smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

funerals must be- to say the least embarrassing The
family remains In some secluded part OF the house. the
mourning friends fill the drawing and the minister
is stationed the stairs, with nothing in front OF him
but rescoed walls aud expected to be very touching
and tender In his lessons and speech The inspiration is
gone he talks Into the air. and the whole dull
heavy and Improbable No with feeling heart
stand in the presence OF death without saying what
the occasion requires, and can talk on stair
case TO people who are up stairs and other people who
down stairs without feeling great sacrifice
has been made to the demands Of fashionable society


In every great city be ioend not only the inhab.
tants OF every cme but the representatives of every
stage OF progress. II sometimes seems though tho
centuries inextricably mixed, that under tho
roof OF the nineteenth shelter found for those who
belong to the second third. Right under the shadow
Of the Christian cathedral in Havana have lived fetch
worshppers who have practisod not only tho pecuari
ties but the horrors OF their religion Idols have
been found and ceremonies have been attended which
only initiate the lowest forms OF superstition, but
partake OF the bloody rites OF Central Africa The
worst always parallel with the best The nno-
teenth century to down through few
strata and then you the fifteenth ana tho
tenth, and If you search carefully you will long
find relics OF barbarism.


There is quite largo Chinese population in New
York. II is, however, made up mostly OF men. They
employed largely cigar makers and cooks
and stewards They divided into two very distinct
classes, which scarcely intermingle First the
opium caters and smokers, dull, somewhat sovenly
and thoroughly demorazed sot, and, second, those
who never opium, generally honest, ceanly and
bright They have room TOR public worship, kind
of extemporized Joss house. where the idol reigns in
all the grim ugliness OF wood, tinsel and paint 1t is
interesting explore this bit Of the Celestial Empire
and to study the habits of people who boast of moth
ing much as the length OF their pigalls, which ap-
pear TO have in their minds, some connection with
religion and the future life
Year: 1876

The Hens Tell us this Globe is to
Fall TO Pieces In Three more
Centuries.


What does all this mean, any


way? A Monmouth, ILL.,, hen has
laid an egg with distinct i'm
print of the stars upon it. A Da-
venport hen has laid an egg with
a like imprint of the letter G, and
now follows a Upton hen with an
egg marked with the figure 8.
Putting the three egg together
and conjuring up all powers of
divination with which we are ac-
tquainted, the only solution of the
mystery that we can obtain is that
this United nation, whose emblem
ia the stars, is to exist as nation
for three centuries, than perhaps
all the ties that now bind it to-
gether shall be broken asunder.
The reasonableness of this solu-
tion is confirmed by the fact that
a Washington county hen lays an
egg every day containing three
yolks.


Oh, America, is it possible that
in three short centuries thou shalt
be busted up? Oh, how much we
shall miss thee! Vainly we hoped
to see thee grow gray with the
hoary locks of tens and tens of
centuries. But calmly shall we
submit to the inevitable ! We
will clad ourselves in the dismal
garb of the mourner, and resign
edIy await thy approach to the
end of the days of the third CEN
tury of thy days upon the earth,
then silently and softly we will
walk with thee to thy last resting
place.-Er.
Year: 1876

Nothing can exceed the anxiety
felt by that man who has been
left to take care of the house dur
ing the afternoon, with instruc-
tions to see that the bread in the
oven don't burn and that the cat
doesn't get at the canary while
at the same time he is obliged to
keep the neighbor's hens from
scratching up the garden seeds
Fulton Times.
Year: 1876

How terrific must be the molecular in
the brain of man who comes home at
one o'clock in the morning singing Too
raj, 'ooral Oddly" and mistakes his wife's
patent hustle, standing pale and rigid in
the corner, for the spirit of his deceased
mother-in-law.
Year: 1876

WOMAN SUFFRAGE-FemaIe suffrage
seems to be making progress in Con
necticut, for The lower house of its leg
islature has recently passed a bill, as
an experiment, giving females suffrage
for one year in municipal elections,
which the Senate is now considering.
But the paper published at the capital
frightened at the prospect, a.e calling
on the legislature to go slowly and
not hurry matters in that direction.
giving as reason that this was not
an issue in the election at which the
legislature was chosen, and that the
members are not legisIating on lis
merits, bu; to get rid of a subject up
on which they have become wearied
by the pertinacitJ of its advocates.
Year: 1876

IL 1852 James & Blaine was a teacher in
The Philadelphia institute for the blind. His
two years term in that institution would
seem to have affected his own political eye
sight, for on no o,her hypothesis can his
future crooked course be accounted for. Bet
ter would it have been for Blaine, hundred
times, if he had stayed out of the blind in
stitutute. Perhaps there would now be less
of cloud on his life and reputation. Even
since that time he has been blind leader of
the blind, and in accordance with the Scrip
tnral assurance, both have fallen into the
ditch.
Year: 1876

GRANT will get third term, Just as he
wanted, though 1t will not be spent in the
presidential chair. In obscurity and retire
meut, he viii spend his third term chewing
the bitter cud of reflection and remorse.
Year: 1876

A Maine sensation ID of . somewhat
startling description. A young man belong
ing to the navy returned to his home at
SAGE one day last week, and as he left the
depot some enterpri7.us friend told him that
his wife was going to the Centennial with
another man. The naval hero diverted his
steps from the homewsld path then, and
going to . hotel procured q piece Of char
coal. With this he blackened spot on his
breast, and then, pricking vein, he rubbed
little blood upon the centre Of the spot.
Thus prepared, and with loaded pistol in
his pocket, he sought his home, The family
were all there, but before any of them could
welcome him, he threw open his coat to
expose bis black vnd bloody breast, whisked
his pistol from his pocket and fired 1t under
his arm, and fell to the floor as If dead.
Well, the family were terribly frightened at
first, and terribly mad when they found out
that 1t was only sham suicide.
Year: 1876

The tidal wave which swept over Della.
ware on Tuesday, is but the inception Of
the greatest victory for the Democratic
party that the State has ever known. The
comparisons with the majorities Of tho past
elections show that the Democrats of the
State are fully aroused to the necessities Of
the hour, and will fully retrieve what they
may have lost in the last city election 4;
and it now becomes matter Of serious
consideration, if the defeat to the party in
the city election was not benefit to the
party. We think that the result of Tues
days work plainly shows that nothing has
been lost.
Year: 1876

At the Grand Opera House, on Saturday
night, we will have representation of the
thrilling drama of frontier life, "Davy
Crockett" by Frank Mayo. We need hardly
speak Of the merits of this piece they are
too we'll known to the public, and with the
excellent talent of Mr.. Mayo to sustain the
little role, 1t will be presented to our people
In an excellent style.
Year: 1876

The "Commerciap wants to know what
would happen if the Council with two
thirds Republican majority were to refuse
to pay the Police. Why, we would be
without protection, and the ballot handed
oyer.to Republican repeaters.
Year: 1876

THERE seems to be no doubt that New
York will go Democratic in the next cleo
ton. The reports coming into the head
quarters of the National Democratic Com
mittee are the most encouraging ever be-
fore known at such an early stage in the
campaien.
Year: 1876

The Southern Republicans, it is said, have
already begun their acquisitions upon the War
Department; and there are those "rumOrs OF
"warn which may prove the occasion of war
itself. There is even a statement that in
formation has been communicated to the man
ayers of the campaign in Washington of the
pressing necessity of detachment In the
Petersburg (Va.) district The story is one
which we neither accept nor reject. we re-
gard it, however, as a pregnant sign or the
times that such reports can be received with
certain degree of credit, for this shows
exactly how sensible men are constru-
ing the recent action of the Secre-
tary. Interference of military char
acter ought TO be thought impossible, and
it is not. Military interference ought to be
considered unlikely, and it is not. There is
something alarming even in the exaggerations of
the Democratic alarmists. There is something
10 render us apprehensive in any gossip which
connects thu name of Chandler with the move
ments of the Federal soldiery. The Republi-
can newspapers, greatly to their credit, are
not slow in approaching the peril to which the
politicians in Office have exposed the party,
and one of them (The Utica Nerald) sums up
the matter by declaring the action of Secretary
Cameron to be "more smart than WISE"
"The ORDER" says another journal (1he Boston
Globe, "can have no other purpose than that
of o threat" These quotations sufficiently
indicate that perfect understanding OF the
purpose of the order which all the official
twaddle in the world cannot mislead. The
best supporters of Hayes and Wheeler do
not desire to have them supported in just that
way.


Nor should those who believe that Gov.
Hayes means just what he says about the in
terference of ofiice-holdors in elections be con-
fronted by the accusation that he is to be
helped by assessments levied upon the Fed
eral offce-holders in defiance of a clear law of
Congress. A pretty construction of the stat
ute is that which permits placemen to pay
money for political purposes to anybody and
everybody except other servants of the Gov
eminent! Such an evasion would be simply
mte..u.h'c. AS the advocates of reform will
b. ,,'euccd Ivy any pecuniary aid extorted for
the Republican ticket from Office holders, and
aa .he election OF Gov Hayes by such means is
not desirable, we trust that all attempts to levy
a tax upon unwilling officers of the Government
will be met by a prompt refusal. We venture
TO say that the Republican candidate does not
want any votes obtained by dodging law of
Congress. We have no authority to speak for
him, but so much We make bold to say.
Year: 1876

argued that silver has not fallen but that gold
has rison; another, that the simple TACT OF the
decline i'm silver is shown by its gold prices LII
London, to which we all certainly do look as
the market which fixes prices; others, that IL
is really reputation to pay the public deDt IN
silver, and that it is n subsequent legal altera-
ton of contracts to make silver legal tender
for debts contracted prior to 1878; others
still. that gold and silver were equally the me-
dunn in which the public debt was payable
that if gold had fallen instead OF silver the
debtor might he just as clamorous (wlth as
much reason) for payment in silver, ana
that the creditor only takes tho ad-
vantage of the option when he pays
in silver fact worth while has been
brought out by THE TRIBUNE's Washington
correspondent, namely: that the abandonment
of silver in the Coinage act of S73 was not made
surreptitiously, but after long discussion and
the fullest publicity. The evasiyeness and
secrecy of this change have been the staple
charge of the silver champions; Mr.. Bland of
the commission has asserted it, and so dld
Senator Jones in his elaborate speech although
he was in the Senate at tho time.


1t is noteworthy that the rcsolutiOn-although
of course the members of the commission Will
not be literally guided by its langui ge-does
not direct them to inquire why silver has
fallen, but "to inquire into tho change which
"has taken place in the relative value OF gold
"and silver" by which expression we are to
suppose the real or intrinsic value OF the
metals is meant, not their legal relation to each
other as fixed by the legislation of one or more
Governments, although the latter is naturally
brought into the inquiry. Necessarily there
must be standard of comparison. and II we
say that gold and silver have both changed
(no matter in what direction). we can mean
only change as compared with COM
modities. With what commodities, or
with commodities how measuredf Ii
measured in some universal commodity,
like labor, then measured wheref If we say
that silver has declined, that Is, measured by
cold, by which the world has always been i'll
the habit of measuring everything, we have
an Ineligible statement; if we begin to say
that silver has not fallen, but that gold has
risen, we merely say that prices have de-
clined, and take step toward befoGging the
whole subject. Gold must be retained and re-
ferred to as the sole standard, or we go out
adrift on sea of cOnfuSiOn this once under
stood, it is practicable to study over what Is
called, in a sort of legal fiction or c0ntempla-
ton, the double" standard, over the practl-
cal power of Governments to mOnetize or de-
monetize one or the other of the metals, and
over tie probable effects of coinage legislation.
Year: 1876

Finding Turkey involved in the gravest
troubles, the Sultan of Morocco has become
convinced that he ought not to pay her his
annual tribute. This decision strikes another
blow at the antiquated and indefensible GUS
tom which the Porte has hitherto enforced
upon its vassl States
Year: 1876

Although the bottom fell out of the Frank
Ing bill, both political parties are stufing the
mail-bags. "Part of Congressional Record
"Free" is an "open sesame" to the Post
Office. OF what advantage is it when both
sides know the trick Will Congressional
buncombe win votes anyhow
Year: 1876

The dscord in the coal combination may
eliminate In the withdrawal of the stronger
corporations to-day. Charges and counter
charges of violation of the compact limiting
production have been made, and the gulf is
now so wide that it will be difficult to bridge
1t over permanently. Such combination dies
hard; but when it does die-and fall to pieces
it must, sooner OF later-the public will haze
the jOlliest kind Of wake.
Year: 1876

Controller Green's reply to the delegation of
taxpayers who urged him to accept nOmi-
nation for Mayor is rather ambiguous. He
does not intend to take an active part in the
canvass, but thinks it is mot yet time to
make decision" Taxpayers only waste
their breath in paying compliments like these,
however well they may be deserved. Mr..
Green is fond of talking about municipal
finance, but he is too discreet to commit him
self unnecessarily. He knows that political
convention is the only agency through which
a nomination can be effectively made.


A dead calm has fallen upon Pennsylvania
politics Party leaders seem to think that 1t
is idle in midsummer to labor at the oar ana
whistle for the wind, and are waiting Tor the
October breezes from Ohio and Indiana to fill
tiIer canvas. The pressure of the hard tunes
bears heavily upon the politicians, and they
are anxious to reduce the expenses OF the
campaign to minimum and to force the
lighting during the last month. A Republican
triumph is regarded as certain. The imitation
ists have not yet learned to hurrah for Tilden
with much zest the Philadelphia Democrats
are as stupid and treacherous as ever ; and the
able leaders of the party are either under
ground or in the ckgrOund Gov. Curtin
sacrificed his popularity last year by nursing
Gov. Aliens rag baby, and now carries only
a few stragglers with him into Tilden's camp
Although the chances are all in their favor,
the Republicans cannot afford to nominate
weak or commonplace men for Congress. They
began well in the Wilmot district. Let them
20 on in the same path.
Year: 1876

Nothing is more common than tc
hear people talk Of what they pay fol
advertisements, etc, as so much given
in charity. Newspapers, by enhanc
ing property III the neighborhood
and giving the localities in which
they are published a reputation
abroad, benefit all citizens, especially
if they are merchants or real estate
owners, thrice the sum they pay for
their support Besides, every pub
lie spirited citizen has laudable
pride in having paper he is not
ashamed of; even though he should
pick it up in New York or Washing
ton.


A good looking, thriving sheet helps
property. giyes character to locality,
and. is iA,s sany respects desira-
bic public convenience. If from any
cause the matter in the local or editori-
al columns should not be up to your
standard, do not cast it aside and
pronounce it good for nothing, until
satisfied that there has been no more
labor bestowed upon it than is paid
for. If you want a good paper, it
must be supported-not in the spirit of
charity, but because you feel a neces-
sity to support it. The printing press
is the power that moves the people.
Year: 1876

Rev. Cornelius Daley, of Fayette-
vile, this county, died on last Mon
day morning, after several weeks i'll
ness of pulmonary disease. Faith
er Daley was one of the best and
most gentlemanly men we ever knew.
He had charge of the Catholic
Church at Fayetteville for over a
quarter of a century, and was sincere
" loved by his Pensioners, and by
all who knew him. He always had
kind word for every one, and especial
" for the afflicted and the needy
poor. In life and conduct he exem
plifed the true character of his higl
calling. The people of that neigh
borhood have sustained a severe Loss
in the death of Father Daley
Brown Co. News.
Year: 1876

meeting, published in another
column, it will be seen that the cred
itors of the Southern Ohio R. r. Co
have generously agreed to surrender
nearly half the amount of their
claims, reducing the whole amount
to little less than $4,000. This
debt is now the only obstacle in the
way of the legal and final dissolution
of the old Co. and the formation of a
new one, to prosecute the work of
constructing a railroad to The Jack
son coal region. We hope measures
will be adopted without delay, to
raise this amount by voluntary sub
scriptions from the friends of the
enterprise, so that we may be ready
either to join hands with our Cler-
mont neighbors in building their
narrow gauge road to the coal fields,
through Hillsboro, or to finish a
standard gauge over the old road-bed
east to jackson.


1t will also be seen by the letter
from Williamsburg, read at the meet
ing by our townsman, Mr.. ]. S.
Black, that a reconnaissance of the
route east of Williamsburg towards
Winchester, is probably being made
this week. This shows that there is
no time to be lost, if the citizens of
Hillsboro desire to prevent the new
road being built south of us, and
drawing off a large portion of the
trade we now have with that region.


We trust the committee appointed
to confer with the people of Cler-
mont, will be on the alert, and as
soon as an opportunity presents
itself, will meet the committee hav-
ing charge of the clermont enter
prise, and lay before them the facts
in favor of the Hillsboro route, which
we think cannot fail to convince
them that it is their true policy to
adopt that route in preference to the
one talked of by Sardinia and Win
chester The latter route, besides
being much longer, must be a far
more expensive and difficult one, and
we cannot think that the people of
Clermon will be so blind to their
interests as to give it the preference,
when all the facts are fully laid be-
fore them.


The distance from Williamsburg
to Hillsboro is only about 80 miles,
and from Hillsboro to Bainbridge,
to which point the Springfield &
Pomeroy Narrow Gauge road from
Jackson is now being built, is only
IS miles Thus it will only be neces
sary to build about Is miles of road
east of Williamsburg to give the
Clermont people direct connection
with the best coal region in South
ern Ohio. By the other route talked
of, by way of Sardinia and Winches-
ter, the coal fields cannot be reached
in less than from 80 to 100 miles,
and east of Winchester, much of the
route would be through hilly coun-
try, where q railroad would be hard
to build and very expensive.


The editor of the Batavia Courier,
in his last issue, speaks of still anoth-
er route, having Portsmouth or Gal


ipolis as the eastern terminus Of
their proposed road, but the distance
to either OF those places would be
much greater than to cambridge via
Hillsboro, and no good coal could be
reached by the Portsmouth OF Cali
polls route, in less than from IS to
leo miles distance from Batavia.


We hope these important facts
will receive due consideration from
our Clermont friends, and if so, we
think they cannot fail to decide the
question in favor of the Hillsboro
md Bainbridge ronte.
Year: 1876

The present winter is represented
to be one of almost unprecedented
severity in Russia, and Europe gen
orally, affording a marked contrast
to the character OF the season in the
Western Hemisphere.
Year: 1876

PIERREPONT LETTER IN THE MISSISSIPPI


CASE.


have had dispatches from the Presi-
dent. It Is best to convey to you his
ideas by extracts from his dispatch ::
''rhe whole. public are tired out with
those annual autumnal outbreaks in the
South, an,l the great majority are ready
the part of the Government. !
heartily wish that peace and good
order may be restored without issuing
the proclamation but II It Is not, the
proclamation must be Issued, and II It
Is, / shall instruct the commander of
the forces to have no child's play. IT
there is necessity for military inter
ference there is justice In such interfer-
ence as TO deter evil-doers."
lei would suggest the sending
OF dispatch Tor better by q private
messenger) to Gov. Ames, urging him to
strengthen his own resources In restOr-
ing order before he receives Govern
ment aid. He might accept the assist
ance offered BY, the citizens. Of Jackson
Ames and his advisers con be made
perfectly secure. As many Of the troops
now in Mississippi as he deems neces-
sary may be sent to Jackson. IF he is
betrayed by those who offer assistance
he will be in o position to defeat their
ends and punish them" You see by
this the mind OF the President. with
which l and every member Of the
are in full accord You see the diff
culties, you see the responsibilities
| which you assume. We cannot under
stand why you do not strengthen your
| selfin the way the President suggests,
nor do we see why you do not call
the Legislature together and OBJ
tain from them whatever powers and
money and arms you need. The Con
stitution Is explicit that the Ex-
ecutive Of the State can call
upon the President for aid in suppress
ing domestic violence" only "when the
Legislature cunnot be convened" and
the law expressly says "In case Of an
insurrection in any State against the
government thereof, II shall be lawful
for the President, on application
Of the Legislature Of such State.
or the Executive. when the
Legislature cannot be convened, to
call" etc. It Is the plain meaning oi
the Constitution and the laws, when
taken together, that tho Executive ol
the State may call upon the President
for military aid to quell domestic
violence" only in case OF an Insured
tion in any State against the govern
ment thereof when the Legislature car
not be called together You make ne
suggestion even that there is any insur
rection against the government Of the
State, or that the Legislature would moi
support you in any measures you NIGH
propose to preserve the public order.
suggest that you take all lawful means
and oil needed measures to preserve
the peace by the forces in your owl
State.