smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

Only an ivy-leaf withered and scar,
And stained and blotted with mlny Il tear,
But sacred twill be in the coming year,
For the life bl ood of love were those silent


tears.
And Love in loneliness over them grieves
For dream that's lost in the shadowy


past,
A dream so beautiful it could not last.
For the leaves were the gift of 4 maiden


fair


And pure and bright as the angels are,
She smiled that day rs she saidf Farewell,
Not knowing the anguish that DER me fell.
Nor did she know of my hearts great


pain,


As | knew that day that my love was vain,
For she told me while standing by my side,
That she soon must be another's bride.
So took the flowers and I've pressed


them here,
And Ive blotted them over with many a


tear,


And tho the star of my hope has forever


set,


Ny poor heart never will learn to forget.
For loved her us never man loved before,
So much that l never can love woman


more,


But the dream tho beautiful was brief,
And my ncart is buried beneath this leaf.


WANDERER.
Year: 1877

MTE the undersigned beg leave to in
w form you that we have associated
ourselves together in the Mercantile bus
mess ut KNOXVILLE, and have re-
turned from the city with Il full line Of
Goods which we have now opened and
invite your examination. We propose TO
sell Goods upon the closest living profit
for the cash or trade, excepting only
those who deal regularly aud pay prompt
ly, upon thirty, sixty and ninety days
time. We cannot do business upon the
old system Of twelve months time. Both
duty and interest to ourselves, as well as
our customers, forbid it. We hope, by
strict attention to business, an earnest
desire to please and give satisfaction, to
merit anu receive your support.


All kinds of marketing, including corn,
received in exchange for goods.


Respectfully.


MELVIN & STRIDER.
Unionyille, Nov.3, 1917. II
Year: 1877

festive candlelight and the evening enter tainment of cake and cider with which their hostess was presently to treat them. But she, retiring to the pantry to bring in those dainties with her own hands, ar ranged her tray as if she were all the time thinking of something else. Finally she took down a pewter mug out of which her children once had drank, pour- ed it full of milk, and went down the passage again to the little wooden shut ter

 Hark! the child was fretting, but the mother sang simple little song enough. though strange one for witch:
Year: 1877

The subcommittee of the Ways and
Means Committee of the House al
Washington are busily engaged dur,
ing the Congressional recess, in re-
vising the tariff and internal taxes
They have had before them number Of
representatives of different interests, such
as silk, wool, sugar, iron, medicine, &c
1t is probable the report will favora large
reduction of articles liable to duty, and
a moderate reduction of duties on the
leading articles of consumption. 1t is
believed this can be done without injury
to the revenue. 1t is also believed the
committee will advise reduction of the
taxes on whisky and tobacco, and the
reimbursement of the income taxes, 80
that the Eastern States may bear their
share of the burden of taxation. The
bill will probably be moderate in scope,
as no extreme changes could pass the
Senate,
Year: 1877

New York, Dec. 24-Only about thirty
laborers are to-day engaged in clearing
away the debris of the late Barclay street
fire. The work progresses slowly, and
workmen have not yet reached the flue,
which, it is believed, was the cause Of
the disaster. 1t is now stated that no
one was left in the rear of the building,
the foreman having remained until he
had seen the last person leave. This, if
true, leads to the theory that the bodies
of those who perished will be found to-
gether where their exit was cut off by
the blown up fue, and it will require 20
feet more excavating to reach the spot
where the fue is supposed to have burst.
At the present rate of digging the inter-
vening debris will not be removed for
several days.
Year: 1877

THERE is nothing easier than to start
stories against the management of pub
lie institutions, and demand investiga.
tions, but if the community would dis
play little more interest for the inmates
of these retreats during The year, it would
not affect the surprise it manifests when
charges are made. There is a profound
ignorance on the part of the average
money getting citizen as to the internal
operation of institutions for insane, poor,
orphan ordepraved. It's scarcely mat
ter of astonishment that superintendents
begin to feel as the community had no
thought or care for them or those in their
charge. Post.
Year: 1877

Mr.. Beecher preached Sunday morn
ing against the evils of religion Of mere
form, Forms of worship, he said, var.
led, but the substance was the same in
every age. Referring to the chapter
which he had read at the opening of the
sermon, he said that the whole gist of it
showed that the most pious men in the
time of Christ were the worst; all they
cared for was the altar, the Church SER
vice, and the doctrine; they did not care
about disposition, and Christ denounced
them because they substituted methods
and forms for humanity. True Worship
was the offer of ones self in spirit; the
acts by which we worship were of no
validity, except as means of exhibiting
our disposition. "When some monstrous
brute of a big man." said Mr.. Beecher,
"would have service, all the underlings
about him hasten to bring to him valua-
BILE gifts, diamonds and iewelry, rich and
rare, all that art can produce of the cost
ly and the beautiful, but what does he
see in all this2 Simply brief expecta-
ton Of benefits hoped for from him."
In contrast with this Mr.. Beecher pic
tured the humble offering of some old
nurse as tribute of love, which was, he
said, Of infinitely more value than all the
costly offerings to bloated wealth. In
relation to morality, he said it was not
piety, but was something that must pre-
cede piety; and it was by the education
of men in the school of morality that
they came at last to the higher forms OF
spirituality. In speaking of the utter in
sufiCieIcy of mere formal religion, Mr..
Beecher said, "Can a man pray three
times day and go to hell? Yes, he can.
Is there a hell? Yes, there is; not only
here but hereafter. 1t does not stop
here, and those who substitute mere for
malities ofreligion for religion itself, will
find there is hell hereafter"
Year: 1877

The New York City Boiler Inspector,
after inspecting the ruins of the
frightful candy factory explosion, reports
that it was copper tank, and not boil
er, that exploded. 1t was filled with
material for making candy, and break
ing kerosene lamps with which the build.
ing was lighted, scattered the burning
fluid in every direction.
Year: 1877

THE Repository thinks lightly of the re-
ply of the County Commissioners. We
find it is the opinion, generally, that the
reply settled the Repository ISLANDERS and
charges, But


"some men convinced against their will,


Are Of the same opinion STILL"
Year: 1877

GooD News FROM SOUTH CAROLINA
The financial condition of South Carolina
is better than was supposed. Business
is dull, and the political and industrial
horizon is not Cloudless. Yet the first
year of Hampton's administration leaves
the State absolutely free from debt, upon
the operations of the year, and with a
handsome balance in the Treasury
CAarEs,ton Nees and Courier, Dem.
Year: 1877




He Was A WIDowER.-Thec cars were
running through deep cut, whose rocky
walls re-echoed the noise OF the train
with startling effect. A pale, detected
looking man sat by an open window,
through which came the deafening roar.
A lady on the next seat expressed her
dislike of the noise in such terms, that
gentleman requested the pale man to
lower his window. This the pale man
refused to do, and sat drinking in the
confusion of sounds with an expression
of great satisfaction. AS soon as the
cars stopped the passengers expressed
their contempt for the pale man for his
rudeness. The pale man stood up in
his seat and said: Gentlemen, don't
want you to think me hog; but I've
been married for eleven years, and last
month my wife died. I've lived terri
BILE lonesome life since then, until |
! heard the noise of the cars coming
through that cut, and you've no idea
how it brought back old times, and re-
vived me-" The passengers forgave him.
Year: 1877

1T TAXES Two TO QUARREL.-A wom-
an out on North Hill, being counted out
the other morning, after debate on the
question: "Who shall rise and build
the fire ?" got up and split her husbands s
wooden leg into kindling wood, and
broiled his steak with it. 1t made him
SO mad that he got hold of her false
teeth and bit the dog with them. She
cried until she had fit of Mysteries, and
then fillipped out his glass eye, and
climbed upon the bed-post. and waxed
the glaring eye to the ceiling with a
quid of chewing gum. Then he took
her wisp of false hair and tied it to a
stick, and began white-washing the
kitchen with it. Then she started of
to obtain divorce, but Judge Newman
decided that he couldn't grant a divorce
unless there were two parties to the suit,
and there was hardly enough left Of
them to make one.-Bstrlsngtou Hack
eye.
Year: 1877

She who sleeps upon my heart


Was the first to win t.;
She who dreams upon my breast
Ever reigns within It;
She who kisses oft my lips


Wakes the warmest blessing;
She who rests within my arms


Feels their closest pressing.
Other days than these shall come,
Days that may be dreary;
Other hours shall greet us yet.


Hours that may be weary;
Still this heart shall be thy home,
sim this breast thy pillow.
still these lips meet thine as soft
Billow meeteth billow.
Sleep, then, on my happy heart.
Since thy love hath won It;
Dream, then, on my loyal breast
None but thou hath done IL;
And when age our bloom shall change,
With its wintry weather,
May we in the selfsame grave
Sleep and dream togetherl
Year: 1877

Nj. Gambetta closed his famous speech ct
Lille with phrase which bids fair to supply
a pithy party cry for the conflict on foot.
He held that there could at least be no doubt
on the topics now agitated after the nation
should have declared itself in the elections
on the issue now before it and he said -
"When France shall have made her SOW
ereign voice heard it will be necessary to
submit or resign" I'll foasdra Sc soamettre on
dfmettre" Give over or get out ; yield your
opinions OF your place. This alternative is
so clear where national sovereignty is recog-
nized that the phrase seemed like
commonplace. If the people are su-
prem eff their will declared at the polls is
the expression of a sovereign authority
then the administrators of the government
are the creatures of that will, and must act
on it or give place to more docile servants.
Otherwise they do not act on the national
will, but suppress it. 1t is an exhibition,
therefore, Of the spirit Of those who oppose
the Republic in France that they impugn
the validity of the position taken. In q
windy piece Of rhetoric, headed Neither
Submission nor Resignation" that shallow
advocate of any cause, the Figaro, endeav-
ored to controvert Gambetta's words, and
now the Journal des Dfbats comes forward to
support them; and SO the battle spreads on
this phrase-"Give in or step down and
ont :"
Year: 1877

Dramatists disposed to thrill an audience
with horror, and novelists eager to feed the
ticrcest appetite for sensational stories, sell
dom succeed with all their efforts in the pro-
duction Of story SO startlingly effective as
that told with straightforward simplicity in
our Hartford despatch to-day. All the high


wrought fancy and ingenuity in the use of
detail that characterize the school of prison


romance has not produced scene so
dramatic os that of the two desperadoes
escaping from their cells, hiding till the
single keeper came round to perform the
final duties of his Office, overpower-
ing, binding and gagging him that they
might continue their efforts to escape, and
returning as he succeeded in raising an
outcry, to deliberately murder him. But
for the rash fury with which they slew this
resolute officer it is evident they could have
escaped. The shot that destroyed his life
destroyed all chances of their long studied
and we'll nigh executed plan. And here is
q touch of nature to which the novelists
and dramatists do not RISE None Of the
supernaturally acute criminals Of plays or
novels would ever have fired this wasteful
shot. Only the inconsiderately savage tenn.
Year: 1877

The commercial depression to be seen on
every hand has its parallel in the condition
of parties at the present time. In the State
conventions thus far held on both sides the
political poverty which has been exhibited
is positively painful. On one hand the bur-
den of the political song is almost entirely
the chagrin and disappointment over the
result of the last Presidential election; on
the other we have scarcely anything except
the dreary refrain Of the late war, ended
twelve years ago and now in the keeping
of history. Neither the one nor the
other isan issue in our politics. They have
about as much to do with the present and
the future as the second war with England
or the election of the younger Adams by the
House of Representatives. In Ohio and
other States we have, to be sure, the soft
money agitation which has been SO often
repudiated, with here and there cloudy allu-
sions to the rights of labor and capital as
meaningless and enigmatic as they are hol-
low and insincere. The fact is, our politicians
are bankrupt. Their stock in trade is gone.
Not one of them has made single sugges-
ton of the least value during the last six
months. Mr.. Blaine, to whom large
portion of the republican party looks
for leadership. is mere sounding brass.
Year: 1877

Encouraging accounts Of the Indian war
continue to come via the Chicago and
Washington line, but thus far they seem to
be more encouraging to the Indians than to
the whites The hostiles keep on shoot
ing stage drivers, to whom they have
natural antipathy, and it is likely
that the stage routes will be soon
abandoned because the drivers have nat
ural antipathy to being shot. General
Howard still continues his vigorous pursuit
of the Nez Perces, who have given him
ample employment in their favorite occu-
patton. If the fugitive bands had not
occasionally stopped to steal his horses
General Howard might have before this
overtaken them, but he still hopes for sue
cess. Exactly where the Indians are is
not known, but it is expected that they
will be found, fought and annihilated


All this would be more cheering if
we had not heard similar victo-
ries discounted before, and if the
indians had not had the best of the war
from the beginning of Howard's campaign.
What Chief Joseph thinks of this long
chase would be interesting to know, but
we see no reason why he should be
dissatisfied OF why he should cherish
any but kind feelings toward his
adversary. One thing is certain. that if
General Howard ever should catch the Nez
Perces the brave troops under his command
will make gallant fight. 1t is not the fault
of our soldiers that our Indian wars SO
often end in defeat, but that of red tape
administration, which battles their energies
and makes even their successes futile.
Year: 1877

few years after it went into operation
Canada raised her duties ON manufactured
goods, which caused complaint and irrita-
tion in all our manufacturing towns near
the border, and especially in Buffalo, which
has chronic jealousy Of Canada lest the
Welland Canal should injure the grain
trade of that important port. An indus
trious clamor was kept up against the treaty,
founded on the altered tariff of Canada,
which excluded our manufactures, and
intensified by her open sympathy with
the rebellion, which made her territory
safe place of refuge for Confederate plotters.
In consequence of the feeling thus aroused
notice was promptly given by Mr.. Seward
of the termination of the treaty at the ex-
piration of the stipulated ten years. and our
government has not been disposed to listen
to overturcs for its renewal. But the
opinion has now become pretty unanimous
among our commercial men that the inter-
ests of this country require a new reel
procity treaty, and it is understood that
President Hayes intends to make such
treaties a conspicuous part of his policy.
Great Britain will leave her side of the nego-
tiation substantially in Canadian hands
until the basis of the treaty is agreed on,
and will only assume control Of the final
formalities necessary for rendering it bind
ing Although the contract will be hers it
will embody the wishes of the Canadian
government and people.
Year: 1877

THE STRIKE OF THE NEWARK U.ATTERs is an
instance where workingmcn i'll attempting to in-
jure their employer really injure themselves.
Their employer had made u contract to ill a
large order and ut the present time, when the
margin Of profit i'll all branches OF manufactures
is so small he undoubtedly did SO on the basis
OF wages then paid. To demand higher rates
before the order was filled was in all probability
to blot out the profit and, it may be, bankrupt
him. Workingmen in striking should some
Times remember these things.
Year: 1877

INTERESTING "reminiscences of the late Ben
De Bar, who Tor so many years IA actor and
manager filed so large place in the theatrical
world of the United States, will be found in
other columns They from the pen of "a
gentleman who knew him intimately for more
than q quarter of a century.
Year: 1877

Business Prospects for the Autumn.


The month of September opens with
feeling of greater confidence on the part of
our trading classes and signs OF greater ac
tfIity than in any preceding year since the
panic. This is no doubt due, in great part,
TO the abundance of our crops and the high
prices of grain in the English market, but
it also results, in part, from belief that
there is to be no. further dawdling with
the question of specie payments, and
that the government will proceed by
steady steps to resumption at the end
of the next sixteen months. Business men
feel at last that they can count with some
degree Of assurance on the future, and that
the operations Of trade are to partake less Of
the character of game of chance. Nobody
expects great hustle Of activity or rush Of
business, but there is a sober expectation Of
q good fall trade on n basis of moderate
profits. In our Western cities, especially
Chicago, Cincinnati and st. Louis, the season
has fairly opened with favorable auspices,
and this city is beginning to be thronged
with purchasers of goods from the interior.
Except at the great distributing points the
markets are pretty bare in consequence of
the hand-to- mouth way in which the coun-
try dealers have been purchasing during the
decline of prices which has been going on
for the last year. There is large chasm to
be filed as soon as it is thought that prices
will be tolerably steady for few months,
and the small profits with which the whole
sale dealers are disposed to be content re-
lieves the retail trade of pretty much all
risk. One of the most encouraging symp-
toms is that the New England manu-
facturers Of fabrics are now largely
working on orders, which is much
better than to be turning out goods on
the mere chance of market. The Southern
and Western demand for almost every
species OF goods bidsfair to be quite large
at the present moderate prices, and in view
of the goodness of the crops there is no diff
Guilty in obtaining reasonable credits. AL
though not great deal of money will be
made the wheels of business will be pretty
we'll in motion within the ensuing two weeks,
and before the season ends a great deal
of cash will have found its way into the
pockets of the farmers.
Year: 1877

Pelischat, the scene of the latest collision
between Ottoman and Muscovite, is south
east from Plevna, five miles distant, on q
byroad that runs from Plevna to the Osem
River, which it touches at point twelve or
fifteen miles south of Bulgareni. Osman
Pachas troops came upon the Russian lines
there in reconnaissance made to ascertain
their whereabouts, and by way Of ascertain
ing whether the Russians were there or not
in considerable force he assaied the
position. From both sides we receive
simultaneously an account of the result,
and the accounts differ, of course, but not
more than must appear natural to whoever
remembers how different are the stand
points from which the fact is regarded. As
in the case Of the fight of Thursday on the
other Russian flank, the Turks assailed an
outpost, which they drove in, and, elated by
even trivial success, they claim on this
account that they have stormed an impor-
tant part of the Russian lines. They may
have carried some unimportant redoubt; and
the fact that the Russians report an abso-
Lutte repulse Of their enemy is accounted for
on the ground that they regard the redoubt
as of no value or possible injury to
any one. Their admission Of loss of six
hundred implies fight OF certain impor-
tance. This news, with what we had yester-
day, is significant of the fact that the Turks
armies are in motion on both flanks OF the
Russian army north of the Balkan. Sup
posing this movement to be insisted upon,
co,o a1,Odx, will 1,o b,,rt w; thin chOpt TINA


On the Russian left, on the Lom, the Turks
have been tenaciously resisted, have lost
heavily and are yet far from the point at
which battle gained would be of strategic
value to them. In the reports from Shumla,
it will be remembered. the collision on the
LON was chronicled as decisive defeat of
the Russians We ventured to doubt at
the time that there was at that
point any such force of Russians
that its overthrow could be fairly regarded
as decisive defeat. And the Russian ver-
sion of the story sustains our doubts by
showing that the Turkish soldiery merely
stormed some advance defences not held
with great strength. On the Plevna side it
does not appear that Saturdays battle was of
great consequence in itself, or otherwise
than as pointing to what may be coming in
the way of general collision. There has
been no reason to particularly admire the
Russian strategy in this campaign, but their
troops have been we'll handled in battle,
and if series of important collisions is
imminent we shall likely see the Russian
army give good account of itself.
Year: 1877

The following record will show the changes In the
temperature Tor tho past twenty -four hours, In
parson with the corresponding date OF last year,
Indicated by the thermometer At Hudnups pharmacy.
HERALD Building
Year: 1877

Bob Ingersoll says that cook
ing is one of the fine arts; that
it takes far more sense to be an
excellent cook than a tolerable
lawyer; and that he is q good
cook himself and has no other
accomplishment of which he is
so proud. And he adds: There
ought to be a law passed making
it q crime punishable with i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary
to fry beefsteak. 2
Year: 1877

A Frenchman, who attempted
to solve the problem of life, gave
it up thus: When I lost my
wife every family in the town
offered me another; but when [
lost my horse no one offered to
make him good.