smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

The COrinne (Utah) Record says: Our
attention was attracted by several lusty
squeaks from the inside Of pail almost
full Of water, into which a half grown
mouse had fallen. The alarm had
hardly died away when four or FIVE
mice appeared on the scene and began
clambering to the top of the pail. For
several moments, after gaining the TOP
OF the pail and catching sight Of the
mouse IN the water, squeaking confab
was held. First one mouse and then
another would cling to the rim of the
bucket with his hind legs, and while al
most touching the water with his nose,
squeak out consolation or advice 10 the
immersed but while all this was going
on, the swimming powers Of the unfoT.
tunate mouse in the pail were rapidly
giving out. At last a happy thought
seemed 10 strike the biggest mouse. and
almost without a squeak he firmly
fastened his fore feet on the edge Of the
pail and let his body and tail down.
The drowning mouse saw it, and max
ing last desperate effort for life. swan
to the spot, seized the tail Of bis brother
mouse, and amid squeaks Of delight
from all the mice present, was hauled
high and dry out Of the water and over
the edge Of the bucket.
Year: 1878

THE Agricultural Department il send
ing out circulars 10 hotel keepers with
the request that such statistics NAV be
furnished in return as will enable the
Government 90 form an intelligent
opinion AZ 10 the maximum capacitv of
the human stomach II Uncle Sam
really wants to take a short cut 10 the
bottom OF this conundrum, let him buy
out p good sized provision store, and
hire a growing boy 10 help him invoice.
Year: 1878

The Eureka Republican tells about
Mark Twain's lecture in Dayton, Ne
vada, some years ago. His agent used
to get up an excitement about the lec-
ture by building a bonfire before the
hall and sending fife and drum through
the streets half hour before the be-


ginning of the entertainment. He did
tLis in Dayton, then fourishing camp,
and the Piutes naturally got the impress
sion that some kind of an exciting show
was to be given, so the chief tackled the
enterprising agent on the subject OF half.
price admissions, and some 80 bucks
paid their half dollars and filed into the
hall. Presently Mark made his appear
ance on the stage and began drawing
away in his usual style. The white peo-
pie laughed boisterously, but the Indians
looked puzzled, and after standing itfor
Is minutes they began whispering and
grunting among themselves, and finally
the chief got up and went out to the
box-office and inquired when the
tumbling was going to commence, and
that cheap big fool" was going to quit
talking. Upon learning that the per-
formance was going to be all talk, and
conveying this horrid information to the
other Indians, they rose in body, left
the hall and swarmed to the boX-office
and demanded their money back. The
agent couldn' It think of such thing, and
the Piutes went out on the street and
gave vent to their feelings in war
whoops. 1t looked for a few minutes as
if the disgusted warriors would start IN
to wreck the hall and murder the lee
tulrer. A crowd of whites, attracted by
the loud, angry yells of the red men,
gathered, however, and Mark Twain
was saved to an admiring world.
Year: 1878

A great many men throughout the
country are "going back to farming"
this year, and an unusual number of
young men are looking out for a start
in the same business. The reports that
come from the West, of a revival Of
the old-time inpouring Of new settlers,
and the accounts of the taking up of old
farms in New England, are among the
best signs of the times. If the new
farmers will only start right, and then
stick to it, their success may be insured
in advance. Want of foresight in
choosing, and stability of purpose and
effort, are at the bottom of half the fail
ures in farming, for it is even more dis
astrous for farmer to make sudden
and radical changes in his business
plans than to "put all his eggs in one
basket" by depending on one crop.
The farmer who "rotates" from sheep
to COWS, and from COWS to grain, and
from grain to fruit, with every fuctua-
ton OF the markets, is pretty sure to
Year: 1878

THE seductiveness-- one might al
most say the fascination-of interest
got, or to be got, from money is very
remarkable. Ordinarily, people who
have not had money at interest care lit
tie about it, indeed, never think of it.
But after they have once had interest
have familiarized themselves with the
fact that money is worth something
they very rarely forget it, on fail to act
upon it.-N Y Times.
Year: 1878

The Kennebec Journal of this morning pub
FISHES the following correspondence:


Boston, 18th Sept, 1878.
HON. JAMES G. BLAINE:


My Dear Sir Please to remember our talk in the
Senate Ch amber, last winter, when urged that the
Republican party should meet the wishes OF the
people, the necessities of business and the eonvic-
tions of a large portion of the thoughtful men Of
the nation.


If your party had offered a plan for the Govern
nents issuing of all the paper note currency "a doc
trine to which the best European thought s hasten
ing ii it has not already reached it, the same to be
legal tender everywhere and for every purpose aud
interconvertible with bonds for a long term and at
low rate Of interest," the principal and interest OF
which should be payable in coin, that would lave
saved us from the Bourbon South in 1880.


What 1 hear from Republican business men con-
vlnces me that II they could have been eouutenaneed
in such platform by trusted leaders, such leaders
would have carried the country. do not say that
such financial plan waud have wholly satisfied me
but ir would have held the country.


1t is sad to see party which has led the world
in advanced yet conservative opinion quit Its place
and fall behind the best financial thought Of Europe
cnging to obsolete if not exploded theories, losing
the helm in defence of ideas that ten years hence
men will smile at. One great concern with me is
that thus they insure Southern Bourbon rule for the
next dozen years.


Wealth here is almost omnpotent and Its organ-
zation is very perfect but you'll see that once awake
the masses will smash rings, Journals and parties,
and that neither wealth nor the seaboard rules this
people. Yours truly,


WENDELL PHILLIPS.
Year: 1878

RUSSIA has promised Persia to furnish the
capital for the construction of a railway from
Tifis to Teheran. It is said also that the ex-
tension of the line from the Persian capital to
Afghanistan is contemplated, and that this is
the object of the mission of General Abram.
eff to the Emir of that country.
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous letters and communI-
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
municatons that are not used.
Year: 1878

REPUBLICAN information from Ohio is
that this year the National movement is
gathering recruits from the Democrats chiefly.
The last Democratic Legislature, under the
inspiration of Speaker Randall, re districted
the State congressionally. and so arranged
the districts as to assure that party all of the
Congressman but four. The trick is likely to
react, and there are indications that the Re-
publicans will carry five districts organized to
elect Democratic representatives,
Year: 1878

The Massachusetts, Democrats seem to
have missed their opportunity. Their avowed
object is to defeat Butler, and to accomplish
this most desirable end they should gladly
join forces with his other foes. But they
manifest no spirit of conciliation, and the
result of their action is, unfortunately, to
divide and consequently weaken the anti.
Butler strength. There is however good rea-
son to believe that the sincere hard.money
Democrats of Massachusetts will be found
voting by thousands for Talbot.
Year: 1878

of Assistant Attorney General was re-created,
at salary OF $4,000 per an1ltIm, with pro-
v1slou making the law officers of the State
the legal advisers OF all departments Of the
government, and absolutely forbidding the
employment OF special counsel at the States
expense. It Is true, that prior to the war no
such Office existed, but then the labor was less
onerous than at present, and then certain
heads Of offices were authorized to employ, in
given cases, special counsel at the expense of
the State. Under the provisions Of the pres
ent law the business Of the State In the courts
Is conducted more economically than that of
any private ltigant. The saving. however,
by economies in salaries is only part of that
accomplished. The fees have been reduced to
such an extent as to make the office practi-
cally only salaried, per cent only, In litigated
cases. being allowed, to be paid by the debtor,
instead Of the fees which were permitted since
reconstruction and before the war. 1t is diff
cult to reach an accurate estimate OF the saw
ings by this reduction in fees but it may rea-
sonably be estimated at $4,000 to $4,000 per
annum.


IN THE LAND OFFICE.


In this office saving Of $4,000 per annum
has been made.


5& IN THE JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT.


Passing from the executive, let me endeavor
to point out the reductions In the cost of the
judicial branch. Being constitutional de-
partment, OF course it was, In large measure,
removed from legislative action. However,
one Of the earliest acts was an instruction to
the Judiciary Committee OF this body to pre-
pare plan of redistricting the State, which
was matured and would have been productive
when adopted of o large saving, but which
was not acted on because OF the decision Of
the Supreme Court In the case of the Lafay-
cite Fire Insurance Company as to the I'm
constitute utionality Of making d change of a
district during the tenure of office Of any
judge. In the salaresof parish Judges how
ever, which were within the reach Of legisIa-
tive action, a reduction was at once made,
which, joined with the repeal of the act al
lowing the Supreme Judges compensation
besides that fixed in the constitution, operates
an annual saving Of 1854, 500 per apnum. I
am aware that the repeal Of the law as to the
extra compensation Of the Supreme Court
Judges can scarcely be designated as q
measure of legislative economy, because
nothing would ever have been drawn under
its provisions by the learned gentlemen who
now adorn the Supreme Bench Of the State,
but mention 1t, sir, simply by way Of call
ing attention to Its repeal. No other econ
omy In this department. could have been
made by Legislative action, owing to restric-
tion of the constitution. The remedy as to
the constitution L propose to notice here
after, in discussing the constitutional amend
ments.


IN THE LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT..


In the legislative department, which has
been hitherto the greatest source Of abuse and
extravaganza, every economy that could
reasonably be expected for the future has
been made.


Since reconstruction the legislative ex-
nnnsns have been annually az fnllnmg
Year: 1878

The economy in rates Of compensation is
not the only saving made by the act to which
have referred. The cost under it of en-
forcing collection is a mere nothing compared
to the odious system which it replaced. By
its provisions simple and uniform system of
forfeiture for delinquency has been created,
and the term of redemption extended for six
months to two years. Some complaint has
been made at the retention Of tax collectors
and the failure to vest the collection of taxes
in the sheriffs. At the time this revenue act
was passed it would have been suicidal SO to
do. Many OF the sheriffs were adherents of
the usurping government, and being con-
stitutional officers, were not susceptible
of removal by the executive. The Presi-
dent of the United States was reported to
have said that the payment Of taxes would
indicate the government supported by the
people, and promptness of organization was,
therefore, as it were, a crucial test. Under
such circumstances, to have turned over the
collection Of the revenues in many of the
larger parishes to opponents Of the legal gov
ernment would have been, if not fatal, at
least extremely dangerous. AbstractIy, how
Year: 1878

It is known that complaint has been made
as to the creation Of the office of Assistant
Attorney General, charged to be unnecessary
but an examination Of the grounds of this
complaint shows 1t to be unfounded. Allow
ances of large amounts in the past admins
frations since 1868 have been made for extra
counsel fees. as follows:
Year: 1878

GREENBAcKIsM has put in an appearance
in force in at least one New Hampshire town.
The greenbackers held the balance of power
in Whitefield, and after voting all day the
old parties compromised by giving them one
selectman, the others being Republican and
a Democrat. There was no choice of Rep
resentatives to the Legislature.
Year: 1878

The President is represented as telling q
Senator who called upon him the other day
that he regarded the New Hampshire election
as an endorsement of his "policy". The
Senator told him that the election was in no
way an endorsement, but that the Republi-
cans simply made common cause against the
Democrats for the purpose of maintaining
their party organization in the State.
Year: 1878

THE President will probably send to the
Senate to-day all of the correspondence relat
ing to the Fishery Commission and its award.
1t will show that Secretary Fish and Sir Ed
ward Thornton fell into each others arms
and wept with joy over the appointment of
M. Delfosse. The President will probably
send in message advising the payment Of
the award without protest, but at the same
time declaring that the privileges granted to
us seem incommensurate with it,
Year: 1878

THINGS are looking queerly in Europe
England is seeking to increase the territory
of Greece at the expense of the Turkish em-
pire, while Russia is protecting the Porte
against further despoliation. The Gear is
resolved that no one else shall pluck that
b;rd
Year: 1878

In New York some of. the large business
houses in the retail trade have Presumed
specie payments" and are actually paying
out gold and silver coin indifferently in the
course of trade
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous letters and communi
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: 1878

THE new silver dollar is not handsome
coin, nor can the plea be made for it that it
is lawful good" Those who have seen the
coin will cease to wonder at the desire Of the
collectors to secure it as curiosity.
Year: 1878

The eagle on the new silver dollar is not
"the fierce grey bird' at all, but resembles
one of the effete heraldic eagles of Europe.
The bird ought to be fatted before he is put
into the International poultry show.
Year: 1878

The young men of to-day keep pace with the times
The SHORT JACKET and LEATHER
PANTS of by-gone days are things of the past.


peculiar and cultivated taste must be the only re-
quirement which will enable merchant to select
styles and fabrics that will be to please the
mass of our young Americans. We claim to have it,
and our Youths Department will speak for W. No
pains have been spared to make this Department a
leading feature of our mammoth wardrobe.


A cordial invitation is now extended to young
gentlemen to call and examine our goods.
Year: 1878

Humility is the mother of content ment.

 Working is the acquiring of knowl- edge.

 The credit that is got by lie lasts only till the truth comes out.

 Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

 If practice without theory be con- temptible, theory, protesting to teach, without practice, is fooshardy.

 There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

 No man is 50 insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt.

 Agriculture forms the true barometer of national prosperity

 Content is the wealth of nature.

 We can do more good by being good than any other way.

 Falsehood always endcavored to copy the mein and attitudes of truth.

 There is but one kind of love, but there are thousand different copies of it.

 Memory can glean, but can never re- new. It brings us joys faint as is the
Year: 1878

perfume of tho flowers. faded and dried. of the summer that ls gone,

 The great man does not think before hand of his words that they may be sins eere, nor Of his actions that they may become rcsoIutci he simply speaks and does what Is right,
Year: 1878

To THE EDITOR or THE NEW NORTHWEST;


We chronicle the success Of an expert
ment made here in lowering boats from
the canal dowa into the Potomac, a
height of thirty-six feet, by means of
machinery, instead Of the usual old
fashioned lock. The mills of George
town are so extensive that the entire
capacity Of the canal is taken in supply
ing them with water, hence the ordi-
nary outlet lock is impractieable. Pat
terning after a lock in Scotland, the
citizens of Georgetown resorted to ma
ehinery, aud have met with deserved
success. a track Of heavy railroad iron
is laid on an inclined plane, extending
from the level Of the canal down iE.o
the river. on this runs an iron box, or
caisson, supported by strong car tracks
large enough to contain canal boat
which is flOated out into it from the
canal. There, by means Of an immense
capstan, rugged with heavy wire ropes
and operated by large turbine wheel,
the caisson is easily lowered, with a waste
Of water probably not one-thousandth
part of what the ordinary lock would
require. Boats are lifted quite as easily
from the river up into the canal by s
reverse process.


Our colored people are taking step
to relieve themselves from the pecuni
airy burdens imposed by their charItabl,
societies. It is simply wonderful th'
number Of associations they have, anC
Year: 1878

LYNcHBURG, Oct. 16.
A most terrible and heart-rending scene
occurred In this city at ten o'clock to-
night. A marriage ceremony was pro-
crossing at the Court Street Colored
Baptist Church, which was packed to its
utmost capacity. Some of the ceiling
pIastering fell, and the immense crowd
at once became panic stricken aud many
in the galleries jumped from thewindows
of the second and third stories; others
threw themselves headlong down the
stairway on the crowd belew. Men and
women crowded each other to the only
door of exit there was in the lower build
ing, and most of the killed were literally
crushed to death. No men are known
to have been injured. The fire alarm
was sounded at the Fire Department,
military and throngs of citizens were on
the spot promptly to endeavor to allevi-
ate the condition of the suffering and
dying.


The following bodies have been ident-
fep Maria Wilson, Virginia Robinson,
Maria Ransom, Mollle Ward,i Mary
Hedry, Emma Brown, Arena Cox.


Two unknown bodies are in the yard.


Three women are in the church in a
dying condition. The wounded are sup
posed to number at least thirty, who are
being removed in vehicles and on litters
to their homes.


1t is impossible in the confusion to as
certain the exact number injured The
streets are crowded with frantic men and
women searching for their friends. The
colored people seem perfectly horror
stricken, but the whites are rendering
every assistance possible


One of the wounded has just died on
the corner of Church and Seventh Sts.


Many of the wounded, it is feared can
not survive.
Year: 1878

There was quite little excitement at
the p. W. IL b. Il. r. depot this morning,
on the departure Of the 9:45 train for


Philadelphia, by boy refusing TO go


with his mother. From what we were
able to learn, the boy had been living in
Ohio, and had come on to see his mother,
and through the persuasion Of some Of his


comrades, refused to return. 1t took the


interference of the police to keep him in
the cars. 1t is to be hoped that proper
sense of duty to his mothers wishes will


prevail with this boy before he reaches


his destination.
Year: 1878

Thore is young lady in St. Louis who
says she has more parents and step parents
living than any one she ever heard Of:
you know papa and mamma could never
agree, and 50 finally they got divorced.
don't say whose fault it was, but man.
ma really did behave ugly sometimes, and
even could not get along with her. So
when the separation came l went to live
with papa. Shortly afterward mamma
married again, and papa was not long in
following suit. did not like it very we'll
at first, but my step mother turned out 70
be irst-rate, aud | got to like her splen-
did. Then father got infatuated with an
other woman that he got acquainted with,
and she wheedled around him until she
made trouble, and the result was another
divorce, and papa soon married the wo-
man that made the trouble. When the
second separation took place l went with
my step mother because loved her, and
because my services were necessary to
help take care Of the baby. Then what
does she do but 60 and get married. I
declare l never saw SO much marrying in
my life. 1t only happened little while
ago, and my new step father-1 suppose
he is-treats me in very kindly sort Of
way, as If he felt be could not help him
self, but didn't exactly like it, I don't like
It bit. can't 60 back to mamma, be-
cause she is mad with me for going with
pa in the frst instance, and cant 20 to
papa because Of that wheed|ing woman,
and l can't bear to stay where l am. 1t
is too bad that CIR! sbould have father
and IN other and two step-fathers and two
step-mothers all living at once, aud not
home that she can feel at home in"
Year: 1878

READING NO man or woman is too
busy or too old to learn something by the
reading of good books and papers. The
cheapness o: good literature, of family
papers and choice magazines, breaks down
any barrier that may have been in the
way, and yet l know families who take
but two papers, a daily and a weekly, and
own all the year round that "they fnd 10
time, to read" The lack is not in time,
but the way of spending it, and too many
Of the hard working men and women even
Of this age ignore the fact Of their mental
need, while ministering 80 brayely to the
physical necessities. Culture and refine
ment are the necessary trimming to
,nany beautiful but homely life, that has
10 it much to be admired, but is wanting
in these elements. Good reading tends to
elevate the most homely lives.
Year: 1878

THE HELp1sa HAND.-Think twice be-
fore you believe every evil story you hear,
and think twenty times before you repeat
it, especially If it is about woman. Say
to yourself, This may not be true, or it
may be exaggerated,' unless you have
proof Of the veracity Of your informant.
People sometimes tell falsehoods, they Of
ten make mistakes, and they sometimes
"hear wrong" There is auricular illusion
as we'll as optical illusion. Take all these
things into consideration before you even
believe. As for repeating the story, ask
yourself If it is necessary. Then do it
with the fear Of God and the remembrance
Of the golden rule besSe you. Let us
give the helping hand not the downward
push; so may the angels reach their hands
toward US when we stand in neea.-[ Ex.
Year: 1878

Beside the stream a maiden roamed,
And met the knight whose treth she


held.
4 crimson blush her cheek sutused.
And in her sweet face fAncies swelled
But be must to the war depart,
And came to bid long farewell
What bitter tears she shed that day,
How sad the parting-who can tell


'Oh, fair my love. and sweet my


love,


Oar future meetings will but prove.
Naught can ever our lives sever.
When our hearts are bright with


love-
The war was over, and by the stream
The happy maiden lightly stepped,
To meet her knight where last they
met,


And laughed with JOY where then
she wept.
But by his side another rode.
With love-lights in her soft blue eyes;
And as to her he murmured low
His old loves heart breaks ia deep
siehs.


oh. fair my love. and sweet my
Our future meetings will but


prove,
Naught can ever our lives sever
When our hearts are bright with
love-