smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

Workmen will commence raising the
roof of the TRIBUNE building one story
this week, the upper story to accom-
rnodate the TRIBUNE Office leaving more
room for the post Office. This is the
first job Of the kind in the city, and Mr..
A. j. Mcdonald will do the work.
Year: 1877

The Moorhead Advocate, is the name
of a new candidate forpublic favor pub
lished by Knappen & Way in lieu Of the
Red River Star. 1t is large 4S column,
eight page paper, and is very creditable
in appearance and otherwise to its pub
fishers and to the city of Moorhead.
Year: 1877

A boy there came some years ago


A knocking at our door;
His form was trim from top to toe
Not sign of clothes he wore.
He winked his eye in merry glee,
For gay Young Tramp was he.
We gave him clothes, tiny suit,


A diet mostly milk;
We thought he was genius kute,
Or something of that ilk;
We laughed to hear him shout ''a-kee,
For gay Young Tramp was he.
He slept by day; by night he cried,
Just as we most have done:
1t mattered not; whate'er he tried
Was bit of earnest fun;
In memory still his freaks we see,
Such gay Young Tramp was he.
We have no doubt but when we're old
He will us well repay,
For now .'he's worth his weight in gold
"A .'bonanza" for that day;
O, don't you see. just how twill be?
Such a gay Young Tramp is he.
Year: 1877

There was living in Paris, in 1871, a
Polish lady, the countess of K. She
wore very singular brooch. Its
ground of blue enamel was circled by
twenty precious stones, and was covered
in the center by glass, and what do you
suppose this brooch contained? Not a
portrait, nor a lock of hair, but four
common pins, bent together in the form
of star. She wore these because they
were the companions of her husband
during a long imprisonment. Years
ago he was supposed to be a secret enc
my of the Russian Government, and
was put in q dark dungeon far under
the ground. He had no one to speak
to, for no one was allowed to see him
except the keeper of the prison, and he
was not permitted to talk with his
prisoner. He had nothing to do. Days,
weeks, months passed on, and he was
still in his dungeon. He was never
brought to trial, and, poor man, he was
most miserable. He thought he should
lose his senses, and in truth his reason
did begin to give way. Feeling all over
his coat one day he found four pins,
and he actually wept for Joy; yet what
could they be to him? He took them
from his coat and threw them on the
floor Of his dungeon, and then he went
down on his hands and knees, and felt
over the floor till he found them. When
he had succeeded in inding them, he
scattered them on the floor again; and
could you have gone into his dungeon,
you would have found him cropping for
his four pins. When, after six years
imprisonment, his cell was opened to
set him free, they found him on his
hands and knees in the dark, feeling
about the floor for his four pins. 1t
was all his work, nor would he leave
his prison without taking his pins with
him. They we're his best friends, be-
cause they had given him something to
do in his solitude and confinement, and
his wife had them made into q brooch,
which she valued more than gold.
They had preserved he husbands rea-
son.S-The Methodist.
Year: 1877

A business man in New Calisle, Ind,
has issued circular letter to his credit
ors couched in the following terms:


Ny DEAR SIR:-I want to ask YOU a plain
question IN all Kindness and sincerity,
and would like to have you answer it
honestly and candidly, not in two or
three, years or months, but now, this
week. Surprising you were as poor as
Jobs turkey and hat invested So 900 or
5000 in IN enterprise which you design
cd to make an exclusive cash business :;
surprising as matter ot accommodation
and good nature you had trusted it out
all over the country from Carlisle to
Jericho; supposing you had kept adding
to your means and still putting it on
the books until your funds were played
out, suppOsing you had claims against
you in the hands OF business men who
had accommodated you in good faith
and needed their money supposing you
had some pride in you, and meant To he
sqnare-toed and punctual, and hated to
STE the man you owed when you didn't
have the legal tender in your trousers to
pay his just and lawful demands, worse
than you would To see an Indian, and
surprising those whom you had accomo-
dated felt perfectly easy and contented,
SHE'D the track when you went to see
them, and told the wife of their bosom
TO anwer mot at home" or come into
town and lett without even paying part
Snpposing that they held your money and
waited patiently Tor wheat to come up
to ninety cents or one dollar, or pork
bring five or six dollars hundred, what
would you doi Would you let your
debtors go and smile and I've a villain, or
would you sue every mothers SON of
them that did not pay, ifit was the last
thing you did in town 2 II you were an
honest man you would do the latter and
that's just what I'll be compelled to do
iftheres king in Israel don't want
money to look mt can earn enough for
that; don't want any to salt down { |
never could make it keep, but out Of
several thousand trusted out humbly
want few hundreds, and I'll be hanged
ifIwon't have it or an execution return.
ed aOlta bona. love you myself as n
mother loves her first born but | love
topay my debts better than love any
man, woman or child on the face of God
Aimght's green earth, and by the Great
Jehovah and the Continental Congress I
propose to do it, if | have to make costs
for every man in Oliver township or in
1t. Joseph's county owing me. Now,
let US have the sponduliX' and see how
sweet AMI pretty can smile upon you.
Yours Courteously >
Year: 1877

THE ALARM OF FrRE.-The alarm of
fire last evening, shortly after 10 o'clock
was occasioned, by the burning of lot
of waste in barrel at D. Fl. Kent 3, Cos
stores on Shipley street above Second


The barrel was standing in the alley
way between the lower and Middle
stores, and was filed with lot of old
waste, ropes and the sweepings of the
stores. Upon inquiry at one of the
stores this morning, one of the proprie
tors stated that he thought that the fire
was the result of spontaneous combus-
ton. Fortunately the fire was discover
ed before it had made any headway, and
was extinguished by plug stream other
wise there might have been large fire.
Year: 1877

DAVENPORT DRAMATIC ASSOCIATION.
This excellent local dramatic organi-
zation, which in former years enjoyed an
excellent reputation, is coming to the
front again, and will, on Tuesday even
ing next, at the Grand Opera House, per-
form the great domestic drama, "The
Drunkard, or the Fallen Saved" The
piece is undergoing careful preparation
and thorough rehearsal, and will be put
upon the boards with thorough attention
to scenic effects and all other details so
essential to a successful performance
The Association deserves encouragement
in this laudable enterprise, and should
be rewarded by large audience at their
performance.
Year: 1877

Thrift and grief sometimes go to-
gether. The Americans can keep an
eye to business under the most ap-
palling circumstances. He may for
get everything else. but that never.
Still we have heard of a man who,
we are inclined to think, carried the
matter little to far. He was gro
Ger, and in terrible competition with
certain other grocers who had deter
mined to undersell him. When his
wife died he saw at once that the
villagers would turn out in force to
the funeral and that the opportunity
ought not to be lost. So he held an
umbrella over the minister's head
at the hulchyard with the price of
tea and sugar, soap and molasses
painted on it in large capitals. He
could wipe the tears away with one
hand, and with the other flourish the
umbrella in the faces of the multi
tude. 1t was certainly novel idea
and an economical way to advertise
his goods.
Year: 1877

"NARsTY. From the mouth of an
irrascible old Englishman this term
expresses the concentration of con-
temptuous disgust, and nothing can
so emphatically characterize the fl
thy liittleness exhibited bySnitfles Of
the Tribune in his puppy propensity
of thrusting his nose into other peo-
ple's unsavory droppings. Our To-
cal news-gatherer took occasion to
notice the retirement from business
of our old friend Squire Frost and
spoke of him as the "old chief" A
stupid compositor made the blunder
of substituting sold thief" which
escaped the notice of the proof-read-
er until it had appeared in the daily
edition, when it was at once correct
ed, and laughed alta a printers bull.
The connection in which the term
was uSGIi uidlt tllC DIuilltGi AletliA
fest to every sensible reader, and no
greater insult could be offered tothe
character of Squire Frost than to
regard him as an object of defense
from mere opprobious epithet. No
such term could any more attach to
him than water to ducks back,
and he would be among the first to
laugh at such a blunder. But, with
canine instinct, little Sniffles snuff
fed the unsavory odor and thrust
his nose into it with as great de-
light as a dog would roll in carton;
he fairly revels in it, tosses it in the
face of his readers and covers Mr..
Frost all over with it under the pre-
text OF defending him against Ii
bellous aspersion, not that he had
any regard for the man, but because
he loved the filth of the thing.
Year: 1877

The people of Lewiston. near the
scene of the indian disturbances,
appealed to the Mayor of Portland
for arms, supposing he could pro-
cure the arms in use by the indie
pendent companies organized in
that city. The arms being the prop
erty of the United States, the Mayor
would not take the responsibility of
loaning them without the authority
of the U. S. Military Department ;
he applied to the officer in command
at Portland, and was told that he
could not act in the premises with
out the authority from Gen. Nc
Dowell Gen. Mcdowell was ap-
piled to and replied he could only
allow the use of the arms by orders
fl ON the War Department. In the
meantime, the people exposed to
Indian outrages must remain un-
armed until orders are received


from Washington, for the use
of the arms and ammunition
lying idle in the arsenals of the
United States. Military forms and
discipline are good when used only
to protect property when it comes
to the imminent peril of life, neces-
sity should be the only rule of law.
Year: 1877

lands embraced in the survey over
the Skagit pass amount to no more
than the written contract made with
the people of Olympia to construct
the road to that place, the promise
in neither case has been kept, and
nearly all the available lands in
Western Washington are bound in
chains to the Northern Pacific Rail-
road company, from which there is
no relief but through the action of
Congress.
Year: 1877

We have seer many beautiful
tributes to lovely women, but the
following is the finest We ever read:
'Place her among the flowers, fos-
ter her as a tender plant, and she is
a thing of fancy, waywardness and
folly-anoyed by a dewdrop, fretted
by the touch of a butterhy's wing,
ready to faint at the sound of a
beetle or the rattle of window
pane at night, and she is over
powered by the perfume Of the rose
bud. But let real calamity come,
rouse her affections, enkindle the
fires of her heart, and mark her
thenl How strong is her heart.
Place her in the heat of battle
give her a child, a bird, or anything
to protect-and see her, in a rela-
tive instance, lifting her white arms
as a shield, as her own blood GRIM
sons her upturned forehead, pray
ing for her life to protect the help
less. Transplant her in the dark
places Of the earth, call forth her
energies to action, aud her breath
becomes a healing, her presence a
blessing. She disputes inch by inch
the strides of a stalking pestilence,
when man, the strong and brave,
pale and affrighted, shrinks away.
Misfortune haunts her not, she
wears away a life of silent endur-
ance, and goes forward with less
timidity than to her bridal. In
prosperity she is a bud full of odors,
waiting but for the winds of ad-
verSity to scatter them abroad
pure gold, valuable, but untried in
the furnace. In short, woman is a
miracle, a mystery, the centre from
which radiates the charm of ex-
istence."
Year: 1877

nv Nl0Wu OA VI uBAtI0n HuU


costume.


The World should move with
canton against Mrs. Swisshelm. We
charge nothing for this advice, but
it will be found valuable. That
journal undertakes to criticise let
ter of hers to the Chicago Tribune
in regard to education. The World
says: "It is natural, however, that
Mrs. Swisshelm, who is convinced
that nothing impedes women in the
race of life but flounced skirts, cor.
sets, garters and high-heeled shoes,
should suggest an academic uni
form in which her sex might fol-
low the pursuit of knowledge with
a step as light and firm as that Of
Atalanta. She does 80, and suggests
the dress of the German peasant
woman as the most appropriate for
American girls at college. She says,
speaking Of the management of the
Wisconsin University, "Let the
board require every girl under its
care to suspend her clothing from
the shoulders, to have as much
chest room inside of it as a boy, to
wear no skirt longer than six
inches from the ground, to abandon
all founces and plating and
all extra cloth which adds weight
to the dress without proportion
ally increasing its warmth; and
the girls can keep up with the boys
without loss Of health" Even to
attain such an end we doubt wheth-
er American girls will consent to
such transformation. They would
rather be ounces than dowdies, and
we are not sure that the instinct
which prompts them to the prefer
ence is not wise one. We should
consider the man who would sacri-
fee his health, strength, virility
even, in the acquisition of knowl-
edge, a fool; and why should the
woman who would surrender her
grace, beauty, femininity in the
same cause be esteemed wise? There
is more intimate connection be-
tween the costume of women and
the place which they hold in the
world than these modern reformers
suppose and it would not be a
good omen for American girls to
don the dress of German peasant
women, the only recommendation
Of which is its convenience in the
performance of hard labor. Many
ladies in long skirts and French
corsets are radiant with health and
good spirits; but no one ever saw
one Of them yoked with an OK
plowing, or carry heavy burdens on
her head or digging in the fields.
We are inclined to think that girls
compelled to wear the academic
costume proposed by Lady Jane
Grey Swisshelm would no longer
find much solace or satisfaction in
co-educatlon.
Year: 1877


ing personal use of his property.
On a certain day one Of them said
to him: cold boy, you are only
fifty, and you are a bachelor why
don't you marry? There are sew
eral pretty women setting their
caps at YOU" Riches pondered
a while, and at last replied: "No;
/ really think that that is a luxury
| must deny myself. You are
aware that | live, as it were, by
proxy; but, agreeable as l have
hitherto found that kind of life,
the line must be drawn some


where"
Year: 1877

Catholic telegraph


A Protestant contemporary as
serts that the Catholic church in
yalidateS all marriages which are
not solemnized by her priesthood.
This is not true. The Catholic
church has never taught this either
by decree Of council or pastorate of
bishop. When the education of
the managers of Protestant jour
mails is advanced far enough to see
a distinction between the legality
and validity of an act, and to dis
Germ that the latter can exist with
out the former, they will have ad-
vanced one step in acquiring some
knowledge OF what the Catholic
church gives to each on the subject
Of marriage. It's not the doctrine
of the Catholic church that a mar
riage between Catholic and Pro-
testant, contracted in an unlawful
way outside the church, has no
validity.


The Catholic party by such an
act commits grievous sin and vio-
lates a law OF the church, but if the
other party be baptized the contract
is binding for life. The tie in this
case is indissoluble. Christian mar
riage being a sacrament, is like all
others subject to the authority of the
church. So mixed marriages, where
the Catholic party is baptized,
and, therefore, a member of the
body Of the church, there is at
tached a prohibiting impediment
that only makes it illicit. The
Catholic doctrine is different when
the non-Catholic party has not re.
ceived the sacrament Of baptism
Then the marriage is null and void
for the impediment established
by the church is of a different or
der. 1t not only prohibits but in
validates, and that which passes fol
marriage is, in the eyes Of God anC
the church, only continuous stat,
Of sinful concubinage.
Year: 1877

EO~Sm0NPs N"Moou Dill.


A travelling correspondent of the
Leavenworth Times, writing from
Dodge City, narrates the following
anecdote Of the late "Canada Bill"
the famous three-card monte man
who died a short time ago. The
conversation was general at first,
and while discoursing upon various
subjects the detective said: 81 see
by the papers that Canada Bills
dead. Well, l knew him pretty
well met him often. He was as
gentle as a woman and as cunning
as a fox; he could beat any man at
his own game, and there wasn't but
one instance to my knowledge
where he got left. You know Ram
sey? killed out near Stockton, in
Rocks county, or somewhere near
there, about two years or so ago.
Bill didn't like Ramsey atall; hated
him worse'n poison, cause Ramsey
had treated him rough, at least
Bill thought it was rough, and put
him of of a Union Pacific train
once for robbing passengers. One
day Bill was operating on the train J.;
he was out on the p. u. then, and
was getting his nest feathered pretty
snugly, when he ran across young
feller sitting in a seat by himself.
Bill saw he was green, so he slaps
him on the shoulder in a careless
sort of way and asks him his name.
The lad thought he had struck a
friend, so he told him he was q
nephew of Alex. Ramsey, sheriff OF
Ellis county, and was going out to
Hays. Bill didn't want any better
chance than this to get even with
Ramsey, so he sits down and in a
few minutes he had the young fel-
lows money, watch and everything,
and didn't leave him even enough
to get his supper. After he had
feeced him, he turned to the boy
and says: you go home now and
tell Ramsey that Canada Bill got
all your money. Don't forget
now /; tell him that Canada Bill got
all your money for old acquaintance
sake. Tell him you had to g
without your supper cause | haC
your money, and that haven
forgotten the time when he put mt
off the Union Pacific train anC
made me walk


"When the boy got to Hays anG
told Ramsey about it you can bel
he was mad. So he goes up on the
road either with Jack Bridges OIL
met Jack there, don't remember
which, and they got on the same
train with Canada Bill. Bill wa,
in the smoking car, fourishine
around, when Jack and Ramsey
came in. Jack sat down in tht
corner, and Ramsey, pulling his ha
over his eyes, goes to the seat wher,
Canada Bill was playing and bet
on the game. Of course he lost
but didn't say anything until abou
one thousand dollars was put up
when Ramsey pulled two big six
shooters down on Bill and says
"Turn down that card. You know
me. Hand that money over Dr.
quick?' Bill wasn't scared at all
he was too cool for that, but simply
passed the cash over, with the re-
mark, '0fcourse the moneys yours
you won it. You hold the winning
cards in your hand 1t broke Bill
that play of Ramsey's did, but he
knew it wasn't worth fooling with
Ramsey. Bill was good hearted
but he liked to snake in the green.
les"
Year: 1877

General Butler gives lively ac-
count of his interview with the Pres
ident. 1t must be given entire, for
condensation would ruin it: eyes,
sir, | have had very delightful in
terview and understanding with the
President. l told him 1 was de-
lighted that he had postponed the
session, and that it would evenuate
in our being able to organize the
House. l told him that if the South
ern people behaved themselves and
kept their pledges it would be the
first time they ever did so, and that
they should have due credit for their
good from me. But 1 thought he
ought to have the recent murders in
Mississippi inquired into, as l was
one of those who were of the opinion
that they were outrageous massacres
caused by political hate. He said
the matter was being inquired into,
gave him to understand that / had
learned an effort was being made to
displace DR.. Parker, Postmaster al
New Orleans. He is my brother-in-
law. General Key was in the room,
and he was at once reminded by the
President that Parker was not to be
touched for the present. I told the
President that Samuel BoWles was
in the ante-room, and that perhaps
Adams was also somewhere around
at which the President looked
alarmed, and | followed up my ad.
vantage by just giving the President
my opinion of Samuel Bowles.
think l have baked any game he
was after. The President asked me
about the seven schooner loads OF
paving stones from Cape Ann Quar-.
ry, now lying at the Washington
wharves, and l told him they were
purchased by contractors, and that il
was the best stone in the world. !
did say a good word for Mullett, for
he would always buy the Cape Ann
stone when he was architect. The
statements that 1 am on bad terms
with the President are false. We
will show the Democracy next fall
how we stand. l am going to join in
the campaign in Ohio in September
next"
Year: 1877

The Washington correspondent Of
the Springfield Republican gives this
amusing and undoubtedly truthful
picture of the ludicrous contortions
produced among the "leading states-
men :" "The President is showing
good deal of shrewdness in his in
tercourse with public men. He sees
all who come who have influence.
Especially is this true of Southerners.
He consults both sides, Democrats as
we'll as Republicans. Some of the
Republicans complain that he re-
ceiyes Democrats as cordially as Mr..
Tilden would do. And the Demo-
Gratis are angry-some of them, at
least-because leading Democrats
have anything to do with him. I
know of more than one Democrat
who will hardly forgive Senator
Bayard because he called upon Mr..
Hayes the other day.. But the South.
ern Democrats say they will do as
they please, and that they will no
longer submit to be called to account
by their Northern associates for
their connuct. Randall, Cox and


Morrison--three prominent Demo-
Gratis in the House-are rather double
faced on this question of the recogni.
ton of the President. Privately
they are as clever as one could ask.
but they are SO much afraid of the
malignants of their party that in
public they feel compelled to put on
an air of sourness and ugliness. 1t
will not do for them in public to for.
get that Mr. Tilden should be in the
White House, and, if Congress had
come together as was planned, this
hypocritical feeling would have been
exhibited in a way not pleasant to
endure. By October / think these
gentlemen will not be afraid to treat
the President with decency, and the
Republican grumblers, will have got
oyer their ill feeling. Time, that
softens all griefs, will alleviate theirs,
l have no. doubt, and very likely Mr.


Hayes will within year be the most
popular President we have seen In a
long time. 1t will certainly not be
strange if such should be the CASE"
Year: 1877

1t was the Democratic majority in
Congress that forced upon the coun-
try the expense and annoyance of an
extra session, and now they are un-
happy because the President has
named a date which will moderate
the burden into its most endurable
form and weight.
Year: 1877

President Hayes probably named
this 18th of October for the opening
of the extra session in order to fur
nish the opposition with more time
to manufacture tissues" is largely
In excess of the supply.
Year: 1877

OINH otNtfttOIIIN1


1t needs no monumental pile


To tell each storied name


The fair, green hills rise proudly up


To cOnsecrate their fame.


True to its trust, WaloOmsac long


The record bright shall bear
Who came up at the battle sound


And fought for freedom there.
They even say that farmers went
forth to do battle for freedom with axes
and scythes.


The celebration of the battle was in
I776 with Noah Smith, afterward Judge
of the supreme court and grand master
of the Masons, as orator.
The grave of Col. Nathaniel Bush,
who commanded the Bennington militia
is unmarked and unknown.