smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

CLoAKS can now be had at LEVY BROTHERS at
lower prices thln ever before. You will have to
price them and see the big reductions that have been
made before you can fully appreciate It. You can
get 4 fftecn-doilar CLOAK for Ten dollars and Ike
reductions have been made in the higher and lower
priceu CIOAkS.
Year: 1879

THE USE OF BUFFALO LITHIA WATER IN
scarlet-fever and ohcr diseases is highly recon-
mended by the Medical Faculty In this and other
cities. Ste advertisement in another column from
some Of thcm in regard TO lis effects.
Year: 1879

The friends of the Order have cause to
feel cheered at the present prospect OF the
Grange. From every quarter come assu-
RANGES of renewed interest," and fresh ac-
cessions to the ranks The farmers seem
thoroughly reused to a sense of the situa-
ton, to the necessity for co. operative effort,
and are determined that new order of
things shall replace the old, and that the
principles of the Grange shall have a
practical test. 1t is with the profoundest
satisfaction that we hear of this awaken
ing, and we hope that the movement will
not cease until every farmer is included
within the Grange, working faithfully for
its sure establishment. Then may we look
for the largest results. Then will the far
mers be freed from the bondage that now
oppresses them, and work will be done
cheerfully because of the inspiration of
hope. But much preparatory work has
to be done before the principles of the
Order can be set to operating effectively
And we caution our friends not to expect
too immediate results. Patience, perse-
verance and prudence are necessary.
Faithful attendance upon the Grange
meetings IS the prime requisite; and while
there, full and free discussion of means
and measures, of questions of practical
import, such as the projection of factories
upon the new process" system, of CO.
operative stores, the cotton seed question
that is now coming into prominence. If
the farmers are but once convinced of the
practicability of certain measures, it will
not be long before the industry of the en-
tire country will be revolutionized. In the
meantime let all who are convinced that
cooperation is necessary to the safety and
well being of the productive classes, work
zealously and spare no efforts towards
converting others.
Year: 1879

lishment is bold enough to come out and
make goods in the American fashion, of
pure cotton. Meanwhile the sale of Anne
rican cottons increases daily in England,
as we'll as in the distant markets which
have been under the exclusive control of
England for an indefinite period, and as
the competition is not one of prices but of
but of intrinsic qualities, the end must be
the introduction of pure cottons in place
of those made inferior by adulteration.
And the only way for the Manchester
manufacturer to maintain his footing is to
make goods precisely as we make them.
This appears to be difficult if not impossi-
BILE; at any rate it has not yet been at
tempted.


An article copied in another column
from the last number of Iron, a London
journal of high authority, shows forcibly
the pressure of the present misfortunes of
the British manufacturing interest. 1t also
gives a hint of the neglect which the
home market-has received, and of the pow
erty of the agricultural classes in England,
which renders them almost valueless as
consumers Of cotton goods.


There is, in fact, great danger that the
changes referred to will reduce the value
of the English market to us more rapidly
than is best for the interests of either coun-
Ledger.
Year: 1879

The Congressional Committee now in
session in Chicago inquiring into the
causes of business depression is doing
good work. The Chicago Telegraph says
it is showing to the world that working
men have solid, sensible views regarding
the condition of trade and labor, and that
they can express the same logically and
powerfully. The addresses that have been
made and the statements submitted by
representatives of labor interests to this
committee in Chicago and elsewhere,
have been the most valuable series of ar
guments that the committee has received.
Bankers, Board of Trade representatives,
and prominent business men have told
only one-sided stories. But the represent
ative workingmen have presented unset
fish, honest statements of facts, and have
done so in a manner SO cogent and forcl-
BILE as to leave strong impression on the
committees mind. They have shown that
the laboring classes have something vital
to say upon this matter of trade depress


ion, and that they can say it in way not
to be misunderstood or contradicted.
Year: 1879

THE SHIP ISLAND RAILROAD.


From letter in the Pontotoc Democrat
we infer that there will be a combination
in the Legislature between those interest
ed in this road and those interested in the
Mississippi levees, to secure the convict
labor for these two enterprises. Tax
payers in those parts of the State which
will be benefited by neither of these, are
interested in knowing whether this meas
ure would involve an appropriation out of
the State treasury, present or prospective
Who shall feed, clothe, and lodge the con-
victs while they are at work? Who shall
pay the guards, the overseers, the engin-
eers, the men who plan and direct the
work? If the State, how much will it cost
per annum? Is this expenditure to be
gratuitous-a gift? If a gift, who are to
be the benefciaries, in the case of the
road, the contractors who construct the
road or the company that owns it? Or is
it intended that the State herself shall
construct, equip, and own the roade Or
Is tic OldlC " t6lhC StONh III lilC IOdO "
the amount of labor performed?


The people, the taxpayers, should look
to these things. The State is well nigh
out of debt, and she should be kept so.
State taxes are low, and they should be
kept so, unless an increase is necessary to
secure more efficient execution of the
laws for the protection of life, liberty, and
property. The necessary appropriation
may at first, be small, but it is the first
little wrong step that leads to great evils.
Perhaps, no more is meant than that the
| State shall donate the labor of the convicts
to be employed on these works without
expense to the State; or that the convicts
are to be leased, as at present, with pro-
vision that they shall be employed on
these works, and on no others. If the lease
system is to be continued in any event,
we have no objections to this; but we hope
the lease system will be abolished alto
gether, the penitentiary enlarged, and the
convicts kept within the walls.-.Colum-
bus Democrat
Year: 1879

We would be glad to have our friends
the Southwest send US reports
of Grange work and progress in their re-
spective localities. A postal card would
often answer the purpose, and letters need
not be more than page in length. We
would like to devote an entire page every
week to the letters of correspondents, but
4heir letters should be brief and to the
SbOint
Year: 1879

The candidates for the Lower House of
pc Legislature in this county are all op-
posed to the repeal of the agricultural lien
Pw. We doubt if the farmers of the
|onnty have given this law the considera-
ION 1t deserves, else they would speak out
|pr its repeal in such way as would Sc
pure them proper representation in the
legislature on this question. The farmers
/ many counties are organizing to secure
PeIr rights in at least the State govern
gent but in some counties the politicians
Pill rule them.
Year: 1879

Capt James B. Eads has recently been
in New York consulting with capitalists
on the subject of constructing ship raft
way across the Isthmus of Panama. 1t is
understood that he can secure means to
test the practicability of his scheme if he
can secure proper authorization to begin
the work A bill will be introduced in
Congress at the next session to remove the
preliminary difficulties in the way of put
ting the enterprise on foot. Capt Eads's
scheme is to get ships into portable ba-
sin, mounted upon trucks, and by steam
power to convey the ship and basin upon
rails across the isthmus. The Nicaraguan
Government has informed this Govern
ment that it is opposed to the De Lesseps
plan, and in compliance with the request
of the Nicaraguan authorities, Civil En-
gineer Menocal, of the United States Ma
Wy, has been given leave by the Secretary
of the Navy to complete his survey of the
Nicaraguan route. The work was begun
by Menocal some time ago.
Year: 1879

The land Office at Washington is kept
busy day and night with the increasing
demand for public lands. In the first
four months of this year as much land was
taken up as during any entire year here
tofOre
Year: 1879

Democrats In Caucus Construct
Substitute for the Sixth


Section.
A Rush and a Crowd at the Treas.
ury For Ten Dollar Ger.


tiliCatcs.
The President and the Peace Union Sit
Down Together and Compare


Views.
Year: 1879

81. Louis, March 20.-The news of the
suspension the banks at New Orleans had
comparatively little effect on change here,
other than in southern provision jobbing
trade, which was somewhat depressed,
owing to belief that monetary affairs at
New Orleans aud adjacent towns, which do
their business through the New Orleans
banks, would be at least temporarily dis
turbed The general business of this city
and banks here will not be affected to any
appreciable extent,
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON. March 2o-McMahon
called up petition Of the citizens of Cln-
cinnati in relation to the election of Butter
worth and Young, and the whole matter
was referred to q select committee with
leave to sit during recess. The committee
also directed an inquiry into the operation
of the supervisors law in Cincinnati at the
last election.


Adjourned and a democratic caucus was
h.I
Year: 1879

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, March l9.-In the
Senate bill to repeal the act to establish
State Board OF Health. was taken up and
the roll called upon ordering it to a third
reading. Without debate the question
was decided in the negative by a vote of
13 to %.


Senator Fuller's bill to Danish the man
ufacture and sale of any article as butter
and cheese, which has the semblauce of
those substances but which is not made of
pure cream or milk, unless stamped or
marked, so as to indicate plainly the true
and appropriate name thereof, was taken
up and the amendment to strike out the
proviso which prevents the use Of
skinned milk, salt Fennet or harmless
coloring in the manufacture of butter and
cheese was rejected. A motion to strike
out the enacting clause was also lost. The
bill was slightly amended and advanced
to third reading.


The House took up the militia bill agar
Immediately after reading the journal. ant
il was read the first time at length anC
advanced to a second reading.


MIR. Mock, chairman OF the militia com
mittee. made motion to have the bill
made special order for next Friday. bu
Year: 1879

After the fusion of the Democrats and
Greenbackers had been consumnlated the
old Bourbon party seemed to have yielded
up the ghost 1t was but sheeted ghost,
indeed. that stalked across the stage i'll pam
tomimic imitation of the old time treason;
and the argus was dumb as to the doctrines
of the fathers. But out of this seeming
death there begin to be discovered evidences
of foreordained plan of resurrection. 1.-The
living do not rule this world. All, ah, it is
the dead.''


The methods by which the coalition was
secured are known of all men; but now is
just being revealed a deeper conspiracy,
which by indirect means is forcing the
Greenback party to yield up the meagre
share of official positions allotted it. The
only desirable offices left for Greenbackers
were adroitly filled at the instigation of their
allies by candidates which confessedly i'm
peril the whole combination ticket. They
as a party never desired fusion, and least OF
all these candidates. They were entailed
upon them. Democratic substitutes will be
furnished.
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and commuhi-
cations The name and address of the writer are IN
all cases indispensable not necessarily for publca
ton but as guaranty of good faith


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications tnat are not used.
Year: 1879

THE Ne,r Era is enraged because the Sub
Treasury in New York has been fortified.
Why does it give way to wrath? Has it any
designs on the Treasury? Or does it con-
Germ itself with local issnes and reserve its
strength for raid on the State Treasury?
Year: 1879

THE Lewiston journal thus analyzes the
fusion ticket in that county: Four of the
nominees think that Greenback ideas are
essential to the salvation of the country, and
two that they are '.moonshine" Three
think that the course of the Democratic ma
iority at the extra session of Congress was
reprehensible, and three that it was right.
But all agree that it is desirable to be
elected to the positions for which they have
been nominated.
Year: 1879

We beg pardon of our sensitive neighbor,
the Press, but we feel compelled to announce
that in the town of Freeport where the Green
hackers only threw forty-six votes last year,
they have club of 40 now. In Porter they
will increase their vote three fold.-4rgus


BEFORE we believe the above assertions
we want better authority. We fear they
were written by the man who said Jefferson
was a Greenbacker.
Year: 1879

THE New York Herald administers mer-
tied rebuke to those papers which have pa
raded the Sprague scandal and dwelt upon
its details. The Herald says: "We do not
understand the freedom of the press as i'm
plying freedom from all moral restraints
and the rules of social decency. 1t is not
freedom of the press in its true sense to
print aspersions on private character, nor
to invade the domestic circle and drag into
publicity dissensions which concern nobody
but the immediate parties. Even ii the pub
lie had any title to be informed OF the facts
of the recent distressing case, it would be
the clear duty of the press to verify the ru-
mors before giving them currency; especial
ly as they affect the reputation of lady and
the peace and happiness of her children"
This advice some of our city contemporaries
can take to themselves.
Year: 1879

THE Bangor Wing says Penobscot is
aroused and permeated from center to cir
cumference with an enthusiasm such as has
not been known for years. The grand as
semblage at East Corinth exceeded even the
most sanguine expectations and was the
most imposing political demonstration ever
witnessed in the county outside OF Bangor
1t was most splendid and spontaneous trib-
ute of the respect, confidence and affection
of the neighbors and friends of the Republi-
can candidate, and the spirit manifested by
the vast concourse of earnest citizens was
full of determination and confidence that is
sweeping through the State that Daniel f.
Davis is to be elected by the people as the
next Governor of Maine. The glorious
meeting at Oldtcwn the same night was full
of the same fire Of enthusiasm and the same
indomitable purpose shat will stop short
of othing but adecisive Republican victory;
and the assembls.ges at other points all bear
gratifying evidence of the grand progress OF
a triumphant campaign.
Year: 1879

All writers upon political economy agree that
money is the universal standard OF value and
the measure of exchange, foreign and domestic,
and that the power to coin and regulate the
value of money is an essential attribute of ma
tonal sovereignty. Such qualities,
all agree, are united in q much greater degree
in gold and silver than in any other known
commodity, which was as well known to the
members of the convention who framed the
Constitution as to any body of men since as
sembled and intrusted to any extent, with the
public affairs. They not only knew that the
money of the commercial world was gold and
silver but they also knew from bitter expert
ence that paper promises, whether issued by
the States or United States, were utterly worth
less as standard of value for any practical
purpose.
Year: 1879

are steau-railways leading out in au direc-
tions which afford much better accommoda-
tons than any system Of elevated railways
could possibly provide. Hence there Is no
legitimate demand upon the property owners
and residents OF any street in Chicago to
yield up their personal comforts and saor1-
fee their property to any company seeking
to make money by means OF an elevated
railway. The same conditions, by the way,
would prevent such company from making
any money, even if the right of way could
be obtained and the elevated railroad con-
structed.


The duty Of the Council under these cir
cumstances is perfsctly clear and simple
No proposition that has been made for an
elevated railway is entitled to the slightest
consideration whatever. There has been
no compliance with the law, and there
is not the smallest probability. that the prop
erty.owners on any street will ever give the
necessary consent. The prospect Of the
spectators making any money ont OF IN
elevated railway in Chico 60 is not aatter1ng
enough to make the scheme attractive to
bona-fde capital; and it is doubtful whether
there is money enough belonging to all the
projectors to build one block Of road. They
are mostly bankrupts or dead-beats. Under
these conditions, any encouragement on the
part Of the Council would only open up an
opportunity for annoying the public and
blackmailing horae-railwny companies and
this sort Of thing should be aYerted.
Year: 1879

will administer the affairs Of his
Department until such SUCCESSOR shall
hare been favorabty passed upon
by the Council, which enjoys the
power of confirming the nomination.
Mayor HARRISON has not alone arrayed Re-
pubiicans against him, in personal point Of
view, for this action, but has evoked bitter
spirit of hostility On the part Of portion Of
the Democracy, who have expressed their de-
termination to lend but little assistance in
ensuing campaigns which shall find him par
ticipsting as leader, unless he retires from
the stand he has taken on this question of
the Fire -Marshalship, and consents to honor
BENSER with q future nomination. The
Mayor may learn lesson of political pru-
dence from this action of the Council.
Year: 1879

The War Department has compiled mass
of statistical information relating to enlist
ments Of Union soldiers during the Rebellion.
The figures present some Interesting feat
ures as bearing upon the response which
the various States made to the call to arms,
Southern States, nearly all Of which fur
nished more or less soldiers for the Union
Year: 1879

The sad thing about the Prince Imperial Is pot
that he MAS killed, but that be might have been
an Emperor except for the folly OF his father. u
was better for him to die honorably as be a. ola
than TO pass long lie intriguing for czoan.. i
Year: 1879




Mayor HARRISON ought to be convinced by
this tins that his so-called tpolicy" is not
as popular as he has SO emphatically main
taincd in his official communications and
undienifed street-corner haransues. If
nothing else were needed to carry this
convincing point home, the action Of ths
Council, last evening, must have proved the
clinching argument in the controversy that
has run SO high during the past nine days.
The Aldermen, or at least the greatest por-
ton of their number, responsive to the
urgent requirements of the situation and
in unison with the sentiment Of the better
eass Of our citizens, in effect re1nstated Fire
Marshal BEshEB. in his position by the
refusal Of two-thirds Of that body to concur
in his removal from Office. Tho vote stood
% against to for the removal, and two
Aldermen absent and not voting While
Marshal BEssER will fill out but short term
If ofica. the fact is established that Mayor
HAna1sox must either teappoint him or some
one equally acceptable, aud that BzaaHR
Year: 1879

It ts intimated that the managers Of tha
GRANT t'boom " intend to keep the General
ont Of the country until next year, and then 10
spring him upon tile people just before the
Convention meets. Gen. GRANT is not himself
OF course, party to any such design; but, IN
weighing the probability Of it, it must be r.:
mcmbered that be has been often used for
dramatic effect. At the Chicago Convention
there was the white doye business, and at the
philadelphia Convention the man on horseback,
The temporary furore caused BY his return to
the country might help materially to nominate
him.
Year: 1879

l Touching instances of the mothers love for a son, even in the face of base lngratitude, were shown recently in the New York Court of Special Sessions. A neatly dressed young fellow, named Charles Leonard, was arraigned on a l charge of brutally beating his mother Some days before he came home from work, and, without the least provoca- tion, struck her with his clenched fist in the face, blackening both her eyes and badly bruising her face. His mother, Mrs. Agnes Leonard, who is respect able old lady, had him arrested, and made complaint against him in the police court. She tottered to the witness stand in the court with unwilling feet, and drew her veil over her face to con ceal her injuries. She was weeping, and she begged piteously of the justices not to press her to make 8 complaint never do the like again if released. He had always been good and industrious boy, and must have been very angry at something when he struck her. He had been punished enough already, she said In this way she pleaded tenderly for the mercy of the justices, and touched the hearts of all who heard her. The mag istrates grew indignant at the prisoner when they heard her story, and asked Her LO Illi Her veil ana SHOW her bruises. She hesitated, and said in faltering tone that hersk was very easily dis colored, and that the assault had not been so violent as it appeared to have been: The prisoner said he would lose his place if he was imprisoned, remark which aroused the wrath of Justice Morgan. |" Lose your place." said he,

 you don't deserve to be allowed to re- main in the community. Any boy who would beat kind mother as you have done doesn't deserve to live even. You are sentenced to the penitentiary for three months." The prisoner was led away, and his poor mother, unable to le- strain her emotion, staggered. weeping, from the courtroom.

 Another prisoner, a little older than the one just sentenced, was next placed at the bar to answer similar charge. His name was William B. Hayes. He had beaten his mother often before, but mot so badly as he had in the assault for which he was arraigned. Mrs. Hayes, whose looks indicated her extreme suf- fering, implored the court to let the prisoner go. She said, in answer to question, that she had twelve other sons "who were all ill Heaven now" The prisoner looked sullenly on, and offered no excuse for his conduct. He was sent to the penitentiary for six months .t. .