smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

The Legislature at its late session
amended the school law of the State, in
several particulars.


Section 2 of the law of 1928 is
amended SO as to provide for the election
OF school officers, including q county
superintendent. on the first Tues
day in August, 1877, and in
every second year thereafter. AT
this election, president and o
commissioners who shall constitute n
board of education for the district, shall
be elected in each magisterisl district OF
each county. Their terms of office shall
commence on the first day Of Septem-
Der following, and continue for
two years. These elections shall be held
at the usual places of voting, for State
officers, instead of at the school houses, IS
heretofore. 1t is made the duty OF the
County Court to appoint three commits
sioners to superintend the election at
each place of voting, and all the provi-
sions of the general election law are made
applicable to this election. These CON-
missioners are required, at the election
next August, to also superintend the vote
on the location of the capital, and to
serve without compensation.


Section 4 10 stricken out and o new
Year: 1877

COLUMBIA. April Gov. Chamber
lain was interviewed by the Associated
Press Agent on his arrival here to-day
Ms to his intention tor the future. He
said he cared not to state the details, as
he had not had time to consider them,
but that in general did not regard the
withdrawal of troops as tecting his
legal rights, whatever effect it might have
on his ability to maintain them. He
said it will probably be his duty to hold
his office until removed from il by force.
In answer to the inquiry as to his course
i: Hampton should convene the Legisls-
ture Immediately, he SAID he could only
say that he intended to pursue course
consistent with the firm belief in the jus
tice of his position and cause without re-
gard to personal consequences.
Year: 1877

All have seen the immense boulders
called "lost rock" in some sections, scat
tered over the northern part of the United
States, which have little or no resemblance
to any mass OF rock any where in the vi
cinity. and have perhaps asked the ques-
ton: Where did they come from? also
the heaps of sand. gravel, and cobble
stones of various sizes, which form many
of our ridges, knolls, and hills. and which
are totally unlike any fixed rock near
them. All these phenomena are attribut-
ed to a single cause. and that is the great
sheet of ice which Nature stored up ages
ago without the necessity Of protecting it
in an ice-house. According to Agassiz,
the sheet of ice extended in this country
as far as South Carolina or Alabama,
and was thick enough to cover all the
mountains OF the eastern part of North
America, with the exception of Mount
Washington. This peak projected, lone
sentinel on that vast waste Of ice, two or
three hundred feet. In the latitude OF
northern Massachusetts, he conceives the
ice to have been two and three miles
thick. The boulders were all torn of by
the advancing ice sheet. from the project
ing rocks over which it moved, and car


red or pushed as "bottom drift" scratch


ing and plowing the surface over which
they passed. and being scratched and pol


ished themselves in return, till they were
finally brought to rest by the melting of
the ice. They were not carried as far
south rs the ice sheet extended, seldom


beyond the parallel of forty degrees north.
The native copper Of Lake Superior was
drifted four or five hundred miles South ;
and the pudding stones Of Roxbury,
Mass, were carried as far south as the
Island of Penikese.- Scientific american.
Year: 1877




Special CorSNeW York World.l


While General Ignatieff, the
prominent Russian diplomatic, was
here | had long talk with him,
and, from the part he has taken.
deem a description of the man of
personal interest to Americans. He
is tolerably robust man of middle
hight, and still young, whose tace
would be characterized by the ex-
preston of perfect good nature if
it were not for the smallness of the
eyes. But then, you know, he has
IN a manner recognized a certain
defect in this feature by coming to
Paris for ophthalmic treatment.
lie is frank almost to boyishness in
his manner, and as lively as a Gaul.
Du reste this is no more than may
be said of most Of his countrymen,
and there can be no greater contrast
than between the British idea of
the Muscoyite as a being more stolid
than himself and the reality as
seen in one Of those gesticulating
figures that never preserve the same
attitude or the same expression for
two minutes at a stretch. Every
body who knows Ignaticff will tell
you that he is a man of quick, gen
erous feeling, who does not think
it necessary to keep his heart unoc-
cupied because his profession re-
qulres him to use his head. He
first came into notice by getting the
English and French forces out of a
scrape in China, and, as the Rus
slams here assure me, out of pure
compassion. He was, in short, a
second Commodore Tatnall to the
Allies.


They had penetrated the celestial
empire with their small expedition
airy force, but they soon saw that it
would be impossible to hold it, even
for the brief season of their prob
able operations. They advanced
easily enough, but the immense
mass Of the population closed in
upon their communications as the
waters closes in upon a swimmer.
A word and the whole country
might have risen, and they would
have had to fight their way back a
thousand to one. Ignatieff, a mere
spectator, went after the terrified
mandarins, and, before they had
time to reflect that they were flying
from the merest phantom of dan
ger, persuaded them that it was to
theirinterest to make peace, saved the
Allles-Russia, it may be supposed,
having at that moment no particu-
lar interest in their destruction
and obtained, in grateful recogni-
tion of the service, the Legion of
Honor and an English decoration,
which he wears to this day. The
Russians are fond of repeating this
story, to show that the man, diplo-
matis as he is to the marrow, is
capable Of playing a generous part.
His conversation certainly gave me
that impression.
Year: 1877

Lucy Hooper's Paris Letter TO Graphic


Last Monday saw the first open
ing of the spring races, the crowd
at which was immense. The day
was cold and lowering, SO the usual
display of spring toilets was not
made, and the open carriages that
generally abound on such occasions
were replaced by close coupes and
landaus. Still there was a good
deal Of display in dress, especially
among the ranks of the demi-
monde. One stylish dame, known
for her hight and thinness, as the
giraffe, was gorgeous to behold in
an open landau, her superb bay
horses ridden by postillions in jack
cts Of orange silk, while she herself
was arrayed in black velvet relieved
with knots of orange satin ribbon.
Another lady was attired in a lin
den yellow silk dress with dark
green sleeves over a dark green
skirt. The oyerdress was trimmed
Year: 1877

A NEW side track has been laid along the railroad warehouse and another at Rail- rockville, at the upper end of town. The 5000 gallon water tank at the foot of Madison avenue is in an advanced state of erection and, f; o n its commanding situa- tion, is the most conspicuous object around here. Its mate at Railroadville is finished and looks like a monster barrel, beside which the celebrated Heidelsberg vat would look like q slop bucket. The coal platform is loaded with coal to the guards and equipped with loading tubs, derrick and all complete. The bridge is about ready for crossing teams and next week ought to let the old ferry out.
Year: 1877

SMALL POX seems to be talrly at an end in this section. No new cases were found last week and no new ones have turned up this week. Bowers and Stamlfer, of Pres colt, left here the day of the first scare and took rather exaggerated notions with them about it's prevalence. One of them told the Miner We had If cases and the other said l6 The actual number was ); of these two have gone home to Phoenix and the others were barely confiaed to their beds. With the latter it was varioloid rather than regular small poX.
Year: 1877

A CAR load (ten tons) of blue vitriol and day for the McCrackin mill Above Fl Dorado Canon are immense bodies of pure rock salt. The old Hackberry mill before it was burned down, used to obtain its salt from that source; the Mormons bringing it down from Hardyville. As the boats are now running with great frequency, salt from that deposit ought to be brought down for supplying all the western part of this Territory.
Year: 1877

AN exhaust fan and a large quantity of galvanized iron tubing arrived here this week by express. It is to be used on the Palmetto mine, belonging to the Me Crackin Co Work has just been commence ed in earnest on this location, which is an extension of the main ledge. A tunnel has been run in 50 feet and a shaft sunk about 60. In the latter the air got bad and it took too long to get powder smoke out; hence thy fan.
Year: 1877

STEANBoATs have been kept working to their utmost capacity for over two months but freights accumulate and more are coming. The company will have to build new boats to accommodate the growing river business of Northern Arizona. This fall, for the first time in years, all their boats have been gone up river at once.
Year: 1877

A PRoPosITIoN FOR FREE BANKING
IN OHIo.-The Legislature of Ohio at
its last session passed an act to authorize
free banking, which is to be submitted to
a vote Of the people of the coming elcc-
ton, aud cannot, under the constitution,
take unless approved by majority of the
voters. Its most important feature is con-
tained in the following section:


"No banking company hereby author
lied shall at any time issue or have I'm
circulation any note, drsft, bill of ex-
change, acceptance, certificate Of deposit;
or any other evidence of debt, which from
its character, form or appearance shall
be calculated or intended to circulate as
money; ahd every violation of this section
by any officer or member of banking
campany shall be deemed and judged a
misdemeanor, and be punished by fine or
Imprisonment or both, in discretion of
the court having cognizance thereof, as
now provided by law"
Year: 1877

General Grant has put damper on the
brilliant dodge of hitting the President
over the head by praising his predecessor.
The general says he is thick-and-thin
Hayes man, and, if at home, would do
all he could to help him in his noble
course,-RepuJlican paper.


In this Grant condemns his own course
during the whole eight years he was
President. 1t is hard to believe he is not
more knave than fool;for one or the other
tn eabove if true surely makes.
Year: 1877

In Pittsburgh school they have
class in The News of the Day. The
pupils are expected 10 have carefully
read the morning pagers, as they mas
ticated their breakfasts, and to have
epitomized in their minds the news


the dsy from al quarters of the globe,
before the schoo! hour. Assembling in
a recitation room, one of the more intel
ligent pupils, who is made editor for the
time being, goes TO the black
board ard writes series Of head.
lines, such a. the wlde-awske
newspaper employs to convey to the
reader bird d's-eye view of the contents
OF the telegrsphic dispatches, and then
each pupil is expected to add his contri.
button by way of elaboration of discus
sion. This is most excellent idea.
There is no educator equal to the daily
newspaper; AID no education SO general,
or intelligent and valuable as that gained
in this channel. Children should be
early taught to resd the news of the day
with care, but more valuable still, they
should be taught 70 discuss
with Intelligence and discrimination
the current topics of the times. Intelli.
genee is What the embryo citizen needs
more than mere book education; and
in no way can that be gained in as high
degree as it can BY reading and discuss.


ing the contents of the morning papers.
Year: 1877

A GREAT snow storm has been raging
in the Rocky Mountains during the last
two weeks, and yesterday q dangerous
snow slide occurred near Alta, killing
two men. The storm is probably travel
ing East. SO We may be made to shiver
from its effects before We experience
more genial sunshine.
Year: 1877

We observe in the proceedings Of the
Marshall County Teachers Institute, As
published in this Issue, that the assocla.
tlOn passed, among others, the following
resolution:


8. That this Association request the
State Legislature 10 amend the school
law 80 as to confer the power Of selecting
text books for our schools upon the mem.
bsrs Of the County Institute.


We need scarcely say that we are utter.
lyOppOsed to this grant Of power on the
pAit Of the Legislature. The result would
be the most heterogeneous collection ol
school books to be found outside Of a
schoolbook museum, and no one. can esti.
mate the amount of needless expense that
would be inflicted on the people of this
commonwealth.


A teachers institute in any county ia a
transient affair. It's Epersonel rapidly
changes. The teachers Of this year may
fancy one set of books and those Of next
year q different set. In the nature Of
things there would be no stability.


It is not better text books that we need,
but better teaching in the public schools.
Any established text book good enough,
If only the teacher is the right person in
the right place. This lack Of the right
person in the right place is the great
drawback Of our costly and inefficient
public schools.
Year: 1877

SECRETARY EvARTs, during an in
terview yesterday, said: The relations
between all of the Cabinet officers are
Of the most pleasant character. The
Cabinet is at peace; the Republican
party really is at peace, and the coun-
try is at peace. 1t is only the politicians
who are at war, and they will soon end
that when they see that the country
takes no interest in it.'' Evarts re-
fused to speak of the New York ap-
pointments, further than to say the
tenure of Office act did not prevent the
President from sending in unconfirmed
names as often as he wanted to.
Year: 1877

No, John William is changed man. He will
never be real happy again. He WAS light
hearted young man once and he wore q good
conscience and collar as broad as minstrel
joke, md little tight boots, and bis heart was
just as tt1ll OF affection and the image Of girl
out on High street as it could hold. And twice
week, Tuesday and Friday nights, John vii
liam went I'D to High street, just dressed to
Year: 1877

The most certain way to render power
less the miasmatic vapors which produce
chills and fever and other malarious dis
orders, is 20 fortify the system against
them with that matchless preventive of
periodic fevers, Hostetter's Stomach Bit
ters, The remedial operation of the Bit
ters is no less certain than their preventive
effects. and they may be relied upon to
overcome cases of fever and ague which
resist quinine and the mineral remedies of
the pharmacopeia. Dyspepsia, constipa-
ton, bilious complaints, rheumatic all
ments and general debility. likewise rapid
Iy yield to their regulative and tonic in
fuence They are an incalcuable blessing
to the weak and nervous of both sex IS. an
excellent family medicine. and the best
safeguard which the traveller or emigrant
can take to an unhealthy climate.
Year: 1877

It gives me pleasure to add my testimony to the
virtues of your great medicine. One of my blooded
horses had swelling over the cap of the knee,
about the size of a hens egg. Some said it was a
strain, and some that it was the JOINT water from
the knee, and could not be cured. tried oil cedar
on it, and all the liniments and ointments, and
they did no more good than water. then, by per
suasion of my friends tried H. G. Farrells Arabian
Lnimant, and was happy to find it take effect
after few days, and ii finally cured the noble ami
NAL entirely 1 think it is decidedly the greatest
liniment for horses, as well as human flesh, ever
knew


fremont TaZeweU Co. Ill
Year: 1877

Meyer better than now," is the report
of all who have stopped this season at that
excellent Hotel. the American House.
situated on a wide street, convenient to
business and places of amusement, fitted
and furnished with every modern improve
ment and kept in splendid style by an ex-
perienced landlord, it would be difficult to
linda better type of the American Hotel.
Boston Commercial Advertiser.
Year: 1877

LAS worked a revolution In the treatment of Ca
tarrh. 1t has demonstrated beyond all doubt
that this disease in its severest FORMS
able and that comfort and happiness may be made
to follow years of misery, years of suffering, by
persistent use of it. The method of treatment or
iginsed by DR.. Sanford. the local and cOnsti.
tutonal by remedy prepared by distillation, is
the only one ever offered to the public that will
bear the test of time
Year: 1877

Dear Sara" voice whispered in her ear
"get your shawl and come away at once
You look quite ill.,


Rupert stood by her, but hurried glance
suficed to show that her fears were not
groundless His face was flushed and eager
but there was an accent in his tender voice
that Sara interpreted but too we'll they were
about to part. Not word was spoken till
they were in the carriage on their way home
Then she knew all-he was ordered at once
to the West.


"But it is not our first parting, dearest, u
he said, clasping her icy hands closer in his
"and you know, next summer at farthest, we
will be united never to be separated again.
The war cannot last much longer; both sides
are tired of it and oh, my darling, what q
happy day for us when the white banner Of
peace is unfurled p


Sara could not speak. She felt as if the
breeziest mountain-top could not afford her
one long breath she was choked and suffoca'
ted with horrible oppression. Rupert con-
tinued to talk of their blissful future, uncon-
scious of her torture. When they reached
the house on Franklin street, he dismissed the
carriage and supported Sara into the draw
ing-room. A few embers still glowed on the
hearth and as Rupert stood on the rug, face
to face with his betrothed, the scene so re.
Gently enacted there rushed over bis mind.


"sara, darling, forgive me for the pain I
caused you this evening! 1t was mere
thoughtlessness on my part, but / cannot bear
to leave you without an assurance that you
will forget. When am gone, I don't want
you to think of me as Il foolish, feeble boy
but as devoted, earnest man, whose heart,
in spite of all his failings, is yours and yours
alone. Will you promise me, Sara, that
come what may, you will always believe in
my love for your


Sara bowed her head upon his arm, and her
clay-cold fingers closed over his. That mute
yet eloquent assurance was enough. Tears
filled his eyes, 80 long unused to weep; and
for several moments he could not control bis
voice. The toling of the neighboring church
clock reused him. "That is one, and l must
be off another hour"


He raised the dropping head from his arm,
and gazed with passionate, glistening eyes into
the face which had aroused in his wayward
heart the only true, unsullied affection it would
ever know. He bent his head to imprint the
last kiss upon those pure, and ever-faithful
lips, when Sara made desperate effort as il
to speak.


"Rupert, be true to me p she murmured in
a voice so faint that only the ear Of love could
have caught the huttering accents.


He folded her in his arms, and in tones
broken by intense emotion, exclaimed, vehe.
mently-"I will, so help me God p


That oath was registered against Rupert
Darlington in the Volume of which it is sc
solemnIy recorded, "aed the dead ,uere judged
out Of those things which uere ,0ritten in the
books according TO their works"


CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK.
Year: 1877

"sHuT THE GATE Boys, shut the gate
after you'll You are going through, to be
gone just little while; you look around, and
not seeing anything likely to enter, you think
you will save little time by leaving it until
you return. So you drive along, and get
about half through with your job, when up
come the colts, attracted by the sight of your
team. Seeing the gate open, they dash in,
and away they 60, for soamper through the
garden, or field, as the case may be; you
shout at them and call the dog. He comes
rushing upon the scene, and takes after them
with evident delight. If you are very pru-
dent boy you first hitch your team to the
fence, and then run after the dog and colts.


By this time the hungry old SOW, that can
smell an open gate quarter of mile away,
no matter which way the wind blows, has
come up, and in she goes, with her whole prog.
eny. Now you get mad and call the dog away
from the colts and set him after the pigs. The
hired man hears the uproar, and comes to the
rescue He follows the colts and as they
come tearing along past the horses, they pull
at their halters and down come two or three
rods of fence, You are extremely lucky if
they do not run away and upset the wagon.
BY this time your mother comes into the melee.
She has sense enough to drive the dog to the
house, and by her intelligent help the field is
finally cleared, and order restored.


Probably you cannot earn enough in q week
to pay for the damage that is done, and it
might all have been prevented by just one
minute spent in shutting the gate after you.
! will venture the opinion that if there had
been an accurate account kept, since creation,
of the amount saved or lost by not shutting
the gate promptly after it was used, the loss
would exceed the gain by enough to put up
new gate on every farm in the United States.
I have known boys, and even men, to have
Just about the experience which have des-
cribed, over and over again, and yet they
never seem to learn the great economy and
security which lies in promptly shutting the
gate after them.-Y Young Folks Monthly.
Year: 1877

.PsaaontlY--the-sSt4ine t4ineee-of-tho-c courtroom
was interrupted by the entrance of q man who
came in with shuAling, uneasy step, and
with his hat in his hand. He halted and
leaned against the railing. Nobody took the
slightest notice of him, however. At last he
took courage and spoke:


"Is the Judge inf'


The clerk Immediately awoke his Honor.


"Well, what do you wantr


"I'm looking for job, your Honor. I've
been looking for work over month"


"There's nothing for you here"


II thought you occasionally gave jurymen
a job. I don't read newspapers any, and
being astranger in town haven't gotany
prejudices agin anybody. A pard Of mine
wrote down to nae at Reno, last week, and
said that the jury business up here was brisk
and it would pay to come up. As I'm a
stranger to you and little hard up, I'll start
in and serve for half price till you kin see
what kin do"


"What are your main qualifications ?"


my strong suit is in maxim jury agree.
No juries ever get hung if I am on 'em. I
just lay low till they take the first ballot,
then jine the majority and argue the rest into
it. 1 can discount any lawyer talking. I can
show 'em up points they never tumbled to be-
fore. Sometimes have to use force, but sell
dom. Once, down at Truckee, in murder
case, there were couple of fellers standin'
out again hangin', and after arguing with
'em as smooth and gentlemanly as could for
over quarter of al hour, l went for 'em with
chairs, and by the time I'd busted half a
dozen pieces Of furniture over 'em they was
glad to come in with verdict of Murder in
the first degree and the feller was hung not
long afterward. In these justice courts I can
get on the jury, and if you'll just give wink
as to how you want the case to 60, I'll guar
antee to fetch in the verdict you want, or not
take cent"


The man was told to drop round again in
day or so and they would try and make va
cancy for him. In order to do it, however,
some regular juryman will probably have to
be discharged Virginia City Chronicle.
Year: 1877

whose peculiarly was unknown, she would
have been followed and arrested and punished;
but everybody knew that she had that queer
monomania for blue stockings.


I examineda mans head and described him
as being very fond of money, happening, OF
course, to use that term, money, instead OF
property, and it made quite asensation because
it was known that he would steal money, and
he did not hesitate to talk about it himself
But he would steal nothing else, no matter
how valuable, though he knew he might be
detected. chronological Journal. ..