smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

If you are a Respondent invalid, is to grow str,ngcr. This you can do if you will take a piece of advice which has the weight of high medical authority to back it. That Is to use the standard inyigorant, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. specially commended and indorsed by it overcomes are dyspepsia, irregularity of the bowels, liver complaint general debility and nervous complaints. Itis also ndvery use- full in counteracting tendency 10 weakness or disorder of the kidneys and bladder, and persons troubled with rheumatism strongly tie entire system is highly beneficial, promot,

 ing as it docs the return of sleep and appetite, and tho acquisition of flesh and strength. A silent rcproof of the folly of nauseous drug medication is conveyed in the success of Il pleasant and effective botanical medicine
Year: 1879

Nothing is so conducive to mans re- maining bachelor as stopping for one night at the house of 8 married friend and being kept awake for five or six hours by the crying of cross baby. All cross and crying babies need only Hop Bitters to make them we'll and smiling. Young man, remember this.-Adver. alseT,
Year: 1879

and to anyone who is inexperienced in making up composts I recommend his consulting some neighbor who knows all about them. Even the best books published on the subject cannot give exact estimate ingredients vary so much in quality; then the kind of soil and time and manner of applying the compost are also to be considered
Year: 1879

The best fertilizer for potatoes I have ever tried is sod, composted in autumn with barnyard manure and from the pig pen, or with fish or animal manures of any ki1d, or guauo. But these latter must not be added to the sod in too large quantity, for if so they will in iure the quality of the potato, or indeed,

 any other root for the table. To this compost it will be a good thing to add 8 liberal dose of fresh slaked lime but what would be better is ashes, potash, German kanit, CT Jersey green sand mari. As to the quantities of ali the above to be added to each load of sod, this depends mainly on their strength i;
Year: 1879

The greenback show attending the re-
nomination of Joseph L. Smith of Old
town as candidate for Governor took
place yesterday at Portland, though the
performance was somewhat interfered with
by the rainy weather. Solon Chase and his
steers did not appear to advantage in the
mud and rain. while the music of the six
brass bands under the generous showers
from the clouds above was not attractive or
inspiring. Besides the timely rain was sug-
gestive of good crops, full barns and eel
lars, and what could be worse than this
for party whose fortunes are best when
the crops and times are worst? A dis
tressing drought would help the prospects
of the greenbackers, but a blessed rain
that makes the country at large smile is
no blessing to the grcenbackers.


To intelligent men who realize the dan
ger impending over the country by the re-
turn of the men to power in Congress who
fought four years to destroy the Union, how
weak and trivial do such performances as
that at Portland yesterday appear. The
same signs of danger, of national trouble,
which preceded the opening of the rebel
lion in 1861 are witnessed now.
The spirit of the South is the
same the determination of the leaders
TO gain by the ballot what they lost by the
bullet is openly avowed. Anew rebellion
is threatened; Confederate Brigadier,
have already attempted to coerce the Pres
ident and strip him of his constitutional
power under the threat of starving the
government to death if he resisted. The
North must resist now or lose all that was
gained by the suppression of the rebellion
We must have solid North to meet tho
solid South that conironts us.


And yet in this time of great nationa
peril, when it would seem that all wht
have common sense and a common love O
country would be seriously engaged in DO
litical affairs. we witness a party inaugur
ating political campaign with its leader
acting the part Of harlequins, at the Stat,
convention. and manifesting as little intel
ligent understanding of their duties in tn.
present crisis as the dumb brutes tha
figure in Solon's speeches.


The performance is what might be ex
Year: 1879

Bah the democrat who would so debasc
himself as 10 support by his ballot the party
who has scofIed at his principles trodden his
liberties as an American under their feet, de
serves political and social ostracism, and
will get what he deserves Maine Standard.


1t will require more than cracking OF
the party whip over the heads of honest
money democrats to make them support the
greenback alliance in this campaign.
Year: 1879

The mystery of the Manhattan Bank
robbery is finally laid bare by the contes-
sion of the watchman Slevn. who was
privv to the crime. His history of the
plot to rob the bank makes romantic
story. The scheme was three years in
Matching, and an unsuccessful attempt was
made upon the vaults of the bank months
before the actual robbery was committed.
The attempt was made and its real nature
partially concealed by the connivance OF
the watchman.
Year: 1879

pected of men who have gone crazy over
fiat money delusion and the hunger for
office. 1t is not possible that they can sue
ceed in farther impressing people by their
"fantastics' than to deepen the disgust
which is felt at greenbackism. Their
candidate is no believer in their doctrine,
and has been nearer the occupancy of the
gubernatorial chair than he will ever he
again.
Year: 1879

The Springfield Republican has stitlened
up sufficiently to say: This haggling OF
the democrats over the questions at issue
between them and the President places
them in ridiculous position They may
as well back squarely down, confess that
they have blundered and are beaten. pass
the appropriation bill without ifs or butts.
and 90 home, getting all the benefit they
can ny placing the matters in dispute be
fore the people. The finger of Providence
points Enthusiastically toward adjournment'
and the longer the democrats hesitate the
worse it will be for them
Year: 1879

National Associated Press to the Star.


WASHINGTON, Jan. 3O.-Postmaster Snow
den. of Philadelphia, was yesterday offered
by the President the position of Director
of the Mint, and declined, on the ground
that he could not afford to leave his home
and come here for any such salary. Snow
den will probably be appointed Superin-
tendent of the Mint at Philadelphia


A Bully Alternative.


The course of the Government in dealing
with Sitting Bull will be to require him
and his people to surrender as prisoners of
war or else go back into Canada.


Unanim ouslY Confirmed.


The nomination of Senator Christancy 10
the Peruvian Ministry was unanimously
confirmed yesterday, without the usual ref
erence.


Commander Kells.


The Naval Court-martial for investigating
charges against Commander Kells have
recommended his dismissal from the serv-
ice.
Year: 1879

Two million speeches have been folded in the House document room since the present session of Congress began; dur ing the past ten months. 64zlll volumes have been folded in the document room.
Year: 1879

CONSIDERABLE DISSATISFACTION is expressed
in certain quarters at the designation Of Leigh
ton Finley for one OF the army second Meuten.
ancies Mr.. Finley Is a nephew OF General
and is not .oSai ya enougn % for 'd the dissatisea
He Is reputed to be very out spoken in his
fealty to the "lost cause" 1t is also said that
on the day that the designations were made
the son Of a prominent official, "you see got
the place even II l am id rebel" It is
stated that the attention OF the Secretary of
War and OF the President will be called to the
matter
Year: 1879

GkN. GRANT AND THE DARIEN CANAL-A let
ter has been received by a gentleman in this
city from Gen. Grant, In which the General
expresses himself as being gratifed at the great
interest Delng taken in this country In the
project OF an Inter oceanic canal.
Year: 1879

Wnr is tEe Piaza rot utilized in some manner? If Phoeaix is to poor to mako it au ornament, let it le rented out for q Log ranch, or any tl.irg eze that will give it tie appearance of having been intended for some purpose. and at the same lime te a source of revenue 10 so impoverished town.
Year: 1879

"A pretty style of hair dressing for the morning. says fashion journal, is to wave all the hair" We agree with the above. In the morning it is not only 8 pretty but a useful fash ion for women to snatch all the hair of t.e back part of the chair, where it has reposed during the night, and wave it around the room to chase out the flies
Year: 1879

One of the leading bclles of Sara toga, durIng the season now come to an end, was young lady, of Balt;- more, who petrificd her dancers by offering to bet with them that she could hit q floating barrel with q hundred pounder shot ten times 10 their once, and inviting them to came down to Fortress Monroe and sctIle the Macer-
Year: 1879

end all around. Yes. I've seen him on the track
myself He cut dashing figure with his
nigh boots. hands in pocket and hat
on the back of the head. 1 can see him
now sort of struttng around with cutaway coat
ana regular sporting OUTFIT No. he didn't do his
own Jockeying. He was large to ride. II hand
some, Jolly looking fellow he was and as genial
man as you heard talk. Have you followed his
his history since? He came East after that.


BAPTIST PREACHER NEXT.


Then he must have been taken into the Church
again, as he preached again in Leavenworth, this
time as regular minister in the Baptish Church
there, believe just before he had held the same
position further East From Leavenworth he had
call to go TO San Francisco as preacher and
left and this time rumor again busy about
him. There was woman in it, but reports were
pretty well suppressed as he very much liked.
The next heard about him about his running
away, and now about his being shot,"
Year: 1879




The wound is nevertheless extremely dangerous.
The surgeons say that had anatomist selected the
spot he could not. next to tho heart have chosen
q more deadly place. How large bullet entered
without cutting artery is only explanable the
theory to which somo reported give sanction,
that tho blood vessels yield without breaking. II
this is the case. then after Inflammation has
run days the injured surfaces apt to slough
of and break. producing hcmorrhage and death
In q few minutes. The most threatening fact which
has not been stated here is that the surgeons fear
that part OF the clothing has been carried In with
the bullet. No trace of the bullet in the back having
been found is accounted for by the resistance offered
by the bone. which prevents any probing The only
thing to be done is to keep tho patient quiet. adj
minister him beef tea and other animal extracts
and to keep ice on his chest His clothes have been
partially cut of. Mrs. Kalloch is constantly at the
side Of her husband. His son, preacher, and To-
Gated In Sonoma county, Is also here


THE INSTEAD rHE FATHER.


The sensation of the day among the workingmen
is young Kallochs speech at sand lot He is a Bap.
tist preacher. bold. fluent and pleasant speaker,
and he made marked impression. lie ask ed for
peace at the request OF his mother and for the sake
of his father whom. he said, any excitement would
kill. He said that he believed his father would live
tread on the sod over De young's grave, and con-
Year: 1879

The true girl has to be sought for.
She does not parade herself as show
goods. She is not fashionable. Gener-
ally she is not rich, but oh, what a
heart she has when you find her SO
large and pure and womanly. When
you see it you wonder if those snowy
things outside were women, If you
gain her love your two thousand are
millions. She will not ask you for I
carriage or a first class house. Shell
wear simple dresses and turn them if
necessary. She II entertain true friends
on a dollar, and astonish you with the
new thought how little happiness de-
pends on money. She'll make you
love home (if you don't you are a
brute. and teach you how to pity
while you scorn. poor, fashionable
society that thinks itself rich and
vainly tries to think itself happy. Now
do not pray you, say more, IL can't
afford to marry" Go fiDi the true
woman and you can. Throw away
ths. cigar, burn up that switch cane,
be sensible yourself. and keep your
wife il a sensible way.
Year: 1879

A little girl who had been on rail-
road train when an accident occurred
was told by her mother that she ought
to thank God for her escape from in
jury, when she made her evening pray
er. She did it in this way: Thank
you, God, for not letting me be hurt
to-day; but the next time | go to the
city III 20 in a Wagon"
Year: 1879

New Orleans picayupe.


u. Ackman-Shoemaker." So
reads the sign that swings over the
door Of a poor shsnty across the way,
and l have looked at the picture Of
the old shoemaker and his wife, that
the sunset was sure to frame in the
low doorway, so often that missing It
brings paug. for although the sign
still swings over the door. the door.
way is vacant-the picture is rubbed
out. l missed the old wife FIRST. Ahl
the sick poor! Shall 1 ever forget the
small bare room. the close, hot air, or
the hard, hot bed on which the old
wife lay? So ashamed Of her sCanty
clothing; so patient in her pain and so
grateful too! | think the kisses she
left on oar hands after We had bathed
her and laid her between the cool,
white sheets we had brought will keep
then fair so long as VIC live. my old
woman has worked very hard all her
life, and l am afraid she can't get over
this fever" the old husband said to
US. But she did not die. God had
something harder for her to do On
the third day of her convalescence we
heard that the old shoemaker had fal.
len victim to the fever and had been
taken to the hospital He never came
back. And this is what God had for
the old wife to do that was harder tnar
dyiDg--to live and hear: He died last
night; he will be buried in the potter's
field to day, and you can not see him
because you are too weak to walk"
Oh! if it is hard to give up our dead
with all the comfort of the last word,
the last look and the last clinging kiss,
and the knowledge that the dear form
is clothed in fair garments and will be
laid away with reverent hands iu con-
secTated ground, what must have been
the agony of that lonely old soul as
she sat with bowed head. "He will be
buried in the poor field to day, and l
can not see him. Do you think they
will be rough with hlm?" heard her
say to plying neighbor. will they
put him away decently? On, if my
old knees were strong enough for me
to crawl to his side. so that l could
put my hand in his once more, l think
l would be more reconciled to give
him up. We have been married 81
years. He always slept with my hand
in his, but last night he went to sleep
with his poor old hands empty, empty!
My poor, lonesome old husband"
Yesterday the old wife moved away.
To-day the landlord has been fixing
up the old house for new tenant
There will be other pictures framed
in the doorway soon. I shall look at
them from my window and like them
perhaps, but never 50 we'll as I liked
the picture of the old shoemaker and
his wife that has been rubbed out by
the passing hand of death.
Year: 1879

When the Confederate army was on
its shortest ratious General Lee re.
monstrated one day with a straggler
for eating green persimmons. and ask
ed him if he did not know that they
were unfit for food. Pm not eating
them for TODD, General" replied the
man, but for the sake of drawing my
stomach up to fit my rations."
Year: 1879

Really the most important question
Of the near future is whether yellow
fever will return this summer. No
greater misfortune could befall the
country, North as we'll as South, than
the temperance with the hot wealth
er of the dreaded pestilence. 1t is
said to be an axiom of Southern by
giene, established by precedent, that
the yellow fever is never epidemic for
two successive seasons. But the epi'
demic of last year demolished many
theories that had come to be regard.
ed as axioms by the medical profession
Itinvaded localities and attac ked class.
es of people that by theory and prece-
dent, should have been exempt from
its ravages. 1t manifested itself in new
symptoms and under modified forms,
battling experience and requiring new
systems of treatment, and this to such
a degree that there has been consider.
able doubt as to the identity of the few.
er of 1878 with the yellow fever of the
past. IF the cities of the South rely
upon precedent to protect them from
the plague this summer, and neglect
to take all sanitary precautions posi-
BILE they will make deplora BILE mistake.
One thing is certain The yellow
fever cannot be barred out of our terri
tory by any amount Of Congressional
legislation. We invite attention to the
very interesting facts presented in an
article by the Hon. j. f. H. Claiborne
OF Mississippi, printed on another page
of the Sun today.-[N. Y. Sun.
Year: 1879

That It is a crime to legallze
a crime. ..re.. = tYt
81 leach them to respect their
elders and themselves. g-r


Teach them that a true lady
may be found in calico quite
rs frequently as IN velvet.


Teach them that a common
school education with com
mon sense, is far better than
Il college education without it.


Teach them thathone sty is
the best policy, that it is bet
ter to be poor,than to be rich
on the profits of a business
that tends TO make men no
bettev., r. ,


Leach them that, as they
expect to be men some day,
they cannot too soon learn to
protect the weak and helpless.


Teach them, by your own
example, that smoking, tho
perhaps among the least of
vices, is disgusting to others
and hur:ful to themselves.


Teach them that to wear
patched clothes is no disgrace,
but to wear a. black eye is.


Teach them that God is no
respecter of sex, and that
when He gave the seventh
commandment, He meant it
for them as we'll us for their
sisters.


Teach them that by indul-
ging their depraved appetites
in the worst forms of dissipa-
tion,they arc not fitting them
selves to become the husbands
of pure girls. ....


Teach them thatit is better
tp be an honest man seven
Gaysin the week than to be a
Christian (!) one day and a
villain six.
Year: 1879

Gen. Norton of Texas, ,hav-
ing run his paper for some
years on the credit system,
talks in this fashion to his
patrons: "Those who respond
not to our bills will have to
respond to an officer. The
times require that we should
exact from all our dues. Pay
up promptly and have your
names inscribed upon the LIE
gion of Honor. We are not
working for glory but it is a
question of bread"
Year: 1879

Vlcksburg Commercial of
the 11th: The Democratic ex-
ecutive committee of Madison
county met in Canton on the
1st,and passed a series of res.
olutions, one which was in
answer to a request from the
country people deprecating
public meetings and speech
making in the farming dis
tricts during the canvass,as it
was calculated to do no good.
This is a good move, and we
think it would be much better
If we were able to congratu-
late our committee upcn TAX
ing the same action.
Year: 1879

Some time since, in making some mining comments, We stated that Vt had 5een informed that the '76 or, body was exhausted. We know wt were surprised when we were SO Tn formed, as we had previously been told by a reliable party that the '76 mint was one of the best in Pinal county The Superintendent of that mine write: Us under date of January 13, as fol lows:

 " Il are mistaken in suppOsing the ore body If the '76 exhausted We have not been working it during the Summer and Fall, but have teen sink ing new working shafI and are now down l03 feet. Being a large shafl and having a complete hoIslins engine and all the machinery necessary, We have suspended work m The mine only till we can procure timber and lumber to place this machinery in working condition. when We will again resume work In the interim rather than have the mill stand idle waiting for our ONn ore. we have been crushing Silver King ore. We have never lrvied an assessment and propose never tn l'v, one And while we have as yet had no dividend I can't say but il d"es look little >uSpicI"us that we shall have to im,.E a dividend "n the stock holders before d great while"

 We are very much pleased 10 pub fish this good sho ing for the '76 With no assessment thIs company has very fine mill, worked economically and not suffered To stand idle while opening up their mine; and now if IT addition there should be shortly paid d dividend, we think Superintendent Foreman will have reason to be proud of the record.
Year: 1879

THROUGHOUT all the discussion and contention in California over the Chi nese difficulty it never seems to have occurred to the powers and people tu start a movement towards passing the Chinese on, as they arrive, and lOcat- ing them throughout the Southern States, and encouraging a migration of negroes to the Pacific Coast in retur... The south wants to get rid of its ne groes; California is begging to be re lieved o. its Chinese What do they say to an even swap? We make the suggestions without charge, and would be fully repaid by finding little future variety in California newspapers. The thing is becoming monotonnus.
Year: 1879

The man who stands upon his own
soil, who feels that by the laws OF the
land in which he lives-by the laws OF
civilized nations-hei is the rightful and
exclusive owner of the land which he
tills, is by the constitution of our ma
ture under wholesome influence not
easily imbibed from any other source.
He feels-other things being equal
more strongly than another, tho char
acter of a man as lord of the inanimate
world. OF this great and wonderful
sphere which, fashioned by the hand
of God and upheld by his power, is
rolling through the heavens, part is
his-his from the central sky.


1t is the space In which the genera
ton before moved In its round of du-
ties, and he feels himself connected by
a visible link with those who follow
him and to whom he is to transmit a
home. Perhaps his farm has come
down to him from his fathers. They
have gone to their last homel But he
can trace their footsteps over the scenes
of his daily labors. The roof that shell
ters him was raised by those to whom
he owes his being. Some interesting
domestic tradition Is connected with
every inclosure. The favoritc fruit
tree was planted by his fathers hand.
He sported in childhood beside the
brook which still winds through the
meadow.


The path to the village school of ear
lier days lies through the field. He
still hears from his window the voice
Of the Sabbath bell which called his
father to the house of God, and near at
hand is the spot where his parents lay
down to rest, and where, when his
time has come, he shall be laid by his
children. These are the feelings of the
owners of the soil. Words cannot
paint them-gold cannot buy them.
They flow out Of tho deepest fountains
of the heart; they are the life.springs
of fresh, healthy and generous ma
tional character.