smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

Tried ONCE LOO OFTEN.-DuFiuS tue
haying season, an honest old farmer on the
Gratiot road employed three young men from
the city to help him cut and store his timothy.
None of them liked work half so we'll as
whisky, and a conspiracy was the result.
About noon one day, oneof the trio fell down
in the field, shouting and kicking, and the
other two ran to the farmer with wild eyes
and called out that their companion had been
bitten by rattlesnake and must have some
whisky. The farmer rushed to the house and
brought out a quart, and the three hatvesters
got big drink all around on the sly, while
the bitten one had lay-of Of half day.
The next forenoon second was bitten, and
again the farmer rushed for his bottle. 1t
was nice little job for the boys, and on the
third the third one put in his claim for q bite
and yelled for the whisky bottle. The old
farmer took the matter very coolly this time,
and after making particular inquiries about
the size of the snake, the location Of the bite,
the sensation, and SO forth, he slowly con-
tinued:


"Day before yesterday James was bitten
and drank quart of good whisky. Yester-
day John was bitten and drank quart more.
Today you've got a bite, and the best thing
you cando is to smell their breaths and lay
in the shade while the rest of us eat dinner T.


The man got well in ten minutes, and not
another rattlesnake was seen during the entire
season.
Year: 1879

A FEW years ago there came to
this county from the Buckeye State
moving curiosity and qaartered at
the Chronicle rack, at Dodgeville


Some mischievious persons, wonder
ing to what advantage to the com
munity this bucksome thing could
be worked in, stole it one night
from the green-green, yes, that's
right-pasture of the Chronicle, and
pat it in pen with COW of VIM.
Carter, of that village. In the course
of events .he cow proudly brought
forth calf, which is fine specimen
in all respects, except that its entire
ly destitute of q caudal appendage,
wherein is the only distinct resem-
blance to its sire. Natural enough,
the Chronicle thinks its stock purer
than any other and insinuates that
its offspring would be of advantage
to the TRIBUNE staff. Such an an.
imal might often be utilized by let
Year: 1879

THE public school picnic yester-
day was a successful affair, bearing
evidence that our people were more
interested in educational matters
than was generally credited to them.
The morning dawned clear and en-
ticing and at the early hour of s o.
clock the children were gathering at
the seminary from the four quarters
of the city. Procession was formed
with the band and city officials in
the van, and they marched down
Fountain ST., up High and thence
to the grove, where mirthful and
beneficial time was participated in
by the scholars and citizens through
out the entire day. Great credit
is due to Supt. Van Dusen and Prof.
Terry for the active interest taken
by them in perfecting arrangements
for the memorable event.
Year: 1879

Times are better. There is no
mistake about it. Every department
Of trade feels it more or less. In
my next will tell you how two
items of farm produce are looming
up till it takes no prophet to predict
vast trade in each; and they
are but two in a bunnrcd. Why,
look at one single branch of manu-
tacturing-the sewing machine trade.
One would suppose the world was
already supplied with sewing ma
chimes, but the Singer Sewing Man
ufacturing Company report sale Of
some 10000 machines in the year
Just closed in excess of the number
sold in 1877 The total sales Of the
Singer machines for the year are
Year: 1879

The Supreme Court of the United States,
has recently pronounced decision on the
constitutionality of the late law passed by
Congress prohibiting polygamy in the ter
ritories of the United States. The case was
brought before the Supreme Court on an ap-
peal from the Supreme Court of Utah terri
tory by one Reynolds, the plaintiff in error, to
test the constitutionality of the law. The case
was ably argued before full bench. The
plaintiff in error, through his counsel, argued
that the act of Congress was unconstitutional,
because polygamy being an article of religious
faith among the MOrmons, Congress had no
power to pass laws abridging the right of
Mormons to enjoy unmolested their religion as
constitutional right. To this argument the
Supreme Court, (the Chief Justice delivering
the opinion of the Court) answered in the fol-
lowing language


This Court holds that polygamy is not under the
protection Of the clause of the Federal Constitution
which prohibits interference with religious belief
that the plea Of religious conviction is not q valid
defense that Congress did step outside the lin.
te Of its constitutional powers in passing law fol-
tho suppression Of polygamy in Utah, and that the
judgment Of the Superior Court Of that Territory
must be affirmed. Judge Field dissented as far as
the related to the admissbility of certain ev
denee introduced in the lower Court but upon the
main questionable eonstitutiOnAlity of the Act Of
Congress prohibiting polygamous marrisges-thers
was perfect unauimiry.


The decision therefore, settles the question
as to the right of the Mormons practicing po-
| lygamy, and it remains to be seen what course
will be pursued hereafter on this question 81
long as Utah remains Territory her people
must be bound by this decision. If she wer,
admitted as State, the case might be differ.
ent; because as q State controlled by Nor
mons, she might pass State laws protecting
Aormons in all their peculiar religious dogmas
and Congress be powerless to prevent her
Utah has now more than twice as many peo
pie as Colorado had when the latter was ad
mitted as a State of the Union, and the onll
reason why Utah was kept out, was the po-
lygamy question. 1t is thought that the Nor
mons will not willingly submit to the late de
cision Of the Supreme Court but we do no
see how they can help themselves, and w
Year: 1879

In all civilized countries the press has
been regarded as the palladium of the
rights of the people, and in all countries a
free and independent press has been hailed
as sacred. Whenever an attempt against the
liberty of the press has been made come from
what quarter ii might, the people have always
become alarmed for their safety, and have
always coutended with spartan bravery for
free and untrammelled press.


There are many ways by which the liberty
Of the press can be hindered and silence pro-
cured, when the worst of crimes are often
committed by despotic rulers and officers
high in authority, who either from ignorance
of their duties to public liberty, or an innate
desire to WELD power not delegated by law,
they seek opportunities to silence the press by
numbeTless prosecutions and annoyances Of the
men who happen TO have control of the press,
who can neither be awed by interest or
bribed by gain to keep silent when the liber-
ties of a country are endangered by such
Vaccinations. In all ages and countries the
men in power, who have attempted to plant
their feet on the necks of the people by muz-
zling the press, through whose medium alone,
liberty and good Government, law and order,
can be secured to the many against the grasping
ambition of the few. Too much vigilance can
not be exercised on the part of the press when
any attempt no matter how slight, is made to
shacke the hands that labor for the rights OF
the people and the well-being of their country


Tyrants may feel safe when the press is
muzzed, but when her voice is free to ring
tyrants, tremble because their deeds are evil
Year: 1879

confess to feeling of relief on learning that
the question has at last been judicially deci-
ded, for the reason, that now the issue is fairly
made up, and thus the doubt that hung around
the question has been removed, and all parties
must face the music.


That there will be any conflict between the
Mormons and the United States authorities we
do not believe; because such course would be
suicidal on the part of the Mormon Church, and
could bring it nothing but disaster. The Nor
mons as class may be fanatical, but they are
no fools: and therefore we believe they will
quietly acquiesce III the decision, and seek re-
lief through some other channel at more
convenient season.
Year: 1879

We used to celebrate the Fourth of
July that young lawyers might have
one day set apart that they might pin
feather for glorious professional i'm
mortality. But somehow the people
grew weary of the forms and empty
ceremonials of these sonorOus splendid
state occasions. In truth the war left
them too poor to spread endless tables
and the supply of elequence and pat
riotism was commonly proportioned to
the length and depth of bitches above
which smoking meats were barbecued.


Those were grand festivals of the
olden me. Freedom reigned in the
parlor and in the kitchen and on
the old plantation the notes of
the fiddle were drawn out to the
longest, latest hours of the night.


1t was holiday IN which people we're
supposed to rejoice because the United
States were freed from the British
domino ton. Nobody in the South re-
grets this emancipation, but while car
pet-Saggers and blacks supplanted the
gentle sway of Victoria. the contrasted
civilization and justice and respecta-
bility of the two systems almost made
the South deplore the event which gave
England and. America two govern
ments. But the carpet-bagger as q
painful fact is no more; Hayes with
drew armies and restored local free
dom; the vices and taxation and cottly
habits of csrpet-bsgism in local govern
ments are rapidly eviscerated; SIM
pie republicanism .supplants crazed
and costly philanthropy, and we
do not see why the whole South,


even though the President WELD the
veto deftly, should not celebrate with
bonffres and illuminstions the nat j
day of the country's freedom. We
learned to love freedom by reading
Jefferson's immortal paper and it
should be read and memonzed by
patriots through all time.
Year: 1879

THRY tell us the whipping post is
barbsrous, and yet we have 1000 men,
white and black, with heads half shorn
and striped clothes, with armed guards
men ready to shoot them on the spot,
moving about from place to place
everywhere in Texas. The people are
made accustomed to scenes of harden
ing, corrupting brutality. Vice in its
worst human shapes is mustered before
their eyes. Coarseness of tastes and
inhumanity are generated, and the
penitentiary is thus made to supply
the penitentiary with inmates forever.
Let Us substitute the whip ping post.
Year: 1879

THE free school commissioners OF
Massachusetts say very modestly and
very gingerly that they have possibly
attempted too much and expected too
much and sought to teach too much IN
the schools of the old Bay State. Mean
while Governor Robinson of New York
does not hesitate to declare that free
schools in New York have wrought in
finite evil and need thorough reforma-
ton or excision from the body polite.
Ia the face of these facts and the
prevalence, in the free school States,
of unheard-of depravity in public and
private life, among men and women,
we are asked, here in Texas, where
public and private morals have grown
worse as the free school system has
been expanded = even here we are
asked to insugurate the universally OF
free school system. Can men re-
member what society was before the
pedagogues, plucking treasures, and
corrupting parents and children, came
into these hapless States. And what
is our social condition since these
agents of plundering booksellers camei
There was decency and honesty and
virtue where we now have coarseness,
knavery and vice. L US at least
watch events and opinions in the East
and in the South, before we have fast
ened on the country the inefficient
free school system of Texas.
Year: 1879

TIE BRENNAN Banner confesses that


the damage done the free schools by
the Legislature is not irreparable. The
Banner should be happy in the refec-
ton that this is one instance in which


IL is quite impossible to make bad


worse. The Banner believes, because
the generous and intelligent people Of


Brenham have added largely to the
free school fund and selected honest
and capable teachers, that these schools
are equally benefcent everywhere. On
the contrary, the wisest farmers say
that the system is an unmlxed calamity.
Year: 1879

Are offering at 8 Sacrifice the Large Stock of Goods which they have on hand. They have also a large lot of Goods on the road which they expect to re- ceive ip a f " days, that must be sold for less than San Francisco prices, in order to close out their whole stock, as they are determined to sell off everything before the s. P. R. R reaches Maricop Wells, which will be by the lst of April.

 Now that times are hard and money scarce, it is of the greatest importance to economize. Therefore, call around and you will find that you can purchase as much for one dollar, as y u could have purchased for two dolla s some years ago.

 They have a full line of
Year: 1879

ions OF our order, that make il our duty to
watch at the bedside of a suffering brother or
brothers family, to perform the last sad Office
OF love and affection, when brother has passed
to better world, and to care for and succor
bis bereaved family after he Is gone.


These things may all happen to any one OF


us, and while not the only benefits conferred


by our order, they are by 10 means among the
least. might enumerate number OF minor
benefits accrulng to members OF the orde: by
reason OF their connection Herewith.


1t fits them the better TO carly on their daily
avocatons, by familiarizing them with system
atlc business forms, 1t teaches thsm reliance
upon their own power and ability, it gives them
confidence to express themselves on public oc-
casions, when it may become necessary so to
do, it renders them conversant with parlia-
usages and the customs OF dellbera-
tive bodies, and IN a hundred other ways, which
it would be superfluous 10 mention, IT benefits
q man to be an Odd Fellow; and with all this,
it in no wise INJURIES him, but on the contrary
the influence Of Odd Fellowship lie in all direc-
tions beneficial and only beneficial.


Ihen. my Brethren, may we all DC unlteu III
this work, and with one accord labor IN unison
for the success and advancement OF our cause,
aud to extend the immortal virtues, "Friend-
ship, Love and Truth far aud wide through
out the world. May the beneficial influence OF
our noble order grow and expand az the years
roll on, until in the good time coming, when
we who are now working together shall all have
joined the great Supreme Lodge in the future
world, over which shall preside the Grand Mas
ter of the Universe, when Nation shall no
longer lift up sword sgainst Nation, and war
shall be known no more, and the whole world
shall be banded together TO perpetuate the
great principles OF our order, and our motto be
emblszoned on the banners OF all Nations OF
the earth, and the world be governed by Friend
ship, Truth and Love-
Year: 1879

Are offering at a Sacrifice he Large Stock of Goods which they have on hand. They have also a large lot of Goods on the road which they expect to re- ceive in a few days, that must be sold for less than San Francisco prices, in order to close out their whole stock, as they are determined to sell off everything before the $. P. R. R reaches Maricopa Wells, which will be by the lst of April.

 Now that times are hard and money scarce, it is of the greatest importance to economize. Therefore, call around and you will find that you can purchase as much for one dollar, as ycu could have purchased for two dollars some years ago.

 They have a full line of
Year: 1879

A young Indy In the oil regions Of Ponn-
eylynnia fcl1 victim to The perniclous habit
Of roading in bed. sho road herself to sleep
aud loft tho lamp burning, aud it sot fire to
tho bcd-o9othes and burned mp tho young
Indy and tho house.
Year: 1879




Yesterday, General Horatio q. Wright regis
tered at the Metropolitan hotel. Gen. Wright
became famous during the war as one of the
great corps commanders of the Army of the
Potomac. He shared in all the vicissitudes
attending its campaign, and contribute
ed to all the glorious victories
won by it. As commander of the sixth CORDS
he took part in all the battles of the Wilderness
campaign, the siege of Richmond and was in at
the death Of tho Confederacy under the histori-
cal apple tree of Appomatox. Previous to this
service Gen. Wright served in the
Valley of Virginia, and was an
important factor in the renown
and glory which is commonly assigned to
Phil Sheridan his sole property. At present
General Wright is chief engineer in charge
OF the lake harbor and river improvements of
the North and Northwest, with headquarters at
Detroit. He is visiting this section of country
the lakes.
Year: 1879

GENERAL GRANTS PARTY.-GeneraI Grant
and his party passed through Richmond last
night on the 10:l5 train for the South. When
the train arrived at the head Of Broad street
the Generals car was detached from the
train and taken by an engine rapidly through
the city and across the Petersburg bridge to
the Belle-Isle junction in order that the
trucks might be changed before the through
train started from the DanYille depot, and
thus prevent any delay. There were very
few people at the depot, as it was not gene.
rally known the ex-President would pass
through last night.
Year: 1879

is a scientific combination of some Of
the most powerful restorative agents in
the vegetable kingdom. 1t restores gray
hair to its original color it makes the
scalp white and clean; it cures dandruff
and humors and falling-out of the hair;
it furnishes the nutritive principle by
which the hair is nourished and sup
ported it makes the hair moist, soft
and glossy, and is unsurpassed as a
hair-dressing ; it is the most economical
preparation ever offered to the public,
and its effects remain long time, max
ing only an occasional application me-
cessary. 1t is recommended and used
by eminent medical men, and officially
endorsed by the State Assayer of Mas
sacausetts. The popularity of Halls
Hair Renewer has increased with the
test OF many years, both in this coun-
try and in foreign lands, and it is now
known and used in all the civilized
countries OF the world. For sale by all
dealers.
Year: 1879

Peter Springer who recently went to
Texas to look after the estate of his
cousin, the late Albert G. Springer,
who was murdered at his rancho about
year ago, has written to Mrs. Il. b.
Frazer that the Indians had recently
made an attack on the rancho and the
U. S. troops had gone in pursuit of
them. He has been busily engaged in
getting the large herb of cattle together
which hs found much more difficult
and dangerous business than opening
oysters. He sleeps every night with
his gun by his side.
Year: 1879

Middleton at Fourth and King streets
uses printers ink freely and does a
large business. The groceries are al
ways fresh because he can't keep them
until they get stale. He is undoubted-
ly amongst the most enterprising gro
GERS in the city.
Year: 1879

sin, Alameda and Sacramento and San
Ia Cruz in California-may yet prove
to have been pioneer enterprises of q
magnificent industry. The difficulty
to overcome appears no greater than
the cotton manufacture has accom-
plished in underselliug Manchester.
The Maine achievement is now attract
ing attention and exciting hopefulness;
and it is to the inventive genius and
manufacturing skill of the East that the
country naturally looks for organizing
success in beet sugar making. Could
it be attained-and who dares say it
shall notP-the result would be a great
er boon to agriculture, East and West,
in its stimulus to intensive culture, in
its aid to cattle-feeding, than the mere
addition TO the wealth of the country
by the amount of sugar produced. M
Y. Tribune
Year: 1879

Every now and then somebody dis
covers that the President of Harvard
College and the chief cook of one of
our leading hotels get about the same
pay, and launches out into a long es-
say concerning the inequality of COM
pensation in this world and the made
quate reward which brains receive.
There is an element of truth in it, but
there is Gc,e factor which is apt to be
forgotten. The President of Harvard
receives salary adequate to his wants.
At all events he is satisfied, and that is
the main thing. But that is not his en-
tire compensation. He has a position,
official and social, which anyone might
be proud to hold. He is known and re-
spected from one end of the land to the
other. All doors are open to him. II
he 90 abroad the fame of Harvard pre-
cedes him, and he is everywhere an
honored guest among the learned, the
good and the great. HisTesponsibility
is great, but so is his power. He may
not accumulate wealth, but he has
something that wealth cannot buy, and
when he dies his name will be inscribed
with those of men whom this commu.
nifty, this whole country, have honored
and revered. On the other hand, the
chief cook of the hotel in question,
But is it necessary to paint the Other
side of the picturep-BOSton Tran
script.
Year: 1879

An old darkey caught a two-pound
sucker one day, and was so we'll satis-
fed with his work that he lay down for
a nap, with the fish beside him on the
grass. Another darkey came along
presently, picked up the sucker, and
left half-pound one in its place. When
the first man and brother woke up, the
first thing his eyes sought was the fish,
and it took him some seconds to realize
that something had happened. Then,
turning his prize over and examining
il all round, he simply said; g Golly,
how dat fish am swunkedr'-NeO York
Tribune.
Year: 1879

Ladies, you cannot make fair skin,
rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes with all
the cosmetics OF France, or beautitiers
Of the world, while in poor health, and
nothing will give you such good health,
strength and beauty as Hop Bitters. a
trial is certain proof. See another
column.
Year: 1879

vided OF those who favor the change
some are for greenbacks and some for
treasury notes to replace greenbacks,
while others prefer not to disturb the
National Bank circulation at all others
not to disturb them until their charters
expire. The latter is the position as
signed to Senator Bayard from his
speech at Newport. Senator Salisbury
favored in his speech in the Opera
nonse the substitution of treasury notes
redeemable at the option of the holder
in coin for greenbacks and The discharge
of the bonds held by the banks TO save
the interest upon them, by which saw
ing to the government, il is argued, OF
some Sl3,000,0O0 annually would be
effected.


Now this saving is but a sma!
matter compared to the saving that
would be effected by the election OF
a Democratic President in 1880. And
as the Democrats do not themselves
agree upon any mcde for a change OF
the National Banking system, would
it not be well tor the party and
equally well for the country If the
Democrats would throw this question,
cali it the "Ohio idea," or what you will,
entirely out of our politics and concen-
trate wholly upon the much more I'M
portant and catholic questions of econo-
my and free elections. For ourselt we
want to fight to win, and We are for har-
mony and concentration at all hazards
We want TO see another Democratic
Administration at Washington and un'
less there is union and harmony We fear
we never shall. With union and har-
mony and retrenchment and reform on
our banners the Democracy ought to be
able to carry in addition TO all the
Southern States, New York, New Jersey
Connecticut, Indiana, and perhaps Ohio
also.