smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

Some little commotion has been oc-
casioned at Windsor owing to the an
nouncement that jaguar had escaped
from confinement and is roaming at
large either in the fore,t or district.
The beast, it seems, is the property of
Sir Beaumont Dixie who resides at the
Fishery, near Surly Hall, and has it is
understood, been made a sort of pet by
Lady Dixie. 1t is said that the jaguar,
which was kept chained in the grounds
near the hnusr, would scarcely permit
any one but her ladyship to fordle it,
and tNat it was in the habit of rushing
at strangers. Notwithstanding the pre-
cautions taken TO keep it properly Sc
cured, the beast recently contrived to
break its chain and escape from the
Fishery, making, it is believed, for Wind
sor Great Park, in the recesses of which
it is supposed to have made its lair, and
where it can find plenty of food among
the .ferG nature Of the Royal demesne,
| UnfOunded rumors of children having
become the prey of the jaguAr have beer
circulated, aud men have been sent il
search of the beast, which, as far as at
present known, romans at liberty.
Year: 1879

The Lewiston Journal says "Thc Auburn
shoe shipments make another encouraging eX
hibit this week. The total number of cases
shipped during the past week is 1929. This
number is twenty eases more than last week,
over twice as great as the total number of
cases shipped in the corresponding week of
last year. The leather receipts are unusually
heavy this week"
Year: 1879

NEW YORK. June l3. The Herald say.
that. owing to the action on the Warner sil.
yer bill, it is probable that Senator Bayard
will resign the chairmanship of the Senate
Finance committee, and senator Herman will
follow suit
Year: 1879

that lives, it pays to live. 1t pays some
men to live that they may make money
and command the power that money
brings. To what enormous tolls and
sacrifices the love and pursuit of money
urge a great multitude of menl The
Judgment of these men as to whether
life is worth living is not to be taken at
life's close, when they sum up their
possessions and what they have cost,
but while they are living and acting.
A man whose life is exhausted may
well conclude that what he has won is
vanity; but it was not vanity to him
while he was winning it, and in the full
possession of his powers he believed
that life was worth living.


Life is quite worth living to all those
who find engaging objects of pursuit,
and especially to those who win success
in their pursuits. We repeat, therefore,
that, by almost a unanimous vote, the
human race practically decides every
day that life is worth living. We should
be the last to claim that happiness is
the highest aim of life, and that, unless
that is secured, life is failure, and not
worth living. To do right, to sacrifice
one's self for love--these are better
things than pleasure. To love and to
be loved-these are things that pay.
To be conscious of nobility of character
and unselishness of life; TO be conscious
that our lives are brought into affection
ate relations with other and harmonious
life-what are these but life's highest
valuesP What are these but the highest
satisfaction of conscious beingP


If this be true-that character and
duty and love are better than pleasure
and better than any success without
who needs to say that life is not worth
living. G. Holland, in Scri6ner for
MO7je91lbeY
Year: 1879

In the year 1859, made the cele-
brated trip with Prof. John La Mount
ain, from Watertown, N. Y, which was
the second longest trip ever made by
an air ship, and the only one l ever
heard of where second ascension was
made after remaining eight hours at
night tied up to the top of tree. Like
Professor Wise's late ascension, we
started near night, and in the same
month, September. We travelled over
400 miles in little over four hours, but
whittier we were being borne, or how
fast we were travelling, we were as
ignorant as two children, for it was
dark night, and in o balloon you can
never tell your course of fight unless
you can see the earth. Instead of being
thirty or forty miles from home, as we
supposed when we anchored to a tall
tree for daylight, we were 400 miles
from our starting point, and instead of
being in an inhabited country not far
from some friendly farm house, we
were in the great Bosketong wilderness
in Canada, which extends from the
river Ottawa on the South to the Arctic
Circle on the North. l will not further
enter upon details, save to say that,
after thirteen days of the most painful
absence, we at last worked our way out
to civilization, two of the raggedest and
diStrait, but gladdest men that ever
lived. From that time three square
meals day, and store clothes, and tele-
graph offices, all assumed new import
ance to US, and / made up my mind
that a balloon might be good thing
for professors to fool around with,
but for a So steady thing" the solid earth
was good enou gh for me."-John d.
Raddock, IN the Philadelphia Times.
Year: 1879

A CLERGYMAN who can preach three
sermons consecutively without mention
ing Calico.


A man who will refrain from calling
his friends speech "happy effort"


A woman who remembers last Sum
days text, but is unable to speak un 8.
derstandingly of the trimmings on the
bonnet of the lady in the pew next in
front.


An editor who never feels pleased to
have his good things credited, or mad
when they are stolen.


A pencil that is always in the first
pocket you put your hand into.


A man who has been fool some time
during his life and knows enough to
keep the knowledge of it to himself.


A married man who does not think
all the girls envy his wife the prize she
has captured.


A married woman who never said,
" No wonder the girls don't get mar
ried nowadays; they are altogether
different from what they were when l
was girl"


An unmarried woman who never had
an offer.


A man who never intimated that the
economies of the universe were subject
to his movements, by saying, l knew
if / took an umbrella it wouldn't rain,"
or some similar assinine remark.


A pocket knife that is never in "them
other pants"


A mother who never said she would
rather do it myself when she should
have taught her child to do that thing.


A father who never forgets that his
duties to his children are as many and
as weighty as theirs to him.


A child who would not rather eat be-
tween meals than at meals.


A converted brother who does not
exaggerate his forsaken wickedness
when relating his experience.


A person, age or sex immaterial, who
does not experience a flush of pride
upon being thought what he is not and
may never hope to be.


A button on the male garmenture
that never comes OFF except when the
person whose mission in life is to sew
buttons on is near at hand with her
utensils.


A singer who never complains of a
cold when asked to sing.


A woman who when caught in her
second.best dress will make no apol-
ogy for her dreadful appearance. .-Bos-
ton Transcript.
Year: 1879

The terrible disaster at Ashtabula,


on the Lake Shore railroad, on the goth


of December, 1876, will long be remem-


bered as one of the most awful in its re-
suits that ever occurred in the United


States. Shortly after this accident Mrs.


Webber, who is poor woman with two
children, appeared in the Office of a
lawyer in Rochester, n. Y. D., and, stating
that she had every reason TO believe
that her husband had been killed in
that disaster, requested him to COM
mence suit against the railroad COM
pany on her behalf. The evidence which
she offered to introduce in proof of her
husbands sad fate was only of a cir
cumstantial nature, as nothing was
ever found of the body, which was sup
posed to have been consumed in the
flames. She had been to Ashtabula,
and in the debris of the wrecked train
she had found bunch of keys which
she positively recognized as those hav-
ing been in the possession of her hus-
band. One of these keys, in further
proof, she ascertained exactly fitted the
clock in her house, and an Auburn man
was ready to swear that he had made
such key for the deceased. Another
key fitted chest which she had in her
possession, while still another of the
keys fitted the lock on the door. But
the very strongest proof of all which
she had discovered was piece of cloth
which she had recognized as having
been part of her dead husbands coat


The proof by no means stopped here,
however. A physician of Rochester
testified that he rode to Buffalo on the
same train with the deceased on the
fatal goth of December. while another
gentleman testified to seeing the de-
ceased take the train at Buffalo which
went to ruin at Ashtabula. With this
all but positive proof that the husband
was among the victims of the disaster,
the suit was commenced, funds enabling
her to carry it ON being supplied by a
kind. hearted citizen of Rochester. When
the railroad company's attorneys were
confronted with the proofs of the plain
tiff's case, they advised q settlement
with her for $4,000. But she wanted
So, 900 or nothing, and the company's
lawyers concluded to let the matter go
before the courts. The investigations
concerning the fate of the husband
were continued, and it was ascertained
that he had been sent by General Mar
tindale, his former superior officer in
the army, to the Soldiers Home in Wis
consin several days previous to the
Ashtabula disaster, and this fact soon
brought to light the very important dis
closure that man of his name, answer
ing his description exactly, who stated
that he had wife and two children in
Rochester, was still alive and safe in
that institution, and that he was not
near Ashtabula at the time of the disas-
ter. OF course this knocked the suit
against the railroad company in the
head; the poor woman is out $4,000,
and the kind-hearted citizen who ad-
vanced the funds is out in his disburse-
ments, as the woman is too poor to re-
pay him. The case is most remarka-
BILE one, however, from the fact that nc
person doubts the truthfulness of the
witnesses whose evidence formed the
basis on which the suit was commenced.
Year: 1879

COMMENTS ON GRANT.-It is
some what interesting to notice the
deity worded newspaper criticisms
that are intended TO bslittle the pub
lie demonstrations in honor Of Gen.
Grant. Nearly every democratic
journal on the Pacific coast is just
now moralizing on the ''pernicious
tendency of hero Sorship," &c, los
ing sight of the fact that the honors
showered upon our distinguished
hero abroad were honors to the ma
tion rather than to the individual.
they affect to discover put up job
to secure a third term nomination.
Realizing that with Grant in the po.
litical field the cause of Democracy
would be hopslsssly lost, they are
willing to forget every reason the
American people have for feeling
grateful to him for past service;
and every possible excuse is trumpsd
up to ridicule and oppose the public
expression of honest admiration of
the man under whose leadership the
great rebellion was crushed, The
very marked and important republi-
can gains in Maine and California,
and still later in Ohio and Iowa, fore
stalling almost to Certainty the
election of another republican Pres.
ident, have injured Grants chances
for another presidential term-in
favor Of Blaine, Sherman and others.


The very strong probability of
elscting ANY prominent republican
leader, will leave third term oppo


nents free to oppose Grant as they
would not if the prospect pointed
to doubtful contest. So our dem
ocratic friends, if they take our ad-
vice, will keep cool a while yet.
Year: 1879

The Olympia transcript" seems
to be the only newspaper in Wash
ington Territory that opposes the
University appropriation bill now
before the legislature. That organ,
although circumspect and non.com'
initial to a csrtaiH extent, clearly re-
veals its determined opposition to
the measure. Among other ques-
tions, it raises that of giving aid to
our common schools in preference to
the institution in question.


The University is creation of our
Territory, and, as such, is entitled to
reasonable Territorial aid until it
shall have become self sustaining
and such an institution as it is de-
signed to be. Heretofore, large
sums Of money were sent from
among us to obtain educational IA
cilities which they were deprived OF
at home. Under its present man.
agement, and in the hopes Of receiv'
ing such Territorial aid as has been
reasonably asked for the University
of Washington Territory is in course
Of preparation to give to pupils the
full college course. Our Territory
is amply able to assist such an insti.
tuition in getting son its feet" and
we certainly need such home advan-
tages as it will afford. The mem
bsrs of the board of Regents receive
no remuneration for their sarvices.
They do not ask any, but leave their
business to attend to the affairs of
the school under their chargs-draw.
ing barely travelling expenses. They
are working heart and soul for the
school, and what they ask for is for
its exclusive benefit.


II the common schools do not re.
ceive liberal enough support, let the
several counties increase their tax
for school purposes, but the Terri,
tory has no right to aid them to the
detriment Of the University.
Year: 1879

THE Providence Journal in discussing
the mandamus question and commencing
Judge Virgins decision, goes on to say Of
the action of the Governor and Council in
dealing with the returns: "The real ques-
ton then to be decided in judging of the
quality of this action is not whether it will
stand the law, but whether it is a proceed
ing in consonance with the spirit of the con-
stitution; in accordance with the principles
of representative government; such conduct
as gives confidence to honest and honorable
men in their rulers. The constitutional
right of the candidates exactly balanced the
constitutional right of the Governor and
Council. There was left open only the mat
ter of procedure; as to this, the Governor
and Council could deny the political right of
the candidates, and they did so. 1t is not an
affair for argument. If there are any who
do not inst;nctively rebel against such des-
potic exercise of purely technical power,
then they would little heed disquisition up
on the doctrine of the real and final authori-
ty in the people. Here the representatives of
the people, as they say, were refused chance
to show their credentials. The Governor and
Council declare that they will elect certain
members of the Legislature, and, as is said,
againstt the wishes of the people, who had the
right to elect them. Itwas petty business in
one sense; in another it was a usurpation
which should consign the actors to political
death. Nor will the cheating of the major
ity in this wise be submitted to, if the people
of Maine can find, or rather only until they
can find, redress.
Year: 1879

If the dispatches from Augusta can be
believed, and we have no reason to distrust
the authenticity of the information they
bring, the Governor and his Council have
determined to carry out the plan they have
so | ing been accused of meditating, and
against the clearly expressed will OF the
voters of Maine, count out enough Repub-
lican Senators and Representatives-elect and
count in enough defeated fusion candidates
to give the control of the Legislature to the
Democratic -Greenback combination. The
result has been apprehended by all intelli-
gent men in the State for weeks. 1t was
foreshadowed in the declarations made by the
chairman of the Democratic State Committee
Immediately after the September election
and before the existence of informalities IL
the returns could have by any possibility
been ascertained, and has been persistently
apologized for by the fusion press ever since
it was suggested. 1t is the outcome OF a
conspiracy deliberately entered into by the
the fusion leaders to defeat the will of the
people as to the choice of their Senators and
Representatives.


The action of the Governor and Council
is so obvious a usurpation of power, so pal
pably unfair and disreputable a proceeding,
that comment and censure cannot empha-
sise the wrong done. The crime carries its
own condemnation. The only question is as
to the remedy. The people who have been
defrauded will, we confidently believe, as
sert their rights and punish the wrong-doers
at the first opportunity which is legally af-
forded,-and that, apparently, is at the
I ballot-box. Other means, which SAVIOR
more or less of disturbance of public quiet,
are suggested, and may be resorted to. But
we trust not. There are wrongful acts
which the laws, il general so comprehensive
and equitable, do not reach; and the
remedy is then with the people who
made the laws, and for whose pro-
lection and benefit they are framed.
The Republican party, which is the out
growth of the best sentiment and highest
political aspiration of the country, can safe
ly trust now to the people who have trusted
it so long; and it appeals to them to express
through the ordinary channels, their OPINION
of the outrage perpetrated upon them. 1t
grievance is their wrong. The righteous
indignation of those who have been de-
frauded will find voice in indignant protest
and strong censure. But there will be no
dual Legislature in this State. We can afford
to suffer the perpetration of wrong better
than we can to take extraordinary measures
for its correction; for we have an appeal to
the court of last resort in this country, the
people at the polls. That appeal we take.
And we confidently believe that Maine will
give a larger Republican majority next
September than it has ever given in its
history. The Governor and his Council if
not our missionaries will be our dreadful
examples, and be held up to shame at every
polling place in The State.
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable, not necessarily for publca-
ton but as guaranty Of good faith.


Ne cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munlcations tnat are not used.
Year: 1879

THE proposition is to deprive of their
representation constituencies embracing one
eighth of the entire vote of the State. That
is the size of the contemplated steal. 1t is
difficult to believe that the job will be under
taken
Year: 1879




Straits Bill for the Benefit Of Settlers


The house committee on public
lands have agreed to report favora-
bly Straits bill providing that the
even sections on railroad land grants
shall be open to settlers under the
homestead laws to the extent of one
hundred and sixty acres to each set
tier, and any person who has under
existing laws taken homestead re-
stricted to eighty acres may enter an
additional eighty acres adjoining
the land embraced in his original en-
try, or he may surrender his entry,
and be entitled to enter lands under
homestead laws, the same as if the
surrendered entry had not been
made, without payment of fees and
commiss 'ons, and the residence and
cultivation of such person of land
embraced in his original entry shall
be considered residence and cultiva-
ton for the same lehgth Of time of
the land embraced in his additional
or new entry, sud shall be deducted
from the FIVE years. residence and
cultivation re uired by the law;
provided that i no ease shall the
patent be issued upon an additional
or new entry until the person has ac-
tuslly resided upon and cultivated
the land embraced therein at least
one year.-Pi-Press.
Year: 1879

The Democrats are scheming des-
perately for an extra session. There
is no other reason why they should
be so precipite in demanding the
repeal of the test oath laws at this
session of congress, when they are
so soon going to have majority in
both houses, and can enact or repeal
what laws they please. The law
can not do their friends in the south
any material injury in the few
months to elapse till next December.
But the Republicans in the senate
canuot cannot consistently consent
to the repeal of this law, and will re-
fuse to pass an appropriation bill to
which it is attached as an extra Sec
ton. The Democrats Of the house
know this and propose to defeat the
appropriation bills this year as they
defeated them two years ago by
loading them down with party meas
ures. They want an extra session to
make political capital; to keep pos
session Of a conspicuous platform.
from which to make stump speeches;
to seize the spoils of petty offices in
the senate; to annoy the administra-
ton and to carry on intrigues foc
the next presidency. The vote on
the test oath repeal bill Yesterday in
dicates that they will have the full
party strength to carry out their
scheme. But if President Hayes in
tentions are correctly represented,
they will gain little by the maneu-
vre, as the extra session made neces-
sary by the failure of the app-opria-
ton bill will not be called u.i,il late
in the fall Pi-Press.
Year: 1879

1t is stated that the Chicago &
Northwestern Company will build a
branch road, during the coming sea-
son, from Tracy west and that the
ties are now being collected there in
large numbers for that purpose.
Tracy is the first station west OF
Walnut Station.
Year: 1879

Lloyd Aspinwall says that he has
made arrangements with French capi-
tai for building ship canal across the
Isthmus of Florida, from Cedar Keys
to the mouth of the st. Johns, saving
about 1000 miles in the water route
from New Orleans to New York. All
now required is the right of way
through Florida, and law of the
Florida legislature granting exemption
from taxation of a period of twenty
five years. This will require special
charter of legislature, and strong in
huences are at work to get this through
at called session of the Legislature
A full corps of engineers is to begin at
once to make surveys to ascertain the
best route.
Year: 1879

Army circles are excited over the
new move soon to be made by Fitz
John Porter. Garfield, member of
thecourt- martial that tcondemned Porter,
hasrallied all the republican influence he
could command to prevent Hayes from
taking any action whatever on the find
ing of the court of inquiry. Gen. Nc
Clellan is very anxious to have Porter
righted, because his condemnation dur
ing the war was an indirect reflection
upon himself Mcclellan has had
conference with Randolph of New
Jersey, chairman of the senate COM
mittee on military affairs, and Ran
dolph has agreed to press through the
committee bill restoring Porter to
his rank in the army as major gen
eral, with pay and allowances since
his dismissal of Sll5,000. 1t is gen
orally understood that the democrats
will make a political matter out of the
case and restore Porter
Year: 1879

A correspondent of v. Y. CONNER
cial Bulletin reports that harvest has
progressed finely in Nebraska and
Iowa. The wheat harvest in Minnes-
sofa will be in full blast this week.
The weather in that state has been
very fine for week, and the work
of chinch bugs and blight has been
arrested. The best advices we have
received have been from along the
line of the Northern Pacific railroad.
In that locality nothing has befallen
the crop, and there is every indication
of full harvest from that region.
Year: 1879

l. Any person who takes paper regularly
from the post-olice, whether directed in his
name or anothers, or whether he has sub
scrbed or not-is responsible for payment.


2. If person orders his paper discontinued,
he must pay all arrears or the publisher may
continue to send it until payment is made and
then collect the whole amount, whether the
paper is taken from the office or not


i. The courts have decided that refusing to
take newspapers and periodicals from the post
office or removing and leaving them uncaled
for, is prima faca evidence of intentional
fraud