smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

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NEW YORK, June 25.-There are a few peop1a
yet left in New York who can remember sail
boat called the Dolonin. When Lester Wallack
was young and charming the Dolphin had al
ready passed into her second childhood. So
you can compute her years very readily. She was
in her younger and more vigorous days one
Of the most extraordinary vessels that ever
aoated- She would sail against the wind with
quite as much rnpidity as before 1t, anG she
could 90 sidewise faster than in any other d.
rection. Her history ts STEPPED in adventure,
She used to vary the monotong Of dashing
Year: 1879

In one Of the recent heavy snow
storms on the Central, traia of
cars was blockaded ten miles from
the nearest dwelling, aud for u
lime it was feared that the most
disastrous Consequences would en-


sue. The engine was powerless,
children were crying for food, and
mothers commenced to grow pale,
when brave-hearted Buffalo girl
came forward and with quiet deter
minatiOn pulled off her shoe.
For q moment the peO


pie stared In amazement, aud


then, as her intention gradually
dawned upon their minds, u wild
shout went up, hurting back de-
fiance in the teeth of the raging
storm. With all possible speed the
shoe was attached TO the fiout OF
the engine, the engineer gained
fresh courage, and, turning on the
steam, the locomotive dashed for
ward, while the novel snow.
plow threw the snow in
high masses to the right
and left. 1t was a desperate
chance, but it succeeded, aud tue
story of the size of the heroic girl'-
foot will be handed down to the
succeeding generations of those
who were on the threatened train.
Year: 1879

present Constitution. There would
be no official custodian Of the State
funds or the great seal. There
would be an interregnum utterly
without parallel In the United
States and resembling more than
anything we can recall the hiatus
In an oriental despotism when one
ruler has been dispatched aud his
successor has not yet put In an APP
pearance. Take it for all IN all, We
should be in q most embarrassing
plight for four calendar days. 1t is
not q strained conclusion to say
that men who could have over
looked such au obvious absurdlty
In this particular have done 1t in
other respects.
Year: 1879

AMONGST the changes of lesser
uote which the adoption of the
new Constitution will effect is the
oashiering OF twenty hold over
Senators, twelve Of whom are
Democrats. eight Republicans and
one (Bones) Workingman. The
same people who would be foolish
enough to replace a good old Con-
stltution with a bad new one would
also think nothing OF making up
whole Legislature of brand new
demagogues. The masses at
large, however, have no earthly
intention of throwing down all the
safeguards which protect them
from sweeping and disastrous in
novation. Neither the Democrats
nor Republicans can, with any
consistency. support an instru
ment which works such a radical
revolution in every department of
the Slate government.
Year: 1879

THUS far, the credit of saying
the best things about the new Con
stitution ls divided between a law
yer ami a newspaper man. The
former said that there were both
new and COOL things In the instru-
ment, but that what was good was
not new and what was new was not
good. The Net0s Letter, however,
fully compassed the newspaper
possibilities Of the situation by
saying that the new Constitution
only failed to be an abortion be-
cause 1t was delivered after and
not before its time. Next.
Year: 1879

ONE thing is quite apparent, and


that is that, of all the able advo.
oates for the adoption of the new
Constitution, Gen. Volney E. How
ard is fdciie princeps. His crisp
aud energetic papers almost recon-
cile US to the widespread ruin
which would follow the adoption Of
that instrument by the people. The
one thing the sagacious advocates
for the new Constitution are care


full to do Is to blind the voters to
the fact that the Legislature of Cal
tfornia, as at present constituted,
has ample powers, with an aroused
p .ople behind 1t, to remedy every
evil from which We now suffer.


They leave this unquestionable
fact in q sort of dim, religious
light, and rightfully 50; for were
they to permit it to come into the
srgu umentative perspective, their
case is gone. They give the people
.uch quack remedies as a Railway
Com mission of three men. two oil
whom the railways would elect
uine years out of ten, and the other
of whom they would buy, in order
to produce a uniformity OF action,
The people, in the language OF the
Bible, ask for bread and the Con-
vention has given them q stone.


The real panacea for corporation
outrages Is not an experiment with
communism as its hand maiden,
but a people imbued with a purpose


and q Legislature which knows


that the masses "mean business"
Year: 1879

New YORK, Nov. 20.-Reports from
southern Indiana and some places in
Kentucky say the wheat plants have been
attacked by the Hessian fly in way that
threatens the destruction Of the crop.
The larvae of the fly are found in the
stalks of the healthiest plants. The far
mers think they will winter safely in
their retreat and come out in the spring
to begin their ravages upon the fields.
Tufts of wheat, pulled up in many wide
ly separated places reveal the same con-
dition of affairs.


We have never had the very best of
success in storing cabbage for winter.
The plans recommended have sometimes
failed. Something depends on the sea-
son. By placing their heads down in
rows we have sometimes taken them out
in good order, and again We have had
every head badly rotted. We have seen
it recommended to set them in trenches
about the depth of the cabbage, the roots
down, and earth adhering. 1t is said
that immature heads will form if handled
thus. 1t is also recommended to cut the
stem off smooth, even with the base of
floor in cellar. It is claimed they will
absorb moisture from the earth and keep
plump and crisp all winter. Will some
| one just tell us how to succeed with them
every time?


When once you have determined to
fatten an animal for beef let the process
be as quick as possible. Any stint in
feeding at such times will tend to make
the meat tough and dry. Stalled ami
mails will fatten more readily than others
and younger animals require richer foo6
than older ones. In winter fattening dc
not forget that much depends upon The
warmth of the stable. The warmer tn,
cattle are kept the less food will be need
ed.


A farmer can not work his farm safel,
without knowing all about his soil. Ever
field should be studied as to the effect
of certain methods with fertilizers upol


it. Then the owner can act with reason
able certainty. The plan of experiment


ing with fertilizers should be followed NJ


in successive years, until the character o


each field is known. This is the bes


season to experiment upon fall crops


and no time should be lost If it is to b
!, done; a year will thus be saved.


Wheat is selling in the Gallatin vale
Montana, at fifty cents per bushel, an
there will be large surplus which can
be disposed of even at that low figure
and probably not at all. With the north
ern Pacific extended through that region
as it soon will be, the products of Mon
tana promise to be almost imitless.
Year: 1879

ST had been sick and miserable so
long and had caused my husband SO
much trouble and expense, no one seem
ed to know what allied me, that was
completely disheartened and discourag
ed. In this frame of mind got bottle
of Hop Bitters and used them unknown
to my family. L soon began to improve
and gained so fast that my husband and
family thought it strange and unnatural,
but when I told them what had helped
me, they said 'Hurrah for Hop Bitters!
long may they prosper, for they have
made mother well and US happy. The
Mother
Year: 1879

Those languid, tiresome sensations,
causing you to feel scarcely able to be on
-
driving the bloom from your cheeks, that
continual strain upon your vital forces,
rendering you irritable and fretful, can
easily be removed by the use of that
marvellous remedy, Hop Bitters. Irreg-
ularities and obstructions of your system
are relieved at once, while the special
cause of periodical pain is permanently
removed. VIII you heed this2
Year: 1879

but he treated us and them with loftiest
scorn; and we got one after another into
the boat amidst the gibes and ieers of
an unsympathetic crowd. Aud as we
rowed from the wretched place as fast as
our oars would take US, we each of us in
our secret heart declared we should new
er forget our adventure up the river with
lunatic. And we haven't. From that
day to this 1 have never seen Lillian
Travers, nor do I wish to.-Harper's


ITeeE1,y
Year: 1879

One of the most popular medicines
now before the American public, is Hop
Bitters. You see it everywhere. People
take it with good effect 1t builds them
up. 1t is not as pleasant to the taste as
some other Bitters as it is not whiskev
drink. It is more like the old fashioned
bone set tea that has done world of
good. If you don't feel just right try
Hop Bitters.-Nunda News.
Year: 1879

CARDINAL CULLEN died In condition OF al-
most apostolic poverty. Six thousand pounds
sterling, half OF this In cash, was all that he
possessed, yet more than million had been
beQueathed to him one way or another. OF the
money which he left In cash, most would proba-
the Cardinal only Lived little while longer,
Year: 1879

A TERRIBLE STORY OF SHAME AND DEATH
has come to light in PoughkeepSle, New York.
young girl OF fifteen years Of age, named Mary
Miller and her child died to night Before Mary
Miller died she told the story. AS yet the ali-
thOrities have taken no action in the matter.
Year: 1879

Now we have it "by authority that Gov.


Pillsbury is in the field as candidate for re-
election, and the Wakefield men 90 about
the streets wailing and gnashing their teeth.


It is with inexpressible sadness that we note
this ruction among our radical brethren. As
we are obliged to live under radical domiua-
ton we are forced to admit that We could be
happy with either, were t'other dear charmer
away. Gov. Pillsbury has made strong points
during his public career, and Wakefield has
also cast several anchors to windward from
his position as presiding officer of the SEN
ate. There is no Disgusting the fact that the
Democratic sympathies in this fight with
Wakefield, as he has uniformly rendered
Democrats in the Senate favors over Repub.
licans, and is regarded as really in sympathy
with the Democracy, though for policy's sake
acting with the Republicans. If, therefore


the Democratic castor should be SHE'D into
the Republican ring, it would bear the Wake


field emblem, as being the nearest to Dem


ocrat which it is possible to obtain at present
in this hide bound State. -.
Year: 1879

The German people and legislature are
greatly exercised over the bill now pending
in the reishstag on the subject of the tariff.
The discussions have been extended very
long extended, and all the arguments that
could be adduced in favor of the bill of the
chancellor have been presented in their most
favorable shape. We are not prepared to
say that the bill is wrong in detail, though
we unhesitatingly pronounce it wrong in
principle. Herr Bismarck is, perhaps, an
astute statesman as far as the conduct of in
ternal affairs is concerned, but he has shown
a lack of craftsmanship in the efforts he has
made of late to establish protective tariff
for the German nation. The agitation has
produced great deal of controversy, and
the result has been disastrous to the pre-
mier, as far as heard from. In each debate
he has come out second best, though the
weight of his official position has given him
the advantage in parliamentary sense.


The German nation is passing through a
crisis, similar in some respects to that
through which our own nation has passed.
The end of the Franco-G German war left the
country on the high road to prosperity, appa-
rently. Money was plenty in every channel of
trade. The French indemnity was promptly
paid, and no German looked for hard times.
But the reaction took place just as it did
here. Stringency came, and the resort has
been to tariff, just as in medicine doctor,
who does not understand the disease,
prescribes remedies of..an experimental char
acter. The disease that affects the German
nation is nothing to be alarmed at. It is
simply that which has attacked every nation
in Europe American competition. Bis
marck may impose whatever duties he may
choose upon foreign imports, but he cannot
make those duties onerous enough to exclude
American products. The result will be the
same in Germany as it is elsewhere; the
cheapest product will find Q market.
Year: 1879

MI. WINDOW was unwlse. There was no
obligation resting upon him to expose the
sores Of the Republican party, and he had,
therefore, but little excuse for removing the
plasters that have concealed the putrefaction
for so long time. It hardly becomes a
Republican Senator to assert exceptional
purity for party to which he belongs in
view of the long list of crimes that are
ohargeable to it. Reference to q few of
these was sufficient to close Mr.. WINDOWS
mouth. A party that can boast of tho strict
adherence of Babcock. Belknap, Shepherd,
and the entire gang of whisky thieves and
credit mobilier iobbers, has no reason to
challenge comparison of records.
Year: 1879

IT'S little odd, but We presume the omis-
sion will be explained shortly, that the re-
cent brutal murders in New York and Ohio
have not called up a resolution from some
Republican Congressman for thorough in
vestigation of the state of society and the
political privileges of the people in those
sections. The fact is that the people of the
South are the only people that are governed
by political motives, whether they knock a
man down or shoot him down in his tracks.
No motive other than a political one influ'
enCes q Southern man.
Year: 1879

TIE Khedive of Egypt refuses to abdicate
says, in effect, that he knows his rights, and
knowing dare maintain them, and appeals to
his big brother, the sultan of Turkey, to
sustain him. The result of the dispute is
not at all doubtful, for the aggressive powers
hold the whip row not only over the Khedive
but over his hacker, the sultan of Turkey.
If the demand is intended to be in earnest,
it will be complied with, whether it is agree
able or not.
Year: 1879

EWING was good enough soldier to fight
the battles of the stay at home Republicans
who did not like to get in the neighborhood
of gunpowder, but now that he is about to
be elected Governor of the State, the valiant
home guards have fallen to abusing him be-
cause he was sufficiently brave and patriotic
to defend his country with musket. Cir
cumstances alter cases with the home guards.
Year: 1879

WE would advise the Wakefield men not
to worry. tits very doubtful whether Pills
bury ever had any strength for the third
term, but if he ever did the championship
of his cause by the disreputable Mime
apolis morning newspaper (printed in St.
PauD settles his case. It is notorious that
Pillsbury always stands in with all the rings
of every description, and when the cham
pionship of this disreputable paper is added
it is the last hair. Plllsbury's eyes are sot.
Year: 1879

The Dispatch IVtthdrasUal Unauthorized.


lst. Paul Dispatch. June as.


We stated on Saturday that report had
reached us that Gov. Pillsbury had decided
not to allow his name to 60 before the Re-
publican State convention as candidate for
denomination. We did not vouch for the
correctness of this report, but said that its
foundation was such and that it 80 closely
coincided with our own ideas of the political
probabilities of the day, that should accept
it as true until authoritively denied.


In order to afford opportunity for making
such authoritative denial if desired,a a Dispatch
reporter called on Gov. Pillsbury Monday
morning. The interview was confidential,
and at the Governors 8 request was not made
public-a statement being promised for
Tuesdays issue. But yesterday the Governor
was invisible, and no communication was
received until after our paper had gone to
press. In n'the evening came note direct
from the executive chambers, requesting the
Dispatch to say that:


The statement in Saturday evening" paper
sthat the Governor would not allow. his
name to go before the convention" ETC., was
wholly unauthorized, he never having au-
thorized anyone to make any such statement.


We suppose we may be fairly entitled to
assume, from the above announcement, that
he has decided not to withdraw, and that he
is still as much of candidate, at least, as
he ever was.


For the Governors own sake we regret
this decision. We know it has been reached
in opposition to the advice of his nearest,
truest and best friends. We believe that
his candidacy in any form is distract
ing and injurious element in the
party and will greatly intensity the bitterness
of the contest. We believe that he is doomed
to inevitable defeat, and that instead of re-
firing with dignity and honor from his high
Office as his predecessors have done, he will
go into private life, at the close of the pres.
ent term, soured and embittered toward many
who have been his lifelong friends, and
wearing the scars of q hateful and disgraceful
contest, which might have been and ought to
have been avoided by his graceful, honora.
bic refusal to stand in the way Of scores o1
eminent Minnesota Republicans who are his
full equals in ability. culture and honesty,
and who would as worthily adorn the exalted
position, two terms in which have always
been held sufficient to fill the measure of 8
reasonable ambition.
Year: 1879

and when the carbon and hydrogen Of
the hay are in condition to attract oxygen
rapidly, the temperature may reach the
point where flames must spring UP, and
then the work Of destruction goes on rap
idly. / tbs precisely the same process
which, occurs insstrong horse manure, and
which results in "tire fanging,'' SO called.
It is not possible, however, for the heat
to become intense enough to produce ig-
milton in. the manure heap. Whilst the
danger of spontaneous combustion fof hay
is not great, still it is possible, and hence
care should be observed in curing and
stOrincr If -
Year: 1879




WHEN political economists nave no
ticsd the fact that the people of towns
and cities made seats of government


were eviscerated of their manhood and


independence of feeling and character
and of public spirit they were not writ
ing a5cut Austin. Bat they told the
literal truth. A people living through


boarding houses, the men becoming
unsexed and the women men, all q, :
irving their substance from the drop
pings from the treasury, can no more
boast of public spirit or proper self
reliance than Neapolitau lazzaroni.
These capitals of S -ates are incapable
of tasks which little villages execute,
and therefore these cities always die Of
The dry rot. The moral effect of free
schools upon State Is the same upon
the whole people to whom the State
doles cut charity. Therefore VIC are
content with the meanest when capa.
BILE of having the best possible schools.
Year: 1879

WHY does not the Examiner come to
the scratch like little man aud say
that the theory and fact of free schools
are founded in error and in wrong and
robbery, and result, when reduced to
practice, in unmlxed evil. But the E'e-
aminer says sit is difficult to tell what
Texas does need. But one thing GER
tain, our st tlte being yet thinly settled,
semi pastoral, and its people mainly
poor, she needs system essentially
different from that maintained at great
expense in the richer, the commercial
and manufacturing sections of the
country. A system adapted to the
wants and capacities of our peculiar
condition as a people will find in the
Examiner a steadfast friend" But why
discuss the question. The nuisance
was fastened en- us by the R1tabaga
Constitutional Convention, and we
cannCt shake it OFF. Democrats cannot
differ about it if they would.
Year: 1879

We are told by one who ought TO
know that wild hemp grows every
where about Austin. It is not argued
that Providence gave it that AXE and
his kind might be properly di posed Of,
since, in this event, the coul try about
Hampstead would be destroyed by this
redundant crop; but if hemp grow ur-
cultivated why not follow the example
of Kentucky and grow rich by its pro-
duction. Each bale of cotton requires
five yards of bagging or seventy-five
cents worth, and 10000 bales sold in
this market would pay for large share
of the hemp that might be made to
grow in the rich plains and in the gal-
ley of the Colorado. But farmers know
more of this matter than ourselves,
and it is only suggested, if hemp grow
luxuriantly uncultivated, it surely
would be profitable crop when it en-.
riches the best farmers Of Missouri and
Kentucky.
Year: 1879

New YORK, Dec. IA vote
was taken to.day at the Produce
Exchange on the question whether
the central system should be re-
tanned in the Exchange or not. The
whole vote cast was 1878, of which
668 were in favor Of retaining ibf
and COS against its being retained.
Year: 1879

IT is getting too much for Ben. Hill
to stay gagged any longer. He is
getting restive and a crowd of "dum-
mics" are running with him now
wherever he goes. Look cut for an
explosion
Year: 1879

Gov. POUND is pounding away on
the old question. He wants a Presi
dent to have a six year term, and to
be limited to one. He would give
Representative four years, but would
keep the Senators as they are.
Year: 1879

Never did the Montana farmer turn the
soil and cast seed upon the land with better
prospects of an abundant harvest. There is
no deposit of grasshopper eggs, hence there
will be no young grasshoppers to NOW
down the young and tender grain as it peeps
through the ground. The season has the
appearance of being dry, but this will not
affect the crop, as our farmers, thanks to
our innumerable water courses, are prepar-
ed to make their own season, and this will
be accomplished with ease this year as the
supply Of snow in the mountains promises
abundant water.


The fall market also promises to be good.
Chronic grumblers have been telling us
every spring that prices of farm products
were Oh the eve of a great decline, yet We
find consumption increases with the increase
Of production, and prices remain firm and
remunerative. Although there IS a large
acreage being put in this spring, and should
we escape immigrant grasshoppers, the
harvest will be immense, we think farmers
need have no fears Of a glutted market. The
rapid growth of our pastoral interests and
the extensive development Of our mines
will furnish employment for the thousands
Of immigrants who are coming this sum-
mer, which assures us that a great decline
in prices is hardly probable. Viewing mat
tiers thus, which is but fair and rational, may
not our farmers take courage?