smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

The responsibility for the extra
session rests with the Republican
party. The House passed an army
appropriation bills with the very proper
proviso that the army should not be
employed in propping up the bogus Pack
ard and Chamberlain governments. The
Senate refused to take the bill with ,hi.
proviso, and thus left the army without The
means Of support. An extra session is the
Necessary consequence. Unless the temper
of the new House shall be found to differ
widely from that of the last House, the
Senate will have the same question to NEE,
again. The misuse ofthe army has gone
"a far as the country will tolerate


Iu the Forty fifth Congress, which is
now in being, the control of the Senate re-
mains unclaimed, although the Radical
majority is reduced therein to minimum.


The control Of the House remains with
the Democrats, but with greatly reduced
majority. Both Houses are uncomfortably
close-the majority in neither exceeding
half dozen or SO. Unless party lines on
both sides are drawn tightly, and absentee.
ism becomes custom more honored in the
breach than observance, we are likely to
an treated 10 an unwonted amount of mon
partisan legislation before the expiration
of this Congress. Little else will be done
At The extra session, We presume than to
provide for the support Of the army during
the next fiscal year.
Year: 1877

We had, one day during the past week
another demonstration of the crude way
the Jersey people administer justice. A
Jersey constable, with writ from some
crossroads Justice of the Peace, came to
Sussex County, and arrested in Frank
ford, woman on charge of larceny, and
carried her over to Jersey to be dealt
with after the form of Jersey law. These
people beyond the Delaware, have not
only the impudence to claim the "waters
lying within the IL mile circle,' but, de-
Tying the laws and rules of comfy be-
tween the States send their officers to drag
of citizens of this State by regular kid
mapping process. Verify, Jersey has ex-
tensiVe dominion among the States of This
Union, even if her territory does lie out
slde.-Suss ca journal.
Year: 1877

By telegraph to the Gazette. .tt


New YORK, August PA despatch
has been received here stating that the
Pacific Mail Steamship, City of San Fran
cisco, sunk at Acapulco, has been found
by the divers, sent to examine her, to be
so badly Injured that she cannot be raised.
Year: 1877

AS the trials of life thicken and the
dreams of other days fade, one by one in
the deep vista of disappointed hope, the
heart grows weary of the struggles, and
we begin to realize our insignificance.
Those who have climbed to the pinnacle
of fame, or revel in luxury and wealth, go
to the grave at last with the poor mendi-
can't who begs pennies ty the wayside,
and like him, are soon forgotten. Gene
rations after generations, says an eloquent
modern writer, have felt as we feel, and
their fellows were as active in life as ours
are now. They passed away as vapor,
while nature wore the same aspect Of
beauty as her creator commanded her to
be. And so, likewise, shall it be when
we are gone. The heavens will be as
bright over our graves as they are now
around our path; the world will have the
same attraction for ofsprings yet unborn
that she had once for ourselves, and that
she has now for our children. Yet a
little while, and all this will have hap
pened. Days will continue to move on,
and laughter and song will be heard in
every chamber in which we died; and the
eve that mourned for us will be dried,
and will glisten with Joy, and even our
children will cease to think of US, ane
will not remember to lisp our names.-
Goodrich.
Year: 1877

The tortoise shell of commerce is
merely the scales that cover the bony
shields of the turtle. These scales are
thirteen in number, varying from an
eighth to quarter Of an inch in thick
ness. A large turtle will furnish about
eight pounds.


"To detach this shell from living
turtle" says one who has seen the ope-
ration, els cruel process, which made
my blood creep to witness. The fishers
do not kill the turtles. Did they do SO
they would in few years exterminate
them. When the turtle is caught, they
fasten him, and cover his back with dry
leaves, or grass, to which they set fire.
The heat causes the plates to separate at
their joints.


GA large knife is then carefully in
serted horizontally beneath them, and the
lamine lifted from the back, care being
taken not to injure the shell by too much
heat, nor to force it off until the heat
has prepared it for separation. Many
turtles die under this cruel operation,
but instances are numerous in which
they have been caught second time
with the outer coating reproduced but
in such cases instead Of thirteen pieces
it is single piece. I could never bring
myself to witness this cruelty more than
once, and was glad the process of scaling
was carried on out of sight of the hut.
Had the poor turtles the power OF shrek
ing, they would have made the barren
island ring with their cries OF torture.
Year: 1877

Surrounded by affluence, how apt are
we to disregard the beseeching poverty
of our neighbor. Arrayed in our costly
raiment, how apt are we to revolt at the
sight of the patched and scanty covering
of another's body! Graciously smiled
upon by fortune, how apt are we to iibe
at the unsuccessful struggle of less
favored companion Warmly nestled in
our beds under richly-wrought tapestry,
how apt are we to forget that fellow
being may be at the same time striving
to obtain life-giving warmth from the
hard-frozen ground under the cold blue
cnopy of the heavens! Mankind was ere
atei equal, and aithough circumstances,
harsh and bitter, may deal severely with
one member of the family, that one is
aS much the creature of Col, and as i'm
portant and noble in His sight, as the
one whom the world has endowed more
abundantly with its possessions. There
fore let us exercise charity toward the
poor of Gods creatures, remembering
that they are also possessed Of immortal
souls, and what we render unto them
here will be most gloriously compensa-
ted for when lie shall make up his
Jewels hereafter.
Year: 1877

A story is told of young Waterville,
Me-, lawyer, who was Of convival turn,
who had in his hands number of un-
settled accounts against an old farmer in
the vicinity, who never paid any debts
until he was sued, and then only after
loud outcries against the lawyers for
"grinding the faces of the poor" One
day he came in to settle bill, when the
lawyer offered to discount him dollar
and half if he would go into the street,
mingle with all the groups of people
whom he might meet and lead the con-
versation up to a point where he could
incidentally remark that he (the lawyer)
was sharp and worthy fellow. The
old man wanted the money, but finally
he said impressively: esquire ! I'm a
very old man and have done many
wicked things in my life; but with my
views of eternit: 1 can't lie like that for
money" The dollar and half was dis
counted without extorting any recon-
pense therefor.
Year: 1877

Hate not. It is not worth while.
Your life is not long enough to make it
pay to cherish i'll will or hard thoughts
toward anyone. What if that man has
cheated you, or that woman played you
false? What if this friend has forsaken
you in your time of need, OF that one
having won your utmost confidence, your
warmest love, has concluded that he
prefers to consider and treat You IS
stranger? Let it all pass. What
difference will it make to You i'll few
years, when you go hence to the ''un-
discovered country" All who treat
YOU wrong now will he more sorry for it
then than you, even in your deepest dis
appointment and grief, can be. A few
more smiles, few more tears, some
pleasure, much pain, a little longer
hurrying and worrying in the world,
some hasty greetings and abrupt fare
wells, and life will be over, and the in
iurer and the injured Will be laid away
and ere long forgotten. Is it worth
while to hate each other?
Year: 1877

Confession of fault makes half amends.
Denying fault doubles it.


He who finds pleasure in vice, and
pain in virtue, is novice in both.


If men praise your efforts, suspec ct
their judgment; if they censure them,
your own. l.


Courage consists not in hazarding
without fear, but in being resolutely
minded in just cause.


To be able to bear provocation in an
argument of great wisdom and to for
give it, is proof of great mind.


Time and pains allotted to serious i'm
provements should be employed about
things of most use and consequence.


Such as have virtue always in their
mouth, and neglect it in practice, are
like harp, which enits sound pleasing
to others while itself is insensible to the
music.


Why should we be angry with map
who tumbles on us blindfolded? In eff
feet, most of our quarrels are OF our own
making, either by mistake or aggraya-
ton. 80 - r y


The richest endowments of mind ere
temperance, prudence and fortitude /;
prudence is an unive sal virtue, which
enters into the composition of all the
rest, and, where that is not present,
fortitude loses its name and nature.


Friendship is of large signifca ion.
By friendship we mean the greatest love
and the greatest usefulness ;and the most
open communication and the noblest
sufferings and the most exemplary
faithfulness and the severest truth.


The only uniform and perpetual cause
of public happiness is public virtue.
The effect of all other things which are
consideredas advantages will be found
casual and transitory. Without virtue,
nothing can be securely possessed or
properly enjoyed.


An envious man waxeth lean with the
fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the
daughter of pride, the author of murder
and revenge, the beginner of secret sedl-
ton and the perpetual tormentor OF yir
tue. Envy is the filthy slime OF the
soul q venom, a poison, or quicksilver,
which consumeth the flesh and drieth up
the marrow of the bones.
Year: 1877

"Julla McMarshal has written TO me seVefal
times, but the letters are all there il my writ
ing-desk, unopened. have had letters, too,
from some of the other members Of the Ten
Tried Travellers They are good girls, and one
of them wrote me lately that Madam Leclerc
had sent Miss McMarshail away from the
school, it having been found out mat she was
an adventures. The girls were all 20 thankful
that they did not get led away by her. Oh,
dear, they have 10 idea how wicked have
been -


The long, weary weeks of sickness. suffering
and contriton that Ethel endured were thought
to be sufficient punishment for the crime she
had committed, if indeed, it could, under the
circumstances, be called crime. The vii
layers, one and all, who had known and loved
her from her babyhood, readily fell in with the
opinion of the old doctor, and very consider
ately took charitable view of the affair.


This being the sequel Of the mysterious
Flint Rock Bank robbery, the Remingtons did
not deem it best to wait for legal tribunal to
pass upon their innocence, but were satisfied
with the hearty congratulations of their friends
over the quiet withdrawal of the cruel indict-
ment against them. Ethel had suffered too
much to be quite the ight-hearted girl she had
been. But she was finally graduated from
leading seminary, and is now the beloved and
honored principal of family school for youag
ladies, where you may be sure she profits from
her own sad xperience.-IAustrdted Weekly.
Year: 1877

uC HatSh 1kihhs
Listen to the water mill


All the hvelong day
How the clicking Of the wheel
Wears the hours away.
From the field the reapers sing,
Binding up the sheaves {;
And memory Ger my mind
AS a spell is cast:
The mill will never grind


With the water that is past.
Take the lesson to yourself,
Loving heart and true;
Golden years are fleetins by;
Youth is passing too.
Strive to make the most Of life,
Lose no happy day;
Time will never bring you back
Chances swept away.
Leave no tender word unsaid,
Love while love shall last
The mill will never grind
With the water that is past.
Work while the daylight shines,
Man Of thought and will;
Never does the streamlet glide
Useless by the mill;
Wait till to-morrow's sun


Beams upon your way,
All that you call your own


Lies in this-to-day.
Power, intellect and health
May not always last
The mill cannot grind


With water that is past.
Year: 1877

The weather of yesterday forces itself
into discussion. The heat was almost un.
precented so early in the season. In fact
the weather record for the past few years
indicates marked and progressive modi-
6cation Of our climate. Some scientific
man might do many less useful and inter-
esting things than to collate all the facts
On this subject, and draw the conclusions
to which they point.
Year: 1877

The World" says: "There is more in
the news that the Duke Decazes has con-
sented to retain his seat in the Cabinet of
Marshal MacMahon to reassure than there
is in the dispatches of Mr.. Washburpe TO
alarm US as to the immediate outcome Of
the political situation in France. The
Duke de Broglie, to whose influence the
course pursued by the Marshal-President
must probably be attributed, is one of the
weakest, vainest and most short-sighted of
men, and if the conduct of affairs were to
be left absolutely in his hands, with moth.
ing better to steady him than the honest
prejudices and the narrow determination
of the Marshal-President, the horizon If
France would indeed be ominous with wba,
Napoleon III. called "black points," The.
Propagation Of the Legislature, though i.
follows so soon upon its recent reassenh.
ling as to have the aspect at first sight of
= virtual suspension of the legislative





branch in France by the executive and
though the majority of the Assembly have
fairly enough made it the text of telling
and skillful address to the people in behalf
ofwhat NJ. Jules Simon calls the amiahle
republic, need not of itself necessarily lead
to any serious convulsion 10 French polj.,
tics. The most dangerous feature of the
situation is the revival by it of distrust in
the ultimate intentions of the Marshal.
President. The Marshal President has
still three years Of his septennate to serve;
but if the Republicans Of France make IN
their minds that he is. really playing into
the hands of any monarchial power, the
end Of his authority as a constitutional RI.
Ter is now at hand. Its clearly the inter.
est OF the Republicans of France to avoid
coming to this conclusion as long as they
possibly can, because the chances are that
as soon as the Marshal President ceases to
govern constitutionally his Government
will fatally drift into practices and assume
character which must inevitably result
either in great socialistic revolution Or
in the reestablishment of some form Of
monarchy and more probably in the latter
than in the former. There ought to be 4
Year: 1877

TINE WATER COMMISSION.


Unless the need of the basin be impera'
tive, and that greater water supply thar
We now have is also necessity; City Coun'
Gil lshould not bulge one inch to carry out a
law the true title Of which is IAN act to
disfranchise the city of Wilmington"


The appointment Of Commissions by the
Legislatures of States to govern cities, is
one of the Ingenious methods adopted to
destroy the only certain stronghold Of pop
ular freedom, the municipalities, and de-
serves censure at all times.


The passage Of the bill we refer to is 60
obnoxious to every principle Of the Demo-
cratic party, that we are amazed it passed
a Democratic legislature. The members
Of the Legislature were elected upon
platform which demanded the concession
Of sovereign rights to the States, free from
the usurpatioRs of either the executive or
legislative branch of the Republic. When
assembled in Dover they pass bill which
is practical usurpation on their part Of
the chartered rights of Wilmington; inject
into the offensive heresy of taxation with
out representation, and slap every man in
the face as fool who spoke and wrote last
campaign in favor of the plenary rights Of
the municipalities and States. We have,
nor has any citizen we know Of, no word
save commentator of the character of the
three gentlemen named as commissioners
and we are conscious they would perform
their duties we'll. 1t must, however, be
borne in mind that commissions have been
to other cities little better than organized
rings to plunder the citizens; and no man
knows what the statesman at Dover may
do to US in the future. If we can get along
as we are, let the basin crumble ere we con-
sent to be made political sers, good enough
to sweat under the burdens of taxation. not
lit to be trusted with the selection of agents
tospend our own money. Out upon such
lnsolence, and shame upon the men who
gave the insult.


The Commission can 60 into court and
ask mandamus to compel the Council 10 |
borrow the money, or pray the Chancellor
to grant adecree for a like purpose, if grant,
ed, and Council is compelled by law to
borrow the money; no blame will attach
to its members, and they will have de.
served we'll of the people, for resisting the
introduction Of an element of centraliza.
ton, the potent enemy of the republic.
Year: 1877

As shown by one of the evening papers,
it is quite clear, that none but persons
who have paid school tax in the city Of
Wilmington, can vote at the election


The law is precise and positive, and
must be enforced. This will very likely
change the completion Of the Board Of
Education after the election in 1878, there
can hardly be any change this year.
Year: 1877

The distress Of those lately discharged
from the bureaus in Washington should
teach those who are retained lesson.
They should see that their own tenure
is mighty uncertain, and lay up every
dollar that they can for future contin-
Uancy
Year: 1877

IT is now said that only fifteen persons
lost their lives by the Southern Hotel
fire. That may be an approximate num-
Der, but as in the case Of the Brooklyn
fire, the exact number will never be
known.
Year: 1877

FALL RIVER, Mass, Aug 81.
The governor and council OF the state
make an excursion of Katama this week.
An invitation Is extended to prominent re-
publicans. II is understood the meeting
will decide whether Gov. Rice will be the
accepted republican candidate for COVER
nor In tho coming campaign,
Year: 1877




There is good deal of feeling here to-
night about defiant speech Governor
Hampton is reported to have made at
Wilmington. If he has not been misre-
ported he has given great grief to his
friends and to those desirous of speedy
and proper settlement of the South Caro-
lima trouble here.


Some of his best friends believe that he
has been Misrepresentation he did not
make the speech. Some others believe
that not being accustomed to off-hand
public. speeches he may have been carri-
ed out Of himself by the excitement of
the occasion. The report has certainly
given great delight to the carpet-baggers.
who are saying, cat last Hampton has
blundered," and are making the most of
Year: 1877

1t takes a sound body to make {
sound mind. Work is not vulgar
So long as the brain needs the juices
of the body, so long win hard worl
be the fundamental element in TIE
development of the mind, Business
is eminently fit for a man of genius,
and to earn livelihood is the best
way to sharpen ones wits. Besides,
business affairs offer better opportu-
mites at present than the SO called
professions. Therefore our youth
should be thoroughly and practical
ly trained for business, in order that
they may succeed and become a
credit to whatever calling they may
adopt At the same time they should
be educated not to despise labor
for, after all, it is only by hard work
that we achieve any success worthy
of the name.
Year: 1877

Hayes has received several threat
ening letters of late. The last one is
from St. Louis. The writer urges
the President elect to withdraw ;
warns him that the South once be-
fore swore never to submit to a
President, and adds that "you will
remember that ne did not serve his
time" with a gloating alIusion to
Wilkes Booth There is a brief as
sertion of the rightful election OF
Tilden, the rest of the letter being
made up of current political slang.
The writer says he is a Louisianian,
temporarily in st. Louis.


Men who intend to assassinate are
not apt to send warning before hand
but there are lunatics in the world,
as well as villains, and current talk
on such subjects may prompt one o.
them to deed of blood. President
Lincoln used to say that was the
only class he feared.
Year: 1877

Mary Clemmer is disguised with
Democracy, and thus she has her
say: -IlE


Democracy" may be charming
theoretically, but it is not clean. It
does not smell good. 1t cocks its
feet in the air and smokes in the
Hall of Representatives. For the,
last performance I shall never for
give it. That is all of Tilden's Ad-
ministration that I want to know,
that his faithful servitors and SUD-
porters have turned the House of
Representatives into smoking
room. Don't talk to me of .Re--
form" with deterioration written
on every tile and stone of the Capt.
tol. Men who stride and swagger,
smoke and spit, where they should
sit ike gentlemen in the presence of
ladies, are never going to hasten on
the millennial day by the purity of
their morals. As man thinketh so
is be. As a man spitteth SO is he.
And the 'is' of most of these public
men is such that if each one wore a
spittoon for a necklace, he would be
decorated according to his exact
condition and necessities. A-S sts
Year: 1877

Evidence was pro luced before
Sam Cox's Committee in New York,
going to show that in the first sew
en- wards of, that city, where the
census shows that the population
is decreasing, the vote at the late
election, which was nearly all Demo
cratic, increased IS per cent. In the
face of facts like these, Cox said
there was no evidence of fraud and
his Committee hurried off to Philadel
phia, Notwithstanding the Republi.
can member protested against SO do
ing, telling the majority that they
had witnesses then in the room by
whom they expected to prove frauds
of the most astounding character.
Year: 1877

The Compromise Plan for count
ing the Electoral votes, agreed upon
by the Senate and House committees
on Wednesday of last week, will be
found on our inside pages. It is va
riously received by men of both par
ties, but the strongest opposition is
from Republicans, and the strongest
support from Democrats. We are
free to say we do not like it, and do
not believe it will settle the question
to the satisfaction of the people.
Year: 1877

very brainy person, like, for instance, this
Yale professor, eats phosphorus enough
to keep the city lamplighter supplied
with matches, if he relies mainly on his
torch; that we bear in our animated ovens
crude bricks enough to build a modern
fire. place, and from our changeful bones
shed marble enough to furnish all of our
friends with grave-stenes., This is an in
teresbng study for the young statistician
the creative possibilities of our human
frames. We have not figured on the soil
that goes into our mouths; but it is safe
to say that hearty eater masticates a
good deal of valuable real estate, if it could
be regularly surveyed and sold at s 900 a
front foot-P.ck (Nec York; Ht
Year: 1877

Three young girls were minding a
flock of sheep a few weeks ago at Vergt
Dordogne), when large wolf suddenly
appeared, and, separating some of the
sheep, drove them before it. The cries
of the girls irritated it, and passing near
one of them, Maria s., it flew at her,
knocked her down, and tore her savage
ly. Her cheek and upper lip were sadly
injured. However, the dogs attacked the
animal and released the girl. The cries
and barking attracted the attention of a
man named Moreau, aged ffty-fve, who
had formerly been a soldier, and who,
with his daug lighter, girl of eighteen, was
engaged in cutting wood. He came out
OF the thicket to see what was the matter,
and found himself face to face with the
wolf, which Immediately sprang at his
throat. He had no weapon, so he clasped
the animal around the body, and they both
fell together, rolling over each other.
After a protracted struggle Moreau man.
aged to get the beast beneath him and to
hold it firmly by the throat. He then
shouted to his daughter, who came and
dispatched the wolf with blows from
pickax Moreau was much exhausted by
the fight, but fortunately escaped with
only wound On the left hand. The ami
nal was found to measure meter and a
half from the nose to the end of the tail.