smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

Not long since one OF our Subscribers
who was I'm arrears on, subscription,
refused to take his paper out OF the
postoffice to which it had been sent,
and never offered to the amount due
us-which we had honestly and fairly
earned. We do not speak OF this OF
this as rare phase of human chnrac-
ter, for 1t Is quite common occurrence
for newspaper men. Neither do we
intend to deplore any reduction OF our
subscription list; inasmuch as we had
an addition of three times the loss with
that week. What we want to call at
tention to Is the fact that there are too
many who seem impressed with the
idea that by their patronage bestowed
upon US they purchase our silence or
dictate our utterances OH matters OF
public concern. This idea Is wrong
one. While we ever intend to be guild
ed to large extent by the popular will,
yet full well we know that we are run
ming our own business, as no one else
takes the interest, or has the time to
spare to manage it for us. We also,
know that we are responsible for every
word which appears in these columns.
If we do not publish every item ofpub-
lie matter we learn of, 1t is because we
consider the item sufficiently well
known, and that no good could be ac-
complished.


We also, indite this item to inform
certain ones that we are not the guar
dian of the public interests,in the strict
meaning of that term. The people
have elected officers to guard their In
terests; and when crimes and fraud
have been committed, it is the business
of the people to turn to their officials,
their paid servants, and command
them to enforce the laws, as those SER
wants have solemnly sworn they would
do. Why do so many turn to wreak
vengeance on the newspaper, while
the viOlators Of the law go untouched,
and the officials unrebuked? Is 1t pos
sible that the officials arc simply elect
ed to draw their salary and connivc
together for its increase and for re-elcc-
tion, while upon the newspaper de-
wolves the responsibility of looking after
and checking mismanagement, which
drives industry and capital from our
borders? If that is true; and the peO-
pie are really looking to the newspa-
per to guard their interests, why not
abolish the offices and make q grand
saving of expenseS


Our position In matters Of public con-
Germ has been open, published; and
we could not make II out to have been
different If We felt disposed to try. fiat
any time we advised epeople to their
hurt, we were wholly unaware of the
fact. Freely we admit that our views
have not always been indorsed by the
people, but that does not follow that
We were in the wrong. Experience
must have taught the people by this
time whether or not there was reason
in our views, and whether our enemies
have been always in the right. We
desire the good will and patronage of
all, but IL the pursuit of straightfor-
ward course in the right us we are able
to see the right, will not win patron
age, then we'll quit the newspaper
business.
Year: 1878

Our READERS SHOULD not forget the
Bazaar of the Provideut society which
opens in the Opera House on Tuesday
evening next. The proceeds of the
Bazaar are fer the benefit of the poor
and to be distri buted by the Society in
a judicious manner. 1t has been in
existence several years and has re-
leved many destitute families not on
ly by direct contributions but by fur
nishing work for unemployed females.
1t should be recollected every cent of
the money contributed will be expend-
ed for the poor, and this being the fact
the Bazaar should be largely patron
lied.
Year: 1878

THB VIRoINIANs have got their backs
up fearfully, and are lashing them
selves into "a perfect frenzy of fury
over the action of Judge Rives of the
United States District Court of that
State, in giving to. the colored race the
rights granted by the Fifteenth Amend
ment. The Richmond Times character
ICES his action as very extraordinary "
and all the other smaller ilk of papers
join in the hue and cry against the
Federal Judge. The facts are, as gath
cred from the Times own columns,
that the counsel for two negroes indict-
ed for murder asked for a special We
nire, to be composed Of whites and
blacks, alleging that not single ne
gro's name had been put into the box.
The Judge of the Circuit Court denied
the motion, whereupon Judge Rives, of
the United States Circuit Court, issued
an order, with writ Of habeas corpus,
transferring the cases to his court. In
stead of being very extraordinary" "
this decision seems to US .minen.ly
proper. In drawing the jury there
was distinction made on account of
color, for no negro's name was placed
in the box. The accused were negroes,
and they had right to demand trial
by jury from which negroes were not
excluded. 1t is to the credit Of the Old
Dominion that one of her sons had the
courage to take this stand in his own
State.
Year: 1878

Is Is ALLEGED that some Of the Demo.
Gratis in Congress find themselves un.
able to credit the stories of fraud tina,
come from South Ccrolina, because they
cannot believe that "the men who ar.
at the head OF the Democratic party in
the State, would be privy to anything
dishonorabl. in political warfare. -
This is probably the most astonishing
reason for incredulity ever given since
American political history began.
Year: 1878

counteract the work done hit rto, but
il they so defend fraud and sustain
crime that punishment of the guilty is
rendered impossible, let them take
warning that no man for whom the
South votes will ever be chosen Presi-
dent or enjoy in any future Congress
the position of leader of majority.
The solid South is virtually disfran-
chising itself by its own frauds and
crimes.
Year: 1878

Mr.. NoRroN in his address before the
City Council on Thursday night passed
a high encomium on the whipping post.
He thought that Wilmington with her
twenty-four policemen and the fear OF
the whipping post was equal to fifty po
licemen in city like Reading.
Year: 1878

GEN. Hampton's recent "mule" acci-
dent by which his leg was broken turAs
out to be much more serious than at
first supposed. 1t is now feared that
the leg will have to be amputated, and
It is even doubtful il that will save his
life
Year: 1878

silver dollar. He claimed 1t as thing which
did not admit of doubt that at the time when
the silver dollar was demonetized the silver
dollar OF 4l2h grains was more valuable
than the gold dollar. He argued that it was
to the interest Of the United States to make
both gold and silver legal tender for all
debts-both public and privste-particularl
nov when this country is such large pro-
ducer Of silver. He attributed the great de.
preciation in real estate in Germany to the
demonetzation of silver by that country.
He contradicted the theory that vast in.
crease In the production OF silver in this
country had been the cal use Of the fall in the
value of that metal, and alleged in denial OF
it that India, Japan and China alone had
taken in the course of trade during last year
sl05 100000 of silver, which was about $25,.
100000 more than the entire silver product
OF the world. He criticised the sermons of
Beecher and rockingham, and in conclus-
ion said we are laboring to get back TO the
dollar which has been tried in every con-
ditiOn, and under every variety of circum-
seance in this country, and has not been
found wanting; we are directing our foot
steps in the pathway lighted by the lamps OF
experience; We are not pioneers, we are
only seeking for old paths made luminous
by the footprints of the fathers of the re.
public; they betoken us onward they say
to us this is the way, walk ye in it. He who
has been watchful student Of history can
not mistake his way. II we be attentive
listeners, we may hear from every passing
breeze that is waited to us from the masts of
commerce, from the field OF husbandman,
from the hum OF the loom and from the ring
of the anvil words of encouragement to pur.
sue steadily the silvery pathway that shall
conduct our nation TO the goal OF financial
prosperity. The committee rose, and the
house adjourned.
Year: 1878

concluded that the only way In which
the field glasses and other plunder can be
secared, is by attaching line toa rock,
and then firing it over the top of the
pyramid from q mortar.


One Of the small rocky islands OF the
lake is alive with rattlesnakes. 1t is sup
posed that the first Of the stock were
waited TO the island on a raft of tules or
driltwood. Doc. Wood, who has visited
the island, says there Is millions In it,"
The reptiles have their homes among the
rocks and live on the eggs and young Of
water fowl, and upon the dead fish that
are cast ashore upon the island. Mr..
Wood says that the stories that have
been told of the snakes rushing in body,
kissing and rattling, to attack any man
landing on the island, are untrue. He
found that whenever they were disturbed
they ran away and concealed themselves
in the crevices of the rocks, just as would
have been done by any other snakes
Nevada Enterprise.
Year: 1878

And why should he notY He was a
man Of great authority under Candace,
Queen of the Ethiopians, and had charge
of all her treasures. He rode in royal
state, and doubtless was the envy of mul.
titudes. And yet it was not in consid.
eratien of these things that he was joy
full. For all these things he might have
been miserable man, as has been the
case with many, even more exalted than
he.


As he was returning from Jerusalem,
whittier he had been to worship, sitting
in his chariot he read Esaias the Prophet.
He was devout man, religiously in.
clined. BY divine direction Philip put
himself in the way and was made serv.
icesble in explaining the passage which
he was engaged in reading. 1t was the
place where it is thus written. Gle
was led as sheep to the slaughter, and
like lamb dumb before his shearer, 80
he opened not his mouth. In his humil-
iation his judgment was taken away,
and who shall declare his generation for
his life is taken away from the earth"


This was all Greek to the eunuch. He
could not comprehend its meaning. He
said to Philip: 81 pray thee, of whom
speaketh the prophet thiss of himself
or OF some other mani" Fortunate i.
was for him that the question was ad-
dressed to one competent TO instruct him,
to one indeed sent to him by the source
of all light by for this special purpose.
"Then Philip opened his mouth and be.
gan at the same scripture, and preached
unto him Jesus" He preached to him
the great atonement through his obedi.
ence unto death. He told him He was
the Lamb Of God, that taketh away
the sin of the world"


The seed fell on good ground, on soil
prepared TO receive it, and it Immediately
sprang upand brought forth preciousfruit
By the grace of God, the eunuch at once
became a cordial believer in the Lord
Jesus Christ, and was ready to profess
himself his friend and follower, which
he did by then and there receiving the
ordinance of baptism at fountain by the
wayside. 1t was happy, joyful expert
ence in the history of this eminent man
"And he went on his way rejoicing"


And why should it not be so with all
Christians? Like this recently-converted
eunuch, they are believers in the Lord
Jesus Christ. For His sake their sim
are all pardoned and blotted out, never
to be remembered against them any more
forever. They are justified in the sight
of God, and He is their reconciled Father
and Friend. And now, as they go on
their way in the pilgrimage of life, every
step brings them nearer to their everlast-
ing home in Heaven. They are nearer tc
that home at night than they were in the
morning, and nearer to it in the morning
than when they laid themselves down tC
rest at night. "Soon shall they wake
and find them there" Come health OF
sickness, come prosperity OF adversity
come life or death, come what may, all
is working together for their good. The
rough storms that beat upon them here
are waiting them more rapidly across the
ocean. Soon shall an entrance be minis
tered unto them abundantly into the
everlasting Kingdom of their Lord and
| Saviour Jesus Christ.-N y Observer.
Year: 1878

We passed roadside grocery with a
sign up, " Potatoes Wanted" An iguor-
ant stranger, doubtless. He could not
have gone thirty steps from this place
without finding plenty OF them.


In several fields the arrowrsot crop was
already sprouting. Bermuda used to
make vast annual profit out Of this
staple before firearms came into general
use.
Year: 1878

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.


The disconsolate yelling of the stall
warts over the changes in the New
York Custom House should encourage
the President to hit them again. He is a
fighting man, and the malignants who
have believed in his amability and
abused him should be dealt with. Whet
your knife on your boot, Rutherford!
Year: 1878

Washington Jan. 4.-Senator Hill
has been relied on to vote for the Bland
silver bill, but he makes the following
authoritative statement:


am unwilling to have the Demo-
cratic party take a position which will
injure the national credit, and especi-
ally unwilling that the South should
abandon all her old positions, preju-
dices, and unquestionablc interest, and
join in this mad demand for unlimited
free coinage of the silver dollar and in
definite postponement of the resump-
tion of specie payments. AS matter
of policy 1 protest that the Southern
people shall not be put in the attitude
of even apparent hostility to the ma
tional credit.


Senator Butler, of South Carolina,
who has been regarded as favorable to
the Bland bill, has informed his friends
that he is opposed to unlimited coinage,
and he will undoubtedly vote against
the bill in its present shape.
Year: 1878

Washington, Jan. 4. The House
Military committee will have the army
recognizing bill ready when Congress
meets. 1t will propose thorough re-
organization of the staff, and as one
member of the committee puts it, ssthe
bayonet will not be hurt much., In
vestigation shows that the staff would
not be in much better condition for SER
vice than it was in 1861, should war
break out. The staff is large enough
for the combined armies of Russia and
Germany, but is inefficient. 1t not in
frequently happens, members say, that
a paymaster is sent to pay from three
to seven men; the pay of which officer
alone would be nearly equal to that OF
an entire regiment on the present basis.
Young blood is driven from the army
and enters private occupations, because
the staff as now organized prevents all
prospect of promotion from the ranks,
Evidently the bill will provide for a
very considerable reduction Of the staff
but it is doubtful whether the commit
tee, in view of the action of the Hous,
already, will attempt any considerabl,
reduction of enlisted men. The com
mittee meets Monday to hear Bulls ant
Shafter, from Texas.
Year: 1878

THE movement in Chicago to inau-
gurate mining stock board has taken
such definite shape that it is now pretty
certain that such an organization will
speedily be effected. A committee on
organization will report to meeting
Monday night, when some form of in
corporation will doubtless be agreed
on. A number of prominent citizens
have pledged themselves to take shares,
and an agent is there from New York
and several from Denver. Strong
efforts have been made to establish the
board in Kansas City or st. Louis, but
they will probably now give way to this
movement,
Year: 1878

New York, Jan. An the board of
aldermen, this afternoon, a resolution
was adopted declaring that greater ben
fit could be gained by the discharge of
VIM. NJ. Tweed from imprisonment
than by his long detention, and recon-
mending the Attorney General and
corporation council to release him from
Imprisonment, after securing for the
city such property as he now possessed,
and after taking means to secure his
testimony when necessary in any suits
which might hereafter be brought by
the city.
Year: 1878

We congratulate Glover. He has struck the
luck of the aged fisherman, who with great
enthusiasm summed up the results of a days
sport. with, "NO positive bite. but one glori-
GUS nibblc." He has, if any dependence can
be placed upon the outgivings from Washing


ton, what may honestly be called, without
play of imagination or stretch of fancy, a
GOOD square nibble. 1t is not yet certain
how large the fish is-the indications are
that it is smelt-but the encouraging
thing about it is that his political
friends are. for the first time, feeling safe
in the assurance that his hook is not in
their own trowsers. And yet there are no
doubt some among them who, SO soon as it
was said he had a nibble, clapped their hands
behind them and ran from mere force Of habit,
lust as the Democrat who strayed into church
lodged when the clergyman gave out the
hymn beginning "Strike the resOunding Tyre"
There's everything in habit. When we con-
slider how the Democratic party has been lacer-
ated by Glover's nervous energy in pulling
"in,n there's no wonder that they scatter
at the slightest movement of his elbow. But
this time there seems to be no cause
for alarm. The old man has dropped
his line into the Treasury Department
and caught, or thinks he will shortly
be able to catch, q case, not of "fraud," but
of "carelessness.n This is much better than
nothing at all, and ever so much better than
what he has been catching by accident here
tofore. 1t is somewhat surprising, too, that
up to this time, with all his fishing in the
Treasury Department, he has not caught so
much as a nlullet. May be he was afraid his
Year: 1878

The friends Of oX-Speaker Grow believe that
there is a strong probability Of his nomination
as Republican candidate for Governor of
PENNSYLVANIA this year. All the counties west
of the Allegh.nics except two have chosen
"Grow delegates to the State Convention,
and most of them have been positively in
structcd to present his name. a movement
which begins with so much vigOr is likely TO
gain strength pretty rapidly, and as there can
be no question about Mr.. Grows personal
popularity, we shall expect to see him enter
the convention with formidable party at his
back.


This is a time when Pennsylvania can afford
TO push forward none but her best men. In
1877 the Democrats carried the State by n
majority of about 10000; in 1873 a united
Republican party can wipe out that majority,
but the contest will be close and we need
every vote If the nomination is to be con-
trolled 10y the jcalousies of cliques and the
ambitions of rings, we may make up our
minds in advance to he beaten. And it a
candidate is to be set up who is merely mega
lively acceptable, who has no enemies only
because he has no friends, and whose record
is safe Just because it is obscure, our chance
of winning, though perhaps not desperate,
will certainly be small. Pennsylvania should
choose a candidate whose name will stir en-
thusiasm.


1t seems to us that Gllusla 4. Grow Is the
strongest man who has yet been named. As
leader in the anti-sayery cause, the author of
the Homestead Act, and an able and popular
Speaker of the House of Representatives, he
has National reputation and having had no
connection with the local politics of the State,
he has no enmItics and rvalries to contend
against at home. He has never been in alli-
ance with the Cameron faction, and yet that
powerful elan does not hate him. The mad
dcst of Pennsylvania Democrats would never
think of calling him g ring politician" and
vet the active working members OF the Repub-
lican organization would give him a cordial
support, and Independent refOrmcrs and lib
erals would chcerfully sustain him. His per-
sonal popularity is sufficiently indicated by the
fact that during his twelve years III Congress
he was constantly reelected by increased ma
jorites, and his party adversaries could not
get rid of him till they changed the bounda-
ries Of his district.
Year: 1878

Gricyous is the condition of the very rich So
strange are some Of the appeals made every day to
the charity and kindlinesyof wealthy persons, that
they are hard to believe. For instance, to a LADY
well known for her generous heart her gentle ma
ture, and her large measure of this worlds goods.
appeared not long ago young woman, an utter
stranger, of agreeable and modest mien. This
young woman had come to New-iork to engage
in a profession, and artlessy she stated
her belief that if the excellent lady she addressed
would only take her into her house a guest, for
tine, and introduce her to her friends, she would
do her great service, and send her far on her way
IN her work in the plcasantest manner. She was
good GIRL an amablc girl and the only explanation
of this extraordinary performance, was that she
had read SO many rOmances that she imag-


ncd that she had only to open her mouth
for the sky to rain cherries. Her genial faith
IN humanity is only to be surpassed 10y that Of "A
Western woman who wrote TO ask wealthy lady
III the East with whom she was wholly unac-
quainted to stepOut and buy her "a set of false teeth
as if those useful articles were TO be found on any
street corner and were warranted to fit any mouth.
distinguished literary man in this city, who was
reported not long ago to have received very large
legacy has been reduced to a state Of despair by de-
mands made upon his purse. the size of which was
sadly oycrrated. Nothing. so far, stops the ava
lanChc, ana he - SAID To De graVey considering the
propriety of hanging on his door-bell placard with
the legend NO fortune received"


The complaints of the gentleman whose wife
could not find a ktchen-maid at reasonable wages
are reinforced by the statements of the SuDerin-
tendent of Castle Garden to the correspondent of
Western paper. This official says that, while
male immigrants glad to get work at any
price, he can do nothing with the women He
sends men off every day for hard work
farms at So month, but the most ignorant,
shftless and unpleasant young woman would
refuse the same wages for hOusework, almost as If
The offer were an insult. A half-clothed, untaught
girl lust from turf-cabin and semi-starvatiOn, de-
mands the wages of q well-trained servant, and
thinks that she is being cheated when less is offered
her And as for the trained servant, she is as unrea
sonabe in her way. It is not dIy of abundant
money, prices have gone down, her masters salary
is largely reduced yet this good creature would
toss her head and leave the house were it gently
suggested that q prOportionate reduction in her
wages was advisable and that it Is not now war
time Reform must of course, begin with those en-
ployers to whom few dollars more or less every
month are no great matter. When they put wages
on "a wise basis, people with only moderate incomes
may mention their terms to the young ladies of the
Intelligence offices without being regarded with an
intolerable look of scOrn.