smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

An American who has been studying tne
life, habits and traits of the Comanches thinks
there are at present from ten to twelve thous'
and, of whom about twenty-five hundred are
warriors. Wholly nomadic, they have no
villages or fixed habitations, but roam and
plunder eight to nine hundred miles from
north to south and seven hundred from east
to west. They own large herds of horses and
mules, obtaining horned cattle only for their
immediate wants, because they cannot drive
these as fast as they want to move. All their
animals are procured by robbing the Mexl-
cans and Americans, and all their wars are
undertaken more for plunder of this sort than
for any other purpose. They never take men
prisoners, though they kill and scalp them;
but they carry off women and children
make wives of the former, and rear the latter
as their own. They have never had any per-
manent places of abode, as the absence OF all
mounds or tumuli in the territory they range
over clearly proves. They seem to have been
born on horseback, where they do all their
fighting, and in attacking trains they always
endeavor to stampede the animals by cries
and war.whoops-a stampede rendering dss.
truction of train almost certain. If they
attack village, they kill everybody they en-
counter, and then drive off the stock. The
Chiefs of these Indians do not inherit their
authority, but acquire it by superior knowl-
edge, personal bravery, or success in war.
Any social disagreement is adjusted by
council of Chiefs and Seniors of the lodges;
but these disagreements are few, and family
feuds are rare. Indeed, they live together
more harmoniously than many civilized peo-
pie do. Of law they have no notion, nor
have they any conception Of national policy.
They never observe treaties any longer than
selfinterest prompts, in which they resemble
most enlightened people. Their religious
ideas are very crude and indefinite. In an
evil spirit they do not believe, but ascribe
both good and evil to the good spirit Their
conception of future life is indistinct; but
they hold that men who have stolen the most
horses and taken the most scalps, will have
the best chance of happy hunting. grounds in


another world. Fire is sacred with them, and
used in all their religious observances. Ties
of kindred are very strong, and extend not
only to relatives by blood, but by marriage.
Offences against any member Of family are
avenged by all or any one connected with it.
They are polygamists, some Chiefs having
ten or twelve wives Infdelity on the part
of wife is punished by cutting off the nose,
and the seducer is obliged to give up his avail
able property to the injured woman. The
husband exercises absolute dominion over the
wife, who does all the work while he fights
and steals. Going into fight, they divest
themselves of every thing except breech'
cloth and leggings They call themselves
Natini, meaning live, or firstalive people.
Year: 1879

PITTSBURGH seems to be a little disgust
ed with the rowing business. Possibly
her i'll luck in getting her oarsmen neal
the front in recent regattas has sharpened
her moral sense on the subject. Anyhow
the Telegraph thinks rowing is fast going
the way OF base ball.


The suspicious that the gamblers plan
the results and select the winners has
taken such strong hold upon the public
mind that the interest in this so.called
sport is rapidly decreasing. Hence the
small attendance at the regatta yesterday.
The plea for the oarsmen that they cannot
help betting on the result is well enough,
II that were all; but they, and they alone,
are responsible for the belief that has now
become universal, that these affairs are
generally managed wholly in the interest
Of the gamblers.
Year: 1879

The true hospitality of the home is
never loudly demonstrative. 1t never
overwhelms you with its greeting,
though you have not doubt OF It's
sincerity. You are not disturbed ny
the creaking Of the domestic machln-
cry, suddenly lmpelled at unwonted
speed for your accommodation Qu'-
etly it does its work, that it may put
you in peaoeable possession OF its re-
suits. He is not the true host, she IS
not the best hostess, who is ever 90
ing to and fro with hurried ZEAL
which implies forced effort to effect a
bospitable appearance, but rather the
one who takes your coming With quiet
dignity and noiseless painstaking:
who never obtrudes attention, yet IS
very attentive all the while; who
make YOU, in word, TAT home
Year: 1879

Too MucH Gossu.-Tbere is one
social dishonor about which no one
thinks 1T worth while to say much
in reprobation, but which does
more. harm than any other known 20
us-we mean the dishoner OF repeating
conversations, opinions. circumstances
not made under promise OF secrecy
but which high sense ofhonor would
treat confidential, if haply Il high sense
of honor were the rule. 1t is odd
that one of the best thingsa boy learns
at school Is to eschew tae-bearlng g
and keep faith with his companions,
while one of the most common prac-
tices of society is to betray the trust
contained in talk, and repeat to all
what has been told in implied conf
depce to one. This habit ofrepeating
what we hear is as fatal to the best
intercourse of minds as to the finer
feelings of society.
Year: 1879

A ToucnNG Domestic SCENE
The other day u West Hill woman
found q large dark bottle, worth about
a pint, in the closet, aud she immed'
ately took il down aud jerkcd out the
cork to see what there was IN 1t. She
smclt it vigorously Tor n second, aud
then, unable to determine just what II
war, she tipped the bottle very eau
tiously, but before it was more than
half turned over the little green snake
that her son had slowed away in that
bottle, shot out aud dropped into her
extended hand, and the curtain wcns
down on n most magnificent transior-
nation scene, red lights burning on
one side, and green at the other, grand
overture by the orchestra, 'rumpe's
sounding the flourish behind the
scenes, and the full torce OF the entire
bale, before the tootlighls. Long be-
fore the police could break in the
front door, the snake got away
rHawkeye
Year: 1879

1t is they who glorify who shall en-
Joy Him they who deny themselves,
who shall not be denied; they who
labor on earth who shall rest in heav
en- they who bear the cross who shall
wear the crown; they who seek to
bless others who shall be blessed
rDr. Guthrie.
Year: 1879

There ia no situation that cannot
discover lower depth. Here is news
paper comforting man who Has lost
both legs with the information that
he won't hereafter be troubled with
corns.-Bufalo Express.
Year: 1879

What's de time o day, ole omen?
said colored countryman to Aunt
Milly, trying to poke fun at the brass
chain that held her front door key
around her neck. Look at de town
clock, chile. OATS built for poor
fnlvs
Year: 1879

ever, the scattering Is not uniform.
On the contrary, there is one part OF
the ring which is far more dense than
any other. Bearing in mind that the
ring is continually travelling around
the sun, just as the rim of wagon
wheel travels around Its axis it is ev-
ident that every November the earth
must pass through some part of the
meteor stream; but as The earth re-
q r's only one yea to make Il revo-
luton about the sun, while the mete.
or stream requires thirty three aud q
quarter years, We pierce different
purt Of the + ream each year. If IL
happens to be dense part there is q
fine display of meteors, but If not there
are few meteors.


Owing to the time Of revolution of
the ring the whole cycle of meteorlc
displays must occupy period of one
third OF century: and it is known
that the length of that part of the cy-
Gle during which extraordinary dis
plays are possible IS at least 32 and a
quarter years. The last displays were
in 1865 and 1877. This year we pass
through the ring at point far remov-
ed fr m the q Dse portion aud but few
meteors will be seen. An important
display cannot be expected before the
years 1898 to 1901. Yours, etc,


WILLIAM UARKNESS.
Year: 1879

politics and labor, and the colOred vote
counts q much as the white vote, we
think every sensible and prudent reason
should induce us to win the cooperation
aud favor VI the black race in order that
we may all better dwell together in
peace, harmony and prosperity. The
one race canuot well get along without
the aid of the other even if the one is
superior in numbers, wealth, intelligence
and power.


| The Norfolk Virginidn of yesterday,
has all excellent article on this question,
from which we make the following SEN
sible extract:


"The true interest of the colored race
require that they should be let alone in
their relations with the whites of the
South. As class we do not wish any
better citizens, so far as their ability
goes, than our colored people in this
State when removed from the evil infiu-
ence of the northern carpet-bagger and
we do not hesitate to state that no re-
spectacle colored man can be found who
has cause to complain of mistreatment In
our midst"


Let the people of the South, therefore,
-bolh white and black-drop all old
issues and prejudices, and learn to dwell
together in harmony to the best and per-
manen. interest of all classes. This is
business.
Year: 1879

"The saving of interest resulting from
the refunding of the debt will not inure
to the benefit of the Treasury for the
present, as the double interest paid du-
ring the three months allowed by law
and the necessary expenses will offset the
decrease in the interest account.


alt would thus appear that the sinking
fund must be entirely ignored and the
S29, ,000, 600 be provided for by additional
legislation. This may be accomplished
by the imposition of some new tax ade-
quate for the purpose, or by authorizing
the money to be borrowed upon four per
cent. bonds, which, in the present state
of the market, can be sold at par. As
new taxes cannot be Immediately pro-
ductive, it is recommended that authority
be given TO raise the amount necessary
by the sale of four per cent. bonds de-
scribed in the acts Of July IA, 1870, and
January 20, 1871"


That is what Mr. Secretary Sherman
says, after running the government to an
expense of about two hundred millions
of dollars in the sale of bonds to buy gold
for redemption purposes. This could all
have been avoided by the coinage of sill
yer, and delay of six months in resum-
ing by force of law.


Now we are told We must run further
in debt by the sale OF bonds, to meet the
current expenses of the next year, or in
vent some new process of taxation. 1t
will indeed be hard to find where addi-
tional tax can be laid, as the country is
groaning under load sufficient to sink
any other people who were not serfs.-
This is one OF the reasons why aristocrats
in Congress vote for enlarging the army.
They fear the people may assume to-
wards this extravagant government the
attitude they assumed toward the British
in 1776, when they were not one-fouIth
as heavily taxed nor was the govern
ment as extravagant under the old colo
nial tyranny.


If there was half the patriotism in
Washington now that there was in the
hearts of those who dared to brave ENG
glish tyranny" the expenditures of the
government would be put down to what
it was in 1860, and this would relieve the
people while still as handsomely support
official dignity as it did then, since all
the necesssries of life are quite as low as
they were at that time.
Year: 1879

The DAILY GAZETTE is sent to all parts
OF the country, postage paid, for THREE
DOLLARS year, IN ADVANCE. IL contains
all the local news and most important
news of the day. II gives In brief just the
news the farmer or the business man need
at half the cost of the two cent papers
and as much as man ought TO read OF an


vening or morning. Subscribe for 1t at
nee by remitting a money order for a
year or six months.
Year: 1879

THE House Committee on Banking and
Currency at the last session was instructed
to examine thoroughly into the manage
ment of the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing. 1t performed its service and made the
following report


The committee deem it only proper to re-
port to the House that from personal and care
fM Investigation, and from other information,
salutary reforms have been inaugurated, and
that under its present careful and efficient
management the public may rest in the belief
that no extravaganza will be permitted; that
no erroneous or fraudulent issues need be
feared, and that safety aud economy are as
surcd.


1t will be recOllected that while the po-
litcal colleagues of GLOVER composed the
majority of this committee there was nc
WILCOX around, and that accounts for Q
fair and just report in the case. 1t is inn
possible to gather health from the exhala'
tions of pestilence.
Year: 1879

THE Republican Senators are being in
timidated from the performance of plain
duty in the CoRBIN case by threats that, in
the event of the admission of that gentle
man to his seat, he will be expelled, and
Senator KELLOGG also, as soon as the Demo-
Gratis get control of that body. 1t remains
to be seen how many of them will yield to
this class of bull-dozing.
Year: 1879

BY reference to the announcement in
another part of this paper it will be seen
that Senator LOGAN will arrive in this city
at half-past six p. M this evening by the
Baltimore and Potomac Railroad, aud will
be escorted to Willard's Hotel, where he
will be welcomed by the people The ar
rangements are perfect, and the affair
promises to be one of stalwart magnitude
and enthusiasm.
Year: 1879

RESPECTABLE people, even of the most
obsequious, tuft-hunting kind, will give
General FRANCIS e. BARLOW wide berth
in the future. lie has made reputation
for himself in the Florida investigation
which exposes him as the champion trimmer
of the age, Eyerybody's friend and true
to no one, not even himself he reaped from
that occasion the thistles Of equvocation
and ingratitude which now so appropriate
ly crown his Judas-ike head.
Year: 1879

THE Democratic partisan capital growing
out of the anti-Chinese bill becomes thinner
and thinner every day. The Democratic
support Of the bill pending its passage was
not of the vigorous and effective kind re-
quired to win success and it appears that
in whatever credit or discredit there may be
for its passage the Republican members of
both Houses are entitled to very promi-
neut share
Year: 1879

GLOVER insists that he can furnish proofs
Of his charges against the Bureau Of En-
craving and Printing; but since Colonel
IRISH sat down on him so heavily he don't
feel like going ahead with the matter on
his own account viii somebody else take
up and play his hand of two deuces? Who
will?
Year: 1879

WHY don't GLOVER go to work and in
vestigate the committees of the Senate and
House which have failed to meet his ex-
pectations in examining the transactions of
the Bureau of Engraving and Printing ?
That is his next best step in the way of in
vestigation.
Year: 1879

WHAT horrible reflection it is that the
penitentiary possibly stands between the
next House and its organization as n DEM
ocratic body. This is no new feature,
though circumstances may have brought it
more strongly to light. If the penitentiary
had its dues the Democratic party would
be powerless for mischief
Year: 1879

THE people of Chicago are taking time by
the forelock as it were, regarding the next
National Republican Convention, and insist
that it shall be held in that city. What are
Philadelphia and Washington doing in the
premises?
Year: 1879

If Senator WINDOWS colored migration
scheme could be carried into effective exc
cution in the South before the new census
is taken, there would be better chance of
securing political equities in the next reap
portionment of Congressmen than is now
possible.
Year: 1879

Furniture polish can now be ha
by the pint; applied with a cloth
makes the furniture look like new.
For tender feet and neuralgia il
the limbs, battle the limbs aud fee


in warm hay-water-make il strong


and then apply warm flannel,


Kerosene lamps which are trim


med daily rarely explode. TIE care


lessness of the housewife can be


blamed for most of the lamp explo-
sions.


Kerosene will make teakettles as


bright as new. Saturate a wooden
rag aud rub with it. 1t will also re.
move stains from clean vanished
furniture.


If all steel or tinware is well rub
bed with lard and then with common
unslaeked lime before being put
away, it will never rust. This is
also the best plan to remove rust.


Soft corns can be cured by this
saive: Boil tobacco down to an ex-
.ract, then mix with it a quantity OF
white pitch pine, and apply it to the
corn, renewing it ouce week until
the corn disappears.


Pulverized alum possesses the
property of purifying water. A large
spoonful stirred into hogshead of
water will so purify it that in a few
hours the dirt will all sink to the
bottom. and it will be fresh and
clear as spring water. Four gallons
may be purified by teaspoonful.


Do not let knives be dropped into
hot water, 1t is a good plan to
have large tin pot to wash them !
in, just high enough to wash the
blades without wetting the handles.
Keep your oastors covered with blot.
ting paper and green flannel. Keep
your salt spoons out of the salt, and
clean them often,


Lard requires no other care than
to be kept in dry, cool place. Pack
butter in a clean, scalded frkin;
cover it with a strong brine and
spread a cloth all over the top. If
you have bit of saltpetre, dissolve
It with the brine. Butter comes
more easily and has peculiar hard
ness and sweetness if the cream is
scaIded and strained before 1t Is
lsed The cream should stand down
cellar over night, after being scald-
ID, that it may get perfectly cold.
Year: 1879

0dO1AhH L co. OS AOhO'
To the Editor Of The Morristown Gazette:


l see BrIc-a-Brac and others are


condemning the law in regard to the


Beams Stationturnpike and toll gate,


and meritorious as their condemna-


ton of the present management is l


shall ignore the subject and speak


briefly of public schools and school


directors. Could not our Legislature


now in session improve our present


school law? AS the law now stands


our school directors often employ


teachers that the people do not wa ut.
They have friend or a relative who


wants the school, and nine times out


of ten he gets it. Would it not be
better for the parents OF the children


to be consulted, and then the direc.
tors employ the teacher the people
express a preference fer, provided
he has a certificate from the County
Superintendent. Would it not be a
good change for our legislature TO
authorize the County Court of each
county TO fix the salary Of teachers
each year? They assess the school
tax, and why not then say what the |
teacher shall receive, SO much and |
no more? think it is high time we
as a people should look st the inter
est Of the whole community, and not
to that of q few friends and relations.
[ have noticed our directors for sew.
9ral years and have come to the con-
,lusion that the school law is about
As much abused as any law we have.
[ have known school directors to
make contracts with teachers and
hen give The school to another if
heir politics and religion were the
ame as their own, ] have known
chool directors to pay teacher $35
r $40 month. in order to save
ad debt, when as good or better
eachers could be had for $25 per
lonth. GHOLAR.
Year: 1879

One night four young men of
Simpsonvile, KY, went over in the
Todd's Point neighborbood to call on
some young ladies at the house of an
OLD gentleman. After staying a
short time they took their departure.
but returned in q little while, and
either in a spirit of mischief or to
revenge some real or fanoied slight
deliberately moved bodily certain
garden outhouse, net ornamental
but useful, to the front door of the
residence. On arising the next
morning, the old gentleman took in
the situation at glance. Aiming
himself with shotgun, he was ena-
bled, owing to the snow which had
failed the night previous, to track the
youpg men to their respective places
of abode. He formed them all in
line, and at the muzzle of his gun
marched them to the scene of their
depreciation of the night previous.
After summoning his daughters to
witness the fun, he compelled the
young men to carry the building back
to the point from which they had
taken 1t. 1t was a bitter pill, but
they submitted. What made the
case especially distressing to one of
the young men, was to find his pho
tograph, which he had gived to one
of the young ladies, conppieuously
tackled on the door.
Year: 1879

Capt. Maylan testified that it was
a wise move for Reno to leave the
timber in the battle of the Little Big
Horn, 1t is the frat time We have
known a soldier to regard it wise
thing to leave timber, unless in Ger.
tain exigencies where it became i'm
perative to swap one tree for auoth-
er. So high was the valuation put
upon timber, that we once heard Ben
Ish stammer from behind a tree in
an engagement, 81 never knew the
value of timber before. I'll be
d-d-damd ever g g-grub another
sprout again as longs l live"
NashViIle Americdn.
Year: 1879

THE Democracy of Delaware have al
vsys professed to despise earpetbagism,
And influence from other States with the
management of things within the juris-
diction Of Delaware. People who have
heen good citizens in the State for TWEEN
ty-fiye to fifty years have been de-
nounced by the organs of the Democratic
party simply because hey were born III
Chester or some near rounty in Penn
sylvania.-Republicdn.


The Republican is not correct. 1t Is
not just in making that charge. We
deny that ''people who have been good
citizens in the State for twenty-five
years have been denounced by the Or
gans of tho Democratic party" We
know that denunciations have beell
hurled against good citizens from Ches-
ter county ; and not long since the GA
xErrE denounced and exposed this
baseness in language quite as forcible as
any that has been used by the Republi-
can. The Republican will please to be
more particular and name the papers it
alludes to in future. The GAZETTE
has never been guilty OF such an out
rage and never can be induced TO COM
init such gross injustice.
Year: 1879

THE Trade dollar was a legal tender
when issued. 1t was made to circulate
among our own people, and made to pay
debts as great as s. against even the will
of the creditor. If it was not made to
circulate here, why make it just like the
old silver dollar, with all the stars, fig
uro of liberty and eagle up'n it, and
why put the words, "Trade Dollar" on
It.? Why did it not contain some Chin
ese device instead of being almost a COM
plete counterfeit of the dollar3 Congress
issued it and the people took it. After it
was largely circulated Congress demone-
tized it; said it was not legal o'lar.
Yet permitted to be coined and circulat-
cd and last year sll 10000 of it to be
coined and sent among the people. The
government is bound in honor to take it
up and recoin it into legal dollars.
Year: 1879

1t is expected that Baltimore will be
the scene Of the Lext attempt to enforce
in all respects blue laws respecting the
observance of Sunday, with a view to
make them odious. Such contest
would be much more exciting in great
city than in the towns or watering places
where similar attempts have attracted
so much attention.
Year: 1879

The CELEBRATION Did we feel com.
petent for the task-and three or four
days publication has not fitted us-the
limited space at command would not be
nearly sufficient for full and fair nc,
count of the good time had by every emo
who attended the Grand Celebration here
this week. As early as Friday last peo,
Pile began to arrive from adjoining coun-
ties Saturday brought more, and Sun
day afternoon the Brass Band and Base
Ball Club accompanied by good " num-
Der of Shasta people put IN an appearance
and were greeted most cordially by
Weaver people. Music by the Band,
mutual ongratulations and free inter-
change of pleasantries filled the afternoon
and evening. Monday morning the Red
Stocking Base Ball Club, of Shasta, wen.
to the ground and had practice game
which was witnessed by many people.
The practice showed them to be in much
better training than were the Eectrics of
this place and it was generally conceded
that Shasta would get away with the
Match Game and the $500. In the aiter>
noon ut 2:25 the Match Game commenced
and resulted in the following score


RED STOCKINGS.