smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

Nothing is so discouraging to a young
lawyer just as he waxes eloquent about
angels tears weeping willows, and tomb
stones es to be interrupted by the cold
biooded justice with, "You're Of your Fest
hub. this is a case of hog stealing"
Year: 1875




PRETTY foUGH PLrG.-One day last
month when trade was dull. a Vicksburg
grocery clerk procured piece of soleleath
er from shoemaker, painted it black, and
LAID it aside for future use. Within few
days an old chap from back in the country
came in and inquired for plug of chew
iDg-tobacoo. The piece OF sole-ieathsr
was tied up, paid for, and the purchaser
started for home. At the end of the sixth
day he returned, looking downcast and
detected, and walking into the store he
inquired of the clerk; so. tE


"Member that terbacker got here the
other day?"
Year: 1875

Feeling is deep and still; and the word


that floats on the surface
Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where


the anchor is hidden,
Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what


the world calls illusions.
Year: 1875

I will stand here for humanity, and
though | would make it true. Let us
affront and reprimand the smooth med
iocrity and squalid contentment of the
times. and hurl in the face of custom,
and trade, and office, the fact which is
the upshot of all history, that there is
responsible Thinker and Actor
working wherever a man rks.-Emer-
Year: 1875

KINGSTON, N. y, August 23.-Abra-
ham Symonds, of Pine Hill, was found
with his throat cut from ear to ear. and
in the house near by his daughter was
found with her skull crushed with an
AK. 1t is supposed by some that he
killed her and then himself in fit of in
sanity.
Year: 1875




cations as experience may indicate
to be necessary. -


He speaks cheeringly and liberal
ly regarding the Centennial, anC
says of the s IA ssY sssss.4


BUREAU or 4GRICULTURE.


Tt has accomplished much in dis
seminating useful knowledge to the
agriculturists, and also in introduc
ing new and useful productions
adapted to our climate, aud is worthy
of the continued encouragement OF
the Government. ~


lie characterizes the condition OF


AFFAIRS IN UTAH


as scandalous. As an institution,
polygamy should be banished from
the land. .,


As this will be the last message ]
shall have the honor of submitting
to Congress before my successor is
chosen, will repeater recapitulate
the questions which I deem OF vital
Importance. which may he legislated
upon and settled at this session !:
First, that the States shall be re-
quired to afford the opportunity of a
good common school education to
every child within their limits. Sec
ond, no sectarian teHets shall ever
be taught in any school supported in
whole or in part by the State, nation,
or proceeds of any tax levied upon
any community; make education
compulsory. so far as to deprive all
persons who cannot read and write
from becoming voters after the year
1890: disfranchising none. however,
on the grounds of illiteracy who may
be voters Mt the time this amendment
takes effect. Third, declare the
Church and State forever separate
and distinct, but each free within
their proper spheres. and that all
church property shall bear it's own
proportion of taxation. Fourth,
drive out licensed immortality, such
as polygamy and the Importation of
women for illegitimate purposes. l
recur again to the Centennial year.
1t would seem as though now as we
are about to begin the second CEN
tury of our national existense, it
would be most fitting time for these
reforms. Fifth, enact such laws as
will secure speedy return to sound
such as will command the
respect of the world.


Believing that these views will
commend themselves to the great
majority of the right thinking and
patriotic citizens Of the UnitedStates,
| submit the rest to Congress.


II. S. GRANT.
Year: 1875

W4R DEP1RTNENT


In discussing the report of the
Secretary of War, he invites special
attention to making three hundred
thousand dollars Of the subsistence
appropriation available before The
beginning of the next fiscal year:
the repeal of the law abolishing
mileage and a return TO the old sys-
tenn OF appropriation for torpedo
trialsabya corps Of engineers and .
permanent organization for the sig
nal corns
Year: 1875

Abiding to smuggling through the
free zone, and raids on the Rio
Grande, the President says: "An
experiment. of an armed vessel on
Rio Grande for that purpose is on
trial, and it is hoped that if not
thwarted by the shallowness of the
river and other natural obstacles,
il may materially contribute to the
protection ofherdsmen of Texas"


Ocean teiegraphs are discussed at
great length, but no allusion is made
to the postal telegraph.
Year: 1875

The prospect of an early adjourn
ment of the Convention grows
brighter and brighter with each
passing day. Now, we think is the
opportune moment To urge mutual
concessions. We have bitterly
fought several of the leading pro-
visions of the new Constitution.
We have done So in every instance
from pure convictions of duty, and
not in captious spirit of querrelous
complaint, We are of the opinion
that the structures of the press have
aroused a spirit of stnbbornness in
many of the delegates, but now, that
the session is nearly over, true pa
tnots among the delegates, and
among the people aud the press,
should make an honest effort to
agree upon middle ground tenable
for both. If we can possibly by
mutual concession, SO arrange these
great questions, ,orthe constitutional
provisions which grow ont of
them, by all that is sacred, let us set
abont the task. The duty rests
upon all alike, Convention, people
and the press. We have all com
mon interests which are dependent
upon this course, and its adoption
should be made AN easy duty.
Year: 1875

We wish to set our good brother
of the Telegraph right The Ex-
aminer does not think the Grange
is gong into. politics. 1t only re-
grets that the Worthy Master has
not seen proper TO disclaim personal
political ambition, for the sake of
the Grange, and is laboring with
might aud main to nuetralizc the
bad effect upon the Order, of tins
action of one of its representative
men. No, what we apprehend is,
that out of all this trouble there
will come evil to the Grange Per
sons and private interests are moth
ing when compared TO the impor-
tance of perpetuating among us
the Order of Patrons, upon which
so many bright hopes are placed,
but with all this, rather than the
Order should become secret politi
cal force, we prefer to see il entirely
disrupted. But we don't fear the
result We have faith that ont a
allthis trouble ,-the Order will come
without the smell of fire on its gar
ments.
Year: 1875

In view of the early adjournment
of the Convention, il is time the
party began to discuss the subject
of the necessary nominating conven'
ton. Weare in favor of calling il
at as early day as possible. The
election will in all probability be
ordered within sixty days after the
adjournment of the Convention,
1t is important that il come off at
as early a day as possible to the end
that the country may resume its
wonted quiet, and conventions poll
ties and constitutions be "elimina-
ted" from the every day discussions
of the press aud people.
Year: 1875

y


From the Marion (O.l independently


We hear Democrats talk about the
''times Of unparalleled prosperity
when Democrats ruled the country"
We happen to remember something
about the ''times of unparalleled pros
perity referred to-" In 1910 there
were times when no one scarcely
could get work. and when not one
man in fifty could show $500 in cash
to save his life. This was under the
Democratic administration of Martin


Van Buren. Under James h. Polk.
corn was worth about eighteen or
twenty cents per bushel, pork was
worth $3.50 per hundred. butter was
worth from five to ten cents per
pound, and man got about firty
cents day for hard work. You cOuId
not find fifty dollars in cash in a
whole neighborhoOd. A good horse
was worth from forty to sixty dollars.
COW was worth about ten dollars,
potatoes would hardly sell at all, a
carriage or buggy was almost un-
known among farmers, and>one good
farmer now has more in his house
than whole neighbOrhood had then.
This gives but faint idea of the
unparalleled times" when wheat of
ten came down to forty five or fifty
cents per bushel.


Such times were frequent, and
about every ten years there was a
general smash up of banks, and ev-
cry store keeper and business man
had his counterfeit detector and his
list of broken banks. If man
passed beyond his own State lines,
with what was considered good mon
ey at home, he soon discovered that
his good money" had to be ex-
changed at ''shave" for other State
money.


Financial convulsiOns were fire.
quent, as in 1897. in lS47 and in
1857. At the latter time man in
possession of few hundred dollars
was rich. We have been in "thOse
unparalleled prosperity" times and
OIC SOOu save us SET
ing any more of the same sort.


We affirm, without fear of success
ful contradiction, that such times of
prosperity as people of the North
have had for the past ten. years never
dawned upon the country during the
'times of unparalleled prosperity"
spoken of by Senator Thurman and
others of that ilk, nor does any man
in his senses ever want to see such
times.


In those "good old days" a rag car
pet constituted rare and luxurious
article in many houses. Bare floors
were the rule Six yards of calico
would make dress. Men wore but
few good clothes. Few men possessed
oyercoats, or great coats" as they
were then called


Don't talk about these times to
those who have been there, for they
do not want to go back-not any.
Year: 1875

HERE is a piece of the testimony
furnished to the Congressional COM
mittee engaged in examining affairs
at Vicksburg. 1t is simply terrible
that such scenes can occur in this
age of christian civilization. Color
ed though they be, in this free gov
ernment they are nevertheless enti-
tied to ''life, property, and the pursuit
of happiness"


Louisa Bangs, colOred, testified
that between 10 and IL, on the day
Of the fight, five white men came to
her house, three and q half miles out
on the jackson road, after the firing
had ceased, and called her husband
out. Told him to hold the horses.
Two of them dismounted and came
in and asked me if there were any
arms. He was told there was pls-
toI in the loft. One of them got 1T
down and the other struck at my son
with n gun. The latter ran out OF
the house and they after him. They
fred two shots. These men soon
came back and told my husband to
step out, and then one Of them shot
him through the neck, killing him in
stantIy. Both my son and husband
were named Robert. / have six
more children, the youngest six
months old. After shooting my hus
band the men left. l went to look
for nv son and found him fifty yards
down the hill lying dead by the side of
a log. He had been shot in the back
and breast. l asked the men before
they shot not to kill my poor hus-
band. They said they have killed
our women's husbands, and shot him.
Don't know who the men were. NY
husband and son had been at home all
day. They said II they stayed at
home nobody would trouble them.
Year: 1875

Profoundly impressed with the
truth, that the National Grange of
the United States should definitely
proclaim to the world its general OBJ
jeets, we hereby unanimously v make
this Declaration of Purposes of the
Patrons of Husbandry:
Year: 1875

Yer see, fellers, a good while back
long time before jografy was discov-
ered-there lived an old farmer by the
name of Prodigal, and he had two sons.
He was pretty solid-the old man was
had several quarter sections of land, and
cattle and sheep and hogs, until you
couldn't rest. There warn't no politics
in them days, and so old Prodigal didn't
get any fool notions in his head of run
ming for Governor. He just tended
strictly to the agricultooral business, and
threw money down into the barril hand
over fist. Well, his boys came of age,
and one of EN- told the old man he
take his sheer of the stamps that would
be coming to him when the head OF the
ranch pegged out He'd take his right
away, and 60 off and prospect on his
own hook. Old Prod. gave him half of
all be had, and the Smart Aleck shot
into the city the first thing. He was
green, you know, and the cappers spot
ted him as soon as he landed. They
got him to buck agin monte, and faro,
and bunko, and it warn't long before he
reached the bottom nickel. He played it
on the soup-houses and free lunches for
awhile, but he got bounced at last and
sent to the rock pile for vag, When
be came out, the burned sneak started
home to git another stake. Old Prodigal
took him in and got up barbecue, and
put up for him generally The other
son-the one which had staid at home
all the time-kicked egin this. 1t
'peared to him he warn't gettin' square
deal And when the old man took his
Durham calf that be was fattenin' for
the fair, and made veal Of il for bis
brother, he got on his ear and called old
Prods hand. Then old Prodigal laid it
down like this; "There is more Joy over
ninety-nine sinners which return than
over one who don't 60 Of. That's
scripture, but / think the galoot as come
a sneaking back after be got broke was
a blamed snoozer, and ought to been
bounced off the farm.
Year: 1875

eighteen, is soon to become a mother,
unless happily God shall spare her that
supreme shame by permitting her to die
OF the deep anguish which has weIl-nigh
erazed her. They say they can identity
the Indians who massacred their rela-
tlves; and the younger one declares that
she saw IN the party which brought them
to the agency the brute who burned
her sister" II is to be hoped that with
such direct and conclusive proof, no ex-
cuse will be found for allowing these
particular outlaws to escape swift pay.
ment OF the penalties attached to such
crimes as they have committed


KANsAs.
Year: 1875

from first to last. At one time, near
Pierceville, in Kansas, three fresh scalps
and the clothing of man, woman and
little girl were brought into camp, and
on another occasion q mans coat and
a woman's side.saddle we're among the
days trophies. The girls think that at
least twenty persons were killed on this
three weeks raid, most of them in the
border counties If Kansas. 1t will be
remembered that these murders we're re-
ported at the time, and that they had the
effect Of almost depopulating that por-
tion Of the frontier. 1t was then sup
posed that the Indian force was several
hundred strong, but from the story of
these girls it does not appear to have
numbered half hundred all told. The
captives we're treated with persistent
harshness, and often real cruelty. They
we're forced to don the Indian costume,
to perform camp drudgery, and to live
on food that decent dog would have
refused Upon arriving at the main
camp, the eldest of the two girls was
taken by the chief Stone Calf and the
other by the chief Grey Beard, who


MADE MsTREssEs OF THEM,


and they were compelled by torture and
threats Of death to sustain this hellish
relation to those bronzed devils until
they were given over to the escort which
Year: 1875

Coal AND WOoD.-It is better to lay in your
supply Of fuel for winter that it s cheap and tn
the streets in good condition, than to wait till


Rny cold spell in and forcea you to make the
purchase at high prices. Our younG friend, L. K.
Meehan woknown to all the city readers of the STAR
as its collector for several years. Manager of Mrs
Frye wood yard 1913 and I25 Calope street. between
Camp and Magazine, guarantees that he will give as
good wood and COAL in full measuro and at low
prices any dealer in town. He says he has all the
facilities necessary for carrying the business and
with the experience he has acquired during the last
eighteen months he is certain that he please all
oomers Let bis friends and weliwishers give him
tA at least and If they not satisfied then, they
m take his last years hat and quit Orders may
b, left at the yard at the STAR Office sent by postal
Erd through the pOOtSfaee.
Year: 1875

there, as the station agents had general
understanding in regard to each Others
jokes. By some hook or crook, the dis
patch went on, and dived under the ocean,
and came up smiling in the Garden of the
Tuileries in France. The manner of its
reception by Napoleon has been lost to his
tory. All that is known is that the EN-
Peror did not pay for it, and the facetious
operator was hunted up, and obliged to
pay bill of $ls7 so in gold for the little
joke. That operator was entirely satisfied
with the result of Sedan.-V Virginia, Nera
da, Enterprise.
Year: 1875

DREsSMAKER GOING OUT BY THE DAY
IL would ike "A Room with private family in pri-
vae house location between Second and tiith avenue
and from Twelfth Nineteenth street Address A q.
lis Henry
Year: 1875

Almost every man can recall scores of
cases within his knowledge where pleasing
manners have made the fortune Of law
yers, doctors, divines, merchants, and in
short, men in every walk of life. Raleigh
flung down his laced coat into the mud
for Elizabeth to walk on, and got for his
reward proud Queens favor. The pol
itician who has this advantage easily dis
tances all rival candidates, for every
voter he speaks with becomes his friend.
The very tones in which he asks for
pinch of snuff are often more potent than
the logic of Webster or Clay. Pol
ished manners have made scoundrels
successful while the best of men, by
their harshness and GOODNESS have done
themselves incalculable injury-the shell
being so rough that the world could not
believe there was a precious kernel
within Civility is to man what beauty
is to a woman. 1t creates an instanta-
neous impression in his behalf, while the
opposite quality excites as quick preiu
dice against him. 1t is q real ornament
the most beautiful dress man or woman
can wear-and worth more as a means of
winning favor than the finest clothes and
Jewels ever worn. The gruffest man
loves to be appreciated; and it is oftener
the sweet smile of q woman, which we
think intended for us alone, than pair
of Juno-like eyes, or "lips that seem on
roses fed, that bewitches our heart and
lays us low at the feet of her whom we
afterWard marry y-IHQtketcS
Year: 1875

uses are accomplished, she makes US will
ling to leave. To the well-ordered mind
it is evident that death is as fortunate an
event for US as any that occurs.


'To die is one of two things said So
crates to his judges; ''either the dead
may be annihilated and have no sensa-
tion of anything whatever, or there is a
change and passage of the soul from one
mode of existence to another. If it is a
privation of all sensation or sleep in
which the sleeper has no dream, death
would be wonderful gain; for thus all
the future appears to be nothing more
than single night But if, on the other
hand, death is a renewal, to me the So
journ would be admirable. \ The
judges there do not condemn to death,
and in other respects those who live
there are more happy than those that
are here, and are henceforth immortal
To good man nothing is evil, neither
while living nor when dead nor are his
concerns neglected by the divine ones.
What has befallen me is not the effect
of chance 1t is clear to me that to die
now and be freed from my cares is better
for me-"


As most of us do not accept the delara-
ton of Winwood Reade and his fellow
philosophers, that "the belief in immor-
tality must die, but instead look for a
continuous existence, it must appear OBJ
vious to US that our mundane life is
kind Of preparatory school for the next.
1t certainly is not well to hasten thither
till we graduate; yet when the time ar
rives there is ever reason for passing to
the next stage gladly, and fearing moth
ing By living morally and physiologi-
caIly we shall escape the pain so much
dreaded; by considering the matter
calmly and reasonably we will annih1late
the terror by faith in the loving and the
right we shall apprehend all the great
facts and know that we pass from the
good to that which is better.
Year: 1875

The sooner people begin to compre-
hend that practically there is no business,
calling, trade, or profession which any
one man can master in all its branches
in lifetime the better will it be for
every individuals prosperity. We be-
lieve that half the failures in the great
struggle for livelihood are due to men
trying to do too much, trying to fulfill all
the requirements indicated by name
because their fathers did, but forgetting
that, in their fathers time, that name IN
cluded an aggregate of labor of very diff
ferent extent to that which it now en-
compasses Every day as it closes leaves
the world richer in knowledge, and the
aggregation of many days produces a
store of learning which increases vastly
the quantity which the beginner must
master ere he approach proficiency. A
couple of centuries ago all that the world
knew of the healing art was within the
easy grasp of the average intellect. Now,
there is no physician living, however
eminent, who pretends to have mastered
or even to be moderately versed in all
the details of medicine and surgery So
it is with Science, with law, with mechan-
les, with journalism, until each calling
has reduced itself to an agglomeration of
specialties; and, without doubt each
SpSCidItl9 III thS lutufS Will De ulNlueu
and subdivided as learning and education
advance.


That which is true of tho professions
is equally true of the trades The law
yers say that the most to be dreaded as
an adversary is "he of one book" The
individual who knows only one thing,
but that root and branch, is unquestion-
ably ADLER and wiser than another who
has dabbled in this and that until his
mind is but a tumble of ill;assorted ideas,
superficial at the best, If a mechanic,
Year: 1875

To be prudent and economical in the
concerns of property, and at the same
time not give away to temptation of av-
arice, is doubtless, with many, extremely
difficult The right use and manage
ment of money (being the medium of
exchange for all the necessities and con-
veniences of life) is of such consequences
as to well merit ones attention
and reflection Men will be fools and
spendthrifts, neglect their business and
misspend their time; but while talking
or writing may do the least good, it is
the duty of every one to do all in his
power to show the Importance of pru-
dence in pecuniary matters as well as in
everything else


1t is in vain that we are favored with
natural talents, education and knowledge,
that we exert our strength of body and
mind to the utmost, and are ever so in
dustrious in laudable pursuits; and it is
in vain that friends and patrons bestow
their bounty upon US, if we are wanting
in economy or prudence in money.


A writer of accurate views says that
none know the worth or value Of money
till they have suffered the inconvenience
of being deprived of it; that the genera
ton that Immediately follows the one in
possession of great riches, is generally
seen to turn out very poorly, and easily
rid themselves of their estates, and that
to their followers being in the beginning
poor, amass large fortunes, which are
again disposed OF by their heirs or de-
scendents much in the same way.
Year: 1875

A neighbor of the editor of the Courier Journal, has invented an alarm clothes line. It is of wire and is connected with a strong electric battery. An attempt to remove garment from the line sounds an alarm in the mans bed room, turns loose four dogs and places a shotgun in position to rake the yard. .-NiL,cdokee Sen- tf4eL.
Year: 1875

world that marriage settlement does
facilitate the marriage Of such one.
The plums of beauty are only for the
favored men; in other words, all men
cannot marry pretty women. Nor can
all girls marry an Antinous. Few prob
ably marry their beau-ideal in either
sex. Many longing women wait in vain
for Almavia with his guitar and moon
song; many bachelors make bootless
search for her .'who was created for
them" Hence the need of philosophy.
The man must take his nest with what
he has in hand. The age is unpoetic
and unheroic; he must count the cost
of the matrimonial venture if he be an
honest, orderly man, desiring to pay
his way, and if he cannot get the ideal
Juliet he must content himself with the
more proSaic Mary.