smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

gates Of the party in Sacramento
on the 9th day of May. That body
will not only nominate State off1c-
ers. including, If the Constitution
shall be ratified by the people, the
Supreme Court Judges and the
Board Of Railway Commissioners,
but members Of Congress as well.
We are now In the midst of an ex.
citing canvass which will decide
whether or not the whole organic
law Of California shall be changed
from turret to foundation stone.
That canvass will last till the 18th
OF May, and it is engaging and will
engage the undivided attention OF
the voter. We shall then have ex-
actly twenty days in which to
hold primaries, to consider the eligi.
billty of candidates and to get our
representatives to Sacramento.
This is rushing things with a
vengeance, and 1t Is generally
looked upon here as snap judg'
ment on the party. The quite uni.
versal feeling was we'll expressed
by the Young Mems Democratic
Club In their formal request to the
State Central Committee to post
pone calling the Convention till q
later date. The only advantage to
be gained by haste is that of antic.
pating the other parties In our
platform. This We regard Gas abso-
lutely immaterial. The principles
Of the Democracy, unlike those Of
q mushroom organization, are well
known. They are stamped with
all the authority of a hundred years
Of fidelity to the masses, and 1t is
an easy task to re.affirm them. They
can gain no new efficacy by being
promulgated earlier or later in a
State campaign. Twenty days is
too absurdly short time for such
q canvass.
Year: 1879

VIRGINIA CITY, April 8.-Great
Improvement Is reported in Sierra
Nevada incline to-day. A forma-
tion OF ore has been encountered in
the bottom which yields largely of
gold and but little silver. Assays
show over 5000 in gold. It seems
to be q new formation and indi-
Gates that the bottom of the incline
Is plunging entirely into this new
rock. Experts think 1t an easterly
body and that the old ore body will
DO found to have taken q sleeper
pitch and lying considerably to the
west Of the new strike.
Year: 1879

The Postmaster General has changed his
mind about closing the Blackville post Office
and instead of suspending the mail service at
that yillage-a punishment which the persons
guilty of shooting the postmaster would mind
very little, while innocent persons would mind
II a great deal-he will submit to the Presi-
dent and Cabinet the question Of providing
by Act of Congress for the Federal protection
of postmasters in the discharge of their duty,
as officers of tho Treasury Department are
now protected by the revenue laws. OBJ
yiously, if the General Government has no
power to defend its agents In the exercise of
their proper functions. any Act of Congress
whatsoever can be nullifed by rebelllous
State. OF disafected community, and we
are brought around again to the political here
sizes which we supposed had been extinguished
by the war of the rebellion.


The fact that Postmaster Nix was shot be-
cause the chivalry of Blackville would not
have ga id niger" for postmaster, gives
the Federal authorities no jurisdiction over
the offence 1t was believed that the legisla-
ton framed by Congress for the enforcement
of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend
ments would protect the freed people
from OutTaReS lubputu ny Hdtcu VI thVH
politics or their color. But the decisions
of the highest courts have made a consider
able part of these laws of no avail. The in
depreciation first laid down by Justice
Bradley in the Grant Parish case, In
Louisiana, was confirmed by the full bench
of the United States Supreme Court In a re-
view Of that cause, and in somewhat similar
one arising In Kentucky, and il has recently
been reiterated by Judge Bond in the Barn
well cases. The rule is now clearly estab-
lished that while Congress may pass laws to
protect citizens In the enjoyment of rights
conferred upon them by the Constitution, 1t
cannot guard other rights, or punish ordinary
crimes. The shooting Of Nix was simply an
attempt at murder, which the State alone had
power to punish.


But statutes for the protection OF Federal
officers in the discharge of their duty rest
ursn another principle to wit, the unquestion-
able right of the General Government to pro-
vide for the execution of its own laws. As
the Supreme Court declared In the
Grant Parish case, 1.-THE people Of the
United States resident within my State
"are subject to two governments, one State
land the other National. Together
they make one whole. and furnish the peo-
ple of the United States with q complete
government, ample for the protection of all
"their rights ut home and abroad. True. It
Year: 1879

show every voter what his new Assembly and
election districts are, and the polling-places
are arranged i'm an easy table. The citizen
who does not vote because of the trouble 1t
takes and. shameful as it is, there are such men
would be surprised to find how little time
and labor it would cost him to register his
name and cast his ballot afterward. But for
active citizens there should be no necessity OF
multiplying words about this matter. The
country needs every Republican vote. Let
every Republican who reads this he sure that
his own vote is secure, and the rest of the party
will take care of itself.
Year: 1879

Republicans who want to congratulate each
other on tic news from Ohio can go to the
Cooper Institute meeting tonight. They will
have the additional pleasure of hearing
speeches from ex-Secretary Fish. ex-MinisteI
Pierrepont and General Banks.
Year: 1879




The decision of the Court of Appeals upOn
the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad case is not
what rumor at first declared it to be- The
Court decides that the General Term which
confirmed the favorable report OF the Rapid
Transit Commissioners upon the projects of
the Kings County Elevated Railway Company
was not properly constituted. The case there
fere goes back to the General Term for re-
argument, and is not, In itself, affected in the
least.


The Health Board Inspectors are dealing
With the watered milk question in sum-
msry way. They emptied into the river on
Saturday more than 5000 quarts OF the al
legged milk received on one boat, and reported
70 the Health Board and the public the names
of the persons guilty OF foisting this stuf
upon the New-York market. 1t is well that
xpch names should be known. The adultera-
tisn of milk is infanticide, and the men who
ars guilty Of it deserve at least TO be put In
piIiory.


To-day is the only day this week when
vr,ers can register their names, and the only
a.y now remaining before Friday and Satur-
day OF next week. "heh theio WIN "o so"
xrzl rush to the polling-places of all those
people who make habit OF putting on till
to-uorrow what they can do just as well to-
day. Every Republican voter who has not
ALREADY registered and who can possibly find
The opportunity should see to it that his name
goes down on the lists to-day. The duty will
t.ke very little time indeed. glance at the
efacial advertisement on another page will
Year: 1879

New York, June 2l.-The Tribune
to-day says: The final tussle at Wash
ington will come on the question, which
has been the real one all the time,
whether there shall be pure election in
this city, or free and fraudulent one.
With supervisors of elections in power
there can be no ballot-box stufiing, and
consequently no bogus democratic ma
jority piled up high enough to oyer
shadow the republican majority in the
rest of the state. With an unprotect-
ed ballot box in this city in 1880 the
democrats may possibly carry the state
and elect the president; with the ballot
box protected by honest laws, there is
sure to be a republican victory here
and in the country. That is what this
fight means, and democrats may well
argue to themselves that no amount of
laundering can harm them, so long as
they are ruined anyway if the laws are
neither nullified nor repealed. The fact
is, the sacred cause of cypher and tissue
ballot reform is in tight place, and
desperate measures are necessary for
relief.
Year: 1879

Washington, June 2l.-It is by no
means certain that the president will
sign the army bill which was passed
last night. A number of republican
senators believe that it will be vetoed,
and they base their belief upon the
ground that the president is IN entire
sympathy with his party, and as that
party in the senate, with the single ex-
ception of Gen. Burnside, are united in
the opinion that certain clauses of the
bill are unconstitutional, it is believed
that the president takes the same view,
and that he will not append his sigma
.ture to Il measure which abridges his
constitutional power Col Rogers, the
presidents private secretary, was at
the senate chamber last night during
the discussion on the bill and, in con-
versation with several republican sena-
tors, took strong grounds against the
bill. He maintained that it was clearly
unconstitutional In some of its provis-
ions. The bill will be sent to the pres
ident at late hour to-day.


1t is stated this afternoon that the
president will veto the judicial expenses
appropriation bill, and that the veto
will be seat to the house on Monday
uaxt
Year: 1879

New York, June 21.-A special from
Laramie City, Wyo., of the goth inst,
says: Great interest is felt here over
the rich silver mines discovered near
this city on the rim of North Park.
A great many specimens of ore both
carbonate and chlorides have been
brought into town this week, all of
which assay silver from 5000 to 5000
per ton. The official assay to-day by
the territorial assayer certifies the ore
to be lead carbonates and to contain 433
onces of silver per ton. Experienced
miners are confident that this new
mining district will be fully as rich and
extensive as Leadville. The new camp
is about seventy-five miles from here
and easily reached by teams. People
are rushing in there from all around
this section of the country.
Year: 1879

Berlin, June 21.-The news OF the
death of prince imperial has caused
profound sensation here.


All the newspapers express the deep
est sympathy. The conservative organ
posi- which fairly represents the gen.
eral feeling. says:


Wen had any sympathy for the
dynasty which worked on the Father
land such grievous woe, but in view Of
the frightful fate of what has overtaken
its descendent, such antipathies must
be left out of the account Human
feeling must have its way.
Year: 1879

At meeting of the American Institute Farmers
Club. held in room No "a Cooper Union. yesterday
afternoon. Dr. J. Blake White Assistant Sanitary In
spector OF tho New York Health Department. read q
paper Commercial Milk; Its Supply and Its
Alultcraton." Hc treated of the Importance Of
milk as an article OF Dict OF its being Indispensable
in the nursery aud the kitchen and OF its containing
all the elements necessary for the nutrition and de-
veopment of tho tissues In the young. He con-
deinned tho adulteration OF milk as u very grave
offence He advised farmers to examine closely their
wells. In order TO that ths water was FREQ from
contamination by any deleterious agency.


resolution was adopted having for its object the
organization OF cooperative association Of milk
producers and milk consumers under the laws Of
this STATE with capital sufficient to secure to the
population of the city au ample supply OK good
milk at six cents per quart from the frst day OF
May to the last day OF November IN each year.
Year: 1879

It was cold dark night In winter
The wind blew, and the snow was whirl-


ed furiously about, seeking to hide itself
beneath cloaks and hoods, and in the
hair of those who were out. A distin-
guished lecturer was to speak, and not
withstanding the villagers very general
|ly ventufed forth to hear him.
William Amnesty, buttoned up to his
chin in his thick overcoat, accompanied
his mother. 1t was difficult to walk
through the fallen snow against the
piercing wind, and William said to his
mother:


Couldn't you walk easier il you took
my arm2"


"Perhaps l could" his mother replied,


as she put her arm through his, and drew
up as closely as possible to him. To.
gether they breasted the storm--the
mother and the boy who had once been
carried 10 her arms, but who had now
grown so tall that she could lean on his.


They had not walked very far before he
said: afe
81 am very proud tonight, mother"
Proud that you can take care OF me 2


she said to him, with a heart gushing


with tenderness.


"This is the first time that you have


leaned upon me-" said the happy boy.


There will be few hours in that child's
life of more exalted pleasure than he en-
joyed that evening, even if he should
live to an old age, and should in bis


manhood, lovingly provide for her who,


in his helpless infancy, watched over
him.
Year: 1879

Measurement of the ground must be made
and sworn to by competent surveyor, and
the amount produced must be sworn to by
some one having knowledge OF the amount.
A full statement Of the method Of cultiva-
tion and cost Of production must accompany
each entry. Kind and quality must be sta
ted. Entries may be made with the Secretary
to December l, 1879.


Committes-Ths Board Of Directors Of the
Sociatv
Year: 1879

MAIL TO SANTA FE.-Fred w. Williams has taken hold of the Prescott and Santa Fe Stage business and proposes 10 put th' thing in thorough motion for Mr. Walsh, the present contractor, who is said to be a man perfectly reliable. It is to be regretted that any obstacles should have been thrown in the way whereby the service had to be suspended, and it is certainly to be hoped that the tri-weekly service will be com menced immediately, aud soon be worked up to daily, as we consider the route from Prescott to the east via New Mexico by far the most important one in the Territory That it will be started We have not the least doubt.
Year: 1879

In responding to a toast at ban
quet the other evening, Judge s. F.
Hunt, leading Democrat, said:


III Ohio is to have the next Presi-
dent, and IL the party OF his political
belief is to have the President, there
is no gentleman ia all this country
who would bring more culture, more
patriotism, and more fidelity TO the
discharge OF the duties Of the Office
than General Garfield, OF OhiO.n
Year: 1879

Mr.. Garfield Is seldom facetious, but he
must have meant to be very funny when he
referred to the immaculate record" OF the
Republican party. Even the marine cavalry
would have laughed immoderately had they
been among his auditors.
Year: 1879

We desire to warn our Democratic
friends that the socalled Ingersoll Liberal
Party is bat another of the Republican
party devices to cripple the Democracy :.
It is engineered and controlled by the
most stalwart of stalwart Republicans, and
is organized By, and will be manipulated
in the interest of the Republican party.
Like the National party it is built ON Sec
tIonal ideas and can never succeed as
party, nor do its originators expect that it
will. but il it can draw enough Democratic
votes in close districts to elect Republi-
cans where Democrats would otherwise be
elected. it will have accomplished its mis-
sion. Anything to keep their paws in the
public crib is the motto of the stalwart
managers, and nothing, no matter how un>
scrupulous, will be left undone to further
the end in view. Democrats by adherlng
strictly to their party organization can
win a sweeping victory 10 1880,
Year: 1879

The National party is dead cock in the
pit all over the country. It has sunk al
most out Of existence in Iowa and Ohio,
and as party in the nation can never be
factor. It was originally organized for
che purpose of dividing the Democratic
vote. and wherever the vote was close
with the chances in favor Of the Demo-
cracy, money was sent to the managers to
keep alive the National organization.
When, after the election of Tilden in 1876,
the fact was demonstrated that the Dem
ocrasic party was largely in the majority,
the Republican managers set to work to
devise ways and means TO divide the Dem
ocratic vote. The riots of 1877 was the first
opportunity and it was quickly improved by
the Republican managers. To make the
movement more effective. Brick Pomeroy
was brought into the field to organize
greenback national clubs, with what sue
cess, our readers are well aware The
congressional elections of 1878 found the
new party in its zenith. Thousands OF
honest men of the rank and file OF the
Democratic party went into the movement.
and political demagogues saw their
opportunity to gain prominence by
an appeal to the passions and not
the judgment of the people. Hard times
were upon us. Industries were dead and
labor idle. Wages were low aud money
scarce, and in this condition of affairs, the
party, built on false issues, and founded
on the pernicious doctrine of sectional
legislatian, received thousands of converts.
This was the opportune moment for the
Republican managers who were behind
the scenes regulating the movements OF
the new party, and the cry was quickly
raised for ''honest money" Some able
Democrats, men who ordinarily would not
cater to new dogmas, took up with the
Nationals and gave prominence to move
ment which could not, from its very prln-
ciples, if nothing else. exist as National
party. What was the result? 1t is soon
told--a Republican victory. And this is
the way it was brought about. On election
day, those Republicans. or at least a
large percentage of them who had
been affiliating with the nationals
suddenly renounced their faith and
voted the Republican ticket. leaving the
Democrats who had pledged themselves to
the new party dogma TO vote the national
ticket and thus. by dividing the Democra-
tic vote, the Republican party was sue
cessful, This year the result is encourag-
ing to the Democracy. The Democrats
who went into the new movement honest
ly, as they supposed, to beat the Republi-
can party, have apparently renounced their
allegiance to the nationals and returned
TO the Democratic fold, They see that
by remaining with the nationals they are
but the tools of designing politicians. This
is a true and fair statement of what origin
ated the National party, how it was man
ipulated. sand what is now and
has been the purpose of its existence.
Democrats cannot afford TO be the tools
of Republican tricksters who, knowing the
Republican party to be in a minority both
north and south, cannot succeed in 1880
except through the aid of some side
organization to divide the Democratic
uOfo
Year: 1879

Those Democrats who have been acting
with the Nationals and blindly following
the leadership of those whose only purpose
is their own aggrandizement,aTe requested
to examine the returns from Ohio. II
will not require much argument to con-
vince man of ordinary intelligence what
must be the result of continuing to sup
port the National party nominees. The
National greenback party. as party, is
dead to all intents and purposes aud its
Continuation as party can accomplish but
one thing-the defeat of Democracy in
close districts. Take this county for in
stance. If Wilson desires to defeat the
Republican party candidates for treasurer.
as he claims is his desire, why don't he
withdraw in favor of Scotch Taylor. the
Democratic candidate2 Wilson is too
good man to be sacrificed for the sake
of keeping alive party which cannot pos
sibiy succeed in 1880, either in the state
or nation. Ii he runs he will be the
worst beaten man ever placed in nomina
tIon on any ticket IN this county.
1t is currently reported that Mr. Viii



son would withdraw from the race were
1t not for the strenuous efforts to keep him
on the track. by the national leaders. He is
altogether too good a man to be sacrificed
for partisan purposes. He is also aayoung
man, and the prestige of defeat would be
damaging to his future political prospects,
No young man can afford to throw himself
away-not even to help keep alive a party |
already dying, and sure to pass out of
existence. He cannot expect to get Dem
ocratic votes, for he has never been Dem-
ocrat or voted Democratic ticket-in fact
In 1876 he gloried ip his Repub icanism
and bo later than 1877. was OF that faith.
No Democrat can or will vote for him. He
cannot possibly be elected and mnst and
will be most ANONYMOUSLY beaten. If b.
continues to keep up the pretence Of max
ing the race, be will forever bury any
hopes of future political preferment. If
Wilson were to follow his natural inclina-
tions we believe he would withdraw at
once, as be is certainly keen enough to
see that he will not only be beaten. but
will be third in the race and poor third at
that.
Year: 1879

Frank Kane, lad, who drives one of
the carts at the Eleventh street quarry,
was severly bruised about the head,
yesterday afternoon, by stone:thrown
up by blast hitting him. Young
Kane was half a square distance from
the quarry at the time of the accident.
He was knocked down by the force of
the blow but did not lose consciousness.
The wound was dressed by DR.. Brown
and the lad taken to his home at No.
923 West Second street.
Year: 1879

Eddie M. Ocheltree, living at No. sos
Madison street, was of the impression
that he had gotten grain of wheat in
his ear daring the summer of 1878,
while rolling in the wheat pile on the
farm of his grandmother near Newark,
Del. As no Inconvenience or injury
had resulted from it in the boys ear, nc
attention had been paid to it until last
evening, while Edgar was in the act Of
excavating that oleagenous member
with pin head, the identical grain Of
wheat was brought forth in a good state
Of preservation.
Year: 1879

MEssRs. EDlToRs or DAILY REPUBLICAN:
In yesterdays paper noticed that a
man they call Hunt, extermiuated 20
dogs, and | am informed that he is paid
out of our City Treasury one dollar
a head. think it would be good
idea for the new Council to put their
seal of condemnation on that item.
The police could attend to that and not
hurt themselves much and thereby
save the tax payers big item in the
course Of year. REFORM.
Year: 1879

Harry Feldmeier will serve up this
evening very fine snapper lunch at
the FELTON, House, corner Of Second and
Walnut streets. He invites all his
friends to call and participate. The
snapper is extra large and will be
served with all the trimmings.
Year: 1879

Three hundred dollars reward will be paid
for the arrest and conviction OF the thief OF
thieves who have been recently engaged In
housebreaking in this city.


S.25tf j HIN +. ALMOND, Mayor.
Year: 1879

There's call upon the housetop, an answer from the


plain;
There's warbe in the sunshine twitter in the rain
And through my heart at sound Of these there comes


nAmeless thrill,
As sweet as odor to the rose or verdure to the hills
And all these Joyous mornings my heart pours forth


this strain:
'God bless the dear old robins that have come back


agsinw
For they bring thought Of summer, Of dreamy, lus-


cious days,
OF kingcups in the meadow making golden hare;
longing for the clover blooms for roses all agow,
For fragrant blossoms where the bees with droning


murmurs 60;
dream Of all the beauties OF summers golden reign,
And sing "God keep the robins that have come back


again"