smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

The history of the red cents, in such
common use before the war, is attract
ing much attention at this time. The
honor of the invention of this species
of coins is given to Robert Morris, the
great financier of the Revolution
These coins were first issued from the
Mint about the year 1892. and they are
now very rare. Since the daWning Of
the centennial year, one or two of them
have made their appearance, and re-
Gently it was the fortune of the writer
to see one. The particular coin in
question is the property of Mr.. 5. ID
Sholes, of the Allegheny Council. Or
the diverse, or front, it has an impress
sion of the sun and dial, underneath
which are the words Mind your Bus.
iness," and on the other side "Fugio'
and '1787." On the reverse side {
circle of thirteen rings on which j:
stamped United States" and in the
centre I'VE are One" 1t has always
been understood to have been design
ed by DR.. Franklin. Such is correct
description of the first cent. In this
centennial era correctness in matters
of history is important.
Year: 1876

The wreck and ruin brought upon
the Republican cause in the South by
the civil rights bill can never be esti-
mated. In North Carolina and Ten
nessee alone it lost the Republicans
ten congressman l seriously doubt
whether the Democrats would hold
Congress to-day but for the votes they
made out of that measure. Talk about
intimidation, violence and fraud
Much as there has been of these, the
injury to the Republican cause in
the South from all these. and shot
gun arguments thrown in, does not
compare with the disasters worked out
by the Civil Rights bill. 1t caused a
revolution, and gave every doubtful
Southern State to the whites, aud they
will hold the advantage gained through
the stupidity of the Republicans in
Congress. But for that measure Ala
bama and North Carolina would to-
day be emphatically Republican, to say
nothing of other Southern States, and
the election Of Hays would not be in
volved in the doubt that it isl. Y.
r., IN The Cincinnati Commercial.
Year: 1876

H. r. "" devotes q letter in the


Cincinnati Commercial to expressing


what was done-or rather what was


not done-by the State Republican


Convention at Nashville. He says


The Tennessee Republicans, in all


the years of their existence in Tennes-


see, never made such geese of them


selves as in Thursdays State Conven-


ton at Nashville. One cannot read


their proceedings without feeling Of
humiliation. Their platform is no
improvement upon that of the Demo-
Gratis, and In one particular is very
much worse. The Democrats deny
that they favor reputation, but op-
pose an increase of taxation. They
propose to keep the tax at four mills,
which will perhaps pay the current
expenses of the Government and one
fourth of the interest on the State
debt as it falls due. While this is not
reputation, 1t is so near it that
thought certainly the Republicans
would take the bull by the horns aud
adopt clear-ringing, straigthout, hon
eSb pldHks uCCfdEluB ln IbNOr OF Au iu-
crease of taxation sufficient to pay all
the interest on the State debt. But
instead Of this, 10 catch the votes Of
those who care nothing for the plighted
honor of the State, they adopt lot of
shilly-shally resolutions, some with
double meaning and some with no
meaning at all, and reafirm the May
platform, without a hint as to what
the May platform was. In short, their
platform bears evidence of having
been built in a great hurry, aud is
simply disgrace to the party that
it. i


The excuse which leading Republi-
cans give for the demagoguery Of their
proceedings at Nashville, is that We
want to catch enough of the repudia-
ton and anti-dog law vote to secure
the Legislature. We will sell out the
Governorship, honor, credit, the ma
terial interests of the State, and turn
the sheep over to the dogs, and the
whole concern to the devil-anything
to get the Legislature next winter and
elect two Republicans to the United
States Senate.
Year: 1876

The Chattanooga Commercial (Rad-
ical in an article after theState Repub-
lican Convention at Nashville closes
with the following paragraph:


Zone thing we desire to say and
now for ourselves. We will not sup
port Dorsey b. Thomas for governor,
or any other demagogue who presents
himself to the voters Of Tennessee as
the advocate or apologist of Tepudia-
tiOn. When we make up our mind to
turn thief, we will prosecute higher
and braver branch of the art OF rob-
berry than that of swindling men who
had faith ia the truth and honesty OF
the people of Tennessee.
Year: 1876

cided by the great struggle ended,
trust and believe, forever.


When elected | believe that he will
enter upon the duties of his high Office
with the single purpose of serving his
country faithfully, and with no low
er ambition than that of devoting
every faculty to the glorious task
Of rendering the nation prosper
Gus at home, honored and respected
abroad. / would like to appeal to
those who in civil life have honored
me with their friendship and support,
and especially and most earnestly to
those men to whom | have never ap-
pealed in vain-my comrades of the
war-and to ask them to stand once
mere with me in our country's cause,
in civil contest now, as formerly in a
deadlier struggle, and support to the
uttermost the election of Mr.. Tilden
to the Presidency.


/ believe that the issues now atstake
are similar to those for which we
fought-the honor and well-being of
the nation.


am very truly yours,


GEO. B. MCCLELLAN.
Year: 1876

Beauty and style are not the purest
passports to respectabllity-some OF
the noblest specimens of womanhood
that the world has ever seen have pre-
sented the plainest and most unpre-
nossessing appearance. A woman s
worth is to be estimated by the real
goodness of her heart, the greatness Of
her soul, and the purity and sweetness
of her character and woman with a
kindly disposition and well balanced
mind and temper is lovely and attrac-
tive, be her face ever SO plain and her
figure ever so homely; she makes the
best of wives and the truest of moth
ers. She has higher purpose in life
than the beautiful, yet vain and super
cilious woman, who has no higher am
bition than to faunt her fpery in the
streets, or to crafty her inordinate
vanity by extracting fiattery and praise
from a society whose compliments are
as hollow as they are insincere.
Year: 1876

twill be remembered that man left
Stevenson's train at Grand River, COM
ing into Bismarck alone through an In
dian country. To this day those who
composed that party do not know what
become of him. They spent day
searching the prairies for him, and final
" went on, leaving cards along the route
to inform others that might follow in
relation to him. The man had been. sick
and left camp probably while dersnged.
He returned to Bismarck, and said he
left because the party held : meeting
and had agreed to kill him. Of course
there was no foundation for this story.
HIS name was Ole johnson.
Year: 1876

The records Of the "lubs advance with about
equal steps, and, during the seven days, no
change has taken place in position, though it
was to have been expected that Hartford would
have taken its second place back yesterday by
what looked like foregone victory in game
with the Athletic, but the luck willed other
wise The standing of clubs as between them-
selves in games lost and won is as follows:
Year: 1876

In the excitement which followed the i'm
peachment of Belknap the Republicans
were naturally so anxious to divert public
attention to some Democratic culprit, that
they were ready to strike out wildly at any
body whom they fancied to be within
reach. Their attack on Mr.. George II.
Pendleton was the result Of this morbid
condition of the Republican temper. The
investigation into his affairs was promoted
on the pretext of suspicious circumstances
attending a payment made by the govern
ment to the Kentucky Central railroad !;
but the only point on which even partisan
malice found it possible to hinge an accu
sation, concerned his private business and
family relations matters in connection
with which he was not responsible to the
public in any way 1t was a curious offset
TO the malfeasance in office of cabinet
officer, to criticise the behavior Of private
citizen towards his sisters children. An
account of tue whole case will be found in
this paper, and any fair person who reads
it will say that it certainly and completely
clears his personal character of all the i'm
putations lut upon it. That account pic
lures very forcibly and clearly the relations
of Mr. Fendleton to the heirs of the Bowler
estate, and shows him. in the loving de-
scription of one of them, not as wicked
uncle" Of the fairy tales, selfish and
greedy guardian, but as wise, generous.
| self sacrificing kinsman and friend, whu
has earned by his services new title tt
the love and gratitude Of those with whom
he is most closely connected Those whom
he has been wickedly accused of robbins
unquestionably regarded the surrender Il
him of considerable sum, from the award
made in the Central railway case, as but {
partial payment for years of labor anc


for great ana continued sacrifices in thei


behalf. 1t is pitiable that political spite
should be carried to the point of in:rudips
upon and misrepresenting transactions il


their nature absolutely within the pale o


domestic life and of the circle of men


home duties and affections.
Year: 1876

FoR Book BINDING or Ruling, go to
THE ARGUS Bindery. No better work
can be done in this vicinity Prices reason
able, Work done quick. Leave orders
at The Argus Counting Room, opposite
the Post office IF
Year: 1876

TRY THE ENAMELLED PIPE. IT WILL Non
! Rust crack ard costs only trife more than
common iron pipe Is positively THE BEST thing
for water service pipe. have the exclusive agency
for Rock Island. FRED HASS


Store in Star Block
Year: 1876

How to Make the Grange a

 Perfect Success.

 The farmers road to success is as plain as the road to market. Education is the thing needful. Educate yourselves, wives, chil- dren, everybody. Read, study, investigate. No one is too old to learn, and any one who can read plsil English, even though it may be impcrfectly, can become his own teacher.

 Why is the farmer a pack horse, "a newer of wood and a drawer of water" for the world, feeding those who neither toll nor spin? Because he has neg lected to educate himself. Right there is the trouble. He delves away with his good right arm" and lett one too, but he never had but six weeks schooling and his boys can get along as well as he, and as for the girls, "education don't do them no good no how. This fallacy must be entirely erad- icatcd from the minds of our pco ole before the farmer can take his proper position. Just let the far mers, mechanics and laborers be come educated, so that every voter shall know his rights; then they will dare maintain them. Then they will learn exactly how to ap- propriate their own earning to their own benefit, and how to drive the human drones out to grass.

 We ask, seriously ask you all to ponder over these things and ask yourselves if it pay IS to keep your ch ldren always in the cotton field. Does it pay to economize by re- fusing to subscribe for papers and to buy books? Never. No, go and pay for the paper, buy some useful books and set the example Of reading them yourself. These are cheap modes of acquiring an educ ation. T.
Year: 1876

adopted the American Fire-alarm Tele.
graph systems of New York. The city
is poorly supplied with fire cisterns.
These are much more needed than the
telegraph.


The Executive Committee of the Ohio
Sunday-school Union meets in this city
next Wednesday.


Should the bill pending before the
Legislature tor taxing dogs become a
law, fine revenue will be collected in
this county as nearly every family has
one or two OF these animals.
Year: 1876

REDUCTION OF FEEs.-A bill has been re-
ported in the House which will have the
effect of considerably reducing the fees o
the Commonwealth's attorney of Richmond
inasmuch as it proposes to allow no fees in
misdemeanor cases hereafter except where
there is conviction.
Year: 1876

Mrs. Stuart, Chairman of the
Board of Immigration, has issued a
large edition of circular, suggest
ing in small compass the varied at
fractions of the Territory as a field
for enterprise and home for the
homeless. They are to be distrib-
uted at Philadelphia during the
Exhibition.
Year: 1876

HOWEVER useful the Tumwater
wooden pipes may be for the con-
veyance of water. they are far from
success as gas pipes. The leakage
has become so serious that the Gas
company have decided to take them
up and replace them with iron pipes
throughout.
Year: 1876

The will of the late millionaire, David
Snow, of Boston, contains suggestions of
value to his devisees and to the public.
In the closing article of the testament
he says:


1t is my earnest desire and request
that all my heirs (this, of course, is more
especially directed to the males) should
invest their means in the safe way, and
pursue some steady, permanent, legiti-
mate business or employment with great
perseverance and indsutry, and success
is sure to crown their efforts in due
time. This course is not only an honor
able one, but is almost always the most
successful and satisfactory in the long
run; whereas dealing in stocks and en-
gaging in uncertain and rash specula-
tions 1 regard as species of gambling
at best. a mere lottery, and although
sometimes pleasing and exciting when
the luck is good, still in the main such
course is generally very injurious and
demoralizing, and often ends in ruin,
both pecuniarily and morally. 1t is my
hope and ardent desire that nv heirs
will ever be honest, liberal, steady, in
dustrious, kind to the needy, and attend
regularly some church, my choice being,
of course, the Methodist, which has
been SO long dear to me.
Year: 1876

A strange expression darted across the
hero's face; and then, with bended head,
he gave one glance into Fidelia's eyes
that made her cheeks, from her very
heart, blush.


"These are yours to give" he said,
touching gently the brown curls that
the evening wind had blown across his
arm. May II" he asked; and being
unforbidden, and while they still moved
onward in the current of the crowded
promenade, he succeeded in possessing
himself of lock of the beautiful hair :;
and he took the little keepsake with him
when he went to Europe upon his ap-
pointed embassy.


And Fidelia-had she any keepsake of
him None, excepting the association
Of his grandeur with the fascination of
her " first ball, and recollection that
she never took without dropping her
eyelids, and blushing cheek and heart
recollection of one glance.


Two years abroad, but all this time
Madame Ricard corresponded with her
friend Colonel Darrell; and she sent him
every three months, quite unknown to
Fidelia, photograph of her lovely
protegee, whom she managed to have
frequently with her in cities where her
passion for travel allowed her to linger
fortnight or month.


The people of the town in which the
Kingslands lived were much excited by
an event that occurred during the first
year of Colonel barrels absence in
Europe. The event was the rebuilding
OF the Darrell homestead in a style of
mingled comfort and magnifcence un-
paralleled in the region round. When
the edltice was complete, the grounds
We're elaborately embellished, and the
interior was furnished in captivating
taste.


Still greater was the excitement when.
two years after tho night of the ball
given in his honor, Colonel Darrell re-
turned to his native town; and having
settled himself in his superb mansion,
made Fidelia Kingsland his wife. It was
rumored that there had been q CORE
opondence between the now welded
lovers for half year or more before the
colonel's return.


dame, Madame Ricard, had vanished
from the earth. But Fidelia never for
got her benefactress. Particularly she
remembered the words said to her bv
her strange visitor on the night of her
unhappiness: "There is nothing so
consoling as q friend"


When she became established in her
own house, she would not allow herself
to sink into the absorbing happiness of
love. She was good and afectionate to
all. even to her step sisters, who forgot
now in her prosperity that in adverse
hours they had treated her with con-
tempt. The townspeople called her, ac-
cordingly as the adjcctives struck their
appreciating sense, affable, kind, chari-
table, courteous, friendly.


Friendly WAS the true word.


For friendship was my fortune"
said Fidelia. "Let HE never be miser
of the inestimable prize
Year: 1876

Many of the Northern States have
Presidential candidates, and therefore
it is perfectly proper that friend Barr, of
the Pittsburgh Post, should have his can
didate, and with becoming consistency
and good judgment he has announced the
name of his distinguished fellow-citizen,
Judge Black, who is eminently qualified
for the highest position in the gift of the
American people. Judge Black stands
at the head of his profession in this
country, and his great ability as a lawyer
is everywhere acknowledged. Honest
and incorruptible, having lived life of
integrity and usefulness, we recognize in
him everything that would make first
class President; consequently we cannot
question the judgment of the Post, in its
choice among the many great men of
the Keystone State, and if Pennsylvania
is to have the candidate, we have no OBJ
lection to Judge Black, and if nominated
will give him our cordial support
Youngstown (Ohio) Nindicator.
Year: 1876

THE Boston Globe offers its party the
following valuable ADVICE: "The men
who are now in Office must not be per-
mitted, through the advantages which
they hold, to run the conventions and
make nominations. The people must do
this work. The men who are earnest in
their desire to secure reform, and not the
oficeholders, should ruu the party this
vnar
Year: 1876

IT is gratifying to know that the Demo-
Gratis of Ohio are not afraid of Cincinnati
or of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Enquirer,
Of the 18th.


Why should we be as long as johnson
is Mayor of Cincinnati? If we remem-
ber he was reelected in spite ofthe op-
position of the Enquirer. Perhaps the
convention being held there may help to
redeem Hamilton county that was lost
to us last fall so unexpectedly.
Year: 1876

INELIGIBLE ELECTORS. livery day or
two there comes telegraphic report that
some elector Is ineligible, and consequent
ly a vote is lost to one party and gained
by he other. This is sheer nonsense.
There is no principle Of the law better es-
tabished than that when for any reason
a person elected is disqualified the election
is a nullity so far us that office Is con-
cerned. People have right to vote for
whom they please and if they choose to
vote for person who lacks the c0nstitu-
tlonal requirements, their votes are thrown
away, but the next highest number of
votes does not CONSTITUTED majority. The
closeness of the vote has occasioned
numerous inquiries INTO the eligibility
Of electors, and every day or two we are
treated 10 n disquistion on the disqualif-
cation OF some one or more Of the success
ful ones. First it was the Vermont and
next the Oregon pos t-master; then six
from Southern States who had been reb-
els and did not have their disabilities re
moved then a Rhode Island Centennial
Commissioner then Connecticut man
uamed whose name was Ingersoll but
spelt Ingersal; and to wind up with we
hear that North CAROLINA man is one of
the Southern Claims Commission, and
therefore cannot act. This catching at
straws to deioat the popular will is not
a healthy indication. Whichever way
the honest vote Of State is giA en- is the
way it should be counted, and those who
stick at technchalties are no friends Of
free government.
Year: 1876

AS a general rule, people have ebsst
As much as they can do to attend to their
own business, but now and then you find
apigeon skulled philanthropist with ears
p!ncked up over his head like jack-rab-
blt, devoting much more of attention
to other folks affairs than he does his
own"


The Hollister Enterprise man must
have had somebody in his minds eye
when he penned the above, but it is true,
nevertheless, and will apply to more lat
itudes than one.
Year: 1876

CoNNEcTIcCT.-While this State has
given her Electoral vote for Tiden and
"Retolm" the State shows substantial
Republican triumph in the Legislature.
That body was intensely Democratic last
year, but this year the Republicans will
have majority Of twenty. The repeal
of the Registry law which made n great
change in the vote Of the cities Of Hart
10 d and New Haven is what carried the
State for Reform" The Republicans
gain United States Senator in place of
English.
Year: 1876

New YoRK.-The Democratic major
lty IN New York is Il little more than
10000. Tilden carried the State by the aid
Of the city which polled over $4,000 ma
jorlly for him. His strength came from
those wards where there is the most pow
erty, ignorance and crime. The &lums
of the city have thus thrown the prcsi-
denlial election in allegiance, as without
the vote Of tie State of New York Til
den would have been beaten, even with
lis solid South"
Year: 1876

A North CAROLINA farmer, to catch
the thieves who had been stealing his
meat, put some strychnine on one Of the
hams in his smoke-heuse. He has for
gotten which one, and the whole family
dare not touch one Of the hundred and
fifty hams.
Year: 1876

AN old lawyer says that the three
most troublesome clients he ever had
were young woman who wanted to be
married, a married woman who wanted
to be unmarried, and an old maid who
didn't know what she wanted.
Year: 1876

And still the Democrats are lamenting
that they let Colorado into the Union, for
If she had not been admitted there would
be no doubt as to the Presidential contest
But the reformers felt sure Of Colorado,
the Democratic Congressman from that
State was elected by largo majority in
1874, and they believed the new State
would be Democratic. But it isn't, and
tha.'s what the matter with the Democra-