smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

CINNABAR DIsTRIcT. Altoona
Company last month produced $40 TASKS
ofquicksiiver, but owing to their having
run short of pan-iron, the production this
month will be small. The iron is now
In Reading and will be at the mine some-
time next week, when the retorts will
again be run to their full capacity.
Year: 1879

VERY NIcE.-The new stages on the
route from Weaverville to the Tower
House are the most com Portable vehicles
in which we ever rode. The road is in
good condition, stock in good order and
Drivers accommodating, making the trip
a very pleasant one.
Year: 1879

HOMESTEAD AND PREEMPTIoN.-
From Aaron Bell, Register of the U.
5. Land Office at Shasta, CAL, we have
received Circular containing new
requirements as to giving notice of in
tention to prove up Homestead and Pre-
emption claims. The following law in
relation thereto was approved March Sd,
1879:


Be it enacted, That before final proof
shall be submitted by any person claim
ing to enter agricultural lands under
the laws providing for preemption or
homestead entries, such person shall
file with the register of the proper land
office notice of his or her intention to
make such proof, stating therein the
description Of lands to be entered, and
the names of the witnesses by whom
the necessary facts will be established.


Upon the fling Of such notice, the
register shall publish Il notice, that
such application has been made once a
week for the period of thirty DAYS, in
newspaper to he by him designated as
published nearest to such land, and he
shall also post such notice in some con
Spicuous place in his office for the same
period. Such notice shall contain the
names of the witnesses rs stated in the
application. At the expiration of said
period of thirty days. the claimant shall
be entitled to make proof in the man
ner heretofore provided by law. The
Secretary of the Interior shall make all
necessary rules for giving effect to the
foregoing provis ions.
Year: 1879

THAT hydrant at the corner is nice
plaything as well as being useful. More
OF them along the street would be an inn
provement and assist greatly in keeping
down the dust and cooling the atmos-
phere. The Challenge" " also has the
fountain in running order.
Year: 1879

For Assessor A. II. Marshall of
Douglas City, makes announcement this
week that he is candidate for the office
of Assessor, subject to Endorsement by
the Republican County Convention. =
That Marshall will receive the unani-
nous vote in Convention is n foregono
conclusion, and he is entitled to and will
doubtless get handsome majority of the
votes on election day. The people of
Trinity cannot select more deserving or
better qualified gentleman for this i'm,
portant position.
Year: 1879

DEMOCRATIC PRMARIEs.-A typo
graphical error in advertisement last
week made it appear that the Democrats
ic Primary and Convention would occur
on the same day of the month. The
Primary will take place on Saturday,
June Dist, and the Convention be held
the following Wednesday, June 25th.
Year: 1879

New York, Jan. 27.-Various evil
dences are cited by the Commercial Bul-
letin to show that there can be no ques-
tion that the Industrial, net less than
the commercial situation, is steadily
improving hereabouts, and that the
outlook for the coming spring and sum-
mer, as regards employment for the
laboring classes, is more promising than
has been since the panic. The revival
of building enterprises under the COM
bined stimulating influences of cheap
money, cheap material, and low wages,
is also noticeable. Mature movements
Of that kind are announced as under
way in many of the great cities through
out the north and northwest. Most
OF the great manufacturing establish
ments, centering in and about New
York, are doing satisfactorily, and if
the scale of wages is down to the ante
war level, there is corresponding re-
duction in house rents, food, clothing,
and other necessaries of life. On the
whole the condition of the mechanical
and working classes at this moment is
better than it has been for years. They
have fairly turned the corner of the
hard times, and have every reason to
look forward to an improvement Of
their position. The more especially as
there are now no longer any strikes or
movements worth mentioning in any
part Of the country, while trade union
interference between employer and
employed has about ceased, and tho
communistic nonsense encouraged by
political demagogues previous to the
elections last autumn, has died away,
with the sober second thought of the
great body of the American people
which, as heretofore, is always right
and never wrong.


SlIoruon Vvina Anost,-r C,anne
Year: 1879

BEN HILL grew grandiloquent over
the southern war claim business in the
senate yesterday, and made several
large bids for the reputation of being
the boss loyal senator from the south.
When Ben first went to congress he
played with fire and got badly burned
several times. Since then he has acted
more cautiously, and of course makes a
bettar imnreaaion
Year: 1879

Dare to say "No," when you're tempted tc


drink,
Pause for moment, my boy, and think
Think of the wrecks upon life's ocean tossed
For answering Yes" with ut counting the


cost?


Think of the mother who bore you in pain.
Think of the tears that will fall like the rain
Think of her heart, and how cruel the blow
Think of her love, and at once answer No"
Think of her hopes that are drowned in the


bowl,
Think of the danger to body and soul;
Think of sad lives once pure as the snow,
Look at them now, and at once answer "No :"
Think of manhood with rum tainted breath,
Think how the glass leads to sorrow and


death,
Think of the homes that, now shadow ed


with woe,
Might have been heaven had the answer


been "No.n
Think of lone graves both unwept and un-


known,
Hiding fair hopes that were fair as your own,
Think of p oud forms now forever laid low,
That still might be here had they learned to


say "NOI'
Think of the demon that turks in the bowl,
Driving to ruin both body and soul,-
Think of all this as lite's journey you go,
And when you're assailed by the tempter,


say mo"
Year: 1879

The N. Y. Tribune says that
while pneumonia is scourging the
people of New York, the whole
Northern press gives doleful ac-
count of the ravages of diphtheria
and scarlet fever. The Philadelphia
Press says that the physicians are
unable to determine the cause of
these diseases, but concur in the
opinion that sewer gas, malarious
exhalations of various kinds, the
foul air of cellars forced into sleep
ing chambers by furnace flues, waht
of proper ventilation of apartments
all have something to do with the
development of these fatal com


plants. But they are not sufficient
of themselves to provoke their ex-
plosion. There is mystery con


nected with the origin of these NAL
aides that is yet to be solved. The
fact remains, however, that they are
rapidly propagated; in many cases
whole families being swept of. If
one of these diseases breaks out IL
a house where there are children it
is likely TO attack all, unless the
healthy are Immediately removed
from the premises. Physicians
have their own notions about the
contagiousness of diphtheria and
scarlet fever. 1t is nevertheless
true that every member of the fam
Year: 1879

Many of your patrons are bee
keepers, and Bookkeeping is like ev
cry other business-needs attention
at the right time. Without this
success is doubtful. We have had
several weeks of bard freezing
weather, end weak colonies that
have not been we'll cared for have
frozen out But if so, all is not lost.
The combs are still good. All dead
bees should be brushed off and the
combs kept dry for future use. Be
sides, they may contain honey. Ere
quently bees starve to death with
plenty of honey in the combs. Be-
ing few in number they dare not
break their cluster in extreme cold
weather, and if the freeze is protract-
ed so long that the honey is exhaust
ed from the comb they are cluster
ed upon, they starve. If they break
cluster they freeze. Hence weak col
onies should be united in the fall af-
ter brooding is over, or else they
should have proper protection, by
coafning them to middle of bottom
story and packing around them with
dry hay or straw or something to
absorb moisture, which if not thus
absorbed will freeze and prove in
furious to both bees and combs
Even in strong colonies, bees fire.
quently wander away from their
clusters and freeze. Dead bees be
come very offensive to the survivors
after the weather becomes damp and
the dead bees begin to decay. Bees
are nice housekeepers, and in good
weather viii! carry out their dead,
but in winter the warm spells are
generally too short for them to react
from their dormant state, hence it is
necessary for the owner to take a
warm day after each cold snap and
clean out the dead bees and trash,
and see if any of the colonies are
destitute of honey, so that he may
supply them fIom those which have
a surplus, thereby saving those
which would have ultimately starv
ed. Don't disturb your bees in cold
weather. But it is never wrong to
handle them whenever they can fly
briskly. The same rule is applica
bic in handling brood. However,
brood may be exposed in the shade
and away from animal heat too long
for safety. If YOU wish TO transfer
at any time when bees are not gath
ering honey you should draw from
stocks that have to spare, i. e., if the
stock you transfer has not enough
to last until it can gather.


j. B. BKAY.
Year: 1879

Courier-Journal: We do not hold
to the theory that universal educa-
ton, as the idea is now carried out,
Is a minister Of crime, or that the
higher. the flight of education in
the public schools the purer will be
the morals of the pupils. There is
a great deal of foolish talk in that
direction but not as much as there
used to be.


A good many Of our more
thoughtful educators and gentle
men interested in public education
have been figuring on results-ex
amining the fruit, so TO speak, OF
our school systems, and they have
expressed the belief that our pris
ons are filed with people who at
tended both public and private
schools, and subsequently, went TO
the dogs through vicious training;
that our schools do not exercise
the proper agency in preparing pu-
pills to succeed in life; that the
practical is eliminated; false views
of life are inculcated, and boys who
would make good artisans are in
hated with notions of self impor-
tance and neglect the trades for
which they are adapted, and wreck
their lives in unsuitable professions
or idleness. The Superintendent
of public instruction in Pennsylya-
MIA says in his recent report:


"For myself, i have long been
convinced that the matter Of in
struction in our elementary schools
is not as profitable as it might be
made. A considerable portion Of
the ordinary textbooks in geogra-
ply might be omitted without loss.
Tens OF thousands of children are
given lessons in arithmetic every
day that they cannot possibly un
and an immense amount
Of time Is thrown away in the at
tempt TO teach the principles Of alb
straet grammar in primary schools.
In general, the base Of the knowl-
edge impaired in our schools is not
broad enough: little children are
crammed with distractions, defini
tions, formulas and calculations
that they cannot be made TO com
prehend, and the whole work OF
teaching is thus rendered dull, me-
chanical and too often fruitless.-
And not only have we included in
our courses Of study much that
might well be omitted, but we have
omitted much that ought TO be in
Year: 1879

Persons who patronize papers
should pay for them promptly, fol
the pecuniary prospects of the press
have a peculiar power in pushing
forward public prosperity. If the
printer is paid promptly, and his
pocket purse kept plethoric by
prompt paying patrons, he puts his
pen to his paper in peace, his para
graphs are more pointed, he paints
his pictures of passing events in
more pleasing colors, and the peru
sal of his paper is a pleasure to the
people. Paste this piece of proven
bial philosophy in some place where
ali persons can perceive it.
Year: 1879

lily is liable to be attacked, and par


ticularly the junior members. Iso


lation is the only safe rule. There


is unfortunately no recognized safe


system of treatment. Hardly any


two physicians adopt the same


method, and homeopathy and alo


pathy at swords points respecting


medicaments. While it is difficult
to divine the right mode of cure, it


is evident that the purer the atmos-
phere we breathe, the less danger
there is of these diseases. Fresh


air has a wonderful influence in
purifying the blood and Invigorat-
ing the system. We cannot have
too much of it. Every room in our
dwellings should he ventilated in
the course of the day. The atmos-
phere of bed chambers becomes
polluted by the emanatIons of the
night, and that of the house is more
or less impregnated with malari
Gus influe.ces from the want of the
purifying currents of the external
air. There are houses in which
not breath of fresh air is permit
ted to enter during the cold season.
windows are padded and hermeti
calIy sealed up, beds are made up
as soon as vacated and never thrown
open and exposed to the suns rays
and the sanitary influence of the
winnowing winds. Day by day in
such dwellings the atmosphere be-
come worse and more impure. 1t
is not too much to say that they
who live in this way daily drink
poison from vitiated air into their
lungs. 1t is a notorious fact that
pei sons pre- disposed to consump
tion have been cured by repairing
to climates where they could pass
one halt of the twenty four hours
In the open TN Y. Times.
Year: 1879

Men and women tell It's almost daily
they would like to take the CITIZEN, but
they are too poor. Therefore we make
tins offer: Widows and destitute, home
less men with families, shall have 20 per
cent discount from the regular price if
they are really and truly hard pressed.
We make this offer in all sincerity with
no intention to offend, and we cordially
invite all such to avail themselves of it.
We are anxious to put the CITIZEN into
the hands of every family in Giles coun-
ty, and no one shall have an excuse if
we can possibly help it. If you haven't
got the money bring us something to
eat at the market price.
Year: 1879

We would like for some double
storied modern statesman to tell US
why it is that there are certain sea
sons when a politician can see a
horny handed son of toll clear
across the street, and at other sea
sons can not see him a foot and a
half away.
Year: 1879

The pencil ma rks you sea af0dbd thi
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scription Is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay up al once We
would take great pleasure In extending
credit to our friends and patrons. but
cash alone will Yay our exiRnspsS ana
weare forced to adhere to strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
aud appreciate the necessity OF such
course, and renew your su scription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


gS- We enter no new names on our
books without, the money Ia advance
Year: 1879

An old deacon went to a circus
anu took his grandchild, remarklng
TO every acquaintance he met that
the boy wanted to see the sacred
animals, and he couldn't find il in
his heart To refuse him. Arriving
at the tent, he cried to go home, and
the deacon spanked him to make
him 90 in.
Year: 1879

An Illinois chap shot a girl be-
cause she wouldn't marry him, and
it she had married him he would
probably have beaten her first and
shot her afterward. Girls, your on
ly safety in this country is to be
born bows.
Year: 1879

"Can a man belong to a brass
band and be Christian?" asks an
exchange. We see no impediment
in the way. But if he is a member
OF a brass band, and is given to
practicing on his cornet or trombone
at home, it is an utter impossibility
for the man living next door to be a
Chrisfian
Year: 1879

A Methodist and a Quaker hav
ing stopped at a public house
agreed TO sleep in the same bed
The Methodist knelt down and
prayed fervently, and confessed q
long catalogue Of sins. After he
rose the Quaker observed, Really,
friend, if thou art as bad as thou
sayest thou art l think / dare moi
sleep with thee"
Year: 1879

Last Tuesday night legislator of
Giles, now at home spending the re-
cess, retired to rest without taking
the precaution to lock his door. He
soon lapsed into dreamland and his
dreams took bent from the thoughts
uppermost in his mind when awake.
He thought he had a very important
bill up for action before the Solons.
Some of them, less astute, Tor per
haps bribed by bondholders, didn't
"see it in that light, and it was in
imminent danger of being kOugh
phlumoughXed, when he bethought
him to call to his and his colleague
from Giles. Right Justify he yelled
for DR.. Blank, and yelling he awak
ened himself and found it all a
dream. Then he got up and shook
himself and locked the door, and to
avoid repetition of the troublesome
dream he fixed his mind on his
sweetheart and breathed himself
away gently into land of love and
flowers and sweet prospects and sich
like, and awakened with the dawn
in happ!est mood. What was his
CONSERVATION to find that some thief
had entered his room and stolen his
boots while the door was unlocked
He acquits his colleague, whom he
was calling, from the offence, though
he will eye his feet with suspicion
when he meets him. A baretooted
legislator is bad enough, in all con-
science, but when his feet and his
Legislative office are both bootless, it
is too badi
Year: 1879

If sane man unnecessarily leaps
into the deep, is the Almighty under
any obligations to help him out?
Certainly not. For is it not written
Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy
God? Remember this, we thought
less christians, who plunge your
selves among the billows of tempta-
tion and then cry Lord deliver as
hereof. TIE prayer is behind time.
The petition. Lead us not into
temptation" presumes that we are
to keep as far from it as possible.
Year: 1879

There can be few separations
more painful than that which sisters,
who have lived together from infan-
cy, are called upon TO endure when
new ties divide them, and call for
the exercise of other duties. Even
% the woman who leaves the happy
home of her childhood, from the
free and unrestrained impulse Of a
new and Expressing feeling, there
will recur moments OF solitude and
thoughtfulness, when the heart
fondly returns to that loved spot
our first home, endemed by a thou
sand associations Of affection, and
he who loves his wife with tlIe most
lervor, will feel more securely The
strength Of her attachment 10 him
self in proportion as be discovers
in that heart the warmth OF mutual
affection, which cannot part from o
parent and sister without regret,
and who cannot recall, even in that
society which she has preferred %
every other, the memory Of their
tenderness without graceful tears.
Year: 1879

Companies are being organized to
heat cities by steam, a single set OF
generators furnishing steam for a
radius of half a mile or more. A
contemporary says the noise OF the
pipes on a cold night in a city thus
heated. would be equal to the thun-
der OF a heavy cannonade. 1t would
beat Macbeth in numbering sleep
Year: 1879

Look at that stick. 1t is straight.
Plunge one end of it into water; it
seems crooked or broken. Philoso-
ophy teaches us that this is owing to
the refraction of the rays of light
which proceed from that part under
the water So it is with the line of
Providence. 1t is straight. But
viewed in the history of the world it
appears to be zigzag This is at
tributable to the fact that the rays
that proceed from it are refracted by
wicked men and nations.
Year: 1879

The Pamela Star speaks for the
who-e country when it says that
"even If the appearance of the fever
tie waited Tor, certainly upon the
an announcement of the very first case
New Orleans will find herself hem
med in so closely that she will have
To eat her own bananas or let them
rot on her hands. No steamer from
that city will be allowed to land any
where, and railroad travel will be so
effectually closed that the machin-
cry of the different railroads termi-
mating there will rust from idleness.
The people who survived or escaped
the epidemic of last SUNNI er are ter
ribly in earnest in their determine
tlon TO keep it away from their To-
caliLies hereafter, and it has even
been predicted that railroads will be
torn up and bridges burned, if this
purpose can he accomplished by no
other means"
Year: 1879

If you desire a killing proof of
the impurity of air that has been
once breathed, hang up a canary
bird in a cage at the top of close
ly curtained bedstead, and if the bed
is occupied, the bird will be dead in
the morning.
Year: 1879

SUIT against plaintiffs tor recovery
for use of Chief Yum-Yum's horse
and damages for violence done a
loyal subjects affections in aliena-
ting the love of his haretn. On the
other hand it is possible that it may
be held that a man may have prop
erty in a hole, and that as manifest
destiny requires that he should be
possessed of a hole sooner or later
and hold it until Gabriel trombone
sounds the knell of time, it is right
and proper that courts shall assist
in rendering positive this natural
right.


30 1t goes. and our people await
breathle>sly to see if the legislature
won't disIncorporate Pulaski, re-
mand the county back tn a wilder
ness and repudI ate our corporeal be
ing-after they get through cutting
every body's salary down to zero ex-
cept their own
Year: 1879

Washington, June 13.-The republic
can senators held caucus, and the fact
was developed that there was consider
able opposition to the army bill, which
will manifest itself in the senate when
the bill comes up for action. A lead
ing republican senator from the west
says that he thinks an adjournment can
be had by the end of next week, and
that he is advised that the president
will not convene congress in extra ses-
sion Immediately if the judicial bill
fails to become a law, but will defer
such session until sometime in October,
up to which time the courts can run
without serious embarrassment.
Year: 1879




London, June 13.-The Times to-day
says: One of the main causes of the
rise in silver was the publication of a
letter to the under secretary of state
for India, giving the views of Lord
Odo Russell, British ambassador at
Berlin, IN regard to Germany's coinage
policy. The letter confirms the an
nouncement of the German govern
ment's determination not sell any more
silver at present. The German govern
ment has e1O, 900, 900 of silver on hand,
which will increase during the suspen-
sion of sales 1t is generally believed
by financial men in Germany that the
government is preparing to introduce
and adopt the double standard, as in
France. The Times further says, the
belief of the financial men of Germany
is hereby sufficient ground on which to
come to the conclusion that silver will
be remonetized forthwith. Asa whole,
however, the tendency Of the letter is
to show that the recovery in value OF
silver is quite possible; that Germany
will cease to sell till the price rises
again, is also very likely, for the loss so
far has been rather severe. She is be-
sides behind hand with her silver coin
age, quite apart from any question Of
double standard, and in the end may
not have much more to sell.


The production of silver, moreover,
has been far less in proportion to gold
than is popularity supposed. and its
consumption is greater than those who
advocate the adoption of bi-metalism
for England have allowed for. All
this fully justifes the opinion that the
depreciation of silver has been unduly
great; but it by no means follows that
an immediate and greater rise is to
take place.


The lesson taught by the recent ex-
periments with India council drafts
should not be lightly forgotten. While
these drafts are kept small in amount,
silver advances in price; but the mo-
ment they increase to anything like the
level of requirements of the Indian
government, the market gives way.
This state of things must, to some ex-
tent, continue whatever the intentions
of the government may be, and what.
ever the relative production of gold, as
long as the amount of the India coun-
ell demand to meet home payments
nearly equals or exceeds what the ex-
cess of the export trade Of India can
cover. 1t cannot be too often reiter-
ated that therein lies the true difficulty
of the silver question.