are taught mos,
dangerous ideas and habits. The bills
OF the telegraph company in st. Louis
for instance, always come out in cents
The odd cents either the company OF
the person who pays for the dispatch
loses. Boys are sent around to collect
these bills, and, the company complain, !,
they almost always return u little short.
1t may be that the boys are cheated,
but it is certain that this system gives
them an opportunity for small pecula.
ton that is u terrible temptation. The
vulgar belief that accounts will balance
by striking of all the odd cents under
three and adding picayune to the
II account for all over is Il most erroneous
and false one. 1T may do this once in
Il while, but who cares to leave to
chance the prospects of his account
coming out straight and correct?


A number of small dealers in ST.
Louis objected to tho penny on the
ground that like the Spartan currency
it was too weighty and proflse. A
small dealer, such as n cigar man or
peanut vendor, who takes in almost all
his money in cents, would find himself
overloaded ut the end of the week with
several hundred pounds of currency,
which he would find some difficulty,
they said, in getting rid of. Here is
one of the many advantages of the cent,
for the cent is always redeemable in
greenbacks at the sub treasury, whereas
the picayunes are not. Picayunes,
therefore, are much more incOnvenient
as change than pennies.


There are many persons In st. Louis
the honor Of introducing the
cent. All of these claimants, however,
admit that to the women it owes its
practical success. Women are naturally
more economical than men, and this
economy, backed by the discovery that
If they made all persons pay them the
exact change, it meant a new bonnet,
led them into the fight, and they won
it.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, June l3.


Secretary Sherman has furnished news
paper with his views on the silver question,
in which he says the dispute about
silver will be followed by u supply
of silver coin which will absorb portion
of our paper money, and will supplement
and make easier resumption in both gold
and silver coins kept equal with each other.
The silver dollar ought to be received by
the government and made a legal tender,
the same as the paper dollar now is, and in
this way fifty million silver dollars can su'
percede fifty million paper dollars. The
popular demand will determine the amount.
This process will bring both paper and sill
yer nearer the gold standpoint. The Sec
retary says; "We will then have paper
money supported by public credit, with
gold and silver coin in abundance. Prac-
tically, silver and paper will be the current
money, and gold the ultimate standard.
We cannot afford to deny ourselves the
great convenience Of an ample silver cur
rency, kept equal to gold by combining its
issue by the government to the actual de-
mand for ii. We are now so near uni
form standard of all kinds of our money
that have too much confidence in the
shrewdness of our people to believe that
they will take step backward"
Year: 1877

In anticipation that the resumption of
specie payment will be brought about
within the time fixed by law and that there
will be large demand for gold pieces OF
small denominations DR.. Linderman, di-
rector of mints, will, it is understood,
recommend in his annual report the coin
age of two dollar gold piece to take the
place of the two dollar and half gold
piece.
Year: 1877

The publication of this paper will be in
definitely suspended from and after this
date. To all who have paid in advance we
will, upon application, refund in proper
ton to the unexpired term of paid sub
scription. We require little n
which to make bills payable meet bills due,
and all persons owing US, no matter how
mail a bill, will please remember we need
it all to enable US to meet our obligations.
As we may be expected 20 give some reason
for this, as it may be termed, rather abrupt
termination of our enterprise, we will state
that we feel justified for several reasons
We leave the country in comparatively
comfortable and secure position. The ELL
ropean war is fairly inaugurated, and
good market and high prices for our sur
plus crops secured the great strike is
safely over the whites are obtaining the
ascepdency in the South, and the niggers
are emigrating to Liberia. The Louisiana
Returning Board is IN limbo, and Hayes is
badly scared. Tom Fowler is nominated
for State Senator, with a certainty OF being
elected, and-well, what more could be ex-
pected of us in four briefmonths? For the
rest, it is very dry year, the weather is
hot. we have had all of this kind of fun we
want for the present. and now we are going
a fishing. TIA, ia Kern County (Cat.)
Democrat
Year: 1877

The following letter affords a curious
illustration of the energy of Senator Bogy's
character in the pursuit of the lifelong OBJ
ject of his ambition. 1t was written when
he left home to study law, and placed in
his mothers hands:


STE. GENEvIEvE, January is, 1632.--
On this day left home under Cii1argo Of
Mr.. William Shannon, an old friend of my,
father, TO go to Kaskaskia to read law in
the Office of Judge Pope. My education is
very limited, but with hard study may
overcome it. am determined to buy it,
and my intention is to return to my native
State to practice if l can qualify myself,
and while doing SO to work TO become
United States Senator for my native State,
and to work for this till an go years old.
will pray God to give me the resolution
to persevere in this intention. have COM
municated this to my mother, and given
her this paper to keep. So help me, God.


LEWIS v. BoGY.


It was In his Goth year that Mr.. Bogy
secured his election to the Senate, His
belief in the destiny of things was remark
able
Year: 1877

Wine, cheese, and friendship improve
with age.


Blessed contentment saveth man from
distress because of unavoidable ills.


The eye is made for sight, yet seeth many
things which should be soon forgotten.


Blessed discomfort helpeth a man to bet
ter his condition where improvement is pos
sible.


Insurance is good, but carefulness of fire
saveth the house and goods from destruc-
tion.


The ear is fashioned for hearing, yet hear
eth many things to which it should give no
heed.


Drink freely from the fountain of discre-
ton and find the health of thy happiness
preserved.


An abundance of peace shall be multi
piled unto him who is in secret heart stead
fastly resolved not to suffer from imaginary
ills.


The best application for the improvement
of the conntenance is mixture in equal
parts Of serenity and cheerfulness. Annoint
the face morning, noon and night.