smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

The Big Stone County Herald, published
at 0rtonville, says:


1t Is reported that the grain is graded
lower at Mcrris than here and that farmers
are often compelled to pay from three to
four dollars for the privilege of unloading
their wheat at the elevator as tue railroad
company do not carly off the grain, and
have allowed the elevator TO become full,
consequently If any wheat is received it is
done through accommodation, or the farm
er is made to pay for all trouble or incon
venience that may occur in handling. We
do not vouch for the truth of the above. but
1t is currently reported to be true by parties
who have been to Morris with their wheat.
But we do know that great trouble does
exist at Morris in taking care of the grain.
and until the new elevator is completed it
is not likely to be any better


Does any one require the services Of a
Rrstclas A No. copper bottomed, tongue.
sMng-in- the.middle liarP If SO just tfind the
vacuum whoinvented, ooncocted and circu-
lated tie above base and malicious false.
hood. Il is hardly necessary to prove the
lie, but as it is so preposterously and outra.
geously false we will give one or two facts.
The elevators here are supplied with all TIC
modern Improvements, and are equipped
Year: 1879

The contested case of Washburn vs.
Donueliy will be the first taken up by the
committee. Mr., Donnelly.is now in Wash
ington looking after his interests in this
case, and although he is seemingly fighting
in the face of, and against heavy odds, yet
we believe he has much stronger case
than many are willing to admit His
charges of fraud ana bribery may or may
not hc sustained; but should there be any
grounds for the belief that Washburn or
bis friends, in one Rolitary instance, resort
cd to dishonest maans to defeat Donnelly,
we hope the committee viii report in favor
of seating tho contestant, DO after Wheth
cr he Was ten Or one hundred thousand
votes behind. In this Instance. neither
party ner men should be considered, or be
OF any moment in the settlement of the
dispute; nothing but the principle involved
should be taken into consideration. If
Washburn used fraudulent means to secure
lis election, he should not ouly be unseat
ed, but disgraced.
Year: 1879

Another attempt, the third within year,
has been made upon the life of the Gear
Alexander of Russia. The last attempt was
the explosion of mine under the railroad
track over which the train in which he
was travelling had to pass, luckily an extra
baggage train was mistaken for the one
containing his royal highness and suite,
and he thus escaped injury. The extra
train was badly wrecked and the track torn
up aud destroyed by the force of the ex-
plosion. Numerous arrests have been
made,
Year: 1879

Maj. Reno bids fair to worst his perse-
cutors this time, and it will probably be
the last effort they will make to down him
Reno is not an angel by any means, but is
the peer of many of those who are hound
ing and doing all in their power to injure
him. If there is a place on earth where a
man can be made to feel as though he were
in the Internal regions, and during the hot
test season Of the year at that, it is in the
circle of affectation, gold lace, jealousy,
airs and iusincerity army life There is not
much TO admire in Reno, but that he is the
victim Of persecution there is not the least
particle of doubt
Year: 1879

A number of gentlemen in the Eastern
States are making up a purse of $3.50, 600
to present to General Grant. The purse is
a gift from those who, placing a high esti-
mate Oh the public services of the general
wish to make his old age comfortable, and
relieve him from the necessity cef accept.
ing professional pest for support.
Year: 1879

New York, Oct. 8.-The land trou-
BILE in England has taken the bulk of the
people by surprise. 1t may be safely
asserted that not one proprietor in a
hundred saw in the announcement in
the London Times Of May, $50, that the
train which had run through from New
York to San Francisco had any sort Of
connection between that fact and a
terribly diminished rental in '79.
Year: 1879

FREDERICK DOUGLASS in paper read be-
fore the Association for the Advancement of
Science Friday denied that the negro exodus
was brought about by the politicians and
spectators in Kansas lands. The cause is
to be found in the wrongs inflicted upon the
negroes by their employers and despair OF
any change for the better. He thinks the
movement unwise, however, and believes
that the men who are soliciting funds to
help it on are really doing an injury to the
negro. He wants the eX-slaveholders OF
the South and their successors not to shape
their policy upon the presumption that ne
gro cowardice and forbearance have no
limit. ''The fever of freedom he said lis
already in the negro's blood, and he is not
what he was just fourteen years ago. To
forcibly dam up the stream of emigration
would be measure of extreme madness, as
well as oppression. 1t would be exposing
the hearts of the oppressors to the pis oil
and the dagger and his home to fire and pill
LACE. The theory of Land and liberty
the watchword of the Nihilistic party in Rus
sia, has music in it sweet to the ears OF
all oppressed people, and well shall it be for
land-holders of the South if they shall learn
wisdom in time and adopt such course OF
Just treatment toward the landless laborers
of the South in the future as shall make
this popular watchword uncontagious and
unknown among their laborers and further
slampedes to the North wholly unknown
and imposSible''
Year: 1879

THE New York Tribune publishes letter
written by Mr.. Cornell, the Republican can
didate for Governor in that State, which
shows that he was never disposed to get rid
of paying his taxes. In his return of his in
come to the internal revenue assessor he in
cluded his salary. The assessor sent back
the return. saying that under the decision Of
the Commissioner salaries were exempt
from internal tax. Mr.. Cornell sent the re-
turn back unchanged, saying that he could
not satisfy his conscience that the law would
bear the Interpretation of the Commissioner,
and that he preferred to pay the usual in
come tax thereon. Mr.. Cornell may be a
machine politician but he is evidently an
honest man.
Year: 1879

THE Nep Religion says one-third of our
voters are literally dragged to the polls. Let
us see. Last Monday about 10000 men in
this State voted. According to the Nelo
Religion, about $1,000 of that number were
literally dragged to the polls. On an aver
age it must require at least two men to drag
the third. This would make 1900 engaged
in dragging the other 1900. This would
indicate that not only was the whole voting
population of the State either dragged or
dragging last Monday, but also that some OF
the citizens of neighboring States came over
and lent their assistance. The story seems
incredible, but it appears in religious pa
per, and a religious paper of course wouldn't
tell lie.
Year: 1879

THE Chicago Times independent Demo-
cratic) moralizes as follows upon the news
from Maine ''The election in Maine re-
suited in sweeping Republican triumph.
There are gains for that party in almost
every voting precinct heard from, indicating
small majority for Davis on the popular
vote. The campaign was one of unusual
activity, and the issues involved were so
clearly defined and fully discussed that
there need be no mistake as to the signif-
canoe of the result. Is is a deathknell to the
rag baby, and an indication of what the ver-
dict of the North will ever be when con-
fronted by the State sovereignty andnullfica-l
ton doctrines of the South. With such
questions before the people, but one decision
may be expected 1t is fortunate for al
concerned that in Maine the reply has been
so emphatic ~
Year: 1879

THE trial of John w. Gully for the MUIR
Miss, has resulted in verdict of not guilty.
precisely as was expected. Gully's services
in ridding Kemper county of radicals were
held in too high estimation to allow ofhis be-
ing sent to the penitentiary or the gallows
simply because in the prosecution of his
glorious work he shot an innocent and inof-
fensive woman.
Year: 1879

An exchange makes the following sarcastic
inquiry: "If man were to wear his straw hat
smashed down and bent into such shape as
some of the ladies wear theirs, where would
the public think he had been the night be-
fore?''
Year: 1879

THE Springvale Reporter says the big
gest campaign lie it heard was to the effect
that the mills in Sanford were run on extra
time, in order to secure Republican votes
1t would have been more to the credit of the
Reporter fit had exposed that falsehood be-
fore election.
Year: 1879

a young gentleman who has Just returned
from tour through the mountains and along
shore, remarks, cts queer that whatever sum-
mer hotel you go to you most always see some
boarder that seems to run the hotel.
Year: 1879

The Ner Religion says that had the Dem
ocrats brought to this State a few men OF
national reputation, such as Senators Thur
man and Bayard, to address the people in
the principal towns and cities, and to give
direction and character to the canvass, all
would have been different. The Ne,o Ref
gion had better stick to religion and let
politics alone 4 Greenback organ reprov-
ing the Democrats for not bringing into the
State the hardest kind of hard-money man,
as is Senator Bayard, makes a very amusing
spectacle
Year: 1879

THE New York Herald says that what the
Republicans in Maine did was to hold up
the Democratic party by the tail in full view
of the State, and when the people got good
look at it they went Immediately and voted
the Republican ticket.
Year: 1879

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


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
mun,cot,ons ii are not used.
Year: 1879

EVERY regular attach6 of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate signed by Stanley L. Pullen,
Editor All railway, steamboat and hotel managers
will confer favor upon us by demanding credentials
of every person claiming to represent our journal
Year: 1879

The Promoter and Perfector Of Assinni
latien.


The Reformer and Vitalizer of the
Blood.


The Producer and InyisoratOr of Nerve
and Inscle.


The Builder and Supporter of Brain
Power.
Year: 1879

THE New York Democrats demanded the
repeal of the supervisor law. Tilden wants
his friends to do all the counting in the city
next year. The campaign of 1868 when one
of the city wards gave larger Democratic
majority than the whole number of people
in it, fingers in his memory.
Year: 1879

What significance this brings TO the
heart of man. All, yes the thoughts
that cluster around the idea of ''yellow
leaf" are full of pathos and meaning.
They speak in tones not easily misun-
derstood, that although they in the
spring and summer time, fluttered to
the breeze when fresh and green, that
now during the FALL season, they are
assuming their winter garb of death,
and will soon fall To cartn and be for
gotten. All, what II sad thought |!
Thousands of females are this day pass
lngthrough the yellow leaf stage pa ema-
turely. They are rapidly closing their
lives of usefulness 10y refusing To rescue
themselves when 80 potent and reliable
remedy is at hand as the English Fe-
male bitters, the great female regulator
of the day.
Year: 1879

No man can do a good job of work,
preach a good sermon, try a law suit
well, doctor patient, or write a good
article when he feels miserable and
dull, with sluggish brain and unsteady
nerves, and none should make the at
tempt in such condition when it can
be so easily and cheaply removed by a
little Hop Bitters. See other column.


3l-2t.
Year: 1879

A WEEK in your own town.
and no capital risked. You
can give the business a trial
without expense. The best OPP
portunity ever offered for those


willing TO work. You should
try nothing else until you Set
for yourself what you can d,
Year: 1879

A NOVEL PRoPosITION.-The MISSOURI
Legislature has novel proposition before
it to punish voters who stay away from the
polls three elections in succession with for.
feiture of their right to hold any Office in
the State.
Year: 1879

REDUNDANT RHEToRIC.-It was Squire
Edmunds. of the Wabash, cousin of the
Senator from Vermont, who remarked to a
brace of limberjawed lawyers who were
arguing a case before him: When you
gentlemen get through your speeches you
will find my decision in this drawer; this
Court is going to dinner"


We can't help thinking that the speech
making now going on at the CAPITOL will
have as little influence in making up the
popular verdict on the questions at issue as
the arguments in Squire Edmunds' Court
had on his judgment.
Year: 1879

A Democratic member Of the Louisiana
Constitutional Convention has offered
resolution in that body declaring that there
is no intention whatever entertained by the
Convention of imparting or restricting the
political or religious rights OF the colored
people.
Year: 1879

An army officer from Yellowstone Valley
tells how herd Of buffalo were engulfed as
they were migrating southwark. The herd
numbered 2500 and when they reached
the river and vcntured upon it with
their customary confidence, coming upon it
with solid front and beginning the cross
ing with closed ranks. When the front
file, which was stretched out quarter Of a
mile in length, had nearly gained the oppo.
site shore, the ice suddenly gave way under
them, and four or five hundred animals
tumbled into the opening, all in a heap,
and sunk out of sight in twinkling. By
this time the rotten ice was breaking under
the still advancing herd, and in less than
a minute all were submerged. They were
wedged in so thickly that they could DO
nothing but struggle for a second and then
disappear beneath the cakes Of ice of the
swift current. Not beast in all that
mighty herd escaped.
Year: 1879

Tho candidates nominated On Saturday by
the Republican Conventions complete tho
list OF persons from whom the people Of this
city and county will have to ,nltko selections
at tho election on June g. The candidates
Year: 1879

MERCHANT TAILORING ESTABLISH
IA ment, on Sth street, near south end of Bridge.
The tailoring department is complete, and con
tains large assortment of fashionable cloths and


Gents furnishing goods constantly on hand
Please call and examine before purchasing else
Year: 1879

FASHIONABLE TAILOR. ALL GOODS
IL made by the subscriber are warranted TO hit
the form. Prices, reasonable, and am bound to
please those who give their custom. Shop
on York Street, two doors West of the Windiate
Year: 1879

IT may be of interest to those of our read
ers who hold municipal bonds that have
been dishonored by the maker, to know that
the United States supreme court has made q
decision recently that may prove of value
In case involving the legality of certain
bonds issued by the city of New Orleans
the court decided that the right to incur s
debt carries with it the power to provide fo1
it's payment, and that therefore it is no de-
tense to the payment of debt to set uI
that there are no means of meeting it.
Year: 1879

The socialistic element is not an incon-
considerable one in Chicago. The sugges-
tion few years ago that they should unite
In an endeavor to control the politics of the
city was received with derision, yet it was
adopted, and without a newspaper organ to
advocate their cause, or friendly hand to
help them in any branch of the government,
they have grown till they poll an average of
twelve thousand votes, and at the election on
Tuesday succeeded in choosing four alder
men of their own way of thinking. Chicago
is promising field for the gentry who are
just now being invited to leave Germany.
Year: 1879

Gen. Porter protested. He asked its reversal
or revision, and scorned executive olemency,
though it was frequently rendered
him. The mention of pardon fired him
with indignation, for he was conscious of
the commission of no otfense. What he has
importuned for has at last been granted.
he has had hearing, and all the circum-
stances having bearing upon the trans
action for which he was originally con-
demned have been rehearsed, and it is the
unanimous opinion of the court that he was
blameless. The members yof that commits
sion were army officers of unquestioned
repute, some of them going to the duty
prejudiced against Gen. Porter's cause, but
as men of honor they were compelled to
abide by the evidence presented, which left
them no other alternative than the decision
arrived at. /
Gen. Porter's future is not matter of ma
tional interest. He can probably dispose o1
it to his own and Others satisfaction. Hit
case has assumed national Importance
simply from the fact that it was the only in
stance in which general officer had beer
charged with disobedience of orders ant
cowardice on the field of battle, and the sus
picion that the charge was made and tn


conviction afterwards obtained for politica
ends. The wrong done to his reputation ha


finally been righted. He asks no more, ye
it is duty that Congress owes him to- max
some amends for the wrong that he has bee


compelled to suffer. If he is not restored t


the rank of which he was deprived, he cel


tainly ought to receive compensation in som


way for the large expenditure he has mad


in the endeavor to have his case revised


To do less would be to consent to an inius


tice almost as great as that which deprive


brave officer of his rank and fair fame
and consigned his name to infamy.
Year: 1879

The increase of nearly million dollars
In the public debt during March must not
be considered as remarkable. The truth is
that there is no general election near at
hand, and there is no immediate necessity,
therefore, of showing decrease. It's only
during political campaigns that the econo-
my of the administration is made manifest
In regular reductions of the public debt.
Year: 1879

HAYES backbone is the subject of a good
DEAL of sol1citude just now. There never
was a mortal who was so anxiously watched
or whose vertebrae was so tenderly cared for.
Whether he will or will not sign the appro-
priation bills with the political amendments
attached both friends and foes alike want to
know, but none seem able to discover.
Year: 1879

BE who claims partisan advantage aris-
Ing from the municipal elections that have
recently taken place may be set down as an
arrant fool. General politics are seldom
brought into local contests, but men are
chosen to Office on account of their fitness OF
their personal popularity, and therefore nc
political significance can be attached to the
results reached. ..-. E.
Year: 1879

were simply his ideas as citizen, and not as
an official; that he was In his official capacity
to enforce the laws, not to make them,
and ss was ready at any time,
and always has enforced, go far as he has
been instructed. the laws, and he considered
1t taking an unfair advantage of any official
when their private opinions were taken down
and served up under the head of an "inter-
YiaHO
Year: 1879

TROOPS At THE POLLS.


The debate in the House on the political
amendments to the appropriation bills IS q
necessary inhiction. We presume that the
public in general is interested in the discus
sion. We hope so, at least, for there is little
else to regale the public with. Mr.. Viii
lams, of Wisconsin, with his curly hair and
his eloquence, succeeded on Wednesday in
extinguishiug the last vestage of the rebel
lion that most people had supposed was
quelled fourteen years ago. He declaimed
most vehementIy against the repeal Of the
law that had been enacted to maintain Re-
publican ascendancy, declaring that it was
the only bar to the indulgence of the DEM
ocrats in their favorite pastime of shooting
negroes. He regarded the prohibition of
troops at the polls as the center of the whole
question of federal authority and national
perpetuity. We are glad that such an
avowal has been made by authority. It
amounts to declaration that troops are q
necessary adjunct of Republican govern
ment, and that without them the federal
authority and the national existence cannot
be maintained. Such proposition is in
consonance with the whole policy of the Re-
publican party, but it is opposed to the ira
ditions and the principles of the Democracy,
and will be opposed by the Democrats as
long as such party has an existence.


In this proposition resides the difference
between the two parties. The Republican
party holds to the belief that without the
employment of force, government is a
failure. The Democrats hold that the peo.
pie are competent to govern themselves, and
ought to be entrusted with that privilege OF
duty. The Democratic idea is that man
ought to be allowed to cast his vote as he
chooses, without molestation, and that ever
tho suggestion of force is an infringement o1
the rights of the citizen. We claim, on behalf
of the people, tho right to deposit free bal.
other authority. We insist that the federal
government has no right under the constitu.
| ton to attempt to Interfere with the free ex
preston of the will of the people at the bal
lot box, and that the presence of troops al
the polls is positive threat to every either
to vote as the central power that governe
those troops may direct.


| In Minnesota we know but little of bayo
net rule. But in other sections of the coun
try the case is different. The experience O.
the past has been sufficient to show to us
that the army can be used as political en-
CINE, and we know by common report that i
has been used thus in other sections of ths
country. Therefore, while we do not com
plain that the presence of troops at the poll
has abridged the rights of any citizen o1
this State, we claim that it has been so uset
elsewhere. We insist, therefore, that thi
interference with the freedom of the fran
ohise be prohibited at once and forever. Tn
Democratic party needs no support othel
than that which comes from the people, and
it asks none. It does not propose to leav.
upon the statute books an act that is in it
self an imputation upon the integrity o
every person who casts vote.
Year: 1879

The prospect is that the Kansas fever will
| take off number of people, married and


unmarried, from Milwaukee and vicinity


this spring. Two delegations have already
gone forward to prospect and secure local
Year: 1879

The Morris Tribune goes wild over an
article we published lately in reference to
the difficulties in marketing wheat ut Nor
ris. The Tribune man gets down into the
gutter to gather filth to threw at the unfor-
tunate farmer who reported the extortions
practiced upon the farmers at that place.


We suppose the gentleman had
been in the newspaper business long enough
to know that it is beneath respectable
newspaper to publish such miserable stuff
as he gets Off in his last issue, and besides
it is no argument and carries no weight
whatever.-CrtonuiEtc Herald.


If, i'll stigmatizing malicious falsehood
as an outrageous lie; if, in pronouncing
the party who circulated the untruth, as .
consummats liar; or, if, in denouncing the
whole fabrication as base attempt to ruin
the reputation Of our village, SO as to tenn
porarily draw away portion of our trade,
We have done any wrong, or undignified
act. we have got to learn wherein. We
would like to say " ord to the editor of
the Herald before dropping the subject.
Our experience has taught US that it is sui
cidal to attempt to build up business by
maligning or running down another Such
q policy acts after the manner of boom
erang in the hands of nOvice, its flight is
forward, for time, but it soon turns and,
with double force, smites, wounds, and
perhaps kills the bungling thrower. Then
again, We have been in the newspaper bust
ness for sufficient length of time to learn
not to accept every rumor we hear as gos-
pei, or publish it in our editorial column,
in heavy loaded lines, even il it does reflect
on a neighbor's good fame and reputc.
Had we been disposed to circulate stories
about our sister village, we could, on good
authority, tell how wheat that was graded
for No.2 with two pounds discount, in
this village, WAS graded No 4, with TWEEN
ty-four pounds off, in Ortonville, but we
have no desire to throw any obstacle in the
path of our young and enterprising neigh.
Dor.