smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

The Chamber of Commerce of New
York city entertained President
Hayes the other day, and the presi.
dent of the Chamber made a speech.
We quote:


"President Babcock said that at no
previous period in the history of the
last thirty years had the business Of
the country been more depressed and
unsatisfactory than at present.
Twelve years have passed since the
termination of our civil war ,and while
it resulted in releasing from bonds
four million human beings,it inflicted
upon us system Of financial meas
ures which has since put under bonds
O,OOO, 900 people. Human ingenuity
has been taxed to the uttermost to
furnish titles for the numberless de-
scriptiOns of these securities.
Under our huge pile of indebtedness,
with the oppressive taxation to which
it has given rise-amounting in the
aggregate to nearly seventy millions
annually--andw with the unsound and
extravagant management of public
affairs and private interests which it
has caused, is it strange that our COM
merce and our industrial interests are
crippled and languishing. If we fully
realize these evils we cannot fail to
see that no permanent relief can be had
until such as remain of the monstrous
and wild speculations of the past have
reached their inevitable conclusion,
and until upon safe and sound foun-
dation of frugality and thrift our ma
tional elements of recuperation and
growth may expand into sure and
healthy progress, and life and prosper
ity shall be restored to the interests
OF every section. Let us hope all,
whether exercising authority in
Washington, in Albany, in our city
halls and in our homes, will do it with
moderation and discretion to the end
that every department of the govern
ment may be purified and reformed
and the people may rise up and call
their rulers blessed"


Whereupon President Hayes and
his party got mad.


The truth is not always palatable
and Mr.. Hayes was not pleased to see
thus clearly depicted the fruits OF
that financial policy from which he
has declared "no steps backward must
be taken!''
Year: 1877

years. People who formerly occupied
a whole house at from $l 300 to So, 900
year now put up with suit of apart
ments at from $3.50 to 5000. Hun
dreds remove out Of town. This an
nual exodus is very discOuraging to
New York landlords, and to those
who are interested in the growth of the
city. It drains off the middle class,
and especially newly married people,
the most desirable elements of our
population-the very rich, or those
who would be thought so,or the very
very poor. The effect Of this pretty
steady depletion on the city is serious
and damaging, especially on local pol
itics, the public sentiment of the city,
the support of churches. and general
social life. Beggars and millionaires
are poor neighbors and bad citizens,
and worse Christian. But one reason
of the hegira is that business is very
dull. It does not revive. The new
president does not make two bargains
go where there was but one before.


The banks are giving up their circu-


lation. Stocks are tumbling. People


who have money dare not risk it in
new enterprises, and put it in govern


ment bonds at a merely nominal rate
of interest. The imports for Febru-
ary and March are very small, and
there are few buyers in town.


In the meantime the value of all
kinds of securities is shrinking at a
fearful rate.


An exchange says:


There seems to be some danger for
apprehending that the stock market
may fall into condition of chronic
debility. No one stock on the list
stands better or worse than the 9TH
ers, but all are alike deficient in
stamina. Generally there are one or
two stocks that hold theiI own against
the downcurrent and serve as bull
wark for the rest. The fact that all
would seem, however. to demonstrate
that the fault lies not SO much in the
stocks themselves as in the want of
confidence in everything and the dis
position to engage in any new and
extended enterprises, which is COM
mon to business in all it's ramifica-
tIOnS.


Another paper says:


The evidence of distress among all
classes of workers-educated and un-
educated, skilled and unskilled--seem
to increase every day. In Boston
last week there were $4,000 registered
applicants paid at the Office Of the
overseer of the poor, representing
perhaps $4,000 in families, or more
than one in ten in the population of
the city. In San Francisco it is no
better. The Mail Of that city says:


1.-The unvarnished truth is that our
labor market is stocked to overfowing,
and every fresh train but adds to the
miserable multitude in our midst that
waits, suffers, starves, and finally
fights it's desperate way east again.
Before the door of every employment
Office in the city to-day, stands hal


low-eyed swarm that would sadden
the eyes of a satyr. Men of brain and
culture, good clerks, excellent &C.
cOuntants, business men of undeniable
energy, mechanics of ability, walk
the streets in dumb despair. Similar
reports might be given from every


large city of the Union, and no one


appears to be very sanguine of a re-
vival of business to the near future.
Year: 1877

people to amend Or revise their con-
stitutions is limited by the constitu
ton of the United States, says they
must not assume to violate the
obligation of any contract. In l845
the state of Ohio, in chartering q
bank, provided that the corporation
should pay fixed amount Of tax in
lieu Of the taxes which would other
wise be levied upon it's property, or
stock, but the new constitution of
1851 directed the imposition Of taxes
upon banks in different made and
amount.


The Supreme Court of the United
States declared, upon this that a
change of constitution cannot release
State from contracts made under a
constitution which permits them to
be made, and held that the tax assessed
under the amended constitution was
in violation of the national cOnstitu-
tion regarding the obligation Of con-
tracts. The court Of Appeals of New
York in the case cited by Gov. Davis,
held that the legislative power exists
exclusively in the Legislature, legis-
lation by the people being forbidden
by necessary and unavoidable impli-
cation; and the Legislature, therefore,
has no power to make astatute depend
ent upon the contingency of a popular
vote. The Supreme Court of Texas
also held that there is no authority
for asking the approval ofvoters to a
legislative enactment. The Supreme
Court OF New York held that while
the legislator derives his office from
the people-that is, is elected by them
he does not derive his power from
them, but from the constitution. He
can restore his office to them, but he
cannot give them the power Of max
ing laws. The Supreme Courts of
Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Ohio are
cited as holding to the same princi-
pie. The Supreme Courts of Iowa,
and Indiana have held that their Leg
islatures cannot legally submit to the
people the proposition whether an act
shall become law or not.


It is clear:


I. The constitution Of the United
States denies to any state the right to
make any law ''impairing the obliga-
tiOn of contracts


IL. The promise of the state con-
tanned in those railroad bonds, was a
contract; and the obligation was that
ssthe faith and credit of the state is
hereby pledged to the payment Of the
interest on the same.''


III. An amendment to our state
constitution which denies to the Leg
islature the right to pay that interest
is, undoubtedly, violation of the con-
tract, contained in the bonds; it is in
conflict with the constitution of the
United States, and therefore null and
void.


": Being null and void it is in the
power of the Legislature at any time
to provide for the payment of interest
on the bonds, and of the principal as
soon as it natures.


It was this fact that made us will
ing to support the proposition to pay
fifty cents on the dollar of the debt
believing that if the people refused
that settlement the Legislature had
the legal right to pay the debt dollar
for dollar; and that they would, soon
er or later, exercise that right.
Year: 1877

If the object in planting trees is TO pro-
duce fruit, the less pruning the greater
the result, We have thought for many
years that our trees were being ruined by
constant pruning. American Cultivator.


As the gold yield OF Australia decreases,
the wool crop grows more valuable. Last
year the wool product OF that country was
$40 goo 900, more than four times as much
as its gold product.


The famous Short Horn cow .'Tenth
Duchess of Geneva" in Geneva, England,
is dead. This animal was bought by Lord
Bectve. at New York Mills, New York
State in 1873, for over S30,0G


The practice Of washing u harness in
warm water and with soap is very dam
aging, unless coat OF oil is Immediately
applied. A damp sponge will remove any
dirt on the harness, aud then is desirable
to apply 2 slight coat of oil by using an
other sponge.


Plants, like animals. differ much in
their habits, and the different sorts OF food
on which they subsist. The broad leaved
from the air large portion of their
SipNti- NHllc lIt ldllbW-ledEeu dllIS
and grasses partakc more largely of min
eral food, which they draw from the soil
This fact will explain the great advantage
of rotation OF crops.


The easiest way to get rid OF stumps OF
trees is to bore a hole in the top say one
OF two inches, and eighteen inches deep
Put in the hole from one to two ounees OF
saltpetre. fiji the hole with water and
plug up tight. In the spring take ont the
plug, pour in u half gill OF Kerosene oil,
and set fire to ii The stump will burn
entirely up, even to the smallest roots.


Springfield Union.


Accounts from many sections of Iowa
which have suffered from grasshoppers
for the last four years, say that myriads of
egg, which had been deposited in the
ground daring last season, are now hetch-
ing out. and that if the present mild
weather continues y few days longer it is
considered certain that the State will he
entirely rid OF the pests, either by ireez-
ing or starvation.


Mr.. Cooley Of Waterbury, at the Ner-
mont Dairymen's meeting, recently said
what many call the animal odor of milk
is really the vegetable odor which comes
from the food Feed your cow on turnips
and you will have an odor which cannot
be got rid Of, but in general the odor is n
volatile oil. If the milking be clean, and
the COW be fed on good grass, there is no
bad odor to discharge
Year: 1877

A late number of the Celestial Empire,
Chinese paper, contains this prophecy:
-" The immigration of the Chinese into
California has been accompanied by the
gravest complications. The working class
es have. in many walks of life, found their
occupation gone. They have been elbowed
ont OF the field by a colony of hard work
ing, abstemious and economical China
men, for whom the cocktail of the country
has no charms. and who are able to live,
and live well, upon a fraction of what
native has to pay. What has happened in
California may happen in any other coun-
try whittier the Chinese may emigrate so
that there is possibility Of our even re-
GREETING the energy with which we have
striven to souse the dormant nation into
life. The prophecy of Wen-siang may
some day be realized to our cost, and the
western world be almost overrun by the
black haired race"
Year: 1877

This thing is really going to far. The
Tammany Society, defunct political
organization of this city, materialized
long enough the other day to entreat
the country to be on its guard against
"the craft and unscrupulons methods
of President Hayes, and the republican
''soreheads" have been denouncing him
for three months for his Southern policy.
There is general howl about the new
civil service order too. And yet not
only Boston, but apparently consid-
able part of New England, turned out
yesterday to welcome the President. 1t
is too bad. A great crowd, delighted
to see the President; procession
marching through streets decorated
with flowers; the whole population in
the streets with enthusiastic shouts;
big hall full of people anxious to shake
hands with the President and his Cab
met; cordial welcome also everywhere
TO "that rebel fellow Key


Is it not about time for the republi-
can "soreheads" to come in out of the
cold? What is the use of standing out
thereP New York Herald.
Year: 1877

Apropos to the power of the press, the
late John Forsyth, of Alabama, was
accustomed to illustrate the advantage
Of advertising, and told the following
story with much gusto. He made a
wager with a merchant who denied
that advertising was of benefit to the
advertiser. In the event of proof to
the contrary, the merchant was to pay
for such an advertisement as Forsyth
should dictate, and an oyster supper to
boot. OF course, Forsyth should do the
same If he lost. The editor said to the
merchant:


"Write-'Wanted to purchase a
dog" The number of the residence
and the name of the street was given,
and In the wager it was stipulated that
the want should be put in nonpareil
and in an obscure corner of Forsyth's
paper. Next day the merchant called
at the office of the Register looking ex-
tremely annoyed. His house was be-
sieged with men having dogs to sell.
The dogs were brought to his door, and
his family were so annoyed that police
man had to be called to drive away the
pests. Said the merchant: 81 will not
only pay for the dog advertisement, but
put in one which wish you to display,
because am convinced that the public
reads, and that my business can be best
increased through the agency Of type.
Come along and get the oyster supper,
Colonel you have fairly won the bet!'
Year: 1877

Senator Jones, of Florida, confirms the
report that the new Returning Board OF
that State will recanvass the vote under
the plea that the direction of theSupreme
Court has not been fully complied with.
That re-canyass, he says viii show ma
iority in the state for the Tilden electors
of over two hundred and will show it so
clearly, that although the report will
come to Congress out of time and irregu-
lar. no decent Republican or honest man
in Congress or out, will be able to disbe-
Ieve or oppose it.
Year: 1877

II Is now alleged by those who have
given the subject consideration, that the
excess of shade trees in Savannah was
one of the exciting causes ef the fearful
prevalence of the yellow fever in that
eity last summer. The moral is that too
much shade is more preiudicial to the
general health of community than what
j., generally termed too much sunshine
The many who have a dread of sunshine
VIII do well to think of this.
Year: 1877

In the Middle and Eastern States
rising barometer, northwest to SOUTH
west winds, continued old and clear
or partly cloudy weather will prevail
followed in western portion of former
by falling barometer aud winds shift
ing to slightly warmer southerly.
Year: 1877

be in all and through all and over all.

 May you all then speedily have a share in this lesser dedication of this house, when you shall see it complete in it's beauty and usefulness. May we all some day have part in that higher dedication, when the whole universe of God shall be brought up to it's final completeness and blessedness.

 At the close of the Rev. Scoville's re- marks, the Rev. Fitch thanRed all for thair attention; the speakers for their words of good cheer; the band and tbe singers for their most excellent music; the author for his poem and all who have Tn any way aided in the services, and then closed the exercises of the day with the benediction.
Year: 1877

Fools and their money soon part. It's worth while being fool to have the money to part with.

 A parrot is said to live to be two hundred years old. A barber does not live so long, but he talks more.

 If worse comes to worse the Sultan will put hia wives into the field, and ovefrun the whole Eastern continent.

 The crops in Western Massachu- setts are reported to be growing so fast as to pull the roots out of the ground.

 A New Englander writing home from the Black Hills says that there are as many wise men going out every day as there are fools going in.

 How wise is the tramp who sleeps in the fence corner and has no fears o1 hotel fires and six story leaps to stone pavements. Go to the tramp, thou ar thitect, consider h1s ways and be wise
Year: 1877

YOUTHFUL FoLLIEs.-Times like these
not only present to the people the necessity
of economy in dress, table fare and other
over taxed luxuries, but they also present
to parents the power and law they should
exercise in regard to their children. Some
idea, in particular, should be included in
the minds of the older sons or hopefuls, in
regard to the needless expenditure of mon
ey for cigars, strong drinks and unnecessary
outlays, which are considered by many us
necessary to hold one's place in society s
fashionable foolshness. Many promising
son has been bereft of considerable for
tune, home and friends, by tho social glass,
excess in tobacco, and over.dress beyond
ones moderate income. To such we would
give brief advice. Live within your in.
come; abandon the foolish and unnecessary
cigar give over to less wise brains the hon
or CD Of performing in society that which
is beyond your means to do; live the life o
honor guard against temptations in all their
minutest forms, and when success has
crowned your efforts you will have the sat
isfaction of knowing that you honorcd The
parents who ushered you into existence; and
when the lamp Of life has burned out, the
honor Of a sons most noble aim will furnish
peace and happiness to his relatives ant
friends. He who has lived temperately, du
\ tifslly and honorably, however low hi
.Espherc may be, has accomplished much il
rtho.wsy guiding other men aright--o
showing them the path of rectitude an,


houoT Boston CuitiUator.
Year: 1877

ADVICE TO YoUNG MEN.-Ncvcr affect
to be other than what you are, either richer
or wiser. Never be ashamed to say IL don't
know" Never be ashamed to say, when ap-
piled to for time or money, 81 cannot afford
it," Once establish yourself and your mode
Of life as really what they are, and your foot
is on solid ground, whether for the gradual
step onward or the sudden spring over a
precipice. From these maxims we may de-.
duce another-lcarn to say "No," with de-
cision, whenever it meets temptation. Yes;
with caution whenever it implies promise.
A promise once given is bond inviolable.--
A man is already of some consequence in
the world when it is known that we can i'm
plicity rely upon him. How frequently in
life have we seen such man preferred to
long list OF applicants for some important
charge; he has been lifted at once into sta.
tion and fortune, merely because he has
this reputation-that when he says that no
knows thing, he knows it and when he
says he will do thing he will do it,
Year: 1877




F1GuTINa QUALIrYts0P,THh eTuRKs.-
Although Russia has two miifioadrmed men
she will not find her road to Constantinople
strewn with roses. Every stream of water
will be thorn and every hamlet tHickct.
The Turk may be cruel and vicious and un-
civilized, but it cannot in truth be said that
he is a coward. During the famous Crimean
war, the bravery and dash and brilliant
fighting of the turbaned infdels challenged
the admiration of the world N.Ah through
the insurrectionary struggles of the past
two years the fighting material of the Turk
has been thoroughly tested, and has been
proven to be of a superior and remarkable
quality. The religion Of a Mohammedan
makes him warrior. From infancy he
is taught to hate bitterly the Christian and
fight to the death for. the Crescent The
Mussulman faith opens wide the gates Of
eternal JOY to those who die in defense Of
its cause. This wonderful system ofsensual
fatalism led the Turk across the Bosphofus
in an attempt to make the Mohammedam
faith of universal sovereignty. 1t has steeRd
his heart in war, and made him for nearlS a
hundred years rcsistless against armies Whole
hosts outnumbered his five to one, and hs
ssword conquered in his westward march unit
Eugene of Savoy checked his onward Cd
| reer ut Zenta A


The Moslem has gradually deterioratal
since the Crimean struggle until it has h


come not only effeminated but conceited adj


brutal. Still this decline in the elemena
Of its greatness has not made it by an,
messsAa~ nation Of towards. ,Iha Turk
will fight the Russians they will fight then
with all the glory Of their mourning. The
realize that it is veritable struggle for tn
existence Of the empire and their religion
and as they are devoted to the former, an
love the latter as they love life, the confic
:. will roll its bloody surges through ever
province in the empire before they will sui
NIT to their conquerers.- Lynchbury Pres
Year: 1877

GApEs IN YOUNG FowLs.-In a recent
conversation with an experienced chicken
grower, he informed us that he had been
very successful in conqucring gapes in
young fowls by the application of air slaked
lime. AS soon as manifestation appears,
he confines his chickens in box, one at
time, sufficiently large to contain the bird,
and places coarse piece of cotton or linen
cloth over che top. Upon the top of this he
places tho pulverized lime, and taps the
screen sufficiently to cause the lime to fall
through. This lime dust the fowl inhalcs,
causing it to sneeze, and in short time the
cause of the gapes is thrown out in the
form of slimy mass or masses of worms,
which had accumulated in the windpipe and
smaller air vessels. This remedy he con-
sidcrs superior to any he has ever tried, and
he seldom fails to effect perfect cure.
Year: 1877

The following is an extract from lee
ture on education recently delivered il
St. Louis by Carl Schurz. All children
should be educated, but more especially
the girls. Some people claim that
women should have no education at all
while others went to the other extreme
and coDtended that every girl should re-
ceive such an education as to not only
make her selfsupporting in life but to
fit her for any position, political or other
wise, in life that man alone has hereto
fore filed. The speaker thought that all
avocations open to one sex should also
be open to the other, but the ideS that a
woman should educate herself to live
alone and independent of the othefSsex
should be discouraged. She should be
so educated as to be able to live alone,
but the desire in her to work for herself
and Independent of man should not be
cultivated. Any system tending to in
crease the number of old bachelors or old
maids should be cried down. Women
should receive the best attainable educa-





ton, and that should be made to embrace
a thorough kitchen and househou1d edu-
cation for various reasons, known to all.
Every family should have a home Of
their own and not live in aass...va. 5or
)arding house, where there cat no
secret privacy, and no feeling of mutusu
among the members of t,a..
amily. The woman's educa tion should
,e of business character. She should
znow. how to economic, how to adapt /
tEsrent wants to current means. She
hould have taste and judgment, and |
hat training and temper of mind and
Leart which imparts to home its cheer, |
nd gives to the husband place of en-.
oyment and relaxation. Woman is the
enter s6pxury and the center also of
amily virtues She may be either the
ood or the evil genius of society. Her
ducation in every branch that is con-
uctive to human happiness and the
rosperity of family and society Is there
,re of great importance. As wife and
lether she should know what kind of
,od is healthful and what kind is in
lrious. She should have a ike knowl-
Year: 1877

Many people, particularly children,
suffer with the ear ache; and for the benefit
Of such we give a sure but simple remedy.
Put in two or three drops of .j0hRS0n's AnO
dgae Imminent, stop the ear with undressed
wool ba4he the feet in warm water before
going tdsbed, and keep the head warm al