smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

have been made by the indefatigable ex-
plorers of Africa.


The great political revolutions of the last
decade, with the natural result of the lapse
of time, have brought into public view a
multitude of new men, who's names are in
every ones mouth, and whose lives every
one is curious to know the particulars.
Great battles have been fought and impor
tant sieses have been maintained of which
the details are As yet preserved only i'll the
newspapers or in the transient publications
Of the day, but which now ought to take
their place in
Year: 1877

In preparing the present edition for the
press, it has accordingly been the aim of
the editors to bring down the information
to the latest possible dates and to furnish
an accurate account of the most recent dis
coveries in science, Of every fresh produc-
ton in literature, and Of the newest inven-
tions in the practical arts, as well AS to give
q succinct and original record of the prog
Tess of
Year: 1877

A season of panic is literally con.
suming fire 1t tries everybody in
some way and some people in more
ways than one. 1t tries those who
have much to lose, and it tries even
more severely in many instances those
who have no actual m oney to lose
save as they earn it in the shape Of
salary or wages In times of panic
every employer is forced to choose be-
tween his employees, as to who he will
keep and who he will discharge.
Naturally he retains the clerk or
workman who is the most servicsable.
the employe who is the least of an
eye servant, the one who has been
long known as tried and trustv, the
one who is not afraid of work, the enc
who IS Pleasant, prompt and reliable.
Character comes to the front in times
Of general depression. Then it is
that it IS worth geld to the man who
POSSESSES it. Then IL ia that line is
drawn hetwee! good, better and best,
saying nothing at all about persons
who are neither good, better nor best.
AS one of our exchanges, the Akron,
Ohio, Beacon, very truly rmarks:


The clerk who cared nothing about
his employers business except that it
should furnish him with enough
money to CRAFTY frivolous and per-
haps depraved tastes the mechanic
who when the noon whistle sounded
would drop his raised hammer with
out striking the already commenced
blow; the errand bov who when en-
trusted with a mission was dilatory
and unrelia ble-all these are readily
dispensed with. On the other hand
the kind that are reliable are those
who when wanted can be found at
their post, and in An emergency are
true and trustworthy"


A clerk Of that kind would rather
unite a knot than cut string, if it
was better to save it. A mechanic of
this class would walk up 10 the top of
a building or hunt to the bottom of a
pile of material, rather than put q
stick OF badly seasoned wood or de-
tective piece Of iron in a job he was
finishing. And employers soon find
out who these men are and regard
them with a just appreciation. Not
one of them can long conceal his real
qualities and thereby be unfairly
rated, Employers especially, but al
so the world at large, almost invaria,
bly, take man for just what he is
worth, and it would be well if all who
are aiming at advancement and per-
manency In their positions could re-
alizs this fact and then act upon it.
Year: 1877

The WORK has been begun after long and
careful preliminary labor, and with the
most ample resources for carrying it on to
q successful termination.


None OF the original stereotype plates
have been used, but every page has been
Year: 1877

An exasperated politician, who had
been called upon to define his position
once more than patience could endure
exclaimed I'D fine his position ? New
er! If | define it, the next thing I'll
be called upon to do will be to spell it, "
Year: 1877

secretarie5), takes from the electOr
the white voting paper folded, and
drops it into the urn. In this way


long files in queue pass on in one
even stream, and the process goes on


with immense rapidity. The law
forblds the presiding officer to take a
voting paper open or in any way
marked Outwardly; no armed force
is permitted in the voting hall; the
ballot-boX has a double key, and
must be opened immediately upon
the close Of the poll. Electors have
the right to be present without any
interruption from the moment the
box is first locked up, after examina-
ton, until the final counting out Of
all the voting papers in it ;and, in
practice, the whole process goes on
the exessofs spstisaassaaisliss.alKhe
only possible Justification of the pro-
cess, even in very benighted districts
involves plain breach of law under
the eyes of electors and, since the
new Chamber will in any case have
Republican majority which will be
the sole judge of all disputed elec
tions, and every elector has an absO-
lutte right of objection, if the voting
is anywhere improperly manmuvred
| can only be in places where there is
not single Republican eIeclor who
has the spirit to enter a protest.
Year: 1877

The Chinese idea OfprogreSs see ms
TO be ul11erenT IN all things rom the
American. The first railroad eXper-
iment in China has come to grief.
A nine mile railroad owned by Eng
lishmen was constructed between
Shanghae and Woosung, which it
was hoped would hasten the build
ing Of other lines, for which the
country is adapted. Under the con-
ditions of the contract for building
the read the government could take
possession of it as soon as the lest
installment of the contract price was
paid. In order to famiIiarize the
natives with the ''tire dragon" as
they call the locomotive, the CON
tractors were to operate the inoom-
plete sections of the road at their own
cost. AS soon as the Chinese author
tiles got POSSESSION of the railroad
they stepped all traffic, intending to
allow it to go to decay. The intro
duction Of railways is opposed in
China on the ground that they would
deprive poor people of the subsist-
ence they now earn as carriers by
land and water.
Year: 1877

We arc not inclined to quarrel with our ncighbor of the Yuma Sentinel, in fact we are brim full of sympathy for him in his present dilema on the Capital question; but at the same time his attempt toplacc Prescott on the extreme northern verge of the settled portion of Arizona is putting the case even stronger than the people of Tucson have ever dared to do.

 In this he manifests q stronger degree of partizanship as against Prescott than those directly interested Had he been acting the part of disintercsted locker on, an impar- tial critic. he would not have alluded to the rcmotcncss of the location of Prescott and failed to mention the fact that the distance from Prescott to the gcographi cal center of the Territory, is about the same that il k from Tucson to the line of Mexico, and that a> to the population, lines drawn East and West from the gcographi- cal center, at Cedar Tank on Fossil Creek, in this County, would just about divide the population of the Territory into two equal parts. IL has been a>ccrtaincd by actual survey, that Cedar Tank, near Maple Shades, only few miles from Boegs ranch on the Agua Fria, less than fifty miles, a little south of east from Prescott is the exact geo graphical center.

 Our neighbor of the Sentinel certainly knows the lay fthe country and where the bulk of the population lies, but he has >uf fcrcd himself to write when he was mad. and of course is sorry now that he did not wait until his passion cooled little, when we should, no doubt, have had faircr crit cism of the bill to remove the Capital.
Year: 1877

The AGE OF RoGAs.-At the first
meeting session of the Liverpool Geolog-
ical Society, the retiring president de-
hvered the annual address. The subject
was an interesting one, being a calcula-
ton of the amount of solid matter re-
moved annually from the surface of Eng
land and Wales in solution in rain or
river water. The result of the calcula-
tions, which were Of an elaborate nature
showed that it would take thirteen thou
sand years to move in this manner one
foot in depth OF solid matter over the en-
tire surface of England and Wales. This
calculation was compared with others.


AS throwing light upon the age of sedi-
mentary deposits, the calculations taken


together with the amount of matter an
nually brought down in river water in
the form of mud, are extremely interest
ing, and the president deduced from
them that the minimum amount of time


which must have elapsed since the first


sedimentary rocks we know of were laid
down, is, in round numbers, five hun
dred million years, thus supporting the
views of Lyell, Hutton and other geolo-


pists as to the immense age of the world.
Year: 1877

CURE OF CHOKING CATTLE.-Should
cattle be at any time in danger of chok-
ing by reason of any foreign substance
in the throat, take Of fine-cut chewing
tobacco enough to make ball as large
as a hens egg; dampen it with molasses
SO that ii can be compressed into g ball
and will adhere closely; elevate the ami
mails head, pull out the tongue. and
crowd the ball as far down the throat as
possible. In fifteen minutes it viii
cause sickness and vomiting, relaxing
the muscles SO that the potato, or what
ever may be choking it, will be thrown
up.-LGncoster Farmer.
Year: 1877

ADVENTURES OF A MAsQUERADER.-
Mr.. Duffey, of Oakland, CAL, went to a
masquerade ball recently in the charac-
ter of a giraffe. His costume created
much amusement, especially at the sup
per table, where he remarked that he
must drink three bottles of champagne in
order to wet his throat all the way
down. On his way home at an early
hour in the morning he was extremely
fatigued, and lying down under tree
box fell fast asleep. A timorous police
man seeing the strange figure from dis
tance, aud concluding rathe r
rather hastily that a tiger or some other
wild animal had escaped from the men
agerie that was exhibiting in the next
block, fred four shots at the recumbent
giraffe, one of which perforated the pad
ding, and is now imbedded in Mr.. Duf-
fey. The NeeOs-Letter, speaking on the
authority of the wounded Duffey, an
nounses that in future he will be sent
home from fancy balls in a push-cart or
O furniture wagon.
Year: 1877

Courage that will vanquish two thieves
and conpell them to restore their plum
der is not often found in so low lati-
tude as q kitchen. 4 servant in the en-
ploy of Mr.. Close OF Pittsburgh achieved


this signal success recently. The FAM


ily had gone ont for the day, and the
servant found herself face to face with a


burly rascal on the porch She asked
him what he wanted, and, he answered
that it was none of hef business. She
then ordered him away, and he retorted
that he wouldn't go until he was ready.
The girl became frightened, and slip
ping in the hall door, closed it in the
mans face, locked it and put the key in
her pocket. She had been in the house


only minute or two when she heard
noise up stairs, which she thought was
coal falling from a CRATE. She ran up
stairs and saw thief rummaging among
the bureau drawers. She did not cry
out, but crept down the staircase very
softly. Remembering that in another
room there was q revolver belonging to
Mr.. Close, she went in aud got it, and
then walked down into the hall to await
the coming of the thief The latter hav-
ing heard her. came down with his hands
and pockets full of jewelry, and was as
tonished to find himself confronted by
the brave girl, with the cooked revol-
yer,in her hands. She ordered him to
drop his plunder. He refused, but the
girl, trembling, and cryiag with excite


ment, yet evidently determined, told
him she would tell him three times, and
then If he didn't obey her she would GER
tainly shoot him. The man again hes
itated for few moments, but before
waiting to be told the third time, capit--
ulated and laid down his plunder. The
girl then threw him the door key and
ordered him to- go, which he did with
out loss of time, his partner outside
having already evinced the better part
of valor and run away. -
Year: 1877

drawn. The summer heat will have


cooling influence on the passions of


recalcitrant Republicans. If peace


and contentment prevail in tho South


during the spring, summer and early


autumn months, the acguiescence of


the country in the Southern policy of
the President will be so nearly unIver-


sal that his assailants will lose most
of their supporters. OF course the
President and cabinet see their way
clear to maintain the army
until autumn. The soldiers will
perhaps be a month or two be-
hind in their pay, but as they do not
exceed the number authorized by Con-
gress they may be legally kept in ser
vice. Whatever Congress may do
about the army when it assemblies, it
certainly will not refuse to pay it for
service already rendered. A summer
session is undesirable on many ac-
counts, and we are glad that the ad-
ministration sees its-way clear to get
through without new appropriations
until fall. The country needs rest
from political excitement, and by Oc-
tober Congress will be able to form a
more intelligent judgment as to the
in which our trade and indus
try will be affected by the European
war, and the home and Southern pol
icy of the President will be seen in its
beneficent results.
Year: 1877

WHEN Galveston went to San Ante


nio the whole delegation was received


as tie latter city's guests, and the costs


and hotel bills were paid by San Anto-


MO. In fact, guests badge in San


Antonio was the ''chalking of o hat. -


and cigars and whisky were free. Even


hsckmen recognized the law of kospi-
tality, and the cold Herald relaxed its


frozen grip on the West and declared
that it should stick to Texas at least
while Galveston was in San Antonio.
The generosity and hospitality of San
Antonio were boundless, and never was
an entertainment given by one to an
other city more successful. But when
those pauUres diaJles from San Antonio
went down to dine at Galveston and
look at their faces in the sea, which
they had only seen reflected in the ce
rulean sky, and when they proposed to
test the heralded virtues of oysters
and shrimps, and to ride along the
briny beach, 1t was then that San An
tonic found that its hospitality had
been lavished in vain upon stony hearts
of the parched sandy island, and many
an empty purse went back from the
island to the distant city of the plain,
and there is such enmity aroused be-
tween the two cities that San Antonio
talks of drawing up the narrow gauge
from Corpus Christi that it may have
a new gateway to the sea. Governor
Hubbard, with the military force at his
disposal, can keep the peace, we hope.
He need only silence the Herald and
the GGluestOnidn.
Year: 1877

A WASHINGTON dispatch states that
bill is in course of preparation, and
will be introduced in the House at the
extra session, reducing the army to
1000 men, and thereby effectIng a
saving to the government of many
millions. Now that the Indian wars
are at an end-and it is the opinion of
Gen. Sherman and Gen. Sheridan in
conference there on the subject that
we will have no more of them-and
the troops are to be used no longer for
police duty in the Southern Slater,
the advocates of retrenchment claim
that there is no need of a standing
army of the present size. In case this
reduction is made, and men alone are
discharged, we will have left an arm y
consisting wholly of officers.
Year: 1877

IT is terrible story which tells of
the catastrophe in the Welsh colliery
OF IroeoyFhiw. A number of
men were entombed wlras~ walls
of coal some hundreds of yards
in thickness, in which they remained
alive for ten days, living upon the
ends of candles, while brave men were
cutting their way through the inter
minable wall of coal to release them.
The event created such a stir in Eng
land that for the moment even the war
was forgotten, and bulletins were pub
lished in London on the receipt of each
telegram from the mine reporting the
relief party's progress. For the ten
days men relieving one another worked
night and day and succeeded in saving
the greater number of the lives. The
whole story, in all it's singular details
of horror, reminds US of the terrible
evening in this city when four men
were buried beneath the earth that fell
from the sides of the deep ditch in
front of the STATESMAN Office.
Year: 1877




The Ohio ReUie1o says that one of the
worst features of the age in journalism
is the unprincipled advocacy of party.
What honest, fair-minded man but
must feel natural contempt rise in his
breast every time he picks up a paper
of his own party for Its partisanship9
And not only that, but worse, for its
shameless perverslon of facts to suit
partisan ends. He can never trust its
version of any great event which has
any positive connection or identity
with party. In any question OF public
interest very few editors have the
moral courage to face popular opinion
and assert the right as against party
clamor. Our recent presidential cam
paign was characterized by universal
and persistent misrepresentation of the
South. If we ever hope to leave
to our children republic which
can defy for all time to come
oil IdCLIOus, dlA OSSiSHo VI InC
Caesars and Napoleons of the Republic,
all enemies, we must, as nation, edu-
cate our people up to this standard OF
an independent public spirited press.
1t will then become the one thing
needed in the Roman and French re-
publics, the great teacher of the peo-
pie, the army of their liberties. There
are great dailIes in the Union, but
which of them but when named, its
name is synonymous with the party
whose cause it espouses, and you know
beforehand how rose colored IN that
direction will be its editorialsl Not so
the New York Herald. We would re-
spectfully ask the New York Times, or
Its great peer the Tribune, or even the
World to publish the editorial of the
Herald of the twenty-third instant, en-
titled, 'sLines of the New Departure
What the South needs is Justice and
Common Sense" While we would
like to except q sentence or two, as to
the Democratic party, We must admit
that the common sense view Of the
situation, North and South, is pre-
sented in a manner which none of the
dailies mentioned, and host Of smaller
FRY, would ever do under any cIrcun-
stances
Year: 1877

HAYES AND TILDEN are to meet at
table Monday week. They both dine
that day with the New York Chamber
of Commerce. Hayes is somewhat the
guest of lank and wrinkled Uncle Sam
my. The latter dare not violate laws
of decorum and it is impossible that
the President should, and we may
therefore look on calmly while the
two are hobuobbing with one another.
But suppose it were fashionable, as one
hundred years ago when George Wash
ington "preferred rum," for the wined
and dined to indulge a game at cards.
Wouldn't Sammy wool the President3
Jay Gould and Jim Fisk discovered al
most a match in the railroad wrecking
in the nice, prim, precise and oily
Uncle Sammy, and we would like to
see him innocently strike Hayes with


'old sledge."
Year: 1877

The greater the density Of compressed
cotton and the longer it remains in
this solidifed condition the greater
the injury sustained by the staple
when subjected to processes employed
in beating it into Its natural condition
and In making the fibers parallel with
one another. The best and most dura-
BILE cloth and sheeting and the very
strongest is that made from cotton
taken directly from the fields and
hauled in baskets to Southern cotton
mills. A thread, made from such
cotton of equal weight per yard with
another made from q cotton bale COM
pressed and shipped to Boston, wi


sustain one-half more weight. More
over, the thread made from the uncom-
pressed cotton will retain degree of
glossiness and smoothness by which
it can readily be distinguished from the
material that has been compacted TO
solidity by hydraulic pressure. 1t thus
happens that cotton goods made in
the South command in St. Louis ten
and fifteen per cent. more per yard
than the best fabrics, of equal weight,
woven in Northern mills. The saving
thus effected Is enough to insure the
ultimate transfer of New England cot
ton mills to the Gulf States. The very
machinery employed in Strengthening
the bent fibers of compressed cotton
costs enough to induce manufacturers
to prefer the South a. the site of man
ufacturing establishments. And when
We remember that the warmth
of the Southern sun obviates
the necessity for costly registers and
heating apparatus, when We save here
the cost of transferring the raw ma
terial to Boston and of returning yarns
and cloth to the South, it must follow
these savings constituting q sum GER
tainly twenty-five per cent. of the cost
Of cotton goods-that every mill owner
Of the North, sooner or later, will
transfer his machinery to Southern cit
ies like Austin. Here water power is
boundless. Here the only snow we
have is seen in the glowing whiteness
Of autumnal cotton fields; here bread
and beef and fuel and clothing cost
the least possible. Here two cOmpet-
ing railway lines gather in the products
of cotton fields and distribute those Of
the mills. These plain facts tell n
why the mill owners of GeorgiA.
skilled in the bunness, have steadily
made enormous profits. while those Of
New England have become bankrupt
or been forced to suspend production
that is worse than proftless. These
simple, palpable facts have often in
dueed the srArEsNAx to inveigh
against the erection Of these compress
ing establishments in the South. Their
owners are ippelled by selt-intsrest to
Year: 1877

prevent the erection of Southern cot


ton mills. They become organized as


sociatiOns deeply interested in sending


wealth out of the South. They exert


themselves to prevent the home


consumption of the raw material.


They are interested in preventing the


creation of manufacturing villages IN


the suburbs of Southern towns. Wo-


men and children IN the South must


remain useless and helpless, unem-


ployed and dependent adjuncts of So
ciety. The needle and washtub are
the only resources, except that which
is nameless, of impoverished, unfortu-


nate women. In very truth, the cotton
compress is the symbol of sin and sug-
gestiVe of the greatest and most ruin
GUS defect in the social system of the
South. The North realizes these facts
and despises our folly, and maintains
its mills that it may maintain, without
ruin to popular morals, and without
universal beggary, its vast hives of in
dustry, about which schools and
churches spring into existence, and
about which there are cleanly homes
and pretty gardens and bright-eyed
children as full of intelligence as of
that proud spirit which distinguishes
the self-supporting man or woman from
the helpless beggar about the streets
A cotton compress is the badge of ruin
and poverty worn by Southern towns
and cities, significant of their want of
wisdom, and of falsehood to the peo-
pie and country that sustains them,
and we will bless the day when not
one exists IN the Gulf States.