smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

The claim of the United States for the
return of the S1,500,000 lent to help out
the Centennial Exposition has been re-
jected blythe United StatesC Circuit Comtat
Philadelphia, although there are abund-
ant funds remaining in the hands of the
managers with (which to satisfy it. Con-
sequently, unless the decision of the court
is reversed on appeal, the 81 100000 will
be distributed among the stockholders in
the enterprise, and be just so much taken
out OF the public Treasury for their bene-
fit. t.r...


That this would be the result was fore
told by the opponents of the loan at the
time it was proposed, and was indignant
ly denied by its friends. Some of them
ut least, were disingenuous in their denial
and intended that the money should be
gift and not loan, as is evident from
the peculiar wording of the bill appropri-
ating it.


tect the interests of the nation, and which
was used to secure votes for the grant,
reads thus:


The appropriation hereinbefore made
shall be paid in full into the Treasury OF
the United States before any dividend, or
percentage of the profits shall be paid to the
holders Of said stock"


Inc ADVOCATES OF the RranJ prO1eSSeQ TO
read these words with comma after the
word "dividend" and persuaded the pub
lie that no dividend of any kind would
be paid to the stockholders until the loan
from the United States had been first re-
turned. Now, by their counsel learned
in the law, they have successfully con-
tended that there is no such comma, and
that only al"dividend o. per centage
of profits" was intended. Inasmuch as
dividend of capital is not dividend of
profits, they have got the Judge to say
that the stockholders may pocket the
81 100000 as returned capital, and the
United States must lose the whole.


This is not the first time that comma
or the want of it has been made a fish
hook by which to pull money out of the
public Treasury. A clause in the Tariff
act of 1875, by the omission of this mo-
dest sign of punctuation, admitted free of
duty all kinds of foreign fruits, when the
intention of Congress was merely to eX-
empt fruits imported for the sake of their
seeds. The trick in that case was univer-
sally denounced and speedily frustrated,
but in regard to the 81 100000 now in
question the nation is very possibly with
out a remedy. The whole transaction is
in keeping with the character of city
which shelters Addition, Division, and
Silence Kemble.-N. Y. San.
Year: 1877

them ina box as they are tu be in the papers; then he takes the box and places It in some machin- cry that makes it go back and forth; then there is a boy who stands over the machinery, and puts the paper on the machinery, then some hooks bring it down over the box with the types in and the types have ink on, the types print on the paper, there are hooks that take the paper up and lay it on another machine that folds them up and then they sell them. The end.
Year: 1877

Why do people write that they accept with pleasure" an invita- tion, when they really mean that they do so with reluctance?

 Why do ladies bid their ser wants say that they are not at home when they are engaged or not willing to receive visitors?

 Why do actors grumble thatthe drama is going to the dogs when they mean that they themselves are not in favor with the public?

 Why do men tell their wives that they will be detained by bus mess when they really mean that they will be detained by club dinner?

 Why do women bid their hus- bonds escort them to make them pay for a new bonnet?

 Why do singers speak with diff tidence of the powers of their voice, when they mean to swal- tow all the compliments you give them?

 Why do inviters often call their country house a "little place" when they mean to show you a palatial residence?

 Why does your friend tell you that any ''toggery will do," when he meats for you to sport dress suit and white choker?

 Why do china dealers name SC preposterous price, when tEey mean to jump at less than half il they be offered it?

 Why do plauists complain they are sadly out of practice when they are asked to play, while in reality they mean they want more pressing and then yield vii lingly to it?
Year: 1877

Flowing for wheat should be for
warded as soon as circumstances will
allow. Early plowing permits the
ground to become firm, and thus gives
the compact seed-bed which is favora-
bic to wheat Deep plowing is d pre-
ventive of the evil Of winter killing.
giving escape to superfuous moisture
otherwise apt to rest on the surface.
and allowing free penetration by the
roots.
Year: 1877

sunshine has ripened the Isabella un-
til it is as sweet and tender as though
grown under shelter with irrigation
to the roots. Peach trees bow down
with their crops until they resemble
weeping willows. Apples grin from
their leafy alcoves until they redden
at the touch Of autumn's pencil
Melons, you can get as large as you
please for dime, and, if you fail to
buy, the good hearted vendor will
give them to you. Things look better,
Why cannot times improve? ? The
earth exudes her fatness and the far
mer has his day. But there is anoth.
er trouble. Our people have not yet
learned that since the war the sltua-
tion is changed as wholly as it was by
Noah's flood. We are as much in the
midst Of new circumstances as il
we had been blown into another
world. The abolition of slavery
ought to have left us wise, but it
has left us only poor and proud. We
are caught impoverished and in debt.
We have not profited by the lesson,
and are more extravagant than we
were 20 years ago. 1 will be believed
when l say that the emancipation of
the negro was not a thing which he
greatly profited by. Has our white
race profited by it as much as it ought
to have done? Both slave and mas
ter seems to have thought that the
new era was to be one of sudden
wealth and glory. 1t is time we had
both realized that only by work and
economy can we again reach prosperi-
ty, and unless we can do so good times
will not return.


Does the reader wish to know why
1 am here? l an simply on a fur
lough-a worn-out editor. Surroun-
ded by wife and children, which have
been shut for years in the tread-mill
of home and labor, l am on a social
"burst" for mere recreation. / am
oiling up for the campaign, and in a
few days | shall be back again, and
then | shall so into the county for the
final trot, and if | shall pass under
the string n winning horse, shall
bow and then retire to Craze again.
must go down the country, l SEE.
Year: 1877

The composition of the next Congress
is such rs to increase our confidence in
its ability to carry out the economic


measures projected by the last. There
will be working Democratic MAORI


ty in the House. and will be works


ing Republican majority in the Sen


ate. The latter body is at presen t
constituted of 30 Republicans and SO


Democrats. and Judge Davis, who
will probably vote with the former


on all minor questions but with the
latter whenever great principles Of
Constitutional policy are at stake, -
While these relations continue the
Republican majority will vary from
five to seven, but there are three va
cancies, two from Louisiana and one
from South Carolina, to be filled and
we do not believe there will be any
serious effort to prevent the swearing
in of the Democratic candidates.


This would give the Democrats SO
votes But this is not all. If Sem
ator Morton should die his suceSso"
would be Democrat, and the Sens
ate would stand SO Republicans, 81
Democrats aud l Independent, who,
when voting with the minority, would
produce a tie. To break this it
would be necessary to call in Vice
President Wheeler who would have
to be on duty constantly as presid-
ing officer. We are now supposing
that the Republicans will poll solid
vote, that there will be no absentees
and that the differences which now
divide the party will be harmonized.
IF, however, either of these conditions
should not be fulfilled the balance of
power would be thrown into the
hands Of the Democrats, who would
then enjoy control of both houses. -


But whether this should come abolt
or not, it is beyond dispute that it is
no longer within the power Of the
Republicans to interfere seriously
with the legislation of the lower
House or checkmate its efforts for
the reduction of the national expenses.
1t is scarcely possible to over-esti-


n ate the significance Of the fact 49,
For the 6rst time since the war
Year: 1877

The Funding Bill adjustment
assigned onesthird Of Virginia's
debt to West Va, and this the said
West Virginia very coolly repudia-
ted to the last dollar. And yet
we have not heard a word about
tho said West Virginia being dis
honored, Notwithstanding W c t
Virginia was the party guilty of
the separation. Virginia was guilt
less of the dismemberment, but
her debt must be twice compoun-
ded and her war interest connted
in.
Year: 1877

1t is rather curious thing that
we have party in the county who,
in every possible way discourage evs
erything like an attempt to have the
public debt readjusted, and yet de-
clare that they are not Funders.-
Pin them down to particulars, and
they declare readjustment to be a
thing desirable enough, but wholly
unimportant. Press them atill
further, and they declare that the
debt of Virginia makes only an
insignificant portion of the taxS
burden, SO much so that the talk
about readjustment is, they say, a
humbug. They plant themselves
against "forcible" readjustment and
call it reputation.


These men either forget or con.
ceal the fact that the present sad
justment" under the Funding Bill
was "forcible" one.


Does any man attempt to assert
that if the people had been let
alone they would ever have volun-
tsrily passed the Funding Bill z
Does any man dare declare that if
the Bondholders lad not invaded
cur Legislature with the "forcible"
weapon Of money that bill would
ever have passed that bcdy2 Fors
rible ADJUSTMENT was very good,
but forcible READJUsTMEET is q
criino in the eyes of these men.


Does any man think that the
people are fools enough to believe
that, when they are told that the
interest night and day runs at the
rate of $3.50 an hour, or $1SO,00O
month, it hurts no one 2


The people never intended the
passage Of the of this Funding
Bill with its forcible adjustment,
and they repudiated it the very
first opportunity.


Moreover, nearly every dollar
paid in this county on the public
debt leaves it never to return
Our county levy amounts to but
little in this end, as it is spent
within the county and remains
here for circulation.


Away with the idea that the
public debt tax hurts no one +
Let every candidate show plainly
his hand on this question. No
soft talk =; no reticence ; no con-
cealments
Year: 1877

The President and his Cabinet
having made the tour of New Eng
land, 90 next to Ohio, through to Ken
tucky, to Tennessee. They will be
in Knoxville on the 2lst of Septem-
ber, as this will be precisely an
equinoctial visit, let us hoFe they
will not bring a storm with them
The days aud nights will then be
equal throughout the Union, and il
looks rs though Hayes means to have
the sun of his administration to rise
and set alike for both yankee and
rebel.
Year: 1877

AT every effort thus far made by
the Road Commissioners the roads
of the county have been success
fully and satisfactorily let to con-
tract. The beauty of the system is
heightened by the fact that it does
not increase taxation a cent. Ir
fact it rather lessons it.
Year: 1877

it is entirely within our power to
clear away the ruins of the Grant
regime and rceestablish simple and
frugal government 1t is a great op-
portunity and our leaders in Con
gresS must see to it that it does not
go by unimproved.
Year: 1877

PREsENTATION.-Capt. Seabury Of the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company's steam
ship City OF Panama. was presented by
the attarlIes Of his elegant and commOdi-
Gus vessel with magnificent gold
watch and chain, OH his last trip down to
San Francisco. as token OF their appre-
ciatiOn Of, and esteem for. their popular
commander, whose qualifications for the
position he occupies are acknowledged
by all who know him to be second to none
on the coast.
Year: 1877

The weather for the past week has
been delightfully."- clear and frosty, and
many OF our citizens have indulged in the
invigOrating pastime of skating In the
neighborhOod Of Judge Biggs' residence,
at the west end of town.
Year: 1877

A RACK is being prepared by Mr.. Cling
er for the reception Of forty muskets,
consigned to this town by the Governor
Of the Territory some time since. 1t will
be placed In the county Jail building.
Year: 1877

Much jewelry is vulgar. Do not smack while eating.

 Do not cut your nails in pubic. Do not run after famous people.

 Do not breathe hard while eating. Cheese should be eaten with fork.

 Feeing walters is paying blackmail.

 Serve vegetables on separate plates.

 Unsweetened coffee cures bad breath.

 Do not give mere friends costly presents.

 A mans dress should not be remarkable.

 Short nails make the finger tips grow broad.

 Girls who part their hair on the side look fast.

 In going up and down stairs precede the lady.

 A formal call is very long if 1t lasts half an hour.

 Never take bits out of your mouth with your hand.

 Young girls are trusted too much with male cousins.

 It is lmpolite to keep a musician con- stsntly playing.

 Address your wife as Mrs." your hus- band ss "Mr."

 A lady will not appear in the streets alone after dark.

 A young lady should not stretch her feet out in company.

 There is too much promiscuous kissing in this country.

 Washington doffed his hat even to a ne. gro if he knew hlm.

 Some men unpleasantly comb their mus taches at table.

 l respect prudes; though I've been char med with jolly romps.

 Do not have pictures of game, fruit or fish in your dining room.

 A pink ribbon under the chin makes 9 pale woman look brighter.

 A man should not appear in shirt sleeves before ladies in the house.

 No man respects girl who 1rts, though he may flirt with her for game.

 The lady of the house should receive the guests at formal reception.

 Always take the last piece of anything there is supposed to be more.

 Never pull your watch out in company, unless you are familiar with the people.

 An engagement oi marriage is little less sacred than marriage with ceremony.

 Meyer cross knife and fork on your plate. Lay them nearly and carelessly par allel.

 If it is necessary to use your handker- chief sonorously. leave the room quietly. If you meet gentleman friend with strange lady on his arm, raise your hat to both.

 Introduce the gentleman to the lady, un- less the gentleman is considerably the el- der.

 Men who eat what they want are usually more healthy than those who are always dieting.

 Nothing is prettier for 6 youngish girl than braids down the back, and full-waist- ed dress

 Do not call man liar unless you hsve a lump ln your throat and are sure he is a liar.

 You need not call upon newly married people unless you were invited to the we'd ding or reception.
Year: 1877

Economy is the order of the hour, and every expenditure, however small, is ex- pected 10 give return in full value. Ev- cry family requires one good, reliable fam lily newspaper. If such an article can be procured for less than one cent for each working day of the year, we are not aware of it. A family newspaper should contain carefully prepared summary of all the news of the day, both Religious and secu- lar; and if arranged SO that the two depart ments may be separated and read by two individuals at the same time, so much the better. The Family Newspaper should have attractive reading and information for tue various members of the household Some portion of the paper should be deyot- ed every week to religious and moral i'm provement, to current secular news, to az riculture, commerce, markets, finance, to general literature &c.s with special de- pariment for the young. Above all, the Family Newspaper should be perfectly pure, and free from any contaminating in = huences in it's reading matter or in it's ad. vertisemehts. Too much attention canno, be paid to this feature, when the press is flooding the country with SO much that is vile and pernicious. To crown all, the family Newspaper should be nntrammelled by any utilization with sect or party, aAd should be free to give all the good news from and about all the world. If such a Family Newspaper can be had for one cent day, it should be taken by every family in the land.

 Such Family Newspaper in every re- spect we find the New York OBSERVER, now commencing its fifty-sixth volume. Progressive. comprehensive, sound, relia- ble, pure, it is just what is needed in your household. Send $3.l5 for year to the New York OBSERVER, 37 Park Row, New York. Sample cop,es are sent free.
Year: 1877

A BoY's Su1c1DR.-The Rondout Free man gives particulars of singular suicide which occurred near Marlborough. The victim was Charles Warren, @ boy about fourteen years of age living in the eastern part of the town of Pattekill, and opposite the Ten Stone Meadow school house, com mitted suicide by shooting himself near the heart. His mother left him in the house writing letter while she went out for wa ter, and on returning she found him dead with pistol bali in his breast. A revol- yer was kept in drawar in the room and it was found with one chamber discharged and replaced in the drawer, showing that the boy had taken the pistol out, shot hi1a- self and then replaced it In the drawer. He never was suspected of anything wrong and was considered a model youth. After he was found dead his boots were removed, Tn one of which the following letter ad- dressed to his mother was discovered

 MOTHER Bury me in the commonest old packing box you can. Funerals are too expensive nowadays, and an old box is good enough for me anyway. Please to follow my orders, for ] am tired of living, good-by.

 It is generally supposed that the young man had been in trouble, known only to himself, which had affected his mind.
Year: 1877

THE PHOTOGRAPH Mir. Thomas A. Ed ison has astonished the scientific world by the announcement of mechanical device whereby words spoken into a mouth piece are permanently recorded on a strip of pa per. So far there is nothing especially startling, but the process works both ways, as It were, and the strip of paper when it is again passed through the machine reprodu- ces all the original sounds. The device is simply an arrangement of vibrating plates. The discovery is made known through the Scientific American" which duly credits it with wonderful promise for the future. Not only is the human voice, with all its tones and infections, put upon record for future use, but music can be perfectly re corded and preserved in like manner. If one of these instruments had stood in the Roman senate chamber when Cesar deliy- cred the oration against CataIlne we could to-day pass the strip through the machine and hear every word, settling forever the Yexed question as to the proper pronuncia- tion of Latin. The invention is still in Q crude state, but the fact is regarded as set tied that it will record and produce sounds as we have stated. The invention is unlike the telephone, but it may be used in con- nection with it. The possibilities of such a discovery are sufficiently sensational. If we leave wholly out of sight the probability that what is said to-day may be repeated a hundred years after the speaker is dust, and consider only it's relations to present every day life, it is evident that revolution may result. What is the use of writing letters if by talking into moutbpiece at strip ot paper we may prepare all that we wish to say for the mails without the interyen- ton of pen and ink The telephone was wonderful in its day, but the photograph threatens to over shadow it.
Year: 1877

The sudden accession of heat has al
ready produced one fatal, and more
than one severe, case OF sunstroke in
the metropolis. Probably the affection
so designated is not the malady to
which the term coup de SOleI can be
properly applied. The condition
brought about is an exaggerated forM
of the disturbance occasioned by enter
inc too suddenly the " hot room OF
Turkish bath. The skin does not i'm
lnediately perform its function as an
eyaporating and therefore cooling sur
face, and an acute febrile state of the
organism is established, with disturb
ed balance of circulation, and more or
less cerebral irritation rs prominent
feature of the complaint. Death may
suddenly occur at the outset of the com
plant, as it has happened in Turkish
bath, where the subject labOrs under
some predispositiOn to apopleXy, or has
a weak or diseased heart. 1t should
suffice to point out the danger and to
explain, by way of warning, that al,
though the degrees Of heat registered
by the thermometer, or the power OF the
suns rays, do not seem to suggest
especial caution, all sudden changes
from d low to high temperature are
attended with danger to weak organ
isms. The avoidance of undue exercise
for example, persistent trotting or
cantering up and down the Rows an
obvious precaution on days marked by
relatively, if not absolutely, high
temperature. We direct attention to
this matter because it is obvious the pc
culiar peril of overheating the body by
exertion on the first burst of fine
weather is not generally realized. 1t is
forgotten that the increased temperature
must be measured by the elevation
which has recently taken place, not the
number Of degrees of heat at present
recorded. The registered temperature
may he more or less than that which
occurred year ago; but its immediate
effects on the organism will be de-
termined by the conditions which have
preceded it and the violence of the
change.-LOndOn Lancet.
Year: 1877

The Central Pacific Railroad Com
panv are now paying their train, yard,
and office men exclusively in silver
Men who had a few hundred dollars due
them were loaded with coin when the
pay car arrived here yesterday, and for
once seemed to have more money than
they could conveniently carry. While
the company, without the sanction of
Congress, have made silver coin ten
der for all amounts due their employees,
with that inconsistency for which power
full corporations are becoming notorious,
they refuse to receive such coin for fares
or freight for any amount over five dol
lars. If an employee Of the company,
who received his two months wages in
silver yesterday, had freight brought
here by rail to-day he would have to pay
all charges above five dollars in gold.
The agents, acting under instructions
from the company, would not receive
the silver paid him for his labor, even at
a discount. This is one of the arbitrary
and despotic DEGREES which make people
distinguish the Central Pacific Railroad
Company from other corporations by
the name of the "great grasping, soul
less monopoly. ."-Winnimucca SiIrer
State
Year: 1877

A recent English book Oh Turkey has
the following: ave passed through a
busy hive of reapers, who were cutting
the product of these chemical sub
stances, and who were nearly all Bull
garian women. We were going up a
hill at the time, and had left my in
fernal machine to enjoy the pleasure of
stretching my legs and counting my
bruises, when | saw several of the young
women Fastening toward me. Feeling
that it would be ungallant to turn my
back upon so fair a charge, stopped,
determined to see it out at all hazards.
On they came, with laughing lips and
sparkling eyes, as l stood wrapt in ex-
pectant wonder, for they were so many.
Soon / was surrounded. What might
be the customs of the country, or what
might be expected of me, l knew not,
and l felt that, could my friends at home
see me at this moment, my situation
would be ludicrOus in the extreme. But
now my hands were kissed, one foot was
raised and the sole of my foot was
rubbed with ears of corn, to signify that
it was the desire of these brown damsels
that I might forever walk on plenty.
This poetical consideration for my well
fare deserved some return, 50 | distri-
buted some small coins among them,
and was laughingly released"