smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

The Home Guide or a Book hy
500 Ladies is now ready for delivery
at this office and we have already scnt
out near hundred copies. 1t is IID-
nounced by those who have exam
ined it as the handsomest and INST
valuable premium eyer given to si''-
scribers. The ladies everywhere are
delighted with it and it Is beyond
question worth the price of yea =
subscription. One housewife wI.o
received copy writes to us to say
that she is immensely delighted wi n
it. and will make it her constant
companion. 1t is something that
every lady ought to have. We will
present copy to any person vii,
pays his subscription for a year in
advance OF the present time. We
give the present in all cases, wheth-
er the subscriber takes the paper in
a club. or in connection with any
other paper with which we are club
bing. See our clubbing lists, and
remember that February first is near
at hand.
Year: 1878

list of business, professional and manufacture
ing men i'm Marshall County, TO whom customers in
their respective lines referred, in the full
ance of their reliability and character for fair deal
ing
Year: 1878

An eminent and ulj member of the
Order of Odd Fellows told us Fridsy
that Odd Fellowship went hand in
hand with dog fennel and took posses
sion of the West; that its empire was
in the West; that Austin would soon
have, of necessity, perfect railway
communication with the West, and
that this city is the only fit site for the
grand temple of the Order rapidly be-
coming most powerful in the common
wealth. The anticipations of the ex-
cellent gentleman will be verified, and
the action of the Grand Lodge was
properly conformed to his precon-
cetved opinions. Now that the
Odd Fellows have done so much
for Austin, and repose such conf
dsnce in the city, it becomes the
duty of the people t. see that
expectations ON which this action of
the Grand Lodge were based shall not
be disappointed. There must be a
larger degree of public spirit and more
earnest cooperation among intelligent
gentlemen haYing correct apprehen-
sions of the needs of the city. The
building of the Temple will be &C.
complished by men having great social
and political influence. They will
hardly be content to erect splendid
structure in capital in which the State
itself fails to construct an edifice wor-
thy of its own fame and history and in
which the laws are made and chief
magistrates execute them. Odd Eel
lows are earnest, active, intelligent cit
izens of the commonwealth. They
will hardly fail to exert their power to
have Austin made b5 art as beautiful
as if Nature had extended her tasks,
and when she had finished shaping
mountains and plains and digging
the rivers channel she had crowned
her work of splendid beauty by rear
iinga city on this spot as charming as
the scenery in the midst of which it
reposes. Odd Fellowship will accom-
plish all this for Austin. Its social
forces and influences of its taste will
be exerted when next the, Legislature
is convened, and they who criminally
8 Ill the public domain of the Universi-
ty, and they wIo palter in double
sense when the law appropriating
1900, 600 acres of. public domain to the
purpose of building a capitol worthy
of this great commonwealth is unexe-
cuted, will hardly be allowed to shape
the course of events or CT legislation.
Year: 1878

The riches of Colorado and New
Mexico seek access to the sea through
Austin and the railways converging at
Austin. The narrow gauge system of
roads is the system of the West. 1t is
the mustang, as we said years ago, OF
progressive civilization in the West,
and supplants the costly broad gauge,
which can only be maintained in the
midst of dense populations. If Texas
would grow rich and powerful, the
speediest and cheapest agencies of rev.
olution will be discovered in giving
New Mexico and Colorado access to
the sea over Texas highways and
through Texas cities. Therefore, the
STATESMAN has persistently urged the
people to conform the gauge Of roads
extended through the Northwest to
that of highways approved on the
plains and in the midst of the noun
tains of Colorado. We can easily build
and equip narrow gauge. 1t costs
little more than an excellent turnpike,
and will prove profitable when built,
and if freights must be transferred at
Austin to the broad gauge lines termi-
mating here, Austin and Travis county
lose nothing by the process. But there
is no other resource left US. Austin
must stand still, or even retrograde, il
the road destined to become part OF
the Colorado system be not begun al
once. Delay only aggravates poverty,
and renders more nearly impossible the.
task which yesterday might have been
easily achieved. We grow poorer
and more helpless each day, and
selfishness and penuriousness thus
over-reach themselves. II q narrow
gauge were extended to-day from Aus
TIN to 81 Paso the population of the
country along its route would be
doubled each yesr for ten years and
every village and neighborhood within
500 miles of Austin, along its route,
could be made TO draw its supplies
from the capital. Country merchants
do not buy goods now, as in former
years, once or twice each year in the
East. They buy at home of local
wholesale houses and as their depleted
stocks require. Therefore the success
Of half q dozen wholesale houses Of
Austin. Country merchants no longer
have ssold stocks left Over.n That vii
lages and country towns may be built
and that these may have the cheapest
possible means Of access to the hard
ware and dry goods merchants and
tradespeoPle and bankers Of the capi-
tai Austin must build The narrow
gauge. 1t is the question Of the day
and matter Of hfe or death. AZ sf
Year: 1878

The old dame who had no sympathy
with those who denied the existence of
hell, and remarked, when told that all
would be saved, 81 hope for better
things" was not an idle theorist.


There are not few who would not
care to. 90 to heaven if all their
friends" were ticketed to the same
destination.
Year: 1878

TEE rapid reduction Of the public
debt IL the rapid reduction Of the
volume OF currency and thus the dimi-
mutton of means Of going about and
doing good. Therefore preachers
everywhere should inveigh against il
this morning.
Year: 1878

THE workingmen's party of Califor-
ma denounce the federation of Chinese
labor, declare that land ownership
should be limited, that convict labor
should not be suffered to compete with
that Of honest men, and that million
aires should be suppressed by taxation.
Year: 1878

TIE New York Star says that New
York City will have a good govern
ment if the Legislature will turn the
cIty leose and let everybody vote. On
the contrary, the great metropolis will
always be beggAred while ballotbexes
ara stnffed
Year: 1878

The Springfield Union has the follow
ing to say of the Pennsylvania coal bar
obs, who are not altogether happy over
the prospects of their business: The peo-
pie have not bought coal thus far this
year as generously as the barons wanted
them to, but they think that last winters
stock must be used up this time, and
that their harvest time will soon begin.
The board of control decided recently
TO place ], 100000 tons on the market i'll
June, but since the mines in the Schuyl-
kill region started up there has been but
little demanded for coal, and there is al
ready talk of shutting down on mining
until the people get frightened into maxi
ing their purchases. The simple fact is
that the coal buyers and users do not
more than one half believe that the COM
bination will hold together through the
year, and do not take kinkly to rising
scale Of prices in the face of a very dull
market. The barons have undertaken
to fix the coal bills ofthe country for the
year without any regard to supply and
demand, and they may find that that they
have taken a larger contract than they
can fulfill. Meantime some of the large
carrying companies are greatly embar.
rassed for money. Nothing but rush
ing trade of 100000 tons month dur
ing the last half of the year will enable
the large companies which form the com


bination to get through the year withou


disastrous losses. So far this year the.
have only been able to sell about mil
lion tons per month.
Year: 1878

PROBABLY the best inducement ever
given oarsmen in a race is that offered
Hanlan and Courtney. Eleven thous-
and dollars will prove an incentive and
encouragement that win bring out the
best race that is in the men.
Year: 1878

On another page we publish q remarkable
and interesting statement Of o young
lawyer, who has convinced himself and
many others that he is competent to dis
cover the unspoken thoughts and even the
most closely guarded secrets of other people.
OF the actual nature Of the supposed power
the gentleman does not seem able to speak
with confidence, but if he has demon
strated the existence of the force as dis
tinctly as he believes he has it is to
be regretted that it is not O power
that can be readily found by or i'm
parted to others. This mind reader claims
to have frightened q murderer out of the
country, unearthed q robbery, and, better
still, reclaimed some of the stolen property,
and oil through his ability to divine the
Thoughts of others. If such proves to be
the case New York must have him at oil
hazards, though in our good nature we
might occasionally allow him to go to
Washington. True, Indiana has done her
full share toward strengthening criminal
reports and weakening faith in human ma
ture, but it is in our own city that gen.





busy and upon matters Of great i'm
portance. II he had been here two
months ago and glanced through the
mental processes OF the Conptrollers
brain he might have saved more than half
a million of people from a great deal of
wearing anxiety by informing us who
was to be Tammanys nominee for the
Mayoralty. In the Court House, City
Hall and Custom House he might local
ize thetts and thieves, instead of
leaving the public to suspect nearly
every one in these buildings. He might
even find out what Mr.. John Foley is really
up to, and this alone would stamp the seal
OF genuineness upon his professions. Give
as some mind readers who can really divine
the workings of human thought, and New
York will suddenly become the most virtu-
ous city of the world
Year: 1878

Yesterday the pastor of the Brooklyn
Tabernacle preached upon the iniquities
which he had beheld during a night trip
which has now become historic. What
his thoughts were upon noting that
the announcement OF this unsavory
and not particularly important topic drew
to his church the largest audience
that ever gathered within it we are not in
formed, but to sinful outsiders it would
seem as if even among some church-goers
there is IN unnatural fondness for certain
articles of mental diet which attract more by
their spice than their wholesomeness. The
preacher did his audience ut least the
good service of disabusing their minds
of the common idea that the low
ticularly attractive, either in themselves or
their performers and frequenters. The
sermon contained some characteristic and
extraordinary flights OF oratory, but we are
panied to discover that at least one Of these
was ventured upon without proper
of Brooklyn preacher saying that in q low
haunt he ''felt as though sitting on m
island coast against which a euroclydon had
driven thousand dismasted hulks, and
every moment more blackened hulks rolled
in" &c. and all this while the significance
Of "euroclydon" being southeast wind, "
and Brooklyn itself, particularly the neigh
borhood Of the Tabernacle, being exactly
to the southeast of the sinful pleasure-den
in which the imaginative divine stood
wrapt in his shuddcring thought The
City of Churches cannot safely endure
many more such home thrusts from one Of
its own rapiers.
Year: 1878

all official sources of information at
the national capital. it being the interest
of the republican party to defeat him
in his present canvass. Being disliked
as disorganizing greenbacker and detssted
rs political renegade he had no reason to
expect any mercy from the men in authority
at Washington. The story, if true, proves
that General Butler is unmatched for legal
smartness and chicanery, and that he is
troubled with no scruples of integrity.


He must answer and explode these
charges or his political prospects are ruined.
But it is not fair to judge him on an ex parte


statement unless he confesses judgment by
silence. The case is very ugly one as
presented. The enormous fees received by
General Butler make but q small part Of the
accusation. The gravamen of the charge
is that prize money was claimed and re-
covered for large numbers of vessels
which belonged to loyal owners and were
restored, or which on other grounds were
not subjects of prize. The operation is de-
scribed as Wholesale plunder Of the
Treasury by the permission OF legal forms;
and unless the facts are misstated or over
stated the charge is not groundless. Gen.
eral Butler will have quite enough to do
for the present in trying to parry these
damaging accusations. It will be futile for
him to 60 about the State electioneering
while they are hanging unrefuted over his
head.
Year: 1878

We print elsewhere letter from Mr..


Fernando Wood, Chairman Of the Ways and
Means Committee OF the House of Repre-
scntatives. 1t will be seen that Mr. Wood
agrees with us that 1t Is not advisable to at
tempt to disturb the tariff at the coming
session of Congress-, because the same op-
position which prevented the proposed
changes at the last session will predomi-
nate in December next Mr.. Wood agrees
with us that stability is necessary; and
while he does not think such q
public committal Of the Ways and
Means Committee as we suggested the
other day is prudent in view of certain
contingencies, his own assurance that he
does not think it wise to attempt changes
without fair prospect Of success, or with
out the pressure of unexpected public ne
cessities, will give confidence to merchants
and man ufacturers, who viii see that the
Chairman Of the Ways and Means has every
inclination to favor what they need-stabil-
ity. Few will disagree with Mr.. Wood
when no saws thst the tariff ought TO be
Year: 1878

which, it seems highly probable, will give
the republicans a majority in that body.


With both chambers republican the Presi-
Dental office will be republican also. 80 that
ii things 60 on as now the end Of the year
1880 will see France as completely in the
hands of a government of the people as the
United States Is. 1t is not in human M
ture for the monarchical and ultramontane
conspirators to let this pass without yet
more desperate efforts against it. But of
the result of those efforts the issue is GER
tain. In Germany's conflict there is moro
doubt. In the conflicts of the German gov
ernment with the CHASTITY discomfort of the
German people fearful struggle is in prep
aration. ."a f4+
Year: 1878

In modern history there is no chapter of
higher political interest than that of the
administration of the government of France
by M. Theirs. Any great political story
any vivid record of nations perils, ca
lamities, commissions and successes-will
catch hold upon human sympathies with
startling effect in proportion as it is well
told but there seems to be some quality in
the history of France and in the struggles
and tragedies of that nation in virtue Of
which they fix the attention of men more
readily than the history of other countries.
In the period that passed between the sign
ing of the armistice in January, 1871, and
the retirement of Thiers from the Presi-
dency France touched well nigh all the
depths and shoals of national experience,
and the history that M. Jules Simon has
made on this subject has therefore in
the most abundant degree the first
requisite for an important historical
labor-a grand theme. Theirs received
France from the hands of the con-
queror-crushed, PROSTATE, helpless-one
might say in state of mental aliena-
ton. He was made President by an
Assembly of monarchists in the confidence
that he would find way to restore the
monarchy, for which, indeed, the country
was ready. He was himself monarchist,
and had no other record. People only
waited for the two monarchical parties to
reconcile their respective differences by
''fusion," to unite the claims of two
branches on one mau, and then counted to
see that one man crowned and his gov
ernment conducted by the ancient
Minister of Louis Philippe. They
waited to see France return to February,


184S-repentant over oil that had occurred
since then. But they counted without the
great politician who had discovered the
secret of French history-who recognized
that all the conflicts, slaughters, intrigues,
the enormous disquiet off resolute and ir-
repressible people resulted from the persist
ent endeavor to secure self-government,
and the constant Illustration and defeat of
that endeavor by ambitious adventures
and pigmy princes. How he applied that
discovery in the life of the nation is shown
by Simon in the work of which we give an
account in another column-a work Of
which at present We shall only say that IL
seems eminently worthy of the subject.
Year: 1878

The State of Indiana has just been the
scene of the most outrageous act of mob
violence that has been reported for many
Indianas famous war Governor kept Of
''bloody shirt" campaigns in the South
contain but little mention Of law
lessness SO inexcusable, outrageous,
brutal and murderous as that manifested
in Posey county last week. It is un-
for rarely have such series of occurrences
been SO carefully, yet 50 graphically and
fully, described as were those of the Mount
Vernon tragedy in the HERALD Of yesterday.
Probably the victims deserved death if they
were guilty; but in a State and county
there was no reason, aside from brutal in
stincts, in the solemn duties of judge, jury
and executioner being assumed by gang
of excited rufians. But the only testi-
mony against four Of the five murdered
negroes came from affrighted women
Of bad character; the most merciless judge
and jury would have accepted such evi-
dence only after the most thorough and
suspicious sitting. The counsel of one Of
the victims claim that they could have
established an alibi for their client. The
old man who shot the officer and whose
fate is unknown had reason to believe that
he was defending his home and son against
gang of low marauders. The danger
and disgrace implied by this fendish
outrage does not rest alone upon
the county and State in which
the acts occurred. The reputation of
the whole nation will suffer wherever in
the world the English language is read, and
at home men will wonder what security the
most law-abiding citizen has for his life
when the word Of the lowest wretches and
the suspicious and unrestraint of the scum
of the populace can hurry any one into
eternity upon any charge that may be
trumped up Indiana should go into
mourning, and her politicians, Of either
party. would do we'll to determine that re-
form, like charity, begins at home.
Year: 1878

The political opponents of General Butler
in Massachusetts, are giving him plenty Of
defensive work by parading in great detail
the history of his connection with the suits
for recovering the Farragut prize money.
We publish the story in another part of to-
days HnnALD. It purports to be the result
of careful inquiries in Washington, and
the iacts are related with 80 much particu-
larity as to give strong impression Of
authenticity. The writer OF the account
has evidently been allowed free access to
Year: 1878

THE WEATHER.-The depression that moved
along the coast is now over Nova Scotia, and
has developed storm centre of considerable
energy. The low area in the Northwest is ex-
tending its influence rapidly throughout all the
districts west Of the Mississippi River and
north of Colorado and New Mexico. It has
made but little eastward progress during the
past twenty-four hours, but is gradually organ
izing centre OF disturbance az it approaches
the northern lake region. The area of high
barometer dominates the weather ia the central
valley districts aud over the Atlantic coast from
New York to Florida. The pressure is also
relatively high over the Gulf and in the South
west. Rain has fallen on the New Enc.
Land coast and over the lakes. With
the exception of the lower lake regions
the weather throughout all the districts
has been generally clear. The winds have
been from brisk to high on the New England
coast, brisk in the West and northern lake
regions. and fresh elsewh here. The temperature
has risen Ia oil the sections except in the North
west. where there has been decided fall. 1t is
very probable that the disturbance that is in the
West will pass over the lake regions to the st.
Lawrence Valley, in which case we are likely to
experience sonc of the brisk winds attending
yn its southeastern margin. In another column
viii be seen the details of the severe weather
pn the New England coast. The weather in
New York and it's vicinity to-day will be cool
md partly cloudy, followed toward night by
increasing temperature and temporary clear
ing Tomorrow IL will be slightly warmer and
partly cloudy, possibly with Light rains.
Year: 1878

The Gas COMPANIES seem greatly exercised
over the report of Edison's discovery of sue
cessful electric light, and no wonder The new
illuminator is said to be three times as cheap as
gas; SO, if the companies propose to compete
with it in price, they will have to reduce their
rates so much that they will not be able to more
than double their money.
Year: 1878

NEw SUGGESTION of the cause of certain
Custom House abuses appears in our columns
to-day. If it were made concerning any other
body of public servants it might be laughed
away, but the public long ago learned that Gus
toms officials were not like unto other business
mem
Year: 1878

THE PECULIAR NATURE of the religious SER
vices at the Kings County Penitentiary yester-
day provokes wish that the audience in
striped garments had been greater. New York
could have spared nearly all of her politicians
for such q place on such an occasion
Year: 1878

Hermit y the New York SCORE
spondent of the Troy Times, close
observer of things in New York, in
his latest letter philosophically re-
marks: Is4 IA IN


The autumn trade is now in full
activity, and business men are exert
ing every effort to improve the harvest


One method is the hand bill system,
by which the hotels are daily inun-
dated. During the business season
one boy after another go the rounds,
and in this way an attempt is made to
obtain trade, Of these, however the
greater part is wasted, since the waiter
generally picks them up and throws
them into the street, and the next day
fresh inundatiOn takes place. Ex-
perience has clearly demonstrated that
the most efficient method Of adyer-
tising is found in the judieious use of
the newspaper columns The grounds
which newspaper advertising, as a
system, is based is human con-
fidence, since we can not avoid
believing that which we constantly
read. This confidence is sometimes
abused, but still it. is evident that a
good advertisement will, if sufficiently
repeated, carry popular opinion. Men
who advertise with the greatest per
sistency eventually reaches success.


There is military principle involved


in this method, since the article ad-


yertised should be pressed on the
public by repeated assaults. The
correct view, which experience brings
to each man, Is that advertising
should be included in the general esti-
mate of expense, as regularly as store
rent, clerk hire and insurance. Itis
often said q good stand at high rent
Is better than a poor one free. Well


advertising brings man before the
publicin way that any stand is good.
The best stand you can have is to be
in the newspapers. 4H tI