smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

ing asked the above question invsri-
ably answered; "Fun or money! For
money l know everything; for fun I
know nothing" That man would
have made first class journalist, for
they will argue theology with a min
lister, medicine with q doctor, law
with a lawyer, or geology with a
geologist-in fact they viii never ac-
knowledge ignorance of any subject
under the sun.


THE BLESSING OF HEALTH.


We of the Comstock have much to
be thankful, for not alone have we
had rise in stocks which bears the
evidence of permanent imitation, but,
as the doctors say: ut is distressing
ly healthy" This is particularly .
source for congratulation in view of
the fact that a large portion of our
country is at present suffering from a
fearful epidemic of yellow fever.
Whole towns are being depopulated
and the unfortunate people are suffer-
ing from inadequate medical attend
ance and nursing. The cry of the
sufferers for help has reached US. A
meeting of our citizens is to be held
tomorrow friday evening, when
subscriptions to relief fund will
be received and forwarded from
various places in this city. In view
of the bounteous good fortune and
good health we are at present enjoy
ing it is to be hoped the people of
the Comstock will maintain their es-
tablished reputation for charity and
liberality. NUMsKULL.
Year: 1878

The compromise noted in yester-
days issue as having been arranged
between Messrs Wren and Connor is
causing considerable dissatisfaction,
and we learn from an authentic
source that an opposition ticket will
probably he run at the primaries.
The difficulty of selecting delegates
to the County Convention, who will
fulfill the contract as mapped out.
and at the same time suit the local
candidates, Is well nigh an impossi-
bility, and recognizing this fact, it is
foreshadowed that portion of the
latter will combine with the support
ers of other State candidates, and
fight 1t out on that line.-Eureka
Leader.
Year: 1878

-THE railroad which is about
to be constructed from the Mound
House. in this county, through the
Carson Valley to Walker Lake,
thence to Aurora, in Esmeralda
county, will be of some benefit to
every, man woman and child settled
In the county. At least fifty miles
OF the road will be in Lyon county,
and this, together with the rolling
stock and necessary buildings, will
add fully half . million dollars
worth Of taxable property to the as
sessment roll, and thus enable the
County Commissioners to reduce the
rate Of taxation by at least SO per
cent. The road will also help the
opening up Of a valuable tract of
agricultural and mineral land, and
thus add to the general prosperity.
1t is to hoped that the work will be
commenced at once. as it cannot be
completed too soon, for our good.
Year: 1878

-THE Board Of Aldermen, at
their last meeting, determined to in
vestigate, in committe of the whole,
into the overcharge and seeming
crookedness alleged by the TINES
in connection with the recent revision
and compilation of the city ordinan-
Cos. We presume the investigation
will be thorough and fairly conduc-
tod, and in that case the result can.
not be other than a complete vim
dication Of the TINES. We shall
consider it our privilege to appear
before the Board, il called upon,
and shed what light we can on the
subject.
Year: 1878

Bids for the sale OF silver were opened
to-day at the Treasury Department, and
over 100000 ounces were purchased at
prices slightly below London.


Secretary Schurz to-day decided that no
portion OF the money appropriated by
Congress for public surveys during the
present year can be used for the purpose
OF tracing former surveys in the field, to
aid the investigation of deprcdations upon
public timber lands, etc. He holds that
there is no warrant for the Department to
add to the amount granted by Congress for
the prosecution Of that investigation, the
appropriation for it having been specific
and definite.
Year: 1878

EXCURSION DOWN JAMES RIvER.-The
public will have an opportunity to spend q
pleasant evening down James river on next
Wednesday, the 18th instant. The ladies OF
the Grace-Street Presbyterian church will
have an excursion down the river by the
steamer Ariel, and such arrangements have
been made as to ensure that it will be one Of
the most agreeable excursions of the season.
Those who 60 can feel assured that they are
assisting a worthy object. The ladies Of
this congregation have been untiring in
their efforts to complete their church. Their
old church building was burned in 1865,
since which time they have been making
every effort to repair their loss.
Year: 1878

ANOTHER MOONLIGHT ExCURsIoN.-The
excursion down James river by the ladies
OF Trinity Methodist church on Monday
night next, with the full moon, will be q
delightful trip to all who wish to spend an
evening free from the heat and dust OF the
city. The Richmond Amateur Band will
accompany the eXcursionists and discourse
sweet music for the occasion.
Year: 1878

We, the undersigned, hereby wish to ey-
press our most heartfelt thanks to all who,
by kind words and good deeds, have so
faithfully tried to help lis bear our great
loss. Repay their kindness we cannot, but
that God may ever bless each and all shall
be the prayer OF


Mrs. ABR. HoFMANN AND CHILDREN.
Year: 1878

LEVY BROTHERS
intend making this closing sale success, and ara
determined by their mode Of conducting It to show
that they are In earnest. Remember that you get
TEN CENTS OFF ON EVERY DOLLARS WORTH


YOU PURCHASE OF


LEVY OTHERS.
So make your purchases of them.
Year: 1878

TIE PEACE OF HOUSEHOLD Is often dependent
ON the culinary and domestic skill Of the housewife.
Ladies' know this, and by using DooLEY's YEAST
POWDER insure themselves the most perfect bread
and pastry possible. It's use is economy aiso' lor
every can is absolutely full weight aud 1t Is SO strong
and pure as to demand the use Of much smaller
nnantitY than usual.
Year: 1878

For thirteen months past the Asylum for
the Insane al Columbus. Ohio, has been habi-


tation of cruelty. During all that time women
paid to nurse and care for the unhappy inmates
have been torturing them. For all that ap-
pears the system of torture would have been
In full operation to-day had not one OF these
women. enraged at losing her place let out tho
hideous secret, The Superintendent and di-
rectors are now making a great show
OF energy; they have already dismissed a
dozen OF the women. and promise that
others shall follow As faat as their
Year: 1878

THE failures of the period are to the
financial and business world what the
thunder storms and tornadoes are to
the material world: They purify and
strengthen; they give healing and
health to trade which has been long
sick and Frustrated.
Year: 1878

The Cincinnati Gazette says: "The
Democrats of Indiana realize that their
political hopes for the next twenty
years depend upon their getting posses
sion of the legislature at the coming
election, and to attain that object all
the party leaders are required to do
service in whatever capacity they can
be the most useful
Year: 1878

THE requisite preliminary steps for
admission to the Union as State is
being taken by Washington territory.
Two more Republican Senators appear
in the not very dim and distant future.
Year: 1878

From the New York Graphic.


Princeton, March II.


Dear Mother-I am not making
so much progress as l expected in
my studies, because there's a great
deal else TO attend TO here. But we
have lively times. / have just re
turned from the burial of Billy
Cook. He was shot last Tuesday
day night because he wouldn't al
low the sophs to take of his panta-
looms and paint his legs red and
green barber pole fashion. This IS
the last degree conferred on tie
freshmen by the sophs. / wish you
would send me a six-shooter, two
hundred cartridges and a double
barrel shot gun. We amt going TO
stand any more nonsense from the
sophs. After prayers this morning
our class were all busy making
sand bags. We're putting up bar
ricade on the east end of our build
ing, and intend TO mount it with q
six. pound canonade. The losses in
our class have been pretty heavy
this week. John Hilton is very
low with a bullet in his stomach
and Seward Livingston is not ex
pected TO recover from the stab in
his side,and Jack Rhinelander IL
lamed for life by a bullet in the
knee, and Sam Astor has lost the
sight Of one eye from n brickbat
There isn't q whole window glass In
our college building. But you wait
motherl You just wait a few days
and you'll hear something! We're
undermining the sophs' quarters
We're working day and night. The
tunnel Is now 12o yards long. II
goes straight over the campCs and
under old Prex's building. View,
established communication with his
cellar, and tell you a drop Of clar'
ct or Burgundy Is very nice 70 have
after n fellows handled n pick and
shovel half the night. We shal
use dynamite. Keep shady, moth
err. There won't he a soph left by
this time next week.


Your afectionate son,


Vergil Kelly.
Year: 1878

A large proportion Of the American
people are to-day dying from the effects
OF Dyspepsia or disordored liver. The
result OF these diseases upon the masses
OF Intelligent and valuable people Is
most alarming, making life actually a
burden instead OF a pleasant existence Of
enjoyment and usefulness as ID OUGHT 10
be. There Is no good reason for this. IN
you viii only throw aside prejudice and
skepticism, and take the advice of Drug
gists and your friends, and try one bot
tie OF Green's August Flower. Your
speedy relief is certain. Millions of bot
ties OF this medicine have been given
away to try Its virtues, with satisfactory
results IN every case. You can buy a
sample bottle Of your druggists, sump-
ter & Lacey, for 10 cents 10 try. Three
doses will relieve the worst case. POSI-
lively sold by all druggists on the Vest
erh continent. jun2l- -eow-1y-2
Year: 1878

The lapse Of a clergyman from


chastity is an event Of sufficiently
rare occurance TO create a sensation.
II is well that il is so, and remarka-
BILE that more OF them do not fall,
considering the temptations 70
which they are exposed through
the exercise OF their prerogatives as
spiritual advisers. The clergy are
but men, OF like passions as their
fellows, and there is NO differences
in the force OF the obligation TO be
chaste, both upon them and the laity
Year: 1878

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scriptiou is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure in extending
credit to our friends and patrons, but
cash alone will yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such a
course, and Grenew your su scription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


~ We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance.
Year: 1878

THE SpLESDID.-We have been ask
ed as to the economy OF the Splendid
Purlor Base Burner which we are Offer
ing for sale. In reply we say that we
know of no more econolpical Base
Burner in the market. We began ear
ly list fall and ran the stove without
interruption until late in May when
warm weather came. We warmed four
rooms all winter and consumed less
than three tons Of coal. We heat of 9TH
ers who with other stoves consumed
three and Il half tons. The Splendid is
rightly named us it is one of the hand
soonest stoves On sale. We will sell
ours, us we have no longer any use for
1t, ut discount Of about 40 per cent.
for cash. Those who prefer the Splen-
dds new can get them of G. z. Hewitt.
Year: 1878

TO FOREIGN SUBSCRIBERS 3


Subscribers to the ADVANCE living
outside Of Mobiles county will please
remember that when we notify them
of the expiration of their subscription
and they Go not respond, we take it for
granted that they do not want the
paper longer, and our rule is to strike
their names off.
Year: 1878




It is queer to what extent even etlito-
rial opinions are swayed by party bias.
Huntington OF the Window Reporter
listened to Prof. Powers reenback
lecture and says he showed his inability
to handy the subject. Miller of the
Worthington ADVANCE also listened
to the Professor, and prnnounces his
lecture the most interesting ever de-
livered in that village. We are inclin-
ed to give preference to the latter
Mankato Review.


Our method is to give both Il candid
hearing and a fair report in the AD-
VANCE. This we shall always do, even
if Satan himself should come along and
speak i'll the interest of one or the other
of the parties. Mr.. Dunnell discussed
the financial question ably from the
Republican standpoint, and Prof. Pow.
ers with fully rs much ability from the
Greenback stand d-point. We are one
of those Republicans who believe with
the Inter-Occan and with host of re-
publicans that the financial policy of
the party in power has been to increase
the distress Of the country.
Year: 1878

G. Anderson Esq, of Excelsiort town.
ship, is plying his vocation as contract
or and builder 1T Spencer these days.
knowing him to he a good workman,
we are pleased to learn that he is meet
ing with success and giving good salts
faction. lie has quite a large force in
his employ and several important jobs
OH hand.-Spirit Lake Beacon.
Year: 1878

symmetry, it must not be made the domi


nant motive for marriage. 1t will mo-


supply the love; and love is the true bono


of union.


| THE RIGHT MOTIVE


The true motive for entering into the


holy state of wedlocl has been more than


limited at in the preceding pages; and


may be inferred from the considerations


urged in our first chapter, where it is shown


that marriage is an ordinance of God. in.


Sututed for the promotion of human happi.


ness, the mutual improvement of the


parties united, and the perpetuation of its
numerous blessings through offspring of the
latest generations. Love is made the
foundation of marriage and the moving
spring OF obedience to the divine command


When he marries under the influence of
lower motives, he sins against God and his
own |od'glven nature. \ late writer sets
this subject in the strong light of trutb
before certain fair ones to whom he is
speaking; and our readers of the rouohor
sex may take the greater portion of his re-
marks home to their own consciences as
equally applicable to their case. "Straiobt
Is the gate and narrow is the wav" tbat
leads to true marriage. Selfish motives
that SO easily obtain supreme control in the
heart, lead to lily assorted, wretched mar.
rlages. TO marry for money, to marry for
position, to marry that you may not "turn
Drown and be an old maid," is to marry in
the spirit OF selishness, ruinous sel6shness
and not for loves sake. Hasn't everv
woman right to look out for herself?'' in.
dlgnantly asks one of the fair. Yes. but
when you begin to talk about LOOKING ont
Tor yourself, you venture on danrerops
ground. You should remember that your
married life may call you to selfsacriGces.
not to self,indulgence. The constantly
turning wheel of fortune may bring poverty
ana sickness, and if you have not love
enough Tor man to 90 through fire and
blood for his sake, you had better never
marry him. Ifyou marry for anything but
love- you marry for what may perish in = |
night. Now, do not talk selfsblv or
irlvolously about that union, which. if it be
a real union of hearts, is Of God, for love is
Of God, and destined, for aught YOU know
to run parallel with eternity.
Year: 1878

here Is pathetic story which appears to


be told in good faith, concerning Mr. vii.


liam Black, the novelist. While stavino at


Ooau, last Summer, he felt inclined for


swim one morning, and selecting tbe


quletest nook he could find along tbs


beach, ne laid his clothes carefully under y


rock, and proceeded to enjoy his sea bath.


presently, young lady with one of his
own novels in hand, came walking alonc


the beach, and absorbed and unconscious


sat herself down close by the unseon
garments. Poor Mr.. William Black did
not know what to do He made n po;so
win the water, bObbed up and down, and
trled by every modest means in his nowar
10 indicate that he was in the vicinity ond
not IN full dress. He was ashamed 10
stand up and shout, and hardly ventured
ln"eed' TO show more than the top of his
head So absorbing, however, was his own
story that he could not attract attention
lie had never before wished that hi.
literary power was less, but at that moment
ms 'ohuesC nope was that he had written at
least one dull chapter in his volume. That
wish became an inspiration, an ambition.
oeslre begot in agony, when presently there
came along that way a short.sighted sports
man carrying gun, who, seeing sometime
strangely acting in the water near At hand
thought it must be game Of some kind or
other and presented his gun to shoot Mr.
black could not stand this. Forgetting the
lady with one of his own novels in hand bo
started So both her and the sportsman. as
hinging himself bolt upright, he lifted b,s
arms above his head, and cried with
pathetic rapidity, "Pray don't shoot.
please don't shoot I'm a mani Pm |
nan !" The lady by the sea shore took tho |
lint and disappeared.
Year: 1878

Stay stay at home, my heart and rest,
Home keeping hearts are happiest,
For those that wander they know not where
Are full of trouble and full of care


To stay at home is best
Weary, and homesick and distressed,
They wander east they wander west,
And are baffled. and beaten and blown about
by the winds of the wilderness of doubt.


To stay at home is best
Then stay at home my heart, and rest;
The bird is safest in its nest:
Ger all that autter their wings and fly,
hawk is lowering in the sky


To stay at home is best.


H. w. LOnGteNO1c
Year: 1878

A poodle is a woman's pct and how
seen some ! would like to swap living
with. ''''s


The man you can have to work on
farm Tor nothing and board himself iux
| about earns his wages.


The worst tyrant in this world is = wo,na,
who IS superior to her husband. and Left
everybody know it.


man who has been waitipo for tho Io.,
hiteen years for something to turn up. !,
still in the same bus ness


Great thinkers are not apt to be great
whistlers. When a man can't think Of
anything he begins to whistle.


Love Is like the measles, YOU can have if
but once, and the later in life we have If
the tougher it goes With us.


The reputation man gets from his an
cesters wants about as much altering to fiji
hIm as their clothes would.


Don't despisc POOR relations. They
might get rich sometime, and then il
would be so hard TO explain things.


Nice can live anywhere comfortably but
in a church. This proves that they cant
live on religion any more than a minister
can.


There IS no woman stationed on the face
OF the earth who tries 50 hard to do right
and fails oftener than the AVERAGE mother.
in-law.


When hear man Dragging about what
he did last year, and what he is going to do
next year, can tell pretty near what he's
doing now.


This life is game of cards. We must
play the hands dealt to US and the credit
Is not so much in winning as in playing a
poor hand we'll


An enthusiast is an individual who be.
lieves about four times as much as he can
prove, and can prove four times as much as
anybody else will believe.


Neatness, in my opinion, is one of the
virtues. | have always considered it twin
sister to chastity, but none work 50 hard as
the victim Of ecstltic neatness. l have
seen neat person who would not let
weary fly rest long enough on their best
wall paper to take treath, and who would
chase single cockroach up and down
'talrs until his legs we're worn off
Year: 1878

A Sunderland gentleman the other day
made bet with a friend that the first boy
they spoke to would correctly answer a
question in Bible history. A boy coming
up at the moment was asked, "Boy, can
you tell me who built the ark ?" "Noa,"
(the vulgar way Of pronouncing No) replied
the urchin, who was Immediately rewarded
by the winner of the wager.
Year: 1878

Leigh Hunt well says: II firmly believe
that war, or the sending of thousands OF
our fellow creatures to cut one another TO
pieces, often for what they have no concern
in' nor understand, will one day be reck.
oned far more absurd than if people were
to settle an argument over the dinner.
table with their knives Pa logic, indeed
which was once fashionable in some nIoc.s
during the old times"
Year: 1878

1t is said the pigeon is never eaten bv
inc Russians, who would hold it a sin TO
XII an animal in whose form the HOLY
ghost IS said to have manifested himself
Flseons are bought, therefore, only as pets.
TO be fed and schooled by their masters.
Year: 1878

lAe day IS coming when it will be Z
greater honV to have written the Twenty.
third Psalm, than to have been the artbor
OF Shakespeare; to have led one sinner TO
CHRISTIAN to have commanded navy. TO
nave su0dued one sinful habit, than to
have taken a city.
Year: 1878

A dentist tried his first operation with
gas upon robust colored woman. After
she had used up all the gas in the office.
she wheeled in the chair and shouted !:
Hurry up, and bring on another bag Of
that sweetened wind"
Year: 1878

Some close observer of our social rela
tions, having looked about among his mar
rled female acauaintances, ventures to give
the following list, with an attempt to indi-
cate the real reasons which influence too
many to marry. We hope and believe he
is not correct in the proportion he assigns
to the right motive for marrying, but we
are not sure that all the other motives he
mentions are not more or less influential.
lie says:
Year: 1878

Washington, April 4.-Morrill. in the
Senate, offered a resolution providing
for committee of seven, to consider
the propriety of taking the tenth GEN.
sus. Said arrangement had to be made
during the present Congress for TAX
ing the tenth census, and as the next
session was short one the preliminary
steps should now be taken. The reso-
luton was agreed to.
Year: 1878

To BE USED IN THE SALMON FISHERY-lIr
Clyde, president of the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company. was interviewed in regard to the
Teputed sale of the steamer Great Republic to
supposed Russian agents. He said that the
ship had been condemned and was sold to a
MIR. Caldwell, to be used in the salmon liShe-
rieS of the Pacific coast
Year: 1878

TEMPORARY CLERKS.-The Commissioner of
the General Land Office has been authorized


by the Secretary of the Interior to employ
twenty-one additional temporary clerks. Part
of them were assigned to duty to-day, and the
rest will probably commence work tomorrow.
Year: 1878

Edit0r StGr:-Referrng to communica
ton in your issue of this date relative to a
state Association permit me to say that, in
common with great many people who de
credit Tor requiring department clerks and
messengers to devote their time to work for
which they are paid rather than to showing
themselves at cheap mutual admiration SOci-
cites Persons here who are familiar with the
departments recognize the fact that, as a gen
eral thing, the more conspicuous the member
OF state association the more worthless the
as well 10 one political party as to the other.
Briefly summed up, the headquarters of a
state association in Washington is a lodging
place Tor aspiring, tOadying clerks and other
small employees of the government where the
boots of such Congressman as are occasionally
Brought in are licked. Yours truly,


May I, 1875. ANTI SHAM.


CLUB FOR WORKINGMEN.-A movement
is in progress TO establish WOrkingmen'S
club on the east side, in New York city, below
Houston street, by which 1t is hoped that the
comfort of the men can be materially adj
miniStered TO, while the inducement is held
out to such as are apt for lack of a better
place to pass odd evenings in drinking places,
OF a more rational form of amusement at less
cost. The club is to be Self-SuppOrting, small
fees being eAacted from the members for their
membership, while extra charges will be made
Tor amuSementS, which will be furnished i'm
the form of popular lectures and concerts.
The club IS not to be in any way connected
with or under the direction of any church or
OF The representatives of any church, and no
effort is to be made to inculcate religious doe
trines, except indirectly-that is, by the in
tluence OF proper associations. Projects SINH
lar to this have been successfully carried out
IN Liverpool, London and Belfast.