smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877




-~stsl AGO.


One hundred years ago not pound
of coal nor cubic foot of illuminating
gas had been burned in this country.
No iron stoves were used, and no con-
trivance for economizing heat were
employed until DIR. Franklin invented
the iropframed fireplace which still
bears his name. All the cooking and
warmingiin town and country waa
done by the aid of fire kindled in q
brick oven. Pine knots and tallow
candles furnished the light for the
long winter evenings, and sanded
floors answered for the rugs and car
pets of the present day. The water
used for household purposes was
drawn from deep wells by the creep
ing and tedious 'sweep.' No form of
pump was used in this country, so far
as we can learn, until after the COM
mencement of the present century,
There were no friction matches in
those early days, by the aid of which
Ere is so easily kindled now days,
and it the fire 'went OUT on the hearth
during the night. and the tlnder was
damp SO that the spark from the flint
would not catch, the alternative re-
insined of wading through the snow
mile or two to borrow brand of a
neighbor. Only one room in any
house was warm, unless one OF the
family were i'll. In all the rest the
temperature was governed by the
clerk of the weather. The men and
women OF one hundred years ago un-
dressed and went to their beds in a
temperature colder than most of our
modern barns and woodsbeds, and
they never complained.
Year: 1877




A photographer gives the following
directions to his customers: when .
lady sitting for q picture would COM
pose her mouth to q bland aud serene
character, she should, just before en-
tering the room, say Bosom, and keep
the expression into which the mouth
subsides until the desired effect in the
camera is evident. If, on the other
hand, she wishes to assume distin-
guished aud somewhat noble bearing,
not suggestive of sweetness. she says
Brush the result of which is infalli-
BILE. If she wishes to make her mouth
small, she must say Flip but if the
mouth be already too small and needs
enlarging, she must say Cabbage. If
she wishes to look mournful, she must
say sKerchunk : if resigned, she must
forcibly calculate Scat
Year: 1877

The "Commercial' no doubt honestly
opposes the proposed free trade in liquer'
Its opposition is mistake, lacking expe'
rience or close reading Of sumptuary
statistics" There is not one single exam
pie, in the Worlds history which can be
quoted, wherein samptuary law was sue
eessfully enforced. Such laws are always
evaded, and the pernicious influence OF
disobedience to an enactment, which can
not be executed is incalculable. Inc
present license law cannot by any possl-
bility whatever be enforced, with the legal
machinery of the county, there is no use
of blaming the Attorney General, its exc
cution is a sheer absolute legal impossible
ity under, or by our present Judicial sys-
lem. We are firm, und unainching in the
conviction, that the entire abolition OF the
use of distilled liquors as beverage
would in the main be beneficial to onr
pcople-and stand pledged at all times to
help in any practical scheme to accom-
plish that end but we cannot shut our
ears to the fact that local option, and pro-
hibitiop, increases scottish drinking. we
are therefore opposed to the project AS
prohibition was enforced in Boston, drunk
enness markedly among young men rose in
to demon-]ike proportions. Under prohibl-
ton in Providence, R. l., drunkenness
became fearfully obnoxious. Under the
license system when men ceased to go to
club houses and bagnios for their drams-
drunkenness in one year fell 273 per cent.
There is hardly man, and not one woman
in our city who are not anxious to stamp
out the vile vice, and why will not lem
perance men listen to reason guided by
experience. Let us have license law,
give summary jurisdiction to the
Mayor or some Court, condign and
punishment to its violators. The farce Of
Indictment, and possible trial at New CAS-
tie for breach of the liquor law is ludicrous
were it not mischievous. The revenue
derived from license ought to go into the
Treasury of the several municipalities, or
hundreds, and be used to correct, restrain,
end regulate the evils which flow immedi-
ately from the abuse of Intoxicating Ii
quors. The true policy-tax the sale of
liquor-and merciless]y punish any one
who violates the law.
Year: 1877

With something akin to the fatalism Of
the Moslem, we calculate it is written.
Fraud, perjury, and forgery, have won and
beaten candidate has been placed in
power. The trusting simplicity which
gave us the Commission, is to be respected
for its honesty-but in the perilous future
harder worldly wisdom will be requisite in
our leaders. Small States are at last held
to be important-Delaware may in future
be the arbitress of the Republics destiny.
With the full knowledge Of this fact-with
the experisnce Of the past staring them in
the face, the Legislature wilfully refuses,
to do that which alone can save New Cas-.
tie county in 1878, from the bulldozing Of
an army of Deputy Marshals. Give us
separate polling places for State and Fed.
eral officers in this city, at one of which
we could treat them as tresspassers and
rioters. The Republican press is spewing
out its venom, in exultant diatribes
against the Democracy-a the Legisls-
ture passes law to compel the Sheriff Of
the counties to pay them for their abuse
by rich and liberal patronage-in the
quaint language Of the old Puritan Wait
"giving them hooks and eyes for their
breeches" Messieurs at Dover, have you
any sense Of your duty to free people or
are you so devoted to ponds, bitches,
hawks, dogs and divorces, that you cannot
find time to consider the dangers we are
drifting into. Is there no man in either
house who so far owns himself az to rise
up and live upon the record as one who
protested against the fatal inaction W.
are about to enter upon period of time


wherein the ruler of the land sits by az
usurped title. The second century Of fou


National life begins with the overthrow O


the traditions of the first. While "
counsel, acquiesence the vinegar and gal


given to drink is no less bitter. A calm
indignant protest, like the heaving of


chained giant, ought to 30 up from ever


hamlet in the land, public meetings t
protest against the enshrinement Of wrong
!. is necessary to sustain the outraged an
sinking spirits of the people. Every Dem
: ocratic Legislature, should by all manne
e Of legal entertainments, sustain their part,
:. and be sure that if shocks and eyes, b


given they shall go on the "breeches


believers"
Year: 1877

Under the above title the Ne,c North
,cest reviews the proceedings of the
Washington Territory Legislature on
III. B. &c, an act to amend the law re-
lative to attorneys. While the general
tenor of the article is sound in its rigid
criticism of the men who would insist
upon putting the words "white male
in the law, it was unjust in saying that
one member of the Legislature, "who is
known to believe in equal rights, seem
ingly had not the courage to give wo-
men the weight of his influence in this
case, yet had the courage to speak
against drawing to color line" The ar
ticle quotes the report of the proceed
ings furnished to the Oyegonian, which
was correct so far as it went. That re
port contains the following:


Daniels considered that the amend
ment smacked of old fogyism, and the
days of slavery. He had no intention
of Haunting the bloody shirt before the
legislature, but hoped the amendment
would not pass.


The individual referred to in that re-
port believes in equal rights and hopes
that whatever may be his sin he may
never lack courage to maintain what
he believes to bc true. He was the
author of III. b. 76, and one of the OBJ
jects of introducing the bill was to abol-
ish the words "white male which
form a part of the old law of this Ter
ritory. He had the courage to intro
duce the bill and the courage to assist
all legislation which had for its object
the rights of women. He is not much
given to speech making and did not
therefore make ranting speech ON the
"male" amendment to the bill, but we
take notice at the present writing that
the bill finally became law as it was
originally introduced, without any
Year: 1877

amendments whatever The "male"
amendment was struck out by the
Council and the House coaecurred IN
that action. Women have to-day the
same right as men to apply for admis-
sion to practice law in this Territory,
and to be admitted under like rules.


Again, the school law which was
passed at this session makes no dis
tinction as to sex, in the matter of vot-
ing or holding office, and he of whom
it is said that seemingly he had not
the courage to give women the weight
of his influence one of the earn
est advocates of that law, not only with
his voice but with his vote. And this
is practical work. Aggressive steps
that tell in favor of equal rights among
men and women. And now sister, heed
a little lecture from brother in the
work. You know that liz most reforms
in this world somebody must go ahead
and blaze the way, must cut and slash,
and define the line and set up monu-
ments that others may follow and fin
ish, and make firm and establish the
proposed new era. Do not think that
because worker is not blowing a loud
horn he is therefore doing nothing. Do
not turn the shots OF your sarcasm in
to the camp of your friends, for you
have too many real foes to fight to waste
any time and ammunition on those who
are quietly, but surely and steadily
working to fulfil the true doctrine of
equal rights.
Year: 1877

The law of the Territory relative
to the Insane Hospital was amended
by the late Legislative Assembly.
The leading features of the new law
are as follows: NThe Board of Trus-
tees is three in number. They are
appointed by the Governor subject to
the approval of the Council, and may
be removed at any time by the Gov
ernor for good cause. They hold Of
fee for two years from the second
Monday in January. Two OF the
Board constitutes quorum. They
are required.to give bonds in the sum
of $4,000 each. AS compensation
they have 50 day for the time they
are in session, and also travelling ex-
penses.


The salaries of the employees about
the Hospital are fixed by the bill as
Year: 1877

Since the introductian of con vict labor at the coal mines in oar county, it has cost the tax payers of Pope about one hundred and fifty dollars inquest expenses. Against this imposition we enter a protest in behalf of our tax. burdened people. We think it shameful aud outrageous enough to have the employment which the mining of our coal would af- ford to honest laborers, taken away from them by convict la

 bor. If th here were thousard of these conkicts at work lere it would not benefit us one cent. for they draw ho wages, pay out no money. add nothing to the wealth and prosp rity of the county, and are, in fact, only a means of keep ing free, honest labor out of em- ployment. We say it is bad enoughto have them here at all, but when it comes to the point of additional expenses being entail
Year: 1877

The best posted men the State hardly know now what the law is, so numerous and complicated are the statutes Of Arkansas; but the present legislature, judging fro n the number of new bills beng iii- troduced, and from the cutting and slashing away at Gantts Digest, are determined, it would seem, to make the present confusion even worse confounled.

 A persoi. would suppose that the present legislature Imagine they have been called to make laws enough to do until the next Centen- nial. Our apinion is that we have too much law and too little enforcement already. At the pres ent rate, unless the laws are digest ed again soon nobody will know head or tail, beginning or ending.
Year: 1877

Illinois Bayou, last Saturday. Mir. T. was on his way to this place, and had $9S5 in currency about his person, all of which was taken from him. The rob bers, two in number, were blacked and disguised SD that Mir. T. could rot identify them. If these highwaymen can be caught and identified the virtue of good strong piece ot' hemp should be tried on them.

 -ScorrvILLE ScHooL.--We are always glad to record anything fa- vorable to the cause of education, and therefore are please to know that the citizens of Seottville are becoming sufficiently interested in the matter to take steps to secure q good school at their little town. Mir. T. F. Mccain has met with suf- ficient encouragement to open a school at that place, and if the citi- zens will do their luty he intends making it a permanent institution. There is no higher obligation rest ing upon the citizens of each and every community than to look well to the education of their children, and we trust the zeal which the good people of Scottville are mani festing ill the matter will be no short-lived spell, but that it may never lag or abate until their school is made famous and their town not ed for its fine school.

 Mir. Mccain should receive the earnest encouragementa and cooper ation of every parent and citizen in Liberty, and if he gets it, we doubt not but that he will conduct a school which will do credit to the coininu- nifty.

 A first class school will always give more tone, and glin better reputation for town than almost anything else, aud we will be glad to hear of the complete success of the Seottville school.
Year: 1877

ed upon us on their account 1t IS simply an outrage. We demand that the state shail take care of her own convicts, and there should be some provision make ut once for the payment of inquest expen- ses by the State. the lessee, or somebody else who gets the bene- fit of the convict labor.
Year: 1877

side, where the snake Law three
days before it was discharged.


During the dead snAke's residence
in the colon Mrs. Jackson suffered
intense pain, so much so that NOR
phine was taken to produce rest
and sleep. When the vile serpent
was discharged it measured ten
inches in length, one-fourth inch
in diameter, had a long slim head,
with mouth from one side of the
neck to the other, and eyes large
and fully developed. AS to when
and how, it was taken into the
stomach the only plausible theory
is that it was drank in with cup
of water some two years ago, when
very small, and that it grew in the
stomach and with its growth in
creased the suffering of its victim.


After its expulsion the patient
ceased to feel any of the symptoms
described above, and is to-day, we
are happy to say, rapidly GONZALES
cling. Dr. R. R. Dashiell, of this
city, saw the serpent and will
testify to its character. DIR. Alex
ander Jackson invites inquiry from
medical men, and will verify our
statements.
Year: 1877

In the Toxic (Japan) Times we
find the first of a series of papers
on "Political Economy, designed
chiefly for Japanese readers" The
first chapter is so curious that we
copy the greater part of it:


In this world, nothing is crea-
ted except human souls, and the
souls of other animals, if brutes have
souls. Every particle of matter al
ready existing, which has only been
changed in shape and quality. The
flesh and bones of an infant are
made of its mother milk. The milk
Of the mother is made from the fish,
rice and other vegetables which she
eats. When the infant ceases to
suckle his mother, he makes his
own flesh out of fish, fruit, rice and
other vegetables. Such animals as
men feed upon make themselves
out of grass and vegetables. The
vegetables make themselves out Of
the air, the water, the soil and the
manure which is mixed with the
soil The soil is made from the
rocks which crumble to pieces and
are washed down from the hill-tops
to the valleys at the bottom; also
from the decaying branches and
leaves of the trees and other vege-
tables which grow upon the sand,
which is the rock in powder. Air,
water, rocks and earth can all be
decomposed into a few gases, and
a few mineral bases such as iron,
sulphur and lime. Everything ex-
cept souls comes out of the earth,
the water and the air. Everything
except souls returns to the earth,
the water and the air. There is no
increase Of matter, no diminution
of matter The only possible
increase is in the souls,
which live a little time in
human bodies, but never per-
ish. As the number Of souls
living at any one time in a nation
increases its strength and wealth
increases; for their intelligence
directs and controls the changes of
matter, so as to make every ch ange
contribute fresh advantage to man
kind-more food, more clothing,
better houses, more spare time to
refresh the body by rest from labor
and the soul by innocent amuse-
ment and by studies, which give it
greater power of man to control
the changes of matter. This power
of man to control the changes of
matter is the one thing which
perishes if it is not Immediately put
to use. An hour that is wasted is
gone forever. 1t can never be
brought back. Therefore the most
important duty of every govern
ment is to secure the continual en-
ployment of all It's people, so that
no man shall be idle who is able
and willing to work"
Year: 1877

place, showed her title and received


that sum in solid French money.
But she had scarcely deposited it
in the Bank of France in her own
name, when the Russian lady came
on to claim her bond and the 2O0,-
600 roubles. She pretended that
the bond had simply been left as
security for a debt. The case came
before the. courts last week, and
the Russian lady lost her case. Her
authorization to sell the bond was
regarded as a sufficient title, and it
made no difference whether the
cashier sold it to herself or a third
party. The tribunal decided that
the bond and the prize it drew in
the Russian lottery we're the legiti-
mate property Of the cashier.
Year: 1877

Away away in the North]and,


Where the hours of the day arc few,
And the nights arc so long III winter


They cannot sleep them through;
Where they harness the swift reindeer


To the s1cdges when it SHOWS;
And the children look like bears cues,


In their funny, furry clothes:
They tell them curious story


don't believe It's truc-
, And yet you mnr learn Il lesson


II / tell the tale t0 you:
Once. when the good st. Peter


Lived in the world below.
And walked about it prcaching,-


just as he did, you know,-
. He came to the door Of cottage,


In travelling round the earth,
Where a little woman was making cakes,


And asked foE single one.
So she made very little cake;


But, as It baking lay,
She 1ookedat it, and thought it seemed


Too large to give away.
Therefore she kneaded another,


And still smaller one;
But it looked when she turned it over,


As large as the first had done,
Then she took tiny scrap Of dough,


And rolled and rolled it fiat,
Aud baked it thin as q wafer


But she conldn't part with that;
For she said, .'Aly cakes that seem too smsl1


When eht them myself,
Are yet too large to give away:
So she nut them on a shelf.
Then good st. Peter grew angry,


For he was hungry and faint;
And surely such woman


Was enough to provoke saint.

And he said: "You are far too selfish
To dwell in human form,
To have both food and shelter,


And fire to keep you warm.
'Now you shall build as the birds do,
And shall get your scanty food
By boring, and boring, and boring,
All day In the hard, dry WOOD"
Then she went up through the chimney,
Never speaking q word;
And out VI the top ncw woodpecker,
Forehe waz changed to bird.
She had q scarlet cap on her head,
And that was left the same:
But all the rest OF hcs clothes were bnrnea
Black as coal in the fame.
And every country school boy
Has seen her in tec wood,
" hcte she lives in the trees to this very day,
Boring and boring for food.
And this Is the lesson she teaches:
Live not fer yourself alone.
Lest the needs you will not pity
Shall one day be your own.
Glvc plenty Of what is given you;
Lasltn to PHYS call;
Don't think the little you give is great
And the much you get is small.
Now, my little boy, remember that,
and try to be kind and good,
When you see the woodpccker's sooty dress,
And see her scarlet hood.
You maynt he changed to bird, though you live
As sclashly as you can;
but you will be changed to q smaller thing
A mean and selfish man. PuHsBE CAnY.
Year: 1877

The most sanguine searcher for a
break in the solid South must admit
that the outlook is not promising
In all of the States where indepen-
dent movements were started the adj
voeates of them have been bullIed
into quiescence by the shouts and
threats of the Burbons. At present
there is not crack to be seen any
where. The whole section stands as
one man for out-and-out Democratic
men and principles. Furthermore,
it stands as one man for unlimited
silver, for the indefinite postpone~
ment of resumption, for the reduc.
tion of the army, for subsidies, and
for unlimited appropriations for in
ternaI improvement. There is here
and there a newspaper in the South
which favors honest finance, but il is
as the voice Of one crying in the will
derness. This is a solidity, indeed,
but if the rest of the country fully
realizes what it means, there will be
y milestone quality in it for the en-
brace Democratic party.-Neao York
Tribune.
Year: 1877

In 1923 or 1924, when Franklin
was new in Philadelphia, he found
employment at his trade-of printer
with a man of the name of Kelmer.
Mr.. Kelmer was a well-meaning man,
but given to be visionary and unsta-
BILE, and very apt to leave the minor
affairs of his business at loose ends.
Especially in the matter of proof
reading was he careless, and Frank
liD,- whose habits of care in those lit.
tie things lead him to worrimeDt
over his masters ,lereliction, sought
to correct him in this respect.


He urged upon him the necessity
of accuracy in all departments of his
profession. There could be no such
thing as being too careful.


Pooh! poohy' cried Kelmer.
81 never make any great mistakes.
Little typographical errors now and
then are expected"


But" said Franklin, "what you
may be pleased to term very slight
Typographical error. might make a
most ridiculous exposure"


81 Oh, never fear.'


Not very long after that, Franklin
thought he would give his master a
practical demonstration. A primer,
then recently published in New Eng
Iand was being reprinted in the office
A parsphrase in verse Of the fifteenth
chapter of Corinthians had been set
up and in looking over the form be-
fore he struck off proof-sheet for
his master to read, found the follow
ing verse:


When the last trumpet soundeth,


We shall not all die;


But we shall be changed


In the twinkling of an eye.


Under the impulse of the moment
he took bodkin and pulled out the
C, and spaced out the line. Then he
struck off the proof and carried it to
Mr.. Kelmer to read. and went home
to his supper. Whether Franklin
thought of the matter again or not [
do not know but when the primer
was published there was 8 verse in
it reading like this:


When the last trumpet soundeth,


We shall not all die;


But we shall be hanged


In the twinkling of an eye.


Shortly after Mr.. Kelmer was seen
tearing away among the old proof
sheets. to see if the trick had not
been played after the proof had been
read but he found the error at the
start, and was forced to admit that
he had carelessly overlooked it.