smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

from its present terminus. The
road is now operated with daily
service forty-three miles northward
from Hudson, and this distance will
be increased to sixty-three miles in
the course ofa few months. Twenty
more will probably be graded this
year, thus practically making the
construction of the whole line to
Bayfield, sure thing next year, as
the whole distance of one hundred
and fifty eight miles will be more
than half completed at the close
1877. This is an extremely impor-
tant line to the city of St. Paul and
State of Minnesota, and wisdom
and prudence should have long ago
overcome the obstacles hich stood
in the way of its completion. An
immense business awaits those who
afford facilities for reaching the
settlements on the north and south
shores of Lake Superior, which are
now cnt off from the world except
by a circuitous route to St. Paul
by way of Duluth, or still more re-
moter cities on the lakes to the east
ward. The railroad and CONNER
clal interests Of Lake Michigan have
had an eye upon the business which
promises to centre at Ashland and
Bayfield,, and they have been strain
ing every nerve to be the first to
reach the goal, and their efforts are
now nearly crowned with success.
Within the next twenty days the
Wisconsin Central railroad, will be
entirely completed, and cars will be
running between Milwaukee and
Ashland, a distance of three hun





dred and fifty miles, mostly through
an uninhabited wilderness. This
line will connect with the Northern
Pacific railroad by a daily indepen-
dent line OF steamers between Ash
land and Duluth. Now as Fort
William, Thunder Bay and all
portions OF the north shore of Lake
Superior where population is most
dense and mineral wealth most
abundant, are much more accessible
by way Of Ashland than by way of
Duluth, there is reason to believe
that considerable trade that has
been tributary to St. Paul will be
directed to Milwaukee. But as the
latter city is just twice IS far from
Ashland as from St. Paul, there is
no reason to doubt that St. Paul
will take that trade and keep it, just
as soon as the North Wisconsin
can be finished. Already the towns
on Lake Superior are waking to
new life and prosperity. a large
and elegant new hotel is beng
erected at Ashland, to accommo-
date the travel that will be turned
through that port by the railroad
company and the new steamboat
line. Bayfield, is also putting on
airs and its business is reviving, the
prospects of its fisheries being par
ticularly bright, as refrigerator cars
will enable Bayfield, to ship fresh
fish daily both to Milwaukee and ST.
Paul. In view, therefore, Of the
developments on Lake Superior, it
would behoove St. Paul and its
merchants to keep an eye to wind
ward, and if they can do anything
to expedite work on the North
Wisconsin road they ought to do it.


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Year: 1877

AS has already been noted, the pro-
position is seriously made to form a
sea of the desert of Sahara by cutting
a channel to let in the waters of the
Mediterranean-an enterprise regard
ed as entirely feasible more 80, in fact,
than the cutting of tho isthmus of
Darien, which may be said to be an
assured project. A German scientific
writer, however, goes SO far as to as
sert that the Sahara project, if carried
out, would eventually turn Europe in
to another Greeland. He alleges that
the diversion of the Gulf Stream, by the
cutting of the Suez canal, has already
begun to have an influence on the
climate of Europe, and that the cover.
ing of the burning sands of the great
African desert with water would de-
stroy the hot winds, which are neces-
sary for the melting of the Alpine
snow and ice, and would finally result
in glacial formation that would over
whelm Italy. He instances the changes
in climate in Australia and New Gui-
nea by the deviation of a warm cur
rent of water which formerly ran
through Torres Straits as a practical
illustration of his theory.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, March 19.-A number
of the Democratic members of the House
are in the city awaiting some decisive ac-
tion in regard to an extra session.


1t is apparent that the contest over the
Speakership will be long ana obstinate.
Ultra Democrats are determined to de-
feat Randall if possible, out of revenge
for his impartial rulings during the heat
ed contest over the count of the electoral
vote. There is no question of the fact
that randall has the confidence and sup
port Of the moderate men of the Demo-
cratic party, and in the event of their be-
ing no probability of the Republicans Sc
curing an organization, he will no doubt
receive Republican recognition. The
Democratic aspirants, in addition to Mr..
Randall, are Messrs. Wood and Cox.
The Republican support will first. 60 10
Garfield and Foster, but the probability
is that an outside party will be taken up
as compromise.
Year: 1877

Just let the men who have pledged
them selves, who have sold their shiv-
ering souls in terror, consummate the
dastardly scheme on Tuesday next, and
they will discover, when they come
before The people again, what the peo-
pie think of their action. LIE: them 60
on now and complete the transfer and
they will discover that there is power
which they cannot defy, power
which they cannot contemptuously
sgnore and trample upon. They will
discover that to bargain for and deli.
yer one hundred and thirty-two mem
bers of h Legislature is one thing, but
to blind and rivet the fetters on -four
hundred thousand freemen is another
Year: 1877

BASE BALL.-A meeting of the men,
bers Of the Quickstep base ball club will
be held this evening at the MontorH House
No. 10 E. Second street, for the purpose
of completing the organization of the
club. The committee that was appointed
at the last meeting for the purpose of Sc
lecting the players for the nine will re-
port tonight and it is thought that the
nine will be completed.


Work was to have begun on the
Adams street grounds yesterday, but ow-
ing to the snow it had to be postponed
until the weather will permit the work
TO 60 on. The nine is to be made up of
home players and they will receive no
other remuneration for their services than
the gate money, which remains over after
all expenses have been paid.
Year: 1877

Live for something.


They that live without dying
thoughts, shall die without comforts.


Idleness is hard work for those that
are not used to it, and dull work Tor
those that are.


Coyetous persons are like sponges,
which greedily draw in water, but re-
turn very little until they are squeezed.


The love OF truth is the spirit of all
eloauence. Speech without it is but
babble. The mere art OF rhetoric Is
more noisy but less useful than the
tinman's trade.


A mans charity to those who differ
from him upon great and dithcult ques-
tions, will be in the ratio OF his own
knowledge OF them. The more knoWi-
edge, the more charity.


Lessons of wisdom never so influence
us as when they are wrought into the
heart through the groundwork of a
story which engages the passion. lis 1t
that we are like iron and first must be
heated before we can be wrought upon :
or is the heart so in love with deceit
that where true report will not reach
it we must cheat it with a fable, Ia
order that we may come at the truth? ?


We commend the horse for his
strength and sureness of foot, and not
for his rich caparisons; a greyhound
for his share of heels, not for his fine
collar a hawk for his wings, not tor
his iesses and bells. Why in like
manner do we not value man fol
what is properly his own He has =
great train, beautiful palace, so mucn
credit, so many thousand pounds y
year, and all these are about HIM anu
not in him.


Without depth of thought on eafhes1
ness of feeling or strength OF purpose'
living an unreal life, sacrificing suo'
stance TO show, substituting the nc'i
tious for the natural, mistahng crow
for society, finding its chief pleasure q
ridicule and exhausting its ingenuity y
/ expedients for killing times tashlon
among the last influences under wh'eN
human being who respects INNS


who comprehends the great cad


would desire 10 he placed
Year: 1877

Last Wednesday evening while Mr.. L.
B. Moore, of Sauk Centre, Mimi, was re.
turning from the Black Hills on the Union
Pacific Railroad, he was so unfortunate as
to have $735 in gold dust stolen from him.
Moore had taken load of merchandise in
to the hills, and after disposing of the en-
tire lot, was returning home happy in the
possession of a neat little amount of dust.
The gold dust was placed in little bag at
the Bank of Sidney, and when Moore start.
ed for home, the bag containing the dust
was placed in his pants pocket. While on
the train and after night had set in Moore
fell asleep. Upon awakening he soon dis.
covered that some unprincipled wretch had
cut the pocket and stolen the gold. The
thief made his escape, and no clue could be
found to work up the case. Moore now
has to return home without o cent in his
pocket. Such is life on the frontier.
Year: 1877

Wheat is steady rising all over the world.


The Minneapolis millers are now buying
wheat in Milwaukee, and bringing it by
rail to their mills. They have to do this or
shut down.


The indications all are that wheat will be
higher in the spring in Minnesota than ii
has been since the war; and if serious
trouble arises from the presidential COM
plication. it may go as high as it did in the
days of the rebellion.


The calmity is that so few of our people
have wheat to SELL After taking out theiI
seed and bread their bins are empty.


If we have good crop next year, and
the grasshoppers do not gobble it, Minneso
ta:will get a magnificent price for the great
cereal.
Year: 1877

There is nothing which should be more
frequently impressed upon the minds of
young men than the importance of steadily
pursuing some one business. The frequent
changing from one employment to another
is one of the most common errors commit
ted, and to it may be traced more than half
the failures of men in business, and much
of the discomfort and disappointment
which renders life uncomfortable. It is q
very common thing for man to be dissat-
isfed with his business, and to desire to
change it for some other, which, it seems
to him, will prove more lucrative en-
ployment; but, in nine cases out of ten, it
is mistake. Look around you, and you
will find among your ncquaintances abun-
dant verifcation of our assertion. There
is an honest farmer who has toiled a few
years, got his farm paid for, but does not
grow rich very rapidly, as much for lack
of contentmeEt mingled with industry as
anything, though he is not aware of it. He
hears the wonderful stories of California.
and how fortunes may be had by picking
them up; mortgages his farm to raise the
money, goes away to the land of gold, and
after many months of hard toll, comes
home to commence again at the bottom Of
the hill of more weary and less success
/ full climbing up again. Mark the men ir
every community who are notorious fol
ability, and equally notorious for never
getting ahead, and you will usually fine
them to be those who never stick to an,
one business long, but are always forsakinl


their occupation just when it begins to b.


profitable.
Year: 1877

AT the last session of congress Grant
vetoed a bill reducing the salary of the
president to $25,O0O. The veto was not
finally acted upon until few days since,
when a vote was reached in the senate, and
the veto was sustained, more than a third
of the senators voting for it.
Year: 1877

We are not very favorably impress
ed with the Congressional compro-
mise bill for counting the electoral
vote. 1t appears TO us that ID is hard
ly constitutional measure; besides
1t is treating the matter, virtually, as
though no election had taken place.
IL proposes TO settle the fate Of the
nation, for the ensuing four years at
least, by the toss of copper-a dam
gerous thing when applied to nation
al affairs. We don't like the bill.
Year: 1877

Kentucky Democracy proposes at
the call Of Henry Watterson, to send
one hundred thousand men from
that State TO Washington to see fair
count. 1t is a little singular that the
State which during the rebellion had
the largest number Of cowardly neu.
trails should now have the most men
foaming and all stopping over with
Year: 1877




Sic 9. That nothing IN this act
shall DO held to impair or affpct any
right now existing under the Constf-
tuition and laws to question, BY pro-
oeeding In the judicial courts Of the
United States, the right or title Of
the person who shall be declared
elected or who shall claim to be Pres
identor Vice President of the United
States, If any such right exists.


SEC. Z. The said commission shall
make Its own rules, keep record of
its proceedings, and shall have power
to employ such persons as may be
necessary for the transaction Of its
business and the execution Of its
powers.
Year: 1877

attention to resign in order to avoid


The responsibility Of making the
count us President of the Senate, has
been upset by his denial. He has
told no person what he shall do, what
ne considers his duty to do. He
hopes Congress will solve the prob


lem of duty for him; but ifit should
fail to do so he will obey the require
ments of the constitution as he un-
derstands them. This he will do
fearlessly and abide the consequences.
Year: 1877

uYconroETABLE AND DANGEROUS CONDITION OF
cEowpINo.


The overcrowded and uncomfortable condition OF
the great majority OF excursion boats this
of the year leads many Wonder whether passen-
gers have any rights that the steamboat companies are
bound respect whether there any law the sub
ec of overcrowding, and n so why It is not enforced.
IL also shows the necessity Of having greater num-
Der Of boats running moro frequently Tor the accom-
mediation OF the passengers To set Al rest the various
doubts that night arise the mind Of the travelling
public HERALD reporter yesterday made his way TO
the little obscure Office In Pine street where are TO be
found the who have charge OF such matters, and
who are Known as the Board OF United States lnspoc-
tors Of Steam Vessels


ovERcRowpNo BOATS.


Although the warm season is only just beginning
the boals are already found inadequate supply the
popular demand for cheap aud quick means OF exit
from the city the pleasant resorts along the river
BY the shore. All indications point to brisk
summer quota OF excursions and short voyages To-
especially will tho rush be great TO s the
summer resorts this vicinity. It is well that each
passenger should be acquainted with his rights and
privileges and learn the remedies OF which he
avail himself in the OF overcrowding.
IL becomes necessary, therefore. hrst Of all, TO
learn number passengers that each OF the excur
sion boats / allowed carry. Mr. John X. Matthews,
local Inspector, kindly furnished the reporter with
such list. rne law the subject requires a vessel
running regular route TO be inspected and to re-
ceve certificate Of number Of passengers she may
carry The also provides that II the propretors OF
the vessel desire to her for an excursion boat
permit purpose must be obtained, specifying
the routes oil the excursions and the number ol extra
passengers trat DO taken such trips over ana
above the regular number


EXCURSION STEAMERS


The following is list OF the different excursion
Steamers their destination and number of passengers
ullowed:--
Year: 1877

now lies in the coffin before us charged
me that but few words he said over mm,
and in them no supposed virtues should
he set for him. will talk not of the
dead but to the living. Living men
have nc time to think Of death. Their
lives are too busy. The Holy Ghost
says true religion is Work, work be
yc abounding in good works. BE busy
in doing good to humanity and devote
no time to thoughts Of death the Lord
will attend to that rs hr attended to our
birth Some people say we must all die,
and therefore they nrgu" that we ought
to spend our lives in preparing to die.
Tins is not true Of the Christian religion,
not bit of it. True religion is. 90 for.
ward with life, hold WI he reins, but
don't stop the chariot
Year: 1877

in some years the motion OF the needle
was rapid, in others little could be dis.
covered, and in some years the motion
was rctrogradc. There is no regularity
in its motion at any place, for any length
OF time. The diurml motion of the nee
die, as the sun rises in the forenoon, has
an effect which gives polarity to the nee
die, and turns It's north end to the west 4:
in the afternoon and nights following,
the needle returns to its position. Oh
seTvatlons for diurnal motion have been
madc, both in Europe and America, and
the results have meen nearly the same; in
summer in this latitude, about t of de-
gree is usually found ; In winter but
very little can be discovered Local at.
traction is found oftener in hllly, br, ken
lands filled with iedgcs, than in level
feasiable land. They sometimes cause the
needle to deviate more than or 5 deg
within the distance of ten chains.


On the dip of the needle, if the needle
be exactly balanced on its point in a
horizontal position, and then the mag.
netc virtue he applied, the needle will
point towards the north, and will also
he inclined to the horizon the north
point will tend down. and the south
point upwards, in northern climates and
the contrary in southern climates. This
dip of the needle is different in different
places, though it remains nearly the same
in the same place since its discovery.
On the equator the dip is nothing, but
gets greater ms you 80 toward the poles.
At any point on the surface Of the earth,
the dip varies with the distance from
the poles. This may he calculated hy
common sphe i2al trigonometrv, or which
is much more simple, by measuring the
distance on globe from the pole to the
place for which the dip is to he calcu-
lated, then to the logarirhmic contagent
Of this distance add the constant oga.
rithum 1.30l03, the sum will he the log
arithmic tangent of the dip. Another
thing about the needle is the attracting
and repelling forces Magnetic poles OF
contrary names attract each other,
Those of the same name repel each other.
The forces of attraction and repuIsion
both vary inversely, as the square Of the
distance between the attracting and re-
peIling poles.
Year: 1877

A dog near Norfolk, Va, was taught
to wait every day for q railroad train,
catch paper thrown out by . baggage
master and carry il home. His master
died several months ago, but he goes
every day TO get the newspaper, and
gaze after the cars in apparent disap-
pointment when nothing Is thrown to
him.
Year: 1877

While protesting agatnst all the old worthless 8
DentrIfces now in the market, the ladies, with
one consent have adopted the Sozodont as the one
thing needful to insure the integrity Of the teeth
and fragrant breath.
Year: 1877

The letter of Captain H. w. Howgate,
of the Signal Service Bureau, to the
Graphic has been extensively copied
throughout the country, and everywhere
warmly commended. TO this gentleman
must be given the credit of suggesting
the only method that can be hereafter
proftably pursued in solving the mys-
terry which centers at the North Pole.
We have had too many costly expert
ments in that direction. The unexplored
boreal regions can never be captured by
a dash. 1t will be the work of years,
and can best be successfully prosecuted by
small bands of Arctic explorers. These
must have permanent depots of supply
and must take no step backward till the
object is attained. A proposition of the
London Spectator is that the work should
be undertaken by Alpine guides trained
not only to winter regions, but to foot
travelling on glaciers, and with these
should be associated the native Esqui-
maux, who have also some peculiar
facilities not possessed by other workers
Each expedition of this kind should be
accompanied by photographers and skill
full and ambitious scientists capable Of
enduring the hardships of a continual


winter. There is no reason why both
poles may not be reached by the slow
approach of small parties moving on diff
ferent meridians backed by ample re
sources, depots of supply, and reinforce
ments. But in this there should be com


petition between the several nations o
the North moving by different routes
There are several expeditions at the pres
ent time within the Arctic Circle, but il
this grand scheme of research every natiol
should be adequately represented, AM
while it may not be necessary tor NOR


than twenty to fifty persons to be in on


party theexpedition would approach on


another nearer and nearer as they wen


north, and the whole army of advanC


would thus be quite numerous and at Las


concentrated. 1t would be well to sen


out as many as fifteen or twenty exped


tions simultaneously, to push forward b


powerful national aid, the lines of trav'


being kept often to the rear and bases
supply being placed at accessible point
Year: 1877

The Baltimore american says: During
trial in the Criminal Court an incident
occurred that almost produced panic.
The Courtroom was crowded with spec
tators, several of whom were standing
on a raised platform near a stove with an
open crate. One individual get 30 near
the stove that his coat-tails took fire
from the burning Goals. As soon as ne
felt the fire in his rear he gave one look
behind, took in the situation at glance,
and made spring that would have done
honor to an acrobat. The consequence
was that number of persons were
knocked down, while Others, thinking
that the floor had given away, or some
other serious accident h4d occurred,
made for the door. The confusion was
general for few seconds, but when the
real nature of the occurrence became
known, quiet was restored. The man
with the burning coat never stopped
until he reached the snow-piIe in the
Courthouse lane, into which he plunged
He went in in a frock-coat, but he came
out with short sack.
Year: 1877

The Allentown (Penn.) Chronicle says:
On Saturday afternoon the funeral OF
Mrs. Henry Schantz, nearly eighty years
of age, residing near the Poor House,
took place. AS is customary at country
funerals, a great deal of baking and
cooking was done for the entertainment of
tbe relatives and friends. Just before the
funeral procession was about to leave the
house, on the way to Jordan Lutheran
Church, one of the chimneys was discov-
cred to be on fire, the flames leapiDg up
ten or twelve feet. As the house was a
single roof there WAS danger of the fire
soon becoming serious matter, and OF
course there was commotion and run.
ming hither and thither with buckets OF
water. The FIRE could not be got at very
easily, and something had to be done
soon to avert serious consequences. just
about this time a philosophical gentle
man present asked for loaded gun,
which, upon being handed him, he dis
charged up the chimney, instantly ex,
tinguishing the fire, the concussion OF
the air produced by the shot having done
the work. A great many present could
not understand the rationale of the thing,
and regarded the gentleman with a SORT
of venerati0n.