smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

in the edge OF Mound City: by boring
there ha. been a large vein Of Stone
Coal found about 90 feet under the
surface Of the earth; and Gen. Hall,
Of ot. joseph, has an engine running,
and hands employed who are sinking
4 shaft down TO the coal. and it will
not be very long before they reach it.
The coal Is Of the best quality and
will not only be source of profit to
Gen. Hall and others interested in the
enterprise, bat it will doubtless ben
eft the surrounding country.


MOUND CITY


is & Young town but is growing very
rapidly, and certainly has q bright
future before it. for the country
around it is exceedingly fine, land with
such things as the mineral we'll and
coai mine to aid it, and being situa-
ted near the center of the county, it
certainly will become quite q town,
and some entertain the idea that ii
is destined to be the county seat of
Holt county before many more years.


CROPS AND GRASSHOPPERs


Only short time ago it was circu-
lated III Savannah that the grasshop-
pers had returned to Holt county
but there was 10 foundation for the
rumor. The grasshoppers did not
do much damage in Holt county this
year; OF course there were some spots
III which they did do some injury, but
to take the county over there never
Year: 1875

cents on the one hundred dollars. Both
cannot be carried out. While the Iegis.


lature cannot intended TO have violated
the Constitution, we find that they
haze done so in the effect to
carry out two intentions which are
fundamentally repugnant. But it Is OBJ
noxiOus to the constitution fof other rea-
BOns. The constitution, article two, sec
ton seventeen, says no bill shall become
law that embraces more than one sub
ject matter, that subject to be expressed
In the title Of the bill. The bill that
EN- braces this section was introduced,
indirectly, for revenue purposes for Stste
ana county, and not for municipal pur-
poses. Municipal corporations are not
mentioned in the title-Only State and
county. This il fstsl tindef the eonsti-
tuition. This is a salutary provision of
our constitution, for it prevents that
species Of secret legislation that has been
so injurious to the State. Neither the
public nor the Legislature can be put
upon notice, when the title contains one
subject and the body Of the bill another.
AS repeating, revisOry or arletdatory
act, section 81 must also fall under the
latter clause of article section II, be-
cause the act Of which it is part does
not, in its "caption or otherwise" recite
the title or substance Of law or laws as
to municipal corporations which 1t re-
pesls, reyises or amends. 1t is said,
however, that this part Of the constitu-
ton does not apply to repeals and amend
ments by implication. Under such a
rule of construction as that 1t is difficult
to see what the constitutional provision
is worth, since 1t may be so easily
evaded. But repeals and amendments
by implication are never favored, and
since sit is principle OF very extensive
operation that statutes Of general ma
ture do not repeal by implication char
ters and special acts passed for the ben-
eft Of particular manufacturersn see
Dillon, section 54 there is a fea-
ture about this section 81 that
we ought not to pass unDoticed.
By its location in the act it follows
the general repeating clause which
almost invariably concludes all acts of
the legislature, evidently showing that
it was a section, the matter of which
was an afterthought. This itself would
the wisdom of the constitu-
ton which requires the subject Of an act
to be embraced in its title. We have to
come to these conclusions from an in
vestigation of this important question,
and are glad to know that the rules of
law will sustain what is right and
proper. There can be no reason why
money and stocks should be taxed less
than other personal property or the
lands Of the State that give homes and
support to the people.


r. ]. MORGAN, Chancellor.


agree with the conclusions reached in
this opinion, but not as to the reasoning
as to some Of the points decided. 1 will
further examine the question as to the
right of taxing nonresident stock
holders in national banks before an
my conclusion as to this point
in the cases before me.


c. W. HEISKELL, Judge, etc.
Year: 1875

The subscription entertainment last
night at the Academy Of Music in New
York for the benefit OF fund to meet
the expenses Of the American riflemen
in the contest in Ireland next summer
with the Irish team netted four thousand
dollars.
Year: 1875

The Black Crook troupe, in order to
perfect its organization, has postponed
Its engagement in this city until the
nineteenth of this month. By that
time the troupe will have organized
satisfactorily, and will give our people a
first-cl2ss entertainments
Year: 1875

A hired girl should be ingenious. One
of them, in the employ of Jackson
street family, has discovered an unique
way of extracting teeth She suffered
nearly all of last week with an aching
tooth, but did not have the courage to go
to dentist. Friday afternoon it troubled
her so much, as to force her to look about
for remedy, and she finally hit upon a
plan. With piece of stout twine she
made a loop which she put about her
tooth Then she took bit of soap and
rubbed it on the floor opposite the back
door. The other end of the twine she
fastened to the knob of the closed door
Then she took position on the soaped
boards, so as to make the twine nearly
taut, and commenced to lean back.
When she had acquired figure of about
forty five degrees, the soap suddenly took
hold, and she came down on the floor
with such force as to knock pair of fine
vases from the mantel upstairs, and
there she sat, reaching out for breath,
when the affrighted family made their
appearance while the offending tooth
dangled from a string against the door.
She suffers no more from the toothache.
but it will be some time before she can
wear hustle,
Year: 1875

Turning into certain street l saw a
company of boys playing very earnestly
and evidently enjoying themselves great
ly. One | noticed in particular, who
seemed to be the leader of their sports !;
and just as 1 came up with them he was
proposing a new game and giving in
structions in regard to it. His whole
heart seemed to be in the thing. At
this moment a window was thrown open
in the house 1 was passing, and a sweet,
gentle voice called: Charley, your
father wants you" The window at once
closed, and that mother, as l took her to
be, Immediately withdrew without even
stopping to see whether Charlie heard.
The boy was so busy. that doubted if
that quiet voice would reach his ear.
But it seemed she knew him better than
/, The words hardly escaped her lips
when everything was dropped; the boys
were left at play, and Charlie was soon
within doors, where, of course l could
not follow him. Charley had learned to
obey. Always remember that prompt,
cheerful obedience is what you are to
render to parents and teachers. Do not
wait to be spoken to the second time, but
run at the first call.
Year: 1875

| What mistake some good people make
when they maintain, within the home cir
| Gle, the rigid rule and decorum which


becomes irksome even during a commit
tee meeting; when parents and children


assemble at the table in solemn silence,
and finish the meal within the prescribed
minutes; and the late arrival at the
| breakfast table is scowled at, reprimand-
ed, and remarked upon by mother and
| father, aunt and uncle, until the more
punctual juniors come to regard him as
| black sheep.


Oh, horrid home, where the little boys
are never seen without their school books,
or the little girl without a towel to hem;
where ma no more dares to buy rattle
for the baby without mentioning the ex-
penditure to pa, than anybody dares to
throw open the parlor shutters or tuck
up the curtains, or even at the table to
have more of this dish or less of that
The small boy who hates fat is not ac-
commodated, as Jack Sprats wife was, by
anybody. The tall girl who naturally
likes pudding, has her triangular wedge,
and no more; while the eldest son, out
growing his liking for the dish, is reprov-
ed for leaving piece on his plate.


Order and good housekeeping are
charming but the good order of a person,
and the regular supply of rations necessa-
ry IN workhouse, are not suitable for
home. Home is no home unless, as far
as reason will allow, the tastes and wish
es of the youngest child are consulted;
unless there is freedom of word and ac-
ton, speech and love, and goodwill with
out measure.


When was child, home was the
place where the wicked ceased from
troubling, and the weary were at rest.


Everything was always forgiven there.
There was no awful rod behind the door,
no domestic dungeon under the roof. l
do not think l grew up worse woman
because l was not whipped, or put to bed
without my supper for dressing the bed
post in grand-mother's best lace cap, or
making paper dolls, against orders, in
the front parlor-because life was not
made burden to me by forcing fat into
my unwilling mouth, and sugar candy
forbidden as though it was poison.


l could shed tears over the wretched
homeless children of the house where dis
cipline, as strict as that of the army, is
maintained, though their fare is costly
and the dress perfect, and their future
prospects as to an inheritance final.
They are more to be pitied than the
children of any poor man, who cluster
about their parents knee without any
fear of chiding; who are encouraged to
tell their troubles, and kindly lead away
from follies; and who will not in later
days, remember "pa" as the old gentle
man who fogged them, and INA" as the
old lady who kept the keys. and boxed
their ears for them, but think of them
with that respect and reverence due by
a child to its parents.
Year: 1875

From a private letter received in
Washington the following extract will
| be appreciated when we state that the


sentiments are those of distinguished


Union General Of high rank during the
late war. He has travelled extensively
over the country and has become con-


vinced that the war is not over yet, that
| the enemy will not stay whipped, but
will prepare to renew the fight just as
soon as the Democratic party attains
possession of the Government again,
Hear him:


"I think we are going to have war
How does that assertion strike you?
Good, easy men would smile at it. Hon
est, earnest men would exclaim, we hope
not. Democrats and rebels would cry
out with loud voice, what id fool
Nevertheless it is true. Listen. When
a rebel mob with fixed bayonets march
upon State capital and seize by force of
arms the power for which they them
selves are hungering, and when the swift
suppression of the rebellion by the Gov
ernment is denounced by the Democrat
ic press as high-handed outrage, and
when this same mob violence is charac-
terized by these same allies of rebellion
as patriotic heroism is it not time for US
to consider whether or no we are not in
danger of a new rebellion2 Ten years
have passed since we were battling for
the life of the nation, and the very men
we were then fighting not only live but
live to make laws for you and me, the
crippled soldier, the widows and orphans
they themselves made in their mad fren-
zy to destroy the nation. North and
South, East and West everywhere we
are thrust aside to make way for the
uhn hol6 of
rebellion. majority of the governing
party in Congress in q few short months
will be ex-rebel soldiers. AS to what
they will do you and l know What the
Democracy will do we know just as WELL
When the Democratic mayor of New
York city appoints as his chief clerk the
private secretary of JEFF Davis, and the
sheriff names as his clerk of arrests the
keeper of Libby Prison, we don't need to
rest in doubt as to what the future of
this country will be under Democratic
rule


I'll did aught to bring upon my coun-
try this great calamity, may God forgive
me. But, my friend, the time is coming
when l can make reparation-full, COM
plete. l don't believe that the rich, ripe
fruit of the great rebellion is to perish
like dead sea apples, to ashes, on our
lips. The men who saved this nation
will not, in my opinion, be struck down
by the same foe that ten years ago groveled
in abject submission at their feet. There
is higher duty than duty to the Con-
stitution, and that is our duty to the rights
of man-the individual rights of man.
To this creed the President stands to-
day, against all opposition, and with him
and by him we will stand. Andrew
johnson said once that treason should
be made odious. If we submit now-if
we permit this Government to pass into
the hands of those who would have, but
for US, destroyed it-then will patriotism
have been made odious, and our shame
and disgrace be but the precursor to our
own calamity and ruin. What will the
Administration do? Will it stand firm2
hope so. 1t need have no fears. The
people on this question will stand by it;
die by it.
Year: 1875

A forty day husband, on whom the
memory of the honeymoon already seems
to have become powerless, wants to know
why his wife is like small pie. Do you
give it up 2-Ans,oer Because" says the
unfeeling wretch, ''she is now little
tartp'
Year: 1875

A farmer recklessly publishes the fol-
lowing challenge: II will bet $42 25 that
my hired man can take longer to go to
the harvest field, get back to dinner
quicker, eat more, do less. and bear down
harder on a pannel of the fence, than any
other hired man within fifteen miles of
the flagstaff of our town"
Year: 1875

When they want to find out in the
country if girl is courting or not, an
old lady steps in and remarks, II say /
there amt no one sick in this here house
or nothin', is there? I seen light burn
in nigh on to twelve o'clock last night,
but don't smell no campfire nor moth
in round"
Year: 1875

One of the leading elders of the Penn
sylvania Mennonites, forty years ago,
strength. Passing a crowd of idlers at
the courthouse. he was stopped with the
question, MILLER, they say if one smites
a Mennonite on one cheek he will turn
the other. Is that so?" ''That is true"
The questioner here gave him smart
blow on the cheek, when Miller turning
the other cheek, had it duplicated.
This raised great laugh as the fellow
turned away. 'Stop. my friend" said
Miller: IF you had read little further
you would have found another passage
that we also hold by: With the measure
that ye mete unto others it shall be
meted to you again, and heaping full,
and picking him up bodily, he fairly
thrashed the wall with him.
Year: 1875

Only woman's hair Who has not,
some time in his life, picked such gold
en- thread from his best coat collar, and
felt his heart beat the quicker for it Or
gazed upon tress laid away in some
nook, and not felt the influence of ten
der memoriesP Only woman's hair
and yet we don't like it in q biscuit
Year: 1875

A Poughkipsie parent lately induced a
croupy youngster to make quite hearty
meal Of buckwheat cakes and maple
molasses," but the latter proved to be
nice syrup of squills. The boy said he
thought something allied the molasses the
very minute his father told him to eat
all he wanted. ...
Year: 1875

n SHOCKING SUICIDE.-Thc suicide of
Mrs. Bissinger Of Reading, who drowned
herself and three children in the canal at
that place on Tuesday week, is another
evidence of the misery occasioncd by the
wanton in supplanting the lawful and
loving wife in the husbands affections.
Bissinger the husband of the lady is the
proprietor of one Of the most widely and
extensively patronized beer saloons in
Reading. He is also the leader of the
keading Mannerchor, fine musician. and
highly respected. His place is sort of
Board OF Trade, where the business men of
the city meet at 10 O'Clock almost regularly
each day, and to whose convenience he
has set apart Il room for business purposes
lie went to Reading a poor boy, married
his wife while iii humble circumstances.
ana after his marriage his mothcr.in,law.
who was then conducting the saloon. and
had made considerable money, nnictly
retired, leaving the management To- kjS~in-
ger, WIN" made SOME money ont Of it. lie
mas been married for about nine wears. tbc
tour last OF which have been year, Of GREAT
care and anxiety to the wife growing out
OF neglect, caused hy the Influence Of n
Young woman with whom he had become
intimate.
Year: 1875

SINGULAR CAsE.-Is Mr.. j. IT. Primrose
NE Fortunate Individual ?-The Wilmington
Con'n'erc,Gl OF yesterday publishes this item :


gentleman in this city, doing business
on Market street, has come into possession
OF SIX hundred dollars from an unknown
source; Several days ago, he received n
letter rom New York informing him that n
conscience stricken individual wished to
make restitution of money which he
wrongtully appropriated to his own use. and
enclosed in the letter blank agreement
lor signature. The return was to be con-
olt'oned only upon signature of the agree
ment,, which simply stipulated that he
sshouid not endeavOr to find out the source
rom whence the money came. This
paper was duly signed and forwarded to the
person VINO was acting as agent of the con-
sclence-stricken individual, and the return
mail brought check for six bundled
dollars on New York bank. The check
was deposited in one of our CITY hanks. and
III due course of time reached the bank
upon which it was drawn, was honored and
the money obtained on it.


The gentleman who received the money
Is not aware of ever having been defrauded
IN his life. Once while doing business at
smyrna, Del, which he relinquished when
ne removed to this city, his store was broken
open and robbed of about $4OO i'm goods
and money. 1t may be possible that this
Is the money which is now being returned.
The gentleman then had strong suspicious
rs to the perpetrators of the robbery, but
was unable to confirm them by sufficient
evidence, and to this day the matter has re.
manned as it did the morning after the
store was broken open. Nor does the
gentleman care now to investigate the case.
II the money was returned on account of
thlS' the individual who sent it may resi-
secure III the course which he has taken.
as the recipient Of the money says he will
make no inquiries as to the source from
whence the money came, nor seek to
unravel the mystery of the robbery. lie
VIII live up to his agreement.
Year: 1875

of the transaction, as he also did in the
release of Benton through the Intervention
of Harrington, and many of the citizens of
Washington who condemn his course in
the Benton matter are disposed to sympa-
thize with the Judge, as the misfortune
which has now befallen him comes like the
blow which wounded the feelings of the
late United States Treasurer, who was
dcirauded by a young man whom he had
put in office and had known from chilhood.
Young Fisher has been arrested, and the
accomplices in the transaction, it is said.
will be brought to justice
Year: 1875

at is not our fault" says a Milwaukee
editor. "that we are red-headed and small,
and the next time that one of those over
grown rural roosters IN ball room reaches
down for our head and suggests that somo
fellow has lost a rose bud out Of his button
hole. there will be trouble
Year: 1875

The tenor and soprano in Boston choir
were married recently. \ facetious ex-
change says that they met by chants, the
usual way, and ultimately agreed to duet.
And the first addition to the family will be
Il trio.
Year: 1875

woman entered a crowded street car
the other day. and for moment or two no
one offered her a seat. Then a fat man.
affected with the asthma, bcclloned to her
and said; Madam please tal<e-takc'
cough, cough. She stood there waiting
for his seat, and a~ soon as he was over his
coughing fit, he concluded: Madam,
please take care and not step on my sore
foot The look She gave him was appal.
ing, Lu, al the rest saw the joke.
Year: 1875

Governor brogdcn, Of North Carolina, has
written a letter to the New York HraLfon
the uhjrct Of the representation of his State
at til" Centennial Exhibition. He hopes
North Carolina will make a liberal display.
The Legislature having failed to respond to
his special message on the subject. he will
appeal to the leading citizens to give their
patronage and support He considers the
celebration Of the greatest moment in the
interest Of l'eace and friendship, believing
that it will exercise the most favorable in
fiuence III promoting concord, union and
harmony. and he halls it with JOY and will
do all in his power to secure its success.
Year: 1875

One night recently a clergyman OF this
city was called down to his pmlor at midi
night to marry a couple who had just ar
rived in town.


II will take Your certificate" said the
parSon.


"We have no certificate, replied thy
feminine.


II cannot marry you without a certii-
cate from Mr.. Gallagher the registrar,
remarked the parson


suppose You marry us to night, and
we bring you a certificate in the morn
ing" said the woman


1T will not do at all - | cannot break
the law for the pleasure of any party,
was the response.


Then you will not marry us to night?
said she sharply


"No maam-I will not"


"Well, them" said she-looking ut the
manly illiam, we will go and marry
ourselves. New Haven Reg.
Year: 1875

A RAT IN TIE TELEGRAPH SEHl ICE.
Rats are not generally supposed to be Of
any particular use in the economy of ma
ture. unless it be to eat up refuse, make
a noise. or haunt the subterranean caYi
ties of large cities \ telegraph inspect
or in England has however upon IL recent
occasion, proven that the rat as an opera
tor in case Of broken wires may be turned
to good account 1t was necessary, says
the Popular Science Monthly, TO overhaul
a cable of wires inclosed in iron tubes. y
certain length of the cable had to DE
taken out of the tube, and the men COM
menced hauling at one end, without hay
inc taken the precaution to attach to the
other a wire by which it might be drawn
back after inspection and repairs. The
question arose how the cable was to be
restored to its proper place. The i'll
spector invoked the aid of rat-catcher,
and provided with a large rat, q ferret,
and a ball of string wound on the Morse
paper drum, he repaired to the opening
in the tube. The !" flush boxes" We're
opened, and the rat, with one end Of the
string attached to his body, was put into
the pipe. He scampered away at a rae
ing pace, dragging the twine with him
until he reached the middle of the pipe,
and there stopped. The ferret was then
put in. and off went the rat again, until
he sprang clear out of the flush box
One length of the cable was thus safe,
and the same operation was commenced
with the other; but the rat stopped short
a few yards from the pipe and boldly
awaited the approach of the ferret A
sharp combat ensued, but after sundry
jerks at the string the combatants sepa-
rated, the rat making for the other eX-
tremity of the pipe, carrying the string
through and relieving the Inspector from
his anxiety.


There is already a grand rush of winter
visitors to Florida, and the hotels and
boarding houses are rapidly filling up
The Jacksonville papers say that halt a
dozen northern steamboats, are to be sent
to St. Johns, and two or three fine yachts
(Astor's and Buffers included) are to be
there for the winter The st. Johns will
be lively and brilliant winter scene, even
the present winter, and more yachts and
steamers will 90 there each succeeding
winter. New hotels are in process of
erection at several points on the river.
among the prominent arrivals are eX-
treasurer Spinner and ex-senator Fenton
| OF New York. The weather continues free
| from morning frost, and the noon temper
ature rises daily to about 20 dcg. in Jack
| sonville.