smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877




There is grave and injurious mis-
take prevailing among intelligent men
to the effect that northern industry per
capita or laborer is much more produc-
tive of wealth and comfort than south
ern industry. This matter was referred
to by Col. Killebrew in recent address
before the agricultural convention in
Knoxville; and the superiority of Mas
sachusetts industry over that of Tennes
see is assumed TO be true in an open let
ter addressed to Col. Killebrew by the
Rev. G.. b. Lord, of Blount county, pub
lished in the Knoxville Chronicle, of
October q. The question of state pro-
duetien is of sufficient importance to jus
tify us in mingling in the discussion. Mr..
Lord says:


The lack of wealth to develop tie ma
terial resources of our secTon was fact
urged by you with a good deal of empha-
sis in the address now under review.
The same truth is very forcibly brought
to view in your very able work on the
resources of the state, and is now echoed
and re-echoed from every press and plat
form. now wish to state, and with in
tense emphasis, that there is not wealth
enough in the hands, or within the reach
OF the farming interestSto handle with
efficiency and profit the lands of the
state. The uplands of our state are,
with few exceptions, deteriorating in
quality and value, and this wasting of
our lands, fact fraught with incalcul-
able and even increasing loss, is because
there is not capital enough employed in
them, nor enough invested in
cattle and sheep to make farming profit
able and to enrich the soil. The cease
less piowing, the last resource of an
husbandry, goes on year
after year, wearing out and WASTING the
Year: 1877

p Z. = y 411saJys56 the Indians kindly taught
c0lonists from England settled on James


river. Virginia, how to plant and tend


their great staples, indigenous, appar-


emily, to southern soil. White men con-


graduated themselves that in three years
they were able to plant thirty acres with


their very defective tools to work with


At the first United States census of 1910


there was reported a crop of 377 ,53l ,875


bushels. The present crop is estimated


from twelve to fifteen hundred million


bushels. In the colony of Massachusetts
the Indians planted one or more fish with
each seed ofcorn and the early historians
saw that an acre manured with fish pro-
duced three times as much grain as one
not so fertilized. Thus it appears the
aborigines had learned to manure corn In
the hill before Europeans titled the earth
ia the new world.


An instructive volume might be written
on the best WAYS to raise corn, and trans
form its abundant starch into sugar and
into soluble cum as in making baked
bread. Man once subsisted largely on
hard raw corn, but the law Of human
D pgress did not permit him 10 do so TO
the end of time. All other bipeds and
all quadrupeds are subject to the same
vital law of evolution, and grain is now
cooked as well as grown in fields for mans

animals.


In one thousand pounds of saelled
corn there are about nine hundred and
ninety pounds of organized air and water.
This is the most potent and pregnant
fact in the production and home use of
our great crop of maize. There are bill
ions of money in this seed for the lovers
IF cash.
Year: 1877

"A medical student who got very
drunk one evening told his father next
day that he was suffering from cepha-
lalgy induced by the ductility of a CLAN
diferous stopper placed in the mouth of
a virturous vessel containing distilled
grain" The old man gave him an order
for new suit of clothes, to still further
encourage him in his studies.
Year: 1877

THAT SILVER OLLAk AUAIN,-A OH
is reported rs having passed the House of
Representatives yesterday to compel a GER
tain amount of silver to he taken as legal
tender for dollar whether there is dol
lars worth of silver In or not. mr.,


That is from paper which insisted upon
the greenoack being taken as iegal-tender
when there was no intrinsic value in 1t al
all. Now the silver dollar that is to be
coined as legal-tender is to be of the SAINT
value that the gold dollar is now. In six
months after the newisilver dollar is made
legaltender it viii be more valuable than
the present gold dollar. Then If the legal
tender character Of the gold dollar should
be legislated away, the silver dollar would
raise far above it, and gold would sink be-
low the greenback just as the light weight
silver stands now
Year: 1877

SILVER MoNEY.--The Commission
appointed by the last Congress to exam
inc into the propriety of coming silver
and making it a legal-tender, made re-
port on the assembling of Congress in
October, which for a time put an end
to the clamor of the gold dealers, the
bond brokers and other cormorants for
governmental support but the introduc-
ton Of the so-called anti-resumption bill,
and the passage of Mr.. Blaud's silver
coinage and legal-tender bill has brought
these interested parties out again, and a
general howl has been raised. If silver
had never been used as money, and was
Tor the first time introduced to our peo-
pie as a currency, the people might have
been led to put some faith in what the
great money changers organs say. But
silver for many years was the only hard
currency we had, and with silver and
gold as legal-tenders we grew more rap-
idly than any other commercial nation.
and would have been the richest nation
on the globe to-day if it had not been
for the war of the rebellion. Our growth
then, and the influence our currency had
upon the traffic of the world is sufficient
proof of its valuable properties. Before
The war many nations were contempla-
ting change of currency to correspond
with our money, and if we now adopt
gold and silver as legal-tenders they
may do so again. We ought to have
some influence in the world; gold and
silver form great part of our own pro-
ducts; and the congressman will be very
foolish to make either of them CHEAP by
demonetizing them. When silver was
demonetized it was done to increase the
value of gold and thus appreciate the
government bonds in the hands of their
holders.


Among these newspapeper howlers at
Congress for passing Mr.. Band's silver
Dill is the organ of the Drexels, the Phil
adelphia Ledger, which contains the
most ridiculous and foolish political ar
ticle of all that we have seen on the sub-
Ject in which that independent (p) paper
says:


III there is anything in transaction
OF TINS Kind to distinguish it from gross
er KINDS OF dishonesty, except the mere
oegree OF grossnesS, the difference is so
vague as To be undiscoverable by people
who have regard for their obligations,
And Tins comes, too, from the men who
out few few years ago resisted the
legal tender character of the greepback
currency by every form of Opposition
that could be brought TO bear against IL
Truly times do change and manner.
change with them, and how bad some OF
the manners do get''


The Ledger was just one of the par
ties that STEW years ago resisted the lc
BARTENDER character of greenback cur
rency;" but it did not then resist TIN
legal tender character of silver and gol,
currency. SO change has come over /
too. But it Is the change of a Shylock
1t said not word when the bill wa
passed making bonds payable in gold in
stead of the currency of the country b
which every house owners and Lam
owners real estate interest was cut dow
about twenty-five per cent. and adde
value to the untaxed government bond
held by the capitalists, who boarded thei
money and thus put check upon all th
industries of the country.
Year: 1877

The Presbyterian Church of this
country had origin in Scotland, which
still furnishes the church with its pro-
foundest thinkers and wisest morallsts.


The established Presbytery of Edin-
burgh, at the close of recent learned


debate on the whisky question,


adopted, by twenty. four to four, the


resolution that "all ministers within
the bounds shall direct the attention of
:heir congregations to the prevalence
of drunkenness, and warn them of the
sin of it; and shall also urge upon
them their duty to use all wise means
for its prevention and for the reclama-
tion of the intemperate. They recon-
mend the formation of temperance
association in every parish, as approved
and recommended by the General As
sembly; and, further, reappolnt the
committee, with instructions to con-
tinue to give the subject their atten-
tion, and to take such steps as may be
advisable and competent for them to-
ward the effective carrying out of these
recommendations" The minority were
of opinion that the resolution was not
sufficiently expressive on the side of
total abstinence,
Year: 1877

I


A CHANCE FOR THE FARMER.


Texas Is the field for enterprise to
the hardworking farmer. Nowhere in
the world can he get SO much for his
labor as in her virgin soil. The intel
ligent farmer will not require further
information. Let him consider, that
with the richest soils and with seasons
from three to four months longer than
here in the North, he has there the
whole wide field of productions to
choose from and experiment in. There
the stockraiser has an ample COM
petence from little labor. There the
cattle thrive upon the prairies, without
other care than the annual herding and
branding, while here in the North the
stockraiser must feed his cattle from
four TO six months in the year. Sheep
raising in Texas is direct road to COM
petence. All portions of the State are
adapted to sheep raising. With a
climate and pasturage every way equal
to the countries producing the cheap
woods, against which the Northern
wool-grower requires protection, the
Texas woolgrower has this Northern
protection TO augment his gains.
Meuno wool can be proftably produced
IN Texas at seven cents per pound.


Such is the Lone Star State, the land
of beauty; the land of plenty; the land
of provisions; the land of bread stuffs;
the land of fruits; the land Of flowers;
sho land of forest, and the land of
prairies; land that Offers home that
will be in name and in fact sanctuary
IN oil w hn w Ill Of - a
that extends cordial invitation and
an earnest greeting to all who wish to
link their fate with hers. For the farm
er, let him choose his favorite crop, and
she will yield him an abundant return
if he will but do half his duty to her
fertile soil. To those who wish to en-
gage in manufactures, she offers an en-
pire eager to bug the products Of their
skill and enterprise. To t ose who
wish to engage in commerce, thore Is
no country that offers more inviting
field. Indeed, to all grades and asIss
of men, Texas extends hearty well
come to come and be sharers in her
great destiny.


WHITE LABOR IN DEMAND.


Texas wants white labor. The late
SAAil oOuhAClu ClllLEu 0OtH hOL
love to work, and regards loafng as
one of the prerogatives of his status.
1t was supposed at one time that white
men could not stand to labor in the cot
ton and sugar fields, ana that the South
ern climate was not adapted to farm
culture of any kind by the white race,
which belief deferred white emigration
to the Southern States. This, however,
was an erroneous impression, for since
the freedom and enfranchisement of
the colored man necessity has forced
the white man into the field, and it is
now an established fact that the climate
is adapted to white field labor, and
that the white man can endure as much
and perform as much or more labor
than the colored man, and the consc-
quence is that many poor white labor
ing men and farmers with small means
are securing handsome competency
by cultivating but few acrts Of Texas
soil.
Year: 1877

THE colored people have every
where voted against prohibition. Their
Radical white leaders have advised
them differentlys but so violent 10 the
colored mans aversion to restriction
upon the liquor traffic that their white
leaders in many instances, did not
haFe the moral courage to speak like
men and tell what they thought. The
pig-headedness and stupidity OF the
negro may be pardOned, but never the
neral eovArdiee of the negro's present
masters.
Year: 1877

IF HAYES execute the plan and tri-
umph in it of dissolving sectional and
giving the country, instead of these,
parties, such as are constituted of both
Northern and Southern elements of
force and philosophy, he will be the
greatest benefactor the South has ever
known, and, of truth, bigger man
than Old Grant"
Year: 1877

THE New York San says: 'tMr. Til
den was against the compromise which
may dissolve the Democratic party, and
before its final adoption expressed him
self in that sense TO members of both
houses of Congress. Had it seemed
proper, he would doubtless have made
q public declaration of his opinion that
it was not 3 wlss or . constitutional
Year: 1877

widows and the fatherless. Each sue
ceeding year adds another hundred
thousand to the CHASTITY millions offered
in sacrifice upon the altar of this ter
rible Moioch. This commerce in death
goes on expanding in volume and
malignity sweeping like a simoom be-
fore it the young men, the flower of
the nation, degrading and destroying
those who should becomethe pillars Of
strength and beauty in the republic,
the promise and pride of its future
glory.
Year: 1877

TIE world begins to regard the
Turco-R Russian imbroglio an unmiti-
gated bore. It is especially heavy upon
the tax-paying peasantry of Europe,
who are kept on a war footing, which
means that they are mainly barefoot
and hungry and taxed to poverty that
Is hopeless.
Year: 1877

THE steamship Great Eastern - the
biggest boat ever built except Father
Noah's-will be used herea ter in trans
ferrlng cattle to England. If the Tex
as Central people and Commodore Nor
gan can only deepen that canal that
this craft can cast anchor at Houston,
the old capital will speedily become
the biggest city on the continent.
Year: 1877

of State himself. She must commit
no social mistakes; she must never al
low her feelings alone to sway her; the
innate prejudices of woman must not
influence her social life she must not
see everything and note all the plays
that are made in the great game of
society that is gong on around her,
but she must not, by sign or word or
look, betray her knowledge; she must
manifest special judgment in her asso-
cation with members of the diplo-
matte corps, and she, of all the ladies
of the cabinet, Is brought into the
most constant intercourse with them.
She Is often consulted by other ladies
of the cabinet, and she sets the fashion
for them to follow.


\ bewildering maze Is Washington
society. In no city of the land, not
even excepting New York, does human
nature appear in more manifold phases.
There are foreigners here fcom all
paris of the world and Americans from
every city of the Union. They come
on business and they come for pleas
ure; they are people of ease and fash
ion, and they are oIld-hardened ad-
venturers. Perhaps We may meet
these two distinct types in the salon
of lady of fashion at the same hour,
perchance We may meet them at an
ambassadors ball OF at cabinet re-
ception. The man may be soi diSdnt
count, and the woman may be the
wife of a notorious lobbyist or a gamb-
Ter. What matter Each of thOIa
holds the coveted card of admis-
sion, and for the passing hour the
titled lady, with her proud name and
immaculate ancestry aud her string of
priceless gems and her noddipg plumes,
meets these plehians, these character.
less impostors, upon the same social
plane.


UNOFFICIAL SOCIETY.


This is, of course, only official life
to which | refer. There is in Wash
ington more substantial and eXclu-
slve clement into which the vulgar
herd does not penetrate, and yet some
times person who is outside of this
charmed circle strays by the force of
some curious circumstance into the
giided ball room of one of the haugh-
tiest of this proud cotere. The wife
of a very prominent official, mau
whose position is not subject to any
changes of government, said that she
would not entertain mixed society
that she would invite only those whom
she desired to her receptions and her
beautiful balls. l attended a ball that
she gave that scason-a ball that was
unsurpassed in point of guests and
splendor. In glancing about the rooms
spied pair of faces that seemed out
of place in that select assembly.
"What are those people doing here2"
| asked q lady friend. "The host was
compelled to invite them out of policy.
The man just now occupies position
that brings him officially into contact
with our host, and for reasons it would
have been impolitic had he not been
invited here" Later on saw a lady's
dress spoiled by stupid you.g man.
l was told that he had probably been
brought to the house by some young
lady, and then invited to the ball.
There were still other similar incidents,
but these will show that all the proud,
boasted exclusiveness of the hostess
had to give way to policy, that motive
that rules supreme at the capital.


MORA.
Year: 1877

The story of Evangeline is repeated
with wonderful fidelity in all It's details
in the experience of young French girl,
a resident Of Marseilles. She was en-
gagged to a sailor to whom she was to be
married on his return from a voyage to
New York. He did not return, and
after year she got berth as steward
ness assistant on one of the Havre steam
ers, to come here in search of him. On
the passage rich American lady became
interested in her story and resolved to
help her to find out her lover In New
York she learned that he had gone to Can
ada. For months she travelled about the
Dominion, sometimes close on his track
and again losing every clue as to his
whereabouts. She returned tc New York
and one day while standing at Broad
way crossing waiting her turn to get
across she saw the object of long search
on the other side. She shrieked his name
and ran into the middle of the street,
but policeman caught her and saved
her from the wheels of the string of We
hicles. CANCEL of God there was none,"
and she never again saw the Gabriel she
had long sought and 50 nearly found.
She learned then that he had sailed for
San Francisco, and so went overland to
| California to meet him. Arrived on the
Pacific coast, she found that her lover
had fallen overheard just outside the
Heads and been drowned Meanwhile
the body Of young man dressed in sail
or's clothes was cast ashore on the beach,
carried to the Coroner's office, and not
being identified, was inferred in the pub
lie cemetery. A water-sodden pocket
book was taken from the. dead man,
which contained only few letters writ
ten in French and unaddressed. The
girl hearing of this went to the Coroners
office and found that the letters were
hers. The waves had tardily and par
TALLY recompensed her devoted search,
and she was able to find the grave of her
! lover.
Year: 1877

Cor. New Haven Register.l


But few OF the readers of the Regis


ter have had a chance to see Indian life


and manners as they exist in the Far


West 10 day. At Camp Robinson, Spot


ted Tail Agency, and at various other
points embraced in the command of Gen.
L. P Bradley, Of your city, may be seen
many of the peculiar features Of savage
life, the ''sun dance" and other religious
ceremonies observed by the remnants Of
what were formerly famous tribes. About
half of Gen. Bradley's wards are the
wild fellows from the North who have
always been at war with the whites until
this year, and they have as yet all their
old wild customs and tastes. Some of
them are strikingly handsome men, even
in their uncouth dress. Touch the
Cloud" "White Thunder" " Spotted
TAIL" "Washington, |'Black Coal"
and "Y elbow Bear" are models of ply
sical beauty in face and form, and great
number of the young men are very hand
some; they would attract attention in any
company and in any dress. Your cor
respondent went out in Crazy Horses WI
lage last month to see the "sun dance"
performed. This is religious affair,
and the ceremonies consist of various
tortures, such as cutting gashes in the
the arms and breasts and dancing under
the hot sun till the victims are exhausted
or faint under the trial. They are pre-
pared for these pleasant exercises by
three days of rigid fasting, not being al
lowed to taste food or drink for that time.
The chief actors in the dance were pre-
pared for it by having knife run through
the thick muscles of the breast, and
strong wooden skewer inserted. To this
was tied strong buckskin rope about
fifty feet long, the ropes being all fast
ened to a pole set in Il e center of the
dancing ground. At a given signal all
the dancers go at it, and more honest or
vigorous dancing you never saw. Those
tied to the pole have to tear out the skew
ers fastened in their breasts, and this is
Of course the greatest trial of all, and it
can only be done by throwing the whole
weight of the body on the pole until the
flesh gives way. One Of the victims
tainted dead away before he could free
himself from the rope, and some of his
friends Immediately tore it out to save
him from disgrace, the Indian law being
rigid that any one who fails to bear the
trial of having the rope torn out is for
ever after a squaw and not a warrior.
During these performances the Indian
drums are beaten furiOusly, and loud
whistles are blown to keep up the cour-
age of the dancers, while the mothers,
sisters and sweathearts of the sufferers
stand near and sing their praises in plain
tiff songs. The Indians treated their
visitors politely and even Hospitality. We
took coffee with them, and ate fried cake,
declining the stewed dog which was Of
tered with them We were much inter
ested in the "sun dance" as it is seldom
a white man has had chance to see one,
because many of the prominent men en-
gagged in it were known by reputation as
dangerous enemies of the white men only
a little time since. They were the very
fellows who annihilated Clusters com
mand, year ago.
Year: 1877

The French police the other day wish
ed to forward as quickly as possible an
important document from Dover to Lon
don. distance of seventy-six and one
half miles as the crow flies. 1t was de-
termined to make trial of speed between
a carrier pigeon and the Continental Mail
Express. The police secured "Bel-
gian voyager" and the railroad company
selected their fastest engine. The pig
con and the train were started at the
same moment. The bird Immediately
rose to a great altitude, for minute or
two circled about, and then took a straight
course for London. By the time the
train was at fall speed, going at the rate
of so miles per hour-a mile for every
minute. The delay of the bird had given
the train officials confidence in their own
success. But high above them, swept on
by the west wind, and guided by its won
derful instinct, the little messenger kept
its course, and when the train reached
Cannon street, London, the pigeon had
been twere twenty minutes time al
lowance of eighteen miles.
Year: 1877

isiNhNONDj huE' "
Col. Lamb was elected temporary chair
man and was proceeding to speak in favor
of preserving the credit OF the common
wealth, but the interruptions and confus-
ion became 30 great he was compelled to
discontinue and the convention adjourned
till p. m.


Marshall Hanger was elected permanent
chairman. A resolution was adopted pro-
yiding that no man be placed in nomination
for governor who does not pledge himself
to abide by any result reached by the
convention and give to the ticket his sup
port. Adjourned till tomorrow. The
session tonight was quite harmonious, and
tomorrow is expected to be equally so.
Year: 1877

At o'clock this morning Hanks, who
killed Daley yesterday, was found dead in
a cell in the rcitY prison. By unknown
means he had obtained possession of a
Springfield rifle, several being stored in
that part of the prison, and placing the
muzzle to his breast drew the trigger with
his foot. He left a note saying the suicide
was the coolest act of his life.