smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

doing so it was certainly unknown
to him (the Captain). He had not
given any positive orders on that
subject, but it was an understood
thing on the ship. He had been
off duty about ten minutes when
the collision occurred, but had not
got to sleep. He heard the cry of
"Sail ahead p and when he got on
deck he saw the ship approaching,
not more than hundred yards off.
He saw no light on the ship and
had no time to look for one. He
rang the bell'to stop his own vessel,
but had hardly stopped her head>
way when the collision occurred.


Being asked the question, "Where
did you strike the ship?' Capt.
Lockwood answered, "We did not
strike the ship; the ship struck US
just abaft stern, just abaft bow,
about six to eight feet abaft.
That's as near as we can judge,
because we had no chance to see.
She struck US at an angle Of As
degrees; she went into our ship
about twenty or twenty-five feet,
within twenty feet of the foremast."' -
Capt. Lockwood then explained, by
means of models, the positions of
the vessels, and stated that the
holes in either side of the Lady Oc-
tavia were made by her
passing through the bow of
the Champion. The engineer and
a seaman Of the Champion also tes>
tilted. The latter witness was asked
whether his vessel ran into the
Octavia or the Octavia ran into the
Champion, but was unable to give a
positive answer on the point. The
examination was then closed, but
| will be resumed in the morning.
The survivors Of the steamship crew
are present before the Court of In
quiry and their testimony, which
will occupy several days, will be
presented.
Year: 1879

A friend of the late Senator
Chandler says that the Senator Of
ten expressed wish to die just as
he did, suddenly and without suffer-
ing. He had such a strong convic-
tion that such would be his end, that
he did not hesitate to express his
belief that death would come to him
as thief in the night.
Year: 1879

AS OUR readers we'll know there has
been terrible distress in Ireland for
some time, with a fannie almost
threatened. Ga account of this scarcity
the Irish have been very turbulent.
To relieve and quiet and sooth them
the Lord Lieutenant has decided to
begin Internal improvements on a
large scale, so that work and money


may be- distributed through the island.
Year: 1879

1T bas been standing remark foI
twenty years that the Democrats never
learn anything by experieneesand the
Maine conspiracy only pro-es the
truth Of it for one more time. II it is
carried out, there is still another prop
knocked out from under Democracy s
hope for success in 1880.
Year: 1879

IT has been discovered that the man
who bit Gen. Grant with either very
young chicken or a very old egg. was
not a man at all, bat one of three boys,
each about thirteen years of age.
They have been arrested aud are now
under $500 bond each,
Year: 1879

It is so in politics, business and
everywhere else in life. The man
whom you boost up the tree not
only forgets to toss you down some
of the fruit, but is as likely as not
to pelt with the chawings.-Jersey
CStg Journal.
Year: 1879

A Northern letter writer to a Southern
journal, in alluding to the great value of
cotton seed meal and the high price it
commands in Northern markets, says:


In your paper you speak of cotton seed
being worth $32. 50 per ton in England as
a fertilizer while it is worth only So to 81
at your mills Are you aware that cotton
seed meal is worth $50 to SIS per ton
wholesale in New York? and we cannot
get anything like as much as we want of
it at that price have to pay 3 to 81
cents per pound for it by retail by the bar
rel, which is higher than linseed oil meal
is usually sold at; and yet we prefer the
cotton seed meal at this enhanced price,
as it has been proved by trial the most
profitable to feed to our live stock; and
the manure coming from this feed is more
valuable than that from linseed oil. Is not
this great difference of price between the
North and South worthy of the conside-
ration of the Grangers, and ought they
not to take up the subject and see that the
cotton planters get a more equitable price
for their seed? At So to 81 per ton, l sup
pose, means the seed in a raw state; but
what is the waste in it and the cost of
making it into'meal suitable for the North
ern market? / know nothing of this, but
suppose the seed when made into meal
| would not cost over half what it is sold for
| in the Northern markets, leaving 100 per
cent profit to the mllers, perhaps, when
they ought to be satisfied with profit, in
these hard times for the planter, of 2 pei
cent at most. If | am wrong in my sup


position above, | beg to be corrected, and
/ / only write as now do to get at the facts


of the case, as | wish both millers anc


planters to be fairly remunerated for al


their labor and enterprise.
Year: 1879




The Pennsylvania Farmers's Friend
very pertinently says that if we had but
used our Oranges, there is not doubt but
that we could have united upon a farmer
and placed him at the head of the agricul-
tural department at Washington. A del
egation of Patrons, representing the wish
es of the millions of the United States
would have had its effect, provided the
choice on our part would have been a
wise one. The plan of selecting man
outside of all the place hunters, within or
outside the Grange, would have made it
practical to unite in our selection.


But here is the difficulty. We do not
use the means at our hand. We do not
present the wishes of our class, and back
them, as we should, by the influence of
the Grange, which is power when unit
upon any appeal. The President is sur
rounded by appeals and representatives of
a constant horde of politicians. They seek
him by every art and avenue. Could not
access be more readily gained by agricul
turists and representatives ofthe thousands
of Patrons of each State, especially on a
matter of agricultural interest? Why do
we not promptly use the Grange in such
emergencies? Whenever we thus fail to
use it, its enemies cite such failures to its
ineficiency.
Year: 1879

As long as the farmers of the South con-
tinue their present policy, they will be at
the mercy of the spectators. The farm
ers will have to keep out of debt, and be
their own masters, before they will realize
the fruits of their honest labor Specula-
tors are interested in buying the crops at
the lowest figures. Fully advised that the
country is in debt they know that the cot
ton must be sold, bring what it may.
When the crop is all out of the country
prices will advance, as they did last year,
but too late for our home people, except
to those farmers who were free from debt
and could hold on to their cotton.
Year: 1879

We are indebted to Past Master D.
Wyatt Aiken, of South Carolina, for a
copy Of his very able and instructive
speech on ''Our Age and It's Progress, y
delivered recently before the Literary
Club of Ninety-Six. We will endeavor
to lay it before our readers in full in the
next number ofTHE PATRON. Bro Aiken
is one of the deepest, soundest thinkers in
the country and one of the ablest men
corrected with our Order
Year: 1879

We most earnestly appeal to all the
friends of THE PATRON to get as many
subscribers as possible. This is the best
time Of the year to procure subscriptions
for farmers paper, and we hope none
will permit it to pass unimproved. A
few are at work and doing good work,
but the circulation of the paper is far from
what it should be- With the proper effort
by all of its friends, five thousand sub
scribers could be easily secured for it this
month.
Year: 1879

A Texas paper says that if the present
generation would enrich themselves and
Benefit their country, they will not allow
to pass the golden opportunity of estab
fishing cotton and woollen manufactures.
It saws that in Colorado county, within a
few miles of Columbus, there is a fall in
the Colorado river of II feet in distance
of 1000 yards-sufficient power to con-
vert every pound of wool and cotton raised
in the State into needed and valuable
fabrics
Year: 1879

Delegates to the Mississippi State
Orange must be selected this month, and
i've urge upon the Oranges of counties
that have not acted to do SO Immediately
II is of the utmost importance that the
hcxt meeting of the State Grange be well
attended. We would thank the Secreta-
es of County Oranges to forward us the
names of delegates from their respective
counties for publication.
Year: 1879

that men not elected by the people
should dare to hold office. II the
President had come to this conclu-
sion some forty-five months ago,
and had peremptorily refused to
benefit by the Returning Board in-
fanny, he would have occupied a
much more exalted station in the
history OF his country than he can
ever hope to do now. But in spite
of Its inconsistency, the sentiments
of Mr.. Hayes as to men occupying
offices to which they were not
elected is a just one. Democrats
hope that no member of their par
ty in Maine will take any position
to which he was not fairly elected
by the people. If the law says
that Republicans were not proper
ly returned that is well and good ,
and new elections should be held.
But if any Democrat is found
reaching out his hand for that to
which he was not called by the
popular choice, in Maine or any
where else, we hope he will be
buried under q load of righteous
Indignation. The Democratic par
ty will wash its hands of all such
pretenders to Democracy.
Year: 1879

In compl lance with time-hon-
ored custom no paper will be issued
from this Office tomorrow, in order
that our employees may enjoy their
Christmas turkey at their leisure.
The practice of writing set Christ
mas articles has become SO hack
neyed that 1t may now be said to
be more honored in the breach
than In the observance. We there
fore content ourselves with wish
ing our readers happy Christmas
and many returns of the genial and
august old festival. In doing so


we cannot forbear the hope that
! AL purses will be opened wide to-
day and that generosity and broth.
erhood may make the unfortunate
for one twenty-four hours at least


lose the trick Of sadness.
Year: 1879

from the Philadelphia Record.l


Ex-senator Goldthw waite, Of Ala
bama, was noted for his extreme
absent mindedness, and he was oc-
casionally seen running about the
Senate trying to get out and not
being able to find the door. He
would have half the page.boys in
the Senate looking for his hat or
cane, which would be all the while
firmly clasped in his hand. He
was much given to walking up and
down the lobby, plunged in deep
thought, often smoking fragrant
Havana, and entirely oblivious
of all things about him. Often
some cheeky page of the SEN
ate would walk Lup and ask the
Senator for light. Mr.. Goldth-
waite would mechanically hand
over his cigar, the boy would take
a light, put the choice weed In his
Year: 1879




THE extent to which insurance
companies are victimized by incen-
diary fires can only be guessed at.
The field Of conf lecture is a wide
one, however. The facts developed
in the case of the fire at the Palace
Of Sweets, in this city, will excite
wide attention. L tris case q
quarrel between mother and daugh-
ter made it possible to get at the
facts. The crime of incendiarism,
especially when the circumstances
are such as surround this peculiei
case, is one of exceptional atrocity.
>But for the timely discovery of this
FIRE by young gentleman who
kept late hours, and who lodged
above this confectionery store, not
~nIy would valuable block OF
buildings ave been burnt down
but one and perhaps more lives
would have been lost. AS it was, q


stient of DIR. Barton, who lodged


his block, was 80 far gone in


ocation that only the most ex-


ordinary medical exertions
avalled to save his life. The peo-
pie who, to swindle an insurance
company, can deliberately endan-
ger the lives of others, and at q
time when, in the hush and repose
Of night, they are thrown COM
pletely off their guard, may lack
the courage to commit brutal and
red-handed murder, but they have
twice the capacity for guilt of the
ordinary rufiian. The insurance
companies are to be congratulated
upon the exceedingly skillful way
In which this case has been devel-
oped. The knowledge that, months
after the crime had been commit.
ted, exposure and punishment
may fall upon the perpetrators, like
q clap of thunder from a clear sky
will do much to prevent such
crimes.
Year: 1879

precious mouth and hand over his
old stump to the old gentleman,
who would continue his stroll in
blissfull ignorance. 1t is related
on good authority that, in one of
his fits of abstraction, he walked
into the Senate elevator, dropped q
nickel into the hole back of the
mirror, and calmly requested to be
let out at "Hu street.
Year: 1879

WE have yet to hear of any ex-
tensive damages from the late Sc
we're frosts. That of last night was
the heaviest we have known in
years. or course, some of the young
orange trees have been injured and
the ripening of the fruit has been
dalaved
Year: 1879

THE depth to which the Sierras
are covered with snow along their
whole length speaks well for min
Ing and irrigating operations mex t
Summer. The supply of water is
certain to be abundant and endur-
ing. From the Tehachepi noun
tains to the San Bernardino range
the fall of snow has been unusually
heavy.
Year: 1879

Upon the resolution to submit
back to the people the question of
a settlement of the State debt. Mr..
Ewing said:


Mr.. Ewing, speaking to the reso-
lutions of Mr.. Tolley and Mr..
Clapp and the House resolution
said, that just beginning public life.
the question as to whether he was
to be continued in Office was OF lit
tie moment compared with the
duty devolving upon him to seek
earnestly for the right and honestly
to pursue it regardless of the con
sequences to himself and regardless
of the criticisms of to-day. He felt
that he must look to future as we'll
as present effect of whatever settle
ment of this question they might
reach. Whether to be regarded
the bondholder's friend or the ad
vocate of high tax, he cared not, it
would not sever him from a con
scientious dicharge of his duty as
he understood it. He was not there
to defend the creditors of the State
especially, but the honor OF the
people of Tennessee. Legislators
hold their positions direct from the
people This cry of the popular
will as paramount to every other
governmental consideration was
fraught with danger to our institu
tions, as abundantly illustrated in
the lessons and experience of the
long past. He did not question the
sincerity of those who took a differ
ent view, but he should support the
resolution of the Senator from
Shelby. The message of the Gov
ernor he would say, with all due re-
spect to that distinguished officer
of the State Government, was cal
culated TO do the people a harm
they might not outlive in hundred
wears. lie would not investigate
dollar of the ante bellum debt, le
galized by successive Legislatures,
fresh from the people, for forty
years. While he would be willing
to submit a proposition of a con
promise of the debt at 80 cents on
the dollar to the ratification of the
people, he would support the reso
lutian Of the Senator from Shelby


The resolution of the honorable
Senator from Shelby presents this
great question in three phases.


l. The effect of reputation upon
the Democratic party.


2. It's effect upon the material
welfare of Tennessee.


And 3. Its effect upon the honor
and good name of our State.


While this is not the arena upon
which politics should be the con
trolling question, yet, as the great
majority of this body are Demo
Gratis, and represent Democratic
Year: 1879

edge of any one branch Is hard to
find. Now, the chief object of
schooling, the rudiments having
been mastered, is to learn how to
learn; but our schools, too many Of
them, are teaching how not to
lean. The arts of drawing and
music are taught to a cetain extent


but the greater art of study, the art
which enables the pupils to concen-
trate the energies of his mind and
master the subjects in hand, is
shamefully neglected The fact is,
that study, real study, is hard, tire
some. eXhausting work, and no
new-fangled system" or method"
will ever make it anything else
The boy who is going to learn alge-
bra, geometry or trigonometry, has
TO think-think for himself; and
that's just what the schools rarely
teach him to do. 1t is not enough
that he should understand the solu-
tion of a problem, the demonstra-
tlon of proposition, or the deriva
ton Of formula. That is superb
cial. If he is really to learn, he
must think out the solution for
himself, demonstrate the PROPOSE
tion, and have as clear a knowledge
of why formula is correct as of the
formula itself. But teaching of
this kind takes time, and here seems
to be the thing which our schools
lack. To be sure, they have all the
time there is. but they seek to
crowd so much into it that it comes
very short Boston Transcript.
Year: 1879

A merchant in Jonesborough
failed last week and made an as
signment at once of all his effects
for the benefit of creditors. The
papers of the village say he acted
honorably and fairly in all things.
We are not surprised at this. 1t is
only one of a great number of sim
liar announcements which are GER
tain to be made in the next twelve
months. Almost every merchant
who bought goods on a credit last
year, and every one wh0 buys them
that way this year will be apt to
travel the same road. Business
men of all kinds who are in debt
now are standing on dangerous
ground Their utter ruin seems
inevitable. Every land holder and
farmer in the country, who is in
debt now, must meet the same fate
he will be unable to pay out. II
he raises a large crop OF grain he
will not be able To sell at what the
raising cost. His horses, mules,
c4ttle, hogs and sheep must be sold,
If he sells them at all. at ruinous
prices. These predictions are
gloomy it is true, but we fear they
are all to come literally true. The
cause is a simple one. 1t all
comes Of the law of Congress re-
quiring gold payments of all kinds
OF debts after the first day of Janu-
ary. 1879, ard the drawing in and
destruction of the greenback cur
rency. The business of the coun-
try cannot stand the strain Nor
ristOwn Gazette.
Year: 1879

constituency, 1t is not thought to
be improper to look at the question
IN its influence upon the future OF
that party that controls, and should
in future control, the destiny, not
only of Tennessee, but of our en-
tire country.


l have never had any correspon-
sonally acquainted with but one per
son known 10 be hondholder, and
that one is a young man whose
guardian, In his anxiety to make
safe investment for his ward, so
that his patrimony should be forth
coming, thought that he found the
safest and surest method to be the
purchase of the bonds of his native
State-a State upon whose escutch
con not the shghtes stain rested,
and whose plighted faith was as
firm and lasting as the eternal
rocks. Alas! that man was not
prophet, and to him the dark days
of tae future are as a closed book.
He had lived just long enough to
fear he had made a fatal mistakes
But to return. l am not in the
confidence of the bondholder, but
if | were, and could read their
wishes, [ would find that their wish
is that we refuse to pay one cent of
this debt, for then the great body
of our Northern Democratic breth-
rem would be estranged from US
division would spring up in our
rapks, and instead of going on to
victory and coming into possession
of the then co ordinate powers of
the Government, we will lose what
we would have achieved, after long
wears of patient endurance, con-
slant vigilance and unceasing toll.
This division would insure the re
turn to power of Gen. Grant, man
in whose bosom ranked more ven
ON and hate, in whose blood was
more poison, in whose heart was
more hatred toward the Southern
people than is the case with any
other man in our country, no one
excepted. Can Senators, with the
splendid record of Democracy be-
fore them, with its grand fight for
liberty a matter of history, commit
an act that will thwart all future
possibilities for that party?


Should we reject the resolution
of the Senator from Shelby our ma
terial welfare will be destroyed, our
fields 90 to waste, our wheels cease
their motion and business circles
stagnate. 1t is the history of all
countries that their future growth
has depended upon immigration.
So with us. We need the strong
arm and money of honest, thrifty
immigrants. They will not go to
a State where credit is gone and
her good faith at a discount. If
the State cannot be trusted, her in
dIvidu4l citizens cannot be trusted,
and when there is a want of conf
dence business and trade must
cease. Would it not be better and
wiser to encourage our people by
Xamples Of economy and honor,
than TO listen to complaint and
blindly rush on to ruin, 1t is an
act in bad faith and a skeleton will
arise so hideous as to shock the
very senses-the rivers will no
longer be coursed-our fields un-
furrowed--our walls decayed--a
cloud of infamy hang over us, and
over all the dark rain will break
happiness and prosperity return
never more, never more.
Year: 1879

Men and women tell us almost daily
they would like to take the CITIZEN, but
they are too poor. Therefore we make
this offer: Widows and destitute, home
less men with families, shall have % per
cent. discount frem the regular price if
they are really and truly hard pressed.
We make this offer in all sincerity with
no intention to offend, and we cordially
invite all such to avail themselves of it.
We are anxious to put the CITIZEN into
the hands ofevery family in Giles coun-
ty, and no one shall have an excuse if
we can possibly help it. If you haven't
got the money bring us something to
eat at the market price.
Year: 1879

b. Venus is now at her greatest dis
tance from us-one hundred and
sixty millions of miles or one hun
dred and thirty five millions farther
away than when she is nearest the
earth. This may seem startling
but it is true. She always gets as
far away from us as she can as
soon as Congress meets. And we
don't blame her Norristown Her
aid
Year: 1879

"Be ever ready to acknowledge a
favor" says a writer. We are, sir;
what troubles US is that, on one side
we are completely loaded down
withreadiness, while on the other
side opportunity is painfully scarce.
Year: 1879

THE NEW Process OF FLOUR MAKiNC.-
Almost everybody knows of the honr but


not every one understands what it is. Strip
ped of tecluicalitieS this is perhaps ahout


the story of its manufacture: The best Hour
used 20 be made of winter wIeat. Spring
wheat yielded either much less in quality,


or else so much of the bran got into the tiour
in its manufacture that It's color was mtoier-
ably dark The wheat wonl,i be ground an1
then hulted. In the refuSe-thc BRAIN and
middhngs-would be included large proper
ton of the weight of the spring wheat, and
this would sell more particularly for food for
horses Now the best Of fiour, and the most
expensive, Is made of this very refuse ol the
oId-fashioned process. 1t all came ont of
the discover, OF way to draw ont the bran
Under the new process the wheat Is ground
about as before The first result IS an ordl-
nary -four sold for expectation. Then the
remainder Is taken and put upon great hurl-
zouta! siev.,S and while agitation Is gong on
there. an ingenious system Of draughtS. rush
ing up through, carries off the bran. What
is left is the glutinoas portion OF the wheat.
the most nut fitionS and most productive, and
ont of this, purified now by the drawing on
of the bran, we get our new process Hour.
The result of the discovery OF he process
has been to make the poor spring wheat OF
Minnesota and upper Wisconsin the most
valuable kind Of gram, and to make the for


tunes of the inventors of the methul.
Year: 1879

HAPPY the farmer, about these days,
who has Sc little farm well TILED, little
wife well willed, and a great big barn
well flied with valuable stock and feed
enough to last them all winter.