smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

The prOdlgles or gOOu we snoulu ac-
complish under certain circumstances
are somewhat marvellous. If we pos
sessed the money of this one, the leisure
of another, the strength and talent OF a
third, the firm health of our neighbor,
the education of our first cousin, the ex-
perience of this friend or the happy
temperament of that, mankind would be
largely benefited by our example, we
fondly believe. We build castles with
materials belonging to others, which
would be perpetual rebuke if they could
only descry the towers thereof against
their mental horizon. 1t is kind OF
amelioration of our own infelicities and
imbecilities to perceive how little the su-
perior conditions of our fellows have
availed them. We are not glad that
they have wrapped their talent in a nap
kin instead of putting it out at interest,
but we fancy it excuses our own short
comings in a degree: if they failed, with
such odds in their favor, what could be
expected of us, already overweighted
for the contest by poverty or infirmlty,
or by want of proper trainingP II we
were as rich, for instance, as our great
uncle Cresus, how differently we should
employ our surplus income! We should
send anonymous bank bills to genteel
and INDECENT families we wot of; we
should increase the welfare of certain
good clergymen sub rosa; we
should replenish the coal bins
of widowed washer-women; we
should order no end of water-color
drawings from the young wom-
en- who are trying to keep their heads
above water, we should even do violence
to our own aesthetic taste, and purchase
some of the crude work of artists not
born to fame; we should plan pleasant
surprises for poor shop girls and teach
ers; we should pay seamstresses little
more than they demand, and remember
the birthdays of poor relations. The
value of our gifts should be great in
proportion to the slender means of the
the recipient; we should not only edu-
cate certain youths who show signs OF
talent, but lend helping hand to those
who gave no sign, as being in the great
er need of development, it may be; we
should, moreover, have no picked-up
dinners and wear no patched garments,
while the naked and hungry are always
with US. What languages we should
master, what sciences should we not
make our own, if we possessed the leis-
ure of certain acquaintances! Does any
flower blossom whose times and seasons
we should not know? or any bird fly
whose habits and notes we should not
recognizeP What acquaintance we
might cultivate with the literatures of
the wide world, and what time might
we not lend to the teaching of others?
But the chief danger in thus considering
the mote in our neighbours eye lies in
the fact that we are apt to become so
engrossed in the analysis as to ignore
the responsibilities of our own position,
and leave room for others, even less fa-
vored of fortune than ourselves, to find
similar causes of dissatisfaction in our
use of our own advantages. .-Harper'S


Bdzar.
Year: 1879

The following were the receipts aid ship
ments Of the leading articles Of produce in this


city during the twenty-tour hours ending at :
o'clock on Saturday morning. and Tor the cor
Year: 1879




TIE Judges of the Supreme Court filed with the
clerk to-day the opinion of the Court in the ease of
the State of Kansas upon the relation of the Attorney
General, against the County Clerk of Lyon county,
determining the right to levy the mill tax for the
State annual school tax. The Court holds in the
opinion filed, that section T. of chapter l49, of the
laws of 1879, page go, works by an implication a
repeal of all prior enactments providing for the levy
of the mill for the State annual school fund.
And the Court further holds that said section four is
invalid by Of conflict with section l6, ar
ticle ., of the State Constitution. The opinion was
prepared by Mr.. Justice Brewer Under this opinion
no legal levy of this mill tax has can be made,
and therefore this alleged mill tax for the State
annual school fund cannot be collected in those
counties where it has been entered the tax books


According to this, Kansas people will have
their taxes reduced by the above amount, and
those who have already paid will have it refund
ed. In what way the blunder has been made
We do not understand but presume that our
wise Legislature, sparing some little time from
the hunt for fraud, ende avored to do something
unusually bright, and spoilt the whole thing
repealed the former law, wit hout legally enact
ing new one If the Supreme Court keeps on
deciding, and the learned Attorney General
keeps on delivering opinions, we shall soon find
that we have neither laws nor Constitution.
Year: 1879

THE "GRANT BooN."-we presume there is
no Doubt that the Invitations being extended to
Grant all over the country, and the hurrahs got
mp on these occasions, are engineered by the
persons who are pushing Grant for third term,
and for the purpose of engaging the masses in
the "boom," by means Of the excitement attend
ant upon them. Thousands of men are taking
up the Grant cry simply because they think it
is the winning thing and they want to be in
the front rank of poularity. Orr position upon
this question, We believe, is that of thousands,
and tens of thousands, aud hundreds of thou
sands of Republicans, who are making no noise,
but who have their opinions still If Grant is
nominated, We shall heartily support him, and
we believe lie will he elected. But we do not
think that be is the only man whom the Repub-
licans can elect, who can save the country.
We have no fears of the cry Of Dictator, Caesar,
Tyrant, and all that sort of thing; but we do
not think that another term would add any to
Grants honors, but rather that it would be to
his dsady vantage. We believe that Blaine would
create as much enthusiasm, and receive as many
votes, if not more than Grant; and that he
would lie as safe, as firm and as true President
as Grant could be. There are several large and
influential classes of Republicans that will not
support Grant, under any consideration, al
though they are not making themselves heard
during the prevalence of the "boom." This
country got along very well during the two years
and more that Grant was abroad. They circum-
vented the Rebel Brigadiers, and got up the
tidal wave that swept the whole North this fall.
They did all this without the help of Grant, and
they can save the country with some other man
in the White House.


Much is said about the popularity Of Grant at
the South. Neither Grant nor any other Repub-
lcan will carry single Southern State, unless
there is some way devised to have fair elections,
not yet contrived. The popularity of Grant at
the South will amount to about this: the South
ern States will send up solid delegation to the
Republican National Convention for Grant, and
insure his nomination; but when it comes to
voting, they cannot give a single Electoral vote
to the Republican party.


This "boomD is liable to react, if kept at too
high a pressure. When it comes to voting, it
will be found that the fellows who yell them
selves hoarse aud stuff themselves full at the
Grant banquets do not have all the influence,
and in fact will not all support him. At all
events, the American people should allow them
selves room to hope that if Grant should die be-
fore the Presidential election, the country might
possibly be saved after all.
Year: 1879

II The party managers have arranged we under
stand that Judge Otis shall be the Democratic can
ddate to succeed himself. 1t remains to be seen,
though wether matters will be favorable this time
Installation Globe.


Matters will be as favorable this time as last,
if the Atchison County Republicans take the
same bull-headed course that they did then, and
force the nomination of q man that the party
cannot punish themselves into supporting. 9th
er Counties in the District think they are enti
tied to it once in ten years; but if Atchison
must have it, she must present candidate that
does not stink in the public postrils
Year: 1879

II Hog Law is profoundly agitating North.
west Missouri. The patriotic denizens of the
bottoms declare that emigration is passing them
by, and pouring into Kansas and Nebraska, sole
ly because Missouri has hog law. Like such
people generally, they imagine that the country
will go to destruction If they are not permit
ted to pasture their stock other peoples
Year: 1879

p The Hiawatha Dispatch says that whiskey
was the cause Of the Severance murder. In
what way, the Dispatch does not inform us. We
arc told that neither the murderer or the muir
dered was drunk. We take it as a solemn
warning TO prohibit the manufacture and sale
Of knives. That is the prohibition argument.
Year: 1879

CINCINNATI GAZETTE.-The advertisement OF
this sterling old Republican paper will be found
in another column. 1t is one of the best and most
reliable newspapers in the United States. New
er sensational, but always trustworthy-and it
never wavers in its support of Republican prin-
ciples. The hundred years through which it
has almost lived, have been a century of stead
fast consistency.
Year: 1879

II An association has been formed in West
phala for the extinction of poverty throughou
the world. They behind the times. Such
an association formed in America several
years ago. 1t is called the Greenback party.
Their plan is, whenever they get hard up, to
meet and resolve that the Government should
issue few thou sand millions of dollars of green
Year: 1879

PITIFUL SHIFT.-Secretary Eyaris, in his
speech at the great New York meeting, made
one utterance that he should have been asham-
ed to stand before Republican audience and
make He said that the Republican party was
pledged to free suffrage, and that if the South
should hereafter continue to threaten and i'm
pair the free right of suffrage, tue people


would choose for their chief Executive that cit
izen who best understands and can best main
tain the power of the people on election day.
In plain terms be threatened them with
Grant. The people have not forgotten that
the very first act Of President Hayes was to
betray the Republicans of the South, and de-
liver them over, bound hand aud foot, to their
enemies, who have deprived them of the right
of suffrage. There has been no free Suffrage in
the South since Hayes became President-the
last exercise of that right made him President.
He has made no effort to protect it, or to restor
it, except the vetoing of couple Of bills, by
which he sought to preserve q right that lie has
not the power to exercise. and that he did not
attempt to exercise, when he might have done so.
But his Prime Minister, who was his right hand
man in the betrayal of the Southern Republi-
cans, can get mp before Republican audience
in New York, and threaten that tine people will
call upon Grant to do what himself and the poor,
im5ccile Hayes should have done. He threat
ems that the people will call upon Grant to res
cue the Republicans Of the South from the reign
of terror which himself and Hayes deliberately
betrayed them into. 1t is humiliating
Year: 1879

Our business is run in the ldfashioned way We


do not shuttle customer about from salesman
to another to buy paper of pins from salesman,
yard Of calico and spool Of thread from another,
thereby taking up hours purchasing few goods
that can, by way of doing, be purchased in as
many minutes. l keep but irst-class statesmen,
who are well posted in every line of goods. The
same salesman goes the entire stock with the custo-
Year: 1879

The lovers of music will not forget that
tonight will signalize the first and only ap
pearance in this city of the great master of
the violin, Whilhelmj. The New York
Tribune, in speaking of his pla ying at the
symphony concert there recently, says:


The glory OF the concert was the playing of
Wilhelmj. The great artist, inspired perhaps
by his great programme, q responsive audience.
in magnificent temper. We hardly know what
to say of his performance of the Beethoven
allegro, without seeming to fall in extravaganza.
The gigantic breadth of the Interpretation, the
astonishing richness and homogeneousness of
the tone, the fine, deep flavor of the sentiment
-poetic.yet SO manly and 80 healthy-weLt far
beyond the highest achievements of this grand
style of all other violinists we have heard,
while in mere technical finish the performance
seemed to us unsurpassable. The audience
took fire. Everybody's blood seemed to
run faster as Wilhelmj went on !;
after the cadenza (his own) the house
hardly restrained itself during the few
to their feet and cheersd, and called back the
triumphant artist again and again. He played
then his beautiful transcription of Walters
Prize Song from the Meistersinger,' the
orchestra furnishing subdued and nightly
colored accompaniment above which the solo
instrument was allowed to sing, a. it should.
How truly Wilhelmj has preserved the flavor
of this famous air, which seems to ke full of
the spirit of youth, hope, peace, and sunshinel
In the Bach Chaconne perhaps he made even a
more remarkable impression than in the con-
certo. We cannot believe that the majestic old
master would have had his immortal piece
otherwise played than it was by this majestic
and reverent artist, with superb poise and as
surance, perfect rhythm. strong arm that
never tires, and delicate hand for which no
graces are too fine.


Wilhellnj will be assisted by Miss May
Bryant, q charming mezzo-soprano, and
by Mr.. Franz Rummel, pianists of
great renown on the other side of the
water.
Year: 1879

A ukase has been issued, instructing the
minister of finance to issue five per cent in
ternal loan at 9215 for the sum of three
hundred millions of roubles to cover the ex-
penses Of the late war.
Year: 1879

find it easier to impose upon, civil
lied people or savages ?"


Civilized people, of course. You
can I impose upon a savage"


What class of people patronize
you most in this city?'


The Jews and Germans.


What do you think of Corbin's s
manifesto against the Jews ?"
(Qnphilosophical word) nonsense.
The Jews ought to have their rights s.
:, What do people consult you about


Love, lotteries and business"


Can you tell the number of a
ticket which will win in a lottery ?"


No; no more than you can. | did
once give an old woman a number in
a lottery, which she bought and on
which she won $4,000. That was
pure luck on my part. You bet if
had known that ticket was going To
win | would have bought it myself
That woman has been one of my best
customers ever since"


What do you do for the lovers ~
show them the pictures of their
future husbands or wives"


DO you think they get their mon
eys worth ?"


They all seem to think so. They
go away satisfied"


The interview wound up with a
remark by the astrologer to the effect
that the world was going to come tc
an end soon.
Year: 1879

A story is told of crafty Ameri-
can skipper who escaped the clutches
of a hostile cruiser by hosting the
yellow flag, and exhibiting one of his
crew over the bulwarks stitched up
in hammock, as if about to be flung
into the sea. AS his vessel was lying
off port where the yellow fever was
then raging, the privateer took the
alarm and sheered of. Even this
however, was exceeded by an episode
Of the Egyptian war Of le39-4O, when
Admiral Napier's squadron was cruis-
ing in the Levant. The lookout
man of an English frigate one morn
ing saw an Arab in the water, seem
ingly in danger of drowning. a boat
was lowered, and the swimmer picked
up; but he died shortly after being
brought on board, with all the symp-
toms Of the plague, and was quickly
followed by the Captain and a fourth
of the crew. 1t was afterward found
that this desperate fanatic, finding
himself death-stricken, had deliber-
ately swan off to the ship, with the
intention of carrying the infection
among his enemies.
Year: 1879

Special to Cincinnati Commercial.


WASHINGTON, August 10. The
congressman who are stopping at wa
terlng places at government expense
DO not seem to be rapidly completing
their labors. Speaker Randall, Alex.
II. Stephens and General Garfield
have been compelled to stay a whole
week at Long Branch to wait for a
quorum OF the committee on rules, so
that they can revise the rules of the
house. They have two clerks with
them, and the country will be glad to
learn that they have the highest
priced rooms at the highest priced
and most fashionable hotel. Their
stay there will not cost the country
more than seven hundred dollars \
week, which is q triae compared with
the cost of some junkets, while the
revision of the rules of the house of
representatives require careful study,
good feed and sea air.


The committee of seven able bodied
senator's which has been sitting at
Newport, in order to find out whether
the soldiers get their just dues BY the
Federal officials in Rhode Island, re-
port that the claims are very good,
the green corn excellent, and they
hnd no traces Of corruption anywhere.
Wrights committee on the rise and
tall Of labor, is toi,ing away in the
Yosemite valley, and have not vet
found out why labor is not depressed.


Another committee is making an
excursion into Kansas to find out what
they could have learned from the
newspapers q year ago about the
Cheyenne revolt or last summer.


1t will cost the country about one
hundred thousand dollars to pay the
expenses Of these seaside enioyments
and the junkets to Kansas and Cali
fornia, and the man must be very far
sighted who can see any good to come
from them.
Year: 1879

Detroit Free Press.


The gates at the passenger depots
which shut out all people not having
tickets for the trains were yesterday
closed at the Union depot against an
elderly woman wearing spectacles and
using an umbrella for a cane.


Can't pass without a ticket" said
the man at the gate as she came up.


want to see if there's anybody
on that train going to Port Huron, .
she answered.


" Can't pass without ticket,
madame"


| have"


" Can't help it, please. My orders
are very strict


" | tell you | want to send word to
my darter she exclaimed, adjusting
her spectacles for better view of the
official.


Yes, but we can't help that, you
see. Please show your ticket"


/ want this ere railroad to under
stand that I've got darter in Port
Huron aud she's got baby four
weeks old, and I'm going to send her
up word in spite of all the gates in
this depot"
Please show your ticket, mad
ame2"


| tell you once more -"
Please show your ticket, mad
ame?"


She gave the old umbrella a whirl
and brought it down on his head with
all the vim Of an old fashioned log
raising, and as he staggered aside she
passed him and said


There's my ticket, sir, and I've
got more behind it, Mebbe one man
and gate can stop me from sending
word to my darter to grease the baby's
nose with mutton taller if the weather
changes cold, but | don't believe it.


And she walked down to the train.
found some one going to Port Huron,
and came back carelessly humminc
the melody of the "Three Blind
Mice
Year: 1879

Boston Advertiser.


The pending discussion about the
Ponca Indians, and the effort to have
justice done to them in regard to their
lands, and to have their cause pleaded
before some competent tribunal, re-
calls letter Of the celebrated John
Eliot to Governor Winthrop, of Con-
necticut, during the period of King
Philips war, in 1915. The second
paragraph of the letter is as applica
BILE to-day as it was two hundred years
ago


For THE Hon. Mr.. WINTHROP.
GOVERNOR OF CONNECTICUT. THESE
Honorable Sir: | have thankfully
received your very loving and prudent
lines, which breathe the very spirit of
a Christian governor, striving for
peace, making war the last and una
voidable remedy. What the causes of
the war were, | suppose Plymouth
will declare. | know them not, but
betwixt God and us, think our sins
have ripened us for so severe a
scourge as the war hath and is like
to prove. We were too ready to think
that We could easily suppress that
flea; but now we find that all the
craft is in catching of them, and that
in the meanwhile they give us many a
sore nip. We praise God for the
peace with Narragansett unto which
your forces under Major Winthrop's
command did very much contribute !:
and the juncture of that overruling
Providence, in timing the coming Of
your letters, which remanded your
forces one-quarter of an hour before
the consummation of the peace, doth
much engage our hearts to adore the
oyerruling hand of Ged appearing in
these motions.


Sir, | humbly request that one
effect of this trouble may be to
humble the English to do the Indians
Justice and no wrong about their
lands, and | make bold to request
that Captain Dennison may have free
leave, without offense to the English,
to plead the Indians cause.


Our doing them justice about their
lands may, by the blessing of God,
open their hearts to the word of God
to bring them to religion, which | do
earnestly desire may be another effect
of this great nation. The Indians
have very sinfully refused praying to
God, but they do too much Justify
themselves by the example of the
English. For when | have exhorted
them to keep the Sabbath and pray
unto God they have answered me
why do you speak so to us; why do
you not speak to your own country
men? We do but as they do" |
greatly desire that one effect of these
wars may be to reform these great
sins among the English. We had
need be serious in this matter. lest
God should chastise US seven times
more by his next visitation. But |
shall give you no further trouble at
present only commencing you to
the Lord, desiring prayers, | rest your
honors to serve you in our Lord
Jesus, JOHN ELIOT.
Roxbury, this 9th of the fifth MONTH
1915.
Year: 1879

Cincinnati Gazette Washington Special.l


A story comes from Maine in refer
ence to the Rev. Mr.. De La Matyr
the great Indiana apostle of the green
back dispensatiOn. On Sunday last
he attended the Chestnut street Meth
odist church in Portland, and some Of
the prominent members expressed a
desire to hear him preach in the even
ing The question caused considera-
bic discussion however, and a council
of trustees and other officials was
held in the afternoon, and while a few
were in favor of inviting him into the
pulpit, the majority expressed the
opinion that if he had been correctly
reported in the Congressional Record


his presence in their pulpit would be
very likely to exert a bad influence
and on this ground it was decided not
to invite him. Mr.. De La Matyr ex-
pressed equal surprise at the result
and said that, while he had been .
minister for thirty years, this was the
first time he had ever been refused
the opportunity of entering a Metho-
dist pulpit.
Year: 1879

presidential term. His impeachment
would favor the candidacy of Justo
Benitez.


The majority of the cabinet has
resolved that the constitutional
amendment against the reelection Of
a president should be repealed, in
order to save the country from an
archy.


The movement for the repeal of this
amendment has already been made in
the legislatures of Michoacan, Puebla
and Morelos.


The opposition papers say the cabi-
net is paving road to the dictator
ship.


President Diaz continues to declare
his unwillingness to serve another
term.