smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

Quarters of million Of gold to meet
the interest, thus increasing the aver
age balance Of trade against the coun-
try to that amount. This process
would temporarily arrestor lessen the
present outflow of gold, at the expense
of increasing the annual demand for
our gold by the amount of $675, 900.
Year: 1877

the sun to the going down thereof


and now comes the appalling an
nouncement that hordes from the
South are preparing to move on the
Capital in force, the appointment OF
MIR. Key being accepted as proof OF
the Presidents intention to distribute
the post offices among he'unrecon-
structed, and to create others if these
are not enough to 60 round. Those
who were here at the opening of the
Congressional session in December


1874, tremble when they refer to the
inundation from that section at that
time. It seemed as though the entire
white population South of the Poto-
mac was encamped in and about this
city scrambling and fighting like fam
ished wolves for the few positions
within the gift of the House of Rep
resentatives. SENTINEL.
Year: 1877

The Lafourche Union closed its
fist volume last week, and in an ar
ticle apropos of the occasion the edi-
tor remarks:


We have not escaped the intoler-
ance of public opinion, nor the petty
tyranny with which some people de-
light to annoy those who publish a
Republican journal, opposed to them
i'll politics, still We are mnch gpatified
to note thu recent change that has
come over many of our citizens, anu
that the Union is daily gaining in
public favor.
Year: 1877

An eminent English Judge, Lord


Hatherley, once expressed his ideas


Of judicial conduct and bearing In


the following terms:


1 have always thought that honor
and dignity We're best studied by
not talking about them, but by
practical courtesy of language, and
bv never allowing any outbreak Of
temper between any member Of the
bar or the bench. The dignity of
the bench is best maintained by
hearing first all that persons have
to say, by keeping yourself on your
guard, and forming a covenant with
yourself, as It were, TO let every
matter be fully placed before you
allow yourself to form an opinion,
much less to pronounce a decision
upon the subject. And certainly
you ought not to disqualify yourself
from the Office of a Judge BY ex-
pressing strong opinions when only
one side has been heard. That Is
not my opinion Of judicial dignity.
i will only say that during the forty
four years J. have been at the har,
and the nineteen i have been ON
the bench, / have studied to act ON
these principles. IL is impossible
for any man TO say OF him that he
has carried them out successfully,
but at least / have never lost sight
of them. At the bar or on the
bench have never had an alterca-
ton with any human being.
Year: 1877

If intolerant skeptics and super


stitious theOlOgians could catch the


spirit of the following extract from


an article in the New York World,


the society would be spared a good


deal of nonsense and religion make
a gain of its great boast and its great


lack-charity eff the reasonings


of the various sciences were applied
to one another as indiscriminately
as those of theology to science and
those of science 20 theology, we
should havea conflict of the sciences,
as well as a conflict between religion
and science. If the geologist should
insist on the consideration Of the
heavenly bodies in strata, our OBJ
servatories would become n chaos.


We are not entitled for this reason
to consider geology unfounded. IL
the crystallographer should insist ON
the classification of animals accord
ing to anges, faces and specific gray
ity, wall of anguish would arise
from the geological collections of the
world. On this account IL crystal
lOgraphy absurd ? When q narrow
theology would make the decree Of
some church council or the fallible
Interpretation of some portions of
scripture a criterion for scientific
verify, are we to reject religion,
the chief center Of all that we call
pure aud good? And If science adj
vances some doctrine that throws a
radiant light across the realm of ma
ture, but stands in conflict with our
present views Of the bible, are we
Justified in proclaiming an antagO-
nism between religion and science2
A deeper view of both religion and
science, a broader view of their his
tory, faint glimpse ofthe one Cause
movable or unknowable of both
nature and spirit, would make both
sides more prudent and more toler-
ant. The words of Bacon come
back to us after three centuries with
emphasis, 10 encourage US
in our doubts, 10 raise our loftier
hopes: Truth is the daughter Of
timc.'"
Year: 1877

Either man must be content with
poverty all his life, or else he will
ing TO deny himself some luxuries,
and save, to lay the base OF indie
pendence i'm the future. But II a
man defies the future, and spends
all he earns (whether his earnings
be one or ten dollars day,) let him
look for lean and hungry want at
some future time-fOr il will surely
come, no matter what ne thinks.
To save is absolutely the only way
to get solid fortune; there Is no
other certain mode. Those who
shut their eyes and ears to these
plain facts viii be forever poor, and
for their obstinate rejection Of the
truth, mayhap will die in rags and
filth.
Year: 1877

No people are such thorough nui-
sances as those who are perpetually
meddling with the business of their
neighbOrs-who are always on the
alert for anything suspiciOus-al


ways ready to believe the worst of
everybody. Reader if you belong
to that unfortunate class we pity
you. 1t is impossible that you can
find out anything that is going on
in your vicinity, you must be in
state of continual torture. A pry-
ing minds needs food, and without
it suffers. Then try to conquer the
unhappy peculiarity. What is it to
you if your neighbor does bring
home a brown paper package and
covered basket? You will live just
as long if you never knew what they
contain. 1t is none Gf your husi-
ness. And If your fighty neigh
Dor, Mrs. Lightfoot, indulges her.
self in a new bonnet while her
devoted husband wears patched
boots, you need not fret about it
he is the only sufferer, not you. No
need to make q hue and cry over
her supposed extravaganza. The
money did not come out Of your
pocket, and consequently it is none
of your business. What if the min
lister does call on Ann Smith twice
week? Why exercise brain about
it? Suppose she has an awful tenn
per-and powders her face, as you
say she does-her temper will not
trouble you. Mind your own con-
Germs. What difference does it make
to you if bold Maria "cuts out"
modest Mary? You need not tor
ture Mary by long stories of what
you have heard concerning the mat
ter. III thought l would tell you,
my dear. I speak for your good.
Somebody should put you on your
guard against that treacherous girl"
As a natural consequence modest
Mary, her Womanly pride aroused,
shrinks into the background, leay-
ing the field open to her victorious
rival, SO you crush good girls
heart because you will not mind
your own business. What II they
do have three pairs of stockings
over at Squire Hills? Haven't
they got "a right to? AS long as you
don't do the washing it needn't
trouble you. What right have you
to watch theiF eloFhes=line? Em-
p1oy your time better. 1t may be
perfectly true that dashing Mrs.
Gay signals to young DIR. Wilde
from her back windows. But who
gave you the privilege of watching
lady in her own home, where, if
in any place, her privacy should he
sacred 2 Her disgrace is nothing to
you, it is none of your business, If
we had our way, meddlers should
be punished like any other offender
against the rights of others.-E!r.
Year: 1877

THE following from the Courier
Journal should find place in every
scrap book: "The puppy that is
afraid to go among his fellpwsmen
without q nayy=six ON his hip ought
to be kicked out of society on the
tiptoe of public sentiment
Year: 1877

government. 1t attracted little at
tention-none whatever in the only
quarter where attention was imper-
atively demanded. Had the hun
dred and twenty men, women and
children butchered at Mountain
Meadow been black instead of white
congress and the administration
would have turned Utah inside OUT
rather than missed hanging every
person connected with the affair.


We presume it is now too late to
do more than has already been done,
but the shooting of Lee is certainly
% poor atonement for the crime
committed. If justice were allowed
to have its dues the master would
quickly follow the servant. Young
was the originator and instigator
of the slaughter; Lee merely the
willing tool and accomplice-and
we can but think that if the case
had been properly managed on the
part of the prosecution the Mormon
high priest would to-day be sleep
ing in a bloody shroud by the side
Of the miserable wretch who per-
petrated wholesale murder at his
bidding,
Year: 1877

The Mountain s1kRdOw Massacre.
St. Louis Republican, 25th.l


To the large majority of readers
the confession of John D. Lee will
have all the interest which attaches
to an entirely new revelation Of
facts, and few persons will believe
that every fact of real importance
in this confession has been in the
possession of the federal govern
ment for at least fifteen years. Yet
such is unquestionably the case, 1t
was Of course impossible to fix the
responsibility Of the MountaiR
Meadow massacre on the shoulders
Of the Indians so that it would re-
main there. The crime was too
great to be covered by any lie,
however ingeniously devised. The
truth soon began to leak out, and
within twelve months after the
event every "Gentile" in Utah
knew that the Mormon leaders
planned the deed Of blood, and
that Normons superintended and
took part in its execution. The first
United States officials who went to
Salt Lake City after the massacre
obtained all the evidence they need
ed on this point, and that evidences
was promptly forwarded to the
proper department at Washington.
Other officials who came later
were furnished with additional eyi-
dence, which took the same course
but nothing whatever was done
in the matter until the arrest of
Lee. The only explanation of this
shameful indifference on the part
of the federal authorities-if expla-
nation it can be oalled-is that
Mormon influence at Washington
was strong enough to cause the re-
lection of any and all proposals for
investigation. 1t was noticed and
commented on at the time that
whenever a federal officer in Utah
made an attempt to draw the atten-
ton of government to the terrible
business, he was certain to be re.
moved and his place filled by some
body who was willing to keep his
mouth shut. In this way Brigham
Young and his associates managed
to postpone the day of rctribution
which, now that it has come, is
misorably incomplete. Lee could
have been arrested, tried, convicted
and punished just as well in 1859
as in 1877. And what is of quito
as much importance, Lees partners
in guilt could then have been COM
PEELED to share his punishmcnt-a
fate they are likely to escape now,
Two or three years ago Stenhouso,
formerly prominent Mormon but
a back.slider from the faith, pub
lished an interesting book on
Mormonism, which contained,
among other things, a long
and accurate account Of the
massacre, giving names aud dates
and all the material necessary for
immediate action on the part Of the
Year: 1877

NH HoLDING THE SENATE IBKoUG II
FEAR OF ExposURE.-Thhty-six Re
publican Senators now refuse TO allow
Louisiana to be represented in that
body. It is impossible to believe that
men who had been connected with the
Senate for the last fifteen or twenty
years are ignorant OF the laws govern
ing the election Of Senators. They were
not ignorant when the elections were
held, and If they had been they are too
imbecile to hold their seats in such q
responsible body, if they had not already
enlightened themselves sufficiently to
enable them to vote understandingly on
the question. s H si


These men are not ignorant. They
are wise enough to tear that majority
of those of anoLher parry may be dan
gerous affair for their personal conduct
for the years past; and rather than have
their conduct in the Senate examined
they pretend ignorance of the election
laws, that they may defeat the will of
the people and hold the power which has
been voted out of their hands. The
same hand that played for and won the
presidency for the corrupt and swindllng
party is now shuffiing the cards again to
keep the power in the Senate. 1t is a
strange spectacle tn see thirty-six grave
Senators thus stealing away the rights of
the people to conceal their scandalous
conduct or make more perfect and com
plete the power of the Executive to con-
tinue the grinding taxes on the people.
And they set there, too, and vote with
Patterson, the indicted criminal, holding
tbs power and excluding two enators
|om Louisiana aud one fiom South Car
olina, knowing that were justice and
right permitted to be done the Radical
power in the Senate would succomb o
the decision of = people, as fully ex-
pressed in the late ell ctions. These
men are not wise-they are trifiDg with
the people. These thirty-six Senators,
many of them, hate each other; and yet
as joint partners in crimes they, like a
banditti, are compelled, for concealment,
to vote as one man. No outlawed band
was ever more guilty than some of these
men-with such man as Patterson W,



would not trust purse, much less the
power to sell out to a monopoly for {
consideration. Such men did not b.ibt
and force themselves into the Senate Co


the honor of the office; like the Soutl
Carolina thieves they wanted office tc
make millions, as it is said John Sher
man has. But these millions are al


taxed out Of the people. They want tc
force the continuance of standing army
with its 10,500 officers scattered all oyei
the country, and only 1900 men. Tht
people should know and understand tha


the Democrats cannot Retrench so Ion.
as the power of the Senate votes dowl
the economical work of the House.
Year: 1877

The debate in the Senate, Yesterday,
over the reference of Senator Spofford's
creditentials to the committee on cleo
tions makes it very plain that the repub-
icans are detelm mined to throw fair-play
to the dogs in order to hold on to tbeil
present majority as long as possible
Senator Bayard's declaration that the
man was blind who did not see that the
drift of public opinion in this country
was against all political schem;pg: thai
the best energies of every senator should
be bent in behalf of the people, and tho.
passions aroused by party strife be hush
ed, molly expressed the present senti
ment of the country, and the failure O
the Senate to respond to that sentiment
will not soon be forgotten. The time ba.
gone by when republican or democra
can afford to be part san before patriotic
Bait. Gazette.
Year: 1877

The case of Father Stack against Bishop
O'Hara which has been in litigation for
more than six years is decided finally in ta-
vor of the priest. Judge Gamble, acting
rs Chancellor in the Court of Common
Pleas. at Williamsport. Pa, filed an elabo
rate opinion. in which he maintains that the
power exercised in the case by the Bishop
is uuwarranted by the canon laws. and that
even if the discipline of the Church allowed
it, such power must nevertheless be con
demned as contrary to the law of the land
and prejudicial to the rights of citizenship.
The superiority of the civil over the eccle
siastical law is expressly asserted. The de-
cree of the Court accordingly declares that
the removal of Father Stack by Bishop
OfHara as punishment for supposed of
fence was unlawful; that the prohibition di
rected to Father Stack forbidding him to ex-
ercise any priestly funtions in Williamsport
was unlawful. But decree of restorati 4
was not granted as asked for, on the ground
that it might be injudicious to disturb the
present state of things in the congregation.
This point, however, is an open question il
the Bishop should appeal from the present
decision of the Supreme Court
Year: 1877

A well-known scientist observing, .sst
fall, an unusually large number of dead
flies in his looms, subjected them to the
microscope, and found it was what might
be termed brain fever which was affi:ct.
ing the musca dOmestica. This spring he
notices continuation of this epidemic,
though it has not yet become so general
as to warrant the broad statement that the
metropolitan fly is sick. The heads Of
these flies are found to be filled with
|svarms of living auimalculae-perhaps
after the nature Of mites--and seem %
|deyour the nervous apparatus, and they
are certainly more destructive to life than
anything of the kind yet found on the
head of the genus homo. A marked


fatality among flies would, of course,


have lls influence on the general health VI
the city; for it is known that flies gathef


upon their bodies the germs of disease =
they pass through the air. These ars
afterward devoured in peculiar manner.
familiar to those who have watched the
gymnastics of fly OF the window. pane.


This little organism is also potent Means


of spreading disease, and there are casel


on record where q fly has gone over 70


the neighb0rs and taken along the neesels
with it,
Year: 1877

Natures method of publication and
consequent cureis founded on the rational
principle of judicious gatiOn;and when
it is considered that the best physicians
pursue the practice of attention to the
stomach and bowels as preliminary land
often the only) treatment of disease, it is
not difficult to perceive that q remedy
possessing all the requisites of a purgative
and Alternative, in addition to other and
valuable remedial influence, must obtain
for itself more than ordinary consideration
and favor. Our remedy combines every
quality required for the treatment of dis
ease on the above-named rational princi-
pie. 1t is a pleasant Cathartic, active
or gentle, according to the dose; it is o
Blood purifier, toning and enriching this
fluid by its Alternative property; its action
on the Liver is soothing and certain, pro-
noting the Biliary secretions; it is q safe
andreliable Emmenagogue, acting specifi-
cally upon the uterine SYSTEM it affords
the greatest attainable relief in Dyspepsia,
and cures whenever used as directed !;
and in conjunction with hygienic means
is the best preventive Of Constipation
that can be suggested.


From the above it would then appear
that the simplest method to cure sickness
Is that one which combines judicious pur-
cation with physical sustenance, and the
observance Of hygienic measures; the
head should be kept cool, the feet warm,
and the bowels open; and when treating
diseases on the principles exhibited in the
manual referred to below (Which every
one should read) the strength should be
sustained by nourishing (not stimulating
food Of the kind adapted to the complaint
while the remedy is removing the disease.
Year: 1877

RAILROAD AFFAIRS progress gradually here. Bridge timbers have been arriving during the week and are being piled up on the river bank opposite town. Two more pontoons are ia position. making four in all. Plans of the bridge have not yet been received, but the carpenters gang has been kept.busJ putting in hoxes across Madison Avenue On Second and Third streets to give drainage for water falling on the mesa A large sewer has been put in at the foot of Main street, running under the side track embankment. The blanks are ot three inch redwood and all the work is

 ng done in the most substantial and

 able manner. Madison Avenue ii

 ng nicely graded on both sides of the

 ck and grading continues on Main ant

 leT streets.
Year: 1877

ATTENTION is invited to the Auction ad. vertisement in to-day's issue. Among the goods to be sold tonight are many little nic-nacs of use to everybody and which will undoubtedly be sold cheap. Our readers will be well repaid for their trouble if they call in and look around during the
Year: 1877

TIME FOR PAINTING.-Gooda authori-
ty states positively that paint spread in
the fall OF winter will last twice as long
as that put on in the spring or summer.
When applied in the cool or cold we.th-
er, it dries slowly and forms hard sur
face, or crust, while that which is spread
in the hot weather loses most of the oil
by being driven into the wood oy the
heat, leaving only dry lead, easily
crumbled off. Another advantage gained
in fall painting, is the absence of swarms
of small flies that so often collect on the
paint.
Year: 1877

The grandmother of little girl tried
to break her of the habit of saying peo-
pie lied, and instructed her to say that
they were mistaken. A few days after,
her grandma, to amrse her, told her a
bear story, which was hard to believe.
After she had finished, the little grand
child looked up into her face and ex-
claimed: Grandma, that's the biggest
mistaken I ever heard.n.
Year: 1877

CHEWING AND SMOKING TUBACCOS,


At Old Prices.
Notwithstanding the increase of the prices OF
all Tobaocos in consequence of the addition
al Revenue Tax, yet at this old stand you can
buy at the same low figures as heretofore.
Nineteen different kinds and styles open at


Retail,
Year: 1877

To THE EDITOR HERALD:-


Is 1t not shame that people in this city should be
awakened from their sleep when the thermometer
ranges 94 degrees by tho smell arising from llthy
streets and cutters? Such tho case with very
many in this city Thursday night Tho total inenl-
cheney OF the Street Cleaning Bureau OF the Poco De-
parment is manifest that we ask, Who're Is the
ornamental head oil the famous Board OF Healthy
Please send hin to Sixteenth street. between Sixth
and seventh avenues, any time after eight O'Clock i.
Nj. and lot him give the residents analysis the
foul atmosphere fills their homes and DESTROYS
their lives Can nothing be done To compel these
50, 900 year men To clean the streets


INDIGN ALTON
Year: 1877

To THE EDITOR THE HERALD:-


desire to ask the Board OF Health whether there Ii
any law prohibiting property owners from keeping tho
closets in their yards in such condition to annoy
neighbors in the warm weather aud drive them from
their comfortable yards? Such Is the At 2l2 West
Fiitelh street ana the adjoining two houses Forty
ninth street; also ut tue house on the corner or
Fiiteth street ana Broadway, and the entire block
between Seventh avenue and Broadway, Gu Fiftieth
street. Tho nuisance there Is great that
often compelled to 20 Il block out OF way. nave
made complaint, but OF no avail The only remedy
left is your valuable compliant Book" 5. l..