smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

And now there comes a note all
the way from the 4g olden region"
-California-announaing in mys-
terious cadences that Senator Blaine,
tired and disgusted with the way


Mr.. Hayes seems inclined to run
the Government, proposes a refer


ence to the questions of law and


fact connected with the counting
in'' of the President to new High
Court of Arbitration. The New


York World of the oath has the


following to say about this anoma-
lous procedure:


The latest developement of Sena-
tor Blaine's plan of campaign
against the Administration comes
from California in the form of an
amazing story that the Radical
leader intends to propo~e a refer
ence to the questions of law and


fact connected with the counting


in of Mr.. Hayes to a new high


Court of Arbitration. This court
is to be composed of the members
of the Supreme Court of the United


States, with whom, for obvious reas-
ons and to re-establish public conf
dence in that august tribunal, are
to be associated the Chief Justices
of the highest courts of the several
States OF the Union. The title of
Mr.. Hayes to the Presidency may
be tested before this court by any
citizen except the defeated candi-
date. Of course if Senator Blaine
has ever for q moment entertained
such a wild project as this, it must
have been in the hope that it would
be supported by the Democratic par
ty; and it is worthy of note that a
very similar project has been re-
peatedly urged upon the considera-
tion of leading Democrats since the
adjournment OF Congress. 1t has
been secuted, so far as we know,
by every Democrat of character to
whom it has been sugg, sted; but as
nobody can tell what may seem
reasonable to the infuriated and
disappointed Radicals of whom Sen
ator Blaine has assumed the leader
ship, it may be worth while to oh
serve, truly but firmly, that the
Democrats of this country, North
and South, have had quite enough
of commissions and of high courts
for at least a generation to come.
They have had quite enough, too,
of schemes for dragging the judi
cial ermine through the mire o poll
tics and lowering the tone o. that
instructive hereditary respect for
the law and for it's tribunals which
has been the sheet anchor of our
safety as a people so often in the
past. The leading imperious de-
mand of the country now is for
peace and for the consideration by
our public servants of the econom-
ical and social needs of the people;
and all Radical mischief makers
who may be speculating on the
chance of turning Democratic dis
gust with Republican roguery and
thimble-rigging in politics to the
account of their own factious aspi-
rations, may as well understand at
once that they are coming without
their host.
Year: 1877

A Fort Madison man went into
bis COW stable the other day, and
by mistake, mixed her up a nice
mush in a box full of saw dust in
stead of bran. The cow merely
supposing that hard times had come,
and they were all going to econo-
mise, meekly ate her supper, and
that man. never discovered his. mis-
take until the next morning, when
he MIXED that COW, and she let
down half gallon of turpentine, a
quart of shoe pegs, and a bundle of
lathes.
Year: 1877

A gentleman of New Orleans
saws: Our bar rooms don't do more
than one-half of the business done
before the war. Two thirds of our
guests are now Northern people,
whereas, before the war they were
all Southern people. Many of our
large plantations are now owned by
Northern and Western men. Some
of our best young men are now
overseers on the plantations which
belonged to their fathers. l know
now of a gentleman who used to
spend piles OF money in this hotel
who never put saddle on his horse,
but who is now glad to hire on his
own place, which, with its mig
gers" was worth 100000, for $50
q month.
Year: 1877

\ con5unptive countryman,
whose bones shone through his
skin, and whose clothes hung upon
his wasted frame like dirty shirt
on pea stick, and whose frame
was continually conyulsed with a
hacking cough that seemed to start
from his boots and crawl around
up through him to his mouth and
came out after the fashion Of a dog
choked on a bone. and whose sunk
en- visage prcsaged the approach of
the dread monster, bought a pane
of blue glass the other day and sat
down behind it. Immediately his
eyes sparkled and his flesh CON-
menced swelling and his cheeks
Redeemed and the cough stopped,
and he swelled out with fat until
his coat bursted in the back and he
called for something to eat. and he
eat and muscled up and grew and
then eat more He soon cleaned
out his own larder and called on
the neighbors. and soon cleaned
out the neighborhood,a and got so fat
that he broke through the floor, and
waxed so strong that he pulled the
house over on himself and mashed
the stufling out OF his body. Then
his spirit fioated ouc into the realms
Of blue glass spirit land and they
buried him IN wagon body, and
his family and neigh -bors are all eat
out of house and home.
Year: 1877

The South henceforward means
not to be dependent. but will build
up manufactures of all kinds, that
their capital may not be sent away
from home for that which might be
more prolitably exported than i'm
ported. Grain and live stock will
be produced to at least an extent
that will satisfy their home de-
mands. The exhausting flow of
money from the country will be re-
versed, and the system of manage
ment which has been plunging the
country in debt will be converted
into one which will in a few
years bring prosperity and conse-
quent wealth instead.
Year: 1877

Thy heavenly Father kindly took


Thy little babe away;
She sweetly sleeps beneath the sod,


To rise in endless day.
Her stay on earth was very brief,


But y, consoling thought:
She's free from sorrow, pain and strife,
and all the cares of earth.
Then meekly bow and kiss the rod,
Though thou sufferer be;
Twas still in kindness when he took
That darling babe away.
Then weep not, Papa, Mamma, dear,
Virgie Varah is at rest;
Prepare to meet thy darling babe,


" here sin can no'er molest A. J.
Year: 1877

Many an unwise parent labors
hard and lives sparingly all his life
for the purpose Of leaving enough
to give his children start in the
world as IL is called. Setting a
young man ahoat with money left
him by his relatives Is like tying
bladders under the arms Of one who
cannot swim; tea chances to one he
will lose his bladdcrs and 60 TO tho


bottom. Teach him to swim and
he will never need tie bladders.
Give your child a sound education,
and you have done enough for him.
Sec TO IL that his morals are pure,
his mind cultivated, and his whole
nature made subservient to laws
which govern man, and you have
given what will be OF more value
than than the wealth Of the Indies.
Year: 1877

Brandon (Miss.) Republican;
That was a just punishment inflicted
upon a negro COW stealer In Pike
county, who was caught In the act
by party OF men. They cut the COW
open, placed the negro inside OF her
with only his head out, and then
sewed him in securely with a rope.
He remained there four days, and
was taken out nearly dead. He had
dinlcult task in keeping the buzz
yards from picking his oyes ont.
Year: 1877

Mr.. Hervey, Superintendent Of the City
Schools, and Mr.. James NJ. Todd are now
engaged in taking a census Of the city,
primarily to ascertain the school enroll.
msnt, and incidentally the whole popula.
tion. The efforts heretofore to take n
correct census of the city have not been
as successful as they might have been but
for the apprehensiOns Of uninformed and
suspicious persons that the census has
something 10 do with taxation, and there.
lore In many cases correct return Of
the membership Of their families has
notbecn given. Mayor Sweeney expressed
the opinion the other evening that the
population Of Wheeling was considerably
larger than the school returns from year
to year had made il, as was evident by
the large numbers OF people on the
streets on holidays and Saturday even
ings, by the daily receipts Of the street
railway, and by the large number Of
new houses built within the last few
years, and by other like indications of
aIarge and increasing population. There
have been Saturdays when as many as
5000 people must have ridden on the
street cars, and it seems hardly likely
that more than oue-sixlh of the entire
population should have been on the cars
on one day. Itis therefore not unreason.
able to suppose that the true population
Of the city IS fully 10000, ii not more, in
stead OF $4,000, as returned last year.


Those who feel interested in seeing
correct census OF the city taken this year,
should be at some pains to scatter infor.
nation among those who need it, to the
effect that this census has no relation to
taxation in any way or shape, and that
nothing is therefore gained by any con.
cealments or misstatements as regards
the membership Of households.
Year: 1877

Senior Malta to-day called at the De.
partment Of State to inquire Of Secretary
Evarts whether an answer 10 his note
accompanying copy OF his credentials
might be expected, as he wished to send
4 reply TO his Government this week by
mail. The Secretary informed Mr.. Malta
that he was not yet prepared to furnish a
reply TO his note but there should be no
unnecessary delay in doing 80.
Year: 1877

now out, is upon the issue of 81 GOO green
backs OF 1869. Seven of these bills have
been captured by the secret service, but as
yet no trace of the operator who makes then
has been found.


IHE commissioner of internal revenue
has appointed two agents to go through the
country and make an inventory of the
property that has fallen into the hands OF
the government through conhscatiou. Fol
lowing violations of the internal revenue
laws there has accumulated fir n time to
time large amount of property. This ac-
eumuiatlon has not been classified in such
manner as to enable the government to
reallze anything from it. 1t is proposed to
sell this property to the best advantage as
soon as full report of its extent can be
made. n
Year: 1877

The Gold Hill (Nev.) Neacs says:
i" Words spoken on one side of Gold
Canon are heard with striking clearness
upon the other. The sounds are tele-
phoned acrossso intervening space, and
may be as distinctly noted as if the
speaker was standing by the side of the
listener. This is of course due to the
peculiar formation of the country.
Neighbors who live on opposite sides of
the canon talk together quite readily
when they live as much as a mile apart
by the way the road runs. 1t is not 50
far by the airline, however"
Year: 1877

A NEGRO prisoner in Louisville, who
claims to have been deaf and drmb for
seven years, suddenly found himself pos
sessed of the power of speech one day
last week, and since then he has talked to
the point of distraction everybody who
unluckily came within earshot. He says
that when he discovered he could hear
and talk he tried to break his cell door
down with JOY Such an outbreak was
natural.
Year: 1877

We had been out to the graveyard to
bury Mr.. Pidgeon, and were riding home
in the carriage with the bereaved widow
er. While he sopped his eyes with his
handkerchief, he told us about her:
"In one respect | never saw her equal.
She was a manager. Eve knowed that
woman that's lying out there in the
tomb to take an old pair of my trousers
and cut them up for the boys She'd
make a splendid suit of clothes for both
of them out of them old pants, get out
stuff enough for a coat for the baby and
a cap for Johnny, and have some left
over for rag carpet, besides making hand
kerchiefs out of the pockets, and hustle
for herself out of the other Innings.
Give her an old garment, and it was as
good as gold mine. Why, she'd take a
worn-out sock and make a brand new
overcoat out of it, l relieve. She had a
turn for that kind of economy. There's
one of my shirts that / bought in 1847
still going about making itself useful
as winder curtains and pantalettes
and plenty of other things. Only
last July our gridiron give out and
she took it apart, and in two hours it
was rugged on the side of the house as a
splendid lightning rod, all except what
she had made into poker and an ice
pick. Ingenious? Why, she kept our
family in buttons and whistles out of the
ham bones she saved, and she made
fifteen princely chicken coops from her
old hoop skirts, and pig pen out of her
used-up corset bones. She never wasted
solitary thing. Let cat die around
her house, and the first you knew Mary
Jane'd have muff and set of furs, and
I'd begin to find mince pies on the din
ner table. She'd stuff a feather bed
with the feathers that she'd got off of
one little bit of a rooster, and she'd even
utilize the reaches in the kitchen
SOS they'd run the churn-had a
machine she invented for the purpose
Eve seen her cook potato parings SOS
you'd think they were canvas-bsck duck
and she had way of doctoring up
shavings SO that the pig'd eat 'em and
grow fat on 'em. l believe the woman
could built a four-story hotel if you'd
given her single pine board; or a
steamboat out of sh-biler; and the
very last thing she said to me was to
bury her in the garden SOS she'd be use.
full down below. there, helping to shove
up the cabbages. Pll never see her like


again"
Year: 1877

WE learn that Captain Powell has
just opened up new pine region that
may yet be of value, when the surface
timber is gone. The Captain has farm
on the Shawano road about sixteen miles
from this city, in what was dense
wilderness some seven years ago, when
he settled there. About six years ago he
dug a well, and struck an abundant sup
ply of good water at twelve feet from the
surface. The water supplied the family
until the extreme dry weather of the
past summer, when it failed entirely and
he was obliged to sink deeper. Atabout
Is feet he came across the limbs of a
pine tree as large as a mans arm, and
500 found the tree itself. The tree was
about foot and a half in diameter
where he struck it, and the limb indi-
Gated that it must have been near the
top. The Captain says he knows of one
good pine that can be secured whenever
the present supply gives out, but pro-
poses to let it remain for the present
Green Bay Gazette.
Year: 1877

On the 1st of September of each year the
newspapers in the cotton States regularly
publish an elaborate review Of the trade of
their respective cities. We have before us
these annual reports for New Orleans,
Charleston, Savannah and Memphis, the
four leading centres of the cotton
trade. We suppose the reason why
the 1st of September is selected for
these elaborate annual reviews is that.
more nearly than any other date, it
marks the beginning of the cotton
trade in the new crop. A few scatter
ing bales or few hundred bales are
received during the latter half of the month
of August, and on the 1st of September the
new season is regarded as having fairly
opened These annual reviews include not
only cotton, the chief staple, but sugar.
rice, tobacco grain, provisions, fruits and
all the articles which make up the mass
of Southern trade. They are valuable
collections of statistics, for they give in
exact figures all the receipts and shipments
of the preceding year, with tables showing
the increase or decrease in each article in





this careful array Of statistics these reviews
discuss the causes which have affected trade
and speculate with more or less intelli-
gence on the prospects of the opening year.


These reports and speculations are of pc
culiar interest now, because the South is
entering on new era By the wise policy
Of President Hayes an end has been put to
the exciting political controversies which
have kept that section in state of turmoil
since the war. There is no longer anything
to disturb its tranquility or obstruct its
material development. We accordingly
find q tone of hopefulness and confidence
in all these reports.


The review Of the business of the last year
shows decline in the cotton trade, owing
to somewhat shorter crop than in the year
which preceded The cotton trade of
Charleston, however, has increased by about
fifty thousand bales, while that Of New Or
leans, Savannah and Memphis has consider
ably declined. This is accounted for by an
increasing tendency to send cotton to the
Atlantic seaboard by rail instead of ship
ping it by the Mississippi River, and
Charleston is better situated than Savannah
for the railway traffic. The business of the
latter city, however, was impaired by the
alarming epidemic which prevailed in
the height Of the cotton season. Savan-
nah is very enterprising city and
does not despair of becoming again
what she once was-the second cotton
exporting city in the South, New Orleans,
of course, being the first At present
Charleston is ahead of her. The statistics
of cotton production since the war have an
interesting bearing on the success Of the
new labor system in the South. We insert
q statement of the crops for the last twelve
Year: 1877

licans, but they have an equivalent in the
fact that the dead statesman may yet stand
in the light of a martyr to his opinions.
For some months past he has been very
grossly used by the party that supports the
government and urges it to illegal measures.
He has been Indignantly lampooned by its
journals, and the authorities have even ap-
piled to his house q vile system of police
espionage. 1t will not be possible to pre-
vent the opinion that this kind of rigor
helped to destroy his life, and that sentiment
may still make his name an incalculable
force. 1t will be seen by our dispatches
that the government takes unusual steps to
do honor to the great citizen. 1t does not
honor him beyond his merit, nor beyond
what his services to his country i'll the
great confusion at the close of the war with
Germany fully justify. But its conduct is
so strikingly in contrast with the tone its
friends have lately held toward M. Thiers
that it has the appearance Of an over anxiety
to do tardy justice to man grossly wronged
of late by its connivance.
Year: 1877

The Hon. John Morrissey yesterday tele-
graphed from Saratoga to the HERALD to
draw on him for two hundred and fifty dol
lars the sum to be applied to the relief of
the sufferers by the late fire in this city.
The promptness OF this generous act gives
it additional value, for now is the time
when the unfortunate persons whose homes
and property were suddenly destroyed are in
most need OF assistance. In all cases of the
kind those who give should give quickly and
help to relieve on the instant distress which
cannot afford to wait. Not merely for the
amount of his contribution, but for the
manner in which it was given will Mr. Nor
rissey receive the gratitude of homeless and
destitute families; his money will supply
their necessities, which are pressing and
great, and in the meanwhile methods may
be devised to provide for future wants. He
giveth twice who giveth quickly, and the
example Of Mr.. Morrissey in this respect is
so excellent that we hope it will result in
the collection of large and sufficient fund
within the next few days.
Year: 1877

Our speculations as to how long the Rus
sian commander in Bulgaria would stand
still while the Ottomans wove nets of STRAIT
egy about him are promptly answered by
the intelligence that an important forward
movement Of the Russians for the purpose
of clearing their right flank was begun on
Monday. On Thursday last Osman Pacha
ventured out Of his stronghold ut Plevna
and felt the Russian lines at Pelischat 1t
was an unpropitious day for him, and in his
attempt to carry the position he was repulsed
with severe loss !; bat his movement was well
timed if it was made upon information
that the Russians were about to advance
and in the hope that the precipitation of u
combat would derange their preparations.
An advance from the Russian lines on
Osman Pacha's front has been imminent for
many days; and since Suleiman Pacha's
failure to storm the Shipka Pass and the
sudden arrest Of Mehemet Ali on the LON
the hands of the Russian commander on the
Osem have been especially free for a move
ment in ample force against the obstinate
author Of the Russian defeat Of July 81. The
disorder into which the bloody repulse Of
Thursday last threw part of Osman Pachas
army was an additional advantage to the
advance. All the facts, therefore, were in
its favor, and the success with which it has
been made so far as reported was only what
was to be nationally counted upon. There
could be no doubt on the part of the Rus
sian staff what force was on their right
flank, and thus there was no opportunity
for new bluuder as to the numbers it
was necessary to use in order to equalize
an attacking force with the force be-
hind the defences. From the report of
simultaneous assaults at Lovatz and at
Plevna it appears that the Turkish line has
been stretched to cover very extensive
front, and it follows that it is weak every
where. 1t will, therefore, we believe, be
crushed in this encounter by the Russian
strength, and the right flank of the invad-
ing army will be freed from the menace that
has arrested all onward movement for
month. That month gained for his coun-
try has been the important service done by
Osman Pacha, and has added greatly to the
chance of getting through the season safely.
But it is apparently believed in England
that the Russians will now be able to 90 on,
as the cry for mediation is raised with some
yigor.
Year: 1877

gency. We must take the business Of sup
pressing the raids entirely into our hands,
as was at first intended. Our troops must
cross the river in close pursuit OF raiding
parties, chase them up until they are over
taken and bring back both the robbers and
their booty, delivering the cattle to their
owners and the thieves to the local author
tiles of Texas for trial and punishment.


We do not dispute that it was discreet
and polite for the government to modify
the orders it had given to General Ord when
the Mexicans professed an intention to cap
ture and punish their own thieves. The de-
sire of President Diaz for recognition was an
Ineligible reason why he might be willing
to earn it by performing clear interna-
tional duty. 1t was fair to give him a trial
and wise to test his ability and sincerity.
The result proves that he is too weak for
such q task. The local authorities follow
the bent of their own inveterate feeling,
and pay only deceitful respect to the
central government. Our correspondence
cites n characteristic illustration in the case
where Mexican officer despatched q force
in pursuit of raiders and selected for its
guide man, known to have belonged to the
raiding party, who took good care to protect
his accomplices by putting the pursuing
troops on false trail. Now that the hum
bug is exposed our government must no
longer be it's dupe. General Ord must be
instructed to pay no further attention to
Mexican professions and to follow every
raiding party that escapes across the river
as far upon Mexican territory as may be
necessary to bag it and bring it back. Our
government has trifed and been trihed with
long enough. 1t must now take redress
wholly into it's own hands and act with such
relentless vigor as will convince the Mex
leans that it is quite in earnest.