smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

The Tybo San of January ilth under
the above head says:


"Sotne Of the western Nevada papers
the heno journal in particular, want
the State University removed from Eiko
to Reno. The Journal says: so far it
is failure. In spite OF the large sums
Of money expended on the school 1t has
never been brought up to the standard
OF New England Academy. II the
University is TO be removed from Elko,
We suggest Reno as the best place in
tho State for its location We would
like to know if there is anything under
the sun that the Journal does not think
Reno the beet location for7 Every pub
lie building in the State, except the
University, is in the little corner around
Mount Davidson. aud now they want
that. Carson and Reno nre eternaily
quarrelling about who shall have the
public buildings. and they never give
the claims of uny other section n
thought. We are decidedly opposed to
the removal Of the University to Reno,
or anywhere else. It is the only State
building in the Great East and we pro.
test most emphatically against it's re-
moval. It will be as useful at Elko as
at Reno. and a liberal policy ID all that
is needed to make il q University in
reality as well az in name. II the same
amount Of money had been expended
upon 1t as the State spent in building
worthless prison foundation at Reno,
the University would be pride aud
honor to our commonwealth to-day.
The large sums Of money the Journal
speaks OF, amount to the enormous sum
OF Sl.OO0-used in building a DORM
itory Let the Legislature make a lib
eral appropriation to it. provide staff
Of competent teachers. necessary libra
ries and buildings, and the University
will become what it was intended to be.
We have plenty of money in the Treas
ury, then let it be placed on a plane
with similar institutions in other States
thus giving the youth OF our state the
opportunity Of getting educated in the
higher branches at home instead of
sending them abroad. And let it re-
main where it is. in justice to Elko and
Eastern Nevada"
Year: 1879

The immense saving OF labor by the
use Of steam can be realized from con.
sidcration of tho fact that every two
pounds OF coal burned in an ordinary
engine can bc mado to do ms much
work as man working ten hours can
accomplish.
Year: 1879

sENAToRVooRHEEs has made power.
ful speech in favor OF the full remoueti.
zation OF silver on the occasion of cal.
ling up his resolution instructing the
Judiciary committee in reference to
making the trade dollar legal tender.
Year: 1879

IT ~ said that Justice Hunt OF the
Supreme Court who WAS stricken with
paralysis few days ago. will never be
able TO resume his seat on the bench
even II the present attack should not
prove fatal, aud that either Attorney
General Derens or Stanley Matthews
will be appointed IN his plnco.
Year: 1879

Los ANGELES loses temporarily
Major e. M. Ross, one Of the
Judges-elect of the new Supreme
Court, who went up to San Fran
cisco yesterday to assume the du-
ties of the position to which he has
been called by the people. Judge
Ross is probably the youngest
member OF any Court of last resort
In the United States. He owes his
elevation to a conspicuous personal
and professional worth, the
official recognition of which, in
nearly every case but his own, has
been confined to II much later Pc
riod of life. We shall watch his
career with interest and in the con-
fidence that his section will have
every warrant to be proud of his
record both from an intellectual,
moral and judicial standpoint. His
new field of duty is an arduous one,
but he brings to the discharge of its
responsibilities youth, energy and
ability. We most heartily bid him
God-speed.
Year: 1879

THE discussion Of transcontinental
railways to end at the rim Of the
Pacific ocean reminds one very


much of the hurry burly Of seven
years ago, when Tom Scott was do
ing q wonderful amount Of cheap
talk about the Texas Pacific and
Jay Cooke was using all his per-
suasive powers to make German
money lenders see the ad-
vantages held out to them


as an investment by the
Northern Pacific. The two great
salient facts OF the railway situa-
tion just now are that the South
srn Pacific has been pushed with
remarkable celerity towards New
Mexico, while the AtchIson, To-
pska and Santa Fe road Ia advanc-
ing briskly from the East towards
Arizona. In view Of past events it
need surprise no one to see these
roads, when they meet, patch up
precisely such an arrangement as
that which exists at present be-
tween the Union and Central Pa
clfic railways. Meanwhile, before
such an agreement would be ar
rived at, there would be a good


deal of skirmishing for position.


That more than one transcontinent-
al railway will be built below the
line of the Central and Union Pa


cific In the next ten years we do
not believe. There would neither
be money nor a possibility of
money in it for decades, and capit-
alists have at least an oblique re-
gard to the possibility of making
money when they engage in enter
prises of the kind. In the event OF
failure to agree on a common pol
10y the probability is extreme that
one road will sell out to the other.
Year: 1879

The desperate straits to which


the Republican leaders in New


York are reduced could not be
shown better than by the fact that
they are seriously talking of
taking from the masses
the right of choosing Presi-
Dental electors in order to invest
the lately elected Republican Leg


islature with that function. Such


q practical Acknowledgement of the


voters Of the Empire State would act


like an alarm bell to the people of
the United States. 1t would be a
proclamation OF the fact that the
Republican party distrusted the
masses and were determined to
stick at nothing to retain power. 1t
would act as boomerang, knock
ing over the inscriptions men by


whom 1t had been hurled as q par
tixAn weapon. After such an act
Of ostsntatious political profiigacy
the most purblind would see that
the Republican party OF early days
had passed into the hands of a lot
Of desperate gamblers whose sole
object was partizan ascendancy at
all hazards. 1t would be fitting
supplement to the infamous Re-
turning Board achievement of 1876
~. 1t would give the Republican
party the thirty-five electoral votes
Of the State OF New York, but they
would be stolen votes-stolen in
the broad light of day and in the
fscs Of the American people. Other
Year: 1879

Commonwealth, which could not
be similarly handled, would not
fail to take the alarm and this
sharp and INSCRIPTIONS partizan
trick would prove to be the DEATH
knell of the Republican party.
Year: 1879

who has received this edit discovers tha


his account will exceed his crop, that h,


abandons it, md seeks employment else,


where.


A most deplorable consequence of this
system Is that the unfortr 1ate farmer, who


has been its victim for several years, in


many cases, loses his manhood, and settles


down without energy aid without hope, in


to the conviction that the system is n life


long struggle between him and the mer-


chant. He concludes that the merchant Is


to continue to get all he produces, and he
resolves without reference to tho prices
charged or the balance that may remain
against him on the merchants ledger, to
get oil he can on the mortgage before pay
day comes. The system therefore begots
extravagance, waste and demoralizat on;
and as the prospect of bottering the victims
fortune rocedes under it, his efforts in that
direction diminish, Until they cease alto.
gether.


There can be no revival of our prosperity
until this system ends. How the business
OF the State may pass from this system to
another will be considered hereafter.


Another cause ia tho too prevalent de- re
on the part of our people to escape from
country life, its labors ard duties; and to
embark in the over~orowded pursuits Of the |
towns and villages. From being pro.
ducer of wealth, the farmer, removing to
TO town, becomes consumer.


Another, and the last cause Of dis ess
which shall mention is the too exclusive
reliance on negro labor. To point out all the
wis OF this reliance would require many
ages. cannot do this now. wish to
all attention to the fact, now patent to all,
hat the employment of this labor up to this
lme, has been In the main without profit
nd that its instability and unreliability as
hown by the present prevailing desire of
nat class of our population to remove to
-ansas, are now and ever will be a serious
bstacle to the industrial reconstruction of :
le State, 80 long as we shall continue to
by on them for the chief supply of our
Dor.
In my next paper will show how tl1es
ay be reduced
Year: 1879

To the Editor of The Comet


1t is gratifying to see mat the office OF


District Attorney is being appreciated by


the people q" over the State. 1t is COR


tainly an office that should be filled by men


not only competent in ability and legal


learning, but also of matured intellect good


habits, and forco of character t, induce the


respect of the people eYd strike terror to


evil doers. In these days it is particularly
desirable that men who f'l that office ghould


be free from those vices which their official


duty would call upon them to denounce.


For, it word be o mockery for a District


Attol Iey to prosecute man for drunken


ness, gaming or fighting, when he is known


to be guilty of those vices himself. The
public interest demands that he should be


"a man above all exception"


In addition to what has heretofore been
said through the press, let it be added that
the Importance of the Office is increased in
these days by the fact that suits are COM
mon upon the bonds of tax collectors to
recover monies belonging to the State or |
county. The very best lawyers are gems
orally employed by the defense, and the |
District Attorney has to meet them, in many
single-handed and alone. Thou>
sands of do'ars are often at sta'Ie j. the |
District Attorney is not good lawyer I'd |
able to hold us own, tho State or county
must incur The expense to employ assistant
counsel, or run 'he great risk of losing the
debt.


An incompetent District Attorney invites
,rime. Evil doers are quick to see his
weakness and take advantage of il in many
Ways. In these times il ia very desirable to
lave men fully competent at tho start =
mentally, morally Fld professionally
discharge all the duties of the office. The
ubIic wish to feel that these officers are 1
bundcntly able 10 vindicate the laws and
ring offenders to justice, rld also to col~
'ct tho revenue by spit, however compn
ated the case may be.
The timo has passed to vote for a man
or that Office merely beoanse he sis good
allow, when We world not employ him in n
civil suit, or to defond RI In State case 81
the least Importance. The peace end Il
BOD order OF society, in great measure,
epend upon the character aud ability of !,
lat officer. A VoTE5 AND TLx-PAyF7,
Year: 1879

store on Sixth street. The walls
of the Decatur street place are
falling rapidly. No estimate can
be placed on the loss or insurance
as yet.


The fire which broke out this
forenoon in the Collins paper ware,
house and paper mandatory OF
Magarge Bros, on Decatur street,
was finally gotten under control
about 1:30 p. m. The total loss
will not be less than $4,000.
Year: 1879

morning, and removed successfully nine


pieces of bone from the brain. The
man had fallen some four years
since from scaffold, striking with the
back C the head on a nail in board,


which penetrated the brain, ever since
which time he has been afflicted with epi-
lepsy that steadily grew worse. The opera
ton was performed for the relief of this
complaint. AS it is the second operation
ever performed at the prison, and about
the third in the city, 1t creates considerable
talk among the disciples of Esculapius.
The patient at last accounts was doing well,
Year: 1879

The mission of Gorden Pasha to the King
of Abyssinia was unsuccessful.


The English papers are doing all in their
power to discourage emigration to Amer
lea.


The King of Italy is contemplating an
early visit to the Crown Prince of Ger
many.
Year: 1879

First, do not be alarmed on account
of smoke. Frequently there il a great
deal Of smoke before the FIRE has
made much progress Remember that
one can pass through smoke by keep
ing bis head near the floor, or by en-
velcping il in wet wooden clotn. On
enterisg 5 room to fight dom a Ere
single banded, keep the door closed
behind you if possible. A pail of water
and tin dipper. 10 the hands Of
rssolute person, can be made to work
miracle at the beginning. If the ere
has progressed too far to admit Of
this course, aud it is necessary to de-
pend on outside help, then see to il
that every door and window is closed
BY so doing. where there is 6re-en-
CINE 10 the neigh6orhood IL will often
be possible 10 eon6ae the FIRE 10 one
room. Every person who stops 81
hotel should take special pains before
reuirig TO note the location Of the stair
ways, so that in case Of au alarm ne
can find bis way, even though the
balls are hlled with smoke. Never
leave q room when there is an alarm
of ire without first securing q wet
towel, or, if possible, q wet sponge or
piece OF wollen cloth, through which
10 bres'e. If escape by the stairs is
cut OF, seek an outsiie window and
stay there till help comes.
Year: 1879

Everybody must talk about some
thing. The poor fellow who was told
not to talk for fear the people would
fnd out that be was 3 fool. made so-
thing by the experiment.


He was considered fool because
be did not talk On some subject or
other Every body must have some
thing to say, or give up society or
course, the topics ofconversstion viii
relate TO the subjects Of knowledge.
If q man is interested iu science be
will talk about science II be is an
enthusiasts 10 srs. be viii talk about
art II be is familiar with literature.
and is an intelligent and persistent
reader, be viii naturally bring forth
Year: 1879

"A rumor comes from Paris that
bonnets are to be worn ON the head
hereafter. Ii strikes as the head would
be a good place on which TO wear a
bonnet, but such departure will look
little odd at hrst. -NerristotVn Herald,
Year: 1879

THE Boston Herald emphatically declares
that no Democrat who is Democrat and
knows why he is a Democrat can be
Greenbacker. One reason it gives for this
declaration is that Greenbackism means
Capitalization in its most obnoxious and
powerful form. Conceding, MS we do, the
correctness OF the HerHds position we
want to know what it is going to do about
it? Will it read EWING and THURMAN
and SAM Cox and the balance out of the
Democratic party? But, whatever it does,
or if it does nothing more, it has served q
purpose in attracting attention TO one of
the most manifest inconsistencies of mod
ern Democracy. 1t has shown that party
to be in favor of the exercise of most
potent Federal power which is distinctly at
variance with the theory of State Rights.
We quote from it as follows:


Greenbackism means Capitalization, the ex-
tension of the power of the National Govern
ment, the utmost departure from Democratic
philosophy of government. The Democrat
says to the Government: Hands off," The
Greenbacker and his mongrel crew say
" Take care of us furnish us with employ
ment provide us with employment pro-
vide us with currency ; put us in leading
strings il necessary, surround us with Fed
eral bayonets !" When a person who calls
himself Democrat joins that crowd he sim.
ply shows that he is not Democrat, or he
doesn't know what he is doing.
Year: 1879

That the extra session of Congress
which was made necessary by the revolu-
tionary plans of the Democracy, and was
held as closely as possible in that interest
during the three months that it afflicted
the nation with its presence-redounde to
the public good, there is no doubt. Its in
tended mission, so far MS the majority could
control it, was for evil 1t sought to either
overthrow or subvert the existing laws
enacted in the interest of honest elections
and for the protection of the rights of citi-
zenship in each and every State in the
Union. 1t sought to accomplish this end
by menacing the Departments of the Gov
ernment with starvation for the want of
needed appropriations to operate the func-
tions of the governmental machine. 1t
threatened this through the Democratic
leaders in both Houses of Congress


The threat was made that they would not
stop until the laws, which were born of
from the Statute book. All this, and
much more, was threatened and attempted,
and but for the sterling patriotism and
fidelity OF the President all this food of
mischief and revolution would have been
precipitated upon the country. His stern
and persistent use of the power of objection
saved the Government from immediate peril,
and the rights of citizenship and the purity
of the elective franchise from absolute over
throw.


Although it is questionable ethics to
tolerate evil that good many possibly come
of 1.-THE intended wrongs of the majority
in the late extra session, have resulted in
good to the common country. The precipi-
tate haste with which the Confederate
brigadiers rushed to the front with their
revolutionary schemes-their menaces of
starvation for the Government unless their
vicious plans were permitted to succeed
their bold and blatant declaration that
State Rights should be recognized rs SUI
preme over the National power-their inso-
lent bearing toward the GOvernment-their
utterances of implacable hate for the Union,
the Constitution and the laws, 80 far as they
stand in the way of their revolutionary plans
all these developments, which have been
so plain that "he who runs may read''-
have aroused feeling of alarm throughout
the country, and awakened the loyal people
of all sections to realizing sense Of the i'm
pending danger. The men who love this
country as Nation, who revere the Union
and the Constitution as worth saving from
overthrow, have come to knowledge of
the fact thatneither are safe, except through
eternal vigilance, and have been aroused to
duty. These results are fraught with great
good to the future stability and welfare of
the Republic, These are fruits that the
majority Of the Forty-sixth Congress had not
anticipated. They sowed the seed of evil,
but the country has garnered crop of good
from their sowing, and this will reconcile
the loyal and patriotic mind to the disgrace
which the session otherwise brought to our
National name.


There has been recent gathering Of
fruits from the late extra session in the
Year: 1879

If there is anything that is played out "
it is the infamous influence that the Democ-
racy have gained over the people OF the
land by the cry of the bloody shirt" This
cry has had q magical power within the
past ten years in getting weak men to join
the ranks of the willy Destroyers of the
peace of the country, All sensible people,
it would seem, must by this time see who
wears the "bloody shirt" and who the men
are who put the "bloody shirt" upon the
Nation aud forced it to wear it for four
weary years, and who would now accom-
plish by stealth and cunning, under the cry
of "no more bloody shirt" what they failed
10 accomplish by their bloody deeds of war,
1t does not become traitors to longer profit
by this cry, and we earnestly hope that the
freemen of the land will see 10 it that these
two words will no longer have such effect
upon them as to make them forget the
Year: 1879

The Kentucky Democrats were captured
by general apathy, and during their cap
tivity it appears that the Republicans
waltzed away with n few local and legisla-
tive offices in the late election in that State.
Another explanation of this result is that
many of the more honest, manly and
humane people of the State were so dis
gusted at DIR. LUKE p. BLAcKBURN's re-
fusal to deny the charge that he is the
BLACKBURN of smallpox and infectious
disease notoriety during the war that they
could not, would not and did not vote for
him for Governor. In fact, many of these
believed, rs they had the best reason for
doing, that he is the same man, the yellow
fever fiend, who proposed to aid the Con-
federacy by shipping disease and death
across the Canada border into the Northern
States No wonder, in view Of these facts,
that the Democrats find it difficult to get
up even the semblance of cheer over their
recent victory in the properly named "dark
and bloody ground.n
Year: 1879

THERE is q question whether G. s. r..
stands for Civil Service Reform or Confed-
crate States Rediyius. If the civil service
were to I've reformed under the dictation of
the Bourbon Democracy the two definitions
would be synonymous. As it is it is bad
enough, for the practical result of civil SER
vice reform theories, as recently practiced,
has been to introduce into the Government
employ q large class of abrupt and deter
mined enemies of the Republican party,
and still larger class of employees who
are either stolidly indifferent or despicobly
truculeut TO all partizon influences. We
do not intend 10 be understood by this to
mean that we are opposed to reform; but,
rather, that we are in favor of it, solidly in
favor of it, within the party. When it
comes to reforming enemies of Republican
principles into Office, we are of the opinion
that the scheme is device of the common
enemy.
Year: 1879

State of Kentucky, :" the dark and bloody
ground" that seldom produces good SenN-
tor BECK, who was among the leaders of the
majority in the Senate, and who proclaimed
the doctrine of starvation to the Govern
ment at an early hour in the session, has
been led by the force of public sentiment
to publicly recant his State Right doctrine.
He made q speech recently in his own State
in which he publicly admitted that the
power of the Federal Government was
supreme, and he declared it ought to be
supreme, though in reciting its powers he
the Constitution to which he processes so
much devotion; and he admitted that the
Republican leaders are wise and able Ameri-
can citizens who do not seek to destroy
liberty, but he Immediately fell into his old
ways and declared in the next breath that
they were deliberately planning TO de-
strOy liberty. The inconsistencies of Mr..
BECK are incident to his very exist
ence, for if he should become con-
sstent he would cease to be BECK. But his
'"'"'S''ohS' 'houSh peih"ps ioiSeu hVh hiii
by the pressure of public sentiment, 20 to
show that he also has seen great light,
through which he has recognized the SUI
premacy of the National power over State
Rights. This virtually gives the Demo-
cratic party away and leaves it without
standing ground. 1t has no prominent
principle of belief or action except that
which hinges on the Southern doctrine that
the States are sovereign and the Federal
power is subservient thereto.
Year: 1879

II appears that Senator HERMAN, who is
among the most honorable and just of the
Senators of that political persuasion, has be-
come disgusted with the tomfooleries of the
WALLACE investigation, and respectfully
declined to devote the time and sacrifice the
comfort that an attendance on the session
would involve. The committee has been in
session for some days in New York City for
the purpose of investigating the charges
against Election Supervisor JOHN ]. DAvEN-
PORT, but on account of the refusal of Sena-
tor HERMAN to put in an appearance, the
committee postponed further action until
November next, after the battle had been
fought and the Republicans had carried the
State. He was placed on the committee for
the reason that he represents the State sup
posed 10 be the most deeply interested, and
he no doubt declines to act for the reason
that he does not care to be identified with
n farce that is too ridiculous to be either
funny or interesting. He is too much of u
Senator and has too much seli-rcspcct TO be
mixed up with such nonsense. He knows
there is nothing to investigate worth pur-
suinn
Year: 1879

IF the Rev. ADIRONDACK MURRAY had
taken his wife with him on his recent bust
ness trip and left his good-loOking female
private secretary at home, instead, he
would have escaped the avalanche oftroubles
which has descended upon him, Or, if the
private secretary had been old and ugly, or,
better yet, if she had been a he, there would
have been no trouble. The moral of all this
is decidedly against the employment of that
kind of an amanuensis.