smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

The conclusions Of science are net
cheerful reading for cod fish. Accord
ing to Professor Goodo It's mission in
life is Enthusiastically to bo eaten. Man
takes about 900,000,00 Of the pearly
beauties per year. But that is the
veriest trihe; to speak mathematically,


it is not even the square root OF what
bluefsh and other denizens of the deep
eat and destroy---a number of the men
haden such that if they were put end to
end in straight line, they would easily
reach some Of the fixed stars, and
might, perhaps, wiggle their tails in
company with the Pisces Of the zodiac.


From what has been said it will he
perceived that there are fish enough in
the sea. There would still be plenty of
all sorts if the consumption of them by
mankind were increased tenfold. The
chief point to which the commission de-
votes its efforts is to have the fish where
they can be caught Another desidera-
tum is to have some means for keeping
them in good condition after capture.
At present, the market is alternately
scant and glutted. When, for instance,
early in September, Goldfish are first
brought in from the Grand Banks, they
may be worth $5 or $6 per quintal.


THAT is an oldfashioned measure,
meaning hun6redweight; the word is


usually pronounced "kentle," and is
allied to "cental," being derived in o
roundabout way from the Latin cen
tenarius; in this region it signifies III
pounds) BY the end of September the
market may be overstocked, and the
price fall to 81 IS or 50. This is be-
cause more Goldfish come in at once
than can be conveniently handled; it
often happens that they are'by far the
cheapest food in the country. The need
of means for keeping fish fresh is yet
more strongly shown in respect to men
haden. Their most important use is for
bait to catch nnckerel. Each vessel
employed in mackerel fishing goes Snt
provided with large quantity Of men
haden, packed in layers with chopped
ice. If the catch of macksrel begins
with arrival on the fishing grounds,


everything Is lovely, But if fortnight
elapses before the catch begins, then the
bait sours, becomes worthless, and has
to be thrown overheard. There is moth
ing to do but to go ashore and buy bait,


perhaps on the coasG Cf Newfoundland
or Nova Scotia, and this process may
have to lie repeated three or four times
in season. The people of Acadia may
be poetically virtuous and abstemious,


but it is certain that the fishing crews
get sadly demoralized in their company.
Year: 1879

Special to the Star.


JEFFERsoNvTLLE, IND, July12, About 10 o'clock
Thursday night James Cruise and Ann Barnett, a
runaway couple from some backwoods place in
this county, came here and made inquiry at the
Courthouse for marriage license. The night
watchman directed them to the residence of
Deputy Clerk MCGill, but as he was not
at home they returned to the Court
house and sat up with the watchman till about
O'Clock in the morning, when they again re-
paired 10 the house OF the Deputy Clerk, but the
young man declined to give the license at such an
unreasonable hour, and they sat down on the
Courthouse doorstep TIL o'clock yesterday
morning. when the license was granted them.
After eating breakfast of crackers and cheese,
they were married by Esquire Preefer OF this city.
Year: 1879

fourinch water main was ordered laid on
Charlotte street from Central avenue to Peck
alley.


A communication complaining Of a nuisance at
the southeast corner OF Colerain avenue and
James street, was referred 70 the Commissioner OF
the District.


The Cincinnati Stone Works asked permission
to place a switch side track East Front street
between Lawrence and Pike street. Declined.
Year: 1879

Hogan. came off in the Hamilton County District
Court this mo rnng ana the demurrer to the reply
was overruled. The reply set forth the facts that
Governor, that he had not been allowed to cross
examine the witnesses OF the opposite party nor to
introduce any testimony in his own behalf. The
facts being admitted by the demurrer the same
was Overruled and the hearing Of the case will
proceed on next Tuesday.
Year: 1879

word sent to the Coroner The hospital authorities
learned from the lady that the dead woman was
her mother. Her name was Mrs. Adams, oil Boston
She had In q hospital for three mouths suffering
from incipent paralysis The daughter about to go TO
japan with her husband. wished 10 leave her among


friends in this city When the Old lady left the Boston
hospital yesterday morning, she was apparently well
anu walked down the steps. ON the way 10 thls CITY
she became III on train. and her symptoms grew
alarming The name OF the daughter not learned
Year: 1879

SIT is right for the government to
compel the Indians to give up their
rifles but, having disarmed them,
can the government honestly permit
it's thieving agents to continue to
plunder them?"


The government of the United
States has no right to take anything
away from that belongs to them,
their rifles nor any other thing, no
more than 1t has the right to enter
the household in the most densely
populated city and rob the inmates
his pri ivate property. But the Gov
ernment of the United States is a
fraud in respect to its Indian policy.


1t has made treaty after treaty
with the children of the forest, and
in every instance has taken mean
advantages of their ignorance and
credulity; not only were they thus
wronged, but the treaties have all
been violated, and winked at by
s'the best government the world ev-
er saw" The Gods truth is, the
white man has been stealing from
the Indian ever since Columbus set
his foot on the shore, and 1t is no
wonder that at every recurring sea-
son there are outbreaks and bloody
massacres. The boasted civilization
of the age steals from the poor devils
what little they have left of that
which they regard as having been
given to them by the Great Spirit
and wants to exterminate them If
they grunt a dissent. The Indians
have had much to incite them to
deeds of blood and pillage. And
the government of the white man is
respOnsible.- Post.
Year: 1879

THE following sensible article is


from the Bowling Green Intelli-


gencer of the 10th inst:


Among the thirteen hundred con-


victs in the Georgia Penitentiary


there are not a dozen unable to


work. The average health Is better


than that of Atlanta. With nearly
seven hundred in the Tennessee


Penitentiary, there was not con-
Wet in the hospital few days ago.


How is it in the Kentucky Peni-
tentiary? Out of less than one
thousand convicts more than fifty
have died since the first of January,
and about half the survivors have
been at one time unfit for duty.
Last year the States of Tennessee
and Alabama received a net rev.
enue of more than one hundred
Thousand dollars from their convict
labor which was utilized in building
railroads, opening coal minesA and
improving rivers. Kentucky leases
her convicts for a nominal sum that
has uniformally brought the State
in debt, and in almost every in
stance bankrupted the lessee. The
entire system is vicious in theory
and cruel in practice. Instead of
being huddled up I'm the hole at
Frankfort, dying for want Of air
and with not room enough to work
to advantage, every able-bodied
convict ought to be put to work inn
proving the waterways of the State
and opening coal mines wherever
coal is to be had. The talk about
interfering with honest labor is nom
sense. The products of convict
labor go to the open markets and
come as directly into competition
with the products of honest labor as
if the convict were worked without
instead Of within the walls. If put
upon the rivers they will be occu-
pied with a work that is not likely
ever to be done except by convict
labor, and it will be putting the
work where it will do the State the
most good and the honest laborer
the least harm. Humanity requires
that something be done, and quick~
ly, for the relief of the State prison
ers, and we see no better way than
putting them to work to develop
the resources of the State.
Year: 1879

|


Senator Bayard, in his recent
speech at Wilmington, made use of
what seems to be a very fastidious
expression for the advantage which
the American citizen possesses over
the citizen of any other country.


Here and on this soil only, of all the
lands in this wide globe, are ''the
noble equitias of humanity" so
thoroughly acknowledged and re-
spectedo that stthe one great and
essential equality, the equality of
opportunity, is secured to ALL" A
great ethical and a great physical
truth lies behind this happy and
pregnant phrase, There is no real
equality in the world like that of
"the equality of opportunity" It
is the fact, known all over the civil
lied world, that the United States
is the country in which a mans
talent and labor may be best availed
of to his own advantage, which has
brought and is still bringing to our
shores the choice of the emigrating
population of all nations. 1t is the
consciousness of this fact which con-
verts the great majority of emigrants
coming to us from every laud into
good, orderly, self-respecting citis
zens-the exceptions being only
whose minds are distempered by
unwholsome isms, and hence have
no proper conception or appreciation
of liberal institutions. Here knOWl-
edge, the access to justice, and the
chance for wealth and position are
put by law and by custom within
the reach and at the command of
every one deserving to attain them.
Our schools are free, and no man is
restrained in his religious conVic-
tiOns, while accessibility to sOicial
positions and political hOnors Is no
where as easy as here. All roads
are open to every one capable of
moving upon them ; and if a man
wishes to rise, the absence of long
lineage will not interfere to prevent
him. There are no obligations up
on anyone to follow his fathers
calling, no compulsion to prevent
him from changing it. The hod-
carriers son may become President
or Senator, or minister of the gospel,
college professor, or ambassador to
the aristOcratic court of st. James.
The country, its laws, its institu-
tions, and its traditions provide
him absolutely with "the equality
of opportunity" That so clear a
thinker as Senator Bayard, after his
long visit to Europe, should have
come home most deeply impressed
with this keynote to all our pros
perity gives still greater emphasis
to the belief that the founders of The
institution "builded better than
they knew" when they decided
that the only true equality the
world has ever seen, that opportu-
nifty should be the birthright of
every American citizen.
Year: 1879

Ii is the curse of the South that
she cuItivates loosely, produces
irregularly and wastes half that she
produces. In the one item of cot
ton, If she would only spin It with
these Clement mills and grind the
seed with oil mills, she would
double the value of the lint, double
the value of the seed, and give en-
pIoyment to nearly double the
number of people now employed In
planting and raising the crop. II
our people would only encourage
these two industries-if our capital
lists would only 60 into such Invest
ments-if our farmers would only
club together and establish them in
the neighborhoods-if our mechan-
les would form cooperative COM
panies, and build them-we should
soon regain the enormous wealth
we lost with our slaves, and the
South would become richer than
her most sanguine son can hope for.
Year: 1879

GOVERNOR Robinson says in a
talk: "Had not Mr.. Kelly bolted
from the Syracuse nomination, nc
sane man in view of the ascertained
result can doubt that the entire
State ticket of the Democracy would
have been elected. This is proof
enough that the fight was purely a
local one and confined to the STATE
issues entirely, and / have little
doubt that with a candidate accept
able, not to any section of the party,
but to all the party, we can carry
the State In $780,
Year: 1879

This periodical has always, by its able and
scholarly discussions of the questions of the
day, as well as by its illustrations-which
are prepared by the best artists-exerted a
most powerful and beneficial influence upon
the public mind.


The weight of its influence will always be
found on the side ofmorality. enlightenment,
and refinement.


The Volumes of the Weekly begin with the
first Number for January of each year.
When no time is mentioned, it will be under
stood that the subscriber wishes to COM
mence with the Number next after the re-
CENT of order,
Year: 1879

of specified quantity and fineness.
The same thing is true of private con-
tracts since that enactment. Before the
Bland bill the public listened with sym
pathy 10 the Treasury syndicates, but
this need not now be the case. As q
question of domestic morality and de-
cency the difficulty with the present sill
yer dollar is that the nation compels the
citizens to take for 100 cents thing
which costs the nation only IS cents.


The truth is that the future of silver is
still wrapped in deep uncertainty. We
all see that highly civilized communities
are every day getting on with less and
less coin, or Government currency OF
any kind. Bank checks and clearing
houses are making the exchanges. Me-
tallic money is daily becoming less and
less essential to business. And this ap-
plies to gold as well as to silver. The
desires and the needs of trade run to
wards banks, bank deposits and bank
checks. The telegraph has made one
city like New York the money store
house of q continent"


The World neglects to add to the worth
of the bullion, the cost to coin 1t, which
is about II cents, we believe. Sofar We
can see silver dollar will buy as much
as q gold dollar.
Year: 1879

9'A PLEASANT ISCIDENT.-The SIX
tieth birthday of Queen Victoria was
celebrated in Montreal, Canada, on Sat
ureiay, with a grand sham BATTLE on the
plain near that city; and pleasant in
cident connected with the celebration
was the presence of regiment Of Amer
lean militia from New York, who were
received amid the greatest cheering and
applause, and given a great position OF
honor in the battle and permitted to close
the engagement driving the enemy
from his position and putting them to
route.


Democratic New York, with all her
faults is always doing something OF
which the country may feel just pride +;
and this journey of the Thirteenth Regi-
ment, with Henry Ward Beecher as its
CHAPLAIN, all the way to Canada to take
part in honoring the sixteth birthday OF
the greatest lady in the world, the
Queen of England and the Empress OF
, India, may be regarded as one of the
finest pieces of pleasantly that has oc-
CURED between the two nations for a
long time. We think it could only be
excelled by the Queen visiting the Presi'
dent of the United States and becoming


guest of the country for few days.
Year: 1879

The Niagara Falls Prospect Park
Company have contracted for an electric
light machine, and intend to locate the
lights in such position as will enable
them to illuminate the great cataract on
a magniticient scale.
Year: 1879

If the Ohio Republicans would only
insist upon taking General Sherman for
Governor Grant could be made General
of the Army, and thHs leave a clear field
for Secretary Sherman. There ought to
be genius enough in the Sherman family
to arrange this.
Year: 1879

powerful interest, and has been granted
the right Of way along the streets OF the
city. It is not to be supposed that II will
fail for lack Of engineering skill 10 com.
pleteits extension. 1t willsucceed bcyonda u
doubt, Its hackers are on their mettle,
and they mean business. Why not accept
the inevitable, and proceed at once to the
solution Of the difficulty the completion
Of the Hempaeld. 1t Is the only practical
solution, and the one to which the B. go.
Company will have to come at last.
Year: 1879

Despite the decision of Collector Merritt in the
case of the reapprasement of the invoice of vevets
belonging to Messrs Oelberman & Co. the importers
of this line OF goods propose to ght the issue in the
United States courts. and have engaged counsel for
the battle ct the judicial tribunal. The importers
aver that there is too much money involved in the
advance of the velvets to submit tamey and If the
courts sustain the Collectors decision the imports
ton of velvets will have to be discontinued until
change in the tariff takes place.
Year: 1879

Democrats to nominate Thurman. His record on
the currency question has been so inconsistent, not
to say dishonest, that with him a. our candidate
we should certainly lose those Northern States
which we must carry in order to elect our candi-
date.n


How about General Hancock y


"Well, the strongest argument in favor OF his
nomination is that his candidacy would cause the
bloody shirt to be buried. i don't believe that
On the other hand, tell friends that his NOM
ination would bring sectional questions into prom
lnence by contrast. We cannot win with the North
arrayed against the South. The campaign must De
made on other issues for the Democrats to be sue
cessful.' =,


"You have said nothing about Senator Bayard.


al look upon Senator Bayard as the strongest man
whom we could put into the field; but nave no
idea that he can be nominated. He Will not take
advantage of the machinery necessary to secure ,
nomination. Senator Gordon was in New-fork on
business short time ago, and some gentlemen thefe
who favored Mr. Bayard's nomination asked MN VI
they might not form organization In his interest,"
ana if Senator Bayard himself would not approve or
il. Senator Gordon replied that he would not IKE
to give such permission, fearing that the senator
from Delaware would be displeased. Senator Bay
ard is the best representative have OF the gentle
man in politics and the purity of his character, ms
conservatism and his consistency would L Delieve
secure him the support of many conservative he-
pubcans in the North"
Year: 1879

studious gentleman, attempted to say something.


Mr.. Conkling at this point asked the Chair how
many gentlemen had the floor.


The Chair decided that the Senator from Georgia
had the floor.


Mr.. Hill was taken by surprise. He had forgot
ten which side Of the question he was on, and what
the question He said something about the
point of order which his colleague had intended to
make.


The Chair tore its hair and ordered the Clerk to
call the roll.


Senator Edmunds and others asked the Chair to
state the pending question upon which they were
to vote.


With some assistance the demoralized Chairman
explained that 1t was upon the appeal of the
Senator from the decision of the Chair
overrulng the point of order raised by the Senator
from New-York against the point of order which
the Senator from Georgia had intended to make in
regard to the point which he understood had been
made by the Senator from Massachusetts about the
motion which Senator Salisbury said he did not
make.


This being understood, the Senate voted by con-
siderable majority to sustain the rule OF the CHAIR
whatever that might be. and TO proceed with the
unfinished business of yesterday.
Year: 1879

TOPEKA, Kan, May 6.-TO-day the State
Central Freedmens Committee decided to organize and
become incorporated under the State law This is done
10 give stability and responsibility TO the organization
The object is to enable coOred to find homes In
The board of directors consists of thirteen per
sons headed by the Governor and state officers, Chief
Justice Horton and United States Judge Foster.
Year: 1879

The nineteenth district court in Cali fornia on the 7th instant, decided that the local or district mining laws must be complied with, and the points upon which the decision was made are these The district law required work to be done upon the mIne every sixty days and the United States law a certain amount during year This confirms a decision or departmental ruling made not long since that a district law compelling work to be performed sev- eral times during the year was not in conflict with the United States law, provided the whole amount of work required did not exceed a cost of $100.

 This is, in our opinion, a proper construction of the law, and while il may in some instances cause incon- venience to claimants, it better pro- notes development and discourages a monopoly of mining ground for a whole year for merely speculative pur- poses. Hundreds of locations are made by men with no purpose of ever doing any work upon them, and when made in accordance with law can be held al whole year to the injury of the great mining interest. Decisions of this kind will encourage actual miners toI compel assessment work more than once year.
Year: 1879



 Do our citizens realize what nun

 bers of people are arriving in Tue

 son every day? We often hear the remark that the streets show many strange faces, and we know that near ly all the available house-room is Oc- cupied. But hundreds who arrive in the town do not stop longer than to supply themselves with provisions THE CITIZEN office is on the high road from the north, and the travel thence passes its doors. IL comes in an al most continuous procession, largely composed of freight teams, of course; 1; but frequently in the day wagons of all sizes, kinds and qualities roll in, each carrying as many men as can hold on, with their bags, boxes and general outfit for the mines, and whatnot. Wear and tear seem tO have had pretty good opportunities at some. Old men, old horses, old wagons, and old stuff so knocked 10 pieces and used up that nothing but the idea of going ahead can hold them together But nine out of ten will go to the hIllsI and try over again what -hey have tired before-tO find their fortunes in the stones. We hope enough will succeed to keep of anything like panic. Not all will succeed, and iii the croSd gets too great there may be suffering for necessities. Our mines are not like those in other localities where great rushes have prevailed, | and where men could take a shovel and pan and after a days work have a days wages in hand. Here there must be working and waiting by the prospector. And after the waiting, it remains to be seen whether there will be enough 10 go around
Year: 1879

ARIZONA is making a determined eff fort 10 get her resources properly be fore the East Governor Fremont and Jud ge Silent, of the Supreme Court, are about to undertake a mission there for the purpose of inviting Eastern capital to assist in the development of the Territory. They will take with them specimens of her mineral and other resources, and will make their headquarters in New York,

 The above is from the Stock Report of the Sth, and we suppose that paper speaks advisedly, since the Governor was in San Francisco about that time. But we understood the matter differ ently, and fully believed that the Gov ernor and suite constituted an Elm bassy" to Washington for certain de- fined purposes connected with the Salt River country. For the moment we had forgotten the " Development " in stitution of which the Governor is the eminent head.
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, March 13.-At the Cabinet meeting to-day the Secretary of the Treasury Department presented for the information of the President and to be embodied in the message to the extra session of Congress, a state ment showing the probable receipts and expenditures for the next fiscal year, and the necessity of making pro- vision for the payment of arrears of pensions, by some encouragement of the Revenue Laws.
Year: 1879

NEVADA papers say nine or ten feet of snow was deposited in the noun tains of that state during the recent storms

 ALL the papers up north are now comforting Reno in the manner of Jobs friend: We told you sop
Year: 1879

A meeting of the voters of the Ninth
Ward is called for this evening, at the
sold Academy" to nominate member
for the Board of Public Education who
is in favor of retrenchment in the matter
of expenses. A full attendance is de-
sired.
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, May IA deaf and
dumb girl, aged eight years, was run over
this afternoon by the limited express
train from New York and received in
juries which caused her death In about an
hour and half.
Year: 1879

The water main at French and Water
streets burst, thus morning, and for
awhile the water flowed Gnite freely.
Workmen from the Water Department
were sent at once to repair the damage.