smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

springs are met with and mark favorite
halting places for travellers Iron, iron every
where. IL looks as though the Mormons were des-
tined to anticipate for the treatment OF their ene-
mics the Bismarckian formula Of .blood and ron.r
Iron City, the place where the deadly programme
or the murderers was perfected, lies
little TO the northward OF the road and
about two-thirds OF the way to the
"Meadows" from Cedar City. The first stream
met with in this journey is Pinto Creek branch OF
branch OF the Santa Clara Creek which flows
southward TO join the Rio Virgin and the
great Colorado River. The village OF Pinto
Is built on the creek OF that name, and
is regular Mormon settlement. West
ward about i've miles is the space known as the
"Mountain Meadows" at the north end of which is
the little scattered group OF houses called Little
Pinto. From Little Pinto the route turns southwark
and into the narrow valley where the bloody work
was done. Here we will witness the final
act OF the terrible drama. The words,
vengeance is mine. l will repay" that
are inscribed on the rude cross that
marks the graves OF the slaughtered
travellers are about to be verified. Lee, the chief
assassin is TO die on the very spot where his VIC
tins Of twenty years ago gave up their lives as a
sacrifice to Mormon ianaticism and bloodthirsti-
Year: 1877

LEE AND YOUNG.
Reply Of the Mormon President to


Lees Charges.
4 GENERAL DENIAL.
He Appeals to His Record


for Vindication.
DRAMATIC CRITICISM.
Removal of Lee from Beaver City


to Mountain Meadows.
He Is To Be Shot Over the Graves


OF His Victims.
A RESCUE STILL FEARED.
Description Of the Route


Of March.


[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD
Year: 1877

Yesterday Louisiana notified the peo-
pie Of the United States of another rev.
olution in the capital and CONNER
cial METROPOLIS of that State. 1t was
supported by armed force, but without
blOodsbed, we are glad to say. at least
down to the hour when this is written.


These events call for some review Of
the condition Of affairs in Louisiana in
the last four years; but, as preliminary
to that, we desire to say that yester-
days proceedings at New Orleans, as
far as We can see the facts through the
telegraphic narrative, are entirely in-
defensible on any pretencs that they are
lawful and orderly: or upon any ground
except the open avowal that thew are
revolutionary for the attainment Of
rights that cannot be secured by due
course Of law No other ground will
justify the movement of force of armed
men, to install judges and to take pos
session of courts and the machinery for
the administration of justice. When
men do take that ground they must ex-
pect to take all the consequences Of
armed revolution, even though no life
be lost and no blood be shed


So much upon that point. It must
Year: 1877

The Cincinnati Enquirer (dem )prints
an account Of an interview with Judge
Mackey, Of South Carolina, il which
he said "Gov. Hayes gave it as his
opinion that there would be no armed
conflict whether be or Mr. TiIdeu was
declared President Of the United State
He thought that all suggestions looking
TO the determination of the presidential
issue by the sword would encounter the
emphatic condemnation of the thinking
men and leaders of both political par
ties. As to how the solution Of the
difficulty would be made be had not
felt himself called upon either to deter
mine or suggest, but he was satisfied
that it would be made in accordance
with the constitution of the country,
and that it would command the assent
Of the American people "


The republican members of the Hi
nois Legislature have adopted resolutions
in which they say: The votes Of the
electors cast show clearly the election
of Rutherford B Hayes and Wm. A
Wheeler as President and Vice -Presi-
dent Of the United States, and We insist
that they shall be peacefully inaugu-
rated by the proper authorities Of the
government, and any attempt to infame
the puJIic mind or to resist such peace
ful Inauguration by force or any unlaw-
full means should be earnestly opposed
in all proper ways by all good people
and the authorities of the government.
Year: 1877

government in that State. All the
revolutionary proceedings in Louisi-
ana since, including those Of yesterday,
are the logical sequences Of the neglect
of Congress to act upon the warning
given by this Committee Of the House,
which, from its composition, both per-
sonallg and politically, was entitled to
the re- pect Of both Houses. Such rev.
olutions and anarchy are certain to be
impending all the time until Congress
does Is duty BY guaranteeing to Lou
isiana its constitutional right to re-
publican form Of government and 50
long as they do impend they are not
only destructive to all prosperity in
that State, but dangerous to the whole
country, as we now know by the de-
plorable experience Of the disputed
Presidential election -Phila. Ledger
10 iDAt.
Year: 1877

Hon. JOHN GRAY. The nonina-
ton of Hon. John Gray for Member
of Assembly, is graceful acknowl-
edgenent of his faithful and efficient
discharge Of the duties of the office
during his first term. So far as
known, there was no opposition
in the district to Mr.. Gray's re-
nomination, which, in connection
with the unpropitious weather, ac-
count for the slim attendance at the
convention So universal was the
sentiment in favor of his re-nomina-
ton, that n convention was regarded
as but a necessary form, which a
few could make as effective as o
hundred The magnificent vote
given Mr.. Gray last year attests his
popularity, and gives the best as
surance that he will again be en-
dorsed at the polls in an emphatic
manner.
Year: 1877

The loss occasioned by the fire in the Pa
tent Office Building in Washington, Monday,
is not so great as was at first feared, but it is
very serious. The large number of models of
inventions destroyed affords opportunity for
innumerable disputes and consequent costly
litigation. Some of these models can be re-
produced from the specifications and original
drawings which were generally saved, but in
other cases the destruction must necessarily
give rise to long and vexatious disputes. The
loss in property actually destroyed and by the
ruin of a fine public building is but very
small part of the real loss-a loss which comes
from the destruction of titles to and eviden-
ces of ownership in vast amount of wealth.
The capital created by the inventive genius
OF the country is chiefly held through the
titles consumed in the Patent Office. The
loss of valuable records other than these is
great, and entails much confusion and delay
in the transaction of public business. The
Land Office records fortunately were saved,
and thus the way barred in that direction
to tedious and ruinous litigation, and
10 possible injustice. But in many
cases the fruits of lifetime of study
and toll have been swept away and opportu-
nifty given to unscrupulous men to enrich
themselves by the labors of inventors.


The fire TOBIAS destroyed our most charac.
teristic national collection. The inventive
genius of the American is his distinctive at
tribute, the quality which above all others
distinguishes him from his fellows. In the
Patent Office were stored the Illustrations of
half-a-century of inventions, the models Of
the works which have revolutionized the ma
chinery of the world. No comparable ,colec-
ton is elsewhere to be found, land this one can
scarcely be restored or replaced. 1t showed
at glance the mighty progress in the indus
trial arts, outstripping all the ages gone be-
fore, which the American people have made
in a few decades. The collection was a
unique National museum entirely and dis
tinctively American, and one which no other
nation in the world can furnish.


The lesson of the fire is patent. The loss
teaches us that parsimony is not always econ
omy. A few thousand dollars expended in
making the building fire-proof would have
saved us from the loss of millions. 1t has al,
ways been cause of just complaint that the
public records are insecurely housed but lit
tie heed has been paid to the complaint by
Congress. That body will do we'll to take
warning by the fire and speedily provide pro-
lection against similar losses in the future.
Year: 1877

HE Bangor Commercial at last furnishes
the long-promised portrait of the Chairman
of the Democratic State Committee. The
portrait is not painted in those strong colors
which the public expected from the CONNER
cial palette. As to the correctness of the
drawing our acquaintance with the subject is
too limited to justify US in expressing an
opinion. There is however one portion of
the sketch which is faithful portraiture of
the great majority of the Democratic leaders
lift is not of Mr.. Pillsbury. Here it is: "Of
the objects of party success he has ever had
but one idea-ofiicial plunder and the distri-
button of offices. To gain these objects he
has ever held that one platform was just as
good as another. Hence he has always been
Year: 1877

THERE are all sorts of speculations relative
to the true intent and purpose of the meeting
between Bismarck and Andrassy at Salzburg,
and, according to the cable, it is very gener-
ally believed that it was arranged with
the design to give the two statesmen an
opportunity for agreeing upon plan for
the basis of mediation between Russia and
Turkey. Whatever Austria's views of action
may be, it is scarcely probable that the Ger
man Chancellor will attempt to intervene for
the present, as he would almost certainly
meet with rebuff from both the belligerents,
and he probably thinks that Russia is not
sufficiently exhausted for the ultimate de-
signs of Germany, and her permanent secu-
rity from future aggressions from an alliance
between Russia and France. Politicians, of
course, must speculate but the most note
worthy event that has yet followed the con-
ference has been an increased hesitation on
the part of SerVia, and the withdrawal of her
forces further within her frontiers, for the
express object of refraining from giving ad-
ditional umbrage to the Sultan.
Year: 1877

The Boston Globe learns that at the extra
session of Congress in October the President
will not send in his annual message, but will
transmit merely the reasons why the extra
session was called and submit the estimates
of the War Department for the army appro-
priation. 1t is learned that in addition to
this there will be sent in several other execu-
tive papers of interest. Included in these
will be communication from the Secretary
OF the Navy, calling attention to deficiencies
in the appropriation for the pay of naval Of
ficers for the closing three months of the last
fiscal year. The Secretary of State will pre-
sent the correspondence on the subject of
American representation at the Paris Exposi-
tion and urging the Immediate action of Con-
gress in supplying the necessary legislation.
The Secretary of the Interior will lay before
Congress the necessity of making some modi-
fication in the pension laws, so as to facilitate
the examination of pension cases, of which
$4,000 are now waiting examination. Cor
respondence with the various State authori-
ties at the time of the railroad strike and re-
ports of United States army officers in COM
mand at the scenes of disturbance, will also
be sent to Congress.
Year: 1877

A model wife: She never wasted solitary
thing. Let cat die around our house, and the
first thing you knew Mary Jane'd have muff
and set of furs, and II begin to find mince
pies on the dinner table.
Year: 1877

Now comes the days when the sturdy farmer
dumps load of dirt into some mud hole in the
highway, yells, "Haw, BuckP' at his off OK,
pricks the near one with bradawl and goes
home under the impression that he has worked
out his road tax In full.
Year: 1877

The Berlin gorilla has learned to drink and
smoke, and Darwin is wild with delight over
these new evidences of human evolution. He
has confidenent hopes that the animal will
soon learn to swear and then to steal.
Year: 1877

Nice for the young husband.
ried wife (anxiously to stranger just going to
bathe@ pray excuse me, sir, but this is my
husband, and he is going into the sea, and as
see you are as well, may ask you to be good
enough to give look after him in case he
should get out of his depth? Besides, 1 think
he is little timid of the water.
Year: 1877

Miss MacMahon of Stowe, Vermont, vino Is
1O1 years of age, was discovered the other day
at the tub doing her weekly washing. This
comes of living life of single blessedness. If
Miss MacMahon had married some kind, low
ing heart when she was in her twentes, she
might have worked herself to death before
reaching the age of fifty years. and thus
escaped hard labor at the wash tub in her old
age.
Year: 1877

HEnEToFeRE the press has had no
freedom Of expression in Russia but ct
present both the rural and urban prem are
united In belligerent outburst against the
Governmental policy. Just as the Govsrn-
ment gets the protocol signed under the
promise Of speedy disarmament the Jour
ralistic BoDApns jump into the war-path
and whoop like fends Yet they 20 unmo-
Tested. There is an undercurrent in this
movement which the wise and Observing
viii readily discern. The prestige of the
Government must be kept up at home, aid
so the press has been quietly Instructed to
keep up clatier calculated 10 fire the
Russian heart for war and make the ele-
ments work together harmoniously in the
great enterprise. While the Russian C.bi
net is apparently for peace and the press
for war, it is well known throughout the
intelligent circles Of the Empire that the
press says nothing but what meets with
the approval of the Government
Year: 1877

NOTWITHSTANDING all that is being said
against Ohio, she has always been patriotic.
Two hundred Of her regiments rallied
around the flag in war times, and two
thousand of them rally around the Capital
in times of peace.
Year: 1877

REn1EMB BER that after receiving a
proposition from railroad it requires
at least three weeks notice to be given
by utilization. Now that the crops
are all harvested and people have got
some 'leisnre, why not get right down
to bu siness and let US have vote on
this railroad question? Wait much
logger and q great many Of the men
who are in favor Of railroad will
b2.ye gone off to the woods and the old
fossils and logies who are opposed TO
railroad will have things all their own
way. We learn from areliable source
that the peope Of Spencer Brook are
willing and anxious to do their share
ltof the work in the way Of voting aid.
The feeling in Anoka is quite favor


able towards the project. There's no


time to be lost; talk IS all very we'll in


its place. but all talk and no work is


sheer d nonsense. .sStrike the iron
while it is hot, I for once this railroad
iron gets cooled OFF there is No tell.
ing when it will get hot again.


IA { ~ a Il E
Year: 1877

IT Is a hard thing TO damn man worth
100000. And although we are pretty or
thodox in our belief, we doubt if it can be
done. If Dives really went to the bad
place, he must have gone there of his ow n
accord, his biographer would never send
him there. But Lazarus-w it has al
ways been a wonder to us how Lazarus
got where he did. If he had died in 1877
he never would have made it. ~
Year: 1877

In a recently published letter the
Hon. Charles james Faulkner furnishes
the following incident in the life of Gen.
Stonewall jackson :" At the age of l6
years Thomas J Jackson was a constable
of the county of Lewis, Va, with his
uncle Cummings jackson as his security


The first execution that came into his
hands was against widow living some


twelve miles from the courthouse.


jackson summoned man named Char
lie Post to accompany him and to assist
him in driving away the cattle which he
proposed to levy upon. When he arrived
there he found that the old woman had


but one COW, the principle means of her
support. So soon as he learned this he
turned to his companion and said: Char
lie, l will not levy this execution on that
poor woman's COW; as poor as Il am !
would rather work night and day and
pay the debt myself" Upon that he
left there and stated the facts TO his
uncle, his security in his official bond,
He listened to his narrative and then
said; Tom see you were never born


to be a constable, my boy; resign your
office at once and | will pay the execu-
tlon. Mr.. Faulker says also: Il re-
member upon one occasion l received a
telegram OF the extreme illness of a
daughter in Appomattox county. and
communicating a message from her that
she wished to make some request of me
in person before she died. I took the
telegram to Gen. Jackson ard asked him
for leave of absence Tor a few DAYS,
He read it, and | observed tear trick.
ling down his check, and after pausinp
for few moments he said: Colonel. i
shall not refuse your request, for there
is nothing now requiring your presence
absolutely at headquarters; but / will
announce to yon the rule that governs
my conduct. When l entered the army
| | gave myself up to my country. and
| however | might deplore my separation
from these love, and especially undC ,


the circumstances mentioned in this tel


egram, yet / would not feel myself al


liberty to leave my post here. | have


felt all that are dear to me in the hands oi


my country and of my God"
Year: 1877

Nor DELINQUENT.-After insert
ing the delinquent tax list for jeff
erson county, the Sheriff came to us
with a notification that parties whose
property had appeared in the pub
lished list had recently settled all
demands, and their names together
with accompanying description of
property might be taken out. This
news came just after the press-work
on the page containing said list was
done for the present week; so that
the parties referred to need not think
anything is wrong.
Year: 1877

IT hardly sounds well to brag, but
parties who have lately had job-work
done at the ARGUS office have been
so loud in their praise of our new
material, and above all of the style
in which it is put together, that our
foreman is getting to be one of the
best natured fellows in existence.
Year: 1877

The London Builder says: The bursts of rain iu the Carnatic are tremendous. As much as five inches of rain fall in a single night is not unffequent, and Sir A. Cotton has known as much as 19 inches to fall in that time. The small est Till that is allowed to trickle over an earthen bank wears itself passage and becomes a destructive torrent with extreme rapidity. On one occasion, the water in the Veranum tank is said to have overfowed the whole 12 miles of the bund and to have reached it in 13 places. On another occasion, the engineer ill charge of a bund, finding the water rise with more rapidity than he was able to meet by the supply with earth, made wall of the bodies of his laborers, causing them to lie down close to one another on the top of the threatened part of the dam and thus keeping back the two or three inches of water, which if unchecked, would soon have wrecked the whole bund and ruined wild district, until their places could be supplied by basketfuls of earth. It was an original expedient, but it saved the district. What the laborers said about it we have not heard.
Year: 1877

HOP YEAsT.-Boil half pint of hops in two quarts of water till the strength is extracted. Rub half a pint of flour smooth with cold water, strain the tea and mix it in; let it cook slowly like mush from five to ten minutes. Let it cool, and then add gill of yeast and two nicely mashed boiled potatoes, and put it in stone jug or bottles to rise. A tin coffee pot should be kept to boil hops in, as the bitter taste is hard to re- move from the kettle.
Year: 1877

! MUSCLE MUD AS A FERTMzER.-One of the advantages enjoyed by our sea- coast farmers for procuring fertilizers for their grass lands are the vast banks of muscle mud lying along our coast, which many of them have been dili- gently improving for some time past. As dressing for grass cord of muscle mud is considered by our experienced farmers equal in fertilizing qualities to cord of barn dressing, and much more lasting in it's effects. Those who applied it to their fields twenty years since say they can still see its beneficial effects on is of a clay nature much less benefit is derived from it when applied to sandy soil, while on clay loam its fertilizing qualities surpass all others in compari- son to it's cost.

 The course adopted in the winter sea- son for procuring it is to clear away the ice for space of ten feet wide and sho- vel it out at low tide. The cost of piling it on the ice is about two shillings cord the cost spread on the field depends on the distance hauled inland. Some of our farmers have hauled it distance of five miles, and say that the farther it is applied from the shore the more benefi- cial are it's effects. In the fall of the year it is brought up our rivers on scows distance of fifteen miles, and probably would be carried much farther inland ii not impeded by our falls. The richest beds are where the muscles are found alive for four or five inches in depth. This dressing is principally used by our farmers as a top dressing for their grass land, yet nothing willinsure so heavy yield of cabbages as muscle mud, and it is found beneficial for all crops grown on clay soil. When applied to old fields a crop of clover is certain to come in within one or two years, and when ap- piled as top dressing, on old orchards, it renews the growth of the trees and the yield of fruit. Were it not for it's bulk and weight this fertilizer would probably find it's way much farther into our interior towns, and be found valu- able acquisition for enriching our ex- hausted fields. Although our farms have become old and have been cropped for century or more, yet we have abundant plant food on our shores, which, by a few days labor in the win tel. we can utilize on our fields and there- by produce as large crops ofhay as can be cut on new fields in more recently set tied parts of our State. Another ad- vantage we possess is that vessels can, in many localities, come along side of our fields and take our hay to the city markets at one-half the cost for freight that we should have to pay for trans portation by railroad, thereby putting larger profit into the pocket of the pro- ducer.