smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

being an aggrieved person. Now,
there is this curious thing about
duels, which, l suppose, accounts
for principals taking things so
quietly. Before the duel one feels
most uncomfortable, to judge by
my experience, but when one has
to fire one is so engaged in listen
ing for the signal that it does not
occur to one that one may be hit.
A good shot would, / take it, be
able to take a deliberate aim undis-
turbed by any nervous trepidation
from his target also aiming at him,
because the nervous trepidatien,
however strong it may be before
hand, by some curious disposition
of nature disappears when you are
actually firing. Much the sam e
thing occurs in battle The un-
pleasant moment is, according to
the experience of soldiers, that just
before going under fire or when the
fire is not returned. So soon as
soldiers are themselves firing, one
idea excludes another, and their
minds are SO occupied with what
they themselves are doing that they
forget the danger.s
Year: 1878

which the meeting declared its
conviction that the benevolent in
tentions of Mr.. Stewart had been
efectually and shamefully thwart-
ed. They entreated Mrs. Stewart
to see that what was intended for
workingwomen should not be taken
from them, and that an equivalent
charity under better advisers be
provided for them. They exoner-
ated Mrs. Stewart from blame in
the matter, advised every self
respecting woman to withdraw her
patronage from Stewards store,
directed attention to the fact that
the man who denied to woman a
flower-pot or a bird was now open
ing in the same building a bar ard
a billiard-room, and called Judge
Hilton the most astute business
trickster of the day and the most
conspicuous fraud in the history Of
American charities. This fatter-
ing alluSion to the Judge tickled
the audience immensely, and they
demanded a second reading of it.
The resolutions were unanimously y
adopted. Much amusement was
afforded by the reading Of a series
of regulations for the guidance OF
the future male boarders, in which
the rules with which the inmates
of the Woman's Home have COM
piled were happily parodied.
Year: 1878

tive act. he must be positively
convinced that it would be for the
advantage of the child to remain
with its mother, or else he could
not sustain the agreement. He
had no doubt, he said, of Mrs.
Besant's sincerity and of her love
for her child; nor would he dis
cuss the truth or falsity of her
opinions. He must consider only
the advantage and disadvantage of
the child, and as Mabel Besant's
benefit seemed to him to 90 SO must
he decide. And he must decide
that as a man of the world.
Whether Mrs. Besanfs views were
right or wrong, they were such as
were shocking to society generally,
to her own sex particularly; and
that when to her authentic opinions
were added others, which he be-
lieyed tended to immortality, it ap-
peared to him certain that the pros
poets Of the child would no. be so
fair in her hands as in those of the
country vicar, her husband. Sir
George Jessel rested the matter
solely upon the child's worldly pros
poets. .bs tuE erasso


1t is grievance to have the most
earnest and eloquent woman now
in Europe deprived of her child un-
der circumstances which DO not ad-
nit of a fair and square fight on
the issues Of the few surviving dis
abilities on free thought.
Year: 1878

a voice at my side say, Il do be-
lieVe the gray is crowding into the
bays All l could see was a heap
of dark horses, with a gray streak
sandwiched in somewhere near the
end of the bunch. They came
along in a whirlwind Of dust, and
somehow, as they passed under the
wire, the old gray was neck ahead.
Some one whispered in my ear,
Judge, you are sound on the horse
question, after all And that is the
reason why am in favor of pool
selling"
Year: 1878

A letter is printed in the news
papers of Virginia, written by a
daughter of Commodore NJ. F.
Maury and addressed to the women
of the State, proposing a scheme
by which they may rescue the fair
name Of the Old Dominion from
impending disgrace by dischargiug
in part its pecuniary obligations.
The tone of the address is clearly
shown in the following extract from
it: E" | say, therefore, if the legisla-
ture will not impose an additional
tax, if the men cannot bring them
selves to give up for the honor of
the State the price of their whisky
and tobacco for one year, then in
the name Of justice and right let
the women Of the land raise their
voices in protest; nay, more, let us
put our shoulders to the wheel and
see if we cannot move this heavy
burden. The plan is this-it is only
a suggestion-but suppose we try il
till a better is proposed: In every
country neighborhood, in every
town district, let some one appoint
herself an agent for the woman't
fund for the liquidation Of the State
debt. Let her visit her friends, anC
talk this matter over, and ask how
much they can subscribe monthly
or quarterly, and. let her make il
her business to collect the same
Country people can spare pound
Of butter or a dozen eggs or a pail
of chickens every now and then
and town folks need not give
quite as much as usua'
for their best bonnet and
dress, that they may have some,
thing to add to the fund Let
the collections made by the agents
in the country be sent to those in
town by postoffice order or regis.
tered letter, and let them buy uT
tax-receivable coupons as fast al
possible and place them in the gov,
ernment's hands to be Cancelled


There are not enough coupons in
existence to pay all the State tax.
Much Of it has to be paid in money
and, of course, the fewer coupons
there are the more money will flow
into the treasury. If they could
all be bought up and Cancelled al
they fall due every six months, the
tax would have to be paid altogeth'
er in money, and the State would
be greatly relieved of her embar,
easements. l have a nest.egg fol
the fund (the price Of my sing
ing lessons for the rest of the Year,


who will be the first to add to til
And | offer my services gladly and
freely to all who will avail them.
selves Of them. That they may dc
SO with more readiness and conf,
dence, l would have it known
whom | am: Eliza, fourth daughter
of Captain NJ. F. Marry, than
whom | think l may safely say nc
man ever did more or gave up more
for the honor and good of the
State" "oa
Year: 1878

In the opinion of the Shoe and Leather


Reporter the commercial troubles in Great


Britain will not harass our Treasury in its


effort to resume specie payments on the first
Of January. The Reporter says: Our British
kinsmen appear to be threatened with finan-
cial panic. This will occasion universal re-
gret in America, but not great surprise. The
glimpses we get of the expansion of credits in
the United Kingdom are calculated to pre-
pare us for recurrence of one of those COM
mercial revulsions which happen periodically
among people whose trade extends all over
the world. We know by painful experience,
what gloomy atmosphere they create while
they last. We also realize by the same token
how purifying and wholesome their ultimate
effects are. Our country will incidentally
suffer somewhat by disasters which befall q
nation with which we have such intimate re-
lations, but it will be rather on account Of
their diminished ability to receive our prod
ucts than by reason of more direct losses.
Fortunately our debt abroad has been reduced
to so comparatively small an amount that we
have little to fear in the way of calls upon US
for money. For that matter, our transatlan-
tic brethren will have much less use for the
precious metals, in panic, than they would
If they were struggling to avert one. Conse-
quently, if the impending crisis proves as
formidable as the early symptoms indicate, it
will not have the effect of hindering the re-
sumption ofspecie payments at the beginning
OF the new year. II that consummation were
in danger of postponement, we should con-
template the future with dread. 1t Is be-
cause we believe that it will be successfully
accomplished, and dispel the last vestige OF
darkness FROM the financial horizon, that we
take a cheerful view of the prospect before
Year: 1878

IT seems that the Mrs. Hill who is now so
fiercely fighting her husband and breaking the
heads of his agents with ice-pitchers, ran
away over seas and suffered shipwreck to mar
ry him. All of which shows what blunders
people in love can make-blunders quite as
great as are made by those out of love.
Year: 1878

1T is certainly to be hoped that the anti
Butler men have good grounds for their con-
fidence in their ability to defeat him. But
canvasses are "onsartain" this year, and may
be as deceitful in Massachusetts as they have
proved elsewhere.
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous letters and communi
cations. The anne and address Of the writer are In
sl eases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return Or preserve CON-
munications that are not used.
Year: 1878

From the Chicago Times, Nov. 80


DR.. Chopin, the distinguished yellow fever prao-
tioner at New Orleans has travelled all tho way to
Washington TO personally urge upon the President
and Congress the great need of national quarantine
law stringent as to put an embargo upon the i'm
poration of the terrible Southern scourse II is said
that the President will strongly recommend such
measure in his Message to Congress- and there
hardly be a doubt that snch measure will pass and
tina: it viii be voted FOR by every solid South state
sovereignty" adorer in both houses.


Either before after its passage somebody
in pursuit of curious information ought to
inquire Of those state righss' Bourbons
how they reconcile such measure with their
pet theory Of the constitution. In what part Of
the written instrument do they find express grant
Of power to enact quarantine law against yellow
fever. express grant from which Congress de-
rives such power by necessary implication r Ii
they by saying that is nclndcd in tine clause
which says Congress shall have power 10 provide fox
the general welfare then it will b. proper to inquire
By what mode OF reasoning they reach the conclusion
that proy for the particular welfare OF
Inhabitants OF that particular region which is subject
to yellow fever would be a.t to provide for tho
general welfare The rational and snfficient
this inquiry would be that it is question which
Congress alone hgs the power to decide, aud that
whatsoever act Congress- by passing IT, decide to
be for the general welfare Congress has power to
pass unless ii be expressly prohibited by the copsti
tuition. But will the bourbons dare to fend their
absurd Estate sovereignty idol by admitting this
truth
Year: 1878

The following record will show the changes in tho
temperature for the past twenty -four hours in
parson with the corresponding date Of last year. as
Indicated by the thermometer at Hudnuts pharmacy,
HERALD Building. No. 2ls Broadway
Year: 1878

and make proof of this charge. If
ever any grand juror made protest
in such connection, he made it in vio-
lation Of his oath, against the plain
letter of the law and in the face of the
instructions given him by the court.


We remember now having heard
something said about some grand ju-
rors' refusing to indict persons for a
violation of the liquor law; refusing
to be governed by the law which they
had sworn to support, and which the
court instructed the jury to support.
If this charge made against Capt. Fee
covers the case referred to, come out
from behind the towards unknown
signature and say SO, Mr.. Taxpayer.


We have believed that Capt. Fees
administration as Prosecutor was
most excellent, able and exceptiona-
bly, successful; SO far as we know, this
verdict, up to the time of Taxpayers
has been universally ac-
corded him. If we are mistaken we
stand most ready and willing to be
set right.
Year: 1878

Editorial from the Davis County Republican


The gentleman whose name heads
this article is candidate for Congress,
andas such it is proper for the people to
know just what he is and has been. He
is running on one issue, and that f.
nancial one, SO that Instability to man.
age the financial affairs of great ma
tion must be judged from the way in
which he has managed his own af-
fairs. We know that nothing is to be
made by an overdrawn picture, and
so shall put down nothing which is
not absolutely true.


After the war, General Weaver was
elected District Attorney for this Ju-
dicial District. He had served in this
Office but short time when he was
appointed Assessor Of Internal Reve-
nue.. He held both offices at the same
time. From his Attorneyship he re-
ceived about ~, 500 q year, and fully
as much more from his United States
Year: 1878

Special Telegram to the Inter Ocean,


WASHINGTON, July 9.--Secreta-y
Sherman left for New York to-day,
and it is understood on business con-
nected with resumption. Before he
left, the following programme to
bring about resumption was given to
the Erening Star:


The silver dollar will be treated
the same as gold coin, aud being like
gold coin, an unlimited legal tender
may be disbur.ed by the Treasurer in
pay yment of any current obligations
of the Government. and if offered in
such payment will have to be receiv-
ed. Returning to the use of coin, the
natural policy would be to put the
smaller denomination of gold coin
into circulation first. II any consid-
cradle amount of such coin were to
come upon the market, the small pre-
MUM remaining on gold would no
doubt disappear. 4 is thought that
most of the boarded coin in the coun-
try consists of tho smsll denomina-
tons, and would in the nature Of
things, soon make its appearance in
circulation, especially such as are
abraded aud reduced in weight.
With the balance of trade largely in
favor of this country, and the very
satisfactory accounts received from
all sections of an abundant harvest,
the continued accumulation of coin
would appear to be matter of cer-
tainty. Ii the gold and silver pro-
duced from the mines of the United
States be coined and remain at home,
it is not believed there will be the
slightest necessity for . recourse to
foreign markets for gold, though it is
not at all impossible that considera-
bio importations of the precious met
ais win be made in the next twelve
months in the natural course of trade.
1t is understood that the programme
Of the Secretary in favor Of early re-
sumption, among other things looks
to the removal Of the premium ON
coin by indirect means, rather than
by the redemption of notes in view
of the accumulation of the coin in the
country, and which is in dormant
condition by reason of the remaining
rate of premium on gold as against
legal-tender notes. If once set in
motion as circulating money, it will
tend more than sll other measures
put together to stimulate and revive
business throughout the country.
Year: 1878

The Council Bluffs NonpDriel says !:
From q sleeping car conductor we
learned last evening that bloody
tragedy occurred at Cheyenne on
Sunday evening last. A notorious
gambler named Clark shot and dan
gerously wounded Mr.. George Brown
proprietor of the Inter-Ocean hotel
of Cheyenne. The trouble Originat-
ed in regard to Clark's wife who
had been boarding at the hotel and
whom Brown desired to rid the house
Of, and to do SO raised the price OF
boarding on her.
Year: 1878

Gold and silver have a value with
out any government stamp-without
the fiat of the government. In the
western mining districts gold dust or
silver bullion has value, and they,
for many years, circulated as money.
The government itself buys these
metals at their weight; it does not
create the value in them, but recOg-
nizes their value without its fat. The
The government cannot, if it would
attempt it, destroy this value, Upon
their values the commerce of the
world is founded. They form the
recognized measure of values through
out the civilized globe with or with
out the stamp of any government,
and the value of the coin stands
among the nations in proportion to
the fineness of the same.


Paper money has, on the contrary,
no intrinsic value; it depends solely
upon the fiat of the nation issuing it,
and hence it cannot make one of a
trinity with the metals. The value
Of the paper money depends upon its
interchangeablity with coin, and this
interchangeability must be at the op-
ton of the holder and not at the op-
ton of the government; else it is no
interchangeability. If we had the
Generals note for ten dollars we
should not regard it as much of a note
if it was payable at his (the makers)
pleasure and not at our, the holders
pleasure, or at a certain day fixed.
The General said to his audience at
Newton, Iowa, that they might want
to go to Europe. Well, he SAYS Wen
make provision for that. Says he:


Here is provision in the law
that gold and silver and paper
shall be convertible at the option
of the government instead of
at the option of the holder. If the
government has got the specie it
shall pay it to you, but it should be
convertible in way so that the gov
ernment has the option and not the
individual"


What a muddle! We would like
to know how the poor fellow
would ever get to Europe if he
had no option about it. We would
like to know how we would ever get
the pay on the Generals note if it
was all his option and none of ours.


Now it is hard work enough to get
what some men justly owe with op-
ton as to collection all on the side of
the holder of the note. We presume
these cases are not unfamiliar to the
General himself, but what in thunder
would fellow do if the option was
all with the makers of the notes?
Year: 1878

ALEXANDER III. STEPHENS has
made public announcement over his
own signature that he will canvass
his district as a candidate for Congress
independently and upon his own re-
sponsibility. He makes six speeches
this month, going from place to place
in his carriage. There has been much
in this old statesman's career during
lhe last session of Congress to COM
mend him to the good wishes of the
general public everywhere. He has
been again and again reported, in the
last few years, nigh unto death, but
still he starts out in midsummer, un-
der the burning suns of Georgia, to
make political canvass and boldly
confronts party dictation as he did in
Congress short time ago.
Year: 1878

is evident, we think, that the


ssrtration is contemplating seri-


cutting of the Gordian knot


atter of resumption, at very


lay. Secretary Sherman is now
sew York and beyond question he
rs there to look over the ground and
fix as well as he can for the decisive
step. We believe the country is ripe
for it and that the Secretary will be
able to make such showing as to in
sure confidence, SO that resumption
will come and bringno shock whatev-
er to the country, but on the contrary
will Immediately bring aid and life to
our commercial interests.
Year: 1878

to hear him; that she was glad there
were some people who had a good
opinion of her; that the Rev. DIR.
Smoothtongue had told some of the
church that very week, he wished
there were few more women just
like her.
Year: 1878

Mr.. Thomas ID. Jones, of Syracuse,
New York, has, by very simple in
vention, go improved the process of
making flour as to have realized from
the sale of privileges of his patents
during the year past about 81, $50 600,
and there seems to be ne limit to the
sum he is likely yet to receive in this
country and abroad. The invention
consists simply in using diamond
quartz in the face Of the stone instead
of the mill picks now in use. Flour
can by this process be not only made
far cheaper, but from No 2 wheat as
fine quality of flour can be produced
as has hitherto been made from No.
l. The invention is perfectly simple,
its application easy and practicable,
the only wonder being that it was
not discovered long ago.
Year: 1878




Perhaps not more, but l would
have you do somewhat differently.
You can make some equalization.
Be as sweet aud angelic with Bridget
~ you are with your deacons as
mild in the nursery, where only God
and the children hear you, as you
would be If the Maternal association
were here. Show . little Of your
deadness to the world and heavenly
mindedness when the new fashionA
come. Stop taking the Guide to
Holiness and give the money
to Bridget as her rightful
due, Don't furnish up the parlor
with any more religious show till
you've given her as good wages as
you'd think yourself deserving if you
were in her place. Don't 60 to sin.
gle meeting when che will lose more
by your going than you will gain.
Don't say any more to the church
about sanctifcation here below till
you've made your own family think
such thing is possible. Learn to be
just before you even aim at perfec-
tion; learn to be patient before yop
think you have reached il; and be
sure and take the opinion of those
who know you best before you come
to q settled opinion on the subject.
Don't think I'm prosecuting you,
wife, or anything Of the sort. Pm
glad you're . pious woman, and that's
one reason why l married you. Ev-
cry man likes to have . good wife
l want little Of your piety myself ;
and the children wouldn't be the
worse for some, nor Bridget neither.
We aren't deacons, nor ministers, nor
saints, but we should like to be treat
ed in . sweet, heavenly way some
times, and perhaps 'twould make US
better. I'm sure II would make us hap
pier, and You too. Suppose you try to
give us . little more family piety.
This 10 my first sermon; and I hope
it will be productive of good. There's
no company here, so I won't pretend
that 1t has been preached from q
sense of duty, but because feel out
of patience and just like speaking my
whole mind"


Well, what did Mrs. Simpkins say
lin snswer2 This only, that she wei
glad there was one In her own family
Year: 1878

The certificate of character which the DEM
claim to their suffrages, for placing the Dem
ocratic party in the control of all branches of
the government, is substantially as follows:
"In return for the long trust of the govern
ment in our hands we tried to break up the
Union, because the people elected Presi-
dent We made four years war which
filed the whole land with bloodshed, angry
passions and mourning; which cost in money
and in destruction of property more than
10000 million dollars, all OF which was ex-i
tinguished from the country's wealth; which
killed quarter of million of American men
and scattered the MANNED and the broken in
constitution all over the nation; which caused
arrangement of money, credit, and of every
line of business and property, whose effects
have made a loss greater than the money cost
of the war, and which still continue. - 'ign


'During and since the war We did all we
could to break down public credit, and we
are still working at the same desperate game.
Pardoned, in the South, and with property
and political privileges restored: we have con-
quered by bloody means all citizens who are
loyal to the Union, and have abolished free
elections, We tried to obstruct the lawful
declaration Of President when it had been
carried in legal form We then made sol>
emn compromise by. the creation of an Elees
toral Tribunal, and then we faithlessly tried
to repudiate its decision. After that we
conspired to make Congressional emeute to
set up usurper President and thus precipi-
tate the country into a struggle for the
possession of the government: which would
inevitably have brought on civil war.
Frightened by the popular condemnation OF
this, lest it might defeat the party in the
election, we made an ostensible disclaimer,
merely to temporize till afternoon; but we are
keeping the conspiracy alive, to be precipita-
ted if we capture Congress. We have done
all we could to break up the Union, and are
still doing and will continue to do all we can
to destroy the public credit and the money of
the people, and to keep the country under
threat of anarchy and revolution, which shall
be destructive toprosperity. This is true
statement of some but not all of our Deme-
cratic claims to the popular confdence!"'--
T(tin GlZ .H. T..H III TlH sl-Hl aeon. --r.