smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

Ere we again greet our readers the
election day--'.that great day for which
all other (political) days we're made
will have come and gone. This is the
last opportunity we will have Of address
ing the readers of the TRAHscRIPr upon
the election issues, and We make this
our last appeal to every man Who ba-
the true interest Of his State. bis eoun-
try and bis race, at heart, to lay aside
his business and to give bis time aud
attention for that one day to his State.
We eDtreat you. friends Of order and
honest government, to let no consider
alton, either Of . public or private char
acter, keep you from the polls if you
are at all able to get there. Too much
is at stake to permit Of idleness or indif-
ference. The man who will fold his arms
and refuse to take part 10 an election
where The results are Of SO manifest i'm.
portance as they are in this campaign
is unworthy to possess the elective
franchise. Politics are 80 often de-
graded and so frequently made use Of
by unworthy men in mere mercenary
sense for the sake Of the spoils Of Office
that the better class Of citizens in toe
many instances become disgnsted. and
refuse to take part in the elections
This ought not SO to be. The very fact
Of the existence Of that condition o
things ought to be sufficient to stir VI
the better citizens to more active worl
to defeat the Vaccinations of those evi
minded men.


Il was maxim Of Washington tba
The Office should seek the man, not th'
man the Office. In the present cam
paign the people Of Delaware have
most excellent opportunity to express
their approval or disapproval Of tha
maxim. On the one hand tho Demo
Gratis present to them candidate Wit
never sought the Office nor asked 70
the nomination for it at the hands 0
his party. He was selected as the free
untrammeled choice Of the party, .
their candidate. When bis name va
first used, it was used without bis CON
sent; without bis knowledge, and th
nominstion was given him BY fair. hon
ess mesps. This cannot be rsid Of hi
competitor. To the contrary It -


AL known fact thst DR.. Isaac Jum]
Year: 1874

We read of one Ohio farm which sew
eral years since was wet, ,unproductive, and
agueish. Twenty bushels Of inferior corn
to the acre, and from five to ten bushels
of wheat, was all that could be raised.
Sheep would die about as fast as they
could be produced. Now it is under
drained with five miles of tile and yields
eighty bushels of good sound corn and
from twenty to forty bushels Of superior
wheat On grass lands the difference
in quantity is not great, bu> the quail
ty has been vastly improved. Chills
and fever have disappeared, and sheep
raising is profitable. So satisfactory
have been the results Of tile draining
on this estate that the owners in tend to
bury at least ten miles more. of the
crockexy.'
Year: 1874

= County Of GOOdhue, SS Probate Court.


In the matter of the last will and testament Of
Elmra c. Lowater, deceased.


written instrument purporting to be the last will
of Red Wing in the county Of Goodhue and State Of
Minnesota, deceased having been delivered into this
Court and this Court having jurisdiction Of the


is hereby ordered that Saturday. the oath day Of
said day, at the Office Of the Judge of Probate the
city of Red Wing in said county of Goodhue, be and
the same hereby is appointed the time and place for
hearing the proof Of the said last will and testament
at which time and place, the heirs of said DECEASED
and all persons interested in the said last will and
testament may, and they hereby are required to be
and appear and show cause if any there be- why the
said instrument should not be proven and allowed
and for the last will and testament Of said deceased
and the same duly admitted to Probate.


Dated and signed this 9th day of September, A. D.
1874. ROBT. DEAKIN,


4w51 Judge of Probate.
Year: 1874

In Glasgow, Scotland, lead, and in
London sewage are the delectable in
gredients found in bottled soda water.
It is now matter of interest to lovers
of soda water in this country to know
just what poison forms its base or gives
it snap.
Year: 1874

According to the editor Of the Re-
publican no one has right to express
his opinion on the Third Term Policy
except the next National Republican
Convention. We know that it was gen.
orally reported that the present admin
istration was buying up the politicians,
who propose to run that Convention,
but we did not suppose that the matter
had gone so far that one Of its hired
puppets would be brazen enough to an
nounce that free-speech and free-expres-
sion of opinions by the people were to
be "sawed off short"
Year: 1874

"Our text was W. S. Grow, but our
aim was at a class. ."-Goodhue Go. Re-
publican.


Why didn't you tell us something
that we didn't know? We fully un-
derstood at whom you were shooting
last week when we penned the follow
ing, which was put in type and then
crowded out by matter of more value
than anything that could be said about
you.


What ails the Republican, is their su-
preme sel6shncss having been sup
ported by public Office and public print
ing, they have yet given the public a
paper so poor that few cared to read it,
and their list Of subscribers has run
down to but a little if any over four
hundred, little over a hundred and fif.
ty of these going outside of the Red
Wing Office, and failing to recognize the
true reason of this decrease in patron
age, they have laid it up against the
Patrons Of Husbanlry, and now that
they have chance as they seem to
think, to safely make an attack upon
a prominent member of the Order they
hasten to flood him with all the nasty
venom that had been accumulating in
their poisoned imaginations against the
Order itself: But we think that they
have made grave mistake. Mr.. Grow
is highly esteemed and honored as an
earnest Patron, and Patrons recognize
that he has the same right as each of
them has to act as he may choose on
political questions, the Grange not be-
ing political machine, and we imagine
that this terrible thunderbolt hurled by
these modern Jupiters at poor unoffend-
ing Grow will only return like the far
famed Boomerang to knock their own
brains out.
Year: 1874

AMENDING THE POTTER LAW
The sentiment of the Wisconsin
Journals shows growing disposi-
tion among the people OF that State
to require the next Legislature to
remove whatever unjust provisions
are demonstrated in the Potter law.
Their attitude seems that Of gener-
ous conquerors. Having establish
cd their superiority over the corpor-
ations, they profess no desire to do
them injustice. Ample opportunity
will be afforded to make amends.
Carefully prepared comparative
statements have been kept since the
law went into operation, which will
show the exact results from the
same amount Of traffic for CORE
spending period. The passenger
results can be easily ascertained,
and will demonstrate whether the
reduction Of l cent per mile will
have the effect TO increase travel
sufficiently to overcome the decrease
in the compensation. The intorma-
ion thus obtained is desired by the
Railroad Commissioners for the ben
eft and guidance of the next Legis-
lalure Chicnq0 Tribune
Year: 1874

daring foot upon the laws of Nature,
which are the laws of God. |


We know the deep sea holds many
secrets such as these, which never will
be fathomed till the end of time; and,
knowing this, is it the part of manhood
or of womanhood to sitin judgment on
that which the Creator has folded in
mystery? For what power, save the
far-reaching Prescience of Almighty
God. can lay bare the complex motives
of the human heart! Is it more than
justice to demand that judgment be sus-
pended until the sea gives up its dead,
and the dead give up their awful
secrets


I have no sympathy with that apoth-
eosis Of vice which would, in any case,
exalt the wanton into a heorine; but,
all sincerity, is it not time that she
received more Of charity and less of
censure, more pity and less of scorn,
from those who can afford to be mag
unanimous! For what, among earth s
meanest creatures, receives less charity
and more censure than she? And
surely, nothing in heaven or earth
stands more in need Of pity, or less re-
ceives it. THEo. CARPENTER.
Year: 1874

Four little pictures, that was all,
70 tell his ended life sssssss...
To me lonely woman still


Who would have been his wife.
Out of his mothers feeble hand


Itook them one BY one,
/ heard his story, short and sad,


Told by the faithful sun.
''This one'-she rubbed it with her
My eyes can scarcely see,
'Twas taken when he was boy,


"A dear good boy to mer'
A round and rosy little face.


With awkward, frightened stare,
And sturdy, nervouSschool boy hand,
Clutched tightly on chair.
And this was in his college days,


When he went courting you"
1pulled the veil across my face,


And near the picture drew.
l saw the eager hazel eyes.


The careless wind tossed hair,
The very knotting of the tie


loved to see him wear.
When browner shone these locks of
That folded grimmer gray,
When life no dim December knew,


Only the merry May
I laid it with silent sigh,


Softly upon her knee,
Remembering how my stubborn pride
Had parted him from me.
How bitter pain had followed fast,


Repentance all toe late
For him, in time, a loveless wife;
For me lonely fate!
''And this" she said, twas the best of


ALL"


But-part Of it was gone;
II rubbed her figure of the plate-
could not keep it on"
A bearded mouth. a stefrer face


That used to smile on me-,
A stalwart figure fnll of grace


Beside this could see.
The outlines of a woman's dress,
Along the mimic floor;
A blot, large as woman's hand,
The shoulder plainly bore.
A blotch that cam. SO near the heart
What pen could better tell
The tale Of faithless queen uncrownedY
What picture half 10 well9
"And this was taken at Fair Oaks.
They say. It came to me
With gun and cap and hasty lines
Scrawled lying on his knee.''
Over the soldiers solemn flce.
That time shall touch no more,
Nor sunshine find to add line,
Nor shadow darken more.
Hooked, so I might not forget
Then whispered low prayer,
II might unto glory come,
That should know him there.
Year: 1874

This vas AL No clue to tell If there
were any ON earth to whom she had
been dear. No hast word for those who
might, perhaps, wait patiently to learn
her fate, but wait in vain, until painful
apprehension lsubsided into calm ,des.
pair. No explanation Of the motives Of
that Iashness which thus had set lis
Year: 1874

SENATOR CARL SCHURZ seems to be in a
fair way of experiencing the traditional in
gratitude of republics. According to the
best political judgment and the opinions of
leading editors, German and English, in
Missouri and other States, there is very
little prospect that he will be reelected to
the Senate by the Democracy, and he GER
tainly cannot hope for that honor from the
Republicans. Liberal Republicanism is q
tradition in Missouri, and between the two
old organizations he falls to the ground.
This is sad. Mr.. Schurz cannot and does
not expect any favor at the hands of the
Republican party. While he was with it
and of it he was rewarded as no man was
rewarded. 1t made him a general in its
armies, minister in its administration, and,
what is higher and nobler than either, an
editor in its direction and management.
But Mr.. Schurz saw fit to betray it, and to
pun on the livery of the Democracy. 1t is
really painful to think that the organization
TO serve which he abandoned his old friends
and associations should now abandon and
give him the cold shoulder. 1t only goes
TO show that the Democracy, as a party,
hates our naturslized citizens, and espe-
cially those of German descent II Mr..
Schurz had been born in Dublin, instead Of
on the Rhine, the opposition would not
dare to treat him in this cold and cruel
manner.
Year: 1874

needed uniform quiet Cannot some steady,
fixed policy be inaugursted that viii COM
mand the confidence of the people to such
an extent that no hand shaiL dare to aim
the blow to strike 1t dovnf Great exigsn-
ciss should deyelope genius equal 70 me
occasion Of their 6 yvefpment and control
Amidst the present complaints Of scarcity
Of currency. the New York money and
business circulars quote "a prostration Of
business and 9 plethora of money, How
are the two statements, to be recon-
ciled except by the lamentable
acknowledgment of general want
of confidence in the ability or dispo-
sition of Congress to deal fairly and sue
cessfully with the currency question: The
uncertainty which hangs over the future
discoursges all extensive business opera
tions. If the country could be assured that
Congress would do nothing-would suffer
the tax, currency and finance laws to re-
main undisturbed during the remaining
three years of the present Administration,
it would just now be worth millions But
if, in lieu Of this, Congress would simply
provide for the accumulation of gold in the
Treasury for the redemption of the green
backs, and authorize the establishment of
national bank of redemption in New York,
which should also act as q clearing house
for the country banks; providing also for
the repeal of the limit to national bank
issues to take effect simultaneously with the
redemption of the legal-tender notes in coin,
1t would do far better.


Such Legislation would Immediately re-
store confidence at the money centres and
cause capital to flow into business channels.
1t would tend to appreciate Government
and individual and corporate credit both at
home and abroad. 1t would revive legiti-
mate business enterprises and check wild
speculations.


The New York banks now hold nearly
fifty-six millions of legal tenders as reserves
and twenty seven millions in specie, making
q total reserve of some eighty-three mil
lions. The Bank of England, with basis
of one hundred millions in gold, redeems
its entire circulation. If inordinate de-
mands are made upon its coin reserve, that
demand and the tendency to overtrade is at
once checked, and coin is made to flow back
into the vaults of the bank by raising the
rates of interest. What the Bank of Eng
land is to Great Britain q national bank of
redemption and clearances in New York
would be to the United States. Is there
not wisdom enough in Congress to give us
a system which shall he stable, effective and
selfregulating
Year: 1874

Out of the experience of the past ten
years the statesmen of the United States
should be able to make an accurate diagnosis
of the financial situation, and prescribe a
fixed policy to remedy the evils from which
the country suffers. Emerging at that
period from an exhaustive and exciting
war in condition of embarrassment, the
reaction induced a state of general debility,
accompanied by intermittent financial fe-
vers, which have kept our agricultural,
mechanical, manufacturing and CONNER
cial industries PROSTATE, with occasional
spasmodic reyivals, to the present time.
After some years of doubt and uncertainty
upon the subject - our national doctors
finally agreed, upon consultation, that the
system should be toned up by placing our
funded Indebtedness upon gold basis and
a sure though gradual approach to a coin
currency. Gen. Grant Immediately upon
the close of the war set the example of re-
trenchment and economy in the reduction
of the army and the cancellation of con-
tracts for munitiors and supplies, followed
by a judicious disposition of the immense
aggregations on hand, in order to relieve the
Treasury. By various economies in the
administration ofthe Government and vigi-
lance in the collection of the revenues, tax
ntion was reduced many hundred millions
on the one hand, and the public debt ID
minished many more on the other.
Through these combined influences and
the prompt payment of the interest upon
the bonds of the nation, its credit appre.
ciated to par with that of the great Euro
pcan Powers. and even its irredeemable
paper promises, issued in time of war to aid
in efecting exchanges, appreciated to q
point that rendered their redemption in
coin q matter of imminent expectation and
probability.


The terrible fright which the patient re-
ceived last September caused relapse of
the intermittent fevers, and quacks having
been called in, are proposing their patent
remedies, the effect of which, if taken, will
pretty certainly be fearful collapse of the
entire system. 1t is now found that the
relapse was only . result Of the fright, that
the system is rapidly recovering from ii,
and that all It now needs to preserve its
equilibrium is an assurance that no recur-
renee of the alarm shall be precipitated.
Perfect freedom from excitement is what
the patient now requires, together with
guaranty that no further disturbance of the
circulation shall occur. That is all.


Now, is there no great financial mind
equal to this occasioni Cannot some bill
he framed, or cannot some bill already
framed be passed, which win insure this
Year: 1874

TIE managers of the Centennial have
determined that the work shall go on, that
the centenary of our independence as a
milton must be commemorated by an inter
national celebration. This resolution is
worthy of Pennsylvania and of Philadel-
phia. 1t will be a disgrace to the whole
country if the Keystone State is allowed
to bear the whole brunt Of the battle
Year: 1874

Mr. MoRRILL's resolution in regard to
the Washington monument contains good
idea-that instead of completing the shaft,
the material in the present unfinished por-
ton of the work shall be used in the con-
struction of an arch. tits to be hoped that
the association will consent to the PROPOSE
ton if Congress shall agree to it. To allow
the anniversary of '76 to come and go
with this monument uncompleted would be
q dishnnnr tn the whole cnnnfrr
Year: 1874

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THE friends of Senator Ramsey are urging
him TO be a candidate for reelection to the Sen
ate. The St. Paul Press In an article on the
subject refers to him as follows "The Press
has twice supported Alexander Ramsey for the
United States Senate, not simply because its
editor liked the man, but because knowing
him well, his robust practical abilities, his
Saving common sense his sleepless devotion
to the public interests, his broad and sagacious
views Of public affairs, his remarkable efficiency
in the achievement of practical ends, his sturdy
contempt of all the shams and snowy glitter
with which smaller men disguise their general
uselessness-we have believed him to be the
most useful Senator whom Minnesota could
send to Washington to look after and advance
the great material interests Of the State. The
result has justified our expectations. It ls not
too much to say that no Senator in that body
is nearly as successful in securing the passage
of measures for the benefit of his constituents
or of such as emanate from the important CON-
mittee of which he stands at the head as Alex
ander Ramsey. We do not now believe that
Minnesota could put any man In his place 30
capable of effective service to the State and
the country" Those who have watched Mr..
Ramsey's course in Congress will indorse all
that the Press has said Of him. He is one Of
the best and safest men In the Senate, and has
earned the high reputation he enjoys for
honesty and integrity. Minnesota will make
mistake If she fails to re-eiact him.


TIE Ohio State Journal makes good point:
''1t is little singular that the men selected by
the President no sooner leave the public service
than they are discovered to be men of the
highest order of talent, though they have never
good word from any independent journal
30 long as they remain In the public service.
This reflection occurs to us in connection with
q special editorial notice of General Horace
Porter, which we find in Fridays Tribune.
Porter was spoken of as "a dapper West Pointer,
with the slightest possible qualification for any
work of civil character while serving as the
Presidents private secretary. He left that for
more profitable service some time since. Last
Thursday night there was q banquet by the
New York Chamber of Commerce, where some
the most eminent men Of New York addressed
the assemblageon on select topics, in carefully
prepared (and written) speeches. Among
others, Porter spoke. His first speech was
such hit that he received the unique compli-
ment of being called out for second speech,
both delivered off-hand." The New York
Chamber of Commerce is not the first audi
enes that Horace Porter captured in one Of his
Year: 1874

The POSTMASTER GENERAL AND THE Ar
ToRSRYs-The Postmaster General has not is-
sued any order debarripg attorneys or claim
agents from practising before the Post Office
department. He has, however, given verbal
that when claim is presented by An attorney
or claim agent for the party directly interested
IL shall be referred TO him TO decide whether or
not an attorney is necessary In the adjustment of
the case. III in bis opinion the matter can ha
speedily and satisfactorily arranged without the
intervention OF an attorney he will direct that
the latter be not recognized, but that business
ne transacted with the interested parties direct.
III on investigation he finds that the agency of
an attorney would expedite business and be ad-
vshtageoas 10 the claimant and not detrimental
10 the interests Of the government he will per


MIL such agent or attorney to act. While II ia
rot bis intention TO exclude such ATTORNEYS as


are pIactising legitimate business before the
department he is determined not To tolerate En-
intervention or third party when such inter-
yention Is in his opinion wholly unnecessary.
Year: 1874

The SPECIAL STAMPS Third Assistant
Postmaster General Barber has gone TO New
York to make arrangements for the issuing of
the special stamps to be used in the prepayment
IF newspapers and periodicals after January
ISt next,
Year: 1874

THE NEW CHICAGO CUSTOM HoUsE.-The
Postmaster General, the Secretary OF the
Treasury and Attorney General have approved
of the plan for the west font of the new custom
EOuse at Chicago, as submitted bv the Super
v.sing Architect Of the Treasury. This will
complete the entire frontage of the proposed
building.
Year: 1874

THE RATE OF INTEREST FOR MONEY is always an
important subject TO both borrower and lender An
able and suggestive essay this topic by PrOl. t..
T. Elliott of the Treasury Department read st the
Portland Scientific Meeting, Is reported fully IN
TRIBUNE LECTURE EXTRA No 10. Price 10 cents


Address The TRIBUNE. New-YoTk.
Year: 1874

The whole scheme Of the cOnspiratOrs
is too silly and contemplate for the Re
publican party to bite at, and the legis-
lature, which will meet on the third
Tuesday of this month, will inaugurate
General Ames without paying any at
tention to the howl of Powers. Moth
ing short of this will satisfy the great
majority of the people Of the State, and
as the legislature represents the will OF
the people, the work will be done swiftly
and effectually.
Year: 1874

In the seventh resolution the Demo
cratic convention went upon its knees to
the prejudice against color and the
hatred of negroes. The bill which pass
ed the senate making provision for the
equal rights of negroes in the public
schools, supported by general taxation,
colleges, churches, hotels, railroads,
steamboats,, theaters and graveyards sup
ported at public expense, was made the
occasion for special attack upon Sena-
tor Pratt and myself. 1t will be remem-
bered that the same men who passed
this resolution were the apologists of
slavery and to the very last did every
thing in it's defense, except to fight
They were opposed to its abolition, re-
sisted the civil rights of the negro at
every step, and declared that to confer
upon him the right of suffrage would be
the dishonor and destruction of the Re-
| public. Beaten at every point, they
would still exclude him from the bless
ing of education the equal privileges of
| travel or a place of refreshment and rest
on his journey, or of honorable burial
when dead. They would even exclude
him from the privilege of worshipping
God in company with white people; and
this, too, by white men, some of whom
seldom enter the doors of church.





UNREAsoNABLENEss OF PREJUDICE.
There is something very remarkable in
the operation of this prejudice against