smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

The extensive riots along the line of
railroad communication show the me-
cessity of n military force, not only
State but national. The miserable
policy of West Virginia In disbanding
her militia has been fearfully visited
upon her, and the insufficient number
of the Federal forces is plainly Illus
trated by the grave emergency. The
authorities should have At their COM
mand a much greater force than is
now available. The danger to public
liberty from our little army is alto
gether imaginary. 1t is not large
enough to keep the Indians in subjec-
lection and to preserve the internal
peace Of the country. The call for its
protection has come from quarter
where Its power was regarded with
jealousy, and the service which 1t has
rendered in the preservation of order
is the best answer that could be made
to the complaints that have been urged
against -Propidence (R H. Jour
not


The necessity for standing army
has been demonstrated pretty thor
oughly since the Forty-fourth Con-
gress, which did what 1t could to de-
stroy the army entirely, expired. The
sudden outbreak of Indians In Idaho
is an occurrence likely to be repeated
at any time elsewhere in the West for
aught any one knows, and found the
Government so weak in soldiers it was
obliged to call for volunteers. A dis
turbance is always brewing on the
Mexican border that may require a
larger force than could now be had.
The condition of the South, liable to
local quarrels and bloody feuds, is far
from being entirely safe. But now
when we see in the cities of the North
the very centers ofcivilization Of the
country-riots which more forces are
needed to 9uell than can be obtained,
the country must realize how necessa-
ry is a respectable standing army. 1t
is not likely that even Democratic
House will dare to stand out against
il in the next Congress, and If it does
will evidently be in the face of public
opinion. -Butalo Express.
Year: 1877

The toilet of the fly Is as carefully
attended to as that of the most friyo-
lous of human insects. With a con-
tempt for the looking-glass-an arti-
Gle which he reserves for the most
ignoble uses-he brushes himself up
and wabbles his little round head,
chuck full Of vanity, wherever he
happens TO be. Sometimes, after a
long day Of dissipation ana flirting,
with his six small legs and little round
body all soiled with butter and syrup
and cream, he passes out of the din
ing-room and wings his way to the
clean white cord along which the
morning glories climb, and in this re-
tired spot, needless of the crafty spi-
der that is practising gymnastics a
few feet above him, he proceeds to
purify and sweeten himself for the re-
freshing repose and soft dreams Of the
balmv summer night, so necessary to
one who is expected to be early at
breakfast. 1t is wonderful toilet.
Resting himself upon his front and
middle legs, he throws his hind legs
rapidly over his body, binding down
his frail wings for an instant with the
pressure, then raking them over with
a backward motion, which he repeats
until they are bright and clear. Then


he pushes the two legs along his body
under the wings, giving that queer
structure u thorough currying, every
now and then throwing the legs out
and rubbing them together to remove
| what he has collected from his corpor-
al surface. Next he goes to work up
| on his van. Resting on his hind legs
and middle legs, he raises his two
forelegs and begins a vigorous scrap
ing of head and shoulders, using his
proboscis every little while to push
the accumulation from his limbs. At
times he is 50 energetic that it seems
as If he was trying to pull his head
off, but no fly ever committed suicide.
Some of his motions very much re-
semble those of pussy at her toilet.
1t is plain, even to the naked eye, that
he does his work thoroughly, for when
| he has finished he looks like new
fly, SO clean and neat has he made
himself within a few minutes. The
white cord is detiled, but Floppy is
himself again, and he bids the morn
ing glories very good morning.


Louisville Co,Gier-Jouraal.
Year: 1877

There il a class of men in this
community who never let anybody
else have any fun. Instead Of max
ing everybody happy around them,
they make everybody miserable. One
Of these characters was on board the
train Saturday, coming up from the
pioneers picnic with his young and
pretty wife. They were on one of the
long benches of the platform car.
Alongside of the wife sat ayoung man
of festive tendencies, O. peculiarly In
young and old, not unfrequent upon
the Comstock. Well, the train
reached q tunnel, and in a moment
everybody was in the dark. When
daylight was reached again the hus-
band saw fragment of his wife's lace
veil upon that young mans hat. In
stead of reasoning, as philosopher
would have done, that it might be all
a mistake, the suspicious husband
got up and wanted to punch the 9TH
er mans head and make q scene gen.
orally. The trouble finally cooled
down, and everybody began to laugh
at the old fellow. When presently
another tunnel was reached, q mis-
chievous young lady who sat next to
the husband quietly detached piece
of her veil and put it OH his hat. As
soon as the car got into daylight the
other passengers began to laugh at
him, and to hint that he had been brow
sing on forbidden pastures. Worse
than all, his wife pretended to get an
CRY, and when such audible remarks
as Who'd q thought it?' "Pity a
man of his age can't behave himself" !"
BALD headed men are all that way" !"
etc., went around the car, his face
looked like boiled lobster all over.
When the depot was reached he was
the first man off the train Virginia
New Chronicle.
Year: 1877




1t Is a source of great sorrow to Us
to be thus placed in a position of an
tagonism to the nominee of the Re-
publican party. We always have
tried to vote straight ticket, though
we have occasionally been obliged to
do little Strengthening for ourself of
the crooked places. We have no dis
position now to engage in a factious
warfare with the party or its nominee
for Governor. We shall make no
fight unless driven to it in self defense.
We mean simply to scratch the head
of our ticket, saying but little farther
about the matter, unless our right to
do 80 is attacked or our motives ques-
toned by members of the party.


fFt. Dodge Messenger]


With the nomination of the candi.
dates for Governor and Supreme
Judge We thank God that the hands
of the Republicans of Webster county
are clean. Mr.. Gears forced nomina-
ton of the ring, aided by the railroads
and the profuse and lavish use of whis.
key and money, will fall upon the
masses of the voters of Iowa like a
clap of thunder on q clear day. The
same ring, with the aid of railroads
and monopolies of all kinds, nomi'
mated Mr.. Day, and his nomination |,
an insult to the honesty and intelli
gence of the Republicans of Iowa.
Mr.. Gear will be well punished ant
ought to be. He is In principle II
J cense man and always has been. ane
Year: 1877

The great anxiety which has pre-
vailed throu yho 1t the country in regard
to the missing steamer City of Brussels,
is relieved BY thi, mornings dispatches.
The vessel, on the third day out from
New York, broke her shaft and is now
proceeding under sail. She was met on
Tuesday in mid. d.ocesn by the ship City
OF Richmond. which arrived at New
York yesterday morning, bringing the
gratifying intelligence that all on board
were we'll. By Thursday or Fr day next
we may expect to hear of her safe arrival
ON the other side of the Atlantic.
Year: 1877

spring, he did not do as he was intending 10
do--Ciraw off the straw from over the main
roWs--butf left it and went on with his farm
ing work. Soon the plants began to grow
up through the straw, and the plants to put
forth their blossoms and fruit, until the field
was one mass of green foliage and white
blossoms. The result was that in the eX-
ceedingly dry spell he picked one of the
largest and best crops he ever saw, and
from tIls plantation got as much money as
from all, the rest of his farm.-Snao9l Fruit
RecorGey.%
Year: 1877

"Burying the hatchet," is all right, but
when it is buried in mans head there is
something to be said on the other side.
The New York Tribune advises David
Dudley Field to abandon his notion of stir
ring up the conscience of the people," If
he should succeed the consequences to him
self would be serious. His fate would be like
that of the man who "stirred up'' keg of
dynamite with hammer.


Mr.. Tilden, bending his manly form over
the railing and trying his best to keep his
immortal soul from leaping from his mouth,
while he calculates after each wrench,
Fraud p is spectacle to stir the American
heart.


One OF the most active, earnest and dis
interested Republicans in Illinois writes to
the Chicago Journal warmly commencing
that paper for its dissent from the new civil
service order. He thinks the President has
made serious mistake in promulgating the
order, and that he should lose no time in mod
flying or resembling it.


The double back-action civil-service reform
order Of Mr.. Hayes is not received by the
country as an unmitigated boon. 1t is like
VIZ hAOA sun WniCA was lOducu SO dS 10
hit II it was bear and to miss if 1t was
calf"-Globe-Democ


The Meriden (Conn.) Republican says:
Republicans are patient and hopeful, and
desire not to be at variance with the Presi-
dent, but If the Republicans to-day were
to give expression to their real sentiments, a
large majority of them would say they are
disappointed and not in sympathy with the
President"


The subscriptions to the per cent loan
simply show that men are adjusting them
selves to the limitations of the day OF small
things. IN. Y. World.
In looking over the gratuitous notices in
the Times yesterday, Of excursions and other
paying enterprises, we found that at regular
rates they would have been required to pay
$2S. The sum thus. given yearly by the daily
journals in this city would amount to several
thousand dollars. These notices cost the
proprietors considerable sum OF money 10
cash. No other business is so heavily taxed in
the way of gratuities; aud it is fair question
to ask whether publishers should not receive
pay for such notices.-Hartford Times.
A man and his son held clerkships at
Washington, but under the new rules the
father was compelled to resign, but he did so
with protest, as follows: "When the war
broke out 1 had five brave and handsome
sons. gave them every one to the Union
army, and no fault was found then because
of relationship. Only two of them came


back to me. One fell at Gettysburg; aneth-
er was left among the unknown dead in the
Wilderness; and the third laid down his life
at Antietam. Five sons were not too many
to serve the country them"
Year: 1877

The New York Post justly says that the
labor of the workingmen is the source of the
wealth OF the country, and it is upon the
workingmen that the chief burden of the
country's expenses finally falls in tie form OF
taxes. The destruction OF property by the
rioters is the destruction of a part of the
wealth of the countryside wealth which the
workingmen have produced. and upon the
employment of which, as capital, their labor
hereafter and consequently they and their
families support depend. That is not the
whole or the worst of it. The property
destroyed will have to be paid for by taxa
tlon, and the taxes will be largely levied on
the workingmen. So labor will pay for the
ruinous work Of the strikers. This is some
thing for the strikers to reflect upon those
Of them who ever reflect at all. u
Year: 1877

THE reign of terror caused by the strike
of trainmen recalls with vividness the fact
that within the last three years the actual
loss in the shrinkage of United States rail-
road securities reaches the enormous snm oi
two thousand and two hundred million dol
lars-more than the entire national debt. i


all the banks in the country should break,
one-half paying nothing and the rest twenty
cents on the dollar, the loss would not ex.
ceed that inflicted by the depreciation OF
railroad property,
Year: 1877

JUST at present the riot does not repre-
sent any struggle of labor against capital, but
of mob law against civil law, of destruction
and violence against peace and order, and Of
bloodshed against humanity. After the
strikers have laid aside their weapons, ceased
to destroy the property of others, respected
the rights alike of their fellow-laborers and
OF the owners of the railroads, and otherwise
shown their submission to the law, it will be
time to talk of the relations between labor
and capital, but the question at present is
question between outlaws and the police.
Year: 1877

THE Tar-heels are by theory and practice
opposed to the Revenue Department of the
Government, and failing to escape what they
consider persecution from the United States
Marshals, they are putting every political en-
gine in the State at work to secure the dis
missal of the present incumbents. The point
is to get the present Marshals out, and then
fill the vacant places with "men of the right
Sort" This done, the distilling in iron pots
with the barrel of shotgun for worm
might 60 pleasantly on.
Year: 1877

THE condemnation of the action of the
militia at Reading is unjust and absurd. Peo-
pie innocent of all participation in the riot,
were it is said, shot down. Well-meaning
people should have remained at home, and
not have, from idle curiosity, swelled.the
ranks Of the mob,
Year: 1877

AMONG the calamities of the great strike
is the fact that it occurs just when the boun-
tiful and almos. unparalleled wheat crop of
the West is ready for shipment. Eighty car.
loaded with new wheat arrived at Toledo on
Saturday, and had there been no interrupt


ton of transportation every available freight
car in the West would have been necessarily
employed from this on in getting the golden
harvest to the lakes and seaboard. As it is,
there is no telling what harm may be in
ficted both upon producers and consumers.
Year: 1877

THE San Francisco "hoodlums," class Of
beings.in comparison with whom the Digger
Indians are intellectual giants and the street
loafer of the Eastern cities model of indus
try. are engaged in the cause of labor reform.
Their method of promoting it is by murder
ing the Chinese, the most Industrious and
hard working men on the Pacific slope.
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address Of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1877

The AGE OF SCIENCE.-The wonderful success Of
the "Holman Liver Pad" in this section of the
country proves conclusvey what science is doing in
the nineteenth century to alleviate the suffering of
poor humanity What power this wonderful dis
covery is only be appreciated by those who have
been suffering from the old system of dosing with
poisonous drugs, and who, within few weeks past,
have been made happy by the use of this simple
restorative. Over $500 persons have been cured of
various diseases flesh is heir to by it during the last
two months We can therefore pronounce it a
success. Attention is called to the advertisement in
WonlS Seem SIX Ike edinS cold for Ds o MAKE anv
further statement.
Year: 1877

for the purpose Of nominating candidate for Gov
ernor, to be supported at the September election
and to attend to such other business as may properly
come befor the convention.


The basis of representation will be follows: Each
city, town and plantation is entitled to delegate
and one additional delegate for every seventy five
votes given for the Republican candidate for Governor
1876. A fraction Of forty votes over the number
which is entitled to delegate will be accorded
delegate Substitutes can serve only for towns of
the county in which they reside.


The Republican State Committee will be in session
in the ante-room of the Hall at 10 o'clock the morn
ing of the Convention.


By order Of the Republican State Committee.


JAMES G. BLAINE,


Chairman.
j. o. SMITH, Secretary.
Year: 1877

n CORES spondent of an English med
ical journal furnishes the following re-
cipe as new cure for consumption:


Put dozen whole lemons in cold
water and boil until soft mot too soft }
roll and squeeze until the juice is
all extracted, sweeten the Juice
enough to be palatable, then drink.
Use as many as a dozen a day. Should
they cause paih or looseness of the
bowels lessen the quantity and use a
dozen again. By the time you have
used five or six dozen you will begin to
gain strength and have an appetite.
Ofcourse as you get better you need
not use 50 many. Follow these direct
ions and we know that Won will never
regret il if there is any help for YOU.
Only keep it up faithfully. We know
of two cases where both of the patients
were given up bv the physicians and
were in the last stage of consumption.
yet both were cured by using lemons
according to the directions we have
stated. One lady in particular was bed
ridden and very low. had tried every
thing that money could procure, but
all in vain, when to please frie nd, she
was finally persuaded 10 use the lemons.
She began TO use them in February and
in April she weighed l40 pounds. She
is well woman to-day, and likely to
live as long as any of us.
Year: 1877

The object OF ventilation. to any
apartment which constitutes the abode
OF animals, i to procure a constant
supply OF fresh air to meet the demands
OF the animal economy. Tue practice
which mas long prevailed. as regard,
ventilation, seems to deny lis utility,
and to doubt the injury accompanying
its neglect - little do many people
see the necessity for ventilation, that
they cannot distinguish between the
warm air and the foul air Of stable !;
aud consequently, if the admission OF
fresh air is wan.cd 10 expcl the foul.
they Immediately conclude il must be
cold, and do harm. Now it is the prop
or action of ventilation to let away all.
and no more OF the warm air Of a stable
than what is foul, and then OF course.
no more than the same quantity OF fresh
air can find it, way into 1t.


\ ready means of letting ont the
foul air from a stable is by A number oi
ventilators on the ridge Of the roof; and
one means OF admittiu. fresh air below.
J. bv the windows when they are open;
but when they are shut other means
must be supplied. ~ doors ald win
dpws are usually situated in farm stab
es th fresh air should not be allowed
to enter them through The night -
they should not be left open; for fresh
ar coming directly from the doors or
windows upon horse. must strike hi.
body and limbs forcibly, and do him
more harm Than good. The fresh air
should come in on level with the
horses nOs,ril>, ana an opening above
hi. head seems the most suitable place
for foul, air 10 ind its way ont.


Dampness in stable, arises either
from ground damp or want Of vcutilat-
ion. OF this any man may judge from
different circumstances, and, generally
Speaking, the remedy need not be at
tended with any very serious expense
drainage and raising the floor will
mostly have the effect in one instance,
aud making proper vents for the heated
vapor to escape near the roof will also
nearly always be sufficient in the other
Where a stable has tins defect it should
be remedied at once, or the horses taken
out OF it; for if they are not, sickness
will sooner or later cause double the
expense of the remedy. The heated,
unnatural, and yitiA,ed air OF some
stables, would be sure to cause disaster
TO some OF the inmates, if they were
called on Tor severe or long continued
labor. especially on a cold day: the ef-
iect OF their debiIitate constitution
would soon tell that something was
wrong, and probably infamatio OF the
lungs would quite satisfy the owner OF
the fact.


On the contrary, the stable where
proper warmth i wanting, aud where
currents OF cold air are often permitted
10 enter, though not perhaps 50 comfort
less a. to cause suffering to the horse or
to directly iniure his health for certain
purposes, would shortly show him a.,
an animal. both in appearance and CON
dition,as totally unfit internally and ex
ternally, for that fast work to which
valuable horses are put externally
from having the coat oi bear, and in.
fernaliy from its having been impossi-
Die IN such stable 10 have carried him
through that discipline necessary for
such purposes. Such stable. after a
sweat, would be death, though the
coarser-bred horse nigh, live aud have
his health in i;.T--Iress.
Year: 1877

the would-be wife-murderer, who tried


TO kill his wife with hammer, yester-
DAY morning, and then made an attempt
upon his own life, was able to be In the
Police Court this morning. He pleaded
guilty to the charge OF abusing family
His assault on his wife seems to have
been unproyoked, as she was sleeping
at the time. There seems to have been
trouble all through their married life,
occasioned by the bad temper and jeal-
GUS disposition Of John. Judge Wilson
sent him TO the WUrk-house for six
Year: 1877

National Associated Press to the Star.


SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. The Coroner
held an inquest yesterday evening on
the body of DALEY. Hanks declined to
testify. All the evidence of eye-wit-
nesses went to show that the act was a
deliberate assassination, and the jury
found a verdict charging Hanks with
murder.


This morning Hanks was found dead
in his cell in the City Prison, having
shot himself through the breast with a
musket. He lett u note saying that this
act was the coolest of mis- life.
Year: 1877

@mnn Can't be made by every agent every mouth VuUk in the business we furnish, but those will A.H.E.N ing to work can easily earn dozen delars WOUO day right in their own localities. Have no

 room to explain here. Business pleasant and honorable Women, and boys and girls do as well as men. We will furnish you complete Outfit free The business pays better than anything ese We will bear expense of starting you Particulars free Write and see. Farmers and mechanics, their sons and daughters and all classes in need of paying work at home should write to us and learn all about the work at once. Now Is the time Don't delay Address

 1yA TRUE CO.,, Augusta, Maine.
Year: 1877

viM the gloss and freshness of yooth Thin hair is thickened, falling hair checked, and badness. often, though not always, cured by it's use. Noth- ing can restore the hair where the follicles are destroyed, or the glands atrophied and decayed.. But such as remain can be saved for usefulness by this application. Instead of foul- ing the hair with a pasty sediment, it will keep it clean and vigorous. Its occasional use will prevent the hair from turning gray or falling off, and consequently prevent badness. Free from those deleterious substances, which make some preparations dan gerous,. and injurious to the hair, the Vigor can only benefit but not harm it. If wanted merely for a