smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

has been rearrauged with a dome
and stand of fruits and vegetables
which is really beautiful.


The flower beds planted out in the
grounds are looking very nicely
though not so well as did those in
Vienna at the exposition.


The machinery turns. saws, and
whirls as usual but | am too tired of
it to go in there any oftener than is
necessary The awards are given.
but as We | have seen few who have
received them | would have given
awards to every one who deserved
them bad | been the Commission.
and | should not have required gold
spectacles to ard my vision either.


Would | not like to have The Pow
or for few days. I'd show them
at least that there is one person in
the world that appreciates skill. pa
tience, and honest industry without
being in any way biased-except in
the case of my personal friend. Any
how | would give Chenet Bros. a
medal big as plate for having rem
dered sttainsble really excellent.
durable. handsome, and tarna6Ie
black silk dress to people who have
70 plan and work and save and
.rimp aud advise with friends and
consult with dress makers and deny
themselves so much before they can
even get one of their dresses, which
are so good and so cheap, and who
never would have been able to get an
imported dress When you stand by
Chenet Bros. elegant case of superb
silks you just bless American enter
prise and inventive genius which has
perfected an apparatus for spinning
silk from the pierced cocoons and thus
reducing the price of raw silk to
very low price, as compared with
that which eompels the destruction of
the butterfly which would produce
eggs which in turn would produce
hundreds of worms which would
otherwise have been lost. So with
their silk spinning Cbenet Bros. pro-
duce a splendid article of dress as
elegant and rich as it is economical
on account Of its durability, and we
the women are the gamers. would
not be afraid to Iwager--that Cbenet
Bros: have been the means of pro.
noting more marriages by furnishing
such loves of cheap silks to poor girls
who thus captivate their lovers, have
smoothed more wrinkles in pretty
faces and brought healing oil into
more families than almost any other
public benefactor that ever lived, and
| move that a vote of thanks be given
to them for all their good actions
Who will second the motion? Why.
If no one else comes forward it will
be


OLIVE HARPER.
Year: 1876

The cheapest and best wav to con-
vice fool is to agree with him.
We love those who are depeadent
upon US. and respect those on whom
we are dependent


What a man gets in this world for
nothing be is very apt to value at
what it cost him.


The man who is reckless of his life
generally holds it at about its market
value.


The msgpies are great takers, but
they don't tell us anything new.


Men often fail to furnish good rea-
sons for what they do women can
always give a good excuse.


The safest thing that ] can do is
to hold my tongue | have learned
this BY hearing other folks talk.


| have come to the conclusion that
civilization in this world has cost
about ninety cents on the dollar.


No man ever let go bis hold vet
WithouV eNpectibS 10 get Detter
one.


First comes virtue, then comes
knowledge, then comes energy-these
are three king-pins Of human excel
lence.


To be thoroughly educated a man
must know himself, and no man has
lived long enough Tor that yet


Forget the past young man. attend
to the present and let the future take
care OF itself.


The great reason why so many
marriages are unhappy is, before mar
riage We see too little and afterwards
We take notice Of too much.
A maxim is page Of good sense
boiled down to a paragraph
Year: 1876

They had quarreled Sunday even.
ing. He got mad and swore he'd
leave her Then she got vexed and
told him he could do as be pleased
He left. The next night be came
around again. He asked TO see her
alone. She readily complied. She
was all of q tremor Her heart went
out to him in gush of sympathetic
love. She stood ready to throw both
armies about bis neck, and crv ont
her joy. There was not much color
IN his face and bis voice was buskv
He said:


Il have been with you six months
Matilda. aud ] tried in all that time
to do what was right He paused
an instant to recover the voice which
was faltering rapidly, while her
trembling increased. II know that
have got considerable temper and
that do not control it always asI
ought. But | have tried to Ee faith
ini 70 you, tried to do everything
that thought would tend to make
you happy. And feeling this | have
called tonight to see Il you would be
kind enough to give me a sort of tes-
timonial to this effect. so that I could
show 1t to any other Young lady I
might want to go with. It might
help me-


He looked at her anxiousIv An
the color left her face in flush. She
made great effort to swallow some
thing which threatened to choke her
Then she spoke;


"fou get out of this house as quick
as you can, you miserable whelp. or
my father shall kick you out"


He don't toy with time. He left
without the testimonial.
Year: 1876

commeneed his upward passage
caused oy the natural bOuyancy of the
human body After this he only 70
membered feeling of suffocstiou. a
gurgling spasm, and all was over
uGtil he awoke to an sgOnizing pain
of reviving consciousness in the arms
OF bis boats crew. Truly one Of the
most remarkable escapes from death
on record-Cleuelapd Times
Year: 1876

City Clerk, Attorney, and Treasurer These
have to be elected by popular vote. The
charter further provides that the Council
may, by ordinance, provide for the election
by the people Of Collector, Marshal, superin-
tendent Of Streets, Corporation Counsel,
Comptroller, and ssuch other" officers as
the Council may decide. The Common
Council has already created the Offices OF City
Marshal and Fire Marshal, aud these officers
are to be appointed by the Mayor with the
advice and consent Of the Council. It Is to be
hoped TINT the Council will not add to the list
Of the officers required to be elected by the peo-
pie. II it were possible to reduce the existing
list, it would be q benefit. The Offices Of
Comptroller, Corporation Counsel, Fire Mar
shal, are not Of q character to be satisfactorily
filed by popular election. They, as well as
oil the others, may be safely left to be select
ed from among the fittest by the Mayor.
The hope, therefore, is that the Council will
not undertake to enlarge the List OF elective
Offices; and that, instead, it will order
special election to FIJI the vacancy in the
office Of Mayor, so that in April next the
City of Chicago may have not only newly
elected Board of Aldermen, and other city
officers, but nlso new1y-elected Mayor,
fresh from the people, clothed with power to
select wise and competent subordinate Of
ficers in all the branches of the City Govern
ment
Year: 1876

about the same length Of time on all other
merchandise which they carry. When grain
comes to this city in the shape OF -four, the
railroads store it and, take care Of it free OF
charge to the shipper, for from to 10 days;
they should do the same when the freight
comes in the shape of wheat.


Every consideration for both the elevators
and the railroads dictates n compliance with
the proposed change. The increase of busi-
ness for both will more than compensate for
the apparent reduction. The Western trunk
lines must place Chicago on an equal footing,
as far as terminal charges are concerned, with
every other distributing point, if they would
maintain their business; and We have been
given to understand Chat they will consent to
pay the first storage charge. if the elevators
will reduce it to cent bushel as proposed.
The elevators, on the other hand, can afford
to handle the grain for cent If Toledo ele-
yators can make money by charging only
eo-fourths off cent; and if Philadelphia can
take from the GERS, weigh in md out, elevate
and store for fifteen days, for l cent,
then the same amount will certain
" nay the Chicago elevators for one-half
the time, especially in view of the fact that
the change will lead TO an increase in their
business. Nobody asks that the elevators
should do this business for nothing, nor at
loss; but thedemand is reasonable that their
"pool" should be broken up, and that the
working elevators should not be required to
support those which are idle. 1t may also be
fairly e1acted that system be not sustained
which tends to build up more elevators than
are needed, to be supported by the common
spool" The ultimate welfare Of both ele-
yators aud railroads is equally involved with
other interests in the reduction Of all termi-
nal charges at Chicago to ut least as low a
rate as they ere in other competing cities, and
the Board Of Trade must not abandon the
matter until they shall haye accomplished d
thorough reform.
Year: 1876

There is little question but the charges of
So car for switching and 81 q car for
trimming" that are now made on grain
consigned to Chicago elevators will be abol-
ished, the railroads giving up the former and
the elevators the latter. These are to be
surrendered simply because they are too
unusual and e1tortio8ate to be sustained.
The Western railroads have consented, and
the matter remains only to be confirmed by
the Eastern railroads, who will scarcely re-
fuse their consent. The abrogation Of these
charges will relieve Chicago grain Of about l
cent bushel, which has heretofore been i'm
posed on it as toll over and above what
grain has had opay ut other terminal points.
So fur so good. But to place Chicago on an
equal footing with other cit5os competing for
the grain business of the Northwest, so that
its natural advantages may fully assert Them
Selves it is necessary that there should be d
still further reduction in elevator charges, or,
ut least, that those who ship to this point
shall be relieved The present system of
elevator charges is 2 cents per bushel for
receiving, delivery, weighing, and elevation,
including twenty days storage or any part
thereof, end J cent per bushel for every ten
days storage thereafter. These charges are
excessive as compared with other cities. In
Philadelphia the charge for the first storage of


fifteen days is cent bushel; in Baltimore
for ten days, II cents; in Toledo: we believe
it is only cent, and never more than cent.
The Chicago charges are also e1orbitant in
themselves, since, at the present rate, the
elevator "pool" has been able to support two
making excessive profits for all There is no
need Of any further illustration to prove that
there should be q reduction.


The fairest proposition that has been made
relative to q relief from these e1orbitant
charges is that ~ they shall be reduced by
ten days, leaving the extra storage as it
stands; and (2) that railroads shall pay this
first charge Of cent bushel. By this ar
rangement the shippers would not be bur-
dened at all with storage charges, except
when their own interest suggested holding
the grain longer than the time necessary
for d regular sale. The Justice of
the first part of the proposition is
manifest, from the fact that the ele-
vators would mike practical reduction Of
only about J cent Tho average storage on
the present system. including extra storage,
yields the elevators about q cents; but, on
the system proposed, the timo Of tho first
storage would be reduced one-half, and the
average storage, including the extra storage,
would probably amount to 2 cents bushel.
It is not denied thst the elevators cen make
money at this rate. The second part of the
proposition, viz: that the railroads shall pay
the fist storage Of I cent, is justified by the
fact the railroads furnish storage freo for
Year: 1876

There are intimations Of sharp contest
Tor the Congressional nomination from the
Second Maryland District among the Demo-
Gratis, Il having been said that Mr.. Roberts
is out Of the field, the party paper in his own
county announces that he is not going to
strive for denomination, but that he will not
refuse it If II is rendered. There is a strsng
opposition to Mr.. Roberts, and it is based on
the complaint that he has been silent and
inactive member during the whole of the ses-
sion now approaching its close. The same
criticism, however, might very properly be
applied TO all the Maryland delegation. Mr..
Roberts being a comparatively young man
and neophyte in the broad field of politics,
there is nothing surprising in his failure to
cut a prominent figure in politics. Bot very
much more was expected Of such veterans as
Governor Swami, Governor Thomas and Mr..
Walsh. Governor Swami has, to be sure,
had an important position placed in his hands
in being made Chairman Of the Foreign At
fairs Committee, and he has had probably
done great deal Of work in committee, but
he has not been heard from ON the floor of
the House. II was certainly anticipated that
Mr.. Thomas and Mr.. Walsh would do better,
but it appears that they have been struck with
an enduring flash OF silence, They are clever
men, good speakers and experienced polite
ians, and no doubt their constituents looked
to them to do honorable service among the
political majority OF which they are part
As they have disappointed these very reason
able expectations il would not be surprising
if all the six members ofthe delegation should
be turned down in the making of the party
nominations of this campaign.


We clip the above extract from the
Baliniore american, Of Monday last.
The american exposes itself to the charge
of not being very wide awake or vigilant
journal. At the time Of the publication
Of this extract in its columns, three of our
delegates, Messrs. Thomas, Walsh and
Roberts, had already made speeches upon
the floor of the House, Mr.. Thomas as far
back as May last, and a copy Of his speech
on the Hawaiian Treaty is now before us.
Mr.. Roberts addressed the House on the
18th Of July, on the subject of the Taxa
ton on the Circulation of State Banks
This speech was published the next day
in the Congressional Record, and we shall
lay it before our readers in our next Mr.,
Walsh had previously addressed the House
on the General Condition of the Country.


The charge Of silent membership
therefore, which the American brings
against the members from this State, falls
to the ground Not only in the commit
tee rooms, but upon the floor of the House,
our members have been vigilant and zeal
GUS in guarding the interests Of their con-
stituents, and their constituents mean to
reward their fidelity to their respective
trusts by electiug them again. As to the
@sharp contest" for the nomination which
the American alludes to in this district,
il is not true; the wish is probably father
to the thought. Mr.. Roberts will be re-
nominated with very little If any opposi-
tion.
Year: 1876




The Me,o Hork Saa makes the follow
ing comment upon the report from the
Naval Investigating Committee


The fact that all the Republican mem
bers of the Committee on Naval Affairs
join in whitewashing Seco. Robcson, save
Mr.. Burleigh of Maine, who has been re-
legated to private life by the party man,
ayers for protesting against shameful
abuses in the Kittery Navy Yard, is sig
ni6cant, affording additional proof that it
is folly to hope for any reform inside of
the Republican organization. The report
Of the majority of the committee was very
mildly drawn so far us comment was con
cerned, though the quotations from the
testimony taken in the investigation re.
veal the most startling evidence of cor
ruption and maladministration, proving
enough crimes and misdemeanors to Justify
the impeachment Of Robson twenty times
over. The committee point out more than
twenty sections of the Revised Statutes
that have been violated, many of them
Systematically and habitually; they show
how he has built worthless ships in viola
tion of law, wastefully expended millions
and millions of dollars in defiance of acts
of Congress, corruptly used the navy yards
as political machines, unlawfully loaned
millions of dollars to his friends, and,
while illegally squandering the most cnor-
nous sums of money, has succeeded in
running our navy, so that the most expo-
rieneed officers in the service characterize
it as disgrace to the country, The tax
payers of the United States have paid
nearly s400 1000, 900 since the close of the
war for sustaining and improving the navy,
and this is the result of it all. Yet this
extravagance, dishonesty, incompetence,
and lawlessness are what the Republican
party, through its representatives on the
Committee on Naval Affairs, commend us
highly proper and satisfactory, because the
man who is responsible for It is one of the
most intimate friends of their President I!


Mr. Harris, Republican member from
Massachusetts,, while ddressing the House,
on Saturday last, on behalf OF the minority
Of the committee, made the following con-
fession of fraud and peculation in that
Department.


will not stand here as Republican
member of this House and Republican
member Of this committee and declare or
permit any man to infer that | have not
found in the course of this investigation
grounds for charges, direct and specific,
which can point out, and which | could
ask the House and the country or any le-
gally constituted tribunal TO pass upon.
There are offenses; there are Irregularities;
there are peculations; there is fraud in the
administration of great Department like
that of the Navy. There always were,
and when we remember the infrmities of
men, we may say there always will be.
And yet it was our duty as a committee
to point out to the House the men who
committed these crimes and these frauds,
to point them out by name, and designate
the testimony upon which they might be
convicted in any proper tribunal having
charge of those matters.
Year: 1876

We must say that the evidence against
General Belknap is of the fiimsest nature.
Had he breasted the storm in the beginning
he would still be in the Cabinet. ."-Eorney's
Press.


Belknap confessed his guilt Stronger
evidence could not be adduced. We can
not see how an honest man can wish him
to have done otherwise. So the guilt was
concealed, Forney thinks it would have
been all right. Forney was himself con.
victed, by the exposure of his own letter,
Of suborning witness to give testimony
in eliminating Mrs. Forrest, and yet he
stands high to-day among Republican
leaders. To use his own language, he has
breasted the storm, and he fourishes like
Babcock and Shepherd. Forney is lead
ing journalist, who supports the present
administration and the dishonest practices
under it. He also supports Hayes, under
whom, if elected, these dishonest practices
would be continued, beca use he would be
surrounded and upheld by the same men.
With FOrney as the leading Radical organ,
and Zach. Chandler as the head of the
party organization, what could be expected
Of Hayes2 He would be mere nose of
wax in such hands; and as he is pledged,
in his letter of acceptance, not to turn out
the present incumbents of Office, we would
simply have Hayes instead of Grant as a
figurehead Of the Government, while all
its machinery would run on, as now un-
der Grant. Is this the reform to which
the country is invitedp Let men who
are capable of laying aside their political
prejudices look at this question in the
light of true devotion to the public veal.
If they viii do so, they cannot vote for
Hayes and Wheeler, but must vote for
Tildeu, who is pledge to retronchment and
reform, and whose record is guarantee
that his nIedoe will ha radaanod
Year: 1876




The crops are in q iiattering condi
ton throughout our parish. The laet
rains have been just the thing to help
out corn, and although We have met
but few of our farmers on the streets
fur three months past, tldse We do see
are much checred up at the prospects.


We have at last succeeded in get.
ting in more corn land than usual
aud now it remains to be seen wheth.
er that land will he cultivated pro.
pcrly or not. 1t shonld be lemem-
bered that acreage wont make corn,
but plowing properly does.


For the benefit Of the farmer We
would say, that cotton is still going
down, aud that we think the hopes Of
big prices are futile for the fnture-l0
to l2 cents will be . fair average
hereafter.
Year: 1876

to breed discomfort, to stir up evil
passions, to intlame the mind of the
ignorant colorel man against US.


1t is better that q few should suffer
rather than riot should reign, and
that fe,c shall suffer rather than the
evil Of local war shall af1lict this
community.
Year: 1876

of an act Of self.degredation, for more
reasons than one; in the first place,
they know very we'll that nobody de.
sires to kill them or in any manner
seeks their lives, nor would any one
do them bodily harm, and in the Sc
cond place they are perfectly aware
that no one fears to meet the speaker
or any Of his set, whether in "fair
open fight' or any other manner that
he might desire, which fact has
been fully proven by subsequent
events. sufficient to brand tho above
named speaker as a falsifer, and ma.
licious distorter Of truth. Another
speaker appealed most strenuously to
the passions and prejudices of tile
colored men, As colored men, telling
them it was slime to prepare for the
worst" Well We think the wors,
thing had come upon them 10 being
forced to listen to any such outrage.
ous teachings, and if they would only
consider for a .moment where sucl
things are likely to lead, they would
never be caught in any such meetings
again. The quiet, working, honest
and industrious colored man, is per.
fectly aware that he has not bette,
friends than may be found among
this very class he hears reviled and
traduced at these public meetings
and still he is foolish, enough to at
tend them, and lend bis countenspc,
and presence to belp swell the mum
ber.
Year: 1876

PROPOSED GREENBACK CONVENTION AT ALBANY


The greenback men of this city are now con-
sderlne the plan Of meeting in Convention at Albany
very soon after the greenback ratification meeting to be
held In this city Aug. 80. to nominate State officers
and Presidential electors the Cooper and Cary ticket
Year: 1876

THE following is the message of Presl-
dent Grant vetoing "An act fixing the
salary of the President Of the United
States:''


To The Senate of the United States:


Herewith return Senate bill No. IT., en-
titled IAN act fixing the salary of the Prcsi-
dent of the United states," without my ap-
proyal. am constrained to this course from
d sense Of duty to my successors in office, to
myself and to what is due to the dignity OF
the position of Chief Magistrate of nation
of more than forty millions of people.


When the salary Of the President OF the
United States was hxed by the Constitution
at $4,000 per annum, we were nation OF
but three millions OF people, poor from
long and expensive war, without commerce
or manufactures, with but few wants, and
those cheaply supplied. The salary must
then have been deemed small for the respon-
sibili les and dignity of the position, but JUS
tifiably so from the impoverished condition
of the Treasury and the simplicity it was de-
sired to cultivate in the Republic. The sal
ary of Congressman under the Constitution
was fixed at Sc per day for the time actually
in session, an average of about l2O days 10
each ses sion, or $720 per year. or less than
one .thirtieth of the salary Of the President.
Con.ressmer have lecislated upon their own
salaries from time to time until tnaiiy II
reached 5000 per aunum, or one-hfth thai
of the President before the salary OF the lat
ter was increased


No one having knowledge of the cost OF
living at the National Capital will contend
that the present salary of Congressman is
too high, unless i. be the intention to make
the Office one entirely Of honor, when the
salary should be abolished--a proposition