smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

The Atlanta (Ga) Constitution
contains the following:


eve want it distinctly under
stood, before we proceed any further,
that we are a friend of the Colonel
that is to say, we are a friend of
the Colonel if he is not a military
Colonel. A military Colonel has no
right to the title. He may have
earned it in the war, right in front
Of the cannon's mouth, but more
peaceful days have dawned upon,
us, and now we have the insurance
Colonel, the sewing-machine Col
onel, the dry goods Colonel, the
commission Colonel, the grocery
Colonel, the newspaper Colonel,
and the lawyer Colonel. You may
make your Colonel from any pile
you choose, and we'll stand up
promptly and say we admire him.
There is honor in the title, and we
take pleasure in bestowing it upon
friend and foe alike. TO be a man
and not to be a Colonel unless,
indeed, you were promoted during
the wary, is something preposterous.
We can conceive of no such misfor-
tune as that which prevents a man
from becoming Colonel in his own
right. There is no law on the
statute book against it, and if there
were it would be a dead letter
Every county, every community,
and every family would cry out
againt the injustice of an enact
ment depnVing them of their usual
Year: 1877

Boston J0urnal.l


The report that one Of the miss.
ing arms of this famous statue had
been discovered is followed by the
assurance of Gen. Meredith Read
the American charge d. affaires al
Athens, that both arms have been
found on the island Of Milo within
a distance of less than thirty feet
from where the statue itself was
taken in 1920. For the benefit Of
those who will be ready to greet
this announcement with head shak.
ings, and even derision and cries
Of fraud, General Read says: "Thc
arms are exquisitely modelled. One
holds a kind of disc OF shield. The
workmanship and the locality COM
pei even the skeptical to acknowl-
edge the authenticity of these won-
derful relics" The test of the
matter will be to forward the arms
to the Louvre in Paris, where the
mutilated statue has been standing
since 1884, waiting for the rest oil
her, and for the solution of the
mystery that has hung over her
lovely head ever since she came to
the light of the modern world.


Those lost arms have been the
theme Of more wild speculation
among artists and connoisseurs
than the lost tribe of Israel has
been to theologians. Each has had
his notion about the peculiar posi-
tion in which the body of the statue
required them to be placed. There
will be great curiosity to see who, Oh
whether anybody, has hit right
The arms also were needed to clear
up the meaning and even the name
Of the statue, for while the general
supposition has been that it was 4
Venus, and by Praxiteles, or least
copy Of that masters work, others
have denied that it was Venus at
all Our countryman, W. j. Still
man, an artist and a very competent
Judge OF art, trained by long OK
perience on classic ground, has
given his opinion that the work is
really a statue of Minerva, and he
presents some very plausible reasons
in support Of that conclusion. Il
is barely possible that, in these days
of more ingenuity than genius,
when Raphaels are manufactured
SO as to deceive the very elect il
Year: 1877

art, and ancient manuscripts Of any
required stage of decay can be pro-
duced to order, these long lost
arms Of the Venus of Mile, when
brought to their appropriate place,
may be found to be humbugs; but
let us hope not. When image
breakers of all kinds are abroad, let
us trust that at least one single in
stance of "reconstructiona will
cheer the hearts of artists and con-
nOisseurs. In France the discovery
of the lost arms was regared as an
event of such Importance that the
secretary of the fine arts issued an
official bulletin.
Year: 1877

tive halls of powerful and gigantic
republic, TO hold the mirror up to ma
turo,' to show vice its own senatorial


Image, aud to expose to the national
gaze and to the world vast panorama
Of public fraud and corruption. The
Press can do no harm; its mission is
the diffusion Of useful knowledge, and
to guard aud maintain the Just rights
and interests Of the people. La this
light Il must stand supported by the
populace. The Press with all its power
is impotent to pierce the iron clad armor
Of honesty and truth. When there is
20 gu,H. t ere can be no fear of ex.
posure. no dread os libel or deia,hation
Of character. Let US tender our hearty
support To the Press in It's freedom,
nobility Of character and purity of pur-
pose 1t is the preserver of the ma.
tional honor, peace and prosperity, the
shield Of justice, purity and .fu,h, the
sentinel aud safeguard Of our Union our
Liberty and equality. II.
Year: 1877

Between four and FIVE O'Clock yesterday afternoon,
in Newark an unknown man, apparently a laborer,
WAS found lying on the sidewalk the corner Of Mu
berry and Centre streets In state OF inscDsiblity
from tho effects ol the heat He was removed 10 the
First precinct station, where he remained last ngnt
still nscnsIble aud exhausted that doubts are enter
tanned Of his recovery There was nothing about him
TO lead 10 Identification.


An uoknown man found lying IN an uncon-
scious state last evening In Grand street ana sent to
Chambers Street Hospital, whore he subsequently,
died The cause OF dcath was ascertained to pe the
excessive heat He apparently about forty years
ol age stout buiid dark hair, blue overalls, gray
wooieu snirt, black vest straw hat and low shoes.
Year: 1877

Mr.. G.. Il. McssersmiM:


My DEAR SIR-I received your very
kind letter of the 18th ultimo, and beg
to raciprocate the sentiments Of Kindness
and good will therein expressed.


have not forgotten the occasion 10
which you refer and never shall. 1t was
a terrible night, and I am glad to know
that you remember the pleasant side Of
the picture. Why should We all not
do so, and forget the passions, heart
burnings and wounds of our fearful strife?
We all fought well, did our best, and l
fecl no 1ishonor at surrendering my sword
to superior numbers, and am sure no
honorable man who is true American
citizen would have me dishonored by it.


President Hayes is elcvating the states
manship of the country to a higher plane
and must succeed in his new departure
on that line 1 trust in God he may and
that We shall henccforth have less section
alism and partisan bitterness.


The country North as we'll as South
requires peace and quiet and the devel-
opment of a kindlier and more natural
feeling. Republican institutions are just
as dear to MS Of the South as ever and we
shall feel a profound pride in their com.
plete triumph and perpctuation. We
have a new era in South Curolina, and
under Hampton's administration we con-
fidently anticipate stride toward in evo
ry department of LIFE, which will bring
happiness and wealth and contcntmcnt in
its train to all classes and conditions Of
our people. Tho millennium has not come
rejoice. If should pass through your
city I will do myself the pleasure of pay
ing you visit, and beg that you will not
come TO South Carolina without calling to
sec mo. | shall! be most happy to haze
you make raid on Ejgc6cld and take me
prisoner in my own house, aud then we
Shall be even Very truly yours, &c.


Nc. BUTLER.
Year: 1877

Second Doorkeeper A. 0. Sullivan was
examined rs to the official routine IN getting
members pay. The appearance OF man S
name on the Treasurcr's book as receipt
ing for a check is not conclusive evidence
that that man got the check or money from
the bank In his opinion, no man in the
Commonwealth had fairer reputation than
accused. ..-


Here the Commonwealth's Attorney
closed the evidence for the prosecution,
Year: 1877

So the fifth of the Electoral Arbitra-
tors is to be Judge JOSEPH p. BRADLEY,
of New Jersey, Judge DAVIS having for
personal reasons refused to serve. Judge
BRADLEY Is thorugh-going Republican,
and his appointment makes eight Re-
publicans to seven Democrats in the
Board. Some of his antecedents are in
teresting.


Judge BRADLEY was appointed to the
Supreme Court by President GRANT for
the well-understood purpose of rever-
sing the previous decision OF the Court
against the constitutionality of the Le-
gal Tender act. In that case he did
what was expected of him; but this
neither redounded to his glory nor to
that of the President who selected him
for such q job.


Another remarkable act of this '.iurist
was to hold Chambers in the city of
Newark, pretending to hold them in
Texas, where his judicial district is.
This was done in order to accomplish a
dishonorable transfer of the Transconti-
mental Railroad. For this act Judge
BRADLEY should have been impeached.
We should add here that. previous to his
appointment to the bench of the Supreme
Court, he had been railroad lawyer,
employed by the Camden and Amboy
Company, yet no stranger to Col. Tom
ScoTT. His skill in drawing legislative
bills, whose provisions would bear con-
struction in two or more ways, was
highly esteemed by his employers. 1t is
also worthy of recollection that he was
the first President of the New Jersey
Mutual Life Insurance Company, which
has just gone up in disastrous explo-
sion.


1t is not surprising that the Republi-
cans should think the chances of HAYEs's
election very much improved by the Sc
lection of Judge BRADLEY. He is the
man who is to make the President, and
from his decision there appears to be no
escape except by the united, concurrent
and almost impossible action of both
Houses of Congress.
Year: 1877

The immense and constantly increas-
ing immigration to the new gold fields
of the north is destined to completely
overflow the Black Hills, and before the
close of III or early in '7s, at the far
thest, the cry of ''On to Big Horn" will
be heard in the land and the myriads of
gold seekers will pass thither. Here
with we give with as great accuracy as
possible table of distances from
CHEYENNE TO BIG HORN MOUNTAINS


AND RIVER.
Year: 1877

Athens Messenger: It is to be
that the Democracy do
not sufficiently favor our citizen sol
diery as to lead to expectation that a
Democratic Legislature Will make
the liberal provision asked for by
Adiutant General Karr for maintain
ing the dignity of our State militia.
The officer just named estimates that
S18O,0OO Will be required next year
to keep the various military organ
izations of the State on effective
footing. Of this sum $4,000 is
asked for cncampmont expenses,
$4,000 for the care of arms, and
$4,000 for uniforms.


Soldering is expensive business,
yet we need not go further back
than six months in the history of the
State for practical assurance that
niggardliness in provision for the
proper maintainanco of the State
militia may, in possible emergencies,
prove ruinoUs economy.
Year: 1877

BY MRS. E. P. SHOEMAKER.


Being asked so often for receipt for fruit cake,
will put it in the News. Here it is: One pound
of brown sugar, one of -four, fourteen ounces of
butter, twelve eggs, two large table spOOnsful of
molasses, a wine glass of white wine, one of
French brandy, teaspoonful Of cloves, the same
of mace, allspice and cinnamon, two pounds seeded
raisins, two pounds Of Zante currents, half pound
citron one teaspoonfull cream of tartar, half tea
spoonful soda. Stir the sugar and butter togetl-
er, then add the eggs the whites and yelks beaten
separately to a froth, the wine, brandy and flour,
which should be sifted then add the molasses and
spice. Stir the whole together for ten or twelve
minutes, then add the fruit gradually, a handful
of each alternately. The Zante currents should be
thoroughly cleaned, and the raisns put into sieve
with the flour used for the cake. Shake the sieve,
so as to have most of the flour siftcd through the
flour that adheres to the rasins will prevent their
sticking together and sinking to the bottom when
baking. Line the pan with white paper grease
both. Bake in a slow oven ~ hours.


This cake cuts best when several weeks Old, and
will keep good for a number of months. Frost
when partly cooled. lake half the quantity if de-
sired. This cake to ok first premium at the Fair.


NIB. Those who dislike liquor in cooking, may
use half-pint of fresh cream instead of wine and
brandy.
Year: 1877

In an article exhorting the business
men of Hillsboro to advertise their
business, the News of last weeksays:
"There is no doubt that much of the
trade which naturally belongs to
HiIlsborO is now drawn to Whining
ton and Washington by the liberal
and persistent advertising of their
merchants, and that most Of this
trade could be brought back to our
town if the proper efforts were made
by our merchants to draw it here.
Our merchants know how to take
care of their own interests. They
believe in the use of printers ink and
benefit themselves accordingly
[ Wilmington Journal.


We copy the remarks of the Jour
nal, for the purpose ofagain remind
ing our business men Of the fact to
which we called their attention in the
article referred to, namely, that vii
mington and Washington merchants,
by "the use of printers ink, are
drawing trade to those towns which
properly belongs to Hillsboro, and
would come here if our business men
would invite it, by a system of liberal
advertising in the papers of their
town.
Year: 1877

BY A. e. i.
All howl love that little sun-bonncti
When worn on the head Of my boy;
EncircIing the face of my soft-ipped darling
/ guze ON the picture withjoy
Although 70 is made Of the coarscst domestic
When tied close under his chin,
i protects from the sun sweet little head,
That never has known any sin.
think, as I tie on his little suD-bonaet
Aud press It down close to his face
That two brighter eyes never peeped ron
beneath,


Nor a king wore a crown with sucd grace
We soon viii lay aside the little sum bonnet
When its wearisome course ithas uml
Wen roll it up carefully and lay it away
To keep for the good it has done.
Year: 1877

The Trustees Of New York saw
ings-Bank gave a bond to the bank
for 100000, for which they receIv-
ed nothing and which they consider
ed of no binding force, But the
bank used the bond as ''assets, with
which to make a report calculated to
mislead the Bank Examiner, and to
deceive and swindle (as it did swim
dle) the public; so the Court now
besides that the trustees are respOn-
sible for their bond. If the trustees
or any Of them, are men from whom
100000 Ocan be recovered, the deposi-
tors deceived by the use of the bond
NAV get back some part of the money
of which they will otherwise be rob
bed,and the decision will serve at least
as a warning to other trustees not to
SIGN bonds and similar documents
which they pretend to believe do not
mean anything.
Year: 1877

The eight-hour system is again
being forced upon the public atten-
tion, but the sooner it is dropped the
better. The question now is not
how many hours a day shall a man
labor, but how many days in the
week can he get work, and can he
live on the wages he receives.
Year: 1877

A Atolerably correct judgment Of the
way either man Tor wOman) takes
hold of life might be arrived at, a GER
tain philosopher once said, by no
ticing how he got up to go at the
end of a visit, either of business or
pleasure. If he did not move until
he was ready to start, and then went,
decidedly, there is faculty and prompt
ness and decision. If he made q
dozen starts, and advanced upon his
retreat by such parallels Of conver-
sation or movements that there was
never a certainty that he had any
purpose either to go or stay, his
mental and moral characteristics
might readily be tabulated.
Year: 1877

TRAAIP's LITTLE MEMORANDUM Book
In the hip pocket of an old vagrant, pulled
il by the police the other night was n men,
OIandum book full of his own writing with
pencil, and some of his philosophy is good
enough to be preserved His first paragraph
reads


Drinking bad whiskey because it is offered
free is like getting in the way of bullets pur-
chased by an enemy"


second reads:


Honesty is the best policy, but some folks
are satisfied with second best 1t is hard to
be honest on an empty stomach"


A third runs:


"A dry plank under n rain-proof shed is
better than feather bed in jail, and one isn't
annoyed by the jailer bringing in a square
breakfast"


A fourth hys:


Pay as you go. If you haven't anything
to pay with, don't go. If you are forced to
go, record every indebtedness and let your
heirs settle the bills


The fifth explains


I'VE should have charity for ALL When
the winter winds blow cold and drear we vags
should pity the poor fellows in India who
are having red-hot weather."


sixth is recorded


''Politeness costs nothing, but it is not ex-
pected that you will wake man up at mid
night to ask permission to go through his
hen-house. 1t is more courteous to let him
enjoy his needed repose"


The seventh and last was noted down as fol-
lows:


when you pick up an apple core do not
find fault because it is not the apple itself,
but be satisfied with the grade of descent.
Do not be ashamed of your occupation. We
cannot all be lords, nor can we all be vagrants.
As cannot be a lord should not lament at
being a vagant BE truthful and outspoken.
That is, tell 'em you are Chicago fire suffer-
er. Keep seasonable hours or some other vag
will get your plank first. BE hopeful, cheerful
and good-natured. Growing won't cure a
sOr,. heel
Year: 1877

1t is noticed rs curious fact by the Public
of New York, that the fall in prices and the
rise in greenbacks are about the same-tha1
is to say, about seven per cent. The best cal
culation puts the fall in prices during 1876 at
seven per cent. In that period the premium
on gold has been reduced from thirteen to
six, or about the same figure. But this ought
lot to be considered at all strange, as they
are in fact convertible terms, except AS to the
reversal of the process. Paper went down
more rapidly than prices went up when we
first entered upon the paper experiment. In
q sense prices followed the paper AS the
discount increased, the prices of clothes,
board, and all the necessaries advanced. The
altitude which they reached they maintained
long after the reduction of the discount.
Prices resulting from discount of nearly 60
per cent. on greenbacks were charged when
that discount had been reduced to 20 and 13
per cent. But consumption began to fall off.
Stagnation fell on the country. To keep
going, the vast margins of profit heretofore
enjoyed had to be reduced Either this had
to be done or business abandoned. 1t SO hap
pened that prices in this new movement led
the way. They began to tumble before the
premium on gold began to recede. The re-
duction of the discount on paper followed
the fall of prices almost at as long distance
as prices formerly followed the discount.
There is no other phase of the phenomenon
that is strange or novel.
Year: 1877

Mr.. William Knighton writes to the Lon.
don Times: During the early part of this
year was in Holy Land. Everywhere, from
Dan to Beersheba, saw evidence of renewed
energy and activity of the Jewish race. AS
people the Jews are focking back to the
land of their forefathers in great numbers
from all the countries of Europe. In Jerusa-
lem and its neighborhood, particularly, every
plot Of ground for sale is eagerly bought by
them. The Jews are wealthy race. The
Turks, who nominaly govern their promised
land, are greatly in want of money. Would
it not be possible for the Jews to issue among
themselves New Turkish loan, on condition
that they should obtain the right of covering
their own land under the guardianship OF the
great powers of Europe? Would not many
wealthy Christians be ready to assist them in
this matter if the leaders of the Jewish COM
munity throughout Europe undertook it with
some degree Of vigor? A republic or sa-
cerdotal government might be thus established
in Jerusalem, nominally under the Turks still
but really under the guarantee of the great
Christian powers of Europe-a government
which might be of incalculable benefit to
Palestine, in which scarce farthing of pub
lie money is now spent for its improvements
or for the development of its magnificent
natural;zed sources.
Year: 1877

From the New York World, February 6th]


The newly discovered science of telephony
or talking by telegraph, which has created So
much interest among scientists and practical
electricians of late, has made rapid strides
within the last few weeks in the hands of the
inventor, Professor A. Graham Bell, and his
assistant, Mr.. T. A. Watson. The latest inn
provements enable them to dispense with
batteries altogether and use permanent mag
nets, the electric wave used in transmitting
the sounds being generated by the voice itself.
The importance of this advance is evident to
any one with even a slight knowledge of
telegraphy, as the trouble and expense of
keeping batteries in order has been the great
drawback to the employment of the wire for
private purposes. By this latest discovery
only the first cost of constructing the line and
putting in the instruments is necessary, and
once established the apparatus is virtually a
permanency In recent series of expert
ments with this invention an artificial resis-
tance much greater than an equivalent of the
length of the transatlantic cable was intro
duced, and the articulation of every word was
perfectly transmitted, SO that the inventors
hope to soon be able to actually talk through
the cable.


The Boston Globe says that at the expert
mental rooms in that city lsaiva and Mori, q
couple of japanese students, recently con-
versed with each other over the wire in their
native tongue, to the great enjoyment of the
and themselves
Year: 1877




General Nelson A. Miles, who has of late
taken General Clusters place as an Indian
| fighter, is native of Massachusetts, and has
had remarkable career of advancement in
the army He was born in one of the upper
| towns of Worcester county. The second
year of the war of the rebellion found him a
clerk in crockeryWare store in Boston. He
was but little more than twenty-one years of
age, and had had no military experience. 1t
was proposed to raise company in the city
of RoXbury for the regiment then being
formed for United States Senator Wilson, and
young Miles had an uncle who took consid-
cradle interest in its formation with the view
of making his nephew second lieutenant.
When the officers came to be chosen be had
some votes for First Lieutenant over another
member, who felt he had better right to
that distinction. The Captain sided with
this latter officer, and this made SO much bad
feeling that Lieutenant Miles left the com
pany to join the staff of one of the Generals
in the division. His advancement was aston
ishingly rapid from that time out, and be
had soon occasion to smile upon the petty
chickering's that put him in the way to it. He
was often in fights, and won distinction con-
stantly. At the battle of Charlottesville this
almost raw youth was thrown into position





most important portion of the line. He held
it with rare credit, but came out of the action
severely wounded. This made him not only
a General, but very distinguished soldier,
and attracted to him the attention Of the reg
ular army officers, who pronounced him to
be possessed of the best elements OF mill
tary commander General Miles had a repu-
tatiOn second to almost no man in the vOlun-
teer forces of the State when the war ended.
He was selected to take charge of Jefferson
Davis while the latter was the Governments
prisoner, which brought him into notice all
over the nation. A few years since he was
married at the West to relative of General
Sherman. Fortune seems TO favor him in
every respect He is a man of fine physical
frame and with an unusual endowment of
manly beauty, and if he is as successful in
fighting Indians as he has been in all his
other army experience, he is destined to be
their conqueror. There is probably no in
stance among Massachusetts soldiers where
man without influence to aid him has risen 50
high.


THE Confederate General, ]. E. B. Stuart,
was exceedingly fond of song and of that
exercise which Mr.. Dick Swiveller sportively
terms 1.-THE mazy' and even when Lieuten-
ant-General he was often seen riding at the
head of his column with soldier by his side,
picking the adventures of the ''Arkansaw
Traveller out of an old-fashioned banjo.