smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

also be borne In mind that the mint


cost OF coming silver Is many times


greater than that of the same amount


in gold. More than sixteen tons Of


silver Is required as the equivalent of


one ton of gold. AS cold matter of


fact, silver is neither the best nor the


cheapest standard. 1t Is far dearer to


plant and forever dearer to maintain.


In conclusion, Mr.. Morrill, said; I


have failed of my purpose II / have


not shOwn!that there has been so large


an increase of the stock of silver as Of


itself to effect positive reduction of


its value; and that this result has been


confirmed and made irreversibie by


the new and extensive European


disuse OF silver coinage 1 have in-
dicated the advisability Of obtaining


the cooperation OF other leading ma


tiOns, in fixing upon a common ( ratio
of value between gold and silver, be-


fore embarklng upon 9 c0urse OF in
depensnt action from which there
could be no retreat. / have also at
tempted to show that, even In the
lowest pecuniary sense Of profit, the
Government Of the United States
could not be proposing to pay
either the public debt or the United
States NOTES In silver; that such q
payment would violate public pledges
as to the whole, and violate existing
statutes as TO all that part Of the debt
contracted since 1870, and for which
gold has been received; that the re.
moneiization of silver means the
banishment of gold and our degrada'
ton among nations to the second or
third rank; that It would be q sweep
ing 10 per cent. reduction OF all duties
upon imports, requiring the impOsi'
tiOn of the new taxes to that extent;
that it would prevent the further funding of
the public debt at lower rate Of interest and
give to the present holders Of our six per
cent bonds great advantage; that, instead
of aiding resumption, it would only initiate .
currency already too long deprecated, and
consign it to still lower deep: that, instead
of being tonic to spur idle capital once more
into activity, it would be its bane, destructive
of sll vitality; and that IS permanent silver
standard it would not only be void of all
stability, and the dearest and clumsiest in its
would reduce the wages of labor to the full
extent of the difference there might be be-
tween its purchasing power and that Of golds


Should the bill become the law Of the
land, without fundamental amendments, and
the evils have anticipated not be verified,
there is no one vino would rejoice more thaa
myself. but cannot shut my eyes TO the
teachings of those eminent men who have
adorned our own history in the conduct Of our
financial affairs; and cannot avoid the con-
clusion that, while we may coin dollars con-
tanning as little as we please, yet they will
not secure more than local recognition, nor
exempt US from frequent and great disasters;
and at last we shall have none of that money
which represents the combined wants of the
poor and the rich not less than those of the
great commercial interests of the human race.
Year: 1878

SENATOR BRUoE, Of Mississippi, who was in
Chicago last week, stated to some politicians
that he had an unalterable conviction that he
would be the last of his race who would tread
the Senate halls as a member of the United
States Senate
Year: 1878

f-Some fellow very truly SAYS that
q tar on pfofame language would raise
mare revenue than Mogelt's bell punch
.or drink Register: and the more Ha1
vas taxed the more he would swear.
Year: 1878

upon his left breast, he continued,
"and is associated in my mind
with the loss of a daughter, the
lovely Enoree, the Muscadine, and
nothing but the finding of i son,
and his restoration to health, can
reconcile me to seeing it again.
We will start at the going down
Of the moon, and before the rising
of five suns, we will drink its heal
ing waters"


"Canachugh," l replied, Il will
follow you wherever your foot
steps may lead" He then threw
over me an additional buffalo robe,
and laid himself down upon his
own couch to sleep.


(TO BE Continued
Year: 1878

If had known in the morning


How wearily all the day
The words unkind would trouble my mind
That said when you went away,
I had been more careful, darling,


Nor given you needless pain;
But we vex our own with look and tone


We might never take back again.
For though in the quiet evening
You may give me the kiss of peace
Yet it we'll might be that never for me


The pain of the heart should cease!
How many 90 forth at morning


Who never come home at night!
And hearts have broken for harsh words


spoken


That sorrow that can ne'er set right.
We have careful thought for the stranger,
And smiles for the sometime guest;
And oft FOR our own bitter tone,


Though we love own the best.
All! lips with the curve impatient,


All! brow with the saade Of scorn,
'Twere cruel fate, were the night too late
To undo the work CT morn!
Year: 1878

and in the grandest Photographic
exhibition ever collected in the
world, he succeeded in achieving a
distinction which placed him at
once in The front rank of his pro-
fession. These later works have
certainly added to his fame and
England may pride herself on pos
sessing one artist at least who, in
his peculiar branch, stands without
q rival.


The past week, in journalistic
sense, has been almost barren Of
news; no murders, no suicides, not
a robbery, not even a respectable
drunk. I regret to close this
letter with the statement that
slavery still exists in France, but
such is the unhappy fact. I have
Just discovered that there is a
special ordinance which prevents a
woman from riding on the top Of
an omnibus. Tell it not in Gath;
utter it not in the streets of Ask.
elon; our wives, our daughters, our
mothers whom we love, cannot ride
on the top of an omnibus. She
can mount to the roof Of a street
car-but net to the top Of an om-
nibus was it for this that the men
Of the Revolution chopped off the
lead of a king, and the eheroes Of
the Commune made a target of an
archbishop? Was It for this that
"Libarte, Egalite, Fraternite," are
inscribed on all the dead walls and
fences; that woman, lovely woman
whom we adore should be deprived
of the poor privilege of riding on
the top Of an omnibus? What
liberty is there in any land which
prevents her from riding on the
top of an omnibus What equali-
ty is there in country which
denies her the right Of riding on
the top Of an omnibus ? How can
she fraternize with a fellow on top
of an omnibus, if they won't allow
her to get on top? These are
questions vital to French liberty
which, I hope, the next Commune
will settle in a manner sharp, quick
and decisive. Another source of
grief to every liberty-lo7ing French
woman land all of them love lib
erty) arises from the fact that they
can't wear their two story and a
half hats in the parquette of the
Grand Opera. In fact they will not
allow them to go in there at all,
and the most magnificent and com
Portable portion of the house where
everybody can look at you, and
you can look at everybody else, is
appropriated exclusively to brutes
of men. Madam Roland was right {:
"Oh liberty, liberty, liberty =
etc., etc., etc. Let the world know
that here in France woman may
harness herself to a donkey cart.
''She may buy with you, sell with
you, walk with you, talk with you
and so following;" she may sweep
the streets with q ten dollar silk
a thing which to her credit, she
does not often do, leaving that
'delectable pastime to her English
and American cousins, she may
stand on her head or go without
fig leaves, but she can't put her
foot in the parquette of the Grand
Opera and she can't ride on top of
an omnibus. I know there will be
a row when this news reaches Bos-
ton. It may do very well for
Paris, but they won't stand it there.
If the revolution succeeds, I shall
have the satisfaction of knowing
that I struck the key note, and
hopefully awaiting the result,


I am


Truly yours,


BROADBRIM.
Year: 1878

THEY have a beautiful prison at
Cleveland-a very fine prison; it ap-
pears to be deficient in only one thing;
it won't hold the prisoners. If the
courts are little slow the prisoners
get dissatisfied and impatient and walk
off, and give the sheriff q great deal of
trouble when their cases are called.
Year: 1878

A PROMINENT Democratic United
States Senator, who is in favor of an
early adjournment of Congress, is cred
tied with saying, recently that ''if that
House sits much longer, it will kill the
Democratic party" Then let it sit. by
all means.
Year: 1878

NnolEoS's Fntsr MARRrAoE.-
Among the victims OF the Terror
had been a General Beauharnais


He had left a widow and two chill.


dren; and while Bonaparte was Gen


eral of the Army of the Interior, his


son, fine boy of twelve years of age,


came to him one day to beg that his


fathers sword might be returned to


him. Bonaparte complied with the


request, the very character of which


commended it to his favor, and spoke


to the child with such encouraging


kindness that his mother visited him


few days afterward to thank him


for his notice of her boy. Madame


Beauharnais was handsome and pre-


eminently graceful md attractive.


She had shared her husbands prison,
but had been released on the fall OF
Robespierre; since which event she
had been on terms of the closest in
timacy with Barras. Her grace now


made very deep impression on the
young general, whose previous cir
eanastences had not brown him much
into the society of ladies of high
breeding. After a short acquaintance
he sought her in marriage. She
hesitatsd. Some of those who envied
him had fixed upon him the nick
name of Gsno Vendemiaire, as if the
only triumphs which he was quail
fed to gain were over citizen soldiers.
And there were not wanting friends
of her own to ridicule his somewhat
wild appearance, his meagre face,
and long hair hanging down on his
shoulders; and, what was q greater
objection still, his evident poverty.
But she, too, was ambitious; he had
On enthusiastic way of talking which
persuaded her that be was capable Of
great deeds; and Barras promised
her that, if she would consent to
marry him, he would procure for him
as her husband the command of the
Army of Italy. His argument pre-
vailed, the lady consented; the Di-
rector kept his promise; the marriage
took place. and two days afterward
the young commander-in- quit
ted his brides arms to commence a
campaign which was to lead to the
attainment of q loftier destiny than
either of them had as yet ventured to
expect.
Year: 1878

THE frequent instances of resistance to
the laws of the United States in the South
have oftener than otherwise proceeded
from the fact that Northern men have been
sent there to execute them. To expect
that they would be acceptable under the
circumstances, is to suppose that human
nature has undergone a radical change in
that quarter of the world. Apart from
unfriendly feelings that the war engen-
dered, Southern men fall parties regard
the appointment of Northern men to Office
among them as an encroachment on their
rights, and as invidious' The President
should appoint Southern men to Southern
Offices, just as he appoints Northern men
to Northern Office; and in matter Of such
delicacy as the breaking up Of long
standing custom Of cutting lumber from
Government lands, officials to perform the
duty should be selected with reference to
heir social standing and influence.
Year: 1878

Lovely woman has asserted her in
alienable right to ride in smoking car
and enjoy her cigar like a man. Not
long ago, a lady, well-dressed and not
particularly coarse-looking, got on the
river train, between st. Paul and Has
tings, and marched into the smoking
car. A gentleman courteously sug-
gested that she might find it unpleasant
to ride in the gentlemen's car. ''How
selfish these men are," was the retort.
.'They never want lady to enjoy what
they 90 themselves" Then seating
herself at her ease by an open window,
she drew from a neat little case cigar,
and soon was putting away with tran
quill expression on her face. A man
who had been drinking considerable
beer sat down beside her, rolled up his
coat sleeves, bit off the end of a cigar,
and asked him for light. She gave him
a match, and interested herself in the
scenery. Her fellow traveller now
sought to entertain her with few re-
marks on the weather, brands OF cigars,
business prospects and other matters.
Lovely woman fell back in good order
upon her dignity. ''You are getting
impertinent, sir. 1t is none of your
business where am from or where I
am going. l Rave the same right to sit
here that you have, and IL you don't
behave yourself 1 shall speak to the
conductor"
Year: 1878

In the beautiful town of Glastonbury
Connecticut, the following remarkable
event occurred in 1853. In March of
that year one Julius Perry went out
with his dogs to hunt, In the de; this
of the forest he discovered (as he alleg-
edD an old gray fox, and his dogs gave
chase. Alter chasing the fox upward
of two miles, the animal was holed.
When Mr.. Perry came up he heard a
strange noise over the other side OF the
hole, and, going to the spot, he there
found Juliana Cox lying and painting
for breath. Her left shoulder was
bleeding and had on ii the marks OF the
dogs teeth. This was just the spot OIL
the gray fox's shoulder. where the dogs
had siezed him. Upon this testimony
Miss Cox, a maiden lady of II, was
brought TO trial for the offense OF being
a witch. On her arraigEment she plead
ed not guilty, and il was determined
that a committee of selectmen should
examine her person for witch marks, in
order to introduce confirmatory proofs
against her. She was, therefore re-
manded TO prison. The following per-
sons were appointed on the committee /:
Eben Brewer. Alexas Jones, and Sam
uel Cutworth. These men proceede.;
at once to the prison, aud, stripping
Miss Cox, they began their examination
For rinan axnaaiinn hour that-
could find no marks, ard Miss Cox sub
mitted to their examination with tears
and sobs, Finally, when they had
pricked many places on heI body with
out success, she confessed to two marks
one little below the right hip, and
one on the left arm. The committee
now became satisfied that these were
true marks, as the flesh thereon was
discolored in slight degree. They
thereupon made their report to the
Court appointed to hear the trial. This
evidence confirming that of Mr.. Perry
was thought to be conclusive, and on
the 3rd of April the trial took place.
1t was thought unnecessary to resort TO
further tests, and Miss Cox was found
guilty of wltchcraft on the evidence
already quoted, and sentenced to be
hanged. Strange noises and demons
haunted the Jail at Hartford up to the
time that her execution took place
which was on the 7th of April, at .
o'clock in the morning. There was a
large concourse of men and women
attending the execution, and, and al
though she declared that she was unjust
ly accused, and that she confessed to the
witchmarks to stop the pain of being
pricked so cruelty by the committeeman
yet every person present believed her
to be a true witch, and in league with
the devil. She further declared that
Julius Perry accused her wrongfully,
She said she was in the forest gathering
herbs, and that Julius Perry came along
and would have his will of her; that she
constantly refusing, he set his dog upon
her, and the animal bit her shoulder,
and that he, fearing to be detected in
his bad act, had laid the charge of
witchcraft against her. This she said
under the gallows. Whereupon a
shout was made among the people to
'burn the witeh," as hanging was too
easy death for so foul a stumpet of the
devil" While the people went to fetch
wood to burn her, the Sheriff hung her
up, so that she died on the gallows be-
fore the wood could be brought.
Year: 1878

circle on the ground and say to the awe


struck bystanders: ''Dig deep enough


within this circle and you will find a


pot of gold" But he never dug him


self. He had a good share of the rising


generation of Palmyra out digging in


the suburbs, and to this day traces of


the pits thus dug are pointed out to


curious visitors. As he claimed to be


the author of the "Book of Mormon"


his story was that by the aid of his


wonderful stone, he found gold plates
on which were inscribed. the writings
in hieroglyphics. He translated them


by means of pair of magic spectacles
which the Lord delivered to him at the
same time that the golden tablets were
turned up. But nobody but John him
self ever saw. the golden tablets or the
far-seeing spectacles. He dictated the
book, concealed behind a curtain, and
it was written down by Cowdery. This
course scenes to be rendered necessary
by the fact that Joe did not know how
to write. Otherwise the book might
have gone to the printer in the hand
writing of Old Mormon himself. 1t is
now pretty well established that the
Book of Mormon" was written in 1872
by the Rev. Solomon Spalding of Ohio
as popular romance. He could not
find anyone TO print it. The manu-
script was sent TO Pittsburg, where it
lay in printing Office for several
years. Spalding was never able to
raise the money to secure the printing
of the story, and after his death, in 1924,
it was returned to his wife. By some
means, exactly how is not known, it
fell into the hands of one Sidney Rig
dom. who, with Joe Smith, concOcted
the scheme by which it was subsequent
ly brought out as the work of Smith.
The dealings with the outside world in
respect to it were manipulated by Hiram
an elder brother of Joe.
Year: 1878

should entertain mean opinion of
If all men, or the most part,
praised and admired me; it would prove
me to be somewhat like them. Sad and
sorrowful is it to stand near enough
for them to see us wholly; for them to
come up to us and walk around US
leisurely and idly, and pat us when
they are tired and going of.
Year: 1878

1t is not uncommon for st. Louis
citizen to get so hot this weather that
he has to be sopped up with . handker-
chief as big as q table cloth and two
inches thick, and put into a mold to
cool off slowly.-ChicagO Journal.
Year: 1878

about twelve feet, and its greatest diameter
nearly eighteen inches.


This marvel of ingenuity was maneuvred
the other day in the presence of number OF
English, Spanish and American naval officers
and great crowd of people The inventor
Hardy, to whom the occasion was the crown
ing event Of twenty years laborious and dis
heartening experiment, sat on the wharf,
working the keys of the electrical instrument
which by means of the wire connection CON
trolled the movements of the torpedo. BY
means of this novel arrangement the invent
or was enabled to guide his queer craft
through It's little cruise of n couple of miles,
during which it took any direction, and al
most any speed which he chose TO give it,
and finally came back to its starting point
amid tumultuous applause. If Edison desires
to keep his pre-eminence as master OF cleo
trical forces, he must bestir himself after such
miraculous achievement as the one which l
have of course but very imperfectly describ-
oil RADIx.
Year: 1878

they can display handsome pair of embroi-
dered hose ?


wish l could describe to you the pretty
tapestry designs which come for crewel work;
the embroidered towels, which add so much
to the furnishing of a room the waste-paper
baskets, which from very common place ar
ticles are transformed by working designs on
them in wools and lining them with some
thing gay and bright into really artistic or
naments. Il is only in such place as this
that you begin to realize the possibilities OF
the needle. If you are not quick to take the
hint and make practical application I shall
be surprised at you. You've no idea how
much you can do to beautify common place
things until you have paid visit to the nee
dlework department at Stearns's. Then you'll
begin to know.


SALIIE JOY WHITE.
Year: 1878

NOSE BLEED.-The Scientific


American gives the following novel
plan for checking bleeding at the
nose: eThe best remedy for bleed
ing of the nose, as given by DR.. Glea-
son in one of his lectures, is in the
vigorous motion of the jaws as in
the act of rnastication. In the case
of a child wad cf paper should be
placed in its mouth and the child
should be instructed TO chew it hard.
1t is the motion of the jaws that
stops the flow of blood. This remedy
is SO very simple that many will be
inclined to laugh at it, but it has
never been known to fail in a single
instance, even in very severe cases
Year: 1878

A Washington correspondent
says: THE new silver dollar will
be a handsome coin. On one
side a head of Liberty, crowned
with Phrygian cap, decorated
with wheat and cotton; thirteen
stars; the date Of coinage; the
legend II PJuribUs Unum.' On
the other side, surrounded by
an olive wreath, an eagle with
outspread wings, bearing in his
talons a branch Of olive and a
bunch Of arrows; the inscription
United States Of America One
Dollar and In God We Trust. Z
So if our readers never become
possessed Of any Of the shining
truck, they will at least have
the consolation Of knowing how
it looks.
Year: 1878

An article appearing IN your paper
signed O., against any increase in the po-
force we beg leave to answer some of its
erroneous reasonings.


First, however, we say the mayor we
have exalted as our chief of this city, as
we hold him in some measures RESPONSE
BILE for its peace and welfare, he is sup
posed 10 know more about our muncipail-
ity than we do, and of its necessities in its
administration, capable of directing its
affairs and is entitled to crdit i'm his opin-
ions, now as we take it for gran,edWil lin
ington always has been peaceable and
orderly place, is that any reason why it
should not be more SO. And our city ac-
quires greater glory than formerly.
As 10 the city not depending on police
force, we must in assure, and how
can law be enforcd b t by an efficient
police force? 1t will not do to depend for
civil laws upon these moral laws and
churches and people following on all dis
orderly conduct and encouraging virtue
and good behavior among all classes; as
TO the country having order without dis
tlnct police :, as in the city we all know
the dillerances are great, a congregation
OF the vile and the vicious, who Strength
en- each others hands in wickedness and
we need equal force to match them and
argus eyes to watch them and brawy
arms to keep them down-we are glad
our mayor is girding on his arE;or to
meet them and with an increased police
force and the continuance of every good
citizen to second his effort to enforce
laws and penalties, we doubt not the
result will be economy, peace, order and
happiness and holding the city in greater
purity and prosperily-than seven or
eight thousand dollars avear-and an in
crease of police, secure less loss of life
and additional security as well increase
security of, and the character of the city
which is really worth more than money.
A great thing for men to know what
political economy is, and if our mayor
who has begun so well and goes on bet
ter he will end best of all-and prove
! true to his promises of economy, and his
| adminstral ion will meet with the expec


tation of its best cIiZens.


PATRIOT.
Year: 1878

1t is an open secret on the streets that
one of our late city officers in the Water
Department, Mr.. Hayes, has allowed
his accounts TO become slightly Irregular


that the default will probably reach
Sl4OO, which his Republican securities
will be called on to make good. This is
unfortunate just at this time when the
city has so little money on hand in CON
sequence of the extravaganza of the last
freaks of the Republican City Council.