smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

It took less than three weeks for $50 women
who went from New York to San Francisco in
search of occupation to get married. There are
fine openings the Pacific slope for young
women in the marrying trade.
Year: 1878

We print this morning the report Of q
Committee of the Board of Commission
ers upon the subject of the House of Cor
reclion Tor Ohio county. It will be read
with interest, and be subject of general
discussion. Not few will be found to
dissent from the conclusions of the Com
mittee. In the end, however, Ohio
county, or the Pan Handle counties, will
have to make the investment demanded,
and the more thoroughly the project is
Investigated in advance the more wisely
we will act in the end
Year: 1878

Blessed,is the man whoshallsuhscribe
for his home paper, and pay therefor.
His feet shall not stand on slippery
places; he shall not be prosecuted by
his enemies, nor shall his children be
caught begging,


Blessed is he that walketh to the
house of the printer, yea, even goeth in
to the sanctnm and payeth for twelve
months subscription in advance. Selah!


He shall learn wisdom day by day
and be exalted among his fellows.


He shall talk knowingly upon all
subjects, and his neighbors shall be as
tonished at the muchness Of his learn
ing.


He shall not contract bad debts nor
lose good bargains.


He shall not pay an additional per
cent. on his taxes, for his eyes shall be-
hold the notice of the collector, and will
take warning thereby.


Verify, he shall bring his product to
the market when the prices are exceed
ingly good, and withhold them when
the prices descend.


He shall not lay hold Of reel-hot poz
kers, for his knowledge Of melallnrgJ'
will teach him that red-hot iron burns.


His children shall not vex him, nor
his wife get the Grecian bend.


He shall live to a good old ago, and
when his dying hour IS at band, e
need not fear the devil
Year: 1878

If any class Of farmers need "linc up
on limo" to induce them 10 SEQ tho road
TO success, it is tho dairymen. They
keep COWS for the supposed profit thcy
bring. and they live in blissful igno-
rance that they are doing this labor for
amusement; yet they seldom make an
inquiry into the actual performance of
individual cows They make no effort
to separate the good from the unprofta-
bic. To largo class Of dairymen n
COW is a COW, and they do not like to
make an invidious discrimination 40
they 60 on, year after year, keeping COWS
that do not pay for tho food they cat
We have often cndeayored 10 rouse lai-
rymen 10 the necessity of testing the
performance of individual cows, for il is
serious loss To keep five or ten cows,
perhaps one-half Of the herd that do not
return compensation tor the food thoy
cat. We have known several herbs
that paid so poor "a return that tho own
ers became discouraged, and concluded
that dairying must usually be carried
on without reasonable profit; but by
testing the individual yield and quality
of these herds, it was found, in one case.
that the loss was made on three cows
out Of eight, tho five paying rcasona-
bio profit, while tho three poor ones
sunk this. In another case, eight cows
sunk the profit on twenty. There is
seldom herd Of twenty cows that docs
not contain some that pay good profit,
and few herds, comparatively, of that
number, that do not contain ono or
more that are kept ut loss. The Sc
lection of cows should bc considered one
of the first practical principles Of dairy
ing The COW is the machine to work
out the dairyman's profit, and If he is
quite careless in tho selection Of this
machine he cannot expect success.


Now, il is very easy for every dairy
man to tcst the yield, pounds, of each
COW, by weighing the milk Of each COW
separately one day in week, or even
ono day in two weeks. All these weigh
ings added together, and divided by the
number Of weighings, will give practi-
cally the average daily yield Of the COW,
and this multiplied by the number of
days she has given milk will give her
yield per season. Then the quality may
be tested by setting portion Of the
milk of each COW, after mingling, 30 as
10 get an average quality, in glass tum-
bier These tumblers, all being Of one
height, will hold the same depth of milk
When the cream rises the glass will
show its depth and color. This will en-
able the dairyman to see just what quail
ity of milk each COW gives, and, having
got the quantity in the weighings, he is
now prepared to determine the cows he
wants 20 sell.-Nationai lire Stock
Journal.
Year: 1878

This told to her the heaven-sent secret.
She knew that, far down in the bottom of
the well. a running stream had carried her
reasure down deep through the earth,
over rich deposits of precious salt, and
that ut last the spring had buhbled up into
the sunlight at the foot of her native
mount ins. bringing with it the double
Jewel She knew, too. that the salt. which
had set her ring in II crystal prison. must
| re waiting near in blrs ed abundance for
her pnor people. This good and wise
queen was not mistaken. Search was at
nee male and richly rewarded; sine" the
year 1852 the salt mines of Nirlirzt u
have been source of wealth far beyond
gold or diamonds.


These vast galleries unherie the whole
town aud are places of public amusement
{ and festivitv Ofentimrs the great ball
room is splrndidy Illuminated. band
play and young people dance mrrrily on
the hard, white floor


Once 4 wear there is service in the mag
nificent chapel. a thank offering to tie
giver Of this and all other good gifts.


There is but one mine known that is
older than this. In merry England the
salt works of Worcestershire have been
yielding vast supplies since the early days
Of the Saxon Heptarchy. More than four
teen centuries is very venerable old age
and yet their resources seem undiminished
and inexhaustible.


Whatever the good God gives for ouI
pressing daily need is given without stint
-Catherine Canaeron, IN Wide AUabe.
Year: 1878

A TOUCHING LErTER.-Every one
knows the story of the little girl who.
wishing to ask something of heaven.
wrote letter to God which she put in
the hands Of the virgins statue in the
parish church. A circumstance nearly
analogous has just taken place near Mar
chiennes, in Belgium. A girl named
Blanche was in the service of Monsieur
and Madam G. who were much attached
to her on account of her fidelity and piety.
Some days ago Madam G. fell i'll and died
very suddenly. The day after her death,
Blanche, profting by moment when the
corpse, already prepared for the grave,
was alone, made her way to the chamber
of death. lifted the shroud, and then retired
preoipitately. Those who saw her sus-
pected she might have been trying to pill
fer the jewelry of the corpse Search was
made and nothing was found missing, but
there was letter in the dead woman's
hand. This being opened was discovered
to be letter from Blanche to her mother.
dead long time before. 1t was as fol-
lows:


My DEAR AND Coon MOTHER: This is
TO let you know that M. R. has asked me
TO marry him; as you are no longer here
| beg you to let me know in dream, if
I ought to marry him. and SO give me
your consent. In order to communicate
with you profit by the occasion of Mad
anne G. who is going to heaven.


This letter, which bore the superscrip-
tion. To my mother Josephine, who is
in heaven!" is truly poem of ingenious
piety Baltimore Bulletin.
Year: 1878

THE HORSES AT BALAKLAvA.-The ex-
tent to which charger can apprehend the
perils of II battlefield may be easily under
rated by one who confines his observation
to horses still carrying their riders; for, us
long AS IL troop-horse in action feels the
weight and the hand of a master his deep
trust in man keeps him seemingly free from
great terror, and he goes through the fight,
unless wounded, us though it were Il field
at home; but the moment death or II dis
abling wound deprives him of his rider,
he seems all at once to learn what II battle
is-to perceive its real dangers with the
cearness of human being, and to be
agonized with horror at the fate he may
incur for want of a hand to guide him.
Careless of the mere thunder of guns, he
shows plainly enough that he more or less
knows the dread accent that is used by
missiles of war whilst cutting their way
through tie air, for us often rs these
sounds disclose TO him the near passage of
bullets or shot, he shrinks and cringes.
His eyoballs protrude. Wild with fright,
he still does not most commonly gallop
home into camp. His instinct seems
rather to tell him that what safety, if any
there is for him, is found in the ranks; and
he rushes at the first squadron he can find,
urging piteously, yet with violence, that he
too by right is n troop-horse, that he too is
willing to charge, but not to be left behind,
that he must and will fall in" Some
times rideriess charger, thus bent on al
igning with bis fellows, will not be con-
tent to range himself on the flank of the
line, but dart at some point in the squad
ron which he seemingly judges to he his
rightful place, strive TO force himself in
Riding, as it is usual for the commander
of regiment to do, some way in advance
of bis regiment, Lord George Paget was
specially tormented and pressed by the ri.
derless horse which chose to turn round
and align with him. At one time there
were three or four of these horses adyanc-
ing close abreast to him on one side, and
as many rs five on the olher.-RtngIdke' s
CT,naettn War.
Year: 1878

DE -Nol TIE FthNI
Oh be not the first to discover


A blot on the name of friend,
A flaw in the faith Of lover,


Whose heart may prove true to the end
We none of us know one another.
And oft into error we fall;
Then let ia speak well of each brother,
Or speak not about HIM at all.
smile ora sigh may awaken


suspicion most false and undue;
And thus our belief may be shaken
In hearts that are honest and true.
How often the light smile of ghdncss
Is worn by the friends that we meet.
TO cover soul full Of sadness,


Too proud to acknowledge defeat.
How often the sigh of objection
Is heaved fr.m the hrpocrile's breast.
To parody truth aud affection,


Or lull suspicion TO rest
How often the friends we hold dearest
Their noblest emotions conceal,
And bOsoms the purcst sinceiest,
Have secrets they cannot reve |.
Leave base minds to harbOr suspicion,
And small ones to trace our defects;
Let ours be noble ambition.


For base is the mind that suspects.
We none of us know one another.
And OF into error may fall,
Then let us speak well of our brother,
Or speak not about him at all.
Year: 1878

To GIRLs.-Never marry II man who
has only his love for you to recommend
him. 1t is very fascinating. but it does
not make the man. If ne is not otherwise
what he should be you will never be hap
py. The most perfect man who did not
love you should never be your husband.
But though marriage without love is terri


BILE love only will not do. If the man is
dishonorable to other men, or mean, or
given to any vice, the time will come
when you will either loathe him or sink to
his level. 1t is hard to remember, amidst
kisses and praise, that there is anything
else in the world to be done or thought of
but love making; but the days of life are
many and the husband must be guide TO
be trusted-a companion, a friend as well
AS lover. Many girl has married
man whom she knew to be anything but
good " because he loved her So" And the
flame has died out on the hearthstone of
home before long, and beside it she has
been sitting with one that she could never
hope would lead her heavenward-or who,
if she followed him as u wife should,
would guide her steps to perdition. Mar
riage is n solemn thing-a choice for life :;
be careful in the choosing.-Belgravia.
Year: 1878

THE DIVER AND THE SIIARKs.-I dove
once in Mobile Bay, where | put over three
hundred chains under an iron clad. The
greatest annoyance we had there was
sharks. They didn't hardly dare tackle
US, because with our armor we looked
more like scarecrows than anything else.
They would come sailing along and grad
ually swim up toward us with their great
big mouth wide open, but when within a
few feet of us they would stop and lay
there aappin' their fins and looking, it
seemed to me, like the very devil himself
Finally we devised n way to scare them off
hat never failed to frighten them so that
they would stay away an hour or longer
before they dare to come back. The ar
NOR we wear is air-tight you know. Our
jacket sleeves were fastened around our
wris,s with an elastic, so that the air could
not escape. BY running my finger under
the sleeve of my jacket | could let the air
ont, and rs it rushed into the water it
would make ii sort of Kissing noise and a
volume of bubbles shoot up. So whenever
those Internal sharks would come prowl-
ing around me | would hold ont my arm
toward them and, putting my finger under
the elastic of my jacket sleeve, would let
lot of air out and send II stream of bub-
hles into the sharks face with kissing
noise like steam from II guage cock The
way those sharks would 90 scootino of
was funny to behold.
Year: 1878

A Kentucky man who went to the
Black Hills, wrote back to q local pa,
per saying "Ofer premium at your
coming fair for the biggest fool in the
country, and I'll try and get there in
time"
Year: 1878

The hand, writing was perfect, but
Oh heavens, Thought he, what name.
How strange that she should know he
was the author Of the valentine, and
stranger still, that she should give a
party. He had never seen a single
visitor, except the hookno3ed old
maid, who, (with her cat,) occupied
the rooms below, ran sewing ma
Year: 1878




A touching story is told Of Miss
Mary McCarger, who was killed =
fortnight ago, at Taritville. A few
years ago she was engaged to be N r
lied, and the preparations for the'
wedding were going on apace. Snd
denl Y her lover was stricken wIh l.
fatal disease, and the devoted 4r'
went 10 his bedside and took care OF
him until he was called away. A t"w
days before The railroad accident sha
re marked to one of her friends 'ha'
she was tired Of living and waiting
for the end, and longed for the t'ne
when she could rejoln her lover.
Year: 1878

About half-past 7 last evening we'll
dressed young man accosted Officer Johu W. Prout at
the Market street Depot OF the PenIsy lvana Railroad
in Newark, aud asked Ia excited manner when the
next train would from this city. The officer
Piled that the next train would be due In half an
hour. In the interval the young
vOIsly paced up and down the long platform
OF the depot and closely scrutinized ladies
passing to and fro When the train from NewYork ar
rived at o'clock the stranger rushed from to


II In anxious search Of one but without speaking
anyone. Soon after the train moved out OF depot
the man turned with Of disappointment and
strobe down the platform toward the Hamilion-st
crossing where he drew revolver from his pocket and
shot himself In the right emDc, causing instant death
The body taken 10 Police Headquarters ana
searched, but nothing was found 10 Indicate who the
man whence ho In his pockets were found
S43. pair OF ladcs' gloves. blue silk handkerchief
and a leather cigar-case. II s believed that he
&c
Year: 1878

A finc-looking woman, twenty-four years of
age was brought into the Mercer street Police Station
at midnight last night suffering from the effects OF poi
son taken with suicidal intent. Her husband and his
brother who accompanied her, stated that her
name Mary Anderson. She lived with her
husband at No 224 VarIck-St., and on yesterday
had bad some harsh words from Ger mOthcr-ln-law,
with whom she was not on pleasant terms. AT p IN.
she took large dose OF opium and little
later she took 10 cents worth OF laudanum She
ten sent word her husband, who was out,
that she had taken the poison. He bastened
home AM found her almost sjupefcd with the POISON
Win the assistance his brother she carried TO the
police station. where Dr. Dorm administered emetics and
had satisfaction Of seeing her partial recovery She
is still in q very precariOus sltrHtt,n.
Year: 1878

No disguise under cover Of statute which proposes
TO pay silver dollar where gold promised or
implied will be regarded other than fraud Any such
course must tarnish honor and damage our pros
pery. To cover the frIud by a statute. ana
then say that it is lawful, does not help the
matter in the least but only deepens the disgrace
Untarnished credit the life Of commercial nation,
and without IL no state can have continued prosperity.
The nations OF Europe watch with interest 10 see
whether The Great Republic" will keep its faith and
increase its credit sacrifice its good and its
future greatness by apparent temporary gain wh'ch
purely deuslve The enemies Of popular government
have theory that delicate honor and commercia nteg
rity perish democracy, and they Will teer ana
rejoice If ourselves prove the truth OF their theory
believe we shall prove the contrary.
Year: 1878

KINGsEY, Que, Dec. 25.-Two men were
killed and five injured by the explosion Of wood pulp
boiler at the Dominion Paper Mills last night Tho
building took fire Immediately after the accident but
the flames were under control midnight II is impoS
sible to estimate the amount OF damage at present
Year: 1878

married woman, name unknown, who
was free passenger on the steamer stonineton
from Providence yesterday gave birth TO male child
on board the vessel She receive purse from the pas
sengers Mother aud child we're taton to she Maternity
Hospital.
Year: 1878

A BRIEF COMMENT BY THE GENERAL ON THE TALK


ABOUT THE aovERNORsHIP OF OHIO.


lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRlBUNEl


WAsHINGToN Dec. 25.-A very animated discus
sion has recently been sustained by the State press
of Ohio concerning the next candidate for the Gov
ernorship. On the Republican side ticket with
General Garfield at its head for Governor and
Charles Foster for Lieutenant Governor has been
frequently and favOrably mentioned. few days
ago the attention of General Garfield was called to
this subject and his opinion on the situation asked
In response he said 81 have watched the discussion
that has been going on at home with much inter-
est, and have seen nv name mentioned Tor the
Governorship. While appreciate the compliment,
il Is useless to talk Of it in that connection. am
at present a Foster man. However. | regard the
whole matter as premature our people at home
have always done best by going to the convention
aud deciding there to what they want, when they
have all the circumstances upon which the CAM
paign will hinge before them"
Year: 1878

The existing greenback, it may be
claimed, is worth as much as a National
Bank note of corresponding denomina-
ton, but it is to be answered that the
greenback, as it exists, does not pre-
tend to be "absolute money" 1t is a
promise of the United States to pay
money, and there is no sane financial
man who does not know that it is n
promise to pay coin, or something that
directly represents coin. A greenback
is good, and only good, because the
country accepts it as a pledge of gold
or silver. The precious metals have
been accepted, the world over, as the
basis of currency, and when men talk
about money they invariably talk about
that which has its basis in coined met
ais A paper dollar always represents
a gold or "a silver dollar. Throughout
the long period during which specie
payments have been suspended in the
United States, the value of bank-notes
and of greenbacks has been sustained
by the faith that ultimately-sooner or
later-every dollar would be redeemed
or redeemable in coin. There was
time when it took two dollars in paper
to buy one in gold, and the gap between
that period and this has gradually been
closed, as the certainty has increased
that the promise upon the face of the
paper dollar would be redeemed If
the greenback were to be changed to-
day, so that it would bear no such
pledge. it would become very cheap
money indeed. 1t would hardly be
worth the paper it is printed on.


There is no power on earth that can
legislate value into paper. If paper
does not represent value, it is good for
nothing, and no Government can make
it good for anything. The question of
cheap money, for the benefit of the Ia
borer, FOR instance, is "as broad as it
is long" If money is good for any
thing, it will have to be paid for in la
Dor. The markets of the world settle
the values of merchandise. We may
legislate that every bushel of wheat
shall be worth five dollars, but our
legislation will have not the slightest
effect upon the price. Wheat is wheat
the world over, and the price is regu-
lated by the great law of demand and
supply. Money is money the world
over, and money is gold and silver the
world over, and every article that a
man possesses and has for sale will be
regulated in its price by the relation
which it bears to some gold unit in the
markets of the world. Money cannot
be so made that man can get some
thing for nothing. 1t cannot be Sc
made that he can get it for less than
the market price in labor. The idea
that it can be so made is Il delusion and
snare of the devil, or demagogue,
who is his most obedient servant.-J.
g. Holland, Scribner for NOUember.
Year: 1878

formed a great public service in secur-
ing and translating these evidences of
Democratic rascality. - Troy Times.


Bay We do not wonder that the Trib-
u''e chuckles over the "yellers of
fraud" who do not appear to have heard
of its publication and translation of the
cipher kilograms. There is ground for
a suspicion that such papers only hate
fraud when their own party suffers by
it. EUery EUening does not fight fraud
from any such standpoint as this, and
hence it. does not shut its eyes to the
serious significance of the cipher tele-
grams now presented, with the inter-
probation of them, in the New York
Tribune. We have examined and tested
the key given by the paper as that dis
covered for it by experts engaged to
make out the meaning of these tele-
grams, and we are satisfied that, what
ever defense is to be made against the
apparently damning revelations of the
Tribune publications must rest in some-
thing better than an attack upon the
correctness of the translation. 1t fits
the kilograms too closely, and the tele-
grams Interpreted by it tally too per-
fectly with known events to permit any
doubt that the explanation of the cipher
is correct. Wilmington EUery EUening
(Dem.
Year: 1878

In January, 1861, so low had the
credit of the Government fallen that the
Secretary of the Treasury suggested to
Congress, as financial resource, that
the several States be asked as security
for the repayment of any money the
Government might find it necessary to
borrow, to pledge the deposits received
by them from the Government under
the act for the distribution of the sur
plus revenues in 1886, the Secretary
believing that loan contracted on such
a basis of security, superadding to the
plighted faith of the United States that
of the individual States, could hardly
fail TO be acceptable to capitalists.


That unhappy epoch has happily
passed away; and not only has that
era of high rates of interest and of
ruinous discounts necessary in borrow
ing money to insure our very existence
as a nation become thing of the past,
but the same National Government
which was then about to borrow the
credit of the several States TO bolster
up her own failing credit has since paid
the war debts of those States and has
vastly reduced the debt of which those
smaller debts made no slight amount
of the sum total: has called in the loans
made at high rates of interest, has
practically resumed payments upon
specie basis. and finds it difficult to
furnish bonds at a ridiculously small
rate of interest TO supply her creditors,
who are pouring in their securities
bearing the higher rate for the purpose
of replacing them with the new lower
rate issue.


And yet, looking upon this picture
and on that, there are those who ques-
ton the policy of the Republican party,
which has produced these grand results,
and who would replace it at the helm
of State by Democratic rule, which in
augurated the system of borrowing
money at exorbitant rates of interest to
carry on the Government whose f.
nances it had debauched, whose credit
it had ruined, and whose fair and glow
ing future it seeks again to reduce to
the financial level of unhappy Turkey,
that byword among the nations, with
her irredeemable paper currency.
Verify, the times are out of joint, in


deed.-NetO Republic.