smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877




Yesterday aftern oon as the Water
witch Engine was rest onding to an
alarm OF file, it was the cause of a
runaway and smashup on Market street
The particulars of the case are aboot
as follows: The driver of the engine
drove along Sixth street to Market and
s'!er getting Oh the up track of the
railway the horses started on their
regular gait when responding to an
alarm, and when near Seventh, the
driver noticed wagon on the track,
out thinking that it would get out of
the way he rang the gong, but the
driver In the wagon did not seem To
heed the warning sad kept on the
track. The horse that was attached to
the wagon hearing the noise became
frightened and started to run and
when he req ,hed the Masonic Temple
he turned ou OF the track and at the
same time the engine turned out, and
pass 1.-THE wagon, ,aud.as it did the horse
became frightened at the engine, and
commenced kicking and finally break
Ing the shafts he started to run, and
dragged the driver out and some dis
tance up the street. The frightened
horse was captured by member o
the Water Witch Company, at th'
corner of Eleventh and Market ,street
The wagon and horse belonged t,
John Minshall of Ellen Mills, Del. Co
Pa, who in company with his wit
were In the wagon at the time of th
accident. The wagon was taken t,
Gregg & Bowe's where new pair 0
shafts were put in after which tn,
party started for home again.
Year: 1877

To OUR COUNTRY SUBscRIBERs--Sabscrip
tion bills have been mailed to large number
of our friends in the country during the past
few days. The nature of the Communication
viii show that prompt attention is desirable.
Year: 1877

Many persons have an idea that they are
free from religious duties until they agree
to be bound by them. They think that at
tendance upon worship, the support of the
church, the avoidance of Improbable amuse-
ments, and the maintenance of high Chris
tian character may be binding upon the ac-
knowledged Christian, but they do not apply
TO the irrelgious man-especiallyt the avowed
skeptic. But moral obligation is not created
by contract, nor does it depend upon belief.
It requires no contract to bring man
within the range of Gods physical laws.
Disregard of the laws of health is punished,
irrespective of the Ignorance or disbelief of
him who disregards them. Strychnine
would kill even though the victim did not
believe in the power of poison or the fact of
death; and so of the civil laws. 1t requires
no contract to obligate a man to obey the
laws of the state. He may be ignorant of
those laws, he may refuse to obey them, he
may deny their existence, yet they bind
him, and for their violation he is justly pun
ished. And so of the moral laws. 1t re-
quires no contract to bring man under their
authority. BY the very nature of his being
he is under their authority. There can be
no evasion of the laws by which God carries
on his moral government They must be
obeyed or disobeyed Among those laws
are the duties pertaining to the church OF
Christ. That church is most important
part of that moral government. Indeed, il
is, on earth, the very embodiment of thai
moral government 1t is the duty of every
one to whom that church is presented t.
enter it, to sustain it, and to be conformet


in conduct and character to its teachings
Each one of these duties is binding, and th'
non-periormance of the first-that of enter
ing the church-by no means lessons tn


obligations of the Others nor does disregard
of them all either change their nature o
diminish their force. The divine law, whicl
lays these duties upon every one, is al
eternal fact, and neither its existence nor it
power is in any way affected by mans belle
concerning t.-Standard Of the Cross.
Year: 1877

But Just to continue seems to many of us
no great grace. The subtle temptation is
whispered in our ear. You are not amount
ing to much; you are exercising so little
faith, love, hope, that you cannot expect
much will come of so meager an experience.
The great trial of our Christian life is at
this point. Will we continueP Thousands
of girls begin to practice at the piano thou
sands make no small attainment; but only
the scores continue, and become eminent.
Half college class at some time or other,
begin to collect cabinet or herbarium, but
only here and there one perseveres. This
forenoon | was looking at frut-bearing
passion-vine covering half the side OF a
friends house. That friend showed me two
or three little tiny, fraillooking specimens
of the same in box. "Why," said she,
al keep the box full of seeds, but only a
few of them terminate. They are so slow
in terminating 1t takes two or three months
for one to make its appearance" How many
persons there are who would never have
any noble passion-vne climbing in beauty
about their dwelling, simply because they
have no grace of continuing to care for the
plant in the slow months of its early life.
Many time have myself been tempted to
do no more to some feeble plant. 1t was so
feeble. Weeks would go by and no ap-
parent change come over it. But then the
feeling would come Well, it is not much
to water it, to loosen the earth about it, to
guard it against insects, or cold, or heat.
So would Just continue. But after while,
it would take a sudden start and grow 1t
rewarded my continuance. 1t became a
thing of beauty and joy forever. Many
among us have begun to live Christian lives


Will they have this humble, steady grace
of continuance How much depends-all,
indeed, depends-upon the answer given to
that question. Let them not, let none of
us, despise the day of small things. "If ye
continue in my word, then are ye my dis
cples indeed" Having placed yourselves
in connection with the vine, abide right
there. You may wonder that you do not
grow faster other people may criticise you
because you are not fruitful. You may be
tempted to think, IL might as well discon-
tinue my regular duties, my special profess
sions, even the dear hope began to cherish y
but stopl This is your temptation. If
you can be persuaded to yield to it, then,
indeed, you are taken captive. Do not
yield. If you lack many other graces do
not lack this one humble, but marvelously
rewarding grace of continuance. For we
know that we are of the household of Christ,
:" if we keep the beginning of our confidence
steadfast unto the end"
Year: 1877

The sewing, the never-endng sewing, how
it wearies and taxes the energies of women !!
About these days in every house is heard the
click of the sewing-machine. Your friend
tells you she is worn out for the warm
weather has come so suddenly and caught
her unprepared, What we would propose is
this; Instead of keeping sewing on hand
always, why not make grand effort and
get it done. You may think it would be
extravagant to hire help if your means are
limited, and yet even as an economical
measure it would pay you to engage one or
two competent women for week or fort
night, and resolutely attack the whole sum-
mer's work. Perhaps it would save you a
doctors bill and the price OF endless tonics
and drugs. What bliss it would be to
feel that you need not for weeks be hurried
in the least by your wardrobe or your chill
dren's. You would have leisure to read, to
rest, to enjoy, and to live. Some ladies en-
gage a seamstress to come one day in each
week the year through By this plan they
save themselves much worry aud toll, and
assist sister woman in her business
Selected
Year: 1877

Many a physician has gained his prac-
tice by one patient telling others OF his cure.
Tell your neighbors that you have been t.
the hospital of Jesus, and been restored,
although you hated all manner of meat and
drew near to the gates OF death and maybe,
a poor soul just in the same condition as
yourself will say This is a message from
God to me-" Above all, publish abroad the
Lords goodness for Jesus sake. He de-
serves your honor. Win you receive his
blessing, and then, like the nine lepers, give
him no praise2 Will you be like the woman
in the crowd who was healed by touching
the hem of his garment, and then would
have slipped away ? Ii so, pray that the
Master may say Somebody hath touched
me" and may you be compelled to tell the
truth, and say, 81 was sore sick in my soul
but touched thee o my blessed Lord, and
am saved, and to the praise of the glory
or thy grace will tell it, though devils
should hear it; will tell it and make the
world ring with it, according to my ability
to the praise and glory of thy saving grace
-Spurge0H.
Year: 1877

Mosr of us have had troubles all our lives
aud each day has brought all the evils that
we wished to endure. But if we were asked
to recount the sorrows of our lives, how
many could we remember How many that
are six months old should we think worthy
to be remembered or mentioned Today
troubles look large, but week hence they
will be forgotten and buried out of sight
Selected
Year: 1877

As SOME persons in natural sleep are so
soundly unconscious that you must shake
and shake them before they are aroused, so
there are many now wide awake in the
Christian life, whose slumbers would never
have been broken had not some giant trou-
BILE given them harsh arousing. Ii needs
storms as well us sunshine TO mature the
graces OF tho Spirit.
Year: 1877

Never be idle. If your hands cam
not be usefully employed attend to
the cultivation of the mind.


Always speak the truth.


Keep good company or none.


Make few promises.


Live up to your engagements.


When you speak to person, look
him in the face.


Good company and good conversa-
ton are the very sinews of virtue.


Good character is above all things
else.
Never listen to idle or loose con-
versation.


Your character cannot be essenti-
ally injured except by your own
acts.


If any one speaks evil of you let
your life be SO viltuous that none will
believe him.


Drink no Intoxicating liquors.


Ever live-misfortunc excepted
within your means.


When you retire to bed, think over
what you have done during the day.
Never speak lightly of religion.


Make no haste to be rich If you
would prosper.


Never gamble.


Never run into debt unless you see
a way out again. 81


Never borrow if you can possibly
avoid it,


Be just before ycg~ arc, generous.
Keep yourself innocent if you
would be happy.


Save when you are young to spend
when you are old.


Never think that which you do for
religion is time or money misspent.
Year: 1877

We must refuse all applications
for the loan of our war map. We in
tend to carefully preserve it for use
when the next war breaks out. In
these days of financial gloom and de-
preston it behooves us to economics
and lay up something for a rainy day
land that map is about the only
thing we can afford to lay up just now.
-Norristown Herald.
Year: 1877

What mysterious thing is a blush,
that single word, or thought sends
that inimitable carnation over. the
cheek, like the soft tint of summer
sum set Strange, too, that it is only
the face that 1t is capable of blushing!
The hand or foot does not turn red
with modesty or shame, more than
the glove or the shoe that covers it?
Year: 1877

The Burlington Hawkeye says that
a man who will order a fifteen cent
drink, throw down quarter and never
wait for the change, will get down on
his knees in a. street car and
claw around in the straw FOR two
miles and a half, hunting for d cent
he has dropped.
Year: 1877

A FUNNY joke was perpetrated on a
music-loving but anti-dancing Methodist
minister of Alexandria, Mimi, lately.
He was at the village hotel displaying
his skill on the festive violin to a num-
ber of amateur musicians, when gay
party of young folks in an adjoining
parlor, thinking it too bad to have SO
much good music wasted, formed cotil-
lion and enjoyed themselves very much
while the good Methodist brother played
away with all his might, never for q
moment suspecting that he played while
they danced.
Year: 1877

RAILROADS.&C. IN INDIA.-A railroad
incident occurred recently on one Of the
East India lines, which was as startling
as it was singular, and may be said to be
one of the most miraculous on record. A
train was approaching bridge on a
curve. When the bridge came in sight,
at q distance of 300 to 400 yards, the en-
gine driver was horror-struck to discover
that it was completely in flames. Find
ing his brake power totally useless in the
emergency, he jumped of, aud did also
the fireman, just as the train entered
upon the burning bridge over which it
rushed, fortunately with unabated speed,
through continuous flame which rose
furiousIy above the height of the railroad
cars. The wooden sleepers were on fire,
and parts Of the rails themselves were
red.hot. The whole train, composed OF
number of cars, passed safely over, and
not passenger was injured or scorched
Year: 1877

Gross INHUMANITY.-Ay young lady,
employed in the largest dry-goods eStab-
lishment in the city, tainted from over
exertion few days ago, and while she
was in swoon the proprietor came up
to where she was lying, surrounded by a
sympathizing crowd of customers, and,
with great tlourish,s sent messenger out
for a cab to take her to her home. The girl
was confined to her home for day, and
when the end of the week arrived and
she got her envelope from the cashier of
the store containing her weekly wages,
she was surprised to find that there was
but 81 in it. Her stipend was but $6 per
week. When the cashier was asked for
an explanation, he said that five dollars
had been taken out for carriage hire.
Year: 1877

CAPTAIN EADs has plan for improv-
ing the channel of the Mississippi river
from Cairo down to the Gulf, by which
twenty-five feet of water will be secured
all the year round, and lands liable to be
submerged will be placed far above over
flow, thus doing away with the proposed
improved levee system, which isestimated
to cost $44,000,000. Eads' plan is to
bring the river to an approximate width
between Cairo and Red river. 1t varies
between these points from 1900 to 1000
feet in width. Where it is wide the cur
rent is more sluggish and sediment is
deposited in the shape of sandbars. The
reduction of these wide places will In.
crease the velocity of the current and
make it uniform with the current in the
narrower localities. Captain Eads thinks
any attempt to straighten the river will
be disastrous as well as exceedingly ex-
pensive. His plan seems to be simply
the application of his now successful
jetty system to about 800 miles of the
Mississippi river. He is confident that
by this method the Mississippi river lit
toral would be entirely lifted above over
flow.-COurier-J Journal.
Year: 1877

mon named Conroy was sent up 10 the Island for
six months on tho charge OF drunkenness. Hc ap-
pealcd in vain TO tho Justice Of the Fiity-soventh
street Police Court mitigate his Sentence on tho
ground that he had children to support, but when II
turned out that they were aged twenty no and
eighteen respectively the Justice declined, and the
fearful Conroy was taken away.
Year: 1877

enunciated policy which has been accepted
by the people as IN abridgement of the
rights of citizenship on the part of a large
class of American citizens. We hope
that the Republican party can
survive this even; and that hope is based
upon the fact that it survived rebellion and
Johnsonism, and has proved itself equal to
any emergency that may arise in its his
tory. We rely upon its invincibilty of
principle and power of endurance for it's
perpetuity and success more than upon the
wisdom of any man, no matter how high
circumstances may have elevated him in
the scale of human honor and distinction.
Year: 1877

The New York city press is surcharged
ed to convey TO the the country the idea
that through the late interviews between a
committee of Republican Senators and the
President all differences of opinion had been
rccOnciled, and that the entente cOrdid,c has
been fully established leaving the political
prospect with n roseate hue.


The Tribune says: at is, however, II fact
beyond dispute that, as parties to con-
trovcrsy, the President being on one side
and Republican Senators on the other, each
has better understanding of the views and
purposes Of the other, and u clearer apprc-
citation of each others motives, than before
the interview"


We wish that the facts connected with
the late interviews between the Senatorial
committee and the President would justify
the belief that any better understanding
exists now between these parties and that
they are nearer togetherin insympathya and pur-
pose than they were before they exchanged
views; but to our mind they do not The
President made no concessions on the
mootcd points, but stands to-day where he
stood before, firmly by his policy of appoint
ing Democrats to Office in preference to Re-
publcans, and also on the other points
of difference. This is the present outlook
of this controversy, as the future history
of the matter will establish, and it is
neither wise nor polite to mislcud the pub
lie mind into wrong premises or conclu-
sions. We sincerely wish it was otherwise
but il is not
Year: 1877

Integrity of character and truth In the
inner man are prerequisites Of success In
any calling, and especially 40 in that Of
the merchant. These are attributes
which never fail to command respect and
win admiration. No one falls to appre.
ciste them, and il they "do not payo in
the vulgar sense of the phrase, they bring
an amount OF satisfaction and peace to
the owner that all the wealth of Crrsus
could not yield.


There il no better stock in trade than
these principles; no capital goes 20 far or
pays 20 we'll, or is 80 exempt from bank.
rnptcy and loss. When known, they
give credit and confidence, and in the
hardest of times will honor your paper
in bank. They give you an unlimited
capital to do business upon. and every
body will endorse your paper, and the
general faith of mankind will be you
will not fail. Let every young man,
upon commencing business, look we'll to
these indispensable elements Of success,
and defend them as he would the apple
of his eve. II inattentive and reckless
here, lie will imperil everything. Bank
ruptcy In character is seldom repaired in
an ordinary lifetime. A man may suf-
fer in reputation and recover; not 90 the
man who suffers in character.


Be lust and truthful. Let these be
the ruling and predominating principles
Of your life and the reward will BE- cor.
tain, either 10 the happiness they bring
10 your own llpaom, or the success which
vi stiGl ~ h0l|n1|: 9pss..
Year: 1877

the twenty inhabitants were still in bed.
OF these six escaped, and the corpses Of nine
were subsequently obtained. Those of the
rest had not been dug up at last accounts.


The following figures pertaining to the
nations especially concerned in the present
European war are of interest:
Year: 1877

ply this: The white rifle clubs murder
ed and intinidated in FIVE parishes
sufficient to change the result, whereas
all the intimidation of blacks by blacks
in Orleans Parish end elsewhere did
not make the difference of hundred
votes. Because, in the very Parish of
Orleans, where the blacks are most
bold and prosoriptive and where we
have the Developments of black intim-
idation before the House Committee,
the Democrats make large gains. Now,
compare the vote of Orleans Parish
with the five bull-dozed parishes and
you will see " here the intimidation
was, and its effect. The figures tell the
story, even was there not u word of
other testimony. DIS .i'
IL is true that the blacks are prOscrip-
tive and intOlerant towards those of
their own color, who, from choice. act
with the Democratic party. The rea-
son that this does not affect the general
result is because where the election and
campaigns are perfectly free and fair,
there is not to exceed one in two hum
dred of the blacks, who of their own
accord act with the Democratic party.
OF course their abuse and intimidation
by those of their own color is crime,
but il does not effect the general result
of elections. In all Louisiana there are
not one thousand colored men who
who would freely and of their own ac-
cord vote for Tilden against Hayes, II
let alone by both sides, and no means
used TO convince and convert them
other than are used in Ohio.


The country will get little real bene.
fit from the committees now at work
in Louisiana. There will be a majori.
ty and a minority report from each,
and you Can pay your money and take
your choice. But some good will
come, Notwithstanding. 1t will help
the country to comprehension of the
Southern complications generally, and
benefit the blacks in setting higher
value upon their life and rights. So
much investigation as to the rights Oi
man is certain to result in larger ap.
probation of those rights.


venture the prediction that with a
perfectly fair and free campaign and
election in the five bull -dozed parishes,
they would give majority of over five
thousand for Hayes. At present the
Democrats claim nearly that majority
there, and thus tney happen to have a
majority of eight or nine thousand "on
the face of the returns" Give those
parishes a new election, an election
with all The safeguards against fraud
and violence that American ingenuity
can suggest, and the result will be
worth the reports of forty cOmmitte -
Perhaps new election in a portion
of the State might be a trifiing viola.
tion of the Constitution, or some old
law somewhere, but we can better af'
ford to violate the Constitution trifie
in the cause of truth than to allow the
hot parties both crafty and unscrupu
lous, TO overthrow the whole thing in
their angry contentious.


Nine men out of ten want the truth
and the tenth wants postOffice the
most, but the nine should not allow
themselves to be kept in the dark OIL
that occount.
Year: 1877

In the presence of special case, which has
raised great controversy, is bad situation for
altering the Constitution in regard TO it. At
such time the tendency is to accept any,
thing that provides for the present case, and
to think that no other can ever arise. In this
make-shift tendency we see q disposition to
compromise with the claim that Congress
may canvass and reconstruct or reject the
votes of Electors of President, by admitting
it, with the condition that the consent of both
Houses shall be requisite to the rejection or
revision of votes. This seems to some short
sighted persons to have nice virtues. 1t is a
compromise, by admitting the new Democrat
ic claim that Congress may go behind the re-
turns. On the other hand, it makes the plausi-
BILE condition that a thing so grave as the re-
done without the consent of both Houses.
An this seems to make the Republican situa-
tiou secrre for this time.


This seems to combine the merit of compro-
mise with no sacrifice, andto those who think
only of this time, it seems complete. But
| THIS WOulU SET aside the CONSTITUTION, ana
would make Congress a Returning Board,
with power over the election of President
And is this situation, in which the two
branches of Congress are controlled by oppo-
site parties, the only one in which Presiden-
tial election may occur? May there not Le
an election of President by the opposition, at
a time when the Executive and both branches
of Congress are in the hands of one party
With Congress made supreme Returning
Board, what chance would the people evel
have of overthrowing the party in power?


The rising of the people to turn out those
who have been long in power, is regarded al
the great means of purgation of popular gov
ernment. But this power in Congress ovel
the election of a President would make such
purgation impossiba. Shall it be said tina
Congress will not dare to thwart the clearly
expressed will Of the people in such a way


What is there that desperate partisans will mo-
dare to do, who have the power placed IL
their hands by the forms of law? What limi


is there to tEer false pretenses of contested
vote? How much the people will tolerate il
Year: 1877

The war talk is rapidly dying out.
The stormy Democrats ofthe North,
ssinvincible in peace, ,.invisibls in war;"
have discovered that there Is no one to
do the fighting, and that they are only
laughed at for their noise. We enter
the new year with the assurance OF a
peaceful and satisfactory determination
Of our political CONTEST and with the
prospect of q prosperous business year.