smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

TIE ECLIPSE Nor SUCCESS HERE,
Thousands Of people prepared smoked
glass to view the observation OF the sun
Yesterday evening. Their labor was all IN
vain. The clouds were so heavy and dark
that no satisfactory observations could be
made.
Year: 1878

Our correspondent so. G. W" mentions
some reasons why Hon. Geo. W. Hendee
should be retained as Representative of this
district in Congress. The source from which
these suggestions come makes it evident
that they are not inspired by Mr.. Hendee.
They put the case wholly from the side Of
the people, and there is obvious force in the
points thus made Nothing, we believe,
has as yet appeared indicating that Mr..
Hendee intended to crowd himself forward
as a candidate for the succession On the
other hand, there Is no reason to suppose
that Mr.. Hendee would not be willing to
continue to represent the district if a ma
jority Of the Republicans Of the district
desire him so to do. His attitude, We pre-
sumo, is the honorable one of leaving it
wholly 20 the people to say whether he shall
continue to serve them or not, in the position
which he has certainly filled with good
ability and great fidelity. Individual inter
ests are of small account, in a matter Of this
kind. The public good and public prefer
ence must govern the choice, and it is time
that such preference should be shaping itself
and finding expression.
Year: 1878

bt w. u. W.


Having settled the Governor question
would it not be well for the Press to tsfe
hold Of the more important question Of Con-
gresham? We, of the third district, would
like to know who is thought of as Mr..
Hendee's successor. As one Of the people, |
take the liberty to suggest that Mr.. Hendee
should De his own successor. Unless the
Office he holds is intended as qualification
Of aspiring or ambitious politicians who are
impatientN awaiting their turn, in the DIFF
feren. parts Of the district-it experience
counts for anything as qualification for dis
charging the duties of the Office successfully,
is not Mr.. Hendee the very man to be his
own successor? Have we ever had man
in Congress who has more promptly and
heartily responded to the appeals Of his con
stituents, in behalf OF measures embraced
within the scope Of Congressional services?
Have not the few years spent in Congress
fitted him to do US more and better service
in the future? Have not our able Senators
acquired inhuence in the councils of the
Senate chambers, and q national reputation
worthy of them and worthy of US. not
only by their eminent ability, but also by
their experience Do VIC not need just
such men in the House? Doubtless
there are worthy men awaiting the
honor, and no one would be hap
pier than to help them reach the goal
of their ambition but only few can be
gratifed and is not the public welfare of
greater importance When we have found
a man who does US good service AMI grow
ing more and more capable of doing better
and better work for US, is it not the best
policy to keep him at work in the same
line? How is it that Prentiss, Collaner,
Phelps, Slade, Foot. Morrill, and Edmunds,
and few others might name, have come
to occupy 50 high place among statesmen
Not merely on account of superior ability,
but because we kept them where their tai
ents might tell upon their own fame and
be wrought into the national history.
Why not repeat the experiment
Do those States who are constantly chang
ing their representatives in Congress ever
acquire any influence there, except tho inda-
ence of party? Almost anybody who could
be thought of, or could even think Of himself
for Congress, would be intelligent enough to
interpret the crack of the party whip {;
but aside from his ability to vote according
to the requirments Of party subserviency,
of what account can new member be in
shaping legislation, unless he is a very re-
markable man?


Is not experience quite as valuable, as
any qualification, except it he pure and
upright character, which should ever bc
preeminent and paramount to all other
qualities in public servant?
Year: 1878

LaPages confession was made. it seems.
only to Warden Pillsbury, of the New
Hampshire State prison, who, with his son,
sat up with tho murderer during his last
night. The Warden naturally forgot many
OF the particulars about the Ball murder.
with which he had no special acquaintance,
and could not draw the prisoner attention
to points Of interest and doubt, az he could
concerning the LanRmaid murder. with
the scene and history of which he was Of
course very familiar Tho entire confession
Year: 1878

THI term of Office Of the Earl Of Duferin.
as Governor General of Canada, will shortly
expire, and the Canadians are all expecta-
send them as SUCCESSOR The name of the
Duke Of Manchester has been mentioned,
and one of the Princes of the blood has been
subject of gossip. The Governor r-General
is mere fgure-head. lie Can do no public
act without the advice Of his Ministers. He
is nothing if not ornamental and the Earl
Of Daferin may be said to be a model Gov
ernor-General. He receives 10000 a year,
and does not make the salary the means of
adding to his private fortune.
Year: 1878




carried the head to where it was found, and
then went to the brook and washed his
hands, knife and coat lie then went back
to the pla ce where he left the axe, and
then went up the road to the place indi-
Gated where he hid the wallet, ring, ETC..
and little further on, left his coat and
axe. He then went across lots,
and took the highway back to Suncook, ar
irving at 6p. m. His wife burned two
coats and two caps. four or fse days after.
and told him he was bad man. She did
not want him any more. His wife burned
the clothes because they got into quarrel
The girl had been dead twelve to fifteen
minutes before he cut off her head. He did
not stamp on her head or face but simply
turned her head with his foot when cut
ting of the head. He indicated On the dia-
gram where MIR. Lsngmaid couli find the
wallet, ring. etc.. and said that the testi-
mony Of the doctors from Boston about the
tlood was all true.
Year: 1878

He left Suncook about six O'Clock, q. m /;
went to the baker about seven then went
across the bridge to the corner made by
the highways and the railroad; lett the
axe and coat there, and went across the
lots. across the bridge, taking his stick
from q woodpils then across the road and
met Josie Lsngmaii. lie struck her with
the stick and when he struck she threw up
her hand and the cut upon it was caused by
the blow. lie then took hor into the woods
and
Year: 1878




Mrs LaPage made tho following state
ment am glad that he made a clean
breast Of his wrong doings. and l also re-
joice that he was allowed to receive the last
sacraments of the Catholic church. Joseph
says in his confession that burned some
of his clothing after the Langmaid girl
was killed, but it is not true. washed
his overalls and my daughter washed his
shirts. but neither of US saw any blood on
them. The shirt which he wore on the day
Of the murder was badly torn in one of the
sleeves and was missing soon after put it
out to dry. Joseph had abused me at times
since our marriage, on many occasions
shamefully. cannot tell you of his brutal
conduct toward our eldest daughter. Ii is
awful to relate. One day. soon after the
Langmaid murder. he treated me 80 badly
that | asked him if be did not kill Josie
Langmaid. lie answered that he did not.
| asked the question because | remembered
how he brutally outraged and nearly mur-
dered my sister Julienae Rousse. in Canada.
He never sfterwsrd admitted to me that he
Year: 1878

The steamer City OF Hartford. which sailed from
New York yesterday evening for saybrook and was
duo there last night at midnight has NOT
yet arrived and anxiety Is felt about
her. IL II supposed she has bcen
PEELED by the storm TO put into some harbor on
the Long Island coast Her agents say they have
heard nothing IRON her. and are confident no acct
dent mas happened to her. as they would certainly
have informed by telegraph Il any had occurred.
Year: 1878

One hundred and two stamps are kept in motion at Nevadaville.

 The hotels of Denver have been unable for some time past to ac- commodate the visitors.

 It is estimated that the yield of silver in Colorado this summer is not less than S1,0OO,00O.

 Two hundred and eighty ounces of Hahns Peak gold was received at the mint few days since.

 There arc four or five thousand people at or near Leadville; some say as high as six Or seven thousand.

 Three hundred and eighty two stamps are in motion at the differ cnt mills in Black Hawk, making q total in tho county of 539.

 It has rained every afternoon but one at Boulder for some weeks past. The wet weather is injuring the wheat, and interfering with the har- vest, to an unprecedented degree in that vicinity.

 The authorities at Pueblo have broken up gang of countelfeiters. in that city, and secured the arrest of two of the crew. In their pos session was found a large amount of spurious coin of all denominations of the United States from dimes to dollars.

 The valley of the upper Arkansas is one of the most attractive in Col orado. It is well settled with ranch men who have excellent crops and as good farm stock as will be found anywhere. The roads are first class and are lined with teamsters, most of whom arc conveying ore out of Leadville to be shipped to St. Louis.
Year: 1878

Sorrow, sorrow, all around; The world is full of woe; There's plenty grief for every soul Whose home is here below. North or South or East or West, Wherever you may bide, You'll find no man who with his lot Is fully satisfied. One grieves because he's over stout, One mourns that he is thin; Give each his wish, you change the

 Hume, But cannot change the din. The farmers boy would change his

 [field And seek the ocean wide; He'd leave the brown lands of the farm And plough the billowy tide. The townsman to the fields would hie, The countryman to town; The village lass would don a robe, The city belle gown. She whose hair is waving gold Would have it black as jet; And where is fairest blonde who'd not Much rather be brunette? He who is ageing would be young; The youngest would be man, And little threads the closing up Of life's fast closing span. All are at sea, in storm or calm; All, all are at tempest tossed; Some mourn for what they never had Some grieve for what they've lost. 'Tis ever thus, go where you will Through countries far and wide; Give man the best, he'd better it; He's never satisfied.
Year: 1878

Now that the Mineral Resources of Arizona are being rapidly developed, agricultural products will be in great demand and the Farmer will quickly find himself King, and while enjoying home comforts will reap largely of the golden harvest of the hardy minNr. Prospectors who are searching the noun tains for hidden treasures it may be poor as Jobs turkey-will in a moment find themselves Bonanza Kings and be able to revel in luxury the rest of their days; but all men cannot become owners of rich minesl All men cannot become wealthy farmers. To the great mass of man. kind the price of pork and beans will still be an object.
Year: 1878

Miners and prospectors can do better in getting an outfit there than any place in Phenix. Young folks contemplating marriage will be surprised to find how much they can buy at the store of E. Irvine & Go. with which to make home comfortable and pleasant.
Year: 1878

blackest attributes of shame and disgrace
IL settled bY the gauge Of fanaticism and
passion. Sir, VI want calm, deliberate,
wise, patrfafic action action prompted by
no impulse that throbs for the elevation OF
the politician, though it be upon The wreck
OF Virgfnia's honor, but with high and
noble purpose to settle upon principles II
equity this great question, so rs to bring
the liabilities of Virginia within. the range
Of prompt payment without an increase OF
taxation.


T believe, sir, II we will resurrect our en-
ergies and husband our resources, we will
be able to put the bonded debt Of Virginia
upon the same equality and pay four per
cent. then on without an increase OF taxa
ton; and believe, too, tnat the creditors
Of Virginia are not such modern Shylocks
MS to claim what is t.nominated In the
bond,o though 1t be her very life; but
granting to them that vindictiYeness, the
portrayal Of which gave to IAYon's bnrd a
touch of;immortality which would induce
them to tear from nearest herold throbbing
heart their pound of flesh, I would still
accord too much respect for their iudg-
ment-girdled rs I believe it to be by their
experience with other securities-to believe
that they would force upon her demand
that would cripple her ability to settle and
thereby increase the hazard of their pay.


And now, sir, may the genius Of wisdom
and the welfare Of an anxious people con-
strain the conflicting elements OF this body,
to come together on some common vantage
ground, and, for the sake OF our common
mother and her suffering people, shake
hands across tue chasm which our mutual
differences have wrought between us.
Year: 1878

IL.
A New York paper says:


Mr.. Peter Cooper has under consideration
plan for opening free institute for girls
in South Carolina, to be very much on the
same plan as the Cooper Institute in this city.
Nothing definite has been decided on be-
vond the selection of what will probably be
the site of the new institution. He said:
"I wish to do something for the South, and
show that northern man has some interest
in the welfare of the southern people. l
hope it may do something toward ending
old feuds and cementing the Union. l think
there is a good field for an institution there
that may be means Of doing good to the
country. 1t will be done il can see any
way OF putting it upon substantial footing.
1t would be school of science and art in
its application to all the useful and neces.
sary purposes Of life, and for ladies only"
Year: 1878

The culture of tea and the manufacture
of sugar from sorghum and corn in this
country, where the climate is favorable, are
subjects which have impressed themselves
with much weight upon the mind Of the
Commissioner Of Agriculture. He Is fully
convinced that we have no more need,
under proper development of our own re-
sources, to import tea and sugar than we
have to import our wheat and corn from
the old world. Indeed this fact is clearly
demonstrated in the experiments already
tried in this country. Tea grows readily
and In fine perfection in South Carolina,
and can be successfully cultivated as far
North as the District Of Columbia, but not
with as little hazard as in the more South
ern States. Indeed II has been already
demonstrated that no finer tea is grown in
China or Japan than, with proper culture
can be produced in South Carolina and soutll
of that, and even in higher latitudes soutl,
OF this point II Ia easily cultivated, and
with Yankee ingenuity to provide the
proper machinery for its curing, u few years
will find the American people enjoying ten
grown upon American soil Of "a fine quality
as the average Of the imported article.


So also Of sugar. We need not, If we de.
velop our own resources, import q pound 70,
American consumption; and yet for his ad'
vanced ideas on these subjects General IL
DuC is made the butt of ribald Jest and
hateful sneen on the part of preiudiccd and
ignorant people, who are ever ready to de
nounce and whistle down the wind any ad
vanced idea which they have not the indus
try to investigate or the measure of intellcc
to understand. So we 90. FULTON wa
jccred for his insanity, and yet the worlt
has been forced TO honor his memory. /
may be 50 in the case of American tea and
sugar and their warm advocates.
Year: 1878

THE promotion, for it is nothing more no


less, of General LUCIus FAIRCHILDs from


consul-general at Liverpool to be consul
general at Paris is deserved recognition of
the services Of competent, painstaking
officer, who is also one-armed soldier OF
enviable record, won by honorable partici-
patton in nearly all the great battles of the
late civil war. 1t is at the same time rare
example of conscientious adherence to the
true theory Of civil-service reform. Gen.
eral ToRDETT's removal remains to be ex.
planned. None Of his official acts as consul.
general at Paris have been disapproved by
the State Department that we are aware Of
Year: 1878

We understand that it is the custom OF
Democratic investigators in examining wit.
nesses to so shape their questions that, in
making answer yes, or no, it is not possible
10 tell the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth" This is u device
Of these modern investigators, who do not
seek the truth unless it can be made useful
in blackening some Republican official
And this they call justice and right Out
upon ii.
Year: 1878

The 50-per-cent clause in the District
bill was saved. There is cause for gratitica-
ton in this announcement sufficient to give
the business interest of this community a
new impetus
Year: 1878

CONSIsTENCY.-It is not over
a year or two since the Waila
Walla Statesman was protuse in
its appreciation Of the course OF
Senator Mitchell. Now there
is nothing too mean tor 1T to say
Of the same man; not baslng it's
structures upon anything which
he has done since. but upon the
social scandal associated with
his name previous to that time


which it then entirely ignored.
The Statesman then did not care
fig for his social offences of a
long anterior date, and had no
words of censure for him OIL that
account. But since Mr.. Nit
chell refused to become the tool
of the o. S. n. Co., and not till
then, has its virtuous indigna-


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Year: 1878

The young person of the oil
regions Of Pennsylvania is cool
hand and quite practical in en-
ergencies. Not long since, a
youngster living near PetroIia
accidentally shot himself in the
abdomen. The wound was not
very dangerous, so he endeavor-
ed to conceal it from his father.
Next morning the father CON-
PEELED his offspring to show up,
when it was discovered that he
had cut out the ball, which lay
near the surface, with a razsr.
In the meantime he had drank 4
large quantity of water, as hc
said, ''to see if he leaked" and,
finding that he was not filtering
quietly settled down to take it
easy until he gets well.
Year: 1878

Men say that these are hard
times. By what judgment do
they say 1t, and in what sense
do they mean it? If these are
the days in which fraud IS being
discovered, in which hypocrites
are being unmasked, in which
vicious habits of doing business
are being corrected, in which
the conscience Of the nation is
being quickened and the eyes of
all of us opened to that which is
right, just, and true, how can
you call them hard times? The
evil days were the days when
we were making money rapidly
and losing character as rapidly.
The evil days were the days
when honesty was counted as
naught, when character was not
a help in business, when pa
tience and industry were ig-
nored, when honorable and con-
servative men were laughed at:
those were the evil days.. and
if we are being delivered from
them, then are the days to which
we have come good days and
not evil. God forbid that we
should ever again see such days
as we saw between go and 20;
God forbid that the old, wicked,
corrupting prosperity should
ever come back to us. For
thirty years we were a nation
of ney-getters. Europe said
SO; and it said the truth. 1t
took the thunders Of God and
the shock of revolution to
make US humane-to make us
thoughtful of the rights of man.
1t has taken years of financial
shrlnkage and failure, the wreck
of a thousand firms; the fall of
mighty commercial houses; the
disgrace Of numberless citizens;
the impoverishme of half of
our population-to make US re-
alize that money is not the OBJ
iect of business; that truth, hon
eSty, piety, constitute the true
wealth of nations, as they like
wise furnish the permanent ba


sis Of Government, and supply
the material with which is con-
structed those walls which
stand for the defence of human
liberty.-4Nurray.
Year: 1878

We are informed by persons
who know, or think they know,
that Judge Wingard has con-
sented to be the Republican can
didate for Delegate to Congress
if he can get the nomination.
We know Of no man who has
been named in that connection
for whom we have q higher per-
sonal regard than for Judge
Wingard, or one whose personal
success would be more gratify-
ing where it did not conflict
with our views Of what is due
to- the interests Of the public.
We should greatly regret, how
ever, to see him nominated Tor
Delegate to Congress because
we are very certain it would re-
suit in humiliating defeat. So
far as the interests of this Ter
ritory are concerned, it would
he lust as well to elect General
Sprague or Capt. Ainsworth, as
Judge Wingard is in full SYM
pathy and interest with the O..
S. N. Co. and the 'sTacoma Land
Ring" being himself not only Il
confidential adviser, bat 4 party
in interest in their projects,
which are certainly not in ac-
cord with the Interests Of q
large portion Of the people of
this Territory, who have already
suffered too much from those
monopolles to elect one Of their
special Attorneys 10 represent
them in Congress; and for one,
we would do all in our power to
defeat the best personal friend
We have on earth, or even our
own material interests, wher-
ever they conflict with the par
amount interests Of the Terri
tory. Personally. from our first
acquaintance with Capt. Aims
worth, we nave regarded him as
a gentleman entitled to the high
est respect for many most esti-
mable qualities = his enterprise,
liberality, business integrity and
broad philanthropy command
our admiration, while his posi-
tion as the head of one great
monopoly and an acting director
in another, admonishes Us not to
permit our personal admiration
tor the man to conflict with our
duties as guardian Of the IN
terests of the people. With
Judge Wingard our personal re-
l;.tions have ever been of an in
innate and friendly character.
We re.joiced in his appointment
to the bench, for which position
he is we'll qualified, but we know
of no man aspiring to the posi-
ton we would not rather have
for our Delegate in Congress,
solely on account Of his personal
connections. The political par
ty associations Of the candidate
for Delegate is q matter Of no
consideration with us, for no po-
litical principles are involved in
the election.
Year: 1878

The late William G. Bryant
almost lived out of doors, car
ing little for the weather, and
ready with axe or pruning knife
or anything that gave hearty
exercise. At IS he could leap
into the air, catch at a bough,
and swing himself along by it
like very boy.
Year: 1878

who will gainsay the assertion :?
We have no personal ends to
serve, but above all other con-
siderations we desire to serve
the public interests Of that COM
munity in which we live.