smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

A touching incident has just occurred
in connection with the death of Lieuten-
ant William Van w. Reilly, who fell
with Custer in that terrible fight on the
Little Big Horn last year. At the time
of the battle he wore seal ring with his
crest cut upon it, and this, together with
his clothing, his sword, his pistols, and all
his belongings, was torn from his dead
body and carried away by some one OF
the foe who had helped kill him. His
mother, unable to secure his remains,
and longing for something that had been
with him to the last, tried in every way
to recover it; she offered immense re-
wards; she had fac-similes of the die
made and sent to the different agencies
along he..frontier, and she wrote to all
the commanding officers in the Sioux
country, describing il, and few days
since she received official notice from the
war department that the ring had been
found. 1t was taken from the finger OF
one of the fifteen hundred Cheyennes
who came in the other day for their an
nual supply of forgiveness and ammu'
nition.- Cincinnati Commercial.
Year: 1877

The Burlington Hawkeye, speaking of
the scheme of shooting ramrods with
string attachments into the windows of
burning hotels, observes: "This is in
deed a grand idea. The only drawback
to its practical operation is that a terri
fed guest standing at a window shrieking
and bowling for help, would have been
very much surprised, and not greatly
tranquilled or reassured on finding him
self suddenly transfixed with three-foot
ramrod and a coil of string. And unless
the fire department is vastly better on
the shoot than the police, the probability
is that not window in the hotel would
have been broken, while the Btreete of st.
Louis would have been full Of bowling
firemen and weeping citizens, pulling
iron ramrods out Of each other"
Year: 1877

It is pretty well settled that the Prince
and Princess of Wales leave england for
Australia in the winter OF 1I IoloLs, They
will return through the United States;
The royaI couple will thus be able to af-
fect % a little economy, which their strait
ened resources very much need. The
prince, without being extravagant, has
now spent every farthing of the money
nority of the duchy of Cornwall rents,
and he is now running into debt. If the
queen does not assist him, he must soon
apply to parliament but the Australian
visit is meant to stave off the evil day
The Arcddidn.
Year: 1877

"Her individuality permeated with
its mixture of womanly tenderness an
statuesque classicality the scenes in
which she was interested" says power
full writer on the New York press. This
is a great improvement on the rolling
pin female of our course western humor.
- Louisville COOTieT-.I0urndL.
Year: 1877

In all diseases affecting these organs,
whether they secret too much or too little
water; or whether they be afflicted with
stone OF gravel, or with aches and pains set
tied in the loins or over the regions of the
kindnevs, these Pills should be taken accord
ing TO the printed directions, and the Oint-
ment should be well rubbed into the small
of the back at bed time. This treatment
will give almost immediate relief when all
other means have failed.
Year: 1877

Is the great blood purifier, cures Syphilis, and
moves fimpes and Humors on the face


Reason should teach that blotchy, rough or
pimpled skin depends entirely upon an internal
cause, and no outward application can ever cure the
defect.
Year: 1877

The Gazette says: "When we
buy cvery.hng-iood. clothing
furniture, farm mnchincry-cvcry.
thing, ~ fact from u steam engine
to hoe hando and L. p nd on cot
ton alone for the money with which
we are to pay, how is it TO be ex
pectcd that money will ever be
very abunJant'


That is what we have been tell
ing The people Of our county, but
they keep on the old beaten road to
poverty, just as though they had II
free through ticket, and were bound
to go, money or no money. Two
years more will about bring them
all to their destination, while some
will get there by next tax paying
time.
Year: 1877

A number of the most prom
inent business men of Memphis
have been interviewed upon the
subject Of reducing the interest
on money, from ten to six per
cent, and expressed themselves.
They firmly believe and assert
that it would drive much of the
capital from the State, as the
owners would put it where ii
would pay them most. AS the
existing tax is four per cent,
six cents would bring only two
cents profit, which will imme-
diately cause capitalists to re-
move their wealth to another
State. They maintain that it is
perfectly ridiculous for the Leg
islature to entertain a thought
of reducing the interest. They
are of the opinion that if a per-
son purchases anything, he can
charge and receive prices for
the same, they have a right to.
and ought not to be interfered
with in getting as much for the
loan of their money as possible,
provided it is not unreasonable.
They believe that changing the
amount of interest would force
the cash 10 be removed from this
State, thereby greatly damag-
ing planters and farmers, as well
as merchants and men in all
kinds of business. They are
for keeping as much money here
as possible. If the per centage
is reduced, the capital will be
taken into the adjoining States,
in which it brings ten per cent.
1t would thereby, cripple every
line of business, and increase
the number of borrowers. AS
such heavy taxes have to be paid
upon various things, those who
borrowed money with which to
pay them would be greatly set
back, on account Of the want
of it.


Notwithstanding the above,
it is the prevailing opinion in
Nashville, that the law fixing
the rate per cent. will be re-
pealed.
Year: 1877

EXTRAORDINARY EVIDENCE.
"A fat old gentleman was bit
ten in the calf of the leg by a
dog. He at once rushed into
the Office of a Justice of the
Peace, and preferred a charge a.
gainst a man in the neighbor-
hood whom he supposed to be
the owner of the dog. The fol-
lowing defence was offered on
the trial: ~


1. BY the testimony in faver
of the general good behavior of
my dog, l shall provo that moth
ing could make him so forget
ful of his canine dignity as to
bite a calf.


2. He is blind and cannot see
to bite. -t-


8. Even if he could see to
bite it would be impossible for
him to go out of his way to do
so, on account of his severe
lamencss.


4. Granting his eyes and legs
to be good he has no teeth.


5. My dog died six weeks a
go.


8. | never had any dog.
Year: 1877

was a long pause before he said
"That same Thursday after
noon, when every man was
trembling with expectation, two
ladies and a little girl were adj
mltted as visitors. Ben Mason
was that day doing some extra
work-something that took him
in the yard. The ladies passed
him, and there was something
about his face, fierce as it was,
to attract the little girl. She
ran to him, looked UP into his
face, and innocently asked:-
Haven't you got a little girl,
tooT Now Ben did have, and
her words cut him like a knife.
The wee thing grasped his hand
to detain him, and holding up
little doll which she carried on
her arm, she said: You may
take tnls nome 10 your little
girlP Ben took the plaything
from her and you could have
knocked him down with straw.
Though bold and bad he was
big hearted and loved his wife
and children.


"Well, sir, he was foored.
He turned BOBBY right away,
and I'll be hanged if / didn't
see big tears running down his
cheeksl At one O'clock that
night, when he was to let us out
and head the rebellion, he was
on his bed crying like a child,
and so our plans went for moth
ing. | think he was a regular
old woman, ,sir-a regular idiot"


And yet when 1 looked into
the old mans eyes he was wi
ping the tears away.
Year: 1877

1t is reported that soon after
the landing of the Pilgrims they
were reduced to great straits for
the necessaries of life, and q day
of prayer was appointed on Thurs.
day to implore divine aid, and
late in the day ship arrived
bringing them food and clothing,
and the day was changed from one
of fasting to one of feasting. The
custom of designating Thursday
as a day of thanksgiving has
been continued from this circum-
stance.
Year: 1877

Dealing gently with murderers
in Belgium has not produced the
effect claimed by the advocates OF
the abolition of the death penalty.
Since 1868 no sentence of death
has been executed. So great is the
increase of crimes of the most ag
gravated type that the subject of
suitable penalties is again before
the Chamber. For the present,
however, men may indulge their
thirst for blood with comparative
impunity, for the only embarrass-
ment that follows is penal servi.
tude that is not even nominailY
for life, because a lie sentence
may be in part subsequently remit.
ted.
Year: 1877

A negro was found dead in
Georgia, having fallen and bro
ken his neck while stealing chick


ems from a high roost. He was a
class leader in a church, and his
pastor, in preaching the funeral
sermon was bothered by the ques


ton where the soul Of the dead
brother had gone. "His we'll
known piety," said the preacher,
Indicates that be died Christian,
yet there are circumstances con.
nected with lis death that are per-
picking. If after he fell and be-
tore be struck the ground he re
pented of his sins, there can be no
question but that he is now in
glory; but there was mighty lit
tie time for him to think about it.
Year: 1877

A negro woman belonging to a
troupe of Jubilee Singers sang re.
ligious songs with so much sweet
ness and fervor that the citizens of
Otto, Indiana, grew enthusiastic
in their admiration. They gave
her, as q testimonial of approval
of artistic merit and humble
worth, a purse fell of silver
dollars. She got drunk with the
money and when one of the ad.
miring citizens helped Constable
to arrest her, she stabbed him
with a knife.
Year: 1877

Hon John M. Bright has in


troduced in the House of Repre-.
sentatives one of the most impor.
tant bills that any Congress has
been called upon to consider for
half a century, and one which, if
it becomes a law, will do more to
relieve the laboring and CONNER.
cial classes of the country, and
ease the money market, thsH any
similar scheme that bas been de.
vised.


For the benefit of our readers,
all of whom are interested in the
subject, we will explain, says the
Nashville Banner, the salient
features Of this measure, which
are: That the old round silver
dollar containing 4l29 grains OF
standard silver, shall be reinstated
as money, and made legal ten.
der for all and every purpose, save
where gold is stipulated in the
bond. Then again, it is made
the imperative duty of the mint
authorities to receive from any
person offering gold or silver bull
lion, in any shape whatever, from
a silver spoon to a bar from the
mines, aud issue to all such a note
payable in silver or gold as the
case may be, in 80, GO or 80 days,
or at such time as may be re-
quired to convert the same in
to coin, without any expense
TO the depositor except the actual
cost of coinage. Should MIR.
Bright succeed in getting this bill
passed, as he DOUBTLESS will, lis
effect will be to bring into imme-
diate use as money the gold and
silver Of our mineral regions as
fast as it is extracted from the
earth, instead of sending it to Eng
land to be sold as bullion as is
now the case. There is no ques-
ton whatever that our mines,
will produce not less than $780,.
100000 during the present year,
which will go into immediate cir
culation as money, thus adding
that amount in hard money to
the circulating medium Of the
country. So our readers will see
that we have not attached more
than due Importance to this meas
ure.
Year: 1877

Advertising pays. This has
been so often said that it may
sound like an cold story" 1t is
true nevertheless. If you wish to
buy or sell anything, let it be
known through the newspaper.
Year: 1877

AHEAD, AS UsUAL.-The GAZETTE,
yesterday, in its third edition, gave to the
public exclusive intelligence ofthe open
ing of the proposals for the completion OF
Cool Spring Reservoir, and published
complete list of the bids. The import
ance of the information was attested by
an unusually heavy demand for papers,
and our press was kept running constant
ly until q late hour before the demand
ceased.


We mention this incident not in a
spirit of self-laudation, but simply to
call public attention 10 the fact that in
promptly furnishing the people with in
teresting and important local information,
the GAZETTE invariably takes the lead.
Although not so freely addicted to elbow
ing ones own trumpet" as our more con-
ceited but less enterprising contemporaries,
the GAZETTE aims at all times to give its
readers the fullest local information pos
sjble to be obtained, while its general
miscellaneous and telegraphic depart.
ments are always complete and interest
ing. In quantity and quality of reading
matter, combined with cheapness of price
it far excels the other journals of thi:
city, and its constantly increasing circu
lation is an ample attestation of this as
sertion.'


In future, as in the past, the GAZETTE
will endeavor to stand foremost in tn,
ranks of city journalism, and furnish th,
people with paper which, as vehicl
OF news and medium of advertising
will be equaIled by no other paper il
the city. Its cheapness places it within
the reach of all, while its general excel
lence cannot fail to commend it to tn
public.
Year: 1877

The cause of tn falling off in fresh
beef expectations is not whole or in part
to be ascribed to ''the extreme warm
weather of the past two months" but
simply and solely to the lack of profit in
the business as conducted by inexperi-
enced exporters here and by inefficient
selling agencies abroad. The wasteful
drain upon our supplies of fat cattle and
little speculative forcing business have
carried the prices of cattle here about two
and one-half cents per pound of dressed
weight higher than the current rates a
year ago, while the fuller supplies Object
IN England and Scotland have prevented
any material advance in the value of beef
abroad. Thus the margin for profit
which made beef expectation a success
last year when ice was exceptionally
high has been changed to certainty OF
loss this summer when ice is compare
lively cheap. Even now there would be
profit in the business if American beef
could 60 to the English consumer at its
actual value as compared with British
beef. And the English people will be
glad to learn that arrangements are now
making for the establishment of retail
shops in all the cities and principal town.
OF Great Britain, through which Ameri
can beef can be distributed directly from
The exporter to the consumers at a n mi
nal advance upon the first cost.
Year: 1877

best for writing your articles on. II
you can tear down an old circus post
er and write ON the pasty side of it
with pen stick,it wonld do still bet
ter.


When your article is completed
crunch your paper in your pocket,
and carry it two or three days before
sending it in. This rubs off the super
fluous pencil-marks, and makes it
lighter to handle.
If you can think of it, lose one
page out of the middle of your article.
We can easily supply what is missing,
and we love to do it. We have moth
ing else to do!-IIawk-Eye.
Year: 1877

Never write with pen or ink. 1t il
altogether too plain and doesn't hold
the mind of the editors and printers
closely enough to their work.


If you are compelled to use ink,
never use that vulgarity known as the
blotting-pad. If you drop blot OF
ink on the paper, lick it off. The in
telligent compositor loves nothing SO
dearly as to read through the smear
this will make acress twenty or thirty
words. We have seen him hang over
such piece of copy half an hour,
swearing like pirate all the time,-
he felt that good.


Don't punctuate. We prefer to
punctuate all manuscript sent to us.
And don't use capitals. Then We
can punctuate and capitalize to suit
ourself, and your article, when you
see it in print, will astonish even if
it does not please you.


Don't try to write too plainly. 1t
is sign of plebian origin and public
school breeding. Poor writing is an
indication of genius that great many
men possess. Scrawl your article with
your eyes shut and make every word
as illegible as you can. We get the
same price for it from the rag-man as
though it were covered with copper
plate sentences. .


Avoid all painstaking with proper
names. We know the full name of
every man, woman and child i'm the
United States, and the mercst hint at
the,nane is sufficient. For instance,
if you write a character something
like u drunkeHsGgureasfS," ands then
draw a wavy line, dnd the letter M
and another.waying line, we will know
at once that you mean Samuel Nor
rison, even though you may think
you mean ''Lemuel Messenger. 1t is
a great mistake that proper names
should be written plainly.


Always write on both sides of the
paper, and when you have filled both
sides of every page trail line up and
down every margin, and back to the
top of the first page, closing your ar
ticle by writing your signature just
above the date. How we do love to
get hold of articles written i'm this
style. And hoao zoe aeoutd like to get
hold of the man acho sends them !
ALoNE!! IN THE WOODS, WITH
A CANNON IN OUR HIP POCK-
EFT +! Revenge is sweet; yum,
yum, yum.


Lay your paper on the ground
when You wii:e; the rougher the
ground the better.


Coarse brown wrapping paper is the
Year: 1877

In the average annual rainfall, on an
acre OF land, the clouds furnish $3.50
pounds OF ammonia, 6S.9l pounds of nitric
acid, equal to a total of 4l42 pounds of
nitrogen. This is what the rain does for
the farmer, giving his land a dressing in
nitrogen equal each year to that contain
ed in 2s0 pounds of nitrate of soda or 26s
pounds of guano. Quite a percentage of
each, especially of the ammonia, is lost
by eXhalation from the surface of plants
OF of the land yet sufficient remains to
account for the luXuriant growth promot-
ed by gentle showers, and to indicate the
value and Importance of the yearly rain
fall as an element Of fertility.
Year: 1877

How old are you2' A child whose ewes
Still hold some hint Of heavens far skies.
Some memory Of the life they knew
Ere earth-life dawncd upon their view,
Climbs up into my lap to say.
How old are yon y this winter day.
Dear child, how can answer you.
And make my answer seem most true
For If count my life by years.
And not by sorrow and by tears.
Then | ain not So old to dav
As some whose youth has Slipped away
But. child if should count nv life
BY sorrow and by bitter strife,
BY tears that fell when dear ones died.
By pam and loss and love denied.
on, child with hair like mornings gold
linen l have grown so old-so old
Eben f. Rexford
Year: 1877

One ton Of dried seaweed. made into
manure, returns to the soil three times as
much inorganic matter as manure made
from one ton OF straw or the same amount
of hay; and twenty pounds of dried or
eighteen pounds OF fresh seaweed contain
as mnch nitrogen as one hundred pounds
of oat straw or one hundred and eighty
pounds OF barley straw. National Agri-
c1lturjSt
Year: 1877

Sleeping turnip seed in spirit of turpcn-
tine is complete preventive against the
ny. 1t does not injure the terminating of
the seed, and the young plant comes up
tasting and smelling Of turpentine, the
"dor remaining on it until it is in the
rough leaf
Year: 1877

The Emerald charity ball, given annually will occur
this evening at the Brooklyn Academy OF Music 1t
will be the thirty ninth tho series given for tho ben
eft OF the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum Prcpara-
iions grandcr scale tnan ever have been made,
oNf,r
Year: 1877

boss TWEED seems to have become thor
o1shiy dissusted with the gang of rogres
whom he aided to grow rich and for whom
ne has to suffer, and is making a clean
breast OF 1t. There is not the least doubt
that his story Is true. 1t is very pretty
story and throws plenty of light upon the
darkest transactions in American noIitics
Inc r,ng was not a political one. In fact it
would have been impossible for Tweed to
have done anything without the helm Of A
republican legislature.
Year: 1877

GAMBErra has been sentenced to three
month imprisonment, and this will de-
prlve HIM of the elective franchise for five
Years He, however has discovered some
ifeehnlcallty whereby his sentence cannot
be carried into execution immediately.
ana II he can succeed in being elected to
SAe assembly, not until his term in that
body expires He is confident OF election
and consequent freedom from Jail.
Year: 1877

MUTUAL HELP.-The race of mankind
would perish, did they cease to aid each
other. From the time that the mother
binds the chllds head, till the moment
that some kind assistant wipes the death
damp from the brow Of the dying, We can
not exist without mutual help. All, there
lore, that need aid, have right to ask it
OF their fellowmortals no one who holds
the power OF granting can refuse it with
ont Guilt.
Year: 1877

Suleiman Pacha's activity on the slope Of
the Balkans is likely to come to sudden
end. 1t was shown two months ago that no
impression could be made from that side on
the Russian position and it was only the
Russian indifference to recent movements
that gave any OCCASION for demonstration.
They depended entirely, perhaps, upon the
difficulty of the roads. AS that difficulty is
seen not to be insurmountable they have now
taken other guarantees for their safety, and
u movement on Suleiman's flank has in
spired him with discretion. In our Bucha-
rest despatch will be found Russian
statement that involves the terms on which
alone the Gear is disposed to make peace.
These are autonomy for Christian peoples
in Turkey, independence for Roumania and
Servia, more territory for Montenegro. and
for Russia. Batoum and Kars and the
freedom of the Dardanelles. If John Bull
is disposed to a diplomatic smoke he can
find pipe full in this.
Year: 1877

out fear or favor, he will sweep out of
existence both the Excise and Police Com
missioners who have been guilty OF such
conduct, and who have not only disregarded
the law, but by their inefiiciency and
caprice, have brought disgraceful excite
ment upon the city and inflicted wrong on
a large body of business men. There is no de-
fence for the action of either board. The Ex-
cise Commissioners have no right to take
dollar of money from any man until they
grant him license. No person has legal
right to sell glass ofliquor until hereceives
n license. The police are bound to enforce
the law. Both boards have violated or will
fully disregarded the law and then have
turned round upon the misled liquor
dealers and made them the sufferers for the
official misconduct which has been the
cause of all the difficulty
Year: 1877

Congress did very little business of i'm
portance yesterday. Both branches agreed
to take recess this day week until the 10th
Of january, and rush from the capital
may be expected during the next two or
three days by those members who can sue
ceed in pairing on political and other ques-
tons in which they are interested. The
resolution for the relief Of the sufferers
by the Huron was also passed. Mr..
Edmunds succeeded in obtaining the
consent of the Senate to the call upon the
Attorney General for bloody shirt outrage
information from South Carolina which it
is supposed will in some way affect the new
Senator, Mr.. Butler, from that State, and
Mr.. Mitchell, Of Oregon, was made happy
by getting an opportunity to deliver a
speech in favor of the extension of time for
the construction of the Northern Pacific
Railroad. Mr.. Stanley Matthews was in
duced to postpone his repudiation speech
until some other time and large number
of private bills were passed by the House.
The session yesterday was altogether HARM
less, which is something of a consolation.