smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

So soon as this matter is settled
and with somebody as president we
get into smooth water, the first bus
mess of Congress should be to take
up the question of president, as Sem
ator Morton has SO long urged
should be done, and provide reas-
enable, intelligent, comprehensive
and coherent plan.-[N. Y. Tribune.


A quaint writer says: II have
seen women so delicate that they
were afraid to ride, for fear Of the
horse running away, afraid to sail,
for fear the boat might upset; afraid
to walk, for they might fall, but /
never saw one afraid to be married,
which is far more riskful than all
others put together"
Year: 1877

SCHOOL LANTERN, FAMILY LANTERN,
PEOPLES LANTERN.


Each style being the best of its class in the market.
Catalogues ef Lanterns and Slides, with direC-
tions for using, sent on application.


Any enterprlsing man can make money with a
Magic Lantern.
s1T- Visitors to the Centennial Exposition will do
wisely to defer purchasing goods in our line until
they come 10 our stores in New York. where they
will find greater variety aud more moderate prices,
and can select more at their leisure. But We have
concession to sell styles OF our goods in the
building of the Department of Public Comfort and
those coming TO New York are invited to call on
our representation there.


ga full stock of Views of the Exposition Duild-
ing and their contents


June %, '76-m6.
Year: 1877

order Issued for the Removal of


the Troops.


National Associated Press to the Star.


WASHINGTON, April N.-The order for
the removal OF the troops in Louisiar a
was unanimously determined upon in
the Cabinet meeting yesterday and is
sued late in the atternoon:


EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON,


April 20.
sIR-Prior to my entering upon the duties Of
the Presidency there had been stationed, by
order Of my predecessor, IN the immediate vi
cinity OF the builuingu u ed as the State House
in New Orleans, Louisiana, and known as the
Mechanics Institute, detachm mt Of United
States Infantry. Finding them in that place.
have thought proper to delay a decision Of
the question of their removal until could de-
termine whether the condition of affairs is now
such as to eitSer require or justify contin-
ued military 1nterv, ntion OF the National
Government in the affairs Of the State. In my
opinion there does not now exist in Louisiana
such domestic violence as is contemplated by
the Constitution as the ground upon which tho
military power I the National Government
may be inv ked for the defense of the st to.
The disputes which exist -as to the right OF GER
tain claimants to the chief Elk. cutive office OF
that state are to be settled and deter
mined, not by tho Executive of the
United Stats, but by such orIe,ly
Year: 1877

II you cannot, or the ocean


Sail among the swiftest fleet,
Rocking on the highest billows,


Laughing at the storms you meet;
You can stand among the sailors,


Anchored yet within the bay;
You can lend = hand to help them,
As they launch their boats away.
If you are too weak to journey


Up the mountains steep and high,
You can stand within the valley,
As the multitude 80 by;
You can chant In happy measure
As they slowly pass along!
Though they may forget the singer,
They win not forget the song.
II you cannot, In the conflict,


Prove yourself awarrior true,
II where fire and smoke are thickest,
There's no work for you 10 do
When the battle field Is silent,


You can 80 with gentle tread,
You can bear away the wounded,
You can cover up the dead.
II you cannot In the.hsrvest


Garner up the richest sheAvss.
Many a grain, both ripe and golden,
Which the careless reaper leaves,
You can glesn among the brisrs,
Growing rank against the wall,
And 1t may be that the shadows
Hide the harvest wheat Of all.
If you have not gold and silver,
Ever ready st command,
If you cannot, towards the needy
Reach An ever opsn hand.
You can visit the afflicted,


Ger the errius you esn weep,
You can be true disciple,


Sitting At the Sayior's iees.
10 not then stand Idly waiting,
For some rohler work 10 DO,
For your Heavenly Fathers glory,
Ever earnest and true:
Go and toll III sny vineyard
Work in patience and in payer
II you want = field Of labor.


You Gan ind it ANYWHERE.
Year: 1877

A few days ago, the last of what
was known as Table Rock, at Mag
ra, broke off and fell into the river.
The mass weighed.nearly sixty tons,
and up to 1876 over four thousand
names of visitors had been carved
upon it. The part which fell on
the "A composed only half of the
original rock, the rest having fallen
in. On Saturday, Jan. lst, 1929, a
surface of the rock, supposed to be
the size of half an acre, forming the
bed of Maiden Walk, broke loose
and was precipitated to the inn
mense chasm below, the crash was
heard for distance of five miles,
and the effect in the immediate
neighhorhood resembled the shock
Of an earthquake.


The water running under the
banh is supposed to have caused
the final fail. The shock when the
rock struck the water was distinctly
felt three miles from the fall. Sew
eral trees that stood on the rock are
now seen standing in the river as
erect as when in their original places
on the rock.
Year: 1877

evaporate; then skimming and
straining through hair sieve.


Think of the square miles of
orchards, fields of clover and beans,
and tracts of heather and other
honey producing plants this coun-
try contains, and of the thousands
of tons of that substance which
must pass from them into the at
mosphere, much of which might be
gathered for the use of man! How
many agricultural laborers and rail-
way porters in country districts
might double their earnings by
keeping beesl Farmers who grow
clovers for seed would find that the
multiplication OF bees around them
would be of immense advantange,
for these plants depend to a great
extent upon the visits of the bees
for fertilization and consequent
production of seed. This simple
fact ought to he generally known.
Year: 1877

Tramps are becoming so thick in
Pennsylvania that it is thought that
they will soon hold the balance of
power between the two political par.
ties. Then every politician says
paper of that State, will be out in
their favor, defending the right to
loaf, beg, borrow and steal. Farm
ers who refuse to feed them on
spring chickens, fresh eggs, golden
butter and all other good things
which their thrifty wives know so
how to provide, will be denounced
as bloated aristocrats, who ought to
be spoiled of their goods. Tramp
clubs will be formed, tramp banners
will float at the head of long pro.
cessions, tramp songs will be sung,
and tramp, tramp they will go to
battle for the right.
Year: 1877

st. Louis Times, (DemoerAtic.)


1t was thought by those interest
ed in the matter that an early and
satisfactory adjustment Of the Ten
nessee debt would be effected last
winter, but all attempted negotia-
tions and propositions and coun-
ter propositions were summarily
squelched at last by the non-action
of the Legislature.


The debt with interest, foots up
about 23,500,0O0, the greater por-
tion of which is held by parties res
ident IN Europe, who bought before
the war at very nearly par, when
the credit Of Tennessee was in a sol
vent condition. The future at that
time was bright with healthful
promise and the State received full
value for almost every dollar of the
obligations thus Incurred, in the va
rious public improvements Dy which
the people have been so largely ben
efitted in facilities for railway trans
pOrtation and commercial traffic.


1t was not the outgrowth OF any
dire adversely, nor the legacy Of
corrupt NAL administration, nor
forced like a milestone upon the
neeks of an unwilling people, as
frequently happened elsewhere dur
ing the reconstruction era; but a
free, voluntary and profitable act,
which the citizens of Tennessee
without evasion or excuse, are in
honor bound to look squarely in
the face and accept the entire re-
sponsibility it imposes.


1t is certainly to be hoped, not
only for the good credit and name
of Tennessee, but for the credit of
the whole South and WeJt, that
some measures be promptly taken
to relieve the State from her pres
ent urenviable attitude and put her
right upon the record again. To
follow in the wake of Minnesota
would be almost in the nature OF a
national disaster and inilict a blow
upon the financial standing of our
Southern neighbors all the more de-
plorable because of its utter want
of excuse and rank sa vor OF fraud
Tennessee is rich and resourceful,
her people are rapidly recovering
from the prostrating effects Of the
war, they are thrifty, high.soulcd
and honest, and we cannot believe
that they will willingly consent TO
be led into any pitfall through the
wiliul negligence or fault Of their
Legislative representatives. IL the
full debt is too heavy a burden, let
it be ightened. The bondholders
are anxious and ready TO meet the
State more than half way with hon
orable compromise. They have Of
fered all that could be reasonably
expected. To insist upon more
would be, indeed, humiliation; 10
procrastinate action is dangerous
and un becoming; 10 decline pay
ment altogether Involves permanent
and positive disgrace.
Year: 1877

DEAR LAPS Pardon the famil
iarity, but 1 feel so happy after ex-
panding my chest and shaking my
sides that l have gained two pounds
of flesh, while. you are rushing pell-
nell through the briars, tearing
your breeches to pieces and losing
your flesh, to get rid of that fly.
Can't persuade you to let that fly
alone? that is, don't kill it. 1t
would be the worst days work you
ever done. Encourage it in its
raids, tougher it with your slaps,
but keep it, keep it through the
winter. 1t seems to make you like


"a Legden-iar full-charged from which fit


Tho electrical tlngles of hit after hit"
thus giving vigorous aid to a live
paper.


read your baby article frst-a
woman always reads a paper back
vards-and was amazed that man
could be so wreckless of danger,
even as brave a man as you, to pen
such brazen facts and risk running
his head into hornets nest by say
ing such ugly things about any
woman's baby, until l read your fly
story, then the motive power burst
upon me like an illumination. I've
seen that baby, and know the tenn
per of it's mother when her baby is
the subject; and let me caution you,
though 1 love a pithy story with
flashes of sparkling wit, not to let
that fly drive too much vim into
your articles about the ugly babies
around town. "Nor pappy nor
mardragon will medicine thee to
thy sweet sleep of yesterday" and
you will wish you had twisted two
mules tails when that mother is
done with you, instead of meddling
with the looks Of her baby.


"There is a tide in the affairs of men


Which taken at the food, leads on to great


ness


Keep your fly and march on to
greatness. wish you would let it
lay few eggs (but l fear it must
be an old bachelor fly from its per
sisteney) and send me a couple of
eggs. am so lazy and stay in the
shade so closely to the neglect of
nv duties, that tlco such flies might
instil some vim even into my slug
gish soul, and help things into
somewhat definite shape, instead of
leaving the mind as now, ~out of
form and void"


1 was keeping count the other
dav at the thresher of the number
of bushels of oats grown on seven
acres. | run it up to three hun
dred bushels, when the fact is, it
was only one hundred and seventy
five bushels. Now, If had been
accompanied by your fy to that
thresher the mistake would not
have happened, nor 1, lulled by the
old time cora field songs into a phi
losophizing spirit, as i looked upon
Year: 1877

1t is astonishing what may be
done with bees when they are in
good humor. In order to produce
this desirable state it is only neces-
sary to sprinkle them with sugar
and water. This popularity is ta-
ken advantage of by the wise apia-
rian when he wishes to conduct the
process of artificial swarming, tax
ing away young queens for other
hives, removing honey, etc.


Bees when swarming rarely sting,
and the reason is this: when they
swarm they think it prudent to take
a supply of honey with them, and ac
cordingly pocket all they can. In
this state they are very peaceable.
In order to make them take honey
and produce the desired state, apia-
rians puff smoke into the hives; the
bees gorge themselves, thinking
their honey is to be taken from
them, and pass to the upper part
of the hive. This method is pur-
sued when it is considered desirable
to make an examination of the inte-
rior of a colony.


Bees will freely take salt during
the early part of the breeding sea
son; but water is absolutely neces-
sary for them, and should be regu
larly supplied in troughs near the
entrance, straws floating in it, so
that the bees may drink without
fear of drowning. To ascertain
whether bees are sustaining injury
from want of water, it is only nee
essary to.examine the bottom Of the
hive. If candied grains of honey
appear, no time must be lost in sup
plying water, for the bees are eating
up their honey in order to obtain
it. This is one cause of the starva-
ton of bees; for lack of water they
have too rapidly consumed their
stores. Bees work in the dark be
cause the admission of light would
candy the honey, and they could
not seal it up in its proper liquid
state. Glass hives in which they
are made to work in the glare of
light, are therefore unnatural. An
indication of their dislike to light
appears in the attempts they make
to obscure the small windows often
placed in hives for purposes of ex-
animation.


Feeding not only consists in Civ.
ing them honey, sugar, sugar-candy,
or like sweet substances, if they
need it, but in supplying them with
water, salt, and rye or wheat meal.
Let US briefly notice these in detail
Mr.. Langstroth, an American apiari
an, who has written an excellent
work on the bee, quotes the follow
ing remarks by Mr.. Kleine in
the BieReREeitung: The use of
sugar candy for feeding bees gives
to Bookkeeping a security which it
did not possess before. Still we
must not base over-sanguine calcu-
lations on it, or attempt to winter
very weak stocks which a provident
apiarian would at once unite with a
stronger colony. / have used su
gar-candy for feading for the last
five years, and made many expert
ments with it, which satisfy me that
it cannot be too strongly recon-
mended. Sugar candy dissolved in
a small quantity of water may be
safely given TO bees late in autumn,
and even in winter if absolutely
necessary. 1t is prepared by dis
solving two pounds of candy in a
quart of boiling water, and allowing
about half pint of the solution to
Year: 1877

offend the man with the foreign all
very much, and he gave vent to his
Indignation by a frown. The mu-
sic stops, the young girl collects her
pennies and the pair move off lit
tie way, and the "Mulligan Guards
came squeaking from the organ
and the little street Arab keeps
time with her tambourine. Again
the man with the foreign air aP-
pears on the ground, shows signs OF
familiarity, and when the tambour
inc is proffered to him for his dona-
tion he exclaims something in the
Italian language. The little girl
gives shrek of JOY and falls into
the arms Of her addresser.


The organ grinder, noticing this,
appr caches the man, and in all in
sulting manner demands that he re
lease the girl, to which the man re
torts by giving the organ grinder a
blow that fells him to the ground.
Officer Schneider, who was in the
vicinity at the time, was called up,
and took the trio over to the lock-
up, where they were kept most oi
the day, and were then allowed to
depart.


During the course of the day a
reporter was given permission to
see the man with the foreign air,
and from his own lips jotted down
the following story. He said that
his name was Bozana, that he came
from Italy, and that the child was
his daughter. Two years ago while
she was playing in front ofthe house
one day, travelling band of musi-
clans stole her. After searching
the whole of Italy for her, he came
to New York, and visited the differ
erent italian haunts of the place,
where he obtained information that
prompted him to come to Buffalo,
where he arrived last Monday. On
going to building occupied by the
people of his country, on Peacock
Street in Buffalo, he ascertained on
Tuesday night that his daughter
was in possession of the organ
grinder, whose name was Mathesca,
and that he had come to ToHaV an
da with her.


Mathesca said that the child was
adopted by him in New York, and
that he took her on shares-that is,
he was to have half of what she
made, and the man he got her from
the other half Some days, Ma
thesca said, the child collected as
high as So.


AS he was perfectly willing that
the child should go with her father,
no legal proceedings were COM
menced, and the two left for
Buffalo on the evening train.
Year: 1877

deceased. On the trial it was
proved Lewis was the son of Vir
ginia slave woman and a Canadian,
his mother having fled TO Canada
during the existence of slavery in
the United States. Judge Barrett
to-day, in the Supreme Court, gave
his decision in the case. He does
away with all the provisions Of the
will except that giving Miss Taylor
the income of the estate until she is
lawfully married, and whether she
has children or not the estate then
goes to Lewis and his sister.
Year: 1877

A crumply horn is a good indica-
ton, full eye another. Her head
should be small and short. Avoid
a Roman nose, which indicates thin
milk and little of it. See that she
is dished in the face-sunk between
the eyes. Notice that she is what
stock men call a good handler
skin soft and loose, like the skin of
a dog. Deep from the loin to the
udder and a very slim tail. A cow
with these marks never fails to be a
good mixer.
Year: 1877

The pencil marks you see around thi
paragraph (thusJ mean that your


scription 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 strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


C8- We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance.
Year: 1877

During a conversation between
the President and Western Sena-
tor, incidental allusion was made
by the latter TO the speeches deliv.
cred by Messrs. Blaine and Cham.
berlain, when the President said he
had not yet read, but had only
heard something of their remarks,
and specially ia condemnation of
his Southern policy. He had high
respect for these gentlemen, and, as
far as he knew, the personal rela-
tions between them and himself arc
of friendly character. At all
events, he entertained for them the
most kindly sentiments While he
claimed for himself free utterances
of political opinion, he certainly
could not object TO such course on
their part. Their ideas of his pub
lie duty we're different from his own,
but he did not complain. He, how
ever, had acted from a sense of du-
ty in order TO accomplish complete
reconciliation in the South, and had
done so from the best lights which
were afforded, and the best judg.
ment he could command after a iull
view of the situation, and with an
earnest desire to produce satisfacto-
ry results. He would not quarrel
with those who questioned the
soundness OF his judgment or the
honesty of his motives. He was
willing TO leave to time for the
vindication Of his course.
Year: 1877




These bits Of wisdom, some OF
them applicable to all times and
communities are clipped from the
Cleveland Banner, one of the best
country papers in America:


Our marble players lnd time 10
90 TO their dinners, but they hurry
back Tor fear that some new man
will get their places. IL they had
to work as steadily as they ply their
vocation what "A piteous and bewail-
ing howl would go up.


Any sap head can start news.
paper provided he has money or
credit enough, but IL takes a man
with a deal of brains, industry, per
severance and economy, 90 make n
success of il, and even then with all
these qualifications failures are
often made.


Reader, if you have n spunky
wife, and don't want FIRST class
punk knot raised on the side of
your head, you had better not go 70
cursing and quarreling around her
when she's got the rolling pin in her
hand. We'd about as soon be inter
viewed by the hind leg Of muel.


Whenever you come across man
that is too lazy TO work or follow
some honorable avocation, but
wants to make living by his wits,
because he thinks he's smarter than
anybody else, watch him. lie may
not be stealing now, but he'll get at
il. if he is not very careful, by and
by.


To make n success of the printing
business in this wooden country.
good location is the FIRST thing nee
cssary-then combine the editor,
printer and business manager, in
one and the same person; and II he
Is a clever fellow, with the endu-
rance of a Jackass aud the impu-
dence of The devil, he may manage
10 keep out of the poor house-but
that's about all.
Year: 1877

Friend Russ, of the Shelbyville
Commercial offers us some advice
about the management of the Ga
zette. If he would spend the time
he consumes in interfering with the
affairs of other publishers in i'm
proving his local columns he would
succeed in making it better. The
Gazette devotes about as much
space to local items as the Com
mercial, if we are not greatly mis-
taken, and we have heard this pratt
tie about patent insides" until we
are tined of it.-LeaOis6urg Gazette.


The Gazette man missed mighty
good chance to tell father Russ that
his paper would be vastly improved
if both sides were patented; bat it
is too late now, and besides it would
have been very cruel. We would
not dare to say it for the world.
Year: 1877

aud aggravated by the falling OFF in
trade with the United States, has been
terrible. Hundreds of workshops have
been forced to close, thousands OF arti-
sans are thrown out of employment,
aud the distress of the poorer classes Is
unprecedented throughout the empire.
Their misfortunes make the soil favor
able for the seeds of Socialism, and
there promises soon to be a crop OF that
dangerous growth in Germany which
Bismarck will be obliged to tear up by
force. The man of tsbiOod and irOn''
will not hesitate to cut out Socialism
by the roots when an attack on 1t be-
comes necessary. But no physical
force can suppress it entirely, and Eu-
rope in the long future will continue to
be yexed with this tempting and deceit
full theory, the triumph Of which


would be fatal to all originality and en-
terprise and progress. s