smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878


three weeks old, scalded corn meal can
be sparingly mixed with the thick milk
and the onion tops chopped fine, and this
food will bring them along nicely.
Have very shallow basins or saucers to
put the drinking water or milk in, or else
the young turkeys will get wet and drag
gled and may thereby lose their lives.
In feeding, do not give more than the
turkeys will eat up clean, for it is detri-
mental to their health in many ways.
Feed them as much as they will eat up
clean. but no more, and they will always
have healthy appetites.
Year: 1878

the close study which he gave to the affairs
and situation of the city enabled him
TO bring to the Office of Mayor knowledge of
the wants of the.city such as no Mayor ever
Drought TO his first term of Office. Accepting
the ONCE after SIX months OF unrequited labor
IN behalf of the city, taking 1T against his own
inclinatlons and at sacrifice of large and
remuuerstive professional business, his past
years administration of the Office has enabled
MIN 10 mature aud carry out measures OF in-
caiculable benefit to the city. 1t has also
given him a mastery of city affairs, as we
have already SAIL such as no other citizen
possesses. 1t is of the greatest consequence to
have city government that Will perseyere 10
the present course Of retrenchment. Taxes
will be harder to bear next year than they
pays less income. Next year we must pay to
the state an additional tax of $4,000. Nor
will it end with next year, but this increased
tax Will be continued for some wears to come


In the face OF increased taxation by the state
Ior an INDEFINITE time, and our own burden
some debt and taxes. it is of the gravest con-
cern that the city should bave a Mayor who
understands the condition, the resources and
the needs of the city. There is no Que who, in
the present emergency, can be compared in
wishes and animated by a sense of duty TO the
city, he has been prevailed upon to stand for a
reelection With him for Mayor we may be
sure of having the best management of our
CITY affairs that it is possible for US to have.
his successful financial measures, SO happily
lnaugorated, will be continued; if there are
abuses which require correction, tbev will be
discovered and corrected. 1t is well known
that however excellent Mayor may be the
first year, he will be still bitter the second
year. The city never bad so good an oppor
tnnlty to benefit itself as by re-electing ar
official who has given it the highest example oi
disinterested and valuable official service, and
it is to be hoped that every citizen will disre
gard politics and cooperate to keep in Office an
able maE whose only aim has been to serve the
ctv II
Year: 1878

When the drums beat and the trumpets blare,
When banners haunt in the stormy air,
When at thought Of deeds that must soon De dohe
The hearts of thousand leapup as one
Who could not rush through the din ana smoke
The cannon's crash and the sabre stroke,
Scarce conscious of ebbing blood or breath,
With laugh for wounds and scott at death?
But when on the sullen breeze there comes
No thrill of trumpets nor throb of drums,
But only the wall of the sick laid low
Bv the treacherous blight OF aviewless Toe
Who, then, will upgird his loinS for fight
With the loathsome Pest in the poisoned nlgnt,
No martial music his pulse to start,
But the still small voice Of the ruthful heart!
Who then? Behold him. the calm, the brave,
On his billowy path to an alien grave!
Serene in the charm of his God like will,
The soldier is armored to save not Kill.
All! swiftly lie speeds on the mist oounu s'rean
This Pilgrim wrapped in his tender dream,
His vision of help for the sick laid low
By the evil spite of an ambushed foe.
All! swiftly he speeds mid the hollow boom
OF bells that are tolling to death and doom,
Till even the sounds OF the bells grow still
For the hands Of their ringers are lax and chill,
And the hum OF the mourners Is heard no more
On the misty slope and the vacant shore,
And the few frail creatures that greet him seem
But the ghosts of men by phantom stream.
Still the hero his own great soul enticed,
To suffer and toll in the name OF Christ.
He follows wherever his Lord has led,
To the famshed hut or the dying bed
He medicines softly the fevered pain;
To the starving he bringeth his golden gram;
And ever before him and ever above
Is the sheen of the unfurled wings of Love.
Meanwhile. in his distant home, are those
That his going has robbed Of their sweet repose.
The DAYS pass by them like leaden years;
The nights are bitter with tears and fears
Till, at last, by the lightning glamour sped, :,
Comes-a name and date, with the one word


"Deadr'


And the arms of the Smitten are lifted high
And the heavens are rent by an anguished cry!
Dead! dead Vain word for The wise to hear!
How false its echo on heart and ear
To earth and earth's he may close his eyes
But who dares tell US Martyr dies
And OF him just gone it were best to say
That in some charmed hour of night or day
Having given us all that his soul could give
Braue Hiram Benner began to liUe ,
Year: 1878

Young ladies of the present day
would be rather shocked if they were


obliged to endure the monotonous life


of tho girl of century ago. She was


taught to embroider, to sing, and to


dance the minute. She carried herself


upright, and sat habitually on the


edge of her chair, and never leaned


back. Whether she was modest at


heart or not, she assumed a modest


demeanor. She looked down when q


gentleman spoke to her, and was


shocked when they peeped under her


bonnet, which was something to do in


those days. She wore her dress very
low in the neck, and very short sleeves


because it was the fashion. She al


ways spoke respectfully to her elders,
and sat in a corner until the gentle-.
man who admired her sought her out.


When she danced. she gave the tips Of
her fingers to her partner, and when
he paid her compliments she blushed,
or at least hid her face behind her fan.
Sensibility' was her greatest charm.
Tears of sweet sensibility coursed
down her cheeks says an old fashion.
ed novel speaking of it's heroine. She
did not dream of accepting q suitor
without first consulting papa When
she was married she wept, and so did
all the bridesmaids. The girl of to-
day is taught to play the piano and to
dance the glide. She stares about her
and there is no occasion to peep under
her bonnet. AT present. she chokes
herself with scarfs and standing ruff
fles, and sometimes manages TO give
them anything but q modest effect.
She makes no secret of despising old
peoples and at party goes about hunt
ing her beaux. When she dances she
tells her partner to hold tighter, and
not let her fall, and she is rouged too
highly to blush. When she has an of
fer, she laughs, refuses it twice, and
accepts it the third time, but does not
take pa and ma into her confidence
until the last moment-aot until it IL
necessary for them to furnish . we'd
ding outfit. Look upon this picture,
and then upon that!
Year: 1878

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From His Speech to the Commercial Club.l


care not what mere politicians may
say, the true statesmanship of the.
country, the true sentiment and intui-
tive perceptions of the people of the
country will refuse to believe and re-
fuse to base the future legislation of
the country on the unreasoning asser-
tion that any portion of the people are
the enemies of the country. In his
heart of hearts the politician himself
does not believe it. You men of
Massachusetts, you Republicans or
Democrats do not believe it. We here
make profert of ourselves. Do we
present to You the appearance of
bloody minded enemies of our COM
mon country Where is the evidence
of that hostility, what hsve we done,
what have we said, what votes have
we cast, what revolutionary spirit
marked our course in the country's
peril one year ago to justify such an
imputation upon our fidelity to plight
ed faith or our fidelity to law or TO the
union of these States, or to the peace,
the honor and prosperity of this Gov
ernment of our ancestors? It is true
we have had a war. But that war was
in one sense a conflict of theories Of
Constitutional constructions. The con-
f1ict began in the halls of Congress, and
ended at Appomattox Court House.
1t was in another sense q war over
slavery. 1t began with the disappear
ance of that institution from your
midst, and ended with its extinction
on the American continent. What
more was there left for Us to quarrel
over? 1t is true that, like Betsey and
her husband, we were out but. like
that couple also, we quarreled and
made up, and agreed to quarrel no
more.


The question ought to be no longer
whether the circumstance of birth, of
education or conviction carried men to
the one side or the other during the
war (for we must respect convictions
which are strong enough to evoke the
spirit of self-sacrifice and are essential
to great characters), but the question
must be, in the future, who has prov.
EN- himself the greatest patriot by do
ing most for his whole country?
know that no human power can long
prevent this contamination. The peo-
pie will put the politicians out of place
who attempt it, There are laws of
human action as resistless as those of
the material world. You can no more
check the how of goodwill in this
country since the causes OF indiffer.
ence are gone, than you can prevent
the flow of your Merrimack on it's
way to the sea. Indeed, more easily
stop the river in its course; for, to do
this, you have only to build wall as
high as it's sOurce-as high az the
soow-drift on the White mountains;
while to prevent q people inhabiting
the same country, inheritors of the
same memories and rights and liber-
ties, with the same blood in their
veins, with common interests, com.
mon hopes and a common future,
from coming together as friends, you
must build barrier between them as
high as heaven itself, for the law
which compels is the edict of the God
of humanity. Oh no, my country
meni The causes that divided US are
gone, and gone forever. The interests
which now unite US will unite us for
ever.
Year: 1878

However much you may value and
criticise newspapers, no one can COM
pare in value to your county paper. In
it you can find what you can find no
where else. The city paper may give
you the general news-may give you
more of it, and may be of late date,
but in it you never get your home
news. The county paper is a local
history a history in which you are
specially interested, for you are one
of the actors. Without the county
paper your town and county has no
prominence-is not known to the out
side world. Your neighbors may
come and go-deaths, marriages and
other interesting local events may
happen, but unless you read your own
county paper you know nothing of
the changes around you. The city
paperis like a telescope. which tells
of other worlds i'll the far, dim dis
tance, but which tells you nothing OF
the world you inhabit. The county
paper on the contrary tells of your
own home, and makes you acquainted
with your neighbors.


Being limited in its circulation your
county paper needs your active sup
port. 1t needs kind word in it's be-
half, to those who do not take 1.-THE
editor needs your help in cleaning
items of interest-and above all the
county paper needs liberal support,
and prompt payment of just dues. A
paper can not be run on air. The pa
per maker must be paid-compositors
must have their weekly wages, and
strange as it may seem, even the edi-
tor can not we'll get along without the
usual supply of food and clothing.
such as other mortals need.


In conclusion then, as the preachers
say, to sum up the case-take your
county paper, read it, appreciate it at
its real worth,and promptly pay for it.
Year: 1878

We have known country society
which withered away to nothing un-
der the dry rot of gossip. Friendship
once as firm as granite. dissolved to
jelly, and then ran away to water, only
because of this love that promised a
future as enduring as heaven and as
stable as truth, evaporated into NOR
ming mist that turned to a days long
tears, only because of this; father
and son were set foot to foot with the
frey breath of anger that would new
er cool again between them and q
husband and his young wife. each
straiuing at the heated leash, which
in the beginning had been the golden
bondage of God blessed love, sat
mournfully by the grave where all
their love and all their joy lay buried,
and all because of this. I have seen
faith transformed to mean doubt, joy
give place to grim despair, and charity
take on itself the features of black
malevolence, because of the small
words of scandal, and the magic mat.
terings Of gossip. Great crimes work
wrongs and deeper tragedies of hn-
man life spring from the larger pas
sions; but wosful and most mournful
are the uncatalogued tragedies that
issue from gossip and detraction !;
most mournful the shipwreck often
made of noble natures and lovely
lives by the bitter winds and dead salt
waters Of SANDER. So easy to say,
yet 80 hard to disprove-throwing on
the innocent all the burden and strain
of demonstrating their innocence, and
punishing them as guilty if unable to
pluck out the stings they cannot see,
and to silence words they never hear.
Gossip and slander are the deadliest
and cruelest weapons man has ever
forged for his brothers heart.
Year: 1878

other ambitious chief, who was
the confidential scout Of Gen.
Howard in the war upon Joseph,
and with the examples before
him Of how much greater were
the rewards of hostility than
service to the whites, he organ
lied in hostility all the vaga-
bond tribes IN his region for the
purpose of achieving honors and
rewards for himself and his aids
greater than those conferred
upon his predecessors. SO long
as the Government continues
this unjust and suicidal policy of
rewarding organized pillage and
murder, so long will the Indians
maintain predatory bands and
the white settlers will be con-
stantly in peril. determination
OF the Indians is not necessary
but the summary and condign
punishment of criminals is nee :
essary to the preservation of
peace and the protection of per.
son in every community, and to
give immunity for crime to any
class IS to invite outrage. That
is just what the Government has
been doing for years, and it is
time for the victims to turn up
on the aggressors. The para
mount law Of selfdefence de-
mands the determination of the
privileged murderers.
Year: 1878

his official acts, he would have
saved himself from humiliation
and his friends from much NOR
titication. The same remarks
will apply to the present city
Board generally. Their defeat
at the late election was not at
tributable to a want of public
confidence in the ability and in
tegrity Of the men so much as
to their assumption Of superior
ity to public criticism, and that
they alone were capable OF man
aging the city government and
should be sole judges of their
own acts; and this absurd idea
is perpetuated by their waillng
over the result as a great public
calamity; when 1t Will ue al
mitted by all fair men that the
Board elect represents as much
wealth, business capacity and
personal integrity as the pres
ent incumbents. There is no
cause for personal differences, or
reason for factious opposition to
the government in the fact that
one of two contending parties
triumphed by a fairly expressed
majority vote. All who regard
the advancement Of our city as
paramount to personal differ
ences, will give loyal support
to the administration of city af-
fairs in all matters Of public in
terest. This we have ever done,
and this is all we ask from 9th
erS.
Year: 1878

| W Ill the eultOrS OF the tSiQild.
ard and Transcript, and other
parties who sneer at and malign
Gov. Ferry for entering a libel
suit against the publisher of a
newspaper for grossly malign-
ing his character, please inform
the public what other remedy
the law allows to any citizen
thus assailed? Is an individual
of otherwise respectable and
reputable standing to be accused
Of infamous crimes and held up
to public odium, and by public
sentiment denied any lawful re-
dress or means of vindication?
That is the license for the press
which the editors above alluded
to and their supporters demand.
1t was in the interest Of such
newspapers, and under the in
fuence Of such editors, that the
Legislature of this Territory has
failed to make any provision for
the punishment of one of the
most cowardly and malicious
crimes against personal rights;
and now the advocates and sup
porters of llcentious journalism
are making q united effort to in
fluence popular sentiment thro'
party and personal prejudice, to
deny to the party wronged and
outraged beyond endurance, the
redress guaranteed by civil law,
which can only be sought at his
own hazard and expense.


The STANDARD represents this
suit by Gov. Ferry as another
scheme OF an Artful Dodgcr to
make political capital The
Transcript represents the same
idea, thus: awe presume this
is the commencement Of the
campaign, but who it will elect
as delegate to stay at homc-is
the question" The suit COM
menced by Gov. Ferry being
personal, the defendant will have
all the latitude he may require
to justify himself by establish
ing the truth OF his charges. If
ne can substantiate his state
ments, the Governor can GER
talnly make no political or per
sonal capital out Of the suit.
The only way in which Gov.
Ferry can profit in any mann
by the case, is by clearly show
ing to disinterested jury tha
the charges are false and MI
cious. This measure of sim|
justice his assailants seek to
ny him. and give all their inf
ence to the false and malio


libeller. Is there any dc


citizen, any honest politi


who would desire to triu


over another by falsehood


is cer.ain that those VIII


trying to deprive the Co


of the only means by WI


can vindicate his ch


against false accusations,


When considering the r.s
an American cl.lZen, we Sh.
neve: stop to inquire to what
political party he belongs or
what are the party bearings of
the questions at issue. II Gov.
Ferry can make political capital
by vindlcating his character
against false and malicious
charges, in the name of justice
let him have the benefit of it;
and if a party cannot be sus-
tained without resorting to false
hood and the defamation of per-
sOnal character, common justice
demands that such party should
fail.


CHIEF JosEPH's SON.-OttO Kalo
soviet, a pure -blooded Nez Perce
Indian bov and son of the Indian
Year: 1878

The Paris intclligcncer, in discuss
ing an article from the Union and
American, which argues that just so
we have Texas and Pacific railroad
at all it makes no difference whether
Memphis is the terminus or not,
makes the following just and sensible
remarks;


While We would prefer the road, no
matter where it may cross, to no road at
all, yet we honestly think that so far as
Tennessee is concerned her interests are
with Memphis as the most eligible point
on the Mississippi river So far as Mem
phis is concerned 1t is a vital question with
her. Should the road cross at any other
point, either above or below Memphis,
the injury would be irreparable. So far
as the general interests Of Tennessee are
concerned they are with Memphis. That
city already has very extensive railroad
connection, as well as intimate COM
mercial relations with the balance o.
the State. Memphis cannot be ignored a.
the most important town between st
Louis and New Orleans, but the loss e
her in her invested capital would be ruin
Gus, not only to them, but the. whole Stat
would feel the loss. AS we have hereto
fore done, we shall earnestly advocate thu
claims Of Memphis as the eastern termi
nus Of the Texas Pacific road. And whil'
we shall urge upon our representatives II
congress the importance Of the Memphi
crossing, we think we are at the sam
time working for the best interest Of al
Tennessee
Year: 1878

COLONEL GEORGE H. BUTLER, ex-
husband of Rose Etynge, the actress,
nephew of Ben Butler, former consul
general to Egypt and late editor of the
Arcadian, a New York society paper,
is now undergoing a sentence of thirty
days in the Washington, D. c., work
house, which he was unable to pay in
the police court. This is the first
work he has done for years, and it is
possible that he will get sober in thirty
days. His mind is so affected that al
one time he was for months in the
insane asylum. During the past yeai
Butler has been of dissipated habits
and has been either in Jail, the hospita
or the workhouse One-half of thu
time. His relatives, friends and wifi
have done everything to induce him t
reform, but without success, and the!
have all abandoned him to his fate, no
one coming forward to pay the small
fine for the Offensc for which he wa
committed, which was that of beinl
drunk on the street and being va
grant.
Year: 1878

ST. hARY's DOMINICAN AcADRMY.-No con.
vent in the South Offers superior advantages to this for
me education of yoIng girls. Situated in one of the
mose healthy and beautiful sabusbs of the
forty five minutes ride OF Canal street enjoys at ones
the peace aud secluslon of the country and all the
advantages of the city As to the moral and mental
training and development of the children placed within
its wallis We everything that bs said in praise
of educational establishment whom we say that It ia
under the management of the Dominic IN Nuns An
other point Of especial Importance which we direct
attention is that the charges for board and tuition at
this Academy are only $500 per annum.
Year: 1878

The Strawberry Festival, which is to open
on Easter Sunday night for the benefit the Church
Of St. Vincent de Paul promises to be very ENJOYABLE
affair In our advertising columns we give the names
of number Of the ladies' who will have charge OF the
tab,es.
Year: 1878

The recent gathering of military
men 10 our city, and the recital of
"reminiscences of the war which give
occasion for the organization of the Army
of the Tennessee, recalls an incident in
the military experience of General Phil.
Sheridan which is not generally known,
and which has doubtless been forgotten
by many who were personally cognizant
by the contemplation of the glorious
achievements which have made the name
Of Sheridan loved and honored through
out the land. At the beginning of the
war he was captain in the regular army,
having graduated at West Point in 1853.
In the fall Of 1861, he was appointed
Quartsrmaster of the army of the South
west, under command of General Curtis,
with headquarters at Springfield Mis-.
souri,. An EXPEDITION to Arkansas was
organized, and General Curtis headed it
in person. The march OF the army was
harrassed by attacks from bushwhackers
and guerlllas, and there was great need
OF horses to meet and repulse these
classes of combatants. General Curtis
dispatched courier from Timber Hol-
lows to Sheridan with instructions to
forward Immediately all the horses he
could procure. II there was no money
on hand with which to purchase them,
to go out aud press them into the SER
vice. In those early days, the war was
not carried into Africa, 30 to speak. as in
later times, and Sheridan refused to run
any risk by such an irregular proceeding,
and sent back word to Curtis that be
would send no horses for which be had
not receipts, and, having no funds on
hand, he could not procure them. Cen
eral Curtis was furious at the presump-
ton OF the quartermaster, and ordered
the contumaolous officer to forward his
sword to the general and report to Gen
eral Hallsck in command of the depart
ment of st. Louis, under arrest. Sheri-
dan left Springfield in pursuance of these
orders, and that was the last heard of
him in the Army OF the Southwest. In
the Spring OF 1862 be appeared again as
colonel of the Second Michigan Cavalry,
after which time his progress was rapid
and brilliant, and known to the whole
country. How he got out of the trouble
with General Curtis the archives of the
War Department may be able to tell, but
1t ia not known to those who were asso-
ciated with him in Missouri. The stir
ring events Of that period left but little
time to look up the records of individu-
ais, however famous. The episode was
the making of Philip, though. Had
he not disobeyed orders, he might, and
would, in oil probability, have served
through the war, rising no higher than a
brigade or division quartermaster.