smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

speak without exciting the charge that ne was
improperly interested. AS for Thurman, his
friends were little too quick in denying the
fact that they intended to try to put him in
the field for Governor Of Ohio. The attempt
is being made every day, but thus far the
5, nator declines to consent, but his friends
will continue their efforts. They now say
openly that if he resigns from the Senate,
makes the canvass for Governor and is elected
it will secure him the nomination for Presi-
dent in the next National Convention, and
that s1ch course is the only thing that will
secure such action beyond preadventure. The
Ohio Republicans are now talking about Gen.
eral Garfield as the Republican candidate.
With Thurman on one side and Garfield on
the other the campaign would be one of the
most remarkable and exciting that ever occurr-
ed in any State. Garfield would he much
stronger than Charles Foster, as the latter is
not much of speaker, while the former is one
of the strongest public speakers in the country.
The President thinks that Garfield would be
the stonger candidate, and he is, therefore, in
favor of him as against Foster or anybody
else. Garfield, however, before he was
thought of as a candidate, expressed himself
favorable to Foster, but in the exlgencJ of
Thurman's nomination it would be necessary
for the strongest Republican to be nominated,
and Foster would have to give way. Gar
fields district is so much attached to him that
he could, no doubt, return to Congress after
serving a term as Governor.
Year: 1879

We believe in small farms and
Thorough cultivation.


That the soil loves to eat as well as
the owner, and ought, therefore to be
well manured.


In going to.the bottom of things, and,
therefore, in deep ploughing AMI
subsoil plough.


In large crops, which leave land bet
ter than they found it, making both
the farm and the farmer rich at once.


That every farm should own good
farmer.


That the fertilizer of any soil is
spirit of industry and intelligence
without these, lime, gypsum and qua
no will be of little use.


In good fence, good farmhouses, good
orchards, and children enough I'D
gather the fruit.


In clean kitchen, neat wife in i.
a clean cupboard, a clean dairy sb-t
clesr conscience,


That to ask a mans advice Is MT
STOPPING, but of much benefit.


That to keep place, and everything
in its place, saves many step, and Is
pretty sure to lead to good tools and To
keep them in order.


That kindness to stock, like gDIt
shelter, is a saving Of fodder.


That 1t is a good thing to keep an
eye on experiments, and to note all =
good and bad.


That it Is good rule to sell your
grain when it is ready.


That 1t Is a good thing to grow into
farming, not to jump into it.


That all farming is summed up la
the manure heap on the farm.


In enriching the soil according to lis
wants.
Year: 1879

Never lean with back upon any
thing that is cold.


Never begin q journey until the
breakfast has been eaten.


Keep the back-especially between
the shoulder blades-well covered also
the chest well protected.


In sleeping in cold room, establish
the habit of breathing through the
nose, and never with the mouth open.


Never go to bed with cold or damp
feet; toast them by the fire ten or
fifteen minutes before going to bed.


Never omit regular bathing; for un-
less the skin is in active condition the
cold will close the pores, and favor
congestion or other diseases.


Merely warm the back bya fire and
never continue keeping the back ex-
posed to heat after 1t has become COM
fortably warm. To do otherwise il



After exercise of any kind, never
ride in an open carriage nor near the
window of car for . moment. 1t is
dangerous to health and even to life.
When hoarse, speak as little as possi-
BILE until ii is recovered from, else the
voice may be permanently lost, or dif.
ticulties of the throat be produced.
Year: 1879

Chicago Times (Dem-)


For at least eighteen years the Republican
party has lived, through the moral perversity
and mental imbecility of the Democratic party
principally through the former


If the Democratic party had had the moral
virtue and moral capacity to array itself on
the side of freedom, justice and honesty twen-
ty years ago, and to stay on that side, the Re-
publican party would never have lived at all.


rhe Republican party was born, and has
lived ever since on the preverse propensity Of
the Democratic party to get on the wrong side
of every important political question, and stay
there.


Its last performance was to get on the
wrong side of the currency question, and
make itself the party of dishonest public
fnanciering, and, if reports from Washington
are true, its managing spirits are determined
to keep it on the wrong side of that question.


The men who dictate Democratic party
politics seem to be completely infatuated with
the notion that the way for party to win is
to make itself the champion of some species
of wrong or rascality, and that success sancti-
ies party, no matter how abominable its
doctrines and purposes.
Year: 1879

Wash. Special to Pittsburgh Com Gazette.


The officer detailed to make an ex-
animation of the battlefield of Little
Big Horn has submitted his report to
the War Department. The report is
by a careful diagram of
the ground of the fight between Sitting
Bull and Custer. From the diagram Is
appears that Reno, instead Of being
within one mile of the scene OF the
massacre of Custer and his men, was
four miles away. The temporary de.
fence thrown up by RenO's men still
remained to mark the spot. The report
reflects somewhat upon the failure OF
Reno to make a demonstration, espe-
eially as the force on his immediate
front was compsed Of old men, boys
and squsws. II is believed that such
action on the part of Reno would have
created diversion which would have
gone far toward redeeming the fortunes
OF that fatal field.
Year: 1879

Phila. Times Special.


WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-It is said that Sena-
tor Thurman, soon after the reassembling Of
Congress, will make speech on the finances,
taking the same course he did in Ohio and
advocating the replacing of national bank
notes with greenbscks and prohibiting the
farther issue of notes on the part of the banks
Mr.. Hewitt says in conversation that if Mr.
Thurman makes such a speech he will answer
it in the House by speaking in favor of the
banks. He says that il the Democrats COM
nit themselves to the Thurman idea and it
becomes part of their principals, then he
shall feel compelled to bid goodbye to the
Democratic party. He says be does not in
tend to make but one speech more in Congress
and that speech will be in favor of maintain.
ing the present national bank system. He
says it is the best that was ever devised and
that it ought to be perpetuated. In answer to
question as to whether he had any interest
10 any national bank, he answered that he did
not own dollars worth of stock In any bank
and never was interested in one further than
as depositor or borrower. He said he could
Year: 1879

A good word is an easy obligation;
not to speak at all requires only our ST.
lence, which costs US nothing.


No man can improve In any company
for which he has not sufficient respect
to be under some degree Of restraint


Hearts may be attracted by assumed
qualities, but the affections are only to
be fixed by those which are real.


The most beautiful may be the most
admired and caressed, but they are
not the most esteemed and loved.


What n difference between civilties
and acts of real friendship; how easy
to obtain the former, and at times how
hard to get the formeri


Truthfuluees is corner stone In
character, and II It be not firmly laid
In youth there will always be q weak
spot In the foundation.
Year: 1879

An old man of experience saye:


l have seen young man sell good
farm, turn merchant, and die in en it,
sane asylum.


l have seen farmer travel about sn
much that there was nothing at home
worth looking at.


/ have seen q young girl marry
man of dissOlute habits and repent Uf
as long as she lived.


/ have seen a man spend more m0E
ey In folly than would support his
family in comfort and independence.


! have seen q man depart from truth
when candOr and verscity would have
served him to much better purpose.


i have seen extravsgance and folly
of children bring their parents to F0v-
erty and want, and themselves to dis
grace.


have seen q prudent and industri-
ous wife retrieve the fortune of the
family, when the husband pulled at
other end of the rope.


/ have seen young man who de-
spised the counsel of the wise Snd the
advice OF the good, and his career end
in poverty and wretchedness.
Year: 1879

DAIN in the right side, under the
L edge of the ribs, increases on pres
sure; sometimes the pain is in the left
side; the patient is rarely able to lie
on the left side; sometimes the pain is
felt under the shoulder blade, and it
frequently extends to the top of the,
shoulder, and is sometimes mistaken
for rheumatism in the arm. The
stomach is affected with loss of -appe-
tite and sickness; the bowels in gen
-eral are costive, sometimes alternative
with lax; the head is troubled with
pain, accompanied With a dull, heavy
sensation in the back part. There is
generally considerable loss of mem
ory, accompanied with a painful SEN
sation of having left undone some
thing which ought to have been done.
A slight, dry cough is sometimes an
attendant. The patient complains of
WEAKNESS and debility; he is easily
startled, his feet are cold or burning,
and he complains of a prickly sensa-
ton of the skin; his spirits are low;
and although he is satisfied that exer-
else would be beneficial to him, yet
he can scarcely summon up fortitude
enough to try it. In fact, he distrusts
every remedy. Several of the above
symptoms attend the disease, but cases
have occurred where few of them ex-
listed, yet examination of the body,
after death, has shown the LIVER to
have been extensively deranged.
Year: 1879

The Arkansian,1


On Tuesday morning Mr.. Jesse
Cole left home with his team, hauling
rock. Mrs. Cole sent Tommie, the
eldest boy (who is small for his age),
to feed a bitch tied under the bank.
When Tommie arrived where the
slut was tied, he found their dog
lying beside her. The dog growing
at him, and he not suspecting danger,
picked up little stone and cast it at
the dog to drive him away, when the
dog sprang Upon him and threw him
to the ground. The dog was large
and powerful, and in his fury began
tearing him in a frightful manner
The cries of Tommie brought his
mother and Willie e. in fact, all the
children - when they did all they
could to pull the dog off. Finally
Willie struck him with stick, wher
he let 60 of Tommie aud sprang on
Willie, pressing him to the ground
Mrs. Cole and all the children fought
desperately, but could do nothing
until the dog got satisfied and slunb
away with his mouth dripping witt
blood and flesh of the two boys
Tommie's right arm was literally tori
to pieces and both bones of the fore
arm broken, and the little finger o.
his lett arm torn off, and bitten
bruised and mangled generally
Willie's left arm was mangled fright
fully and the flesh torn away
Year: 1879

The subscription price Of the DAILY
PUBLIC LEDGER is s5 per annum and
500 per month fOrlvss than one year. The
WEEKLY LEDGER Is 81 per annum-
postage free.


Persons leaving the city for the summer
can order the DAILY LEDGER at SOC per
month in advance, with the privilege Of
changing postOfice.
Year: 1879

Greensburg Democrat


A general complaint is made that
the supply Of water is scarce every
where. In this section the wells and
springs are failing and the cistern sup
ply of water is nearly all exhausted.
The streams are very low. Unless the
country is favored with copious rains
soon a water famine will be upon us.
The stage of water in the rivers
from which the cities of Pittsburg
and Allegheny derive their water
supply are also extremely low Rigid
economy in its use has been eujoined
ppop the irt akis@nts.
Year: 1879

SUBSCRIBERS who wish TO re-
new will do us a favor by SEND
ING MONEY before their time
expires, as our mail list Is very
large, and our force 10 do the
work small. NO USE TO SEND
ORDERS WITHOUT the MONEY,
Year: 1879

A Leadville jury, last week, becom
ing disgusted with the sass" admins
tered to themselves as well as TO the
lawyers and witnesses by the Judge
ordered the sheriff to lock the latter
up for a couple of weeks, Just to take
some of the style out Of him, - as the
foreman expressed it. And, to his
honor's great evaporation, he was in.
continently lugged off to Jail, and is
now in durance vile, while the case is
going quietly on with the most popular
bar-keeper in town occupying the judi
cial chair.
Year: 1879

was soon found. A friendly
huntsman and trapper named Davis
Potter, who walked twenty. eight
miles after sunrise that day, with hall
a bushel of meal and other traps on
his back, to meet US, had already been
there two hours. A fire, which we
needed, burned brightly in the wide,
open fireplace. There was water in
the bucket, coffee in the pot, bitters in
the flask and good cheer in store for
us all. We had made big day
march of over twenty miles, and part
Of it over the worst and widest road


perhaps, in North America. The
cabin has only puncheon floor, and
the wind whistles through the cracks


1t is free for the use Of all who call
Year: 1879

anu crisp az NONtmDcI. OI0db SIONco
of stunted but


BEAUTIFUL BEECH,
evenly spaced aud quite uniform in
size aud shape, approach the top of
the mountain and it is not far down
to where henlocks, white pine, poplar,
sugar and chestnut trees of colossal
size are found. The soil which sus-
tains these is very rich and black but
the altitude is too great for ordinary
crops even if the land was not too
steep to be cultivated. This is the
highest point in all these mountains
except Mount Mitchell. 1t is even a
few feet higher than the famous Roam
mountain according to the most relia-
bic surveys.
Year: 1879

Forwarding a subscription to the local fund
for celebrating Decoration Day, Ex-Governor
Hubbard writes: For myself | am person
"ally the debtor of every true son of Con-
"nectcut who fought, and thrice the debtor
"of every one who fell, for the honor of the
"State and for the Union. The hOnors we
"pay to our fallen heroes are infinitely petty


"and cheap in comparison with their inf
"ntely grand and costly sacrifices" The
spirit of this is so much in contrast with that
which animates the Connecticut Democracy
that the reader may wonder how that party
ever came to elect him Governor. The ex-
planation is easy. They nominated him
az respectable figure head to catch
Year: 1879

All things have an end, and there must
c0ine presently an end to this extra session
of Congress. When it comes, the gentlemen
who made ii necessary and have been trying
TO manage it, and the great political party in
whose interest it has been engineered, will
have an opportunity to overhaul their books
and see whether, on the whole, they have made
anything, and if anything, how much, by the
venture There is no denying the fact that
the whole business began with a pur-
pose on Che part of Democratic managers to
raise an issue upon which they could win votes.
Votes were what they went fishing for. 1t
was to strengthen the party and gain votes
that these gentlemen defeated the apprOpiIa-
tlons in the last Congress, and made the present
called session necessity. 1t has not been out
of any anxiety for free institutions or solici-
tude for freedom of elections that they
have put themselves at swords points
with the Executive and raised all this
pother. The real object, as everybody
knows, has been to get votes. Their way to
get them is to throw down all the safeguards
OF the ballot and the barriers 80 cheating, and
open the way to free fraud. They have not
succeeded, and they will not. They begin to
see it themselves, and 10 east about Tor a way
of escape and some source of consolation when
they 20 home with empty baskets.


We take leave to offer them a suggestion
based on the experience of a fisherman who
started out, as they did, with high hopes and
plenty of bait. He fshcd most perseveringly
all day, used up his bait, and did not catch Il
fish, As he wended his pensivc way home
ward, q neighbor accOsted him with, "What
"luck ?" "Well," said he with deliberation,
"not particularly good and still, it wasn't so
"darned bad; didn't catch any fish, but |
made out to drown a good many worms."
dali and the other Democratic leaders, in Con-
cress and out, who are ambitious of political
promotion, and who have been laid out cold
by this cunning piece of policy, the extra
session and the deadlocks. isn't it plain that
the Democratic party, returning from its fish
ing trip without having caught thing it
fished for, has at least the consolation of Its
penslve predecessor, of having drowned a
"good many wOIms"q 1t is not for us, of
course to advise the Democrats in Congress.
But they have shortly to 60 home and make
answer to their constituents inquiry, "What
"luckF F' It's grinding conundTum to put to
a party with gamebasket and bait-box both
empty, and it Is out of puro sympathy with
their distress that we call their attention to
the coDsOling circumstance, which might other
wise escape their notice, concerning the
worms
Year: 1879

The future course of the Democrats in Con-
gress is still left somewhat IN doubt by yes
terday's meeting of the House Caucus Commit
tee, which was expected to be, III n
measure, decisive. The conclusion to which
the Committee is stated to have ar
rived postpOnes the day of real decision,
and may even be said to throw the whole issue
into uncertainty. The Democrats will await,
in accordance with this view, the action of
the Senate and the President upon the Warner
Silver bill before holding caucus at all, and
determining whether they shall continue the
contest with the President 1t Is inevitable
that the passage of swlndhng in
1lation scheme like this-if it pass
at all--will consume time in body where
the previous question does not rule. 1t is too
early, therefore, TO predict the course OF the
majority. There are not wanting indications
that the ADLER and cooler men Of the party
have already come to the conclusion that the
Democracy can gain nothing by continuing a
hopeless and foolish struggle, and the surrender
can be made more gracefully if it is made
now, than if the party holds out obstnately
for weeks and months to come. On the other
hand, it is plain that the voice of some, at
least, is still for revolution. The views
of one member of the House Commit
tee, as disclosed in our Washington
dispatches, show that one section of the
Democracy stands at bay more fiercely than
ever. The plan of this member is to pass the
Appropriation bills with clauses fOrbidding any
application of the money to the preservation of
the peace at polls by troops, or to the pay of
deputy -marshals and inspectors of election !;
and, if the President vetoes these bills, to re-
fuse all supplies. 1t can hardly be that even
the Democratic party will adopt policy so
inGaua
Year: 1879




Tn nlaclpg Sir Garnet Wolseley In chlel


command of the military forces on the Aulu
frontier, the British Government makes tardy
| amends for its perversty IN retaining Lord
| Chelmsford after his lack OF fitness had Deen


so painfully manifested and his recall


had been demanded on all hands De-
| spite the reported plans for another CAM


paign, it is probable that the new commander


will have no opportunity to add to tie re-


nown he won in Abyssina aud West Africa.


If he carries out Loyalty his instructions to


entertain any sincere overtures for peace
| hostilities might cease at once, Cetywayo


being ready to accept honorable terms at
| any moment


Mr.. Fernando Wood has been sputting the


country under an obligation again by talking


common sense at Washington. He declares
| in the very hearing of the men who are DO
ing their best to unsettle the finances and


paralyze trade. that what the country needs is


crest and he intimates that there are occa-


sIOns when horsewhip, metaphorically speak


ing, might be proftaby applied to the back
| of Congress. Mr.. Wood is chairman OF the


Ways aud Means Committee, and by virtue OF


his position is the member of the House OF
Representatives. who can most appropriately
treat that body to "a wholesome casugaton.
| Let Mr.. Wood produce his whip, and call for
the First Class in Corporal Punishment lA6
strong, to stand up.


Tie full account of Asa Packers will, which
is printed elsewhere, sets forth the great be-


quests to Lehigh University and st. Lukes


Hospital, already made known, and adds


number of minor facts not yet published. No


one familiar with the story of Judge Packers
| life can fail to be touched by the alluslon to


his wife who shared both poverty and prosperity
with hin-that she is to have whatever she


wishes out OF his great estate and that all OF
his determinations respecting the distribution


of his property are subject to this provision OF
the will. By the bequest to st. Luke's Hos


pital, Judge Packer seems to have outstripped


benevolent design which was ascrbed


at one time to the late Commodore
Vanderbilt. The income of 100000


is granted to this hospital primarily for the


support and care of all employees of the Le-
high Valley Railroad and of all railroad COM
panies owned wholly or in part, by that COM
! pany, who may be injured, or fall sick or be-


come disabled by age while in Its service.
If there is a balance after these expenses
have been paid, it goes to the ordinary ne


cessities of the hospital. The public will recOg-


nze in this bequest, made mostly for the bene-
tit Of rd-wOrbing mechanics the same noble
spirit which founded a free college to educate
young men to the liberal professions. The


example, too, is worth as much as the deed.
The rule that the faithful old horse must be
turned out to die when he has grown too fee


BILE to be useful, is too generally recognized


among our people, by governments and organ
lied bodies and individuals; and it is enough


to set a good many of us thinking to find the


head of souless corporation > setting


fashion the other way.
Year: 1879

While the Interoceanic Canal Congress at
Paris is eliciting large amount of informa-
ton on different routes, 1t has so far failed
to show that any of the Central American
schemes would yield far return on the
capital needed to carry them into effect. The
promoters of the rival enterprises will have
to be explicit on this point, before they can
OH
Year: 1879

The boys who wore the blue are busy
getting up procession TO go oyer to the
Republican meeting at iEtnaville tonight,
They will rally at the Hope Engine house.
on Eleventh street, at hali.past Q to I
o'clock, and with their music and transpa'
rencies at tho head OF the column will
march over the bridge to give Gen. Gar
field an old.fashioned reception. They
invite everybody to fall in and swell the
ranks. Our Democratic friends will be
cordially welcomed and given front seats
at the meeting. We hope the latter will
not miss so good an opportunity to heal
words Of truth and soberness from the lips
Of the "brainiest man" in Congress.
Year: 1879

TuE Cincinnati Commercial OF yesterday
SAYS that ''there is not politician in Ohio,
no matter of what party, who does not
know that the situation Of the Democracy
is one Of goneness." Tho latest report is
.hat Ewing has written letter Of COM
plant that he has not received the sup
port be had right to expect from the
nemoeaiic leaders.
Year: 1879

THIS is the way the New York Herald
says the Republicans carried Maine:
"What they did, mainly, was to hold the
Democratic party up by the TAIL in full
view Of the State, and when the people
got good look at it they went immedi.
ately and voted the Republican ticket.
That Is brief but correct description Of
the Republican canvass"
Year: 1879

A communication from Health Officer
Edwards, accompanied by an amendment
to the garbage ordinance, providing fol
the dumping OF garbage into the river Al
the foot OF Twenty-third street, was read
but the amendment was rejected.