smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

A Washington dispatch of the fifth
instant says:


It having been understood for several
weeks that an extra session OF Congress
would be convened on the fourth OF June,
the military authorities anticipated no
trouble, having taken it for granted that
the armny appropriation bill would be
passed by the beginning of the next fiscal
year, and business would proceed as usu-
al, therefore no difficulties were antici-
pated nor mentioned. The postpone
ment of the extra session was Q great
surprise to them, and nearly every bureau
chief in the War Department sees some
difficulty ahead; all Of which they men
toned to the Secretary Of War this morn
ing. Secretary McOrary has directed the
Paymaster General to prepare statement
showing the number of men whose terms
will expire between July l and October
Is. Such statement will be submitted
to the President, and the subject OF an
extra session of Congress will again be
considered by the Cabinet Tuesday next.


Objections to the postponement OF the
extra session of Congress have all been
waived, and the following was issued this
afternoon by the President of the United
States:


PROCLAMATION.


Whereas, the final adjournment Of the
Forty-fourth Congress without making
the usual appropriations for the support
of the army for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1873, presents extraordinary occasion
requiring the President to exercise the
power vested in him by the constitution
to convene both houses of Congress in an
ticipation of the day fixed by law for their
next meeting;


Now, therefore, l, Rutherford B. Hayes,
President of the United States, do by vir-
tue of the power to this and in me vested
by the constitution, convene both houses
of Congress to assemble at their respec-
tive chambers at twelve o'clock, noon, oD
Monday, the fifteenth day of October
next, there and then to consider and de-
termine such measures as in their wisdom
their duty and the welfare Of the people
may seem to demand. - -i N


In witness whereof have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed.


Done at the city of Washington, this
fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord
1877, and of the independence of the
United States of America the one hundred
and first.
Year: 1877

A SEVERE gale from the southeast pre-
vailed on Tuesday last. and while at It's
height chimney 10 the business portion OF
the town took fire, but ms prompt mea-
sures were taken no damage was done.
Year: 1877

The New York Graphic says, in a
recent issue, that smallest of all mites of
humanity, which was born on Thompson
street on Sunday morning of last week,
died on Saturday evening when lacking
only few hours of being week old.
Its death, the doctor thinks, was caused
by undue exposure. Its father, an
iIrishrnan by the name of ConneD,
moved from the place on Thompson
street on Saturday, the day being damp,
cold and windy, and the child lived only
few hours after. DIR. Gallard, who
bad attended. il from the hour OF its
birth, believed that he could keep it
alive for sufficient length OF time to
enable it to take the first prize at the
baby show and to make it Of universal


Importance to the medical fraternity.
He calculated it's age when born at FIVE
months and eighteen days, which would
make the youngest child ever born alive,
while its weight, twenty-six ounces, was
ess than that of any other living infant
known in the medical world. Hereto
fore il has not been believed that the
lungs were in condition to be inflated,
and children born at that age are not
only very infrequent. but one is seldom
horn alive and almost never lives to be
a week old. It was great curiosity,
had been visited by large number OF
physicians and the body will proba'
bly be made the subject of an autopsy,
which will become part Of medical
history
Year: 1877

side of the hearth. She rose, crossed
the floor, and laid the child in his
arms then turne1 to Joanna with a
Feeble, uncertain motion, and let the
strong, faithful creature lead her from
the ROOM


They left the father alone with his
child for a while, and when he left the
house to return 10 the village, il was
understood that he should return in the
morning.


Whenhe was gone, Miss Grey laid the
still sleeping child in her bed ; then
going to chest of drawers in one COR
ner Of the room, che took out garment
after garment of dainty size and work.
manship, letting the long-locked tears
fall upon them as she unfolded them.
They were her baby's clothes.


At length she came to the long, fine,
French slip of spotless white, which had
clothed its dainty limbs when first she
looked upon it ; the robe which its
young, broken-hearted mother had
wrought upon with such loving care and
patience. This, with few other things
found i'll the basket with it, she laid aside
to give to the baby's father.


He came in the morning when the
roses were blight on little Emily's
cheeks, and looked for the first time into
the blue eyes that were to him perfect
copy Of the soft violet eyes of his inno-
cent "child bride" And almost un.
consciously he found himself speaking
to Theodore tenderly and reverently of
that gentle child, who, though she never
won the best love Of his manhood, had
found in him tender and faithful pro-
tector and friend.


And somehow, in speaking to her of
his past, he uncovered from the rubbish
of by-gone memories the key to mis-
cradle labyrinth of MISUNDERSTANDING
which had swallowed mp their early love
and hopes and the veil fell from their
eyes, and they saw each others hearts
as they had been in the first glow of
their youthful affection.


And 80 the quarrel that had been for
so long was no more, but had vanished
like a troubled dream. After this Miss
Grey melted and softened into a real
woman such woman as Philip West
more aud his little Lily-or Emily, as
he still called her-had cause to thank
God for, ever after. And Joanna and
the tramp-woman lived together in har-
mony, happy in serving the mistress and
little Emily. .-DemOreSt
Year: 1877

You must take your baby just where he is now, not much more than little animal, and educate his physical nature so rapidly developing. For instance, he has just reached the climbing age: every chair and stool is a worry to you, and pair of stairs is perpetual terror. Now show him how to get up and down the stairs, how to. place his feet when climbing up into chairs. Let him tumble little; it will only make him more careful. It is but foretaste of the hard schooling which experience gives us all our lives. Better little fall with you close by to stop it at the right place, than a great one when you are "off guard" some day. (Remember that too, when he is in his teens.) But 1 beg of you, if you want to see him grow up active, strong-limbed and agile, do not keep his white dresses too clean, nor tie his sashes after the pres ent uncomfortable fashion, so that he isn't conscious of any legs above his knees. Then, let him feed himself. He'll make miserable mess of it at first, bnt protect him well with bib and tn tray, and he'll soon teach his spoon the way to his mouth. Let him burn his fingers a little some day when the

 stove is not very hot; he wont touch it when it would be dangerous Scribner.
Year: 1877

A great deal of the calling and twit- tering and my-dearing have no more real connection with sociability than the flowers and feathers on woman's hat have with her head. They are purely artificial, and tackled on by the milliner. There is vast deal of social millinery, however, which passes for Natures hand work; and people are often praised for their fine social quali- ties merely because they are adopts in the art of saying pretty nothings by the hour, and exhibiting themselves in other peoples drawing rooms in an en- tertaining way. And on the other hand, those who are eminently social in nature and spirit are often con- demned as unsociable because they say little. and do not care to exhibit them selves and turn their hearts inside out they are deficient in the graees of cul- tivated society; they may not have the gift of rapid utterance or repartee they may find it hard to intrude their thoughts and feelings upon others while more variable natures make the air vocal with their incessant buzz. Be- hind their reticence, and beneath the disguise of modest and unattractive ways, are all the elements of the truest sociability, which it requires but the least penetration to discover and the fit occasion to bring out.

 Being sociable requires something more than ceaseless chattering and gad- ding about. It requires the culture and expression in all proper and helpful ways of those thoughts and sentiments which are unselfish, generous, sympa- thetic and humane. It means a perva- ding interest in others and the general good. It means the lively commerce of mind, and communication of heart with heart, by listening as well as speaking; by large respectively as well as generous giving. And this sociability is just what is wanted to redeem oul social intercourse and make our com Ing together helpful, stimulative, ani ennobling
Year: 1877

There are one or two proverbs that contain more truth than falsehood; and one of them, unhappily, is that famil- iarity breeds contempt. Though mys- tery is good key, it is bad lock; it does very well to open the door of a heart, but it is by no means we'll adap ted to keep it safe and secure. This must be done by sheer strength; and of sheer strength, over-much talk about love and art, and the youthful affecta- tions of long locks and mild wicked ness, are in no wise symptoms-at least not of the sort of strength that is re- quired to hold forever a woman who has opened her eyes to the fact that the good things of the real world are by no means to be despised.
Year: 1877

Life is mainly made up of trifes. A pinhole will in time sink a large ship. A small saving per day or week will speedily amount to large sum. An extra production of 8 small thing, as an extra egg per day or week, a good hill of corn in each row, a bushel of wheat, or corn, or potatoes, extra per acre, will in the course of years make one comfortably rich, or what may be better, will buy many convenient or useful thing as one goes along, and such extra production is easily secured by trifling thought, care or labor. To il- lustrate what the aUeekly saving, or the extra production will amount to in c single gear, we select the following com
Year: 1877

Take your youngest male child when about three years old. Let him have every thing he wants; let him make as much noise as ever he likes; let him eat and drink as much and whatever he has fancy for; give strict instructions to his father, his big brothers, visitors and servants that he is never to be pun ished in any way for anything he may do, and never even contradicted in any, thing he may say. By the time he ar rives at the sweet age of seven, your youngest male child will be very nice pickle.
Year: 1877

A practical suggestion is that any one of the above items saved or produced extra, will just about pay for this pa- per a whole year which will place be- fore your family over fourteen columns of reading, contain multitudes of hints, carefully gathered and prepared, that can hardly fail to be of use to yourself and others in developing thought, and suggesting modes of doing many things. Would it not be we'll to pass the above along to your friends and neighbors at this time9
Year: 1877

Governor Chamberlain but once for
Il year, and that was in the private
Cabinet room of President Hayes on
tho 9th of March; nor havo I
written or telcgraphcd him or heard
from him in any way. Tho Same is
true respecting Governor Packard,
except in the matter of ono telegram
received from him, which L read
publicly in tho United States Senate,
but I am sure that Governor Cham
berlain knows that he has the pros
foundest sympathy in tho heroic,
though unsuccessful struggle he
has made in South Carolina for civil
liberty and constitutional govern
ment-am equally sure that Cover.
nor Packard feels that my hoart and
Judgment are both with him in the
contest he is waging against great
odds for the governorship that he
holds by a title as valid as that
which justly and lawfully seated
Rutherford B. Hayes in the Presi>
Dental Chair. I trust also that
both governors know that tho
Boston press no moro represent the
stnlwart Republican feeling Of New
England in the pending issues than
the same press did when it demand
ed the enforcement Of the fugitive
slave law in 1851.


Very respectfully,


JAMES Ct. BLAINE
Augusta, Me-, April 10.


The Radicals North and South,
arc queer lot, and it is q matter Of
rejoicing that their power is irre-
trievably lost.
Year: 1877

We are emphatically i'll the age of
profanity, and it seems TO us that we
are on the topmOst current. One
cannot go on the street anywhere
without having his ears offended
with the vilest words, and his rever-
cnce shocked by the most profane
use of sacred names. Nor does it
come from the old and middle aged
alone, for it is q fact that the young
portion of the community are most
proficient in degrading language
BOYS have an idea that it is smart to
swear; that it makes thom manly,
but there never was q greater mis-
take in the world. Men, even those
who swear themselves, are disgusted
with profanity in n young man, be-
cause they know how, of all bad hab-
its this clings the most closely and
increases with years, 1t is the most
Year: 1877

The Russian princes In Paris are all
men of large incomes, butgenerally spend
thrifts. One of them borrowed the sum
of ten thousand francs from money
lender, giving his note for the same. On
the day it fell due the holder presented
it for payment, and was told by the
prince that he had no money to waste In
paying debts. At that moment gen
tlSnan entered, and the prince handed
him twenty thousand francs to meet the
losses of the night before at the club:
The lender tore up his note of hand, and
said, when going out: "Now, prince,
there is nothing between us but debt
of honor" The prince bowed and hand
ed over the money without word. Inc
second begins in the same way, but when
the lender presented his note the prince
flew in passion, called him hard names,
and, drawing a revolver, made hum eat
the nste of hand. A few days later th
lender received his money, with thot-
sand franc bill thrown in as lnterst.
Shortly afterward the lender receive
letter from the prince, telling himtna5
he was again in want of money ana
telling him to present himself wa ~
600 francs and stamped papeJ upon
which to write his internal ptes oi
hand. The lender came with e money;
"Where is your paper for He note


he said, taking the money. Here II Is,


prince" said the lender, draing large
cake of gingerbread FROM his POCKET


The prince laughed at the ke ana . snor.-


ly afterward paid the deb'Wlth interest,"
Year: 1877

The scene of the terrible accident on
the Lake Shore railroad is in many re-
spects similar to that of the Angola dis
aster, the horrors of which it more than
equals. 1t is at the crossing of the Ash
tabula river, small stream which drains
the farming country of the same name,
and close by the village of Ashtabula, o.
The stream is shallow and not navigable,
and vessels engaged in trade of the lake
and country have to load and unload at
the port on the shore of the lake three
miles below. Where the railroad crosses
the little river the banks are high, the
perpendicular height Of the bridge from
the water being seventy-five feet.


1t will be remembered that the Angola
disaster, which took place Dec. 18, 1868,
on the same road, occurred ut the cross
ing of stream. The train in that case
was much behind time, and was coming
down the line at lightning speed to make
up the lost moments. A car jumped the
track and was dragged across the bridge.
Just before reaching the embank-
nent on the other side it fell
over with CRASH anu WAS tlHo"u uo"h
the ice covered slope distance OF forty
feet. This car was dashed to pieces and
burned, and but three of its occupants re-
mained to tell the story of the horrors OF
that wintry afternoon. One of the other
two passenger cars Of the train went
down the opposite side of the embank-
ment, a distance of about twenty-five
feet. 1t was wrecked completely and
twice caught fire, but the flames were
put out both times by the passengers.
The situation was not as horrible as at
Ashtabula, because the wrecked passen-
gers were not in the water, but it was
nearly as bad, because of the ice and cold
and burning cars. The loss by the An.
COLA accident was twenty-six killed, OF
whom twenty-three were 80 badly burned
that they could not be Identified, and
forty-six wounded. The injured were
taken to Buffalo and cared for. A bril-
liant ball was to have been given at that
time at Buffalo, but was abandoned out
of respect for the dead.
Year: 1877

Near one of the pretty villages with
which Saratoga county On. T. abounds
lived a pretty girl named Lisette -.
She was the only daughter of loving and
too we'll loved parents. About four
miles from the residence Of Lisette lived
young man named Frank -, who
had graduated from college with honor
and was respected by all who knew him,
notwithstanding some stories rejecting
on his moral character that were told Of
his life while absent at college. When
and where Frank first met Lisette is not
pertinent to the story. But Lisette's
mother heard the stories against Frank,
and she conceived great antipathy
against him; 80 much 80 as to forbid him
the house, and finally to bid her daugh-
ter cease all intercourse with him. But
up to this time the mothers injunction
had been disregarded. The lovers met
whenever opportunity offered, and had
the parent lived the pair would no doubt
have been happily married. But fate or
dained otherwise. The mother sickened,
and when on her deathbed laid her dying
Injunction upon her daughter to discard
Frank altogether. The mother passed
away, and Frank, little dreaming of the
cruel blow that awaited him, attended
the funeral of the mother of the girl he
loved, hoping by his presence to soften
her sorrow. The mother was laid in her
grave and as the pair walked from the
new made mound to the cemetery gates,
where the carriages awaited them, Lis
ette told him of her mothers dying COM
mands and Of her intention Of obeying
them. There was no time to soften the
blow by further explanation or protesta-
ton, and at the cemetery gate they part
ed never to meet again i'll life. A year
passed away, and in that year Lisette,
from a happy, buxom lass, had become
an invalid. Physicians said it was con.
sumption. Perhaps it was, but she well
knew that sorrow had been the messen-
ger to bring the life destroying agent.
At last she, too, was laid upon bed OF
sickness, and when assured that it would
be one OF death she dispatched mes
senger to the only man she ever loved.
But, alas! the messenger was too late.
Frank, who had been gradually wasting
away for year, was stricken down with
malarial fever and could not recover.
But. the messenger 0isettes brother)
carried a message back to the dying
girl. A few more messages were carried
to and fro before the eud came. Lisette
died, and with her last breath told her
brother to carry the tidines to Frank and
tell him she would wait hiscoming. Not
long had she to wait, for the tidings of
her death snapped the slight s0rd that
vet bound Frank 10 life. In those two
homes, four miles apart, two forms we're
attired for sepulture. On the same dAy
two funeral corteges started and pursued
their way toward the village burial
ground. Slowly and mournfully they
moved and singularly they met at the
cemetery gate. Together the coffins
were lifted from the hearses. and side by
side the remains of those loving ones
were carried through the entrance where
they last parted, rather more than year
before.
Year: 1877

Mr.. Moody, in an address at the Chi,
cago tabernacle, made rather q practical
application Of the parable Of the sower.
He said that he did not believe every
nrotestation of 3 change of heart which
he heard. Men came with the crowd and.
acted with the crowd, but the seed was
only in arsubsoil, and o good stiff breeze
would bear them down like stubble. He
knew one who sang hosannas and was
very much worked upon the seed had
fallen and sprung up. But there was q
Lack Of depth. He knew this, because
the man owed his landlady board bill
which he was able to pay, but which he
utterly u ~ neglected. He believed in the
conversion of deeds. He did not believe
in the Christianity that found time to
read a Sunday paper but none for the
Bible.
Year: 1877

Barbara sits in her porch so green


AL day long till the sun goes down.
She bears the buzz Of her sewing machine,


She bears the hum of the distant town.
And sometimes the drone of the hive sedate,


Or the tick-tack murmur the mill wheel makes;
But at every step at the garden gate


Apause she makes and o thread she breaks
And sadly saying: "He comes not, thesT
She Gghs and turns to her sewing again.
Summer Winds can We bring no balm
To aweary bosom that knows no calm?
SuInnner and winter, and early and late,


Doth little Barbara sit and bark
For that one swift step at the garden gate


That never comes Of shine or dark.
wonder, if she but the truth could know


Tha is kept from SO many fond, anxious


Souls


That her lovers head hath been long laid low


Where the grassy sea Of the prairie rolls
How hng would if be ere window and door
Would be empty both, and her waiting DER?
Oh, winds, west winds, will We never tell
whatlong ago in your wilds befen?
Nay, have her be; let her knit and sew,


Anilinger and listen, and watch and wait.
IN its own good time there Will come, know,
A Amessage for her atthe garden gate
whisper will breathe in the anxioss ears,


Her wasted figure a soft arm fold,
And the love and trust Of these weary years


VIII bring their reward in a bliss untold.
Though watching and waiting consume our


prime,


There ne angels in heaven that bide their time.
Ye winds, blow lightly still let repbse
The happy ignorance Barbara knows.
Year: 1877

married a woman Of sweetness and truth,


And beauty without any havi
Bat over my head hung. like Dsmocles sword,
That horror mother-in-law.
So upright and downright in person and looks,


She embodied the dismal old
OF scoldng and pushing and worrying and botherng


Old bore Of q mother-in-law.


She decided to live with Chaos and wreck
Would be the result, foresaw
So gave my cigars and my meerschaum, with groanS'


To friend with no mOther-in-law.


One night as sat by blazing wood fire,


When the days had grown chilly and raw,
How cozy and nice you would look with pipe
Don't you snoke'' said my mother-in-law.
Did my ears hear arigbti Yes, bless her dear heart


Don't you smoker" the first happy straw
To show how the wind blew w" and clear up the clouds
Tsixt and my mother-n-law.
And oh she's the kindest and dearest and beet


Old darling that ever saw,


Ny mother love and my wife adore,
But worship my mother-in-law.
Year: 1877

In another column we print Wash
DAvenports famous miscegenation
speech, delivered in this city in July,
1874. We do this for the purpose Of
giving our citizens some faint idea OF
the condition Ofthings from which we
rescued ourselves, and to impress upon
them the necessity OF holding the fort
At all hazards. It is true that Daven'
port is no longer here, but it Is also
true that his associates are here, and
that they have found men who have
offered to again restore them to place.