smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

The fireman OF the steam heating appar-
atus at a Detroit depot the other day found
a penny as he was raking over the hot ashes
in the furnace, and he took itup with the
tongs and placed it on a bench to cool of.
1t had hardly commenced to cool when a
heavy man named johnson, living in Sagi-
nav, came along. lie was talking business
with friend, aud as he came to the bench
he parted his coat-tails and sat down on the
penny, remarking "As | was saying, you
can have forty acres for-whoop Thunder
and blazes-ouch- it." lie galloped
around in wild amazement, the hot penny
sticking to him like brother and il was
two or three minutes before any one found
out whether he had dropped down on a tack
or been bitten by a dog. There was heavy
aroma of burning cloth and blistered meat,
and Mr.. Johnson stretched forth his arm
and exclaimed that he should devote the re-
mainder of his life to hunting down the iiend
who thus planned TO waylay him,
Year: 1876

every light held ,ip set many reilectors.
What power the pulpit will become What
a blaze Of light viii go all through your
community


Reyivals come in this way \ pastur. for
three months after his settlement, preached
on specific Christian duties. Then he told
his deacon a revival was coming. A revival
comingp Certainly. The people had gone
out, and In their better lives had given
the truth reflector. So light had gone
OUT and revival was inevitable. That is
all we can do, TO get the light to men. The
Spirit Of God viii do all the rest.


It is great help TO a minister when he
holds up the light of Gods truth IN the pull
pit, to look downward aud see rows OF re-
Electors in the faithful souls before him, wait
lug to set forth the truth in their better lives,
and to scatter the light everywhere Who
is willing TO help the minister2 Who is
willing to say " Though can't be the light
in the pulpit | will be a reflector 2" Is
Farmer Gray willing TO be a reflector p Dr.
Rant
Year: 1876

phssis which will command the thoughtful
attention of Congress, of her sister States,
and OF the people of our whole country.
With the same unanimity with which she
upheld the arms of the Union in the past
conflict, she should now address herself to
the great and most sacred duty of re-estab-
fishing civil liberty and the personal rights
of individuals, of restoring the ideas and
habits of freedom, and of reasserting the
supremacy of the civil authority over the
military power throughout the Republic.


SAMUEL ]. TnDRN.
Year: 1876

NEWSPAPERS are apt to forget that legis-
lative bodies that act wisely move slowly.
Acts OF legislation are perfected in commit
tees, and since these must consider and ar
range and codify countless resolutions re
ferred to them in the first weeks and months
OF the session, and can only report after this
task Is done, and the Legislature can do
nothing till these reports are made, the peo


pie think the process slow. Speed comes
at the close of the session, and even then
there is often more haste than good speed.
Year: 1876

.5 EVERY citizen of Texas appreciating the
moral influence of powerful newspaper,
invested with it by the genius and toll of
a great editor, will deplore the severance
of Horace Cones connection with the Hous-
ton TeLeQraph.
Year: 1876

If people would take moro trouble about living they
would DO less troubled when dying


That man was not exactly hereto who On being
asked 10 pray for who had broken his leg replied
"Nc am TOO busy just now, but you can go down
my cellar ard get couple oi hams for his family"


The Bible affords text for almost any condition OF
mind The boy who had had slight difficulty with a
school fellow. and who as punishment was condemned
10 learn passage Of scripture chose the following:
''Besscd be Tho Lord my strength which teaches my
hands TO war and my iugcrs to fight" Older children
arc just apt in discovering texts which suit their
purposes


You must do with the evil in your lfc what tho old
farmer advised concerning ''pusley." III you go to
pickn round the stun hero and there nm spread
faster and faster. The only way is to pull Il smack up
BY the rootsp


The four cardinal principles OF the Bibo ''add
70 your faith virtue" TO subtract "a malice and all
Year: 1876

We have had several friends who have won our profound gratitude ever since we embarked upon the sea of journalism, by their kind and jealous efforts in behalf of our paper-and when we say our paper, we mean all the people among whom we live. Heretofore these kind efforts have been gratuitous and unrewarded. Such kindness has induced us now to show our ap- dreciation of our friends efforts, by procuring few very fine and really beautiful steel engravings. which we now propose to offer as preIni- um for new clubs. These engrav- ings are not the common cheap af- fairs usually offered, but real fine cngravings which cannot be pur- chased at any dealers for less than five dollars each. We now make the following liberal offer:
Year: 1876

We offer one of these fine engrav- ings to any friend who will make us up a club of fifteen new subscribers for one year or will give pair of them for club of twenty-five new names accompanied by the money. our rate is 50 per year. Clubs for these premiums must be made up and reported on or before the first day of September

 Commence at once and secure one of these handsome pictures.
Year: 1876

presidency who Is first among his equals as the representative of the spirit of achievements Of reform in his official career as the executive of the great state of New York He has, in q comparatively shcrt period, reformed public service, and reduced public burdens So as to have earned at once the grati- tude of his state, and the admira- tion of thel lcountry. The people know him to be thoroughly in earnest; he has shown himself possessed of powers and qualities whic fit him in an eminent degree for the great work of reformation which this country now needs, and if he shall be chosen by the people to the high office Of Presi dent of the United States, be lieye the day of his inauguration will be the beginning Of a new era of peace, purity and prosperi- ty in all departments of our gov ernment.

 l am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,

 THOMAS A. HENDRICKS.
Year: 1876



 As good seasonable reading for our farmers we reproduce the fol lowing from the Chicago Times, Plant crop of turnips. Now is the time. Not small patch; but 2 good crop of five or ten acres:

 No agricultural country in the woald produces so few root crops as this. In England, on the land of good farmers, turnips may al most be regarded as the leading crop. Turnips come into every system of rotation, and form a part of the regular food for ami mals. New varieties of turnips are in greater demand than new varieties of any other farm crops. When the turnip crop fails there is general depression in the az rieultural districts throughout Great Britain. Turnips are to England of as great importance as potatoes are to Irelahd, as corn is to the northwestern States, or wheat is to the states on the Pa cific coast. English mutton is chiefly the product of turn:ps, and the same is essentially true of English beef. Turnips also consti- tute large proportion of the food eaten by English lahorers. In that country turnips are looked to as a means of preparing the soil for the production of other crops. The turnip is analysed with a view of ascertainiDg what man. ures can be applied with the best advantage for increasing the crop.

 There are various reasons why turnips have never assumed the importance in this country that they have in Great Britain. In the first place the climate is not as well suited to them. Turnips, to do their best require, a moist aud a tolerably cool climate, not subject to sudden and extreme changes. England has climate of this kind, but ours is nearly the reverse. We ordinarily have a protracted drouth at about the time that the crop requires a large amount of moisture. An other reason why turnips are not raised here to a larger extent is that this is the best corn country in the world. We can produce corn at a comparatively small ex- pense, and we use it for food for food for all inferior animals as well as for man. It takes the place of turnips in the old coun try. Another reason why tur- nips are not more largely raised is that many farmers have never found out their real value as com pared with other food crops.

 But for all this, for all that, and for all other things, turnips are entitled to vastly more attention than they receive. The great mistake in our system of stock feeding lies in having to small variety of food. To keep up the fertility of our soil we need to leave off perpetually planting corn and small grain on it, and introduce occasionally crop like turnips, that will not exhaust the soil. Another good reason for planting turnips is, that all the work on them may be done at times when there is comparative ly little to do with leading crops. They are planted ordinarily ir July, worked in August and har- vested quite late in the fall. The amount of seed required for an acre is only one pound. So that expense of seed is trifiing. With seed drill the work of planting is very small. Almost the only ha.d work about raising q crop consists in the rocess of trim ming.

 AGENTS WANTED.-.-We want a f..fs ..f tl
Year: 1876

FRox . silver mine in Southern Utah
petrifed wood 10 being taken in which chlo-
ride OF silver 10 contained, worth nearly
81 900 to the ton. The formation is sand
stone out of which horn.silver is taken.
The remarkable part Of the foregoing 10 the
evidence that the disposition Of the silver
WAS made subsequently TO the Enclosure OF
the wood in the sand that Afterwards be-
came the sandstone.-Salinas City Iadex.
Year: 1876

A circus company in Iowa Dwell an
editor bill for advertising and re-
fused to pay it. Thereupon the ed
itor called upon the Sheriff, who at
tached the Bengal tiger and brought
him around to the newspaper Office in
his cage. lie was placed in the COM
posing. room, and during the first two
days he not onl y consumed SIS worth
Of beef, but he scratched S6 worth of
trousers from the leg Of a local re-
porter who endeavo:ed to stir him
up with broom handle to make
him roar. On the third day the IT,
ger broke loos, and the entire force
of compositors Gecended the staircase
with judicious qulckness. The editor
was alarmed to find his exit through
the composing room cut oil, and that
the latch upon the sanctum door Was
broken. So lie climbed out of the
window and sought safety Oh the
roof. Tie tiger vs. slot.
Year: 1876

Mr.. SKIpMoRE's BUGLE.-Mr
Peter Skidmore, of Germantown
plays a little on the bugle. One
night last summer he went INTO the
parlor in the dark and felt over
the top of the piano for the horn, II
happened that his aunt from Penn 6
Grove had been there that dav, and
had left her brass ear trumpet lying
on the piano, and reter got hold Of
this without perceiving the mistake,
as the two were Of similar shape.


He took it in his hand and went
out on the porch where Miss Mills
WAS sitting talking to his sister. He
asked Miss Mills if she was fond Of
music on the horn, and when she said
she alored it, he asked her how she
would like him to play Ever Of Thee
and she said that was the only tune
she cared anything for.


So Peter put the small end to bis
lips and blew. lie blew and blew
Then he b.ew some more, and then
he drew fresh breath and blew again
The only sound that came was hoi'
low moan, which sounded so queerly
in the darkness that Miss Mills asked
him if he was not we,l And when
he said lie was, she said lie went ex
actly like a second cousin Of her:
that had the asthma.


Then Peter remarked that some
how the horn was out of order tol
ever for Thee but if Miss Mill!
would like to hear Sweetly dream
ed, love- he would try to play it, anC
Mss Mills said that the tondest re
collections clustered around tha
melody.


So Peter put his trumpet to hi
lips again, and STAINED his lungs il
an effort to make some music. |
wouldn't come, but he made very
singular noise, which induced Miss
Mills to ask il the horse back in the
stable had the heayeg. Then Peter
said he thought somebody must have
put plugs in his buole, and he asked
his sister to light the gass in the en-
try while he cleaned it out. Wher
she did so the ear Of the trumpet be
came painfully conspicuous. and botl
gir4s laughed When Miss Mills
laughed, Peter looked up at her with
pain in his face, put on his hat and
went out into the street where he
could say over an unlimited amount
OF sensational language to himself.


lie is courting another girl now
and learning TO play on the piano.
Year: 1876

THE PRESIDENT DETERMINED TO APPOINT GEN.


sICKLEs.


It is learned from an entirely trustworthy
source that President has determined TO send the
name OF Gen. Daniel T. sckes to the Senate for cou-
rmation as United States Attorney for the Southern
District Of New.York, in place Of George Bliss whose
term has expired Gen. sickes the Presidents first
choice for tho place. and it intended to send his
name the Senate early in the week. but he was not
the choice of the opponents of Mr. Bliss who succeeded
In getting the nomination withheld 1t Is possible that
Gen. sickless name will be sent to the Senate to-day,
although its postponement for two weeks is not i'm
probable Mr. Bliss continues to discharge the duties OF
the Office by appointment from the court and he and his
supporters are still hopeful that the contest for the
place will assume such complications that he will be
rea annonted
Year: 1876

they pay their capital theoretically at least their
business for the six months next preceding the time
when they voted by the boards Of directors The In
stances in which company declares smaller dividend
than in tho preceding year exceptional and unless
there have been heavy losses by fire. IL is safe to assume
that the profss Of year viii not differ greatly FROM
those Of its predecessor Few companies have formally
decided their dividends for next month"; and those OF
January, 1876, given in the following list. 1t must
be borne in mind that dividends paid semannuay,
and the per In the following table must be doubled
TO give the rate Of profit insurance investments In
prosperous years. Tie table shows only approximately


the amounts that will be paid out next month"; for while
there have becn disastrous fires in New-York and
vicinity. some Of the city companies have not been
exempt from heavy losses from fires at q distance:
Year: 1876

the college, and the courtroom had Columbia
distinguished herself but on the field OF battle. The stu
dents who went out from the college, the law school, the
school Of medicine to the took their place among
the nObest Of the soldier heroes Gallant PM keaIfy
New-York filed the ranks. Some of them returned but
Others now slept the sleep OF the brave VINO
felt was that OF pupils to enjoy her priyiieges
How was abe to draw students to the College
How was she to prevent Harvard and Yale from
taxing away the NewYork boys from their rghtiul col


ege Eoe In the lis years OF her existence ColnmDa
year And yet income equal to the best In the
land equal to the German universities which turned OUT
evils TO be mentioned change OF site OF the college
grounds place suited TO the wants OF Students
Recommendations for boarding and lodging students from


distance and an elevation OF the standard OF the eur
riculum II was not money that Columbia needed but
action.
Year: 1876

been honored with substantial award wiz be specially pleas
ing their friends business connections and
agents This house occupies position in tho
financial standing and partly also because the instruments 1t
puts the market all thoroughly reliable and made OF the
materials used AS wehave stated before Messs Hanes
OF Twenty where they show remarkably nue
display of Pianos parcuaryo uprsh In the manufacture
they unusually successful that they
nll for some time to come.
Year: 1876

PAYMENTS DUE ON INTEREST ACCOUNT. AND TO BK


PAID IN NEw-YORK BY STATES, CITIES, RAIL


ROAD, BANK AND OTHER COMPANIES.


January is recognized by business men as
the time for balancing their books and settling accounts
Corporations follow this custom degree and the
first OF the year OF the periods when interest on
bonded debts paid and surplus earnings are divided
among stockholders. The large amount of money thus
put into circulation hardly realized until the sums paid
by the several corporations grouped together
The interest payments to be made next month In New
York by States Cities railroads. banks and other corpora
tons given below with the nature of the securities on
which they are to be paid and place OF payment SIM


liar payments will be made in all the other large cities OF
the country although NewYork the business CENTER
absOrbs the largest portion The list shows not only the
large additions which TO be made TO the funds avail
able for but the enormous loads OF debt under
which the large corporations are struggling:
Year: 1876




The following table is of interest payable in NewYork
on railroad indebtedness. An amount almost or equai
is due in this city by roads now in default; THESE
have been carefully excluded from the list. or those
which remain it is probable that may default OH
their interest next month money paid out by the
New-York agents until IL has been received from the
Year: 1876

GROWING UP In JAIL.-Massachus
has at last decided to cheat tho gallows in
tho case of jesse Pomeroy, the "boy
murderer" and to confinc him in prison,
if he can DO kept there, for the rest of his
life. The ladies of Boston have been per
sistant in their efforts to secure a commu.
tation of the death sontonce, and have
finally succeeded. When arrested, between
two and three years ago, Pomeroy was
sixteen or seventeen years of age, making
him now nineteen or twenty. Entering
Jail at that time of life, no became acclma.
ted to the prison air and has grown strong
and hearty, notwithstanding his confine-
ment. Those who saw him at his trial
would scarcely have recognized the boy
murderer in the stalwart, powerful young
man brought forth by the jailor day oil
two ago to learn the result of the applica
ton in his case. Spcculations were Offered
at the time of his first imprisonment as tc
how long it would be before he would break
down and die; but these have all beer
disappointed, and Pomsroy is now remark
able for his enormous build and his grea
muscular development. The probahilit,
is that he will escape, either by pretending
reform or by one day numbering three o.
four of his jailSrs and breaking out of hi
prison by force. That he is shrewd ant
full of resources is proved by his wei
plotted crimss.-N Y. Herald
Year: 1876

Cannot the combined ingenuity of dress.
makers and dress wearers contrive some
safer deposit for lady's purse than her
pocket or her hand? A man who refrains
from getting drunk, and who is fairly pru-
dent i'll other respects, may be robbed by
violence after dark, but need rarely have
his pocket picked of anything more valu-
bic than a handkerchief. If he goes into
a crowd he should leave his valuables at
home, or hide his watch and chain wav
but, at the other times, his most important
pockets fits so closely to his person that q
thief must be very artful dodger indeed,
who can in a railroad carriage or omnibus,
extract purse from breast or trousers
pocket without the victim feeling the
touch of the felonous fingers Ordinarily,
in our opinion, man is safer if he carries
no purse at all, but keeps his gold, silver,
and bills in three separate pockets. Now
let us look at the case Of the women. The
exigencies of her attire (if they are really
exigencies) plaoo her in far worse posi-
ton than her bearded brother Even in
these anti-crinoline days the pocket in the
skirt of her dress stands a most unsafe dis
tance from her actual person, so that in
the crush and pressure of well.flled ON
nibus, the manipulations of skillful pur
leiner are unfelt. Sometimes scissors arc
used, and the purse is either hooked out
bodily or falls among the straw, TO be pres
emily appropriated at leisure. But tht
most accomplished omnibus thieves scorr
the name of cut-purses. They extract the
purse from tho pocket, boldly examine it
contents under the very nose of the fai
owner, and return it to the pocket afte
borrowing part of its contents, politely
leaving enough for the conductors fare
Home Journal
Year: 1876

KEEPING CIDER SwEET.-The editor of the
Ncw England Farmer indorses the following
mode of preserving cider sweet for five
years, Leach and filter tho cider through
pure sand after it has worked and before it
has soured. Put no alcohol or other sub
stance with it. Be sure that the vessels
you put it in are perfectly clean and sweet.
After it has leached or filtered put it in bar
rels or casks filled, leaving no room for cir
bung them tight, and keepit where 1t won't
freeze till February or March; then put il
in champagne bottles filed; drive the
corlxs and wire them. The best cider il
late made, or made when it is as cold as
can be and not be frozen. We drank some
cider from q barrel filtered "a above men
toned, the hour of this writing, made il
the interior Of New York, which was a
sweet as if made only the day before.
Year: 1876

A correspondent OF the Prairie Farmer
says he bought four bells of different
sizes to the one hundred sheep, and put
them on good, active specimens. This was
about twelve years ago, and he has not had
sheep killed by dogs or wolves since that
time. Some Of his neighbors have tried
the same plan with similar success.
Year: 1876

In Glover, Vt, there is a tree by the
roadside which is rare curiosity. The
main part of the tree is maple, about one
foot in diameter, but on one side a beach
tree, starting from the same base, has grown
into and Incorporated itself with the maple,
so that it is difficult to distinguish them
apart
Year: 1876

" A girl died in Vermont tho other day
from poison in the colored stocking which
she had been in the habit of wearing"
This should serve as lesson TO girls not to
pull their colored stockings on with their
teeth.
Year: 1876

It is not believed that there is an artist
in the world who can catch the expression
OF womans face as she puts her nose into
the milkjug and finds that the thunder
has soured the contents.
Year: 1876

mittee will not let a day pass till IN ap-
preparation il m ade to continue the work
fthe Bureau Of engraving and printing
1t is not economy to stop any portion Of
the Government machinery that gives
employment to the poor and needy. The
people Of both parties demand that liberal
appropriations shall be made to meet the
expenditures of the government.
Year: 1876

her territorial limits. The Chief Justice,
says:


cit is no more the duty or within the
power OF the United States to punish for a
conspiracy, to ia lsely imprison or murder
within State, than it would be to punish
for false imprisonment or for murder itself"
1t will not be contended says the Chief
Justice that the United States officers have
any power within Stale to "do police
duty" or in other words to interfere either
to protect Or object to any citizen perform
ing political function. Upon the suffrage
question, the court is clear and unmis-
taxable


''The right Of suffrage is not necessary
attribute of national citizenship, but that
exemption from discriminatoIcin the exer-
else OF that right on account of race, &C.,
is. This right to vote in the States comes
from the States, but the right of exemption
from the prohibited discrimination comes
from the United States. The first has not
been granted or secured by the Constitution
of the United States, but the last has"


Liberty and State sovereignty, are vim.
dicated at last. The long weary contest
with the higher law party is coming te
end:-in fact has ended--in 40 far as Fede.
raj interference with the rights of citizens
are concerned. The presence of Federal
officers at the polls next fall, would be such
a fagrant, and insolent violation of law,
as would justify very strong and prompt