smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

Toll ROAD MATTERs.-The Supervis
ors OF Shasta County have fixed the 7th
day Of May next rs the time for hearing
Toll Road Corporations, when action will
be taken relative to fixing rates of Toll.
II is probable that the Trinity Supervis-
ors will also take action in conjunction
with Shasta as three Of the roads lay
partly in each county.
Year: 1879

In TIE WRONG HOLE One day this
week the Rule Brothers were surprised to
find the water suddenly shut off and in,
vestigation showed that some impedi
merit had been forced into the pipe
Accordingly the Little Giant was taken
apart when in 1t was discovered a good
sized fox, the force Of the water having
Given him in hard and tight.
Year: 1879

The yard-master at Jackson junction, Mich, who was responsible for the recent fatal collision on the Michigan Central road, has become demented He recently went in to the yard and began opening and closing switches at the same time yelling to the yard men to hasten the trains out of the way as the express was coming. He finally seemed to imagine that collision had occurred and cried, ''There they lie Don't you see those dead women ?" This is not the first instance of insanity from such cause. The engineer responsible for the terrible disaster at Nor walk in 1853, went insane afterwards, or was so reported. And the designer and contract or of the defective bridge at Ashtabula ccm- mitted suicide soon afterward, while out of his mind.-CouTdnt ,r.
Year: 1879

There have been so many bottles, and corks, and bits of board found at various times containing last messages from wrecked people that skeptical world looks at them all with doubt. It is an easy way to ''disap- pear" if an insurance is to be collected, and il is an easier way to deceive if some idiot pro. poses what is called a practical joke. So many bottles.were found after the loss of the City of Boston that nobody paid any attention to them, and all their effect was to create in4 dgnation at the unknown writer. Now comes. bottle from the sky, which probably deserVes the same opinion. Itpurports to be from Professor Wise relating that he is near ly dead November 2d, and is 'sup in a balloon boys'' and unable to come down. Burr has been dead eleven days, and the great bubble driven by the winds is rushing about in space at the exact rate of sixty miles an hour.
Year: 1879

Thanksgiving assumes the aspect of an annual lnstaument of our indebtedness to our Maker, and who, but for legislative decree would re. pudiate the entire debt, are they whose mar row conception places the law of God subordi- nate to human ordinances, forgetting that hu- man law is founded on the divine. The old time requisite for true Thanksgiving, viz :- fasting, is fast being erased from the category of rites and ceremonies, and when the few lin gering disciples of the ''old blue laws" shall have gone to their reward, it will be among the things of the past. The puritanical idea of Thanksgiving observance partook more of the nature of 8 penance and self-denial than the modernized conception of it's purport, which calls for "glad festival ;" simply merry-making carousal, which under the guise of Thanksgiving offering, renders the day one of Thanksgiving only in name. As un- derstand the definition of the word Thanks giving, it is the earnest outpouring of sincere gratitude to the Giver of all good gifts; the humblng of ourselves before God in realizing sense of our own weakness and dependence. Can such sentiment be fitly expressed in carousal2 Shall we screen hilarious celebrd- tion with the cloak of sacred Thanksgiving By the masses the day is considered holiday on which debauchery and revelry are license by divine and human law

 l advocate nothing but consistency in these things. Sincere, genuine gratitude will never render farcical the observance of Thanksgiv- ing. There is need of more perfect realiza- tion of the purport of the day; ivelier ex- ercise of the principles it is designed to teach. ''The greatest of these is charity" Unchar- itableness is nowhere more forcibly exempli- fled than in the palatial habitation of "plenty and to spare" where exists & chilly uncon- sctoushess,of the proximity of next door want and starvation. I do not know that neighbots

 admitting of this cofpparison exast in Canaan, bHt alittls reflection will undoubtedly discoy-

 CT ample opportunity for the exercise of this cardinal virtue. Can you, sit down to your

 Thanksgiving feast in . spirit which should | make that feast one of ThanksqiuSssq indeed, with the consciousness that some poor neigh Dor IS suffering for the very necessaries of ex- istence, while the power is yours to make com- tortable and happy family. circle at trifipg

 sacrifice2 One has truly written. I've can best honor the dead by serving the living 1" Do you wish to show token of respect to yo,,r dead child or friend2 Then comfort and brighten the hearthstone of that poor family, in the name of the departed one, and thus i'm plant her cherished image in the heart of i'm mortal gratitude, where it will never fade. Than xsgiving will then bring the boon to in.

 spire sense of obligation, together with true | thankfulness. PILGRIM.
Year: 1879

The annual recurrence of day, set apart and recommendei by government as day of Thanksgiving to Almighty God for His mercies and loving kindnesses, suggests 8 question whether the day is kept in spirit embodying the entire fulfllment of the injunctions of the president and several governors. Consistency Is jewel, and the motives actuating any pub lie or private demonstration of gratitude should be consistent with tho ruling motives of every day life and labor. Those to whom
Year: 1879

Golden Medical Discovery
Is Alternative. or blood cleansing.
Golden Medical Discovery


Is Pectoral.
Golden Medical Discovery
Is Cholagogue, or Liver Siimulant.
Golden Medical Discovery


Is Tonic.
Golden Medical Discovery
Year: 1879

THE New York Sun says in speak
i5g Of the approaching conflict be-
tween Congress and the President
Let il come. This is the spirit of
every Democratic paper in the land,
from the metropolitan journal to the
little patent-outside country sheet
They mistake the public mind about
this. They will now find that it has
come and, that woe unto them " is
the result.
Year: 1879

LONDON, March IA special
to the Times from Pesth says the
Roumanian Senate and Chamber
have resolved to amend the Cousti-
tuition so as to confirm the law CON
corning the Jews to the require-
ments of the treaty of Berlin. The
question will now be submitted to
q popular vote.
Year: 1879

THE Yellow Fever bill, which was
killed by the last Congress, will be
brought up in the extra session.
Enough Southern Democrats were
found who thought it was a violation
Of " States Rights" to establish ma
tionaI quarantine, to defeat it, and
curses loud and deep are falling upon
them from the Mississippi Valley.
Year: 1879

A friend gave us the other day
startling illustration of tbs disastrous
influence on the mind of a susceptible
boy of an angry and unjust epithet east
upon him by an excited father. The
boy had committed some rather serious
misdemeannr, and the father became
enraged. lie was a tall, large, fine
looking man, and summoned the boy
to see him. Bat the father lost posses
sion OF himself, and called his son an
attrocious name. The boy turned pale.
The cpilhet sank deep into his heart
like lead and now that from that mo-
ment he has known no such thing as
love TO his father. Before that he had
been one of the most aflectionaie of
bops, and has oflen tried to reason him
self into his earlier love for his father;
but it has gone, and he connot bring il
back. The lesson OF this tact is too
plain and pungent 10 need naming
Examiner aud Chronicle.
Year: 1879

Bows arc an obstinate fact every
where we thank kind Providence that


the Indians are exterminated IN these
regions, aud plume ourselves ON the
fact that the last of the Mohicans point
cd a moral and adorned a tale long ago,
but do We ever reflect on the host aud
hordes of boys that are still leiiS
think Miss Lydia would have preferred
Year: 1879

AMAGANsETr, L. l., August %. 1879.


There IL n charm about the villages at the eastern
end OF Long Island that recommends them strongly
TO the visitor. II is their simple pastoral
characteristic entire absence of all incentives to
fashionable display. The hotels are. as general
rule, mere farmhouses, and the accommodations are
not calculated to inspire the average watering place
loungor with feelings of respect and confidence. Yet
to those who seek health and comfort the old settle
mcnts. which date back two centuries. are al
ways attractive The landlord Is of the patriarchal
type and the surroundings invest the house with the
atmosphere of home. Fashion seems out of place In
one of those quaint old towns, and her representa-
tives at once tall into the custom of the place.
You will the belle of a metropolitan circle
don tho plainest habmcnts. until At is impossible
to distinguish between the rustic Phoebe and Miss
Flora McFlimsey. The Hamptons-wost South
Bridge aud East--are no hackncyed Watering PLACES
and people who want the glitter and excitement Of
Long Branch Saratoga solcmnly warned away
from there But wholesome recreation. perfect rest
and u surrounding of hoalthful and happy inf uences
oan always DO found in these pastoral homes. 1t Is
impossible TO modernize them. The glamour of an
tiquity is over them aud the bonds which connect
them with the past are insolubie. Each town has
snals street Of boulevard dimensions and the
Year: 1879

Capt. Aylward tells droll story of
a rencounter between bushman and
q lion. The narrator was acquaint-
ed with the man and has no doubt as to
the truth of the story. The bushman,


while long way from his home, was


met by lion. The animal, assured
that he had his victim completely in
bis power, began to daily with him
with feline jocosity the poor little


bushman failed 10 appreciate. The
lion would appear at point in the
road and leap back into the jungle, to


reappear little further on. But the


bushman did not lose his presence of
mind, and presently hit upon a de-
vice 10y which he might possibly out
wit his foe. This plan was suggested
by the lions own conduct. Aware
that the brute was ahead of HIM, he
dodged to the right, and feeling pref
ty sure of the iion's Whereabouts, re-
sorted TO the course of quietly watch
ing his movements. When the lion
discovered that the man had suddenly
DISAPPEARED from the path, he was q
good deal perplexed. He roared
with modification, when he espied
the bushman peeping over the grass.
Ihe bushman at once changed his pe-
sition, while the lion stood irresolute
in the path, following with his eye
tue shifting black man. In another
moment the little man rustled the
reeds, vanished, and showed again at
another point. The great brute was
first confused, and then alarmed. Ii
evidently began to dawn upon him
that he had mistaken the position oil
matters, and that he was the hunted
party. The bushman, who clearly
recognized what was passing in his
enemy's mind, did not pause to lei
the lion recover his starteled witss He
began to steal toward the foe, who,
now in complete state of doubt and
fear, fairly turned tail and decampcd,
leaving the plucky and ingenious lit


tie bushman master of the situation
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON specials make the reassur-
ing statement that the Cabinet is in hearty
accord with the President on the question of
the election laws. A Washington gentleman
who is represented as fully understanding the
Presidents feelings and purposes, and the
position OF the Cabinet upon the repeal of
the election laws, says in the most emphatic
terms that there is not sign of desire to
compromise on the part of any Cabinet Of
ficer, and that as for the President nothing
could move him In that direction. He saws
further. that the Administration unhesitat-
ingly accepts the challenge of the Democrats
and will resist the passage of any law un-
dermiLing those which guard the llot-box
till the term of the Administration ends in
1881. 1t is safe TO conclude that every such
law if passed, whether as a separate measure
or as rider on the appropriation bills, will
be vetoed. Matters have reached such a
pass that there is very little hesitation in
Administration circles in talking about this
matter. Indeed there is very general feel
ing, says the correspondent, that it comes with
an i'll grace from the Democrats, who to a
man are proclaiming in all public places that
unless the President signs these bills the
Government shall stop, TO criticlse members
of the Administration for intimating that no
laws passed solely to promote dishonest elec-
tions can ever receive the signature of Pres.
dent Hayes. When the courtesy of this mat
ter comes to be discussed it will by held by
Republicans that the President has as much
right to say to his friends what he will not do
as Democratic Congressman have to pro-
claim what he shall do. They can be
certain that he will never sign his name to
any law legalizing or promoting dishonest
elections.
Year: 1879

The formation of the Senate committees
by the Democratic majority in that body
does not prove altogether satisfactory to the
party at large. The hard-money Democrats
who are in majority of the party in all the
Eastern States except Maine, thoroughly dis.
like the constitution of the finance commit
tee in the interest Of soft-money theories.
The appointment of Bayard as chairman
matters little as long as the greater number
OF his colleagues are unsound on the currency
question. 1t is remarked too with alarm by
Northern Democrats that the Committee on
Claims has not Northern Democrat on It.
The South will have its own way there, and
the fear is expressed that in lis zeal and
rapacity it will not postpone the considera-
tion OF Southern claims until after the Presi-
dental election. The Committee on Com
merce appears to be made up in the interests
OF river and harbor appropriations, its mem
befs representing those sections of the coun-
try that are the most clamorous for large
appropriation bills. The Naval Committee
seems to be constituted directly in the inter-
est OF navy yards.


The control of legislation is thrown into
the hands of the South. They hold the
power in neatly all the committees. The
chairmansbips that have come to Northern
Democrats have come through the obsery-
ance OF the Senatorial rule of seniority of SER
vice. But in these cases care has been taken
that the South shall be so placed as to shape
the action Of these bodies that really do the
business of the Senate. The upper house of
Congress is now controlled by the South. The
House is virtually under the same rule, and if
the Democrats succeed in securing the repeal
of the election laws they will have reason for
the greatest confidence in their ability to
elect President in 1880; for the ballot
boxes of New York and other Northern
Democratic cities will be subject to their
manipulations.
Year: 1879

THE Dexter Gazette in its issue of last
week made very savage and unjustifiabe
attack on the agent of the Associated Press
in Dexter, charging him with sending a
false and malicious despatch concerning the
Barron matter. The despatch alluded to
contained three assertions viz 4, that the re-
lations between Examiner Titcomb and the
bank officers had not been pleasant; that
treasurer Hamilton had prepared an answer
to the charge against him, and that the answer
was virtually the same old story. The first two
OF these statements the Gazette pro-
nounces malicious falsehoods. The first one
was probably incorrect, though there are
some persons quite familiar with Dexter
bauk matters who still assert, notwithstand-
ing Mr. Titcomb's denial, that it was
exactly true. But aside from the question of
its truth or falsity, the Gazette had
no justification for denouncing the agent
who telegraphed it as a malicious liar. The
agent claims that such statement was made
to him by responsible person, he believed it
and consequently telegraphed it as it was his
duty to do. He made mistake perhaps, but
all men make mistakes, the editor of the
Gazette not excepted. But he was not
guilty Of malicious falsehood. As to the
second malicious falsehood," we assert that
1t was the exact truth The Gazette saws
there is no charge against Treasurer Hamil-
ton, therefore he could not have prepared an
answer to any. There is charge,
and very grave one, against Mr..
Hamilton, the Gazette's assertion to the
contrary Notwithstanding. He in company
with his fellow officers is charged with tra-
ducing the memory of dead man, for it was
the bank officers, of which Mr.. Hamilton is
one, who first started the story that Mr.. Bar
ron was defaulter. The sole object of the
last statement was to refute this charge by
evidence from the bank books to show that
Mr.. Barron was guilty. The pretence that
this statement was simply put forth as an or
dinary report of the condition of the bank is
too shallow to deserve any credit. The As
ISOLATED Press agent described it properly.
1t was an answer to charges and that only.
The Gazettes anxiety to voice the opiAions
of the public in this Barron matter and at
the same time to keep in favor with the
bank officers has betrayed it into wholly
unjustfiable assault upon an innocent man
and it owes that man an apology.
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and communi
cations The name and address of the writer are in
alcases indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


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

If YOU have "horrid boy at your
house and consider it your solemn duty to
follow the injunction of Solomon, and ad-
minister to him a saving correction, one
which he will be able to retain in his
memory, 1 would recommend this mode of
procedure:


Solemnly promise him a sound drubbiDg,
and then put him in a room and turn the
kew on him, and tell him that you are going
out to the forest for a snake pole exactly
adapted to the exigencies of his require
ments, and that you will be gone an hour.


Before you go, however, it will be pru-
dent to remove all the furniture from the
room, and have it entirely vacant, other
wise he might be conscientiously moved to
earn the anticipated hogging by tearing mp
everything in reach. 1t is safer in such
cases to put things out of the way and
leave nothing to disturb the religious ten
denotes of his mind.


There is more lasting virtue in one hour
of this kind of treatment for a boy than
there is in a snake pole. To say nothing of
his natural fondness for quiet and solitude,
he enjoys a keen continuous interest in the
contemplation of the coming snake pole.
He will remember an episode like this long
after snake poles have faded ont OF his
mind.
Year: 1879

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE is running for
constable in town in Michigan 1t was
always our opinion, that William Shal1-
speare was not sincere when he wrote:
Filing away ambitior by that sin fell the
angels. We suppressed the charge of
demagoguerv against William because we
had no overt act of his which justified it,
but for all that we were sure that sooner or
later he would go back on his record. And
now at thia late day he has given himself
up to the seductive wiles of an irrepressi-
BILE ambition for the Office of constable.
Year: 1879

A SOUTH Mississippi paper remarks that
vigilance is the eternal price of liberty.
That strikes us as a considerable change in
the net cost of liberty, and a marked altera-
ton in the. terms of the hitherto somewhat
monotonous quotation of the price of lib
erty. But we are rather glad, upon the
whole, that the article is fixed at a stable
and lasting price price that will continue
to all eternity-and that designing sharpers
will have no chance to speculate upon its
fluctuations
Year: 1879

FEW years ago the 90 ol people of Bran
don elected Fop for mayor; at the last
election they turned Jack on their May
or's deck They also have Lamb for their
depot agent and Martin for Chancery
Clerk. That's the way they do things over
in Brandon.
Year: 1879

The proprietors and employees of large
cigar factory in New York have just agreed
upon substitute for strikes and lockouts,
and the plan is SO simple that it is scarcely
strange that no one on this side of the
ocean has thought of it before 1t is
merely to refer future difference between
employers and employed to board of ar
bitration, the members of which are to be
selected by the two parties.
Year: 1879

The Secretary of the United States
Treasury is about to issue an order to the
banks upon the subject of retiring all notes
under $5. During this process of retire
nient of the little notes we would beg to re-
mind all parties that if they find any diff
Guilty in the work, considerable quantity
of them can be retired in this Office. We
are dealing mostly now in small notes. The
price of THE COMET, you Zee, is juct 50 a
wear. or 81 for six months.
Year: 1879

On Christmas day Newport woman, in
answer to ring went TO the door and
found basket on the doorstep with a sus-
picious-looking object IN it Remarking
that she didn't keep founding hospital,
she sent it direct to the police station, and
next day the grateful guardians returned
her the basket and cordial vote of thanks,
for the excellent twenty-pound turkey she
50 generously sent them, and yet she was
no happy.
Year: 1879

EVERYBODY won't be so anxious to go to
Congress after reading this special dis
patch:


The unprecedented mortality among members OF
Congress excies serious alarm, as the symptoms are
the same in nearly all 1t is believed to result
from poisoning by imperfect ventilation OF the
house,
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON specials say the President
signs the army bill because he believes it
right that soldiers should not be used as
police force at elections. They represent
that he does not believe that the political
section of the present army bill is as explicit
on that point as the existing law. He holds
that when the army is used under direction
of the President to enforce the United States
laws in the methods set forth by the statutes
quoted in the first veto, it is not used in any
sense as a police force, but as an army,
which is very different thing As the mil
itary arm of the government, by which it
strengthens its civil arm and makes it equal
to the enforcement of the laws whenever and
wherever the civil arm is unable to overcome
distractions to the enforcement of the laws.
The President holds that he is as free in the
face of this political rider to use the troops
under the Constitution and existing laws to
enforce the national law as he would have
been if the rider had been stricken from the
bill. He does not regard it as limiting his
present power in the least degree, and he
therefore holds that he can still use the ar
my to execute all the laws of the United
States in the method provided by the Con-
stitution and existing laws within any of the
States, and upon any day including election
day, and including the execution of the cleo
tiOn laws
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable, not necessarily for publica-
tion but as a guaranty of good faith.


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

FEAR and Savoy never met" is the
proud motto of the royal house whose daugh-
ter the young Prince Victor Napoleon has
for mother. If he possess the spirit of his
mothers family he mayyet reign as Emperor
of the French.
Year: 1879

THERE is considerable speculation as to
the action the Democrats in Congress will
take. If they adjourn without providing
for the courts they will at once be called to-
gether again by the President. 1t is thought
however, that they will vote the supplies be-
fore going home.