smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

That portion Of the Presidents Mess
age which has been received treats only
Of two subjects Of popular interest: the
public school question, and the Cuban
question. In regard to the first, it but
elaborates the sentiments expressed in
the Presidents Desmoines speech. Il
says:


From the fan OF Adam for his trans-
gressions. to the present day, no nation
has ever been free from threatened
danger to its prosperity and happiness.
We should look to the dangers threaten
ing us and remedy them. SO far Us lies
in oar power. We are q Republic
wherein one man is as good as another
before the law. Under such a form OF
government, it is of the utmost impor-
tance that all should be possessed of
education and intelligence enough to
cast vote with q right understanding
of its meaning. A large association of
ignorant men cannot, for any consid-
cradle period, oppose successful re-.
sistenee TO .acquiescence to the will of
intelligence, whether directed by the
demagogue or by priestcraft. Hence
the education of the masses becomes of
the first necessity for the preservation
of our institutions. They are worth
preserving, because they have secured
the greatest good to the greatest pro-
portion of the population of any form
Of government devised. All other forms
of government approach it just in por-
portion TO the general diffusion of edu-
catin and independence of thought and
action. As the primary step. therefore,
to our advancement in all that has
marked our progress in the past century,
l suggest for your earnest consideration
and most earnestly recommend it, that
a constitutional amendment be submit
ted to the legislatures of the several
states for ratification. making it the du-
ty of each of the several states to estab-
lish and forever maintain free public
schools, adequate to the education of
all the GlaslSsen in the rudimentary
branches. within their respective limits,
irrespective of sex. color. birthplace of
religion, forbidding the teaching in said
schools of religious, atheistic or pagan
texts. and prohibiting the granting of
any school funds or school taxes, or any
Fart thereof, either by the Legislative,
municipal or any other power for the
benefit of any other object of any other
nature or kind whatever, in connection
with this important question.
Year: 1875

BAzAAR.-To-night is the clos
ing night ofthe Catholic Bazaar.
The balloting for the most popu-
lar lady and gentlemen will be
the great event, and it is OK
pected the voting will be very
brisk We do not know what
candidates are in the field.
Year: 1875

to whom to apply for aid. But he final.
ly wrote letter % an address at Los
Angeles. California, which was thought
to be his son. He Was morose and 'un-
communicative in the extreme, and tbefe
fore nothing could be drawn from him
in the way of confession. The evi>
dence OF his guilt of the crime fof
which he had been arrested vss purely
circumstantial, but Of so strong a nature
that there was no existing doubt of it,.
He and the unknown man were travel.
ing together, and his victim was last
seen alive in his company. One night
white in camp, Myers arose from his
blankets and cruelty murdered his
sleeping companion with hatchet, and
then threw the body in Salmon River.
Tho sum OF money obtained from the
crime was sixty or seventy dollars. On
the remains being discovered and being
taken out Of the water, they were i'm
mediately identified as those of tho
travelling companion of Myers, and the
sheriff started in pursuit of the murder
er. When overtaken and arrested in
Montana and brought back, he claimed
that he had been alone all the time, and
knew nothing of'the murdered man.


But the testimony to the contrary was
overwhelming, and he was lodged In
Jail, where. in the gloomy solitude Of
his cell. and driven to it by the gnaw-


ings of conscience, he acknowledged his
guilt in suicide. Can it be that in his


miserable wanderings, followed and
harassed by the ghostly shadows Of
those he had murdered in Kansas, old
Bender had finally drifted into this Tera
ritory, and that the man Myers was hes
It would be relief to the whole country
if it could be established beyond b
doubt that he was Bender"
Year: 1875

Gen. T. T. Eckert, General Superintendent
OF the Eastern Division Western Union Telegraph
Company has resigned his position Gen. Eckert has
been identified with the Company for many years, hay


ing taken his present position in ts service resgning
his place as Assistant Secretary Of War under Edwin h
santon which he did shortly after the close the
Year: 1875

which no one contended WAS choice. The little
red checked fellows, now in, sell immensely.
In fact, no other fruit has chance now that
peaches have fairly come. They are good all
OF the day and at breakfast are best Of all,
Year: 1875

the kindlings, she found TO her great CON.


sternation that there was a great fro


alresdy doing its best in the rather close
kitchen toward consuming the whole
| house. eass ~


NOW Maysville did not boast of any
| nre-engines, and when once a fire gnt


under way it was but little that coS,I5
be done to stay it in its course. Besides
our Minnie was almost petrifed win
fright at the sight of the fire. She did


close the door, but Just because she han,
pened to, not from any "malice afore
thought" then she ran screaming up,
stairs.


"Auntie, auntic, the house is all ON
frei"s~ ~


As good fortune would haze it. Mrs
Wheldon had not undressed, as had first
been her intention, but had lain down
with her clothes still oas-~Now she
sprang up, telling Minnie to ,wakoa vii
lie. Just as she reached the landing be-
low her husband came in. He had Seen
the unusual light in the kitchen and ey-
Claimed: ~ believe the house is on fire,
where is Rildsso = =


Gone OUT What can we dosr


1t took MIR. Wheldon but a minute 10
decide. He rushed to the door CRYING


nG. ute.I +.


The whole village was alarmed in a
moment more, for the smoke and flames
now burst through the roof at the cor
ner where the cupboard had been; and
the light shot up into the night telling
every one where was the fire. Nearly
everything was saved by the ready and
helpful hands OF the accumulated crowd.
but the house and the kitchen furniture
were soon among the things that cere
and are no more.


When Mr., Wheldon heard from Rilda
all the circumstances, he said to Minnie.


We'll! | should think one or twomore
lessons would teach you to attend TO
lhings when they ought TO be done. /
guess, though, you can't ledran'


This was all auycnc ever said to her:
)ut we are glad to say she was cured of r.
Ter worst faults from that day forward
f anyone asked a favor of her she grant
ID 1t Immediately, if in her power to
,rant it at all her lessons were learned
before time to recite them, and if she
vas told by her uncle or aunt 10 do any-
hing she charged her mind with it until
was time to do it, and then atteRded
o doing it; and she says that she is
ever tempted to put off doing ANYTHING
7hen it should be done without she sees
mental vision of the poor woman toss.
1g with fever for lack of the medicine
he should have carried and the burning
ouse set on fire by the kindling which
Tould never have ignited but for her
arelessness. Chicago Standard
Year: 1875

in Paris, they say, the best of men
lie ten times day, the best of women
twenty times day, the fashionable man
a hundred times day. No estimate has
ever been made as to how many times a
day a fashionable woman lies
Year: 1875

'Rest perturbed spirit |" will be the senh-
ment Of all healthy minds on reading ths
Wild frantic address of General John g.
Preston to the alumni OF the University of
Virginia yesterday The University of Vir-
GINA was founded by Jefferson, and
he regarded it as one OF his proud
est trophies. In the epitaph he wrota
for his own tombstone he classed
it with tho authorship of the Declaration OF
Independence as one of the three things Tor
which he thought he deserved to be remem-
bered If the highty orator yesterday had
inherited something of Jefferson's taste for
chaste and condensed composition he would
have done greater honor to his Alma Mater
The frothy rhetoric of o sophomore
does not become the mouth of an
alumnus of an institution of learning founded
by one OF our great statesmen who had the
greatest contempt for empty bombast But
the sentiments of this suited address would
be out of taste in any diction. General
Preston exhibits himself as a ghost linger-
ing over the grave of the late Conled-
eracy and cherishing all the sentiments
which it felt in life. He delivers
such blows as a ghost might give whose arm
is thin mir aud whose stroke clnnot wound
To do him justice he is not quite insensbis
of the vanity of his utterances Here is ono
specimen of his despairing rhetoric -"The
bloody tumult Of tho storm which fell
upon our peaceful grandeur may have
subsided, but our poor wat-rlogged
vessel is still tapping her shivered sails
and rolling heavily and helplessly in the
yawning troughs." This is specimen OF
style for The initiative young graduates. Tho
whole composition is Of this tissue, and the
main purpose of the address seems to have
been to evoke out of its grave the spirit OF
the dead Confederacy. Here is General Pres
ton view Of the permanency of our Union:-
''Not space, or time OF the convenience
of any human law, or the power of any hui
man arm can reconcile institutions for the
turbulent fanatic OF Plymouth Rock and the
God-fearing Christian Of Jamestown The
whole address is in a strain Of similar turgid
extravaganza and bad temper, and it is pain
ful to make quotations. They jar so upon
the spirit OF the recent Centennid celebra-
tions, and on the enthusiasm of the young
Yirginians who lately went to Bunker Hll.
that we are justified in supposing that
General Preston stands alone. Surely
there is nothing resembling this in
the excellent address of Mr. Hunter,
the eminent statesman, to another Virginia
college day or two since 1t is not the sem
timent of the great body of the ingenious
young men of the Southern States who cher
ish hopes of their own future and thai of the
country with which their deStinies are bound
up Alas, poor ghost!
Year: 1875

Of the members, and all business Of this class
was blocked- while the republican Aldermen
were excluded. They were, therefore, in
position to extort from the democrats who
had declared them in contempt free and
full oondonation without any yielding on their
part. They are as glad to get back as tho
democrats were to receive them, and both
sides willingly bury the hatchet and smoka
the pipe OF peace.
Year: 1875

ADMIRAL WoRDEN, of Monitor fame, was
received with such unequivocal enthusiasm
and honor at the German port of Kiel that he
felt impelled to give public expression of
thanks TOR the courtesies extended toward
himself and his officers. The entente cordinIa
between Uncle Sam and Bismarck may there
fore be considered as unbroken
Year: 1875

TIE COTTON CRoP.-The reports from the
various departments in the South concerning
the cotton crop are highly satisfactory. The
indications are far more favorable than those
OF year ago. The South shows commend
able energy and perseverance, even under the
most depressing circumstances, in endeavor-
ing to regain qRte-beLlum prosperity.
Year: 1875

A JERSEY RING BBoKEN The investiga-
ton of the management Of the Hudson and
Essex county jails in the adjoining State has
resulted in unearthing and exposing shame
less, plundering ring Of officials. Some of the
guilty ones attempted in vain to screen them
selves and to justify their proceedings, but
public opinion, which is formidable power
across the river was evidently against them,
and justice of the stern Jersey kind will likely
overtake them ere long
Year: 1875

We learn with regret that Major Leech, TO
whose exertons the Irish Rife Association
owes its existence, has resigned the captaincy
of the Irish team. In doing SO the gallant
Major but carries out q resolution formed
when the challenge for the return match in
Ireland was issued. At the present moment
the resignation strikes us as somewhat inop-
perfume, because it is calculated to give rise
to comment at this side Of the water and TO
some misconception of the motives which
have led to Major Leechs action. II is quite
possible that his intended resignation was
FASTENED by the discomfort felt at the compo-
sition of the Irish team and to the want of
that organization which it is the team cap
taiR's duty to create and maintain. No doubt
public opinion in Ireland, smarting under
the sense of defeat may have rendered the
further holding of the captaincy of the team
unpleasant, and the Major, who is sensitive
and polished gentleman, considered himself
called upon to retire from false position.
1t may be that the members of the Irish
Eight who viii have 10 contend at Wimbledon
desire the services of a practical rifeman as
captain of their team. The importance of or
ganization and discipline has .been deeply
impressed upon their minds by the two victo-
ries won by America, and which have been
due in great part 70 the admirable discipline
of our representative riaemen- But whatever
the cause, we feel certain that it is not in-
tended as an expression Of discomfort at the
American victory, for mono bore more grace
fully the reverse at Creedmoor than did tho
gallant Major Leech
Year: 1875

THE REGATTA Of the Central Hudson Club
took place yesterday at Poughkeepsie, and re-
suited in the victory of the Leroy, OF New
Hamburg, among the first class boats, and
the Mary Emma, Of Oyster Bay, I. /, among
the craft of the second class. The Lulu was
the successful competitor IN the third class
The race WIS over twenty mile course.
Year: 1875

"Recently tho clowns Of tho Dublin
tn ontrc. Ytriving to crafty the taste to
which they had been accustomed to pan
der, and not knowing the change that the
Spirit of God had wrought. undertook to
dcridc these men of God, thus 'Wnnl,
jim said one, 'how do YOU feel tonight 2
Go way said the other gruflly, l feel
rather Moody tonight ; how do you feel ?
Me- said the first 'wanl, feel rather
Sankcy ! There was inint at
tempt at laughter, checked by sudden
shower of hisscs, and then some ono IN
the gallery struck up Hold the Fort and
it was sung through to the end, the curtain
falling after tho first verse the immense
crowd rising and joining in tho chorus


HOLD THE FORT


IIo my comrades sec the signal


Waving in the Sky


EeinforccmcntS now approaching,


Victory is nigh


Sec the mighty hosts advancing,


Satan leading on !:


Mighty men around us falling,


Courage almost gone


Sec the glorious banner waving


il ar the trumpet blow


In our Leaders namo we'll triumph


Over every foo


Fierce md long the battle RACES,


But our help is near


Onward comes our Great Commander
Cheer, my comrades, cheer


CHORUS


"ITold The fort, for am coming"


Jesus signals still;


Wave the answer back to heaven,


"By thy grace we Will.
Year: 1875

And SO together they went on home
ward.


The twilight fades. The stars come
out, one by one, to glitter in the un-
clouded sky. Still she walks on and
on. Will she ever reach home? The
way is SO longl She sits down on
doorstep to rest. Presently some one
stoops over and puts an arm about
her, and a voice asks tenderly as OF
old.


Are you tired, mother?"


And she looks up and sees that it is
Guy.


Early in the morning the house.
maid, coming out to sweep the door
step, discovered a bowed figure.
draped in black sitting there. never
answering when she spoke, nor NOV
ing at her request; and when the peo-
ole of the house came at her call to
look, they lifted the thick veil and
saw the snow-white hair and the wax
en- features, and the sealed lips that
could NOT make an answer, and found
in the icy hand little locket contain
ing a picture brave, young face
and a curl of jet-black hair and a bit
of heliotropel


So the work Of those two little lads
who carried flowers to the grave in the
corner of the cemetery comforted the
sorrowing mother, though she could
not know by whom it was her boy had
been remembered.
Year: 1875

That they have thoughts, language,
intelligence. affection and gratitude is
certain. What is there to disprove
their Immortality? Few stop to con-
slider how much like animals we are,
how very slight the distinction be.
tween their physical and mental or
ganisms and our own. Are they not
nourished in the same way? Do they
not die in the same way9 Have they
not the emotion of fear, and the moral
sentiments of maternal love? What
inlets to knowledge have we, except
our senses?


And do they not possess them all?
Is not the decay of their bodies re-
paired by the circulation of the blood?
And is it not carried on by the me-
chanism of the heart, arteries and
veins? Does not the mysterious or
gan-the brain-seem to be the point
of contact, the connecting link, be-
tween mind and matter, as with US?


In fact, it is not all unreasonable to
believe that in that other life to which
this is but the gateway, through
which all animated nature must pass,
We shall there meet and welcome the
animals we have loved here; our old
familiar friends, the companions Of
our childhood and later years.
Year: 1875

The Use OF Sflent LIE tiers Defended.


One who signs himself IN. H."
writes to the New York Tribune, in
response to another correspondent.
defending the use of the silent letters
in our language. He says:


Nov protest against this, and de-
sire to lift up my voice to defend these
silent letters against an assassin who
would not only ruthlessly murder his
mother tongue, but would at the same
time bury from sight the records of
her birth, the volumes of history, the
evidence OF moral revolutions and po-
litical changes contained in her silent
letters. History is not merely the
ghost of the past; It is also the guardian
of the present and the future. These
letters which contain so much of his
tory arc not stupidity, stolidly silent
They live to the eye, if not to the ear.
They talk to US as do the trees, the
flowers, tho sky, the hills. Take, for
instance, the word chorus which oc-
ours in the FIRST sentence of the edito-
rial referred to. The initial sound is
represented by the English letter *,
and if the only object to be gained in
expressing words by written charac-
tcrs were the representation Of sounds,
then might chorus begin with *,
! and one of the 337 silent letters be
summarily disposed Of OF what use
are the two letters? They link the
world .indissolubly to its parent, the
Greek 'Choros, and as the eye rests
| upon it there flashes upon the mind a
vision the ancient Athenian thea
ter. free to every citizen of that proud
city, crowded to its utmost limit with
eager listeners and spectators. As if
by magic there floats to the car an
echo Of the rythmic measures of Soph
ocles and Euripides, and the music OF
feet moving in time to the exquisite
harmony of the verse. Then come
thoughts of the manifold changes
since that ancient time, with feelings
of thankfulness that we have been
permitted to inherit portion Of the


wealth of the Greek language. Who
shall say thatthese letters are stolidly
silent? They are not SO but to him
who wilfully closes the mind to the
stories they would fain tell and the


lessons of history they would fain


proclaim. We would recommend
economy of time, of space, of money


The measure of economy we do not
attempt to discuss, but venture upon


the assertion that it will not pay even
| Americans to sacrifice the English
| language for the sake of speed OF
| space.
Year: 1875

Best Of all things to us is home. in
hours of ambition and pleasure we
may sometimes forget its exquisite
come, and we return to it at once.


Let the hollow hearts that feign a


friendship which they do not feel,
stand revealed before us-let us know,
as we all must at moments, that how
estimation, our places would be filled


at an hours notice should we die to-


morrow; then we whisper to ourselves


the magic word Home, and are COM
forted.


Home, Sweet Home!" 1t does not
matter how humble it is, nor is it less


= home for being palace. It is where
those we love dwell-wherever they
may be-where we are valued for our.
selves, and are held in esteem because
of what we are in ourselves, and not
because of power, Or wealth, or what
we can do for other people.


Who would be without a home?
Who would take the worlds applause
| and honor, in place of the tenderness
of few true hearts and the cosy fire.
| side meetings where the truth may be
spoken without disguise, and envious
carpiDgs are unknown? In life's bat
tie even the hero finds many enemies,


and much abuse and slander and de-


traction; but into home, il it is what


it ought to be, these things never find


their way. There to his wife, the
| plainest man becomes q wonderful
thing-a sage, a man who ought to be
| President of the United States, and
! would be were his worth known.
Year: 1875

THE Age says tits simply impossible Tor
an editor to write three long columns of
first rate matter every day, He would
hardly do justice to himself in two. The
finest talent of the land, supported by the
best physique, cannot long endure the tasks
imposed upon them by many publishers. It
is the hardest labor on earth to think. Es-
pecially when the vital forces are depressed
by long continued mental exertion. The
work of the hod carrier or steyedore is
recreation compared with it. The prema-
ture deaths of editors attest the prevalence
of the abuse of which we speak,
Year: 1875

MANY who have been iounging idly about
Texan towns and villages this year will go
to farming next. Good crops show how 1t
pays. Health and good clothes, freedom
from debt and pretty wife and little
farm constitute the dream of beatitude of
many of those seedy hopeless looking fell
lows one meets IN Southern cities and at
railway stations. For the first time since
the war they are resolving en- naasss to quit
whisky and tobacco, and, leaving. off the
ugly six-shooter and suffering their breeches
to cover tier boot legs, they are going to
work. The whole country will rejoice, and
when this reform is effected Texas will
prosper as never before. The s'chivalry, y
so called, thus become useful as well as
ornamental, and it follows that the moral
as well as pecuniary results of fruitful
year will prove most fortunate for this
mighty commonwealth.
Year: 1875

The Brownsville Demoerdt favors the i'm
position of decent poll tax and its pay
ment as a. condition precedent to the exer-
else of the right of suffrage. That is well
enough in general state elections; but it
will not protect corporations. The thieves
and their leaders win make up purse and
pay the per caPita, tax, and only rob the
more ravenouslyAhat the sum may be re-
funded. The absolute exclusion from the
ballot box of those having no interest, di-
rect or indirect, in the local government is
the only safe policy and the only policy
that will enable the trainers Of the State
Constitution to make US free people, and
assure the unity and integrity of Texas.
Otherwise we must arm the Governor with
kingly power and make the power of the
Legislature all pervading-
Year: 1875

All except those who refuse TO lie convinced by
the most positive proof admit the infinite superiori-
ty of Hostetters Stomach Bitters TO the mineral
remedies which it has to very great extent super
seded and which, it is to be hoped for the sake Of
the human stomach, may eventually be abandoned
altogether. The Bitters most potent corrective
of disorders Of the liver, stomach and kidneys
Habitual constipation, dyspepsia, bowel complaints
and the numerous and changeful symptoms which
indicate internal weakness or disease in every


instance not only relieved but cured, by persistent
and systematic of this sovereign remedy Inter-
mittent and bilious renittent fevers may lie surely
prevented by daily Of this powerful but pleas
ant and mild tonic. Physical vigor is the best ar
NOR in which to encounter disease. Secure it by
recourse 10 the Bitter d&w
Year: 1875

\ monster concert accompanies monster
drawing at the Public Library, at Louis
Vile, XIV, on the 9th OF this month. AL
most every note Of music will represent
bank note The plaudits OF the audience
will he given alike to Gilmore and the
gamer OF a great gift. 1t is safe TO say that
the applause which greets the luckiest man
will outweigh even that which Gilmoreis
music will inspire febl2-lt-d&w