smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

for Kelly taken into the count,
shows how Grants candidacy


would be received in the Empire
State. New York would repudiate
Cpsarism-even the mere skeleton
of C@sarism-with an impressive


ness which would make the exam
pie memorable.


Should Mr.. Seymour adhere to
his often expressed determination
never to re-enter politics, the avail
able Democratic candidate has yet
failed to make his appearance un-
less it should prove to be Mr.. Bay
ard. The Delaware Senator could
probably carry New York; and, If
he should prove equally popular in
Indiana, be could readily be elect
ed to the Presidency. Had it not
been for their unfortunate identifi-
cation with the the greenback
theory, Allen G. Thurman, of Ohio,
and Mr.. Hendricks, of Indiana,
would have been the natural and
proper favorites of the party. But
the next Democratic nominee
must be man who has a reasona-
BILE prospect of carrying New York;
and grave question is. whether
any man who has antagonized
hard money" can do it ?


Gen. Hancock would be highly
available candidate were it not for
one circumstance. Without the
slightest culpability on his part, in
the mere performance of his iron
duty as military commander, he
was unfortunate enough to have
something to do with the details of
the execution of Mrs. Surratt. No
unbiased and fair man can possibly
be made to regard Gen. Hancock as
tiuctured with the slightest blame
in that atrociouD incident of a peo-
Pile excited to the point of madness.
Yet tens of thous. nds of Democrat
ic voters would undoubtedly be in
huenced, in their Presidential
preferences, by the mere fact that
Hancock held a military command
in Washington at that inopportune
time, and was obliged to be cogni-
zant of the details of military ex-
ecution.


On the whole, we are inclined to
think that if Horatio Seymour cam
not be made to reconsider an ap-
parently infiexible resolve the next
Democratic candidate for President
is one of those dark horses " who
puzzle the dreams of the aspiring
politician. The Presidency is often
not so much the reward of. merit as
of availability, and availability is
often not so much the testimony to
q conspicuous and beneficial pub
lie record as of no record at all.
Year: 1879

Few people are aware that the proud boast
OF Englishmen that the sun never sets on the
British Empire is equally applicable to the
United States. Instead of being the western
limit of the Union, San Francisco is only about
midway between the fartheSt Aleutian Isle,
acquired by our purchase of Alaska and East
port, Me. Our territory extends through 1872
of longitude, or Ito more than half way round
the globe The Rocky Mountain Presbyteri-
an in commenting on this fact, says, "When
the sun is giving its goodnight kiss to our
westernmoSt isle, on the confines of Behring' S
Sea, it is already flooding the fields and forests
of Maine with its morning light, and in the
eastern part of that State is more than an hour
high. At the very moment when the Aleutian
fisherman, warned by the approaching shades
of night is pulling his canoe toward the shore,
the woodchopper of Maine is beginning to
make the forest echo with stirring music of his
axe. "-Scientifc Anaerican


Ii is one of the proud boasts of our common
school system that few people are aware of
it. Allowing the westernmost island to be
in 1700 East, we have 1902 less 660, the lon
gitude of Eastport, or total of 1240, equal
to eight and third hours. When the sun
sets at six p. NJ. on the farthest island, it is
twenty minutes past two in the morning at
Eastport, an hour when the audacious wood
chopper refrains from making the woods
ring with his axe. If it be argued that the
thing is possible in the long midsummer
days, it may be answered that it is the more
conspicuously untrue during the other ten
months of the year.
Year: 1879

The Bangor Commercial editorially exults
over Gen. III. NJ. Plaisted as ga Greenback
CAIN" As our readers are aware the "gain',
has been so long and so fully discounted, that
Gen. Plaisted's latest dive will not make even
a ripple in Republican waters. 1t is scarcely
a week since he was complaining that he had
been ignored by the Republicans and boastng
that he could render the Republican party
more effective service on the stump than some
who had been put forward. When this con-
versation was reported to the State Committee
man for this County the latter remarked that
he should want to know which side Gen.P.
would speak for before putting him on the
stump. Over year ago we were constrained
to arraign Gen. Plaisted for consorting with
and advocating the doctrines of the Greenback-
ers, and after all the quasi-denials the Com
mercial as his champion now comes forward
and declares


1t is well known that for a long time Gen Plaisted
has entertained financial views widely different from
those OF his honest money" associates.


It is safe to say that General Pasted's hat
VIII cover all the reinforcement that he will
bring the Greenback- Democratic party. He
mas chosen queer time to openly take the
field after keeping hold of the top rail of the
fence SO long, and will find that he has swung
loose just in time to see Maine swing into the
Republican line again.
Year: 1879

A correspondent in a communication pub
lished elsewhere properly calls attention to
the Democratic scheme to elect a Demo-
cratic Judge of Probate. The Democrats
evidently think Judge Cleayes the strongest
man on the fusion ticket.


The Democratic nominee is a man of
gentlemanly manners and has made gener-
ally acceptable judge; but he is well known
as shrewd, sklful and adroit politician,
personal friends in the Republican party to
further his own election. Up to a recent
period he took a very active part in politics,


being the righthand man of the Democracy


in the seventh ward, and was for quite a
while the chairman of the Democratic City
familiarity in all these arts which have just
been used so successfully in comprising the
coalition in securing the nomination for
reelection upon the mongrel ticket, and to
create the impression that he is entitled to
the support of all voters without regard to
their party relations. No friend of Judges
Barrows Or Waterman will admit that Judge
Cleaves has eXcelled either of them in this
office. Yet Judge Cleaves was among the
most active of those who repeatedly labored
to turn each of these Judges out to make
room for Democrat. And it is only now
when Democrat is the incumbent that a
skilfully organized movement is put ON foot
to perpetuate him in Office on the plea of its
being non-partisan position. Nobody
pretends that this is partisan office; but
the fact that Henry c. Peabody is a
Republican does not detract from his recog-
nized qualifications for the position. And
we venture to express the hope that when
a Republican is solicited to vote for Judge
Cleaves he will remember that under this
non-partisan pretence, it is expected by the
Democratic managers to introduce an
element of discord into the Republican
ranks, and that he viii refuse to lend his
vote to any such scheme or to the defeat of
man so well qualified for Judge of Probate
as is the Republican nominee.
Year: 1879

New Haven Register: ''It must be beaut:-
fnl, dreamy kind of a life that you live here in
the country" was the remark of city boarder
to Farmer Robinson as he sat in the shade,
waiting for his dinner "Well not very"
was the reply. "You see, we get up before
daylight and work till after dark and get so
used up and tired that we sleep right through,
soundly. Why, i haven't had respectable
sort of a dream since the planting season be-
gun"


New Haven Register When you see a
young man attired in white flannel shirt, his
face slightly burned with exposure, and hear
him talk knowingly of lib fores'ls'' and run
ming under the wind" and stacking the main
sheet" it doesn't follow that he is much of a
yatchtsman. The chances are that. he would
be seasick on drawbridge.
Year: 1879

THE Argus and other papers are quoting
Corporal Daviss reported remark that ''In
time of peace the Government had no right
to issue money" No doubt what Mr.. Davis
meant to say, perhaps what he did say, was
that in time of peace the Government has
no right to issue legal-tender notes. In that
view he has the support of Mr.. Justice Cliff
ford and other members of the Supreme
Court, and many eminent jurists and states
men. The assertion that he said the Gov
ernment has no right to issue money in time
of peace must have its origin either in a
slip of the tongue or a mistake of the re-
porter, for it means that the Government
cannot issue gold and silver, which are GER
tainly money except in time of war.
Year: 1879

THIS is Honest Truth: There never was
a time since Maine became State when its
products would exchange for SO large por-
ton of the products of the outside world.


There never as a time when bushel of
potatoes or ton of hay would buy so much
corn or so much flour-so much of woolen
goods or cotton goods hats, caps, boots and
Year: 1879

TIE people don't seem to favor the eighty
cent dollar. They prefer one of full weight
The Chicago Times says ''The Treasury De-
partment is doing all it can, through the
sub-treasury here, to put the silver dollars
in circulation. There is pile weighing
20 tons now at this point, and anybody who
wants it can have it in exchange for green
backs, or in payment of any sum due him
from the Government"
Year: 1879

THE Kennebcc journal gives the Green
hackers a nut to crack when it tells them
that in Augusta the number of persons
helped by the authorities this year is less
than one-third what it was last year, and
that all through the State there has been a
large decrease in pauperism. How sick this
will make the men whose only political hope
is in ruin and disaster
Year: 1879

TIE Toledo Blade reasons that the times
must be very hard, ''for the Nationals and
Democrats say So" Still, it cannot help
noticing that Farmers are selling everlast-
ing quantities of wheat at good price. they
get their goods at a very low rate, mechanics
are generally employed at fair wages, and
everybody who will work finds something to
do. Every city in the United States is build
ing rapidly and the country never showed
such marked signs of improvement. Man
ufacturers are running on full time every
where, mills that have been for long time
idle are resuming, and they find ready and
profitable market for all they make. Gen.
Ewing asks us to reverse the policy that has
produced these beneficent results and try his
theories Excuse us. We are doing very
well now, thank you."
Year: 1879

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


We cannot undertake to return preserve COM
munlcations that are not used.
Year: 1879

One of the entertaining statements made
by Jesse Harper last evening was that ''The
Democratic party has always trotted under
the back axle-tree of the Republican wagon"
That is really a neat way of putting it.
Year: 1879

TUE Democrats sat down to their dish of
skunk yesterday with apparent relish and
Justify swore it was moose. The Greenback-
ers were little more squeamish. They
never went through the experience of eating
Year: 1879

Secretary Sherman was the guest Of Col
lector Merritt of New York at Brighton Beach
Sunday. He told reporter he was much
gratifed with both his trip to Maine and
the political prospects there, but if the
Greenback question was out Of the way in
Maine he would feel certain Of Republican
ess.-Ecchange.


SECRETARY SHERMAN may have said this
or may not But he certainly gave the
Grecnback party a blow they are staggering
under yet.


HERE is another of the excerpts the Ne,o
Era keeps in type:


"To take the character of man from history,
he is creature capable of anything; the most
internally cruel and horrid when actuated by
interest or passion, and not in immediate fear
of punishment from his fellow creatures. Who
would trust such a amischievous monkey?"-
Bergh.


This is supposed to refer to the Greenback
orator. The application of the final sem
tence is too obvious to be mistaken.
Year: 1879

Saltwater, Mimi, Lumberman: A good
deal of satisfaction is expressed here over the
fate of DR.. Spencer, dentist, recently shot
dead for kissing woman in Mississippi, while
she was under the influence of ether. Women
want to know it when they are kissed and the
fool who does not appreciate the fact ought to
die
Year: 1879

THE Argus doesn't remember about that
member of its staff who was paid for his
editorial services by Democratic Admins
tration. This is not the first instance of its
bad memory. A few weeks ago it couldn't
remember from day to day what its position
was on the silver question, and so got into
ridiculous tangle. We don't know how long
the -Argus has been under its present man
agement, and so cannot say the little incl
dent we mentioned occurred under it. AS
for the business management of the Ar9us
we have no words of condemnation, for we
believe the paper has been ably and economi-
cally conducted. 1t is only its political
course that we condemn. But it can bring
forth its comparative facts in newspaper
management whenever it pleases. We can
meet them with positive facts.
Year: 1879

In our first edition we stated that
Myers Hayes took the 2.30 train this
morning, to look for his boy who had
been lost on the "Republic." On reach
ing Philadelphia he immediately pro-
ceeded to the Republic" "and after in
quiring was greatly pleased to find his
boy soundly sleeping in one Of the
hunks. He relieved the suspense Of
his wife by Immediately telegraphing
the good news to her.
Year: 1879

The information given to REpUBLI-
CAN reporter that on Thursday evening
when Mr.. Conklin was thrown from
his sulky while driving out the New
Castle Causeway, that Mr.. Guthrie
who was out driving drove over his
body, Is incorrect.
Year: 1879

his sister through York, Maine, and stopped at harvest field to inquire the way. A young girl raking hay near the stone wall stopped to answer their in- quiries. Whittier noticed as she talked that she bashfully raked the hay around and over her bare feet, and she was fresh and fair. The little incident left it's impression and he wrote out the poem that very evening. But if I had had any idea" he said, "that the plag- uey little thing would have been so liked, I should have taken more pains with it." To the inquiry as to the title, Maud Muller, he said it was suggested to him and was not selection. It came as the poem came. But he gives il the short German pronunciation as Mueller, not the broad Yankee Muller.
Year: 1879

NcW jerusalem Messenger.

 Most animals have some way of pro tecting themselves from their enemies, some with teeth and claws, others with offensive odors, and still others by hid ing. You'd hardly think the giraffe be- longed to the last sort--but he does, although he is so large that he can not be concealed, and his head reaches to the top of many of the trees. He does it by simply keeping still. So strangely is he formed, that if he does not move 1t is hard to tell his long neck and head from a dry branch of tree. Hunters have often been puzzled by this, and the ami maj seems to know it, for it is his favor ite way to secure safety. If, however he chances to catch the mans eye he seems to know it is all over with him and away he goes on run.
Year: 1879

THREE slabs of sandstone from the Connecticut Valley have been lately presented to the American Museum Of Natural History. On two Of the slabs are impressed large footprints of some amphibious animals, reptile of enor- nous size as is shown by the prints oi his feet in the slabs The theory of the aeologists is that this monster was formed something like frog; that he walked mostly on his hind-legs, only using his forelegs when it was necessary for him to drop down to rest, It is esti- mated that he lived about l2,5Oo,ooo years before the appearance of man on this earth, which latter statement may be taken for what it is worth, and not as being scientific.
Year: 1879

PEOPLE in Paris hear very little of either their last or present President. NJ. Grevy is silent, sensible man, but the Parisans would prefer more glitter ing one. They even hint that he does not spend half his official income. Mime. and Mile. Grevey are at one of the wa tcring places, where they only occupy a couple of bedrooms at hotel, and keep no carriage. The President is going down to the Jura to shoot.
Year: 1879

It is humiliating confession to make but geography is pitiless, and our na- tional yain-glcry must bow to decree that for four hours in the twenty-four the entire territory of the United States is deprived of sunshine. As the sun goes down on our farthest Alentian island, its morning rays are just light. ing up the hilltops of the western coast of Ireland, and the whole breadth of
Year: 1879

THE Indian war in the West is prov ingarich source of revenue to the Union Pacific railroad. During September 1t was credited with an average of Sl ,5O0 a day on transportation account, and this month it will be very much more.
Year: 1879

A RAILROAD train recently moved out of Denver with bride on board, but the careless husband was Jeff in the station. He was wild with excitement when he understood that she had been whisked off on her honeymoon journey alone, and at length compassionate official put him on special locomotive, with or ders to the engineer to overtake the bride at all hazards.
Year: 1879

the Atlantic lies between us and day light. To our Fenian citizens this may be another and cogent reason for annex ing the dear little isle of the harp and the shamrock; but until 1t is done the the exultant cry of the Rocky Mountain Presbyterian, that the sun never sets, on the United States, must be little exag- gerated. It does set every day and par adoxically, four hours before it rises. In the depth of our humiliation we may possibly console ourselves with the reflection that the sun really shines on the United States when it is up. We have to submit to four hours of sunlessness day; England is lucky, to get four hours of sunshine. So life has it's compensation, and existence in the United States remains endurable, though we do not, geographically speak ing, make quite so great spread as we thought.
Year: 1879

4 lady who lives on Olive street
relates The following: \ few days ago
there fell in front of her window from
tree 'chippy," or ground bird, such
as chatter about the parks aud crippled
She picked it up. carried II 10 the
house, fed it from her owo mouth and
at night placed it in the cage with her
canary. The canary at once bestowed
upon the new conner all of the atten
tlon OF u mother, aud nestle beside the
little stranger during the night. In
the morning the lady placed the chip
py IN the window So that ii might have
The privilege of regaining its freedom
1t plumed its tiny wings aud went
away. The canary mourne1 during the
day as if he had lost bis mate. In the
evening the ehippy came back and
perched upon the window. The sash
was raised aud it flew 10 aud nestled
upon the cage; the canary at once
struck up his liveliest notes and seemed
gratiied. This was repeated two or
three days, the chiPpy goios each mornN
ing and returning in the evening
One day it went away and did not
come back. The canary dropped, and
the next day fell desd from his perch
in the sunshine that played over the
gilded cage in the window. That
night the chippy returned, and during
the evening it mourned over its dead
companion. Iu the morning it clung
TO the cage until it was turned out.
For few days the empty cage was
hung in the window, aud on each
succeeding evening the chippy returned
and cbirped as if it was griefstricken
Que day it brought worm iu its bill.
dropped it in the cage, few away and
came back no more.
Year: 1879

An excellent receipt Tor being com
pletely miserable is to think only of
Yourself. how much you have not
made, aud the poorer prospect for the
future, A brave man with soul in
him gets out of such pitiful rust and
makes the best of life. This Garth
never was intended for paradise, aud
the man who rises above his discour.
agements and keeps his manhood. will
only be the stronger and better for
bis adversities. Many a noble ship
has been saved by throwing overheard
the most valuable cargo, and many
a man is better and more humane after
he has lost his gold.
Year: 1879

stated that when Blair to his house Mary Con-
molly told him that she was going to get some medi-
cine to put Blair asleep and rob him in order to get
square with him. because she disliked him ON ac-
count of his meanness Blair having Expressed dis


like to her; she said. moreover that Blair instead of
ordering beer drank black coffee; witness saw Mary
Connolly pouring out some liquid from small bot
tie into glass OF beer; he took it from her and
poured it into the sink; he did not know whether
she subsequently poured out any more OF the fluid
into the beer which was given to Blair.


AIR. Rollins subjected tho witness to q search
ing cross-examination. He said that in the
month OF March Mary volkmer went to the Old
Country. On being more closely interrogated he
said instead of being in the Old Country she in
carcerated in the Penitentiary tor shopliting The
witness partially corroborated the story OF Mary
Connolly, as already detailed with the exception
that no attributed to her all tho crimnality with
which he and his wife were charged.


The further hearing OF the case was adjourned
until Monday
Year: 1879

A recent writer gives the following SEN
sible suggestions on this subject:


Each person in room should be sup
piled with 5000 cubic feet of air per
hour; and this should be done, where
possible, without creating pcrceptible
draft, for the nervous irritation induced
by drafts is liable to produce internal in
tlamations.


The Temperature of the sick room
should be kept at a uniform height, the
best average being from 65 to 20 degrees
Fab, except for infants or very old peo-
pie, who require temperature from IS
to 80 degrees Fab; and for these it is
especially important to guard against
changes, and to keep it as uniform as
possible. All cases of fever require a
temperature lower than the average, as
from so to 60 degrees F., to assist In re-
ducing the high temperature of the body
but when the fever subsidies, and there is
debility remaining, the temperature
should be raised somewhat above the
average.


As patient can bear greater degree
of cold when in bed than when out Of it,
convalescents from severe disease, fevera
especially, should have the temperature
OF their rooms higher than that main
tanned during the height of the attack
Diseases of the air passages, in Group and
diphtheria, require a high temperature
$50 degrees to IS degrees Fahrenheit) and
a moist atmosphere. The best method fol
heating the sick room is by the open
CRATE fire. The sick room should not be
darkened by blinds, except where is 6
disease of the eyes with photophobia, o,
when the patient is very restless and can.
not sleep; then strong light must be ex.
cluded. Otherwise the sunlight should
be allowed to enter and act chemically ir
decomposing the noxious gasses, and thus
purify the air. OF course it is not advis
able to pi.ce. the patient under a strong
uncomfortable glare Of sunlight, nor il
summer to allow the suns rays to shine
into the room and raise the temperatur,
too high. Artificial light has no usefu
effect but does harm by burning NJ
oxygen.