smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

SIGNS whereby you may know ali army
veteran: He prefers tin cup to a china
one; he drinks out Of the spout of the
water pitcher when nobody is looking;
will smoke in bed despite his mothers
warnings; he never hears band play
without straishtening himself up; and
he has a fine eye for tie soft side of q
orn field.
Year: 1876

IIEAs ABOUT Stoves Small stoves
are inimical both to health and to or
dinary econoMy. They will consume
more fuel than large one, giving for it
far less equability of temperature, and
taking far greater amount of trouble
some attention. They are foes of neat
ness-raisers Of dust. and tormenting
company--now excessively hot and sud-
denly too cold again; or altogether ex-
tinguished, when all the annoyance of
cleaning out, righting and watching
must be gone through de nouo. When
hot they will be red-hot, and in that
condition they leak one of the worst of
poisons-c carbonic oxide--into the room
unless the fine draft is kept open, and
that is then apt to be shut of,


A large stove is much more like the
good old open fireplace. The fire is
sustained by the friedrich lining. which
at once protects it from chilling out
and protects the air of the room from
contaminating by leaking gas. If it is
desirable TO reduce the dimensions of
the Fireplace, an additional thickness
of clay lining can be added by merely
spreading layer of well-workcd pot
ter's clay around it. A door can be
opened above the bed of Goals and left
open for long lime, while they gently
consume, without fear of their dying
out, and thus we have a draft which
soon clears the room of the effete air
which has been used, allowing IL to be
replaced by fresh.
Year: 1876

New STABLE.-Mr. W. II. Bow
is building a large stable on the
corner of 2nd and Washington
SITS, which he expects to have
ready to occupy by the first of
April, The present stable is to
be fitted up for a store and the
upper story for a lodging house.
Year: 1876

Is THIS not rather hard upon Speaker
Randall? horatio Seymour, of New York,
is getting personal in his old age. Indeed,
the Ex-Governor and ex candidate does
not relish the wholesale vituperation and
fraud that have been resorted to by his
party during the late campaign. The fol.
lowing is an extract from his address before
the Electoral College Of New York Tues.
day, upon being chosen president. We
beg the attention Of the Speaker of the
House:


"The member Of Congress who objected to
the reduction of SO aries upon the ground that
the employee needed all TO enable him to do
his duty, and who will stand by 8 silent and
consentiDg witness to reduction for party pur-
poses, condemns himself as q corrupt and q
dishoDorable member Of the National Legisls-
tura ~
Year: 1876

THE great Hewitt is as distinguished for
piety as for craftsmanship, as witness his
dispatch to his pious brother. Wade Hsmp-
ton, few days ago. 80 remarkable q
production cannot be forgotten. He said
that as che providence of God has so far
GUIDED you and your people in all your
difficulties, your friends rest in calm con-
fence upon the wisdom and good
fortune which have SO far attended your
factions. God give you and your people
call wisdom" &C. 1t seems, however,
that Brother Hampton don't trust so much
to Providence as to the rifle companies Or
ganized to exert moral suasion over the
colored voters. Another dispatch sent by
this pious gentleman to his pious brother,
Barnum, is worthy Of being handed down
to posterity. To that gentleman, who was
then at Indianapolis to pay the expenses Of
such pious reformers as lot of plug -uglies
and panel house thieves, taken to Indiana
to guard the purity of the ballot-box, he
said: you can purchase seven more
mules" meaning that he could draw for
seven thousand dollars more for the very
pious purpose above indicated. Surely man
evinclng so much piety will soon be too
pious for this earth, and most certainly will
be before great while translated, as good,
old Elijah was, to the realms of eternal
bliss,
Year: 1876

WHEN Senator Bogy spoke of Representa-
tive Lynch yesterday as ga remarkable
colored man." he followed the remark with
a statement that does Mr.. Lynch's popularity
in his district great injustice. He said that
the negroes were swearing allegiance to the
Democracy, and in substantiation of his asser-
ton mentioned the fact that Mr.. Lynch's
colored constituency had deserted him and
gone over to the Opposition; that where in
1875, they gave him 10000 majority, in the
last election he was defeated by nearly 5000
votes. We have it from the authority of Mr.
Lynch himself that he was honestly elected,
but that the county csnvassers deliberately
and fraudulently counted him out. The
action of the canvessers was undoubtedly the
most outrageous ever perpetrated in the
State, and will be shown up in Mr.. Lynch s
contest, which he proposes to make for his
Year: 1876

ments of the Constitution above quoted.
He forgot. himself He did not even
move to recall the House commit
tee OF fifteen, as he should have done
in the interest of wise economy. He
Gidnot move vote of thanks to the Presi-
dent for sending the Information. No.
the poor old gentleman forgot all these
things or neglected them, and lowered
himself and degraded his position by NOV
ing an insult from the Representative to the
Executive branch of the Government. HI
is old enough to know better. He formerly
did know better. He was raised to be-
hsve better. And for these reasons we
incline to the opinion that he is in his
dotage, ..
Year: 1876

THE letter Of Senator Sherman and his
associates. who witnessed the count of the
vote at New Orleans at the request of the
President, giving an account Of their visit
and relating what they saw, is highly
interesting document 1t should be read
by every one. We print it in full. 1t
bears the ear marks Of Senator Sherman's
pen. He always writes earnestly and with
deep feeling. This document reminds US
of his report on Kansas affairs in 1856. 1t
is an impregnable argument in favor of the
result found by the Returning Board.
Year: 1876

SENATOR STEVENSON, in his debating
speech yesterday, created quite sensation by
announcing thst the Bishop of Louisiana, a
colored man, told him that he knew of hun
dreds of black men who voted the Democratic
ticket. Those who were in the galleries IN
doubtedly were impressed with this statement.
1t will be published in the Record, and many
others may be misled by it. For this reason
we make the following explanation: A refer
ence to our telegraphic columns will show that
this same Bishop is the party who secured one
of the fourteen colored men that were brought
to New Orleans and introduced to the COM
mittee as black Democrats, and handed him
over to our correspondent. This colored man
announced in the presence Of the Bishop that
neither he TOR any of the fourteen men were
Democrats at heart, but that they were COM
PEELED at the peril of their lives to vote the
Democratic ticket.
Year: 1876

WHEN Senator Stevenson announced yes
terday on the floor of the Senate that he asked
Governor Kellogg while in New Otleans 'sif
he would be willing to throw out the four
Bull dozed parishes without Investigation and
count the vote actually cast in the rest," he
had the sympathy of his hearers. 1t was that
plying sympathy which oftimes goes out to
those suddenly humiliated in the eyes of
men. 1t was pity tinged with condemnation.
1t was unfortunate for a Senator to so far
forget himself in his partisan zeal as to make
such suggestion to the Governor of doubt
full State, on which hung the result of great
national election. But how much more un-
happy was it for that Senator to openly and
indifierently announce IN the Senate Chamber
of the nation his gross, breach of all the rules
of propriety in making a suggestion so
fagrantly unjust to the people of the land.
Year: 1876

THE wiry form ofthe restless DR.. Mary Walker
fitted to and fro through the corridors of the
Capitol yesterday in apparent search of some
thing tangible; at least we hope 1t was tangi-
BILE. She sported nobby little bamboo cane,
which went pit-pat in harmony with the
shuffle-shuffie of her feet on the marble floor.
She carried it like one who had just received
q pension for bacEache of long duration.
Year: 1876

The masculine element in the American
race is, habituaily speaking, smoking and
chewing element. That this habit is greatly
increasing among our people is clearly evident
from the numerous tobacco establishments
which adorn our streets, with their bronze In
dian braves and maidens positioned in all the
postures, academic and otherwise, that the
ingenious mind of the. shopkeeper or artist
can conceive. There are other signs aside
from those so prominent on our streets which
mark the marvellous increase in this habit. In
the Senate Chamber and lower House Of Con-
gress the pure flavor of the royal Colorado
cactus and superb Victoria seems actually to
be contaminated as it floats gracefully out OF
the cloak-rooms and mingles with the un-
wholesome atmosphere of the galleries.
In the House the cud and stub hold
undoubted sway, and what the cigar
lacks In the fullness of its fragrant aroma the
cud supplies in the copiousness of its saliva.
At this point the cuspidore naturally and
forcibly intrudes itself into the subject-mst-
ter of this article as another prominent evi-
dence of the wonderful increase of the habit
in our midst. The cuspidore is the artificial
receptacle of the stubs, cuds and saliva Of
our national legislators, but not the natural
receptacle oftimes by, several inches, and
sometimes by more than three feet. The
average Congressional tobacconist finds it
easier to investigate the intricate affairs of some
great department than to exude the saliva OF
bis cud at an angle Of forty-Aye degrees,
ard have it strike with any sort of precision
the Internal bureau of cuspidore. Nine cases
out of ten, when the average Congressman Is


buried IN the drudgery of fishing after some
old precedent or law point in dusty tones
or engaged in warm debate, or has his feet
elevated over bis desk, listless and drowsy,
he will exude his saliva, irrespective of race,
color or previous condition, with an lndlffer-
ence as to where 1t strikes, which is more
dangerous than amusing to those about him.
When the meditatiye observer looks down
from the gallery on this picture he can readily
see how easy it is for boy to go out behind
the barn and abstain from using tobacco.
Year: 1876

There are sixty or more constables'
sales of household furniture bulletined
in front of tn, city building and all are
to be sold for the non payment of city
and school taxes and water rents. This
is perhaps the largest number OF
delinquents ever posted at one
time and is sure index Of
the silent suffering that must exist
among the poorer classes. Likely
enough there are some names in the list
that belong ~ those, who never would
pay if not compelled by some such for
chile argument MS constables sale OF
their property. They are those however,
whe squander their money for drink, and
rely upon their wives TO earn scanty
allowance of the most important neces-
saries of life by performing two, or even
three, womens work. But there are
many among the list who would readily
respond if they had work. In some
households 1t may be, sickness is the
cause, and the strong arm of the head of
the family has been unable to perform
its duty, or rerchance the wife or
children need the physicians services
and medicine, both of which soon con.
sumo the provision for rainy day, even
if part of the daily earnings had been
laid away for such an emergency.


The above picture is apt only to apply
to isolated cases. The main source Of
want can be traced, among the worthy,
to the difficulty in finding steady employ
ment. Though our city is in far more
prosperous condition than most of her
sister cities, many of our manufacturers
and business firms have reduced their
working force, realizing that the
greatest economy and care are
necessary TO pull through the interval OF
business depression, hence the many
willing hands who are ready and anxious,
but are compelled to wait for "better
times" Yet during that uncertain lapse
Of time they must live, and TO live de.
mands food, and 10 provide food without
work is almost an impossibilty;
but TO pay the water, school
and city taxes under such state OF
affairs is absolutely beyond their ability.
In such an exigency, perhaps a little
leniency on the part of tho city officers
would be commendable act. Certainly
public sale of II worthy, though poverty
stricken, famlly's last piece of bedding or
other equally necessary article of furni
ture, would be severe indeed. IL may be
further remarked in this connection that
tho tax collector IS thus compelled to pro.
coed, unless relieved by order of Council.
SO that which may seem hard in him is
only n duty which he has to perform, in
order to save himself. He is charged
with every dollar, and must pay up. un.
less relieved by Council.
Year: 1876

from the CINCINNATI Enquirer.


If men are speaking of probabilities so
early in the Presidential canvass, it may
be proper to suggest that there is a rca-
sonsble expectation that the Democratic
party will carry the following states in
November, with the following Electoral
yn{ac.
Year: 1876

USsoLvxp PnonLEM.-An the great
problsns Of nature are not yet solved
One Of the most interesting - how a
voman can hold her mouth full OF hair
plns vhilo she IL doing mp her back
hsir. and at tho same time impart to her
husband exact and valuable information
In a loud voice concerning the unds'
sirability Of his dropping his cigar ashes
on the carpet.
Year: 1876

The Supreme Court has refused 10 gram
the motion for a re-argument of the Jonei
burial case, and his remains will be inter.
red in Mount Moriah Cemetery.-PhI
adeipkia Times.


Lest our readers may have forgotten
Jones, we desire to explain, that he was a
colored man, he owned a lot in Mount
Moriah Cemetery, and in due course OF
time, got ready 10 occupy it, but when his
mourning friends bore his cold and color
ed ashes thitherward, they were met at the
gate, not by the sexton, with his hospitable
spade, ready and anxious to gather Jones
in, bu; by an inhospitable constable, armed
with an injunction, or a writ Of
ereLs corpus, or some other terrible piece Of
legal ordinance, and summarily command
ed TO take that dead Niger away from
here" Slowly and sadly the train turned
Sway, and Jones came home with the
mourners; since that time his bones have
been lying unsepulchered, and his friends
have b,en in court endeavoring 10 find oul
whether, In this centennial year of our his
tory, and in the centennial city of our coun-
try, mans body shall be denied burial in
8 lot that he owned and had paid for, sim
ply because his skin was not quite as white
as that which had covered some other bod
les that sleep in the same cemetry. of
course, the courts have decided that the
body shall be buried, but it is disgrace TO
Phiiadelphia that such question should
ever have been brought before them.
Year: 1876

The Rochester Express thinks the Hous,


OF Representatives should "hire a hall,
not only because the members talk S,


much, but because they'll all have the


pneumonia if they don't. Sunset Cox i.
now threatened with that disease, other.
are fiat on their backs, and some are threat.
ened with death. 1t is all we'll enough to
joke about the bad air in that Democratic
House, but it is really serious matter, il
all reports are correct. And it is wore be-
cause the House of Representatives, in this
matter Of ventilation, il really a represen-
tative house. The hall of our own House
OF Representatives is no better; it Is a very
alton of il would warrant a man in the
conclusion that the architect who planned
it was totally unconscious Of the fact that
any such thing as air would ever be needed
by those who were to occupy it. The man
who climbed up into the garret and applied
heroic treatment 10 the case BY kicking his
foot through the frescoed ceiling of the
hall, may not have been an artist, nor yet
an architect, but his instinct was right, and
his foot knew what allied his head A man
can't keep a clear head while he breathes
an impure atmosphere, and We are inclined
to think if We could have more oxygen in
the hall, We should have less nonsense in
he cole.
Year: 1876

Those who have unlimited faith in hui


man nature stand aghsst at the present


decentralization and lack OF integrity visible


in the ranks Of all classes of society. The
great underlying cause Of this demoraliza


ton is the love Of display. IL cannot be


alone attributed to the root Of all evil"-
the love OF money-as the desire does not
seem TO be to hoard, but rather to expend


in lavish and reckless manner.


This inordinate desire for display blunts
the conscience, wrecks the moral nature Of
its victims, and smothers the purer and
better insticts Of the human mind. This
curse OF the age, like an infectious disease,
fastens itself upon all classes The young
man just starting in life, who, having been
so far successful as to be entrusted with the
business of his employer, and while enjoy
ing the confidence ii his associates,
and is on the only certain road
to success, if attacked by this blighting
curse, is usually left moral if not phisi-
cal wreck. Those in afiluence and power,
if laboring under this disease, become
feyerish and jealous of rivals, until like
drunkards, they bend all their energies to
subserve their perverted desires, many
times ending only in moral dele-iun tremeas


As nature, after convulsions and commo-
tions, always regulates herself, We have
the same power, anl the fog which now
envelopes the moral atmosphere will give
way to the purer air of honesty and man
hood. To accomplish this there must be
public sentiment created so strong that it
will take hold of the lives, and become
part OF the nature of the masses OF the
people, so that all will feel that happiness
and usefulness do not lie in outward show,
which only appears to the eye, but rather
les in the feelings and consciousness of an
lpright life
Year: 1876

The railroad companies whose lines CEN
ter in this city are acting comparatively IN
the matter Of Centennial passenger fares,
which they will reduce probably % Per
cent-PAladephic Times.


If you would not be disappointed in the
number of visitors at your big show, Mr..
Tiuses, you had better let your railroad
companies understand from the fret, that
twenty-five per cent. will not do. The peo-
pie of the West, who will be your 'best
customers,,' if you get them, have made up
their minds that the usual excursion rate,
zone fare for the round trip" is enough,
and until the roads come down to that point
nine out of every ten Of those who desire to
20, and expect to go, viii stay at home.
You may set that down as a fact. II we
get such rates Of fare as we ought to have,
we shall come to see; if not, well stay at
home and shoot our own 6re-crackers.
Year: 1876

The lead mines recently discovered in
this State, six miles east Of Baxter Springs,
give additional evidence every day OF being
the richest ever found in the United States.
The excitement in that portion of the State
is running high, and there is now a fair
probability that the new discovery will be
the means of attracting large immigra-
ton to that part OF Kansas during the COM
iag year. The lead is very pure, and is
found in almost inexhaustible quantities.
Those who contemplate trip to the Black
Hills had much better turn their attention
to Baxter Spring. The lead is sure thing,
and doesn't endanger your scalp.
Year: 1876

This paragraph, from the Cofieyville
Journal, is as true as gospel, every word OF
it, as the railroad companies will find hy
experiment, before the close of the season


The reduction OF one third only on rail-
road fare to the Centennial is practically
no reduction at all 1t will be NJ induce
ment to the people to travel, but will pre-
vent manv from going TO Philadelphia
who would so il fares were brought within
their reach. Half fare Is expected by the
country, an ! the roads would make money
reducing 1t even below that, while they
will lose by keeping rates so high as to
deter many thousands of poor people, who
cannot afford large expenditures, from I'M
dertaking the trip.
Year: 1876

ALL the papers in the State. with but
two or three exception, condemn the action
OF the legislature in refusing to provide
for the Normal Schools And the few ex.
ceptions are journals which are actuated BY
local iealousies.
Year: 1876

The professional juryman is out of a job,
the new law, having been published, is now
in force. The court houses Of the State
will soon be relieved of the swarms of dis
reputable loafers who have heretofore in
tested them.
Year: 1876

Gov. TILDEN's INCOME TAX AT
last Gov. Tilden has seon proper to
answer the charge of the New York


Times that be had made fraudulent
return Of his income in 1862. 1t was
hardly worth while for him to do so, as
there was not decent man. or one
who is honest himself, in the United
States who really believed the silly
(campaign) charge. Some. it is true,
pretended for party purposes to believe
it, but no one of common sense really
did 50. But whatever hope they enter
tanned Of making political capital ut Of
It is entirely and wholly destroyed by
the oil convincing. crushing answer Of
Mr.. Tildeu. Taking up the charges
one BY one, the Governor lays bare the
falsity Of the charge in every particular.
and in reading it one is amazed at the
reckless disregard of truth and the
maliciousness which characterizes the
Times assertions. Out Of the entire
list Of items enumerated BY that paper
but two have even the shadow of q
foundation of truth, and one Of these
two contains SO much that is false as to
make too manifest the base malignity


which actuated the accuser To such
barefaced lies nothing but . simple
Year: 1876

EXPLANATIONS IN ORDER A few
years ago number of lawyers, living
in Wilmington. Joined themselves to-
gether for the purpose Of forming what
they termed COLLECTING Agency" the
object Of which, they declared. was the
collection Of debts in any county Of this
and the adjoining States. One Of the
requirements Of this Agency" was the
payment Of a stated fee, in advance.
upon which they agreed to undertake
the collection Of the claim. Their n,odus
operandi was to attempt, first, to fright
en- the delinquent into paving bis debts
by threatening to insert his name in a
black list, to be kept for the inspection
Of business men-~the idea being that
men whose names were found in that
list were unworthy Of credit. This was
wonderfully smart idea we'll worthy Of
Bird or Fisher-who knew q man
was disloyal because his horse was named
JEFF Davis-but whether the originator
Of such brilliant notions is just tho kind
Of a congressional representative Dcla-
wareans want is for them to say Then
if the debtor didn't consent to be fright
ened. the Agency were to proceed to
prosecute the claim before the courts.
Relying on their promises to do this,
some persons placed claims in their
hands for collection, paying the required
fee. There the matter ended; and as
far as they could ever learn. not q step
was taken; not thing was done by the
Agency" in prosecution Of the task
they had undertaken. beyond the taking
Of fees for which they rendered no equiv
alent. Perhaps Mr.. Levi G. Bird. who
was very prominent member Of the
Agency" can explain these things