smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, March 22 The
commission has not yet been
named, but there is little doub,
that Chas. Foster will be a mem
Der of it. At this hour the other
members have not been named.


An arrangement is now being
made with Chamberlain, which
will result in his abandoning all
claims upon the Governorship oi
South Carolina. This obviates the
necessity of commission to visit
that State.


No one here has the slightest
idea that Packard will be reeog-
nized under any circumstances
Only a few extreme and desperate
republican leaders even desire
that he should be. The more con-
servative leaders of the party sre
against him, and the great mass of
the business nen of the country are
emphatically in favor of the South
ern policy as originally y understood
by the country. Were the Presi-
dent to attempt to retire from his
position in this matter, he woufd
array against his administration
not only the solid South, but the
great mass of the people of the
North, whose business and indus
tries demand peace ip no uncer-
tain tones. He fully comprehends
this fact, and does not intend to
wreck his Administration in the
first weeks of its existence. Hence,
your people may rely upon it, that
the sending of the commission to
your State indicates no purpose
on the part of the President or his
advisers to recognize, or i'll any
way sustain Packard. 1t may be,
on the other hand, pretty conf
IDENTITY asserted that the purpose
of the commission is to slide Pack
ard and crew gracefully y and gently
out OF sight. Chamberlain is about
out of the ring, and Packard will
follow speedily; if not willingly,
then some other way.


There is no news of interest here
tonight and no change in the stu
alton. BUELL..
Year: 1877

Whilst admitting the Importance OF
soil, climate, and a good variety in the
successful growing of strawberries, | am
yet inclined TO believe that, with careful
cultivation, very fine fruit may be grown
in all garden soils. The great mistake
made by many is planting too thickly at
the first, and allowing the plants to re-
main from year to year on the same bed.
Thus we often find the plants growing
together in tangled mass, and the re-
suit is when pinch of dry weather
comes in June or July, they receive a
serious check, the quality of the fruit is
deprecated, and the constitution of the
plant weakened, possiblyso much so that
the plants are unable to mature their
fruitiDg crowns for the following sea on.
Thus the plants 20 on from bad to worse.
Such "lazy bed" system will fully
account for some varieties growing and
cropping well for n few years, and then
becoming almost barren and the fruit
nearly havorless."
Year: 1877

Near Prospect street she dropped a
little red bow with gold bow attached,
and it Auttered TO the edge of the side
walk. She stopped and looked at it. 1t
might as well have huttered 10 the edge
of the universe and dropped over for
anything that she could do to get it.
She walked around it two or three times,
gazed sadly at it, and then walked a block
to Bolivar street, got small boy and
paid him ten cents to come back and
pick up that bow. AS the boy rejoined
his companion he remarked; "Darned
if ! ever seen woman so proud. She
wouldn't pick up her own things from
the sidewalk" But it wasn't PRIDE
Clerelaad Herald.
Year: 1877

Mr.. w. ii. Lewis. a Welsh gentle
man, of Hated, near Swansea. has in
vented a new engine of warfare, which
will he likely to attract considerable at
tention. 1t consists of a cannon, so ar
ranged as to discharge sharp sword
blade crosswise in the direction Of the
enemy, the knife or cutter being so
poised in its career through the air as to
cover the whole space in q longitudinal
direction described by the blade itself.
An S-inch ball would carry sword IA
feet in length 600 yards, literally now
ing down every human obstacle in its
path.
Year: 1877

BE kind to the book.agent. He has
a father, perhaps, and mother, who
knew him in his innocent youth. Per.
haps even now, in some peaceful New
England village, fond hearts are beat
ing for him, and for his welfare.
Therefore lay him down tenderly, fold
his hands peacefully on his breast.
and close his eyes gently as you put
him to rest under the branches of the
weeping willow, where the birds carol
all through the summer days their
softest songs. But plant him deep
plant him deep!
Year: 1877

A novel funeral took place in this
city yesterday. A pet canary died a
few days ago, to the great sorrow Of
the family who owned him. 1t was
dressed in a handsome embroidered
white dress. and laid daintily on its
left side in fancy box, which was
cove red and lined with white tarlatan.
The foot board Of the box was taken
out in order to allow the embroidery
several inches deep-to hang out;
and one little yellow wing was made
visible over the side of the box. On
each side Of this miniature coffin stood
the little seed cups, with their half
eaten contents. Around the cups
were arranged some delicate blue for
get.me-nots. All these-the coffin
with its precious contents, the seed
cups and the forget-me nots-were
placed inside the case, which was taste
fully trimmed with white tarlatan,
and stood on a table before an open
window. Yesterday the funeral rites
were performed, after which a process
sion formed in line. the mourners
coming first, and an appropriate tomb
stone will be raised. I Hartford Times.
Year: 1877

Phoebe Brown, cat loving old
maid OF London, has lately died, aged
6s, after life of touching devotion
to the objects of her affection. For
Is years she lived in one room, and
systematically fed no less than dozen
cats. When from old age she was no
longer able to work, she starved her
self and pawned every thing she could
in order to keep her feline pets alive.
She refused to send for doctor when
sick, and was found dead in her bed
one morning, surrounded by cats and
kittens.
Year: 1877

TnR SUBsrANcE.-A bright young
lady gave her slow lover delicate
hint the other evening. In the course
of conversation the gentleman asked
her what form Of marriage she thought
the most beautiful. Her quick reply
was, II should care little for form.
The substance seems Of more impor'
lance" That girl wears an engage
ment ring now.
Year: 1877

An experienced physician says that
any body who continually uses chloral
as a sleeping draught is sure to be
killed in the long run, certain condi.
tions of the physical nature making il
a deadly poison.
Year: 1877

A man in prison stretched his hand
through the grating Of the Jail door
in Liberty, No., recently, and marri-
ed a young lady on the steps Of the
building. lie had been imprisoned a
year for obtaining money under false
pretences. The bride returned 10 her
home and the groom to his cell.
Year: 1877

A Connecticut dentist has got hold
of a composition whereby he can make
teeth at a cost of less than half a dol
lar set. This will enable the female
wearer Of false teeth to have a set to
match every suit she owns, both in
color and design. With pink goods.
pink teeth; with striped goods, strip.
cd teeth, and so on. The man who
discovered Connecticut was no slouch.
-[Danbury News.
Year: 1877

Whenever you write To an editor or
to any other person, on your own bu.
siness, and request an answer by mail.
do not forget to enclose the requisite
postage stamp for the reply. This
will he strictly honest.
Year: 1877

SOME one has truthfully said that
members of the press are literally
hunted down by all sorts of people
who have axes to grind. The mana
gers of public meeting who do no,
find the reporters at the table suffer
stings of disappointment; the judge
who seriously blows his nose before
reading his opinion looks anxiously for
the stenographers; the preacher who
descants upon some special subject
loses spirit if the representatives of the
press are not there; even the burglar
on the way to State PTS IN coyeis talk
with the newspaper man." Yet the
outside barbarian thinks all newspaper
men are deadheads, and envIcs them
the fine times they have in the way of
free tickets to all manner of she We.
There never was greater mistake.
People do not seem to realize that, on
the part Of the journalist, it is merely
matter of business; that the reporter
goes to these places, SO attractive to
outsiders, much as the horse goes to
plow-because he must do so. We
venture to say that four-fifths of these
entertainments are to journalists intol-
cradle bores. The press is the victim
of the public's rapacious and unceas-
ing demand without pay. Let us have
the boot on the right leg.
Year: 1877

On the twcnty.fourth ultimo the last
of what was so long known as Table
Rock, at Niagara, broke of and fell into
the river. The mass weighed nearly
sixty tons, and up to 1876 over four
thousand names of visitors had been
carved upon 1t. The part which fell
on the twenty-fourth composed only
half of the original rock, the rest
having fallen in. On Saturday, Janu-
airy /, 1929, surface Of the rock sup
posed TO be the size of half of an acre,
forming the bed OF Maiden Walk,
broke loose, and was precipitated into
the immense chasm below. The crash
was heard for distance OF five miles,
and the effects in the immediate neigh
borhood resembled the shock of an
earthquake. The water running under
the bank is supposed to have caused
the fall on the twenty-fourth. The
shock when the rock STUCK the water
was distinctly felt three miles from the
fall. Several Of the trees that stood
on the rock are now seen standing in
the river as erect as when in their origi-
nal places on the rock.
Year: 1877

The STATESMAN expressly entered
its dissent when it has been proposed
to make Garfield or any Republican
Speaker of the new Congress. We do
not see the necessity and SO stated.
II, however, Blaine ON the one hand
and Bob Toombs on the other, and
Radicals and Bourbons cooperate to
destroy the President because he liber-
ates and serves the South, 1t would
surely become our province to strength
en- the administration in the House
against which there may be arrayed a
resistless force in the Senate. But
there will be time enough to discuss
this question before Congress meets
and before October the evolution of
forces in partisanship will be clearly
enough defined for us to know whether
''the foundations of the great deep
will be broken up or whether we are
only TO have q tidal wave OF decent,
honest patriotism sweeping over the
land. In the latter case parties of to-
day may survive the revolution, though
We are much inclined 20 believe that
homeopathic doses Of common hon
esty will be fatal to both of them.
Year: 1877

His Grandmothers (New York: G. P. Put
nam's Sons; Portland: Loring, Short s. Har-
mon) is one OF the best of the realistic stories
OF which Helen's Babies was the initial volume.
Many of the works, more or less in imitation
OF that delicious little history, show plainly the
want of real literary motive and are simply
catchpenDy affairs; but "His Granmothers'
is quite apart from these, and gives evidence of
decided talent, for both observation and delin-
cation. There is but slight thread of story
enough however to give point and connection
to the lifelike character studies which are the
subject-matter of the work. The two grand
mothers are excellently drawn-one lovabe in
her gentle dependence and kindly feeling, the
other the very incarnation of the vicousness of
Puritan virtues, but with meannesses and de.
ceit superadded to the excessive worship of
hard work, the uncompromising Contempt of
whatever seems pleasant to eye, ear and imag-
ination that were the unlovely heritage of some
Of our forefahers. The trials of the house.
keeper into whose pleasant home these grand
mothers were suddenly introduced as inmates
and the curious but not unnatural influence they
were able to exert upon the household are de-
cribed in vivid, unexaggerated and well writ
ten style. The chapter which includes the
training of willing but not deit hand maid
en-, is bright and full of good suggestions. The
whole tone of the book is fresh, pointed and
refined. 1t is original without being grotesQue.
careful in detail without lapsing into tedious
ness, and natural without tendency to twaddle
The book is the first literary essay of New
York lady, and is full of promise of her future
success.
Year: 1877

AS the government of China Intends te
prohibit opium smoking at the expiration of
three years, that drug will then be much
cheaper, and new market for whiskey and
tobacco will be opened. Still, the Chinese
have a perfect right to choose which evil
thew nrofar
Year: 1877

In the South they are beginning to look
with apprehension upon the emigration to
Liberia talk among the colored people. The
negro is again valuable in their eyes. A cor
respondent of one of the Raleigh IN. c. pa
pers says if any considerable number of them
were to go sit would play havoc with the
South for three or four years at least, as near
three-fourths of all the field labor is per-
formed by them"
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous etters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
municatons that are not used.
Year: 1877

Applicant Slightly elevated =" Is there
an opening here for an intellectual
writer p


Editor" An opening? Yes sir. A
kind and considerate carpenter, foresceing
your visit, left an opening for you. Turn
the knob to the right"
Year: 1877

The good Orderand dccOrum that have characterized
our previous Exhibitions will be strictly maintained
the premiums will be impartially awarded, and every
effort will be made to render the occasion pleasant
and satisfactory TO all who attend.
Year: 1877

PHILADELPHIA, May 31.-The officers
Of the Lehigh Valley railroad who have
ordered large reduction in the pay of
engineers from tomorrow, say they have
hAd no information of any resistance on
the part of their engineers. The Penn
sylvania railroad officials say the same i'll
regard to their employees who are to re-
ceive ten per cent. less pay after to-mor.
row. Engineers of the Pennsylvania
railroad who have been consulted will
not say there is not to be strike, but say
whatever they do will be done honorably.
Two-thirds Of the engineers on both lines
are Brotherhood men. They say if they
do strike they will not do as the Reading
engineers did.
Year: 1877

The other day when a Detroit boy
Of fourteen bought 3 stuffed eat az
auction the crowd derided him, and
bad great deal Of fun at bis ex-
pense. They didn'r know that the
boy bad heap Of genius aud noun
Tain Of bright ideas. and be didn't tell
them. Shortly afterwards the lad
opened out in a vacant lot on Csss
avenue, having the help Of several
other geni1ses. A clothes line was
stretched from q peg driven at the
sidewalk 10 q fence 6f.y or sixty feet
away, and not over foot from the
ground By means Of straps around
the body, and TWO iron rings, with q
stout 6sh-line to pul! Oh, the cat
could be drawn along the rope Ike
q fash and hauled through 8 hole
in the fence.


When things were in working Or
der the stuffed feline was placed at
the stake. the boys got behind the
fence, ard The number Of dogs which
tried to give that cat cold shaking
up was almost beyond count. They
strained every nerve 10 catch Der as
she was drawn along the rope, and
as they followed her through the
fence, believing they bsd dead sure
thing, two boys on either side Of the
bole let fall four stout clubs with mil
isary precision. Each dog seemed
10 realize the whole joka IN aninrte
and the way be started for home nearly
kred the joksrs.
Year: 1877

Van Amburg could handle bis
lions and tigers with impunity. NJ
animal viii fail to respond to kind
ness and uniform good treatment
And especially will the noble horse
respect and con6de in and faithfully
serve q master who deals gently
and kindly with him. We have
ourselves taken a spirited Morgan
mare which had been rudely ban.
died and become entirely unman-
sgeable through harsh treatment and
by appealing to her intelligence and
respecting Der needs, in three weeks
time made her entirely safe and relis
BILE for wife and children and all who
would treat her kindly and handle her
gently, and we have after Eve years,
seen the same mare resume her same
vieious babirs when again under the
control Of one who resorted 10 arbi-
trsry or brutal treatment Always
appeal to the better instincts Of the
horse, the mule, the OF. the cow, as
well as the dog and other domestic
animals and they win never become
vicious or unmanagesbie.
Year: 1877

Is published by the Land Department OF the Kan
sas Pacific Railway Company, to supply the large
and increasing demand for information respecting
KANSAS, and especially the M gnificent body OF
lands granted by Congress in aid of the eonstrue-
tion Of its read. This grant comprises
Year: 1877

THE CoNyENTIoE.-The meeting of
the Legislature Monday brings the Con-
vention question to the surface again,
and while the friends OF that measure rest
in lancied security that it carried beyond
the possibility Of "A doubt, its enemies
come forward with the theory that the
law under which the people voted was
not sufficient to meet the constitutional
requirements. We think that question
should be settled so as to leave no doubt
before convention is ordered. 1t Is a
pretty serious business to change the
whole organic law of the land many
crotchety men will be on hand with their
absurd notions, which they will try to
get incorporated in the new instrument.
Any foolerys of the kind, when submitted
to the people would be apt to insure the
rejection of lhe whole work of the Con-
vention, and will have to be guarded
against.
Year: 1877

Is the edge of the west side of Il sandy
desert and to the westward of a big chalk
mountain that stands some six miles north
Of West Gate station ON the overland
stage road, is lake Of two or three acres
in extent OF boiling water. a great mum
Der of hot springs rise in the basin of the


lake, and some Of these send up their
waters in such force as to raise little
mounds of water above the general sur
face Of the lake. The water of the lake
is quite clear, but is strongly impregua-
ted with minerals. At the distance OF
three or four rods from the shore the lake
appears to be five or six feet n depth
In winter q cloud of steam hangs over
the spot that can be seen by persons pass
ing along up the desert, when they are
yet ten or fifteen miles away Virginia
Enterprise.
Year: 1877

Now comes another new idea, taken
we believe from the procedure of the
Swiss Republic. 1t is proposed that all
laws before they become laws, shall be
submitted to the Supreme Court for It's
opinion rs to their constitutionality. 1t
is proposed to cmbody this in the new
constitution. Oar Legislature rarely
fails to have as many good constitutional
lawyers on the Judiciary committee of
each house as the Supreme Bench mum
bcrs. The me mbcrs of these committees
are, or should be as good judges of the
constltutionaIity Of proposed measure
as the Supreme Court itsoIt; and when
we consider that the work before that bo


dy is so great that it nearly always has II
very large number Of cases on its calen


dar at the end of each term, it will be
seen that any legislation that proposes to


increase its labors would be i'll advised
Year: 1877

ScARED.-New York City had a little
scare but it was a genuine one, upon the
subject Of Chinese laprosy, it is said that
some of the heathens who reached that
city have died with the loathsome disease.
On the other hand it is asserted that the
scare WAS got up by the cigar makers
whose places the Chinese are to fill
Whether the story was true or not, it
cannot fail of having one good eAact-it
will turn public attention at the East to
one Of the evils the country.i is liable to
from an unrestraincd Chinese immigra-
ton, and perhaps they will see that the
vaunted commercial advantages " gain
ed by free intercourse with China may
have attendant OWLS which throw the ad-
vantages into the shade.
Year: 1877

LAW is little curious sometimes. The
County Judge Of Santa Clara County re-
Gently called Grand Jury and the names
were drawn rom the jury-box in the
manner prescribed by law. When the
Grand Jury met la-Ond behold one OF the
number had recently been convicted of
petty larceny and was held to answer for
high way robbery. The Code did not dis
qualify him from acting as a Grand Jur-
or he did not ask to be relieved and the
Court could not compel him to step down
and out, no matter how desirable.
Year: 1877

a SHORT SESSION. And now the
Democratic papers are beginning to rec.
ommend short session. 1t is safe to
say that about the first thing we shall
hear Of the legislative debates and doings,
some demagogue will rise in his place and
hope tina! the session will be a short one.
And it is equally certain that in all ha.
man probability, the legislative session
will last the one hundred and twenty days
allowed by the Constitution. Human
nature is pretty much the same the world
over, and we have no idea the Legislature
will rslmquish its grip upon the State
Treasury until the last moment no not
even il dozen Constitutional Conven-
tons were to be called.


But we are not believer in "short
sessions" A short session means hasty,
crude and ill-considered Legislation. =
What we want is for the Legislature to
consider well the business before it and
attend to the wants Of the people the
same as if the convention were not oruer-
ed. We have not got that new constitu.
ton yet, and we may not have it. 1t is
bad policy to let necessary measures go by
default upon n mere suppostion which
may prove groundess. OF course, the
less legislation we need and the less we
can get along with the better it will be for
:he State. But what we do need does not
require to be rushed through without be-
ing well weighed before submitted to the
Executive. The mischief of legislation
lies in the fact that much of it is crowded
through Mt the last moment when it ought
to have been acted upon at an earlier day
in the session.
Year: 1877

THE Presidents Message was duly
transmitted to Congress and appears in
TIE daily papers. 1t is lengthy and well
written His views on the Silver question
has given Senator Jones and the other
advocates of the double standard quite q
set back, indicating that he will veto the
bills for the reconciliation Of silver.
Year: 1877

A HEATHEN in the employ of lady
at San Rafael stole one of a pair of 1000
earrings. Suspicion fell upon him and
he was sent to San Francisco on pretend
ed business to give him ar opportunity to
dispose Of his plunder He fell readily
nto the trap and the diamond was found
n his possession.
Year: 1877

THE old question of postage stamps
and newspapers shook the Senate of Cal
ifornia on Tuesday. Our Democratic
Senator voted for stamps and we are glad


Off it. These fellows who start off so eco
nomical at the beginning of session gen
orally get bravely over it toward the close.
Year: 1877

HOLDING ON.-The farmers of Butte
county evidently don't want the Euro
ing to the MercuY, an immense amount
of wheat stored in that county for which
"a cents have been offered, but the hold
ers refuse to part with it and wait for a
yet further rise. The Sultan may con-
clude to nip their speculation short by
negotiating peace.
Year: 1877

ROMERO, recently sentenced at Marti-
nez to Imprisonment for life is grumbling
because the penalty WAS not made death
lie would prefer qnicl end to life
time OF misery. As who would not.
Year: 1877

A COW county lyceum recently discuss


ed the following question What can
one poor, weak woman with club do
against n tyranncal husband who crawls
under the bed and refuses to come out ?"
Year: 1877

The Triumph Truss Is a marvel of
mechanical ingenuity and accuracy and
hence if properly adjusted will hold any
Hernia in practice, when the Triumph
Rupture Cure, will infallibly and speedily
cure it. These wonderful appliances are
sold at 1915 Chestnut street, Philadelphia
and 334 Bowery, New York where the
Truss is warranted, and the Cure Guar
anteed. Send 10 cents for Descriptive
Book. to either office. tt.
Year: 1877

The sessions of the Orphans Court
and Court of Chaucery for New Castle
county are held at New Castle on the
third Monday in February and the first
Monday in September of each year


The court In course will therefore open
on Monday morning next.