smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

Below we publish the rev law IS re-
Gently passed;


SIC. /. That all pensions which have been
granted under the general laws regulating
pensions, or may hereafter be granted IL
consequence Of death from a cause which
originated in the United States service
during the continuance of the late war "
| the rebellion, or IN consequence Of wounds.
| injuries or disease received or contracted
in said service, during said war of the re
bellion, shall commence from the date of
discharge from said service Of the person
on whose account the claim hiss been or
may hereafter be granted, or from the
termination of the right of the party hav-
ing prior title t. such pension: provided
the rate OF pension from the intervening
time for which arrears of pension are here
by granted shall be the same per month
for which the pension Was originally gran
ted


SEC. ,. That the commissioner of pen
sions is hereby authorized and directed to
adopt such rules and regulations for the
payment OF the arrears of pensions hereby
granted rs wiz be necessary to cause to
be paid 10 sid pensioners, or if the said
pensioners have died, to the person or
persons entitled to the same, all such ar
rears of pension as the pensioner may be
or would have been entitled to under this
act,


SEC. . That section ALI of the revised
statutes, which provides that no claim
Tor pension not prosecuted to success
ful issue within five Years from the date of
the filing of the same shall be admitted
without recorded evidence from war or
navy department. of the injury or disease
which resulted in the inability or death of
the person ou whose account the claim Is
made; provided, that in any case on which
the limitation prescibed by this seeti.n
bars further prosecution of 4 claim the
claimant may present through the pen
sion Office, to the adjutant general OF the
army or surgeon general of the navy eyi-
dence that the disease or injury which re-
suited in TIE disability or death Of the
person on whose account the claim is
made originated III the service and IN the
line OF duty; and if such evidence is
deemed satisfactory by the officer to
whom 1t may be submitted, he shall cause
the record of the fact SO proved to be
made and copy of the same transmitted
so the commissioner of pensions, and the
bar to the claim thereby be removed, and
the same is hereby repra aled.


SEC l. No claim agent or other person
shall be entitled to receive any compensa-
ton for services in making application for
arrears of pension.


SEC. 5 That ali acts or parts of acts, so
far as they may conflict with the prcvis-
ions of this act, be and the same are here
by repealed.
Year: 1879

Al the sand lots a resolution was
adopted accepting the anti-Chinese bill
as passed by the senate as partial re-
Lief measure, but urging the continuance
of agitation until the Burlingame treaty
was abrogated and the last Chinaman had
left the country
Year: 1879

Ir is mere coincidence sat the man
Who knows more about the forgery of the
Louisiana electoral certificate than any,
body else, but will rot open his month to
tell, is a confideD.ia clerk in the Treasury
department under John Shermanl
Year: 1879

A venerable and distinguished
bishop once advised body of
ministers as follows: "Owe no
man more than you are able to
pay /; and permit no man to owe
you more than you are able to lose"
A rational application of this ad-
vice would divest the credit sys-
tenn of many if not all its most OBJ
iectional features. Consistent with
the first part of the exhortation,
young men-and older ones as well
ARE admonished to be content
with a gradual addition to their
property of any kind. If one has
not the money to spare for much,
let him confine himself to the little.
After a while he can easily venture
on another part; and, then, after
waiting, and earning on till anoth-
er and another, and another, either
paying as he goes or surely avoid
ing heavy Indebtedness. Do not
attempt too much at once. Do
what you can afford this time, and
put off the other things to anoth-
er time. Don't try to build too
much and too fast. Don't buy at
once all the furniture you would
like to see in your house. I'M
prove and increase your implements
and stock by degrees. A little that
is paid for is far better than much
that you owe for. Debt, bank
ruptcy and distress comes often
from burdening the present for the
sake of the future. 1t is easier tc
pay little debts every now and
then, than to pay large debt at
one time. All who have tried them
know that large debts are costly
and unpleasant things.--Rural New
Yorker.
Year: 1879

Precept and example.-Great-
grandpa-Oh, indeed you can
lick your sisters at lawn tennis,
can your Well done, my boy
But beware of self-conceit, and
never brag. Why, l could lick
everybody at lawn tennis, when ]
was your age--or could have done
it if there'd been any lawn tennis
to playl / was the best cricketer
the best fencer, the best boxer
runner, jumper, swimmer and di.
yer / ever came across, either al
school or college or after; and in
classics and mathematics ] beat
'em all clean out of the field. AS
for riding, no one ever touched
me; or dancing either; let alone
that / was the handsomest man in
the county, and the best dressed
for that matter; besides being the
wittiest and the most popular
Ay, and such song as l could
sing, too, and yet more modest
and unassuming demeanor than
mine it's never been my good for
tune to set eyes on, man or boy,
and more, though you'd never be-
lieve it, to look at me. Beware OF
conceit, my boy, and never brag,
London Punch.
Year: 1879

A prominent Congressman took
his daughter to task the other even
ing because she permitted her low
er to stay a while after 10 o'clock.
LA, pa" she said, we were only
holding little extra session.
Derrick.
Year: 1879

A country correspondent sends
us the following soul-harrowing
conundrum: Why do pigs thrive
better on sour milk than they do
on sweet! And the answer is
because they get more of it,
Lockport Union.
Year: 1879




Washington, July 14.-The state de-
partment has telegraphic information
of the safe return OF Minister Seward
10 China.


he carried with him special instruc-
tions from Secretary Evarts to obtain
an interview with the Chinese minister
OF foreign affairs and other high digni-
ties of the imperial government as soon
as possible after his arrival in Peking,
and to bring to their attention the de-
sire of the United States for such a
modification Of the Burlingame treaty
as Will provide in placing restrictions
upon Chinese immigration to the
United States.


His instructions are of specific and
urgent nature and the representations
which he is directed to make to that
government will leave no doubt as to
the earnestness of purpose of this ma.
tion or for any long continued evasion
on the part of the Chinese government
In defining its real desires and purpos-
es in regard to this most important SUBJ
ject.


The Chinese legation in Washington
If intrusted with power to conclude a
treaty on this subject, have not as yet
given any intimation of their possession
OF such authority.


The conferences held with them, up
TO the present time, have been of pre-
iiminary aud inconclusive character,
owing to the guarded and extremely
diplomatic methods of discussion which
they have employed.
Year: 1879

He was an aesthetic young man
from the city. The floOr-manager
had introduced him TO divine
young creature la blue, and they
stood in the set waiting for the
prompter's call.


"What a charming assembly" /"
remarked the young man from the
city, gazing around upon the array
of beautiful faces and costumes.
"There Is something so captivating,
so etheralizing, in these gatherings
of culture and refinement, that / am
always charmed when can mingle
with such a joyous thrOng. Do you
not pronounce this a fashionable
and intellectual soiree--a superior
gathering of beauty and gentility ?n


"It's the boss" replied the gentle
creature in blue, as she arranged
the fastening of a neat little glove.


The young man from the city had
to be assisted out OF the hall.
Year: 1879




After all the discussion in and
out of Congress, after all the inves-
LEGATIONS of committees for frauds
and political iniquitie5, after all the
fuss and feathers about this thing
and the other, to benefit the South,
to cure hard times and bring to US
untold advantages, no question
comes to the front so boldly de-
manding our support as the question
now before Congress, to aid the
building of the Texas and Pacific
railroad. We are sorry to see such
opposition from the Eastern States
as is shown, inasmuch as none have
been more clamorous for govern
ment aid, at all times, for all pur-
poses.


If new harbor had to be built
for the benefit OF some struggling
New England village, if n mill
dam has to be cleared out of some
s,.ring branch in the East, or even
If New York wants He'll Gate opened
wider and deeper, Congress must
vote an appropriation. One hears
nothing from the New York Herald
then about government subsidies
for private enterprises, but the
South asks for help and all eyes are
turned heavenward with holy hOr-
ror. The Texas Pacific asks nothing
but government endorsement thai
will never cost the people q dollar,
which is far different from the
Union Pacific, that has grown so rich
from government subsidies that
they are enabled by their ill-gotten
gains to crush out almost any enter
prise at all antagonistic to them.
Hence this struggle on their part to
defeat this Southern enterprise.
| We hope but little from the East,
but we do believe the West will aid
US in this our greatest struggle for
Southern advancement and pros
perity.
Year: 1879

In a paper read at domestic
economy congress at Birmingham,
England, not long ago, DIR. Wilson
gave the following hints on the
proper times for eating tor different
classes of workers:


''For the active outdoor laborer
and artisan, an early breakfast be-
fore work, a midday dinner, with
an interval of rest. and supper after
the days work is over, have long
been proved by experience to be the
most conducive to the health. For
the business man later breakfast,
a midday luncheon and a late dim
ner after the days work is over, is
the best arrangement. For literary
men, who write more in the even
ing than during the day, an early
dinner and a light supper will be
found most advantageous for steady
work. The breakfast hour should
be determined in a great measure
by the hour of rising; but in any
case food should be partaken of be-
fore the material business of the
day is commenced. Those who like
to take q constitutional be-. ore
breakfast would find their appetite
whetted and their walk made all
the more enjoyable if they took a
little milk or coffee with milk, with
bread or biscuit before starting.
Work done before breakfast is irk-
some and fatiguing, and on that ac-
count is very likely to be badly
done. The last meal should be suf-
ficiently late for the whole to be abb
sorbed before retiring to rest. TO a
person in health three meals day
ought to be quite sufficient and the
practice of continually taking
something is sure to bring on indi-
gestion."
Year: 1879

Taking things for granted is an er-
} ror to which people of this age are
, prone. Pleased with their church


and pastor, believing in the doctrine


he teaches, and comfortable in their
supposed suri,y of salvation, they re-


gard 1t as unnecessary to do more


than listen to the sermon, leaving to


opposing divines the task of turning


the production on every side, to find


its flaws, and argue upon its merits.


The vigor and exhilaration which


come from keen thinking and examin-


alton into the reason for presented


facts aud theories, will never fail to


reward those who are ready to fling


aside their accustomed inertness, and


gain to themselves the freshness and
sweetness which religious truths,


however opposed, firmly bring to the
mind. In social life we are slow in
outgrowlng old and useless ceremo-
MES. which hamper and restrain that
free vitalizing spirit which should
draw US nearer each to the other, by
showing forth individual charactcris-
tics which would soon como to be &C.
knowledged as common to all. We
live by the rule and line of opinion,
and fear to show the special divine
qualities which, in one shape or an.
other, we all possess, lest it shall meet
with surprise. discussion, aud proba-
BILE condemnation, fiom that paradox
who is and is not:-Mrs. Gruudy.
Those who lit themselves from the
dreary level of general views, to the
plane of their noblsr and better con-
ceptions, will, though tabooed as ec-
centric, still breathe the pure air of
their higher altitude, and gain that
health of mind and soul which follows
moral bravery Golden Rule.
Year: 1879

Boys is strange things. Boys is of
three kinds. The baby boy, the little
boy, and the big boy. L don't like the
baby boy, because he squalls and kicks,
and have to rock him with cradle.
But if the big boy squalls or kicks, can
rock him with stones. / like the little
boy the best when it SHOWS cause he
can haul me on his sled. A boy is a
little man, if he behaves himself, and if
he doesn't, he is little devil; that is
what mother said brother Bob was, the
other day, when he told old Miss Smith
that mother said she was an old bore.
My papa says he was little boy once,
but mother says he wasn't, and she
wishes papa was little boy some more
Sister Julia says she don't like boys, and
when l saw her and Tom Brown sit
ting in the rocking char on Sunday
night she said she was trying to squeeze
the life out of him cause she didn't
like him but / don't think she was
hurting him any place, for he wouldn't
let her get up. This is all know about
boys, and mother says she hopesI won't
never know any more about them.
Year: 1879

Washington, Dec. 12.-All the men,
bers attended the meeting of the cabi-
net to-day The business was unim-
portant.


Mr.. McCrary took leave of the MEM
bers last evening at dinner given by
the president, and left for st. Louis
this morning.


The United States board of trade has
adopted a resolution for committee to
award the prize of 81, 100 offered by a
member to the person who should draw
up for passage by congress the best act
looking toward the regulation of the
sale of food and the prevention of adul-
terations thereof.


The evidence of official misconduct
against Postmaster Tyler, of Baltimore,
does not warrant his removal by the
president.


The house of representatives settled
down to business in good earnest to-
day, and besides devoting some time to
miscellaneous matters passed two of the
regular annual appropriation bills. This
exhibition of working activity ON the
part of the dominant party in the house
is noted with special qualification by the
friends of Speaker Randall, between
whom and Senator Bayard contest in
the presidential race so far as congress
sional democratic support is concerned,
appears now to be clearly defined. Mr..
Bayard believes In putting the financial
question in front of all others, and of
pushing 1t vigorously in behalf of what
he and the great mass of his party in the
east denominate "honest money. -
Speaker Randall's policy is to ignore
the financial policy altogether for the
present, and to win the good opinion of
the country by cutting down appropria-
tions and by making the session short
one. The republicans in congress are
as yet very quiet concerning presiden-
tial plans, but it is charged by some of
Secretary Sherman's friends that the
one controlling motiye of the very gen.
eral agreement among republican poll
ticians in congress to avoid all financial
agitation is a fear that the discussion
of financial topics would keep Mr.. Sher.
man too prominently before the people,
because, as these friends of the secre
tary argue, he has conducted the finan'
cial affairs of the government so wisely
and successfully that his name come.
first to mind whenever such question:
are discussed.
Year: 1879

Detroit, Dec. 12.-It is reported
here that two or three tons of nitro
glycerine exploded on Fox Island, in
the river opposite Amherstburg, twenty
miles below here. 1t is said the shock
was felt some thirty or forty miles dis
tant No particulars. owing to the
fact that no one will venture there un-
til daylight, Fox island was used to
store the nitro-glycerine and powder
used in blasting rock in the channel OF
the river, at the place known as the
Limekilns Crossing.
Year: 1879

RESULTS IN LoUIsIANA-GRossLY FALSE
REPORTS CIRCULATED.


The Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald, (Republican) saws
The testimony taken by the Teller
Committee in Louisiana has been sent
here though most of the members of the
committed have gone to Charlestown. 1t
appears that the evidence shows outrages
to have been committed in only four out
of the fifty-seven parishes of Louisiana,
and in two of these four the violence was
not political, though it was brutal and in
excusable In Tensas and Natchitoches
there was undoubtedly political violence


without excuse, though it does not ap-
pear to have seriously affected the result
of the election, for in Tensas the canvas


was between two factions of republicans
the democrats dividing their votes among
these. The net result, 80 far as Louisiana
is concerned, seems to be that there was
no disorder which Governor Nichols
could not easily have put down had he


been man capable of doing his duty to
the State as Governor; that he was in
fact, weak and incapable that the per-
petrators OF outrages have been for the
most part apprehended and indicted in
the federal Court and are likely to be
punished, and that the inaction of the


Governor has had the bad effect of Grip
plng the just and honest sentiment of
the State. and allo wing a few desperadoes
to work their will in the four parishes.
Meantime, it is also shown by the testi-
mony that there has been an industrious
circulation of grossly false reports about
the State, and that the elections passed
off far more quietly than they ever did
under carpet-bag rule-that is to say this
State, SO long held by federal force shows
an improvement as soon as it is restored
TO local self-government. and had it had
an energetic Governor would probably
have given no occasion at all for com
plain
Year: 1879

From the Lansing Republican.


/. The entire matter Of examining teachers
and granting or refusing certificates, or an
nuliing the same when granted. rests in the
discretion Of the township superintendent and,
although he may act unwisely, or abuse his
authority, from HE action there s no appeal or
means OF redress.


2. A teacher cannot be compelled to board
from house to house, nor can any patron of
district school be required to board a teacher
40 such an arrangement would partake OF the
nature OF the old rate-bill law which was abol-
ished by the Legislature OF 1859. II a teacher
and the patrons OF school voluntarily agree
to such an arrangement there can. however. bs
no objection to it.


g. The law gives to the district board the
authority to select and hire such teachers az
may be required, and does not give the district
any voice in the matter further than at the
annual meeting 1t may designate the sex Of che
teachers to be employed. Any vote OF the dis
trict as to what particular teacher shall be en-
ployed must be considered by tbs board merely
as advisory. t
Year: 1879

CRAMMINa.-We cannot bat think that some
of the very brightest Intellccts are dwarfed or
blightei BY the strains they frequently have to
endure. To crowd the brain is as deadly folly
as to stuff the body, and as long as young
women or young men are permitted to get
into this habit OF mental sluttony there is
something radically defective in our system
OF education. The school must become the
source Of more complete education before il
will answer its legitimate end. Boston Post
Year: 1879

The wife OF the Sheriff Of Sacramento horss-
whipped q female black-mailer, who came 10
her house to tell stories against the husband,
and jury not only acquitted her OF assault


and battery, bat sent her home in carriage.
Year: 1879

Love in woman is no rifing emotion. On
its Joyous side it seeks affinity with every phase
of nature that is gladsome and Of promise
which love has IN the destiny and character of
woman, the issues that come out OF It for her
veal or misery. her ruin o. perfection, nothing
is more pathetic, and death Itself .s net more
solemn Henry Giles.
Year: 1879

fading delights, these tears and these tombs
are all that a good God has to give me 1t
would be an unreasonable conclusion, and
as unblessed as unreasonable. Such faith
would dishonor God. II would distress my
soul II would hang the pail Of an eternal
midnight over the whole world, and make
me live in IL and die out Of IL in despair
My reason then--the whole Of my reason
enjoins upon me to believe, though | have
not seen it, that there is another world ,
that God has good in store for those that
please him, better than all he gives them
here; that there will be final adjudication
made in righteousness, and that to love God
and serve him, and lay up treasures in
heaven, are the most reasonable things in
the universe. Blessed are they that believe
it. They rise above the grossness of the
senses. Their immaterial soul anticipates
new heaven and new earth. They look for
ward to that spiritual body which shall be
greeted by the light of the resurrection
morn, and shall greet Christ coming in The
clouds Of heaven to claim his ownl Here,
then, sinner though / am,-frai mortal,
dashed about in the world, and not knowing
when shall be dashed to pieces-here come,
afiliction bare my bosom to thine ar
rows Death, dare thee Grave, do thy
worst My reason-the whole power of IN!
reason--sustains me when / believe the
promise, Because / iue, ye shall iive diso.-
DR.. Spencer.
Year: 1879

We supposed that every possible "cure !"
for rheumatism had been suggested ere this,
but German paper announces the discovery
of new one. A woman near Prague suf
fered so severely from gout in the arm that
she could not obtain rest or sleep, and the
limb in which the disease had settled was
rendered entirely useless. Her husband,
having heard of countryman who had been
completely cured OF rheumatism after being
accidentally stung by bee persuaded her
to try this disagreeable remedy, which, as he
pointed out, could hardly prove so painful
as the disease. She consented, and allowed
three bees to be placed on her arm, and to
sting her in several places. Surprising re-
suits ensued; the patient soon afterwards
fell into long and deep sleep, the first real
sleep she had enjoyed for six months, after
which the acute pain disappeared and when
the swelling produced by the stiugs sub
sided, the arm recovered the power of motion,
and the gout has not since reappeared.
Year: 1879

The following anecdote of Henry Clay has
Just been published for the first time. As
he came out of the Capitol at Washing
ton, one day, seeing frightened woman in
the street, vainly striving to ward off the at
tacks of sportive goat, he gallantly, in
spite of his years and Office, seized the goat
by the horns. The woman thanked him
warmly and sped hurriedly on. Mr. Clay
would have liked to move on also, but the
goat had its own views about the inter-
ference with his innocent amusement As
soon as the womau's deliverer loosed his
hold on the two horns, the animal rose ma
jestically on his hind legs and prepared for
a charge. In his own defence Mr.. Clay now
took the animal as before by the horns, and
thus for time they stood, while crowd Of
street boys gathered about, immensely
amused at the unusual spectacle of Sena-
tor and goat pitted the one against the
other in public street. As long as Mr..
Clay held the goat by the horns, all was
well enough. But the moment the quadru-
ped was free came fresh preparation for a
charge. Not boy offered assistance, but
"Throw the Billy down, SIR" Mr.. Clay at
once accepted and adopted the report of
that committee, and tripping the goat up,
essayed to pass on. Before he could fairly
turn any way, however, the goat was up in
lofty preparation for new charge. Mr..
Clay gave his enemy the floor or the pave
ment once more, and, keeping him there,
turned to his new adviser with the question,
And what shall do now?" "Cut and
run, sir" replied the lad.