smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

The following notice wss circulated
through the city yesterday:


DEAR SIR-You are requested TO attend
a meeting at the rooms Of the Academy Of
Science this TUESDAY, evening, June 10th,
at 730 o'clock, to deliberate as to the best
course TO pursue relative 10 cur sch ol
bonds.


By request Of some of the old and new
members Of the SCHOOL BOARD.


In response, large number Of the most
prominent Taxpayers were present.


The general expression was one OF con-
demnation for the past course pursued by
the Board Of Education, in holding secret
meetings for the purpose Of defrauding the
people by the payment of the
school bonds at higher rate than
might otherwise have been effected.
The sense of the meeting also condemned
any secret action by any body Of officers
elected by the people, and justly too, for
when the people elect men to responsible pc
sitions, they have a right TO know what is
being done, and when 1t is deemed ''necessa
~" to have a meeting in secret, it is fair to
presume that something criminally wrong
10 the people is intended. We are glad in
deed TO know that the men whose interests
in the future, are centered in Leavenworth
County have had the good business fore
sight to take the bull by the horns and say
gentlemen if We elect you to an office Ct
trust We shall expect you to be trustTorthy
and in being go you will not need to hide
your sctions from US. 1t il our money you
are required to use and it lie our right to
know how You use H."


We predict that not one Of the new bonds
arranged by the board in executive" ses-
sion, and issued, will be paid, for the whole
was illegal and will be consid-
cred void in the courts.
Year: 1879




The sheriff of Wabsunsee county brought
to this city, yesterday, a German by the
name of Knrpp, who is charged with incest,
and who had his preliminary examination
at Alma and was bound over in the sum of
$1,000 to appear at the next regular term Of
court, and there being no place to secure him,
he was brought to this city for safe keeping.


Kurpp lives four miles nth of Alma,
where he has good fern. His family con-
sists of wife and two daughters, one Of
whom is sixteen and the other fourteen ears
of age. He was arrested on complaint of his
wife, who harged him with this mot beast
ly crime and says that their oldest dau SiIter
il the victim of his lust. The daughter cor
roborated her mothers statement nj the pre-
liminary, and made n very clear case


A Commonwealth representative visited the
man IN The al last evening, and In cOnver
satIon with him, he laid that the whole
charge was "A trunped up affair, and that IL
had originated a in a quarrel bet ~ cen his wife
and himself last winter. BIT ne Is very ner
vous about II and seems anxious To secure "A
change OF venue before his trial takes place,
Another circumstance which seems 10 con-
firm the suspicion under which he rests, is
that he does not want his oldest daughter to
appear at the tr al, but wants his younger
one TO be called as witness. Altogether
Eis case is a bad look NJ one, and should the
evidence confirm the suspicion, he should be
dealt with to the full extent of the law.
Year: 1879

Several articles and letters have been
printed in the German papers of late laud-
ing the efficacy Of the sting of the common


bee as cure for gout. Here is one of
the latest OF these communications, which
appeared only few days ago in the Augs-
burg Etening Gdaette: 81 was lying in
bed" says the writer, suffering from q
severe attack of gout, accompanied with
violent pains in my left foot, when
chanced TO read in newspaper an article
describing how gout may be cured by the
sting of bees. at once determined 10 try
the remedy, and soon 5on;rived a small
box by means of which a captured bee
could be applied to the afflicted part.
then let my foot be stung by three bees in
succession, each bee leaving his sting be
hind in my flesh. After a few minutes
these s,ings we're extracted and when the
pain caused By them had subsided, l found
that the gouty pain had also left me. Oa
the came day left my bed, aod on the
morrow was able 10 walk about For
some little time my foot was slightly
and experienced some burning
sensations; but in four or five days this left
me, and was completely recovered"
Year: 1879

The elections for the Legislature OF the
province of Ontario formerly Canada
Vest were held en- Thursday last. There
was a keen contest, resulting in the Mowat
administration being sustained by m:Ior-
ity of fifteen, in House of eighty-eigh.
members. This result il rather a surprise
for those who anticipated that the Reform
ministry at Toronto would follow that of
the same political complexion at Ottsws,
into the cold shades Of opposition, and to
some extent is significant of a reaction
against the protective policy which swept
the Country Last wear
Year: 1879

"The country home can be made very
pleasant by fixing up the yards and houses
more than they now are. Farmers should
be without debts, and then they can make
farm life very pleasant. The farmer should
read and study several hours every day. He
should have good IaboreTs. and have them
understand that his inte est is theirs. Plen-
ty of reading matter should be kept on hand
at all times. Instead of straight lines about
the place devote more space 10 landscape
gardening. The keeping of good stock will
always add To the peIsare Of farming.
Farmers shou d get out and interchange
Year: 1879

The disturbance at the Snngeriest picnic,
in the arsenal grove, at Fort Leaven-
worth, day before yesterday, will be regret
ted by every friend of order, bat the fact
mus. not be lost sight of that none Of the
Sengerfest people, either residents or non
resid .nts, had anything to do with it. So
far as the Germans were concerned, every
thing was conducted in the most orderly
and Iesceabie manner, and they are no
more responsible for the disgraceful con-
duct of scme of the visitors on the grounds
than the manaeers of a camp-meeting are
for the rows which frequently occur at
such places
Year: 1879

The counciimen and Commissioner cannot
comply with the decree Of the court unless
they voluntarily violate all The pledges
made to the people, and il they should vio-
late their pledge, it Is said this county
would not be a healthy place ior them to
live. They must rely wholly on the mercy
of the court.
Year: 1879

fess to foresee q swallow ny up Of Democra-
cy by the initiation movement, and they
prefer to witness defea: in Ohio at the
coming election rather than throw the issue
over to next year. With that lack of hsr-
mony amongst the leading candidates on
the ticket, and the square issue between
Greenbackism and Bourbon Democracy,
the opening of the contest preyages an easy
victory for Mr.. Foster. and consequent
insurance Of future Republican successes
fhaya
Year: 1879

including over one hundred delegates
from the county, and one and
all pledged the officers their
earnest and cordial support. resolving to
stand by them in any emergency. The csse'
will be decided to-day. We have nothing
TO add to our expressed opinion on this
matter. There is but one course to be pur-
sued. With all due respect to the Court,
and its dignity and authority, our officers
mus, firmly and persistently refuse to make
che levy
Year: 1879

There was but one expression in the peo.
ples meeting yesterday don't levy the tax.
The best men in the county were there.
That man who would dare to disobey the
expressed will of the people, and at the
same time violate his personal pledge CT
honor, must not only be brave man, but 4
bad man
Year: 1879

A couple of our boys procured carriage
last Friday week, and took couple of young
ladies To the picnic out on Ltoette Creek.
While there and every one enjoying them
seives seemingly, one of the young ladies
met an attorney, who asked her TO take a
ride with bin in his buggy. She accepted
the invitation. bat did not excuse herself To
the boy that brought her TO the grounds, ss
he was not then present. IL was soon time
start Tor home, and The young lady had
not y ct appeared, the young gent en- IN found
on inquiry where she had gone, aud shove
his good sense and pluck, Dy geJtiD. the 9th
er couple, aud coming home, leaving her to
get home the best way she g. uld. Ed" has
,he sympathy of the boys becau,e he had To
ride home without a partner, but they all
glory III his spunk.
Year: 1879

A large number of the business men Of
Lesvenworth met yes.erdsy morning and
unanimously resolved that No tax should
be levied to pay any part of our debt which
was not compromised. The mayor and city
council also met ard resolved that they
would decline to give bonds or agree to levy
the tax. Sc honorable men desiring TO live
in Leavenworth they had 10 other alterna-
tive
Year: 1879

but quickly brought ont her little revolver
and gave the burglar a warm reception
she didn't only shoot at him, but she hit
him, and though he was able to run away;
he left a trail of blood behind, by which be
was tracked for several blocks next morn
ing. 1t is to be hoped that she cured him
of house-bresking.
Year: 1879

The best plan We have ever known for
preserving lettuce late, is 10 transplant
twice, once from the seed bed, pricking the
plants out four inches apart, and then trans
planting IN the open ground 6xl2 inches
apart; as the rows begin to fiIl cut out one
half OF the plants, and the balance will form
large fine heads, If the ground be rich and
moist, and they will remain we'll into the
Al
Year: 1879

The trades unions of the various cities Of
this country have definitely decided to de-
vote the next Fourth Of July to = grand
demonstration for the eight-hour-a-day
movement. The report that there il to be
q general labor strike at that tune or any
other time this Summer il denied.
Year: 1879

Eastern Journals are beginning TO say a
good word in favor OF protecting crows.
There is no doubt but the good they do as
scaven gers and in the destruction of insects
is far more than counjerbaIanc.d ty the lit
tie corn they pull. Besides, II is SO easy TO
protect the corn.
Year: 1879

Five hundred tons of vitriol were recent.
ly set free by a fire near Boston and emp
tied into a tributary of the Mystic Water
Works. Thousands Of dead fish attest the
presence Of the chemical, and the people of
Boston are nsturally enough afraid to use
The water. The situation is decidedly I'M
pleasant, i: must be admitted.
Year: 1879

A weak man - The one who can't
''raise' dollar.
When Jack Frost comes and slaps your
face, why slap jacks.


The pancake is like the orb of day, be-
cause it rises in the yeast and sets in the
vest.


When married men complain of being in
hot water at home. it turns out that halt
the time it's scOld.


Nevelists are in some respects the most
remarkable of animals; their tales come
ont of their heads.


Every man is made better by the possess
sion of good picture, if it is only land
scape on the back of . hundred dollar
note.


The only reason why we do not see our
selves as others see us is because we can't
be looking everywhere at once.


''knotted danlasses are seen among the
new goods. Fashion item. This prob
ably refers to those clerks who part their
hair in the middle.


There are sixty-seven s.sure cure'' for
and why consumptives will |
continue to drop off is mystery to patent |
men.


When mans chin whiskers turn pray
before the hair On his head does, it shows
which part Of him has done the most
wsrk.
Year: 1879




Better than grandeur, better than gold.
Than rank and titles a ihousant;-iold
IL a healthy body sDd nind al ease,
And simple pleasures that always please;
A heart ihat can feel for another's woe,
And share it joy with genial glow,
With sympathies large enough to enfoid
All men as brothers, is better than gold
Better than gold is a conscience clear,
Though telling for bread in humble sphere
Douhly best with content and health,
Cntrisd by the lust or cares of wealth;
Lowly living and lofty thought
Adorn and ennOble Il poor mans cot,
For mind and morals, in natures plan,
Are the genuine tests Of a gentleman.
Better than gold is the sweet repose
OF the sOns of toll when their labors close;
Better than gold is the poor mans sleep,
And the balm that droops on his sumber deep
Bring sleepy draughts to the downy bed,
Where luxury pillows its aching head,
But he his simple opiate deems
A shorter route to the land of dreams,
Better than gold Is thinking mind,
That in tho realm Of books can find
A treasure SURPRISING Australian ore,
And life with the great and good of yore;
The sage's lore and the poets lay,
The giories Of empire fade away;
The worlds great dream will thus unfold
And yield u pleasure better than gold.
Better than gold is peaceful home,
When all the freside characters come,
The shrine of love, the heaven of life,
HallOwed by mother, or sister, or wife;
However humble the home may be,
Or tried with sorrow by heaven IS decree,
The blsssi rs that never were bought nor sold
And center l'lers, are better than gold.
Year: 1879

only question of the size Of tho bal
loon, the strength of the tackle, and
the weight Of the cunkeu object,
whether 1t shall be raised or ro. The
experiments near Berlin were success
full.
Year: 1879

In the Leadyille (Col.) Herald of last
week is a thrilling narrative descrip-
tive OF an incident at a mining shaft
on the Big Evans. While the miners
were at dinner one of them, a young
fellow, bet So that he could bear to be
l'tted from the hostom of the shaft by
means Nt u rope. He claimed that it
Wnnsd he necessary only for him to
hold his head in such a position that
the pressure of the moose would fail
upon the back OF the skull. Tying the
rope around his neck, he went down
the shaft and sienaled to he drawn up.
In tWs, seconds the foolish man felt his
terrible mistake. He tried to call out,
nut the rope. frightened aud the blood
filled llis head almost to bursting. The
s'en at the top of the shaft, having no
faltiI III his claim. hoisted him up as fast
as they. could. When he reached the sur
face his eyes were stating from their
sockets, his swollen tongue stuck from
ms nouth: and he had been hung
literally, 1t was only by the most
vigorous and unwearying treatment
that he was at last restored to life.
Year: 1879

One thousand head of cattle were
burned to deat!, in the Eighth street
pens. in Cincinnati, on Saturday night,
making the biggest thing in the way
ut roast beef on record. Herds of
bntfaloes have been baked by prairie
fires, but never before were so many
cattle cooked at one time. When the
tire was discovered there were 1888
head of live cattle in the pens, which
burned like tintler box. Above the
roaring of the red storm and the crack
ling of the timbers could be heard the
groans of the dyihg brutes, as they
rushed pell nell hither and thither
through the horrid slaughter-house,
trying to escape the death dealing IRE
that encircled them on every side. But
their frantic struggles were of short
duration: The heat was 80 intense
that nothing could live minute in the
place, and soon no sounda could be
heard save the roaring of tho flames,
the dropping of floor and rafters, the
tnmbling Of the roof and the meeting
at. water and fire. In less than ten
minutes $50 cattle were dead, burned
to crisp,
Year: 1879

I've women at Uninn, Tenn, had p
auei IN regular imam style. They both
urea at the word, and one hit boy
who was climbing over the fence with q
water melon, and the other hit calf in
field. Both having drawn blood, they
acknowledged that they had received
satisfaction.
Year: 1879

LUCY LARcoM in Good Company, Number One.
said it in the meadow-path,-


say it on the mountain stairs
The best things any mortal hath


Are those which every mortal shares
The air we breathe-the sky-the breeze
The light without us and within
Life, with its unlocked treasures


Gods riches-are for all to win.
The grass is softer to my tread


For rest it yields unnumbered feet;
Sweeter to me the wild-rose red,


Because she makes the whole world sweet.
Into your heavenly loneliness


Ye welcomed me, o solemn peaks
And me in every guest you bless


Who reverently your mystery seeks.
And up the radiant peopled way


That opens into worlds unknown,
1t will be lite's delight to say,


Heaven is not heaven for me alone"
Rich through my brethren's poverty


Such wealth were hideousl L am blest
Only in what they share with me,


In what share with all the rest.
Year: 1879

RUM NOT A NECESSITY
Park and Ocean Grove, which, during
the ''season" are now large cities by
the sea, prohibit the liquor traffic. In
commenting upon the season of 1879
the Ashbury Park Journal says: can
other summer season is about closing
with us, and on all sides we hear it said,
'it has been the best, financially, we have
ever known 1t has frequently been
said that seaside town cannot thrive
without the sale of liquor. We think
the seven years of our existence ought
to be enough to demonstrate the fact
that rum is not only not necessity,
but that any community is thousand
fold better off without it.D
Year: 1879

threatened to take their lives or to burn
down their houses and drive them off.
They did not want them there. And
yet the missionaries bore all with pa
tience and fortitude, Mrs. Moffat show
ing herself not less heroic than her
husband. She lived to bring up her
family and to return with her husband,
few years ago, to spend the evening
of their days in their native country,
but she has since entered into rest,
while he still lives to do much good
missionary work, honored and beloved
by all who know him.
Year: 1879

ATTRACTIVE LUNCHEONS.-A writer
in Scribnel's Magazine utters protest


against making the school luncheon


so unattractive us to destroy the child's
appetite. She says: "There is some
thing very dampening to the appetite
in the aspect of thick bread and butter
rolled in a bit of coarse brown paper
with a cookie or two sticking to the
parcel, and an apple covered with
crumbs at bottom of pail. Such lun-
cheOn will often prevent delicate child
from eating at all. A little care spent
in preparatiOn--in cutting the bread
trinity and neatly, packing the cake in
white paper, and the whole in fresh
napkin, in choosing Il pretty basket to
take the place of the tin pail-is not
pains thrown away. Some children are
born fastidious and with distaste fol
food. They require to be tempted to
eat at all-tempted, not by unwhole-
some goodies, but by taking trouble tC
make simple things dainty and attract
i've to them. We have heard a grow
| woman, whose fastidiousness had sur.
vived her childhood, describe with {;
shudder the effect which her dinner
basket at school had upon her. The
very sight of it took away all appetite
and she went through the afternoon
faint and fasting rather than meddl,
with its contents. By all means bake
tue custard in pretty cup and d.
what is possible to give the luncheon
an appetizing appearance to the littl


people who depend upon it for tn


working force Of their long school day.
Year: 1879

London Correspondence of the N Y Observer


Come with me into quiet street of
London on the south side of the
Thames. Enter modest dwelling and
sit down for an hour with the good DR..
Year: 1879

Is Pork WHOLESOME 2-We find
question raised as to the wholesome
ness of pork, some parties declaiming
against it as an article of food. What
piece of folly it is at this late day to
raise such an issue! Pork eaters, COM


prised of about nine-tenths of the civil
lized population of the world, will scout
at such nonsense. For all persons of
active habits pork is just as wholesome
as anything else and far more sustaining.
1t is true that if too much of it is eaten
at time, in other words, if people will
make ''hOgs" of themselves, they will
have to suffer for it as for an ever-mess
of other food. To discard pork would
be to discard one of the main items
going into our "vital Statistics What
would become of the army and navy
of our merchant marine; of, in a word


the great mass of our population, il
pork were to be thrown overheard
Year: 1879

Deacon Wilder, l want you to tell ne
how you kept yourself and family SO well
the past season, when all the rest of US
have been si"i. so much, and have had the
doctors running to US so long"


Bro. Taylor, the answer is very easy.
l used Hop Bitters in time and kept my
family well and saved large doctor bills
Three dollars worth Of it kept US all vel
and able TO work all the time, and | viii
warrant it has cost you and most OF the
neighbors one TO two hundred dolIas apiece
to keep sick the same time. | guess you'll
take my medicine hereafter. See othel
column.
Year: 1879

4 peculiar kind Of locomotive engine
ha7 bsen constructed.to meet special need
iu England, The railway for which it is
constructed is designed to be laid upon
the surface Of the ground wherever it may
be necessary to undertake earthworks or
to transport material, the ordinary meth
ods OF reducing irregularities by cuttings
and embaukments being out of the
question 10 field operations. The engine
is therefore, intended for ascending and
descending sharp gradients, and is also
fitted with an apparatus for hauling up
and lowering loaded trucks. A hin toe
steep to be assembled with load behind
may be surmounted by the engine alone


and it may then wind up the load after it
Year: 1879

There is no reason to doubt that the
wisest thing the Democracy could DO to
strengthen themselves for the approaching
presidential campaign would be to submit
to the legislatures of the states a constitu-
tional amendment prohibiting the pay
ment Of any more war claims. Let US
have peace at any cost and shut the gates
on this restless demon that agitates The
North. The Democracy will have both
branches of congress after the fourth of
March next and this amendment can then
be put forward as purely Democratic
measure - EIrchahge.
Year: 1879

The LIVER is more frequently the seat
of disease than is generally supposed. for
upon its regular action depends, in meas
ure, the power of the stomach. bowels,


brain. and the whole nervous system.
Regulate that important organ by taking
Simmons Liver Regulator, and prevent
most Of the diseases that flesh is heir to.
Year: 1879

A SAD accident occurred at Oak.
dale Monday last, from the criminal
carelessness of the use of fire arms.
A number of men were shooting
with reviewers at mark from the
inside of the stable, out of the door,
at target on the outside. At the
moment Lauren Means fired,
a man by the name Of Frank Nc
Cormick stepped in range OF the
shot on the outside of the door, the
ball taking effect in the mouth and
ranging to the back part Of bis head
killing him Instantly.
Year: 1879

24x48 feet, and when finished will
be an ornament to the town.


The Methodists expect soon to
erect q house Of worship, the dimen-
sions of which will be about the
same as the Baptists'


We have felt the necessity for
places Of worship for several years.
In the past the school-house has been
used for that purpose.


A great revival of religion has
taken place here during the past
winter and its effect has been felt
throughout the entire neighborhood,
in q moral and spiritual sense-and
the good that has been wrought, we
hope may continue TO grow.
Several more buildings are ex-
pected to be erected in our town and
country this spring.


We have the past year had bet
ter financial class of people come in
our midst, and more are coming
this spring, as the improvements
will testify. Many who came here
in the pioneer settlement OF. the
county have sold out and fine frame
buildings are taking the place Of
-
tumbled down and dilapidated sod
| structures.


The B. & M. II. r. lands arc being
bought mp rapidly by the new com.
ers and thousands of acres of our
green prairies will be black
ened this summer ready for the re-
ception of grain another year.


Ws would say 10 those who are
looking for good locations and are
anxious to secure good farming
and stock farms, TO hasten here
this spring, for we vouch it that be-
fore autumn every good piece OF
land in our county will be occupied.
The B. & NJ. r. r. Co. are putting
forth their best efforts this spring in
directing the immigrant 10 their
lands in this county; we all know
with what indefatigable zeal they
push their advertising of new
county. More anon. s..4.e
f... SETTLER.