smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

Ii any one would like to know what manner
OF men were those who fought under Osman
Pasha they can gain an idea of them from an
anecdote, that my friend told me- A very
steep rock was to be stormed. 1t rose to the
height OF 25O feet, and was crowned by Rus
sian batteries. A Turkish colonel desirous to
set an example to his men, scrambled up first
by the help Of occasional projections in the
rock, and roots and weeds. When he reached
the top he found himself entirely alone. The
Their guns were pointed at his breast, when
their general gave the order not to fire,
hastened up to the Turkish colonel, and called
ont to him: Colonel, be gone at once; you
see you are alone" The brave man said
nothing. He stood still a moment, gazing at
his enemies; then turned and went back as
safely as he came. All the Russian soldiers
began to clap their hands and cheer him.
Year: 1878

CAMBRIDGE Mass. March 25.-Arrangements
Base Ball Club to open the base ball season on
May L. in a game with the famous Live Oaks Of
Lynn. On May II Harvard and Princeton are
and Harvard is to take place on May Is. The
latter game will be played at New Haven. and
the former at Princeton. On May 25 the return
game between Yale College and Harvard will
be played at New Haven
Year: 1878

LONDON March 25.-In London and the prov
inces yesterday the weather was fine until
about half-past O'Clock in the afternoon. when
an almost universal change occurred Short
snow. followed each other in quick succession
from nearly opposite points of the compass


The storm was of very unusual character
and was as brief as it was sudden.
Year: 1878

New YORK, March 25-It Is said that the New
York Cuban patrio's are anxious to send an
other expedition to the island, and many men
the field Some Of these are armed. Letters In
sympathy with the movement have been re-
ceived here from many sections of the Union
Year: 1878

IT begins to he apparent that certain
parties not remotely connected with the Sc
cret Service Division OF the Treasury De-
parlmcnt are attempting TO make personal
capital out of the alleged transaction by
which the Hot springs clause was omitted
from the last civil sundry bill. Their mys-
FERROUS and wOuld-bc-kHowing whispers re-
Yardimg this affair have become rather
mOnntOnuus in the newspaper Offices
Of Washington, and correspondents who
have placed any credence in them will
do well to remember that all the iniOrma-
tiOn on this subject in the possession of the
prrsOns in question comes from an eX-cOn'
Wet. If they had any reliable information
1t would be their duty to keep 1t secret un-
til the regular law officers OF the Govern
mrnt have time and opportunity to begin
proceedings in the courts Meanwhile this
meddlesome manner of slanderins innocent
men by nnuendo and indirect suspicion de.
serves rcprobation, II Chief BROOKS would
overhaul His corps and eradicate from it one
or two newspaper ay-cops' he would
simply do himself and the service an act Of
| Justice.
Year: 1878

II occurs to us that the question of Mr..
CoNKLING's successor has been precipitated
upon the pending political campaign with
needless if not indecent haste. First secure
the House of Assembly with Republican
majority which will truly represent public
sentiment in the selection of United States
senator, and then all should and must be
satisfied We sympathizc somewhatstrongly
with the New York Graphic in the follow
ing line of remark on this question;


We, like the bulk Of the people of the State,
Year: 1878

THAT professed Republican who is be-
trayed into any position where his influence
is diverted from the achievement of a GER
tain triumph in the State of New York, or
anywhere else in the pending Congressional
elections, commits great error, the respon-
sibility of which he canot escape. This is a
year when Republican fidelity should be
fully indicated.
Year: 1878

A GENTLEMAN just arrived in this city
from South Carolina states that the Demo-
cratic orators there are winning over hosts
of colored voters by telling them that when
the South gets control of the Government
she will make the United States pay for the
liberated slaves, when the money will be
equally divided between the slave and his
old master The question was thus tersely
presented by well-known Charleston law
yer to colored audience at Camden: Each
"of you represent S000-you would have
brought that sum in 1850. You were
freed without our consent, and now, If
"you will vote the Democratic ticket
"and thus aid us to get control of the
Government, we will make the infamous
Yankees pay your full value, when we will
" give you half Of the money. There stands
old Uncle jim he has vile and eight
" children. That family was worth $1,000,
which those Yankees will have to pay me
for, and will give Uncle Jim half OF the
money. Then he will be independent, and
"wili see that the forty acres dnd a mule will
come from lhs old owners and not from
tho hypocritical Yankees. Yes, my
friends, vote the Democratic ticket, and
under the leadership of HAMPTON we will
wrest money enough from the North TO
take care of us without work during the
residue of our lives
Year: 1878

CAPTAIN WILSON J. VANCE Appoint
ment Clerk of the Treasury Department,
has been solicited to accept the candidacy
for the Republican nomination for Congress
in the second West Virginia district. If
nominated he will at once resign his pres
ent office aud enter upon the campaign
without delay. He did not lose his citizen
ship in West Virginia during his recent
journalistic venture in Ohio, and is there
fore qualified in every way for the Office.
Although young man, he has had wide
and varied experience in public life, and is
forcible public speaker. In fact, he en-
joys an enviable reputation as a campaigner,
won by the success of his efforts on the
hustings in different parts Of the country
since the close of the war. The good people
of the second district would find in him q
faithful and efficient Representative, for lie
is well known and popular in Washington
among all classes with whom, in the inter
ests of his constituents, he would come in
official contact. "BEN" MARTIN cannot
hold a candle to him in this regard.
Year: 1878

" All the same a hundred years hence |"
DO you really think soP 1t may be all the
same to you, perhaps, though even that is by
no means certain; but this thing that you
do to-day may have fruit that will work veal
or woe when a century has rolled away IL
is not natural to consider ones unborn great
greatgrandchildreh very much Most of us
think, If we do not say, After US the del
uge.' But whether we care, or do not care,
we may cause those greatgreat-grandchi
dren many tears, or much Joy, by something
that we do or even say to-day. The sins of
the fathers are visited upon the children
through the generations, and so also for
their fathers virtues are the children re-
warded. Life is made of little strands
braided together. Shall we be sure that
the one that is taken up to-day is joined to
no other You choose between Esther and
Helen, and marry one of them. Assuredly
you should have the right of choice, but you
cannot say it will be all the same hundred
years hence. Even the same people will
not be in the world, and therefore the same
deeds will not be done. Besides, what one
does in his own day sometimes influences
all the age. A helping-hand held out when
it was needed to the discouraged inventor,
has sometimes given the world inventions
for which the centuries are thankful. Is it
nothing to us now that our forefathers
signed the Declaration of Independence
When the deeds that are done affect nations
we can understand that it will not be the
same hundred years hence. We do not
understand quite so well that our own char
acters and our own lives are yet influenced
even by the thoughts hidden in the souls of
our progenitors, or that the shadows of any
wicked deed we do may lie across the path
of some innocent man or woman hundred
years hence, when we are ashes.-Seiected.
Year: 1878

Speaking of games and the relations which
they sustain to the home circle, reminds us
that great many games of skill and chance
are being played in New England homes
to-day which were not known by the Young
folks-or, if known, We're forbidden by pa
rents-ten years ago. Chess, for instance,
within the last ten years has become we
might almost say, popular; and it speaks
well for people when such an intellectual
exercise can become so much in vogue. For
it takes brains to play chess even moder-
ately well, and none but clever and thought
full people would ever like it. Checkers are
not perhaps more universal, but they are
more fashionable. They have fought their
way into high life; and whereas they once
found their friends in the village tavern and
in the farmers Kitchen they are now ad-
Initted into the parlors of the wealthy and
refined. The games played with historical
cards are also numerous aud many of them
pleasantly exciting. And you find them in
almost every household. Now all this is
very pleasant and hopeful. 1t reveals to
the thinker the fact that home life is more
vivacious and happy than it used to be I;
that the long dull evenings are being en-
livened with sprightly and stimulating
amusements, and that the home circle is
charged with attractions which it once sadly
lacked. These games are helping to make
the homes of the country happier, helping
to make the children more contented with
their homes, and in doing this they are help
lug to make the country more intelligent
and more virtuous. BY wise parents these
games are looked upon as God-sends. They
help solve the problem of home amusements
and recreation; aud this, as all parents
know, is one of the gravest problems they
have to solve. Parents, make your home as
happy as you possibly can for your children
and their mates. Fill them with fun and
frolic and the cheerfulness of spirited
social life. Play these games with your
children yourselves, and thus share their
joys with them; and feed your happiness
on the spectacle of theirs. A great many
homes are like the frame of harp that
stands without strings. In form and out
line they suggest music; but no melody
rises from the empty spaces; and thus it
happens that home is unattractive, dreary
aud dull. Let us hope that this introduc-
ton of pleasant games-which try both the
wit and patience of the children, and of the
older ones, too, for that matter-may be-
come the fashion of the time until every
home in the land shall be perfectly furnished
with these accessories of profit and pleasure.
For the children's sake, let the reformation
go on, until every child shall have, in his
fathers house, be it humble or costly, such
appliances and helps for his entertainment
that he shall find his joy under his fathers
roof and in his fathers presence.


"Ione home, sweet sweet home;


Be II ever 50 humble, there Is place like home"
Year: 1878

MURPHY says "If young ladies would
treat their brothers as well as they do other
girls brothers, they would be more apt to
stay at home evenings"


WHEN a man and his wife are out walk
ing, aud see a love of bonnet " in a show
window, they are both of one mind She
wants to buy it, and he wants to go by
it, too.


A FAsHIoNABLY-DREssED woman entered
drug store the other day, and informed
the clerk that her husband had overloaded
his stomach and that she desired to get an
epidemic to relieve him.


MEETING a commercial traveller who was
pretty full of old Robinson county, Gubbins
remarked to his wife, flight as drum,
amt he 2" "Worse'n that" she answered,
"he's tight as drummer"


II a man is too fluent with his promises
to pay, you may as well put down the loan to
in talking about his debt that he has none
left to earn the money to pay it.


A LETTER recently produced in a breach
of-promise suit as evidence contained the
following sentence " Dearest love- swal-
lowed the postage stamp on your letter, be-
cause knew your lips had touched it."


"IN my airly days" remarked the old
gentleman as he shoyeled coal into the school
house bin, they didn't use coal to keep us
school young g'uns warm, kin tell YOU"
What did they use ?" asked boy near by.
A sad, far-away look seemed to pass over the
old mans face as he quietly responded,
Birch-my boy-birch."


You can get on with man of hasty tenn
per by keeping out of his way when he is
rufiied. His mania may be dangerous, but
it is spasmodc, aud in the intervals of
lucidity he may be kind and friendly. But
a sullen man had better be let alone He
was taken i'll when he was born, and he
won't get over it till he dies.


AN ignorant fellow, seeing several persons
reading with spectacles, went to buy pair
to enable him TO read. He tried several
aud told the maker they would not answer,
as he could not read with them. Can you
read at all 7" asked the other "No," says
he; "if could, do you think | would be
such fool as to buy spectacles p
Year: 1878

The votes of the depositors in the Cincin-
natl Savings Society Bank were being
counted to-day by the tellers appointed for
that purpose.


They will finish their work this evening.
Up to this time they are unable to say
whe her the Society is authorized to resume
business or not.


A great number of votes by proxy were
put in yesterday, and those votes being
mostly, if not all, i'll favor of resuming, the
question is still left in doubt. The vote is
too close and the result will not be known
until tomorrow.
Year: 1878

sis to see great man at the
helm of the Government and those who
desire to see the National credit upheld
against reputation are for him. Those
who regard the rights of property as sacred
are for him, because they believe the Gov
ernment needs strong man to protect the
rights of property against the assaults OF
Communists. Gen. Grant will be sustained
by the conservative sentiment of the coun-
try at the next election and be elected"
Year: 1878

DANIEL WEBSTER was one of the
ablest lawyers, and one of the most scan-
dalous drinkers, gamblers andspendthrifts
that ever occupied high and honorable
position in the country. No American in
his day was more deserving of the laconic
description given of Bacon. cratic and
brilliant at times when sober, yet he went
to his grave, as statesman, miserable
failure and did not discover he erred in
warning against truth and the Democratic
policy, until his political career was about
to close. The admirers of John NJ. Clay.
ton should read what that profound and
able Delawarean said of Webster after
the latter had abandoned Clay and the
Wing party to stand by Tyler and di-
rect his Cabinet. Webster left little to
commend him, and that little is found in
two or three patriotic oratons moved by
the passions of the hour. His career as
financial lawyer end with his feed
Attorneyship of the U. S. Bank and wal
against Jackson, in which he was utterly
beaten, and in defiance thereof the sub
treasury measures carried, which have
been approved of and used by both par
ties until this day.
Year: 1878

THERE are great many learned men
who do not seem TO have yet found out
that the paper issues of this country dur
ing the ten years succeeding 1862 inflated
Europe as we'll as our own country and
in many of the governments there the
subsiding flood has been felt as it has
been here.
Year: 1878

SENATOR SAULsBURY's journal bristles
all over with Indignation at the GAZETTE
for its notice of the big pile of bricks the
Senator's energy while on the committee
of che Senate brought to Dover town
Very well, the GAZETTE can afford to
laugh at trifies and puff the Senator's
good acts too, if he will not get out OF
patience.
Year: 1878

IN consequence of the high tariff
about s3oo,oso,OOo worth of farm produce
Will rot on the hands of our farmers in
Che next year that might have readily
been sold to Europe or exchanged at a
high profit for other articles of prime ne
cessity. What help these millions would
have been to trade in this country we
leave the mechanic and laborng man to
imagine.
Year: 1878

II DID not look very nice in the Friends
to throw Nathan Hilles out of oftheirSociety
after they discovered he was poor and so
bad that no society would have him. He
Is one Of the men that thought himself
made for office, if office was not made for
him
Year: 1878

OFFICES were made for men and wo-
men too; Notwithstanding the oft repeat-
cd assertions to the contrary by those
who seem to cultivate and indulge the
tea that they We're made for office.
Year: 1878

A PREVALENT VICE.-Snrely pro


family is one of the gIaring vices Of
the day, and nowhere is it exercised
more freely than in a country vii.
iage. In cities, protane swearing is
not common on the streets. The in.
dividual in such communities ac.
quire a respect for the rights Of his
neighbors, and among multitudes he
has to be cautious in regard to the
prejudces Of all. Any such act as
obtrusive swearing in the street
would soon arouse the attention Of
the policeman as the representative
and agent of public sentiment. In
many country villages a different
state Of things seems to prevail. Pro-
family is not to be regarded as y
thing to be ashamed OF, but sort of
manly accomplishment. In the bar.
room and the corner grocery the air
is blue with strange oaths flung out,
not in anger or by way of eXecrstion
but merely to strengthen, adorn and
emphasize discourse. An expletive
is the rural Americans great figure
of rhetoric. 1t serves to describe a
girls beauty, to estimate horses
speed, or to measure the yield Of a
wheat field. 1t is the climax Of in


vective against an enemy, the chief
argument in a discussion, the point
of every witticism. Two men cannot
meet in the street without adding to
each others health choice specimens
of profanity. Plenty Of decent peo
pie passing by must feel shocked
but they are powerless to expires,
their Indignation, Tor profanity is got
to be a country habit. This vice OF
indiscriminate swearing, setting aside
it's indecency, tends to corrupt the
use of language and destroy its capa
biities for expressing any strong
emotion. A bad habit, nrighbor;
master it ere you become it's slave.
Year: 1878

During the past few months more
than one million dollars have been
raised in New York to pay of church
debts. This fact is either indicative
of better times or of All improve
ment in religious sentiment.
Year: 1878

A French physician holds that bread
made OF sea water is far more wholesome
than that which is made from fresh or
spring water, He proves that it contains
a valuable and invigorating tonic.


When the poet sang of something
that was strong without hands," he
probably referred to butter.


The Texas bull is the king Of
beasts. One of them gored lion.
ess to death the other day.
Year: 1878

deals with the ordinary mass Of people,
and not with the exceptional few who
offer themselves up as martyrs, and as
sert that among all the wives of the city
white or black, good or bad, Ignorant
or refned-not one has forsaken hus-
band attacked by the fever; in word,
that the women of Memphis rose to a
high level of heroism in the hour of an
overwhelming evil. 1t has been freely
said of the sex throughout the country
that they haYe within the past few years
exhibited certain frivolity and extrava-
gance, a carelessness of the pressure of
the times, a disposition to forget the part
of helpmeet to man and assume the role
of social idol, an inclination to resign
the privilege of being the light of sim
gle household for the sake of shining as
the star of fashionable company. Was
it merely an error of the imagination on
the part of the cynics who made this
criticism taat the divorce suits seemed
multiplying in our courts, that scandal
cases appeared to be growing so common
that the matrimonial knot seemed to be
considered as moose to be slipped for
convenience, not tie that only death
could loosen! However these things
may be, this tribute from Memphis
brings revelation of the true woman
hood of the country that makes mere
prose out of Scott's well-worn lines:


40 womani in our hours of ease,


Uncertain, coy and hard to please,


And variable as the shade


By the light quivering aspen made;


When pain and anguish wiring the brow


ministering angel thOum
Year: 1878

Memphis AUdldnche OF the 10Th
says: There is something in the air
that tells us that the climax has
been reached. While it is general
opinion among the majority of our
citizens that nothing but black
frost can save US. the "old man. of
the 4VaEanehe has sure premonition
that the backbone Of the greatest
plague in all history has been bro
ken and that the end is near at hand.
There are many pious souls praying
for that end throughout this broad
land. Not only those who have
friends and relatives standing In the
deadly breach. but those who have
no ties of kindred here but the feel
ing of common brotherhood of man
TO man that makes all the world
akin. They are sending up their
heartfelt prayers to heaven that the
Great Destroyer's hand may be
stayed. and that the few that may
still live to mourn the departed.
Year: 1878

GUIDE ME- IN THE PATTI OF


RIGHT.
Father, all my soul goes out


In prayer of trust to thee
Still the longing and the doubt


Which do now abide in me.
Weak my strongest efforts are,


Vainly seek for the light
That for me doth shine afar


Guide me in the path of right.
Guide me, Father, lest 1 stray


Far from thoughts of heaven and thee
Keep me in the narrow way,


However rough that way may be.
What care though feet may bleed,
If at last gain the light
Unto which the path doth lead?
Guide me in the path of right.
Father, ever be my guide


Then, whate'er my troubles be,
Peace will still with me abide,
Clearly my way will see.
Be thou as the cloud by day,
As the flaming fire by night
Ever pointing out the way


OF the Christians path of right.
Father, how my spirit thrills
AS / speak thy hallowed name !
1 can bear the myriad ills
That beset my earthly frame
I can put the tempter's wiles
And his every snare to flight,
If the Father on me smiles,
Guiding me In paths of right.
Year: 1878

HIS AFFIANCED.


MARYsvnLE, ONO, Sept. 14.-Our
people-young and old-were shocked
on last Friday evening to hear that Lou.
Grossenback had taken poison, and was
dead, at the residence of 81. J. King,
Esq. The circumstances surrounding
his death are very touching. He was
to have been married about the 1st of
August to Miss Dora King, one Of the
most highly respected young ladies of
our town, but a few days before the
time for the marriage, and while they
were making preparations for the event,
Miss King died very suddenly, and Lou.
was so affected by her death that he
was almost, if not completely crazy for
several days, and, though he has never
been himself since, it was thought that
ne was much better, and getting along
well, and he has been staying in his
drug store for some time On Friday
afternoon he went to the house of Mr..
King, and told Mrs. King that he had a
headache, and wanted to go up stairs
and lie down on Dora's bed He did so,
and in very short time Mrs. King
went up to the room and found him
dead.


He left letter at his room in the ho-
tel, where he boarded, stating that he
had intended to try to drown his sor-
row by drinking, but that would not be
showing respect for the one he so dear.
ly loved, and so he adopted this course
to end his sorrow at once. He directed
his remains to be buried by the side of
Miss King, and also left directions for
erecting monument at his grave and
at that of Miss King.


Large numbers of our people called
at the residence of Mr.. King to behold
the remains of J. l., Grossenback, a
young man of promise, who came into
our midst some three years ago stran-
ger, but who, by his courteous manner
and strict attention to business, won a
large circle of friends, who sadly mourn
his untimely death.