smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

The following item clipped from the
Memphis Avalanche of the 9TH, will give
our readers an idea of how the dead are
put away in Memphis;


Jack Walsh yesterday morning was noti-
fed of the death of Miss Belle Miller.
Jack sent his hearse and driver to the place.
OF course it was impossible for one man to
do the work, and therefore it became neces-
sarY to call in assistance Two Sisters of
Mercy and Howard Visitor dressed the
poor girl and carried the coffin down the
stairs to the hearse.
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, Aug 21.-The Republican
State Committee of Maine has made de-
mand on the Congressional Campaign Com
mittee here for more funds to aid it in car
rying on the campaign in that State, AS it
says the tide is strongly against its party,
and the only chance of carrying the State is
by the free and liberal use of money, which
must be. Otherwise the State will be hope
lessly lost. The Congressional Committee
has directed another assessment to be levied
on the clerks and employees in the Treas
ury and other departments for that purpose.
Many of the clerks dcmur to this constant
tax on them for the benefit of Maine poll
ticians, but are compelled to submit, AS if
they do not they will be removed from their
nOsitiOns.
Year: 1879

If any farmer or planter has done so
well this year that when he has sold his
crops he finds himself with money to
spare, let him buy land. That is still
cheap almost everywhere, and it is always
safe to own real estate bought cheaply or at
fair price in a we'll settled and law re-
specting community. We would not advise
any one to buy land either in Mississippi
or California at this time. The people of
those States do not seem to think much of
the laws or the rights of Others, and it is as
well to stay away from there until they get
done shooting,
Year: 1879

The great point made by those who
have opposed the use of silver has been
that Germany and other countries had
demonetized silver, and if the United
States receded from the fraud which
had been perpetrated, the country
would be flooded with deprecated
coin from other countries. The de-
monetization fraud in this country
was also sustained by the fact that a
similar fraud had been perpetrated
elsewhere. Germany now proposes to
restore the double standard, and in
this proposition admits the error which
has been made. OF course the men
who were enriched by characterization
will not have the honor or honesty to
admit the error, for with them it was
not an error but deliberate swiudle.
The action of Bismarck, however, vim
dicates those who have demanded the
double standard, and it is now only a
question Of time when the Infamous
wrong will be rightcd, so far as any
wrong which has :entailed ruin and
misery can be repaired. ~.
Year: 1879

Regular terms ofthe Probate Court for Nor
rison County, will be held at the Court House,
on tho first Monday of each month. Tho
Judge of Probate will be at the Court House
every Monday, and so long thereafter as may
be necessary to transact tho business Of his
Office.


&c., @c. And I will make speciality Of
transacting any kind of business for my Ger
man fellow citizens who are unable to express
themselves in English.


PETER NEWMAN, Judge Of Probate.
Year: 1879

pointed out the meek and lowly way in which He
went about performing His mission OF mercy ana
redemption He referred also to the stability OF the
religion of Christ. All other systems only the
religion of Jesus have in them the germs OF despair
The hope of glorious immortality is in itself
wonderfully elevating thought, while the tendency
of atheism is grovelng and british. There nave
been many wise and good men since the days when
Christ was earth but not one of them has taught
with the spirit authority. No hope In
Christ means death-moral and physical death-for
punishment the qualification OF the animal passions
becomes the chief end OF life Bishop Spalding
concluded by exhorting his hearers to live so tnat
when the hour arrived when they would have 10
walk through the valley of the shadow OF death
they would fear evil.
Year: 1879

of science. art. iterature; to the establishment
of equilibrium between labor and capital when
a mans thousands of hours OF work VIII be equai
to capitalists thousands of dollars of money; when
there will be equality for woman when she VIII
stand equal in political rights to her brother when
she will be proprietor of herself. whether married
or single. lApplause) 1t is quite enough for us
men to say that we are the equals OF women. He
believed in the coming of harmonial dispensa-
tion when people will move according to the laws
of physical health; when there will be no more
necessity for doctors or lawyers when one hundred
years will be considered only the medium period
of human life; when there will be abundance where
there is now sterility; when nations will begin to
that they are only members of q common family,
in which peace. wisdom, charity, love and mutual
forbearance will prevail. This is the new heaven
upon earth.


There's good time coming, boys


Wait little Ion
Year: 1879

Philadelphia, Dec. 1O.-At the ma
tional convention of the Union League
it was resolved to call on congress to
abrogate the Indian treaties, and to
bring the red men within the pale of
civilization, and according them the
rights of citizenship.
Year: 1879

THE substitution of the bell punch
for the license system it Is said will SC
reduce the States revenue that Gov.
Roberts will be forced to veto the free
school appropriation If taxation be
not lessened and the public debt paid,
and the States suspended debt be not
extinguished there will be rattling Of
old bones in Texas.
Year: 1879

SENATOR CoKE's railroad speech il
extrsvagantly commended even by
Northern newspapers. They laughed
sometime ago at the Senator'S manner.
but have forgotten this in his solid
sense and craftsmanship. He is little
fiery when sectional issues are dis
cussed. but there are few wiser men
than Senator Coke and be is laborious
and progressive and will become
greater each year.
Year: 1879

New York, July 2.-The first half
year after the resumption of specie
payment has closed with universal ac-
tivity of industry and commerce, and
brighter prospects fort lie future. Indus
trial establishments have not been as
fully employed at any time since 1872 as
they are now, and. though the margin
of profit is generally slender, there is
strong confidence that production now
has solid foundation to build upon,
and that advance toward prosperity,
though slow, will be sure. In many
important branches of commerce trans
actions have been of unprecedented
magnitude; in others, although there
has been little improvement in the
volume of business, there has been
much improvement in the character
There are few departments of industry
or trade in which there has not been
perceptible Improvements in the vol
ume of business, even if measured in
values, and not one of Importance in
which the quantities of products ex-
changed have not increased. Labor is
more fully employed than it has been
at any time since the panic, and, on the
whole, more satisfactorily paid, the pur-
chasing power of wages being consid-
cred.
Year: 1879

Washington, July 2.-Internal Rev
enue Commissioner Raum said to-day
that the failure to provide for deputy
marshals was virtual repeal of the
criminal portion of the law relating to
Illicit distilling. The deputy collectors
of internal revenue have power to make
seizures of property for violations of
the law, but have not power to make
arrests. If a person was detected in
Illicit distilling he could not prevent
the officer from seizing the distillery.
but he could stand still and defy arrest.
By next Sunday every distiller in
the country will know what the effect
will be of having no deputy marshals
to aid the revenue officers, and / sup
pose the dishonest ones will seek to
take advantage of the crippled condi-
tion of the office.
Year: 1879

Washington, July 1.-The first ses-
sion of the Forty-sixth congress was
brought TO its close yesterday afternoon
amid the usual amount of hustle and
confusion attendant upon individual
members to secure final action in one
house which had previously passed the
other, and to get them endorsed and
rushed to the president in time for his
signature before the clerk should mark
the hour for final adjournment.


Two or three of the bills that go up
on the statute books with this days date
of approval would have failed had not
old Capt. Bassett, the veteran door
keeper of the senate turned back the
hands of the clock and nominally de-
layed the arrival of the adjournme mt
hour about ten minutes beyond the
actual astronomical time


One of these bills was for the relief of
Arkansas and Missouri. The others
were of no public consequence but in
dividual senators who had procured
their passage were determined that they
should not fail the lack of a few
minutes to obtain the final sigma
ture.


A very remarkable instance of good
management has been afforded by the
enactment of the bill repeating the du-
ties on quinine, which passed the house
yesterday without debate, under sus-
pension OF the rules, and which, contrary
to general expectation, was put through
the senate to-day.


1t was referred to the senate finance
Committee late yesterday afternoon,
and if it had been reported back to-day,
single objection would have prevented
the possibility of its being considered.
The plan adopted was, therefore, to
move a reconsideration of the vote by
which it was referred to the committee,
and being thus brought before the sem
ate, its passage was readily obtained,
for even the strongest opponents of the
bill, either on principle or in the inter-
est of powerful Pennsylvania manufac-
turers of quinine, then shrank from
going upon record in opposition to a
measure so manifestly bneficial for tens
OF thousands of people of scanty means
who suffer from fever and ague
throughout the malarious districts of
the south and west.
Year: 1879




And then remember, my son, you have to
work. Whether you handle pick or a pen,
wheelbarrow or set of books, digging bitches
or editing paper, ringing an auction bell Or
writing funny things, you must work. If you
will look around you, you will see that the
men who are most able to work are the men
who work the hardest. Don't be afraid of kill
ing yourself with oyerwork, son. 1t is beyond
your power to do that. Men cannot do that on
the sunny side Of thirty They die sometimes,
but it's because they quit work at P. M, and
don't get home till 2 a. IN. It's the intervals
that kill, my son. The work gives you an ap-
petite for your meals, it lends solidity to your
slumber, it gives you a perfect and grateful ap
probation of holiday. There are young men
who do not work, my son; young men who
make living by sucking the end of a cane;
whose entire mental development is insutici-
ent to tell them which side of postage stamp
to lick; young men who can tie necktie in
eleven different knots, and never lay wrinkle
in it, and then would get into a West Hill
street car to go to Chicago; who can spend
more money in day than you can earn in a
month"; son, and who will go to the sheriff's to
buy postal card and then apply at the office
of the street commissioner for marriage IL
cense. But the world is not proud OF them,
son. 1t does not know their name, even; 1t
simply speaks of them as old Soandso's boys.
Nobody likes them; nobody hates them the
great busy world don't even know they are
there, and at the great, day OF resurrection IL
they do not appear at the sound of the trump
ct, and they certainly will not, unless someone
tells them what it is for and what to do, l don't
think Gabriel will miss them or notice their
absence and they will not be sent for or dis


.,,.N
out them. So find out what you want to be
and to do, son, and take off your coat and make
a dust in the world. The buster you are the
less deviltry you will be apt to get into the
sweeter will be your sleep, the brighter and
happier your holidays, and the better satisfied
will the world be with you.


No, my son, the world does not owe you a
living. The world does not need you yet-you
need the world. If you can convince the world
that you are necessary to its well-being, It's
Year: 1879

KENNEBEc Journal: "Mr. Blaine pub
licly branded as forgery in the Boston
papers of last Tuesday evening, the letter
published in the Boston Globe purporting to
have been written by him. The Maine Stan
dard printed Thursday republished the same
letter as genuine, although the Globe itself
had acknowledged that the letter was not
written by Mr.. Blaine. That gives an idea
of the character of the individual who is the
chief blower about fraud and bribery by the
Republicans in the late election, and who is
doing all he can to have the Governor and


Council count in fraudulent legisla'uree'
Year: 1879

SHALL Tilden be cremated? Or buried, af
ter the old fashion? That is the question of
the hour The expense of hacks must be
taken into consideration, for the big meas
ures have been under the spigot of the bar
rel for months now, and the estate may be
insolvent
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and eommuni-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for pubca-
ton but guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munIcatIons that not used.
Year: 1879

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate signed by Stanley L. Pullen
Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel managers
will confer favor upon US by demanding credentials
of every person claiming to represent our journal
Year: 1879

Buffalo Courier: A Boston lady lost pock-
etbook containing 500, and when an honest
little fellow returned it to her she was SO
grateful that she gave him great deal OF
good advice and didn't charge him a cent for
Year: 1879

We were somewhat surprised to read in an
exchange that cats were quoted thirty cents a
bushel, and did not recover until we reflected
that the intelligent compositor must have been
fooling with oats.-Saturday Evening Gazette.
More likely to have been foolng with rye
Boston Journal of Commerce.
Year: 1879

Norristown Herald; "Get thee behind me
past" exclaims a poet. The command is
timely. If the past were to sneak around and
get before the poet he might do something
rash-perhaps write two-column poem about
it. Let us hope the past will get behind him
and stay there.
Year: 1879

CONC TO woRK-One of the
most cheering signs Of the times
is the disposition everywhere to go
to work. PresidentSpofford, of the
Iowa State Agricultural College,
in his annual address gives the fol-
lowing good advice to his students
about the advantages of labor, and
the advice is worth considering by
the students of larger growth: :
''haVing chosen q vocation, whetb-
er on the farm, office or workshop,
stick to TO it. No matter what a
mans position is, he will now and
then become dissatisfied. The far
mer will envy the preacher, the
physician will envy the black smith,
the merchant will envy the teacher,
and the carpenter will envy the
lawyer. a word to you all, my
friends, be content; not that you
should sit down stolidly and never
aspire to higher plane of life.
There is a discomfort that is divine
and you should heed its warnings;
but you should try to excel in that
position which you have chosen.
Let the farmer become better farm
er by reading, obseiv wing and associa-
ting with other farmers, better than
he is. Let the physician become a
better doctor by having big libra
ry on his shelves, and a bigger one
n his brain. Let the carpenter be a
Year: 1879

THE Northeren Pacific is now
reaching an excellent fin anclal
condition Being entirely free from
debt ana owning great property,
it IL in position not occup;el by
any other large railway cooperation n
in America. It's stock Of late has
b zen rising very rapidly, and the
company can now obtain money to
build as fast as they can push the
construction Of the road. From
Gen. Sprague, superintendent OF
the enterprise tor the western or
Pacific division, we learn that the
company has just received an offer
at the East for the iron necessary
for the construction of the section
from the mouth Of Snake River to
Pen d'Oreiile Lake, to be paid for
in the company's bonds at par. 1t
is expected that this whole section
OF 208 miles will be put under con
tarct during the approaching summer
and entirely completed next year.
Gen. Sprague's parties are now or
ganizing at WalIa Walla, and will
take the field at once to make the
final location of the route, and he
goes Immediately to superintend
and direct operations. On .he cas-
tern slope work is proceeding with
all possible rapidity, aud parties are
in the field making surveys for the
next section west Of the one nun
dred miles now under contract; and
iast as soon as these surveys eau be
finished, other contracts will be let.
which will carry the road to the
I elioWstone.
Year: 1879

RECEIPT FOR MAKING A LIVE
TowN.-Read the following receipt
for making i've town. If strictly
adhered to it cannot fail to do its
work


l. Sell your building lots at rea-
sonabIe prices.


2. II you can afford TO do so do
nate a building lot for some large
business enterprise, and thereby en-
hance the property Of the town.


3. Induce business men to locate
in your town.


4. Patronize the business men of
your own town.


5. Always sum up your expenses
when you visit places outside your
own town to buy goods.


7. Speak well of worthy public
enterprises.


s. If anything should be under
taken that may be benefit to thf
town, do not speak Ill Of it to other:
because you happen to be preju
diced against it.


8. If you have an over supply o
Year: 1879

Thousands of men breathe, move
and live, pass off the stage of life
and are heard of no more, Why2
They did not do a particle of good
in the world and were blessed
by none; none could point to them
as the instruments OF their redemp-
ton; not line they wrote, not a
word they spoke could be recalled,
and so they perished-thelr lights
went out in the darkness and they
were not remembered more than
the insects Of yesterday. WIZ you
thus live and die, O man mortal?
Live for something and leave be-
hind you a monument of virtue that
the storms Of life can never destroy.
Write your name in words Of kind
ness on the hearts Of the thous-
ands you come in contact with
year by year. And you will never
be forgotten. No; your name, and
deeds will be as Iegible on the
hearts you have left behind you, as
the stars on the brow of evening,
Good deeds will shine as bright on
earth as the stars of heaven
Chalmers.
Year: 1879

Don't judge man by the clothes
he wears, God made one and the
tailor the other.


DoN'r judge him by his family
connections, for Cain belonged to
a very good family.


Don't Judge man by his fail
ure IN life for a great many men
fail because they are too honest to
succeed.


Don't Judge man by his speech
for the parrot talks and the tongue
is but an instrument of sound.


DoN'T judge man by the house
he lives in for the lizard and rat
often occupy the grandest struc-
lures.


DoNr judge a man by his activity
in church affairs, for that is frequent
ly inspired by hypocritical or sell
fish motive.


DoN'r Judge him by his lack ol
display for the long-eard beast is
the humblest of animals but when
aroused is terrible 10 behold.


Don't take it for granted that
because he carries tie contribution
Year: 1879

During the past few years, par.
ties residing in New York, Chi
cago, Philadelphia, st. Louis and
elsewhere, at different times.
have attempted 10 secure on Lake
Superior, workable deposit oil
stone that could be used for paw
ing streets. SO far all efforts in
this direction have been unsuccess
ful. In July, 1877, We received in
struclions from responsible persons
in Philadelphia, to offer y reward
for The di,covery Of all accessible
bed of rock material up here that
would be suitable ior making flag
pavements and street road beds
We instituted inquiries in several
quarters on the Lake, and we final


y had to write to our correspond
ents our inability 30 obtain a clue
to the existence. on the Upper Pen
insula, of the material they wanted.


1t is we'll known fact that the
Lake Superior Region is rich in the
quantity and variety OF its rock for
nations, and it does seem that if q
proper examination were made ii
would result ii bringing to light a
stone that would meet the grow ing
demand in cities and towns jor dur
able street paving material.


There is now on the lake a party
of gentlemen from Detroit who are
looking for stone formation de-
posit up here, that viii answer for
street paving. They have heard of
a bed of rock on Isle Royale that
suggests its utility in this direction,
which they will examine before
leaving for home lIoughton Min
ing Gazette.
Year: 1879

a WORTHY Baptist minister in
the west gently rebuking his flock
for their extravaganza iE dress, used
the word garbage supposing it
to be a more elegant form of the
word ''garb." Wild hiIarjty in the
choir and horribls CONSERVATION in
the more devout portion of the
flock.
Year: 1879

money do nor invest it in far-off.
speculations, but give yourself and
the town the benefit of it by estab-
fishing mandatory of some
kind.


10 Encourage your local paper
by subscribing and advertising.
Year: 1879

I,--, Of. register Of the
land office, do hereby certify that
the above application is for survey
ed lands of the class of which the
applicant is legally entitled TO enter
under the act Of March Sd, 1879,
and that there is no prior valid ad-
verse right to the same.
Year: 1879

LIVELY FUsILLADE ON THE "BACK" POSITION


AND THE PRACTICE OF THE REGULAR ARMY


TEAMS.


A meeting of the National Rifle Association was
called to order yesterday by Chairman n P. Stanton.
and. after preliminary business. the vocal
shooting began Colonel Wingate attempted bulls
eye by quoting from the terms of Mr. Henry Hill
toms military trophy. which were to the effect that
the shooting must all be made with the head toward
the target. He ana others advocated the "head to-
ward the target" position and denounced the ''back
position The advocates Of the ''back position for
distances over three hundred yards. among whom
was Colonel Litchfed. United States Army. claimed
that they thought any position suitable.
and they only wanted the matter settled. They
did not want to force the "back" position
upon any one. colonel wingate offered letters from
Generals Upton and Sherman indorsing TO a certain
the ''head to the target position, and quoted
the opinion OF other military men. At this point
taxing advantage OF lull in the storm, Colonel
Sanford on behalf of Mr.. A. Afford, offered two
hundred dollar double barrelled shotgun as prize
to be shot for 1t was accepted. and gold
badge to cost $25, offered by Major williamson.
Colonel Litchfeld said that most of the in the
regular army were to-day practising with the back
position i'll anticipation OF the tall matches, and
they would like to know il they had to change.
This brought matters to a crisis, and motion finally
prevailed appointing q committee OF live to reor-
ganize the rules tor shooting the resolution includ
ing the distinct proviso that the back' position


AT 1T AGAIN.


Then came up the question OF whether the regular
troops should be permitted to practice at the range
before the match. Colonel Wingate wanted to give
them weeks practice and Major Fulton increased
the time to two weeks Colonel Litchfeld said that
General Hancock was about sending letters to depart
ment commanders advising them to send their COM
peting teams to New York possible, and
he was in other ways taking great interest in the
matches. OF course Colonel Litchfeld SAID, there
would be no use in the men coming on if they could
not practice at the range. Some one then suggested
that each private soldier should become member
OF the National Association by the payment OF the
regular initiation Zee. This point was argued at
length after which it was moved and carried that
the regular army teams be permitted to practice.
mass OF routine business then transacted, after
which the Board went into the discussion of the
pediency of Offering money prizes instead OF medals.
While no action taken, 1t was evident that
jority OF the Board were in favor OF the change.