smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

1t is not intended, We suppose, how


ever great the tetrors of yellow fever


in ''cities of the plain" to establish


any quarantine regulations affecting


Austin. The disease brought hither


ends with him who has it. We need


only have proper hospital, if the dis


ease prevail in other places, ON some


suburban height. Yellow Jack was


never known to climb great hill, or


if he did he lost his breath and life


the very moment he reached the


summit. Raleigh is little fau-


bourg Of Memphis, nine miles from


the city. Memphis is 400 Gin round


numbers) and Raleigh $50 feet above


the sea level, and yet, while the city


was desolated and its population al
most decemated by the hideous scourge,
its subjects taken to Raleigh died or re-
covered, but failed to transfer the fatal
poison to nurses, physicians or others.
The sporule supposed to constitute the
germ of the disease, cannot even rise
to the altitude of Cairo or of st. Louis.
In both places people have died again
and again of yellow fever, but
none were originally infected
with its deadly poison in either of
these two cities. Doctors differ about
these matters but the leading facts are
as now gwen, and while the plague
has never harmed this capital no local
danger is possible, and if the sick and
suffering would escape from infected
districts it would be as unwise as un-
generous and heartless to turn them
away from a place of refuge. There
fore it has been proposed, if the dis
ease prevail in Southern Texas and In
towns heretofore desolated, that hos
pital be established in the vicinity of
the capital for the reception and prop
er treatment OF the diseased. If we
are to have yellow fever, the most
rigid quarantine will hardly keep it
away, and If we are not, it will be be-
cause natures laws render it impossible
and therefore it becomes us to mani
fest no mean, selfish cowardice, but to
serve as best we may, if the evil day
come, our friends and fellow-citizens
Of the coast and Southern cities.
Year: 1878

THE San Antonio Herald rang all
the changes some years ago and pre-
sented the proposition to sever the
western and northern counties from
the rest of the State in all its aspects.
The readers of the Herald grew weary
and sick and most of them died, and
the paper was forced to change its
tack and its editors and forgot its va
garies. The Dallas Herald is re.en-
acting the role of the Herald of San
Antonio. Let it alone. 1t will soon
discover the necessity for silence. The
time will surely come, if the Union be
perpetual, when, with the vast growing
power of the central government,
will be as powerful as France or Ger
many. Would Germans have Fader-
land disrupted? Would Frenchmen
have France subdivided and trans
formed into miserable little rival, help
less and jealous States? If the Amer
ican Union be perpetual, the last and
least desirable of results to Texas must
be the subdivision of the State. If
the Union be not perpetual no one could
possibly assent, on any terms, to the
severance of the Eastern or Northern or
Western districts. If each State must


finally care for itself, as against Mexico
or the North or the South, Texas
should never consent to any contrac-
ton to its confines. Local party-leaders
and selfish, ambitious men would
sacrifice the best interests of the COM
monwealth because of their petty
grievances or strifes or disappoint-
ments. Twenty years hence the pas
sions and riYalries of men and sections
of to-day will be utterly forgotten, and
people looking back will be amazed
that such little purposes and jealousies
and ambitions of the hour absolutely
caused f1atulent newspaper to propose
the subdivision of the commonwealth.
1t would be treason to the freedom and
glory and greatness and power of Texas
If insanity could compass treason.
Year: 1878




Is 1T the policy and purpose of Aus
tin and of every town and village to
establish quarantine against Houston
and Galveston? Must Texas towns
wall In those two cities that their peo-
pie may be excluded from the higher
and purer air of heaven, and must we
compel them thus to die helplessly and
rot of foul contagioni The proposition
is shocking. Humanity revolts against
it, and yet if Austin quarantines against
Houston and Galveston so must each
town and village of Texas. On the
contrary, knowing with almost Abso-
lutte certainty, that yellow fever's wings
are clipped by forces of nature in Aus
tin, let US make these hills city of
refuge and serve and bless rather than
inprison and destroy.
Year: 1878

SOME Weeping friend of Governor


Hubbard in q letter to the Galveston
Neics, from Austin, tries to give the
public an excuse for Hubbard's failure
to defend himself before the State con-
vention against charges of corruption
so long brought against him. This apol-
ogist Of the Governor says the charges
would have been answered in his
speech had not their republication been
confidently expected, during the sit
ting of the convention, through the
columns of the STATESMAN. We ara
simply to understand, then, that he
wanted to reply to the STATESMAN and
hold it up in awful colors and thus
wipe it out of existence. The tale is
a sad one and thin one, but it puts
the paper, and not the Governor, on
winning ground.
Year: 1878

SENATOR COKE is we'll pleased with
the selection of Chief Justice Roberts
as the Democratic candidate for the
Governors office. The Senator further
approves the financial plank of the
Texas Democratic platform, and thinks
that no better candidate could have
been selected and no better platform
enunciated.
Year: 1878

THERE has not been In the South a
more laborious or capable student of
the science of government than Chief
Justice Roberts. His lectures on gov
eminent were admirable illustrations
of his wisdom and scholarship. OF
the bench and off the rostrum Judge
Roberts is very boy in his tastes and
love of recreation and of every sort of
intellectual amusement.
Year: 1878

THE Brenham people, in view of q
possible protrscted struggle in the
coming congressional convention in
that place, advertise drinks at ten
cents and billiard. tables free. These
last, of course, are beds for the dele
gates. nine-tenths of whom never saw
billiard table OF took cue unless the
other fellow meant whisky all round.
We are persuaded. If BRENNAN will Of
fer few more generous inducements
Of this sort, that the congressional
convention VIII sit all summer,
Year: 1878

AND now the outsiders and "spot''
or ''iat" money people propose to set
up Judge A. B. Norton's ''fat" beard
and hair and walking stick and vote
at them. Since most of the white ad-
juncts of the Fiat" party have read
the money plank in the Democratic
platform, they do not see the use of
annoying the hair or the walking stick
or the unshorn memory OF Henry Clay.
Year: 1878

BRYAN no longer quarantines Hous-
ton. Austin will indulge in none of
this nonsense. The city fathers will
devise some plan of having the gut
ters washed out every day and then
freed from ghastly odors and fetid
water there can be no fever here. Let
Austin be refuge for the sick and
for those fearing the fever of the coast.
Year: 1878

If all the bonds of the United States
were paid off in ''fat" money we
would have money in circulation to the
amount of about three thousand mil.
lions of dollars, and in sixty days
we would bein the blessed financial
condition of the Confederacy in 1863
:
Year: 1878

We wonder whether it will ever
occur to some skilled st2tistician to
calculate the amount of wealth lost
to the people of these United States,
owing to the country roads. We
can imagine the incredulous looks of
our European cousins, were we to
inform them that in these flOurishing
States, at certain seasons of the year
the highways leading from various
towns and villages to the lines of
railroad, and lined for miles on either
side by farms in the highest state of
cultivation, teeming with all kinds
of agricultural produce, were even
more impossible to traffic than the
French LapadeS or Irish bogs.


Yet so it is, and we do not even
blush to own it. Where is our
American push and our Saxon ener-
gy that will permit such a state of
things ?


Our attention was lately called to
the letter of farmer which recently
appeared in one of our city papers,
in which he declared that, some ten
years ago, he had determined that
there should be proper road be-
tween his farm and Quincy. He had
persisted in his determination at the
risk, no doubt, of being voted bore
by all his eaSier-going neighbors, but
he had won the day, and for several
years he states, he has been able to
drive a wagon into town at any sea-
son of the year. No doubt such
persistence will always win the day;
but it is not so universally distribu-
ted as to afford a very firm basis for
the hope that within few years we
shall be relieved from the disgrace
1--WE call things by their right namss)
of having impossible roads after eve
ry few days rain with which we are
visited.


Improved roads will add to the
value of every farm bordering on
them. They will be worth millions
of dollars to the State at large. The
whole community, the merchant, the
railroad companies, the country
storekseper, and the farmer, will
reap the harvest Sown in good, dur
able road-beds. Let the State take
the matter in hand; let the tax for
road building be universal; let the
resident of town and city contribute
his pro rata to the general welfare,
in the shape of q road tax. Of
course people grumble at taxes, but
the experience of the past few weeks
has taught every merchant in the
country that poor roads are, every
year, though this year more than
others, taking away hundreds or
thousands of dollars from his annual
profits. Farmers are required to pay
q tax in the form of labor for this
purpose; but where is the material,
where are the supervision and in
spection of the roads to come from ?
If the farmer contributes his labor,
let the citizen of village, town, or
city, cheerfully pay such tax as may
be necessary to provide these other
requisites. = Farmers ReUteao.
Year: 1878

Why may not the government,
which always has use for money,
and Is amply responsible for all its
uses, establish postal savings banks?
This inquiry is becoming general,
and daily grows in emphasis. There
seem to be at least three good rea-
sons why this question should re-
ceiye an affirmative answer. In the
first place, the government needs
more money, and by just the amount
borrowed from its own citizens
would decrease the necessity of
borrowing from foreign capitalists
and the consequent expectation of
gold tor the payment of interest.
In the second place, such a measure
would encourage thrift among the
people by placing the opportunity
before all alike to save securely, lit
tie by little, the surplus of honest
industry. How to help the working
classes place themselves above want
should be the careful study of all
governments, for security from want
is security from temptation and con-
sequeut crime. In the next place
such plan would tend directly to
foster an abiding attachment for and
personal interest in the prosperity
and perpetuity of the government
among that class whose loyalty is
of prime Importance.


Chicago Alliance.
Year: 1878

can tell, who have flung their caps
or hats into the air, at some Indians
suggestion, only to have them pierced
by the unorring arrow. The grow
ing papooses, that is as soon as these
are able to toddle, are furnished
with bows and arrows of which the
points have been sharpened, and may
be seen about the reservations shoot
ing at marks, at small birds, or any
thing else that may happen to at
tract their attention. They gensr-
ally become expert at the ags of
about ten or twelve, but are not al
lowed to graduate into buek-age.
and all the pleasure of the chase. IN
til they are sixteen or eighteen.
Then is the time the real pleasure of
the Indian is found to culminate in
his first hunt after buffalo.
Year: 1878

When he reached the coast he
weighed but lis pounds. For ff-
teen days thereafter he gained half
pound of flesh daily with the most
curious regularity. He was COM
PEELED to be extremely careful with
regard to the use of food. The first
glass of wine which he took put
him to sleep, and anything like de-
cent meal seemed to. him the acme of
gluttony. For three months he and
his followers had lived on nothing
but cakes prepared from the cassava
root. For eighteen months they
had been from day to day uncertain
as to food on the morrow. Often
Obliged to fight for it, they wers
wont to make it the study of the
day, and to be profoundly thankful
when they received it.


Mr.. Stanley's hair had become
quite gray from the extreme fa-
tiguss to which he had been sub
jected, and his step is slow and
heavy, like that of a man aocus-
toned to carry q great load. But
not one jot or little of his immense
enthusiasm is in any sense abated.
He is Just as vivacious in conVersa-
tion, as earnest in action and alb
sorbed in his work as he was at the
eud of his first journey. l observe
with a certain sense of regret that
he mentioned, in his MarSailles adj
dress, delivered before the Geo
graphical Society there, the possible
ity of future return to Africa. The
vast unknown continent has fascina-
ted him; its wonders, which he has
unveiled at the expense of such
deadly peril, seem to tempt him
once more among thOm. In CONVEX
sation, however, he has not ex-
pressed any opinion az to a third
journey. To him for the present
everything is new and strange, and
he is getting acquainted with civil
ization once moro by slow degrees.
For three years previous to his ar
rival in Europe the other day, he
had not received a line of handwri-
ting, nor paper of any kind from
any person either in Europe or
America. The outside world was
an absolute blank to him. Some
times when struggling in the forests
or wandering along the banks of the
great stream which will be forever
associated with his memory, the i'm
age of the great world which he had
left behind him came up with start
ling vividness, and was so enchant-
ing that he was compelled resolut6ly
to put it away. Mr.. Stanley had
made up his mind to accomplish
all that the expedition had been plan
ned for or never to return alive.
Year: 1878

Indian archery is somewhat differ
ent from that practiced by the
young ladies and gentlemen OF more


civilized society. These latter take
the arrow between their fingers,
place it against the bow string, and
make it assist in bending the bow.
An Indian does not do this. He
takes the arrow between the
thumb and index finger, and pulls
the bow string with his middle I'm
ger; nor does he raise his arrow as
our boys and girls do; he shoots
straight out from the shoulder, and
appears to take no aim whatever.
He hits the mark, though, too often,
as the soldiers about the garrison
Year: 1878

Everybody should learn 3 trade.
We know of a very wealthy citizen,
a bank cashier, who, although having
plenty of money, is now learning one,
He is learning to peg shoes at Sing
Sing prison.
Year: 1878

of our system of government. They
consent to this if the majority is
with them. If it is not, then they
hold to the right of State to break up
the government, as a refuge aud a
defense. They did not surrender
this doctrine when they gave up their
Year: 1878

/ do not wonder at the condition
of affairs in the Southern States. No
man, no community, no government
can long practice q great wrong
without becoming demoralized. For
century the Southern people nur-
tured the crime of slavery. They
schooled themselves to the belief that
it was right for one man to own
another that il was right for one
man to eat bis bread in the sweat of
another mans face. That capital
should own labor. That it was right
to sell wife and children of the la
borer tor the profit and care OF bis
owner. That the price of one mans
head should paw another mans debts.
Year: 1878

The American Architect says: The
experiments that have been made at
Lockport, and we believe at Buffalo,
h9ve proved apparently above persdVen
tuse, the feasibility OF heating large
number of buildings by steam supplied
from a common source; though the pos.
sihiity OF supplying in the same way
steam for manufacturing purposes seems
not to b. so clearly established A mum.
Der Of citizens of New York have sately
purchased the right to introduce into
that city the Holly system nf town heat
ing, and already more than 81 100000
have been subscribed for the purpose If
making preliminary experiments; these
proving satisfactory, it Is supposed that
there will be small difficulty in obtaining
money to extend the system so as to em.
brace the whole city. The scheme, so
for as at present developed, is ultimately
10 divide the city into five sections in
each of which is TO be battery OF fifty
boilers, which it is thought will ba able
to meet all probable demands These
batteries are to be placed in four-story
brick buildings, presumably isolated,

having an area at the grouud OF some
200 square feet Starting from, these
ceuters system Of main aud connect
Jog pipes will be laid throughout the city
and each consumer will be furnished
with meter, 60 that he may be called
on to pay for only as much steam as be
uses. MesRs are provided for heating
the condensed water by live steam, and
causing it to circulate over the house by
o separate system of pipes No state
meut is at present made of the FIRST cost
Of the plan But some idea OF the run
ming expenses may be conceived from
the statement that the FIVE batteries are
calculated 10 consume about $500 tons
Of coal each day. 10 the economical
Introduction Of the system the shape Of
the island may be OF use, as it is stated
that battery OF the size mentioned il
capable of sending steam to points two
miles destant without much loss Of eifsc
tive power
Year: 1878

wait for the deacon's wife to come over aud show him how to harness, for he did notkHow bits from crupper.

 khow army officers who, out of the army, are only fit to carry entrails to q bear, and not much of bear either.

 Every man should know not only how to do one thing right well, but he ought to be able to do several things tOlerably well. Every wise farmer has principal crop; but he also has a little of something else, so tat if his main crop fails he will have sor.~thing to live on. Don't carry all your egg. in one basket. Don't put all our n .y in one pocket. To get along well 1rt of work to get living by and 1i 1rts of work to get along with when 70 one sort of work gires out. Work is -lethlng that needs to he done, and B. ( knows how to do most will have the best chance to make money or, what is better still, to make himself feel like useful man.

 This is court of insects; Its mem bers are bugs. You see, if man feels ttat he is of no use in the world, tbat he is mere bug in crack, to be scared and drop if his crack widens, to be pinched if it closes, he is always anxious about that crack, fearing that something may happen to it, to leave him out in the cold or jam him. Such a man can never be happy, because he can never feel that Le amounts to much.

 The proposed consolidation of the army will, in the first place, open the crack; and courts martial will continue to contract it on some unfortunate fellow, while all the other poor bugs are straddling around try ing to find new cracks. Do you ever hear an old army officer confess that he is fit for nothing but the army, that he couldn't earn his salt out of the army, etc? When such woful admissions are made, do you ever think Of my bug g-ln-the-crack and that 'twould have been better for him and the world if he had early learned to do all sorts of work and to keep his eyes and ears open; if he had drank less and studied more, gambled less and thought and observed more? A soldier never knows where duty may call him. The man that knows how to do the most things is the best soldier; that is to say, the most of man. Any man who thinks he can't do it." is generally more than half right Don't leta sense of official dignity restrain you from work. There is great deal of dignity in this world that is composed entirely of dignity and nothing else. TELEPHONE.
Year: 1878

DEAR SENTINEL:

 The anomaly of an army officers at tempting to increase his understanding by giving of his time and means to duties not prescribed by the Army Regulations, or enjoined by orders from the War Depart ment, startles me into paraphrase of Po- lonius to Laertes, which may be termed the

 soLILoQUY OF COURT MARTIALED MAN.

 My son! have more than one string to your bowl! Behold ye army officers. Be- hold they scarce do toll or spin

 I am always sorry for man who knows how to do but one thing. 1 am now look ing Che stares at the courO at many such men. I once gave ten dollars to a man who could speak and write five or six lan- guages and translate elegantly; but in the middle of hard winter he could not make living. I remember man who had preached twenty five years, till his throat failed him, and he used to go around look ing very blue and sad, until people pitied him and made little donation parties for him, because he was good for nothing ex- cept to preach.

 know man that wants to keep store and he sits with his thumb in his mouth waiting for store to come and be kept.

 I heard of a minister who, when his peo- pie gave him 6 horse and buggy, had to
Year: 1878

The Commissioner recommends the re- peal of the jurisdiction now vested in the Surveyor General and the appointment of three or more Commissioners to hear and decide upon The validity of these claims. The present method of surveying these claims is defective and a remedy is demanded
Year: 1878

Will the new city council look after


the horned cattle that make their beds
at night on the sidewalks Every
gentleman of experience knows that a
COW in bed is not an easy obstacle to
walk over. Surmount her rear, and
then there is the horns. Try the horns
first, and there is case of the stomach
ache, if not something worse. A COW
on the sidewalk, of a dark night, is a
very serious thing to encounter. And
it is also annoying, next day, to en-
counter her tracks and the like. True,
the street is wide enough to go around
the beast, and keep ones skirts clear
and keep down profanity, but we must
insist upon clear, clean Sidewalks, no
matter what be the cost of milk or
beef. The COW nuisance should be
abated, and can easily be done by COM
pelling owners of cattle to keep them
in enclosures at night.
Year: 1878

Corn has been planted and replanted
as many as four times in places, but
the cut worm, bud worm and chintz
bug have met it so persistent1y and
destructively that it is apparent from
the best information we can gather
that the prospects are hardly half so
good as last year; but the increased
acreage justifies the hope that there
will be at least sufficient yield for
home consumption.


Cotton is good, and i'll stand, vigor
and size of plant will compare favor
ably with preceding years. The
weather has been cold from day to day
for the last ten days, and the growth
has been checked if not stunted. Lice
will be apt to follow. No one can an
ticipate the many dangers that hang
over cotton, but from present indlca-
tions the planter seems to have good
ground to hope for an abundant har-
vest. But apprehensions of the cater
pillar, owing to the mild winter, are
not without good reason.
Year: 1878

When an editor marries, it has been
generally thought among the craft,
that he printed his sheet double, but
the newly married young editor of the
Franklin Sun comes out in a half sheet,
and we observe that several interest
ing communications were crowded out.
Year: 1878

Among the rumors we might men,
tion is one that two or three young
ladies, who are friends of this paper,
are about to tie themselves indisso1u-
bly, to some infallibly mean men, as
all men are. We have never been able
to understand woman's ways, and
Solomon, himself, acknowledged he
could not. What do nice young ladies
marry for, particularly this late in the
Spring?