smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

WAshINGToN, July 5.-During con-
versstIon to-day between the President
and western Senator, incidental allu.
sion was made by the latter TO the
speeches delivered yesterday by Messrs.
Chamberlain and Blaine, which, the
President SAID he had not yet read, but
mad only heard something OF their re.
marks, especially IN condemnation OF
his southern policy. lie said he had the
highest respect Tor the gentlemen, and
as tsr as he knew the personal
relations between him and them
were of very friendly character.
A: all events he entertained the most
kindly sentiment Whilst he claimed
tor himself tree utteraucc OF public opin-
ion, he certainly could not object t. such
course on their part. Their ideas Of
his public duty were different from Ms
own, but in that be did not COM
plain. He had scted from a sense
Of duty in order to accomplish
complete restoration in the South, and
mad done so from the best lights which
were afforded, and the best judgment he
could command, after full view of the
situation, and with an earnest desire TO
produce satisfactory result. De would
not quarrel with those VINO questioned
the soundncss of his judgment or the
hanesty of his motives. He was willing
to leave TO time the vindicaton of his
course
Year: 1877

CONCORD, July 5.-In the House this
morning the following resolution was
adopted:


Reso!red, That the revenue of the
National Government shoald be used for
An efficient, creditsble and economical
administration, and tor the payment OF
ali honest and equitable debts due to
citizens, and that the surplus be eXclu-
sIyrly and sscrediy set aside and devoted
20 the liquidation OF the public debt, and
mat the National Government should
not undertake any new obligation nor
!end Its credit tor the iurthersuce ot any
speculative scheme under the guise of
internal improvements that may be
made for the advantage of any particular
.gcalIty or co rporation.
Year: 1877

not be maintained, nothing in the wooden
goods market to warrant over 4Oc being
paid in the country. We hear that
great dissatisfaction has been expressed
by the careless manner IN which many
buyers have acted in not getting the
proper deductions on s!l the heavy and
Understandable wools-this is matter
that needs the closest care of buyers. We
OuOte:
Year: 1877

St. Luis republican: Why do not the medi-
ums settle this Presidential business. 1t really
seems as though the spirit of Washington and
the rest of the Presidents might sit as Return
ing Board and send up message which would
be settler to somebody. u
Year: 1877


The Republic is the house that
Sam built.


The Ballot-This is the malt that lay
in the house that Sam built.


The Intelligent Contraband-This is
the mouse that liked the malt that
lay in the house that Sam built.
The Bulldozer- is the cat that
made an assault on the sable mouse
that liked the malt that lay in the
house that Sam built.


The Returning Board-This is the dog
that was fed by the State that made
the cat hop up on the gate, the quar-
relsome cat that made an assault on
the ebon mouse that gobbled the malt
that lay in the house that Sam. built.
The Democratic Party-This is the cow
whose sharp horns rowelled that Gre
ole dog till he rose and howled, that
dutiful dog that got in huff and
that drove to the peak of the gable
ruff that sputtering cat whose prin-
cipal fault was chasing the mouse
that nibbled the malt that lay in the
house that Sam built.


The Democratic Office-Seeker-This is
the maid that sat on harrow and
tried to milk the COW that was far
row, that didn't know what she was
at when she tossed the dog that wor-
ried the cat that hastened over the
fence to vault to catch the mouse that
nibbled the malt that lay in the house
that Sam built.


House of Representatives is the
priest with the ugly mug that gave
the maid an encouraging hug in try
ing to milk the COW that appears to
have run dry now some twenty years,
that tossed the dog till it lost its breath
that frightened the cat almost to
death, the Kuklux cat whose princi-
pal fault was teasing the mouse that
nibbled the malt that lay in the house
that Sam built.


The Senate-This is the cop that put
the priest in cave of gloom because
he kissed the maid with the milking
pail who tugs at the promising COW
with the sterile dugs that tossed the
dog till he yelped "kiyil'' that chased
whenever she fingered nigh the furi-
Gus cat that made the assault on the
timid mouse that liked the malt that
lay in the house that Sam built.
TIE Electoral Commission-This is the
Constitutional law that puts its puis-
SAINT and ponderous paw on the Off
GERS arm that caught the priest that
kissed the maid that "milked'' the
beast that tossed the dog till it al
mostceased to worrythe cat thatmade
an assault on the freckled mouse that
liked the malt that lay in the house
that Sam built.


Cronin-This is the man with the stall
wart nose that over the land like a
beacon glows, that lights his path
wherever he goes with pillar of fire
for friends and foes, and glare like
agleaming bonfire throws to the far
off realm where "Gable" grows, that
shines on the priests and maiden's
woes, on the farrow COW who for
Office lows, on the dog that delights
to discompose the querulous cat at
her meal of crows, who when she
couldn't get any Of those just arched
her back and made an assault on the
musky mouse that liked the malt that
lay in the house that Sam built.
Year: 1877

TIE PRESIDENT ALSO ABANDoNs THE
PACKARD UsURPATIoN.-It is said that
the Presidents decision and that of his
Cabinet, that it was not expedient to IN
terfere in Louisiana to support the Pack
ard usulpation, reached at special meet
Ing on Sunday, is learned to be Just the
reverse Of what the President had at one
time resolved to do, which was the recog-
milton OF Packard and his Legislature as
the lawful government Of Louisiana and
the dispersion OF the Democratic Govern
OF and Legislature. But on being in
formed that Congress was investigating
the condition Of affairs in Louisiana. and
that if he interfered now he would there
by reverse his decision in the Arkansas
case, ne came TO the conclusion 10 let
Packard, Kellogg and company severely
alone.
Year: 1877

Everything in Florida goes on well.
Her electoral vote will, in the end, be
counted for Tilden. We have never
doubted it. The crime Of Radicahsm in
that State was low and dirty, sort OF
petty larceny business, in comparison
with the colossal burglary in Louisiana
but the exposure Of it has been progres
sing surely though quietly World
Year: 1877

Is is not likely that any one will ask
for commission to complete the Cool
Spring Reservoir unless the City Council
authorises them nor is it likely that the
present Legislature would be any more
willing to interfere with our local legis-
lation for any other purpose than they
were several years ago.
Year: 1877

Elsewhere we mention the arrival Of
the first stage from Deadwood, and
mention the reception that was given
the stage on its arrival at Deadwood.
We there state that this is the only line
running Concord coaches into the Black
Hills. And this is true. Others run
light wagons covered but this line alone
runs the coaches. They have twenty.
three of those elegant coaches, and SIX
ty-fve first class teams now on the road
in the stage business. In addition this
company has one hundred mule teams
and one hundred yoke ofoxen engaged
in freighting between Bismarck and the
Hills. A direct route from Bismarck
to the Hills has been located and i'm.
proved under authority of the territory,
and comfortable stations have been
built at the crossing of numerous
streams as shown elsewhere.
Year: 1877

The Brainerd Branch will certainly be
constructed this season and as evidence
Of its good faith the company has deposi-
ted the fifteen thousand dollars to be for
feited if they do not proceed to business
required by the law declaring the road
and It's franchises forfeited to the state.
Year: 1877

. The extra session of Congress having
been called to meet October 18th, instead
of in June new difficulties are being dis
covered and the cabinet is considering
the propriety of naming an earlier day.
No provision has been made for the army
after June 20.
Year: 1877

An impression prevails throughout the
west that the grasshopper has run his
course and VIII this season disappear as
the potato bugs last year disappeared.
The season has favored this view so tar.
Year: 1877

The officers of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children re-
Gently received information that the
schooner John Colby might be expected
in New York about April 4, and that on
board of her would be found young
boy sadly in need OF their care. 1t was
further learned that the child in ques-
ton, known as "Charlie," had been with
Murray's circus, which disbanded lately
at Key West after tour through the
West Indies. The little lad, only four
years old, had been used in gymnastic
performances by well-known acrobat
named "Dick" Rivers, and had been
When the circus disbanded the boy was
placed on the schooner John Colby,
which was to bring to New York car
go of circus machinery and horses, while
the remainder of the party came by
steamer. No reason seemed to be as
signed for this course. Although the
captain and crew were ordinarily hu
name, yet the boy, it is affirmed, must
have felt the lack of care.


The officers learned on Wednesday
that the schooner had arrived and was
lying at the dock at Seventy st.
They Immediately went there and were
told that the boy had been taken in
charge of a man named Leach to the
Bulls Head, hotel at Twenty fourth
st. and Third-ave. and Il great resort
for shOwmen. 1t was also stated that
the boy would start last night for
Western Illinois to join another travel
ing circus. Armed with a writ of habeas
corpus the officers hastened to the Bulls
Head and there found the little boy in
the hall and at once took him in charge.
The landlord made no objections when
he learned the authority of the officers I;
but not so with the man Leach. He
swore right royalty and was only quiet
ed by the presence of two policemen in
citizens's clothes. The boy was taken
to the Supreme Court, but the Judge
having left, the officers intrusted him to
Mrs. Webb at the Central Station. His
condition was pitiable. His little body
was covered with sores and bruises, the
result of beatings and neglected bites
from mosquitoes and vermin. Portions
of his clothing clung to his body and
were removed with difficulty. The child
is very bright, with fine eyes and golden
hair. He says Mr.. Leach is his father,
but that person appears to make no
such claim upon him.


The officers have been told that the
boy was trained for his performances at
the training school of one Eaton Stone
of Franklin, Essex County, \. j., and
that there the treatment was brutal.
The boys mouth was bandaged or filled
with sawdust, lest the cries wrung from
him by whippings apd blows should be
heard. 1t is also alleged that Rivers
was cruel in his treatment of the lad
while travelling in Cuba. The officers
say that if there were no other evidence
the condition of the child's body would
be enough to convict Rivers and Leach
Year: 1877

If all husbands loved their wives
with that sacred devotion which char
acterized the late heroic Mr.. Bliss,
there would have been less need of this
sweeping injunction of scripture, which
is as high as heaven, broad as earth,
and should be needed and practiced by
all who have entered the matrimonial
state. There is a striking analogy be-
tween the heavens and the spirits of
mortals. What married life does not
experience its cloud and sunshine, its
dark, stormy days? The causes are
varied, and sometimes unavoidable.
Many times it is found that the taste of
the husband widely differs from that of
his wife. Their early training has been
quite different, while nature, perhaps,
has widely diversified herself in the
pair. As the wife is the most precious
gift OF heaven to man, though she may
be the weaker of the two, is it not the
more necessary that her tastes be in
dulged, and she be fondly, dearly low
ed? But alas, how many forget their
privileges and their solemn obligations
How many husbands these cold, wintry
mornings allow their wives to rise in
the gray twilight, while the bowling
wind hurls the snow against the window
pane, and build the fire and get break
fast while they lie snoring in their
warm beds


have III mind, just now, husband, =,
who, when his good wife called him to
breakfast, came down stairs rubbing
his eyes and sat down to the meal
which his wife had prepared. "Wife,
why didn't you make my coffee strong
er? You have got too much pepper in
the hash Your mullins are not half
baked your pie is too sweet wife,
what in thunder have you been about
all the morning? | should think that
YOU were crazy; another morning if
you don't get a better breakfast than
this, | will make a row, now don't you
forget so saying, left for the tavern.
He didn't realize that his wife had all
the children to dress, wash, comb, and
hardly enough fuel TO get a meal. AT
noon. he comes home. ''Well, wife,
what kind of stuff do you call this for
nv dinner? Mush and mOlasses,-
confound it ! very little will you get
down my neck of this stuff. Why didn't
YOU cook regular dinner? | amt
going to stand such works much longer"
He ate few mouthfuls, buttOned up
his coat, took his hat, and as he slam
med the door, Hang such wife as
this !" and off he goes to the billiard
saloon. He little realized that his wife
has had to wash, sweep, mop, get the
baby to sleep, skim the milk, churn,
work the butter and do many other
things before dinner. Night comes,
and 50 does the fault-fnding husband.
well, wife, why amt supper ready
Take up these potatoes id quick or
will get coffin for you! Why amt
these potatoes done9 Where did you
Year: 1877

tinels is ever heard in front of his apart
ments at the capitol. He has been for
three-fourths of year in perfect hell
on earth. He was at the head of a
government that could do nothing but
exist in lifeless way, under the pro-
lection of federal bayonets. What sat-
isfaction is such a life to cultivated,
quiet, domestic man, natural scholar
and student, having little in common
with South Carolina politics and pis-
tolls? He has only sought to maintain
his position through the most devoted
loyalty to the principles of civil liberty
to all men. He is believer in equal
rights, and in the capacity of the negro
to take part in government, and his
policy is to teach them, and not drive
them with the shotgun and revolver.
He believes that, if he is overthrown,
free speech is at an end in South Caro-
lima, and one of the most important re-
suits of the war lost.
Year: 1877

The pathetic story of the Wisconsin
girl who was driven into insanity and
suicide by the drudgery of teaching a
district school has already been told in
this column. Her fate enlists the sym
pathies of The Milwaukee Sentinel.
Give years in district school," it says,
Twill break down the strongest woman
in the world, physically. Flowing, hod-
carrying, blacksmithing, buying and
selling, writing and preaching the
teaching" This is saying good deal.
A teacher is ordinarily employed in the
school-room about seven hours, and she
has vacations of at least ten weeks dur
ing the year. She has less physical
fatigue to endure than wOrkingwomen
in shops or factories her working time
is shorter; she has more rest. 1t was
not physical fatigue that unhinged the
mind of this delicate Wisconsin girl it
was the discipline, the worrying, the
nerve-grinding, the Oul-harrOwing it
was not WEAKNESS of body, but weari-
ness of soul that tortured and wore out
her life. Probably she did not have the
physical basis for any serious work i'll
life, and, at all events, she had not
learned the art of arranging her life out
of school hours so as to get relief from
hel drudgery and worriment. The
naughty boys and stupid girls were
never out of her head her exhausted
spirit worried over them in her dreams.
Happily, her sisters in this calling do
not teach school "a hours day; they
learn to forget for time the things
that annoy and fatigue them: and SO
they find health. and not death, in their
school-rooms indeed, they have better
health than other workingwomen.
Year: 1877

An Old Mans Story.


WHICH WILL BE WELL FOR BOYS TO READ


AND REMEMBER.


l never stole any thing but once.
About sixty-seven years ago, some of
us boys went bathing in the '.Branch"
west of Lyndon Corner. We left our
clothes in a clump of bushes then stand
ing in the bend of the Branch, not far
from where the culvert now crosses the
road. | came out of the water first,
and on the ground | saw a pistareen,
then quite plenty in this country, and
which passed for 20 cents. l put it in
my pocket. When the other boys came
out, one of them said he had lost 20
cents. We all began to look for it, but
finally gave up the search in despair.


That afternoon l spent the money.
l did not sleep that night, but wept
much. The. next morning the family
with whom l lived thought was home
sick, so they gave me basket of pota-
toes for nay mother and let me go home
and spend the day. Oh, how much l
wished had twenty cents that could
restore the money | had stolen! A few
years later | went into the tannery
building which stood near where the
silver dollar. There was no one in the
room, and took the bright money into
my hands. | then thought OF my suf-
ferings with the pistareen, and l at
once put it back upon the desk and left
the building.


When seventeen years old, | left Yer
mont for Boston. Pistareens were then
plenty; | had such Il dread of them
that it seemed as though half of Our
currency was pistareens. When twenty
one years old | returned to Lyndon. In
one of the stores | saw the very man
from whom | stole the money when we
were both boys. He greeted me cor
daily, and handed him half dollar
with merely the remark that it was
money | owed him. The next morning
he wanted me to tell him what it meant
as he had no recollection of any thing
due him from me. | then told him the
story of how | had stolen the piece o1
money when we were boys together
| would not have told him or any one
! else for any consideration before | haG
made restitution, but after | restored
the money | felt better to tell him
Stripes or imprisonment would have
been easy to bear to what | endured
from the purloining OF that pistareen.


| am now seVenty-One years old, anC
have often done, and still do, many
| things that are wrong; but stealing ha.
not been one of my sins. | would urg,
the boys to beware of the first offence
If had resisted the temptation Oh tha
day | went in bathing with the boys il
the Lyndon Branch, it would hav,
saved me years of pain. When the evi
one comes to tempt you, say as did ou
Saviour, ''Get thee behind me, satan.
a boy that does wrong cannot be happy
not even in this world, although man.
think they can.
Year: 1877

A doctors quarrel has been brought
to an end in Buffalo. About year and
a half ago Charles Bergman, a carpen-
ter, was run over by cart and serious
ly injured. He first sued the owner of
the cart for negligence and caTelessness
in causing his injuries, but was non
suited on the ground of his own con-
tributary negligence. He then sued
the physician who had been attending
him. In the complaint it was charged
that the patients sutferings had been
caused by malpractice, inasmuch as the
physician had not discovered that the
limb under treatment had been dislO-
Gated. Was it a dislOcation or a fTac-
ture ? That was the question at issue,
and there was a startling conflict of
medical testimony. The court finally
appointed IA commission of medical eX-
perts to examine the patient, and, as
they reported that it was a case of
fracture and not of dislOcation, the
plaintiff was again non-suited. One of
the physicians, who held stOutly to the
theory that there was dislOcation, at
once opened a series of articles on the
case i'll medical journal, and the doc
tors quarrel was renewed. Meanwhile
the unfortunate carpenter was suffering
in body and mind. He was unable to
walk his house was heavily mOrtgaged !;
he was poor; he had not paid his law
yers. Last Thursday he fastened a
piece of bed cord to an iron staple ir
the ceiling, and, tying the other end
around his neck, swung himself off into
the next world, where there will oe no
carts and neither fracture nor disloca-
ton. Before strangling himself he had
the forethought to commit his body to
the kind offices of the physicians whom
he had set at loggeIheads. The post
mortem examination showed cOnclu-
sively that there had been fracture
but no dislOcatiOn.
Year: 1877

Men are governed almost entirely by
the experiences of those who lived be-
fore them and we, as a general thing,
are unwilling to accept a truth without
experiencing it ourselves or receiving
it directly from one who has had ex-
perience.


The elevation in civilization which
this nation has now attained would
never have been reached without the
knowledge of the history of other ages.
What would we know about the natural
sciences without the records of dis
coveries made by ancient philosophers
We would obtain little more, if indeed
as much, knowledge of nature as they
have gained.


The Indians are fair example of
what we would be if we had been de-
prived of the study of history. They,
having no means of communication ex-
cept orally, have, therefore, no records
of their origin or of the achievements of
their ancestors, except in visionary
stories which have been handed down
from father to son and most of these,
even, have been made up by some old
chief or ''medicine man" who wished to
see how much he could make the others
believe. Their language, which has
only been preserved by memory, is now,
among most tribes, little better than
the sounds produced by animals and
hardly any two in the same tIibe speak
exactly alike. Before they were taught
to lead our books they had only vague
idea of any Deity, and he was wor-
shipped only through animals. But
what would our histories avail us if we
were to lay them aside as of no use
We are SO constituted that it requires
Il great eXertion on our OUR part tC
commit to memory that which Others
have provided for us. If we could Learn
every thing by being told once we could
lay aside our histories, aud in fact al
our school books tor the use only O
teachers and philosophers.


The exercise of the brain has as mucl
to do with augmenting its power us til,
exercise of the arms has to do with III
creaSimg their strength, and the study
of history is one of the very best meth
ods of discipline of the mind which W,
can use, while at the same time it fur
uishes us with as great stock of prac
teal knowledge as any other study.


The history contained i'll the Ole
Testament, has had greater intluenc,
upon mankind than any other litera
ture but, had it not been studied, i
would have been of no more use than
patent office report one hundred year
old.
Year: 1877

Potato BEETLEs.-In the expecta-
ton that the Colorado beetle will prove
very troublesome the coming year, the
Board of Agriculture gives the follow
ing advice on potato culture: Plant
early. Use new ground, or that not
occupied for potatoes last year. Select,
if possible, lots remote from that ordi-
narily chosen, and shielded 10y woods
in some measure. Make the soil as rich
us is safe for the quality, so as to OBJ
tain good crop from a small area.
Then fight the enemy by hand and hoe,
by Paris green and every other effective
agency that can be obtained. Professor
Riley says that the beetle has. at least,
twenty three enemies, not including
man. 1t ought to be exteIminated at
once. A new potato enemy has made
its appearance, known as the potato
moth. The caterpillar burrows in the
tuber and destroys it. 1t is not likely
the creature will be here at present.
Year: 1877

to test him by all the trying ways which
some purchasers know so well how to
practice upon the man who stands be-


hind the counter. She tried and failed,
which so reused her admiration for his
patience, that she set him up in busi-
ness for himself. There are many sim
liar stories told of the success of men
and women, and of boys and girls, who
have been genuinely polite. Courtesy
and patience help wonderfully to make
the wheels of our lives run smoothly.