smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

assume larger proportions to the proper
ty of the world than it hsd done before.
This would afford TO the holders OF sll
kinds of maturing obligations the rlght
to demand and receive greater value
than was given when the indebtedness
was incurred, thereby adding greatly
to the burden of the debtor class and In
creasing the wealth of the rich at the
expenses of the poorer class.


Fourth That, with the enormous
amount of irredeemsble paper money
now in circulation, the general resumP-
tion of specie payments, even on the pres
ent basis of coin, must cause such con-
traction OF the medium of exchange as 10
produce very serious shrlnkage IN the
price value of all kinds of property, and
that the further contraction OF the me
dunn OF exchange which must result from
the demonetizstlon OF silver will so ag-
grsvste and intensity this decline In
values that bankruptcy aud Reputation
must Inevitably follow.


= If the evils above pointed out do not
follow denomination, it will be because
another evil nearly as great will come to
their stead, viz: that paper money will
take the place of the discarded coin and
the world will launch out into an era OF
irredeemsble paper money. Resumption,
which might now be difficult, would then
be impossible, except through the general
ruin which sooner or later must come to
the world as the natural outgrowth and
the inevitable result of such course.


Without the restoration of silver to
our currency, resumption is impossible,
and reputation probable. Unless Con-
gress is willfully, yea, criminally, blind
to the interests of the people, not only
will it remonetize silver, but it will re-
peal the resumption act. The natural
laws of trade are carrying US rapidly
enough to coin basis. The shrinkage
OF values has been quite as fast us the
people are prepared for. The smashing
OF banks and the crashing of public and
private enterprises may be music IN the
ears of the creditor class, but nine.tenths
of the people hear in them nothing but
Year: 1877

ATCHIsoN, Ks, September 6.-At 2
o'clock tonight the western sbutment OF
the great iron bridge which spans the
Missouri river at this place c,ved INTO
the river with terrific crash carrying
the entire fifteen toot wall and about
seventy-fve leet Of the embankment. A
sliding of the works has been noticed for
the past forty-eight hours, and Mr.. l.. L.
Todd, superintendent OF the bridge has
had force Of men employed day and
night doing everything that could be
done to avert disaster. A force OF men
has been at work all day tearing off the
wall that the long draw span might
le cleared and escape the danger that
threatened when the wreck should come.
They succeeded in swinging the draw
clear at 10 o'clock, and five minutes later
it could not have been swung. AT II
o'clock the huge mass OF heavy masonry
and thousands of cubic yards OF earth
WAS hurled into the Missouri river. The
damage has been confined exclusively to
the abutment, and everything else Is safe.
A large number OF workmen Will be I'M
mediately put to work TO clear away the
debris, and the bridge officers promise an
entire new and firm abutment, resting
and anchored on the bed rock, TO be IN
place IN less than thirty days.
Year: 1877

New YORK, June 12.-Gov Tilden made Q
brief speech at the reception at the Manhat
tan Club tonight. After alluding to the de-
parture of Gov. Hendricks tomorrow, with
the best wishes for, prosperous voyage and
safe return, he said: Everybody knows that
after the recent election the men who were
elected by the people President and Vice Pres
ident OF the United States were counted out,
and men who were not elected were counted
in and seated.


I disclaim any thought of the personal
wrong involved in this transaction Not by
any act or word of mine shall that be
dwarfed or degraded into personal griev-
ance which is, in truth, the greatest wrong
that has stained our national annals. To
every man of the four and quarter millions
who were defrauded Of the fruits of their
elective franchise, it is as great wrong as it
is to me, and no less to every man of the mi
nority will the ultimate consequences extend
Evils in government grow by success and
impurity


They do not arrest their own progress;
they can never be limited except by eternal
forces. If the men in possession OF the gov
ernment can in one instance maintain them
selves in power against an adverse decision Of
the elections, such an example will be imita-
ted. Temptation exists always; devices to
give color of law and false pretences on which
to found fraudulent decisions will not be
wanting.


The wrong will grow into practice, if con-
doned. In the worlds history changes in the
succession Of governments have usually been
the result OF fraud or force. 1t has been our
Year: 1877

faith and our pride that we had established a
mode OF peaceful change to be worked out by
the agency OF the ballot box; the question now
is, whether Our elective system In the stub
stance as well as It's form is to be maintained.


This Is the question OF questions until 1t is
finally settled. There can be no policies
founded on inferior questions of admnistra-
tive policy It involves the fundamental right
Of the people, 1t involves the elective princi-
pie. 1t Involves the whole system Of popular
government


great wrong which has been done TO them.
They must strip the example Of everything
that can attract limitations; they must refuse
q prosperous immunity to crime. This Is not
all the people will not be able to trust the
authors or beneficalies of the wrong TO de-
wise remedies, bit when those who condemn
the wrong shall have the power. they must
reyiee the measure which shall render repe-
tition Of the wrong forever impossible.


If my voice could reach throughout our
country. and be heard in its relnotest hamlet
| would say, be of good cheer; the republic
will live. The institutions Of our fathers are
not to expire IN shame; the sovereignty Of the
people shall be rescued from this peril and
re-estabished Successful wrong never ap-
pears SO triumphant as on the very eve Of it's
fall


Seven years ago corrupt dynasty culm-
mated in Its power over the million of people
who live In the city of New York. 1t had con
quered or bribed, or altered, and won almost
everybody into acqllescence. II appeared to
be invincible. year or two later its mem
bers were in the penitentiaries or in exile.
History abounds in similar examples. We
must believe in the right and In the future. n
great and noble nation will not sever it's po-
ltieal from its moral life.
Year: 1877

ItUNNIHF


New YoRK. June 13.-~The secretary Of the
National Rifle Association of London. writes
that at the meeting of the council of tho latter
body 1t was resolved that as no separate
teams from Scotland or Ireland had this year
been able to enter for the international long
range match for championship Of the world, at
Creedmoor, the National Rifle Association
would accept the invitation and would send
a team, representing the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, to compete in the
match at Creedmoor. Sir Henry Halford
has been appointed to form the team.
Year: 1877

determine it ct twenty-five years, the
actual receipts after deduction Of certain
charges to go to the joint account Of
tho two companies, Of which seventy-five
per cent OF Tito belong to the Anglo-Ameriean
company and twenty-five per cent to the
Direct Cable Company. In case Of Interrupt
tlon to either line for more than one yeat.
these proportions are to be modified; in case
OF the total interruption for more than thirty
consecutive months disagreement TO be deter
mnable by a notice. An allowance at the rate
OF ten thousand pounds year is to be made
by the Direct Company out of their reeeipts
TO the Anglo-American Company. during such
time as said company shall keep two on more
cables In working order
Year: 1877

New YORK, June BIB. b. Mulyehall q
fashionably dressed and polite man, and said
to be confidential clerk Of United States
Treasurer Spinner, was held in Jefferson
Market Court to-day on q charge of robbery
of watch and other articles from his
boarding house
Year: 1877

Especial to the Democrat.


LONDON, June 13.-The directors Of the di-
rect United States Cable Company announce
that they have decided to wind up the present
company and form another with the same
name. The object Of winding up is to enable
a working agreement with the Anglo Ameri-
can cable to be made effective. The principal
heads Of this agreement are the agreement to
remain in force twenty-five years from May
], 1877, with power to either company to
Year: 1877

Especial to the DemocratI


WASHINGTON, June 13.-Nearly all the pa
pers which have advertised for the War De-
rartment have declined to publish advertise
ments at the rates fixed by the recent decision
of Attorney General Taft, viz: "Forty cents
per folio of one hundred pages for the first
insertion, and twenty cents per folio for each
subsequent insertion. 1t is probable that the
subject will be brought to the attention of the
Department of Justice, together with full
statement of the difficulties experienced on
account of the late decision.
Year: 1877

Especial to the Democrat
MONTGOMERY. June 10. - The rains have
been general In Alabama and done a great
deal of good TO the crops.


Oats are a comparative failure. Wheat
the best crop made since the war Corn and
cotton are clean and doing well.
Year: 1877

It is rumored that Mir. John P. Cum will take editorial charge oI the Citizen news paper, now being moved from Tues on to Florence.

 Deane, who was under indictment for killing Black Wilson at Phoenix, made his escape from the Maricopa county jail on Thursday night. The new cage has prob ably not got to work yet.

 The Silver King mill was shut down last week for putting in additional machinery Work should by this time be completed a Id he out turn of co cen ratons bc nearly dJull;d. The Connolly boys are taking out very rich ore from their cent discovery near the Silver Queen and sacking it for shipment to San Francisco. In the same vicinity the Baker Bros. are taking out re- markedly rich ore from the Copper Top mine.

 The Signal mill started up this week and everything is reported to be running in good shape.

 Miller Bros. have quit receiving freight at Enrenberg for Presc, t. and Northern Arizona They propose establish 2 new landing above Aubrey ou the Colorado river, which they claim will be within 135 miles of Prescott A new wagon road has been made via Greenwood.
Year: 1877

there was something in the rumor. Another pet explanation was tn; [ the mine was purposely shrouded in mystery to keep Gashweiler and the other capitalists" of Sah Francisco from taking part Tn the litigation against Reagan, one ot the heaviest owners. Meanwhile the mine had been incorporat' d and stocked; Col. Barney gradu- ally bought in stock until he held three-fifthS of the whole concern ; the mill at Picket Post was kept 'usy turning out 5000 a day; the litigation against Reagan died out in its infancy-never came into court. Finally, October B, Barney bought up about all the stock of the mine and became virtually sole owner.

 Now the true solution of the mystery seems to be that there never has been any mystery at all. The owners of a mine simply stop ped giving away rock that was half silver, and stopped strangers from gossiping with miners to whom they were paying S4 day for labor. They had more ore out than they could reduce for some time and preferred not to spend, for extraction of more, money which would probably have to lie idle for years. The litigation the- ory has exploded itself. The "petering out" report seems to be effectively contradicted by the ac- ton of the heaviest StOckhOlder in securing for himself all the rest of the stock. He is now at San Francisco and, until his return, the only mystery left is, whether he will turn loose and make things howl" or whether he will keep on starving to death on a thousand dollars day-or rather on two thousand, the capacity of the reduction works h wing been recently doubled.
Year: 1877

day of her first appearance on the
English stage she led a very intense
life. He seemingly inexhaustible
energy was the marvel Of London
society. She would go through an
exhausting part at a theater and
then appear at a ball, and leaving
last, would seem the least fatigued.


She was fond of every description
Of gaiety, and it is probable that
she laid the seeds of her fatal i'll
ness in the rounds of fashionable


enjoyment. She was impulsive and
passionately fond Of life, and too
ready to make inexpedient sacri-
fees for the sake Of pleasure. Her
career, brilliant and successful
though it was, on the stage and in
society, teaches, by its sacrifice of
a fine physique and a splendid con-


stitution to an carly death, how
great is the cost at which enjoy


ment and success are often gained.
Year: 1877

Late English papers contain fur
ther particulars Of the last scenes
in the life of Mile Titiens, and in.
dicate that her death was quite
sudden and altogether painless. On
Tuesday, October 2, the day before
she died, she was exceedingly cheer
full, and the day was made a partic
ularly happy one by the reception
of a very kind message from Queen
Victoria, expressing sympathy with
her Sufferings and admiration of
her talents. She dined as usual,
and expressed no discomfort in the
evening, but toward bedtime be.
came faint and could only retire
with assistance. She slept tran
quilly until about two o'clock in the
morning, when, though still able to
take nourishment, and entirely
conscious, she was found to be
evidently sinking, and died without
suffering. Mile Titiens appeared
on the stage in the early part of
the last opera season, but her
disease began rapidly to intensity
about the middle Of April, and
on the 10th of May she sang for
the last time in Lucrezia Borgia.
On this occasion it was a part
of her role to feign death, and
she remarked to a friend that she
thought she was really dying. 1t
then required four men to lift her.
She afterward underwent several
surgical operations without relief.
On the 18th of June, after a journey
to Worthing, she caught cold, and
her subsequent history was that of
a gradually declining strength,
with occasionally suffering relieved
by surgical skill. She died at her
home in st, Johns Wood, sur
rounded by her sisters and nieces
and many affectionate friends. Her
comparatively early death, at the
age of Eorty-three, is in part ex-
planned by the fact that from the
Year: 1877

=" Yes SIR; the country was full
of it. Isaac knew all about that.
You read the bible. Don't you
worry about the tough places. They
amt tough when you come to think
them out and throw light on them.
There amt thing in the bible but
what is true; all you want is to 90
prayerfully to work and cipher out
how t was done"
Year: 1877




she now follows straight in our
wake. She offers much more re.
sistance to the sea than l antici-
pated, and, l think, would have
been better with sharper bow and
stern. She drives the water off her
bows even in fine weather IN a mass
of foam, and her stern is all in
broken water. With favorable wind
she carries sail, but it does uot ap-
pear to help her much. The maxi
mum speed that we have attained is
a little over six knots with favorable
wind, which is two knots Or two and
one-half knots less than the Olga's
usual speed when heavily loaded, but
a head wind brings us down below
five at once.


We have had but one casualty,
which occurred on Sunday night
last, 3lst ult., at 10 pm, when
Carter signalled, "Stop; want as
sistance," and it was soon evident
that the tow line had parted from
the Cleopatra and hung down over
our stern. 1t took some time to
haul in the wire rope by means of
purchase tackle and steam winch
at first, and then by hand. When
the end came up we found the
thimble on the end of the tow line
was gone, and the eye broken
through; doubtless from the con-
slant wear on the bride, and per-
hapS rendering of the chain through
here during the last four days
heavy pitching had worn through
the thimble and then soon cut the
wire rope. We turned the rope
end for end, so as to give the other
end to Carter. This was not done
much before midnight, when we
made up to theOleopatra, and, as the
night was very dark and somewhat
stormy, told Carter we must wait
for daylight; so Lay to and lodged
about until 5 am, when we passed
him the other end of the wire rope,
and fastened it on with an anchor
shackle to the bride chain, made
fast at one end to the clamp on
sternpost and the other passed
round the drum.


This gave us the first opportun-
ity of speaking to Carter since we
started. He reported the ship all
right anG water-tight, fixings all
right; the upper bolts Of chain
sheayes, crab winch, etc., had
leaked little at first, and given
some trouble, but they had stopped
all with cement. l thought Carter
looked care-worn (; he must have q
terribly anxious time, and is con-
stantly on deck, as his boatswain is
lald up Ill with congestion of the
liver. He can get no rest day OF
night, and wonder how any one
can sleep in such a "rocking
horse" pitching almost constantly
fifteen times a minute. l expect
we will have to try and ship a mate
for him at Gibraltar, unless | can
persuade the captain to spare the
second mate from the ship, who is
a capital young fellow and anxious
to go on the Cleopatra.


l will keep this open till we get
to Algiers; will telegraph you there,
and post this via Marseilles, by
which route it may chance to reach
you before one from Gibraltar
could. But l will also post a press
copy of this from Glib, as we hope
not to have much more news to re-
port when we get there. We should
reach there on Saturday, the 9th
inst, and even if we have fine
weather can't calculate on reach
ing Falmouth in less than nine or
ten days, so we may hope to drop
anchor there, "Inshallah," any
time between the 18th and goth
inst.
Year: 1877

We may venture to make few
suggestions in behalf of those who
desire to acquire the art. If you
are a lawyer whenever the name of a
very celebrated member of the bar
is mentioned, you must immedi-
ately hint that the lawyer is over
rated, and that Mr.. So-and-so, of
whom you must be sure your au-
dience has never heard, is really a
Stronger man." If you are an


artist, you can say of some other
artist that he is very good fellow,


but what pity he cant paint; or
if the other artist understands tone
and you do not, then you can say
that "tone" nowadays is tobacco
or "lamp-black." If you are a
poet, you can do nothing more to
the point, in the presence of young
persons, than to mention in conf
dence, and with deprecatory air,
that your verses on Nova Zembla,
containing that simile of the
lily and the beaf, were printed
six months before Tennyson's
famous ode containing exactly
the same simile. If you are a man
of science, you will gain great re-
putation by merely Struggling your
shoulders at the mention Of some
famous specialist. This method
will work admirably in the medical,
or in fact in any of the learned


professions. But if you are not a
writer, or a professional man Of any
kind, but merely a person Of taste,
you can increase your reputation


by many not very costly devices.
If an engraving or photograph ia
shown you, cover a part of the pic
ture with two fingers of your right
hand, and say that it is very we'll


all but that. Ii it is too large to
treat in this way, stand at the pro.
per distance, shut one eye and hold
a finger or two at arms length, first
perpendicularly and then horizont-
ally, so as to hide now one and now
another part Of the painting-aftel


the manner of some artists. When


you have done this you can either


say that the picturei sgood,or that il
lis bad; but remember that you will
Year: 1877

Social InIercOUFse.


Our readers may like to know
what is etiquette in Paris. Lucy
Hooper treats the subject in Apple.
toms Journal. According to her
showing, the rules of matrimonial
courtship are rigorous. The suitor
gets the formal permission Of the
parents, and bargains with them as
to dowry and other financial mat
ters, before he begins to WOO the
woman His first meeting with her
after the settlement of the prelimi-
naries is by exact appointment. He
is carefully but not too elaborately
dressed, and she is attired simply
but as effectively as possible. They
are then formally presented to each
other.


Subsequently they meet with less
restraint, but before every visit he
sends her a bouquet as a token that
he is coming, and he invariably
wears full evening dress. Miss
Hooper asserts that this sort Of
thing continues until the marriage,
She gives the following social rules
that are binding in the highest
Partisan society: The visiting hours
are from three to six. Men wear
dark gloves, and carry their hats
into the drawing-rooms. Visits OF
coincidence are conducted with care
full mournlulness of manner. What
is considered good behavior at balls
is not much different from usage in
this country, except that gambling
tables are adiuncts Of fashionable
entertainments, and may be played
at without mourning censure. Re
ception days are an institution,
both for men and women, and at
such receptions refreshments are
not essential.


AS to dinners: CAT dinner the
host and hostess occupy each end
of the table. Should the host be a
widower, he would insult his guests
did he place a young woman at the
other end of his table. If a gentle
man be placed next to a young, un-
married girl at a dinner party, he
must converse with her very little,
and only on the most trivial sub.
jects. 1t is very rude for a lady at
a dinner party to pretend to be a
small eater and to boast of her lack
of appetite-such a proceeding i;
an insult to her entertainers. Il
fruits are served at dessert, ard you
wish to peel pear or a peach, you
must cut it into quarters and pare
it horizontally; to peel it round
and round is considered extremely
countrifed and in bad taste. Never
tell a story at dinner table unless
requested to do so by the master OF
the mistress of the house."
Year: 1877

gain most credit by giving an opin-
ion opposite to that which you sus-
pect is held by persons present. If
you go to a public entertainment,
like Dickens readings, or Bee
thoven symphony, do not fail to re-
port that you had to knock your
feet against the chair to keep awake
although in the case of the sym
phony be careful not to lay the
blame upon the composer, but upon
whatever orchestra may happen to
render the piece that night. But
if you suspect that the music was
particularly well rendered it will be
safe to declare that it was altogeth-
er too well played, and that for
your part yen prefer to hear Bee
thoven given by the - Society,


where Everything isn't clt and
dried, and something is left to the
Imagination The Old Cabinet.
Year: 1877

The story goes that some years
ago a French diplomat went TO see
prominent Turk in the finance
administration at Conslantinople,
and said to him: "Lo k here, how
about that interest which falls due
in four days? You haven't got a
penny at your disposition Just now;
your creditors in my country Will
be intensely dissatisGod if they are
not paid. What's to be d0ne?"
" Well" said the Turk, we mast
put it off until some future date"
But this is one Of those things
which cannot be put off" urged the
diplomat. The Turk rose with
great dignity, and said: "My friend,
learn that there is nothing which
cannot be put off except the day of
ones DEATH" That is Turkish doc
trine, and the Moslem smiles when
you endeavor to teach him any,
thing different. He strokes his
beard and utters one of his proverbs
such as Gisten to a Frank and you
will hear a fable" He is hard
party to instruct.