smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

danger, and at o'clock this morning
all the men except seven, who were
half mile away, hastily left the work
ings, masses of roof being already fall
| ing rapidly. Two men, at the peril of
their lives, had previously gone to
alarm the five men, and did not return.
Several hundred yards of mine cham
! bers were soon filled with the precipi-
tated rock, and the men were cut off a
! thousand feet below the surface. On
the 26th, forty eight hours after the ac-
cident, miners were laboring hard to
get down to the buried men; and hope


was entertained that they would be
reached alive.


A MINNEAPoLIs special under date of
| April oath, says the walls of the Galaxy
mill fell at quarter before 3 this after
noon, killing Mike Farrell and iniuring
slightly Mike Hand and Daniel Conner.
The Galaxy was one of the mills burn
ed at the time of thegreat mill explo-
sion in May last, and the wall had once
before stood a fire that burned the en-
tire inside Of the mill. After the ex-
plosion the mayor condemned the walls
and ordered them To be blown down,
put the proprietor resisted. The wall
has stood for nearly year, but work
was commenced a week ago recon-
structing the walls. No less than thi1ty
men were employed in the mill at the
time of the disaster, all of whom had q
narrow escape. The falling wall car
ried with them the timbers of three
floors which had been constructed, and
filled the pit with confused mass of
debris. Considering the circumscribed
quarters and the number of men en-
ployed it is miraculous that there was
not greater loss of life. Farrell was
not married, and has resided here about
year. He was horribly mangled, and
his death was almost instantaneous
Hand was cut about the head and
shoulders. Conner received bad cut
on the head from falling rock. Ii is
believed that all the other workmen
escaped, but search is being made for
other victims,
Year: 1879

Iris generally known, says the Vienna
correspondent of the London Globe
that the Gar is haunted by perpetual
fear, almost amounting to a morbid ap
prehension, of being one day assassin
ated. Every time some person of emil
nence falls victim to the nihilists there
is an aggrevation of these forebodings
and anxieties. The terrible doings of
the nihilists of late, and the general
restiveness of the people, are known to
have very much disturbed his Majesty's
mind, and made him anxious to leave
Russia for time. Domestic scenes (aT
assertions to the contrary notwithstand-
ing) have also helped to unhinge his
nerves. 1t is known that the heir to
the throne holds very different political
views from his father, which may be
summarized by saying that the Care,
witch is Id favor of giving the people
more liberty and responsibility. while
the Gar would adhere to the old form
of government.
Year: 1879

A Nlw YORK San reporter has had
an interview with a real live Russian
Nihilist, who found it convenient to
leave his native land between two suns.
Among other things, he said officers of
high rank are executed in the streets
only when Nihilists are reckless of their
own safety; but many others Of less con
sequence are disposed of in ways less
dangerous to the executioners. The
government carefully suppresses all
facts inrelation to such judgements, and
of course, the Nihilsts don'tseek tog give
publicity to their deeds, so the world
knows nothing about the extent to which
these judgments are carried out in Rus
sia
Year: 1879

THE recent heavy decline in lead ap-
pears to have produced a demoraliza-
ton among the smelters of Leadville,
who declare their intention that if a
change for the better does not arrive
they viii erect refining works and ship
nothing but fine silver east, retaining
there the lead until remunerative prices
shall again be established. They say,
"this tumble III a single day from SO
per ton for lead down to $21 don't suit
the independent nature of western
miners
Year: 1879

Had we the ears of the people of Mis-
sissippi, we would exhort them to select
men of high moral character for the Leg
islature. We shall not attempt to explain
what we mean by men of high moral char
acter, further than to say, that they are
such as good prudent men would select as
models for their sons.


We are concerned for the fair fame of
Mississippi. We would elevate her to
the highest rank in the sisterhood of
States; we would have her win the re-
spect and admiration of the world, and
the deep abiding love and reverence of
her own children.


The Legislative body is taken as the
exponent not only of the political views
of the people of State, but of their intel
ligence, their morality, their civilization.
The moral character of Legislators tinges
the legislation which emanates from them,
just as surely as the minerals in the earth
them. Can pure stream flow from an
impure fountain? Do men gather figs of
thistles OF grapes of thorns?a


Mississippians! remember that the laws
enacted by the Legislature are those which
most nearly concern your lives, your lib
erty, and yoar property. They are the
laws that shape society, that give it color
and tone. Can you expect wise, just
good, pure, wholesome laws from legisla-
tors of loose morals or doubtful integrity?


In times of high political excitement
when the contest between the two parties
was close and heated, we have seen good
enthusiastic in their efforts in behalf of
candidates notorious for their dissolute
morals, men whom they would not think
of choosing to administer their estates, or
to act in loco PARENTS to their sons and
daughters. Party exigencies might have
been offered in excuse for this; but when
citizens belonging to a single party go to
select candidates for office, good men can
offer no such excuse. 1t is their duty,
their imperative duty, to scan closely the
character and antecedents of every man
asking a nomination, and see to it that
only men of high moral character are
placed on the Legislative ticket @ aa


Mississippians! men who have the
honor of our beloved State at heart! good
men, moral men, Christian men. we ask
you to think of these things Columbus
Democrat
Year: 1879

Itwas shrewd remark make by an old
farmer when an advocate of high culture
was advising the use of costly methods,
and enforced his ideas with the statement
that the expenditure, although very large,
would pay good interest "But how
about the principal will that come
back again?" he was asked. This is worth
thinking of before one sinks money in i'm
provements that are not permanent and
do not add an actual value to the real es-
tate. A drain, a well, building,the clear
ing of land, and such permanent improve
ments, are worth all they cost for many
years, and the profit from their use may
be legitimately considered as interest on
an actual investment. But living ami
NAL, fertilizers, seeds, plants, and other
ort-lived property, should pay back not
only large interest, but the principal as
well, if they are to be profitable. The ex-
penditure of 500 in fertilizers ought to
Year: 1879

The Christian Union thus defines the
difference between activity and energy,
and suggests wherein large class of in
dustrious people lack the element which
produces success.


There are some men whose failure to
succeed in life in a problem to others as
we'll as to themselves. They are industri-
Gus, prudent and economical; yet after a
long life of striving, old age finds them
still poor. They complain OF i'll luck. They
say fate is always against them. But the
fact is that they nhscarry, because they
have mistaken activity for energy. Con-
founding two things essentially different,
they have supposed that if they were al
ways busy they would be certain to be
advancing their fortunes. They have
gotten that misdirected labor is
but waste Of activity. The person
who would succeed is like marks
man firing at target; if his shots miss the
mark they are a waste of powder. So in
the great game of life, what man does
must be made to count, or might almost
as well have been left undone Everybody
knows some one in his circle of friends
who, though always active, has this want
of energy. The distemper, if we may call
it such, exhibits itself in various ways. In
some cases the man has merely an execu-
tive capacity when he should have di.
receive one-in other language, he makes
capital clerk of himself when he ought
to do the thinking of the business. In
other cases, what is done is not done
either at the right timeor in the right way.
Energy, correctly understood is activity
proportioned to the end
Year: 1879

What is the Order in Alabama doing?
There are thousands of good and true Pa
irons in that State, yet the cause anguish
es-the officers of the State Grange seem
to be doing nothing. If the Master does not
push the work, the active Patrons should
see to it that better man is elected at the
next meeting Of the State Grange. The
Order in Alabama ought to be in -four
ishing condition.
Year: 1879

What a pitiable spectacle it is, for far
mer, Who ought to be the most indepen-
dent man in the community, to submit to
be used as a tool by an office seeker. And
yet this is very common. The office
seeker is very obsequious-treats him with
marked respect bet0rc the election, and
with deserved contempt after. This is
alwaps the case; but then, some people
have door memories. ....
Year: 1879

Nine tenths of the Democrats of Miss
issippi are for the greenback. What they
want is, to get the old political wire
workers out of the way, and men fresh
from the people to take the head.


A correspondent in this State writes us:
at is simply disgusting to hear old politi-
clans talking for the greenback when they
did SO much to keep the Radicals in pow
er in the State and nation. But these old
politicians will talk for anything that
promises to be popular and enable them
to ride into office on. Away with the
whole lot! Give us new and better men,
Year: 1879

The members of the Order in Texas
should concentrate their patronage on
their State Grange Agency at Galveston.
Get the State Agency built up, and it will
be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars
Annually to the farmers of Texas. There
is no calculating the advantages which
the cooperative stores in that State will
derive from buying and selling through
the central agency at Galveston. Where
a cooperative store is not established,
farmers should combine their orders and
send to the State agency. A little expe-
rience OF this kind will show them that
there is both money and justice in co-ope-
ration
Year: 1879

worthy Master Lang and Worthy
Overseer Rose, ofthe Texas State Grange,
are both making a vigorous canvass of
the tate AT the recent meeting of the
Texas State Cooperative Association, a
resolution was adopted urging that the
State Lecturer be sent into the field also.
We fhink there will now be general re-
viva1 of the Order in Texas.
Year: 1879

81 news from all quarters. The Or
gaining strength steadily in nearly


States. The reports from the differ
tates at the next meeting of the Ma
Grange will be of such an encour-
character, that the enemies of the
will be astounded.
Year: 1879

'rthy Master Eshbaugh, of the Mis-


State Grange, well says that those
no are the most eager to get control
operative stores are the very ones
should not be selected And the
IS true in politics. The people should
Fe of active aspirants for political
Year: 1879

return $500 or more in the crop, else the
cost and interest on that, and the labor
involved, are not returned. This is mat
ter that needs close figuring and clear
foresight before one invests money!
Year: 1879

TO he Editor Of the National Republican:


sIR. While sympathizing with the general
tenor of your article on "The Hanging Of Mrs.
Surratt," | wish to take exception to the man
ner in which you speak of one of the Govern
ment's principal witnesses in the trial of the
conspirator- r-assassins male and female, who
plotted and carried into execution the mur.
der most foul" of President Lincoln You
speak of him rs "a poor, Insignificant person
named Weichmann."


All who know Mr.. Louis j. Weichmann will
feel somewhat surprised at this disparaging 6
and uncomplimentary notice of gentleman
of large intelligence, culture, and refinement
and a brave and true-hearted, though modest
man, who had in the dark days Of our coun-
try's peril-peril and danger from unseen foes
tho courage to step forward and utter his
testimony at the imminent risk of his life,
that the conspirators might be brought to pun
ishment. You probably have not intended to
do him injustice. Though poor man, he is
not insignificant" and this adoption of the
the terms of obloquy, invented by sympathiz-
ers with assassination, is calculated to give
currency to tho lies which 1t was the purpose
of your article to condemn.


Let us have done with all compromises with
those who are doing all they can to bring back
the, dark and bloody times" upon our coun-
try, and be careful how we admit in any de-
gree their unpatriotic fallacies. The execution
of all of those assassins was a necessity and an
act of deserved justice and richly merited pun
| ishment. Yours, truly, y.
Year: 1879

The probability, if not certainty, of eX-
Senator CHANDLER's return to the Senate
recalls the departure four years ago in Mich.
igan of the Republican party from the con-
sistent methods of good discipline by which
he was defeated for q reelection to that
body in which he had rendered manlul SER
vice for many years. That defeat was re-
corded by the Opposition as the overthrow
of st the machine in the West and rs an in
dication of q certainty that Utopian Reform
had dawned upon our political existence.
But subsequent history shows that neces-
sity for the services of such persistent con-
servators of stalwart principles as Mr.
CHANDLER has always proved to be, was in
stantly asserted, and led to his appointment
to be Secretary the Interior and to his selec-
ton to be the managing spirit of the cam
paign of 1876. And now that he is about
to be returned to the scenes of his former
achievements the almost unanimous ac-
claim of the people, regardless OF party, is
that he deserves the vindication, if such il
may be called, that will soon be vouchsafed
to him.


As Senator his record was exceptionally
good, and as partisan it has always been
exceptionally brilliant But as Secretary
of the Interior his unilinching courage,
great executive ability, aud purity of pur-
pose combined TO elevate him in public es-
timation and win for him the confidence
and respect of the nation at large He
1; a. L. a
practical reformer in the true sense of the
term and when he left the Department his
commanding administrative success ex-
torted from all parties the highest need OF
praise.


But his most illustrious victory was ia
the successful endeayor, made under his
direct management, to overthrow the DEM
ocratic conspiracy by which it was at
tempted to fraudulently install TILDEN
into the Office to which President HAYES
had been legally elected. In this manage
ment he made his impress upon the ma
tion's history in such iorcble way that
his name will stand for generations to come
as a synonym for all that is patriotic and
devoted in the integrity Of that support
which every good citizen yields tt
his earnest political convictions II
was ZACH CHANDLER, in shert, more
than any other single individual in
the country, who rescued the government
from the hands of body Of infamous con
sprators who would long before this hav,
transferred it, bound hand and foot, to th,
Bourbon Democracy of the South, Wher
the telegram was made public


HAYES has 1876 votes, and is elected
H. CHANDLER,
the matter then in controversy was settled
for it infused strength and determine
ton into the efforts of Republican
leaders aud penetrated the very citadel o
the TILDEN fraud with the explosiyely de
structiye shafts Of eternal truth,


No man in Michigan, or out of it, Of tn


Republican faith deserves better of hi
party than ZAcuARIAH CHANDLER, auC
Year: 1879

HAVING exhausted all possible chance OF
throwing mud, manufactured from innuen-
does, abortive peIjuries, and Garbled con-
structions of innocent facts, at Republicans
the POTTER Committee is taking breath
ing spell. And there seems to be no haste
on the part of the majority of the committee
to begin serious work again. The members
thereof know that the next exposure will
be to the disgrace of the Democracy
Year: 1879

THE Democratic majority in the House
has done its level best to keep down the
Southern claims discussion. But the hour
is at hand when their exertions in this di-
rection will prove TO be useless.
Year: 1879

THE opponents of suffrage in the District
of Columbia are very persistent that citizen
ship here shall not mean anything but to
make the acquaintance of the tax collector.
The people are not in accord with them /;
mother should Congress be.
Year: 1879

JERE BLACK has abruptly informed Gov
ernor BISHOP, of Ohio, that there must be
no more pOppycock." We suppose JERE
ought to be ashamed of himself but MS we
are without key to this Democratic cipher
we forbear further comment
Year: 1879

THERE is great danger of corner" in
Grape. The suggestion has been made that
the Democratic party ought to put it on
and wear it for thirty days on account OF
the loss Of friends sent TO the penitentiary
for stufing ballot-boxes, defrauding elec-
ton returns, interfering with United States
officers in the discharge of their duties, &c
Year: 1879

The Democratic majority have about de-
termined to let HOOKER, CHALMERS, and
others have their say in reply to General
BRAGG. To be continually at work devils
ing ways and means to head off discussion
causes too much wear and tear of the aver
age Democratic mind. 1t is understood


therefore, that if there cannot be a morning
hour to-day HOOKER is to have sufficient
time on the army bill to make his speech
Year: 1879

Mr.. COLUMBUS ALEXANDER is now fight
ing the HUTTON duel in the grand jury
room of this District. 1t is not at all prob
able that anybody will bo hurt by the en-
counter in that locality.
Year: 1879

THERE is great difference between the re-
ccptions rendered MATT CARPENTER when he
visits Washington rs q GRANT Senator-elect
aud when he visits the place as the attorney
of the Democratic party to denouuce the theft
OF the Presidency for fec.-Bdtimore Gazette.


Yes, there is a great difference. When
he comes here Us Senator of noble young
State he comes with the surroundings and
characteristics of patriotism and statesman
ship which command public respect aud
honor When he visits Washington as an
attorney for the Democratic party he comes
in the line of profession which calls him
to become familiar with criminals, and for
a fee, to save the guilty, if possible, from
condign punishment. We admire and
honor his coming as Senator in Congress,
while we indulge and forgive his coming
when he is retained by crime to shield it
from punishment through the subtleties of
the law and the agencies of professional
tact. Does not the Gazette discern the diff
ference? If not it should turn its atten-
ton to the work of producing that promised
list of Republican plunderers and default
ers. January has gone and it has forfeited
| its pledge. Is that honorable?
Year: 1879

THE Democrats of Florida are moving for
q new State constitution with which to re-
place the sO-called " Radical monstrosity" "
under which her people now live. There
are some provisions in that document which
would appear monstrous TO the average
modern politician; but as they are princi.
pally confined to the bestowal of unlimited
patronage upon the Governor, it is strange
indeed that the Democrats arc dissatisfied
with them. The explanation probably is
that Governor DREW has failed to confer
Offices upon all Of the machine politicians
i'll the several counties-those active Dem.
ocrats, we mean, who rode speCkled stations
and electioneered for the Old Miller" on
county court days in the last campaign.
Year: 1879

when he comes to Washington, as we hope
and believe he soon will, freshly crowned
with the laurels of deserved victory, we be-
speak for him q reception the like of which
has never before hccn witnessed in this city
Of remarkable political sensations.
Year: 1879

The following ingenious sugges-
tiOn is from a recent Eastern ex-
change:


A lady subscriber published a let
ter, day or two ago, in which she
complained bitterly Of the annoy
ance she experienced from the hab-
it her female neighbors had Of con-
stantly borrowing her paper. AS
the matter is a serious one, we have
looked about for some method of re-
lief, and now think we can offer the
suffering lady and all Others similar
ly situated an adequate means Of
succOr. Here is our plan:


Let the lady Immediately upon
receiving the paper carefully cut
from it some ftem-it makes no par
ticuIar difference what il is-mOst
any item will do, only let it be neat
ly and carefully removed from the
paper. Then the following proceed
ing will be sure TO ensue: In few
moments the neighbours hoy will
come after the paper-he will take
il home-within three minutes he
will emerge from the house-he will
scoot down thestreet and shortly re-
turn with folded newspaper of the
same date as the cne just borrowed.
BY the time the clipped paper has
circled round among all the female
borrowers the streets will be lively
with hurrying boys, and the reve-
nue. of the newspaper will be mate
rally increased. Not one woman
among them all would be able to
sleep wink without knowing just
exactly what that cut out item was.
The next day the lady will pursue
the same course, and similar results
will surely follow. In an extremely
obstinate neighborhoOd these pro-
ceedings have TO be repeated three
or four times, but no longer. BY
that time the lady win be- able to
read her paper in peace, and the
newspaper finances will be the gain
er through several new subscribers.
This rule Is infallitle, where the
borrowers are females, but 1t cannot
be vouched for in the case of men.
There is not that inherent curiosity
to work upon, you know, and-and |
hut perhaps we are gettinga little 1
too deep. ~
Year: 1879

The London Economist has the
following on the great trade revival
in this country, which is good read
ing:


A ten years retrospect, and con-
sideration of things as they now
are, show that the commercial af-
fairs of the United States again de-
serve careful attention. The coun-
try has suffered much is it once
more on the high road to develop
ment and prosperity? F? Looking
back 10 the close of the civil war,
with the redundant paper circula-
tion and consequent imitation of val
ues, we have seen the United States,
as it were, first taking breath, then
suffering from the inevitable decline
of values-a shrinkage the most try
ing and severe within the memory
of living men-until at last a return
to specie payments, inyoluntarily
brought about, is accepted by gener-
al consent as bottom or hard-pan
from which to take a new depart
ure, and on which to build a future
prosperity. The change for the bet
ter, although very indistinctly fore
shadowed at the close of 1873, gave
indications of solid existence at the
commencement of the present year
the immediate consequence of the
return to specie payments, which
was practically a modified, though
disguised imitation, inasmuch as the
paper currency was not replaced by
metallic money. No destruction of
paper took place, and very little was
exchanged for gold, and such little
was still accepted as legal tender by
the Treasury, and was used as such.
However this may be, the people
of the United States are agreed
among themselves that they are now
on specie basis, and as such we in
Europe must accept them, though
perhaps in some minds with little
reservation. Since January the gen
eral movement, with occasional ex-
ceptions, has all been in one direc-
tion-the direction of increasing bus
iness, rising values and substantial
progress, until at the present time
it would appear as though doubts
are subsiding, and the country gen.
orally is preparing itself for one of
those onward movements that may
astOnish themselves as we'll rs
others.