smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

Meeting the letter carriers as the,


leave the post Office with their bulk


sacks crowded with letters, one mus


wonder how they can distribute eacl


and every one to its proper owner; but


bless you'll they 60 further than that


Alter they have been ON route for 8


while they can tell much more about 6


family than they ever do. They know


II one of the children is away, if visit


ors are coming, if any of the relatives
are dead, and man. other things hardly


known to the nearest neighbor. An


envelope Is nothing but an envelope to
you: You may criticise the hand


writing and the orthogrcphy. but be-
yond that you care nothing. To the
letter-carrler it is book. He knows
when father and mother are coming
where a truant boy is-whether the
family is respected or not-and Sarah's
beau cannot blind the carrier by get
ting some one else to direct the en-
velOpe.


One day one of the oldest carriers
had q letter left over after he had gone
his usual round. 1t was directed to a
woman living in q little old house stand
ing back from the street, and as he
studied the address be said to himself
that he never had an epistle for her be-
lore IN all the SIX or seven years he had
been on the route. The postmark was
that of an Office in the east and the
carrier mused to himself:


" This is from her son, and she will
be crying before I am out of sight"


He delivered the letter to a white
faced woman of sixty, who seemed to
be living all alone, and she looked sur
prised as he placed it in her hand.


" A letter for mel haven't a relative
on earth!'' she gasped.


But he left it with her.


In about three weeks second letter
came, and the old lady opened the door
before the carrier was inside the gate.
She did not say that it was from her
son, but the carrier knew for all that.
and be hoped that the truant boy had
settled down Tor life, and was writing
cheerful words and sending aid to his
poor old mother. Regularly every
three weeks, for half year or more,
there came q fat-looking letter for the
cid woman in the little cabin; and if
the letter was day late her white
lace at the window reprOached the
carrier more than words could have
done. Ii it was day earlier she was
at the door to meet him, knowing his
step from all others who passed that
way.


The other day, when the carrier
found the buff envelope, directed in the
old, familiar, cramped hand, he said to
himself:


" will hurry around to day, for the
asst time [ saw her she seemed i'll and
weak, and a letter will give her new
strength"


He opened the gate with bang to
give her warning, but no white face ap-
oeared at the window, and no hand
'alsed the door-latch. The carrier
Oh the door for the first time,
ind after moment woman opened it
IND said:


:" She is dead, and she hasn't a relative
Il this city"


Among the letters to go to the dead
etter office next week will be one across
whose face is written whole chapters in
hrce words, Dead-not delivered."
IN Old woman has passed AWAY cot
age is deserted-a letter returned. The
world will see nothing in these simple
acts, but yet in them is contained ali
he sentiment God has ever given TO
ny human heart.
Year: 1879

GEORGE NJ. BEARD declares that
americans are growing more plump
and beautiful with increasing prosperity
and leisure, and pictures to himself an
ideal state of society, in which the
wealthy few will be occupied in ad-
yancing the temporal welfare of the
needy many.
Year: 1879

the Little Rock railroad sent out its
last train. Al noon, the authorities of
that city have notified the railroad Off
cials that quarantine would be estab-
lished on all trains leaving Memphis
after that hour.
Year: 1879

PHILADELPHIA Chronicle: Short dresses
are now all the rage in Paris. This is
glorious rews for the American wo-
men who have grown left handed in the
back from STOPPING over to pick up
their trails
Year: 1879

A GENERAL western practice is to
plant corn On stubble land. The in
creasing use of artificial fertilizers has
shown that we may often ignore rota-
tions, and repeat the same crops when
we desire to do SO. English farmers
arc depending less upon (" rotation" and
our farmers are losing faith in the ne
cessity for it. Experience is showing
that we can supply the soil with the el-
ements needed to grow any crop what
ever without regard to its previous con-
dition, and that as good and profitable
crop Ct corn may be grown upon stub
BILE as upon sod.
Year: 1879

Senator Hill of Georgia, has recently
made flaming speech against paying
any of the 80 called Southern war claims;
and his course seems to have received
the endorsement of the Dem ocratic press
of his State. For example the Atlanta
CONSTITUTION says that he has Gun
doubtedly struck the key mote of Demo
cratic policy; ''let them all, whether loyal
or disloyal, be bundled up and burned,
and by so much do We put the past be-
hind US" The Augusta Chronicle says:
"Mr. Hill appears to have produced a
sensation by his recent speech in opposi
tion to the payment of war claims. What
is better, he has done wise and timely
thing" The Evening News of the same
city says that these claims are repudiated
by the great mass of honest Southerners,
and adds ''Mr. Hill is right, ard we
earnestly hope no Southern man in Con-
gress will ever again vote to pay loyal
Southern claim and prevent the North





Times says: : ''Surely no representative
of the South after having been compelled
to repudiate all the war debts OF his own
section, both Confederate and State, can
feel any compunctions of conscience in
taking a stand now, fourteen years after
the close of the war, against the payment
of any more claims against the Federal
Government for damages during the war,
whether the claimant be loyal or disloy-
al" But there is a claim which the
South should with equal unanimity main
tain. 1t is to be treated as aquals in the
Union, with the full right to the control
of their own affairs subject to the limi
tations of the Constitution, aud pro-
portional share of the benefits of the
common governm ent for the maintenance
of which, her people are cheerfully
bearing their portion of the burden.
Year: 1879

The trial of Maj. J. L. Wofford, upon the
grave charge of assault with intent to kill
and murder Maj. Willis, commenced at
o'clock on Wednesday, and was concluded
at late hour the same night, and the jury
returned verdict the following morning
OF not guilty Record.


This is an agreeable announcement to
Mai Wofford's numerous friends and
relatives in this part of the State. He
stands acquitted by jury of his peers
of the charge which was alleged against
him, and the consequences of which he
has met like the brave man that he is
1t has been the misfortune of Maj
Woford not to agree politically with
The CLARION and the party with which
we are identified, since the war, but there
has been no other cause of arrangement.
We have not forgotten that he is a
Mississippian who bore himself with
Spartan courage in the war for Southern
independence, and that he imperilled
life, and all, in the good cause.
Year: 1879

A CORRESPONDENT has called our at.
tention to an inquiry propounded direct.
ly to The CLARION by the Carroll Con
servative some weeks ago, on the subject
of Constitutional Convention. Frank
ly, we will reply, we think it is about
time to supercede the instrument con.
trived by the aliens who controlled the
so called Constitutional Convention OF
1868, with an organic law framed by
people, and for the people. We have
not time to give the reasons for the faith
that is in us; and don't propose to agi-
tate the subject at present to any great
extent to the neglect of other topics; bui
really it is time for the people of Missis-
sippi t.. begin to think
Year: 1879

In his recent message to the Legisla-
ture of Indiana, Gov Williams makes
this reference to the silver bill, and the
resolutions of the Legislature on that
subject one year ago:


congratulate you that the instruction to
our Senators and Representatives, conveyed
by joint resolution, requesting them "tO
use all lawful means to procure the speedy
enactment of law of Congress restoring
the legal tender quality of the silver dollar
OF che coinage of 1892, and making the same
a legal tender for the payment of all debts,
public and private, except as otherwise
provided bv law" has aided in the restora-
ton of our original unit of value, by an act
of Congress to which they gave their sup
port. Sustained by its original double me-
talie stand. our financial system gives
promise of greater stability than when de-
prived of its support;


How dare he, and the Legislature use
the term instruction." Why did they
not say, suggestion" or rather "bum-
BILE petition" of the principal to the agent
the master to the servant?
Year: 1879

The Gazette, an able Democratic
Weekly, published in Washington City,
pays this tribute to the able member
from the Sd Mississippi District


The most valuable member in Congress is
Hon. H. ID. Money of Mississippi. He is
handy to have in the House; and in order
to correct any false impressions that may
go abroad, | wish to say when people re-
mark that money is tight il does not refer
to the popular member from the above
named state.


The same paper contains the follow
ing reference TO his speech on the Chi
nese immigration question


The speech of the Hon. H. D. Money, de-
migration Question: is one of the most
forcible of the session. 1t literally exhausts
the subject, and presents in space less
than one-half of that which most of our
public men would have consumed, the
whole attitude of the two great political
parties towards this all-important ques-
tion. 1t abOunds in the shrewdest social
and political philosophy. and is, in fact, the
one speech needful to establish a popular
estimate of Democratic consistency on the
entire race question. 1t will give US Califor-
MIA beyond peradventuTe, because it shows
that the Democracy have always been right,
and in alignment with the popular opinion,
on this subject, of the Pacific coast, and the
best interests of the country.
Year: 1879

We intend to hand over couple Of
columns of our paper next week to one
of the pithiest, most pointed, practical
and statesmanlike speeches ever delivered
ie the House fRepresentatives-that Of
Mr.. Money of our Sd District, on the
improvement of the River system.
Year: 1879

That ignorance is at the bottom of fanat-
iciSm has been eXemplitied anew in the
plague-smitten villages near Astrachan'
The populace have massacred the doctors
BECAUSE il was believed that they were
poisoning their patients.-Exchange.


This reminds US that in this place dur
ing the plague last fall, colored yellow
fever subjects implored the attending
physician not to call in consulting ply
sicians They suspected that the object OF
consultation was to kill and have them
buried quickly, to prevent the disease
from spreading.
Year: 1879

On our first page, we have repro
.duced the speeches of Messrs. Chalmers
Singleton and Hooker, in reply to Mr..
Bragg of Wisconsin. Our members
spoke well, and for the most part wisely,
and appeared to decided advantage.
They warded off the danger of an angry
sectional dispute and treated the RePub-
licans who expected a different result,
to a sad disappointment. OF course we
do not wish to be understood as endors-
ing all that was said by our members.
For example we are utterly opposed to
the project of blending the building of
an extreme Northern Pacific Railroad
with a Railroad on the line of the 32nd
parallel and the fact had escaped US that
such scheme had ever been endorsed by
any convention of the Democratic party
in Mississippi. The North has already
system of direct Railroad connection
with the Pacific coast, built at govern
ment expense The project of road on
the 32nd parallel, terminating on the
eastern bank of the lower Mississippi,
should be built on its own superior
merits considered in its national aspects,
and as n measure of justice to the South


The discussion which was so happily
closed by the tact and conservative
spirit of our Southern members, and
which at one time threatened seriou:
results to the integrity of the grand
party upon which the hope of the South
depends for protection from vindictivt
gislation-reminds US of the saying oi
the Wise Man, "Behold what a great
fire little matter kindleth " 1t grew
out of a Southern war claim the merits
of which consisted in the we'll estab
lished, intense loyalty of the claimant
1t was proven that he had furnished
supplies to the Union army when it cam
South with torch and sword on its mis-
sion of devastation. That he hated tn
Confederacy, and prayed constantly and
fervently for its downfall. C4ndidly, a:
much as we cherish the Democratic par
ty of the Union and as devotedly as ",
hope for its triumph, we would see i
shattered into fragments on a question
invol wing the equal political rights o
the sovereign States of our own section
but we will never consent to imperil it
existence upon such an issue as the on
presented in the so called ''claim" which
gave rise to this debate.
Year: 1879

J. H. Field, of Columbus. testified: He
did not know ofa instance of intimidation
or attempt to prevent any one from voting /;
the election was sought to be conducted in
a pleasant way, in accordance with the
principales OF right and Justice, though ac-
lively and energetically he did not agree
with General Davis's unfavorable estimate
of the negro; those of good conduct and in
teilIgence have the regard Of the people
generally.


Senator Garland: Are your people will
ling to accord the black man all his rights
under the Constitution?


A. think they are, with this modifica-
ton, namely; the white people generally
would dissuade the negro by kind and con-
cilIatory means from having any thing to do
with politics, while they would not exclude
him from doing SO. l think our people are
against limitation of suffrage or taking suf-
frage away from them.


Senator Garland asked if Senators Kirk
wood and Teller should go to Mississippi
and make Republican speeches how would
they be received and treated?


A. l think the people would warmly
welcome them as coming with honest intent
% investigate the condition of affairs: ouT
people have endeavOred to induce the best
class OF Republicans to visit our section.
that the low degradation in the condition
OF the coored people might be improved
colonel Muidrow was elected owing to his
popularity; the election was as peaceful as
any lie had hetore wituessed, and he neither
knew nor heard of complaints Of intimida-
ton or ball0t-b X stuffiag


Captain w. w. Humphreys testified: The
late election was more peaceable and quiet
than usual: nobody was prevented from
voting; he thought it was as fair and hon
est an election as anv In the State: there
was no disposition to deprive the colored
man of any of his rights, except, perhaps
on the part of few extreme men freedom
OF speech and the press was fully recOg-
nized In Mississippi, and any man could
make speech there, provided it was not
calculated to create breach of the peace
he believed that the principal reason the
people desired the colorea men to vote was
to increase the Southern representation Ia
Congress.
Year: 1879

so far as the bad weather permits are get
ting ready for the next crop. There is a
determination among them to plant more
sugar cane and make more molasses than
they did last year. They are not banking
so heavy on cotton at eight cents pound.
There was good many patches" of up
land rice grown last year. and l think there
will be great many more this year.


Pike county farmers are beginning to
learn that the more they raise at home to
eat, the less they will have to buy; and
that home raised sugar, molasses and rice
to say nothing of ''hog and hominy,'' are
quite as good as "store bought" articles of
the same kind. Our Circuit Court meets
next Monday at Magnolia Speaking of
Magnolia, reminds me that that thriving
place received quite an accession to its
citizens few weeks since in the persons of


GEN. WRIT ADAMS


and his family, who recently removed from
Mississippi City to that place, The General
is away from home most of the time
canVassing for that magnificent work, the
life of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston. But
| hope that he will be so we'll pleased with
his new home that for many years to come
Pike county may claim him as one of her
stalwart citizens.
Year: 1879

Dispatches announce that twenty
hive hundred tons OF rail have been
purchased and ordered shipped at
once to Eastern Washington Terri
tory to commence building eastward
from the head of navigation on the
Columbia. 1t is expected that the
work begun at both ends of the
louse will not stop until the entire
North Pacific road is completed.
Year: 1879

10 enable him To comply with the re-
ouirements OF this section. The num-
bsr of registers which may be necessary
to the proper registration OF the sales OF
each licensed dealer shall be determined
by the Assessor OF the district in which
such dealer resides. Every register
shall be locked after each inspection by
the Assessor, and the key retained IN
his possession, and he shall seal
the register after each inspection in
such manner as the Auditor may direct


The character of the lock and seal re-
quired by this section shall be pre-
scribed by the said Auditor.


SKc. 3. After the register or registers
provided for in the next preceding sec
ton shall have been placed IN the bar
room or place III business Of retail
dealer. il shall be the duty Of such retail
dealer, his agent, servant or emplUye,
Immediately ON the sale, barter or gllt
OF every half pint or fraction thereof OF
spirituOus liquors, wine or drink OF like
nature, or any mixture thereof, whether
then paid for or not, in the presence otthe
purchaser or person tO whom 1t Is de
lANtIEtA W AAlN ~ ain VI hAAS
register until the bell has rung once and
the Indicator on the dial Of the register
has moved one point or number Tor
each half pint or fraction thereof so sold,
bartered or given away, up to and IN
Guiding five gallons. IL shall IN like
manner DO the duty of the retail dealer,
his agent, servant or employe, imme-
mediately on the sale, barter, or gitt at
every half pint or fraction thereof,
Oi ale, beer, porter, or drink ot
like nature, or any mixture thereof,
whether then paid for or not,
in the presence OF the purchaser or per
son to whom it is delivered, tn turn the
crank Of the malt liquor register until
the bell has rung once, and the lndlca-
tor on the dial has moved one point or
number for each half pint or fraction
thereof SO sold, bartered or given away,
up to and including five gallons. II any
half pint or fraction thereof, herein re-
uuired To be- registered, shall be divided
among two or more persons, AMI drunk
upon the premises where sold, such half
pint or traction thereof shall be regis
tered once for each OF said persons.


The following table is appended for
the better illustration OF the scale OF as
sassment, tn be used bv officers acting
under the provisions of this section:
Year: 1879

NEwBuRG, February 26.-lsaac Nor
riS, aged seventy years Was run over by
an engine here this afternoon and IN
stantiy killed. lie was walking on the
track toward home, and stepped off on
another track to get out Of the way OF
the train coming west, and an engine
coming irom the rual-shutcs backed over
him
Year: 1879

TO REMOVE DANDRUFF.-To remove
dandruff tako an ounce of powdered borax,
piece Of unslakcd lime the size Of chest.
nut, and tablespoonful Of spirits Of am
monia put them i'll quart tile and fill
it up with boiled or pump water After
twelve hours apply this wash to the scalp.
Ladies can apply it best with finc sponge.
Rinse with tcpid water. After few APP
pications the scales will disappear, the hair
becomes soft and brilliant, and the young
hair be seen to start out Dandruff should
be cured gradually, so as not to pro.
duco sick headache or dizziness by its
sudden suppression. -Eachangc.
Year: 1879

LINIMENT FOR STANDARDIZATION
parts hartshorn, sweet oil, chloroform, spir-
its of ammonia dip into this cotton cloth
doubled the size Of dollar; lay it on the
spot where the pain is, and hold another
cloth over it to conline the fumes. DO not
let it remain on long at one time, or it will
cause blister Shake the bottle well and
keep corkcd tight. Also, good for rlIeuma-
tism Mrs. Mary Olin; in GcrmUtown
Telegraph.
Year: 1879

The Common Council, Mt its second bout
with the annual appropriations yesterday,
fell afoul Of tho question Of yiatlucts. There
is scarcely an Alderman in tho Council but
could If he tried name o few streets TINT would
bo improved in this way, and it certainly
seems aa though they were MI trying to think
OF MS many stscots as possible to provide for
in tho ordinance. There arc few wnya III
which million Of dollars can bo 1nalo to
look slender md cmaclated quicker tliau by
this riyAlrY in tho Mattnr Of riaillinta.
Year: 1879

people, uniformly and persistently,
have refused to be pacified, pleased or
conciliated. They are solely responsible
for whatever ill-feeling exists between
the two regions. -..,--...- ..-.-


We could have had peace if we had
consented to pay for it, the price which
they demanded, which was that we
should surrender the best fruits of that
victory to gain which we shed rivers of
valiant blood and expended nearly
three thousand millions of money. The
Republican antagonism of the South is
nothing more than refusal to pay such
a price. We have given the South
much, but we cannot give her every
thing. While the people forbid free
speech and free ballot, while they ex-
clude the entire negro population from
exercise of its rights, while they use
shot-guns to send to Congress to make
laws for US rebels who represent mi
nority of the voters, while they hold the
entire political field by violence for a
single party, there will never be ces-
sation of agitation in this region. The
bloody shirt will be waved persistently
because it is red with the blood of inno-
cent American citizens; the outrage
business will be thrust into every can
vass because the South is kept solid for
the Democratic party by means of out
rage. The Republicans of the North
cannot be warmed with indignation
over an imaginary condition of things.
They are not fools to be deluded by lies
or to be incensed by cheat. They
know that these things are true and
real. They do not hate the Southern
people, but they do hate their methods
and crimes.-Philddelphia Bulletin.
Year: 1879

NY W SfO,OUO,OOO, WHICH ndNc UccH
held by Southern leaders, have been
repudiated. Nor is there any honesty
in the plea that property owners can
not make money any longer because
they own no slaves, because it has been
abundantly demonstrated that the free
colored man produces more by his la
employer, than the slave ever did. The
trouble lies further back. Wherever
slavery existed, there the moral sense
was so blunted and benumbed, by the
wholesale robbery of the earnings of
labor, that the white population as a
whole is to this day incapable of that
sense of honor which prevails else
where.


1t is not to be said, with regret it
must be admitted, that all repudiators
not far from the truth, that all South
comprehension of the simplest princi-
Piles of financial integrity, this slave
holding and slave driving people. They
show it as well in their relations with
the Federal Government as in their To-
cal affairs. Some consideration has been
felt for them, in respect to the United
States debt, because that debt was in
Cured in putting down their rebellion.
But it may well be doubted whether men
who repudiate almost every legal debt
ever could have been faithful to Ma
tional obligation o. any sort. They love
their States and do not love the Nation.
Their love for their States does not re-
strain their polluting hands when there
is q chance to make money by robbing
the creditors of those States. Their
want of love for the Union only lends
zest and boldness to repudiating spirit
which would exist in any case.


For the Northern people there is one
question: Can we afford to trust the
honor and prosperity of the Union to
to this generation of repudiators known
as the solid South.-N. Y. TribNne.