smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

Brick Pomeroy says when the re-
publican party is hurled from its con-
troll of one house of Congress, the
democrats of the South and the''green-
hackers" of the West will form q new
country, and the Eastern States shall
be turned out In the cold, and shall be
made a bowling wilderness DWELL
ing place for bats and witch-burners.
Yet he is the man Weaver has inn
plored to bolster up a falling cause,
and has him speak at Bloomfield this
month. Oskdloosa Herald.


Yes; we notice this city is placard-
ed with enormous bills giving notice
Of Bricks speech in Bloomfield. We
call the especial attention of soldiers
to this aid of Gen. Weaver. There is
nothing under the broad canopy of
heaven James B. Weaver will not do
to get Office.
Year: 1878

The average face value of the cur
rency for the Ave years next preced-
ing and including the year 1873, the
year of the panic, was SIG, 100000 less
than the average face value for the
past Eve years, and the average gold
value of the currency for the past five
years Is $7O,OOO,OOO greater than the
average gold value of the currency
for the FIVE years next preceding and
including the year 1873. This is a
fact for those to ponder on who insist
that the hard times are the result of
contraction.


Don't say 1t Is false. Youcan figure
it out approximately at least, If you
will, for yourself. The fact is many
men seem to want to call everything
a lie that does not suit them. There
is q consolation in 1t all that the day
will come sooner or later when they
will be obliged for shame to stop their
Wholesale charge upon republican fig
ures-"that Is a lie."
Year: 1878

The name of James i. White, OF
this city, at present Superintendent
Of the Sixth Division of the Railway
Postal Service, is mentioned asa suit
able man to appoint to the existing
vacancy in the General Superintend-
ency OF that service. Captain White
has been actively identified with the
Railway Postal Service from its very
beginning, is thoroughly conversant
with its details, and would fill the po-
sition of General Superintendent with
efficiency. We feel very sure that
the postal authorities of the Govern
ment could not find a better man for
the place than he is.


The Journal cannot speak too fiat
teringly of Captain White. He is a
perfect gentleman and as an officer
has no superior in the service.
Year: 1878

moment upon the grounds this year.
The officers are untiring in their ef-
forts to keep everything in order,
and make this one the most successful
Of all Of 1owa's State fairs.


CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia, Sept. 2O.-This
is the last day of the Iowa State Fair.
1t will not be very exciting one.
The rain began to fall last night and
continued till this morning, when the
clouds cleared away and the wind
blew up from the north cold
and cheerless. People were COM
PEELED to wear overcoats, and stoves
were fixed up as matter Of necessi-
ty. The prospects for racing to-day
are very poor, but the first four days
were all that could be asked for in
point of fine weather and the fair
will not be q failure in any respect.
Yesterday, the fourth day, over 25,-
COO people were on the grounds. The
exhibits were pronounced first-class
by all and every one was pleased.
There will not be much lost by
unfavorable weather to-day, for the
fourth day, which was expect
cd to be the best Of all was clear and
pleasant until late in the afternoon.


The day promises to be clear but
cold. If the track dries sufficiently
The races will come off this afternoon
be advertised.
Year: 1878

Henceforth there will be practical
ly but two parties in this country
Republican and Greenbackers. The
first will be purified from its dross,
and stand forth the defender of sound
money and the National credit the
true friend of labor, demanding that
the money which pays its wages shall
be the best in tho world; the uphold
ers Of the constitution, as its provis-
ions have been interpreted by the
wisest statesmen Of the Republic du-
ring three generations. Its faith ID
pure, its courage firm, its ultimate
triumph as certain rs anything not al.
ready passed into history.
Year: 1878

The first use ''flat" money will be
put to, If We ever reach it, will be the
payment of rebel claims. That will
be the price of southern support,
Then, with the debt paid off in rags,
loyal and rebel claims growing out of
the war will rest on the same hasis.
That is what we are coming to, If the
present dishonest craze prevails.
Year: 1878

WE ask the candid perusal of a
lengthy account of the statements
made by ]. HI. Walker, before the
Hewitt Congressional Committee.
There is a great deal Of the soundest
kind of sound sense in that article.
Please read II carefully.
Year: 1878




The proceedings, yesterday, at the
democratic State Convention of Mas
sachusetts ought to set sensible men
to thinking. 1t ought to warn all pru-
dent, honest people everywhere, of
every shade of political sentiment,
that the National party, the labor
party, and all such movements, are
doing nothing else under the shining
sun than bringing into collision thed
ferent classes of this country and do
ing this upon the principle that 1t is
right to take from the thrifty, the
industrious, and give to the unthrifty,
the indolent and shiftless; it is done
upon the principle that is right to vi
olate a solemn promise; 1t is done up
on the principle that it is justifiable to
be dishonest.


Here is what the Boston Mass
Commonwealth predicted of that con-
vention previous to its assembling:


The candidacy of Gen. Butler for
Governor is likely to disrupt the dem
ocratic party. Kearney was brought
here to influence the rank and file
against the leaders, and cause them to
act independently in behalf of Butler.
The leaders do not mean to have their
organization captured by man who
is not in line with it. The result is a
very vigorous row in the bosom of the
family. To aid their purposes the
Executive Committee Of the State
Committee have declared by formal
vote that no person is entitled to
seat in their convention of next Tues
day who favors for Governor a person
not connected with the party. To
this all who favor Butler make clam
orous opposition, while those who
want to keep in line with the nation
al democratic party, and not be swal-
lowed by the greenback movement,
clamorously applaud. The prospect
is of one of the direst discords in pol
itics ever known, at the ensuing State
convention.


The result shows the Commonwealth
was right.


The National al-Greenbackers took
possession of the hall in which the
convention was to be held between A
and o'clock in the morning, and or
ganized the convention so as to get
everything in their own hands,
What more disreputable thing could
any set of men do? Fearing that
they would be beaten, they resolved
to steal a victory and proceeded to do
it. Thus through this new party,
mob rule is to flourish. 1t is the rule
of the commune. Democracy has
played with this mob element until it
kicks the old party out at the back
door and proceeds to occupy itshouse.
1t does seem to us that every prudent,
honest citizen ought to see that sue
cess for this new so-called party of re-
form is to drift thenation into anarchy
and the destruction of business;
to bring on harder times than we
have ever known--times that shall
fall with crushing weight upon labor;
that shall result finally in the over
throw of law and order, and intro
duen n REIGN of terror
Year: 1878

on all classes, though many individu'
ais escape.


The laws and Institutions Of the
country can no more be adjusted tc
them than they can to the condition.
OF yellow fever.


Farther more the absolute necesss.
ties Of man or their cost do not In
crease; they relatively decrease,
while the advance of society isshown
and measured by the increase ol
the comparative necessities and lux-
uries enjoyed by the mass Of the peo-
pie. Furthermore '.these things In
crease tho dependence of each mans
comfort and happiness on that Of al
others, as witness the almost endless
division of labor, which is to 60 on
increasing indefinitely, Hence, when
consumption begins to fall of, the
circle affected by 1t is larger and
more complex in each succeeding de-
cade. @


The only thing that will delay them
or alleviate their severity is to In
struct the macs of the people, through
the agency Of the public school. In the
necessity of personal saving and the
laws Of money and trade
and in the history Of past commercial
Year: 1878

Q.-Can all unemployed find work,
aud what shall we do with them?


A.-Taking into consideration the
fact that many of them are wrongly
placed, and also their mental and
moral condition, probably not; but
thousands upon Thousands who are
now idle might And work II they
would accept it at the price Of the
actual benefit their work was to the
person employing them.


Again, while many thousands of
Them are most reputable people, there
are still many thousands more whose
of every condition of COM
fort and happiness forbids the SYM
pathy of every well-wishcr to the
community. The best interests of all
that they be separated into
~ small bodies as circumstances will
admit of, and as many as possible
sent into the country.
Year: 1878

agents with impArtiality, his success
depending upon having each place
filled by the man best qualified for it ;
and usually the man in whom at first
he least expected to find the capacity,
10 his foreman, aud ultimately his
competitor.


Again, however numerous, or how
ever able the members of q tirm or
corporation are, there must be some
one Of their number whose mind is
the guiding power, and from whom
there Is no appesl-whose word is
law.


This impariiality is inevitable, for
each man mvst conquer his place in
every department of life.
II 10 not in the power Of another to
give 1t him. Any attempt to "placc'
and keep any man In any position
that he has not won by power in.
herent in himself must result in fail.
uro.


The results of the trials and suffer.
ings both of body and mind inciden,
to the struggle are part of the very
fbre of his being, and are necessary
to his development. There 10 and
can be, no other path Of usefulness
honor, or happiness.
All experience proves that the hap
piness Of the individual, and tn.
progress of society, depend upon tn,


Independence of the individual. and
the freedom Of all to fill any politica
Office, exercise any social power, o,
govern in any, when his fellow citi
zens call upon him to do so by any o
the manifold ways in which men cx


press their preference for one maj
above another.


Modern Socialistic schemes are a


war with all human experience
They assume that all men are equal


honest, industrious and frugal; tina


cheerful patient pcrsevering in


dustry IL the norma, condition a


men.


j That system would deprive tn
people OF the power to freely dccid


who should fill every position in lif,


40 they now practically do. sut
; stituting il for tho methods Of pol
!, tics.


j Whatever attempts may be made
, explain modern Socialism as in he
Year: 1878

An exchange very appropriately savs.


that q child beginning to read becomes
dehghted with newspaper, because It
reads OF names and things that are
familiar, aud it will progress accordingly.
A newspaper in one year is worth a
quarters schooling to a child. Every
man must consider that information is
connected with advancement. The
mother of a family, being one of its
heads, and having a more immediate
charge of children should herself he
instructed. A mind occupied becomes
fortified against the ills of life, and ia
oraced for any emergency. Children
amused by reading or study, are, of
course, more considerate and more
easily governed.


The above advice is excellent-excel-
lent with a proviso; the newspaper should
be all that so potent and influential a
teacher ought to be, otherwise the child's
progress will likely be in the wrong di-
reclon- How few journals, alas! that
we have to say it, present that healthy
paouium, intellectually and morally, that
The budding mind should feed upon.
How very few newspapers come Up to
that standard of real worth, which the
true mother would desire her child to
cultivate and aim for. As newspapers
are gotten up today, we fear a most
careful selection would be considered
imperative, ere the child could be al
lowed to study the contents of every de-
partment. 80 ..-5lt -a
Year: 1878

From the Bakersville IN. c. Republican,


Last week, while E. J. Campbell was
engaged digging wild gingeron the side
of the Road. about one and half miles
from Cloudland's Hotel, he found the
nest.of a gray eagle in a fallen tree-top
under the cliff of the mountain,
containing one young eagle. While
examining the nest and its contents,
suddenly he heard loud noise, and
before he could ascertain what it was,
the old eagal had struck him IN the face
with ber bill and claws, and taking a
circuit through the air, aiighted on a
tree about 200 yards distant, but IN
plain yie- of the nest. Again the
parent bird made the grCack, aiming
at his head, but he avoided her and
she struck on the arm, making slight
wound. She returned to her post OF
observation, but as soon as he attemP-
ted to touch the nest containing the
young eagle, she made third attack,
when Mr. Campbell struck her with a
stick and brought her to the ground,
where after a severe struggle, he sue
ceeded in killing her. She measured
seven feet and two inches from tip TO
tip of her wings. The male bird was
not seen. The place was wild, un-
frequented part of the mountain IL
has generelly been supposed that the
eagle always built her nest In the clefts
Of the rocks, but this one had her nest
Ia fallen tree-top, some feet from
the ground, but in spot seldom visit
ed BY man. This bird Is the one
known as the gray or bald eagle.
Year: 1878

The surgical feat OF replacing lost
teeth, scalps, and other portions of the
human organism must pale before a re-
cent achievement I'm Indiana A rising
young lawyer, out hunting, was unfort-
unate as to lose a part of his skull, and
some brains by accidental discharge Of
his gun. A plate of mica was set into
his skull, but somehow he didn't feel
reconciled to the loss of his brain, and
so the doctors killed horse, and a
piece Of its brain was dropped into the
youths cranial aperture. The patient
was kept quiet while the process Of as
similation went on, a silver plate was
substituted for the mica, and he went
forth again to take Up his profession.
But several marked changes have oe-
ourred. He can do better thinking.
and seems to have more horse sense,
while he has lately taken to the study
of French; this latter fact Is explained
by the doctors on the grounds that the
slain horse was of Norman breed. AL.
together, the csse is . remarkable one,
whether considered - psychologist
TACT or a newspaper invention.
Year: 1878

lunch of those whose heartymeal comes
at night, or for the supper of those who
dine at noon, nothinc is sosgced. The
great variety and excellent quality Of
prepared cereals give wide choice of
food to use with milk. Bread with
berries, in their season, or baked with
apples,) boiled rice, cracked wheat, oat-
meal, hulled corn, or hominy, taken


with generous bowl of pure cold milk,
makes the best possible light meal in


warm weather for children, and for all
adults who have not some positive
physical idiosyncrasy that prevents
them from digesting it. The men Of
firmest health and longest life are the
men of regular and simple habits, and
milk is standard article in such a diet.
Year: 1878

when / was young" said cousin Tom
"At the old house that came from
A honeysuckle used to grow,


That clambered round the portico.


How sweetly, remember well,
It's yellow blossoms used to smell;
And how, one summer, in its shade,
Their great, gray nest the hornets made
around the rooms they buzzing flew,
And wandered all the garden through
And always knew precisely where
Grew sweetest plum and choicest pear
With their dull drone and cruel stings
To drive them of, l said one day,
I'll tear their ugly nest away
No, Tom, my mother said, no, no,
You must not think of doing so;
You foolish boy, It's never best
To meddle with hornets nest
"Her good advice away was thrown;
The moment that l was alone
1 climbed, snd hold of it I caught
To pull ii down; whensquick as thought,
Out few the hornets, great and small; :;
And full of fury, one and all;
About my neck and face they clung,
Nose, eyelids ears and mouth they stung,
1 tried to beat them off in vain,
And shrieked aloud with fright and pain.
The startled household hurried out
What could the outcry be sbout;'
My burning, smarting hands they


swathed


With linen cloths, and gently bathed
My swollen face and throbbing head,
And laid me tenderly in bed;
And then my mother talked with me
You've been naughty boy said she.
I told you that it was not best
TO meddle with a hornets nest
But all yorr pain to good will turn,
If you will now a lesson learn,
And keep it when you older grow,
Wherever you may chance to go
To aid the wronged, to help the weak,
One should not be afraid to speak;
But every right and prudent man
Keeps out of quarrels if he can;
For in this world It's never best
10 meddle with hornets nest"


The Nursery.
Year: 1878

A fresh patch on the seat ofa boys
trowers is something new under the
son.


Mary had little corn upon her little
toe, and everywhere that Mary went the
corn was sure to go.


A lsdy, joking about her nose, said:
Il had, nothing to do in shaping it 1t
was birthday present"


A commercial advertisement for "a
man to travel" was answered by tramp.
He said he was used to the business.


Said old Deacon Holden: al dun't like
a man who is intimate on short acquaint-
ance, because he is almost always short
on intimate acquaintance"
Year: 1878

dio moi think that should say it first;
But love Is sstronger-stronger far than pride
Ibid not know how drearily would pass
The hours that found you absent from my


side.
Watched and waited, hoping you would come
ForgivIng, forgetting all the harshness past;
The days rolled blythe nights-I missed you


so,


And now It's who come to you at last
Ibid not think that should say it first,
That night we quarreled. 1t was a silly


thing;
But OH you touched my wonan's pride when


you


In your hot anger flung the keepsake ring
On the grass just at my feet; the gift
babe you wear in memory of me.
Fast beat my heart, hated you. thought,
When you turned coldly, saying "You are


free"
did not think that should say it first,
But OF my darling have brurer grown;
Ny womans pride's strong. and can say:
"Forgivel Tho fault was only rnine-my


own"
Year: 1878

TIE PRESIDENTS TITLE.-A Washington
dispatch to the New York Graphic saws II is
not true that tbs House committee on the
Judiciary have decided to report adversely
upon what is known as the Blair memorial of
the Maryland legislature and the KimmeI hin
relating 10 the reopening of the Presidential
question. The committee have never con
Sidered the subject
Year: 1878

\ BATTLE WITH \ WHALE. lhurS-
day morning d Greenland or right whale
was suddenly perceived blowing OFT Sandy
Hook. The fishermen chased and wor


red it into the Horseshoe. They man
aged to drive it toward the shore until it
grounded on a shoal opposite Applcga1e's
Landing The tide was falling fast, and,
although the v bale made desperate efforts
to get off, its g.eat weight held it in the
sand until the pursuing fishermen dared
to attack it, There are no harpoons at
Sandy Hook ; 50 one Of the men secured
scythe from the shore, and with it lanccd
the whale The beach was lined with
excited fishermen and railroad employees
during the fight. while the whale tunbled
and dashed the sea with his tail, and the
wary fisherman repeatedly struck il with
his scythe. After twenty minutes all be
came still. The water around the great
fish was crimsoncd with its blood Last
night the whale was tOWed to Port Mon


mouth, and to-day the captors are cutting
it up for oil 1t measures 10 feet III length
from head to tip Of tail, and it is estimated
that it will yield | 600 gallons of oil.
Year: 1878

The Central Pacific " Northsr1 Pa


ciac.


Chicago Tribune.


The unfortunate bondholders of the
n P r R, who are before congress with a
reasonable plea for an extension Of time
in which they may construct their road,
have met new and formidable enemy
in the lobby representing the Central
Pacific Co., which is working with might
and main to defeat the extension meas
ure before the house committee. The n
P people, whose affairs were thrown into
almost hopeless confusion by the suspen-
,ion of Jay Cooke & Co., and who have
already completed large portion of their
line, ought not to be crushed by the pow
erful influence Of one Of the richest corr
porations in the world-a corporation
without soul, and whose only interest
is to prevent the competition which the
Northern Pacific would create, as well az
to secure the patronage Of that portion Of
the far Northwest which would naturally
fall to the lot Of that road. l:fs
Year: 1878




THERE isquite an excitement in East
Tennessee over the reported discovery
of rich silver and gold deposits. A
returned California miner recently
visited the Wolf Greek gold region for
the purpose of ascertaining the value
of the late discoveries in that section.
AS a result of his observation he pro-
nounces the metal equal in value to
that of the Golden State, in cOnse-
quence Of which the land in that i'm
mediate vicinity has jumped in value
to astonishing figures. The Newport
Reporter says these lands contain
vast quantities of undeveloped gold
and preparations are being made to
work the mines. A rich silver mine
is also reported in the same neighbor-
hood and will be worked at once. A
tract of land lying at the headwaters
of Wolf creek, and belonging to Mr.,
Thomas Huff has been sold recently
for $4,000. The tract of land is said
to have been assessed at about $500.
There was tradition among the In
dians that rich silver mines existed in
what is now Jefferson and adjoining
counties many years ago. But the
people were always too busy digging
corn and potatoes and ginseng to- &C
deeper for the precious metals.
Year: 1878

Why call the sky overcast when the
clouds that obscure it are below it?


Boots are made ON the Pacific coast
with pockets for pistols in their tops


The floor of the Pantheon at Rome
was recently flooded by rise in the
Tiber.


Kate Claxton has appeared in the
/" Two Orphans 1900 times-an all
fired good record.


He that runs may read-a great
many things concerning his character,
especially if he runs for Office.


The corporation of Belfast (Ireland)
propose erecting new markets from
the accumulated profits of the gas
works, which are run by the town.


The little Modenese town of Cor
reggie is getting up a subscription for
a monument to its illustrious son, An
tonic Allegeri de Correggo, the painter


A scrupulous young woman at Mil
bury, Mass, declined to be married
the other evening because the groom
did not appear in attire sufficiently
swell.


Providence, r. l., spent S4,OOO,O0O
for city hall, and at the first meeting
in the new chamber the city council
voted the apartment failure in its
acoustic arrangements.


A mutiny broke out few days ago
in La Fleche Military College, Mans,
France. While out walking one class
attacked another, which had refused
to undergo some practical joking.


1t is said Miss JefTreys-Lewis
will return to the stage in order to
gain means to support her husband.
He was a broker when she married
him, and he broke her in short order.


In the revolving seasons of the
varied year there is no other time
when the poetieal department of the
editorial waste basket is so ably edited
as in these mellow autumn days. 1t is
the carnival Of the junk dealer,


No later than the first of November
large crowd Of Internationalists pa
raded through the streets of Carrara
shouting Death to King Humbert T
and throwing stones at the windows o.
the larger residences, without inter.
ference from the police,


A cooperative store on an extensive
scale is to be opened in Boston, undel
the supervision of Josiah Quincy anC
other men of wealth and influence
There is to be storekeeper in charge
! but he is TO have no voice In tn,
general management, All purchase