smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

A properly conducted printing of
fee is as much a secret as Mason


ic Lodge. The printers are not un


der oath of secrecy, but always
feel themselves as truly in honor
bound to keep office secrets as
though triple oathed. Any EN-


ploye in a printing office who will
ingly disregards this rule in regard
to printing Office secrets would not
only be scorned by his brethren of
the craft, but would lose his posi-
tion at once We make this state
ment because it sometimes happens
that a communication appears in a
newspaper under an assumed sigma


ture which eXcites coment, and va
rious parties try to find out who is
the author. Let all be saved the
trouble of questioning the employe
of the printing Office. They are
know -nothings on such points as
these. On such matters they have
eyes and ears, but no mouth, and if
they failto observe this rule, let them
be put down as dishonorable mem
bers of the craft. It is the same in
job printing. If anything is to be
printed aad kept secret, let proper
notice be given Of the desire for Sc
crecy, and you might as well ques


tion the Sphynx az one of the print
ers, so that even the secret books
for lodges are printed without fear
Year: 1877

Never within the recollection Of
tho oldest inhabitant have our farm
e-s had such favorable weather for
the turning OF their land Tor wheat
and oats. rs they haze had this
season. and We are glad % know
that they have taken advantage Of
il. and are now aell up and ahead
with this part OF their summer and
fall work. -Clevelaad Banner.
Year: 1877

The love that VIII soonest decay,
The love that is surest to lie,
The love that will soon fly away,


Is the love
That is told by a sigh.
The love that is surest to last,
The love that a woman's heart needs,
The love that will be kept fast,


Is the love
That is spoken in deeds.
Year: 1877

United States is a universally known fact There may be circumstances under which the vigorous execution of a lsw may be difficult, CT incOnvenient, or obnoxious to public sentiment, or working particular hardship. In such cases it is the business of the Legis- latIve power to adopt the law 70 such circumstances. It is the business of the Executive to enforce the law as it stands. The statements made by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, n his report, show the quantity of timber taken rom the public lands without authority of law to have been Of enormous exsent. It probably far exceeds in reality any estimates made upon the data before. The rapidiy with which this country is beIng strip ped of its forest must alarm every thinking man. IL has been estimated by good authority that if we keep on at the present rate the supply of timber in the United States will in less than twenty years fail considerably short Of our home necessities. How disastrously the destruction of the forests of a coun- try affects the regularity of tine water supply in its Tive's necessary for navi- gaion, increase the frequency of fresh cts and inundatiols, dries up springs

 and transforms fe'tile agricultural dis

 tricts into barren wastes, is matter of

 universal experience the worN over.

 It Is high time that we should turn our earnest attention io this subject which { so seriously concerns our national pros

 perity. The Government can take

 determined, and, as 1 think, effectual measures to arrest he stealing of tim

 Der from public lands on large scale,

 which Is always attended with the most reckless waste, and it can pre- serve the forests still in it's possession

 by keeping them under its control, and

 by so regulating the cutting and sale

 of timber on it's lands as to secure the

 renewal of the forests by natural

 growth and careful preservation of the

 young timber Now, here is a wasteful

 destruction of the forests, fraught with more dangerous results than in noun tainous regions. The timber grows

 mostly on the mountain sides, and when these mountain sides are once stripped

 bare, the rain will soon wash all the

 earth necessary for the growth of tree; from the slopes down into the valleys and the renewal of the forest will b'

 rendered impossible forever. The rivu

 lets and water courses which flow will regularity while the forests stand art dried up for the greater part of thu year, and transformed into the raging torrents by heavy rains and by tn, melting of snow, inundating the val leys, covering them with gravel anC loose rock swept down the mountain

 5ides and gradually rendering then unfit for agriculture and finally for th habitation of men. Proper measure fer the preservation O. the fOres.s In u mountain regions of the country ap pear therefore of especially imperativ necessity.

 Inc report goes on to give the statls ! tics of the Pension Bureau, in detai ] and devotcs much space to the Desel Land Act, Pacific RGiiICGd pGtonts Gn | the operations of the geological ant I geographical surveys in the west.
Year: 1877

The London Mining Journal refers to a paper, as interesting and valuable, which had recently been read before the Royal Society of New South Wales by NIT. s. L. Bensusau, and treating particularly of cheap an1 simple, prac- tical methods of extrhcting copper from ores with small oqtlays in plant, with a minimum expenditure Tn chemi- cals and labor; methods which may enable mineral explores 10 thoroughly ! test and demonstrate the value of prop critics without large preliminary cost. One of the processes of that paper is ! that of sulphuric acid, by which ore has been successfully treated which contained one per cent. of metallic copper. These were tailings, Carbon ates and oxides,) hOweve er which had already passed through al dressing ma chine, and the sulphurIc acid was made on the spot from iron pyrites. By the process, this ore Is digested in the acid until the cOppef IS dissolved out-seyeral successive portions being treated in the same liquor up 10 the point of saturation; it Is then allowed to settle and run off clear into a large vessel containing scrap iron, which throws down the metal as cement cop per. While few places may be so favor able for this method as at Kapunda, in New South Wales, yet with slight notifications, MT Bensusan is satisfied that the process can be proftably used, particularly where there are available large amounts of copper pyrites with from two to three per cent. of copper, and when the acid can be cheaply made on the spot.

 Another cheap method IS the Snow den or Lime method with sulphurets' and when the limestone is on the ground. The mineral cooper pyrites)

 is crushed and mixed with about or less than five per cent of burned lime

 This is then formed into bricks and

 roasted at low heat for short time-a

 double decomposition taking place the sulphide of copper having become

 a sulpbate and the lime transformed

 into sulphate of calcium. The bricks

 are then rapidly crushed, and falling into water, the soluble sulphate Is wash

 ed out and subsequently, precipitated with hydrogen sulphide.-Mining Rec } ord.
Year: 1877

Those who are inclined at this time TO
pay heed to the arguments Of the Wheel.
ing Register on the Capital question in IA
vOr Of Charleston, should ponder the fol.
lowing editorial from is columns against
Charleston, written in the fall Of 1874
when tile Capital was already located at
Charleston, and when, il the present argu.
msnts of that paper are valid, it should
by all means have remained there. How
an editor could have ever held such
opinions ~ the following, and yet to-day
Ay 10 ilatly in their iace-how, in other
words, paper could so completely dou.
BILE on its tracks as the Register has done,
il one Of those problems that may well
puzzle the readers Of that paper to solve.
Here ia what II said when ii was engaged
in the business Of convicing the public
that the Capital should be removed from
Charleston


"The principal reasons why the Capital
should at once be removed from Charles
ton may be briefly summed up as follows:


ut is remote from the most populous
portion Of the State; the people who are
iucommoded outnnmber by more than
l2S000 those who are supposed TO be &C.
c0mmodated thereby.


ut isremole from the wealth and bust
meas interests Of the State, the people who
are iRcOmmoded paying more than two
thirds Of the State taxes, or more than
twice as much as is paid by those who
are supposed to be accommodated by the
present location.


Communication between Charleston
and the most populous and wealthy por-
tion Of the State is slow, difficult and
expensive, especially during the winter
season, and as the result OF this, the peo-
pie are unable to exert upon the legisla.
tive body that influence which their in.
terests demand, and the Legislators are
unable TO maintain that intercourse with
Lhsir constituents which is necessary for
the ENACTMENT Of wholesome laws"


All Of tho above arguments in favor OF
removing the Capital from Charleston
the Register substantially reatlirmed last
winter, when the bill which passed, and
which we are TO vote on, was pending be-
fore the Legislature. The Register Mt
that time opposed Charleaton-showcd
that it was an unfit place for the Capital
showed that there was no material out
come in the place even il the Capital
should be relocated there; showed, also,
that il the bill passed the people would
vote for CIarksburg. And yet despite all
this record against Charleston, and after
proclaiming to the world in the most
unequivocal terms that il was not a fit
place for the Capital Of the State, the
Register now comes out and swallows
everything 1t ever said on the subject and
calls upon the people Of the State to vote
for Charleston.


The Register may fancy that the people
OF Wheeling can be led by the nose on
this question wherever and whenever it's
editor may choose to change, according
to hiS views Of what may be his interests
for the time being, but we opine that in
this fancy lie is reckoning without his
host, and that on the 7th Of August lie
will find that his following in this com
mnnity on the Capital question is OF the
most meagre character.
Year: 1877

termination communicated to Packard
OF the character of that OF Grant In the
Texas case, the troops should be dis
charged from this duty and Withdrawn
to the proper scene OF their services.
As long as they are kept here to pre-
serve the peace, they are continual
invitation to Packard to violate the
peace by resisting the authority OF the
government which is amply able to
maintain the peace as against all dis
turbers.


We have another precedent set by
General Grant in the Arkansas case,
where peaceful and constitutional adj
justment Was effected, whilst the two
factions we're marshaied in battle array
and only prevented from conflict by the
interposition Of the United States
forces.


That adjustment was prepared by
Grant, and was acauiesed In by the
Democratic Governor, and reluctantly
and under protest by the Radical Gov
ernor, who held possession OF the State
House.


It consisted in simple agreement Of
both to convoke the Legislature to be
composed OF the members who, accord
ing to the commissioners returns. had
received majofities In their several dis
trietg, and submit to them the perform
ance Of the functions imposed by the
constitution Of counting the votes for
Governor.


Either of these precedents would suit
and solve our case, and I am not writing
to admit that a. State which is blessed
with SO large share Of political wisdom
and statesmanship, and such q multi
tude OF political chieftains and senate
rial candidates, IL incapable Of achiev-
ing results 80 easily effected in Texas
and Arkansas. Tie my mind either plan
is preferable to the wretched status quo
or rolling out system which SO many
persons Think will IN time effect the
complete establishment OF the Nichols
government. Either IL preferable to the
miserable and debasing partisan job
berry which Is proposed by some In the
election Of Senator and the distribution
OF offices and patronage. All such
modes deserve the fiery denunciation
you heaped on them, and have the cor
dial approval Of your humble CORES
pondent. A, w,
Year: 1877

This is certainly the era Of explo-
sions. OF all peaceable things on
board of a man -of-war, the water tank
might be supposed least likely to go of
with bang. But Che unexpected was
precisely the thing that happened, when
workman brought a lighted candle
near the water tank of I'll. M. torpedo
ship the Vesuvius. An explosion oc-
Cured that tore open the side Of the
tank. Investigation showed that a gal
yanic action had previously taken
place between the water, the zinc and
the iron the tank being made OF ''gal-
yanized" ilon-and a quantity OF hy-
drogen from the decomposed water had
been imprisoned in the tank. People
who have cisterns OF galvanized iron
will please take notice.
Year: 1877

WHee1er NOT ri All UesYFCus Oh kepDfC-


Ing ON the Returning BOARD.


The published statement that Wheel
er was to be sent South as the head Of
the new Louisiana Investigating Com
mittee appears founded on insufficient
conversation with your correspondent
tonight, said the subject had not been
broached to him, and il such propo-
sition was made to him he should con-
slider it very long and seriously before
giving his consent. He decidedly did
not want to go on any such mission !;
thought he had performed his quota Of
such service, and had positive doubts of
the propriety of his accepting any such
position under all the circumstances.
Mr.. Wheeler speaks In the highest
terms OF Hayes personal treatment Of
him, Is warm in the eulogy Of Hayes
and his family, and 1t is very evident
that there is the heartiest sympathy
and co operation between the two; but.
withal, he does not want to have to re-
cord judgment again on the Louisiana
Returning Board


Another Version of It.


[N. Y. World.I


The understanding is at present that
Vice President Wheeler, Senator Hoar
three to select two Democrats from the
Senate or House, shall constitute a
Commission, s'by invitation Of the
President" to proceed to Louisiana
and South Carolina and make some po-
litical compromise on the basis of the
we'll known Wheeler compromise of
1874 in the former State. II this plan
should be carried out the present status
quo is to be continued in both States
and the troops will not be removed.
Year: 1877

BoY KILLED.-Snortly after five
o'clock on Saturday evening color
ed boy aged about ten years, named
Edward Brown, was struck by loco
motive and killed a short distance
below Lamokin station on the P. W.
b B. rs.ilroad. His head was badly
crushed by the accident, He was wait
ing for train to pass in order to eros s
the tracks but was not aware that an
other train was approaching from the
other direction and was struck before
he kne " the danger he was in.
Year: 1877

HIS RECEPTION IN LONDON TO BE AK


OVATION. ~
By Telegraph TO the GAZETTE.


LONDON, May 30.
The reception of General Grant in
this city promises to be perfect ovation.
The Reform Club proposes to elect the
General an honorary member, and the
Lord Mayor proposes to entertain him
with banquet at Guild Hall.
Year: 1877

TAKEN TO West CHEsTER-This morn
ing ]. Graves, col, who was arres ted
on Friday evening last, with property
in his possession which he had stolen
from store at Fairview Pa. was taken
to West Chester by a constable from
that town. The constable stated that
on the night of the robbery Nit chell
one of the robbers, was shot in the
thigh and captured, but Graves made
his escape.
Year: 1877

ENGLAND ) in what may be termed !;
quandary. She would very much perlel
to have Turkey obliterated, but after all
is unable to see how the thing can be done
without ultimately proving an uncomforta-
BILE thing for herself after it is done. Sht
is puzzled to know just where to stand
and yet, with an eye TO her own interests
she is making all neediul preparations fol
taking Far in the struggle.
Year: 1877

REDUCTION of the wages Of labor con-
tinues to be the order of the day. The
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company
yesterday resolved to reduce the wages Of
employees ten per cent. No trouble is
anticipated. We are evidently getting very
near the dead level.
Year: 1877

Praying for the New Administra tion.


Even religion has its novelties and one of
them was quite prominent yesterday in the
shape of prayers for the incoming President.
There can be no doubt that Mr.. Hayes needs
all the prayers he can get ; but if praying
were to be regulated according to special
human necessities the service of many
churches would suddenly become unfamil-
lar even to their oldest attendants. On the
day of the first Inauguration of Washington
every one went to prayers even Congress
went in body to church. But the Republic
was young and feeble then, and not so con-
tident of the power of man as through parti-
san means it has since become. One note
worthy feature pertains to most of the pray
ers reported rs uttered yesterday: the petit
TONERS were as non-committal as they
were earnest, and the Lord was thus saved
from great deal of superfuous informa-
ton. May all who prayed remember the
shrewd injunction of Mohammcd to the
prayerful owner of al unsecured camel, and
see to it that their efforts supplement their
aspirations. The men who yesterday asked
the Lord to assist President Hayes should
to-day beware lest by recommending for
Office some faithful party wheel horse or
other rascal they assist the devil to set ut
naught the Presidents good intentions.
Year: 1877

An anonymous letter, which we reprint
to-day, will strengthen the doubts which
many entertain of the guilt of Oschwald and
Ryan. Considering the question of the let
ter's genuineness in the light of the evidence
presented by the letter itself it is impossi-
bic not to admit that the murder of Officer
Brock might have been accomplished in the
manner described by the unknown writer
and that the crime could have been attrib-
uted to innocent men by the means an
nounced. 1t is hardly likely that any illit-
crate man would have written so long let
ter for mere amusements sake or that SO
straightforward and connected story could
have been invented by any ordinary scamp.


1t certainly seems that more consideration
is due this letter than that which even SO
Year: 1877

If he appoints some Southern man
who stands high in the confidence
of his section, and some Northern states
man of the pronounced views of Mr..
Schurz respecting military interference, the
country would regard such selections as a
strong assertion of his Southern policy, and
the dispirited radicals, seeing that they had
nothing to hope, would abandon their efforts
to influence him. The wise thing for him
to do is to take this bull by the horns at the
outset and thereby save himself from future
trouble.


If President Hayes begins by emphatically
abjuring military methods and exhibiting a
settled purpose to govern the country by
the mild authority of the civil magis-
tracy the exacerbation of feeling which
attends his election will be speedily
soothed and quieted. and the loud and angry
questioning of his title soon die away.
Even his political opponents will have little
to say about the doubts and clouds that
envelop the manner OF his accession to
Office if he administers the government by
the civil magistracy, without recourse to
bayonets, in spirit of impartial justice,
respecting all rights, in defiance of the cries
of faction and the behests of party. Presi-
dent Hayes may not be a great man, but
only common sense and honest intentions
are needed to meet the wishes of the people
in this conjuncture.
Year: 1877

priation Bill.


The Army Appropriation bill was not
passed by Congress yesterday, In conse-
auence of the refusal of the Senate to agree
to the fifth section, which restricted the
President from using United States troops
for the purpose of sustaining the State gov
ernments in South Carolina and Louisiana
and the determination of the House to in
sist on it's retention. The failure of the bill
will not occasion the government any i'm
mediate inconvenience, but will necessitate
the calling Of an extra session of Congress.
The existing appropriation will last until
July next, and it is probable that the extra
session will not be convened until the latter
part Of May or the beginning of June. Presi-
dent Hayes will then have been in Office
over two months, and his Southern policy
will by that time have been clearly
developed. From all he has said,
and from every indication that has yet
been given, that policy will be acceptable
to the South and will assure to Louisiana
and South Carolina in particular the gov
ernments fairly chosen by the people of
those long suffering States. If, therefore,
the extra session be wisely postponed until
the close Of May. all necessity will have
passed for the insertion of the restrictive
clause, and the Army Appropriation bill
will pass in it's ordinary form. When
President Hayes shall have given practical
evidence of his intention to treat South
Carolina and Louisiana as he treats New
York and Massachusetts, the people will not
sustain the democratic House of Represen-
tatives in casting upon him the slur dis
covered by the republicans in the restrictive
clause of the defeated BILL


So far as the provision which caused the
failure of the bill is concerned, it could in
no way interfere with or restrict the
power and duty Of the President to extend
to State the aid contemplated in the con-
stitution. If the Nichols government, after
it's complete establishment in Louisiana, or
the Hampton government in South Carolina,
should be confronted by rebellion too
strong for the State forces to overcome Presi-
dent Hayes might find himself compelled
by his constitutional duty to use the
United States troops in its suppression.
But there is little doubt that by the
time the new Congress convenes in extra
session all occasion for democratic sensi-
tiveness on the subject of military interfer-
ence in the governments Of the Southern
States will have passed away.
Year: 1877

experienced jurist as Governor Bedie mas
given it. The nominal perpetrators OF the
deed are where their status cannot Do
changed by any exculpatory evidence; Du'
in the interest of their bestained names and
the families upon whom terrible disgrace
has been inflicted, as well as to sustain the
reputation of Commonwealth for loving
justice, the statements in this letter should
be examined more carefully than could have
been done by single man.
Year: 1877

Mr.. Selkreg's BILL now before the Senate,
amending the Rapid Transit law of 1875, is
neither more nor less than an attempt TO
destroy all chance Of the construction of a
rapid transit road in New York. Under the
pretence of being an ''amendment' of law,
which implies the increase of it's effective
ness. it is in fact bill in the service of the
horse car companies of the city of New York,
introduced by legislator from Tompkins
county, and designed to render the law Of
1876 practically dead letter and to deprive
the people of the metropolis of an essential
public improvement. The Rapid Transit
act was framed after careful and mature con-
sideration of all the points involved in the
question of steam railroad in New York.
Its vital feature is the provision which pre-
vents a few property owners from defeating
the wishes and obstructing the interests OF a
million of people. 1t was felt that if the
consent of a fixed proportion of the property
owners on O selected route Of rapid transit
should be essential to the construction of
such road, the horse car companies and
other interests opposed to rapid transit
might easily, by the use Of their large wealth
and influence, keep back the progress of the
city forever. TO obviate this, and to subor-
dinate private interests to the public good,
it was provided that the action OF the Su-
preme Court might set aside the necessity
for the consent of property holders. Mr..
Selkreg's bill seeks to wipe out this essen
tial provision Of the law of 1876. Tompkins
county has no possible interest in the meas
ure, and what inducements Mr.. Selkreg, OF
Tompkins, has for his interference with
rapid transit in New York city are best
known to himself.
Year: 1877

The MONTHLY EXHIBIT of the city debt is not
quite as dismal as it usually is. The debt has in
creased of course, but only to the extent Of a
paltry quarter of million, and the total is only
about twice as great that of the United States
before the war.