smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

We do not care 10 prolong discus.
sion with the Vicksburg HERALD re'a.
tive TO its wild proposition to disfran.
chise all male citizens unable 10 read
and write. We are not in favor of
"he ignorant masses ruling the cotton
States" as intimated by the HERALD.
But universal suffrage Is an accom-
plished fact, and the evils of all iguo.
rant exercise of the elective franchise
can be abated By pushing public
schools into every neighborhood. This
is the only practical solution. 1t is
useless TO take a purely sentimental
view Of q practical proposition


Memphis Avalanche.


We shouldn't think our cotemporary
would care to prolong the discussion.
He knows as we'll as he knows any
thing that he has but little ground to
stand on. There is not one single good
reason why hordes Of ignoramuses
should be allowed to rule the cotton
States, while there are thousand rea-
sons why they should not. The voters of
q country are itS rulers, and to allow the
grossly ignorant the highest privilege Of
citizenship is not only to offer q
premium on degradation, it is gross
outrage on the rights of those who at
tempt TO fit themselves for the duties
incumbent upon good citizens. The
clap.trap about "pushing the public
schools" being.th proper course. shows
the inconsistency Of the class Of men
who wish 10 grossly injurc the intelli-
gent, because degraded suffrage is an
accomplished fact. Would not the
very qualification we advocate be the
greatest incentive to all races, to al
least learn how to read and


write? Will the Avalanche dare to
answer this question? 1t claims
to be very earnestly in favor of univer'
sal education, and yet 1t opposes ar
educational qualification for suffrage


There is no logic in that. The two


ought to 60 together, and that Is whal


we favor and intend to favor until suf'


frage is elevated above the low plane


on which 1t was placed by designing


partisans. But we do not advocate
any sudden change. We propose tha


as much as five years shall pass before


the amendment takes effect. Tha
would give all who rightly estimate tht
worth ofthe right ofsufrage more thar
sufficient time in which to fit them
selves to exercise it. II they should
be disfranchised by the amend
ment, only themselves would bt
to blame for it. There is such a quail
fication in Massachusetts and Connec
tiCut, and 1t has worked we'll, and nc
citizen of those States thinks II q hard
ship on any one. The Avalanche mus
L. rise little above its old ruts and conn
to the aid Of the HERALD, and then i
Year: 1877

wiU care 10 discuss the question. It
will feel that It is engaged in a valuable
work for the cause Of humanity. It
will feel tbat tits engaged in a noble
struggle to elevate the ignorant and
degraded, aud that it Il combating
foul wrong perpetrated on the more en-.
Ilghtened Of the southern people.
Year: 1877

WE learn that the Sore.heads will at
tempt to get out full ticket next week.
OF course they expect to get the me-
groes to kindly elect it for them. II is
very easy to put up ticket, but the
other part is not easy by any means.
The people of this county are not ready
for any such business.
Year: 1877

The efforts in the direction of break
ing up the Illicit traffic in seed cotton
have, we are informed, met with a
success even beyend the hopes of the
planters engaged in II. a regular watch
Is kept upon all the establishments
at which It Is known that seed cotton
is sold, and the convictions which have
recently been secured have, it appears,
struck terror into both buyers and
sellers of seed cotton at night. A
vigilant patrol is kept up, and very
few of the Illicit purchasers have been
able to evado the watchtulness Of the
interested planters. For those few
who have been too shrewd to be caught
there is a day Of wrath in store, and we
would not be willing to vouch for the
safety of those vilainous fellows who
continue still in the pursuit Of au un.
lawful trade which Is so detrimental
TO the best interests of the country
[ [Natchez Democrat.


The same plan might be adopted
here with good effect. Our planters
have suffered enough, and they only
ask justice, but the desire oflarge gains
can only be overcome by vigilance.
Year: 1877

Is an eight page, fOrty-eight column
paper, containing careful selections from
the editorial, news and miscellaneous mat
ter Of the Daily edition, with the view o


giving Its readers in the country an epl-
tome Of the weeks history, and making Il
The Best FAMILY PAPER N TIE STATE
Year: 1877

the Fifteenth year Of It's publication, has
established itself in the esteem and con-
fdence Of the people, by the plain and
fearless manner In which 1t deals with all
public questions, edltOrially; Its success
and enterprise in gathering great variety
and extent of news by special telegraphlc
correspondence outside of the full reports
of the Associated Press; by the attention
which 1t gives to the material needs and
the development of the natural resources
OF the South, particularly Of our own
State, and by Its manifest determination
to hold no second place in the ranks Of
Southern journals m.
Year: 1877

three departments, and allowed per-
eentage OF from two to five per cent on
the amount collected by him. He also
swoTe that the assessments were In pro-
portion to the salaries that were paid.
and that the lists which he had COM
piled himself or which had been fur.
nishsd him were destroyed.


To-day Fisher made his appearance
In the War Department and demanded
payment from those who had not yet
contributed, and the remainder Of their
assessments from those who had not
paid up In full. He declared that he
was tired and would not wait any longer,
and that they should pay up at once.
He occupied desk in Che room In the
War Department leading into. the Office
OF the disbursing clerk. and through
which the clerks are obliged to pass In
order to receive their pay.


The War Department is tho only
branch OF the government where semi
monthly payments are now made. Some
years ago the rule Of semi monthly pay
ments was general In all the depart
ments for short time. but 1t was an in
noyation on old established custom,
and Its operation proving unsatisfao-
in oil except the War Office. One OF
tho clerks Of the War Department, O
representative OF his class. spoke in
bitter. terms OF the outrage upon his
associates in compelling them TO aeeede
to the demands Of Fisher. He said .


1.-THE majority Of the clerks are men
Of family or mon who have relatives de-
pendent upon them. Many of them
went home to vote at considerable ex-
pense. Nearly all contributed toward
the expenses of the campaign through
their State associations. and to be asked
In addition to make contributions to
Fisher or pay the arrearages or eontri-
buttons that were promised. is certainly
hard"


He added that he hoped little notice
Of the facts In the Herald would stop
this robbery, as there Is no doubt that
the Secretary of War and the President
know nothing OF such operations.
Year: 1877

WAsHIHaTox, March 22.=The commits
sion has not yet been named. but there
10 little doubt that Chas. Foster will be
member OF 1t. At this hour the other
members have not been named.


An arrangement 10 now being made
with Chamberlain. which will result In
his abandoning ell claims upon the gov.
arnorship OF South Carolina. This oh
viates the necessity OF q commission to
visit that State.


No one here has the slightest idea
that Packard will be recognized under
any circumstances. Only few extreme
and desperate Republican leaders even
desire that he should be. The more
conservative leaders OF the party are
against him, and tho great mass Of the
business men OF the country are en-
phaticaliy In favor Of the Southern
policy as originally understood by the
country. Were tho President to attempt
20 retire from his position In this mat
Tor, he would array against his admin.
istration not only the solid South, but
the great mass OF the people Of the
North whose business and Industries
demand peace IN no uncertain tones. He
fully comprehends this fact, and does
not intend to wreck his Administration
i'm the first weeks of its existence.
Hence, your people may rely up 1t, that
tho sending OF the commission to your
State indicates no purpose on the part OF
the President or his advisers to reeog.
nize, or In any way sustain Packard. It
may be, on the other hand, pretty conf
IDENTIFY asserted that the purpose of the
commission IL to slide Packard and
crew gracefully and gently out OF sight.
Cham berlain 10 about out of the ring
and Packard will follow speedily; IL not
willingly, then some other way


There is no news Of interest here TO-
Night and no change In the situation.


BUELL..
Year: 1877

NoTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN PUR-
N snance of a petition of more than ten legal vo-
ters resident in the city Of Rock Island, in the
state of Illinois, Special Election viii be held at
the Court House. in the city Of Rock Island, In the
state of Illinois, on the
Year: 1877

Workingmen do not take into account the
facts that capital as well as labor is suffering
severely from hardships, and that labor a.
well as capital ESQ closely are the two re-
lated) must make great sacrifices. For the
last four years capital has been wasting
away. Business has everywhere declined.
The consumption of goods in the manufac-
ture of which much capital has been en-
ploYed, has greatly diminished. In conse-
quence there has been much less transporta.
tion by the common carriers, and for the SER
vice of the carriers much less has been paid.
In this state of depression no business in the
country has suffered more than the railway
business. The,shrinkage in railroad securi-
ties in the past three years has been more
than two thousand million dollars, sum
larger than the national debt. The amount
of railroad bonds in default is eight hundred
millions. These figures show what enormous
losses the railroads have sustained. To-day
less than half the railroads in the country pay
any dividend whatever. Considering the
great losses which the corporations have met,
their diminished business, and the smaller
compensation they now receive, it is not to
be expected that the wages of their employees
alone should undergo no reduction. So long
as the railroads earn but small proportion
of what they formerly received it is impossi-
BILE that they can pay the old rates for labor.


The strikers are unreasonable in their de-
mands. They shared the general prosperity
of business, and the wages paid to them far
exceeded any wages ever paid before in the
world. When business began to suffer and
capital to meet with great losses, they should
have known that labor must suffer also, and
wages be reduced But the pernicious doc
trine that there is natural antagonism be-
tween labor and capital blinded them to the
truth, and they imagined that by striking
they could bring back the period of high
wages, that by crippling the corporations and
destroying their property the corporations
could afford to pay better for service. They
must now see, if they reason, that labor and
capital are. dependent on each other, and
that when the one is in bad estate the other
must be poor.


1t is said by some of the strikers that the
depreciation of railroad property is due not
to bad times but to bad management. To
some extent this may be true. But the COM
plainants in that case should be the stock
holders and not the employees. This bad
management gave employment to many
men for long time at good wages, while the
stockholders footed the bills. Let the suffer-
ers call the unthrifty managers to an account
of their stewardship. If violence is justified
by suffering, then the stockholders and not
the laborers should be the men to fly at the
throats of railway officials.
Year: 1877

IT is pretty safe to assume that the events
OF the last two weeks have put quietus
upon all Texas Pacific raids upon the nation
al treasury. AT least it should be taken for
granted that such raids can now make no
headway. Until the Government can sus
tain and promptly pay force sufficient to
meet all demands for the ample protection o f
existing railroads, it would be farcical in the
extreme to ask it to aid in building new
ones. II straw were needed to break the
back of the Pacific subsidy, the strikers have
furnished it.
Year: 1877

Tom EWING really wanted the nominatio
for Governor of Ohio. He played fine
game of strategy for it, but it was too fine to
win. There will be no sympathy for a man
who sins so unpardonably against light. He
is one of the most dangerous demagogres in
the country, and smart enough to know bet
for
Year: 1877

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


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

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS IS furnished
with Card certificate couDtersigned by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon US by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
journal
Year: 1877

The following record will show the changes in tho
temperature for the past twenty four hours, IN COM
parson with the corresponding date OF last year, as
indicated by the thermometer at Hudnuts pharmacy,
HIM IN Riil dinn.-
Year: 1877

NEW LAND LAw.-According to the
provisions Of the new law relating to land
entries, tits no longer necessary to attend
in person at the land office of the district
to make entries. All the preliminary
steps are now taken before the Judge or
clerk of any court Of record. Attention
is directed to the law as follows:


That the proof of residence, occupation
or cultivation, the affidavit of non allen
alton, and the oath Of allegiance, required
to be made by section 2,239 of the revised
statutes, made before the Judge, or in his
absence, before the clerk of any court of
record of the county in said State or dis
trict and territory, in which the lands are
situated, and if said lands are situated in
an unorganlzed county, such proof may
be made in any adjacent county
In said State or territory; and the proof,
affidavit, and oath. when so made and
duly subscribed, shall have the same
force and effect as if made before the reg
lister or receiver Of the proper land dis
trict; and the same shall be transmitted
by such Judge, or the clerk of his court,
to the register and receiver with the fee
and charges allowed to him by law; and
the register and receiver shall be entitled
to the same fees for examining and ap.
proving said testimony rs are now allowed
by law for taking the same.


Section 2. That if any witness making
such proof or the said applicant making
such affidavit or oath, swears falsely as
to any material matter contained in said
proof or oaths, the false swearing being
willful and corrupt, he shall be deemed
guilty Of perjury, and shall be liable to
the same pains and penalties MS if he had
sworn falsely before the register.


Approved March 3, 1877.
Year: 1877

A NICE LoT.-The unterrifed of San
Francisco have got into a nice little
muddle that is all their own. They held
Their primary meetings aud, though the
primaries are not supposed to draw out
anything near the full strength of a
party, the managers of the different fac
tions succeeded in getting out more votes
than were cast for the ticket at the Presi-
dental election. Then a howl went up
from the great defeated and charges Of
ballot box stulling, double-voting and all
the manifold sins which so long gave
Tweed control in New York were at once
laid at the door of the successful faction,
and were promptly hurled back again.
We have no doubt but both parties tell
some very unpleasant truths of each other
but, as it is none Of our funeral, let it CO.
The chances are that both factions tried
the same game, and as one thief hates to
be robbed by another, so one Democrat
hates to be beaten in political knavery by
another, and that's what's the matter.
Year: 1877

BYLAWS. We have received from
some source unknown, but probably upon
the the recommendation of the Butte
Record man, copy Of the constitution
and bylaws of the Order of Caucasians.
We do not question but the objects of the
Order may be all right-so far as they
relate to the elevation Of white labor we
are with the Caucasians, or any body OF
men heart and soul. SO far as we can
judge of the designs of the Order by its
printed work, We have nothing to say in
condemnation. Bat tho fact that the
Order obtained foot hold in Chico
strong enough TO enable it to control the
election in that city, that incendiarism
and murder followed swift upon this de-
velopment Of strength, are reasons strong
CROUCH to lead those not acquainted with
the secret work Of the Order 10 believe,
that those who acted in defiance of the
law looked for moral support from some
quarter when would make the public look
leniently upon their crimes. That's the
case in nut shell and the Record cannot
make any one think differently by drag
Eing in the played out howl that the Re-
publicans, as a party, are responsible for
the presence Of Chinese amongst us. So
long as leading Democrats employ Chi
ne-e cooks in their kitchens and Chinese
mborers in their mines, they cannot be
l'oked upon as being very sincere in their
pretended opposition TO Chinese labor.
And if our recollection serves us right
there was Chinaman at work in the
Record office when we were last there.
Year: 1877

BAD TIMES IN NEYADA.-The silver
mining business is at comparative stand
still, and as a consequence there are ma
ny unemployed men at Virginia City.
Two thousand destitute, unemployed men
walk the street according to the Virginia
Enterprise. Many of these men have
families who are dependent upon their
labor for subsistence, and when it is
known that some of them have been idle
inr months, it will be readily seen 10
v ha: straits they may be driven. The
curse of gambling has hung over Virginia
City, licensed by State law. Faro and
monte banks dealt their seductive games
openly in the saloons and when times
We're flush," it was no uncommon thing
for the lubcrcr to lose at night the price
o; his days toll III the mine. For another
class II yet more dangerous fascination
o!Jncd-in the stock market. Many.
VINO thought themselves prudent, invested
their earnings in stocks. So long as these
stocks paid dividends they were all right,
] ut tie crash came and carried the
wages Of years into the vortex. Stock
gambling WAS the most dangerous and
fascinating Of any, for it bore the appear
ance Of an honest business, as to the ma
jority it undoub btedly was. But the oper-
ntions of the ring Of spectators by which
the working of the leading mines was
conducted, were only to entrap the un-
wary TO the purchase of the stocks when
they were paying fictitious dividends,
then to work the wires in such manner
that Assessments instead of dividends fol-
lowed, when an instant depreciation of
the stock would follow. SO great has
been the depreciation or shrinkage" of
the Com>tock mines within little more
than Il year, that the stocks then valued
st $3.50, ,0o0, 600, are now rated at less thar
one-seventh that figure. This shrinkage
las been followed by many ruined for
tunes, but nowhere has its effects been so
apparent rs in the immediate neghbor-
hood Of the minos.
Year: 1877

The RUSSIAN WAR.-Gradually the
theater of conflict is extending and re-
ports of battles and skirmishes come
from different quarters. Each of the con-
testing parties bids fair to find an enemy
in its own territory which will distract a
portion of its attention. Russia in the
Circass ians-Turkey in her own subjects
of the Greek Church. The present out
look is that the struggle cannot be of long
duration without involving other powers
than the original combatants. One fea-
ture of the news is that the Sultan has
ordered from Partisan manufacturers a
large supply of white shirts with extracts
from the Koran printed upon them The
struggle between the followers of the
Cross and the Crescent will be deadly
one, where the religious prejudices and
superstitions of each side will strengthen
the valor of national pride.
Year: 1877

The Nevada gazette tells us that an
old channel of rich gravel has been traced
out IN Washington Township in that
county by means Of a"divining rod - in
the hands of San Francisco man. The
gravel claims in the locality have always
been very rich but no channel was dis
covered before. Those who accompanied
the "diViner" on his trip had great faith
IN The correctness of his theory. Loca-
tons have been made for upwards Of a
mile on the supposed channel.
Year: 1877

MARRIAGE increases a mans modesty
so much that after a year or two he can't
summon up enough courage to kiss the
woman whose lips, in the vanishing past,
we're glued to his four hours on Il stretch
three times a week Fulton Times.
Year: 1877

A GEORGIA husband rejoicing in the
name OF Caraway, whose wife had been
killed by a negro who was hanged for the
crime last Friday, bought license for a
second marriage and then went to witness
the execution.
Year: 1877

IT is said that the honey crop of the
southern part Of the State, like other crops
there, will be very scant. The bee keep
ers are suffering great losses in their stock
the bees perishing from scarcity Of food.
Year: 1877

THERE are more ways than one to get
out of the world. One man in Virginia
City took poison and jumped down a
shaft 1875 feet deep. Cause-losses in
stocks and failure to obtain employment.
Year: 1877

AGAIN.-For want of something more
important to telegraph, we are again told
that Tildcn will test Hayes right to the
Presidency through the Courts. And we
suppose there are some who will believe it..
Year: 1877




ond Judicial District of the State OF Nevada in and for
the county of Ormsby Roger Grow, plaintiff, VS.. J. L.
Clegg and Florence Clegg and A, w Pray, defendants.
Action brought the District Court Of the Second Judicial
District of the State Of Nevada in and for the county OF
Ormsby and the complaint filed in said county of Ormsby
the Office the Clerk Of said District CourThe State
of Nevada sends greeting L. Cegg and Florence Ceg
and A. W. Pray, defendants You are hereby required to
appear in action brought against you by the above
named plaintiff in the District Court of the Second Judicial
District the State of Nevada in and for the county of
Onsby and to the complaint filed therein "a copy
Of which accompanies this summOns within ten days Tex
elusive OF the day of service after the service you of
this smmons-f served within this county or If served
ont of this county, but in this district within twenty days
otherwise within forty daysor Judgment by default will
be taken against you The said action is brought to fore
close certain mortgage executed by defendants D. L.
block No six 6 Rice Peters addition to the city of
Carson in Ormsby county, Nevada; which said mortgage
was gven secure the payment OF proulisSOry note
made by defendants j. L. and Florence Cegg on the 10th
day of May A. d. 1875 to plaintiff, for the sum OF SIX
hundred dollars and interest thereon at three 0 per cent
per month all in gold coin Of the United States And
plaintiff of foreclosure OF said mortgage and
that mogagd premises be decreed to be sold and the
proceeds applied the payment OF COSTS attorneys fees
taxes insurance and the principal and interest
said note gold coin of the United States and found
insufficient that Judgment be dockeed against the prop
ance found remaining due plaintiff. All of which is
fully set forth in plaintiffs complaint file in my office.
And YOU are hereby notified that you fail to appear and
answer the said complaint, above required the said
lantff will apply the Court for the relief demanded.
Given under my hand and the seal OF the District
r Court of the Second Judicial District of the State


LIS of Nevada in and for the county of Ormsby, this
** oath day of August, in the year OF our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-seyen


an951awsw ALFRED HELM, Clerk.