smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

The indications so far all points to
good crops this year. The plentiful
covering of snow during the winter,
followed by refreshing spring
rains, has been anexcellent thing for
grain. Almost everywhere it is
fresh and green, and the yield will
probably be larger than for several
years past. The outlook in all kinds
of business is a matter of importance,
but the foundation Of all national
prosperity is agriculture, and while
we have plenty of grain to feed our
people and to export to distant mar
kets, our country at large will still
be comparatively prosperous.
Year: 1877

Southern papers are making much
over the recent condemnation Of a
white man to death for numbering q
negro in Georgia, thus showing how
rare such contemplation has been
for crime confessedly frequent. In
fact, it is said to-be the only case on
record in the State.
Year: 1877

At the Brooklyn Central Office yesterday
morning Joseph seIke aborer of No. is sacketst


was reported by his wife missing About IL o'clock
his body found In sumo shrubbery near the main
entrance 70 Prospect Park At the elbowjont OF the
left arm An artery had been severed by u razor,
which lay by the dead mans aide. lie had
evidently bled TO death after opening the veln
the blood having covered his clothing Around
the wrist O fishing cord was tied tightly. In tho
Year: 1877

The following record Will show the changes in the
temperature Tor the past twcntyour hours, In CON-
parison with the corresponding date OF last year,
indicated by the thermometer at Hudnuts pharmacy,
HERALD Building
Year: 1877

lam of the same opinion as yourselves and
am determined to help build up the manufae-
turing interest of our native State IN order to
which would Otherwise 20 to the North. at home.
About year ago started my Facte W. and BY
using the best material and paying my hands
business and support 500 women and children
that would have otherwise left the State. ln
order stin to increase my Factory. I would
the city. but of the whole country. to give me
-del4IT JNO. HANSEN
Year: 1877

To EDITOR HERALD-


Nearly three months ago went to tho tmarble
palace" IN Mulberry street and examined my
capabilities engineer to engine and boiler
in this city. A iow days after the examination my
employer received notice that certificate would bo
granted Alter waiting u sufficient time, as
thought wrote ~ Sergeant Leerts, OF the Sanitary
Corps figuring Tor my certIhcate but received .
reply. About Two weeks ago l sent a messenger TO
the 'marbio paiace'' 10 make some inquiries about


and he Told by the Sergeant that my incatc
mad been made out 10 the Police Commission
crs Tor their signature Now would like 10 ask tho
Commissioners through your paper If they conduct all
their public business IN this nanuer2 have heard
recently that this Is worry common thing, aud that
the Commissioners sign the certificates whenever 1t
peascs them to do so. ENGINEER.
Year: 1877

To THE EnIToK OF THE HERALD:-


Allow mo to enter my complaint against tho rounds
and policemen who standing at the OF
Tenth avenue and rhrtysixh street at ten O'Clock
Monday night Instead Of keeping the crowd back
from the fire las suppose their duty, they
insulting the respectable citizens who CHANGED to pass
within bearing of their voice, and had collected
crowd OF disreputahe females and were using language
unit for dccent people 70 hear II the Police Comms
siOnors will take the trouble investigate this
sure that that roun asman Will be minus the stripes
AMI the police short OF funds next day, they
Rll moro or less intoxicated Tho rOundsman
much 80 that he unit or duty.


RESIDENT OF WEST THIRrY.SIXru STREET.
Year: 1877

TO THE EDITOR or THE HERALD:-


An old brick schooner which capszed In the North
River several days ago now lies of Castle Carbon,
directly ia the track vi steamboats, going up and down
the river. The masiheads several ieet above the
surface, ana, unless removed may bc the
cause OF considerable mischief aud perhaps loss OF lite.
as ut night they cannot be at distance Tho
proper authorities should attend 10 tic removal at
Il.
Year: 1877

10 THE EDITOR HERALD:-


Allow me to make a complaint against the brass
collar buttons which sold around the streets OF
tins city Tor cent each. One morning last week,
having lost my sleeve button took and used one OF
the brass collar buttons Instead The result that
this morning u small lump came upon my wrist not
unlike bite IRON bee the lump s very painful +.
Year: 1877

A Los Angeles dispatch of June 12,

 informs Us that during the preceding day a volcanic eruption occurred in the mountains opposite Flowing Wells Station on the Southern Pacific RlIl- road, about sixty miles west of Yuma The eruption was preceded by violent vibrations of the earth, about half an hour after which a dense volume of smoke and huge blocks and broken bOulders were observed to issue from the mountain. It continued in an ac- tive state all day, but became nearly passive at nightfall. The eruption sub sequently continued at irregular inter vals. Tn publishing this information, a San Francisco paper heads it An Arizona Volcano" We have nn un reasonable or innate prejudices against volcanos in general, and are not certain but that if we really had volcano we should be proud of it and fence it in and utilize it,-perhaps to stimulate revivals. But honestly thIs isn't our volcano, and although it is almost thrown at us and the temptation is pretty strong to take it, we must de cline on general principles. It is way over the river, in California, and IS un 

 doubtedly a providential warning 10 the highly moral people of that State to mend their ways. It should recall to their minds the fate of Sodom and j GOmOrrah.
Year: 1877

IE Prescott lately, bids were invited by the county board of supervisors upon contract for making survey and specifications for wagon road from Prescott 10 Bradshaw City. The usual method in such cases is 10 award the contract 10 the lowest responsible bid der The Board reversed thls rule and quietly awarded the contract to the highest bidders. The moral sense of the denizeGs of the bed-bug town has become so obtuse that it took them some time 10 find out what there was wrong in this award. They knew there was something queer in it and they studied over the matter and wrote to their newspapers, and wanted to know you know if there wasn't something wrong, and if the general course which Prescott had adopted towards the rest of the Territory wasn't beginning tG react among themselves Finally they submitted the whole thing to the Grand Jury and that body sai down on their ! bed bugs and found that "Afier exam ming carefully the bids gwen in upon l the contract for making a survey and specifications of the proposed roac from Prescott to Bradshaw City, ana examining all the evidence appertGln

 ing thereto, we are unable to discover any reason why the contract should

 not have been awarded to the lowest

 instead of he highest bidder, by tho

 supervisors of the county" Just so But il seems to us that any one excep a mule or grand jury could discover l any number of reasons why Yavapa

 board of supervisors should do any

 thing that more honest people wo llC

 hesitate to do.
Year: 1877

BE careful not to expose the roots
of trees to the wind aud sun more
than is necessary in the operation OF
transplsnting. More failures in tree
planting arise from carelessness in
this particular than from any other
cause.


To prevent this carry the trees to
field to be planted in bundles covered
with mats lay them down, and cover
the roots with wet loan, and only re-
move them from the bundles as they
are actually required for planting.


In planting, the roots should be
carefully spread out, and the soil
worked among them with the hand.


When the roots are covered, press
the earth firmly about the plant with
the foot


Insert the plant to the depth at
which it stood before being transplant
ec.


Select, if possible. for tree planting,
a cloudy or rainy day. 1t is better
to plant after than before the middle
Of the day.


All young plantations must be pro-
,ccted from cattle and other browsing
animals-tEe greatest enemies next
to man. to young trees. and the spread
Of forest growth.
Year: 1877

Upon each other We must lean,
Each help each other on.
For, after all, success is eer


A triumph mutually won.
Here we are placed to work for good,
To do the best we can,
To illustrate by brotherhood


The usefulness Of man.
Who stands alone and dare despi.e
The assistance Of his race,
Who gains, all manly sympathy
And friendship turn. his face.
Who says, I'm independent, |


Can do my work alone,
Nj triumph | alone can win,


IL shall be all my own"
Who thus may speak shall surely find,
Some day how hard and cold
Within his heart will be the faith
Which he there dares 10 hold.
No mind. however great its powers
10 build up and TO plant,
Can work success wiihou, the aid,
The aid Of brother mao.
He's but boaster who dares say,
Il build my own success,
And ask no all from any one


10 bring me happiness
Upon each other we must lean,
To mutual faith hold last,
= And do our best, we shall find
Our triumph won AT last.
Year: 1877

1t is an old trick of despots, and a
good one, to employ their subjects


Why? To keep them out of mischief.


Employed men are most contented -


There is no conspiracy Men do not
sit down and coolly proceed to concoct
iniquity SO long as there is plenty of
pleasant and profitable employment for
body and mind. Work drives of dis.
content, provided there is compensation
in proportion to the amount of labor
performed. There must be stimulant
God never intended man should sweat
without eating Of the fruits Of his labor
-reaping a reward-more than be in-
tended the idle man should reyel in
plenty and grow gouty on luxuries
Industry is a great peacemaker-a
miDd-your-own- business citizen Some
thing to do renders the despairing good
natured and hopeful-stops the cry of
the hungry, and promotes all virtue
The best men are the most Industrious
the most wealthy work the hardest =
They always find something to do. Do
you ever wonder that men of wealth do
not "retire" and enjoy their substance ?
We know some young men who look
forward with anticipation to the time of
retiring" 1t is doubtful if a man
should ever retire from business as long
as be lives. We think we know men
who. we're they to abandon business,
would be ruined, not pecuniarily. but
meDtally-Jheir lives would be shorten
ed God never intended mans mind |
should become dormsnt 1t is govern
ed by fixed laws. Those laws are i'm
perative in their exactions


Something to do! "Oh, if l had
something to dol" There are young
men who sigh for it, yet one thing they |
can do-that is, seek for job. Once
found, provided it is an honest one, do
not hesitate to perform it, even if it
does not pay as well as you expected
Scientific american.
Year: 1877

TINE AND MONEY Many people take
no care Of their money till they have
come nearly to the end of it; and others
do just the same with their time. Their
best days they throw away-let them
run like sand through their fingers, as
long as they think they still have an
almost countless number of them to
spend; but when they find their days
flowing rapidly away, so that at last
they have very few left. then they will
at once make a very wise use of them !;
but unluckily. they have by that time
no notion how to do it.
Year: 1877




To live with people is to discover
their faults it is better, then, not to
live with them. To come together in
the same village, town or city, is the
ruin Of some excellent friendships, which
would have gone on happily during life
with short railway journey to each
visit. Woe betide certain acquaintances
whose aspect is mutually pleasant seen
from opposite corners Of the same street
ifthey become next door neighbors No
greater mistake can be made than for
persons to suppose that, because they
are friendly with one another at this or
that distance of removal, they will be-
come increasingly friendly in proportion
as they draw higher. Few of US can
support with credit too intimate friend
ship. Numbers of family quarrsls have
arisen merely because the members
came together too often many friend
ship has ended forever owing to the
parties having met every evening for
week. instead of interpOsing at least two
blank nights. A very nice chronology
obtains in the matter. Aunt Mary may
be charming visitor at intervals Of
about three years if she came each
summer she would be intolsrable You
rather like your brother Johns children
if you don't go there oftsner than once
in three months. It is all very we'll to
hear talk about eternal friendships.
Some people can only be intimate and
remain friendly with some other people
for half an hour at a time. Who has
not observed the part played by time 10
visits of some length to friends at dis
lance? How agreeable some persons
are on the second day. but they begin
10 change before the next has fully run |
out Some are never quite SO nice as
IN the evening of tho first day; altho'
hese same persons generally make par
ial amends BY Frightening up brilliant
y during the last few hours or minutes
i your stay, and are wholly perfect at
he moment Of your departure.
Year: 1877

tha t railroad property .unremur err
ative to its owners. The report of
the Railroad Commissioners of
Illinois and Minnesota are AMONG
the number.


These are but few instan ces
among an innumerable host all to
the same effect.


The Wisconsin Central is no ex.
ceptlon to the rule. except its grant
IN comparison to the work accom-
plished, is smallest of all the land
grants. They have built their road
at enormous expense through an un.
inhabited wild, rness. The total
value OF their land grant, if we take
the rate of interest in WISCONSIN,
would not pay one years interest on
the cost OF thrir road.


They ask to be exempted from
taxes on their lands for only five
years more. Should they not OBJ.
tain this extension of tins we can
not see how they could take their
lands, as the proceeds of the sales
would not for the next five wears.
pay the taxes. The Company would
be forced to lose the lands and the
people along the line lose the taxes
which at the end Of the FIVE wears
the company would be able to pay,
and the taxes which in the mean
time would be paid on the lands
which the Company would sell to
others.


Common honesty-gratituds and
self interest, all demand that our
people do all in their power to aid
the Company in It's efforts to OBJ.
tain this extension.
Year: 1877

One OF the greatest draw backs to
prosperity is the restive, rowing and
unsettled spirit Of the people. Each
o imagines that there is an El
Dorado somewhere, or that some
section is more prosperous than his
own, and that he must go to it be-
fore he can accomplish ANYTHING.
The idea unsett lss him, and it he
does lot "pull up and IN CRATE at
once he IL forever talking about it,
and neglects to improve his pre- enl
home or tsrm. The dsluslsn has
Year: 1877

Marshall Times


The Times yesterday made mention
of a lynching outrage in Grundy
county. 1t appears to be one of the
most terrible, cowardly and inexcusa-
BILE of outrages and was committed
in Felix township, Grundy county,
about twenty miles north of here,
last Saturday night, that has ever
been committed in this state and is
unsurpassed by anything that has ev-
er been perpetrated in this country.


An armed masked gang took a man
named John Ecker from the custody


ofa constable, who held him under u
charge of an assault with intent to
commit great bodily injury, and
tied him hand and foot, gagged him
and then carried him about mile
and hung him and left him to die
Soon after they left he got loose his
hands and climbed up the rope, and
disengaged his head aud saved his
life. After getting loose he gave
himself up and said he wanted his
trial and was released upon the evil
dence on the part of the state alone.
The people in Grundy are in arms
over the matter and pronounce 1t q
willful. unproyokcd attempt at cool
blooded murder, and it is now be.
lieved that the information was filed
against Eckler by one of the gang so
as to disarm him, and thus enable
them to lynch him without danger.
No arr ests have been made, but de-
tectives are at work aud strong sus-
DiciOnS rnats unoN a man and his uoD


in-law, who resides in the neighbor-
hood, who have had trouble with
Ecker and were afraid of him.
Year: 1877

A little son of James Chapman,
aged five years, had very narrow
escape from death lately. He was
playing on the embankment at the
lower end of Briggs pond, when he
slipped and fell into tho flume of the
old Oakum mill, and was carried
rapidly down the stream, being toss.
ed about by tho rushing waters like
q chip, 1t was thought that when he
reached the old wheel, his brains
would be dashed out against it, as the
space beneath was not large enough
to admit of his passing through. But
he shot under 1t like a fish, and went
under the bridge at Cedar srect, and
into the trough through which the
water is conducted to Smiths organ
factory. Here he succeeded in clutch
ing joist across the trough. where
he clung until he was rescued. His
first words, after he had been put in
. place Of safety, were: "Where's
my top?n
Year: 1877

A telegram from Washington says
Secretary McCrary has saved the gov
ernment large amount of money by
annulling the completion of the new
war rDepartment building. The con-
tract was made several years ago.
and involved several million dollars.
Under q recent decision Of the Attor.
ney General the government cannot
make contract beyond a specific an.
preparation, and under that decision
Secretary McCrary decided that the
present contract for the War Depart.
ment building could not be extended
beyond the present fiscal year. La.
Dor and materials have been reduced
nearly 40 per cent. in price since the
original contract was made, SO that
Secretary McCrary was able to renew
the contract for the next fiscal year
at saving of about 33 per centum.--
1t Is expected that the building will
be completed about year hence.
Year: 1877

Ir Is not necessary to inform con-
stant readers OF the Chicago Tribune
that for five years past that paper has
persistently and maliciouely DETAINED
General Grant. 1t now says of him
and his defamers:


"Of course Grants military career
needs no vindication at this time to
justify the high honors he is receiving
at the hands Of the English people,
who rarely make mistakes in their
awards Of merit; but it is serious
reflection that there is even small
portion of the American people SO
malicious, envious and mean-spirited
as to encourage or tolerate the false
hoods and misrepresentation which
q few Of the pro- Rebels of the North
are still willing to print against the
hero of the war for tho Union
Year: 1877

Peter Cooper AZ Currency Doctor.


New YORK, June 8.-Peter Cooper,
candidate for President Of the United
States, at the lRt election, has just
addressed long open letter to Presi-
dent Hayes, criticizing the past finan-
cial policy of the Government and al
90 marking out the proper course, In
his opinion, to be pursued in the flu
ture. Cooper begins his letter with
these words: "Allow me to offer you
my heartfelt thanks for the wise and
independent course you have adopted
in the discharge Of the responsible
and difficult duties that you have
been called upon to perform"


Cooper argues that our national
currency must be made receivable
for all purposes throughout the
country and inter-convertible with
three per cent Government bonds.
Such currency would have been
worth more to the American people
than all tho gold mines that have ever
been discovered on the Continent of
America. He advises that silver be
withdrawn from circulation and used
in the purchase Of foreign bonds, the
fractional paper currency to be re-
yived. t lafss
Year: 1877

The Boston Transcript wanted to
know, you know, if the steady old


zraveller of that city wasn't going to
drop the South as an issue, and the
zraueller replied: "Not SO long as the
South tolerates murders for opinions
sake. Not SO long as trial by jury Is
a farce for the amusement Of one class
alone. Not so long as tho rights of
one single citizen are violated with
impunity. This is not nation of
towards and sneaks that they should
abandon every right for the sake of
sham peace" Who said they didn't
understand strong English in Boston ?
Year: 1877

ED. HAwKEyE-Dedr Sir IL find
that the Newton Journal and some
other papers whose editors are op-
posed to my gubernatorial candidacy
have made two distinct charges
against me.


First, that am and have been for
many years wholesale liquor deal
er, and that have been indicted for
selling the same contrary to law.


Second, that while was speaker
Of the House I left my chair to speak
and vote in favor of a license law.


i deem it due to myself and Just to
my friends who are honOring me
with their support to make q full
statement in regard to the matter at
issue.


As to the charge that am and have
been for many years a wholesale liq-
uor dealer, let me give you the facts
in The case. Thirty-two years ago I
was clerk for w. +. Coolbaugh,
now president of the Union National
bank, of Chicago. Mr.. Coolbaugh
sold liquors in a small way, as did
nearly every merchant in the terrific
ry at that time. Late In the year
lS49 he gave me an interest in his
business, and in 1854, by the help of
friends, bought ont Mr.. Coolbaugh,
AMI became his successor in business.
When succeeded to the concern it
had, with other goods, some liquors,
which weTc closed out as soon as
could well be done without loss.
This was over twenty years ago, and
from that time to this l have not
bought, sold or dealt in liquors at all,
with the exception of fifteen barrels
of whisky which I took on debt in
1868, which was sold without being
brought into my place Of business.
For tho sale of this fifteen barrels OF
whisky my partner and myself paid
the fine alluded 10 by the Newton
Journal. As to the second charge,
that | left my chair to cote and speak
in favor of a license law, the writer
has evidently been misinformed. The
Speaker of the House is not required
to leave the chair to vote he votes in
his place as any other member. Dur
ing my first term as speaker only
left the chair three times-once to ad-
vocate the claims of the Iowa Agri-
cultural College, once to urge the en-
actment Of what is known as the
savings bank law, and lastly to ex-
plain bill to protect claims Of cred
itors Of railways. The second time
was honored with the speakership
took the floor, once to explain the
bill to enlarge city limits, which was
Of great Importance to the city of
Burlington, once to advocate a bill
authorizing cities and towns to con-
struct sewers, once on bill in regard
to the appointment of city officials,
and lastly to return thanks to my
brother members for their kindness.
have never made speech on the
license question either IN or out of the
General Assembly. have regarded
the law now ON the statute books as
q compromise, and from my present
recollection have cast but one vote
against the law, which was ON local
option. Think, without any egotism,
that can truly say that / treated my
temperance friends with full consid-
alton, on committees and otherwise.
Yours truly, JOHN Fl. GEAR.
Year: 1877

The Newton Journal and State
Register both announce by authority
that Senator Frank T. Campbell, OF
Newton, will be candidate before
the Republican State Convention for
the Office of Lieutenant Governor.


Senator Campbell has been two or
three terms in the Senate from Jasper
county, where he has served with
much credit. He has also edited his
county paper for several years with
decided ability, aud is now engaged
in the practice of his profession the
law.


He is gentleman Of irreproach-
able character in his private and po-
litical relations.


Senator Delos Arnold, of Marshall
county, another old and experienced
legislator, is also pronounced can
didate for the same Office, and it ID
altogether probable that tho choice
will be made from these two, and in
either event the Republicans will
have an able, creditable and popular
candidate for the second place on the
gubernatorial ticket.