smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

A Florida correspondent of the New
York Sun gives the following details
concerning serpents in the Land of Flow
ers:


The genuine rattlesnakc grows to a
monstrous size, and their colors are more
brilliant than those of the Northern
species. Capt. Devall, Of Palatka, AYERS
that he saw one twenty years ago with
forty-seven rattles. Incredible as this
may seem, Col. Pratt, of the Palatka
Herald, declares that he has seen one with
fifty two. These serpents frequent high
sandy ridges, and occasionally lurk in
gardens and in plowed fields. They have
even been known to make their way into
barns and houses. The beach scrub,
where seldom burned, is alive with them.
Some monsters have been killed on An
astasia island, opposite St. Augustine.
In the spring have counted in one day,
on the beach between Canaveral and
Indian river inlet, ten freshly shed skins.


After one rattlesnake is killed another
is found near it. If the body of the dead
reptile is dragged through the house or
across cattle pen, its mate is pretty sure
to take up the trail and follow it.
Through the winter these snakes are dor
mant. They live in holes made by the
gopher and land turtle, and are concealed
in many of the old coquina ruins dotting
the eastern coast. As the summer ap-
proaches they pair off and hunt in couples
The numberless trails in the scrub and
savannas made by deer, coons, wild cats,
and offers, are their favorite lurking
places. Here they lie in ambush, and
many an unfortunate rabbit and opossum
falls under their fangs.


Nor are the low savannas and salt
water marshes free from the great snakes.
Last summer as Judge Connor, of Live
Oak Hill, was crossing the wide open
prairie at the head of Indian river, he
saw a plump gray squirrel cutting queer
antics on spot of bare sand. AS the
sand was fully mile from any tree, and
covered with salt water six months in the
year, the judges curiosity was excited.


To use his own words, the squirrel
was jumping around right smart, and ap-
pearcd as if he didn't know what to do
with himself" It's attention was not dis
tracted by the judges approach, for it
continued prancing over the sand in q
concentric course, as though crazed. The
judge walked up with the intention of
capturing it. Suddenly he was confront
ed by an enormous rattlesnake. It was
stretched out in the wire grass surround
ing the sand, with it's head toward the
squirrel. On seeing the Judge, it threw
itself into coil and made q noise like
that of buzz saw. Its tail ratified with
terrible earnestness. The squirrel ceased
his antics, and sat motionless as statue.
Finding neither stick nor stone on the
prairie, the Judge tried to scare the snake
by threatening gestures. These incenscd
the reptile. It reared both crest and tail
Year: 1877

Capture OF a Gang Of Railroad Thiev<..


A Toledo dispatch of the 23rd says a
bold and we'll planned attempt was made
to rob the express car Of train No. 6, bound
east, over the air line division of the Lake
Shore l. Michigan Southern railroad. Shortly
after the train left Ligonier, Ind, the car was
entered by four men, who accosted the mes
senger and were about to bind him when they
were suddenly confronted by force of officers
and expressmen, headed by chief Of police
Pardy Of this city, who had been informed that
the attempt was to be made and had concealed
himself and men In the car. A short but
most desperate struggle ensued, resulting in
The capture Of the entire band, who were
brought to this city and lodged in Jail. They
arc oil young men and residents of Noble
county, Ind. The train was not stopped, and
none of the passengers were aware that any
thing unusual had occurred during the trip.
Year: 1877

To the telegram the secretary replied
that he had no authority to authorize him
to organize, mount and provision volun-
teers at government expense, but that
Gen. Howard has been fully instructed
and clothed with all authority the depart
ment can confer, and that he might
furnish arms and ammunition as provided
bV law.
Year: 1877

The Forthcoming Civll Ser. Ice Reform


1t is thought that at least week will
elapse before the civil service reform rules will
De ready for PRONUNCIATION. From private ut
tcrances Of the President it is inferred that all
the federal officers will be prohibited from tax.
ing an active part in political manifestations
becoming members Of political conventions
or serving as members Of political committees
The President, i'll a recent conversation on the
subject said, that while the enforcement of
such rule might, and probably would work
some injury to the Republican party for Il little
While to come, yet it was sound in principle,
and he would insist upon its being strictly OBJ
served. In the end lie thought the R.publi-
can party would be benefited by it. 1t was
brought to the Presidents attention some days
ago, that in the large Atlantic cities, like Bos-
ton, New York and Baltimore, the manipula
ton of Republican primary elections had for
years been mainly directed by custom house
and other federal officials The President said
he was pretty well cognizant of all these facts,
and the time had come when there must be a
change. He has no objection to any of the
federal officers who thought that partyism or
duty to party demanded that they should man.
age primary meetings and conventions, resign
ing their offices, but they must do one or the
other
Year: 1877

In What Coin arc tho New Bonds Pay


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The decision embodied in the following
letter Of Secretary John Sherman was reached
ut Cabinet meeting on the 10th inst, and the
letter thercupon promptly forwarded.


TREASURY DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, Juno
10, 1S77.-Francis o. French, Esq.,, Ne,r York
Sir: Your letter of the 18th inst, in which you
inquire whether the four per cent bonds now
being sold by the government are payable,
principal and interest in gold coin Is received
The subject, from its great Importance, has de-
manded and received careful consideration.
Under the laws now in force there is no coin
issued or issuable in which the principal of
the four per cent. bonds as redecmable or in
tcrest payable except the gold coins Of the
United States of standard value, fixed BY
laws in force the 18th of July, 1870, when the
bonds were authorized. The government ex-
acts in exchange for these bonds
payment at their face in such gold
and 1t Is not to be anticipated
that any future legislation Of con-
gress or any action Of any department Of tho
government would sanction or tolerate re-
dcmpton Of the principal of these bonds or
the payment of the interest thereon In coin Of
less value than the coins authorized bv law
at the time of the issue Of the bonds, being the
coin exactcd by the government in exchange
for the same The essential element OF good
faith in preserving equality i'll value between
coinage In which the government receives
and that in which it pays those bonds will be
sacredly observed by the government and pco-
pie of the United States, whatever may be the
system of coinage which the general policy Of
the nation may adopt. This principle is i'm
pressed upon the text Of the law OF Juno II,
1870 under which the four per cent. bonds
are issued, and requires, in the opinion OF the
executive department Of the government, the
redemption Of these bonds and the payment Of
their Interest in coin Of equal value with that
which the government receives upon their
issue.
Year: 1877

The Republican party has lived and
thrived on its contest with the South and
to make peace with the South would be
to transgress the law of its being. If there
be any men in its ranks who honestly en-
tertain Democratic theories and senti.
ments with regard to the people of the
States lately in rebellion, they must join
the Democracy if they hope to make theil
influence felt. In their own party they
can do no good, and if they are weak
enough to try to manage it, they will GO
down, even though the President be at
their head, in a contemplate struggle
Y. Y. World.
Year: 1877

EDMUNDs' temporary illness may have
its cause. Certainly Hayes did not prove
as grateful toward him as he might; and
the Shermans into whose arms he seems
to have cast himself entirely, have moi
appeared to appreciate any great service
from the Electoral Commission bill and
its deception. At all events Edmunds
has quietly subsided. He will no doubt
be on hand when next His Fraudulency
needs his aid.
Year: 1877

Don Cameron has called upon Hayes
to tell him what he will do with the SEN
atorship when lie gets it. He promises not
to bear malice for the Cabinet place he
lost, and he assures Hayes that he will
give his Fraudulent Administration a
hearty support.
Year: 1877




There is no royal or short cut to
heaven. If you want q heaven for
yourself in the world to come, pre-
pare it for yourself in the life that
now is. You have no reason TO
think you will enter upon the next
life in anywise changed in character
from what you are when you leave
this. "He that is unholy, let him
be unhcly still" And the character
with which yon leave this world will
be the slow and natural growth of the
years of your whole earthly life, and
cannot be the result of anything else,
the teaching of any theology to the
contrary Notwithstanding. The true
conception of human existence
doubtless is as one in this world
and the next-this the rill, that the
river; this the dawn, that the day;
this the bud, that the flower; this
the blade, that the full corn in the
ear. Heaven is not something to
be won, or bought, either by our
selves or somebody else for US; but
it is something to grow into. In
the next world you are simply your
self, only moved on and moved up.
Swedenburg somewhere gives a rep
resentstion of persons who had died.
and did not for a considerable time,
even know they were dead. Their
old thoughts and feelings. and loves
and desires Of an earthly life re
mained, and the world which they
had entered did not at first seem
different from the one they had left,
only it was spiritual instead OF
physical. Hence they went on in
their old pleasures. Only by de-
grees did they perceive their change
of states-and that as they them
selves became by natural processes
of growth and development, capable
of deeper seeing and higher knowl-
edge
Year: 1877

"Save me Doctor and I'll give
you a check for $i,OO0w


The doctor gave him a remedy
that soon eased him, and he called
out:


keep at it, Doctor, and I'll give
you Il check for five hundred dol
lars! T.


In half an hour he was able to sit
up, and he calmly remarked;


Doctor, feel like giving you a
fifty dollar bill"


When six months had been gath
cred to Times bosom the doctor
sent in his bill amounting to five
dollars. He was pressed to cut it
down to three, and after so doing
he sued him. got judgement, and
the patient put In stay of execu-
ton. The poet was pretty correct
when he wrote:


81 know no man whom l would trust;


l buy and sell for cash;


Each day know what l am worth,


And thus avoid a smash.
Year: 1877

81 am glad TO learn, my dear
Patsy, that you are employed in
things new and good. or all the
cankers OF human happiness, none
corrodes with so silent yet so bale
ful an influence as Incidence. Ex-
ercise and application produce order
in our affairs, health Of body and
cheerfulness of mind. If at any
moment, my dear, you catch your
self in illeness, start from it as you
would from the precipice of gulf
do not like your saying that you
are unable to read Livy but with
the aid Of a master. It is a part Of
the American character TO surmount
every difficulty by resolution.


"My expectations from you are
high, but not higher than you may
attain. Nobody in this world can
make me so happy or miserable as
you can. Thi.k nothing is insur-
mountable and you will be all that
I wish you 20 be. Affectionately,


at. j."
Year: 1877

/Subscribers who are already in


/arrears need not expect to have
4 the CITIZEN continued to them
! after Christmas, unless they pay
up before that time. We are always
willing to extend reasonable ac-
commodations to our patrons, but
they must also show a disposition
TO respond 10 a reasonable demand e..
We now ask every one TO pay up
by the first Of January. We can
say truthfully that we believe we
have the best subscription list of
any country paper in the State, it
not in the country. Every man is 4
solvent, honorable, and as a gen


eral thing prompt. and We do not !
often have TO make such appeals.
Year: 1877

1t will not do to say that all men
are dishonest who fail to pay their
debts. That is drawing it rather
ine. If a man has not the means,
and cannot get them, how is he to
pay? Many an honest man has
made debts that he could not pay
he made them on the promises of
dishonest men, and because he
fails to pay, it does not necessarily
follow that he is dishonest-if he
manifests desire to pay, and uses
his exertions in that way, he is just
as honest, in our estimation, as the
man that can and does pay his
debts. If a man is able to pay his
debts and refuses to do so then he
may be called dishonest.
Year: 1877

The idea of making a country pa
per self-sustaining, where the pub
Usher does not work himself, but
loafs around and smokes fine cigars
and puts on as much style as Ben


nett, of the New York Herald, is
preposterous and absurd. Some
body will have to pay for this idle
ness and style Tseesasa5 Basssy.
Year: 1877

1t seems to be pretty well under
stood that the bill repeating the Re-
sumption Act and also the repeal of
the law demonetizing silver will
both pass the present Congress. 1t
is feared the President will veto
both bills. We hope he will not.
Year: 1877

The present financial condition of our
country should teach us the true value
of our economy. No man or woman


who can buy one dollars worth OF goods
with fiuy cents should think OF spend
inc tie dollar, yet IL is done every day
Bsiley's Saline Apperient Is warranted
equal 10 the best in size and quality and
Is sold at only 90 cents. 1t is just As
pleasant as soda water. no2S-4t
Year: 1877

We neglected last week even to
call attention to the announcement
ofH. C. McLaurine for Sheriff, and
in as much as we did this we will
take the liberty to say just this one
time Of any candidate that he Is
clever enough for any office.
Year: 1877

WAsHINGToN, October 2.-Ihere WAS
large crowd at the Executive mansion
to-day, including several Congressman,
to pay their respects.


General Sherman telegraphs from
Portland, Oregon, his arrival there from
Puglt Sound. He will start overland Tor
San Francisco tomorrow.


General j. s. Negley, indicted with
Wllowski and Others and charged with
conspiracy to defraud the government,
came into court this morning with ex.
Senator Carpenter as counsel, and gave
bail to appear for trial.


The committee TO examine the public
buildings In Washington, US To their
liability To be destroyed by lire, Will re-
port in regard to the government print
ing office that it cannot be made fire
proof, but will recommend precsution-
AIRY measures to protect it. They visited
the White House this afternoon. A
commission has been appointed by Sec.
retary Schurz to examine into the con
dition OF the Patent Office building anG
report what measures should be taken to
secure the walls from further damage.


The President in course of an inter-
view with Hon. j. Z. Leonard, Re-
publican member of Congress from
Louisiana, this morning remarked that
7 from what he had seen during his late
trip to the South, he believed that the
whites OF that section were really anxious
to accord the coored people their full
civil and political rights and that his
trip had strengthened him in the convic-
ton that his Southern policy would re-
dound greatly to the interest of the
blacks in whose welfare he had always
felt. and should continue to feel the deep
est interest. The President also stated
that he had lately received renewed AS
surances from leading Republicans of
their support of ais Southern policy.


1t is stated at the Treasury Depart
ment thu the reason why all the four per
cent. bonds do not appear upon the debt
statement, though actually sold and Is
sued, is because the fve-twenties which
are to be paid tor with the proceeds Of
the four per cent. bonds are not yet due,
though called. Ali calls tor fve.twenties
in consequence OF the sale OF the iouI
per cent. bonds mstured during the
present month and next month, and as
they mature the per cent. bonds will be
entered upon the debt statements and
the six per cents taken of Tie fund
ing law allows ninety days for the pay
ment of the four per cent bonds and
ninety days during which the called
bonds are not redeemsble. At the end
OF ninety days interest ceases, though
within ninety days the four per cent
bonds are sold, and they are not entered
as debt until tie fve-tweniies mature.
1t will be found in due season that the
tive-twenties off the debt statement and
the four per cents sole to redeem them
will be on it. The ten millions of four
per cents now on the debt statement were
paid Tor in coin now in the treasury for
resumption purposes.
Year: 1877

THE Standard announces that, al
though it is to be Republican paper it
will not be religious journal. That is
right. As long as our Quincy street
neighbor fills the later so ably it ought
to have the field. AS a Republican
journal, however, its failure is believed,
by many of It's party friends, to be con.
spicuous. 1t is right for the Standard to
fill the vacuum.
Year: 1877

THE coal miners strike at Steuben-
vile appears to be about over: that is to
say, the strikers offer no resistance to
others going to work if they desire to do
so. but the old miners still decline to work
on the terms. Those who were arrested
and imprisoned are out on bail.
Year: 1877

The Richmond Dispatch has come to
the sage conclusion that it would be bet
ter for Virginia to get rid of her crop OF
demsgogues than to be relieved OF her
sixty million state debt. Ohl
Year: 1877

The Cincinnati Chamber Of Com
merce last week passed the following
resolutions


WHEREAS, The effect os the Re
sumption Act is, in the opinion Of
this Chamber, working unnecessary
hardship to the industrial and fnan-
cial interests Of the country, creating
apprehensions of depression and dis
aster, and believing that the Gov
ernment can make no adequate prep
aration for the resumption and main
.tenance of specie payment at so early
a date as fixed by said act, and that
with silver remonetized, the public
debt properly funded, and the exer-
else of a rigid private and public
economy, we may safely await the
time when natural causes and health
full conditions shall indicate a date
when resumption should be enforced
by law; therefore,


ResoIyed, That the National Board
of Trade respectfully recommend to
Congress such modification of the
Resumption Act as shall postpone
the time of its enforcement.


This no doubt expresses the views
of a majority of the business men of
the West, and it is very probable that
the date Of resumption may be post
poned beyond Jan. 1st, 1879.
Year: 1877

The rush of so many people to
California is producing terrible re-
suits out there, and persons Of sense
had better take warning from the
following, which we clip from the
California correspondence OF the
Graphic. It says:


"The days of darkness have truly
fallen upon this territorial foOtstOOl.
Hunger, gaunt and grim, stalks thro
the land which only a few months
ago filled the Biblical description Of
flowing with milk and honey.
Hundreds, aye, thousands, Of late ar
riva's from the East are footing 1t
over the mountains of California
without a mouthful to eat except
that given to them by charity not q
place to lay their head except nm
der the unobstructed canopy OF
heaven"
Year: 1877

The Ohio State Journal says there
''are good sound Republicans" who
think Hayes made a mistake in trust
ing the South with the control Of
their own State Governments, but


eve do not count ex-senator
Wade among that number. A man
whose sense of honor is so obtuse
rs to enable him to use the privileges
of the floor as an ex-senator, in or.
der to pursue his vocation as lobby
ist for plundering scheme, has
reached the point where his praise
or blame is alike Indifferent. There
are not ten men in Ohio who care
what Wade may say on any public
question of the day"
Year: 1877

Editor Frostb,ug Mining Jounal:-
As there is a great deal being said
at the present time about the pro-
posed reduction through the press and
otherwise, I would respectfully ask a
small space in the columns Of the
JOURNAL to enable me to give my
views as briefly as possible on the sub
ject. ...-..........


l think reduction in the price Of
mining at this time is altogether un-
necessary, unless. the companies are
determined to reduce the miners to
object poverty and starvation, as
nine tenths of the miners in this
region last year barely made living.
We're we to accept the reduction of Is
cents per ton, or over % per- cent. as
proposed by some of the companies,
We would have to dig 80 per cent. more
coal to enable us to earn the same
amount as at the old price--65 cents.
Again, should the companies accept
the proposition of the miners, made
at the meeting held at Lonaconing on
the 10Th inst. of reduction of 10 cents
per ton, or over Is per cent.,we would
have to produce over Is per cent more
coal than we did last year, to earn the
same wages.


think that any one who gives the
subject few minutes serious consid-
Grafton will be convinced that the sole
object of the reduction Is to make the
miner, and all those dependent on him,
make up all of the deficiency in the
lost trade since 1878 If the reduction
should become an established fact,
and the trade of this year equal that
Of 1878, will the miners, and those
with whom they have any CONNER
cial dealings, be benefited? l an
swer, they will not, simply because the
miners will not have one cent more
money to disburse, and the laborers
considerably less.


In an article published in your is
sue of last week, copied from the Min
ing and Engineering Jo,oHal, we are
told that the anthracite coal trade
has fallen off over II per cent. since
1878. viii some of our operators,
or our friend (?) of the Aheganlan,
(who delight to dabble in miners af-
fairs be so kind and SO condescending
as to inform us how this happened
We are we'll aware that the anthracite
miners wages have been considerably
reduced since 1878. I would also re-
quest either of the above parties to in
form US what coal region supplanted
the anthracite


We have also been told that the
Clearfield region has taken away our
trade. Probably this is the case, but
We find that the increase Of shipments
from that region for 1876 to be about
one quarter Of a million tons over
1875; and the decrlse frou our re-
gion to be about half a million tons as
compared with 1875. Assuming that
the same amount of semi bituminous
coal was consumed in 1876 as in 1875
the question here arises, who, or What
coal region furnished this deficit O
cf over 25O,O0O tons? VIII the Min,
ing and Engineering Journal or th'
ANeganian t Il us?


II the parties who are SO anxions t.
reduce the miners would inform them
selves Of the average wages Of the min
ers of the county CONSOLIDATION min
ers especially for the last two or three
years, | think they will be convinced
that We are not overpaid, and that W.
are not making fortune al the bust
ness. PoMPEY.
.-
Year: 1877

And in accordance with law and order of the Board of
Trustees made and entered the 14th day of August
D. 1877 many of such designated shares OF stock be-
longing and standing in the of the shareholders
aforesaid shall and will be necessary psy the
upon all shares held and owned by such shareholders
standing in their upon the books of the company
will be sold public auction at the office Of said company
in the Office Trenmor Coffin in City Nevada
Year: 1877

New York Times: The Labor
party's vote has been larger than it
was supposed it would be, and has
cost the Republicans heavily among
the miners and the Germans. AS
both the main parties were equally
evasivs on all live questions of the
day, the result can only be said to
be significant Of the way in which
the Presidents Southern Policy" is
regarded. It is evident that it has
displeased a good many Republicans,
and the number of Democrats won
by it does not seem large.