smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

The tide of immigration which
has set so strongly towards this
Territory bids fair to give us a
population by discharge enough
to entitle US, under the present
ratio of representation, to a
member OF the lower house OF
Congress. If this Should prove
TO be the fact, there will be no
difficulty in procuring the ad-
mission of the State.


The legislature having pro-
yided for convention to frame
a constitution, it should be re-
sarded as = duty by every cltl-
zen to take part in the selection
of it's members, and to await the
result of their labors before tax
ing ground against any and all
efforts to get from under the
woke of Territorial vassaiage.
That a constitution will be franz
ed for submission to the people,
which will be fully up to the
progress Of the age, we see no
good reason to doubt, and that
it will be adopted may be re-
earded as reasonably certain.


There are efforts being made
in some quarters to throw rldi-
cule upon the convention; but
these efforts come from certain
disappointed candidates for nom
nations, and cannot be regarded
as s!gn;iic:nt Of public senti-
ment. On the contrary, the
prevailing sentiment, as lar as
we are able to observe it, is
strongly in favor OF the torma-
tion of a State government, and
we believe the men wh9 are
identified with the country rs
bona fde residents will engage
IN the enterprise with an energy
that will insure SUI cess. 1t is
not, perhaps, to be wondered at,
that United States Off
would prefer the Territorial con-
dition, as the State would put
an end to their term of office,
and we must expect the chief op-
position to come from this quar-
ter. But this class Of obstruct-
ionists is very small in numbers,
and the force of their opposition
would be broken by the knowl-
edge of the interested motives
which prompt 1t.
Year: 1878

Dispatches give accounts of
the reviving of the "hazing"
process among students in Eas-
tern colleges. 1t is unquestion-
ably true that college boys mis-
behave themselves to greater
excess and extremes than do any
other classes Of youth congre-
gated togthcr. Instructors say
that many a boy who has been
a model of sobriety and decorum
at home and in preparatory
school, is no sooner within col
lege walls than he is seized with
the conviction that he must get
into some kind Of deviltry. For
the first time in life he robs ap-
pie trees, sacks hen roOsts, and
joins in horning and hazing
scrapes. The impulse lasts him
until he reaches the dignity Of
the Junior classes, and then it
ceases as suddenly as it began.
He is again transformed into the
orderly person that he was be-
fore his Freshman days, and he
continues his mild-mannertd
course through life. His lawless
career seems to be the outgrowth
of a notion that in those two
years must be compressed the
deviltry Of lifetime. Recent
events go to show that the soon
er this notion is crushed out of
college boys minds the better it
will be for them.
Year: 1878

A Postal Savings bill prepared
by Mr.. Phillips, Of Kansas, has
been approved by a majority of
the House Committee on Bank
ing and Currency. 1t is believed
by sanguine friends that this
bill will pass the House by a
nearly unanimous vote. 1t will
make every money order post
Office depository for money in
sums as small as twenty-five
cents, the deposition to receive a
passbook like those given by
savings banks. When the de-
posits by one person amount to
ten dollars or any multiple OF
ten dollars he is entitled to re-
ceivc bond fer that amount to
be entered in his passbook as a
debit to offset the same amount
of credits. These bonds are to
range from ten dollars to one
hundred dollars in even multi
pies Of ten up to fifty. The rate
of interest is to be 3 65-100 per
cent. that particular rate being
adopted for convenience of cal
culation, since the interest on a
one hundred dollar lond will be
exactly one cent per day. These
bonds are to be cXchangeable at
the pleasure Of the holder for
regular four per cent. bonds oi
the government; but in this
form the government is to take
no special superintendent OF
them. Bat the holders OF the
3 65-100 bonds and of passbooks
in which sums are entered can
draw money from the post-otfice
very much as depositors do from
savings banks. OF course the
sums which are merely entered
in the passbooks will bear no in
terest. A special form Of legal
tender Treasury notes is to be
issued for redeeming the new
bonds at the money order post
offices.


If the system Of postal saw
ings is once adopted it will be
SO popular and beneficent that II
will never be abandoned; and il
this bill becomes a law it will
prove to be the wisest and most
salutary act which Congress has
passed in a long period. 1t will
encourage habits of saving ev-
erywhere and create them in
large districts where savings
banks do not exist. The abso
lutte safety Of the deposits will
relieve the laboring classes Of
all anxiety respecting their mon.
ey, and the perfect sense Of Sc
curity will cultivate more and
more the disposition to save.
Year: 1878

1t is said of Ethan Allen that
he once attended a church where
the minister made an estimate,
the result Of which was that out
of the whole human race, no
more than one in a thousand
would be saved. On the an
nounecment of the result Allen
took his hat and walked out,
saying as he went: "Gentle-
men, if any Of you want my
chance you are welcome to it..
1t is not worth staying forn'
Year: 1878

The great sensation now in
Ohio is: Two young couples got
married. The husbands staid q
little too long at the wine cup,
and when they retired to SUM
Der each made a mistake in the
room, and the trouble was not
discovered till daylight in the
morning. And now all the old
women and the lawyers in the
neighborhood are trying to fix
up matters.
Year: 1878

A tramp entered a house in
Athol, Mass, the other day,
when only woman and her
child were present, and catching
up the latter threatened to kill
it if he was not given something
to eat at once. The mother went
into another room, but instead
OF bringing back food presented
a pistol. The tramp dropped
the child and made his exit.
Year: 1878

gress will assemble, it is not very
likely to be successful if it does.
England and Austria are accused OF
being animated not by mere desire
to protect their legitimate and mate
rial interests but by jealousy OF the
military and diplomatic success OF
Russia. They are supposed there
fore to be desirous of diminishing.
as far as possible, the consequences
of a war. Russia, it is stated, will
declare, though she is willing to
have such questions as that of the
straits discussed, the conditions she
has already signed are the minimum
of what she has a right and determi-
nation to demand. A diminution of
results of the war being thus impos-
sible, England will seek to increase
them by demanding an extension of
Greece, but the effect CT this will be
to break the last link of English al
lance with Turkey, and the sultan
will then recognize Russia as his
surest ally. That these wild notions
should be seriously entertained by
persons of authority in the Russian
capitol indicates a condition Of mind
by no means favorable to satisfac-
tory conclusion of the present nego-
tiations. The terms of the peace
may prove an agreeable surprise,
but Russia is not assisting Europe
to place favorable construction
upon them.


The Russians near Boulair have
been reinforced.
Year: 1878

pear smoking from the pot and


bursting like a cotton pod into


mealy whiteness, neither too wet


nor too dry, but always piping hot
as 1t is stripped from the skin and


prepared for its garnish of salt and


butter, With pepper according to
taste-people who do not know the
boiled potato in that state of per-
lection content themselves with
the esculent sliced and fried In
grease-an abomination to the cul-
tured palate and terror to delicate
stomachs-and think they know
what potatoes are. Next to
q baked potato. a pota-
to boiled properly touches
that gastronomic economy in
Its tenderest region, and does not
pail upon the taste, though it be
served 3G5 times year. Whoever
does not relish the potato boiled in
the manner we have described, but
must have it sliced, fried, stewed or
mashed, with addition of parsley or
other savory things, should suspect
the condition Of his palate and
stomach, and consult a physician
for some remedy for morbid ap-.
petite. The Lord made the potato
with a jacket ON that was not in
tended to be taken off until the
process of cooking is completed.
and all that Is delicate and sweet IN
It's flesh is preserved to tickle the
palate OF the cater thereof.
Year: 1878

The above is the hat which Maj
or Toberman used to wear but
which he laid aside the day after
he was nominated by the Working.
men for Mayor. As he has taken
to wearing it again, we are enabled
to give its counterfeit presentment
to those of the Labor Convention
who threw over such workingmen
as Skinner. Robinson and others to
nominate the best dressed man
ih Los Angeles as their candidate
Year: 1878

The facilities of the HERALD Steam
Printing House for doing Job work are not
surpassed in California outside OF San
francisco and sacramento. All work en-
trusted to us will be executed with neat
ness and dispatch at the lowest living
rates
Year: 1878

The best and cheapest clothing
andfuruishing goods can always be
found for cash at the Quincy Hall
clothing store. Ducommun Block.
You can dress stylishly and with
economy by buying your goods
there. oct3l-tf
Year: 1878

Persons who have become thoroughly
chilled from any cause. may have their
circulation at once restored by taking in
to the stomach a teaspoonful of Johnson's
Anodyno Liniment. mixed In little cold
water. we'll sweetened.
Year: 1878

A characteristic story is told of bur-
lesque writer. When favorite domestic
drama was once brought out, terrible
wait occurred, on the night of its produc-
ton, after the second act. The orchestra
had exhausted its repertory, and still the
curtain remained down. Presently harsh
grating sound was plainly audible from
behindAthe sound of saw struggling
through wood. ''What is that noise p
impatiently asked a gentleman of the au-
thor. swell, I can't say" answered he
mournfully, "but suppose they are cut
ting out the third act"
Year: 1878

Ans governor OF Kwang Tung recently
applied to the Chinese Government for
permission to erect q memorial structure in
honor of the flial devotion of young
daughter of a magistrate in Canton. Her
father fell i'll, and she devoted herself to
nursing him. At the end of six months his
malady increased, and the daughter cut a
piece of flesh from her arm and mixed it
with his medicine. The remedy, however;
proved Intellectual, so she vowed to sacri-
fee her life to his, and poisoned herself on
the day that her father died. The Gov.
eminent has sanctioned tie monument.
Year: 1878

II you want to make starving man be-
lieve that you have any true religion send
him large loaf of bread before you send
him tract. The latter is never a good
substitute for the former. If before eating
he refuses your religion, it is your fault;
but II he refuses it after good meal, it is
his fault.
Year: 1878

If small boy slides down four flights of stairs on his head, little piece of candy. will generally cure him, but just let his mother wait her old slipper across the base of his trousers for the space of second and there is not enough balm in Gilead to soothe the agi- tation
Year: 1878

A little four-year old, native and resident of New Jersey, while watching the lightning flashes from his nursery window few even ings since, during a storm. turned to his nurse and remarked that God was scratching matches against the sky"
Year: 1878

Editors Dispatch: Suppose the city of
Richmond endorses the bonds or lends
money to the building OF the James-River
railroad to the amount Of $4,000 ,000Swhat
portion Of that money would be actually
taken away from the city banks? Then
what portion, after being taken away from
the city for immediate use on the line OF
work, would fail to get back here?


It seems reasonable to me that, consider
ing the location OF the line-the trading
points OF the counties along the line-thc
trading-points or point Of supply for all the
counties that would furnish the labor for
this work, and also the provender and other
supplles-the number Of faborers OF differ
ent kinds, and the supplies OF every kind
that would be furnished directly from this
city to this work-the money taken perna-
nently from the trade Of Richmond would
be extremely little. On the contrary. the
money taken away would come back al
most-yea, who!ly-doubledi In theincreased
life OF every trade and interest in
this city. 4 life would be started in
the finances OF our State that would cause
all the money lent this enterprise to centre
in Richmond. This is the natural point Of
supply not only for the work itself, but for
counties and towns furnishing labor and
supplies. OF 100000 as q monthly estimate
for the worksof any particular month, per-
haps half of 1t would not leave the city at
all. Then OF the 100000 taken away in
money, $75,0 900 would return to the city in
side OF a month. So that of the 100000
seven eighths would be spent here to in
crease and enliyen every branch OF busi-
ness and manufacture, and give bread and
clothes to thousands who are now anxious
for work Of any kind. We would there
fore within two months after the beginning
Of this work be better able to pay the addi-
tional interest on the money lent than we
now are to carry the present burdens.


The figures above are Of course only as
examples; but work for the laborer and
life in business-circles is what we all want,
and we know that in proportion to the
amount expended on such work in that
proportion, and even greater by far, would
this and more money be circulated in our
midst to the good and profit OF all classes.
hope, therefore, our people will not look
upon the endorsing OF these bonds for
the railroad or the lending OF the mo-
ney for building it (admitting that the
city would have to borrow it at high inter-
est as any addition to their burden OF
taxation. It is only putting the money
into our own business, and for the general
and particular immediate profit OF every
man, woman, and child in our city, as we'll
as to all those in the State more remotely.
There is no safer investment than in this
valley railroad, properly chartered and man
aged; and there is no surer way of giving a
new impulse for good to the finances OF our
State than by putting all classes to profitable
work. When few additional cents from
each will enable us to make money where
we are now losing, should we hesitate a mo-
ment to lend helping hand to thing that
will only be helping ourselves? w.
Year: 1878

The City Council of Richmond has again
refused to vote any aid to the canal COM
pany. This persistent refusal Of our chief
city-that is, the eastern terminus OF the
canai-to lend any assistance towards the
re0pening of the work must result IN serious
consequences even to Richmond herself.
So far as we can see, it will leave the canal
above Lynchburg ruin, and cut OIL much
of the trade that formerly went to Rich
mond from the counties west OF this city
bordering on the canal, and tend to
quicken the energies Of the Valley Rail-
road Company, the completion of which line
will carry the trade of those counties to
Baltimore. It is the death-knell, too. for the
present. Of the Clifton-Forge railroad
scheme. But if Lynchburg were only IN
condition to do it, this would be the time
for her to build line from this city to Cliff
ton Forge-a line that would do more for
her than any connection she could possibly
make in any other direction. And the
closing of the canal may, after all, have the
effect Of turning the attention OF our peo-
pie and other communities interested to
the building Of an all-rail line from Clifton
Forge to Lynchburg.


Richmond, il we may Judge from the
tone of her newspapers, has great horror
of seeing this road built; but as she will
do nothing for the canal, and it is quite
certain that Lynchburg will not 90 1t Tor
her, nothing remains for us but to bend all
our energies to the construction OF this
much-needed line. And so soon as the iron
interest revives the immense deposits oi
this valuable mineral in the region round
about us will be sure to provide the ways
and means for securing cheap coal by con-
nection with the Kanawha Valley. 1t Is
only question Of time.


We cannot conclude without expressing
deep sympathy for1hose people in Amherst,
Bedford, Rockbridge, and Botetourt who
are wholly dependent upon the canal fol
an outlet to market, and our regret for the


discouragement that has come upon Major


Johnston, notwithstanding his unsurpassed


energy in opening the water-line from Rich
mond to Lynchburg. Under these circum
stances, we think it not improbable that he
will resign the presidency Of the canal com
| pany, in which case we should be glad tx
see him take hold Of the railroad scheme
and push it through from Lynchburg tx
Clifton Forge. II anybody can do it, he j!
| the man for the work; and we can promist
| him stronger backing and q warmer appre
citation of his services than Richmond ha
given. n.-Lynchburg Virginian.
Year: 1878

A HEALTHY SIGS.-1f peace does not eX-
acty reign in Warsaw and in the vicinity Of
Constantinople, there is more quietudc in
and around Cash Corner eighteenth and
Cary streets) than has been known for
many years. All Of the tenements lately
occupied by the most depraved specimens
Of humanity are now vacant and waiting for
other and, it Is certainly to be hoped, better
tenants. That criminal wickedness cannot
thrive in even the worst sections OF Rich
mond is a healthy sign and matter OF con-
OretJ,lotinn
Year: 1878

SLIGHTLY BURNED.-Ye Yesterday morning
Mary, aged five and half years, q little
daughter Of Mr. Rowland Hill, was slightly
burned while attempting to light piece OF
paper at a stove in her fathers residence.
The sleeves OF her dress caught fire and she
put her hands behind her, which set ire 70
her dress. Assistance was near at hand,
however. and she was not much burned.
Year: 1878

DRY GOODS have been for some time past the
cheapest merchandise In the market Many thought
it impossible for them to be lower. SO we do not
wonder at the surprise created by LEVY BROTHERS
advertising that they would allow cash discount Of
ten cents upon every dollars worth Of goods pur-
chased Of them. The people know that LEVY BRO
THEIRS, prices arc the lowest In this city and then


the extra ten cents taken off Of every dollars worth OF
goods places their prices so low that 1t will enable
those even with limited means to supply their wants
This extraordinary offer OF ten per cent. extra dis
count will only be offered for one week longer.
Year: 1878

A Wife of Twenty-O Cuts the


Throat of Her Husband of Sew


enty from Ear to Ear, and Con-


fesses the Crime.


Lynchburg, Va, April 29-A
sensational tragedy was enacted
in Carol County, Va, last Satur-
day night 1t has just come to
hight, and the particulars that
have reached here are somewhat
conflicting. Last December Maud
Harris was united in the holy
bonds of matrimony to Captain
Lucious D. Travers. She was
twenty one; he was upward of
threescore years and ten. 1t was
understood that at the time she
married the old man he was in
feeble health, and was likely to
drop off at any hour, leaving
young Maud 100000 in Govern
ment securities. Months rolled
on, and Instead Of dying the Cap.
tain grew stronger and more man
ly every day. In fact, be was
heard to remark few days ago
that he was good for twenty years
yet.


1t is supposed the husbands
returning youth SO disappointed
the young bride that she took his
life. At any rate, be that the
case or not, the cruel woman cut
his throat from ear to ear with
butcher knife while he slept
soundIy by her side on the night
OF the 9th. She afterward
dragged the corpse (she was of
powerful muscle). and just before
daylight threw it in a creek one
hundred yards from the house.
The body 6oated down the stream
two miles, and was discovered
Sunday afternoon by three fisher
men. This morning an inquest
was held. The blood had been
discovered in the chamber of Cap
tain Travers, and circumstantial
evidence was strong against the
young bride, and to-day before the
Coroncr's Jury that lady burst in
to a paroxysm of weeping, and
confessed the crime. 1t is sup
posed that Mrs. Travers was in
love with a young lawyer of Bal
timore, to whom she hoped some
day to be united. She is now in
Jail. | understand the Baltimore
man is this city, and be attempt
ed tonight to commit suicide.
Year: 1878




OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
Over and over again.,


No matter which way turn,
always find iRthe Book Of Life


Some lessons have to learn.
/ must take my turn at the mill,


] must grind out the golden grain,
must work at my task with aresolute will,
E Over and oyer again.
We cannot measure the need


OF even the tiniest flower, ~
Nor check the flow of golden sands


That run through single hour.
But the morning dews must fall, b
And the sun and the summer rain
Mast do their part, and perform it all.
Over and over again.
Over and over again,


The brook through the meadow flows,
And over and over again


The ponderous mill-wheel goes.
Once doing will not suffice,


Though doing be not in vain:
And blessing. falling us once or twice,
May come, if we'try again.
The path that has once been trod
Is never so rough to the feet;
And the lesson we once have learned


Is never so hard to repeat.
Through sorrowful tears may fall,


And the heart to lis depths be riyen
With storm and tempest, we need them all
Torender us meet for heaven.r
Year: 1878

An excellent telephone may be
made by taking two ordinary
straight lamp chimneys and tie.
ing over the large ends pieces of
writing paper SO as to stretch
them tightly. Then make a
small hole in the center of each
paper and pass a cord in, tieing a
knot on the end so as to keep it
from pulling through. Then
make your connecting line as long
as desirable, and you have first
class telephone.
Year: 1878

The great want in New York
civility in trade. Stewart, a
short time before he died, said
that one of the great plaques
of. his life was to find a sales
man that would be civil to poor
people who wanted a few nee
dies and some tape. To ladies
that traded in satins and laccs
men would be polite. But the
same salesman would snub a
small buyer. 1t is universal
complaint that officials are i'm
pertinent. One can hardly get
a civil answer in trade. One
of our conductors came up the
other morning to the Grand
Central depot. His car was
stopped two blocks below. The
train left at twelve. A dozen
people were in the car who
wanted to take the noon train.
Some of them were aged and
decrepit. Instead of announc-
ing that his car would be de-
tanned ten minutes he jumped
off, bought paper and an APP
pie, came into the car and be-
gan to eat and read. When
asked if the train was going to
move he simply shouted, eff
you want the twelve train you
better be lively" All his load
lost that train through his dog
ged inciYility. / saw a lady
ask for a bunch Of tickets at
one of the ferry Offices. A
mere lad threw down two bunch
les. The lady said she wanted
out one package. The boy flew
into a passion, as if the woman


had committed some great crime,
because he had misunder-
stood her. He really abused
her so that the woman left in
tears. During the Centennial


season a little Of the old-time
courtesy would have been a


healthy infusion.
Year: 1878

A little man threatened to
horsewhip a big man. Whip in
hand, he entered a restaurant
where the big nan was eating,
but after a short survey of the
back of his enemy, he retreated,
and when asked why be had not
carried his threat into execution,
he replied, "Oh, hang it, that fell
low is twice as big as he was yes
terday."
Year: 1878

The Worcester Press no.
tices that baby shows have
fixed the line that separates the
ordinary father from the extra
ordinary one. The mother all
ways accompanies the cheruo'
wbeiher there be one or more oil
him; but nothing short of triPlets
bring out the fond father for ex-
hibition.