smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

Editor Herald:


In former communications, We have
endeavored to point out the necessity Of
calling a convention to remodel our
State Constitution. The object We had
in view, was to present the matter to
the public and have the question dis
cussed by the people and the press Of
the State. | believe the press of the
State, without exception, have de-
clared i'm its favor. The constituted au-
thorities Of all political parties in the
State, have declared i'm favor of it, and
| believe that a large majority of the
voters of the State favor the measure.


A majority of all the voters of the
State il necessary to carry the PROPOSE
tion-hence the friends of the cOnven-
ton should be sure to vote themselves,
and have as full vote epolled as they can,
for all who fail to vote, will be counted
against ii.


At the earliest, a convention cannot
assemble until after the lst Of August,
1882, and if the proposition fails at the
coming election, 1t will, Of necessity, he
delayed two years longer.


Then let all the friends Of the meas
ure, vote for it, and let us have Con-
stitution that will meet the demands of
the age.


We need a Constitution prohibiting
lot.l legislation, defining the power of
the Legislature in regard to State aid to
internal improvements, and prohibiting
counties and municipalities from hank
rupting themselves, by voting aid to
corporations.


We need reorganized and revised
judicial system in the State.


We need to get rid of the annoyance
and expense Of too frequent elections.


We need to have the obsolete and in
operative clauses of the Constitution
stricken out. In fact, We need a COM
plete and thorough revision Of our Or
ganic law.


Give the matter serious thought, and
you will not fail to vote for calling the
convention. +.
Year: 1879

ARE you i'm favor of the Sargeant-at-
Arms of the House and Senate getting
eight dollars per day for mere nominal
services, while you have to labor
from early morn to late at night at
seventy-five cents to one dollar per day
to make the money to pay the taxes out
of which these officers are paid? then
vote for DIR. Meador, for he, asyour rep
resentative, failed TO vote against this
allowance of eight dollars per day and
had an opportunity to vote for tsreduc-
ton to five dollars IA day, but did not do
IL
Year: 1879

The jury in the case of Thos. Buford
returned verdict last "Wednesday
morning early, finding him guilty of
murder and fixing his punishment con-
finement in the penitentiary for life.
A motion was made for n new trial
which was Overruled, and the ease taken
to the Court of Appeals. Buford has
been sent back to Jail in Louisville until
the Court Of Appeals acts on his case.
Year: 1879

WEhavea clear conscience that We have
not made a false statement concerning
the present race for Representative, and
knowing that what we have said is true,
and knowing that il cannot be success
fully contradicted, We are OH time with
the HERALD. We could have played
the same game and held back too, but
we would not stoOp TO such trick.
Year: 1879

ARE YOU in favor of the Door Keepers
of the House and Senate having $500 a
day for doing nothing? while you toll
late and early and stint yourself and
deny your family many Of the comforts
of life in order to pay the tax thus law
ishly expended, then vote for J. w.
Meador, for he votes to raise Door
Keepers wages from five dollars to
eight dollars a day.
Year: 1879

DEMOCRATS, Of Ohio county, please
do not forget that our voice i'm State,
Congressional, Judicial or Senatorial
Conventions for the next four years will
he determined by the vote we east next
Monday. Then let's turn out To man
and vote the ticket straight through and
thus give Us the voice we are entitled
to.in future conventions.
Year: 1879

Six cadets have recently been dis
missed from West Point Academy for
"hazing." Good for the authorities,


and may the direst punishment be in
fiicted upon any and every cadet who
may hereafter ever attempt "hazing
Year: 1879

DO NOT let any foolish prejudices keep
you from voting the Democratic ticket
next Monday. If there are come on
the ticket not your choice, or whom you
do not like, still they represent the prin-
ciples, and in voting for them you vote
for the political principles dear to your
heart. Suppose there are one or more of
the candidates not your choice, still do
they not fill the bill nearer than their
opponents? and if you do not go to work
and help elect your own party candi-
dates you thereby make it that much
easier for the candidates of the opposite
party to he elected. .... t|..
Year: 1879

THE NcirS feeling and knowing that
every statement it has made this week
is vulnerable, untenable and farfrom the
truth and wishing the effect of these
false statements to 20 unanswered have
held back their issue this week until
the HERALD comes out.
Year: 1879

The dress of the Princess was of black
silk, trimmed with fur, and she wore a
knowing little Astrak han cap with red
pompon, which was the only bit of pos
tive color in her toilet. The Princess
is certainly more comely woman, as l
have said, than any of her royal sisters.
None of her photographs do her justice.
Her eyes are of q dreamy blue, her hair
of a rich brown, and her figure is as
graceful and symmetrical as that of a
Princess should be. She is not a very
tall woman, but she looks as if she were
by the side of her husband, who is un-
questionably short, and, for SO young a
man, unqueStionably rather stout. His
face has not only broadened since he
was in America twelve years ago, but
the lines have grown stronger and man.
lier. The very light reddish hue of his
slight side whiskers and his hair at the
first glance might lead q careless OBJ,
server to think him older than he is, as
it might be taken for a positive gray
But up Il d closer inspection he appears
even younger than he is, by reason Of
his fresh, smooth eomplexion.-Ne't


York World.
Year: 1879

A most extraordinary sensation has
occurred in the American colony of
London this week. A young lady
from Philadelphia was walking
down Regent Street with the
mother ard sister of young
gentleman of rank, when the attention
Of all three was attracted by some pho
tographs of notable people and others
exposed in window, and they drew up
to look at them. Fancy the astOnish-
ment of the American girl on seeing
her own photograph exposed there
among the others, but in the most
amazing shape it is possible to conceive.
Her head, her face, the arrangement OF
her hair, the turn of her neck, it was
impossible to mistake; and yet, there
she stood, almost as undraped as the
Venus de Medici--in fact, got up in
tights and feshings, and labeled "Ma-
zeppa!" "What can this mean?" she
cried to the elderly lady, her lips
blanched with shame and terror.


81 really can not tell you," replied
Lady Disdain, with steel-hard eye and
icy voice. "You perhaps can tell us
whether on any occasion in Americayou
were in the habit of appearing in this
dress?"


"Oh, what do you mean to inSinu-
ate?" uttered the poor girl. "Do you
think l ever stood as MazeppaP On, how
cruel of you to speak So"


cit is certainly your portrait, " added
the other lady.


By this time one or two bystanders
had drawn up to the window, and no.
ticing the likeness were nudging each
other.


"It is some coincidence-of course it
can not be intended for me-"


"You had better take a cab and 60
home and tell your father about it,"
said the lady, still with her frigid man
ner. "My daughter and l have some
calls to make"


In a half-dazed state of mind the
young Philadelphia drove home and
told her father of what had happened.
To get back to that shop, to have that
photograph out of the window, to de-
mand an explanation of the stationer,
was not the work of many minutes for
the enraged father. But though it was
easy enough to demand an explanation,
it was not so easy to get one. Suspicion
falls upon the servants in the house, one
of whom might easily have distracted
photo out of package of them which
has been kept hitherto in an unlocked
drawer of the young lady's writing
desk. Of course it is -" cooked pic
ture; only the head and neck of the
American lady's photograph, the rest
that of some one else, and together the
picture represents one of the most beau
tiful women it is possible to conceive.
TIE matter has caused so much indig-
nation and so much comment that it is
not impossible it may check the mania
now so prevalent among society beau,-
ties for having themselves photographed
for sale at shilling carte de visite'-
London Letter. ... ...
Year: 1879




To the Editor of the Herald


Are there advantages to be gained by the
organizations of companies with stock not
assessible under our Incorporation Act?


Is it not fact that the mines of Nevada
and California could never have been worked
successfully without an assessible stock?


Will not section in our Incorporation
Act. making the capital stock of companies
assessible to limited extent, each year, by
order of the Board of Directors of said COM
panies, be an improve over the present law
making stock unassessible?


Of what advantage is it to the holder of
stock representing thousands of dollars (upon
paper with no income from the property
the stock represents, by reason of no way to
raise funds for the Development of the mines,
the law protecting the stock holder from
assessment? STOCKHOLDER.
Helena, January 18th, 1879.
Year: 1879

From the Husbandman.]


George Lyons, of the Muscleshell, arrived
in Diamond Monday. He reports no snow on
that valley when he left, Sunday morning.


The water of the White Sulpur Springs
contains 40 to $50 grains of solid matter to
the gallon. Numerous experiments have
been made that attest this fact.


The Legislature should pass an act provid-
ing some easy means by which the county
seat of Meagher county may be removed to
some better point nearer geographical GEN.
ter than it is at present. The county is rich
in resources, and taxes are light, but it is
sadly wanting in point of commercial CEN
ter and the sooner the county seat is moved
to permanent town, the better it will be
for the people. The movement does not ne
cessarily contemplate any expenditure for
public building. The county does not need
costly court house and Jail at present All
the buildings necessary, and equal or superior
to those at Diamond, would be contributed by
the public spirit of the people of the locality
to which it is to be removed. This, however,
could be made one of the conditions.
Year: 1879

Charles Nichols, of Butte, has been de-
the Warm Springs Asylum


"A private dispatch from Louis Cans,
from New York this morning, says that the
establishment of Cans & Klein in that city
was destroyed in the fire of last night. No
particulars.


The court journal says something about
''Satan climbing the fence enclosing Para
disc" Only our great and good Governor
could inspire his personal organ to talk in
that picturesquely historical way. 1t brings
to memory the words uttered some years ago
by our wise and weighty Governor in his
famous address on agriculture, wherein he
spoke of farming as IAN institution of ancient
antiquity, dating back to the time that Adam
cultivated the rose in the Garden of Eden. {"
We adjure the Independent to keep out of
the Executive pound. There is precious lit
tie of Paradise in that enclosure.


The Bourbon paper is jubilant when a
Legislative member can be coaxed or scared
to the point of making spectacle of himself
on the floor as champion of claims and al
lowances, which every session are presented
and urged as special measures for its relief.
At the same time it assaults in its feeble way
any member who shows disposition to in
Quire into the methods of its raids and to ex-
anime into the fairness Of accounts which the
Assembly is asked to allow. 1t delights par
ticularly in sickly attacks upon Col. Sanders,
who has saved by his watchfulness many
thousands of dollars to the Treasury that
otherwise would have been squandered by
Democratic Legislature in support of poverty
stricken prints and similar objects of mendi-
cant charity. Let the Bourbon organ keep
up the t'attack"
Year: 1879

Torpor or inactivity U the kidneys is seriously dan
gerous to those organs since it is the precedent OF
diseases which destroy their substance and endanger
life. This sluggishness may be overcome by stimu-
lating them not excessively, but moderately, effect
produced by Hostetters Stomach Bitters general in
vgorant and Alternative possessing druretc properties
of no common order. The impetus which this admir-
able medicine gives to their evacuatve function coun


teracts any tendency to congestion which may exist in
their tissues Both they and their associate organ the
bladder, are invigorated as well as gently stimulated
by the Bitters which exerts kindred influence upon
the stomach, liver and bowels, and by Strengthening
the system enables it to Withstand malaria epidemics
to which when exposed it might otherwise succumb
Year: 1879

Moderate winter weather in this portion
of Montana, and sleighing poor.


Jonas Higgins, the veteran merchant of
Diamond City, will close business there in
the Spring and devote his special attention to
his mercantile house at White Sulphur
Springs.


Thursday evening a pleasant company
gathered at the residence of the HERALD
editor. 1t was social event which brought
together the corps of HERALD contributors
living in the city and those of the club at a
distance now in Helena. Wives and daugh-
ters were also present. The event was 30 de-
lightful to the editorial home that repetition
on larger scale will be attempted another
time
Year: 1879

Some in rags and some in tags


And some in velvet gowns"


Yesterday was probably the first time in
the history of Helena when it was known
that an able bodied man was on the street
asking for bread. And as there is work of
some kind always to be found whereby an in
dustrious person may always attain a good
living in Montana, it is not unreasonable or
uncharitable to suppose that this first individ-
ual who has appeared at our doors to be fed,
is regular tramp, and no doubt the pioneer
of that persuasion who has come to Montana
to view out the land for an anxious horde on
our borders who only wait the first railroad
to precipitate themselves upon our towns and
farming communities.


What shall be done to keep them away
Upon the principle that AN ounce of pre-
ventive is better than pound of cure. is it
not we'll to devise some means to keep off the
threatened evil? Shall that be by some strin-
gent law which will place in the chain-gang
to work upon our streets and country roads
any man who may be proven to be a pro-
fessional tramp, or shall it be by public no.
tice to the world that Montana is an unhealthy
place for beggars? The question is pro-
pounded at this time to the people for pub
lie expression of their opinion as well as to
our Legislators, who can no doubt provide by
law for this class of vagabonds. Unless some
public action is taken they will be here in
herds before the next meeting of the Legis-
lature.
Year: 1879

Through mistake of the mailing clerk
several packages of DAILY HERALD's to SUBJ
scribers at Virginia City, M. T., were sent to
Virginia City, Nevada. The blunder will
not occur again.


The HERALD junior reports his safe ar
rival at Pleasant Valley, after a jolly sleigh
ride of some hours on the main range in a
binding snow storm, during which time the
stage and passengers strayed from the beaten
track. People who travel in winter across
snowy mountains should invariably keep in
the straight and narrow road.
Year: 1879

MIR. John Potter is over from Smith River
Valley, and will remain in the Capital over
the Sabbath. The gentle breezes have kindly
removed the snow from the plains and hills
of that section, and all classes of stock are
doing we'll
Year: 1879

Should have pretty teeth in them but it is not unusual
to between rosy lips teeth discolored and decayg
through neglect This disfguring defect should be
repaired without delay by using fragrant SOZODONT,
which removes every particle of tartar from the teeth
and renders them snowy white. This admirable aid to
beauty is perfectly harmless and exhales most de-
hghtfu aroma, and is in every respect preferable to
the ordinary tooth pastes AMI powders. Try it and
see for yourself


Druggists and perumers sell it. d&w1mjan1
Year: 1879

Carrying Conviction Of Its Absolute Truth In
Every Allegation and InslnuatlOn OF Guilty
knowledge Of Pecunlary Negotiations for
the Presidency, and Effectually Turns
the Tables Upon His Would BE Per-
secutOrs Charging Home Upon the
Men Who Are Not Only Accused


OF Fraud, but Who Sue


cessfully Accom-


pllshed Ii.
Year: 1879

Aman like Mr.. Bayard, Of Delaware,
is the only one who occurs to us now as
being the man for the emergency. Mr..
Bayard has occupied large space in the
politics and history Of the country and
has imp es,ed himself upon the age as
pa riot and statesman OF tine purest and
nobest type. He has always kept his
robe of office immaculate and his mau-
hood above repioach. He is as far be-
yond the reach OF an unworthy motive
as he is superior to the dictates Of eau
cuses or ciques. Mr.. Bay ard is the man
who who seems to us more than any
other fit to receive the suffrages Of the
nation. He is man of which the gen
Grafton can be proud. If the South had
pro .ressed little further in her politi-
cal emancipation we should hand in Mr.


Bayard's name to the next convention
and tell our Northern allies that we want


I'd him. AS things are We merely poi nj
him out as the model upon which W.
should like to see the nomination made
Year: 1879

SEoRr CAUDLE.-The Repuoncoh
..,,,s, ns verv anxious to gather up some
thing over which it can read a iew eau
aal lectures to the City Council. lts
last complaint is made in the follow ing
brief and melancholy sigh over the re-
,,uction of the taxes. 1t certainly ought
to commend the Council for lowering
the taxes but it does just the reverse:


0Tbe low tax rate this year OF 81. 10
will cost Wilmington from S2o,ooo 10
sos. 900, which will become noallhs
debt, that the Democrats may make a
show of reducing expenses. lhls ~
reform that looks well on paper, put
won't pan out well in the end


If we never try to get along on lower
taxes we shall never succeed init.


Now we take it for granted that every
man would rather pay low rate than
a high one, or would rather keep his
money until it is wanted than to pay II
into other hands to keep for him. And
the Council is just saying to the people
"we do not now need your money, ana
YOU had better keep it till We do need it
if we can possibly get along without 1t
we shall do so and we wish to make
S1.l5 suffice. We will not create another
floating debt. For if we cannot get
along with Sl.15 we shall ask for more
next year and in the meantime II lapoi
becomes more plenty and the people gel
able to pay their rents more fully, you
will be the better able to pay little
more next year than you have paid THU
year"


We cannot for the life Of us see any
thing in what the Council has done il
this matter that should subject them tt
censure. On the contrary we believe
every citizen should encourage th'
Council to make strong effort to ge
through with the money they have or
dered to be raised urge them to reduc
expenses in various way, and to put OF
many things that may as well be delayed
anyhow. Such as the opening and ex
tending of streets, curbing and paving
&C., much of which is petitioned 70
only to get jobs, and the city is thereb
caused to lay out of the money cxpende
for years.
Year: 1879

Will OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL.-
The Paris Gaulois publishes the codicil
to the will of the Prince Imperial. He
saws "rhe duties which our house owe
to our country will not lapse by my
death the arduous and glorious task of
continuing the work of the first Ma
poleon will depend, in the event of my
death, upon the Oldest son of Prince
Jerome Napoleon, who, by the laws of
succession of our house, is my heir.
trust that my beloved mother, by sec
onding him in the discharge of the
responsibilities and duties which, in the
event of my death, will devolye upon
him, will give to me, when ! am no


longer upon this earth. this last and
supreme proof of her affection for me
and her love of France"
Year: 1879

HERE are 100000 colored Metho-
oists IN the United States, and their
representatives have declared in Balti-
more that they must have representa-
tion in the Board of Bishops. The
next Methodist General Conference will
elect several new Bishops and the col
ored brethren are determined to have
one OF the number. The question will
at least make some stir in the approach
ing Conference.
Year: 1879

This morning, at the old basin, Tenth
and Market streets, blasting was resorted
to in removing the stone abu ments
The first blast was quite successful,
though one or two men narrowly sscap-
ed being struck with the flying stones.
These walls are coup isel Of eavy stoues
cemented in the best possible manner
and the work of removing them is ex-
ceediugly difficult. The bricks are be-
ing removed from the bottom Of the
basin, and soon the work of demolition
will be in progress all around the banks


Part of the south bank has been cut
away, t. admit of the passage of teams,
and the excellent quality of The pudding
viii h was removed, was the subject ol
general comment.
Year: 1879

"For heavens sake don't let it get into
the papers," is the first cry of a person
caught In a mean scrape. Keep it out of
the papers and it is all right. No matter
bow contemplate or dishonest the posi-
ton may be, or how much reason the of:
fender may have for shame, remorse and
contrition, if the circumstances can he
kept from the 'corn Grants of the press"
as the people who have good reason to
be afraid of newspaper reporters some
times call them. he is tranquil and happy.
We are no champion for that extreme
license of the press fhat is sometin es
displayed, but we have noticed that the
ones who cry out the loudest against
newspaper disclosures are generally
those whose own lives and acts would
not bear very close inspection. People
who live clean, straightforward lives have
little to fear from the newspapers.-Cia
rianati Saturday Might.
Year: 1879

woe and misery with which drink en-
shrouds it's victims. that even the most
cheerful philosopher must have moments
of despair. Yet with 90 warm an enthu-
siast as John B. Cough these moments
are few, "What though" he joyously ex-
claims, ''there be thousand million
pounds invested In the drink business in
Eng'andi Once touch the right cord and
the English nation will spring up and
sacrifice that amount of money, ana many
times more if need be, for tile sake Of
Christian honor and the dignity of the
Anglo Saxon race. Never tell me that
drink is domestic institution, and that
beer is king. So was slavery a domestic
institution in America; so was cotton
king. Yet, by Gods help, the people
were at last aroused to burning fury of
shame at the disgrace which dwelt with
them and thirty million people arose like
one man and ersdicated the curse"


The sncient writer's say that the foun-
dation of rhetoric was high and noble
character; and those who heard Loro
Chatham speak aver that there was some.
thing in the man that was finer than any
thing which he said. Posterity which
reads of the impressiveness of Coughs
eloQuence will wonder at it. The printed
lines convey no idea of the fire of his
earnestness, the humor of his character
ization, the pathos Of his sorrow, but
above all of the mastery delineation of
the drankard, from his first taste of
spirits to his final madness, in the blood
curdling delirium where Shiny serpcnts
crawl, and inanimate things take threat
eniDg life, and the dead walk, and the
beloved living are transformed to
monsters. This is Cough on tie platform.
At home he is = frank, unaffected, !,
warm hearted Christian man, whom it
would be an honor for 4 sovereign to
shake by the hand though he il but the
son of private soldier, who was 1T one
time footman to the vicar of Sandgate,
Kent.