smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

n


ERAL INSTANCES OF DEMOCRATIC WRONG


DOING.


IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUEEl


WASHINGTON, April 2s.-some of Mr.. Glover's
assistants have evidently been throwing dust into
his eyes i'll regard to their own records as devel-
Oped from time to time by Republican witnesses be-
fore his committee.


Yesterday Mr. Glover summoned newspaper cor
respondent to make answer for one of his dispatches
about these assistants aud confronted him with a
long list of questions which had been prepared with
which TO confound the Witness But instead of
overthrOwing the statements of the dispatch which
related to the curious smuggling job alleged to have
been set up in Canada and New-YOrk by Moore and
Bell the witness. who had seen the papers in the
Treasury Department gave Mr. Glover the details
as heretofore published. He said in addition that
after Mr. GlOvers assistant Moore in bis former ca
pacity Of Treasury agent, had caused goods to be
purchased in Canada with Government money and
to be snuggled into New-York, he then turned in
former, and had the goods he had thus smuggled
seized and sold, and collected nfOrmers fees upon
them. He said further that in the formal informa-
tiOn Moore filed he declared the goods to be the prop
erty of one Charles b. Spencer. when he well knew
that this was the false name assumed by Bell
who was acting as his confederate in the Job.
The next feature of the examination had for Its
object the establishment of an accusation made by
assistant Moore that papers relating 10 himself had
been stolen from the Treasury files The result in
this case, as in the former, was to embalm in the
records of the House the story that Moore had tried
to fix false charge of murder Raymond II.
Perry, of Rhode Island, and to effect his kidnapping
and Imprisonment in Texas.


TO the general question (which Mr.. Glover asks
all Wltnesses) whether the correspondent knew of
aly frauds or abuses in the Treasury. the witness
SAID be only recolleced one and that was the waste
OF public money in printing at considerable cost
compilation made by Alexander Delmar, an expert
OIL a Democratic Committee in the last House, from
most absurd collection of statistics prepared by
Professor Wilcox one of Mr.. GlOvers assistants
This compilation proved so mOnstrous in its alb
snrdities, the witness explained, that the whole
edition all Of il that could be obtained was
burned by order of the Secretary. The witness was
thereupon discharged, leaving about half the ques
tions On the list unasked.
Year: 1878

lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUSEl


WASHINGTON, April 2S.-Gencral Pope says, in a
private letter, that he thinks that the Ftz John
Porter inquiry recently ordered is only just TO Cen
eral Porter and that lie should be allowed to have
the action of the cOurt-martial examined in the
light of the new evidence which he expects TO pre-
sent General Pope says that he urged General
Grant three wears ago to permit the inquiry with
view TO revision of the sentence of the court; and
now that the investigation has been ordered il will
be a question of grave importance 10 learn whether
the court-martial OF General Porter is to be under
tIIal
Year: 1878

which the inference is drawn that those coins are being
imported freely from Mexico and put into clrculhtop'
As they are legal tender in the United States per
sons who accept them at their nominal value do 80 at
their own risk. Their value bullion Ia at present
about 90 cents.
Year: 1878

BOILED ToNGUE.-In choosing
tongue, ascertain how long it has been
dried or picked, and select one with
amooth skin, which denotes its being
young and tender. II a dried one and
rather hard, soak it at least for twelve
hours previous to cooking 1t If, how
ever, il is fresh from the pickle, two or
three hours viii be sufficient for it to re-
main in soak. Put the tongue into a
stew.pan with plenty of cold water and
a bunch of savory herbs let it gradually
come TO boil, skim well, and simmer
very gently until tender Peel OFF the
skin, garnish with tufts of cauliflower or
Brussels sprouts, and serve, Boiled
tongue is frequently sent to the table
with boiled poultry instead of ham, and
is by many persons preferred. If to serve
cold, peel 1t, fssten it down to piece of
board by sticking fork through the root,
and another through the top to
strengthen it. When cold, glaze it and
put paper ruche around the root and
garnish with tufts of parsley. Cook a
large smoked tongue tour to four and
one.half hours and small enc two and
one-hslf to three hours; large un-
soaked tongue three to three and one
half hours ; a small one two 10 two and
one-hslf hours Christian Advocate.
Year: 1878

The National Live Stock Journal says:
All herbivorous animals, when first
turned out on the succulent spring grass,
are liable to be severely purged; and if
this is allowed TO go on to excess, intism-
nation of the stomach or bowels, or
chronic securing or dysentery, is not an
uncommon result. The secret of pre-
venting such untoward results consists
ia making the transition from the dry
winter feeding to the aqueous grass a
SOW and gradual process. No stomach
can bear an abrupt and extreme change
of aliment, and sudden overlooking
with new and unwonted kind OF food,
without a serious strain. We should
not, therefore, turn out either horse or
sheep with an empty stomach. First
give a good feed of grain or hay, and
when the appetite has been satisfied
turn out on the young grass. Then,
after two or three hours picking at grass,
for it will net now be devoured in the
ravenous manner it otherwise would be,
drive them back to their yards and al
low the rest OF the day for rumination
or digestion, with access to their old
winter fare, should the psngs of hunger
return. Let the same be repeated on
the second day; after which the grass
should have made its way through the
slimentary canal, the digestive organs
should have become accustomed to the
altered stimulus, and the stock may be
left at pasture without danger. One
other precaution should be observed !;
do not turn out stock, and especially
ruminants, on the grass when still wet
with dew or rain. This precaution is
especially necessary in the case of red or
white clover.
Year: 1878

Many people find their only happiness
in feioiDg themselves to be unhappy.


In order to enjoy the present, it is
necessary to be intent on the present.
To be doing one thing and thinking OF
another is very unsatisfactory mode OF
spending life.


Would you be exempt from uneasi'
ness, do nothing that you know or sus'
pect to be wreng. Would you enjoy the
purest pleasure, do everything in your
power which you are convinced is right


We rise ourselves by sdoring tkat
which is better than we are. II is the
one virtue of the soul which is always
tending upward by its proper motion -
upward to something higher, purer
better James Freeman Clarke.


The rainbow is beautiful, but without
storm, without a passing cloud, without
descending raindrops, it does not appear
1t comes after darkness and gloom, anc
the contrast makes its light the more
charming and attractive. patterson,


Men talk too much about the world
Each one of us here, let the world 90 a.
il will, and be victorious or not victori
Gus, has he not life OF his own to lead
One life, little CLEAN OF time betweer
two eternities; no second chance TO III
foreveTmore.


The wind is unseen, but it cools 1.-THE
brow of the fevered one, sweetens the
summer atmosphere, and ripples the
surface of the lake into silver spaDgle'
of beauty. SO goodness OF heart, though
invisible to the material eye, makes it'
presence felt and from its effect upor
surrounding things we are assured of iti
exiatepca
Year: 1878

Formerly the greater part of the wool
in the knitting factories at Cohoes came
from Australia. A few years ago sam
pies OF California wool were tried and
found to be of superior quality, though
so dirty that half the freight charges
were paid for dirt. To remedy this
defect, large wool securing establishments
were opened in California, and ever
since then they have been sending clean
wool, saving not only halt the cost OF
freight, but placing the Cohoes manu-
facturer in possession of better article
than Australia could furnish. As a
natural consequence the Australian wool
10 now entirely discarded. Sheep raising
is wonderfully increasing in Oregon, and
the prospect is that in few years the
Pacific coast will have a monopoly of the
wool trade.
Year: 1878

A writer in the Southern Farmer says
that his COW gives all the milk that is
wanted in family Of eight, and that
from it, after taking all that is required
for other purposes, two hundred and
sixty pounds of butter were made this
year. This is in part his treatment of
the COW. If You desire to get large
yield of rich milk, give your COW every
day water slightly warm and slightly
salted in which bran has been stirred at
the rate of one quart 10 two gallons OF
water. You viii find If you have not
tried this daily practice, that your COW
will give twenty-five per cent more
milk Immediately under the effects of
it, and she will become so attached to
the diet as to refuse to drink clear water
unless very thirsty. But this mess she
will drink almost any time, and ask for
more. The amount of this drink neces>
sary is an ordinary water pailful at a
time, morning, noon and night"
Year: 1878

There is one fact very amusing to the
cynical lookers-on at the national capi-
tai. This is the gorgeous and costly raj
ment which the male and female Jen-
kinses make their favorites wear. 1t is
all pure invention We knew a little
modest, bright.eyed girl who read de-
scription of herself in journal one morn
ing shortly after her appearance in Wash
ington, and WAS first amazed and then
chagrined at The account, thinking the
ready writer was making sport of her.
She cried over the matter for an hour,
refusing to be comtWted. The daughter
of newly created official with but two
gowns-beg pardon, dresses--and those
village made, she could not comprehend
the fact that she wore a real Worth the
night before. "The vile wretch" cried
feminine fashionable correspondent,
referring thereby TO a society woman
who had Slighted her, "this is my reward
for torturing my Imagination and tear
ing up my conscience in making dresses
for her, the miserable dowdy !"- Wash
ington Capital.
Year: 1878

bers in the House and ask them to
either kill the bill in that body or ma
terially amend it, The most deserv-
ing men in the state Of legislative
aid, encouragement and protection,
are the men whose industry and en-
terprise have turned the wilderness
into a garden. It is safe to say that
three-fourths OF the men who raised
last years magnificent crop of forty
million bushels of wheat were debt
ors, with their farms mortgaged.
Shall we legislate in the interest of
these men, or in the interest Of other
classes. however worthy personally,
who simply hold the relation to socie-
ty which the bed-bug holds to the
bedstead:-they find in it a place of
shelter where they can suck and sleep
in safety.
Year: 1878

Our readers will be glad to see that
the amendments to the Merrill Text
book law passed the senate last week
after IL terrific battle. We publish
elsewhere stenographic report OF
our remarks on that occasion, taken
from the st. Paul Dispatch.


The bill is now in the House and
will probably reach a vote on Friday
next. 1t will ne passed if the Book
Ring do not buy up considerable
number of those now regarded rs
friends to the law.


The people should write their mem.
bers to stand firm. A great effort is
being made to make it appear that the
law is unpopular.
Year: 1878

as you will, use all manner of means
to cover your designs, just so long as
we are ruled us we have been, Just SO
long will labor go begging.


Can it be the love of Office that makes
so many Of our petty officersan "tfice'
seekers cling to the monied power,
when it is painfully evident that we
are drifting to destruction ut Il fear
fully rapid rate?'


That reminds us Of an article the
other day in one Of our st Paul daily
papers; it was headed s'a good chance
for tramps;;'' and it went on to show
how two young men had bought d
farm for s2400 in Dodge county and
what large crops they had raised, etc
etc.


Fancy s'tramps' buying a farm or
time and waiting for year to raise
something to eat.


Verify, the breed of fools never will
he extinct.
Year: 1878

We call special attention to the
address of the chairman OF the State
Central Committee of the Greenback
Party, lion. E. Ayres, which ap-
pears elsewhere in this issue. Its
recommendations are wise and timely.
Year: 1878

Among the most trustworthy tests of
good home training, is placed that of table
manners; and no individual can hope to
acquire and to keep them who knows any
difference in them when IN the privacy
of the family circle than when in com
pany. The properly trained youth does
not annoy those next to whom he sits by
idgeting in his chair, moving his feet,
playing with his bread, or with any of
the table equipage. Neither does he
chew his food with his mouth open, talk
with it in his mouth, or make any of
those noises in eating which are the
characteristics OF vulgarity. His food is
not conveyed in too large or too small
portions to his mouth; he neither holds
his head erect as if he had swallowed a
ramrod, nor does he bury his face in his
plate He handles his knife and fork
properly, and not overland, y as clown
would; he removes them from the plate,
as soon as it is placed before him, and
he places them side by side when he has
finished, and not before. as this is the
signal which well-drilled butler OBJ
serves for removing the plate He does





his cup. He avoids using his handker-
chief unnecessarily, or disgusting those
who are eating by trumpet-like perform
ances with it. He does not converse in
loud tone, nor indulge in uproarious
laughter. If he breaks an article he is
not profuse in his apologies, but shows
his regret in his face and in his man
ners rather than in words. Some writer
has said: AS it is i'll hammered to ex-
press too much regret so it is the essence
of rudeness not to make any apology"
Tittlebat Titmouse, when he broke
glass dish, assured his hostess that he
would replace it with the best in London.
This was rather too practical form of
showing his sincerity.


The well-bred youth breaks his bread
instead OF cutting it, taking care not to
crumble it in slovenly way, he takes
his wine holding his glass by the stem,
and never drains it, He does not take
wine that he does not want because he
is too timid to refuse, nor does he hest
tate to pass any course of which he does
not wish to partake, instead of playing
with it as writer on table etiquette ad-
vises. He swallows his food before he
leaves the table, and sees no occasion
for astonishment because eating in the
street is forbidden All the details of
good breeding are as familiar to him as
his alphabet, and he has been taught to
think that attention to details in all
things is the true sign of great mind,
and that he who can, in necessity, con-
slider the smallest, can also compass the
largest subjects.
Year: 1878

Fruit, if eaten at seasonable hours,
furnishes all the acid which the system
requires When there is craving for
sour food, for pickles or for lemons, it
is generally a strong indication that the
system has real need Of acids, and
lemons or vinegar are sometimes the
best medicine to cure biliousness and
restore the failing appetite. A year
ago l saw a child pass through one of
these poor spells. He lost his appetite
and could not bear the sight or smell of
food, until he caught sight of dish Of
dried-apple sauce, and then he was pos
sessed with desire for some of the
juice. This seemed to refresh him, and
he ate for his next meal bread soaked
in the juice of stewed dried apples.
After that, canned tomato, cooked with
bread, helped forward the cure. Before
this illness, he had for few weeks liv-
ed almost entirely without fruit, con-
trary to his usual habit. Fresh fruit,
eaten without sugar, and uncooked, is
best 1t made into pastry, the i'll effect
of the pie crust is often greater than
the good effect of the fruit inside the
pie. AS for the fruit sauce on the ia


bic, it is better than heavy supper of
meat, but there is some sense in the
old saying, that Fruit is golden in the
morning, silver at noon, and lead at
night" Perhaps any kind of fruit or
vegetables may be used to excess, or in
too large proportion as compared with
the rest of the diet. Certainly acids
should be used in moderation, especial
ly the strong kinds. Because the juice
Of lemon may be an excellent cure for
biliousness or fatulence or for other
diseases, it by no means follows that
SCHOOLGIRLS can thrive upon their daily
use. But, used moderately the good ef-
fects Of acids can scarcely be counted.
Year: 1878

There is a notion prevalent among
many of those who, having escaped or
freed themselves from the trammels of
breeding for pedigree, and turned their
attention to the personal properties of
the ANIMAL that it is impossible to per-
manently combine milk and flesh. They
admit that occasionally you will find a
grazier's COW of the first class filliug the
dairyman's pail, or prime dairy COW
becoming the dam of prime steers; but
they say, with much truth, that great
production of milk, as rule, is found
in cOnnectiog with a narrow, wedg like
fore end, high and thin chine. and light
thighs; and that as you increase the
width OF the chest and the development
OF flesh in the crops and rounds, you
lose milk. They have in their favor
the experience of every one who is
judge of a dairy COW. and against
such a weight of incontestible
evidence it is difficult to reply; nor
do we attempt to dispute their position,
SO far. The rule must be granted but
the art OF breeding is TO win from nature
new rules out Of EXCEPTIONS and this is
to be done by working upon the princi-
pie Of selection. We have seen in the
same COW, in many instances, such a
cow producing her like; and if this oc-
ours in exceptional cases, which are not
rare, we may surely hope that by care
ful exercise of mans judgment it may
be made to occur still oftener, and to be-
come eventually (under continued care
ful breeding) as powerful as that law
which separates dairy and grazing cattle
into two classes In this respect, we
fear we must own, the movement of
short-horn breeders has been retrograd-
ing within the last fifty years. We
have lost much of what early breeders
gained. Suppose we try to recover it.
Ii so, we must go back to their practice
relentlessly weed out alike all bad milk
ers, all narrow-chested brutes. and all
bad thrivers, and aim to make each sue
ceeding generation better than the last.
1t is worth while to inquire why mixers
are usually wedgy and shelly, and why
broad built, wealthy COWS are usually
no mixers; and is there any necessary
connection between the wedge form and
milk, the parallelogram and inability to
milk? The true answer, we believe,
must remind us that where the milking
tendencies have been encouraged, milk
alone not beef, having been the object
of the breeder, the frame to carry beef
having been utterly neglected; moreover,
excessive milking through several gen
erations, draining the animals system,
may impair the vital organs and cause
the frame to fit itself to their reduced
size. On the other hand, where beef
has been the main desideratum, all the
breeder skill has been concentrated in
an effort to produce it, and milk, treat
ed as of secondary consideration, or of
no consideration at all, has decreased
and almost disappeared The early
short-horn breeders made the strongest
effort Of which we are aware in the his
tory of stock breeding in any country
to produce combined milk and beef
growing animal, and they attained to
measure of success which we in these
days, if we were sufficiently skillful and
sufficiently careful, building upon their
work. might even surpass.-BelTs Mes
senger (Eng)
Year: 1878

He was an old gray headed man and
he was sitting on dry goods box. His
two remaining teeth which looked like
lone stumps in the mouth of a river,
elected some comment from dentist
which provoked the old man to divulge
his superior knowledge of dentistry as
follows: Now, l knowed a gal back
east who had tooth that was all holler,
and | took some lint and burned it to
get the lie, and then l took and scraped
a lot more up fine, and rammed it into
the tooth clean down to the marrer. I
saw her ten years arter and she said her
tooth hadn't hurt her mite since l
fixed it. That's true, by gum And
the old man slowly got up and remarked,
Wall, must be goin' along turreds
hum"
Year: 1878

ACCORDING to the last report of the
Commissioner of Education, the total
school population of the States and
Territories in 1876 was 1906, 158, num-
Der between 6 and 16 years of age 1O,-
853, 800, and the number enrolled in the
public schools 1926, ,185. Now if the
number enrolled be taken from the
school population. we have 5, ,48O,873 not
attending school, or more than one-third
of those for whom schools are provided
by the State. But if, on the ground
that school age in most of the States in
cludes several years, during which per-
sons may be absent from school and
still have acquired fair elementary ed
ucation, we take the number enrolled
from the number between 6 and 16years
of age, we still have 2,O28, ,2O5 receiving
no instruction during the year.


Having made these calculations, Com
missioner Eaton remarks: after all
the possible errors and imperfections in
these figures as basis of consideration
have been eliminated, it is clear that
not far from one-ffth Of our youth who
should be under instruction are contin-
uously without it. How little benefit
some may derive who are included
among the enrolled will be seen when it
is remembered that as rule none are
stricken from the enrolment who have
been in school single week, and fur
ther looking into the column of average
duration of school in days in the several
States, and the column of average at
tendance in those States able to report
our estimate of culture attained is fur
ther reduced. Here is a subject for the
reflection of those who believe that ed
ucators are over jealous and are urging
public education to a point beyond
the demands of the country Let
them take this margin of two mil
lions of untutored school population in
country and city, and, following its sew
eral members through life. observe how
large share of the idle, pauper, vicious
and criminal classes are recruited from
the number Of children who make the
difference between the total enrolment
and the average attendance in the sew
eral States. Here is ample room for H.
literate adults, men and women, in all
the pursuits of life; hence come the IL
literate laborer artisan and the agricul-
turlst of unproductive industry; hence
come the illiterate voters, to invite the
tricks of demagogues and imperil our
liberties; hence illiterate jurors and wit
nesses to corrupt the administration of
justice, while too often in our cities
they furnish the inhabitants of the how
els where tester diseases, physical and
moral that endangers all surrounding
life"
Year: 1878

THE Rev. Mr.. Foster says we did not
quote him correctly. We are not in the
habit of disputing in the you did Il
didn't" style. If anyone doubts the cor
rectness of my quotation, let him ask
those who were out to hear Mr. Foster
on that evening. He had a good audi
ence. Did we in our communication
even suggest that Mr. Fosters mother
had a wooden devil to manage, or men,
tion wood, birch or bass in connection
with his name any farther than to rep
resent that his judgment was warped?
AS for sympathy, we look in the die
tionary when we wish to find that, and
feel sure of its genuineness when we
find it there.
Year: 1878

Those who have not great abund-
ance of food for their stock through the
winter, should make timely preparations
for cutting up good supply of corn.
Put up timely and properly, there is no
more healthy food for most animals.
Good corn stocks with the leaves are
much liked by cows, horses and sheep.
They keep the bowels open and in a
healthy condition. They help supply
that variety of food which all animals
like, But they should be put up in
shocks that will stand upright and shed
the rain.-Colman's Rural World