smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

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In virginia there is method and


order in drinking. The climate be-


ing colder, the blood is not so thin,


and hence the necessity for drinks


every hour is not so urgent There


is also more economy in Virginia,


where the close methods of the


region of hog and hominy are OBJ
served. Here in Alabama we drink


in the Winter to keep warm; in
Summer to keep cool. In the cities


we drink to be sociable, and show
that we are men about town; and
in the country we drink to keep off
chills and to cure snake bites. We
are opposed to the continual
drinking which exists in Russia
and other parts of the barbarous
world, but do not object to a cock
tail when we get up, snifter just
before breakfast, throat. clearer
just after breakfast, a luncher at 12
O'Clock, two or three sociables be.
tween 12 and dinner, IA bottle of
wine or good strong whisky
straight at dinner. After dinner,
having been thus abstemious DUR
ing business hours, we open our
selves a little and drop in at the sa-
looms and clubs TO see how political
affairs are moving. If the country
is in danger, or ii we find it popu-
lar to abuse a good neighb0r for
the benefit of u faction, the matter
can be better discussed over n drink
or so. The judgment is better bal
ahced and opinions more readily
formed over the fumes of hot
whisky punch. We become more
eloquent and express our opinions
with that emphasis OF statement
which marks the free American
citizen.
Year: 1879

The facilities OF the HERALD Steam
Printing House for doing job work are not
surpassed in California outside of San
Francisco and Sacramento. All work en-
trusted to us will be executed with neat
ness and dispatch at the lowest living
rates.
Year: 1879

Many a congregation make it part OF
their religion to twist their necks out OF
joint to witness the entrance Of every
person who passes up the aisle Of the
church.
Being worried one afternoon by this
turning practice in his congregation, Mr..
Dean stopped in his sermon and said:


"Now you listen to me, and ri tell
you who the people are as each one of
them comes in"


He then went on with his discourse
until gentleman entered, when he bawl-
ed out like an usher:


"Deacon A. who keeps shop over the
way"


He again went on with his sermon,
when presently another man passed into
the aisle, and he gave his name, residence
and occupation. So he continued for
some time.


At length some one opened the door
who was unknown to Mr.. Dean, when
when he cried OUT


"a little, old man, with drab coat and
an old white hat. Don't know him look
for yourselves"


The congregation was cured
Year: 1879

Beauty in modest woman is
like IL fire or sharp sword al n
distanca-nciih,rdoth the one burn
nor the other wound those til 1t
come not too close to them.
Keep your mouth shur and your
eyes open.


The absent feel and fear every
i'll.
Se!f-praise depriates.
| The dead to the bier, the living
to good cheer.


All women, let them be ever so
homely, are pleased to hear them
selves celebrated for their beauty.


Squires and knights are subject
to much hunger and i'll luck.
Liherality may be- carried too far
in these who have children to in
berit from them.
Virtue is always more ,persecu-
ted ny the wicked than beloved fy
the righteous.


Every one is the son of his own
works.


Honey is not for the mouth of
an ass.
No paddock, bolts or bars can
secure maiden SO well as her own
reserve.


Wit and humor belong to genius
alone.


The wittiest person in comedy
is he who plays the fool.


There is no hook so bad but
something good may be found in it.
Year: 1879

THE WONDERFUL
Effects of the Extract of
CELERY the CHAMOMILE UPON


THE NERVOUS
System and Digestive


Organs
In Curing Especially Sick


Headache,
Nervous Headache, Neuralgia,


Nervousness,
Paralysis and Indigestion, and


Preventing
Neuralgia Of the Heart and Sud-


den Death.
Year: 1879

I take this method of inform
ing my friends, and others who
feel interested in the success Of
a young man who is striving to
"make a fortune" thatI am now
in the employ Of T. A. MoNEILL
& Co., of Jacksonport. We car
ry a full stock of all such goods
as are to be found in any first
class store in the country. Those
who see proper to give us a share
Of their patronage, will not only
be helping me greatly, but sub
serving their own interests. Our
prices are crock bottom" and
everything guaranteed to be
what it is represented. The
proof-give us a call.


Resp'y, D. Il. KING
Year: 1879

A man who will refrain from
calling his friends speech a
happy effort"


A woman who remembers last
Sundays text, but is unable to
speak understandingly Of the
trimming on the bonnet Of the
lady in the pew next in front.


An editor who never feels
pleased to have his good things
credited, or mad when they are
stolen.


A man who has been a fool
some time during his life and
knows enough to keep the know
ledge of 1t to himself.


A married man who does not
think all the girls envy his wife
the prize she has captured.


A married woman who never
said: "No wonder the girls don't
Get married nowadays; they are
altogether different from what
they were when | was girl"


An unmarried woman who
never had an offer.


A man who never intimated
that the economies Of the uni
verse were subject to his move
ments, by saying, Il knew if |
took an umbrella, it wouldn't
rain," or some similar asinine
remark.


A pocket knife that is never
in "them other pants"


A mother who never said she
"would rather do it myself"
when she should have taught
her child to do that thing.


A child who would not rather
eat between meals than at meals.


A person, age or sex inmate
rial, who does not experience a
flush ofpride upon beng thought
what he is not and may never
hope to be.


A singer who never complains
of a cold when asked to sing.


A woman, when caught in her
second best dress, who will make
no apology for her dreadful
appearance.-Ex.
Year: 1879

The Washington correspondent of the
Springfield Republican thinks ''It may be
that the country is destined to suffer from
another four years of political feuds and sec
tional animosities. But unless there comes
soon an improved state of political feeling
and more statesmanlike legislation, and un-
less these ameliorations come through a more
reasonable disposition on the part of Demo
Gratis, the Democratic party will sink to rise
no more" Correct. And unless this Dem
ocratic congress adjourns very soon, all the
unlesses that were ever said will not save
the party.
Year: 1879

THE Arkansas Gazette, Democratic
paper, announces that the Democrats of
that State do not agree with Mr.. Tilden in
many of his national policies, ''and in order
to support him they would have to go back
upon the platform they deliberately adopted
last year in their State convention" Well
they are used to that sort of thing.
Year: 1879

Iowa girls are decisive and terse. A Ne
braska man sent an offer of marriage to one
OF them the other day, and got for answer
this telegram: "Come on with your minis
ter" The story stops here, but of course he
went on
Year: 1879

1t seems to be generally conceded that t
Ohio will be the battle-ground this year.
Indications are strong that the Democrats
and those of the Greenbackers who have in
mind only the currency issue, will unite, and
nominate for Governor and Lieutenant
Governor. Bishop and Ewing. Bishop will
hold the Democrats and Ewing draw the
Greenbackers. The Republicans will prob
ably nominate Judge Taft, now that Sher-
man and Garfield are out of the field, and
Foster for Lieutenant Governor 1t may be
the Nationals will nominate man in order
to hold those of their people who cannot be
coaxed or driven into voting a Democratic
ticket.


The result of the election will be of great
interest in indicating the drift of public SEN
by Congress and its disapproval by the
President. The battle in Ohio will not be
fought upon the currency question alone
The Democratic Congressional majority
have brought the old political dogma of
State Rights into the contest. A resolution
approving the action OF Congress will doubt
less be put into the Democratic platform,
and the run will be made upon that. 1t re-
mains to be seen how many of the Nationals
will vote for men committed to the detesta-
BILE and dangerous heresy of Calhounism,
and thus commit themselves against the
doctrine of the eminent sovereignty of the
Nation. 1t is not to be readily believed that
many of those who left the Republican par
ty because they differed with it in regard to
the currency will accept Calhounism or join
in the attempt made on the purity of the
ballot-box. The few who regard the Green
back party as halfway house to the Dem
ocracy will doubtless pursue their way, but
there is reason to believe the majority will
retrace their steps now they see the direc
ton in which they are tending.
Year: 1879

MIR. CHITTENDEN got indignant again in
the House Thursday, and said some strong
words about the Warner bill, ''There is not
he exclaimed, "a word in any dictionary that
have ever read which fifty expresses the
folly and audacity of the authors of the
measure for corrupting and initiating the cur
rency. 1t fairly out-Herods Herod. 1t i'm
plies that majority of the American people
are knaves and fools. AS to argument with
the proposers of this measure of imitation,
you might as well argue with mad bulls. As
an executor / own $1,000 of Al per cent


bonds, for which paid the government gold
last year. I knew then that the interest was
payable in coin, but also knew that the
government had dnever-not hardly ever-but
never offered its creditors a dollar in silver
as payment of interest on its bonds. If l
borrow good horse from the gentleman
from Illinois Mr.. Springerl and offer him a
bad mule in return, he will say that am a
Id scoundrel and so I say that the gov
ernment of the United States is id
scoundrel if it pays me in deprecated silver
'A'N AiAoOi O'u oh eiiO ptOOO Ill JULIUS WHICH, L
hold for a widow. This proposition for is
suing certificates is the greatest monstrosity
ever proposed in a civilized legislature.
There is not member of the House who
votes for the bill that will not repent of it in
dust and ashes, provided he is subject to the
honest sense of the American people. I
thank the great God who made this country
that there is no more chance of this bill pass
ing than there is of the country sinking into
the bottomless pit of degradation
Year: 1879

This is the season when the minister should use good taste in selecting sub jects. For instance if he should insist on telling his hearers about world hotter than this, there isn't one of them who would care to go there.
Year: 1879

One of party of six Boston boys who are spending their vacation at Kennebunk sent the following ex- pressive letter: "We dug wood chuck out of his hole; it was skunk; we slept in the barn that night"
Year: 1879

CTS and also selections from scripture. Dr. Wells gave what he called simple talk, but a better sermon or one more impressive, is sell dom heard in christian pulpit. The theme was the love of God, and he brought this home to the hearts of his hearers with unusual pow CT. There were many moist eyes in the audi ence when he related his experience with a criminal condemned to be hanged, who was subsequently, pardoned, and whose daughter he adopted and educated. The child so res- cued became Sister Celeste; and, devoting her life to the care of the sick, the wretched and depraved, last year fell a victim to the terrible scourge in Memphis. Dr. Wells evinced ex- ceptional power, and there were none present who will soon forget this impressive camp meeting. During his sojourn here he has won the respect and esteem of all and the desire is freely expressed that he will next year select the same time and place for his encampment as the Gunnery.

 AS we write, preparations are in progress for departure The last breakfast has been with an appetite we do not expect to have until we come again, the tents have been struck, and in an hour we shall not

 ''Fod our tents like the Arabs

 And silently steal away"

 but, with light hearts, and cheerful voice, give three cheers for MT. Gum, three more for Mrs. Gum, three more for the Gunnery, three more for Dr. Wells, and three more for every body, and drive off to Washington and thence to our respective homes. The Gunnery en- is like marriage. It is a good in stitution and ought to continue forever.

 Sept. 1st 1976
Year: 1879

A Western correspondent, whose letter will be found on our first page, argues against any sort of prison punishment, and in favor of treating crime as a moral and mental disease, which should subject those suffering from it to confinement similar to that now provided for the insane. He also seems to imagine that the great present expense of criminal trials could be thus avoided, He forgcts that no man ought to be subjected to confinement, either as criminal or insane. without the privi- lege of making full defense, Some of the worst cases of oppression known to civilized society have been in those of persons unjustly shut up as insane. To subject men to the chance of arbitrary confinement on charge of crime, would seem to us ''reform" of the most doubtful description.
Year: 1879

Louisiana Republicans will run a full state titcket this year. The Republican committee of that State had lively discussion over a resolution endorsing Grant, winch was finally withdrawn.
Year: 1879

What with serious intestine divisions in New York Republicanism and in New York Democracy, and with full Greenback ticket in the field, the political prospects of that State are most delightfully."- mixed.
Year: 1879

The excellent hay crop of New England, this year, has not been equalled at the West. There, a draught in the early summer cut down the product very seriously. The corn pros- pect is not quite equal to that of last year throughout thecountry. Spring wheat isexcel lent, showing an increase of near thirty mil hou bushels over the preceding crop.
Year: 1879

Yazoo county Independents met to the num- Der of 15OO on the day of Dixon's funeral, and determined to nominate full ticket and keep it in the field in spite of Bourbon opposition and bull-dozing methods. They ought also to see Barksdale legally hung, as a preliminary step to political quiet.
Year: 1879

keg nails ] sack ashton salt IT pounds mackerel pair of the best barn door hangers ever used,

 20 feet of track and screw stay roll l good cotton hammock in colors pair ladies cloth slippers
Year: 1879

pair gents fine calf boots 3-tined hay fork (Bachelder's make) pound fine cut chewing tobacco l G pure paris green for potato bugs balloon fly trap pound good Japanese tea l sardine or can opener l ounce camphor gum
Year: 1879

English butter makers render their
butter more pure and solid by the follow
ing receipt: Carbonate of soda and
alum are made into powder and used.
For twenty pounds of butter, one tea
spoonful of soda and alum are mingled
together at the time of churning and put
into the cream. The effect of the pow
der is to make the butter come firm and
solid, and to give it clean, sweet flavor.
1t does not enter into the butter, but its
action Is on the cream, and it passes off
with the buttermilk. The ingredients
OF the powder should not be mingled to-
gether until required to be used, or at
the time the cream is in the churn ready
for churninp,
Year: 1879

Yesterday word came to the Office Of
George W. Jackson this city authoriz-
ing him to offer reward for the recov,


cry of q four-year-old son Of Edward
Trainor who was supposed to have
wandered away from his home at
Trainor's station near Linwood. The
child was found drowned in the dam
where he had gone to play. 1t seems
that on Sunday the boys parents we're
at Atlantic City and that on his father
coming home he could not find his
child. The nurse had gone up stairs
to put the other children to bed and


had left Eddie the missing child on the
lawn at his play. When she came
down he was gone. Search was made
but II was unvailing. When this was
told the father he was much excited.
A number Of men, employees Of the
firm, dragged the stream close by the
premises. The race was run dry and
dragged. 1t is thought the boy had
gone down to the race and accidentally
had fallen in the stream. 1t was late
yesterday when the body was discover
Year: 1879

Three young ladies with young
gentleman made themselves injudl-
ciouly conspicuous last eveningsby com'
ing out Of the Library gracefully puttnp
nicotine vapor from the back end oil
cigarettes with the gusto Of inveteratss.
The sight being an unusal one and all
the more surprising coming as it did
from those who held pretentions to ex'
alted society positions, caused general
attention. Tho act probably was a
thoughtless one but this IS no excuse,
a. a girls self respect once tsrnished
never recovsrs its original purity
We hope a timely warning will prove
beneficial.
Year: 1879

Hop Bitters which are advertised In our
columns, are sure cure for ague, biliousness
and kidney complaints. Those who use
them say they cannot be too highly recon.
mended. Those afflicted should give them a
fair trial, and will become thereby enthusias-
tic In the praise of their curative qualities.
Portland Ad.
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, August 25.-Iowa peo-
pie here say that there is movement
in that State to bring out Senator Kirk
wood for the Presidency or to have him
90 on the ticket for Vice President with
either Grant or Blame. Kirkwood who
is Maryland man, having been born


in Hartford county in 1918, is said to
have many Of the qualities Of the late
President Lincoln, fitting him especially
for q conservative and wise President.
Year: 1879

Tenth Ward Republicans.


The Republicans of the Tenth Ward
will hold meeting tomorrow evening
at 1921 West Front street. A full at.
tendance Of the Republicans of the
Ward is desired as business of import
ance will be brought before the meet
ing.
Year: 1879

The dead body Of an unfortunate
man, Hood Alston by name, was found
on the Sd of March under tree at Bay
st. Louis, Miss. It was discovered
that he had destroyed himself by NOR
phine, and that he left behind him a
pitiful ard deeply interesting letter
He was evidently man Of culture, and
the letter said he had once been jour-
nalist. On the 2d of July, 1863, he was
struck on the head by piece of shell at
the battle of Gettysburg. He recovered
to all appearances and was thought to
be quite we'll. In his letter, however,
Aston declares that he has since been
conscious that he has always been
lowering on the dangerous edge of in
sanity. He has felt on particular and
frequent occasions an almost irresistible
impulse to kill people, and always pre-.
ferentislly those who were most dear to
him. To avoid this he has fled often
from the presence of wife and chill
dren, living in California, whom he
tenderly loved; but has never had the
moral strength to confess his fears and
cause himself to be placed under re-
straint. At last the accumulated
agonies of his apprehension, and the
horror OF his secret was too much for
him and he slew himself. The case is
singular and suggestive. How far Al.
ston's madness was as represented by
himself To himself, real and how far
feigned we shall probably never know.
Perhaps, as some writer's would have US
think of Hamlet, he was sometimes sane
and sometimes otherwise. But were
his fears lest he should take the life of
others incident to his lucid intervals, or
did they only present themselves when
his mind was off it's balance and 30 con
stitute the characteristic and proof Of
his Insanity The question is puz:
cling one, and, like the problem OF
Hamlet's lunacy and the inquiry whether
it is genuine OF simulated, may invite
endless discussion while leaving the
issue forever in the sequel to be
"smothered by surmise. ."-New York
Evening Post.
Year: 1879

The massacre recently perpetrated by
the king OF Burnah, at which over
eighty of his relatives lost their lives,
frightful as it appears, is merely one
more example of custom. 30 universal
in the East that it may almost claim
rank as a recognized institution. The
natural commencement of every Oriental
reign is the slaughter or disablement OF
all possible pretenders to the throne;
and the annals, not merely of Burmah,
but OF Persia, Turkey, Afghanistan and
Bomara TEEN of instances too frightful
for quotation. As recently as the close
of the last century, Western traveller
found one of the royal princes of Persia
going about with bandage over his
eyes, ard on questioning him was told /,
in matter -of-course air which made the
statement doubly horrible, that "as his
eldest brother would certainly put out
his eyes on mounting the throne, he was
teaching himself to dispense with the
use of them" The Turkish sultan,
Mahmoud, famous for his destruction
of the Janissaries in 1926, owed his
elevation to the fact of his being the
only member OF the royal family left un-
slaughtered; and the multiplied butcher
les Of Mehemet Ali are still fresh in
every ones recollection.
Year: 1879

A letter from Poughkeepsie, N. Y, to
tho World, says: At the beginning OF the
term one year ago young lady from
New York entered the freshman class of
1878 at Vassar college. She was then
sixteen, of slight figure, brown haired,
pretty, and young person OF buoyant
spirits, who speedily became something
OF character among her fellow.students.
It is said, however, that the faculty
found her intraotable and subjected her
to a course of mild discipline which she
did not like. She had entered the col
lege under peculiar circumstances. Her
father had endowed a scholarship
there at q cost of $1,000, and she was
the first to receive its benefits. Finally,
much of what was considered infelicitous
in the girls ways was overlooked by the
faculty, and under the new order OF
things matters moved along more
smoothly.


Just before the last holiday week she
was again, however, in open rebellion
against the authorities. She expressed
determination to accompany fellow
student to the latter's home in the West
to spend the holidays. The head of the
college protested with emphasis; but
when the time arrived the young rebel
went on her proposed trip and returned
in due time and resumed her studies.
In the meantime she was corresponding
with and meeting in Poughkeepsie every
Saturday, when the young ladies are
permitted to leave the college to do
their shopping, the young son of her
fathers partner in New York.


Thus matters stood up to a recent
Friday, when the young woman was
missing. Inquiry discovered that, with
the assistance of two OF her chums, she
had quietly packed her wardrobe and
stolen away. The young man had a
carriage in waiting for her. and on her
arrival they went to the residence of DR..
Elmendorf. of the Second Reformed
church, in Poughkeepsie, and were mar
ried. Then they were driven to the
Nelson house, where they remained
until Saturday afternoon, going then to
New York. Dr.. Elmendorf, it is said:
was induced to perform the ceremony
only by the presence of a gentleman Of
high standing in this city, who accom-.
panied the couple to the house and
vouched for their character and the regu-
larity of the proceeding. The father OF
the bride and groom are in business to-
gether, the former being a wealthy manu-
facturer of proprietary bitters."


The two girls who assisted his daugh
ter in making her escape from the col
lege have been expelled and sent home.
Year: 1879

A confidence operator was caught in
the act OF cheating a man at cards, and
boldly insisted that by 30 doing he was
only obeying the scriptural I'M unctlon'
When asked how he made that out, ne
said: "He was a stranger, and took
him in"
Year: 1879

The DAILY GAZETTE is sent TO all parts
Of the country. postage paid for THREE
po1IARs a wear. IN advance. 1t contains
ALI the local news ard most important
news OF the day. II gives in brief just the
news the farmer or the business man need
al half the cost OF the two cent papers
and as much as a man ought TO read of an
evening or morning Subscribe for 1t al
once by renitting a money order for a
wear or six monIhs.