smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

support that which is to be an ez-
pertinent ? Some talk about "econ-
omy," and is it not time we were
learning to economic, when the
people all over our country are
groaning beneath the burden Of tax
alton, which is heaped upon us by
unwise and unjust legislation ?


While we have teachers who are
doing noble work in our profess
sion, yet I admit that our schools, as
a whole, are not what they might be.
But how is a County Superinten-
dent to increase their efficiency &?
We have more schools in our coun-
ty than the number of days taught
in the country districts, so how much
time will he spend in each school7
Perhaps one halliday. What can he
learn in that time of teachers
character or qualifications VIII he
be better able to tell who is compe-
tent to teach our schools than our
worthy Examiners, who hsve spent
the greater part Of their lives il the
school-room, and studied carefully
the character of the teachers in our
county? Surely not.


Again Who are likely to be the
men appointed tof1 these positions?
viii they be men Of judgment and
zeal, and who are interested in our
common schools No. But as a
general thing, they will be "dead-
heads"-men who would deem it a
disgrace to enter a common school
as a teacher-men who are not as
well qualified to teach a common
school as one-half of our teachers
men who care not what becomes Of
the country schools so they can feast
on the public bounty. I might add
other objections, but I have given
enough, that you may. know the
opinion of at least nine-tenths of the
taxpayers in CONCORD.


Sugar Tree Ridge, o. Feb. 1879
Year: 1879

There Is a growing feeling in every heal
thy community against the journals which
make it their special object to minister to
perverted taste, by seeking out and serving
up in a seductive form disgusting scandals
and GCentiOus revelations.


There Is good reason to believe that the
clean newspaper Is more highly priced to-
day than it was four or FIVE years ago.


1t is also safe to predict that as people
in all ranks Of life, who protect their own
at least, from contamination, become more
conscious Of the perniciOus influence of a
certain class of journals called enterpris-
ing. because they are ambitious to serve up
dirty scandals, they will be careful to see
that the journals they permit to be read in
the family circle, are Of the class that never
forget the proPrieties Of life.


Already men and women Of refinement
and healthy morals, have had their atten-
tiOn called to the perniciOus influence Of
bad literature, and have made COM
meHdable efforts to Counteract the same by
causing sound literature to be published
and sold at popular prices.


These efforts are working a silent, but
sure revOlutiOn. The best authors are more
generally read to-day than at any previous
time. The sickly sentimental story paper,
and wild ranger and pirate story book, are
slowly yielding the field to worthier claim
ants.


To the praise Of the decent newspaper, it
may be said that where it has a place in
the family and has been read for years by
young and old, it has developed such
healthy tone, and such a discriminating
taste, that the literature of the slums has
no admirers. Fortunately, the lumber Of
such families is increasing in the land, and
as they increase, the Journal that devotes
itself to sickening revelations of immorali-
ty will be compelled to find its supporters
solely among those classes that practice
vice or crime, or are ambitious TO learn TO
follow such ways Boston Herald.


As such "cleaD newspaper" the GIN
CINNATI WEEKLY TIMES is com
mended to the reader For thirty-fve
years it has been conducted by editorial
management of the purest moral character,
as well as the best literary talent. The re-
suit is, that it has attained a reputation
and circulation, as a family newspaper, un-
ezcelled by any paper in the United
States. Those who begin with a years
subscription, generally continue for life;
so that it now has thousands of subscribers
who have been taking it constantly for
twenty to thirty years.


BI@The TIMES will be sent to any new
subscriber, on trial, for 81 for the first
year. Address TIMES COMPANY, Gin
cinnati, o. feb13w2
Year: 1879

Every man thinks a newspaper a fair
game. If a society or any body of men
get up a concert or ball, or any other


form of entertainment, the object of


which is to put money in their own
pockets, or, if the proceeds are to be de-
voted to charitable purposes, to add to
their own glOrifcation, they become
very indignant if the prOprietOrs of
newspapers do not assist them with a
series Of gratuitOus advertising for sew
eral weeks before the event takes place
These men, says an exchange, should
remember that literary men, in this
practical age, work for money as well as
for fame-principally the former, how
eYer-and the business manager of a
newspaper, if he wishes to keep on the
safe side of the ledger, conducts his
charge on the same principle as the
head of any other business establish
ment. People waO are getting up ball
would feel Chary Of asking present of
a pair of gloves from a merchant on that
account, yet asking and expecting to re-
ceive a gratuitous advertisement is
similar demand The editor of the
Marlboro (Mass.) JOlTnaI stated the case
very plainly when he informed his
readers ludL, w e long ago duOpJeu lu6
plan of charging our regular reading
notice price for all editorial announce
ments of entertainments to which an
admission fee is fixed. We make no
exceptions to this rule. In the way of
new topics, we freely and gladly insert
sketches of all entertainments after they
have become matters Of history. 1t is
only the preliminary work, looking to
the drawing out of increased patronage
from the public for which we expect
compensation" 1t costs money to con-
duct paper, and printing offices must
have support, the same as churches or
Institutions.
Year: 1879

A clergyman who longed to trace
Amid his flock q word Of grace,
And mOurned because he knew not why
YoR fleece kept wet while his kept dry
While thinking what he could do more,
Heard some one rapping al the door;
And opening it, there met his view
A dear old brother whom he knew,
Who had got down by worldly blows
From wealth 10 peddling east-Of clothes;
"COme I'm, my brother said the pastor
Perhaps my trouble you can master;
For since the summer you withdrew,
Ny converts have been very few"
al can" the peddler said, 'unroll
Something perchance to ease your soul;
And to cut short all fulsome speeches,
Bring me pair Of your old breeches."
The clothes were brought; the peddler ga1ed,
And said, mo longer be amRzedi
The gloss upon the cloth is such,
think, perhaps, you sit too much
Building air-castles bright and gay,
Which Satan loves to blow awayi
And here, behold : as am bern,
The nap from neither knee is worn!
He who would great revivals see
Must wear his pantaiOons at the knee;
For such the level prayer supplies.
When pastors kneel their churches rise"
Year: 1879

One of the most curious facts con-
nected with madness is the utter alb
sence Of tears amid the insane. What
ever the fOIm of madness, tears are con-
spicuous by their absence, as much in
the depression of melancholy, or ex-
citement of mania, as in the utter
apathy of dementla. IF a patient in a
lunatic asylum be discovered in tears. it
will be found that it is one beginning
to recover, or an emotional outbreak in
an epileptic who is scarcely truly insane,
while actual insane persons appear to
have lost the power of weeping It is
only returning reason which can once
more unloose the fountain of their tears.
Even when a lunatic is telling one in
fervid language how she has been de-
JITved Of her children, or the outrages
That have been perpetrated to herself


Ter eye is never even moist. The
ready gush of tears which accompany
The plant of the sane woman contrasts
strangely with the dry-eyed appeal Of
the talkative lunatic. It.wOuld, indeed,
seem that tears give relief to feelings
which, when pent up, lead to madness.
1t is one. of the privileges of reason 70
be able to weep. Amid all the misery
Of the insane they find no relief in
ears.
Year: 1879

A few days ago, a bold rascal tore
a diamond earring from a lady ear
in broad daylight, on 5th Avenue, N.
Y. city, the street being crowded with
people, and yet made his escape.
The earring was worth $1,000.
Year: 1879

LOVE OF CoUNTRY-Teach your daugh-
ters and your sons alike, next to honor,
next to the love of home, to love their
country. Then, when her need comes,
if come it must, in any struggle her
honor will be as their own, and life itself
will not be too dear to offer for her sake.
Who that remembers a battle, husband
or son sacrificed, who that ever saw a
soldier die, or stood in any silent city Of
the country's slain, or in a churchyard
where the village heroes rest, can ever
make our country seem again a vague or
visionary thing2
Year: 1879

We will furnish our subscribers, in connection
with the News, any Of the following Periodicals,
at less than the regular subscription price. The
first column shows the regular subscription price
Of each Periodical, the second column the price at
which we furnish it and our paper together-both
postage prepaid:
Year: 1879


County SuperYisiOn-The Other Side.
I wish to express my opinion, and
that Of the people with whom I have
talked, in regard to County Su-
pervision. Shall we have a County
Superintendent? The people al
most universally answer emphatieal-
ly, No! Because, of all the articles I
have read on Supervision, I have not
yet found one that claimed any GER
tain good results that are to follow.
They only hope for a change for the
better.


Shall the people of Ohio submit
to be taxed 100000 or more, to
Year: 1879

A parrot has been assassinated in San
Francisco. A faro banker named FaTy,
does business by night and sleeps by
day. His lodging place is the upper
floor of a three story house near the
city hall. A fortnight ago a family
moved into apartments on a lower floor.
The gambler lost his sleep, for the new
lodgers had a parrot Of unusual lingual
abilities, and each morning it was placed
out on a porch in the rear Immediately
under his bedroom window, and woke
him up and kept him awake with the
ceaseless and senseIess chatter and its
domaniac laughter He stood this until
he had vainly hurled at it $3.50 worth
of boot lacks, shoes, spittOons, tobacco
boxes and empty soda bottles redolent
of gin, by which time he concluded he
must DO something effective to abate the
nuisance. Being an ardent trout-fsher,
he fitted his beautiful fishing rod to-
gether, reeled out three stories of line,
and having adjusted a very taking and
highly-colored Mayfiy as the proper
bait for the season, went whipping"
through the window for his enemy.
The device was eminently successful.
The parrot made a dab at the deceitful
fly, and with an artistic switch the fish
erman fastened the barbed hook in his
gullet and reeled in his huttering and
screeching prize. Releasing the hook
he twisted the birds head three times
in one direction and its body five times
in another. and then insultingly dropped
the corpse into the porch below. But
his crime had been witnessed, and he
was subsequently arrested, but was tri-
umphantly acquitted.
Year: 1879

The Missouri Legislature has passed
a law defining the liability of common
carriers. 1t provides whenever any
property is received by a common car
rier to be transferred from one place to
another, within or without this State,
or when a railroad or other transporta-
ton company issue receipts or bills of
lading in this State, the common carrier,
railroad or transportation company Is
suing such bill of lading shall be liable
for any loss, damage or injury to such
property, caused by its negligence or
the negligence of any other common
carrier, railroad or transportation COM
pany to which such property may be de
livered, or over whose line such pro-
perty may pass and the common carrier,
railroad or transportation company issu-
ing any such receipt or bill of lading
shall be entitled to recover in a proper
action, the amount Of any loss, damage
or injury it may be required to pay to
the owner of such property, from the
common carrier, railroad or transporta-
tion company, through whose negligence
the loss, damage or injury may be sus-
tanned
Year: 1879

THE New York papers report that a
number of vessels have arrived at the
quarantine station there direct from
ports of the West Indies and South
America, now infected with yellow te-
yer. The vessels are subjected to thor
ough disinfection before they are allowed
to pass up to the city wharves, but after
Thursday they will be detained longer
time The new York press advise very
stringent sanitary measures. 1t will
readily be seen that we are in great
peril. New Orleans holds the key to
the situation in the Mississippi valley,
and we trust that she will not fail to do
her duty.
Year: 1879

| form mean by the words mo restrictions on
the CARRYING trade" One of my neighbors
making power, the right to regulate railroad
| freights and fares. | said not, etc


GRANGER.


And our Granger friend spoke truly.
We could not have meant what his
neighbor supposes, without running
counter to the doctrine we have invaria-
! bly, maintained, viz: 0nthe language Of
the Democratic Conservative Platform
of 1870 that corporations are super
visabIe by the Legislative authority"
We hold that no Legislature can "cOn-
tract" away the right Of the people
through subsequent Legislature to ex-
ercise this authority 1t is an inaliena-
BILE right--a right that can not be bar
tered away and in proof of our un-
yielding support of the the principle,
| we have nailed it to the masthead with
the other articles, that constitute the
creed Of the Democratic party.


The language to which our correspon-
dent refers, applies to the carrying trade
on the ocean, and is intended to declare
opposition to the odious navigation
laws which prohibit any foreign built
ships from being owned by an Ameri-
can, and sailing under the flag of his
country. These prohibitory laws are a
disgrace to our government. They say
to an American citizen, if you choose to
buy vessel built in any other land but
this it shall not receive an American
register nor have the protection Of his
country's flag The effect has been to
destroy the carrying trade Of the United
States and to give its benefits to foreign
countries. We are paying annually
nearly one hundred million dollars to
foreign ship owners, and the greater
part of this sum would 90 into Ameri-
can hands if we were permitted to buy
ships on the same terms as rival nations.
Our present Objectionable navigation laws
may have been adapted to the times
when wooden vessels ruled the seas, but
they are not suited to the present age of
iron ships and mammoth steamers. Our
statesmen initiated the example of
England in adopting her restrictive
navigation laws but did not have the
sagacity to follow her example in
changing them when the times demand
ed a change. This was accomplished
thirty years ago, and the result is the
amazing growth of British shipping and
commerce. The great iron ship lines
between British ports and the other
parts Of the world, have been established
since that date. But our government
under the baleful policy of the Radical
party, miscalled protection to Ameri-
can industries" but in fact the barefaced
robbery of the many for the benefit of
the privileged few-have adhered to the
antiquated rule of restriction and
obstruction. The true Democratic doc
trine is, free ships and free trade ; buy
ships wherever you can get them cheap
est, and, whatever seas they traverse,
give them the protection of the Ameri-
can flag.
Year: 1879

THE colored color line agitators at
Richmond who cited enforcement of
the Virginia law against the miscegena-
ton as one of the causes of the negro
exodus, did not seem to know that such
laws exist in the North. For example
the other day couple of miscegenators
were sentenced to spend their honey
moon in the Indiana penitentiary, and
the New York Sun reminds them that
Rhode Island, new England State,
with a large Republican majority, has a
law on its statute books prohibiting the
intermarriage Of white and colored per-
sons
Year: 1879

The proceedings of meeting Of indie
pendents at Dover is published in the
Yazoo Sentinel. We have observed IA
voring this disorganizipg movement,
names of citizens whom we have known
long, and who have stood deservediy
high in the ranks of the party; but the
number is small compared to the mighty
hosts that are gathering solidly around
its colors. Democrats must remember
that organization is necessary to success,
and that there can be no organization
and therefore no success, without con-
formity to the decision of the constitu-
ted authorities of the party They are
chosen by the party, and if they decide
to nominate candidates for county offices
the duty of conforming 10 the decision
is plain. Men protesting to be Demo
Gratis must be subjected to the Henry
Clay discipline which is. to obey or
quit the the camp.
Year: 1879

The Brookhaven Ledger publishes the
proceedings of a meeting of citizens at
Caseyville, Lincoln county, denouncing
acts of lawlessness in that community +;
and threatening to stop them, if neces-
sary by meeting force with force. The
Ledger strongly approves the course of
the citizens. The true plan will be for
each one to constitute himself guardian
of the peace, and protector of the law,
and when court assemblies procure the
Indictment and punishment of the guilty
parties. If the ringleaders were
brought to punishment, the effect
wonld be wholesome upon the others.
There is no excuse whatever for these
lawless acts, and the great body of the
people, who are law-abiding, owe
it to themselves to put them down. The
safety of the community is involved !;
and its honor is at stake, IF the per-
sons engaged In them, have real wrongs
to avenge, the Courts and the law-mak-
ing power will afford the necessary
remedy. If there are no wrongs to be
righted, then the crime of disturbing
the peace is so much the worse and calls
the more loudly for vigorous treatment.
Year: 1879

The following announcement in the
Tallahatchie Sentinel will be read with
pleasure by the former associates of Col
FitzGerald in the Senate, who will con
tinue in that body, and by the public
generally who are concerned in having
good men in the Legislature:


We had a call in our issue of the 26th OF
April, over the signature of "Many Voters
upon Col. w. H. FitzGerald, TO become a
candidate for reelection for State Senator
We copy from the Grenada Sentinel and New
South articles endorsing this honorable gem
tlemen as the choice for the position. We
understand, while Col. FitzGeraId does not
seek the position, he will not refuse to serve
the people if nominated. We hope the Colonel
will respond and announce his Willingness to
accept the position, as he is the unanimous
choice of this District.


eve learn that Hon. j. S. Bailey,
the present excellent and able Repre-
sentative from Tallahatchie county, has
consented to serve another term.)
Year: 1879

THE Democrats and Conservatives in
the several counties must not permit
malcontents who defy the organization
and usages of the party, and avow their
determination not to abide by its nomi-
nations, to introduce dissensions in the
ranks, and tempt them into wrangling
among themselves. Men have no right
to prescribe the policy of the party,
and at the same time set up the standard
of rebellion against its DEGREES. They
may call themselves by what name they
please; but the proof of what they are,
is shown forth by their acts. The
faith Of a true Democrat is shown by
his works in supporting the regular
nominees.
Year: 1879

In the exports of cotton goods the
United States is gaining on its foreign
competitors. Thus far this year they
are about forty per cent. in excess of the
amount shipped during the correspond
ing period of last year. A large pro-
portion goes to markets which England
has hitherto supplied.
Year: 1879

If the Democratic party in Congress
intend to back down and pass the ap-
preparation bill, whether the presence
of troops at the polls is prohibited or
not, would it not have been best to have
taken that step at the regular session
and avoided the expense and agitation
of the present one
Year: 1879

REV HENRY WARD BEECHER has
been to the South, and has seen with
his own eyes, and not through the dis
torted glasses of Northern demogogues
and fanatics, and here is what he says
of this deeply wronged people:


In my own judgment, when l consider hu-
man nature, when | consider that proud
people have seen themselves emptied out Of
power their political existence almost ami
hilated, their property swept out of their
hands by a consuming fame, the ascendan-
cy of the despised slave established over them
by what was to him foreign arm, l should
not have wondered if there had been ten times
the resistance that there has been to recon-
structiye measures. Never in history has a
people borne so much with so much patience,
gallantry and patriotism-a spectacle of
moral grandeur and of substantial good in
tent and honor in those who have been so
terrifcally scourged which is without paral-
lel
Year: 1879

GOVERNOR SEYMOUR is of opinion
that the question of troops at the polls
will be the issue of the next campaign.
1t will be an issue, but not the issue.
The financial question viii enter into
the canvass.
Year: 1879

' INheUUIS IItI "IVIsI


The Jackson Comet republishe- the list OF
United States Senatorial candidates that re-
Gently appeared in the Herald, and as Gen
Chalmers name was not in the list, inquiries
OF us why we thus smother the name Of the
Z" Little Brigadier from the Shoe String Dis
trict We did not put Gen. Chalmers name
in the list because he informed us that he is
not candidate for the position
Year: 1879

In reproducing from its exchanges the
following extracts, THE CLARION begs
leave to express its endorsement of the
wise counsel and admirable spirit of an
able article in the Kosciusko Star. 1t
concludes as follows


1t is improbable that any gentleman will
come before the next Legislature of Missis-
sippi as a candidate for United States Senator
who is not fully qualified for the high position
1t is probable, yes, We might say, certain that
the interests OF the State would be as fully
promoted by one as by another of the gentle
men whose names are now mentioned for the
place, and the issue, therefore, becomes merely
a personal one. Why hazard the harmony Of our
party by unnecessarily Introducing a cause for
difference and controversy before We hare beaten
the enemy at The polls Briefly, we can see no
reason for 1t nor good to Of 1t. The people
should not be too ready be draca into The uortet of
personal contest among politicians for ptaee.
Year: 1879

T dIIVId l1NaI.


This distinguished gentleman has many
sincere admirers and friends in Pamela county
and some surviving members of his old com
mand OF other and darker days, all of whom
are warmly attached to him, and desire to see
him in the Senate of the United States. He
has given no public expression to his views
on this subject, but we repeat with full conf
dence what we remarked on a former occasion,
and it is this: While he will not enter into
any contest for the position, and does not
really desire this practice being far more
lucrative than any public office would be-vet
he will consent to serve if his friends desire
it, provided the harmony and success of the
Democratic party can be thereby promoted.
We think we do not misrepresent General
WalthaIl in this statement