smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876


1 know the strangest city
A silent, peaceful city,
A beautiful white city


Upon a sunny hill;
Where daisies fair are growing,
While summer winds are blowing e.
Upon the earth's green bosom,
Among the streets SO still.
The streets are long and narrow,
And the brown thrush and the spar


row
Their little nests have builded
Among the fower.facked grass.
You will hear the song of linnet,
Aud the robins carol in it,
Whenever this strange city


Your footsteps chance to pass.
The houses in this city,
This still and peaceful city,
Where never human pity


The dwellers ask nor need,
Are long and low, and over
Each roof the grasses cover,
That no one may discover


The haunts where sparrows breed,
There are no sounds of sorrow,
No longings for tomorrow,
No pain to bear and borrow
Within its silent streets.
But all is peaceful over
The green grass and the clover,
AS days go drifting onward
Above its calm retreats.
Tbither, dear one, grown weary
OF treading pathways dreary-
Grown, oh so tired and weary!
Have often turned for rest.
And in that fair white city,
That beautiful, strange city,
No thought of pain nor pity
Can touch the dweller's breast.
Oh, peace, so sweet and tender, q.
SO wrapped about with splendor N,.
Of rest, which you can render
About each low-laid head;
Sometime my feet shall enter
The gates of your white city,
And | shall claim dwelling
Among your peaceful dead.
Year: 1876

Many say that knowledge is not
necessary for farmers that anybody
can run farm. And is this really
so? Is no knowledge required to
understand the laws which govern
the planting and growing of crops,
the nature of the soil in which they
should be grown? Is no knowledge
required to understand the science OF
breeding, to their highest perfection,
the various kinds of live stock, and
the care and treatment which they
should receive during the period Of
their growth? f.? Do not the laws OF
health and disease want to be under
stood by the breeder of stock Do
not the science of planting, pruning
and training of fruit trees want to be
mastered ? More knowledge is need
ed by the farmer than any other pro-
fessional man. C0SDaGn'S Rudl
WorId.
Year: 1876

ivy AHN EAbhi Hhu hShu VI h1lle,


There is much in life that, while in
this state, we can never comprehend.
There is, indeed, a great deal of mys-
terry in life--life much that we see
as in glass darkly.' But thought we
may not apprehend the full meaning
of the discipline of trial through
which the best have to pass we must
have faith in the completeness Of the
design of which our little individual
lives form a part.


We have each to do our duty in
that sphere Of life in which we have
been nlaced Nrty alone is true ;
~ Q ~ but in its ac-
Year: 1876

Somebody on Camp street, the other night.
surreptitiously hung out flag in honor Of
Hayes and Wheeler. It fell as limp and as life
less as the nominations. without breath OF air
70 Ill its folds. The owner in the meantime
went around to the "Warmoth-Hayes" meeting.
Something in the speeches excited his ire and
disgust. for he tramped back to the office the
same night and hauled in his flag before it had
seen the light Of day He has determined upon
reconsideration. not to rejoice tumultuously over
the nomination OF the very strong man. SIR
Year: 1876

Major J. b. Eustis takes leave OF US
for a few days on visit to the North
with his family. Major Eustis will re-
turn to the city at an early day, and
take an active part In the coming cam
paiQn against Radicalism. The Major is
q host In himself, and Is always found
where blows fall thickest.
Year: 1876




He said he could not talk to them about New
Orleans or the State OF Louisiana, for he was
unacouaintcd with the facts which transpired
there. They ought, as everyone would per-
ceiye. to know more of the details than they did
now. In reference to what occurred there, they
we're compelled to bide their time aud learn
from developments which would be made pub
lie the true state Of the case. The great ques-
tion, the Canvassiug Board having canvassed
the vote and arrived at result, was whether
the certificates sent to Washington as the result
Of the election shall be accepted such or wheth-
er Congress would go behind that certificate and
ascertain what the real facts Of the case we're
Consequently, the pivotal point OF this question
was, as had been toreshadowed BY the public
press, whether this certificate should be &C.
cepted without Investigating rs to the vote
actually had in the State, or how the certificate
Year: 1876

CHICAGO, Dec. 30.-In your lengthy notice Of
the recent suit begun by 1ne to test the right Of
tho County Board to issue county bonds, such
notice does injustice to me. and so many false
statements are made that l ask space for their
correction. 1nevcr have been contractor with
the county for furnishing milk or anythinE else.
My Office is No. Us North State street, and I
have not been in the County-Attorneys office
to exceed half a dozen times in my life. have
no relations with the County Commissioners
whatever, and have never had contract to re-
new, or received 4 dollar directly or indirectly
from them.


/ have fled the bill in good faith, desiring to
have tue question decided, 40 that Cook County
bonds shall be sold for what they are worth or
not sold at all. NJ a. DEVIdR.'
Year: 1876

Of old Wheeler q Wilson sewing g-machtnes should
call at the Office, 155 State street. The Company
are preparedto to exchange with all their old custom
ers on very reasonable terms, and give them new
machine still better than the old, and far in ad-
vance OF any other.
Year: 1876

A dispatch from Boston, received
yesterday states that in response to
InterrogatQries of al interviewer, Chas.
Francis Adams declared that lie had
no itching for the Presidency; that it
is thankless office at best, and who.
ever has it now must expect a hard
time, with additional care and trou-
bile; that neither party, as such, Is
likely to come to him, because he is
not in sympathy with politics and
never acted in party war. He
spoke kindly of Tilden as polite,
though not a broad man, who would
honestly strive to do right. Governor
Seymour he considered too fiuci Mating
in opinion and unsteady in purpose.
Hendricks had not much strength, ex-
cept in Indiana. We need as Presi-
dent man independent of party aud
sections, who has head of his own.
Grant had disentegi ated everything.
He had been surrounded by those who
would not advise him right. He had
had no policy of his own, and the
country was in chaos, and the question
was how to get it out. The result of
the election will depend on the Inde-
pendents, the great middle party,
which will act intelligently between
the two others.
Year: 1876

STILL another reason for modera-
tion in discussing and dealing with
the Chinese question is that any seri-
Gus outbreak or violence in this regard
will injure our prospects in financial
point of view most materially, in that
1t will tend to destroy our insurance
business, from the fact that the most
natural logic of such an event will be
to destroy all confidence in the securi-
ty Of property. Hence it becomes all
property holders to make this a mat
ter of personal concern, and see to it
that the temper of the meeting shall
be controlled by the conservative ele-
ment of our community.
Year: 1876

ONE of the strongest arguments In a
humanitarian point of view that we
can suggest, if 1t were necessary to
make any appeal to the sense of pro-
priety of our fellow citizens upon the
Chinese question.is that the natural
effect of a violent outbreak in the
great cities of the coast will be to in
cite wild exhibition of brutality and
bloodshed, which in China will fall
upon the innocent heads of American
residents there. Let us move in the
matter with discretion and dignity.
Let US regard our legal responsible
ties. and thus render our appeals to
the Government the more potent, and
the better entitled to respectful con-
sideration.
Year: 1876

The San Francisco police are very
successful of late In looking up the
Chinese gambling dens. On Thurs
day last a very extensive establish
ment was broken up and all of the
tools captured.
Year: 1876

Attention is called to an advertise
ment of the loss of roll of legal cap
paper containing list of names. The
finder will confer a favor by leaving
it at the United States hotel Office.
Year: 1876

The following from the evening Re
publican so exactly expresses our
views as to the cause of the defeat of
the school tax last Saturday, that we
republish the article entire:


Many causes combined to defeat the
S25, 900 special tax for school houses,
and We hope such thing will never
occur again. Some voted against it
because the Board of Education last
year were extravagant and kept their
books and accounts in such confused
manner that no one could tell any,
thing about their affairs. Not few vo-
ted no on account of DR.. Lucky's con-
nectiOn with the schools and his sup
posed share in the extravagance and
mismanagement of the past year. A
large number voted no because the
1000 tax was advocated by the eve-
ming organ of jobbery, which has
urged every municipal extravaganza
to the extent Of swamping Los Ange-
les and plunging her irretrevably in
debt. In short, the proposition to
levy a special tax of S25, 900 Was slain
in the house of its friends, and as long
as the cause of education is edvocated
and upheld by several self-appointed
champions in whom the mass of yot-
ers have no confidence just so long
will all efforts to issue bonds and levy
special taxes be defeated. In the
name of education and in behalf of
the children deprived of school accom-
modations we trust these unpopular
people will step down and out.
Year: 1876

GENTLEMAN up town invited a friend
the other evening to 60 into the nursery
and hear the children say their prayers.
They stopped . moment on the stairs
however, and when they reached the
room the little prattlsrs had just sung
their evening hymn. and were trying to
drown the kitten in the vsshbovi. The
visitor appeared to be deeply moved.
Year: 1876

Yesterday call loans were still quoted
at 4(d6 per cent.


Ten OF the New York national banks
have sold their United States bonds and
retired their circulation.


The Philadelphia stock gamblers are
now working up their worthless street
stock again. Hestonville has been run
to double its worth, and doubtless some
body will be caught by it.


The bondbrokers are now all opposed
to silver. 1t is not near SO good as paper
currency. So they say, But already it
has reduced gold one cent.
Year: 1876

This is the kind of weather when man
sees his wife coming into the room with a
scuttle of coal, and, after she has poured
every bit of it into the top of the tall stove.
says Darn it, Hammer, you ought to
ave asked me TO do that. But it's too late
now"
Year: 1876

An exchange astutely remarks: "Boss
Tweed has escaped from justice" If Boss
Tweed desired to escape from justice, he
should have stayed in New York. Outside
OF that city he is likely to run into her arms
at any time.-DanJtry N9rs.
Year: 1876

Somebody has invented corset Iaces
winch are made of elastic, and covered
with with cotton or silk, and allow lady to
breathe with comfort, even though she is
drawn in to the size of a pencil.
Year: 1876

Mrs. Amy Rigg advertises in Texas
paper that she is able to whip either one Of
the two women that she saw walking on her
husbands arm few nights before. What
an Amy-able woman she must be. eh2
Year: 1876

A newly pleged Philadelphia doctor re-
Gently settled in Havana, ILL.,, and the first
case he had was boy, who, while shelling
popcorn, got a kernal in his wind-pipe.
The doctor examined the case carefully,
looked at the patients tongue, and then
told the father of the boy to build up hot
fire. When that was done, the doctor told
him to take the boy and hold him over the
fire until the kernal got hot enough to
"pOp out" The old man went up stairs
and got his shotgun, but while he was
loading it the doctor escaped.
Year: 1876

IT PAiS every Manufacturer Merchant Mechanic


Inventor, Farmer, or Professional Man TO keen i'm,
the age. W


1t pays the head of every family TO Introduce into
ms household newspaper that tisinstructive one that
fosters taste for investigation and promotes Thought
and encourages discussion among the memhers
Year: 1876

NEWS FROM GENERAL TxBRY's CAMP-rHx
COMMAND IN THx BUFFALO RANGH-So EvI-
DxNcn OF INDIANS IN FoRcK-No JUNCTION
BETWEEN TERRY AND CROOK ron FIELD
WORK POSSIBLE.


CHICAGO, Sept g. 1876
special despatch the Times from General Terry's
camp dated August 80, via Bismarck, says-The COM
mand left the Yellowstone River, near tho mouth Of
O'Fallon's Creek the evening OF August ~. and
moved due north for ten miles, going into camp there
AT four O'Clock next morning tho march resumed


CONDITION THE COUNTRY
The country is dry and parched, rendering long
marches Impossible. Water is scarce the small
streams being entirely dry. Aftor the nrs, days
march the entered the Buffalo range OF noun
tains north of tho Yellowstone and hunting parties
detailed which game enough to last some
days Yesterday afternoon the command camped on
the north fork OF Rusk Creek thirty miles north of the
Yellowstone bordering the space between tho Ye-
lowstone and Missouri rivers


PARTY.
Captain Ball, with a detachment OF four companies
left the main column, with instructions to move north
the divide In search of Indian trails leading to-
ward Big Dry Creek Musscl Shell River The battalion
rode twenty miles while the main column moved last
and Is now in camp Deer Creek tributary OF tho
Yellowstone. Captain Ball returned to- might, report
ing the discovery Of


HEAVY TRAILS
hence large body Of Indians have crossed the river
to move toward Fort Benton


Carcssses OF buffaloes and old trails only were dis
covered


THE PRESENT CAMP
is within twelve miles Of South Glendive Creek where
the junction, If any was to be formed with Crook.
courier leaves for Crook tonight


WHEREABOUTS THE INDIANS
General Terry is convinced that the Indians have
not crossed the river in any force west of u.s. and II
they have gone north at all II IS toward Fort Peek
II Is expected that tho infantry will east to-
morrow, and that the ultimate destination Is Fort
Peck.


There appears TO DO no possibility Of n further
junction between Crook and Terry for field work.
Year: 1876

ALBANY, Sept 0, 1870
The Stale Assessors Will hold their regular yearly
meeting hero tomorrow to fix the aggregate OF
tion aud eQuazc the assessments in the several coun
ties for next year. They have made a thorough
canvass of the State and have made their
assessments high that the aggregate Is
believed to exceed that OF last year by nearly
500 000, 600 In instances it is under stood they
have assessed property at rates which the have
been able TO obtain at private SALE and
Instances noted OF absolute ruin Threatening ae
count of the wild assessment.
Year: 1876

RoBEET CoLLYER, in his Decoration
Day speech, did not appeal to passion and
prejudice and sectional hatred, but took
the opposite course, and among other
things said The sun cannot tell which
is rebel dust and which is loyal. IL is
all one to the sun" Whereupon all the
faithful Radical organs come out and
abuse him rs an spologist of treason, and
call him all manner Of hard names. Mr..
CoLLYRR should remember that the
Radical organs acknowledge only the
Gospel of hate.
Year: 1876

TIE danger of restriction in liquor
selling in England is said to be that the
moderate drinker would be made uncom-
Portable without keeping the drunkard
from getting all the liquor he wanted in
AN underhand Way. ; .--
Year: 1876

CHICAGO, June q. An fnformaton n
the nature of q writ Of quo oatTunto wAs
fled this morning against Mayor Colvin
by friend Of his, in order to bring the
case to the State Supreme Court and Sc
cure decision favorable 10 him before
an election shall be held. .isIl = -
Year: 1876

When brothers leave the old hearthstons
And go, each one, q separate way,
We think, as We go on alone


Along our pathway, day by day,
OF olden scenes and faces dear;


OF voices that we miss 30 much,
And memory brings the absent near,


Until we almost feel the touch
OF loving hands, and hear, once more,


The dear old voices ringing out,
Az in the happy time of yore,


Ere life had caught share Of doubt
II you should place against your ear


The shell you plundered from the sea,
Down in its hidden heart you'd hear


A low and tender melody,
A murmur of the restless tide,


A yearning, born Of memory
And, though his longings be denied,


The shell keeps singing OF the sea.
And sometimes when old memories throng
Like ghosts, the chambers Of our soul,
We feel the gearing, deep and strong,
longing we cannot control,
To lay our cares and business by


To seek the old. familiar ways,
And cross homes Threshold and sit down
With comrades Of our earlier days
For, though our paths are sundered wide,
We feel that we are brothers yet,
And by and by we turn aside


From hvrrying care and worldly fret,
And each one wanders back to meet
His brother by the hearth Of home;
think the meeting Is more sweet


Because 80 far and wide we roam.
We cross the lengthening bridge OF years,
Meet outstretched hands and faces true
The silent eloquence Of tears


Speaks welcome that no words can do.
But ah, the meetings hold regret


The sad, sad story, often told,
OF hands that ours have often met,


Close folded under churchyard mold
or eyes that smile into our own,


Closed in the dreamless sleep Of God;
A sweeter rest was never known


Than theirs beneath the graves white sod.
A tender thought for them tonight.


tribute tear from memory;
Beneath their covering Of white


Sweet may their dreamless slumber be.
Year: 1876

ADAPTED TO A BACKWARD SEASON.
II you're waking call me early, call me early, mother


DEAR
Aud that my room is warm MOTHER and the fire Is


burning cleari
And tallow my nose more mother, once more ere


you 90 away,
For I'm TO he queen Of the MAY, mother, I'm to be


queen of the May.
It froze so hard last night, mother, that really


couldn't break
The ice in my little pitcher mother till thought the


poker to takel
You find it there on the hearth mother-but let that


hot brick stay,
For I'm to be queen of the May, mother, I'm to be


queen Of the May.
! shall put my aqua skUtern outside of my seal
And two three yards of annel DEAR will go around


my throat;
And you'n that the boneset tea mother is drawn


while your chid's away;
For I'm to be queen of the May. mother, I'm to be


queen of the May. .. ......
Little Enie shall go with me- # her nose is fit to be
seen.
And you shall be there. too dear mother to see me
made the queen,
Providing the doctor let YOU and II it don't rain


instead
Little Johnny is to take part of the way on his
sled.
SO, If you're waking call me early call me early
mother dear,
For tomorrow may be the chest day of all the GLAD
yearl
For to-day is the thwteth mother and blessed II youi
child can say
II she amt April fool MOTHER instead of the queer
OF May. Bret Hdrte
Year: 1876

"As education in the Territory is so re-
stricted that the franchise would be in
telligently exercised by very few, and
as there are only about 5000 English
speaking people within its limits. it is
evident that the politics Of the Territory
would be controlled by a very small
number Of leaders. The great mass of
its population is composed Of Spanish
poems and Indians. The standard of
morality is very low. Life is extremely
insecure, and there are more homicides
in this Territory, annually, than in all
the Others combined. There is no emf
grafton from the East, worth considering.
The population decreased from $4,000
in 1860. to 1890 in 1870, being about
three-quarters Of an inhabitant to the
square mile. To give population like
this the right to neutralize New York in
the Senate Of the United States would
seem an ill-advised act We have al
ready enough rotten boroughs."
Year: 1876

Mrs. H. w. Beecher has been repeat
edly requested to give some reasons why
ladies are reluctant to acknowledge their
true age; but she doubts if this folly is
as common as is usually believed. In
early youth each additional year is hail
ed as a mark of honor and our little ones
are far more eager to magnify than la
dies are supposed to be inclined to sub
tract from the full number of years. The
mistake of our young people lies, she
thinks, in fostering false impressions !;
in yielding without protest to the popu-
lar heresy that an sold maid" must, of
necessity, be disagreeable and trouble
some-and that from these peculiarities
there is no escape. On the contrary, our
daughters should be taught that it rests
almost entirely with ones own self,
whether, if living in '.single blessed
ness" one shall be the bugbear of the
family, or its sweetness, its crown aud
its glory. These latter blessed ones have
no hesitation in speaking of their age
under the proper circumstances.


But there is class of ladies who en-
deavor to hide their age even at the ex-
pense of truth-the mothers who love
dress and fashionable life more than
their homes and children. Who, to Sc
cure the compliments and attentions us
ually given to the young, keep their
daughters in boarding schools away from
home as long as possible, looking for
ward to their children's vacation with
dread. and see their little girls shoot up
into beautiful and graceful women with
dismay. Every advance toward maturi-
ty is to the vain and heartless mother
an index to her own age. Such women
dread old age, and with reason, and will
not acknowledge it so long as by every
known rejuvenator or cosmetic, even al
the risk of health or life, they can ward
off the dreaded foe. Their daughters,
just entering upon the unnatural excite
ments and dissipation of fashionable life.
will not give up their own qualification
to soOthe the declining years of mother:
who are made prematurely old and help
less by former dissipation. How differ
ent the lot of those mothers who have
made home and home duties their pleas
ure. and, having tried to 90 their wholt
duty, shrink not from wrinkles, gray
hairs or old age, but keeping their hearts
young find increased happiness and hon
or in every added year, rejoicing Will
joy unspeakable in the love and devO
ton of children who have seen in thei
mothers age but the ''sunset breaking
into day."