smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

The closing hour of the legislature
is set forth by the OregoniaH reporter:


As the speakers gavel fell, Secretary
Owings was called upon for a speech,
to which call he responded in II few
strong and eloquent remarks. Thank
ing the members for their politeness
and courtesy, he referred to the har-
mony that existed between the men,
ber, and the benefit that would accrue
to the Territory therefrom, and fin
ished by predicting that when next
they meet again the Mediterranean of
the west would be connected 10y iron
band, with the grain field of the world.
\ message was sent to Gov. Ferry,
asking him to come into the house,
and upon his appearance he was
greeted with cheers and a speech de-
manded. The governor replied by
stating that he was much gratfied in
making the acquaintance he had
made during the session; gratified that
the labor of the legislature had resulted
in much good to the Territory. He
told them that they could truthfully
say to their constituents that they had
nj least left the Territory in as flour
ishing condition n they had found it
and believed that they would meet
with the reply of "Well done good
and faithful servant" and To some at
least il would be said, 500 up higher"
We are just entering upon Il new era
in our history. The two sections now
divided will soon be united. He spoke
of our great and growing commerce
and the closer individual feeling that
would result therefrom that would
be found by ties of common interest,
and that all jealousy would be oblit-
Grated in this growing friendship. He
predicted an empire in twenty-five
years with city on the Sound of
250, 50,0oo-pointed to the growth of Kan
sa> parallel-declarcd the course of
immigration was westward; that from
here they could go no further and that
they would not 20 back.
Year: 1879

VIENNA, November "a most startling
and remarkable change has taken place in
the mental condition ol the unfortunate
ex.Empress Carlotta, widow OF Maxi.
milan, and her speedy and perfect restora.
ton Is now believed to be not only prob.
able, but almost certain to take place.
She now converses lucidly and intelligent.
ly; her memory has returned, and she
discusses logically and clearly her present
surroundings and future prospects. She
is now engaged in transcribing her diary
Of the disastrous series OF events In Mexico
which eliminated In her royal husband 8
death and the dethronsment OF her own
reason. Her story Is told in the most
graphic manner, and will be valuable
contribution to the literature Of the period.
Her condition now plainly indicates that
the long night OF oblivion and insanity
which has enyeloped her Is nearly at ali
end, and that the unfortunate lady whose
sad story has enlisted the sympathies Of
the civilized world will soon be restored
to reason and to society, Of which she was
30 conspicuous an ornament,
Year: 1879

We are glad to see the sistersyllls Inde.
rpisnt taking earnest grounds in favor OF
the h river railroad project. We trust that
al the papers along the route will keep
the matter before the people and urge
them to action in the matter.
Year: 1879

Now that the elections are all over for
this year it is in order to survey the field
with reference to the probabilities Of the
great Presidential contest that is ahead OF
us next year. There are 1863 votes in the
Presidential Electoral College, and it is
necessary for the successful candidate to
obtain lS5 OF them in order to secure an
election. The States Of the Union stand
classified TODAY as follows:
Year: 1879

at higher elevation than Sherman, and
ambitious Colorado has put an iron road
even higher than those in South Ameri-
ca.


A short distance from the station at
Sherman are the graves of several men
who have here found the bridge across
the river called Death. The sky bends
down nearer to them than it would were
they sleeping in yonder canyon-was
the last journey shorter, or easier, or
swifter because of this fact?


Two miles west of Sherman we cross
Dale Greek, over the highest bridge on
the transcontinental road. The little
stream winds around among the rocks in
the depths below, looking so narrow and
tiny we wonder why it hasn't .'done
less ITSELF" But the silvery thread is
forgotten as we look down, down, and
wonder where we should find ourselves
if span of the bridge should give way,
for it isn't the sort of a bridge to inspire
confidence, though | am told of its ap-
pearance only is against it, that in fact
no more reliable structure is on the road.
But it looks very frail, stretching out
six hundred and fifty feet across aravine
one hundred and thirty-two feet deep.


Once across the bridge look away to
the south and west. Feast your eyes
on the mountains, for you never saw
their like before; not one long, contin-
uous range with now and then peak
running up as if for a lighthouse for
the rest; but distinctly separate noun
tains standing out against the sky,
clothed with their everlasting white.
The very whiteness takes on thousand
hues in the setting sun. The shadows
begin to lengthen and take steps until
we almost fancy weird forms, grown to
gigantic proportions, are creeping out to
keep watch over the valleys when night
falls.


Now the sun, grown bolder, has kiss
ed the topmost western peak until it
glows and glimmers, sending forth a
thousand shimering glances. Then like
tidings of great joy. the golden sunlight
spreads from peak to peak, bathing
them in a sea of glory, until thousand
eyes could not drink in all their beauty.


As l beheld the scene, so wondrous
in its beauty, so beyond the power of
pen to picture, 1 could but exclaim ::
1.-The everlasting hills shall praise Thee,
0, my God. TRUFAx.
Year: 1879

A pound party-A meeting of the
prize ring.


When a stag takes to the water he
swims for deer life.


An unequal match-One having the
birthstone all at one end.


The best are the cheapest This is
more especially so in the matter of wives.


Almost all people are generous to a
fault,if the fault happens to be their own.


A man who is ''in the hands of his
friends" has good chance of starving
to death.


Bismarck is said to sing; 'Dere's a
Landwehr it's fairer dan day." with
touching effect.


We bid adieu to old winter with all
of that sadness which characterizes US
on the departure of mother-in-law.


A Western editor thus kindly alludes
to a contemporary: "He Is young yet ;
but he can sit at his desk and brush
cobwebs from the ceiling with his ears.


A lazy fellow once declared in public
company that he could not find bread for
his family. "Nor l." replied an indus
trious mechanic; 81 am obliged to work
for it,"


dot vos mean choke" said Hans,
after he had got through coughing, and
found out that somebody had thrown
Scotch snuff into his mouth while he
was snoring.


1t is not always safe to assume that
the man who carefully removes his hat
before entering the outside door of a
church is highly reverential. He may
have shocking bad hat.


An illiterate farmer wishing to enter
some animals at an agricultural exhibi-
tion, wrote as follows to the secretary of
the society: "Enter me also for jack
ass" And he took the prize.


A clergyman being annoyed by some
of his audience going out while he was
preaching took for his text, Thou art
weighed and found wanting" Soon
after commencing his discourse he said,
"Iou will pass out as fast as you are
weighed"


A woman cured her husband of staying
out late at night by going to the door
when he came home and whispering
through the key-hole, "Is that you
Willie ?" Her husbands name is John,
and he stays at home every night now
and sleeps with one eye open and re.
volver under his pillow.


A darkey was once attempting to steaI
a goose, but dog raised an objection
and Sambo retired. The next nigh
during a thunder shower he attempted
it again, and just as he was on the poin
of getting away with his fowl, the light
ming struck close by and the noise nearly
frightened the poor fellow to death
Dropping the goose, he started away
muttering, Peers to me dar's heep o
fuss made bout a common goose"
Year: 1879

There is a time, VIC know not when,
point, we know not where,
That makes the destiny of men,
To glory or despair.
There is line by us unseen,
That crosses every path.
The hidden boundary between
Gods patience and his wrath.
To pass that limit is to die,


To die as If by stealth
1t does not quench the beaming eye,
Or pale the glow Of health.
The conscience may be still at ease,
The spirit light and gay;
That which is pleasing, still may please,
And care is thrust away.
But on that forehead God has set,
Indelbly mark
Unseen by man, for man as yet
Is blind. and in the dark.
Bot angels know that fatal sign,
And tremble at the sight;
And devils trace each livid line
With desperate delight
Aud yet the doom'd mans path below
Like Eden may have bloomed-
He did not, does not will not know,
Or feel that he IS doomed.
He knows. he feels that all is well.

Aud every fear is calmed;
He lives, he dies, he wakes in hell,
Not only doomed, but damned.
o, where is thy mysterious bourne,
By which our path is crossed.
Beyond which God himself hath sworn,
That he who goes is lost?
How far may we go on in sin?
How long will God forbear?
Where does hope end, and where begin
The confines of despair?
An answer from the skies is sent
Ye that from God depart,
While it is called to-day, repent,
And harden not your heart.
Year: 1879

When woman loses her desire to please
she loses half her charms.


Nothing is more conducive to beauty than
cheerfnlness and good humor and no
morose or unhappy woman can be good
humored and cheerful. Then there are vast
numbers of ilstempered women who are ill
tempered because they are ugly. They do
not know what is the matter with them~
selves; neither do their friends know But
the incessant neglect and indifference with
which they are treated finally does its work
Of embittering ther feelings until the effect
unon their moral character is most perni-
ci0us. Every woman ought to understand
that nothing short of deformity can make
woman utterly unattractive, provided she
win study her points and points of attrac-
tivenesS every woman has.


A thoroughly refined, graceful manner
can be acquired by any woman, and is a
pok ful charm. The best grace is perfect
eesafalness. Still, you must study your
= and form your manners by the rule of
that art, which is but the carrying out of
the law of nature. But if it is your nature
to be forever assuming some picturesque,
unerateful attitude. pray help nature with
a little art. If you are stout avoid the
smallest chair in the rooom; and be sure,
il you do sit on it, not to lean back on it
with your hands folded in front of you
Just below the line of your waist, especially
while the present fashion lasts. If you
are thin, do not carry yourself with your
shin protruding and your spinal column
aurYed like the bowl of a spoon. Do not
wear f1imsy materials made mp without a
r4fiIs or puff or hounce to fill up the hard
oatlines of your bad figure, so cruelty de-
Anea by the tightly pulled back draperies.
study the art of dress.


We once knew very plain woman who
dressed SO tastefully that it was an absolute
pleasure to look at her. If you have been
moping until you are sick with the thought
Of your own own ugliness, be up and do
ing. Forget your disappointments; forget
he past and sneers of your own family
over the mistakes you have made. There
nfs still friends to be won. There is work
% be done. Rouse yourself, and cast off
he enervating distrust of self, and the
moral cowardice which forbids you to as
seit yoursel.
Year: 1879

BUBBLE from the wine glass OF the wicked
Albany Journal: An Ohio Democratic war
horse lately remarked that "the young De-
mocracy of this country hold in their hands
the future destiny of the Republic" If the
"destiny of the Republic is the name of
fancy drink popular in the sample rooms of
Ohio, then we can understand the remark,
but not otherwise.
Year: 1879

THE horrid rumor is gaining ground that
General Batter is Mr.. Tilden's candidate for
Governor of Massachusetts. The gt-edged
Democracy of the Commonwealth are wild
osar the report, and break out into bad
language about slippery Sam.
Year: 1879

ONE good outcome of the cipher despatch
investigation may be looked for. The people
will not care to entrust the management of
the telegraph to Government and thus subject
dispatches to the manipulations of poll
tlcians
Year: 1879

THE people will say amen to the following
sentence in the prayer of the chaplain of the
House at Augusta the other day: "Give
these thy servants wisdom, for the Lord
knows they need it,
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and commun'
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty OF good faith.


We cannot undertake TO return Or preserve COM
munications that are not used
Year: 1879

LONDON is Mortified to find that all the
locks on building erected for the British
war Office are of American manufacture
The contractor said in justification that the
locks cost less than those made in Great
Britain that the freight upon them from
the United States was less than from the
lock manufactures of Great Britain; and
that the locks were better constructed and
made according to the contractors design,
whereas the British makers would not con-
form to his plans. Good reasons surely, and
plenty of them.
Year: 1879

IT is due not only to the memory of Mr..


Barron, but to the public as well, that the


Drx'er bank robbery and all the circum-


stances attending it be thoroughly investi-


gated. The revolving theory put forth by


the detectives and sanctioned by the bank


officials must be at once proved or dropped; !;


for it is an injury to public morals that so
foul an asperson should without sufficient
evidence be cast upon the memory of the
dead cashier and people be induced to credit
it. The motive for such deed on the part
of Mr.. Barron must be shown or else the
public will be justified in believing that the
theory of the detectives, however ingenious,
is false, and that the bank officers have done
an unworthy and shameful thing in so hasti
ly adopting it. A character without a feck
| is not to be wantonly allied.
Year: 1879

Ivan writes from Washington: !
must give the Republican an account of
an adroit and very pretty and harmless
piece of finessing resorted to by a party
of Young ladies here the other day, by
means of which the ladies concerned OBJ
tained some very choice seats in the SEN
ate gallery, where hundreds were in vain
seeking admittance, much to the mysti-
fication of certain senators, and an
attache of one of the legations. The
ladies in question have a teacher of
modern languages who possesses re-
markably fine presence and a cultivated
manner, and speaks French with true
French accent. Noticing that the diplo-
matte gallery was unoccupied, though
all the others were packed, the jolly
party proposed to their teacher that they
should pass themselves off on the polite
doorkeeper of the diplomatic gallery as
persons entitled to admittance. This
agreed to, they marched coolly up, with
their teacher at the front, who, affecting
to be a stranger to the place, asked the
doorkeeper in fluent French, if that was
the diplomatic gallery, and, upon receiv--
ing an affirmative response, she asked
him to admit them, which he proceeded
to do with a great flourish, though with
surprise in his face, evidently wondering
how it happened that these legation peo-
pie had never presented themselves there
before, or that he had never seen them.
Into the gallery the fair deceivers filed
and took possession of the front seats,
with all eyes upon them. Senators cast
their eyes upward, and stared puzzled,
unable to make out to which legation
they belonged. Again and again sena-
tors turned and looked. A member of
one of the legations stepped in on the
floor of the senate from the side where
the diplomatic gallery is visible. His
eye fell upon the fair bevy and he stood
and gazed A senator walked over to
him and evidently asked him who the
comers were, for the two stood and
looked, and walked away mystified.
Meanwhile the ladies sat demurely look
ing on at the proceedings, soberly and
calmly as if they were in their proper
place, and were the foreignest of foreign
Year: 1879

previously wetted, and apply salt and
lemon juice to both sides; Orapply finely
powdered pipe-clay, or Fuller's earth, or
flnely-powered chalk. Expose it for
several hours to the atmosphere.


To PRESERVE MLK.-Milk often turns
by an acid developed in the liquid. To
prevent it, add to the milk small por-
tion of bicarbonate of soda. This is not
at all injurious to the health; but rather
aids digestion. Many of the great dairies
ON the continent adopt this method.


THE WASHING OF FLANNEL AND WOOL
EN- GOoDs.-Use boraX-a large table
spoonful in pint of water; put some of
this into the warm water in which the
flannel is to be washed; put in no more
than one piece at time, and use some soap
Unnecessary. From time to time add some
more of the borax solution; rinse every
piece in warm water, shake it well and
hang up where it can dry quickly.
Therefore it is best to wash flannels
when the air is dry Some advise the
adding of a little salt to the water in
which they are rinsed the last time, and
to use water just as IOU as for cotton
terial, when, it is said, they will not
shrink, and always remain white.
Year: 1879

Out in one of the suburban towns at
the East End there lives one of the
brightest, handsomest, and wittiest
three-year-old boys in the country. He
has q phenomenal style of saying good
things, and his two latest are worthy of
publication. A short time ago he went
with his father to see a colt. He patted
the colts head and made quite fuss
over it, until finally the stable man told
him to be careful that the colt did not
turn around and kick him. When the
little chap went home, his mother asked
him what he thought about the colt. 81
like him pretty well,n was the reply.
" He's real tame in front, but he's awful
wild behind"


A few days ago, at the breakfast table,
his mother said she dreamed that a man
had shot her in the arm and then she
woke up. Master Five-year-old listened
with becoming gravity until the story
was done and then said "It's a pity,
mamma, you didn't keep on sleeping.
You'd have hung that man before you
woke up. ."-PiaSburyh Telegraph.
Year: 1879

well in hand from the start, rowing beautiful.
sweeping stroke. which landed them winners III pre-
ciseiy hftcen minutes, by six boatlengths


The sport was brought to an end shortly before
dusk by swimming contest between Henry Pfeifer
Richard Toner and Edward Wall. The contestants
were rowed to point about a quarter OF a mile
from the goal. the finish being the dock OFF Kyles
cottage. The trio took header together from
ously. Pfeiter swan with broad. sweeping
stroke, and In moment was leading Toner
by several feet. He continued to increase his adj
vantage to the finish. beating Toner in between so
and 60 feet Wall was far in the rear and swimming
with considerable labor. The winners time was
minutes. dance in the pavilion, in which the
lady friends of the members went up from the city
to take part followed the aquatic entertainments.
Year: 1879

SECOND DAY OF THE LONG RANGE ToURNA-


MENT-MAGNIFIcENr RECORDS.


phenomenal record marked the second days
shooting in the long range tournament yesterday at
Creedmoor. The struggle will close to-day. and if
the weather continues good the aggregates promise
to show array Of figures that have never
been equalled in this country, or, far
is known, in any other. Out of the thirty
three competitors thirty completed their
yesterday, two retired and barred
from shooting account of, the accidental dis
charge Of his rifle or the thirty who shot over all
the ranges nineteen made 200 points over out Of
possible 225. This is all the more remarkable from
the fact that during the day there not full
score made at any of the ranges The inference to
be drawn is that the average shooting is far above
what was done three years ago by the American
team Of 1876 when they defeated the Irish and the
English in the great international contest for the
Palma The nearest approach to q full
made by Captain Jackson. of Boston. who at tine


first range recorded clean score Of bull s-eyes. with
the exception Of centre, which stopped him his
eighth round. The captain, who is well remembered
as the captain OF the American National Rifle team,
had rare bad luck at the third range. for he got
miss on his fifth shot. But for this misfortune he
would have headed the list instead of taking second
place, as he now does upon tie. to the
number of points, with Mr. Brown. who comes in
first man. Washington yesterday, Massachusetts
to-day and New York tomorrow. remarked one of
the rihemen when speaking of the chances of men
from the different localities winning the aggre-
gate scores It will be noticed that Mr.. Summer and
Mr. Washburn made each " out OF 70 points at the
1 900 yards butts. very remarkable feat was ac-
complshed by Captain Z. A. Perry. the originator
of the tournament. He is armed veteran of the
late war yet he managed 70 score total Of 2os
be the better understood when it is borne in mind
that he has lost the right arm below the elbow Mr..
Frank HYDE who made 2l1 with twenty-six inch
barrel. proved yesterday that for good shooting u
thirtytwo inch larger barrel. is not essentially
necessary.


The weather continued to be all that the con-
testants could desire. The light was brighter. but
not better If good as the day before, though the
rather gently down the ranges in direction known
from six to eight O'Clock on the dial and as the
light stronger the influence neutralized
the other and kept the elevation relatively about
the same on Monday. Shooting commenced at
eleven o'clock, and continued without intermssion
till a quarter after three
Year: 1879


When fair fortune smiles kindly upon us,
And hope sheds her bright rays around,
When prosperity crowns each endeavor,
And riches and honor abound,
When life's pathway is strewn with rich gar


lands,


And cloudless the bright skies above,
1t is sweet to have some one to love us,


And sweet to have some one to love.
When adversely throws its dark mantle
Around our bright visions of joy,
When despair fills our bosoms with anguish,
And seeks our fond hopes to destroy,
When the friends that we cherished so fondy,
Prove false, and turn coldly away,
1t is sweet to have some one to love us,
Who will not our friendship betray.
When the days of our youth have all vanished,
And time leaves its impress behind,
When the burrows of age are upon us,
And silver and gold is entwined;
When the lamp of our life dimly fickers,
And death hovers dark o'er the way
1t is sweet to know some one will love us,
Throughout long eternity's day.