smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878




A little girl, with tangled locks peep
ing from under o calico hood. clad in a
dress of chintz, loitered behind as the
great dusty crowd moved out Of Mount
Adna, the other day, after they had scat.
tered their flowers, and done honor to
the dead. Dreamily she gazcd after them
her eyes filed with faraway look Of
tenderness, until the last one had disap
peared, and rattle Of the drums had died
away. Then she turned and vaguely
scanning the mounds that rose about her,
clutching still tighter the fast-fading
bunch of dandelions and grave grass that
her chubby hand held An old man
passed by and gently patted her curly
head, as he spoke her name, but she on
ly shrank back still further, and when he
told passing stranger that the little
ones father was one who died on ship,
board and was buried at sea; there was
only tear drop in the child's eye to tell
that she had heard or knew the story.
When they were gone, she moved on
further to a neglected, empty lot. and
knecling down she piled up a mound OF
earth, whispering, as she patted it down
and smoothed it with her chubby hand
" This wont be so awfuiiy big ns the
others, but maybe it'll be bigenough so
that God will see it, aud think papa is bu-
ried here" Carefully she trimmed the
dies with the gray grasses she plucSed.
murmuring on: "And may be it will
be like the rest in two or three years and
then maybe papa will come back and
But she paused as though it suddenly
dawned upon her young mind that he
rested beneath the waves, and the tear
drops that sprang to her eyes moistened
the little bunch of dandeions that she
planted among the grasses on the mound
she had reared When the sexton pass.
ed that way at night, as he went to close
the gates, he found the little one fast
asleep, with her head pillowed on the
mound.
Year: 1878

How TO KEEP BUTTER CooL-.1n the
country, at this season, ice is not always
te be had, but plate of butter can be
kept cool and hard by wrapping folds OF
wat cloth all over it, and covering it with
a common flower pot, which should also
have a IA wet cloth wrapped over it. The
corporation of the water will keep the
butter solid, puite as well as lump OF
ce. Milk can be kept sweet in the hot
test day by placing the nappy or the
pan tha contains it in a largo pan OF
water.
Year: 1878

If the law which was passed session or
two since by the New York Legislature
providing that nets should be stretched
under trapeze performers does not express.
ly state that the net shall be securely
fastened certain height above the ground
above the ground and shall extend over an
area sufficient to cover the space on which
the aerial gymnast might fall in case of
accident, the sooner that provision is In
cluded in the law the better it will be for
those whose safety was contemplated by
the passage of the act
Year: 1878

France has learned by hard experience
that it does not pay her to spend scores Of
millions on new ships that in lew years
are thrown out of date by later inventions.
In the recent debate on navy estimates the
French Chamber of Deputies decided TO
keep the old ships and the old. guns, and
to let the other powers go on arming them
selves with brandenew fleets to their own
fancy.
Year: 1878

THE civilization of Iowa which revolts
at the decapitation Of criminals eagerly
reafirms the comparative humanity Of
strangulation as if the axe. which at a
single blow dispatches the victim, were
more horrible or more absurd than the
rope, which kills him slowly.
Year: 1878

True hospitality is thing that
touches the heart and never goes be-


yond the circle of generous impuises.
Entertainment with the truly hospita-
BILE man means more than the mere
| feeding of the body it means An In
terchange of soul gifts. Still it should
have its laws. as all things good must
have laws TO govern them.
The obligation to be hospitable iss
sacred one, emphasized by every NOR
al code known to the world, and .
practical outcome of the second great
commandment.


There should never be guest in the
house whose presence requires any
considerable change in the domestic
economy.


However much the circumstances of
business or mutual interests may de.
mand in entertaining q stranger, he
should be never taken into the family
circle unless he is known to be wholly
worthy of that sanctum sanctOrum of
social life 8; but when once a man is
admitted to the home fireside he should
be treated as if the place had been his
always.


The fact of an invitation gives Heith-
er host nor guest the right to be mas
ter of the others time, and does not
require even a temporary sacrifice of
ones entire individuality or pursuits.


A man should never be himself SO
much AS when he entertains q friend.


To stay at q friends house beyond
the time for which one is invited is to
perpetrate q social robbery.


To abide uninvited in q friends
house is as much q misdemeanor as
borrowing his coat without his per-
mission. 1t is debasing the coin Of
friendship to mere dross when man
attempts to make it pay his hotel bills.


The fact of two men having the
same occupation and interest in life
gives to neither q social right to the
others bed or board. A travelling
minister has no more right to 60 un-
IdVltcO W ictlOW CI0Kt6tu0us 1900
are ordained to the ministry as preach.
ers, teachers and pastors, and not as
private hotel keepers.


They who go into the country in
summer rs uninvited gueets on their
former friends should be rated as so.
cial birgands, and treated accordingly.


These few social maxims are by no
means to be taken as q complete code
of laws. Others quite as important
will spring up out of the personal exc
perience of every reader of this arti-
Gle, and the justice and equity of all
may be tested by that infallible stand.
ard of society-th golden. rule. There
can be no true hospitality that in prac-
tice is q violation of this rule; and
you may safely rest assured that you
have given the fullest aud most per-
feet measures of entertainment to
your neighbor if you have done ex-
actly as you would be done by.-[Sun.
day Afternoon.
Year: 1878

There are hardware men in Detroit
who keep cook-stove at the store door
as a sign, and that the stove may not
be injured by rust they paint it over.
The other day one of them who had
a stoye with red legs, white covers
and blue top, secured an old farmer
for customer. The farmer stipulated
for q stove Just like that and ordered
it sent home by team of q neighbor.
A stove of the sizs aud pattern was
selected and sent away in good shape,
and all was lovely until the next day.
Then the farmer and his wife came in
with their own team, having the stove
in the wagon. The husband held the
lines while the wife entered the store
and remarked:


when we buy a certain kind of
stove, we don't like to be put off with
anotherl


why, madam, isn't that stove all
right p asked the man that sold it.


No, sir, it isn't! You sold my old
man stove with red regs and white
covers, aud blue border around the
top, and that one out in the wagon is
nothing but a scrub looking old black
stovep


'Why-why-he tried to explain,
but she waved him around and de.
clared:


sWe're old folks. and we live out
among the frogs and owls, but we
keep pace with the styles just as
much as any one, and you can't palm
off any scrub stoves on usl'


The men could hardly lift ten
pounds apiece as they exchanged the
nicely polished stove for the one with
red legs, but the old lady thought it
was because they were SO mad.


sTbere-that stove has got some
tone about it!' she muttered as it was
loaded up, Il don't want to be cap-
turous, but if style demands q red
legged stove then 60 in for the gor-
geous with the rest of 'em, and I'll
gild. the stove pipe to booti-[Free
Press.
Year: 1878

The annual yield of potatoes in the
United States, according to the returns
Of the last census, was nearly 10000
GOO bushels. In view Of the increasing
attention lately given to this crop it
will doubtless show at the close of the
present decade a large increase In the
amount of the yield, as we'll as in the
number and Improvement Of varieties.
In fact, it may safely be assumed that,
in spite of the fears of many in regard
to the ravages of the beetle. this crop
will still show q yield at the next cen.
SOS of over zoe, ,O00. 600 bushels.
Year: 1878

SECRETARY SHERMAN, in an inter-
view yesterday, said he recognized the
law. He believes there is clear two
thirds for it in each branch Of Congress.
He saw no reason for belief or hope
that it could be defeated. He thought
an amendment might be put in, but
that not much difference could be
made. He thinks the reconciliation
of silver will not affect gold or green
backs at once, as all the silver that can
be coined for several months would be
used for the payment of duties and the
people in general will not see much Of
it until some time after the passage of
the bill.
Year: 1878

A QUIET fight is going on between
the government and the attorneys for
the whisky men, who have the moral
support of District Attorney Bangs.
1t is quite probable that the latter will
be removed for his inefficiency as prose
cutor in these cases, and for his sympa-
thy with the ringsters and recommends
tions extended to them in their efforts
to get pardons and immunity from
civil prosecution.
Year: 1878

Washington, Jan. 29.-The leading
silver men of the House are exceedingly
jubilant, and some assert positively that
Senator Matthews has assurances that
the President will not, in the face of
the expressed opinion of both branches
of Congress, veto the silver bill, but
will allow it to become law without
his signature.
Year: 1878

RUMoRs of compromise between
the silver and anti-silver men in Con-
gress are flying about. No doubt
every effort is being made to compro-
mise on the basis of trade dollar of
100 grains.
Year: 1878

Montreal, Jan. 29.-An attempt last
night to blow up the Canadian Insti-
tute building was averted by the timely
discovery of an explosive package in
the main hall. This is the institute
that Guibord was communicated for
belonging to.
Year: 1878

THE Pope is preparing an allocution
against Russia for persecution Of the
church in Poland, and against King
Humbert onhis accession to the throne,
for assumption of the title of King of
Ifa1v
Year: 1878

Dissenting Opinions Of Associate Jus.


tees Spencer and DeBlanc in the case


Of State ex rel, etc. VS.. Morris Marks
OPINION OF MIR. JUSTICE SPENCER.
1t is with regret, and with much re-
luctance and distrust of my own .judg-


ment, that | venture in so grave a
matter as this, to differ with the ma
jority of my brethren, and to dissent
from their conclusion. But am con-
strained to do SO by convictions not
hastily formed.


do not hesitate to say that in nv
opinion, no one but an able attorney
at law can "practice within the
measuring of that article of the con-
stitution which fixes the qualifications
of District Judges, and that therefore
none but attorneys at laU can be Dis
trict judges.


Nor do | hesitate to say that the
fact of one having been District At
torney does not make him an attorney
at law, and does not give him there
fore the qualifications for the District
Bench. One does not become an at
torney at law, by or through being
District Attorney.


If, therefore, the defendant was an
attorney at law, and if he practiced
as such for two years preceding his
election as Judge of the District Court,
there remains no other basis for his
pretensions than the action of the
Board of Administrators of the Uni
yersity of Louisiana, comforting on
him the degree of Bachelor of Laws.


The first inquiry which naturally
presents itself is, did that Board have
the power to confer said degree


Section 1859 Revised Statutes, page
269, says; They (the Administrators
shall baVe the right of comforting un-
der their common seal, on any person
whom they shall think worthy there
of, all literary b0nORs and degrees
known and usually granted by any
university or college in the United
States or elsewhere. The degree of
Bachelor of Law and Doctor of Medi-
cine granted by them shall authorize
the person on whom it is conferred to
practice law, plysic and surgery in
this State.


If there is not imposed elsewhere
some qualification or restriction of
the power here conferred. | do not
see how it is possible to doubt its
plepaIy and absolute character. The
first clause of the section gives the
Board power to confer g on any per-
SON whom they she'll think porthy |
thereof all literary hoaors and degrees,
Year: 1878

PAYMENT OF PARISH DEBTS
Several members of the Legislature
have introduced bills authorizing the
Police Juries of their respective
parishes to levy special taxes for the
payment of old Indebtedness. The
decision of the Supreme Court, adverse
to the right of parociliai and NUM-


cipal authorities to issue bonds or
other evidences of Indebtedness, while
it is no doubt constitutional, has
operated gross injustice to parties
holding such evidences of indebted
ness. 1t is to be assumed that they
gave value received in exchange for
them and there is no honesty in repu-
dating them in toto, if any constitu-
tional provision can be made for
their partial, if not full payment. We
hope that Mr.. Wise or Mr.. Leonard will
introduce some bill of the kind for
this parish and city. Senator George
has introduced an net to authorize
the Police Juries of certain parishes
" to levy o special tax in addition
to the general tax, and not exceeding
five mills OIL the dollar, to pay out
standing Indebtedness, but we do
not know whether or not Caddo is one
of the parishes inclnded.-Shreueport
Times.
Year: 1878

land. And behold Pve seen the ele-
1phant, yea, verify, | saw him, and bear
witness, that from the key of bis
trunk to the end of his tail, his whole
body hath passed before me; and
followed him until his huge feet stood
still before clapboard shanty; then
with his trunk extended he pointed to
candle-card tackled upon shingle,
as though he would say Read, and !
read the


MINERS TEN COMMANDMENTS.


Thou shalt have no other claim
than one.


Thou shalt not make unto thyself
any false claim, nor any likeness to a
mean man, by jumping one; for |, a
miner, am just one, and will visit
the miners around about, and they
will Judge thee; and when they shall
decide, thou shalt take thy pick. thy
pan, thy shovel and thy blankets with
all thou hast and shall depart seeking
other good diggings, but thou shalt
find none. Then when thou hast paid
out all thy dust, worn out thy boots
and garments so that there is nothing
good about them but the pockets, and
thy patience is like unto thy gar
ments, then in sorrow shalt thou re-
turn to find thy claim worked out, and
yet thou hath no pile to hide in the
ground, or in the old boot beneath thy
bunk, or in buckskfl or bottle beneath
thy cabin, and at last thou shalt hire
thy body out to make thy board anil
save thy bacon.


III.


Thou shalt not go prospecting be-
fore thy claim gives out. Neither
shalt thou take thy money, nor thy
gold dust, nor thy good name, TO the
gaming table in vain; for monte.
twenty-one, roulette, faro, lansqucnet
and poker, will prove to thee that the
more thou puttest down the less thou
shalt take up; and when thou think
est of thy wife and children, thou
shalt not hold thyself guiltless, but in
sane.


Thou shalt not remember what thy
friends do at home on the Sabbath
day, lest the remembrance may not
compare favorably with what thou
doest here. Six days thou mayst dig
or pick; but the other day is Sunday;
yet thou washest all thy dirty shirts,
darnest all thy stockings, tap thy
boots, mend thy clothing, chop thy
whole weeks fire-wood, make up and
bake thy bread, and boil thy pork and
beans, that thou wait not when thou
returnest from thy long-tom weary.
For in six days labor only thou canst
not work enough to wear out thy body
in many years; but if thou workest
hard on Sunday also, thou canst do it
in six months; and thou, and thy NOR
ais and thy conscience, be none the
better for il; but rerroach thee,
shouldst thou ever return with thy
worn-out body to thy mothers fireside.


v.


Thou shalt not think more of all thy
gold, and how thou canst make it fast
est, than how thou wilt enjoy it after
thou hast ridden rough-shod over thy
good old parents preceptsand exam. :.
Piles, that thou mayest have nothing
to reproach thee, whom left alone in
the land where thy fathers blessing
and thy mothers love hath sent thee.


vi.


IT.. LII - LII. no.4hor A..
Year: 1878

against another. And so il is seen that
all the lives were sacrificed, and all the
immense debt heaped upon the laboring
people for nothing;for the war could easily
have been averted, and the Union made
more permanent without it, by compro-
missing spirit.


Even slavery might have been abolished
without war, as it was done in the North
ern States. Ere this it would have dis
appeared from all the States north of the
Carolinas in the form in which it had
exis' ed. But these Northern tanatical
politico-religious leaders saw there was
immense sums of money in war and its
contracts, and in conquests and confisca-
tions, and through the sale of bonds I;
and hence their eagerness to commence
and continue a conflict, the northern peo-
pie little dreamed would be so terrible
in its results and so difficult TO terminate.
Ii was to be swift and short-done up in
sixty days. That was the promise of the
men who commenced it and land was
to rise so much in value in all the States
where slavery had existed, after it was
abolished, that the difference in the price
would more than compensate for the in
vestments in negro slaves. But we will
not rehash any more of these promises
that led and betrayed the people into
taxing themselves TO dea b, and that is
to saddle their poor innocent offspring
with grinding burden for half century
to come. 1t is sufficient for our purpose
to show that the fanatics are dissatisfied
with their work, and We choose TO do it by
calling attention to an extract from the
Richmond Dispatch in reply TO the at
tacks of northern papers. This article is
cut trcm the Philadelphia Press, and that
paper supplies a head to it NEW ENG
LAND TO BE DIsFRANCHIsED, in order
TO aggrayate the mater. Ii will be found
in another column.


Now we are opposed to all these violent
TRADES that the press of one section is
hurling at the other, and fear that they
can result in no good, and must do an
immense deal of harm. 1t is ut erly i'm
possible that the six New England States
should be allowed to govern the whole
country. Heretofore these States have
made the country subservent to their own
aggrandizement, and through legislation
a stream OF wealth has been poured in
upon them, the like Of which, Gin all its
various phases was never known to
civilization in any age.
Year: 1878

EVERY DAY proves to the people more


conclusvely than its preceding twenty
Iollr hours how foolish and utterly wrong


was the war made upon the people Of the
South to crafty the malicious fanaticism
ot The New England manufacturers and
the Eil9iish anti slavery society with its
leaders III BostoT and New York. Al
though the South finally succuInbed To
1orce OF arms an y to repeated pledges
that she should hold her place in tho
Union as indepe endent States. and per-
mitted northern Inen to place themselves
in authority all over the South, and ac-
cepted all the measures that the North
imposed upon her, still the fanatics are
not satisfied and are commencing wal
upon The Southern people as savage, a.
heartless and as destructive of every sen


timent of union and harmony as coulc
emanate from one people at enmity
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous etters and commun,
cations. The name and address of the writer are I
all cases indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve eom-
munications that are not used.
Year: 1878

tnuous deposit of gold from the sur
face down to the bedrock. While the
earth is not rich enough to pay for work
ing withn pan or rocker, they regard it AS
demonstrated that it will pay them TO
work all next summer NJ hydraulic
mining, and that the indicttions are that
it will pay wages with ordinary sluice
boxes. This last point cannot be fully
determined before next spring. The
mines are so situated, that ii it will p,y
for any one to work there next summer,
it will afford work for several thousand
men. Mr.. Cotton and the Barrctts fee,
enough encouraged to continue their
present systematic and thorough pros
pecting all this present winter They
deserve great credit for their energy and
and pei severance.
Year: 1878

That Is, Its per centage of gain on the monthly
drawing Is four times as great as any other
lottery In existence and five times as great as
any gambling game, including bunco, ever
played In America.


In the defense Of the Lottery Company
published in last Thursdays Ptcdylee, Gen
erals Beauregard and Early argue in favor
of the monopoly character of the Louisiana
Lottery on the ground that IL lotteries are an
evil "it Is better that they should exist as
monopolies than that the right to con-
duct them should be general" 1t Is more
than absurd to pretend to the people of Lou
isiana that the Louisiana Lottery seeks to
enforce act No. and the various other acts,
guaranteeing it monopoly from any vir-
tuous consideration, either because lotteries
are immoral or to protect our people from
bogus or fraudulent lotteries abroad; it Is
more than absurd to pretend this; 1t is a
direct insult to the intelligence OF the people
of this State.


No; not content with monopoly grant In
it's charter, the lottery bought from half a
dozen Radical Legislatures at heavy cost,
supplementary laws and acts to prevent any
other lottery tickets being sold or any other
lottery scheme published in the State, because
it well knows that it cannot stand compe-
tition: because it's terms and prizes and
schemes are so unfair-iudged even by the
moral code Of gamblers and lotteries that 1t
could not sell dozen tickets In the State
unless protected by just such acts as Nos. 8
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, June 12.-The loss Of the
Oregon Legislature and consequent loss of a
Senator, causes considerable modification
among Republicans here. They had not
counted upon this, and the case is doubly ag-
gravating, as it comes at a time when the
party could i'll afford it. A handsome work
in the Senate after March. The present en-
ployees of that body are looking with alarm
upon the prospect, and Democratic aspi-
rants for the fat places are already offering.


1t is charged by some that Mitchell caused
the loss of the Legislature by his anxiety to
secure his return to the Senate It is alleged
that he is a weak man and heavy weight on
the party, and the disaffected elements took
this method to unload him.
Year: 1878

The only true matches are made by love-
and when two people have really loved-real-
ly, from the depths of their very hearts
nothing can ever quite part them again
[Yonkers Gazette How beautiful! how tar
rue! how tender! And yet there are hearts
that the world in vain has tried; hearts that
have beat as only one heart can thump; hearts
that the ice cream spoon, as it were, has fed /;
hearts that parted forever, because one Of the
twain didn't appreciate cold meat CONNER
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