smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

go Ia the matter Of the suit said to have
been initiated by DALTON against the


owners of property in the heart Of the


city, covering a district reaching from
y Turn-Verein Hall to Fourth street
along Spring, and along Fourth to
Fort street, and embracing the beau
tiful improvement of Mr.. TITUS and


many others, we have this to- say as
q public exponent of sentiment that


we consider the man who will quietly


stand by and see his fellow citizen in
vest all in the shape of Improvements
in property he considers his own, and
so recognized by all the. town, a dan
gerous enemy to society. 1t is high


time that the Legislature should do
something to stop thisiniquity, if not
the people will be compelled to take
the law into their own hands and de-
fend themselves against those who in
fest the Court House seeking whom
they may devour. Every respectable
old State in the Union have laws for
the protection of citizens against this
class of litigation, and no States need
for such law is more urgent than ours.
Year: 1876

AN exchange thinks it odd that
while every decent man is herrified
when lie hears a wife has been beaten
by her husband, they all laugh when
husband is beaten by his wife. 1t
is not odd, because every one knows
that it is not one husband in a. thou
sand whose wife ought to whip him
that does it. 1t is not probable that
the whipping in either ease improves
the domestic virtues of the whipped
party, but if it is a pleasure to whip
one of the family, we do not see why
wives should not indulge in the pas
time as we'll as their husbands.
Year: 1876

ARE we not going a little too fast in
the way of incuring Indebtedness? 1t
is quite easy to issue bonds, but it is
not quite SO easy to pay them off.
sWhenwe say" charge it, we should
remember that the day will come
when we will be asked to pay it. If
this city and county issues the bonds
now asked on different appropriations,
what with the six hundred thousand
asked for Senator JONES railroad and
the Southern Pacific railroad bonds,
the property of our citizens will be
pledged for the payment of nearly or
quite three million dollars to say moth
ing of the taxes which must be paid.
1t is time the people began to look
these things straight in the face. If
the debts are made they must be met.
Too much Improvement will bankrupt
any individual or county. a4
Year: 1876

THE Republican wall over the al
legged Discrimination of the Democrat
ic majority in the lower House
against Union soldiers in the dlstribu-
tion of offices, turns out to be entirely
uncaled for so far as the facts are con-
cerned. Investigation shows that
twenty-six Union soldiers hold office
in the present Democratic house,
while only eight were so favored by the
last Republican Congress. Union SOL
diers affirm that they find more friends
in the House now than they found at
9 any time during the sixteen years
that Congress was controlled by the
Republicans. So that howl is a false
and hypocritical one, made for polit-
ical effect only. ~ -
Year: 1876

STATE ELEoTIoNs took place this
week in Colorado and Georgia. In the
former the entire Republican State
ticket was elected by majority Of
about 1000. That party also has
majority in both branches Of the Legis-
lature, which will elect two United
States Senators and three Presidential
electors. Ill


The victory Of the Republicans in
Colorado is more than set off by an
overwhelming triumph by the Demo
Gratis in Georgia. In this State the en-
tire Democratic ticket was elected BY q
very large majority, though the vote
was light. The Legislature. which will
choose q U. S. Senator in place Of Hon.
Thos. Norwood whose term will expire
on the 4th Of March next, is largely
Democratic. The election was very
quiet and peacable not single disturb
ance occurring in tho whole State.


Since the above was put in type later
returns have been received from which
it appears that the boasted Republican
successes 10 Colorado are all humbug.
and that the result in the State is very
much in doubt, the election being very
close. with the odds in favor Of the dem
ocrats. As several democratic counties
are to hear from the result may yet be
a democratic victory.
Year: 1876




To accommodate our growing manufactur-
ing interests we have built large additions to
our Buildings in Smyrna where we Will short
ly remove our shoe machinery. From this
some have inferred that we would relinquish
our RETAIL Boot and Shoe trade here. We
gratefully acknowledge generous support
from this community, and assure them that
the STORE will be continued, and, by en-
ploying cheap home labor and home-tanned
leather and morocco, make shoe that will
give the most wear and comfort for the least
money. Our stores require the labor of about
twenty-five persons throughout the year, and
keep about Sis, 600 at home that would other
wise 60 to prosper some other locality. We
have made some mistakes, all manufacturers
will, but we shall use materials of known su-
periority in the several grades of our shoes
hereafter. We are supplying most Of the best
trade around Smyrna and here, and filling
orders from many Of DeHaven's former Gus
toners all over the Peninsula. We will give
you an exhibition of Boots and Shoes Of our
own make at the coming FAIR, and will ask
a verdict and continuation of your patron
age. Very respectfully,


R.M. & W. T. JOHNSON.
Year: 1876

There is no subject 1t present which
excites more interest than information
In regard to the manners and customs of
the prehistoric races of the world, any
hint, however slight, being eagerly seized
upon to assist in increasing our knowl
edge in this direction. The peculiarities of
the skeletons are, of course, well known
from the remains extant, the bones
resisting the ordinary agencies of de
struction. So with the greater portion
of the implements and utensils tlsed by
these people, whether of wood, bone,
stone, or metal. The case is quite diff
ferent however, in 50 far rs human lin
eamehts are concerted, The instances of
corpses preserved with the flesh and the
skin in a better or worse state, being
very rare but when occasionally these
are found, clothed, in exceptionally Sc
cure resting places, the record of their
discovery is eagerally scanned.


Quite lately, in eXcaYating tumultis
of the bronze period in Jutland, Denmark,
three oaken collins were met with. In
one was found skeleton of woman
clothed in wooden chemise with q long
skirt. Around the lions was girdle, and
the whole body was envelOped in a wool
en- cloak, Upon the head was q fillet of
hair with bronze diadem, the arm was
ornamented with bracelets, and a band
was around the neck, all of bronze. In
the middle of the coffin was a beautiful
clay vase, and a bronze dagger with a
horn handle.


The skeleton of young man was
found in another coffin covered with a
cloak fastened together with Il pin. BY
the side was the scabbard of long
sword, in which was inserted small
bronze dagger. A box made of bark was
near the head. The third coffin con-
tained the skeleton of an adult female
covered with a cloak. Around the loins
was fastened short skirt Of wooden
tissue, with cincture formed with
twisted woolen threads, and on the head
was wooden hood.


In the same tumulus was n large
square cavity inclosed by numerous
stones, in which were several swords and
daggers in bronze, and a double bronze
button covered with gold. Under the
sod which covered this tumulus was
found pile of small stones knife, and
various other articles
Year: 1876

Scolding is mostly habit. There is not
much meaning to it. 1t is often the result
of nervousness and irritable condition of
both mind and body. a person is tired or
ANNOYED at some trivial cause, and forth
with commences finding fault with every
thing and everybody in reach. 1t is As
tonishing how soon one who indulgcS in
it at all becomes addicted to it and con-
firmed in it. Persons who once get in
the way Of scOlding always find some
thing to scold about. If there is moth
ing else, they fall to scolding at the
mere absence of anything to scold at.
1t is extremely contagious. Once intro
duced into a family, it is pretty certain
in short time, To affect all the mem
bers. People in the country more read
lily fall into the habit of scOlding than
people in town. Women contract the
habit more frequently than men. This
may be because they live more constantly
in the house, in a confined and heated
atmosphere, very trying to the nervous
system and the health in general; and 1t
may he, partly that their natures are
more susceptible and their sensitivcness
more easily wounded. The proper rem
edy for the habit, if formed, is to ex-
periencc an endowment of that divine
love shed abroad in the renewed heart by
the Holy Ghost, the characteristics OF
which are that ii is not easily pro-
voked," "thinketh no evil, and :" beareth
all things"
Year: 1876

THE success of the new harmonic
system of multiplex telegraPhy "a
charmingly simple name, by the way
cxcites the suspicion that our knowledge
of the powers and Uses of electricity is
merely in its infancy. 1t suggests, more
over, an immediate application of the
fluid in a manner which will benefit i'm
mensely all those large cities and towns
of the country which are gifted with
musical taste. If the telegraphic aPpa-
ratus can be 50 constructed as to produce
notes it would seem an easy matter to
connect an operatic company or Thomas
orchestra by wire with every town which
las telegraphic facilities, and make one
concert answer for all. 1t would he a
,rrat saving to the performers, and the
wholesale character of the ps rformsnce
ould undoubtedly cheaper it consider
ably.
Year: 1876

Not many wears since certain miners,
working far under ground, came HPon
the body of poor young man, VINO had
perished i'm the sufocating pit forty years
before. Some chemical agent TO which
the body had hcvu suDJectId--ln agent
nrepared i'm the laboratory Of nature
had efiectually arrested the progress OF
decay. They brought it up to the sur
face, and for while, till Thoroughly eh-
poscd 10 the atmosphere, it lay-the
image of fine young man. No conyul-
sion had passed over the face IN death
the features were tranquil; the hair
black as let. No one recognized the lace;
a generation had grown up since the
miner went down into the shaft ior INC
laft time.


But q tottering old woman who had
hurried from her cottage at hearing the
news. came llp, and she knew the face
which. through all these long years, she
had not forgotten. The miner was to
have been her husband the morning
after that on which he died. There
were no dry eyes when the gray-headed
old pilgrim cast herself upon the youth
full corpse, and poured into his deaf car
many words of endearmeut unused Iof
forty pears. u was . touching contrast
the one 50 old and the other 60 young
They had both been young these loEg
years ago, but time had gone on with the
living and stood still with the deau'
Year: 1876

Already the mass have begun to move
towards the Black Hills. Yesterday a
big partv left this city bound thither,
and many more will leave within the
next four weeks All those going from
here 90 by the way Of Cheyenne, which
is considered the quickest and best route
at this time of the year, on account OF
the difficulty Of crossing the Platte on
the Sidney route, which would be other
wisc the best way to go. A Herald re
porter Yesterday interviewed a man just
from Cheyenne, who says that town is
perfectly alive with people going TO the
hills. and that all kinds of business there
is consequently brisk. Everybody who
has anything in the shape of team is
fitting it up to carry out the people who
are pouring in from all quarters, and the
prospects are that by the 1st Of May
there will be more people in the Black
Hills than there are in Omaha to-day.
Mr.. Ward, who married a daughter of
Mr. Hayrod, proprietor of the Atlantic
House, in this city, left Cheyenne yes
terday for the Black Hills, with a saw
mill, and many other persons are on the
way with everything that can bo needed
to help the miners to make themselves
comfortable Omaha Herald.
Year: 1876

SEVERAL years ago a noted highway
man was arrested in the south Of Ireland
and curiosity drew numbers to the Jail
to see the man loaded with irons who
had long been terror to the country.
Among others was a banker, whose notes
at that time were not held in the highest
estimation, who assured the prisoner
that he was very glad to see him there
at last. The highwayman, looking up,
replied: "Ah, sir, did not expect that
from indeed, l did not, for you
know well that when all the country re-
fused your notes, took them
Year: 1876

The ladies OF England are not dis
posed to allow their sisters on this CONT
nent to have monopoly of honors won in
intellectual contest with the lords of
creation" Miss Issbella G.. Clark sue,
cessfulIy passed the major examination
OF the English pharmaceutical society
and wa thereupon duly admitted as
pharmaceutical chemist Her perform
ance in passing the examination is the
first on record of a lady doing so.
Year: 1876

New YORK, Jan. 20.-The Direct Cable
Company has resumed business via Novn
Scotia The officers of the Company invite
the most searching investigation in regard
10 their action at the time of the lust break
in communication and are prepared to prove
that the interruption was known at the
Stock Exchange as soon as it WIS possibl.
to communicate the information after re-.
ceiying II themselves 1t is intimated that
some very disagrceablC disclosures will I've
made at this investigation which will not
reflect any great credit on those whose in.
trrest it is to oppose the Direct U. 8. Gable
Company.


The Marshall (Ga) Messenger cries For
the Lords saks, friend, don't keep telling an
editor how to run his paper Lit the poor
fellow find it out himself.
Year: 1876

To the farmer who complains con-
siantly of his hard lot we have no COM
forting word. for he deserves none; but
10 those who are east down by the poor
returns promised by the markets we
say: Because wool is so low and sheep
bring So little remuneration, do not sac
ritice the hocks. On the other hand, if
pork pays better. do not run exclusively
Ia hogs. The better way is to save the
best animals. weed out the poor ones
and get into that class of stock which
pays the best in dull times. There will
be no loss in doing this when the out :
look is brighter. Potatoes will sell for
n good price this Fall, and those who
haye titled the best aud looked out the
sharpest TO meet the bugs will reap a
good reward But this should not lead
men TO put their whole farms to pota-
toes another year.


The best and most successful farmers
keep about the same proportion OF crops
and stock one year with another. and
thus the iiuctuating markets always
manage tn have something that brings "a
good price.


The one great bane of farm life is the
tendency to get into deb. without the
means to meet the obligation. 1t is
true that the old motto runs nothing
venture. nothing have" ba. the farmer
ventures enough when he sows his crops
and looks towards the harvest without
the load of debts that many carry
which is the result of living beyond
their means
Year: 1876

should he planted in The corn field,
now as soon as possible. 1t is ilnpor-
tant to have them dropped in such
manner as not Ia interfere with the
next ploughing Where the corn is
checked this is easily done. Also in
very wide rows, a. they can then be
planted in the middles, equidistant
from the rows Of corn. W here the
drills are too narrow 10 admit Of this.
the best plan is to plant with hoe
between the hills Of corn. Drop not
less than six peas in hill.
Year: 1876

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT recently cele-
brated his eighty second birthday, having
been born Nov. 8, 1894, in Cumington,
Mass He looks little over three score and
ten, having still an erect figure and elastic
step. He shows his vigor and fondness
for exercise by walking, as he quantity
put it, every morning down to his E0en-
ing Post" The poets head and face are
covered with a liberal supply of silvery
locks, and he rather takes a pride in see
ing his classic and venerable self as others
see him, for there is scarcely photog


rapher in town who has not fine pof-
trait of Bryant. At public dinners he
may often be seen, and at speech making
he is not at all backward. Although he is
frequently to be met in the streets of the
city, he rarely attends the opera or theater


Mr. Bryant writes so little poetry now he
may be said to have laid down the Tyre !;
but of general literary and journalistic
labor be still performs great deal Of work.
Year: 1876

The great commentator. DR.. Lange,
has been fifty years professor. He was
the son of peasant and in his boyhood
sold milk Falling in love with young
lady of high family he resolved to make
something of himself that he might win
her. He borrowed books and studied and
soon became known as brilliant scholar
In later years he married the girl of his
early choice.
Year: 1876

A first rate service can be done by the news


paper press of the country to all persons intend


ing to visit the Centennial Exhibition by ad.


vising them to leave trunks and all other cum


brous baggage at home. The people who are


free from these impediments are immensely


we may almost say infnitely-better of. at


this particular time, than those who bring


them. The trunk or any other piece OF lug
gage that cannot be carried in the hand by the
visitor, and be in the railway car under the eye
of the visitor while trsvelli ng, Is perpetual
source of anxiety, disappointment and vera.
ton, Railway stations have pyramids OF them,
which the owners never see until about to re-
turn home What can be carried in the hand
valise. the satchel, or with the wraps In the
shawl strap is all sufficient for visitors to the
Centennial Exhibition. The prevailing style OF
dress in Philadelphia at this time is the dress that
people travel in. 1t is recognized and encour-
aged as the one proper for all occasions whether
for street dress, dinHer dress or evening dress,
and it is universal at the Exhibition. Travellers
and visitors are here in sufficient numbers to
make the style; and especially those who have
old, easy-fttng, comfortable boots and shoes
never think of putting on any others We re-
peat that no luggage is needed at this time for
any purposes of etiquette or ceremony In
Philadelphia beyond what visitors can carry
in the satchel, valise or shawl strap. Those
who bring trunks are simply sowing for them
selves the seeds for big crop OF delays, regrets
disappointments and vexations. 1t will be .
great service to circulate this advice. Leave
your trunks at home.
Year: 1876

REPORTS from all parts of the country
agree that the fall trade is far in excess of any
season since the panic, that profits are fair,
that collections ale easy, that confidence is
re-established. The way for specie lesump-
ton is making itself easy, and unless the re-
dictionary policy of the infationists is per-
mitted to prevail the day for return to the
hard-money stan dard is not distant.
Year: 1876

SUICIDE and simuations of suicide appear
to be favorite recreation with a certain
grade in the United States Navy. Not long
since Claude Aventine, discharged apotheca-
ry, made dramatic exit from this world OF
trouble, apparently for the sole reason that
his wife was in Portland, and it was too much
exertion to visit her; so he sent her word to
meet him in another world and hastened
thither himself. Now another man of the
Navy, name and rank not given, comes to Sa-
co, discovers that his wife is going to the
great show at Philadelphia with the individ-
ual generally known as another" and pre-
tends an attempt at suicide, making himself
however can iidate for the bath and not for
the hospital. If his wife is woman of spirit
she will not lose her trip on account of her
husbands play-acting.
Year: 1876

NEW JERSEY is boasting of a peculiar
apple tree. A quarter of century ago VIII
liam Babb took bud from tree which bore
greetings and another from one which bore
sweet apples. Cutting them in half he placed
the sour and sweet halves together and
budded them to tree. The result is an
apple halt sweet and half sour. They ought
to call it the Tilden and Hendricks apple.
Year: 1876

SOME one is anxious to call He'll Gate
"Newton's Channel" But the people will
not suffer the old name to pass away; it is
too picturesque and expressive to be dis
carded. 1t is corruption of the Dutch
Horu Gait or whirl-passage, but time and
popular pronunciation have given it larger
meaning
Year: 1876

THE vocabulary of the Maine Standard is
more curious than pleasing. 1t speaks of the
editor OF contemporary journal as one who
"reves in the slime of foul detraction as a
hog delights to wallow in his own filth. Low
and vile both by instinct and education in the
slums OF society, he is incapable OF becoming
anything better than putrid excrescence up
on the profession" There is much more Of
the same kind where this comes from. Posi-
bly, it is looked upon as rhetoric in the Ken
nebec valley, but to the reader elsewhere it
suggests the thought that the Standard itself
is an ''excrescence upon the profession" and
one to which ugly epithets might with JUS
tice be applied.
Year: 1876

THERE is some curiosity in regard to the
attendance on the State Green back Conven-
tion at Auburn next month. If all men fol-
lowed their convictions not few of the fol-
lowers of Tilden and Hendricks in this State
would be present.
Year: 1876

We do rot read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are In
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty CT good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
HicatiOns that are not used
Year: 1876

ExcURsEoN.-Gouley's Excursion to
Atlantic city will stop at Hammonton
going down so as to allow parties hold
Ing deeds for land to view their lots
and will take them aboard on the
return frem Atlantic City.