smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

Mr.. EDITOR:


Seeing the enquiry from your
lady correspondent as to her diff
Guilty in butter making, and hav-
ing had, the past spring, a similar
experience, allow me to suggest !:
The cream is too old for the seas
on. If she will churn every morn
ing the milking of the previous
day, she will save time.


For instance: The milking Of
Monday evening is skinned and
put in the cream,jar Tuesday eve
ming; the milking of Tuesday
morning is skinned Wednesday
morning and put IN the churn with
that of Monday evening, and
churned as early as possible; if it
can be done by 6 O'clock in the
morning, all the better.


find a thick cloth dipped in
cold water, and wrapped around
the cream-jar, dripping wet; and
the jar placed in draft of air at
night, better than putting it in q
vessel Of cold water; the same by
the churn.


also find a stone churn deci-
dedly preferable to a wooden one
| use a patent dasher made of tin,
which | find gets the butter much
quicker than the old wooden dash
er; but the strokes must be made
slowly about forty or forty-fve
to the minute.


We are usually, from thirty to
forty-fve minutes in getting the
butter, and it is beautifully firm
and yellow. Respectfully,


c. A. J.
Year: 1879

Mr. c. e. Gay authorizes us to an
no&nce him as a candidate for the Office
OF Chancery Clerk of this county at the
November election. Subject to the ac-
ton of the Democratic Conservative
party.
Year: 1879

"Somebody is Waiting for Me-"
was walled out by the man who had
been to the lodge, lost his night key
and could see the shadow of his
wife's mothers night cappedhead on
the curtain Of the sitting-room.
Year: 1879

Now is the time to buy thor
oughbred bucks to grade up the
3 character OF native sheep. If you
have such a flock, do not fail to
purchase a pure-bred ram, if you
have not already done so. Our
advertising columns will tell you
who have them for sale.
Year: 1879

Everybody can do SO If they will


In order to give all chance to take
THE MoRRIsTowN GAZETTE, We an.
nounce that we will take in payment
Wheat and Flour, Corn and Meal
Bacon and Lard. Butter, Eggs and
Chickens, Wood and Lightwood, or
any other kind Of country produce.
Those who are taking the paper and
have not paid up can settle in the
same way. Those who will not pay
IN any way will please notify us.
Our terms are cash in advance and
we want the money or its equivalent.
Year: 1879




/ would fail to comprehend the


full measure Of my duty on this Oc-


casioD, were 10 pass over in silence


the recognition Of that debt Of graft


tude due TO His ExcelIency. Cover


nor James d. Porter. for the untiring


zeal and devotion he has displayed,


in the progress ofall that pertains TO


the educational welfare of the State


over which he has presided for the


past four years with such dignity.


wisdom and grace. Foremost In the


field on every occasion where the


interests ofeducation we're involved,


fayoring and encouraging It's ad.


vancement throughout every section


OF Tennessee, he has secured the


lasting, heartfelt regard OF her chill
dren, and bequeathed record that


will ever command the admiration
and respect Of every educator. To
him We owe much, and feel conf
dent that l pay him no undeserved
compliment, but simply express the
unanimous verdict of this body,


when l state that among the first
and noblest names on the Roll OF
Honor on our Banner should be in.
5cribed that Of Governor James ID. /
Porter. In this connection, is It not
a source OF qualification to US 10
know that his mantle has fallen on
the shoulders Of one so worthy to
bear it as Governor-elect Albert S. |
Marks-a man whose career in the
past gives an ample assurance that
the high trust committed to his keep
ing will be performed with that hdeli-
ty and that pure principle of honor
which has ever characterized him,
aud rendered his name as a house.
hold word" for integrity, throughout
the entire extent Of his State.


l may be permitted to express
here my siRcerest aud most decided |
convictions, that we may hail the !
advent Of the Legislature about TO
convene. as the harbinger of yet
more glorious harvest in the educa-
tlonal field of labor. We can recog-
nize among their number, the names
of many who have already done good !
service in the cause, and those of
others in whose hands we may safe
ly entrust the educational welfare
of their State. With such an en-
lightened and Intelligent body Of |
Legislators and a Governor, in the
person of Albert S. Marks, we hope 4
for and expect much, and it requires
but little prescience Of future events
to lead us to the full assurance that /
our hopes will not be disappointed.
Year: 1879

In conclusion, would tender TO
the members Of this Association my
profound thanks for having elected
me to the honorable position Of pre-
siding officer for the ensuing year.
In doing so, / can not sufficiently
express my deep appreciation of the
honor conferred on me, as / look
around this assembly and recognize
the grand array Of talent, represent
ing, in an eminent degree, every
branch in the vast department of lot
ters. 1t shall be my endeayor to
follow in the footsteps Of my prede-
cessors, and TO be governed in my
actions by the illustriOus examples
ofthOse who have preceded me. No
trouble will be spared on my part TO
invest with interest the proceedings
Of this Association, and all my atten.
tions will be directed to enlisting
that cooperation and support which
is so necessary to the successful
performance of the duties connected
with this high Office.


For the courtesy and respectful
attention with which you have re-
ceived my remarks on this occasion,
I offer to you my most grateful and
most earnest acknowledgements.
Year: 1879

"the Senate of the United States
drunk-the highest law-making power
of one of the proudest and wealthiest
nations of Earth, DRUNK, it is not only
sufficient cause to make every true
Americans cheek burn with shame, but
In 1t we may see reasons To fear that as
u people, We are becoming so corrupt
that anarchy and ruin will soon fall
npon us. The only sufficient remedy
for these evils Is in the hands of voters
the masses. While they rally round
such politicians, cheer and encourage
such electioneering, they will have just
that sort. While they place in posi-
tions Intimately connected with the
interests of the people, men who have
no moral character-men who will
stOop to anything to carry their election
and anything afterwards to carry their
own personal ends-the people will he
more and more demoralized. The peo-
pie should arise i'm the power of their
sovereignty, and demand true men for
Office-hOnest men, sober men, and
frown down every attempt To conduct
n political canvass on the billingsgate
style. 1t would be happy era in the
history of this country, if the people


would turn away from every aspirant
for Office and every elcctioneerer who
lets himself down beneath the dignity
of Il gentleman. The practice, now so
common, of slandering, defaming and
blackening the character of candidates,
is just simply-well,I Il think the English
language lacks u word tn suitably char
acteriZe such conduct. For illustration:
if the two contestants for Legislative
honors i'm Ohio county this year, were
half as mean as represented, they are
not qualified for the lowest place in re-
spectacle society, much less a seat in
the Legislature. AMICUS.
Year: 1879

No. XIV.


SOME old folks are thought excentric
because they have lived long enough to
believe that One-half of the world live
and thrive on the tomfooleries and fol-
lies of the other half.


II any sane man will be at the trouble
of estimating the judges and attorneys
salaries, the various officers, witnesses
and attorneys fees, and the loss of time
and money by litigants he will be as
tOnished at the vast cost of our temple
of law, and when it is admitted that
three fourths of the worshipers in that
temple leave it, weary, worn, and
worsted, he might readily conclude that
our jewel of justice is not worth thecost
of its temple. =


THE truth is, that our whole judicial
system is so full of rats and rat holes
that a weasel can scarce get through
with whole skin-and the quibbles,
quicks, lodges, delays and
of the law are so patent that Judge
Lynch's court is beginning to be looked
upon as the only tribunal where justice
can be administered without sale, denial
or delay.


THE leaders of all parties signed All
armistice upon the new convention ques-
ton, and the consequence wasthat cam
didates were as still as mice on that
question and many of the people left
entirely ignorant on the subject and
failed to vote, and the convention fails
for the present. Well, it is to be hoped
that Kentucky will some day set her
sister States the example of building up
a plain, common sense, judicial system,
without red tape, i'm which the wheels
of justice will not he clogged or stopped
by every technical shaving, or mustard
seed of doubt; and refuse ali motion fol-
reason of poor mans want of oil to
grease the machinery.


THEsun diffluses light and warmth and
vigor on the temperate and cleanly
regions of the earth, but generates disease
and death i'm the heated and stagnant
marshes; so wealth like the sun, to the
pure and gentle hearted, expands and
purifies all the nObler virtues of the
soul, and imparts life and warmth and
pleasure to all around; but to the viciou.
and vile it but generates the deadly
miasm of selfish avaritious, and tyran.
ical passions, that degrade human
nature, and fill the calender of crime
Year: 1879

The prosperity of any people is very
largely dependent upon the integrity,
faithfulness and purity of those who
administer the laws. An inferior gov
eminent administered by wise and good
men, is better than superior one ad-
ministered by corrupt and bad men.
IncOmpetency in the departments of
government is not such an evil to the
people, as dishonesty.


There is now very perceptible, wide
spread and fearful degeneracy i'm Amer
lean politics. Many Of those who OBJ
tain political preferment, while they
would scOrn to do that which would
take dime from neighbor wrongful
ly, are utterly destitute of moral homes
ty. And the number of men i'm high
places, destitute of all honorable princi-
ples-ready to engage i'm any schemes
of intrigue and fraud for their own ag-
grandizement-ha rapidly increased i'm
the last few years. And by their ma
nipulations i'm the field of politics, they
are exerting demOralizing influence
great danger. Vile and dishonest men
may gain high places and prostitute
their official positions to wicked and
disreputable purposes; but while the
people retain their political uprightness
and moral stamina, they will find
means to uphold the fabric of free gov
ernment. But when the masses be-
come corrupt-lose their integrity-the
nation Is ready for the leadership of an
Alexander or Bonaparte. The man.
ner i'm which our elections are now be-
ing conducted, is not only very Objec-
tionable, but indicates a tendency dam
gerous to freedom. The manner i'm
which every mans character is assailed
who offers for any responsible position
in the gift of the people, is a disgrace to
the American people. There is no
honor, no principle, no relation i'm life
too sacred or high, to be pulled down
into the scum and filth of political scav-
engers, and by them besmeared with
the lowest billingsgate. We are fast
nearing point when no man who has
any self-respect, will offer for any pub
lie office. We have already gone so far
upon the muddy waters of this down.
ward stream, that good man is rarely
successful politician. A man who
had been close observer of American
politics for nearly half century, gave
as his opinion not long since, that in or
der to be successful politician, a man
must first sell himself to the devil. 1t
Is certainly to be hoped that this man
Is mistaken. But when we see men OF
sobriety and uprightness pushed aside
for men whose breath is like that of a
whisky barrel. When We think about
Modifying" notwithstanding the


OF our Representative that


It means(, and when we think


vt beaS ackshidg spictupA
Year: 1879

No. NV.
SOME old folks are thought excentric
because they have lived long enough to
believe that one-half of the world live
and thrive on the tomfooleries and fol-
lies of the other half.
Year: 1879

The Secretary of the Treasury
says that it would ! be difficult to APP
approximate the probable cost of the
government of the pension arrears
oill-but thinks that it may be any
where from thirty-six to one hun
ired millions of dollars. That is Il
iarge sum of money even for ma
ion to pay and the only comfort to
ne found in contemplating it is in
ne fact that it goes to disabled
soldiers and their families.
Year: 1879

sO;h tie gloss and freshness Of youth.
Thin hair is thickeD1d, falling hair
checked, and badness often, though
not always, cured by its use. Moth
ing can restore the hair where the
follicles are destroyed, or the glands
atrophied and decayed. But such as
remain can be saved for usefulness
by this application. Instead of foul
ing the hair with a pasty sediment, it
will keep it clean and vigorous. Its
occasional use will prevent tho hair
from turning gray or falling Of, and
consequently prevent badness. Free
from those deleterious substances
which make some preparations dan
gerous, and injurious to the hair, the
Vigor can only benefit but not harm
it. IF wanted merely for
Year: 1879

Mr.. Helling, Senator from this
District, has difficulty in satisfying
his friends in regard to his action at
the beginning Of the session. For
our part we care very little about
the matter. If we had been, in the
slightest degree, instrumental IN pla-
cling him in nomination we
should feel somewhat chagrined.
Nr. Helling commenced his opera
tons during the campaign and it
looks very much as if there was no
good faith in him. We are surprised
that those who knew him personally
and urged his nomination did not
know their man better.
Year: 1879

An exchange says: "Alcohol will
clean out the inside of an inkstand."
1t will also clean out the inside of a
pocket book a little more thoroughly
and quickly than anything else on
record.
Year: 1879

The Sandusky tOhio) Register relates the
following story:


A little girl with tangled locks peeping from
under calico hood, clad in dress of chintz,
loitered behind as the great dusty crowd
moved out of the gates of Mount Adna the
other day, after they had scattered their flow
ers and done honor to the dead. Dreamily
she gazed after them, her eyes filled with a
far-away look of tenderness, until the last one
had disappeared and the rattle of the drums
had died away. Then she turned and vaguely
scanned the mounds that rose about her,
clutching still tighter the fading bunch of
dandelions and grass that her chubby hand
held. An old man came by and gently patted
her curly head as he spoke her name, but she
only shrank back still further and when he
told passing stranger that the little ones
father had died on shipboard and been buried
at sea, there was only tear drop in the
child's eye to tell that she heard or knew the
story. When they were gone she moved on
further to neglected, empty lot, and kneel-
ing down she piled up mound of earth,
whispering as she patted it and smoothed it
with her chubby hand:


''This won't be so awfully big as the others
guess, but maybe it will be big enough so
that God will see it and think papa is buried
here" Carefully she trimmed the sides with
the grass she plucked, murlnurng on: Sand
maybe it will grow so that it will be like the
rest in two or three years, and then maybe
papa will sometime come back and"-but she
paused as though it suddenly dawned upon
her young mind that he rested beneath the
waves, and the tear drops that prung to her
eyes moistened the little bunch of dandelions
that she planted among the grasses OH the
mound she had reared. When the sexton
passed that way at night as he went to close
the gates he found the little one fast asleep
with her head pillowed on the mound.
Year: 1879

The breaking of the wire at most mop
perfume moment leaves the elections in
doubt so far as we are concerned. According
to our last dispatches the indications were
that Cornell was elected Governor of New
York Ifso, it will be the downfall of Til
denis hopes for the Presidency, and it will
strike our hopes of a Democratic President
another blow. AS far as Tilden is concerned
we are not sorry. He would have been too
great a load for the party to have carried. But
the loss of New York State will be severe
misfortune, yet 1t does not follow of necessity
that New York will go Republican next year,
although there are strong indications of it.
But the Tammany following voted for Cor
nell, and, if elected, he is without doubt
elected by Democratic votes. Those votes,
the right man is nominated, as there can be
will be thrown fora Democratic President
next year. Consequently there are some hopes
of New York.


As for Massachusetts,, il was expected she
would go te the bad. As yet it is doubtful
whether Ben Butler or Long is elected.
Either alternative would be bad enough, but
there are better prospects ahead. Wait till
we learn the final results.
Year: 1879

A merchant doing business near the foot of
Jefferson avenue, used to spend about half
his time in explaining to callers why lie could
not sign petitions, lend small sums, buy books
or invest in moonshine enterprises, but tn It
time has passed, and it now takes him only
two minutes to get rid of the most persistent
case. Yesterday man called to sell HIM a
map of Michigan. He had scarcely made
known his errand when the merchant put Oh
his hat and said:


"Come along, and I'll see about it,


He led the way to boiler shop, two blocks
distant, wherein hundred hammers We're
pounding at iron, and walking to the center
OF the shop and into the midst of the deafen-
ing racket he turned to the agent and kindly
shouted


"Now, then, if you know of any special re;.-
sons why should purchase a map of Michi-
gan, please state them at length.'


The man with the maps went right out
without attempting to state ''the one reason,' -
and the merchant TRANQUILITY returned to his
desk to await the next.
Year: 1879

Writing with pencil OIL postal cards is at
tended with danger. A son recently wrote
to his mother in Chicago in this way, and
during its transit through the posloffice some
writing except the signature and filed it up
with the request that the sum of $40 should
be sent to j. Rogers, who had loaned him
that amount. The mother, upon receiving
the card, Immediately sent a money order
for the amount TO the address mentioned, and
wrote to her son what she had done. He
Immediately telegraphed to stop the order,
and luckily the dispatch arrived in time to
save the money. The rogue called Ut the
office for the money, but was told that the
order had been stopped, and hastily decamped.


Boston Journal.
Year: 1879

A man pilng wood on the wharf near the
loot ut Third street yesterday fell into the
river, and when hauled out one bystander
advised him to be more careful in the future,
A second one advised him to take stout
drink OF whisky to keep chill of. A third
thought he had better hurry home and change
his clothes, and a fourth cautioned him to get
the water out of his ears. When all had
spoken boot-black came forward and said !:


81 hain't got much to say about this ERE
case, but my advice to this felier is to do
more kickin' with his heels and less hollerin'
with his mouth if he ever falls in again.
Shine yer butes for five cents ."-DetroU
Free Pres.
Year: 1879

Specie resumption does not appear to lessen
the amount of currency in the country, as
Was predicted by the Greenback enthusiasts.
Since resumption over So millions of gold and
silver have been imported. Last Wednesday
f1S2,O00 were shipped to New York from the
Bank of England.
Year: 1879

They discourage the hoodlum business in
New York. A young man, Saturday, who
had been indulging in the innocent amuse-
ment of leading Chinaman about the streets
by rope around his neck, was sentenced to
the workhouse for six months.
Year: 1879

One hundred miles toward the Yellowstone
have already been graded on the Northern
Pacific railroad, and the contract has been
let for the other hundred. The track is laid
sixty miles out. One hundred new cars have
been put on the line, and one hundred more
will be on in short time.
Year: 1879

The Western Union Telegraph Company
have extended their half rate message system
to all offices on their line. By this system
merchants on that line can send ten words to
any part of the United States to be delivered
next morning, for S1.O0. This reduction of
rates, if true, will keep Montana offices on
that line busy. Competition is said to be the
caIlSe.
Year: 1879

The net and gross earnings of the railroads
Of the country for the past eight years exhibit
features of interest to every one, and we give
them, together with the miles in operation
each wear:
Year: 1879

The greatest gross earnings were IN 1873, but
the greatest net earnings were the next year.
The number of miles has nearly doubled in
the eight years, and will be fully double in
1850 at the close of the decade.
Year: 1879

Our country is getting to be feerfully
alarming, the average Of life being lessen
ed every year, without any reasonable
cause, death resulting generally from the
most insignificant origin. At this season
of the year especially, cold is such a
common thing that in the hurry of every
day life we are apt to overlook the dangers
attending it and often tird too late, that q
Fever or Lung trouble has already set in.
Thousands lose their lives in this way
every winter. while had BOschee'S German
Syrup been taken. cure would Rave re-
suited, and large bill from Doctor been
avoided For all diseases of the Throat
and Lungs, Boschees German Syrup has
proven itself to be the greatest discovery
of it's kind 10 medicine. Every Druggist
in this country will tell you of its wonder.
full effect Over $4,000 bottles sold last
year without a single failure known.
Year: 1879

Wonder if the Demoeatic soldiers, the
rank and file, who shouldered muskets
and fought for the Union, like the party
drivel of hate applied to the Democratic
party, which abounds on the radical press
and issues from the radical orators mouth.
such as Confederate Democracy" rebel
Congress, etc. The only salvation ofTthe
Republican party seems to be in the reviy-
al of the bitter sectional feeling of the war,
Peace, good will, and love between all our
people means the destruction of the Re
publican party.
Year: 1879

and harmless to the youngest child, this great
remedy offers to the weary invalid absolute and
permanent relief. No combination of medical
substances before offered TO the afflicted pos
sesses the wonderful properties of the REsoLyENT
other form process of cure either OF medlclne
for internal administration, or of electricity or
other outward medical appliances, possess 1.-THE
of its curative power, because they do not strike
at the great cause of human weakness and suffer


ing Having discovered the elements of disease


that main tain tue debilitated condition OF scrofula
and corrupt blood, the REsoLVENT was compound
ed of original medicinal agents that had in them
selves the power of dissolving them away, to ae-
Complish which, it m.ngles with the contents of
the stomach, it takes its place among the constt-
uents of the blood and traverses every avenne and
channel OF the body, neutralizng and expeing dis.
ease breeding elements perfecttng digestion, and
purifying the circulating fluids Its medical action
seems unbounded becauseOf its resolvent and puri-
flying action. No medical preparation to te found
in any OF the standard works possesses this new
| and original feature.