smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

Will show steady falling of for the last four years.
ana TINS TOO in the face of vast increase of ula
=. In 1876 those minutes reported an addition Of
IooU members by confession OF faith and by dis
number 'l1 el toner 90 ss Churches IN 1877 sn sns
still lower. to $1,000. This year it has
sunk to the pitifully small ngure of $4,000. The
utmost claim hat Is made in the minutes is that the
total membership Of the whole Church has only IN
creased BY, 1000 members within year! As m,ny
church rolls are very carelessy kept the strong
probability is that tho Presbyterian body numbers
no more communicates than it did year ago.


THE toRMER now


What is true OF the venerable Presbyterian denom-
ination is true of all the other evangelical bodies.
Honest tally keeping" shows but small advance.
lately declared that "a great spiritual drought
is prevailing such as has not been known
ber the the time when revvals of religion mer, 50
few and so far between; when so few accessions to
the churches were reported. and when the Church
positively seemed SO much In danger OF recedng be-
fore the world. This is sombre picture but II Is
true to the life Sir Peter Lelys famous portrait
OF Oliver Cromwell


Any one who recalls the moral condition of New
York city forty years ago will remember that at that
time fully half of the population attended some
claim made by the City Tract Society is that
25O.OOO are regular occasional! worship
total population of over one million. In the
rural districts OF New England there is . marked
decline in the numbers who attend habitually on the
tics of Cincinnati. Chicago and St. Louis show


more unfavorable outlook of evangelical religion.
Brooklyn is styled 1.-The City Of Churches"
but church going is ON the decline The
crowds that may be drawn to two or
three places of worshp by the Pc
culiar style of attractions do not invalidate the
truth Of this statement. a few days ago friend re-
marked to DR.. Cuyler that "on this whole block of
brown stone houses not more than onehalf of the
people regularly 90 to church, What then must be
said for those streets which occupied mainly by
the more ill-drossed and ill-taught classes?


When three or four Christian ministers come to-
gether in almost any locality and begin to compare
notes, they soon discover most painful coincidence
in their reports. Each one is forced to acknow
edge that the tides which set in against the break
water o: divine truth are increasingly strong-and
that some OF the temporary makeshilts which have
been often employ ed to resist these tides about
worthless Not of these min listers may have any
tho less faith the Word of God. the Gospel Cal
vary or the ultimate triumphs of the But he
cannot shut his eyes to present and patent facts.
Year: 1879

The publishers OF the New Orleans Times
wish especially at this time that every citizen
Of this state should be subscriber or reader OF
the Times. Questions of the greatest impor
tance to louisiana are pending wa iting solution
A convention OF her delegates are now in aes
sion drafting an organic law for adoption ro
replace the present constitution, and which II
is hoped will radically reform those fearful
abuses wasteful cxtr;lvagancies and gross in
justices which have been nurtured by it aud
have grown up undcrit. The subject Of reStric
tive quarantine as to its efficacy i'll preventing
the introduction of the scourge OF yellow fever
and it's acknowledged blghting effects upon the
business and prosperity OF the city of New Or
leans and the State, is now engrossing to a
large extent public attention. other vital ques
tons. such as labor, immi grafton, railroad com
munications with our neighboring State OF
Texas, removal of the State capital, etc, de,
mand constant consideration and discussion.


The publishers of the Times refer with pride
to the position taken by the Times on all OF
these questions. Their inspiring motive has
been tue good of the State and her people, for
upon her prosperity, development aud growth
depend their compensation and reward. From,
no other source can they expect TO subserve
these ends.


The thorough independence Of the Times. lts
strength, courage and consistency in the discus
sier Of all questions. its indefatigah1e and per.
sistent labors to restore the wonted prosperity
Of the South, have made it recognized through
out the country az the leading Southern journal
and made it quoted everywhere az the repre-,
sentative OF the best Southern thought and
opinion.


The publishers wish that copy MAY be
placed In the banas Of every citizen of ths State
that he may judge by perusal OF its merits, OF
its consistency. of its motive.


AS "a newspaper giving all the news OF the
days as commercial paper, showing all the
movements OF business and commerce : as an
organ of the people, representing and conserv-
ing their best aud hightest interests, they claim
the Times to be without rival in the South.


Too meet the general shrnkage in values, the
subscription price OF the Times has been mater
tally reduced. This Times tdaily, seven papers
q week. will be sent hereafter at the rate Of $l2
per annum, and the Weekly Times at the rate
of 50 per annum, postage prepaid,


Copies OF the Times, either Daily or Weekly,
gladly sent free As specimens to any person who
desires to examine the same.


We ask every reader to give the Times r trial.
We are making it q paper worthy of support,
and We know II the reader once tries it he will
continue subscriber.


The Daily will be sent on trial one month for
81, and the Weekly three months for SO cents.


Send remittances by money order OF regis
tered letter or draft.


Address


~ THE NEW ORLEANS TIMES,


Louisiana.
Year: 1879

Nothing is more reprchensible and
thoroughly wrong than the idea that =
woman fultils her duty by doing on
amount of work far be:y ond her strength
She not only does not fulfil her duty,
but she most signaily fails in it.


There can be no sadder sight than
that of broken down, over worked
wife and mother-a woman who is tired
all her life through.


H the work of the household cannot
be accomplished by order, system and
moderate work, without the necessity Of
wearing, heart breaking toil-toil that
is never ended and never begun, with"
out making life treadmill of labor,
then for the sake of humanity let the
work 80. Better to live in the midst of
disorder than that order should DO pur..
chased at 80 high price-the cost OF
health, strength, happiness and all that
makes existence endurable.


The woman who spends her life in un-
necessary labor is by this very labor un-
fitted for tho highest duties of home.
She should be the haven of rest to which
both husband and children turn for
peace and refreshment. She should be
the careful, intelligent adviser and guide
of the one, the tender confident and
help mate Of the other. How is itpossi-
ble for woman, exhausted in body, as
a natural consequence in mind also, to
perform either of these offices 7 No, tits
not possible, The constant strain is too
great. Nature gives way beneath it.
She loses health and spirits and hope
fulness, and more than all, her youth,
the last thing that woman should allow
TO slip from her, for, no matter how old
she is in years, she should be young in
heart and feeling, for the youth of age
is something more attractive than youth
itself.


To the ovcr worked woman this green
old age is out of the question; old age
comes on sere and yellow before its
time. Her disposition is ruined, her
temper is soured, her very nature is
changed, by the burden which, too
heavy to carry, is dragged along 40 long
as wearied feet and tired hands can DO
their part. Even her affections are
blunted, and she becomes merely ma
ciiine-a woman without the time to be
womanly, mother without the time to
train and guide her children as only
mother can, a wife withot the time to
sympathize with and cheer her husband,
d woman so er-worked during the
day that when night comes her sole
thought, the most intense longing is for
the rest and sleep that very probably
will not come; and, even if it should,
that she is too tired to enjoy. Better
far let everything 60 unfinished, to live
as best she can, than to entail on herself
and family the curse of overwork.
Year: 1879

TREY CoULDs'T STAND THAT.-A
young man made his appearance at
Deadwood last week, in pair Of white
trousers. He was promptly escorted to
the cars, put on board OF them, and an
injunction placed upon him never to
revisit the place. We can stand q
billed shirt, you know exclaimed q


miner, but when it comes to wearin'
billed drawers, we just make 'en get up
Year: 1879

iBY TELEGRAPH TO rlIs TRtBCNE.I


WAsH!NGToS, Aug. GA gentleman who had
business with the Commissioner OF Patents called
upon that official during of the days of the
late severe rainstorm, and found him sitting in a
corner OF his office. having moved his desk away
from the usual place in the centre Of the room in
order to Escape the rain which VAS trickiiug down
through the roof aud the floors above. A colOrcd
messenger having collected all the available spit
toons. was engaged in moving them about from
place to place in the Commissioners room wher-
ever be signs of p new leak in order To protect
the carpet from the rain. Several Of the adjoining
rooms occupied by the Deputy Commissioner and
clerks Ot the Patent Office and portion Of the hail
Of the main floor were in a still worse plight Be
yond the temporary inconvenience of the officials
10 dama-e was done. as the records and files Of the
Patent Once were kept IL better sheltered quarters.
The roof II the Patent Office building was par
TALLY burned on the Gath Of September, 1877 A
temporary roof was thrown over tine exposed por-
ton u the building but il was determined not TO
begin the WORK of permanent restoration
until plans could be considered for securing an H.
crease OF working room within the building, and
thus meeting pressing want Of the Interior Ie-
p1rtment Congress, at its next session, approprl-
ated 5000 az a prize To the architect who should
present she best plan Of restoration, comprrhending
the building OF additional story 10 the structures
but when plan bad been selected, several months
later II severely criticised by architects, and
reasons so Wei gty against is adoption were gwen,
that the Secretary OF the Interior hesitateG TO as
the pOnsiDllitT Of recommending it, and re-
f,Il.d the matter TO Congress again. The plan
finally adopted cOmprehends the restoration Of the
ROOF N substantially i'd Old form, but gives room
beneath % for an additional gallery Ia the model
room Of the Patent Office. The appropriation be-
came az liable the early part OF the present sum
ner, and tie work il being rapidly pushed forward.
The iron work Tor the support OF the roof and the
new gallery is already nearly completed and IN
place, and the whole building is expected 10 be
rooted IN by the middle Of October. l. IS under
stood that the OF the recent exposure was the
necessary breaking mp OF the temporary TOOL 10 en-
able this iron work TO Oe put IN position.
Year: 1879

The editor Of the Mountain Stnt;nel
boasteth thnssy Of his ssaccesfull career


As a financial venture Journalism has
been to us one continued ovation of sue
cess; less than seven years ago. we took
charge of the Sentinel then iss,un. with a
hatful OF type, We had one suit + clothes
a family to feed, and could not show a
sign OF silver, we would still own the
type it it was paid for, our family has been
fed, We have had ''pi" in the Office almost
every day. We own the same suit of
clothes we'ssrted in with; have worn out
one libel suit anu otr accommodating po-
litical tailor is trying tn.fit another foe us
and we have just ''duodhs'' OF old rusty
acconnss and can now beast of plenty of
silver-.'fhreads among the gold"
Year: 1879

We mean to do 1t. Some day, some day,
We mean to slacken this feversh rush,


That Is wearing our very souls away,
And grant to our geaded hearts hush


That Is holy enough to make them hear


The footsteps Of angels drawing near.


We mean to do it. Oh, never doubt,
When the burden Of day time droll Is DER,
Wen sit and muse while the stars come out


As the patriarch sat at the open door
Of his tent, with heavenward gazing eye,
10 watch for the angels passing by.
We see them afar at high noontide,


When fiercely the worlds hot flashings beat;
Yet never have biddcn them turn aside,


And tarry awhile in converse sweet;
Nor prayed them to hallOw the cheer we spread
To drink of our wine and break our bread
We promised our hearts that when the stress


or flife-wOrk reaches the lOnged-for close,
When The weight that We grOan with hinders less


Wen loosen our thoughts to such repose
AS banishes cares disturbing din.
And then-we'L call the angels in.
1 he day that We dreamed Of comes at length,


When, tired Of ever-mocking quest,
And broken in spirit and shorn in strength,


We drop, indeed, at the door of rest,
And wait and watch as the day wanes on;
But the angels We meant to call are gone.
Year: 1879

A single word is little thing,


But soul may be dying before our eyes
For lack Of the comfort a word may bring,


With its welcome help and its sweet surprise
kindly look costs nothing at all,


But a heart may be starving for just one glanc
That shall show, by the eyt lids tender fall,


The help Of 4 pitying countenxnce.
1t is easy enough to bend the ear


To catch some tale of sore distress:
For men may be fainting beside us here


For longing to share their WEAKNESS.
These gifts nor silver nor gold may buy,


Nor the wealth Of the richest of men bestow;
But the comfort Of word, or ear, or eye,


The poorest may offer wherever he CO.
Year: 1879

A word unspOkcn, hand Impressed,
A look unseen. or thought unguessed;
And souls that were kindred may live apart,


Never to meet or to know the truth,
Never to know how heart beat with heart


In the dim past days Of wasted youth.
She shall not know how his pulses leapt,
When over his temples her tresses swept;
AS she leaned to give him the jasmine wreath


She felt his breath, and her face flushed red
With the passionate love that chOke,i her breath


And saddens her life now her youth is dead
faded woman who waits for death,
And murmurs name beneath her breath;
A cynical man who scons and jeers


AT women and love in the open day,
And at night time kisses, with bitter tears.


A faded fragment Of jasamine spray
Year: 1879

The editor who squashsd juicy
cockroach with the butt end OF his lead
pencil. and afterwards forgetfully sucked
the same while wooing coy expression.
suddenly found q word, but II proved to
bs foreign on the subject under consid-
sration.
Year: 1879

De READY. we admit that We
think there is but slight chance for all In
dian outbreak this side of the Columbia, We
find that there are increased chances on the
other side. 1t will be seen In another
column that 800 renegades are encamped on
the Okanagan river; that they mean mis-
chief in the early spring is very probable, and
we here again advise our isolated settlers to
arm themselves and be prepared for any
emergency. Companies must be organized
under the command OF men who Will hold
themselves responsible for tbs ariAs and
ammunition. We offered once before to as
sist IL obtaining these arms, aud ior the last
time We again make the Offer We have
done the same thing bsiore and can do it
again In this instance the sooner it is done
the better for al parties, on the principle OF
SIN time of peace prepare for war.
Year: 1879

TIE FoRr RoEIHSoN MASSACRE The
recent killing Of the Cheyennes at Fort
Robinson is doubly to he regretted at the
present time, from the fact that public
opinion was about ripe for tn transfer of
the Indians from the department OF the
interior, to that Of the war department
The crafty brains who run the interior will
take every advantage Of this circum-
stance and use it for the fuTtheranca of
their own ends. TIE exception viii be
used us The weapon to prove the rule with
ont doubt. Look upon it in what light
We VIII, it is another blot on our boasted
civilization, and a disgrace to the age III
which We live These Indians were or
dered removed from their own land to a
place of which they had the liveliest hor-
ror; they had already experienced the
pan"s OF starvation III the same country,
and declared they would rather die than
90 there. In order to punish them for
their contum&cy the commander of the
post first attempted TO starve and then to
freeze them to death The Indians nat
urally objected TO this, and made break
fcr liberty They escaped from their tor
lures and in fleeing We're shot down like
50 many dogs, volley after volley was fred
upon them until over fifty bodies were
stretched Hfeless on the frozen snow. OF
course the massacre will be defended in
official reports; but despite 1.-The excuses
| that can I've made,i it was rs infamous and
foul a deed as eyerdissraced our army an
na.s. No matter how badly We all wish
the Indianquestions settled, We all acknowi-
, edge they have rights, that if not respect
ed, ought At leaS. 10 be atonel and paid
for. Public opinion has already con
demned this outrage and We hope that
some effort viii be made to punish the Of
/ ticer Who first starved and froze, and then
, murdered the savages whose only crime


was refusal TO accept banishment to al
mhosrlt.able region which they had Of
their Own accord previously abandoned to
prevent utter auailii!ation through star
y.tiOu
Year: 1879

CUSTER AND RENO-Thc Reno court of
enquiry will have 10 plaster the whitewash
on pretty thick before they can make us
believe that Reno has any chiya.ry in his
nature. Bat whethc.,a as is most likely to
be the case-he WAS jealous Of Custer's
dashing record, or merely cared FOR his
own hide is the only doubt in our nlind.
One thing how We are sure of,and that
is, had their Positions been reversed We
should not be troubled With doubts.
Year: 1879

A certiau lawyer was compelled to apologlz,
to tie court. With stately dignity ho rose in
his place aud said: Your Honor is right and |
am wrong, as your Honor generally is: There
was dsz ID look 10 the judges eye, and he hard
~ knew whether to feel happy or line the Law
yer for contempt Of court.
Year: 1879

The sudden death Of ex Chancellor Bates
in Richmond Va, on Thursday last and
his burial in Wilmington on Monday, cast
shadow over Wilmington where his
family resided and has been lamented
Throughout; the State. No member of the
bar in the State stood more prominent for
an exalted virtuous character. He was
essentially peace maker, and persons
seeking his advice were more often directed
to other modes of settlement, than at the
bar of the Court He was not a rhetorican
that sought to please promiscuous assem-
blages, but in strong legal argument he
stood at the head Of his profession. The
late Chancellor Harrington once said that
that the best argued case that ever came
before him was one in which Daniel NJ.
Bates was on one side and N. B. Smithers
on the other. He is universally conceded
to have been one of the best Chancellors
that ever presided over our higher court.
When we say that he was christian gentle
man and honest lawyer, we pay him the
highest tribute of praise which it is possible
for US to use.
Year: 1879

THE LEGISLATURE adjourned on Saturday
last after session of three months. 1t
cannot be pronounced positively bad, nor
can it be called decidedly good one. The
time was mostly occupied in passing stock
laws, ditch bills and divorces. Aside from
the minor and unimportant legislation it
has been conspicuous for what it has not,
rather than what it has done. 1t was
emnently scary. Every thing effecting
the moral interest of the people they
handled as if they would get burnt. They
We're expected to pass an act to refund
$S00,000 of the State bonds at Al per cent.
thereby saving 10 the State about $4,000
annually in interest, but they were de.
tered it is said by few Of the prominent
bond holders,-party leaders-who would
"ruther" have six per cent. They were
likewise asked to amend the tax law so
that the people can have the privilege CT
paying their tax and voting, thereby add
ing largely to the revenues of the State,
but they would not approach within a
forty foot pole of it. They were asked
TO make a supervisor to enforce the license
tax, bringing revenue into the State while
the law was being upheld, but something
even scared them away from this. They
would do nothing to bring revenue into the
State, but on the other hand, they strictly
guarded its outgo. They would allow no
open fist to get into the Treasury. Theirs
WAS the miserly course to save,-not the
bright, enterprising ralhearted plan
OF IN liking, that you may have to expend
in improvements. The colored people asked
that they might share in the school fund
as well as the taxes, as is the case in Mary
land, so they may have schools to improve
them IN mind and morals and thus become
better citizens, but this was also treated a:
If it were the "cat in the meal tub"


We have said above that if they did no
legislate to bring money into the treasury
they guarded the purse strings tight il
letting it out. and SO they did. No schem,
calling for expenditure had any show
An effort was made to stimulate and in
crease the grade of scholarship in our pub





lie schools by tho State contributing to tn
education at Delaware College of thirty O
the best graded scholars from the publ
schools, but the outlay asked defeated il
An appropriation was asked to encourag
the Htauacture Of beet sugar in our Stat,
Dut tuls too was laid in the tomb with til
others. So was also the bill providing f
the registration Of births, marriages an
deaths.


The Legislature however, showed its col
servatiVe character in the way il "s
down " down on the Lottery bill, and thI
partially redeemed its character of lookir
backwards on all moral issues. The COZ
mittee to which it was referred would n,
consider the bill, and moved its indefin
postponement, which was carried with b
four dissenting votes. We had one Lottel
bill some twenty years ago which damage
euy morals and reputation enough to NAL
IL sufficient cause not to repeat it aga
in the history Of the State. The bill


Esmove the Court House from New Cast
Year: 1879

The Legislature before its adjournment
on Saturday accepted an invitation by the
P. w. & B. Railroad to take free ride to
Washington, which they did yesterday,
and will return tomorrow. The company
included all the Legislature but four and
about fifty others, friends and prominent
men of the State. The prominent advo-
Gates of the Railroad Commission bill joined
in freely with the excursion, and the peach
growers and railroad men do not seem to
be al swords points after all.
Year: 1879

The custom is said to have lately grown up
among young ladies of good social position
in England OF having various devices tat
tooed indelibly on one or other Of their legs.
This peculiar freak of the aristocracy of Great
Britain has been made public through an
advertisement announcing the mysterious
disappearance of well-connected young la
dy. But in this very advertisement is dis
played comical want of knowledge Of the
customs of this country. The friends Of the
missing girl evidently believe she has fled to
America, and they tell US she can be identi-
fed by cross in tattoo on her right leg. This
is doubtless an infallible sign, but who is to
make the investigation which shall reveal the
fair runaway? If aboriginal styles Of dress
prevailed here, as our British cousins evi
IDENTIFY think they do, all would be easy
enough but when the very clocking Of a
damsel's hose is largely matter Of conject-
ure to the most assiduous Of lookers-on, how
could even Paul Pry among fashion writers
get at the cuticular ornamentation beneath
the silk The task is hopeless. The miss
ing maiden might wander among US with
both legs figured like a pair of Cleopatra
Needles and we would not be the wiser fol
it. We must have more extended bill Of
particulars. A squiut, wart on the LEFT
fsrefnger, even strawberry on the nose


would serve to establish her identity but, Sc


far as her pictured leg is concerned, she ha,


the receipt of fernseed' aud walks invisible
Record.