smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

CoAL.-The Fort Frances Star
says: owe were shown a Speci-
men of what appeared to US to be
genuine coal the other day by an
Indian, which be said he had found
at some distauce from here while
hunting. He has promised to re-
turn and bring back with him
enough, if of the right kind of stuff,
to weld piece of iron, after which
we Will be able to speak with more
confidence on the subject. We
have repeatedly heard it a; serted as
q fact that coal has been discover
ed on both sides of Rainy River,
the American as well as the Cana


dian side, and we have taken the
necessary steps to have the asser-
ton verified In any case we hope
ere long to be in position to make
known the result Of our inve.tiga


ton, and satisfy ourselves with the
public whether the statement made
is correct or not. However, the
specimen brought to US the other
day by the Indian is in q different
direction to the discovery previous
ly spoken OF on Raing River. The
specimen bears a strong resem-
bIance to what is known by experts
SIS rock coal. AS We said before.
it is only q question of time until
some of tie rich mineral deposits
that this country is certainly pos
sessed Of will be brought to light
Year: 1878

A MAN innocently spoiled sermon
and prayer by exclsiming, while the
tears rolled down his cheeks, Lord,
Thou krowest have been an awful sin
ner-the chief among ten thousand and
one altogether lovely"
Year: 1878

THAT silly remark from Hayes at Min
neapolis TO the effect that The American
people will always treat man well as
long as he means well is met by the New
York Tribune in this abrupt and discour-
teous style: "The public servants and
political leaders the American people
want are men who do well as well as
mean we'll" The Lord knows Mr..
Hayes is doing we'll. He never made
half so much money in his life as he is
making now.-Bdit. Gazette.
Year: 1878

The RANKS of the Democratic party
are wide open, all true hearted men are
invited to step in. The Republican party
is dead; and those who ruineI it are not
INT to form new party. Come and join
our ranks? You will never have a be ter
time. Help us to reduce the expenditures
of government aud thus increase the
value of property by Kidding it Of the ex-
pense caused by keeping on high salaries
eighty thousand cormorants, many thou
sands of whom we do not need. "T
Year: 1878

THE COST of education in our prirate
schools is enormous, when compared to
what it was when our public schools
were more inferior. Now, the public
schools are the best schools and yet they
cost per scholar from SIS to SIG per year
while the private schools charge from s.
to $40 per quarter.
Year: 1878

Democrats are trying TO make politi-
cll capital of the trade dollar, by charg-
ing that the government after paying it
out at par refuse to receive it.-Press


There is nothing fairer than that the
government should receive the trade
dollar. The Republicans sold govern
1nent bonds for 80 cents on the dollar and
are now making the people pay them
in full in gold.
Year: 1878

BULLY for Maine? Now Butler for
Massachusetts 1t is better that this old
scrub should kick his own friends out :.
and we hope he will do it; and clear the
way for the Democratic party to take the
State thereafter.
Year: 1878

IT willprobably be several days before
the chairman of the County Meeting
will be able to announce the official re-
suit of the Democratic County nomina-
tions for the Legislature aud Levy Court.
Year: 1878

INSECTS generally must lead joyful
life. Think what it must be to lodge in a
lily! Imagine palace Of ivory or pearl,
with pillars OF silver and gold, all exhal-
ing ich perfume as never arose from
human censor! Fancy, again, the fun OF
tucking yourself up for the night in the
fields ofa rose, rocked to sleep by the gem
tie sighs of a summer air, and nothing to
do when you awake but to wash yourself
in a dew drop and fall to and eat your
bedclothesl
Year: 1878

UNDER the new army regulations
every Prussian soldier carries in his left
trousers pocket the plaster, lint, and band
age necessary for first dressing Of q
wound, so that in an emergency each can
help himself or a comrade.
Year: 1878

A BAsHFUL young man, while out
driving with the dearest girl in the world
the other day, hai to get out and buckle
the crupper, and hestatingly exclaimed
that the animals hustle had come loose.
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, June Ex-senator
Beck, who attempted to secure the
passage OF the bill through the SEN
ate providing for q temporary suspen-
sion OF the operation of the sinking
fund law, said to-day that he did not
regret the failure Of the Senate to act
upon that measure, but he thinks
there will be no surplus revenue from
which to make up the sinking fund
during the next fiscal year, and In
this opinion he says that he is sus-
tained by the Secretary OF the Treas
ury, who told him ON Saturday that
in view Of the heavy appropriations
made by Congress, there will be de-
ficieney OF $1,000, 900 before the close
OF the next fiscal year. The Senator
says there Is no hope for 3 reduction
or taxation so long as the House OF
Representatives is composed OF the
class of men who now fill its seats.
The bills looking to q reduction, he
says, We're held back until the last
mOIueuIi tue nUII5O s.sIsaf, SuII zS,sII
that there would not then be the
slightest chance for the Senate to act
upon them before adjournment.
Senator Beck is evidently not proud
Of his party In the House, and say il
the Democrats secure q majority in
the next Congress it will be an evil
dence of their good luck rather than
Of anything they have done to merit
it.-N y Tribune.
Year: 1878

Much has been said pro and con on
this question, and II has been gener-
ally decided In the negative but we
now have q case where 1t does appear
beyond doubt that they do sOnIctimes
eat them. A bee-keeper at Los An
geles says he has repeatedly watched
hens take up position In front OF
stand OF bees and there and then pick
them up one after another and de-
YOUR them. To strengthen this state
ment, he says he dispatched one Of
the hens caught In the act, and found
In her crop the no small number Of
$50 bees. A few dozen fowls let run
In an apiaTy in such q bad year as
1877 in California would soon depOpu-
late the stands, saying nothing OF the
large number that die Of starvation.
We have noticed hens eat dead bees,
but never saw them take them from
the entrance. Neither do they eat
q dead bee that is IS dry snd old as an
Egyptian mummy. They take them
when they are soft and plump Wes-
tern Rural
Year: 1878

The British Company OF New Tes-
lament Tevlsers have completed the
first revision and sent it to the Ameri-
can committee. The latter have re-
vlsed all except Revelations and four
of the smaller Epistles, and sent over
tue larger part OF their work The
grand rhythm of the rich old English
is everywhere preserved, and only
words changed that have lost their
original meaning or which do not
conform to the most authentic text OF
ancient manuscripts.
Year: 1878

A DAubury pTOcery-irm have TAX


ell the agency for hammock One
Of the articles they have hun. st the
front IL the shsde 81 their porch.
They hung IL there a. All ADVERTISE
ment, but numerous people have got


into il TO see how il worked. Il hung


so low they could easily sit in IL and


undoubtedly the motion WAS agreea-


bic and comfortable. But the grocers
didn't fancy this performance espe-


cially as the hammOck-sitters were


nOt' hammock buyers. Saturday
afternoon they removed the loop to
one end from the hook, and fastened


it by q bit Of tWine instead. Shortly
after man came in for two quarts of


mOlasses. Ii was put up in his pail,
/ aud paper tied over the top as he


had forgotten 10 bring 8 cover. When
he passed out he saw the hammock.
/ His curiosity was aroused st Ouce.
The grOcers were busy inside, so he


thought he WOQuld investigate on his
own hook. With that keen intuition


peculiar t. q New England man he
saw at glance that IL was something
\ 10 get intO. He knew that it was
nothing to wear, and WAS equally sure
| II could not be arranged for cooking.
He sat down in it. Then he swung
backward and lifted his feet up.


Then the tWine fastening gave away.
1t was a dreadful affair. He had the
pail Of mOlasses sitting on his lap, and
there waS dog sitting under the
hammock. Neither the dog nor the
mOlasses expected any thing, any


more than the man himself did. It
was terrible surprise to all of them.
The man and the dog lost their pres
ence Of mind, and even the pail lost
its head. The mOlasses went into his
lap and ran down his legs, and sWash-
Ell up under his vest, and insinuated
itself some way In between himself
and his clothes. And when he went
down he hit the dog with his heel on
the bAck, and the dog was SO wild
with terror and amaZemeuL that IL
sent up head-splitIing yell and fled
mRdly down the street, having first
taken the precautiOn To bite him in
the leg, and to tip over a tier OfwOOd-
en- water pals. When the pals went
down lot Of hoes were carried over
with them, and that started q box OF
gaIden seeds mounted on a box, and
they In turn brought away a pile OF
peck measures whose summit was
crowned with pyramid OF canned
tomatoes. It was q dreadful shock
to the man and nearly parslyzed him
with Its magnitude but when one
article following another came avail
anching q ton on him he thought the
evil one himself had burst loose, and
he just screamed as loud as he could.
The mOlasses was all over him, and
the garden seeds had adhered TO the
mOlAsses, and he looked more like 8
huge gingerbread stuck full of cara.
ways than any thing else. In this
awful condition he Waddlsd home,
AID swOre every step Of the way
DanJlTry Ne1Os.
Year: 1878

There's a Wilderness in Gods mercy,
Like the Wilderness OF the sea
There's kindness in his justice
Which is more than liberty.
For the love OF God Is broader
Than the measures OF man y mind
And the Heart OF the Eternal
Is most wonderfully kind.
II our love were but more simple,
We should take Him at His word;
And our lives would be all sunshine
In the sweetness OF our Lord.


r. ". Fd6e
Year: 1878

Golden Medical Discovery
Is alternative, or blood cleansing.
Golden Medical Discovery


Is Pectoral.
Golden Medical Discovery
Is Cholagogue, or Liver Stimulant
Golden Medical Discovery


Is Tonic.
Golden Medical Discovery
Year: 1878

1t is greatly to be regretted that the
periodical reports of mercantile fail


ures," made up by the agencies devot-
ed to commercial matters, could not
distinguish between the cases of in
solvency brought about by unavoida-
BILE misfortunes in business, and those
in which bankruptcy is an inevitable
result sometime or other, because Of
the speculations, or the recklessness,
or the out.and-out rascality of the
bankrupts. Ifsuch distinctions could
have been made and published in the
last two or three years, it would have
shown large percentage of cases in
which no other result than bankrupt
cy was possible from the beginning !:
it would have shown that the real
business Of the country is not in such
a desperate condition as the long cat
alogue of failures would indicate,
and would have saved the insolvent
but honest merchant the NOR
tification of being confounded
with a class of bankrupts like the
Fall River rascals, some of the saw
ings banks, the Chicago capitalists
without assets and other kindred af-
fairs. Such distinctions, however,
cannot be made in the lists of failures,
and the only thing that can be done
in the matter is TO refresh the memo
ries of the reading public to this ex-
the list of failures would
not be the tremendous catalogue it is
if it were confined only to those who
fail from honest misadventure in
business.-Philadelphia Ledger.
Year: 1878

..


ADvIcEs from West Point indicate
that the court Of inquiry ordered to
review Gen. Fitz-John Porter's case
will begin its session next Thurs
day. 1t will not take many weeks to
lift the veil that covers the wrong
done this gallant officer, and his
friends continue confident in the be-
lief that the result will be his tri-
umphant restoration to the army
Mo. Republican.


Yes, when we come to think about
it, since all those who fought in Lees
army, from general officer down are
fully restored and many sitting in the
halls of Congress, it might be wav.
ing of the "bloody shirt" not to let
up on Fitz-John, who refused to bring
his reserve corps into action, and SC
secured a rebel victory,
Year: 1878

TEE Subcommittee which went to
Florida to investigate has returned to
Washington, and they have found
nothing of vital importance to report.
The testimony of Driggers, the coun-
~ Judge Of Baker county, who testi-
fed that he threw out the two pre-
cincts of Johnsonville and Darbyville
fraudulently, is pretty much all that
was obtained of any positively fraud
ulent character, and this does not affect
the result at all and really is matter
of no importance, because this fraud
was discovered before the votes were
canvassed and the Driggers fraud was
corrected in ncanvassing the vote which
gave the State to Hayes. 1t is folly,
therefore to talk of the Driggers fraud
when it had nothing to do with the
result, having. been corrected upon
the spot and in the original canvass
of the State. Finally, Judge McLin
now ays-infernal scoundrel that he
is, we admit-that if he had the work
to do over again he would do it again
just as he did before, unless the mat
ters that he had since heard about
were presented in proper legal form,
and these matters he now states only
from hearsay and not of his own
knowledge.
Year: 1878

On the 18th inst. the Senate passed
the bill coming from its Finance COM
mittee, which provides that per ct.
bonds may hereafter be sold for green
backs, and that on and after Oct. 1,
next, legal tenders shall be receivable
for customs and all other duties due
the government. This shows that the
time has arrived when the govern
ment feels that it is abundantly able
to resume, that practically resump-
ton has been attained. Specie at only
a fraction of.one per cent. premium is
as good as it ever used to be in this
country before the war, and the
governments taking its greenbacks
for everything due it is the last step
step which bridges the chasm to re-
sumption full and complete. There is
no longer danger of a crisis or panic
in such step. Our own people and
the people of all nations have the full
est confidence in the nations ability
to resume, and hence nobody feels
alarmed at all. There being no alarm
there will be no crisis.
Year: 1878

THAT detestable scoundrel, Brick
Pomeroy, has put on his old copper
head war paint. Hear him in the
Democrat of June l:


Gin the organization of greenback
clubs, we counsel every able-bodied
member of these organizations to be-
come as proficient as possible in the
manual of arms. In time of peace it
is well to prepare for war. In every
greenback club there should be drill.
master-that is, in every club whose
members are brave enough to stand
at all times, under all circumstances
to defend their rights as citizens.


** We, the people, are in rebel
lion against the untaxed nobility o.
this country. We, the people, pro
pose to have our rights, peaceably
and by means Of the ballot, if possible
by the bayonet, if we must"
Year: 1878

ST. LOUIS, June 1.-THE Times
says no strike is anticipated there,
but ample provision has been made
to suppress any out break through
organization. Among tramps and
wandering harvesters there has been
discovered some who wear red scrap
of flannel on the left breast, have grips
and passwords and talk mysteriously
of trouble to come during the sum-
mer. They say they wont start a rev.
olution but will help it and when all
the telegraph wires are cut the coun-
try will discover that the tramps have
some power.
Year: 1878

Mr.. ARTHUR, Chief of the Broth
erhood of Engineers, is out in pub.
lie statement in which he declares
that there is no danger of a railroad
strike this year, as has been feared by
some. He says the employees and of.
ficials are on terms of amity and that
there is no disposition to reduce wages
and no disposition to grumble on the
mart of the men,
Year: 1878




At last overwhelming public indig-
nation on the part of the republicans
of the nation and a tacit condemna-
ton by business men who are
! democrats, has forced large part of
the democratic members of the House
to vote for the resolution which de-
clares that this Congress has no pow
er to disturb the title CT President
Hayes. Twenty-one democrats, how
ever, held out and voted no. One
month ago, when the resolution au-
thorizing the Potter investigation was
passed it was strenuously attempted
to modify it by similar declaration,
that Hayes title could not be disturb
ed, but the democrats of the House
would not hear to it; they even chok-
ed down Alexander Stephens and
would not let him speak upon this
point. Now they are frightened at
their plot because of what the people
say, and so back down, not willingly,
but grudgingly; not because they
want to, but because they feel that
they will be sadly defeated as a party
if they still refuse to do it. It is too
late, gentlemen. 1t is easily discerni-
BILE what the intent was, and what it
still is, if it be possible to reach it.
The solemn declaration of men once
traitors and again contemplating rev.
olution, is not worth farthing, when
opportunity offers to break it. A ma
ton of wise men become fools if they
depend upon such men.


It is noticeable that Potter and
Hewitt, of New York, did not vote.
They stayed away. Hewitt ran the
campaign for Tilden in 1876, and Pot
ter lead off in obtaining this investi-
eating committee for Tilden. They
dared not face the music. Sam Til
den, childless millionaire of sixty
odd years, has been and is sinking his
fortune to crafty his consuming am
bition to be president, and he uses the
same unscrupulous means-means that
are employed only by scoundrels-to
obtain the presidency, that he did to
make his fortune.
Year: 1878

A month or two ago a young girl
in Boston, the daughter of one of the
wealthiest men there, being about to
marry, asked her father to let her
wedding be as quiet and inexpensive
as possible, and to give her the money
which would have been spent in flow
ers, wine, etc. With this sum she
gave a certain sum to the poor of
each city which she visited on her
wedding journey. She had the bles-
sings of the hungry and naked strew-
ed along her path instead of roses
The story, without the names crept
into the newspapers. Last week the
wedding of one of the great capital
lists in this city was marked by as
touching and beautiful an incident.
One of the gifts to the bride was the
sending of hundred orphan boys to
homes in the West. A good deed is
not so much like candle throwing its


beams upon the night as a beacon


which is no sooner kindled than it


lights a hundred others in the dis
tance.


Our people are learning each year
not only to appreciate better the es-
thetic side of charity but to indulge
their esthetic and emotional tastes in
practical way, helpful to others.
Instead of stained windows in church.


es to the memory Of those who are
gone, we see memorial beds in chill


dren's hospitals. In spite of the hard
times too, the amount given in chari-
ty, as shown by the reports of church
es, asylums, etc., has not decreased
half as much in this country during
the last two years as the amount spent
on individual luxury. We know of
no finer indication of the integrity
and genuine right feeling of the
American people than that. See how
heartily and promptly, too, they seize
upon any new hint of how to help
the poor and unlucky! Five years
ago thousands of children died in the
tenement houses and cellars Of New
York and Philadelphia during the
hot season for the lack of breath of
fresh air. Some good soul thought
of free excursions, and the kindly
idea spread like wildfire from city to
city all over the country. Some 9TH
er friendly soul conceived the idea of
cheap Summer hospitals by the sea-
shore, and it has enlarged now into a
dozen sanitariums, boarding-houses
at cost, etc.


Two summers ago, the Quakeress,
Eliza Turner, whose life is as true and
simple as her poetry, brought one OF
two sick, poor babies with their moth
ers to her country home for a fort
night. The fortnight over, she
brought others, and asked the neigh
boring farmers to open their houses
to the little waits. The Tribune told
the story, asking that others should
inaugurate this cheap, simple, and
most helpful charity. This Summer
we hear Of organized systems through
several of the farming districts of
New York, New Jersey, Delaware
and Pennsylvania, by means of which
many lives of innocent children will
be saved. Let us have more of them.
Now is the time to take the matter in
hand. Any woman with kindly
mothers heart can inaugurate the
plan and carry it out. Surely it is
better to fill up the idle Summer
hours in saving little children's lives
than in even medieval art work.
Year: 1878

OoStv000'


NEW YORK, June 16.-Hon. E. F..
Noyes, United States minister to
France, arrived in this city last night,
by the steamer City Of Richmond.
General Noyes was met on the land
ing by General Knapp, who was ad-
jutant-general of Ohio during his
gubernatorial term, and by several
othes friends. In conversation with
representative of the associated
press touching the matter that brought
him back at this time, he said: 81
went to Florida for no purpose on
earth except to ascertain the vote of
the state and to see whether or not
the popular vote had been cast for the
republican electors. / stated to the
two republican members Of the can
vassing board that all we wanted was
an honest decision. / never made
any promise to McLin or any other
member of the board, nor did l sug-
gest any possible reward or recogni-
ton III case Gov. Hayes should be de-
clared elected and SO far as McLin is
concerned, I never saw him alone one
moment in my life before the vote of
Florida had been cast. am inform
ed for the first time that even McLin
does not say made him any promis-
es. Had known that before leaving
Paris, l should not have demanded
subpoena, but should have remained
in France to attend to my public du-
ties. i do not care to be more specific,
as it would perhaps be in bad taste,
considering that l am SO soon to give
my sworn statement to the committee.


In the course of further converse.
tion, Minister Noyes said that while
he he did not care at this time to be
interviewed, he had nothing whatev-
er to conceal. He also expressed the
hope that every politician in the north
whether democrat or republican,
would be subpGnaed, who had visit
ed Florida on this business. as that
would be only fair to all parties in
terested or concerned in the matter.
1t was certainly due him, since he
had been 90 conspicuously named in
the preamble Of the Potter resolu-
ton,
Year: 1878

Yesterdays later proceedings in
the House which we did not receive
in time for that days issue, we give
to-day. The democrats who would
not vote for the Burchard resolution,
declaring that it was not intended to
disturb Hayes title to the presidency
had a good deal of explanation to
make and the old man Stephens had
himself wheeled in the House on his
chair to record his vote for the resoulu.
ton. The greenbackers tried to get
up their anti-resumption scheme and
failed.
Year: 1878

PLANO, ILL.,, June l5.-Rollo Hop
kline, q young man working in the
Marsh Harvester works, was instant
ly killed and horribly mangled this
morning by being caught in the belt
of the main shaft and whirled around
with lightning rapidity. Both legs
were cut of. Finlayson who was
standing near by had an arm broken
by the accident.
Year: 1878

WAsHINGToN, June lS.-In conse-
qnence of the failure to obtain two
thirds vote in the House for the mo-
tion to Pass the bill under the sus-
pension of rules, to pay the fisheries
award of the Halifax commission,
the Senate will insert an amendment
to effect that purpose in the sundry
civil appropriation bill. This amend
ment can be concurred in by simple
majority IF the House.